Skeletons in the Shed (Blythburgh, Suffolk) | S16E13 | Time Team
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When the new owners of a house in Blythburgh in Suffolk explored their potting shed they were shocked to discover a cupboard full of human skulls. Could these remains have something to do with the superb ruins of a medieval priory that has lain hidden for years? The priory fell into disuse before Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, and may contain the remains of a 7th century Saxon King, Anna. But despite digging several trenches in the back garden, the team struggle to make sense of it all. They are joined by historian Sam Newton.
Series 16, Episode 13
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Even with such a confusing and frustrating site, the team is all so calm and diligent. The great love and respect they all have for Mick is literally palpable. You are greatly missed, Mick.
RIP Mick, and Mick's favorite jumper. 💙🙏
OK please can you bring time team back I used to love Sundays because of this program and I dare say there are thousands of us who would welcome it back like a long lost friend.
It's in our hands, support the return on Patreon !
I couldn’t agree more, Time Team was and is fascinating, and it is well past time to make new ones, please.
put some money where your mouth is and go to patreon, look up "Time Team" and give them some money
I don't date Time Team episodes by Season/Episode, but rather by Tony's hair.
What about his stomach must be 2005 or later
Yep same here, the longer the hair the earlier the episode
Or lack of 😂😂😂
I do it by the wear on Phil's hat ;)
@@acmejia Has it ever looked less worn? My old eyes could not spot the difference.
1600+ views per hour since it went live. The world misses Time Team.
we really do
There’s an effort to bring it back. Check out the Time Team Patreon page. They hit 1000 subscribers in under a week. www.patreon.com/TimeTeamOfficial
I guess their time has come and gone.
Better then history channel because at least they find shit
Can we get a reboot?
I like to think that when he reached the other side, some of the abbots of this monastery came up to Mick and introduced themselves and told him the story of their priory.
I think as an atheist this might have terrified Mick!
@@stevenhale2935 He cant be perfect.....
@@Arthagnou What do you mean?
😅 I don't think he's an atheist now! I hope Mick knows what he did on this earth. He touched a whole bunch of us.
As a late coming yank, as is our way, this show carried my spirits during the quarantine.
What a beautiful spot the owners of that house have! I'd love a beautiful garden with old ruins!
Right? I'd love a wild garden with genuine ancient ruins!
As long as I don’t dig up bones every time I plant a geranium. Call me squeamish.
It's a shame they wanna have "posh gardens" put in but whatever floats your boat. You know how many time team fans would love that garden. Answer is a lot
@@juliajs1752 Just do what the fraud/trickster did on the episode where they dug a property with the unlikeliest finds that had been planted before. It’d be cool to have stone cutters create a full scale Stonehenge in your backyard. Sure, it’s expensive but with modern tools it would take only a couple of months to complete. A conversation starter.
@@ChrisHyde537 Nah, Stonehenge is boring. A cat burial with a lot of weird grave gifts, now that I'd like!
Funny. Just like the old days! Checking the Time on a Sunday evening so we didn't miss Time Team!
Mick’s socks match his jumper! It’s so cute I almost used an emoji!
Time Team has literally got me through lockdown. I miss this show so much. Channel 4 should reboot it for a new generation
I would love that but you just know that they have to have diversity in it.
@@steu.k.6114 why would they have a dance act on it?
@@jofgibbs ha ha.
@@steu.k.6114 I'm not sure what you mean then?!
The team is actually working on getting another series off the ground, and they're asking people to back them on Patreon. So if you're interested, you can support them on there if you want to. Just google it and it's the first thing that comes up.
What a lovely man Mick Aston was
I miss him so down to earth enthusiastic,humble man rip mick aston 😢
He certainly was and really loved his work.
I would have loved to be a student of his. He would of been one of those teachers who gets excited and makes learning that much better. RIP Mick
Mick Aston was the most wonderfully interesting human being and a really lovely man. I do hope that his students keep up his wonderful tradition of sharing their amazing knowledge which was quite extraordinary.😉
@@nicoler3499 I think we all were students of his in a small way, he got to reach so many people through Time Team, and we all still remember him fondly.
You can tell there was such a strong admiration going on between Tony and Mick within their banter. .
Love time team but not presenter. Tony should stop making snide remarks.
26:00 "a nice bit of masonry there Faye" Mick Aston was a man who appreciates subtle beauty.
gotta like the camera man
Mick has stripey socks to match his jumper! I never knew that. This man has so many surprises ❤️🧡💛💚💙
Apparently viewers used to send Mick, knitted items..cool aye
He had striped gloves, too. I miss him.
I like Matt a lot. Worked hard and I gess he learned a lot of Phil.
Also Jacky. Like her to very much.
And Birgid and Ian.
Gosh, this was a good group of people. Thanks a lot guys.
Mick with the 12/10 sweater wow
Edit: OH THE SOCKS MATCH OH WOW
This comment had me looking for his socks all episode lmfao
As a knitter since 2020 lockdown, I adore Mick's striped jersey, and yes, socks too. Did you notice one of the local experts was also wearing a knitted striped sweater?
In another episode, the family who invited Time Team opened the door with the daughter wearing a stripy sweater vest in perfect Mick Aston colours :D
I live in Suffolk and often drive through Blythburgh but to my shame knew very little about this. Also to my shame I don't take advantage of the history in Suffolk and indeed Norfolk perhaps falling foul of taking for granted of what is on your doorstep. New years resolution for 2022; get out to places like Dunwich, Blythburgh, Sutton Hoo, Framlingham and a visit to Colchester Castle with my camera. Thanks Time Team, absolutely brilliant these are available on TH-cam and look forward to the future with Sutton Hoo episode.
2500 views within an hour.
Fair to say, there's room for new Time Team in the world.
One of my most favorite programs and now I live on the other side of the pond I miss these fascinating programs even more. I hope so much that they make lots of new seasons as there is so much more history to discover in the entire UK and Southern Ireland.
I wonder if we will ever have a similar program to dig as deeply for Americans! I love all the programs I’ve seen on Time Team!!! Furthermore, I have a terrible crush on all of the ppls😘❤️❤️❤️
There's little I enjoyed more, apart from the archeology, than the banter between Tony, Mike and Phil.
ANOTHER AMAZING DIG AND HISTORY.....RIP MICK...YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED...
Favourite programme on Sundays. Loved it. Glad to rediscover it here. Hope the make a new series. Enough viewers for sure.
Anne (pronounced annuh) is still a perfectly respectable man's name in Friesland, The Netherlands.
Ahhhh good old time team love watching them brightens my days up during lockdown, all the hard work going on in the trenches and with the historical information and documents to look through, it certainly got me interested in archaeology and looking up old buildings also researching what was there before New buildings were built thanks for uploading the videos
Thanks for making 2020 bearable. :)
Because of the work Time Team does I've been wanting to pursue a degree in archaeology specializing in the Roman occupation of Britain during the early days of 43 CE.
I ended doing a PhD in archaeology because of them :)
Just found this channel - saw someone mention it on another history channel's comments. So, here I am! 👋😄
Such a shame they didn’t do five days digs instead of three! Really love this show!!
Yes it was a shame, but understandable. They all had jobs at universities or other institutions and all they could spare for the show were the weekends or vacations.
@Celto Loco Exactly.
Mick was a legend rip mick
People in a pub, that's ancient history.
Or a look into the future. Depends on your outlook on life.
WILL AGAIN TASTE THE DRINK OF THE GODS IN THE PLACE OF THE GODS.
Will it ever go back to normal... I think propergander has changed that forever, not that I play their games.
Keep 'em coming, those videos are getting me through lockdown
Just looking at those columns is enchanting!
My 7yo son Kerry was very excited to realize Time Team had a boy Kerry archeologist.
That's the sweetest thing I've read in a very long time 🥰 Your son sounds like a great kid 😊🤩😎
You sound like mean parents to give your boy a name like Sue, almost as bad as naming a girl Regan.
@@Yaxchilan Silly boy. It's a boy's name parents started to give their daughters.
@@Yaxchilan
Funny you should say that under a video that keeps mentioning “King Anna”.
@@eliscanfield3913 oh I was clearly being a dick. You're right.
To someone like me who knows nothing about skeletons the way Jackie McKinley can get so much information from such small fragments of bone is super super impressive, really love it when shes on Time Team!
Phil is my spirit animal
Always good to see Helen.
Finally a great find with Human remains to match to even earlier than some of the church that was there. this is ONE time where I wish they could dig more and for three days longer... three days is never enough time and then with everyone talking half way though the days, it comes down to one full day of real digging and the rest talking...I would of loved to have seen MORE of this old church..
In the years after this episode was filmed, English Heritage funded further archaeological investigation at this site. The Wikipedia article on Blythburgh Priory has a link (footnote 79) to a .pdf of a report on what they found. Blythburgh is on pages 8 and 9 of the .pdf.
Watching programs like this make me wonder if someone will be digging up my house in 900 years time.
I remember this one. Lovely. Thanks for the uploads!!!! Especially the hi-res.
Keep up the amazing work Time team! We love you so much!
Like many other people commenting here Sunday afternoon teatime and Time Team were a weekly fixture in our house it was a wonderful warm homely show and it was like welcoming old friends into the house. It looks like soon that hopefully it might be coming back
one of the best quotes of all time "Stuart and the historians have gone walk-abouts"🤣🤣
Stuart
Happy New year everyone!!!!!! Let's all practice peace and love this year! I know it's an impossible ask,but one has to try!!!! I know,I look forward to every episode of time team!!
How have I gone all my life without knowing about this fantastic show. Mick and Phil are marvelous.
And Tony 'I have a cunning plan' Robinson. All wonderful. I particularly like Helen Geake.
This was awesome...much love Kathleen from the desert in California
Splendid
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Only English people can say splendid 😂
What a excellent property to own , as always a great show
That lady digging by the wall was really surprised when he said 11th century.
yes I noticed that too
I love micks sweater
Why do people think Readwaelda was buried in the Sutton Hoo. Readwalda was baptished. He probably build a church and was baried there..
King Anna was not baptished and very popular by his people.
Couldn't it be possible the Sutton Hoo is the barial of the popular King Anne?
What an awesome backyard! 🥰
Bravo! Another great episode in a great series! Would like to know how Susan's brewery is coming along.
I love Phil! Phil is an archangel archeologist pirate.
In Fryslân we still use the boysname Anne or Ânne in frisian.
In Finland we have Aarne, wich is males name with old nordic or germanic roots. Aarne, Arne, Arnvald, Arn.
Frisian Ânne, sound almost like Onne. (Like Tony said.)
Aarne/Arne sounds very different isn't it?
@@atommi1 What means Arne?
@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 @Jacqueline van der Kooij if it's based on Germanic roots it may mean "eagle" (see "arend" meaning the same. You can find it in Arnhem too :3 )
I can't believe it took this long for Tony to call someone out for waving their hand vaguely to describe somethings position.
Absolutely love this show!!
Going by Sam's hair and when this was actually filmed, you can tell he's wrapped up in history. I don't think he realizes what year it is. It look like he was plucked out of the 70s. Haha
I love and miss Mick Aston he was so kind and nice ❤❤❤
wait, so these folks bought a new house and when they looked in one of the cabinets in the garden shed there are just human skulls sitting in there. who put them there, did the previous owners or whomever found them not contact someone and say we found human skulls in our yard?
Pretty safe to say, yes, previous owner or whomever was digging around, planting stuff and ran across some bones. Instead of tossing them, that person gave them the some semblance of reverence they deserved and put them in a cupboard. Remember in the beginning, the archaeologist in the rainbow shirt (forget his name) said that the previous owner didn't let anyone on the site.
This is my favorite episode of Time Team.
i like all the team but stuart you cant hide nothing from him lol xx
Haven’t seen this one! Yay! Gotta love Phil’s energy:)
“Just try and stop us. You could you own the place” lol
As an American, I literally cannot imagine a world where I wouldn't be alarmed or surprised by real human skeletons on my property. Is that something Europeans just, like, deal with?
The UK is so small the whole place is a graveyard
Yup. Same with WW2 bombs. We frequently find those too.
Why is it that when John is pointing at things as "obvious" on his geo-phys my eye is always drawn to other bits that look much more "obvious" but are apparently nothing at all.
This show is great
Blythburgh is about twenty miles from me. It's church at night is flood lit which I find spooky.
If you go to Blytburgh do visit the church, just to see the marks on the door left by Black Shuck. Also, the pub, The WHite Hart, is worth visiting.
Whats black shuck???
I see the makings of such a pretty lost garden. I guess they don't have many earthquakes, those columns and walls made of stones and rubble wouldn't have stood fifty years in my area.
Any info on the updates for the Priory? All I know is that 1) New Landlords and 2) from google maps the Posh Garden is there
Love all these old videos. I would love to buy a piece of land in England and have them come out and explore for artifacts
SAME! This show makes me want to pick up and move across the pond.
Lol, its not that easy im afraid
It's great over here lol
We live near stratford upon avon uk. Theres a Stone age camp on top of an iron age hill fort near us called meon hill. As a uk residents it's always amazing how much history we live on. our housing estate is on an old army depo for ww1+2 and was then used to house italian pows. But at the same time the history of your lands across the pond intrest us. From dinosaurs found in the deserts to indians in the grand canyon to gettysburg civil war or abandoned mines.
I’ve often thought about some sort of travel exchange. It probably already exists in some form...but on my trips abroad I’ve always wanted to stay longer than the usual 10-12 days but the cost of accommodation doesn’t allow it. If it were possible to exchange residences with someone for a month, I stay in someones home, they stay in mine, we both get a significantly less expensive experience in a different country... maybe I’m being naive
Feel so sorry for those poor souls buried in a church yard and end up on a shed shelf!
Skulls and bones, and skin for that matter, are not who we are, it's just a cover while we're here,, like wearing clothes,
I doubt they mind much.
Sam Newton looks like the Roman expert with the Norman surname.
Couldn't agree more,miss this series so much,don't understand why they stopped it,I am sure there could be many digs not only in the UK yes there was a handful of digs abroad,but could have been expanded more,but presumably there are reasons,shame though.
It’s so easy to love this team but Mick and Tony have to be favorites.
Amazing site.
Mick always looks like he just got back from a hawkwind free festival
More Faye please...now I am into archeology!
00:40, yep every little church I've been to has been a couple dilapidated walls in the middle of a forest
How many episodes does the late Mick wear that wonderful rainbow striped sweatshirt? I would put it on par with Phil's sweat stained hat
apparently a viewer knits them ..... and he has matching socks ( 8:42 ).... sorry had ..... RIP good Sir
the crazy roots in the hole looks like Phil's hair :)
& now we have LIDAR !
Does Mick wear the same jumper in every episode? Lol
yes .... a viewer knits them ... ( it .. ? ).... and it became a thing
No. He had several of them. Some with vertical stripes instead of horizontal.
Do you ever do follow ups? If I were a landowner I wouldn't want to fill in the trenches, but rather find some archeologists interested in continuing the dig. Obviously it could also be quite lucrative as a tourist site. Although I would assume proclamation of a historical site might mean forced donation to the government, I would hope most people would just want to KNOW... Has this happened in any of your earlier episodes, the continuation of your work?
I know I'm from the USA. That being said, if taking government money for historical sites, it would mean turning over your rights to do what you want with the land and even ownership of it. Also, opening up to archaeologists groups comes having to have some kind of insurance in case of injury. It sucks. I really love these shows and the history of it all. I guess there's only so much they can find out in the "three" days they show us. I suppose it's up to the landowner if it continues. Also, isn't there a law about not being able to keep artifacts found on your land? (Possibly get some sort of compensation for them though, but cannot keep them?)
@@patriciamorton1068 yes agreed, if there's anything I DO know it's that all of these factors will vary, county by county, province by province, country by country, and even year by year across all boards giving enough crazy red tape to drown us all... And like I said Government seizure of historical property or even just unending moratorium of use would be highly probable.. I guess they call it "scheduling" there... I just wonder if anyone that's been on the show throughout the years, when we caught a tiny glimpse, has continued digging. I would love to watch a "10 years later" type of thing and see if someone said, "I'm not plowing my potato field anymore, find the rest of the priory and graveyard and let's see what happens." It's very sad to me that when huge projects like subways or other tunnels reveal ancient archeology, they only stop for a bit and then seem to typically keep grinding away the past because they only have the plan and permits to do what they're doing where and when they're doing it. the propensity seems to be that if you see something like a human skull, hide it and keep going... we can't afford to stall "the project". it's funny how that works. "we don't have time" to find out what happened 5000 years ago, we have a month and a half to get this done... really? really sad. I would just love to see tony and team revisit ANYWHERE they've been where more research has been done, and at a slow steady pace, even if what they found wasn't monumental.
The government (local or central) does not take over archaeological sites in the UK. Even if they wanted to, there are just too many. There was public indignation when the only Roman building left in Scotland was demolished by its owner early in the 18th century, and later when the owner of Shakespeare's mansion in Stratford had it knocked down because he was annoyed by the sightseers coming to his door. Much later in the 19th century we started to get laws preventing destruction of ancient monuments officially recognised as such.
Some of the Time Team Specials revisit sites. A few revisits (not necessarily specials) I can think of are Athelney, Turkdean, and Dinnington. In terms of continued excavation at sites generally, sometimes what's been found during the Time Team dig has been enough for more local archaeologists to secure funding for further investigation, and sometimes they went to sites already being excavated but with a lot more resources to really help advance the understanding of the archaeology there.
Awesome viewing.
shows that sometimes having skeletons in the closet can lead to impressive discoveries
Wonderful 🕤🕛🕧🕐🕟 Team
@3:07 - Lady in the background is like - is that so
The dream Garden for a kid! Infinite Adventures
This site is in need of further exploration, imagine finding the resting place of king Anna, love the time team gang, but 3 days is so frustrating on most sites, rip Mick, what a loveable character
oh how i would love to be on site at something like this
imagine finding out a bunch of people are buried in your backyard
Or worse still someone else finding out a bunch of people are buried in your back yard. Ask Fred and Rose West!😁
@@simonmorris4226 just googled that ..... hideous
BRING BACK TIMETEAM
Now I want to dig up my back yard.
Me too, wouldn't take much, it's about the size of two test pits!.
@@markorollo.
My lot is small too. My house was built in 1910 but is built out of much older timbers that were reused from a much older building. You can see the they were cut by hand and have old mortise and tendon joints that are not used. The floor joists are reused rafters that still have the birds mouths cut in them from when they were part of an older building.
My house is in the middle of an old golf course that I assume used to be a farm? I know for sure before about 1600 it was Native American land. King Philip 🤴 made a deal with the native Americans to acquire what is now Springfield Massachusetts on the east side of the Connecticut River.
Love to have the crew over this side of the pond.
@@StanSwan King Philip?
@@davidhoward2487 There was a Native American fort just across the CT River from me that was called King Philips Stockade. Most of it is now the grounds off a large park called Forest Park. My parents live right near it. It is a fixture of life for people in the area from childhood to being an adult. They had a elephant and a polar bear there when I was a kid. Latter we used to drag race in the park. Now they have miles of Christmas lights along the roads in the winter.
Most people don't think of the wars in 1675 it is so far removed.
Thank you.
31:38 remember pubs? I don't. This looks like bliss
Trust me, they are highly overrated. I have not set foot in a pub in more than twenty years, and I could easily go another twenty years without doing so again.
8:51
Matching socks!
Yay! My backyard is full of skeletons!
In my next life il be a archaeologist
How safe is it to wander about in there? Those pillars look like they might drop a brick or stone on someone’s head! Once Time Team is done, the owners should block off all access to that part of their land, just as a matter of safety.
I wouldn't be surprised if they've toppled by now. If they haven't, then THAT'S the surprise - and I wish they would have gone into why they hadn't toppled in all this time. Was there a solid column within the stone-stacked column?!
"Nice bit of Masonry" says Mick to the Young lady on his left...I couldn't agree more..
Masonaries ?