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A rare medieval find in Norfolk….

Jan 6, 2025

archaeology, history, medieval personal hygiene, Uncategorized

earwax scoop, Edward III, Helen Geake, Henry VII, metal detectorists, Norfolk Castle Museum, Richard II, Time team

What is it about earwax that has us all recoiling in disgust? When those ads come on TV, our noses wrinkle and we chorus “Ugh!” Unfortunately we’re stuck with the stuff, some of us more than others, and it’s nothing new. The Romans used little earwax scoops, and so did people of the medieval era.…
Further news from Sutton Hoo

Mar 11, 2024

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, genealogy, religion

Basil Brown, National Trust, sir tony robinson, Sutton Hoo, Time team, Wuffings

A few months ago, we wrote about Time Team’s plans for additional excavations at Sutton Hoo. Here is a more up-to-date ITV article. As you can see, the National Trust are hoping that the dig will solve some “anomalies” and may make some new discoveries. The programme will be online in June.
Roman Wales

Mar 1, 2024

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, culture, religion

Anne Neville, British tribes, caerlent, Caerleon, Cardiff Castle, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Christianity, Colchester Castle, conversion, Demetae, Despensers, Gower Peninsula, Kent, Llanelli, Magnus Maximus, Monmouthshire, Normans, Ordovices, Richard III, River Usk, Robert Curthose, Roman Britain, rugby, Silures, Swansea, Time team, Tower of London, tribes, Wales

The first thing to note about Roman rule in Wales is that it started in 48 AD, a few years later than in England, which is a consequence of the Claudian invasion having started in Kent. It is likely to have finished a little earlier too, in about 383, as the general Maximus Magnus sought…
Phil Harding narrates for Wiltshire towns….

Jan 25, 2024

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings

apps, Channel Four, Phil Harding, technology, Time team, Wiltshire

Here’s all you need to know about this link, including that each episode features the marvellous Phil Harding, of Time Team fame. Oh arrr, Phil! Long may you reign! “….A new app which describes the history of Wiltshire towns has been launched today. “….Each town gets an audio introduction from a popular member of the…
Time Team to return to Sutton Hoo

Mar 12, 2023

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, religion

Channel Four, East Anglian Daily Times, Suffolk, Time team, Tony Robinson

Now here is some exciting news. Time Team, formerly a Channel Four programme to 2014 but now digital, will be following up their 2015 visit to the Sutton Hoo mounds soon, on a digital platform. We don’t have a transmission date as yet …
The lost city …

Aug 3, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings

Berwick, Borders towns, David I, Floors Castle, James II, Lancastrians, Richard III, River Teviot, River Tweed, Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish campaign 1482, siege of Roxburgh, Time team

… of Roxburgh, one of David I’s auxiliary capitals, in Border country, was visited by Time Team in 2004. Now we can all have a better vision of the scene of the 1460 siege and understand how Richard’s 1482 invasion of Scotland hastened its end.
The Great British Dig – History in Your Garden

Mar 13, 2021

archaeology, buildings, religion, Science, television reviews

Andy Robertshaw, burials, Caroline Wilkinson, Christian convert, Domesday Book, facial reconstruction, gun emplacement, Hadrian’s Wall, Hugh Dennis, Lenton, Maidstone, Masham, Newcastle, Nottinghamshire, Priories, pubs, Sean Bean, Second World War, South Shields, Time team, Trow Point, Vikings, William I

This excellent series began with a pilot last April, with Hugh Dennis and three archaeologists looking for a Roman settlement on the site of a former inn in Maidstone’s Florence Road. It resumed in February with the small team moving to Benwell, Newcastle, to locate a Hadrian’s Wall fort, followed by a Viking burial ground…
A little before Richard’s time …

Mar 12, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings, films

“The Dig”, Anglo-Saxons, Basil Brown, Ipswich, Raedwald, Roman Britain, Sutton Hoo, Time team, Wessex Archaeology

Originally posted on Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society: … Ipswich had a Roman villa, which is now in the back garden of Tranmere Grove, a short road just north of the allotments railway line. Time Team came to visit it in 2004.
Digging up Britain’s Past

Feb 20, 2020

archaeology, battles, buildings, religion

Alex Langlands, Armada, Auckland Castle, Battle of Falkirk, Boudicca, Catterick, Channel Five, Colchester Castle, Durham, Edward I, Elizabeth I, garrisons, Helen Skelton, HMS Invincible, horses, Iceni, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Napoleonic wars, Nero, prince bishops, Raksha Dave, Roman Britain, Roman roads, Scotland, Silchester, Sir Andrew Moray, Sir William wallace, stables, Stirling Bridge, Sudeley Castle, Time team, war horses, warships

This Channel Five documentary has just completed a second series, with Alex Langlands and Raksha Dave, late of Time Team, in place of Helen Skelton. One particular episode was about Auckland Castle, where the “Prince Bishops” of Durham have lived for centuries and where archaeology is being carried out around the building. One of these…
Where at Sheen was Richard II’s private pavilion at La Neyt…?

Aug 3, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, buildings

Anne of Bohemia, Corporation Island, Henry VII, La Neyt, London, Richard II, Richmond Palace, Sheen, Thames, Time team, Trumpeter’s House

The above is the only illustration I can find that might be part of the original palace at Sheen. Or, it could be part of Richmond Palace. Tracing details of the original royal palace at Sheen, on the banks of the Thames, is not an easy task, because its Tudor replacement, Richmond Palace, rather steals the…