As a glassblower s3eing those "trail wraps" as we call them, sent a shiver up my spine. Ive coincidentally made shapes eerily similar to those conical beakers. Right down to the horizontal and vertical wraps. They're excellent and simple technical practice for more ornate artisanal works.

One more vote for Helen to be the ongoing host please.

Looks like it's going to be a beautiful ship❤

When people carry kislux bags in real life, they don't have the time or opportunity to look closely at the bag to spot such a great knockoff

I live pretty close, an amazing place to go visit

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Thanks

Thanks, extra enjoyment for us with this episode as we had the pleasure ( and privilege) to visit Rousay in May 2023. Having walked along that magic mile from the Broch, through the massive burial chamber Cairn, past the Viking Hall and looking out at the round holes in the sand of the Pictish village (tide was ideal ) we were right there with Well done John on reversing on and off the ferry , quite a task to the uninitiated, coping with the steep slope down and then up again. All I could see out of my Alfa was sky, then sea!

❤exactly what everyone else said ❤❤❤❤❤magnificent

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++ to recommending Second Sleep and Riddley Walker

Really enjoyed the podcast. The additional insight into each dig and Time Team was fascinating!

Mick colours yes

I would love to purchase a recording of the singing, the women's voices that appear when the new red curtained room is revealed near the end, 42:58, if anyone knows who is performing that music.

I disliked the other presenters after Tony so much that I stopped watching, Helen Geake is so good, I'm so happy for time team to be back and feeling real

Such a good episode but what was in the hole the metal detector found end of the episode that was left to record and leave for later. Assuming it was a body with grave goods but nothing said.

Yay, Helen!!!

afternoons sat with my dementia suffering great aunt watching time team. really really helps her and i love the programme. gets her talking and thinking to which is good, ( plus i can put on any epidsode and she wouldnt remeber seeing it )

I love seeing John as a host!

Thanks TT, glad to be a patron. Happy New Year. =)

Loving this thanks.

Congratulations! This show has grown so much more sophisticated and deeper than the originals. I became hooked on Time Team during COVID lockdown and keep looking for more since my New York location prevented me from enjoying the weekly programs. THANKS!

Great Podcast ... I'm trying to come up with an intelligent question to pose for future consideration!

Liked the podcast, hated the intrusive background music.

The most fascinating discussion, thank you!

This is very interesting excavations. @ Sutton Hoo. Could we gave more information videos on this matter?? I an "subscribed" but it seems very little videos or info is forthcoming.

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Helen has a beautiful mind•

I lived in a village with a church and preceptorship that has grave stones around it dated say 1800s.The church etc was built in the 1300s ,where are the bodies of the people who lived and worked on the building in the 1300s up until the 1800s

Thank you all.

1:17:18 Freeze frame it here, it looks like a smaller circle of some type just around the center. I think this might be a circle that was used to walk on quite often. With to the right what looks like a darker bit to what I assume could be a doorway. But also it might be nothing as to the south-west you would see a similar idea and even to the North-west. Now, I might sound silly stating this, but what if this was some sort of firepit building with semi-open walls? A idea we still use to this day, closing off a little bit but leaving some space so people could walk in and out freely from multiple sides. If this is true, then the roof might have been open in the center which might also be a reason why the pole holes are both on the inside as outside as it would support the roof better. With all the Roman finds, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a way to come together either after or during a burial and feast. With a feast you expect a more open building that would be more open and there for more accessible to people. It might there for have been a building with minimal walls and rather like a gazebo today in a way. 1:18:53 The field to the left, that seems to have very fague lines of roundness in it and a Z-shaped something. It might be a good idea to see if anything is there on the radar. Helen did a awesome job presenting during this episode!

Wish this could be visual. Helen is too beautiful to stay hidden.

Similar structures in Poland are deemed to be cattle keeping forts. Alternatively: slave keeping forts.

On the discussion of time, I generally have a sense of what time it is, unless the clocks change for daylight savings. I can’t imagine why our predecessors wouldn’t have that same sense. It is innate. Thousands of years ago they studied and noted the positions of the stars and sun. They built places like Stonehenge that are very accurate. Loved all the questions!

So what does it officially mean when something is declared "treasure"??

A note on a "digital dark age" and future archaeology: Helen, a perspective from a computer geek: We go into the field and dig because the EARTH is the system that stores the information we want (about historic civilizations and events) as pottery shards and metal artifacts . Storing imperishable objects by burying them in the earth is a TERRIBLE system for storing information but it's all the past has stored for us to retrieve Humans keep getting better at storing information, though! From the carvings on the Rosetta stones to cuneiform on clay tablets to hieroglyphs on papyrus to Latin letters on a printed page, to ones and zeroes on a thumb drive, the media we STORE data on may die (e.g. Betamax, laserdisk, cassette tapes, etc.) but the information ON that media is almost always moved forward to the latest media at almost no cost. (You can find Edison recording "Mary had a little lamb" (originally recorded on a wax cylinder) re-re-re-recorded in a KZbin video.) While information gets more valuable each year, storing another copy of it on the latest media gets cheaper. It seems likely that ANYTHING stored anywhere today will be here tomorrow (and in the next century) UNLESS it is intentionally deleted, so such a dark age seems to me unlikely. The exploration of the past may shift from using trowels in a field digging physical objects out of the ground to work at a *keyboard* tracking down, decrypting and reformatting chunks of data from an "ancient" database or document on their future internet. Imagine a 5000AD archaeologist discovering Wikipedia on a dusty old data farm! Archaeology may shift from exploring the past as recorded by objects stored in earth to ones and zeros stored online. What do you guys think? -A Time Team fan going on 20 years or so.

I like Helen, but obviously the program has been entirely feminised......only the occasional gray male allowed.....those jolly masculine characters of yesteryear been told to seek their bread elsewhere. But DEI as usual only results in boring mediocrity.....thoroughly uninspiring.

On going over to digital recording. While I think it's excellent & more information can be stored in a smaller place (thinking of the some 100 TB of hard drives I have on one small desk shelf) & how many back up books on a Kindle for travel), these are easily destroyed or go out of date. I'm thinking of the (Record copies of public Acts, passed since the beginning of the 2015 Parliament, have been printed on archival paper, with front and back vellum covers. From 1849 to 2015, record copies of public Acts were printed on vellum, a durable material made of calfskin). Vellum lasts for centuries if looked after. Yes we may need scholars to read Latin or Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon), but we luckily tend to have a fair few of those. I recently was trying to retrieve some old/old (for mobile phone data) photographs & trying to find a format that would recognise them was awful. So as well as format changes (try finding a working BETAMax video) or Bit Rot (bit decay, data rot, data decay and silent corruption) & you may have digital records that are no longer readable in a number of years. So maybe keeping on with the drawings of trenches & written reports is a good thing!?

Time Team is simply "Luve-Lee"..!!

Excellent Q&A. On the subject of time. I spent a large part of my career as a forester & so outside a lot. It first came to my attention when a trainee asked me what time it was (he was hungry) & I told him. He said how did I know as I hadn't looked at my watch. I did look & was 3 minutes out (slow). I started keeping an eye on it after that & testing my colleagues. I was usually withing 5 minutes either way & colleagues not far off (on average) at about 5-10 minutes.We would get a bit thrown with daylight saving changes, but be back in tune in about a week. So I wonder if in the past people had an inherent built in clock or were just more in tune as they were outdoors more or listened to their bodies?

Excellent Time Team episode. Helen is great as the narrator, not abrasive, to the point, in touch with everyone.= in a natural and professional way. Also very good to see Jackie and Naomi too.

Is there an issue that digital information may seem to disappear just because it is stored on media in formats that can no longer be read?

Ooo! Missed advert chances! Classic Time Team episodes... Littlington and Port and Stilton... Littlington had Guy arguing about how our records will not be accessible. Port and Stilton had Ben happy that most of the Roman port was preserved for future excavation following the Time Team evaluation dig.

Is there a place or organization that records and collates the information from every archeological site in order that a picture is created of how life was at a point in time....ie layers of time. Everything seems to be labelled with a period name, but 'digging' down is it possible to see the transition from one type of lifestyle to another and record its progress through the land.....basically the evolution of society. Like Helen says our life span is so short relative to everything, in our own knowledge which is much more informed than past people, there has been change/transition that we can clearly identify, it is that essence of transition that seems to get lost at each archeological site and just given a label of which layer of time it applies most to. Hope that makes sense.

day 4?! what? is this really Time Team?

Thanks, but I can't listen to podcasters talking like they're children's entertainers. Just talk to us normally.

I don’t remember being to anything about the war of independence at all.

Mick was never really a part of time team he was not a nice person at all

They were buried with knoves because tĥey knew Time Team would come for them. I found it disturbing to see all the grave goods in separate, plastic boxes.

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