Time Team Commentary: '5000 Tons of Stone' | S15E11
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- Time Team Episode Commentary
S15E11: '5000 Tons of Stone' (Hamsterley, County Durham)
Tim and Dani look back at Time Team's trip to Hamsterley, County Durham. It was a contradictory site - a colossal structure brimming with above-ground archaeology, yet so difficult to make sense of. Maybe a clue to the answer had something to do with beetles?
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Read the excavation report, courtesy of Wessex Archaeology here: www.wessexarch...
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thanks for the stories. I like the one about Mick growing something from ancient seeds!
Thanks for the link to the report. The program is interesting but it is only in the detail of the report that the considered understanding of the site comes out. Links to later work done would be great.
Agree its really great to have these review shows and see the reports republished. The conclusions drawn on the shows are often rushed and somewhat confused by the editing process, and obviously can't take in the full range of information from the proper study of the evidence collected. Also good to see that TT wasn't just going out and ripping up sites for TV but also funding some level of proper post excavation analysis and producing proper reports.
It's still a wonder with the size of this site and the vast time period of it's supposed use that there were little to no finds. Not even the 'background noise' of history, especially in a place like this, it must have been a magnet for people between its last period of use and the present day. What an enigma!
Cool bonus video on the S15E11 upload 👌😎
Very good. Thank you.
This was a very interesting discussion absolutely fascinating !
Co Durham... there were several Time Team episodes from this under-reported (and under-rated) county
I so enjoy these videos!
"this neglected monument'
4km from where I was brought up, and I'd never heard of it!
The greatest enigma in my observation was the manpower needed to aquire, transport and erect 5000 tonnes of stone ( which equates to ca. max 2500 m³) .Then the team deduced that very few people lived within its walls. This seems illogical but the stones are there, Thus the main question to solve is nor primarily how old but why?
I sorely lack understanding of how stone structures are assembled.....
If it is iron age, why have the stones not been robbed away and used elsewhere? Most of the later Roman sites you went to have had stones robbed away etc. So unless there was no local population or it was taboo or contaminated etc, maybe it is newer than you think? A folly? Or landowner was going to build a castle or water tank? Did they research landowner history? I miss Robin etc. Fascinating programme and site. Thank you.
Hadrian's wall nearby? Probably an ancient site, that the romans pulled stones off the walls to build their wall...
The Romans appear to have mined stone to build the wall with. They wanted stones of a certain quality, size, and finish to form a sturdy wall with a smooth unyielding surface.
Hadrians wall has nothing to do with this in my view. Too remote and not in the Roman era other than rectangular. I think the source of the stone, the tools used could have some clue. TT gets the brain working😬
A lot of stones to shift.
I’m wondering if Phil is actually Derick of Derick and the Dominoes? Can I start that rumor
Of course he is, no question about it🍺
I thought Derrick was sort of backfill of names from blues greats Delaney & Bonnie Bramlet when Eric first hammed with them in America.
Phil, however, IS a rock star.
@@TermiteUSA Phil truly is a rock star.
@@TermiteUSA Wikipedia goes into detail on how the band was named. Rock on Phil (he’s a big Peter Green fan, you know).
What is Emma Tetlow's accent?
Sounds Brummie to my untutored ear.
@@free_gold4467 It's a fascinating accent for sure, not getting any brummie, did think for a sec I heard a touch of Scottish, but her accents are all over the place.
@@davidfiler5414 Well I'm Scottish so I'm sure I would have got that- can't remember it now but I'm sure an English accent.
@@free_gold4467 Well you would know, I'm Welsh, so we can scrub that one too. Suggest somewhere in the black country and leave it at that.
@@davidfiler5414 Are you talking about the woman in this video? Emma Tetlow is the soil specialist from the episode who sounded very brummie to me.