Waterloo Battlefield Tour with Phil Harding | Archaeology at Waterloo 

It's great seeing Phil again, Time Team was a staple for me in the 90s, and Phil has always been a larger than life character; great to see he still has the presence

It should be Sir Phil Harding.

I never realised how much I missed the dulcet tones of Phil Harding. What a proper legend. Keep it up Phil!

The new Time Team resurrection is mostly enjoyable, but I keep hoping Phil will show up. He was undoubtedly one of the best participants in the original show. Bring him back, please!!!

Phil Harding - my hero. Thank you for the upload.

Hey, Phil got a new hat! Good to see him again.

Please do more Phil Harding documentaries, this guy inspires generations of kids across the world, get him some funding BBC Australia an NZ loves you Phil please make more

You can keep all your footballers & celebrities I would *LOVE* to have a beer with Phil! 👍🍻

Always great to listen to and watch Mr. P. Harding.

I watched most of the Time Team episodes on RU-vid not long ago and loved it. Although years have passed since the team's last dig together, I am glad to see that Phil is still in the public eye regarding archaeology.

Now Sir Tony has the got onboard with the new Time Team YT channel programmes I’m hoping that Phil will too👍👍

PHIL! Greatest field archeologist on earth. That man can talk about brewing tea and I'd be happy to listen.

The new Time Team has brought back Tony, now we just need Phil and we're all set. It's just not the same without the people. Phil was always my favorite, always came through in the clutch!!

Warning: This video contains examples of a broad West Country accent which some viewers may find distressing. But which we f*#cking love. Aarr...

So excited to see a new Phil Harding video. He's participated in some amazing work, telling the difficult story of Waterloo.

Thank you all; Waterloo Uncovered is fundamentally respectable & eminently worthy, in all its goals. Even as a rabid TimeTeam fan, I absolutely understand Phil staying with WU. Always nice to see Phil.

I like the way that Phil asks the questions on our behalf. Very professional just like Tony Robinson did in the Time Team espisodes.

I hope Phil sees this comment- him on time team inspired me to go into archaeology, focusing on late Roman/early Byzantine in the Levant. Thank you Phil for being a inspiration!

I didn't think Phil could be outdone as a TV presenter, but I think his nose hair won the limelight this time.

I absolutely agree. Phil has contributed so very much archaeologically and therefore socially to the cultural awareness and historical knowledge of your wonderful country. And this coming from an American and Phil Harding admirer, so thank you Phil!

Archeology is calming. It is.🥰🇨🇦💥

Yes Phil Harding is a real trooper! Yes he should be Knighted definitely. Great video thank you 😊 I was there 4 years ago and it was fantastic 😊

Really nice to see Mr Harding again. I miss him on the re make of Time Team.

Thank you very much. 👏🏼👏🏼🌹🌹🌹💕

Listening to Phil describe the battlefield, you can picture almost the whole battle as it happened. When he speaks, you can't help but absorb everything he says. Mick was just like that. You can't help but be totally absorbed in the history.

The emotional ending with the soldiers is a nuanced addition to this video. Contemplate their reaction.

Phil Harding your the best.

So brilliant and respectfully presented. Thank you for all you’ve done are doing to enhance today’s society and bring respect to those who died so awfully💝

Love the new hat mate 👌

Been waiting for wor Phil to get his own show since I've been watching archeology time team legend 🙌

Nice video Phil, may God Bless all those who have fallen...🌲🌲🌲

Didn’t need a warning for the skeletons , needed a warning for Phils Jean shorts… 😮 I mean jorts.

I love Phil💙💙💙

Love Phil. Such a nice person.

Phil is presenting like a pro. (Sir) Tony must be proud :) Very nice Video :)

Phil your sir are one of the most amazing men on this planet, we love you phil so very much, you are literally loved by everyone, ❤

Love Uncle Phil

Amazing and glorious battle, very unique too with no war graves to be found

Phil is absolute ledgend in archeaology - but please please buy a nose trimmer

The Battle of Waterloo was horrific in its cost to the poor soldiers and the horses. There are very few human remains because at a later time the mass graves were dug up for fertilizer. I’m glad to see that there is now more respect paid to the men who fought there.

My forefather born in 1786 was made ready to go to Waterloo I read in an old news paper but for some reason he never did. He stayed to defend a a fortified city in the Netherlands. I guess he was lucky.

Phil Harding is a legend. I met him once at a proper pub in Salisbury (Hop Back brewery) and shook his hand and said thank you for what you do. My mate from Poole was with me and he asked him if he was going to Wetherspoons next? If looks could kill etc... We have both kinds of music - Rock AND Roll !! 🎶🎸😎👍

Please Phil join the New Time Team then it will be complete it's not the Time Team without Phil Harding.😊

…….and now who can hear the ABBA song, Waterloo, playing in their head during this thing 🫣🫣🤣🤣

Phil Forever!!!!

My Ancestor William Taylor was at Waterloo in the 11th Dragoons Cavalry Regiment, loved your video..

didn’t know he was still alive but i’m glad he is, shame he’s not on tv anymore , one of those interesting characters who always a wake into a party

Another reason this is interesting is that we all have ancestors or relatives (however distant) who fought or could have fought there. Knowing their stories helps us to honor those individuals, but also our distant relatives who might have been in that position. Well worth doing more studies. I hope such projects can get further funding.

Emotionant evenimentul. Felicitări arheologilor pentru efortul depus. O lectie se poate trage din acest eveniment care a avut loc in urma cu 200 de ani. Aceea lectie ne spune ca niciodata nu trebuie sa duci o lupta pe teritoriul adversarului ca poti avea surprize neplacute precum infrangerea pe campul de lupta. Acel teritoriu poate fi Rusia s-au Anglia acelor vremuri. Si totusi istoria ramane o carte deschisa pentru vremurile actuale. Oare am invatat ceva din istoria trecuta?

Good show Phil ! Like the New Hat !

Fantastic !! and lovely to see Mr Harding looking well , would love to meet this guy and have a chat i'd be there for days !!!! keep up the good work and hopefully many more exiting finds to come ...Shaun.

Thanks Phil. Such an interesting story ❤

When I visited Waterloo back in 2017, I came across a guy sitting in a field near Hougoumont, a huge map spread out before him. Tickled by my curiosity, I decided to have a chat with him. Turned out his name was also Phil, he was ex military and was rehearsing a tour of the Waterloo battlefield he was going to give the year after. He happily summed it all up for me, but what got me by surprise back then, and something you also did not mention, was him not knowing about Grouchy’s strawberries ‘incident’ 😉 To this day, if you talk about the battle of Waterloo in a French speaking environment, sooner or later ‘les fraises de Grouchy’ will be mentioned for being the reason why Napoleon mistakenly thought the Prussians were Grouchy’s men and, according to some, lost the battle. This is solely based upon the story that Grouchy turned up late at a critical stage of the battle because he had enjoyed a late breakfast of strawberries. It is probably only an anecdote; let’s face it, scapegoats haven’t been invented yesterday but, according to Phil, there apparently is a scene in a film about that battle in which they kept showing Grouchy eating strawberries, the meaning of which had, until I told him about it, eluded him. Anyway, thanks for this, keep up the good work! (+Waves to ex-military Phil in case you happen to read this 🙂)

Were ever any excavations done at Quatre Bras where the Flemish and Dutch attacked the French two days before the actual battle at Waterloo?

I love listening to phil! He was always such a joy on Time Team

I been trying to spot Phil's new hat in other Waterloo digs, and it is fun. I make sure I drink a pint every time I see the hat. I think Hilde is there, too.

"There's LOADS of archaeology there, look...... " ;)

great seeing Phil

I once drove my rental car across a small dirt road on the battlefield, in driving rain, very late at night, while Metallica's one was playing on the radio. Chills!

Great job! Phill is always knowledgeable and entertaining But… The nose needs a trim✂️

I like Plancenoit. It's a nice place for a beer and some grub, far less touristy than Mont St. Jean.

19:20 Thanks French archaeology cougar for explaining the dead horse. 🎠

It will be interesting to see the results concerning the human skeleton. If it is possible to confirm and identify the nationality of the soldier, where will he be re interred since there are no military cemeteries for the casualties of the battle of Waterloo.

They have ruined my battlefield,,( Wellington after he saw the artificial mount with the Lion)

Phil. My favorite pirate 😊

Fascinating archeology..history speaks!!

Phil has a new hat! Find me some smelling salts!

Phil is brilliant!

Presumably the "donate" option stays on the website after we've all dug ourselves out from the holiday spending....

Who is so sensitive that they can't even look at a 200 year old skeleton ?

More, more, more!!!

Glad to see a new hat.

The horses/mules should be identifiable by whether one of the hoofs is missing. The British marked one per animal, and when it died the farrier would remove it to count the loss in the accounts for money and supples.

I would love to see some new Time Team specials. One or two specials a year shouldn’t be too demanding to get the crew back together.

I would love to see lidar images of the area.

Such a wonderful & fascinating project this has been! Is Peter Ginn still involved?

Why the warning at the start of the video? Another example of nannyism! Shock horror…don’t look children!

Say, I don't suppose there's any intact DNA to be found in the amputated limb bones or the body are there? I'm sure there's more than a few genetic genealogists who would LOVE to have these people to compare with. 'My gggg grandpa was at Waterloo the legend says, and look! One of my ancestors was there, and lost his arm!'

Phil Harding for Prime Minister! 👍😁

Phil, you old dog you! I felt so sentimental when I saw this program. I missed you and your mates from the Time Team days. Made me go back and rewatch some of the episodes. So good to see you again. Greetings from a Danish guy in China

According to my father who was POW in Poland during WW2, you can tell the difference between French balls and everyone else's.

Superb video. I can't believe that they have to pre warn snowflakes about skeletal remains. FFS.

Didn’t they use the teeth from the dead to make false teeth and ground bones up for fertilizer !!!!!!! So much for Val our

nice hat phil

Why are there no bodies found on any of these battlefields. Amateurs think it's evidence that the battles happened somewhere else. Prize for the first correct answer.

These human remains that are being found, would it be possible to perform any sort of dna tests on them to see if they are from different people ?

It is always a pleasure to see Phil Harding and share his passion for archaeology. It is sad to think of the loss of all those men, and the suffering that they and their horses had to endure for power hungry rulers that couldn't care less for them. True indeed are King Solomon's words, that man has dominated man to his injury. Ecclesiastes 8:9 What joyous reunions and interesting stories will be enjoyed when those men return in the future resurrection that William Tyndale upheld against Sir Thomas More's support of the Platonic doctrine of an immortal soul. John 5:28,29

I visited Waterloo in 1988. I'll have to go back at some point.

Thanks Phil. Love this. Cheers from Canada

Grand to see Phil again. I know it is a year later but still so good to Phil. Love the neww hat.

Sounds like a lot of metal detectorists have had a go on a lot of it, over the years.

I have an ancestor who was at the battle of Waterloo, Major general Henry Barry.

Silly me! I thought it would actually be a tour of the battlefield!

ngl we need a phil podcast once a week! aha

Those mutton chops and nose hairs are about to knit each other together!

The French squares were slaughtered at Plancenoit

Regardez sir vous croyez avoir perdu Waterloo mais les anglais sont à vos pieds. Sans lui vous n existez pas . Vive la France et vive l empereur

Phil! Nose clippers! Get some.

Napoleon was robbed by the traitor Irish.

Brave Liam and Ash for giving their opinions