One of my all time favorites! I have made my own version of this castle in my head I can escape to when very stressed out. In my mind, I am alone and have built gardens with a tree swing and forest for deer, rabbits and birds. A small stream flows through with a big oak tree. My safe place:)
Phil is such a poet, haha.... when the sun broke through, raising his arm, exclaiming "Oh joy, the Gods have smiled..." Phil is a colourful character among the other colourful characters, forming Time Team.
It always surprises me when, in some episodes of TT, Ian Plowesland - who has a Phd in Archaeology - is to be seen driving the digger. It's an interesting example of multi-tasking.
Why? Someone has to do it, and that someone needs to know what to look out for and be able to use the digger to peel back layers without damaging any archaeology in the trench.
A couple of people who worked with Time Team said Tony spent most of his time sitting in cars. Then they would find something and get him to rush over to ask enthralled questions. In reality, he spent most of the time sitting in cars, unimpressed.
You can tell which season of time team you're watching based on the number of pins Mick has on his hat . 🤣 *I'm going to start using clay pipes for my recreational activities just to throw off archaeologists of the future ... *Phils great great-grandson "but how the hell did a clay pipe get in here next to a cell phone and an Xbox 🤔🤣🧐
don't forget to get buried with an elephant tusk, just to confuse future archaeologists. And imagine what they think when they discover a museum of today. "Ah yes, mummies, mammoths, dinosaur bones, oh and what looks like musket balls. Must be ceremonial"
Bought my first book at ten years of age; it was on the Leakeys and the Olduvai Gorge. Went into art history (UCLA PhD), taught, am now retired and returning to my ten year old self's first love... thanks for these!
Spotted! 1:35 Tim Taylor! 15:02 Naomi Sewpaul! 5:57 and 6:01 Ian the Younger and Ian the Elder! :-) Before the new TT revival, I had no idea who these folks were. I think this is the first time we ever noticed Tim or Naomi on the original show.
Tony is such a bratty little brother sometimes! Also, imo, the perfect narrator/host/celebrity/advocate for this show. He’s pouting about not finding mosaics or treasure one minute and then having epiphanies about nostalgia the next. Time Team is my favorite program ever! I wish I’d found it sooner. 🙏🇺🇸❤️
Excellent stuff, keep it up as long as you've still got old episodes to show, we didn't get to see them all originally anyway. Never mind the naysayers, why shouldn't TT reap the benefit of that old work instead of uploading parasites who have created nothing themselves
I live a couple miles from here and like to go for walks, awsome place! Always makes me think of people from the past being there going about their day.
I was borne at rose cottage on ton road 13 02 1946, then moved into 17-ton road for the next 25 years, in the late 1950s early1960 we planted potatoes inside the castle ground and in the autumn, we had to rise them by hand as the ground was too wet for the tractor even then there was an Eary foggy day ,i remember the day the mansion house was blowen up as then in Llangibby school , the last time was in the castle was just after they planted trees inside the ground ,so to find the time team there seeing now today 2022 ,the castle back then was in much better shape..
Tregruk is a castle, it may be a "Pleasance" as well but it is still in the Welsh Marches, the borderlands, & there was still plenty of strife, the entrance to the Lord's Tower alone tells you that. Just because the Lord & Lady wanted to have some of it set aside for their pleasure doesn't mean its primary purpose wasn't defensive. By the way, from what we saw, I think that arrow head looked too light for a war bow, the socket for the shaft was far too thin, so it was, probably, a hunting arrow.
i really like lord williams. shows true respect for the scheduling laws, itself alone NOT common among royals, and all he wanted was some relics, so he could understand his ancestors. my kinda fella. Heres to you Sir David
This is a fantastic episode, I have not seen it before. Just wonderful, so interesting and everyone involved are really engaged in the exploration. One of my favourite episodes by far. Phil's enthusiasm for the door architecture is outstanding - and infectious!
Absolutely fantastic episode, brilliant stuff. I had no idea that tree roots could interfere with geophys! And lovely to see so many experts all working together, bringing their different vital skills to a project. And yes, like Tony, this completely changed my idea of what a castle might be. Thanks so much for the upload.
@@bassmasta93 Yes, you are correct. The IPad typewriter screen is somewhat small. 🏴 is correct! Thanks for the correction. Your the first to point it out. Cheers!
@@bassmasta93 Cannot speak to that, but have traveled years ago to Wales, Cardiff in particular to see a football game or two while in the United Kingdom. It been twenty or so years, but Cardiff and Newport were very nice places to visit. The citizens were always helpful to direct you to great restaurants and sites to see. Happy New Year to you, mate! 🏴
Really interesting to see this apparently being the only(?) excavation at the site since it was abandoned, given they say it's one of the largest in the UK? I'm curious as to why - is this the first time the owning family have okayed it? Is there simply less archaeology done in Wales vs England? Or given the density of castle-building in Wales, are there just so many that it's taken this long to get to this one...? Incredible BTW to think how long descendants of the same family have been living on that land.... 🤯 And interesting how much of the documentation of what went on has still apparently been lost over time? I guess it just goes to show how much more ephemeral data are (in any format) vs. actual physical artifacts of a culture...
@@dlschgo Yes, of course, so that’s why I asked if they still are around. In the houses nearby maybe, probably not.. as those are usually also undergone the same fate, but there must be some around still.
@@VincentGroenewold Remember them talking about the Georgian mansion that was demolished in the 1950's? That's probably where the stone went originally. The owners took down the old buildings and walls and towers they didn't need to build a fancy new house outside the walls and turned the ruins into a garden feature.
If you pause it at 7:22, a stony skullface seems to be over Tony's left shoulder. The right "eye" even appears to be leering right at him! The Ghost of the Boghole...... oooOOOOOoooo!! 😱😆
Castles to keep the Welsh in check? It must have taken quite a few castles. I met a Welshman once. He didn’t seem to be the “kept in check” kind of guy.
In retrospect, watching this again, it's pretty clear that during the latest (or even before that, perhaps) reformation of the site (and this is before the manor was demolished), the site was completely changed and destroyed as an archeological land piece. There's barely anything left to scrape and very likely extensive evidence (in the center ) was completely lost. If i was a betting man, i'd say that a significant amount was used to make the house and that that's where it's likely at, if the ruins of the manor are still there. if someone were to dig up the site and find the stones, and among them, find stones with matching faces to the ones inside the castle or with the castle's walls, it would be a significant nail in the proverbial coffin. I don't particularly understand why that site is preserved as if some sort of magical method of archeology will pop from the generational bend, i think even before TT went in there, it was clearly barren and modified. If anything, it should've been cleaned in its entirety, with the intent to find as much of the original as possible. History serves nobody if it's hidden in the dirt, and while i understand other sites, where potential damage beyond repair is likely... this ain't it. This site's already been damaged beyond repair. If it weren't for TT, its original story would've still hung in question. Archeology is obviously a job of patient people, but sometimes, too much patience is bad.
5 min in and I think the owner is expecting them to remove all those stumps for him. He looks disappointed when they bring out the pottery but the stumps are still there.😄
I would think they would have a wagon underneath the poop tower to fertalize the peoples fields or his own fields. She, Rose, found this little plug for the door and this was after the guy, Phil, pointed out HIS door hole, a smaller replica of what she found as well or maybe it broke and she found the other half. But definitely a poopy wagon underneath. We had one in our horse barn my mother owned and I dove the tractor that pulled the poop wagon. Very good money for fertilizer our newest immigrants from Vietnam at the time loved to use in the gardens.
If I were the owner, I would have raided all that soil for my garden, long ago. It looked magnificent. Better not to use human poo for vegies grown in ground. They can take up a lot of nasty things from our poo. And poo of dogs, all the carnivores.... The Chinese were great human poo enthusiasts, too. But to be safe it really should be used for fruit trees, etc. Or used after a long time. We should only use herbivore poo - horse, cow, sheep, goat poo in vegie gardens. Plus chook - but chook poo can be too strong. Needs to be mixed with a lot of water or composted first - or it can burn plants.
That archway lower down looked like entry point for a dray. It would come in lower so the tray was at perfect height to sling poo and then drive away. I thought that as soon as the camera looked back. I'm wondering if owner is related to Simon Williams, the actor. They look similar and both have excellent hair.
it was unsafe ,and there was part left standing for some time after ,as kids we went their in school in the village when it was blown up at around dinner time ..
People need to learn how youtube works before whinging, when you upload a video you can tick a box so its classed as a premiere and when it will be available, it can be any video it doesnt matter if its available anywhere else.
Another premiere of a video that had been uploaded before. Good also to see that other videos are taken down again -- The Naughty Nuns of Northampton --, which means that further pointless premieres can be expected.
I think the Native Americans who were lived where I am in centuries past were like thr Anglo Saxons in that a lot of their traces need an archeologists eye to pick out
If a strong independent lady had her way, she wouldn’t want a spooky old cobweb riddled castle ruin. She would take away anything that was masculine. She’d rip out anything wasn’t beautiful and romantic and add everything that was.
'solidity'? Nice Would assume, since they never address raw building materials in the area, that all of the previous buildings/structures were consumed to create the later buildings. Maker mark's indicate manufacturer, not costs. Nothing like an expert who doesn't apparently know anything. Interesting...clay pipe stem. Clay pipes had long stems in bar or restaurant settings as they were the first vending machine items...the tobacco that is. You barrowed the pipe, filled the bowl, smoked it. At some point, the previously used stem end was broken off for the next user (not sure if before or after), and the pipe was used til it had no stem. The stem piece looks like a broken off piece, he didn't find the whole pipe. Not sure one user would have a reason to snap off a used end.
