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Time Team: In-depth Information
There have been a number of excavations on the site of the Anglo-Saxon Monastery, these excavations had discovered buildings as well as a fine mould and pin which can be seen in the Museum of Hartlepool. The Anglo-Saxon Monastery of St. Hilda flourished from the 640’s AD to the second half of the 8th Century and was one of the earliest and most important religious sites in the country. In 657 AD Hilda moved to Whitby and Hartlepool dropped out of the limelight. We do not know how the Monastery ended; it probably just declined in the uncertain times of the Viking raids. There followed two months of intense activity as Ella Galinski (Assistant Producer), Amanda Fiddler (Director) and Production Management all visited the area, were briefed on the project and met various people. We were all ready to go on Monday 21 st September 1999. While the location of the trenches is decided by the archaeologists, the decision whether or not to dig them and how many to dig is very clearly made by the people making the television programme. The people making the decisions were Tim Taylor (Producer), Amanda Fiddler (Director) and Laurence Vulliamy (Second Unit Director). It had also been decided that the “cameo” for this programme would be the creation of an Anglo-Saxon Book which was to be decorated with a metal plaque copied from one of the moulds found in previous excavations. |
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