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Name the Time Team Bus!
🕑 Added 2021-08-20 15:39:34 +0000 UTCIntroducing the new Time Team Bus, our mobile HQ and nerve centre as we travel to sites across the UK! But we need your help to give it a name...
Share your suggestions by the end of the day on Saturday 21st August. We will then create a shortlist from our favourite suggestions, with the final name to be decided by a Patreon poll shortly afterwards. So get creative, keep it clean, and get in quick for a chance to name the Time Team bus!
NOTE: This will be going out to the general public shortly, so remember where you heard it first! Please leave your suggestions in the comments section below. Thanks!
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Michael
Time Chariot.
Fran Baker
The Mad Ark
Carolyn Reed
TIME MACHINE
Carolyn Reed
THE “RITUAL RIDER”
Chris Weaver
I would like to vote for The Mickmobile
fred
I would like to vote for Fossoribus and The Mickmobile - will this be put to a poll eventually?
Noblesse Oblige
Tim Taylor's Time Team Archaeological Research Digs Is Stylin' Or TTTTARDIS which most people will shorten to T4ARDIS which is usually pronounced "T' Ford? Dis?"
Chris Healy
Taking the Mick
Ryan Sloan
The Jumper
Helen Thompson
Another idea that has just come to mind, and happens to be my favourite, would be Mick Aston after the man whose brain child Time Team was. Without the late Mick Aston, Time Team wouldn’t have existed.
Helen Thompson
How about Sir Tony, in honour of Tony Robinson.
Mavvy Vasquez
Roving Relics
Mavvy Vasquez
Trowel Traveller
Mavvy Vasquez
Trenchinator
Mavvy Vasquez
Sherdmobile
Mavvy Vasquez
Flintastic
Janet Sutton
Tony!
Mark Cooke
Tea pot 1
philip crellen
Timmey the Time Team Bus
Barry McGinn
Bonesy the Bus
Barry McGinn
Bonsey the Bus
Judy DeRose
We Can Dig It
Elise Norwood
I like your suggestion of "Troweller"!
Mark Cooke
Yes I had time on my hands
Mark Cooke
The long bus
Mark Cooke
Round house as it's not round and isn't a house!
Mark Cooke
Trowel's on tour
Mark Cooke
MBR must be ritual
Mark Cooke
Horse less cart
Mark Cooke
Are we there yet
Mark Cooke
The diggers rest
Mark Cooke
Trench1 as can never find anything in it.
Roger Worthington
Back IN Time
Keith Harrison
Past BUSter
Mark Grisham
I think the Time Machine is catchy
Diana Patterson
Timelee, where Lee is a place of shelter, from the sea, from the wind.
Mark Grisham
Ooh, so similar to my idea, the 'Troweller'
Mark Grisham
There was a lot of trawlers where I grew up, and that inspired me to think of the Troweller.
Eddie Eggerts
"Dunno" or Dunno Yet. As Mick said I don´t know.
David Ferguson
I would call it Phil for my favorite Digger
Azarel Howard
The Time Traveller The Time Bus The Time Machine The Time Base Nimrods Chariot Hadrian's Wall The History Machine Archeologist Teleporter I might be a bit excited about this. Can you tell? 😝
Kathie C
Aston's Tor Mike's Moot mound Patrons Lēah
Kathie C
Nimrod Reeves rover Boundary marker
phil creaser
Slick Mick's Quick New Chariot
phil creaser
Harriet The Chariot
Peter Tricker
Religious element The Magnetic Anomaly Rectilinear Three Day Express The Trojan Horse
Michael Taylor
I think Omnibus is a good start, given that it is a literal omnibus, but also a bus funded by everyone
"Blade" McMicking, D.I.
"Stone the Crows" -- or perhaps "Stoned Crows"?
Donna Oglesby
Time Travel:-)
Michelle and Greg Williams
Going to drop a Star Trek reference on you - The Guardian of Forever
Stewart Russell
Past BUSiness
Karen Opitz
The Chronomobile The Omnitempus Quadriga
J. P. Fagerback
The Time Team Rover
Tom Lindeboom
“Timeless” or “Timeless Express“.
Jason Barnsley
“Mick’s Aston Martin” “Wibbley-Wobbly-Timey-Wimey” “Phil Harding’s Hat Mobile” “Tony Robinson’s Shagmobile”
Douglas Peterson
Digger
Derek Thom
The Aston Express
MICHAEL MOORE
King of the Trench
Richard Kaskeski
Rover
Murray M Wagnon
Time Traveler
James A Green
'Dug'
James A Green
The Trencherman
Heidi Howell
Major Miles
Heidi Howell
Minty
Kathryn Schauf
"Major Diggs."
Stuart Glen
Comfy Digs The Victor Am-bus Mick the Rig Spirit of Mick The Trowelmobile
Francis Tucker Manns
DIGMOBILE!
Richard Scourse
Trench Zero. On a panel next to the main door "In memory of Mick Aston, Robin Bush, Victor Ambrus, Ian Barclay"
Dave Seddon
Digger McDigface
Tim
The (Unofficial) Royal Archaeology Bus Baldrick (or Robinson, or Aston)
Yvonne Docketty
My husbands offering... The Time Mobile
Yvonne Docketty
The Truck of Time
William Butler
TARDIS Two
Paul Smyth
I'm with everyone else suggesting something relating to Mick Aston.
Mark Whiskin
Going underground
Daniel Defoe
The Digger Driver The Archaeologist Auto The Trowel Transport The Finds Phaeton
Giles Cartmel
Surely it's got to be "a fossoribus" (or just "fossoribus")... latin for "diggers", but has the play on "bus" too. :)
Yvonne Docketty
How about "Time Revisited"
Mike Tedham
The Mickmobile.
Zoe Propper
I like the idea of a paint scheme in stripes for Mick's jumpers. Just watching Turkdean part 2, how about Tempus Grex if the Roman experts can agree on the Latin for Team now 😁 I was thinking of Tem(p)bus Grex, but according to Google translate Tembus is Indonesian for translucent.
Stephen Lambert
The Time Traveller or the Time Machine (if they haven't already been suggested)
Rachel Frazer
Dolor Tempus or Tembus
Mark Bletchly
The Context Coach
Antony Chapman
Some reference to Mick Aston. The bus should be painted in the colours of his many-coloured sweaters.
sigterm
E.M.M.A. = Ex Memoriam Mick Aston
Kathryn Sherlock
How about “Tempus” or “Tem[bus]”? Tempus is Latin for time, and you could make the “p” stylized a bit so it can also look sort of like a “b”, so that it is sort of like “Time Bus”.
Dur-Dan
Mick the rig
Michelle Selway
Mick… the boss (bus) x
Simon Piggott
‘In loco bus’
Simon Beal
Vanguard (or Time Waits for No Van)
Leen Hoop
Mick Aston Bus
Simon Orchard
Puzzle palace
Peter Blay
Mick's Mobile
Cassandra Peterson
The Mick mobile
Matthew Adams
Mick the Drive
Graham Slingsby
Aston-Villa
wich
The Aston Ambler? Oh, and definitely agreed on the stripy jumper theme.
Mark Lund
Time machine(?)
Mark Lund
I had Digby too. Digby digbus.
Andrew Ratcliffe
Keep it simple, keep it true...the Mick Aston.
John L
Time Team Tea Trolley
Russell Neilsen
The Time Tender
Graham Dombkins
The Pub
A Bleese
I agree with all those who've said that it must honour Mick Aston - the Aston Autobus? That's as close to getting Ambrus into the name as I could manage, too.
David Armitage
Digby
lesley elliott
Phil mobile, Conan
Pia Fredfeldt
The Trowl Traveller
MishaFox
Or RMS Olympic - my favorite old ship
MishaFox
Im in the mood for something more Dramatic - Leviathan!
Graham Slingsby
“The Aston Consciousness”
Susan Dole
The Stripey Jumper (someone on the fan page did a great version with lots of stripes - that SHOULD be the paint scheme.) Also suggesting Dusty, the Rolling Trowel, . and the catering truck or the loos should be called the Test Pit Stop.
Tebbin Salvesen
Wheels to history
Geoff Lusk
Maybe paint it like one of Mick‘s fuzzy jumpers.
Geoff Lusk
I think it should honor Mick Aston. Maybe the Aston Mobile.
Carole Foster
The Excavator
Jessie Doherty
I like so many suggestions so far! Here’s mine: Astonbus Pitmobile
Dennis Wert
I agree with a name which will memorialize The Good Professor. Maybe somethinglike the “Aston Express”
Christopher Samuel
As I suggested on Twitter this morning: The AstonMobile. As in "Quick, Matt! To the AstonMobile!" :-)
Shirley Darch
Time Traveler or Team Traveler
Alan
Tempus Tour Bus
Alan
Long Meg or Long Mick perhaps
jus papa
Lol I have to admit that iz pretty much the essence of Time Team
Paul
Excavation station
jus papa
Scott Walker Aloha from Hawaii “TIME TEAM’S” BUS TO THE PAST” would be my suggestion for the new Time Team bus.
Beth Ortolano
Boudicus the Wonder Bus
Kristin Sweetland
The Time Machine. Also a fan of the Mick Mobile!
Tanis Sugden
Portable Principia
David Boon
MEG (Mobile excavation generator)
Sharon Nelson
"It's probably ritual"
Jannine Kimber
Sorry meant to say Archibald Oliver Ignatius Bus ie Archy Ol Iggy Bus.
Shane Roelofs
Aston Central
Kathy
Wheelie McDigger
Stannous Flouride
The Mickmobile or some other name honoring Mick Aston like Aston-Michael DB5 (i.e., Dig Bus 5)
Paul Isles
Deloribus
David Dryburgh
Call it 'Archy'
Eva Troup
The Mick Henge; The Diggy Henge
Melissa Whittington-Riebau
Cheeky Bimble
Joanna Poe
'Mick the Bus'
Joanna Poe
V.A.M.I.R. = Victor Ambrus Mobile Incident Room
Bron Lloyd
My suggestion too!
JUDITH COOKE
Geowizard
Christian Kollross
Let's not go there! It is a silly place!
Sujatha Vempaty
The Dig Rig
Suze
Time Traveler
Jess
Agree dig mobile and time team machine are my current favs
Jess
Oh I like!
Jess
Time team machine!
Alex Huxley
Mick
Jennifer Gille
Fossoribus
Bryant Bunderson
The Ambrus?
Bryant Bunderson
Penelope?
Michael Massey
How about: The Trench Train ?
Margo Maloney DVM
Aston's Abbey
Gavin Magill
Time Team Tardis
Paul Connelly
Victor Ambus
Carl Johnson
Trench and Trowel
Peter Lee
Aston Mickton
Robin Goodfellow
TARDIS
Charlie
Bussy McBusface
Alan & Sheena Haynes
Micks mobile
Jannine Kimber
Archibald Oliver Bus ie Archie Ollie Bus. Too obvious?
Conway
Chronos Cruiser (I like a bit of ritual)
Dennis morris
Mick’s dig machine
Jon Colcord
‘The Mick’ and what everyone else already said. 100% has to be in honor of Mick, and perhaps should be similarly striped as well.
UKArtlover
The Digscovery
Suze
Time Traveller
Vin Hill
“Dig Mick-Bile”
Rachel Greenham
Straight Sides
Steve Gunning
Bussie McBusface
Rachel Greenham
Trowling Trowling Trowling … The Trowelmobile.
Jeff Hampson
Prof. Mick Aston
Doug Mackey
The Mick. Has to be.
Rhonda Hinds
Boudicca.
Lorraine Besch
The Finds Express
amasulem
Tempus Flyer, or Tempus Fugit
Rebecca Kime
T3 (Time Team Traveler)
Chuck Letourneau
Surely you must name it the Dig-b (for dig-bus) and pronounce it "Digby".
Don Gibson
MickeyHouse
Pat Szastkiw
Time Ship …and have Victor’s Sutton Hoo ship drawing on the side of the bus
Dave Seddon
Diggy McDigface
Simon Nicholson
Sleipnir
Darwin H Sass
The Argo
Susie Stockton-Link
I like previous suggestions: Time Team Machine and Digmobile. I also like Digbus. I can just hear Mick saying that... Aston Martini doesn't really cut it..
Jana
I thought also of Mictor! :-)
Pat Szastkiw
No matter what it’s called, it should have a stripey jumper panel and a Victor’s drawing panel somewhere on it.
Magnus Ekhall
Bone Wagon
Ian Thomson
It's all below us bus
Rob Federle
I would suggest “The Wormhole”!
Linda Lash
Time Capsule
Ian Thomson
Digmobile
Lesley Swann
I think Mictor - in honor of the late Mick Aston and Victor Ambrus.
Steve Mikre
Mick's Magical Mystery Machine...
Heidi Howell
I, d like it to be called Scooter 👍
Mike Darby
Surely it's "Phil"
Mica McPheeters
Digby
Caroline Borduin
Time Team Machine really is perfect.
Caroline Borduin
History Mystery Machine
Pat Szastkiw
GO Past
Yvonne Ramage
Aston Archaebus
Duncan G. Perry
The Tardis
Kevin
The Traveling Trench
Skip A Apple
Riding Through History
James (Sandy) McIntyre
The Rainbow Bus
Barry Phillips
Time Machine -- Time Express -- Let Me Ride on the Bus and Dig with You! (maybe that's a bit long?)
Tanya Tonks
Boudicca
Collin Riley
or, Roamon Roads
Pat Szastkiw
Or 3T
Collin Riley
Roamon
Richard Kaskeski
Rover
Aaron Underwood
•S.S Robinson •Pandora's Box. • Phil's Beer Wagon • Reveals on Wheels • The Bath House
Pat Szastkiw
Mickmobile
Tomasz Stanislaw Suchecki
All of my thoughts went to one of the Great Time Teamers who have gone ahead of us to the immortal dig The Professor The Undying Spirit The Unstoppable Aston Infinita Exprimere Eston 'exprimere in infinitum,
L. Denniston
Digger Express
Ian Lucas
Digger
M.E. Burnes
Liminal was the first thing to pop into my head.
Ted Leonard
Bussy McBusface because......... the internet.
Kathryn Wadey
The Capsule
Robert Nance
“Nabonidus“ after the first Archeologists
Madeline
Roamin' Roman
M.E. Burnes
Liminal. Monastic/Monastery.
Jean Bawcutt
Itsy Bitsy Timey Teamie Super-Duper Time Machiney
D G Herring
The Trowelator!
Mark Zabel
Time traveler
Laura Hoare
The Stripey Time Jumper
Sarah Holloway
The Victor and Mick Time Team machine
Ellen Woodrow
THE CHARIOT
Nameri Verdstela
Great minds. ;)
Rita Baker
oh and another one - Dig Bus
Mary-Helen Armour
Aston cavo carrum (iffy Latin for dig wagon!)
Darylyn Phraner
This is awesome 👍
Pauline Guest
The Time Troweler (I didn't read the other comments yet, but that just popped into my head)
Jack Moulder
The Time Tram
Laura Tittensor
Travels In Time
Steve Duckworth
The Time Traveller
Brian Morgan
The Stripey bus. You could paint it up with some retro-hippy colours. In honour of that famous sweater (jumper).
Brian Morgan
Yes. Every episode seemed to start and end at the pub.
Anne Clisham
Goin' diggin'
Brian Morgan
Cursus clabularis: Roman Wagon. Top made of cloth. Four wheels. Drawn by oxen, mules or horses. Use: Transportation of military equipment. I see some potential fun with the use of the word ‘cursus’ but perhaps it’s just me. :)
Rita Baker
Mick's Legacy
Monica Bertelle
Camelot!
Brian Morgan
I'd have been disappointed if no one had suggested this. :)
Louise
The time traveler
Eric Tottman-Trayner
'Tempus Frangit' (Latin: It breaks time).
Finn Isaksson
Or Mictour
Finn Isaksson
Mictor!
Jonathan A. Thomas
Bucephalus? Just sprang to mind... I can probably do better...
Jo Manclus
Dig Command Module
Jo Manclus
The Time Machine (apologies for snaffling to HG Wells' title!)
Keith Jackson
Agreed. Calling it Mick Aston would be a constant reminder of him and his legacy.
Elizabeth Perry
And the wheels of time go round and round... Etc.... All day long/all through the town (depending on your version ) The people in the dig go scrape, scrape, scrape, etc... All day long
Paul Middleton
Or should that be Tembus
Norman Drinkwater
The Dig Rig
Paul Middleton
Tempus Viatorum (Time Traveller)
Richard Stedall
Mick, Mick's Bus, Aston's Automobile ... something that remembers Mick
Lady of the Leaves
Just name it Mick. I know you want to.
Dustin Pundt
The Roaming Relic
Robert Boudreau
Time Team Traveler, Time Traveler, Time Team Machine or Time Machine. I think it's name should reflect the Team, not any one person. It has always been a team of people working together after all.
William Tinney
HMB Beagle
Lester Peterson
another good one!
Lester Peterson
good one
Simon Roberts
The Ambrus express. Victor is sadly missed. His drawings were an integral part of Time Team. I love them and always enjoyed looking for the dog he always put in them.
Ian Holmes
The stripey jumper
Lester Peterson
Sir Tony in support
Clive Hobbs
Has to be honour of Mick Aston, how about the Mad Professor in honour of his hair
Todd Gillespie
Digger
Lester Peterson
try phil's RV
Ann H
A trowel hood ornament instead of a dragon/serpent.
Julie Kistler
Time Traveler
Anne Holley-Hime
Trowler (as in “We’ll use Trowler to get us to the dig site.”
Ann H
Troweler? Dig Buggy?
Mark Freestone
The Aston (as in Mick, or “we’re just going for a spin in the Aston”!!
Donna Holt
Fogou
MirrorKhaos
Spirit of Mick Questions Rest Tim's folly Rediscovery
Jeff Lanam
I'm not sure about the name, but it should be painted like a Viking longship.
William westhafe
Revealing our past
Jude Edling
Arbus
Justin T Donie
Ad Cavator (The Excavator)
Eggs Ackley
No very original but, “Magic Bus”
Max Hale
Time Team Traveller or TTT for short, could me made into logo.
Mak Wilson
The Astin Rover
Richard Meehan
Victor Timebus
Mak Wilson
Diggy McDig Face
Priscilla Logan
Mick's "On The Road Again"
TrustyJam
The Wheels of Time
Adam Weeden
The Mickstry Machine.
Sam Batstone
Tone
Patrick Emery
The Mick Aston Memorial Winnebago
Jen Thirsk
The time mickchine
heith Doty
The time chaser
John Anderson
needs to be named after Mick
Jacqueline Jacobson
The Time Traveler
Diane S Ratliff
The Pub. Since that was the usual gathering place for the Team.
Steven Benham
The Roving Trowel
Hardtreads
Mick Hub
Wolfgang Zenker
"TTV Vortex" (TTV for Time Team Vehicle/Vessel, Vortex for the relatively calm area in the middle of highly dynamic action rotating around it)
Geoff Riley
Tardis
Julia Garlick
The time team dream machine
Christian Bergstedt
Ritual Ride
Mak Wilson
Time Machine
Robert P Saunders
Enterprise to boldly go.
Debra Amerson
Crickey Crew Bus
Craig Richardson
As it seems that I wasn't as original with my last one as I thought I was, I'll try another; Reliant Robin (Bus(h)).
Stephen Feyrer
Mick's Roaming Village
That idiot Chris
Lucius Tarquinius the Superbus, just try not to get expelled from any roman sites...
Mark Levine
I heartily agree...and the bus should get a multicolor paint job too.
Craig Richardson
Thought I was clever, coming up with that. Only just noticed that you were there 20 minutes before me.
Marilyn Holloway
Boudicca
Adrian Barham
Aston Rover
Tim Hundsdorfer
Bussy McBusface!
Dawn Laidlaw
Mick's Mobile Stripy Jumper
Elise Norwood
Traveling Trowel
Mark Rogers
Mick's Brain. It's a nerve centre, and much could be learnt inside it.
Michael Sperry
The Victor AmBus
World Lily
The time tube !
John Andrews
Archaeo
Ginny Burton
Mick
Dori Ownbey
The Diggermobile.
Trish Murphy
Time Traveler
Roger Mills
Mick
Don Cook
REAL History Mobile Tory Thwacker
Paul Miller
The Time Team Tardis
Trish Murphy
Base Camp Odyssey
Paul Tomblin
Should have watched the video first
Daniel Gower
Or maybe “The Aston Villa”
Dinah from Kabalor
Beat me there by 5 minutes, Craig! Yes to Victor am Bus!
Daniel Gower
Has to be “The Time Machine”
Paul Tomblin
Mick Aston-Martin
Paul Tomblin
Bussie McBus Face
Trish Murphy
Aston Central
April Keene
Ulysses
Robert Wise
Jenny
King Oldendorf
''the Mick Victor Mobile HQ'' or just ''The Time MV Team''
Debbie Williams
Digger transport
Annika Wangerud
Time Buster
John Turrell
“Victor”
Kelly Daniel
Timey McBusface
Craig Richardson
How about "Victor Am-bus"?
Elizabeth Howell
Liminal Lorry (Referring to anthropological and archaeological studies of liminal spaces, especially in the Neolithic.)
Trish Murphy
Astonmobile, Aston-Mobile or Aston Mobile
Helen Scott
The flux compasator bad spelling but the thing that was in the car in back to the future :-)
James Leighninger
Second vote for Time Machine….or Tim’s Time Machine?
David Hazel
Roman the Roads
Brian Morgan
nimbus (an emanation of light surrounding a saint or deity. Again, it sort of refers to the Time Team logo? Maybe?)
sue capps
The Time Traveller Controller
Brian Morgan
Phoebus (Greek sun god, works with the logo perhaps?)
Philip Corlis
The Time Machine
Brian Morgan
succubus (a bit naughty for Time Team, I suppose. Still funny though!)
Kirk Pierce & Isabel Mack
The Wayback Machine
Henrik Vogt
The Aston Chariot
Brian Morgan
arquebus / harquebus
Debbie Roberts
Archy
Gina Tucker
Time central
Sherry Cartmill
Wediigit Mobile
Charles Ross
The Aston Martin
Hilary Locke
DIGby
Frances Dielmann
Mick's Mission Control
Chaff100
Per Ardua Ad Aston
bil Jeschke
The Trowel Blazer!
Tony Gartshore
Genius :)
James Forrest
The Mick Mobile
Tony Gartshore
Aston Expressway. AKA "Mick"
Ian R Kirk
The Time Traveller
SUSAN NASH
Arkie ( short for archeology)😀
Jim Markey
Diggit.
Mark Bousfield
Tony Roverson
Denise DuBois
Time Team Transport
The Jerrys
Time Team Transporter, or T3 for short.
Tim Scott
Aston Express
Jason Huggins
Victor
Nameri Verdstela
Name it in his honour. Victor Am-bus.
Kalypso
But for real, what about Triple T? Time Team Transport.
Dean Jones
Has to be something with Mick
Tom Darby
Skeleton Crew
Michael Schneider
Or Astin Rover
Kalypso
In before Busy McBusface.
Michael Schneider
Mickmobile
Paul Dent
Aston's Express
