The most consistent character in all of Time Team's episodes that I've seen is Victor Ambrus . He has always come through with the goods ! What a remarkable artist !
One of my neighbour's kids pointed at one one day and said my name - my heart melted. Then she pointed at a stick and said "STICK" She was just naming things and I was no more special than a small stick LOL
I’m from Ipswich MA, USA and we have a Castle Hill with a mansion overlooking a beautiful beach. It’s a museum. Now I know where that name comes from. I love this series!
I like the looks on the homeowner's face , watching the bulldozer crossing onto his backyard through his fence . There goes the neighborhood !!!!!!!!!!!
From the viewpoint of my childhood, there was no TT episode as quintessentially British as this: council estates, flatcaps, smoking pipes, treasured moggies buried in flowery back gardens with the occasional greenhouse, OAPs drinking tea... wait a minute, I didn't see any doggies. Where's the bloomin' dogs?
This episode shows the intelligence behind Micks philosophy of not disturbing a site anymore than you have to, using small trenches and leaving things undisturbed, just cataloged. Technology improves with time, just as time team are better archaeologist than basil Brown, who knows in 50 years how technology will have improved.
I thought this was excellent archaeology. Normally a backyard dig would find stuff, link it together and provide some answers to the residents. Here they had to figure out what Brown "basiled" (the new term for robbing out) and what he invented, then determine what was real. It sure needed a lot longer dig but it was very interesting.
That was the highlight for me. The way it was delivered reminds me of someone I used to work with whose other job was in car repossession. On his way out, he'd say something like "time to go steal some cars."
I just love this tv show! Something smart, and blazing interesting + educative to see from tv is really rear! Why we have stupid tv shows? Are we truly stupid... ?!
I accidentally let our dog out when I was 3-4 and it was hit by a car. My parents didn’t tell me to spare my feelings. At about age 10 my friends and I were digging trenches beyond our hedge boundary and I discovered some bones. I excitedly brought them in and declared them to be dinosaur bones. Around age 30 my father broke the news to me.
Celto Loco Theoretically it could be that the local government replans the city and force people to go away. Of course they must buy the property first at market based price, to be sanctioned by a court of law. It almost never happens, just because it is too expensive to do for local governments. So, really, I would not call home owners in a city glorified renters. As it happens, in my country (the Netherlands), the situation in the countryside is juridically identical.
+KYIRISH1 I lived a few streets away from this site in the 50's when I was a kid of 7-8, and these houses didn't exist at that time, but I think there would have been more resistance then, as most people used their gardens for growing essential food, as food was still rationed, following WW2.
This confusing dig is much like I have a recurring dream about getting through grad school. I think I am approaching my goal, but its ephemeral, shifting and what is in the study plan doesn't match what I am going through. Only the beer and sausages were reliable.
I find it interesting that the area of the Castle Hill district is right on the edge and is almost in Whitton. I always imagined (before researching) that the area of historic interest would have been more towards the town side of centre. I live(d) near the junior school, which is the other side.
Town centres or central areas of activity can move. For instance, the historic town centre of Berlin is now an empty space, with a fake town centre (the Nikolai Viertel), built in the 1980s, nearby.
Sounds to me like Brown was trying to preserve his reputation, made at Sutton Hoo, by leaving a fantastic drawing and yet robbing out everything that could prove his drawing was garbage.
So I'm just starting watching this and I'm going to guess that by the end they've found a couple of wall fragments indicating at most a Roman public loo.
@@karmicpopcorn6440 He might have helped puzzling out the plans Carenza and David were looking at as he's done elsewhere. But if I were him, I'd have taken one look at those plans and said "Not it!"
Carenza has always come to the defence of Basil Brown , Helen Geake has always come to the defence of the atiquarian archaeologist Artis i other episodes. Guess everyone on the team had their prefered old time archaeologist lol
Wouldn't it have been easier to find the remains of the modern(ish) buildings in Basil Browns plan? And then you know where you are to find the Roman stuff
I sympathize with a young Roman girl breaking a shale bracelet. When my sister and I were young we were given bracelets by a visitor from India, red glass with a gold spiral. We loved them ...but not for very long!
+TheSpikehere some of the other roads in the area include: Charlton Ave, Everton Crescent, Mansfield Drive, Preston Drive. While it's off Norwich Road that's an exception as it falls within naming conventions of roads and surrounding towns and cities.
What if crucial archaeology is under a street or driveway ? Like the edge of a building . It seems that archaeology is often dependent on the randomness of future building and excavation for it's findings in some cases .
The writers of this show always putting the words "frustrating" and "disappointing" on Tony's mouth. That's the real frustrating thing. Any founds, even the smallest ones, are important, even more because of the stupid "3 days' rule".
That cats' probably turning into it's grave, load of self important people tramping around with no respect on a wild goose chase for bits of rubble, r.i.p.
How many people, when approached very politely about giving permission to just survey their "precious/prized" property, refused because their GARDEN was more important than what could be hidden in the ground? Their narrow-minded attitude is the worse kind of snobbery, especially as most appear to be only of low-middle class status without any concept of the importance of what is being done. Is it protectionism or are they ashamed of what their neighbours might say? The woman taking the photographs seems to support that belief. However, how would their attitudes change if important artefacts were to be found next door, right at the line between the properties and spilling into theirs?
Perhaps, but it is their choice and I suppose that has to be respected. It is possible with hindsight and having seen the programme, some of the 'no's' might have changed their minds. You can imagine, for example, that lady going into the living room and saying "there is a film crew at the door - they want to dig up our garden to look for a Roman Villa" and her husband, probably distracted by the television, saying "nobody is digging up my garden, tell them to clear off" without necessarily thinking it through or knowing the significance of what might happen if he says 'yes.'
The other way of thinking about it those people may have put years of work into their Gardens. So they want to come and see if there's yet another Roman villa, when England is strewn with Roman Villas, that won't give that much insight into what's already known about the Romans in England. So they may think so what? Why should I sacrifice what I've worked hard on for nothing. Just one more Roman villa.
Ha! When he was asked by those very kids teacher please could you say hello to the kids that had been waiting hrs- he flatly said NO I'm far too busy- then promptly went to his car and ate a bacon sandwich n read his paper
Phil- “Let’s go wreck another garden!” Lol!
The most consistent character in all of Time Team's episodes that I've seen is Victor Ambrus . He has always come through with the goods ! What a remarkable artist !
...Victor ma main man!
Rip victor
You should Wiki him, he had an amazing life Born in Budapest before WW2.
One of the best moments in Time Team @ 18:30
Toddler: "Look what I found!"
Carenza: "Oh yes, that's another stone, isn't it?"
One of my neighbour's kids pointed at one one day and said my name - my heart melted. Then she pointed at a stick and said "STICK"
She was just naming things and I was no more special than a small stick LOL
Its amazing all these people let TT dig up their yards. Really an amazing community
"Basiled" and "minus archeology" brilliant! Learn something every day on this show.
After watching nearly all of the programs, I have to say that Carenza is a powerhouse, bith in the trench and out. She deserves more credit.
Carenza has always been a rockstar Time Team member.
I wholeheartedly agree. She and Phil are my two favorites.
A good Time Team special would be to dig up Basil Brown's old house and find out where he put all that stuff.
Considering how much the Brits love their gardens, I'd say TT was immensely popular with everyone to go through with this.
Just when I think I've seen them all....man I love this stuff❤
25:50 Phil - "Let's go wreck another garden!" 🤣🤣🤣
The toddlers finding pottery killed me, too cute
Jessica Adams yes but will you trust them digging up Roman finds because I wouldn't trust them
And the way she so kindly states the next find is a stone
I’m from Ipswich MA, USA and we have a Castle Hill with a mansion overlooking a beautiful beach. It’s a museum. Now I know where that name comes from. I love this series!
I'd say yes if Phil wants to dig up my garden.
Lisa Kazmier anything Phil wants.
Wonderful euphemism
I like the looks on the homeowner's face , watching the bulldozer crossing onto his backyard through his fence . There goes the neighborhood !!!!!!!!!!!
They hold theyr honour! They are quite lovely.
From the viewpoint of my childhood, there was no TT episode as quintessentially British as this: council estates, flatcaps, smoking pipes, treasured moggies buried in flowery back gardens with the occasional greenhouse, OAPs drinking tea... wait a minute, I didn't see any doggies. Where's the bloomin' dogs?
“… a robbed-out wall …”
Tony. “So basically we’ve got *minus* archaeology!”
American here, loving me some Time Team!
I love that the toddlers had better luck! :)
"We're from the BBC and we're here to wreck your garden."
"Oh yes, please do come in."
*Channel4.*
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Yes, I realized that a few weeks after posting the comment.
This episode shows the intelligence behind Micks philosophy of not disturbing a site anymore than you have to, using small trenches and leaving things undisturbed, just cataloged. Technology improves with time, just as time team are better archaeologist than basil Brown, who knows in 50 years how technology will have improved.
Thanks for uploading...@41 seconds..that hedge behind Tony is the best I have ever seen!
I thought this was excellent archaeology. Normally a backyard dig would find stuff, link it together and provide some answers to the residents. Here they had to figure out what Brown "basiled" (the new term for robbing out) and what he invented, then determine what was real. It sure needed a lot longer dig but it was very interesting.
ha ha 23:45 "lets go wreck another garden..."
That was the highlight for me.
The way it was delivered reminds me of someone I used to work with whose other job was in car repossession. On his way out, he'd say something like "time to go steal some cars."
I lol'd.... "When archaeologists get mad..."
Those back yards remind me of the ones in Simon's Cat!
Thank you for uploading!
I think it is amazing that Time Team survived the mad cow quarantines. They saved it with backyard archeology.
Love how the washing is there for all to see.
I love the way john allways seem so lost :p
hands on his face, nervous! poor bloke.
"Phil's now found the source of the hot air." It seems like a lot of the hot air in this episode came from Basil Brown.
lol!!!! yes!!
LOVE Phil..."Let's go wreck another garden!"
I like Guy. He was spot on from the get go in this episode. Carensa shut him up fast but I think he was correct.
She has habit of this throughout her time with the TT. Just a snott!
Seems like she said no they did record but the landscape has changed. Wasn't that what he was saying when she interrupted?
A lot of diplomacy and softly softly required here with all the residents, quite expensive dig this, good viewing though.
Looking at this neighborhood makes me think of "Keeping Up Appearances". The site is behind the houses here:
52.076604ºN, 1.132375ºE
Stannous Flouride "Richard!"
I like the way she positioned her stamps.
Time Team: "May we dig in your garden, Mrs. Bucket?"
Mrs. Bucket: "It's Bouquet, Bouquet, dear"
I just love this tv show! Something smart, and blazing interesting + educative to see from tv is really rear! Why we have stupid tv shows? Are we truly stupid... ?!
Bright spot: "Let's go wreck another garden!"
Sad spot: the fresh grave of the cat
I accidentally let our dog out when I was 3-4 and it was hit by a car. My parents didn’t tell me to spare my feelings. At about age 10 my friends and I were digging trenches beyond our hedge boundary and I discovered some bones. I excitedly brought them in and declared them to be dinosaur bones. Around age 30 my father broke the news to me.
Love this show.
Third time watching in three yrs!
Very accommodating and patient neighbors. I don't believe I'd be that generous with my property, even to unearth a possible Roman villa.
Celto Loco Theoretically it could be that the local government replans the city and force people to go away. Of course they must buy the property first at market based price, to be sanctioned by a court of law. It almost never happens, just because it is too expensive to do for local governments. So, really, I would not call home owners in a city glorified renters. As it happens, in my country (the Netherlands), the situation in the countryside is juridically identical.
+KYIRISH1
I lived a few streets away from this site in the 50's when I was a kid of 7-8, and these houses didn't exist at that time, but I think there would have been more resistance then, as most people used their gardens for growing essential food, as food was still rationed, following WW2.
li'l scrapers! the plastic shovel gang was the highlight of the dig!
Can’t believe they knew archeology was there and we’re just allowed to keep building.
Old dirt new dirt need supercedes interest I guess.
The toddler has better luck than the grownup 😂😂
12 trenches! That must be a record of some sort ...
Boom!! You've been Basil'd!!👏
This confusing dig is much like I have a recurring dream about getting through grad school. I think I am approaching my goal, but its ephemeral, shifting and what is in the study plan doesn't match what I am going through. Only the beer and sausages were reliable.
I find it interesting that the area of the Castle Hill district is right on the edge and is almost in Whitton. I always imagined (before researching) that the area of historic interest would have been more towards the town side of centre. I live(d) near the junior school, which is the other side.
Town centres or central areas of activity can move. For instance, the historic town centre of Berlin is now an empty space, with a fake town centre (the Nikolai Viertel), built in the 1980s, nearby.
"Let's go and wreck another garden." Lol
I love it when they open the fence and the guy smoking his pipe as the digger goes by!
Sounds to me like Brown was trying to preserve his reputation, made at Sutton Hoo, by leaving a fantastic drawing and yet robbing out everything that could prove his drawing was garbage.
I live in Ipswich Massachusetts. We have a Castle Hill too. Not very original!
if your wife was buried in the back garden and geo phyzz came knocking on your door, of course your gonna say no
lol
I would like to know if the expression "basiled" is still in use
Famous Basils: I would rank Basil Brown behind both Saint Basil the Great and Basil Fawlty.
all those innocent little gardens XD well all in the name of history
So I'm just starting watching this and I'm going to guess that by the end they've found a couple of wall fragments indicating at most a Roman public loo.
Steward is in this episode for about 2 minutes. Where was all his map reading?
Nothing to read, place is crowded with buildings
@@karmicpopcorn6440 He might have helped puzzling out the plans Carenza and David were looking at as he's done elsewhere. But if I were him, I'd have taken one look at those plans and said "Not it!"
Carenza has always come to the defence of Basil Brown , Helen Geake has always come to the defence of the atiquarian archaeologist Artis i other episodes. Guess everyone on the team had their prefered old time archaeologist lol
Wouldn't it have been easier to find the remains of the modern(ish) buildings in Basil Browns plan? And then you know where you are to find the Roman stuff
A 60 minute backyard makeover is needed for the neighborhood
John Gater always seems like he's geophysing to save his life.
I sympathize with a young Roman girl breaking a shale bracelet. When my sister and I were young we were given bracelets by a visitor from India, red glass with a gold spiral. We loved them ...but not for very long!
Does TT pay to resort all the gsrdens they destroy?
So you're digging up Harry Potter's back yard?
The guy who named the streets was obviously a footy fan.
+TheSpikehere some of the other roads in the area include: Charlton Ave, Everton Crescent, Mansfield Drive, Preston Drive. While it's off Norwich Road that's an exception as it falls within naming conventions of roads and surrounding towns and cities.
I do hope that there are none of Basil's decedent's around.
When did Stewart start dressing like a preppie? just noticed it this series with the straight collars
What if crucial archaeology is under a street or driveway ? Like the edge of a building . It seems that archaeology is often dependent on the randomness of future building and excavation for it's findings in some cases .
I didn't know Brown has been so destructive
45:40 ～ 😍😍😍😍😍😍
The writers of this show always putting the words "frustrating" and "disappointing" on Tony's mouth. That's the real frustrating thing. Any founds, even the smallest ones, are important, even more because of the stupid "3 days' rule".
That cats' probably turning into it's grave, load of self important people tramping around with no respect on a wild goose chase for bits of rubble, r.i.p.
Three p o?
Brigid could be a Viking princess ! A formidable woman ! And attractive !
I lost the video that I was watching when a call interupted.
Basil Brush, more like.
Let's wreck another garden!
I thought the fictional film about Basil Brown, The Dig (2021) was good.
Miles Russel looks like Seth Meyers.
I LIVE THERE
I came here for refuge sigh, bad choice lol
well said Carenza!(in defense of Basil Brown)
I can't believe all these people allowed their property to be dug up . The layout of some Roman fat cat's pad being the payoff !!! Oooof !
AND THEN SHE MARRIED HIM
How many people, when approached very politely about giving permission to just survey their "precious/prized" property, refused because their GARDEN was more important than what could be hidden in the ground? Their narrow-minded attitude is the worse kind of snobbery, especially as most appear to be only of low-middle class status without any concept of the importance of what is being done. Is it protectionism or are they ashamed of what their neighbours might say? The woman taking the photographs seems to support that belief. However, how would their attitudes change if important artefacts were to be found next door, right at the line between the properties and spilling into theirs?
Perhaps, but it is their choice and I suppose that has to be respected. It is possible with hindsight and having seen the programme, some of the 'no's' might have changed their minds. You can imagine, for example, that lady going into the living room and saying "there is a film crew at the door - they want to dig up our garden to look for a Roman Villa" and her husband, probably distracted by the television, saying "nobody is digging up my garden, tell them to clear off" without necessarily thinking it through or knowing the significance of what might happen if he says 'yes.'
The other way of thinking about it those people may have put years of work into their Gardens. So they want to come and see if there's yet another Roman villa, when England is strewn with Roman Villas, that won't give that much insight into what's already known about the Romans in England. So they may think so what? Why should I sacrifice what I've worked hard on for nothing. Just one more Roman villa.
Carenza has an incredibly posh accent.
who the hell would want to know they have slave quarters in their yard
Well is continuity since the people living there are not exactly aristocrats
Wherever "Guy de la Bullpoop" goes the negativity follows...............
Ha! When he was asked by those very kids teacher please could you say hello to the kids that had been waiting hrs- he flatly said NO I'm far too busy- then promptly went to his car and ate a bacon sandwich n read his paper