Good morning! We are working through Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. This episode is from series twelve and is called Going Upmarket with the Romans. The run time for this episode is 48:36.
In a field in Gloucestershire, there has been a discovery of Roman broaches, monastic tiles, and coins. These finds hint at a villa nearby; however, a villa has not been found. Why are there so many finds discovered at this site? Boxes and boxes of Iron and Roman-age items were found. The finds were found in a field near Standish. So what will the Time Team learn about these finds in three days? The finds in this Standish field will provide an insight into Roman and Iron Age life. Perhaps this field was home to a farmstead. Geophysics had gone over the site before, but for the Time Team resurveyed the area and the results are pretty good. However, the finds were discovered beyond the surveyed area, so John Gater will have to survey the area of the finds. The Time Team will reopen one of the trenches the local archeologists put in. This trench will be the first one to go in over the original trench. Will this trench reveal an Iron Age settlement? As Trench One goes in, Phil discovers the leftovers from the original excavation. Trench two goes in over a potential pit site. In the meantime, geophysics works on the rest of the field over a potential building site. However, the heavens open up and it starts to rain. The rain obscures the potential Iron Age remains and is flummoxing Phil. Helen Geake examines the artifacts that were discovered previously. The finds are comparable to what was discovered in another field nearby. They seem to hint at an Iron Age farm that evolved into a Roman farmstead. Things are looking up for Phil in his trench. The rain has stopped and Phil makes his first discovery: a pot. The pot would have been used for storage and was locally made. The people who used this pot would have witnessed the Roman invasion and would have faced life under their Roman overlords. Over in trench two, the Time Team discovers a body, a most unexpected find. Stewart Ainsworth and Tony take to the sky in a helicopter to look over the landscape. Stewart talks about how the Iron Age farms would have been taken over by the Romans. He also points out a potential hill fort site. The farm would not have been far from the nearest Roman road. In the meantime, an expert looks over the body that was found in trench two. He seems to believe that this body was buried in the late Iron Age. This body shows that Iron Age people died here. Phil is working on the trench to figure out where the Iron Age people lived. The Iron Age people would have lived in the roundhouse. He shows Tony the curving of the house in the ground. Later in the afternoon, Phil’s mood changes when the sun gets in the way of his excavation. While Phil works, geophysics works on finding the Roman villa. However, the results are disappointing. The results show a lot of roundhouses and enclosures in the area. There is still no sign of Roman buildings to go with the finds. Trench four goes in over the potential roundhouse. The body continues to flummox the Time Team. No grave goods were found with the body buried during the early Roman period. She would have been considered a low-status worker since she was not found with grave goods. Pot fragments were discovered in this trench as well. The fragments demonstrate the gradual Romanization of the population. The excavation is looking up for the Time Team. Why were there so many finds discovered in this field? Will the Time Team discover a villa in this field? Or will Mick put a stop to the villa chasing? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out. The narration was good and the archeology was even better. It was funny watching Phil get mad at the sun. This was an enjoyable episode to watch and would be a good episode to add to your list of potential Time Team episodes to show to your history class.
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