Time Team S08-E09 Holy Island, Lindisfarne 

Ian Powlesland was on TT almost from the beginning, and while he was usually quiet, is one of my favorite TT archeologists. He also operates the digger with the other Ian.

Phil drinking beer on the back of a moving ale cart is oh so very fitting. :) There goes a happy, happy man.

I've long admired Ian's skill with a digger scoop but scraping literally an inch from upstanding medieval ruins takes a special sort of moxie. Bravo to that man he sped up so many digs with his machines and greatly aided our knowledge of these things.

Thank you to those that disrupted their yards for saving history.

Full marks to the sound artists. That music in the beginning was hauntingly beautiful and just perfect for this episode

Mick I bet was in his element here. He said he could live like a monk but he couldn’t deal with not having sex. Love and miss this Treasure of a Man. I know I never met him but watching this show you feel like you know all of them

It really IS mystical, magical, beautiful. Visited it 45 years ago and think of it so often. Very moving place.

Absolutely love Phil riding off in the cart! One of the best endings!

With cooperage you use the white and red oaks differently. White oaks have structures within the pores of the wood called tyloses. That keeps the wood from leaking and that is tight cooperage. Red oaks lack those structures and won’t hold liquids, so you would use that for goods like apples and that is called slack cooperage.

I love professor Mick Aston ,his wonderful jumpers, his enthusiasm and insights.

this has to be one of the best shows ever its intriguing,its funny and you learn about history, thanx to all the team for bringing it to life theres great characters who are so enthusiastic and positive I learn and am hoping each dig they find what they are hoping to find

I'd love to see programmes like this also on other sciences -- the nitty-gritty of how it's actually done, all the uncertainties and the disciplined way of trying to resolve them.

Best ending to a Time team show I've seen yet!

I just had the good fortune to learn of this long-running series after many years without TV (in the US). It is a treasure. I love the mix of personalities and approaches to archaeology. Thanks so much for posting all this!

If we say it's ritual, we actual say we don't know, love that.

I love Phil, always so good natured :-)

Im so grateful i grow up and remember a time when Discorvery and History channels did wonderful thing like this instead of some real tv crap ......... real tv has nothing to do with history or discovering anything. Tv is crap now-a-day. Which is why i dont own a tv and i watch you-tube. Cheers!

If you think the audio's out of sync, it's only because you need to drink more beer.

Thank you for posting the time team episodes. Cheers

My first Irish immigrant ancestor sailed from Waterford to St John's, Newfoundland in the 1830s. He and his son were coopers, supplying the cod fishery with barrels. His grandson , a cooper as well, came down to Boston/Cambridge, where there was a colony of immigrant 'Newfies'.

I'm surprised they ever saw Phil again. But then again that barrel couldn't last him very long.

Operating a JCB with the skill of the Ian's is more of a zen like touch versus by rote learning, you become almost one with the machine. I wouldn't be surprised to know both the Ian's talk to their machine.

Check out Tony's return to Lindisfarne and Saint Cuthbert's walk in S3 E2 of Walking Through History. Great episode!

Watching Phil ride off with his ill-gotten gains made this episode! Well, the neolithic find was totally cool, too. Even tho it was out of location.

46:00 Phil looks like he belongs in the Shire with the rest of the Hobbits riding away on a horse drawn cart drinking a tankard of beer 😂

Tony always looks so suitably concerned and interested

LoL... Nice one, Phil looks right at home.

Epona, the Celtic goddess of the horses, was a favorite goddess for the Roman cavalry.

After this episode, Phil quit the team and opened a brewhouse in the priory.

I know--it was called the Palace field because the brew-pub was called The Palace Pub!

Finally; Phil and I can raise a beer together at the end of an episode :o)

@ 45:53 on, it is Classic Phil..He's the best. All hail "King Phil"...

What an exit, Phil !!! 👍

A family name Palasse once upon a time? 😉 Phil is truly in love with past technologies. The man found his dream job.

That was a good episode.

The video is not really out of sync. It's just that Lindisfarne suffered an epidemic, that although harmless (and only lasting for 3 days), it caused everyone to have loose lips.

Lindisfarne is such a lovely place to visit.

Wow , England is full of mystical, historic places

Such a beautiful place I've never heard of!

The back garden is here: 55.670528°N 1.798928°W and the brewery ruin is visible here: 55.671129°N, 1.798449°W

I liked the music in this episode...some of it was rather haunting!

I also really like Ian!

I've always wanted to go to Lindisfarne!

Interesting about the horse being eaten. For sure they eat or used to eat horses in France and I recall as a boy travelling in France and seeing butcher shops advertising "Biftek" which was not beef steak but a euphemism for much cheaper horsemeat. I see no reason why they would not eat horsemeat in those times hundreds of years ago on Holy Island.

Horses are usually eaten actually, all over Europe. I'd watch out with animal bones in piles, might be an antrax-bush... A pit to dispose and keep safe animal antrax-victems..

Phil phuckin' rules!

They have seen so much effort! Arheology + tv show! My hat is down.

The two presumable kilns they identified .. could that be nitrate boilers… often used two big boilers for the black powder nanufacturing.. they were not burned hot … that period it was very intense aquirement of nitrate for black powder … and it can fit for the site of the marine base there that period

How could they abandon the brewery like that? Tragic!

Caroline Hardie is the same woman who got Scargill castle as a wedding present and that tt dug up in a future episode. And you can see her husband Niall Hammond at 43:50

Don't miss the true season 8 episode 9 The Bone Caves. This one is actually episode 10.

I always imagined Mick to be a Hawkwind fan

I loved the ending!

I love the dated feel of some 10-year-old RU-vid videos.. The slightly grainy picture, The audio not lining up with the video.. What did you use to make this, WinAmp?

Would you please give Mitch a raise so he can get a different sweater. He wears it almost every show.

Used to go up to Lindisfarne often

Vikings destroyed it.. How dare you! My ancestors were just out on a nice sunday row, when they saw a fire in the distance, they went to help, and found loads of dead monks, so they saved the treasures from the fire just!! *True story*

We did start eating horse at some time. It was uncommon, but horse sausage was for sale in supermarkets. Indeed it appears it is still for sale.

When you have a brewery, who needs castles, and palaces anyway.

QUESTION - Is it likely that when they garrison was established, they removed a lot of medieval material, perhaps even repurposing the stones, which would be of decent or better quality? I think they would have just busted up a lot of the pottery and tossed it into the river. They weren't archaeologists or academics, just soldiers looking to settle in and get comfortable.

Palace could be a corruption of palisades which could be a name for the pub. As in a shelter from the storm, a place to regroup. It could have also served as a palisade to stop ships from coming in and looting the supplies.

Nice camera work on this one...

A few days ago Sky News morning show had discussion of trying to ban the UK Nat’l major race & racing due to injuries to the horses. Might you contact Sky w/Legends story? Current topic in UK! Perfect intro to Legends story!! Please think about it. Try!

I dont mind that the audio is out of sync

That round ball at 24.48, looked like a (suspect) stone meteorite,this is why you have a magnet on hand when digging

Love visiting here and getting trapped on

I think they probably called in The Place at first and then it got gradually changed to The Palace.

People who have archaeological positions today, Carenza Lewis, Stewart Ainsworth, Ian Powlesland, Caroline Hardie, Michael (Mick the Dig) Worthington, Katie Hirst, Niall hammond. Niall and Caroline are married.

17:54 ironic considering the scandel of a few years ago.

There goes Phil after a hard day of archaeology riding of in the sunset with a keg of beer

that round-ball looked like a stone meteorite..i hope they saved it

At 24:40 The cannonball found could have been a super heated, red hot(possibly soaked in tar, set ablaze) catapult round that may have deformed when it something?

What is the +1 in the top left corner at the start?

You can find Time Team series on Amazon Prime in the U.S.

It's METAL DETECTORISTS! @38:25 :D

Can anyone tell me, do the people who own the land get to keep any of the finds?

Maybe the "cannonball" was trebouchet shot?

"What the hell's that?" LOL

i thought lindisfarne was in durham am i wrong lol. i have a friend who is leaving australia to visit this place dont want to send her to the wrong place. thanks guys

Phil - I'm gonna have to bestow upon you - the Title: "Sir Honorary Irish Beer Knight" 🍀 - the man has an uncanny ability of "Digging up - Everything Brew Natured"! *lol - He's a "loveable lil Digger"!*

When I daily work in dirt, I use Surgical gloves. I notice the people on show rarely have gloves on. It has just occurred to me: What lotion or oil do they use for their skin?

A dodgy butcher wouldn't have slaughtered and sold off horse meat as beef considering horses are significantly more expensive than cows. Unless they weren't in the middle ages for some reason. Or unless the horse got lame or died of old age and the butcher in question still wanted to make profit of it. Which would bring with itself several new problems if the animal was old or a carrion. It would most probably render the meat very hard and unpalatable. The horse was slaughtered and eaten because there must've been some situation of crisis that resulted with the inhabitants of the castle facing starvation. My grandfather who was a horse artillery soldier in the first world war (I am almost 40 and a late child of late children) recalled an incident from the front where the troops had been cut off from the provisions for some time and had to kill a few of their horses to not die of hunger. They mourned the animals greatly as they were very attached to them, but also noticed that horse meat is very tastful. Still, horse is too expencive and too useful in so many more ways than other animals are and in normal situation it's not economically sensible to breed horses for culinary purposes. I'm not forgetting the horses which as of today end up as an ingredient of some dog food variations. Those are the unfortunate creatures which were bread for all sort of purposes starting from the horse races and ending at the farm work. But along the way something got very wrong for them, got severly injured and were no longer able to serve their original nor any other practical purpose that would make feeding any keeping them financially justified.

Got till wait 28 days now

Only watching this because of the TV show viking

Lol i just put the play back speed to 0.25x and i cant stop 😅 it makes tony sound like he.s hamered and slering bad just messing with the speeds its weird cuz mu phone never had that till i just did a update on my you tube red

If there was nothing known to be there before TT arrived, why was it scheduled??

At the end of the video it shows Phil driving away in a cart with barrels of beer. Wouldn’t the beer 🍺 go flat with all of the shaking around ?

First aired on March 4, 2001.

Audio not synced for this ep, but its not far off…

The sync of voice is off I feel like I was watching a early American released Japanese movie / TV show like Ultra Man!

The Eighth did more than close down monasteries.

Tony never thanked the Cooper for the pint in the end scene just ignored him and cheersed Phil 😳 he could get kicked out of the British people union for that.

What makes you think I look down on him I admire him tremendously for the work he doeos if you notice there was a LOL after what I said I was joking maybe you should learn to read properly PS. I have met Dr Phil Harding and he is a real fun person to know and what I said before still stands I have never met anybody else that can knock back as many pints in such a short time as he does LOL

I mean the entire show not this episode in particular

Its a grenadier explosive ball ....

I wonder why they always take Phil away for a whole day so he can help recreate something that someone else that didn't dig could have done. After all they only had 3 days and I thinks it's much more interesting what is in the ground. Usually they don't find anything until the third day and then it's over. Another day could have been good too. Especially since it seems that no one will dig in most of these places again.

Clearing away the weed? Noooooo. Next thing you know they’ll be looking for pot.

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Imagine if America also had civil servants who were county archeologists...

place...palace...hmmm