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Have your say: What’s your favourite site contender?
🕑 Added 2021-03-03 14:32:21 +0000 UTC
You’ve joined in our Site Wrestles and now the time has come to have your say in our official Patreon poll!
We’ve enjoyed reading all of your insightful comments about the sites discussed so far. As we get closer to potential digs, we’d love to know which sites you would like to progress to the next stage.
If you've just joined us and haven't seen all the Site Wrestles yet – you can still watch them all before you make your choice.
As you’ll see, site selection is a tricky business. A whole host of considerations will ultimately determine whether or not a site is possible to take on. Paperwork and permissions, budget, access to site, community buy-in, archaeological complexity, project design and – now – restrictions surrounding COVID, are just some of the many factors to address. That said, another huge consideration is which sites you – our Patrons – would like Time Team to investigate. So please let us know!
Please note: Bearing the above in mind, this is an opinion poll and not necessarily the final result. We'll announce the next steps in the process once we've taken your feedback into consideration.
The poll will close just before midnight on Sunday 7th March, so don't forget to make your choice and be counted!
Comments
James Matney
Hell I don,t know i,m Yankee State side
Ian Thomson
We lived for 10 years in Devon after retiring and have visited the area. There are NT properties nearby. Sometimes it is very surprising what lays beneath ones feet!
I an Merkin
Just joined Patreon,and to see and hear about a dig site in Cornwall,as I live here is fantastic,,saw the original digs when Time Team came down here .
Time Team
A big THANK YOU to everyone who has taken part in the poll! It's great to have all your thoughts and comments flooding in. Stay with us as we share our next steps soon...
Michael Berthelsen
Iron Age Cornwall gets my vote as well. It looks too fascinating not to. There are so many interesting angles and foci to look at, that I believe TT could initiate, see if future, larger excavations can expand on. The Roman Villa is a close second, and a GREAT opportunity to test the advancements made in geophys technology since last time TT was at Roman villa. Would be really great to see the improvements in imaging technology, and what can be brought to bear using it on this site.
"Blade" McMicking, D.I.
I agree completely with what others have said, above -- we NEED the first episode to capture the viewing public. No easier way to do that (and drum up more support) than with an American connection. The Suffolk and Dorset digs would accomplish that best. Third choice for re-launch would be something with a huge "recognition factor" and potentially tons of finds, like "just about anything Roman". They're all good sites. Many of "us old-time TT fans" would prefer something older and deeper (and perhaps more obscure) but that would be best saved for later episodes, it's unlikely to catch a multitude of new viewers/supporters the way the American-related ones will. Then maybe hit the Lincolnshire "Palimpsest" to showcase the depth and breadth of history available to TT within the format. Brancaster would be fantastic to illustrate "why we leave some sites untouched for the future -- here's how technology and understanding have developed in the years since we ourselves investigated this site x years ago!" While I personally adore Iron Age and Neolithic sites, I will be patient and look forward to those. ^_^
Bill Karoly
The village in Suffolk was my second choice.
David Richardson
Very hard to choose, but it’s essential to have a first site that will grab an audience. Save some of the more tricky sites for (hopefully!) later in the series!
Mark Lund
Totally undecided from a personal choice point of view, but listening to others, I agree the first site should be one with a wide public interest, and will maybe get even more people on board, if needed. And fairly safe, with finds. So the villa in central England it is. But hopefully TT can do them all...it would be interesting to look back and see which turned out to be the 'best' form whatever perspective.
heith Doty
I'm all about aron age things but I had to medieval site because I need more info of my family coming from there so many moons ago . I truly need the info
Julie Freeman
There are so many good candidates. It would great to be able to do an Australian style preferential vote for this, where we get to number the boxes 1 to 8 in order of preference. Then our vote might still count even if our first preference was eliminated.
Mara Millman
So many wonderful choices, so hard to choose - in the end though one must choose and for me the Iron Age Settlement wins out. Though I adore pretty much everything Roman, there is already so much we know about their time in the UK, whilst so little is known about the Lithic, Bronze, and Iron ages. Even less known is how, when, where, and to whom they were trading with. The fact that there is Samian Pottery in an Iron Age site is very intriguing ... and a fogou is always a safe bet to find lovely artefacts.
