Time Team 2012

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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.

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!'

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

An ok(ish) start to the new series. Much of it fairly predictable - a few of the regulars absent for some reason?
As for the prehistoric stuff - the Mesolithic arrow head was nice!
It's a pity they didn't have time to uncover mmore of the round houses but at least we now know they are there for future excavations.