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CARL 270 posts |
Jan 16, 2012, 15:01
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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!'
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Sanctuary 3392 posts |
Jan 16, 2012, 19:00
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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!' Thanks for the heads-up Carl. Francis won't be able to contain himself if it really is of religious significance :-)
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moss 2264 posts |
Jan 22, 2012, 12:42
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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 ......
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CARL 270 posts |
Jan 23, 2012, 08:08
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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.
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tjj 2265 posts |
Jan 23, 2012, 08:56
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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.
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Spaceship mark 1590 posts |
Jan 23, 2012, 13:13
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Seems to have been something of a 'soft-revamp', new co-presenters, the seeming replacement of Stuart 'landscape' Ainsworth and, most importantly, a leap forward in the CG effects/reconstructions. I especially liked the stone box/boiler/water container erupting out of the ground... Hopefully they won't make too many immediate changes, I think one of the good things about Time Team is how it has gradually eveloved over the years. Watch an old episode on DocuDave or whatever and its wierd to see the stuff they don't do at all or as much. All those Victor Ambrus watercolours, lots of looking in books and they hardly ever get the whole village together for an explantion at the end anymore...
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Spaceship mark 1590 posts |
Jan 23, 2012, 13:58
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Yes I saw that, test pits in gardens, bulldozers in the cabbage patch, Phil in the rhodendrons, jumpers for goalposts...
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CARL 270 posts |
Jan 23, 2012, 14:55
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Next weeks episode is a 'medieval' one in which most of the village take part apparently.
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juamei 1787 posts |
Jan 23, 2012, 15:23
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Phil in the rhodendrons with a trowel. Buy new Time Team themed Cluedo at all good toy stores NOW!!!
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moss 2264 posts |
Jan 24, 2012, 10:46
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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.
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