Time Team S13-E06 Court of the Kentish King, Eastry, Kent
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- Tony and the Team descended on the orchards of Kent to search for the site of the lost Anglo-Saxon palace of Eastry - and investigated not one but two likely contenders.
One site seemed to have it all: lots of Saxon brooches discovered by metal detectorists, a prominent position on a hilltop, and what looks like the remains of three defensive ditches on aerial photographs.
But a mile away the owner of Eastry Court, one of the oldest houses in England, believes that his gardens hold the remains of the palace.
Every time they find a broach from any era, I imagine a woman suddenly feel her tunic come undone and she drops to her knees, searching with one hand while she holds up her tunic with the other. Another woman comes over-"What's wrong Aelgifu?" "My broach came undone! I can't find it!" Her friend calls out "Thelind! Gytha! Come help Aelgifu find her broach!" They run over. "Not the little silver one with the garnet?" Aelgifu is crying. "Yes, the one of the new ones Bynwick gave me". All four women crawl around in the dirt, searching, but they never do find it. They lead Aelgifu away, crying. What sort of husband was Bynwick? Did he slap her for losing it? Did he go to the jeweler and have a replacement made? I think about that time in the airport I was on the floor for 20 minutes, searching for one of my mom's favorite earrings while she freaked out (we found it). Every little find like that, these beads and broaches and hair pins, if it's not a grave or a ritual sacrifice, was a moment of someone cursing and frantically searching, having to come to terms with permanantly losing a little treasure.
This is such a great comment lol. The names were especially good.
I love Paul Blinkhorn. Gets called in to be a pottery expert but isn't afraid to dig trenches right alongside the Time Team
Love Tony Robinson's explanation of the hill..."it's quite a hilly hill"
They love giving Stewart such a hard time. Lol. I felt so sorry for him and for the poor home owner, as he was lamenting the trenches going into his beautiful yard. This was a very good and entertaining episode. I love this show so much!
I HATED YARD, ITS A WASTE OF LAND, SHOULD PLANT SOMETHING YOU CAN EAT INSTEAD OF GRASS.
32:43 Stuart Ainsworth is an absolute genius. What a skill he has, to read landscape that way. Utterly brilliant.
I agree, I really like what he brings to things, though of course Phil is still my favorite cast member.
There was one episode where Stewart pointed out that the gates they found were backwards, and off angle for the house they were digging, and they just laughed at him. To this day I still think he was right, and they simply didn't look for whatever they had been built for.
I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am that you’ve uploaded all these Time Teams! Thank you!!
The last time I visited England, I saw a sign that said, "On this site, in 1647, absolutely NOTHING happened." This episode kind of reminds me of that! :-) Still, bloody good show!
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Yes you can buy those signs on the internet. Buy yourself one
semisophisticate63 That's so funny, I've said for a long time, since we lost a lot of manufacturing, that the UK is just a museum.
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A bunch of Saxons are standing around, gazing in silent wonder at their King's magnificent palace. The last surviving Roman walks by, and says "Nice barn you've got there."
i love your sense of humor, brilliant!
@@jhbluestar Thanks much, and thanks for reading it in the spirit it was intended. Every society shines in it's own way, and that certainly applies to the Saxons.
@@WashuHakubi4 Of course! Besides, those of us with English ties can certianly understand British Humor! Again, well done, that made me laugh for awhile!
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Helen is great, always like her, very unassuming, lovely Lady among the crew!
Gwen Fish and always very professional. Nobody parts hanging out. I'm no prude, but I do like professionalism.
There's something special about the name Helen, not common in our era. My grandmother's name was Mary Helen Murphy - I needn't speak to our lineage, but her parents were from County Kerry. 💗🍀💗
@@lindasue8719 Less is more. She is staggeringly attractive.
I geek out on Geake.
@@mattkaustickomments indeed!
To me, Stewart has the ultimate job. Research old maps and land title documents, then walk and survey the land by yourself, applying your imagination to historical context. I would put on some music and bring a coffee along and be totally in my element.
+Peatman With the occasional helicopter survey thrown in.
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Agreed. Especially when he heads off to parts unknown on his bicycle.
If they sent stewart in the day before the show would only need 2 days..lol
@Peatman I agree. Stew has always been my favorite. What a cool job he has. I checked and he is a professor at The University Of Chester now.
I'm always fascinated by Paul Blinkhorn being able to tell from a tiny shard of pottery, when, where and in what form it was made.
+Brisdad53 Yes, yes,...clearly...hm...of course...goes without saying...
Its when they rub it against their teeth or chew a bit to see what its made of that makes me laugh.
I can't imagine the grind it would be to learn all about pottery so you could be an expert. Or at least be able to sound sure enough so that people won't doubt you.
Brisdad53 lol
I have a feeling they give him a few minutes to look it up before answering lol
I actually LOLed when Tony said "Looks like something out of Dungeons & Dragons!"
do you know what a joke is?
Now I want to see these kids play dnd, lol
Me, too...only I'm watching this one for the first time 5 years ago.
Had to forward that to my, ahem, almost 40 yr old son.
Love it when they knock on a person's door and as it opens we see the view from the camera already on the inside :p
They usually asked a few minutes before and just re-created the scene for the camera. That's a common practice.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Yes, that's quite obvious. But I think @Xtant Audio finds it funny (funny haha) and so do I, as it's so clearly not the first time they knock.
Thank you for posting this series. I so enjoy it! Namaste.
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Still one of the best things on YT.
Thanks for another upload of my favourite program!
+philip leathbridge Surely you mean "programme"?
@@barnabyaprobert5159 I think in the U.S. and Canada they spell it "program" not "programme", maybe a few others but I'm not too sure lol
@@meatyoakergeorge I'm posting from Cardiff, thanks! Cheers!
Love this series, quite fascinating! And I think their expressions are charming. :D
Thanks for uploading - an interesting, if frustrating episode.
17:39 the guy who realizes he's in frame and makes a quick duck-down. :D
Large numbers of metal detectorists searching the ground always look a bit like the zombie apocalypse.
The Saksen villages in the netherland all have the same shape. A round enclosure (called a brink) in the middle and the farms and church around it.
All the comments of not finding anything in this episode made me chuckle after seeing Mick and Stewart at 29:00. If only they had turned around they would have realized they had discovered the only Saxon pyramid in all of Britain!
Northside?
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Woodstock of the ancient days. They came , they saw, they dropped a few things, they left.
I love history so much, especially when they are talking about Kent. Jutes. That is where my ancestors are from. Now I am in the U.S. LOL Good memories of that lovely place.
And friesians I believe....
Yep! I ran out of "characters" here on YT, so I couldn't explain the intricate bits of the English language.
Thanks for supplementing my comment. :)
Every time I see some of the Team wandering down a narrow path with lush leaves encroaching on either side as at 23:36, I think, "Watch out for poison ivy!" Then I remember those lucky stiffs don't have that nonsense infesting their wooded area.
What about snakes? Didn't they just have adders? Until a**holes imported pythons, etc at a later date?
@@eboracum2012 Don't know about snakes. I just know that, when I was a volunteer naturalist, we'd have the same scene enacted every fall, with the influx of new foreign students at the local universities. We'd spot someone off-trail (against the rules), in the middle of a patch of shin-high poison ivy (oops), wearing shorts (oh, dear). So, Europeans are completely unfamiliar with the stuff.
RIP Mick
Thanks for such a low bitrate vid
I’ve damaged my wrists just driving a school bus 🚌 and gardening. I just can’t imagine the problems that archeologists have with theirs. All that heavy digging has to hurt at times.
"What makes you so sure this brooch is Victorian?"
"Well there's this feature and that feature, but mainly it's the inscription 'A Present From Margate'."
I'm the second "like" of this comment. I wonder how many others will get the reference.
@@ancilodon I was quoting from memory; but I was thinking of a pepperpot.
ok, I kept wondering what "epitures" were until I realized he was saying "air pictures" lol
That sweater needs to be in the England Geology Hall of Fame.
The field site is here:
51°15'21.6"N 1°18'46.1"E
The site next to David's house is here:
51°14'44.0"N 1°18'36.3"E
And the recreation yard is here:
51°14'43.1"N 1°18'32.8"E
What are you trying to achieve?
@@vespasian123456 for us google earth geeks who aren't familiar with the UK geography, these coordinates are very helpful for finding the sites. the sky view is often very informative.
Pat Meyer: Actually, No! The expression "Sweet Fanny Adams", which really means "very little" is the original term. It relates back to the abduction and murder of a young girl, Fanny Adams, in 1867. She was butchered and parts of her were cut into very small piece that took a long time to find (Hence, small piece of Sweet Fanny Adams). Here's the Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Adams
The other expression, "Sweet F**k All" is a much later derivation.
What an interesting, gruesome story! Poor little girl.
Wow
How Horrible!
"Court of the Kentish King" I see what they did there. My opinion of Time Team was already stellar, then they proffered a nod to King Crimson. I sense Mick's influence.
I hadn't noticed that! I reckon it was *Mick* too.
I love the church bell tolling in time to the geophys walker at 13:50.
Now I an thinking about the "Big Hall" in the Beowulf epic.
Does anyone know why Robin Bush left the show? Sadly, I know he died in 2010! I really enjoyed watching him. He was very informative!
Dear Robin bush left the show because he was sadly diagnosed with alzeimers .God bless him
goransgirl1 what happened to mick?
@@mickeykindley9885 Mick Aston died age 66, June 24, 2013, in Winscombe, United Kingdom. R.I.P Mick.
@@dr.douglaswilde1155 I'm no fan of numerology, but this one is very remarkable Mick died age 66 month June 24 = month 6, 2+4=6, 2013 added up is again 6. Don't think it means anything - I just noticed it :)
My understanding is that Robin left the show, at least in part, due to his increasing commitments to local politics. At the time he left, he was Chairman of Somerset County Council and remained active within the Council until 2009.
Brilliant!
Trivia. Home owner David Freud is Sigmund Freud's great grandson:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Freud,_Baron_Freud
Metal detectorists have gone from 'old duffers and lucky amateurs ' to necessary front line troops.
Phil to John: "You haven't finally found something, have ya?" I wonder if he's referring to just that day, or the whole Time Team series?
I feel sorry for John, they're always picking on him, and he just seems to take it...do we ever see him hit back?! I know he gets to crow once in awhile, but never enough times to suit me!
@@alanatolstad4824 If you watch some of the videos where various Time Team members are together for live speaking events, you'll see that John has quite a sense of humor, and certainly gives at least as good as he gets.
@@WashuHakubi4 I'm glad to hear this! He can be quite a character, but we so rarely saw it during the tapings!
Might I guess that the meeting ground could be for locals whom are waiting to have their grain ground into flour. a sort of out-door waiting room/picnic area ?
I doubt people who left such high class items would have been waiting around to have their own flour ground. A servant would undoubtedly be sent to fetch that.
Nice idea.but a bit out of kilter time wise There are many Moot sites in England, mostly forgotten about. In the days before central government,(Saxon) they were places where people would come to thrash out boundary disputes, land and water rights, maybe even arrange marriages and meet partners from beyond their own communities. It has been suggested that once the legal stuff was finished they took on a fair like quality with traders and entertainments and no doubt booze. No one was allowed to carry weapons. The Moots were in a neutral place, central to several communities, such as crossroads. Which would explain all the roads converging on this hill. I grew up near a major crossroads that led to some very old places and aligned on at least one major hill that had been quarried as far back as the Iron Age, maybe earlier. Old documents suggested that there had once been a stone circle up there. Anyway the interesting thing for me as a child was a hundred yards from the crossroads was a totally modern pub called The Moot Meet! I had never heard a name like it and I had not a clue what it meant. Strangely neither did any of the adults that I knew. It wasn't until I was in my thirties and hanging around with 'Earth Mysteries' types, that I learned about Moots and the penny dropped. I have no idea who named the pub, but they knew something all us locals had forgotten. By the way, the Pagan community in the area have revived the principle of the Moot somewhat. but now they are basically a meet up in the local pub with like minded people. Sadly, they are not held in the Moot Meet, as I believe that is now a car wash!
Hogwash , Thank you for the comment . I often can learn a lot from comments . Neutral ground Yes . I had a Place I Bow Hunted that was on a Travel corridor That was Neutral . Camps and Villages for miles along a River . The place had a certain feeling ! I found a Lot of artifacts of different ages Laying around . Some went back to Woodland Period ? I took a stick and Buried them there where they belong . I made sketches but never took a Photo like I should have . But that's a Moot Point now ? I am sorry about the Car wash .
It's nice to know that 1600 years ago, women (like I've done) were losing very nice, gorgeous, expensive jewellery. " I know I set it down right here!".
Gardens grow better once deep holes have been excavated. So Time Team are doing those gardens a favor.
An interesting note... "sweet fanny adams" started out as military (army) slang for a ruder set of words for "nothing" as in "sweet F*** All" when one was not allowed to swear.
nothing. Nought. Nutsy. Zilch.
John Gater certainly got some abuse from the other TT members haha.
I loved Time Team and I have a lot of respect for everyone who worked on it, however you would have to say the least successful element of the show was definitely geophysics. If you watch a lot of episodes you will note that John and his team are wrong far more often that they are right. Geophysics made for an interesting angle on the show but it was quite often, pretty useless and on many occasions led the team to waste their time digging 'red herrings' when they could have been doing better things. At various times throughout the 20 years the programme was on air, we see John getting excited about new equipment but the results always seemed to be just as bad, LOL.
@@Wally-H Stewart (I think that's how his name is spelt) is right far more than the geophysics team is from what I remember lol
I would guess the palace is under the house. Like churches built right ontop of the old one that was torn down. It seems like it was the Tudor period when building were torn down and a new one was built next to it. If you look at allot of posh buildings before the Tudor period you have remains of the buildings before, Early Tudor could have a medieval hall as part of the new house and late was all new in a different spot.
You win some, you lose some...
Why only 3 days I get all excited then nothing when we know there is so much more
The archæologists were all professionally employed as archæologists elsewhere, 3 days is quite common for exploratory excavations and the programme was otherwise very expensive.
Money....cosat of it all....,tv crew, dig crew, archaeology crew,etc
think some migrating sea birds might have dropped those broaches they found on treasure island.
@MissCattitud63: And what does it mean when Tony says: "And what is the colour of the garden fence?"
"The colour of the garden fence", in the case, means undecorated.
tath wind mill looks like one in Williams-burg VA, USA.
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14:10 Dr. Jones was wrong - X does sometimes mark the spot.
"Stone the crows" is an expression people in England use when something is either unbelievable or annoying. "Crickey" is an expression of surprise. "Sweet fanny adams" means "nothing". All these are a genuine and historical part of the English language.
What you're listening to in this series is British English, which is rather more colourful, original and a lot more pleasant to the ear than American English.
PS: By "Phis" I assume you mean about Phil, not Geophys?
can not stop watching Time Team!
Really? Blimey - crikey - Blind ol' Riley. Who'd have thought it.
Eliniël Thank you for explaining!!
American English is far more pleasant than listening to a British fog horn such as yourself.
Total failure, loved it!
where is Phil?
Who is the guy at 43:35 in the orange football shirt...buzz cut (or bald)? I missed who he was somehow...
Paul Blinkhorn a pottery expert.
The land owners end up disappointed.
Have any of the main people from this show have children follow in their footsteps?
Why do you guys only ever have three days to dig?
The archæologists were all professionally employed _as_ archæologists elsewhere, 3 days is quite common for exploratory excavations and the programme was otherwise very expensive.
i think stuart is the mr spock of time team lol
What happened to Robin the historian? He not on anymore?
To MissCattitude63, if you think American English isn't just as colourful, original or pleasing to the ear as British English you have obviously never been in the Southeastern U.S., lol.
Brisdad, The Southern way of speaking, especially in certain areas is a direct result of Irish, Scots and English developing in isolated areas and use many words which their ancestral races long ago stopped using. When you consider that, we aren't childlike compared to our forebears at all, we are an extension of them and can claim their history as part of our own. My personal family history is Irish and Chickasaw so even in this land part of my ancestry goes back much, much further than 250 odd years. I was referring to our use of language in the Southeastern part of the US in which many have Irish/British ancestry and as a result have their own colorful usage and phrases which stem from their own ancestry, not to our nation's relatively short history. Even the traditional music known as Bluegrass stems from Irish/ British traditional music, a lot of the instruments being the same, some dropped, some added, and many of the tunes from the old country being re-written here. Listen to the Connemara Cradle Song sometime and then listen to a Bluegrass tune called Here The Wind Blow and you'll see what I'm alluding to, or another old Irish Tune called Come In and tell me it doesn't sound just like an American Civil War tune called Marching Through Georgia.
You don't need to say "British English" because England is in Britain. It's like saying "Female Woman". You only need to say if it's a variation of English spoken somewhere other than England like " Australian English" or even "American English"
So US history doesn't start with the English, Spanish, French or the Natives that have been here for some 10,000 years it starts right around 250 years ago? Everyone's past doesn't count as soon as you hit that 250ish year barrier? Rather silly thing to say to me that I have no history at all as soon as my relatives came over from Germany/Poland in the 1870s.
@Brisdad53 My old apartment in Strasbourg is older than my homeland!
@@edbadyt Now, you almost have to say Female Woman with how rampant it is becoming with the sex changes that many people are starting to do and you aren't completely sure if the woman is actually female or male.
In saxon times "MOOTS" were held in a locally prominent and well known obvious location every few years, to settle disputes, announce laws and conduct necessary public business for the surrounding population. these were strictly temporary establishments to achieve a specific function, and would have left few permanent signs on the landscape. Perhaps hundreds or thousands of people would have gathered there for a few weeks however, and they took on the atmosphere of a "fair" with entertainments, trading and socializing and all the other aspects of a large public event. the elite and high government officials would have been there also, but most likely in tents or temporary structures.
Since it was an intermittent and temporary event, no permanent structures would have been put up, especially on such an exposed site. This hill is most likely such a site. With so much going on, and probably the liberal consumption of Mead, it's no wonder so many finds were found littering the site. I know that when I go to the fair, i have to be very careful not to lose something out of my pockets, especially after a few beers!
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The hill looks man made to me, though probably from the neolithic or bronze age.
I often wonder about if theres a meening behind some of the strange expresions they use. Phis says:"Stone of crows" in almoes evry episode? Mick says someting like:Crankei , wery often ,,and here at ca 41:50 tony : Sweet Fanny Adams instead of nothing?!? Not wery important as long as i understand the archeology, but not easy to understand for me who doesent speak english as my native language.
Stone the crows means "I'm suprised", crikey also means "I'm suprised", sweet Fanny Addams means Fuck All, or nothing.
Where’s Phill?
There he is!
He turns up briefly digging the top of the hill, and then the playing field but he is largely sidelined in this episode simply because they found naff all in the way of good archaeology. Didn't happen often on Time Team, but happen it did on occasions.
Yeah not even a bad back can keep Phil away from a dig. TT even picked him up the 3days in an Ambulance for a dig.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Freud,_Baron_Freud
Great grandson of Sigmund.
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I don't think I've ever seen an episode where they accomplished less. They really didn't find anything. Oh well, they can't all be gems.
+Brisdad53 "There's nothin' 'ere, look."
I love that. When I read it, I could hear Mick saying it in my head :D
There had to be a down episode after the previous "The Boat On The Rhine".
Brisdad53; There are worse things to sound like.
I think that his sweaters (jumpers) should be be in museums and preserved along with the stuff he put in them.
Archeology.
I wish they would find something sometimes.
Kathie gillaspie obviously you haven't seen many episodes.
Sometimes finding nothing in itself answers questions. It may be less interesting that finding a Saxon hall e.g. but it clears up whether what people think is under a certain bit of land, really is. personally I like the fact Time Team was a very genuine programme where, if they found nothing, that would be what we'd see. Contrast that with all these modern antique-hunting programmes etc. that are supposedly real but totally scripted and fixed. Time Team was scripted, and of course they edited events to make the 'story' of the programme more interesting but they really did turn up at a site for three days not being certain what they would find. That was its charm. Time Team was always about answering a question that would be related to interpreting a site, not digging shiny things out of the ground. That is, after all, what archaeology really is.
they always manage to find the pub!
@@carpii theres one episode where the village didn't have a pub and its the closest I've ever seen to Phil and the diggers cry. I can't remember what episode but they ended up setting up a pub on the village green
Did you even watch this? They found many artifacts.
steward wheres your bike helmut tfs
sounds romantic- but living was a battle all the time of social war
Far from being Saxon, this site is more likely to be victorian
just gimme a bite of that muffin top, & allll will be we!!
I bet if you type just one S into your google search bar, SSBBW immediately pops up. Sick one.
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Looks Mongolian.
I prefer Brigid when she works on a hot weather dig...;-P
time team introduction credit is devastating, inspires the viewer to run away
Nobody who has tried and nobody who has wanted to has ever killed off the Saxons or driven them from that Island. So if you want Saxon buildings, just stand in one spot and look around.
Was Helen pregnant in this episode?
+Fedra Haldane Must be. Swelled belly and her normally sweet little bum seems much bigger.
+Barnaby ap Robert You realize you said that out loud right?
+Phillip Cowell Quite right...I will admit though I personally find her attractive...not conventionally beautiful, but extremely attractive...
john gater is a woman in disguise.
In Kent lived the Jutes. Kent had different laws and rules than other southern England kingdoms. Time Team are not very clever.
Yes, absolutely. My ancestors are from there.
37:49 Someone gave that woman very bad fashion advice! No one wants to see a muffin top!
Yes you guys do.
@@Tsumami__ LOL!
@Ron C this isn't Gok Wan or Americas Next Top Model. The diggers wear what they are comfortable doing hard manual labour in. I love Brigid and Raksha they are intelligent ladies who always have something interesting to say and can hold they're own with the boys. I'm not really bothered what they're wearing
@@Tiger89Lilly plus, they are gorgeous women. You're right about the US. Advertising is consumed, as is all media, that the thinnest, anorexic wins. This in a country where the largest (no pun intended) portion of the population is overweight or obese. They are vilified, but brainwashed with the media to consume mass quantities of fast food. Crazy, crazy, crazy...stay safe from, well let's call it what it may become , ZAV (Zombie Apocalypse Virus). What a name for a movie or band... Cheers
Wat makes me laugh is wen tony says we're sending Stuart out to see wat he can find anything then you see him walking over some fields then riding on his bike down a country lane then walks through the village streets and then says a load of bullshit he's found out on his travels & says put a trench in here and then you guessed it there's fuck all in the trench then scratches his head oh let's put another one here to find fuck all!! Quality tv.
Actually he has found things a lot more often than not. You have to remember he is working from earth works that could be from thousands of years of history. Could you tell exactly what a depression in the land was? Is it a boundary or defensive ditch, was it something dug to drain a field?
This Tony fellow is annoying.
@37:00 I think Brigid was in denial about what size shirt she needed and how she looked in them. The ones she bought when she was 14 just weren't covering the flab anymore.
This might be the time she had or was going to have a baby!
a big hill in a flat land can be a sacred site to pagans I don't think they dug deep enough these people are so narrow minded they can't conceive that a simple open space can be as spiritually inspiring as a cathedral they are so out of touch with nature they can't allow the grandeur of being in my people's shoes at the top of that hill the biggest they.ve ever seen where you can see everything for miles around fills you with awe and wonder, it is like us climbing the great pyramid in egypt. then there is the possibility that such a hill is not natural. it is an oddity. maybe the pagans built it......