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Sutton Hoo | Tony and Helen in the Pub

🕑 Added 2024-06-03 19:17:30 +0000 UTC

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Julied123

Just joined Patreon/Time Team this video alone listening to Helen share her knowledge of the Anglo Saxons was worth the annual fee!

Andre Paquette

I thought it was worth commenting that this video captures an Essence of Time Team and why it was so good (and is again!) This is a great conversation by two informed and interested people. It does not seem like it was filmed for TV (or youtube) and comes off completely genuine and natural. And because of that, the viewer is immersed in it and becomes part of the conversation. It makes me happy to be a Patron. Thanks!

Howard Shelton

I'm no expert, but common sense tells me that the jewellery-making industry was probably part of the culture of the Angles and/or Saxons long BEFORE they emigrated to Britain.

Graeme Boocock

This is a wonderfully informative conversation.

Marilyn Wright

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Helen and Tony, it was very thought provoking.

Marguerite Mikelyn Allred Crawford

Wonderful - a real pub conversation if I ever heard one. More to come, I hope.

Alice Hutchinson

Goldwork embroidery was one of Englands exports to Europe at around the time of the Sutton Hoo burial. Opus Anglicanum was considered the best embroidery available at the time. There are a few surviving pieces in the V&A and the Vatican museum. It doesn't survive readily in archaeology but would use thread wrapped in very fine gold or silver leaf couched into a backing cloth. There are records and church itineraries that list it. The surprise at the gold artifacts given the knowledge of contemporaneous finely worked gold and gems surprises me.

Under The Bodie

What s wonderful conversation

George McCluskey

Helen is truly wonderful. Intelligence, kindness, and erudition in equal measures.

Helena Frisk

This combination 😍

Cheryl Kurucz

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Rosemary Henderson

This was superb - most interesting. Helen - you can do the rowing! Get yourself a personal trainer and he/she will whip you into shape.

Derek Barham

Love listening to Tony and Helen

Mark Lund

Wonderful to see these too in enthusiastic conversation...again. Didnt the Egyptians plan and start their burial chambers, pyramids etc long, long before they died, (I thought), so could that not have been the case with A/S kings/chiefs also? Rather than waiting until the bucket was finally kicked?

Jacqueline

Erudite & masterful as ever Helen!

Sharyle Doherty

Fascinating

Doug Mackey

Superb.

James D Speckart

A great discussion--Tony and Helen mesh so well and always seem energized when they get to talking with each other. Thank you for setting this up Time Team!

Elaine P

At the risk of being repetitive, want more! Helen is such an eloquent speaker, I could listen to her for hours. This was a great discussion, setting the stage for what is coming next, whatever that may be. Thank you!

Anne Morris

What a superb interview!

Irene Daly

Sorry! In my excitement I keep pressing the ‘send’ key by mistake.

Barry Jones

What an amazing recording of Tony and Helen chatting in the pub. Helen really made me understand how she explained the idea of how the people of these times mannaged to produce such wonderful quality in the jewelry they consigned to the Sutton Hook dig this year.

Irene Daly

I cannot wait to see what the Sutton Hoo dig reveals and to reunite with some of my favourite Time Team gang- who am I kidding. With ALL of the Time Team gang.

Irene Daly

What a wonderful way to start my day. I want to be Helen for a day. I admire here depth of knowledge and her enthusiasm for our history and the legacy our ancestors have left us.

Andrew Lamb

Oh wow! Brilliant! Brilliant!

Kerry Hennigan

A wonderful interview with Helen. I can only imagine her excitement at being back at Sutton Hoo again!

Octavia Gentemann-Schmidt

This is an absolute gem! Thank you so much for this talk.

Bron Lloyd

It’s all so exciting! I literally could listen to Helen all day…..

Nigel Gage

Thank so much Helen and Tony for setting-up the scene fortis momentus dig at Sutton Hoo. As a Sutton Hoo NT volunteer I'm assured of a ring side seat during the coming month. So I look keenly forward to observing the developments as they happen.

Katty J

Great chat, really interesting. I feel that East Anglia was a place of many different settlers from all over Europe and further. The Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery seems to suggest this in the burial finds there.

Patricia Amero

Wonderful! I'm looking forward to seeing the Q&As as well.

Patricia Amero

😍 This offers so much in passion and context. I realize Patreon offerings are a gift to us... and greatly appreciated, but I'd love for the world to see this as well. 🙏 Thank you Helen & Tony.

Diana Smith

Spectular !!!

Wendy Sengpiehl

This was a great talk. I hope to hear more from Helen about the dig. Thank You!

Stephen Gent

always a delight to hear Helen.

DIANA R NELSON

This was wonderful. I learn so much from Helen.

Jane McCormack

Fantastic talk! Great perspective from Helen on setting the historical stage on this newest dig at Sutton Hoo, as well as wonderful questions from Sir Tony.

Macswell

Always fascinating to hear Tony ask interesting questions, and listen to Helen expound on the subjects she has such passion for. Also, it was wonderful to hear her mention the work of the late Victor Ambrus. For me, his work was always wonderful to see, but it's interesting to hear how Helen felt that his work was also important because it forced them to ask questions, and find answers, and make decisions.

Julianne Ture

The Sutton Hoo project reached out to Time Team very soon after the 2021 reboot, so this has been in development for a while!

Kel Tyrrell

I really am enjoying Helen’s extensive detail n knowledge….and Tony is paring that info out particularly well!

Whitby Solo

Fantastic chat. Helen is so good at putting the archeological details into a broader context. Thanks so much for sharing!

Rosemary Cormack

Great! Really loved. Helen is so knowledgeable about the Anglosaxons!

Stephen hobbs

So excited about this dig it'll be amazing what ever happens,looks like I've not been chosen as a volunteer though,shame it would have been a dream come true

Nigel Sadler

Looking forward to meeting Helen again when I take part in the dig soon. We were on the RESCUE Council together for a while.

Ian mac

Disappointed not being part of team dig but I wish all the best and weather pending enjoy

Neil

great chat!

Peter Hawker

Have a grear dig Team, I have to get dressed and get to work down here in Sydney...please excuse me for rushing out the door and I will check this later....

Henrik Vogt

Brilliant!

Julian Hughes

That was wonderful. The enthusiasm is infectious

JanD

I leave Time Team episodes with the feeling of them expanding my horizons and shedding light on stories which brighten my view of the world. Thank you!

Tim Walker

Just like the ship reconstruction… Riveting!

Steve Mikre

Just a wonderful and fascinating discussion between Sir Tony Robinson and Dr Helen Geake...

Justin Freeman

Thank you so much for sharing this, I always find Helen’s explanations helpful, and Sir Tony is always brilliant at teasing the detail out in a meaningful way. Bravo, and more please!

Dewayne

So great seeing Tony and Helen !! American here and if it wasnt for Time Team i doubt id made it through tthe pandemic lol.

John Walker

I remember in the first couple of series of Time Team they couldn’t even get permission to dig some of the sites they were investigating, and now they get to dig Sutton Hoo.