What's in the Box? With Phil Harding 

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Great choice of guest, Dr. Harding. I think everyone would've guessed right for what he had in the box. I love how excited he gets every time they find flint on the show, he like a big kid. Can't get enough of Phil!!

Man I will never tire of watching/listening to Phil Harding talking history!

Please keep this series going. Appreciate that the presenter let Phil explain it all. Tho I don't think Phil needs prodding to talk about flint.

Great interview with Mr. Harding and his passion! "Mine, mine!"

Off topic but related, I really appreciate how the music didn't overwhelm the speaker. Her oration was clear and completely understandable due to this. Thank you.

So lovely to see Phil looking so well .

I could listen to Phil talking about flint for hours.

Tell Phil we want him back on the revived Time Team!

Ah yes, Phil is the happiest whenever flint is the topic of conversation. Finding this Core must have put him into "Hog Heaven".

Excellent! Good to see Phil still excited by a gigunda flint. He is still looking good! Still handsome! Thanks to Wessex archeology for this presentation. Informative and fun.

I was hoping this would be his choice! I really wanted to learn more about "his" big core he'd found. As always, excellent story and I learned quite a lot. Thank you, Sophie, and thank you, Dr. Harding!! Excellent choice!!

I Love Dr. Phil Harding and Love his style and personality. Watching him over the years on the old time teams programs now on Video, I have learned so much on history. More so than any history I ever learned here,. over the pond in the states here, sadly. I wish they had studies on Archaeology when I was in school, back in the day...sadly NOW in modern day, they don't even teach Real history... it's now all about personal appearance and NOTHING about how this country was formed.. The History of how old THIS Large Flint is, is astounding! Thank you Phil for the history lesson.

"Phil's Big Core" - lol, I LOVE that. 😂💗 Wow, it really is gorgeous. I can just imagine how 'mad' Phil would have been if anyone had found it but him, ha ha. But it HAD to be him, didn't it? He's just got a nose for it, and somehow, that stone finds HIM. 💗💗

Phil has the best laugh!

Phil Harding has a wonderful way about him . He draws you in and keeps you riveted and on the edge of your seat . You want to learn more ! I would love for him to come back or have his own show. I never had even heard of Time Team until recently and have watched pretty much all the Video's. Please come back Phil. You still have so much to share !

Sweet Jumping Jehosephat! What a piece! When did you find it and how could you resist knocking a piece off?! A great video and lovely to see you again, Phil (espically so animated). I wish you had 'rung' your flint. It would have been fun to hear it. P.S. I loved your Salisbury video. Wonderful. Please make more. :-)

Still a teenager at 71.

Phil in his element!

Lovely thanks! Great seeing Phil and hearing about his massive flint! For the last week plus for hour and hours I’ve just been binge watching all the Time Team “s I can find on uTube, and still going! Just finished watching the Temple Combe one. I can’t get enough of them. Wish it was still going!

Love a bit of Phil

What a joy to see Phil, and his enthusiasm for Flint, the age, and what was occurring then is palpable. He expresses such heartfelt joy it is contagious. Just so, so much fun to see and enjoy.... some serious intuitive speculative thoughts... when you tap it it 'Rings'... sound and all its implications and how it can affect the mind and body was very, very well understood then, and as Frances would say... RITUAL... and the large and obviously very carefully tipped off section is not to make something, it is to get the sound, the echo from the Flint to the right tone or tones... and, perhaps, with the proper 'banging' for lack of a better word, produces subtle differences in sounds. Might be an interesting experiment to carefully do. My bet is it does.. May need instruments to detect the changes, but it just feels and looks as if they are there and, perhaps waiting to be heard again. Certainly feels as if it alive somehow. Hear it ring and hear ancestors from thousands of years ago... imagination might even briefly propel one back to it. Just some thoughts. And, she is fun to see and hear as well.

We just adore Dr Phil “FlintKnapper” Harding! What a national treasure he is himself 🪨

I thought at first that Phil was bringing out his private stash, and before he explained the dark gash in the side of that mombo-beast, I was thinking he might have already sampled it. I thoroughly enjoy listening do Phil Harding talk about fint and watching him knap up an axe from such raw material is amazing!

Love this thank you 😊❤️

Phil Harding is awesome i love his personality. He is very smart and has lots of passion for history and archeology. Ps Sophie Clarke is beautiful

Amazing. You must have huge tea pots in Wiltshire👍

Another greeting from Texas! what a find! it had been sitting there waiting for you for such a long time. Always enjoy listening to you talk about finds, i.e.. the four for the Lost and Found. Hope you'll do more!

Love your work Phil!! Cheers from Australia 🌏! 🍻🍻

Good ole Phil.. he has the greatest pieces.. that was a whopper!

very good, I now know why the blue flint I picked up in Somerset has that lovely marble like colour, I would have gone my whole life not knowing that...

Why do they remove part of the cortex, as Phil mentioned? Why not use it as a core especially if it is of excellent quality? Would someone be able to trade it for more valuable obeccts? If it is no to be used to make tools, it must have had special significance to a person, to a group...? I realize we can't know for certain but Phil and others must have suppositions. Thanks both of you, this was great. Hugs from a grateful pandemic hunker downer in Minnesota! Cheers! How apropos that Phil found it!

Very well done!

fascinating ! Thank you

Wonderful!!!!!!

Love PHIL HARDING WORLD TREASURE❤

Very interesting.

True British treasure phil harding 👍

Can we all appreciate how gorgeous Sophie is :) Phil's love of this flint is something special 🤣🤣🤣

I Love! PHIL

Phil, here in Mendocino County California, my son found an obsidian tool which is larger than any I have seen before. Much larger than an arrowhead. Maybe 12 times the size of an arrowhead. Your East Anglian core looks like the size of a core this tool would come from.

Learning a lot in Rhode Island USA

Hello friends! Thank you for sharing! Also, I was wondering if Phil’s big flint rock rings?!?!

There's the 🤠

Plow man saying in saxon german dannawettà! (Great thunder!) Lol.

More more more! Please! :)

What a huge lump flint

Surely Phil would measure flint cores in pints! I reckon he's got a 6 - 7 pinter there.

I wonder who Phil's east anglia flint knapper pal is, would it of been one of the Lord's from Grimes Graves ? I have a acheulian hand axe from the father and Wil is an active exponent too.

I think that giant flint called only for Phil to find it.

Could you imagine seeing this sparkling from the fire before going to bed, then having to go outside to spring a leak & stubbing your toe on it?

Uncle Phil and his amazing - rock! Igneous?

You found this in a hedgerow? Besides transportation, what neolithic context can you claim? And yet you haven't harvested a ("chunk?") to try napping it yourself?

Good flint gets napped. Salespeople can't generally market everything. Check out why Connecticut is the Nutmeg State.

A whacking great chunk of flint, it is.

Marry me Phil!

Heith Doty had a great insight for its use with hide scraping. My thought is cutting large chunks of bone, wood, sacrificial offerings ...c'mon everyone. Pop up with some ideas.... a training tool? Or a toe thumper...a sign that a knapper lives here. Advertising! The first billoard...lol.

who says you can't date stone? and stone WORK?

As someone who has seen a lot of Phil's work and being a person that lives off the land I'm putting this highpothes out there . What if these stones got used for scrapping hides and busting bones open 🤔

Remember when he was skinny??