The Mysterious Disappearance Of A Scotish Medieval City | Time Team 

This show has made some really great contributions to archaeology. If for no other reason than landowners finally letting archaeologists dig up their land if it means they get to be on TV.

I have learned more watching Timeline more than I had in college.

Scotland is a country full of wonders

You guys always are so respectful to the sites you excavate. Its nice to see people who really love history doing their work.

I will never ever grow tired of Time Team!

I used to live in this region. My friends and I would often hike from town to peak to town, staying in B&Bs or campgrounds. Lots of options in this area, definitely worth a visit.

I love it when he says join us after the break and 2 seconds later the show is back on!

One of the things that strikes me is how unusual it is that what was once a major center of commerce was entirely abandoned. Trade towns, and towns in general, are built where they are for a good reason and those tend to continue to be good reasons for towns to be there, so they tend to be there for a long time and get rebuilt if some disaster destroys them. Had this area stayed Scottish for a couple more centuries, which wouldn't have been difficult, it would have continued on as a major trade center until the Act of Union made it no longer really an issue which side of the border it was on.

As a landowner, I'd be tempted to allow further exploration, provided that the parts that didn't yield good results were fully restored over the following year. With such a wealth of history, even given that short amount of time and meters to excavate, the site was revealing some fascinating finds.

with such an important history behind this area, it truly deserves a more thorough dig.

Personally, the presenter of Time Line seems an empty-headed TV presenter. It just shows one reason why Time Team was so good.Tony Robinson ws so good - he is somehow matey, and also humourous, and also seems genuine, while the Time Line guy is almost laughably inauthentic but conventionally handsome. No one would cll the Time Team men conventionally handsome!

Two three years of watching Time Team and I cannot look at dirt the same way ever again. That being said I can't tell the damn difference between one kind of dirt and another, but I look at it differently. And I keep scratching my head.

It is really a shame these sites cannot be further investigated with a week or more of exploration.

This should have been named ‘3 nights at the roxburgh’

I am an American with the last name of Kerr. According to my clan history the Roxburgh area was my clan's stomping area. Very intersting.

how an entire CITY can just disappear even knowing why is chilling.

Speaking as an American who's had just the one visit to the UK, I think those not native to the UK have no grasp what the importance of nettles might be. Visiting a small stone circle at a roadside, I innocently encountered nettles brushing gently against my bare legs. Within a half-hour, it was burning & painful, and discomfort continued for days. Standing nettles are a big deal. People should appreciate what is being asked of those who have to survey, fieldwalk, or dig in proximity to them.

This is the original reality show. “Will we answer all the questions in 3 days?” “Is geophysics new gear better than digging?”

Absolutely fantastic to follow your search 🦋🦄 Thank you for inviting us along and good luck 👍🍀

I hope they continue with the archeology to find out more about the history of the town.

Solved. I found Roxburgh , it got up and moved to central Otago, New Zealand. lol

I am descended from my great-grandmother Janet Thain who was born in Rathven, Banffshire Scotland, and great-great-grandfather James and great-great-grandmother Mary Sim of Perthshire. I do not yet know the city. I very much enjoy hearing anything about my ancestral home!

This is so fun. Lovely video. I havent even watched the full thing yet but its great so far

Fascinating, especially the carved arch keystone. I wonder where all the soil covering the site came from. Is it just progressive accumulation of organics and wind-blown dirt ?

I feel sorry for John sometimes. Geophysing in nettles has really gotta suck!!

What puzzles me is why that big church would have been built OUTSIDE the protection of the town walls. Churches were usually fairly central.

I lived in Roxburgh and related Roxburgh-Hydro, as a child. Not the Scottish original, but the townships in Otago, South Island, New Zealand. That was the early 1950s. We celebrated the Queen's Coronation at The Hydro, 1953.

Phil has tge most beautiful smile

Great again as usual !

You can tell how buff Phil is in this particular episode lol

I'm an American that really enjoys your channel, mate.

Greeting from Sarawak..💚

Scotland is where my family originated from very interesting

I love how John sounds like Ringo.

Such a good show!

Thanks!

I friggin love Timeline and TimeTeam!

Thank you.

I do get a bit frustrated with Scheduled ancient monument restrictions.....I can understand in many cases but often having watched Time team some of the sites hardly anything is known and often seems they jump to schedule sites without knowing that much about them

So cool

Love this 🤙🍻🇳🇿👊

great britain is definitely an awesome place to be an archaeologist (and or student)

Map at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="360">6:00</a> puts Edinburgh somewhere in South Perthshire ...

wow they found the church! amazing

The guys boots look cool. The magnetic apparatus the two girls are carrying. 👍🏻And the one guy's dragonball shirt

From what I can see on a map the community of Kelso, Scotland is only about 2 miles, 3.2 km away. What is the correlation between Kelso, neighboring communities and that archaeological site. There must be something in the historical documents of that area. Perhaps as the local communities evolved the lesser of and least productive was slowly abandoned. We have many small little populated areas and Villages that were thriving + - 100 years ago in United States that are nothing but points on a map nowadays. Many of these started out as homesteads and nearby villages but as properties were sold and land Holdings became larger the current population dispersed for whatever reason. One of the ways that you can determine the locations of old homestead sites is ivy growing on an old tree and other anomalies that would not occur naturally in nature. There are many one-room schools scattered across America still today that supported thriving small communities that don't seem to exist today.

WHAT IS THAT HAUNTING MUSIC? The theme music?? Please tell. It is perfect for this series...

So what happens after 3 days? Do they just record their findings, and then bury everything back up?

I've been watching episode after episode, had two surgeries in two months, so I have had plenty of time, I've learned alot, and I think I'm in love with Tony, really what's not to love, LOL. I wish I had know about it before now, But I'm in the States, so there you have it.. Keep it up guys....XOX to Tony...

Beautiful but Poor Mary! I hope the system is not heavy for her shoulders.

I truly do not understand why they don’t have geophysics go a day or two before the rest do you have the whole site for most of it done on day one instead of afternoon day three when they don’t even have time to check any of it

dang? archaeologists are AMAZING

I live in Kelso, Washington founded by Peter Crawford of Kelso, Scotland.

Could someone over in Britain petition the government to ban further use of Dan Snow's History Hit advertisements that precedes so many of these Timeline videos? Thanks, you're a peach!

A remarkable amount of us YANK’s genealogy is traced right back to Scotland.

Having a deadline of 3 days hardly seems like you can even set your site up let alone make sense of what you find.

Philomath Oregon says HELLO , we love T.T.

What about the bits in the tree roots?

It would be a great deed to allow further site exploration in the name of history.

What season of time team was this?

My 3rd g. Grandfather was from Roxburghshire, would this be the same city?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1458">24:18</a> guys please what's that music? I love it

It is amazing that a place like this could be abandoned just 500 years ago, and there is no historical documentation of the reason. I am not sure that the hypothesis put forward that it was related to loss of access to the port would be the full story, does not quite add up. I have a family link to Roxburghshire. I am wondering if it could have been destroyed at some stage being caught up in border clashes? Still, it is astonishing that there is no further historical record.

Would love for you guys to be able to spend at least a few months to a year to study the area better.

I am curious what happens to everything once you dig it up? Surely you do not just leave it exposed. Is it removed from the bulk of what is remaining or reburied?

I love to hear some names.

Where in the British Isles is Phil Harding native to? His accent is something else.

An Iconic British programmemade in the UK for the British viewing public, but not available to watch on RU-vid in the UK (Except I used my vpn to watch it from a USA server. What utter nonsense to forbid people in the UK to watch History of their own country. Damn poor show World History Documentaries- oh and I use an adblocker as well.

Does anyone know if Bridget is from New Zealand? I noticed her helmet had NZ1 on it plus it looks like she is wearing a Pounamu.

Them bangs are so yesteryear also

What's with the square meter limit? Landowner allowing only some legal requirement?

Sorry guys. Absolutely love your videos, and hope you keep high access on youtube, but last thing I need is another subscription especially in such a nich area

Why was such an important church set outside the towns defenses??

When Tony says at about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="295">4:55</a> "florescence light tubes". I don't know how he didn't see the complete irony in that statement, given the young ladies florescence hair color. A lost opportunity for a joke. I always thought Tony got his start with comedy... Corenza mentions 1313 AD, isn't that the year of the signing of the Magna Carta. College is many years back, so please forgive me for not remembering, and being so lazy I don't even want to "google" it...

ELI5 - Can someone explain to me why they seem to always allow just, what seems to me to be (a minimal), a limited amount of square meters to trench.

Love these videos. My question is though, why do you only have 3 days?

I've wondered--why are so many old sited buried? Is dirt falling from space, enlarging the earth and burying ancient sites? It's curious...

Scotland, home to some of my ancestors.

Where is it? Roxburgh has been relocated to Te Wai Punamu in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The location of Edinburgh on the map about 6 minutes in? Weird.

Does the team ever get an opportunity to Excavate a large sight an extra 3 days?

why at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2889">48:09</a> would the church be outside the defense wall?

What about Selkirk and Peebles?

Well their map showed Edinburgh where stirling roughly is.. and not south of the Forth.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1878">31:18</a> The location of the church is shown lying OUTSIDE the main defensive wall. Doesn't makes sense to me...

what are they using to scan the earth? the geo-phys?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="368">6:08</a> That is not where Edinburgh or Perth are at all. Miles off...

Which episode is this?

Who knew calculating square footage was so difficult.

They don't adequately explain how or when the city was effectively razed and cleared of all its rubble. It stands to reason that an entire town and its buildings don't simply "melt" into the ground.

I’m not sure why anyone would take on such a historical site with only three days to work with. You don’t even get started and it’s over 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

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As much as I enjoy this series, I'm often frustrated and confused by the time-crunch as a factor. Archeological investigations, if thorough, require time, funding and workers. A three-day process simply isn't realistic if the intended possible discoveries are rushed to incomplete findings.

Man id love to work with phil. but im way over here in yankee land

How old is this documentary?

500th like

How can I get hired to work on these digs for Timeline? I'd work for FREE. Plus, I'm part Scottish. My Scottish DNA Brain could surely help guide them, I'd be an asset to the team.

That's Baldrick, isn't it?

Why is there a timeframe of just a few days? I mean; I can understand the m2 part, but usually, these type of areas seem to be unused for large amounts of time per year.

Is it the same as bull metal?