Is The Lost Manor Of Fountains Abbey Buried Under This Field In Yorkshire? | Time Team | Chronicle 

Sounds familiar doesn’t it?

As far as i'm concerned there are no 'New Episodes' of Time Team, for me they all tell the Archaeoogical story of Britain and Europe but by different people.

@@nevillemignot1681 then you have not seen the new episodes? Dont think TT will go and dig some more in the USA. They have their own teams there. And so have other places. On the other hand, team members have all their fulltime jobs in their own spheres. So it would take a herculean effort, lets say, to get a full TT to go and dig - for 3 days - in the USA or Australia.

@@benediktmorak4409Please re-read and try to understand what i have said, to me there are no 'Old' or 'New' episodes of this fine show.

@@nevillemignot1681 well we can differ. for me the - old- episodes are with Toni Robinson as presenter and the original TT . The -new- episodes with Gus Casely-Hayford as presenter, and some of the original team members. Sadly though no more Professor Mike Aston or Phil Harding. WIKI has the whole story... but my biggest respect and hat off goes to Carenza Lewis. After reading her story I can only say one more time chapeau!

You're right, Johnathan Hardbutton was the grandma. But I don't think they've prepared their trees in 1960 yet. It was more likely Stuart Glandhand the operator. Pebble cars probably lent a helping wheel. Take that to the road with ya you slammy. Gonna take the article and stick it where the moon isn't bright often.🪄 Magician. 🪇 📲 🖱️ Check off the entire milk jug and thank you for being my potty.📟🪔

I wondered for years about the name from a farm site where I live in Washington USA of a farm setting until I saw this show and learned what a grange was.😊

A week is to hard to spell!!!!!

I reckon life for the monks as opposed to the lay brothers was one big holiday. Down side up at 3am to pray but apart from maybe working in the scriptorium thats about all they did. From age 5 in 1953 to 18 in 1966 I was a day girl at a school that had been a convent. There were the teaching nuns, mothers, and the sisters. The mothers got up. Went to mass, ate breakfast, taught, had a permanent roof over their heads, central heating, (my dad was boiler and maintenance man for about 6 years) 3 good meals a day. They had no housework to do in the evening. Just a bit of needlework and marking. The board with cards of dead nuns on it had no one under 85. The sisters (cf lay brothers) did all the cooking, cleaning, laundry as well as having to go to services. They tended to be drawn from working class families while the mothers were middle to upper middle class with university degrees. This before the rise in student numbers in the 1960s with grants for the less well off. Like monks and nuns everywhere they relied on the hard work of other people for their daily bread.

​@helenamcginty4920 could have done it, but for the getting up early many times I really could 😊

But first youd need to teach it Latin. 😮

@@helenamcginty4920 I thought that was s so obvious I didn't need to say it….

I understand your point, but I think part of the disappointment comes from instantly knowing a lot of much older archaeological finds will be lost with later, modern development. So the older they can start with means they have more chance of uncovering those rare finds. I recall one episode where they were so disappointed as the whole site was very clearly torn apart during the 19th century and left not a trace of the medieval site they hoped for.

I watched one episode where the Geophys says there's a wall in the ground but when they dug it. It is not there. it was robbed away. if I'm not mistaken that was in Ipswich. Basil brown first dug the Site. he removed everything.

they explicitly stated in the opening seconds of the episode that there was no records of the dig and the only thing that survived was a couple of the pictures taken by the grandfather. That tells me the dig wasn't exactly motivated by the quest for knowledge, about probably just looking for shineys to sell off. So either the grandfather paid some college archaelogists to come dig around hoping to find treasures beyond imagination, or a college archaelogist approached the grandfather with wild tales of possible buried treasure hoping to kickstart his career. When all they found were a couple stones, which they probably didn't know how to interpret, they just packed it all in and ate the loss.

@@maxdecphoenix What is the official office for UK Archaeology? That is, where are all the official archaeological records stored? English Heritage? Or is that just an association for the preservation of known important sites?

@@bcguy couldn't say, but in most episodes of time team, they would venture in to the 'incident room' where a historian would read from a census, a tax ledger, a will, a bill of sale, or some other county record to give some details about the current site. If there were any. If their researchers can find 800 year old documents, then it stands to reason they could find, then, 40 year old documents, either at the county courthouse, filed with the university archaelogical system, or in a journal. I'll give the team the benefit of the doubt that they did try to locate it.

@@maxdecphoenix The guys on Time Team are professors and are well read. They know where the documents are, even for places that they have never researched, because they have also checked the references on other researchers papers. Early archaeology was pretty haphazard. Many were historians, or literally just interested rank amateurs. I was asking, because I was interested in how it was different from here on the west coast of North America. I don't think the previous 'archaeologist' was a pot hunter, but I doubt he was a professional. I don't think that there were that many professionals at the time. That sort of thing would be highly illegal here, but prosecution is rare.

@@bcguy What are you debating? You are asking questions and the just repeating what i said. Only longer. You made a comment with an incorrect statement, I corrected it. Discussion over.

Well they were bored.....

Exactly. It was a waste of his talent. He should have been digging since the whole endeavor is time sensitive.

It’s called “living history”, and it’s a valuable tool. That’s Matt’s role, in many episodes.