10th May 2005, 12:44 PM
Did my first (and probably last) Time Team last year, having heard a lot of stories from many sources, some of which were merely random slagging offs from folk in the pub, to more balanced judgements from people I know and trust.
Basically had no problem with any of the A lister archies, although we had very little to do with most of them. The B listers seemed nice enough as well. What troubled me the most was that so much of it was done on the whims of the production crew, some of whom had that "we're in TV and more important then you" attitude that media types often exude.
This lead to complete chaos as far as organising digging personel went, with inexperienced volunteers being left unsupervised and, potentially wrecking the archaeology. There was also no one present in a monitoring role from the County Councils archaeology section which was more worrying.I suppose as it was not PPG16, then they would have no power to monitor what is essentially a research project taking place on private land.
The recording was being done by one, very harried bod from Wessex and us, although we were mostly recording on day four when everyone else had gone. Over a year later there is still no sign of even a summery report for the local SMR, so the people who work there tell me.
Grub was good though
Basically had no problem with any of the A lister archies, although we had very little to do with most of them. The B listers seemed nice enough as well. What troubled me the most was that so much of it was done on the whims of the production crew, some of whom had that "we're in TV and more important then you" attitude that media types often exude.
This lead to complete chaos as far as organising digging personel went, with inexperienced volunteers being left unsupervised and, potentially wrecking the archaeology. There was also no one present in a monitoring role from the County Councils archaeology section which was more worrying.I suppose as it was not PPG16, then they would have no power to monitor what is essentially a research project taking place on private land.
The recording was being done by one, very harried bod from Wessex and us, although we were mostly recording on day four when everyone else had gone. Over a year later there is still no sign of even a summery report for the local SMR, so the people who work there tell me.
Grub was good though