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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Time Team? It's sort of speed-archaeology, if you like. They have a certain amount of time (a few days, I seem to recall) to dig up a site and find out what's there, before they have to cover it all back up again. In one instance I know it was because someone (not sure now if it was the council, the site owner, Time Team, or another interested party) wanted to find out if there was anything of interest left of one of the most important monasteries in the UK during the middle ages before work was started on building flats and a hotel on top of a carpark that was on top of some of the site.
Of course, the best time to have done that would have been before they buried most of it under a sodding great supermarket, buried the rest under tarmac, and preserved what was left of the main building under a road flyover. But the supermarket chain in question, who own the land, put commerce over history for some reason.
And Time Team didn't find anything of interest there.
The site in question is about 10 minutes walk away from where I live, and... um, I'll stop there, cos otherwise I'll ramble on all night about it...
However, when we bought our house we were told it was possible that some-one might want to dig up our garden looking for Roman remains - there used to be a large settlement in the area.
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I think I just died a little inside.
I can dig up your yard though
I promise I won't do too much damage to the garden. I specialize in Romans
I am very tempted to post a picture of Tacitus, a friend I made at the dig. He was a Roman. But maybe people will get mad? I don't know why skulls freak everyone out...