Time Team Season 16 Episode 5

Tony: Welcome to the top of the world, or if the weather takes a turn for the worst, Hell on Earth. Amongst this Yorkshire bog and scrubland lie the remains of a settlement built by a tough nomadic community that lived on the very edge of society. Using the most basic of tools they transformed the face of the British landscape forever. And 170 foot below me lies one of their most impressive monuments. Because this is the last of the great railway lines to be built by the Navvies, and this is the Rise Hill tunnel driven through solid rock by the sheer brute force of hard manual labour. We've come here to dig where that itinerant army lived, worked and often died. Underneath this grass hopefully will lye clues to the story of the people who physically built modern Britain.