Time Team S16-E01 Beacon of the Fens: Warboys, The Fens 

Spend time with operators. He’s fairly ordinary.

I want his hat

Phil is the most chill person of the British. Greetings from Denmark

A story has many tellers 😊

This show had a huge impact on British archaeology over the years. When it first began a lot of the other experts and archaeologists around Britain threw a fit, saying this was just irresponsible and u seless and set a bad example with people, encouraging them to dig into things they should leave to the experts, etc. After the first few seasons most of them came to see the show as beneficial, not only academically, as they were able to identify, examine, and publish their findings on a great many sites, but also in catching the interest and fostering support and understanding of archaeology to the masses. After the recession around 2008 archaeology funding took a hit but the show was well funded and they were able to do sites requested by other archaeologists and even English Heritage. Mick had really wanted to bring archaeology to the people and this show certainly accomplished that. Tony was even knighted for his service. It's a bonus that so many people like me here in the US get to watch and learn so much from it too.

Have you ever seen the episodes where they came to the US and did s couple digs here? It was wonderful.

Cat Jo I saw the Jamestown one, with the artifacts recovered out of an old well. It was so cool. It’s fascinating how some artifacts are so well preserved because they’re submerged and kept from oxygen. If you have any recommendations let me know 😁 I have a geology degree and sometimes I wish I would have gotten into archeology

Yeah cuz he coined the phrase. Sigh.

My nan used to bury one eel at the bottom of each potato hill and she never got less than a bakers dozen of very large potatoes from each hill ! Don't doubt the value of the right fertilizer!

Agreed, that dude is gold.

Wotdermatter Here, here! Well said, sir! Frances does annoy me at times, but I still respect him.

+Bottomlands The flaw in your argument is it is an MP's job to represent the views of their consistency, they don't have any special training to be an MP; you can't get a PhD in being an MP. Your argument is a false analogy, and then you have to bring 'political correctness' into something where it does not belong. Personally I feel political correctness has gone too far in many respects too, and I'm as far left as you can possibly get (also can't stand SJW types, same as most leftists). But these days I see so many people using anti-PC as a crutch for their ideologies. But how does political correctness apply to judging someone's credibility when it comes to talking about a certain topic? Now of course I think that anyone should be able to question anyone, even if they have a level of education you don't. Personally I know 80% of what I know just because I enjoy learning on my own and have access to the miracle of the internet. But in those cases the burden is on you (or me) to provide a well thought out argument to support your view instead of just saying "he's wrong because [insert theory here] is how it happened". Because I need to know that you (or the person making the argument) knows enough background to make a legit assertions. Whereas I know that someone with a degree knows enough about the subject because they studied it. Doesn't mean you haven't, but if you don't have a degree you've got to show me you know what you're talking about some other way, and just saying "because I researched it" isn't good enough. Degrees aren't some magical thing that makes people smarter than everyone else, it is just a time saving measure so people don't have to prove themselves every time they have an idea.

Thank you, Donna. While I am not an archeologist, my background is as a Clinical Psychologist, I have an older sister who used to dig at the Mithras Temple in London. She used to be given small odds and ends for her work because nobody received payment. It is also obvious that the person offering criticism to my comment has no academic background or is unable to decipher the truth/reality from the falseness of his/her own arguments especially when using abbreviations that nobody else knows or uses and brings in "political" statements that are irrelevant to this programme.

Don't forget that education is rarely related to intelligence.

Watdermatter and Donna Perez, I second that here, here. Francis has a different way of communicating to Phil and as we know everyone loves Phil. (Including me) But Phil does exactly the same thing as Francis. If he is determined that the site should contain a certain era or building or relic he goes all out to find it; sometimes he loses and has to concede his error. Francis got really excited by the superb pre-historic stone axes found on site. (you have to admit that black flint axe is beautiful) He desperately tried to put it in context with the site and was very disappointed and frustrated in his attempts. I can just see him sitting alone after the dig and dreaming of those wonderful artifacts and wishing he could still be there digging up the whole bloody field to find the source of the finds. When Phil gets upset or disappointed he wears his feelings on his face; Francis however voices his feelings and then you get stupid trolls judging him. I wish him all the best and I hope he still managed to track down the source of the axes.

that's alright bub, he likes Anglo-Saxon as well.

He seems like such a nice guy too.

@@TK-tcbk1Indeed he does! I would dearly love the opportunity to meet him one day and shake his hand.

Or at least cut off for a while 😊

No, more likely a cult site

I trust there wasn't any residual dead cat scent...

He was the Herbalist. I can't recall the Informer's name. 😉

😂

Sarcastic weird comment placed here. But do relate and understand be well😊

I live in Iceland... erm ;)

I don't engage in relativism. To me it's a pissing contest.

@@awallner1 It's not relavtism. America is colder than most of Europe, short of Russia, Ukraine, Finland.... If you look back into American History, when most of the English went West for the first time, they found wood cabins and land cleared ahead of then by years. Finnish colonist who came in the early 1600s spread through the continent quickly, as they wernt inhibited by weather due to their homelands. I find it funny too, when historians talk about the cold winters in Europe, which I'm sure were cold to the people living there at the time. They didn't know how cold America was, I don't blame them. We can say it's funny now, cuz we obviously know the difference now, but people still make hyperbole. I remember Time Team, coming to my home state of Maryland in season 3 or 4 I belive, to help excavate St.Mary City, the first English Capitol City on the New World. All i can remember about the episode were the Englishmen complaining about the humidity, esp Phil. It's called a "Chesapeake Summer" and at times it can be worse than Florida here. It helped us beat the British in War of 1812 as well....( We had a large collections of letter, artifact, etc..my highscool sat on the battlefield) But I can vividly remember reading journals from the men in the British army, swearing at the weather here in Maryland. It's just so interesting to know the little things do matter in the grad scheme of things.

There are different kinds of cold, and knowing the climates of Northern Europe, I'd take snow and frost over a windswept, humid moor like in the programme any day. Edit: That said, the Brits do benefit a lot from the Gulf Stream and do not get the kind of winters we know in Scandinavia, and so they do tend to complain about things being "baltic" while the Scandis are still wearing light jackets. 😉

@@Beechhill ..have you been to the northern united states in the winter? -45 with wind chill doesn't compare to Britain heated by the gulf stream.

Abandoned for one or other reasons, fell into disrepair, masonry sold off, landscape (soil) features repurposed or simply plowed. Modern plowing tends to be deeper and, archaeologically speaking, more destructive.

Rick Boatright I was hoping to attend the KS training program at Scott State lake this summer but The Corona virus may put the kibbosh on this year’s program..

Time team has episodes n USA look in series 1

@alan wilson uh, no. Tell you what, come to kansas and try that out....

@alan wilson bt, done that. Miles and square decamiles of no sign of humanity, no rock artifacts, no ceramics, no pre 1800 metals, We HAVE paleo habitation sites, but they're late, post 1000 ce generally, nomadic or short term farmsteads, and scattered with thousands of square miles of nothing. Ive field walked the flint hills for decades. Theyre called the flint hils for a reason, figure it out. And in all that time my buddies and i found one, (1) site where a core was worked and it had been previously published. When we put new sewer lines in the back yard, about 40 sq meters was wxcavated to 30 feet. Nothing in it but dirt except for a bottle cap and four nails in the top foot.

in my town near Boston, there's a house from the 1640s that had some archaeology done on the property about 15 years ago, and that's it. There's an Indian stone tool quarry 5-10 miles from my house, and not much else. Many arrowheads found in the region over the years, but that's about it. The Indians lived light on the ground.

Mick is dead, So is time team.

...then "tits and teeth" arrived

@@Jigger2361 It's more about who departed than who arrived. Helen Geake, Stewart Ainsworth and Victor Ambrus all left and weren't replaced. Their roles were crucial to the team and losing them was a disaster. They also lost their production crew and were assigned a new one not familiar with the special requirements, according to Francis Pryor that was one of the biggest problems they struggled with during the last series. I do agree that Mary-Ann Ochota was misplaced in the role as presenter though. The presenter shouldn't be an archaelogist for a start, he or she needs to be the audience's voice in the programme, asking all those layman questions about things an archaelogist would take for granted. That's exatly what Tony Robinson was so good at. I think what they should have done was give her a combined anthropologist/archeologist researcher role somewhat like the historian/archeologist Carenza Lewis filled in some of the earliest episodes. In that role she could have been a really valuable asset to the team.

@@tessjuel tony was a joke... and annoying as all hell... you definitely should have an archeologist or atleast someone with the bare knowledge of history and archeology as the pre`semter not some lifelong paid actor who doesn’t know anything about anything and is only worried about “firsts” and “making history” and has the most grotesque irreverence to graves/burials I have ever witnessed in my life and just wants to “yank” everything out of the ground

@Richard Grace Yeh, that's why he lasted 20 years on the show, earned a knightood, and is still making documentaries today, (or, what did you call it?) "pre`semter'ing history shows today. I guess you're one of the few wise ones who realizes that he has been fooling the rest of us for many, many years.

The UK is an island. The sea air stops the snow and the wind is what makes it cold. Ask anyone over the Atlantic!

jacob kanal I think it’s not a matter of them just Willy nilly farming them, I think that they’ve been farmed forever and many are lost. This one for example barely looks like a hill. No my brain would have said...don’t touch that, but I can see where farmers past and present wouldn’t care one way or the other about that little knob of grass.

It's actually Chapel Head, but who's counting?

It's also a small college town in NC

A chapel for the hobbits?

Fairies Chapel?

Rarely. They didn't have time.

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 ohh so how do they know soil composition for potential yield

@@itorca I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by _potential yield._ Archæology won't necessarily show up in a core sample.

Before the Romans who started writing down the history of the area (along with the whole Empire). The native peoples from before the conquest did not record their history -- thus, it's "Pre" history.

Our ancestors did record their history, just not in a way that we can readily understand. Symbols and pictures were used as reminders, the details were filled in by the elders but only to those who needed to know.

Time teams been there. Early episodes show 👍

They've been to Maryland, Jamestown, VA and Montana looking for dinosaurs.

Seems you don't know jack about how archaology works. Please go back to your corner and shhhhhhhh.

what would we dig up here? you dig up native sights and you are going to burn for it, so whats left civil war ?

There are other historic sites than Native American. Even then, with the proper respect and education the Native Americans are just as interested in preserving their history...or what we haven’t destroyed.

@@swimnwfishes you might be right. But under the law as it stands it's very hard to do anything if natives used the area for much of anything. At least in Oregon you can't even pick up arrow heads if you find them. But you are right there are probably some who would be for it.

Half anhalf he does admit when he is 😊

+Dean Porter Both spelling of Medieval are correct. Back in the day it the UK it was not uncommon to spell using the "ae" dipthong. Many people still spell medieval with the extra "A".

@@onnieduvall2565 Is that why it sounds like: "Medie-ieval" when they say it? With a sort of stop in the 'ie' sound?

@@Keyboardje Yes. It's also spelled mediæval.

It’s not a “problem”, lol. That’s correct.

Try 17:49. She totally disappears from the episode at this point where Phil takes over her trench. They were calling it Brigid's trench up to that point, then after that it was "Phil's trench". No more Brigid. That really sucks.

I'm afraid it's you!

Phil, John, and Francis are all in the same conversation in season 15 (?), “Keeping Up With The Georgians”… -‘Mind your knees!’ - ‘Manganese?’

Brigid disappears from the episode at 17:49 when her trench becomes "Phil's trench". The archaeologist he's mansplaining to at 43:00 is a different one.

He is such an a$$.

Bridget was in the entire episode just bundled up in the ending 😊

Baloney. Look up the little ice age, when medieval folk went skating on the Thames.

I think they are only allowed a certain square footage

In three days? Who do you think they are, Chuck Norris?

rude and crude. Never assume anything. I share my youtube account with my husband, and he is the Time Team fan. Seriously? And no by the way, Time Team is not 100% scripted. Fact check time for you. smh.

Lan4845 It is the English thing to do, innit?

@Leopararouen I dunno about 'scripted', he's just British. Absolutely no-one can complain about the weather like we can. I don't know where you're all from, but over here, whinging about it being too humid, or too cold, or too ANYTHING really is just part of what makes Tony relatable and funny - we can all see a bit of ourselves in someone so absolutely, quintessentially British.

Bless his heart ;) Tony is a bit of a delicate flower

Not a dog person I guess 😅

@@user-hy7zb2vl3t: It been so long I don’t remember the reference to which I was speaking, but what I can say is that all the roadkill around here is opossums, woodchucks, raccoons, and muskrats, along with the occasional squirrel; although those little buggers are fast, so you really have to catch them off guard. As for dogs, I absolutely LOVE them. I have had at least one dog in my life, for all of my life. Whenever I come across a dog lying dead on the road, it just utterly ruins my entire day.

Take no offense please keep caring please and let nothing ruin your day 😊​@jamest2401

@@user-hy7zb2vl3t: Oh, no offense taken at all, in any way whatsoever.👍🏻

I despise Frances. I always expected Ian would have an 'accident' with the digger that knocked his ass out, right?

Francis is a twit!!

Erin A Elizabeth Close...he's a twat.

damaged05170 Twit or Twat either way he is a complete idiot!!

Francis looks like Willie Nelson's long lost brother.

Dude uses them as shovels .

He's a fingerstyle guitar player, too.

But he is a hell of an archaeologist....gonna get your hands dirty! Phil can sniff this stuff out, I swear!

***** Badger hands!

+damaged05170 And if there is nothing in his Ditch, he just Gate crashes somebody else's. I don't thing Bridget is his biggest Fan, I know I'm not.

frankos rooni Real penetrating cold is -30°F, which is what we get every winter for a few weeks here in Wisconsin, USA! It's not damp, but it goes straight to your bones. That's cold!

frankos rooni Yeah, it's days like that when we wish global warming was real! LOL

Donna Perez There's no doubt GW is real. The only myth involved is that it is caused by humans. It's a perfectly natural upward swing in the naturally occurring temperature variations that have been cycling up and down since time began; hence, the ice age(s) and the subsequent flood(s). People keep falling for it, though. Some people will believe anything.

That's what I meant too!

frankos rooni Balderdash!!

It's just soooo pretentious.

@@paulbriody297 He's an actor. He wore a stupid goatee for a few digs. If he was playing a part that needed an earring then he'd have kept it for the duration, just like the goatee.

If you are a pirate it’s ok.

A real man should never be tempted to criticize another ever.

Circle of life, and all...