Time Team S08-E08 Basildon, Berkshire 

Ah no! It's funny how time flies like that isn't it? Love your contributions to the show and work in general. I became interested in Classical Roman History and Archaeology after taking Latin in high school. I don't think it's offered at my alma mater anymore which is a shame, but I am thankful I was given the opportunity.

Damn. My actual favorite recurring expert.

OMG it's Guy de la Bedoyere! And you have a channel! *subscribes*

14:47 Guy! you're so young! why are you not appearing on the new TIME TEAM?

dude no way me too! I just made a few bucks off a trailer I found but still

Probably from the old school of... "If you don't have your tools, you don't get to work today ." I've been there myself .....

Sometimes I’m convinced you’re a pathetic joke.

He offers guided tours these days, the Pompei one is tempting!

I think of Barney Rubble

I think that’s dyslexia

+schradeya Hey I'm just glad to see some current comments!

MegaDoug4 Time Team is just such a fantastic show! I've had several EXCELLENT conversations, really recently, on Time Team video comments. People are definitely still watching. I was a couple days behind another person on watching the entire series from beginning to end, and we ended up friends! I kept on seeing this same name commenting "[a few] days ago" over and over, because we were both watching them all in order. We ended up replying to each other and getting in conversations, and we even added each other to circles! And there is a brilliant sociology-based conversation on one of the episodes (the one where they make Matt be a Victorian era prisoner) with a few people updating pretty regularly, as late as last week. Something about Time Team actually incites _civil_ and _intelligent_ conversations, even on the textual cesspool that is RU-vid comments! It's actually a smart show that doesn't condescend nor treat its audience like idiots, which is *so* hard to find these days. I guess that brings out the best in people. Heh... and I say that on a thread with the _dumbest joke ever_ as original post. :P

schradeya I agree. It's nice conversing with mature adults! And yes, I'm not watching them in order, but I'm totally addicted. I had (and still have) a span of 20 years or so without TV on a regular basis so I missed all of these. Really enjoying them. So while were here- question: their artist,Victor, do you know if he did work for National Geographic as well? His work looks familiar.

MegaDoug4 Isn't Victor the best?! I don't know about National Geographic... I wouldn't be surprised at all. According to Wikipedia, he's contributed to over 300 books! You've probably seen his art in _something_ for sure. He really is talented.

+schradeya You really shouldn't take the Mick, it's not nice :P

Was, unfortunatly.

I occasionally encountered him in an eatery in Malmesbury. He was always very polite, but next to history, his greatest love was tucking into a nice, hot dinner. Take a look at his figure!

I live in Athens and the oldest intra-city rail line plows right through the Ancient Agora. In fairness, it's impossible to do any sort of construction here that doesn't cut right through something ancient. And on the bright side, it makes for a pleasant train ride ^^)

Well, I keep mine wrapped tightly in my arms as I sleep, beat that Phil!

Worth remembering that it was antiquarian focused people just as much as the navvies. Archaeology as we know it today was a teensy little baby at the time after all lol

Well, money.

No different today than excavating Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman & Anglo-Saxon sites and then covering them all up again so that some McHousing Estate can be built.

@@harbourdogNL extreme differences actually.

@@Invictus13666 No. How?

Dids.

Imagine stealing a trailer, finding it's full of junk that you throw away, and then a few weeks later seeing this on TV.

Chris c he will be buried with it like a warrior with his sword. 😉

They dug it, but obviously it's being kept a secret by the government :)

They should've made some tea with that fungi, after suitable id of course, for safety.

Why. There are plenty of other examples, and the train was needed. Settle down. Your ovaries will get twisted and then you’ll just be no fun at all.

Ideas about the past back then were considerably different than what they are today, unfortunately. But then, the same things happen today anyway. If Roman or prehistoric or other finds are discovered on a building site, the finds are recorded and as much as possible are removed, but ultimately the site will be destroyed to make way for the new building. On some occasions the finds are incorporated into the new building, but either way, the original site is more or less lost.

Or drunk. After watching the episode where Matt becomes a Navigator I am sure he would be totally oblivious to what he was doing.

Notice Matt wasn't hung over or particularly intoxicated to indecisiveness in that episode? They were very metered doses of booze coupled with strongly hard work. The amount to get them wasted would have been twelve to fifteen pints versus four or five of they weren't working as hard or metering their intake. We call it high functioning alcoholism and a good twentieth century British example is Winston Churchill

As for Georgian and early Victorian attitudes towards the past they were pretty autocratic racists by modern standards

Do you have the smallest idea of the wonderful things destroyed for centuries by miners, road builders, bridge builders, house and office block builders, airport constructors, etc etc? We are destructive, greedy humans. And if you happen to be a member of some indigenous group with sacred sites...good luck. Some bastards with lots of money and big machines will move in one day and trash the lot.

But won't last 2000 years.

Haven't you herd of do as you likeys?

Where is "here"?

​@Ijusthopeitsquick talking about selling it on ebay,I guess the USA.....

Leviosa. With an a and a flourish according to Hebermione ;)

I knew this girl I nicknamed her Dumbledore. Because she was the HEADMASTER ! 🧙🏼‍♂️

Keep proving just how ignorant you are...

So funny I was wondering exactly the same thing; Tony had an odd expression on his face as if to say “we did it- got ‘em at both ends of the intro” ...

Another moronic twat who finds himself witty.

HAHA That is a Skeptical Phil face if I've ever seen one.

...it is mandatory as laid out by the directives issued by the Ministry of Deep and Sultry Voices

When I attended a course on ancient Rome at the State University of New York at Albany in 1975, the very deep-voiced prof stated hyperbolically, "There were no women in ancient Rome." And then, in case that wasn't offensive enough, he repeated it. I got up and walked out.

It varies from year to year. Sometimes very summerish, rainy or freezing cold!

Thanks. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qX01C1ssLqo.html

"The Bone Caves" was originally episode 8, this was episode 9 and "Holy Island" was episode 10.

My point being, be sure not to miss Season Eight’s episode titled “The Bone Caves”. Relying on this channel’s lineup, I very nearly did.

@@jeannineg1350 Apologies if my comment seemed like a criticism. It certainly wasn't meant as such. I wonder if certain networks did not show "The Bone Caves" due to nature of the evidence regarding some of the human bone?

George Dorn Thanks. The thought of shifting episode numbers made my head spin. It occurred to me, I didn’t communicate myself well in my my first comment. Peace.

Only the rabbits know for sure.

Dig spread sn pack down

@@robarnold4104 yes the do as you likeys have struck again🤣

Chris Pascoe it really is such a pity.

You mean like spoiled rich romans who slaugtered 80.000 Icenies when they invaided britania?!

And it would have been rediscovered how?

Thought maybe he was a huffer!

Came looking for this comment, couldn't continue till mystery was solved!

We know. We aren’t as dumb as you.

Only if I don't have to work the gardens

Are you the cops😊

... the Voice of Reason

Yes. It’s such a shame it was the only villa constructed in all of Britain! The horror!

​@@Invictus13666Do the rest of us a favor. Squirm back under the rock you slithered out from and stay there.

Both are tall???

The swastika has a very long history prior to Hitler (Wikipedia). Since Roman rule was before the hideous period of Hitlerism they did not view the shape in the same way, TT was going by the historical platform of Roman times.

Do you think they were put there by Roman Nazis?

Just the trailer, probably a bit put out when they found shovels and buckets.....

Likely producer's questions for her to ask.

exactly! i would have asked her if she had anything better to do.

She was doing Tony's job, because he was at the site. Typically he's the one who asks those things. He just is able to make a joke about it.

Big surprise, all talk and not much do.

Wow, could the armchair quarterbacks stop ragging on the only female archeologist on the team?

@@williammaurice7206 its time teams standard alotted timeframe. Has been so since season 1 episode 1. I reckon Wikipedia has replies to Why that is so.

it adds 'drama" for tv, like decorating shows ... besides, no one needs week after week of digs in Croydon

@@Jigger2361 it’s not for drama. It’s a catch phrase.

They're all professionals with busy work lives -- teaching, research, etc. They can only afford to do this on a limited basis, hence three days.

The reason is shown at 5:03...

Don’t care for her attitude!

Nope. She’s a founding member and one of the actual experts with scientific heft to match micks. And she’s gotten plenty dirty working. So set yourself on fire...I beg you.

@@Invictus13666 - Nope, she was given the position. She didn't earn it. Mick even explained it in another video.

And you're just a cowardly troll who is threatened by smart women - next

I never noticed any of the things that irritate you all about Carenza. She's really gotten under your skin. 😮

Idiot.

is that a real question or are you just threatened by smart women?

Exxxx-actly

@@eboracum2012 and yet, she leaves more interesting things in her underwear than you are.

jealous are we? or Russian troll? Why doesn't your channel have any content? Are you even a "Lucy?"

The Romans are part of your people too.....

That's cause these are all old hippies

..in wake of the Foot and Mouth epidemic in 2001, there was a scissor shortage across the UK and people had to cross the Channel for haircuts