Derek is joined for a chat by Andreas Viberg, Product Manager of Guideline Geo, the Swedish company that provides state-of-the-art ground penetrating radar equipment used at some of our digs.
2024-06-12 09:21:12 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Tuesday of Week 2 at Sutton Hoo – here's a quick 360-cam tour of the site.
We've been busy filming lots today, so keep a look out for more behind the scenes extras and interviews on the way very soon.
360-vision
This is a 360-degree recording, allowing you to rotate and explore the footage from ev...
2024-06-11 16:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we'll be doing some Q&As with the team and guests on site.
Derek and Lawrence have just arrived, and various members will be dropping in, including Hilde, Jimmy Adcock (having just returned from Poverty Point in Louisiana), and Helen among them.
So what would you like to ask them? Let us know in the comments section be...
2024-06-10 20:52:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We promised we'd be trying out some different viewpoints during the dig, and this next one is spectacular!
We've got hold of a pair of special sunglasses with a built-in camera for each eye, enabling a unique first person perspective on the dig. What's more, Hilde agreed to try them out for us. For many, this will be the closest you'll get...
2024-06-10 20:23:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Week 2 at Sutton Hoo, and it has been a wet and windy start for our excavation team. It's also a changing of the guard as Hilde van der Heul has arrived on site to lend her excavation skills.
This week, we'll be mixing up the streams with some different perspective and viewpoints recorded throughout the day, starting with this clip of...
2024-06-10 15:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank to you everyone who joined us for our first ever live show since Time Team's return
We had an incredible turn-out and thank you for bearing with us with the joys of transmitting a genuinely live show direct from the field!
We've made a few tweaks to the live broadcast and have now re-uploaded a version that has fixed some of th...
2024-06-08 19:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: We have temporarily taken down the live show link to fix some issues in the stream. Please watch this space for futher details.
Don't forget to join us TODAY at 4pm (BST) for a very special live broadcast on YouTube, direct from Sutton Hoo.
PLEASE NOTE: This is...
2024-06-07 12:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Daily Livestreams
Sutton June continues, and we're delighted to be transmitting daily livestreams from the site. These streams are an opportunity to share a snapshot of the action in real time as it unfolds, and will be in addition to the main coverage we are also capturing.
PLEASE NOTE:
Daily Livestreams
Sutton June continues, and we're delighted to be transmitting daily livestreams from the site. These streams are an opportunity to share a snapshot of the action in real time as it unfolds, and will be in addition to the main coverage we are also capturing.
PLEASE NOTE:
Rewinding back to earlier this week, here's Kerry and the team putting up the Data Dome – Time Team's nerve centre and headquarters for the next month. This is where all the data and discoveries get collated to help build a rounded picture of the site.
2024-06-05 07:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Tony and Helen are joined by National Trust archaeologist, Angus Wainwright, and director of Sutton Hoo's previous excavation, Prof Martin Carver, to discuss the strategy for this year's dig.
2024-06-04 18:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Daily Livestreams
Sutton June continues, and we're delighted to be transmitting daily livestreams from the site. These streams are an opportunity to share a snapshot of the action in real time as it unfolds, and will be in addition to the main coverage we are also capturing.
PLEASE NOTE:
What else is left to discover at Sutton Hoo? Quite a lot, actually, according to Helen Geake. She has decamped to the local pub with Sir Tony Robinson to share her own personal connection to the site, and explain why there is so much still to learn.
Who was really buried along with the ship in Mound One? How was such beautiful gold and gar...
2024-06-03 19:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Sutton June has officially begun!
Thank you all, for the amazing response to the first part of our new Special, 'The Sutton Hoo Ship: Rebuilding a Legend'.
We're now preparing for an exciting month of excavation at Sutton Hoo.
Daily Livestreams
From today, we're delighted to be transmitting d...
2024-06-03 08:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's 3D display table from our latest episode of Time Team News.
Explore the display table on Sketchfab HERE.
Please keep your suggestions coming in for future stories to cover by commenti...
2024-05-29 11:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that time again!
Join Dani Wootton for another monthly dose of archaeology news and discoveries from Britain and across the globe.
This month, geophys whizz Jimmy Adcock heads to Poverty Point, Louisiana in the US to investigate enigmatic mounds.
Meanwhile, Dani shares news of the discovery of an ancient script in an Engli...
2024-05-25 13:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We have a very limited number of volunteering opportunities available to participate in Time Team's dig at Sutton Hoo this June.
Activities include excavation, test-pitting and finds processing.
If you haven't already, please register your application NOW to be in with a chance!
You must be available bet...
2024-05-23 10:09:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, what an episode! Thank you for all comments on the 'Secrets of Wytch Farm', in Dorset.
Now's your chance to explore the trenches in greater detail, via our immersive photogrammetry models on Sketchfab!
View Trench 1 2024-05-22 14:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't forget, it's the official public premiere of Day 1 of our latest dig, 'Secrets of Wytch Farm' TONIGHT!
Join us on YouTube at 7pm (BST) - in about an hour's time.
Even if you've seen the advance preview already, please do join us again for the live chat, and don't forget to hit the like button and leave a comment. It's even bet...
2024-05-17 17:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post
We are delighted to announce that we have a limited number of volunteering opportunities available to participate in Time Team's dig at Sutton Hoo this June. We are offering all our Patreon members the option to register your interest in this opportunity!
Activities will take place between 18th and 20th June 2024, and include excavation, t...
2024-05-17 16:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the moment we've been waiting for... a special advance preview of Day 1 of our dig in the shadow of Corfe Castle, Dorset.
Don't forget to join us for the official public premieres on the Time Team Official YouTube channel in a 3-part weekend event:
Day 1 - Public Premiere: Friday 17th May, 7pm (BST)
Thank you to everyone who managed to join us for our impromptu livestream test today. Apologies to those who couldn't make it in short notice.
We're pleased to announce another livestream tomorrow (Saturday 11th May) at around 11am (BST). Please note, the start time may vary slightly, depending on when we get the go-ahead from the site to ...
2024-05-10 21:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post
TESTING! TESTING! ...can you hear us?
Operation Nightingale has returned to Aldbourne in Wiltshire for another 'Digging Band of Brothers' excavation season.
Thankfully, we will be by their sides, to cover all the action for future release (full details of coverage to be announced at a later date).
In the meantime, we thought it...
2024-05-10 09:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Get ready for our next 3-part dig release!
Time Team heads to Wytch Farm, in the shadow of Corfe Castle, Dorset, where Derek and Lawrence discovered two Iron Age burials back in 2021. Now, they've called in the full team to investigate.
Will we uncover the secrets of Wytch Farm? We have just three days to find out!
This Sunday,...
2024-05-09 19:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in Episode 2 of Time Team News, we featured a fascinating project to locate the lost abbey at Cerne Abbas in Dorset. Tonight on YouTube, we're excited to be sharing additional highlights from the 2023 excavation.
Join us at 7pm (BST) for the premiere and live chat: <...
2024-05-04 14:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for more 3D models from our latest episode of Time Team News!
Explore the display table on Sketchfab HERE.
Explore the Hallaton Helmet reconstruction on Sketchfab 2024-05-03 17:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post
There's been a lot of interest in our Book of the Month, Doggerland, as featured in the latest episode of Time Team News.
So, we're pleased to share another Classic Special from the archives, 'Britain's Stone Age Tsunami', in which Tony and Phil investigate this ...
2024-04-30 12:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It's another bumper episode of Time Team News tonight at 7pm (BST).
Get ready for the premiere and live chat RIGHT HERE.
Dani Wootton sheds light on the amazing conservation and new replicas of an incredible, 2,000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet.
Dani is joined...
2024-04-27 09:09:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight, Tony and the team head back to the Iron Age to shed light on this mysterious but fascinating period in British history.
This Classic Special from the archives originally aired in May 2008.
Join us at 7pm (BST) for the full episode and live chat on YouTube HERE<...
2024-04-20 10:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In another extra from our Modbury, Time Team's ancestry expert Dr Sophie Kay meets Devon historian Rosemary Griggs (aka Catherine Champernowne in the episode), to discuss the Champernown family tree.
Sophie and Rosemary explore the family's many connections to the Tudor elite, and the challenges associated with tracing one specific in...
2024-04-18 15:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post