Time Team 2012

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tjj wrote:
I join everyone else in wishing Mick Aston well for the future ... one door closes, another opens - as they say.
Indeed.

It's also worth mentioning that the core team consists of plenty of expertise as well: Stewart Ainsworth is a landscape archeologist of the highest calibre and the geophysics team and Phil Harding are hardly lacking in ability on the ground (and in the trenches). The new additions to the team seem to be suitably qualified and I think will fit in nicely. Youth may not be a substitute for experience, but could well add a fresh dynamic to the set-up. Time (ho ho) will tell, no doubt.

It seems a lot of people feel deeply connected to Mick Aston and TT. I'm afraid I'm not one of them as usually only watch it when flagged up here as an episode particularly relevant to prehistory.

There is now a Facebook campaigning to keep him on the show - I've just read this statement by Tim Taylor.

http://www.scribd.com/tim_darch/d/80914164-Tim-Taylor-Statement-regarding-Mick-Aston

The Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-Mick-Aston-and-the-old-Time-Team/182928901811592

thesweetcheat wrote:
It's also worth mentioning that the core team consists of plenty of expertise as well: Stewart Ainsworth is a landscape archeologist of the highest calibre and the geophysics team and Phil Harding are hardly lacking in ability on the ground (and in the trenches). The new additions to the team seem to be suitably qualified and I think will fit in nicely. Youth may not be a substitute for experience, but could well add a fresh dynamic to the set-up. Time (ho ho) will tell, no doubt.
It'll be interesting to see if Stewart Ainsworth stays on TT, he's leaving English Heritage as a result of recent cuts / changes.