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S22 | Dig Watch: Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Day One - Spoil Heap Q&A: Pete Spencer (Patreon)

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2022-09-23 20:09:57
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2022-09-23 20:22:48
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It's gone 9 O'clock in the evening here in Norfolk after a very busy day. But the Patreon coverage doesn't stop there... 

Right now, we're still in the field (literally in a field), waiting for Day One's Site Walkabout to finish uploading for your viewing pleasure (45% and counting!).

Until then, we hope you enjoy the first of our Spoil Heap Q&A sessions, featuring Pete Spencer. In Derek's words, Pete is the 'glue that holds it all together' - a field archaeologist by trade, responsible for managing the huge mass of data collected at each site.

Pete shares his thoughts on the value of archaeology, the challenges associated with today's technological approaches, and that all-important pub scene...

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Dig Watch: Anglo-Saxon: Day 1 - Q&A with Pete Spencer (Patreon)

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Comments

Alan Murdock

I was wondering when he would finally do something about that chair sinking in the dirt.

Winfield E. Johnson

Lol, I was wondering if that chair was going to dump him....

Ann H

Great sound on Pete. Others still a bit hard to hear. Overall much better than last year. Thanks!

Jeff Lanam

Wouldn't the wifi at the pub be better for uploading the Walkabout video?

Ian Smith

I agree with Ann H. I could hear Pete loud and clear. Lawrence and Derek do tend to swallow half their words - part of each sentence is clear, other parts descend into mumbling. I listen via my desktop PC connected to a high quality sound system and I have tried different equalizer settings - does not help. Please take this in the positive way it is intended. I enjoy all the videos very much and like the easy-going approachable style of Lawrence and Derek - so I want to hear all that they say.

Ann Wagner

I look forward to the pub scenes! And cool to hear my own profession, curator, mentioned.

Brian Shrum

I always view the pub scenes as really important socially; a reminder that archeology and history are about people, not data. Its the people that really matter. Who they were/are, what they were/are doing, why...etc. It's like the Cantina scene is Star Wars, remembering the world is big and crazy and doesnt always make sense, so it's ok if the archeology does not always make sense, too. It's ok if the archeology is complex and hard to understand sometimes. That's just how life works sometimes, as i can hear Mick say in my head.

Lacy Oden

Loved this question and answer segment! Great job pulling great questions and amazing answers Pete. Much appreciated :)

Mac Whatley

For a "new guy," Pete has some pretty confident and well considered answers!

Mark Ziburis

The sound levels from the two are still awful. Either speak up or get better microphones for them. Really does detract from their interviews.

Simon

Cant walk across flat stubble! I used to crop walk all year round. Tarmac "townies" :)

Jakub Jůzl

It's interesting that perhaps archeology has moved closer to mainstream and the public eye which might have led to further profesionalization... Also you probably aren't doing your correlation analysis in a pub.

Charlotte Edmonds

Hang on, Whittington - does that mean both the TT Knights Hospitallers dig AND Chester Uni / Shared Past's project with the Castle Trust both came from the same e-mail to Stewart?!

Ann H

My desktop system parallels yours fyi and I am in the U.S. They do tend to talk into their collars. And ditto we don't want to miss a word. Feedback not criticism.

camakarma

Great Q&A and banter 👍 Appreciate all your hard work and your happiness, excitement, and smiles even more.

Goijaart van Dijk

Thanks for answering the pubscene question! Glad to have been of service to enable you to give a small spoiler ;-)

Richard Davis

As I watched, I could see Pete's chair tilting more and more, and I wondered when it was going to fall over! (I know, I should have been concentrating on the questions!)

Richard Davis

But, as a retired BBC engineer, my thought was that the sound recordist should have compensated for this - the guys all had seperate mics (you could see Pete's attached to his collar), and therfore it would have been possible to raise the level on the mics of the quieter speakers! (Sorry)

Michael Taylor

Pete, i have a question - what applications and data sources would you recommend as a starting point for using open archaeological data? I'm familiar with Lidar, and have downloaded data to view it, but not really found an application I like.

Michael Taylor

There's a back-story! I'm compiling a case for a TT investigation into a possible oppidum (various authorities have commented on its possibility), and I'd like to map out some of the earthworks (which are visible in lidar, on the ground and already scheduled). I should add, that I'm a data scientist and visualiser, although in an entirely different domain (biomedical / scientometric), so broadly transferrable skills, but nothing very helpful :D

Michael Taylor

Good to see cut-off jeans making a re-appearance!

Dusty Stone

Very interesting . Thank you.

Richard Denis Creurer

Early in my career during week long workshops where we were learning some new information due to technological advances, including both old and new technologies and techniques. I learned more about the hands-on field work, including problems encountered using the technology and various ways of finding the cause of the problems, various ways of solving or resolving the fixes for those problems. It was wonderful time of my life and career.

Richard Denis Creurer

Oops. The learning about hands-on field work was done during discussions in the pub after the official workshop was done for the day. :/

Donna Holt

More data "digging" please. Can you give us a list of the top 10 data points and what information they impart?

Anne

Having just watched Day One of the Knights Hospitaller Site Walkabout where once again Pete Spencer's segment stood out as an engaging and insightful glimpse of current archeological practice in action - I had to return to say thank you to Pete Spencer for this Q&A which was the highlight of the rather sparse Anglo Saxon Cemetery footage for me. Finally someone giving us a window onto the archeology and, in this instance, the way big data is impacting archeological practice. This is why I became a Patreon I only wish there was more content like this.

J Brown

Re the “pub scenes”, why I miss is the hypothesising and debating between specialists covering different periods, what does that wall represent, the null- Saxons lived like X but didn’t know how to do Y, where as the romans knew Y but had no supplies of Z. E cause of the loss of shipbuilding in Ireland, so either version could be right or there is a third one….”. How people lived, constraints at different times and the uncertainty of debate. It feels like because the technology has moved on, everyone keeps their opinions back until “facts “ are in. I prefer to see ideas develop over time and the background history of eras drawn out in real time.