When the original Time Team died out, I'd hoped it would somehow someday be revived. At first the prospects of the reboot plans seemed great. Then I saw the reboot episodes and thought they just sucked. I'm glad mass55th sent this information to me, because I've thoroughly enjoyed it, and have been favorably impressed with the alterations in the presentation and approach.
I think I’ve watched every single one of the original Time Team episodes, many more than once.
Phil Harding was always my favorite. I could imagine myself after a hard day of “digging” sitting down at the pub with Phil and having a pint or two.
As a kid, I used to love digging in the dirt and once found an Indian arrowhead and some old coins and a gold and garnet necklace, probably late 19th or early 20th century that was probably worth a lot of $ but that sadly I lost as I used to wear it all the time and the chain broke. :(
My husband and I bought a nearly 100-year-old house in N. Baltimore in the late 80’s that was next door to a stone house built in around 1820. As I was cleaning up my overgrown and long neglected yard, I found the remnants of a smoke house and chimney, animal bones and a trove of old glass bottles going back to the mid-19th century, and some rusty tools. I was in heaven.
And I liked Mick but also how Tony used to argue with him. I didn’t like Francis Pryor at all as he used to be more wrong than right and was always attributing everything to a ritual site.
I also used to feel sorry for John Gater as I think a lot of pressure was put on him to find things that were not there, even as he often said, “these images could be anomalies or natural geologic features” or “pits” or “ditches” or “roads” or…..
I think the re-boot has gotten better over time but skip Time Team America - it was “bloody” awful.
There is an on-going archaeological dig near where I live:
And I looked into volunteering, but I have no experience and now have a bad back and bad knees, so I made a donation instead and went to the site last year as an observer which to most people would have been boring, but that I found interesting.
Before Covid and the loss of my job, I had been planning a trip to York, UK. I was calling it my “York PA to York UK Adventure”.
I had gone to Hull UK for a business trip in 2012 but was able to fit in a day of sightseeing and fell in love with Northern England. Hull has many great free museums and a maritime history that in some ways reminded me of my hometown of Baltimore’s early history. There was a lot that I didn’t have time to see.
But I’ve long also wanted to go to York, with perhaps a day trip back in Hull and to Glasgow.
I find York so interesting in that it has all the British history I find interesting – Iron Age and earlier, Celtic, Roman, Viking, Medieval.
Perhaps I’ll be able to make that trip sometime in the future.