➤ Time Team's Top 3 FUNNIEST Digs!

SO, THREE ARCHEOLOGISTS WALK INTO A BAR...
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00:00 - "Priory Engagement"
(Burford, Oxfordshire)
Season 17, Episode 10
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23:47 - "Sussex Ups and Downs"
(Blackpatch, Sussex)
Series 13, Episode 9
• Sussex Ups and Downs (...
41:09 - "The Puzzle of Picket's Farm"
(Burford, Oxfordshire)
Series 17, Episode 10
• The Puzzle of Picket's...
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[@backtoearth1983]

RIP Mick, you are much missed

[@crispycookie9739]

In one of the more recent episodes, we see a wee Mick doll-with iconic hair and jumper - watching over a dig. It was bittersweet to see. ❤

[@maurachapman4179]

So hard to believe he's been gone nearly 10 years.

[@JRattheranch]

Still much missed by thousands of his fellow compatriots and will always be, I hope!

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

the world lost a treasure.

[@philcourteney4328]

@@maurachapman4179 very, very much so 😢

[@micheldejong1813]

"...whot do oi foind? Whoite choina!"😂

[@girlnorthof60]

I gave myself a Time Team Patreon membership for my birthday when it 1st started... it's a gift that literally gives back to me all year long. A fantastic community of like minded people, I'm completely enjoying all it has to offer... 🥰

[@krisbest6405]

That knitting represents every stich of love his wife felt for this sweet man.

[@Blossom_Chops]

They were knitted by his "groupies" ..... Google it 😊

[@debgreentree]

So does I think that too

[@castintime6245]

Mick Aston was a true National Treasure.

[@jetsons101]

RIP Mick, working the big dig in the sky.......

[@Debbie-henri]

The original team was so full of strong personalities and seemed to have so much fun, you find yourself smiling along with their banter and infectious enthusiasm no matter how many times you watch the episodes.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

My favourite moment is the recreation of the Roman Banquet where everyone wore Togas and Phil was opening Oysters with his trowel!

[@iaind4852]

Phil is awesome, ain't he.

[@deborahparham3783]

​@@iaind4852He is indeed!

[@RKHageman]

Wait, what? I don’t remember that… which episode was it?

[@georgedorn1022]

@@RKHageman They prepared and ate Roman food at Netheravon (series 4 episode 6) but I don't recall togas. That could just be my memory though...

[@happygrandma5637]

4:02 Tony:"...surely what we need to do in archeology is either proving or disproving something." 4:09 Mick: "well yes, you could look at it that way, but..." As wonderful as it is to have a current Time Team there was nothing better than the give and take of the old. I know Tony had a script, not sure about the rest; but it doesn't matter whoever wrote it and my guess is Tim, did a marvelous job of having Tony ask the questions I wanted answers to.

[@philjohnson1744]

A Mick cardigan would make fer good merch. But few would be worthy to wear it.

[@LilieDubh]

Burford was one of the first Time Team episodes I ever saw. Spoiled me for a lot of others, Mick and Tony were so wonderful throughout! I so wish I could donate to the new episodes! Miss all the team!

[@johnkemp8904]

I caught up with this entrancing series in episode 2 of series 1. The Daily Mail in its wisdom opined that it just went to prove that archaeology didn’t work on TV. I stayed with it throughout the next two decades!

[@TheFeed-pp9mf]

Surely 5 pounds a month is possible.

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

@@TheFeed-pp9mf *_"Surely 5 pounds a month is possible."_* Some people have very limited income. Besides, the new lot aren't worth 5p a year. {:o:O:}

[@robynw6307]

Love the way Phil calls Mick the "wrinkled professor". Mick's less than four years older than him. LOL

[@caroleminke6116]

Pot, kettle & something about black

[@michaelstamper5604]

I kind of like "Where's the boy Aston?" too. Can't remember which episode it was in, though.

[@SaxeGrove]

I am such a fan of Paul Blinkhorn. Sorry to learn that he has been ill.

[@teriwood9657]

I miss his distinctive infectious laugh.

[@joshuabryant3493]

Paul is the man

[@nataliebarrow6348]

What's wrong with him?

[@lizzy66125]

​@@nataliebarrow6348he had cancer

[@chrisschepper9312]

@@nataliebarrow6348he’s had the cancer.

[@jibjobjobe]

Mick 'I don't do running' was the best!

[@deborahparham3783]

He did run in the first few years of the show. He had to take it easy after the first aneurysm. He was such a sweet man and is sorely missed.

[@countOfHenneberg]

I laughed at time when Mick was being pushed around in a wheelchair, trying to get more speed out of Robin Bush, "Come on, give it some honour!" To which Robin replied along the lines of, "It's all right for you mate...". Good times!

[@georgiaclowes8786]

He actually said “ommer” not honour. I’m from the Black Country like Mick, and in our dialect to give something some “ommer” is to give something some hammer aka put some force into it 😂

[@benediktmorak4409]

Since it was a long time ago i saw the episode,seeing it a second time or even a third time, there is always something new that i missed the first time around.

[@jasonmarquis7586]

As much as I enjoy the new Time Team episodes, I miss the snarky humor between Phil, Mick and Tony.

[@janetbarkwith]

The new people can't hold a candle to the original crew. And that Gus person makes my teeth stand on edge; can't bear to watch or listen to him. Where the heck did they dig him up?

[@jasonmarquis7586]

@janetbarkwith I definitely agree. I don't have any animosity for Gus. He seems to be a nice guy, but he's so bland compared to Tony.

[@madamedemonsieur]

I agree, I couldn't stick the new bloke's narration at all. He sounded like he was trying to do an Attenborough-talking-to-gorillas whisper. And Time Team without Mick, Phil and Tony just isn't Time Team.

[@dot8605]

Last year I watched my first Time Team episode 'Skeletons in the shed' on KZbin. I was hooked. After watching as much episodes as I could find I'm really envious of the British people because they had this wonderful program, the great scientists, AND the many, many archeology sites to sustain it for so many years. I'm from Germany. There is no way a program like Time Team would have worked here.

[@kristinedoty7876]

Why wouldn't it work in Germany? There's plenty of continuous human habitation, including Roman outposts. I mean, they tried to do it here in the US and, while we have plenty of dinosaurs and saber toothed tigers to dig up, it's no longer PC to dig up Native American sites. Most were not builders of permanent structures, plus their descendants have a say in how the sites may be treated.

[@karolschulz48]

​@@kristinedoty7876there has been a couple of major events in Germany 's past that likely ruined ancient or medieval history. It is a hotbed for more recent history.

[@kristinedoty7876]

@@karolschulz48 Not quite sure what you mean. Destruction/disruption from World Wars? Contamination of sites? Not much left to discover? General disinterest? Red tape? Overbuilding?

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

welcome to "Temp Grex"

[@dot8605]

What is "Temp Grex"? When I wrote that Time Team wouldn't work in Germany I was talking about the lack of interest in the general population to carry a program like this throughout the years. Also we don't have all this layman archeology societies like the British people have.

[@chrishankin9119]

Phil Harding: "Have you got a better idea?" Reply: "Not at the moment." 😁

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

Wow..20 years old this episode is?? Where has the years gone??🤨

[@englishmaninfrance661]

Excellent stuff ; It was the team that made the programme , with finds a close second

[@ragnarironspear1791]

One of the best channels on KZbin , Tony and the team are legendary

[@stephenkayser3147]

Thank you Time Team. You do make a GREAT difference in our lives.

[@crystalkenney6215]

I can't remember the episode but Stewart and John were debating a site and for a minute I thought Stewart was debating himself. I laughed silly when I realized.

[@trippydrew8492]

Tony landing his spaceship house will always be one of my fav scenes from Time Team 🤣🤣

[@Davlavi]

I do miss Mick.

[@caroleminke6116]

I loved that ax competition

[@lindaarnold5683]

I love the kids invited to help. Great idea all around. The US would not due to liability. The chance of some parent claiming “something” and trying to sue everyone!! Very sad!

[@pietjepuk9575]

Every dig is funny , if you don't have to dig yourself 🤣🤣😂😂👍👍

[@guywelbourn893]

Faye was always someone I looked out for :) She always looked as if she dressed up for the occasion rather than dress down like the others.

[@kasie680]

“DAVID!!” 😂😂😂😂

[@philipr1567]

Legend has it that a new mound of earth was found the next morning. As for David - he was never seen again.

[@kasie680]

@@philipr1567 😂😂😂

[@TUSK1157]

They never showed enough of Faye. She was always may favorite.

[@irt1971]

all the eps with phil are the best and funniest

[@crystalkenney6215]

Such an encouraging spirit and handsome smile.

[@mikeunum]

So as always - AMAZING

[@janetallen3843]

Where did Mick get those great striped sweaters and hats?!

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

People used to knit them and send them in to Mick..

[@shellyroke]

His wife made the first one.

[@glendamears3618]

The flint is as precious as gold😮

[@francistuckermanns]

I've had a 50 year career as a geologist and am quite jealous we have not had an equivalent deep geological time team -- threee days to do it.

[@glendamears3618]

Mick ahh rest in peace❤ he's great with the children in this episode 😊❤ some of them could be archeologyists now.😊❤❤❤

[@carrieowen5895]

Mick...I miss you and your lucky jumper.❤

[@johnmehaffey9953]

Because I watched every episode of time team it got my children interested in history

[@DavysFlicks]

Funniest for me was poor Matt getting drilled as a Roman soldier....NOT pleasant!

[@joeyauvinen6064]

Good hunt. If you can get more pull tabs, it's time to strike a deal with the elves to build tiny Alpines.😁

[@josephbohme7917]

Before cell phones; so novelty of a video camera was still a novelty for kids. Mick - Michael Aston died 20 yrs ago (1 July 1946 - 24 June 2013) we all wish to have as much legacy and representation in a historic way. We watch these many hours per season, which is a byproduct of many years doing not only the show, but many other digs annd classwork.

[@JSAC66]

2013 is only ten years from from 2023, not 20 years

[@devinecatlady]

​@@JSAC66I suspect they were referring to when the episode was filmed being 20 years ago.

[@myronkroeker6474]

It's archeological dating... Poor Mick's been dead for 10 to 20 years...😢

[@nataliebarrow6348]

Wish they showed more of Henry Chapman.

[@koningbolo4700]

23:29 And there folks is the lovely Helen Geake...And what a nice lady she is...

[@lindahughes2289]

I like Bridget and Raksha also !!!!

[@koningbolo4700]

@@lindahughes2289 Yeah I agree... Especially Bridget and Paul the Pottery Biker make for a great comical duo... Sorry to learn Paul had a brush with the C disease... at least his voice has become more of a feature I guess...

[@iaind4852]

You gotta love Phil, that accent is so... I like it... Or "oi loik it". Zummerzet? What do I know, I'm from NC.

[@c.a.parker5036]

Wiltshire I think

[@iaind4852]

@@c.a.parker5036 thanks, I googled it, lol I was way off. Still, I think it's a beautiful lilt.

[@Flipdrivel]

@@iaind4852 Not way off at all, it's the neighbouring county!

[@kristinedoty7876]

Not a hard H to be heard anywhere!

[@Flipdrivel]

​@@kristinedoty7876A "hard H"? That's a new one!

[@lenajesse]

🤔 One would think the second "tempers fraying and Phil yelling at David" would be removed from compilations like this, as bits are edited out to shorten the sections anyway...but hey, there it was...again. 😄

[@kevinjohnbetts]

Maybe *DAVID* !! was the editor? 😁

[@bishwatntl]

Yes I spotted that, too

[@anachyinuk]

I don't ever think I've seen any of them really get cross, so that was something haha

[@deborahparham3783]

David commented the cardinal sin of traipsing through Phil's freshly cleaned trench without permission. Phil takes the integrity of the archaeology in the trenches very seriously. According to Phil, what David did is a "hanging offense".

[@kristinedoty7876]

@@deborahparham3783 Yeah, I always notice how Tony stops and asks permission before stepping into a trench.

[@holly50575]

Thanks!

[@jeremyraglin8170]

Great episode 👍

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@lanapeterzon9055]

I really can't figure out why the thumbnail is titled "Top 3 FUNNIEST Digs".

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

Seems to me that children and dwarves would be best suited to digging up archaeology simply because they are closer to the work area.

[@caroleminke6116]

Sharp eyes

[@deborahduthie4519]

The Chinese Father would dig a hole, put clay in the bottom of the pit and build a toilet over the pit with clay hoard in the base. This was like a gift for when that son turned 21. When the clay was retrieved from the pit, the best quality porcelain was enough to build a pottery business. The human waste and kitchen waste, bones etc., had bleached out and broken down the clay particles to a mostly Silica, high fire vitreous clay over those 21 years. Mixing in camel dung in those areas or sheep dung because of the grasses diet, for regular shaped voids in the fired clay for heat and cold expansion and contraction. Since Pots were fired the dung has even used for the fluxing that allows for lower temps for vitreous ware.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

RIP Mick

[@franktuckwell196]

Should be straight forward, yeah, where have we heard that one before?

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

Waiting for the funny bits...

[@iaind4852]

English funny is different.

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

@@iaind4852 oh I know. I was waiting for the British funny bits. Tony being childish isn't British funny. Unless it's a weird cringey British humor with which I'm unfamiliar.

[@user-gz2qh1ie8d]

I loe watching the original team! About the same age as most of them. I like tje new team but cant afford patreon, sadly.

[@DaynaRathman]

I’m so glad Tony insulted Phil’s hat!!!

[@brandoncyoung]

Poor Victor hahaha @55:08

[@chaosordeal294]

Always like that the men are chummy with, and joke around with the women, and really respect their work, and their assessments. Would be tough to watch, really, otherwise.

[@kerrywhite6720]

Funniest? Any Time Team is worth watching and all have gentle humor, but Funny? 8-) ♥

[@conniekiers9554]

who compensates the farmer for the damaged crops?

[@bdhaliwal24]

Great to see youngsters getting involed

[@georgelong9957]

You just have to get the kids involved

[@leecarlson9713]

Does anyone know the season and episode numbers for the first one? I don’t seem to have a record of the show.

[@leecarlson9713]

Found it! Season 17, Episode 10!

[@thelyrebird1310]

Have you ever done more than 3 days on a site?

[@dutchmaster7790]

Actually, yes. There was a site in Coventry where they found bones at the very last moment on day 3 and they couldn't leave that unresolved. So they left a skeleton crew (s'cuse the pun😋 ) including someone to record the video and dug up said skeleton. The Coventry Archeology Unit subsequently took over the dig and found so much more there was a reprise episode (as a TT Special) about a year later. The area has been redeveloped since, taking into the design the archeological finds made by both TT and the local unit. They also visited a Caribbean island for 2 digs, one was a plantation where Stuart found the actual slave village while the other was a pre-conquest native site on the beach waiting to be eroded into obscurity. This was b/c the flight schedule to said island didn't allow a 3 day trip (and besides, jet lag for just 3 days would be horrendous for the entire team) so a double episode was filmed on the island. HTH!

[@thelyrebird1310]

@dutchmaster7790 thanks for that, it's hard to see some of the digs we're so interesting and then ... nothing after and it made me wish that there was a follow-up series about significant developments after

[@arlenebrown4946]

So cute I want to move in

[@philiprice7875]

i loved the mill during day one they found a SAXON bone comb with writing on it next day the writing was translated to say COPYRIGHT 1999 BP SERVICE STATION (location) and the bone part.............. plastic tony saying to Phil you promised me a saxon house and what do you show me? stains in the ground

[@salwaneleyland5874]

The coins are the be trothed to alow the passage on noas arks ships to heavens seas dig ears said mick was always awkwards.

[@binkolney196]

to be honest, I really don't miss Tony's constant negativity in the newer episodes ...

[@ron8802]

I still think he's...Captain Slows....father......😂

[@sinpac6161]

Here's what me and the rest of the commenters know. Stay the hell out of Phil's trench. lol

[@archangel807]

Neolithic animals should be discussed too....

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

What is so "funny" about these digs? {:o:O:}

[@LorenKadison]

What about mick...rip??😮

[@swearenginlawanda]

He passed a few years ago.

[@annazaman9657]

He died in 2013

[@ckh2815]

Get Faye Simpson back on the team. SOON.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

2:30 Child labour alert!

[@Timeisirrelevant]

What are they really learning from digging? Just curious. It seems they’ve collected a ton of stuff in England and have found nothing new or exciting in many years. It just seems unnecessary to make massive trenches everywhere only to find bones and pottery shards.

[@sharimullinax3206]

Poo pottery. Rotflmao

[@neilfleming2787]

how are these the 'funniest', not sure what makes a dig funny....I mean I've met some funny characters. Does 'funny' in this context mean the oddest?

[@ledacedar6253]

Tony you put yourself to shame arguing as only a child would against the Expert who never lies on Time Team. I don't like Tony's quick to snap with cruel British phrases of crap inhumanity i learned from my Mum's rages and rantings.

[@mmtutes]

Within the first few moments Tony goes out of his way to put Mick "in his place" and earned my undying dislike. I must admit I rarely watch the programs unless Mick is in it. Whether you have ever admitted it, Tony, Mick was the goose! I am now 6 min in and Tony has done nothing but bad mouth Mick since the show started. I am not going to be able to watch the rest of it. Tony is being a complete nasty.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Completely misleading and completely unfunny.

[@dalekundtz760]

Love this program, but they could do better if Tony was left at home. I know he is educated, but not in archeology. Leave the digging and the hunches to the professionals. Too bad we lost Mick...😢.

[@davekauffmanjr2069]

i can see that, but im not so sure this program was ever meant to be a serious show,to the extent of a true documentary. to me they all have an element of humor. and that tony is the outsider/straight man to the the archeologists / comedians. i mean no disrespect to any of them, but tony is usefull as the narrator, outsider, antagonist, naysayer straight man.

[@sannesteers]

Tony is behaving like he is 'us, those who are viewing the show': he says and asks the thoughts and questions we could have, probably have. Some years ago (lot of years ago) my mother and me were in the south of France and looking at a dig. We asked questions. One if the archeologists grinned: "So, now are you playing the Tony role...!" 😂❤

[@kristinedoty7876]

@@sannesteers Have you ever noticed how the best teachers ask the questions they know their viewers would like to ask themselves. That light bulb flickered on when I was watching Julia Child asking questions about the preparation of a dish by a guest chef. She came off as so genuinely sincere it took me a while before I thought to myself, "Well, duh, SHE already knows all that stuff!"

[@RKHageman]

Um… take a good look at the credits of any episode in the 20-year run. Tony Robinson was the associate producer. He’s doing exactly what his job is.

[@paulmaxwell8851]

If Tony were not the host the series might well have flopped. He's pretty damned knowledgeable, certainly more than most of us.

[@trojanpussy]

💝🕯🙏

[@ginnycee13]

Why does the creepy "music" have to drown the narration in most of the time team videos? In this one, mainly at the start, in some other videos all the way through. Who is to stupid, to keep background music in its place? It can't be that difficult. Keeping the sound at the same level throughout the videos seems to be a challenge as well. As if the damn boring adverts aren't bad enough, somebody tries hard, to trash some otherwise great programmes!

[@chaosordeal294]

Always like that the men are chummy with, and joke around with the women, and really respect their work, and their assessments. Would be tough to watch, really, otherwise.