Time Team - have they ever found anything...?!??!

[Podie]

It's Saturday evening, and I'm sat with the laptop and giving the telly a cursory glance.

I've ended up with Time Team on... and whenever I've caught any part of this programme they seem to be getting over excited about the potential Roman villa they might find... and merely turn up a few crappy bits of rock they claim are from a random period in history and are of major historical significance

So learned PHers... have they ever found anything of any real value?(financial or historical)

TIA, bored of the Midlands.

[h4muf]

In derbyshire they found a couple of roman gold coins.

Codnor castle,the biggest ruin ever, just a couple of half standing walls left.

Baldrick got a hard on that day!

[Gemsbok1000]

Reminds me a bit of Ice Road Truckers - each week the narrator explains how dangerous the job is, how the trucks could plunge through the ice any second, etc, etc and what happens? Nothing! Well, some bloke took a wrong turning in one episode. That was quite exciting.

[skeggysteve]

Not that I remember!

Mrs Skeggy watches it so it's on the tv and sometimes I watch the odd few minutes.
Must say that I do like the enthusiasm of the diggers, they get so excited over the smallest bit of tile or brick.

[Sixpackpert]

Gemsbok1000 said:

Reminds me a bit of Ice Road Truckers - each week the narrator explains how dangerous the job is, how the trucks could plunge through the ice any second, etc, etc and what happens? Nothing! Well, some bloke took a wrong turning in one episode. That was quite exciting.

[Six Fiend]

They always find a series of small walls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6y-jn6jGbM

Edited by Six Fiend on Saturday 7th March 19:36

[Nobody You Know]

They once excavated a Spitfire, mildly interesting.

I have the arbitary time limit though, there is absolutely no pint to the 3 day limit. Idiotic.

Harry Hill sums it up well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhpTjOkO6g&pla...

[Swilly]

If there was anything worthwhile to be found i doubt English Heritage would let those muppets anywhere near !!

[jmorgan]

What are they supposed to find? A fully functioning castle complete with defenders and boiling oil?

[Eggman]

The temptation to lose something must be very strong - Tony Robinson, spade, ready dug hole... Hmmmm!

[ninja-lewis]

Nobody You Know said:

They once excavated a Spitfire, mildly interesting.

I have the arbitary time limit though, there is absolutely no pint to the 3 day limit. Idiotic.

Harry Hill sums it up well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhpTjOkO6g&pla...

Probably down to cost?

[FourWheelDrift]

They find something every time, because the sites they are digging are unexplained or new. They dig, find out what's there and can find out how old it is, what was there often lots of dating evidence. Considering all of the digs are on places that have long since been abandoned and all of the possessions taken away by their original owners the fact they find anything is remarkable.

They have found countless coins and pottery evidence sometimes suggesting occupation at a time when it had never previously been logged. Roman mosiacs, countless villas, rare Roman texts on stone, a tomb in York because of it's quality believe to be that of the only Emperor to die in the UK and a unique to the UK temple complex rare for even mainland Europe. They have mapped and planned out King Alfred's settlement and found one of the largest Roman Villa complexes in the UK, the Time Team Live Turkdean dig and even helped out in Maryland USA to find the very first city founded by English colonist in 1634.

They also found and mapped out Matthew Boulton's factory and Wedgwoods first factory.

They never know what they will find so each show is a gamble, but something always happens. Inlcuding the famous fake cracking episode -

[Rude Girl]

Mrs Podie here..

skeggysteve said:

Mrs Skeggy watches it so it's on the tv and sometimes I watch the odd few minutes.

That's the irony - it was Pod that put the bloody programme on!! I suffered about 20 minutes of him swearing at the telly (punctuated by me saying 'turn it over then') before he decided to bring his rant here

I think it's a bit like self-flagellation for him.

[Podie]

uh-oh...

Love you!

canIhavesomedinnernowplease?

[elster]

Swilly said:

If there was anything worthwhile to be found i doubt English Heritage would let those muppets anywhere near !!

Well they were allowed free reign over a few digs in York. Found quite a few interesting artefacts and a road that was unknown of. My ex was a volunteer with them for the dig.

[rabw]

I know what you mean about them not finding a lot... but did you see the WW2 bunker one? Not so old, but pretty interesting. The main problem is H&S, if something looks in the slightest bit dodgy to go down they don't.

[sadako]

One of their digs did turn up a huge villa with mosaics on the floor.

[rabw]

sadako said:

One of their digs did turn up a huge villa with mosaics on the floor.

yes I remember that one... not that I watch it religious.

ETA: did they have limited time with that one because it was somewhere where they'd just built a dam and wanted to fill the valley up?

Edited by rabw on Saturday 7th March 20:48

[johnnymaestro]

I remember them digging up a old Lancaster at one point. Was quite interesting.

[Mexico.]

^ They should leave them OAP residents alone!