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Branwen B
Branwen Jan 8, 2010 19:06:32
Replying to StoneGloves

Island hut settlements being a show on Crannogs I've missed? Or huts on islands?

Dunno which series Ian McShane did but will google it.

I was reading this fella Graham Hancock. site (you may say he's an idiot not worth reading) on the underwater archaeology around India. Says there's evidence to say that the Vedas might be more historical than legendary, as things they are finding are mentioned in the Vedas.
http://www.grahamhancock.com/underworld/underworld5.php

Scotland is higher because of bounce back after the ice, but the seas rose when the ice melted too didn't they? I remember watching a show about Scotland where they said the coastline disappeared at a rate of two metres per year. Doggerland under the North Sea often throws up good finds, I think Time Team did a show on that too.

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Jan 8, 2010 20:13:42
Replying to Branwen

Watch out for Deadwood as it has a lot of swearing in it. The Time Team programme on a crannog is out there, somewhere. It was repeated in a best of review, which was when I saw it. Graham Hancock is spot-on with his underwater archaeology. Most of that has been posted as Underworld (pts 1, 2 & 3).

G Gwass
Gwass Jan 8, 2010 23:40:34
Replying to Branwen

Hi Branwen

There's 2 Time Team shows about crannogs. One is a special about Loch Tay and the other is a cracking epsiode filmed on the shores of Loch Migdale. They find a henge and a toppled standing stone which was aligned to the setting sun and a notch in the hills.

They also rediscover the spot where the bronze age Migdale hoard was found. They're both watchable on 4OD and others are on you tube. Well worth downloading

F faerygirl
faerygirl Jan 8, 2010 23:53:24
Replying to Branwen

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I was reading this fella Graham Hancock. site (you may say he's an idiot not worth reading) on the underwater archaeology around India. Says there's evidence to say that the Vedas might be more historical than legendary, as things they are finding are mentioned in the Vedas.
http://www.grahamhancock.com/underworld/underworld5.php

Scotland is higher because of bounce back after the ice, but the seas rose when the ice melted too didn't they? I remember watching a show about Scotland where they said the coastline disappeared at a rate of two metres per year. Doggerland under the North Sea often throws up good finds, I think Time Team did a show on that too.[/quote]


Hancocks books are amazing. Heavens Mirror and Underworld spring to mind. BRILLIANT reference to Yonaguni in Underworld, and you should read the Vedas, its kinda scary how much they knew, things that science is finding now.

G Gwass
Gwass Jan 10, 2010 06:10:03
Replying to Branwen

Other good prehistoric episodes are flag fen where they find a barrow (on an island of the dead)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/4od#2928278

There's also the causewayed enclosure one (a cracker too!)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/4od#2929878

There's loads of other good ones too based on the neolithic & bronze age where they find another henge!, trackways, roundhouses etc. It may not be everyones cup of tea but it's on telly, they are digging, learning and being in these landscapes, talking about them and focussing on what we all like. Surely that has to be worth watching. It's gven me a lot of joy anyway

Oh yeah, the amazing special I saw about seahenge in 1999 which I'be been looking for for ages is covered in a catch up review,time team digs about their neolithic & bronze age programmes. Well worth a watch. Even for the druids!
Here it is

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team-digs/4od#2927032