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Shooters Hill, South London: Directed by Michael Douglas. With Tony Robinson, Francis Pryor, Phil Harding, Helen Geake. Eaglesfield Park was a site for tethering barrage balloons during WW2. There were also stop line defenses to explain.
- Getting The Data
- Parsing Dates
- Parsing Locations
- Plotting Points
The episode titles and locations were gathered from Wikipedia pages in March 2021. As there were not too many pages, I copied and pasted the tables into a spreadsheet where I could easily get columns and rows into a consistent structure for further processing. Most Time Team episodes were focused on a single location, but a few were spread across m...
Original air dates are included on the Wikipedia pages in the format ’16 January 1994′. Typically when you load a file with pandas you can that date columns should be parsed with the ‘parse_dates’ parameter. By default pandas uses ‘month first’ dates e.g. mm-dd or mm/dd. In the simple case that you are providing a ‘day first’ date you can simply ad...
The main challenge with handling the data was that there was not a consistent way of recording site locations. Thankfully all were in latitude and longitude rather than British National Grid coordinates, so I didn’t need to do that conversion. A final complication was that some of the ‘special’ episodes didn’t really have a particular location asso...
Now that I had the coordinates and associated episode metadata such as Title, Episode Number etc. I wanted to plot the Time Team map using Folium. To do this I largely followed the instructions on this blog post for Geopandas. Geopandas extends the functionality of basic pandas dataframes to support geographic and mapping operations. The key step w...
Oct 21, 2010 · Ye who have a spark in your veins of cockney spirit, smile or mourn acccording as you take things well or ill;— Bold Britons, we are now on Shooter's Hill!
Tony Robinson and the team unearth the hidden archaeology of the biggest British battle that never was: the defence against a Nazi invasion in 1940.Shooters ...
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May 20, 2019 · From 10.30am to 12.30pm Andy Brockman (a local archaeologist) will be talking about the making of the TIME TEAM episode that was filmed on Shooters Hill during the Summer of 2007.
Feb 10, 2008 · Time Team identified a number of sites in the area to tell the story of what might have happened in 1939-45. But is this archaeology? That's one of the many questions they had to answer over the three days of their investigation.
Jul 14, 2020 · A map showing every Time Team dig, I thought you might find it interesting. https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=a42a4f1ea8dd4edb9159fa261f9734a8
