Just for Fun: Which site are you most excited about?
Added 2021-06-10 20:16:15 +0000 UTC
Having discovered a bit more about both sites, do you currently have a personal favourite? And has your choice changed as you've found out more?
Let us know your reasons in the comments below...
Comments
Can’t wait for both. I hope they are the first of many more. Will Phil be involved?
Craig O’Malley
2021-07-01 17:41:06 +0000 UTCOh of course! Silly question. That's great to hear! Look forward to the return of them both!
Sue Murphy
2021-06-29 16:58:50 +0000 UTCHi Sue, yes – the two upcoming digs will be available everywhere (including New Zealand) on the Time Team Official YouTube channel. We're also looking forward to the return of our NZ contingent, Brigid and Raysan!
Time Team
2021-06-29 10:38:02 +0000 UTCI just hope I can get to watch here in nz
Sue Murphy
2021-06-29 03:20:44 +0000 UTCYou make a very good point there Wendy. I'm just jealous we have none of either here down under
Sue Murphy
2021-06-29 03:19:04 +0000 UTCI am fascinated by the Iron Age so naturally I would prefer that one but I’m sure they are both really interesting.
Lyn Howe
2021-06-16 09:21:42 +0000 UTCI want my cake.. and I will eat it also?!
Not Public
2021-06-15 21:37:41 +0000 UTCSorry as a confirmed Romanist it's the Villa. The very considerate Romans just made it easier to dig up & understand.....
Marc Byrne
2021-06-15 09:13:02 +0000 UTCThe Iron age Hands down. after all what have the Romans ever done for me?
Gerald Salmon
2021-06-15 02:03:24 +0000 UTCI'm looking forward to both. I need my time team fix!
Michael Russell
2021-06-14 19:51:55 +0000 UTCBeing in the US, I just can't get enough news on Roman sites. I just love how there is so much Roman history in the UK
Mary Toumpas
2021-06-14 19:41:18 +0000 UTCYes! "Garbology" excavations of 2020 or 3,000 BCE, Time Team can bring such exquisite insights to the finds. 1st in 1960 Australia, then U. Arizona 1970, major source of information on the nature and changing patterns in modern and ancient refuse, and thereby, perceptions and activities of human society.
Martha Berryman
2021-06-13 19:33:39 +0000 UTCThe old Latin teacher comes out for the Roman villa. But how my UK ancestors lived calls to my heart. Besides, I played a video for my history class about flintknapping and have adored learning more from Phil. So, I am torn. It's all good!
Theresa Crubaugh
2021-06-13 18:22:13 +0000 UTCVery interested in seeing what both dig sites find. I've always had an interest in the processes in archeology since I was young. Good luck.
Bethany Molloy
2021-06-13 09:28:45 +0000 UTCTough call but the team discussions have changed my original choice of the Iron Age site to the villa, not so much the Roman period but what happened afterwards. Anything that might add to knowledge of Dark Age Britain (Early Medieval is too vague a term for me, I’m sticking with DA) is a plus for me. But I’m looking forward to the Iron Age site too as I find it difficult to envisage what life was like then. Except that folks liked a sea view as much as we do, in Cornwall at least!
Liz Andoe
2021-06-13 05:49:48 +0000 UTCI'm more interested in the process of the archeology, and know I'll learn things from both digs.
Katrina Trigari
2021-06-12 15:31:20 +0000 UTCThey are both absolutely superb sites- impossible to choose!
Strubot
2021-06-12 11:52:39 +0000 UTCHonestly, I couldn't choose. Since we can have both, I'm happy.
Juti A Winchester
2021-06-12 05:48:15 +0000 UTCAfter listening to Miles Russell's excitement and explanation I changed my vote to Roman Villa 😀
Kathleen Garza
2021-06-12 05:30:02 +0000 UTCIt's a coin flip for me, but I'm looking forward to both digs. As I've said before, " Have trowel, will travel."
Christopher
2021-06-11 17:33:50 +0000 UTCHonestly I wait with great anticipation for both sites to be done and to be able to watch the footage. However I believe there are fewer Ironage sites available so lets do that one first
David McDermott
2021-06-11 16:58:43 +0000 UTCI think Roman is two a penny I was born in Bath and virtually grow up with the Romans. Iron Age is much more interesting as there is still so much to learn.
Roger Lye
2021-06-11 16:50:47 +0000 UTCI've always felt the Romans have been unfairly seen as more interesting than the earlier and then concurrent 'British' life ....the Iron Age settlement has it!
Wendy Crammond
2021-06-11 16:41:57 +0000 UTCI'm always amazed how refined life was on the frontier of the Roman Civilization. Astounding that it was all lost and had to rebuild over time. Just don't get it.
Terri
2021-06-11 16:25:11 +0000 UTCBroughton Castle is just a stone’s throw from where I live, so I prefer that!
Gay Holden
2021-06-11 15:57:23 +0000 UTCI'll let you know when both have been dug! A cop out I know. Sometimes I think I prefer pre-history, then I read, or watch something from a different era and thats my new favourite time.
Mark Lund
2021-06-11 12:06:37 +0000 UTCI'm fascinated by the Cornwall site, but it's a close call. Good choices, both sites.
William Tinney
2021-06-11 11:05:42 +0000 UTCA Roman Villa that has never been dug, with the possibility of new mosaic floors, is appealing, as is the Iron Age settlement in the depths of Cornwall, and what we might learn about living, working and trading at that time and in that region.
Mike Darby
2021-06-11 11:01:38 +0000 UTCyep. Got to be Cornwall iron age. So much to explore and learn and in such a beautiful county
Wendy Brockwell
2021-06-11 10:56:03 +0000 UTCJust moved away from Oxfordshire and will follow this with great interest
Amby Hitchcox
2021-06-11 10:23:43 +0000 UTCThe Roman villa because I live only three miles away and knew of it before and the iron age site because it's of such interest.
Noel Bell
2021-06-11 09:50:29 +0000 UTCLooking forward to both sites and it is going to be wonderful to watch Time Team again .
Sarah Holloway
2021-06-11 09:45:22 +0000 UTCIron Age for me-I find the Romans a bit too "new and modern!" :)
Justine Norbury
2021-06-11 09:19:51 +0000 UTCBoth great but Roman Villa is the most interesting for me
Tim Clarke
2021-06-11 09:18:03 +0000 UTCFor me its not which but when?
Mike Meyer
2021-06-11 08:59:42 +0000 UTCI just don’t find stains in the ground quite as interesting as walls and artifacts. And Iron Age settlements are so often the former.
Judy Buck-Glenn
2021-06-11 08:48:34 +0000 UTCIts a close thing. I cant wait. But Cornwall and the Iron Age has it just by a nose, because there is so much to be explored.
E Anna Johnson
2021-06-11 07:49:01 +0000 UTCI'm excited about both but put the Iron Age settlement as the episode at Gear Farm was incredible, so much archaelogy and so much to learn. I think it'll be a really good dig.
Heather Kay
2021-06-11 07:37:41 +0000 UTCI think we know less about Iron Age settlements, so am really excited to see some new light shed on that time.
Jill Hobbs
2021-06-11 07:29:23 +0000 UTCLooking for ward to seeing what new equipment can produce, can’t wait
Pat Findlay
2021-06-11 07:20:25 +0000 UTCWe shall add yesterday's rubbish bag to our list of future potential sites.
Time Team
2021-06-11 07:06:54 +0000 UTCLooking forward to both sites with eager anticipation
Rick Hubbard
2021-06-11 06:24:51 +0000 UTCI am just so excited that time team is back , so any site will be awesome and worth the wait.....keep up the great work.... we love you.
Julie Perry
2021-06-11 05:57:32 +0000 UTCRomans for me. Will Phil be coming back, I really enjoyed his enthusiasm and banter.
Kevin Greaves
2021-06-11 05:40:16 +0000 UTCI'm excited about both, but a smidge more about the iron age site.
Hanna_M
2021-06-11 04:18:50 +0000 UTCThat`s not a very nice thing to say about Sir Tony. Then again, you are entitled to your own personal opinion.
Stephen Draper
2021-06-11 03:29:09 +0000 UTCI realize the importance of the Roman sites and they give us a great deal of information about the period they stayed here. But, in all honesty, the Iron Age settlements are much more interesting.
Stephen Draper
2021-06-11 03:27:28 +0000 UTCI just love history, don't make me choose!
Ruth
2021-06-11 03:13:02 +0000 UTCI loved both Tony and Phil- I like the Romans because there are actual finds not just dark smudges in the ground up for interpretation… excited for the new time team ✨
Jo Poshek
2021-06-11 02:14:07 +0000 UTCIs Phil Harding coming back? He never missed any of the previous digs. We can do without a "presenter" pretending to be stupid like Tony.
Sheila Bundy
2021-06-11 01:35:20 +0000 UTCSorry, I'm with Francis Pryor: It's bronze age or iron age, and it's ritual. ;)
Tomek Jankowski
2021-06-11 01:34:35 +0000 UTCSeeing Time Team return is the most exciting aspect and I would be over the moon to be able to participate in anything they were doing. Having the opportunity to learn more about any period in the past is a worthwhile enterprise.
JUDITH COOKE
2021-06-11 01:00:25 +0000 UTCIron Age and older would tell us how Britain was started I hope.
Christina
2021-06-11 00:46:02 +0000 UTCThe Roman sites have gotten boring. Tesserae, hype course tiles, a few mosaics, robbed out walls. We need to move on from the Roman exploitation of the British isles.
Gerard Dalziel
2021-06-11 00:05:02 +0000 UTCI do tend to like prehistoric sites more, but that's a cracking Roman site!
Robert Weissburg
2021-06-10 23:56:54 +0000 UTCJust so excited to see it all coming together!!
leslee hackenson
2021-06-10 23:45:05 +0000 UTCI am waiting to dig deeper and see what is unearthed
Lee Adarr
2021-06-10 23:29:26 +0000 UTCBoth great. And please persuade Tony and Phil to get involved in some way!
Neil Scott
2021-06-10 23:23:43 +0000 UTCOf course I’d like to see both…
Pat Sinatra
2021-06-10 23:18:59 +0000 UTCQ: Roman Britain or Iron Age Britain? A: Yes please!
Cary Donaldson
2021-06-10 23:15:23 +0000 UTCI love both sites but the Iron Age has me hooked at the moment I just wish we had teleports so I could zip over from Oz to help on the dig site lol
Dawsie
2021-06-10 23:10:57 +0000 UTCI am More than just Happy to see that a New Time Team is coming back since I have found all of the older programing on youtube and have been hooked on all of the discoveries, even when after all the work from 3 days, there is nothing there. It is the effort that everyone had put into it to find SOMETHING. I would LOVE to see Phil Harding come back, but know due to age, and his back issues that maybe, he could come back as a presenter to give us all more of an insight as to what is being found, knowing the many years from his own personal experience in the field. Wonder if he ever wrote a book about his life and his many digs, with all his years with Time Team, and even before when he was just starting out, I would make sure to wait for a copy of a book such as that...Tony I will miss, as now you have a NEW narrator. Won't be the same without Tony. As for which site. I like them both cause there is so much you can still get from either one, though I prefer the Roman period due to that there seems to still be a lot more evidence of it all around Europe. I personally would like to see some more on the Viking period and what locations or finds or even burials, if any, and also into the Scottish history, around, before and after Sir William Wallace. Thinking of places like digs at maybe Canbuskenneth Abby in Scotland; digs around or close to Alt Clut Clyde Rock, or around undug places at St. Wystans Church in Repton?? Find the Iron Age and Roman ages to be very interesting and informative and would love to hear more about them, BUT would also love to learn MORE about the Vikings/Norseman ages between 5th to 9th century??
Donna Oglesby
2021-06-10 23:10:21 +0000 UTCI love everything and anything Tudor back so both exciting. I live in NZ so we don't have a lot that survives before the English arrived, that's my understanding anyway. Love to be over there being in the middle of it all!
Sue Murphy
2021-06-10 23:04:12 +0000 UTCWhile I think both sites are interesting and exciting, I would lean more towards the Iron Age site. Roman Britain is fairly well known, there's always more to learn, but the current volume of knowledge is vastly larger than what is known of the Iron Age. With the Roman period we have contemporary writers to fill in some of the gaps, with the Iron Age we're totally dependent on archaeology to expand our knowledge. Every dig gives us another little glimpse into that enigmatic past.
Robert Boudreau
2021-06-10 22:52:23 +0000 UTCI’ve been to Cornwall and love to learn everything about it!
Leslie Stokes
2021-06-10 22:34:36 +0000 UTCI love it all!
Bron Lloyd
2021-06-10 22:22:21 +0000 UTCLooking forward to both but the Roman Villa is slightly in front
Anne Leaver
2021-06-10 22:17:28 +0000 UTCI'm looking forward to both but am smitten by the "Fogou"
Amy Fisher
2021-06-10 22:12:10 +0000 UTCI live in California and have access to the Getty Museum Villa which is nice. Seeing the real Roman structures unearthed in Britain is very exciting to me.
Steve Haynes
2021-06-10 22:05:38 +0000 UTCThe older the site the more I like it!
Justin & Rachael Litzenburg
2021-06-10 22:04:36 +0000 UTCI have to admit I enjoy the Roman sites more but this Fogou could be more interesting now that they can scan more. No choice, it’s got to be both. I would love to see them all done by Time Team. I’m in for the long haul, after all, it’s my favorite of the very few interesting programs on tv!
Gayle Hales
2021-06-10 21:55:32 +0000 UTCAnything pre medieval is always my fave. Not so hot on more modern historical sites as we have some idea of what it is they're digging. Any dig where everyone goes in "blind" and discovers "new" things is always great, especially when they change their mind about what the dig actually is. Their opinions evolve with their discoveries :)
Skattered Ink
2021-06-10 21:44:56 +0000 UTCboth would be great👍
Mario Papworth
2021-06-10 21:35:06 +0000 UTCI agree Stephen Fry
Sonia Hamilton
2021-06-10 21:21:37 +0000 UTCI feel we know less about Iron Age than Roman..
Mark Freestone
2021-06-10 21:18:50 +0000 UTCThe presenter should clearly be Mary Beard!
Nancy Bush
2021-06-10 21:12:54 +0000 UTCStephen Fry would be wonderful. Philomena Cunk would be INTRIGUING!😏
Eggs Ackley
2021-06-10 21:08:37 +0000 UTCPreferring the phrase "...are you MORE INTRIGUED. about". I'm excited and grateful to ALL who contribute to a returning and on-going TT. Yes! The Cornwall site is intriguing because we (historians, archaeologists, psychologists, anthropologists, geneticists et. al.) continue to run the treacherous path of "looking back in history with our own prejudices" and "assuming" those folks lived their days with even a remote similarity to the mentalities of 2021. We must release our stereotypes and assumed patterns suggesting Neolithic et. al. motivationand enjoyments of Pleasures, pursuing Lifeor Goals or Intentions, or Fears of "Others" in ways we can understand. In their communities of mutuality, they depended on Shared Skills, Resources, Purposes, even their sense of Time, as well as what made a "good day," or laughter. We can see only the artifacts of their successful culotures where for centuries they, laughed, loved, feasted, and labored in ways that in 2021 we can hardly imagine. I can't wait to learn what New Finds, Old Faces and New Faces can again delight and teach us GOOD HISTORY by PUSHING OUR SPECULATIVE IMAGINATIONS!! PS, What about asking Stephen Fry (such a mix of Tony, Mick, Robin, Guy, Alice R., Helen) to be our charming comfy Tony-man?? Just the first two? Doubters SEE Fry on YouTube scholarly discussions.
Martha Berryman
2021-06-10 21:03:42 +0000 UTCThe Iron Age and Cornwall have a particular calling for me.
Penny Forrester
2021-06-10 20:57:29 +0000 UTCLove discovering Roman history. Imagine if the Roman Empire had continued.
Dale Jones
2021-06-10 20:56:41 +0000 UTCIron age because I think there is more to discover whereas we have a wealth of information about the Romans
Anne Bryan
2021-06-10 20:53:46 +0000 UTCIt will be interesting if there finds that prove that there was trade with the Mediterranean and Gaul.
Peter Blay
2021-06-10 20:52:11 +0000 UTCEh, the Roman villa wins it for me. Iron age isn't my jam... And my real interest is in medieval.
Karen Barker
2021-06-10 20:51:27 +0000 UTCVery happy to see new discoveries with familiar faces. Can't wait. Bring it on.
Joanne Norris
2021-06-10 20:50:07 +0000 UTCPossible mosaics? I admit as much as I love anything TT does I do prefer a good mosaic or hypocaust or bit of bling to a possible posthole or ditch-in-a-trench.
April Keene
2021-06-10 20:49:52 +0000 UTCI'm just thankful that TT is back doing their great work. I admit, I chose both sites, but....my rationale is that I cant' wait to see the newest technology that people like John brings to geophys, and Steve brings with A/V, and Raysan and Neil bring with graphics. For me, this is a good starter set of places for technology to take a test drive for us. <3
Freda Bradley
2021-06-10 20:48:24 +0000 UTCThe Roman Villa has much more potential for learning something new since it has never been disturbed. It may cover more than just the 350 years of Roman occupation. The fougou seems to me to be much more limited in the probability that it will yield new understanding of the people or time period involved. I am looking forward to both shows.
William F. Campbell
2021-06-10 20:48:12 +0000 UTCVery excited about the new technology and old faces
Thomas Prescott
2021-06-10 20:47:16 +0000 UTCAgreed!!
April Keene
2021-06-10 20:46:21 +0000 UTCBothnexciting for different reason. Roman to see what all the new technology adds, and iron age as prehistory sites I am most interested in, thoo I hope we learn a bit more about Fougus than we used to....
Elizabeth Nickless
2021-06-10 20:46:02 +0000 UTCboth look good but I'm voting for the iron age settlement.
Bob and Pam
2021-06-10 20:42:56 +0000 UTCRoman site for me. Was bought up with Lullingstone Villa up the road from us when I was a kid. Always in awe of the archeology they left behind
Pleased Pete
2021-06-10 20:42:11 +0000 UTCBroughton! 1) Samian Ware, 2) hypocaust, 3) high status wall plaster, 4) small finds, 5) Neil Holbrook. Maybe Guy, too?
Alex Pardoe
2021-06-10 20:41:08 +0000 UTCLooking forward to different things from both sites
Julie Gray
2021-06-10 20:38:36 +0000 UTCIron Age by a whisker. Both very exciting.
Dan Hermann
2021-06-10 20:38:14 +0000 UTCBoth work for me
James Matney
2021-06-10 20:37:14 +0000 UTCBoth sites hold an interest to me.
Pete Higgs
2021-06-10 20:36:05 +0000 UTCBoth were great, but I'm especially interested in the earlier sites.
Beverly Bennett
2021-06-10 20:31:51 +0000 UTCJust love the idea of both.
Zoe Propper
2021-06-10 20:30:59 +0000 UTCI voted for both, To be honest I'd watch Time Team go through and investigate yesterday's rubbish bag just to have them back on TV again !!...Cant wait for the first dig to start!!
Johannes Schutte
2021-06-10 20:26:27 +0000 UTCI'm especially interested in the Broughton Villa because I live in Swalcliffe, only two miles away. Swalcliffe has its own Roman settlement at Swalcliffe Lea which began as residential with at least three well-appointed villas, but seems to have evolved with increasing industrial use. Since Broughton and Swalcliffe are connected by a known Roman road it's tantalising to wonder if Swalcliffe was in effect the "industrial estate" for Broughton. We hope a good understanding of Broughton will enable a better understanding of Swalcliffe as part of a wider Roman landscape.
Colin Hill
2021-06-10 20:25:00 +0000 UTCThe Roman site for the finds, the Iron Age site for the mystery.
Paul Green
2021-06-10 20:23:49 +0000 UTCDefinitely both. History is multi-faceted
Dori Ownbey
2021-06-10 20:21:15 +0000 UTCThe fogou, and a well preserved villa in a medieval landscape? Both equally interesting.
Dave Decker
2021-06-10 20:21:11 +0000 UTCRoman Villa makes for better TV. You at least may find a wall and some pots larger than a coin.
Duncan Chopoorian
2021-06-10 20:20:45 +0000 UTCI find the Iron Age fascinating. Both sites are exciting, but I'm really looking forward to understanding more about our Iron Age ancestors.
Kay L Tomlinson
2021-06-10 20:20:00 +0000 UTCI voted for both sites … because with viewer interest at stake, the Roman site probably will generate the most interest for the most folks. My intent is to preserve the most interest-generating option … while voting for my preference the Iron Age settlement. If there is a fogou in the Iron Age site, would it be useful to identify the original floor surface, earth I imagine, and closely examine it for trampled-in debris, pollen, etc. … sort of in layers like sectioning a sediment core … to identify uses, and changes in use over time?
Robert Wise
2021-06-10 20:19:35 +0000 UTCRoman villas excite me as I'm more well read in that area, but what could be found in a fogou?? Curious!
Kay Theriault
2021-06-10 20:19:25 +0000 UTCdefinitely this one for me
Sue Tweedie
2021-06-10 20:19:15 +0000 UTC
