Time Team Excavation Site, Dotton Mill | interesting place

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This is Otterton Mill in Devon, and in here is one of the earliest industrial processes. This water turns - this wheel - which turns this thing here - which turns a big mill stone in there - to turn this into one of these. Everybody needed bread so there used to be thousands of mills all over the country.
This is Dotton, it’s a couple of miles from Otterton, there used to be a mill here but it was knocked down in the 1960’s. The first record of a mill on this site though is in Doomsday in 1086.
We’ve never dug a mill before, so this site gives us a unique opportunity to look into part of what would’ve been everyday life for tens of thousands of people.
See www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2007_dot...
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotton_Mill
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Coordinates:   50°41'21"N   3°17'40"W
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