Excitement is mounting this week as the hit TV show Time Team continue to dig up artefacts from the 17th century on our very own Castle Hill! Jon Willers of Time Team says the evidence of medieval life is very fluid and the course of their findings is changing every five minutes!
So far, findings include walls of the original castle owned by Hugh O'Neill plus three trenches which reveal what appears to be the castle's moat! Also found is a stoneware flagen - a high status item believed to have been owned by either O'Neill or Chichester. The Time Team believe they may have uncovered a road which led to the castle heading eastward which changes the whole orientation of the old town and evidence of houses and medieval pottery indicate hoe the normal townsfolk lived.
Time Team will finish their dig today - watch this space for a full report!
Thursday, 18 October 2007
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