Time Team Podcast | From Sutton Hoo to Byzantium: Did Anglo-Saxons fight for the Empire?

[@grahams7697]

Looking forward to this Podcast 🤗 Time Team just makes me so incredibly happy and content in my life 😊🙏

[@zebedee5158]

Really fascinating ideas to the paper on Sutton Hoo - and always appreciative to those who make their work accessible to all. Thanks for that discussion Time Team!

[@markjefson8394]

Wonderful podcast. Thanks to all involved in the production.

[@Davlavi]

Great podcast.❤

[@pfp0854]

Great Podcast. I am so looking forward to more information on the ship building and move to your new location. Also very interested in Time Team's next Sutton Hoo dig. So much history to learn from this location.

[@aidansharples7751]

Love the work you guys are putting in. This episode in particular would have benefitted from some video, no need for anything fancy just take us along with a go pro. It would be really cool to see this take off in the podcasting world.

[@elizabethneill3825]

I was thinking the same thing: just that it would be nice to have an image of Martin and Helen talking to each other -- or the two Helens talking to each other.

[@andrewmathewson341]

I'm going to be in the UK on a holiday while the Sutton Hoo dig is happening and there's time set aside to visit it - so excited!

[@janeknight3597]

Taplow. Thank you. It’s an explanation of a vital event in Susan Cooper’s the Dark is Rising. I have always wondered. Such a good Christmas book. Great Podcast. So looking forward to the ship launch.

[@JackSargePainting]

Cracking episode 👍

[@SteveMikre44]

Brilliant Podcast...

[@mrkitty1367]

great show !

[@oc2phish07]

Excellent. Let's go.

[@DazzleMonroe]

Wow! You went to the very top to get Kat to talk. She's an enigma. I've known her for over 40 years, so I should know. 😁

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks

[@madderhat5852]

Populations have always been so fluid in their movements. Change the job description from 'army' to 'seasonal migrant workers' and we've probably know someone who does this.

[@antonyreyn]

Great Pod, couldn't it have been some of Raedwalds men went to Byzantium and this was a payment or a gift in tribute when they returned? Also re the name Godwin was this used by continental Saxons at this time or any other Germanic tribe? Cheers from Mercia

[@antonyreyn]

Re the Dig film - what was their phobia with showing what they actually found!? They could have even had a flashback scene at the end to the burial in old English how cool would that have been, but maybe that was too Cinematic and Dramatic for them. Cheers

[@bigsarge2085]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@texpatrobertrice8309]

Well the Vikings hired on to Byzantium as mercenaries; got rich and came home wealthy. Why not the Angles, and Saxons?

[@MagiciansApprentice1]

I am deeply sceptical about the idea of Byzantium. That seems to come more from fiction like the last "King Arthur" movie than be proven in the finds. Yes we have a bucket from Byzantium, yes they wanted soldiers in 575, yes some western Europeans answered the call BUT ... the mercenaries then have to come back. Many of the soldiers would have died from war or disease lessening the chance of this occurring, let alone them returning to a country over a thousand miles away. Many would have stayed and lived an ex-pat lifestyle. Then there's a fifty year gap to 625 when the burial is supposed to have been made. That would make the soldier in at least his seventies which was highly unlikely. And would a soldier have sufficient men to drag a long ship up the hill? Hopefully at some stage some-one will figure out how long it took and how many men were required. I think the bucket is more than just a war trophy - which could have been bought anywhere in Europe. Not just as a trinket bought home from a foreign war. Does It also require that previous interpretations of finds from the eastern mediterranean found from a time before the Romans came, are re-examined? Were they all bought back by "tourists" rather than simply by traders? I see this concept as a suggestion for further research, than a defining idea of the grave-site.

[@DeniseL-i1w]

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[@elizabethneill3825]

I was wondering if there has been any DNA test of the Winfarthing Lady or any of her contemporaries, and if so, if that information has led to any new conclusions about the women from mainland Europe who married into Anglo-Saxon England.