A Village Affair | Time Team (Archeology Documentary) | Timeline

There's a problem in the chocolate-box village of Bitterley in Shropshire. The village's school and cottages cluster prettily around the green. But the village church and the manor house lie more than half a mile away, on the other side of a lumpy, bumpy empty field.
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  • @TimelineChannel
    @TimelineChannel4 жыл бұрын

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  • @johngraham5964
    @johngraham59644 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful show. Time team has a strange placating effect on me. Whenever I am going through a rough time I find myself watching it. I don’t know what it is exactly but it’s a visual sedative.

  • @sixxygrrl

    @sixxygrrl

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same for me. It helps me get through rough days with a nice calm air.

  • @solomonkain

    @solomonkain

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, it's the same for me!

  • @eliscanfield3913

    @eliscanfield3913

    4 жыл бұрын

    me too, sometimes it lulls me to sleep. Which doesn't sound very good, I admit, but I do rewatch when I'm conscious.

  • @georgemink1813

    @georgemink1813

    4 жыл бұрын

    It MAY be the voice and overall manner of speach of the shows host. I don't know. I do know that whatever I watch on youtube, I don't have to leave the thing playing for long before KZread decides I want to watch Timeteam. They seem to be right, as I've watched several episodes without any intention of sitting all of the way through. Not sure how I feel about that.

  • @DAYBROK3

    @DAYBROK3

    4 жыл бұрын

    When sick it’s what I watch.

  • @lisatoronto7265
    @lisatoronto72654 жыл бұрын

    Miss you Mick you were a gem

  • @therainbowwillow4453
    @therainbowwillow44534 жыл бұрын

    “But... there’s still no pub in the village?” Iconic line haha! Maybe they had to remove the pub so the Walcots didn’t drink themselves broke!

  • @shendaraalshedir1933
    @shendaraalshedir19332 жыл бұрын

    "But there's still no pub in the village." Poor Phil, lol! He handles even *the worst* news like a trooper!!😂🤣 I LOVED how the whole village turned out to help!- The little girl in the blue t-shirt is surely a futre archaeologist!👍🏻 So cute! I would LOVE to own a coin from 1902, how cool is that??!!👌🏻 And Alex Langlands, what a GREAT addition!!👍🏻 I watched all of his series, such as Tudor Farm, he's brilliant! Hi to Raksha & Mick too! I absolutely loved the inclusion of locals from kids to seniors, really lovely to see!👏🏻💖 And you *KNOW* you are loved when your co-workers and friends build you your own mini outdoor pub, "The Phil's Head", omg, brilliant guys!!🏆👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻😂 I have loved all the Time Team episodes over many many years, but there was a real homey family feel to this one that really appealed to me. And of course Phil always rocks, always a great laugh!👍🏻🤗 And Welcome Alex, wonderful to see you again!!🤗💖 Absolutely stand out episode everyone!🏅 🤗💖🌈🇨🇦☮️

  • @mariancroome1478
    @mariancroome14782 жыл бұрын

    Each and every episode brings something SO interesting,.... I am addicted, in love with Phil's laughter and the banter of the team at large. Love you guys. ❤❤

  • @Schmorgus
    @Schmorgus4 жыл бұрын

    *RIP* Mick Aston. The biggest star of Time Team _(and Time Signs)._

  • @kierangane734

    @kierangane734

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I got done for trespassing recently..." Good old Mick.

  • @mariancroome1478

    @mariancroome1478

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm SO sorry that Mick is not with us anymore. RIP Mick, you wil be missed sorely. 💕💞💖

  • @shendaraalshedir1933

    @shendaraalshedir1933

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea, l feel like an idiot. So sad, l will miss those funny cheery bright sweaters!! I hope you find good stuff to explore up there 🌫️🌈🌌Dr.Aston. Rest In Peace, Mick. 🌹😔🌹. 🌈🇨🇦☮️

  • @Lauralee25
    @Lauralee254 жыл бұрын

    So awesome to see the whole village getting involved

  • @Unknown_crusader
    @Unknown_crusader2 жыл бұрын

    I love how enthusiastic the whole village was.

  • @barbarajmartin6218
    @barbarajmartin62184 жыл бұрын

    I love the neighborhood working together!

  • @daveshrum1749
    @daveshrum17494 жыл бұрын

    There's no Pub and no shop?! That's not a village that's just a collection of houses! 🤪

  • @bluebird5361
    @bluebird53614 жыл бұрын

    "So you go and lie down with a bag of cold peas on your head" - priceless!

  • @trevormiles5852
    @trevormiles5852 Жыл бұрын

    It is great how the adults and children of the are partake in the digs.

  • @Wayzor_
    @Wayzor_2 жыл бұрын

    This one make you really miss Mick.

  • @jeremymatthies726
    @jeremymatthies7262 жыл бұрын

    "Village with no pub" sounds like the title a song by the Irish Rovers LOL. To hear Phil say it sounds like he's gonna break out in song

  • @hanes_cymru_
    @hanes_cymru_ Жыл бұрын

    12:38 - you're not alone in thinking that old Phil haha

  • @RobKoelman
    @RobKoelman2 жыл бұрын

    18:12 'Are you sure about this?' 'Yeah, well, well... We'll play the mad archaelogist card if he is stroppy about it'... Brilliant!

  • @paulvanobberghen
    @paulvanobberghen3 жыл бұрын

    Wish I could hit the thumb up button multiple time. Probably the most touching episode I’ve seen so far in the series.

  • @SigEpBlue
    @SigEpBlue4 жыл бұрын

    Bitterly. No pub. Has to be a connection.

  • @a.westenholz4032
    @a.westenholz40324 жыл бұрын

    While this isn't a bad TT episode (well none of them are really that) I do miss the older team. I miss the expertise that Carenza, Helen and Stewart all brought to the show. While Mary-Ann and Alex may have done other excellent shows, they somehow never fit in on TT. That may not have been their own fault, I couldn't say, but rather what roles they were asked to fill in a show already so well established.

  • @agatenby41

    @agatenby41

    Жыл бұрын

    mick left the show because of her, he died soon after

  • @Barbara_Schulz
    @Barbara_Schulz4 жыл бұрын

    Keep digging. The pub is underground!

  • @graceamerican3558

    @graceamerican3558

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @NorwayT
    @NorwayT2 жыл бұрын

    It would have been nice if you could add the production date of these episodes in the descriptions.

  • @sharimullinax3206
    @sharimullinax32062 жыл бұрын

    I want more Time Team!

  • @raunothomas
    @raunothomas4 жыл бұрын

    I am writing from Estonia. Firstly I thank you for all the most interesting work you have done! You have educated people. It is most important! Bad side is, that robbers of sites have also learned. You have speeded up understanding history... and finding it. I am from Estonia... and we have so very much violent digs! Robbers get somehow better... cause of knowhow, and this is sad. Too sad. They dig out our rich history from times of vikings and even more! But i hope, that there has been more good than bad. I loved the show. Sincerely.

  • @cjpmedic
    @cjpmedic2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve fallen in love with this show. But even more so for that stunning brunet in the crew….seriously she is STUNNING!

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey9449 ай бұрын

    Thanks for posting

  • @wildbill6675
    @wildbill66752 жыл бұрын

    Love this show just found it about a month ago

  • @kelly623
    @kelly6234 жыл бұрын

    loved it thank you so much!

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @pinkbunny6272
    @pinkbunny62723 жыл бұрын

    Alex, one of my academic fancies... He's so perfect for the show!

  • @SupermanJH68
    @SupermanJH684 жыл бұрын

    Ahhhhh, the Trimble GNSS rover, in driving mode, collecting data points. Fantastic stuff.

  • @joshschneider9766

    @joshschneider9766

    3 жыл бұрын

    I heard they can do a lot of Autonomous mapping with drones too now

  • @jrjubach
    @jrjubach2 жыл бұрын

    Really really interesting. I feel they make a lot of assumptions and are so sure of their findings. Maybe they just don’t include any footage of the painstaking reassurances that likely take place afterwards.

  • @bchin4005
    @bchin40054 жыл бұрын

    I miss Carenza and Helen.

  • @valeriejohnson5283

    @valeriejohnson5283

    4 жыл бұрын

    I do too! Maryanne isnt very knowledgeable about much. I think she was just suppose to be a pretty face. She doesn't do half the research that Helen and Carenza did. Mick didn't like her very much either, thats why towards the end of the last Seasons Mick didn't do any more episodes.😢🥀🥀🌹🌹

  • @GreatsToo

    @GreatsToo

    4 жыл бұрын

    same they both hot woman

  • @johnmurray4918
    @johnmurray49184 жыл бұрын

    Nice video. I really liked the ww 2 digs though.

  • @billcleveland2983
    @billcleveland29834 жыл бұрын

    That looks like a good beer, interesting video.

  • @brytownsley3887
    @brytownsley38874 жыл бұрын

    Been a hot minute since I last seen Tony’s mug.

  • @betrueist
    @betrueist4 жыл бұрын

    So excited to see Alex! My favorite historian!

  • @neonskyline1
    @neonskyline14 жыл бұрын

    Damn she's in it

  • @johnknight7296
    @johnknight72962 жыл бұрын

    What beautiful country

  • @lindahughes2289
    @lindahughes22894 ай бұрын

    Tony can be rude and a pushy PIA, BUT STILL he is an engaging rogue. Lol

  • @christianpatriot7439
    @christianpatriot74394 жыл бұрын

    The presence of the roads doesn't explain why the village houses and the church were so far apart.

  • @christianpatriot7439
    @christianpatriot74394 жыл бұрын

    How would a field like the one around this manor house have escaped cultivation for wheat during World War II? And would plowing have unearthed the remains of the earlier field boundary walls since the stones seem to be so close to the surface?

  • @samaramartinez9206
    @samaramartinez9206 Жыл бұрын

    I just love Marianne I hope we get to see more of her as the series progress :-)

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama51864 жыл бұрын

    I love when the English say. "In-it"

  • @lessofyou

    @lessofyou

    4 жыл бұрын

    Watch ashens, he says it a lot

  • @nacht98
    @nacht984 жыл бұрын

    the younger archeologist is quite cute!

  • @AnotherWittyUsername.

    @AnotherWittyUsername.

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alex Langlands is an archaeologist and historian that has been in plenty of BBC shows, most notably their series of "Farm" experiments. If you haven't seen them I would recommend stating with 'Tales From The Green Valley'. It's well worth the time and you'll wish it would go on forever. kzread.info/dash/bejne/loaek7uSntaod84.html

  • @soniaadam6419

    @soniaadam6419

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agree..but would be cuter if he trimmed his nails.

  • @Shaden0040
    @Shaden00404 жыл бұрын

    Why didn't you call the makeshift pub, "Bitterley's Bitters"?

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones3 жыл бұрын

    Phil seems so quiet and unenthusiastic, wonder if he was under the weather.

  • @johncarmon9528

    @johncarmon9528

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe so but i think it has more to do with the other people on the show and being so spread out during this particular show also not much to show for their efforts

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff21 күн бұрын

    First aired 29 January 2012

  • @andreacalisi4699
    @andreacalisi46993 жыл бұрын

    Hey Alex, where's Peter? :D

  • @profaneangel0842
    @profaneangel0842 Жыл бұрын

    I can't decide if Mary Ann's presence was annoyingly superfluous, or superfluously annoying..

  • @arlenebrown4946
    @arlenebrown49468 ай бұрын

    Alex was great on Victorian farm

  • @MrSteamDragon
    @MrSteamDragon8 ай бұрын

    do we know the date of this episode ?

  • @dnmtorp
    @dnmtorp4 жыл бұрын

    I have never figured out why they only have 3 days.

  • @georgina3358

    @georgina3358

    4 жыл бұрын

    To make good television

  • @riverAmazonNZ

    @riverAmazonNZ

    4 жыл бұрын

    dnmtorp because they did it on the weekend

  • @keithagn

    @keithagn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the show was done over three days to generate interest, excitement, to show progress, and of course, budget concerns. As well, the Time Team members all had day jobs to contend with.

  • @MelissaThompson432

    @MelissaThompson432

    4 жыл бұрын

    And because, as Mick pointed out when he and Tim were tossing around ideas, modern archaeology tends to be a quick in-and-out. Unless there's some reason why not, finds tend to be left in the ground and reburied against the day when technology is better. Modern archaeologists remove thing that are about to be destroyed, like things buried in dunes next to the sea, or remains brought up by badgers in places like Barrow Clump. Other than that, they look at it, determine what's there and what needs to be done about it, throw the dirt back, and go home. Practically speaking, archaeologists are hired consultants, and the less they cost, the better their contractee likes it....

  • @valeriejohnson5283

    @valeriejohnson5283

    4 жыл бұрын

    They all have other jobs during the week. Most are professors. Tony is an actor among other things. If they find a lot of history during the 3 days, other Archeologist come in and excavate the rest.

  • @allthingsharbor
    @allthingsharbor4 жыл бұрын

    LoL Some of those stones are Leavirithes...leave it right here.

  • @joshschneider9766

    @joshschneider9766

    3 жыл бұрын

    I noticed that too. It's unreal to think with modern cranes a lot can be used even today. Not that they would but yeah.

  • @joshschneider9766

    @joshschneider9766

    3 жыл бұрын

    The amount of skilled craft on such large scale is nuts

  • @RobKoelman
    @RobKoelman2 жыл бұрын

    33:03 FOUR people talking and FIVE pints on the table... ???

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones3 жыл бұрын

    They don't seem to do the aging of wood by the coring anymore.

  • @ledacedar6253
    @ledacedar62532 жыл бұрын

    Love the banter: Have you taken your pills; your going to go have a little lay down... ,r misery guts Tony stocks our fires...

  • @dwallich56
    @dwallich563 жыл бұрын

    Q - If you excavate a village suspected of being abandoned due to plague, do you, as an archaeology team, take measures to protect against exposure to dormant plague bacteria on or near the buried medieval structures?

  • @georgedorn1022

    @georgedorn1022

    3 жыл бұрын

    As I understand it, the bacteria has the potential to survive in the soil for a number but of years but not for centuries. With modern health and safety legislation, precautions would have been taken if there was considered to be any sort of risk. You can even excavate the remains of plague victims safely with no additional measures. Incidentally, as Mick explains during this episode, it is now thought that very few villages were abandoned primarily due to plague.

  • @gwenmartinsen3979

    @gwenmartinsen3979

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bubonic plague can now be treated readily with antibiotics. It's amazing to me that a disease that caused so much pain, misery and death over hundreds of years is now treated so easily and effectively.

  • @rockzalt
    @rockzalt4 жыл бұрын

    The vehicle Tony drives at the start of the video makes an awful amount of noise and it's not even a muscle car.

  • @dwallich56

    @dwallich56

    3 жыл бұрын

    Think diesel engine.

  • @meanhe8702
    @meanhe87024 жыл бұрын

    Tony La la la loooooves to say “geo phys-(ing).” 🤓

  • @cynsi7604
    @cynsi7604 Жыл бұрын

    Why is is his name Alex wearing a dream catcher around his neck?

  • @KTrackers
    @KTrackers4 жыл бұрын

    Who got the prize the blacksmith made?!?!?!? I guess the team wants to film a show 300 years from now to see if they can dig it up to reveal who won it.

  • @MelissaThompson432

    @MelissaThompson432

    4 жыл бұрын

    At the very, very end you can see the little girl holding it, just before Mick bites his cup to applaud. She's the winner.

  • @Skyfire_The_Goth

    @Skyfire_The_Goth

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'd say it was the girl holding it at the end of the show that won it.

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak44092 жыл бұрын

    the - owner - of the manor house is a louse. all this books and things that show the history of the place, lumped together in a box?

  • @kkloikok
    @kkloikok3 жыл бұрын

    When you have so many kings you end up having to ask experts which king is that? This post made by america gang.

  • @TheJapanChannelDcom
    @TheJapanChannelDcom4 жыл бұрын

    A dude who digs in dirt for a living should REALLY cut his nails. :-D

  • @keithagn

    @keithagn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Phil Harding is an accomplished guitar player, and his nails are left long for picking. They did a Time Team in America where Phil and other musicians did a performance.

  • @kkloikok

    @kkloikok

    3 жыл бұрын

    How else is he gonna dig?

  • @knottyboy6086
    @knottyboy60862 жыл бұрын

    Trenching blind. Ok.

  • @edwardgarza2980
    @edwardgarza29804 жыл бұрын

    How do these people even survive there’s no farms there’s no factories what’s up with that

  • @georgina3358

    @georgina3358

    4 жыл бұрын

    How do you know there are no farms in the area?

  • @edwardgarza2980

    @edwardgarza2980

    4 жыл бұрын

    Georgina I guess I’m just used to seeing a farm every mile and when they panned out the camera it’s obviously no factories and might be a farm one every 30 miles just say I don’t know for sure

  • @daneclark3161

    @daneclark3161

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because they're running livestock, not row cropping.

  • @leesalt
    @leesalt4 жыл бұрын

    This is ok, but the intro music needs to be 10x louder.

  • @Scotto6977
    @Scotto6977 Жыл бұрын

    Mick🌈sweater✔️

  • @janaoh5785
    @janaoh57854 жыл бұрын

    They are sidelining Mary Ann Ochota in their conversations. It is as though she wasn't even there. That's not nice..

  • @kgspvgsp7569

    @kgspvgsp7569

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jana Oh she aint got much to say

  • @Schmorgus
    @Schmorgus4 жыл бұрын

    8:18 - Is she insane? Worn down pottery doesn't have sharp edges!

  • @IanHaywardCalvados

    @IanHaywardCalvados

    4 жыл бұрын

    Far from being insane, Dr Cassie Newland is an archaeologist, Research Associate at King's College London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol. And if you listen to what she said - "...if it's a round piece of stone like that, I think you're pretty safe to throw that on the spoil heap." - it's stone she's talking about, not pottery.

  • @Schmorgus

    @Schmorgus

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@IanHaywardCalvados I'm sorry, my sarcasm wasn't on point that day :P

  • @IanHaywardCalvados

    @IanHaywardCalvados

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Schmorgus ...and I'm probably being a little over defensive!

  • @Schmorgus

    @Schmorgus

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@IanHaywardCalvados No harm done. I've been watching all of Time Team multiple times and had a "somewhat" drunken evening and felt a bit mischievous ;P Totally understand your point of view! :)