Good morning! Thirty- One Days of the Time Team continues to press on. How are you liking the adventures of Uncle Mick, Uncle Tony, and Uncle Phil? Today I found another episode from season nine. This time the Time Team is working on Ermine Street. The description that Odyssey has put is for the wrong episode. The run time for this episode is 48:58 and it is called An Ermine Street Pub.
The Time Team is looking for a Roman Road called Ermine Street. However, the problem is that no sign of the road exists above ground. However, there has been a wealth of Roman Finds that were discovered in this field. The British Museum wanted to keep it quiet because it could be an important Roman site. A horde of Roman coins were discovered on the site. What will the Time Team find in three days? Back in the 1950s two families worked on excavating this field and discovered several Roman finds. Nobody could tell them what they had found, neither could experts from the British Museum. Jean Mullinger, a member of one of the families who worked on the park called Time Team had to dig the park. It was long enough to keep it hidden, and now she wants to understand what was found. The Time Team looks over the records of the original excavation and it is very detailed. Geophysics works on cleared areas of the site, however, Mick wants to dig in an area that has a lot of brambles. The big machines are called in to clear this area. The landscape has changed since the 1950s, so geophysics needs to review the site. Trench one goes in over a feature that could be a drain. John and Mick go over the geophysics results which will help put the map in context. There seems to be a series of ditches and walls. Trench two goes in as well a few years from Trench one. Mick and Stewart take to the air to look for the Roman Road. The pair talk about what happened to the Roman Road and how a park was put smack dab in the middle of the roads so people would have had to go around. Carenza and Guy meet in the local school to go over the original finds. Something was going on at this site. Rosalind Niblett helps Guy and Carenza make sense of the finds. Work on trench one continues and there is wet at the bottom of the trench. It is clear that there is a drain and there is tile found in the drain. So far the plans from the 1950s are matching with what the Time Team is discovering. However, there are still questions as to what can be found in Trench Two. Will the Time Team manage to find more Roman evidence in Trench Two? On day three a third trench is dug over some marks in a field, perhaps this is the remains of a Roman road. The plan for Day Two the Time Team hopes to get into the houses of the Romans and not the back gardens. The plan that was drawn up in the 1950s is proving to be accurate, but will it continue to be accurate? However, first things first geophysics is looking for the Roman road through the woods. Trench four goes into this bramble area, it is an area that Geophysics could not work in. On day two, Uncle Phil hopes that he will be able to find the pub. He is talking with an expert in Roman farming and he would like to learn what the Romans were doing in his trench in relation to the location of the Roman Road. Will Phil find this Roman pub? What else will the Time Team learn about the site? Will the 1950s map prove to be accurate? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out. It was pretty impressive to see how well the site was recorded in the 1950s by the amateurs, so I wondered what made them think about documenting it so well. It goes to show how history changes. This was a very good episode, there was plenty of testing done to discover where the Roman road was. I would show this to a history class.
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