Westminster Abbey: Uncovering Henry III's Sacristy | Time Team
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- Tony Robinson, Professor Mick Aston and the Team investigate one of Britain's greatest historic landmarks: Westminster Abbey. Surrounded by the sights and sounds of Parliament Square, the archaeologists have three days to pin down the location of a lost sacristy, a stronghold that was built by Henry III almost 800 years ago and is said to have housed the biggest collection of treasure this side of the Alps. Under the watchful eye of the Abbey's clergy and numerous tourists, the diggers' attempts to find this important building are continually thwarted by the driving London rain and centuries of later building work.
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At 42:16 where Tracy is pointing out the long textured stone. Right above it is another textured stone which appears to0 be a cats head, like a leopard. I think the two stones belong together.
I have been binge-watching this series for at least 3-4 weeks now, and I am still excited every time Tony says "we'll find out tomorrow". Peace.
Me too last 2 months.
Ive managed to binge watch a lot of Tony's documentaries over the past 6 months. Theres so much to go through, perfect watching while doing your work.
Having found this in 2016, I can understand this. Congrats! You’re hooked!😄😄
@@ruthcarter8895 It's I guess a year later, and I am pleased to say that my interest has continued with this series (and related shows) and I have by now watched every episode I have found. I'm on "secondsies" now and still enjoying them immensely. A great show filled with interesting people. I just wish there was more stuff like this to watch. Peace.
This was my very first Time Team episode (randomly recommended by youtube). I haven't been able to stop since. I am months/dozens and dozens of episodes in. And waiting for the new Time Team seasons. It was just announced! :)
What's cool about archeology is when you are looking for something specific you sometimes find something older and completely different, it's like opening up Christmas presents 🎁 you never know what your going to find!! Archeology is so cool, I would LOVE to work on a dig site!!!
RIP Mick Aston
I miss him. He was so passionate about history and archaeology.
June 2013. Before his time God Bless.
And Ian Barclay, the most amazing digger driver
aww i didnt know he died... ;(
It's going to sound COLD, but I'm glad they went out peacefully. Both of them had SIGNIFICANT medical issues, so at least they're not in any more pain.
I know about all of it, worked 5 digs with them. I'll miss them both 😭
Oh Tony and time team! You are awesome!! I just
Love these series. You go
Beyond the known history and look into the archaic details which completely transforms current historical knowledge. Thank you 🙏😊😊
This Murican loves her some learnin'
Seriously thanks for posting these shows.
Never ceases to amaze me, the fun and informative programming from the UK
There was an American version for a short time. Sadly didn't have near as good personality so didn't last but 2 seasons I think. I tried to help with a dig for them.
Is there a place in London where you can stick a fork in the ground without coming up with a relic of some sort?
Isn't it awesome?
*Bad Axident*
There are few such places in *Britain.*
Doubtful. Its been an inhabited city for over nineteen centuries.
@@joshschneider9766 just about every liveable land mass on earth has been populated for centuries.
The Elephant & Castle roundabout.... nothing good has ever happened here. Ever. 😄
Bettany Hughes is a perfect woman. Beauty and intelligence mixed very well.
Also good to see Raksha, she is one of my favorites in later seasons and she started running programmes (digventures etc) to introduce people to archaeology to this day. :)
I'm 12,000 miles away in Australia and the hairs on my neck are standing up.
Thank you Chromecast for not showing adds.
What a lovely episode! Brought back memories of being an acolyte and getting changed into our robes and surplices.
LOVE YOU ENGLISH...SEARCH ON FOR
SUCH TREASURES OF HISTORY...VISITED WESTMINSTER ABBEY WITH MY SONS...THEIR GRADUATION PRESENT...MY CONCRETE
VIEW OF HISTORY...GOD BLESS ENGLAND
I love the way you take us back in time. Thank you so much for filling my head with wonderful ideas of what must have been a magnificent time of building.
As someone from the US effected a building that old is still standing in any capacity is absolutely mind boggling to me
So there were skeletons & bones buried a few feet below a lawn. People have probably sat there and had a picnic with tea and sandwiches at some point in history. Time Team is so fascinating!
It’s like that all over England.
@@astardustparade Not only in England. Every old christian building is surrounded by skeletons.
In the cathedral close? I assure you, nobody picnics on that lawn lol
Pretty sure if you tried metropolitan police would have some stern words to say the least lol
Yes...timeline and time team together. Love it
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR GREAT EFFORTS TIMELINE !!!
Loved more the end of this video then the beginning.. I wish they had expanded more on the burials, and what they were, who they might have been.. etc..
They need to go back there and do another show with further digging.. But the show doesn't exist anymore.
@@cameleonfleuri about to make some new Episodes apparently
@@cameleonfleuri it’s back on TH-cam!
@@coppertopv365 Wonderful !
I agree. I have always understood that body's buried closed to the church were for most important people / clergy. I wonder who they were too. Wish they did some DNA on all those bones.
Great digging, awesome history lesson..
Love watching this. Thank you
This was so entertaining. Incredible production value, incredible personalities, incredible skills and talent... Just wonderful. Cheers from Atlanta.
Single Malt, Neat or on the Rocks?
Thank you for finding some of the world’s history
Love the passion all of u have..
Watch you folks all the time...great shows. But the guys who dig the trenches never get any credit! So this comment is to compliment them - such perfectly straight holes and to such an even depth! Nice to see such professional work.
So informative.
I like sir tony's voice
Me too. I like his dialogue with Phil best.
So do I! It's super soothing, and I often play Time Team videos to fall asleep to at night because of Sir Tony's voice.
Oh! He was Knighted .....
So cool!
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For a moment, I thought Phil was going to a trench down the center aisle. I'm surprised the sacristy was demolished.
Brilliant! Thanks!
What an amazing video!
It is a stunning cathedral . Notre dam is another I am so lucky to have visited them and I adore the time team of old not so fussed on the new presenter but still love it xoxo
Basically, the King didn't build another one to house more treasure. He had so much treasure in the first one that the priests had nowhere to change and so he had to build them a walk in closet.
Great episode
Wow..no words
I need more follow up on this one. Was any DNA done? What other knowledge of the earliest time have we got? Did you ever got to the other side of church to scan for more out buildings?
Even though the functions are often shared, they could save a lot of confusion by distinguishing sacristy, treasury, and vestry.
Who could?
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Right ..
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This nebulous and never-defined *_they_* is such a silly idea!
Beautiful piece as ever by the team, and a Bettany cameo!
Thank you.
Thanks!
I was an altar boy in my youth. Vestments were on one side of the altar and the "treasure;" chalices patens, etc.; were on the other side. New trench please!
And priests and altar boys were on their knees...
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the pitch outside the abbey is super
Thank u
such breathless, emphatic, over-wrought commentary. the man is going to have a coronary.
DO MORE TIME TEAM STUFF thanks
Interesting video
Recommendable
So what happened with the carbon dating? Was it a saxon burial?? The suspense is killing me!
Omg How Beautiful
Nice
Maybe the Ark of the Covenant??!! The Chaluce??!!
As always, exciting promise no delivery.
6:58 that dude is straight out of every American movie that takes place in Britain.
I've learned his name is Phil and I really like him.
Phil is amazing, when he was younger and digging in shorts? oh my
shitbag actually I just ran across an episode that must be at least 25 years old. Phil doesn’t have an American accent. It’s either Scottish or Irish sounding. So what are you talking about? That is a British person with no American. Are you just talking about his long hair? In the older episode when he was younger he speaks much faster than he does in this show. Matter of fact it’s kind of alarming how slow he speaks compared to when he was younger.
@@katiekat4457 the person commenting was implying PHIL was the TYPICAL FOREIGNER FROM THE BRITISH ISLES, as REPRESENTED in EVERY AMERICAN MOVIE...ACTUALLY, SIR. So "shitbag", and the consequent rant, was both rude and a misunderstanding from your part - taken waay too far.
@@katiekat4457 Phil is from the West Country, and has a very thick West Country accent (similar to a stereotypical pirate accent). My fiance lives in the West Country, and it's a charming accent. The cashiers where he shops often hand change back with, "'er you 'r, me lover."
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*Wiltshire.*
There's part of this building reminds me of Harry Potter's sets.
Does anyone know when this episode first aired? I'm just curious.
Wendy Gerrish
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18th April 2010 likely. Although you could say it goes back to series 1 Black Adder circa 1983.
Just love Time Team.
"The Confessor" sounds like a unit from Warhammer.
take me there
Who better to trust for the task than Time Team?
34:50 I'd love to know who that plaque behind the gentleman is for...pity we can't read it. Obviously some naval officer of note...who, I wonder?!
I like this show. I just wish they would dig for longer than 3 days. It would be nice to see everything that shows up. I don’t want them to make the show longer. Just fit in more days of digging and their finds into the 48 minutes of the show. I would want them to dig at least a couple of weeks and maybe longer if it was turning up interesting things.
The archæologists were all professionally employed as archæologists elsewhere, 3 days is quite common for exploratory excavations and the programme was otherwise very expensive.
I know it's not the purpose of the show, they just explore a place and then, when the site reveals itself valuable, further archeological teams often go there to do a proper, complete investigation of the place. But it would have been absolutely awesome if they had more time so they could have had way more info to provide on allllll of those amazing places. Cause I'm always left unsatisfied... 😞
I would like to see a follow up on the ones someone went back to and continued the work to learn what else they found.
Bettany Hughes!!!
Love the show! Can’t stop watching it. However, I never realized - before watching the series - how much guesswork and conjecture go into modern archaeology. I guess I thought there would be a lot more scientific / forensic investigation going on, besides the geo-phys stuff, which is never very accurate. I was very gratified in one episode to see them actually use LiDAR imaging to reveal the original walls of a castle. That was the one exception that I’ve seen on the show so far.
Lidar was only just coming on stream as a Geophysical tool as this series ended. The last eight years have seen a big up tick in its use as systems shrink and portability increases. Go to the channel "time team official" they got a couple new episodes in the works and they interviewed john gator a few months ago. The radar we used to see jimmy drag around is now mounted to a truck for example and capable of five hundred times the resolution we saw on the last time teams eight years ago. Its actually a truly amazing time in the world of Geophysical archaeology.
And as Phil has said, its scientific method in th pursuit of knowledge. We don't make guesses. We make predictions based on twelve years of college education and whatever practical experience after.
Is there a part 2?
Tony should slowdown and take it a little bit more easy. he is still needed for many more episodes!
what was the deeper sense of that episode?
Alfred the great's bones are "Missing" Could it be possible he ended up there?
It's unlikely.
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So weird, why not look at the inner building that was in a more logical place?!
Why are they always limited to 3 days? It seems they could make a lot more progress on some of these digs with more time.
It was because they had their " day jobs" and budget. Decided by Mick mostly.
I always wonder what happens after those 3 days....did they continue with different team of archeologists??
Baldrick
I wonder how many wedding rings have stones taken off this thing
16:18
Well? What did that piece of bone say?
11-12 century. You can read more in the official documents www.scribd.com/document/56051564/Time-Team-Westminster
Page 17, part 5.1.9 talks about the radio carbon dating.
ena81xx eleven hundred something. The year 11?? They said it at the end of the show.
Early 11th century. So from year 1000-1100 according to what was said at the very end of the episode.
thank you for the replies. yeah, I think I missed that.
@@ena81xx I just missed it too, and was looking for a second part or year in the comments. 😂 ! Tricky YT put an ad right at the end, I think that's what it was...hehehe!
Is anyone confused as to why you would put riches in a room on an exterior wall?
Well they did explain that this was not for the easily stealable gold and gem type of riches but rather their coats and other stuff and to line up in a procession.
14:59 What I've learned from this is that it's a complete waste of time and money to pay for a grave and coffin, because years later, it'll just be covered and uncovered, and if you're lucky, you'll end up in a museum. So just cut out the middle man and donate your body at the get go.
it's the rarity that makes them valuable, donating would end up in excess
@@THENAFERATU Science has no excess.
@@mikeishome69 My father worked at a Hospital's Mortician, believe me, they run out of space.
@@THENAFERATU I'm glad they took all of those donated bodies and tossed them directly into graves then? Oh wait no they were probably sent off to a different hospital, or even a research center. Commonality gives options, a scientist will never not accept more data points.
@@mikeishome69 I'm not quite sure where we're getting and I'm not really interested in discussing the mathematical issues of every single human being who dies wanting to be used for science, exposed or what was ACTUALLY said, kept for historical purposes. When the world ends, a human will be no more important than a can, and we throw them all out cus' they're everywhere, once empty - trash. Once dead - if no pathology is astonishing and the body has no use for donors - cremated or buried. The End.
Wanting to become a Historical Subject will not happen by excess donation of Bones, as the excessive donation itself leads to another chapel decorated in bones from head to toe, like at least 2 in the world at this moment, of which I have visited. We are not precious, no matter how much we desire to be, unless what is left of us is used to guarantee life to another. As as bag of bones, unless we're "sick", well, nothing to see there other than life lived and lost, I'd say.
1.7 meters below the chalk is an ancient hand dug canal
Who would want to go and visit all those tombs
They need to get a bigger backhoe with a more aggressive operator
Who doesn't LOVE Bettany.....
Yea that didn't take just 3 days. They literally would never allow rushed archaeology on a site this important. Otherwise, awesome show and I'm excited to find more.
Glad they did not encounter a bomb.
How is it possible that you are just getting started and you stop after 3 days ??? You could dig there for weeks and not be done !!
Oh, Baldick the black adder knew ye well? Excellent series!
35 years on the the Time Team are still at it. Tony still Romanticizes ant theorizes while the actual scientists chase the facts.
what's with the arbitrary three day limit?
All main characters are professional archaeologists that have dayjobs during the week like teaching on universities or managing their own digs. And a lot of diggers were actually archaeology students that had to go to school during the week so these episodes were filmed over the weekends.
And 3 days is normally for exploratory digs. If they found anything, it was marked and another team usually came in right after stopping filming.
A trench inside would probably be a no no.
So turns out they were looking for a large dressing room :)
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anyone else notice all those motorola flip phones everyone had? and this was from 2019? HA
It's re-uploaded lmfao. Time Team ran from 1994 - 2014. This episode is from 2010.
I bet HRH The Queen and Prince Philip were avid watchers of this show.
Why do they have freemasonic floors? Can u answer that?!
Masonry, not 'freemasonic'. That means brick tiles ie not ceramic.
Shays my Name : Good question. The main floor of the abbey, the black and white one, IS indeed a freemasonic floor. Why? Well, because the masons were, and are still, involved in everything related to the institutions in power, the control of the masses, the preservation and usage of ancient knowledge. 😉
It should be interesting to see what they do for the Queen Elizabeth. Especially if they continue to reright history. Keeping. some of her patronages
"The British sure are Creative", then "they remain Loyal to the Story". lol
*"Their varied subjects each have 7 forks and spoons", wears me out to think I'd have to pay "Custom Tribute" to all the "Pomp and Circumstance".* But they seem to "wear it well".
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Who's mick
ALWAYS note the original air date, Please!!
2010
Interesting. (Some cute brunettes.) But why would anyone put a Sacristy with some very valuable treasures on the outer perimeter, where it would be the most vulnerable?
Shout out to Mitch!….he’s up there in heaven overseeing a trench out in God’s backyard.
It's Mick, not Mitch. And he was an outspoken atheist.
I still hate the redcoats.
To me it seems like a lodge...Freemasonry floor???
Masonry, not Freemasonry. He's talking about the material the tiles are made of. They're just bricks. No conspiracy here.
This IS indeed a freemasonic floor (the black and white one) Why? Well, because the masons were, and are still, involved in everything related to the institutions in power, the control of the masses, the preservation and usage of ancient knowledge. 😉