Good morning! I hope that this day finds you well. I am going to fast forward to an episode for season nine for the Thirty-One Days of the Time Team. This episode comes from the Odyssey YouTube Channel. This episode is called The Roman’s Panic and has a run time of 49:05.
The Time Team is investigating Ancaster, in Lincolnshire. This village lies on a major Roman road called Armine Street. It had been built by the Roman forces when they invaded Britain. However the only Roman remains that are visible are some massive earth banks and ditches. The locals had been making finds over the years. This settlement has largely been ignored by archaeologists, until the Time Team has come in. What will they find about the site? Why was it suddenly abandoned? Will the rain stop? Day one kicks off in the rain. Geophysics is working on the site in driving rain and wind. Guy de la Bédoyère has brought the Time Team to this site. Tony catches up with Guy as well as Mick and Carenza. Guy had just moved to the community and it was his young son that talked about how the head teacher discussed the finds that were discovered. This site was largely overlooked by archeologists and has not been well documented. However the Roman walls are scheduled so the Time Team cannot dig them. What areas will the Time Team be able to dig? This area is stuffed with Roman finds and Carenza immediately demonstrates this by showing what she has found just doing a field walk. The Time Team will focus on two sites that are outside of the walls. There are two fields that they will concentrate on. The Field Walkers and diggers are dispatched. Trench one goes in on a site of a church yard where there have been many Roman burials. There may have been Roman sarcophagi found at this site. Tony and Mick meet up with Phil in his trench. However his trench is empty. However, the geophysics results are showing a massive amount of something in the ground. Phil has a theory: natural iron in the trench. Guy and Tony then tour a school where many Roman finds are being housed. The children bring in the finds and they are housed as an unofficial local history museum. Guy believes that Carenza’s field could house a temple. There are many finds discovered as a result of the field walks even before Carenza digs her trench. John brings by the geophysics results and trench two goes in over a potential ditch for a religious site. Back at Phil’s trench, the team has finally gotten beneath the iron. In the meantime Stewart Ainsworth surveys the walls and talks with Jeremy Taylor, a Roman town expert. Stewart hopes to get geophysics out on the wall. However geophysics is busy with surveying the field. Phil catches up with Mick, Margaret Cox, Tony, and John about what he is discovering in his trench, he has found burning in his trench. Was this a funeral pyre? Or was this iron melting? This prompts a debate as to what is a priority for geophysics. Back in Carenza’s field, she is finding a massive amount of bones both human and animal. So in the Cemetery site where the Time Team believed, they would find bodies they are finding nothing. In Carenza’s field where the Time Team thought they would find a temple, they are finding bones. What is going on with Ancaster? Day two begins with Phil opening up two more trenches in his field. The Time Team is looking for the edge of the Roman Cemetery and for dating evidence. What happened to the town when the wall was built around it? Stewart and Mick take to the air to examine the landscape and the wall. Back on the ground, the Time Team is baffled by what is going on in Carenza’s trench. Is this the actual Roman cemetery? Or is this a temple site? What will the Time Team discover about this site? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out! There were plenty of twists and turns with this episode. Why was this site so ignored for so long with all the finds that were discovered. I am glad the Time Team was able to make it to this site. I would show this to a history class.
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