Digging for Britain with Professor Alice Roberts
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Industrial Archaeology - I'm Living You Shadow
It is scotland's first railway, built in 17 22 with wooden tracks. The waggons are pretty much under the influence of gravity down to the salt pans and then dragged back up by horses. They were excavating on the wagon way itself, but allso down at the salt pans too. And they had three different wooden railways effectively built on top of each other. It has a strong historical aspect to it, but it's also a big community dig as well.
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