Way Back Wednesday: Caption This! (22nd January 25)
Added 2025-01-22 16:35:40 +0000 UTCJust 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!
Comments
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😭
KL Sweet
2025-03-14 17:48:09 +0000 UTCWell, it's not Roman, it's not Anglo Saxon, I think we have a bog standard 1950s cellar, Tony.
Shannon Wells
2025-02-21 21:38:33 +0000 UTCSeptic tank. I TOLD you it was a septic tank!
Frosty
2025-02-12 01:03:59 +0000 UTCThere is hole in the field! Who put the hole in the field?
barbara williams
2025-02-06 18:41:37 +0000 UTCWell, they got that wrong!
Barbara Brenchley
2025-02-03 03:47:15 +0000 UTCMy favourite!
Barbara Brenchley
2025-02-03 03:45:44 +0000 UTCWell, they got that wrong!
Barbara Brenchley
2025-02-03 03:37:45 +0000 UTCIt appears to be the grave of Boldrick who was the servant of Edman Blackadder according to historical documents but no one knows why it is here and not at the church
Tom
2025-02-01 14:55:04 +0000 UTCOh! I don’t like the look of that….
Debbie Williams
2025-02-01 12:44:01 +0000 UTCHow do we get the Geophysics equipment out before John sees
Heather-Joy Garrett
2025-01-31 21:02:45 +0000 UTCPlease tell me that those are a bunch of Neolithic cables you just cut through!!!
Tim Walker
2025-01-31 17:19:25 +0000 UTCIf you look hard enough you can see the face of Billy Connerly
Under The Bodie
2025-01-31 14:28:26 +0000 UTC"Yes, Tony, we aren't really sure what it is, but we think it must be ritual."
Bill Erickson
2025-01-30 01:31:09 +0000 UTCAlas, poor Phil....
Nancy Funk
2025-01-29 15:49:59 +0000 UTCFinally found that Ford Cortina the geophiz boys mentioned 30 years ago.
Eggs Ackley
2025-01-28 00:34:53 +0000 UTCHow did we get it so wrong.
Philip Slater
2025-01-25 21:55:34 +0000 UTCIt's good archeology, but how are we going to get Phil out of there?
Russell Brady
2025-01-25 16:28:29 +0000 UTCWhere's the coffee??
Dave1900
2025-01-24 22:14:13 +0000 UTCIt's just a jump to the left... .... Let's do the time team again..😏
Darylyn Phraner
2025-01-24 21:01:48 +0000 UTCTony, “ You’ve got to be kidding me?!! “
Diane Dills
2025-01-24 20:34:24 +0000 UTC"Oh jeez. We've done it now!"
Theresa Cashin
2025-01-24 18:49:21 +0000 UTCTony: “After 2 days of digging, all I see is a few desultory stone and…nothing!
Todd Gillespie
2025-01-23 21:30:45 +0000 UTCIf only we could just move this trench instead of having to dig another.
John Atkinson
2025-01-23 18:54:43 +0000 UTCDon't turn round! I don't know what they found but it turned John into a stone
Robert Ernest Arthur Harvey
2025-01-23 17:32:52 +0000 UTCTime Team have discovered a hole, so they are looking into it.
Clive McIntyre
2025-01-23 16:00:21 +0000 UTCWhat do you mean, the dig's behind us?
Jim Barrett
2025-01-23 15:26:55 +0000 UTCWhatever it is down there, it must be ritual.
Jim Barrett
2025-01-23 15:25:48 +0000 UTCOn the discovery of a complete skeleton there was stunned silence when Tony said, 'He's definitely dead'
Wendy Greene
2025-01-23 15:18:42 +0000 UTCTen Years and this is as far as the Stonehenge tunnel made it!
OLC Box
2025-01-23 14:31:00 +0000 UTC“Well, I guess Phil had too many last night, but he’ll wake up pretty soon.”
J. Andrew Lockhart
2025-01-23 14:19:42 +0000 UTCDearly beloved, we are gathered here today.....
Richard Lowe-Jackson
2025-01-23 12:57:03 +0000 UTCFrancis: I was thinking we could plant potatoes?
Pauline Purcell
2025-01-23 09:36:21 +0000 UTCWell that's interesting, we'll save it for the end of day three.
Jon Leslie-Smith
2025-01-23 07:22:18 +0000 UTCPoor Phil, I knew him well.
Tech Nicholls
2025-01-23 02:02:28 +0000 UTCI love this experimental archeology. Tony, what grave goods do you want put in with you?
Russell Neilsen
2025-01-23 01:34:27 +0000 UTCI thought China was that way!
Dan
2025-01-22 23:59:10 +0000 UTCSo Tony, what's your cunning plan for this dig? Any chance of some rituals???
Louise Bates
2025-01-22 23:54:02 +0000 UTCTony, tell me again who we're burying?
Russell Neilsen
2025-01-22 23:53:10 +0000 UTCFrancis to Tony There doesn't appear to be a Roman Villa there
Leonie Hancock
2025-01-22 23:19:28 +0000 UTCSo, you are telling me we just dug up a large animal cemetery from the 1940s?
Carl Johnson
2025-01-22 22:42:40 +0000 UTC"I think it's broke." "Hmm, looks broke to me." " Me too." "Maybe it's broke."
Edie Markhouse
2025-01-22 22:31:39 +0000 UTCHas anyone seen Phil?
1happychick
2025-01-22 22:18:12 +0000 UTCNobody knows who dug the mystery trench that appeared overnight but Time Team are looking into it.
Mike Tedham
2025-01-22 21:40:50 +0000 UTCAnd I SING hey-YEAH-YEA-EAH, EAH HEY YEA YEA I said hey! what's goin' on
Eddie Hatherall
2025-01-22 21:34:27 +0000 UTCWho is going to tell Phil he has dug in the wrong place, and best be ready to run.
Veronica Wright Roni
2025-01-22 20:34:02 +0000 UTCWhat do you mean we found China?
Mea Cadwell
2025-01-22 20:34:00 +0000 UTCSo, how are we going to get Phil OUT of the hole?
Kathleen Sweebe
2025-01-22 20:20:28 +0000 UTCS0, what do we actually think it is???
Wendy Lambert
2025-01-22 19:38:32 +0000 UTCWe are gathered here today to commerate our friend Mick Aston and commit him to his love of Archeology.
Christopher Hankey
2025-01-22 19:32:46 +0000 UTCFrancis: "So, again, can anyone tell me which legendary archaeologist discovered that stupendous site known as 'Flag Fen'?.... Anybody....?"
Alan W McMillan
2025-01-22 19:25:45 +0000 UTCJust how many supervisors does one hole need?
Dori Ownbey
2025-01-22 19:22:57 +0000 UTCTony: "Yes, Francis. That is a hole."
Howard wetsman
2025-01-22 19:15:59 +0000 UTCWe will never get the Land Rover out of that! Best we say it was ritual before the management find out!
Kerry-Ann Adamson
2025-01-22 19:07:42 +0000 UTCAnyone bring a trowel?
David Austen
2025-01-22 19:04:49 +0000 UTCEveryone: Any minute now, Francis is going to say it is ritual Francis: It looks like r-
Mika
2025-01-22 19:01:08 +0000 UTCIt’s a rectilinear but we don’t know what it is, it could be the Q for the food truck!
Aidan Lees
2025-01-22 18:49:47 +0000 UTCWhelp. That’s a whole lot of nothing
David Duncan
2025-01-22 18:32:52 +0000 UTCAnd now a moment of silence, please.
Angie Reeks
2025-01-22 18:27:52 +0000 UTCThat was lovely graveside service.
Leanne
2025-01-22 18:15:56 +0000 UTCI'm telling you it's definitely a grub hut ...
Louise Bates
2025-01-22 18:00:45 +0000 UTCFrancis: No, I'm not going to throw my lollipop in that hole!
Brian H Taylor
2025-01-22 17:57:40 +0000 UTCOh Great! The 1st octagonal posthole!
Mark A. Ashford
2025-01-22 17:56:12 +0000 UTCSooooo, WTF is that then Tony?
T Swift
2025-01-22 17:56:11 +0000 UTC"I thought you said, there was a mosaic here!"
Gillian Smith
2025-01-22 17:48:32 +0000 UTC"Do you think it's deep enough for a pool?"
Andy Gabriel-Powell
2025-01-22 17:41:39 +0000 UTCFrances: “But it’s so much more than just a hole!”
Sandra Farrar
2025-01-22 17:40:41 +0000 UTCthat's my favourite!
Michael Taylor
2025-01-22 17:35:42 +0000 UTC..after rain the night before the team debates who gets to go down to bail out the trench
Mary-Helen Armour
2025-01-22 17:28:45 +0000 UTCwe are professionals, so where is it?
Lewis Davis
2025-01-22 17:26:38 +0000 UTCSoooooo, what do we do now?
KSG Sherley
2025-01-22 17:23:38 +0000 UTCTime team training for a future role at the council
Rob Treen
2025-01-22 17:23:06 +0000 UTCYep. That's a hole.
Ruth Feathers
2025-01-22 17:18:18 +0000 UTC“And the winner of the nobliest trowel competition is…”
Michael Crouch
2025-01-22 17:15:13 +0000 UTCFrances: If we enlarge the trench I’m sure we’ll find a round house.
Ruth Farrimond
2025-01-22 17:08:51 +0000 UTCMatt, you have to stay down there for the evening dressed as a slave and carrying on digging, but we're going to the pub.
Wessex-Wyvern
2025-01-22 17:06:38 +0000 UTCWaiting their turn for permission from Phil to step into the trench…
Eilrobichaud
2025-01-22 17:05:35 +0000 UTCPhil’s attempt to again show people how ‘correctly cut a trench’
Eilrobichaud
2025-01-22 17:04:53 +0000 UTCFrances: it's actually an Anglo Saxon site of great significance! The rest: *(crickets)*
Kate Crawford
2025-01-22 17:04:03 +0000 UTCBut we were SO sure this was a sunken-feature building!
Julianne Ture
2025-01-22 17:03:46 +0000 UTCSo, we believe this is a "ritual" hole.
S. Douglas Baldwin
2025-01-22 17:01:44 +0000 UTCI think the finds table was a bit heavier than we thought...
Neil
2025-01-22 17:01:35 +0000 UTCPhil! Phil, mate! Seriously, that aurochs is past saving...
Barbara B.
2025-01-22 16:56:24 +0000 UTCHole’s dug, time to go to the pub
Kevin
2025-01-22 16:55:32 +0000 UTCMust we really bury ourselves, to give Helen fresh insights into Roman burials for her podcast?
Marianne Richards MSc.
2025-01-22 16:54:00 +0000 UTCWell now the trench is done, should we go for a pint?
Rebecca Hails
2025-01-22 16:53:44 +0000 UTCUh-Oh ... Whose going to call the Monuments Commission on THIS one ?
LA preservation
2025-01-22 16:52:53 +0000 UTCWe can't be bothered...
Steve Mikre
2025-01-22 16:51:46 +0000 UTCYep. That's a hole, all right.
John Lewton
2025-01-22 16:51:29 +0000 UTC"What is your dirt doing in Phil's hole?"
Andrew Stewart
2025-01-22 16:50:37 +0000 UTC'Is that it?' (It was at this point that Tony began to wish he'd just stuck to that acting lark instead...)
Dan
2025-01-22 16:48:08 +0000 UTCYip, it’s definitely a hole
Ruth Bartram
2025-01-22 16:47:34 +0000 UTCYes, everyone, the trench has no finds.
Connie L Merchant
2025-01-22 16:45:42 +0000 UTCIs that....? Yep, its Phil. I told him that he had had enough but NO he said he wanted one more fore the ditch.
David Wood
2025-01-22 16:45:08 +0000 UTCSo who's going to tell the gas company we broke the main?
Richard Mercer
2025-01-22 16:45:05 +0000 UTC"So how far do we have to dig to find evidence of England winning at a sport they invented?"
Colin Hart
2025-01-22 16:44:09 +0000 UTCAlas, poor Yorick....
Ann
2025-01-22 16:44:08 +0000 UTCFive supervisors, one digger. Situation normal.
Amanda Taub
2025-01-22 16:44:01 +0000 UTC"Alas, poor Yorick..." Oh wait, wrong scene!
Don Griffith
2025-01-22 16:42:33 +0000 UTCFrancis: Well this is where the ancients would stand and talk to the ancestors. Tony: Just looks like a hole to me.
Eugene Geist
2025-01-22 16:41:57 +0000 UTC"Management" in action
Andrew Stewart
2025-01-22 16:41:33 +0000 UTCA little to the left, Phil.
Mick Holden
2025-01-22 16:40:22 +0000 UTCTony, are you going to tell the digger driver he dug the hole in the wrong place?
Peter Farrington
2025-01-22 16:40:19 +0000 UTCYep. That's a big hole in the ground.
Don Griffith
2025-01-22 16:40:07 +0000 UTCWell, you know, I like a bit of ritual….
Matthew Rice
2025-01-22 16:38:43 +0000 UTC
