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Fabricated Story
delica-explorer5 September 2010
For those that think this program was brilliant, you have been mislead. It is in part fabrication, because the finds that were shown on the program were the research of archaeologist Raymond Selkirk. No mention of that is made in the program, or the award winning book he wrote in 1983 'The Piercebridge Formula'.

Photographs of the finds appear in his book 'On The Trail Of the Legions' which was published in 1995.

The two divers shown in the program were recruited by Raymond Selkirk and are now part of the Northern Archaeological Society that Selkirk co-founded in the 1970s.

You hear archaeologist talk about context all the time so why did Time Team hide this context and break a golden rule of archaeology?

Being able to see what went on in a subject I know well, I'm just wondering how much of what Time Team produce is more fiction than fact.

Proof 1 Ytube video post in 2008, relevant comments by Bob Middlemass and Rolfe Mitchinson the two divers shown in the TT program and Raymond Selkirk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xJHKmto-I

Proof 2 Northern Echo 2005 comments from Bob Middlemass and Rolfe Mitchinson

http://findarticles.com/p/news-artic.../ai_n48535039/

Proof 3 Raymond Selkirks book 'On the Trail of the Legions' published 1995, Chapter - A Bridge Too Far, Page 295, photograph of gold ring with ruby. This same ring is shown on the Time Team website and program, stone classified as garnet.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/t...idge-the-finds

Proof 4 Raymond Selkirks book 'The Piercebridge Formula' published 1983 won the 'International Rolex Award for Exploration'
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