Is There A Massive Roman Villa Hidden Under This Field? | Time Team | Odyssey 

I know what you mean. Every time I hear people going full-bore doomsday, it really helps to think of things like the fall of western Rome, the Black Plague, and the flooding of Doggerland. As a species, we've faced worse and we're still here. It's not fun, but it's not the end of the world, either.

This and the other reply really helped nail down why exactly I find ancient history and time team in particular not only just palatable, but comforting. Ive said for a while now that I prefer things right up till a few centuries AD, but its the knowledge of knowing about ancestral bottlenecks and plagues and just those small incredibly soulful human moments that inspire. Fuck a cockroach and a twinkie, humans are space orcs, I dont think we could even manqge to exterminate ourselves even with nuclear winter, we're just too damned stubborn for better and for worse. Fuck around and find out.

Holy ground, indeed. I’m American. My ancestors came from Somerset, Wales, and Ulster. I’m rather obsessed with Time Team since it found me last year. :-))

All part of his cunning plan 🤣

@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft Yep, Lol

Nah, you're required to have seat belts on helis. No danger of falling.

Sexiest legs on Time Team!

It never gets old, just the people on the show get older lol been watching it pretty hard on Amazon 🥰

Pretty sure they went back at least once, maybe twice.

That's for sure!

They did go back, but I can't remember what season.

It was 18 months later they went back.

🤣

@@poopfeast-kg1lv what's so funny, Sir Laughs a Lot?

@@mclarenscca you’re talking to a poop feast

There is a part 2. It's even more amay

@@mclarenscca please don't indulge them

....goodie goodie yum yum...

These were roman moles.

You almost made me snort my drink.

I don't think they did build them underground it's 2,000 years of buildup of soil

laughed out loud 👏

Very observant! LIke so many ancient civilizations!

Yes, I remember that too. And how he refers to the paintings and/or mosaics. I like how he is a pagan and his comments on Christians. Cornwall does a great job of presenting Uthred as a believing pagan in a "by the way" manner. I'm Canadian and plan parts of my visits to England based on his novels. and other trips to England and the continent based on O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.

Have not read the book but loved the TV series

Waxen al sese

وسيم السىسي

Yeah, how do the people who did the work running the villa hypocaust forget how central heating worked?

Virtually every town name in England that ends in chester, caster, or castor was at one time a Roman fort (castrum), or on some occasions, referring to a prehistoric fort. The old English word for it was cæster. The actual town Castor is one example, and I believe these guys actually had an episode on it.

@@jaypeters5224 Agreed. You apt already know what I've been learning about history, in context of Britannia, Gaul. In recent years reading studies done by archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, to most recent findings there are no records of writing in Britannia prior to Romans arriving. I was puzzled how could their finding be true, in the land of Arthur, Beowulf, More, Shakespeare, Austen, Burns, Browning, Shelly, Bronte, Dickens, etc, etc. They further elaborated that after the Romans left Britannia in 5th Century AD writing basically faded and stopped in population. Writing did not resume until 3 centuries later but was very limited to few. They also mentioned the rise of usurers in Britannia and Gaul during the 4th century AD being major factor in abuse, exploitation of local / regional populations. The usurpers contesting with one another fueled turmoil which locals demanded Roman military becoming police to restore stability. Begs question could the Dark Ages be repeated in our times? Given the modern usurpers i.e., bankers, financiers, politicians, feeyat money systems based on nil, debts, taxes, fees, usury....

came in hopeful, found an old one i haven't seen.

I am always commenting, why don’t they give us ORIGINAL date of show??? Also would be great shows to follow up on if others were able to continue digs tht TT has only had 3 days🌟

NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope. Tony wouldn't be on the thumbnail if it was new

Nope...

Understand your frustration but this is a weekend volunteer group! Mick wanted to stir up interest to attract local people to continue on.

Hi,Have you ever watched Black Addar?

@@valswhitewolf6611 no I haven't

@@valswhitewolf6611 Baldric was very much like a hobbit I suppose............a filthy hobbit, but a hobbit nonetheless 😊

Well I liked his character do bugger off!

@@valswhitewolf6611 ok, chill tf out! Not that it matters, but, just because I made a joke about the character doesn't actually mean I don't like him. Lord, you decided my viewpoint with absolutely no information, what a leap

Hot legs Phil strutting his stuff again. Makes my day every time.

The original Time Team ended many years ago but they have a new crowd funded version with many of the original people. Tony and Phil decided not to participate but Tony recently changed his mind. So people contribute or become Patreon members and can help choose the sites.

Then why did it work

@@larryzigler6812 If you look at the piece you will find it did NOT!!!!!!!!! That "String" was suppose to be the lip of the bowl.

correct observed. and the mold should not be standing. but flat on its back . and indeed either at the side or at least 2 on top, vent holes for excess pewter and steam or hot air, or whatever to come out.

most Roman centurion that was send to Britain would has not been Italian either because in roman army any citizen from any province of Rome can be deployed to anywhere the Emperor or senate wanted you to. When they invaded Britain almost half of the roman army were actually Gaelic tribes who had already became Roman citizen, that is why the roman can communicate with the local Britannic Celt because of the same language between the Gaul and the Britons. Other then Gaelic tribes there were also Armenian, Arabs from Palestine and Syria, Greek, Egyptian, Libyan, even Black African. Rome was a multi ethnic empire and everyone can be a citizen and can join the army.

Yes, and the forts as well. And the town layouts, or at least the main components. The Romans were very orderly in their planning of buildings and infrastructure.

It certainly would have but that all depends entirely upon the size of the actual latifundia compared to the villa itself. The outbuildings for animal stock might have been situated elsewhere on the farm, while the quarters for slaves could be both at the villa itself - for domestic slaves - and near the buildings for the animals and crops. What is clear from day one is that this previously undetected villa is one of the largest ever found in Britain and was an extremely important find for the archaeology of Roman Britannia and for Time Team itself. Archaeological discoveries of this magnitude are often a once in a lifetime find for archaeologists and this shows how terribly important Time Team was in the quest for previously unknown ancient sites and their discovery. Historically speaking, Time Team was undoubtedly the most important and brilliant Television production ever made in Great Britain. It was a boon for archaeology in Britain and made the science popular on a scale never before imagined.

As a further comment to your question, I think you may underestimate just how massive these Roman villas were - even the smaller ones could be the size of a city housing block - and this one was far larger. As to you question again about where the slaves lived, look at the drawings made during the programm, those long "wings" stretching down the sides from the main building- these would have been the slave quarters and animal pens.

Very close! The description I found for this video on another channel labels it as S05-E04 in August 1997.

Yes, the Romans, like the Greeks, had slaves, but they had the possibility of buying or earning their freedom. Most were captured from other areas the Romans took over. Usually the soldiers were given a captive as part of their reward, that they could keep as a servant or sell.

Yes, thanks. I could not remember the name. I think the episode when they come back is Return to Turkdean.

He was to busy with his chicken

Honorius: This island can hold so much neglect

Followed to be Queen elisabetta católica | de Inglaterra an English Queen without descent at the Linlithogow Vecino Palace in Edinburgh | 8) (1542) Giacomo Rey scotland V / the actitud of him on the bikin

I'm sure he cut them of himself in the days when men's fashion was for relatively shorter shorts. He probably doesn't follow fashion very closely!!!! We love Phil !!

And the water pipes.

Time Team usually only had three days over a weekend to dig a site because the archaeologists and other specialists were doing it on their own free time - during the week they were employed at universities etc. and were working full time there. Furthermore, the 3 day Limit was imposed by authorities - these digs were only allowed to be done to find new, previously undiscovered or untouched sites and were never meant to be full time archaeological excavations.

Green Party "celebrity"… And he is a "conservationist". Not that he's interested in conserving much, the way he yanks 1,700 year old, frail pieces of pottery out of the ground like it's just another rock or something. I agree 100%! It's a load of BS bringing "celebrities" on, and this one was about as annoying as they get.

CORN definition see Wiktionary for "(Britain) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales." So probably "this guy" Mick was using CORN as a general term and not as the more American term for a specific crop.

North American corn is described by the word "maize." Mick was correct.

Great way to embarrass yourself - and the rest of us Americans. When the English came to the New World, they used the general word 'corn' for the native crop they found the natives growing. Corn is the general word for grains. You need to start reading books for a change.

Poor people just didn't leave as much for archeologist to find. ..Tony is a good man so calm down.

Just Carenza and eventually Mick the Dig/Twig. She let her's grow back, he didn't.

As far as Time Team most of them started off with hair but over 20 years lost much of it. I don't know what the story with Boris is and why his hair is always messed up.

Intellectual middle aged people don't worry about fashion ...,...