Rooting for the Romans (Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire) | Series 17 Episode 13 | Time Team

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After you watch this episode, check out an exclusive behind-the-scenes preview of Time Team’s brand new 2021 digs on the Time Team Official RU-vid Channel!
Iron Age settlement (Cornwall): • FIRST LOOK: Time Team ...
Roman villa (Oxfordshire): • FIRST LOOK: Time Team ...
An eagle-eyed forest ranger had spotted bits of Roman building poking out from the forest floor in Cambridgeshire's Bedford Purlieus Wood, and cutting-edge aerial visualisations reveal evidence of a complex of building foundations hidden in the woods. Tony and the team investigate what these buildings were and why they were here. It's a straightforward question, but the dig is one of the most challenging of the series.
Series 17, Episode 13
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@Dashrenderful 2 года назад

Phil Harding is a legitimate national treasure and must be preserved at all costs ✊🏾

@DJMarcO138 2 года назад

Phil and Helen, if I may.

@cuncata 2 года назад

@@DJMarcO138 yes Helen ❤

@dot2562 2 года назад

Video on u tube with Phil doing a Q&A sailsbury 2020 in his gaff. Zoom

@dinerouk 2 года назад

Whereas Tony!

@mikevelilla9757 2 года назад

Galactic treasure*

@jamesc7526 2 года назад

As a Canadian, is it normal my tea consumption has increased exponentially since I started watching these videos?

@katekohl6059 Год назад

It's normal - two blue Betty teapots a day! From Oregon (and half Canadian from Windsor Ont.)

@gillianr-w8720 Год назад

Only if it is a good strong tea that a spoon would stand up in or otherwise known as Builders tea. 😂

@veldawells2839 4 месяца назад

LoL 😅😅😅

@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 4 месяца назад

And have your eyes been colonised yet as well as your Tea consumption??

@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 4 месяца назад

@@gillianr-w8720I have my Tea milky with loads of sugar..

@RamblinJer 2 года назад

The chemistry between everyone is what made this show great, really was a team

@bakerk2047 2 года назад

Totally agree, loved these two original member's, Robin Bush & Victor Ambrus. Never understood why the producer's bought in guest' like, Bill Oddie, Sandi Toksvig & Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall, losing the plot! No wonder MIck Aston left!

@kactus_3008 Год назад

No, or maybe true for English people. It was the novelty or archeology technics like geophiz described plainly for the common people.

@tonim2322 2 года назад

Victor Ambrus really brought the findings to life in his drawings! Such a talented man and truly missed. The computer generated depictions just don't evoke the emotion that Victor's drawings did. Such an interesting man if you care to look him up online. RIP Sir.

@annfahy2589 4 месяца назад

❤

@FatBlockOfHash 2 года назад

I love these videos, I used to love watching time team as kid, always wanted to be an archaeologist my whole life, because of this program. RIP Mick, legend

@anira_archeron 2 года назад

Same here

@hollingsworth01 2 года назад

Made in a time when TV programs were worth watching.

@lorrainegreen6782 2 года назад

Agree!

@MH-ms1dg 2 года назад

wasn't this one made just last year?

@Arkantos117 3 месяца назад

@@MH-ms1dg It was made somewhere around 2011.

@badabing9234 2 года назад

Love it around the 25:05 where Phil is holding a chunk of pot and talking about its size, uses etc... but he starts whispering like a normal voice would be just too much and the pot shatter further. Phil is the man. Hate when I heard about Micks passing.. I dug online and found the info on former Tine Team members like where they are now.. doing this ir that. Years and years now I've enjoyed this program.. family and friends just dont get it. Why the attraction to history and digging in the ground to tell that story. Let them go back to their video games lol.. I'm the richest by far because of Mick, Phil, Tony, carenza just to name a few of the original so to speak cast. I've grown older with them and couldn't imagine never having stumbled up on the programme to end up hooked like a smack junkie lol. My soap box time is up.. thx

@lorrainegreen6782 2 года назад

I also am the only one of my family and friends who loves this! I’m addicted to this channel since it showed up in my feed. The camaraderie between all the people is lovely. 👋🏻 from America.

@christinaclifton9257 2 года назад

I agree I love this program also

@katekohl6059 Год назад

@@lorrainegreen6782 I concur, from Salem, Oregon 🙏🏻

@annazaman9657 Год назад

My sentiments exactly

@gaylelescanec4410 2 года назад

Absolutely love it when you ask Guy as the Roman expert. He's so sensible, and well informed. He's one of my favs.....other than main team

@mrmainlobster 2 года назад

When you see Guy you know the project is in good hands. He's one of my favorites! Go Team!

@karlkarlos3545 2 года назад

Yeah, as if roman archeology is difficult.

@larryzigler6812 2 года назад

@@karlkarlos3545 Trump U grad ?

@karlkarlos3545 2 года назад

@@larryzigler6812 I graduated as a linguist, if that matters to you. The Roman periode is one of the most documented and most researched periodes in European history. There is really no challenge in uncovering yet another Roman villa or Roman garnison. The Romans have also standardised every structure or pattern (not to mention coins). So, all those Roman experts have to do, is check out their books. Lol. And you people are in awe. Give me prehistory or post-roman history. That's fascinating.

@Tawadeb 2 года назад

Guy has his own RU-vid channel it’s really good!!

@nigelparks6855 2 года назад

I love watching Ian the dig work, he was so skilfull with the backhoe

@EchoatTheOakAnchor 3 месяца назад

I love Phil's personality, he reminds me of my dad, if my dad had the chance to pursue an education. Just as boisterous and full of stories.

@JamesF0790 Год назад

Tony and Phil's banter is wonderful

@captainswoop8722 2 года назад

Roasting iron ore was still done into the 19th century. All around Rosedale on the North Yorkshire Moors are the remains of 'calcining' kilns still in use until the mines closed in the 1920s. One of the benefits of roasting the ore was to reduce the weight which reduced the cost of shipping he ore by train to the blast furnaces on Teesside.

@zdenekoldrichmarek2867 2 года назад

I enjoy these Timeline programs much better than what pops up nowdays.The Team are really super in these Timeline series.Be Blessed All.Thanks for the show from an Ex pat far away.

@bakerk2047 2 года назад

I decided to attend evening classes at Birmingham University Archaelogical department, bascally because of Time Team. Some of our lecturer's appeard in the series, particularly the one program aired in 1997 about one of the most important sites of the Industrial Revolution, Matthew Boulton's 18th-century mint, in the suburb of Soho, Birmingham. The one thing though I didn't enjoy was field walking, especially after the farmer's had ploughed the said field, nothing like the program's. The other lasting memory was a lecturer giving a talk on Archaeology & Local Authorities, he said the restriction's laid down by them was making the recovery & research on site's vertually impossible to sustain in the coming year's, so a career was very difficult to consider! A professor since 2012 at the Univ of Birmingham, Alice Roberts, first appeared on television in the Time Team Live in 2001 working on Anglo-Saxon burials in Hampshire, she served as a bone specialist. She's gone onto many award's & honour's along side appearing on numerous tv program's.

@gillianr-w8720 Год назад

I have always enjoyed Alice Roberts and the other programs she presents.

@martinmarsola6477 2 года назад

A fantastic video. A astonishing amount of time to be done with your team. Thank you for this wonderful video. Cheers to all! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

@irt1971 4 месяца назад

Tony: I eat my words. Phil: That's right. lolol.

@dinnerwithfranklin2451 2 года назад

Brilliant. I always enjoy seeing Mick again. Thanks

@BryonLape 2 года назад

There are at least 4 channels with Time Team reruns. I've seen them all, but I still watch every new share.

@faithlesshound5621 2 года назад

It was good to see clips of Phil and colleagues smelting iron by a process similar to what the Romans used 2000 and more years ago. The late Christopher Roy has a video on RU-vid showing in detail traditional iron-smelting in Burkina Faso. He got village elders to show their young men how to carry out a similar process which has been abandoned in favour of importing iron from China.

@Happyheretic2308 2 года назад

Why would the doings of those in Burkino Faso be of any interest?

@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot 2 года назад

Why would they not? ;)

@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 4 месяца назад

Yeah I watched that a couple of years ago..

@EIixir 2 года назад

Great episode. This site is so large it makes me wonder what other things could be hidden in the area.

@TheSLUser 2 года назад

I want to see the two episodes where they found the Roman Villa that got bigger and bigger, so big they went back to the same site in another video a year or two later and carried on digging further down the hill. I think there was only one other site in the whole show they visited twice. The other was from the Pilot where they only really field walked and did the ground survey for the first time on TV, was fun in that show watching them put both results up side by side and show what 10 years or so had done to the science and technology in such a short time

@EIixir 2 года назад

@@TheSLUser Sounds like some good episodes. Lets hope they come up in the future.

@cherihayward350 2 месяца назад

The closest thing to time travel i will ever experience and im loving it 😊❤

@vovachammonet5771 2 года назад

Have been binge watching TT since Friday - Tony's finding the timely fitting turn of phrase especially when hunches do not pan out are brilliant and keep me watching. The good natured-ness of the program is so attractive to me living in Florida, USA. Whether the team answer's the question or not affirming someone's hunch or predilection quite frankly does not even enter my mind thats how well the show is done. Full of good cheer.

@nicolejosan6364 2 года назад

Same here. I'm knitting away and binge watching TT for the last week or so. They are not only top notch professionals, but so good natured and lovely in their interaction and friendly ribbing, that's what is missing from most modern series.

@vovachammonet5771 2 года назад

@@nicolejosan6364 Nicole... Today is Friday I have reached the one week mark for sure ..

@caelyclifford6133 2 года назад

Anyone else want a montage of Phil and Tony's friendship

@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 4 месяца назад

Definitely not..

@sherrylelee8274 2 года назад

Well done love all your Time Team digs - thank you for adding value to an otherwise dearth of comparable programmes. ❤️👍🏻🇳🇿 New Zealand

@SteveMikre44 2 года назад

Great Time Team episode...

@richard8417 3 месяца назад

Always glad to see them wearing hard hats when digging. Safety first 😁

@dragonflyviz6546 2 года назад

What a find and significant blend of science, art and tenacity. Love love all of your series. Yes Phil Harding is a national treasure and is the kind of talent that is rare. Thank you Time Team and so sorry to hear of Mic’s passing.

@jfc213 2 года назад

stuart is the mr spock of time team lol

@elisa8044 2 года назад

Many many thanks, that's greatly apreciated here in Brazil also...!

@anna_in_aotearoa3166 2 года назад

Fun to see Edmund Artis popping up again! I remember the Castor episode where they re-excavated some significant Roman ruins with mosaics that he'd explored, and (unusually for antiquarian of the era) his ground surveys etc seemed to be remarkably well documented & reliable? Although possibly the villa sketch (shown again here) might've been partly a reconstruction on his part. Edit: interesting! Looks like maybe the shrub deadly nightshade in the UK is a different plant than the same-named small plant that is a noxious weed here?.... Ah yes, a quick Google suggests our NZ version is mostly actually 'black nightshade', being called by an incorrect name. Always learning things from these programmes - not just historical stuff either! 😜

@megelizabeth9492 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, Artis has actually come up a few times in the show. I get the sense that he was a really good archeologist, especially for the time period.

@paulainsc8212 2 года назад

Greetings from South Carolina 🇺🇸

@petersmafield3474 Год назад

I have seen this episode of Time Team at least once before. I like to watch these a couple times because it helps me to remember the information.

@rrr92462 7 месяцев назад

Wow, Roman walls visible on the surface!! So cool.

@dbren124 2 месяца назад

Thank you for your helpful tips. Qe are just bavk from a trip to Norway where everyone was knitting 'in the round', so totally new to me. I live in the Sunshine Coast Australia and learn on two needles. Continental knitting and circular needles are very new to me. Using your tips I hope to learn this new skill. Regards, Dale

@chriskennard5920 Год назад

Wow, look at the reflection of Mick's jumper at 38.22 - no seriously, these programmes are worth their weight in Iron or gold!

@RaviMotherfuckinOli 2 года назад

He said bit to death.. Im laughing before it even started lol

@martynharveythepoet5114 Год назад

Possible Identification of mystery object at 13:09?? Well - I'm no expert but I am interested in archaeology, so I've been watching loads of these episodes and yes, there is the usual mix of bits of old pots, coins and brooches dug up - all identified by the TimeTeam bunch. However, they seem puzzled by the object at 13:09... Well - as a guitarist/fiddle player/musician of some 45 years experience, I'd say that's a Roman finger pick (or whatever you want to call it). I don't use them myself because I learned to use my actual fingers/nails but they're popular with many guitarists (using the finger-picking style) and pretty much essential for any banjo-ist! I believe guitarists (who use 'em) have 3 on their Index, Middle and Ring finger plus one on the Thumb (of the picking hand). Not sure which instrument they would have used... a Lyre?? Or any of the myriad of hybrid instruments brought over from eastern Europe/Mediterranean? Hope this helps! :-)

@margomoore4527 2 месяца назад

It did look like a finger-pick!

@stephanieyee9784 8 месяцев назад

I love Time Team. ❤

@deltadom33 2 года назад

Keep them coming 🙂

@rainy5053 2 года назад

I love this show so much! Watch an episode before bed every night! Strange dreams about Phil though then...😘😘😘😘

@lorrainegreen6782 2 года назад

lol

@katekohl6059 Год назад

I'm not the only one who likes a TT episode before bed! I find it helps refocus my mind after dealing with all the crap going on in life nowadays. No dreams of Phil, though. More like Roman centurions marching around LOL 😴

@annethomas9302 2 года назад

Love the music.

@archangel807 2 года назад

Need Season 20, Ep 5.....the best

@daveseddon5227 2 года назад

First aired 17th April 2011 UK

@glendamears3618 5 месяцев назад

Great STUFF guys n girls. Im loving your programs. My father was a foundry worker or moulder. Very interesting Thankyou 😊❤

@willisgemutlich2608 2 года назад

nice, thanks. I'm looking forward to the new dig. October, right? I can't wait to see the changes in tech. Well, yes I can, and I will, but I DON"T WANT TO! WHEN IS IT COMING? I'll set an alarm for a half hour early.

@tetchan5964 2 года назад

Wohoo! Highlight of my week.

@snodrog5 2 года назад

That close to the Nene, the odd stone is a killick.

@beepboop204 2 года назад

took some googling, but now i understand

@dean31black 2 года назад

where are the first time team episodes??? any why not start the full series again from the start? release 1 a week on a sunday evening, people will love that, i would look forward to my 1 hour a week after sunday dinner watching the old ones

@kit000003 2 года назад

I would love it if they started at S01E01 and just kept rereleasing them in order.

@sanityormadness 2 года назад

S1-11 (except S9 for some reason) are on the Channel 4 website, which probably has a lot to do with the earliest episodes on this channel being from S12!

@cyanidelizards 2 года назад

Amazon prime

@Phiyedough 2 года назад

I watched this a few weeks ago so it must already be on RU-vid.

@kit000003 2 года назад

Yeah, there's four different channels releasing TT videos. Sometimes they overlap. I try to watch them on TT Classics to keep the money going to them.

@sharonshearouse5611 2 года назад

It is on RU-vid. That's how I get it in Florida.

@lenabreijer1311 2 года назад

They have been on various RU-vid channels for a decade or more

@astronomyphilly 2 года назад

Back when TV was worth watching eh

@charl5632 Год назад

Love it

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Год назад

I really like how the Internets is Forever!

@SL-sd3sg Год назад

Amazing we use electronic equipment to find compounds, when the romans knew by eye.

@tombaja4.9 2 года назад

Great work! Thanks for sharing. Peterborough: Pietro's villa?

@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793 2 года назад

Can't touch the trees. A quarry on the other side that destroyed the archeology

@andyleighton6969 2 года назад

Know the woods well, my running club often uses them for "hare and hounds". The word "purlieu" actually means [royal] forest - as in hunting ground - passed to private ownership. The boundaries of the wood have probably been respected since the Norman Conquest.

@Happyheretic2308 2 года назад

@@andyleighton6969 it’s a gorgeous word, and great etymology.

@annethomas9302 2 года назад

Great company…

@ViolinStimme 2 года назад

13.15 looked like a finger plectrum to me!

@mrkitty1367 2 года назад

going to be another goodun !

@christinec7892 Год назад

Did Roman Villas ever have their own bakeries, blacksmiths, mills, etc large like large British estates?

@nilsmuninsheim4279 Год назад

'Bizarre Sheep Handling Device' shall now be the name of my next band.

@nickverbree 5 месяцев назад

Is there a playlist of all the videos referencing the work of Edmund Artis?

@hilndr3279 2 года назад

That stone is a faerie stone.

@swedichboy1000 2 года назад

31:10 Anyone else seeing the letters A & C just above Phils thumb?

@britters220 2 года назад

I want to get time team on dvd or blu ray.... and then have as many people who are still alive sign it.... *sigh*

@TheSLUser 2 года назад

I love this show but i have an older tv and have to use my xbox one to view them, and i have noticed that it fails to show all the videos on the channel, I also use a laptop so I know the app is missing videos....

@zdenekoldrichmarek2867 2 года назад

Since when is a Tuffa a Limestone since the Tuffa is volcanic product is it not???? Lmst is a marine deposit is it not? Great show team All Be Blessed

@martynnotman3467 2 года назад

Tufa limestone is laid down by hot springs. Tuff (which is confusingly sometimes called Tufa) is volcanic

@HungryHillSarah 2 года назад

Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water.

@harrybond1485 2 года назад

It is interesting that despite all the new high tech gadgets, spades and trowels are still necessary.

@ici_coop 3 месяца назад

Wow can you see the details inside the white part of mound what looks like a road & massive rectangle structure across it at 3:05 & 10:22!? Edit: (Stuart then points out the structures at 12:45)

@anthonytindle5758 2 года назад

phills the best, why have geophis when all you need is a man willing to bend his back and use the garden spade?

@juliadanvers8862 Год назад

Phil Should get an Honorary Doctorate.

@couttsw 8 месяцев назад

He has

@Rusty_Gold85 Год назад

What has me buggered why any taller wall sections have not survived? Why has everything been levelled to ground? And were the Roof sections were made of wood so the top was not going to survive a few hundred years . But amazing this site in my opinion may only have survived a few decades digging up the Ore and the Supervisor made himself comfortable while workers went hard at it

@hatjodelka Год назад

Robbing the stone or brick for building other things is usually why only foundations survive.

@krumplethemal8831 2 года назад

Roman Magistrate: "Okay let's get the day on." Roman Smith: "I cant find my key, I dropped it somewhere.." Roman Magistrate: "We will have to abandon this place if you cant find that key."

@finbarscanlonwolf 5 месяцев назад

I wonder how much was destroyed where the quarry next to it is. Did they even report anything if they found something.

@davidbeem184 2 года назад

LMAO I love you having the old hippies doing the work! Good job folks

@stephanievegter5438 2 года назад

🇿🇦♥️

@captainswoop8722 2 года назад

How much was lost to the landfill site?

@jamesleighninger1828 2 года назад

Have not received email notices of this or the interview airing today (Saturday). Stopped giving us advance notices?

@kevingates503 Год назад

Maybe it's a Roman Armory that would explain no high status super status Villa and a lot of concentration iron working

@SL-sd3sg Год назад

Could that stone have been used to weigh down something?

@malcolmformosa1772 Год назад

We are all watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@12dougreed 6 месяцев назад

Mind the Bedfordshire spiders

@mrkitty1367 2 года назад

goodun

@oldprussian3130 2 года назад

Oh god... 21:22

@WaveWatcher10 10 месяцев назад

You might want to google what ‘rooting’ means in Australia

@waltershumate5777 Год назад

All this digging around in England makes me wonder if they have ever accidentally uncovered any unexploded ordinance left over from the war? .(France may even have a worse problem with this.)

@georgedorn1022 Год назад

Unexploded ordinance is definitely an issue in certain locations. I have worked on three disused air field sites just this year and a UXO survey is always undertaken before we break ground. Occasionally you hear about WWII bombs being found, most often on urban sites I think. I heard a news story in the last couple of weeks where a tree surgeon was cutting through a stump or roots and suddenly sparks began to fly - he obviously stopped his saw immediately, investigated and discovered a buried cache of WWI hand grenades! I think this was in someone's garden. In northern France and Belgium farmers regularly plough up artillery shells etc.

@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 4 месяца назад

Yup they've found loads..

@john_air 2 года назад

he looks like a roamn seneator

@anotherbrickoutthewall9237 2 года назад

Ohhhh arerr toney Pearly Wood! Stone the crows!

@deltadom33 2 года назад

Would the iron be used for swords , what was the use of the iron ? 🙂

@snodrog5 2 года назад

Hinges, handles, harness, hobnails...

@deltadom33 2 года назад

@@snodrog5 😊

@faithlesshound5621 2 года назад

axes, hoes, knives, spades?

@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 4 месяца назад

Midgeys and little spiders or ok at least we haven't got mosquitoes or poisonous Snakes and Spiders thank god because i hate big bugs..

@aubreymellor1293 Год назад

why Three Days?

@PikePlays Год назад

Guess who ended up digging at Castor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lEgEc6OCncs.html (bit of extra time team for y'all on a binge today).

@charliebuttocks2400 Год назад

Mick was the brains of the outfit then the young upstarts turned up …

@DavidSmith-yx7kn 2 года назад

11 Years and a pint too many.

@shainemaine1268 Год назад

Never heard of "strimming"... String-trimming??

@AndrewTBP Год назад

strimmer noun (TRADEMARK IN UK) a powered grass trimmer with a nylon cutting cord which rotates rapidly on a spindle.

@northernerinnc3179 2 года назад

Flabbergasted at the potential size of this site! Equally flabbergasted that "deadly nightshade needs to be protected". It is invasive in many areas of the US and getting rid of it is always done. Buddleia on the other hand is sold in plant nurseries and encouraged as butterfly and bee attractors! oh my

@Happyheretic2308 2 года назад

We aren’t the US, thankfully.

@northernerinnc3179 2 года назад

@@Happyheretic2308 Believe me when I say, that I have researched other parts of the world to find sanctuary...and continue to follow the machinations and horrors here.

@Sapharone 2 года назад

Wasn't this already uploaded by TT Classics?

@jesterboykins2899 2 месяца назад

Castor turned out to be another antiquarian bust

@richardlayfield8551 2 года назад

@vlmellody51 2 года назад

Aw, crap! They're going to cut down trees 🌳

@Exitlad27 2 года назад

Yeah but I bought the wood to help build my log cabin out of. So it didn't go to waste. Console you're self with that.

@dennisp.2147 2 года назад

Nope. It;s a national forest. They can't even cut middling thick roots.

@Happyheretic2308 2 года назад

Grow up

@katerinakemp5701 2 года назад

@@Happyheretic2308 🤣🥰🤣

@dennisp.2147 2 года назад

Romans never ground maize. It's a new world food.

@faithlesshound5621 2 года назад

When they say "corn," they're not talking 'Murcan.

@dennisp.2147 2 года назад

@@faithlesshound5621 He specifically said "maize" Listen for yourself 25:29 Describing a mortarium.

@faithlesshound5621 2 года назад

@@dennisp.2147 You're right, Tony Robinson said it could be used "for grinding food like corn, or maize, to make bread." He started out right, but then went down the wrong alley.

@dennisp.2147 2 года назад

@@faithlesshound5621 I'm fully aware that the British vernacular usage of "corn" refers to just about any cereal that can be ground. I also never mentioned the word "corn" in my initial comment. You'd think the television presenter of an archaeological program would be aware of something as important (and basic) as the Columbian exchange. Regardless, a mortarium was NEVER used to grind maize.

@Showsni 2 года назад

There's a chance by "food like... maize" he meant "grains similar to maize (but obviously not maize itself)" just to give the audience an idea, but yeah, could just be a flub by the scriptwriter.