Time Team S09-E05 Ironbridge.Gorge,.Shrops 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ambrus

In time team alone he's drawn painted carved wood and stone engraved a coin stamp and taken photos. Truly a renaissance man.

Fully agree!

@@joshschneider9766 He sculpted, too! R.I.P. Victor Ambrus

I was so sad to hear about when he died this past February, but I'm so glad that the new episodes of Time Team are using his vast cache of drawing that he made for Time Team over the years (with his family's approval, of course). When something they're digging is the same period/item as something he drew before (i.e. an 11th century manor, a Roman road, etc.), Time Team can now use an old work of his as a visual aide for the audience. I love that his work will live on in the show like that! And Time Team's website also sells books of his art, too.

Wow!! When did the Pilgrims arrive? Imagine carving something like that out of the wilderness. Pretty impressive, I would say. I live in Telford, very close to Ironbridge.

​@@lizeggar2421about twenty years prior but the Spanish had been here for over a century.

The Brits were late to the colonizing game compared to the rest of Europe. Elizabeth was basically pressured into it by greedy speculator types

Maybe he meant “dry humor”?

Jan truitt No, wry would be more correct - he just doesn't know how to spell.

Maybe not…my husband thinks he is humorous when he drinks rye.

As a modern foundry worker I went from 186 pounds to 156 the first six months I worked lol

That's cool!

Smiles. .he is making sure they are doing it correctly. Such an adorable pup.

@@lorawiese5897 iy in iiygyu. K. N. . J.g

Border Terrier, we have one now and had one before, best little dog on the planet

Me too!

I wonder how many people made Mick sweaters?

thanks for the laugh

Except he's saying "stone the croze". In Midland dialects the word for the cork on a barrel was croze. Stone the croze means smash the beer barrel cork with a rock

@@joshschneider9766 Except, Phil's from Somerset

@@joshschneider9766 , Fascinating! So Mr Phil actually says 'open the beer barrel!'

Thanks for the laugh!

Did anyone ask?

@@markfox1545 , No, but being incurably inquisitive, we like to know.

​@@markfox1545no and nobody asked you to snark for no reason. Any knowledge is good knowledge you useless git.

I've sand cast metal as well as done open face castings of glass where we poured molten glass into impressions in sand rather than used a cope and drag. I miss molten material

Trust me the headache of having to consult federal officials for as little as deciding what color to paint the walls gets old. Yeah I guess it was worth it but it is a god awful headache dealing with county archaeologists and national heritage people. Im glad archaeology gets saved but there's a lot of headaches.

It isn't a Discovery made program though, it is just a repeat of a show made by Channel 4 in the UK.

@@Rover200Power That's beside the point. Wether they produced TT themselves or not, Discovery channel gave it a spot in their programming back in those days. Compared to today's programming, imo things have gone downhill the last 20 years.

I usually don't comment on anything over a few weeks old, but I'm glad I'm not the only person to giggle when someone says "Shropshire" thanks to Daffy Duck

Name? Shropshire Slasher Occupation? Shropshire Slasher

I just googled the slasher and holy crap what a case!

1000 to one looking we are looking as well 😊

He's been doing a bunch of work over the last two years on the battle of Waterloo and even though he's a flint man he always dips his cap to the men who died in the battle. He's a dear. There's actually a life like statue of him at the museum in Salisbury.

@@joshschneider9766 Warm glow time. :)

+nevyen It'll probably 'accidentally' get set on fire, then demolished and a block of flats put on it. Thats what has happened to most of the grade 2 listed buildings around here (essex).

NoMeatMe Sad. It's destroying history for an undoubtedly ugly set of Apts.

nevyen open now!

MWGiesbrecht Cool. Have one for me. Then have one for yourself. Then have one for me. Then have one...

It is still closed, now during the corona crisis.. they are not very Lucky..

think of the people working... ugh. life expectancy of ???

Maybe not much more than glassblowers - whadja think?

Google says I have to translate 😊

Occasionally sites are preserved in an open pit state but in time teams case a guy named Kerry was the site supervisor and occasionally in episodes and typically he and a team of three or four folks would take detailed drawings and measurements and then rebury everything

In this car park and other such cases relevant contractors were paid to repave stuff and so forth as I understand it

It was a generational skill same as carpentry or stone work or blacksmith. As time went on it became a standardized industry. All but dead and dusted now. Very few people on earth can make a good clamp.

You can temporarily reroute the stream channel so you can build dam, once dam is finished reinstitute the original stream channel. One option.

@Graf: 1. The point of a dam is to create a reservoir to control flow. 2. Yes, through winter there would be a larger volume of water.

coke is another fuel source,used instead of charcoal

@@lizzy66125 I gathered that much. What *is* it? Like what is it made of?

@@angelitabecerra roughly speaking, coke is produced by 'cooking' coal to drive out impurities in a similar process to producing charcoal from wood.

@@alanmorgan8647 Thank you for the explanation

Heat is needed to burn off moisture and gasses out of wood . Charcoal can be made with a coal bucket with a top and a small hole in the bottom and set over a fire. Once the volatiles are gone you have charcoal.

I don't think so.

You would have to add Spanish captions, I don't think there is a version dubbed in Spanish.

Theres a bigger rush running a blast furnace..... especially when it goes wrong.