Time Team S11-E09 Wittenham,.Oxon 

Phil "come out wherever you are " , Tony " no newts is good newts ". The genius humour of these programs made them an absolute muust watch . But I was at the height of my working career , so being able to catch up with some I missed is a delight .

The best quote of the entire life of the series is Phil’s “If I was a self-respecting newt, I would’ve legged it out of here.”

Canadian here. Lived in England for a few years. Even got to dig my own test pit in my own garden in 2004 when time team did one of their big digs. Never got to see or meet any of the cast or crew. Still was a very cool time for me. Didn't get any finds. But I dug me a good hole. I thought of Phil the whole time.

That newt hunt was hilarious!

am I the only one that hoped when he said "we have a bit of a problem with some newts", I wanted him to say "well it got better" lol

FYI Just watched this episode and noticed in people's comments they didn't think newts would be in open fields. Wikipedia lists these as terrestrial newts that live in scrub and and other such places including hay fields within a few hundred meters of water.

I really liked this one. Lots of experts discussing is really interesting, and no unnecessary drama.

I lived in the vale of Evesham as a kid, and collecting newts was a common pastime, but I have never seen newts in a hay field. The only place we ever found them were in ponds or wet ditches, as they are amphibians.

How I love British understatement: “A bit of a problem with some newts.” 😁

My favorite show! Wish I lived in England. Francis Pryor is the one I enjoy most, always happy & optomistic & truly enjoys all the work! Thank you sir

„This wasn‘t in the contract!“ - „Once the area has been denewted,...“ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Such a wonderful series.

Finally, an explanation of loom weights for dummies!

I was 10 years old when Time Team was canceled. I still wish they had come to Japan so I could have seen them work in person.

"no newts is good newts." lol (thanks, also from Canada)

"If I was a self respecting newt, I would've legged it". (Phil) LOL

may I say again, for every video you put up and every time I watch them, Thank You!

When I hear the word newt, my next thought is, "I got bettah."

Where is Gussie Fink Nottle when you need him?

Don't know why this matters to me, but there's a rainbow at 29:27. Just thought it was a nice touch. Good job, camera crew.

In New Zealand, we call this a Maori Pa type fort. The design is very similar.

What an amazing landscape that was...

The origins of pottery... I think it was noticing clay that was used in making a fire pit (along with rocks but those are not the focus) gets hard and holds it's shape when next to the fire in the pit. After a few fires you might find a bit of clay that holds the shape of the rock it was covering, then you form something out of the same clay and put it into the fire and get pottery. Next you make bowls and beakers and soon all sorts of pots.

Oh Phil, you have better looking legs than I do!

Hey I see a bunch of Canadians like me are as addicted to TT as I am. Good to know, LOL. This newt issue is so very British and I love it. The first time I visited the U.K. their biggest issue of the day was how to get the hedgehogs to hibernate due to global warming. I could just imagine scientist skulking in the bushes with their little mini syringes trying to put the poor creatures to sleep!

Great Dig here. Good job Tony didn't find his'Bodies', or you could have asked 'which field?', 'Oh, you mean, the one by the cops(e)'! Or as 'Bones' would say: 'its worse than that, he's dead, Tony'

“...but no newts is good newts.” 🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂😂

... Johns' comment at the end was an indication as to who was buying rounds at the pub that night ... for sure.

If the infant died during winter, it can be very difficult to dig a grave.

The dig on Round Hill is here: 51.628624ºN, 1.183946ºW The fields to the southwest show the banjo enclosure crop marks quite clearly.

Thanks for the upload

Love time team!! (Also from Canada)

Thanks from Canada

Those thumb prints. Amazing to see that !!

I had a newt problem. She turned me into one.

To anyone rewatching these, please help me note at 42:27 from the top left corner of the shot if you don't see something light passing across the top margin. It was a moment of distraction that lead me to glance up there and now I'm more curious than ever.

29:38 - there's a rainbow behind them XD

I've never seen a newt that wasn't near a pond!

i was brought up in surrey and newts were very common, but now days they seem to be extremely rare, but ive never heard an explanation why ? we certainly get enough rain , and plenty of insects, and the summers were longer than now weather wise, and it could get quite hot, but still plenty of newts, i dont buy the lack of ponds theory, as nearly every village still has its pond, and there are still plenty of streams and pathway water ditches

Until I watched Time Team, I had no idea how important ditches and pot are to archaeology.

9:25 they mow the grass then search for chopped newt.

I mean, even mowing high the wheels would kill any newts that couldn't leg it in time

Check out the December 30, 2004, Google Earth image of the field NNW of this site: 51.643611, 1.195556. You can clearly see a track running through the field toward a pond with round and square features on each side of the track. I wonder how it ties into the hills...

So if it weren't for the women cooking, weaving, storing crops for future cooking and planting, you wouldn't have much of a clue about dating these post holes and beam slots, eh?

21:04. “People have NEVER been like that.” Ancient Carthage: “Hold my honey mead”

Anyone else thinks professor Tim Allen looks just like the neighbour Jim in 'Friday night dinner'? I'm surprised everytime he says something coherent.

gussie finknottle?

Did they find any evidence of Iron Age newts?

Great crested nits, seeking great crested newts! LOL

Poor Tony really wanted to find his apse.

I look at that landscape and ask myself Where's the water source? All that activity for hundreds of years, all those people homesteading there. Where was the water?

Why would any newts stay around with all that noise going on?

mustached archeologist = MVP

From Denmark :)

I'm worried about this channel, what with the YT purges happening.

Corenza😍😍😍

"She turned me into a newt"

Funny show this one was. No newts is good newts. Then little girl walks across scene at about minute 34. Looked a little lost but must have been ok

51°39'15.96"N 1°11'9.34"W Look at these crop marks (via Google Earth) not too many miles away along the banks of the River Thames!

"Id dig that" **wink* -john

21:10 People wouldn't ever do that... in ancient times... So many examples in this "modern" age that contradicts, sadly, that statement...

At 15:23 it shows that Francis Pryor is an Iron Age Specialist. In all of the previous episodes he has been a Bronze Age Specialist. Is he both, or does he just change his qualifications to fit the dig he is on at the time?

29:27 I spot a rainbow! 😊

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... for archaeologists, life is the pits.

Why only 3 days?

now I know what that gypsy meant by beware the newt

I saw a Nute in the bucket of dirt going into the Truck

@42:30 ... Like did he actually put those on and said, yep time to go work and be on TV...

Sad to see the decline of our wildlife mocked.

Kid does photobomb at 34:15.

to de-newt, is that a verb?

What is that racket so much louder than the program that introduces each segment

9:45 field crawling?

23:14 @Francis Pryor...,you are wrong people can and sometimes are exactly like that throughout history

Considering the high rate of infant mortality, I suspect that ancient people viewed children very differently from how we do today. If you knew that your child only had a one in four chance of making it to age five (don't know if those were the actual statistics) it's likely you wouldn't allow yourself to become too deeply attached until they passed that danger period. You'd still love them, but maybe they'd only be known by a pet name or something and only given their true name once they were old enough that you were confident they would survive into adulthood.

Too funny! No newts. I just can't believe there's nothing on that round hill. It's too good a prospect. I know there's tons of trees making it impossible and they did find lots of goodies, but still....

Newt problem get Baldrick to have a word with the prince regent who can talk Bertie Wooster’s friend spink bottle

If nowadays babies die from Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) why can't that be one of the possibilities in this baby's case? It's something still without an explication to why it happens, but it happens. Also, it is possible the baby died from asphixia if he slept with the parents (my grand uncle and my grand aunt had a baby back in the 1920's and they didn't have a crib, and their baby actually suffocated while sleeping between the 2 of them). Babies are super delicate, and when I looked into the death certificates while researching my family tree, 80% of the documents I found were from babies that died during birth or right after (most of them were listed as stillborn, but some had more than a day of life, so not stillborn, just died too soon)

One might assume that long term inhabitation and human waste would have made the necessity of closing down and moving somewhere else.

It would be carenza who pronounced oriented correctly.

a new word from Phil for the english language dictionary -denewted-...

Mowed high...but you already drove over them. Thank goodness newts are wet area animals, not in a field.

I thought hill forts were not really forts --non military.

Considering the Roman civilization, a man of the family had every right to not accept an infant born to his wife for whatever reason if he felt like it. And if he didn't, the baby would've been abandoned outside of the town on a garbage pile. So it is definitely possible that the remains of that baby were disposed of in a ditch or refuse pile due to that kind of practice. It was a very patriarchal society, the ancient Romans - the patriarch was basically the master of life and death and he was entitled to even kill his children or wife if they disobeyed or shamed him in any way (along with anyone they might have collaborated with by doing so, if you know what I mean). Or perhaps the baby's remains in this suspicious setting were a result of an unmarried woman getting pregnant and trying to hide the fact she gave birth to an illegitimate child - a practice that is sadly not unknown in the modern times as well. If the baby was a month or more, and its bones are buried in a place which can't be identified as a cemetary, it could've been the economical situation of the mother or both parents already burdened with enough offspring and either not able to provide sufficient nourishment for the most vulnerable and the youngest, or deciding to sacrifice it in order to save the older ones, or themselves alone. Or the child might have been born with some defect leading to premature death that is not visible on the skeleton, or - while keeping it still viable - rendering it undesirable to the community and causing it to getting killed and buried casually in this shallow hole in the ground. Ignoring all those very plausible possibilities in favour or a very far-fetched and totally unprovable hypothesis of human sacrifice seems to me unworthy of a scientist. It's like this very amateurish attitude that some charlatans adopt: "don't know why, therefore it's ritual". Well no, it doesn't have to be at all. One doesn't have to search very far away, neither geographically nor chronologically, to come across reports of infanticide all across the world.

Good use for the rag, the guardian, to put the dirty finds on. Better than reading that propaganda. Have watched all the episodes at least once, I want to say Thank you for saving this program for future viewers.

I'm sorry, but a loss of a child, no matter how young, is always traumatic and sad for the mother. A mother would never "toss" her child into the rubbish without a care, they should never say the mother never cared. Maybe the fathers wouldn't care if a daughter was tossed out. To this day daughters are killed and tossed out in Asian countries as they have no value.

@39:40ish “Raksha has hit the bottom in Francis’s pit” if Tony would have reversed those names 😆

wood post and fence, were put there to stop erosion. the site was visible and big for distant people to bring and trade goods........... me thinks , first Brits, were less war like and more business like that humans are now AD humans became nasty. wonder why?

I do not hink that phil digs as much as they make it apper a lot is setting up shots fo rtv if i was working in digging i would not be in shorts and i would have KNEE pads plus digging in your 50 plus you would not last long do not get me wrong i love Phil but lets keep it real

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THANK YOU, Carenza, for using the proper word "oriented" instead of that abominable misconstruction "orientated"!

iron age ''hill forts'' with high ramparts in front and very little in back. any attacker would survey all around and take the easy way in. the people that came went in the front 'door' in peace to trade their goods. when a human gets stuck in gear they are stupid.

No newt's is good newt's. Very, very bad Tony.

It is a stonemasons tool

no newts is not good newts. all newts go to heaven

MAGA