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Just for Fun: Which site are you most excited about?

🕑 Added 2021-06-10 20:16:15 +0000 UTC

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Craig O’Malley

Can’t wait for both. I hope they are the first of many more. Will Phil be involved?

Sue Murphy

Oh of course! Silly question. That's great to hear! Look forward to the return of them both!

Time Team

Hi 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!

Sue Murphy

I just hope I can get to watch here in nz

Sue Murphy

You make a very good point there Wendy. I'm just jealous we have none of either here down under

Lyn Howe

I am fascinated by the Iron Age so naturally I would prefer that one but I’m sure they are both really interesting.

Not Public

I want my cake.. and I will eat it also?!

Marc Byrne

Sorry as a confirmed Romanist it's the Villa. The very considerate Romans just made it easier to dig up & understand.....

Gerald Salmon

The Iron age Hands down. after all what have the Romans ever done for me?

Michael Russell

I'm looking forward to both. I need my time team fix!

Mary Toumpas

Being 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

Martha Berryman

Yes! "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.

Theresa Crubaugh

The 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!

Bethany Molloy

Very 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.

Liz Andoe

Tough 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!

Katrina Trigari

I'm more interested in the process of the archeology, and know I'll learn things from both digs.

Strubot

They are both absolutely superb sites- impossible to choose!

Juti A Winchester

Honestly, I couldn't choose. Since we can have both, I'm happy.

Kathleen Garza

After listening to Miles Russell's excitement and explanation I changed my vote to Roman Villa 😀

Christopher

It's a coin flip for me, but I'm looking forward to both digs. As I've said before, " Have trowel, will travel."

David McDermott

Honestly 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

Roger Lye

I 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.

Wendy Crammond

I'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!

Terri

I'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.

Gay Holden

Broughton Castle is just a stone’s throw from where I live, so I prefer that!

Mark Lund

I'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.

William Tinney

I'm fascinated by the Cornwall site, but it's a close call. Good choices, both sites.

Mike Darby

A 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.

Wendy Brockwell

yep. Got to be Cornwall iron age. So much to explore and learn and in such a beautiful county

Amby Hitchcox

Just moved away from Oxfordshire and will follow this with great interest

Noel Bell

The 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.

Sarah Holloway

Looking forward to both sites and it is going to be wonderful to watch Time Team again .

Justine Norbury

Iron Age for me-I find the Romans a bit too "new and modern!" :)

Tim Clarke

Both great but Roman Villa is the most interesting for me

Mike Meyer

For me its not which but when?

Judy Buck-Glenn

I just don’t find stains in the ground quite as interesting as walls and artifacts. And Iron Age settlements are so often the former.

E Anna Johnson

Its 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.

Heather Kay

I'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.

Jill Hobbs

I think we know less about Iron Age settlements, so am really excited to see some new light shed on that time.

Pat Findlay

Looking for ward to seeing what new equipment can produce, can’t wait

Time Team

We shall add yesterday's rubbish bag to our list of future potential sites.

Rick Hubbard

Looking forward to both sites with eager anticipation

Julie Perry

I 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.

Kevin Greaves

Romans for me. Will Phil be coming back, I really enjoyed his enthusiasm and banter.

Hanna_M

I'm excited about both, but a smidge more about the iron age site.

Stephen Draper

That`s not a very nice thing to say about Sir Tony. Then again, you are entitled to your own personal opinion.

Stephen Draper

I 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.

Ruth

I just love history, don't make me choose!

Jo Poshek

I 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 ✨

Sheila Bundy

Is Phil Harding coming back? He never missed any of the previous digs. We can do without a "presenter" pretending to be stupid like Tony.

Tomek Jankowski

Sorry, I'm with Francis Pryor: It's bronze age or iron age, and it's ritual. ;)

JUDITH COOKE

Seeing 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.

Christina

Iron Age and older would tell us how Britain was started I hope.

Gerard Dalziel

The 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.

Robert Weissburg

I do tend to like prehistoric sites more, but that's a cracking Roman site!

leslee hackenson

Just so excited to see it all coming together!!

Lee Adarr

I am waiting to dig deeper and see what is unearthed

Neil Scott

Both great. And please persuade Tony and Phil to get involved in some way!

Pat Sinatra

Of course I’d like to see both…

Cary Donaldson

Q: Roman Britain or Iron Age Britain? A: Yes please!

Dawsie

I 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

Donna Oglesby

I 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??

Sue Murphy

I 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!

Robert Boudreau

While 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.

Leslie Stokes

I’ve been to Cornwall and love to learn everything about it!

Bron Lloyd

I love it all!

Anne Leaver

Looking forward to both but the Roman Villa is slightly in front

Amy Fisher

I'm looking forward to both but am smitten by the "Fogou"

Steve Haynes

I 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.

Justin & Rachael Litzenburg

The older the site the more I like it!

Gayle Hales

I 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!

Skattered Ink

Anything 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 :)

Mario Papworth

both would be great👍

Sonia Hamilton

I agree Stephen Fry

Mark Freestone

I feel we know less about Iron Age than Roman..

Nancy Bush

The presenter should clearly be Mary Beard!

Eggs Ackley

Stephen Fry would be wonderful. Philomena Cunk would be INTRIGUING!😏

Martha Berryman

Preferring 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.

Penny Forrester

The Iron Age and Cornwall have a particular calling for me.

Dale Jones

Love discovering Roman history. Imagine if the Roman Empire had continued.

Anne Bryan

Iron age because I think there is more to discover whereas we have a wealth of information about the Romans

Peter Blay

It will be interesting if there finds that prove that there was trade with the Mediterranean and Gaul.

Karen Barker

Eh, the Roman villa wins it for me. Iron age isn't my jam... And my real interest is in medieval.

Joanne Norris

Very happy to see new discoveries with familiar faces. Can't wait. Bring it on.

April Keene

Possible 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.

Freda Bradley

I'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

William F. Campbell

The 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.

Thomas Prescott

Very excited about the new technology and old faces

April Keene

Agreed!!

Elizabeth Nickless

Bothnexciting 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....

Bob and Pam

both look good but I'm voting for the iron age settlement.

Pleased Pete

Roman 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

Alex Pardoe

Broughton! 1) Samian Ware, 2) hypocaust, 3) high status wall plaster, 4) small finds, 5) Neil Holbrook. Maybe Guy, too?

Julie Gray

Looking forward to different things from both sites

Dan Hermann

Iron Age by a whisker. Both very exciting.

James Matney

Both work for me

Pete Higgs

Both sites hold an interest to me.

Beverly Bennett

Both were great, but I'm especially interested in the earlier sites.

Zoe Propper

Just love the idea of both.

Johannes Schutte

I 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!!

Colin Hill

I'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.

Paul Green

The Roman site for the finds, the Iron Age site for the mystery.

Dori Ownbey

Definitely both. History is multi-faceted

Dave Decker

The fogou, and a well preserved villa in a medieval landscape? Both equally interesting.

Duncan Chopoorian

Roman Villa makes for better TV. You at least may find a wall and some pots larger than a coin.

Kay L Tomlinson

I find the Iron Age fascinating. Both sites are exciting, but I'm really looking forward to understanding more about our Iron Age ancestors.

Robert Wise

I 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?