Time Team 2012

CARL Jan 16, 2012 15:01:41

The new series of Time team starts this Sunday (22.1.12) as 5.25pm.
The first episode may be of interest - possible Iron Age site?

'Tony Robinson and the team visit a tiny windswept island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by rigging a 500-metre zip wire way above the wave-lashed rocks.

Incredibly, it seems that Gateholm Island in Pembrokeshire was once inhabited, but whether by Romans, Vikings, Celts or druids nobody knows.

A handful of mysterious objects were found on the island years ago, including a rare Roman stone phallus and a beautiful bronze stag, suggesting that it may have been some sort of religious centre.

Of course, the team have to dig for answers, but the weather's throwing everything it has at them. To make their task that bit tougher, they discover they also need to dig at a second site a quarter of a mile away. Although this one, thankfully, is on the mainland.

Team leader Francis Pryor thinks it looks like what they're investigating is a classic Iron Age fort, with curved banks and ditches on one side and a sheer cliff on the other.

If he's right, it should give Phil Harding and his diggers at least enough work to keep them busy for three days. And if he's wrong, there's no hiding place on this beautiful but bleak coast!'

Sanctuary Jan 16, 2012 19:00:14

Replying to CARL

CARL wrote:

The new series of Time team starts this Sunday (22.1.12) as 5.25pm.
The first episode may be of interest - possible Iron Age site?

'Tony Robinson and the team visit a tiny windswept island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by rigging a 500-metre zip wire way above the wave-lashed rocks.

Incredibly, it seems that Gateholm Island in Pembrokeshire was once inhabited, but whether by Romans, Vikings, Celts or druids nobody knows.

A handful of mysterious objects were found on the island years ago, including a rare Roman stone phallus and a beautiful bronze stag, suggesting that it may have been some sort of religious centre.

Team leader Francis Pryor thinks it looks like what they're investigating is a classic Iron Age fort, with curved banks and ditches on one side and a sheer cliff on the other.

If he's right, it should give Phil Harding and his diggers at least enough work to keep them busy for three days. And if he's wrong, there's no hiding place on this beautiful but bleak coast!'

Thanks for the heads-up Carl. Francis won't be able to contain himself if it really is of religious significance :-)

moss Jan 22, 2012 12:42:46

Replying to CARL

CARL wrote:

The new series of Time team starts this Sunday (22.1.12) as 5.25pm.
The first episode may be of interest - possible Iron Age site?

'Tony Robinson and the team visit a tiny windswept island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by rigging a 500-metre zip wire way above the wave-lashed rocks.

Incredibly, it seems that Gateholm Island in Pembrokeshire was once inhabited, but whether by Romans, Vikings, Celts or druids nobody knows.

A handful of mysterious objects were found on the island years ago, including a rare Roman stone phallus and a beautiful bronze stag, suggesting that it may have been some sort of religious centre.

Team leader Francis Pryor thinks it looks like what they're investigating is a classic Iron Age fort, with curved banks and ditches on one side and a sheer cliff on the other.

If he's right, it should give Phil Harding and his diggers at least enough work to keep them busy for three days. And if he's wrong, there's no hiding place on this beautiful but bleak coast!'

Don't forget, it's tonight at 6 0 clock though ......

moss Feb 8, 2012 10:22:25

Replying to CARL

Well looking through the news this morning, noticed that Mick Aston is leaving TT because they are bringing in younger presenters. Actually I like Alex Langland, he was in the Victorian Farm reconstruction series. Anyway Mick Aston is angry about it as you can see.....

"The time had come to leave. I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. I feel really, really angry about it.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9068025/Mick-Aston-quits-Time-Team-after-producers-hire-former-model-co-presenter.html

CARL Feb 16, 2012 14:48:43

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Possible Iron Age site this week?
Earlier start time - 4.05pm

Beadnell, Northumbria - Chapel of secrets

19th February 2012 at 4:05pm on Channel 4.

Tony leads the Team to the village of Beadnell on a beautiful stretch of the Northumbrian coast, to explore an unusual promontory, from which mysterious fragments of human bone have emerged over recent years.

Legend ties the site to local seventh-century Saint Ebbe, and it's widely believed that a 13th-century chapel stood here. But could there also be the remains of an earlier structure on the site, perhaps dating to the time of St Ebbe herself? Or are the earthworks on the promontory an indication of Viking or even Iron Age inhabitants?

The only way to find out is by putting spades into the earth, but, before long, the Team are stumbling onto confusing signs of Second World War defences. And then, shockingly, they find skeletons of babies in the trenches. It's a sobering discovery, and one that raises more questions than it answers.

Team leader Mick Aston has just three days to untangle this archaeological jigsaw puzzle. And on such an exposed coastal site, any change in the weather could wreak havoc.

moss Feb 24, 2012 09:53:11

Replying to CARL

TV's Tony Robinson ready to unearth treasures under the South Dorset Ridgeway....

"“We want to find out more about its history and why it has over 500 prehistoric monuments on it.”

And only 3 days to do it. They have only just started so when the programme will be out is anybody's guess.

http://www.thisisdorset.net/news/tidnews/9549309.TV_s_Tony_Robinson_ready_to_unearth_treasures_under_the_South_Dorset_Ridgeway/r/?ref=rss