The Buried Mysteries Of The Roman Cemetery Beneath Hadrian's Wall | Time Team | Odyssey 

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Saw the comment about why only three days. Here is the explanation as I heard it from the director of TT. Mick Aston wanted to make archaeology more interesting and accessible to the average Briton. After talking with others,he presented it to a television company, and the format was decided on three days. Firstly, the archaeologists had regular jobs (many were at universities across England) and they couldn’t take long periods of time off, to go on a normal dig. Secondly, three days added a bit of suspense, could they accomplish their goal in that time period? And, although I don’t remember hearing this, I should think financing played a part in the time limit. What I am sure of is that no one, no one at all, expected it to be the major hit that it was. For 20 years, TimeTeam kept the viewing public enthralled with the mechanics of an archaeological dig, and the wonderful history of their country. For those of us who have discovered it now, the archaeologists and the supporting crew have become people we wish we could have known in real life. All thanks to a dream that Mick Aston had. RIP, Mick of the rainbow jumpers (or sweaters, as we would call them in the US).

Achilles Roman. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

This host is so wonderfully animated, passionate and personable in his delivery

I started watching these to fall to sleep, and now I'm taking an intro to archeology my senior year of college bc I genuinely love the field of study. Btw I'm a psych major lol

Time Team never ceases to amaze, educate, and entertain. Bravo!

I'm a Time Team tragic! This has to be one of the best filmed, directed, and edited episodes. Lots of close footage and zoomed and panned wide-angle lens shots. Lots of explanations, and lots of gritty digging in grotty conditions.

Time Team is amazing! I am addicted to all episodes.Thanks for this amazing show!

So, the Romans marched north, got to Scotland, took one look and built a wall, sounds about right.

I like the Time Team episodes with Helen. Her smile always told of her deeper knowledge and ultimately that proved to be validated. Far less talking, a trait I am relearning. 😉

Thanks to Time Team I know more about UK than here in Sweden.

That Roman coin is absolutely fascinating. I didn't know it was possible to put so much information on such a small object, and it is in such good condition for an object of its age.

I enjoy watching and learning from these videos. A job well done

You have such a green country, in Australia we have patches of rainforest but have blistering hot days for weeks on end. Too hot to sleep.

that coin is so beautiful, im not use to seeing such great detail when they find these ancient coins. and that urn is so simple yet lovely in design.

Watching that pyre being built , brought back a sad memory . My Thai wife's younger sister was cremated on a Funeral Pyre . In Thailand that is very rare , most are carried out at the Temple ovens . The construction was much the same , the body in a wooden coffin and placed on top. When lit the heat is incredible , nigh impossible to stand within ten metres . Very emotional , Christian cremations are quite pitiless in comparison. Next day when the fire has burnt itself out . The ashes are sifted and pieces of bone collected in a box . Taken to the local Temple to be sanctified. Personally I would be quite happy to end that way.

Thank you for showing Time Team episodes. Love them.

That huge glass bead is just plain beautiful! I'd love to have it. Great find

I discovered TT several years ago and enjoy it all. I'm still baffled why only 3 days?? IT would seem that 5+ days would be best.

What a fascinating time period.

"Was that thing pornography?" "Maybe, we'll need to look at it again." Or something like that. Whatever the exact words, it was excellent and will probably inspire someone to become an archeologist when he or she grows up.

This is one of the digs I'd like to see keep going

fab episode

amazing finds

Thanks.

The gateway into the fort on the side of the excavation was built with two gates/lanes in and out, but later one was closed up. I wonder if that was related to the abandonment of the vicus.

Thank you ❤😂😊🎉😅

Love the cabinets you found with Ryan. I can’t wait to see it done. It was not wind …my opinion.🤣

Kinda wish they'd shown us the burial pot normally, and not as a small window during the credits.

The last piece of glass was absolutely!

The time team always coming in clutch with great shows for the weekend. Really puts my brain to thinking and realizing what has come and gone on this planet and what will come and go in the future

I thought I accidentally hit slo-mo at 28:28 lol That was the longest description of a coin I've ever heard!

@42:00 and that's why you always delete your browser history! PS : love time team ❤️

I am all for archeology investigations but I would like to see bodies and graves given more respect and reburial of the bodies involved rather than them ending up in a box somewhere!

Hiding in a pond and finding a sword could be handy I wonder if that ever happened?

uhh...would it be possible for the "History Hit" advertisement to not overwrite episode footage? this one was very obvious, it cut in while there was an active conversation and when the advert ended the scene had changed and it didn't pick up where it had left off. Wtf.

What happens to the site after the three days of excavation? Why is the time limited to 3 days?

A Vicus - he asks - where was the nearest Roman settlement?Carlisle?? No ! Brampton! Only a few miles away - with a Roman fort at the Old Church, and pottery kilns discovered in the 1960s. They didn't know this?

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Is it just me or did Tony kind of look like Phil Collins in the intro?

If these sites are so important why not spend a lot more time and do it right. What is so sacred about 3 days?

Why only 3 days?!?

I bet you are missing your long hair Tony...

It seems to me that the Roman layer would be a few feet below the surface .

@12:33 - @12:47 , what is that? Couldn't understand what they were saying .

Was it only me or does the rim of the earn they pulled out at the end look like they may have broken it and that’s why they put little video of it being pulled out 🤔

This is Season 7, Episode 5.

Crazy how this was posted a day ago but the video quality ifeels like it's from the early 2000's

I've mixed feelings about disturbing cemeteries.

Human bodies were and is good for farming

The real shame is that you did not get Sunak and Khan for the cremation. The UK would be far better off!

Cool how the British say "cemetery" Sounds like they're saying symmetry.

If the Roman’s cremated their dead why even dig there! Bloody hell what did it all prove?!

This is one rare time I see no point in them meticulously preserving the sod layer for replanting after they leave. It's a big field. Nobody lives there. The grass would grow back fine in a matter of months but they have to spend many hours setting the sod aside and then replacing it. And of course the whole place is going to fall into the river soon enough.

Time Team started of a group of Archeologists rooting around backyards and fields with little respect from Mainstream Archeology to being the eminent group asked to review many Major Historical Sites.

It’s great to have this show back. Just one question: why do you never see some of them digging: I’ve never seen Mick digging. Does he have a note from his doctor? Excavation should be everyone’s responsibility on a dig. And every now and then that wanker Robinson comes out from his trailer to play devil’s advocate.

why do some archeologists look like they came from the '90s?

Imagine having almost 2000 years living with your gods and having a wonderful time in the afterlife just to have some posh Englishman come in and rip you out of your eternal bliss by disturbing your remains....

hardly 'beneath' Hadrian's wall is it!?

Too many effing adverts!

You know? I have watched plenty of Time Team episodes and I must say they get very excited over the littlest thing. I have to say every program has been a anticlimax and a big let down. If you want to feel stressed out watch Time Team people getting dirty for very small gain. Rubbish!

It seems that Carenza Lewis loves the sound of her own voice. She has to be included in any finds. She constantly yaps over others.

So much chatting. Long wait between science.

The fench were cowards and pigs.

G-day just for a moment there Tony with half of your head sticking up above the hedge row on the start page I thought they had buried you somewhere by mistake and you were trying to get out mate so glad it was just for a pasting moment. 😂🫶✌️❤️👍