Time Team S16-E02 The Hollow Way: Ulnaby, County Durham 

I have always loved the good natured “ball-busting,” that threads its way through the years of this show. It is just a wonderful show. Interesting, intelligent, with no sense of pretension. A show you wish would never end, and you are so sad when it does. Thanks for helping to keep it alive and available.

Poor John Gater. The humorous jabs he endures and how he keeps his tongue in cheek is truly inspiring.

One of the many things that made this show great is that Tony was able to get highly educated people to explain their findings into plain talk. I know he would have been able to understand without explanation, but he doesn't lose awareness of the viewers. this has made this part of the success of this whole series. Time Team America couldn't find a presenter or host that had that skill set. It was all part of Baldrick's cunning plan.

I miss Mick!!!! Great man.

I'm late to this party, but I'm still enthusiastic! I taught medieval English literature, and this program makes me want to leave retirement and teach again--and a resource like this one would enrich us all. Thank you again from the other side of the pond.

Some smart cookie needs to come up with a t-shirt with the Time Team logo, a silhoutted version of a geophys person walking across a field with the equipment and the caption says, "Lumps and Bumps" I'd buy one.

I love seeing Naomi Sewpaul on here she is a delight.

A pint of Guinness and some nice relaxing medieval foot wrestling of course! Love this bunch!

Always listen to Stewart!

Thank you so Kindly for posting all of these. I adore everyone in them, such fun to watch and laugh out loud with them!

thanks for posting

Dr. Phil Harding is such an interesting person. I wish I had the time to sit in on a class and listen to him.

Stewart is the unsung hero of the team. He consistently gives the diggers the clues they need to dig in the right place. Everyone comes up empty except Stewart and his maps and documents.

I live in the province of Luxembourg in Belgium. The typical rural villages are very similar to the one described in this episode with most houses up to about 40 years ago having at least half the building dedicated to keeping animals and a place for a manure heap outside the front door. Most households kept chickens, a pig and some cows or sheep. They grew most of their vegetables and often owned or rented at least one field. Recently people had day jobs and ran their farmsteads during their free time.

The Hollow Way starts about here: 54°32'56.5"N 1°38'57.9"W and the lines of the other street and plots are visible on Google Earth. If you pull back you can see lines in two fields to the east and in some across the main road on the north that match up with the lines in the main field, suggesting that the village was more extensive than they suspected at the time this was dug.

I love how they give each other a hard time. You have to laugh with them!

OMG Mick has gloves that match his sweater. How have I watched 16 seasons and never noticed that?

I just love Mick's wonderful knit hats!!

Lol Stewart may have lost the foot wrestling match but he won the landscape battle! Never underestimate Stewart's knowledge of a landscape! I Love The Time Team!! R.I.P Mick. Love seeing him in these episodes!

Thanks for the shows!

This has become my favorite thing. I missed out on it all as a dumb American. If I had a nickel for every time they say, "lumps and bumps," I could afford to come see some of these sites! 😂💙

I love the part where Phil tells Mitch ‘ those stones are not stones’ since geophiz says there are no stones.

"The life that you or I might have lived...?" Aww, bless Sir Baldy, everyone's favourite little prole! ;-)

After 20 yrs on the air.... I wonder what the total bar tab was at all the pubs they visited.

What amazed me was how these highly educated & intelligent scholars, argued so politely with each other, without breaking out into expletives. Great show IMO.

"they were smoking like kippers"--hahaha!

I finally found it! The Medieval Foot Wrestling episode! I'm bookmarking this!

Poor John really took a roasting in good humor. =)

Geophysics looks like a tough job, as much grief as John gets, he's a really good natured sport

Love the medieval foot wrestling contest in the tavern! Perhaps it's an activity that might make a come-back.

Phil is a big part of what makes the team watchable. Most working class viewers relate with Phil cuz he’s always in the hole digging while most everyone else is standing there looking down not doing a derned thing annoying the mess outta us..lmao

Love the dry humour @08:45 Phils got him in his sights !

Nobody is singing the praises of Stewart’s reading of the land in this one. 😂

Confession. I parented the crap outta the day. It was relationship building with teens. Teens without school. I'm exhausted. I lay in bed but my mind is replaying conversation from the day. Brain talk. I stretch. I breathe. And I fall to sleep watching Time Team. It's a documentary history lesson sitcom game show. It's relaxing. No politics, no controversy, no abuse, no violence, no arguing. Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzz ❤

I finally found it! The Medieval Foot Wrestling episode!

The "Medieval Farm Village' at Ulnaby, County Durham has since been turned into a tourist attraction. Not a very big attraction but the site does have a restaurant/coffee shop and gift shop store. A local attraction.

I thought they were going to start Day Three with commentary on Time Team's first-ever foot wrestling injury.

It's so nice to hear people say "biting cold". At the moment it's 37 degs C here and I'm melting. I could do with a bit of "biting cold"!

Phil and Mick always funny banter

Love this show!

The bone tool looks more like a lissoir than a spoon. A lissoir is used to close pores on leather skins and to work in oils to make the skins waterproof.

Adore Phil❤️❤️.

Damn y'all are hard on geofiz ! I feel for the guys . They work so hard and get beat on so hard .

Did anybody else catch Tony claim to be a peasant just like you and I?

The Medieval era was not a cold miserable existence, the Medieval Warm Period was several degrees warmer than today.

My mother spoke of playing with a pig's bladder when she was a young child back in the late 20s and early 30s. I'm sure more urban types would have been aghast at the thought.

Robin Bush would have been able to find out and tell what had happened to this village.sorely missed🥺

Great to see the backhoe operator back, always neat as a pin and so attentive the team acts as if he were not there. Other operators see people clear a trench and wave their hands. The final slow decline may be from infertility, but I shall be begging your help with that anthropologic issue later this year. Hope we can remember this then.

lol @ Phil...about 9:00 'Ah, now don't be fooled, those are NOT stones!'

Sir Geoffery Luttrell ?? the Luttrell Psalter ?? okay im interested now😂😂

We have all heard the saying. If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck etc, etc. when Phil struck that thing that bore an amazing resemblance to a stone I could have sworn I heard it quack! Maybe I'm just hearing things in my old age. Geophiz sez 'there are no stones!' so I guess we were all group hallucinating. If that's the case, pass it around again, I need a bit more! that would make a really great T-shirt for geophiz; "There are no stones!" (On the back) "Nothing to see here!"De-nile ain't just a river in Ejypt!

"Ulnaby" seems very much Scandinavian. It refers to sheeps. They tell in the program that the letters by stands for village, which is correct, but they forget to mention the "ulna".

absolutely love this show all 20 years of it :-) but need to correct the lady saying that the ending BY means farmstead in old Norse. It doesnt. It means more a village or gathering of houses and families, than a single farmstead. A single farmstead would be named GARD. The same meaning as we have today in Norwegian

No surprise people fled County Durham....

It's always fun to watch Field Archeologist vs Geo Physics guys... Phil vs John 😂😂

I love watching academics argue 🤣

Hello, It looks to me, like the picture of the plow shows adjustments that can be made, see all the little round dots along the top of the board? incremental points to fasten it...perhaps? Smiling, George.

Bridged 😍😍

14:20 the panning shot matched the back ground music!!

Was here in 2019

Apparently, the rain is synchronized with Time Team episodes.

I wish they had said the name of that pub they went to... it looks like a great place.

The last mention of the village is 20 years before a very bloody civil war. How come nobody mentioned that as a possible factor?

I’m really curious about the drawing in the Lord’s book at 23:07. The beer drinker are depicted with animal legs. Is this a nod to saytr’s or Dionysus the Roman god of drink. Does anyone have an idea as to why they were depicted in this way?

So, after you do the archeology, do you put the lumps and bumps back?

Oh boys, keep calm ! (around 25.20), Poor old Stewart, he's only environmentalist.

I love Stewart's conviction - Phil is just a cantankerous bully at times

pigs bladder as a balloon. not the first time I heard of this. when I was 4 or 5 (55 years ago) one fall morning is was time to slaughter hogs. My Grand mother took one of the bladders, stuck a straw in it after put a knot in the other end and blew it up as a balloon for me to play with, I remember wanting nothing to do with it.

"...smoking like kippers", where do you get this stuff? Baldrick strikes again!

Lol Phill at least pluck the bird before you serve up that crow to John....😂😜😀

@14:40 ok I'm no archaeologist but... why build a revetment from stone to protect as she says a flimsy timber structured house from the elements, why not use the stone i to build the house?? Just asking

Naomi was a baby when they shot this one. So is Matt.

"Shock horror." :)

look at that Defender

Ah yes, at 33:00, Tony observes: "apart from the fact they were smoking like kippers, we don't seem to know what the people who lived here were doing..." Tells it like it is...!

good episode. no sexy finds no super high status stuff. just a regular mid village.

So you think they could have used a plow... to plow the field?

I can agree with you Miss Cattude63, it is 92 degrees with the humidity making it feel like 96 degrees here in Lakeland FL USA. I wonder who knitted Prof. Mick's finger mitts?

This is so cool; I've traced my ancestry here.

MY REGARDS

Sadly, it is way too chilly.

I've got to stop watching Time Team. I'm starting to talk like a Brit. The other day I used the phrase, "could have done" with a neighbor. Got a strange look from them.

Tony, don’t pretend you would have been a peasant. Court Jester minimum! 🤣

On this one I'm inclined to think the town was largely abandoned after the black plague. There is a mention in the episode of property there being transferred in the 1500's, and the assumption being that meant it must have still been inhabited. But these could have been vacant houses that were not necessarily inhabited by then (Ulnaby may have been hit hard by it), which would also explain giving them away 100 years later. Just too much of a gap of ~300 years right after the black plague with no findings where it seemed to become a ghost town suddenly. And then finally a few hundred years later the property was reused, probably by a the single later home that they found before eventually even that went away, and the village was lost to history until TT.

I want to live in a world where cannabis cafes are accepted like a booze pubs are. I like relaxing with a non-toxic, medicinal plant; not a toxic, hard drug like booze.

Why does Phil's hair always seem longest on the left front side?

Did anyone help stewart up?

First aired January 11, 2009.

Who is responsible to dispose of the old battery? Who pays fir the new battery? What changes are ned for this system to operate? Who pays for this change?

Why only three days ?

William Greystoke?? Tarzan's ancestor??? lol

I miss stuart with hippy hair!

I just think it's sad that Mick wears such drab clothes.

I want Phil's laugh for my ring tone. any ideas?

There must have been two different episodes shown here. In my version, Stewart laid an egg. Some of the commenters obviously got the version is which Stew got something right.

i still prefer to call him baldrick xD

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Heartless landlords turning villagers out - they will pay in Karma.

I asked a commercial question? So, never mind.

400 years of lead poisoning from their pottery, wonder they lasted as long as they did.