New podcast episode and Bayeux Tapestry extended interview
Added 2025-03-04 06:30:02 +0000 UTCClick here to listen to the latest Time Team podcast. You can also watch the episode in full on YouTube.
As Patreon members we're giving you the chance to watch the full extended interview with Dr Duncan Wright from Newcastle University. He's been telling Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams how an 11th century royal toilet helped reveal the location of King Harold's residence, as featured on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Thank you so much Martyn and Helen for the mention at the beginning of the podcast, I was bowled over!
Martin Young
2025-03-24 23:26:06 +0000 UTCThank you for the answer! Never considered some of the options and reasons from dendro cores. (I was worried about termites and the like or messing with structural integrity of the wood.)
Leanne
2025-03-17 02:22:58 +0000 UTCIn the U.S. We (usually, depending on the state) have required ecological impact assessments & statements. Too often these are drafted quickly and often leave out the details for an ecological, cultural (usually archaeological in nature), economic (especially evaluating potential lost ecosystem services) impacts. There are public hearings as well, etc. it can take years & a few lawsuits or orders. But when it’s settled there tends to be more buy in… That said, I’m not confident how these federal and state rules will be compiled and used in the near future here. I wonder if poor decisions are also apparent from the archaeological record. Perhaps there are examples where valuable resources were too hastily consumed, etc.?
Sarah Pethan
2025-03-15 03:17:02 +0000 UTCReally good question, Jakob! Thanks!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-12 18:56:10 +0000 UTCThank you for this wonderful podcast! I visited the tapestry in the mid 90’s & still have so many questions. The level of detail seems impossible to have recreated.
Sarah Pethan
2025-03-09 22:14:54 +0000 UTCI've been pondering this question lately: How do you, as archaeologists, feel about large infrastructure projects? A new highway is being built near my home, and while I understand the necessity of efficient transportation and recognize that related archaeological surveys can yield valuable discoveries, I can’t shake the feeling of loss. The landscape—shaped and used by people for centuries—is being permanently altered. Do you see these projects primarily as opportunities for discovery, or do you also feel a sense of unease over what might be lost forever?
Jakub Jůzl
2025-03-09 16:53:51 +0000 UTCI just came on to say about this Reading version. I love going to see it
Kate Millin
2025-03-09 08:22:54 +0000 UTCFor those living in the UK there is a 19th century copy of the tapestry in Reading Museum https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/britains-bayeux-tapestry
Sue Brown
2025-03-07 16:10:56 +0000 UTCThanks Ross
Martyn Williams
2025-03-06 20:34:51 +0000 UTCA really thought-provoking question. Thanks!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-06 20:34:44 +0000 UTCGreetings Time Team from the United States. I have a question for the podcast, please. First let me say I love history and archaeology, so of course that means I love Time Team. I was so pleased when I saw that you all were back being funded by Patreon. My question: how do you answer someone who calls archaeologists grave robbers. I see it in the comments in just about every news story of an excavation with human remains, someone calling the archaeologists grave robbers. I say if someone would find me interesting enough to dig up in a hundred years. Go for it. Thanks.
Colin
2025-03-05 23:49:49 +0000 UTCExtraordinary! Thoroughly entertaining & informative. Cheers, Ross
Ross G. Kreamer
2025-03-05 21:07:11 +0000 UTCHi Beth, this sounds really interesting. We'll look into it!
Martyn Williams
2025-03-05 12:32:39 +0000 UTCIt'd be great if Dani did a spotlight in the archaeology news videos about the waka that's just been found in the Chatham Islands; they're still investigating it, but apparently it's been brilliant at bringing together people in the community in a part of the world where archaeology isn't a huge field
Beth Marriott
2025-03-05 04:21:53 +0000 UTCAs I recall, the Anglo-Saxons were not, unlike the Normans, much on building “castles.”
Eggs Ackley
2025-03-05 02:28:42 +0000 UTCThere is a YouTube video that explains the whole thing! I recommend it highly for those who will probably never make it to the UK.
Donna Oldenkamp
2025-03-04 21:04:53 +0000 UTCGoogle is your friend… https://search.app.goo.gl/G6jM8VtxfeXiSFMGA
Julianne Ture
2025-03-04 18:50:48 +0000 UTCHelen you are quite correct in encouraging people to go and see the Bayeux tapestry. Two years ago we took my seven year old grandson to see the tapestry, he was so impressed that this year he insisted on seeing where the battle of Hastings took place, and we live in America, where English history is not taken in schools until upper level classes !
Sarah Skondin
2025-03-04 18:48:18 +0000 UTCWhere there is poo there is people
Lorna Dryden
2025-03-04 14:35:58 +0000 UTCFor us Americans, can we have a map? I can find Sussex, but have no idea beyond that the location of this loo.
Kate
2025-03-04 14:13:38 +0000 UTCSomewhere in the world is a modern equivalent that my Mum worked on in the 1960's with her school that toured the UK & Europe. It started with cave dwellers and ended with astronauts.
Vamptonius
2025-03-04 10:21:23 +0000 UTCLove it!
Rosemary Cormack
2025-03-04 06:54:35 +0000 UTC
