The Prehistoric Remains Buried Under A Scottish Beach | Time Team | Odyssey
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- In 2005, a major storm eroded a dune next to the beach at Allasdale, Barra, exposing cists and human remains. The Team goes on a rescue-dig, before the site is lost to erosion forever. The team are joined by archaeologists Mike Parker Pearson and Keith Branigan, and animal bones specialist Jackie Mulville. Jackie McKinley investigates some well-preserved human remains, and potter Ursina Hack-Maclellan throws some pots using an experimental prehistoric style clamp-kiln.
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I wish I had studied Archeology instead of Nursing. I wish I was there. I’m now 81. All I can do is study and be enthralled. Love this show.
I agree archeology over nursing. We have this show to enthrall us. Getting me through old age. No time for this when younger. ✌️🖖
Me too. I am a nurse but love history. Would have loved to go on a dig. I am 72.
@@sandrastevens2793 History museums around the world have 'digs' amateurs can volunteer, to go on. I am 65 and that is on my Bucket List. Lol, I know, I need to hurry before I get older. Here in the US, they are doing digs in the cities to see how the new settlers lived. Of course any mounds that existed have since been destroyed. Some were documented some were not. I wish they would do "Native American villages", but most have been built over by now. The US is the youngest nation on the earthand does not have the rich history that Britain, Europe or the rest of the world has. I know it does exist, but it is all "pre-caucasian man" and they have no idea where to look for it - or there is no interest to search for it; unless it is 'stumbled upon'. Modern man 'loves' the Native American and any history of them here in Ohio. But, there are memorials to slaughters, also. So hippocritical.....
there are actual 'indian statues' scattered in one community where they would 'portage' or carry their canoes from 1 river to the next to go farther north or south. In the same community I read a historical account of where and when the last 3 remaining indians were shot at by 2 white men. 2 were killed, the 3rd escaped. They collected money for the 2 scalps. No mention if they were buried. I also read that Native Americans never scalped or raped until the whites came to this continent. That never existed in their culture. But THEY were the 'SAVAGES'. It just brings tears to my eyes. White men were they same around the world; invading, massacres, rape, slavery, dominance, destruction of culture, etc. Makes me ashamed of my skin color.
@@brendastolecki4755 I understand your intent in your comment, but I don’t think it’s entirely accurate. Native Americans committed many brutal acts among themselves. Blaming Caucasians for all of the violence in the history of civilization is, well, racist. Archeology digs are expensive. My daughter was on the archeology team at James Madison’s Montpelier. She was “in the field” which meant she spent all day in the hot Virginia sun digging hard red clay and rock and sifting it all through a strainer hoping for a pottery fragment. Her boss, the archeology PhD, spent all of his time fundraising. Not exactly glamorous work. There is much land in the US that is not covered by cities at this point. The Montpelier restoration is all privately funded. I’m sure there are many digs that are also privately funded or perhaps associated with universities. You will probably have to pay to participate because these digs rely on such funding to continue.
@@sandrastevens2793 you can always check out digs with universities close by. You may have trouble with the digging but I'm sure no one would complain about a volunteer making sure everyone stays hydrated and doesn't get heat stroke
You not only learn a lot about history but as a non native English speaker you also learn a lot of bloody good words like smashing, cracking and jolly good. Words that my English teacher never would have taught me.
I’m a Scot who lives a world away in Aotearoa. I’ve done my DNA. I’m almost completely Celt & Pict. Some of my ancestry comes from the Isles. I loved watching this. I could almost smell the sea spray. I’m sure the climate would have been warmer in those times. Thank you for a great episode.😊
That’s SO COOL!!! Lucky you dear heart! Thanks for sharing that!!!🤗😘❣️☮️
Sounds like you got ripped off you can't test for celt because celt isn't really a race they are just guessing
Feel what you feel if it make you feel good 💖🙏
That's cool. I too have the ancestry. I'm of clan Donnachaid. It's a wonderful thing to research. It's in our being. I'm on the west coast of USA. Can't shake the need for the sea.
So in New Zealand?
As a potter I have to say that the method they used to make pots likely isn't the one shown in the program. They probably would have refined and conditioned the clay. There's a couple of ways to refine clay. One of them is to mix it with water and then use a basket to shift out the sand. Then, to condition the clay, they would have used about 20% grog (ground up pots), or shells that had been baked in a fire and crushed. That would have improved the workability of the clay and its expansion properties in the pit fire. Its important with a pit fire to make sure the pots are absolutely dry. One of the ways this is done is to put the pots in the center and build a small fire around them. Then, when the pots had warmed and were throughly dry, they would have placed old broken pots over them and built up the fire around that. This prevents rapid heating and cooling which would have resulted in cracking and breaking.
Thank-you🦦Nice🦋
The real learning is in the comments. Thanks for sharing.
@@cristiepel Too true.
You sound like you know a lot more than the Time Team.
Thanks for the knowledge imparted. The team work to a pretty tight timetable, so I suppose they "cheated" a bit by using some imported clay to demonstrate to the viewer you can fire clay in a fire pit - they would have know this I'm sure. They wondered if the inhabitants imported clay, but from what you tell us, they wouldn't need to have done this. That makes good sense. And although they tell us they had a comfortable life, it's all relative. It would have been hard enough.
Love the expression, "It's always a tad blowy here."
When I visited the Orkney's, the rather chubby local guide told us that because so they don't blow off the islands, "We're all seal-shaped. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!" 😄
I'm an archaeologist in the southwestern United States. I LOVE my job, but I would give it up in a heartbeat and move to England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales if I could be on a dig with this Time Team. Phil would be a whacking great dig partner.
Time Team is the best.
From presentation to investigation, I love being virtually taken to places I will never see, at times I'll never experience!
The two children buried in the same spot reminds me of just how heart breaking life could be and, how often, before the advent of modern medecine particularly, that of the recent past.
From often loosing children to a hard, short life full of other general hardships, how lucky we are to live here, in the future!
So true! Agree completely.
Agreed. And, channels like this make me feel better knowing that life comes and goes and while I'm here I should just enjoy it no matter how bad things are these days.
I was raised in Colorado USA. We visited many a gold rush grave yard of s MN all mountain mining towns.
A single town Caribou Colorado in a single year lost every baby and many adults to the flue. It broke my heart to see the head stones carved in stone by one person.
@@bettysnowowl4881 life was brutal. We have it good these days.
Since it was a mass grave, infanticide is a possibility.
th-cam.com/video/KsHGlXBfJfI/w-d-xo.html
This link discusses the practice.
This is really a timeless series... The quality of it is great... Wouldn't have realized this was over 17 years old if it wasn't for the computers they showed.
Sad to think that Mick is no longer with us
Great episode!
1. The clay has to dry for a time before firing or it will blow apart. You might have had decent clay, but it was fired too soon.
2. A burial covered with a skin or a rush may would allow for ancestral veneration as was mentioned, by having easy access to the bones once the soft tissue had decomposed. It's interesting, though, that her remains were not disturbed later, which might contradict the idea that remains were customarily exhumed and exhibited.
3. The covered burial also suggests that these people had no dogs. If there had been dogs around, they would have needed to cover the graves with rocks to prevent scavenging.
Good catch about the lack of dogs! I didn't think of that.
Whoever selected the Music/Drums for T Team, knew/knows their business
Whenever they find tools I get excited. It's bringing the past back to life! My ancient ancestors walked and lived in ancient Scotland and England. It's amazing to see how they lived and how their legacy still lives on.
Encourages me to live my life to the full
Me too!
This is amazing and wonderful. I can easily imagine being on that windswept sand, being there, cold, and delighted by what archaeologists are finding. I'm USian, 64, and have been a computer engineer, trained in geology though disability prevented me from pursuing it, and now an aspiring science fiction writer. But my experience is that most geologists I've been privileged to study under have more than a passing interest in archaeology as well, especially that which tells us about our ancient ancestors. Count me among them.
Makes you wonder what's under the rest of the shoreline.
Makes you wonder what can be recovered without the sensationalism.
That island seems a desolate place for a settlement.
@@jeromebreeding3302 Indeed: how did anyone get there? By shipwreck, how else, hardly by direct purpose surely? My guess: by wanton venture perhaps from despair to find something better from where they were, only to find this and without the strength or will to go on with their « wanderings » because of fatigue, passage of time, and general weakening or loss of hope and less of on the spot wherewithal items like trees, vegetation ie that elsewhere there might well be far less…
This show first started with some letters from people who knew something interesting was just under the surface of their back gardens. And it was found, tessera from Roman floors, Anglo-Saxon pottery AND a flint used for all purposes.
I'm jealous. If I ever came to the British Isles, I might never leave.
I'd be all over with a metal detector! 😁
Both people and weather have changed over time. What is really desolate and unacceptable for you and me may back in that Era somthing a four thousand year old person would find acceptable. Life was shorter and more brutal. Improving either one of these would be a win for these hearty ancestors.
Being in a hard to find area, reduces the stress people were forced to live under increasing the age lived, and lowering the brutality they lived under.
When they buried that woman- with the pillow under her head - (to me) it shows love. I think it was her husband and family. It might have been covered by her children.
That woman really touched me. There was love in that burial site, I feel.
Or her Mother
The way she’s placed reminds me of the danish peat sacrifice “Tollundmanden”.
He was placed like that too. She could have been sacrificed.
Absolutely love time team, r.i.p. Mick, Robin and Victor
Somebody will dig them up in years to come.
I LOVE TIME TEAM!!! They are the best!!! Thank you for putting this on!!!♥️☮️‼️🥰
I love Time Team! They helped me discover my love for history! I used to watch this show with my Dad in the 90s when I was a little kid!
Over 24 years ago I told my husband I wanted to visit there. Shows like this help to ease the anxiety pf thinking I never will .
“I feel very nervous about walking about on all this archeology”
As he sprints around all this archeology
My thoughts exactly 🤔
@@cottoncandyog6106 surprised he is not going about in a motorized rotter tiller.
We will
I enjoy it when the program has school students participate.
I just want to say: you guys are the best!!!!
A gripping episode.
These ancient people living their lives on this remote island.
Fascinating.
Absolutely
It may have not seemed as remote to them back then as it is to us now. What would they have been remote from? They probably were not aware of the remoteness at all. Fascinating thought.
I visited Barra for a few days almost thirty years ago. How lovely to see people have been enjoying themselves there for thousands of years.
the sea levels being Much lower back then....makes me think that the village continues out, under the water....
I didn't want to watch this one, but I did and am Very glad for it...one of the BEST episodes
very thought provoking
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking, there’s multiple burials but only one round house? There has to be more that were apart of they’re pack underwater!!
45:40 he says the sea might have been a kilometre or even more away at the time these people were around
Hopefully the interest shown in these documentaries will produce grants, and other monies to groups for continued research here. This is fascinating.
They need to drop the forced time drama. "we have only two days to search the site before we must leave" sucks.
@@TheBandit7613 unfortunately most of the archeologists are academics at universities, also some are on longtime digs Phil for instance has been excavating at Waterloo Site Hugomont Farm for years, sadly Prof Mick Aston & Victor are no longer with us. Hence 3 day digs.
One of my favorite episodes. That huge wheel house is fantastic!
I just love ancient British archeology. These docs are so fascinating
This was splendid. I thoroughly enjoyed this segment. Keep on diggin' and revealing the stories of lives and times gone by.
Good to see Michael Parker Pearson making an appearance. I have seen him in a few docs about Stonehenge and I was wondering if he was ever going to be on an episode of Time Team. He seems like a natural.
I think he's in another TT episode as well
So awesome! I am Cherokee and Scottish. I love this video!!# Thank you soo much!
My favourite TTs are the ones done on the remote islands!!! They're so full of atmosphere, history and fascination that I just feel I'm being wrapped in a warm blanket of comfort.
These shows are just amazing to watch, in another life this is what I would be happiest doing.
❤from South Carolina !! Thank you so much for the upload! Love this program!
I felt, watching this, that I experienced some sort of genetic memory. I felt as though I had been there. I am 70, but a few years ago, my mother had our geneology professionally done . My mother's maiden name was Bruce, and our family on the maternal side was traced directly to Robert the Bruce, the king of Scotland. We are all tall and had dark auburn hair when we were younger. Oh, well, maybe I will get to Scotland in my next lifetime.
Hello cousin!!! I, too recently discovered I am his descendant as well! My family is all very tall and most have red hair!
@@UBERTAMMY Wow! Imagine finding a cousin on TH-cam!! Thank you for replying! Edit: I am 5'10", how tall are you?
@@pookiebear9735 I am 6’ and I am female. I am related to RTB on my mom’s side and my dad’s. I am also related to many, many other royals as you probably are too. They intermingled so back then.
@@UBERTAMMY My maternal grandfather was pure Scot. He was 100% Bruce! We have a book showing our tartan and crest. My son was 6'4" and built with a Scottish look to him. Edit: I am also female
My moms maiden name is Bruce also,gonna go research stuff now 😅
Victors drawings...magnificent!
Of course Ciste is pronounced Kiste! That's what we call a coffin in Scandinavia: Kiste, pronounced and spelled just like that, and the E at the end would in English be pronounced something like (Kis-)teh. I hadn't seen this episode before, and it was one of the best! Thanks Odyssey for taking us on this odyssey! 👍
So annoying Scandinavian and Norwegian people always claiming the origins of everything in Europe...
Frank, here is the Dutch version: kist (sing.) and kisten (pl).
And some German, too: It's Kiste (pronounced kiste), which just means box. So it just might be a common Germanic word.
@@runningtwenty-one6407 Actually it is a word with Latin origin, tracing it's way back all the way to "cista".
@@runningtwenty-one6407 When I wrote the comment yesterday, I thought so too. But it turns out that the word cist in the meaning "a neolithic or Bronze Age burial chamber typically lined with stone" was first used in 1804, but it may have had its origins in Egypt (meaning a basket where soft tissues in burials were kept to be carried of by the god Osiris), then via Ancient Greek κίστη became the Latin cista, meaning "a trunk, a chest, a casket". So, it's quite possible that kiste in the Germanic languages is a more modern word borrowed from Latin. Going back to the time of the Völkerwanderung the Germanic Peoples of the North wandered South and settled in the lands of the Roman, no doubt borrowing words from Latin. It's also possible that the word travelled North later with Christianity. The language of the RC Church was Latin, and we know it influenced the Germanic Languages with its Vernacular.
We love you people of Scotland and God bless
great team! total archeological and practical coverage in one small plane load. blessed humans who remain in such islands.
Always fun to watch him full of energy
We’ve been enjoying your family’s adventures, we’ve been gardeners for decades and enjoyed your various successes in the garden, Johns ability to conceptualize building projects is wonderful. Your children, Caruso and Sawyer melt our hearts, we look forward to coming along with you every week. Thanks much
One of the best episodes! So much findings!
Love the energy Tony and Phil have. Keeps me watching.
I do enjoy these Time Team shows. I have probably watched them hundreds of times over and over! I do have a question of sorts. They were talking about the poor quality of the clay they were using, saying there was more sand to clay ratio, which I do understand. But, the pots they found were up to 2500 to 4000 years old. Given the span of time, isn't it possible that back at the time pots were fired, the ratio of sand to clay was different? Second Question: Could it possible as well, that in order to fire the clay mold, they were placed in a separate "Dome" top, and a separate peat fire which was used to "funnel" the heat into the dome to fire the pots?
is it not also possible that the clay could have been dissolved and the clay separated from the sand? it is not that hard to do.
@@asdf7290 I've seen potters preparing 'raw' clay to get it ready to work and they have serious upper body strength.
beautiful place to look at... would hate to live there
When I was in high school in the 60's, I wanted to be an archaeologist. My so called 'guidance counselor' said my math skills were not up to it. Being very young, he discouraged me. If only I had stubbornly persisted! I was able to go on one dig many years later and we uncovered a Native American hearth in PA. I loved it! Also, I am amazed at the size of the rocks that were laid down for the walls, how were they moved into place? Perhaps the different burials were due to some sort of hierarchy within the tribe?
It's never too late to go back to school. A Bachelor's degree in archeology would only take 3-4 years If you need to complete your coursework for an Associate's (2-year, basic academics) degree first, they have grants for that which you don't need to pay back. You can take math courses to prepare for archeology if that's necessary (see a college academic counselor to find out what's needed.) They also have tutors in college to help you with difficult subjects. I engaged a tutor twice (undergraduate courses in geography and statistics) and it was free. I got my Master's at age 59. One never has to stop learning about what one is interested in. Barring being able to go back to school, even at night, you can go to the archeology department at the nearest university and volunteer to go on digs.
@@karenbartlett1307good advic
That is sad. Teachers can really destroy lives.
I loved this episode, especially the woman's burial. I like to hypothesize and I think the reason for the pillow and skin covering is both putting the dead to rest, and the skin covering instead of sand suggests to me they believed their ancestors would visit them, possibly they had ceremonies where they left food offerings outside like the Celts of slightly later years. Either way it was a beautifully preserved burial
What finds from so little not to say minute indications for inspiration or encouragement! Dedication! Open-mouthed and agog, we can only salute and humbly so at and for the the utter dedication and devotion to the Cause / Motivation of This Great Team….I look forward to hearing/reading of some royal acknowledgement even Boris the Greek Classicist could/might expand his historical horizon to voice his admiration ( he would not be worthy of his Churchillian stance if he had none) to voice some worthy notes of praise in Parliament to the work of This Great Team!
Heartfelt thanks to all who share admiration of this superb documentary, and with due gratitude to all who have rendered this film available for viewing on TH-cam.
Time Team Mick Phill and the gang got me interested in Archeology
Still Am 2022
Thx Lads
I love the google maps satellite views of the Orkney Islands archaeology.
I'm so happy you're back! Wouldn't it be great if there was a side-by-side program showing clay work, thatching and working bone? Everyone may soon need basic techniques of living.
THE INUIT IN ALASKA AND CANADA STILL USED WHALE BONES TO MAKE UTENSILS TILL TODAY.
I’m only 10 minutes in, but how exceedingly fascinating to find such evidence of the distant past! I wonder if they had ever been off the island, how many lived there together, what they did for fun, how exactly they thought of their gods; just how they would react if they knew hundreds of thousands of people have seen this episode that is all about them!! Also what their language actually sounded like, and if their descendants are still on Scottish land.
What an exiting story! Especially for lovers of Scotland.
The pottery broke in parts because the potters did not allow it to dry to the core. The steam of the remaining moisture inside blows the pots into pieces. It is due to the quality of the clay, too, because it would not allow to create a thinner pot. The thickness of the material multiplies the required drying time. 2 days are not enough by far.
The sketched illustrations are excellent! Would like to know more.
Love finding the history and lifestyle of ancient times.
Very awesome. I also love the slang terminology..I don't get out much
How amazing to meet our ancestors. Those who came before.
The clay they used in the experiment had to much sand in it to fire it into pottery. Suggested is that the original bronze age people had a local source of better clay (possible) or that good quality clay as imported (less likely I think).
A possible method (?) of turning the sandy clay in less sandy clay could be by making a watery slurry of it and than letting it rest. The heavier sandparticles wil get to the bottom of the container with the slurry first, the lighter particals later. In this way you theoretically could get rid of part of the sand. This is the same method that the Romans used to get the 'laquer' for their terra sigillata pottery.
Good thinking. I don't know who these people are or what their qualifications are. It seems odd that they just assumed some random clay that they found near the beach was the only option.
@@athena7042 If the person who prepared the clay didn't have any knowledge of how to refine it it they probably didn't think of that. One big blind spot in a lot of historical studies is that the people who are looking at the evidence have no training in the skills that would be used to create the artifacts. They had no idea how Roman woman did their hair the way depicted in statues until a hairstylist took a good look at it.
Sounds like you know your business.
@@margaretbruhn4376 Time Team seemed pretty breezy.
Lol, I hadn’t thought of this in years. My grandpa threw pots, but he passed away when I was 7. I remember him teaching about slurry, because I thought he was teaching his students to make furry pots. Wish our lives had overlapped longer so I could have learned the art from him.
Season 15, episode 3 "Bodies in the Dunes" - first broadcast 20 Jan 2008.
Pretty amazing! I love these videos! Thanks for posting!
One of my favourite Episodes!
I find it curious that they reach for ritual and magic anytime they can't explain something. The stones from metal working used in the door to seal a roundhouse, for example. Any well positioned ruined stone building in the west of ireland would have the doorway sealed with rocks to make sheep-pens. I saw my dad and cousin do this on a field. The island had no trees; wood came from the sea or had to be purchased on the mainland. Every day they took the cows to the house for milking; the field wall had a narrow (cow sized) gap with a lintel. It took a minute to shift a few stones to open the gap. I was seven the first time I saw it; they entertained themselves enormously by sending me ahead to 'open the gate''...
Ritual and magic makes much more sense in human nature than “OMG! It’s Aliens!”
@@melanieshearman4678 No-one with any credibility or common sense resorts to aliens to explain their own lack of deductive reasoning.
@@orlaoto5794 Exactly why I don’t watch The History Channel any more!
What an awesome episode of Time Team! It's so cool to see incredible finds from multiple eras. Now I'm curious if that "wheelhouse" was ever completely excavated.
It's especially fascinating to me to learn details of how ancient civilizations lived daily lives. Mundane for them but fascinating to us who love archeology.
And history.
Half of them would be dead before reaching puberty, those who weren’t would be married (paired off ) as soon as they did !
A girl would probably have her first child when she was approaching her 12th or 13th birthday
35 years old would be ancient ! A 30 year old would probably know their grandchildren
A 40 year old would possibly know their great grand children
educational and inspiring. thanks to timeteam and tony.
Those folks lived off the grid.
"you see, between Phil's legs that thin stain..." Bahaha these guys had a lot of fun filming this show.
lmao
Keith Branigan was one of my old professors at Sheffield University in the 70s. Sadly the university no longer has an archaeology department.
Very interesting, thanks for the upload ☺👍
Fantasticly good! THANKS a LOT...
One of the most fascinating digs I've seen so far. Wow.
this was so fun to watch! Thank you for sharing this little adventure with the world!
This is one of the best time team digs I have watched. And I feel I have watched most.
Excellent!
One of the best episodes!
This is a great episode.
i truly enjoy the sense of humanity and empathy that is expressed by the archaeologists. its a lovely sentiment.
It's so incredible that something that old stayed unexposed so long in a windy, wet place
Hope you’re still on TH-cam Bonnie, if you want to see something that was hidden then exposed look on TH-cam for videos of Skara Brae , it another Scottish site
I’ve heard of the island called Barra before. I was watching a documentary on a child that had a past life in a White House on the beach on the island of Barra. They actually found the exact house the child used to live in his past life
yes, I saw that! The boy was so sad when he finally realized his previous family was not at the white house. so sad, yet amazing.
My past life was on Neptune! Much better than Earth.
Beach front property, excellent view, a little chilly, no services, NO TAXES.
You can learn so much fromTime Team, so I watch over and over.
When I was 8, 67 years ago, I wanted to be an archeologist. Nobody could help me. I had a good career, but these videos remind me of my original love. Thank you again for inspiring and delighting me.
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing this fascinating site.
0:31 ahhaha oh my god. The Homie Tony just ran up on that archeological dig like it was super market sweep. footprints on everywhere just steppin on shit.
Poor Pete, he's always getting burned...... ;-) Love this Time Team group!!
Beautiful , truly beautiful
One of the most exciting TT , in my opinion ✨
*Endlessly fascinating…* 🤷🏻♀️
*Stunning countryside!* 😍
One of the best shows on TV in a long time
This was one of the best ever!
What an amazing opportunity!
👍🏻And loved the bit at the end about clinging to a rock and doing nicely, thank you.
One of my fav TT digs of all time.
Amazing how the stories of ancient history all come together from these bits.
Loved this episode. And, that tooth! wow that's incredible!
Amazing finds
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!
I love this show
Wow, wonderful!
I love this! I took a DNA test, and I am English, Welsh, Irish, and Scots. I feel this like I lived there myself.
Tony your show is best for history because you are making new history and how exciting is that?
Fascinating episode. And thank you, thank you, thank you for toning down and mostly eliminating the overdubbed “music.” 👍👍