Dig Watch | Princely Burial Site: Day Two
Added 2024-07-10 17:39:53 +0000 UTCIt's our second day here in the Cotswolds, and despite the weather the archaeology is already paying dividends.
Being Time Team, though, it's not exactly straightforward to decipher. What we can be sure of is an exciting week ahead.
Even better, we're pleased to welcome Jackie McKinley to site, who has already made some crucial discoveries. It's time for more Dig Watch!
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Margaret North
2024-08-21 15:16:03 +0000 UTCI'm loving every moment. Love you Time Team!!!
wayne melberg
2024-07-19 22:08:28 +0000 UTCWoohoo!!
Bron Lloyd
2024-07-13 09:28:27 +0000 UTCThat is some cliff hanger! Wow!
Eelco Kruidenier
2024-07-12 18:11:57 +0000 UTCFabulous as usual ❤️
michelle keith
2024-07-12 15:19:42 +0000 UTCWow, just wow! Really exciting.
Terhi Törmänen
2024-07-12 13:37:36 +0000 UTCGreat update Helen despite the sogginess!
Difort
2024-07-12 10:26:20 +0000 UTCWow. This is FASCINATING!
Anita C
2024-07-11 21:22:40 +0000 UTCThat overview of the trench so clearly showed those grave cuts. And why is that pink stone there? You couldn't write better cliff hangers.
Carl Johnson
2024-07-11 21:11:14 +0000 UTCSo exciting!! Looking forward to the next update
Debbie Williams
2024-07-11 12:43:24 +0000 UTCWow! Wonderful exciting update. I am honestly beginning to feel like an active member of "Time Team" Can't wait for day 3! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍👍👍👍
Marilyn
2024-07-11 07:31:16 +0000 UTCMy old SouthTexas bones hurt for any of "you'll " working in shorts and rain gear.
Priscilla Waller
2024-07-11 07:24:30 +0000 UTCOnce again a great snippet, can't wait for the full episode. Every dig starts with Questions, but having the flexibility to adapt to findings is what makes these shows great, and always leaves us waiting for more 😎
Neil Graham
2024-07-11 06:15:04 +0000 UTCAs this is Project Nightingale & Cotswold dig, I think Kerry will not have had time to get everything in place, but looking at the soil, it would still be a wet trench.
Neil Graham
2024-07-11 06:05:18 +0000 UTCThrilling! What a cliffhanger! And such intrigue…
Doug Mackey
2024-07-11 02:55:24 +0000 UTCIs the trench too large to cover with a tent? Seems like I have seen that in other Time Teams when it rains....
Fiona D
2024-07-11 01:39:52 +0000 UTCHelen is great and Jackie is always a treat. Exciting developments!
Elisabeth
2024-07-11 01:23:23 +0000 UTCI love seeing Helen playing host. Can't wait to see what's under the big pink stone!
KP
2024-07-11 00:38:47 +0000 UTCGreat insights into the dig. I am pleased that dig watch is starting to share more details of finds.
David Boon
2024-07-11 00:00:58 +0000 UTC❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cheryl Kurucz
2024-07-10 23:06:43 +0000 UTCWe have been having similar weather in Melbourne! Hope everything goes well for the remainder of the dig.
JUDITH COOKE
2024-07-10 22:16:58 +0000 UTCOh wow. Maybe another Roman sarcophagus but this time with the lid in situ! Exciting.
Amethyst Gray
2024-07-10 22:06:28 +0000 UTCOh Wow! I thought the England game was exciting but I would swap my armchair for a pair of wellies and a trowel any day. Can’t wait to see what the ‘pink slab’ reveals. Best of luck to all the team, you are quite brilliant.
Irene Daly
2024-07-10 21:23:15 +0000 UTCI am wondering about the depth of the cremated remains in relation to the body. Is there any indication of how much later they were added or are they contemporary? Could they have been a momento mori carried by the deceased? It is so very intriguing.
Clive McIntyre
2024-07-10 21:13:03 +0000 UTCWow the excitement builds!!!
Neil
2024-07-10 20:55:19 +0000 UTCOh that's fantastic! I also had a thought on Jackie's cremated bone, would another possibility be that they are part of the remains of someone who moved away and then after death some of their cremation were brought back to their birthplace to be buried with parents/relations?
Christopher Samuel
2024-07-10 20:40:11 +0000 UTCThank you for sharing this interesting detail and prospect. Looking forward to Naomi's float disco/veries.
Graham Stokes
2024-07-10 20:28:34 +0000 UTCReally exciting stuff. Shame about the weather. I hope it brightens up for you!
Dario
2024-07-10 20:25:19 +0000 UTCAdding to my previous post, and cremation. Back in 2000 we went on a 'Granny Sprinkling Trip' - dropping handfuls of our lovely Welsh Granny around her beloved childhood/yound adult locations in Swansea and The Gower... Nowadays the cremation process is very refined, so no bits of discernable bone (thank goodness!) But I can quite see that our ancestors may have done something similar...
Carrie Hartley
2024-07-10 20:24:03 +0000 UTCCan’t wait for tomorrow! 👍
Jen A
2024-07-10 20:19:18 +0000 UTCIt's getting Exciting!!!! Pink Stone Day tomorrow LOL
Chris Bate
2024-07-10 19:54:31 +0000 UTCFantastic discoveries, what will be next?
Alan McMillan
2024-07-10 19:46:37 +0000 UTCBring your own canoe, deep wellies!
Alan McMillan
2024-07-10 19:39:35 +0000 UTCI could imagine carrying one of Jackie's momento mori packets as a personal keepsake and then being buried with it when my time came.
Jee
2024-07-10 19:28:23 +0000 UTCOoh.. reminders of Glastonbury 1997..nursing with #FestivalMedicalServices. Our tents were 2 in below the mud. Going to the loo was a no-go.. we were creative.. 😬X
Carrie Hartley
2024-07-10 19:15:59 +0000 UTCI am very excited to be a part, in a way, of this dig. Thanks Time Team!
Richard Kaskeski
2024-07-10 19:05:31 +0000 UTCI was excavating at Roman Magna on Hadrian's Wall in May and we discovered 7 cremation burials, the way they were excavated and processed is exactly how Jackie explains it.
Simon Orchard
2024-07-10 19:03:00 +0000 UTCIt just getter better and better!
Nigel Sadler
2024-07-10 19:02:00 +0000 UTCInteresting! I’ve not heard of these momento mori burials before. A flotation birthday treat for Naomi! Looking forward to the rest of the week.
Rachel
2024-07-10 18:56:27 +0000 UTCThe enthusiasm, knowledge, and wisdom between Helen, Richard, and Jackie bodes well for the Cotswold site. Definitely Time Team invigorating!!! Dig on!
JanD
2024-07-10 18:48:23 +0000 UTCThis site seems to have a penchant for the unusual, can't wait to see what they're all about. It must be difficult working in the rain, but being in a drought-striken heat dome on the US east coast, I have to say it's very refreshing just seeing all the rain and long sleeves. But hopefully weather improves for the dig, this site is too intriguing to be hamstrung by bad weather.
Elaine P
2024-07-10 18:42:14 +0000 UTCOr maybe the elders were cremated, and the later generation had the cremated bones buried with them?
Wessex-Wyvern
2024-07-10 18:34:13 +0000 UTCThis is so thrilling! So many interesting questions. I hope the weather is kinder tomorrow.
Wessex-Wyvern
2024-07-10 18:32:41 +0000 UTCInteresting features. I hope it will lead to great discoveries !
Jacques Pictet
2024-07-10 18:04:35 +0000 UTCI feel sorry sitting back, enjoying the action from my dry home, but OMG what action there is! Holy wow, more questions... 🤔
Patricia Amero
2024-07-10 18:04:03 +0000 UTCI loved the cliff hanger at the end…
Todd Gillespie
2024-07-10 17:55:20 +0000 UTCIs it possible the cremation is of their kids and once a parent dies, they put pices of their kids with the parent's burial?
CCZ
2024-07-10 17:53:47 +0000 UTCCan't wait to see more on the circular feature tomorrow.
Zoe Propper
2024-07-10 17:52:22 +0000 UTCBeach shelter to protect the tech from the rain...genius!
Zoe Propper
2024-07-10 17:44:59 +0000 UTCI hope the weather was kinder today. It was a bit better here, in Reading
Paul Faulkner
2024-07-10 17:43:56 +0000 UTC
