Day two of our Time Team Celebration. They are investigating some lumps and bumps of a potential chapel site. Locals had been investigating the area for several years and then decided to bring Time Team in for help. This site will prove to be a challenge for Time Team because it is on a rocky outcropping, with rocks on top of a wall. Will the Time Team find a chapel underneath all the rubble? Watch this episode to find out!
The Time Team traveled by land, sea, and some sort of self-propelled wheelbarrow to the Isle of Mull. They are going to excavate an early settlement, perhaps it is a chapel site. Bev and Hilda, two ladies worked on the site and wrote to Time Team to invite them to work on the site. The local newspaper did not believe that Time Team would investigate the site. The newspaper was wrong. There are two requests: to find the floor and to find graves. Mick is excited to start digging. The site dates back to the early 6th Century. It could be a potential chapel. Helen Geake and Alisdair Ross talk about how Christianity spread throughout northern Scotland and England. Christianity in Scotland started in Iona and then spread throughout Scotland and Mull via the trade routes. However, there was no evidence concerning Christianity on Mull during the 6th Century. The Time Team start unpicking the stones from the earthworks. It will be a challenge for the Time Team to even start digging. They continue to clean up the site and can put in a second trench. On day two they discover several pieces of pottery. This helps the Time Team date the site. They work on digging the supposed graveyard. The evidence they are finding from the second trench, which seems to contradict each other. Phil and Rasksha have a good laugh over finding quarts pebbles (which are not native to the area) and pieces of Middle Age pottery. Tony laughs with them and comments on how even the smallest things can keep archeologists happy for hours. A third trench is opened to see if there are graves. John Gater, the geophysicist show that there was something significant underneath. Mick is excited that there they could be working on a chapel site. He and Tony discuss the history of the area. Mull used to be part of an Irish kingdom. The islands off the coast of Scotland were part of a trade network. Amid all the digging, the archeologists discovered a square platform. They also discover the floor layer. Phil sums up why he and Mick believe that the site dates too much earlier. Day Two, the Time Team plans on excavating the platform. Discussions flew through the bars all night. Could this platform contain the bones of a Saint? It is a rare find for the Time Team. Mick, who is normally cautious, has been putting forward that theory. Phil is finding a lot of pebbles, left behind by visitors to the site. Bev and Hilda take Stewart and Tony into the woods to show them additional sites. Stewart is a landscape archeologist who is excited about what they see. Was there a farming community up on the hill while the chapel was in use? Mick and Stewart further investigate this possibility. To continue to learn more about this site, finish this episode. This would be a good episode to show concerning the early history of Christianity in Scotland and England. You can also show this as a filler for a substitute teacher. Teachers, you can put this show on the list for your independent study students as well.
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