They did a follow-up on this site. I grew up there and participated in the '05 dig, but had left by the time of the follow-up. All the locals knew it was there and a lot of us have little trinkets from the fields after they would plow.
Phil is an example of a man who you might think would get tired of digging in the dirt, but he absolutely loves it. It is lovely to see a man who loves to do what he does. And I have to say it is nice to see these folks working in nice weather for a change. I give them credit for working through all kinds of wind and rain and cold. Thank you everyone.
It must have been an amazing privilege for Time Team to have had the first dig opportunity at this wonderful site. Given its significance, was there ever additional excavations done at later dates, any new discoveries about its history?
Time Team did a follow-up on this site for their "Big Roman Dig" series in 2005, and the University of Winchester continued to do excavations there until 2007. I couldn't find any information after that, unfortunately. Lots of stuff behind paywalls. Sigh.
Ditto! I would love to find a Roman villa, Iron Age round house, any ancient coin (but preferably a silver hammered one), an Anglo-Saxon Anything, a Danish ie Viking hoard or ship burial in my backyard or top field. We just don't have anything comparable here. ❤️🇦🇺
The more rural the archeological site is, the more interest there's likely to be from the local British people. First off the better preserved and less disturbed sites are much more likely to be rural sites. Then of course Britain is rapidly changing demographically, much more rapidly than at any time since the last the ice age some 12.5 k years ago. So since almost nobody presently residing in what today is referred to as the UK is related to people living back then (in ancien times), just how much interest is there likely to those ancient peoples? I don't suspect nearly as much interest as more modern populations have to people more closely related them. That 's just human nature, nothing else.
After a long life of being facinated whith history in all forms, watching the Time Teams discovery today I felt a deep satisfaction What a spectacular find! The Team mustbe so thrilled, as we are just watching their excitement. Bevmusic
Its really amazing how time has just worn away the walls and all the upper structure down and simultaneously just burried the foundations 6 inches under the dirt. I realize that's almost 2,000 years. Just kind of mind blowing regardless. Amazing that so many floors and mosaics have been preserved for all that time.
The home was large enough to look more like a public building such as a hotel - what an amazing dig this must have been - it would have been so exciting to be there on the ground when they were rediscovering this treasure. And all because Trudy decided to do a bit of spot arachnology - bless her!
Pretty remarkable. I can't imagine wanting to farm that land going forward. I'd be digging it up for the rest of my days. Though I dunno how laws work for that sort of thing in the U.K.
Absolutely fantastic I mean not only the roman's building..but the archeology, the geophysics and the whole team..they are really briliant scientist..would love to.watch the next finding. Thank you for sharing the knowledge
All over Britain beautiful houses like this were abandoned and pulled down shortly after the Roman legions left, and the people moved to hill forts. It seems because they could not be defended. For a thousand years the wealthy and powerful lived in some kind of fort or castle. Only in the late 14th and early 15th century did they start to build something resembling this Roman villa or what we call the stately homes of old England. Stunning to think how quickly civil society collapsed and how long it took to re establish law and order.
I like to think about the people who used to walk these corridors of tile. They had no idea that one day the floor they were walking on would be excavated and posted onto some global sharing platform. Weird to think that the every day objects we interact with during our lives will likely outlive us.
If they bury it, it will be preserved as it has been for 1600 years. If it was left exposed to the elements it would deteriorate. It can be re excavated later if it becomes possible to build a museum over it.
@@mrdanforth3744Unless someone tries to steal it by digging it up and damages it in the process. Or someone damages it just for jollies, like happened to the 400 year old notch tree by Hadrian's Wall.
How are these works of art preserved? Are they covered with some sort of protective sheet then recovered with dirt… are they removed bit by bit and reassembled elsewhere?
I’ve been told that if there’s enough money and time, they will take what they have with them to wherever they can display it or save it. If they can’t, they have to re-bury it and mark it. This with the hope that they can come back one day and get it. Sadly, a lot of the times they can’t ever go back because of money.
@chrisb3989we the issue is that it's a plow field. It's land that belongs to a farmer, not the national trust or whatever. They can't force the farmer to not make a livelihood just to protect what's in the ground.
@chrisb3989they showed the plow damage on the mosaic in the episode. I know there are several philosophical positions when it comes to ancient objects. One says that they should be left in situ and protected, another and the one I proscribe to, is that these objects were designed to be seen and enjoyed and that when discovered we should strive to continue that. I understand that the cost of excavating, and building some kind of place for them to be viewed is extremely expensive. So I get it for the time being they are better rebutted. But it's not a good long term solution as they'll further degrade and likely eventually be re-lost at some future point
After maybe half a dozen rewatches Ive finally noticed Tony saving face around at 14:00 cause he cant bare to admit he likes little finds just as much as big ones. Thats a good chunk of plaster!
Time team really puts into perspective how amazing the Roman Empire was. To occupy england for 400 years (a fringe territory too) is longer than most countries have existed in their modern forms. It’s AMAZING to me that single families could occupy the same place for centuries too.
Having watched quite a few Time Team episodes, I thought from time to time: "One day, these guys are going to find a full, high quality Roman mosaic." Well, when it rains, it pours :) Let me ponder a bit the mystery of why this complex seems to have been simply abandone: Noting the blend of Celtic and Roman authority, it might seem that the local rulers using this grand house might try to "Out-Roman" each other, to cast into stone (and mosaic) their allegience to their Roman overlords, making them feel quite at home in England. Then, early 5th century, when the roman legions left 'temporarily', there was no Roman overlord to sho allegience to in a physical form like this. Could it be that in the political vacuum of this time, it became a political demand that the tribal chiefs abandon their 'Romanness' in facor of Celtic or Anglo-Saxon allegience, thus abandoned this pretty valuable house due to political pressure?
All over England these large houses were abandoned and the owners moved to hill forts. The houses were pulled down and the stone brick and timber reused elsewhere. It seems they were abandoned because they were no longer safe from attack after the legions left. For the next 1000 years the wealthy and powerful lived in some kind of fort or castle. Only in the late 14th and early 15th century did they begin to build something resembling these Roman villas, that we call the stately homes of old England.
Did it rot away do to abandoned neglect and savaging or was it destroyed on purpose? Was it already a ruin when it was torn down? Or did the owner have the wrong friends? Many unanswered questions. It could take years of archeology to uncover it all. Are people still digging the site today?
@randywise5241 - Perhaps it recycled by the owning family for projects elsewhere, outright looted, or salvaged by local folks well after it was abandoned?
Trudy must have been beside herself when she unearthed the puece of mosaic! How amazing to have this Enormous Romano Celtic villa with stunning mosaics in your field.
I just love what you guys do! I've always wanted to go on an excavation, problem was I kept asking my father to go on an exhibition! Lol. He asked if I was sure. We finally figured out I had meant to say expedition It's still a joke today.
That's how the show works. These folks all have day jobs and they can't stay onsite for more than a long weekend. Other archeologists come in after and keep working the dig, usually.
It's crudely popular to run down geophys, but look at how beautifully it functions to effectively x-ray the ground. Well over half the time, geophys gets it right and even reveals more than anyone dreamed of finding.
These people blow my mind with their archaeological approach. There’s a lot of prep, don’t get me wrong… but they’re like, basically SCOOPING this stuff out with a pickaxe. 😂
I really like and respect Tony Robinson, he seems quite educative person, his documentaries are awesome, I never realized that he's Baldric from Blackadder.😃😁
Funny you say that because Tony wasn't really highly educated nor did he come from a well off family. He's done a lot in his lifetime tho and you could say he's culturally educated.
Oh dang... Can you imagine that farmer who plowed over the Mosaic lol. Just minding your business with no idea you're dragging a metal blade across a 2,000 year old piece of history lol.
I think partly the Anglo-Saxons came along. They preferred to live in dirt and straw huts, allowing their livestock to inhabit solid houses with rooves and central-heating. It's a cultural thing.
Got to admit if I found one of the 10 best mosaic floors which prompted my neighbor to dig and find a better one I might have to plan a bit of revenge sabotage, lol
Hello, I am a fan of the program and I always try not to miss a video but there is something that catches my attention and I’d like you to answer the following : Those fields where you can find such beautiful, historically valuable and ancient mosaics from the Roman period in the UK have never been used for agriculture? When plowing the land, these relics could have been destroyed because they are located at a very shallow depth. Thank you. Sonia S. Echavarria, La Paz, BCS, México.
As I understand it, yes those fields are used for agriculture and yes many artifacts have been lost/destroyed by plowing for hundreds of years. It’s unfortunate but necessary as if they had to protect every single artifact in the UK, nothing else could get done.
The place is recorded and reported to the regional archeology people and they decide if they have time and funds to go further with it. You can google this one by name: Lopen, Sommerset.
why dont the consider this to be an historical site and preserve this and open it to the public? the property owner could probably make some good money on it with all the council laws there probably will never happen to many rules restrictions etc
Are the discoveries reburied after three days? Also, if they aren't reburied, are they protected? I'd like to know what happens afterward. re-burying it seems counter-productive
What happens after you leave a find like this? Is it covered back up or does an organization assist the owners in completing uncovering and preserving it?
Most of the archeologists have jobs where they work 4 days a week, as professors of archeology or consultants. They do digs on weekends plus one day out of their regular work week.
the other day I was digging a random hole down here in South Africa and low and behold I found ancient roman artifacts. a friend of a friend of a friend dated it for me. he reckons you guys need to fly over. here is the deal.... you can take from the 20 x 7.5m hole whatever you want. the one side must be 3ft deep and the deep end 6ft. really bring your friends..... a lot to be discovered. once you are done, dont stress about the hole. I will replicate the mosiac and line the ancient hole with cement. finally preserve everything with water.
I often wonder why they dont use a push broom to clean loose debris...just sweep a few feet and check the pile. I'm not an archaeologist but it seems like that would be more efficient without really sacrificing anything.
I love being European. I love our history. I love our languages. I love our culture. I love that in in love with being European.And no modern "academics" are going to make me feel ashamed for any of it. The world's best composers, architects, physicists, warriors, explorers all came from our people. ❤️
"I ignore and embrace genocide because art" - not a monster at all academics aren't trying to make you feel guilty, your conscience is but you beat it into a pulp long ago so you don't really have one left, just a bottomless hole of deluded victimhood
@@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis The modern World is built on technology created by European and US scientists. Electricity, steam and gas engines, automobile, airplane, sewing machines and power fabric looms, telephone, television, vaccines, chemistry products and fertilizers, the refrigerator and microwave. Bottle caps, asphalt road pavers, the elevator. Thank the West!
If anyone wonders why it was "the Dark Ages", Britain's countryside went from living like this to dung-and-straw huts and river-clay thumb pots for almost 1000 years after Rome fell. Civilization is wild, it really is.
Self-righteous scholars seeking to make history as dry and tone deaf as possible. We went from calling the "Barbarian Invasions" the "Migration Period". They try to prove you wrong by saying "oh well life didn't change much when the Franks & Goths came!", well yes, maybe within 1 year of the government changing. How about 100 years? All those barbarian tribes bring knowledge of literacy, governance, arts, and science? It baffles me why they want to change perspectives and interpretations on a civilizationally inferior people coming to power over the continent and making things worse off.
@@andriandrason1318 I suppose it depends on where you're standing but large parts of Europe and Britain certainly had them. Going from tiled bathrooms to Charlemagne wondering out loud if cheese rinds made you smart is quite a drop in style
@@MrCarlbrooks The Frankish King and Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, who initiated a cultural and artistic flowering known as the Carolingian Renaissance?
@@MrCarlbrooks …and nowadays we have neck bearded incels LARP-ing the 1100s in every available public park, because back in the Middle Ages women really did exist simply to serve men 🙄
I love their job, i love archeology, sadly, i dont have the budget back then to apply for this course at the university. So I turned to civil engineering. I dont know, maybe i am drawn to earthwork.
just t have some ting like that under my land would be wonder ful, I'd best do my to reconstruct the building and come up with a way too preserve the tiles i think soft slippers available for tourists, to walk where romans once walked would a wonder. it would give one pause and make me think about the wonder.
He said,"we haven't got the labor," then i see like twenty people just standing around looking at the ones actually working. Reminds me of a average construction site.
In 2000 yrs some archaeologist is gonna be at a dig site uncovering a linoleum floor thinking "WTF was wrong with these people?!" as he discovers an older cedar hardwood floor underneath that.
You don't need to wait 2000 years. I had an antique house (well, antique for the U.S., it was built around 1775) where I removed a layer of linoleum, a layer of plywood, a second layer of linoleum, and standard wooden flooring about 3" wide, to discover original floorboards 10" wide dating back to the original house.
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Episodes like this have me saving loudly to my pc "Make this a whole season and uncover the whole thing!!"
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I want to see all of it
They did a follow-up on this site. I grew up there and participated in the '05 dig, but had left by the time of the follow-up. All the locals knew it was there and a lot of us have little trinkets from the fields after they would plow.
@@hawk4192that's awesome!
Me too
Phil is an example of a man who you might think would get tired of digging in the dirt, but he absolutely loves it. It is lovely to see a man who loves to do what he does. And I have to say it is nice to see these folks working in nice weather for a change. I give them credit for working through all kinds of wind and rain and cold. Thank you everyone.
Phil needs a tee shirt that says "I Love My Job"!
@@maryseman7019 He allready has such a hat.
@@maryseman7019 He really does love his job and a tee shirt would be the ideal giift for him. Great show this one!
It's just so amazing to see a mosaic as it's discovered and unearthed. Plus the fact that it's 1500 years old!
I started doing mosacis 20 years ago. These ancient mosaics are so inspiring.
It must have been an amazing privilege for Time Team to have had the first dig opportunity at this wonderful site. Given its significance, was there ever additional excavations done at later dates, any new discoveries about its history?
Time Team did a follow-up on this site for their "Big Roman Dig" series in 2005, and the University of Winchester continued to do excavations there until 2007. I couldn't find any information after that, unfortunately. Lots of stuff behind paywalls. Sigh.
@@mk_oddity2841It's called greed, unfortunately.
As an Australian I am SO jealous of the history of England and finding awesome stuff like this.
Ditto! I would love to find a Roman villa, Iron Age round house, any ancient coin (but preferably a silver hammered one), an Anglo-Saxon Anything, a Danish ie Viking hoard or ship burial in my backyard or top field.
We just don't have anything comparable here.
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As an American, same
I don't doubt there's pretty awesome stuff in Australia too ...obviously not roman mosaics but amazing folkways dismissed as savagery.
I don't doubt there's pretty awesome stuff in Australia too ...obviously not roman mosaics but amazing folkways dismissed as savagery.
@@stephanieyee9784As an Australian I think you probably do share the history of Britain somewhere?
I'm always glad to see that the Time Team has attracted the interest of the local residents. Especially the children.
The more rural the archeological site is, the more interest there's likely to be from the local British people. First off the better preserved and less disturbed sites are much more likely to be rural sites. Then of course Britain is rapidly changing demographically, much more rapidly than at any time since the last the ice age some 12.5 k years ago. So since almost nobody presently residing in what today is referred to as the UK is related to people living back then (in ancien times), just how much interest is there likely to those ancient peoples? I don't suspect nearly as much interest as more modern populations have to people more closely related them. That 's just human nature, nothing else.
wow what a fantastic find, so special so unique, hope they keep digging, would love to see it competed
I think they dug more of it in a time team special
After a long life of being facinated whith history in all forms, watching the Time Teams discovery today I felt a deep satisfaction What a spectacular find! The Team mustbe so thrilled, as we are just watching their excitement. Bevmusic
Its really amazing how time has just worn away the walls and all the upper structure down and simultaneously just burried the foundations 6 inches under the dirt. I realize that's almost 2,000 years. Just kind of mind blowing regardless. Amazing that so many floors and mosaics have been preserved for all that time.
The walls was robbed out, no way was it weathering !
Is there a part II?? I must know more!
I love time team; they are so awesome.
I love history.
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The home was large enough to look more like a public building such as a hotel - what an amazing dig this must have been - it would have been so exciting to be there on the ground when they were rediscovering this treasure. And all because Trudy decided to do a bit of spot arachnology - bless her!
She found a spider?
@catofthecastle1681 maybe it means she dug the hole in a webbed pattern.
@@catofthecastle1681She not only found a spider she studied it!
Very interesting. Thank you for inviting us with you.
Amazing... simply amazing...
I, like a few other commenters, would love to know what happened to the floors as well
The floor found under the driveway was removed to All Saints Church in Lopen.
I wonder what the farmer is going to do with that land now.
This is my favorite dig of them all. Mosaics are my special passion and I love this
If that was my field I wouldn’t be able to resist uncovering all of that. What a wonderful thing to find below your cows.
I could just tell that coin at 8:15 had the portrait of Nero on it without Guy even having to say it. His portraits always looked very unique.
Pretty remarkable.
I can't imagine wanting to farm that land going forward. I'd be digging it up for the rest of my days.
Though I dunno how laws work for that sort of thing in the U.K.
Absolutely fantastic I mean not only the roman's building..but the archeology, the geophysics and the whole team..they are really briliant scientist..would love to.watch the next finding. Thank you for sharing the knowledge
All over Britain beautiful houses like this were abandoned and pulled down shortly after the Roman legions left, and the people moved to hill forts. It seems because they could not be defended. For a thousand years the wealthy and powerful lived in some kind of fort or castle. Only in the late 14th and early 15th century did they start to build something resembling this Roman villa or what we call the stately homes of old England.
Stunning to think how quickly civil society collapsed and how long it took to re establish law and order.
Truly amazing find! I hope it gets, or has already been, fully excavated and evaluated...its got to be one of the very top villas in Britain.
I like to think about the people who used to walk these corridors of tile. They had no idea that one day the floor they were walking on would be excavated and posted onto some global sharing platform. Weird to think that the every day objects we interact with during our lives will likely outlive us.
How can they rebury this finds? This should be preserved in an open air museum!
If they bury it, it will be preserved as it has been for 1600 years. If it was left exposed to the elements it would deteriorate. It can be re excavated later if it becomes possible to build a museum over it.
@@mrdanforth3744Unless someone tries to steal it by digging it up and damages it in the process.
Or someone damages it just for jollies, like happened to the 400 year old notch tree by Hadrian's Wall.
How are these works of art preserved? Are they covered with some sort of protective sheet then recovered with dirt… are they removed bit by bit and reassembled elsewhere?
no they are hugely expensive to remove even if worth saving, they just rebury them and tell the farmer dont plough deeper then X
@@iamnutty8471 This isn't true of all of them. The Lopen Mosaic is displayed in All Saints Church.
I’ve been told that if there’s enough money and time, they will take what they have with them to wherever they can display it or save it. If they can’t, they have to re-bury it and mark it. This with the hope that they can come back one day and get it. Sadly, a lot of the times they can’t ever go back because of money.
@chrisb3989we the issue is that it's a plow field. It's land that belongs to a farmer, not the national trust or whatever. They can't force the farmer to not make a livelihood just to protect what's in the ground.
@chrisb3989they showed the plow damage on the mosaic in the episode. I know there are several philosophical positions when it comes to ancient objects. One says that they should be left in situ and protected, another and the one I proscribe to, is that these objects were designed to be seen and enjoyed and that when discovered we should strive to continue that. I understand that the cost of excavating, and building some kind of place for them to be viewed is extremely expensive. So I get it for the time being they are better rebutted. But it's not a good long term solution as they'll further degrade and likely eventually be re-lost at some future point
After maybe half a dozen rewatches Ive finally noticed Tony saving face around at 14:00 cause he cant bare to admit he likes little finds just as much as big ones. Thats a good chunk of plaster!
Andy has a great future! I appreciate his straightforward, informational style. By far he and Ryan Hall are slam dunk the best❤
That is exciting...🎉
Thank you! ❤ 🏴 ❤ We are visiting next week!
Time team really puts into perspective how amazing the Roman Empire was. To occupy england for 400 years (a fringe territory too) is longer than most countries have existed in their modern forms. It’s AMAZING to me that single families could occupy the same place for centuries too.
Having watched quite a few Time Team episodes, I thought from time to time: "One day, these guys are going to find a full, high quality Roman mosaic." Well, when it rains, it pours :)
Let me ponder a bit the mystery of why this complex seems to have been simply abandone:
Noting the blend of Celtic and Roman authority, it might seem that the local rulers using this grand house might try to "Out-Roman" each other, to cast into stone (and mosaic) their allegience to their Roman overlords, making them feel quite at home in England.
Then, early 5th century, when the roman legions left 'temporarily', there was no Roman overlord to sho allegience to in a physical form like this. Could it be that in the political vacuum of this time, it became a political demand that the tribal chiefs abandon their 'Romanness' in facor of Celtic or Anglo-Saxon allegience, thus abandoned this pretty valuable house due to political pressure?
That's a very good theory. Once the legions were gone everyone would've been very vulnerable.
All over England these large houses were abandoned and the owners moved to hill forts. The houses were pulled down and the stone brick and timber reused elsewhere. It seems they were abandoned because they were no longer safe from attack after the legions left. For the next 1000 years the wealthy and powerful lived in some kind of fort or castle. Only in the late 14th and early 15th century did they begin to build something resembling these Roman villas, that we call the stately homes of old England.
One of the best programmes ever !
I hope they will return someday to uncover everything
Thanks so much for posting.
Did it rot away do to abandoned neglect and savaging or was it destroyed on purpose? Was it already a ruin when it was torn down? Or did the owner have the wrong friends? Many unanswered questions. It could take years of archeology to uncover it all. Are people still digging the site today?
@randywise5241 - Perhaps it recycled by the owning family for projects elsewhere, outright looted, or salvaged by local folks well after it was abandoned?
My man holding papers in his hand while being in the open door of a helicopter must have nerves of steel.😮
Trudy must have been beside herself when she unearthed the puece of mosaic!
How amazing to have this Enormous Romano Celtic villa with stunning mosaics in your field.
This is a particularly good/successful episode.
That would be a HUGE villa. My goodness it’s huge.
I just love what you guys do! I've always wanted to go on an excavation, problem was I kept asking my father to go on an exhibition! Lol. He asked if I was sure. We finally figured out I had meant to say expedition It's still a joke today.
Listen to Phil! He's always right!
One of my Top 5 Favorite *"Time Team Episodes"*
Much more exciting than "Anglos Saxon's Post Holes".
Season 10, Episode 2, January 2003
Mosaics are my favorite.
Terrific find, but why just three days?
That's how the show works. These folks all have day jobs and they can't stay onsite for more than a long weekend. Other archeologists come in after and keep working the dig, usually.
@@christianweagle6253 ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
I want to know the after story. Anyone? Links? Further digs?
No man loves stones like Phil Harding.
Geez,I wish Rome would take over MY town! I’d sign up for a slice of that pie and a mansion in a second!
It's crudely popular to run down geophys, but look at how beautifully it functions to effectively x-ray the ground. Well over half the time, geophys gets it right and even reveals more than anyone dreamed of finding.
These people blow my mind with their archaeological approach. There’s a lot of prep, don’t get me wrong… but they’re like, basically SCOOPING this stuff out with a pickaxe. 😂
Baldric is going places
That's *Sir* Baldric, if you please!
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this was across the road from my mates house..
What happens now? Does this site remain protected & intact, or is the mosaic removed & set up again in a museum?
You can search by place name to find more about the site.
I really like and respect Tony Robinson, he seems quite educative person, his documentaries are awesome, I never realized that he's Baldric from Blackadder.😃😁
funny right
Funny you say that because Tony wasn't really highly educated nor did he come from a well off family. He's done a lot in his lifetime tho and you could say he's culturally educated.
@@Allannah_Of_Rome an other one of his CUNNING PLANS
Drama school is very advanced and much more educational than many colleges in the US! Any advanced degree would make you well educated!
one of my favorite episodes!
Oh dang... Can you imagine that farmer who plowed over the Mosaic lol. Just minding your business with no idea you're dragging a metal blade across a 2,000 year old piece of history lol.
Do we know if any further work has bee carried out since that episode was recorded?
Why were these villas abandoned? So beautiful and intricate and Britain has never been abandoned so how was something like this lost?
I think partly the Anglo-Saxons came along. They preferred to live in dirt and straw huts, allowing their livestock to inhabit solid houses with rooves and central-heating. It's a cultural thing.
@@dandare1001 After the Romans left, the civilisation of Roman Britain collapsed ,moving into the Dark Ages.
@@carinakaron8068 Yes, that is what happenend.
Please tell me those mosaics where removed an put in a museum.
Sorry, but probably recorded an preserved for others later on to discuss and work on 😊
Once the team have unearthed these exquisite mosaics, what then becomes of them?
Got to admit if I found one of the 10 best mosaic floors which prompted my neighbor to dig and find a better one I might have to plan a bit of revenge sabotage, lol
Fabulous dig
Wow Wow Wow 😯 that's what I have to say!!! 🎉❤
Hello, I am a fan of the program and I always try not to miss a video but there is something that catches my attention and I’d like you to answer the following : Those fields where you can find such beautiful, historically valuable and ancient mosaics from the Roman period in the UK have never been used for agriculture? When plowing the land, these relics could have been destroyed because they are located at a very shallow depth. Thank you.
Sonia S. Echavarria, La Paz, BCS, México.
As I understand it, yes those fields are used for agriculture and yes many artifacts have been lost/destroyed by plowing for hundreds of years. It’s unfortunate but necessary as if they had to protect every single artifact in the UK, nothing else could get done.
@@mintybadger6905 thank you!
This should keep going, if you were to pay my way over there I’d be camped onsite working from Dawn to Dusk.
So what happens to this dig after the 3rd day? Doe's a local archeological group continue or is it just recorded and covered up again?
The place is recorded and reported to the regional archeology people and they decide if they have time and funds to go further with it. You can google this one by name: Lopen, Sommerset.
How amazing
I always wished they would say what happens to the site after they leave. I know most they just cover over but why would you do that to this one?
Guy de la Bedoyere looks very Roman himself 😉
why dont the consider this to be an historical site and preserve this and open it to the public? the property owner could probably make some good money on it with all the council laws there probably will never happen to many rules restrictions etc
oh dear.... David seems like a trouble maker haha poor Bridgets face said it all in the cut away
Are the discoveries reburied after three days? Also, if they aren't reburied, are they protected? I'd like to know what happens afterward. re-burying it seems counter-productive
And then who Phil?! 7:38
What happens after you leave a find like this? Is it covered back up or does an organization assist the owners in completing uncovering and preserving it?
How sad Mick wasn’t there to see this.😢
if they find such great treasures so late on day 3, why couldn't they ask for an extension and continue their search?
Most of the archeologists have jobs where they work 4 days a week, as professors of archeology or consultants. They do digs on weekends plus one day out of their regular work week.
Why havent you continued the site????
the other day I was digging a random hole down here in South Africa and low and behold I found ancient roman artifacts. a friend of a friend of a friend dated it for me. he reckons you guys need to fly over. here is the deal.... you can take from the 20 x 7.5m hole whatever you want. the one side must be 3ft deep and the deep end 6ft. really bring your friends..... a lot to be discovered. once you are done, dont stress about the hole. I will replicate the mosiac and line the ancient hole with cement. finally preserve everything with water.
I often wonder why they dont use a push broom to clean loose debris...just sweep a few feet and check the pile. I'm not an archaeologist but it seems like that would be more efficient without really sacrificing anything.
@38:46 - Phil would make a great pirate.
I love being European. I love our history. I love our languages. I love our culture. I love that in in love with being European.And no modern "academics" are going to make me feel ashamed for any of it. The world's best composers, architects, physicists, warriors, explorers all came from our people. ❤️
And I believe every ethnic group on earth should feel the same pride in their own culture and people.
"I ignore and embrace genocide because art" - not a monster at all
academics aren't trying to make you feel guilty, your conscience is but you beat it into a pulp long ago so you don't really have one left, just a bottomless hole of deluded victimhood
Your are absolutely right - but do NOT forget the Chinese !
@@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis The modern World is built on technology created by European and US scientists. Electricity, steam and gas engines, automobile, airplane, sewing machines and power fabric looms, telephone, television, vaccines, chemistry products and fertilizers, the refrigerator and microwave. Bottle caps, asphalt road pavers, the elevator. Thank the West!
@@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazisThe West invented Everything in your modern cushy life.
If anyone wonders why it was "the Dark Ages", Britain's countryside went from living like this to dung-and-straw huts and river-clay thumb pots for almost 1000 years after Rome fell. Civilization is wild, it really is.
There’s No Such Thing as the ‘Dark Ages’.
Self-righteous scholars seeking to make history as dry and tone deaf as possible. We went from calling the "Barbarian Invasions" the "Migration Period". They try to prove you wrong by saying "oh well life didn't change much when the Franks & Goths came!", well yes, maybe within 1 year of the government changing. How about 100 years? All those barbarian tribes bring knowledge of literacy, governance, arts, and science?
It baffles me why they want to change perspectives and interpretations on a civilizationally inferior people coming to power over the continent and making things worse off.
@@andriandrason1318 I suppose it depends on where you're standing but large parts of Europe and Britain certainly had them. Going from tiled bathrooms to Charlemagne wondering out loud if cheese rinds made you smart is quite a drop in style
@@MrCarlbrooks The Frankish King and Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, who initiated a cultural and artistic flowering known as the Carolingian Renaissance?
@@MrCarlbrooks …and nowadays we have neck bearded incels LARP-ing the 1100s in every available public park, because back in the Middle Ages women really did exist simply to serve men 🙄
I love their job, i love archeology, sadly, i dont have the budget back then to apply for this course at the university. So I turned to civil engineering. I dont know, maybe i am drawn to earthwork.
Here’s a question… who covered these ruins with topsoil? And where did the top soil come from?
Wind!
just t have some ting like that under my land would be wonder ful, I'd best do my to reconstruct the building and come up with a way too preserve the tiles i think soft slippers available for tourists, to walk where romans once walked would a wonder. it would give one pause and make me think about the wonder.
Imagine being on neighbours at war but its time team and roman mosaics😅
He said,"we haven't got the labor," then i see like twenty people just standing around looking at the ones actually working. Reminds me of a average construction site.
Now if only we knew what the owners of this magnificent house looked like!
What happens to this site once the dig finishes? Does it revert back to a field that is plowed annually with the potential to damage archeology?
Hey Moon family!! Aww Oscars teeth😊
Guy's very laid back or down! In this episoode 😅
I am curious,,,after they are done with the dig, what do they do with what they uncovered?
Were the floors saved?
So many questions…but how do crops grow in such shallow soils?
What happens to the mosaics after they are revealed. Do they stay in the ground and are they protected and covered up again?
What happens to sites like this after Time Team leaves? What do the farmers do? There would have to be protection from ploughing at very least.
So after this work 20 years ago, did they do anything to protect the mosaics from future plow damage?
37:20 Mabe they got driven out by force for colaborating with the enemy.
In 2000 yrs some archaeologist is gonna be at a dig site uncovering a linoleum floor thinking "WTF was wrong with these people?!" as he discovers an older cedar hardwood floor underneath that.
You don't need to wait 2000 years. I had an antique house (well, antique for the U.S., it was built around 1775) where I removed a layer of linoleum, a layer of plywood, a second layer of linoleum, and standard wooden flooring about 3" wide, to discover original floorboards 10" wide dating back to the original house.
You need more than just 3 days to seriously dig and investigate a site like that…
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Haha, they all have such similar vehicles.
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