BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine

Subject: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 11:32 AM

I thought I'd share something the DH and I are doing during the Covid quarantine. Every evening we watch one or two episodes of the British show "Time Team". You can find it on YouTube, just search for Time Team.

Each show follows a dig, often a dig of only three days. We don't just watch passively - there are lots of pauses and replays as we admire the scenery, check out the geology or figure out "what the heck he just said."

One recent show made reference to a Roman road called The Fosse Way, and that name led to a Wikepedia article about the road. The article about the road led me to the geologic map of England. So one way or another, the Time Team show can help make a long day more interesting.

Give

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 10:34 PM

"Time Team" search results.

Season One

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 02:52 AM

Used to enjoy it when it was broadcast the first time. Well put together, though some of the sequences were not done during the weekend, like the side forays into making things by modern craftsmen (& women).

There have been other such progs more recently. BBC notably. More videoing ongoing digs and trying to put bits into a theme.

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 04:40 PM

The DH and I particularly enjoyed the episode where Tony the announcer and Phil the archaeologist traveled to Montana to help dig a dinosaur.
We relived the challenges we faced as young geologists - the heat, the rough, rocky ground, the preciousness of water.

I did want to take the director by the scruff of the neck and ask why Phil and Tony did not have walking sticks, canteens and damp bandannas around their necks.

But going back to England, we esp. enjoy seeing digs in areas we have visited, such as London and Ely.

Mr. Red, do you recall the names of the new programs?

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: DaveRo
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 05:37 PM

'Digging for Britain' is one such serjes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014hl0d/episodes/player

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 11:21 PM

Thanks, Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 03:16 AM

there are lightweight relatives on the Smithsonian (UK) channel that go by the name of "Mystic Britain". Which included one archeologist appearing in Time Team occasionally.

One was about a graveyard outwith the churchyard that the prog came to no conclusion as to why so many would be buried in unconsecrated ground. They gave us all the evidence. Dates over centuries when the harvest had been very poor. No one pointed to the fact that poor people got poor food like rye instead of wheat, and rye grows ergot that causes hallucinations, which in medieval time was possession. Those people could not be buried in consecrated ground. Which is one possibility, but not stated.

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 11:36 AM

Thanks, Mr. Red. I'll look for Mystic Britain.

That makes sense about the rye; that could have been it.

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 01 May 20 - 09:53 AM

Last night we watched two shows, one on the first Franciscan monastery in England, and one on Mine Howe in Orkney. These led to research on

dates for Thomas a Becket
date for first Franciscan monastery
what is a howe, anyhow?

When the DH and I visit cathedrals, we are usually the only people looking at the floors, much less photographing them. Yet the floors of ancient buildings are often quite interesting. In the show on the monastery we learned a lot about medieval tile.

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 03 May 20 - 01:45 AM

Tonight we watched a show about Ebb's Nook in Northumberland, where people had kept alive for 1300 years the name of St AEbba, who had a chapel there.

We were intrigued by the shape of the Claster Arms nearby which reminded us of a kind of home called a saltbox in New England.

The second show, set in York, led us to research clunch. We were amazed at the fine detail on stone carvings on York Minster.

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 May 20 - 02:34 AM

looks like howe is a burial chamber often near a settlement that would be called a village. Or opidum by the Romans(aka hill fort - which were actually fortified towns). There is Maeshowe also on Orkney. With its associated settlement Skara Brae.

There are two English villages called Howe and, notably, both on the Viking side of our island.

Fascinating stuff, innit?

Subject: RE: BS: Time Team shows for the quarantine
From: leeneia
Date: 03 May 20 - 03:32 PM

Yes, it is fascinating. We were still baffled by howe until one site said it is related to hole. So a howe needn't be in a mound, although Mine Howe was.