Time Team

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1. Please explain what happens to the dig when Time-Team are done. How is it cleaned up, and what happens to the site and items discovered. The mind boggles at the thought of hundreds of holes arond the UK not filled in. Enjoy the show a great deal. Keep up the good work

   Posted by Peter Brockhurst on 17/09/2009 00:42:38

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2. Interesting programme. But why did the Byzantine expert only mention the over expansion of the Byzantine empire to explain why the long standing settlement seems to have terminated so abruptly in the 6th century? It is known that there was a plague pandemic, starting in the mediterranean, from the 6th century - the Justinian pandemic. Although we don't have the written records available for this period, that the 14th century 'Black Death' has, it is known that about 30% of the population (conservatively) died during the waves of the 14th plague sweeping the continent. As the programme was pointing out the Turkish pottery (in the heart of the Byzantine empire?) and likely trading links, surely Cornwall would have been as vulnerable in the sixth century to plague brought by ships as London was in the 14th? This would explain why the heavy reduction in trading didn't simply mean a reduction in the settlement's importance and why it simply stopped being there at all - like a few medieval villages which can only be seen in the church which was left.

   Posted by Pat on 23/08/2009 21:15:24

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