Agreed, the humility it took to say you all missed it when it was in plain sight is commendable. By the way, I've watched all the episodes of Time Team I can find and that is a fine group of historians and scholars. I so appreciated stumbling on to that series!!

@ThePrehistoryGuys

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks from Michael! So glad you enjoyed it 😊

Thank you so much for making this video (again!!!). Time Team were such an important part of my life, and I do remember the episode you refer to. It's great to see you back there on the spot where Phil excavated, taking full advantage of the tank tracks. It's also great that you took the time to show us what you missed, even though you were looking! 👋👋👋

I live half a mile from Rough-tor, it's an incredible place. I often spend my nights camping at the top. It's an ancient place. People have been there for millennia

Another splendid piece of content and with such humility also, bravo. The archaic _cattle pens_ theory is awesome. Most hilariously applied to the numerous enclosures and stone structures emanating from Great Zimbabwe. Most of them don't have any visible entrances, which would make for some exceedingly nimble cows. Maybe some cunning bronze age livestock manager hybridised aurochs with _geese_ .

@ChristophersMum

4 жыл бұрын

Yup...you have a major discovery on your hands...

Good Stuff Michael The Time Team you refer too is one of my favorites and Bridget ? Finding a Frog in the flooded pit she had dug the evening before was so funny.

Thank you, Mr. Bott. I remember watching Standing with Stones on DVD in my home with some friends before our second pilgrimage to the U.K. in 2013. I loved all of the bonus material (especially the bloopers) and the animated menu. I always recommend folks watch the movie via the chapter menu because it feels much more interactive with your journey. This was wonderful. (I actually reached out to you with plans to invite you out to coffee or pints when my group ventured through your area. You responded, but I never followed through with it) Cheers!

@ThePrehistoryGuys

5 жыл бұрын

Hex Nottingham Thanks so much for your comment! Much appreciated. It always amazes Rupert and I just how many people we reached back then with the DVD. We hope you enjoy the material we’re producing now - and don’t forget the podcasts!

I'm going to have to dig out that Time Team episode now... curious

@DMLand

3 жыл бұрын

It's very worth watching. One of the best episodes I've seen. There's much less faffing around making silly jokes about the personalities of the team, which is always a mark of a substantial Time Team episode.

Loving all these videos.

@ThePrehistoryGuys

4 жыл бұрын

Many thanks from Michael! So glad you're enjoying them 😊

@MadScientistProspecting

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePrehistoryGuys Working my way through your back catlog

Quality, thanks guys.

Superb, thank you.

Superb. You really are good at this! Thank you.

Our play ground is Bodmin moor as my wife and I walk this landscape through all the seasons it’s a place of spirituality and we have a lovely collection of flint hand tools which Will go to our grandchildren 👍🙏

Unfortunately bone would not survive in the acid soil you get in granite areas. It reminds me of the great long mound that once lay across Maiden Castle near Dorchester which also curves round, changing direction.

Good vid. The cairn or causeway or route to the tor, whatever it is on Rough Tor, needs to be preserved and saved, its unique and a very, very important UK site. Live in the SW close to this area and unfortunately though some preservation has taken place, its in a bit of a state. Sad to see it disappear.

You know there is an oral history amongst us Cornish, that a great king of Cornwall is buried beneath the karn there on Brown Willy. I known some of my fellow Cornishmen would be disgusted with this... but I'd love one day for some archelogy to be done on the karn's. :D

Here's a link to the Time Team video "In the Shadow of the Tor" kzread.info/dash/bejne/ent7lJmkZ9O6f5c.html

I suppose that's why I prefer industrial history as a vocation. ..I deal in recorded fact not what ifs. ...love the mystery and that but as a historian I grew up in the decaying remains of the industrial revolution and I can find facts... love your stuff though it gives me food for thought. .. and the occasional laugh...great balance. .thanks

"Egad! He's gone Bodman!"

Hi Michael, has anybody considered do you know, that the land may have been lower back then or would that be me?

@ThePrehistoryGuys

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there. Thanks for the comment. I don't think that's the case here. If you visit Rough Tor, you'll see that the footings for the settlement buildings are still plainly visible pretty much level with and on the current surface. There have been changes and shifts of course and what tree coverage there was has long since gone. It's mainly where the settlements have remained and towns and cities have grown up over time, or the land has been farmed, that we have to dig down to get to prehistoric levels.

@katmanclancy

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePrehistoryGuys thank you for the reply. Looking forward to more fascinating docs on these amazing sites!

Are people buried on top of the tor?

@ThePrehistoryGuys

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Viki - thanks for the question. No, I don't think there are. As I mentioned in the film, Time Team did a dig on the nearby Bronze Age settlement. There's a copy of it on YuTube here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6mCrdSJm5a0YM4.html