Time Team · SEASON 11
The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands
Episode 3 · 2004-01-18
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
There's an island-ish round area of stones in Loch Migdale - could it be a crannog? 200 meters away on the banks is a small (12 m diameter) circular feature - is it a henge? Time Team rounds up some experts on the prehistoric and finds out. They set up a suction dredge to investigate two areas of the loch feature, and find wonderfully preserved timber, proving that it's a built structure and thus a crannog. GPS surveying and a tip from a local farmer finds the causeway, now underwater, leading to it Trenches within the henge show that the entrance and wooden posts within it pointed towards notable features in the landscape. Stewart looks for the find site of the Migdale Hoard.
50 minutes
Season 11 episodes
1. In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London2004-01-04
2. A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly - Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset2004-01-11
3. The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands2004-01-18
4. Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire2004-01-25
5. The Roman Fort That Wasn't There - Syndale, Kent2004-02-01
6. An Iron-Age Trading Centre - Green Island, Dorset2004-02-08
7. A Medieval Blast Furnace - The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire2004-02-15
8. Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport2004-02-22
9. Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology - Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire2004-02-29
10. King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire2004-03-07
11. Back-Garden Archaeology: Revisiting a Roman Villa - Ipswich, Suffolk2004-03-14
12. The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders2004-03-21
13. Brimming with Remains - Cranborne Chase, Dorset2004-03-28
