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Heritage Crime Extended Interview | Time Team Podcast (Patreon)

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2025-10-28 06:30:02
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The Time Team Podcast is available to listen to now.

One of the items featured is about the issue of heritage crime, something Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth has been working with the police to tackle. He's investigating how archaeological techniques can be used to track down the people responsible.

In this interview Stewart's alongside PC Jono Lightfoot from the Heritage Crime Unit at Cheshire Police. They're working together to combat a growing problem in rural communities across the UK.

Time Team members get the opportunity to watch this extended version of the conversation. We hope you enjoy it!

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Heritage Crime Extended Interview | Time Team Podcast

Time Team members get the chance to watch an extended version of an interview from the Time Team podcast. Stewart Ainsworth discusses the issue of heritage crime and how techniques used in archaeology can help tackle the problem. Stewart's alongside PC Jono Lightfoot from the Heritage Crime Unit at Cheshire Police. They're working together to combat a growing problem in rural communities across the UK. ** JOIN TIME TEAM MEMBERSHIP! ** Support Time Team by becoming a member and get access to exclusive behind-the-scenes content and membership benefits: https://www.patreon.com/timeteamofficial ** MERCHANDISE ** Time Team's Official Shop: https://shop.timeteamdigital.com/ Website: https://www.timeteamdigital.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timeteamofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timeteamofficial X: https://x.com/thetimeteam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialtimeteam

Comments

Carol Overrill

Yes, Helen is right, we would all like to go for a walk with Stewart.

Alan McMillan

Where I live, in the Midlands, there was an archaeological dig. Fantastic! They closed the area off with wire fencing. It was just as well. That evening, there was an influx of would be metal detection creeps. I caĺled the police, and notified the team. There was no breakins, and unfortunately, no results from the dig.

Difort

Very intriguing.

Irene Daly

At my advanced age( I’m in my eighties) it’s unseemly to say it, but I wouldn’t mind a moonlight walk with Stuart😂😂😂

Irene Daly

I think we need the information relayed to our schools. There’s a lack of heritage pride and it must be partly due to a gap in teaching the history of our country and of fostering a national pride.

Roger Mills

In the case of vandalism or merely thoughtless damage yes. But you must understand that the most damaging crimes are theft by people who know exactly what they are doing operating very slickly able to spirit stuff away in an instant often to order. In what we term 'preservation' what doesn't get weighed in at the scrapyard by chancers disappears so completely with so little evidence left that owners if they report the crime at all have no confidence that any investigation would be possible. It's not small stuff either a few years ago a full size fairground organ in a full size lorry was stolen and has never been seen since. Nowhere is very far from a port at night. We dread any increase in the price of non ferous metals.

Julied123

I could listen to Stewart all day. Quite agree with Carol and Helen, a walk with Stewart would be great!!Have him on the podcast more often please!!

N Hansen

Not malicious? Just hanging around at a historical site isn't going to result in damage without that element of malicious mischief. I can guess where the lead is going, and there's an online market for anything old, but stone? Then again, I can see a market for that too. Ideally the best way to discourage these types of crimes would be to cut off the market by going after the resellers along with any web site that allows person to person sales of what are in essence looted goods.

Anja Adam

I'm sure that the lack of sensitivity in dealing with historical heritage isn't just a problem in Great Britain. It's a global problem. I see a major cause of this in the way history is taught today. In order to interest and sensitize children and young people to history, it's absolutely NOT helpful to simply let them learn dates. It would be much more important to teach them to recognize and understand historical developments and their contexts.

Richard Abbott

Sycamore gap. I have a picture of my grandparents, one of very few of them young, with my Dad and siblings. I have pictures of my parents with my brothers and I. Then the last trip I made to the UK, I got a picture of my son there, just a few weeks before it was chopped down. It connects generations with a shared piece of heritage, and its loss affects so many families in a similar way.

Debra Winchell

Definitely a lack of respect for history in the Albany, NY area. Most people don't know it was first settled in 1614! People here always cared more about money

Fiona D

This is an important topic and great interview. Hopefully later it can go out beyond Patreon.

Laura Soto-Barra

Wonderful partnership. Archeologists and the police! Very intriguing, useful, creative. Of course I learned about looters and robbers, and about the international market of robbed artifacts and ruins when I did my studies about Mayan archaeology at the University of Toronto, but I never heard of this type of partnership. Wonderful initiative and I feel proud of Time Team’s and Steward’s creativity, enthusiasm and passion for this idea. I hope this association is presented in international conferences so the idea can be adopted globally. Listening to the young policeman I thought perhaps he ‘ll love archaeology so much he’d change careers. 😉

Sławomir

Here is another take on the issue of heritage crime: some time ago I saw a documentary about cultural institution from a Gulf region that does public exhibitions displaying archaeological finds, of which we may suspect that their origin is not fully verified, and they might be coming from illegal excavations in war-torn countries such as Iraq, Syria or Libya. This is a well-funded institution, however it looks like with their money being spent on items from some shady dealers they are making it profitable to proceed with such excavations.

william

My mind goes to a Heritage Crime streaming series modelled on 'Professor T' with Stewart's character, versus the criminology Professor, being embedded with local constabularies to solve heritage crimes. And yes, we'd all like to walk with Stewart.

Mary Lu

This was really interesting. Just so you know, I do love these podcasts. Best thing ever!

Shannon G

Even from here in Canada I had always hoped to see the Sycamore tree in person. Such a beautiful and iconic site. It was such a senseless act and for absolutely no reason. 💔

Stephanie Greene

Fantastic and very relevant topic!! And if Stewart’s going for any walks in the future please post the sign-up sheet… I’d love to go on one of those within myself!!! 😆

Liz C

My local church had the stone path stolen a couple of years ago. I love that archaeology can help police characterise the stone so that it can be identified & retrieved.

Margaret

I would love to watch the extended interview but it refuses to play for me. All I get is a black screen 😢

Margaret

thanks for fixing the video - only a slight problem but still watchable.

Bryan at Snowflake Farm

This is essential information, and the YouTube version should be made public as soon as you can.

Mea Cadwell

Since I don't live in England, I have a few questions about illegal metal detecting. Are all heritage site boundaries clearly marked so a metal detectorist would know where they shouldn't go? What happens if they think they aren't on a heritage site, but is metal detecting right beside a heritage site, finds something and reports it to the authorities...would they still be in trouble for metal detecting on a heritage site or would the situation be taken into consideration? I know you're talking about crime here, and reporting a find makes things better, but wanted some clarification on this. Thank you for your time in reading this.

Kenten Brown

well done got to do this to giver good