Behind Nash cottages in Ludenham, Faversham, Kent there is a big field and as a kid 50 years ago the farmer plowed the field and i used to find hundreds of pieces of pottery. I never thought much about it but nowadays I realize it was a goldmine.
6:40 I think a reason that we dont often find many Anglo-Saxon settlements that Mick left out is that theyre all currently being lived in and built over. Of the 12,000~ settlements recorded in the Domesday Book, only 1,000 of them are no longer inhabited
I also believe that even if we did excavate them there might be nothing left because they might have been destoryed in the building of new settlements.
I am always astounded by the sheer amount of knowledge and motivation, that the British have about their history. I wish my country was the same (Belgium).
I was so glad to hear Phil’s DNA results - I just knew he was for real. Brilliant video. I so enjoy Time Team. It’s fascinating thanks so much again bringing history into our homes 🌻
Actually most don't realize, genetically - we don't know who the Celts actually were. Hers a copy of my Comment: He is original, That's for sure! Copy: *It is Not Celt, or Celtic Orgin* (unless the Basque are the Celts), we really don't know what Celts were, *it is Gael, Gaelic, Phil is original English, and they like the Irish and Welsh (the Early migrants that came, post Flood) and they were BASQUE,* i.e., "Iberian" and per their History. "from Atlantica" (be that Atlantis or another area "on the Atlantic"). The others are British, (Anglo Saxon i.e. Germanics)., and I would say "and Normans", but they too are "Germanics" ... then there's a few Roman descendants scattered about. Phil is more related to me, than his British friends and he is more authentic to England than the Germanic Queen. No wonder Phil likes his "Pints"! God Bless him, his is One of my People, a Similar Tribe! Iris of Counties Kerry and Cork lineage (Kerry is my next location of interest, possibly of residence). Chicago Born North Side: Go Cubs - Go!!! Beth, ahhhh "Mary Beth" Tennessee, USA 🍀
@Celto Loco No, that would be Germanics. Phil is original English. If interested, Please see Copy of my Comment below. *It is Not Celt, or Celtic Orgin* (unless the Basque are the Celts), we really don't know what Celts were, *it is Gael, Gaelic, Phil is original English, and they like the Irish and Welsh (the Early migrants that came, post Flood) and they were BASQUE,* i.e., "Iberian" and per their History. "from Atlantica" (be that Atlantis or another area "on the Atlantic"). The others are British, (Anglo Saxon i.e. Germanics)., and I would say "and Normans", but they too are "Germanics" ... then there's a few Roman descendants scattered about. Phil is more related to me, than his British friends and he is more authentic to England than the Germanic Queen. No wonder Phil likes his "Pints"! God Bless him, his is One of my People, a Similar Tribe! Iris of Counties Kerry and Cork lineage (Kerry is my next location of interest, possibly of residence). Chicago Born North Side: Go Cubs - Go!!! Beth, ahhhh "Mary Beth" Tennessee, USA 🍀
@@betty5064 True. Phil was born in Oxford but grew up in Wiltshire. Still, he speaks West Country rather than West Midlands. I've debated with friends whether Shakespeare's accent (or dialect) would have been more WC than WM.
his ancestors might have hunted in doggerland, too, before it got soaking wet and unaccessible. so he basically knows more about britain as everybory else. genetically speaking, lol
@@the_rover1 no. the neo-lithic population of Britain was completely replaced by the Beaker People (the same people who built Stonehenge) around 4000 BC.
Yes,there is a lot going on historically in my part of the world.If only I was still there.I am wondering what's going on regarding the possibility that young Edward,the elder prince in the Tower,was spirited away to Devon,to be brought up in safe obscurity on land which belonged to his half brother.
@Sebastian Cody that’s BS! I entered in a made up Instagram name and it said it had hacked the account and proceeded to ask for a NON REFUNDABLE $12 for the password. I verified that no account existed under the name I entered. SCAMMER!
Time Team was the first series I ever binge-watched when I accidentally came across it about 10 years ago. I still love re-watching the shows, and am looking forward to the new revival.
As I watch these and see the field walking of the resonance people, I think how much the use of inexpensive drones to look at the land from above will marry up and add help find dwelling places.
Wow wouldn't it be awesome to have your ancestry results delivered to you in person like that, and so well explained. I got mine done, but it comes with precious little explanation. Why am I Scandinavian? Why am I Balkan? I know of no family tree ancestors from these regions. I love Phil's reaction! Ah He's such a native!
@@Tawadeb i am also sure it would take many more days, if not weeks or months to do the prep work for such a program? after all one does not go off and start 3 says digging without some preliminarily work?
@@Tawadeb thank you for your reply. what would also interesting to know, what happened after the 3 day dig. will everything closed up once more. pr are the local owners of a castle, house r field exploiting it further? will be for sure also interesting for visitors. and in one case they found a whole bunch of bones. common sense and decency would suggest that they will get a proper burial? and not just chucked into the ground and covered over once more? i love the episodes, but not once i have seen or heard about a - follow up - . what happened after the time team leaves. suppose i will write to them and ask questions there as well?
Thank you for this series! I love archaeology & these shows are entertaining as well as informative. Fun to watch & I find myself rooting for them as they work.
I've been watching Time Team since the beginning of time and I've just had a thought. Talking of funeral pyres: I always thought people would have been constantly dying, in droves. So, only important people got a pyre? Perhaps life wasn't as desperate as I assumed.
Historians: "'The Dark Ages' is an unfair name for that period in history." Time Team: "We have found next to no archaeology from that period in history."
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@@ericpetersen8645 😆 Honestly I only found out myself recently. I wanted to pass on the info to someone else who seemed to be having the same frustration as myself over the incessant ads. I mean, we just wanna watch the video! AmIright? 😆💜❤️😅
This is episode is Saxons on the Edge, from Stonton, Wyville, Series 15, February, 2008. I wish they would give the proper title, and not cut off the beginning. Check out the new Time team episodes at www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamOfficial.
Excellent stuff as always! One thing though... does anybody else notice the resemblance between Phil and one of the drummers in Clanadonia? They even move in the same way, only difference is that Phil uses a hat while the drummer uses a beanie... perhaps they are brothers!
Makes sense. Geoffrey of Monmouth specifically says that the Saxon came over by invitation by Vortigern. And that part of the friction came when they started marrying Briton woman. "Pagans!" they called the Saxons...and Vortigern in turn took one of their woman for his wife. All one big happy family...after a while. lol
I’m not entirely sure of the history of the craft, and yes, the site dug in this video is near a water source, but I feel like the needle found may possibly have also been used for naalbinding, a form of single strand weaving which we know today could readily make things like socks and mittens.
From way back when there were still some interesting programmes on TV 😉 - wondering now how many young people decided to become archeologists because of these TT and similar programmes? 😉
Why do they keep saying that anglo-saxon domestic pottery is rare when there is so much of it? I don't understand. If it is rare then what did they use instead? If it isn't rare then why do they keep saying that it is? They couldn't make cooking pots out of wood. They must have used something. Why did they use pottery for burying human remains but not for domestic use? That makes absolutely no sense to me. I am very puzzled.
Britain went from a culturally and industry rich country under the romans to the stoneage when they left. Question wouldn't the river have changed course over a few hundreds years. I live in Australia. My grandfather was welsh and celtic and my husbands ancestors were irish and celtic.
Vi [ve] ha(ve)r de samme Danske (w)ord(s) nu [noo*], så [sO] en Engelsk-tal(k)ende kan ofte se direkte hvad deres (their(s)) mening er [air] ( is, "are" ) - han kan derfor lær(n)e Dansk i(n) en hast 😉
Do y'all recall that rivers often change their courses and tectonic plates rarely stay put? So that settlement you have found may have been of fishermen and farmers.
The movement of the coastline in the British Isles is well documented. Old courses of rivers show up clearly on ground radar. And other than deflection from retreating ice from the last ice age there's been very little tectonic movement in this part of the world for thousands of years. They're looking for Saxon settlements, about 1500 years ago. These people have devoted their entire careers to this subject, and not one of them has an IQ below 130. They've not overlooked changing coastlines or river courses.
@@JGrowl-er9md I recently worked out that in my lifetime (I'm 77) Britain and America have moved just over nineteen feet further apart. It's no wonder transatlantic air-fares keep increasing.
The reason you find so few Anglo-Saxon archeology must be that they just used the houses and infrastructure that the Romans left standing. At least that's my theory.
Why are these old sites always buried underground ? Where does the dirt come from ? Why are they not on the surface ? There seems to be hundreds of sites in England !!
@@ruhlworth that is what I meant some places a dusting others meters deep. I have areas in my yard that silt an fill with leaves an debris, but yards away roots an bare ground never covered
That's not how a thatched roof looks, a well thatched roof is nice tidy and smooth, if 2100 century Dutch can make smooth thatched roofs on their farms so could the Saxons..
I have to say Phil is one of the most likable people on the show. He's just so pleasant and fun to watch. He's contagious honestly.
Behind Nash cottages in Ludenham, Faversham, Kent there is a big field and as a kid 50 years ago the farmer plowed the field and i used to find hundreds of pieces of pottery. I never thought much about it but nowadays I realize it was a goldmine.
"Get off me land!" LOVE ya Phil!
"Moi land" 👍
@@edwardfletcher7790 It's Me* land not Moi 😆 🤣 😂
@@natashabegley1346 I'm quoting exactly how Phil pronounces it.
He's got such a great accent, very easy on the ears.
Oh how I miss this programme..............
6:40 I think a reason that we dont often find many Anglo-Saxon settlements that Mick left out is that theyre all currently being lived in and built over. Of the 12,000~ settlements recorded in the Domesday Book, only 1,000 of them are no longer inhabited
I also believe that even if we did excavate them there might be nothing left because they might have been destoryed in the building of new settlements.
Saxon longhouses. A architectural design that rooting back to the first Neolithic longhouses of Danubian civilization
these series are absolute gold
I am always astounded by the sheer amount of knowledge and motivation, that the British have about their history. I wish my country was the same (Belgium).
Archeology is almost non existent in the USA
I was so glad to hear Phil’s DNA results - I just knew he was for real. Brilliant video. I so enjoy Time Team. It’s fascinating thanks so much again bringing history into our homes 🌻
Every time I see TT. I think of Mick, fondly. Also when the new TT began I was so glad some of old members remain ….
Phil saying 'Umble Piey" made me spit my coffee out hahaha
Thanks!
I love these guys. What a great watch. Genuinely fun and educational
And Phil is a CELT!!! How awesome!!
Actually most don't realize, genetically - we don't know who the Celts actually were.
Hers a copy of my Comment:
He is original, That's for sure!
Copy:
*It is Not Celt, or Celtic Orgin* (unless the Basque are the Celts), we really don't know what Celts were,
*it is Gael, Gaelic, Phil is original English, and they like the Irish and Welsh (the Early migrants that came, post Flood) and they were BASQUE,* i.e., "Iberian" and per their History. "from Atlantica" (be that Atlantis or another area "on the Atlantic").
The others are British, (Anglo Saxon i.e. Germanics)., and I would say "and Normans", but they too are "Germanics" ... then there's a few Roman descendants scattered about.
Phil is more related to me, than his British friends and he is more authentic to England than the Germanic Queen.
No wonder Phil likes his "Pints"! God Bless him, his is One of my People, a Similar Tribe!
Iris of Counties Kerry and Cork lineage (Kerry is my next location of interest, possibly of residence).
Chicago Born
North Side: Go Cubs - Go!!!
Beth, ahhhh "Mary Beth"
Tennessee, USA 🍀
@Celto Loco
No, that would be Germanics. Phil is original English. If interested,
Please see Copy of my Comment below.
*It is Not Celt, or Celtic Orgin* (unless the Basque are the Celts), we really don't know what Celts were,
*it is Gael, Gaelic, Phil is original English, and they like the Irish and Welsh (the Early migrants that came, post Flood) and they were BASQUE,* i.e., "Iberian" and per their History. "from Atlantica" (be that Atlantis or another area "on the Atlantic").
The others are British, (Anglo Saxon i.e. Germanics)., and I would say "and Normans", but they too are "Germanics" ... then there's a few Roman descendants scattered about.
Phil is more related to me, than his British friends and he is more authentic to England than the Germanic Queen.
No wonder Phil likes his "Pints"! God Bless him, his is One of my People, a Similar Tribe!
Iris of Counties Kerry and Cork lineage (Kerry is my next location of interest, possibly of residence).
Chicago Born
North Side: Go Cubs - Go!!!
Beth, ahhhh "Mary Beth"
Tennessee, USA 🍀
Phil's ancestry makes perfect sense, as from western England, home of Mesolithic Cheddar Man and the Celtic Fringe.
Ah, but it all depends what side of the Avon you're born. (I comes up from Zummerzet, where't zider apples grow,)
@@betty5064 True. Phil was born in Oxford but grew up in Wiltshire. Still, he speaks West Country rather than West Midlands. I've debated with friends whether Shakespeare's accent (or dialect) would have been more WC than WM.
his ancestors might have hunted in doggerland, too, before it got soaking wet and unaccessible. so he basically knows more about britain as everybory else. genetically speaking, lol
@@the_rover1 no. the neo-lithic population of Britain was completely replaced by the Beaker People (the same people who built Stonehenge) around 4000 BC.
Yes,there is a lot going on historically in my part of the world.If only I was still there.I am wondering what's going on regarding the possibility that young Edward,the elder prince in the Tower,was spirited away to Devon,to be brought up in safe obscurity on land which belonged to his half brother.
This documentary was super entertaining and full great information. Thank you! God bless us all.
Four by ten meters! Gotta love it. A Dark Ages singlewide.
More great content. I love coming across a time team ep I haven't seen and fall in love with the series all over again. " Get off me land!" love it.
"Moi land"
Phil is a proud Celtic Renaissance man. 20,000 years! Top that Mate.
@Sebastian Cody that’s BS! I entered in a made up Instagram name and it said it had hacked the account and proceeded to ask for a NON REFUNDABLE $12 for the password. I verified that no account existed under the name I entered. SCAMMER!
The only problem with this series is that I don't get enough sleep, I stay up way too late watching! 😂😂 I love them all, such great work!
I love this stuff so much, I became a professional environmental Archeologist in America.
HA, same. I have it on repeat in the background when at my computer. Comfort show.
Time Team was the first series I ever binge-watched when I accidentally came across it about 10 years ago. I still love re-watching the shows, and am looking forward to the new revival.
I had to pause one last night, I was falling asleep 3/4th of the way through lol.
@@williamfindspeople4341 L
I nearly switched off when I saw Dan Snow. As I reached for the control, Timetime came on, Snow disappeared, and life was good again.
I fast forward.
Same With Me 😅
What’s the problem with Dan Snow?
@@curtlawson7882 The fact that you have to ask demonstrates a lack of structured education on history.
Instead of being a condescending count, maybe you could just explain.
Ian is a real gem!
So happy to see Phil's DNA test results 👍
All I can say is that when I heard him go, "YYYyyYYyYYyYYYYESS!!!!" that's true love. 9:36
The animation of the Island of Britain as Phil took me OUT. I spat water on my keyboard!
I loved this from rewatching it!! 🥲🤣
Love these guys & gals who made up this series! 👏🏼😟😟👍❤️
also what a master machine operator Ian was. Scrape a spit off like butter.
I keep expecting Tony to find the World's largest turnip (again). Pete.
Sam looks like the offspring of Elvis and Stephen Fry. This is a great dig!
I was just think holy shut Elvis is actually alive dam I lost that bet for a second
I really like the English environment.
I can immagen why my Frisian forfathers went oversees.
25:16 ive never seen two guys like this get that exited about a pot and i love it.
As I watch these and see the field walking of the resonance people, I think how much the use of inexpensive drones to look at the land from above will marry up and add help find dwelling places.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Wow wouldn't it be awesome to have your ancestry results delivered to you in person like that, and so well explained. I got mine done, but it comes with precious little explanation. Why am I Scandinavian? Why am I Balkan? I know of no family tree ancestors from these regions. I love Phil's reaction! Ah He's such a native!
Love this show..good people
Iv watched time tean since late 90s that I know of. Amazing to see them still try n control knowledge..blessings all
Congrats to the Team!
no rain?🌧🌧yay!!
Love this program but why only 3 days ?!? 10 days would be so much more satisfying !!!
It’s expensive. And these archeologists have day jobs
@@Tawadeb i am also sure it would take many more days, if not weeks or months to do the prep work for such a program? after all one does not go off and start 3 says digging without some preliminarily work?
@@benediktmorak4409 usually the local archeology group has started but time team has more resources
@@Tawadeb thank you for your reply. what would also interesting to know, what happened after the 3 day dig. will everything closed up once more. pr are the local owners of a castle, house r field exploiting it further? will be for sure also interesting for visitors. and in one case they found a whole bunch of bones. common sense and decency would suggest that they will get a proper burial? and not just chucked into the ground and covered over once more? i love the episodes, but not once i have seen or heard about a - follow up - . what happened after the time team leaves. suppose i will write to them and ask questions there as well?
@@benediktmorak4409 there is always a team that fills it in. Matt used to help fill the digs back in once records had been done
John's face of disbelief when Tony scrunches up his results😳
Thank you for this series! I love archaeology & these shows are entertaining as well as informative. Fun to watch & I find myself rooting for them as they work.
Bessie,why don't you come on a dig if you haven't already tried it?
Fantastic episode!
I've been watching Time Team since the beginning of time and I've just had a thought. Talking of funeral pyres: I always thought people would have been constantly dying, in droves. So, only important people got a pyre? Perhaps life wasn't as desperate as I assumed.
Nah we just heaped them into piles to save on wood.
Gotta protect the forest yah know......
Lol, that chart of phil's ancestry is hilarious. Also awww, so many people marked lovable
"Flint" as a possible ancestor 😂
My Grandmother's surname is Crowder and its a Anglo-Saxon surname of Crowther
Phil was chuffed! Good on ya!
Historians: "'The Dark Ages' is an unfair name for that period in history."
Time Team: "We have found next to no archaeology from that period in history."
No where near as clever a response as you think this is.
But we have found DNA, culture, law, and language.
@@michaelmccaffery2684 To be expected from a dog nutter ...
RIP Tonys hair 5:53
the discoveries made by this excavation plus phils excitement over his ancestry is literally the best thing ever!
Phil is always s jolly!♡
11:30 "It was you!" always reminds me of Father Ted
I love Paul, a pottery expert!! Where is your bike ?"
You guys the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love time team so so much! ❤
There's another contributer, Reijer Zaijjer. He has all the episodes of TT & other archaeological shows. Best part? No ADS!
You do know that you can bypass the ads by scrolling the video to the very end and then restarting it, and then it runs with no ads, right? 😁 You Do have to have the auto play turned off though. 🙃🤫
@@sixxygrrl I did not know that. Missed my YT 101 class in Engineering school. Thanks!
@@ericpetersen8645 😆 Honestly I only found out myself recently. I wanted to pass on the info to someone else who seemed to be having the same frustration as myself over the incessant ads. I mean, we just wanna watch the video! AmIright? 😆💜❤️😅
@@sixxygrrl I have NEVER gotten that to work. autoplay off or on. still get the ads
Seems to me that it takes a keen eye and perhaps a keener imagination to recognise Saxon artifacts. I would never make the grade.
Amen,I'm pretty bad at seeing shadows in the soil I will admit.....
The map with Phil's head, lol
am I the only one who watches this show right after going to bed?
I find it ASMR
This is episode is Saxons on the Edge, from Stonton, Wyville, Series 15, February, 2008. I wish they would give the proper title, and not cut off the beginning. Check out the new Time team episodes at www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamOfficial.
Excellent stuff as always! One thing though... does anybody else notice the resemblance between Phil and one of the drummers in Clanadonia? They even move in the same way, only difference is that Phil uses a hat while the drummer uses a beanie... perhaps they are brothers!
I love this documentary 🤙🍻🇳🇿👊
Makes sense. Geoffrey of Monmouth specifically says that the Saxon came over by invitation by Vortigern. And that part of the friction came when they started marrying Briton woman. "Pagans!" they called the Saxons...and Vortigern in turn took one of their woman for his wife. All one big happy family...after a while. lol
i just started watching this show on youtube.
i just have a question
Do they always have only 3 days to dig ? and what happens to the site after ?
I was wondering the same thing. There was an American version of this show a few years back that only lasted 2 seasons.
@@brandon074 do you know if it's on youtube?
@@Jellybeat90 Just search for "Time Team America" There are a few episodes of it on TH-cam.
@@brandon074 thanks mate
@@Jellybeat90 No problem. :-)
I’m not entirely sure of the history of the craft, and yes, the site dug in this video is near a water source, but I feel like the needle found may possibly have also been used for naalbinding, a form of single strand weaving which we know today could readily make things like socks and mittens.
Wow. An interview with my DPhil supervisor. Cool.
From way back when there were still some interesting programmes on TV 😉 - wondering now how many young people decided to become archeologists because of these TT and similar programmes? 😉
thank you
They keep saying "Saxon", but in Leicestershire the invading Germanic tribesmen would have been Angles, with possible the odd Frisian.
Its all about the GEO PHYS MAN!!!!!! THE GEO PHYS!!!!
I'd like to see a whole show on a DNA study of all of these folks.
Why do they keep saying that anglo-saxon domestic pottery is rare when there is so much of it? I don't understand. If it is rare then what did they use instead? If it isn't rare then why do they keep saying that it is? They couldn't make cooking pots out of wood. They must have used something. Why did they use pottery for burying human remains but not for domestic use? That makes absolutely no sense to me. I am very puzzled.
Nice
12:19 po'aray
Awesome 👏🏼
I have a suggestion. Instead of calling it the "Dark Ages" how about calling it the "Hidden Ages" or "The Secret Ages" instead?
How much does Dan Snowman receive for his advertising ? (£?).
I love the Elvis guy. Oh, and Phil in them hot pants!
What about cattle yards? They might look like a house, ie posts in the ground.
Why are these places always buried? Was it really that long ago?
I legit wondered if Stephen Fry was in this episode
Yes general Melchet could have punched Baldric
I miss the team all saying Actual or Actually, although BBC's The Repair Shop actually comes quite close.
Helen!
Interesting that the dug based on pottery distribution, but they didn't really seem to find that much pottery while digging.
Because all the previously found pottery was removed when it was found leaving very little.
Looks like they got Elvis to drive the rover.
Britain went from a culturally and industry rich country under the romans to the stoneage when they left. Question wouldn't the river have changed course over a few hundreds years. I live in Australia. My grandfather was welsh and celtic and my husbands ancestors were irish and celtic.
Vi [ve] ha(ve)r de samme Danske (w)ord(s) nu [noo*], så [sO] en Engelsk-tal(k)ende kan ofte se direkte hvad deres (their(s)) mening er [air] ( is, "are" ) - han kan derfor lær(n)e Dansk i(n) en hast 😉
Thank-you. So where was the native population working?
In 2021 some interesting round crop marks at North 52°32'02.8" by West 0°54'48.3"
lol @ the cartoon of Phil on Britain!
My mom is a (Clouston)Stennessmy Grandmother ,
Do y'all recall that rivers often change their courses and tectonic plates rarely stay put? So that settlement you have found may have been of fishermen and farmers.
The movement of the coastline in the British Isles is well documented. Old courses of rivers show up clearly on ground radar. And other than deflection from retreating ice from the last ice age there's been very little tectonic movement in this part of the world for thousands of years. They're looking for Saxon settlements, about 1500 years ago. These people have devoted their entire careers to this subject, and not one of them has an IQ below 130. They've not overlooked changing coastlines or river courses.
@@JGrowl-er9md I recently worked out that in my lifetime (I'm 77) Britain and America have moved just over nineteen feet further apart. It's no wonder transatlantic air-fares keep increasing.
They were wood people
Next question: how do you know it's actually Saxon and not Anglian or Frisian? Funny also that Newton explains Langton. He should know!
Funny a guy who's always standing in a ditch is called fill.
So cool
20:42 wah de SACOOKIES
Do burnt dead trees ever confuse the picture?
The reason you find so few Anglo-Saxon archeology must be that they just used the houses and infrastructure that the Romans left standing. At least that's my theory.
Why are these old sites always buried underground ? Where does the dirt come from ? Why are they not on the surface ?
There seems to be hundreds of sites in England !!
Dig a small ditch in your yard and watch it see if it looks the same in a couple years.
An easy pastime
There seems to be a layer of dirt over everything, not just ditches. Some of this dirt is deep.
@@ruhlworth that is what I meant some places a dusting others meters deep.
I have areas in my yard that silt an fill with leaves an debris, but yards away roots an bare ground never covered
It amazes me how much archaeology there is in the UK. It seems everywhere you dig, you find something. Very interesting stuff !!
That's not how a thatched roof looks, a well thatched roof is nice tidy and smooth, if 2100 century Dutch can make smooth thatched roofs on their farms so could the Saxons..