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Way Back Wednesday: Caption This! (22nd January 25)
🕑 Added 2025-01-22 16:35:40 +0000 UTCJust for fun, it's time again for our weekly caption competition.
Every Wednesday, we're digging into the archives to share a photo of the team in action.
You know the deal... Please share your most creative captions in the comments below, as always, keeping it clean and appropriate!
Comments
KL Sweet
So, er, we found nothing then.... it's 9ft deep so it may take some time to back fill. Could be late for the pub😭
Shannon Wells
Well, it's not Roman, it's not Anglo Saxon, I think we have a bog standard 1950s cellar, Tony.
Frosty
Septic tank. I TOLD you it was a septic tank!
barbara williams
There is hole in the field! Who put the hole in the field?
Barbara Brenchley
Well, they got that wrong!
Barbara Brenchley
My favourite!
Barbara Brenchley
Well, they got that wrong!
Tom
It appears to be the grave of Boldrick who was the servant of Edman Blackadder according to historical documents but no one knows why it is here and not at the church
Debbie Williams
Oh! I don’t like the look of that….
Heather-Joy Garrett
How do we get the Geophysics equipment out before John sees
Tim Walker
Please tell me that those are a bunch of Neolithic cables you just cut through!!!
Under The Bodie
If you look hard enough you can see the face of Billy Connerly
Bill Erickson
"Yes, Tony, we aren't really sure what it is, but we think it must be ritual."
Nancy Funk
Alas, poor Phil....
Eggs Ackley
Finally found that Ford Cortina the geophiz boys mentioned 30 years ago.
Philip Slater
How did we get it so wrong.
Russell Brady
It's good archeology, but how are we going to get Phil out of there?
Dave1900
Where's the coffee??
Darylyn Phraner
It's just a jump to the left... .... Let's do the time team again..😏
Diane Dills
Tony, “ You’ve got to be kidding me?!! “
Theresa Cashin
"Oh jeez. We've done it now!"
Todd Gillespie
Tony: “After 2 days of digging, all I see is a few desultory stone and…nothing!
John Atkinson
If only we could just move this trench instead of having to dig another.
Robert Ernest Arthur Harvey
Don't turn round! I don't know what they found but it turned John into a stone
Clive McIntyre
Time Team have discovered a hole, so they are looking into it.
Jim Barrett
What do you mean, the dig's behind us?
Jim Barrett
Whatever it is down there, it must be ritual.
Wendy Greene
On the discovery of a complete skeleton there was stunned silence when Tony said, 'He's definitely dead'
OLC Box
Ten Years and this is as far as the Stonehenge tunnel made it!
J. Andrew Lockhart
“Well, I guess Phil had too many last night, but he’ll wake up pretty soon.”
Richard Lowe-Jackson
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today.....
Pauline Purcell
Francis: I was thinking we could plant potatoes?
Jon Leslie-Smith
Well that's interesting, we'll save it for the end of day three.
Tech Nicholls
Poor Phil, I knew him well.
Russell Neilsen
I love this experimental archeology. Tony, what grave goods do you want put in with you?
Dan
I thought China was that way!
Louise Bates
So Tony, what's your cunning plan for this dig? Any chance of some rituals???
Russell Neilsen
Tony, tell me again who we're burying?
Leonie Hancock
Francis to Tony There doesn't appear to be a Roman Villa there
Carl Johnson
So, you are telling me we just dug up a large animal cemetery from the 1940s?
Edie Markhouse
"I think it's broke." "Hmm, looks broke to me." " Me too." "Maybe it's broke."
1happychick
Has anyone seen Phil?
Mike Tedham
Nobody knows who dug the mystery trench that appeared overnight but Time Team are looking into it.
Eddie Hatherall
And I SING hey-YEAH-YEA-EAH, EAH HEY YEA YEA I said hey! what's goin' on
Veronica Wright Roni
Who is going to tell Phil he has dug in the wrong place, and best be ready to run.
Mea Cadwell
What do you mean we found China?
Kathleen Sweebe
So, how are we going to get Phil OUT of the hole?
Wendy Lambert
S0, what do we actually think it is???
Christopher Hankey
We are gathered here today to commerate our friend Mick Aston and commit him to his love of Archeology.
Alan W McMillan
Francis: "So, again, can anyone tell me which legendary archaeologist discovered that stupendous site known as 'Flag Fen'?.... Anybody....?"
Dori Ownbey
Just how many supervisors does one hole need?
Howard wetsman
Tony: "Yes, Francis. That is a hole."
Kerry-Ann Adamson
We will never get the Land Rover out of that! Best we say it was ritual before the management find out!
David Austen
Anyone bring a trowel?
Mika
Everyone: Any minute now, Francis is going to say it is ritual Francis: It looks like r-
Aidan Lees
It’s a rectilinear but we don’t know what it is, it could be the Q for the food truck!
David Duncan
Whelp. That’s a whole lot of nothing
Angie Reeks
And now a moment of silence, please.
Leanne
That was lovely graveside service.
Louise Bates
I'm telling you it's definitely a grub hut ...
Brian H Taylor
Francis: No, I'm not going to throw my lollipop in that hole!
Mark A. Ashford
Oh Great! The 1st octagonal posthole!
T Swift
Sooooo, WTF is that then Tony?
Gillian Smith
"I thought you said, there was a mosaic here!"
Andy Gabriel-Powell
"Do you think it's deep enough for a pool?"
Sandra Farrar
Frances: “But it’s so much more than just a hole!”
Michael Taylor
that's my favourite!
Mary-Helen Armour
..after rain the night before the team debates who gets to go down to bail out the trench
Lewis Davis
we are professionals, so where is it?
KSG Sherley
Soooooo, what do we do now?
Rob Treen
Time team training for a future role at the council
Ruth Feathers
Yep. That's a hole.
Michael Crouch
“And the winner of the nobliest trowel competition is…”
Ruth Farrimond
Frances: If we enlarge the trench I’m sure we’ll find a round house.
Wessex-Wyvern
Matt, you have to stay down there for the evening dressed as a slave and carrying on digging, but we're going to the pub.
Eilrobichaud
Waiting their turn for permission from Phil to step into the trench…
Eilrobichaud
Phil’s attempt to again show people how ‘correctly cut a trench’
Kate Crawford
Frances: it's actually an Anglo Saxon site of great significance! The rest: *(crickets)*
Julianne Ture
But we were SO sure this was a sunken-feature building!
S. Douglas Baldwin
So, we believe this is a "ritual" hole.
Neil
I think the finds table was a bit heavier than we thought...
Barbara B.
Phil! Phil, mate! Seriously, that aurochs is past saving...
Kevin
Hole’s dug, time to go to the pub
Marianne Richards MSc.
Must we really bury ourselves, to give Helen fresh insights into Roman burials for her podcast?
Rebecca Hails
Well now the trench is done, should we go for a pint?
LA preservation
Uh-Oh ... Whose going to call the Monuments Commission on THIS one ?
Steve Mikre
We can't be bothered...
John Lewton
Yep. That's a hole, all right.
Andrew Stewart
"What is your dirt doing in Phil's hole?"
Dan
'Is that it?' (It was at this point that Tony began to wish he'd just stuck to that acting lark instead...)
Ruth Bartram
Yip, it’s definitely a hole
Connie L Merchant
Yes, everyone, the trench has no finds.
David Wood
Is that....? Yep, its Phil. I told him that he had had enough but NO he said he wanted one more fore the ditch.
Richard Mercer
So who's going to tell the gas company we broke the main?
Colin Hart
"So how far do we have to dig to find evidence of England winning at a sport they invented?"
Ann
Alas, poor Yorick....
Amanda Taub
Five supervisors, one digger. Situation normal.
Don Griffith
"Alas, poor Yorick..." Oh wait, wrong scene!
Eugene Geist
Francis: Well this is where the ancients would stand and talk to the ancestors. Tony: Just looks like a hole to me.
Andrew Stewart
"Management" in action
Mick Holden
A little to the left, Phil.
Peter Farrington
Tony, are you going to tell the digger driver he dug the hole in the wrong place?
Don Griffith
Yep. That's a big hole in the ground.
Matthew Rice
Well, you know, I like a bit of ritual….
