The Thirty-One Days of the Time Team continue for October and the month is flying by fast! How about an episode that highlights the people from the Neolithic Age? This time the Time Team is investigating crop marks that showed up on a photograph of a field. The run time for this episode is 47:55.
The Time Team is investigating a crop mark near Peterborough, and it is the first time a team has come in to investigate the site. It was referred to as a causewayed enclosure. This enclosure marks an area that dates back to about 6,000 years ago. This places the causeway in the Neolithic Period. Some believe that the ditches are evidence of farming, while others believe it has religious origins. Francis Pryor and Ben Robinson join the team in the mystery. Geophysics is off and running, surveying the field. Francis, Phil, Tony, and Ben look over photographs of the site. Francis points out the rings that are on the photo and the gaps in those rings perhaps to let people into the site. Ben talks about how this is the first time in British History that the landscape is being portioned for special purposes. Then the team talks about what the site could potentially be. It could be a cathedral or a farm. Phil talks about the potential finds that could be discovered on the site. He has the impression that the Time Team could strike it rich with finds or find nothing. The trenches are placed where the Time Team believes where the inner ring is. Trench one goes in over one of the ditch sites while the other goes over a feature in the ancient landscape. The Geophysics team gets the results back for the two trenches, but the results are not good. John says there is a problem and that one of the ditches is now showing. However, the ring mysteriously disappears on the other side of the site. Everyone’s favorite “uncle” Phil goes off to work on trench two. Francis is going to look at trench one and after talking with a surveyor he is able to put in the trench. The Peterborough area has an additional four other causeways. Causeways were supposed to be a rare phenomenon during the Neolithic period. Francis believes that these causeways have a ritual component to them. Stewart will have to look at the other known causeways to determine how they relate to each other. Knowing how to find a ditch is the trick. They were holes in the ground dug over 6,000 years ago where special objects were placed in. Phil and Matt look over the trench to talk about how to determine where the ditch is. Phil discovers the ditch as well as the river running through his trench. Phil shows off his ditch to Francis. In Francis’ trench, they had to rely on a survey to put in the trench. The survey was right and in fact, a small piece of pottery was found on the site. The pottery belonged to the Beaker people. Tony and Francis talk about the Neolithic period. Francis talks about hit was a time of change for ancient man. It was a time when people started taking control of their environment and settling down into the community. This settling down would have given birth to modern man. He believes that the causeways were built to honor the ancestors of these people. However, there are others that believe these were communities for the first farmers. Now the Time Team has to look for evidence of these people. After a strange start, what will the Time Team discover in three days about the site? Will they find evidence of human activity? Was this a religious site or a farm? Tune into the rest of this episode to find out more. This Time Team was broken up into spots to make for easy viewing and if you need to mine a clip from this episode you can easily click a spot and be taken to that spot to show in a lecture. In fact, I would use the section where Tony and Francis talk about how the Neolithic period was a period of great changes in a lecture. Over all, this would be good to show the full episode to a history classroom or for independent study students.
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