Why Is There A Roman Statue In This English Village? | Time Time | Absolute History 

I live in the states and have in the last 2 weeks found this time team stuff. I had no idea that some are 27+ yrs ago!! Love this stuff always wanted to find treasures like this in history. I'm way to old to start now (67) but can relive some childhood thru these shows.

can we talk about the kid just cruising around in the electric toy car 6minutes in? like he is just vibing XD

This is a fabulous "blast from the past" , they have all become at least 20 years younger, it's lovely to see them all again.

It's hard for me to realize that huge palaces, etc., can just disappear instead of being maintained and cared for! So sad.

Aside from the wonderful archaeology, what I also enjoy about this episode, and later subsequent episodes, is about English Heritage and the discussion of whether to dig vs. preservation of the site. What you can clearly watch by following TT over the years is the changing attitude to that issue within the field of archaeology as a whole. While they still do schedule, they are far more willing now to dig some part of a site to at least have some record for prosperity of what was there, not to mention wanting to be quite certain as to what is being scheduled. Also I think everyone involved over time realized there were limits to how much one could blindly rely on what the new technology could tell you without some sort of confirmation, as Carenza seemed to argue for at that moment, and even in later episodes she herself seems to have changed her opinion, at least somewhat, on this point.

This is an amazing find that has been treated so harsh that if you took yrs on it bet it could reveal a lot with extensive digging. Amazing. Robin is such a character!

I love that this episode shows the serious decisions that have to go into investigating a site or not! Amazing!

Another great episode!

I wish my life contained less election anxiety and more old stone fish.

BTW, a number of Cathedrals and Large Churches, particularly in Europe and those going back to 15th Century, have a variety of mythical creatures and what can be called pagan sculptures that decorate their exteriors, including Gargoyles.

Love this channel!

"I have a cunning plan to confiscate this farmer's land." And I've personally been to Britain multiple times and have visited as many British-Roman sites as possible, but the subject of this statue is unfamiliar. I have seen statues and reliefs of Mithras and Coventina and Rosmerta and the Three Mothers and most of the Olympian pantheon and Jupiter Dolichenus and probably Herne but I have no idea about this god here. The staff did make me think it was Aesculapius at first glance, but the expert says not.

I wonder when this was filmed. Tony still has hair & hasn't switched to contacts 🤔

There must have been a shortage of hair combs/brushes, during Merry Ole England's 1990's.

Absolutely wonderful find, feel bad for the property owner, his field of produce can't be planted 🤦‍♀️

what a beautiful flowery green field!!

Thank you.

I enjoyed the part where tony was running around like a kid in the field and they were just slowly chasing after him

If I remember right it is Iugales Tempus but it has been over 50 years since my Latin classes.

The mosaic at the end said 1994. Tony and his dark wavy hair has a nice career ahead of him. Kinda prefer the more modern episodes. Seems like they have better content and more interesting dig sites.

always wondering with all the new technology of 2021, is there any way we can scan, inside these old churches to see IF there is any older foundations?

It's funny to see how much people have changed in 20 years, except for the older man in the rainbow sweater. He still wears that same one. LOL.

@ 8:00 minutes in look its Sam kinnison and damn well bloody Paul McCartney are time team members

Does anyone have any idea how this finally turned out?

So basically, if you're a farmer. You don't want to see these guys near your fields...

Hi I want to show something about arch . So how may I contact you please

I wonder what has become of these sites .

5:40 the paper is from a dot-matrix printer has holes down both sides. That's 1980s or early 1990s.

Old British men's hair is wild

would be nice to know what became of this site :0

It seems that if Time Team hadn’t taken an interest, the farmer would have plowed the field deeply and the place would have been trashed in one days work. A minimal dig would stop that if there is anything of interest with 99% of the site intact.

God Bless Mick's Soul with Abundant Positive Energies. He was such an endearing man. Truly a genuine Academic, and I didn't agree with him on several points, but that never conflicts with my perspective on the person. A trait I wish the 48% of this USA shared.

They don’t want to dig because it could be of historic importance and they don’t want to ruin it. But the farmer who owns the field can plow it and destroy it without a second thought. Like huh...... You’d think they would want to dig as much as possible and record it as quick as possible for historical record before the farmer plows it. But what do I know?

Carenza "throwing a spanner in the works" ... 🏆 protecting the site for English Herritage 💪🏻

Every one of the original Time Team addicts please pray to your Gods that somehow a cast of this brilliant show can be assembled again. Alas I am pessimistic about this, even with Devine intervention.

One statue that you see quite a bit in old English churches is the greenman.

Excellent documentary but by god I cannot take the narrating voice of Sir Tony Robinson seriously after watching so much Blackadder 😂

I hate to admit this but this episode is the first time, that when seeing Sir Anthony, that I haven't seen Baldrick...

There are 666k subscribers at 352 on Monday Nov 30 2020 on a pagan church episode.

Have heard of Swindon. Have certainly heard of RAF Lyneham. But have never heard of “Tockenham” - or whatever it’s called. Mick Aston - dead. Robin Bush - dead. Victor Ambrus - dead. I’m a fan of TimeTeam, but there ain’t many left of the original crew.

Tony looks like he's a member of the band Genesis

4:29 The C word hesitation...

Staff of Aesculapius is what the "Stick with the Snake around it" is called and is, indeed the medical symbol.

Dang Tony is a hair farmer in this vid. Wow....

“What is Time Team in Latin?” Inquiring minds want to know. Anyone?

What was the follow up???

The year this was filmed, 1994, is closer in time to the creation of that statue than it is to 2020

I wonder if Constantine and his father ever went there or possibly lived there?

I wanted her to see the Stone Fish = V. High Status!

Question: Is the farmer, who so kindly gave permission for Time Team to investigate, paid for the land that is so easily taken from him?

Before I look it up, horses.

Interestingly, the Koreans had ondol heating several centuries before the Romans and it is still in use today. 'nuf sed.

8th to like the video but 2 to leave a comment. I know right normally is the last to leave a comment. I love these video's full of history

Can anyone say which English accent do they speak with in this video?? I am a non native English speaker (Indian) and I find it quite different..

This is from 1994 - talking about history

Glad he got rid of the glasses!

The Romans were very good at record keeping and history. I am surprised that more written records of their time in Britain did not survive after they withdrew in 410 AD. Perhaps some day more records on sheepskin will be found like a British version of the Dead Sea scrolls. Who knows?

time team logo is pagan sun god symbolism?

I wonder if they ever went back?

Season 18 is the best I think

Time team in Latin would be “dolor tempus”!

I hope that land owner wasn't trying to earn a living from that land.

Do any of these guys own a COMB?????

It's neat to see the Romans loved their ice cream.

Tempus Bigas according to google translate

Lots of assumptions made on not much evidence that we saw.

Carrenza loves to embarrass people on camera, Tony is going off to sulk, she also asked small boy how he likes his dress while he was modeling a tunic! If you don’t have anything nice to say……

karenzaa atwat

1994?

1994

Is that Baldrick??

can that guy quit fondling the fish pipe so we can see it?

Too many commercials. Very annoying

England wouldn't be England if it hadn't been for the Romans

I’m not real religious, but thank god for x2 playback speed!

Hope someone wasn't making their living on that land and got compensated...

Another ridiculous Documentary with a 'Time Limit' leaving more questions than answers with a lot of speculations and assumptions. Why was there a 3 day limit and why couldn't they take all of the time they needed to find out what is actually there?

Maybe they can find a hair brush somewhere in the field too

The abundance of ugly sweaters in this episode is mind boggling

Christmas is Pagan, Easter is Pagan, the Cross is Pagan, wedding rings are Pagan... Christians bow down to Paganism on a daily basis... so, what’s new?!?

do they not have barbers in england?

@ 15.00 in my eyeballs started bleeding from the ugly sweaters and beta males

Wow I am so early

Pagans were allowed to keep much of their religion and then say that they had ‘converted’. Jesus never mixed pure worship with false, nor did he force conversion.

Oh before worse jobs, only difference is hair.

Christianity is the old pagan religion. They just changed the name from the pagan God to Jesus but the practices stayed the same, such as Christmas and Easter, both pagan rituals.

Roman Christians, not having massive luxury of church burials with stone statue medieval knights and ladies effigies, ... maybe a lost local area British Christian Roman patron saint or bishop - with saintly healing powers.

me: an American atheist who's never been to Britain also me: I do wonder why there's a pagan looking statue in the wall of that church 🤔

this is a kind of a shallow analysis

19:52 Men are interested in results, and women are interested in "following the process". This is why some bureaucracies, especially ones with too many women, just take forever to get anything done.

I can't stand these people Let's consult the proper channels No let's rip it up for good television!

I've got mixed feelings about this episode. First, you start out with a church who has a Pagan deity in its outer wall.... This doesn't surprise me as Christianity has always had Paganism mixed with it. Next,c you have The English Heritage and Time Team confiscating the land of a local. Is there royalties afforded to this landowner? It seems to me that the landowner is getting the short end of the stick.

An older vid, but as interesting as ever -- it is also "interesting" to observe the (thankfully increasingly obsolete) "social artifact" of the men repeatedly asking a female team member to weigh in, and as soon as she does, they talk over her and start man-splaining all over the place and her face just goes all, "Well F.U. too, mate!" Grow up, guys! LOL

Seems to me Carenza Lewis is more interested in office politics and sucking up to her boss at English Heritage than actual archeology. Time and again she goes out of her way to clog up the works with her interpretation of some obscure regulation.

So 2 things : there is at least one atrocious sweater in every scene And 2. This is the largest assortment of unattractive men I've seen in just one half hour

The Time Team is al l a bunch of hippies. Which year is this episode from? 1968? Oh... Just finished and it's 1994. Very funny how the British class system is still so evident. The hippies - some of them with surprisingly nice teeth for Brits! - with the funny accents are low class to lower middle class, the owner, archeology chief are landed gentry and upper class speaking very correct British English. The owner's stiffness indicates a private boarding school followed by a fairly high-ranking university, though not Oxford or Cambridge. Probably London School of Economics or Imperial College at best, possibly Sandhurst. The Archeology chief with her preppy haircut probably did a stint at a US college or university (using "pretty" is a dead giveaway if a Brit uses it instead of "rather" or "jolly well" or some such [no, I didn't attend a Brit school, I'm just a keen study of language like Henry Higgins]). The rest'o'em with newly washed and blow dried hair to the point of looking like bad afros (though that was for day 1 - the hair gets greasy and hangs in strands towards day 3) are middle class or upper-scraping-its-bottom middle class with provincial university education or a University for the Creative Arts BA. perhaps a night school MA. Those Brits are such a barrel of laughs. I wouldn't have been surprised if one of the ditch diggers had raised his head revealing John Cleese shouting "right-o!"

I've really enjoyed everything AH has put out except this one, which seems to be chocked full of pompous, ego inflated wankers. Martin's hair, the dude with the bow tie, the stoic "landowner"...Although I love learning, I am so glad a school day counselor guided me away from archeology as a career path. Is the only way to distinguish yourself in historical academia, to be a odd, even annoying, eccentric that people remember more for quirky fashion embrace, peculiar behavior and arrogance, than genius?

I can’t take this guy seriously that wears the same rainbow sweater In every episode.

I PREFER PAGANISM over all of the ridiculous jesus/god nonsense...