Time Team S06E05 Plympton St Maurice, Devon
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- It is frequently difficult to appreciate the wealth of history around us, hidden as it is by more modern structures. This was what Time Team found in Plympton in Devon, a village that had had its heyday in the Middle Ages.
They looked in back gardens and public spaces, under stairs, in cellars and in attics for clues to the village's antiquity, but their biggest surprise came in the grounds of a nunnery!
This is such an odd episode from an American point of view. People being so chill about having bits of their house that date back to the 17th or 15th or 12th century. In the States, and especially on the West coast like I am, you're doing really good if you can find a 100 year old building. Being all like "And this is our 12th Century wall" is like saying "And this is our unicorn".
I understand, I live in Argentina and my city was founded in 1882, so we protect houses from the late nineteenth century because those are our historic buildings!
Lol. “…and this is my unicorn.”
Wait a minute. Phil just said roof furniture 🤣
Yes, said the American in the western US
@@Neddoest I have a unicorn too.
Mick gives me life, when he praised Tony for spotting the building I was laughing. This episode was so good.
Robin Bush was such a cool cat. I would have loved to spend an evening with him over few pints and hear his history stories.
Having a furious argument in a polite way is such a wonderful skill - and there are not so many people around who possess it.
Oh Beric, what a lovely lovely man!
i've never seen Mick so happy as he was when Tony spotted that house in the corner, and then he commenting on how fast Carenza is (she really ran fast there)
I love that bit too… 😊. “I think I’ll run down and see…” - suiting the action to the words!
I absolutely love Victor's drawings. The care and ability are amazing.
Thanks so much for posting.
I love Robin...he’s the perfect English Gentleman or stereotypical Brit of the British Empire days!
He passed away in 2010, sadly.
I could listen to him talk all day! Very smart man as well!
Loved it whenever Beric Morley came around. His enthusiasm was infectious. So sad to realize that he passed away right around the time I discovered Time Team (January 2015). I would have loved to see a 13-episode season of just Beric instructing the viewers in architectural history
Lost both Robin Bush and Mick Ashton as well.
@@lafeelabrieland Victor Ambrus
So much to love in these episodes… the finds, the anticipation, the individual and their incredible talents and personalities, and the moments of silly levity. SO good!
I love it when Mick ends a sentence with "look". :-)
All these years later and time gone by, I still miss seeing Mick Aston on these wonderful episodes of Time Team which at times, seems not to have aged at all.
As Time Goes By
I know what you mean😞
I recently joined to support new digs through their Patreon portal....and saw what Dr. Helen Geake called the
MICK MOBILE 🥰
@@maryannmacmurray4279 Loved that one. After I'd watched them a few dozen times, I'd do it again, just so I could search the backgrounds...... I was very keen to see what English people had in their homes....but of course, it was TV🙄
43:40 Mic Aston using remote camera; "if Mickey Mouse comes on, we're on the wrong (channel)."
Carenza Lewis: "Oh, I don't know."
"This is too early for me, Tony. I don't get up this early, you know.."
"You behave, you.."
"My life support machine don't go on 'til about 10 o'clock."
+MegaMidgetNinja
When you have Tony and Mick together,anything can happen,even when those 2 are having a conversation.
+Romel Negut I would have loved to be able to sit with (or even near) Mick, Tony and Phil for a few hours! I know a lot of people do not like Tony, but I think they fail to understand the dynamics of his relationship with the others as well as Tim Taylor's scripting of some of the dialog for educational purposes. Most people don't realize that Tony and Mick were friends before they worked in television together. It was Mick who picked Tony for his role!
Donna Perez
Thanks for the info.
Mick is like my spirit animal.
I can guarantee from personal knowledge (as I've said before, Mick was my personal friend and mentor) that is true. Mick was often quiet and quite slow before mid-morning, and I will duel anyone who says it was because of his love of Cabernet Sauvignon...:-). I work the same way (although not the Cab Sauv: I don't like it). That first cup of coffee in the morning starts the process off.
Robin Bush's voice is reassuring the same way Stephen Fry's voice is, like a gentle brook babbling gently into the pond. 🙂
Always funny when he stands beside Tony. 🙂
Am very much enjoying watching/rewatching these earlier series.
This has got to be one of the Top Five most interesting episodes.
Time Team is my Happy Place. Time Team 2.0 is coming out soon!
The British area including Wales, the Irelands & Scotland (yea!) are a microcosm of expansionism that the entire world has endured at least once. Their history is so varied & at times complex, discovering that preconceived opinions of invaders, whom most were just looking for a bit of soil to raise food & families & be safe.
TT alumni are a family. I watch episodes daily. They make me feel I'm in my garden, digging a hole, having fun & no matter what happens, you're family is there to help , support, have laughs & a good time. Plus, be an adult and get as dirty or muddy as you want!
I enjoy TT, but this episode is better than average since it involves an entire village and the forensic examination of their homes' DNA. Seeing that gap around the 12th century cellar wall of the rectory was fascinating.
Top marks for the wood craftsman who made the roof arch reconstruction. Its so brilliant to see these labour intensive and skilled design/workmanship skills staying alive. Standards and pride, were so different in days gone by.
Tony summed it up. "Not bad for three days work" Facinating episode.
Robin was so good at explaining history.
Carenza clearly has a future in sales. "Do you mind if a bunch of strangers dig a bloody great hole in your lawn?". "Err, no, go ahead".
It's really cool to see how property owners for all intents and purposes, willingly allow a stranger to dig a large hole in their "garden" the lady at around 22:20 or so has a perplexed look but then smiles and says "might be very interesting wouldn't it" The British knack for understatement is refreshing...
She really doesn't want it but puts on a brave face and males the best of it. This is one of my all time favourite Time Team moments!
She already has a problematic front boundary wall as shown by all the scaffolding.
@@kingoftadpoles Or possibly she's having the wall refurbished which would mean having to re-mortar so the scaffolding might not be there to hold the wall up but instead for workers to stand on while refurbishing the wall.
I grew up in Plympton St Maurice and I know some of these buildings personally and even as a kid I knew it was a very ancient and special place: This video has expanded this even further. Marvellous
One thing I like about shows from the UK. Not much yelling , screaming and acting like a bunch of tyrants or spoiled brats.
I agree, I can't watch Ghost Hunters for that very reason. GHI is better than GH
"Hey, we need to get rid of that old shed; let's call in Time Team to tear it down for us!"
+Greg B
Great one :-).Still they really did a great job in tearing it down.
+Greg B That old shed was probably older than 99.9% of the buildings in the USA.
God, that was brilliant of them!
Being an American I am always jealous of the Europeans who have parts of their houses dating back well before our country was even "discovered". American: "My house was built 100 years ago!" European: "Meh. I have couches older than that."
In Japan, there is a serious problem of that nature, which is leading to a lot of old buildings getting torn down. Because so much of the country has a TRULY ancient history, things that are a bit more recent (though still of great historical value) are not protected, and many are being torn down. It is a real struggle for those of us trying to preserve the remaining stock of 200+ year old traditional houses. I myself live in an old farmhouse (remodelled and restored completely) that is probably at least 300 years old (a well-known sculptor was born in the house in 1735 or 6, so it is older than that). I bought it for the price of the land alone. Nobody else thought it was worth rebuilding. BUT ITS 300 YEARS OLD! (I said).
"Pffffftttt! The buildings in Nara are 1300 years old, and the ones in Kyoto over 1000. Who cares about something that is just 300 years old?"
The building with longest continuous occupation in the world and still occupied is in New Mexico. Acoma Pueblo. 1,000 years, continuous being the key word. Not really "USA" originally, but certainly North American.
@FESERFACE Japan has a larger land area than Great Britain.
Estonians neither have that glorious history... but filled with blood and bones. We were part of vikings... but almost nothing have survived....
... but i belive, that we all are connected... trough dna studies, we find truly strange connections. Head up! ;)
But whenever I watch TT episodes about the so-called prehistoric era, I wonder about both the American continents. Was there a bronze age, iron age, were there standing stones? Knowing that the Incans, Aztecs and Mayans built huge structures makes me very intrigued about how earlier history led up to those cultures and ancient Native American archaeology.
When Mick is explaining about the terraces and earthworks,you can see what his passion is (apart from monastries),reading the landscape.
"We have to be a bit careful here, this garden is home to a blind rabbit".
BRING OUT THE HOLY HAND GRENADE OF ANTIOCH!!!!!!
I greatly appreciate this show because they show such respect. They won't disturb the grave of a child's cat or disrupt the home of a blind rabbit. It's lovely.
@@kevinhill2421 And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
the icing on the cake, every time for me is Victor's art pieces. HE is stunningly good, fast and historically accurate. As if a Bald eagle she flies high to see all and see's the minutia critical to life.
I don't wish to be a comment hog, but again I was blown away by the way Robin was handling the property deeds dated 1305....no gloves, just piled up like playing cards, as if they are not particularly delicate or precious and rare!!! Robin was such a delightful person and so knowledgeable, too. I would have been terrified of even breathing on those documents. What a privilege to have access to such antiquities!!!
I am from Texas and I love
Time Team. I always wanted to be a
archaeologist. Thanks Time Team👍👌
I love how Mick would end sentences with “look”, when he wants someone to notice something archaeological. (12:18) He does it in a lot of episodes.
Right as I was reading your comment I heard him say it at 29:38.
a record eleven times, by my count (and one by Carenza makes 12)
Ohhhh, go watch both of the Turkdean episodes… when they’re up in the helicopter, you’ll lose count how many times he said that!
Around twenty minutes in, best moment in Time Team helicopter ride possibly ever.
Yep- totally love that! One of my favorite bits in the whole series
It's so sad that a number of these very fine people are no longer with us.
This is such a great episode! At least the third time I've watched it; thanks, again, for posting all the TT episodes!!! R.I.P. Mick...
"I'm using your stylistic argument AGAINST you". I laughed.
When Timeteam did not patronise it's audience and assumed they enjoyed intellectual debate!
I am re-watching older TT episodes and I just love these back-gardens-in-villages episodes. The sleuthing required is really impressive. Beric Morley can look around and say, "that's a shelf for a lamp, that's a ledge for a roof beam, etc." Then they pan around a room with 8 people busily doing map and document work. Nothing like the newest seasons, in which there seems to be very little research and disappointing conclusions.
I agree. They are my favorite, seeing history right in people's houses.
I love THEM ALL BUT THESE ARE THE BEST
I didn’t even finish the 3rd new episode. They lost all the charm and personality of the original show….
@@JamesSmith-fz7qk No, they haven’t lost it at all.
But it is different. That is a problem if you want the show to have some consistency
The is one of my favorite episodes, partly because of the chemistry between the Time Teamers.
Robin Bush could read the address of the local garbage dump and it would sound like a riveting epic poem.
I loved the detail and human aspect that Robin could add to TT. Giving names, families, accurate dates to the more general finds in the field/trenches. The program was poorer after he left.
Caring about a blind rabbit I love these ppl!!
Nothing can beat a gut feeling and year long experience. and even better when it later is been proven right by facts.
Makes me giggle whenever Tony jogs across fields on his short legs ;) Love this show and miss Mick :(
This is a classic episode - No flash, interesting excentriic experts like Robin Bush, Berwick and Kieth -great dialogue between respected intellectauls. It shows how much the commercial interference had eroded the heart and core of the program by the last series.
Indeed! Couldn't agree more.
@@MontyCantsin5 Mick Aston privately described the last two series as..."Tits-N-Teeth Archaeology". No wonder he walked out. R.I.P Mick.
The last two series are what happens when something is focus grouped. It was what a group of people would say people would like. Ignoring the fact that the show was a successful series already and core audience already loved it
For some reason I really enjoyed this ep. usually I prefer the big open fields to the cramped little towns and such. Mick seemed so happy to. Bless him and Robin. Cant imagine what it was like for Phil and the gang to do a tv show for 20 years then its just done and gone. Out of your life. I dont recall seeing Beric or Keith before but loved their enthusiasm for it all. Also I kept worrying about that little blind bunny.
Keith might have been in one other. Beric’s big one was the episode at Hylton Castle in Sunderland. He did ten episodes overall, I believe.
My grandparents lived in a house, part of which was 400 years old. It was a scare coming out of my bedroom and finding myself running down a sloping floor under beams lower than my head - I could never remember while trying to wake up. Wonderful character, though. Tiny village in Herefordshire.
He said that pretty quick when ask do you mind if we,,,,,,,,No problem atall ! All these episodes are fantastic
That is one sturdy shed they tore down!! I've never seen one built like that before.
I love the passion for such things as dates of chimneys.
High energy, fun episode this.
It may be popular to lash the Normans with derision for oppressing the Saxons,but had it not been for their obssessive detailed record-keeping (as opposed to oral tradition) these digs would yield finds that couldn't be enriched with explanatory notes from original sources.Always an incredible show,regardless of the finds!Thanks!
I think you should research the Anglo Saxons more. They did keep records, they did document things, just not in the way Norman’s did. Many of their documents were used and useful to the conquerors, but were likely mostly destroyed later, as surplus to requirements.
My favourite show of all time!
@ 3:00 - I spy the Mick doll!
@ 14:57 - Love Mick's sense of humor!
Robin is back and Sue gets more face time. Very nice.
and Beric is in fine form; Mick having an exciting project. Good times.
You would pay a lot of money to have a beautiful timber framed roof like the one covered up by a false ceiling at 17:00. If it were my house, I would open it back up so you could see those graceful arches of wood.
John Doe They probably put the lower ceiling in to conserve heat. Trying to heat a place with a huge high ceiling would be very expensive. I am glad they didn't destroy it because that would be a shame. :)
Besides the heating problem, maybe the later structure would be compromised. I think it would be hellishly expensive to restore it to the original. But certainly, I would love to build a new structure with those timber frames and perhaps use modern technology to ensure heating was adequate. I am not sure how fragile those timbers are but I would certainly investigate the possibility of opening up that area and making it a feature in the house. Perhaps a private retreat or maybe a room which could in the summer be used as a focal room to gather a few friends for meetings and maybe having a light buffet meal or even a tea party. enjoy a step back into the past. The sort of area that poetry and legends thrive. A wonderful oak floor, scattered thick rugs and a few leather divans and horse hair armchairs should do the trick.
I can't help it!!! Poetry readings, discussing and reading Gothic novels, embroidery, historical information. This would bore some people immensely, but I would love it.
@@lameesahmad9166 Great description! The, uh 'meeting' for me would be nerds playing Dungeons & Dragons or some such game
@@lameesahmad9166 I would suggest a glass or perspex glass ceiling, it allows you to see the roof, yet conserves heat.
Man, that Sue was beautiful.
Yeah - that Steve was one lucky guy!
I love this show
It's interesting to look at this street on google earth now.I like the little knitted doll of Mick at 31:37 too.
oh wow i never noticed that! good eye!
It's amazing to me that they can just go up to people's houses and say, "Say, can we dig up your yard?" and people are perfectly agreeable or even excited. I guess in England there's a certain prestige to say, "Yes, there's a 15 century town house in my front garden." In the United States we'd be horrified if somebody came and dug up our yard. God forbid you tell us "Yeah, there's an Indian burial ground directly under your house." D8
I've actually had to tell a a couple precisely that in California. They had a nice house, but the woman's grandfather had built another farther back on a "mound." During WWII he started hand excavating a cellar under it, then suddenly quit and moved to the present location and built another house. The older structure had a beautiful cobble fire place and the couple wanted to subdivide and complete the older structure. I went down into the open cellar of the older structure and came back and explained that apparently the reason granddad had moved to a new location was that he had run into human interments digging the cellar. The short of it was that without a lot of consultation (tribal, county, state) they were unlikely to get the work permitted.
I am sure it is all rehearsed before the actual filming of the episodes.
@@Padraigan13
No they didn’t rehearse scenes. And it is a very smart strategy to film it while asking such a question. People have a hard time saying no on camera. In any case, the village and surrounding area would know in advance that Time Team was going to be filming, so the camera crew at her door didn’t come entirely as a surprise.
This may be my favorite. Truly exciting. I can place myself in the time of early construction. Thank you.
"I'll poke it in the hole, you watch the telly."
Brother Cadfael …. Robin (RIP) a fellow fan 😊
Be careful around the little bunny! lol
Im glad they finally showed the wall inside the old window. Was really curious about that. But wanted to see more on it. That space hasn't seen daylight in centuries.
Also I wanted to see a lot more on that arch attic beam the guy made. He spent all that time and they barely touched on it. Wanted more.
Also never touched on the little rabbit again. Wanted more there as well.
Sorry to hear about Beric passing RIP. Was my first time seeing him I believe but instantly liked him.
The fireplace discussion/argument is remarkably fascinating.
I was just thinking as I watched them demolish that stone "shed" with the slate roof that if this were done in South Carolina where I live they would be on the receiving end of some condemnation!
Beautiful!
This episode is very very interesting.
If it was me and archeologists wanted to dig up my yard. There wouldn’t be any hesitation what so ever.
wonderful episode!one of the best in the whole series.
bunny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of the more productive and interesting shows.
Seeing that below-ground window gives me goosebumps.
Tan Cottage is here on Google Earth:
49 Fore St
Plymouth, UK
50.382611N, -4.048269W
I like buildings, too, Mick, I like them too.
31:12 Sue...god, that woman is gorgeous.
Sapiophile! I agree!
I wonder if they ever got permission to put in the wanted extension? This was a hugely entertaining and informative episode.
" Running Tony is best Tony! " - but what is that he, every time I see the show, reminds me of Baldrick. Yes, Sue Francis is a real it. But the more I would like to take part in a "normannic" excavation.
I love the thumbnail for this! ❤
What season of Time Team is it?
Tony: half hair
Mick: sweater no 4
Carenza: large hair scrunchie
John: less beard
Robin: same, buried in books
Stuart: we don’t know, he’s out wandering somewhere, haven’t seen him since day 1.
Key: no Matt or Rakshaw yet.
This is the first time I've noticed Mick using the word 'look' in nearly every sentence - I guess it's similar to the Irish use of 'yeah'?
all the neds use 'innit' now, even the pads
all the neds use 'innit' now, even the pads
I caught it when Mick was in the Chopper. Don't remember who was with him and can't remember which episode. I also noticed that others with him used the same word in the same way.
ROFL!! Phil seems to be able to keep from saying it...At least not as noticeable
He is fun to listen to.
I really thought they'd find a body or bodies between those walls. It would have been the perfect place to disappear a few enemies. (or in-laws)
Roofers in England must be very skilled because I’m damn sure they don’t wanna be “that guy” that fucked up a 12th century roof or chimney.
3604 -- It's so lovely, after four years of insanity, to quit cringing whenever Sir Tony says that something has "turned up trumps."
Still happy now dummy? ^^
The plympton on this side of the pond has quite a history too, as part of the original Plymouth colony.
Train only stops twice a day there.
When Carenza was showing the lady the footprint of the trench she wants to put in her front yard, the building directly behind her looks like an existing building from the 1750’s map.
My SECOND FAVORITE MICK!!!!
"Hi, we're from Time Team. Can we bust through all the walls in your house like the Kool-Aid man? How about all your neighbors? Great! Thanks! Yes, we'd love some tea, thank you!". The British have a better country than Americans do.
its a killer rabbit!!..bring me the holy hand grenade of antiarc!!!
It would hurt my ego terribly to arm wrestle Mrs Lewis.the way she uses that shovel
I can't help but wonder if some of the team are not occasionally tempted to poke Tony in the snoot?
Brian Graves In a few of the early episodes, Phil looked like he was about to.
I'm glad I already know what a mott is. As an American I could've gotten a little confused when Tony said that the Normans "threw them up in great lumps" all over the country.
Motte.
Sorry to be a little pedantic @35:00, but if the stylistic argument is only based on the edge of the lintel, doesn't that just suggest that they changed the edge of it in the 16th century? That seems a reasonable thing to happen, and suggests the two standpoints don't necessarily exclude eachother...
Ohh Sue!!!
"Medieval times" seems to be used to qualify a great stretch of time . Anywhere between Roman and Victoria. Could you be more specific? Please.
After saxon and ends with the tutors I think 😊
Thinking about one of her customers
chained to the horse in the basement ,the mistress of the house is like, " no , no I don't think time team can come in, sorry, bye".
How many days did it take to put the properties back to the way they were?
Running Tony is best Tony!