Time Team S13-E11 Early Bath, Ffrith, North Wales 

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What I love is the camaraderie. It's not just some bunch of TV presenters doing a job. Watching these is like spending time with a group of friends. They really were a team.

You've summed it up perfectly

Iggle dee bigldy bung

A great loss to us all!

Tony, while still doing acting, had finished off a season of his TV show, so he and his wife decided to go on a dig in Greece, advertised by the local university. The course/dig was led by Mick Aston, who got along well with Tony. When Mick and Tim Taylor decided to make Time Team, Mick told Tim that he wanted both Phil Harding and Tony Robinson as part of the show

love the way his hands will remain muddy until the condensation on several pints has rinsed the muck away.

Phil is a UNIT absolute champion

Phil is priceless in every episode!

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Stewart is a landscape archaeologist. As such he has been trained to read the ground, even for the little humps in the landscape, or other abnormalties.

Kevin Gouldrup as a Swede I had my most frightening driving experience ever in England. Rain was so heavy and I couldn’t see anything around my car and I was in the middle of a motorway high speed and with lots of traffic. Terrified. Yes, it rains often in England and also very heavy.

Also cold & windy.

@@barbmcconnaughey3070 lol I am watching another episode at this moment.

I lived in the U.K. for 11 years. I rained a lot, but did have a drought the last year I was there, 1990.

That’s England wait until you get to Wales ( I live near Ffrith) The sun comes out every third day 😏

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Gideon Restan mmmmmmmkmmmmmmmmkmmmmm

Klmmmmmkmmmmmmmmmkmmmmmmmmmmmkmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Too bad the program was axed when new producers entered and wanted to do it 'their way.' I miss this program, I have learned so very much from it.

@@Kenoscope and they went woke

I put these people at about the same level as the people who watch time team just to watch for chances to maybe peak at a woman's cleavage and reduce them to little more than sex objects when they are incredibly intelligent, well educated professionals.

@@billie-jobenway8658 I don't understand those people at all - there's plenty of other programs more suited to that if they're only looking for how people dress/cleavage.

@@YT-hv5ro Nearly every episode done in warm weather has at least one person commenting on someone's appearance, usually a woman. About a month ago I went through some of the episodes when commenting to another person and within ten minutes I had found about a dozen such comments. It gets pretty bad. Most common are the people letting others know when the down-shirt shots happen and commenting on Bridget's a**. I have been watching and rewatching these episodes since Reijer Zaaijer posted them and for the first few years they were not so well known and those comments didn't exist. If I had to guess the difference is that at first it was just people with a true intellectual interest that watched and then later as it gained notice more casual viewers tuned in, ones for whom the intellectual value of the show is wasted.

I love phil! He's sexy in those shorts & shovel!!

@Mike Burgess absolutley correct. A well formed character don't need well tailored cloths. Sometimes I think, people get paied for writing comments... no matter how unnecessary they may be Anyway... Time Team was a great show and I love Phils sence of humor. The show didn't run in my country, so I'm glad, to see it on YT

Sir Baldrick is the best.

I'd be in the dirt with him. Phils my favorite!!

@@CreatingwithWinglessAngel Oh hey, his clothes aren't my problem. He wears what's practical, right? But gee minnettis, he should at least wash his hands before he starts drinking (16:44, for example).

He did put on a suit when they met the Queen. He wore his hat, though -- at least until Her Majesty showed up. Then, he shifted into courtesy gear and was Mr. Charming, of course.

I can't explain what use does he have of those long claws he sports in pretty much every closeup of his hands. Just a risk of additionally injureing himself during the dig by ripping one of them off.

@@OstblockLatina Phil plays the guitar.

@alison webster Exactly ! If a unit of Roman soldiers were stationed there to supervise the mining, there would definitely have been a bath house there - maybe not a grand one, but a bath house nonetheless, amongst a group of wooden buildings for barracks etc. All those who are criticizing Guy for sticking to this theory are talking through the back of their heads. The small finds point to a bath, the excavation just didn't find one because the team was obviously excavating the wrong area - that is archaeology, a hit or miss science.

Bath houses were more common than you think. Most smaller towns had at least one for ordinary people to use. Romans not only understood that general health and cleanliness went together, but that public health and bath houses went together as well. So while it may have been very basic and nothing fancy, if the place not only served a local community, but regular traffic passing through there was very likely a bath house on site as well as some sort of hostel or changing post.

That’s Great!

Cool!

Prove it

@@randomness9608 wow; just .... wow ...

Lol Randomness

I want Phil back

I could see the building being a combo warehouse and boss’s office and quarters, hence the heated floors.

I agree completely! I must say though that I get annoyed with Phil when he bends over: his bottom is in much better shape than mine!! 😂

Right you are Rose Mary! If you or I were going to do dirty work, like digging trenches, we wouldn’t be wearing our finery. We would be wearing old clothes that we don’t mind if it gets stained or ruined.

Oh yes! I didn’t notice that at first.

But mainly a lot smaller... Every villa (farmstead, basically) and small settlement had a bathhouse of some description.

Everyone is kung flu fighting ..it came fast a lighting...

I'm binge watching TT now, too! The best show on the Discovery Channel, back then (and now!)

Wiltshire

Agreed. He started out with his bath house bullshit and he's sticking with it, no matter what turns up. He's talking crap. And it turns out, that both Mick and Phil don't agree with him either...

@@Exiledk It's weird that he's being so bullheaded here. In other episodes, he readily jettisons theories and starts looking toward new ones. It would be interesting to know what was going on in his life at the time this episode was produced.

To be fair, it is a pretty tight spot.

Don't forget all that mucking about muddy and rain that catches the camera lenses and photographers despite infamous snarks about invading ditches😂❤😂😅

If you want your place to look like WW1 trenches just call Time Team.

it's definitely colorful. I read somewhere that Mick, in the very beginning, was one day aggravated that the producers/director was telling him that what he wore on camera was to dull.. more color was their Instruction. Mick then showed up wearing the sweater as a sort of thumbing his nose at them and it stuck. Now it's a sort of icon isn't it.

the lady production designer asked him if he had something of colour. he did, the striped sweater. it is on one of the 60 specials time team did besides the regular series. remember, Mick was one of the creators of the program. tony later became executive producer. Phil gets his doctorate in paleoarcheology between yr 18 and yr 20. tony does not become knighted until a few years after the last time team.

I feel for Matt

No, not really. From a whole career of working to a short time, and having to get things done, you get used to working in the rain. I once did a two day watching brief at a place called Keynsham close to a large Roman settlement, watching some engineer's trenches being put in. After the job, the digger driver remarked to my boss 'That bloke watching the trenches must be tough. He didn't even zip his coat up in the rain'. I didn't have the heart to mention that the zip on my coat was broken....

They wanted Britain's gold, lead, tin, copper, wool, and metallurgic expertise. Britain's culture was as rich as anywhere else - look at pre-Roman British artefacts - the decoration on the metalwork is stunning! Romans didn't invade places out of the kindness of their hearts!

​@@cleverclogs2244 You've got that right. They were also interested in how fertile the land was for growing grain crops. It was all about exploiting everything for profit. They didn't care about civilizing anybody.

lovely countryside.

During roman times? That's cool

You took his comment out of its original context.

Not witchcraft. Experience and education.

Not to mention the pyramids, Stonehenge etc.

the pyramids are far from intact.. and you end up adding more stones over time to the dry stone walls

Chris- what 1800yr old wall can you show me thats still up without mortar.

'Dry Stone Walls' only remain if they are constantly repaired and maintained. Else they simply fall apart.

Mortar or not, it all falls down.

According to the Oxford Dictionary (US and UK versions) the word "dice" is used for both singular and plural. It also mentions that the use of "die" is becoming increasingly uncommon. So, just lay off Tony, a long-time friend of Mick's and MICK's recommendation for presenter of Time Team.

*Spike Mullins* One insisted that *TT* is _pornography!_

Something good did - their history!

the same reason they call a car trunk a boot.

A shovel has sides. It's designed for moving loose material. a spade doesn't have sides as it is for digging, which removes more cohesive material. Of course a spade will do the former, but a shovel will not do the latter.

Too polite to call a spade a spade 🙂

josh drop the crack pipe lol

@@Jigger2361 lol but I don't wanna lolol

The c may be there, but that's how it's pronounced.

That’s how they say it!

when i was in shool (on a sholarship) we pronounced it with the "c"

Just a case of "you say potay-to, I say potah-to" Pronouncing the c in "schedule" is an American thing.

@@boatfaceslim9005 are you schure about all that?

Not if the car has an airbag. When it deploys the hands get blown off the wheel, and the left hand hits the window and front doorpost, with assorted fractures, joint effusions, etc. The right hand hits the passenger, or catches flying objects from the rear of the vehicle, also resulting in injuries. Hands should be 4 and 8, so they are pushed into the lap.

Sometimes they do.

You'd be wrong on that score. Depends on the depth of the archeology.