MissCattitude63 that would be telling, but I did work for three years for English Heritage on various digs in Northumberland and Cumbria. If you have seen the Birdoswald Time Team episode, I have worked there. Its a fantastic job working on an Archaeological dig, damn hard work and often miserable conditions but you just feel like you are actually doing something worthwhile, rather than shuffling paper around (there's a clue!)..
Man, I hear ya. I had to quite college in my 2nd year (was planning on teaching history) simply because I had to choose between living on my own and moving back home, which was not an option, or going to work full time. At least we can watch this series and dream..
I've been excavating in Bulgaria, Syria and Germany. Every excavation was great. But in now 17 years of excavating I have ruined my joints. Can only go digging where its warm, but can't do it, because Iam not willing to pay for being part of an excavation. Anyone here who knows a place, where I won't have to pay for???
It had it's succesfull run of 20 years. All of the original members are in their 70's now (Mick Aston and Robin Bush have passed away), so even if they were to do a new run with new archaeologists, it wouldn't be the same. Let's just treasure these episodes.
It can come back but got to have the right people. As McRambro mentions a lot of the people who were on the team have retired. it won't be the same people.
The concept may work, but already in the last seasons everyone was up in arms just because of new members. Qualified, and in my opinion likable, but they lost to many viewers. And there might be a lack of fitting sites, as they need a whole bunch of them lined up before filming. There's almost unlimited sites that need digging, but it has to have some kind of proof there ever was anything there, and there must be some kind of theory or question that the dig can answer in 3 days. So, Time Team will probably never return.
Time Team is currently producing new episodes. They released a few new digs last year, all available on youtube. And, they're part-funded by a patreon, so if folks like us want to see more, we actually have a tangible way to make that happen now. :)
I’m watching this from France, I love this team, the concept, their enthusiasm and professionalism. Not easy to bring back time team since the two major archeologists of the team passed away
Wow... I've been watching this series for the past few weeks... just seeing John Gater, Mick Ashton (RIP--Amazing man), and Phil and the rest age is crazy.
To those who are commenting All these are usually over a weekend as far as I can make out. The whole premis is three days. A lot more can be done obviously but as guy said on a q and a on his channel there are upto 70 people on set and they get there the day before. He said he was contacted a few weeks before hand before each dig he was on.
I'm so late to everything, but I'm glad I discovered this series! Just amazing. I love it and history since apparently no one's schools teach them any of this stuff and I was an Art History major in college. My dad was a History major and growing up, no matter what question I posed to him, the answer was always the same 'The Normans invaded England in 1066!' Our last name is 'Norman.' lol
Yup I love the time team, plenty of UK re runs at the moment and was sad news the mick passed away last year, this happened just before the team had major fractures in the group, and ultimately lead to the shows closure, pity
kev maxwell I've watched 98% of the series so far..the only 2 regular shows I've not watched are the Caribbean episodes. I still have quite a few specials to watch too, but it is a great show. It is sad to have lost Mick..cool guy
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What a wonderful program and Tony is such a great presenter (as my 8 year old son would say, "epic")! I know that he'd done a good bit of comedy, but he really seems excited about this series and it really adds to the feel of the whole thing. Thanks, Tony… and to the person who posted it! Love Time Team.
If you are not familiar with Tony Robinson's "Worst Jobs" series, you should check it out here on YT at a "channel" called SonicGameReviews. I don't know how many episodes were in the original series, but there are several on that channel. He explores the worst jobs in different eras & in many other categories. Tony gamely tries his hand at every one of the jobs, many times dressed authentically- even as a woman a few times (picture Blackadder's dogsbody dressed as a medieval fishwife)! Not only is the series very informative, but Tony's natural sense of humor makes it entertaining, as well.
Check out his audiobooks of abridged terry pratchett novels, his characters are beyond awesome, not to mention playing grubby servant baldrick (alongside hugh laurie &, stephen fry) in Blackadder - the best historical comedy known to mankind (ignore season1), that's why he got the gig. Having said that a makeup artist/costume designer friend of mine has worked on set with him and allegedly is a total self centered dick to everyone, complete git, always has been apparently, laughs off actually 'unhelpful' words to people, angrily vents and stomps off if displeased and the like, had literally nothing positive to say, I could hear the blood boiling at the mere mention. I can see it with heinsight watching again, how the other team members have to laugh off to camera quite unhelpfully rude constant criticism (far more than playing devils ad), and when he's obviously really angry he couldn't go up in the chopper when only 1 seat available for an actual archeologist on one occasion etc. Still best man for the job, shame he isn't nicer.
soslothful 3 days because this is a TV programme and that is the format, but also because a test dig with limited time is also a valid archaeological technique: you look to see if there is anything interesting in the hope that others can some day look more closely. Or you dig just sufficiently to support or possibly disprove a theory. And of course landowners may not want to be deprived of their land indefinitely. In this case it is a nationally important ancient monument and visitor attraction, so commercial interests will have a part to play as well.
ritorno100 In addition, the archaeologists, historians, finds experts etc all have regular day jobs. Being away for three days doesn't interfere too much with their other, main work. Time Team did what is called 'evaluation archaeology' - evaluate a site quickly to determine what it is. If it is of importance then it can be protected (if it hadn't already been so) and therefore it becomes a scheduled monument.
Although it's just a test dig, I'd have a difficult time just walking away if it was a really intriguing site, so perhaps separate arrangements can be made outside of the show, for further work. One would hope.
This was one of the first Time Team episodes I found (was searching for Anglo Saxon documentaries). Hook Line and Sinker and 20 years and innumerable episodes later, am a TOTAL fan. Love these classic episodes and all the new ones too!
Did anyone else feel the back of their head when Helen was describing what sounded like 'nickle crest' at 21:36? Wait, that's not Helen, sorry, I forget her name.
The Priory dig on Google Earth: 52°19'18.6"N 1°35'47.0"E Unfortunately the trees hide all sign and there are walls and buildings hiding it on Street View.
Was on a day walk of the area at the weekend and we walked down Priory Road and past the Priory house, but you can't get in there to see it. Old and very pretty house.
@@ForeverLumoz You Sir / Madam are ancestors of the mighty vikings . Ivar the boneless who along with King Halfden settled in York ( Jorvic ) . You guys ruled for over one hundred years .
I really want to live in the British countryside. There is so much archaeology there. I'd be a modest cottage, restore and start digging a garden, hoping to hit something.
Heartbreaking that they just fill these holes back in after the three days, and the excavation is over. This is what governments should be paying for. Not needless wars, not studies of impacts of cinema on fashion, or paying to ship migrants into the country for a lifetime on the dole. Not heartbreaking, in fact. Soul crushing.
Many of their projects are picked up by university and county (or the British version) archeological projects. They often mention that in closing. Some sites are listed on the national registry of ancient monuments to be studied and protected.
At 10:52, I understand I'm in the UK here, but is that Mary Poppins in the sky, a UFO or Phil in an archaeological hang glider? Great episode and as always, I look forward to the sequel. Scratching the surface whets the enthusiast appetite for more, but who carries on after your three day dig ends? It would be nice to see the follow-up progress on the sites. I'm fairly confident that if it was my back garden you had chosen to dig, I'd be tickled to have it continue, the baton passed into able hands.
Kim Jameson From what I've read the dig continues AFTER the TV cameras go away. Time Team has published a vast amount of archaeologic papers. If I remember correctly the team is in the top 5 in terms of published archaeological output in the UK..
If the dig continues after the allotted time by the Time Team, the archaeologists will present the landowner with a bill, unless the dig is directed by the museum.
American here. I’ve been through Death Valley CA more than once. Never have seen anything like that ancient column there . . . unless you really want to work your imagination & say it looks like a massive saguaro cactus. Which I don’t think it does whatsoever . . . but then again - maybe I have a sucky imagination. Love this program, btw!
with all the pottery scattered all over England, was any one able to ever pick up a piece of pottery with OUT breaking it and throwing it over their shoulders?
Lol. For the record, in case some donnae appreciate your humor... folks left pottery in these places _because_ it was broken. If something was still useful, the residents or later scavengers removed anything intact and of use or value and took it with them.
Does anyone know if there is any archeological programs that are currently (2014) running? Not television shows necessarily, but investigations to identify sites, especially in Lancashire.
I want to believe that before Tony starts rummaging around that hole, that the cameras cut and actual archeologists examined the hole to make sure that Tony didn’t ruin anything sensitive.
All ancient churches were built in an east-west direction, with the tower in the west and the choir in the east. _Edit_ Some churches have the tower at the crossing.
When I was living in a tiny village in the north of Scotland, I regularly walked past a small field at the side of the main road. It was in the middle of a street of houses with a stone wall around it, and it had a fairly uniform circular lump in the middle. No signage, no fences, nothing to suggest it was anything significant, but I knew it must be something. Turned out it was this: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=29885. Just there. Nothing special. Just a (likely) protohenge from the 2nd or 3rd millenium BC. No big deal. :)
Channel 4, which started as an arts channel and originally showed ground breaking programmes, wouldn't have the guts to put something like this on again.
Oh dear, I am running low on episodes. I went random watching before I started from the beginning lol Before anyone asks I asked Channel 4 and they said no. Either someone else to pick it up or a go fund me campaign?
@@maxdecphoenix yes but the saxons showed up before the 7th century and they were originaly germanic. On the other hand it seems that saxon culture spread further than their genes so dna in it self is not always as useful at this stuff as you migth think.
Hebry the 1st was crazy underrated. He redid priory bc ge was trying to establish a link to the hkuse of wessex snd show hes a continuation. He married a woman from house if wessex therefore his son eouldve technically been both norman and from alfreds line. Like henry the 8th was both york n lancaster
Tony is an actor, John owns the geophys company himself, and all the others have 'day jobs' at Universities or County archaeology departments. The whole format of the show has always been that they take a Friday off, and have to get back to their jobs on Monday. They aren't earning much for each episode, and much of this is a labor of love for them.
I always find it strange that they look at any relevant documents after they have been digging for 2 days..... surely it would make more sense to look at the records first?!
+Tim Lazenby You have to remember that we're only seeing a tiny bit of what actually goes on behind the scenes of the shows. Other episodes suggest that they start examining the paper trails well before the first shovel touches the dirt. Most of what they're examining is in Latin or Old English and takes a bit of translation and needs to be narrowed down to the sound bites they insert into the show at a moment they decide will best fit the narrative or create the most drama.
+Tim Lazenby remember this is a show that condences hours upon hours into the time you watch.. they actually are trolling the documents earlier, sometimes they need them for justification of the dig in the first place.
it's for dramatic effect. leaving a bunch of mini-cliffhangers throughout the show to keep people watching. If it was presented linearly, it would be an untenably boring show.
LOL that would be for European sites. But there are plenty of ice age and native american sites here. History channel does alot of documentaries. Time Team came over for the Jamestown, Dinosaurs, & Maryland sites. There is also a show called Unearthing American over here. Interesting show on ancient sites.
***** excuse me, but you must live in the planes or something, out here. We have lots of sites in the mountains where they built stuff just as sophisticated as any bronze age European. We have pottery, grain storage spaces, houses with rock and mud construction, stone tools as sophisticated as any made in metal, extremely beautiful patterns on surviving textiles and woven baskets, then go south. Out of the US, the structures and cultures in the central and southern Americas are awesome and while the churches were battling in Europe, leaving people stupid and under their control for generations, the Americas were in a period of construction rivaling the romans in water management and agriculture.
***** excuse me but that's my heritage as a citizen of the southwest with native blood your badmouthing! And whose way of thinking is coming into prominance. Within the science and the environmental awareness you guys took thousands of years to rediscover?! Don't be calling someone a dumb ass just because you can! It makes you look ignorant, arrogant and self important. This is you tube and I don't give a shit if I spelled one word the wrong way when there are thousands to chose from
***** not offended at all jackass just pointing out a fact. You just need to look up the snake mound and see really awesome pre Columbian works. You also need to take a really good look at the anasazi and others. Your arrogance and assumptive nature is showing again. The fact that the writing styles are unique and the navaho was the only thing not ever deciphered by the work war two code breakers says something. So does the fact that most of us following traditional paths never lost site of the interconnectedness of life, the fact that everything alive talks In some way, that no one person really ever owns any land and cutting trees just because is a bad idea, same with farming the same spots over and over without giving back to the land the nutrients and chemicals just don't cut it especially when being delivered in salt!!?? Yeah, who wins the culture clash!?
***** who is this we and why do you think its better to have years worth of toxins dumped into bodies and the environment!? Stripped to bare rock for sparkles, areas that used to be full of life , monopolize space for a single species, chase off or kill creatures that kept the balance and health of the surrounding creatures?! Do you realize that after the wolf was reintroduced into Wyoming and surrounding states, the deer and other wild game animals have been found by the hunters to be in better quality for their hunts? Or the bats, another creature"your culture" persecuted to protect domestic species.. The devour pest species, don't they?? Or do you prefer your food coated in poison? Or your cities lacking rain because you created a heat bubble with the pollution making it hard for you to breathe and killing off what's left of the plants you tried to bring with you to make the place look like the place you came from?! You like sicknesses that can't be cured because they are caused by bad air and you don't want to get rid of being the only one in your car do you? Or at least grab the public transit system ??!! You wouldn't have to be putting up with recycle labels and ad campaigns about environmental responsibility had "your culture" hadn't been so full of itself and I'm not wrong and your arrogant self can't deny it
How did I get here? I use to watch ba show where these guys took metal detectors and found stuff from the past. I really liked that show but can't remember what it was called.
when i was a little boy i wanted to be an archeologist. now i am 60 and this is the closest i will ever get. great shows.
We shall sorely miss professor Mick.
Rest in Peace, big man!
I love this series but it makes me realise that so many people have much more interesting and fulfilling jobs than me...
LOL! What's your job, if I may ask?
MissCattitude63 that would be telling, but I did work for three years for English Heritage on various digs in Northumberland and Cumbria. If you have seen the Birdoswald Time Team episode, I have worked there. Its a fantastic job working on an Archaeological dig, damn hard work and often miserable conditions but you just feel like you are actually doing something worthwhile, rather than shuffling paper around (there's a clue!)..
Man, I hear ya. I had to quite college in my 2nd year (was planning on teaching history) simply because I had to choose between living on my own and moving back home, which was not an option, or going to work full time. At least we can watch this series and dream..
I've been excavating in Bulgaria, Syria and Germany. Every excavation was great. But in now 17 years of excavating I have ruined my joints. Can only go digging where its warm, but can't do it, because Iam not willing to pay for being part of an excavation. Anyone here who knows a place, where I won't have to pay for???
For me that would be nearly everyone. What a waste of a life.
Bring back Time Team !!!
YES!!
Hairyharold we need to get on Netflix! Yuge hit in states
Indeed.
They tried an American version but I don't think it worked out.
It had it's succesfull run of 20 years. All of the original members are in their 70's now (Mick Aston and Robin Bush have passed away), so even if they were to do a new run with new archaeologists, it wouldn't be the same. Let's just treasure these episodes.
"Formal gardens... that's posh."
I like Tony.
Phil Hardng at his best!! BBC or others Bring Back Time Team Now!!!!!
Most of the team is now retired or sadly passed away so it wouldn't have the same feel.
It can come back but got to have the right people. As McRambro mentions a lot of the people who were on the team have retired. it won't be the same people.
They can’t. Not happening.
The concept may work, but already in the last seasons everyone was up in arms just because of new members. Qualified, and in my opinion likable, but they lost to many viewers.
And there might be a lack of fitting sites, as they need a whole bunch of them lined up before filming. There's almost unlimited sites that need digging, but it has to have some kind of proof there ever was anything there, and there must be some kind of theory or question that the dig can answer in 3 days. So, Time Team will probably never return.
Time Team is currently producing new episodes. They released a few new digs last year, all available on youtube. And, they're part-funded by a patreon, so if folks like us want to see more, we actually have a tangible way to make that happen now. :)
Wish this had been my back yard when I was growing up!
***** nahhh, most kids I know think skeletons are cool. They 'd love it.
I assume that Mick's rainbow sweater he wears EVERY show is a sign. They are all fantastic!!!
I’m watching this from France, I love this team, the concept, their enthusiasm and professionalism. Not easy to bring back time team since the two major archeologists of the team passed away
I knew Mick died, but who else died?
Those magic words: "Time Team have got just three days to find out".
Wow... I've been watching this series for the past few weeks... just seeing John Gater, Mick Ashton (RIP--Amazing man), and Phil and the rest age is crazy.
They are awesome. I wish Mick was still alive. They should bring this show back. I would do whatever it takes to watch it.
R.I.P Mick, you did a great job here on earth, go rest and enjoy.
Thanks so much for posting.
To those who are commenting All these are usually over a weekend as far as I can make out. The whole premis is three days. A lot more can be done obviously but as guy said on a q and a on his channel there are upto 70 people on set and they get there the day before. He said he was contacted a few weeks before hand before each dig he was on.
Damn I love this show! Medieval time period is my favorite too!!! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
wow, i just found time team. very groovy stuff indeed.
9:00 whoever made mick his stripey jumper also made him matching socks :)
Ha! I noticed that too. I'd like to have a sweater like that. Not the socks though.
Socks visible @ min. 9:00
hahaha
You're welcome!!! cheers
@@dr.elizabethmartin7118 as if the man could be anymore loveable
I'm so late to everything, but I'm glad I discovered this series! Just amazing. I love it and history since apparently no one's schools teach them any of this stuff and I was an Art History major in college. My dad was a History major and growing up, no matter what question I posed to him, the answer was always the same 'The Normans invaded England in 1066!' Our last name is 'Norman.' lol
Yup I love the time team, plenty of UK re runs at the moment and was sad news the mick passed away last year, this happened just before the team had major fractures in the group, and ultimately lead to the shows closure, pity
kev maxwell I've watched 98% of the series so far..the only 2 regular shows I've not watched are the Caribbean episodes. I still have quite a few specials to watch too, but it is a great show. It is sad to have lost Mick..cool guy
It's a good show, and a good change from all the celebrity wanna be's that seem to be all over the UK TV these days,
kev maxwell sounds like American TV...dumb 'reality' shows, and other non funny comedies n such lol Time Team is a great show for sure.
Lol the world over I would think Gary, not that I don't like to switch off and chill, just can't be doing with the wannabes lol 😁
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What a wonderful program and Tony is such a great presenter (as my 8 year old son would say, "epic")! I know that he'd done a good bit of comedy, but he really seems excited about this series and it really adds to the feel of the whole thing. Thanks, Tony… and to the person who posted it! Love Time Team.
If you are not familiar with Tony Robinson's "Worst Jobs" series, you should check it out here on YT at a "channel" called SonicGameReviews. I don't know how many episodes were in the original series, but there are several on that channel. He explores the worst jobs in different eras & in many other categories. Tony gamely tries his hand at every one of the jobs, many times dressed authentically- even as a woman a few times (picture Blackadder's dogsbody dressed as a medieval fishwife)! Not only is the series very informative, but Tony's natural sense of humor makes it entertaining, as well.
Hunny Beez Thanks!
JeevesReturns Also check out Tony's book,"The Worst Jobs In History". And his YT "Walking Through History" and "Crime and Punishment"
Pretty much anything he presents is great. He could narrate a documentary about even the Kardashian family and I would sit through it.
Check out his audiobooks of abridged terry pratchett novels, his characters are beyond awesome, not to mention playing grubby servant baldrick (alongside hugh laurie &, stephen fry) in Blackadder - the best historical comedy known to mankind (ignore season1), that's why he got the gig. Having said that a makeup artist/costume designer friend of mine has worked on set with him and allegedly is a total self centered dick to everyone, complete git, always has been apparently, laughs off actually 'unhelpful' words to people, angrily vents and stomps off if displeased and the like, had literally nothing positive to say, I could hear the blood boiling at the mere mention.
I can see it with heinsight watching again, how the other team members have to laugh off to camera quite unhelpfully rude constant criticism (far more than playing devils ad), and when he's obviously really angry he couldn't go up in the chopper when only 1 seat available for an actual archeologist on one occasion etc.
Still best man for the job, shame he isn't nicer.
Oh, oh, oh…. Micks socks match his sweater !!!!!! That is SOOOO cool.
I find the 3 day concept so frustrating. Why do they only get 3 days when there is so much potential in a site like this one?
I have wondered about this too. It seems every site has a three day limit.
soslothful
3 days because this is a TV programme and that is the format, but also because a test dig with limited time is also a valid archaeological technique: you look to see if there is anything interesting in the hope that others can some day look more closely. Or you dig just sufficiently to support or possibly disprove a theory. And of course landowners may not want to be deprived of their land indefinitely. In this case it is a nationally important ancient monument and visitor attraction, so commercial interests will have a part to play as well.
ritorno100 In addition, the archaeologists, historians, finds experts etc all have regular day jobs. Being away for three days doesn't interfere too much with their other, main work. Time Team did what is called 'evaluation archaeology' - evaluate a site quickly to determine what it is. If it is of importance then it can be protected (if it hadn't already been so) and therefore it becomes a scheduled monument.
Ditto, Marc. Dig on, lads!
Although it's just a test dig, I'd have a difficult time just walking away if it was a really intriguing site, so perhaps separate arrangements can be made outside of the show, for further work. One would hope.
Mick was so darling in his stripey sweaters
This was one of the first Time Team episodes I found (was searching for Anglo Saxon documentaries). Hook Line and Sinker and 20 years and innumerable episodes later, am a TOTAL fan. Love these classic episodes and all the new ones too!
Interesting to follow the step by step discovery, the inch by inch revealing of the hidden scenarios. Fascinating. .
haha, Phil Harding is an utter legend! Particularly with his classic "ooooooh" when he finds something.
This series is addictive
Yeah, i am binge watching the complete series now, during the 'corona sessions'!
A lifesaver during these surreal times
Did anyone else feel the back of their head when Helen was describing what sounded like 'nickle crest' at 21:36? Wait, that's not Helen, sorry, I forget her name.
We still have boy-names Anne here in the frisian part of the Netherlands.
Not just Friesland though? For example:
Anne Soldaat - musician: Groningen
Anne de Vries - writer: Drenthe
"The Trouble with Boris". I wonder if anyone who watched this when it premiered knew he would end up Prime Minister?
Right. Trouble continues
I think he should have followed that animal tunnel. Animals will make use of open spaces under ground, that could have led to a crypt.
I love how excited Phil gets over a hole in the ground. It’s awesome.
The Priory dig on Google Earth:
52°19'18.6"N 1°35'47.0"E
Unfortunately the trees hide all sign and there are walls and buildings hiding it on Street View.
Thanks, I came to the comments looking for the coordinates.
Was on a day walk of the area at the weekend and we walked down Priory Road and past the Priory house, but you can't get in there to see it. Old and very pretty house.
Love mic sweater and wacky hair awesome
Justin Rennie He has socks on that match the sweater so obviously made just for him.
Bless the camera man lol!!!
Me, an aspiring archeologist; nice episode so far. Some Saxon archaeology
Them: Sutton Hoo is down the road
Me: HOLY SHIT I NEED TO GO THERE
One of Time Team's best! Thanks for Posting !
Phils accent definitely has got thicker since the first series where he was just out of unitversity.
maybe he actually tried to tone down his accent in the beginning
Where is that accent from?
@@al4berry It's Bristol
I was trying to place that too. I think he would fit in with some people I’ve heard from Alabama. Just stronger on the Rs and less the Oys.
Just here to say that I find Phil very chill indeed. Greetings from Denmark
Wish I lived in England the history is so interesting
Dennis jensen Canada and the US destroys all of it...
I live in Denmark and we have amazing history here as well, but I'd love to return to England for another history expedition.
@@ForeverLumoz
You Sir / Madam are ancestors of the mighty vikings . Ivar the boneless who along with King Halfden settled in York ( Jorvic ) . You guys ruled for over one hundred years .
@@Cassxowary
Much of our archaeology is on protected lands.
I really want to live in the British countryside. There is so much archaeology there. I'd be a modest cottage, restore and start digging a garden, hoping to hit something.
You would hit something - and I _don't_ mean just a stone or a sewer!
How come you only have three days to explore these fantastic places? I just love your show but I wish it was longer.
They are exploratory digs, if something important is there then later a full dig that takes months or years can be done in the future.
@@JETWTF if you don’t know the actual reason you should simply say that....
10:08 Apparently Sam Newton is the long-lost twin of Stephen Fry.
Worst idea ever to cancel Time Team!!!
Heartbreaking that they just fill these holes back in after the three days, and the excavation is over.
This is what governments should be paying for.
Not needless wars, not studies of impacts of cinema on fashion, or paying to ship migrants into the country for a lifetime on the dole.
Not heartbreaking, in fact. Soul crushing.
Many of their projects are picked up by university and county (or the British version) archeological projects. They often mention that in closing. Some sites are listed on the national registry of ancient monuments to be studied and protected.
Such a sensational show thanks to you tube we here in Australia are able to view so many more programs Go you Good Thing
ONE THING I LEARNED FROM THIS SERIES...uou don't want to invite these guys into your home!
At 10:52, I understand I'm in the UK here, but is that Mary Poppins in the sky, a UFO or Phil in an archaeological hang glider? Great episode and as always, I look forward to the sequel.
Scratching the surface whets the enthusiast appetite for more, but who carries on after your three day dig ends? It would be nice to see the follow-up progress on the sites. I'm fairly confident that if it was my back garden you had chosen to dig, I'd be tickled to have it continue, the baton passed into able hands.
Kim Jameson From what I've read the dig continues AFTER the TV cameras go away. Time Team has published a vast amount of archaeologic papers. If I remember correctly the team is in the top 5 in terms of published archaeological output in the UK..
Kim Jameson I think it's probably a dragon.
If the dig continues after the allotted time by the Time Team, the archaeologists will present the landowner with a bill, unless the dig is directed by the museum.
Most of the time the holes are filled back in unless someone can afford to pay the 4-5 figure daily cost of running an archaeological site.
American here. I’ve been through Death Valley CA more than once. Never have seen anything like that ancient column there . . . unless you really want to work your imagination & say it looks like a massive saguaro cactus. Which I don’t think it does whatsoever . . . but then again - maybe I have a sucky imagination.
Love this program, btw!
Sherry H. There are things that look something like that in Monument Valley.
I love Phil's accent.
with all the pottery scattered all over England, was any one able to ever pick up a piece of pottery with OUT breaking it and throwing it over their shoulders?
Lol.
For the record, in case some donnae appreciate your humor... folks left pottery in these places _because_ it was broken.
If something was still useful, the residents or later scavengers removed anything intact and of use or value and took it with them.
Does anyone know if there is any archeological programs that are currently (2014) running? Not television shows necessarily, but investigations to identify sites, especially in Lancashire.
+Brian Smith Lots, and many accept amateur volunteers.
Google "volunteer vacations archaeology" and go dig.
I want to believe that before Tony starts rummaging around that hole, that the cameras cut and actual archeologists examined the hole to make sure that Tony didn’t ruin anything sensitive.
i have it on good authority they do
@ 5:54 Phil cracks me up...lol
surprise surprise The archeologist in the rainbow striped sweater LOL EVERY EPISODE ...every darned one .-)))
he is professor Mick Aston,the head of the dig.he started this programme with the producer Tim Burton.
All ancient churches were built in an east-west direction, with the tower in the west and the choir in the east.
_Edit_ Some churches have the tower at the crossing.
Sooo,tell me more!! Intelligence far extended, impressive !
Strange there's no cross-reference to this dig in the later programme on Dunwich - "The Drowned Town". The two places are less than four miles apart!
King Anna, king of East Anglia is my 24th great grandfather's wife's 10th great aunt's husband's half brother's wife's father according to Geni
Does that leave you related or diluted
People have things like THAT in their backyards?? O.O
When I was living in a tiny village in the north of Scotland, I regularly walked past a small field at the side of the main road. It was in the middle of a street of houses with a stone wall around it, and it had a fairly uniform circular lump in the middle. No signage, no fences, nothing to suggest it was anything significant, but I knew it must be something. Turned out it was this: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=29885.
Just there. Nothing special. Just a (likely) protohenge from the 2nd or 3rd millenium BC. No big deal. :)
Channel 4, which started as an arts channel and originally showed ground breaking programmes, wouldn't have the guts to put something like this on again.
Mick was an awesome guy!!!
Wonderful programme! thanks for posting! Do you have the episode "The Saxon graves?" (Series 2, second episode.)
Oh dear, I am running low on episodes. I went random watching before I started from the beginning lol Before anyone asks I asked Channel 4 and they said no. Either someone else to pick it up or a go fund me campaign?
Pauldjreadman There’s lots of stuff on TH-cam. Keep looking.
A chapel head. Did he just call Mick an old chapel head? LOL, LOL, ...
I want a sweater with matching socks, like Mick!!
Infact you are 110% right joshua sorry for doubting you buddy
If Mick is an old chapel head, what is Phil then?!
Feather hat? I know, lame! ah well. Phil's a great guy, buy him a pint! Mick, GOD rest ya, you are missed!
What about that poor fella they dug up? Does he get to rest in peace or do his bones now go in a box?
They're usually reburied once they're done being studied.
Wish they would have retrieved DNA from the old skeletons to see if they were Germanic or Celtic.
you don't need DNA when they had the date of death via radio carbon dating. Some of the bodies were 7th century, which was before the Danes showed up.
@@maxdecphoenix yes but the saxons showed up before the 7th century and they were originaly germanic. On the other hand it seems that saxon culture spread further than their genes so dna in it self is not always as useful at this stuff as you migth think.
Bryon Lape either way it’s great so... but for historical education purposes, it would be interesting
We were going to move into a house with a 13th century brew house
You'll be needing a bar to go with it.
Is that king anna?,in the cupboard?
Exactly what I was wondering.
Hebry the 1st was crazy underrated. He redid priory bc ge was trying to establish a link to the hkuse of wessex snd show hes a continuation. He married a woman from house if wessex therefore his son eouldve technically been both norman and from alfreds line. Like henry the 8th was both york n lancaster
Just imagine, one day, this will be us, being dug up and examined by our descendants.
Time team!
1970 called...he wanted his wig back...
Maybe the cloister was on the north side because it was respecting a building next to the Saxon church.
21:45 literally just did the exact same thing as these three ladies ha ha
Why do the only spend 3 days on a dig?
Tony is an actor, John owns the geophys company himself, and all the others have 'day jobs' at Universities or County archaeology departments. The whole format of the show has always been that they take a Friday off, and have to get back to their jobs on Monday. They aren't earning much for each episode, and much of this is a labor of love for them.
Has Time Team ever been interested or investigated The Priory at Much Wenlock in Shropshire?
No.
Yes, There is an Episode done in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
Time team always managed to fill up a pub.
Would be nice for Time Team to visit Borley
Phil's been on the beak again 5:55
22:07 Look at the extensive wear on his teeth, especially the molars. Likely caused by grit in the milling of grain.
What happens after the 3rd day? Does work continue under another research team? Are all the suppositions left to be pondered over?
Well hello Kay !!!
_File-o-Wax_ oh my days.
love some follow ups
Lol! Love me some Phil!
RAINBOWS! jazzy
Would love to discover skulls and bones and ancient or old graves.
I always find it strange that they look at any relevant documents after they have been digging for 2 days..... surely it would make more sense to look at the records first?!
+Tim Lazenby You have to remember that we're only seeing a tiny bit of what actually goes on behind the scenes of the shows. Other episodes suggest that they start examining the paper trails well before the first shovel touches the dirt.
Most of what they're examining is in Latin or Old English and takes a bit of translation and needs to be narrowed down to the sound bites they insert into the show at a moment they decide will best fit the narrative or create the most drama.
+Tim Lazenby remember this is a show that condences hours upon hours into the time you watch.. they actually are trolling the documents earlier, sometimes they need them for justification of the dig in the first place.
Tim Lazenby to know it all is impossible so dig find identify follow the trail....otherwise we would never dig or dig way too much.
it's for dramatic effect. leaving a bunch of mini-cliffhangers throughout the show to keep people watching. If it was presented linearly, it would be an untenably boring show.
Just think Americans! You'll be able to have documentaries just like this in 3135 Ad.
LOL that would be for European sites. But there are plenty of ice age and native american sites here. History channel does alot of documentaries. Time Team came over for the Jamestown, Dinosaurs, & Maryland sites. There is also a show called Unearthing American over here. Interesting show on ancient sites.
***** excuse me, but you must live in the planes or something, out here. We have lots of sites in the mountains where they built stuff just as sophisticated as any bronze age European. We have pottery, grain storage spaces, houses with rock and mud construction, stone tools as sophisticated as any made in metal, extremely beautiful patterns on surviving textiles and woven baskets, then go south. Out of the US, the structures and cultures in the central and southern Americas are awesome and while the churches were battling in Europe, leaving people stupid and under their control for generations, the Americas were in a period of construction rivaling the romans in water management and agriculture.
***** excuse me but that's my heritage as a citizen of the southwest with native blood your badmouthing! And whose way of thinking is coming into prominance. Within the science and the environmental awareness you guys took thousands of years to rediscover?! Don't be calling someone a dumb ass just because you can! It makes you look ignorant, arrogant and self important. This is you tube and I don't give a shit if I spelled one word the wrong way when there are thousands to chose from
***** not offended at all jackass just pointing out a fact. You just need to look up the snake mound and see really awesome pre Columbian works. You also need to take a really good look at the anasazi and others. Your arrogance and assumptive nature is showing again. The fact that the writing styles are unique and the navaho was the only thing not ever deciphered by the work war two code breakers says something. So does the fact that most of us following traditional paths never lost site of the interconnectedness of life, the fact that everything alive talks In some way, that no one person really ever owns any land and cutting trees just because is a bad idea, same with farming the same spots over and over without giving back to the land the nutrients and chemicals just don't cut it especially when being delivered in salt!!?? Yeah, who wins the culture clash!?
***** who is this we and why do you think its better to have years worth of toxins dumped into bodies and the environment!? Stripped to bare rock for sparkles, areas that used to be full of life , monopolize space for a single species, chase off or kill creatures that kept the balance and health of the surrounding creatures?! Do you realize that after the wolf was reintroduced into Wyoming and surrounding states, the deer and other wild game animals have been found by the hunters to be in better quality for their hunts? Or the bats, another creature"your culture" persecuted to protect domestic species.. The devour pest species, don't they?? Or do you prefer your food coated in poison? Or your cities lacking rain because you created a heat bubble with the pollution making it hard for you to breathe and killing off what's left of the plants you tried to bring with you to make the place look like the place you came from?! You like sicknesses that can't be cured because they are caused by bad air and you don't want to get rid of being the only one in your car do you? Or at least grab the public transit system ??!! You wouldn't have to be putting up with recycle labels and ad campaigns about environmental responsibility had "your culture" hadn't been so full of itself and I'm not wrong and your arrogant self can't deny it
Nice as season 16 is oddly not available on 40d and not on DVD so how else do C4 expect us to see it. The fools.
WOO HOO William the Conqueror is my relative.
I really like Faye....
+Bryon Lape time team needs a lot more Faye
Shadow of a doubt. Geophysicist credo
How did I get here? I use to watch ba show where these guys took metal detectors and found stuff from the past. I really liked that show but can't remember what it was called.
Roberta Hubert The Detectorists?
I wish I had that striped sweater and he had a pink feather; then we both be tickled pink!
Was here in July 2019
Ehh, he's a good TV personality. But I get your point. On the other hand, no Tony, no Time Team.