Time Team S15-E10 Keeping Up with the Georgians, Hunstrete, Somerset 

"Well I've been hit by the wet haddock of reality"- Jonathan's realization just cracked me up! Too funny!

Lovely horse you've got there, Tony - can I ride him? Lovely form.... Also this may be the best quote in all of Time Team: "Well, I've been slapped round the face by the wet haddock of reality..."

LERD! Pretty Jonathan, the fabulous Brigid, and a mention of the best pottery expert par none Paul Blinkhorn all in one scene!!! These are the best people all in one!

Love the episodes with Francis Pryor.😁

What a great skill set of Ian- digger and digger operator. I am very admiring!

Isn't Jonathan Foyle a treat! Intelligent, articulate, learned, yet funny and humble enough to admit when he's wrong! I'm glad TT snapped him up when he retired from being Curator of Royal Historic Palaces (the job Lucy Worsley took over, and she's one of the best history presenters in the annals of good TV).

I want Paul Blinkhorn to have his own show.

Jonathan is really cool. A nice addition to the team

I found this program just yesterday. And I love it. I love the set up of the whole thing, the people, and also the graphics, with which buildings and the various objects come alive. Beautifully done. What a treat these are.

Someone get Phil a pint. His grubby charm is enjoyable.

"Slapped round the face by the wet haddock of reality"

This very same thing happened to a friend of mine in modern times. He built a mansion, over extended himself, the foundation done on the cheap failed, bank foreclosed and he never got to live in it. A real shame, it was a super cool house.

Phil is awesome, nasty hat and short shorts.

Francis: "Mind your kness..." Phil: "MANGANESE???" I love Francis, he is my favorite, and I love Phil, but the two of them together is just priceless!

Holy crap, Phil's "Manganese?" made me laugh until my stomach hurt!

Wow, when that picture of Sir John Popham came up at 1:38 I thought it was Tony on a really bad day. Francis Popham kinda looks like the type who would play pranks on his guests. And congrats to Time Team for discovering the first house in England to be made of Manganese.

8:25 -- The music being reused ever episode makes this next lyric inevitable -- "You take the high ridge and I'll take the low ridge and Phil will have a trench dug before us!"

Thanks for posting.

I will never understand the idea of having a medieval castle with a moat and pulling the building down to build something else and, on top of it, filling in the moat to turn it into a path!!! A castle with a moat would be my dream home, in case it´s not clear by now.

The portico is here on Google Earth: 51°21'24.7"N 2°30'35.6"W

... lol 4:58 Phil saying "that's the same MO - ER (mortar)" god I miss the Team

Awesome!

"In 1595 Popham presided over the trial of the Jesuit Robert Southwell and passed sentence of death by hanging, drawing and quartering. He also presided over the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh (1603) and the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, including Guy Fawkes (1606). He was also involved in the trial at Fotheringhay Castle of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) which resulted in her execution." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Popham_(judge)

Dan Ketchum thought Phil was "deaf" - I'd say his selective hearing (not wanting to hear Tony's blathering) was still turned on - he cracks me up - but he's down in the trenches with all the younger ones!

Is there a Phil Harding fan club? If so I want to join.

The american specialist is so lucky. Imagine leaving the colony (fellow american) to be so involved in the archeology of the mother land! The farthest I've been outside the US was a brief dip into Mexico floating along the Rio Chama 🇲🇽

The premier is now on time team original channel and it is season 15 episode 7 on their channel

I love how pretty Jonathan calls these amazing stately country homes "piles" like Tony always does 😂

Francis Popham puts me in mind of Mick Aston.

For me the remaining Walls looks like typically 17th Renaissance Style in Italy!

I am a descendant of the Popham family.

Well, at lest for this structure and time period an earlier question I had about how was paneling attached to mason/brick/stone walls accomplished since I am familiar here in the US they used wood blocks placed in the face of a wall instead of a brick to attch the paneling, at least for 1900s construction. So they used metal pins set in the walls. which I imagine they would do with an understanding as to what was to be done with the decorating of the inside surface? or would they occasionally chip out wall facing and then put in the hooks after the walls had been set up but not plastered?

end of day 2 and no one has said they built the georgian house around the medieval one using the older one as the main support and the newer one as a facade and getting it's support and structure from the better older foundations .... it seems so obvious then you can have a hall around the outside of the old house decorated with the new posh of the era and still have your primary house and party rooms in the old house and just rework them as you build around to them

Those sunglasses Tony. Come on mate.

So what happened to the second mansion, the one that had been erased from the map? Is there another episode where they dig it?

I get the impression that Phil and Francis are 2 peas in a pod.

36:30 Matt and Paul...true T.T. members under duress~ gotta bring them back.

37:09 innit

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Pronunciation of Palladian/Palladio so weird.

cowboy builders!

What kind of accent does Phil have? He sounds like one of the stone trolls from the Hobbit!

Manganese. :) Phil is deaf as a post.

Maybe the blokes wife put the footers in and a friend came to look in on his project; he told the wife the footers were too narrow and won't hold the weight....so, she gave up the project.

I do not agree that there where 3 styles build . I think the older stones are comming fro the older buildings just in a reuse!

After this episode, Phil quit the team and opened a Georgian pub on Hunt Street.

He was a true gentleman are you accusing him of having to buy his own pottery? pace Alan Clark

This is episode 7, not 10.

Why doe,s Phil wear a hard hat but not knee protectors with his hot pants?

@39:55 No one discards money...you SPEND it.

Does the fellow at @1:41 (Sir John Poppam?) look like a very grumpy Robin? Or am i on dope?

Trying to improve appearances resulted in the destruction of what almost overnight became a white elephant to the next generation. Was it a waste of money? Well, it provided a livelihood to a generation of builders, tradesmen, craftsmen, and a staff of servants. But its glory was so evanescent, superficial, and ultimately ephemeral, that when I look at the painting, I see a house molded of white sugar, that melted in England’s rain. A grand conception that was never really real. A Georgian dream.

That historian Elaine Chalus doesn't sound English - she sounds American. Just what is an American doing in the U.K. working as an historian?

Tony you should school up on riding. Like don't hang on your horses face

Dear God this one is boring. Still better than the garbage on US TV.

"And archeologists should be able to tell". Sorry old mate. Archeologists must be able to guess and 90% of the time get it wrong and even then be able to make excuses as to why they got it wrong. Nice job if you come from the right classes.

Quite actually, the most boring Time Team that I've seen up to this point..and I've seen them all...