Good morning! Thirty-One Days of the Time Team continues with an episode from series two. So far I have done all the episodes of series one and will soon be done with series two.
The Time Team is exploring the remains of the first Roman Rome in London. An amateur archeologist may have found it first so can the Time Team find it again? Roman Rome would have gone straight to the Thames Riverbank, however, there is a kink in the road. So why is there a kink? The Time Team will kick off their excavation at Lambeth Palace, the home to the Archbishops of Canterbury. Was this where the Roman Road crossed? The Time Team will be digging in the archbishop’s garden and fortunately for him, he is away for the weekend. The Thames has changed over the years, so was Lambeth Palace the first place where London began? Over the years, Roman pottery has been discovered and maybe there will be hints of a road in the ground. Geophysics will be on the case. The Romans needed high, dry land to build a road. The land the Lambeth Palace occupied used to be marshes, so would the Romans build a road there? Will the Time Team be able to find high land in the archbishop’s garden? The property has been the Archbishop’s Home since the 1170s. A trench goes in in the parkland behind the house and the Time Team is hitting modern gravel. It will take some deeper digging to find the Roman layer. Stewart Ainsworth announces that he found one of the original trenches from an earlier dig. Mick is surprised at the size of the original trench. Victor and Robin sketch out how a Roman would have surveyed land for road building. The Time Team will recreate how Romans would have built roads, so they have an idea of what to look for. Roman Roads started with logs and were layered by dirt like some sort of layer cake. The Geophysics come back and seems to hint at something. It is decided that Geophysics will bring in equipment to look deeper into the ground. Time Team will put in a test pit at the site of the original trench, they are going to look for gravel and layers. The locals are fascinated by what is happening and Mick talks with them about how the Romans could have built a road. Robin Bush makes himself at home in the archives of the Lambeth Palace. Tony catches up with him. Robin has discovered a document about the Roman Invasion of Britain. The British knew the secret ways of crossing the Thames and the Romans did not. The Romans left no clue as to how they crossed the Thames. The Bishop of Lambeth comes and looks at the dig. Mick explains what the Time Team is doing with the geophysics. The pair discuss the layers of archeology. As the test pit goes in, a piece of Roman pot is discovered. Phil remarks that the Romans are always leaving pottery behind. The Time Team gathers together at the end of day one to do a catch-up. Are the Time Team going to find a Roman road in the archbishop’s garden? What will the Time Team learn about the Thames River in the Roman Period? Where would have the Roman army cross? Why was the crossing point moved? Will the Time Team solve the mystery of why London grew up where it did? Tune into the rest of this Time Team episode to find out! This would be a good episode to show for a fun and frivolous day in history class when studying the Roman empire.
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