Sure - but what they didn't do was to find some young boys, get them to train at arms for a few hours a day with lead practice swords (so they were really heavy) for about 5 years then put them into armour for, say, ten years, for every practise day - and THEN see if they found the armour heavy! Plo...

The dates don't suggest the body is Roman, they suggest that the body was buried during that period - the plonkers!

Nice one Jerry!

Funny how they jump to conclusions ... why would a Roman bury her north-south ? Why would he bury her? There were plenty of swords around .. more likely a Celt .. or, a Celt buried her - don't you think?

Or they could have been used as hanging baskets, filled with pansies and similar (ok, maybe not)

Crikey! - look at all that lovely spoil!

Marvellous! well done again!

Marvellous!!!

Marvellous! - many thanks again

Hi Jerry - true! but it was an interesting program ... and I suppose the other side of it wasn't to do with gunnery!

Good program that, I thought. They didn't mention, though, that Elizabeth didn't expect many of her little warships to come back from fighting the huge and overwhelming Spanish ships but when the storm destroyed the enemy and the English ships came back home unharmed she didn't have the funds to pay...

Shameful - man having fun in public? Hanging isn't good enough! .. everyone should know by now that enjoying yourself without harming anybody else is outlawed .. tsk tsk ...

Excellent stuff- and some fab pics too ... thankyou

(true - was only Joshing) .. hmmm ... £25 ... that's three bottles of quite good Burgundy .... hhmmm .... or a very nice hammered off Ebay .... or .. ermm .. how old did you say you were? ... :g43: (rhetorical question - no serious reply expected). How nice it is, though, to have the anticipation th...

Excellent Jif - £25! If I were you I would wait until after Christmas before doing anything (after all, it isn't actually yours until Christmas Day is it!) ... a few thoughts ... if you wait until after Christmas you may find that you end up with more money ... if you take your time and really think...