Incredibly interesting how humans -- over a period of at least 5,000 years -- were all drawn to the same site! When the geologist showed a "map" marking out altitudes and river routes, then the value of the location's placement became obvious. I love seeing their various artifacts and thinking that my ancestors possibly left some of those items!
Truly enjoyed the farmer speaking to his fascination of the difference in color of earth. The coins were "you've seen one, you've seen them all", but soil...the earth he tills...that's fascinating to him. Bless his heart, he is a man of the earth.
It is very insightful to remember how such a few clues revealed a distant past. Modern life rather expects us all to expect 'huge discoveries' when in fact the smallest/briefest of glances reveal so much more beneath our feet. Wonderful.
I went to waylands smithy, the old site near the white horse, I put a 20p piece in the stones, just like hundreds of other visitors have over the years, I imagine the Roman's did the same as they passed this site all those years ago.
Sounds right. Mound still there then seamed the right place for local spirt/god put a coin in for luck. Earlier still just a mount put some pottery in. All based on group before them they knew little of by then.
Had a memory bench for my father in a botanical garden. It's out of state and I leave a coin at its base each time I visit. Funny to learn it's historical to do this.
What once again strikes me through this TT episode is how the common folk are so gracious with allowing the team to spread out their digs as they follow the clues over 3 days….as compared to when they dig at rich estates and the likes where they always seem a bit restricted…maybe there are good reasons for this…but a farmer is sacrificing a bit of his livelihood here…surely a few trenches on an estate lawn shouldn’t be a problem?…but the team always make it worthwhile no matter what the obstacle….absolutely love TT…
Hats off and thumbs up to the farmer who generously allowed Time Team to investigate his field. After working a dairy farm for a few years, I know that farmers have it tough and need all the product they can grow. I'm sure this gentleman is no different, which makes his sacrifice all the more appreciated.
I don't think you're far off. I know someone found a hand axe in my corner of north Devon, nobody's dug in that area before. There is so much history, you just need to know what you're looking at.
That was certainly true when I was a student in Canterbury. In every house I lived in, I managed to pull at least one chunk of pottery out of the garden 😅
@Fionna McCormick - In a few hundred years, that ditch WILL Be achitecture! "Now, why would the early 21st Century peoples have dug this thing? Be on the look-out for the shredded remains of junk mail and soda cans!"
Time Team is my all-time favourite programme. I go back to it over and over, perfect comfort TV. They seemed to get such a great mix of interesting, curious, intelligent, appealing people on the team.
Why I love Time Team is encapsulated in this episode. A farmer, who thought it would be mildly interesting and turned into a fan. A supposed Roman dig that turned into something completely different. And, of course, my hero Phil, doing a jig over a flint scraper. Just fantastic!
Until there's a food shortage then it's pottery stew on the menu🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ if I said that I'd usher in an ice age... But hey ho we've broken pottery to look at 😂😂😂😂💔
@@CrusaderSports250then you've never met a farmer... someone who's money comes directly from the land. Do you know hard it is to grow crops like that? It costs money on its own to have a successful crop. To someone who works in a office this is like someone going through their work computers and deleting a bunch of files. Then you can't replace them until next year. It's sort of like that.
Thank goodness for Patreon. For $7.00 a month I get all new material, including interactions with archaeologists. They need every member they can get to continue making more. I consider this a charitable contribution with the goal being, besides my own pleasure, a better educated general public wherever material like this is shown, which is world-wide. So much fun!
I’ve become a Time Team nerd. What an amazing country. You can dig yourself a new driveway and find a mosaic floor, or a fish pond in your garden and find a Saxon cemetery.
Nice to see the late mick Aston again. They always managed to get enthusiastic unique people in the team. Time team will be remembered as an icon of the era.
It must have inspired interest in thousands of people. The7 could have continued making it for another 20 years for me! They'd never run out of places to do in Britain thats for sure.
We should have Time Team back on TV. I miss Tony asking Prof. Harding if he's found anything and getting the response "Ooh Arr Tony Just look at this" :D
One of the highlights of my short stint as a motorcycle dispatch rider in London, was going to an unassuming office above a row of shops in Shepherd's Bush, to a TV production company I'd never heard of, and seeing all of the Time Team team there. The other highlight was being mistaken for a strippergram but that's another story
I love seeing Phil in his element. Such a joy seeing him discovering one of his childhood playgrounds. With Phil I don’t think you can ever have too much flint. He’s in his element with it.
Phil’s certainly life and soul of the team no doubt with charisma and banter in spades but when he’s mad, boy does he explode! The show rarely showed Phil’s wrath in full force of course but often left enough footage in to hint that when he was displeased he really wasn’t pleasant company to be around…
I always think how wonderful it is that local farmers so generously supported Time Team. I don't know about things in the UK, but sometimes on the land it can be a struggle to make ends meet. So I am grateful!
My mum always wanted to be an archaeologist only when she was young it was not considered a suitable job for a girl. So when Time Team started she loved watching it. I fell in love with history at high school I prefer industrial history anything to do with steam engines but time team make all history facinating.
My mum wanted to be a pilot. At the time it wasn't allowed. I wanted to be an archaeologist, dug up the ground around where we live, but I got in trouble for it and was on pain of extreme punishment forbidden from continuing it... Took up drawing instead. Would love to do what Victor did (may he rest in peace)
@@KAT-ew9wz my farther was offered a job as a jockey but had just received his national service papers, had he already started the job strings could have been pulled and he could have been exempt, my mum was offered a job in the local bank but my grandfather had got her a job in the office of a local garage, the bank wasn't the sort of job for a young girl according to my grandfather, so the garage it was, its funny but if either had followed a different path I might not be writing this, life's like that🤔😊.
I remember when this series went out on our TV first . Nothing like this had been done before . It must have been a leap of faith on some ones part . These archaeologists their keenness and vast knowledge in their own particular fields of expertise , it was fascinating stuff ! It was like a detective story that no one knew the outcome ! But what ever they found , when they and we, needed to know the answer to . They had some one who knew and was top of their field. Who would supply the answer . The British countryside isn't all that bad to look at either !
This still rates as one of the topmost enjoyable episodes! Phil managing to spot the edge of a ditch leading to a wonderful site such a joy to watch, lost count of how many times I have seen this episode.
This is one of the most amazing digs I have seen of the team. Leave it to a Yank to not completely appreciate the subtlety of the ages, but the insights, the enthusiasm, and the solving of the puzzle is a right old 'noggin scratcher'. Thank you so much for another wonderful episode.
I don’t know why Time Team often moves me to tears but there you go....I suppose it’s the way they connect to our ancestors everyday lives, and how the thrill of discovery is ever present.
Have you guys seen the episode where they work with disabled veterans? I cried multiple times watching it. I have cptsd and some how watching this show over the past few months has helped with anxiety. I'm sleeping better and my mood swings aren't as bad. I pray others out there suffering like me can find help, even if it's in the most unlikely place.
I think this is my favourite episode. I've seen it so many times. The site seems so unpromising but it turns into a total vindication of modern archaeological methods. It shows how archaeology can claw something from the ashes of the past and tell its story.
The forming of the ring with the team at the end is fantastic. It somehow venerates the site once more and gives the human aspect to it. Wonderful stuff
Haha, after almost a year in The Netherlands, I so enjoy the enthusiasm of this team, the humor so typical British, excellent! Refreshing, to start the new year, and leave a year of many droopy eyelids over facemasks 😷✨😄👩🌾📐🧩🌾🍀💚 Good luck!
Honestly, if you go for a walk almost anywhere in the UK, if you look carefully what you are walking on you will find history. I have found a few neolithic tools; hard rock or flint, sits comfortably in your hand, always has a razor sharp edge with obvious the indentations as seen in Phil's handywork. Makes you wonder that when the Egyptians were busy building pyramids, our ancestors were busy stalking deer and planting crops!
Yep. Egyptian Civ is stupid old along with China and Sumpter and the like. They did have advantage of never being under the ice as well. England they have skeletons and stuff in caves from before the Ice age then huge gap as ice came and left so England had to be abandoned and then a return.
"We found some bone but it's degraded", "Yes there's what looks like charcoal as well", "So what do you think", "Well they could have been having a BBQ". lol
Fantastic find! This showed how one site could have been used for different purposes over thousands of years by different types of people. This is like an open history book!
Not treading on someone else’e trench, especially without permission, is actually standard procedure on an archeological site, since you might accidentally trample delicate archeology or something.
44:57 they were throwing away junk, or leaving it for others. NO ONE was leaving GREAT tools, for any reason. You KEEP the tools you worked for a long time. You throw out junk. If you folks think for one second they were leaving EXCELLENT tools behind, you are nuts. Sure, I am not a primitive human, but there is NO WAY I would leave a GREAT piece of chert lying about. I would leave the garbage. The GOOD STUFF went where *I* went. You folks need to put yourselves in the place of the person doing the work. NOBODY leaves their best work behind. They bring it, and use it.
I always appreciate the less showy finds like these. I still know people who leave coins/buttons/medals/bottles at old holy wells or 'fairy rings' for 'luck'. Its traditional rather than religious. I would guess the Roman coins and brooch pieces are the equivalent.
Yep certainly. Roman's still have a bit of Shamanistic at the base with dryads and the like as stated here not unusual to respect the older holy even though they have no knowledge of actually what it was so basically for luck.
I miss this show so much, I'd love to see it back with a new generation of raw, tv-naive, archaeologists and academics, maybe another storyteller or artist to pull it together on camera (Neil Gaimen-esque?). Imagine the fun they'd have with latest tech - drones and cgi - plus the latest geo-phys. Are there still stories to tell? I think so.
Only just found out they're bringing the show back via Patreon! Yes! Please go support them if you can, will be a joy after this lockdown to see a new team making new shows once more. Light at the end of the tunnel 😊
They did, continued it with a new team and drones and stuff, and somehow it wasn't as good, or as intelligent. It went off TV soon after. If they try and float that bit, you'll see what I mean.
@@lesleyhawes6895 What show are you talking about? The Time Team reboot is presently going on, and it has never been on TV at all. It is funded by fans through Patreon, and can be watched worldwide for free on the Time Team Official channel here on RU-vid.
A long time ago, I saw some Time Team on Amazon Prime I believe...only a season of USA episodes....This made my day finding this!!...Such beautiful country and the stories come to life...Along with age comes appreciation I guess. I will be watching each and every one!
Do you know that in Czech language the word pronounced as "chert" means one of the words used for a devil? That took my interest. I found that the chert (material) is in Czech called "rohovec", which means something like "horned" - roh means horn. Then I thought if there are any parallels in the other stone, flint, and that is called "pazourek". Which means something like "a little claw". I never thought about meaning of the word used for flint, but now both flint and chert have one important thing in common: they are animal parts that we humans don't have and so we needed to supplant these by stone tools. Very interesting parallels, if my thinking is correct, then these two important stone tools kept their meaning over the millenia since the stone age. It would be interesting to investigate some older variants of the "flint", if it originally also had the same meaning, i.e. claws.
@@eh1702 wow that's perfect! Didn't know that! What does that mean? If the "horny one" had, or presumably used to have the same name in both English and Czech, when were these two languages one and the same? We associate the word "čert"/chert with devil. They are basically a synonyme. So this must be a legacy of incredibly old time, much longer before the arrival of Christianity, right?
@@eh1702 it would be fantastic to find some ancient name for flintstone, or flint. We have it derived from a claw. I feel that flint is derived rather from something like shine, like glint. But it could mean something else?
@@Alarix246 I’m not a linguist, but in Lithuania I noticed they sometimes use the same word for “stone” and “blade” either akmuo or ašmuo depending where you are. Lithuanian often has š (sh sound) for what is h/ch/q/ k/g/x in other European languages. Like širdis for heart/herz/coeur/cardio-
Probably my favorite Time Team ep!! If I am just looking for an old favorite, I’ll go with this one, South Carlton (the Anglo Saxon cemetery with the man holding the drinking vessel), the buckets at Braemore, or Westminster Abbey.
Notice that the farmer said "big stans" (big stones), that's how we got names like "Stanley" [ "stan" (stone, usually a standing stone) + "ley" (field) ].
@@clydecross1983 Most Roman coins are less than $20 dollars. They made millions of them and are made of cheap metals. A brooch depending on what it is made, it's age, and design.
My family farm here in the Carolina's is on a former Cherokee village. I find artifacts in my yard all the time. It's exciting knowing no one has held something man made for at least hundreds to thousands of years old in their hand. And close by there's pits of white clay which must have been used for the pottery and in another area piles of flint used for making arrowheads. Very fascinating place to live. No poltergeist. They must have been happy.
My ancestors haled from Dorset. If I were to ever cross the pond, I believe I would spend time there. Quite beautiful and actually somewhat like Kansas, USA. Stay well friends.
Love the show. Maybe you can write off the loss of product? In America I think they are pretty good about that. I have notice that there is frequently archeology in an, amonst the islands of trees as well. I am assuming the area is more apt to retain water and thus the trees? GEE, those shear bolts require a huge amount of force to brake then, several tons I would presume. WOW such lovely hills and country side. Your prodigal sons, America.
@@samosasosa6684 I'm sure he was quite tired of shearing bolts off, and would rather like some people to go through it with a fine tooth comb and thank him for the opportunity!
Great episode. I love the ones where even the professionals are surprised by what they find. Hope you have the Skipsea episode lined up for the not too distant future.
That sure is some pretty countryside you got there in England. My ancestors all came from England to Massachusetts first and then on to the "Western Reserve" in Ohio, which has the same kind of countryside.
I'm in the US and was not blessed with this kind of show often, unless it happen to air on PBS. I'm a sucker for archaeology & forensic archaeology lol.
@@mistyvaughn6356 I hope that you enjoy all of the episodes posted here. I was ten when TT first aired. My mom, dad, sister and I would settle down in front of it and eat cakes. Great, happy times! I think I've watched every episode. The Bank Holiday Live specials were great too...three days of live archaeology on national TV! Magical times.
This has always been my favourite Time Team episode - it has everything - drama, excitement and a great end to the dig. I never tire of watching this one!
I've seen some really interesting stories of castles from the Middle Ages on Time Team, but never before had I seen one with a place like this one. It contained countless thousands of years of prehistoric and ancient use.
Countless thousands of years of use? I understood the site was from around five thousand years back and through to Roman ( the coins). A long time certainly but nothing to suggest "countless thousands."
..its the end of the second week in January 2021 and it looks to me like this video has had over two hundred thousand views in a couple/few weeks! ..i love it, thankyou so much Time Team. 🙂
What good luck they had with that first trench. It unlocked the secret of the entire site. A few feet away and they would have missed the whole thing. You got to love archeology!
Archaeologists need luck - apparently if the discovery a few years ago of Richard's III's bones under a car-park only came about because the excavators cut through his ankles - a few inches the other way and he'd still be there complete with his feet.
My favorit job on this show is an ilustrator. Everyone is hard-working diggin lands but he is playing with pena to make illustrations. From many episodes, he always has space on camera 😅
I've learned at least one important rule about archeology from watching Time Team episodes and that is you never set foot in or on someone's trench without asking for their permission first.
The farmer he's laughing at the time team getting his field dug for nothing unless they bring the clay to the surface but he is getting it riddled and the stones and all the large plough destroying objects removed.
there are so many of these finds in English country side farm fields. if i were one of these people i would feel absolutely terrible to find out i had been plowing through some historic ruin of find.
I stumbled across the team in brancaster. Had a great look at all the finds. I asked what are you looking for. Well we know the Romans were here but were not sure what happened next. Glad I found them and thanks for letting me have a look around
Faced with drawing decomposing bodies, complete with bits rolling off into a ditch; Victor's response is a droll 'Wow'. Cool under pressure & artistic!
Imagine farming land that has been in continuous use for one type of human activity or another since before recorded history. Makes one realize they are but stewards for future generations.
@@markjackson5665 I figure in two thousand years, archeologists will be looking at our era and thinking "Either these people were incredibly wasteful and stupid or they're deliberately yanking our chains."
I get lots in my garden and the pop up regularly at my allotment. They are easy to find near where I live because the flint must have been brought from elsewhere. It is more dense than the native rock. Then when you pick it up you know it is a tool because if fits your hand so perfectly. Even found a left handed one.
