YES!!

Hairyharold we need to get on Netflix! Yuge hit in states

Indeed.

They tried an American version but I don't think it worked out.

It had it's succesfull run of 20 years. All of the original members are in their 70's now (Mick Aston and Robin Bush have passed away), so even if they were to do a new run with new archaeologists, it wouldn't be the same. Let's just treasure these episodes.

Most of the team is now retired or sadly passed away so it wouldn't have the same feel.

It can come back but got to have the right people. As McRambro mentions a lot of the people who were on the team have retired. it won't be the same people.

They can’t. Not happening.

The concept may work, but already in the last seasons everyone was up in arms just because of new members. Qualified, and in my opinion likable, but they lost to many viewers. And there might be a lack of fitting sites, as they need a whole bunch of them lined up before filming. There's almost unlimited sites that need digging, but it has to have some kind of proof there ever was anything there, and there must be some kind of theory or question that the dig can answer in 3 days. So, Time Team will probably never return.

Time Team is currently producing new episodes. They released a few new digs last year, all available on youtube. And, they're part-funded by a patreon, so if folks like us want to see more, we actually have a tangible way to make that happen now. :)

***** nahhh, most kids I know think skeletons are cool. They 'd love it.

LOL! What's your job, if I may ask?

MissCattitude63 that would be telling, but I did work for three years for English Heritage on various digs in Northumberland and Cumbria. If you have seen the Birdoswald Time Team episode, I have worked there. Its a fantastic job working on an Archaeological dig, damn hard work and often miserable conditions but you just feel like you are actually doing something worthwhile, rather than shuffling paper around (there's a clue!)..

Man, I hear ya. I had to quite college in my 2nd year (was planning on teaching history) simply because I had to choose between living on my own and moving back home, which was not an option, or going to work full time. At least we can watch this series and dream..

I've been excavating in Bulgaria, Syria and Germany. Every excavation was great. But in now 17 years of excavating I have ruined my joints. Can only go digging where its warm, but can't do it, because Iam not willing to pay for being part of an excavation. Anyone here who knows a place, where I won't have to pay for???

For me that would be nearly everyone. What a waste of a life.

Yeah, i am binge watching the complete series now, during the 'corona sessions'!

A lifesaver during these surreal times

Ha! I noticed that too. I'd like to have a sweater like that. Not the socks though.

Socks visible @ min. 9:00

hahaha

You're welcome!!! cheers

@@dr.elizabethmartin7118 as if the man could be anymore loveable

I knew Mick died, but who else died?

Yup I love the time team, plenty of UK re runs at the moment and was sad news the mick passed away last year, this happened just before the team had major fractures in the group, and ultimately lead to the shows closure, pity

kev maxwell I've watched 98% of the series so far..the only 2 regular shows I've not watched are the Caribbean episodes. I still have quite a few specials to watch too, but it is a great show. It is sad to have lost Mick..cool guy

It's a good show, and a good change from all the celebrity wanna be's that seem to be all over the UK TV these days,

kev maxwell sounds like American TV...dumb 'reality' shows, and other non funny comedies n such lol Time Team is a great show for sure.

Lol the world over I would think Gary, not that I don't like to switch off and chill, just can't be doing with the wannabes lol 😁 Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone

They are awesome. I wish Mick was still alive. They should bring this show back. I would do whatever it takes to watch it.

Justin Rennie He has socks on that match the sweater so obviously made just for him.

If you are not familiar with Tony Robinson's "Worst Jobs" series, you should check it out here on YT at a "channel" called SonicGameReviews. I don't know how many episodes were in the original series, but there are several on that channel. He explores the worst jobs in different eras & in many other categories. Tony gamely tries his hand at every one of the jobs, many times dressed authentically- even as a woman a few times (picture Blackadder's dogsbody dressed as a medieval fishwife)! Not only is the series very informative, but Tony's natural sense of humor makes it entertaining, as well.

Hunny Beez Thanks!

JeevesReturns Also check out Tony's book,"The Worst Jobs In History". And his YT "Walking Through History" and "Crime and Punishment"

Pretty much anything he presents is great. He could narrate a documentary about even the Kardashian family and I would sit through it.

Check out his audiobooks of abridged terry pratchett novels, his characters are beyond awesome, not to mention playing grubby servant baldrick (alongside hugh laurie &, stephen fry) in Blackadder - the best historical comedy known to mankind (ignore season1), that's why he got the gig. Having said that a makeup artist/costume designer friend of mine has worked on set with him and allegedly is a total self centered dick to everyone, complete git, always has been apparently, laughs off actually 'unhelpful' words to people, angrily vents and stomps off if displeased and the like, had literally nothing positive to say, I could hear the blood boiling at the mere mention. I can see it with heinsight watching again, how the other team members have to laugh off to camera quite unhelpfully rude constant criticism (far more than playing devils ad), and when he's obviously really angry he couldn't go up in the chopper when only 1 seat available for an actual archeologist on one occasion etc. Still best man for the job, shame he isn't nicer.

Not just Friesland though? For example: Anne Soldaat - musician: Groningen Anne de Vries - writer: Drenthe

Right. Trouble continues

Dennis jensen Canada and the US destroys all of it...

I live in Denmark and we have amazing history here as well, but I'd love to return to England for another history expedition.

@@ForeverLumoz You Sir / Madam are ancestors of the mighty vikings . Ivar the boneless who along with King Halfden settled in York ( Jorvic ) . You guys ruled for over one hundred years .

@@Cassxowary Much of our archaeology is on protected lands.

Sherry H. There are things that look something like that in Monument Valley.

I have wondered about this too. It seems every site has a three day limit.

soslothful 3 days because this is a TV programme and that is the format, but also because a test dig with limited time is also a valid archaeological technique: you look to see if there is anything interesting in the hope that others can some day look more closely. Or you dig just sufficiently to support or possibly disprove a theory. And of course landowners may not want to be deprived of their land indefinitely. In this case it is a nationally important ancient monument and visitor attraction, so commercial interests will have a part to play as well.

ritorno100 In addition, the archaeologists, historians, finds experts etc all have regular day jobs. Being away for three days doesn't interfere too much with their other, main work. Time Team did what is called 'evaluation archaeology' - evaluate a site quickly to determine what it is. If it is of importance then it can be protected (if it hadn't already been so) and therefore it becomes a scheduled monument.

Ditto, Marc. Dig on, lads!

Although it's just a test dig, I'd have a difficult time just walking away if it was a really intriguing site, so perhaps separate arrangements can be made outside of the show, for further work. One would hope.

i have it on good authority they do

Thanks, I came to the comments looking for the coordinates.

Was on a day walk of the area at the weekend and we walked down Priory Road and past the Priory house, but you can't get in there to see it. Old and very pretty house.

You would hit something - and I _don't_ mean just a stone or a sewer!

maybe he actually tried to tone down his accent in the beginning

Where is that accent from?

@@al4berry It's Bristol

I was trying to place that too. I think he would fit in with some people I’ve heard from Alabama. Just stronger on the Rs and less the Oys.

he is professor Mick Aston,the head of the dig.he started this programme with the producer Tim Burton.

They are exploratory digs, if something important is there then later a full dig that takes months or years can be done in the future.

@@JETWTF if you don’t know the actual reason you should simply say that....

Kim Jameson From what I've read the dig continues AFTER the TV cameras go away. Time Team has published a vast amount of archaeologic papers. If I remember correctly the team is in the top 5 in terms of published archaeological output in the UK..

Kim Jameson I think it's probably a dragon.

If the dig continues after the allotted time by the Time Team, the archaeologists will present the landowner with a bill, unless the dig is directed by the museum.

Most of the time the holes are filled back in unless someone can afford to pay the 4-5 figure daily cost of running an archaeological site.

Lol. For the record, in case some donnae appreciate your humor... folks left pottery in these places _because_ it was broken. If something was still useful, the residents or later scavengers removed anything intact and of use or value and took it with them.

+Bryon Lape time team needs a lot more Faye

When I was living in a tiny village in the north of Scotland, I regularly walked past a small field at the side of the main road. It was in the middle of a street of houses with a stone wall around it, and it had a fairly uniform circular lump in the middle. No signage, no fences, nothing to suggest it was anything significant, but I knew it must be something. Turned out it was this: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=29885. Just there. Nothing special. Just a (likely) protohenge from the 2nd or 3rd millenium BC. No big deal. :)

You'll be needing a bar to go with it.

+Brian Smith Lots, and many accept amateur volunteers. Google "volunteer vacations archaeology" and go dig.

Feather hat? I know, lame! ah well. Phil's a great guy, buy him a pint! Mick, GOD rest ya, you are missed!

you don't need DNA when they had the date of death via radio carbon dating. Some of the bodies were 7th century, which was before the Danes showed up.

@@maxdecphoenix yes but the saxons showed up before the 7th century and they were originaly germanic. On the other hand it seems that saxon culture spread further than their genes so dna in it self is not always as useful at this stuff as you migth think.

Bryon Lape either way it’s great so... but for historical education purposes, it would be interesting

Exactly what I was wondering.

Many of their projects are picked up by university and county (or the British version) archeological projects. They often mention that in closing. Some sites are listed on the national registry of ancient monuments to be studied and protected.

They're usually reburied once they're done being studied.

Pauldjreadman There’s lots of stuff on KZfaq. Keep looking.

LOL that would be for European sites. But there are plenty of ice age and native american sites here. History channel does alot of documentaries. Time Team came over for the Jamestown, Dinosaurs, & Maryland sites. There is also a show called Unearthing American over here. Interesting show on ancient sites.

***** excuse me, but you must live in the planes or something, out here. We have lots of sites in the mountains where they built stuff just as sophisticated as any bronze age European. We have pottery, grain storage spaces, houses with rock and mud construction, stone tools as sophisticated as any made in metal, extremely beautiful patterns on surviving textiles and woven baskets, then go south. Out of the US, the structures and cultures in the central and southern Americas are awesome and while the churches were battling in Europe, leaving people stupid and under their control for generations, the Americas were in a period of construction rivaling the romans in water management and agriculture.

***** excuse me but that's my heritage as a citizen of the southwest with native blood your badmouthing! And whose way of thinking is coming into prominance. Within the science and the environmental awareness you guys took thousands of years to rediscover?! Don't be calling someone a dumb ass just because you can! It makes you look ignorant, arrogant and self important. This is you tube and I don't give a shit if I spelled one word the wrong way when there are thousands to chose from

***** not offended at all jackass just pointing out a fact. You just need to look up the snake mound and see really awesome pre Columbian works. You also need to take a really good look at the anasazi and others. Your arrogance and assumptive nature is showing again. The fact that the writing styles are unique and the navaho was the only thing not ever deciphered by the work war two code breakers says something. So does the fact that most of us following traditional paths never lost site of the interconnectedness of life, the fact that everything alive talks In some way, that no one person really ever owns any land and cutting trees just because is a bad idea, same with farming the same spots over and over without giving back to the land the nutrients and chemicals just don't cut it especially when being delivered in salt!!?? Yeah, who wins the culture clash!?

***** who is this we and why do you think its better to have years worth of toxins dumped into bodies and the environment!? Stripped to bare rock for sparkles, areas that used to be full of life , monopolize space for a single species, chase off or kill creatures that kept the balance and health of the surrounding creatures?! Do you realize that after the wolf was reintroduced into Wyoming and surrounding states, the deer and other wild game animals have been found by the hunters to be in better quality for their hunts? Or the bats, another creature"your culture" persecuted to protect domestic species.. The devour pest species, don't they?? Or do you prefer your food coated in poison? Or your cities lacking rain because you created a heat bubble with the pollution making it hard for you to breathe and killing off what's left of the plants you tried to bring with you to make the place look like the place you came from?! You like sicknesses that can't be cured because they are caused by bad air and you don't want to get rid of being the only one in your car do you? Or at least grab the public transit system ??!! You wouldn't have to be putting up with recycle labels and ad campaigns about environmental responsibility had "your culture" hadn't been so full of itself and I'm not wrong and your arrogant self can't deny it

no they spend another day pro recording the trenches and repairing the mess properly, then pay for all the subsequent analysis needed.

They re-inter them with the greatest respect.

Roberta Hubert The Detectorists?