Time Team S20-E06 Lost Mines of Lakeland 

Ian is a Dr of Archeology at Bristol University. He's written at least one book I know of, and really knows his "stuff" ... I always find it so interesting that he's one of the two "Ian's" who operate the diggers, but he is so much more than that.

He's been an archaeologist with the team since the beginning and this is the first direct comment unrelated to him in the digger. After 20 seasons. I'm an Ian fan!

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yes, we archaeologists tend to love our history!!

This series is mindblowing. The reason it's so bloody good.

What's funnier is the later seasons are not as good either. Specially after Mick left. Yet everything else on tv sucks so bad that even a lower quality time team is still miles better than anything else on lol. But I love all of it. Even the stuff without Mick.

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Sarah Coleman It's only about half an hour from my home. People ask me why does it rain so much in the Lake District. Well if it didn't it wouldn't have lakes. There are other reasons that are a bit more complex but that one suits me. It is really very commercialised now though, bloody Beatrix Potter (joke). Best wishes from the wet and windy wild (north) west.

with your parachute

@@jenniferholden9397 Is this a caldera? Looks like it to me. I had no idea the UK had volcanoes. Don't know where I thought the coal came from. 🤦

Adox Artist If you look at Edinburgh Castle, it's built on a volcano. The great thing about the UK is that is quite small relatively speaking so all the archeology is quite compacted. You can't "turn a sod" as they say, without finding some archeology. I live in a little village near Lancaster, yep, Romans, hanging witches and wars of the roses, half an hour from the Lake District, 1hr45 from Manchester and Liverpool, 10 minutes from Yorkshire, the losers in the war of the roses and I'm really proud of it. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@frankos rooni Thanks for the replies, Frankos and @Jennifer Holden! I would love to visit the UK and Europe someday!

I wonder if those are his original shorts from his school days?

Whaddayah mean? He gets excited and runs around, and had only the barest of filters... No matter how old he gets, all I see is the kid in him and I like him the better for it.

prior to complete cancellation. Mick's Bane destroyed the program.

@@TheShootist Then when they tried to bring it back a couple of years ago, what did they do? Main hosts a black man with a white woman - pure woke cuckold crap, rather than a focus on archaeology.

I am guessing they changed it back in this series due to public feedback. Why else would they only appear and then disappear? The original format is far superior minus the late Mick Aston R.I.P

still no Victor!

us o' twits have had the best of this world, good luck with it you youngstars

"Coppery smell of blood", I read that many times.

Well I hope copper smells of copper.

@alanrtment porter No, she definitely says it "smells" of copper. (Nothing to do with blood, though, I agree...) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7HfSpul0Mos.html

Celto Loco A friend of mine from England said she could never figure out why BC was such a draw for British people. She said southern Ont. was so much more like England. As for names we also have Stratford on the Avon.

***** Lived on Pentland Walk in Portobello for a few months back in winter of '72...

that is not really northern Ont. about 10 hours south east of us. :)

@@1andonlylynda no . .Stratford-upon-Avon

And I was raised in Keswick...Keswick, Virginia, US.

Does she still mispronounce "Houghstetter"? I know Hochstetters, and I feel very sure the name is the same, just spelled with pre-standardized Elizabethan spelling.... The "CH" sound is pronounced as a gutteral "CH" today, as is "GH" in words such as "lough," which I presume is the reason the name was spelled "hough"-stetter.... In any case, I doubt it's pronounced "hosh"-stetter.... I may be somewhat obsessed, but it stops me cold. I have no idea what the woman said other than "hosh."

@@MelissaThompson432 As a German here, the pronunciation was allright, there is some variance between the German dialects and even small differences in quite close localities. Hochstetter can well sound like hoh-shtetter

I live her documentaries on English history

@@MelissaThompson432 in a southern german dialect ...how she pronounce ed it would be correct...You are referencing the Hoch-Desutch..Tne southern dialect is the major pronunciation in the english-speaking world.

@@doncook2054 I'm American. It seems English is a separate language. Everybody I know says "ho{chh} stetter"

she is hot

She is easy on the eyes....but she's a 2nd rate historian.

Except for New Zealand, Or Hawai'i (though not a country, Hawai'i is still a small isolated body of land with a diversity from alpine to rainforest to desert.)

the problem is it belongs to only a few, end of your fantasy about it

Not to mention the bronze age

Thats why they say "as an industry"... They do not say that they did not mine for copper... They just didn't do it on an industrial scale

@@Travius94 Please visit Alderley Edge and then tell me Blue John mining was not on an industrial scale.

@@schwadevivre4158 Mhmm they look massive, although between Roman times and the 1690s they were apparently not worked... So to be fair: this seems to be on a fairly large scale in Roman times. But the point is, to be on an industrial scale it takes a lot more than just some big holes in the ground. For example here in Germany there are mines that date back thousands of years which are also massive. However nobody would suggest that it's on an "industrial" scale since the pre-requisits are not met. I remember that other show with Sir Toni where he walked this historical paths in East England and Phil showed him the pre-historic flint mines. These were massive and there were a lot of them, but you surely wouldn't suggest that they mined flint on an industrial scale. Since I can't visit Alderley Edge myself I unfortunately have to rely on Wikipedia and from what I can extract there I still think the show was right.

@@Travius94 It seems you have a limited definition of "industrial" Cornwall was the prime supplier of tin in western Europe but there is little evidence of tin mining because the methodology was to "stream" the tin (and copper) a little like panning for gold There is some evidence of shallow drift mining (similar to the Lakeland lead miners) on the edges of the moors. The problem is that much evidence of the scale seems to have been lost due to the later massive exploitation of the resources following the introduction of the overhead (overhand) stope and shaft mine methods by the Rhineland and Cumbrian miners. That said the Stannary Parliament provided extensive income to the Duchy throughout the mediaeval period

In the last year Victor Ambrus (artist) died, as did the occasional contributors Berwick Morley and a couple of others.

Bridg is a kiwi good lord how could you mistake her accent? 😘

@@annk.8750 I didn't know Victor died! :(

Me too on the Old man.

Everywhere in the Lake District is good for hiking!

I understand that you are not native to the area...but are you from Earth or do you have interstellar wisdom to share...? P.S. Yes, Coniston is quite okay for hiking...keep going, you’ll find Scotland, it will blow your mind ;)

There was an elderly chap who walked the Lake District for most of his life. Each hike he did he wrote a review, drew a line sketch and who that walk was appropriate for, he put these in his book and it’s so handy to have to accompany on your hike, stops you missing things. This gent is now deceased but his many, many books are still very popular. His name was Wainwright and I would like to think that he’s still wandering around and occasionally stopping to draw another little view.

@@petersmedley459 I'm afraid I can't answer that for you...

Diggy Diggy Hole 😂

The rest of it is underneath, goes down at least another 1000 feet from there, below sea level, which is why a lot of the workings are now flooded

maybe you are not familiar with the definition of a mine because these definitely fit the bill. a. A hole or tunnel dug into the earth from which ore or minerals are extracted. b. A surface excavation where the topmost or exposed layer of earth is removed for extracting its ore or minerals.

I agree more of a dark hole of death than a mine

Phil's doctorate in archeology is an honorary degree.

@@pumkinvine4175 He certainly deserved it.

Just because his education came from the trench and not from the book does it mean he didn't deserve a doctorate. He knows his archaeology better than many in the field.

In Cape Town, South Africa a lot of the European Immigrants were Germans who were escaping the economic and social hell caused by the 'Thirty Years War' and the 'Great Northern War'.They brought their Oompa music with them. This music gradually changed and became what they call "Boere Musiek" (farmers Music). It is a cross over between a jovial country dance tune and the Oompa rhythm. The Afrikaner population love it and have a wonderful time dancing to it. They call their dance 'Saki Saki'. It escapes the dour double bass, clarinet, accordion or trombone and drum overture by combining it with the rhythms of the squash box, banjo, fiddle and sometimes the cymbal. To get them into the party mood these people normally lace this musical confectionery with a good dollop of either Coke and brandy, a bottle of good quality Cape wine or one of their own locally distilled spirits sobered with a large braaivleis (barbecue) with loads of meat, salads and toasted cheese and tomatoe sandwiches. It is light music and actually quite enjoyable. But it does have its limits and stays within the border of the Afrikaner folk. It is dying out as most of the new generation would rather die than start their own 'Boere Musiek' band. Most of the members of the most popular bands have grown old and died. Luckily for the Afrikaner with today's technology a lot of the old records have been recaptured onto CD's and DVD's by modern apparatus making the music available for future generations. If they have a barbecue and someone plays the Boere Musiek they still love it and if they have room enough they will grab their partner and 'Saki Saki'.

+niklar55 Agree - lowest common denominator rules again. A great pity.

Gribbo9999 Mmm, Unfortunately, by the time their mistake became obvious, Mick Aston had died, probably of a broken heart, so they no longer had his guidance to get the program back on track. Presumably, nobody else was interested in reviving a 'dead duck.'

Robinson was always dumbing this down, right from the start. A revised version - only with intelligent commentary, rather than his mixture of sub-BlackAdder mock-cynicism and feeble bonhomie would be so much better...

To be fair, Susie is way better than the chick in season 19.

It certainly would have saved them a lot of time traveling back and forth at the start and end of each day. I always wonder why they don't set up camp in places where they have to go very far; in this case it could have potentially doubled their time on-site.

I believe their plan to approach/dig this like any other archeological site worked against them. Might've done them some good to incorporate a bit of cultural anthropology & include a seasoned mine exploring team awa old timers who'd once worked nearby mines & would've, most likely, had historical knowledge, passed from generation to generation, of the site layout & where each section of the workings would've been & their purpose.

I love John, and, you might not realize it, but John and Stewart also work very well as a team.

He did, didn't he... He always came off as annoyed and irritable. imo

Tony mentioned it briefly but I think he got away with it.

Don't you mean series 19? This series has a lot of old people in it . Even the young ones have been on TT for about 10 years.

I bet she does I bet she does . . . .

But would she think you are her type?

Several places.

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Several places in Wales or also in England

They were mining copper in Wales(great orme) 3500 yrs ago, the largest bronze age coppermines in the world! The tudor mines are chicken scratchings in comparison.

She's distractingly beautiful

And she would probably give you a good face slap in return!

Risk of theft? Easier to get out? Less risk of any being lost sliding down a pile?

why not

The minors were payed per bucket of ore. Stealing is a lot easier than mining.

Copper has a scent and taste of it's own.. All ores do..

Indeed smelting is the process of producing the metal from the ore

Then why were they sniffing it and handing it around? Ritual?

Larry The Photo Guy laughing my ass off you are right but Jill needs to correct grammar and spelling.

I think the illustration might be from "De Re Metallica". I once had a copy of that, translated into English by Herbert Hoover.