A Thank You to the Time Team

As someone who lives in rural America, I had no knowledge of such a wonderful niche British tv show until my YouTube algorithm got tired of my rewatches of Egyptian documentaries and made a wild leap into generalized archaeological content. I stumbled upon Time Team and am just so in love with the idea of such a continuous program that was so focused on cultural heritage and education!

American archeology is quite limited (imo) by comparison for obvious reasons and I am just so in love with the idea of being so connected to one’s ancestors and such wealth of potential archeology just about everywhere!

My grandmother (rest her soul) came to the US post WW2 on the QE2 and she shared her culture and heritage with my young/silly/loud/history obsessed yank self as best as she could and we had such a special connection. We would talk often of a dream trip back to the homeland and all the places she’d love to show me. Now 30 years later as I prepare to welcome my own child and wishing she was still here it’s been such an unexpected and delightfully touching experience to see so many of those places brought to life for me in this show.

So thank you. Thank you for your passion and love for your history and continued effort to keep Time Team alive. In another timeline I’d like to think that I would have gone back ‘home’ and gotten a degree that would have allowed me to live my passion for my heritage as you all have. I live vicariously through you! And thank you for helping me feel so close to her again. ❤️ P.S - I keep watching and just waiting to see if there will be an episode near Stoke Beach (her favorite) or about Plymouth where she was from. If anyone knows if that is in the archives please let me know!