Reminds me of the artificial hype building around the first segways.
What a load of crap.
This is funded by a TV show whose primary concern is ratings earned by how exciting is the entertainment value. I think that explains the low-content but very breathless press-release article now: they want to hype it up for the show to get viewers. This smells like show-biz hype rather than scientific excitement.
Time Team is a good citizen of the archeological community. It has real professional archaeologists with academic credentials, not just entertainers.
It's funded via Patreon these days and is on YouTube, not TV, so ratings aren't as much of a concern.
Blame the media for the breathless hype if you like, they are the ones benefiting from the clicks here.
Then she rushes back to tell them the fragment of metal is some weird unknown titanium alloy, and it makes no sense it would be in a site of 3,000 year old dirt!
Then, in a separate trench they unearth an escape pod from an alien vessel.
Something truly awesome but can’t say unless you tune in Saturday 7:00pm
Straight lines and rectangular forms in Orkney? Must be aliens.
sherr•2mo ago
bcraven•2mo ago
https://go.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/nl3/tapWasYdOPt1rjrphEnKYA?hl...
"John Gater presents the initial GPR results. Anne and Mark seem suitably impressed!"