Not an expert but I read that the Romans got up into Scotland, got their ass kicked in, then retreated and built the wall to keep the scary 'Barbarians' out of Roman land. There are forts near the wall on the Roman side and TT has even excavated a rare Roman cemetery at the wall in another episode.

And bless their hearts for doing 20 seasons of uploads. For one thing, they helped thousands of people keep their sanity during covid lockdowns.

@@cjsmalley5506 It’s not like guy explained within the first few minutes...turnip.

Oh my gosh, I had no idea he'd passed. How sad, he was truly a treasure. So glad he gave his time to this show to educate us and take us along on these adventures! He seems like a truly sweet man, and must have been a fabulous professor.

I think Phil and Brigid would go unconscious trying to drink each other under the table.

I know what you mean about the tech development. I'm semi binge watching. As much as I can while homeschooling 6. I love this show. Love the dynamic among the group

If I recall they used TT to showcase the growing technology they were using from the very start.

I'm watching them out of order, as KZfaq offers them up and the titles interest me. The fun thing for me is watching Tony's hair change. I was a bit startled to see him blonde yesterday!

That whole sequence with Phil, Tony, and Mick was funny. Mick: "You're telling us to go away, aren't you?"

It's really bad.

He only had 3 days

LOL In Britain you can hardly throw a rock without hitting some archaeology. And the rock you threw was archaeology.

Well ... Not exactly, the reason id that " political correctness " did have taking control of every sphere in our culture. A good example is " Secrets of the Dead ", an excellent series with a professional historical and scientific content; once it was produced here everything changed.

There was Time Team America. It has a couple of seasons, but I do not like the hosts. Search on You Tube and Netflix.

Reijer Zaaijer has the TT America episodes too. The first season host is an annoying overconfident hipster dude who's a bad illustrator, and the second season host is a woman who, I think, used to be a host for MTV or something, a million years ago. She's not as bad, but just kind of not quite the right fit for the role.

There is a lot of info on line. There is a program on youtube, History channel. Quite a few hits on google, too. There is so much more available than the first time I visited in 1983.

His final journey was really majestic :)

In my mind, it was a sign that the end was near for the series.

It's 2019, Just found out, He's been with ME til now & far beyond that knowledge!; I'd say rest in Peace but I've Just come from the pub & Nudie bar LMFAO :D!!

@@Pauldjreadman Mick died three months after the final episode of Time Team was broadcast.

I love everything about Time Team except that and when Tony is insulting or pessimistic. I wonder if it’s written like that?

Good question! I was wondering that, too!

the actual important bits were chopped off actually .. saw the full episode on another channel ... where they edit just after the commercial leader and follower ... and dont actually chop out any of the content

Don't worry. As *Winston Churchill* said _Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put._ Of course he _might_ have been serious. 🙃

Cutondogor Yeah...it's really pi55in me off. Seems someone has gone to some trouble to exorcise big chunks for no apparent reason. Bit unnecessary.

This one is not up to the usual editing standards, but I'm assuming there's a good reason for that. I'm watching 20 seasons of a series I've never seen before (and been inspired to buy as many DVDs as possible) thanks to a person who made the effort to upload them. #NotMyPlaceToB**ch

I'm guessing this was a recording of a recording, one that skipped a bit. But the length is sill almost exactly the length of other shows, so it can't be more than a few seconds missing overall.

Yawn, Zzzz

Yep McDonald's, are great, love their burgers, 😆😆👍

its not at cardross ... www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/22/robert-the-bruce-palace-remains The reason is they probably werent asked and didnt have permission

An odd choice.

They use it earlier in the episode too

Yeah, it's pretty weird. I think they were trying, unsuccessfully, to update the music of the show? They need something different from that though, perhaps without any random words.

imagen hearing that at 3am

@@janethvaldez4138 Yikes, I would flat need some new underwear.

+Barnaby ap Robert Her perfect complexion, that sexy pout, that sweet little bum...

And with a name of Geek.. You just know she is... :)

She seems like the whips, chains and leather type to me.

Can I stop groaning now?

Get over it.

@@johnmoss6631 You really can't get more cringeworthy than a serious response to a month old joke post on a history documentary, on youtube. Congratulations, people like you with comments like this make me wonder how you Forrest Gump types don't walk into oncoming traffic on the regular.

Tony is an actor. The facial hair was necessary for a role he was playing on a different program he was working on at that time.

@@deborahparham3783 True. That would be likely it. I hope a knighted gentlemen would not be seen in public so ridiculous! lol

I've done the same. Had the lens, but should have found and bought the magnifying glass. Cheapest and fastest to use what I had. A bit like using a wrench to hammer in a nail, because the hammer was in the shed, and I needed the nail hammered NOW!

Celto Loco So right! I can tell, that to day I have used a normal old AM-radio to find cut in a perimeter wire for a robotic lawn mower! You use whatever tool you have!

Celto Loco The weirdest improvised tool tale I ever heard was where a model airplane builder and new amateur radio hobbyist didn't know how to solder so he used airplane glue to assemble a 2,000 watt RF power amplifier kit. It actually worked...for a while. This person was dealing with over 2,000 volts in this kit too!!! Weird how people "think" sometimes. He's lucky his ineptitude didn't put him on the 6 o'clock news the hard way...

Celto Loco OMG...and I thought Bondo was bad. I'll bet that was a royal pain in the a.. to deal with. If I was the guy leasing it, I'd have parked the dang thing in the plate glass window of the dealership after finding that out...One more reason to bring a magnet with when car shopping

Celto Loco Nothing worse than a botched bondo job and lousy filler too. I've seen window screen used to replace ENTIRE rocker panels. With all the effort required to do it wrong, they could have cut new metal in with half the effort and have a heck of a lot fewer ripples and orange peel...

With a small tool only. Damage control.

@@flitsertheo Actually *Tony Robinson* was _then_ an experienced amateur archæologist of over ten years standing.

Rolling eyes and groaning 😅

That would not be reasonable.. they had plenty of standards and banners that would clearly show the wind direction

Stigovax of Gaul!!

It's the whole point of the show... that much can be learned in a short period of time about the past... Time Team. Besides, almost all of the experts you see have regular day jobs with universities and archaeological organisations. Much of what they did, as in this case, was to give public bodies without much resources a comprehensive assess of a site.

It’s not why they’re there. And It’s not reckless. *Months* go into the preparation for each location. But the purpose is to do an investigative excavation to assess the site so the local teams can follow up more extensively.

As Bazanadu said, everyone had regular jobs and also the costs had to be kept manageable. Time Team was shown on a commercial TV channel and therefore had to make money. Following on from RKHageman, Time Team conducted archaeological evaluations rather than full-scale excavations. They would categorise the nature, extent and state of preservation of the archaeology and other units/organisations may undertake follow-up work if it was deemed necessary.

No. It was the constraints of the archæologists time. They were all working archæologists with full-time jobs in archæology who had to get back to them on *Monday.*

The archæologists were all professionally employed as archæologists elsewhere, 3 days is quite common for exploratory excavations and the programme was otherwise very expensive. After the dig they usually stopped, recorded everything and shut it all down. In some cases the investigation was carried on by others, either amateur or professional, in others that is planned and in a few cases they found pretty well all there was to be found. They _always_ wrote a full report and that can usually be found easily in pdf for free (look at www.wessexarch.co.uk or local archæological society websites). Most finds were given to local museums for study. Skeletons were studied and then reburied in consecrated ground unless there was a _very_ pressing reason not to (and that would need government permission).

@Bill Seabrook A little, sure, but not on-site. Pre- and post-production were normally done by the TV company itself with material assistance from professional archæologists and historians.