Good morning, good evening or good afternoon depending on when you are reading this! The Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. This episode is looking at Scargill Castle and has a run time of 48:48. It is called The Wedding Present.
A pair of archeologists are getting married, and what does the soon to be husband gets his soon to be wife? He buys her a wreck of a castle for a wedding present. Over the years, the surviving remains of the castle the gatehouse were lovingly restored. The castle is located in the wilds of County Durham, formerly owned by the Scargill family. The husband and wife team have done what they can with learning about the history of the castle. Now Time Team is going to excavate the castle for three days. Niall Hammond and his wife Caroline Hardie were the pair that restored the castle and have done what they can with the castle. They have called Time Team to help them further the castle’s history. Trench one and Trench two immediately go in under the watchful eye of Phil. However, Mick is going to pour water on the theory that the castle was an actual castle. He believes that it is a fortified manor house. Richard K. Morriss, a historic buildings expert, talks about the features of a fortified manor house and points out that the gatehouse is rubbish and would not have been good for defense. The initial trenches are showing that the complex was substantial, but was it substantial enough to be called a castle? The Time Team will have to further its investigation. Much of the remain building was built with fine stone and the Scargill Family was wealthy enough to carefully build their home. Tony arrives to the rubbish gatehouse and points out the features that make Richard call it a rubbish gatehouse. Caroline despairs that Richard is calling it rubbish and Tony quips that it will be the shortest Time Team. The Gatehouse was built in the 1500’s, which would not have been built by the Scargill family. Richard, Phil, and Mick go over another wall. Richard points out the features that would have dated back to the Tudor times. Trench three goes in in this area to see if there are Tudor remains. However, the Time Team was supposed to look for the Medieval period. What is going on with this castle? Will the Time Team find Medieval remains? At lunch time, Tony does some catching up in the incident room: the gatehouse and the Time Team is scattered over the three floors of the gatehouse. Helen Geake and Michael Prestwich talk about the first short mention of the Scargill Castle in the Domesday Book. The discussion shifts to the Scargill family who eventually owned the castle for the time. Unfortunately, the plans of the castle have been lost to time. In Trench three, Phil has discovered the hearth of the Tudor Fireplace. In the meantime, a graphic recreation of the home is being worked on. Tony catches up with Fay in the first trench while Mick and Niall catches up with Phil in the third trench. Mick is showing his humor talking about hearing Phil’s happy scrapping. Niall theorizes that this area had a defensive tower, and the geophysics results are showing a substantial wall in the area. So Phil will just extend his trench instead of putting in another trench. Back in trench one, there are some smaller finds that are being discovered amongst the huge walls. This site is proving to be quiet the conundrum for the Time Team. Will the Time Team sort out the wall situation? What is geophysics revealing about the site? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out more. Tony is on fire with his humor in this episode, especially when he found out that the castle was not a castle but a fortified house. I rather enjoyed how Richard put it that the gatehouse was rubbish, I laugh out loud. The story was very well done and there were lots of walls that the Time Team had to deal with. I would show this episode to a history class and a science class because there were so many hypostasizes to test out with this castle.
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