I was a security guard on the batheaston bypass in 94, and met some archaeologists on site as the start was held up by the archaeology. I walked up to an area fenced off and saw the grave of a young boy buried with his dog beside an old river bed. It was this moment that got me into history and archaeology. Until then, as a Wiltshire resident all my life I have barrows, henges and Neolithic sites all within a few miles, I'd never visited any of them....... Now most weekends I drag my family along to Avebury, West kennet long barrow,silbury hill and the like, all thanks to that chance encounter with the archaeologists 👍
There's nothing worse than finding relics and dead people on your property when your trying to build something because it all comes to a halt until everything is tagged and bagged
You’re so fortunate! I am from the American west & there really isn’t any archeology out here. The natives were gentle on the land & it was only “settled” (stolen) by immigrants 200 ish years ago. Must be why I find England so fascinating. So much history!
Infants would have a yew tree planted above their grave, as a mark of memory . The spines on the yew tree are poisonous to most animals graveyards of a certain era have a perimeter of yew trees around them, animals would know to stay away
Yew trees are common to English cemeteries. I watch a YT channrl of famous English celebrities' graves and there are very old yew trees around with massive trunks and foliages.
Yew trees are common to English cemeteries. I watch a YT channrl of famous English celebrities' graves and there are very old yew trees around with massive trunks and foliages. So, that explains why yew trees' locations are on the sides or perimeter of graveyards.
The fact that with tons of technology and recording gizmos it was Victor's eyes and hand that gave the pictures of the past breath and form shows his importance to the Time Team. Rest in peace, Victor.
My mum was secretary for Mick when he was at The University of Bristol, he was a lovely guy. We would often watch the show and she would reminisce. She volunteered for some of his digs too.
Time Team is coming back, channel name is Time Team Official and it'll be on TH-cam. Go subscribed to their channel. Most of the originals will be in Time Team ll.
i enjoyed the bit when Tony highlighted the differences in treatment by the victorian gentry of the historic bodies of the former villages and their own pet dogs. very telling!
@Celto Loco i think of old graves a lot, tbh. really i do. i walk my dogs in an old graveyard a few times a week and the victorian idea of death really makes you think about human attitudes to death and how it changes over time.
@@londoninflames I'll second this, I walk my dog through an old cemetery in Charlotte, NC quite often, there are graves dating back to the early 18th century if not older. It's a very peaceful environment and the craftsmanship of the old headstones is really intriguing, makes you think about what things were like back then.
I love graveyards and old graves. There are many channels in here that spend time telling the stories if those who are buried. I watch them. Just because you don’t think of old graves doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t. This is, after all, an archeological programme that we are commenting on.
@@marty9376 The three days was just because that's all they could do since everyone still had separate jobs. Time Team was a side thing for most of them I believe. So 3 days is what they were able to work out.
the ONLY thing i didn't like about this show is there was just never enough time for them to go the whole hawg and dig up an entire plain, an entire forest, an entire estate and let us see all of it. It was an excellent show nonetheless.
Completely agree, I use to wish that archeologists would be given more time on digs, and from doing archeology in college most of the time itd be because it's easy to get a shorter dig set up and approved while most builders get annoyed if you're taking too long and delaying their work but time team had a great setup going in and doing as much as possible and getting more people excited and wanting to see more!
I need to make a time machine so I can go back to university and become an Archaeologist. This is such an exciting and thrilling job! Love this episode and the painted glass (that was from the church) is BEAUTIFUL. Seriously this family has a beautiful and rich property (rich in history).
I started out studying archaeology straight after school, and I was by far the youngest student in my year. There was one girl only 2 years older, then a few students in their mid-twenties, and most of the students had already been working for a few years in different fields before getting into archaeology. There were even a couple of pensioners who only studied it for fun. I ended up switching to music because I found I didn't have the patience for the geology part, but I'm still very much interested in archaeology, which is why I love watching shows like this.
Some wonderful mature high-school kids know exactly what they want to do for a career. Some come from relatively small towns with small schools and have no clue about a tenth of the possibilities. Some are more interested in everything except actually studying while in University to aquire an education and career. By the time many people mature enough to appreciate an education they might well be mired in debt trying to support a family etc sadly. I just wish there were more support systems from daycare to low rate mortgage or I don't even know what all is needed to make getting an education more available to perhaps students more in their 30s (as much as I dislike to pick an age bracket) to go to University and get an education they still have decades to make use of. I'm sure I haven't written this as well as someone else could & sure don't know exactly how to do this but it's at least the beginning of a good idea.
This is one of my favorites. A single piece of bone leads to the discovery of 2000 years of life and death on this family's land. I hope this kindled the landowner's interesting in investigating that history further and keeping it alive.
They need to the grave were it is and the owner needs to move else were. It's just way to many graves, there's a line that should not be cross, the city needs control where can owners build houses.
@@joydixon3440 noone cares about poor peoples, as noone cares about poor peoples lives. As they said, the previous landowners threw out the People who farmed the land for Generations, once sheep pastures were more profitable than exploiting their labor. Not mich has changed.
That narrator is really animated. I love this type of video. I read anything I can get on British history especially medieval times. This is so interesting. Thank you for sharing this video.
@@shawnblackhawk6718 isn’t it??!! I’ve worked my way through almost all of the 200+ episodes!! Obsessed!!! I catch myself looking on the ground on my daily walks, and thinking of this passionate and wonderful group of people!
"I see wonderful things!" The humor delights me - even though I had to look up the Brit usage of 'folly'! Thanks once again for info and instruction. If I were 40 years younger I would be begging for a job (or volunteer position) with the Time Team.
even if you can’t get involved with Time Team, it’s still amazing to get involved with archaeology! look for a local group or maybe try being a mature student studying it? it’s really interesting and digs (outside time team and commercial) are usually longer and during summer (often an academic dig will occur over years, since they only do the actual excavation over summer because of the lovely british weather)
This program is fascinating for me, an American. I was only in England, once for a week, in London. When I was there, I saw on television a news story, about someone, finding a skeleton, in north England. Archeologist thought it was about 1000 years old. And they actually went around, getting DNA samples, from people who lived in that area. They wanted to find out, if there were any distant relatives, I guess. This was in the late 90s, when DNA sampling, was rather new. In America, we were colonized by Europeans, for only the last few hundred years, mostly. So to be able to find out your ancestry, was unheard of, especially finding their bones.
i remember that episode, im pretty sure they matched the DNA of the skeleton to that of a relative living in the area, not only that , a facial reconstruction was done and there was a definite likeness , incredible really.
Oh yeah I was just thinking that you can't dig a foot anywhere in Britain without stumbling upon mind blowing history. Like in this episode they're digging for this medieval Church and stumble across Saxon artifacts from several hundred years earlier and a roman cremation from hundreds of years before that!! Crazy to me! Every one of my family was born and raised in America since way before the civil war so it's just so crazy to me that all the time in Britain people just find stuff from The Middle ages and earlier and there's just nothing like that here. Unfortunately the native Americans built all of their buildings and stuff out of wood except for of course the pueblos in the Southwest. There are burial mounds but those are few and far between and really spread out throughout the whole United states. And people aren't just building on top of those or digging into them randomly either those are generally respected and left alone. So to find something like this and to just be so cavalier like this owner of the house is is just so crazy to me. I do have one more question though why do they only have three days? Is this significant find just so unsignificant to the British they're like eh you got three days before I build on top of it and all this s*** is lost forever.
@@WhitneyDahlin Yup. The '... and we've only got three days" bit at the start of each episode is frankly annoying. It's as though there's some kind of sinister authority trying to stop the fun when it's simply imposed for dramatic affect (sic).
@@Autists-Guide The three day limit was primarily a financial decision. From a recent issue of Current Archaeology: 'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion. This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'
Just started watching this today… I’m gonna start binging all of them. The thrill of discovery and the explanations of how and why they’re doing what they do is just so interesting!
So that land has been used from Roman times until now. I wouldn't be surprised if they dug even deeper and found Iron Age remains, or even Bronze Age remains. Land that fertile will be used by anyone looking to grow food.
Going to miss this group as it was but we’ll see what the next generation can do maybe they’ll be even better time will tell , I love that the English kept records far back that sure helps understanding the past , I understand back problems I waited 10 years till they improved it I’ve got plastic cage and plastic in my neck science has come along ways 2 weeks I was walking with a cane and off most the meds , yes it’s a 10 pain wise for first 4 days but you got to be tough and just get up and walk
"Our friends in the south." Sounds like a healthy relationship with death and bodies to me. Especially since the kids would go and talk to them. I bet the serfs were kind of gratified by the attention.
Between this and Antiques Roadshow, history has become so much more real to me. Some of it is quite poignant, particularly the number of children’s remains that they uncover.
Have my doubts to whether they're actually doing a medieval dig or its just a bogus video to create an interesting topic. If anything they are creative and should be looking into making movies of their stories... God Bless... NO Church? Hmmm...
@@rdjimenez3923 Gotta love these baseless accusations. Time Team was made by serious and respectable archeologists and historians. The last thing they would do is fake a dig just to make up a story.
I watched a documentary recently that said they could now tell if a body died from the black death by testing the teeth because it left a marker in the DNA. Mindblowing to me
@@ginaharrison5560 As a biologist I would just want you to know that a simple walk in the sun changes your DNA...everything does. It’s really not a big deal, we just need to know specifically what to look for.
@@ginaharrison5560 No, the bacterium was not changing our DNA. The DNA they retrieved from the teeth was the DNA of the bacterium, not the DNA of the human victim. Bacteria have DNA too, not just plants and animals (including us).
Yes and those same markers appear in those whos family members caught it but didn't die. Those people do not catch things like AIDES, certain cancers , and Covid.
@@kenhill5646es, I know that, because my son had frequent bouts of tonsilitis with very high fevers, when he was a baby.. He eventually had his tonsils out at 3 years. When he was a teenager and went to the orthodontist, the doctor said he could see he had been a very sick baby. The human body is amazing.
That's what "comes through" all the time, Heather, that they love their work. ( As much as i did) Probably seen every programme 2 or 3 times) Glued to the telly on a Sunday tea time, with a cold meat sarny...Happy memories.
"what do your children think about the skeletons in the house?" teach them not to be worried about haunting, tell them they are our ancestors and we have the greatest reverence for them.
Very interesting. It makes sense all the dwellings would be on higher and less fertile ground. If the landlord evicted the Peasant's he would clear the same inhabited area and build. He probably also wanted to erase all evidence of the old Peasant shack's which were most likely quite dilapidated by then.
@@TheAquaticMandolin So glad I lucked upon TT last year. ‘don’t know if I’ll make it back to the UK, but I’d most like to visit the chapels from Saxon time. ‘hard to choose among the many ideas related to the show, for sure. Thanks for the shout out!
I think at 18:39, there is a baptismal font sitting in the middle of the back yard amongst the other lumps and bumps, next to the tree on the middle left of the picture.
@@marty9376 But did you find any artifacts? I love the idea of discovering an object not seen/touched for Hundreds of years. Learning about our Ancestors. So cool.
What was the episode, as it would be interesting to find out what happened, where the guy couldn't build on his land as the local archaeologists found bodies. But he couldn't afford for them to come and exaggerate them so was stuck with land he couldn't build on that was essentially worthless. At the end, even after Time Team had been there the local archaeologists wouldn't budge so I think he was close to declaring bankruptcy. When that happens, you can understand why some people if they find anything, end up saying nothing.
You should beware of ignoring archaeology. Generally you can build on archaeologal sites as long as you excavate it. They do it all the time in ancient cities. I can say that as someone who worked in archaeological data processing that you should never be so sure you can hide that you ignored or vandalized it. People have done surveys, excavations, and taken lidar before you. You probably don't want to be the guy who didn't find the hoard when your neighbor does. I once inadvertently got a local developer in very big trouble when I was trying to locate a Roman enclosure that was on lidar. I sent my data to the cultural heritage to ask for clarification on its location and they noticed a developer built some houses on it without a survey which is why I couldn't find it. I also found a guy hiding a Roman cemetery in his basement. You don't want to be that guy. Ruined archaeology is irreversible. Just excavate it. The owner here lives in a hall and owns the land. He gets to keep whatever they find and the manor will always be valuable. Don't worry for him
They let him build the house, but he wasn't allowed to have a garden or front yard cos those bits hadn't been examined. The bloke got really lucky. Time Team found a prehistoric cremation, and cos the Anglo-Saxons knew it was there they expected those ancient people by giving it a wide birth and putting their graves outside the land he owned.
I lived in the Philippines when I was a young man. I loved the country and the people. I visited the provinces where my girlfriend lived and was just blown away. Lovely people, simple living and hard workers. Her grandfather fought in WW2 and told me tales of fighting the Japanese. I hope to see your country one more time before I pass on.
In the last ten years archeology has really boomed in the British Isle.so much history from the tribes,roman,medivial.ttreasure every where.castle,churches .lousy ass weather,no wonder people didn't live long in there history.great time to be a archeologist,full time job,great museum.
I read, but as I’m old with a long reading history and diminishing total recall so can provide no back-up, that yew trees were planted at the limits of church graveyards to delimit sanctified grounds. Non- accepted bodies, i.e. suicides could be buried “beyond the yew tree”.
If you want to start a new garden project and finally find a use for the skeletons in your backyard. :D But seriously, this is very interesting to see and listen to. I wish they had more time than just 3 days. Britain is simply full of history, as is the rest of Europe, really.
I hope if they end up ever relaunching the show again I'm hoping they give them a week 5 to 7 days instead of 3 days this time. It always feels way too rushed and they're always feel like they're leaving finds on the table.
I agree, I would give them at least a week and up to a month on each dig for the program, and after that hand it over to another long term team to find everything that is humanly possible.
It is harrowing, in these medieval graveyards, to see the proportion of graves allocated to children. Imagine losing half our young before adolescence. Once, that was just how things were.
I find this so fascinating as I have traced my family history back to the 1200’s in Northern England! It would seem to be very frustrating to make these discoveries only to let them pass like water under a bridge.
Dang, I am glad I don't live in an age where the guy who just spent a fortune on Flemish glass, kicks me on to the street because sheep are more profitable.
Elizabethan England's wealth was built on wool. To this day The woolsack in the house of lords is a reminder to how much is owed to the early wool trade.
t This is beyond incredible content. I would love to see this site or another like it completely excavated but at the same time I would want the dead left to rest.
Sad how grave yards become forgotten and then desecrated. Glad to see the graves discovered. May those buried may their memory be eternal. Glad the Time Team and the present owners are making these efforts. Cremation and scattering seems the most sensible solution.
Cremation and scattering seems to be too much like desecration. All of those remains would have to be blessed by a religious figure and the bones interred in holy ground.
That's a very American idea... In Europe, graves never were meant for eternity. We would have run out of space centuriea ago. Since the important part used to be to be buried in blessed earth (church cemetery) graves have always been dug up after a few decades, and the remaining bones sometimes stacked in a communal vault or they had rotted into fragments already. Some old family graves just had their dead stacked on top of old burials. Basically old church cemeterys have had several turnovers in each grave...
I seem to be able to watch a lot of these. Fascinating. Please Franchise this out to other interested countries. I’d love to see Egypt time team, Peru Time Team, Russia Time Team, Ect.
Its amazing to think the difference medicine and science has made to the improvement of people's lives over the centuries. Nice to see Victor having such a key role in the dig. He must have enjoyed that😊❤
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13they were planted on church sites for religious purposes, were needed for bows,and poisonous to animals. So they were planted in the boundaries 😊
I can't imagine trying to live in these times, surrounded by ancient buildings, foundations, pet cemeteries, and every time a spade goes in the ground--human remains.
Why ? It's life's natural progression. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. For hundreds of millions of years. If you find something, move it respectfully to where it stands a better chance of not being further disturbed. Then carry on.
@@UncommonSense-wm5fd I remember an 'episode' of Antiques Roadshow, when someone took in a bracelet made with glass beads and gold. The expert said that it was gold work was Victorian but the glass was Roman. When asked how he could be so sure he said that we have only just discovered how to do this with glass, the Romans knew but the knowledge was 'lost'.
I was a security guard on the batheaston bypass in 94, and met some archaeologists on site as the start was held up by the archaeology.
I walked up to an area fenced off and saw the grave of a young boy buried with his dog beside an old river bed.
It was this moment that got me into history and archaeology.
Until then, as a Wiltshire resident all my life I have barrows, henges and Neolithic sites all within a few miles, I'd never visited any of them.......
Now most weekends I drag my family along to Avebury, West kennet long barrow,silbury hill and the like, all thanks to that chance encounter with the archaeologists 👍
There's nothing worse than finding relics and dead people on your property when your trying to build something because it all comes to a halt until everything is tagged and bagged
You’re so fortunate! I am from the American west & there really isn’t any archeology out here. The natives were gentle on the land & it was only “settled” (stolen) by immigrants 200 ish years ago. Must be why I find England so fascinating. So much history!
Yew trees were traditionally grown in graveyards. I think the yew tree is a huge hint.
you tink sew ???
Yew may be right
Infants would have a yew tree planted above their grave, as a mark of memory . The spines on the yew tree are poisonous to most animals graveyards of a certain era have a perimeter of yew trees around them, animals would know to stay away
Yew trees are common to English cemeteries. I watch a YT channrl of famous English celebrities' graves and there are very old yew trees around with massive trunks and foliages.
Yew trees are common to English cemeteries. I watch a YT channrl of famous English celebrities' graves and there are very old yew trees around with massive trunks and foliages. So, that explains why yew trees' locations are on the sides or perimeter of graveyards.
Sadly, Victor passed away two months ago on Feb 10, 2021. I love his drawings; he was a great, great artist.
The fact that with tons of technology and recording gizmos it was Victor's eyes and hand that gave the pictures of the past breath and form shows his importance to the Time Team. Rest in peace, Victor.
Noooooo! He was soo talented. The team will be missing him.
Journey on kind sir.
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Mick and Victor. Rest in peace mates!
My mum was secretary for Mick when he was at The University of Bristol, he was a lovely guy. We would often watch the show and she would reminisce. She volunteered for some of his digs too.
here is a time team tribute to victor. th-cam.com/video/UAIdU8uILek/w-d-xo.html
@@robinsalario4372 wtut to Estes
I loved watching time team with my dad who's gone now. This reminds me of better times
Time Team is coming back, channel name is Time Team Official and it'll be on TH-cam. Go subscribed to their channel. Most of the originals will be in Time Team ll.
Aw. Sounds like you had a dad who cared. I'm so sorry, sending you 🤗
If he enjoyed this show maybe he'd enjoy a starring role today, if you know what I mean?
@@doyoulovehimloretta1607 thank uu
i enjoyed the bit when Tony highlighted the differences in treatment by the victorian gentry of the historic bodies of the former villages and their own pet dogs. very telling!
@Celto Loco i think of old graves a lot, tbh. really i do. i walk my dogs in an old graveyard a few times a week and the victorian idea of death really makes you think about human attitudes to death and how it changes over time.
@@londoninflames I'll second this, I walk my dog through an old cemetery in Charlotte, NC quite often, there are graves dating back to the early 18th century if not older. It's a very peaceful environment and the craftsmanship of the old headstones is really intriguing, makes you think about what things were like back then.
I love graveyards and old graves. There are many channels in here that spend time telling the stories if those who are buried. I watch them. Just because you don’t think of old graves doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t. This is, after all, an archeological programme that we are commenting on.
You need to come to the U.K. There are really old graves over here. You’d love them.
@@londoninflames ivmg: rookļp
It's the kind of episode you want archeologists to dig in the whole landscape 😁 3 days are not enough
I believe 3 days ( & how much square meters they can dig up ) is because of some British - Historical digging up law
@@marty9376 The three days was just because that's all they could do since everyone still had separate jobs. Time Team was a side thing for most of them I believe. So 3 days is what they were able to work out.
Drives me mad it's like watching half a film or reading half a book
the ONLY thing i didn't like about this show is there was just never enough time for them to go the whole hawg and dig up an entire plain, an entire forest, an entire estate and let us see all of it. It was an excellent show nonetheless.
Completely agree, I use to wish that archeologists would be given more time on digs, and from doing archeology in college most of the time itd be because it's easy to get a shorter dig set up and approved while most builders get annoyed if you're taking too long and delaying their work but time team had a great setup going in and doing as much as possible and getting more people excited and wanting to see more!
Sir Tony at his best. i love this - old -episodes!
Possibly the most fascinating episode, 1800 years of history in one garden.
Is it just me or are the perfect symmetry and right angles of the trenches they dig super satisfying?
I'm glad they loved and remembered their pets💞
I need to make a time machine so I can go back to university and become an Archaeologist. This is such an exciting and thrilling job! Love this episode and the painted glass (that was from the church) is BEAUTIFUL. Seriously this family has a beautiful and rich property (rich in history).
And a lot of shoveling a lot of muck as Phil would say.
If u had a time machine you wouldnt need to be a archaeolgist 🤔
I started out studying archaeology straight after school, and I was by far the youngest student in my year. There was one girl only 2 years older, then a few students in their mid-twenties, and most of the students had already been working for a few years in different fields before getting into archaeology. There were even a couple of pensioners who only studied it for fun.
I ended up switching to music because I found I didn't have the patience for the geology part, but I'm still very much interested in archaeology, which is why I love watching shows like this.
Some wonderful mature high-school kids know exactly what they want to do for a career. Some come from relatively small towns with small schools and have no clue about a tenth of the possibilities. Some are more interested in everything except actually studying while in University to aquire an education and career. By the time many people mature enough to appreciate an education they might well be mired in debt trying to support a family etc sadly. I just wish there were more support systems from daycare to low rate mortgage or I don't even know what all is needed to make getting an education more available to perhaps students more in their 30s (as much as I dislike to pick an age bracket) to go to University and get an education they still have decades to make use of.
I'm sure I haven't written this as well as someone else could & sure don't know exactly how to do this but it's at least the beginning of a good idea.
Well if you ever purchase a TIME MACHINE please keep a seat for me because I want to go with you 😁✌️
This is one of my favorites. A single piece of bone leads to the discovery of 2000 years of life and death on this family's land. I hope this kindled the landowner's interesting in investigating that history further and keeping it alive.
They need to the grave were it is and the owner needs to move else were.
It's just way to many graves, there's a line that should not be cross, the city needs control where can owners build houses.
@@joydixon3440 noone cares about poor peoples, as noone cares about poor peoples lives. As they said, the previous landowners threw out the People who farmed the land for Generations, once sheep pastures were more profitable than exploiting their labor. Not mich has changed.
“Please, God, no more graves!”
I feel you, Phil.
That narrator is really animated. I love this type of video. I read anything I can get on British history especially medieval times. This is so interesting. Thank you for sharing this video.
He is tony Robinson a brilliant actor
@@annedalton289 Oh, thank you for that information, I appreciate that.
Bodies in the shed, sung in my head to the tune of "Islands in the Stream".
thanks now I'm going to be humming that for days, lol
@@JoyInMyHeart1 Way cool! Enjoy!
I'm sure Barry Gibb approves 😂😂😂
Evil earworm!
This was my first TT episode I watched, it got me hoked for years. and still enjoy this series.
This is the second episode I ever saw! Time Team has changed the way I look at life.
First I’ve ever seen, and I’ll be following in your footsteps! Sooooo freaking cool!
@@shawnblackhawk6718 isn’t it??!! I’ve worked my way through almost all of the 200+ episodes!! Obsessed!!! I catch myself looking on the ground on my daily walks, and thinking of this passionate and wonderful group of people!
@SuzanneCrow I’m sure by episode 10, I’ll be the same!!
great show..Tony is great at explaining the history of these sites...5 star!!!
"I see wonderful things!" The humor delights me - even though I had to look up the Brit usage of 'folly'! Thanks once again for info and instruction. If I were 40 years younger I would be begging for a job (or volunteer position) with the Time Team.
I would still love to do it now at 60 !dying to give it ago
Birds of a feather, aren't we!
even if you can’t get involved with Time Team, it’s still amazing to get involved with archaeology! look for a local group or maybe try being a mature student studying it? it’s really interesting and digs (outside time team and commercial) are usually longer and during summer (often an academic dig will occur over years, since they only do the actual excavation over summer because of the lovely british weather)
This program is fascinating for me, an American. I was only in England, once for a week, in London. When I was there, I saw on television a news story, about someone, finding a skeleton, in north England. Archeologist thought it was about 1000 years old. And they actually went around, getting DNA samples, from people who lived in that area. They wanted to find out, if there were any distant relatives, I guess. This was in the late 90s, when DNA sampling, was rather new. In America, we were colonized by Europeans, for only the last few hundred years, mostly. So to be able to find out your ancestry, was unheard of, especially finding their bones.
i remember that episode, im pretty sure they matched the DNA of the skeleton to that of a relative living in the area, not only that , a facial reconstruction was done and there was a definite likeness , incredible really.
Oh yeah I was just thinking that you can't dig a foot anywhere in Britain without stumbling upon mind blowing history. Like in this episode they're digging for this medieval Church and stumble across Saxon artifacts from several hundred years earlier and a roman cremation from hundreds of years before that!! Crazy to me! Every one of my family was born and raised in America since way before the civil war so it's just so crazy to me that all the time in Britain people just find stuff from The Middle ages and earlier and there's just nothing like that here. Unfortunately the native Americans built all of their buildings and stuff out of wood except for of course the pueblos in the Southwest. There are burial mounds but those are few and far between and really spread out throughout the whole United states. And people aren't just building on top of those or digging into them randomly either those are generally respected and left alone. So to find something like this and to just be so cavalier like this owner of the house is is just so crazy to me. I do have one more question though why do they only have three days? Is this significant find just so unsignificant to the British they're like eh you got three days before I build on top of it and all this s*** is lost forever.
Remember ... London was "founded" by the Romans in 43 BCE .. that's a long time ago
@@WhitneyDahlin
Yup. The '... and we've only got three days" bit at the start of each episode is frankly annoying. It's as though there's some kind of sinister authority trying to stop the fun when it's simply imposed for dramatic affect (sic).
@@Autists-Guide The three day limit was primarily a financial decision.
From a recent issue of Current Archaeology:
'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion.
This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'
Great episode. Dare I say one of the best. Fascinating to see the layers of occupation and usage.
Amazing how the archaeologists know so much about the story based on a few ceramic fragments. Lots of study, culture and dedication.
Just started watching this today… I’m gonna start binging all of them. The thrill of discovery and the explanations of how and why they’re doing what they do is just so interesting!
you can bing them, I will binge watch
I love this and i like how enthusiastic Tony is,good job.👍.Such fantastic stuff.
So that land has been used from Roman times until now. I wouldn't be surprised if they dug even deeper and found Iron Age remains, or even Bronze Age remains. Land that fertile will be used by anyone looking to grow food.
Going to miss this group as it was but we’ll see what the next generation can do maybe they’ll be even better time will tell , I love that the English kept records far back that sure helps understanding the past , I understand back problems I waited 10 years till they improved it I’ve got plastic cage and plastic in my neck science has come along ways 2 weeks I was walking with a cane and off most the meds , yes it’s a 10 pain wise for first 4 days but you got to be tough and just get up and walk
I could watch this for HOURS!..
Fan-bloomin-tastic! The layers of England. More please!
Something about the History that impacts me is very touching and has made me truly cherish our ancestors
"Our friends in the south." Sounds like a healthy relationship with death and bodies to me. Especially since the kids would go and talk to them. I bet the serfs were kind of gratified by the attention.
"friends in the south" ? do they mean London ?
@@rhuephus That's what the children called the corpses buried in their yard. I can only assume the bodies were is the southern area from their house.
@@roxbuchanan6357 south meaning in this instance down.... friends in the south = friends down below..
So many layers of history; three days is nothing to how much work is here. There needs to be more digs in the future to untangle the area.
One of the best episodes of Time Team that I've seen and I've seen a lot. Intriguing eh ! Thks
Great series. Not a bad episode in the bunch. Even when they went in excited and found nothing it was fascinating to watch them work.
Between this and Antiques Roadshow, history has become so much more real to me. Some of it is quite poignant, particularly the number of children’s remains that they uncover.
Have my doubts to whether they're actually doing a medieval dig or its just a bogus video to create an interesting topic. If anything they are creative and should be looking into making movies of their stories... God Bless... NO Church? Hmmm...
@@rdjimenez3923 Gotta love these baseless accusations. Time Team was made by serious and respectable archeologists and historians. The last thing they would do is fake a dig just to make up a story.
@@CorvusCorvidae777 Ignore the troll face, they're 10 a penny.
I watched a documentary recently that said they could now tell if a body died from the black death by testing the teeth because it left a marker in the DNA. Mindblowing to me
@@ginaharrison5560 As a biologist I would just want you to know that a simple walk in the sun changes your DNA...everything does. It’s really not a big deal, we just need to know specifically what to look for.
Also you can tell if a child had a serious illness from enamel density on the teeth.
@@ginaharrison5560 No, the bacterium was not changing our DNA. The DNA they retrieved from the teeth was the DNA of the bacterium, not the DNA of the human victim. Bacteria have DNA too, not just plants and animals (including us).
Yes and those same markers appear in those whos family members caught it but didn't die. Those people do not catch things like AIDES, certain cancers , and Covid.
@@kenhill5646es, I know that, because my son had frequent bouts of tonsilitis with very high fevers, when he was a baby.. He eventually had his tonsils out at 3 years.
When he was a teenager and went to the orthodontist, the doctor said he could see he had been a very sick baby. The human body is amazing.
Palpable, contagious enthusiasm for solving mysteries of the past. Love it!
That's what "comes through" all the time, Heather, that they love their work. ( As much as i did) Probably seen every programme 2 or 3 times) Glued to the telly on a Sunday tea time, with a cold meat sarny...Happy memories.
Amazing , thin, beautiful glassware in that grave ; that young woman must have been greatly loved.
Another interesting episode, thanks to all of you.
My gosh, how very interesting. England is so rich in history. Thank you gentlemen for this excellent program.
"what do your children think about the skeletons in the house?" teach them not to be worried about haunting, tell them they are our ancestors and we have the greatest reverence for them.
Yes. if there were going to be ' things that go bump in the night', you would have known it before now.
Good to see this again; Pre drone filming, as witnessed by the Helicopter sounds during some of the dialog.
Would love to watch it as it premieres, but it’s 2am here in Japan. Look forward to watching later in the day 🙂
Must be so exciting but three days is a joke
Does anybody ever have an emotional feeling when hearing the time team theme music? It always makes me feel emotional
Very interesting. It makes sense all the dwellings would be on higher and less fertile ground. If the landlord evicted the Peasant's he would clear the same inhabited area and build. He probably also wanted to erase all evidence of the old Peasant shack's which were most likely quite dilapidated by then.
This has to be one of the best time team episodes! Love it.
Devoted viewer, Mike Massey, from Durham, NC, US
Hey neighbor I'm from Chapel Hill.
@@TheAquaticMandolin So glad I lucked upon TT last year. ‘don’t know if I’ll make it back to the UK, but I’d most like to visit the chapels from Saxon time. ‘hard to choose among the many ideas related to the show, for sure.
Thanks for the shout out!
I think at 18:39, there is a baptismal font sitting in the middle of the back yard amongst the other lumps and bumps, next to the tree on the middle left of the picture.
fantastic stuff guys and girls ,, well done time team ..
Glad I. Found your program on U Tube.🙌
You’re programs are very educational and interesting. Keep up the Good work . 👍🏻👍🏻
Unique episode. Great era for the team.
If I could have my time again I would definately be an Archaeologist.
Never too late
@@lledge914 Maybe, I retire in 7 years, who knows.
+Hope Springs That was my Father's dream as well. RIP Daddy, I miss you so very much.
No thanks… I did enough digging in the military 😃
@@marty9376 But did you find any artifacts? I love the idea of discovering an object not seen/touched for Hundreds of years. Learning about our Ancestors. So cool.
Don’t think I’ve seen this one before a rare treat 😀
I don't remember this one either!
What was the episode, as it would be interesting to find out what happened, where the guy couldn't build on his land as the local archaeologists found bodies. But he couldn't afford for them to come and exaggerate them so was stuck with land he couldn't build on that was essentially worthless. At the end, even after Time Team had been there the local archaeologists wouldn't budge so I think he was close to declaring bankruptcy. When that happens, you can understand why some people if they find anything, end up saying nothing.
I've done a lot of construction and the joke was if you find bones, keep digging and bury them in the spoils.
Sad but true. You're trapped between the proverbial rock & a hard place.
You should beware of ignoring archaeology. Generally you can build on archaeologal sites as long as you excavate it. They do it all the time in ancient cities. I can say that as someone who worked in archaeological data processing that you should never be so sure you can hide that you ignored or vandalized it. People have done surveys, excavations, and taken lidar before you. You probably don't want to be the guy who didn't find the hoard when your neighbor does. I once inadvertently got a local developer in very big trouble when I was trying to locate a Roman enclosure that was on lidar. I sent my data to the cultural heritage to ask for clarification on its location and they noticed a developer built some houses on it without a survey which is why I couldn't find it. I also found a guy hiding a Roman cemetery in his basement. You don't want to be that guy. Ruined archaeology is irreversible. Just excavate it. The owner here lives in a hall and owns the land. He gets to keep whatever they find and the manor will always be valuable. Don't worry for him
Exactly.
They let him build the house, but he wasn't allowed to have a garden or front yard cos those bits hadn't been examined. The bloke got really lucky. Time Team found a prehistoric cremation, and cos the Anglo-Saxons knew it was there they expected those ancient people by giving it a wide birth and putting their graves outside the land he owned.
Did anyone else think that the hollow lane, before its kink was added, was straight enough to be a Roman road.
I didnt before but now I do.
Absolutely
my first thought. there was something there and i'll bet it's INTERESTING.
hadnt thought of that but…yeah, it was dead straight, but you’d probably have to dig up the hollow way to know
Aww, bless Victor... off to save the dig.
From the Philippines and this airs at exactly 12 mm. I'm waiting for this.
same
I lived in the Philippines when I was a young man. I loved the country and the people. I visited the provinces where my girlfriend lived and was just blown away. Lovely people, simple living and hard workers. Her grandfather fought in WW2 and told me tales of fighting the Japanese. I hope to see your country one more time before I pass on.
I did not know that Guy de la Bédoyère had a long lost brother....
I thought the same! Very close resemblance, except for the accent.
Totally, I thought it was Guy for a minute !
Thank you for continuing to save and explain history! I mean 15th, 13th, 12th century, wow! Great findings are not all in Saxon gold!
In the last ten years archeology has really boomed in the British Isle.so much history from the tribes,roman,medivial.ttreasure every where.castle,churches .lousy ass weather,no wonder people didn't live long in there history.great time to be a archeologist,full time job,great museum.
I thought that giant yew tree was a clue to the church location as soon as I saw it.
Me too!
I don't understand, why yew?
@@judithhuling-cadieux1700 yew trees have long been associated with religion. Also pre-Christian.
@@judithhuling-cadieux1700 pretty much every church yard has yew trees my local church has a estimated 3000 year old yew tree it's quite amazing
I read, but as I’m old with a long reading history and diminishing total recall so can provide no back-up, that yew trees were planted at the limits of church graveyards to delimit sanctified grounds. Non- accepted bodies, i.e. suicides could be buried “beyond the yew tree”.
If you want to start a new garden project and finally find a use for the skeletons in your backyard. :D
But seriously, this is very interesting to see and listen to. I wish they had more time than just 3 days. Britain is simply full of history, as is the rest of Europe, really.
It frustrates me they only get 3 days of excavation, its too interesting!
I hope if they end up ever relaunching the show again I'm hoping they give them a week 5 to 7 days instead of 3 days this time. It always feels way too rushed and they're always feel like they're leaving finds on the table.
A couple of years at least.
@@TheAquaticMandolin divvy up then!
I agree, I would give them at least a week and up to a month on each dig for the program, and after that hand it over to another long term team to find everything that is humanly possible.
@@TheAquaticMandolin they wont mainly because some of these guys are dead like mike aston
"Wonderful things!" - Howard Carter
😃
Britain has so much history that they are literally finding 2000 year old to 200 year old artifacts in the same site. Mind blowing.
i find myself saying "that's just friggin cool" frequently when i watch these
It is harrowing, in these medieval graveyards, to see the proportion of graves allocated to children. Imagine losing half our young before adolescence. Once, that was just how things were.
Amazing that people still starved. Noting we couldn't feed them all. Life is like that
I thank goodness not all humans survive. Its crowded enough
Aah, Time Team. My happy place.
Yew tree.
Traditionally best wood for a longbow.
Very interesting dig. So much there.
One of the best digs.
Cerebral entertainment. I will miss sir tony, a great talent .
I would love to see a historian, like Robin Bush, on the new Time Team episodes! His historical readings always set the mood. He was the best.
Unfortunately Robin is also no longer with us, he has gone to the archives in the sky.
Robin used to be apart of the Time Team team but unfortunately he has now passed away.
despised his smarmy-ness
Loved Robin... He just seemed so pretentiously English! (In the best sense)
I loved his booming voice
Very much looking forward to this! :)
Stewart is the land whisperer!
i like history, no matter which country , congrats from Puerto Rico !!!
Phil he's a good man he will dig and dig until he finds something of interest.
Smashing, many cheers
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
I find this so fascinating as I have traced my family history back to the 1200’s in Northern England! It would seem to be very frustrating to make these discoveries only to let them pass like water under a bridge.
Dang, I am glad I don't live in an age where the guy who just spent a fortune on Flemish glass, kicks me on to the street because sheep are more profitable.
Sadly still happens, not sheep but property.
" the sheep doth eat up men" I remember my professor quoting when lecturing on the Enclosure period of England.
Elizabethan England's wealth was built on wool.
To this day The woolsack in the house of lords is a reminder to how much is owed to the early wool trade.
I kind of hope the serfs are haunting the place
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This is beyond incredible content. I would love to see this site or another like it completely excavated but at the same time I would want the dead left to rest.
something so comforting about time team
Really great information!
700 years condenced into 48 mins. Amazing.
Sad how grave yards become forgotten and then desecrated. Glad to see the graves discovered. May those buried may their memory be eternal. Glad the Time Team and the present owners are making these efforts. Cremation and scattering seems the most sensible solution.
Cremation and scattering seems to be too much like desecration. All of those remains would have to be blessed by a religious figure and the bones interred in holy ground.
That's a very American idea...
In Europe, graves never were meant for eternity. We would have run out of space centuriea ago.
Since the important part used to be to be buried in blessed earth (church cemetery) graves have always been dug up after a few decades, and the remaining bones sometimes stacked in a communal vault or they had rotted into fragments already.
Some old family graves just had their dead stacked on top of old burials.
Basically old church cemeterys have had several turnovers in each grave...
@@jeffburnham6611 They go back into the graves they come out of, no need for fairy tales to be said over them.
Love that illustrator. That guy has some serious skills. They also need lidar.
You do realise Time Team finished production in 2013?
@@MaxFlorian1001 nope. As I live in the US and just discovered it on amazon prime. But I do like the show. I had no idea it had been cancelled.
Fantastic episode. Thank you very much.
I seem to be able to watch a lot of these. Fascinating. Please Franchise this out to other interested countries. I’d love to see Egypt time team, Peru Time Team, Russia Time Team, Ect.
My Scottish ancestors were also evicted in favor of sheep! Rude! 😂
They are so lucky doing this for a living
Thank you for saving the history, my ancestors came from there as well as the American community of aboriginals. Bravo 👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸❤
Its amazing to think the difference medicine and science has made to the improvement of people's lives over the centuries. Nice to see Victor having such a key role in the dig. He must have enjoyed that😊❤
Totally agree,mature yew trees usually means a cemetery.
Why yew trees???
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13they were planted on church sites for religious purposes, were needed for bows,and poisonous to animals.
So they were planted in the boundaries 😊
"Every builder's worst nightmare"
I really thought he was gonna make a joke about archaeologists by saying "bits of pottery" or something lol
If I lived there, I'd use the broken church parts and make a super cool garden feature with them
People have especially from Roman monuments..
I can't imagine trying to live in these times, surrounded by ancient buildings, foundations, pet cemeteries, and every time a spade goes in the ground--human remains.
Why ? It's life's natural progression. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. For hundreds of millions of years. If you find something, move it respectfully to where it stands a better chance of not being further disturbed. Then carry on.
That is perfectly Normal for someone living in a densly populated area in Europe.
All so fascinating!!!
Highly fascinating. Thanks!
That pottery expert is top notch. Damn.
….this stuff,,,is absolutely fascinating…..🙂🙂🙂
p.s.
Settlements and centers of worship tend to be layered. What's under the Roman?
Im fascinated with how the romans made that glass so thin that long ago.
The romans would blow glass bubbles and then cut the bubbles and flatten them. I learned that in a different episode of time team lol.
@@UncommonSense-wm5fd I remember an 'episode' of Antiques Roadshow, when someone took in a bracelet made with glass beads and gold. The expert said that it was gold work was Victorian but the glass was Roman. When asked how he could be so sure he said that we have only just discovered how to do this with glass, the Romans knew but the knowledge was 'lost'.
The same way a traditional glass blower would do it today, by blowing a thin bubble then cutting and laying it flat to cool.
Yes, glass blowing.