Has Time Team Been Axed?

[Jayson]

I was looking forward to another series of Time Team on Channel 4, which usually starts early January and finishes around March.  However, I haven't seen any sign of it. 

Has it been axed!

Jayson

[ammonite]

Apparently because of time tabling this year it is starting in March.

[Redroger]

That is also my understanding.

[silvery]

It's been going that long ................. I find all that dashing about false excitement is a bit tedious now.  My opinion anyway.   Archaelogy isn't full of fast-moving digs that find things every five minutes, and it gives a pretty false impression. 

[Redroger]

Whilst the series does give something of a false impression remember that the programme lasts one hour, which is an edited version of three days work.Since the early 1990s Archaeology has in the UK at any rate been largely developer led, whereby they have an archaeology team in in advance of constructional work, and it is of course the developer's objective to get the archaeology work done and out of the way just as quickly as possible.
Less construction work due to the economic recession has lessened the availability of this type of archaeology, and thus led to a loss of jobs in archaeology, and closures of a variety of units.

[Cember]

If you're getting withdrawl  symptoms and need a "fix"   

Try

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/4od

[LizzieW]

I find all that dashing about false excitement is a bit tedious now

I worked on one of the Time Team digs a few years back (as an archeology student from the local tech, I had to wash any finds) and you are right that dashing about is completely false.  Hardly anything was found - and no-one expected much, as we all knew the "real" stuff was in the next field and professional archeologists were already at work there.  Someone found what might have been the remains of a footpath (Roman) and it was hours later, that the "Dash" started, with all the cameramen in place etc. 

I've never watched the programme since, it was all so false and set up.

Lizzie

[Jayson]

Although the programme isn't perfect, it's far better than most of the rubbish that one sees on the box nowadays - especially celeb based programmes.  I wonder if they will do a piece on all that wonderful gold that was discovered recently in Lichfield?

Jay 

[Redroger]

I went on a dig in the Humber levels, Adlingfleet, in the top layer a colleague found a neolithic scraper, two feet down a 303 cartridge was found, there were similar mixed up finds all day. A trip to the archive showed why, at the time a local railway line had been built the entire area had been infilled to prevent flooding. All the finds were entirely out of context.