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I think Ian and his digger are underrated members of the Time Team.

Kudos to the backhoe driver! He is quite the operator!

I wish you would add the season and episode number on the time team episodes.

damnit! about 10 years ago, on a flea market in Graz/Austria, there was an old man selling a couple of massive copper bracelets that cought my eyes, with linear and circular patterns engraved and weighing probably oover half a kilo each. he told me that he had worked in the Ruhrgebiet in Germany in the seveties at a furnace where they smelted scrap metal. at one time, they had gotten a delivery of copper scrap from central Africa, also containing hundreds of these bracelets, of which he picked a couple out of the scrap before it all went into the furnace. I could have bought all 6 of them for only 150 Euros but didn´t because I did not realize the historcal significance of these pieces! ...I might as well sit down and cry now...

I've just "found" Time Team. WOW!! I'm soooo hooked. All the folks have become important to me. Messing with my sleep. Thanks so much!

If the copper company had Phil and Ian they could have doubled production.

Geophys have the eyes of Merlin. And those diging machines make this show possible in three days.

Boldrick, “ Were in a stickier situation than when sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun “. 👌👌👌

"I've got a brick!" - Phil

That depiction of a spoil tip near Vivian St brought to mind the Aberfan disaster in 1966. The pile slipped and engulfed a school killing 116 children and 28 adults.

I enjoy this I wish my mom was still alive she wanted to be an archaeologist

Awesome documentary thank you for sharing. Ms Michal 🙃☕💖

Thanks so much for posting

Thanks for upload 👍

This is basically like the office but it’s real

Oh God I miss this show.

Absolutely fascinating.

Pretty countryside now compared to the old industrialized photos. Mother Nature sure can heals itself. I did not know copper was deadly like lead and mercury.

So... What he cut wasn't pure copper... Can we say that... He cut himself some slack?!

To reveal the past through archeology...👍👍👍👍👍

What an amazing story So many facets involved the terrible slave trade I had no idea bracelets were created to buy people.

Thank you.

This is SO amazing what a fun dig - thank you for sharing and adding the history behind it!

The 'Manila-House' sounds like it was basically a strong-room, as it was also the pay-office & would've been storing the manilas because they were quite valuable!

I LOVE TIME TEAM!!!!!!

I've watched a few British dating shows, and Rugby players seem high on the desirability scale.

the last few seconds, what a beautiful song! for the uninitiated amongst us, what was it?

'Geophiz' is great but I dont think it takes nearly as much skill as John Gater wishes it has. Lol. I can read those sheets very well, even seeing things he seemingly doesnt. Especially so after having watched 250+ videos of Time team. I cannot get enough of TimeTeam.

First class presentation - and rugby.......

I came for copper but I found archaeology

Interesting stuff...why isnt this taught in school!

After watching a Time Team episode, I like to go on Google Maps and see what the area looks like now. I did not expect to see a KFC.

Will hopefully see u all in Cornwall to see the copper mines ?

I love welsh singers.

How do these sites get buried so deeply in such a short period of time?

To think I found these really great shows just because I found Black Adder. *:-)* EDIT: I live in the States and don't watch a ton of BBC stuff...so=Delay in finding Black Adder

I'm surprised they didn't mention the Swedish copper industry that provided almost all copper used in Europe during the 15th century, what process did they use?

LMAO!!!!! Tony putting a mask......... up side down

Timetaem is best today 😊😅😂❤🎉

Keep waiting for Francis to say the furnace is clearly a sign of ritual.

If that place in located in the US. It would be a super fund site.

valuable rare Earth elements may be found in old foundry areas.

G0D almighty... the Rugby team can be sent to dig up my garden anytime. (I live in New Jersey!!)

This episode felt very weird. The third day was like any classic Time Team episode. The first and second days seemed different, with the latter being a little closer to the third than the first. A lot of stuff was happening, but it wasn't really discussed in any detail. It felt like the news ticker version of Time Team. I don't know if it's a product of the period being investigated, a lack of time, or some form of executive interference.

when they said shoddy "are you a terraria player or something?"

3:00 him being so close to that scoop makes me incredibly anxious

Very interesting! Why is everything buried so deeply when it's only 200 - 300 years old?

looollo on yr mask Ton... we all love you

Tony's mask was upside down heh.

IT'S THIS WHERE THE TOWN MINES OVER FLOW CAUGHT FIRER AND KILLED HUNDREDS .. WHO LIVED THERE..

Maybe not the geophys. LOL!

I wonder, where's Phil from? Anyone?

Lovely finish.

Poor Tony is forever known as Baldrick

Yet another late episode with Mary-Ann Ochota. She doesn't have any archaeological background and doesn't have great presenting skills either. The only reason to add her to the series seems to be because of her looks (she is a former model). The introduction of miss Ochota in the series was the reason why prof. Mick Aston (RIP) left the series.

Tony with the upside down mask on is very pre-covid....

Surely there would have been Plans passed for all that development.

"i'm digging" not sure were to dig though

de rei metalica

1:11 just three days to dig....oh Tony,you drama queen :)

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“This is 95% copper not as big as yours but purer”.... go back in the video about 10 seconds to find the guy saying it’s 93% copper

Tony’s mask was upside down. 😬

I see miracles everywhere

W H A T no Stewart or Henry - shame!

Well, you can only find what's really there. And that's what they did.

Was that not big pollution worst than today?

"...the slave trade, that employed thousands of people..." Employed!? Really?!

Weird to be to look at the manila they made as a thing of beauty, it repulses me, cannot see it without knowing what it stands for.

Hot Rugby players lol

I don't understand, the computer fabrication shows about a hundred buildings but they are having trouble unearthing only one. What became of all of the other buildings? And isn't all of that earth supposed to be toxic from the smelting process?

What I really like about this - maybe some of my Welsh ancestors helped make copper to exchange for 'two legged assets' that some of my Southern US ancestors owned and then had to release (without pay) 'cause the ol' Yanks won the war. Thanks for the history lesson.

adds adds adds site runs crappy from all the adds

Phil's hat must smell like well ridden horse.

... 11:41 the dynamic duo that killed the show

Tony Robinson is an owl

Mary-Ann Ochota, whose mere presence drives off true professionals. What a skidder. Politics in action.

Wise move sending Raksha over to get the rugby help - cant turn her down....

Wonderful that time team is so woke

Helluva lot of rubbish in there Franchis!

No body cares about joggers.

my great grandfather sent his silver and gold ore there in the 1880s the ore was from Montana USA

They canceled the show because of her. Wtf!!!!

Sadly, there was not much archaeology being done, but too much effort being put in to finding traces of the slave trade - and even then they were guessing. I switch off when something that should be educational becomes nothing more than satisfying a political agenda.

I think the British need to take better care of their fingernails lol..Trim them lol

The really exaggerated emphasis in this episode on the slave-trade is just to fulfill a 'demand' to be politically correct. In reality, the copper bracelets linked to the slave trade are just a by-product of the copper production on the site, easily less than 0,001 percent of the total copper production I would guess. 41:56 Even a major product - copper nails and plating for sea going ships - is artificially 'linked' to the slave trade. As if all the sea going ships in the last 200 years had no other function than transporting slaves. Sure... I standardly give the episodes of Time Team a 'thumbs up', but this one gets a 'thumbs down'. Too little archaeology, too much political correctness...

I have no idea why people like Phil being on the show, he drives me crazy and just screams of "LOW IQ"... He totally ruins this show whenever he speaks if you ask me, I cannot stand a single word he says, and he literally adds nothing to the show beyond ignorant comedy. This is an archeology show though, not comedy, so why is he involved at all...?