Time Team

Returning to Sutton Hoo

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The Time Team podcast returns with big news. We're going back to dig at Sutton Hoo in 2025! Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams hear from Prof. Martin Carver who carried out major excavations of the site in the 1980s. Finding out more about the burial mounds, the buried Anglo-Saxon ship and the exotic byzantine bucket. He explains why it's such an important place archaeologically and how it still holds secrets to this day.

Also on the podcast; Time Team's Stewart Ainsworth puts Martyn through his paces as he undergoes the final bit of his basic training as a landscape archaeologist, the show's creator, Tim Taylor, tells you about the biggest challenges faced by the crew when putting together a programme and there's more of your questions, this time with an added surprise.

There's so much more from Time Team on Patreon. Head to patreon.com/timeteamofficial to find out what else Time Team has to offer, including a chance to hear an extended interview with Martin Carver on the secrets of Sutton Hoo.