Good Morning everybody! Today, we will kick off the month of celebrating Time Team and its return. Our first episode of Time Team comes from Season 1, Episode 1. Tony Robinson is younger and has long hair. The Time Team goes to Somerset County and explores the base of King Alfred the Great. King Alfred the Great was fleeing from the Danes. The site they excavate was the base of King Alfred the Great.
King Alfred the Great finds himself in a marsh. He had fled from the Danes after being defeated again. A farmer and his wife shelter him. While the farmer is working in the fields, his wife works in the home. Alfred the Great, lost in thought, suddenly notices a puff of black smoke. The farmer’s wife is angry and berated the king for burning the cakes. Was this story a myth? The Time Team will find out. They were invited by a Somerset family to look at a site. Their property has a connection to Alfred the Great. It was the site of Alfred the Great’s abbey and could potentially be where he had built a fort. The Time Team has three days to find out more about the site. However, the site is a scheduled monument, this meant that they cannot do any digging. So to discover more about the site they will have to field walk the site. Phil and Carenza start surveying the farmer’s land to plan and plot. Another member of the Time Team puts a soil auger into the ground to see what is beneath. They want to see the different soils and how the soil changed over the year. Mick and Tony go up in a helicopter to survey the land from the sky. Mick explains what the area would have looked like in the time of Alfred the Great. Tony is learning alongside Mick and is pointing things out to Mick in the landscape. Mick explains why this would be a good place for Alfred the Great to hide. The technology and planning are primitive at the start. Mick does an excellent breakdown of the questions about the site. Robin Bush is a wordsmith when it comes to telling the story of Alfred the Great. He seems to relish storytelling. Tony Robinson is good at asking Robin Bush follow-up questions about Alfred the Great. Robinson also teases out additional information from Bush. They make an interesting pairing. Tony follows the footsteps of Alfred the Great. He is surprised that Alfred the Great could have moved around the marsh. It also surprises him that Alfred the Great had inspired the people to defeat the Vikings. It seems he is taking Mick’s lessons to heart and is pairing it with Robin’s storytelling. This is an interesting episode. The Time Team are amateurs when it comes to presenting their work for TV. It seems awkward at first. It is so funny to see a young Tony Robinson, Mick Astin, and Phil Harding. Tony does not know much about archeology at the time and the Time Team gives him a hard time about it. He does summarize the Time Team’s activities and techniques well. He does not know what the archeologists have in mind, but he is enjoying telling the story. If you are studying Alfred the Great and are interested in sites connect to him this would be a good episode for research. This would be a good documentary to show in a classroom for filler. However, if you had independent study students then you can put this on your student’s reading and viewing list.
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