Sherlock Holmes is an inspiration for this
episode and Mark recruits 250 little detectives from Grappenhall
primary school to dig their mums’ back gardens up (sorry mum)
looking for treasure er I mean evidence of sacred Bronze Age
burial lands. One week later they’ve discovered tons of stuff
including Roman coins and flint flakes mixed in with the snail
shells and Victorian beer bottles! A quantum leap to Bidston
hill er ok a trudge up the sandstone outcrop to see the Romano
Celtic carvings reveals a 2,000 year+ Cat goddess, and a praying
man. Up hill and down dale our intrepid Lost Treasures team
are in search of the Cheshire and Mersey cats. Not a lot of
people know this but the Phoenicians were early visitors to
these shores in 650 BC in search of bronze and tin. Mark believes
that subsequent cultures adopted the cat as a positive icon.
We follow the feline trail from Wirral through Grappenhall
near Warrington with the earliest part of the church dating
from the Saxon era, Stretton and Pott Srigley and its famous
cat face carving. Can Mark find the Druid sanctuary hidden
on the moors nearcBuxton? You know the answer to that. Our
journey concludes on the Buxton Road, ending up at the Cat
and Fiddle Pub. Ah well this is TV archaeology. Meeow.
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