'House of the White Queen' (Groby, Leicestershire) | Series 18 Episode 7 | Time Team 

The loss of Mick was a blow to Time Team, archaeology, and humanity. I still have fond memories of him through this channel.

I love Phil the architectural historian: "That's a classic motte -- just a big mound a' dirt."

Phil’s Mot trench was a thing of art. He really does fine work. The Time Team really opened a lot of minds to the value of archeology. The whole team contributed to history. 👍👍

Rest In Peace Mick Aston. Your memory lives on. Your interest in archaeology was infectious. Thanks for sharing your passion with us

Phil is a genuine mate to all. What a great personality!❤

This programme should never have been discontinued

Looking foward to having Mick and Phil in my living-room. Plus all the rest... Almost a family of ancienteers!

Mick was a national treasure. He was loved all over the world. Rest in peace Mick.

Never seen anyone get more excited to find a brick like phil before hes not bothered about the gold trinkets just bricks for him😂

Mick's sweaters and caps were so unique.

this is Phillipa Gregory one of my favourite authors and time team , my day is made!

One of my absolute favourites! ❤️ Thank you so much for posting these classics for us to watch again!

18 years of Tony never being able to guess what Mick is going to say at the start of the project

The little quips are magic. Yall make me laugh out loud. "One stone is a stone, 2 stones a Norman Castle" Hloh, hloh, hloh!!!

As a long time Time Team watcher the people i look forward to seeing the most are Mick, Tony and Stewart, they do make the show for me and they always say pleasant things about others. And i think Mick and Stewart display the most know-how in planning a dig and the lie of that particular piece of land.

It's fascinating how the bailey evolved as the medieval period ended. A lot more archaeology has been done there since this episode. Groby old hall is a truly fascinating site as are the grey family. Phillippa Gregorys book is a great read on this family.

My sons old family castle lol, according to Geni. My Ex wife's family is related to the who's who of old England and Wales with relatives illustrated on the Bayeux tapestry, Sir Walter Raliegh and Sir Francis Drake..

Isn't it amazing that a property with such history is just there and somone can just buy it? I live in Sydney and that sort of architectural history simply doesn't exist. (I can show you the cobbled boat ramp where goods were brought in from supply ships in the harbour in the late 1700's.) Good on the fireman for rescuing the White Queen's home.

R.I.P Mick, I'm watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Will miss you Mick really loved your Joy of all things Ancient .

RIP Mick...you will be sorely missed.....

What a fascinating episode, it really did had everything. Thank you Time Team

Groby was the home of some of my ancestors so I really enjoyed this one

I'm an American and I love watching Time Team (Classic and the new Time Team) 💖⛏⛰🌲🏡💛

How many archeological remains have been destroyed ignored and unrecorded by companies building roads and motorways

I love seeing you guys doing these little videos during the revamp of Time team but I still watch all the years with of episodes and miss all of you so the biggest love here is seeing how you guys have all got on so gracefully and how strong your supporters are even today. Absolutely incredible but I still want to see you guys come back in for the dig. It's kinda boring now even though we have the tech and drones and all. Huge fan hope you are all great. Thanks for the new content it's so cool to listen to.

So much amazing history in your beautiful country.

This episode contains some very inaccurate (if not flat-out incorrect) historical research. With the possible exception of the Norman tower (which was already gone), all the archaeology excavated in this episode was inhabited by the de Ferrers family (related to the de Ferrers of Rutland and Derby, whose forefather fought alongside William the Conqueror in the Norman Conquest). The only thing the Greys had to do with any of this archaeology is that they tore it down and (supposedly) inhabited the brick house standing today, which was barely even mentioned in this episode. The family tree shown at 12:20 confirms the dates don't match up with what the "expert" is saying, and that the Greys had nothing to do with the archaeology uncovered here (beyond destroying it). Furthermore, the town of Groby's official website suggests that neither Elizabeth nor Jane Grey ever even lived in Groby Old Hall but lived instead at Bradgate Estate (when Jane Grey was executed, all the trees in Bradgate Park were symbolically "beheaded" as well). I strongly suspect this is a prime example of why Mick Aston left the show soon afterwards, citing lower standards of research and quality control. In this case, the "expert" was not a historian, but rather a controversial "historical novelist," whose characterizations of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth of York have drawn notable criticism from actual historians. This should have been an episode about the rise and fall of the de Ferrers at Groby Castle, not about a Queen-for-Less-Than-A-Fortnight who probably never even lived there (but credit where it's due, the de Ferrers of Rutland were featured prominently in a later episode about Oakham Hall). Here is Wessex Archaeology's official report on this site; www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/groby-old-hall There's some fascinating additional information. Highlights include further evidence that the original tower may have actually been Saxon, they uncovered Roman coins and pottery from the site, and a survey map drawn up in 1757 shows a structure of some sort still on top of Castle Hill (not clear if it's the ruins of the tower or a later building). They found a LOT more archaeology than is shown in this episode, and I wish they'd focused more on the finds, and less on the charlatan "expert" trying to rewrite history in order to sell her book about the White Queen.

Just how I wanted to start my Sunday. New upload from Time Team.

I worked at the hospital before they shut it. Loverly grounds

Been watching these for decades. Amazing history. Do u not get a lottery grant for these endeavours? But two substantive questions. Water is important. So what importance is given to that to find houses, keeps etc in archaeology. And any pre dig research or blooper reels available?

Great episode and lovely to see Mick pulling it all together. And Paul Blinkhorn is so impressive with his input - just love to hear and see his first class input in these episodes.

I wonder if anyone from the past there said one day "I wonder what people in the future will think on how well we lived"

I was very disappointed to not see John Cleese hurtling insults with a French accent at the researchers from a high point.

Favourite TT quote... "... the radar's just hit something..."

Love watching these videos! Thanks!🇺🇸🗽☺️

12:35 Philippa says Hugo was granted Groby by *William I,* after Hastings, but the document shows at 5:53 that it was *William Rufus*, his son who she goes on to explain Hugo had a falling out with who is named as having made him Lord Groby in 1086. Full disclaimer: Just finished my 5th Philippa Gregory novel from her Cousin's Wars series & am therefore perhaps feeling *EXTRA vigilant* about her creative licenses & her (massively confusing, given her obvious expertise on the subject) outright blatant inaccuracies, errors & blunders (e.g. Edward IV's court is said to be at Nonsuch Palace at one point?! Or how the Tudor Rose is repeatedly described as being *a white rose with a red center* vs. the actual red rose with a white center, etc.) There are *literally incredible* errors, I may have some residual trauma lol, but even so - this seems confusing.

I love your videos! You're a great team. Very entertaining and at the same time teaching me history which I love. Thank You.!.

What an exciting episode! Thank you

I love time team. So grateful for these episodes!

I have always been a fan of the show, the team and the archeology/history but now, having dug into my own ancestry (both traditional and DNA) watching this show knowing i have a familial connection to the estate it brings a whole new level of appreciation to each find and all the work done to bring the past back to life.

Great episode I have never seen before. Amazing stuff.

It was a pleasure to meet both Mick and Karenza on GWR train (🤤) to Bristol alot of years ago.

I have been watching for about 6 months in that time I have learned more about history than I learned in school. I am american

How on Earth could a fireman afford to buy a medieval mansion like that? Did he win the lottery? Or did he get for £100 as long as he guaranteed to repair it? {:o:O:}

Bradgate park is a place they should be visiting. Grey family built it.

(of Tony, in jest) "I'll screw his neck one day" Rest in peace, Mick.

The de Ferrer family are my direct descendants. They eventually went to Canada and now are the Farrow family of Nova Scotia.

Lady jane grey, rode her horse in groby, but lived in newton linford another amazing area.

Did my Genealogy and found I'm descended from Elizabeth Woodville's sister Catherine. About as close to royalty as I'll ever get.

Heaven is finding a new episode.....

What a great show this is!

I wish I found stuff like this in my back garden! All that is there presently are presents from my Cat!!

It’s so fascinating to me that Phillipa does so much research, and yet her books are so historically inaccurate. 😂

Very excited and supportive of the new Time Team! This one was one of the best!!

You can not beat english history, apart from being conquered and occupied our history is so varied. Pity schools don't teach it so much anymore and focus on world history.

Who knew, that our Baldrick could be such a clever clogs? 😄

Newtown Linford just down the road with many buildings that are centuries old. Maybe even Norman.

First aired 20th March 2011 - UK

It was funny when they were legitimately looking for 1960s artifacts in order to find 900 year old artifacts.

Yes, Mick I know you are up there looking down n laughing at your buddies. You are gone but never forgotten or far away....

Mick is missed.

Anglian. Very few if any Frisians or Saxons in that part of England. Normans weren't really enough in number to change the genepool but usually being of Danish or Norwegian Viking heritage, often with French wives, and intermarrying in England, the Normans were and basically are the same DNA as the English anyway. Coastal North Sea Germanic-Scandinavian with native 'Celtic' British and/or French. Some Normans were apparently Breton and Flemish, etc, btw. Hugh de Grandmesnil at 5'8" wasn't 'amazingly tall' for that time; 5'8" was the average. King Harald of Norway was 6'4" and that was considered quite tall.

Have Time Team ever started digging on say a 10/11th century building and gone down and hit a Roman Mosaic or similar such fined?

WOTTA COINCIDENCE! Philippa Gregory is one of my favourite Female novelists. At this very moment, I'm reading for the 4th time Ms. Gregory's superb novel "THE CONSTANT PRINCESS" A beautifully done novelization of the Life of Catherine Of Aragon. It fills in the missing bits of that magnificent Queen's Life Story, *

Another great episode. Greetings from Michigan USA.

When they mentioned Philippa Gregory, I was excited to know that I had read a few of her literary offerings. Little did I know that I was reading history. Thank you miss Gregory. And what is great is I have a little connection to lancashire.

Wow just wow. I'm a descendant of sir John grey and Elizabeth. We carry the name prince from the records .Thomas prince of Shropshire and he was also marquis .our line did not die out the just pails into obscurity and lost in time .newnham courtney a lost village and manor moved by a later lord who built a huge palladian house that totally wiped out the records of the later princes family .I can add this to my ancestry page as a link if that's ok .kind regards annette linzi prince

I'm glad these historic sites are being brought back. I lament every time I see a documentary showing a castle in ruination. I always think the govermnent should be funding the restoration of these all important historical sites. I lament because I know, once they are gone, we can never get them back again. Best to try and grab them now and restore them as museums for tomorrows kids. When I visited Scandinavia, I made a point to go to their folk museums and check it all out. It was winter and one folk village was closed, but one beautiful lady took me around for a one-on-one tour. I think this is when the history/archeology bug bit. It was overwhelming to think that I was walking in hundreds of years old homes and churches and looking at artifacts one thousand or more years old. Heady stuff. It gave me a rush like nothing else. I have been a history lover ever since. I sincerely hope that everyone will take an interest in protecting and restoring their national treasures before the business class tears it all down to put up a parking lot.

For me Mick was the archetypal deeply knowledgeable cornerstone of his craft and time team. A captain that never raised his voice to direct his troops. He was respected and loved. Miss him so thank god for technology that he continúes to teach and share

Please, no more Mick's dead posts yeah

Why does everything sound like all of you are in a tank somewhere trapped inside ? Like all i can here is echo and bad editing... and to much unrealistic senery and colors.🥵

I love this, it is my family history. I want to know more.

Anybody knows what are the S S S S shaped like metal structures on the existing brick tower?

Sometimes, THERe IS NO STOPPING THESE ARCHEOLOGISTS..Thank goodness for that lol .....I love it....

This is a good one

Oh this was (like many other episodes) one which deserved more than the standard 3 days.

I loved watching the old Time Team and welcome the new members; we don't live forever and one day we will be under the dirt as well. My 110 year old house burned into the basement, 5 generations of artifacts someone will excavate one day.

Bahahahah mick “come on, here, you’ve already been in there hundreds of years”

You think that's a big mound of dirt? come to Ongar & see a seriously big 'mound of dirt'!

Knowing lidar and slowly digging up humanity. The anscestors, keep speaking out truth.Mother Gaia, keep sharing.But can we heal "HUMANITY ", "Definitely, this lovely dig,also disentangle change my power prayers HUMANITY.,please.

Great work... Love the presentation... Can't wait till next video! Blessings to all ❤

Hey bud. I think the way your videos are these days are perfect. Not too short. Not too long. Authentic. Doin great!!! Keep em coming!!!!

Phil's accent is so different. Can someone help this American understand what part of the UK he's from??

Yeah I think you have to ditch the 3 day limit and move to something more like 7 days.

So lovely to see Mick again 🙂

What an amazing story - incredible forgotten history

What's Time Team if you open yet another trench at 4PM on day 3?

Thanks

Thank you lads. This is something that has been bothering me too recently. I sort of worked my way through it, with faith....though I hadn't realised I had this faith. I love the idea of facing these issues head on with study, research and faith...thank you.

My title as Lord Campin of Hougan Manor goes back to William of Normandy and I received my title 10 years ago although my great great Uncle died 20 years ago. My Estate is on the shore of Coniston Water

Time team was a Great show I never knew about it until I found it on RU-vid one day it never was on T.V in the U.S as far I know anyway now was time team America but was nothing like the British original show.

They are my 17th great grandparents. Lucy and Edward.

Is there anywhere in great Britain that can be dug and there be no real ancient history? Seems no matter where you go there's history going back thousands of years.

I noticed that there was an abrupt editing just as the owner was about to tell his place in the family tree. I wonder why.

Can’t stay with you…love to have video to go back to…

I can understand why the original family gave it up with that highway right next door with its unrelenting noise.

Thanks!

Why didn’t you tell More about how they made those tiles and the crown tiles?

I wonder if the land owner, Paul Dickens is a relative of my family! We are Dickens and our family came over from England generations ago. A long shot I know but it would be cool. 'Guy' is my married name.