Thank you thank you thank you, Tim, for keeping us close to these endearing professionals many of us consider friends of a very real sort.

This is great. I appreciate the follow-up! There are many episodes that left mysteries... I also always enjoyed Stewart's independent take on the sites - a very smart guy.

My daughter calls Stewart “the guy who’s always right,” because we love how he takes his time and looks carefully and then speaks up to bring it all together.

🙏🏼 for the wonderful stories

Great interview again. I love Stewart is still defending his fort to the last, just like the first settlers.

Looking healthy as ever gents. You changed the way I view the us south's countryside. I'll never see a bumpy field the same again.

I have always been in awe of Stewart and his skills.

A fav part of TT for me. Lumps and bumps and air photo interpretation, love it 😎

Greetings to Stewart, always the voice of reason! I live in Toronto but my grandsons live in the beautiful city of Chester so you can imagine how much I love to visit them. Thank you for the additional knowledge you and Tim are giving us, it’s absolutely fascinating.

Love to see and listen to Stewart!

I had just finished watching the St. Mary City episode and thought to myself what eventually became of the site. Then this video popped into my feed. So thankful.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider looking in whenever I listen to a discussion of Time Team sites, but St. Mary's City is just 7 miles from where I live. Fun!

Very interesting

Several of my ancestors were recusant Catholics from England who migrated to St. Mary's to escape religious persecution. Thanks for researching St. Mary's, really love Time Team.

I will be Stewart's sherpa, as we saying amongst photographers. Any day of the week

Never doubt Stewart !!!! His fort is exactly as he says, and exactly WHERE he says... I just know it! ....Sideways contemplation here: I'm a direct descendant father's side of both William the Conqueror and also Tursten de Fleming (his knighted Papal banner carrier, later given a defensive land and castle on the Wye and hence name change to Wytteneye/Whitney) But also, on my mother's side, direct descendant of Wm Brewster who led the Pilgrims with the Mayflower group. Ironically that same Whitney line came to Massachusetts also as a Reverend in the early 1600's. But American, I was born, hundreds of years later, "missing home" (mum thought me more than a bit odd, as a toddler, and just threw her hands up as I grew 🤣). I consider myself English. Had a chance to live the summer at Hever Rectory (uncle led the parish whilst theirs away, no longer the Rectory now but listed and protected) . Well... what I mean to say is, very astute reflections on Nevis and Kitts by Stewart... People hang onto home, and just imagine trying to survive without any freedom, trapped in indenture. It makes total sense that Anansi was invoked by the African American slaves too, an attempt to bring on the wrath of Anansi to crush their masters and attain independence..a secret mental weapon which would not give way to floggings or worse. ...Lastly, even on the rarest of occasions when he doesn't find exactly what others want Stewart turns up other previously unknowns anyway!!! Love Time team! Hey ..if anyone has read all this thank you very much! I just want to come home to England!!!! And do hope to be able to

Fascinating programme,, thank you.Stewart and Tim.

Stewart is my hero. He is so aware and thoughtful and caring. Thanks, Stewart!

Excellent. Thank you.

Stuart had PhD level knowledge in his field. I love his skills and dedication

Thank you 😊❤️

Love these! Thank you! 🙏🏽

Cheers Stewart...top of the season

Awesome.

Very interesting, I have been there many times but not since 2002 when I left VA

I can see what looks like an inside wall with a right angle with two entryways and what looks like a lumination panel. It is just exactly what the geophys showed us.

Thank you for having this follow-up discussion with Stewart about the three days that Time Team spent at St. Mary's City. I had to laugh that when the team was there, they were complaining about the hot temperatures that Phil and John had to work in. Us American people are used to that heat and humidity. Then there was Sir Tony and showing off his upity ways. Glad to see that he wasn't just that way in the UK. Then Sir Tony said to Stewart that he couldn't understand why Stewart was so happy even though not much was found during the excavations. Tony obviously cannot understand that folks like Stewart and Phil love the work they do and any little find they come across is of such appreciation. Sir Tony ALWAYS had to find a mosaic floor or some major find in order to feel that the explorations were worth it. Phil was over the moon anytime he found something simple like flint. I am glad Gus has replaced Tony. I look forward to the new Time Team videos!

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Ah, Stewart. I’ve had a crush on you for so many years.

My ancestors were indentured servants from Germany, came in 1710. There is documentary evidence that they were subjected to forced breeding as well.

I love seven miles from a mass slave trade in the old Salem area of Winston Salem North Carolina. A town made of two towns based on cotton and tobacco. It's no coincidence all thirteen colonies were for profit corporations

The Fort was discovered recently

Interesting to see this discussion. I remember Stewart chasing that fort so hard and pushing to tell the story in Nevis too. Tim: you mentioned Anansi. Did you ever read or watch American Gods? You saying that traditions were carried over to the Americas reminded me a lot of Anansi in American Gods (NSFW language): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a62irZVl2M27lKs.html

I have no doubt the fort is there just as Stewart imagines it. Hope I'm around in 20 or so years when new technology proves him right!

Indentured servitude is well known in US history. The term used here is Indentured Servant, not Slave. Partly to counter recent tales of Irish sold into chattel slavery m Yes, indenture was a tough deal, whether you signed a contract since passage was so expensive or had been convicted of a crime. But you and your descendants were not fated to lifelong servitude. Maryland was founded as a refuge for Catholics with a doctrine of Toleration; this did not last. The Southern colonies were mostly Anglican. The Quaker colony of Pennsylvania was famously tolerant. The Pilgrimsß left their tolerant refuge of Leiden because their children were growing up too tolerant. Their colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony lacked toleration. Quakers and Papists were sometimes hanged. Troublesome members of their own congregations could be exiled to Rhode Island Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer links regions of Britain to settlement of the Colonies

Had a little attack? His mouth 🤔

So white people were slaves too and for most people in those times life was short and brutal. But for some reason we only ever here about black African slaves and how terrible it was for them and what terrible people we were for treating them the way we did. Never any mention of how their lives compared to ours or that it was their own people that enslaved them and sold them to Europeans. A story in history that Time Team unfortunately also failed to tell.