The ABC (sorry, as of last week it’s ABC 1) is currently playing repeats of Time Team on Tuesday nights, and tonight it was the Castle Howard episode. So I was watching, and decided to have a look at the place on Google Earth. I head to Yorkshire, and do a search which takes me right there. I zoom in to have a look at the walled garden they’re digging in….. Are those trenches!?
Yep! A big trench right across the walled garden!
So I zoom out to the west lawn. More trenches!
Has the Google satellite captured Time Team at work?
It sure looks like it! 😀
Now I won’t swear it’s actually the Time Team dig. But the trenches are in the right places, and seem to be the right shape. In fact (given that the trenches in the walled garden have been extended, but there are none on the north lawn) I’d be willing to date the photographs to the morning of day three. There’s a bit of a mystery in that one of the trenches (trench 2?) is missing from the west lawn, but possibly they closed it and replaced the turf before opening up the north lawn.
So yeah, how about that then?
(The location is 54° 7’14.46″ N 0°54’34.09″ W for those who want to take a look)
Big day tomorrow!
