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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's answering more questions from Time Team members.

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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/1062879 

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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.

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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/185032

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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 festival's launch.

You'll meet Louise Bedford, the archaeology student who's created her own video game which gives you the opportunity to explore a real dig.

Helen answers more questions from Patreon supporters and Dani Wootton has this month's edition of Time Team News.

Here's the link to the Wilton Cross, the British Museum artefact Helen describes:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1859-0512-1

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 can see it here:
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/887651

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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 the empire. What does it mean for our understanding of the Romans? Dr Saskia Stevens from Utrecht University will shed some light on her research.

Martyn investigates the complexities of magnetometry and how they can help the archaeological process and Patreon supporters pose their questions to Helen.

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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 item SUR-C5F736 being talked about:
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/123425

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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 the King's birthday honours.
Community archaeology project 1722 Waggonway gears up for another dig to understand the country's first wooden railway.
Plus, Dani Wootton is back with Time Team News.

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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 volunteers tells you what she got up to when she got the chance to spend a day as an archaeologist at Sutton Hoo thanks to Time Team.