Meet the Crew: Jimmy Adcock
Added 2021-01-04 18:48:02 +0000 UTCIt's time for our third 'Meet the Crew' profile, in which we introduce original Time Team members with a series of quick-fire questions. Next in line is GPR (ground penetrating radar) genie, Jimmy Adcock. As Jimmy explains, you might actually be more familiar with his feet!
We've made this feature a bit more friendly for those who prefer listen to the audio only. We hope you enjoy Jimmy's unique insights. If so, we'll be hearing more from Jimmy very soon in an exclusive conversation with Tim Taylor...
Comments
Jimmy did a really great job of summing up Time Team and what makes it work.
Patricia Amero
2022-05-29 04:18:57 +0000 UTCPretty much what a chopper could/can do.
Dwight E Howell
2021-03-27 00:35:51 +0000 UTCAlbert Lin on National Geographic uses drones and lidar to help locate and elaborate on archaeological sites. The results look very impressive.
Julie Freeman
2021-02-04 03:09:15 +0000 UTCHow much can drones today do to increase data used for digs?
High Street Pictures
2021-02-02 00:12:39 +0000 UTCThe friendships, fooling around and everyone having fun on the show really added that extra touch making it even better to watch.
Elizabeth Towers
2021-01-26 12:43:39 +0000 UTCYes the bonding and mutual affection is part of the warmth of the show that was lost a bit towards the end of its original run when tv execs started wanting more tv production polish if we can call that, politely.
Stephen Southworth
2021-01-22 19:17:37 +0000 UTCJimmy is right about how when you look back on it the group joking and bonding is an important part of the show. No doubt even more for the people on it. And for viewers some of the most charming episodes have a lot of friendship and fooling around along with the archaeology. Happy people who get along often do get the best science done, too. With geophys, I would be interested to hear more about how people learn to interpret the plots. I know we can all look at the blobs and form a strong opinion on whether it's a squarish circle or a circly square, but I have a suspicion there's more to it. And if there are secrets to doing it well for archaeology as opposed to other geophys uses.
Mariah
2021-01-12 06:22:19 +0000 UTCThank you phelim
Liz Dyson
2021-01-09 11:25:33 +0000 UTCJimmy was brilliant on camera. But seeing him reminds me of the practical joke he and others played on John G where they mocked up a magnetometer and then had Ian P drive over it in a digger. I wonder if there are other practical jokes that are publishable?
Phelim McIntyre
2021-01-09 11:25:07 +0000 UTCLiz - speaking from personal experience radar would be fine. If you think back to the Brancaster episode they were driving a golf cart type thing pulling lots of a radar trailer. Resistivity would be hard due to the process of lifting, moving and sticking the probes in the ground. Magnetometry would also be hard as with most machines even car keys in pockets or a metal belt buckle messes up the readings. But if there is a way I'm sure we can find it. I have taken people in wheelchairs metal detecting and on landscape surveys. I have even had them digging! Operation Nightingale do this regularly (they were the team at Barrow Clump during the last series) so we are trying to get archaeology to be accessible and hope that you can get involved in archaeology in some way when we get back to normal.
Phelim McIntyre
2021-01-09 11:21:21 +0000 UTCI would be interested to know how equipment has improved since the series ended.
Eric Johnson
2021-01-07 18:42:05 +0000 UTCJimmy says he's not good in front of a camera, I think he did great! He's definitely a guy who's game for about anything. I'm of course thinking of Mount Orgueil, running the radar trolley up and down that steep slope with a rope. Jimmy is the man that will get it done!
Robert Boudreau
2021-01-07 02:15:00 +0000 UTCI just watched the Oakham episode last night, geophys did take a lot of flak for that one!
Jennifer L Bryan
2021-01-06 14:26:14 +0000 UTCWe new you were there working away, thanks and great interview. Not so bad in front of the camera look out sir Tony
Mark Cooke
2021-01-06 10:18:55 +0000 UTCGeophysics are black magic! Lol. We actually use some at work, and have been looking for someone new to rent equipment and I see that Jimmy’s company has a location near us. Thanks Time Team!!!!
John Anderson
2021-01-05 19:37:32 +0000 UTCHard earned hangovers :D
Ian
2021-01-05 18:05:28 +0000 UTCThanks for your humorous reply. It gave me a few good chuckles to start the day.
Connie L Merchant
2021-01-05 15:03:37 +0000 UTCHi Connie. We are hoping to pin Jimmy's shoes down for an interview at some point too, but they are quite busy.
Time Team
2021-01-05 09:30:58 +0000 UTCJimmy did a good job on camera for someone who claimed not to be. Very interesting insights.
David Boon
2021-01-05 05:56:40 +0000 UTCSeeing the former crew here is like a running into a much missed old friend.
Christopher
2021-01-05 01:55:46 +0000 UTCHurray that Jim gets to have everything on camera but his feet. ;) Good interview.
Connie L Merchant
2021-01-04 23:41:32 +0000 UTCI am trying to find some aspect of Archeology I can get involved in. I find time team facinating. I took the liberty of Emailing Carenza in April last year and will follow up her advice when things return to normal and I can stop shielding. I Have also watched a few Dig Nation videos and was inspired and moved by Stewart's contribution. Especially the bit about wanting to make landscape archeology more accessible for less able people. I would like to thank him for that.
Liz Dyson
2021-01-04 19:59:24 +0000 UTC"Geofiz" is like getting a christmas present, and then trying to figure out what is in it, without unpacking.
Goijaart van Dijk
2021-01-04 19:55:20 +0000 UTCGood question! We'll have to ask Jimmy or John and get back to you for specifics, but they do now use modified motorised vehicles to survey large areas so presumably they can calibrate the equipment so that it doesn't impact on the results.
Time Team
2021-01-04 19:28:58 +0000 UTCWould it be possible for a wheelchair user be a Geophysicist? Would the metals, Battery acid , Electronics in my chair in any way interfere with the readings of your equipment?
Liz Dyson
2021-01-04 19:11:07 +0000 UTC
