Good morning, we will continue with the Thirty-One Days of Time Team with In the Shadow of Tor.
Time Team is in one of the most hostile environments in Great Britain in Cornwall. However, 5,000 years ago it was the most ideal place to have a home. Why were Prehistoric people drawn to the site? How did they survive? Time Team has three days to find out. The location in Cornwall is weather-scared and a witness to 1,000’s years of human history. Nobody can say for sure how old the ruins in Cornwall are. The weather had scarred the landscape where the prehistoric people settled. Did these settlements spring up at the same time? Or were there periods of settlement? The archeology is on the surface and is one of the best-preserved sites in Britain. Ian Morrison, with English Heritage, inspected the site before. He comments on the inspection of the site and believes that there were a couple of hundred people living there at one point. Francis Pryor plans on digging the site, looking for evidence of the house, and to find dating evidence. The site is within sight of one of the highest Tors in Cornwall. Tony talks about the site and wonders how people lived there. He wondered why people wanted to live there. The site was a hive of activity in the past, however, it is only a theory. Time Team takes their seat alongside other archeologists who have worked on the site. One local archeologist had done some digging on the site. Now it is up to the Time Team to put together the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. The Time Team begins digging in the doorway. Will they find the door? Or are they just excavating stone? There was an assumption that all the structures came from the Stone Age. However, there seems to be evidence indicating that there was another earlier settlement. A second trench will go in. They will put it in the trench where it was dug before. They will also look for pollen samples in the soil. The pollen will tell the Time Team about the environment. They will also look for signs of burning. If there was burning it will a sign that someone was living there. The weather is throwing everything it can at Time Team. Despite this, they are making small finds, including a piece of flint. So Tony goes and investigates as to why people would settle on the site. Ian Morrison talks with Stewart Ainsworth. They look to the landscape of the area. The landscape may be the key as to why people settled in that landscape. It could have been a sacred landscape. Or it could have been a place where people could easily gather. The light is providing dramatic views of the landscape, which would have been intriguing to ancient man. The settlement was in the shadow of a Tor, or a mountain. What secrets does this mountain have? To continue to learn more about this site continue to watch this documentary. Will the Time Team further the history of this site? What will they find? The landscape was cool. The Time Team had to battle with the weather during this dig. I got a kick out of Phil being in his element. I agree with Tony, how could anyone live on the site. This is an episode that brings in environmental archeologists to discover more about the history of the landscape. That element was pretty cool to bring in. As for showing this in a classroom, I would restrict this to independent study students or for research purposes.
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