Time Team S14-E13 In the Shadow of the Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

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  • Ten thousand years ago, Bodmin Moor was completely different to the barren, windswept landscape of today. It was wooded and temperate, and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers roamed at their will up to 10,000 years ago. By the Neolithic era, from about 4500 to 2300 BC, people were claiming the terrain for their own, clearing the trees in order to settle and farm the landscape and burying their dead in barrows and cairns.
    Ancient communities continued to thrive there right through the Bronze Age. More than 200 settlements have been recorded, with their enclosures and field patterns, but we don't know when exactly all of these were occupied, how they relate to each other or when and why they were deserted.
    English Heritage and the Cornwall Historic Environment Service invited Time Team to examine and date some of the major standing monuments in the vicinity of Rough Tor. In a new departure for Time Team, this involved harnessing some of the latest science used in environmental archaeology alongside the Team's usual excavation and investigation techniques.

ความคิดเห็น • 518

  • @beaudyk
    @beaudyk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    I live in the US, and the only way I can see wonderful shows is old on TH-cam. I tend to binge watch this series! Thank you.

    • @CruellaDeMille
      @CruellaDeMille 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It’s like crack. Sweet archeological crack.

    • @johndubya707
      @johndubya707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Just a FYI to others in the US, about half of the seasons and specials are available on Amzn Prime (most are better resolution)... it's missing quite a few seasons though, so that's why I'm glad I found them on YT.

    • @guinevere4365
      @guinevere4365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes I live in the US as well and adore Time team and this is one of my favorites! I must have seen all of them 4 or 5 times. These guys are all my family. Francis is just so in love with archaeology it’s wonderful. If I had seen this series 40 years ago my life would have been totally different-I would have definitely been digging holes and loving it!

    • @traveler804
      @traveler804 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      same here

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its fun, I do as well.
      Tennessee, USA
      *Its a shame that Mainstream Archaeology holds the power over the "History Story", b/c there quite a lot if Archaeology right here in the USA.
      But the Mainstream's Dogmatic behaviour around the Darwin Theory, meaning the apply a belief to it, like a Religion, and they established a Paradigm/Story and Timeline *(based on a Theory)* which is in opposition to the very "Standards of Science and Research", which forbids such.
      Further, the DNA and Geology Studies/Research have actually proved them inaccurate.
      Be that as it may, they ignore so much of the accurate History, like seafaring between Europe and the USA and other facts that place more people here in the era around the Bronze age (they were after tin) and even earlier Archaeology, all of which they ignore and resist because it doesn't fit within their Story.
      In the next 2 years that will be push aside by serious data that they won't be able to ignore any more.
      Will be some Exciting Archaeology facts and that will be such fun.
      🇺🇸

  • @lindawitherspoon446
    @lindawitherspoon446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Absolutely love Time Team. In these times of craziness in the world, this show takes me away from the depressing reality here in the states.

    • @MamaKitty-rs7kp
      @MamaKitty-rs7kp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Here in 2024 and whole heartedly agree ❤

  • @StephiSensei26
    @StephiSensei26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    One of the best episodes of te series. Mystical, Magical and transporting us into another time. Phil is a laughing genius! And, seeing Tony get his hands dirty is just great!

    • @silviac221
      @silviac221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I've been watching them in order during the pandemic and, so far, this is the one I liked best. I love finding out about people who lived so long ago and the impressive things they built.

    • @elizabethschaeffer9543
      @elizabethschaeffer9543 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed! This episode is a classic. Inspiring. deeply significant. and a portrait of the crew that is heart-warming.

  • @qbones7
    @qbones7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    Whoever killed Time Team should be publicly flogged. I still watch it over and over and love em all. Each member has such a fascinating skill set and bring so much to make it a real Team.

    • @lindalee7322
      @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      All I know is the complaints I read about the last two years being ruined by the woman and man that were the new main narrators and interviewers during the last two years of the program. These comments were generated mostly by the Brits who had also watched the series on TV.
      When I finally worked my way through the first 18 years and began seeing season 19 and 20, I had to agree. I tried to watch them, nut found them rather bothersome, too. I've watched the first 18 seasons many times now . I don't watch 19 or 20 at all.
      So, I'm guessing that lack of public support by the television viewers and decreased ratings would have killed the show. It's the producer Tim who you want to flog. He had full say in everything including all the on site narratives, introductions, discussions between the archaeologists and specialists, etc. Even Tony's introduction of each show was written by Tim.
      I saw how the show was produced in one of the 1 hour specials. You can also see Tim's involvement in the Time Team Digital videos on TH-cam -- each of which are only a few minutes long.

    • @00BillyTorontoBill
      @00BillyTorontoBill 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      yup...if you liked and respected Mick for 18 yrs...then his decision to leave says a lot !
      moral of the story... If it aint broke dont fix it.

    • @electric_kool-aid
      @electric_kool-aid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It was actually Mick who decided to leave and everyone else didn’t want to bother continuing.

    • @lettersandnumbers81
      @lettersandnumbers81 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@electric_kool-aid mick left because channel 4 wanted to reduce the amount of archaeology in the show

    • @thomaszaccone3960
      @thomaszaccone3960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I think its just a dumbing down of general programming in the media to reality show nonsense.

  • @JH-lh9hr
    @JH-lh9hr ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm also in the US. I love this show so much. It helps me a lot with my anxiety and depression. It distracts me from my own worries. And the history is amazing!

  • @Timotei75
    @Timotei75 7 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    It's almost as much of a joy to read the comments as it is to watch the show. Sensible people having sensible debates, in the main.
    Shockingly civilised for TH-cam!

    • @michelegyselinck5400
      @michelegyselinck5400 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, I guess it depends on what you watch.

    • @CruellaDeMille
      @CruellaDeMille 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      HOW DARE YOU!

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CruellaDeMille is a pseudonym of *_Julie Coolibah!_* 🙃

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michelegyselinck5400 If you want to read stupidity try any of the decent videos about the pyramids!

    • @corneliawissing7950
      @corneliawissing7950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fully agree! Thank you to both Time Team and those who watch it! You're educating me.

  • @michaelmelen9062
    @michaelmelen9062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I wish the show had identified the diggers and sifters who participated in the archaeology. They identify the main characters both during the show and in the credits, but the rank-and-file workers/enthusiasts are largely anonymous. Occasionally one will make an observation and occasionally they are credited by name. Mostly they perform hard work in all kinds of elements, and are uncredited. Their contributions are much appreciated, except seemingly by the producers.

    • @basstrammel1322
      @basstrammel1322 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder if that was an british thing? Or is that part of the credits edited out at some point after the first airing?

    • @silviac221
      @silviac221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I couldn't agree more.

  • @maeve4686
    @maeve4686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Phil is so attuned to his passion, that he is visualizing houses and people actually living there thousands of years ago. Ever wonder why he always finds the good stuff? I think he's psychically linked to what he loves. This and , well ok.... pubs.

    • @JMeixsell
      @JMeixsell ปีที่แล้ว +2

      His ability to see the tiniest pin or piece of pottery while the digger is still moving is absolutely amazing!

  • @motaman8074
    @motaman8074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how excited Francis always gets. (Phil too)

  • @WOLFROY47
    @WOLFROY47 7 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    look at phils face bless him, hes thinking, not a pub in sight

    • @pappyreeves6988
      @pappyreeves6988 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Little Dorrit_Lisa ``absolutley..there are several in Bodmin..plus Jamaica Inn of course !

  • @sheilaghbrosky
    @sheilaghbrosky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is one of the better shows. Phil is in archeology heaven.

    • @monicacausey1889
      @monicacausey1889 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love Phil’s knowledge, his dogged determination, and his laugh.

  • @johnanthonyfingleton2954
    @johnanthonyfingleton2954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm watching every episode, and will probably rewatch again....it makes me feel humble to be alive.

  • @paulbriody297
    @paulbriody297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    lovely, i really don't know why i find this show so engrossing, but i do.

  • @mysterioussquirrel4456
    @mysterioussquirrel4456 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This looked like a cold wet and miserable experience. The enthusiasm of the team shone through.

    • @lorawiese5897
      @lorawiese5897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love the beauty and solitude of the area. How lovely to be able to live there.

  • @jamesstrachan6167
    @jamesstrachan6167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Much respect for you all for keeping going through the initial rain until the skies cleared

  • @BlancoDevil
    @BlancoDevil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The people in this show are delightful to watch.

  • @veldawells2839
    @veldawells2839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Can't stop watching The Time Team. Thank you for the collection of these wonderful and compelling series. What an enigmatic find. Truly spectacular. Seeing the cross-section was amazing. ❤️

  • @alicelong6086
    @alicelong6086 10 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This was absolutely fascinating. I was in Cornwall last May, but didn't get to the Moor. Thank you for the terrific professional people who explained the site in terms for an ordinary person to understand.

  • @1andonlylynda
    @1andonlylynda 9 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I am with Phil. would love to live there. Beautiful area. :)

  • @dcdogs1
    @dcdogs1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Frogs don't bite unless you happen to be a passing fly. And yes, Meggan, that was absolutely darling.

  • @stevennault5447
    @stevennault5447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can hear the passion in their voices, the love of the quest...

  • @lizzy66125
    @lizzy66125 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my favorite episodes for many reasons.

  • @hazbiggun
    @hazbiggun 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Cant stop watching these. Thank you ^__^

  • @shnops
    @shnops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How about that Francis Prior ?!! What a delightfully charming chap ! Such a passion for archaeology ! He brings knowledge and humor into the show with a mix of charm and wit !
    'Luv him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ofeliamay3442
    @ofeliamay3442 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I love Time Team! I sit and watch these on TH-cam all the time - it's a really nice way for me to keep my archaeology knowledge fresh. I really liked this episode in particular, because I've actually been to the Bronze Age houses on Bodmin Moor on a field trip while studying abroad in the UK. It was one of my favorite things I did while there, and it was thrilling to see an actual excavation of the houses!

    • @lucygray6162
      @lucygray6162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I went to Bodmin Moor because I had read "Jamaica Inn," and was fascinated with the history. I was thrilled to find the Inn still in existence, but the thing I remember the most was that God-Awful fog. It came over the hood of the car like a white sheet. I couldn't see the road, or a mailbox, a house light, Nothing. We were afraid to just stop and risk someone hitting us, but I was panicking at the thought of winding up in a bog. I was so glad to see the Inn lights finally rise up through the fog. I'm twice as old as when I went on that trip, and still have never seen fog like that again.

  • @obscurazone
    @obscurazone ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How incredibly moving this was. And what an indictment of modern "civilisation" and how completely backwards we are when it comes to respecting and revering the natural environment. It feels like people living 6000 years ago were far more intuitive.

  • @DMLand
    @DMLand 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best Time Team episodes that this US citizen has seen. Much less faffing around making silly jokes about the personalities of the team, which is always a mark of a substantial Time Team episode. I came here from the Rough Tor ep. by The Prehistory Guys, who obviously admired this episode.

  • @CAnon-mg1xm
    @CAnon-mg1xm 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just LOVE this stuff!!!!!!

  • @johnholmes6428
    @johnholmes6428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    3 days is hardly enough time to come up with any decent hypothesis about anything. It was worth every second. It was a great show that I miss tremendously.
    What a bunch of characters!!!

  • @animerlon
    @animerlon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What fun to have TT do experiments in your kitchen, lucky family.
    Just imagining Roman 'tourists' having a picnic on the tor.

  • @LawsonMcLaren
    @LawsonMcLaren 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love Time Team, I love the British countryside. It's so cool that they've linked up with Francis Pryor, my Grandma and I really enjoyed his documentaries.

  • @Hurricaneintheroom
    @Hurricaneintheroom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Britain has so much history that it boggles the mind. Such a great history too. Being from America, it's wonderful. America has a historical history of Bronze Age, etc but we have Native American histories which are interesting.

  • @brettb.7425
    @brettb.7425 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow look how green that place is especially by that creek. Absolutely beautiful.

  • @sleeperawake9818
    @sleeperawake9818 9 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I'd never seen these before and in the last week i've watched about twenty of them!

    • @katajha831
      @katajha831 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Sleeper Awake found it over a year ago. watched all of them 3 times now. lol

    • @cathjj840
      @cathjj840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Join the club.

    • @guinevere4365
      @guinevere4365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Time Team is like my family. I’ve watched it for years and probably seen most of them 3 or 4 times. I don’t watch regular tele only documentaries or other films of interest to me. I haven’t seen a commercial in years so I can keep my mind from being brainwashed. Thank you Time Team for being a true companion to me. Love you all.

    • @guinevere4365
      @guinevere4365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Time Team has connected me to the whole of humanity. Thank you thank you all.

    • @Tiger89Lilly
      @Tiger89Lilly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Welcome to the crew you'll never have an early night again cos they'll always be just one more time team

  • @happmonkeyballs
    @happmonkeyballs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I live less than a mile from Roughtor, it's truely an amazing place. Sunsets from the top are incredible. Ive found some very interesting andbold things up there. It's an incredibly ancient place. Ive camped at the top alot over the years. It's my humble opinion that people also lived at the top of Rough-tor and the lower land was used for farmland with most of the local people living along the ridgeline of Rough-tor.

    • @harbourdogNL
      @harbourdogNL 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      This makes sense.

    • @TheShootist
      @TheShootist ปีที่แล้ว +1

      5000 years ago the planet was 4-6C warmer (holocene thermal optimum) and the British Isles to Shetland and the Western Isles were forested (as had been Doggerland before being inundated by rising sea levels).

  • @carlanthonyholmes2162
    @carlanthonyholmes2162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    People talk about deforestation today, but bronze/iron age brits did it seemingly on a large scale in Britain.

    • @adamsjerome1839
      @adamsjerome1839 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When you consider the concentration of the population in Britain and the inter mixing of various cultures and technologies the need for fuel, housing material explains the denuded landscape. When the founder of the University of Guelph ( Ontario, Canada) looked across the landscape about 150years ago all he saw was tree stumps.

  • @arlenegage9873
    @arlenegage9873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Iv truly enjoyed the TimeTeam Digs!!

  • @xeniabrunel4552
    @xeniabrunel4552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love Doctor Phil Harding in Time team

  • @mastrofnone8025
    @mastrofnone8025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't know how the Brits would feel about me visiting the UK but this show definitely made me want to go . Not to visit London etc. but the rest of the country? absolutely

    • @davidorf3921
      @davidorf3921 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Go with the policy of leaving nothing but footprints and take nothing but photographs and the vast majority of Brits will have no problems with anyone who wants to visit the UK

    • @LindaTCornwall
      @LindaTCornwall 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Highly recommend visiting Cornwall, it's our Eden on Earth. And if you want some recommendations of places to visit (the places only us Cornish now lol) I'd be happy to share!

    • @Tiger89Lilly
      @Tiger89Lilly 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everywhere except London. It's so nice to see tourists outside London. It's like me going to Times square and saying I've been to the US

  • @robertlemasters3395
    @robertlemasters3395 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I should also think that people using wooden poles banging them down in unison on the stone "processional way" would have made an impressive sound . Chanting and rhythmic noise making to welcome the seasons or call attention to themselves or even to awaken the ancestors or Gods.

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks so much for posting.

  • @lindalee7322
    @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    At 36 minutes, Brigid is "struggling with her first find of the day".
    What a funny event! I couldn't help but laugh at her reaction.
    I've watched Brigid dig up and handle skeletons in other episodes with no qualms. To see what made her squeamish and cringe was funny and cute. :o)

  • @barbaraettles1865
    @barbaraettles1865 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    this is an amazing place.

  • @MaximvsDread
    @MaximvsDread 10 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    What made it so attractive? Trees. Why is it so inhospitable now? No trees.

    • @mikefox1591
      @mikefox1591 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      LOL- agreed. Life is 4 D not 3 D

    • @cathjj840
      @cathjj840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Those prehistorics were a pretty misguided lot. This is far from the only example of both the landscape and the climate being changed forever by their practices. The Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, where agriculture began,also wound up becoming practically treeless and much dryer over the thousands of years since it started through tree cutting for firewood and construction. Little by little most of the wood in houses had to be replaced by masonry solutions. For grand projects, they started importing even in very ancient times huge tree trunks from Lebanon until their forests dwindled as well. To be sure, no one was educated in ecology (or anything else) at the time and the changes were so gradual as to be difficult to discern. There must have been old legends featuring forests that might have seemed somewhat incongruous to the more reflective among later listeners.

    • @michelegyselinck5400
      @michelegyselinck5400 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cathjj840 It sounds like the reverse story of The Man Who Planted Trees. In that story the plain where the man is planting the acorns that grew into oaks is a desert, but decades after he's gone the place is unrecognizable. That story was made into a short animated film by Frederic Back who drew all the pictures with Prismacolor pencils. Each and every single picture ( can't think of the proper term) that made the film by hand. If I'm not mistaken that film had won an Academy Award the year it came out.

    • @cathjj840
      @cathjj840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It should be noted that deforestation is not inevitable, even before awareness of ecological concerns. France today has much more forest thant at the lowest point reached in Medieval times. The trees are not always the same ones or in the same mix as occurred naturally, but they're there and are now subject to regulations and management. During the shah's time, Iran had a vast program to plant trees in their northern mountain range in the hopes this would influence the climate by inducing more precipitation. Don't know if the concept is valid or if the program got very far. There are other efforts and initiatives in Africa, whereas Brazil seems to want to go the route of full-on disastrous exploitation of the Amazon rain forests. sigh

    • @michelegyselinck5400
      @michelegyselinck5400 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@cathjj840 Of course, it isn't, but it's clearly what happened there. And in the program Tony Robinson says that the ground has become too acidic for anything else to grow. Maybe they could try evergreens. They make the soil pretty acidic so they might grow in that environment, and they would break the wind. Besides the farther north you go before you reach the tree line the. more likely you are to find only evergreens anyway and better that than nothing.

  • @SindreGaaserod
    @SindreGaaserod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Time Team is amazing. Fantastic(!!) episode!

  • @JoesZone2
    @JoesZone2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love this episode so much.
    The music after the intro is great - it makes me feel as if I'm living in the past...... wish there was a complete soundtrack of it. :) thx for upload
    edit: i found it! yay XD

    • @FeatherCharm436
      @FeatherCharm436 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what is it?!?! I'm need that music in my life

  • @tonyoliver6797
    @tonyoliver6797 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I went to Dartmoor last year, wonderful place full of mossy cairns and old drystone walls. It is really a mystical landscape that literally goes on for miles and miles.

    • @LindaTCornwall
      @LindaTCornwall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's Devon :D This is bodmin moor, Cornwall.

    • @oldtimer5283
      @oldtimer5283 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LindaTCornwallvery bossy aint ya 🙊🙉🙈

    • @waslias
      @waslias 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LindaTCornwall You're right! But what Tony said is also right!

  • @lorilea3188
    @lorilea3188 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hello from the land of the Ho Chunk, oak hazel elderberry prairie savannah, people had been magaging the landscape here with fire and relatuinship with bison. no cattle sheep nor goat herds, no war horse before europeans. facinating.

  • @slayerkhan
    @slayerkhan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Totally addicted to Time Team. I'm going to dig up my back yard and see if I can find some archaeology! (j/k Cindy)

    • @BryonLape
      @BryonLape 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My backyard has tons of sea fossils. They are all over the place in the shale around here.

    • @umpump11
      @umpump11 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Do you have a car park? Or a really nice lawn?

    • @slayerkhan
      @slayerkhan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Jim Schroeder I rent a room from my cousin, and she doesn't want me digging up the yard, although I might get away with a 2'x2'x2' trench. ;)

    • @sherryelliott4795
      @sherryelliott4795 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I want to dig up my yard too!⛏

    • @ellicooper2323
      @ellicooper2323 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tell her you're putting in a water feature. When you are done, tell her the soil wasn't right. Or put in the water feature.

  • @davidsradioroom9678
    @davidsradioroom9678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the most fascinating shows on television. Only 25 "thumbs down' as apposed to 816 "Thumbs up" kind of tells of the quality programme this is!

    • @WashuHakubi4
      @WashuHakubi4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The 25 Thumbs Down are probably Saxons who resented having their pottery dug up.

  • @bokhans
    @bokhans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A lot of wet people kneeling in muddy holes in the ground. What’s the beauty in that? I don’t know but I am hooked and have seen some 40 episodes. Just can’t get enough. 😊

  • @StephiSensei26
    @StephiSensei26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spectacular!

  • @stannousflouride8372
    @stannousflouride8372 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Hard to see in the jumble of stones but the round house area is here:
    50°35'57.4"N 4°37'29.7"W
    And the much easier to see causeway with Phil's trench quite visible, is here:
    50°36'20.2"N 4°37'32.5"W

    • @Jenalgo
      @Jenalgo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What is one supposed to do with these numbers? Copying it into google maps does nothing. Why is it not a hyperlink to something useful?

    • @lindalee7322
      @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If I'm right, you may only get Google maps website. I'm not sure if it allows copying of links. ????
      . I think Stannous is very good with google earth or uses a better location mapping program.

    • @CookingWithCows
      @CookingWithCows 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe links are caught as spam in comments. I'll try posting one :D

    • @CookingWithCows
      @CookingWithCows 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      www.google.com/maps/@50.6046479,-4.6237564,1490m/data=!3m1!1e3

    • @DickHolman
      @DickHolman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Use an online tool to convert them to a format that Google recognises. Or, search for Rough Tor.
      (Although this is standard notation, so, ideally, Google should recognise it as the default.)

  • @mick7even
    @mick7even 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “From the middle Bronze Age to be precise….from 1500 to 1000 BC…”
    Love the precise hyperbole!
    Much love much respect, TimeTeam.

  • @teresatoft3512
    @teresatoft3512 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Reiger for posting Time Team! Happy I subscribed to your channel.

  • @saveusmilkboy
    @saveusmilkboy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Phil doing hard manual labour: "Oh. Bliss."
    And that, class, is what happens when you manage to get into a career you truly love...

  • @BryonLape
    @BryonLape 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Which we know was probably" isn't a statement that builds confidence.

    • @CelticSaint
      @CelticSaint 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bryon Lape Yes, there seems to be an awful lot of guesswork in this episode. What am I saying... in every episode!

    • @nunya7502
      @nunya7502 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Bryon Lape It's not an exact science. 'we know was probably' is about as firm as you can get (unless you're fooling yourself).

    • @stuffandnonsense4690
      @stuffandnonsense4690 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol!

    • @barnabyaprobert5159
      @barnabyaprobert5159 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Bryon Lape Oh, Byron, you're just annoyed by the lack of camera time spent on Helen in short-shorts.

    • @steerpike1359
      @steerpike1359 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And how can you "know" something that is only a probability ?

  • @Galerak1
    @Galerak1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    15:33 Tony using a trowel. I don't remember this. Good job it was captured on film for prosperity lol

    • @deborahparham3783
      @deborahparham3783 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tony got in on the digging a few other times. The others teased him about it.

  • @bevanpope7924
    @bevanpope7924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Kah-ooze for cows and doongha for dung... cracks me up every time!....
    And a “what great hole? “
    Thucking or sooking? Gad, I miss England!

  • @tinahedge5569
    @tinahedge5569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    #940👍!..... 29👎??..... What are you 29 ??! WHO could even CONSIDER giving a thumbs down to the Time Team crew for GAWDSAKES??!! YOU, are hereby BANNED from any and ALL Time Team vids!! You are not WORTHY! Thumbs up, 👍 if like me, YOU think Time Team is an AWESOME way to learn regional history, be highly entertained while it's happening, and wish they'd end up in your backyard for three days, digging away, being funny while digging up history, and available to toss a few pints down with you at your favorite pub after a good days digging?!! 👍👈👏👏👏✋☮

  • @swindonwhite8413
    @swindonwhite8413 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Time Team was by far the best tv show in the uk. Interesting, good presenters, entertaining and now what do we have......... love island, it’s a joke. I’d love Time Team to be back on tv.

  • @biancacastafiore383
    @biancacastafiore383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful landscape!

  • @droolies7079
    @droolies7079 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Sucking huge stones!" I've needed that exact term so many times in my life.

    • @nancydaly5414
      @nancydaly5414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Socking huge stones I believe

  • @haplessasshole9615
    @haplessasshole9615 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:46 -- Ah, the lovely pitter-pat of fat raindrops on rain jackets and Phil's hat! I'll bet the sound tech adored working around *that* background noise.

  • @JamesPetty-sb5gf
    @JamesPetty-sb5gf ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s kinda scary when Stewart and Francis agree.

  • @MrHoot50
    @MrHoot50 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I wonder what proportion of rainy days to dry days the Team has. It seems to rain all the Time!

    • @nunya7502
      @nunya7502 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This show does seem to support the world view of Britain as the land of the umbrella.

    • @lindalee7322
      @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There is actually a time team special at the end of the series. It goes into the history of the show. They even talked about how many total days they did digs, and the small number of days that were without rain.

    • @MarkGeraghty
      @MarkGeraghty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, they were known as Rain Team by some.

  • @darrylwithrow293
    @darrylwithrow293 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love seeing Tony with a trowel!

  • @SDOtunes
    @SDOtunes 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "In the shadow of the Tor
    Only seen by the kings
    Of the dawn of the first millenium
    Upon the thrones
    In the shadow of the Tor
    Cleansed like the air in the night
    World without end"
    Anyone? ;D

    • @doctorfairlight2792
      @doctorfairlight2792 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      (we've become) a race of the cursed seeds
      For five united forces
      In the eternal dawn
      The kings that held (their) heads high

    • @burtbackattack
      @burtbackattack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bananarama?
      (Nailed it!)

  • @WeeeWriter
    @WeeeWriter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I miss Mick Aston xox

  • @Idellphany
    @Idellphany 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am so absolutely crazy for the show 😀😍watch it before bed every night

  • @rosemary4033
    @rosemary4033 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like matt!! I just found time team on youtube, wish it was on our tv in USA it's been off for some years, same but fun to watch and learn history through other people's eyes!!😀

  • @lindahughes2289
    @lindahughes2289 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello 2/2024 and thanks, Linda + David

  • @aimeebrass5266
    @aimeebrass5266 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Francis is really animated.

  • @slhughes1267
    @slhughes1267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    No mater when these guys go, there's no *trees*. After prolonged viewing of this series, I'm about to scream for the lack of trees.

  • @kc3718
    @kc3718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    there's a neolithic row like that one on Ruabon mountain on the Welsh border, it also points east and uphill although it is not as long as this one, it is perhaps in an even more delightful setting surrounded by a bronze age relic landscape and some Roman mining, and now remote and rarely visited or recognised. There is also one on Dartmoor.

  • @NorthworthySagasStories
    @NorthworthySagasStories 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool episode!

  • @robertlemasters3395
    @robertlemasters3395 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Sound, the mysterious roadway or processional way had a definite purpose. Of importance it was constructed to amplify sound. where the dancing of the people or marching, the sound would be amplified made louder, more significant and even melodic. In a way it was an architectural musical instrument in stone and rubble.I would have liked to know the alignment of the way to the rising and setting of the sun.

    • @stuffandnonsense4690
      @stuffandnonsense4690 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So true, re sound. There are sound rocks- rather like stone drums- in a very, very ancient prehistoric pre-ice age once-thriving settlement out in the Kalahari which were found by archaeological seekers almost by sheer accident that had been exposed by shifting sands. The sound that those stone drums produce is both delicate & dulcet, yet can be heard perfectly from many, many miles away. The importance of human-made sound throughout our human existence cannot be underestimated.

    • @erepsekahs
      @erepsekahs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go and visit it.

  • @lindasue8719
    @lindasue8719 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I often wonder why this well-understood Deforestation of great parts of Britain are not constantly pulled up as a cautionary tale - like that of Easter island.
    At the very least, why aren’t these areas being reforested?

    • @martynnotman3467
      @martynnotman3467 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because the soil is now heavily acidic and trees wouldnt grow well.

    • @sisuguillam5109
      @sisuguillam5109 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a lovely piece in The Guardian (I think last week?) discussing just that... it was called 'Rewilding will make Britain a rainforest nation again'. Very useful!

    • @philaypeephilippotter6532
      @philaypeephilippotter6532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@martynnotman3467 Also in places like *Bodmin Moor* there is now too little subsoil to root trees.

  • @goranhassel9021
    @goranhassel9021 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jolly good

  • @Fox1nDen
    @Fox1nDen 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the 500-meter wall thingy could have been a dam to prevent moor waters from reaching the living spaces. rain isn't draining off well now, and it wasn't back then either, that's why it is on the cusp of a moor.

    • @lindalee7322
      @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree with you. As you probably know from watching the series, Francis is deeply into "ritual". Also, the dig wasn't on top of the hill which would normally be a factor in his claiming the site to be ritual.

    • @mrdanforth3744
      @mrdanforth3744 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No one would build such an elaborate wall for that. They would dig a ditch. Also there is a wall around the settlement. That was probably for livestock.

    • @annk.8750
      @annk.8750 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was wondering if there were natural geologic features in lines that might have suggested the causeways, later enhanced by early residents.

  • @perrykuehr5538
    @perrykuehr5538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Haha..Tony asked the woman at the microscope if she could narrow down what KIND of animal deposited the dung..she says "..sure..large herbivores like cows or sheep or goats.." I think she got them all..ha.

  • @voovvoov7590
    @voovvoov7590 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such an entertainment ❤️

  • @dinx556
    @dinx556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent TT, I wonder if the people who built the houses and processional way actually built Rough Tor as well!

  • @darlenekovach7983
    @darlenekovach7983 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A p at on the shoulder and a kiiss on the cheek to each and every member of this dig!

  • @MrTorleon
    @MrTorleon 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very interesting episode. My only comment would be about the rather simple explanation of the wooded past. Wood was essential for heating and cooking. There are many examples around the world where early habitation was abandoned - the reason being that as trees were removed, the distance to gather wood to the habitat became unsupportable. The process might take centuries, but would be a major influence for continued habitation - still, great episode !

    • @saintboudreau1545
      @saintboudreau1545 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believed that is what they said?

    • @gregb6469
      @gregb6469 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They switched to burning animal dung.

    • @hiccacarryer3624
      @hiccacarryer3624 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People burnt furze (gorse) on the moor and peat up until early modern times - its very smoky but adds a distinctive flavour to the beer clotted cream and other foods such as bacon that early writers often noted.

  • @peterscrafton5592
    @peterscrafton5592 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I believe that there were red deer on Dartmoor until the Second World War, when they were shot out to meet the need for meat. I think that I am right in saying that there has been no, or no major attempt, to reintroduce them
    I agree with others, though, these places are places of wonder and mystery; and it is, perhaps, a shame, that something could not be done to encourage deciduous woodland to grow, once again - but perhaps the soil is now too acidic?

    • @gregb6469
      @gregb6469 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Since it has been quite a few years since people have been living on that moor in large numbers, if trees could grow there they would likely already be doing so.

    • @iaindunbar1578
      @iaindunbar1578 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      the trees don't grow back because of the sheep. they eat the young shoots and so they cant get established.

  • @Fox1nDen
    @Fox1nDen 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    alrighty then, Tony finally reqalizes they are not going to find everything they hope to! Good on ya, Tony!

  • @TONGATONGA-cr4qm
    @TONGATONGA-cr4qm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What does Phil say over in Trench Three...? "Oooo, aaaarrrr, ehhhh...?"

  • @megganking2595
    @megganking2595 11 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "do frogs bite?"
    am I the only one who thinks that was cute?
    I must be since I appear to be the only one who has watched this from here...lol

    • @lindalee7322
      @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So true!!!! Her entire reaction was cute and funny.

    • @guinevere4365
      @guinevere4365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes I had a good laugh too! You’d think they’re all so used to everything having to do with dirt and mud!

    • @haplessasshole9615
      @haplessasshole9615 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindalee7322 You can always count on Brigid to be able to laugh at herself. Of course, we're talking about a woman who mucks around in the dirt and gives every appearance of liking it. But it makes me wonder -- don't they have frogs in New Zealand?

    • @adamsjerome1839
      @adamsjerome1839 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bridget was super cute when she encountered Kermit.

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 ปีที่แล้ว

    to me this was one of the best Time teams i have seen. i mean these poor people up there must have been freezing cold! and must have been -hell- even more for the camera and sound team. to get at least SOMETHING together, with all the wind and rain. it is indeed an -old -show, and i do wonder is there more archaeological activities going on up there. or was it closed down after the Time Team was there? Kudos to everyone who makes, or in this case better, made these episodes so successful.
    I know the show goes on. but i nmz opinion it is now more like a -roadshow-, with people all over the place, people deciding what and where to dig. Tit is sad that manz a great person is digging in heaven now. others have left because their own full day work wanted or demanded it. and in my opinion Tony Robinson was made - SIR - not for nothing. it is still good to see some from the old team, more grzy now, more wrinkles, of course the men only,the ladies are as gorgeous as ever. and that i have still zears to come to watch theses -old -episodes. what actually surprised me though, when watching the new Time Team, it never came up more on the thumbnails. this episodes, as soon as i click o none, all the thumbnails show only -Time team- nothing else...

  • @SharpAssKnittingNeedles
    @SharpAssKnittingNeedles ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I find it fascinating that no one is talking about the little bits at the end where they're talking about what's on next. Sounds like the UK also had some shitty reality TV too 👀

  • @johnoverstreet6689
    @johnoverstreet6689 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in the United States too. I love this show about the history of the mother of the United States. Love the United Kingdom of Great Britain

  • @maddog2771
    @maddog2771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Was here in October 2019

  • @00BillyTorontoBill
    @00BillyTorontoBill 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Id live there now. seems far enough away from things...lol

  • @LindaTCornwall
    @LindaTCornwall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'd love to see Brown Willy excavated, there's an oral history here in Cornwall that a Cornish King lays buried there... It's never been excavated. Though, I don't reckon anyone will ever get permission if I'm honest!

  • @turbostoep
    @turbostoep 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A Dutch timeteam fan here, just wondering why Phil has a dutch flag on his green sweater arm. I assume he just bought the sweater that way and has no real significance but still , would be nice to see my favourite time team member has some ties to The Netherlands.

    • @garyrobinson2409
      @garyrobinson2409 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Hi Tubostep, Phil buys his works clothes from army surplus stores of which a few still remain in the UK (there used to be one in almost every big town) and the ex-military unused or time expired clothing comes from all over Europe as well as the UK. You'll see other members of the cast wearing sweaters and shirts from Belgium and Germany in other episodes. Ex army clothes are usually cheap, hard wearing and designed for outdoors use which ticks a box for these people.

    • @turbostoep
      @turbostoep 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thanks for the reply History Fanatic,
      We call them dump shops here in holland. Used to buy army boots there when iwas younger.

    • @cromby620
      @cromby620 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +History Fanatic
      If you are going in Belgium, the Gandensis/south-Zealand should be a very interesiting place to dig.
      We still need to find more historic evidences about the Menapii there.
      I'm thinking about the "Maritima" area. I'm afraid that many have been destroyed by dragging the mouth of the Scheldt but on its south side, there shoud certainely have something.
      In Ireland, the Menapia trading colony was dating from -216, so traces from before may be found there.
      A genetic approach here:
      translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmenapii.forumactif.be%2Ft2-quete-d-une-origine-anterieure-a-jules-cesar&sandbox=1

    • @nevyen149
      @nevyen149 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He's "native" through and through, and particularly proud of it. It's is frequently joked that he has always fancied himself as a "modern" primitive, with his flint knapping and shaggy looks. In one episode they take a DNA sample to trace his ancestry. They tease him that he's Roman, but in the end it comes back he's mostly Celtic. He then claims all the countryside, and tells the rest of the to get off "his" land.
      Not that it matters, but my great grandmother was from Boskoop.

    • @lindalee7322
      @lindalee7322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He was heavily involved in learning from Dutch shipmakers in one or two episodes. He had been to the Netherlands for those episodes.

  • @WOLFROY47
    @WOLFROY47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    those two rows of stones would make a good place to funnel water like a canal or a fish pond ? just look at those trenches full of water

  • @adamsjerome1839
    @adamsjerome1839 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if Phil's battered and bruised tool box contains a pint or two as well as his archeological kit.

    • @user-hy7zb2vl3t
      @user-hy7zb2vl3t 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's easier to keep warm on a dig.
      Robin carried a hip flask😊

  • @Jyromi
    @Jyromi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    by just looking at those rocks who would ever imagine a house there?

    • @terryvernon4671
      @terryvernon4671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Quite a few people who had lived through the Blitz, and grown used to seeing a familiar building turn into a heap of bricks overnight.

  • @lburns7952
    @lburns7952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm going to have to do a detailed Google search on moors. I don't know what one really is, but I thought they were boggy and wet. We don't have them here in the US (to my knowledge). Love this series.

    • @KuptisOriginal
      @KuptisOriginal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @bigwaverider moors in this show's case refers to the land and not the people. Moors in the UK like the Bodmin moor and the Scottish moors are "Chiefly British: an expanse of open rolling infertile land".