Time Team S16-E03 The Wedding Present: Scargill, County Durham 

I think I've been watching too much Time Team. I was digging in my garden the other day and turned up a small sherd of red pottery...instantly, I thought "Ooh, maybe it's Roman!' Then I remembered -I live in Newfoundland...

the cheeky sheep messing with john gaters marking pole at the 17:00 mark cracked me up 😂😂

Hey, Reijer. This episode is one of my favorites to watch again at least once a year. Your channel helped rescue me from cabin fever after I was seriously injured in April 2016. I watched every video from TT's 20 year history. I still prefer your channel over all others. God bless you. Hugs, Linda Lee

I love the animated horses. Their legs are so funny as they run. Priceless!

...."The green glaze pottery is Pre-cow!" Priceless! Love this program.

I love the animations in the king's retinue. All moving at different speeds with faster and and slower leg movements.

I so much miss this show.

*"Stewart and Helen save the Dig Day!"* ...and Phil strategies the unfolding. That's *Time Team-work!*

Finally! Having such a hard time finding a new one. Yes!!!

Mick: "Fine, fine! He's shouting at me again..." Hilarious!

Best wedding present ever!

I really enjoy this episode, love the place there and the area would be grand to visit I think.

Beautiful knitted sweaters this episode!

I'm very fond of Mick's colorful hat and his sweater. Such a colorful man.

Ha ha - at 10:31 the closed captioning says that the kerrocake is 'as much of the land as a team of DACHSUND could plow in the course of a year" LOL. Supposed to be team of oxen. Gotta love closed captions!!

I think this was the most exiting episode of all TTs, esp, the ending!

Thanks for posting.

Funny to see Phil working so cold that he doesn't soak his hat with the usual volumes of sweat. 😄

The Tudor tower is rentable for stays these days, you can find it here: 54°29'30.8"N 1°55'07.9"W

Stuart and his amazing analogies......

Reijer Zaaijer thank you so much for all of these. I love the program. Also for the organization of the episodes on the menu.

Amazing how historical research and a keen well trained eye can solve the mystery of an ancient sites life story as it were

As usual Time Team have done it again...cheers from 🇨🇦.

I’d love a silver trowel or floral Wellingtons but holy moly a CASTLE?!

The couple in this episode is relationship goals for history lovers lol.

Very exciting episode!

26:42 perhaps the best animation ever, of Rex and his pneumatic horsie.

This is the third Time Team I've seen in this region. Together with Piercebridge and Ulnaby all within 20 kilometers of eachother. They should dig a trench over that whole area ^____^.

HH, your challenge tour is really connecting to the troops in battle with this video. You dig a dump and find the plate Hans ate dinner on then you grab Heinrich wine bottle.

Pre cow pottery, a rare find.

I am so thrilled to see you still have relations of Maurice Moleturd still working on this team.

Sir Tony at his best.and his team of course! the owners of this - rubbish gate house - a couple full of humor! a good episode. i like it.

Pre-cow pottery makes all the difference.

It took me a while to realize they weren't saying Carrot Cake but Carucate.

No offense meant to anyone, but one thing I've noticed is that they seem to not talk to the historians much. They said, "they seem to have gotten better land further south and not done much with this site." Is it possible that the reason they have such huge walls/foundations is that they started to build on the site (which I understand can take decades to complete a large structure) and then acquired Haverah Park which they stated was several days travel south of this site, decided this one was too much trouble to bother with as they now had a better place to spend their money and just stopped work on Scargill "Castle"? I mean it makes more sense to me than going to the expense and difficulty of building twice in the Tudor period on what seems to be an inferior and less desirable property to live when they have one fit for a King. What do you think?

I would love to know once Time team left, whether or not it was all filled back in or if the couple kept investigating. I would of made a see thru patio over the whole thing once finished so all could see.

Faye is truly gorgeous!

last time i dug in my back yard all i found was an old beer can and the bones of a dead cat,,,,lol, nice video

Is Helen wearing a Tom Baker era scarf? Maybe she is a Time Lord for Time Team!

This property is a magnificent example of the evolution of lords housing from purely military to purely ornamental status symbols between 1066 and 1550.

Depending on what business the King needed to transact in these five locations, he wouldn’t necessarily have needed to stay overnight in each location. He might have overnighted in only two or three locations, so could have sent his wardrobe etc on ahead while he diverted to a smaller place that might not have had the facilities to receive him, handed out justice, collected taxes, ensured his place-holders were still loyal and running things his way, and then taken a brisk ride with his guards and officers to whatever castle was prepared to provide banquet fare worthy of the king.

Love this series. Tony is always so totally annoying, fussing all the time, and never working!! LOL Love Phil and Stewart. This show was an awesome find for me. Back to some more Time Team. Phenomenal wedding present by the way. I've got to see if Tony ever gets his hands dirty, watched four, and so far, nope!!!!

Thanks a lot for the video. :D

Ha! I waited the entire episode to find out what "pre-cow" in the comments meant. Too funny

Anyone ever notice that Stewart always has the answer while the others don't have the foggiest notion of what county they are even in?

The rumbling from Phils trench? Beer and beans? HA HA HA.

Easy to see that there are 2 Scargills (and Mick was right from the start of the vid!), and that the couple were fd by a fake statement of the property and its history. The real 1300s-1500s Scargill "castle" is further to the south in the mention of West Riding. This might be the 1000-1300s origins of the Scargills (or original North Riding cum Durham), and kept as their rural retreat, but not worthy of a king's visit.

"-Because cows represented wealth." "-erm uh and food." lol

Why do I keep thinking of unions and strikes? ^___^

These earlier season's are so much better than the dumbed down later (S10 +) season's.

"Scargill", as in the infamous Arthur? (Discussed around 06:00.)

I'd love a cool tall glass of fresh geofizz.

I'm surprised that the owners hadn't already dug up all the grass on their property to see what was underneath. After all, you wouldn't think the restoration of the tower would take ten years.

What is the Time Team story? Whose idea, who gathered the teams etc? What are they doing now? Wikipedia is incomplete and very disappointing. I hope someone completes it someday with current info. How did Prof Mick die?

Faye is lovely :)

I think it's hysterical that Tony always comes across like he's in the trenches with the team when really all he does as he run around and criticize what they do. I love it when Mick, Francis, and Phil put him in his place.

Antiche case scomparse! Molto strano! 😯

what about the possibility of the Medieval Warm Period and lack of crops to help the decision to move to a better area ?

Damn, being an archeologist be PAY A LOT!! I didn't know there was that kind of money in it, or hell I would have gotten in to that. BB

Marauding Scotsman?!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂who else maraudes better than a Bonnie Scotsman!!! Nae one Laddie, nae one!!!

Robinson picks up a shovel during the intro, remarks about how "we" are good at digging... then promptly waddles over to Phil and hands it over. rofl.

And bonus, given the owners they probably didn't have to put any back when they were done.

so gotta love stuart - he's like the geek that we all need in our life - he's so enthusiastic and so funny and quite often so wrong - every group of friends needs a 'stuart'

To me, Michael Prestwich reminds me of Derek Jacobi. Is it just me?

The Medieval ashes in the Tudor fireplace was the clincher. the Medieval pond might have been from a Medieval bomb dropped from an Medieval bomber during a Medieval WWII attack. the medieval grounds with the medieval walls re showing by the medieval FIS survey were, well, Medieval.

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11:23 what's that about lead? can' t quite understand what Helen says... special boiling lead and died 8 days later?

10:00 burning twigs to keep warm?

Prof Mike Aston pasted this year boy is that sad.

@Mick Gordon’s Rainbow Garments

Since all broken pottery, glassware and similar artefacts end up today miles away from their origins, in municipal rubbish dumps, how are archaeologist going to work in the distant future when looking at our present day world? Or is it believed that all knowledge and history of people will be recorded so no need for any of this exploration? In the digital age, the nature of records may well be very ephemeral - temporary in the extreme.

Top show, but no sign of the Weddoes though

Oh, Faye, my Faye. To see you in nothing but a smile and a shovel...

must be hard to live in a castle if you are not disgustingly rich.

this episode:🐄🥕🎂

haha! The Time Team really stretched this one for the owners......maybe they found a Medieval hut with some pots, but not a castle....They are going to have to take down the sign "The King Slept Here".

One is a nylon dog bone.

Why did Carenza leave Time Team. She gave Mick such doe eyes in the early series.

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I can't get over how they can't say barbican properly lol!

So when life was hard and resources precious, they buried a whole cow??

Did Tony even know what end of a shovel is what? Never saw him use one in the whole 20 year series. hahaha

So, they love archeology, they breathe archeology but they couldn't pick up a spade and investigate their own property?

I can't believe that MONSTER Tony is shouting at that, frankly , delectible ,dewy , really really attractive young Faye. What a jerk!

Where's the Benny Hill music for Faye and the increasing number of Bimbos and white teeth that eventually ruined TT

poop

And yet it still looks like a pile of shite!

Pseudo-Science bent horrifically towards so-called entertainment. Pseudo-Comic relief by the guy with the filthy hat; sorry, but he is not funny at all. Three days to perform archaeology? Give me a break. Rare real results, mostly just speculation. If I hear the talking heads say "Geo-Fizz" one more time, I will scream. Repetitive music. Goodbye, Time Team. Never Again.

Was so enjoying this and then lo and behold 6 mins in and that freaking woman had to appear. Why??? She has got to be the biggest waste of space ever on a tv show and more to the point, knows nothing!! Take away the experts who she does nothing but nod at constantly and her written script and she's still just the secretary she always was. Jeez, I can't stand that woman.

I found an old bottle of lotion 🧴 in my back woods. Can’t wait to get it appraised.