Not to mention the number of viewers it inspired to pick up a trowel themselves.

Join us as we look back at six digs that encapsulate the range of everything that madeTime Teamso special.

He must have felt like an armchair detective whod just solved the Ripper murders.

Sir Tony Robinson presenting Time Team on Channel 4

Its not often the ancient past can produce physiological tremors in its far-off descendants.

Thecoinwas printed in the Tower of London sometime between 1415 and 1420 (thats AD, not PM).

Its not known if any attempts were ever made to carbon date the metal detectorists snot.

The grounds of Shakespeares Stratford-upon-Avon home, New House, demolished in 1702, were excavated in the 19thcentury.

And it doesnt get much more celebrity and salacious than that.

Villa Thrilla

Turkdean (Gloucestershire), S05E04

Tony Robinson has been always drawn to history.

His second thought was probably: I might be about to desecrate history.

It was a moment he would later described as one ofthe greatest of his life.

It seems some bodies, and bodies of work, are destined to remain buried.

It was the first time Eric had set foot in the country since D-Day.

Paul, and three other pilots, lost their lives.

Eric lost his brother.

A heart-breaking and undeniably heart-warming moment.

And so it proved.

But as the finds piled up, so too did the teams suspicions.

Anarchaeological theme park, was a phrase one team member used to describe the site.

Some Roman coins retrieved from the spring were found glued together.

A Victorian marmalade pot was discovered among the antiquities.

The piece de resistance was an Iron Age sword found resting deep in the soilabovea length of barbed wire.

No, said Tony, conjuring all his powers of civility.

While the dig failed to uncover anything of useful historical value, it was far from a wasted trip.

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