Good Morning, we are on Day 7 of our 31 days of Time Team challenge. I am finding picking which Time Team episode to blog about a bit of a challenge because there are so many of them. I will press on with this challenge because 1) it is fun to do and 2) Time Team would be an excellent addition to anyone’s classroom. If I was a teacher, I would find a way to bring Time Team into the classroom setting or allow a substitute teacher to show an episode of Time Team to the class. This is a series that does not limit you to a history classroom either because you can show this series in a science class.
Time Team travels to Winchester, the ancient capital of Alfred the Great. Winchester was also the site of one of the biggest leper colonies in England. The leper colonists suffered a horrible disease. The site should contain living quarters for the colony’s residents as well as a chapel and hospital. The people who resided in this colony were the poorest in town. Geophysics scans the site to determine where to put the trenches in. Residents and archeologists field walk the scene too and pick up artifacts that were just lying next to in the field. This building debris could give Time Team a start on telling the leper colony’s story. There was a floor tile among the building debris. Dick Whinney, a Winchester resident archeologist, talks about the site and why they thought that the field was the site of the field hospital. The locals always called the field “hospital field.” There were some initial test pits done. Mick plans on trying to get the layout of the building, the chapel, and a cemetery. They are hopeful for good geophysics results. A landscape archeologist goes over the site to find the original test pits. The Geophysicists are pleased with themselves. There have been anomalies discovered in the ground. The first trench goes into the ground and the signs are good. Robin is piecing together the history of the site and discovered illustrations of what the building looked like. Stewart is also looking at early maps of the site. There is a photo of the site which indicates something is present as well as boundaries. They discover the remains of the wall, so a second trench is opened. They are also keen to find the cemetery because the bones will give clues to leprosy. Tony explores the history of leprosy and what it is. The archeologists will have to be careful when excavating the cemetery because the bones might not look the way they should and the bones are fragile. Leprosy was a damaging disease. Stewart discovers that a World War I army camp was built on the site and may have disturbed things. The Time Team is discovering things from the World War I army camp. Whoever built the camp took advantage of the site layout and used a Medieval well that was in place during the time of the leper colony. To continue to learn more about this dig and the history of Leprosy in Winchester, England continue to watch this episode. This would be a good episode to show in a history class, science class, and health class. It goes into both the history of leprosy and how it affected the body. If you do not want to see the archeology stuff, then just show clips from this episode. If you have an independent study student studying the history of England, then recommend this episode. This would be a good episode for a substitute teacher to show.
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