Padstow, North Cornwall
First screened 9 March 2008
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From Constantinople to Cornwall
One summer during the 1980s, strange crop marks appeared in two fields on the north Cornish coast near Lellizzick. Aerial photographs taken by archaeologist Steve Hartgroves and two geophysics surveys revealed dozens of circular and semi-circular shapes and lines running across the clifftop fields.More about Padstow »
What they found
The whole site was likely to have been occupied from the Bronze Age through the Iron Age and on into the Roman era, when the finds suggested that it had been a trading station importing exotic goods from as far afield as the western Mediterranean.
The whole site was likely to have been occupied from the Bronze Age through the Iron Age and on into the Roman era, when the finds suggested that it had been a trading station importing exotic goods from as far afield as the western Mediterranean.
Sailing the Doom Bar
We speak to local skipper Jim West and get his view of the dangerous waters off Lellizzick
We speak to local skipper Jim West and get his view of the dangerous waters off Lellizzick
Q & A
Time Team's landscape archaeologist, Stewart 'lumps and bumps' Ainsworth, answers our questions.
Time Team's landscape archaeologist, Stewart 'lumps and bumps' Ainsworth, answers our questions.
Time Trial
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