Why did Time Team only dig Sheffield once?

[Electerrific 14]

With Sheffield having a very long history, with it's site dating back to pre-Roman times and it's early settlements being Anglo-Saxon (Sheffield = Escafeld) by the rivers Sheaf & Don, why didn't Time Team visit us more than once in 20yrs?

 

We had just their one visit, in March 2004, which was, of course, a Special about "Steel City's" industrial past.

 

 

But why was nothing dug around our huge Sheffield castle, which existed from the 12th to the 17th centuries and whose foundations still exist? Or even any digs around the Cathedral or Templeborough areas for much earlier archaeology?

 

Is it simply a permission issue? Or because not much 'evidence' has been found in those areas previously by many other local digs?

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[darra 10]

good question. When I used to walk the dog on Wincobank hill there was an old battered sign saying it was a sight of special interest or something. I think it was an iron age fort or something. Wonder if the signs still there (it was over 25 years ago)

[Electerrific 14]

Darra, this might help answer your question in turn! These good people, Friends of Wincobank Hill, look after the site.

 

http://wincobankhill.btck.co.uk/

 

We have plenty of interesting history here in Sheff?

[darra 10]

Darra, this might help answer your question in turn! These good people, Friends of Wincobank Hill, look after the site.

 

http://wincobankhill.btck.co.uk/

 

We have plenty of interesting history here in Sheff?

thanks. We do I used to belong to the Hunter archaeological society when I lived in Sheffield. Many years ago (20+) there was an outside broadcast van parked up there with a small caravan transmitting the snooker. I used to stand and watch the snooker for a while until it got to cold or too windy or both.

Edited February 12, 2014 by darra

[andyofborg 11]

someone nicked their shovels last time they were here

[Daven 10]

They are only allowed north of Watford once in a lifetime.

[flyer 10]

So NOT true they only found one bit of old pot and my mother chucked that out

[willman 10]

Didn't they dig Rotherham once as well ?, i wonder if it was just a "county" type thing.

[muckymurphy 10]

i'm glad the time team dont dig sheffield. i'm fed up with bristol accented prats desecrating ancient sites for cheap television and getting excited when they find a piece of broken crockery. angry wives have been breaking crockery for centuries and no other blokes over that time have got excited.... just a headache.

what the time team did at sea henge was unforgiveable and dampened my interest in the programme.

[fatrajah 10]

If I remember rightly, Tony Robinson seemed rather bored.

[flyer 10]

i'm glad the time team dont dig sheffield. i'm fed up with bristol accented prats desecrating ancient sites for cheap television and getting excited when they find a piece of broken crockery. angry wives have been breaking crockery for centuries and no other blokes over that time have got excited.... just a headache.

what the time team did at sea henge was unforgiveable and dampened my interest in the programme.

 

Those grapes was prob'sour anyway:hihi::hihi:

[Plain Talker 11]

If I remember rightly, Tony Robinson seemed rather bored.

 

Ah, fatrajah... sod TR... it was Phil and Mick who, IMO, were the people to be concerned about as the ones who actually had something about them, and who knew what they were talking about:- not having to rely on "Idiot Boards", or, indeed, (...speaking of TR...) Bored Idiots!