Good morning! Thirty-One Days of Time Team continues with a look at the history of Ffrith, Wales. Time Team looks at mysterious bathhouse that might not be a bathhouse.
Back in the 1960s some local archeologists dug some trenches and discovered a series of walls, pot, and Roman coins. Ffrith was the center of Roman occupation in Wales and for decades Roman finds have been discovered. Did these archeologists find a Roman Bathhouse? The Locals want the Time Team to dig the site again to see what is. Is it a Roman bath? Why is it there? Time Team has three days to find out. The Time Team will dig in the previous trenches. Tony asks if it is good archeology to re-excavate the original trenches to see what was found. The first step for the Time Team is to map out potential walls based on the original dig. To the homeowner’s relief, there will be no digging under the greenhouse. Trench one goes in in the back garden and a second trench will go in an area behind the fence next door. The results indicate that there are hints of a curved wall underneath. The second trench immediately reveals results: there is a stone wall. The fence between the two gardens is taken down. Mick and Tony meet up with John Gater and they look at older geophysics results. The Time Team is turning their attention to a playing field. It was a scheduled monument because of the Roman finds on the site. The authorities have permitted them to dig it. Geophysics will resurvey the area. The earlier finds have been fantastic. Some tiles were used to heat bathhouses and pottery found. Time Team will look at these earlier finds to see what they can tell the Time Team. Tony takes a look at some pieces from Roman armor and beads. There were also wall plaster and hairpins found. These are tantalizing hints at what the building was. On day one the skies open up and rain starts. The dig continues, while the other Time Team members look at archival materials and draw up pan interpretation as to what the bathhouse looks like. Trench number three goes in, and stones are found. What were these stones? The stones are unshaped. Will the third trench yield any finds, continue to watch this episode to find out. Mick and Tony go back to Trench One and Trench Two for a catch-up. There were bits of stone and modern rubbish. Phil is on top of the curved wall, and he shows a picture of the site in the 1960s. The trench will be expanded, and this expansion should yield some new finds. Was this site Roman? Tony catches up with Historian David Mason to learn more about the Roman occupation of Ffrith. Time Team does a catch-up in the pub. The lack of finds is worrying Tony. In the larger trench in the field, there will be an inspection trench dug to see if it is worth digging. Tony then asks to fill about the curved wall. Phil teases Tony about it not being a curved wall. Is the wall straight, curved, or squiggly? Tune into the rest of the Time Team to find more about the wall. Is the Time Team going to discover a bathhouse? Or are they just going to discover a fenced-in field? This was a funnier Time Team because of how everyone at the start was mistaken about the site is a bathhouse. Phil was hysterical teasing Tony throughout the episode. This would be one episode to show in a history classroom for a fun day.
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We are continuing with our fall edition of Thirty-One Days of Time Team with a flashback to season two.
Why is there a pagan figure buried in a church? Time Team is on the case! They are in the heart of the Wiltshire countryside and the Time Team is here to solve a riddle. There were no known Roman Rules in the area, except for this figure in a church. Victor Ambrus sketches it while Tony reads an explanation for the statue. Why is this statue on the wall? Was this the site of an earlier pagan settlement? You do not want to miss this episode of the Time Team. The Time Team begins taking core samples of the ground surrounding the church and will do geophysics of the site. Will there be walls found on the site? Did the Romans build something on an earlier site? Was this site considered a holy site to the pagan people? Was this a sacred spring? There could be years of ritual history buried in the pond? The Time Team heads to the archives. Carenza discovers that there was a possible Roman site in the village and immediately tells Tony the good news. Maybe the Time Team will have to search to a field outside the village. In the field, there were Roman tiles discovered. Will the Time Team be on the verge of discovering a temple? Tony catches up with Robin and Victor to explore the possibilities of what this temple looked like. One local farm discovered Roman remains while plowing. He meets up with Carenza to field walk. He would like to know more in order to not damage any additional finds. Carenza is convinced that there is something in the field and rushes to get the geophysics team. They have to finish up with the church before they go to the field. Tony and Robin catch up and examine maps of the field over the decades. Robin wants to come up with a master plan of the area to hand over to future generations. The geophysics team starts working in the field. Mick and Tony then meet up with an expert in Roman Statues to see what the statue was that is embedded in a church wall. Did this statue come from a temple? Or was this statue found in a household? Does this seem to change things for the Time Team? The Geophysics results on the field are showing promise. There was something in the field. So, the Time Team view the evidence that was found by the farmers. Masonry, wall plaster, roofing tiles, and coins were discovered in the field. The geophysics team will work late into the night to map the field. The Time Team gathers and discusses what was found. Mick believes that there is a villa on the site. Day Two kicks off with the geophysics results. This is the moment of truth for the Time Team and the results are good. There is evidence of ditches and squares hinting at a massive complex underneath. It is clear that something is in the field. More results are coming in and it looks like there was a potential villa on the site. It would the first villa found in the area. The Time Team now faces some challenges before they start to dig. Will Time Team find a villa in the ground? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out! This would be an excellent episode to show for a history class. There was a good debate on whether or not they should dig the site because of the geophysics results which could lead to some good discussions about archeology. Good morning, the Thirty-One days of Time Team continue with a search for the real-life Flintstones.
Time Team is hot on the trail a place where there is evidence of human settlement dating back to the Stone Age. Stone Age England was a very different place. It was covered in lush greenery. Lions, rhinos, and elephants wandered around. The Dig is in a clay pit that dates back from the Victorian period. In the pit, there is an area where Stone Age tools were found. It is a site that dates back to 400,000 years ago and the Time Team is working with the British Museum. Phil and Nick Ashton have started the dig and are finding good evidence of people making flints and tools along with a rule. This site is rare for the Time Team. Tony asks if they will find human remains on the site and Phil says they will not. One of the Time Team’s tasks will be to find the plants that the Stone Age people lived with. Tony then learns that environmental archeologists use vole teeth to date a site. Carenza is at a site five miles away from the initial trench and the Time Team will excavate another area where there were Stone Age Remains found. It was an archeological area that has not been excavated lately. They will have to clear some foliage first before the second trench goes in. In the first trench, a piece of hand ax is found, and Phil is ecstatic with the find. They slowly dig around the dirt to free it and it comes out of the ground. The hand ax was the single most important tool for the Stone Age Man. Geophysics will be working to find an ancient river that ran through the landscape. It will take time to build a picture of the landscape. Finding the river will help archeologists look for additional Stone Age sites. Stewart is field walking the area and looking for archeology on the surface. Day One ends on a rainy note, the trench is covered to prevent a mud hole and the archeology continues. The work to find plant material continues despite the rain. In fact, a mussel shell was found while digging and would hint at something being preserved. Clay is put into buckets and hydrogen peroxide is added to dissolve the clay leaving behind organic material. Day Two kicks off with Phil working to make a stone tool. He tries to try it out by chopping down a tree. Geophysics continues with their search for the ancient river. It will take yards and yards of cord and avoiding man-made features to find this ancient river. In Carenza’s trench, they are finding some interesting finds. Carneza calls for Tony to bring an intact ax head and Phil. The environmental trench is struggling to break down the clay to determine what organic material was around during the time of the Stone Age. Victor paints a scene of life at the riverbank. What was life for these people? Tony meets up with a computer graphic artist to see what the people looked like. What will the Time Team find? Will they find that elusive whole hand ax? Will they find the remains of an ancient river channel? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more about the Stone Age people of Britain. This would be something interesting to show a landscape class because of the environmental archaeology involved with the Time Team’s search. It would be a good episode to help teach about experimental archeology as well. We are continuing with our Thirty-One Days of Time Team and we are throwing it back to the past with an episode from Season 3 and a prehistoric Fogou.
Tony is roaming a tunnel under a garden, what was it doing there? Who built it? What was it used for? The Tunnel is a feature in the center of a garden. The Garden belongs to Jo and Tony meets up with him and Robin. They talk about the feature and a map of the garden. This map was drawn up by an antiquarian. The trio walks around the site. There seems to hint at another tunnel. What will the Time Team discover about this feature? Can the Time Team find the other tunnel? Can they find the site of the Iron Age settlement associated with the fogou? The site is now home to the 19th Century. The Time Team will not be able to dig at the fogou itself because it is a protected site. Jo had dowsers on the property and they said that there was a second tunnel. Mick is skeptical and will wait for the geophysics results. The geophysics results hint at something curving that joins up with the fogou. What was the purpose of the fogou, that remains a mystery? Were they a place of refuge? A tunnel to escape warring armies? Or were they just used for storage? Mick and Tony explore the fogou and examine the tunnel carefully. There were ten fogous discovered in Cornwall and they were near rivers. There were more fogous discovered in Brittany and they are even more numerous in numbers. In Ireland, there were 1,000 fogous discovered. However, the big question looming over Time Team, will they find more of a fogou. Trench One goes in and immediately a water pipe is discovered. Mick and Phil give the geophysics team a hard time about discovering a pipe. Tony catches up with Mick and Phil. He brings out a map that the water dowsers drew. The water dowser hints at a different location for the tunnel extension. Mick is skeptical about water dousing. Phil recommends that the water dowser goes over the land again. Tony tries out water dousing. Mick agrees to put in a “new age trench” in the ground. Victor works on a drawing of the enclosed settlement and Robin, Jo, Carenza, and a local archeologist work with him on the drawing. The Time Team is hoping to find evidence of settlement. The dowsers’ trench is coming up empty as well. Mick makes the call to put in another test trench to see if any additional evidence can be discovered. The Time Team plans on looking at the landscape to see where they can look for the fogou extension. Is the extension under the house? At night, the Time Team gets together for a sum up and the only trench that seems to show promise is Carenza’s trench which was dug over the wall of a potential enclosure. It was the one area of the property that was not disturbed when the house was built. So her trench is an extension and an Iron Age pot piece is discovered. Will this pot hint at an Iron Age settlement? What would a settlement look like during this period? What would the people have done? Will Time Team find additional hints of settlement? Is another fogou on the verge of being discovered? Will Mick get over his feelings against water dowsing? Will Phil be turned into a tin miner? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. As frustrating as it was at the start of the episode, the Time Team turned it around and managed to find additional evidence about the history of the fogou. The section on Tin Making was fascinating and Phil was delighted with his efforts in making tin. This would be a good episode to show for a fun day. A Thirteenth-Century of portrait of Christ was found in an outhouse in a village founded by the Templars. Time Team aims to find out more about the village they discovered and more about the Templars themselves. A modern-day Knights Templar member invited the Time Team to learn more about his house. Tony Robinson meets up with Mick Robinson to determine the area where the Time Team will dig.
The Templars started as a monastery with walls and a gatehouse. The home where they settled has undergone many renovations over the years. A historic buildings expert joins up with the Time Team. The home is in an intriguing “L” shape. However, it is behind the house on a farm that the Time Team will be investigating. There was a ditch in a field and may have been a boundary of the monastery. Mick quickly draws was the monastery site would have looked like and talks about other Templar sites. He discusses how similar this site compares to other sites. Time Team starts in on a first trench in the north farm field that seems to hint at a boundary ditch. Will the Time Team find dating evidence in the ditch? Tony and Mick catch up with Phil to find out. There seems to be a hint of a wall in the ditch. The Time Team has also discovered floor tiles. So has the Time Team firmly established that this was part of a final boundary? Robin and Carenza are in the archives and may have found a chapel on the site. Was it a Medieval Chapel? The Templars had a chapel in 1309 and even a chapel was mentioned in the Doomsday Book. So will the Time Team find a Medieval Chapel on the site? Back at the house, there is an ancient beam discovered. It is a fireplace mantel and may have been part of the original home for the Templars. The Time Team brings in a dendrochronologist on site. Tony is skeptical that the results will be produced in time. The dendrochronologist assures Tony that the results will be produced in time. Robin and Tony meet up and talk about the Knights Templar. The village where the Knight Templar had only three “fighting monks” at once. Eventually, the village was taken over by the Knights Hospitaller. Carenza and Phil continue to investigate the possibility of a chapel on the site. There was a photograph of a potential chapel that was believed to be from the Middle Ages. Upon further investigation, there is a doorstep in a wall that seems to hint at the potential of the current wall being a former chapel. A second trench is being dug at the potential chapel site. At the end of the night, the Time Team gets together to do a catch-up. The geophysics results are still incomplete. So Mick determines that the two trenches will be expanded. Tony then asks to see when a dendrochronology date will become available. The dendrochronologist comes in and gives them the date for one of the beams and the tree was chopped down no later than 1610. So the beam they found was not Templar. Despite this, there was plenty of other evidence that the site is Templar. So what will be found in the farmer’s strawberry patch? What other evidence will be uncovered to tell the story of the Knights Templar in England? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more about the Knights Templar! This throwback episode was a cool episode to watch, especially seeing how many different experts came together to tell the story of the Knights Templar house and village. The Village of the Templars would be an episode to show for a fun day in history. A Thirteenth-Century of portrait of Christ was found in an outhouse in a village founded by the Templars. Time Team aims to find out more about the village they discovered and more about the Templars themselves. A modern-day Knights Templar member invited the Time Team to learn more about his house. Tony Robinson meets up with Mick Robinson to determine the area where the Time Team will dig. The Templars started as a monastery with walls and a gatehouse. The home where they settled has undergone many renovations over the years. A historic buildings expert joins up with the Time Team. The home is in an intriguing “L” shape. However, it is behind the house on a farm that the Time Team will be investigating. There was a ditch in a field and may have been a boundary of the monastery. Mick quickly draws was the monastery site would have looked like and talks about other Templar sites. He discusses how similar this site compares to other sites. Time Team starts in on a first trench in the north farm field that seems to hint at a boundary ditch. Will the Time Team find dating evidence in the ditch? Tony and Mick catch up with Phil to find out. There seems to be a hint of a wall in the ditch. The Time Team has also discovered floor tiles. So has the Time Team firmly established that this was part of a final boundary? Robin and Carenza are in the archives and may have found a chapel on the site. Was it a Medieval Chapel? The Templars had a chapel in 1309 and even a chapel was mentioned in the Doomsday Book. So will the Time Team find a Medieval Chapel on the site? Back at the house, there is an ancient beam discovered. It is a fireplace mantel and may have been part of the original home for the Templars. The Time Team brings in a dendrochronologist on site. Tony is skeptical that the results will be produced in time. The dendrochronologist assures Tony that the results will be produced in time. Robin and Tony meet up and talk about the Knights Templar. The village where the Knight Templar had only three “fighting monks” at once. Eventually, the village was taken over by the Knights Hospitaller. Carenza and Phil continue to investigate the possibility of a chapel on the site. There was a photograph of a potential chapel that was believed to be from the Middle Ages. Upon further investigation, there is a doorstep in a wall that seems to hint at the potential of the current wall being a former chapel. A second trench is being dug at the potential chapel site. At the end of the night, the Time Team gets together to do a catch-up. The geophysics results are still incomplete. So Mick determines that the two trenches will be expanded. Tony then asks to see when a dendrochronology date will become available. The dendrochronologist comes in and gives them the date for one of the beams and the tree was chopped down no later than 1610. So the beam they found was not Templar. Despite this, there was plenty of other evidence that the site is Templar. So what will be found in the farmer’s strawberry patch? What other evidence will be uncovered to tell the story of the Knights Templar in England? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more about the Knights Templar! This throwback episode was a cool episode to watch, especially seeing how many different experts came together to tell the story of the Knights Templar house and village. The Village of the Templars would be an episode to show for a fun day in history. Good morning, we are continuing with the Fall Edition of Thirty-One Days of Time Team with Lords of the Isles. This is the first episode of season two of the Time Team. Tony still has his hair, and Phil was in danger of losing his hat!
There was a set of ruins that dominated a kingdom in Scotland for decades. The Time Team will brave the rain to explore a Scottish Island. The National Museum of Scotland has partnered with the Time Team to excavate the site. The Time Team needs to help with this dig because the National Museum will run out of money to fund the dig. Once the money runs out, there will be no more digs. What will the Time Team learn about the Lords of the Isles? Work has immediately started on the dig. The site contains the mainland, a larger island, and a smaller isle. The Time Team will look on the island, around the island, and on the mainland. The Time Team will also look at a mound on the mainland. This mound is noticeable in the landscape. Was mound something ceremonial to the Lords of the Isles? Were their chieftains’ declared chieftains on this mound? Tony catches up with the National Museum archeologists on site. There were four years of excavations and have produced hundreds of finds. The objects found help illustrate how the Lords of the Isles lived. Scuba divers are looking at the waters around the isles. They are having a challenge with the peat in the water. Despite this, the visibility is good for the underwater team. Next, Tony catches up with Robin to learn more about the phrase “the Lords of Isles.” Robin tells the story of a petty king who looked at an Island. He drove the Vikings out of the Island established a kingdom. They were never called the Lords of the Isles until the 14th Century. Even then the title was assumed out of the blue. The waterlogged soil is proving to be a challenge; however, this does not deter Phil from digging. The Time Team is looking at the guardhouse and the cemetery. As part of the excavation, the Time Team will reconstruct linen armor. Mick checks up on Phil in the guardhouse trench. He walked with Donald MacFayden who is in charge of the MacFayden Trust. Phil discusses the excavation. There was a nicely preserved building on the site. Eventually, the Time Team comes together and does a catch-up of what they are finding. There have not been many finds and the rain is not helping them. A second trench goes in at the top of the mound. Immediately there are finds at the top of the mound. Does this signify an ancient site? Day two kicks off at the second trench. It is windy but some good finds are being discovered. The site may have been a Mesolithic site. The second trench will be extended further. The geophysics team and Stewart Ainsworth work to map out the area. Was this mound originally an Island? All is working well. The newest finds are found in an ancient rubbish dump. Mick was supposed to help with the underwater archeology, but Tony suits up and participates in the dig. Mick and Tony go up in a helicopter and look at the landscape. Mick talks about the beach and the jetties that are in the landscape. They talk about how well-used the landscape was and how a king or a prince would feel like the landscape would legitimize his rule. What will the Time Team continue to discover about the Lords of the Isles? Will the weather change? Tune into this episode to find out more. This would be a good episode to show for a fun Friday history class. In this classic Time Team, the edge of the Roman Empire is explored in Ribchester. How did the Romans protect their edge of the Empire? A resident wrote and invited the Time Team to explore the Roman Remains. He has some Roman Remains in the garden. His house was built from those Roman fort remains. How do they relate to the Roman defense? How will the Time Team unravel the mystery of the Roman Remains?
Ribchester is situated on a river and was a major strategic site. There had been some archeological work done on the site. Most of it was done at a later Roman Fort. However, the Time Team will explore a local garden and hope to find additional evidence of an earlier Roman settlement. They will also survey the area to create a new map of the Roman fort. Phil talks with the homeowner about the remains. The remains of the fort are very well preserved. Mick and Tony go out on a walk and talk about the landscape and where to put a trench. Oftentimes, a road was put in with a little kink in it because the roadbuilders were avoiding a ditch or a wall. Mick and Tony meet up with John Gater and the geophysics team. The Geophysics team starts their work. The garden is being dug up. So why would the Romans build a fort? What were they so afraid of? Tony catches up with Robin Bush. Robin reveals that the Romans built the forts because they wanted to keep the people under control. He then talks about the different kinds of Roman forts that were built. Each fort was built according to the danger the settlements were in. Phil and the homeowner look over the trench that is being dug. The homeowner did some digging in the garden before the Time Team arrived. He had covered what he found and did not go any further. So the Time Team will go ahead and dig further. John Gater goes over the geophysics results with the team. There is evidence of a ditch in the ground. These results will determine where another trench will go in. Day two kicks off with the Time Team excavating the tower and the ditch. Tony talks about how some of the locals became friends with the Romans. A local Queen was pro-Roman and even turned in a chief who wanted to shelter him. Unfortunately, her husband was very anti-Roman. The pair divorced and King lead an uprising against the Romans. This uprising, lead to the Romans taking a different approach to the locals. Tony then catches up with Mick and trench two. The Time Team will be changing the location of the trench. They decided against the original location because they wanted to preserve the remains underneath. Tony is surprised to hear that the archeologists will not dig in an area to preserve it. The Time Team will dig a trench across a line that Geophysics discovered. Will they be digging a ditch? Does this indicate that this is a fort or a civil settlement? Phil catches up with the homeowner in regard to his backyard. They have dug deep enough to the layer of the original stone fort. Eventually, this trench will be closed, and the diggers will go to another site. Things are moving along, and the Time Team is discovering an earlier fort on the site. What else will the Time Team find out about the site? This episode of the Time Team is an older episode but a good episode. It talks about how the local tribes accepted or did not accept Roman Rule so it would be a good episode to show in a history class. Our Fall Thirty-One Days of Time Team continues with a mystery shipwreck. Tony Robinson tells the story of a teenage boy who discovered a cannon in the water. Since then, the teen has grown up and organized a dig of the ship. Time Team has been brought in to assist with the dig. What was the mystery wreck? Was it part of the Spanish Armada? Will there be enough of the ship remaining for the Time Team to explore?
This is the first time that the Time Team will participate in water archelogy and there will be plenty to learn. Will water archeology be different from land archaeology? The answer is no. Many of the same principles apply from land archeology apply to water archeology. The number one thing that is very much the same between both forms of archelogy is that it will take time. Another time factor for the team is the arrival of the site director from Libya. The teen who discovered the site twenty years ago speaks with Tony Robinson about the find. The teen had grown up and works on the site. Simon Burton was swimming off the coast when he saw the cannon. He learned that the cannon was made of bronze and continued to dive the site. The site was eventually declared protected and licensed. So, they have a site director now and he guides the work on the site. The Time Team cannot dive into the site until the site director comes back from Libya. There were another five guns and other items found at the site. Robin Bush and Mick Aston head to the town museum to see if this ship was part of the Spanish Armada. A copper pot, firepot, a merchant seal, and other cannons were found. Robin looks at the coat of arms on the cannon and Mick suggests that they look into the background of the cannon. The identity of the wreck could be tied to the coat of arms on the cannon. Robin and Mick talk about the certainty of the Armada connection. There was nothing in the local folklore about the cannon. Robin and Mick lean towards the ship being a trading vessel. So, is the ship a merchant galley or a warship? Stewart Ainsworth looks at the landscape to see if there was a nearby port. The French had raided the town burning it to the ground. However, according to folk legend, buildings may have survived. The survey results are in and those results are not good. Nothing shows up in the results. They were expecting to find pieces of timber in the sand. The results are disappointing for the Time Team and Simon Burton. Perhaps the timbers were waterlogged, and thus would not show up in the results? The results would have helped them put in the trenches. Day two begins at the breakfast table. The Time Team goes out to the wreck site and Tony dives on the wreck. However, since there were some storms last year, the site director and Simon dive on the site to make sure their markers are still there. After some sorting and repositioning their markers, Tony goes diving. While Tony dives, Mick learns how to shoot a cannon. After the markers are positioned and Tony comes up to the surface, the sand sucking starts. While that is happening, Stewart Ainsworth goes over the landscape results. At midday, Mick fires the cannon. In the afternoon, beginner diver Phil Harding takes his turn on the wreck. At the end of day two, there are no signs of the wreck. Will the Time Team find the wreck? Tune into this episode to find out. This would be a good episode to show for a “Fun Friday.” Time Team is heading on over to Gateholm Island. This island is off the coast of Pembrokeshire and a handful of objects have been found over the years. It is one of the most dangerous and inaccessible places Time Team has ever excavated. Tony Robinson will have to zipline over to the island. Did the original inhabitants have an easier way to get to the island? What will the Time Team discover about the island? Gateholm is managed by the National Trust and hopes that Time Team will unlock the secrets of the island.
Gateholm will be a serious challenge for the Time Team. Every tool and everyone has to travel by zipline to the island. This will take time and cut into digging time. The archeologists started digging before Tony arrived on the scene. Alex Langlands and Emma Woods examine the results of the geophysics and aerial photographs. Alex notes that there are rectangular buildings on the island. Was Gateholm a sacred isle? Or the site of an early monastery? Francis Pryor seems to hint at that. Across from the island, there seem to be hints of a promontory fort. Phil Harding organizes a field walking team to look at the fort site. Are there two sites linked together? As the group field walks, an arrowhead is discovered. This hints that the site was inhabited over 10,000 years ago. In the meantime, Francis uses aerial photography to plant his tranches. To Tony, the trenches seem randomly placed. Francis is looking for monk cells and a roundhouse. Mary Ann Ochata looks at what was found on the site. There was a wide range of artifacts found and hints that the island was occupied from the Mid-Roman period. A trench goes in on the fort site, after a trip across the island on the zipline. IN the meantime, on the island, there are some good discoveries. Pottery was found on the island this will help the Time Team date the site. In the meantime, Francis and John Gater debate the position of the first trench. Phil throws a bomb into their plans with evidence of earlier occupation. The first trench goes in on the fort site. Alex does some investigating at how the original islanders got on and off the island. Perhaps, there was a land bridge connecting the island to the mainland. At the end of day one, the Time Team ziplines back to the mainland. One of the archeologists brings back a large red bag of fines. Some of the pottery pieces come from the Roman period. The evidence seems to hint at Roman settlement. Are the two sites linked together? On Day Two, Time Team continues to look for evidence as to why people lived on Gateholm. The Time Team will be going hard because of the threat of rain. Trenches will be extended. Will these trenches reveal evidence of Iron Age settlement and roundhouses? Francis believes that archeology will prove it. Domestic life is slowly emerging from the trenches on the fort site. The forts inhabitants built up high banks to protect from attack. Would these walls protect the inhabitants inside? Time Team looks to answer this question. Will Gateholm Island reveal its secrets? Did people settle on the island before the Roman Empire? Was there something mystic about the site? Or was it an early monastic site? How does the fort tie into the site? Tune into this episode of Time Team to find out! This was a good episode because the Time Team faced some challenges with this dig. This one would be a good episode to show to an archaeology class. Time Team is back looking for Roman ruins. They are in the woods in Cambridgeshire. The forest may seem to be the enemy of the archeologists. However, with a lidar-generated scan, Tony was able to show a picture of something in the ground in the woods. Is it a Roman Villa? Or is it a Roman Ironworks? The trees will be a problem for geophysics. A second problem is that they are digging in a national preserve. Time Team will be risking bug bites to dig the site. What will they find in three days? Tune into this episode to find out.
On day one, they discover Roman walls. These walls are sitting just below the surface. Tony is impressed that the trenches have gone in right away. The site has puzzled local historians for decades. So what will the Time Team find on the site? If there is one person who can figure out the mystery it is Phil Harding. As Tony walks the site, he is confused from what the map has pictured to what is pictured on the ground. Phil provides clarification for the difference between walls and earthworks. Phil assures Tony that they are digging in the right place. In Trench Two, Matt is trying to discover an earthwork or something else entirely. Matt and Rashka are discovering a wall in the ground. Additionally, a piece of Roman tile is discovered. The archelogy is just below the surface. Who discovered this site? Tony goes and finds out. His name was Edmund and he mapped the area. He even had drawn a horseshoe building where the Roman villa was. Edmund never published his written reports, so Time Team will finish the job he started. John Gater has attempted to geophysics the site. However, the trees are proving to be a challenge. So John takes a metal detector over the site. They find a piece of barbed wire in the ground. In the meantime, Stewart Ainsworth shows the rest of the team a map of the landscape results. The results show that the site is bigger than what was initially thought. Phil is discovering building rubble. More of the wall is uncovered. The walls are built in a particular way. The evidence of this is found in Matt’s trench. Additionally, they are finding iron ore in the trench. Victor, Guy, Tony, Helen, and the local historian gather together to go over Edmund’s original work. There were two statues found on the site and Guy is suspicious about the statues’ origins. Finding Roman statutes in England is unusual. Helen makes the argument that it is possible that statues could be found. Eventually, Guy does come around to the possibility of Roman statues. Day Two comes and it is a rainy day. Mick and Tony talk about the need for wood during ancient times. The forest they are digging in existed since the Eleventh Century and has protected the Roman ruins. A third trench is put in and Faye who is digging it has a challenge on her hands. Could she use a machine to help dig the trench or dig it by hand? Since the dig is in a national preserve, she will have to hand dig in the trench. In the meantime, Matt’s trench is shut down and he is assigned to a new trench. Helen goes back to the original work on the site. Are they digging a Roman villa? A Roman expert does not believe that it is a Roman Villa. So is the Time Team digging an industrial site? Tune into this episode to find out. This would be a good filler episode for a history classroom and good for research for an independent study student. |
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