Iron age artefacts discovered in Caerau, Cardiff

[teqniq]

No, this is not something I got from Radio Merffa

Time Team discovers 3,000 years of history at Cardiff site

Archaeologists from Channel 4 show Time Team have discovered 3,000-year-old homes and artefacts on the site of an Iron Age hillfort in Cardiff.

The show’s experts descended on the ancient site at Caerau Hill, off Church Road in Caerau, to film an episode of the hit series.

The team spent three days working at the site with presenter Tony Robinson saying they had found a “whole spaghetti bolognese” of ditches, circles, roundhouses and enclosures at the site.

He said investigators had found a 3,000-year-old saddlequern tool and pieces of an Iron Age pot which they were able to put back together and almost reconstitute.

“That’s very, very rare. We can put it together and make a tiny little pot that would have been created by hand,” said Robinson, famous for his role as Baldrick in the Rowan Atkinson comedy Blackadder.

He said it “may be the rarest example in South Wales” of such a discovery.

The dig at the Caerau site had been “incredibly successful,” he added.....

 

[editor]

It was on TV today. Here's the catch up info:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/episode-guide/series-20/episode-3

 

[bendeus]

I'm sure this was done as a community project with a load of local involvement, including on the dig. Got a massive response, apparently.

 

[teqniq]

Yeah I should have posted it earlier really but anyway there's a link there to Channel 4's version of iPlayer

@benedus it says that in the article

 

[bendeus]

Yeah I should have posted it earlier really but anyway there's a link there to Channel 4's version of iPlayer

@benedus it says that in the article

Mate of mine project managed the community element of it. Sounded like a great project

 

[Tankus]

Be great if they had a time team month project

 

[1927]

Caerau is still in the iron age!

 

[bendeus]

Caerau is still in the iron age!

Fairwater boi, izzit?

 

[danny la rouge]

It was a good programme; I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[1927]

Fairwater boi, izzit?

Nah Barry, mun!

 

[bendeus]

Nah Ely, bra!

Ah, c'mon. You're brothers across the A48!

 

[1927]

Ah, c'mon. You're brothers across the A48!

I misunderstaood your post so I edited, and you must have been quoting me at that very moment!lol, sorry.

 

[bendeus]

I misunderstaood your post so I edited, and you must have been quoting me at that very moment!lol, sorry.

And anyway, Basra is just Caerau Super Mare