Digging Up Prehistoric Britain's Most Desirable Neighbourhood | Time Team: Bodmin Moor | Odyssey 

“I thought all dirt was buried” was an excellent quip.

A cautionary tale for all of us today. The environment supports life. We should all consider the connection.

Though I have no personal connection to Britain, I am fascinated with what the Time Team is doing. Not only are the sites they examine so beautiful, but there is such a spiritual quality to all of it, too. Wonderful videos.

Every time I watch this show I come away with greater and greater respect for Phil Harding. He explains archeology so very well.

Tony's enthusiasm is so contagious, he could make you want to watch paint dry!

That artists live sketch of the stones was gorgeous!

Gotta bring back this show to 2022, with all the new tech there is, it would be even more fascinating! This show is a treasure ! ❤️

It is the interaction among these original and witty people (including Tony) that makes Time Team so much better than any later archaeology programs. Dr. Alice Roberts has a graet voice and appearance and is very knowledgeable, but the archaeological teams she has give their dig diaries have obviously been slogging away for months and are are kind of worn out. The three day digs here have people full of enthusiasm. I also love the artist's impressions and the occasional experimental archaeology reproducing activity in the past as well as they can.

What a beautiful episode. That gorgeous cairn makes me want to cry.

This is at least the third channel I've seen post Time Team. I've seen all of them more than once. Yet I still watch.

I always love to watch Phil as he always reminds that life's glass is not half empty but half full :-)

All of this man’s content gives me the vibe that this would be the video your teacher would play when they rolled in the TV on a half day of school. Great content.

Baldrick's content is top notch.

i LOVE Bodmin Moor...i took parts of my education in UK - and lived so close to the moor i could just tack up one f the horses and ride out on the moor... Incredible place... I hope i can go back one day

It's so intriguing, and amusing at the same time, that the time team members manage to present their suggestions at the start of digging, with each episode, while they are largely repetitions of former diggings at the start. What this looks like, is that the revival of the members' enthusiasm in their propositions, looks as if it's the first time that it's being said and that it's this that keeps each episode fresh. Of course, the actual digging and discovery are very much in the moment, fresh in their uniqueness, for who knows what will show up? It doesn't look like this enthusiasm is fake at all. This team manages to keep itself in good condition, inspired by dedication that is genuine, with comradery in tow.

Time Team is my all time favorite archeological TV programs. Absolutely love it. So excited I've found you here 🥰

The local historian, Ian, has such a lovely sonorous voice, I can imagine him doing Audio books such as Lord of the Rings.

Love seeing the guys talking in the pouring rain on top of the hill 😂👍

LMAFO! Philll's face timed at 3:22mins looking at the site underneath a tent was great!! Just like god damn rain!!

Oh, I miss Time Team. Wish Mick was still around, and he, Phil, Tony, John, and the gang were still making these tele jewels. I've got some tears of joy welling up just seeing the opening credits.

Love watching you working at a profession you love, you all make a really great show, thank you. Blessed be.♥️♥️♥️

A weeny bit exciting. I've done the whole let's get my DNA testing done and see where my ancestors come from, and a large part is from around this area. So cool to watch this thinking about how my ancestors may have been there farming and doing life 😊

I'm Aussie and on my 2009 trip to the UK Bodmin Moor was one of those 'must visit' destinations..I visited because I wanted to see the triple stone circle that's there..I suspect the stone circles are also linked to these other finds...would be interesting...

Another good one, I used to watch these all the time when they were new to TV, making people like me like archaeology, who'd a thought. One thing not mentioned that I find interesting is the lay/construction seem lacking any defensive properties, walls for house and animal control only, no fortifications, where our ancestors were lucky enough to have civilised and peaceful lives I wonder?

"And which stones are just stones" ... I feel you Tony

My ancestors came from Britain. I love their weather. It suits me. I live in California USA. We seldom see rain, just blazing sun.

The whole team are just great, the programs are superb, the history is priceless! 👏👏

Let's hope this area rewilds and grows back the woodlands that used to be there.

Three cheers for Sir Tony!

I was stationed with the British royal Air Force in Cornwall. Really miss England a lot. Hopefully I can return there before I get too old

The only wash Phil's hat has ever had

This is the first I've heard Tony Robinson's voice in sometime. I miss his voice, we don't get much UK TV here. The Baldrick character was brilliant, not many people could have done that so well. Good to see/hear Mr. Robinson and this content is very interesting as well.

That dung beetle exchange about the dung beetle nightmare was simply hilarious 😆

I just love watching Francis and Phil, with all their enthusiasm and knowledge, with Tony playing the devil's advocate they bring what could be a really boring subject to life for me!!.............................And i guess for a host of people.

We live in a time where RU-vid can show me houses built 6000 years ago and computer chips made yesterday. So much access to knowledge. Don't take it for granted.

I love this prehistory!! Thanks for this!

This is by far my favorite Time Team

One of my favorite episodes of the original series .. dang getting old sucks

I find this incredibly exiting! What a team! ❤️👍🏼

I love this series. This dude always makes me relax

Best thing on telly - bring back the Bronze Age

Just a small aside - I imagined Bodmin moor to be a huge expanse; in fact it's the area of a small farm in the part of Australia where I live !

Dear Tony, I recall you remarking about being good at presenting.. or similarly worded. I've binge watched the original TimeTeam Channel, and now after a break have rewatched the above video in Odyssey. U Your presention skills bring alive the topic, with passion and emphasis that's second to none. It complements the highly knowledgeable and talented archeological crew, culminating in a stand alone blend I doubt could ever be replicated. Huge thanks for the hours of enjoyment you and TimeTeam created and shared with us.

Fascinating stuff, thoroughly enjoyable.

Very well told story, thank you.

when I watch these type of show and think about my years here (60) and how fast it came, It reminds me that our years on this planet isn't long, So make good use of your time on the planet, because it is very short

Thanks so much for posting.

Absolutely incredible work!! Fantastic job everyone!! :)

Thanks for sharing

Come for the history, stay for the enthusiasm.

I just love how they're sodding wet and standing up to their knees in water. We have not had any rain to speak of for months and months.

If I had to guess before watching, I would say they cut down all the trees and it changed the landscape as those things tend to do. Probably led to soil erosion and higher winds so they eventually had to move.

Excellent! Thank you

Channel 4 in the 1990s and 2000s was special. Time team especially.

Love this. I wonder what the weather was in that region 5000 years ago? Amazing how people slowly changed the environment of great Britain ,drastically ,over the millennia.

Great episode !

Passionnant, thank you

This was very well done.

Well done!

I loved this from History or Sociology classes when they spoke of different times using the words of ages. Mud, Grass, Stone, on and on it goes. For today if everything was frozen under a few million tones of mud, imagine an archeologist trying to make sense of which age these current people, us would be? For collectors whatever they owned wasn't only from the time they had passed. ah and we still have people in the world who hasn't even gotten to the stone age yet.

Brilliant video again.👏

been to Bodmin Moor many years ago loved it and very open

In the same way that the ancient Bronze Age people communed with their ancestors, so, through the efforts of Time Team, do we.

I found this fascinating as it shows evidence of other things not just Stone Henge which I believe is also about 5000 years old. What I don't understand is that as its such an important part of British History, why are these guys only given 3 days to search. It needs years with also the possibility to partly preserve what has been found and/or possibly returning one or two of these houses back to its original state (as far as possible anyway). Egypt has the Pyramids which are still being excavated for years and no doubt for many more years to come, why cant we do this with our history ? Clearly there are people very keen to do it and I am sure there are plenty of people willing to help fund it.

Beautiful ❤️

Thank you.

Why only 3 days please? I just love this !!

I enjoy this program

This was a fascinating episode!…

Always enjoy !

Very interesting. Thank you

Thank you

I like the feathers in Phil's hat.

love this stuff

i really love time team an history but it is sad that nobody ever plant the trees back

A good look at tools and techniques and their application to understanding the past.

A very good description of a big hole by Tony, love this show. Watched most of these a long time ago, now binge watching.

My Phil. Forever young ❤️

I love this!

c. 6:30 Looks pretty miserable with the rain pissing down on the moor like that. Great for promoting tourism though. Welcome to Cornwall.

Thanks.

The rain might give us a demonstration of how rain affected the ancient people

I find on the web that Bodmin Moor has quite a few nature walks as well as archeological sites, but from the area info for tourists, I cannot tell which of the listed sites this video featured. Does anyone know? I would quite like to visit Corwall and see it. Greetings from Sweden.

love prehistoric sites

fascinating!

Love from the old lady in Texas may God bless you always and forever

When they found the broken piece of flint in the fireplace, I swear I heard a distant guttural ah crap! In a bronze age language. Prehistoric barbed wire! Blimey!😂

The hollering sheep in the background ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

21:01 I can see why people lived there. Love.

If you want to see a modern day roundhouse like at 5:25 check out Smooth Gefixt channel (their iron age roundhouse videos where they show different stages of building their drystone walled irish roundhouse. It's remarkably similar to the picture of the roundhouse at 5:25)

I love Francis's enthusiasm but he sure does love to speculate.

Fascinating history, but I cannot think of a more uncomfortable place on the planet than the bleakness of Bodmin moor.

Going with some of the comments so far I can't wait to get into watching this one

The pot at 38:40 is actually quite sophisticated. It shows the Goddess of the Cult of Trees (see Crete) had come north and they associated her with a celestial object that takes about 6 years to topple life as we know it. It shows that object arriving with a companion four times a Precession, which would be a measure of time known then as the Ram. Small jump from that idea to something like Passover, known to both the Jews and (earlier) the Egyptians. With the pot, they were remembering an event that had happened (according to the Rig Veda in about 4415 BC). While the visitor stars or planets were known by various names and sexes ... we do know one was brilliant and one was dull. One was red & winged and one was blue but reflective. And together they brought terrible flares to our Sun and storms to the Earth. A gravitational anomaly as well as pole shifts, earthquakes and volcanoes. And if I'm not mistaken ... would have been expected in 2022.

I love this show so much. Tony - "What exactly are we going to do here Francis?" Francis -"We're going to do an EXcavation , DIG a hole and find EVIDENCE!"

Very interesting

Sent shivers down my spine. Spectacular dig. Many thanks.

Francis always seems to be really sure of his findings, so much so he seems immovable on them. In my experience those types are the ones that are often proven wrong. He seems to be willing to bet it all on a hunch, often from something so small anyone could guess anything from it. Compare him to Mick who is always willing to change when presented with new evidence.

Our ancestors get us recalled to visit their oldest home.The whole team is fortunate.

8:57 You can use it as a scraper too love!