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S22 | 2022: Site Wrestle - Anglo-Saxon (Site A) with Helen Geake (Patreon)

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2022-05-23 09:15:44
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2022-07-27 20:42:44
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Thank you for all your votes and thoughts on the Site Contenders list and poll - please keep them coming!

It's currently neck and neck between the Anglo-Saxon site in Norfolk and the Knights Hospitallers preceptory.

In the first of our Site Wrestle sessions, Helen Geake and Tim Taylor discuss the merits and challenges of investigating an Anglo-Saxon burial ground (Site A). 

Due to the sensitive nature, and with arrangements still to be finalised, we're currently unable to reveal the exact location or details of every contender. However, this wide-ranging conversation addresses some of the key considerations in excavating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, and what we might hope to discover.

What can the location, types of finds and orientation or nature of burials reveal about the communities who lived in East Anglia over a thousand years ago?

 

PLEASE NOTE: By nature, this video includes discussion of funerary and burial practices.

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Comments

Stephen Early

I have always enjoyed listening and watching Helen over the years on Time Team. I have learned a lot about Anglo Saxons life . That period has always been a period of interest to me. I been trying to get as much information on it as I can. I’m a long time history buff. Thank you Helen

Robert Wise

Wonderful discussion, thank you both! I feel like I learned a lot, and got a glimpse of the limitations and frustrations one may encounter when attempting to assemble the story from a burial. One thing I’ve always wondered about are Stewart’s comments about the visibility of ancient burial sites from great distances. Prior to some point in the history of England (perhaps the Roman invasion or large scale ship building?), were there fairly widespread old forests that would limit visibility quite a bit?

Elisabeth

Just hearing the opening bars of the Time Team theme makes me ridiculously happy. Really enjoyed this with Helen's explanations of how difficult and murky the interpretations of sites and finds can be.

Kieran Gane

Thanks again, this was fascinating. Is there any way that you could crowd-source the database creation of all these burial details to enable analysis and pattern discovery?

Pamela Brotherton

Great conversation! I learn so much by listening to these site wrestles. Thank you.

auszzz

Excellent discussion, I understood around 20% of it, but Helen's knowledge and enthusiasm was great banter against Tim's fence sitting questions. He obviously knew much more about the sites than he let on to Helen and drew out her knowledge so well.

Brian Perry

Helen is a joy to listen to. Looking forward to the next "wrestle".

Ann H

Can Naomi's plant data add to the larger Anglo Saxon database? So, flower pollen, dye chemicals, spelt v bread wheat, etc. Earlier digs may not have had this? Medicinal herbs i.e. are poppies in evidence or such for pain relief?

Kay Theriault

Interesting conversation to wake up to! Teasing information out of limited grave goods at a site sounds like a real challenge, and someone suggested above that Naomi's float tank might be helpful in searching for environmental minutae to fill in gaps in the greater knowledge base about Anglo Saxon times.

Gail Dausener

Lovely seeing Helen again. She is so passionate about the Anglo-Saxons and she explains things so well.

Thomas Murray

Time Team is doing a great job in keeping the Patron Group in the loop. These Site Wrestling sessions are so interesting and the Master Classes are icing on the cake.

Roger Mills

Excellent analysis as always from Helen

Olivia McGerty

These discussions are absolutely fabulous for me. I live in the middle of the Pacific and our archaeology here is very different but of course my ancestors come from there! Please keep informing us as you have done so brilliantly so far!

Olivia McGerty

These discussions are absolutely fabulous for me. I live in the middle of the Pacific and our archaeology here is very different but of course my ancestors come from there! Please keep informing us as you have done so brilliantly so far!

Debbie Clarke

Fascinating talk, I could listen to Helen talk for hours! Cheering you all on from London, On, Canada!

James D Speckart

This is another great use of Patreon! Just film a chat between people engaged on a topic and post it for others to enjoy. Simple, easy, and really helps to fill in the rest of the story for Time Team. Thank you!

Graham Adamson

More of these dialogues please ...... so informative and interesting . Helen's enthusiasm , knowledge and experience are quite inspiring . ( from an old but still very interested digger)

Jude Edling

I so enjoy Helen's thoughtfulness and perspective on archaeology, Anglo-Saxons and context. Her last question, "Why is it here?" is at the heart of archaeology. It knits so well with Stuart's take on landscape context. Thank you for these conversations.

Eggs Ackley

Someday, TT will investigate an Anglo Saxon cemetery where ALL of the found objects are anomolous…that will be one for the text books! 😬

Elaine P

Can I just say I love learning from Helen? Always thought-provoking discussions. The little hints about context are intriguing, it'll be tough deciding which sites to pick. Very much looking forward to more wrestle sessions. Thank you!

Sharyle Doherty

Very interesting discussion. Love Helen’s idea to build a database to collect and analyze the information about Anglo Saxon burials.

Robert Boudreau

Knowing there's a Roman site nearby raises my interest in this site even more. Like Helen, that transitional stage from Roman to Anglo-Saxon is what I'm most fascinated by. Sam Newton once was explaining to Tony that there was no sharp break, people didn't go to bed Romans and wake up Anglo-Saxons. There was a long period of transition, and that period is the least known and understood, the most filled with myth and misunderstanding. Anything that can be found that helps shed even a little light on it is exciting.

Patricia Amero

I could listen to Helen talk all day, she is so interesting. But, would such a site tell us more... I'm not convinced...yet. Thank you for sharing this discussion, her thoughts and process involved in the decision making.

Kathryn

I very much enjoyed listening to Helen explain the whys and wherefore and difficulties of Anglo Saxon sites.

Richard Moss

I agree with you Robert. A burial ground obviously offers interest, but it is the possibility of understanding that gradual transition that would make the site more than just digging up bodies and grave goods.

Boethiusconsol

Early Saxon and Roman nearby swings this one for me. Opportunity for Stewart to look at location and explain which he does so well.

Dorothy Frank

Love learning from Helen. She's so enthusiastic and it comes across. Anglo Saxon is a time and language that I studied for my masters, so the topic is dear to my heart, too. On a jump in topic, what IS the difference between a British curry and curry from India?

Richard Randlesome

Like Bill the Anglo Saxons and Romans are my main interests. Would like to see this dig included, plus I'm from Norfolk.

Alan Harris

IIRC, the Brits invented curry, but in India the spices are fresher and better tasting. The brits came up with that spice mix because all their food was so...bland-ish. No cites or sources, I'm going on half-remembered crap I might have got wrong.

Dorothy Frank

Thanks, Alan. I think Tony said on one of the Time Teams something about off to the pub for a curry and pint, and I've heard others say similar things. It seems so very "every day normal", but here in America, we never think of curry as being British. And then Helen mentioned in the site wrestle there's a difference between British Curry and India Curry... so I wondered.