26th March 2013, 10:58 PM
pdurdin Wrote:What Francis Pryor said was that when the financial crash happened, TT were suddenly ONE OF the biggest funders of archaeological projects that year.
Far be it from me to defend the Evil Empire, but I'm sure English Heritage's Commissions Programme put a lot more cash into British archaeology in 2008/9 than Time Team! Sure, their production budget might have exceeded the nearly £5m EH spent, but precious little of it would have gone on the dozen or so three-day furtles they carried out that year... (But I bet the canteen and hotel budget for those episodes would have bailed out the Cypriot crisis!)