Time Team S14-E02 There's No Place Like Rome, Blacklands, Somerset
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- Jayne Lawes and the Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society have been carrying out excavations at a site called 'Blacklands' in Somerset since 1999.
The site is close to the major religious centre at Aquae Sulis (Bath) and has produced rare and tantalising results that indicate a very early Roman presence in an area not traditionally associated with villas until much later. A 'proto-villa', potentially from as early as 70 AD, and a gatehouse had already been excavated, producing early pottery and military finds.
Time Team was called in to investigate more of the site and discover what was going on here in the early years of Roman occupation and to try to find out how the local Iron-Age population might have welcomed their new neighbours.
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I love how Mick said they had done some great geophysics work, and they believed they could help with that rather than saying they could redo it with better tech. He's always positive in the way he presents his ideas to others. He always treats them with respect, acknowledging and validating their work, and offering to help his peers. THAT is a pure gentleman. RIP, Mick. I've come to love you and the team through finding and watching this series in 2020.
Mick was a gentleman and a scholar,,and a great teacher. It would have been an honor to have been his student..
@@elizabethschaeffer9543 not sure if it could have said any better mick seemed like gentleman and a scholar i would have loved to just sit and have a glass of wine and listen to him break down the days events too tony and a pint with uncle phil would make my day
Mick was what academia in the US has so sorely needed for generations.
I am watching i n2023.But can and will second everything you said.
I am watching TT several years now already.
But there are still episodes that had - fallen through my radarscreen-.
And while in no way demeaning the new Episodes, they still have most of the old TT together, i must say i am glad now that (SIR) Tony Robinson had rejoined them once more.
And the new stuff they got from Dell Computers, why not make some advertising for them, is just amazing.
I must admit,I now walk around the countryside with my eyes firmly on the ground,thank you time team.
I see 'pot sherds" all the time or how would they datetime plastic?????
Sick in bed these last few days with the flu and living on soup, meds, and Time Team, the only show I can follow for long right now. I have watched every episode so many times I can see the action with my eyes closed and don't have to rewind when I fall asleep and wake. I really value that familiarity at times like these.
Are you sure it wasn’t the ‘Rona and not the flu?
@@mamavswild Thankfully, it was the flu:) Glad to live in a small town right now where exposure is limited. I wish everyone else could feel that safe about it right now.
Glad to hear other people do the same thing when sick. Whenever I get sick,..I rewatch all the episodes. You can drift of and it is ok. And it makes everything just a little bit better.
Currently living that bouillon life (a cold) and doing what you did years ago. Watching TT and drifting in and out comfortably medicated. lol
Oh me too. Nothing better for recuperation than Time Team.
Always get a lump in my throat when I see episodes with the great Mick Aston. RIP sir ❤️
Mick's legacy lives on....😊
Adore Mick. I'm so sad to think he is now gone.
😢I just found out 😢
Still watching time team in 2020!!!!
No politics, no modern crying negativity, love me some time team!
2021!
.... and in 2022!
2023🎉😂
@@kitdubhran2968 also 2023. ❤️
Phil is like a little boy finding that coin! Bless him!
I figure he has huge framed photos of those coins in his residence so he can smile every morning and every night.
Hillary and Monica... PRICELESS!
With apologies to anyone named Hillary or Monica of course, who are, I am sure. far, oh so far from pigs! Absolutely NO implications intended. But we still maintain though that everything is better with bacon! Even bacon is better with bacon! No apologies for that!
Big congrats to Phil on those amazing coin finds!
I enjoy seeing Kerry Ely working away in the background of the episodes. It’s fun to see him more to the forefront of this dig.
This show actually got me out walking the fields and victorian railway near my home,amazing the things you find and wonder about,time team best thing to have had on tv
Unfortunately, In Colorado there’s exactly CRAP. There’s Neolithic Native American history, but often those sites are controlled by the respective tribe and...while Neolithic has its moments, it’s not my favorite kind of archeology. Not a Roman ruin, Saxon burial, Iron Age round house to be found! Not even a Norman castle! 😀
And more often than not, at least in my part of the country, there’s simply not a lot of physical evidence left behind, other than pottery, arrowheads, middens, and the like. The pre-European people in my area just didn’t really build with stone, or other materials that might have left substantial remains.
Sad that Mick and Robin are no longer with us :(
I've been binging for the past year. Can't get enough of this show. And I am learning so much. This is the best team ever. The laughing and respect for each other, I love it. Great show. RIP Mick, Ian the driver, and Robin.
I just watched this show and laughed so hard about Hillary and Monica the pigs. I got the joke instantly and thought it was hilarious. Thank you Tony for the joke. And thank you for the owners of the pigs. It was so funny I needed that laugh.
Must be a British joke😊
Pretty sure it's referring to our American soap oper ain the White House of Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, and Monica Lewinsky.
@@keolas6916 That makes sense 🤔
Binge watching in the midst of Covid isolation. Love love love this show!
Love Tony Robinson, firstly for Blackadder, and secondly for his love of archaeology and history. However I have a new hero. Phil rocks!!! I want to have a few pints with him.
This episode is my favorite. The pieces of the puzzle come together nicely, and the thrill of discovery is so apparent in their faces and voices. What a wonderful show.
i wish we had programming of this quality in the USA
LOL NOT IN MY LIFETIME PULP ADVENTURES
Keith Jensen Thankfully the "Boo-Boo" phase of so called "reality" entertainment faded into the trash heap of history fast. Hopefully it was buried deep with a stake through it.
CompetitiveAudio totally agree, I cannot abide that crap
Nah
+Keith Jensen The thing is, it's probably not even expensive to do!
Having watched nearly every episode. This is right up there as one of my favorites. Exciting and educating. I wish they would have spent a month here! Thank you for sharing this wonderful episode!
One of their all-time best episodes, and a rare one when Stewart was wrong!
I have not been able to stop watching yrs and episodes of Time Team!! What cool coins!
I love this show so much. I'm so glad there are so many episodes
He's so fucking smooth. "Get your spade out love."
missing Mick....
I love seeing Phil all aquiver...lol
Omg The Stranglers....on Time Team...thats brilliant. I can die happy now.
Me too. 😁😁😁👍
So cool!
Photographers rarely get "thanks" but showing the rainbow, and on previous show-the spider web aglisten- shows there is more to the person than showing dirt....
So that's what a British rainbow looks like, Impressive! Thank you GOD for the covenant; and thank you Time Team for showing one of GOD's natural creations. Absolutely beautiful to see.
@@thomaspatton4401 and yet, not thanking God for creating the man who filmed it for us, or for creating cameras and cinematography, to allow us to bear witness and give glory to Him...missing the point here just for some namedropping
I'm deeply reminded of my Mohawk ancestors by many facets of this episode..as soon as we became aware of steel and firearms and sailboats and even money, we were all over it..and we used every part of the animal just like the Iron Age Brits did..we didn't like pigs, though, because they ate all of our forest food, like chestnuts and mushrooms and strawberries...
I'm surprised you remember that far back....
@alison webster they tried . . .
At the time of the American Revolution, an Iroquois village would look no different from a colonial to the casual observers. The introduction of pigs was to follow English custom of letting the pigs out to feed upon the oak mast (acorns). I learned that from an English history class that I took in college. That practice has led to the destruction that feral pigs do upon the forests here and other areas like the Hawaiian Islands (Polynesian introduction).
Awww! Phil's happy giggle!
Got to love this series.
So proud of our precious Phil! Those coins are amazing!
John and Phil thank you very much for the archaeology anthropology and having a great day today I really appreciate this you never know what you can find when you play in the dirt but hey man it's all educational I've been watching the time team for a long time and also Tony's explorers I have to say spot on lunch this is really top a stuff I've been watching you on a need for quite a long time and I do like archaeology anthropology I have been studying that for quite a long time myself I started ones probably about 4 years old all the way up now tell me about 57 I have to hand it to you you were a bunch of strong lads and lasses I have been studying archaeology and anthropology no if you can read through the lines my computer is giving me problems but I'm speaking with knowledge and archaeology anthropology I have been studying for quite some time like I said from 4 to 57 so I take it in Great consideration on how you guys are doing I do have to say that you are like Sherlock Holmes always finding some interesting case digging an understanding about past history is always wonderful as Sherlock Holmes it's a great mystery until you solve it a puzzle is worth solving if you can find the correct moves I do like seeing both the past kings and queens Ava greatlands and what past was really like it saddens me to hear about King Henry and how he lost it I did not understand about King Henry until great studies did find me the answer what a way to live it takes a while even though first hand on what you have until it's properly analyzed great things and great but always to find out what the king did in Egypt DNA great things oh man I'm going to have to get a new computer somehow we'd be able to just twist my words around here we go again and grant answers with DNA start of a DNA hair we go numb on Queen page all messed up my computer is I'm going to have to get something done about this as I was explaining about anthropology in anthropology archaeology here it goes again messing up I'm going to have to go to new page guys
Red Deer antler: also needles, combs, weaving tools, jewelry, buttons, primitive stone working tools (flint knapping). A friend of mine works bone and antler, makes all this sort of thing.
That horse on the coin. One of the Celtic godesses was Epona, the Horse Goddess, similar to RIgantona of Gaul. Responsible for the ceremony of a "king" mating with a white mare: the "king" was mating with the Land
www.celticcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/The-sun-horse.pdf
If it's not raining, it's not Time Team!
This is a great episode. Baz of The Stranglers showing up to dig is awesome.
Interesting choice of names for the two sows.
Monica and Hillary.
I know that has nothing to do with the villa but it is a bit funny.
LoL.. Hillary & Monica.. ol' Bill knows how to pick 'em.
i was just gonna say the same thing
Lol I didn’t even put that together 🤣🤪
I love the comparison- the owner of those pigs knew what he was doing. That wasn`t coincidental.
The primary field is here:
51°17'07.5"N 2°20'10.5"W
And the marks of the downhill trench are still visible to its south.
But a couple of fields to the west are some very intriguing parch marks that I wish they'd have known about or dug.
51°17'10.3"N 2°20'26.4"W
The June 29 2006 image on Google Earth shows the actual open trenches!
Stannous, you rock...
Stannous Flouride thx for always adding the lat/long. Hopefully I will get out to one of these sites and see them for myself
Watching in 2022! Bingeing on all the seasons. And also watching the new Time Team too! love this series!
RIP Mick.
OMG I didn't know he died. Im so sorry to hear that.
Here, here. I think everyone feels the same. Also Robin was a sad loss too.
I love this show!
Amazing site archaeology I delight in and have dug myself at my Grt Grandparents homestead. time team is very lovely esp Mick , Phil , John and Stewart.
Tony said....english summer when rain started and leater they all wear winter jackets, look like a climate for me, like that kind of summer :D
Much better than tropical heat and stifling humidity for 9 months of the year!
Man finding those coins must have been one of the highlights in his life... His face told the story :D
There's something so appealing about the primative look of coins that old.
Great memories working on this ,getting the phone call from channel 4 was a surprise.must visit site again to see how much it has changed.
Thanks for posting
Coming up next: A much-in-the-future episode to explore Bridget's big foundation, and the gatehouse which goes to nowhere. Can't wait.
Yes, I'd like to see that as well! There seemed to be a big rectangular structure behind the curved iron-age wall that was roughly in the right direction that the gatehouse was pointing at, but the team didn't seem interested in digging there. Was there reason to believe it was something else, or did they make the decision to not investigate it due to time constraints?
*Phil ; exits vehicle. Sniffs the air ...
"I smell flints " ....
*Storms onto the field dual wielding trowels ......
Finds a pot sherd an ohy its good tooo😊
fantastic documentary my grandparents lived nr there,they could see the white horse from there kitchen.
I used to live in Wiltshire quite close to Bath, and then in South Wales. See that monsoonal rain? That’s why I now live in Portugal. Ugh. Just seeing them all soaked to the skin brings back Britain’s diabolical “summer” weather.
HORSE ON COIN = EPONA the horse goddess of the Celts. See the wonderful horses carved in the chalk.
I noticed the big horse on the hillside in the distance.
"A well is just a hole, isn't it?" No Tony, a well is NOT JUST A HOLE.
John and Kerry were so mean about Stewart in this episode.
+Robert Braiden He is so often right that they must have loved seeing him get his comeuppance a bit.
Everything that I've read about the behind-the-scenes production shows that the crew, in front of and behind the cameras, really liked and admired each other.
On Raksha's website she interviews her old co-workers and always asks their favorite pranks and they're hilarious. (such as building a cardboard magnetometer and having it run over right in front of John Gater).
Pranking is, I believe, a very important part of male social interaction. It basically says, "I know I can screw with you and you won't kick my ass for it."
I love these shows. I find that when there are subtitles it is hard to watch.
OMG...totally excited here.
I just want to know if Mick is wearing the pins from Phil's old hatband pinned to his stocking cap....
Love to see the Guildford Stranglers. Alright lads
I keep thinking how distraught the original owners of the coins must have been when the coins were lost.
Linda Doggett especially that gold one...
The dead have no cares.
Curis mortuorum non est.
Across the pond here! "Under the watchful eye of Hillary and Monica!" That bout had me falling our of my chair!!!
An they are who???
Hillary and Monica, I love it.
Mick, we hardly knew ye.
I have watched many episodes and I still don't know what it is about Helen that fascinates me so.
Ditto. She has a natural and sincere charm and warm personality. Like Mick, although an expert she's not pompous when she explains things on camera. She reminds me of the girl next door I paid very little attention to until it was too late.
Agreed
KYIRISH1 the one that looks like a man...?
***** femina feminae lupa
***** The Boy Named Sue!
Bridget is the bomb!
I love to hear her speak, she pronounces words just a bit different than everyone else around her.
Love letters across the pond, hehe.
Hillary & Monica lmmfao
Thanks for the exceptional laugh
I heard the farmer wanted to go contemporary with Trump, but he couldn't afford that many sows.
Legend has it on a quiet day you can hear a wakka wakka wakka sound emanating softly from the enclosure ditch, broken occasionally by bewewewewum blip-blip.
When Phil opens his 'Phil's Box' is it like that scene from"Pulp Fiction'?
Largest misconception: NO Roman influence until AFTER 43a.d. 'Roman conquest'. Roman influence far exceeded that by simple traders. Not only materials, but also ideas and 'modern' contructs... Roma est occupatio
The stranglers Yeee
Hilary and Monica wouldn't mind digging in that mud.
Anyone notice Matt at 40 minutes in is in white pants and not dirty. How the hell does that happen. See if I walk out side 2 feet in white I am dirty, and I am a gramma. LOL either nice set up for the scene, or Matt is the cleanest dirt digger EVER.
probably khaki and very faded rather than white - maybe everything else he had for the three days was already wet and muddy - having said that - wouldn't matter what you wore on a dig - it would be dirty by the time "the credits rolled" 🙄🤔
I wonder if that gatehouse was really a gatehouse or something else. I wish they had taken a closer look at it instead of the other field.
Good Time taem
Got to love Hillary and Monica 😂
😆 Yes !
34:53 is Mick sitting on that guys lap?
The names of the two pigs, Hillary and Monica? As in Clinton and Lewinski? I hope so cause that's funny.
Unlikely on a British farm, we don't care that much.
Was there a British sit-com with characters using those names?
care or not it was big news.
no
It's my understanding that the Brits interacted with the Romans, trading with them for some time before the accepted date of the conquest, so there is no reason that they could not have learned more about materials and building techniques, etc, in the century before. I'm thinking of the concept of doors that pivoted, for example, or methods for better firing of pottery.
Why no mention of the white horse on the hill in distance at 35:00 ? My recollection is the horse is a symbol of the godess Eponys .
Has it ever not rained on a Time Team episode?
You can see most every episode has rain, they just ignore it and keep going.
East 12 degrees South 80/and 57. Feet of this place where you can find it in the 15 foot down to the rocks in the hole in a bit of a gift for
What is the song at 8:30?
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Digging is a quite slow process, we all know that and seems like Sherlock´s style. That´s also a good reason to show us from time to time at least, the real final result. Sorry we are not able to see it-
Hilary and Monica!
Hillary and Monica 😂 That's funny shit.
11:12 Hillary and Monica? I wonder where did the inspiration came from?
"Bridge, having left the local diggers to go down her well, ..." - I wish they'd filmed THAT!
yes,sometimes,I tire of Roman's as much as I love them.They make us look so dumb.
the romans took everything they knew from the greeks.
@@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328 and the Etruscans.
But we have to remember that history is written by the victors. What little history we know from the time is written by Roman sources: Tacitus and Dio Cassius were hardly likely to write from the position of the British. The Roman attitude towards the British is clear in what happened to Boudica's family. They even referred to the British (in writing) as 'brittuncuili', a dismissive (and in modern terms) racist description. I know we British don't exactly have an untarnished history, but don't think of the Romans as white knights coming to rescue others from barbarism. They were brutal asset-strippers, as well as builders of roads. Most of our attitudes to the Romans are based on 19th century British attitudes that saw the British Empire as the natural successor of the Roman: look how well that turned out...
What did the locals think of the new villas? They said intimidated... I disagree. Anyone today that's living in an established town with certain architecture will think some fancy modern all glass and steel architecture being erected in their town would be an eyesore, doesn't look good compared to their old fashioned clapboard siding houses that's been around through living memory. They probably thought the villa was just ugly at first. Then the big monumental buildings? wonder and amazement is the most likely feelings, just like taking a country bumkin who has never seen a building that's more than 2 stories tall feels when going to a big city for the first time.
the angle on this group in the pub look like Phil as Tin Man, Mick as the Lion, does anyone else see that?
RIP Victor.
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Need I say more?
I wonder how long it took yo dust off the stranglers. LOL! God help us if they find Johnny Lydon.
That didn't look like a piece of wheat it looked like a rune on that coin.
What would Phil do if there was no beer?
Probably weep uncontrollably hugging his shovel.
Michelle Twidwell im crying XD
he'd brew some.
He would croy. Goddaah!
Search the neighborhood for anything stronger 😁😁
At 34:23, they are in a pub drinking beer. Could anybody from England tell me what type Phil is drinking? Also in another episode, Phil asked for a "bitters", What type of Ale would bitters be?
That would be a pale ale
+bigdave46148 When talking about a highly hopped ale it is "Bitter" singular, not plural. Bitters are something that you put in a cocktail. Therefore if in the episode that you are thinking of Phil said "Bitters" it meant that he was ordering more than one pint of bitter.
+TheSpikehere Thank you. I am not much of a beer or ale drinker, that is why I am asking. I would really like to know an actual name of what he is drinking so I could see if I could find it and try it.
+bigdave46148 Not knowing that particular pub myself, it is hard to know what he was actually drinking in this episode. But I think Phil's favourite brewery is called Hop Back. It is based in the county of Wiltshire. Which is where Wessex Archaeology has it's HQ.
+TheSpikehere Thank you.
Do these guys really have only three days?
I often wondered that myself. I think they go on for a few more days.
It was only 3 days because they all had regular jobs. Professors etc. The format was set by Mick and Tim Taylor, the series producer. It was only supposed to be evaluation archaeology, not complete digs. If they found a site with potential then an official dig might be started by someone else. (and often was)
What word did the young man say to Phil in the scene at 30:56 or so regarding an Iron Age coin and . . . Dubonic? Eponic? Can't be bubonic. it's clearly a term with which I'm unfamiliar. I'm betting someone knows.
Dubbonic, referring to the local tribe that live in the area during the iron age
Baz and the boys came for the peaches, not the finds.
Or cheap publicity.
Talk about a sophisticated piece of Machinery my computer on apologizing John and Phil but I have been studying and Prodigy archaeology for quite a long time since it was four to five I do like it studies because of qualities of answers you get for especially using DNA from bone fragment I'm just astonished and how you guys go through your day by day procedures on doing what you do but I'm happy about it because also study other things besides that I studied about the Bible and Archeology on it to see if it was true or not obviously it is answers taken by that one I've also done archaeology in the Bible on Noah's Ark and a lot of other things as well I'm also taking grade studies on Rome I'm also taking studies on England itself and Ireland and Scotland one day and probably am going to be what I'm supposed to be is in Scotland Isle of Skye I'm next in line just waiting for Queen Elizabeth take your time to shut down and my life. To begin once again I'll have greater responsibilities then one could imagine wasn't taking it day-by-day I'm also studying other things besides this I'm also preparing myself once I return home but now I'm thinking you and congratulating for the studies and time that you put all into this and I called ask why standards of learning what you should get some kind of recommendation for achieving all this so that England has a greater future then what was done yesterday greater answers like I spent are the greatest studies of teachers who teach about archaeology and anthropology fabulous just wonderful splendid it's also fascinating to find out about what happened before your time on how things were built and used even homes back then we're interesting as well now we build homes to withstand the elements history always fascinated me in ways that don't understand but still finding out I take it day-by-day to study more and more and get a higher learning that I never had before Tony Phil. I really have to admit I'm addicted to your show why is that because I happen to really like archaeology anthropology pretty much that explains itself I really can't get enough once I start digging and marking everything make my grid and really enjoy my dig after I set up that grid then I start Mark and everything then it really go to work it takes several days before I get down to the Date Line once I found that Dateline that I'm quite happy cuz then I have my answer from there whatever goes on in that. Is so explainable once I get all my answers I might take a couple months doing it by myself but everyday I do enjoy doing it image of can't do right now because of snow it's almost over now within a couple of months it'll be praised summer time then we'll be alright to start digging I'm looking for a new site right now somewhere up north and I'll make sure that it doesn't belong to anybody that way I can dig as I feel never know what I might find but hey I'm looking forward for it this summer but I'll be watching you guys as well all the best two-time team and all the best to John and the cast and crew for this year will be exciting 20/20 anybody got change for that 20/20 sounds like bills all right top of the day to you gentlemen for I am head klansman McLeod Isle of Skye Scotland dunvegan castle I stand with the steward family grandson of Alison rotor