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Myself and a good friend of mine both used to work as professional commercial archaeologists in the UK, we absolutely loved it, and continue to still work within the subject.  However, there is a very big gap between the professional archaeologists and the interested amateur which both of us disliked.  The idea that because we went to school for 3 years to study something automatically means that we know everything about history and the past is utterly wrong.

We are working on creating a community for archaeologists, historians, heritage workers and anyone who has an interest in the subject to come and find out about sites that are being worked on, latest publications, related events in your area, education opportunities and day courses and the such.   The idea behind the site being that rather than just plain facts about the sites, there is also a discussion where the opinons of EVERYONE can be heard and considered rather than just those of the professionals.

The site is in its early stages yet, but we are working on much more functionality in the background, so bare with it :D

Interested in history, archaeology, heritage? know a good site, monument or event thats going on in your area? read a good history related book? Then why not come and tell us about it.

Also, if you have any suggestions about how we can improve the site, or things that you would like to see on it, please let me know!

Oh, how wonderful!  I will likely camp out there so much, you will think I live there!

Teque

Great stuff :D  If you want to be a proper contributor and write a blog for the page about stuff thats going on in your area or your opinon on arch matters, just let me know and ill set you up for it :D

I must admit I'm a history fan ;)

Where's Tony Robinson when ya need him, eh? :P

always been interested in the "vitrified" hill forts in Southern Scotland, as in: how the hell did they manage to glass the damn things? they didn't have nukes then, hehe

so either the locals discovered a method of heating the walls over a huge area simultaneously (which no one has managed to replicate, they have tried)
or maybe the Romans used some peculiar incendiary when attacking them (but if so, why no signs of such elsewhere?)

very odd!

lots of interesting things around my way like Bothwell Castle (scene of the battle with the Covenanters), Falls of the Clyde, Hamilton Mausoleum, etc :)

Haha, im afraid im no fan of time team Steven.

Its the curiousities like that, that make the subject as interesting as it is.   When we were digging you would come acrross things that would just stop you in your tracks in a "WOW" fashion or a "damn i doubt most people would even know how to do that today!"

We would love for you to write on there if you have the time!   Just dont be too mean to the english :D

I havent had time to write instructions yet, but gimme a week or so and i will.

hey TimeTeam brings the subject to the masses ;)

oh I also love things like how the hell folk actually made things, withouut modern tech

in the Hunter Museum in Scotland, there's a AMAZING gold and gemstone brooch from hm 8th or 12 th century, that looks like Faberge had a hand in it, awesome!

and it's only recently they discovered how "Damascus" steel really came ot be made. etc etc

then look at how massive buildings were constructed, how the Romans laid seiege to English hill forts, how they made all those straight arrow shafts etc etc

sorry bud I have enough to do, alas :) cousin keeps asking me ot go on Facebook, jebuz I can barely cope with what I do at the moment

I worked with experimental Archaeology for a while, thats the job of trying stuff out to see how it worked, best job ill EVER have, sadly never really made enough money from it to live off, but if i could i would be right back there.

Hehe, its not problem if you dont have time, I understand entirely!  It is good at least that TimeTeam has brought it to the masses, it at least isnt as bad as bonekickers, if you ever saw that heheh, which suggested taht we all used our "archaeological imaginaaaaaation" :D

shame, mate :( find at awesome how folk could do things, no damn UFOs for the pyramids, lol
imagine the genius it took to figure out that carving hundreds of channels into the bedrock, pouring water in, would give them a perfect, flat level to begin from, I am SO in awe of that ! :)

saw a great bit on youtube guy making the ultimate sword blades, new version of damascus steel using liquid nitrogen to quench the metal so it's vastly stronger/harder than anything else.

http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-do-they-do-it-6-creating-super-steel.html

bonekickers..omg, what a waste of a great idea and actors, ugh, and they actors were horribly directed they didn't "gel" at all, and boy was it dumb

hey I like fantasy etc but so much was...dumb, sigh

It at least gave us something to talk about by the site hut during the days :D

Love these people who work on things like blacksmithing and the such today, always a little bit eccentric and always have the best stories to tell.   They also, generally at least, have this fantastic modesty about how much they know even though they could probalby write books on their knowledge.   

Once we have some decent experimental archaeology reports uploaded ill send you some links to the best stuff so you can peruse it if you fancy.   I take it you are most interested in military stuff, smithing, klins that sort of stuff? (i.e. the best stuff!)

hehe yeah that's my fave bits on Time Team cause they actually get folk in to show how to do things

and you wonder: who the hell was the first person to make chain mail? or the babylonian that invented electroplating 3000+ years ago etc

oh sure! :)

arms armour fortifications all rock ;)