Time Team S06E05 Plympton St Maurice, Devon 

I love that bit too… 😊. “I think I’ll run down and see…” - suiting the action to the words!

As Time Goes By

I know what you mean😞 I recently joined to support new digs through their Patreon portal....and saw what Dr. Helen Geake called the MICK MOBILE 🥰

@@maryannmacmurray4279 Loved that one. After I'd watched them a few dozen times, I'd do it again, just so I could search the backgrounds...... I was very keen to see what English people had in their homes....but of course, it was TV🙄

I understand, I live in Argentina and my city was founded in 1882, so we protect houses from the late nineteenth century because those are our historic buildings!

Lol. “…and this is my unicorn.”

Wait a minute. Phil just said roof furniture 🤣

Yes, said the American in the western US

@@Neddoest I have a unicorn too.

Lost both Robin Bush and Mick Ashton as well.

@@lafeelabrieland Victor Ambrus

She really doesn't want it but puts on a brave face and males the best of it. This is one of my all time favourite Time Team moments!

She already has a problematic front boundary wall as shown by all the scaffolding.

@@kingoftadpoles Or possibly she's having the wall refurbished which would mean having to re-mortar so the scaffolding might not be there to hold the wall up but instead for workers to stand on while refurbishing the wall.

He passed away in 2010, sadly.

I could listen to him talk all day! Very smart man as well!

I agree, I can't watch Ghost Hunters for that very reason. GHI is better than GH

+MegaMidgetNinja When you have Tony and Mick together,anything can happen,even when those 2 are having a conversation.

+Romel Negut I would have loved to be able to sit with (or even near) Mick, Tony and Phil for a few hours! I know a lot of people do not like Tony, but I think they fail to understand the dynamics of his relationship with the others as well as Tim Taylor's scripting of some of the dialog for educational purposes. Most people don't realize that Tony and Mick were friends before they worked in television together. It was Mick who picked Tony for his role!

Donna Perez Thanks for the info.

Mick is like my spirit animal.

I can guarantee from personal knowledge (as I've said before, Mick was my personal friend and mentor) that is true. Mick was often quiet and quite slow before mid-morning, and I will duel anyone who says it was because of his love of Cabernet Sauvignon...:-). I work the same way (although not the Cab Sauv: I don't like it). That first cup of coffee in the morning starts the process off.

In Japan, there is a serious problem of that nature, which is leading to a lot of old buildings getting torn down. Because so much of the country has a TRULY ancient history, things that are a bit more recent (though still of great historical value) are not protected, and many are being torn down. It is a real struggle for those of us trying to preserve the remaining stock of 200+ year old traditional houses. I myself live in an old farmhouse (remodelled and restored completely) that is probably at least 300 years old (a well-known sculptor was born in the house in 1735 or 6, so it is older than that). I bought it for the price of the land alone. Nobody else thought it was worth rebuilding. BUT ITS 300 YEARS OLD! (I said). "Pffffftttt! The buildings in Nara are 1300 years old, and the ones in Kyoto over 1000. Who cares about something that is just 300 years old?"

The building with longest continuous occupation in the world and still occupied is in New Mexico. Acoma Pueblo. 1,000 years, continuous being the key word. Not really "USA" originally, but certainly North American.

@FESERFACE Japan has a larger land area than Great Britain.

Estonians neither have that glorious history... but filled with blood and bones. We were part of vikings... but almost nothing have survived.... ... but i belive, that we all are connected... trough dna studies, we find truly strange connections. Head up! ;)

But whenever I watch TT episodes about the so-called prehistoric era, I wonder about both the American continents. Was there a bronze age, iron age, were there standing stones? Knowing that the Incans, Aztecs and Mayans built huge structures makes me very intrigued about how earlier history led up to those cultures and ancient Native American archaeology.

Right as I was reading your comment I heard him say it at 29:38.

a record eleven times, by my count (and one by Carenza makes 12)

Ohhhh, go watch both of the Turkdean episodes… when they’re up in the helicopter, you’ll lose count how many times he said that!

+Greg B Great one :-).Still they really did a great job in tearing it down.

+Greg B That old shed was probably older than 99.9% of the buildings in the USA.

God, that was brilliant of them!

I agree. They are my favorite, seeing history right in people's houses.

I love THEM ALL BUT THESE ARE THE BEST

I didn’t even finish the 3rd new episode. They lost all the charm and personality of the original show….

@@JamesSmith-fz7qk No, they haven’t lost it at all.

But it is different. That is a problem if you want the show to have some consistency

BRING OUT THE HOLY HAND GRENADE OF ANTIOCH!!!!!!

I greatly appreciate this show because they show such respect. They won't disturb the grave of a child's cat or disrupt the home of a blind rabbit. It's lovely.

@@kevinhill2421 And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

Yep- totally love that! One of my favorite bits in the whole series

Indeed! Couldn't agree more.

@@MontyCantsin5 Mick Aston privately described the last two series as..."Tits-N-Teeth Archaeology". No wonder he walked out. R.I.P Mick.

The last two series are what happens when something is focus grouped. It was what a group of people would say people would like. Ignoring the fact that the show was a successful series already and core audience already loved it

Keith might have been in one other. Beric’s big one was the episode at Hylton Castle in Sunderland. He did ten episodes overall, I believe.

I think you should research the Anglo Saxons more. They did keep records, they did document things, just not in the way Norman’s did. Many of their documents were used and useful to the conquerors, but were likely mostly destroyed later, as surplus to requirements.

and Beric is in fine form; Mick having an exciting project. Good times.

John Doe They probably put the lower ceiling in to conserve heat. Trying to heat a place with a huge high ceiling would be very expensive. I am glad they didn't destroy it because that would be a shame. :)

Besides the heating problem, maybe the later structure would be compromised. I think it would be hellishly expensive to restore it to the original. But certainly, I would love to build a new structure with those timber frames and perhaps use modern technology to ensure heating was adequate. I am not sure how fragile those timbers are but I would certainly investigate the possibility of opening up that area and making it a feature in the house. Perhaps a private retreat or maybe a room which could in the summer be used as a focal room to gather a few friends for meetings and maybe having a light buffet meal or even a tea party. enjoy a step back into the past. The sort of area that poetry and legends thrive. A wonderful oak floor, scattered thick rugs and a few leather divans and horse hair armchairs should do the trick.

I can't help it!!! Poetry readings, discussing and reading Gothic novels, embroidery, historical information. This would bore some people immensely, but I would love it.

@@lameesahmad9166 Great description! The, uh 'meeting' for me would be nerds playing Dungeons & Dragons or some such game

@@lameesahmad9166 I would suggest a glass or perspex glass ceiling, it allows you to see the roof, yet conserves heat.

When Timeteam did not patronise it's audience and assumed they enjoyed intellectual debate!

I've actually had to tell a a couple precisely that in California. They had a nice house, but the woman's grandfather had built another farther back on a "mound." During WWII he started hand excavating a cellar under it, then suddenly quit and moved to the present location and built another house. The older structure had a beautiful cobble fire place and the couple wanted to subdivide and complete the older structure. I went down into the open cellar of the older structure and came back and explained that apparently the reason granddad had moved to a new location was that he had run into human interments digging the cellar. The short of it was that without a lot of consultation (tribal, county, state) they were unlikely to get the work permitted.

I am sure it is all rehearsed before the actual filming of the episodes.

@@Padraigan13 No they didn’t rehearse scenes. And it is a very smart strategy to film it while asking such a question. People have a hard time saying no on camera. In any case, the village and surrounding area would know in advance that Time Team was going to be filming, so the camera crew at her door didn’t come entirely as a surprise.

Yeah - that Steve was one lucky guy!

oh wow i never noticed that! good eye!

Sapiophile! I agree!

Still happy now dummy? ^^

all the neds use 'innit' now, even the pads

all the neds use 'innit' now, even the pads

I caught it when Mick was in the Chopper. Don't remember who was with him and can't remember which episode. I also noticed that others with him used the same word in the same way.

ROFL!! Phil seems to be able to keep from saying it...At least not as noticeable

He is fun to listen to.

Train only stops twice a day there.

Brian Graves In a few of the early episodes, Phil looked like he was about to.

Motte.

After saxon and ends with the tutors I think 😊

RS ATS Ard-Ri That is a Mick doll! Thanks for spotting it!

Saint Boudreau. I, too, am a misanthrope, but I seldom get excited about architecture; I reserve my excitement and caring for non human species; who may or may not build, but who create beauty by being.