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It's rare. He is wrong most of the time

He ded now

Ian was the unsung hero of Time Team.

THE OVERLOOKED HERO

We saw the backhoe operator taking off just an inch of soil at a time. If you think that's easy you'd be wrong. It takes years of practice and a good measure of natural talent to accomplish.

Ian Barclay, the excavator operator, was a wizard with those machines. Once watched him peel a banana held by Tim Taylor, the producer, with a backhoe. If you search "Ian Barclay Time Team" you'll surely find some of the outtakes of tricks he did with excavators. Truly sad to have lost him. Rest in Peace Ian.

@@RobBoudreau both Ians were good diggers. Is it true the younger Ian was also a full-fledged archaeologist who often had his own trench to supervise as well as run the JCB?

Yeah, that guy’s got some chops.

Ian's an artist with the digger

I was thinking the same thiing :) Very skilled.

I thought so, too. Until they said he didn't mark out its exact location. Then I thought, if it was Mick they won't tell us.

The student's name was G. Thomas according to the desk based assessment undertaken prior to Time Team's excavation.

G Thomas so that is what he did before bike riding

Probably doesn't remember

That was funny 50 tears ago.

Especially the sites that are under water!

Thank you!

See, if they were smart, they'd do followup episodes on sites like this one, and give themselves another 3 days to try to follow up on the leads they found previously

They do follow-up shows and turn over started sites to local archeologists. Look at the Time Team specials. I think there were over 60 filmed.

We don’t see them bury the sites again though so perhaps Time Team move to another site while off camera, excavation continues. I don’t know. I’m a Russian living in the US. I know nothing about British archaeology. I know in Arizona, basically all works stop if archaeology examples are suspected. I live in Chicago though. I just saw that about Arizona in a museum there. Obviously the UK will have much better archaeology sites.

If it was my property I would keep digging

The lady that owns Wayne fleet tower at Escher place ended up writing a book. If you look at the channel "time team official" they interviewed her last year and talked about it.

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GOOD MORNING

We have 'cancel culture' idiots taking down magnificent Confererate Statues in the USA because they are "offended" !!!!

@@marcietorrence5361 Calm down.

@@marcietorrence5361 maybe because of what those statues portray about the lack of equality for certain citizens of the country YOU THINK 🤔

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It is not lost just buried and forgotten! Stay safe, stay sane, be well

Agree, i know little american english, but i'd interested with british english :D

It’s good that your learning English. I have to ask, your last name- Constitucional- is that your real name?

@@ariosetiawan173 Well, American and British English only split after Shakespeare, Jamestown was settled in like 1607. So we really speak the same language. VERY few differences in spelling or words for different things. Now, if you want to talk about language drift, compare the Icelandic language to Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. That has had 1000 or more years to evolve from other Scandinavian languages. American English has only had 400 years. Practically it is the same language, and spelling and structure. If you know one, you know the other. Same with Australian, New Zealand, South African and Canadian. Although Canadian is closer to American English. Only difference is our accents between all former British colonies. I would say at times, Indian or Jamaican English is harder to understand, even for other Native English speakers. So I can only imagine how difficult it can be for speakers who it is their 2nd language.

Just don't take the comments in the comment section as examples for correct grammar. They're usually extremely bad.

Hi@@lizabethgussman331 ! Not. My name is Geraldo Andrade. I'm from Brazil!

Time Team was filmed over weekends and all of the main people had real jobs during the week. This was the main reason for only doing 3 days. The crew (70-100) people had to be housed and fed. They were often the same size as the villages they invaded and would quickly wear out their welcome. This is also a standard length for an exploratory dig; many of the sites they dug were further excavated when warranted. There's a really good Q&A with the crew posted somewhere that explains all the details.

Open Fields military tents and cots. I'm sure people can handle roughing it for a couple days. Important questions about history that you have more questions than answers. Just to say oh well and walk away.

The digs are usually turned over to local Archeologists, This one specifically ended up being not roman at all but a lesser known member of the British Royal Family, Edmund the Blackadder.

@Hoghs Its on my list of shows to watch, Discovering timeteam has been great.

Perhaps if you had contributed a large sum of money DC, they could have dug a few more weekends.

My father had exactly the same toolbox. I can still hear the sound when opening it.

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@@ronaldderooij1774 thats a wonderful memory Sir.💕

Good one!😄👍 --Shannon

Kim Jameson, MINE TOO!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

Mine as well !!!!!!

In a few years people are gonna see this and not know what to think! Lol

It is the only show that I turn of my surround sound, I love the show but the sound editing kills me

It’s called ‘ The Cooling Tower Effect ‘.

That’s awesome! Really nice how little random things can bring back such fond memories.

They really don’t teach anything and I have yet to see and episode where they actually really figure anything out... 99% of their episodes are like this one where they don’t even find what the original archeologist found and barely find anything if they even find anything at all... they might hit a wall or two but then they miraculously pull explanations out of their assets with no evidence or proof to back them up

@@richardgrace4500 lol best you leave murica and show these archeologists how to go about it, considering that the original excavator didn't leave precise methods of identification as to where he was actually excavating just a drawing on paper, look at the size of the field with no plotting marks or means of identifying where he was digging.

Ian ( the elder) is the most brilliant swing shovel operator I have ever seen. He even looks happy when catching a snooze in his cab. When he is reincarnated he will be digging trenches on Mars.

Just dig deeper!

Stop throwing beer cans in your front yard bro

2000 years = 2000 mm or 2 meters...

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This is gold 😂😂😂

Is that true?

@@dianetersigni7359 no, it's a joke. The host of this show was on a series called Blackadder . Rowan Atkinson was a character named Edmund Blackadder and the host of this documentary was his servant named baldrick.

What??? Ihaha yeah i actually tried lip reading

You don't know Clint Eastwood's face very well do you? I have all of his movies and a huge book about him and this guy could MAYBE be his grand dad.

Seen requires a helper verb, such as "have." It is never correct to use "seen" without a helper verb. Ex: "I have seen this type of marking..."

Lol uncle Phil can be a bit of a handful, but he has been the main field archeologist since the series first started when both he and Mick were both younguns. Also he is the only archeologist that has appeared on every episode, hes in his 70s now but he is still working on the Waterloo Site at Hugomont Farm.

It's common for rural/middle England. It just means a town, or perhaps something to do with the county borders. That's was a really good question, by the way.👌 (The only reason I know about shires is because I watched Lord of the Rings ("the Shire") and I got curious too)☺️ Cheers! --Shannon Aguilar ❤️

He's not English.

Really....these archeologists are narcissistic, ( have a study of the way they draw attention to themselves).