Beginning @15:58 - "Phil, I've seen better holes on 'Badger Watch' ..." The interplay between these two, and the humorous interactions between the others over the years, really helped make this show great! Soooo much better than the toddler-aged sniping between cast members on "reality" shows now.
Sir Tony, the show's narrator, was the "comic foil." He was the skeptic, the naysayer. This made the archaeologists defend their positions and explain their findings. He was also really funny while doing it!
I just love this tv show, certainly more interessing than all those "reality shows" nowadays. Those folks are awesome people, dedicating their lives and time to light our past. A true pleasure to watch and learn.
31:30 One of the funnier bits on Time Team Roman expert: Well I know this is a TV show so I know I need to give a mini-lecture on how rare this--- Everybody else: WHAT DOES IT SAAAAAYYY???
Stewart keeps coming up with these terrific things. I can't remember the last episode where he didn't identify something important or correct a mistaken conclusion from prior workers.
I see why this series lasted for so many years. The people involved have more chances than regular archaeologists (non-TV) to make the great discoveries. In one episode, Matt finds the bones of a Saint under the altar of a previously unknown 8th century chapel/monastery. The find of a lifetime! (Something to tell the grandchildren about!) And just another weekend for the Time Team!
I missed Victor's input on later episodes. Sue was great with the IT part of visualizing an object, but Victor brought sites to life with his sketches.
An excellent episode. Many years ago I went to Roan grammar school which in 1977 became John Roan school. We used to run cross country around the park and I was in the park almost every day at lunch time. I still go there.
I always love the episodes that Robin are in. He brings such interesting points to the program. I also love Stewart .. poor guy never seems to get the respect he deserves with his 'landscape' study of the site.
At 4:38 I see a shard with an inscription painted in a book about the first excavation. Does it belong to the one which is found at 29:58? It looks quite similiar!🤔🕵🏻♀️👷🏻♀️
The temple site on Google Earth: 51.478654ºN, 0.004551ºE The Saxon barrows are still visible as ring marks in the lawn at a couple of fields in the northern area of the park. 51.480792ºN, 0.000123ºW
I wonder why they didn't keep some of the shallow-buried walls visible, obviously hardened up with concrete to avoid pinching stones, after the dig concluded.
@@deborahparham3783 there was one episode on youtube where TT was digging with those soldiers. Good to see that Phil Harding still can do a thing or two!!!!!!
I'm curious if they continued archaeological investigations after T.T. 3 days of possible research. I'd love to hear of Stewart's info about the actual routing of Watling went through Greenwich Park. Ya know, Stewart may not dig trenches, but His Research is as Important as Phil or any of the other Archaeologists.
Work goes on all the time. Though as usual more sites than money available. Most arcehology in London is rescue work as the site is being developed or altered. One good thing is the cost has to be met by the developer. In the Royal Parks, there is automatic protection, so the sites are rarely dug. The reason being to dig is to destroy, you take the objects from context, so is there a good reason to destroy now, development, use it or loose it, or can it be left secure for later study by more advanced techniques.
They've accepted Stewart's information as the likeliest route of Watling Street through the park. Here's the link detailing the scheduling: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1021439
every time I see stewert the surveyor come up on camera from a ditch of grass like around 36 mins. in . he reminds me of a meer cat you see of in the u.s. bobbing up and down lol
not trying to be an ass.. but I wonder if you're thinking of a prairie dog which is indigenous to North America.. and not a meerkat which is indigenous to Africa.. actually he could resemble either one of them since they both do that..
They don't 'walk through' it do they? It must be very narrow because they step over it and even the little girl manages to do that. It is in a public park.....
@@Ana_crusis It's rude of them. He didn't just amble through there. He knows they are walking where people are working, and they could have been trampling graves. The dad is teaching the little girl disrespect. People like him are why the team erected six-foot high barriers on future sites -- to keep out idiots.
- Geophys - Geophys results kinda sorta fail/ambiguous - Spend about 15 mins talking about where to put trenches - Phil/Mick comedy moment - Local boffin chinwag - Bung Mick in the copter - One trench fails, the other one is doing much better - Tony says something cheeky to Phil - Running out of time and we still don't really know - Amazing find! - Conclusions drawn - Rinse & Repeat......but I still love this show very much indeed :)
Who noticed the Duracell bunny on steroids, a.k.a. Tony Robinson, jogging to the car at 8:49 min? But in fairness, this episode is one of the best in the Time Team series that I have ever watched.
in all the episodes that i am watching, it looks to me that he can't just not WALK slowly.. must be hell for the camera team, schlepping all that heavy stuff on their shoulders.
Phil: "We've got a superb bottom here, Mick..." I couldn't help but think of Sidney James saying "Oh, I wouldn't say that." (From Carry On Cleo, appropriately).
Found almost the same view of London that you see at 2:14 using Google street view. I cant believe the number of new skyscrapers that have gone up in the last 18 years.
29:40 "I'm thinking Stuart we should probably whack down with this trench, you know"...if someone said that to me I would have to ask for a clarification. "Whack down", as in stop working on it? "Whack down" as in "double down", or redouble the effort? Sounds like he meant the latter. Stuart doesn't sound particularly enthusiastic about it, so it probably implies more work.
They did- it’s on a time team special where they go in before excavators in central London and pull out a perfect well with 2000 year old wood- everything looks exactly how it was dropped, and everything covered in soot. It was burned to the ground and they determined the time to be at the exact year of her rebellion.
Stewart had his 15 seconds of glory ! Well, not the usual Stewart, the warden ! And anyway that Stewart might look weird, he's such accurate in his deeds !
Even though I accept that geophys has its limits, I seriously wonder if it really failed so often or if that was kind of a running gag, to keep the suspense high.
From time to time you see improvements to their equipment so I think those limits were real. In later episodes they start using radar technology with much better results. Today the helicopter would be replaced by a drone and I guess a drone could be equipped to scan the terrain to a certain depth.
It's safer under the ground. After all it has survived a couple of thousand years so far. A friend of mine who is a Master Plasterer (He's worked on the James Bond sets and Star Wars) was working on the restoration of Ightam Mote in Kent. He rang and asked me was I clipping any horses that winter. I said yes why?. Could I save all the hair. Even for him that sounded odd so I asked why?. Answer: We need it to make plaster for Ightham Mote. I pointed out thta the well known and respected Otford Builders Merchants was just down the road and could supply plaster by the truck load. The answer was a sniff and Can you garuntee that thier's will last 400 years? Any dig is partly destructive, so as was said, you need from time to time to revaluate.
Was Carenza raised by wolves? She has no manners whatsoever. (26:00) A simple request to the workers would have been so much more civilized than sounding like she's scolding toddlers.
Note that Chris Gaffney, who is fairly soft-spoken, had already said, “If everyone could keep quiet for a moment….” and the guys in the next trench didn’t hear him.
They really didn't need to dig anything once they found all that money. Up until the invention of the corporation nobody concentrated money like priests and politicians. A temple/government complex was a given.
It’s not to difficult to get an answer to your question if you’d do just a bit of research. The question has been asked and answered thousands of times over the past 8+ years.
Phil is a "Field Archaeologist" .. he needs to be aware of what is happening in other trenches, it helps him with getting a over-all view of the entire site.
Jessica Whitehall - you're either very young, or very stupid.. Robin Bush is the last person in the world who would ever make something up.. he's a historian.. they live for, and deal only with fact..
Stewart is the field whisperer! He’s amazing in his job.
Between Stewart and Phil, the team didn't really NEED Geo-Phys.
These guys could just LOOK at the land and know where to dig.
Beginning @15:58 - "Phil, I've seen better holes on 'Badger Watch' ..."
The interplay between these two, and the humorous interactions between the others over the years, really helped make this show great!
Soooo much better than the toddler-aged sniping between cast members on "reality" shows now.
Sir Tony, the show's narrator, was the "comic foil." He was the skeptic, the naysayer. This made the archaeologists defend their positions and explain their findings. He was also really funny while doing it!
I just love this tv show, certainly more interessing than all those "reality shows" nowadays. Those folks are awesome people, dedicating their lives and time to light our past. A true pleasure to watch and learn.
31:30 One of the funnier bits on Time Team
Roman expert: Well I know this is a TV show so I know I need to give a mini-lecture on how rare this---
Everybody else: WHAT DOES IT SAAAAAYYY???
I love Carenza's reaction when Guy says he can look up the inscription: "Do it! Do it now!" 🤣 That is the find of a lifetime!
Stewart keeps coming up with these terrific things. I can't remember the last episode where he didn't identify something important or correct a mistaken conclusion from prior workers.
Patricia Heil Stewart is a damned good archaeologist !
Agreed. He doesn't get the respect he deserves.
The British constable is so soft-spoken and seems to care about people. I find the same here in Sapporo thank you for posting and editing.
Stuart Ainsworth is the Merlin of Time Team.
That little bit of writing turned those trained archaeologists into little kids with a prize. Congratulations Time Team! Great find!
I see why this series lasted for so many years. The people involved have more chances than regular archaeologists (non-TV) to make the great discoveries. In one episode, Matt finds the bones of a Saint under the altar of a previously unknown 8th century chapel/monastery. The find of a lifetime! (Something to tell the grandchildren about!) And just another weekend for the Time Team!
Thanks for these, I've become a big fan of Phil "Look at that!" Harding.
Oh, ah!
Enjoyed, as ever !
I really love Victors Drawings. We should see more of Them. Computer Drawings is OK, but they can't beat the real thing.
I missed Victor's input on later episodes. Sue was great with the IT part of visualizing an object, but Victor brought sites to life with his sketches.
They should put them all in a book. I would buy such a thing.
Darla Dahmen there IS a book: 👇
www.amazon.com/Drawing-Archaeology-Bringing-History-Back/dp/0752431447
This is really an awesome episode! I hope Stewart is right about Watling Street!
Adored Mick and Robin...RIP.
One of the top TT episodes!
32:30 - No local kids are helping with this one - but they have the park constable digging in instead!
Seems pretty amazing that those barrows survived being so close to London.
There's a barrow cemetery in Greenwich Park and I never knew. This programme is just so incredible, isn't it? Mind-blowing stuff.
I just hope that Tom Bombadil and Fatty Lumpkin are around if called.
Almost 8 seasons in, and it just keeps getting better! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
An excellent episode. Many years ago I went to Roan grammar school which in 1977 became John Roan school. We used to run cross country around the park and I was in the park almost every day at lunch time. I still go there.
I think Robin Bush is a great guy hehe he has wit, humor and knowledge. Great addition to every programme :-)
jan-erik Tørres … And that exquisite voice!
I always love the episodes that Robin are in. He brings such interesting points to the program. I also love Stewart .. poor guy never seems to get the respect he deserves with his 'landscape' study of the site.
I love him too. Unfortunately he passed away in 2010 :'(
Here here! A drink to Robin Bush! A fantastic gentleman and Time team member!
He's my favorite
Victor's fresco proves Guy's assertion about Roman aesthetics, that they had "the taste of footballers' wives." So snotty, so funny, so true.
Another outstanding episode.
At 4:38 I see a shard with an inscription painted in a book about the first excavation. Does it belong to the one which is found at 29:58? It looks quite similiar!🤔🕵🏻♀️👷🏻♀️
Thanks so much for posting.
that epesode was what i want to enjoy from Time Team. well done you people.
Mick (R.I.P.) is usually blah about Roman Archaeology, but he certainly seemed excited on this particular site.
I think it wasn't his specific specialty of Archaeology. In general, he wasn't terribly fond of any of The London episodes.
I don't think Phil was a great fan of London either. Too much destroyed archaeology in one of the most populous cities in the world.!
The temple site on Google Earth:
51.478654ºN, 0.004551ºE
The Saxon barrows are still visible as ring marks in the lawn at a couple of fields in the northern area of the park.
51.480792ºN, 0.000123ºW
I wonder why they didn't keep some of the shallow-buried walls visible, obviously hardened up with concrete to avoid pinching stones, after the dig concluded.
Did you find the bit of road?
one of my favorite episodes.
Phil and the cut offs! Love him forever!
can't believe it. there was SUNSHINE. and Tony Robinson and the Time Team in shorts!
Any day with Phil in shorts is a wonderful day. Best legs ever.
@@deborahparham3783 hope he is feeling not to bad just now. suppose DIGGING will be no more?
@@benediktmorak4409 The last I heard is that he is involved in the Waterloo dig and helping military veterans with PTSD.
@@deborahparham3783 there was one episode on youtube where TT was digging with those soldiers. Good to see that Phil Harding still can do a thing or two!!!!!!
I love how plaster guy just has a pocket full of goat hair.
One never knows what in another's nasty pockets!!!!!😊
I'm curious if they continued archaeological investigations after T.T. 3 days of possible research.
I'd love to hear of Stewart's info about the actual routing of Watling went through Greenwich Park.
Ya know, Stewart may not dig trenches, but His Research is as Important as Phil or any of the other Archaeologists.
Work goes on all the time. Though as usual more sites than money available. Most arcehology in London is rescue work as the site is being developed or altered. One good thing is the cost has to be met by the developer. In the Royal Parks, there is automatic protection, so the sites are rarely dug. The reason being to dig is to destroy, you take the objects from context, so is there a good reason to destroy now, development, use it or loose it, or can it be left secure for later study by more advanced techniques.
They've accepted Stewart's information as the likeliest route of Watling Street through the park. Here's the link detailing the scheduling:
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1021439
..."I've seen better holes on badger watch!" Tony, you are too much!
Such a great dig that even the constable wanted in on it.
A testimony to the level of respect Mick had for Corenza, she was the first person on site that he radioed with the inscription find.
every time I see stewert the surveyor come up on camera from a ditch of grass like around 36 mins. in . he reminds me of a meer cat you see of in the u.s. bobbing up and down lol
not trying to be an ass.. but I wonder if you're thinking of a prairie dog which is indigenous to North America.. and not a meerkat which is indigenous to Africa.. actually he could resemble either one of them since they both do that..
36:50 yeah it was so funny :)
Around 24:50, a man and a child walk through the trench Phil is working in. What cheek! Amazing Phil didn't give them a right good tongue lashing.
They don't 'walk through' it do they? It must be very narrow because they step over it and even the little girl manages to do that. It is in a public park.....
Shocking!!
@@Ana_crusis It's rude of them. He didn't just amble through there. He knows they are walking where people are working, and they could have been trampling graves. The dad is teaching the little girl disrespect. People like him are why the team erected six-foot high barriers on future sites -- to keep out idiots.
@@lucygray6162 oh go away you tedious twerp
- Geophys
- Geophys results kinda sorta fail/ambiguous
- Spend about 15 mins talking about where to put trenches
- Phil/Mick comedy moment
- Local boffin chinwag
- Bung Mick in the copter
- One trench fails, the other one is doing much better
- Tony says something cheeky to Phil
- Running out of time and we still don't really know
- Amazing find!
- Conclusions drawn
- Rinse & Repeat......but I still love this show very much indeed :)
It's all in the details. :-)
Who noticed the Duracell bunny on steroids, a.k.a. Tony Robinson, jogging to the car at 8:49 min?
But in fairness, this episode is one of the best in the Time Team series that I have ever watched.
in all the episodes that i am watching, it looks to me that he can't just not WALK slowly.. must be hell for the camera team, schlepping all that heavy stuff on their shoulders.
To be walking through Greenwich on the days TT was digging there. What a treat that would have been
Stewart is a bloody genius!
Phil: "We've got a superb bottom here, Mick..." I couldn't help but think of Sidney James saying "Oh, I wouldn't say that." (From Carry On Cleo, appropriately).
Michael Melen lol ❤️❤️👍🏼
Michael Melen ...and because I'm a sucker for a good synchronicity… I was just at a used DVD store and was eyeballing Carry On Cleo!!!
6:55 It seems to me w'eve got some sort of rectangular enclosure here. How does that square up with what you're getting from the geophysics?
Found almost the same view of London that you see at 2:14 using Google street view. I cant believe the number of new skyscrapers that have gone up in the last 18 years.
25:32 - “real high tech kit” - when the usual equipment doesn’t give them anything!
Every now and again. We need to go back and re evaluate. Classic... that's why we call them museums yes?
29:40 "I'm thinking Stuart we should probably whack down with this trench, you know"...if someone said that to me I would have to ask for a clarification. "Whack down", as in stop working on it? "Whack down" as in "double down", or redouble the effort? Sounds like he meant the latter. Stuart doesn't sound particularly enthusiastic about it, so it probably implies more work.
"Go further down".
Hope they find the battle field when Boudicca rebelled.
They did- it’s on a time team special where they go in before excavators in central London and pull out a perfect well with 2000 year old wood- everything looks exactly how it was dropped, and everything covered in soot. It was burned to the ground and they determined the time to be at the exact year of her rebellion.
@@mamavswild do you have a link to that episode?please
Lots of very valuable silver coins! But I'm still waiting for a gold coin!
They already found it. Excavating a castle moat on another episode. Forget which one.
@@ancilodon Series 15 Episode 1 - Codnor Castle, Derbyshire
If time team ever needs a volunteer digger, I'm there!
I'd be there too I'm just more a nice weather digger myself 😂
at 45:15 roughly..is that a Charlton Athletic cap he's wearing? thx
Yup.
... Nails on a blackboard, or pounding railroad spikes into each ear? Our lines are open ... 6:15 ...
How did they ever get Mick that close to London?
All they had to do was put him on the scent of Roman Ruins and he was on them like a duck on a junebug... Man, I miss Mick!
He really didn't like London much. I was very surprised he was at the Westminster Program.
@@patlong3903 I wasn't as his love of old church and monastery architecture and archæology was almost his defining interest.
Stewart had his 15 seconds of glory ! Well, not the usual Stewart, the warden !
And anyway that Stewart might look weird, he's such accurate in his deeds !
Instead of where’s Waldo.Time team plays where’s Stewart
There is an episode where they put him in a hard hat with a radio beacon because it was truly that foggy and they didn't want to lose him. :)
The pub for 2 days popping back in to throw a spanner an save the day.
My guess.....
Love Phil ! God Arr
Even though I accept that geophys has its limits, I seriously wonder if it really failed so often or if that was kind of a running gag, to keep the suspense high.
From time to time you see improvements to their equipment so I think those limits were real. In later episodes they start using radar technology with much better results. Today the helicopter would be replaced by a drone and I guess a drone could be equipped to scan the terrain to a certain depth.
Why is every video I watch on my mobile all out of sync
Brilliant
I haven't finished watching this yet but that MIN AUG inscription is likely to be related to Emperor Domition. His pet God was Minerva.
Thanks!
36:48 a wild Stewart appears
If Stewart Ainsworth had found it and not noticed.... whoah... theyd still be flaying him alive over it.
I just looked at google earth. I can't understand what the site is not cleared and exposed so people can see it.
It's safer under the ground. After all it has survived a couple of thousand years so far. A friend of mine who is a Master Plasterer (He's worked on the James Bond sets and Star Wars) was working on the restoration of Ightam Mote in Kent. He rang and asked me was I clipping any horses that winter. I said yes why?. Could I save all the hair. Even for him that sounded odd so I asked why?. Answer: We need it to make plaster for Ightham Mote. I pointed out thta the well known and respected Otford Builders Merchants was just down the road and could supply plaster by the truck load. The answer was a sniff and Can you garuntee that thier's will last 400 years? Any dig is partly destructive, so as was said, you need from time to time to revaluate.
Was Carenza raised by wolves? She has no manners whatsoever. (26:00) A simple request to the workers would have been so much more civilized than sounding like she's scolding toddlers.
whaaat? all she did was shush the noise - so touchy
She's a mom.....they are trained in the use of the "Mom" voice 🤔😥
Note that Chris Gaffney, who is fairly soft-spoken, had already said, “If everyone could keep quiet for a moment….” and the guys in the next trench didn’t hear him.
First aired March 12, 2000.
Alternatively, PPBR could stand for Property of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Buncha damn Roman hipsters.
19:46 34:20 39:06 43:35 44:38 45:34 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
They really didn't need to dig anything once they found all that money. Up until the invention of the corporation nobody concentrated money like priests and politicians. A temple/government complex was a given.
I'm just amazed that it was allowed to excavate at such a prominent archeological site.
Badger Watch.
I thought Temple was a curse word?
Looking inside an animals insides to tell the future how can you know that can't just make a story up
It was known as Haruspex, practiced by many civillisations over the centuries, including Ancient Grece and Roman.
What else would the Jeffrey Dahmer's of history say to explain what they were doing?
"I've been training for this for years", he quips as he whacks a girthy stick. Innuendo at its finest.
cool tfs
why doesn't Phil ever cut those nails? Digging in the dirt I'm amazed they haven't all broken off!
It’s not to difficult to get an answer to your question if you’d do just a bit of research. The question has been asked and answered thousands of times over the past 8+ years.
guitar playing
Phil is a guitarist and puts those nails to very good use playing the blues. He is multi talented man deserving respect and admiration.
XD @ 2:26-2:38
PBR = Professional Bull Riding? Roman Rodeo
john ALWAYS makes excuses on why he can't do his job. 😮PATHETIC😮
So if you can't get a job done and are asked how do you sound?
Like thumping an abdomen, or perhaps a watermelon...
Corenza 😍
That trench hopping Phil can get on my nerves at times
Phil is a "Field Archaeologist" .. he needs to be aware of what is happening in other trenches, it helps him with getting a over-all view of the entire site.
@@patlong3903 I know what he is !!
I've watched this show for years ....he jumps from trench to trench following the film crew ...
Did you see him walk up the shovel handle?
willowscarclan IKR! 👍🏻
Demand your money back!
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I've never really been a huge fan of Robin for some reason. He seems like he makes too much stuff up.
Jessica Whitehall - you're either very young, or very stupid.. Robin Bush is the last person in the world who would ever make something up.. he's a historian.. they live for, and deal only with fact..
Makes stuff up? He literally pulls it right out of the documents!
Demand your money back!