Time Team 2024 Update
Added 2024-01-09 20:15:35 +0000 UTCHello from Time Team HQ,
2024 is a very special year, not least because it marks an incredible 30 years since Time Team first arrived on our screens back in January 1994!
But we have many other reasons to celebrate over the next 12 months...
There's the release of last year's digs: a community test-pitting weekend at Modbury in Devon, and an Iron Age site near Corfe Castle in Dorset. Add to this excavations in Greece, featuring Derek and Lawrence working alongside our international colleagues.
Of course, we have more Time Team News with Dani Wootton, and Classic Specials from the archives to look forward to every month.
Plus we have a whole host of other projects in the pipelines that we can't wait to share more details of in the weeks ahead.
Coming up soon on Patreon, we're putting together a range of in-depth conversations on topics including the site selection process and post-excavation results, giving greater insight into what goes on behind the scenes in the build up to, and aftermath, of each dig.
But what would you like to see more of in 2024? And what would be your dream sites for us to dig? Let us know in the comments.
Comments
I’ve been a ‘Time Team’ fan from the start. I’d love to see “drill-down” interviews on specific attracts and have the finders dig into their own experiences to describe how some of them feel ‘ linked’ to the artifices. It would help us to understand the relationship between archaeology and the so obviously ‘ felt’ links that the archaeologists experience. I’m so glad that the ‘Teamies’ found a way to produce their quality, relevant and interesting archeo-factual programming after the TV airings! Thanks guys.
Greg Richards
2024-05-02 11:08:19 +0000 UTCI found some great Phil stuff thru Wessex archeology
Jen Thirsk
2024-02-18 01:06:39 +0000 UTCHi Ned, look out for our upcoming post-ex chat on the Winfarthing lady. Details coming soon.
Time Team
2024-01-27 19:28:33 +0000 UTCMore post excavation news. Three days on site leads to how many in a lab. What new was discovered, what ideas changed. We get such a small part of the story.
Ned Cahill
2024-01-22 21:46:49 +0000 UTCA few months ago I would have said that my dream dig would be for Time Team to come to the U.S. and dig up our farm. There are thousands of years of history, right on the top of the ground in some cases, and I have so many questions about my home's past. However, after a talk with Dr. James Kendrick this last fall, Time Team's resources might be better applied in the United States to investigate further the footprints at White Sands. They are rewriting what we assume about the time frame for human arrival in the Americas and are really fascinating. Being able to find the habitation site of the people who were there would be amazing. I'd still like for Time Team to tell me if my stone whistles are something important (or 'just rocks' as I've been told by some collectors), but if you were going to come all the way across the pond, then the White Sands footprints would be my choice for a priority site.
Kathy Shelton
2024-01-22 14:38:28 +0000 UTCI would like to see more sites like the one in Mull. I'm like Mick. He got so excited. I enjoy monasteries, churches and religious sites. My all time favorites has to be Mull.vI have watch this one alone, maybe 40 times. It puts a smile on my face when Phil says he has two pieces of domestic pot, and then Racashaw says, she has a quart size pebble, and then it goes on and on. Great show, the isles of Mull. ❤️🙏❤️
Debbie Fetsch
2024-01-19 09:57:46 +0000 UTCI am an old fart so my english may not be that good but i Will do my very best: As a Swede i am perticularly interested in our rockcarvings. We find them all over Sweden where the coastlines were 3000 to 4000 years ago. But they are concentrated mostly among our westcoast, perticularly in the Tanum region where there also is a UNESCO heritage site in Vitlycke. There are many interpretations of what all those carvings could mean but no one really knows. The most plausible explanation, in my humble view, is that they have some connection with the trade routes We had with England and the mediterrainean because of the trade of bronze. I,would really like timeteam to take a ”birdsview” approach to this and Try to find more facts in the matter. Most of the tin came from England We know. Simular rockcarvings have been found in other locations around Europe. Did they have the connections i think they have. Swedish archeoligists still find lots of new rockcarvings every year. Maybe Time Team can be able to help find som more?
Thomas Nyvell
2024-01-14 18:44:51 +0000 UTCDanni, many years ago, I was a young Archeology Major at Ohio State University. I remember reading about a study of experimental archaeology at Serpant Mound in southern Ohio. Beautiful mica carvings of raptor talons were recovered in a dig, and a project was carried out to discover how they were made. Of course they used surgical scalpels. However, the edges produced were ragged and no where as beautiful as the ancient originals. Finally someone decided to try duplicating them using flint blades, which produced a perfect result. I can’t help think how proud Phil would be to recount the story!
Rob Federle
2024-01-14 05:02:31 +0000 UTCHillforts in West Wales might be worh looking at. And Post-Roman sites in SW England.
Mal Function
2024-01-12 23:22:23 +0000 UTCI can only echo what many others have already said: It would be nice to see some updates on past sites. Did anything more get done at them after Time Team's work? Did post-excavation analysis give more insights into what the team thought during filming? I think it would also be nice to see more "catch-ups" with past team members, learn what they're doing now. Barney Sloan, Ian Powlesland, Tracey Smith, Raksa Dave, to name just a few. There were many who we got to know, it would be nice to find what they're are up to now.
Robert Boudreau
2024-01-11 19:39:22 +0000 UTCI would love to see Phil, just to see what he's up to and how he is doing. No need for him to be on dig, just an interview in a pub would satisfy me.
John Matthew IV
2024-01-11 16:34:18 +0000 UTCI think on the first Time Team episode the team didn't do any digging, possibly due to the site being listed? Instead they did some amazing geophysics, field walking, landscape interpretation and review of original sources. As so many sites are listed, are there any stand out sites where this could be done again?
Diane Jones
2024-01-11 10:12:07 +0000 UTCI love Time Team. I'm not sure if it's feasible, but would suggest William Marshall's manor at Caversham as a potential site.
Jenny O'Connell
2024-01-11 02:44:46 +0000 UTCI think the 3 day digs are right in the sweet spot and have been perfected overs the years. Additional ‘after the dig’ content perhaps as stand alone episodes. Expanding the length of Dani’s show would be nice. Plus dogs under shady tables is always welcome😉🐶
Paul
2024-01-10 21:51:36 +0000 UTCAny chance this could be looked at before it disappears for good? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-67935267
Craig Duerden
2024-01-10 17:33:13 +0000 UTCI enjoy the in-town or in-city digs, finding what's under people's lawns or driveways, or even inside the buildings or under them.
Robb Dods & Monica Ross
2024-01-10 14:44:29 +0000 UTCHaving been born in Swindon, I get fed up with people calling it a modern railway town. We know that there were Romans and Saxons in the Lawns park in the Old town but there may also be Neolithic nearby. Passmore mentions a stone circle with an opening leading to Ladder Lane which in itself leads to the Rdgeway, I would love to know if all trace was lost or if Swindon can take its place amongst the oldest settlements in Britain.
Jayne Copping
2024-01-10 10:42:57 +0000 UTCI would love to see a dig on the site and area near the National Rail Museum at Shildon, Co. Durham. The area was the site of the works of Timothy Hackwork, one of the pioneers of railways. There used to be traces of a base of a gasometer for town gas and it was probably one of the earliest types of gasometer. There used to be an old gasworks above on the hill with a resovoir. Perfect site and no trace survives on surface.
Judith Faulkner
2024-01-10 08:20:51 +0000 UTCI would like to see more viking sites, and would also like to know if there is any chance that a DNA database is or can be created, which can be shared with the Genealogy community, including all those looking for DNA for their ancestors, Like Myself. Here in the States, Over the pond, as it were, Ancestry has made it possible for me to attach and prove my ancestors, and helped me find and prove my biological father and other siblings. Think that is important. Another dig with Operation Nightingale is awesome as well, and again will Dr. Phil Harding make a show??
Donna Oglesby
2024-01-10 08:11:15 +0000 UTCThere is a particular site which I have always wanted to suggest. Anne of Cleves demolished palace in Bletchingly Surrey. I lived there for a year and was always looking for signs of the palace which apparently ere evident as lumps and bumps in a field near the village. This being long before the days of Time Team I did not know what to look for.
Janette Menhennet
2024-01-10 02:54:30 +0000 UTCWaterloo Uncovered + Time Team = “Got My Attention”!
Eggs Ackley
2024-01-10 02:30:58 +0000 UTCI'm up for anything Time Team as Don commented, but what about investigating one of the communities involved in the forced eviction of inhabitants of the Highlands and western islands of Scotland?
Patricia Amero
2024-01-10 01:51:53 +0000 UTCWell I just joined 1/2 hour ago. I’m such a fan of the original series, which I have a few more to go, and love the new show going forward. It’s so addicting. Because of Ancestry.ca and like sites I now know I have past relatives from the Archaeology digs being done. That is crazy modern info. I look forward to the next dig.
Michael Beaumont
2024-01-10 00:38:49 +0000 UTCJust more Time Team!
Don Cook
2024-01-10 00:30:12 +0000 UTCAnything prehistoric. Especially that remarkable transition from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age.
Doug Mackey
2024-01-09 23:31:36 +0000 UTCViking Age sites, please!
Kerry Hennigan
2024-01-09 22:57:41 +0000 UTCI'd like to see more Anglo Saxon digs and more in East Anglia. And I'm interested in further analysis too.
Janice Perry
2024-01-09 22:51:27 +0000 UTCLike others, I would like to learn about further work done on sites that were evaluated by TT to find out what happened next, if anything. There seemed to be lots of sites during the 'classics' that there had to be more work afterwards.
Leanne
2024-01-09 22:45:20 +0000 UTCI would like to see more one on one interview with the Time Team cast to learn more about archeological products they are participating outside of Time Team...
Steve Mikre
2024-01-09 22:34:19 +0000 UTCI would like to see in depth small finds interviews and restoration
Susie
2024-01-09 22:25:02 +0000 UTCI enjoy Dani's news updates and would appreciate more news on glacial archeology. So much is being revealed as glaciers melt. I echo all the comments above in thanking you for the comradery and good humor, especially in daunting circumstances. Best wishes for good health and good finds in the new year!!
Jude Edling
2024-01-09 22:17:54 +0000 UTCI’d like to see Phil”s work or at least an interview.
Cindy Cogill
2024-01-09 21:59:09 +0000 UTCHi, if you search posts under 'post dig analysis' or 'extra commentary' we did a series of videos early on looking at some of the original digs, including some interviews with local groups involved and analysis of reports.
Time Team
2024-01-09 21:50:43 +0000 UTCJust keep doing what you are doing, I love it all. Perhaps look back at previous digs, see what work other archaeologists have done to continue the sites, to see if you're findings still stand or re-interpreted
Ross Gibson
2024-01-09 21:35:16 +0000 UTCIn my dream world, I'd love to see time team do a special at karahan tepe in Turkey! But failing that, I love anything neolithic - the sites full of mystery and intrigue. Where we piece together the tiniest slither of a story about the lives of those who came before us, using only what we find beneath the earth. Where there's a chance of finding something truly extraordinary that could bring their story to life in a way we never expected. I don't know if you guys actually read the comments but if you do, I want you know that as a viewer, it's clear that these new projects are JUST as much about the team uncovering old friendships and breathing life back into something they thought was lost to time, as it is about the digs themselves. You can see everyone is bursting with energy and feeling the warmth of working alongside old friends while making new ones. And I don't want you guys to think that as an audience, we won't find that stuff as interesting too - we're all smiling and laughing along with you at home. So please don't feel like you need to cut out some of those more human and heart-warming moments - the dynamics of working on a dig and the many skill sets and personalities that come together and make it happen is just as interesting as the things you dig up 💕 xxx
Emily McKenzie
2024-01-09 21:24:13 +0000 UTCMy dream site would be my favourite stone circle - Boscawen-un in Cornwall. It’s complete and on private land but accessible to the public. It’s a magical place. I’d love more Anglo Saxon sites too!
Bron Lloyd
2024-01-09 21:02:12 +0000 UTCI would love to see segments going into the archive of reports from the old digs to show results of further analysis. Most of the old shows were limited to what was caught on camera.
Levy
2024-01-09 20:54:59 +0000 UTCCan you use lidar to scan Doggerland?
Dennis D Kerkman
2024-01-09 20:54:45 +0000 UTCLove the new shows. As an Americsn with English,Irish and Scottish heritage, this has been a great way to learn history. Don't believe there is a Time Team Ireland but Galway is an ancestral home. Hint hint!
John Keady
2024-01-09 20:46:34 +0000 UTCWell, you're in luck! Look out for our upcoming post-excavation chat on results from Winfarthing - details to be revealed soon.
Time Team
2024-01-09 20:46:20 +0000 UTCI am incredibly biased but would love Sutton Courtenay to be revisited.
Atra-Hasis
2024-01-09 20:41:56 +0000 UTCI would like to see more detail about what happens to the finds. Cleaning and preserving them, how they are recorded, where they go once the research has been written up, all that sort of thing.
Wessex-Wyvern
2024-01-09 20:27:26 +0000 UTCI would love to see the team return to any site where they felt more questions could have been answered but due to the 3 day limit, they either ran out of time, or more questions need looking at, this could be from any episode ever filmed. On a side note, were there any digs that never got shown?
Neil Graham
2024-01-09 20:24:17 +0000 UTC
