Time Team 2012

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CARL C
CARL Jan 23, 2012 08:08:03
Replying to moss

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.

T tjj
tjj Jan 23, 2012 08:56:14
Replying to CARL

I managed to catch most of it. Really enjoyed it though not sure how necessary the 'wild cooking' picnic in the lashing rain was, felt sorry for those who pulled the short straw there.

What I really liked was that the dig pointed to Bronze Age people being sea-faring traders with coastal and island communities being the 'hubs' as it were.

M moss
moss Jan 24, 2012 10:46:55
Replying to CARL

Well funnily enough this part of the world is one of my favourite places so this programme was interesting, though I grit my teeth because of the 'three day rule' on TT, anyway a link to Coflein with very good photos of Gateholm...

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/102906/collection/GATEHOLM+ISLAND/?sort_typ=dmedium&sort_ord=desc&show=all

And another link to a similar promontory fort at Porth y Rhaw which had a longer excavation time.....

http://www.cambria.org.uk/projects/PorthYRhaw.htm

This is one of my favourite walks, just outside Solva to St.David, park in the little NT car park at the bottom of the hill to Nine Wells, walk along to the little cove and then take the cliff path to the left, the banks are pretty steep...

There are supposedly promontory forts every half mile along this coast but not many on TMA, except the St.David's one with its still remaining hut circles.