From Constantinople to Cornwall
This YouTube episode is about a coastal site at Lellizzick on the Camel estuary in Cornwall, where archaeologists investigate whether it was an ancient trading port linking Britain to the Mediterranean and Africa.
They dig multiple trenches in two fields overlooking a cove, uncovering prehistoric roundhouses, boundary ditches, industrial evidence like slag, and imports such as Roman coins, Turkish and African pottery, and post‑Roman Mediterranean ceramics.
Over three days they build a picture of a long‑lived settlement and possible harbor area used for trade and fishing from the Bronze Age through the Roman and post‑Roman periods, even though dating and exact functions of some structures remain uncertain.
The Dig Location
