In this classic Time Team, the edge of the Roman Empire is explored in Ribchester. How did the Romans protect their edge of the Empire? A resident wrote and invited the Time Team to explore the Roman Remains. He has some Roman Remains in the garden. His house was built from those Roman fort remains. How do they relate to the Roman defense? How will the Time Team unravel the mystery of the Roman Remains?
Ribchester is situated on a river and was a major strategic site. There had been some archeological work done on the site. Most of it was done at a later Roman Fort. However, the Time Team will explore a local garden and hope to find additional evidence of an earlier Roman settlement. They will also survey the area to create a new map of the Roman fort. Phil talks with the homeowner about the remains. The remains of the fort are very well preserved. Mick and Tony go out on a walk and talk about the landscape and where to put a trench. Oftentimes, a road was put in with a little kink in it because the roadbuilders were avoiding a ditch or a wall. Mick and Tony meet up with John Gater and the geophysics team. The Geophysics team starts their work. The garden is being dug up. So why would the Romans build a fort? What were they so afraid of? Tony catches up with Robin Bush. Robin reveals that the Romans built the forts because they wanted to keep the people under control. He then talks about the different kinds of Roman forts that were built. Each fort was built according to the danger the settlements were in. Phil and the homeowner look over the trench that is being dug. The homeowner did some digging in the garden before the Time Team arrived. He had covered what he found and did not go any further. So the Time Team will go ahead and dig further. John Gater goes over the geophysics results with the team. There is evidence of a ditch in the ground. These results will determine where another trench will go in. Day two kicks off with the Time Team excavating the tower and the ditch. Tony talks about how some of the locals became friends with the Romans. A local Queen was pro-Roman and even turned in a chief who wanted to shelter him. Unfortunately, her husband was very anti-Roman. The pair divorced and King lead an uprising against the Romans. This uprising, lead to the Romans taking a different approach to the locals. Tony then catches up with Mick and trench two. The Time Team will be changing the location of the trench. They decided against the original location because they wanted to preserve the remains underneath. Tony is surprised to hear that the archeologists will not dig in an area to preserve it. The Time Team will dig a trench across a line that Geophysics discovered. Will they be digging a ditch? Does this indicate that this is a fort or a civil settlement? Phil catches up with the homeowner in regard to his backyard. They have dug deep enough to the layer of the original stone fort. Eventually, this trench will be closed, and the diggers will go to another site. Things are moving along, and the Time Team is discovering an earlier fort on the site. What else will the Time Team find out about the site? This episode of the Time Team is an older episode but a good episode. It talks about how the local tribes accepted or did not accept Roman Rule so it would be a good episode to show in a history class.
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