Time Team S01-E02 On the Edge of an Empire (Ribchester, Lancashire) 

I really enjoy these early episodes and cast. Tony, trying to bring it all together for us laymen. Phil, the digger and seeker with the enthusiasm of the eternal child at Christmas. Mick, who passed on in 2013, a more serious foil to Phil. Robin, whom I think brought the episodes to life as he filled and fleshed out the dusty tomes and pieces of bone and pottery into living people in history with such great storytelling ability. The ever optimistic Stewart who seemed to have the most thankless of tasks of hoping those dark and light blotches on paper would reveal real history, and justify his dig location suggestions. And of course, my personal favorite Carenza. She came across as accomplished, smart, inquisitive, friendly and didn't back off from getting her hands dirty in the trenches. Add to that, very cute and attractive. What was not to love about her. Just a great ensemble.

Yes, Josh! The original Time Team crew had a synergy and magic that made the show terrific. Whether by luck or design, they took a topic that many might find "ho-hum" and created a mentally stimulating and thoroughly entertaining program.

It seems like yesterday my late husband and I were enthralled by this brand new concept of television. We were in our teens. I'm still a fan at 40 and only miss Tony Robinson s hair and Mick Aston

Phil is a bit more subdued than he would be in later seasons, but even here, he just can't contain his exuberance for digging holes.

Robin was a gentleman and scholar - fantastic Sotytelling, brilliant humor - a person you would really love to have a conversation over a pint or two...

what was great about time team was you're not just stuck in some classroom listening to someone drone on about archaeology lol. You're actually seeing it being done, which is how I always thought education should be, texts books are all well and good but the real learning is in the doing, practical stuff, it's like you're there with these interesting personalities being taught this stuff.

15:19 Ian was super young back then! I guess the years of running heavy equipment around those delicate, priceless artifacts really got to him.

I love all of the Time Team, but I particularly like Victor’s renderings of the sites and the people who lived on them.👌

Before there was a Matt Williams to torture in Roman kit, there were local Roman re-enactment organization members to torture in their own kit, LOL! Enjoyed this; ThanksForPosting!

Been a fan of this show for several years since I first found it. I am so happy that the series has been placed in order and no longer have a program here, an earlier one there, a later one somewhere else. Thank you Reijer. :)

I much prefer the earlier episodes. Mick seems much more engaged,more explanation,also the interaction with the public and the presentation at the end of the 3 days for the village people.❤

Well gosh ... this second episode just screamed out for the services of Stuart Ainsworth Landscape Archeologist. The final wrap-up would have been a bit more informative as to the reason for and full location of the original defense berm, the Punic ditch, if he could see it from a helicopter and do a walkabout ... Eventually they did get him, and he often unlocked the mystery of an entire area just by looking carefully with his educated and instinctive eye! :) - fan of S.A.

I have watched dozens of these on RU-vid and I can't get enough. They"re more enjoyable to hang out with in my living room than most of the intense stuff, which I do love, but need breaks from. i.e. King Richard the Lionheart vs.Tiger King. The cherry on the top: England has some very handsome archaeologists! (edited for typo)

Tony... "a load of bollocks" someone touched a nerve, love it

Although I'm Dutch I love watching the series again. Thanks for uploading

Nice to see Mick walking the land for landscape archaeology in the early series.

If I had been exposed to experts like these, and especially Mik and Robin as a young skull full of mush I certainly would have taken a very different life path.

I love that this man is so enthralled by the findings in his garden, some of the responses are so subdued. I think it would be wonderful to have a roman fort in one's garden :-)

Hi, Reijer. Today is September 10, 2020. I have repeatedly watched all episodes of Time Team exclusively on your channel since April 2016. .Kudos to you, dear. :o)

Rewatching All these great shows, covid , 2020

Thanks for these videos. I am enjoying them a LOT. It is interesting to see how the Time Team programme developed over the years.

I see there’s lots of these shows , I saw a newer one of season 14 , I loved it ! So now I had to go back to the beginning to see how it all began , they look so young & fresh , compared to the one I last saw , wow ! 10 seasons to 14 to more , long to be on air ! Way to go !!!

... these earlier episodes are chalkful of archaeology 101. Seems oldhat to most fans ... we've been learning !

It would be nice to get this show back in production.

Starting my second view of all the years! Watching this allows one to see how the interactions of all involved progressed to what we really enjoyed by the end of the series! slow going so far but I know it gets better!

I have been watching since 2015,can't get enough of it ,watching Sir Tony grow up, GREAT

Time Team has changed, from these very early programs. Interesting to see the changes & advancement of technology.

In these earlier programs they did alot of evaluations on the local pubs. One don't see that in the later ones. ;.) Times are changing!

They all look so young, quite lovely.

Did my eyes deceive me? At about minute mark 34 when Tony et al are discussing the ditch trench, Tony says "you mean down there where that guy is digging" ... If I'm not mistaken, that's the first showing of Mick the Dig. (I've only watched this series five times over the years and this is my first notice of this tidbit) following on, another year down the road, Mick shows up in the garden early on, on top of a ladder taking photos. Every time I watch these I see something new. :D

@10:39 There is cool then there is "Four Ancient Roman Columns in Front of Your Pub" cool.

Been here so many times growing up, miss the history of uk, love this series

Is it me or does tony look like Harry potter in these ??? J.K Rowling must have been a fan of this..Tony and Professor Mick,, Harry and Dumbledore..

You can tell that they really didn't know where to go sigh this and didn't give all the personalities time to meld together. Tony definitely becomes a much more enjoyable presenter as the seasons progress.

I like the way Mick keeps Tony in check!

The archeologist is right about road shapes. Forest paths too, often have small bends around phantom tree trunks of long-rotted-away trees, but if one digs, there are still linear discolorations.

Thanks so much for posting.

So to be a British Archeologist, you must go with the hair first its seems......love it.

John Gater, in his early days as a Monk, ladies and gentlemen.

Phil is so midevil. Love that passion for history!

What a wonderful series.

1/30/2020. always nice to see Phill with a beer (pint) in his hand (s). luv this show and the people in it!!! just sayin

A bit of youtube TV archaeology on an archaeology TV show. Lovely.

Just gotta say..I totally dig Robin's whole act...

Watching this in 2022 it's amazing too see how time team stayed together for so long, withany of the same people appearing on time team again and again

LOL "where that guy is shoveling." Mick the dig(twig) is that guy. LOLOLOL

There is nothing worse than trying to get a word in, and person #2 just keeps talking over you, like they only want to hear their own voice haha Poor Phil

I have to say the guy who called the team in was bugging me, one of my pet hates is someone talking over me when I am, and I wouldn't do it to someone when they're talking, he just didn't stop yapping!! Surprised Phil didn't knock him out lol

I wish I had half talents of people like Robin Bush.

Love this show just Brilliant!

✨🌱nice to watch all of these episodes :)

This music hits 👏🏻

25:29 Is there something amusing when I mention my friend.....Bigguth.....Dickuth...?

Jim Ridge's garden on Google maps: 53.811161, -2.532256 3 Church St Ribchester, Lancashire, UK

Look how young they all were. And how their high tech seems so primitive now.

Tony changes so much over the years. I feel bad for him here, I feel like the 'professionals' are pretty mean to him.

they are sooo young!

someone tell the home owner to quit talking when the experts are talking...goodness...still, I love time team

Omg the dude with his stone garden can’t quit talking over Phil Harding!!!! Glad they pulled it together as show progressed! Between Tony eating his breakfast while doing his job ( yuck) and the rude dude in his garden this episode made me a bit over it! I do love Time Team though!!!!

Mick is so sweet.

The second broadcast Is it? They are all very young

2020!

I'm guessing Britain had a different style in the 1990's from the USA, it reminds me of our early 1980's. *Those Beards...* January/1994 - March/2013 That's just Wowing! 1994 Really was yesterday.

Cute puppy!

The quote at about 12:57 about starvation killing more, was spot on to what the Japanese found out after the US invaded Guadalcanal, in 1942. The Japanese soldiers were trapped with little or no food, and those that survived were so emaciated that they were of little use once rescued. Also they abandon any that were so weak they couldn't walk...

Chris Haines and the mighty Ermine Street Guard!👍🏻🇺🇸

I can see why Mick Aston left the programme complaining that it had been dumbed down. These earlier programmes are more TEAM and less TONY. They have more of the specialists talking directly to camera and less of the glitzy ra ra of Tony and his facilitation of facts and history. A more gentle and scholarly approach.

Kinda sad that they absolutely ignored that it's Sarmatian cavalry that was stationed there. Yep, horse-riding nomadic(but fierce) people of the Russian steppes. And this stone fort, that could've held no more than 500 of 5500 sent by Marcus Aurelious, is the only archaeological evidence for them ever being on the British soil. Also, everyone should absoultely check cool and simultaneously creepy cavalry helmet that was found there. Called "Ribchester helmet" not surprisingly. It was found near a river bed by a local boy, son of a clogmaker. Kinda parallels this bit with "amphora boy" in the episode.

Wow he talked right over phil

Seems the effectiveness of the geo-phys was overestimated from the very beginning. Otherwise what an interesting episode I really enjoyed it. Thanks for uploading.

having a house made from roman stones would be kinda cool

I agree totally with JulietDeltaOscar thank you

It’s interesting to me how they refer to the native tribe, the Briganti?, as the “bad guys” who stood in the way of Roman conquest and illustrates that idea that history is written by the hand that holds the pen. We have the same attitude towards the native tribes who resisted the “Manifest Destiny” we hold as noble and right here in America as we “created civilization” in an area held by who we consider savages.

I like the Punic ditch. But when it was introduced, it was a slippery slope going into a vertical wall. At the end it looked like a vertical drop going into a slippery slope. I am left wondering which it was and whether it had anything to do with Carthage.

Man, Phil was pretty hot pre hat, wasn't he?

I detect a bunch of old forts😬

Mick was so skinny here

White Bull Hotel with the Roman columns - you can see them on street view: 53°48'43.18"N 2°31'56.59"W

They are working on new episodes and they will be shown on RU-vid!

What I don't get: somehow a teacher writes in to a program that airs as Series 1, Episode 2 ... it's only been around for one show, and with the time it takes to shoot, the show should have been out for at least a season before someone's outside letter would be considered and scheduled.

Actually, garum was probably something like Worcestershire sauce

Tony: "You mean that guy shoveling?" What a way to speak of poor Mick the Dig...

Tony Robinson with hair.

1994 was a bad hair and fashion year. Everyone looks older in season 1 than in season 20.

"Just like the Americans in Vetnam" LOL!

The Romans built a fortress every single day when on the march.

Why did 'e' allow what Mick said and not what Tony said? Consider education and experience!

They always loved a pint 😉👌🍺🍸🍺🍻🍷🍹22.32 a young Nick knowles 😂

That MULLET and EARRING! Oh Tony! Noooooo!

I like these older episodes as there seems to be a bit more originality to them. I like the idea of people writing in and asking for Time Team to investigate, yes there is a polish and smoothness to the later episodes, but in the late years I see too much Hollywood shtick and flash. Though as the years go by Tony seems to mellow out and be much more likeable....not a hotdog as in the early shows.

I'm glad they never brought the snotty guy back, he's rude to Tony and it feels like he is talking down to the viewers.

13:45 "just like the Americans in vietnam" !?!?!?! Tony tony tony

Why are all the cars parked on the right hand side of the road? Do they drive on the right in Lancashire?

Tony looks like hairy potter

21:10　24:28 33:38 43:13 43:42 44:07 45:13 45:52

Why would they have a large corner of a fort on the other side of a river?? Makes no sense.

sam where are your facts to back up your alleagations, not just TV or social hear' say why put a comment like that if you won't back it with facts please

john gater has been a punk for a long time.

a female phiil ?

Wait the Roman soldiers carried 3 days worth of CORN? I thought Corn came from the Americas???