This week sees the beginning of the new BBC2 series entitled ‘Digging for Britain’; it is presented by Alice Roberts and produced by 360 Production and sees heavy involvement from the Scheme and features several high profile discoveries. The screening dates are:
- Episode 1 Romans – Thursday 19/08/10 21:00 BBC2
- Episode 2 Pre-history – Thursday 26/08/10 21:00 BBC2
- Episode 3 Anglo-Saxon – Thursday 02/09/10 21:00 BBC2
- Episode 4 Tudors – Thursday 09/09/10 21:00 BBC2
The preview videos from 360 Production below, gives you some more details about what the series will feature, the first introduces the series and makes reference to the 360 production website; the second features one of the Scheme’s alumni, Caroline McDonald:
You can read more about this production on 360′s blog and there’s a few newspaper articles already floating around (listed below):
Amazing item was it “found” or was it donated by a Metal Detectorist that has been shown little or no appreciation ?
Maybe if it is the latter it would be good to see hear the story and finder details ?
After all if it could have been legally kept by the finder and not kindly donated.
At The Fossil Store (www.thefossilstore.com) we can’t wait for this series to start. We’re so excited about it we’ve made a new section on our site to ensure the Great British public have somewhere to buy fossils like those featured on the program
The importance of that Roman lamp [being the only complete specimen ever found in Britain,[The 3 in the BM are imported from Pompeii!] ] surely merited acknowlegment of the generous detectorist who found then jointly donated it to the nation? But no,not a mention just a vague inference that it had been found by Archeologists via “…it has a story. Before WE discovered it.” ???? Disgraceful!.
Yet again the BBC refuses to acknowledge the dedicated work of metal detectorists and their contribution to our knowledge of our past.It wasn`t just found it was the result of many hours of work !
Nice programme and nice advert for PAS.
Missed opportunity tho not naming young Danny as the finder of the lantern (note Caroline mentioned when “we” found it – that must hurt Danny). This item was donated to the museum by the landowner without Dannys knowledge at the time – and the museum still will not acknowledge him as the finder when it will be displayed.
Would have done no harm – and would perhaps go some way to repair the hurt feelings of Danny and his family about this.
This is not some hardened detectorist – but a young teenager who is an excellent detectorist – and one PAS/ Ipswich Museum should be building a relationship with- not destroying one.
Yes it was indeed found by a metal detectorist.
It was found on a metal detecting charity rally, I was there
Reg
Paul
Co
Not sure the Scheme is the one that failed to name him in this episode of Digging for Britain. Things that were filmed were trimmed heavily.
Dan
I know Dan – it would make a programme just whats on the editors floor. It doesn’t help you guys when something as good as this isn’t credited to the finder and causes bad feeling.
I have to agree with what has been said here already. I was at this rally as well.
If Danny hadn’t found this with his metal detector it would probably have been destroyed by ploughing in time, as there was no indication of habitation that would have triggered an archaeological dig that would have rescued it.
Without metal detectorists, most of the Treasure that has been found in the last forty years would still be in the ground and gradually deteriorating due to farming practices.
It is a huge kick in the teeth to the young lad that he is not featured or even credited as the finder of this remarkable object.
I think there’s an undercurrent of poor quality control in this series. It’s not just detectorists that get bashed.
If my ears were not deceiving me, in the most recent episode Alice used the words “Early Homonyms” instead of “Early Homonids” at one point (over a background of chalk cliffs and the sea, probably the Seven Sisters).
I edit reports for other people and am painfully aware of the existence of homonyms but I didn’t think they ever bashed rocks together….
The word at 49:30 in program 2 is “hominins”: Alice says it carefully enough that it’s clearly neither “homonyms” nor “hominids”. Sadly, the person doing the subtitles wasn’t listening hard enough (or, like you, didn’t recognize the word), and used “hominids”; correct, but less precise.