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What extrabprecautions have the team been taking against pathogens with the human remains at the Lincoln site?

Hi Martyn, I had this question in the ones for the archaeologists but as the day one video featured Helen doing just what my question relates to I thought I would copy it here. My question is ‘Given the time period for the site, how much does prior research of the historical sources guide the archaeological questions and potential locations for trenches once combined with geophysics results?

This is sort of off topic, but this is a shout out to the team. My grand-niece has just started studying archeology at Cambridge. She is an American so she is in a new country fulfilling her life long dream. If any of you happen to come across her, introduce yourself and let her know her Grand Auntie Ellen sent you. Her name is Ella Lyons.

What will all the filming be on once all finished at Lincoln?

With more churches, particularly small rural churches, falling out of regular use or even closing altogether, is there a danger that important historical artefacts could be lost, damaged or simply forgotten?

Many of these churches contain features and objects that are far older than the buildings as we see them today — Anglo-Saxon stonework, medieval carvings, fonts, memorials and other traces of different periods of our history.

When a church closes, who is actually responsible for identifying and protecting these things? And could we be in danger of losing some fascinating pieces of local history simply because nobody realised their significance before the building changed hands or fell into disrepair

Wow! Loved this Roman Town Podcast! I will relisten to this to absorb it all. Helen can we do one on Anglo Saxon Settlements? How they come to be - is it the Market or the farm area, fishing what makes the settlement and how it developed?

Absolutely love the Roman towns podcast. Travelling next year from Australia to England for a short stay this book may be incorporated into our itinerary! Thank you!

Don’t know if you can answer this on the podcast yet Helen, but I’d love to hear more about the tiny object I found in Test Pit 11 on the 3rd day at Lincoln.😅 George whisked it away before I managed to get a good photo of it. (Keeping it vague, in case it’s not ready for release yet.)

I wonder how the economics of historic societies worked
Take, for example the extraordinary Anglo Saxon jewellery. Somo of these things must have taken months to make. So how did the jeweller live? Did he earn enough to buy food for him and his family? Or share in communal harvesting and planting and do the jewellery on the side. How were warriors and boat builders paid and fed? I am wondering if food and drink was a sort of shared resource, rather than being an individual purchase by the “working class”?

I have the same query about later castle and cathedral builders - were they fed by the client separately from wages?

We hear that people gathered around strong leaders to keep them safe from raiders. But did they also seek out a community with available food?

I’ve been watching a lot of videos recently about “cup & ring” prehistoric marks in stone, or the marks at the recent TT Orkney site, and folks saying they don’t know what they signify. They remind me of the Aboriginal art symbols. Has there been any research into potential links or development over time between them. Perhaps similar to how languages developed from Proto-Indo-European?

Hi there, it’s been a while since we’ve seen a full production episode. It seems like you’ve got about five in the can now, when can we expect a new series? Like the second dig at Sutton Who was like 14-15 months ago give or take. Thank you, Anxiously Waiting!! ;)

Hi there, I’ve just completed my first TT volunteer dig at Lincoln. If you ever get the chance I would highly recommend it as it was a fantastic experience.
I’m now interested in expanding my archaeology knowledge and wonder if anyone can recommend a beginner’s book to archaeology and digs.
Many thanks for your suggestions!

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Hi Helen and Martyn 😊 I have just gone down a bit of a rabbit hole after learning that there has been a revival of building long barrows after one was constructed in Wiltshire in 2015. It has apparently just been approved as a place of worship. I’d love to know your thoughts on these Helen? I think there’s a lot of beautiful elements to it and I can see why there’s enthusiasm for it, but I’d love the opinion of an expert in the field. I’m sorry if this has been asked before! I find it so fascinating!

Hands up who squealed like a little school child when they saw the Sutton hoo mask in person for the first time. Day two in London, at the British museum

I am reading “Tyrants and Traders” and am intrigued by remarks made on the first page of the introduction. The author says that “some, perhaps many, Britons emigrated overseas during and after the fifth century” . The dialogue has always been to the effect that the Romans left and the Anglo Saxons moved in but I have not previously been aware of any significant movement by Britons. How significant was this emigration and was it really large enough to turn Northern France into Brittany?

Here’s a question for Helen to ask Phil Harding… How the hell dis he survive the cold of the west country? Just at Stonehenge and I’m frozen!

Not a question but rather that in the morning I skim a few news sites and today noticed that the Time Team Lincoln dig actually made the American popular press. On the Fox News site and entitled “Medieval hospital built for victims of feared disease gives up long-buried secrets”. They do say all publicity is good publicity. :-)

Dig Village Book - hi all, I’m part of the Quantock Heritage Group and we are in year two of a multi year test pit program in the ancient village centre of North Petherton. We were inspired by a talk Carenza gave in Taunton a couple of years ago and the locals have really taken the project to their hearts. So much so that, as part of the team, I was nominated and awarded an Alfred Jewel Award for the work the QHG is doing.
With the relaunch of the book, and no doubt the interest this will bring, we’d be happy to talk to anyone about what it’s like to do this, the highs and lows plus all of the lessons we have, and continue to, learn.

Antony.

Where is Raksha?

has anyone seen all the new images of the parched land in the UK…TONS of cool sites.

I received my certificate and voucher today, in fact I received two copies

What certificate and voucher for May I ask and can anyone obtain the same if so what must one do