Good morning, the Time Team is working on searching for the Spanish Armada. However, this shipwreck was discovered in Scotland. Was this a ship of the Spanish Armada? The run time for this episode is 48:42 and is from series nine.
The Time Team is going to look at an amazing shipwreck just off the coast of Kinlochervie in northwest Scotland. There were some amazing finds made at this site including anchors, cannons, and pottery. It is tempting to think this wreck is connected to the Spanish Armada. How did it end up on the sea floor? Was this shipwreck part of the Spanish Armada? How did it end up on the coast of Scotland? The Time Team has three days to find out. Kinlochervie is a seaport on the Scottish coastline. Divers discovered this shipwreck over 20 Meters down while diving at the site. One of the more important finds was a well-preserved, well-decorated jar dating back from the Spanish Armada. In this episode, the Time Team will be teaming up with the local divers to learn more about the site. An RAF dive team is also participating in this episode. The Time Team will be rescuing pottery from the site. Over time, pottery has been discovered broken and over time the pottery will disappear. So the Time Team will be performing rescue archelogy. The information will be lost if the pottery is not recovered. Phil has to meet up with the newest team member: Eric the ROV. The ROV is a camera that will be filming the wreck and it operated on the surface. The ROV will be the Time Team’s additional eye on the site and will provide some extra safety during the dive. Tony will still have to do a refresher course on diving, which Tony finds to be a challenge. Phil heads out to the site first. After Tony completes his course, he heads out to the wreck site as well. Why would this wreck be a part of the Spanish Armada? How would an Armada Ship end up in Scotland? Dr. Felipe Fernandez Armesto talks about the Spanish Armada and Sir Francis Drake with Robin Bush and Carenza Lewis. Robin is very hysterical in this section. The English Ships would have pursued the Spanish Armada toward the Netherlands and managed to sink one ship. So, it seems that this ship would not be related to the Spanish Armada, or was it? Could the winds have driven that ship to Scotland? It is quite possible because Dr. Felipe talks about how the Spanish Armada would have sailed around Scotland to get back to Spain. They would have encountered fierce storms on the trip. There were ships found in the North Sea around Scotland. While on the way to the wreck site, Tony catches up with Stewart Ainsworth who is talking about the landscape of the harbor and maps. A Spanish Armada would have been driven towards unmapped rocks and they would have sunk. The divers arrive at the site. Once they get to the water they head to the wreck and start the rescue archeology. Once all the divers are in the water, the ROV is launched. The Divers also have a communication system with the surface and each other. Phil is on the boat, getting familiar with all the equipment being used on this site. Phil is a diver as well, but this site is going to challenge his skills. The drivers work and survey the site. Before the Time Team got to the site, over 200 hours were spent working on the site. There have been some amazing finds on the site. There were pottery shards with decorative patterns. There were cannons found on the site as well as anchors. There were also pots with three legs found on the site as well. With all these finds, will the Time Team be able to prove that this ship belonged to the Spanish Armada? Or was this some sort of Spanish Merchant ship? Or was this a personal ship of a rich Spanish man? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out. This Time Team episode was divided up into chapters for easy viewing and easy mining for lectures. With the technical nature of this dive, I would show this to a science class as well as a history class.
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