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Risehill, Cumbria

On a cold and wet July week GSB and Time Team ventured to Risehill, a 19th Century Navvy Camp on top of the Yorkshire dales for the workers who built the Settle - Carlisle railway.

Time Team site

 Time Team
 

Geophysics over lidar data

Geophysics results draped over lidar data

What we found

This was not the best site for survey waist height thistles, nettles covered the ground and when it rained it rained hard! However the extent of the navvy camp was determined and a possible workshop was identified.
 

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Time Team 2009 series (filmed in '08)

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  • Scargill Castle, Co Durham - Medieval

  • Knockdhu, Co Antrim - Prehistoric

  • Caerwent, South Wales - Roman

  • Rise Hill, Cumbria - Industrial

  • Salisbury Cathedral - Medieval

  • Radcot, Oxfordshire - Medieval / Civil War

  • Colworth Villa, Bedfordshire - Roman

  • Looe Island, Cornwall - Medieval

  • Lincoln's Inn, London - Medieval

  • Chapel Head, Cambs - Medieval / Prehistoric

  • Ulnaby, Co Durham - Medieval

  • Blythburgh, Suffolk - Medieval / Prehistoric