A Medieval Blast Furnace | FULL EPISODE | Time Team 

John's enthusiasm for his geo-phys results is always contagious, but I also love how they wind him up at every chance they get.

Tony stitches all the characters together, he asks questions that are so relevant from viewers perspective, makes it more interesting for the viewers.

I love how the sun shines through Mick's hair...like a halo!😇

It’s July 15, 2024 today. This show is saving my sanity in real time. I wish I we had something like this here. It’s rough right now. 🙏🇺🇸❤️

Thank you for these. It makes such a difference in high quality. I have watched every episode already but seeing them in high quality is like a new programme.

Rob Chapman’s art is utterly awesome!

Tony: "Why do I always get this job?!" Me: "Well, you're not just there to look pretty!" 😉 Thank you for these! I love this show.

I miss Time Team.........and Mick.

6:19 After everything else is dead, lost and buried - the bloody bean counter's ledger survives after 400 years. Typical.

I love this series thanks for uploading it.

I think it would be/would have been helpful to mention that the "Blast Furnace" produced liquid CAST IRON, which couldn't be worked by the blacksmith, whereas the "Bloomery" produced "WROUGHT IRON" which could be and WAS the form of iron used directly by the blacksmiths of the period.

I love these shows! You learn something new every time!

Yes loved this series I wanted to study Archaeology wish they would do more

33:37 - William Beardmore. Perhaps an ancestor of the later William Beardmore who set up an iron works in Glasgow in 1861 and whose son established a shipbuilding company, sponsored Shackleton's first antarctic expedition and had the Beardmore Glacier named after him?

36:06 crunchy bar steel hahaha. ive only ever heard it called sponge iron/steel. in replica melts, what happens is, you crack the bloom out of the door and onto a big stump, or in some cases an outdoor anvil, and you hit it half force or so with big ole sledges. at first it sounds like your open palm slapping clay. but after a few hits you suddenly hear TINK! and then you move on to compacting another part until you again hear the tink of iron/steel. you keep turning over the bloom with tongs as needed until youve compacted it as much as possible or the heat of the furnace is gone. then you cut chunks off, hammer into a rectangle, then draw out into a flat length, fold, and draw out again. and again. and again. and eventually you have wrought iron, or moderately pure mild steel as the case may be. when he pointed into the furnace, right where his hand was, would have been about 1300c when the furnace was in operation. what a treat to see the remains of a historic one.

Like has been said, I wish this show was back in production.

Time Team is one of my favorite shows - Hi from Illimois USA

This is a really interesting episode.

Wonderful, what a find

It's so lovely to see trees !

My favourite show.

Channel 4 should never have played round with it....biggest mistake....get it back on the telly......it's not only an entertainment program (one of the very few worth watching imo) but an educational one as well.....

Best show ever made.

19:49 Phil goes medieval 😎

Tony I like your energy and how you keep evryone hopping.

I always wish Carenza had more airtime. Smarty smart smart. This episode is better!

Ive never been to England but it looks beautiful when its not raining

Original airdate: 15 February 2004

ahh... I forgot to mention that I love this show and the people in it.

The owner had a real talent for painting

When you are moving a lot of materials (wood,charcoal,ore etc) you want it to move downhill, not uphill. So the materials in effect follow the flow of water to where everything meets to make the iron. When the iron is made.............it continues to move downhill by road or water to its end users. When your transport methods lack the power to go uphill, everything must go downhill to be successful.

Mick 😥

46:43 background music "brave brave brave sir Robin!"

So happy these are being uploaded in high quality! What resolution were these originally recorded at?

Episode 114 (Season 11, Episode 7): A Medieval Blast Furnace, Aired: February 15, 2004

My got the owners artwork is fantastic!

Thank you for not putting in 14 ads

Sir Tony: this wont be resolved until people have had some alcohol. The most British thing ever said.

It would be great to find a cannon or something that could be traced to those furnaces. Thank you Time Team!

Just want to thank the editing and camera work, did they get The Best crew? It,s movie quality.

oh and to be honest, ive done replica bloomery melts and even *I* would have remelted those sponge iron chunks lmao

It is great

Quality

To sum up: We now know definitively why it was named Furnace Cottage.

Phil is hilarious

“Looks like a crater of an enormous pimple!”

43:43 what the heck are those dolls in the back of the lab?

wanna know the cool post script to this episode? tata steel still uses a blast furnace to th is day. it has THIRTY tuyeres hehe

Now this is what TV should all be about...and stuff yer Big Brother crap....

Excited archaeologists are so cute. They start to buzz and turn into a bit of a blur as their brains race and their words try vainly to keep up.

Brigit in HD.

Back then if they saw they could get what you got in 2 days they would have been ecstatic!!!

Can't wait til they figure the topography and the dam .. stay tuned because big brains for see the obvious..

Y didn't they geo-survey the floor inside the house?.. Wouldn't that have done the same as out in the field?

For crying out loud, lift up the lawn and let's have a gander, shall we? Come on, Phil:) )

Where are there only three episodes? Also people buy the DVD Sets. I had no idea they had.

Oo, could you guys do a dig at Oak Island, Nova Scotia to look for some medieval treasure? To get there you need to go west and then south of Iceland. Good luck with that. Let me know what you find with an illuminating episode.

6:07 That's such a pretty script.

goody

27:54.

I didn't realise at the start what a fine strong lady Carenza is.

Such a ground-breaking show (sorry). Men and women with equal status working at something they really enjoy. This is the sort of entertaining learning I wish we had at school.

The old saying goes "He who smelt it dealt it."

10:59 dog

Tony giving Phil a hard time for not making the trench as long as originally planned. I know Phil was taking a high road for the camera but he wanted to say, "If you want a longer trench get your ass in here and lift some soil."

I'm extremely immature. I snickered uncontrollably every time someone said "slag," and whenever anyone said "smelt," I said aloud, "He who smelt it dealt it!" Couldn't stop myself. I'm quite sure that I'm the only viewer who had either of these problems while watching this fine episode.

in a blast furnace you can always remember that the slag floats on the molten iron because slags are always on top.

Watching that lovely cottage garden get taken apart was worse than painful. I'd rather have a toothache than watch that happen again. 😥

Where you got water tech and waterwheels, you got Romans. Not a mention.

9 pence a day back then was not even a full days wage to the average worker and it's 3 shy of a shilling...in todays money calculated from 1850 is only 3.07 GBP....makes you think how "easy" we have it with money doesn't it?

Can not stand Caranza always a pain to everyone I love Time Line

haha...hes always 'lamenting' that "..we have only 3 days to..." Solution: since 3 days seems to be a self imposed deadline...THEY COULD HAVE CHANGED IT TO 4 Days!.....voila

Tony Robinson is so rude to people sometimes! He's just as bad on Twitter. Totally lost any respect I had for him a long time ago.

Love the quality of these but dam does it make Corenza look worse lol

why are they reposting old shows for. are they hunting for views

This show and especially it’s “host” have grown to annoy me... he is more focused on finding crap as fast as possible and it “being a first” then he is worried about getting crap correct and making sure the excavation and archeology is actually done correctly... I have seen numerous times where he has just wanted them to rip stuff out of the ground which would inevitably damage if not completely destroy stuff... and don’t get me started on the disrespect and irreverence he has for dead bodies

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