I live in an area of perennial drought. We desperately need rain. If we could just get the Time Team to visit. . .

I think most of us realize this group of archaeological diggers, intellectuals & good guys, of course Phil is included...lol. Joking aside, the "cast" makes you feel you're with your best buddies, out doing something with the same passion. Have a few brews afterwards & pledging never to lose touch with one another. Tho, we often do, later thinking of those times we've lost & this show reminds us we're never truly parted from lifelong friends. It's 2023, nearly 10 years since the show ended & we still love this show from around the world fans. Call your old friends today & surprise them. Me? I'm calling my son,tho I do every week.

I've been watching these so often I'm catching myself driving on the left side of the road.

Phil has a new hat with a very fine, if small Teal feather. So much fun, even the rain feels cozy amongst friends sharing a beer & their common frustration with more good British humour, no doubt.

Don't tell me Neil's in charge...aahh, we're good, there's Phil. I can step back from the edge.

Time Team is A Timeless Treasure!

Thanks to those who have uploaded *Time Team.* I missed a lot of them when I was in hospital and now I'm able to (slowly!) catch up. That was in 2016 and now, in 2020, I have caught up - and I still watch it again and again. 👍

This video is labeled "Time Team S13-E12 Scotch Broth, Applecross, Near Skye", but I just watched Tony say we are in West Sussex, the Roman road between Chichester and London. As a Yank I am not totally up on UK geography but I think we are a long way from Skye and Scotland...Nice episode anyway ! - signed, Drew "The Scot" Anderson

In all these episodes, i don't think Stuart and John are appreciated about how important their skills are.

Phil has a new hat!!! Love it!

This would seem to be S13 E12 "The Taxman's Tavern - A Roman Mansio", Alfoldean, Horsham, Sussex, 9 April 2006. The Skye one is S13 E13 "Scotch Broch" Applecross near Skye, Scottish Highlands, 16 April 2006 (i.e. the next one). Evidence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes#Series_13_.282006.29

I would love to just sit with maps in hand and talk to Stewart about Roman Roads and the landscape.

Nice one! This is an episode I've been searching for...Thank you Reijer Zaaijer!

Thanks Reijer, appreciate you uploading these episodes!

I wish to heaven Neil would SLOW DOWN when he speaks.

Thanks for posting. I love the early Roman history of So. England. I had the opportunity once to stay in Chichester and see the remains of Romans and the Fishbourne Palace. Fascinating.

nice to see, real people, doing real work, not much of that left, these days, and, i do miss the team, they were like, watching, a second family, and yes im a dinosaur

Oh, I bet that was a helicopter ride dream come true for Stewart. Lucky bugger!

Have seen this one several times. Still interesting and well done. Cape Cod says Hello.

Victor is so talented!

That's what I love about this show . 2 seconds before the opening theme song starts and I already see crop marks in the background . Any moment Francis is going to parachute in with his trowel 🤣 *In all seriousness though how come they sometimes have on hard hats and sometimes don't . I'm guessing it's probably heavy equipment behind the camera that we don't see but I'm still curious. *Last thing . I mean when y'all say motel I'm assuming y'all mean fortified hotel like the old Western forts in the US . A place you could pull the wagons with your goods and wealth inside a walled enclosure for protection . Maybe a better example would be the forts along the silk road ... I'm assuming it's more that than motel 6

I love this show, everyone is so bright and, usually, so respectful. But around minute 44 in this episode Tony says that this is a luxury place with “all the services a traveller would have expected”. And then we have this conversation: Tony: “I’ve pulled up into the mansio, what do I get for my money?” Neil Holbrook: “You’re a very important person, Tony, you would get a room for yourself, I’m sure, … you can go out, perhaps have your dinner in the dining room, have a bath, AND A FEW ALTERNATIVE ATTRACTIONS, PERHAPS A FEW GIRLS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.” Tony: “FANTASTIC!” WHAT?????? Tony????

This episode, S13E12 is cross-labeled with S13E12. This is the Taxman's Tavern, Sussex. E13 is Scotch Broch, Applecross. Note that E13 doesn't appear on the channel page. Look at the suggestions or search for it. It is in the playlist.

Holy cow, Phil got a new hat! :D

The mansio is visible as crop marks and the satellite images used for this area on Google Earth are very high resolution. You can make out other features and even see individual furrows in the fields. 51°05'07.7"N 0°24'19.4"W

Hearing Niell Holbrook talking about someone else, living in a fantasy world, is kind of funny :)

i really do think victor is the unsung hero of time team

What a great episode.

Phil is a time traveling Pirate from 1754 stuck in our time. To adapt he became an archeologist because, digging for booty is wut om gud ah.

Thanks so much for posting

Love the quote a big pile of pants in the ground so very Time Team lol

Just think...........2000 years from now someone will dig up the bag of trash I just threw out, and be fascinated by the contents.

I see Bridget has taken over Carenza's role in Time Team...

These videos are a real time machine - archeology - 20 yrs of shows - and who knows how many years of comments, most of them lost in time as people find and view - Well here's my comment - Ditches - so much effort, yards / meters wide and deep, here truly massive 3, 6 more meters / yards! As defenses the ramparts would have had to have been just as MASSIVE. Earth at best can be 'stacked' at 60 degrees at the cost of almost instant erosion, 45 degrees can be maintained if quickly planted. In either case erosion would have been major, up to feet per year in areas refilling ditches or depositing over interior 'habitable' areas of enclosure. If wood had been used to retain earth, a major forest would have been leveled - at HUGE effort and sucking up MEGA resources that could have been used for economically productive efforts most of which would have really been needed just to survive or provide the tiny surpluses needed to provide for growth and bad times. Also, after setting so much timber, why not just rely on that with smaller 'moat' Multiple 10 foot wide and deep moats with 10 x 20 earth 'wall' would indicate MAJOR ACTIVE threats, in the 1000s with heavy siege catapults, which case the Romans would have mobilized the army and if necessary exterminate the peoples 'acting out'. If it's 'petty' theft it's hard to imagine the more prosperous well heeled Romanized wouldn't have had the pull to get the Romans to beat on the local criminal gangs / families. If it's wild life, geeze, Brits had been living off just about every square foot of land for a couple of thousand years so short of a temp pig explosion, seems unlikely dangerous bear, herds of ruminants, even packs of wolves would have been that plentiful. There needs to be an ECONOMIC reason for such massive excavations. An economic benefit that will continue to provide a return, or is continually needed. Also, having spent decades rebuilding the familes part of an original land grants 'manor' 200 yrs old in the US, mostly on my own, I can attest that when you are resource poor, ie, can't hire out at will, can't afford redoing work, ie all work has to dove tail with other work, synergies need to be identified and capitalized on, efforts now might end up being part of work finished decades down the line. Therefore.... ditches, yes, defensive, well, would in times of strife allow a levy something to line up behind as a force multiplier, yes tends to keep wild animals out, yes tends to make it hard for inhabitants and travelers to scoff off avoiding taxes. However, what else are they good for. MATERIAL RESOURCES with the PRIMARY benefit being 'fill'. Especially as soil is 'clayish'. First off, leveling land as even 'level' farm fields are anything but level when flattened out into a huts floor, courtyard, street, square, rough roads augmenting 'Roman Roads', diking drainage to create fields, small dams for irrigation fish ice harvesting wet areas for reed beds for roofing. Raising dwellings etc floors higher than surrounding lands (as any camper will attest sleeping at 'grade' is problematic. This requires MASSIVE amounts of material, and often CONTINUING especially if drainage isn't cleverly designed, erosion controlled. Part of wattle wall fill that would have been primary construction material. Rough pottery - at least for poor / or early on (I've run into clay and sun baked it into useable objects, even if just temp scoops, animal feeders, plant pots). Finally, who dug them. Immensely costly to line up 50, 100 and have them dig for a few years straight with endless supplies of hundreds of wooden tools, as common metal shovels hoes rakes were centuries away yet. They could have been built over decades actually by PRISIONERS, working off sentence, or as make work for those being supported by state or wealthy until labor vitally needed, harvests, war, etc. AND AS FILL MATERIALS ARE NEEDED. A one meter / yard square trench becoming 2, 5, and eventually the 100 plus square meter cross sections you found. FYI Roman through US military tested and have found a healthy man can excavate and move a useful distance maybe 3 cubic yards of relatively soft earth ie no major rock or gravel, a day. do the math. 80,000 cu yds roughly in these trenches 22,000 DAYS OF LABOR, 10 men, requiring 5 women to cook clean make clothes etc 20 resulting children and 100 men to grow enough surplus to feed those workers, and their support staff, potters, thatchers, soldiers, tax collectors, would have taken 2200 plus days of digging. That's not including palisading the dirt into the 'defensive wall' double it for that. Double or triple for that. Of course a 10,000 strong legion could have done it in 2 days, assuming no one spent any time making camp cooking defending preventing drunkenness deseretions gambling whoring stealing (ie establishing an enclosed encampment to control said troops as much as defend them, by the legions more opportunistic criminal element. So more like a week or two or four or eight depending on weather. Of course it would take tens of thousands of locals to support that legion building out that heavily defended but empty settlement, and again a few miles up the road as it did another and another. Then ongoing as civilian builders followed to fill the settlements with buildings. That is, of course, NOT how it was done with the exception of legionairres year round bases. Leaving again such other development as this to construction over time, DECADES, acheolgically a blink of the eye, an instant in time a lifetime to the peoples making the archeology happen. Well that was fun, another sinus headache medicated to relief and another chance for a half nights rest. Hope this someday makes it into someones thesis somewhere.

A pensive Phil is a fine thing to look at...plus the new hat!

Maybe there will eventually be a subject rating system for these shows; R for Roman,A for Anglo,N for Norman,NL for Neo-lithic,etc.Not a huge fan of Roman anything,so these are very nice to have available,but it seems Roman ruins basically look alike.All linear and non-descript.Thanks for loading them,all the same!

Oh noooo! RIP Phil's flavorful hat! it shall be missed! :(

If this was an episode of Midsomer, Miles would murder Mike at some point during this dig.

In addition to reversed episodes, it's "Broch" not "Broth". Broth is soup ... It's all a little confusing when you first look at it, but I am very fond of TT and you're our number one provider. Thank you!

I can’t hear Romani without hearing John Cleese correcting Graham Chapman. ...

And again a wandering tent.

"don't bother me now honey, I'm watching Time Team...."

At 29:41 in the video, it reminded me of The Rutles "Tragical History Tour" with the tent moving across the field.

Lol. So many episodes feature walking tents.

Such a challenging site what with that clay and the weather

I would have thought that the river was very important too, there being no water mains!

... wrong description does not detract from the hard work done and need to see if you're a fan of archaeology !

I would like to walk around and talk to all the archaeology specialists like Phil and Stewart. Would even do a round or two of field walking with geophys.

14:50 I think they overlooked a big thing about Romans. When the Roman Army marched, at the end of the day they made temporary camps all over the place. I'd make perfect sense for someone to later reuse the earthworks to build and operate a fortified hotel in.

Romans: "well there's nothing here to tax any longer, let's move"

Can Bridget be any lovelier! Can she? What a Goddess she is! And this camera man knows just how to frame her!

Go to Google Earth or Google Maps and search for: Alfoldean Bridge, Horsham, West Sussex RH12, UK You can see the crop markings....cool!

Rabbit is good eating.

They need to bring back time team

It's not a proper dig unless the rain is tipping down. Nice hat.

15.45 OMG Phill's hat gone, no warning, just gone, heartbreaking.

ohh, just like today then, if it moves, tax it ?

Wonderful stuff! (titles of episodes 12 and 13 reversed, if you're looking for the Applecross dig, which is also fascinating)

4:32 "AAAAHH, ooh whats that?"

Ah! Here is the description that goes with the video I just watched, at Applecross, called "Time Team S13-E13 The Taxman's Tavern, Alfoldean, Sussex". Maybe the titles and descritions were swapped between the two.

They did "geophys" on an open field under the rain? Idk about rain in the UK but where I live you're asking for lightning strike!

I think we understand why there's two ditches. Flood control.

My ancestral home.

This should be titled The Taxman's Tavern; Alfoldean; Sussex

Does that look like an iron age ring settlement in the green field?

It's interesting that the site fell into disuse because the Roman taxman quit coming around, when a larger deposit of iron elsewhere needed greater attention. It's odd how much of Archaeology can be attributed to a change in taxes, too. I'd bet the Roman tollbooth persisted longer than the posh accommodations. Just thinkin...

Episodes 12 and 13 titles have been switched. The Taxman's Tavern is S13-E12's proper title. Scotch Broth, Applecross is S13-E13's proper title.

im a realist, isnt the farmer, going to want his field back ? ohh dear, fill it all in again, and thanks for loosening the topsoil, for me

Interesting look the young lady is giving Phil as he's tasting the bite of hare.

Slight discrepancy here, between the description and the subject of this program, a Roman mansio in Sussex. It's S13-e13, not s13-e12 as titled.

that would make the site, similar, to the early railway in america, when the workers moved on, the tradesmen moved with them ?

Yes, that is a little confusing.

Geophysical Circularity

Love Brigid and her tiny tops

Strange how some of these are blocked and others not. Is there a reason for this weird pattern of can and can't watch? Surely C4 would want to block them all and as these are in series order they could just block the lot in one fell swoop?

please help haven't found the right "Scotch Broch" near Skye - yet. . Even not with the episode guide. Please. Have to watch it ! Could ya send me the roight link ? Thx !

what, you missed, a brilliant opportunity, to skive off, to the pub ?

thought it was in Scotland? LOL ;)

Taxation is theft! lol In this case it was.

"We have our work cut out..." FOR US! - In 'Merica we add that to the end. lol

They would need to be about 20 miles apart, in order to change horses?

Title is weong, it says broch, near Skye, but the episode is in fact about a roman station in Sussex !

51°05'06.2"N 0°24'19.9"W

Somehow, I don't think the Romans really called it "Staines Street".

Sussex decided to exit/devolute from the UK?

: )

First aired April 16, 2006.

I guess some sound is better than no sound. Volume at 11 and I can barely hear this episode. I'll take what I can get though.

nike for horses how twee, is there a price hike ?

this Time Team S13-E12 and Time Team S13-E13 are cross labelled.

Perhaps the Romans designed this based on popular Victorian designs of the day

But romans were stopped by the picts at the border were they not? .. .Hence Hadrians wall

a thought, the romans were like, modern day american soldiers, for them it was bath houses, for american soldiers, it was ice cream and coffee ?

Over the course of this program, Tony lost his hair, Brigid gained at least 4 stone, and Carenza aged about 3 days.

Of course the Romans invented toll-roads. And of course America still uses them to this day. I really wish humanity didn't have to deal with empires ruining their lives...

What is Phill Harding doing now?

Mislabelled. This is not Applecross.

Skye? No, Alfoldean on Stane Street.

IF i would have any idea when i was younger that they'd have good looking women like here that love outdoors and digging in the dirt i would have been more serious about archaeology back then. Wonder if they can cook?? REALLY standing under a tree during a storm??

In Sir Tony's introduction there is an example of a (small) annoying but occasionally reoccurring feature of his narratives. Misinformation! In this case; the Romans did not call that road 'Stane Street'.