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Have your say: What’s your favourite site contender?

  • Large Roman villa set within an historic landscape in Central England 163
  • Iron Age settlement with underground chamber in Cornwall 338
  • Neolithic long barrow and World War II USAAF airbase in Dorset 146
  • Native Roman village in the Pennines 138
  • Anglo-Saxon cemetery in East Anglia 75
  • Medieval village in Suffolk with links to an historic king and the early European settlers of North America 218
  • Multi-period site ‘Palimpsest’ on a university campus in Lincolnshire 65
  • Roman fort at Brancaster in Norfolk, previously investigated by Time Team 38
  • 2021-03-03
  • —2021-03-07
  • 1181 votes
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You’ve joined in our Site Wrestles and now the time has come to have your say in our official Patreon poll!

We’ve enjoyed reading all of your insightful comments about the sites discussed so far. As we get closer to potential digs, we’d love to know which sites you would like to progress to the next stage.

If you've just joined us and haven't seen all the Site Wrestles yet – you can still watch them all before you make your choice. 

As you’ll see, site selection is a tricky business. A whole host of considerations will ultimately determine whether or not a site is possible to take on. Paperwork and permissions, budget, access to site, community buy-in, archaeological complexity, project design and – now – restrictions surrounding COVID, are just some of the many factors to address. That said, another huge consideration is which sites you – our Patrons – would like Time Team to investigate. So please let us know!

Please note: Bearing the above in mind, this is an opinion poll and not necessarily the final result. We'll announce the next steps in the process once we've taken your feedback into consideration.

The poll will close just before midnight on Sunday 7th March, so don't forget to make your choice and be counted!

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shawn steece

I am so excited to see what everyone picks. I love this team.

HJB Hiep

Hidden corridors or spaces always get a high score, like gold and skeletons.

Elizabeth Howell

It's been so exciting to follow the journey so far -- you're sure teaching us a lot about the behind-the-scenes stuff in archaeology, and we appreciate it.

Bob Pockney

I'm going to have to re-view them before I vote, such a hard choice !

Kieran Hutchings

Bit annoyed we cant pick more than one, have quite a few I want to see.

Frank Pellow

I've picked the Cornwall site because it's local to me but really like the longer term Uni site and the big Roman site.

Mark Horn

I picked the Large Roman Villa not necessarily because I thought it was the most interesting but due to it being more likely to interest a large group of people. Out of pure interest I would have picked the long barrow.

Christopher Nelson

I went for the palimpsest. I love the team trying to separate the various elements.

Teresa Merrison

I have picked the cornwall one, it seems interesting

Emily Lloyd-Gale

The large Roman villa, because I believe it might only be 2 miles from me. 🤦‍♀️

A Bleese

I have chosen the medieval village in Suffolk, partly because it sounds fascinating and partly because it's local to me and I hope that I might get to see a Time Team dig in person. I know it's selfish but I've wanted to go on a dig since I watched the Ribchester episode 27 years ago.

Alan wilson

I chose the Medieval Village in Suffolk because of the huge changes that came about in this period

Always86

I like them all, I favour pre-history and Roman, but they all sound good

Karen Townshend

Cornwall one for me - the local archaeological doc have worked so hard

Ian Holmes

Tough decision. You can’t beat a Roman villa to give you something good and solid to look at. But maybe they’ve been overdone. I honestly don’t know what to choose.

Gerard Dalziel

I agree that Roman villas have been overdone on TT.

Rachelle Gates

It’s very hard to choose but I’m sure anyone will be very interesting.

Rob Hack

I went for the native Roman village, because it's a period that's under-investigated and it sounds like a nice project all round. Iron age settlement is a close second...but let's be honest, they'd all be good!

Carole Cox

It would have been easier to pick a least interesting. I almost just closed my eyes to point.

Simon Roberts

I voted for the Iron age site in Cornwall. Maybe they`ll learn more about fogus.

Oliver Weightman

Norfolk is well good and Brancaster has a bus stop

Emily Davis

I'd love to be able to visit the site in Cornwall when I'm allowed - would be absolutely fascinating

labpleb

Anything Anglo-Saxon would make me incredibly happy 😊

Edward Warren

I would be happy with all, but the Suffolk village sounds fascinating although a large task!

Anne

For me it is definitely the Anglo Saxon site. I have a great interest in this era & I would love to learn more about the way of life, death, customs & rituals.

Richard Munro

I know Roman Villas have been done, and a lot... but I am still fascinated by them I would love to have this untouched, large villa given the full 2021 treatment. I do not view this listing as having a 'winner', but more an order in which to do these sites. The Long Barrow if fascinating - in fact they are all intriguing in their own, unique ways.

Martin Burch

I went for Stuart's "Native Roman Village in the Pennines". One of the huge long-term successes of Time Team for me was how, over the years, they changed our understanding of the transitions from the Iron Age to the Roman Occupation, and then from the Romano-British to the so-called "Dark Ages". I remember at school seeing the beginning and end of the Roman Empire in Britain as big and sudden changes, but Time Team's many digs covering these periods of transition showed in increasing depth how the changes were much more gradual and complicated - and round houses that previously would have been classed as Iron Age were actually being built and used well in to the Roman times, and then Roman-style buildings and infrastructure were being used (and going through changes in use) well beyond the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Robert Wise

I voted for the native roman village, only on the grounds that I’m curious about how things went once the Romans left England, and why more of their methods and technologies weren’t incorporated into the native societies of England … perhaps this can shed some light on that issue? Speaking of technologies … how well-distributed was the heat from a hypocaust? Would a limited version make a good re-creation for the show?

Stan Johnson

Some great sounding sites there. In the end, I had to choose between the Iron Age fogou and the Neolithic long barrow. Fogou won by a whisker.

John Murray

I’m utterly biased towards anything Roman...🤓

Jonathan Smith

For relaunching Time Team the dig needs to be visually impressive, you need walls (and hopefully mozaics if the villa is chosen), not just faint stains in the soil as so often occurs with Saxon (if you're lucky) or post holes and drip drenches within banjo enclosures for iron-age, we need to remember the show needs ratings to succeed, even as an avid fan I get frustrated with, is the ambiguous grey patch of soil a "grub hut" or not. Once the series is established again some of the equally, or more, important archaeologically but often televisualy less impressive sites should be included.

Cosette Ratliff

Very excited at the thought that TT could be back in Cornwall! There’s sooo much here begging for further exploration, getting to grips with a settlement and possible fogou would be great.

Susie Stockton-Link

Trying to choose between the 'contents of the sweet shop'... Stuart's native village in the N. Pennines, simply because, of ALL the sites on offer - and they're all wonderfully inviting - that's the one type that Time Team's never investigated before. It sounds quite fascinating.

Michael J Gilday

Multi-period site ‘Palimpsest’ on a university campus in Lincolnshire This would be a good start to the series. By doing more than one episode here as I previously suggested,. It would reduce the logistics of the dig and costs as each aspect of this site could have its own question and dig. So, you could get possibly 4 episodes from this site and you could then look at including the Native Roman village in the Pennines to complete series 1. This would allow time to do more research into the other proposed sites ready for season 2.

Katie

My heart is dead-set on each and every one of these! I'm loving watching the process unfold.

Doug Mackey

Seems I’m in the majority.

Glenn J. Hill

I think that the very large Roman villa in a large landscape would be a perfect one to do. It will be an incredible legacy site for one-going investigations, but it will also capture popular attention with the way the detectorsists are coporperating in what they have done. A TEN !! Plus!! :-)

Patti McCarthy

The Roman Villa "ticks all the important boxes," plus it's a legacy site with the owners willing and ready to donate space for TT and the University to continue work there. Of course, all of the sites listed are fantastic (and I'd personally like to see them dug, "grub hut" or not, lol), but I agree with the others that this site will give TT more "bang for the buck" and offer up great television to old and new fans alike! So exciting!

John Matthew IV

You had me at "large Roman villa." Let's see what we can do on such a site with the latest technology.

Tony Elliott

It would be great to understand more about the trading links this site had with Europe/The Med as much as understand the village itself.

Justine Norbury

I have little interest in Romans and would love to go for the Neolithic long barrow, but I'm afraid the WW2 air base puts me off. I'm afraid I think WW2 airbases are rather dreary!

Pleased Pete

Will they be able to use Steve Day's wonderful incidental music used for the past series 🤔

Chris

Cornwall is my vote. Second is the medieval village in Suffolk.

Pleased Pete

I'm going to plump for the native Roman village in the Pennines, but to be honest, they all sound amazing.

Jacqueline Jacobson

I like them all but am most interested in anything medieval.

Todd R

I don't think TT ever did a long barrow. That gets my vote.

Paul Middleton

I have chosen but to be honest I would rather bow to the experts they after all would understand the benefits of each dig a lot better than myself, just happy that we will see the return of a great programme.

Lexy Tvv

Difficult to choose, all of them deserve TT. I choose the long barrow as it's not scheduled and needs to be.

Stephen Southworth

Suffolk and the North American connection for our Transatlantic friends! Bring it on!

Ingrid Mayer

Iron Age settlement would be my second choice after Neolithic sitr

Amanda Taylor

Native Roman village in the pennies after the Neolithic barrow

Bennyo Oliver

I would love to see Brancaster revisited. However I am excited by all. Fogou sounds amazing though. Very tough to decide. All would make a great episode.

Kirsten Dafoe

Iron Age: yes. Cornwall: yes. Underground chamber: yes

Jill M Lyon

Suffolk medieval village first, then palimpsest in Lincolnshire (sorry Jim, but it could work). They all sound wonderful.

Jill M Lyon

Suffolk medieval village first, 'though my roots are in Lincolnshire and the palimpsest gets the next vote (sorry, Jim, but it could work and be hugely interesting!).

Mark Lund

Pre history superficially my favourite sites, but cant ignore the potential of finds in roman digs; and my only experience of digging was in 1983/4, I think, ('84.85?) in an Anglo saxon cemetery in Oxfordshire...lots of broaches I seem to remember. So, on the fence at the moment...I may have to revisit the site wrestles again. At the moment, Long barrow, (never mind the US base..just my opinion/taste), & Iron age settlement. The multi period sounds good, but maybe for a longer dig/programme...which I'm all for! But, open to persuasion.

Mark Lund

I'll admit it..I like shiny stuff!

Kay Theriault

I'm interested in the medieval village and the links to early colonial America....just curiosity pinging on this one, as it spans multiple periods and two countries!

Suki Suviel

If only we could pick 2 or 3 options XD am equally preferenced for several options

Philip Stack

Shame there’s not an ´All of the above’ option!

Robert Boudreau

Though I appear to be in something of a minority, I would love to see the Anglo-Saxon cemetery being done. I suppose I'm in Helen's camp, it's the transitional periods that fascinate me. How did the cultural changes from one period to another - from the Iron Age to the Roman, from the Roman to the Anglo-Saxon - affect the average person on the ground. That site has so much potential to answer some of those questions. Well, as long as it's on the list, I suppose I'll have to be patient.

Beth Ortolano

Iron Age settlement with underground chamber in Cornwall! With links to so many other places, this is a fascinating site. Plus, it was hard to miss the universal optimism everyone on the team had for traveling to Cornwall for a dig. It would be a great way to kick off a new season of Time Team.

Robin Davies

My vote: Large Roman villa set within an historic landscape in Central England, the first dig needs to have a good chance of interesting finds set in a scenic landscape. Time Team needs 'click bait' video to build up YouTube Viewers/subscribers, then you can dig the shadows of the past.

Lady of the Leaves

Brancaster was a big favorite of mine. It’s a good thing to add to previously acquired knowledge!

Sandra L McGarry

Because I am from the US I would love to see the ties we have there and especially so if there is royalty involved :)

William & Mary

I have to vote for the Iron Age settlement in Cornwall. When I started watching Time Team, I expected to prefer the later periods (e.g., Viking, medieval). Instead, I became completely captivated by the Iron Age, in part, I think because we know so little about it--every Iron Age dig has an air of 'mystery' to it!

Jessica Wicks

While I have a special love for the Anglo-Saxon era, I felt compelled to support the Long Barrow site. I just think it's such a rare site and unscheduled to boot. I would add that while I live in the US, I have little interest in the WWII base there. I would prefer the entire effort be directed to the long barrow.

Tom Harrison

I’ve got to be honest and say I’m not sure if I’ve voted or not !! 😀

Jon Colcord

As I am a native New Englander here in the U.S. with roots going back to the earliest English (and French) settlers, I just had to put my vote in for the Medieval village in Suffolk with ties to early New England!

Doug Lucey

Voted for the Neolithic long barrow. We don’t really have Anglo-Saxon or Roman sites here in Ireland, but we have many wonderful sites from the Neolithic. Such a fascinating and momentous period of prehistory, and always well worth exploring.

Eggs Ackley

Having become a TT junkie for the past year I really do want to see them all investigated. Patience will prove virtuous!

Kathryn

I went for the large Roman villa because it was the one that “ticked all the boxes”. I think it’s important for the first effort to come out as strongly as possible in order to help ensure continued interest and to attract additional support. I liked the long barrow and several others, but not for a first foray.

Barry Davis

I think the Iron Age settlement, would attract new Time Team views, and it is a part of history that is just plain interesting because of what we don't know about it. Every Time Team that dealt with the Iron Age seemed to discover new information that added to our understanding of this age.

Susan

My favorites were always the crannogs!

David Boon

The Iron Age Cornwall site was always my number one contender. So much to discover, a community that is involved and potential trade connections with other parts of the world. The fact my maternal line has strong Cornish heritage is the icing on the cake for me. Mum was a Nankervis which I believe means valley of the stags.

E Anna Johnson

Difficult to choose. Voted for Palimpsest because I like the idea of Students being encouraged to participate. Would love to look at them all. However in another life, was involved in Strategic Planning and though you could say I've Grown up, I was fascinated to see the structure of the Site Wrestles. I've learnt a lot from these sessions. Anna

Zoe Propper

Such a hard decision - I had a top 3 of from that picked one based on my favourite period to investigate. 😀

Bob Pockney

Well, I've watched them all again, but it's no easier ! Each has pros and cons. Maybe to get most interest it should be Roman, but I'm going with the Iron Age settlement as something different.

Anthony cotton

For me as it will be first show back, I'd want to kick off with something that can show off all aspects to there best, I think the roman villa site would show off the new geo fizz techniques, also would be good visible finds in the trenches, understanding its placement in the landscape also, Yes it's probably a safe option but it would be a good starting point

David Dryburgh

All good options but the long barrow for me!

Pat Szastkiw

Pre-Roman conquest trade with Britain is a subject I’ve never considered before but the Iron Age Village Site Wrestle has really piqued my interest.

Wolfgang Zenker

All of the sites are very interesting in their own way, so I could not choose one site based on interest alone. The other important point is that the first site(s) must create enough viewer interest to get more funding. What would help here IMHO are "pretty pictures", tangible finds and interaction with a local community, therefore I choose the "Native Roman village". In the North Pennines I would expect a spectacular landscape, shaped by millennia of human activities. In a site that existed during Roman times there would be pottery and small metal objects that are both pretty and datable, and maybe even the remains of stone walls. And the site proposal comes out of a community project, so that box is ticked. One research question that I would find quite interesting is "What was the economy of that village based on?" and set that in relation to the surrounding landscape: If there are mineral deposits in the area we might have had mining activity; heavy metals seeping from mine tailings might have rendered the area unsuitable for farming and there might be bogs now. Or poor soil might have led to land being used for grazing, resulting in open heather. Metal working or large scale pottery production might have resulted in deforestation, etc.

Justin L Williams

The Iron age site in Cornwall sounds very interesting and I'm very intrigued to see what the fogou is all about!

Sarah Day

I voted for the Iron Age site in Cornwall as it sounds like you could find a lot out with the site with it not being scheduled. Also - I know it takes you time to plan and research sites, with the logistics to it all, but would be amazing to have Time Team be involved in the recent medieval tunnels discovered in Monmouthshire. Getting some press interest as well would help the patreon :) But I know it's not that simple

leslee hackenson

Brancaster was great and left me with questions I was sorry to not have answered. I am looking forward to more underwater sites, fenlands, edge of river/lakes etc. Something about ritual deposits into water gives me chills. I think maybe I made one in another life.

Christopher

An as yet undug Roman Villa. I live in Arizona. Have trowel, will travel.

Not Public

Hmm, I voted for what I think Mick Aston's choice would have been. Although, .. he would have liked any I think except the Roman stuff. lol

Tommy

I voted for the large Roman villa in Central England. I'm among those who always think "Yes!! Another roman villa!" whenever an episode turns out to be about a roman villa. There are probably dozens of us who feel this way! :D I think it could also be a good idea to start out with something like this, because it seems to be a pretty "safe" target. Lastly, I love photogrammetry and everything else related to remote sensing and I think seeing how the technology has improved since the earlier programs will be interesting to all the watchers who are into the technology aspect of archaeology as well. If I could I would have checked all eight boxes though!

Suze

What a toughie...Can we pick 3 ? 😁. Going with Suffolk, but also wishing Cornwall...and agree with another, any and all .Monmouth, yes please!

Suze

BTW, Time Team...there was an 11thc Norman castle on the Wye, now vanished...some think the Wye changed course sometime and any remains are now underwater. Have any of you bumped into it ever? I'm a direct descendant, and would love to know. Thanks any info!

Simone Fritzen

I voted for the Roman Villa, too. I totally agree with other Patreons that we need a "safe" site first just for marketing reasons. People will love the awesome findings and hopefully more will join us to support Time Team. Archeology should be first priority (that´s why we love Time Team), but Imho we should also take marketing into considertation.

Mark Lund

Im getting there....just re viewing the wrestles. (All of them would be fine though!)

Caroline Borduin

I'm so torn as most of them sound quite good, but I also want them to be feasible.

Lee Mclean

Even though I have made a vote, as far as I'm concerned the 8 choices are 8 programs I would be happy to watch.

Starromania72

After reviewing the vids and much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I plugged for Iron Age Settlement, Cornwall. Roman courtyard villa and Native Roman Village were close 2nd & 3rd. The Barry Cunliffe book Tim mentioned may have been The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas, which I read and was intrigued by a couple of years ago. Fascinated by pre-Conquest trade links between Britain and beyond. Also, one of my fave TT eps was s11 e06, Green Island. Frankly, all of the proposed sites sound great, he said, putting on his kid-in-a-sweetshop hat.

Terri

This was as difficult as could be to make a decision. Throwing my vote in support of Stewart's pitch. Very pristine area, undisturbed by plowing, and found by volunteers. The vast site is the beginning of a large story yet unknown.

Mara Millman

So many wonderful choices, so hard to choose - in the end though one must choose and for me the Iron Age Settlement wins out. Though I adore pretty much everything Roman, there is already so much we know about their time in the UK, whilst so little is known about the Lithic, Bronze, and Iron ages. Even less known is how, when, where, and to whom they were trading with. The fact that there is Samian Pottery in an Iron Age site is very intriguing ... and a fogou is always a safe bet to find lovely artefacts.

Julie Freeman

There are so many good candidates. It would great to be able to do an Australian style preferential vote for this, where we get to number the boxes 1 to 8 in order of preference. Then our vote might still count even if our first preference was eliminated.

heith Doty

I'm all about aron age things but I had to medieval site because I need more info of my family coming from there so many moons ago . I truly need the info

Mark Lund

Totally undecided from a personal choice point of view, but listening to others, I agree the first site should be one with a wide public interest, and will maybe get even more people on board, if needed. And fairly safe, with finds. So the villa in central England it is. But hopefully TT can do them all...it would be interesting to look back and see which turned out to be the 'best' form whatever perspective.

David Richardson

Very hard to choose, but it’s essential to have a first site that will grab an audience. Save some of the more tricky sites for (hopefully!) later in the series!

Bill Karoly

The village in Suffolk was my second choice.

"Blade" McMicking, D.I.

I agree completely with what others have said, above -- we NEED the first episode to capture the viewing public. No easier way to do that (and drum up more support) than with an American connection. The Suffolk and Dorset digs would accomplish that best. Third choice for re-launch would be something with a huge "recognition factor" and potentially tons of finds, like "just about anything Roman". They're all good sites. Many of "us old-time TT fans" would prefer something older and deeper (and perhaps more obscure) but that would be best saved for later episodes, it's unlikely to catch a multitude of new viewers/supporters the way the American-related ones will. Then maybe hit the Lincolnshire "Palimpsest" to showcase the depth and breadth of history available to TT within the format. Brancaster would be fantastic to illustrate "why we leave some sites untouched for the future -- here's how technology and understanding have developed in the years since we ourselves investigated this site x years ago!" While I personally adore Iron Age and Neolithic sites, I will be patient and look forward to those. ^_^

Michael Berthelsen

Iron Age Cornwall gets my vote as well. It looks too fascinating not to. There are so many interesting angles and foci to look at, that I believe TT could initiate, see if future, larger excavations can expand on. The Roman Villa is a close second, and a GREAT opportunity to test the advancements made in geophys technology since last time TT was at Roman villa. Would be really great to see the improvements in imaging technology, and what can be brought to bear using it on this site.

TimeTeamOfficial

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has taken part in the poll! It's great to have all your thoughts and comments flooding in. Stay with us as we share our next steps soon...

I an Merkin

Just joined Patreon,and to see and hear about a dig site in Cornwall,as I live here is fantastic,,saw the original digs when Time Team came down here .

Ian Thomson

We lived for 10 years in Devon after retiring and have visited the area. There are NT properties nearby. Sometimes it is very surprising what lays beneath ones feet!

James Matney

Hell I don,t know i,m Yankee State side