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- Tony and the team visit Gateholm Island off the west coast of Pembrokeshire. A handful of objects have been found over the years, including a rare Roman stone phallus and a beautiful bronze stag. Was this island a religious centre?
Series 19, Episode 1.
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I absolutely adore Phil! ”Can somebody invent a house!?”
It's quite amazing to think that even on an isolated and seemingly desolate island like this that over millennia enough dirt can accumulate and bury stuff.
"Can Someone invent a house!?!" Too perfect!!! 😂
Mich Aston is sorely missed.
Aphra Benn. TT was spoilt by bringing in Pretty looking women instead of using the people known for their subjects. Ruined it.
@@barbaradyson6951 I have watched several now with the “the pretty women” that have “spoilt” the show. I would respectfully counter with the editors have spoilt the show. The only clips of the new women are of them asking questions that I am sure they knew the answers too but was lead into answer by the other Collegue. Too many close up of female archeology breasts as the come together to look at finds, or during digging or even the angle they use from behind is different for women archeologists than Phil’s behind ( not that yours is not nice to look at Phil, I am sure, but I am interested in the stuff your talking about and your enthusiasm about, her, I think it is flint?). And why do they have Mary and another woman showing and discussing how a ritual phallus site might be set up instead of two men? I am sure that was more editors choice. The whole scene did little in educating me about the site: replacing those minutes with real archeology being done rather than speculation at beginning of day 1! I really miss Mich and Caranza ( I am sure I am spelling her name incorrectly - my apologies) too.
The reason we all watch is the history, the scenery, the finds, the science and the comradely between the colleagues and friends. And by trying to have the smart women with degrees bring on an audience by sex appeal tactics was stupid, short sighted and insulting to the rest of us loyal viewers, both men and women.
@@deborahfedge4272 And they're really pushing the idea that people settled on the island because it looks like a phallus. Not because it's a peninsula with high coasts and only one way to reach it on land, nope, people settled there because it looks like a dingus from the sky.
@@deborahfedge4272 All these people are beautiful.
@@barbaradyson6951 They barely appear in the episode, specifically with segments. Christ, you people moan and b!tch about anything, i swear.
As a Rope access technician and absolute history and time team nerd....I love this.
Phill absolutely nailed Tony with that tennis ball 🎾 😂😂
He waited 19 seasons for that
Headshot!
20:02
It looked absolutely brutal! And i weirdly enjoyed it :’D
when archeologist play
"..Leaving behind our penile island.." OMG.The Brits do have a way with words..
I know! I had to laugh
Well it is a peninsula…
I really don't get what so many complain about, I love the feel of this episode. The camaraderie is strong, and the archaeology seems fine, given that it is limited by what they can find there.
We complain because we know the real reasons behind the producers employing pretty faces even if they had some degrees.. Mick Aston was against the changes and was literally killed off.. Probably died from stress related to this
The biggest take-away for me on this show is how much Stewart Ainsworth is missed here. He could have added so much information are the two sites connected in any way by his knowledge via surveying the area.
We complain because it was just such a dumbed down version of the proper time team that had come before, it had elements of a more American style of TV and was an insult to long time fans of time team.
I remember when I used to watch Time team with my brother every sunday back in the 2000's ... love it as much now as i did then .. really happy they're releasing them again on youtube :D
These are better than those uploaded by *Fillask* and *Reijer Zaaijer* but they have uploaded many more and between the three uploaders the _whole_ of *TT* series, 20 years worth, are here.
Me too, but haven't seen all if it. 🤗
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 There is also Timeline and Oddessy History documentaries, now uploading full episodes.
The CGI in this one was such an awesome addition. I realize CGI is both recent and expensive, but I've been watching Time Team for years, and wish it could have been applied to so many more episodes.
Looking back towards earlier episodes (easily to recognise by the existense of Tony's hair and the lack of Phil's hat, and everyone being much younger) even there some CG is around. Obviously limited by the technology of the late 90s
Asking Francis if this could have been a place of ritual is like asking if the tide is going to come in. The answer is always the same. He could dig my garbage tip and consider it a ritual site.
It's kind of a bias, i mean, you wouldn't have him in the episode if there isn't a potential tangent. One of the neat things of TT is that they are modular. If there's even a whiff of a potential element in bound, they will bring a specialist to deal with it.
Ya it's the one thing that drives me nuts. Yes the middle age was a Lil
. ..catholic. but I really don't think people of the past were as spiritual as we assume. Why in the heck would theh give a shit. Life is way to hard to bother
I just think religion is for a controlled population. Spirituality is for a bored population.
@@davidtownsend6092They gave a shit because they believed that the gods/spirits controlled everything. Life was hard because the gods/spirits were either angry or trying to teach us something. These days we know that hardships are not the work of angry gods, but to ancient peoples they were, so figuring out what the gods wanted and how to appease them was of the utmost importance.
"Daddy, what's different about life when you were young?"
"Well, if we wanted to look at the same piece of paper and have a discussion, one of us had to zipline across 100 meters of craggy rocks"
I love the Time Team! Great episode! Phil nailed Tony, hilarious! Good thing it was a tennis ball and not a stone bahaha!!
Tony: Who would want to set up home over there?
Me: ME!
went here to say exactly this :)
I would also.
Thank you for an original episode of Time Team Classics. Dig by Wire, what a great title. Although I've watched what happened with the groundwork, the digging, I've kept an eye on the stunning skies, and change of weather too. How spectacular life must've been on that high spot in the Irish Sea, with all that space, those skies.... the full impact of the elements, all this must've been the shaping of hardy, strong inhabitants with that look in their eyes, so typical in those looking at far horizons often.
Best medicine for Isolation!
Yes, nothing like a phallus to while away the hours!
@@harbourdogNL 😂😂
What beautiful country. The blue ocean surrounding that green island is so inviting!
That has to be the most beautifulest place I have ever seen
Ah the first episode that feature Mary Anne and Alex. The beginning of the end for TT and Mick's and Stewart's involvement in the series.
Love, Francis,Phil,John, Raksha working together.
Love this show! just past 1am I was about to go to bed but have to watch this first. Please keep uploading these :) thank you from Australia!
you can find all of them there : th-cam.com/play/PLIiLqk8xb6kP5YRNqVH7Z-AhsVeuIVzin.html
@@Cadadadry they are region blocked for copywright... no can watch in Aus :( .. wich makes me wonder Why this channel cannot post them all in chronological order. Would love to watch all of TimeTeam from the first show through.
@@secretsquirrelaka-vesuvius3672 If you use a VPN/proxy you'll be able to see/download them all.
My boyfriend died of a heart attack this March and I am just watching time team, so I can be reminded that time moves on, other people have dealt with loss and kept living.
Great to see another episode featuring the erudite Francis Pryor. Thankyou for uploading these, enjoying from South Australia!
It is higly likely that, at the time the fort was built, the road was not on the cliff edge, and that, the 'island' might be an island now, but it was probably connected to the mainline that many eons ago.
They said early on, 44:30, that it was connected til about a thousand years ago then the land bridge fell away.
That tennis ball smack middle to Tony’s head was a sight to behold! Hope it didn’t hurt too much! :’D
It’s so weird to see Alex in modern clothes, not with Peter Ginn, and not in a farm…. It’s nice to see him in his element and not worrying about crops for once.
Love this show always fascinated with our past. Thanks Tony and all of you and a big hello to Phil from australia
I want Stewart and Henry and Helen.
I know. 😔
same here, Mary-Ann Ochota I didn't want though... she was the main reason I quit watching Time Team. TBH, I still can't watch it.
And Mick.
I am thrilled by the sharpness - I know I keep saying this but my goodness, THANK YOU! I love this show...
So, my dog and I were watching this great, as usual episode but he kept getting distracted. Finally I asked, what's the problem? He said, where are the cattle? What? Oh that's right, Pembroke Welsh Corgi's were bred to sort cattle! BTW, his name is Shorty and he's such a delight.
I invision a sturdy little Village ruled by Chieftain Timetemax and a Druid called Mickastix, Philax making Menhirs, Baldrix the Fishmonger quarreling with Francix the Smith about "ritual" and Ainswix the bard surveying the area from his Treehouse.
Not bad at all!!!!!😊
This is the season Time Team changed completely, it feels much more like "entertainment" zip line.. suspenseful music, as Mick said..less focus on the Archeology
This is a recruitment drive. What do you expect ? But I expect they will throw in great archeology as these inaccessible places are the most untouched: by definition, hard to get to. Wait till they start doing caves in Cornwell.
I imagine if the National Trust says " dig here" you will dig "here".
The addition of Mary Anne is very clearly just to add a pretty face. Everything she does in these episodes are things that before were done by Tony... She literally adds nothing except being a far prettier version of Tony (a non-expert presenter)... I don't like that...
@@Kholdaimon although I’m not a fan of the cast change, Mary Ann is an anthropologist specializing in archaeology. It was a terrible change; one Mick could not abide. But I thought you’d be interested in knowing ochota’s pedigree
@@Kholdaimon Her and Alex both thought they were signing up for serious archaeological presentation like the show had been for the previous 18 - 19 years. They both are well educated archaeologists in their own rights that had done a lot of presenting in the past. They both left as soon as their contracts would legally allow because they didn't like being lied to, in Mary-Anns' case she didn't like being made to sound so incompetent and used for eye candy, and for Alex it was being the lab rat as it were for the experimental archaeology, he signed up to be a landscape investigator/surveyor for the team, to do basically what Stuart had been doing, and neither of them liked the way channel 4 was taking the show. Mick was already on the verge of leaving the show because of the way they were planning to take the show, and when channel 4 passed up his recommendations for new team members for Alex and Mary-Ann sealed him leaving the show, he had no issue with either of them personally, like a lot of people seem to think he did, his issue was simply that channel 4 brought them in instead of his recommendations. Oh and BTW Tony isn't a non-expert presenter, he is also an archaeologist, just not professionally, a few of the sites the team looked at were because Tony found it and said "Hey, lets check out this place I found."
32:20 ...could someone invent a house ....! fantastic
The Iron Age man living on the island was Gruouf. He was a notorious sleep walker and snored very loudly. The village liked him so instead of just killing him in his sleep they moved him to his own island. Of course, his was a one generation life, had no offspring to expand... sleepwalking and islands...
I often shake my head at Francis' "ritual landscape" schtick, but honestly when he was handed a limpet appetizer and just took out a pocketknife and chowed down, that was pretty awesome. 🙂
Everything must aaaalways be sooo symbolic.
I would point you to look at all the things in your life that are purely symbolical. You would be amazed ;)
30:25 Best archaeology work i've seen
Finds don't need to be old to be worthy of study.
9:30 - "Who would want to live there?" Why, a warlord of course. But it must have its own source of fresh water. So, where's the well ?
I wouldn't mind living there, but somebody TT would have deliver my mail and groceries: the zipline is not for me!
An awesome episode Team!! Thanks. 😊
Love this show. I wonder if there was anything on the other island that is out to sea. A fort maybe.
Thank you TT for the upload.
Enjoying from NSW Australia.
"Can somebody invent a house?!"
Love this series!
Why is it that archaeologists find something round
and it's instantly a phallus symbol
maybe it's the UK's smallest standing stone
And then the females' smile.
How lucky we are.. thank u guys 👏👏👏
Some viewers dreams have come true. Having Tony slide off the end of a cliff! 😁
I like how they talk about archeology while filming down the lady’s shirt while she’s digging. Lol
They do this quite alot
I never noticed things like that! Must be a male thing.
@@junkabella6324 , "Must be a male thing.". Females have eyes too. I've been watching through the series and been annoyed at how the men sometimes even have jackets and long sleeved, warm clothing on, but the women almost all wear skin tight, spaghetti-strapped, low cut tops and tight pants that slide down as they are bent over to dig. Don't the women get sun-burned, cold, bug-bit, and scratched up being so bare, not to mention, feel used?
This is the season when TT jumped the shark - too bad loved this show so much.
jump the shark how? watching these for the first time over the last month I have seen early and late episodes and they are equally as enjoyable. though I find I am not a fan of the first 3 seasons as much. I know something pissed Mick Aston off but I for the life of me cant see what.
@@ColtGColtG Yeah, it's not as bad as I heard it would be. But what is the point of the new guys (Alex and Woman)? Also Stewart and Henry are nowhere to see anymore, which sucks.
@@karlkarlos3545 wow…. The audacity of calling a trained professional ”Woman”… what a loser you are Karl!
@@junkabella6324 But being "Woman" is all her contribute to the show. She is not like Carenza, Raksha or Helen Geake, who are actually digging and teaching. So maybe you think twice before you accuse somebody of sexism.
@@junkabella6324, Junkabella, "audacity of calling a trained professional ”Woman”"
Phil is fanstick! Even when he wears his Daisy Dukes, lol!
They always flew around in helicopters to survey areas from above. Why didn't they take one to get to the island?
Safety. There’s not much room and the air pressure could blow people and archeology over the side.
oh man an HD episode, so sweet
As I watch 1 or 2 of these every day I am now getting repeats. This is Time Team Classtc , There is Timeline and another is a Viking pushing in. The viaduct one comes in 3 .
How much of the cliffs have eroded since the iron age? There could have been a wagon road out there at one time.
That looks like fun!
I have the feeling that the rock wasn't always separate from the mainland. The part in between might've had an arch bridging over, but over the last couple thousand years it got battered by the sea hard enough to break down.
And that kind of location, only accessible by one narrow path would be easily defensible and is also a piece of land reaching "into" the sea, breaking the boundry between land and water.
I love this crew, they make great adventures.phil nailed Tony with the tennis ball .. dropped him .. lmao thank you for the great provider..
wish Time Team could go to other parts of the world......i think that would be awesome.....Mick and Vince would have loved that. Phil would love the flint works from all over.
They have dug in America.
I'm trying to watch some adverts but this Time Team thing keeps interrupting them.
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Adblocker app fixed that for me, but you have to watch in a browser or it doesn't work.
New band name: "The Stag and The Phallus" 😂
Dang, it's so obvious to me. It is an early Brothel.
I wonder where they got fresh water from. Was there just enough there, somehow?
Put a bucket outside your hut and it'll be full in 24 hours. It's Wales.
I live in a desert. Totally forget about that skywater thing
I would of loved to see Mick on the line, or hear Robin laughing and telling them off😂😂😂
Thank you.
Have a nibble. Somehow this reminds me of the dream turnip.
All I can imagine is each incarnation of Baldrick being sent out on the zip-line😅
I would love to have France's enthusiasm!!
I love the way they all take the mickey out of each other especially Phil.
Phil with the accurate rocket to Tony😂
it's just a good defensive spot to put a small settlement... what's the mystery there?
Hey Mary Ann what's your game now can anybody play ( Hollies tribute ), why is she there ?
the idea of transport by sea, has been out there for so,so many decades...
Yeah, I was disappointed to see the History Channel style dumbing down. "The sea was like the motorway of ancient times!"
Has anyone excavated on the island that is even farther offshore? Also, I'm surprised they wasted time excavating on the mainland, all that was a bit of a foregone conclusion. The number of items that must be still in the earth on that island have to be considerable.
Episode 243 (Season 19, Episode 1): Dig By Wire, Aired: January 22, 2012
Thank you! :)
OMG, Alex!!! BBC CROSSOVER!
I love these nerds
30:26 Stunning structures abound!
Luvely jubblies
24:09 that is the main land arial...when the narration is the island
what if it was a peninsula and a large storm took out the connection?
I pissed myself on that crossing, scared to death and I'm sitting down.
No they lived there because it was secure and easily defendable! In those times you lived by the necessities. Food, shelter, and security!
The one thing that really confused me about this episode, was the claim (made by Phil I believe) that they wouldn't expect to have any pottery finds from the Iron Age. Of course I may have misunderstood or misheard what was said, but if I didn't, that was an odd statement as already in the Bronze Age, as shown in this very episode, there is pottery to be found. Especially as in every other episode of that date there is enough of Iron Age bits of pottery to date a site that usually turns up. So I don't get it. I'd think it more of mystery of why they didn't have ANY such finds that needed explanation.
I thought he was referring to Neolithic there wouldnt be pottery.
Gate = road in Norsk, holm is also a field name meaning "small inland" , so the "small island with the road" in Norsk no need to dig, the name sais it all..
Same same but different. Great shirt.
all we got to eat is limpet and seaweed. will we make it till tomorrow ? hahahaha
I remember my first zip line at about his age high across a deep valley in the mountains of Central America. I was shaking like that but tingling with a great feeling of accomplishment and finished the 5 others in the course... It was great! Not sure I could have been comfy near the edge of the island. I hate heights.
where is Stewart ?
They don`t seem to have considered the possibility that the island may have been better connected to the mainland a long time ago and the connection may have been washed away by the sea.
Yes they did, Alex explained exactly that.
Podiam ter usado um helicóptero.... Digo eu que não percebo nada disso 😜
Adoro os vossos vídeos 👍🏼
Cost an showmanship I guess
izzat the goil what ran Mick off?
Aha, they finally suggested that it wasn`t always an island - in a rather offhand statement lasting about 3 seconds.
How long ago was the land bridge washed away ?
Since they found no post-Roman era items, most likely some time in the late 4th or early 5th century.
@@gregb6469 It was most likely later than that. One of the earlier digs they mentioned discovered a 6th century bronze pin.
@@zarabada6125 --Oh, yes; I forgot about that. Perhaps enough of the land bridge washed away that settlement ceased, but people still occasionally visited the place.
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Clearly the island is accessible at low tide - ok, it`s a steep climb but presumably they didn`t do it very often, and the steepness would have made it easily defensible.
Subtitles / Closed Captions disabled - Yet the original was subtitled. So.... why?
Some of us could really use captions. Please time team?
please!
@alanrtment porter Because people like me, are deaf?
I got subtitles at the beginning. Does it cut out later on?
They put closed captions on now
@@superfluityme For us non-Brit English speakers, good subtitles would be helpful sometimes. The ones from the CC icon are very inaccurate, probably computer generated rather than the actual text.
Sir Tony: do i get to throw stones at them?
Who would want to live over there?
People who didn't wanna be bothered, of course.
Francis thought everything was sacred and ritualistic.
So, I think the team didn't really calculate in the degradation of the coastline in that specific area.
Do note that over that whole coastline a lot of land is already gone that once was occupied or used to some extend. This would mean that this island, or however you wish to call it, was once a lot bigger. Do note that 3 sides were being battered by the elements and the sea which already caused the connection to the island to be downgraded to a single spire. From that point forward it had to deal with 4 sides that get battered by the elements and the sea.
Now going further on that, this would indicate this place was a lot bigger previously. I do think it would be double if not triple the current size as degradation doesn't shave off on one side but on all sides that are open to the elements and the sea. Now apply this to both the connecting part to the mainland as the island itself and you would have a lot more space then shown in the end of this episode. I do think it would be very possible to have a gated entrance if not having some form of fort entrance to keep everyone save. Yet on the island part itself it would have been much wider and longer meaning there are possible missing roads and buildings that are now in the sea. This could very well include religious structures for example which on turn would give the finds a very good reason to be there. Also for it's location on i'ts own it would make a lot more sense if there was a market and some form of religious center whether a single building or several buildings.
I do think the team should come back and try to look in to this theory.
Now for a quick Google maps look, some things that I found:
- Just north of the mainland fort you can see a a path, zoom in to that and just north of that you should see a black round dot on the ground. Another of these black dots can be seen actually between the 2 biggest fort defends hills.
- In the field just west of the mainland fort you can see round shapes and square shapes. This looks like a very plausible building side for either Roman or later at least, possible some early buildings in there as well. Something that really gets my attention are the straight lines around these shapes on the surface which may indicate a outer wall of some kind. Something that would be rather typical for roman style forts or fortified Roman structures.
Maybe just leave the science to actual professionals….
I was wondering about the erosion at both sites as well. They only mentioned that a zip line was probably not needed a thousand years ago. I miss Stuart and his insight on landscape, or perhaps the new guys stuff is being edited out as well.
Could somebody invent a house 🤓👍.
Helicopter?
46:10