Strategy Wrestle: Helen Vs Roman Villa
Added 2021-08-26 10:58:27 +0000 UTCSeptember is under a week away now and while for many it means the summer holidays are drawing to a close, it's also a sign that Time Team's two new digs are fast approaching!
It's exciting but frantic too, with lots of details to be finalised. One such detail is the project design or 'Written Scheme of Investigation' (WSI) for each site. In this discussion, Helen Geake drills deeper into the core issues that she would like to address at the Roman villa.
Keep a look out for the second half, in which Helen considers the Iron Age Settlement – coming soon.
Comments
I love the idea of finding out how it all worked - the “behind the scenes” functioning of the place on a day-to-day basis.
Kathryn Sherlock
2021-09-06 00:09:14 +0000 UTCSwale, a low place often marshy. Fits the picture for the town. Sounds like a good look see for the trusty Landscape Archeologist.
Marcus Hill
2021-08-29 22:56:57 +0000 UTCI would love to know anything that gave a connection into who the people were who lived there and how they spent their time. Ideally a name as well!
Tim Clarke
2021-08-29 08:53:03 +0000 UTCSo much to cover across a large landscape - they must have an army of excavators
Elizabeth B Hess
2021-08-28 13:59:40 +0000 UTCNice a map insert would help ref road
Mark Cooke
2021-08-28 09:48:26 +0000 UTCGreat stuff! And those gorgeous pelargoniums of Tim’s!
Bron Lloyd
2021-08-28 03:17:51 +0000 UTCI would love to know why it was where it is. Someone else here commented, and I agree, wouldn't it have been easier to build something like it closer to the spring, instead of piping water 10 kilometres? So why was it put where it is? What was perhaps considered special or necessary enough to warrant the extra work?
Robert Boudreau
2021-08-28 00:02:03 +0000 UTCSwale - I had never heard that word prior to moving to south Florida USA. Here, everyone has a swale in the front yard. It is a front yard ditch where the water washes after a rain. Also doubles as a car park when you have a party ;)
Donna Holt
2021-08-27 17:21:34 +0000 UTCI am getting very excited. What will we find?
Kieran Gane
2021-08-27 09:58:49 +0000 UTCThank you both! I’m going to be watching for the answer to why the villa was abandoned!
Robert Wise
2021-08-27 03:19:07 +0000 UTCThe excitement is building! And count me among those curious about the site’s hydrology—and Romano-British hydrology in general.
Doug Mackey
2021-08-27 02:10:18 +0000 UTCGreat chat. I am not a Roman but I would think it easier to build around a spring than to build 10 kilometres of pipes to a home.
John Matthew IV
2021-08-27 01:48:07 +0000 UTCMythraeum with aisles like Hadrian's wall or Carrawburgh ones tho those in a military context not well matched for a villa perhaps.
Ann H
2021-08-26 22:30:09 +0000 UTCFish farming or fish ponds in British Roman villas? Similar to Italy (agricultural journals on making villas profitable as a reference) or comparable to the fish ponds of monastic sites (still to this day in Serbia for example)?
Ann H
2021-08-26 22:16:26 +0000 UTCWhen is it you will be in Cornwall and will there be an opportunity to come see you working?
Sharon Thomas
2021-08-26 20:16:09 +0000 UTCI hear echoes of Mick saying "But what's around it? " I so enjoyed this conversation.
Jude Edling
2021-08-26 20:13:52 +0000 UTCI am just amazed at the complexity of putting a hole in the ground! Archaeology is such an amazing dicipline , I am in awe of the Time Team staff they put together for us. Thanks Time Team! Brilliant!
Richard Kaskeski
2021-08-26 18:09:56 +0000 UTCIt is overwhelming and shows how one site can be work for a lifetime.
Euan Fyfe
2021-08-26 17:33:20 +0000 UTCLove the emphasis on starting with how did they get water? Hydrology is an inescapable factor in any archaeological investigation! Start with the water, and delivery systems! And the Swale connection; brilliant!
Don Cook
2021-08-26 16:45:22 +0000 UTCwell that way over my head ......... a great bit of interring info thanks
James Matney
2021-08-26 15:33:34 +0000 UTCIt is interesting to see how archaeology seems to have shifted focus to now wanting to know more about who the people were who lived, and serviced these places. Looking forward to the dig
Stephen Gent
2021-08-26 12:56:17 +0000 UTCVery interesting conversation and it is all getting very exciting now !
Sarah Holloway
2021-08-26 11:36:43 +0000 UTC
