Time Team S15-E02 Street of the Dead, Binchester, County
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- The Binchester Roman fort, near Bishop Auckland, was one of the largest and longest permanently occupied Roman forts in the north of England. Binchester, or Vinovia as it was called, was a key staging post on Dere Street, the road to Hadrian's Wall and the north.
Time Team came to Binchester with a particular interest in uncovering the vicus, the civilian settlement that supported the Roman fort of Vinovia. In the process they uncovered an entire lost landscape.
I'm currently digging in Binchester - it's absolutely amazing how much archaeology they discovered in three days.
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What did you end up finding, Abbie?
Scratch the ground, and you're going to find something 😀
I'm from the US but I love this show. I've watched every episode here on TH-cam and now I'm re-watching all of them. First thing I do when I get home from work is I watch 2 or 3 in a row while I eat. I wish they would bring back Time Team.
That's a long meal you're having! Do you dine like a Roman? :D
@@ian_b And like always he only has 3 days to eat
jaxxstraw I was thinking the same thing... 3 course meals ;)
Im also in the US & love this show! Been binge watching/listening while i work at the computer....so fascinating!
As a fellow American, I completely agree with you.
We have got old ourselves, and we have watched these guys and girls get old, some of them have pass away. It's like a window into our own lives that we are still watching. To all of you guys who made these programs thank you, including the sound lights camera action guys and girls, and to all of you who are now under the ground waiting for 1000's of years to pass before your dug back up by people who are interested in our lives that are now, good luck trying to figure us out, micro chips and video tape just ain't going to survive.
Great TV! I used to watch this every time it was on, on Sunday evenings on Channel 4. Learnt about history of England at school, all words and pictures in books. This programme brought the history of my country alive. That brick at the beginning with the Roman names - just amazing!
I wished I had discovered Time Team years ago. I am hopelessly hooked now and I am restricting myself to two a day, no more, to make them last as long as possible. I know there are a lot but I never want to run out. Now I have only TWO TV shows I've ever been addicted to: Time Team and Doctor Who.
If I knew you we would be friends.
Me too. It is interesting and I have learned a lot!
@Melody, for what it's worth I have them all downloaded and have watched them all in that format three times, and this year has been particularly gnarly for me so I ran through the entire 20 years and am now up to season 15 for the second time THIS YEAR. And every time I watch these, I learn something new, see something different, look at the trenches differently. It's a growth process :)
Love this show! Excellent, entertaining, funny, and educational. Time Team reminds me that you can produce fun and smart television.
I love this. Those stones and walls have not been seen in nearly 2000 years and yet there they are in the light again. Its beautiful.
Thanks for posting
I just LOVE this show. Had never seen it until I discovered it on TH-cam. The English have such a rich history. When I was in London, my friends were talking about their memories of being "at university". I was relating a story of flunking my American History exam because I hadn't noticed the essay questions on the back of each page of objective questions, and my English friends BURST into laughter............."How can you have an entire college class in American History" asked one laughing lady........."America HAS NO history!!!!!!!" They were amazed that we would consider a mere 200-plus years to be "history" worthy of an entire semester of class. I didn't have the heart to tell them my university actually had our meager history divided into TWO semesters!!!!!!!
I'm from London originally . The part of London i'm from ( central , i'm a cockney ) is where the nursery rhyme pop goes the weasel comes from . About 100 yards along from the eagle pub in city rd is the church where John Wesley used to preach ( Methodist of course )and the house he lived in is next door. The hospital I worked in ( St Bartholomew's ) was founded in 1123 A.D , it's about 150 yards from St Paul's cathedral.
America's history, as a continent, stretches farther back than the British Isles, if you consider prehistoric ice-age migration and Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. But the United States' history, as a country, encompasses several chapters of European history beginning with its discovery and colonization, to say nothing of the countless European wars fought over the course of 400 years.
Mmm... How curious that they'd think 250 years is insufficient for an entire semester's class when history courses in UK universities (like Oxford) spend entire semesters covering only one *war* like the War of Roses or WW1. You either misunderstood them or your group of acquaintances are ignorant and hypocritical.
Your British friends' answer makes me ashamed for the British (my ancestry is British), and your answer makes me ashamed for Americans (I'm American).
Forgive me, but both answers are racist. As if there were no history for anyone but white people; or, for that matter, no history for anyone who couldn't write in English; or (to continue this run-on sentence) no history for people who didn't write because they had no writing system; or who wrote in a different writing system; or who didn't write because they had no opportunity, due to economics or attitude or situation or whatever, to learn to write.
Okay. That was a darn long sentence. Yet it says a few things a lot of us need to wake up to.
Just sayin'.
@Stephen Ruff That America has "no history" or "a mere 200--plus years of history" says that the writer considers only 1776 and following to be "history." Nothing before that. Even if we define "history" as nothing but human history, the Americas have at least 15,000 (and possibly 31,000, at last report) years of history, including writing systems--all right there to be explored and researched. When people of European extraction don't consider the histories of non-Europeans (for example, Native Americans: hundreds of tribes, not to mention Aztecs Mayans Incas Olmecs etc etc) to be "real history," that's an example of racism. It's a kind of blindness: odd, lopsided, and quite damaging to those it doesn't acknowledge.
Does that help?
@Stephen Ruff To add: It's a bit like saying that Columbus the Pilgrims the Vikings the Celts the Romans the Greeks really don't count as "history" because they're not Aztec. (Which would also be a racist viewpoint, if it existed.) Like telling a Briton the only history they had was 200+ years old.
I live and work in the American Southwest. I have Native friends who, in educational settings, have been told they are extinct! (Yes, they objected, and yes, the embarrassed--and racist!-- professor stopped saying that.) Native American history goes back as far as any human history.
Again: to make the equation, "history = white history" is racist. It would be equally racist to say "history = Chinese history" or "history = African history," and so on, but that was not the question in this case.
Thanks for allowing me to clarify.
One of the best of the TT shows because of the abundance and quality of results. TT was a great series especially during these seasons when they had the format and makeup of the team fine tuned. Lost it later as they tried to save production costs with fewer, and likely cheaper, personnel.
Jackie's shirt with skulls and bones is so cool!
(Yes I also agree with everyone else that Time Team is a true gem of a show)
This has got to be one of my favorites. So much information, I hope someone posts an update from those digging the site now.
I hope this is preserved and further excavations accomplished.
I certainly enjoy TIME TEAM watching Mick, Phil and Stewart.
Thanks for uploading this so i could watch it here in the US. What a great episode. I wish we had shows like this!
+Kristin Wenke I found a few Time Team videos on youtube that were Time Team America but there are only like four
Wait. There was a Time Team America??? I must know more!
amsterdamsel Yes there are a few I really enjoyed those as well and wish they had made more though
Don't waste your time; the Time Team America show was horrible!
@amsterdamsel, time team America dig 1 was about the dead bodies Hilary buried so she could win the election of 2016.
Trench one, the Victorian antiquarian re-dig, is here:
54°40'32.7"N 1°40'29.9"W
The mausoleum trench is here:
54°40'34.8"N 1°40'22.1"W
And the archaic fort ditch is here:
54°40'38.8"N 1°40'27.5"W
The fields where the digs took place don't show much but the areas in the vicinity, especially between the fort and the river to the west, show some intriguing crop marks.
Stannous Flouride thanks for doing this for all the time team episodes Stannous!
You're quite welcome. I love the ability we have to actually look down from space onto these remnants of our past.
Kind of mind-blowing.
Loved this programme! I could watch this programme with my mum on my left and my gran on my right with nothing coming up that would cause offence or embarrassment. Thank you all on " Timeus. Teamus
Excellent Shaw top-notch. I was born in England but I move down here to the United States definitely I’ve learned so much thank you.
28:10- love Jackie's skull & bones shirt!
One of the Best videos made by Time Team !!!!!!!
*I only WISH that this show was still being filmed... It’s fascinating stuff!* 🤷🏻♀️
Apparently it got too expensive to do. The guy doing the producing had stuck with it all the way thru, but realized , I guess, by the end of the 19th season, that it was just costing too much. And there had been some hard feelings about some of the personnel changes that were made over the last few seasons. Still, an absolutely wonderful show with great track record. It encouraged ordinary folks to go out and have a good hard look at where they lived, and what was in the landscape.
It also didn’t help that mick Aston passed away a couple of years ago so I doubt it will come back
Some relevant news:
th-cam.com/video/Zj2bjBLSqcE/w-d-xo.html
Two digs this summer!
you won't like WOKE Archeology.
Tony, thank you for the questions you ask. You almost take the words from my mouth. Cheers!
*Rhonda Miller*
That was the most important part of his job on *TT.* He's actually an accomplished amateur archæologist and would actually have known many of the answers.
i just watched a 1983 video of phill usig a sharp ston to chop down a tree..what a hunk...chech it out its 2018 and this series never gets old ...cheers from BC Canada
For the first time ever, so far, I truly wish for a fourth day. That wonderful pot , complete and full of dirt, what was in that dirt? Who was that great general and what was buried with him?
I wish for an entire dig.
Me, too. This location could probably have supported an entire season. So many different areas to explore that they never even touched on. I find it a bit frustrating.
@@35mm21 , Do you have a link you can put up we can see those pictures?🥀🥀
i love the lighthearted bantzering between the team. even when knowing that most of it is being -scripted-. who cares, it is fun to watch. and if it would have been serious, i doubt the team would have been together for so many years. and be so successful on top of it.
Someday I am going to take a trip to the British Isles and Europe and go visit all the Time Team sites. Someday...
I just finished watching this episode with my son and immediately went to the internet to find out what was discovered after the fact. It's nice now having watched these episodes when they originally aired to be able to come back and see what else has been done. I even learned new terms.
This is a very good episode. Great finds.
Time Traveling with Tony & Friends - Great Stuff!
Great Episode. I would have liked more than three days here. Interesting site!
As of 2019 Binchester is an active archeological site & museum that is ran by Durham University.
Thanks for posting!
Thanks for the update! 👏🏻👏🏻
Any links to this information?
I did a You Tube search for "Durham University/Binchester". There were two videos on Binchester.
@matineerocks don't be a Grammar NAZI, its not nice
I bet anyone associated with TT will at the end of their life look back at that time as one of, if not, the most satisfying chapters of their life.
unbelievably sadly, Mick died thinking he had failed in his efforts to bring archaeology to the masses. the bosses really fucked over his vision in the last couple of series. breaks my heart tbh, because he is so loved and respected and he died without realising it. i wish i could believe he knows it now, but i don't.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 Do you have that information from somewhere (that he felt like he failed)? It just sounds highly implausible to me.
@@ericathefae it was either in a doc about time team (maybe a retrospective type of thing, after the series were finished), or a random interview with one of the gang...maybe Tony, can't remember. Pretty sure was on TV though, rather than something I read about. If you can find any docs about the programme, you might find the conversation I referred to above. Definitely not making it up, it made me very sad.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 That is damn sad. I wish they still made programs like this especially because it makes archaeology avaiable to lay folk.
Thanks for answering!
Wow, great episode. One of the best I've seen. Such an exciting dig
Watching again, two years after my first viewing and just a few months after the hype surrounding TTs relaunch kicked into gear. Im perfectly sober this time and at 26:42 I still see "LUXor" in the geophys...
Incidentally, is this ( 10:50 ) the first time Naomi Sewpaul gets a formal credit in Time Team? I note her presence in the background throughout seasons 13 and 14 but I dont think she ever got her name in subtitles before. Good to see that she's in the new version along with other old faces.
This is an excellent example of how TT introduced more light-hearted interactions, with a positive end result. Phil and Brigid laughing over changing theories, Helen and Jackie lifting an urn together - perfecct examples of experts enjoying their professions. The only sour note is Guy grimacing for the camera, which he overdid and thankfully stopped doing later. My point is, the later alterations which included less archaeology and more silliness, were not at all needed. This season lightened up the format just fine.
Either it's acting, or being in denial about needing glasses... Didn't he have them in later episodes?
The GeoPhys results at 8:30 look more like an abstract art of a guy throwing a boomerang. I guess I've been up too long watching these good videos, I'm seeing things.
Thanks as well from me, Reijer!
I see it! lol
Yes Tony, Binchester was an early Roman Fort, they built them on their way up the country, and the old settlement that you mentioned would have been down by the side of the river Wear what is called the Batts, because they always lived by the river for the water and the fishing, and over the past two thousand years the settlement has moved up from the river, up along the old Roman Road which is now Newgate Street in my home town of Bishop Auckland. Time Team is very good and interesting but to only have three days for a dig is quite honestly a waste of time, weeks or months are needed for a really good dig.
Brilliant - a very interesting episode. Thank you for uploading :)
This was one of the most exciting episodes ever!
27:00 Thanks, Mick, for saying the plural form of 'mausoleum' correctly.
That is so cool the find you all made. Yes, wish you guys are still doing these finds. SAD
I would love to see this show rebooted with today’s technology!
you won't like the new presenter.
Yeah the new version sucks.
I so wish I could have been an archeologist, specializing in middens. Since I was a small child I've been fascinated by things that are old, broken, discarded, disapproved. It's the side of the world we don't see. That says a lot.
You should have a go and volunteer at a site!
Interesting. I lived at Byers Green in the Old Rectory, Hagg Lane, Byers Green back in 1969 - 1970 or so. Knew nothing about Roman ruins back then of course but the house was said to be haunted!
Why are people so obsessed with Phil’s nails? His nails, his business.
tools of the trade mebbeh?
@@monabale8263 He plays guitar, has in a couple of episodes, watch the Jamestown show
Sherry Elliott, ignore the ignorant comments from ignorant people.
A bit uncivilized...
Those are guitarist's nalis.
You guys make it so exciting
@17:20 "What's the solution?" YOU REVISIT THE SITE, duh!
Love the show!
The most overlooked part of this episode is the fact that those men wrote their names, well ...for time team or whom ever did, to discover!
Phil Harding talks and laughs like a pirate!!! arghhhhhh!
That is so fascinating that I wish my History O level teacher who wrote me off (in 1956) could now see my total absorption into this and other periods of English history. Could it be that Mister Hill failed to inspire me?
HM...E.G.S. 1951 -1956. Old Essian. Eccles Cake town!
MauriaOttolink,
I also failed my History O'levels but the reason I did was probably that (at the time) I loved ancient history and World War II bored me. I have noted that they still have World War II on the O level syllabus. I wrote my O level's 39 years ago. But at school we had a wonderful History teacher who took any opportunity to sneak in a lesson about ancient civilizations. Her name was Miss Mellier. Her sneak lessons fired my life long passion for history. Thank You Ma'am.
No insult to anyone from other countries intended but I find British documentaries amazing. They are always so well researched and the presentation and presenters are par excellence. I do not believe that they can be equaled anywhere. I find myself riveted to the screen. The expression 'Totally Hooked' would be appropriate. And when your attention is so fixed you cannot help but learn a lot.
Best wishes
MauriaOttolink= same here,but I don't recall a Mister Hill still being at E.G.S. in 1965.The name Mr Thomas springs to mind.The old school is now housing.And the playing field/canteen is too.
E.G.S. Old Essayan/Essian 1965-72
MauriatOttolink Could it be with age you no longer think of everything from the past as irrelevant to your self-absorbed young life?
MauriatOttolink maybe you should dig up your former teacher and tell him.
While I was watching this I just read that Prof Mick Aston died last night. Very sad news :-( RIP and Thank You
It seems weird to watch older episodes knowing he's gone RIP and thank you
He's someone I wish I could have had a conversation with. He was brilliant.
@@cindydintn A date for the Prof's death? (I'm a latecomer to this brilliant series, so very uninformed.)
I am a Time team addict I just love the show
We are fascinated with archeology, aren't we? This is my father's fault. He loved history and archaeology is very very old history. I read about Dr. Leakey in National Geographic magazines from the time I was in elementary school. Now I am ancient history and I still love this stuff.
"Can I come in your trench?"
"Would you like to rephrase that?"
...said Stormy Daniels to donald Trump.
So i wasn't the only one who laughed at that then Andrew.
VC YT ... apart from the obvious tediousness and boring wankery of the predictable shyte that is anti Trump hysteria, ... it would "be said Trump to Stormy Daniels".
"anti-Trump hysteria"? Are you for real?
And the exsperts have a mass debate over the trench !
Thanks for sharing! !!
Dirty but fulfilling work . I would love to be in on one of their digs .
Worst idea ever cancelling Time Team!!
I must agree - I have enjoyed every single episode I've ever seen. Plus, Tony Robinson.
The last season they tried to sex it up and dumb it down, bringing in some woman to co-host with Tony, and putting less emphasis upon the actual archaeology. In response Mick quit the show to protest, and ratings went way down, so Channel 4 cancelled it.
Greg B
THAT is an absolute tragedy! Why screw with this wonderful recipe? Sex it up??? It's archaeology! It's already sexy! Stoopid TV people. That seems like such an American TV tactic, not something done on BBC. I've always thought the Brits had much more intelligent programs available compared to the network tv crap served up by Hollyweird. This doesn't take the new trend in cable channel-sponsored fare into account. I will miss Time Team.
amsterdamsel -- Time Team was not a BBC production. Channel 4, a commercial broadcaster, produced and aired the show.
Greg B
Thanks for setting me straight. Clearly, as an American, it is all the same, to me. To put it in a way that might make sense to my side of the pond, there was commercial television and then there was PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
...awww miss TT... and Tony's manhandling of the artifacts while everyone held their collective breath lol
"We're not going to dig any more trenches" "Wait. We're going to dig more trenches" lol
I really wished this show would be picked back up and broadcast in America.
One of my fave episodes, because of Guy taking Tony thru the mausoleum, talking about how the commander's descendants would have come for a visit and brought a nice meal to share with their ancestor. The human touch.
Tony, two things. First, to answer your question at 17:14 about what is the solution? Dig, of course. Second, when you ask the question at 27:07, "... so, if we have a lot of mausoleums in a long line, what does it tell us?" It tells me, that a lot of people were dying and being buried.
Archaeologists complained about the Time Team show but really, if Time Team hadn't done this work who would have? The other archaeologists obviously weren't interested or had any desire to do the sites that Tony and crew have done. Good on them and for letting us in on what's normally a private occupation.
Money is the answer, takes a lot to do a dig properly, and TV comes up with enough to do three days worth
memikell I agree. A lot of the time they go to sites that are currently being researched. They bring pinpoint muscle and lots of exposure. Maybe other pros resent the flash and the ephemeral nature of the work. But it has to be welcome publicity to each site.
The most interesting note of the episode was Ptolemy’s mention of the Brigantean city of Vinovia---If you’re into European tribes you’ll recognize the significance of that
It would be a perfect landscape to inhabit right back into prehistory, wouldn't it? Perhaps the forts or the erosion wiped it out? 🤔
Awsome episode
That Phil is a cool cat to work and drink with.ain't he?
Paul iriarte probably would be.. never could figure out why if u used hands like archaeologists do he could keep vampire nails like that lol
Because, as already stated further down several times, he plays the guitar
I'm just curious as to what kind of beer he drinks, being pub friendly myself.
I love the comraderie between these guys. I always laugh at them.
I love watching and learning this history! Just hard to believe isn’t it? I would live to have seen Rome in it’s hey-day!
There are locations where you can see nearly pristine ruins. Not surprisingly, Rome has a lot that aren’t pristine but give you an incredible feel for the scale of urban parts of the empire. You should go see them some time, it’s spectacular!
Helen my sort of archeologist!
For the love of God give the man more than three days!!!!
Always felt they should of let them dig longer. As long as it takes. Over the years you feel like maybe they could of missed countless finds in areas where they simply run out if time. Always loved the show still.
should have and could have
When TT hit a productive site like this one, other archaeologists got funding to pursue the work. Excavations of the vicus at Binchester, for instance, began within 2 years of TT's departure and continued for at least 7 years thereafter, with more work to come.
Everywhere2 as far as archaeology goes, one of their primary functions was to attract attention to the site. They needed to remain entertaining to achieve that. They also had regular jobs during the week.
I'm in America and going through Time Team withdrawals!
Did you see the one where Tony and Phil went Dino Digging in Montana?
@@theodius-diogenes nope not yet. Will have to look for it.
Best banter ever!
Saw the second wall when they showed the mag rezults first time looks like loads of moselemes runing in a line off too the side of deer Street, verry roman
I love how they all hoot and holler and cat call some good aerial photography with crop marks.
Great show
I really like Time Team.
They should commission a bunch of sweaters like Mic's and use them for a fundraiser. I would pay a stupid amount for one.
I'd buy one for our son and one each of the two sons-in-law and one each for our four grandsons.
now that they're bringing time team back that'd be a timely idea.
Just go to british walmart yo
@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 yea new dude os the creepiest mf ive ever seen tho
@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 and he speaks to the camera like we are all slow children
Love this,show ty
Working my way through these programs one by one, I have to admit that there's also part of me that can't wait to get to the last series where it all gets messed up just because I've read so many complaints about it.
It wasn't actually bad, just not as good.
I've just watched episode 11 of series 19 and realised that what Phil Potter says is right about it not being so good .. but all the criticisms of Mary Ann Ochota were totally wrong about her. She is such a pleasant lady and managed to put a lovely, happy smile on Tony's face during one scene. I have not seen him ever like that on TT. Well done girl!
Just a shame that she was listed as a co-presenter and not used for that role much.
I'm now back to watching series 15 of TT. I enjoy seeing how a good team produces such good results with their many and varied skills. We should try to emulate such efforts in whatever we do from day to day and reflect how well each day passes with challenges faced and overcome. Failure is always a good place to learn important life lessons. Bless you all.
I never gave to opening monologue much attention, but now I has given me pause. Question: Were regular Roman soldiers and brick makers literate ? Who wrote the names on the brick?
That's a fair question, Alan Macphail.
Literacy would have been required to be an NCO or a commissioned officer.
a lot of wounded soldiers learned other trades so they could stay in the army - in pompeii they found a body with carpentry tools but closer examination indicated that he was a former soldier and had taken a spear point in the femur
signing work has been around a long time, I found a signature in the attic dated 100 years ago
Literacy can be measured by degrees.
@@mistanix As long ago as 1917? Astonishing. You'd think they wouldn't have known how to write way back then, what with schools not having been invented yet, and wouldn't have wanted anyone to know they were responsible for the work if they could write. :)
People love to leave their mark. You can hardly stop them. There is a place where wagon trains watered their animals going west and the rock was full of names and dates. Mark Twain remarked that his group to the Holy Land were always defacing something or other. It drove him crazy. :) Homeowners often put family names in cement they pour. It's fun to think someone in the future will see it.
Was here Dec 2019
me too
Whats with the time limit on the dig? I would think that if they were finding all kinds of history changing discoveries the government would say "Good work chaps! Keep digging!
They are not working for the government. They are working for a regional TV producer. The intent is to only perform 3 days (Friday through Sunday) of digging and filming. The archeologists and staff have other full time jobs.
Government diggers take over important digs like this one.
I think the time limit is on the dig so they could fit the results into a show that wasn't hours long.
Why was this show canceled??? I'm addicted!
I'm sure it had something to do with production trying to fix what wasn't broken.
7:40 phil has amazing fingernails and look how clean they are for someone who appears to have been digging in dirt.
So great to see so many finds concentrated in one area!
❤
UK gets time team. Us gets ancient aliens and pickers. Pha!
Rick Boatright and “squatchers” who go “squatchin”.
don't knock it, you get the freaky hairdoo guy ;-)
Tony says "Geo Phys & Can I Come In To Your Trench" classic time team. Yes the UK gets history us Yanks get stupid programs like Ancient Aliens and The Mystery Of Oak Island - Rubbish!. Our History Channel has nothing to do with history anymore. 3 Cheers For Time Team!
Rick Boatright That’s what is cheap to make. It fills show slots cheaply but you forgot all the shows making fun of bad relation ships. 90days or married at first sight!
wait, wait, wait, I agree about the aliens, kardasians, etc, but american pickers sometimes come up with really decent finds. not Old but oldish, and interesting.
I like it to see Phil wear Dutch Army surplus at 36.48.... Trust Holland to keep everybody warm...
Can anyone help me understand the "ditches" they find at almost every sight? Were they for water drainage...or for sewage....or something else. Just curious. Thanks
in this case they are defensive, idea is to slow down and keep the angry people out so you dig a trench/moat to make it harder for them to get to you
thanks!
@@DaSaNi38 Just to expand, on other sites they can mark boundaries (usually they once had hedges), burial of important people, places where there were stone foundations and, occasionally, actual ditches for drainage.
Well, you have to give the invading bad people something to build a bridge and get over right?! ;)
Don't know but they really like to dig them
This program needs to be brought back 😨
Here,here!
@4:19 Nice hat!!!
Naomi is absolutely adorable. ^^
+Immopimmo Tony is tiny so Naomi must be *elvin*!
If I was digging a trench with her I would have real difficulties keeping my eyes on the archaeology.
I hear you, brother!
She has a sweet Lancashire accent
Maybe that's why Tony asked if he could come in her trench
I ❤ Jackie's shirt!
Weird how something like this would be limited to the 3 day limit. Maybe that works great for a TV show, but I hope they kept going.
It is exploratory archaeology, 3 days is enough to determine if a site has potential for a larger dig. Or in some cases such as sites that were scheduled without a dig to determine if it should be scheduled or not. This is standard procedure when funds are tight, you need to know whether it's worth the $$$ and time to dig, especially in a place where you have so much history and so many sites.
Phil is a guitar player, he only has longer finger nails on one hand. =)
Great dig.
5:20 what do they mean by the field being "scheduled". why does this limit the number of trenches?
Oliver Westcott Normally scheduled means that a building or place has great historical or artistic importance and is legally protected from disturbance or development.
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It's a historic registry. There are different levels of how protected they are.
Still awesome!
Awesome!
I honestly think about eighty percent of the Time Team episodes I have watched have someone say 'this is the largest' something 'ever on a Time Team'.