Time Team S11-E11 Ipswich,.Suffolk

Back in the 1940s, Basil Brown, the man who discovered Sutton Hoo, uncovered enough Roman remains in an Ipswich suburb to believe he had found the largest villa in East Anglia.
But the plans are tantalisingly vague and, what's more, the site of the villa is buried under numerous back gardens.
Tony Robinson and the Team take on the task of locating the remains of Brown's villa and see if they can join up the dots - notwithstanding the garden sheds, fishponds, lawns and patios in the way.
Was Brown right? They have three days to find the answer.

[@debrah7548]

After watching nearly all of the programs, I have to say that Carenza is a powerhouse, bith in the trench and out. She deserves more credit.

[@CNSninja]

Carenza has always been a rockstar Time Team member.

[@diannkelley3481]

I wholeheartedly agree. She and Phil are my two favorites.

[@shnops]

The most consistent character in all of Time Team's episodes that I've seen is Victor Ambrus . He has always come through with the goods ! What a remarkable artist !

[@Jigger2361]

...Victor ma main man!

[@readmycomment3157]

Rip victor

[@ianscott9396]

You should Wiki him, he had an amazing life Born in Budapest before WW2.

[@MeMommyEms]

Phil- “Let’s go wreck another garden!” Lol!

[@PaulA-os9pb]

"Basiled" and "minus archeology" brilliant! Learn something every day on this show.

[@juttamaier2111]

Considering how much the Brits love their gardens, I'd say TT was immensely popular with everyone to go through with this.

[@GrahamCLester]

A good Time Team special would be to dig up Basil Brown's old house and find out where he put all that stuff.

[@Libbathegreat]

One of the best moments in Time Team @ 18:30 Toddler: "Look what I found!" Carenza: "Oh yes, that's another stone, isn't it?"

[@piccalillipit9211]

One of my neighbour's kids pointed at one one day and said my name - my heart melted. Then she pointed at a stick and said "STICK" She was just naming things and I was no more special than a small stick LOL

[@paulapridy6804]

Just when I think I've seen them all....man I love this stuff❤

[@chasehicks7465]

Its amazing all these people let TT dig up their yards. Really an amazing community

[@ancilodon]

From the viewpoint of my childhood, there was no TT episode as quintessentially British as this: council estates, flatcaps, smoking pipes, treasured moggies buried in flowery back gardens with the occasional greenhouse, OAPs drinking tea... wait a minute, I didn't see any doggies. Where's the bloomin' dogs?

[@shnops]

I like the looks on the homeowner's face , watching the bulldozer crossing onto his backyard through his fence . There goes the neighborhood !!!!!!!!!!!

[@raunothomas]

They hold theyr honour! They are quite lovely.

[@lisakaz35]

I'd say yes if Phil wants to dig up my garden.

[@DAYBROK3]

Lisa Kazmier anything Phil wants.

[@hansdorst3005]

Wonderful euphemism

[@chrispza]

“… a robbed-out wall …” Tony. “So basically we’ve got *minus* archaeology!”

[@Jess-ey5rh]

The toddlers finding pottery killed me, too cute

[@the_suffolk_barber19]

Jessica Adams yes but will you trust them digging up Roman finds because I wouldn't trust them

[@barryeva9186]

And the way she so kindly states the next find is a stone

[@laurenquerze4883]

I’m from Ipswich MA, USA and we have a Castle Hill with a mansion overlooking a beautiful beach. It’s a museum. Now I know where that name comes from. I love this series!

[@CliffordtheOrangeCat]

American here, loving me some Time Team!

[@Concetta20]

I love that the toddlers had better luck! :)

[@scarletfluerr]

This episode shows the intelligence behind Micks philosophy of not disturbing a site anymore than you have to, using small trenches and leaving things undisturbed, just cataloged. Technology improves with time, just as time team are better archaeologist than basil Brown, who knows in 50 years how technology will have improved.

[@GrahamCLester]

"We're from the BBC and we're here to wreck your garden." "Oh yes, please do come in."

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*Channel4.*

[@GrahamCLester]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Yes, I realized that a few weeks after posting the comment.

[@lisakilmer2667]

I thought this was excellent archaeology. Normally a backyard dig would find stuff, link it together and provide some answers to the residents. Here they had to figure out what Brown "basiled" (the new term for robbing out) and what he invented, then determine what was real. It sure needed a lot longer dig but it was very interesting.

[@spacelemur7955]

This confusing dig is much like I have a recurring dream about getting through grad school. I think I am approaching my goal, but its ephemeral, shifting and what is in the study plan doesn't match what I am going through. Only the beer and sausages were reliable.

[@LordPubeck]

25:50 Phil - "Let's go wreck another garden!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@lefse48]

ha ha 23:45 "lets go wreck another garden..."

[@brian554xx]

That was the highlight for me. The way it was delivered reminds me of someone I used to work with whose other job was in car repossession. On his way out, he'd say something like "time to go steal some cars."

[@BlackIjs]

I lol'd.... "When archaeologists get mad..."

[@WashuHakubi4]

"Phil's now found the source of the hot air." It seems like a lot of the hot air in this episode came from Basil Brown.

[@Jigger2361]

lol!!!! yes!!

[@mike89128]

Those back yards remind me of the ones in Simon's Cat!

[@nothingtonooneinparticular8500]

LOVE Phil..."Let's go wreck another garden!"

[@Jeff121456]

I think it is amazing that Time Team survived the mad cow quarantines. They saved it with backyard archeology.

[@Go-Dawgs]

I like Guy. He was spot on from the get go in this episode. Carensa shut him up fast but I think he was correct.

[@robinandrews5478]

She has habit of this throughout her time with the TT. Just a snott!

[@karmicpopcorn6440]

Seems like she said no they did record but the landscape has changed. Wasn't that what he was saying when she interrupted?

[@jarodlets9872]

I love the way john allways seem so lost :p

[@phoule76]

hands on his face, nervous! poor bloke.

[@winterlighthome]

Bright spot: "Let's go wreck another garden!" Sad spot: the fresh grave of the cat

[@ChrisHyde537]

I accidentally let our dog out when I was 3-4 and it was hit by a car. My parents didn’t tell me to spare my feelings. At about age 10 my friends and I were digging trenches beyond our hedge boundary and I discovered some bones. I excitedly brought them in and declared them to be dinosaur bones. Around age 30 my father broke the news to me.

[@malis61]

"Let's go and wreck another garden." Lol

[@CanadaCob]

Thanks for uploading...@41 seconds..that hedge behind Tony is the best I have ever seen!

[@stannousflouride8372]

Looking at this neighborhood makes me think of "Keeping Up Appearances". The site is behind the houses here: 52.076604ºN, 1.132375ºE

[@reneboober7330]

Stannous Flouride "Richard!"

[@susansimpson2181]

I like the way she positioned her stamps.

[@Jigger2361]

Time Team: "May we dig in your garden, Mrs. Bucket?" Mrs. Bucket: "It's Bouquet, Bouquet, dear"

[@2gulfalco]

I love it when they open the fence and the guy smoking his pipe as the digger goes by!

[@lesjohnson9740]

A lot of diplomacy and softly softly required here with all the residents, quite expensive dig this, good viewing though.

[@ehagendijk]

Thank you for uploading!

[@jimdille6015]

12 trenches! That must be a record of some sort ...

[@The_OG_Peaceloveandpuppies]

The toddler has better luck than the grownup 😂😂

[@richardtorz2164]

Carenza has always come to the defence of Basil Brown , Helen Geake has always come to the defence of the atiquarian archaeologist Artis i other episodes. Guess everyone on the team had their prefered old time archaeologist lol

[@barryeva9186]

Love how the washing is there for all to see.

[@patriciaheil6811]

Sounds to me like Brown was trying to preserve his reputation, made at Sutton Hoo, by leaving a fantastic drawing and yet robbing out everything that could prove his drawing was garbage.

[@KYIRISH1]

Very accommodating and patient neighbors. I don't believe I'd be that generous with my property, even to unearth a possible Roman villa.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Celto Loco Theoretically it could be that the local government replans the city and force people to go away. Of course they must buy the property first at market based price, to be sanctioned by a court of law. It almost never happens, just because it is too expensive to do for local governments. So, really, I would not call home owners in a city glorified renters. As it happens, in my country (the Netherlands), the situation in the countryside is juridically identical.

[@niklar55]

+KYIRISH1 I lived a few streets away from this site in the 50's when I was a kid of 7-8, and these houses didn't exist at that time, but I think there would have been more resistance then, as most people used their gardens for growing essential food, as food was still rationed, following WW2.

[@EgholmViking]

all those innocent little gardens XD well all in the name of history

[@MrNickharp]

Boom!! You've been Basil'd!!👏

[@phoule76]

li'l scrapers! the plastic shovel gang was the highlight of the dig!

[@richardf.8412]

Famous Basils: I would rank Basil Brown behind both Saint Basil the Great and Basil Fawlty.

[@raunothomas]

I just love this tv show! Something smart, and blazing interesting + educative to see from tv is really rear! Why we have stupid tv shows? Are we truly stupid... ?!

[@Bramble451]

Love this show.

[@CanChikMay]

Third time watching in three yrs!

[@CharveI]

if your wife was buried in the back garden and geo phyzz came knocking on your door, of course your gonna say no

[@wewenang5167]

lol

[@joez8914]

Can’t believe they knew archeology was there and we’re just allowed to keep building.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Old dirt new dirt need supercedes interest I guess.

[@TeamRockHit4]

I find it interesting that the area of the Castle Hill district is right on the edge and is almost in Whitton. I always imagined (before researching) that the area of historic interest would have been more towards the town side of centre. I live(d) near the junior school, which is the other side.

[@flitsertheo]

Town centres or central areas of activity can move. For instance, the historic town centre of Berlin is now an empty space, with a fake town centre (the Nikolai Viertel), built in the 1980s, nearby.

[@Ivehadenuff]

I live in Ipswich Massachusetts. We have a Castle Hill too. Not very original!

[@Awitsaduck]

Wouldn't it have been easier to find the remains of the modern(ish) buildings in Basil Browns plan? And then you know where you are to find the Roman stuff

[@ian_b]

So I'm just starting watching this and I'm going to guess that by the end they've found a couple of wall fragments indicating at most a Roman public loo.

[@kennethnash598]

So you're digging up Harry Potter's back yard?

[@daveminor1058]

A 60 minute backyard makeover is needed for the neighborhood

[@BryonLape]

Steward is in this episode for about 2 minutes. Where was all his map reading?

[@karmicpopcorn6440]

Nothing to read, place is crowded with buildings

[@Libbathegreat]

@@karmicpopcorn6440 He might have helped puzzling out the plans Carenza and David were looking at as he's done elsewhere. But if I were him, I'd have taken one look at those plans and said "Not it!"

[@besanit]

I would like to know if the expression "basiled" is still in use

[@annk.8750]

I sympathize with a young Roman girl breaking a shale bracelet. When my sister and I were young we were given bracelets by a visitor from India, red glass with a gold spiral. We loved them ...but not for very long!

[@Jaqueli9er]

The writers of this show always putting the words "frustrating" and "disappointing" on Tony's mouth. That's the real frustrating thing. Any founds, even the smallest ones, are important, even more because of the stupid "3 days' rule".

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

I do hope that there are none of Basil's decedent's around.

[@OrontesRM]

I didn't know Brown has been so destructive

[@TheSpikehere]

The guy who named the streets was obviously a footy fan.

[@TeamRockHit4]

+TheSpikehere some of the other roads in the area include: Charlton Ave, Everton Crescent, Mansfield Drive, Preston Drive. While it's off Norwich Road that's an exception as it falls within naming conventions of roads and surrounding towns and cities.

[@canuzzi]

Let's wreck another garden!

[@endrightwinglunacy]

Basil Brush, more like.

[@jimmyowens5415]

When did Stewart start dressing like a preppie? just noticed it this series with the straight collars

[@Leah-xe6xs]

I LIVE THERE

[@gleeart]

That cats' probably turning into it's grave, load of self important people tramping around with no respect on a wild goose chase for bits of rubble, r.i.p.

[@shnops]

Brigid could be a Viking princess ! A formidable woman ! And attractive !

[@dbscreenside]

I thought the fictional film about Basil Brown, The Dig (2021) was good.

[@estherwhittle5860]

I lost the video that I was watching when a call interupted.

[@shnops]

What if crucial archaeology is under a street or driveway ? Like the edge of a building . It seems that archaeology is often dependent on the randomness of future building and excavation for it's findings in some cases .

[@cayborduin]

Miles Russel looks like Seth Meyers.

[@MrTM-fg6zn]

Three p o?

[@susanhuntley9262]

I came here for refuge sigh, bad choice lol

[@lizzy66125]

well said Carenza!(in defense of Basil Brown)

[@desslokbasileus571]

45:40　～　😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@shnops]

I can't believe all these people allowed their property to be dug up . The layout of some Roman fat cat's pad being the payoff !!! Oooof !

[@adamsjerome1839]

Carenza has an incredibly posh accent.

[@kisdejawatchers8443]

who the hell would want to know they have slave quarters in their yard

[@besanit]

Well is continuity since the people living there are not exactly aristocrats

[@bretnielsen5502]

Wherever "Guy de la Bullpoop" goes the negativity follows...............

[@Wotdermatter]

How many people, when approached very politely about giving permission to just survey their "precious/prized" property, refused because their GARDEN was more important than what could be hidden in the ground? Their narrow-minded attitude is the worse kind of snobbery, especially as most appear to be only of low-middle class status without any concept of the importance of what is being done. Is it protectionism or are they ashamed of what their neighbours might say? The woman taking the photographs seems to support that belief. However, how would their attitudes change if important artefacts were to be found next door, right at the line between the properties and spilling into theirs?

[@Wally-H]

Perhaps, but it is their choice and I suppose that has to be respected. It is possible with hindsight and having seen the programme, some of the 'no's' might have changed their minds. You can imagine, for example, that lady going into the living room and saying "there is a film crew at the door - they want to dig up our garden to look for a Roman Villa" and her husband, probably distracted by the television, saying "nobody is digging up my garden, tell them to clear off" without necessarily thinking it through or knowing the significance of what might happen if he says 'yes.'

[@scarletfluerr]

The other way of thinking about it those people may have put years of work into their Gardens. So they want to come and see if there's yet another Roman villa, when England is strewn with Roman Villas, that won't give that much insight into what's already known about the Romans in England. So they may think so what? Why should I sacrifice what I've worked hard on for nothing. Just one more Roman villa.

[@gnothiseauton8684]

Ha! When he was asked by those very kids teacher please could you say hello to the kids that had been waiting hrs- he flatly said NO I'm far too busy- then promptly went to his car and ate a bacon sandwich n read his paper