Coming from the background of being an ex archaeologist and having worked in a number of museums, it’s still upsets me to hear somebody say in her first three minutes that she’s about to see something that so FEW ever get to see. That’s what bothers me about museums; after they study it, unless it’s on display, it goes into a drawer somewhere. It would be nice if there was a way tofund a way to show all things found and have it on display at all times for everyone to see.

@Radiantstorm9

Ай бұрын

I agree with you

@MrTorleon

Ай бұрын

You raise a valid point, but in defense of Prof. Roberts, she does make it perfectly clear that she has been given ' privileged access ' to materiel in storage. Unfortunately most major museums around the world house more important artifacts in storage than can be displayed for the public to see. It isn`t an ideal situation, but does represent a perennial problem of limited display space. As an Emeritus Prof. of Early Medieval History, I recall a number of occasions when I was surprised ( but delighted ) when historic items were presented to me ' from the back room ' as it were, that I had been completely unaware of. The complexities, and the logistics of displaying more items or artifacts is an issue than continues to challenge museum curators, and is, unfortunately unlikely to improve in any significant way for the foreseeable future.

@NikaBoyce

Ай бұрын

@@MrTorleon I understand the point regarding the logistics, completely. There must be a profound back-log of finds that have remained out of reach to even working professionals such as yourselves. I am hopeful that in a couple of generations everything that lies behind the archive doors will be scanned and available for study by all. Its like that saying "Chopping your own wood warms you twice" ... and then perhaps "scanning your archive discovers even more treasures"

@thereckoning5488

Ай бұрын

Also, sadly, museums like the Smithsonian don't put things on display that would show that the truth is far from what we are taught or told.

@maralfniqle5092

Ай бұрын

How right you are, especially if it upsets or casts doubt on the "established" theories of some. Very unfortunate

3:59 .. WOO! It’s Phil!! Gonna be a good segment for sure!! .. love that man!! His interviews on YT are so much fun to watch.. he is an absolute GEM!

@aleta5873

Ай бұрын

But his long finger nails creep me out.

@Paleos1000

Ай бұрын

@@aleta5873 Good for digging, however.

@meeseification

Ай бұрын

Phil's a guitar player, and those fingernails pick the strings.

@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2

Ай бұрын

Twin henges, triplet Roman temples he is a man built for speed.

@moonschildren

Ай бұрын

He took some getting used to but now I love his lovely enthusiasm!

Good to see Phil doing so well in his environment! I've missed him since his departure from Time Team, and always look forward to catching a glimpse of his enthusiasm.

Any day with Phil is a good day in archeology

So very happy to see Phil! I am even more happy to see him in charge of this important site. His intelligent analysis of what he sees in the ground is always amazing. I appreciate not only his enthusiasm, but his reliability. Thanks for this glimpse of his site.

@jeremyrowley1240

26 күн бұрын

Don't get too excited. The credits show the programme was made in 2016.

@Loops25

26 күн бұрын

@@jeremyrowley1240 So?

3:58 It’s a Phil Harding sighting!!! 🤩 Fabulous episode as always; but the ones with our illustrious flint-knapper extraordinaire are always that little bit more special. His enthusiasm is, to borrow his own words, “absolutely gorgeous” ❤

@samuelgarrod8327

Ай бұрын

He gives me the creeps 😂

@jeffmeyer9319

Ай бұрын

@@samuelgarrod8327 some things are best left unsaid

@GailBrenner-vt9ou

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your stellar observation.

@lynleygilchrist7703

Ай бұрын

@@GailBrenner-vt9ou thanks for your asinine one 🥰

@johnnylatham9738

4 күн бұрын

​@samuelgarrod8327 you give me the creeps, with your wierd comments, he's an archaeological legend. No one cares about your neurosis, or your opinion, Mr negative

PHIL!!! Man it's always great to see him still in the field all these yrs later. The man is a national treasure.

@engste678

Ай бұрын

No he's not.

@gerbrand8132

Ай бұрын

He is

@meeseification

Ай бұрын

His enthusiasm is great to see .

@brucejenner5856

Ай бұрын

But he's never heard of nail scissors

@DIWhyGarage

29 күн бұрын

*World treasure

Prof Alice is a real bonus treasure. So well spoken and professional. Always in my watch list.

Soooo great to see Phil Harding still with trowel in hand and still enthusiastic about stone tools.

@BlaBla-pf8mf

25 күн бұрын

This is an episode from 2016

Prof Alice Roberts ....and Phil Harding (Time Team stalwart) - what a show!!

@PPuffNstuff

Ай бұрын

She looks like Jodi Foster

@jonathanbair523

Ай бұрын

Isn't (Time Team stalwart) the one they all ways say " We got 3 days to dig"

@clovermark39

22 күн бұрын

@@PPuffNstuffshe’s better looking than Jodie.

The reason so many soldiers were slaughtered in the first word war was down to their leadership, not their training.

Super cool to see Phil Harding on this program!!

Yay! A Phil Harding sighting! 😊

@judithlashbrook4684

Ай бұрын

I love Phil!

@Knards

Ай бұрын

Phil is England to the core!

@darthpaul490

Ай бұрын

Ooh argh too right

@blindfredy6128

Ай бұрын

Good to see Phil again.

@ralphgoodman8181

Ай бұрын

A​@@blindfredy6128

When Alice said Wessex archeology, i was hoping Phil Harding would make an appearance. Yay

I don't find the new Time Team episodes as engaging as the original. However, this series, Digging for Britain, is so different in many ways that I think it surpasses and surprises other contemporary series and even all others before. Prof Alice Roberts is the perfect front for the series, so much so that she is, to my mind, the equivalent of being the David Attenborough of archaeology. Then, when you add Phil Harding to an episode, you know you will end up with a classic. What a combo they are. I am still smiling on hearing Phils laugh and witnessing his enthusiasm for the subject once again.

@ccsullivan9164

Ай бұрын

Recently watched an episode of Wessex Archaeology and as they were reviewing some finds in a passageway they passed by an almost full sized sculpture of Phil Harding replete with hat. No feather though. Might be ritual purpose for the feather?!

@skyhigh1154

Ай бұрын

I miss sir Tony 😢

As a retired U.S. Marine who served 26 months in combat in Vietnam I find it interesting that we were still digging emplacements with fire steps and laying out our machine gun positions much like these shown here. As an aside my grandfather served with the U.S. Army artillery in France during WW-1. Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam i965-66, 1970-71 0331,Infntry machine guns

@jeffmittag6681

Ай бұрын

Thank you for serving

@davidgray3321

12 күн бұрын

Your comment does t surprise me, the Americans wanted up to date information on war in France, they sent their men to train and see what the British were doing in France, since the British and French had by then years of experience, the British then sent their Military Mission to the US to train American troops, one of them was my grandfather who was an expert sniper, he I think went to the US in 1917, and was responsible for sniping and sniping training for a division. We have a letter from Colonel King 28th US division camp Upton Long Island dated 26th April 1918 thanking my grandfather George Gray of the 5th Cameronians for his work and enclosing a gift of a watch that all the men paid for. The US and British worked hand in glove in both wars so they had a lot of shared tactics and training the same applies today. Yours David Gray

Love seeing Phil again!!

When you see Phil Harding and Alice Roberts you are seeing two people who love their jobs. Their enthusiasm and commentary draw you in and keep your attention. Great episode!

I love this real archaeology. No three day limit. No tiny trenches. Just keep digging until you have what you came for. Whether that takes days, months, or years😊

I'd like to work with Phil on a Clovis site over here across the pond. We have very cool lithic sites over here. His enthusiasm is contagious, sometimes us archaeologists can get jaded.

@alanphillips556

Ай бұрын

Clovis is most intriguing, but now I must admit, the u s a has a much easier past it seems, you guys seem to be pushing human occupation further and further into the past, with that and the decimation caused by the y d b and interesting history yo say the least. When I finally get over there from the uk. I so much want to go to serpent mound. It seems a very special and sacred place. Take care yall. Love from over the way.😁👍

@DT-sb9sv

Ай бұрын

@@alanphillips556 Serpent Mound is amazing. I'd suggest some of the sites in the Southwest as well. The rock art there is amazing.

Made me think of my own maternal Grandmother dead and buried in 1925 with her infant daughter in her arms.

Another fantastic episode. Loved the last part highlighting that babies have been loved and lost for all humanity.

@williamwilliam5066

Ай бұрын

Not quite true is it, people from the Gaza strip hate others far more than they love their own children.

This is absolutely fascinating. I would give anything to get to it with a shovel and spade myself. Phil Harding is a absolute legend.

Oh Wow!! the elusive Phil Harding on the digs! love this Guy and his enthusiasm for History and archeology!

Phil Harding a Good Bloke but let's not Forget my mate MIck Ashley a real Gem Thx lads 👍🇬🇧

@DrivermanO

Ай бұрын

Aston

@terryyakamoto3488

Ай бұрын

Mick Aston is the archaeologist, Mick Ashley is the bloke who peddles nasty nylon tracksuits through Sports Direct

Phil is a legend!!

Nice to see Phil Harding again!

When Phil Harding is speaking in vowels only... he's got a good find. Aaaaa, Ooo, Uuuuu.... :)

Phil Harding is on the show .. and everyone is RIGHTFULLY flipping out :))

Phil Harding captures my interest for watching this video.

Big Phill in the house 🏠

My Grandfather trained on the Salisbury Plain during WW1. He enlisted at 14 years old, fudging his age. He served for England then moved to Australia where he served in the Australian infantry in WW2.

thank you for another fascinating video, always good seeing Phil

As an American I’m more entertained by British History than the US. Because there is more there. And Prof Alice Roberts is beautiful and I love her accent.

@davidfinch7407

Ай бұрын

Me too. I often think it's a shame America didn't exist in the Middle Ages.

@ibl82

Ай бұрын

What is her accent?

@aaaaaaaanya

Ай бұрын

@@davidfinch7407it did

@aaaaaaaanya

Ай бұрын

@@ibl82Bristol

@aaaaaaaanya

Ай бұрын

America has an incredible ancient history, I am so confused by this statement? Is Native American history disregarded? They had burials, artefacts, monuments, religions, languages etc just as our British history contains?

Always love to see Phil. This was very interesting.

More Phil please!

That coin hoard seems to look like a sack shape, fascinating.

@ccsullivan9164

Ай бұрын

My first thought? Offshore banking.

This is my first time watching. I think this may become one of my favorite channels to watch. 😊

0:38 Phil!! holy crap I remember him from watching time team with my dad as a kid

Phil!

Alice is fantastically talented ❤

I *LOVE* Phil! Great to see him on this & not looking that much older than on TT!

@lynnedelacy2841

17 күн бұрын

This series was filmed in 2016

What a lovely, great show! Thank you Alice, Phil and all the archeologists who work so hard to bring us informative stuff like this! Keep digging!!!❤

Absolutely brilliant.!! Thank you 👍

On the henge with Phil maybe the stone balls were used in a leather sling for hunting

I hope this never stops.

Thanks once again for a fantastic documentary.

Hello Phil !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a fab hoard they found on Jersey, truly impressive in its magnitude

Wonderful episode !

Great documentary Thankyou 😊

Having dug minor entrenchments in training during my Army service, it's a staggering feat to replicate acres of "enemy" trenches and fighting positions. There had to be a double purpose for both assault preparations and their own defensive works. All that chalk must have been a real treat to dig with hand tools. They didn't likely have a fleet of JCB backhoes to do the hard work. Motivating men to work this hard in a peaceful field must have taken some skilled leadership. In France you would have had plenty of incentive to dig, with shells falling around you.

You are Doing a Great Job

Ooh dr Alice. Stunning!

Maybe those large stones were placed on the baby's burial to perhaps prevent animals from digging up the burials.

9.40 Phil has special ceremonial balls it seems.....🤣

I'd love to hear more updates on the excavations at Tintagel!

"Not on the average take out menu "..... Love Phil Harding!!

Look at Phil looking fancy I've watched him for years on Time Team and never saw him with his hair combed. I love it!!

ENJOY YOUR SHOW 👍

wow very very interesting thanks more please

Thank you so much dearst Alice , afher a day hard work I am verry please to see your videos

My own stamping ground. There is so much archaeology here it has to be a great place for students

Brilliant and interesting,

Gracias

I am wondering if the young children's burials were so significant because of their vulnerability and loss to the community they were born into. That they were vital to their survival so each loss could be very devastating. I know that in jewish tradition that a stone put on the grave is often a sign of rememberance to those who have died. Christianity as whole was born from Judaism and we have some of remanents in christianity from Judaism. Just a thought on my part.

“Sir?” “Yes ,Dave ,ya lil devil?” “You’re holding it backwards. The decoration is on the other side.”

Keep digging' guys! It's all down there!

I LOVE PHIL! BEST FIELD ARCHEOLOGIST OF TIME TEAM. THE BLONDE CHICK WAS GOOD TOO! A favorite Phil statement “this was a wall”

Learning a great deal about the "Raimans".

We have been told by neighbors about or grandparents age that where I live was once the site of the old Indian encampment. When excavating a waterline approximately 175 foot long by hand we came across a circular spot of charcoal about 4 foot wide at about 2-5 in depth. We've discovered these same circular deposits of charcoal at other locations at about this same depth. We believe these are the old Indian campfires. We would like to have this charcoal carbon dated. Also one of the old fields here has been full of Indian arrowheads and flint fragments . In fact there is a large arrowhead collection of them about 2'/2'.

54:48 thank goodness these babies and mothers were found. Saving them from going into the ocean. That way they can be heard about their story of how they lived and died. 😢it is so sad though.

Those axes look unused. The ridge flakes are still shiny. WOW. Ceremonial use?

@resourcedragon

27 күн бұрын

I wondered if they'd given them a bit of a service and polish before burying them.

Those poor men who went to war, they had no clue what they were in for. No amount of training could've prepared them for the horrors they witnessed and suffered. The inhumanity of all wars beggars belief that we can inflict such atrocities on each other.. FOR WHAT???

@leejames1792

13 күн бұрын

So "elites" gain more power and wealth, always been the same, human life does not matter to these types of people and us ordinary folk are the ones still willing to do their dirty work, high time people woke up to it, but i doubt they ever will, Patriotism seems only to be a good thing when war is about, any other time we are told you are a far right extremist.

😊the legend Phil he was Time Team Alice just as brilliant as ever

The problem with WW1was not the training it was walking slowly across no mans land during a hail of bullets and artillery shells

Goodol Phil 😊❤

Placing a bone of your ancestor in the grave of the recently deceased shows the desire to maintain connection with family heritage.

The axe heads are actually golf club heads and the chalk balls are the golf balls. Stonehenge is actually a large putt-putt course. I could be wrong of course but that is archeology.

@Tom-xm7iq

Ай бұрын

Haha

What a marvellous show. You can tell it'll be good if Alice Roberts is in it. 😊

About WW1 surely the point was that the leadership of the army were using out dated methods of sending men over the top, running towards the enemy trenches which predated the advent of machine guns. The days of bombardment for a number of days before the advance had little or no effect on the dug in Germans. No amount of training could equip men to face such a barrage of fire which just mowed them down in vast numbers. Such a pointless waste of human life. My grandfather was a dispatch motor bike rider and mechanic in France during WW1. He died of wounds 12 years after returning home to Australia. My mother was 10. Her last remaining memories when she died at 92 in 2012 with dementia, were mainly of the father she lost.

This is like TV. I want lectures because I want to learn.

The white quartz pebbles likely date that cemetery to the early Christian period. The purpose of the pebbles is known to the Orthodox Church. The pebbles were used by very early Christians to sing the Psalms. Pebbles were later replaced by prayer ropes, and after the Great Schism, Roman Catholics adopted the rosary. There would usually be 150 pebbles, but more or less, depending on how many prayer songs a worshipper could sing. I don't know if the pebbles were used by practicing Jews before the time of Christ, but I think it's very likely. If the cemetery is really before Christ, then it's probably a Jewish coastal trading outpost, or perhaps native Britons who practiced Judaism. Either way, it's not a pagan practice. It's Judeo-Christian. Being an Orthodox Christian, I'm always surprised at the knowledge that has been lost in secular academia's rebellion against God. They claim to be experts in their field, but the average Orthodox priest knows more about the past than any archeologist. It only goes to show, there's no such thing as an expert in secular archeology. Whoever buried that child put the pebbles there to sit and sing more than a hundred Psalms in prayer for the baby's soul. So sad. I hope they didn't remove the bones for their macabre, Neo-gnostic, death cult fascination.

All excavations very cool. Thanks for putting this together. Tip. Whoever was the camera person for the Cave excavation site, where burials were inside and outside the cave during various time periods, must stop with the camera spinning, constant focus changes in slow motion, and other odd camera movements that cause vertigo, dizziness, and inability to keep watching. Steady camera and rapid focus . Smooth and steady.

That site is now completely concreted over.

Seriously, the idea that people 1500 years ago didn't love their children is bizarre...

@troyrockwell7744

Ай бұрын

Depends on the culture.

@jeffmittag6681

Ай бұрын

Well, what do you think of the one child rule in China ?

i got a bit of a giggle with the military section because she kept saying "we never would have known they trained" like wow ok they did that poorly I didnt think so

That Thornbury Horde is amazing. Geez that must have been a bank that deposited all that money. Just think of all the things that much money could of brought back then. Those gold necklaces that looked like big door knockers, i wonder how they got those on, his explaination of twisting them open didn't seem likely since they looked solid. Are there any paintings that show someone with this type of necklace? Good to see Phil.

50:13 What if that site was bandits or pirates who raided the coast and captured ships or raided towns and that became their stronghold for a go amount of time. Looks pretty rough, but sturdy for bad weather.

I have eatched enough Time Teams to recognize the guy with the glass at Tintagle and the guy who has done a few Project Nightingale Richard Osgood just frim the intro bit.

Phil! Great to see you! But lose the comb-over, bro!

New 🆕 Tech’ unveils those secrets 💎 ✨

Nice overtake of wagon with matchsticks plenty of power

Someone explain to me why only "bits" of pottery and other artifacts are found. What has happened to the rest of the item?? I would 5hink that if someone was living on this site a complete pot, plate or urn would remain.

just fell over board in love the first time alice roberts appeared on what was at the time my favourite tv program. and many yrs later nothing has changed, the most good looking girl and women alice roberts. a true diamond.

Those chalk balls are for sling shots ,

How old does a grave have to be before it’s considered an archaeological dig and not grave robbing? I’ve seen some really old unkept cemeteries I’d like to rob, I mean do an archaeological dig.

I believe they're storage Pits. Summer homes , winter homes , hunting camps. People have always done it. It's easier to leave it than carry it

Went to the WW1 battle fields it was a disaster sending so many into machine gun fire a total mess they never stood a chance.

There were advanced civilizations at this time.

Tintagel: Wasn't that the top of a tin mine? All kinds of "shafts" underneath?