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Helen Geake and Martyn Williams find out more about a crannog in a Scottish loch which has been hiding a secret about its construction. Dr Stephanie Blankshein from the University of Southampton explains the findings from exciting new research.You'll go behind the scenes of a conservation lab at Birmingham Museum where ancient objects are restored to their former glory.Jacq Barnard from the Sutton Hoo Ship's Company gives an update as work continues to reconstruct an Anglo-Saxon ship.Ahead of the release of a classic episode of Time Team, you'll learn more about a stone age tsunami which could have been partly responsible for making Britain an island.

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Don Cook

Fascinating!!! The more we find out about our ancestors, the more stunning they become. Brilliant idea!!!!

Giles

Great episode, loving the Crannog discoveries, and the amount we still don’t know…. The fact the islands were wooded/forested once pre human meddling is just so interesting, don’t base observations on the current reality!!!

David Boon

Another fascinating episode. My Y-DNA suggests my direct male line was likely in Britain when Doggerland disappeared. A mutation in that DNA is thought to have originated in Britain after Britain was separated from Continental Europe. It is amazing to think my ancestors may have witnessed the Tsunami.

Alan McMillan

Thank you for a great podcast today!

Lynn Edwards

Crannogs, Conservation, Sutton Hoo Ship, Storegga Slide Tsunami... Fascinating podcast... And then... You crowned it all with an anticipating comment about Roman stairs! I'm listening!

steve

Tremendously exciting news on the Sutton Hoo Ship build. Waiting eagerly for a full length documentary on it. Would love to see it, but now live across the waters in the US

Gene Henriksen

Steve, I also live in the US. I donater monthly to Time Team and the Sutton Hoo ship. See saxonship.org for lots of details, become a shipmates to watch montly calls on the progress.

Brian Fisher

Just did an online check and found more info: To record the site the team used stereophotogrammetry. "Fine sediments, choppy conditions, floating vegetation, and distorted or reflected light all hinder shallow water imaging," says maritime archaeologist Fraser Sturt from the University of Southampton. "Photogrammetry is very effective in deep water but runs into problems at depths of less than a meter. This problem is a well-known frustration for archaeologists." To overcome this, a diver swam with two wide-angle, low-light cameras mounted on a single frame along a precise path underwater. This method proved just as accurate as an aerial drone in terms of positioning, and provided a much clearer view of what was going on under the waves.

ChickenHawk

I would love to see a map of GB & Ireland with the location of ever TT site. I would plan a road trip.

Pam

Love a crannog, phases of use and sheer age is fascinating. Also fascinated by the dogger land drama, I live on the Suffolk Coast so looking out to sea and imagining the landscape which once existed. Also near Woodbridge so hoping to get a visit in to see how the ship is going. Not nervous about a tsunami, not at all.🌊

Elisabeth

Each segment was,so interesting!

Tamra Prior

I want to know what Boaty McBoatface looks like in Anglo-Saxon!

Helena McGinty

Ive bought wood to make garden pkanters. Several planks have warped. So not ideal if you used them in even a small boat. I am full of respect for the depth of knowledge of the foresters, shipwrights, engineering, carpentry, tool use and maintenance not to mention tea brewing.

Debbie Gerlock

Probably some stupid questions: Why can’t I see anything? If the podcast is meant to have no visual, why go somewhere that’s visual like the conservation lab?

Chris Bate

Always a fascinating subject!!!! Such a proud supporter of this magnificent programme...

Elaine P

What a jam-packed episode! The Doggerland special is one of my all-time TT favorites so was especially interested to hear this latest information. But all segments were equally interesting (always excited to hear more about the Sutton Hoo ship). Great episode!

Anne-Karoline Distel

I'm only catching up on all the emails now. I discovered a previously unrecorded crannóg on aerial imagery in Co. Mayo in Ireland (53.8532, -8.7786) which has since been excavated (but I haven't been able to get hold of the excavation reports). The reason I found it is that I read a story in the Schools' Collection about this lake about a man seeing a mermaid near the shore. This was likely an already recorded crannóg in the same lake. And while I was recording a video about this story for my Youtube channel, I discovered the other, much larger crannóg. There is another folk tale that a princess was "banished" to an island in that lake, bc her father (Mannanan Mac Lír) wanted her and her sisters to be safe from "being married" to the enemy - they all took exile in a different lake. I wonder if this might have something to with the tradition of isolating girls at their menarche (as might be coded into Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales - ATU 310 "Maiden in the Tower") and if these small crannógs could have served that purpose. It would be a ritualistic use after all.