I love how Phil is as excited about finds as you would about eating something tasty. Like you tell him there’s a piece of flint and he jumps up like it’s free pizza
8:54 I just love the fact that you have a young punk/all-redhaired Alice Roberts digging away with everybody else, now professor and famed television presenter, then still a PhD student ~ so cool the show has run for so long, that you can see future (present) experts in the field working their way up through the ranks... ⛏⏩🎓 🤓👍
When Tony was naming the diggers at the start of the episode and said “Alice” and pointed to the redhead, I wondered whether it was Alice Roberts, who would host her own series in the future. By the end, I know it was.
16:10 is Time Team highlight reel material… “FLINT!? I’ll ave a loook atsum flint!!” Makes me smile each time I rewind and watch Phil jump up from his 3 kneeling pads and gallop over to it… No shade intended bc I’m an archaeologist so I feel the knee pain, and my right arm/shoulder is twice as muscular (and regularly sore) than the left haha
In one of the other digs a metal detectorist (sp?) found a large gold coin, Phil didn't even flinch. But a piece of *flint*!? It's shovels down in a heartbeat!😄
FANTASTIC ARCHEOLOGY I taught Archeology, and Ancient History in U.S. college. All of the other internet programs of history could learn so much from Tony & his team. Speculation is essential in Archeology. But Tony keeps saying "it is theory". PERFECT, by far the best on U-tube, from a professor of Archeology & Ancient history.
It depends on what part of the country. Generally, Northeastern people tended to live in dispersed smaller settlements, that wouldn’t necessarily leave a lot behind.
There is such a fine line between preserving the past and building for the future. Far to often the past never has a chance. I applaud the efforts of archaeologists to discover and try to preserve the heritage of all of mankind.
YET YOU WOULD THINK SUCH AN IMPORTANT FIND WITH SO MUCH MORE STILL THEY COULD DO WOULD DESERVE MORE THAN 3 DAYS BY THE OTHERS NOT TIMETIME WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY JUST PARTIMERS?
Good thinking, but I don't believe there were any graves with burning, and even if there had been the evidence would have been disturbed by the graves . It would be hard to prove your hypothesis.
Interesting! Swedish Lapland here. Apparently here we stored the dead bodies during the deep freeze period until the ground had thawed, making it possible to do the digging. If one died in November it could be May or even June until the burial. If they lived very far from church, and most of them did live in the middle of no where, they usually kept it in the fire wood storage shed of the home. I know this because I used to have my office in an antique building, before used as stables and yes, also body storage for the whole community. My dear colleagues never tired of reminding me of this as I often worked late evenings by myself.
I was so worried that after three days they would NOT be able to get all and what remains they could get out before developers came and plowed over all of it... But they still, with all the time they spent on talking, to get them all out.. Great Job, and to Phil... Amazing!
I'd just like to say, that i am continuously impressed by the skills of the front-end loader driver. I didn't realise there was a scientific grade of Driver. I do now.
TONY: How on EARTH rodents could possibly get into a stone-lined tomb buried a meter deep in soil remains to be seen.... EVERY PET RAT ON EARTH: Hold my yoggies.
High energy, highly entertaining archeology. A team of experts dig with ferocity for truth and good nature for each other. Likable hosts/presenters and many mysteries in this well made historical, British series. As a new subscriber, I'm enjoying some Time Team binge-watching. LL 🇨🇦 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
What a wonderful episode, one of many. I like the prehistoric and Bronze Age episodes best because of the mystery that always remains. Thank you for sharing.
I'm glad I found tine team randomly about a month or so ago. Amazing binge worthy content to dig up and discover. Plus, it's a real pleasure not to watch staged interactions and/or discoveries. Legit.
I just realized, after enjoying these videos for a few months now, that I haven't subscribed to this wonderful channel. Well that's a done deal! Thanks and cheers to the Time Team!!!
Watching the discoveries. Hearing the team put forward their theory on to happily abandon them when new discoveries are made is what I love about this series and it’s good science. And bits of pottery.
I guess you have too many people living on too small an area, had anyone found ancient ruins where buildings were going to be put up, here in Norway, that building project would have been killed so fast you wouldn't have understood what happened.
Where I live the archeological foundings block the site for at lesst 6 months. If the scientists are done sooner, that's good, but it's very easy to block projects for years if the site is reach in archeo materials.
Exactly my thought. We all would have been mesmerized and proud of it as we are of all the historic sights we have to current date in Scandinavia. Never in a million years a sight like this would have been given permission to exploit. To there defence i really don't believe they got just tree days, Time Team maybee, but not the archaeological survey.
"Phil needs to wrap up his skull before the stone is shifted." 🥺 Really strange the things that come out of people's mouths in a show like this. 😉 🤭 LL
This is marvelous. So much. The people working on this are the cream of the crop in this field - It was exciting, informative - seat of the pants suspenseful. It did not disappoint. Although the rats played havoc in the graves, they didn't drag the bones away. It's sad to think that beautiful land and burial site overlooking the ocean is just expensive real estate..that is really a shame. i would be interested in finding out what other information they glean from that dig.
Interesting that no rat bones survived in the adult Kist to help support the suppositions. I guess the rat nibbling probably took place many centuries previously too.
With stones on top of the graves was the area more moist back in the day? In Louisiana, where water tables are not far down, they put cement coverings or rocks on them to keep the caskets from coming up.
It would be interesting to see if they were closely related. If the man was a Grandfather to the children, it could make sense. Perhaps he was there to protect and take care of the children in the afterlife? The people who made these graves obviously had a big enough community to carry these heavy stones. It's a wonderful gravesite.
In Dutch and German they’re called the same. In Germanic languages, the word (cist, Kist(e)) has been borrowed at an early stage from Latin, which borrowed the word kiste (chest, basket) from Greek. It probably has a PIE root, but could also have been passed down from a Semitic language. I just love etymology :)
@@hansc8433 I share your love of etymology. The "kist" used for "chest" goes way back in early English too. In archeology kist means a box made of 6 slabs of stone--four sides a top and a bottom..
The small grooved stone looks like something you'd use to smooth the edge of tanned leather. Also, the larger stones with a cup-like depression carved in look like oil lamps: you'd put oil or tallow and a wick of some kind in the depression and it would burn like a candle. Possibly when the body was laid to rest, the lamp was lit during the interment. Just some thoughts.
It's scary to find out that after 4000 years plus of being untouched, that a development company can just come in and destroy it all in a few days. Something very wrong in that.
I was thinking about that and it occurred to me that with all the history there is in the British Isles, that if they tried to preserve everything, they'd never be able to build anything at all. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting archaeology there and people alive today need somewhere to live. It's still sad though.
I know, but when you live in a country with so much history you don't know where to draw the line. Spain has the same problem if not worse. I have family that lives in Toledo and everytime they restore a building or dig a trench something is found and everything is stopped. All that is found is property of the state and there is so much there just isn't money to escavate , restore and maintain what is found. Like you say, you cannot sacrifice the living for the past. It isnt easy to decide what to do.
What's scary too is the graves just because they're 4000 years old doesn't make it still okay to desecrate them they could have easily left them alone and made it a memorial garden park for the neighborhood preserving the past while allowing the future to be built
My brother in law found a large man made weapon from Kickapoo Creek In Illinois. It really is a marvel ... think it is about 500 to 1000 years old.... I inherited it and love to see the antiquity.
I was just thinking about the stone with the groove; What about a stone used to smooth and grind down somewhat round things into round things, say a stick to make an arrow shaft. It would be carried in a pouch on your body because it would be hard to find another of the right shape and size.
The stone found with the groove in it. I believe it was once a bead as well, and passed down over a long, long line of inheritance. Over that time, it had broken in twain, and the amount of polishing showed how it was smoothed out and kept in a pouch as suggested in the show itself. Signifying it was believed to carry power and was mystical from the beginnings of the family's spoken history.
I'm wondering if the middle aged man was perhaps someone with a child-like personality? Perhaps making it a burial site for essentially children? Just a thought. I also like the idea that someone else in the comments suggested, the Children might be the grave goods themselves. Another possibility to explain the few grave goods, is maybe the families did not have much to leave with the bodies. If the middle aged man was actually a man with stunted cognitive growth then it might explain the lack of items, maybe he really didn't have much or anything to be left with, especially not something long lasting?
19:30 - I keep imagining some dude being bored, smashing rocks together while waiting for harvest or something. And then, in the future, archeologists find them and be like "Oh, must've been art!"
Given the length of the show in years, I always wondered if someone in one of the later shows watched an early episode and went into archeology because of that.
@@tomthx5804 A psycho who happens to have a Ph.D. in paleo-pathology as well as being a biological anthropologist, and a biologist. She is also a talented TV presenter and her documetaries are well worth watching. And what do you look like?
They just toss the “rubbish” stones in the spoil heap. Those stones were last touched by a bronze aged person. They were selected and placed in a purposeful way. Ugh, I want one. 😂
It doesn't present any archaeological value. Especially in modern context where these are dime a dozen. It's the contents of the grave (and the recorded knowledge, which isn't shown in the show much outside the occasional grid square array you can see in some episodes) that are of value.
Tony said "before the archaeology is lost forever." Not really. It will be lost to us because of the new housing development, but in a thousand years archaeologists will be telling their students "and here you can see the foundation of a 20th century house that has been built almost directly over this bronze age location. They must have sought similar locations in which to build their dwellings..."
While you have a point, there are such things as service lines when building; sewers, water, power cables. So where a sewer goes in the archeology will be lost.
@@polaide8036 And where they don't go the archeology will still be preserved, yes? Just like some bronze age buildings can overlap and sometimes cut through stone age settlements, right?
It is interesting about the plastic because I just read an article about microplastic and archeology. It has thrown quite a challenge for archeologist and preserving archeology.
@Jimmy L Needham I don’t think you can use the term “stereotype” when you are talking about one man and one character, that was played by that one man.
OMG, the closed captioning can be, and very often is such a riot! At 13:52, Phil says; "..that's just some sort of organic residue below the stone" and the cc translated it into; "..that's just some sort gonna crested Yahoo below the stone"!😆😆😆 My good news is with this episode I've finally deciphered the "kissed graves", which are actually "cist graves" (not that it was ever spelled properly), which is a term I was unfamiliar with. That has puzzled me through several episodes, and no, Google was not my friend. I did find this episode riveting! I think all of the others I've seen so far are also riveting, though.
If you think this one was good, look for an old Irish TV chat program with Billy Connolly. The captioning is hilarious (more so if you can understand what Billy is saying...)!
Naw, the reason that one guy got such a huge stone grave marker was that he was such a bastard that people were worried that he would get kicked out of the afterlife and wake up again so they enclosed him in stone, left no tools with him and placed a great big heavy stone on top. :)
These sites are all over Scotland, and it would be financially impossible to excavate all of them randomly. Unfortunately, the decision to investigate comes about when a site is threatened. In Florida, a developer just pays off the right people and continues with building wherever they want, regardless of human burials, endangered species or ruining the coastline. Even if they get caught (rarely), they just pay the fines and keep working, like we need another condo or golf course. At least Scotland gives them some time to look for bodies.
@@Objective-Observer They said that the land was going to be developed, and made it sound as if the bulldozers were going to roll on the 4th day. But of course in the epilogue it's clear that there were follow-up excavations, so that wasn't the case.
@@ariochiv well dirty word, I thought I posted my answer, and alas... Over the years, Time Team explained that ALL building projects must have an archeological assessment before they even get planning permission. and NO, if something truly amazing is found, they cannot break ground until the discovery is properly investigated, recorded, and any valuable artifacts removed for study and storage. Keep watching, you will find the episode where Time Team came to the rescue of an individual land owner who wanted to remove some derelict homes/modern shacks, and then add on to the one he was living in. The local counsel discovered the homes were originally built on top of a Celtic burial ground. The building permission process took years; the expense bankrupted him, destroyed his marriage, and he was hoping the Time Team could at least determine the extent of the burial ground, so he could remove rubbish and just sell the land. Why yes, he couldn't even sell the land until the Archeological assessment had finished the entire site. Yes, it was Time Team to the rescue.
@John Signs There is a huge difference between the US history and that of England. The cliche is: you can't put a shovel into English soil without finding some important archeology. They found an English King buried under a parking lot, only a couple of years ago. I watch the YT channels for several Engilsh Mudlarkers- people who walk the river shorlines at low tide and look for historic items. Even with that, they must have a license, and any major historic object they find, must be recorded with an archeological authority. They have beaches still littered with Roman Pottery. 2000 year old pottery scattered all over the beach, and often enough, they find bronze age pottery, on the beach. We don't have that much 'modern' history [2000 years old or less]; and our ancient history is almost eroded to the point it is all but gone, or it's fossilized prehistoric creatures. That is the one distinction America has over England: our ancestors had not destroyed all the fosslilzed bones of the dinosaurs, and we have more of them. The indigenous tribes of North America were mostly nomads; they built no lasting structures; they left no trace upon the land. One good thunderstorm in Tornado Alley and their structures were destroyed, With them built of wood, mud and grass, those don't survive, so there is no 'site' to protect. In England, an arrowhead is pre-historic; here in the States, that same arrow head could be from a few hundred to a few thousand years old, because the American societies stagnated. Those few tribes that did build permanent structures, their remaining sites are protected. To this day, there is no evidence to detail why those permanent sites were abandoned. This isn't a matter of Americans don't care about history; we don't have the wealth of history that needs to be protected.
Daniel Scherer The Earth is OLD and full of history. The place you are currently living in has history underneath it. So, should YOU be deprived of living space because of previous history? Give me a break.
@@r.blakehole932 I mean, to be fair right now the US has some 17 million vacant homes so building more isn't needed. The UK has alot less I'll admit, but at 216,000 homes vacant they still aren't hurting for living space, in fact 70% of Brits live inside urban areas (cities) so building even more homes in the countryside seem's' like a waste
I would like to imagine a family plot, with tragic early deaths of children lovingly laid to rest by a father and mother who later wanted to be buried among their children. It seems archeologists don’t immediately assume children were as cherished then as now. The boy with the jet bead may have been the first born son. How devastating to lose so many children. And young children even today pick up interesting bits of stone and shell and carry them around... native American people had medicine pouches with odd totems...bits of bone,feathers, stones, etc. in them. Perhaps Bronze Age people did the same. Or Perhaps it was like burying them with their favorite teddy. As for the cuts on that small bit of bone, maybe they were killed by an animal, or maybe the remains were chewed by the same rodents that ate the skull. It’s weird to assume people de fleshed their dead children. Pure gruesome speculation based on one unique observation in one grave on one tiny bit of bone. I’m no archeologist, so maybe they saw something else that made them jump to such a bizarre conclusion. Weird.
Defleshing isn't a gruesome speculation. There's plenty of evidence that people around the world did it at various times. Think about embalming. Is it any less gruesome? It's important to not let modern prejudices interfere w archaeology when there's evidence. It doesn't mean they didn't care. It would have been an honorable burial practice, showing respect for the dead. You remove the parts that putrify and decay, keeping the hard bones that are more "eternal." In some belief systems, the belief is that the soul isn't free until the earthly flesh is gone, whether over time, by exposure, defleshing, etc.
Yes. I was thinking a family plot too but with so many kids I had the idea that the whole family died at the same time. Papa and his children. And perhaps Mama survived for a while longer. Accident? War? Disease? LL 🤷🏻♀️
I love how Phil is as excited about finds as you would about eating something tasty. Like you tell him there’s a piece of flint and he jumps up like it’s free pizza
8:54 I just love the fact that you have a young punk/all-redhaired Alice Roberts digging away with everybody else, now professor and famed television presenter, then still a PhD student ~ so cool the show has run for so long, that you can see future (present) experts in the field working their way up through the ranks... ⛏⏩🎓 🤓👍
I always play the game of spot Alice in the background, there where a few different redheaded diggers back then
Thank you for the information
When Tony was naming the diggers at the start of the episode and said “Alice” and pointed to the redhead, I wondered whether it was Alice Roberts, who would host her own series in the future. By the end, I know it was.
Shame she’s become so “woke”.
@@Happyheretic2308I do that people of very low intelligence only seriously use the word 'Woke'.
16:10 is Time Team highlight reel material… “FLINT!? I’ll ave a loook atsum flint!!” Makes me smile each time I rewind and watch Phil jump up from his 3 kneeling pads and gallop over to it…
No shade intended bc I’m an archaeologist so I feel the knee pain, and my right arm/shoulder is twice as muscular (and regularly sore) than the left haha
In one of the other digs a metal detectorist (sp?) found a large gold coin, Phil didn't even flinch. But a piece of *flint*!? It's shovels down in a heartbeat!😄
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FANTASTIC ARCHEOLOGY
I taught Archeology, and Ancient History in U.S. college. All of the other internet programs of history could learn so much from Tony & his team.
Speculation is essential in Archeology.
But Tony keeps saying "it is theory".
PERFECT, by far the best on U-tube, from a professor of Archeology & Ancient history.
Tony is the voice of the public, isn't he? He asks the questions that the audience also asks. :)
We (North America) could only be lucky enough to have the archeological ability to do this here. How sad we already lost native history. 😓
@@skiker6828 Not so much lost, as deliberately obliterated.
It depends on what part of the country. Generally, Northeastern people tended to live in dispersed smaller settlements, that wouldn’t necessarily leave a lot behind.
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One of the cases where I wish they could have extended the length of the dig past 3 days.
The local diggers will continue to empty the site before they build on it.
There is such a fine line between preserving the past and building for the future. Far to often the past never has a chance. I applaud the efforts of archaeologists to discover and try to preserve the heritage of all of mankind.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot!
YET YOU WOULD THINK SUCH AN IMPORTANT FIND WITH SO MUCH MORE STILL THEY COULD DO WOULD DESERVE MORE THAN 3 DAYS BY THE OTHERS NOT TIMETIME WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY JUST PARTIMERS?
@@peterkompter2417 Your comment, in both substance and form, clearly demonstrates your ignorance.
@@chrisose l think you arebetter to look at your own before commenting on others
@@peterkompter2417 So tell me Peter, precisely where have I exhibited ignorance in your opinion?
Be careful of the crack, Tony then proceeds to lean right on it! 😄 classic Tony
I was laughing at his feet propped up on the capstone like it was a snowboard.🤣
I saw that--was giving me anxiety. Tony knows how to bring the excitement one way or another.
I love the excitement when the Archaeologists find something good.
I'm from Alaska, that burning could also be thawing frozen earth for winter burial.
mmm
Well,well, thank you Alaska 🥶🥶 !
Good thinking, but I don't believe there were any graves with burning, and even if there had been the evidence would have been disturbed by the graves . It would be hard to prove your hypothesis.
Interesting! Swedish Lapland here. Apparently here we stored the dead bodies during the deep freeze period until the ground had thawed, making it possible to do the digging. If one died in November it could be May or even June until the burial. If they lived very far from church, and most of them did live in the middle of no where, they usually kept it in the fire wood storage shed of the home. I know this because I used to have my office in an antique building, before used as stables and yes, also body storage for the whole community.
My dear colleagues never tired of reminding me of this as I often worked late evenings by myself.
"...not burning but aturally occurring low-grade coal outcroppings..."
This program is the absolutely the most awesome show ever, Tony & Phil are just to cute. Everyone stay safe, love from Canada.🇨🇦🐘💕
I was so worried that after three days they would NOT be able to get all and what remains they could get out before developers came and plowed over all of it... But they still, with all the time they spent on talking, to get them all out.. Great Job, and to Phil... Amazing!
I'd just like to say, that i am continuously impressed by the skills of the front-end loader driver. I didn't realise there was a scientific grade of Driver. I do now.
A rather special skill set, using those big digging machines with such care.
TONY: How on EARTH rodents could possibly get into a stone-lined tomb buried a meter deep in soil remains to be seen....
EVERY PET RAT ON EARTH: Hold my yoggies.
🤣 Yup.
Alice Roberts! She went on to do several great documentaries herself. How cool to get this glimpse of her from the past.
High energy, highly entertaining archeology. A team of experts dig with ferocity for truth and good nature for each other. Likable hosts/presenters and many mysteries in this well made historical, British series. As a new subscriber, I'm enjoying some Time Team binge-watching. LL 🇨🇦 🙋🏻♀️👍🏻
VERY well said!!
What a wonderful episode, one of many. I like the prehistoric and Bronze Age episodes best because of the mystery that always remains. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, I do as well.
...and it comes with far less "pre-conceived ideas of knowing" - (the glitch in finding greater truths.)
I am totally in love with time Team. When I can I binge watch. I hope to work my way through every one of them. I'm from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA
Philly!
You know when these guys need manpower when even Tony is digging
When a sir starts digging the going is getting rough obviously...
The geo team was digging for the wall. That's far more unheard of than Tony pitching in (you can see him trovelling in some episodes).
This episode was one of the best ....Thank you Time Team.
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I'm glad I found tine team randomly about a month or so ago. Amazing binge worthy content to dig up and discover. Plus, it's a real pleasure not to watch staged interactions and/or discoveries. Legit.
I just realized, after enjoying these videos for a few months now, that I haven't subscribed to this wonderful channel. Well that's a done deal! Thanks and cheers to the Time Team!!!
This has GOT to be THE best episode, of all Time Team excavations!!!!!!!
No geophys? LOL
I say this after watching every episode! 😆
I wish I got half as excited about anything as Phil gets over a piece of flint lol it’s a beautiful thing!
It was good to see John getting his hands dirty😁. Didn't notice Stewart jumping in.
Thank you Time Team 💜 Hello from Nova Scotia
Amazing dig! Long live Time team! Really enjoyed this episode! Kelly/Indiana
Watching the discoveries. Hearing the team put forward their theory on
to happily abandon them when new discoveries are made is what I love about this series and it’s good science. And bits of pottery.
I can't believe that i discovered an episode i didn't see yet. It feels like i have seen every other episode at least 3 times.
I need to confess. When I take my daily nap, I put your videos on as a background noise. It's just so soothing.
Love seeing Phil get excited over flint
What to say about such a big dig? Great fun to watch! "My home is on an ancient cemetery." Lucky me!
I love this show!! I binge watched every episode on prime video!!
Does anyone get the to end of watching the 3 days and say, "wish they could to a couple more days?"
All of us!
I'd like to see them do diligent archeology as opposed to fast-food archeology, so yes.
@Jim Gore Well, that and making it 3 days, a rush, makes it entertainment more easily digested. Marketing.
Yes every time
www.tafac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/23-53.pdf This is an article you may find interesting
I guess you have too many people living on too small an area, had anyone found ancient ruins where buildings were going to be put up, here in Norway, that building project would have been killed so fast you wouldn't have understood what happened.
Britain has no respect for the dead..
Where I live the archeological foundings block the site for at lesst 6 months. If the scientists are done sooner, that's good, but it's very easy to block projects for years if the site is reach in archeo materials.
USA, too. Native peoples would throw an absolute FIT.
Exactly my thought. We all would have been mesmerized and proud of it as we are of all the historic sights we have to current date in Scandinavia. Never in a million years a sight like this would have been given permission to exploit. To there defence i really don't believe they got just tree days, Time Team maybee, but not the archaeological survey.
It’s the same in Sweden. But are you sure the builders are true when they say it is nothing there?
I’m not....
"There might actually be a body under there. Oh, that would be lovely, wouldn't it?"
Ah, archaeology. The one time when you are really happy to find a body.
"Phil needs to wrap up his skull before the stone is shifted." 🥺 Really strange the things that come out of people's mouths in a show like this. 😉 🤭 LL
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No it's not cool to fond a body
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Love Time Team, from Wisconsin
Same. From Nantes, west of France.
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Likewise from Illinois!
This is marvelous. So much. The people working on this are the cream of the crop in this field - It was exciting, informative - seat of the pants suspenseful. It did not disappoint. Although the rats played havoc in the graves, they didn't drag the bones away. It's sad to think that beautiful land and burial site overlooking the ocean is just expensive real estate..that is really a shame. i would be interested in finding out what other information they glean from that dig.
Interesting that no rat bones survived in the adult Kist to help support the suppositions. I guess the rat nibbling probably took place many centuries previously too.
Thank you for sharing such a fantastic bit of history.
one of the best time team episodes I've seen yet.
With stones on top of the graves was the area more moist back in the day? In Louisiana, where water tables are not far down, they put cement coverings or rocks on them to keep the caskets from coming up.
Hmm. Interesting. LL
yeah, but historically Louisiana has has a big zombie problem, right? I could be wrong.
These werent wood caksets though.
It would be interesting to see if they were closely related. If the man was a Grandfather to the children, it could make sense. Perhaps he was there to protect and take care of the children in the afterlife? The people who made these graves obviously had a big enough community to carry these heavy stones. It's a wonderful gravesite.
It's a shame they didn't dig down into the rat warren. If there had been anything shiny in the grave the rats would have taken it.
things don't shine much in the dark.
@@dth999 You need to get out more
@@LeeGee 🤣🤣🤣
This was more suspenseful than any who done it!
"Kist" is just swe/dan/nor for coffin. We call them "stenkistor" stone coffins up here.
In Norway we call them "kiste"(single) "kister"(several).
In Dutch and German they’re called the same. In Germanic languages, the word (cist, Kist(e)) has been borrowed at an early stage from Latin, which borrowed the word kiste (chest, basket) from Greek. It probably has a PIE root, but could also have been passed down from a Semitic language. I just love etymology :)
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Thanks for information everybody!
@@hansc8433 I share your love of etymology. The "kist" used for "chest"
goes way back in early English too. In archeology kist means a box made of 6 slabs of stone--four sides a top and a bottom..
One of the best - so much of what we are is wrapped up in what we were...
The small grooved stone looks like something you'd use to smooth the edge of tanned leather. Also, the larger stones with a cup-like depression carved in look like oil lamps: you'd put oil or tallow and a wick of some kind in the depression and it would burn like a candle. Possibly when the body was laid to rest, the lamp was lit during the interment. Just some thoughts.
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One of the best episodes EVER!!
Love the unravelling of history
The artifact that Stuart is holding (pit in the rock) is a nutting stone. It holds a nut so it can be cracked open with another rock.
AWESOME 😎 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 🌰
I’m sorry but my mind went elsewhere…
@@angelaparker4110 same. :)
Truly Amazing
It's scary to find out that after 4000 years plus of being untouched, that a development company can just come in and destroy it all in a few days. Something very wrong in that.
I was thinking about that and it occurred to me that with all the history there is in the British Isles, that if they tried to preserve everything, they'd never be able to build anything at all. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting archaeology there and people alive today need somewhere to live. It's still sad though.
No respect for the dead when it comes to commercial enterprise.
I know, but when you live in a country with so much history you don't know where to draw the line. Spain has the same problem if not worse. I have family that lives in Toledo and everytime they restore a building or dig a trench something is found and everything is stopped. All that is found is property of the state and there is so much there just isn't money to escavate , restore and maintain what is found. Like you say, you cannot sacrifice the living for the past. It isnt easy to decide what to do.
@@eshbena but graves
What's scary too is the graves just because they're 4000 years old doesn't make it still okay to desecrate them they could have easily left them alone and made it a memorial garden park for the neighborhood preserving the past while allowing the future to be built
I really like this show. I just found out the Amazon Prime has seasons 11 through 18 I believe.
the internets have season 1-20, but not all in HD
@@Dagarvs
Wonderful content in adequate quality is quite good enough for me.
looking back 4000yrs my mind is boggled.
My brother in law found a large man made weapon from Kickapoo Creek In Illinois. It really is a marvel ... think it is about 500 to 1000 years old.... I inherited it and love to see the antiquity.
Bring it to your local natural history museum.
I was just thinking about the stone with the groove; What about a stone used to smooth and grind down somewhat round things into round things, say a stick to make an arrow shaft. It would be carried in a pouch on your body because it would be hard to find another of the right shape and size.
all in all, a great episode!
learned a lot from this one.
The stone found with the groove in it. I believe it was once a bead as well, and passed down over a long, long line of inheritance. Over that time, it had broken in twain, and the amount of polishing showed how it was smoothed out and kept in a pouch as suggested in the show itself. Signifying it was believed to carry power and was mystical from the beginnings of the family's spoken history.
Lots of things break in twain.
Makes me wonder how much great archaeological discoveries are covered by house,car parks,etc.
I'm wondering if the middle aged man was perhaps someone with a child-like personality? Perhaps making it a burial site for essentially children? Just a thought.
I also like the idea that someone else in the comments suggested, the Children might be the grave goods themselves.
Another possibility to explain the few grave goods, is maybe the families did not have much to leave with the bodies.
If the middle aged man was actually a man with stunted cognitive growth then it might explain the lack of items, maybe he really didn't have much or anything to be left with, especially not something long lasting?
I liked the comment that he is a protector of the children.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, i'm excited!
Excellent episode! I voted for the Iron Age marketplace and I’m glad I was outvoted 😝
Such a great episode that captures what a typical excavation looks like anywhere in the world.
Building houses over a cemetery........
That worked out so well, in the movie Poltergeist.
This one was a bloody good one!!
Great episode! Very interesting to watch.
19:30 - I keep imagining some dude being bored, smashing rocks together while waiting for harvest or something.
And then, in the future, archeologists find them and be like "Oh, must've been art!"
Might just be my favorite episode really enjoyed it
I used to watch this show when i was 10 years old.
Given the length of the show in years, I always wondered if someone in one of the later shows watched an early episode and went into archeology because of that.
I was so excited watching this lol
Simply Amazing ❤
Thanks again.
A young and probably already fabulous Dr. Alice Roberts @9:29
She looks like a psycho.
@@tomthx5804 A psycho who happens to have a Ph.D. in paleo-pathology as well as being a biological anthropologist, and a biologist. She is also a talented TV presenter and her documetaries are well worth watching. And what do you look like?
This 2001 episode was her first TV appearance.
She is fabulous to many.
@@tomthx5804 OMG! Are you the Tom who invented THX?
And now the family that is living in the house over those graves is going to have a little bit of a panic if they watch this episode.
Very interesting episode!
Could the grooved little stone at 28:30 be an arrow shaft burnisher ?
Phil's Suran-wrapping skills are similar to mine :-)
They just toss the “rubbish” stones in the spoil heap. Those stones were last touched by a bronze aged person. They were selected and placed in a purposeful way. Ugh, I want one. 😂
It doesn't present any archaeological value. Especially in modern context where these are dime a dozen. It's the contents of the grave (and the recorded knowledge, which isn't shown in the show much outside the occasional grid square array you can see in some episodes) that are of value.
Fantastic video. Thank you. 🇬🇧😊👍🇺🇸
Wow. Thank you all.
Built on a literal ancient burial ground... great
Tony said "before the archaeology is lost forever." Not really. It will be lost to us because of the new housing development, but in a thousand years archaeologists will be telling their students "and here you can see the foundation of a 20th century house that has been built almost directly over this bronze age location. They must have sought similar locations in which to build their dwellings..."
While you have a point, there are such things as service lines when building; sewers, water, power cables. So where a sewer goes in the archeology will be lost.
@@polaide8036 And where they don't go the archeology will still be preserved, yes? Just like some bronze age buildings can overlap and sometimes cut through stone age settlements, right?
Thank you great
Phil will never pass up a piece of flint!
Mistery? A place where mists are manufactured?
mistery (pl. misteries) n.
1. archaic form of mystery
2. archaic word for guild
Be kind
@@PlutoniumJesus 3. A place where mists are manufactured. I've seen those movies, the knights always have mists around em.
The history of a kistory mistery
Way to hire that copy editor. Guess there’s no MISTERY here
It is interesting about the plastic because I just read an article about microplastic and archeology. It has thrown quite a challenge for archeologist and preserving archeology.
Thank you
I'm a simple man, I see Baldrick, I click
@Jimmy L Needham You're taking this way too seriously there, Jim
@Jimmy L Needham
I don’t think you can use the term “stereotype” when you are talking about one man and one character, that was played by that one man.
OMG, the closed captioning can be, and very often is such a riot! At 13:52, Phil says; "..that's just some sort of organic residue below the stone" and the cc translated it into; "..that's just some sort gonna crested Yahoo below the stone"!😆😆😆 My good news is with this episode I've finally deciphered the "kissed graves", which are actually "cist graves" (not that it was ever spelled properly), which is a term I was unfamiliar with. That has puzzled me through several episodes, and no, Google was not my friend. I did find this episode riveting! I think all of the others I've seen so far are also riveting, though.
If you think this one was good, look for an old Irish TV chat program with Billy Connolly. The captioning is hilarious (more so if you can understand what Billy is saying...)!
Very good episode.
Naw, the reason that one guy got such a huge stone grave marker was that he was such a bastard that people were worried that he would get kicked out of the afterlife and wake up again so they enclosed him in stone, left no tools with him and placed a great big heavy stone on top. :)
sounds about right
@Margaret Jones You've been watching too many cheap horror movies. Get some Penguin movies for Pete's sake! Your imagination is getting warped.
Like a vampire. Pin him in his grave.
Your guess is as good as theirs with more time,manpower and equipment.
I guess as a human sacrifice site.
So the site has been known for 80 years... but now they have 3 days to excavate it?
Time Team has only 3 days. All of the professionals had day jobs they had to get back to.
These sites are all over Scotland, and it would be financially impossible to excavate all of them randomly. Unfortunately, the decision to investigate comes about when a site is threatened. In Florida, a developer just pays off the right people and continues with building wherever they want, regardless of human burials, endangered species or ruining the coastline. Even if they get caught (rarely), they just pay the fines and keep working, like we need another condo or golf course. At least Scotland gives them some time to look for bodies.
@@Objective-Observer They said that the land was going to be developed, and made it sound as if the bulldozers were going to roll on the 4th day. But of course in the epilogue it's clear that there were follow-up excavations, so that wasn't the case.
@@ariochiv well dirty word, I thought I posted my answer, and alas...
Over the years, Time Team explained that ALL building projects must have an archeological assessment before they even get planning permission. and NO, if something truly amazing is found, they cannot break ground until the discovery is properly investigated, recorded, and any valuable artifacts removed for study and storage.
Keep watching, you will find the episode where Time Team came to the rescue of an individual land owner who wanted to remove some derelict homes/modern shacks, and then add on to the one he was living in. The local counsel discovered the homes were originally built on top of a Celtic burial ground. The building permission process took years; the expense bankrupted him, destroyed his marriage, and he was hoping the Time Team could at least determine the extent of the burial ground, so he could remove rubbish and just sell the land. Why yes, he couldn't even sell the land until the Archeological assessment had finished the entire site. Yes, it was Time Team to the rescue.
@John Signs There is a huge difference between the US history and that of England. The cliche is: you can't put a shovel into English soil without finding some important archeology. They found an English King buried under a parking lot, only a couple of years ago. I watch the YT channels for several Engilsh Mudlarkers- people who walk the river shorlines at low tide and look for historic items. Even with that, they must have a license, and any major historic object they find, must be recorded with an archeological authority. They have beaches still littered with Roman Pottery. 2000 year old pottery scattered all over the beach, and often enough, they find bronze age pottery, on the beach. We don't have that much 'modern' history [2000 years old or less]; and our ancient history is almost eroded to the point it is all but gone, or it's fossilized prehistoric creatures. That is the one distinction America has over England: our ancestors had not destroyed all the fosslilzed bones of the dinosaurs, and we have more of them.
The indigenous tribes of North America were mostly nomads; they built no lasting structures; they left no trace upon the land. One good thunderstorm in Tornado Alley and their structures were destroyed, With them built of wood, mud and grass, those don't survive, so there is no 'site' to protect. In England, an arrowhead is pre-historic; here in the States, that same arrow head could be from a few hundred to a few thousand years old, because the American societies stagnated.
Those few tribes that did build permanent structures, their remaining sites are protected. To this day, there is no evidence to detail why those permanent sites were abandoned. This isn't a matter of Americans don't care about history; we don't have the wealth of history that needs to be protected.
I'm glad that we have laws that protect areas of archeological interest from destruction until they have been excavated.
I believe that the youths that died may have been buried near the elder so that he acts as a patron and protector in the next world.
My thought was he was the father or grandfather predeceased by all the young souls.
WHEN will people learn: Building on ancient burial grounds is NEVER a good idea!!!
As the rush was on I kept thinking, "At what point does this become such a significant enough find that the commercial venture is halted?" LL
Daniel Scherer The Earth is OLD and full of history. The place you are currently living in has history underneath it. So, should YOU be deprived of living space because of previous history? Give me a break.
@@r.blakehole932 Down boy, I think he was making a reference to old horror movies and not trying to be a "know-it-all"...
@@r.blakehole932 I mean, to be fair right now the US has some 17 million vacant homes so building more isn't needed. The UK has alot less I'll admit, but at 216,000 homes vacant they still aren't hurting for living space, in fact 70% of Brits live inside urban areas (cities) so building even more homes in the countryside seem's' like a waste
"They're here!"
Fascinating!
: "Be careful of that crack, the other stone could give way."
Tony:
ffs
Tony Robbinson is amazing
I would like to imagine a family plot, with tragic early deaths of children lovingly laid to rest by a father and mother who later wanted to be buried among their children. It seems archeologists don’t immediately assume children were as cherished then as now. The boy with the jet bead may have been the first born son. How devastating to lose so many children. And young children even today pick up interesting bits of stone and shell and carry them around... native American people had medicine pouches with odd totems...bits of bone,feathers, stones, etc. in them. Perhaps Bronze Age people did the same. Or Perhaps it was like burying them with their favorite teddy.
As for the cuts on that small bit of bone, maybe they were killed by an animal, or maybe the remains were chewed by the same rodents that ate the skull. It’s weird to assume people de fleshed their dead children. Pure gruesome speculation based on one unique observation in one grave on one tiny bit of bone. I’m no archeologist, so maybe they saw something else that made them jump to such a bizarre conclusion. Weird.
Not only that but the wife SURVIVING that many births at the time too with lack of sterilization, pain-soothener, and other modern delivery practices.
Defleshing isn't a gruesome speculation. There's plenty of evidence that people around the world did it at various times. Think about embalming. Is it any less gruesome? It's important to not let modern prejudices interfere w archaeology when there's evidence. It doesn't mean they didn't care. It would have been an honorable burial practice, showing respect for the dead. You remove the parts that putrify and decay, keeping the hard bones that are more "eternal." In some belief systems, the belief is that the soul isn't free until the earthly flesh is gone, whether over time, by exposure, defleshing, etc.
Only to have a council estate built over their graves
A good bit of de-fleshing consisted of exposure to the elements, including birds, to reduce the body to bones to reduce volume before burial.
Yes. I was thinking a family plot too but with so many kids I had the idea that the whole family died at the same time. Papa and his children. And perhaps Mama survived for a while longer. Accident? War? Disease? LL 🤷🏻♀️
Amazing that they were able to find an entire 4,0000 year old pot 🙌🏼
Agreed. I feel those intact pots didn't get enough attention in this program. So amazing to have these well preserved artifacts.