An Iron-Age Trading Centre, Green Island | FULL EPISODE | Time Team

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  @briandavidson3390 · 3 years ago

  Phil Harding's joy at learning a new skill, or even watching someone else apply their skill, is infectious.

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• AC

  @acepilot1 · 5 years ago

  Wake up at midnight with a panic attack and this video has calmed me down. What is so therapeutic about watching brits dig in people’s yards for ancient ruins?

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• ST

  @StacyL. · 5 years ago

  What a nice sentiment to give the land owner a bracelet made in the fashion of the ancient way!

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• RO

  @rosiya189 · 5 years ago

  Time team is saving 2020

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• LI

  @Libbathegreat · 4 years ago

  I've just realized that the experimental archaeologist helping make the shale bracelet (Jake Keane) is the same guy who helped Phil smelt iron in the episode much earlier on where there was a Roman bath house in the middle of a golf course- maybe season 6 or so?

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• MA

  @malcolmgeoffreyemblng5766 · 5 years ago

  I lived on the island of Elba for a few years and when we dug a five metre deep pit to accomodate a sewage lifting pump we found Etruscan iron working deposits including haematitic ore (from the island) and charcoal. I enquired and was told by local experts that for each ton of crushed ore twenty tons of oak wood (Ilex) was required for the process. Very quickly the timber resources of the island were exhausted and the ore was exported to the nearby mainland for processing where timber was more readily available. The Green Island project missed the important fact that charcoal would have had to have been imported from elsewhere....

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• TH

  @thomasjaggers3576 · 5 years ago

  An island is not just defensive. In an age when the easiest way to move things around is by boat an island is ideal for a distribution center. Large vessels that have crossed big open water are unloaded and reloaded while smaller vessels for inland bays and rivers do the same.

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• LE

  @leeneufeld4140 · 5 years ago

  Got ticks?  Tie the bottoms of your pants shut, or stuff them into boots.  Most ticks get onto you from tall grass, and this way you can brush them off from time to time.  It doesn't get rid of them entirely, but it really helps.

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• SY

  @SyrinxofOz · 3 years ago

  .''..but there still would have been ticks.''  😂

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• DR

  @dr5117 · 5 years ago

  I couldn't understand why they were calling a bracelet an "omelette" until I realized they were saying "armlet. Duh.

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• KV

  @kvarietyfan · 5 months ago

  The argument I would put to Mic, is that even into the Middle Ages, smiths were viewed as being somewhat magical. I don't find it hard to imagine Iron Age people seeing it that way. One of the few things i've ever disagreed with him about.

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  @nerdynaturalist · 5 years ago

  I left the UK and one thing I missed was watching Time Team so I'm really glad they have been adding full episodes to their channel.

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