Category Archives: Time Team

Things That Matter Most: Breakfast Cups

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Francis Pryor

A few years ago we made a Time Team film in an 1870s railway navvy camp high in the Yorkshire Dales, on the Settle-Carlisle railway. Navvies, like archaeologists, were known for their boozy lifestyle and we fully expected to find … Continue reading →

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2018: A Climactic Autumn

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Francis Pryor

Following the success of this year’s NGS Open Garden, I was preparing myself for something of an anti-climax autumn. But first I had to head north for a Time Team/Dig Ventures event which took place on Lindisfarne, Holy Island, the … Continue reading →

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The Camera That Hibernated for Over Two Years

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Francis Pryor

Anyone reading my last blog post must think me the unluckiest person alive. But what I have to report today is far more worrying, because I have recently discovered incontrovertible evidence that inanimate objects can come to life – and … Continue reading →

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Goodbye To All That

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Francis Pryor

Somehow the title of Robert Graves’ 1929 autobiographical masterpiece seems strangely relevant. Does it express regret, or inevitability – or a bit of each? I suspect the latter. And that’s how I feel, too, when it comes to the demise … Continue reading →

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Time Team: Sailing into the Sunset?

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Francis Pryor

Next Sunday Channel 4 will be screening the last new Time Team film of any sort. It’s about prehistoric boats and I very much enjoyed being a part of it. So do try to see it, if only for old … Continue reading →

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Holy Islands (hidden bits of)

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Francis Pryor

This coming Sunday (March 2nd), at 8.00 PM on Channel 4 we’re going to be shown the latest of the Time Team documentaries we filmed last summer. They were fun to shoot, but I must admit I very much missed … Continue reading →

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Orkney: Archaeological Paradise

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Orkney is an archaeologist’s paradise. It’s as simple as that. If there is such a thing as the After Life, that’s where I want to find myself. Conversely, Hell is somewhere with no history at all – and right now … Continue reading →

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Mick Aston RIP

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I have just heard the sad news that Professor Mick Aston died last night, or early this morning (June 24th, 2013). I thought I would write this short post as a tribute and as a way of facing-up to his … Continue reading →

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Dundrum: My Final Broadcast Time Team

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Sob, sob. I said ‘broadcast’ because the last one we filmed was Brancaster. So the future will be documentaries and for these we’ll move to a later slot, usually around nine o’clock. There’ll be two more ‘as live’ excavations after … Continue reading →

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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 →

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