The Team have three days to redraw the map of the picturesque town of St Osyth in Essex and establish whether the timbers found in the creek are the remains of a medieval wharf.
I'm re- watching a lot of these older shows and every time I see Mick,I can't help feeling sad for His loss. He was such an integral part of the activities, His knowledge was so evident. R.I.P. good fellow. Cheers, Rik Spector
lol at Tony's beard! LOL the rager comments for a pleasant educational program! I love this show, low drama friendly cooperative humans helping each other learn.
Every time I see them scramble in the mud it’s always framed amusingly but I’m sure it suuuucks to try to do their work in it.. 🤔🤔 would some kind of snowshoe style help? 🤷♀️ I dunno it was just the first thing that I thought watching it.. I don’t think they typically get nearly the snow levels northeast US does.. 😝 Well that’s my pre coffee thought for the day! Lol
Full respect to Paul B, what are treasure he is...he is able to identify virtually every pottery find and hence tell the TT guys whether they are up the right tree or not; a very learned man indeed.
This was one of their absolute best episodes. Such a complicated town story and so many experts needed to sort it out. And this is also the point where they really started to write in a big increase in banter. It had always been there a little bit but season 12 show the big increase. At this point it didn't detract from the serious work, yet, so I think it worked. As time went on I think they overdid the silliness, but for this episode it worked.
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Sir Anthony Robinson was knighted in 2013! Just thought I'd throw that in for the goatee bashers in the jeering crowd section of the audience.No doubt the facial tuft was for a role.Cheers!
I was like whaaat, Mick has written a book about it? We in Germany don't know anything about UKs celebrity archeologist. Went and bought another book from him. Now I am super excited and waiting for it.
Google them, they all have impressive CVs. Mick, Carenza and Phil wrote a book together, for example. That's what makes the show so good, they are all for real!
as Phil waxed enthusiastic, those flint -squares - are indeed amazing. i mean the stuff is hard and tends to break there where one does NOT want them to break. and they made thousands of them...
... Phil is a sensible Compo ... Tony is a younger Clegg ... Mick is Seymors' younger brother ... totally obsessed in his craft ! ! John Gater carries on like Barry ... but only Racksha knows how Ivy and Nora might see it.
Love the show. I never thought I'd see him with a chin strap. Watching the old episodes is like archeology. Full heads of hair as far as the eye Can see.
Love the shows where ordinary folks could get involved. Get the kids off the couch, drop the video games, go outside and go "time traveling". I am jealous, I live in Canada. Not enough history yet! Love the flint church. Beautiful.
You are forgetting the peeps that have thousands of years of history in your country. Especially those close to the border with the US. So just no Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Roman and Middle Ages. But Iron Age, Bronze Age. and probably flint as well.
This is such a classic Time team episode. It has everything I look forward to seeing when I watch an episode. I wonder if these people keep in touch now that the series is over? I was surprised by their little seafood feast at the end and would have liked to know more about what they were eating; smoked fish, oysters and all.
The initial site, the dock/quay/pier is here: 51°47'55.9"N 1°03'47.0"E And the church yard is here, across the street from the priory: 51°47'55.4"N 1°04'37.3"E
@@joshschneider9766 It was *The Sheriff Of Nottingham* in a children's programme. Don't you find it odd how many people don't understand what an _actor_ actually does?
After watching the show, and doing a quick look ay Google earth I can make a fairly good educated guess as to why the town is set up the way it is. Prior the the flood they mentioned the town may well have been in nice neat grids. After the flood a good deal of the town ended up waterlogged, and quite possibly for a very long time. This would have forced the residents to move everything to higher ground which also means conforming to the buildable space available.
27:15 That looked like a pretty deft strike. I know he likes his flint, but I would like to see how good Phil is at knapping. Sure I could learn from him.
ancilodon He is still at it. This video is from last month. Phil teaching flintknapping. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5wNFPW0SWqk.html
It’s amusing the diet of the poor was oysters and lobster in old times but times have changed and that’s the fare of the more well to do now. But even back then imported German beer 🍺 was savored by some guy names Phill.
I beleive it's a decision made by the production company, not the archeologists, they would just keep digging forever if they could. We see the 10 or so people on the show , there are 60+ more in the extended production crew staying in hotels etc. Day 4 and 5 probably cost a lot compared to what is going to be found.
@@mlr4524 yes definitely, that and the "script" as much as they had one, keeps it flowing and fun. Archeology is 99% very boring to watch unfold in real time, more so on tv.
I think it's because they all have Jobs. These are filmed Fri Sat & Sun. They take off work Thursday night and travel to the site. T.T. gets hotel rooms and feeds them till Sunday afternoon. I love trying to figure out where they booked their rooms. Probably 30 in total. Dr. Francis Pryor answered my Tweet Question about this. He said camera & sound worked in pairs, I think 3-4 pairs each dig. The people & vehicles & equipment & rooms & food drink, catering lunch etc all adds up. Production costs a lot I bet.
I find it fascinating the religious fascination of the English society for "tea time". It is like an ordained time that their society has observed. Maybe some one of England can help me in understanding the need for this "time"??
wi11y1960 once upon A time, one of the royals just couldnt wait any longer between luncheon and dinner. she ordered snacks and tea. it caught on, in the way trends to make yourself seem more important than you are do. it just didnt stop after a while because she wasnt the only one that actually needs a mid afternoon pick up.
Yvonne Thompson Or could it be the Hemp crop was "exceptionally good" that year and one of the royals developed a serious case of the afternoon munchies? Put that in the old pipe and smoke it hehe...
CompetitiveAudio no, just no. hersecretgarden.net/blog/the-origin-of-tea-time-2/ in top of that, the rope part of the hemp plant is the older stalks, and the older stalks aren't as loaded with THC as the younger parts of the plants as its a defense mechanism to stop creatures from eating the "bud"
Yvonne Thompson I was a teenager during in the 60's and 70's in Kansas. All along the railroad tracks in Kansas (The transit lines for hemp grown in Kansas during the 40's) there was and still are literal plantations of wild hemp along the old rail beds so I'm pretty familiar with differences of hemp versus weed from first hand experience. My comment was meant in a "humorous" rather than factual vein. Sometimes what strikes me as comical is misinterpreted...But I do sincerely thank you for the link. The culture and customs of the people of Britain and are for me, very interesting to learn :-)
Internal, incomplete or incompetent de-capitation could .. and did (and does) .. happen. Moreover, an instinctive automatic reaction to such a shock - in lucid partial decapitation - would be to reach up to one's head and even, if still possible, stagger toward home .. if only a few steps, to die there. That modern minds (unused to queer battlefield injuries) find this tale a mere species of incredible story-telling says more of our ignorance than of ancient gullibility. I suspect the first image that confuses most is that of a clinical forensically-controlled capital punishment, like the guillotine, where the twitching corpse picks up a totally severed head. A scene that is pictured in iconography, used for gory effect, rather than in photographic record; the next would be in the poor soul doing a sprint or merrily meandering away. It goes along with the insane idea that some soul seen to be drowned in a river might perchance have revived, and after three days of prayerful care, actually survive the incident - like, miraculously (or due to some wicked woman's craftiness). ;o)
Ah, poor Tony - every ensemble requires a comic relief. Rather than straight faces, however, I'm sometimes surprised other cast members don't throttle him -- especially Phil, who often has a murderous glint in his eye following one of Tony's ignominious remarks. I suppose the show's producers feel Tony is a necessary element in keeping the show on a pedestrian level we ignorant gits in the audience will comprehend.
Phil, Tony, and Mick were friends before the show ever started and Phil and Tony remain friends after Micks passing. Not close friends mind you, Mick was the close friend between them, but still friends. What you see is Phil and Mick's own plan, the experienced old professor, the experienced field archeologist, and the "viewer" role Tony filled. Tony asks dummy questions and claims not to see anything and gets it explained to the viewers who had those same questions and couldn't see anything. When Phil and Mick planned the show they didn't want a boring Archeologist talking head explaining things like all other shows, they wanted someone who didn't know anything asking questions that get explained and they asked Tony if he would do it he also helped finalize the plan before pitching it to the network.
Early Christians had such great imaginations. So many people doing some imaginary miraculous thing and get called a saint for doing the imaginary thing.
Tony is an actor and his hair style and facial hair are connected to the various parts he has played during his career. You do what you have to do to pay the bills.
Phil's nails are long because he is a serious guitarist. He plays classical and he plays the Blues. He plays finger style and uses his nails instead of a pick.
16:36 I'm not really sure if Phil is pulling Tony's leg here. He's praising the "craftsmanship" of stones used to block up niches that used to hold the statues of saints. That's like praising the "craftsmanship" of someone installing a drop ceiling in the Sistine Chapel for the express purpose of preventing the paintings of Michelangelo from being seen, or the "craftsmanship" by which ISIS reduces ancient Assyrian statues to piles of rubble of a uniform size. Iconoclasm does not produce real craftsmanship.
+christosvoskresye Phil is speaking of knapped flint which is a traditional english building technique andthe expertise of the knappers is quite obvious at the regularity of the knapped flints, it is not a sign of iconoclasm as ther is quite obviously a niche for a largish statue in the wall, its quite similar to many such buildings which I've seen throughout the south.
Those aren't niches. It's a construction style of alternating panels of flint with ribs of lighter stone. There is indeed an empty niche at 16:50 but the flint work is a traditional building style and that is a beautiful example of it.
Carenza is doing zero this season. Guess everyone got tired of her bossy attitude digging? So after this season (12) she left "to pursue other things". Good, now I can watch professional Helen say her thoughts without acting like a he knows more than everyone. I forgot Carenza was this bad until I watched from S1 E1 Completely until here, still continues, but now I remember her attitude.
