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Just 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!

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Matthew Rice

Well, you know, I like a bit of ritual….

Don Griffith

Yep. That's a big hole in the ground.

Peter Farrington

Tony, are you going to tell the digger driver he dug the hole in the wrong place?

Mick Holden

A little to the left, Phil.

Eugene Geist

Francis: Well this is where the ancients would stand and talk to the ancestors. Tony: Just looks like a hole to me.

Don Griffith

"Alas, poor Yorick..." Oh wait, wrong scene!

Amanda Taub

Five supervisors, one digger. Situation normal.

Ann

Alas, poor Yorick....

Colin Hart

"So how far do we have to dig to find evidence of England winning at a sport they invented?"

Richard Mercer

So who's going to tell the gas company we broke the main?

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.

Ruth Bartram

Yip, it’s definitely a hole

Dan

'Is that it?' (It was at this point that Tony began to wish he'd just stuck to that acting lark instead...)

Andrew Stewart

"What is your dirt doing in Phil's hole?"

John Lewton

Yep. That's a hole, all right.

LA preservation

Uh-Oh ... Whose going to call the Monuments Commission on THIS one ?

Rebecca Hails

Well now the trench is done, should we go for a pint?

Marianne Richards MSc.

Must we really bury ourselves, to give Helen fresh insights into Roman burials for her podcast?

Kevin B

Hole’s dug, time to go to the pub

Barbara B.

Phil! Phil, mate! Seriously, that aurochs is past saving...

Neil

I think the finds table was a bit heavier than we thought...

Julianne Ture

But we were SO sure this was a sunken-feature building!

Kate Mulrooney

Frances: it's actually an Anglo Saxon site of great significance! The rest: *(crickets)*

Eilrobichaud

Phil’s attempt to again show people how ‘correctly cut a trench’

Eilrobichaud

Waiting their turn for permission from Phil to step into the trench…

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.

Ruth Farrimond

Frances: If we enlarge the trench I’m sure we’ll find a round house.

Michael Crouch

“And the winner of the nobliest trowel competition is…”

Rob Treen

Time team training for a future role at the council

KSG Sherley

Soooooo, what do we do now?

Lewis Davis

we are professionals, so where is it?

Hypatia1

..after rain the night before the team debates who gets to go down to bail out the trench

Sandra Farrar

Frances: “But it’s so much more than just a hole!”

Gillian Smith

"I thought you said, there was a mosaic here!"

T Swift

Sooooo, WTF is that then Tony?

Louise Bates

I'm telling you it's definitely a grub hut ...

Leanne

That was lovely graveside service.

Angie Reeks

And now a moment of silence, please.

David Duncan

Whelp. That’s a whole lot of nothing

Aidan Lees

It’s a rectilinear but we don’t know what it is, it could be the Q for the food truck!

Mika

Everyone: Any minute now, Francis is going to say it is ritual Francis: It looks like r-

Kerry-Ann Adamson

We will never get the Land Rover out of that! Best we say it was ritual before the management find out!

Dori Ownbey

Just how many supervisors does one hole need?

Alan W McMillan

Francis: "So, again, can anyone tell me which legendary archaeologist discovered that stupendous site known as 'Flag Fen'?.... Anybody....?"

Christina Hankey

We are gathered here today to commerate our friend Mick Aston and commit him to his love of Archeology.

Wendy Lambert

S0, what do we actually think it is???

Kathleen Sweebe

So, how are we going to get Phil OUT of the hole?

Mea Cadwell

What do you mean we found China?

Veronica Wright Roni

Who is going to tell Phil he has dug in the wrong place, and best be ready to run.

Ted Eddie Hatherall

And I SING hey-YEAH-YEA-EAH, EAH HEY YEA YEA I said hey! what's goin' on

Mike Tedham

Nobody knows who dug the mystery trench that appeared overnight but Time Team are looking into it.

Edie Markhouse

"I think it's broke." "Hmm, looks broke to me." " Me too." "Maybe it's broke."

Carl Johnson

So, you are telling me we just dug up a large animal cemetery from the 1940s?

Leonie Hancock

Francis to Tony There doesn't appear to be a Roman Villa there

Louise Bates

So Tony, what's your cunning plan for this dig? Any chance of some rituals???

Dan

I thought China was that way!

Russell Neilsen

I love this experimental archeology. Tony, what grave goods do you want put in with you?

Jon Leslie-Smith

Well that's interesting, we'll save it for the end of day three.

Pauline Purcell

Francis: I was thinking we could plant potatoes?

J. Andrew Lockhart

“Well, I guess Phil had too many last night, but he’ll wake up pretty soon.”

OLC Box

Ten Years and this is as far as the Stonehenge tunnel made it!

Wendy Greene

On the discovery of a complete skeleton there was stunned silence when Tony said, 'He's definitely dead'

Jim Barrett

Whatever it is down there, it must be ritual.

Jim Barrett

What do you mean, the dig's behind us?

Clive McIntyre

Time Team have discovered a hole, so they are looking into it.

John Atkinson

If only we could just move this trench instead of having to dig another.

Todd Gillespie

Tony: “After 2 days of digging, all I see is a few desultory stone and…nothing!

Chef Tess

"Oh jeez. We've done it now!"

Beech

Tony, “ You’ve got to be kidding me?!! “

Darylyn Phraner

It's just a jump to the left... .... Let's do the time team again..😏

Dave1900

Where's the coffee??

Russell Brady

It's good archeology, but how are we going to get Phil out of there?

Eggs Ackley

Finally found that Ford Cortina the geophiz boys mentioned 30 years ago.

Bill Erickson

"Yes, Tony, we aren't really sure what it is, but we think it must be ritual."

Under The Bodie

If you look hard enough you can see the face of Billy Connerly

Tim Walker

Please tell me that those are a bunch of Neolithic cables you just cut through!!!

Heather-Joy Garrett

How do we get the Geophysics equipment out before John sees

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

barbara williams

There is hole in the field! Who put the hole in the field?

Frosty

Septic tank. I TOLD you it was a septic tank!

Shannon Wells

Well, it's not Roman, it's not Anglo Saxon, I think we have a bog standard 1950s cellar, Tony.

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😭

Andrew Cook

‘Come on Phil - put your back into it.’