Victor Ambrus brought all those sites to life and so many times put the archeologists and experts right into the historical scene. what amazing talent in so many disciplines!
It's so fun to watch the different personalities come out. Matt has become a favorite too, though no one can compare with Phil, the real star of this show.
This is so lovely: all the villagers, everybody coming out on the third day to see how it all turned out with Time Team. The girl with the puppy, the young man with the baby, our life today.
@@harrybruijs2614 il rather live there life then ares now we have woke ideology and technology that not many understand. Bad way the world is in. 50 years on this planet is enough for me unless things change
I always liked Professor Mick Aston. Being from the Black Country it was always good to see a local working class mon on tv instead of only hearing pathetic attempts at the Black Country dialect/accent coming from actors who couldn’t tell the difference between Black Country and Brummie people. Mick ma mon yow was bostin wi a grate yed on yowr shoulders RIP
@@repetemyname842 hi no problem the Black Country is a region on the western edge of Birmingham in the centre of England. It’s called the Black Country because of the pollution that covered the area in the 19th and 20th century. It’s one of the areas where the industrial revolution took off and was heavily industrialised. It has a unique local dialect which is one of the oldest in Britain and which still contains old English and Middle English words that come from the Anglo Saxons. It and Birmingham also gave the world a lot of musicians such as half of Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant and John Bonham) and Black Sabbath. As a result some argue the term heavy metal comes from them growing up in an area with a lot of heavy metalworking industries. This is a myth although a nice one. Cheers hope that helps.
I just love these shows when the two kings of the skeptics in Mick and Stewart get together and try to out-skeptic each other, it makes for great viewing. They spark off each other, with Stewart investigating the 'lumps and bumbs' with Mick's curious mind kicking in to help, it makes for great and interesting viewing.
It seems that the UK has an INSANE amount of incredible archaeology just waiting for someone to get around to unearthing it!!!! The Time Team project is a completely wonderful project that illustrates this fact delightfully. KUDOS to everyone connected with this exciting and educational effort: it's one of the best TV-inspired archaeological undertakings EVER!!!
Well, these islands have been inhabited for about 10,000 years so they're littered with relics of the past. Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were touring through a rural area and stopped to look at an ancient church. It was about 600 years old, but the door lintel had been made by re-using part of an Anglo-Saxon cross that was probably twice that age ! Just the kind of thing you can casually find here.
Yes, I absolutely LOVE the artwork, the drawings. Victor is a wizard, he sees through time and puts it all on paper with pencil, pen & ink, or watercolor. Very good indeed.
Yes! It's great stuff. I especially like his signature 'running dog' which appears in (I think) every one of his beautiful, evocative illustrations. Woof! 🐕 :-)
Harold fighting the battle of Stamford Brige probably contributed to him losing the battle of Hastings. Guillaume's army was fresh and rested while Harold's troops had fought a battle and then marched from Stamford to Hastings
I read something similar not too long ago. Argh, it breaks my heart cuz Harold G. was THE MAN! Actually I'm certain he was my man in another life...😇😇😍😂😂😂😂😂
@@Josh-ts9sr where did i deny they lost and he got killed? My point is that if he and his troops were fully rested he might not have been shot, in his eye or wherever and that is why i used the word 'contributed'
43:57 I have watched time team for many years, and have always been amazed and confused at their editing. Be warned, for anyone who has not noticed, they must take multiple shots of the exact same thing at different takes. The example here is amazing, when they finally zoom out, where is the original camera man?? but it syncs perfectly
I was delighted to hear Tony Robinson say that he is a great fan of Harold. I think Harold could have been an excellent King and his previous record does I think support this. He was just so unlucky. I would like there to be a national memorial to this man.
Unlucky indeed. Anyone can get killed in battle, simply by chance. If Harold's head had been six inches to the right the history of England might be completely different. As a young man, the future Henry V was hit in the face by an arrow at the battle of Shrewsbury and he was very lucky to survive. No Agincourt, no rousing speech (Courtesy of Wm. Shakespeare), no glorious victory over the neighbours. 😉
@@Kevin-mx1vi the problem for Harold was he was fighting on two fronts. Had there been no simultaneous Northern invasion he would've crushed William with ease.
I just LOVE how England is layered! There are Romans, Normans, Saxons, Jutes, Goths, Viking's, christans, Celtics, and various other visitors who came to stay. Never a dull moment in merry olde England. Makes me wonder why some ancient buildings survive and others don't. Always fascinating!
@@yvonneemmert9185 from somewhere in Sweden then moved to the black sea area, then raid Rome for a bit... then they settle in Spain, Italy, and the Balkans all before Anglos, Jutes, and Saxon along with Frisians settled in British Isles.
What a great episode! I love Saxon and Norman and early medieval stuff. For some reason, the Romans don't have the same magic for me. I also really enjoy the comment section. Very interesting, positive comments all around. These uploads need a little love 🔆
Hats off to all archaeological and palaeontologists out there digging in dust and mud. I now won't complain walking in mud doing my horses. All you scientists are doing awesome jobs. Wish I liked science at high school but I was fascinated but I didn't like the classes or the teachers. There was no support for students with dyslexia. Education hasn't changed much at secondary (high school and college) school. My sons also are dyslexic and were also just pushed aside for the clever ones to get the attention. I'm sure my youngest son would have made a great palaeontologist.
@@ellenchristiaans7890 Don't let him give up, if the field of Archeology is his dream. He isn't the only dyslexic out there (😉), and there IS always another path to any goal.
@@ellenchristiaans7890 - The NYC school system has begun smoothly incorporating the needs of dyslexic students into their curriculum, no "special classes" needed. Perhaps your local school system can be convinced to do the same?
@ellenchristiaans7890 one of the most famous paleontologists in recent times is dyslexic, he lectures and was consultant on jurassic park movies. It can be done.
You all are so interesting and this group is well put together. The experts are well selected to show off the layers of the site. Stewart is always so important to pull the story together. I hope Phil's wrist did well. It does look sore. I watch this program so often that I feel friendly towards you all. Thank you for your enthusiasm Tony, et.al. I hope you each are fairing well; I guess a lot of time has passed.
I love time team. Been watching for ages. If you haven’t seen the series the detectorists you must watch it. I found it on Acorn. They mention time team. It is comedy but really good.
Ventured into the murky waters we know as the "comment section" to leave a comment about that man's eyebrows. We don't need a time stamp, we know which man, we know which eyebrows. Also, do you think he gets out of the shower and like brushes them into that position? I just could never figure out the science that could POSSIBLY account for that amount of verticality. And it seems most dudes with THOSE eyebrows had normal eyebrows, and then one day the eyebrows just went crazy.
As a Canadian, I was taught Canadian geography. I was taught of the tidal waters of the Bay of Fundy, but nothing of what happens on the other side of the Atlantic. This was very enlightening.
Its fascinating isn't it?! This show is wonderfully informative. Tony and all the cast/scientists couldn't be more brilliant! Keep watching! You won't regret it.
@@sanctionh2993 Yes, but Britain's region was a global empire. Have you any idea how boring the principle exports of, e.g. Canada, Ceylon, Burma, Tanganyika, Jamaica, New Zealand, Guiana, etc. are for 11 & 12yo pupils? :)
The Severn has the longest tidal-bore (& surf-ride) globally, Fundy has the largest tidal-range in the world, for the same basic reason; far too much sea trying to get into a small channel. :)
For some reason, Phil's sling triggered a memory of when, 30 years ago, I went to the Antiques Roadshow with my Dad. The pottery expert had his arm bandaged and in a sling, and my Dad asked whether he'd got it stuck in a vase. I laughed like a drain but the fella was not amused. Anyway, back to the archaeology...
So has anyone been asked to continue excavation below the medieval manor? Has Saxon been found since? What could be under the church? So many questions, so little Time :)
Raised in the United States, in Colorado, the oldest thing I’d ever been to is Mesa Verde. When I went to Germany I was in a state of aww of all the old sites!! Can’t wait to visit other places in Europe! I’m also amazed how alot of people don’t realize how awesome these historical sites are!!
From Australia and went to Europe about 10 years and was blown away with the buildings and sites around Budapest. We were staying in a hotel in Buda and you could go down into the cellar of the hotel and see remains of an Abbey from the 15th centuary. Did a river cruise and the castles or remains from various centuries anything after the 17th centuury was considered new
Victor Ambrus died recently, aged 85 y/o. His works were/are for sale in art galleries in Great Britain. e.g. www.mallgalleries.org.uk/artist/victor-ambrus-ps
He is an absolute moron and the show would have been WAYYYYY better and had a hell of a lot more credibility without him on it... this episode is a prime example of why he was/is a moron and why he essentially took any credibility away from the show
@@richardgrace4500 what on earth are you talking about? In what sense did Time Team not have any credibility?! He’s an entertainer that brought Archaeology to a wider audience. If this had been a purely dry academic show it wouldn’t have been half as popular. He did a monumental job injecting energy into this show and it’s stood the test of time.
I've been binge-watching the Time Team stuff lately, and this is one of my favorite episodes so far. Primarily because, as an American, I find it hard to find anything in my country that has been standing for 100 years, let alone 1,000 years...but in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland - it almost seems like the things that are less than 100 years old are the anomaly. It's fascinating to see history being dug up from the ground, and to learn about the who, what, where, when, and why of it all.
I just want to point out there are many sites older than 1,000 years in the US. They just aren't colonial. There is an amazing world of archeology and history under your feet!
As an American-I would recommend you go to Cahokia Mounds (or any Mound museum) Then head out To Arizona-and take a peek buildings built thousands of years ago. This country has physical history-It got dismantled and plowed over a lot in the East for sure. You still have the great serpent mound out east too and Etowah. But the stone buildings survive out west. Amazing places. Many yet to be discovered and explored.
@@catofthecastle1681Ah yes. My family is Quapaw- Ogapah . You guys keep digging up our beautiful sculptural pottery. It’s always so exciting to see pieces!
I've watched nearly every episode of Time Team's 20 seasons. It's tempting to take out a clicker and count the number of times the words "fantastic" and "absolutely" are used.
Nice one TT. Even when seeing this again they done well in 3days. the discovery of the beach was my favorite bit. Was there a follow up by local archeologists to confirm TT findings? 😷
Hope Time Team is revived one day. I have a site near me in Kettering of a manor house and fishpond that I always hoped they'd dig - the earthworks of which were once erroneously labelled a medieval castle (even the name of the site is Castle Field!).
There's a patreon running currently since December 2020 with aims to revive the show. Bit of a weird one for Patreon, sounds more like a Kickstarter thing, but I hope they can pull it off. Time Team did wonders for British archaeology.
Looked like that sailor might get more speed from his hull if he cleaned it off once in while, people who race try to clean their boats off just before the race.
Sign of the times, eh? Back when this was made, if you wanted an aerial shot you had to hire a helicopter and crew for the day, with all the problems of filing flight plans and getting CAA overfly-clearance and insurance and all the legal messing about. And think of the EXPENSE! Nowadays you send up a Mavic Mini camera 'drone'. GPS and FPV; return to home in time for tea...
Best show ever. I've been bringing on all of these shows, & waiting for the new programming being developed. Can't wait to enjoy the first release...I'm almost as excited as I was to see Star Wars V !!!
didn't the Normans have a practice of demolishing and replacing Saxon constructions throughout the conquered lands with their own constructions on the same sites, to emphasize their dominance of the native peoples? Stands to reason then that you would find a Norman building rebuilt on a Saxon site. Especially one associated with the defeated king.
@Nunna Beezines - I think that the "3 day digs" served two purposes. 1)To manipulative the audience in continuing to watch by creating curiosity and anxiety (will they or won't they get their questions answered in 3 days? AAARGH!). 2) To contain costs by the production company. Every day of researching must have a hefty price tag attached and that includes the time spent evaluating potential sites, researching their histories, getting permissions, moving equipment and people to the site, preliminary geophysical exams (they an't do it all in the 1st few hours of 'day 1' ), restoring the site after the cameras stop rolling, and returning all equipment and people. Three days are cheaper than 4-5-6 days of filming. I think that stuff about the academics having to quit because they teach 4 days a week is a cover.
Ooides are NOT eggs, they are just egg shaped concretions, typically forming around shell fragments. Small little niggle. Love the show, I grew up on time team.
As someone who is actually from that part of the world (I grew up less than a mile away in Caldicot) this frustrated me a bit when they go on about water access and their "discovery". In Caldicot there is a castle and next to it there was a quite a wide river called the Nedern (now called Nedern Brook as it has shrunk so much) in which we used to catch Elvers which can only come from spawning Eels that have come from the sea (ie: up the the River Severn). Upstream from Caldicot is a Roman Fort in Caerwent (which is where the romans crossed The River Severn from Avon and went upstream and built their fort bysailing up the Nedern and the corner of the fort is literally the edge of the Nedern so you know where the water access was for the fort). If you followed that River downstream it led through the castle grounds, through Portskewett to the Severn (now blocked by silt). If you follow what is left of the Nedern, creeks from the Nedern reach the grounds of Harolds Hill that are still there, so it's not exactly a mystery and not exactly a secret and not exactly a discovery because as kids we used to follow it fishing for Elvers and Sticklebacks. So, in all honesty, the BS that they have "discovered" the waterway is insulting to those that live in the area because we all KNOW about the water ways and how it developed the area. All that has happened is the Pwlls have shrunk to streams, which have shrunk to brooks and then creeks and thanks to silt no longer give sea access but that's just history folks! The joys of TV and claiming they've "discovered activity just before the Normans" is pure TV BS hype and SHOULD BE quite insulting to the locals.
I love this show. In California, government requirements (OSHA), insurance limits, and safety orders require workers maintain a safe distance from an excavator. Every time I watch this show I cringe a little because people stand too close to the "digger's" bucket.
@Gaylon Gregg - When the show's cast is near the excavator, they wear helmets, though they won't help if the folks are bonked by hundreds of pounds of bucket and earth. I am surprised that the show's insurance company and producers allow the rubber-necking.
i'll honestly never understand the scheduled monument thing, why stop archaeological work at places we want to know most about, just seems odd, unless im getting it wrong, it happens lol.
Sites are scheduled to protect them for the future. Because archaeological science and understanding are constantly improving, if we dig too much of a site now we will inevitably understand it less well than if it was excavated in the future. However, some sites were scheduled without that much really being known about them, archaeologically speaking. In the case of this site, some limited archaeological evaluation (which is what Time Team do, rather than comprehensive excavations) was clearly worthwhile to determine the nature, date and state of preservation of any archaeological remains present. This information can then be used to better understand and preserve the site.
For all the digging they do, there doesn't seem to be much pottery. If they dug the whole field and found every piece of pottery, would they actually come out with whole pots to glue together?
