Archaeologists Dig Up The Best Preserved Medieval Village In Britain | Time Team | Chronicle

The distinctive grass-covered remains of the deserted medieval village of Ulnaby are a landmark in the Durham countryside, and although they've been photographed, surveyed and written about, they've never been dug. Tony Robinson and the team have been invited to physically unearth the secrets of one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in Britain.
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  • @slappy8941
    @slappy89418 ай бұрын

    The last time I was this early to a Time Team video, Ulnaby was still inhabited.

  • @Redgolf2

    @Redgolf2

    8 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @glauvie

    @glauvie

    8 ай бұрын

    And the whole Time Team was alive.

  • @iahelcathartesaura3887

    @iahelcathartesaura3887

    8 ай бұрын

    Ditto! 😅

  • @ReidHenderson

    @ReidHenderson

    8 ай бұрын

    😂😜

  • @lecolintube

    @lecolintube

    8 ай бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @L_MD_
    @L_MD_6 ай бұрын

    RIP Mick, you are still shining just as bright as you did in life through these episodes ❤

  • @joy-to7dx

    @joy-to7dx

    3 ай бұрын

    He died when?

  • @DNBon.an808

    @DNBon.an808

    3 ай бұрын

    @@joy-to7dx 10 years ago

  • @user-bl6vb3vk5q

    @user-bl6vb3vk5q

    3 ай бұрын

    Did this host die

  • @billweston-vq8oy

    @billweston-vq8oy

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@user-bl6vb3vk5qWhat are you talking about?

  • @nancyhammons3594
    @nancyhammons35947 ай бұрын

    One of the things that I really like about Time Team videos is that everyone truly loves what they do, the young lady with the cattle vertebra says " Another really nice piece is part of a cattle vertebra". To someone who isn't an archeologist that looks like a small rock, but to her it was a nice find. I think loving what you do for a living is important.

  • @thomasbell7033

    @thomasbell7033

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes, you've hit upon a major part of the show's charm -- they all clearly love what they do, and it transfers to the viewer.

  • @nomadpi1

    @nomadpi1

    5 ай бұрын

    But hundreds of these specialties don't pay a nickle in salary.

  • @ginmar8134

    @ginmar8134

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@nomadpi1if you love it, they don't care.

  • @momoho11

    @momoho11

    3 ай бұрын

    Oh man! My ultimate dream job would be a Marine archeologist. If I didn't have kids. I'd move to Florida right now& pursue it.

  • @lynnb834

    @lynnb834

    3 ай бұрын

    and Phil with that plow... "that's brilliant, that is!!!" LOVE IT!

  • @colleens1107
    @colleens11077 ай бұрын

    Phil’s smug enjoyment in proving Stuart wrong is my favorite part of this episode.

  • @Monaghan

    @Monaghan

    7 ай бұрын

    What accent does Phil have out of curiosity? Where in England?

  • @thomasbell7033

    @thomasbell7033

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@MonaghanI believe Phil is from Wiltshire.

  • @animerlon

    @animerlon

    6 ай бұрын

    And John. He really milked the bit about not finding stone, because John said there wouldn't be any.

  • @captainzeppos
    @captainzeppos8 ай бұрын

    I can picture these fine gentlemen surveying in the field ending their day of hard work in the nearest pub, being content with the day's findings and having 7 pints of local brew. Each.

  • @TheSonicdruid72
    @TheSonicdruid728 ай бұрын

    Phil getting fired up about Stewart putting him in a Barren Trench is so funny. Never seen him like that before

  • @gloriagiffords8839

    @gloriagiffords8839

    8 ай бұрын

    nothing like this ever happened in Western Kansas....

  • @Polisciandfries

    @Polisciandfries

    8 ай бұрын

    Poor Stewart 😭

  • @terryfoyfoy7926

    @terryfoyfoy7926

    Ай бұрын

    He spits the dummy if he doesn't get his own way

  • @cindyrissal3628
    @cindyrissal36288 ай бұрын

    I think you should petition the land owner to do a complete dig. I'm sure there'd be some fascinating stuff uncovered...

  • @annazaman9657

    @annazaman9657

    5 ай бұрын

    It's an expensive undertaking

  • @giuseppe4909
    @giuseppe49097 ай бұрын

    I like all the Time Team stuff, but the combination of Tony, Mick and Phil just can’t be beat 👍

  • @fsinjin60

    @fsinjin60

    6 ай бұрын

    I know it labels me a dim American, but it took listening to this episode for me to realize Tony Robinson was Baldrick.

  • @beast4661
    @beast46616 ай бұрын

    I love how these guys are all professionals in their own right but they give each other hell. 😂 That’s a dig I’d like to be on.

  • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    9 күн бұрын

    Insufferable middle aged geezers

  • @peggyw172
    @peggyw1728 ай бұрын

    Stuart’s hat, fingerless mits and sweater/jumper are colorful and pretty!

  • @charlesdavis9937
    @charlesdavis99378 ай бұрын

    I would have loved to be an archeologist. I love history, from ancient to the Renaissance. My family said I should have been a history teacher.

  • @0006trance

    @0006trance

    8 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @carolinereynolds2032

    @carolinereynolds2032

    8 ай бұрын

    It's never too late. Amateurs with professionals are digging up dinosaur bones in Queensland Australia right now. And since it seems to me archaeology is almost everywhere in the UK there must be somewhere interested people could have a go.

  • @carylhalfwassen8555

    @carylhalfwassen8555

    8 ай бұрын

    You can do that outside of a better paying job.

  • @katielilie12

    @katielilie12

    7 ай бұрын

    @@carolinereynolds2032 archeology is the study of human activity through the analysis of material remains. Dinosaur bones is paleontology.

  • @thomasbell7033

    @thomasbell7033

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@carolinereynolds2032At least one of the army veterans we met on the Operation Nightingale dig later went to university and became an archeologist.

  • @StevenWilliams0302
    @StevenWilliams03028 ай бұрын

    Nice! I think I've missed this episode in my binge a few months ago!

  • @rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282
    @rebeccacamacho-sobczak42826 ай бұрын

    The folks here are actually having a good time! It's good to see professionals enjoy their jobs!

  • @lindahughes2289
    @lindahughes22898 ай бұрын

    Phil the happy, Mick the calm and the energizer bunny Tony are my favorites !!!

  • @fsinjin60

    @fsinjin60

    6 ай бұрын

    I know it labels me a dim American, but it took listening to this episode for me to realize Tony was Baldrick.

  • @pedenmk
    @pedenmk8 ай бұрын

    Ahh my favorite grop of blokes are back. I love this program. Put Tony to work will you?

  • @GaryYork-tk2ow

    @GaryYork-tk2ow

    8 ай бұрын

    Favourite.

  • @TheSonicdruid72

    @TheSonicdruid72

    8 ай бұрын

    And the Sheila’s mate! Haha

  • @TheCount01

    @TheCount01

    7 ай бұрын

    @@GaryYork-tk2owto you, yes. To us, it’s favorite. Deal with it. 😂

  • @GaryYork-tk2ow

    @GaryYork-tk2ow

    7 ай бұрын

    @@TheCount01 😭😭😭🤣🤣

  • @wabisabi6875
    @wabisabi68758 ай бұрын

    Is there a compilation of Victor's illustrations? This would be a real treasure.

  • @Maddoktor2

    @Maddoktor2

    8 ай бұрын

    If there's a hardbound edition out there, I want it!

  • @TechGorilla1987

    @TechGorilla1987

    8 ай бұрын

    There are many, many works done by Victor Ambrus (both writing and illustration) and most are readily available on line.

  • @wabisabi6875

    @wabisabi6875

    8 ай бұрын

    Thanks@@TechGorilla1987

  • @ditzygypsy
    @ditzygypsy8 ай бұрын

    The aerial view looks like a kid tried to cover up the legos he didn’t clean up with a giant green rug! 😂

  • @LewisKlint
    @LewisKlint3 ай бұрын

    Probably a coincidence, but swedish town/village names usually end with -by as well, since that means ''Village'' in swedish. So at first I thought it was an old viking colony. Ulna Village

  • @Scraggledust
    @Scraggledust8 ай бұрын

    9:30 the best laugh ever❤

  • @timothydockery534
    @timothydockery5343 ай бұрын

    I bet these guy's and gal's were such a blast to work around and go to the pub with.

  • @Patrick_Cooper
    @Patrick_Cooper8 ай бұрын

    The Greystokes. I wonder of Tarzan's relatives ever lived there.

  • @primodyson9992

    @primodyson9992

    3 ай бұрын

    You beat me to it 😄

  • @dreamway9
    @dreamway98 ай бұрын

    I think this show would be more satisfying if they had more than a couple days to work

  • @RKHageman

    @RKHageman

    8 ай бұрын

    They couldn’t. One, Ch 4 wasn’t going to fund expeditions longer than that; two, the archaeologists weren’t just hanging about at loose ends - they’re professionals and/or academics from different areas in the UK who have regular jobs to go to Monday mornings. That’s why TT episodes were filmed over the weekend, Friday morning to Sunday evening. And finally, Mick Aston planned the show that way. They’re not intending to completely excavate a site entirely; their goal is site evaluation- finding out the nature of a site and whether it warranted further exploration by local archaeology councils.

  • @dreamway9

    @dreamway9

    8 ай бұрын

    Still, my perfect show would be a few days longer 😁@@RKHageman

  • @carylhalfwassen8555

    @carylhalfwassen8555

    8 ай бұрын

    @@PaulKinley54Those particular fields would be low yielding because of the stone debris close to the surface. Drought and fertility for nutrients would be concerns even if used as animal forage.

  • @jerrieellis3996

    @jerrieellis3996

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@PaulKinley54😅

  • @piercer2
    @piercer24 ай бұрын

    “I’m sure you’ll manage”. I love the nuance of Johns sarcasm towards Phil 😂

  • @R.J._Lewis
    @R.J._Lewis8 ай бұрын

    And, ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you the difference between an archaeologists and me, or 'why I'll never be an academic': Them: "and here we have the lip of some pottery." Me: "funny shaped rock." T: "this rock wall isn't a part of a house, but the superstructure guarding the house." M: "rocks." T: "now, this shiny glazd means the pottery isn't from our target time, but actually the 18th century." M: "shiny rocks."

  • @mrdanforth3744

    @mrdanforth3744

    8 ай бұрын

    *picks up lump the size of a postage stamp* This is part of a dinner plate 11 inches in diameter, made of red lead glazed pottery in 1327 by a potter named Nine Fingers Aelfred in York. On Coppergate Street.

  • @R.J._Lewis

    @R.J._Lewis

    8 ай бұрын

    @mrdanforth3744 "He was wearing a shirt for the fourth day in a row, judging by the obfuscation in the ceramic layers. He always hated that particular shirt, if memory serves."

  • @NobAkimoto
    @NobAkimoto8 ай бұрын

    Ah, the good old days before Tony was a Knight Bachelor and was still a commoner like you and I.

  • @murphychurch8251

    @murphychurch8251

    8 ай бұрын

    😂👍 Yeah, Baldrick wouldn't have dared to imagine that his "descendant" would be a knight. 😆

  • @deborahparham3783

    @deborahparham3783

    8 ай бұрын

    Just a part of his cunning plan. Sneaky little weasel that he is.

  • @RBS.23

    @RBS.23

    7 ай бұрын

    I seem to recall Mr S. Baldrick, MP was appointed to the House of Lords by the Prince Regent.

  • @MrScipio72
    @MrScipio725 ай бұрын

    I miss Mick and his colourful jumpers. Thanks for re-upping this one.

  • @deborahparr3451
    @deborahparr34513 ай бұрын

    I thoroughly enjoyed this lovely documentary. I learned so much. For example, coulter being the cutting part of the plow, and Scots cootyre being a safe place for cows. Colter being a horse herder. AND hollow way/holloway being a sunken lane, caused by travel over it compressing the soil. Holloway was my mother-in-law's maiden name, a milliner born in 1899.

  • @wiretamer5710
    @wiretamer57108 ай бұрын

    This gradual decline in the 17th century, overlooks the generations stolen by the civil war conscription, Naval press gangs, and the early industrial revolution. It's not hard to imagine every able bodied man disappearing from these villages overnight, never to be seen again.

  • @73honda350

    @73honda350

    8 ай бұрын

    Those were the good old days, eh?

  • @mrbrightside4278

    @mrbrightside4278

    8 ай бұрын

    Naval press gangs in the county of Durham...hardly!

  • @Oh-hardy-har-har

    @Oh-hardy-har-har

    8 ай бұрын

    More like jnfantry and cavalry, but the country-side had well-fed strapping men, as compared to those press-ganged from the city folk 'poor'@@mrbrightside4278

  • @Mercmad

    @Mercmad

    8 ай бұрын

    @@mrbrightside4278 becareful to not feed the WOKE trolls. I'm surprised no mention was made of colonisation and convict transportation.

  • @Swaggerlot

    @Swaggerlot

    7 ай бұрын

    You rather mix up a number of changes that actually took place over near 150 years or more.

  • @marlenaamalfitano1558
    @marlenaamalfitano15588 ай бұрын

    Thank you for these videos, I am absolutely fascinated.

  • @smd2768
    @smd27686 ай бұрын

    I could listen to Phil talk all day. His accent sounds historic to me. Similar to what the early British colonists to North America may have sounded.

  • @peterwennstrom1254
    @peterwennstrom12548 ай бұрын

    Ulna by in old norse means Village of Ull ,a norse god ,so this is a viking village.

  • @Fairyviewroad

    @Fairyviewroad

    8 ай бұрын

    Fascinating!

  • @Allannah_Of_Rome
    @Allannah_Of_Rome8 ай бұрын

    Uncle Phils laugh gets me!! 😂

  • @giuseppe4909
    @giuseppe49097 ай бұрын

    “ And just when we thought we had some medieval evidence, over in trench 7, Phil has uncovered a Roman mosaic….”

  • @jhosk
    @jhosk8 ай бұрын

    Three days to tell the story of an entire village?

  • @voyaristika5673
    @voyaristika56738 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Love these shows.

  • @elaborat6421
    @elaborat64218 ай бұрын

    Great video but the canadian inside me was laughing at "bitter cold" .Minus 50 c is bitter cold 😂 I would be wearing no jacket lol...

  • @alisong2328
    @alisong23288 ай бұрын

    Phil looks like an extra who wandered in off the set of an 18th century period drama. I love his accent!

  • @fionaanderson5796

    @fionaanderson5796

    8 ай бұрын

    I do love Dr Worzel Gummidge.

  • @elliewinn8364
    @elliewinn83646 ай бұрын

    I have never seen so many ads in a video I have watched.

  • @elizasimmons9039
    @elizasimmons90398 ай бұрын

    For anyone interested in Medieval Britain (especially warfare), I warmly recommend Schwerpunkt

  • @aramisortsbottcher8201

    @aramisortsbottcher8201

    8 ай бұрын

    What is that? A channel, a book? Also as a German I wonder why it is called "Schwerpunkt", is this a loanword?

  • @MsAnpassad
    @MsAnpassad8 ай бұрын

    By doesn't mean farmstead, it means village and Ulna is a common name here in Scandinavia, it comes from the sun god Ull. So Ulnaby means Ull's village.

  • @LuzMaria95

    @LuzMaria95

    8 ай бұрын

    *that* makes way more sense than what that lady was saying!

  • @MsAnpassad

    @MsAnpassad

    8 ай бұрын

    @@LuzMaria95 She probably got it mixed up with bo, that means dwelling/home/nest. But at that time, it was more common to use the end "tuna" (example Eskilstuna) for a farmstead, but that actually describes the fenced in area. Tun are the word for the courtyard between houses and are still in use today, even if it's not super common anymore.

  • @abrogard142

    @abrogard142

    7 ай бұрын

    So I come from a place in yorkshire, england, called 'anlaby'. has that got a meaning via scandinavian roots?

  • @MsAnpassad

    @MsAnpassad

    7 ай бұрын

    @@abrogard142 I had to dive deep into my books and the only source I found, was from a runestone in Katrineholm. It says the following: "inka : raisti : stain : þansi : at : ulai](f) : sin : [a…k] : han : austarla : arþi : barþi : auk : o : lakbarþilanti : [anlaþis" (Inga raised this stone after Olov, her heir. He plowed east with the bow and in the land of the lombards, he died.) Anlaþis means to end your life/die. But take that possible translation with a grain of salt. The name can have changed a lot if the people living there couldn't pronounce the Norse word anymore.

  • @MsAnpassad

    @MsAnpassad

    7 ай бұрын

    @@abrogard142 I dove deeper and checked out your village. The name have changed over time and it's the village of Óláfr. So yes, it's a norse village. Olof (as we spell it today), is a name.

  • @SindreGaaserod
    @SindreGaaserod4 ай бұрын

    What if the name Ulnaby is inspired by the old norse god Ull/Ullr? Ul/Ull/Ulle-names are very common in south-eastern Norway and east and mid-Sweden, and it is seen as a part of Swedish early-mid iron age expansion. "By" is most definitely from the iron age, perhaps later, and means "city in both Norwegian and Swedish.

  • @ashhole984
    @ashhole9846 ай бұрын

    I'm American, my siblings and I used to play foot wrestling as kids. That's really interesting.

  • @laurieleannie
    @laurieleannie7 ай бұрын

    I’m SO happy that Time Team is doing new digs!

  • @jrjubach

    @jrjubach

    7 ай бұрын

    Though this was uploaded to this channel a mere two weeks ago, this episode was filmed back in 2009.

  • @flamingogirl57
    @flamingogirl575 ай бұрын

    This channel has become my latest addiction ! 😊 I love these video's and watching the past come to life so to speak !! Bravo !

  • @user-mf7pu5xl7j
    @user-mf7pu5xl7j4 ай бұрын

    You can see the plots in the ground where the houses were and the people lived . . . Amazing🥳

  • @audreywilhelmsen773
    @audreywilhelmsen7733 ай бұрын

    I need to know if that guy knitted that glorious messy hat himself. And the jumper. And gloves. I really hope he did. 😆

  • @stevethomas9320
    @stevethomas93207 ай бұрын

    I find it interesting that they built over older houses. There has been some talk of that happening from the earliest human settlements.

  • @ubute

    @ubute

    7 ай бұрын

    Layers of civilisation.

  • @harrybond1485

    @harrybond1485

    7 ай бұрын

    Good way of assuring a well drained site for the new structure.

  • @user-wu7sn7ml7v
    @user-wu7sn7ml7v8 ай бұрын

    No village? And the team only had four days to argue.😂😂😂❤❤❤😅

  • @wiretamer5710
    @wiretamer57108 ай бұрын

    30 years of Time Team and still no serious tents and portable shelters for the diggers!

  • @NUMMEHARBEN

    @NUMMEHARBEN

    7 ай бұрын

    There were one big tent.

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett56926 ай бұрын

    "Bridget always gets the Save!" ☀️ I dont always agree with Mick, but I always love him, and Stewart, Helen, Phil ......... and I know Mick soars with the Stars. ✨💛🌙.

  • @RKHageman
    @RKHageman8 ай бұрын

    21:25 Hey, there’s Naomi! 🙂

  • @davidstorm4911
    @davidstorm49117 ай бұрын

    a cheeky surprise at 12:19 .. smile and enjoy life

  • @bohdaicitta
    @bohdaicitta8 ай бұрын

    really interesting site, loved this one

  • @clobberella
    @clobberella8 ай бұрын

    not a spoon, it is a weaving implement

  • @ozdigg9254
    @ozdigg92548 ай бұрын

    Brilliant, thank you all.

  • @juliettelynne5861
    @juliettelynne58618 ай бұрын

    Here in America, I get so excited when I hear of a discovery dated here of 1780 or so. Ha! That’s nothing compared to the British!

  • @fiddleback1568

    @fiddleback1568

    8 ай бұрын

    We have places that date to the 15th Century.

  • @juliettelynne5861

    @juliettelynne5861

    8 ай бұрын

    @@fiddleback1568 Wonderful!!

  • @1982kinger

    @1982kinger

    8 ай бұрын

    I'm currently excavating a site from 1975

  • @ericbrown1101

    @ericbrown1101

    7 ай бұрын

    St Augustine and other sites in Florida date to the 16th century, which is fascinating, but I agree. Visiting England and seeing buildings over 1000 years old still standing is pretty incredible.

  • @cluckieschickens

    @cluckieschickens

    7 ай бұрын

    ​​@@1982kingerI have my key chain collection from when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s I look at every few years...

  • @TomLeg
    @TomLeg8 ай бұрын

    I'd like to see an epidsode where Tony is subjected to a "viva" examination (UK PhD oral examination) . He's had twenty years in the field, he should be able to handle it. Doing it as his "speech" at a graduation would make it double the fun!

  • @plhebel1

    @plhebel1

    8 ай бұрын

    Rite,, I have learned a bit of contempt for his stance on everything,, I know it's made to be "funny" but it's annoying. Watching the earliest time teams Tony is a quiet, respectful, out of place person .

  • @fsinjin60

    @fsinjin60

    6 ай бұрын

    @@plhebel1but it goes with Tony having been Baldrick in Blackadder. He’s the professional spokesmodel in the team with laughs rather than looks

  • @danehardinge8801
    @danehardinge88018 ай бұрын

    it would be nice to know the year/months each recording was made

  • @CecilSaxon
    @CecilSaxon8 ай бұрын

    Another great show!

  • @rayray6548
    @rayray654824 күн бұрын

    these are "Burgage Plot" and you can upgrade them to level 2 by selecting the building an clicking on the circular house icon" in Manor's lord.

  • @TomLeg
    @TomLeg8 ай бұрын

    The village consists of a manor house, a road leading to a green, and a number of tenants' strips of land, extending perhaps a hundred yards from the road. So what is beyond that hundred yards? It's a long way t the next village .. is it all dragons and turtles all the way down?

  • @mrdanforth3744

    @mrdanforth3744

    8 ай бұрын

    Arable land and pasture land. The farm laborers lived in the village and went out to the fields to work. Plowing and planting, and tending flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. Droves of hogs were taken to the woods to feed in the day time. At harvest time the whole village would turn out to bring in the peas, beans, oats, wheat, barley, and rye. The woods supplied timber and fire wood. Only the lord of the manor was permitted to hunt the game animals that lived in the woods.

  • @klow12370
    @klow123707 ай бұрын

    I love this series!

  • @melissapyles4750
    @melissapyles47504 ай бұрын

    The medieval language on your document was fascinating

  • @smarcis2
    @smarcis23 ай бұрын

    Three days?!! You guys should have three months!! Or even three years!! 😀

  • @Loupdelou-ly1ve
    @Loupdelou-ly1veАй бұрын

    This show is my very very happy place 🥰

  • @elenchus
    @elenchus8 ай бұрын

    SIR Tony Robinson might actually have had a pretty good life in that era lol

  • @sandyferreira9800
    @sandyferreira98008 ай бұрын

    I love these videos im a sucker on old history

  • @noeraldinkabam
    @noeraldinkabam8 ай бұрын

    When you draw something like a plough you want to show all the working parts Iimagine. They didn’t use the books as a ‘how to make it’ manual rather as a ‘this was us’, social media of a sort.

  • @sunnymeb
    @sunnymeb3 ай бұрын

    Why did you only have 3 days? Wonderful and educational! Thank you

  • @EmilyBltz
    @EmilyBltz7 ай бұрын

    I love this show

  • @joannamallory2823
    @joannamallory28238 ай бұрын

    Every now and again, I have trouble with the vision my favorite archaeologists are trying to show me. Try as I might, I see rubble , not walls. I see the village better on the geophys than in the ground, sadly.

  • @deborahbaker4770

    @deborahbaker4770

    8 ай бұрын

    I can’t see what they are talking about either I guess you have to have a certain type of mind a eye’s to picture what they see‼️

  • @murphychurch8251

    @murphychurch8251

    8 ай бұрын

    To be fair, it can sometimes be difficult to spot in the field even for archaeologists, especially when there's a lot going on in the trench. I once dug the site of a medieval farm. We could only dig it in three trenches next to each other, one after the other (because we had no space for the soil). So we couldn't see the whole thing at once. We had many big pits, ca. 0.8-1.0 metres in diameter. But it was only when our surveying technician showed me the plan (with a grin) that I could fully see what was going on. It was jawdropping...the pits were huge post holes so on the plan the shape of a very big house (half-timbered, hence the posts) popped up right in front of our eyes. 😳😆 It can sometimes be very surprising to see the stuff on the plans, really, because it's hard to see the forest for the trees. 😂

  • @nicodranasien
    @nicodranasien6 ай бұрын

    3 days…. I really will never understand why the 3 day time limit. I mean as an archaeologist it seems an impossible task to excavate anything in 3 days unless you have 1000’s of workers and machinery which is always difficult wil how delicate archaeology can be

  • @victoria139

    @victoria139

    6 ай бұрын

    Usually digs have permits especially since this is on someone’s private land and they try to have them in between school terms cause otherwise professors and students would be in classes and also money wise they need food and housing or transportation depending on how far they live from the dig

  • @Kat-V
    @Kat-V4 ай бұрын

    Phil is such a character:D

  • @robertfoerster566
    @robertfoerster5667 ай бұрын

    I'm curious, how does a village like that get covered up? Is it simply run off over the centuries and a build up of soil, or did some later farmer/etc cover it all in and use the land on top etc?

  • @justdoingitjim7095

    @justdoingitjim7095

    7 ай бұрын

    A combination of those things, plus vegetation dying, decomposing and turning into soil. Every year dead vegetation adds another thin layer and over time that could be several inches or several feet.

  • @susanbodlak6769

    @susanbodlak6769

    6 ай бұрын

    I am part of a modern farm family which farms land where homes once stood. Every once in a while, a sink hole develops where a basement used to be, and a tractor falls in...the past eating the present.

  • @dr.julianbashir9193

    @dr.julianbashir9193

    6 ай бұрын

    These answers you are getting are absolutely insane.

  • @annazaman9657

    @annazaman9657

    5 ай бұрын

    It's turf that covers up the buildings

  • @queuecont4191
    @queuecont41914 ай бұрын

    I clicked on for the documentary, but that's Tony Robinson, aka Baldrick! I always knew he had a cunning plan.

  • @elaine2048
    @elaine20486 ай бұрын

    Oh boy, I wish I could add to their geophys, this is such an old way of doing it. Geophys can outline items the size of tanks now with pucks the size of soccer balls that you set out for a week prior to work.

  • @augustopinto2859
    @augustopinto28593 ай бұрын

    Since I can understand a bit of Latin is been pleasurable to try to make sense of those documents.

  • @levioptionallastname6749
    @levioptionallastname67498 ай бұрын

    TONY ROBINSON IS THE BEST, TONY ROBINSON IS THE BEST, TONY ROBINSON IS THE BEST, TONY ROBINSON IS THE BEST!

  • @jeanpeuplu5570

    @jeanpeuplu5570

    8 ай бұрын

    You're feeling OK? The nurses are gentle with you?

  • @IkeaScrabble
    @IkeaScrabble8 ай бұрын

    Are we forgetting about the 17th century wave of the Black Death in England? Like maybe there wasn't a gradual decline, but, rather, the bookend to the (suspected) 14th century wipeout. Just a thought.

  • @iahelcathartesaura3887
    @iahelcathartesaura38878 ай бұрын

    Oh good, Darlington, Co Durham!

  • @BiPolarBear128
    @BiPolarBear1285 ай бұрын

    ahhh .-) as a Norwegian I knew the moment I saw the name of the village that it was of Norse origin .-) cool .-)

  • @austinnevels7447
    @austinnevels74477 ай бұрын

    What a surprise! My namesake!

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee7 ай бұрын

    38:02 love the peasant hat :) i wonder if it’s shape had to do with warmth as well as style. it also probably was good at keeping the cowl or hood up on the head and around the ears. (although wouldn’t a drawstring hood be easier and warmer? it seems even peasants had some sort of style to their clothing. women did not wear these hats! i wonder how far back the the difference in male and female modes of dress go (besides the obvious physical needs and differences go). when and why did men start to wear breaches? because of horseback riding in war?

  • @joebombero1

    @joebombero1

    6 ай бұрын

    Remember the Medieval period was also the time of the Little Ice Age where the Thames river would freeze over and market festivals would occur routinely on the ice.

  • @Rabid-Pinocchio
    @Rabid-Pinocchio15 күн бұрын

    When this project got underway did they say, 'I have a cunning plan'?

  • @dalefischer4654
    @dalefischer46548 ай бұрын

    Are there chances of field boundary walls?

  • @fionaanderson5796

    @fionaanderson5796

    8 ай бұрын

    That's what I was expecting. Not sure if they put a trench over any of them.

  • @janmcleod8198
    @janmcleod8198Ай бұрын

    Thank you. 🇦🇺 😊 45:10

  • @freedomspromise8519
    @freedomspromise85198 ай бұрын

    How very interesting! Makes me feel rather inconsequential.

  • @gordonclark7632
    @gordonclark76328 ай бұрын

    All of the Chronicle videos I have watched show that they only have three days. Why is it always three days for the investigation?

  • @urbanurchin5930

    @urbanurchin5930

    8 ай бұрын

    This is a question only asked by those unfamiliar with the Time Team program. Read an explanation of the three day process on the Wikipedia page.

  • @janietyler2013
    @janietyler20137 ай бұрын

    I wish timeline would put the YEAR

  • @Knards
    @Knards8 ай бұрын

    has to be a cemetery around there

  • @asahallberg-vonde2029
    @asahallberg-vonde20298 ай бұрын

    Ull means Wool. Byen in Norway, actually means the City nowadays. In Sweden, is en by, a village.

  • @FenceThis

    @FenceThis

    6 ай бұрын

    yes, but more to the point: in Danish by is simply a generic denomination for dwelling, anything from farmstead or village to city

  • @asahallberg-vonde2029

    @asahallberg-vonde2029

    6 ай бұрын

    @@FenceThis farmsteds aktuell build a village=by. By in English ist från in Swedish, i think fran i Denmark and Norway.

  • @FenceThis

    @FenceThis

    6 ай бұрын

    @@asahallberg-vonde2029 I don’t know why you’re talking about by in English, and no: there’s no such word as fran in neither Norwegian nor Danish

  • @asahallberg-vonde2029

    @asahallberg-vonde2029

    6 ай бұрын

    @@FenceThis fra thats it. Thats the same in Denmark, and Norway. I live in Germany, come from Sweden, and my lokal Dialekt do have lots of words from Norwigian, accualy a Part of Norway thouse days. So från in Sweden=fra in Norway and Denmark, von in Germany

  • @asahallberg-vonde2029

    @asahallberg-vonde2029

    6 ай бұрын

    By in English schöne Grüße, hälsningar Åsa Gunborg Hallberg-Vonde ❤️

  • @pattiwhite9575
    @pattiwhite95758 ай бұрын

    So where are the graves of all the workers? For centuries

  • @jacquiedwards160

    @jacquiedwards160

    8 ай бұрын

    Very good question... the cemetery/graveyard would be a large one... and within walking easy distance of the village?

  • @AndyJarman

    @AndyJarman

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@jacquiedwards160not necessary close by. The Lyke Wake walk memorialises the not inconsiderable distance people would carry their dead to consecrated ground.

  • @mrdanforth3744

    @mrdanforth3744

    8 ай бұрын

    The parish church yard. Where was the nearest church, who knows?

  • @ubute

    @ubute

    7 ай бұрын

    just ploughed into the ground

  • @airplanegeorge
    @airplanegeorge8 ай бұрын

    I may be in love with Dawn.

  • @Theravadinbuto
    @Theravadinbuto7 ай бұрын

    I’m always a bit puzzled by their pretty intense focus on structures, and low interest in the maddens likely revealed by some of the more intense mag points. Stratified maddens are likely to give a lot more information on everyday life.

  • @lornaprice3748
    @lornaprice37488 ай бұрын

    The enclosure acts would have contributed to the disappeared village.

  • @jamiebizness1
    @jamiebizness18 ай бұрын

    I get it geophys is the com8c relief.

  • @user-wu7sn7ml7v
    @user-wu7sn7ml7v8 ай бұрын

    The people left to get away from the cold rain?😂

  • @harrybond1485
    @harrybond14857 ай бұрын

    Tony is an excellant commentator. He knows just how to push enough to receive a proper answer.

  • @JohnnyBlaze5100
    @JohnnyBlaze51005 ай бұрын

    Some archeologists these are! ..."John said I would find no rocks." And yet there are rocks.

  • @bustedkeaton
    @bustedkeaton4 ай бұрын

    They cooked John to death over that stone wall hahahaha

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