Archaeology Rules with Raksha Dave!
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
YES we're talking to THAT Raksha Dave, the one from Time Team, Patrick and Leah's favorite show! She tells us about her future digs, all the cool stuff she's done since Time Team, how she became an archaeologist, and why we should all treat old stuff with respect.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:15.5 | Just imagine that you're on the 13th fairway of a golf course in a small island of the Northwest of England called the Isle of Man. |
| 0:24.5 | And the weather is forecast to be absolutely terrible. It's forecast for torrential rain and gales. |
| 0:31.5 | And it's the winds just started to pick up and it's just started to rain. |
| 0:35.5 | And I've literally just opened a new trench with I think in the US you call it backhoe. |
| 0:40.5 | So we've got a digger going across, scraping away the soil. |
| 0:44.5 | The reason why we're there is we're there to try and find an early Christian site, essentially. |
| 0:52.0 | The geophysics think that they've picked up a couple of burials. |
| 0:55.5 | We're looking at like kissed burials, which are stone lined. |
| 0:59.5 | So that's what I'm looking for in the machines, greats back and then all of us. |
| 1:03.5 | I don't know if we pick up one and then we pick up another one. |
| 1:06.5 | It's all very exciting. |
| 1:08.5 | That's Rackshade Dave, BBC host and presenter, archaeologist and all around badass. |
| 1:12.5 | She's been on a lot of digs throughout her career. |
| 1:15.5 | She's seen a lot of what British archaeology has to offer. |
| 1:18.5 | But every once in a while something happens that leaves her totally speechless. |
| 1:22.5 | The thing that absolutely blew our mind is the fact that her head was slumped to one side on the left. |
| 1:30.5 | But on the right is a perfectly preserved plant. |
| 1:34.5 | That's just incredible. |
| 1:35.5 | I have so many more questions. |
| 1:37.5 | We'll get to them in just a moment. |
| 1:49.5 | You've been hearing a story from our guest today who is really fantastic. |
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