Tower Blocks and Togas (South Shields) | S12E12 | Time Team

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In South Shields, the Roman Fort at the end of Hadrian's Wall is a local landmark and the team embark on a quest to locate the site of a huge Roman military cemetery thought to be in the area. They search all nearby open spaces but come to the conclusion that the likeliest site of the cemetery is beneath a 1960s housing estate. A few tombstones and burials have been found in the past hundred years, but there must be a huge Roman military cemetery somewhere. Time Team use every spare piece of open space, have a look under the occasional pavement and enlist as much local help, young and old, as possible in their hunt for the site. It's three days of head-scratching mayhem before the answer emerges.
Series 12, Episode 12
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[@Charlie.M.Green1905]

Watching Phil work with his wittiness and hot shorts is always uplifting

[@Blisterdude123]

This episode for me sums up why Time Team was so loved, and it reminds me too of something Tony said about Mick Aston, when he was talking about him after he passed. It was about not being afraid to have your mistakes, your errors, be seen. Not being afraid to be wrong, to an audience. I think that went for most of the experts Time Team had on the show. They'd do what they thought was right, they'd change their minds, they'd admit when they were wrong and try something else. More, perhaps, than you'd expect of people in those fields, or that line of work. It's that, to me, which eventually led to me chasing my passion to get into archaeology, myself.

[@JackKlemeyer]

Well said!

[@snazzypazzy]

From a scientific point of view, negative findings are important too. Maybe not as thrilling, but still, we know something that we didn't know before.

[@Uhtredrag1080]

@@snazzypazzy Nailed it.

[@LoneKharnivore]

Yee-eeess, but, as someone who is actually archaeologically trained it's frustrating to see how many mistakes are made because they have this ridiculous time limit. The number of times that it's not unti day three that they find an old map or a bit of standing building that prove vital is crazy - all that stuff should be studied and surveyed before you even put a single spade in the ground. As for this guy choosing to reverse long-established practice and work from the unknown to the known and then finding basically nothing at all... there's a reason why you don't do that and this is it.

[@Blisterdude123]

@@LoneKharnivore Unfortunately the time limit was a basically immovable part of this arrangement, so debating it is kind of moot. The timeframe was what afforded them access the sites properly, and the funding from Channel 4 who were prepared to cover the costs and negotiate with the parties who controlled the sites. You're right, of course, it wasn't exactly optimal, or ideal, but it is what it is. And I think in the end, in the years the show was going, they at least touched on or discovered enough about most of the sites they visited to leave the door open for further excavations or investigation, in a longer-term sense. And I think that was worth something. It's worth remembering many of the locations they visited were places where local archaeologists were largely simply volunteers, or those with a personal interest, and lacked the means to properly investigate sites. TT opened the door to do that, however briefly. Sometimes the timeframe really killed them, sometimes it didn't, and they left places that have seen follow-up investigations for years.

[@annk.8750]

I can sympathize with Phil. While working as a volunteer on my one and only dig, we were all baffled about the presence of sections of railroad track where they were not expected. An elderly man walked down the hill to see what we were doing and said, "Oh, that? My friend had a Model T Ford, and we put those rails in to support the car so we could dig underneath to get in to work on it."

[@tgbluewolf]

Local knowledge can be invaluable to archaeologists! It's great that the gentleman was still in the same area after all those years.

[@annk.8750]

@@tgbluewolf not just archaeology, but the kind of history that never makes it into text books can only be got by listening to old folks. I once returned to my blazing hot car on a summer day in the park, and with a smile, congratulated an elderly gentleman on being smart enough to park in the shade of a tree. He told me he had planted that tree thirty-eight years before, and we chatted for an hour, with him having to put his finger over his tracheotomy to talk. He told me about working at a mule livery when he was young, and the tale of his boss buying a new string of mules. It was going to take all day to get recalcitrant mules through the woods, down the valley and up the other side, so his boss decided to take them across the old railroad trestle that was once there. It was well over a hundred feet high, and the trains were still using it, but his boss checked the schedule and then led the mules on that terrifying span ...and the mules took one look down and behaved like perfect little ladies as they tiptoed across. THAT is the kind of story you'll never hear unless you listen to the old folks!

[@BoredCertified]

Bless Matt. He was (and is) an extremely valuable asset to Time Team. 😉😘

[@AnaComesonotante]

14:46 Go with Stewart, always go with what Stewart says. Always :)

[@mooremob100]

Yes I agree wholeheartedly, Stewart thinks outside the box, the Geofizz is the first part of the puzzle, he asks the question, WHY are they in this location, what are the physical features. Great show.

[@AnaComesonotante]

@@mooremob100 i couldn't agree more :)

[@BlancoDevil]

Watching Time Team is like sharing a drink with dear friends. It's wonderful

[@soniahamilton9914]

I like it when the computer graphics show you how places would have looked like back in time.

[@johnqpublic2718]

You do? I absolutely hate it

[@scottinWV]

It is pretty cool.

[@415s30]

I prefer the drawings

[@CodonQuixote]

I don't know who I am, I don’t know why I'm here, All I know is that I must watch every Time Team episode ever made.

[@grahamallison8641]

100%

[@Honeydwarf85]

Fair enough

[@TheSuprahuman]

Too much grogg Guybrush, back to Monkey Island you go, and I'm keeping the rubber chicken :)

[@CodonQuixote]

@@TheSuprahuman not until I've found Elaine. I know she's around here somewhere!

[@TheSuprahuman]

@@CodonQuixote :D

[@kaarlimakela3413]

You know, I've been watching these Time Team episodes for years ... and I credit my self-control that this is the first time I have commented that Matt is a bona fide cutie ... pie ... ❤️

[@biologychic7292]

Right?! That booty though!

[@runningtwenty-one6407]

I don't think he'd be too displeased with that observation. Who would. And, you're right.

[@eshbena]

It does make me laugh though that he always gets chosen for the worst reenactments. He had to be a Roman slave as well. :)

[@BoudicaJ]

I am sorry BUT I'll have to FIGHT YA! I have lusted after him for aeons. MINEE!!!

[@Strokes1983]

Love how they've got matt swearing to the lord christ who wouldn't have even existed when the Romans were here. And the bible wasn't written until years later 😂😂

[@ronaldvigue5124]

I love the fact that they involved the kids from the local school.

[@corneliawissing7950]

As a long-retired teacher I am totally thrilled every time I see local parents and children drawn into the TT digs: wonder how many of those children either became or retained a lifelong interest in archaeology?

[@grisza77]

Or grave robbers. Or necrophiliacs. Or just zombies.

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@grisza77 Oi vey! I've never yet met either a necrophiliac or zombie (not knowingly, I mean). Grave robbers we've all heard about. My late, dearly beloved husband called me 'the missionary' because I taught final year high schoolers Shakespeare and Milton while they only wanted to play/watch Rugby (depending on gender). But missionaries cannot allow themselves to become depressed re grave robbers, necrophiliacs or even zombies. So we remain upbeat about converting possibly 'odd' young people, making readers out of them, teaching them literature and grammar and piqueing their interest in the futures they may make for themselves.

[@beastshawnee]

I got interested as a child...was taken to Mexico as a child, and got to go part way inside one tunnel into a pyramid that had basically been recently discovered. Only local archeologists had been inside but we got to go. Dad studied archeology and our trip was all about pyramids. When I was 13 we toured Native mounds all over that summer -Cahokia in missouri to effigy mounds Ohio, then over to the serpent mound and skipping around Kentucky, Illinois and back home to Missouri...Honestly I got sick of Mounds for a while then but still always was somewhat interested. This series has been great since people started posting on youtube.

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@beastshawnee , Sounds absolutely wonderful to me. I'm 78 and far away from the UK and the USA and still surprised at the number of pyramids around the world. Unfortunately, I don't have your background. so when somebody tells me there's a pyramid in Antarctica, I tend to take it on trust ....

[@jonjharrington]

I did!

[@philjohnson1744]

I love how much joy Guy takes in his work.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Seems bored a lot though

[@wkehrman]

Do you ever get the impression that, every so often, Time Team connects with someone who is unclear on the concept of "just three days?"

[@wkehrman]

@Randall Johnson Actually, I was talking about professor Tim Allen....

[@AnaComesonotante]

@@wkehrman omg, your answer just made my day. Thanks. :D Hope you're having a good one too.

[@Legion563]

@Randall Johnson /woosh....

[@milliebanks7209]

My people skills are fine. It's the idiots that I need to work on.

[@beastshawnee]

I love Stewart’s BIG VIEWS! He has the best job on the team. Well except for the illustrators and model makers. I also love the living archeology experiments which make some episodes hilarious!

[@corneliawissing7950]

Telling you: Matt is a sure candidate for archaeological sainthood.

[@dickmcshan9778]

HA! Totally agree. He's a good sport and takes it all in stride.

[@ppotter]

I used to have quite a thing for Matt back when Discovery repeated these every afternoon, but I'm quite sure I never saw this flash of joy! Yum.

[@alexritchie4586]

He's such a low-key hotty ;)

[@ppotter]

@@alexritchie4586 Truth!

[@nevillemignot1681]

At one point Tony speaks about 'An Unfocused Frenzy' during the time that three different people want to put a trench in three different places, that is exactly why a site boss like Mick is needed.

[@smeeh7598]

Yeah! Time team. Hello from Ontario, Canada

[@jorjohnson4446]

Hey I’m from Ontario Canada as well

[@memofromessex]

Hi from South London 😊

[@retasmith472]

Sarnia.

[@deanne1671]

Hey fellow Ontarians!!! Xoxo

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

Netherlands, Heerenveen

[@imperlast2]

time team has became my nighly watch while gong to bed

[@GordonjSmith1]

I feel for the local Archaeologist - he was 'up against it'- the current housing estate, the Victorian housing estate, very few areas of open space, gas, water, electricity supplies every where. In truth this was an episode that was either going to uncover a roman tomb, or or was going to find 'nothing'. Remarkably the discoveries (rare as they were) did actually 'increase knowledge', and we are all the better for that.

[@stevehaynes7516]

What a fine recruit they had in an ephebic Matt.

[@philipross2013]

Poor Matt having to get his kit off. Nice bod though.

[@Timotei75]

"ephebic" Oo, new word!

[@juliajs1752]

Ahh, Europe, where archeology gets in the way of finding other archeology...

[@victoriaparkinson9323]

Best. Comment. Ever 🏆

[@Blisterdude123]

It's particularly bad in the UK. Our country is so small, and you have so, so much history concentrated and packed into that comparatively small space, piled and piled and piled on top of itself.

[@screwthecabal6453]

God I love these shows!

[@TheAquaticMandolin]

God there's nothing better than blown out video from the '90s. All kidding aside I do love the time team.

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

"Start far out and work in"... Everone to Cornwall then, let's do this properly!

[@grendel_nz]

Good to see reconstructed Roman gatehouse etc in South Shields. I didn't know it was there. Amazing to build a housing estate around and on top of such a well preserved Roman fort. Good reason to visit when such travel is possible again. Sometimes it's good to show how hard it can be to discover what has gone before. Makes the archaeologists work even harder and display their wide skills :)

[@kaptainkaos1202]

Matt’s got a cute tooshy!

[@samplerstitcher]

Oooo arrrrr....

[@williamwilliam5066]

Jus gay.

[@nzessmam]

Arbeia fort is well worth a visit on a nice day. Aside from the rebuilt commanders house and the gatehouse, there’s a nice little museum with finds from the site.

[@Hashassin95]

That Tim is getting time team to do all the dirty work an he'll find the glory when they pack up

[@PerryTribeMetalBaker]

just like the WWII aircraft salvagers

[@stevenhale2935]

Is that Guy and Carenza in the thumbnail? Gonna be a good one. 41 hours till Guy has a meltdown and won't back down. Tony will be doubting. Good times

[@AlexRayyy]

I do love these roman episodes 🎉

[@karmayt8956]

My back hurts watching this hard work.

[@tamcon72]

Archaeologists must be some of the most _relentlessly optimistic_ people in all of society! The stick-to-itness really inspires me in these difficult times(I post this comment 4/01/21). ThanksForPosting!

[@galinneall]

"But where were the beggars buried?!" Tony gets so eloquent when he's frustrated.

[@williamwilliam5066]

Tony pronounces "were" "where" why?

[@josephmiller997]

Matt is truly a good sport.

[@Jestmystuff]

It was nice to see another 'side' of Matt this time. Lol

[@staceydimig478]

@@Jestmystuff I totally agree. 😊😊😊

[@PtolemyJones]

I can't imagine ever being so certain of myself that I would gainsay Phil.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Matt may be a Saint. He always gets roasted but takes it like a Champ!

[@Merylstreep1949]

I'm gonna form a post punk electro band just so I can call it the GeoPhys

[@Phiyedough]

When I was at college we learned about chelating ligands and I decided then that if ever I formed a band it would be called the Chelating Ligands!

[@Flowerofearth]

Casual Alice Roberts cameo.

[@Saint_Vincent1735]

I pray time team returns. Such a fantastic show.

[@reidwigen2817]

They're coming back!

[@free_gold4467]

Poor John was having a hard time.

[@wayneclayton5426]

Bright red haired Dr Alice Roberts before she became a professor.

[@dungeonseeker3087]

And looking every bit as gorgeous then as she is now.

[@dickmcshan9778]

Just imagine... you've come home from a land day's work, had a nice dinner, showered and, finally, snuggled into bed. Sleep well... Happy dreams... just above a complete cemetary of the dead all around you. And, let's not forget poor Matt being stripped of all modern luxuries (LITERALLY! HA!). Love these presentations! Do, please, keep up the grand work. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.

[@barbaraburton8914]

Matt stripped was the best part of the show.

[@philipross2013]

@@barbaraburton8914 Agree and I'm an old bloke and a lot more hairy.

[@Richard_Jones]

You've got to hand it to Tim:they find a path on the same alignment as the burials which gives him the idea of a "path leading to the burials." Genius!

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Now this one has a interesting show and a Community Children's Archaeology Dig.* That's really neat, I would have been thrilled as a child. But, I would have been digging for "Indian/Native American's Artifacts, specifically Chickasaw or Shawnee. W Tennessee, USA. 🇺🇸

[@davidtomsett]

Note a very young Dr Alice Roberts

[@michaelbelisle8930]

Just watched another time team episode best one i`ve seen yet. As I said when I found this show best show on archeology l've ever seen,

[@dennisroyhall121]

As ever, just superbly excellent and on all accounts: will, determination, opinion difference appreciation, team work, mutual respect and appreciation and good humour to boot! See how clean and orderly they all are with their excavations! Nothing messy: exemplary as a text book on how to do your Dig!

[@corneliawissing7950]

The unsung hero behind the controls of the excavator is Ian Brady.

[@georgedorn1022]

@@corneliawissing7950 You're thinking of Ian Barclay. Ian Brady was a serial killer!

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@georgedorn1022 Thank you for the correction, Sir! My own most grievous fault.

[@georgedorn1022]

@@corneliawissing7950 You're welcome :-)

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@georgedorn1022 , I wrote the correct surname on my desk blotter, so I shall not get it wrong again ... Ar 78 I find it helps to make a note ...

[@BaburBaggins]

You swore to serve the emperor to the death and I think you're pretty near at that... :)

[@Scriptorsilentum]

again, i'm absolutely drawn into this episode. Always interesting, always fascinating! 😮 This is one of the rare episodes where they are absolutely in the middle of a built-up area and it's interesting to see how they cope. BTW, very odd but I love the background music. Sure wish I knew what it was...

[@candycee8634]

I just love your videos. Thank you!

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

I've just found this channel, and been watching them, today. I'm pretty impressed!

[@delatroy]

Phil’s a goodarrrr 🏴‍☠️

[@mariancroome1478]

Absolutely true... all the way from Cape Town, South Africa. Blessings everyone.

[@Rodneygd]

You moved the headstones and left the bodies!!!!!

[@grendel_nz]

Rest in peace.

[@rucerius4968]

Thumbs up for the Poltergeist reference.

[@AlanWattResistance]

Classic!

[@dickmcshan9778]

"Poltergeist"... excellent movie.

[@graceamerican3558]

Personally I would want to know if my house was built on top of any cemetery. But that’s me ...

[@davidevans3227]

..did you see the film Poltergeist!? 🙂

[@graceamerican3558]

@@davidevans3227 ewww Yes.

[@AndyMartin401]

Brilliant

[@andrewchilds2704]

18:36 As many times as I’ve watched Time Team I never expected to see Matt’s 🍑 lol … 👀

[@ludovica8221]

Matt w/o clothes on. :D Made my day

[@ShortBusScotty]

semi tree gotta love it.

[@dannschmit8604]

There's a background music score that I absolutely LOVE!!! It's the one called Green Island. I would like to know if there is a longer version to this bit of music and if there is, where might I find it? It's my favorite one out of all the background music!!

[@Stephen-cr3sc]

Finding old bones is a contractor's nightmare. In the U.S., stumbling across a Native American burial ground is the kiss of death for a project. I've wondered from time to time how much archeology was deliberately bulldozed into non-existence. While regretting the loss, the living takes precedence over the long dead. There are human remains, my wife's ashes, in my own home. People live, people die...Life goes on. Signs of debauchery means life wasn't all work and no play. Suggesting a stable environment. Stable is good, constant turmoil is bad. Prehistoric cremation confuses me. It takes a great deal of fuel to cremate a human body. I've said this before...Pottery kilns using the dead as fuel makes sense.

[@vanmeier9805]

So sorry for your loss, Stephen. I appreciate your philosophical view, though 💝

[@ILostCountAgain]

Tim is proof that Mick and Phil are the best.

[@Justforfun-wq7mr]

They never ask this site director back again

[@klmandjmc]

I really love Time Team, and really miss Robin and later Mick. They (along with Phil) were the best. But it's really unfortunate about the music they keep playing underneath. It detracts and it's distracting. Especially the weird, echoy bell effect. I think this was the beginning of what Mick lamented as the "dumbing down" of the show. Tho, he was referencing the hiring of a specific person I think some of the writing was on the wall starting about this season.

[@LoneKharnivore]

That "very rare" Samian mortarium was the second one they found this series lol.

[@Julian_Wang-pai]

Intriguing episode - could have been... I won't go there other than to ask: how much pre-digging research is typically done? This episode, particularly, would have benefitted from some geological background and definitely any available info on the industrial era building/demolition phases.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

They seem to go in partially blind to remain objective to exploration of the whole sites 😊

[@mirandamom1346]

“A bit of a result” 😏

[@AndyGabrielPowell]

So a resident didn't want their garden dug up as it was all paved and thought TT wouldn't put it all back? Hell, if I thought I had Roman remains under my house I'd dig up the damn lounge floor!

[@componenx]

Yeah! Another episode I haven't seen yet! Too bad they found almost nothing.

[@public.public]

This episode of Time Team was found in a clay lined hollow next to the path to the Roman cemetery.

[@marlenaamalfitano2727]

Matt is such a good sport, poor thing.

[@PaulMabley]

I'm on here. I hung around on their final day.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Did you grab a pot sherd I would've tried 😊

[@ThroatSore]

Time team turns up at my door they could dig up what they like 🙂

[@leeharwood9624]

My home town ❤️

[@lauralake7430]

Those Iraqi boatmen must have been so cold

[@InsideInterpreting]

Who else is a Matt fan now.

[@red.5475]

I will never understand, why these well built Roman structures were allowed to decay into ruin.

[@ladywisewolf3942]

I'm sorry, but I held this in as long as I could, but with this episode I just HAD to say something. I absolutely love Time Team , and I don't fault them at all, but I am beyond furious with the British government destroying historical sites by plopping down developments right on top of them without a care or any respect for what they are destroying forever! There are numerous episodes in this series with the same problem and I'm just appalled. And in this particular episode I'm surprised that people actually want to LIVE on top of a desicrated cemetery! I wonder if any of the residents experience hauntings? Here in the US building over a known cemetery or archaeological site is a big no no.

[@lizzieannethus8998]

It's rather unavoidable in a country with a population density 8 times that of the US, and thousands of years of archaeology. The Victorians discovered the cemetery by accident, and at the time they were building on it, the burials were already 1700 years old. However, Section 25 of the Burial Act 1857 makes it an offence to remove buried human remains without a licence from the Secretary of State. So they will have needed permission.

[@GoodVideos4]

I wonder how seaweed beer is.

[@alexritchie4586]

I don't know whether I should be glad or irritated that the historical re-enactors didn't use the true Roman salute (i.e. the fascist salute) :p

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Presumably they thought it best to falsify History rather than " offend ' delicate viewers ?

[@kerryburns6041]

Is that where they keep the workers overnight ?

[@morrigan191]

Episodes like this one make me worry about the new Time Team, without Mick Aston...

[@mariancroome1478]

I SO miss Mick!' Perhaps he is looking over Phil's shoulder, 😁

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@mariancroome1478 lol no one needs to be looking over Phils shoulder, unless he joins him on his dig on the Waterloo excavation. Prolly Prof Mick will be taking the pisht at Phil🤣

[@darrenmorgan870]

Every time i watch this i always hope this is the time they uncover a complete Roman villa like the ones at Pompeii , i,ve yet to see them find anything other than the foundations but i still live in hope, and when i here there was a load of Roman buildings and other stuff that the builders found then just built houses on them, drives me crazy i know if we did,nt build on ancient archaeology then we would,nt have any space to put our homes, yet it still does my head in that they put the cost before the archaeology, i wish the government would fund some, cos all the good finds go to them any way.

[@public.public]

Not many active volcanos in Roman Britain.

[@darrenmorgan870]

@@public.public If only, may be if they start a new series they might find a long lost one, deep under some housing estate, fingers crossed,,,

[@PerryTribeMetalBaker]

Gods forfend, but that guy just didn't have a clue on this one... or any of the other TT digs he was involved in, actually

[@wendywhite2642]

What I wonder is when they find beautiful ruins that obviously need further excavation do they always just cover it up? Or do other teams come along and excavate further? I certainly would love to be on a team to excavate many of these sites further. Three days is not enough! Most site excavations go on for years!

[@maxsdad538]

Often they turn the site over to a local archaeology club of group (or school) for further analysis. Otherwise, they record, refill, and leave it for a time when a full scale excavation can be undertaken.

[@douglasgraebner1831]

Yea, a lot of times they’d visit sites with ongoing research programs or focus on “is this going to be worth further work” stuff.

[@415s30]

Leave poor Matt alone!!

[@MeAbroad2004]

What I learnt working on this episode: 1)there were some serious Primadonnas involved in this show, from Robinson and Taylor downwards. Notable exceptions being the late Mick Aston, Harding and "Mick the Dig". 2)Approaching an established site and using your own, completely alien system of context numbers and then not telling the local archaeologists is a recipe for disaster when trying to tie it in to the wider site during post-ex. 3)Backfilling a public space, essentially a park or play area for the local kids with a backhoe JCB so that it looks like the Somme, is really not on; why go to the bother of hand cutting the turfs if this is what will happen? Never mind the local fall out and lack of goodwill shown to those who actually work on the site full time...I'm alright Jack. 4)It was really not appreciated when on the Monday the backfilling/clean up crew all head down the pub for a slap-up lunch paid for by the company, leaving the local archaeologists to it. We were still subcontracted/obliged to help with said backfilling. It was only when my gaffer remonstrated with the Hooray-Henry executive that we were begrudgingly fed. 5)It is highly recommended that when approaching a site which is active that you read the available literature: I had excavated part of the site literally a few months before with the late Roger Oram, with mixed results and the report - rushed through to make it available for TT - clearly stated areas which were devoid of archaeology. What do they do? Bang a trench right next to said sterile area and then complain that there is no archaeology: Tim Taylor obviously knows best.

[@Rover200Power]

Why would Tim Taylor decide where trenches were put? He isn't an archaeologist.

[@douglasgraebner1831]

Well uh that’s disappointing

[@staystrong8966]

Well that's deeply unfortunate. I suppose it makes sense that they're all about what makes good telly, more than 100% pure discovery. Still leaves a damn wet wash over the whole thing.

[@Jean-yn6ef]

💚

[@christopherarmstrong8857]

No way was that a slingshot wound

[@scublessbunney]

We know where it is SO let's dig somewhere else, !

[@MrBigbadbowen]

exactly! when I first saw his episode I thought that Tim was a bit of a tit, he wasted 2 and a half days being stubborn where they could have been finding good solid history!

[@arigatuxful]

This is so true.

[@shawnblackhawk6718]

I gotta know: is Patrick on the Spectrum?!

[@TheGreatSatan_]

It's funny whenever they whip out the computer graphics and it's obviously Windows XP

[@swampfox1776.]

THIS is the time team i like. New one SUCKS!

[@bengerrard5953]

I'd bet a few pounds on carenza being a straight A student.

[@dogwalker666]

That would be Quid! 😉

[@josephkarl2061]

I'd hate to go against that 😜😄

[@maxsdad538]

@@dogwalker666 They're the same thing, Slick.

[@PtolemyJones]

I guess if you didn't build where bodies were buried, you couldn't build anywhere.

[@TheShootist]

Series 12, Episode 12 20 March 2005. Tony, Phil, Carenza, Stewart, Jimmy, John, Ben, Henry, Guy, Brigid. No Mick.

[@samaccardi]

I believe Mick's usually there for the Medieval stuff. Post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and beyond, etc. That was his area of expertise and study IIRC.

[@archstanton1628]

And a young Alice Roberts.

[@jennl8985]

I read that Mick had health problems like asthma and aspergillosis and suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2003 that sent him into a depression for 18 months. They said after, he played a less prominent role on TT. Then he quit in 2012 when he didn’t approve of the direction of the show. The show ended in March 2013 and he died in June of another brain hemorrhage.

[@samaccardi]

@@jennl8985 I’m aware of the latter part. I wasn’t aware of the first hemorrhage or depression cuz I’ve still seen him on a decent amount of digs after 2003. This episode might’ve been in that 18 month depression/recovery period? I remember an episode after this season where he couldn’t make it day 1 so he drove up on day 2 to hop into things.

[@RKHageman]

IIRC, he wasn’t all that keen on Roman sites.

[@graceamerican3558]

Mom - So what did you do in class today? Daughter - we dug up dead people.

[@dickmcshan9778]

HA HA HA!

[@kurtbogle2973]

It's plain to see that the Romans liked to cook. Their soldiers wore every pot , pan, and kettle everywhere they went.

[@vampcaff]

@22:45 foreman in the making

[@Ashs-mini-vlogs]

How does the stuff go underground tho

[@corneliawissing7950]

Must crawl in underneath in the dark of night ...

[@wolfnipplechips]

1cm of dirt every year, puts stuff deep underground 2000 years later. Especially where there is constant habitation.