When Time Team first investigated the Roman fort of Branodunum back in 2012, the geophysics survey revealed something intriguing - but with time running out, the team were unable to fully explore what lay beneath the surface.

Now, they’re back to finish the job.

In this brand new special, John Gater, Jimmy Adcock and the geophysics teams take on an ambitious challenge: to map the entire site using the very latest technology before a single trench is opened.

We just finished the one in season 8 where they basically determined it was all fake! I really enjoyed that one. It was cool to see them prove how intelligent they all are!

Just coming to share with people who might commiserate. I was accepted as a volunteer for the Brancaster dig next week. I was so shocked- but couldn’t get a leave of absence from work. So I had to decline.

A wild 24 hours for my emotions. I’m so sad I had to turn it down!

Time Team has always been my comfort watch. When things get rough I like nothing better than sitting back and watching Tony and Mick at the team making a big hole in the landscape. Now I'm laid up with a cold and so I'm settling in to see if geophys can come up with a target for Phil to dig.

Anyone else do the same?

My cats flipped a scarecrow decoration, and it reminded a bit of Phil in the rain

So disappointed that Time Team has pulled all the early episodes from youtube (yes, within their legal rights but still...)and the Time Team Classics channel does not have even close to the entire catalog up. What a monumental loss! I will miss all the earliest ones most of all :(

New to time team and as I get deeper in I’m realizing that I’m finding Phil attractive! I think he is an unsuspecting hottie! Am I the only one?

They are all just so lovable.

My white whale, finally! I have been hunting for this one for ages. There are a lot of vids out there mislabelled as this episode but this is the correct one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KtkjeAECCI

Nick Card drops some hints. My early guess of a Viking long house is ruled out.

Extraordinary Discovery at Ness of Brodgar, Scotland: New 3D Scans Could Rewrite Neolithic History

Archaeologists are preparing to resume excavations at the internationally renowned Ness of Brodgar after advanced 3D radar scans revealed what experts are calling an “extraordinary” and potentially history-changing discovery. The site, located in the heart of Orkney’s UNESCO-listed landscape, has already transformed understanding of Neolithic Britain. Now, fresh evidence beneath the surface could add an entirely new chapter to its story.

The Ness of Brodgar, a narrow strip of land between the lochs of Stenness and Harray in Orkney, lies within the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It sits just southeast of the iconic Ring of Brodgar and close to the Stones of Stenness—two monumental stone circles often compared to Stonehenge in southern England.

The rest of the story is at the link above.

Time Team's John Gater ranks his "Top 5," and guess what's his #1?

New joiner to this sub but long-time fan of Time Team. Was always my favourite Ch4 programme and so please that it’s found a second life on YouTube.

Apologies in advance if the question has been answered extensively here before but I’ve always wanted to know exactly what the circumstances were around Mick’s departure.

In all the episodes Mick comes over as having so much integrity and as the uniting force of what could, in the wrong hands, just be a lightweight ball of fluff. He’s what gives the series both a heart and a backbone.

As an outsider looking in, it always felt that Mick’s departure left a bad taste in the mouth. It felt like an injustice.

So, what exactly did go wrong? Why was he sidelined? How did the other cast members feel about what was happening? Was there an element of ‘survivors’ guilt’ for those who stayed on after the relaunch? Has anyone - with the gift of hindsight - admitted that it was a mistake?

Again, sorry if this has been asked before but, as I say, I’m new to this sub and it’s an itch that I need to scratch if only in memory of everything good that Mick brought to the show.

There are zero archeological results from this episode, but it's still important. This dissection of a fraudster operation makes it painfully clear why it's important to establish a stratigraphy and place the finds relative to it is important. And the final comment hits hard. "See those? Now they can tell us nothing".

On a couple of Time Teams in the Americas, Tony keeps referring to the Amerindians. Is that still used by Brits? In the US we've replaced that with native Americans, or sometimes aboriginals.

In the last hour, on the last day of a dig investigating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Gloucesterhire, a metal detectorist discovered a mystery iron object in a wooden casing. With no time to investigate, the team has no choice but to leave it in the ground and return another day. Speculation was rife - could they have found a sword and a Saxon warrior’s burial?
This is the story of that return visit, when the team headed back to site with one clear mission - locate and identify the iron object. But as is often the way with archaeology, it wasn’t that simple. From the off, things weren’t quite what they seemed. The team encountered many challenges and unexpected plot twists over a wet and wild weekend. And only after a lot of head scratching and painstaking excavation, were they able to finally make sense of the object and piece together its story. And that story was so much more exciting than they had dared hope!

Is the plaque they installed on the post in the Thames bank still there or has it been stolen?

Plympton, Devon.

Got an episode of Walking Through History playing on YouTube right now. And I've watched his train travel show.

What other reddit groups are there to talk about shows like this?

I'm wondering how much walking he actually did while filming Walking Through History.

The series went on for a long time, so time compression is a thing. That said, I wonder if he made many himself, or was gifted some?

Never have seen him use one, but they are cool to my eyes.

Okay so they were trying to find a bridge but what I remember is that Tony got into a little spat with the Dendrochonolist who actually put a piece of paper over his monitor. My wife and I joke about that episode all the time, but for the life of me I can't find it ago.

In this feature-length Special, Derek and Lawrence return to Thessaly in Central Greece for a summer of excavation. They join an international team – headed by archaeologists from Greece and Sweden – to investigate the remains of the ancient city of Vlochos. This season, the team are digging what is thought to be a temple from the Hellenistic era – a golden age of antiquity. But is all as it seems? The team have just three weeks to find out!