Time team

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The time team just seem to dig holes and find buildings and whatever a foot below the surface, even on the seabed. Where has all the muck come from that has buried everything?

This isnt another puzzle is it????

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Originally Posted by SV225

This isnt another puzzle is it????

Nope - if I was going to ask a puzzle, I'd say something like

You have nine cubes that look exactly alike. Eight have exactly the same weight, one weighs more than the others. The only tool you have to measure the weight of the cubes is a balance (like the Justice statue), but you are only permitted to use it two times.

How do you find the one cube that has a different weight from the rest?

But I'm not so I wont.

I was told at school it was the action of worms that buried everything ancient, there must be millions of the buggers....

Most people are very surprised at the amount of dirt that can build up at an abandoned site. Once a structure has been exposed to the elements, even just through a broken window or a hole in a roof, the weather, animals, and humans all do their best to help the building crumble and fill up with dirt. The artifacts and structures that archaeologists study have often been abandoned for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. During this time they decay and are covered over. Wind brings more dust to cover the remains. Sometimes floods will bring with them silt and soil. Downtown Rome today is many meters higher than the Rome of the Caesars, partly because when the Tiber River flooded, silt built up even as people inhabited the city. In addition, the area was abandoned several times in its history -- and last but not least, there was no consistent daily or weekly effort to clean up the streets, no city-wide, consistent equivalent of our trash collection today. And so a city can slowly be partly buried even while people are living there. In more dramatic cases, sites may be buried relatively quickly during catastrophic events, the way Pompeii and Herculaneum were covered over by ash and volcanic mud during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One way or another, by the time archaeologists arrive on the scene, the remains of a site may be covered by anywhere from one to forty feet of earth and debris.

As for the cubes, first pick any six cubes and put three on each side of the scale, this shows you which of the three groups the heavy cube is in.

Repeat the process with the chosen three cubes, one on each side of the scale one stays on the table.

I'm not clever, but I know how to work google!

Lots and lots of bird poo.

[quote=arenalife;1125180]I was told at school it was the action of worms that buried everything ancient, there must be millions of the buggers....

One way or another, by the time archaeologists arrive on the scene, the remains of a site may be covered by anywhere from one to forty feet of earth and debris. quote]



This site, a DMV (deserted medieval village) in Leicestershire was inches below the surface..






Whereas this site, a bathhouse in a small Roman town on the A5 outside of Rugby, at the point I was standing (in the cold plunge pool) , was some 10 feet below the surface

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Originally Posted by arenalife

Whereas this site, a bathhouse in a small Roman town on the A5 outside of Rugby, at the point I was standing (in the cold plunge pool) , was some 10 feet below the surface

What's the chances of that? Digging up a Roman bath and it's still got the water in it.

Just one more question .... why DMV (Deserted Medieval Village)? ...

... and are you expecting to find one still occupied? I can only imagine this to be the "Holy Grail" of archaeology, unless you're looking for the cup of Christ.

Someone is full of wit today

DMV - used to denote a settlement abandoned in a short period of time, ie eviction as a result of 15/16th Century land enclosures

Thank you.

That's one in the eye to everyone who told me, "If you ask a stupid question, expect a stupid answer".