Why would you limit the amount of excavation?? What good does that do anyone?? If done professionally, why such limits?? More retarded big government regulations...what a joke!
@@Sean2002FU It's because technology improves and future excavations become better than better, if you excavate everything now you will have tainted future discovery. This is why it must be gradual and not all done at once.
I like how Tony brought up a letter that connected Mick to this site many years prior. Half the fun of this show is the interaction between the team members.
I would love to just follow Stewart around and pick his brain. That man has found more things just looking at the landscape than John and his fancy geophysics gear. Lol
I would want to do that with Phil who I have a crush on! When I lived in the UK he lived in my area and I never looked him up. I was too nervous. Joe cocker lived on my street and I spoke to him sting lived in the area as well and I spoke to him but I couldn't go find Phil dammit!
As I watch these guys playing in the dirt it dawns on me, every person living in England who has hump, a mini hill will be out there digging to their hearts content, I would.
The best thing about all of this is that as soon as I heard that the original archeological dig was done by the Victorians, I immediately thought "Oh no, what did they make up this time?" Turns out, quite a lot. It also seems like dramatic irony that the r5estrictions they are working under were put into place 28 years ago by one of the archeologists on the team.
I just love watching this show when Mick is the site boss, he never is rushed into anything by the 'experts' opinions or wishes, he almost all of the time mulls in over in his brain, thinks about it, THEN makes an informed choice where to put a trench.
oh wow, i just asked for more older history like romans and now you delivered. i know its probably not because of my comment but appreciate it nonetheless.
Haven't got half-way yet but decided to take a moment to say how encouraging it must be for students if they know there is a chance they would be taken seriously enough to get this done! Awesome!
My cousin who is the family historian was taking a photo of my grandfathers hotel he built that has a thatch roof was standing on a roman mosaic that a farmer opened up when he was plowing his field across from the hotel
I went straight edge a little while ago. Not morally, bit legally. For legal reasons. And I am in a US state literally surrounded by legal even rec legal weed States. I am introvert poor class, I'm not traveling three plus hours for it. But, still. Ahhhh.
I find it interesting that, repeatedly, Victorian ruins are treated like an on trailer home park. I imagine the Victorians felt much the same regarding anything between Roman and their contemporary. It seems a destructive archaeology. "Oh it's just Victorian."
Typical that a bunch of lawyers and politicians decide what's best for an archeological examination rather than what archeologists think would be best.
In keeping w/ what Alan Torrance was saying, the baths may have been originally built by Romans, & 'coz the grounds around a spring, moving water, are very unstable, the whole structure needed to be restored, or at the very least given a face lift, by later denizens (20 minutes in ). Maintenance by reverent residents ?????
Why is it they always have only 3 days to finish major finds? I'd think if there is a bath house then there must be a villa because only the very wealthy would have such a large and extensive bathhouse. I wonder what has happened with this site if the owner said it was okay to continue now a year has almost gone by.
It should be easy enough to find out if more was found after this episode was filmed, since it was a number of years ago. I'd be interested to learn if they found more too, the area was most likely excavated, as it was an important find. Imagine if it were more like a complex, then just a villa and bath!
Leaves fall and vegetation dies every year and becomes soil which builds up in layers year after year after year. Eventually anything on the ground will be underground given enough time.
I don’t appreciate that Timeline has added these History Hits advertisements with Dan to all their videos and I am considering canceling my subscription since I pay extra for Premium RU-vid to avoid ads. I am not interested in Dan’s new channel and I consider his ads a waster of my time and am offended that they have gotten around the removal of ads to Premium subscribers by adding ads at the beginning of every video. Sure, I can and do fast-forward past Dan, but I don’t appreciate it and therefore every video, regardless of quality of content, will get a thumbs down from now on.
I think those ads are a bit annoying too but i don’t think they’ve „gotten around“ anything. Premium Subscription as far as i know just removes ads youtube also earns money through. Advertisements in videos like through sponsorship are fair game and a common practice.
It would be fascinating for them to build a reproduction of the bath house on the land where they know there's no archaeology. I know they don't have the information to get it perfect but something as close as possible would be amazing. They could even let people pay to visit and use the bath house. Might want to hide a skimmer at one end to not have the totally "authentic" experience of the really nasty water though.
It makes perfect sense to protect ancient monuments, but what doesn't make any sense at all is the limit on square meters for trench sizes. With archeology teams like this, it shouldn't matter how much is excavated because it's returned to the same condition it was in before digging, if not better than when they started. This is especially true when the archeologists are the ones approached about excavating a site. I know I'd personally want as much discovered as possible.
@@JohnE9999 it doesn't need to be repeatable, once they leave after things, local archeologists could take over. And use better methods? You literally just dig it. Haha And they were already using geophysics, radar and GPS to map topography of the areas at this time. How much better of methods do you want, all out 4D X-ray vision through the ground? Lol
Seriously! It's more efficient, economical and from what I hear, friendlier to environment. The modern day equivalent is radiant concrete floor heating.
More incredible is the fact that the romans had working toilets with water streams washing away the waste. Guess what people had in medieval times? Pits in the ground and with a bit of luck they had a wooden seat on top of it. The loss of hygiene and thus increased breeding ground for diseases has influenced history much more than the loss of floor heating...
I like these videos, but I really REALLY hate that they always only have 3 friggin days!!! That's not true archeology.... I at least wish they'd do follow up videos on sites that they essentially abandoned in the infancy of their digs!!! Tell us what was found and uncovered since they left the site, and then go into what they're working on currently, or showing the finished collection if the site has been fully excavated. I'd sit down and spend DAYSSSSS watching those videos!!!! I love seeing this stuff!!! A window into the past! One shovel full at a time!!!!
I believe the rationalisation for that is that a lot of recent archeological discoveries are made during building works, and when that happens, archaeologists usually have very limited time to investigate, to avoid putting the building schedule behind.
@KareBear 4789 It is frustrating. Why 3 days? Money? Regulations like the amount of square footage for the dig? If so why? Do they restore the areas once dug? I would like follow up and explanations videos.
@@stiannobelisto573 But, wouldn't the field report be just about what THEY found while they were there filming?? I wanna know what happened after the film crews left!!! If they continued digging, if not...well, really nothing more to find out!! Lol
There are two things going on. First, for a TV production three days gives a predictable time and cost budget for the show. The did do some specials where they took more time. Second, there is just so much archaeology in Britain. No matter how exciting Tony makes it sound, of all the shows I've sampled over the past couple of months I've googled only two that had any substantial followup. The broch in Scotland next to the caravan park (RV campground) and I think it was The Abby in the Back Garden where new owners were willing to let archeologists in. Time Team did the survey, which was followed up by the Suffolk County Archaeological Service.
Not at all unlikely, a get a strong sense it might be there, or under the church and graveyard. A lot of very old properties in Britain and elsewhere are right next to or even on top of even older Roman era properties, passed on and passed on in a line of ownership so far back records and recall have been lost. The house has been there in some form for around 800 years, probably part of an even older estate that not just the house but even the little community around it could be associated with, the whole village might even be the vestige of a long lost Roman town. Of course, you can't exactly dig up a house that is ancient and historical in its own right. But there's lot of things that can be done to figure out if older things lie under and right around it, it costs more and takes more than three days to do though.
As I watched Time Team build that Roman hippocaust, or heated floor, this illuminated so many references from so many other episodes! 🤯 I'm only at 29 minutes in this episode, but my bet is that the Romans created a small sauna and diverted the stream by it to form a cool pool or just get your feet wet pool to cool off as a contrast with the heated room. The other rooms are dressing rooms maybe :-) they located it by the stream to clean the plunge pool. The main house is probably under the site where the current home is, up on the promontory.
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STOP implying that you Timeline people made the Time Team videos! Give credit to the folks who actually did the work! You're just re-running episodes. You curate history documentaries. Which is not a bad thing, just be honest.
Can anyone help me understand why there seems to be so many sites that are listed or scheduled that aren't revisited? It seems like time team has made a career of going back to sites that appeared to be potentially serious finds that never get looked at again.
You can cut out a polyurethane foam cushion with a steak knife to make a trough. it can be carved. and then fill it with soil, especially soil from particular sites like this. top soil, sub soil whatever one chooses. Supposedly there was a folly in Great Britain. The Original owner purchased with great expense limestones formations from Hilliard Ohio quarries. After his death, his family had them knocked down and pushed into the bushes.
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They ended up excavating one whole heck of a lot more than 10% of that site. What was all that bellyaching about how restricted they were, at the beginning? Because of our limited digging allowance, over and over again. They dug the entire site up! There was sweet FA limited about any of it. Seriously, WTH is he on about?
Probably started as restricted due to previous excavations. And later when new finds emerged they were allowed to dig further. That's bureaucracy for you ;)
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@@Schmorgus The other thing they all kept harping about was that they only had three days to complete the project. No bureaucracy moves that fast. Certainly not in the UK! Not even close. Good try, though.
@ Clearly there were some legal forms that had to be signed for them to continue the excavation since they started with strict rules, doesn't matter if you didn't understand that part. I guess you're one of those trying to complain about everything. It all worked out in the end no matter what, and it was a good episode imo.
Only the scheduled area (the boggy area) is restricted. The lawns and other areas aren't included in the scheduled area, so they can dig whatever size of trenches they want outside of that.
