The Mystery Of Glasgow's Dark Age Brittonic Graveyard | Time Team | Chronicle
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- Time Team explores a graveyard in Scotland containing ancient gravestones dating back to the Dark Ages, along with hogback tombstones associated with Vikings. The team aims to solve the mystery of who was buried here and why, with the help of archaeologist Anna Richie. They suspect there might have been an early Christian church in the area due to the rounded boundary of the graveyard, typical of early Christian enclosures. They investigate possible connections between the site and nearby political centers, including Dumbarton Rock and Strathclyde.
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The woman accompanying Tony has such a lovely voice and a beautiful way of speaking. She should be a narrator in her own right❤
Woah woah woah, don't you guys know history is all about aliens, pawn shops, skinwalkers, Alaskan truckers, and swamp people? Did I mention aliens?
By that, I mean: Thank you so much for making a channel that focuses on, you know, history.
The U.S. used to have good educational programming, then TLC got scooped up and started network decay😮💨 I hope youve caught some of Time Teams new digs, some of the finds are spectacular!
don't forget swamp alien truckers oh wait thats just wishful thinking 😅😅😅
@@johncarmon9528 Not gonna lie Id watch that.
I’m fairly certain the ancient alien guys don’t believe ancient people did ANYTHING without extraterrestrial help. Plus the Greek dudes hair kept getting taller
When I first discovered the show on TH-cam a few years ago I binged on it, and then binged on it at least two or three more times! I haven't really watched it for a year or two, but as soon as I hear that music and see those old familiar faces I feel like I've come home❤
Somehow, I've never seen this episode, though! A new joy! ❤
Sir Tony's hair has definitely become the subject of archeology.
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My mom was chuckling at the shorty shorts being worn herself lol
Oh my god the intro 😭 I’ve been transported to the 90s
It doesn't seem so long ago but the video and mirror don't lie. 😃
90s were awesome! I miss that time!
i love time team so much. Nothing gives me more joy than to see the old team all together
This is a very early one, everyone is very young.
Tony has hair
Young and pretty!🤩
I was 3. Im now 30 😅
I wish they would post original air date 🤷🏻♀️
@@zuzuspetals38they talk about the 1996 football/soccer game on the radio. So 1996/97.
It took them so long to understand that Stewart is usually right.
He always asks the best questions. Long live landscape archeology!
Invariably.
I absolutely adore Tony Robinson. WHat a fun team he had to work with on this amazing adventure into the past!
I always enjoy learning about the times my ancestors lived in and knowing that I can trace my family tree back to a time older than the graveyard is very interesting to me. Thank you.
Yeah I’m in actual shock I had no idea about where my ancestors were buried. They were always just a general idea, but to come face to face with the burials of men I’m descended from, is mind blowing.
This is awesome! Thank you! Love seeing *new* episodes (well ones I haven’t seen yet). Thank you so much for posting this one! A new favourite!
Why is the priest at 6:26 saying the image of a man on horseback represents man dominating the forces of nature? seems a very odd interpretation from an unscientific perspective. the image more likely represents a warrior or the person buried under the stone.
@dfjtobin - Yes! Back when the carving was created, it is not like men on horseback were unusual or anything!
But …man loves dominating nature, instead of listening to it. I find this priest’s observation a bit specious.
He must've studied art history... it's so like an observation someone from the art community would say...
So many channels share Time Team videos that it’s hard to keep track. I get excited when it says it was posted 11 hours ago but then when I watch it everyone looks 30 years younger.
1996/97. 26 yrs. Yep so much younger.
You will only ever see anything new on Time Team Offficial.
It's that 'originally aired' vs 'posted on TH-cam' that I'm forever forgetting is a thing!
@danielrowsey7667 - Do the "Time Team" producers get any of the fees made by these "rogue" channels or are they contracted from the producers? I would hate that copyright violators make any money.
4th season, 4th episode, 26 January 1997
Thank you!
What a treat, time has truly flew by.
Anna Richie has the most wonderful voice! She could read a grocery list and it would sound magical! 😊
I would have thought that they'd learn to pay attention to Stewart Ainsworth's observations FIRST. He was very much the landscape whisperer!
I'm always so awed by young people on site. I wonder if these young ones are now at University studying archaeology.
Given how old this episode is it is very possible that they are now working for the university
The main guy is 77 already, as are many of his colleagues from the video I imagine
I used to love knotting Arran jumpers. Some of the patterns represent different families. Seem similat to yhe standing stones.
My favorite thing is Mick on a landline in the garden. Nostalgic nowadays.
Better than Phil in his high tight shorts 😂😂
The pastor is really trying hard to not have to change his opinion on his church decoration...
He is really trying work it..stay in your lane vicar
Pastors / priests usually have problems with changing opinions, even when confronted with all the possible evidences...🙃
@@kamilaferens682😂😂 classic.
That priest is just silly.
Pastor may be uncomfortable with the archeologists pointing out he has a blatantly pagan monument inside his church. Which they are quite delicate about, but "I don't see any crosses" was not that subtle.
This is not too far away from my Grandparents house. My dad was trained at British Polar engines just up the road & my mum was from Pollock so I found this fascinating, right in the middle of my ancestral homeland. My parents moved to New Zealand in the 60's,so we have a disconnect with our heritage that this has somewhat eased
Thank you! More from season 4, please!
The Hump Back stone that I've seen is that of King Cnut's little daughter, in Bosham churchyard.
Thanks for posting.
Oh my word, a young Tony and team... Euro 96. That was nearly 30 years ago...
I can't decide which is more manly. Phil in his Daisy Dukes or Tony with his sweater and earring
Daisy Dukes on men, a style I hope never comes back.
Thank you I've never seen this Time Team and it's very interesting.
That drawing is an anatomical heart!
Went and broke his leg looking for a holy well? I know this all occur a number of years ago and I have enjoyed time team for many years, but I have never seen this episode
Time team archaeologists worked on the show on their weekends, around their day jobs. It was one reason for the 3 day limit. The other reason was that 3 days is enough to establish if a bigger project should be run...
Did he find the holy well and did that heal his leg?
You are looking at nearly 30 years in the past, given Tony talked about Euro 96. How is that for archeology... 😂
Look at Tony on his best behavior. It's charming lol😊
Fabulously interesting,...thank you.
Well this is an older episode. Have they gone back since? Any continued study?
It is on the convluence of the clyde and Kelvin . Of course it was a medievial settlement....i remember taking rubbings on the stones in the graveyard when i was seven .....in 1958.
Maybe he's being depicted cattle rustling.
Thay was a huge hobbie in Scotland.
Everyone should have a hobby😄
18:05 😂 I’ve never seen Time Team contend with this! Ah what it takes to do ‘modern’ archaeology!
😊 6:28
Well this was done back the year I grad'd. And Tony had hair lol. Always a great production to watch.
Season 4 Episode 2- 8th Century Church
Baldrick visiting his childhood home?
The drawing looks like a heart
@12m: there is an aerial shot of the top of the stonemason wall, it is at what they declare “is the pointy end of the pear”.
If you look at the masonry is totally different around the top of the curve.
I am a 3rd gen dedicated mineral prospector- who is hands on myself, picking, mining and digging other cherished items: and often perceive a kinship on archaeological digs, I’m also fascinated by and very respectful of, ( my training of belief, hold that archaeology trumps minerals, and I will not disturb sites that I find archaeological finds on. In fact, I report them like right now.)
They are discussing that they are looking for a prominent subterranean wall or fence. I suggest it’s behind them above ground at this point and possible that she did right below there.
I just found this channel tonight and I’m really excited keep up the good work it’s very interesting. Thank you.
Berkeley, CA. USA
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my name isn’t Dianna..,I’m Nicole Teague, if it matters.
Okay.
Wow.
OK. I always promote educating children and including them on such things as this.. but this child is not the one to be scabbing brusquely on 800 year old pieces of pottery. I was somewhat shocked that he was doing it and his technique. I think that there is plenty of work for him and he appears to be around 10 years old or so and he can be educated in a way that won’t scrub off any paint that could be on that pot Because paints that were created in the 14th century were made of natural mineral compositions. Minerals will not stand up to a hardware sold brush, or a scrubbing like that the compositions just . ..the chemistry’s not there.
I adore that the child is participating. But I was horrified that she handed him an 8 to 900 year old piece of pottery to scrub like a dirty engine.
Above occurs at 24:01
You are in for a treat if you watch the Time Team episodes
Had not seen this one. Thought I knew them all.
I always loved Robin Bush, RIP.
And why can't they be both? No reason a religious site and a castle of a king couldn't be right next to each other.
I agree. I thought that Kings and Queens were considered religious leaders or at least divinely placed in those positions as protectors of the Church. I would love to hear a summary of more recent work at this location.
That priest's interpretations are a bit of an overzealous stretch...
They all want some sort of Holy Relic or a Saint-Somebody-or-Other associated with their Church. It gives them clout.
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 - And donations!
Oh goodie, one I have never seen before, lucky me.
Nice shirt mate
How long ago was this film shot? Everyone seams much younger.
They talk about a football/soccer game of 1996 so i assume 1996/97 season.
I love how the geophys is poke and plod. Not too long after that came the pushcart style.
Why was the murderer so over confident that he would not be traced and caught ?
Why didn't one of the conclusion be the river changed its course. It could have been very marshy at one time in its history. Not dry like now.
Stuart....YES!
Since my Ancestors were some of the first to settle in England I feel like I might be related to these early people here at the church.
Robin’s clothing reminds me of Dr. Who.
Maybe those humpback stones were unique in Scotland back in 1997, but there are gravestones in Blairlogie kirkyard that have now been dated to the same period.
Their interpretations of the guy on horseback on the grave seem a bit far fetched... I feel like it's not THAT deep. Maybe the guy who was buried just liked hunting or something
people just didn't happen to have horses and hunt, that was the privilege of the rich. And you had to be wealthy to have a horse, let alone be allowed to hunt. So you are talking at least a wealthy noble, more likely a regional king / warlord.
Remember all the wild animals were considered to still be property of the King or regional Lord. So to be hunting on your gave tomb means you were very important in life.
@@annemiekevaneijkeren4486 ok, so it's a rich guy who liked hunting
I thought the guy on horseback looked Roman, a metal helmet with a feather on top. What do the other symbols represent?
I agree, it was a very odd interpretation from the priest, more likely a warrior or the man himself on horseback.
Wow Tony was young way back when Noreen Australia 🦘
Wouldn't you have just loved to have Mick as your professor at university??
This must be 20 or 30 years ago ... Look at Tony .... Young again
Good grief!
A flat tire on a machine like that and, on such a clean ground, no recent building for a long time so more clean. Because of this clean area you are certaintly not going to get a nail in that tire. If they just picked it up from the yard, it is possible the tire got flat in their construction yard.
Probably the graves of some of my ancestors ( maybe yours,too).
Meitheil is an Irish word for Community, cooperation or neighbours building their own church.
So it was most likely built by immigrants bit by bit as funds and labour came available.
I wonder what he means by being different from the other similar ones found in scotland to create his own problems of them being the only ones.
For the Vikings the place to govern (ting) was equally a place to meet (möte) so maybe linguistics have played in
Don't they all look so young!:)
The map looks like a human heart
They look a lot like rhunestones.
Original Air Date Sun, Jan 26, 1997
Meh, he could have been made a saint after his death and burial, that happens.
They could have built a motte atop the moot, that would make sense.
so young
Finding bones at lunch, concluding one can carry on.
Sometimes people should just enjoy the knowledge instead of insulting the way they dress
Oh geez, could Phil’s short shorts BE any shorter (as I say in my best Chandler Bing voice)? 🤭 But seriously those are some short shorts. Has to been in the early 90’s.
This was series 4, so 1997.
@@JulianneTure Wow, that’s pretty late to wear shorts that short. Well, it was here in the States. But fashion does have a mind of its own, and men certainly don’t follow it. 😎 Thanks ✌🏻
The lady hauling her bloody purse in & out of trenches drives me nuts for some reason.
Another 30 year old rerun episode of time team of which I’ve seen every episode at least 4 times.. Yay.
Then turn the channel as the rest of us are happy to watch again --“
Cool story bro.
this is one of the best episodes
Get a life?
You might have seen it dozen of times but this is the first time I've seen it and I'd enjoy watching it a dozen more times
Dude's shorts are 12:09 waaaaaay to short for the 90's
DUDE???? That's Phil! And his Daisydukes are legendary.
That's a Phil Harding Signature line of famous sportswear!! Seriously, better than the 1970s fashions
Nope, not too short. There is a photo of Carenza, Mick, Tony and Phil in which Phil is wearing a pair of swim trunks. The 5 inch stripe of very white thigh on display says those shorts cover a lot more Phil than y'all think.
He's still wearing his daisy duke's!
@@carisaunders2346 And he still has great legs.
Ghosts of Scots are fierce!!....
You can't fill a grave with 14th century pottery until the 14th century. A cunning plan
Start of a long pattern: John is wrong, Stewart is right
Tony used to have hair? Who knew?
When I die chum me out to the ocean so eventually my proteins will make it back inside humans and I can once again corrupt them
I dont why the pastor thinks he knows more than the expert in to take Micks place.
The priest has a very Christian stance on the burial stones, despite their lack of a cross or any Christian symbol.
Govan stones are stones the ancients got in their Govans. Much like kidney stones only more mythical.
GIVE DAN JONES A HAND 👏 HE MADE QUEEN ANNE Boleyn an African….SHOVED IT DOWN YOUR THROAT! Great Englishman eh?? 🏴
I just don’t understand are they moving these Graves to make room for something else I need to put them in some type of storage or a barium somewhere else if not why not just leave them where they are so they can sleep in peace
They wanted to find more of these stones and who was buried there. The priest was very interested in this. There were excavations from 1994 to 1997 in that graveyard and the bones were probably reinterred. The stones they found by the wall would have been recorded anew since they were obviously lost if you saw how thick the sod on top of them was.
44:00 Tony Robinson in his usual ignorance of things not English calls the minister of the church a "vicar". There are no "vicars" in the Church of Scotland.
Oh boy .... why even ask the priest?! "Proofs indicate this" "Well, let me force my faith unto you anyway" .... "Interpretations" ... that's their big excuse for everything!
I hope GB comes back to or Scotland joins the EU. I always wanted to go to Scotland once. This is a place I would not want to miss.
You can still visit countries that are not in the EU 😂🤣😂 Why would they re-join? They are free now.
@@johnandre2962 I’ld have to get a passport.
@@noeraldinkabam And because you are in hiding, you can't?
@@653j521 Money.
That priest just makes shit up.
Let's put a Glasgow smile on that face.
Who wears short shorts...
What is a Catholic candle doing with the Celtic pagan tombstones? I’m sure the makers of the stones and those buried with them would HATE the idea of having a Christian candle burning for them.
They say in the episode that people buried there are all Christian by this point in history. So they wouldn't have minded since they were Christian too.
@@angelwings1979 In 900 to 1000? I doubt it. I just don’t like the idea that Christianity should continue to stamp over other religions….
@@annwilliams6438 I agree that one religion shouldn't trample on another. However, that's not the case here. The "Vikings" began converting to Christianity in the 8th century. The first Viking King was Harald Klak who lived in the mid 800s. So by the time of this graveyard, while there might be a few outliers, they were all Christian.
It may have escaped your knowledge, but Scotland's oldest Christian Church dates back to the year 390 CE (Whithorn), founded by St Ninian. And Glasgow, of which Govan is now a district, was founded by St Mungo who was born in 518 CE. He is also sometimes known by his Old Cumbrian name Kentigern. He was made its first bishop. But he himself was mentored by St Serf who is associated more with Fife and especially the upper reaches of the Forth Estuary. Practically all of mainland Scotland was Christianised between the mid-500s and the 800s. Incoming Viking raiders adopted the new religion. So by 900 or 1000, the Govan area had been Christian for around 300 years at least.
Am I the only one that gets annoyed when Carenza lectures Tony?
Phil should not wear those shorts. 😢
Every Child Matters
The idiots destroyed the sie ???
Roman his-tory....😢
RIP to the host, Pee Wee Herman.
Um no the host of Time Team is Sir Tony Robinson and he is still very much alive and well.
@@Naomi_Thornock I was joking, duh. He looks like Paul Ruebens aka Pee Wee Herman.
I'm wondering on some of these episodes..........why bother ? The history is important, sure, but if you limit yourself to only 3 days then call it quits.....imagine all that you haven't discovered.
The problem was that stuff wasn't being excavated at all, and there was concern about sites being lost entirely, whereas if they do a 3 day show they drum up interest in the area, which makes it easier to get funding for a bigger project. Supposedly it greatly improved things overall in England for archeological research since there was more public interest to justify funding.