Having Time Team in your house

Pat and Morris are the residents whose house and back garden provided the site for this Time Team excavation. What was it like to have their home invaded for television? Pat gave the Time Team website the low-down.

'Just under two years ago we were digging a new koi carp fish pond and we came across a skull,' says Pat. 'After going through the normal channels we contacted Time Team and then received the call from the production office to say that they wanted to dig our garden for one of the programmes. We were absolutely thrilled.

'It was great when the production crew actually rolled in. I'm enjoying every moment of it. My garden looks a bit like the Somme, but it's been worth it – I'm chuffed to bits to have the guys here. I'm sure I'm going to cry after they've gone home.

'Everybody has been brilliant, such a good group of people. Nobody has been starry or anything like that. They're just like they are on the telly. I was up at 5am this morning, I just couldn't wait for everyone to turn up. I think that when this is all over we are going to end up with a few more ponds than we started with, though, what with all these trenches.'

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