Monthly Archives: January 2013

Time Team Series 20, My Fourth Episode: Coniston Copper Mines

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Francis Pryor

The film to be shown this coming Sunday (February 3rd) at 4.20 (yes, that’s 1620 hours) was filmed high in the Cumbrian Fells, within the shadow of the Old Man of Coniston. We actually did the filming in the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team | Tagged archaeology, coniston, copper mine, Francis Pryor, Time Team

Media Luvvies Are So Sad

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I can’t believe it. Yesterday evening I attended the party to celebrate the end of Time Team and its twenty years of broadcasting history. And I make no apologies – it has been a wonderful success. As an archaeologist, if … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Time Team, Tirades | Tagged Channel 4, Time Team

Grow Your Own: Part 3, Chitting Seed Potatoes

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Outside the snow has been lying on the garden for at least a week. So yesterday I took the four-wheel-drive into the local town to buy seed potatoes. In the past I’ve bought them through catalogues, but these rarely guarantee … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Grow Your Own | Tagged gardening, potatoes

DIY Garden Decoration: Wirework

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Maisie and I share one huge advantage over the bulk of middle class humanity: we don’t have good taste. Snobby friends from London are constantly having to avert their eyes as they walk around our garden: here’s a painted concrete … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, My life | Tagged Francis Pryor, garden decoration, Maisie Taylor, wire weaving

Time Team Series 20, episode 3, Henham Hall, Suffolk: a place with Latitude

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Some readers of this blog may have been to the Latitude music festival, which is held every summer in the park of Henham Hall, near Southwold, just back from the Suffolk coast. I haven’t been to the festival myself, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team | Tagged cork oak, country houses, Francis Pryor, Hektor Rous, Henham Hall, Henham Park, Latitude, Time Team

Christmas Comes But Once a Year (and when it does, it’s late…)

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Strange as it may seem, our lives don’t stop just because one of us is about to appear on millions of people’s television screens, prancing about in the rain somewhere in south Wales. No, sheep have to be fed and … Continue reading →

Posted in My life | Tagged cakes, Christmas cake, Francis Pryor, Maisie Taylor, Stir Up Sunday

Time Team: The 20th Series, Second Episode: Rural Cardiff

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Whaat? Rural Cardiff??? Yes, that’s what I said. And I’ll repeat: Rural Cardiff. We filmed last April and of course it rained. And rained. We’d just finished lambing, so I wasn’t particularly looking forward to what I’d been told would … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team | Tagged Caerau, Cardiff, Ely, hillfort, Iron Age, Time Team

Hints of Spring

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Francis Pryor

After the wettest year in England since records began, the new year kicked off with a dry, sunny January 1st. The next day it rained, but that one day of sunshine seemed to lift everyone’s spirits. Then yesterday Maisie noticed … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening | Tagged aconites, hazel, hellebore foetidus, Hellebore orientalis, hellebores

Time Team: The 20th Series Starts next Sunday – And We’re Going Down with a Pang … or should that be BANG!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Francis Pryor

The first episode of the 20th, and last, Time Team series is going to be screened next Sunday, January 6th at 5.25 on Channel 4. As is the usual practice of broadcasters, they’re going to be showing the best one … Continue reading →