I’ve never understood the THREE-DAY time limit. It is an artificial restriction. Why would you quit on a site after just three days when the possibility of significant finds are still waiting to be uncovered? That said, I don’t think all the work done on this site could have possibly been done in just three days.
The original team members were employed full time at other archaeological digs and / or in teaching at universities across the UK and only came together on long weekends or during holidays to shoot the tv show. The exploratory digs time team does is the step after a site of interest has been identified. They use alot of either students or volunteers to help out. The students need to have had a certain number of practical hours of experience before they graduate. Most of the digs the original team did were requested by the authorities because of a development going in (Highways, roads, buildings, sports grounds, etc). Lots of research, planning, applying for grants, fieldwork, etc takes place before the 3 days of recording the dig for TV and then after the 3 days there are post production tasks like recording and lifting any remaining artefacts, cleaning and identifying and the paperwork or reports that need to be published. Then the authorities have enough information to decide whether further digs will take place. So the 3 days are just one step in the overall process of archaeology. You can find some more information about how and why time team started if you watch the first few seasons of time team on the "time team official" and "time team classics" UA-cam channels. For the published reports you can look up the team who are in charge of the digs. Some of them are by "Wessex Archaeology" with Phil Harding but it depends on the location of the dig who published the reports. If you are interested in going to digs as a volunteer look k for courses on "archaeological field studies" or look for your local archaeological group.
Perfect evening with time team!
😂 Tony on horse !!!
Oh ow me nutz! 😂😂😂
Oh Boy !!! Shoveling sh*t in the ancient stables. Almost a Herculean task of cleaning out the god's horse stables.
I’ve never understood the THREE-DAY time limit. It is an artificial restriction. Why would you quit on a site after just three days when the possibility of significant finds are still waiting to be uncovered? That said, I don’t think all the work done on this site could have possibly been done in just three days.
It's a short term look for later investigation some sites are protected and they can only get a short window or restricted access
The original team members were employed full time at other archaeological digs and / or in teaching at universities across the UK and only came together on long weekends or during holidays to shoot the tv show. The exploratory digs time team does is the step after a site of interest has been identified. They use alot of either students or volunteers to help out. The students need to have had a certain number of practical hours of experience before they graduate. Most of the digs the original team did were requested by the authorities because of a development going in (Highways, roads, buildings, sports grounds, etc).
Lots of research, planning, applying for grants, fieldwork, etc takes place before the 3 days of recording the dig for TV and then after the 3 days there are post production tasks like recording and lifting any remaining artefacts, cleaning and identifying and the paperwork or reports that need to be published. Then the authorities have enough information to decide whether further digs will take place. So the 3 days are just one step in the overall process of archaeology.
You can find some more information about how and why time team started if you watch the first few seasons of time team on the "time team official" and "time team classics" UA-cam channels.
For the published reports you can look up the team who are in charge of the digs. Some of them are by "Wessex Archaeology" with Phil Harding but it depends on the location of the dig who published the reports.
If you are interested in going to digs as a volunteer look k for courses on "archaeological field studies" or look for your local archaeological group.
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I agree
It’s simple it’s a television show that has a budget.