End Of Time Team

[Val Beechey]

Do I remember a rumble in the jungle some time ago about a series featuring detectorists.

Val

[Chef Geoff]

To be fair Guy de la Bédoyère has gone on record in saying ;

"Whatever archaeologists like to claim, no excavation has done anything to tell us who owned villas, where they came from, what their estates were, or a host of other legitimate social and economic questions. I was once asked by Time Team’s originator, Tim Taylor, which excavation of a site in Roman Britain ‘had completely changed the way we think about the subject’. I had to say I couldn’t actually think of one that had done that. That was a bit extreme but on the whole it’s fairly true; if anything, it’s been the detectorist finds, uncovered in totally unexpected contexts and places, that have changed things. Not of course that many academics would admit that."

[Chef Geoff]

Do I remember a rumble in the jungle some time ago about a series featuring detectorists.

Val

Oh god I hope not, that would be like watching paint dry, with a good dollop of cringe and spoonful of embarrassment thrown in

[Val Beechey]

Well it could slow a few people down 

Val