Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams are at Flag Fen where a fire has destroyed a volunteer-built roundhouse on the ancient archaeological site. Helen sees the damage for herself. Jacq Barnard from The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company has an update on the work that's underway to reconstruct the Anglo-Saxon ship buried in the mounds at Sutton Hoo. With the Bayeux Tapestry coming to the UK, Helen and Martyn speak to Dr Alexandra Makin, a medieval embroidery expert. Dani Wootton has Time Team News and Helen...
Aug 19, 2025•36 min
Helen Geake and Martyn Williams are back with some of the questions Time Team members have been asking. From discussing advances in archaeological technology to the cost of running a dig, Helen does her best to bring you answers. Martyn also has a go at asking a question, putting forward the silurian hypothesis for Helen to consider. There's also another edition of Helen's Find. The object Helen's referencing can be found at the following link: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1...
Aug 12, 2025•38 min
Time Team's Francis Pryor appears on this episode of the podcast to discuss the damage to one of Flag Fen's reconstructed roundhouses. You'll hear from Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw who've been at the Festival of Archaeology's launch event near Belfast in Northern Ireland. The Operation Nightingale military veterans and serving members of the armed forces talk about their experience digging for a B17 bomber, Little Boy Blue, which crashed in a field around 80 years ago. Join Dr Helen Geake and ...
Aug 05, 2025•39 min
It's another question and answer session this week. Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake is taking the questions you've been asking on Patreon. She'll discuss how rich Romans heated their villas in chilly northern Europe, whether archaeologists behave different around human remains depending on the religion the deceased person might've been from; and just how do you date pottery? There's also Helen's Find, this week it's this object found in Hampshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1...
Jul 29, 2025•39 min
Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams are back for another edition of the podcast. This episode is also available to watch on YouTube. Time Team's Giselle Király is in the Italian Dolomites discovering human remains left frozen in the ice for 5,000 years. She comes face to face with Ötzi the Iceman, whose body is on display at South Tyrol Archaeology Museum. The Festival of Archaeology is in full swing at venues across the UK. Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw have been at the f...
Jul 22, 2025•40 min
In this question and answers episode Dr Helen Geake brings you her thoughts on archaeology-related queries posed by Patreon supporters. She'll tackle topics about the difference between paleontology and arcaeology, what's done with partially excavated human remains on a dig and whether or not the Anglo-Saxon invasion happened in the way the history books suggest. There's also another edition of Helen's Find, where Helen talks about another exciting object. This time it's a metal arrowhead. You c...
Jul 15, 2025•33 min
Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams are joined by Time Team archaeologist Jackie McKinley. She's been part of the team investigating a potential Viking boat burial in the most northern part of the UK. She gives us a sense of what it was like working in driving rain and high winds, as well as the clues which could point to a Viking boat being hidden beneath the soil. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a Roman temporary camp in The Netherlands. It's been found north of the known frontier of...
Jul 08, 2025•39 min
It's another episode devoted to answering the questions you've been asking on Patreon. Time Team archaeologist Dr Helen Geake considers whether DNA could discover the ancestors of ancient Kings who are alive today, how long achaeology has been studied and the measures in place to stop artefacts being stolen from a dig site. There's also Helen's Find. This time Helen's discussing seal matrices, the metal objects used to stamp wax seals on letters. Here's a link to the Portable Antiquities Scheme ...
Jul 01, 2025•37 min
Searching for treasure in the mud on the banks of the river Thames, or mudlarking as it's known, dates back generations. Now specially licenced mudlarks comb the foreshore looking for clues to the city's past. You'll meet Tom Coghlan who discovered something truly remarkable, now on display at a new exhibition at London Museum focusing on mudlarking. Also on the podcast, archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams speak to Time Team's creator Tim Taylor who's been awarded an MBE in ...
Jun 24, 2025•35 min
Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams sit down after four weeks of Time Team's Sutton Hoo dig to reflect on what's happened over the past month. Naomi Sewpaul discusses her work on site and sheds some light on what she may have discovered using her special floatation tank. You'll meet one of Edith Pretty's relatives who reflects on the legacy of the woman who owned the site and sparked the archaeological digs of the 1930s which discovered one of the buried Anglo-Saxon ships. One of our Patreon volu...
Jun 17, 2025•34 min
It's Time Team's final week digging at Sutton Hoo and it still has secrets to reveal. Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams brave the wind and rain to take you to a new trench that's been opened on the bank of the river. Could work there uncover another Anglo-Saxon ship? Helen's been squelching in the mud on the side of river at low tide where Carenza Lewis and her team are looking for evidence of human activity from thousands of years ago. You'll also meet the volunteers who've been given the chan...
Jun 10, 2025•39 min
Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams are back at Sutton Hoo, where Time Team's dig is in its third week. Helen brings you up to speed with what's going on on site, including the latest on the cremation vessel that's been discovered in trench one. Martyn meets the volunteers getting the opportunity to dig at Sutton Hoo and Tim Fitzhigham from the Guildhall at King's Lynn drops by with an update on a project to bring Shakespeare's stage to life. As always, Helen will be on hand...
Jun 03, 2025•38 min
Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams bring you this episode of the Time Team podcast from Sutton Hoo where our second year on site is underway. John Gater explains how he hopes new geophysics technology might shed some light on mysterious signals detected last year and Jackie McKinley takes you through her analysis of the missing piece of the Bromeswell bucket. We also take a trip to Woodbridge where The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company are reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ship, discovered in one of the mo...
May 27, 2025•28 min
Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams are at Sutton Hoo where Time Team's 2025 dig has just started. Professor Martin Carver, who led an excavation of the famous Sutton Hoo mounds in the 1980s, is on site with his thoughts on the project. Sutton Hoo's archaeology and engagement manager Laura Howarth tells us what she hopes the 2025 dig will be able to reveal about life in the area. Martyn explores the burial ground for himself and there's finally some information to share on t...
May 20, 2025•40 min
With just one week to go until Time Team returns to Sutton Hoo, Martyn Williams and archaeologist Dr Helen Geake find out even more about one of its unearthed treasures, The Bromeswell Bucket. Martyn visits one of the UK's largest Iron Age hillforts in Oswestry to find out how vandalism is putting its archaeology at risk. With fears about the future of university funding for archaeology courses, commercial archaeologist Giselle Király talks about job opportunities in the industry. Plus, Helen a...
May 13, 2025•40 min
It's another episode of the Time Team podcast devoted to answering your questions. Dr Helen Geake responds to what you've been asking on Patreon. You'll find out about the dark side of metal detecting, whether our ancestors were buried or cremated and why farmers can continue to plough the soil at scheduled monuments. Plus, Helen's find this week is a spindle whorl. You can find out about one from a Time Team dig at Codnor Castle here: https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/codnor-castle And here...
May 06, 2025•39 min
Time Team's Francis Pryor discovered Flag Fen, a Bronze Age site of world importance, in 1982. The remarkable preservation of a wooden causeway, over a kilometre long, along with ancient roundhouses, gave us unique insight into how people lived thousands of years ago. Now, decades after Francis' discovery, Flag Fen is under threat and the archaeology is at risk of being lost forever. Time Team takes Francis back to find out what can be done to save this hugely important site. Archaeologist Dr He...
Apr 29, 2025•39 min
Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake answers more of your questions in this episode of the Time Team podcast. From whether Vikings really wore horned helmets to why the police aren't called in every time a skeleton is discovered at a site. There's also another edition of Helen's Find, which you can see at the following links: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/477426/recordtype/artefacts https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/18704 You can submit your question for a future episode ...
Apr 22, 2025•38 min
In this week's episode of the Time Team podcast with Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams, Professor Vincent Gaffney, chair in landscape archaeology at The University of Bradford, discusses Doggerland, an area of land now submerged under the North Sea off the coast of Britain. Professor Caroline Wilkinson, a world-leading expert in facial reconstruction, explains how new techniques allow you to look into the eyes of people from the past and metal detectorist Keith Wescott takes Martyn to the place...
Apr 15, 2025•40 min
Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams are joined by Gus Casely-Hayford OBE to answer your archaeology questions. You’ll learn the difference between coring and flotation, find out what commercial archaeology units do, debate the benefits of using plaster casts over a more technological solution and there’s another theory on Roman stairs to ponder. Helen’s find this episode is a penannular ring, which you can have a look at here: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/i...
Apr 08, 2025•38 min
On this episode of the Time Team podcast; landscape archaeologist Stewart Ainsworth takes Martyn Williams to Bodbury Ring in Shropshire where he's made an astonishing new discovery which could completely change the way we think about the Iron Age site. Dr Helen Geake's delving deeper into witchcraft as she investigates curious witch bottles with Nigel Jeffries from Museum of London Archaeology and Dani Wootton is back with the latest Time Team news. All that plus answers to the questions you've ...
Apr 01, 2025•35 min
It's our first Patreon questions episode! Dr Helen Geake brings you answers to some of the things you've always wondered about archaeology. From how to get involved in digs to whether people are really ok with dozens of archaeologists digging huge holes in their lawns, we've got the answers to your questions. Plus, Helen tells Martyn about a historical object and discusses its importance. You can ask a question too by joining us on Patreon. Head to patreon.com/timeteamofficial to join our commun...
Mar 25, 2025•33 min
Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams are joined by this year's winner of The Archaeologist of the Year award. Joyce Tyldesley OBE is Professor of Egyptology, she's poised to reveal some of the civilisation's secrets. Also, Lawrence Shaw gets you excited about this weekend's Time Team expedition crew YouTube video and Naomi Sewpaul demonstrates an archaeological technique called floatation. Plus, Helen and Martyn have an exciting announcement about the future of the podcast. Head to patreon.com/tim...
Mar 18, 2025•39 min
Dr Duncan Wright from Newcastle University explains how an 11th century royal toilet has allowed researchers to prove the location of King Harold's residence, solving a mystery of the famous Bayeux Tapestry. Also joining Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams is Dani Wootton who'll bring you this month's Time Team News. Meg Russell explains the science behind the mental health benefits of archaeology and there'll be more of your Patreon questions answered. Don't forget you can join us on Pat...
Mar 04, 2025•36 min
In this episode Rachel Pope from The University of Liverpool explains how new research is lifting the veil on the lives of women in Iron Age Britain. Martyn Williams tries out one of the most back-breaking archaeological techniques, as Prof. Henry Chapman demonstrates coring. There's a trip down memory lane as former Time Team Principal Conservation Expert, Brigid Gallagher, and former Time Team 3D graphic artist, Raysan al-Kubaisi, share their stories of life on Time Team in our Channel 4 days....
Feb 18, 2025•40 min
Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams discover Pompeii like you've never seen it before. New excavations at the site have been unearthing perfectly-preserved bathhouses, skeletons and jewellery which allow us to learn even more about life in the ancient city before it was destroyed by a volcano. Dr Sophie Hay was heavily involved in the dig and takes us through the most breathtaking discoveries. Also, Martyn revisits the site of an old Time Team dig in The Cotswolds where an exciting new discovery ...
Feb 04, 2025•39 min
Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams take you to Sutton Hoo, where Time Team will be returning later this year. Find out more about a new theory - put forward by Dr Helen Gittos from the University of Oxford - which casts doubt on the current understanding of how opulent Byzantine treasures, found in some of the burial mounds, came to be there. Could it be that Anglo-Saxons were fighting in the Byzantine army? You'll also hear from the volunteers who are attempting to recreat...
Jan 21, 2025•40 min
The first episode of the Time Team podcast for 2025 is a little different. Archaeologists Dr Helen Geake and Dr Derek Pitman answer questions you've been asking on Patreon. From how new technology might change the way archaeologists make discoveries to what happens after the diggers have left a site, Helen and Derek give you their thoughts on what you've been wondering. As a special treat you can watch this episode on our Patreon site. Head there now to see Martyn, Helen and Derek in action. You...
Jan 07, 2025•40 min
Time Team's Helen Geake and Derek Pitman go head to head in this Christmas edition of the podcast. Members of the Time Team family provide the questions to find out if they really know their stuff. Also, co-host Martyn Williams has a special festive surprise for Helen and Derek as they perform Twas The Night Before Time Team. Don't miss our next episode on 7th January where Helen and Derek will be answering your archaeology questions from Patreon. Join our Time Team community there now at patreo...
Dec 24, 2024•33 min
In this episode you’ll find out about the discovery of a medieval moat around an ancient farm site near Tewkesbury with Jon Hart from Cotswold Archaeology. You’ll meet Time Team’s buildings archaeologist, Richard Parker. He explains how analysing architecture can shed light on the way people used to live. Harry Manley demonstrates how getting up high above the landscape with a drone can benefit the archaeology being done on the ground. Plus, your archaeology questions, submitted on our Patreon s...
Dec 10, 2024•36 min
