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What did you end up finding, Abbie?

Scratch the ground, and you're going to find something 😀

That's a long meal you're having! Do you dine like a Roman? :D

@@ian_b And like always he only has 3 days to eat

jaxxstraw I was thinking the same thing... 3 course meals ;)

Im also in the US & love this show! Been binge watching/listening while i work at the computer....so fascinating!

As a fellow American, I completely agree with you.

If I knew you we would be friends.

Me too. It is interesting and I have learned a lot!

@Melody, for what it's worth I have them all downloaded and have watched them all in that format three times, and this year has been particularly gnarly for me so I ran through the entire 20 years and am now up to season 15 for the second time THIS YEAR. And every time I watch these, I learn something new, see something different, look at the trenches differently. It's a growth process :)

I must agree - I have enjoyed every single episode I've ever seen. Plus, Tony Robinson.

The last season they tried to sex it up and dumb it down, bringing in some woman to co-host with Tony, and putting less emphasis upon the actual archaeology. In response Mick quit the show to protest, and ratings went way down, so Channel 4 cancelled it.

Greg B THAT is an absolute tragedy! Why screw with this wonderful recipe? Sex it up??? It's archaeology! It's already sexy! Stoopid TV people. That seems like such an American TV tactic, not something done on BBC. I've always thought the Brits had much more intelligent programs available compared to the network tv crap served up by Hollyweird. This doesn't take the new trend in cable channel-sponsored fare into account. I will miss Time Team.

amsterdamsel -- Time Team was not a BBC production. Channel 4, a commercial broadcaster, produced and aired the show.

Greg B Thanks for setting me straight. Clearly, as an American, it is all the same, to me. To put it in a way that might make sense to my side of the pond, there was commercial television and then there was PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)

Thanks for posting!

Thanks for the update! 👏🏻👏🏻

Any links to this information?

I did a You Tube search for "Durham University/Binchester". There were two videos on Binchester.

@matineerocks don't be a Grammar NAZI, its not nice

Apparently it got too expensive to do. The guy doing the producing had stuck with it all the way thru, but realized , I guess, by the end of the 19th season, that it was just costing too much. And there had been some hard feelings about some of the personnel changes that were made over the last few seasons. Still, an absolutely wonderful show with great track record. It encouraged ordinary folks to go out and have a good hard look at where they lived, and what was in the landscape.

It also didn’t help that mick Aston passed away a couple of years ago so I doubt it will come back

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Two digs this summer!

you won't like WOKE Archeology.

I wish for an entire dig.

Me, too. This location could probably have supported an entire season. So many different areas to explore that they never even touched on. I find it a bit frustrating.

@@35mm21 , Do you have a link you can put up we can see those pictures?🥀🥀

It seems weird to watch older episodes knowing he's gone RIP and thank you

He's someone I wish I could have had a conversation with. He was brilliant.

@@cindydintn A date for the Prof's death? (I'm a latecomer to this brilliant series, so very uninformed.)

unbelievably sadly, Mick died thinking he had failed in his efforts to bring archaeology to the masses. the bosses really fucked over his vision in the last couple of series. breaks my heart tbh, because he is so loved and respected and he died without realising it. i wish i could believe he knows it now, but i don't.

@@jonnylumberjack6223 Do you have that information from somewhere (that he felt like he failed)? It just sounds highly implausible to me.

@@ericathefae it was either in a doc about time team (maybe a retrospective type of thing, after the series were finished), or a random interview with one of the gang...maybe Tony, can't remember. Pretty sure was on TV though, rather than something I read about. If you can find any docs about the programme, you might find the conversation I referred to above. Definitely not making it up, it made me very sad.

@@jonnylumberjack6223 That is damn sad. I wish they still made programs like this especially because it makes archaeology avaiable to lay folk. Thanks for answering!

tools of the trade mebbeh?

@@monabale8263 He plays guitar, has in a couple of episodes, watch the Jamestown show

Sherry Elliott, ignore the ignorant comments from ignorant people.

A bit uncivilized...

Those are guitarist's nalis.

Either it's acting, or being in denial about needing glasses... Didn't he have them in later episodes?

Stannous Flouride thanks for doing this for all the time team episodes Stannous!

You're quite welcome. I love the ability we have to actually look down from space onto these remnants of our past. Kind of mind-blowing.

...said Stormy Daniels to donald Trump.

So i wasn't the only one who laughed at that then Andrew.

VC YT ... apart from the obvious tediousness and boring wankery of the predictable shyte that is anti Trump hysteria, ... it would "be said Trump to Stormy Daniels".

"anti-Trump hysteria"? Are you for real?

And the exsperts have a mass debate over the trench !

I'm from London originally . The part of London i'm from ( central , i'm a cockney ) is where the nursery rhyme pop goes the weasel comes from . About 100 yards along from the eagle pub in city rd is the church where John Wesley used to preach ( Methodist of course )and the house he lived in is next door. The hospital I worked in ( St Bartholomew's ) was founded in 1123 A.D , it's about 150 yards from St Paul's cathedral.

America's history, as a continent, stretches farther back than the British Isles, if you consider prehistoric ice-age migration and Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. But the United States' history, as a country, encompasses several chapters of European history beginning with its discovery and colonization, to say nothing of the countless European wars fought over the course of 400 years. Mmm... How curious that they'd think 250 years is insufficient for an entire semester's class when history courses in UK universities (like Oxford) spend entire semesters covering only one *war* like the War of Roses or WW1. You either misunderstood them or your group of acquaintances are ignorant and hypocritical.

Your British friends' answer makes me ashamed for the British (my ancestry is British), and your answer makes me ashamed for Americans (I'm American). Forgive me, but both answers are racist. As if there were no history for anyone but white people; or, for that matter, no history for anyone who couldn't write in English; or (to continue this run-on sentence) no history for people who didn't write because they had no writing system; or who wrote in a different writing system; or who didn't write because they had no opportunity, due to economics or attitude or situation or whatever, to learn to write. Okay. That was a darn long sentence. Yet it says a few things a lot of us need to wake up to. Just sayin'.

@Stephen Ruff That America has "no history" or "a mere 200--plus years of history" says that the writer considers only 1776 and following to be "history." Nothing before that. Even if we define "history" as nothing but human history, the Americas have at least 15,000 (and possibly 31,000, at last report) years of history, including writing systems--all right there to be explored and researched. When people of European extraction don't consider the histories of non-Europeans (for example, Native Americans: hundreds of tribes, not to mention Aztecs Mayans Incas Olmecs etc etc) to be "real history," that's an example of racism. It's a kind of blindness: odd, lopsided, and quite damaging to those it doesn't acknowledge. Does that help?

@Stephen Ruff To add: It's a bit like saying that Columbus the Pilgrims the Vikings the Celts the Romans the Greeks really don't count as "history" because they're not Aztec. (Which would also be a racist viewpoint, if it existed.) Like telling a Briton the only history they had was 200+ years old. I live and work in the American Southwest. I have Native friends who, in educational settings, have been told they are extinct! (Yes, they objected, and yes, the embarrassed--and racist!-- professor stopped saying that.) Native American history goes back as far as any human history. Again: to make the equation, "history = white history" is racist. It would be equally racist to say "history = Chinese history" or "history = African history," and so on, but that was not the question in this case. Thanks for allowing me to clarify.

you won't like the new presenter.

Yeah the new version sucks.

*Rhonda Miller* That was the most important part of his job on *TT.* He's actually an accomplished amateur archæologist and would actually have known many of the answers.

+Kristin Wenke I found a few Time Team videos on youtube that were Time Team America but there are only like four

Wait. There was a Time Team America??? I must know more!

amsterdamsel Yes there are a few I really enjoyed those as well and wish they had made more though

Don't waste your time; the Time Team America show was horrible!

@amsterdamsel, time team America dig 1 was about the dead bodies Hilary buried so she could win the election of 2016.

You should have a go and volunteer at a site!

I see it! lol

Paul iriarte probably would be.. never could figure out why if u used hands like archaeologists do he could keep vampire nails like that lol

Because, as already stated further down several times, he plays the guitar

I'm just curious as to what kind of beer he drinks, being pub friendly myself.

MauriaOttolink, I also failed my History O'levels but the reason I did was probably that (at the time) I loved ancient history and World War II bored me. I have noted that they still have World War II on the O level syllabus. I wrote my O level's 39 years ago. But at school we had a wonderful History teacher who took any opportunity to sneak in a lesson about ancient civilizations. Her name was Miss Mellier. Her sneak lessons fired my life long passion for history. Thank You Ma'am. No insult to anyone from other countries intended but I find British documentaries amazing. They are always so well researched and the presentation and presenters are par excellence. I do not believe that they can be equaled anywhere. I find myself riveted to the screen. The expression 'Totally Hooked' would be appropriate. And when your attention is so fixed you cannot help but learn a lot. Best wishes

MauriaOttolink= same here,but I don't recall a Mister Hill still being at E.G.S. in 1965.The name Mr Thomas springs to mind.The old school is now housing.And the playing field/canteen is too. E.G.S. Old Essayan/Essian 1965-72

MauriatOttolink Could it be with age you no longer think of everything from the past as irrelevant to your self-absorbed young life?

MauriatOttolink maybe you should dig up your former teacher and tell him.

Did you see the one where Tony and Phil went Dino Digging in Montana?

@@theodorekonetski1485 nope not yet. Will have to look for it.

I'd buy one for our son and one each of the two sons-in-law and one each for our four grandsons.

now that they're bringing time team back that'd be a timely idea.

Just go to british walmart yo

@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 yea new dude os the creepiest mf ive ever seen tho

@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 and he speaks to the camera like we are all slow children

Rick Boatright and “squatchers” who go “squatchin”.

don't knock it, you get the freaky hairdoo guy ;-)

Tony says "Geo Phys & Can I Come In To Your Trench" classic time team. Yes the UK gets history us Yanks get stupid programs like Ancient Aliens and The Mystery Of Oak Island - Rubbish!. Our History Channel has nothing to do with history anymore. 3 Cheers For Time Team!

Rick Boatright That’s what is cheap to make. It fills show slots cheaply but you forgot all the shows making fun of bad relation ships. 90days or married at first sight!

wait, wait, wait, I agree about the aliens, kardasians, etc, but american pickers sometimes come up with really decent finds. not Old but oldish, and interesting.

It would be a perfect landscape to inhabit right back into prehistory, wouldn't it? Perhaps the forts or the erosion wiped it out? 🤔

42:10 there it is

Money is the answer, takes a lot to do a dig properly, and TV comes up with enough to do three days worth

memikell I agree. A lot of the time they go to sites that are currently being researched. They bring pinpoint muscle and lots of exposure. Maybe other pros resent the flash and the ephemeral nature of the work. But it has to be welcome publicity to each site.

should have and could have

When TT hit a productive site like this one, other archaeologists got funding to pursue the work. Excavations of the vicus at Binchester, for instance, began within 2 years of TT's departure and continued for at least 7 years thereafter, with more work to come.

Everywhere2 as far as archaeology goes, one of their primary functions was to attract attention to the site. They needed to remain entertaining to achieve that. They also had regular jobs during the week.

Someone buy this guy some nail clippers ......

@@Ryman158 Phil plays guitar, has on several episodes

@@Ryman158 yes. Kind of disgusting.

Ryan Syropiatko, mind your own business. Phil’s not commenting on anything you do or look like.

@@PeteRuckelshaus >Clean nails >Disgusting ...Pick one.

me too

I built my existing shed on the site of my previous shed-Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson

Also a future series could surely be made more economically, perhaps giving student archaeologists under the guidance of the "Phil Hardings"of this world. OK, the team would need meals and Loo's but surely they'd do with less lavish facilities just for the sheer joy of digging!

There are locations where you can see nearly pristine ruins. Not surprisingly, Rome has a lot that aren’t pristine but give you an incredible feel for the scale of urban parts of the empire. You should go see them some time, it’s spectacular!

I was thinking same thing.

digging tools.

Says online he does play guitar.

Guitarist

+Immopimmo Tony is tiny so Naomi must be *elvin*!

If I was digging a trench with her I would have real difficulties keeping my eyes on the archaeology.

I hear you, brother!

She has a sweet Lancashire accent

Maybe that's why Tony asked if he could come in her trench

It is exploratory archaeology, 3 days is enough to determine if a site has potential for a larger dig. Or in some cases such as sites that were scheduled without a dig to determine if it should be scheduled or not. This is standard procedure when funds are tight, you need to know whether it's worth the $$$ and time to dig, especially in a place where you have so much history and so many sites.

Here,here!

They are not working for the government. They are working for a regional TV producer. The intent is to only perform 3 days (Friday through Sunday) of digging and filming. The archeologists and staff have other full time jobs.

Government diggers take over important digs like this one.

I think the time limit is on the dig so they could fit the results into a show that wasn't hours long.

It wasn't actually bad, just not as good.

I've just watched episode 11 of series 19 and realised that what Phil Potter says is right about it not being so good .. but all the criticisms of Mary Ann Ochota were totally wrong about her. She is such a pleasant lady and managed to put a lovely, happy smile on Tony's face during one scene. I have not seen him ever like that on TT. Well done girl! Just a shame that she was listed as a co-presenter and not used for that role much. I'm now back to watching series 15 of TT. I enjoy seeing how a good team produces such good results with their many and varied skills. We should try to emulate such efforts in whatever we do from day to day and reflect how well each day passes with challenges faced and overcome. Failure is always a good place to learn important life lessons. Bless you all.