Towcester, Northamptonshire
First screened 27 January 2008

Q & A

Time Team digger Matt Williams answers our questions

What's your favourite Time Team dig?
Codnor. A lovely site, romantic ruins, and a massive trench through the moat – with a gold coin at the bottom!

What's your favourite Time Team find?
The whale-bone artefacts in Barra.

What's the most important Time Team discovery?
The settlement at Lezzilick.

What's your best Time Team moment?
Attacking a fake wooden 'tank' with water balloons with Phil.

What's your favourite archaeological site in the UK?
Silchester Roman city.

And abroad?
Uppsala, the old Viking capital of Sweden with huge burial mounds.

Who's your archaeological hero?
Er, not quite an archaeologist, but David Attenborough's series on dinosaurs was a major inspiration.

What's your favourite archaeology book?
The Counties of Britain, A Tudor Atlas by John Speede.

If you could travel to one moment in time, where to and when?
Bronze-Age northern Europe. I would love to witness the ceremonies that involved throwing huge amounts of gold into bogs.

If you could dig one site, what would it be?
I would like to go back to Binchester, or excavate one of the undisturbed burial mounds at Uppsala.

If you could make one find, what would it be?
A perfectly preserved Iron-Age or Romano-British house – not high status or anything, just what the average family had.

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