Good morning, and the Thirty-One Days of the Time Team continues on for October 2024! Time has flown by. Today’s episode is a throwback to series eight. Tony Robinson and the team are looking to discover the remains of a castle that once dominated the landscape in Bridgnorth. The episode is called the Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth and it has a run time of 49:09.
The Time Team has three days to look for the remains of a medieval castle that would have dominated this former market town. All that remains of this castle is a tower that is leaning at a far greater angle that is greater than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Unfortunately, the town’s history has been destroyed in a recent fire. How many gardens will the Time Team have to investigate to learn about this castle? Will the Time Team be able to find something of this castle? Bridgenorth is where this medieval castle was. They are excavating a park to find the remains of the castle. Geophysics is working on mapping out the site. However, there is another complication, there is a scheduled area that the Time Team cannot dig without a plan and permit. Maps of the area are confusing as to where the scheduled area is. There is a yellow line that they cannot cross to look for the castle. A previous excavation in the rectory garden discovered a ditch that did not mention its size or depth. Tony is under siege from the kids showing off their ideas as to what the castle looked like. Tony is awesome with those kids. The remains of the tower are going to be examined carefully. Tony then narrates a section on the basics of the castle. John Gater reviews the geophysics results with Phil and Mick and some of those results are very interesting. Phil points out an outline of a trench that was originally dug in a previous archeological expedition. Trench one will go in over this original trench. Back at the park, more geophysics results are coming in. The results are good and the results show that something is in an area where the Time Team can dig. Bridgenorth has won a prize for the best gardens, so the Time Team will have to be careful with this dig so the town can win next year. In the meantime, Tony catches up with Robin Bush in the rectory library to learn about who owned the castle before. Robin has encountered many characters over the years on the Time Team, but this castle’s owner is the Earls of Shrewsbury. He was a nasty character who refused to ransom his captives. He starved 300 prisoners over Lent. Eventually, he would have rebelled against the King. The King would take the castle and would imprison him. I enjoyed Robin and his narration for this section. Back in Trench One much of the work has to be done by hand, which is proving to be a challenge and taking a lot of time. In Trench Two, the mechanical diggers are at work looking for a wall or garden that may be in the ground. Eventually, something is discovered in Trench Two, was this the castle wall that John was denying? In addition to the rock, there was pottery discovered in this trench. Stewart and Mick meet together to look at the map of the area to see what the landscape could tell them about the castle. At the end of day one, Uncle Phil meets up with Uncle Tony and Uncle Mick. After guffawing for digging out ten tons of dirt, Uncle Phil proudly shows off the finds. Will the Time Team have to shut down this trench? What else will the Time Team find out about this castle? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out! I found this episode humorous at times, it was especially surprising to hear Robin’s sense of humor. John Gater was trying to deflect that he never said that there was a wall in Trench Two. The Time Team was also diligent in operating within what they could. This was a very good episode and would be an episode I would show to a history class.
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