"Alive with your Ancestors"

[genjen]

Did he have orange legs, Jen?

meles

And a long beak...yep!

[bandick]

All this talk of concertinas, does anyone have one… can anyone here play one.

[genjen]

All this talk of concertinas, does anyone have one… can anyone here play one.

Yep!

[bandick]

thats great... me too.

[genjen]

Really! We should talk about this - but maybe not on this thread!

[Ruskie]

I know the topic has moved on but ...

I’m surprised you would have heard anything at all of it in Australia… I have a sister lives only a few miles away on the same range of hills and very interested in keeping me up to date with another amazing incident in much the same area… a small village called ‘Bleadon’… archaeologists dug, numerous, possibly hundreds of skeletons from beneath the local village school prior to some development… they decided to reconstruct the scull from one of the graves… and in an effort to keep the whole village community involved and informed held an open evening to display the  finished bust. It was put out on a program called ‘Meet the ancestors’… by the BBC:

‘Bleadon Man’ is a skeleton of a 50 year-old man found during the building of new houses in Bleadon, Somerset, near Weston-super-Mare, in 1997. He had been 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 metres) tall and suffered from arthritis. The bones were carbon-dated to 100 BC, during the Iron Age, a finding supported by archaeological finds at the site. Testing of the mitochondrial DNA of  local residents’ blood samples showed that five of them are descended from Bleadon man’s family. After viewing the facial reconstruction of Bleadon man, local people surmised that Guy Gibbs might be a relative even before the DNA results were released.

oooh yes, I seek out these things wherever possible. 

And I saw that "Meet the Ancestors" but I can't recall the resulting bust.  I am usually not impressed by those reconstructions and find that they usually look very similar - whether they be male, female or whatever. Maybe that's what people looked like back in the day ... 

[Wiggy]

I love those show too Ruskie and bandick - and Time Team - though I do sometimes wonder just how accurate their reconstructions are!

The Jen and bandick show - you'll have to be good Bandick - Jen does it for a living!!   

[Lydart]

I think its voluntary ... she plays for Crook Morris ! You know, men in flowery hats and bells on their legs !

[genjen]

I think its voluntary ...

No, no....I was press-ganged into morris service.