Good morning and we are continuing with our journey through the 31 Days of Time Team. Today we are looking at Keeping up with the Georgians. This episode is from season fifteen and is a newer episode. Tony Robinson introduces this episode on horseback. The estate was built outside of Bath. Why was this house built? Was it even lived in? Was it ever finished? All the remains of this estate were the arches from the portico. The Time Team has three days to solve the mystery of this building.
The Time Team examines the remains of what was Great Britain’s grandest Georgian’s houses. Stone arches are all that remains of the house. It was built for MP Sir Francis Popham. He had never seen it completely built. The paintings of the house show that it was an impressive structure and it could have been mistaken for Buckingham Palace. What did this house look like? Is the painting with Sir Francis Popham an accurate representation of the house? There have been mansions at Hunstrete since the Middle Ages. Sir John Popham acquired the estate in the 16th Century. There were many different phases of building on the site. The Time Team looks at a painting of the house. The geophysics looks at the area behind the remains of the arches. One dry year in the 1920s revealed the lines of the walls. When they get the geophysics results back is showing some wonky results. The Time Team starts trench one and immediately finds the eastern façade of the home. Tony Robinson explores the lodge where the Popham family stayed while the house was under construction. After Sir Francis Popham died, his wife continued to build the project. They had no heirs. The grand houses were built with the family dynasty in mind. So why did the Popham family decided to build this house even though they did not have children? The Time Team continues to examine the portico. The portico seems small in comparison to the grand design of the house. They need to find the corners of the house. Finding the corners will help find out the size of the house. The archeology is proving to be confusing in light of the paintings of the place. Phil is finding walls in the ground. He expands the trench to see if the wall is thick enough to support three stories. The wall is thicker and it shows that the walls could support three stories. Tony and Elaine Chalus, another historian examine building receipts and additional documents from the Popham family. Money was no object when the house was built. The layouts of surviving Georgian buildings will show what they are looking for. There is a landscape map of the land Popham owned. They show how generations of Popham families transformed the landscape. Even before the Georgian Builds, there were plenty of buildings on the property with gardens. Was this what the family inspired? Phil discovers a kink in the skinny wall of the façade. There is a dogleg in the wall. Nobody would have guessed that from the painting. The building had a projection. Tony goes over additional geophysics results. The building is proving to be smaller than initially thought. On day two, they look inside the building. To continue to learn about this Time Team episode, continue to watch this episode on YouTube. This would be a good episode for an independent study student. This Georgian building is proving to be a great mystery for the Time Team. There is plenty of evidence in the painting of the building’s design, but the archeology is proving to be confusing. Feel free to check out this episode.
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