Finding An Ancient Chamber Under A Garden In Cornwall | Time Team | Absolute History

The team try to discover what a 2000-year-old underground chamber beneath a garden was used for. Dowser Hamish Miller shows the extent of the fogou beneath the lawn, and Tony tries his hand at dowsing. But Mick is skeptical, preferring to rely on the geophysical survey. They are also trying to find the Iron Age settlement that would have adjoined the fogou. Joining the team are archaeological geophysicist Susan Ovenden, and county archaeologist Nick Johnson.
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  • @joakimblomqvist7229
    @joakimblomqvist72292 жыл бұрын

    Mick Aston was such a good sport, nice and friendly and charming besides the fact that he knew his stuff... He's very much missed. RIP Mick... Also this episode was a revelation to me... I didn't know Phil once had a side parting! I enjoy this stuff so much!

  • @aprilpeterson9105
    @aprilpeterson91053 жыл бұрын

    Robin and his crafty smokes 😂

  • @koningbolo4700
    @koningbolo47003 жыл бұрын

    RIP Victor Ambrus (+10-02-2021)

  • @CaptCrewSock
    @CaptCrewSock3 жыл бұрын

    You’d think by now they would unearth a hairbrush and use it but No.

  • @tiggergolah

    @tiggergolah

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lice. Can't kill the buggers. Like cockroaches, they're immortal.

  • @raphaelbernard7954

    @raphaelbernard7954

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great comment love it so funny

  • @crowznest438

    @crowznest438

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's funny right there!

  • @aden1466

    @aden1466

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @toats-mcgoats1833

    @toats-mcgoats1833

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂🤣

  • @shayminty5906
    @shayminty59063 жыл бұрын

    I love Time Team! Please keep uploading!

  • @karenq8255

    @karenq8255

    3 жыл бұрын

    All episodes are uploaded. Search time team

  • @purplesue66

    @purplesue66

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yay

  • @agarceran
    @agarceran3 жыл бұрын

    Seeing how moder tech has evolved since then I hope someone has gone there with some kind of ground penetrating radar or something similar to see if the fogou continues or not.

  • @tommink8379

    @tommink8379

    3 жыл бұрын

    At the very least, several years of having a popular show and an experienced staff would've meant that English Heritage would've passed through all the permits in the nod

  • @jigold22571
    @jigold225713 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely Fabulous!

  • @misszombiequeen
    @misszombiequeen3 жыл бұрын

    If you played a drinking game with every time they said fogou, you would die

  • @rominaouteiral9855

    @rominaouteiral9855

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ok. Hold my trowel!

  • @rominaouteiral9855

    @rominaouteiral9855

    3 жыл бұрын

    Immm fime. Jusssst 20 mole minuutts.

  • @rominaouteiral9855

    @rominaouteiral9855

    3 жыл бұрын

    10 minutos till end. Im allready dead. Salutes from de other side. We have cookies.

  • @revenge0lobster
    @revenge0lobster3 жыл бұрын

    This was vastly more entertaining than I expected. Would love to see more TIme Team!

  • @karenq8255

    @karenq8255

    3 жыл бұрын

    Search time team. Someone has every episode for you to see

  • @revenge0lobster

    @revenge0lobster

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karenq8255 Thanks, I will! I forget that pre-2000s content is searchable, too.

  • @saraheyler6047
    @saraheyler60473 жыл бұрын

    They could use a Lidar scanner today and see all kinds of things.

  • @kellycallen3195
    @kellycallen31953 жыл бұрын

    I love how new Phil’s hat looks!!! 😍

  • @waterbird91
    @waterbird913 жыл бұрын

    Could that word fugoue translate to Fugue ? as in place of "refuge , or ' hiding place'? Looks to me that it definitely could have been a used as a hiding place from warring soldiers , enemies of some kind.

  • @brianpeck4035

    @brianpeck4035

    3 жыл бұрын

    It seems like its got ventilation built in

  • @tiggergolah
    @tiggergolah3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a perfect stranger at a party asking you, "Do you fougou?"

  • @jeffreyport1099
    @jeffreyport10993 жыл бұрын

    dowsing works great!!

  • @jeffreyport1099

    @jeffreyport1099

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would have liked to see the geophys and dowsing maps compared for accuracy.

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @CreatorCade
    @CreatorCade3 жыл бұрын

    I can’t tell if this was recorded yesterday or sometime in the 90s.

  • @deadpancherry8658

    @deadpancherry8658

    3 жыл бұрын

    1996

  • @rbffbvs

    @rbffbvs

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@deadpancherry8658 Yes, they were young then. So was I, LOL..

  • @CreatorCade

    @CreatorCade

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow 96 I was 4 years old when they filmed this.

  • @deadpancherry8658

    @deadpancherry8658

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CreatorCade I wasn't even born then!

  • @johngalt97

    @johngalt97

    3 жыл бұрын

    The CRT display and keyboard were good clues.

  • @007vsMagua
    @007vsMagua3 жыл бұрын

    I don't think the Fogou was a lard locker or used for food storage. Why go to all the work to build a stone structure when all you need to do is dig under a large tree and use the main root structure to support the roof. In the U.S. our early European settlers built root cellars which were used to store root vegetables, potato's, and such over the winter.

  • @adamsjerome1839
    @adamsjerome1839Ай бұрын

    My parents house had a very deep well out back. I rented a whacking great pump with the belief that when I sumped out the water hidden riches would be mine. My hopes were rewarded, a bunch of nameless bottles and a motley mob of corroded tin cans. Heavy sigh!

  • @MsBizzyGurl
    @MsBizzyGurl3 жыл бұрын

    How cool!

  • @professorsogol5824
    @professorsogol58243 жыл бұрын

    If you want to find fugu, come to Japan and try some fugu sashimi. It may make your lips tingle.

  • @cindymosgrove4046
    @cindymosgrove40463 жыл бұрын

    Oh my, they all so young. Looking good. And Phil.... Wow... ❣️💋

  • @Brian1Graves
    @Brian1Graves3 жыл бұрын

    Tried dowsing some time ago. Didn't work. Fella said it was because I didn't believe in it. Didn't work for him either. Me suspects dowsers have more failures than successes but only talk about the successes. So overall. you have better chances with random digging.

  • @maxasaurus3008
    @maxasaurus30083 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit! Tony can find well sites!

  • @estoyaqui5386
    @estoyaqui53863 жыл бұрын

    I am from the electronics field, satellites etc. But actually i love going into the woods and cut firewood. ... Anyway i love this documentary! :)

  • @raphaelbernard7954

    @raphaelbernard7954

    3 жыл бұрын

    They'll have you for global warming offences

  • @Starfire7888
    @Starfire78883 жыл бұрын

    Im sorry I didnt hear properly, I just kept hear voodoo voodoo, evidence of the voodoo XD

  • @STScott-qo4pw
    @STScott-qo4pw3 жыл бұрын

    Tony has hair!

  • @GiGiGoesShopping
    @GiGiGoesShopping3 жыл бұрын

    New age re the dowsing ? That's older than dirt. The geo fizzing is the new kid on the block.

  • @purplesue66
    @purplesue663 жыл бұрын

    I dig these old hippies.

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord83373 жыл бұрын

    Probably a root cellar, or a hooch distillery and brew storage area !!!

  • @robertwilson3914

    @robertwilson3914

    3 жыл бұрын

    I see you look at things differently, as I do. You must keep a prepared mind....aye??

  • @johnlord8337

    @johnlord8337

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robertwilson3914 RW -- aye !!

  • @Trund27
    @Trund273 жыл бұрын

    Nice! A fuggy hole! History is amazing.

  • @FullPowerMasteryWithRa
    @FullPowerMasteryWithRa2 жыл бұрын

    33:21 It makes me cringe seeing those electrical lines in the ground like that without any pipe enclosing them.

  • @christianfreedom-seeker934
    @christianfreedom-seeker9343 жыл бұрын

    "INDIANA JONES THEME STARTS PLAYING" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @jbc1715
    @jbc17153 жыл бұрын

    1867 a documented iron age site.....1910 lets built a house on it ?

  • @roamingcelt
    @roamingcelt3 жыл бұрын

    There's no blowfish in this episode!

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord83373 жыл бұрын

    A very successful English farmland tornado/cyclone shelter - see no tornadoes/cyclones in England. Or Stone Age winter quarters (underground fire and heating) and fresh-air and sunshine above ground shelter for Spring-Fall !!! Look at the Cornwall map of all the fogous across the farmlands - (hint) farmlands.

  • @1967buickriviera

    @1967buickriviera

    3 жыл бұрын

    ???

  • @johngalt97
    @johngalt973 жыл бұрын

    If there were memories of past solar-fry events, a fogou would be a good place to hide from the next one. If the only people to survive the last fry were the ones similarly shielded, the need to have and use a fogou would be an article of faith.

  • @componenx
    @componenx3 жыл бұрын

    dousing- what a load of tripe! Might as well check the fogou for ghosts while you're at it.

  • @MatthewSlaymaker

    @MatthewSlaymaker

    3 жыл бұрын

    Some people on here are actually claiming it works. Silly people.

  • @charleswalker1185

    @charleswalker1185

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dowsing is a viable finder...do not poopoo it...

  • @componenx

    @componenx

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@charleswalker1185 Yeah, then how does it work? And why do they claim to be able to find different things/substances using it. Physical phenomena must have a scientific explanation. It's crap, pure and simple.

  • @yelsmlaugh

    @yelsmlaugh

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@componenx Physical Scientists do not know how consciousness works. When they find out what it is, they'll all be dousing.

  • @componenx

    @componenx

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yelsmlaugh What is a "physical" scientist? All science is physical. I guess non-physical science would include bigfoot, flat earth, ghosts, aliens, vampires, Trump's intelligence, ALL the stupid conspiracy theory lies, and of course, dousing. Consciousness IS interesting; you should read "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith.

  • @niklar55
    @niklar553 жыл бұрын

    Could be an air raid shelter.

  • @charleswalker1185
    @charleswalker11853 жыл бұрын

    Gloves and grain shovels...

  • @blackunicorn374
    @blackunicorn3743 жыл бұрын

    @absolute history: from which year is this documentary originally? Looks like around 2000 or so.

  • @djblackwidow

    @djblackwidow

    3 жыл бұрын

    7 January 1996

  • @djblackwidow

    @djblackwidow

    3 жыл бұрын

    List of Time Team episodes

  • @wilfredmay5231
    @wilfredmay52313 жыл бұрын

    Pity about Tony and his dowser chum,

  • @larkuel
    @larkuel3 жыл бұрын

    oof lost me at the dousing

  • @avd-wd9581

    @avd-wd9581

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure that was either requested by the land owner or added just for the "drama". No serious scientist - especially archeologist - would believe in that crap.

  • @IronChief

    @IronChief

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@avd-wd9581 it can be done. I've found several voids underground as small as 2" in diameter. Proved myself several times.

  • @promontorium

    @promontorium

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@IronChief You genuinely believe a stick or rod can magically detect water underground by moving, when these objects clearly have no attraction to each other, can't be replicated, is utterly unscientific, and is basically belief in magic? Have you considered that the ground has voids, so digging for them will find them?

  • @IronChief

    @IronChief

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@promontorium I didn't say anything about water.

  • @IronChief

    @IronChief

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@promontorium finding the voids before digging is the point.

  • @yolandajane61
    @yolandajane613 жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @1967buickriviera

    @1967buickriviera

    3 жыл бұрын

    no u

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin63553 жыл бұрын

    Dousing discovers water ......pipe . ..or not. Gee how would the residents know that those little bits were tin ore?

  • @rodney1818
    @rodney18183 жыл бұрын

    I think it's a Smokehouse

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert29743 жыл бұрын

    🙏💜🙏

  • @adamsjerome1839
    @adamsjerome1839Ай бұрын

    Looks like " cut and cover".

  • @BirdWhisperer46
    @BirdWhisperer463 жыл бұрын

    What was it used for? it's where they kept their turnips.

  • @marygrove2616
    @marygrove26163 жыл бұрын

    grove

  • @EmmaSpAce111
    @EmmaSpAce1113 жыл бұрын

    this rock broken, *YEET*

  • @komerwest3748
    @komerwest37483 жыл бұрын

    Why only a short time to dig. Land owner seems to want them there

  • @yelsmlaugh

    @yelsmlaugh

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because the bill payer was a TV station, not the government. The original broadcast would have been replete with ads.

  • @rodney1818
    @rodney18183 жыл бұрын

    Roll out the music comments

  • @RamblinJer
    @RamblinJer3 жыл бұрын

    I'm not buying it that they panned enough ore for smelting

  • @aden1466
    @aden14663 жыл бұрын

    love watching these older episodes :)

  • @LeSadistique
    @LeSadistique3 жыл бұрын

    She should have said "Oh fogou" instead of "fuck" when it broke.

  • @beepboop3925
    @beepboop39253 жыл бұрын

    why does phil look so young here? And where is his hat

  • @christianpatriot7439
    @christianpatriot74393 жыл бұрын

    If they don't know what it is and there are as many of them as they say, why schedule the one in this program?

  • @smd2768
    @smd27683 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to Phil talk forever.

  • @Honkey-Donkey
    @Honkey-Donkey3 жыл бұрын

    Can't hear it.

  • @ionidhunedoara1491
    @ionidhunedoara14913 жыл бұрын

    A lair for the Devon "wrackers" I daresay.

  • @wegarnett
    @wegarnett3 жыл бұрын

    The fact that Tony is talking seriously about a dowser made me thumbs down this one

  • @doc2kiwidig663

    @doc2kiwidig663

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah...proven tripe..

  • @raphaelbernard7954

    @raphaelbernard7954

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tony looked like he was baiting Mick

  • @ChrisHyde537
    @ChrisHyde5373 жыл бұрын

    Dowsing? This is Heaven paging Mr James Randi, Heaven paging Mr James Randi.

  • @starriderkittykat9064
    @starriderkittykat90643 жыл бұрын

    Was this show on 5 months ago? Because now Tony has no hair and what little he does have is white. I had to go watch another video to make sure it was him.

  • @momof2momof2
    @momof2momof23 жыл бұрын

    I guess to be a scientist you don't get your hair cut

  • @johnmoss6631

    @johnmoss6631

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess to comment on Utube you don’t get to mind your own business on how one looks.

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord83373 жыл бұрын

    A long underground chunnel from Ireland to England for migrants. Or just another branch of all the tunnels under the Cairo plateau pyramids going in all directions !

  • @Daledsch
    @Daledsch2 жыл бұрын

    99.9% of archeologists don't know their ass from their elbow, and can't admit they don't have a clue

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord83373 жыл бұрын

    Your digging into an ancient garden outhouse and sewage cistern !!! Fogous are ancient crappers. All those fogous across the landscape are outhouse locations !!! And it is pronounced "Fug - Oh!" or "Oh Fug !" from the smell !!!

  • @anonymoustowers288
    @anonymoustowers2883 жыл бұрын

    WACH ON TIMELINE CHANEL , CARENZA,S RANBLING NONSENCE IS DELETED

  • @johnmoss6631

    @johnmoss6631

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch on timeline channel, anonymous towers rambling diatribe against Carenza. Just another little male who is intimidated by a intelligent woman.

  • @jr-wv4qw
    @jr-wv4qw3 жыл бұрын

    They sound english, but they're white. Weird watching this is 2020.