Time Team S14-E13 In the Shadow of the Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

Ten thousand years ago, Bodmin Moor was completely different from the barren, windswept landscape of today. It was a forested, temperate land, and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers roamed as they pleased until 10,000 years ago. During the Neolithic period, between 4,500 and 2,300 BC.

Ancient communities continued to thrive there until the Bronze Age. More than 200 settlements have been recorded, with their enclosures and fields, but we do not know exactly when they were all occupied, how they were related to each other or when and why they were deserted.

English Heritage and the Cornwall Historic Environment Service invited Time Team to examine and date some of the major monuments standing near Rough Tor. In a new departure for Time Team, this involved harnessing some of the latest science used in environmental archeology alongside the team's usual excavation and investigation techniques.

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