Is This An Ancient Archeological Treasure Trove Or An Elaborate Hoax? | Time Team | Odyssey

Tony Robinson and the Time Team are on a dig like no other. They're on a mission to work out whether the intriguing ancient artefacts of Llygadwy are genuine or an elaborate crime against archaeology.
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  • @K1W1fly
    @K1W1fly Жыл бұрын

    This episode gave Time Team a lot of professional credibility - It proved to their peers that they used sound archaeological process, and used good logic to reach conclusions.

  • @Art4ArtsSakeVideo
    @Art4ArtsSakeVideo Жыл бұрын

    This has long been one of my very favourite Time Team episodes. Exposing hoaxes, whether perpetrated by whimsical antiquarian vicars or possibly more avaricious modern seekers of tourists, is one of the most valuable activities archaeologists can perform for us today.

  • @glenystranter2713

    @glenystranter2713

    Жыл бұрын

    Very true. whoever did it was probably getting money from gullible tourists and others, for their own gain. Through the investigations that Time Team did, they revealed that the sites were set up as hoaxes to throw off future archeologists. When I first started watching this episode I had an inkling that the sites were too good to be true.

  • @darthd3021

    @darthd3021

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. What a great episode.

  • @RubensBudgetCreations

    @RubensBudgetCreations

    Жыл бұрын

    Same here, I always liked this episode.

  • @spacecowboy2k

    @spacecowboy2k

    Жыл бұрын

    100%. In trying to fool the experts, they've only validated WHY they are experts.

  • @WendyDarling1974

    @WendyDarling1974

    6 ай бұрын

    Right up there with the episode where after three days they found absolutely nothing. That was awesome. Because it’s realistic.

  • @thomascoogan8725
    @thomascoogan8725 Жыл бұрын

    Tony Robinson going out of his way to explain that the sword is held on to someone's belt by a BALDRICK is hilarious.

  • @HappyQuailsLC

    @HappyQuailsLC

    11 ай бұрын

    But the Christians might have pilfered the spring of early coins as they were expected to demean paganism not practice it in the years following the time of the earliest finds.

  • @AshesAshes44

    @AshesAshes44

    10 ай бұрын

    For crying out loud!! 🤦‍♀️I never put it together. Your post broke it down into parts simple enough for me-- thanks! Uuummmm... Circle K is for 'o' and 'k,' Okay/OK. To be fair, I figured that one out by 8 yrs old. Not a peep about my age when I finally twigged onto Guantanamo = GITMO

  • @czgator9000

    @czgator9000

    9 ай бұрын

    He had a clever plan! (Will be lost on anyone who never watched Blackadder.)

  • @Val.Kyrie.

    @Val.Kyrie.

    9 ай бұрын

    @@czgator9000a cunning plan actually 🥴

  • @LindaBahlmann-wl6qu

    @LindaBahlmann-wl6qu

    5 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

  • @midwestdocumentarycenterin1680
    @midwestdocumentarycenterin1680 Жыл бұрын

    This is, perhaps the most compelling episode of Time Team I've ever witnessed. It delivers a painfully important message. Thanks for sharing it.

  • @DJL78
    @DJL78 Жыл бұрын

    Send the team to Oak Island and let them expose the ongoing scam there as well! This was an epic episode!

  • @QuanticChaos1000

    @QuanticChaos1000

    Жыл бұрын

    After that terrible series was made that lasted for what, 10 seasons and found nothing? I would love to see Oak Island officially debunked.

  • @sandralanphear8912

    @sandralanphear8912

    Жыл бұрын

    What…nothing??? I don’t believe that one…prove it

  • @ITSONLYMEWATCHING

    @ITSONLYMEWATCHING

    Жыл бұрын

    It can get tedious at times.

  • @Mimzie-Arizona

    @Mimzie-Arizona

    11 ай бұрын

    That show was so hokey

  • @andrewroby6113

    @andrewroby6113

    11 ай бұрын

    The proof is that they found nothing. You prove that they found something if you disagree. It should be easy if you’re right.

  • @barryandjackypowell8239
    @barryandjackypowell8239 Жыл бұрын

    I found this episode particularly fascinating : to think that "someone" went to great lengths to "manufacture a bogus archeological site - within living memory".

  • @mikkelboisen5543
    @mikkelboisen5543 Жыл бұрын

    38:21 Love Tony's slight pause before saying baldrick :D

  • @wallykimball8829

    @wallykimball8829

    Жыл бұрын

    Wait a minute, is he baldrick from Black Adder? He's always looked familiar but I could never figure out from where..

  • @hellgrammite3602

    @hellgrammite3602

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wallykimball8829 yes it is him

  • @animerlon

    @animerlon

    Жыл бұрын

    Good catch. 😆👍

  • @Art4ArtsSakeVideo

    @Art4ArtsSakeVideo

    Жыл бұрын

    Shout-out to Blackadder! Well played, Sir Tony!

  • @BoyProdigyX

    @BoyProdigyX

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought it was because it sounded suggestive haha The truth is way better!

  • @floriangeyer3454
    @floriangeyer3454 Жыл бұрын

    how rich someone must be to dump original items into a mudhole. And how insane

  • @maxdecphoenix

    @maxdecphoenix

    4 ай бұрын

    and to scratch 'hitler' and a swastika in to a statue of hercules too. So not only was he dumping the stuff, he defaced several pieces just in what they found.

  • @TechGorilla1987
    @TechGorilla1987 Жыл бұрын

    This is like a MythBusters episode crossed with a Time Team episode. Splendid.

  • @RatelHBadger

    @RatelHBadger

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine if that had been a thing... Time Team digging up supposed archaeologic remains, whilst the Myth busters crew bust tech/construction myths related to the time period the dig is related to.

  • @larryzigler6812

    @larryzigler6812

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RatelHBadger Please translate into English

  • @RatelHBadger

    @RatelHBadger

    Жыл бұрын

    @@larryzigler6812 Im not sure how else to rephrase that mate. Mythbusters were known for creating or recreating all sorts of gadgets to bust myths. Had they been working in tandem with Time Team, perhaps they could have made historic technology in order to recreate certain activities of the time period/location of each dig site. There could be an element of busting myths/misconceptions of each time period in order to better understand historic accuracy.

  • @colleens1107

    @colleens1107

    7 ай бұрын

    Ooooh what a great and accurate comparison

  • @wallykimball8829
    @wallykimball8829 Жыл бұрын

    The fact that the owner of the property does not want to be interviewed on film seems slightly suspicious.

  • @BoyProdigyX

    @BoyProdigyX

    Жыл бұрын

    It's *EXTREMELY* suspicious! Someone willing to throw his stepson to the wolves like that, is definitely capable of perpetrating something as nefarious as this...

  • @Fatpumpumlovah2

    @Fatpumpumlovah2

    Жыл бұрын

    You obv never found anything of importance in your life so you wouldnt know the consequences of obtaining it. Stfu

  • @goodrobot1

    @goodrobot1

    Жыл бұрын

    They even claimed it was a last-minute decision on his part. I had the same thought after finishing.

  • @jhb1493

    @jhb1493

    Жыл бұрын

    I wonder what motive the neighbour who contacted TT about the site had? Its tempting to think perhaps they knew about shenanigans and wanted it stopped before people got ripped off.

  • @MarcoReekers01

    @MarcoReekers01

    11 ай бұрын

    But if you would bury a sword, would you put it on a piece of barbed wire?

  • @MightyLittle1
    @MightyLittle1 Жыл бұрын

    I thought I had seen every episode of T.T. until this one today. And then about halfway through, I was wondering if this was the episode of the faked archaeological site. Then they found the sword with the barbed wire underneath it, and I realized it was. I had not seen the episode for about 7 years, so I kind of forgot some of it. I think we all can now understand and trust that archaeologists absolutely know what they're talking about.

  • @joelj1355
    @joelj135511 ай бұрын

    On camera, at least, the Time Team crew showed remarkably restrained comments when the archaeological story began to unravel.

  • @michelleleiper4694
    @michelleleiper4694 Жыл бұрын

    The local archaeologists who refused to take part obviously know the landowners better than time team. Seems they may have a reputation already.

  • @j.l.thurman2725

    @j.l.thurman2725

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but at least they could have helped expose the deception. It was good the deception was revealed. Such a shame those artifacts have no context and no value as a result.

  • @petertrznadel8107

    @petertrznadel8107

    Жыл бұрын

    They would stand aside, and let "time team" come to the same conclusions as themselves, totally independently, with out claims of being influenced by, or in colusion with the local archaeologists. a totally independent result, and of course it keeps the local archaeologists out of any local bad feelings or accusations about "doing down" the local farmer.

  • @amandajstar

    @amandajstar

    Жыл бұрын

    @@j.l.thurman2725 I would say not NO value, but much more limited value.

  • @colleens1107

    @colleens1107

    7 ай бұрын

    Yup, I could practically hear Tony screaming in his head OH BULLSHIT when SIL said the owner didn’t do this hoax

  • @kristinetaulbut4975
    @kristinetaulbut4975 Жыл бұрын

    This is just as impressive as finding a real site. Their expertise is really on par here

  • @ridethecurve55

    @ridethecurve55

    Жыл бұрын

    To my eyes, it's a sort of crime scene. The father in law is "Individual 1". What a waste of archeologists' time!

  • @goodrobot1

    @goodrobot1

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Ride TheCurve at the least, a very cool, rare iron age sword was found and donated to a museum. But yea, I have to agree that this site is an archeological crime scene. 😆

  • @BoyProdigyX
    @BoyProdigyX Жыл бұрын

    What an interesting episode! I find it massively cagey that the actual owner should be so wary of taking part, having a last-minute "change of heart". If you have all this potential archaeology in your backyard, you'd want to get in there and find out everything there is to know! Maybe the stepson really didn't know, but I smell something fishy, definitely. I knew in the first few minutes of the episode the ancient stuff was nonsense, since the older standing stone was plonked in the middle of a newer trackway. That sword part though, hurt. tisk-tisk

  • @Art4ArtsSakeVideo

    @Art4ArtsSakeVideo

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice that the TimeTeam editors included the footage of Tony rubbing the bridge of his nose when he should have been interviewing the owner...

  • @darthd3021

    @darthd3021

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed. Seeing the son-in-law's reaction when told about the sword, I don't think he knew about it. He seemed like he was figuring out the lies in his head and still trying to keep it together. It looks like his whole world was crushed.

  • @j.l.thurman2725

    @j.l.thurman2725

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. that was my first prickle of - this isn't what it seems. SO much interesting stuff, it felt planted for sure.

  • @robertmacdonaldbespokekilt3063

    @robertmacdonaldbespokekilt3063

    Жыл бұрын

    @@darthd3021 oh to be a fly on the wall when he confronted his father-in-law...I wonder if he's still the son-in-law or if he GTFO...

  • @colleens1107

    @colleens1107

    7 ай бұрын

    Yup, my guess it’s the owner who did this. I’ll give son in law the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t aware of this

  • @cdfdesantis699
    @cdfdesantis699 Жыл бұрын

    Tony & Mick were exactly right. If an artefact is removed from its original site, it loses its historical significance. This site is, at best, an antiquarian hoax - at worst, a criminal endeavor.

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980

    @Eric_Hutton.1980

    Жыл бұрын

    A loss to all history lovers and the public in general. Knowledge about the past lost in this way should be a crime.

  • @cdfdesantis699

    @cdfdesantis699

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Eric_Hutton.1980 I agree with you 100%, friend. Thanks for your reply.

  • @promontorium

    @promontorium

    Жыл бұрын

    I think that's utter nonsense. People are not bound inextricably from exact sites. Locations only tell you where something ended, not where it began or traveled. The idea that something has no historical significance if removed from where it collected dirt the longest is absurd. I find the history of when it was used far more useful and interesting than when it was not used, and you don't need to know where it was lost dropped to learn about how it was used when it was made. Now obviously knowing where something came from is better than not knowing, and subterfuge or amusement park reassembling of historical sites is least preferable of all, but if the itesm themselves are legitimate, then they carry with them legitimate historical value.

  • @rimothytooltarski4459

    @rimothytooltarski4459

    Жыл бұрын

    Chill the f*** out dude. You guys are always wrong about everything anyway. "The pyramids are 5 thousand years old...." I hear you saying that in a squeaky Bill Nye🤷🏿👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️👨‍🔬👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬🤷🏿 wrong about the Vaks_Scene voice.

  • @cdfdesantis699

    @cdfdesantis699

    Жыл бұрын

    @@promontorium Well, friend, I understand what you're saying, to a degree. The sword that was discovered on this site has historical significance in itself, true. But not being discovered in situ completely erases its historical provenance. It's HISTORY is lost. Consider, for instance, the gold artefacts which have been looted from the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas. No idea where they came from, who made them, what their historical significance was to the culture they belonged to. They simply become pretty pieces of gold, to be sold on the black market. We only know their POSSIBLE significance from similar pieces which have been discovered in legitimate archeological investigations. In the same way, the sword in this episode is a remarkable piece of history, but WHAT its actual history is, we have no way of knowing.

  • @robbylock1741
    @robbylock1741 Жыл бұрын

    One of the many reasons I like and miss Tony, how in the opening when the dog comes up to him, he without hesitation gives him a pat.

  • @czgator9000

    @czgator9000

    9 ай бұрын

    Tony is now on the new crowd funded Time Team channel on KZread along with many original members.

  • @penelopesparrow
    @penelopesparrow Жыл бұрын

    It's pretty clear what's going on here - the site is a hotspot for time traveling anomalies; people get stranded there from all timelines and must sacrifice a belonging in order to open a new portal to their destination. okay jokes. Red flags were waving for me when Tony said the local archies refused to be a part of it. If you were a local digger you'd know about that site and you'd be *chomping at the bit* to get your hands on it and prove it's legit. Unless you already knew it wasn't. I bet the camera-shy father let the local digs use it for a playground and didn't think TT would actually turn up. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the house that evening...

  • @nplillustration
    @nplillustration11 ай бұрын

    The amount of commercials are just mindblowing, after 9min of the video I've had 3 commercial breaks in total of 14 minutes. That's 5 more minutes than I've watched the show!!

  • @Nzchimeran
    @Nzchimeran Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely fascinating. The coin piles on the table and determining what period of time saw the most activity. Now I wish I'd gone down this route in my education instead of mechanical engineering. Stumbled upon this video by pure chance as it played after something else I was watching, got up for a cup of tea and here it was. What a treat. Thank you

  • @parlertrick
    @parlertrick Жыл бұрын

    This is a great episode, because it highlights the rigorous research methodologies organic to modern archeaology.

  • @dat2ra
    @dat2ra Жыл бұрын

    What a great program. As a Geologist, I consult on archeological surveys and artifacts, but have never seen anything as deliberate as this. Thanks for the field discipline that revealed this monumental hoax.

  • @mclarenscca
    @mclarenscca Жыл бұрын

    I can't even imagine the frustration with this site! I myself am infuriated that someone made this hoax!

  • @leandabee
    @leandabee Жыл бұрын

    I reckon there would have been some fireworks in that household that night. If true, wouldn't the owner have known that the time team experts would figure out a scam quick smart? 🤦🏼‍♀️. Poor Son In Law.

  • @dat2ra

    @dat2ra

    Жыл бұрын

    Some ppl take great pleasure in faking out the experts, and think they are smarter for it.

  • @Psychlist1972
    @Psychlist1972 Жыл бұрын

    Time Team is so polite. If this show was in the US, there would have been a pushy guy with a mic banging on the house door insisting to talk with the guy who declined to be on TV, knowing that he planted the stuff out there. :)

  • @colleens1107

    @colleens1107

    7 ай бұрын

    I could sooo tell Tony wanted to shout bollocks or some other Brit phrase when the guy denied his father in law buried all that stuff

  • @EastyyBlogspot
    @EastyyBlogspot Жыл бұрын

    One of my fav sites, I wonder if they ever found out what the deal was with the site

  • @Eric_Hutton.1980

    @Eric_Hutton.1980

    Жыл бұрын

    Would be fascinating to know what was going on with this site.

  • @EastyyBlogspot

    @EastyyBlogspot

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Eric_Hutton.1980 I posted a comment on one of Guy de la Bédoyère videos as he has his own youtube channel, I cannot find it but i believe he said something along the lines....they heard about the place before and felt before hand it was very dodgy

  • @gravesclayton3604
    @gravesclayton3604 Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of "Edmund Black Adder" and "Baldrick" (Tony Robinson) selling "holy relics" ( by the gross, no less) while Edmund was the Archbishop of Canterbury, lol!

  • @KengCo7
    @KengCo711 ай бұрын

    I feel sorry for the Son-in-Law. If he was in on it he obviously wouldn't have agreed to be on camera. I think his Father-in-Law has some questions to answer.

  • @neoAREAXIS
    @neoAREAXIS Жыл бұрын

    I really must admit, I admire how they still have fingernails amongst so much salvaging. Wooow . One of those timeless mysteries.

  • @zarathustra007
    @zarathustra007 Жыл бұрын

    Great investigation and episode.

  • @harrybond1485
    @harrybond1485 Жыл бұрын

    Who on earth would have comprised a composite jumble such as that? And why. With such valuable artifacts.A first class mystery it is.

  • @colleens1107

    @colleens1107

    7 ай бұрын

    Uhhh the owner? Remember two things: he refused to be interviewed. I have NEVER seen an episode where the location owner wasn’t part of the episode. And two, the local archaeologists refuse to touch this site. I bet they all suspect him. Plus Tony flat out ASKED THE SON IN LAW. He would never have done that on camera if he wasn’t pretty damn sure it was the owner. I’ll give SIL the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t know about this and that’s why he was ok with being on the episode

  • @harrybond1485

    @harrybond1485

    7 ай бұрын

    @@colleens1107 Thatdoes not answer my question which was why.

  • @kellyb1420
    @kellyb1420 Жыл бұрын

    I love Time Team, I thought this sight was too good to be true as well

  • @ChrisEnglishTimeJapan
    @ChrisEnglishTimeJapan10 ай бұрын

    At the end where they said Bill was going to donate the sword; I kind of picked up a bit of that beautiful British humor. Love this episode.

  • @c1ph3rpunk
    @c1ph3rpunk Жыл бұрын

    I’m not sure if I was watching Time Team or a new CSI:Archeology show.

  • @notthatguyduh

    @notthatguyduh

    Жыл бұрын

    Same haha -- no complaints though! This was really fun/interesting to watch

  • @glenystranter2713

    @glenystranter2713

    Жыл бұрын

    LOL, I was thinking something along those lines. Sometimes they have had to play detectives.

  • @jcollins3182

    @jcollins3182

    Жыл бұрын

    Man, now I really want CSI: Archeology to be a thing.

  • @fngrusty42
    @fngrusty42 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing I find this incredible how these guys work. What a wonderful job doesn't seem to hard it would only take years. I wish I had them would love to learn this .

  • @annazaman9657
    @annazaman96577 ай бұрын

    When I first saw this episode years ago i was quite upset that time team hadn't found anything. Now it's one of my favorites

  • @deborahbaker4770
    @deborahbaker4770 Жыл бұрын

    That’s the most coins I’ve seen in a episode so far but I haven’t seen all of them I just found this exciting show recently 👍🏻😉

  • @williammorris3303
    @williammorris3303 Жыл бұрын

    I love anything with this man talking to us

  • @123456wasp
    @123456wasp Жыл бұрын

    Good video! 😎👍

  • @Jerbod2
    @Jerbod2 Жыл бұрын

    Proper episode! Sometimes I do wonder though, some interpretations are not conclusive. For example: you find a floor with a coin from, 1333 on top. Conclusion: floor is older than 1333. However, someone could've dug some dirt (with coin) in 1413 and deposited it on the old floor of the derelict house that then gets flattened to make room for a garden. The conclusion that the coin is thus newer than the floor isnt set in stone.

  • @michaela4024
    @michaela4024 Жыл бұрын

    Great episode of time team, Ive never seen one like it before. Just goes to show you can’t pull the wool over their eyes in regard to the artefacts they find being from an authentic site or them being planted items from other sites. Interesting part about that reverent constructing phoney ancient sites on his property. I love how excited Tony became when talking to those two men about the coins, the English are great, when they were all sitting around talking about the sawed how polite they all were when conversing. It must be great to be an archaeologist in a country that has such a long history of human occupation, providing such a rich supply archaeological sites.

  • @doitatit
    @doitatit Жыл бұрын

    A true "gotch ya!" Well done Time Team. Yep , send the bill to those dodgy creeps.

  • @pedrovitsch
    @pedrovitsch10 ай бұрын

    Great detective work!

  • @fokkenhotz1
    @fokkenhotz1 Жыл бұрын

    Okay T let's go! Great way to wake on a Sunday morning. 🎉

  • @primroseproblematic2059
    @primroseproblematic205911 ай бұрын

    This is such a good ep

  • @jerrymcdaniel4539
    @jerrymcdaniel4539 Жыл бұрын

    What kind of madman creates a site like this and places ancient artifacts into the ground. Thomas Price was a strange man. I expected the statue to have made in Japan stamped on it. The sword had to be put there by the current crazy owner of the land including the spring.

  • @Gwaithmir

    @Gwaithmir

    Жыл бұрын

    Price was apparently trying to revive local paganism and had a retinue of followers. The coins and other artifacts were deposited by neo-pagans recreating ancient rituals. The used old relics to add a cachet of authenticity to their rituals.

  • @eugeniastravels8954
    @eugeniastravels89544 ай бұрын

    The doggie is so cute! 🤗

  • @juliajs1752
    @juliajs1752 Жыл бұрын

    That shows how much research and work you'll have to put into faking an archeological site :)

  • @sempercompellis
    @sempercompellis Жыл бұрын

    beautiful countryside- reminds me of eastern Tennessee

  • @fokkenhotz1
    @fokkenhotz1 Жыл бұрын

    hey T? this show is tops and i really enjoy it but again and its like the 10th time, i had a queue of videos selected and my queue was dropped and interruoted with your show. it makes me think its an algorithmic error however logged it looks like a purpose over exposure motive unknown. and i just thot you all should know and again thank you kindly for this top rated fine content.

  • @betsyroy6269
    @betsyroy626911 ай бұрын

    Love your videos. You inspired me. Now I'm looking at Google Earth to see what I can find and go check out. Thanks !

  • @tecora7419
    @tecora7419 Жыл бұрын

    Such an adventure Angie

  • @tonyhumphrisify
    @tonyhumphrisify Жыл бұрын

    Where would someone in the last 20 years ob tain an apparently still incrusted 2000 year old sword and what could be a motive ? Bizarre

  • @canufi6my

    @canufi6my

    Жыл бұрын

    The owners wanted to turn the place into a tourist attraction and make money. They had to make an investment to make a profit. I smelled a rat when the old man didn't want to talk.

  • @richardphelan8414
    @richardphelan8414 Жыл бұрын

    Never would have thunk it in a thousand years looks great

  • @michellel564
    @michellel564 Жыл бұрын

    Is it just me or is Phil getting YOUNGER?!!🤔😳😁

  • @michaela4024

    @michaela4024

    Жыл бұрын

    And Tony sporting an earring.

  • @krisbest6405

    @krisbest6405

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe 15yrs old?

  • @brawdygordii
    @brawdygordii6 ай бұрын

    I think the fact that the owner of the property changed his mind at the last minute to give an interview says it all really. The spring that wasn't a spring turned up 2,000 years of finds that were found on top of 20 year old barbed wire. Case closed your Honour.

  • @johngober3898
    @johngober3898 Жыл бұрын

    Glad the sword was donated to a local museum but, I wonder what happened to all of the other finds. Were they handed over to the landowner who decided to forgo the interview?🤔

  • @craigmurrayauthor

    @craigmurrayauthor

    Жыл бұрын

    if objects are found on your and and below a certain threshold for value/importance, they belong to the landowner. Higher value, then national archeology can pay a reasonable value for the goods and basically take them.

  • @MD-pl4ww

    @MD-pl4ww

    Жыл бұрын

    well he did put them there in the first place

  • @koomaj
    @koomaj Жыл бұрын

    Soneone really wanted to ruin their collection of valuable stuff. Hope htey remember where they put the rest of if which the team didn't find.

  • @BoyProdigyX

    @BoyProdigyX

    Жыл бұрын

    The problem is, it may have been somewhat expensive out of context, but being able to claim it was excavated from a "legit" archaeological site, skyrockets its worth. It's shameless.

  • @koomaj

    @koomaj

    Жыл бұрын

    It really would be interesting to know where the scammer got all this stuff. The sword can't be a known object. Swiss would be furious about that =)

  • @mrbillmacneill

    @mrbillmacneill

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BoyProdigyXI think there is definitely an angle of some sort. possibly they are artifact fences? ' 'oh look what i found on our property...' and were trying to have time team legitimize their 'finds'

  • @TeddGCM
    @TeddGCM11 ай бұрын

    I love Tony as in his role for this series, but I will always hear Baldwick in Black Adder.

  • @brawdygordii

    @brawdygordii

    6 ай бұрын

    Baldric

  • @jasonsearle7832
    @jasonsearle783211 ай бұрын

    The amount of effort and money to do that is nuts

  • @craigmurrayauthor
    @craigmurrayauthor Жыл бұрын

    whoever threw a 2000 year old La Tene sword into water needs found and beaten

  • @colleens1107
    @colleens11077 ай бұрын

    Hmmmmm…the owner didn’t want to be interviewed so he had his son in law do it. This is a 20 year hoax… I think the guy who refused to be interviewed did it. I’ll give SIL the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t know. But awesome episode. I like seeing these guys DISPROVE an ancient site as much as finding a genuine one

  • @carysmeehan4003
    @carysmeehan4003 Жыл бұрын

    I've watched this episode *so* many times, it's all so fascinating, but I'm still curious about that "natural spring" - was it a human creation with plumbing? Help with answers/information, please?

  • @Swalkerfilm

    @Swalkerfilm

    11 ай бұрын

    Created by humans, fed by natural water. It was probably dug in a likely spot at the bottom of a slope where the ground was already soggy from water seeping up from the ground.

  • @skeo9327

    @skeo9327

    10 ай бұрын

    Any hollow dug into the ground on land as wet as that would naturally fill with groundwater. (It was at the base of a slope)

  • @brawdygordii

    @brawdygordii

    6 ай бұрын

    @carysmeehan4003 If you watch this episode from 38:00 one more time you can clearly see the spring did not exist in aerial pictures in 1972 and that no records of a spring show up on any maps in the last 100 years. The scepticism of our experts is obvious from beginning to end in this episode, subdued anger in fact, because who would bury a sword deliberately for it to be found and then so obviously on top of a modern fence?

  • @marcelovolcato8892
    @marcelovolcato8892 Жыл бұрын

    What a bummer.😐

  • @user-zi6hw4zm1n
    @user-zi6hw4zm1n2 күн бұрын

    Time Team themselves planted a sword they made, which would potentially confuse a finder 3000 years from now

  • @mariohinke4487
    @mariohinke4487 Жыл бұрын

    38:20 what is known as a Baldrick .... Instant Black Adder vibes. 😅 😂😂😂🥳

  • @j.l.thurman2725
    @j.l.thurman2725 Жыл бұрын

    WOW! an epic burn. the father in law knows what's going on that's why he didn't want to talk about it. I swear it.

  • @canufi6my

    @canufi6my

    Жыл бұрын

    That darn barbed wire! lol, The Team knew from the start it was a hoax.

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @loganlovescarsandmotorcycles
    @loganlovescarsandmotorcycles Жыл бұрын

    It does sound great. Most engines don't sound as good as people want to think they do.

  • @NorwayT
    @NorwayT11 ай бұрын

    35:16 Carenza said it! That is bloody CRIMINAL! Why did the landowner suddenly decline to show his face on camera, if he in fact wasn't the perpetrator of this CRIME? People who deal this way with important archaeological artefacts ought to get three square meals of prison food every day for a good while!

  • @codtelly1124
    @codtelly11246 ай бұрын

    22:24 Thomas Price looks like Tony.

  • @michellecook2338
    @michellecook2338 Жыл бұрын

    What a shame . Its a crime 😮

  • @andrewnorgrove6487
    @andrewnorgrove6487 Жыл бұрын

    Bit like the old American Miners who fired a shotgun loaded with gold into the dirt to start a fake goldrush !

  • @desslokbasileus571
    @desslokbasileus571 Жыл бұрын

    The episode of ' Liar ' 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

  • @Missangie827
    @Missangie827 Жыл бұрын

    Phil loves flint

  • @canufi6my
    @canufi6my Жыл бұрын

    I smelled a hoax at 5:45 when the land owner didn't want to talk and had his son-in-law do the talking. The things some people will do to make money. smh

  • @glenn134
    @glenn134 Жыл бұрын

    I love how they all act.. and they know its a hoax

  • @hiddentruth1982
    @hiddentruth1982 Жыл бұрын

    reminds me of the piltdown man.

  • @ACDZ123

    @ACDZ123

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha yes they were very desperate to push evolution..

  • @lalaLAX219
    @lalaLAX2197 ай бұрын

    I’m glad the time team were able to determine the objects at the site had not been there since ancient times. However, I think we should be hesitant to accuse the owners of any wrongdoing, because ultimately we cannot know how those objects got there. Although archaeologists can gather a lot of information about a site, it is impossible for them to ever have the full picture or account for every variable. For example, perhaps when that cable trench was filled back in the excavators scooped up soil from another spot in the yard and the sword was deposited then unknowingly. Who knows. When it comes to archaeology, it’s important to recognize that not everything can be determined with certainty because ultimately we just weren’t there when it happened. In this case, I think the time team did a good job of determining that the artifacts weren’t part of an ancient site and that’s what our only takeaway should be.

  • @brawdygordii

    @brawdygordii

    6 ай бұрын

    @lalaLAX219 Everyone is innocent until proven guilty and it's nice to see someone prepared to be the Defence lawyer in what appears to be an open and shut case.

  • @laurieedeburn2449
    @laurieedeburn2449 Жыл бұрын

    i luv u guys

  • @rileyhoffman6629
    @rileyhoffman6629 Жыл бұрын

    Great episode. Logically, though, I'm fairy sure you can't determine what something IS by what it is NOT.

  • @mick7even

    @mick7even

    Жыл бұрын

    Some say why? I say why not? 😂

  • @brawdygordii

    @brawdygordii

    6 ай бұрын

    What level of assurance is "fairy sure"?

  • @brawdygordii

    @brawdygordii

    6 ай бұрын

    As to the logic of your question You can determine what something ISN'T by what it IS. If I look for an elephant in my room and find a dog, I know the dog isn't an elephant. If I look for an archaeological site and find a hoax then the hoax is not an archaeological site. I'm fairy sure I'm right about that,😉

  • @rileyhoffman6629

    @rileyhoffman6629

    6 ай бұрын

    grow up. if you can't figure it out, you are too sad...@@brawdygordii

  • @rileyhoffman6629

    @rileyhoffman6629

    6 ай бұрын

    logically false.

  • @beverleyspugsandhomestead.
    @beverleyspugsandhomestead.4 ай бұрын

    Of course when the trench was dug, for the water etc, maybe the sword was dug up and then put back when they filled the trench without being seen!

  • @andrewmountford3608
    @andrewmountford36088 ай бұрын

    ‘How could that have happened?’ ‘I haven’t a clue’ This bloke will definitely try to sell you crypto

  • @kenc3288
    @kenc3288 Жыл бұрын

    Why the tight time schedule..?

  • @chrisgordon8967
    @chrisgordon8967 Жыл бұрын

    The sword was found on top of barbwire but next to utility lines. What about the idea that the earth dug from the ditch being made for the utility lines run to the new house was laid next to the ditch? The sword could have been dug from the new ditch from an excavator and could have been overlooked or simply pressed into position from the excavator refilling or covering the new utility lines. That could explain why it was on top of the barbwire. Im sure the experts thought of this and with all the evidence as a whole pointing at a sham, that if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck then its a duck.

  • @bailey1000100

    @bailey1000100

    Жыл бұрын

    Chris Gordon ..You have stated the most logical explanation of anyone on this site.I think that is logical as to what happened.

  • @amandajstar

    @amandajstar

    Жыл бұрын

    Nonsense. You don't re-position an ancient rare sword over your new installation. Laugh is over, let's be serious.

  • @deborahduthie4519
    @deborahduthie4519 Жыл бұрын

    One of the carved heads looks like an Easter Island Moai. Past Time Team showed how prolific the throwing of modelled Icons, in to the waters for blessings when embarking on or along the way on pilgrimages. Makes sense.⛏🗿 This site might be on a trail of pilgrimage. OR. An early 1900 Folly. For visitors to the area to visit and fossick. That’s the second manufactured site I’ve watched. Just as important as other sites. The understanding needs work and investigation for context. Maybe the military were told to put everything back where they got it. Returned to sod after a death.

  • @balderii7340
    @balderii73407 ай бұрын

    It was a waterhole all passengers drank from and as they bent over stuff fell out their pockets. Not “ritually smashed”, if a broche was broken it fell off as they kneeled over the water.

  • @brawdygordii

    @brawdygordii

    6 ай бұрын

    What part of "This spring did not exist before 1972" were you not understanding? 38:10

  • @hallets1956
    @hallets1956 Жыл бұрын

    Just goes to show the integrity of the show and the people who work on it. Unlike Oak Island which has no integrity.

  • @canufi6my

    @canufi6my

    Жыл бұрын

    lol, The Time Team knew it was a hoax from the start, but they need eyeballs to make money, same with Oak Island hoax.

  • @deborahduthie4519
    @deborahduthie4519 Жыл бұрын

    Could this site have been a camp for Foreign Nationalities living in Britain, being given the task to build a folly and dig in for people to find items for fun in Summertime picnics?

  • @canufi6my

    @canufi6my

    Жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @quiltygal6981

    @quiltygal6981

    11 ай бұрын

    Wouldn't some remainder of public knowledge still remain, very small communities around there.

  • @kristinetaulbut4975
    @kristinetaulbut4975 Жыл бұрын

    Somebody is lying

  • @BoyProdigyX

    @BoyProdigyX

    Жыл бұрын

    Stepdaddy has some explaining to do...

  • @allan9603
    @allan9603 Жыл бұрын

    The channel is interesting, but how about addressing some of these Comments and questions?

  • @becky8571
    @becky8571 Жыл бұрын

    I love the man who salted his garden with antiquities! What fun he and his friends must have had digging up “finds”. His parties must have been fun with everyone coming back to dine and talking about the wonders they found. What a host who delighted in his machinations!

  • @Metal0sopher

    @Metal0sopher

    Жыл бұрын

    That's quite a disgusting statement.

  • @katconley9702

    @katconley9702

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh great idea! I think I’ll break into a graveyard and do some grave robbing so I’ll have a fun activity for my next brunch 😒😒

  • @prjw73
    @prjw73 Жыл бұрын

    9:52 Two men talking about their periods. They were decades ahead of their time!

  • @augusta8901
    @augusta890110 ай бұрын

    Why doesn't anyone suggest the sword had been dug up in the soil when the work was done, then shoveled back when it was evened out. I think it would be rare that construction guys would be on the lookout for artifacts or take notice of a lumpy muddy thing that looks like a stick.

  • @ponchopower
    @ponchopower Жыл бұрын

    So we have evidence but since it's not a lot we're just gonne ignore it amazing research truly amazing

  • @neilbush9873
    @neilbush987311 ай бұрын

    Throwing swords into a lake. Could that not be from a disarmament situation?

  • @neoAREAXIS
    @neoAREAXIS Жыл бұрын

    Maybe it's a 19th or early 20th century training ground? That would fit in with the hype of archaeology when the pyramids were found. That time influenced everything from fashion and decor to magazines and general pop culture. A theme park would surely ensue or a training ground for those interested in the new hype.

  • @dat2ra

    @dat2ra

    Жыл бұрын

    But the barb wire, under the sword, is 20-30 years old.

  • @jerrymcdaniel4539
    @jerrymcdaniel4539 Жыл бұрын

    A sword from 250bc? Let’s bury it in the mud!!!

  • @gern7535
    @gern753511 ай бұрын

    Wish they could do this to the Ancient Aliens show.

  • @brt5273
    @brt5273 Жыл бұрын

    "I haven't got a clue...."😜

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