Good old Stewart. He observes carefully, walks over the surrounding landscape, reasons his way through things while the rest work elsewhere and sometimes manages the team to think differently. Almost always, he is right. I have huge respect for him. And he is never unpleasant or dogmatic.
Had the same thoughts...he appears such a gentle soul....a bright mind puzzling through all available information to create the most complete picture possible.
John and Stewart are the magic Merlin wizards of time team. The wonderful people with trowels make the show.❤❤❤Tony really glued the show together.Phil could find flint tools in Buckingham palace.😂😂😂
I have become seriously addicted to your channel! After many pleasant hours, I suddenly realized that in addition to the brain food on offer, you are backed up by very talented cinematographers! They are so good that their skill is invisible until you notice a shot that couldn't have happened without some serious planning! Kudo's!
Was Stewart ever wrong in his assessments? I think he was quietly the most impressively knowledgeable member of the team, considering he did his work largely on his own & without aid of most of the technology that the rest of the team relied on.
@@Hippiemanthc He serves as the layman asking the questions many viewers at home might ask. It may seem pointless to ask "Whats the significancd of just a little sherd?" But its a segue into more information, and Id argue that without Tonys star-power this show may not have gotten off the ground. Though thats a guess from stuff Ive gleaned about the show, this show is older than me after Ll 😂.
@@hannahbrown2728 I’ve been watching since the beginning and I’ve always enjoyed everything about the show ,but Tony. He’s argumentative,he puts down every idea,he’s just a shit disturber. I believe with or without him that show would have thrived. As an Englishman I’ve always had a fascination with the past and this gives me so much more. My dad has always told me I must learn something new every day because you will never know it all.
I will say, though again only as much as I can glean from across the pond, that y'all do have a certain propensity for actually giving a shit about history as opposed to the *great U.S of A.*//s So I dont really doubt it wouldve took off, I just have a vague recollection of folks talking about a rocky reception for the first few seasons. But I mean, I still cant really begrudge the role a presenter plays. You said it yourself, though in a different way, youve got a love for history. Perhaps we're the lucky cases where we dont need the role that Tony performs, maybe not every Englishman(and as we can see, anyone across the world) has as much of a fondness for history as you and maybe you should thank your dad the most for it as opposed to him and country. Tony never seems to drag anyone down more than anyone else does through seemingly good hearted jabs, everyone takes digs at GeoPhys for example. If I had to guess Ive seen maybe 60-70% of the entire show from across the years and he always seems more keen to get a conversation going than anything else, with a good helping of at least seemingly genuine interest.
If they weren't finding anything i can see limiting how much they can dig but with all these amazing finds its a real shame they were limited to how much they can dig.
Given what is now found - the historical significance to the country should be sufficient to veto the restrictions. if not Scotland's real history remains censored.
@@combinedagent the land "owner" won't let anyone dig. So thanks to England's pathetically fucked class system still allowing descendants to be lords and inherent shit there family stole...
I love Timeline’s crew. So educated and hard working problem solvers. I wish every country had similar archaeological teams and programs. Can you propagate?
Anytime Phill runs off and does his own thing he always finds what he is looking for, geo result be damed. He is so easy to dismiss but he is so good at this one thing.
Roxburgh in the Borders! My great great aunt lived near by. The scenery is more beautiful than I could have imagined. Didn't realize there was so much history in that area though.
Same goed for me. Love this show! By the way, Interesting last name you have. Mijn oma's achternaam was Remeeus. She was born on Noord-Beveland, Zeeland in the early 1900s. I think the town of Kats or Kortgene.
Amen too that am from Dunedin New Zealand ..The Edinburgh of the South ..Roxburgh is a town in Central Otago love these History lessons thanks for the uploads
@@leeuwbart We have common ancestors, Bart. Cousin Bart lol. Does your uncle have a genealogy book of our name? I would love to buy it. I still live in Zeeland. My grandma passed away 8 years ago at 97.
You'll be happy to know that even though the original site has disappeared in name and function its namesake lives on in Massachusetts as part of Boston the neighborhood of Roxbury.
The Anglo Danes of Northumbria lost Roxburgh and Lothian at the battle of Carham. King Cnut allowed the Scots King Malcolm to take the area as he had bigger fish to fry in Scandia.
Phil is self-taught, with no formal education. He is a well respected member of TimeTeam, and is kind of a rogue. He also loves his beer at the end of the day. He became an authority on flint, again self-taught. His connection with the University of Wessex is as a lecturer. All of this information I have gleamed from watching these episodes.😁
I doubt it’s the landowner it’s the rules about disturbing archeological of sites and ancient monument which Tony mentioned in passing, they say it’s because who knows how good future methods will become for assessing these and best to leave it as in tact as possible so they preserve them for the future but as you say in this case annoying
Actually, in this case, it's not bureaucracy or any historical protection decrees, it IS the "royal" landowner who has refused to allow any previous explorations. Charles Robert George Innes-Ker, the 11th (and current) Duke of Roxburghe has refused to allow any archaeological ventures because there have been no requests by more "established" archaeologists until Time team approached him. If you dig something up and f**k things up, you can't "undig it"... and it's historical value is diminished forever.
@@maxsdad538 You have summarized what Tony said at the beginning, but I believe the discussion here was about that square meter limit. I don’t think that limit was set by the Duke. Tony said: “This is a scheduled ancient monument, and we’re allowed to dig only 200 square meters of it.” So that must be due to bureaucracy/historical protection decree.
Greetings from the US. As a history buff I love archaeology. I just recently found this show after watching several vids on Sutton Hoo, and the movie “The Dig.” Do they have to fill back in the digs after the filming is over?
@@samarnadra Guess I kind of forgot the Indians. We used to walk the fields in the fall after they were plowed and pick up stone points. My buddy found the largest Clovis point that has ever been found in the east.
I wonder how much time they put in upfront a dig, I think like geophysic and landscape survey, in order to get the most out of those thee days, and how much afterwards covering over the finds that stay in the ground. Time Team as a program is imho the single best ever and I hope the new series will kickoff good and run a long time. But I can't imagine the new team(s) wil ever reach the uniqueness of the first...
Second time they discussed the new longer geophysical equipment. Bit amazing the number of these special sites, you can rarely dig on...but no one actually knows what's there. Think you would dig to figure out what's there....THEN preserve it.
The Duke of Roxburgh wouldn't allow any archeology? A shame that he's allowed to do that on land that was given to his family for free in the first place.
@@mlr4524 There is a Roxburgh, located ~2 miles away. From google maps, Roxburgh castle is actually located just outside Springwood village. Roxburgh also became the name of the general area around the city.
I was always under the impression that the three-day cutoff was because friday-sunday were off days for these guys. They all have regular archeology jobs.
At around 17:00 in, the various cuts, none of which had camera-people in the frame, showed just how many takes they have to do of a single explanation. That one was at least three takes.
That's where she's from, and that's where she currently lives with long time partner (Time Team architect and graphic designer) Raysan Al-Kubaisi and their children.
Anyone else looking at the 16-17 minute section about the ditch and bank and it's not making any sense? Unless the waterways have significantly altered course, it would have been a lot less work to cut across from waterway to waterway on either end of the town rather then going parallel to the waterways, even if that meant also enclosing a bunch of unused ground, for future growth.
All things considered prior to managing of rivers they flooded every year and they changed course every year as well. So over a period of time all waterways change course, sometimes over distances measured in miles.
I wonder sometimes, why old evidence of Roman occupation always seems to be buried under feet of soil. Where most Roman villas, temples, barracks, and towns build out of degradable material like timber and thatch above ground? If stone construction was used, were all the old stones removed/mined/looted/salvaged from the site by following generations?
Yes, if you listen you can hear them describe building foundations as being "robbed out". Likely Roman villas were easy quarries for generations after the Romans left.
In addition to reuse and demolition, there's also the accumulation & shifting of dirt by blown silt, river flooding, manuring (where the land's been reverted to agriculture) and plowing. It's really interesting to see the difference between various sites in terms of how buried, and how demolished, all the various sites are?
@@dennisp.2147 thing is, while I listen, can't always hear and Not that the volume is low. They forgot to set 'Closed Captioning', (can't afford decent hearing devices.)
At the very end we heard about silly sheep. My father would have said that that's redundant. His line was,"The only thing stupider than a chicken was a sheep. And, the only thing I'm stupider than a sheep was two sheep." I'm afraid that he was a bit prejudiced. It's just the way all the sheep in a flock will from a single leader. Or, as he would put it,"It's lots of animals with a single brain."
I’m suspecting that a certain country to the South of Scotland wrecked both the town of Roxborough, and the border monasteries and abbeys. You know, like a nearby Scottish city which still exists, is now part of said neighbouring country (Berwick).
I was thinking, why would they have the church on the OUTSIDE of the defenses and then realized quite a few things, one namely that there's a bird's eye view of what's coming down the river on either side and a monk couring the bell and warn the towns folk of danger.
When you compare the defensive capability of Edinburgh Castle and the castle in Roxburgh, as well as the town's location, it doesn't surprise me that Roxburgh is no more. Also, once Berwick is in English hands and you don't have tax money coming in from trading with the Continent, your fate is sealed. It must have been quite a going concern for it's demise to take several hundred years.
Stuart Ainsworth is a genius. He makes so many correct deductions based upon his walking, cycling and expert observations.
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Good old Stewart. He observes carefully, walks over the surrounding landscape, reasons his way through things while the rest work elsewhere and sometimes manages the team to think differently. Almost always, he is right. I have huge respect for him. And he is never unpleasant or dogmatic.
Had the same thoughts...he appears such a gentle soul....a bright mind puzzling through all available information to create the most complete picture possible.
Spot on, he’s one of my favs too!
I wish they'd send in Stewart a couple of days in advance.
Very well seen and said. Indeed.
"Stewart was right all along" is pretty much rule #1 of Time Team
John and Stewart are the magic Merlin wizards of time team. The wonderful people with trowels make the show.❤❤❤Tony really glued the show together.Phil could find flint tools in Buckingham palace.😂😂😂
I agree totally. Greetings from South Africa
Phil will always be one of my biggest archeologist crushes.
So true! So true!❤❤❤
Stewart might not be the hero we want, but he is the hero we need!
I have become seriously addicted to your channel! After many pleasant hours, I suddenly realized that in addition to the brain food on offer, you are backed up by very talented cinematographers! They are so good that their skill is invisible until you notice a shot that couldn't have happened without some serious planning! Kudo's!
Me too! I have some UK heritage and Anglo-Saxon history is particularly interesting to me. ❤
I was so happy when Stuart found the church after arguing with John!
I am always happy when Stewart is right over John haha
Was Stewart ever wrong in his assessments? I think he was quietly the most impressively knowledgeable member of the team, considering he did his work largely on his own & without aid of most of the technology that the rest of the team relied on.
I’m always glad to see Tony & Mick, spearheading these projects , but I must say that it’s Phil , that “holds the reigns to these chariot races”
Tony is not needed
@@Hippiemanthc He serves as the layman asking the questions many viewers at home might ask. It may seem pointless to ask "Whats the significancd of just a little sherd?" But its a segue into more information, and Id argue that without Tonys star-power this show may not have gotten off the ground. Though thats a guess from stuff Ive gleaned about the show, this show is older than me after Ll 😂.
@@hannahbrown2728 I’ve been watching since the beginning and I’ve always enjoyed everything about the show ,but Tony. He’s argumentative,he puts down every idea,he’s just a shit disturber. I believe with or without him that show would have thrived. As an Englishman I’ve always had a fascination with the past and this gives me so much more. My dad has always told me I must learn something new every day because you will never know it all.
I will say, though again only as much as I can glean from across the pond, that y'all do have a certain propensity for actually giving a shit about history as opposed to the *great U.S of A.*//s So I dont really doubt it wouldve took off, I just have a vague recollection of folks talking about a rocky reception for the first few seasons.
But I mean, I still cant really begrudge the role a presenter plays. You said it yourself, though in a different way, youve got a love for history. Perhaps we're the lucky cases where we dont need the role that Tony performs, maybe not every Englishman(and as we can see, anyone across the world) has as much of a fondness for history as you and maybe you should thank your dad the most for it as opposed to him and country.
Tony never seems to drag anyone down more than anyone else does through seemingly good hearted jabs, everyone takes digs at GeoPhys for example. If I had to guess Ive seen maybe 60-70% of the entire show from across the years and he always seems more keen to get a conversation going than anything else, with a good helping of at least seemingly genuine interest.
Naming the homes where the names of said people may have had their homes/lived SERIOUSLY impressed me!
If they weren't finding anything i can see limiting how much they can dig but with all these amazing finds its a real shame they were limited to how much they can dig.
Given what is now found - the historical significance to the country should be sufficient to veto the restrictions. if not Scotland's real history remains censored.
@@combinedagent the land "owner" won't let anyone dig.
So thanks to England's pathetically fucked class system still allowing descendants to be lords and inherent shit there family stole...
I love Timeline’s crew. So educated and hard working problem solvers. I wish every country had similar archaeological teams and programs. Can you propagate?
this isnt timelines crew bozo
@@PartlySunny74 but its not there crew time team has been around way before this youtube channel💀
Anytime Phill runs off and does his own thing he always finds what he is looking for, geo result be damed. He is so easy to dismiss but he is so good at this one thing.
Phil has a big dumb goofball personality but once he gets started you can see he's actually smart on top of being a nice lad.
Phil knows what he’s doing!
I grew up in Roxburgh, NZ on the banks of the Clutha and Teviot rivers. It is awesome to see the history of its namesake.
That sounds so sick dread pirate 🏴☠️
That's cool!🍻
Roxburgh in the Borders! My great great aunt lived near by. The scenery is more beautiful than I could have imagined.
Didn't realize there was so much history in that area though.
im so use to them always finding rubbly ruins, that stone floor they were digging up looked amazing.
I'd **love** to see more archaeology done on the church here!
Lots more digging in the area around the slabs.
Yep, me too.
Always happy for a surprise appearance of Dr Alice Roberts.
This show is a history lovers dream
Love at 5:27 Mick casually draping his foot over Tony's leg while having a chat!! Just thought that was adorable 😊
I love the "Gater's Angels" shirts the geophys ladies were wearing. I wonder whose idea those were? I so enjoy this show. Peace.
A separate examination of the castle remains would be worth seeing. This show was fascinating.
always happy when a new hd time team episode is uploaded. the high point of the week!
Same goed for me. Love this show! By the way, Interesting last name you have. Mijn oma's achternaam was Remeeus. She was born on Noord-Beveland, Zeeland in the early 1900s. I think the town of Kats or Kortgene.
Amen too that am from Dunedin New Zealand ..The Edinburgh of the South ..Roxburgh is a town in Central Otago love these History lessons thanks for the uploads
@@adriaank75 my uncle tracked down the family name to a captain arriving in around 1564 in zeeland
Man, we’re screwed
@@leeuwbart We have common ancestors, Bart. Cousin Bart lol. Does your uncle have a genealogy book of our name? I would love to buy it. I still live in Zeeland. My grandma passed away 8 years ago at 97.
This so needs revisited!
You'll be happy to know that even though the original site has disappeared in name and function its namesake lives on in Massachusetts as part of Boston the neighborhood of Roxbury.
I love it when you upload episodes I’ve never seen- this was a good one too!
Its little details like Emma the Surveyors shirt saying Gaters Angels that always make me grateful whenever I rewatch an episode
Wow. This is one of the best episodes I’ve watched so far! Great work by the whole crew!
I am glad this showed up, I was out of full episodes to watch!
The Anglo Danes of Northumbria lost Roxburgh and Lothian at the battle of Carham. King Cnut allowed the Scots King Malcolm to take the area as he had bigger fish to fry in Scandia.
Great episode 👍 thx Time Team for sharing these video's
Even in a scene of mayhem and intense fighting, Victor manages to get his signature little black dog in the scene. Love that little pup.
LOL Man in a wool sweater calling sheep silly. Love this series!
Thanks again.
Love this program! As an American, I wonder about Phil’s accent. I also wonder about the feather in his hat. I noticed that it changed at least once.
Phil is from Wiltshire and his accent is Wessex. He learnt his archaeology from the University of Wessex so I believe.
Phil is self-taught, with no formal education. He is a well respected member of TimeTeam, and is kind of a rogue. He also loves his beer at the end of the day. He became an authority on flint, again self-taught. His connection with the University of Wessex is as a lecturer. All of this information I have gleamed from watching these episodes.😁
I love Brige. She's spunky funky and funny oh and smart
Such lovely people who comment on the videos. An added bonus 😊
I lived in Roxborough in Philadelphia, Pa.
Fascinating. Some of my ancestors were from here, so it’s great to have information on the history
I was wishing I could take part in something like this but then saw the bugs. I would seriously need lots of DEET.
An sunscreen 😮
So great to see the team again - haven't watched for several years. :)
Found it, Roxburgh is in central Otago, on state highway 8, on Clutha river about 90 minutes from Dunedin or Queensland.
I’ve seen a lot of Time Team and I think this was one of my favorites. Wish the damn royals would have allowed for more excavation!
I doubt it’s the landowner it’s the rules about disturbing archeological of sites and ancient monument which Tony mentioned in passing, they say it’s because who knows how good future methods will become for assessing these and best to leave it as in tact as possible so they preserve them for the future but as you say in this case annoying
@@CraigsOverijse thats an infinite problem tho isn't it. Kinda like asking a girl out. You never know when a better moment will come
They can’t dig certain things bro
Actually, in this case, it's not bureaucracy or any historical protection decrees, it IS the "royal" landowner who has refused to allow any previous explorations. Charles Robert George Innes-Ker, the 11th (and current) Duke of Roxburghe has refused to allow any archaeological ventures because there have been no requests by more "established" archaeologists until Time team approached him. If you dig something up and f**k things up, you can't "undig it"... and it's historical value is diminished forever.
@@maxsdad538
You have summarized what Tony said at the beginning, but I believe the discussion here was about that square meter limit. I don’t think that limit was set by the Duke. Tony said: “This is a scheduled ancient monument, and we’re allowed to dig only 200 square meters of it.” So that must be due to bureaucracy/historical protection decree.
Quite a story - TT at its best 👏👏👏✌️
Love Matt Williams. ! Great show!
"Dark forces in the shape of Stewart Ainsworth" 😂
I cannot stop watching this show! lol
I was lucky enough to catch a live premier today with a live chat quite entertaining!
Love this, happy to have stumbled upon this channel!
Greetings from the US. As a history buff I love archaeology. I just recently found this show after watching several vids on Sutton Hoo, and the movie “The Dig.”
Do they have to fill back in the digs after the filming is over?
Yes they do. Rgds from a Brit in Germany
I can't imagine being able to explore historic sites of that age. I live in the States and of course nothing here to compare. Love this channel!
I, as well. My ancestry from my mother's side is Scottish. I am in the Midwest longing to see where my family came from.
@@samarnadra Guess I kind of forgot the Indians. We used to walk the fields in the fall after they were plowed and pick up stone points. My buddy found the largest Clovis point that has ever been found in the east.
@@sandrajohnson9926 Mine were Scots as well. Got to go back there.
My maternal grandparents ancestors are from Roxburgh! They migrated to Australia in 1856. Thomas Hope and Janet Turnbull, both from Roxburgh.
Wow, this is the first time I've seen Phil without a hat! Glorious locks!
I love this. Just great!
Love the raspberry hair!
Building a town in a five year flood plain may have had something to do with the town's demise.
No, he says why in the video..in 1482,... the English blocked off Berwick.
It was damned... how could that have been an issue???
"We've got another one of those ...things...over there" 🤔
I wonder how much time they put in upfront a dig, I think like geophysic and landscape survey, in order to get the most out of those thee days, and how much afterwards covering over the finds that stay in the ground.
Time Team as a program is imho the single best ever and I hope the new series will kickoff good and run a long time.
But I can't imagine the new team(s) wil ever reach the uniqueness of the first...
Awe,what happened to that winning smile 😃?
My ancestors were from there , I have only gotten back to the 1600,s wish I could find out more
I found this episode really interesting for that reason as well. My folks both maternal and paternal were from Roxburgh
Second time they discussed the new longer geophysical equipment. Bit amazing the number of these special sites, you can rarely dig on...but no one actually knows what's there. Think you would dig to figure out what's there....THEN preserve it.
Dearest Rime Team Classics, could you please include the year these were produced in the description box? Thank you, Your Pal, Zeuk.
I look at Tony's hair and that's helps with chronological orders
@@deborahdauray8933 😅
The Duke of Roxburgh wouldn't allow any archeology? A shame that he's allowed to do that on land that was given to his family for free in the first place.
Um, if there's no Roxburgh, why is there a Duke thereof?
@@mlr4524 There is a Roxburgh, located ~2 miles away. From google maps, Roxburgh castle is actually located just outside Springwood village. Roxburgh also became the name of the general area around the city.
It’s good to be the King!
@@mlr4524 hereditary titles continue after towns disappear
It was given to them for service to the King. That means they raised, trained, equipped, and PAID an army. That's hardly "free".
5:49. Look at that face and tell me that Tony's not coming up with a cunning plan at that exact moment.
Damn to think my families probably from there is pretty cool
whoa 18 hours ago how'd I miss this video
Imagining two peasant in a wagon rocking their heads from side to side looking for women - A Night at the Roxburgh
Not enough credit goes to the digger drivers. They seem to be able to scrape away the soil to the centremetre.
Great episode.
Neat thank you very much.
Always wondered why, geophysics never was sent out a few days before the archeological team, so that the dig's timeline would be longer??
Gotta see the ground before you attack it!
I was always under the impression that the three-day cutoff was because friday-sunday were off days for these guys. They all have regular archeology jobs.
Lovely
At around 17:00 in, the various cuts, none of which had camera-people in the frame, showed just how many takes they have to do of a single explanation. That one was at least three takes.
Sometimes you need more than one take. 😂 th-cam.com/video/NAssPedIdbk/w-d-xo.html
Excellent , well done , Is that the Grey friars church that King Robert the Bruce and John Comyn fought at ?
The men stop working when the machine starts digging? of course they do. It's why we build the damn thing to start with.!
Brigid's helmet says NZ1 (New Zealand 1) :)
That's where she's from, and that's where she currently lives with long time partner (Time Team architect and graphic designer) Raysan Al-Kubaisi and their children.
@@maxsdad538 We know that, I thought it was cute she labeled her hard hat........
Anyone else looking at the 16-17 minute section about the ditch and bank and it's not making any sense? Unless the waterways have significantly altered course, it would have been a lot less work to cut across from waterway to waterway on either end of the town rather then going parallel to the waterways, even if that meant also enclosing a bunch of unused ground, for future growth.
All things considered prior to managing of rivers they flooded every year and they changed course every year as well. So over a period of time all waterways change course, sometimes over distances measured in miles.
Stewart to the rescue as always lol
Now we just need to find Selkirk and Peebles
I wonder what town that is right next to the site they are working, and how is it related, if at all to Roxburgh?
I'm confused because there is obviously still a good size town next to this field.
If the archaeologists do not complete their research within three days, what happens?
why not have the church within the defensive wall?
that is the biggest unanswered question i have of the site....
higher resolution -if possible- would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for uploading this marvelous series!!!
3:31 How old is the town in the background. It looks like it is on higher ground. How old is the church?
I wonder sometimes, why old evidence of Roman occupation always seems to be buried under feet of soil. Where most Roman villas, temples, barracks, and towns build out of degradable material like timber and thatch above ground? If stone construction was used, were all the old stones removed/mined/looted/salvaged from the site by following generations?
Yes, if you listen you can hear them describe building foundations as being "robbed out". Likely Roman villas were easy quarries for generations after the Romans left.
In addition to reuse and demolition, there's also the accumulation & shifting of dirt by blown silt, river flooding, manuring (where the land's been reverted to agriculture) and plowing. It's really interesting to see the difference between various sites in terms of how buried, and how demolished, all the various sites are?
@@dennisp.2147 thing is, while I listen, can't always hear and Not that the volume is low. They forgot to set 'Closed Captioning', (can't afford decent hearing devices.)
Interesting history.
Gator's Angels 😂
My home county 🥰
At the very end we heard about silly sheep. My father would have said that that's redundant. His line was,"The only thing stupider than a chicken was a sheep. And, the only thing I'm stupider than a sheep was two sheep." I'm afraid that he was a bit prejudiced. It's just the way all the sheep in a flock will from a single leader. Or, as he would put it,"It's lots of animals with a single brain."
The lost city of Roxburgh Scottish bor good shows
first aired 28 March 2004
Apart from this amazing archeology, it is depressing, that the politics of a ruler could ruin the lives of so many people and dissolve a whole city.
Did i spot a certain Dr Alice Roberts down in that trench? Always a pleasure ;-)
I think you did! She is one of my faves. It's like a Time Team Easter Egg :)
She was in several episodes at that time. It is fun for then I can still describe her as "the woman with the red hair" that she knows from newer stuff
I’m suspecting that a certain country to the South of Scotland wrecked both the town of Roxborough, and the border monasteries and abbeys. You know, like a nearby Scottish city which still exists, is now part of said neighbouring country (Berwick).
I was thinking, why would they have the church on the OUTSIDE of the defenses and then realized quite a few things, one namely that there's a bird's eye view of what's coming down the river on either side and a monk couring the bell and warn the towns folk of danger.
When you compare the defensive capability of Edinburgh Castle and the castle in Roxburgh, as well as the town's location, it doesn't surprise me that Roxburgh is no more. Also, once Berwick is in English hands and you don't have tax money coming in from trading with the Continent, your fate is sealed. It must have been quite a going concern for it's demise to take several hundred years.
Since 2004 not much has become of these discovery's.
Omg Matt was such a cutie!
how about searching out the castle layout
This is where my ancestors are from. My last name is Scotson.