Time Team S16-E06 The Trouble with Temples: Friar's Wash, Hertfordshire 

To those critical of the banter between the hosts of the show, its the lightheartedness that makes watching it so engaging. They've opened up the interest in archaeology ten fold im sure and that was the main goal of the show upon its start.

Stewart really needs his own TV series. "Walking around Britain with Stewart" .

Francis Pryor must have been in heaven in this episode. All that ritual!

Tony's face is priceless when they insist a circle is rectangular. :)

I dig Stewart. He quietly does his thing. Later, when everyone is arguing, he comes up and says, "Take a look at this", and he's got it! He's the Landscape Whisperer.

"Oh arr, Tony, there's gonna be a temple 'ear." Love this show.

This is one of my all-time favorite episodes. The lighthearted banter and respectful disagreements make everything intriguing. It makes me wish I'd grabbed the opportunity to take a college course in archaeology. I also like the way Ian Powlesland handles the digger so delicately.

When you think of all the Episodes in the rain and the cold and the mud, and sometimes with little or nothing to show after three days work, the Team really deserved an Episode like this.

After reading quite a few comments, I didn't find any that mentioned this episode's clever title, "The Trouble With Temples", that I think was a play on the famous Star Trek episode, " *The Trouble with Tribbles* ", in which the cute tribble creature(s) they brought on board kept multiplying.

An absolutely stunning episode. I am so happy for the Brits and their efforts to find, document, and preserve their history. Congratulations Time Team!

"It's a bit like buses isn't it - you don't find any temples for several digs and then four come along at once." That's what someone should have said!

Once again the Brits shows the world how to make entertaining TV! Recently found this show and I am addicted. 10:40 Phil 😂❤️

We, in Britain, should be very proud of Time Team. There is no other country in the world that has any TV program that can compare with it. Hence the British public are far more aware of our history and heritage than virtually any other country. Bravo Time Team.

For once, even Dr. Pryor's eternal enthusiasm was exceeded by the actual wealth and complexity of a site! Kudos to Francis, Phil, John, Stewart, Helen, Guy, Tony, and the entire Time Team for an extraordinary discovery!

I love all the bickering. You can tell that it's good-natured and it makes for great TV. What a great show.

It is incredible how often Stewart is right after doing his landscape calculations and using a simple ruler to draw a straight line, despite what all the high tech Geophysics and highly qualified archaeologists say to the contrary ! He was definitely an extremely valuable member of the team and it was a pity that he didn't participate in many of the later excavations and episodes for some reason. Does anybody know why he stopped being a member of Time Team's scientific experts ? I for one really missed his incredibly interesting input on these excavations. 😭

One of my favorite things about Time Team is that you see so many different parts of Britain.

Im sorry but I can't get enough of this show!! I've subscribed to this and one other channel that puts out these shows. I've always wanted to be an archaeologist. I love it! And the people on here!!

Time Team and all the Characters are a National Treasure. What a great show, each person on it a gem!

Reiner, thank you a thousand times for uploading these brilliant programmers. This episode was superb, one of the most fascinating of the lot.

I swear, every time I listen to them talk about Romans absorbing other's religions and customs I think of the Borg :)

Reijer, I’m watching the entire ouvre from s1e1 through s18. Thank you for posting and for posting in order. This has saved my sanity in times chaos. (Ok, I cannot stand 19 and 20, but that’s on me.)

Helen: here's three bits of dating evidence. Guy: or coins, as we often call them in English. (BTW: leave it to Guy de la Bédoyère to rock the suit coat in the field ❤)

Hello RCANTS, Most major museums in the UK are free entry so these artifacts are not dug up for "rich" people. The British Museum, Natural History Museum, Science Museum and others don't charge. What's your point ? The pursuit of knowledge, especially about the past, enriches our culture, teaches us lessons and explains why our environment and society is the way it is today. You seem to be another of those miserable complainers who whine about anything that is beyond your understanding, if you don't like this stuff then don't watch it and leave the rest of us to enjoy what is a thrilling and consuming subject without the pointless negative commentary.

To those posts of a critical nature I must say, our contract with freedom of speech is a reciprocal one. The most important part may be in knowing when to remain silent. Focus on the thrill of discovering and understanding the Archaeology, not on the soap opera the producers suppose build viewer numbers. "Small minds think about people, mediocre minds think about events and great minds think of ideas." Or to put it more plainly in the words of the philosopher Thumper, "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all."

"You say it's a temple, it's a temple, but we NEVER FIND a temple!" - Tony Here's 4 And for good measure, the rarest of all temples, a round one.

Wessex Archaeology did a further dig after Time Team left

This channel is my happy place.

I do think that Francis and Mick are very of the same thinking, in that you have to dig to prove what you may be thinking. But i also think that they do it in a different way, in that Francis is more the distant overbearing school teacher type, and Mick is more laid back and talks to people more like your favourite uncle, and is far more a mellow type. And i love the rare shows when they are together.

Amazing. Fascinating. One of my favourite Time Teams so far. Thanks again Reijer!

I like Francis. He has a great sense of humor

Don't give Tony too hard of a time.. He knows he's the eyes and ears of the audience.. He sets up the others to explain why such & such a thing is important.. He asks the questions the audience wants to ask, simply.. Then he does an overview to keep the audience "on the same page".. The archeologists know this, which is why they rarely respond with "what? Are you an idiot?".. ;-)

A most satisfying excavation and 3 days, start to finish! Plenty of artifacts to date the temples, explanations found to solve questionable areas, a most rare and important find. Firsts for the archeologists, too. Hope to find more on this site later, hope they preserved it.

Always listen to Stewart. He is amazing how he reads the land. Poor Henry. They put a lot on him.

This is the most excited I've ever seen these guys, and for good reason! So very unfortunate Mick wasn't able to share in this, it would have made this discovery even better..

Isn't it fantastic what a dedicated team of scientists and other enthusiasts working for a TV company could research and excavate in just three days ! A whole major Roman Temple complex of national importance only known previously from a 1970's aerial photograph, and even that only just marked the edges of buildings not seen for 1,700 - odd years. Time Team must have done more for British Heritage in the 20 years the series ran than countless other archaeological excavations in Britain during the same period. I sincerely wish that the series would be continued in one form or the other - it was clearly not due to a lack of viewer popularity that it was taken off production. 😘 P.S. What surprises me even more is that the National Trust do not jump on the opportunity to excavate the whole site after Time Team's extraordinary finds, but often merely "schedule" the site and then leave it for another generation to continue the work some day in the far future. With such an exceptional find, one would think that it would be followed up quite quickly, but nearly always - no such thing ! 😕

We all have our favourites. Most people really like Phil, whereas I think his accent can be a trifle grating sometimes. After a dozen or so episodes I've simply fallen in love with Helen Geake.

As a surveyor myself, I feel for Henry. Can't win 'em all.

The gorgeous Helen pretty in pink!

As Google Earth is your friend and I've taken to IDing in that app the location of these digs (hey, everyone has a hobby...!) it's good to know that this field hasn't been plowed since the TT dig was done.

even that i have seen these episodes before, it was such a long time ago. so, no problem watching it a second or third time!

Just started to watch time team, 2018 oh the show is great!! What to learn watch them!!!

Brilliant dig. I so enjoy the knowledge and discussions.

Guy absolutely crack me up with these flamboyant and dramatic explainations.

I love their altercations about where to dig - it was indeed circular

That mans lip beard is epic. I love seeing him every time he shows up on the program.

I love how Tony winds up the archeologists. He sets them up so brilliantly. They fall into it each and every time! Poor Phil. He's a sitting duck! Hooray for dating material! Honestly! It never rains, but it pours! 4 Temples???

I just wanna have one beer with Phil lol

Thanks for posting.

I love these guys. They definitely live up to the name of calling a group of archaeologists an Argument. "If we were Romans now, could we invent a god right here - the Hay god - or whatever?" "No, you don't get it. The point is the god is here already. You have to identify that and access his power." "But Guy, while you were saying that, this hay moved in a mysterious way..."

Stewart is a genius put him to work in all research.

I do like it when Faye makes in on screen.

Great stuff keep the videos coming.

wasnt is season 13 when the were checking out a vickers outside a roman fort that was scheduled and they found not 1 not 2 but 3 and potentially even more temples along the road ... and all they were loking for was how the general people lived

Theres more plough damage in this area of Hertfordshire than anywhere else, majority of land is heavy clay subsoil , awful for ploughing, & during Celtic, Roman times majority of land was pasture. The places where chalk dominates , there's archaeological evidence of ploughing from later Celtic times . Modern machinery, heavy tractors have done more damage Between 1995 - 2005 than the past 2 millennia, most of it in StAlbans itself, the Roman city of Verulamium , one of the largest & most important in Britain ( half lies buried safely under the grass, parkland, The other half, is private land owned by Lord verulam, Unploughed until ww2 , when permission was granted to shallow plough , until a year or 2 after the war ended. Which the lord completely ignored & continued to plough until 2005 , after years of pleas from English heritage etc to stop ploughing inside the Roman walls , not until an MP got involved & a huge compensation deal was agreed with the landowner lord, did he finally stop ploughing. A few years after we got permission to put a few small trenches in that half of the Roman town , under the guise of looking for post Roman, Saxon evidence, Had we said the truth about looking at the plough damage We never would have got permission. The reality was more shocking than even the most pessimistic among us expected. Comparing to excavations done in 1955 , the clearly defined outer walls of buildings , including interior walls, floors , some mosaic, were amazingly good condition. Our work mid 2000s showed the full extent of the damage, Damage is an understatement, completely destroyed was the reality . Foundations four/five courses were gone, & nothing of the mosaic remained. In nearly 25 years excavating none of us had ever seen such unnecessary destruction. Almost as if he's ( Lord verulam) told the plough to go as deep as possible. It stil depresses me everytime I remember or talk about it.

Stewart saves the dig again!

I am not Neil , Well done , I am amazed at what you have found , I hope they do not make you cover what you found ? You make being picky a good quality ! What a fabulous group of genuine dedicated optimistic people , I think the real treasure is your team . love from Ontario Canada .

Great example of when a leader should have listened Phil was absolutely right about where to put that first trench. Soo much time would have been saved wondering where they where and all knowledge from 1 trench

tony robinson is awesome

Looks roughly circular to my laymen's eyes

Let me translate Bridge's Kiwi understatement "Oh but don't squash it just yet Guy' is roughly "You're such a prat Guy'

Fascinating episode. I was wondering, as these finds were so rare, what happened to the site after the team left? Did it continue to be farmed?

My favourite TT episode

Good thing the pyramids are all above ground, or we may have never seen them at all...

Phil Harding: He put a rank ahead of me!!

Still watching, re-watching. To me, the funniest part is seeing so many Jet shots on an archaeology program. Must have been close to a major airport. :D

A site of this importance would become the object of a long-term dig, probably by a team from a university.

Is the title a Star Trek ref? The Trouble With Tribbles? There's so many of them!

Being in the states,pretty much prehistoric here,and living in ky. I have found many a blades in fields but find the quality along the rivers and streams....cheers

Wow. Wonderful. oh, about Watling Street ... isn't that the amazing road that goes from Dover to the Severn, almost Wales? I think King Arthur mentions it while kicking out some Roman emissaries.

I am guessing that whoever gave this episode it's title is a Trekky.

Prehistoric ET! This made me stupid-happy. I would have been satisfied with my response to "I don't know what it is." (I said "It's a rock.") But Tony made a much better comment!

@26:04 the brooch looks like the moon, Earth, Sun with three planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter?)

All these finds make us enthusiastic. It gives hope for the "finds" they don't find X 7.

This could have been a two-hour special. Too bad that they only had three days. Looking at google maps, you can't tell if anything is there. What a shame to cover it up after discovering it. 51°49'07.8"N 0°24'14.3"W

Tony, Tony, Tony. Tsk,tsk,tsk. Mocking the Hay God, Achoo. That's his name. Achoo.

Tony doing a great Phil impersonation 4:59-5:04

that broach, was, the sun at one end, and the moon at the other, red and bluish green at the other

That looks almost exactly like the outline of the state of California in the US

The romans outlawed human sacrifice bring on the gladiators

You showed an "Offering of Coins." I would have loved to know how much the offering was worth. A days pay, 40 loves of bread, a vessel of wine, etc.?

Seems to me, Phil and Frances love winding Tony up!

one of my favorites because it turns the elusive Roman temple myth upside down. Four temples at least and maybe more. Why was the three-part boundary drawn, I wonder? was the other side a cursed place or a dangerous one for whatever reason? was it though enchanted? the home of wild beasts like the Formorians? the Romans regarded it worth a lot of negotiating with the gods, given all the offerings that remain. Were these razed by Romans on their way out of Britain? most likely. So why leave behind the votive offerings? Maybe they would have been cursed to remove them in their way of thinking. Do we have any texts explaining the worship habits of the Roman outposts? There must be hints in diaries of soldiers and traders. That would be an awesome research project for someone versed in ancient Roman texts, rare documents, if they were not destroyed by Rome's enemies or burned in holy wars.

Terribly hypocritical of the Romans to stage the slaughter of people indiscriminately at home in the circus and dedicate those to the gods, and then condemn the Druids for human sacrifice... Surely the actual problem was the loyalty the Druids commanded and their competition for power...... didn't Constantine the Great originally believe he could make all the empire worship Sol Invictus alone?.... There you go, straight out of Guy's mouth: the problem was that as long as the Druids were around, the Romans had no chance of completely rebranding things, there would have always been competition. So they snuffed the competition.

Not surprised they dug at friar wash,it's not that far from verulamium.

sacred stone ;-D

OK, you have all the trenches to varying depths exposing lots of archeology and it is Sunday evening and we go out for a pint! Who gets up Monday and carefully refills the dig?

Constantine was no Christian , he just supported their talents since they were becoming a large power bloc in the population .

I would have loved to hear an Archeologist give their opinion about when and how those buildings were deconstructed, where the spoils may have gone and how the spoils my have been used.

I've watched THIS program sometime! And Tony seems to be sarcastic and slowtimeing with the experts! Is he paying for these project's ?.

Here's the full report from Wessex Archaeology: www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/friars-wash-redbourn

I regularly think while watching Time Team, "well, someone made a career off of that site." After this one, I'm certain an entire cohort of doctorate students made their careers off of it.

Mark Coney keeper of the maddest facial hair known to man....

I've seen a few of those lead curse things... really wanna see one unrolled.

big mistake at 13:54 how can you have a walkway with a wall going across it. Only stating from what i can see on the video. Also keep up the good work Reijer so handy having all the timeteam in one place with no adverts

I would suppose that after the three days, hoards of treasure seekers will descend on this field and denude it of all the artifacts?

Am I the only one that thought "Hmm California?" when seeing the shape of that field?

it reminds me of jerusalem, with its competing religious bits

I love this show. Thanks for uploading. One thing.... Those denim cut down shorts concern me.

All hail to the Mr. Potato Head god!!