Episode 2 of the Time Team Podcast has dropped!
Added 2024-09-17 06:37:48 +0000 UTCThank you to everyone who has listened to Episode 1 of the brand new Time Team Podcast, presented by Helen Geake and Martyn Williams. We've had a great response and appreciate all your comments and questions!
You can now listen to Episode 2 RIGHT HERE.
In the second episode, Helen and Martyn speak to Francesca Giarelli from Red River Archaeology about a Roman villa hidden under a new housing development in Oxfordshire!
Also, you'll hear how Martyn got on when he met up with digger driver Jon Beaver to have a go in his "big yellow trowel" and Time Team's creator, Tim Taylor tells you how he managed to persuade Channel 4 to take the risk to broadcast the programme in 1994.
Ask your questions!
Patreon members have the exclusive opportunity to ask Martyn and Helen questions for future episodes of the podcast. So, if there's anything you'd like to know, please ask away in the comments section of this post.
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Thank you for selecting and answering my question...🙏
Steve Mikre
2024-10-01 09:15:02 +0000 UTCThanks for the strap end explanation ❤️
Sam Batstone
2024-09-30 09:56:59 +0000 UTCThanks Brent!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-30 09:06:59 +0000 UTCGreat question, thanks!!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-30 09:06:42 +0000 UTCLoving the podcast 👌🏻
Emma
2024-09-28 08:34:26 +0000 UTCPodcast question - do archaeologists study how things get covered over and at what rates? Floods, major earth movements, new buildings and destruction of existing buildings seem obvious, but what about, for example, how and why Roman villas or World War II items get covered over in fields - often seemingly in only a few decades. Is there a specialization regarding deposition of layers?
Richard Yoast
2024-09-27 20:46:02 +0000 UTCExcellent podcast! Congratulations on such a strong start. Fascinating to listen to. I also loved hearing about how Time Team started. You are going from strength to strength.
Brent Bossom
2024-09-27 13:26:26 +0000 UTCMe, too!
Brent Bossom
2024-09-27 13:23:36 +0000 UTCGREAT PODCAST - Question; how do I get the Time Team to come to my hometown and help us discover more about our ancient town walls? 🤔😀 https://youtu.be/mdWWKiTpt9A?si=U0UOThteF8TrOm_A
Philip Battle
2024-09-27 08:18:44 +0000 UTCI could listen to Helen talk about finds for hours. I was wondering if there was ever a consensus about the function of that ornate, hollow, ovoid metal bobble? (January 2024, I think.)
Deborah Foster
2024-09-26 22:21:23 +0000 UTCThanks for listening!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-24 13:45:11 +0000 UTCAlso found that the Red River Archaeology folks have done a documentary about the site too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eohPVq1xirs
Christopher Samuel
2024-09-24 00:39:51 +0000 UTC@Helen @Martyn: During 2020, I introduced my niece to Time Team because of her desire to study anatomy and in particular human bones in burials. We watched several episodes where Phil, Jacki and Alice excavated several graves. Can you speculate on how the Time Team Effect has affected enrollment of new archeological students in the British university system? Cheers.
Mark Gaither
2024-09-22 20:46:57 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing the links. The lidar detail of the ridge-and-furrow plowing is remarkable.
Mark Gaither
2024-09-22 20:29:05 +0000 UTCThis is great, I entirely missed the announcement of episode 1 (swamped by work) and so lovely to catch up with both this weekend. The Roman villa at Grove was fascinating - I went and looked and you can currently see the villa excavation on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6143005,-1.4216711,143m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Looking at the wonderful National Library of Scotland side-by-side viewer you can compare the 1830s-80s OS 6 inch map with the 50cm LiDAR images and see how the villa site was overlaid with ridge and furrow after it went out of use. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.8&lat=51.61437&lon=-1.42206&layers=257&right=LIDAR_DTM_1m
Christopher Samuel
2024-09-21 22:52:37 +0000 UTCReminiscences of when we got to dig with you all at Sutton Hoo would be a good member contribution.
Martin Packer
2024-09-21 10:01:44 +0000 UTCExcellent again.
Martin Packer
2024-09-21 09:59:42 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed hearing from Stewart and glad he is back along with other early crew members. Made me wonder what Raksha Dave and others are up to/working on?
Shannon
2024-09-21 07:06:48 +0000 UTCQuestion: In a broad sense. Has any more Work been done to find Watling Street and Mons Graupius Battlefield? They are just as important, as The Varus Battlefield (i am been there: its spooky)
bayergator
2024-09-19 19:23:04 +0000 UTCAnother superb podcast
Anthony Prince
2024-09-19 15:29:17 +0000 UTCI missed the first podcast so it's great to suddenly have two episodes to listen to! Since the next episode will be about lidar, I was wondering how and if the appearance of lidar technology has changed the types of sites that get discovered. Are lidar-discovered sites more difficult to dig, for example (hard to access, overgrown, or something like that)?
Mika
2024-09-19 13:33:54 +0000 UTCOooh...murder in the monastery, love under the ladar, mosaic mysteries, trouble at Tony's...hey we could have a running competition of archaeological story title!
Min La Vida
2024-09-18 13:37:13 +0000 UTCI agree, Min! Maybe we need a Time Team short story competition? (Martyn)
Martyn Williams
2024-09-18 12:07:57 +0000 UTCThat's a really good point and an excellent question!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-18 12:06:06 +0000 UTCGreat question!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-18 12:05:41 +0000 UTCReally enjoying the podcast. Would love to know more about the theme music used for the series, who it's by and how they created it.
Anvilbeard
2024-09-18 09:29:50 +0000 UTCThe villa found in suburbia is a fascinating story... especially given all efforts expended to find something.
Kerry Hennigan
2024-09-18 05:53:12 +0000 UTCLove the podcast! I've often wondered how you know when to leave things alone for those that will follow you? Tech moves forward and sometimes I feel as much as you want to get at a site, you have to leave some things for those that will follow you or for when the tech improves to a point it can achieve what you currently can't. Think what was lost trying to unroll the Pompeii scrolls.
Graham Dombkins
2024-09-18 05:40:02 +0000 UTCQuestion: After watching the latest classic release "Dig by Wire" I was wondering how often archeologists do digs on extreme or difficult sights. I'm guessing it turns into a cost vs safety vs reward. Would the current Time Team funding model make such digs possible or are they just too expensive and dangerous?
Carl Johnson
2024-09-18 03:03:23 +0000 UTCBrilliant podcasts, thank you, and totally agree with Elaine P - how lovely to be able to listen to Helen for half an hour. Helen - you should narrate some audio books, preferably about archaeology of course!
Min La Vida
2024-09-18 02:54:38 +0000 UTCSoooo enjoying these podcasts, I could listen to Helen for hours. And how fun that Martyn is getting out in the field - keep going because I'm living variously through you! I think the rhythm and flow are working very well (kudos on the editing, Martyn), and look forward to a Q&A only episode.
Elaine P
2024-09-17 21:22:31 +0000 UTCTwo wonderful questions, Debbie. Thank you very much
Martyn Williams
2024-09-17 20:27:19 +0000 UTCThank you Gill!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-17 20:26:52 +0000 UTCBoth episodes were fascinating, excellent! Thank you.
Gill Sawyer
2024-09-17 17:13:24 +0000 UTCLoving the podcasts. Took me a bit to realize there was no video! Anyway, my first question is: since the sun rises and sets in different locations throughout the year, does this affect the direction a burial is aligned and does that help to figure out when the person was buried? My second question is: sites have been buried under inches/feet of earth since the Roman conquest, so 2000 years. Why is it assumed/known that Iron Age people would still see Bronze Age burials 2000 years later? Wouldn’t those cists also be buried after so long?
Debbie Gerlock
2024-09-17 16:34:15 +0000 UTCA brilliant question, Julianne!
Martyn Williams
2024-09-17 14:32:29 +0000 UTCThis is such a basic question I’m almost embarrassed to ask: how do things get buried? I’ve been trying to figure out how entire settlements can end up under multiple meters of earth.
Julianne Ture
2024-09-17 14:23:21 +0000 UTCIt's been great to see so many of the "old" Time Team archaeologists involved in the new digs, and sad not to see some of the beloved older ones who have either passed away or retired. I would love to know what Raksha and Bridget are up to these days.
Wessex-Wyvern
2024-09-17 14:03:39 +0000 UTCThis helps. I figured I had to use either Podfollow (which gave the required cookies popup) or only the two that appeared on the Podfollow site (Apple and Spotify). Thank you for clarifying that Audible also works.
Mea Cadwell
2024-09-17 10:55:56 +0000 UTCApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/time-team/id1572648474
Felix Rowe
2024-09-17 10:50:17 +0000 UTCSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2xTMkQqMzSOUrw13yMcfJ4
Felix Rowe
2024-09-17 10:48:19 +0000 UTCHi, there's a range of different platforms you can use to listen to the podcast, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Audible. As standard, each platform has its own cookie policy, so you can choose the platform that works best for you.
Felix Rowe
2024-09-17 10:48:07 +0000 UTCI won't listen to the podcast on the app used due to the required cookies that I AM UNABLE TO OPT OUT OF. Gee, thanks for reducing my ability to have access to the podcasts when I'm a Patron member.
Mea Cadwell
2024-09-17 09:47:07 +0000 UTCA question: were the people really so willing to let there gardens ripped appart? And how much work was put in the restauration of the gardens?
Chris
2024-09-17 08:59:22 +0000 UTCExpert Marksman with Machine Gun clasp
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2024-09-17 07:16:43 +0000 UTC
