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S22 | Dig Watch | Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Q&A - Send your questions now (Patreon)

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2022-09-21 20:20:51
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The time has come to start sending us your questions!

Please use the comments section below to ask away. Again, begin your reply with the name of the specific individual, or keep it more general and we'll put it to the team.

As well as the Anglo-Saxon theme, please do include any wider questions about Time Team, archaeological techniques, real ale and fruit-based pizza toppings.

We'll do our very best to answer as many as possible for you.

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Matt Bear Clark

When will there be a Time Team calendar?

Robert Wise

How are the global warming-related weather events affecting TT’s work? If TT could go back to any previous site, or any site at all, which one would it be?

Jeffery Stout

Fruit on pizza? Reddit.com/r/pizzacrimes

James Leighninger

For Stewart: Has Lidar made your job easier…or redundant? Do you still need to do your pushups in fields to find furrows and barnikins?

sue capps

What is the favourite time team find

Cindy Masek

Does someone sort through all the dirt displaced in a dig? I've seen metalists scanning piles but wondered how thoroughly these are screened later.

Timothy Pearce

To Paul Blinkhorn. What’s your favourite Time Team pottery find and btw great to see you back on TT

Jeff Lanam

For Stewart: I love maps and do orienteering, twice in Scotland. You work with a lot of maps; have you ever used a map made for orienteering to look for archaeology?

Cindy Masek

I'd buy one! Maybe a collection of old and new member images, favorite locations, or finds? Maybe mix?

Craig Ryan Close

Can you provide some pdf's of the dig areas? It will make it informative to use as a resource as we all observe your work. I think a lot of us here would love to participate personally, but at least we can vicariously follow your efforts.

Ann H

To Paul Blinkhorn what is definitive about Anglo Saxon pottery and some Time Team close up pictures to illustrate his words in a pre dig session. It is so hard to see in a TV or production presentation. Intriguing but visually illusive.

Steve Mikre

Is it possible Time Team could one day dig an archeological site on the Great War's Western Front?

Ann H

Or a spade Christmas tree ornament.

Alanna Landers

For Helen - why are cemeteries so important in Ango-Saxon archaeology? Is it just the spectacular finds or can the cemeteries tell us something about how people lived and how they saw the world?

Doug Lucey

Question for Stewart ... how much has changed for you, from the early days of Time Team, what with all the advances in technology? How does it compare to the old days of poring over physical maps and landscape interpretation, or has it really changed all that much?

LouLi

For whomever - what is your favourite bit of kit that you don't get to use as often as you would like?

Charlotte Edmonds

For Tim and/or Jim: have there been any sites that were nightmares from a production point of view? Have any been unexpectedly easy? For geophys: what was the origin of the buried Ford Cortina running joke? For Stewart: have you any idea how many yellow notebooks you've gone through in your career, and have you kept all of them like you have files for each Time Team dig? Also for Stewart (or Derek): do students still learn the art of hachures by hand, or is it all computerised now? For any of the team: what would be your dream site to dig/investigate, if there were no time/financial/practical (or legal!) restrictions? And a bit more sensible one, again for any of the team: what has been a surprising find from or discovery about a site for you? Has there been anything discovered from a Time Team dig that has significantly changed your understanding in your specific field, or changed the way you work?

Cathy Tyrrell

Question for Helen - can we tell if the Anglo Saxons in the cemetery had pushed the Britons out, or had they co-existed/mingled?

David Boon

To Jackie McKinley - Given the soil composition do you expect to find any remaining bones that may be suitable for DNA testing? If so, what might that tell us about the individuals buried there? Is there an example you can share of what has been discovered from DNA testing of bones at another Anglo Saxon site?

Christy

TT has made me curious (thank you!) and I've found a few academic works helpful (most recently: Sayer & Williams, mortuary practices and social identity in mid ages). But I've had no luck finding landscape archaeology works. How about some suggestions for further learning?

Robert Boudreau

For Helen or Helena: With all the archaeological advances in the past 20 or so years, and all the recent work with DNA, both skeletal and modern, how do you feel it has affected the long held interpretations of the works of Bede? What are your thoughts on the "invasion"?

Hypatia1

I know in geophysics you use mag and seismic but has there ever been any attempt to use gravimeters for any sites? I was involved in an attempt to find a possible buried ship, so I am wondering if gravity measures are used in archeology.

Lengua Franca

For Sam or Helen: What are some of the biggest gains in Anglo Saxon archaeology since TT last dug an AS site? Is it still incredibly hard to find AS materials, or has the technology improved your odds of finding anything?

Jeeves

To anyone on the team, while a cemetery might not be a likely place to find such objects, do we have much evidence of the kinds of entertainment Anglo-Saxon folks might have engaged in during their free time? We hear about jobs they might have had, food, rituals, warfare, and of course their death. But even in the hardest times, people still seek ways to relax and socialise. Do we know how folks of this time, children and adults alike, might have done so?

Peter Hawker

Have you made sure to have gotten the most comfortable of wheel barrows for Paul?

Dorothy Frank

I heard the answer to this just the other day. Lol "an argument of archeologists"

William Butler

My favorite pizza toppings are bacon and pineapple!! Yum!!

Rod Dixon

If you confirm a Saxon burial site do you have any idea of it's history and maybe the settlement(s) it served.

Eric Tottman-Trayner

Try and work out an answer from an analysis of a municipal internment in Bolton in 1968 - chosen at random for no particular reason. Would it tell us something about how people lived and how they saw the world? I doubt it for the latter. Nevertheless, it shouldn't stop the investigation because any ideas should be based on evidence rather than fancy and you never know unless you look. Medical and DNA evidence will provide valuable indicators towards all sorts of whys and what fors. In the absence of 1968 written records, or the relative numbers of Bolton Wanderer's as opposed to Manchester United Programs contained in caskets, how safe is it to postulate population movements on a Saturday afternoon in 1968?

Mark Walters

Any place for the use of eDNA?

Eric Tottman-Trayner

On a related question, what evidence is there on board games through the ages? I have been told that games like 'nine man's morris' and West Country 'Huffing' have been around for some time. Is there anyone in the Time Team team that's an expert in this field?

Ann Wagner

I’m always fascinated to learn more after the three days are past. What people will be in charge of writing up the final report? Where and when will we be able to see it?

Chris Siegmann

Apart from bones, what else are you hoping to find? How far back could the site actually go? And what would you need to find to support any argument one way or the other?

Donna Oglesby

Concerning DNA, when you take a bone to tested, do you also extract the DNA of it, and do you have a DNA database, that can help with genealogy?? Wondering if there is a way to add that DNA to sites like Ancestry and for those researching their family Genealogy if that can be added as well to trach back families?? if there isn't one, then why not?

W. H. Hayes

Are there any new tools or processes new to Time Team that you will use to analyze grave goods or human remains?

CCZ

When will you go back to Broughton Roman Villa to excavate the sarcophagus that was left pending?

Tamsin Meaney

When excavating cemeteries what evidence is there about people with disabilities, such as loss of limbs, being integrated into the society through the grave goods that are buried with them?

Matt Bear Clark

Deal - Can I be December and double up as Santa.

Mak Wilson

Will you be carrying out stable isotope analysis on any suitable skeletal finds?

Dr. Margaret Smith

Are there usually grave goods with Anglo-Saxon burials

Trevor Rix

Unfortunately AncestryDNA, and 23andme, do not accept uploads. GEDmatch, Family Tree DNA Family Finder, My Heritage, Living DNA and Geneanet do accept uploads.

Anja Adam

Actually, how far would the Anglo-Saxon settlement be from the burial site? Would this burial site be used for just one family or clan, or would all possible surrounding settlements use this site?

David S Shields

It is clear from earlier Time Teams that Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were often sited upon earlier built environments, yet it has never been clearly stated to what extent that A-S communities visited and witness other A-S settlements and cemeteries. Is there broad similarity in organization and spatial orientation of cemeteries across the entire region of settlement? Or is there a high incidence of local variance?

Ed Claytor

Do we have any evidence that the Anglo-Saxons refortified abandoned Roman forts like the Romano-Britons did in the north long Hadrian's Wall in the areas they settled in?

Eggs Ackley

The “Paulmobile”🏺

Lacy Oden

How useful could collaboration between Naomi’s flotation finds and osteoarchaeology/osteopathology be to help fill in some blanks when it comes to living conditions, nutrition, etc.

Jill Bray - Author

I definitely second this request- pdfs of the site areas please.

Peter Blay

Is there any way of knowing wether the burials were Anglo Saxon or were there also Britons in burial ground

Cathy Tyrrell

Thank you Paul, this is a very interesting read.

Lacy Oden

Can we get a picture of the new flag so we can find our names again this year? 😊

Carl Johnson

Just watched the "teaser video" about day Zero and it sparked a question... Obviously we know that the major recording ends after day 3, but the recording and research continues for a good amount of time after, what happens on day Zero?

Maudi Fleming

I want to actually watch the 3 day video but I don't know where to look

Kay Theriault

What are the links between the Templars and the Hospitallers? Did they overlap in the timeline? And what are the similarities and differences between them?

Goijaart van Dijk

Real Ale! In last year's episodes I missed the 'pub-scene', where the team has a bout of archeo-tactical banter over a pint. Is that because there is only one notorious drinker left (I shall mention no names), or is it because it is not considered politcally correct to 'promote the use of alcohol'? Or were there no pubs nearby?

Goijaart van Dijk

I have another one: How Dutch is Hilde and how did she aquire such a briliant English accent? My wife is from England and we always speak English, but my accent still has a Dutch ring to it. If anything, my wife's accent has become 'continental'.

TimeTeamOfficial

Hi Maudi, as the dig is happening, we release content from each day in segments. This weekend, we'll be sharing lots from our Anglo-Saxon cemetery dig. Next weekend, we'll be sharing the content from our previous dig of the Knights Hospitaller preceptory. The full completed episodes themselves will follow in Spring 2023.

Jen&Jaz

👋Hi from your junior excited TT fan who was just too shy to talk to any of you on our walk today!👋 She would really like to know if you’ve got any finds yet please 🙏🏼

Alex Huxley

Questions - Yes I have one - Have people been turning up on site? Reading between the lines, is this an issue now? As I keep saying times have changed yet your format does not embrace change and is thirty years old. People want live TV now, they want to feel part of the dig as it happens, not watch it in four months time. Football and tennis are better live than why not Archaeology. Or perhaps they want both a live event then the polished article later to answer the questions raised. Why not embrace change rather than fighting it. Perhaps the main 'offering' is not a polished programme after Christmas but the 3 day live event. Four days if you include the setup the day before.

Mark & Jill Jefson

Paul Blinkhorn - Do you still have the Ramones T-shirt you wore the prior series and if so, how old is it?

Janet McKay

Having watched Time Team for years Iam delighted that my 11 year old daughter is also showing an interest, especially in the Anglo Saxons! Can anyone recommend any books, places we can visit or resources which would be good for an almost-teenager who is just beginning their archaeological journey?

Mike Lowndes

He discussed this on Twitter- it no longer fits unfortunately! Follow - @R1100GSBlueNose and ask him!

Kathleen Garza

Some of the older episodes required you to stop the dig when finding bones. What is the protocol for when you must stop and call a different authority figure vs simply carry-on with the archeology?

Paul Faulkner

Presumably you guys don't just pack up and go home on day four. I was wondering how long it takes to do things like "record and back fill" and if some digs ever really end at all... do they just move from the field to the labs & libraries?

Diane Jones

Anglo Saxon sites were often a problem for geophys in the old episodes. Generally speaking, what has improved? Are there new techniques, or have there been improvements with the pre-existing techniques?

Donna B

Mick (and Helen) often referred to how few Anglo-Saxon sites there were and how that made interpretation difficult. Could you speak to how the availability of Anglo-Saxon sites/finds/understanding has changed since the series ended and how that affects current interpretations of whatever you might find. What do we know now that we didn’t know then? Best of luck with the dig!

Pauline R

General question for any diggers or cast members: From an archaeology perspective (not just if it makes for good TV), do you enjoy yourself most if the dig starts with lots of excitement and tapers off, starts slow and builds, or is steady throughout?

Melissa Rybb

Question for Gus, in two parts: How does your career in institutions and museums inform your hosting on Time Team? And, how do you think your work on Time Team will inform your work in institutions and museums?

Anthony Tattersall

Everything: Anglo-Saxons: Unearth history with facts, photos and fun! (National Geographic Kids) Paperback – 22 July 2021 by National Geographic Kids (Author)

Rhonda K Hageman

It takes a number of weeks in post production to make the final full episode from all the raw footage. It doesn’t happen instantly. What we see in Dig Watch is “sneak peeks”, if you will, letting us have a look at the happenings behind the scenes.