Phil’s joy after they opened the Time Team logo showed so much of the inner child he has! I loved that huge laugh it was fantastic

I wish Time Team had made a coffee table book of all the lovely colour drawings that Victor did of all the various sites they worked on -I would have bought a copy as soon as it came out!

Time team- Digs for 3 days and finds nothing Also Time team- Digs for 3 hours on the final day and finds exactly what they were looking for The love you guys have for archeology is infectious and really makes learning these kinds of things fun, I live in America and I would have never known about a lot of the things I've been learning from this show if it wasn't for you guys so thanks

I 'found' this series only a few days ago and have watched several episodes since, each is fascinating. This one, however, sent a shiver up my spine with its ending. Knowing the history of the Welsh miners and their vocal abilities, to hear the choirs, still in fine form, was amazing, even if I am half way around the world. Congrats Tony and the team, splendid work, splendid presentations..

This is the only time team that’s made me truly sad. Not only did the industrial revolution completely change every aspect of that landscape, people’s homes were covered with thousands of tons of garbage and a valley was lost forever.

Wow, Victor is simply amazing, so talented. Unsung in this show, but he adds so much to it. And I think I have now seen Phil involved the three different kinds of metal working.

I absolutely adore Sir Tony. I love how he breaks down the facts so it’s understandable and relatable. Also whenever he is around children I love how engaging he is with them.

A railway viaduct was constructed in 1790; the structure disappeared and was unearthed in a 2001 episode of the archaeology television programme Time Team.[11] The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway is a scenic attraction rich in geological and historical interest. Blaenavon lost both of its passenger railway stations - Blaenavon High Level station closed in 1941, and the last train from Blaenavon (Low Level) (to Newport via Pontypool Crane Street) ran in April 1962. The lower line had already been closed for more than a year before the Beeching Axe took place. The lower line's passenger service was among many in Gwent (Monmouthshire) which Ministry of Transport de-classified papers reveal were axed because of rail congestion in the Newport area following the newly opened Llanwern steelworks.

This was particularly interesting to me as a few years back I discovered that there is an entire mining town buried near my home. Similar story although much more recent (1940s or so): when the mine area had been exhausted they needed to move about a half mile to a new deposit. They simply took anything worth reusing out of the homes and buried them (and an extensive rail system from the 1800s) in slag and rubble from the new mine. I've always been interested to know what the landscape used to look like before it was mined out and then buried, but only a couple sketches exist.

This was an awesome video for that viaduct to survive under all the weight of waste rubble and dirt is a true testament to how good of a quality of work they did back then. Amazing

Part of the reason I love this show is the unapologetic glorification of total nerds and geeks, which I love :)

My great grandfather was 11 years old when he went into the coal mines. He'd only been working for 2 weeks when a rockfall crushed his dad, my 2nd great grandfather. His dad broke his back and was bedridden for about 2 weeks before he died. That was in 1903 and not my only grandfather or relative killed in the mines.

My parents and I spent so many happy years watching Time Team. Sadly they are both gone now but I still enjoy watching past episodes

I’m addicted to time team. I can’t stop watching episodes since I discovered it. I wish US TV was like this. Normal, unpretentious people uncovering the vast history of the Isles. I’ve learned so much. I can identify Roman Samian ware by sight now. I am now planning a trip to England in the future to see all the wonderful archaeology and museums. Thank you to Tony,Mick(RIP), Phil, Carenza, Stuart, Victor, Guy, Raksha, and so many more wonderful intelligent people. You actually learn from this show compared to all the fake stuff on The “History” Channel, Discovery, and The “Learning” Channel.

What a fabulous episode. I found all of this totally fascinating, and the Welsh choir at the end brought tears to my eyes.

Time Team, the people who can make digging up a massive landfill entertaining.

I have been obsessed with your Time Team, I absolutely love it!! This episode rocked, unbelievable that you guys actually FOUND IT!! Pure awesomeness from a fan in Washington State, USA

Again a huge "Thumbs up" for Tony. He asked always those right questions the viewerv would also ask them just now seening the show. Who do we this when we looking for this??? Best moderators are representing the viewers and Tony did that!

What an exciting edge of your seat episode. So glad they found the viaduct in the end. Wonderful television programming 😊

I love the Choral Group at the end. If you ever watched the classic HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, the miners always sang on their way home.

I really like the industrial age content. It's different and very interesting!

A bit of industrial archeology more often rather than just about exclusively medieval and pre-medieval archeology during the series would have been welcome by many i"m sure.

Wow, that was epic. Certainly one I would like to see the results of if/when later archaeologists clear more of it.

The most impressive hole ever dug by Time Team and proof of their faith and skill (and desperation) I believe. Local knowledge is always helpful (mostly). I agree with many of the comments below. I wish I had a book of Victor's drawings. It would also be nice to share a pint with Phil. I look forward to the new dig on the new Time Team.

I have recently, over the last month or so gotten hooked on this show, and loving and being as interested in history as I have always been, along with Archeology, this show is perfect. I end up watching two or three of them every night before bed:-)after all that digging... they actually finally found it and one of the small homes of the workers, which is also very important cause we are ALL walking history.. WTG time team!

I just love this show! I wish the US looked at our history so realistically, the good and the bad.

I seen where Wales finally unearthed the entire tramway viaduct there, in all it's glory, it is a majestic sight to see in pictures, would love one day to see it up front and personal.

what a great episode! I was worried something so 'recent' wouldn't be that interesting, and I was wrong!

Wonderful and always curious to know ..... What a spirit teamwork you're done ....

Weird how a *bridge* that's *still standing* can be too deep underground to explore... 🤯

The time team has done another absolutely incredible job of locating a large piece of English history. Do we know why on earth it was buried.? and so deep. Perhaps it should be called Gobekli Tepe #3.It would be so good were able it to be restored to its former glory

Wow. Mystery, history, reproducing old crafts. It's all good!

this was way cool, and they all remind me of the archeologist versions of Crocodile Hunter with all their enthusiasm!! I would love to see the whole viaduct, but I would like to learn more about that little girl who was killed collecting iron-ore.

Would love to see them go back and uncover the site

Wow, i love it when TT works in the West Country and South Wales, where my ancestry is mostly from. This was totally enthralling as my Grandfather was born in Abertillery from Welsh mining stock. So this is only 5 or 6 km from my ancestral home I would think, quite possibly had ancestors working the mine.

How cool that they had someone who had seen the place, it’s like ripping someone from the Bronze Age to help them! No one’s usually alive that’s seen these places

I read below from James White " Normal, unpretentious people uncovering the vast history of the Isles" and from J Im "Part of the reason I love this show is the unapologetic glorification of total nerds and geeks" . The Tony, Phil, Mick era is some of the most wonderful television I've seen. It is the record of "a kind of magic" that occurs very rarely. The program doesn't stop at the entertainment and engagement it offers. It has been responsible for uncovering so much previously unknown information about the history of the UK (and sometimes other countries), a great investment and return. I am delighted to see John, Stewart, Carenza, Matt and the rest of the team members both old and new in new episodes ⭐

The size of that hole and the heavy machinery. This had to be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive time team dig on record.

Love seeing the photos of the workers - really nice touch.

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you from Oregon!

Incredible! Well done timeteam!!

This industralisation of England and the ruining of the landscape is what inspired Tolkien to write about Orthanc and the Scouring of the Shire.

A rather enjoyable episode. As always Phil and his humor are some of the best parts.

Every bit as interesting as your stuff covering several thousands of years ago. Love yer work.

So we go from "We don't even know where the valley was" to: "We're establixhing the bounds of the valeey" with no transition. Magic.

I'm amazed that viaduct ceiling can support all that top fill.

Now that you have the orientation established, if you wait for a year or 2 before making another dig, you might be able to find the side. That would make for another fine episode to have another dig.

Tony was fond of describing Time Team as 'a bunch of hippies digging a hole', so as the biggest hole they ever dug, this episode must be the peak of Time Team.

“I think I might chuck it down piece by piece “ had me laughing out loud. 😂

🛑🛑 The new team NEEDS to come and revisit this site for sure!!

One thing I have learned from Time Team is, any 2 out of 3 days in Great Britain, plan on rain. Easy for the weatherman. ☔☔🌞

It would be good if Tony and team could go back a year from now to do follow up. Sometimes 3 days is too short amount of time to do all the work required as in this case.

This was the weirdest one for me... Industrial rubble just dumped willy nilly over the entire landscape...no apologies for lack of foresight into the planet’s ruination...Stuff is old but not very old. Puts perspective on how fast things change for sure.

yes i love time team uploads!! im probably about 50% through the entire series

I like the elderly couple arguing about where they used to live

binge watching these. love history, and this feeds the beast.

I love time team ,my fellow Brits , great series, to watch be great Britain, love you guys. 👍😊🇬🇧

Wow... shades of my life! I ran a cupola for 15 years till retirement in Aug. of 2020. Nothing has changed from back then till today. The ingredients, fuel used, how it was loaded... it's all the same.

This would be an amazing site to do a complete dig.

That’s so cool that they got enough local ore to make the iron.

The heros (in every sense of the word) of this episode were the digger operators. Blooming dangerious work!

love every episode, but this is a great one

This beats the hell out of Geraldo Rivera's search for Al Capone's vault!

What happens after the show? Do they fill the trenches back in or do the excavate the sites completely?

Enjoying the dig and wondering when Phil uncovers some flints.

look how pleased they are making that wheel. i wanna make a wheel!

I wish they had more than three days every episode. lol

Why do we never get to see more of the after party? :(

I predict 60 feet down easily. The picture they showed earlier of the Via-Duc looked huge so I ,believe people just might have robbed these stones as well for a local church or wall construction.

Well, it's not lost anymore! You can clearly see in the thumbnail that Tony has found it!

Love this show

The ads on the iPhone YT app were insufferable. So, I downloaded an ad blocker and watched on my web browser. Definitely worth it. For an American historian, these British shows are like a breath of air to a suffocating man.

What I don't understand is how could the top of the viaduct be so far down in the dirt when it was hundreds of feet high = hat took a lot of filling in

I miss Tony, Phil and Mick....

Oh you brought me to tears when you found the tramway!!!

Thank you, I enjoyed this very much.

good job! perserverance (sp) and preperation = luck well done!

All I can think of when hearing viaduct is the Groucho and Chico Marx routine . Groucho is explaining viaduct to Chico and Chico keeps asking " Why a duck ?" sidesplitting repartee ensues.

Stewart to the rescue once again!

Looking at that very last rendering shot, maybe they should have approached the excavation sideways instead of down.

my grand father is from England John Wheeler and still has family out there i believe.England to me reminds me of the Canada i was brought up in. cheer's boy's!

Awesome, the best one yet.

I'd love to know if the viaduct has been further excavated .

Didn't the railway make maps of their track? Check with the railway for historical maps, or check any historical map collection. Both the rail line and viaduct may have been mapped. Usually there is a town or some other landmark that may not have changed over time for reference. Indeed, finally after 20 mins and many holes dug, they look at a map.

Imagine how much deep the hole to find the bottom of the valley...

Britian got the motherland of the industrial revolution BECAUSE of the French revolution. The need for casting iron skyrocket and that is the time such mines were very lucrative. After the Napoleon wars a lot crashed and it took some years till the demand of the fabric industry had same level of need for coal as the casting had needed.

Yep, during the night one daring man or woman drew the short straw. Geared up, roped up and went into the hole. Nobody's leaving that without taking a real peek inside.

Omg.. i jus seen an earlier espoide where he was younger and had hair! Must say that is either commitment or a real hobby. Either way like the show!! Thanks for the uploads!

I started to cry when they sent the camera down into it. YAY!

Imagine what they could do now with Drones.

Why do they only allow 3 days for each exploration? I'd love to see more 🤔

Would LIDAR be the type of tech. that would be able to reveal industrial structures buried like this?

how did the viaduct get buried that far under ground?

I just would love John Gator for just once to say how easy it will be for his Geophis gadgets will find it easy to find things. Oh dear i better stop, i'm starting to sound like Phil!

wow , quite the graphic description of that little girl's death.

The choir sounded wonderful!!

They're playing'Men of Harlech' and I'm singing "Woad", which I learned not in England (it appeared in the 1925 British Boy Scouts' Manual) but from a happy bunch of drunks at an SF convention in the US. I don't thinkI've ever heard the *words*to Men of Harlech!

Well that was a classy ending. nice.

Darn it! Chico Marx kept asking that question through the entire movie, but never got an answer... Why a Duck? They just kept ignoring him.

i wish they had given credit to the chorus and band that played us out at the end.