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Dig Watch | Princely Burial Site: Day Two
🕑 Added 2024-07-10 17:39:53 +0000 UTCIt's our second day here in the Cotswolds, and despite the weather the archaeology is already paying dividends.
Being Time Team, though, it's not exactly straightforward to decipher. What we can be sure of is an exciting week ahead.
Even better, we're pleased to welcome Jackie McKinley to site, who has already made some crucial discoveries. It's time for more Dig Watch!
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Margaret North
So glad to see that you have the essential Yorkshire Tea. I’ve recently become a Patron and am looking forward to many happy and interesting hours watching all things Time Team.
wayne melberg
I'm loving every moment. Love you Time Team!!!
Bron Lloyd
Woohoo!!
Eelco Kruidenier
That is some cliff hanger! Wow!
michelle keith
Fabulous as usual ❤️
Terhi Törmänen
Wow, just wow! Really exciting.
Difort
Great update Helen despite the sogginess!
Anita C
Wow. This is FASCINATING!
Carl Johnson
That overview of the trench so clearly showed those grave cuts. And why is that pink stone there? You couldn't write better cliff hangers.
Debbie Williams
So exciting!! Looking forward to the next update
Marilyn
Wow! Wonderful exciting update. I am honestly beginning to feel like an active member of "Time Team" Can't wait for day 3! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍👍👍👍
Priscilla Waller
My old SouthTexas bones hurt for any of "you'll " working in shorts and rain gear.
Neil Graham
Once again a great snippet, can't wait for the full episode. Every dig starts with Questions, but having the flexibility to adapt to findings is what makes these shows great, and always leaves us waiting for more 😎
Neil Graham
As this is Project Nightingale & Cotswold dig, I think Kerry will not have had time to get everything in place, but looking at the soil, it would still be a wet trench.
Doug Mackey
Thrilling! What a cliffhanger! And such intrigue…
Fiona D
Is the trench too large to cover with a tent? Seems like I have seen that in other Time Teams when it rains....
Elisabeth
Helen is great and Jackie is always a treat. Exciting developments!
KP
I love seeing Helen playing host. Can't wait to see what's under the big pink stone!
David Boon
Great insights into the dig. I am pleased that dig watch is starting to share more details of finds.
Cheryl Kurucz
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JUDITH COOKE
We have been having similar weather in Melbourne! Hope everything goes well for the remainder of the dig.
Amethyst Gray
Oh wow. Maybe another Roman sarcophagus but this time with the lid in situ! Exciting.
Irene Daly
Oh Wow! I thought the England game was exciting but I would swap my armchair for a pair of wellies and a trowel any day. Can’t wait to see what the ‘pink slab’ reveals. Best of luck to all the team, you are quite brilliant.
Clive McIntyre
I am wondering about the depth of the cremated remains in relation to the body. Is there any indication of how much later they were added or are they contemporary? Could they have been a momento mori carried by the deceased? It is so very intriguing.
Neil
Wow the excitement builds!!!
Christopher Samuel
Oh that's fantastic! I also had a thought on Jackie's cremated bone, would another possibility be that they are part of the remains of someone who moved away and then after death some of their cremation were brought back to their birthplace to be buried with parents/relations?
Graham Stokes
Thank you for sharing this interesting detail and prospect. Looking forward to Naomi's float disco/veries.
Dario
Really exciting stuff. Shame about the weather. I hope it brightens up for you!
Carrie Hartley
Adding to my previous post, and cremation. Back in 2000 we went on a 'Granny Sprinkling Trip' - dropping handfuls of our lovely Welsh Granny around her beloved childhood/yound adult locations in Swansea and The Gower... Nowadays the cremation process is very refined, so no bits of discernable bone (thank goodness!) But I can quite see that our ancestors may have done something similar...
Jen A
Can’t wait for tomorrow! 👍
Chris Bate
It's getting Exciting!!!! Pink Stone Day tomorrow LOL
Alan McMillan
Fantastic discoveries, what will be next?
Alan McMillan
Bring your own canoe, deep wellies!
Jee
I could imagine carrying one of Jackie's momento mori packets as a personal keepsake and then being buried with it when my time came.
Carrie Hartley
Ooh.. reminders of Glastonbury 1997..nursing with #FestivalMedicalServices. Our tents were 2 in below the mud. Going to the loo was a no-go.. we were creative.. 😬X
Richard Kaskeski
I am very excited to be a part, in a way, of this dig. Thanks Time Team!
Simon Orchard
I was excavating at Roman Magna on Hadrian's Wall in May and we discovered 7 cremation burials, the way they were excavated and processed is exactly how Jackie explains it.
Nigel Sadler
It just getter better and better!
Rachel
Interesting! I’ve not heard of these momento mori burials before. A flotation birthday treat for Naomi! Looking forward to the rest of the week.
JanD
The enthusiasm, knowledge, and wisdom between Helen, Richard, and Jackie bodes well for the Cotswold site. Definitely Time Team invigorating!!! Dig on!
Elaine P
This site seems to have a penchant for the unusual, can't wait to see what they're all about. It must be difficult working in the rain, but being in a drought-striken heat dome on the US east coast, I have to say it's very refreshing just seeing all the rain and long sleeves. But hopefully weather improves for the dig, this site is too intriguing to be hamstrung by bad weather.
Wessex-Wyvern
Or maybe the elders were cremated, and the later generation had the cremated bones buried with them?
Wessex-Wyvern
This is so thrilling! So many interesting questions. I hope the weather is kinder tomorrow.
Jacques Pictet
Interesting features. I hope it will lead to great discoveries !
Patricia Amero
I feel sorry sitting back, enjoying the action from my dry home, but OMG what action there is! Holy wow, more questions... 🤔
Todd Gillespie
I loved the cliff hanger at the end…
CCZ
Is it possible the cremation is of their kids and once a parent dies, they put pices of their kids with the parent's burial?
Zoe Propper
Can't wait to see more on the circular feature tomorrow.
Zoe Propper
Beach shelter to protect the tech from the rain...genius!
Paul Faulkner
I hope the weather was kinder today. It was a bit better here, in Reading
