What Can Archaeologists Discover In This Abandoned Tudor Copper Mine?

In this episode of Time Team, Tony Robinson and his team of archaeologists explore the Coniston Copper Works, one of England’s most historic and challenging copper mines! From its Tudor origins to the extreme conditions faced by miners, the Time Team delve into a forgotten era of Elizabethan mining. While battling harsh weather and the treacherous Lake District terrain, the archaeologists try to uncover rare artifacts and structures that could reveal how miners lived and worked 400 years ago.

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[kaptkrunchfpv]

Time Team is the Top Gear of Archeology. I LOVE IT!

[havredave]

A channel is good in my opinion when I can click 'like' in the first 5 seconds and not regret it by the end. :)

[thfield]

Kudos to the graphics team for bringing that Elizabethan image to life! Actually, there isn’t any part of Time Team that doesn’t deserve kudos.

[hunibear]

Another great episode! Lovely to have a look at a different part of the country. Well done Team!

[alfredmolison]

I'm glad the government was funding this. If my source of water was next to an abandoned mine I'd be interested in the archeology of the area too.

[smontone]

Always nice to find an episode I haven’t seen of time team. At a special guest Suzanna Lipscomb! I do love her podcast Not Just the Tudors.

[melissacoulter]

Susie is one of my favs! Her, Dan, Tony, & Phil are ones that I’ll watch anything they do

[stephenmanning]

Things do not change a lot. I have been a miner in the Murchison Goldfield of Western Australia for nearly 50 years. I was the last miner to use Mount Magnet stamp mill, known as batteries here and the unique sound will be in my mind till the end. I live in Cue and the first miners came here and used picks and shovels at the surface. Then as things got deeper things became more mechanized. I ended up as the Underground Manager of the Golden Crown Mine (500M deep) and subsequently alternate RM of the Big Bell Mine. And a supervisor in the open pit at the Great Fingall Mine. Of course I am getting older and watch the latest MASSIVE equipment being transported up the Great Northern Highway. Thank goodness these early miners did not have the equipment we have today otherwise I might have ended up being a rag and bone man!!

[jacobbevers]

19:40 she was sooo young here. She definitely been workin in the field to go from this to the main person in the current time team episodes.

[moonschildren]

Phil and Tony, great chemistry together.

[williamfindspeople]

This was a good one. Reminds me of my working days.

[GallifreyanGunner]

It's interesting that Coniston, Ontario, Canada, near the city of Sudbury, is also a mining town. Huge deposits of copper and nickel were found there, and the smelting damaged the landscape so badly that the Apollo astronauts trained for the moon landings there.

[davidbamford]

In the early days of powered flight, there were very primitive float planes using some of the larger lakes as airfields.

[merqury]

Der.Suzannah Lipscomb looks like a straight up moviestar historian fit for Hollywood.

[Patrick_Cooper]

Kudo's on the Range Rover not falling apart during Tony's high speed drive up a road most cars would die on.

[cschleiger]

Let me tell ya, the sound, and quality is so much better now ;) Keep em coming ye're chaps!

[davidbamford]

If the orebody reaches to the surface, there could be native copper, which means proper metallic copper. There might also be the cuprous minerals malachite (green) and azurite (bright blue), which could extend further down.

[a.p.]

Excellent episode although lacking the Really Ancient discoveries I long for.

[keithsadler]

There is a lot of history we will never find.

[karenlocke]

Ohmygosh, I'm familiar with restored or preserved gold ore stamp mills in Eastern California. What we don't have in Eastern California, at least in "normal" years, is that amazing flow of water. The miners of the 1850s would have been overjoyed to see streams run like that. Water power meant everything then. Now we have overpriced geothermal electricity.