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Good evening.

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Tonight on Inside Out, we go undercover at Britain's

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biggest supermarket, Tesco.

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And we go in search of gold in one of the unlikeliest of places.

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Welcome to Inside Out, I'm Paul Hudson.

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Tonight, we are investigating Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket,

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where some special offers aren't always that special after all.

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It's just on the Angel Delight, mate.

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They are on offer for three for ?1.

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Also tonight, the artist hiding real treasure

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in the unlikeliest of places.

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There we go, look at that.

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Solid gold.

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I wonder who's going to find it?

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And later in the programme, top archaeological finds

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here in the Yorkshire Wolds.

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You can see he's got quite a wide rood here,

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and that's probably something like an axe.

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Now, how often do you check your receipt when you shop at Tesco?

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We all take for granted the price we see on the shelf

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is what we pay at the till, but what if it's not?

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Well, Jonathan Gibson has been investigating

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the not-so-special offers at Britain's biggest supermarket.

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Who's up for a good deal?

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I am!

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I'm a sucker for a special offer!

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Most of us are.

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And Tesco knows it, too.

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That's why the shelves at Britain's biggest supermarket

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are full of special offers - money off this, buy two for that,

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you get the drift, and we all take it for granted that the price we see

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on the shelf is the price we'll pay at the till - right?!

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But what if things don't quite add up when you get home

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and unpack your shopping?

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I've just bought a few bits at Tesco and I'm sure these products

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were on special offer - that's why I've bought two of each -

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but according to my receipt I've paid full price!

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And that's the point.

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I've paid 60% more than the deal on the shelf.

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That's ?3.30 in hard cash.

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At another Tesco store, I spot 2 for ?2.00 on ice cream.

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But at the till, it's the full price as well, so what's going on?

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Ice cream, Martin?

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Martin works for Trading Standards and says the law

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on pricing is simple.

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They must put a price on goods so you know what you're going to pay

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and that price must be accurate so you don't get charged

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more than you thought you were going to pay.

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Sounds simple enough and with more than 3,500 stores nationwide,

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Tesco should be getting it right.

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But is it?

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That's what I want to find out so armed with my phone and some

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secret cameras I want to see how many offers on the shelves don't go

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through at the checkout, and here in Leeds I'm finding problems.

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Have we shortchanged you?

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How much by?

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Yeah, just on the Angel Delight, mate.

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They're on offer for 3 for ?1.

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After checking the price on the shelf he asks his colleague

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to refund the difference.

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This seems to happen quite a lot, is it just me?

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Nah.

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But neither of the staff remove the out-of-date label so,

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when my colleague returns a few hours later, we're

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overcharged again.

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And that's the problem.

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Multi-buy deals are being left on the shelves after the tills have

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been told they've ended.

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This offer is almost a month out of date and it's not

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the only out-of-date label!

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I've just bought some batteries and on the shelf they're 2 for ?5

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but they haven't come off.

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At this Tesco superstore on the outskirts of Leeds,

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a worker checks the label but he doesn't spot

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the label's out of date.

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It should have been removed five days ago.

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It's the right barcode.

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And on we go.

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I've started making a list of how many offers are wrong in how many

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places and I want to know if what's happening in Yorkshire is also

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happening across the country.

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Because, if it is, it's not just a problem for Tesco,

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it's a problem for Tesco customers.

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Have we robbed you?

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Just on the Chicken Tonight.

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At this Tesco store in Liverpool, sauce marked ?1 on the shelf

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is almost double at the checkout.

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It says on the shelf ?1 and it's coming up ?1.79.

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We've all got kids.

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The kids need feeding.

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Is that right?

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That's what it is.

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Thanks very much.

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And at another store nearby, I'm left completely confused

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by the offers on the shelves and what I'm charged

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at the checkout.

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In fact, there's so much difference between the shelf price

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and the receipt price, I'm not even going to bother

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to go back and try to get what I'm owed returned.

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Completely ridiculous!

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If there are just too many offers changing too frequently so that

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store staff can't really be expected to understand them, comply

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with all the changes, then that is something that Tesco

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head office needs to think about.

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And there's plenty to think about when I head back to Leeds.

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Hi, I've just bought this bag full of shopping.

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All those things are on offer but none of it's come off.

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Do you want to deal with these?

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I knew I shouldn't have been standing here!

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The person who does this job did leave so we've been waiting

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for the new person to come.

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Doing now what somebody should have done hours, days, weeks ago.

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That's a serious message but is everyone taking it seriously?

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Have a guess what?

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The offer's expired!

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The offer has expired.

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Does that happen much then?

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It has today, we've been in a right muddle today.

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Oh, there's been lots today, have there?

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Yeah.

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Ah, right.

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Crikey!

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Somebody must be on holiday!

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Oh, right.

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And as I head around the country, the same thing keeps happening,

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time and time again.

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These, mate, look they've all expired as well.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And that one, and that one there.

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Blimey!

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And that one there, mate.

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I should work here!

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So what's going on?

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I have to tell the compliance manager that his men

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are not doing their job.

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Oh, I see.

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So is there a separate department, then?

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Yeah, so you have PI for labels and then you have another team that

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takes things off before the date and then you have stock control

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that's supposed to doublecheck, but they don't seem to be doing

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the right thing.

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Oh, I see.

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It doesn't seem a terribly difficult or perhaps that long a job,

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just to walk round the store, assuming everyone knows

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what day it is, you know, to go round and tear off anything

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that has had its day.

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You'd think so, yeah!

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The only thing that went through correctly

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was the bag for life!

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Maybe not, then!

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And it's not just shoppers left confused as old and new promotions

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end up side by side.

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They've put two up, look.

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Oh, right.

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That one is correct and that is correct

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but they didn't take that one out.

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Oh, I see, well, that's confusing.

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The longer the offer has been wrong, the bigger the failure of diligence

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and the more worried I am, frankly.

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In that case, he's not going to like what's coming up next.

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At this store, the cashier checks the out-of-date label

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but doesn't remove it.

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And when I return the next day, neither does someone else.

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So, a week later, I go back, and it's still on display.

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And when I return a month later, yes, still on the shelf.

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The fourth worker finally removes it.

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That is very bad.

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It's pretty basic that if one customer is shown something wrong

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then it's put right to stop other customers being misled.

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But at 33 of the 50 stores I went to, the till price was more

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than the shelf price.

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That's a whopping 66%!

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If customer A has come back and complained and been refunded,

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that doesn't mean there weren't 20 other customers who didn't spot it

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and didn't complain.

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So alarm bells would be ringing?

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Very much so, yes.

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There were obviously major problems with their control of the special

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offers and it's the special offers that bring people in,

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make people reach for more and perhaps spend a little bit more

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than they're meant to when they came into the store,

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so that is very, very worrying.

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But what does Tesco say?

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The company wouldn't provide anyone for interview

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but after reviewing our evidence told this programme...

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But that's just the start.

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Following our investigation, Britain's biggest supermarket says

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it's now doublechecking the accuracy of every price in every store -

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that's more than 3,500 stores across Britain.

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Well, every little helps(!)

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And don't forget, if you've got any comments about the night's programme

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or you've got a story you think we might like to cover,

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you can get in touch on Facebook or on Twitter.

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Coming up on Inside Out, the archaeological treasures hidden

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in the Yorkshire Wolds.

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It's not easy to find you up here!

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Now, there's a chance to find some modern-day treasure

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in Scunthorpe next weekend.

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An art exhibition is opening in the town.

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The paintings will contain clues to a very special treasure hunt.

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Anyone can take part and the prize is real gold, I kid you not!

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Keeley Donovan has been on the hunt.

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It's winter in Scunthorpe - not the most promising place to be

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looking for treasure.

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But later this week, people here will have

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a golden opportunity - quite literally.

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We've got five golden artefacts that have been created.

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They are going to be hidden in and around Scunthorpe.

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But to find them, you'll need to crack a code.

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Some of them are really difficult.

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One of them is supposed to be ridiculously easy.

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Each gold object is worth ?1,000 and if you find it you keep

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it - simple as that.

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Confused?

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Let me explain.

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It's all in the name of art and Luke Jerram is the artist behind

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this slightly crazy scheme.

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I had this idea to think about celebrating the history

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of Scunthorpe by taking five objects from the museum and created

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replicas, I suppose, in solid gold.

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So tell me about the statues themselves.

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They range from a Jurassic ammonite, which will be millions of years old,

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all the way through to a genus train, which is taken

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from the steel industry.

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There is a Viking brooch.

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We've also got a Roman ram and this beautiful Tudor figurine as well.

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But finding these ?1,000 solid gold objects will not be that easy.

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Treasure hunters will have to crack a code which is hidden in paintings

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to be displayed at the 2021 Gallery in Scunthorpe.

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And the paintings are being created at this not-so-secret

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location here in Bristol.

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Each artefact has a painting that goes with it, and the painting

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contains clues as to where to find this gold artefact.

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There are five paintings and five objects.

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Luke has asked artist Vivienne Baker to make the five paintings.

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Today he's come to take a look at how things are progressing.

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Not that surprisingly, all the clues will be in gold.

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Exciting.

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It's like Christmas, isn't it?

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Yeah, it looks nice, though, doesn't it?

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It's going to be good.

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Yes, that's quite a good texture.

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The paintings are like backgrounds, like something solid

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like stone or metal surfaces.

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What are you doing now, then?

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What's this?

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I'm spray painting the clues on.

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Have you cracked any of the clues?

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No!

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Even the easy one?

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I don't stand a chance, then!

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And even Luke doesn't seem sure.

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There's no way I could crack the most difficult one.

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I could certainly crack probably two or three of the paintings.

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You say that now you know the answers!

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I do, yeah.

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I've been working with a guy from an unnamed government agency

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to work out all the coding and the ciphers for these paintings.

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Some are really easy to decode whereas the most

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complicated painting, it will take maybe a month

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for someone to perhaps work it out.

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I know you're not giving a lot away, you don't want us to suss

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out the clues just yet, but can we speak to the man?

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Let me see what I can do.

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So I've managed to persuade Luke to give me the details for his code

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man and now I'm heading back up North to meet him.

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I'm at Sheffield University to meet mathematician and secret code

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setter Dan Fretwell.

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How on earth does a mathematician get involved with an art

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project like this?

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Well, it was quite a surprise, really.

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One day, there was an e-mail going round.

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The header was just puzzler/codebreaker required.

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I just tried to resist the temptation to open it but I failed.

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How many people know the answers to the codes?

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Just me and Luke.

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How difficult are the cyphers that you've set within them?

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Some of them are really difficult.

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So there are five in total and one of them is supposed

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to be ridiculously easy.

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The final two in particular are much harder, so we're expecting at least

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one of them to go unsolved for quite a while.

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To give me a fighting chance, Dan shows me how to solve

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a relatively easy puzzle.

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So what I've used here is something called a Caesar shift.

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It's a very old cipher and basically all I've done is I've took

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the alphabet and I've shifted it on one place.

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OK, so that would be an I.

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Yep.

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OK.

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I know what you've done here.

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There you go.

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I know what you've done.

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Very clever!

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Does this one follow a similar rule?

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Meanwhile, at a secret location elsewhere in the country,

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some very talented people are working to finish the gold

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objects ready for them to be hidden in five locations around Scunthorpe.

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Originally, it's a Viking brooch that was found

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by a metal detectorist.

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I really like the shape of it.

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It reminds me of all the wind turbines in Scunthorpe.

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This is called Lost Wax Castle.

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We are putting the wax into the mould.

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We are going to melt the wax out of the mould.

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And then, through that tube, we will feed the metal to make the piece.

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Oh, look at that, it's boiling!

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Right, ready to go, and we will roll it over.

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There is this lovely moment of alchemy when you're holding

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precious metal and you're melting it down and it's being transformed

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into another form, there's something quite magical about that.

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It's quite hard to describe.

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We've gone from a 3D object to scanning to wax into plaster

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and now we're in 18-carat gold.

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Look at that, solid gold worth ?1,000, I wonder

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who's going to find it?

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Weel, not me at this rate.

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So I'm off to meet the man whose job it is to organise the exhibition.

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Maybe he can give me some clues?

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We are in Scunthorpe Centre.

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We close to where any figures are hidden?

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There are some in urban locations, some in parkland and some

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a bit further out of town.

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You worried that people will dig up all

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the parks?

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It was a concern so we were very careful not to bury any of

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the objects.

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It will be difficult to hide them.

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Should we go in balaclavas in the middle of the

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night?

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We're not sure.

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He might have to shake your bid.

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So, if someone finds the object they get to keep it,

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and they will then decide whether to melt it down

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and turn it into hard cash.

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Or they can keep the artefact for artistic reasons,

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so that's interesting as well for me what the value of an object is,

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is it just the value of the gold or does it have more value

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as an artefact, as an artwork in its own right?

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So Luke and Dominic are going to be

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The exhibition starts here in Scunthorpe at the weekend

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so get yourself there.

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And happy hunting!

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Now, most people know the Yorkshire Wolds for its rolling

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hills and stunning views, but it has got another claim to fame

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- as one of Britain's richest archaeological sites.

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We sent intrepid explorer Paul Rose to investigate.

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With thousands of acres of lush farm land -

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you could be forgiven for thinking that all you'll find in the Wolds

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are wheat or potatoes.

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But just a few feet below the surface of this chalk rich

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landscape there are epic stories of the black death, extreme violence

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and heroic journeys.

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They're all there if you dig deep enough.

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I'm going to take a journey back in time through the wolds -

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a place that has provided some of the country's most significant

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archaeological finds.

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It's very productive landscape in

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prehistoric times as is the day, and

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all that activity has left its mark.

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You can go back through time periods, whether it is prehistoric

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Mesolithic material through the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the

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medieval period, the Romans, and see how humans have shaped

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informed that landscape.

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The most famous of the wolds' archaeological sites

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is the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy near Malton.

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And here there's still lots to actually see.

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For 700 years, there was an active community here, and this is what

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remains of the church and hub of the whole village.

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A combination of the Black Death and the way the lad was

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farmed meant that by the early 16th century the village was effectively

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abandoned.

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Archaeologists have had a field day trying to understand

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what happened at Wharram Percy.

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In the 1950s researchers moved in, and they stayed for 40 years

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cataloguing every aspect of life.

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You are not just looking at the building or a castle.

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You are looking at the every day, how these

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people ate, had they produced food, how they lived.

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That makes the excavations stand out because it

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gives all that contact the daily lives of ordinary people.

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People like us.

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The Wharram Percy dig is now over but, nearby on the wolds,

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archaeologists are still hard at work.

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Mel Giles and her team

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from Manchester University are working on an extraordinary cold

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case that's taken me even further back in time to the iron age

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I am on the Trail of the burial that was found

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when it was snowing in

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1980.

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Originally discovered by members of the Army.

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The excavated what they thought was a shell and it

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turned out to be an iron sword.

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Beside the sword were human remains.

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It was an amazing find of the lost burial site

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of what appeared to be a significant figure.

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The grave occupied a prime position with grand views all round.

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And the fact the sword was bent but not broken was probably a sign

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that the weapon was ALSO laid to rest along with its owner.

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It's a dramatic burial with the sword Ben.

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We can imagine the wood of the scabbard shattering around

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the blade.

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So this man somehow had a place high in society?

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I think so.

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I want to understand his life as well

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as his death.

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Mel's team are looking for more clues near the burial site

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but what's clear is that this warrior met a violent end.

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First, I am going to show you his skull, it is very fragile.

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His remains have made the short journey to Hull Museum.

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That fine line has healed, so that

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the sharp thin blade.

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It goes hand-in-hand with an injury at the

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back of his head, which is a much

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larger wound.

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He may have died by the sword but new data has shown that this man

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was less than fighting fit.

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Can you see that discolouration on the rip?

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There, particularly, can you see how bumpy it is?

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It looks almost like dirt.

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It should not be there.

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It is as body reacting to severe infection.

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The warrior had tuberculosis - a debilitating chest infection that

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would slowly have weakened him.

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Scientists believe it's the second earliest case of TB to have

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been found in Britain.

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Whether there's a conflict and he is so poorly he is unable

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to defend himself, whether members of his own

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community despatching because they do not want

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this disease to spread, they are worried, they may even see

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him as being cursed by the gods, another possibility is he may want

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to grab death the throat, go out in the glorious end,

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and it is snowing that his comrades will promise him

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the sender.

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That's quite something.

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While some stories take ages to piece together,

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others are uncovered by mother nature.

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Close to one of the world's great superstructures is the site of one

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of the Wold's most remarkable discoveries.

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In 1937, two brothers -

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Ted and Willy Wright - found planks sticking out of the mud

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of the riverbank at North Ferriby.

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The wood looked like it was once part of a boat

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but how old it was - well, that came as a complete

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surprise.

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The shape of the boat at the

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brothers to believe it was a Viking

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craft but the reality was much more exciting.

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This boat was over 4000 years old.

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These planks were situated in a gloopy, horrible mud.

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How they manage to do it.

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What a complete and utter nightmare.

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The gloopy mud acted like a preservative playing a key

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part of the survival of what remained.

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Over the course of several decades, three boats were discovered -

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and their design has led historians to believe they were capable

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of crossing the open seas.

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They showed us that not just look but outwards, out

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beyond the Humber Bridge we see today.

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These days, we enjoy the Yorkshire Wolds for its natural

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beauty and amazing big sky views.

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But beneath our feet, there are thousands of secret

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stories, and one thing's for sure, what's been found so far has only

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scratched the surface of the hidden history of this corner of England.

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And you can see more Paul Rose and the hidden history

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of the Yorkshire Wolds in a new 2-part series

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on BBC Two this spring.

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