Good morning, we are soon winding down Series 13 with a look at Scotch Broch in Scotland. This Time Team episode runs for 46:57. After this episode there will be one more episode in Series 13 to do and then Series 13 will be done!
The Time Team heads over to Applecross Peninsula in Scotland to excavate a broch. A broch is a monumental dry stone tower and it was one of the largest Iron Age structures in Britain. Soil and massive overhead power lines won’t stop the Time Team from excavating this site. The Time Team is joined by Iron Age specialists Ian Armit, Andy Heald, Cathy Dagg, and Noel Fojut. What can this broch tell us about life in Iron Age Scotland? Tune into this episode to find out! Nick Goldthrope invited the Time Team to this site. His family has owned the land for years and he had played amongst the structures. Now, as an adult, he would like to learn more about the structures on the site. Applecross is a peninsula that is cut off from the rest of Scotland by the mountains. The road to Applecross is closed when the weather is bad. Mick, Tony, Nick, and Victor Armbus talk about the site. Victor has drawn up what the broch would look like. Trench One goes in and that is immediately followed by Trench Two. Mick made his decision based on the topography of the site, even before the geophysics results have come back. Immediately there is a problem: the site is one of the stoniest places the Time Team has worked. Additionally, due to the power lines overhead, mechanical diggers are not allowed either. Tony learns about what a broch was. A broch would have been a stone roundhouse and it would have been built with two circular walls. Brochs are only found in Scotland, and the circular walls, in theory, will help the brochs be quickly discovered. However, all the stones around the trench are going to challenge the Time Team. Geophysics comes back and tries to cancel out the noise of the rocks. John points out two curving walls, but even that is not enough to convince the Scottish Broch Experts. The Time Team needs to keep digging. Does this structure have one wall or two? Phil is discovering a possible wall. In Matt’s trench, there may be a more significant discovery made. There may be an outer wall, corridor, and interior wall in that trench. However, the experts are still unconvinced. Day One begins to get very wet. Mick and Nick look around the land. Tony is feeling frustrated that no one was willing to commit to the discovery of a Broch on the site. Stewart Ainsworth goes over the landscape with Tony and a broch expert. He has a map that has the location of all the brochs or likely brochs. What is going on in Scotland? Why did the Iron Age people build so many brochs? Stewart is going to have to out and examine the landscape for more information. The Time Team continues to excavate the site. Trench three, a particularly long trench, goes in towards the end of the day and of course, they hit more stone. However, this stone looks like it belongs to a dry-stone building. Within minutes of this third trench going in, the Time Team discovers the two walls of a broch. The experts were finally impressed that the Time Team has found something. Back in Matt’s trench, the Broch experts may have figured out what was going on. Matt’s trench is one of the sides of the broch, and the stone area that Phil found is not part of the broch. So will the experts agree that the Time Team found a broch? What do these brochs tell us about life in the Iron Age? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. Tony’s narration for this episode was particularly funny. He was enthusiastic about the broch and then being shot down by the experts. It was also interesting to see the hard work it took to excavate the site. In the end, this would be a good episode to show for a history fun day.
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