Castle Hill Excavation: Is There Evidence Of A Norman Fortress Hidden for Centuries? | Time Team
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- Tony and the team are invited by a family of Somerset farmers to answer a question that's been puzzling them for generations: was there ever actually a castle on top of the hill they call Castle Hill? Records show there was a Norman castle in the area, but they are not clear about exactly where and there are several likely locations. Finally the pieces of the jigsaw do join up, but only in a very unexpected way.
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I dont know who I am, I don’t know why I'm here, All I know is that I must watch every Time Team episode ever made.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm in the same boat
Me too! Greetings from west coast USA.
makes one more, special with Tony Robinson. he looks like the Duracell rabbit to me, no insult meant to either. but they never seem to run out of energy!
@Guybrush Threepwood . I totally agree with you . I have been interested in this subject since e I was a kid in the suburbs of PA. Abington, PA . Born in South Philly.
When the hippies were smoking pot in the 60's , during a new year mummer parade , well I thought that it smelled like penicillin. lol . Now I smoke it. lol
Anyone else have ptsd and tt help them?
I love Tony & Mick’s conversations. They are so precious - they really made me laugh!
The biggest thing i can take away from this episode is how Robin Bush and Steward Ainsworth are missed here, i can see Robin scrolling through 11th century tittle deeds and documents and Stewart surveying the lay of the land on his bike and any 'lumps and bumps' around the place. ....................................Gee i miss these guys.
Members of time team are starting to restart the show independently on TH-cam on Time Team classics, they currently have a patreon where fans can go support them
I've been keeping track, by my estimation, there are a total of 23 stones in all of England. They are all just being used in different castles at different times then being robbed to use in the next one.
😂 you’re really probably not wrong
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Lmao
I can't get over just how magnificent the landscapes are in tt
"...What suggests that a castle was up there?"
"...There was a castle up there."
Alrighty then.
You've got two farmers named "Irish" and a quarryman named "England." That's a bit "on the nose," isn't it? =)
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I love all the banter from Phil ❤️
He is very entertaining, but I can't figure out what sort of accent that is. Obviously Pirate, but from where?☠️
@@annika_panicka I thought I remember seeing an episode recently where Phil proclaimed he is from Yorkshire. Wish I could remember what episode it was now.
@@bevil4adayI think their home turf is mentioned in any number of instances when the lads are ribbing one another, although none come to mind. (I'm relatively new to the series and have seen only 20 or so episodes.) I'm a lazy little pirate wench, so here is his bio from Wikipedia:
_Born in Oxford on 25 January 1950 and brought up in Wexcombe, Wiltshire, Phil Harding was educated at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School in Marlborough. As a young boy, Harding became fascinated with the Stone Age. He learned flint-knapping from his Uncle Fred, and in only a few months became a skilled knapper, crafting many different hunting tools from pieces of flint. He made his first archaeological finds digging up his parents' garden, much to the annoyance of his mother Elsie. In 1966, while still at school, he attended a training excavation by Bristol University Extra Mural Department in Fyfield and West Overton. Since then he has dug every year, though at first his archaeological activities had to be fitted into holidays and any spare time._
@@bevil4aday This episode takes place in Yorkshire-I've watched the first five minutes and it hasn't been mentioned, but the intro to the local people was given by that other chap with what sounds like a West Country accent (I'm American and could be wrong)-Mick Aston-and Phil remained surprisingly silent, and didn't Mick say anything like "We have with us Yorkshire's own Phil Harding," but it's not about him and it might come up ... I plan to watch the rest now. 🏴☠️ th-cam.com/video/rOTfcPRyMDM/w-d-xo.html
Update: I didn't hear Phil say anything about Yorkshire during the program, but I will admit my attention was divided as I was reading and running my mouth in the comment section for that episode.
@@annika_panicka West country.
I love Phill real Salt of the erf type of guy
I saw one episode where Phil had his ancestry mapped out. He is 100% brit going back about 4000 years. Not many can say that.
@@BirdWhisperer46 interesting does did he every have children?
@@kiwibird8441 They didn't say. It was not a big part of the episode. He took a blood sample and sent it in, then at the end they showed the results coming back. Since each episode is supposed to be only 3 days I kind of got the feeling that the results came back after it was over and added on at the end. Maybe you'll run into it if your watching all of them. :o)
@@BirdWhisperer46 I have seen it, but thought you might have known if he had children I always wondered that.
i think the main dig is limited to 3 days for the show but they do spend time after to process and return the site back to normal as I read some where. I also remember some carbon dating result not making it back in time for the airing of one episode.
@@kiwibird8441 Information about their personal lives is conspicuously lacking as they dig into everybody else's. :o)
I enjoy these shows. Phil is my favorite.
I love the music in this episode
Raksha and Matt are the Jim and Pam of this show
Raksha has an infectious laugh
You certainly captured my interest. I would have loved to have been a part of this excavation.
Excellent always !
Amazing the castle never got finished but I bet you it was a good try that’s one of those things for the books I’m telling you that yes.
Time Team addict here!!!
I would like to see something on the kame of Mathers some day! But love all the shows!
Archeology is back breaking work.
Yep Phil has multiple injuries from his neck to his ankles.
I love the original Time Team crew, but I liked Mary-Ann on it too, she seems like a sweet girl.
..... a Netflix for History shows? Color me intrigued..
Many interesting documentaries on this channel. Interesting series on chinese history recently.
If the walls were intentonaly taken apart in 13th century, those stones should be found in nearby structures of the same period ( too heavy to take them far) otherwise where did the huge stones go?
It is more likely that little by little people broke off parts of stones of the abandoned structure, stones small enough to be carried away over the years. It was a common practice to reuse stones.
Are you an archaeologist?
I must admit as soon as I saw the presenters talking to the farmers at the start, my eye went right past them to try and see what kinds of reused cut stone might be lurking in that stone boundary wall directly behind them! 😆
Very appreciative for the shows but everytime I see the history hitman, I just tap the screen three times so I can get to the show, I would watch it at the end of the show just to show support.
I watch the history hit man cause I think Dan Snow is adorable
@@MagdaleneDivine I can't stand him.
There are quite a lot of those things missing I remember seeing a history show where they showed a castle that was in what is now Romania and they said the mythology says the castle was one that the historical Merlin was the master of and the reason why it was destroyed to take his curse with him to the next worlds Hel.
Your shows are F**king brilliant
Imagine what Time Team would find on planet Mars!
Phil would find some worked flint.
that was my comment exactly that is so funny and true in the same thought 😂😂😂
Hoping that more time would be given in the excavation..but very informative and entertaining!
They ALWAYS have 'just three days'. Never expect any more than that LOL
Wish it was 5 days
These documentairies make me sad that i never pursued my interest in archeology that i have since childhood. Adults where always critizing me wanting to be an archeologists because there wouldnt be enough work. Or it wouldnt fit me. But i love digging in dirt..
thank you
5:45 The ruiness of Time Team, Mick's Bane?
Someone rode to the top of the hill and lost a spur, OR horses, stables, castles and knights.
Alex is on Absolute History
These 2 British farm boys are adorable! 🥰
Why do they only get 3 days. You'd figure they could after so many in this series they'd get a break or something like at least 5. I always wonder later if there was like Irish pyramids or something we could have discovered if only we had 2 more days
To fit the TV format.
Mick Aston came up with that idea, too make the program
manageable and less expansive because of new techniques and insights. Here's the story of how the program came about: th-cam.com/video/eD9mFCwFVZ4/w-d-xo.html
5 days sounds best
I'm sorry but 3 days IS. NOT. ENOUGH.
that's all I'm saying
Just how deep do you think the water table was on this very tall hill?
Hm last time I was this early my parents still had hope in my future
How dare you i am a cop and I am awesome
Love your comment lol
@@ej2civicb736 sorry. He/she has a right to pick his "handle" Or is that not one of the constitutional rights you protect. My husband and son in law are LE. NO NEED TO BE BACON A BIG DEAL OVER IT...🤔🕵🙊🙉🙈
nothing but respect for ur @ 😌
If it was my hill i would build my house on the top of it.
Phil*
You'd be sick to death of the wind very quickly.
Love the video Mary Ann is so much better than Cardenas love from the old lady in Texas USA God bless you always and forever
UK is love
- basecamp - all Mongolian Yurts. where did they get these from? first time in any episode i see them.
30:52 ... say... you dont think ... it might be a water well do you? i hope not .. else you may be digging for some time lol
In England there is always a missing Castle, or someone’s toilet buried 5 miles underground. Lol. O! England! Where are deee!
Can't cut the grass without finding archeology. Like Peter Irish litteraly experienced.
Seems to me before you started to build a castle, you would have dug a well to see if there was water. If no water then no castle. Or is there water everywhere in the U.K. if you just go deep enough?
Land Rover up there easily.
🙄 thanks a lot Time Team, now I want to go dig up castles. 😂 I have no archeology background. *looks up how long an archeology degree takes* ☺️
Isn't Crewkerne where William Brewster and the Pilgrims came from?
Graet channel
*This film is Flipped, b/c "Southwest corner is in Southeast" and v/v* 39:10 -->
BTW, the site "Castle Hill" looks like larger than standard, "Mound", from the time of the "Mound Builders", like in the USA.
Could of been something part stone and part wood?
special pleading for outlying shards
the hill is better than a castle!
i reckon the geophys cart could be attached to an ATV or something like that, rather than torturing ppl.
:16 stockade?
What did I watch last? Wales. Horses.
Say with an English accent.....Another piece of pottery.
The episode that sparked the end of Time team.
Mary-Ann destroyed Time Team.
@@Emmenie I just fast forward thru the annoying parts. It was in her wheel house serving up the cheese and cider.
Tony Robinson super famous mountain climber and clothes seller
sorry,no Stuart to read the landscape,no Robin,looking through documents:instead Alex Langlands and that Mary O...😢.no can do.
Original air date?
2012
Second to last season 2012 or 2013 ?
Just imagine:historians disagreeing?
Oh, mead, I thought you said meat.
What accent is the Archaeologist Phil Harding? (Coming from an American) He sounds like the moles from Redwall.
Shropshire
He has lived in Wiltshire most of his life.
Where is Stewart
More like a garrison with tower.
Matilda is one of my stepfather's ancestors. He discovered that while working on his genealogical research.
Go away stranger!
Missing
Is mead that bad? I mean Phil's face.
Honey wine isn't for people that don't like sweet.
I can't unsee Phil as Donald Trump.🤣
S19E10
A mine field
I know who Alex La glands is (Farm series), but who is that Ochala? chick? Did Tony ask for time off?
Lacklands.
Hey watch this great documentary I'm making.
*Shows an episode of Time Team*
Hawt archeologist gril is hawt.
Nothing but some people sitting around talking as a backhoe digs a couple of holes.in the ground. They should write "Grassy Hill on the map and end all the confusion.
I'm in need of a career change....
First
I don't care much for Mary ann as co presenter with Tony.
Yes, Tony, it definitely is whinging. And a distraction. Cut it out.
How the heck is the guy introducing please stop it 🤣
Aliens built it.
I love these shows but I dislike the introductions. It could be done better with a lot less hype.
Poor Mary Ann... The BBC hired her to bring on a female co-host and Mick treated her pretty bad because she had no degree in archeology. Instead of getting mad at bbc4 he took it out on her. She quit because of how she was treated.
If I inherited a half finished castle my paranoid father tried to build, I would immidietly dismantle it and use the materials to put up an extention on my house. Doesn't matter if it's in 12th or 21st century, haha.
Not paranoid. There was a civil war going on.
Having watched most of the shows, and observing the incredible, unattended growth of nose, ear and eyebrow hair on some of the archaeologists, I would respectfully submit, while I LOVE the show and Tony, they should re title it: BACK HOE.
Youre English People are all the same. I’am supper happy its a real Island now.
I miss Suzanna Lipscomb she is a hottie
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Tony was the wrong man to MC this show.
Can’t stand that Mary Ann chick
me thinks they are guessing at everything... no proof at all... this is a bust... jus sayin
There are two things I get hung up on: The certainty with which they date things like unclean, undated, unmarked pottery fragments with no surrounded objects to compare, and the "Geo Phys". Occasionally there might be a definite line, or right angle, or some other clear feature. But most of the time it's just a bunch of noise. See this irregular blob here? That's a pillar...but totally different from the irregular blobs that are everywhere else.
@@kev3d That's why they dig. And believe it or not, you can date pottery very well by just looking at it. There are fashions in forms that are well documented. Also the technology of making them evolved and is well known enough to date to a generation's accuracy. Every dig stands on the shoulders of the knowledge of previous digs. That is why archeologists also have to read a lot to keep updated on the latest knowledge of other digs elsewhere to be able to interpret their own work better. And that is also why often it is decided not to dig at all, because they think with the present knowledge destroying the evidence would not be worth it.
Take into account the collective years of experience and education assembled in this group. People tend to follow patterns throughout different periods of history and if ditch rubble can pinpoint a date, and if the site contains features akin to other sites of the same era, I would call it an educated interpretation rather than guess work.
That's the difference between you, a Joe Schmo on the internet, and experts in their field. Jus' sayin'
@@kev3d Sonar experts can tell if a signal is bouncing back off a school or fish or a whale, to us it's just noise.
I'm not a fan of Mary Ann. Her elitist attitude towards history is too judgemental. Everyone else approaches history with curiosity and an open mind.
I like her. Her more clinical approach was a nice addition to the team. The contrast works well.
@@Strassenkicker It didn't. It was the reason Mick Aston left and not long after that, he died.
@@bedorset579 for me, it does
@@Strassenkicker You're in the minority.
can i just say homie doesnt know "personal space" right in EVERYONES face and poking every person he interviews 🤡.
BRUH back off lol
you speak loud enough