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I'd be shocked if they'd dug in and discovered the top of the tower, I think it makes sense that they found the base at ground level. Also agreed that good bits of stone will always be carried off and used, and you might even find some in walls and buildings around the area.

Wish youd get longer than3days😊

I have never understood the short time limitation they normally have. Day when they should have years, if not decades.

@@ericwilliams1659 MONEY

​@ericwilliams1659 someone posted ages ago on another video it's done that way from Friday to Sunday due to the team having normal jobs during the weekday so could only manage to get a 3 day work schedule to do it all in, to help explore what's there for other teams to come in later and do the full scale exploration if needed

Especially Tonis comment in that situation... "in the British sun..." 🤣

It’s just another reason to miss Mick Aston!! Such a character and so well loved by many.

That tea was not in paper cups either. That impressed me.

Totally agree. 👍

I've always loved th interaction between the members..."That ain't much of a tool, Ian", "I've heard that" :P

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Broccoli😉

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Stay in school chap.

What are some of the similarities between a Broch and a Nuraghe?

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And they are coming back!!! September they are filming another new dig!!!!!!

I second that and she did it beautifully too. Despite all the mud.

I dunno, I think she does her job just like everyone else. Is it because she's a young woman?

@@Sinsteel Of course it is! Brains and beauty are a very successful combination. Look at Alice Roberts, do you think her looks had nothing to do with her success. Welcome to the unchanging real world. Definition of a feminist. A woman who fails to understand, that what she thinks are her greatest weaknesses are actually her greatest strengths. Mother natures gift.

I have always felt the same about Raksha. Always cheerful and such a hard worker. Smart woman tooo!

too bad Scotland can't made a go of it as an independent state. the budget is a tsunami of red ink

My dream vacation. A month through Ireland and Scotland. The rest of America can have the hot tropical places. Living in Oklahoma, US is hot enough for me.

Those 2 just sitting there under a roof casually sipping tea while everybody else is toiling away in the heavy rain, lifting heavy stones from the mud.

i am cubanamerican i have been Shocked at the word "beach" applied to certain shores . am ok w "beach" now and realize i was lucky as a child. eisenhower(R)'s installation of soviet satrap fidel castro was monstruous. i will always wonder what stalin had on him...

I want to live in one 😎

There was a project a few years ago where they were attempting that very thing, or at least raising funds for it. Can't remember the name, possibly "operation broch". I'm sure it's still on RU-vid

I doubt it.

@@larryzigler6812 Rude

@@numerian4516 No, real

Whether you're an atheist, religious, or agnostic, it's simply a nice thing to say about someone who has passed away. No need to try and stir up anything negative.

@@neutrongarbage Unicorns ?

It was thick with Picts till the weather turned but their ancestors are still there.

we have whats called round towers at templar monastic sites but - shh . dont tell the queen from germany she hates us irish and our culture - epstein being a preferable tribe of the jewish cult tribe to toodle pip along with ... and tolkien had towers did he not ? ancient tower found in Derry as well - got sold to the locals as a kiln for years .. turn out to have been around tower ..

I can see you still. hahaha Good software

It’s one of my favourite too! Just fascinating!!

Sometimes there is followup work done by other archaeologists. Other times the sites are filled in for preservation's sake and possible future work. On at least one occasion, Time Team returned to one of the sites they worked previously for further work. Search for "Back to Turkdean".

Have you found the turkdean episodes

@@miaherssens16 I saw them on here, but have yet to watch the second one I believe.

There has been a Roman site they have returned to a further two times due to the enormity of it

Also often the local archeological groups carry on, too. But if there is nobody to do continuing work, the sites are buried again. Being underground preserves them better than if many of these places were left open.

The Time Team digs are - besides a well documented "recce" of the place also meant to raise interest and even funding to continue research.

Quite a few years ago, they did a Time Team about 20 miles from where i live and a friend of mine worked for the local Archaeology Trust there. She told me afterwards - ''The 3-day thing is BS. They were there for over a week, dug up loads of things, did some TV interviews with local press, then buggered off, leaving us with 25,000 items to sort out''

Oh what a shame. This is an older episode, as Mick sadly passed away in 2013. Would have been exciting for you if you had known.

I think Mick died

@@busking6292 24th June 2013

@@wildliferox2 R.I.P.

He didn’t get replaced. The series ended. Francis Pryor and Neil Holbrook took turns as acting site director in the last season 20.

@@RKHageman Mick chose to leave. He wasn’t happy with the direction that the show was going after moving to another channel. He stated that the show was being dumbed down and did not want to be involved any further. And he was right really, the show was never the same.

In modern archeology, assuming military purposes is frowned on, in part because it has been done too often in the past, and in part because it limits what inferences they can make about economy, culture, and everyday life. It also "ignores" women, as military matters have almost always been almost exclusively the domain of men. It's absolutely amazing what mountains of evidence archeologists are willing to ignore, in order to assume non-military purposes. Three millennia from now, some archeologists are going to dig up a tank, and conclude that it was the ideal family vehicle, providing great traffic safety for dropping the kids off at school. They'll be writing papers on the cultural and religious significance of the forward pointing "ventilation shaft"; perhaps there were practical purposes, perhaps it was just a quirk of fashion, and perhaps it was used to wave good-bye when leaving, but, if viewed as a phallus symbol, that would indicate that child care (or, at least, dropping kids off at school) was considered a masculine domain. There will be animated discussions about whether the belts were purely a safety feature, providing good traction against the road, or indicate some degree of off-road use, which would prove scattered settlements, lacking proper road connections.

@@erikjrn4080 It's certainly true that male concerns and military concerns have been over-emphasised in archaeology and anthropology. Look at the way the gathering of the women was often ignored in favour of the hunting of the men - which in most cultures made a secondary contribution to the diet. But as you say - this new perspective breaks down if what you are looking at really is a weapon or a fortification... And for anyone who knows a little about medieval fortifications, there are half a dozen features of the broch that simply don't make sense unless they had an explicit defensive purpose. It doesn't mean that defence was their only role - but it does seem to be the primary role. Because as I wrote - if you simply wanted a functional home the broch is surely hugely over-engineered? As always in life, the middle path is the right path.

Lol that so funny 🤣 😆 😂

And the old mills in Portugal

the Nuraghe of Sardinia are incredibly similar, even down to the double walls with a stairway between them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuraghe. But they stopped building them at least 500 years before Brochs were started, so the connection between them is not clear, it may just be that there are only certain techniques you can use with dry stone

@@davidbarrass More likely each civilisation discovered the merits on their own.

@@Cheepchipsableagreed, that's what I meant to say 🙂

What is the drowning doom?

Very true Paul , the weather during the early roman age was warmer especially on the English peninsula

The builder of FL US Coral Castle wrote a book where he said that he used Egypt Ian technique--- temporary magnetization of non iron objects to easily lift and move heavy stones. (RU-vid videos?)

@@tymanung6382 Sorry, while many materials (and frogs!) can show a reaction to extremely strong magnetic fields, the effect is so weak that it's difficult to observe. There is NO "temporary magnetization" of say, non-ferrous stone, that would give any aid in lifting heavy objects. The pyramids didn't fly either...

.....the Romans claimed that they ate their children.....of course, Romans claimed the same thing about the Carthaginians as well......

​@@urbanurchin5930Romans frequently bad mouthed the people they were terrified of.

I imagine it was torn down by invading forces....possibly as late as the Reformation period when Henry Vlll tore down Catholic Buildings....then the good stone taken and used for other buildings... It happens a lot in History...

Most of the current team IS the original team… LOL

More likely as defense from sea-raiders It could have served many purposes but think defense and refuge. Sea Raiders had plied these waters back into the bronze age and liked to take slaves

@@intractablemaskvpmGy Yes, kidnappers of white woman's for slaves was real.

The trenches are recorded then covered over for future investigation by the local archeology team. I think the most important part is that the site can now recieve the "ancient monument" status and therefore protected.

'Can' being the important word. quite a few don't get official recognition as important sites.

@@lesleyhawes6895 Any site that has been dug should be recorded in the Historic Environment Record of the relevant Local Authority. These will not all be given a designation such as Scheduled Ancient Monument, however.