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When recovering finds goes wrong (ad-free) (Patreon)

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2026-06-30 05:10:01
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Helen Geake answers more questions from Time Team members about archaeology, history and Time Team. You'll learn about the delicate process of recovering buried finds, ponder the merits of archaeological experience and hear about the Time Team moments Mick Aston would've enjoyed.

In Helen's Find you'll learn about an object discovered through archaeology. This time it's a small sundial. You can see it here:https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/502553

Time Team members get the opportunity to ask Helen a question for a future edition of the podcast. Head to the 'chat' section here on Patreon and join in the discussion.

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Michael Crouch

Interesting bit about clocks and watches. When I retired about four years ago I decided to stop clock watching and haven’t worn a watch since. My sense of time has been pretty accurate, rarely more than half an hour out and usually much closer. I do carry a mobile phone with the time on it but rarely refer to it. A sunny day makes it much easier to deducing the time of day.

Fiona D

On pocket sundials: How universal were they? Did it make a difference where you were, longitude or latitude? Would they work in the New World the same as in Britain? In the Southern Hemisphere the same as in the Northern? On timing rendezvous: One surprising thing I have learned from Time Team is how incredibly mobile people were in the past. Martyn speculated that in the past you would only need to meet up with people in your immediate vicinity (village or whatever). But even ancient people were travelling and trading over great distances, even without watches. On learning something new: the difference between deposit and find and the grey area between!

Kathy Carlson

This is brilliant--and that ending made me cry. I remember Jackie saying that the child was a boy. I cried then--and I cried now. Bless you for this amazing work. (This comes from a fellow door-slammer.)

Gastromoped

Wasn't it the church organizing the day by prayers & by bell ringing...? Living in the country side you get a feeling of passing time, light & where the sun stands.

Wessex-Wyvern

Novels by the likes of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope etc should give insights into timekeeping in pre-watch days. Although I suspect that many of them might have had clocks.

Julianne Ture

If you watch the Time Team episode at Salisbury Cathedral (season 16, episode 6), they show the 14th-century mechanical clock that governed when the bells rang to signal prayers.

Gastromoped

Oh, thank you, I'll happily refresh my memory & will rewatch it! :o)

Michael Higdon

I've always wanted to sign up for one of your volunteering opportunities but I'm afraid my back disability would limit my helpfulness so I don't. I was wondering if there were any civilian archaeology groups like Operation Nightingale, where a disabled person might be able to volunteer without worrying about holding back the work?

Dave Couchman-Boor

Problem with sundials is they show local time. So 12 o’clock is earlier in Lowestoft than it is in London and Bristol is even later

Pauline Purcell

Yes, where church bells were rung for The Angelus at 6 am, noon, and 6pm they were time markers. This tradition fell away slowly I can recall our local RC church doing this in my childhood. In an industrial town such as Kidderminster where I grew up, factories sounded hooters to alert the workforce that they were due in. Locals called it ‘The Bull’ in my town because it bellowed.

Pauline

Didn’t most village churches have a clock in the bell tower?

Lilli Haicken

Mick definitely would have loved Modbury. Love hearing about him still. Will always miss his voice and laughter.

Barbara Huber

Churches could afford the big time pieces aka church bells! That’s how people told time.