In the Shadow of the Tor (Bodmin Moor) | S14E13 | Time Team 

" Go watch your tv show on the bedroom tv where they dig holes in the ground." This is what my wife tells me when I don't like what she is watching. Time Team never disappoints me.

I love watching this, especially to fall asleep listening to at night and I do it so much that I've started dreaming with everyone having a British accent 🤣🤣

I just can't get enough of this show.

I have so fallen in love with this show, and I really couldn't understand it. I'm not that into British history, and Roman is my least favorite time. I realized it's the archeological itself that I find fascinating, and Phil has stolen my heart. I love how excited he gets over a tiny shard of stone, or how he sees so much in the soil changes.

9:26 - It rains on the wide open moors. Phil takes off his coat so it can dry: "Oh, Bliss." And I sit inside, dry, and enjoy all of it. Thanks so much Time Team, for all that you did and do, in past, present and future.

There are no words I can think of to express how much I love this channel. My family has been in the New York City area only since the 1870s. Before that they were in NE Scotland, Ireland, and Yorkshire for centuries. Every time I watch an episode I think to myself that the places the crew is working could very well be my ancestors home. It gives me chills. Thank you all for your comments that are educating me and for the people who made this amazing show.

“Up On Phil's trench it is a wonder how he will make any sense of these pile of stones but at least Phil is happy, “ it is just worth listening to time team for Tony’s sarcasm

I literally got back from stomp round Bodmin Moor earlier today, looking at the settlement and cairn, to find that this had just been posted. Absolutely superb, it is a great site to visit :-) Well worth also looking at the Neolithic Tor Enclosure on Rough Tor itself as well (there are 3 stone circles that are nearby as well).

one of my most treasured memories is when I was on a pony camp in the 70´s and we rode on Bodmin Moor, I was only a teen then from Sweden but fell helplessly in love with Cornwall and I will enjoy this..

Every shot of that countryside is Moor beautiful than the last.

Its just amazing there is so much history in UK's soil that a whole show with so many seasons could be made. Why can't tv be more interesting like Time Team?🙈

The layout of the (animated) village made me think of an authentic Fijian village I've visited years ago. People all over the world and time think the same when it comes to practical solutions.

HOLY COW!! I’m an American and had to look up how far 500 meters is… THAT’S OVER 5 US FOOTBALL FIELDS!! To quote Phil, “that’s a great whacking distance!!”.

Went up there with my missus a few years back, that line of stones is absolutely massive

I wonder how often they spend time telling each other things they already know, for our edification.

I hope everyone watching this stays as excited, interesting and active as Phil Harding as we slowly grow up! What a bloody legend!

Sir Tony Robinson “welcome to one of the most inhospitable places in Britain today” Me, looking up from my chair to screen expecting to see “Prime Ministers Question Time” oh, thank goodness for that, it’s TimeTeam.

I used to know the Rough Tor well since my parents lived near by, and my wife, children and myself often climbed the Tor (the children just loved the top). I still feel amazed that there was so much hidden from us under the grass at the foot of the Tor.

I just watched the updated commentary on this episode and now re-watching... So glad I found this on RU-vid cause I am making to sure to write down each one I watch, and some of what history the crew shares, for some silly reason, also helps in my own genealogy research...The beginning where all you see is Phil walking in the rain up the path, and then sitting in the tent looking out at the scenery in the rain. was awesome!

i love this show. it may have been on new zealand tv back then but i don't remember. i wouldn't have watched it anyway. but damn i waite for every episode now.

Phil has the ultimate PHD (Pile it higher and deeper) lol

Not seen this. I love Cornwall and the stone age so this is perfect! It's very therapeutic watching these again, much of my later childhood/teenage years watching these at home with mum and dad. Good memories.

It was a fun episode to do... but certainly the wettest Time Team I took part in :)

Started watching this show at the beginning of the lockdowns last year, am totally hooked. Am also contemplating writing some fiction about archeologists.

What a beautiful place! I'd love to visit one day. My ancestors are from the UK, but I live on the other side of the world, in Japan.

Absolutely love Time Team - I live in Wales the land of Castles 🏰 We have 427 of them !! We love a good Castle…. For such a small country it’s bordering on the ridiculous…

Phil Harding is Awesome. I have learned a lot from listening to him. Considering that his family was one of the first in England. Its like archeology explained by the spirit of the European people.

My god that's just over the hill for me. If someone wants to see some neolithic ruins in cornwall try a place called minions near to Liskeard. There's a village and stone circles with an amazing view of the south coast of Cornwall. Can easily see plymouth.

This is my favorite episode from time team. What an amazing place, to live. Keep ya Roman temples an villa's, with under floor heating. This is freedom and simplicity, a community living and working together.

Tony, Francis, Phil, Helen, Stewart, John, Claire, Emma, Henry, Victor, Raksha, Bridge, Ben and Matt

"Do frogs bite?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Cant wait! This episode is BY FAR my favorite of all!

Bonsoir C est toujours un plaisir de regarder vos émissions.

What a beautiful location. I love the UK and its history!

With the last representative drawing, at 46:15, I suddenly had an intrusive thought. (I live in Cornwall, in St Austell, and am WELL aware of how intense the weather can be down here) The drawing, showing the site and the works (I refuse to call it a cairn), and it struck me that it looked more defensive for the lower community than anything else. Not defensive against an attacking group, but to divert heavy rains away from the village proper. If you've spent any decent amount of time here, you'll know that we get pounded by meterological elements from either side of the peninsula as they make landfall, resulting in the most extreme variation in climate. When the rain's very heavy, it can turn the hills into dangerous places, and such constructed works would have been well placed to help try and divert some of the rain as it came from higher up the slopes.

One of my favourite episodes. Love the mystery surrounding this place The music after the intro always gets me in the mood 0:07

Just think how much work went in to building that pathway Phil was doing, thousands and thousands of stones and rocks to in-fill the middle must've taken years and years of hard work.

35:10 Tony: Was it a big one? Emma: It was a very big one. Emma: **clears throat** Tony: **cracks up** Priceless

Can't wait for another great episode....fantastic series

Back here again in December 2023! Been watching time team since it first started when I was a 11. Its literally timeless. The very show time team will be digitally excavated by archaeologists in thousands of years into the future.

I been watching the seriies for a while now. Worked my way up to S14. I seen Mick passed away in 2003 or there abouts and I have to say nothing but admeration for him. It was refreshing to see the thrill and excitment in his eyes with every discovery. You can see the truth and the facts meant more to him than anything else. Mick may you rest in peace good sir and thank you for teaching me about the past.

My favorite is Phil. I love his sarcasm and sense of humor. It would be awesome to meet him and listen to his stories.

Emma Tetlowe is right up there with my fav Time Teamers 👍

You people are giving us very interesting topics. Thank you from Bakersfield California USA.

This was an amazing episode. So baron yet so full of information as the crew showed us.

a couple minutes in, and I have never seen Phil Harding look more miserable at the prospect of a dig. He looks like he'd rather give this one a miss. And yet, as soon as he gets out into it, he changes completely

To answer Tony’s opening question, they came because Phil was playing with his flint and it was fun to watch him. They left once he used up all the good stuff and moved on to greener pastures with better pubs.

My favorite TT so far. I have to admit that when I heard “Do frogs bite?” I almost fell off my couch laughing. 😂

Coming from a country with only approximately 1500 years of human occupation (New Zealand) this is terribly fascinating stuff.

The intro... "the most hostile environments in Britain"... continues to show lush green fields and an abundance of drinking water :)

I must say the UK is the one place I would love to see outside my own country.

Blue tips on American ordinance means training ammo. Maybe the same for English ammo.

Thank you so much, I totally enjoyed this

Tony looks like he wants a hot bath a toddy and somewhere dry. He looks totally chilled to the bone.

I love watching this programme full of history ..

Another brilliant dig. Interesting how the peopel shaped their enviroment over generations

Joking aside love this program. PLEASE BRING IT BACK.

Great to see this episode again.

Emma:clears throat,enough about beetle dreams... Tony:cracks up.... Love it 😂😂😂😂!!

They should have dug during May. Helston has an ongoing deal with the Devil for good weather for the Floral Dance on May the 8th every year.

Ooh, that weather! But great archaeology.

A cairn can also be a way to protect, preserve and even somewhat refrigerate food so, one inside a living area might literally be the family fridge.

Time Team really bring the past society's to life. The rise and fall of so many civilization's. This is real magic✨️🌻✨️✨️

A wonderful video. Very informative and interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧😊👍🇺🇸

Waiting with my morning cuppa!

Fascinating I am amazed how ancient the Tor is but not surprised.

That was good the man allowed Time Team to dig trench three.

I honestly think if Phil was buried when the BIG shovel in the sky called...he would just be digging away. God Bless you Sir.

I sure do miss Mick.

What a wonderful episode. It makes me want to visit Bodmin Moor now.

Nothing like the weather in Cornwall during July.

Regarding the dwelling/cairn:- a stone dwelling similar to an Irish Clochán or Italian Trullo would surely collapse into a "cairn" over a few millennia ! (many of these ruins to be seen among the fields and olive groves around Alberobello in Italy’s Apulia region)

I'm curious to see on the top of the Tor. What does the village look like from there? Is there a possible astroarcheological connection? WHY is there a curve in part of the trackway?....again more questions to answer.

Oh, it's Frances! Get ready to take a shot every time you hear the word "RITUAL"!

This literally sent chills up my spine :)

absolutely fascinating that the bronze age people are actually responsible for the destruction of the forest on the moors. I thought that was much later happening and todo with ship building. Totally groundbreaking easter island moment here.

Was that Victor Ambrus I saw? The sketch was beautiful. The whole episode and discovery was just fantastic.

Francis is so melodramatic about everything.

Great show. There they go with the "ritual" nonsense. I think they would have had a lot more to worry about than dancing up and down a big hill dressed as pixies. Every time an archaeologist cant find an explanation for something, they play the ritual card. Francis is always saying it. Phil is , of course, more down to earth. He looks at the evidence and, brilliantly, tells it like it is, or like it was. Love it.

I wish I had this enthusiasm working on my property with features of structures coming up everywhere. But gawd darn it! Do I hate that pickax by now. Respect to all those unsung heroic diggers!

One of my favourite episodes

I used to live on Bodmin Moor and I've never heard of Roe Tor, Rough Tor yes.

At the 31:32nd minute: "All day we've been beavering away..." haha, that's a new one to my ears. Such a delightful and rich language, English. While watching the digging and exploring of this 500 meter trench, I remembered the importance of ley lines, on the surface of planet Earth, which can be compared with the meridians, the energy lines on our physical body. I'm convinced that the ancient tribes, living and working with the material of planet Earth, building their shelters and structures, were deeply connected with the "secrets", and the practical value, of these energy lines. As far as I've read about the subject, and intuitively sense these energy lines, I believe that human beings who lived "once upon a time long ago" had the ability to "work" with these energy lines for the purpose of co-operation with natural laws, organizing a lifestyle for human and animal alike. As logical modern-day people, we might think of ceremonial activities and reverence of deities, on the Tor, similar to the Gods living on mount Olympus in Greece. But I believe that the awareness of natural forces, and how to balance a give and take, working with nature and not against it, was part of these peoples' daily existence, as much practical as ceremonial. What I mean to say is, that the practical side to the making of a living, was merged with a reverence for natural laws, the elements. Working with rock, soil, fire, and water, while breathing the Bodmin Moor air. There you have it, all 5 building blocks of physical form 😊

Could you be more spooky??? - me and my mate visited this site only last week (for the first time). Lovely sunny day too ha ha.

Totally completely love TT, but surely at 12.23 they were contaminating the soil sample from thousands of years ago with current running water with current seeds and modern pollen! Ignoring that - love TT ! Please bring it back.

Theres just something about the moors that sketches me out..

Genuinely had no idea Bodmin Moor was once habited, and I grew up nearby

Oh Gosh, poor Time Team soaked to the bone. Hopefully nobody got a cold from this dig

If you like drinking games, take a drink everytime Phil says pottery without the T's. lol

Professionals at work.

Great show guys! TFS, GB :)

The beetle lady was the best ahaha

Right? It is captivating!❤️

Yes, Phil is a delight!

Excellent episode.

In the rain, and damn happy. Love, love, love you all you hard core dirt sifters.

Hang on, you're washing a soil sample, from which you hope to find pollen and seeds, in a stream flowing across open grassland? I would have thought that the stream water would contain minute traces of pollen etc anyway, therefore you are contaminating your sample...

It's making me cold just watching this.

I'm amazed Brits don't grow gills and fins what with the constant rain. Lovely place to visit but I wouldn't want to drown there.

Is it Jane Brain who does the drawing illustrations. She used to work in the Archeological Field Unit of Exeter Museum. I remember her from when i worked there in the 80s.