TV's TiME TEAM
BROAD STREET - ELY
BROAD STREET - ELY
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TV's TiME TEAM
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The
Time Team are in Town..! |
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"This
was a 20 week dig that culminated in a TiME TEAM SPECIAL Broadcast on
Channel 4 in spring of 2001"
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Pictured
right is the Channel 4 Film Crew who have been covering this important
local research project which is being carried out by the Archæological
Unit based at the Cambridge University headed by team Leader Alison Dickson.
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TiME
TEAM Producer Graham Dixon gave Ely.org.uk a sneak insight into the findings
of the site...
So far we have discovered a Medæval Kiln or Oven along with the foundations of some 15th Century Homes... Digging deeper we have discovered house remains dating back to the 12th Century and down towards the river we have found what we believe to be proof that boat building was carried out on the site... This is a very important excavation and we hope to find that Saxon peoples were using the site before the Norman Conquest and maybe Romans before that. We may even be lucky enough to discover Iron Age remnants like those found on the other side of Ely in the West Fen Area. |
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The Local
Authorities have been very kind as to erect a "viewing platform"
to enable the general public to observe the excavation along with pictures
and background information.
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The Site
is protected by Closed Circuit Surveillance Cameras as earlier in the
year the site was invaded by "renegade artefact hunters"..!
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The Team
are very excited by the finds so far and are hoping to discover far more
as the project enters it's final month. It is due to finish midway through
December 2000 when the information from the 20 week dig will be collated
by the Cambridge University Archæological
Unit for release on their own website and The TiME TEAM's TV Special in
Spring of 2001 and Channel
4's website even earlier.
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