The Priceless Roman Mosaics Buried Beneath This Field in Somerset | Time Team | Odyssey 

Episodes like this have me saving loudly to my pc "Make this a whole season and uncover the whole thing!!"

Phil is an example of a man who you might think would get tired of digging in the dirt, but he absolutely loves it. It is lovely to see a man who loves to do what he does. And I have to say it is nice to see these folks working in nice weather for a change. I give them credit for working through all kinds of wind and rain and cold. Thank you everyone.

It's just so amazing to see a mosaic as it's discovered and unearthed. Plus the fact that it's 1500 years old!

I started doing mosacis 20 years ago. These ancient mosaics are so inspiring.

As an Australian I am SO jealous of the history of England and finding awesome stuff like this.

It must have been an amazing privilege for Time Team to have had the first dig opportunity at this wonderful site. Given its significance, was there ever additional excavations done at later dates, any new discoveries about its history?

Its really amazing how time has just worn away the walls and all the upper structure down and simultaneously just burried the foundations 6 inches under the dirt. I realize that's almost 2,000 years. Just kind of mind blowing regardless. Amazing that so many floors and mosaics have been preserved for all that time.

wow what a fantastic find, so special so unique, hope they keep digging, would love to see it competed

Is there a part II?? I must know more!

I just love what you guys do! I've always wanted to go on an excavation, problem was I kept asking my father to go on an exhibition! Lol. He asked if I was sure. We finally figured out I had meant to say expedition It's still a joke today.

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Very interesting. Thank you for inviting us with you.

I like to think about the people who used to walk these corridors of tile. They had no idea that one day the floor they were walking on would be excavated and posted onto some global sharing platform. Weird to think that the every day objects we interact with during our lives will likely outlive us.

The home was large enough to look more like a public building such as a hotel - what an amazing dig this must have been - it would have been so exciting to be there on the ground when they were rediscovering this treasure. And all because Trudy decided to do a bit of spot arachnology - bless her!

I could just tell that coin at 8:15 had the portrait of Nero on it without Guy even having to say it. His portraits always looked very unique.

All over Britain beautiful houses like this were abandoned and pulled down shortly after the Roman legions left, and the people moved to hill forts. It seems because they could not be defended. For a thousand years the wealthy and powerful lived in some kind of fort or castle. Only in the late 14th and early 15th century did they start to build something resembling this Roman villa or what we call the stately homes of old England. Stunning to think how quickly civil society collapsed and how long it took to re establish law and order.

This is my favorite dig of them all. Mosaics are my special passion and I love this

These people blow my mind with their archaeological approach. There’s a lot of prep, don’t get me wrong… but they’re like, basically SCOOPING this stuff out with a pickaxe. 😂

Thanks so much for posting.

Pretty remarkable. I can't imagine wanting to farm that land going forward. I'd be digging it up for the rest of my days. Though I dunno how laws work for that sort of thing in the U.K.

My man holding papers in his hand while being in the open door of a helicopter must have nerves of steel.😮

Absolutely fantastic I mean not only the roman's building..but the archeology, the geophysics and the whole team..they are really briliant scientist..would love to.watch the next finding. Thank you for sharing the knowledge

That is exciting...🎉

Amazing... simply amazing... I, like a few other commenters, would love to know what happened to the floors as well

If that was my field I wouldn’t be able to resist uncovering all of that. What a wonderful thing to find below your cows.

No man loves stones like Phil Harding.

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Truly amazing find! I hope it gets, or has already been, fully excavated and evaluated...its got to be one of the very top villas in Britain.

How are these works of art preserved? Are they covered with some sort of protective sheet then recovered with dirt… are they removed bit by bit and reassembled elsewhere?

One of the best programmes ever !

Andy has a great future! I appreciate his straightforward, informational style. By far he and Ryan Hall are slam dunk the best❤

one of my favorite episodes!

Baldric is going places

Geez,I wish Rome would take over MY town! I’d sign up for a slice of that pie and a mansion in a second!

After maybe half a dozen rewatches Ive finally noticed Tony saving face around at 14:00 cause he cant bare to admit he likes little finds just as much as big ones. Thats a good chunk of plaster!

Fabulous dig

How amazing

Mosaics are my favorite.

How can they rebury this finds? This should be preserved in an open air museum!

Trudy must have been beside herself when she unearthed the puece of mosaic! How amazing to have this Enormous Romano Celtic villa with stunning mosaics in your field.

I hope they will return someday to uncover everything

the other day I was digging a random hole down here in South Africa and low and behold I found ancient roman artifacts. a friend of a friend of a friend dated it for me. he reckons you guys need to fly over. here is the deal.... you can take from the 20 x 7.5m hole whatever you want. the one side must be 3ft deep and the deep end 6ft. really bring your friends..... a lot to be discovered. once you are done, dont stress about the hole. I will replicate the mosiac and line the ancient hole with cement. finally preserve everything with water.

That would be a HUGE villa. My goodness it’s huge.

Oh dang... Can you imagine that farmer who plowed over the Mosaic lol. Just minding your business with no idea you're dragging a metal blade across a 2,000 year old piece of history lol.

One of my Top 5 Favorite *"Time Team Episodes"* Much more exciting than "Anglos Saxon's Post Holes".

Terrific find, but why just three days?

Wow Wow Wow 😯 that's what I have to say!!! 🎉❤

I want to know the after story. Anyone? Links? Further digs?

Having watched quite a few Time Team episodes, I thought from time to time: "One day, these guys are going to find a full, high quality Roman mosaic." Well, when it rains, it pours :) Let me ponder a bit the mystery of why this complex seems to have been simply abandone: Noting the blend of Celtic and Roman authority, it might seem that the local rulers using this grand house might try to "Out-Roman" each other, to cast into stone (and mosaic) their allegience to their Roman overlords, making them feel quite at home in England. Then, early 5th century, when the roman legions left 'temporarily', there was no Roman overlord to sho allegience to in a physical form like this. Could it be that in the political vacuum of this time, it became a political demand that the tribal chiefs abandon their 'Romanness' in facor of Celtic or Anglo-Saxon allegience, thus abandoned this pretty valuable house due to political pressure?

I really like and respect Tony Robinson, he seems quite educative person, his documentaries are awesome, I never realized that he's Baldric from Blackadder.😃😁

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this was across the road from my mates house..

Got to admit if I found one of the 10 best mosaic floors which prompted my neighbor to dig and find a better one I might have to plan a bit of revenge sabotage, lol

Did it rot away do to abandoned neglect and savaging or was it destroyed on purpose? Was it already a ruin when it was torn down? Or did the owner have the wrong friends? Many unanswered questions. It could take years of archeology to uncover it all. Are people still digging the site today?

oh dear.... David seems like a trouble maker haha poor Bridgets face said it all in the cut away

This should keep going, if you were to pay my way over there I’d be camped onsite working from Dawn to Dusk.

Why havent you continued the site????

Please tell me those mosaics where removed an put in a museum.

Guy de la Bedoyere looks very Roman himself 😉

What happens now? Does this site remain protected & intact, or is the mosaic removed & set up again in a museum?

Once the team have unearthed these exquisite mosaics, what then becomes of them?

How sad Mick wasn’t there to see this.😢

just t have some ting like that under my land would be wonder ful, I'd best do my to reconstruct the building and come up with a way too preserve the tiles i think soft slippers available for tourists, to walk where romans once walked would a wonder. it would give one pause and make me think about the wonder.

were the original dark areas found by lidar?

What happens after you leave a find like this? Is it covered back up or does an organization assist the owners in completing uncovering and preserving it?

Hello, I am a fan of the program and I always try not to miss a video but there is something that catches my attention and I’d like you to answer the following : Those fields where you can find such beautiful, historically valuable and ancient mosaics from the Roman period in the UK have never been used for agriculture? When plowing the land, these relics could have been destroyed because they are located at a very shallow depth. Thank you. Sonia S. Echavarria, La Paz, BCS, México.

So what happens to this dig after the 3rd day? Doe's a local archeological group continue or is it just recorded and covered up again?

I always wished they would say what happens to the site after they leave. I know most they just cover over but why would you do that to this one?

Season 10, Episode 2, January 2003

18:37 Haha, they all have such similar vehicles.

I am curious,,,after they are done with the dig, what do they do with what they uncovered?

Were the floors saved?

Are the discoveries reburied after three days? Also, if they aren't reburied, are they protected? I'd like to know what happens afterward. re-burying it seems counter-productive

Was this before or after the Turkdean digs?

I often wonder why they dont use a push broom to clean loose debris...just sweep a few feet and check the pile. I'm not an archaeologist but it seems like that would be more efficient without really sacrificing anything.

Imagine being on neighbours at war but its time team and roman mosaics😅

if they find such great treasures so late on day 3, why couldn't they ask for an extension and continue their search?

Why were these villas abandoned? So beautiful and intricate and Britain has never been abandoned so how was something like this lost?

can these mosaics be preserved on a piece of ply so they ca n be enoyed by all]/

So after this work 20 years ago, did they do anything to protect the mosaics from future plow damage?

So many questions…but how do crops grow in such shallow soils?

What happens to this site once the dig finishes? Does it revert back to a field that is plowed annually with the potential to damage archeology?

In 2000 yrs some archaeologist is gonna be at a dig site uncovering a linoleum floor thinking "WTF was wrong with these people?!" as he discovers an older cedar hardwood floor underneath that.

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What happens to sites like this after Time Team leaves? What do the farmers do? There would have to be protection from ploughing at very least.

has this site been further explored since Time Team left?

Gotta love how John fucks with Uncle Phil.

Here’s a question… who covered these ruins with topsoil? And where did the top soil come from?

If anyone wonders why it was "the Dark Ages", Britain's countryside went from living like this to dung-and-straw huts and river-clay thumb pots for almost 1000 years after Rome fell. Civilization is wild, it really is.

Why do u have only 3 days?

Some people had some very ice things back then.

why dont the consider this to be an historical site and preserve this and open it to the public? the property owner could probably make some good money on it with all the council laws there probably will never happen to many rules restrictions etc

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Lot of guess work going on this site 🤨 32:20

Surely with computers these days and all the satellites in space we could scan the entire planet for stuff like this. I hope that's a thing. We can tell the topography of the bottom of the ocean because of small changes in the water, we have to have something like that scanning for human history on land.

You can plant your foot anywhere in England, dig and you will always find ancient treasures.

Why only 3 days???????????

Wouldn’t it be upside down if it’s from the ceiling 🤔 31:37

What happened to the drain you were going to put in that doorway

Why do they only have 3 days? They found something so why can’t they excavate until they unearth everything to be discovered? One would think they would want to preserve such a beautiful find. Perhaps by documenting and then moving the mosaic floors to a museum or something. Does giving a tight timeline create some drama?