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The team investigate the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. Two-hundred years ago Derwentcote was at the heart of an iron and steel-producing complex that fuelled the spread of Empire. Over three days Time Team fight through the undergrowth to reveal the furnaces and forges that produced the raw materials of industry under appalling conditions.

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