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MikeAitch
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|  Posted 28-02-2010 at 20:58
Disappointingly there appears to be very little in the way of ancient sites. The new series is expected to begin 14th March.
Source: The Unofficial Time Team Site
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sem
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| Posted 01-03-2010 at 00:08
It all depends on whether they involve Francis Pryor.
He can always find something relating to the Bronze Age.
WE ARE NOT WORTHY, bow,scrape etc.
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MikeAitch
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| Posted 01-03-2010 at 13:10
Quite possible Sem as Mick Aston is involved in fewer programmes each year (due to health if I remember correctly).
Seems like an opportune moment to share an animation i made a while back in tribute to Mick and his magic jumpers 
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Andy B
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| Posted 01-03-2010 at 13:38
Yes that is depressingly low on Prehistory, but there is this:
Dinmore Hill
In July of 2009 the team investigated a possible Iron Age hillfort on Dinmore Hill north of Hereford. The mammoth operation involved not just the Time Team regulars, but also another seven HA archaeologists, ten HA coordinated volunteers, and around fifty Time Team support staff ranging from camera crews to caterers. Despite some awful weather, the results were extremely interesting, and have potentially put a major and important new site on the Herefordshire prehistoric map.
Methinks they hide their light under a bushel so here is a spoiler:
http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/hsmr/db.php?smr_no=1733
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http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=25092
I presume they are so fed up with digging prehistoric sites that come up with sod all that they are going to one they already know exisits!
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MikeAitch
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| Posted 08-03-2010 at 12:41
The new series now expected to start 28th March.
Update: The Unofficial Time Team Site
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Andy B
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| Posted 09-03-2010 at 21:18
Interesting gossip there. Are you tempted to stray over to the dark side of Antiques Roadshow? I wonder whatever happened to the Time Team forum people after it closed.
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|  Posted 18-03-2010 at 22:01
The Mull episode sounds very interesting - I know, I have a thing about ancient crosses, and early Christianity...... 
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Andy B
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| Posted 19-03-2010 at 00:12
Yes we shouldn't forget our love of ancient crosses, my apologies to them. One day I hope to spin them and the wells off into their own separate-but-connected site so have somewhere of their own.
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MikeAitch
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| Posted 20-03-2010 at 10:30
Still no confirmation of exact date for the new Time Team series.
However More4 are repeating The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes 7 part series starting this Wednesday (24/03/10)
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| Posted 24-03-2010 at 19:15
Being as how its time slot is presently taken by "Glee", which this weekend is only up to episode 12 out of 22, my guess would be another ten weeks [so at least May 9th before it's back] 
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| Posted 24-03-2010 at 20:20
They should have repeated Bettany Hughes' Seven Ages of Britain to show up that Dimbleby rubbish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Ages_of_Britain
Compare and contrast
1 The First Age 6000 BC 1000 BC
2 The Second Age 1000 BC 43 AD
3 The Third Age 43 AD 410 AD
4 The Fourth Age 410 AD 1066 AD
5 The Fifth Age 1066 AD 1350 AD
6 The Sixth Age 1350 AD 1530 AD
7 The Seventh Age 1530 AD 1700 AD
1 "Age of Conquest" AD 43 1066
2 "Age of Worship" 1170 1400
3 "Age of Power" 1509 1609
4 "Age of Revolution" 1603 1708
5 "Age of Money" 1700 1805
6 "Age of Empire" 1770 1911
7 "Age of Ambition" 1914 Now
How about adding
0 "Age you forgot about!" BC 6000 - AD 43 !!!!!
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| Posted 24-03-2010 at 20:41
I like to see people getting all worked up about these things but I would like to throw Francis Manning Marlborough Pryor MBE into the mix. He may have a rather romantic and personal vision of prehistory but his series on Britain BC did at least address the problem you just highlighted regarding some peoples insistence that nothing counted until we all started paying taxes to Rome!
Sometimes the eccentricities of English academics can be quite endearing and easily outshine the efforts of professional TV presenters however polished.
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|  Posted 09-04-2010 at 18:12
Atlast the official date is apparently Sunday 18th April 5.30PM Channel 4, according to the Unofficial Time Team site and the Channel4 site.
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| Posted 09-04-2010 at 20:02
Aaah.... Bettany Hughes.
Saw her Cretan program the other night that according to her was all filmed in temperatures of over 100degF.
Bugger the archaeology, give me high temperatures, a thin dress and a heaving, sweaty bosom any day.
Ooooh... quite distracting.
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| Posted 10-04-2010 at 00:02
Mmm, very watchable: The Minoans
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-ancient-world-with-bettany-hughes/episode-guide/series-4/episode-1
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|  Posted 10-04-2010 at 00:45
Ha!ha!!...
I saw the Minoans programme too, and was impressed by the presentation, but began to notice how much she seemed to 'play to the camera'... it was almost more about her than about the subject. Clever girl though and very attractive, and sporty, too! Obviously a programme geared to the male viewer!
(Shame you didn't swim into her when you were diving in Crete Sem!)
Oh - PS:
[Droll memory] - In my first year at Grammar school [won't say what year, or it'll give the game away!].. our first history lesson was about the Minoans, and I remember us all cringing when the old female teacher explained how the women wore their necklines so low that their breast were exposed. The class must have glowed with blushing cheeks!
Am pretty sure that wouldn't happen in these more-enlightened days.
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MikeAitch
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| Posted 10-04-2010 at 10:19
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On 2010-04-09 20:02, sem wrote:
Aaah.... Bettany Hughes.
Saw her Cretan program the other night that according to her was all filmed in temperatures of over 100degF.
Bugger the archaeology, give me high temperatures, a thin dress and a heaving, sweaty bosom any day.
Ooooh... quite distracting.
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Haha yes Sem the whole series is very easy on the eye, fortunately it's repeated on 4od so i can catch the bits where my 'mind wandered' 
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On 2010-04-10 00:45, AngieLake wrote:
Ha!ha!!...
I saw the Minoans programme too, and was impressed by the presentation, but began to notice how much she seemed to 'play to the camera'... it was almost more about her than about the subject. Clever girl though and very attractive, and sporty, too! Obviously a programme geared to the male viewer!
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So Francis Pryor and his Britain BC series doesn't redress the balance for the ladies Angie? 
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| Posted 10-04-2010 at 11:25
Yes it was a pity that there were no interviews with local experts, it was all about Bettany. Apart from that man chipping the boat in the background we saw no one else in a one and a half hour programme. Surely she didn't really collect those murex shells herself by free-diving?! It must have been an unseen local diver who got them for her. It was a 2004 programme so suppose it was made before the current obsession for realism in documentaries.
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| Posted 10-04-2010 at 15:16
Good to see TT coming back.
If you want a fix of prehistory I understand the Beeb are currently working on a TV series covering folks in Britain from the end of Ice Age to pesky Roman arrival. Havent the foggiest idea about airing, but a certain long haired Scottish historian is touted as presenting
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| Posted 10-04-2010 at 20:54
On 2010-04-10 00:45, AngieLake wrote:
Ha!ha!!...
I saw the Minoans programme too, and was impressed by the presentation, but began to notice how much she seemed to 'play to the camera'... it was almost more about her than about the subject. Clever girl though and very attractive, and sporty, too! Obviously a programme geared to the male viewer!
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So Francis Pryor and his Britain BC series doesn't redress the balance for the ladies Angie?
Hi Mike
Francis Pryor is a very nice man, but doesn't exactly float my boat.
I'll probably remember others, but off the top of my head (and memory failing due to not having eaten dinner yet!  ), Neil Oliver is one of my favourites. If he was a bit bigger....
.... but I like his accent, his hair, and his feisty attitude. Anyone who's passionate about their country, like he is, gets my vote, too.
Of course, Phil Harding is lovely, too...! mainly for his great character rather than sex appeal! (sounds like the pot calling the kettle black!)
Now, if there was an historian like David Ginola used to be when he played for Tottenham......
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