Time Team is back looking for Roman ruins. They are in the woods in Cambridgeshire. The forest may seem to be the enemy of the archeologists. However, with a lidar-generated scan, Tony was able to show a picture of something in the ground in the woods. Is it a Roman Villa? Or is it a Roman Ironworks? The trees will be a problem for geophysics. A second problem is that they are digging in a national preserve. Time Team will be risking bug bites to dig the site. What will they find in three days? Tune into this episode to find out.
On day one, they discover Roman walls. These walls are sitting just below the surface. Tony is impressed that the trenches have gone in right away. The site has puzzled local historians for decades. So what will the Time Team find on the site? If there is one person who can figure out the mystery it is Phil Harding. As Tony walks the site, he is confused from what the map has pictured to what is pictured on the ground. Phil provides clarification for the difference between walls and earthworks. Phil assures Tony that they are digging in the right place. In Trench Two, Matt is trying to discover an earthwork or something else entirely. Matt and Rashka are discovering a wall in the ground. Additionally, a piece of Roman tile is discovered. The archelogy is just below the surface. Who discovered this site? Tony goes and finds out. His name was Edmund and he mapped the area. He even had drawn a horseshoe building where the Roman villa was. Edmund never published his written reports, so Time Team will finish the job he started. John Gater has attempted to geophysics the site. However, the trees are proving to be a challenge. So John takes a metal detector over the site. They find a piece of barbed wire in the ground. In the meantime, Stewart Ainsworth shows the rest of the team a map of the landscape results. The results show that the site is bigger than what was initially thought. Phil is discovering building rubble. More of the wall is uncovered. The walls are built in a particular way. The evidence of this is found in Matt’s trench. Additionally, they are finding iron ore in the trench. Victor, Guy, Tony, Helen, and the local historian gather together to go over Edmund’s original work. There were two statues found on the site and Guy is suspicious about the statues’ origins. Finding Roman statutes in England is unusual. Helen makes the argument that it is possible that statues could be found. Eventually, Guy does come around to the possibility of Roman statues. Day Two comes and it is a rainy day. Mick and Tony talk about the need for wood during ancient times. The forest they are digging in existed since the Eleventh Century and has protected the Roman ruins. A third trench is put in and Faye who is digging it has a challenge on her hands. Could she use a machine to help dig the trench or dig it by hand? Since the dig is in a national preserve, she will have to hand dig in the trench. In the meantime, Matt’s trench is shut down and he is assigned to a new trench. Helen goes back to the original work on the site. Are they digging a Roman villa? A Roman expert does not believe that it is a Roman Villa. So is the Time Team digging an industrial site? Tune into this episode to find out. This would be a good filler episode for a history classroom and good for research for an independent study student.
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