How I miss TimeTeam! Truly usefull and educating tv show... and beyound. I get so sick of nowdays tv shows... or from tv anyway... Our lifes have changed so rapidly! It is not good sign.
What amazes me is that there is a Roman road/trackway there and the gate is located on top of it!! I mean this is going 2000 years and the gate and old roman road are still co-located. And I don't recall anybody on the team remarking on that. Did they and I just missed it?
Well mentioned! I expect the archaeologists noticed the gate matches the trackway. However, archaeologists sometime assume everyone else knows, too. The road was likely used for the next millennia + before the gate went across. I'd expect a conversation years back, "Why you got a gate in the middle of your field, Ned?" "Dunno, Ted. There's been a gate here as long as any of us can remember."
The person who does the illustrations is so talented. I would urge him to put more women into the technical and production pictures. So far he has been featuring men doing all of the technical labor and the women sort of standing in the background. Women would’ve been involved in building, farming, pottery making and herding. No 1950s women around just sitting at home cooking once in a while.
They found shards of Roman glass in a burned area and the first thing I thought was a glass blowing hearth. I don't understand why nobody thought of that immediately. The Romans made glass. It would explain why it's a burned area but there's no slag or kiln.
Actually Britain has one of the very best systems of protecting its cultural heritage. When ancient treasure is found it is required by law to be reported to protect sites from looting and the resulting destruction of any archaeological context and information. Failure to report such finds carries stiff penalties. If the finds are deemed valuable the finder and landowner are paid for their finds at better than market value. This eliminates the motivation to sell such items illegally on the black market. It is a very good carrot and stick approach. It is definitely in the interest of the governments of all countries to protect the cultural heritage of their citizens. If this site had been dug by profiteering treasure hunters instead all the historical and cultural information would have been lost. I wish that all countries had similar laws to protect their ancient sites.
KYIRISH1 Actually, there is no actual evidence that Robin Hood ever gave anything he stole to anyone else! His story is based on an historical group of people but the were just your standard everyday thieves. Over the centuries, the story got embellished. Hollywood took it the rest of the way into fairy tale though. Wish they'd stop telling people how to live...they are just as rich or richer than the very people they demonize for being rich! People who pay the money to watch their movies are the ones they are robbing...and they don't 'give' theirs to the poor either.
@@lizzy66125 I would give the same answer for the landowner. They know they don't have 100% rights to archeological treasures when they acquire the land.
American here, a California girl....Covid brought me to the Time Team...a big, fat THANK YOU to those who are responsible for letting this be posted!!!!! I have never been a binge watcher of anything!!! The Covid has changed things and Time Team is the ticket...the Time Team crew are rock starts!!! Again, THANK YOU!!!
I have bought a couple of seasons of these, but most are not available. Being in the Deep South of the US. Without these being uploaded, I would never have seen them. Thank you to those who upload British shows.
Holy smokes Tony Blair lol. I don’t remember him in this episode before. But Phil was talking to him just like he does everyone else. It’s why I love Phil on here
This is my fifth time working through the entire series. It gets better every time and I learn new things on every go. My COVID fix as well. Now.....where’s my trowel!!
I know this will sound like a "Mr.Obvious" statement, but as I watched all these episodes of Time Team for which I am so thankful to Reijer for uploading, I was struck with the thought of how "poke and hope" archeology was in the era before the magic of "Geophys". When you consider all the discoveries that were made in the early days without the benefit of electronics, it's amazing how well early archeologists were able to locate sites let alone the amount of finds they discovered...Just felt a tip of the hat to the early discoveries and discoverers was in order..
+CompetitiveAudio As I have gone through every episode to post the geo-coordinates I have observed that the series contains a very interesting history of modern technology. From early dot matrix printers and B&W images to colored radar, from walkie-talkies to cell phones, from simple geophys readings to GPS scans that can create a 3D image of the land in a computer. It is amazing how rapidly these things have changed over the 20 years of the series and how that technology has changed archeology in general.
I've actually been going through the series backwards, I started with the most recent season and now I'm here. I agree, it was amazing to see the first episode they had the more advanced geophys stuff, and now everything much more guess-work. It's been fun!
I took an archaeology class in the early 80's at college, and I was taught that human beings are creatures of habit. You can have good luck near water sources, for instance. But geophys has sure helped pinpoint things!
I am amazed the program worked even though I love watching it. Like Tony said which is very apt "Pin the tail on the archaeological donkey" Put Guys name in the search as I stumbled across his channel. He goes into great detail about his experience with Time Team
When they referred to Tony Blair (rocking the pink tie) as the "local MP", I thought this episode was extra old. Turns out they were just playing with us. Season 10 is from 2003. Tony Blair was PM from 1997 to 2007. He was the local MP as well, but that's downplaying things a bit :)
Good episode. It would have been just average, but the kiln was a great find in excellent shape & the coin experiment was crude, but interesting. Being non-British, I have no real like or dislike of Tony Blair, but it was still neat to see him pay a visit.
Loved his remarks at Princess Diana's funeral. Well, hated why they were made necessary. No one will ever convince me those paparazzi didn't cause her death, blood alcohol/pot/whatever.
Phil looks and sounds like a bumpkin, but in actuality is a wealth of knowledge and instinct. When he launches into one of his theories, he becomes incredibly articulate and very well spoken. I think his "bumpkin" persona is very well developed and cultivated for his TV image, and it works perfectly. I'm a huge fan.
I've been watching these shows during quarantine in lockdown and I want to tell you how much I enjoyed them I love feel and the way he loves what he does and his sense of humor.
Agree. I started watching this series when quarantine began and love it. While my friends were obsessed with Tiger King or whatever, I'm really enjoying Time Team. Lol
People must have been more aware of counterfeit money before? I've never thought too much about it, but I assumed coins where more or less worth their weight in the metal used?
Despite the lack of evidence of habitation, I still think that the people obviously did live there. So did Phil if we are to go by what he said at the end. It makes no sense that they would have all that small time back yard industry only to live elsewhere. So one must conclude that by sheer accident that TT simply chose the "wrong" plots to dig by opting to go with the ones that showed industrial use on the geophys, and that perhaps those, like animal pens, were separated from ones they lived in. In archaeology one should always recall the maxim that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Another great story unfolds on our screens. What a wonderful program that brings history to life and highlights the diversity of landscapes of the British Isles. Thanks for uploading.
In America, when people disagree, they burn police carts and businesses and post offices, and shoot police officers. It's quite a relief to stay away from the evening news and just sit and watch Time Team with their gentle arguments.
@@lucygray6162 No. In America, SOME of the people, who are criminals, are glorified and praised as peaceful protesters, etc what you said. Generalities are ignorant.
Just realized Phil's hat IS NOT disgusting !! At some point I think a trade mark hat becomes a mental illness. When it as 10 kilos of sweat and grime on it, but well done cleanish hat
was there anything that Victor could NOT do? drawings, paintings, sculpturings, - dies - for making coins, painting on wet plaster... and most of the time from basically - no - information through lifelong experience... - chapeau- even now
Channel 4 did us a great service by leaving these programmes for posterity. Is there any possibility of another series but of necessity, much less expensive? Pity that in this techno age, sound and vision can't be synchronised. Oh, and Phil Harding's " over the top" silly laugh drives me bonkers!!
It's interesting to read these comments and discover how certain things effect people so differently. For myself, I've frequently thought that Phil's laugh was quite appealing. I see it as revealing his strong self-confidence. He's expressing complete joy without any reservations. He's quite comfortable in his own skin. I like that in a person. If we were all the same and all liked the same things this world would be quite boring.
I ,too,really enjoy Victor’s work and obvious talent as he tries and masters new techniques with ease.Only thing is for some reason I can’t fathom I don’t like his watercolour paintings of figures.Not a criticism purely an observation and more than likely a lack of taste on my part.Anyway the man has a wonderful talent and seems to be a charming gentlman too.
Mick Ashton actually commented on that in one of the Time Team Special episodes. He said the three day exercise is representative of how much archeology is carried out. It has a lot to do with determining what is in the ground more than doing extensive excavations.
It seems to me that what you have, given Guy's theory of "hoards" of coins but no military signs, is a camp of civilians who do some metals and pottery works, maybe a watering stop for the passing Romans on their way to the Wall....lots of work there! The coins are the winnings of a few of the semi-permanent workers who were gambling with the passing soldiers just to kill time. The Romans liked to roll the dice you know!
Another possibility they haven't discussed is before Roman soldiers went into battle, any soldiers in ancient times, would have gone into the woods , buried there coins in spots . They would have put them in cups , leather or cloth bags. Intending to come back after a battle. If they did not make it , the coins stayed. That's why you have lots of scattered broken pottery, lots of scattered coins and other goods. Then throw in a mix of a settlement . Then give it 500 years of plowing to break and scatter things even worse . This wasn't 3 separate hoards. I believe as Gil said in the beginning roughly, we have no knowledge of any Roman here before. I think this on his part was an attempt to grab these under the hoard umbrella to be sorted at a museum. So the finder keeping half the value rather than the whole thing .
Since they are using brass blanks, they could take a hint from gun ammo re-loaders, heat the blanks almost red hot then rapidly quench in cold water. That will make the brass soft and easily struck.
WOW...THIS IS BEFORE TONY BECAME THE PM ISN'T HE? WHEN HE DID THIS EPISODE HE PROBABLY DIDN'T THINK THAT HE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF MILLION OF PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST EH? :p
I don't care for Blair either but his local pride was quite endearing all the same. A and Phil got to show off his hard work to a future prime minister which is always a nice feather in the cap
Another possibility is that they were stashed in a hurry when the Romans left Britain, perhaps by someone who hoped they would get the chance to return and collect them later. other hoards found in Britain have been attributed to this.
why NOT ? those silver coins were *hard* earned by those poor people and buried as a group 'hoard' in an attempt at proto-banking. 1 silver coin per family all buried as a COMMUNITY 1800+ years ago to avoid it being stolen during hard times.
how come they only have 3 days all the time? I know they call it the Time Team but sometimes they are rushed pretty good and if they had more time they could do more thorough job
Partly budget, partly that the archaeologists all had regular Monday to Friday jobs too outside of Time Team. The 3-day format let them take a day off work to make a long weekend they could film on.
"Can I come your trench Catherine? " Oh dear Tony! GUY, "do you know how old this coin is? It's 1900 years old! It was made in the fourth Century!" wtf?
Hang on. At the beginning Tony mentions this "very unusual figuriene of a goat", but there's no explanation on what it is? An army mascot names Baldrick perhaps?
Wow! Phil gets to impress ole Tony Blair....least that oo e looks lyke! He deserves it! My main man. With a platoon of men like him I could take on any troop of Romans.
