Time Team: Village of the Templars

[Alastair]

The Knights Templar were a major power in the 12th and 13th centuries protecting pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. They gave their name to the village of Templecombe in Somerset. Time Team visits the village in search of evidence of the Templars.


Can the team find the preceptory which was their main base? And does the mysterious picture of the disembodied head of Christ hanging in the local church have anything to do with the order of fighting monks?

Alastair

[DameTemplar]

Re: Time Team: Village of the Templars

Interesting trying to get into the heads of those who financed the Crusades, through farming, rather than in charging off to the Holy Land.
And all that was lost in their dissolution is so disappointing. Imagine the artwork lost!

[Alastair]

Re: Time Team: Village of the Templars

Indeed it is a great pity that we have lost the information from those days.

Alastair