The Buried Wonders Of Iron Age Britain | Time Team | Odyssey

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  • @michaelkamradt4700
    @michaelkamradt47008 ай бұрын

    I have lived virtually alone for the last 10 years and whenever I need to hear friendly voices I watch one of these episode's. It doesn't matter now which one it is, I've watched them all, several for a few of them. They never grow tiresome and I learn something new every time.

  • @EmilyBltz

    @EmilyBltz

    7 ай бұрын

    I agree - I love these episodes. I'm an Anglophile born and raised in California and I marvel at the history and what they uncover in these digs. I hope someday I have the chance to visit England but until then it's the Time Team! lol

  • @interneteditor5258

    @interneteditor5258

    7 ай бұрын

    Every Sunday I used to go up to my best friend's house (RIP my dearest) and we'd watch Time Team together. These uploads are my comfort viewing now, too. Stick one on in the background and the housework virtually does itself.

  • @lauralake7430

    @lauralake7430

    6 ай бұрын

    I will likely never go to Britian, only found these during the pandemic, but they are a comfort to me, too.

  • @21EpicFail

    @21EpicFail

    6 ай бұрын

    Have faith in the blood of Jesus Christ alone for salvation. Nothing we do in the flesh will ever surmount what Christ did on the cross for us all. The KJV bible is the best translation... I love these videos too haha

  • @cherylmillard2067

    @cherylmillard2067

    6 ай бұрын

    Why do you feel the overwhelming need to interject your Jesus and religion into a conversation?@@21EpicFail Give it a rest, believe as you wish but, don't push it on others, it's such an abrasive behavior.

  • @LandonStevens
    @LandonStevens Жыл бұрын

    To the kid who said “that’s an Iron Age pint, innit?”… don’t ever change my dude

  • @francistuckermanns
    @francistuckermanns7 ай бұрын

    During COVD I made a hobby of finding each site on Google Earth Time flew by and I learned UK history and geograaphy painlessly !

  • @kcbowman4042

    @kcbowman4042

    2 ай бұрын

    what a great idea.

  • @giardiniera7130
    @giardiniera7130 Жыл бұрын

    Just randomly chose this to put me to bed and...IT'S BALDRICK!!! Awesome

  • @isilder

    @isilder

    3 ай бұрын

    Sir Baldrick in the middle episode. I as QE2 knighted him saying " I dub thee Sir Baldrick !"

  • @valswhitewolf6611

    @valswhitewolf6611

    Ай бұрын

    It most certainly is.I said this very thing when I first discovered this gem. I loved Borrick more then Black Adder.

  • @biancacastafiore383
    @biancacastafiore3835 ай бұрын

    I share Micks scepticism about dowsers. And I wonder why Tony was so enthusiatic about them . But this makes the whole show so relatable bc they are all different people with different characters.

  • @caroleminke6116

    @caroleminke6116

    2 ай бұрын

    Dowsing is not only an ancient art but an easily acquired skill if your mind is open. As a former teacher from Vermont I still find it amazing how some people prefer to stick their heads in the sand

  • @nikolaus2688

    @nikolaus2688

    2 ай бұрын

    @@caroleminke6116Well, as a skeptic who has seen several double blind tests and observed dowsers in action, I always find it amazing, how many people keep their head up their behind and don't realize it's utter bunk. Of course, if they do make money from it, they do have a vested interest.

  • @gwenmarcus3389
    @gwenmarcus3389 Жыл бұрын

    I love Tony Robinson's style. His excitement is infectious. I really feel like I'm there with him, learning about the site along with him. Keep on making these wonderful documentaries.

  • @michaelmoslak2975

    @michaelmoslak2975

    10 ай бұрын

    They are all so quirky and loveable in their own way. They all seem to be such lovely people and would be so interesting to talk to any and all for hours.

  • @johnmarkgerozaga196

    @johnmarkgerozaga196

    8 ай бұрын

    00

  • @johnmarkgerozaga196

    @johnmarkgerozaga196

    8 ай бұрын

    😊😊

  • @justinludeman8424
    @justinludeman8424 Жыл бұрын

    The Personability, Enthusiasm and Knowledge of Sir Tony Robison is infectious. Time Team was a great show and the various experts are such interesting and captivating characters.

  • @crownhouse2466

    @crownhouse2466

    Жыл бұрын

    Tony Robinson was the presenter. The soul of Time Team was Mick Aston, without him the show never would had lasted 20 years. Before this season he had left and it is no surprise, that the first year without him turned out to be the shows last.

  • @justinludeman8424

    @justinludeman8424

    Жыл бұрын

    @@crownhouse2466 thanks for that gem. I like TR as a presenter, whatever he does. He certainly never claims to be an expert yet his manner is endearing. Cheers.

  • @MossyMozart

    @MossyMozart

    Жыл бұрын

    @@justinludeman8424 - And he should not claim archeological expertise. I found him to be in over his head on "Time Team" and an annoyance. Some of us watched the show IN SPITE of Robinson, not because of him. In the documentaries where he flew solo and stuck to the script, he was much better. I especially enjoyed the documentary where he helped to debunk the so-called "holy grail".

  • @justinludeman8424

    @justinludeman8424

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MossyMozart - fair enough, although I suspect he is a more adept presenter than the real archeologists might have been, indeed, I find it hard to imagine the show without him to oversee its narration and presentation. I concur regarding the Holy Grail debunk and Da Vinci Code noise, that was excellent viewing. He has a rather sly and dry wit too.

  • @zonabrown9241

    @zonabrown9241

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to me he does this a twit

  • @mdh6977
    @mdh6977 Жыл бұрын

    Love these old episodes... all the excitement and the "ugly" sweaters are just incredible archeology in itself... a time capsule and cultural immersion from my youth, lol

  • @Sinsteel

    @Sinsteel

    Жыл бұрын

    lol, and from my 30s. I must have missed the "ugly sweaters", I grew up in the 80s, these look like standard ones to me.

  • @James-kv6kb

    @James-kv6kb

    Жыл бұрын

    What sweaters have to do with anything I'll never know

  • @ingerfaber3411

    @ingerfaber3411

    Жыл бұрын

    @@James-kv6kb Mick Aston and Robin Bush are prime sweater examples !

  • @meteoman7958

    @meteoman7958

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too.

  • @chasefrancis8742

    @chasefrancis8742

    Жыл бұрын

    Then you just don't get it. Carry on.

  • @LeeAnneGuerin
    @LeeAnneGuerin10 ай бұрын

    My uncle was a dowser- his business was drilling for water for farmers in Queensland Australia. He was very successful.

  • @lizzy66125
    @lizzy66125 Жыл бұрын

    for all Americans ...corn is term described for wheat,barley etc. what you call corn,is called maize in the UK.

  • @ColinMcCormack

    @ColinMcCormack

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the clarification

  • @Synathidy

    @Synathidy

    10 ай бұрын

    What you call "maize" in the UK, we use as a term for a winding series of tortuous passages. Isn't English wacky place to place?

  • @ColinMcCormack

    @ColinMcCormack

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Synathidy joking? That's 'maze.'

  • @thhseeking

    @thhseeking

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Synathidy No, that's "maze", not "maize". The word "maize" comes from a Native American word. Most European countries use a derivation that. Look it up.

  • @thhseeking

    @thhseeking

    8 ай бұрын

    @@ColinMcCormack Hopefully we can civilise them in time :P

  • @jeffaltier5582
    @jeffaltier5582 Жыл бұрын

    Don't care if I've seen them before. Anytime I get a 3 for 1 set of episodes is a good day.

  • @SusanPetty73
    @SusanPetty736 ай бұрын

    One thing to consider is sea level change over the time period of 2000 yrs is much different in the southern part of Great Britain than in the northern part. When the glaciers covered the northern part of the GB island, they weighted that part down tilting the small sub-plate that is Great Britain and Ireland so that the southern part rose up while the northern part sank down. When the glacier melted the northern part (the hinge line is somewhere around Newcastle) rose back up again and the souther part sank down. (Isostatic readjustment). The average sea level rise is about 3 ml/yr. In the the south of England sea level is rising about 8 ml/yr. This rate of sea level rise drowned the estuaries of the rivers like the Thames, the Blackwater and the River Frome forming Pool Harbour. So 2000 yrs ago Green Island would have been about 16 m higher above sea level. This might have made it bigger and the distance to shore shorter and therefore a more attractive site for a settlement.

  • @debswan5750

    @debswan5750

    5 ай бұрын

    Wait, sea level RISE means island was lower relative to sea level, meaning sea was closer. Ramparts would have been sea storm protection along with other advantages, I would have thought?

  • @lizzy66125
    @lizzy66125 Жыл бұрын

    miss Victors'drawings,Micks common sense ,and Stuarts brilliant insights in the landscape😢

  • @laurag7295

    @laurag7295

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too!!!

  • @davidsabin6616

    @davidsabin6616

    Жыл бұрын

    I totally agree

  • @ReneeHorth
    @ReneeHorth3 ай бұрын

    It’s so wonderful to see the kids come in, and learn about their own history ‼️😍 Thanks for your generosity. My favorite video was of the soldiers who came back with pain in their lives. Your Team gave them a chance to work with you all. I would love to see more of that. Love

  • @TheDrivebynerf
    @TheDrivebynerf Жыл бұрын

    Tony taking the piss at them is pretty funny. He does have a great voice for these shows

  • @annett9878
    @annett9878 Жыл бұрын

    Love the enthusiasm over our shared history. Wonderful! It's a joy to watch and learn. To think you would laugh out loud over a broken stone in a dirty ditch: ' It broke. Somebody said something rude in Stone Age and got rid of it...'. Wish kids had such history teachers

  • @snieves4
    @snieves4 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if TimeTeam will ever do a return to series to show the follow up archeology for their work.

  • @scruffy281

    @scruffy281

    Жыл бұрын

    hat would be incredible!!❤

  • @moxiebombshell

    @moxiebombshell

    Жыл бұрын

    They do, sometimes! Also, I think one of the new episodes they just finished working on is actually revisiting an old site from an episode years ago -- the Anglo-Saxon graveyard, I think?

  • @VincentNajger1

    @VincentNajger1

    Жыл бұрын

    They have done several new digs. I believe that they crowd funded the new episodes on Time Team Official. Though for the new digs they had a new presenter. Though Tony and some of the old crew have done a few 'recollections' vidsnfor the chennel. Im always amazed that more people arent aware of it, considering how popular it is. Also check out Time Team Classics....just search those two titles inbthe youtube search bar and hey presto....

  • @valswhitewolf6611

    @valswhitewolf6611

    Ай бұрын

    It does

  • @dietrichess9997
    @dietrichess9997 Жыл бұрын

    A second episode starts at about the 47 minute point, and wow, they all look so young! Look at the hair! This must be a very early season. Phil looks like he was torn between archaeology and joining an outlaw motorcycle club 🙂. Clearly he made the right choice. I've loved this show for decades, I can't imagine why so many in the comments are whining about the music. It's Time Team music, up until the second episode at least.

  • @kcbowman4042

    @kcbowman4042

    2 ай бұрын

    Or an outlaw bicycle gang!

  • @vansongs
    @vansongs11 ай бұрын

    Love watching these shows especially when I feel a connection. Watching this on June 1 2023. 123 years ago on this date my Maternal Grandfather was born in Cardiff.

  • @Odanti
    @Odanti22 күн бұрын

    An Oregon woman/girl here. I just love, love, love Time Team! Phil Harding have you come back to Time Team??? God Speed ❤️🙏❤️

  • @katherinekinnaird4408
    @katherinekinnaird44087 ай бұрын

    Thank you to the family who owns the island for allowing Time Team and all of us to disrupt your beautiful land. From Bakersfield California USA 😊😊

  • @GrandmaGimmeSugars-qo4px
    @GrandmaGimmeSugars-qo4px9 ай бұрын

    These Time Team dudes make me smile. lol They are just...refreshing I don't care how old these episodes get.

  • @voidgeometry794
    @voidgeometry794 Жыл бұрын

    Time Team needs more Time, they only ever get like 3 or 9 days. and then it rains...

  • @valswhitewolf6611

    @valswhitewolf6611

    Ай бұрын

    But sometimes they return.

  • @jeffreychurch2018

    @jeffreychurch2018

    Ай бұрын

    Don't forget, during the week many of them have other jobs. Mick is a professor at Bristol University, Robin is the archivist for Somerset, Phil works for Wessex Archaeology, Carenza works for British Heritage.

  • @danielelder8621
    @danielelder8621 Жыл бұрын

    Any time I’m feeling a bit blue. Time team comes through, and lifts me up. I’m just jealous that I didn’t have anything like this growing up in the states. Time team America is just not as captivating.

  • @ellielynn8219

    @ellielynn8219

    Жыл бұрын

    Right? We’re totally missing out in the history department here. This kind of show would have been amazing to watch growing up.

  • @cindyhawkins6238

    @cindyhawkins6238

    11 ай бұрын

    Time Team America: “oh look! We’ve uncovered a wiffle ball circa 1960”

  • @alix5514

    @alix5514

    11 ай бұрын

    Nor Canada. Altho' I think there was so much more to find all squeezed up in that tiny island that there wouldn't be much to find here. Except flints, much to Phil's delight. 😁

  • @ainerobertson78

    @ainerobertson78

    9 ай бұрын

    It sucks too because not only is the US an amazing place for paleontology, there used to be an amazing variety of native people whose lives and heritage have been completely disrupted and destroyed. I wish there was a way we could work with existing tribes to trace back their heritage and treat their archaeological sights with the respect that they deserve. Although it is important to mention that there are a number of native peoples who have these sights and (understandably) absolutely do not want outsiders messing with them. So it's better to do it with the full permission from the people you're researching

  • @deborahparham3783

    @deborahparham3783

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@ainerobertson78 Very well said.

  • @LindaMewhirter
    @LindaMewhirter5 ай бұрын

    I've been really enjoying these! helping me get thru a dreary winter....

  • @thomasevans5467
    @thomasevans54676 ай бұрын

    Tony in Francis grinning at each other like school boys in the gator when it goes up the hill really just warms my heart.

  • @fordguy8792
    @fordguy8792 Жыл бұрын

    Dude really danced around the subject of ramparts. They serve to define the boundary of the community within it. It lets outsiders know that they are approaching and stepping onto someone else's territory when they see those huge ramparts and maybe a few large local tribesmen standing watch. The ramparts can also protect against dangerous wildlife and if big enough, might serve as a weather break - they are on top of a big honking hill. Ramparts don't have to be military to be protective.

  • @richardwheeler6115

    @richardwheeler6115

    8 ай бұрын

    A rampart may do all those things, but a rampart is strictly a military device. If it were built to do something else it would not be a rampart.

  • @voodoochild5440
    @voodoochild5440 Жыл бұрын

    I love the dowser rambling on to explain why it didn't work.

  • @Jean-yn6ef
    @Jean-yn6ef Жыл бұрын

    💚🏜 the Harry Potter music is too much, love time team 💚

  • @carolynbriggs6972
    @carolynbriggs6972 Жыл бұрын

    I have such a hard time with these series 20 episodes. I miss Stewart. I miss Helen Geake. I miss so many of the old crew. And what’s the deal with the music?

  • @thhseeking

    @thhseeking

    8 ай бұрын

    It was shortly after Ochta joined that Mick left the show.

  • @valswhitewolf6611

    @valswhitewolf6611

    Ай бұрын

    Thankyou I agree music is irrelevant.

  • @ksbrook1430
    @ksbrook1430 Жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed the introduction and music on this one. Of course the whole episode is pure Time Team and pure enjoyment.

  • @valswhitewolf6611

    @valswhitewolf6611

    Ай бұрын

    I heard an episode last week to much music.All music is tp much.

  • @masteronone2079
    @masteronone2079 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful to see Craig expanding his horizons and getting into primary production and retail.

  • @sabejreid2072
    @sabejreid2072 Жыл бұрын

    Just great - and including the community is a fantastic idea. So interesting.

  • @ringosick7639
    @ringosick763910 ай бұрын

    oh my god!!!!! Back in the day when dinosaurs walked the earth, the volcanos spat theire firy flames and rocks upon the surface of the earth, the ponds were so deep you could drown an animal the size of the moon in them and the most important thing of all....back in the day when Sir Tony Robinson the honorouble Knight in his shiny armour made of T-Rex skin and Dragonscales, still had loooong nicely full, but already grey,ö HAAAAAIIIIRR. xD Im just joking of course but i had no idea that there are still videos out there when Tony still had his hair. I really enjoy watching him narrate Documentarys and stuff and tellling stories about the ancient Times and the middle ages and that right now. This video right here jst made my dayxD Its only 6:46 am hiere in germany, i just got up and what do my eyes stride upon. Beautiful bush of hair on Tony Robinsons head. Have a good one lads :) Cheers to Great britain and Tony Fín Robinson

  • @davidnewland2461
    @davidnewland2461 Жыл бұрын

    Ilove antiques because of the history associated with them. As kid my brothers and I found what I think was an old dump site from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century we found probably fifty old patent medicine bottles with cork stoppers and one carnival glass bottle. Carnival glass being iridized during production.

  • @wudip6306
    @wudip6306 Жыл бұрын

    'Just about as much fun an archaeologist can have with their clothes on!' Yep...level of excitwment on par!

  • @Kardashev1
    @Kardashev1 Жыл бұрын

    Whoa, super longform Time Team with Sir Tony? Thank you!

  • @conniepenner4795
    @conniepenner47956 ай бұрын

    I love this show, been binging for about a year now I watch for the knowledge and what I am learning. So much about the kings an round houses and Neolithic times vs Copper or bronze

  • @JamesF0790
    @JamesF0790 Жыл бұрын

    It is so weird seeing everyone so young. It's great

  • @julieevans6525
    @julieevans652510 ай бұрын

    I actually spent a month excavating at Caerau, South Wales, in the summer of 2014, whilst studying for a degree in archaeology at Cardiff Uni. Professor Niall Sharples was a fantastic tutor and always gave fascinating lectures.

  • @christopherberryhill3802
    @christopherberryhill3802 Жыл бұрын

    Nice hat Tony. Haha. Love the show. Saw your "The real William Wallace" show you did years ago. Good stuff man. 👍

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 Жыл бұрын

    one thing is for sure, their laundry bill must have been fantastic. wonder what the local dry cleaners were thinking when they all brought their wet, muddy, loam and clay covered clothing to be laundered...

  • @gregkral4467
    @gregkral44673 ай бұрын

    Thank you Tony for all the fun and wonder over so many years..... and absolutely love your historical work. You make the journey so exciting. Thanks for taking us on so many adventures.

  • @SuperBcHaOs
    @SuperBcHaOs Жыл бұрын

    Whomever added the music over the old episodes added something super distracting... I love old time team episodes for what they say and do, which is hard to hear over all the added ovatures

  • @edwardfletcher7790

    @edwardfletcher7790

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it's a common theme in modern TV doco's to "add tension". It's a Doco, not a Transformers film !😩

  • @GriethDay

    @GriethDay

    Жыл бұрын

    Totally agree

  • @QuinctiliusVarus

    @QuinctiliusVarus

    Жыл бұрын

    Those responsible should be sacked.

  • @moonbeamchaos

    @moonbeamchaos

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s distracting and totally unnecessary. Very bad idea!

  • @catherinecornick7940

    @catherinecornick7940

    Жыл бұрын

    It seems fine to me can hear the speakers

  • @peterb0915
    @peterb091511 ай бұрын

    I chuckled when the woman told Tony "Keep what you're thinking in your mind." Where else would he keep it? In his pocket?

  • @deborahparham3783

    @deborahparham3783

    7 ай бұрын

    Maybe she was hoping he would keep his mouth shut and not say anything else snarky about the dowser.

  • @ErnestoBrausewind
    @ErnestoBrausewind Жыл бұрын

    So how did they supply those hillforts with water? Were there wells or springs? Did they carry it up? Been watching documentaries on that stuff for ages now but never really thought about that. Because no matter if they were defensive "castles" or communities, that's crucial infrastructure...

  • @celtoloco788

    @celtoloco788

    11 ай бұрын

    many think that hillforts weren't constantly occupied, just used in times of war. On a daily basis there was probably no one up there

  • @nolasmith7687

    @nolasmith7687

    10 ай бұрын

    Rain is a near daily occurrence in the UK. A nice little cistern to store it and Bob’s your uncle!

  • @beastshawnee

    @beastshawnee

    2 ай бұрын

    Children are sent to fetch water. The hope is that enemy will not kill the children. But also children are kind of expendable in their eyes back then. So many died anyway and they can make another…

  • @ErnestoBrausewind

    @ErnestoBrausewind

    2 ай бұрын

    @@beastshawnee Highly unlikely Hypothesis...

  • @bigbensarrowheadchannel2739
    @bigbensarrowheadchannel2739 Жыл бұрын

    Ian Powesland always seemed like a very knowledgeable archeologist. Wonder why he hardly got any camera time.

  • @BlueRidgeCritter
    @BlueRidgeCritter3 ай бұрын

    Love watching the wire dowsing. As a professional geologist who spent 20 years chasing drill rigs in urban places, I can attest that it does work. No, you can't tell exactly what it is usually, and there's no thought process involved (no "keep it in your mind" or "visualize it") , it just picks up either gravitational forces or something that nobody can put their fingers on. But for finding pipes and ditches down to several feet, it works very very well. And I have taught a number of "unbelievers" and seen that same look of amazement as the person feels the wire turn on it's own. It is also really good for picking up buried electrical lines.

  • @dalehargreaves966
    @dalehargreaves96610 ай бұрын

    Hypnotic 🤓👩‍🎨🌿

  • @CommonSenseCriticism
    @CommonSenseCriticism11 ай бұрын

    I might be alone in this, but I wish they recorded the commercials too. I'm weird but I like old commercials.

  • @RobbyHouseIV
    @RobbyHouseIV Жыл бұрын

    Looking all around this iron site hill fort location we see all manner of modern construction in the form of local houses and the like. I can only imagine the sheer volumes of actual bona fide ancient artifacts that construction crews likely unearthed and unknowingly tossed into rubbish piles when these structures were built over the past several decades! I shudder to think!

  • @grotemuis4889
    @grotemuis4889 Жыл бұрын

    Why are buried objects always attributed to "offerings to the gods"? 21:54 Nowadays people stuff mementos in loved ones caskets. Because? Who knows, maybe this way the living aren't fighting over it? "If I can't have it neither can you?" Parents like to tug in a teddy-bear/baby rattle with a baby or a ball/doll/toy that meant a lot with an older child. It gives the living some level of comfort to send off their loved one with a special keepsake. I think there is way too much thought of "Religious offerings" in these history shows. I love to watch Time Line though 👍

  • @laurag7295

    @laurag7295

    Жыл бұрын

    We sent my dad, the "ice cream bandit" to eternity with a pewter ice cream scoop. Love to know what guys like these would make if that in the next few thousand years?

  • @Alex-tm4fz
    @Alex-tm4fz Жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Cornwall and now I'm back in my home country and just fining out about fogous

  • @ellen4956
    @ellen49565 ай бұрын

    To compare, I just watched a show last night where they were digging before a high speed train goes in, at a site where people were buried with small "buckets" beside them, and some of the "buckets" looked very much like the drinking vessel shown here at 23:08. They didn't have handles on the side, but on the top like a bucket. Still, it makes me think that maybe there was some connection. At least one of them was made with wood, and metal rings around it like this one. Some were hammered metal with designs.

  • @k-matsu
    @k-matsu Жыл бұрын

    7:30 I think he is really on to something. Certainly as tribal groups began to bump up against each other they would start to "compete" ... and that might occasionally lead to violence. Im sure the defensive military value of hillforts was one reason why they started to develop. But I think they also took on a quality similar to cathedrals in medieval France. Each local group felt that they had to demonstrate the importance of their own "tribe" by building one. You probably didnt expect your neighbours to try to attack you if you DIDNT have one (after all, while pre-Roman Celtic society did have some intertribal war, it was pretty small-scale and rarely involved more than one or two raids/counterraids). But at the same time, having a hillfort was an essential way to make sure your neighbors respected you. The bigger it was, the more respect you could command. Defense in times of war was only a secondary (albeit important) function. The main function was simply to advertise your local pride.

  • @Sinsteel

    @Sinsteel

    Жыл бұрын

    If you don't have something to mark your territory, then how is it yours? What's the difference between you and your neighbours? Earthworks like this can be seen from everywhere in the territory, and serve as a locus, a reminder of who this area belongs to, and a constant landmark. So they don't just command the territory, they stamp ownership and belonging on it. Also, these tribes didn't just rub against one another, the tribes of Europe from the neolithic onwards were constantly fighting one another for territory - which is how they invented chainmail, the "griptongue" sword, the "Gallic" helmet used by Roman legions, and many other military technologies that the rest of the world later copied or adopted. These things are not developed as a result of a peaceful lifestyle. Celtic culture was boastful and heroic - communal feasts with tellings of heroic feats, wrestling, challenges between heroes, duels, honour. We're talking about a warrior elite. Don't make the mistake of thinking we're talking about small little groups here, some tribes fielded upwards of 100,000 fully armed, blooded warriors when they fought the Romans for instance.

  • @harridan.

    @harridan.

    Жыл бұрын

    all i can contribute here is that living in New Mexico has taught me to look to defensible high ground near a water source for stone age artifacts. somehow it seems respectful to leave them where i find them. (of course it's illegal to steal artifacts from federal land.)

  • @howardjohnson2138
    @howardjohnson2138 Жыл бұрын

    I LOVE that he has a ginger kid working on the project

  • @robertmiles1603
    @robertmiles1603 Жыл бұрын

    "Can we find it in only 3 days?" There's no need to worry. I'm sure he has a *cunning plan.*

  • @karenlocke7650
    @karenlocke76506 ай бұрын

    USian comment here: "quern" -- I looked it up -- sounds a lot like "corn", and if Iron age Brits were grinding corn, that's like finding rabbits in the Precambrian, almost. Two countries separated by a common language... (An observation, not a complaint. I love the Time Team videos, and I can stretch my ears a bit.)

  • @carlbonham3960
    @carlbonham396010 ай бұрын

    My God! That guy can drive a backhoe!

  • @howardjohnson2138
    @howardjohnson2138 Жыл бұрын

    In Los Angles geraniums are weeds. In san francisco they are flowers

  • @helenamcginty4920
    @helenamcginty4920 Жыл бұрын

    Ive watched this recently on time teams own channel Might have been on time team classics. This is a different channel.

  • @smallmeadow1
    @smallmeadow1 Жыл бұрын

    Well done. Love it.

  • @GiGiGoesShopping
    @GiGiGoesShopping9 ай бұрын

    The high plateau is gorgeous. My question is where is/was the water source (s)?

  • @Mimzie-Arizona
    @Mimzie-Arizona Жыл бұрын

    I wanted to find out information on the team and started with Tony. I was in for a surprise! He is a comedian on a TV show. So I looked up the show on utube and was delighted to watch the show

  • @catofthecastle1681

    @catofthecastle1681

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow, you’ve never heard of Blackadder! How utterly bizarre and sad!

  • @alix5514

    @alix5514

    11 ай бұрын

    @@catofthecastle1681 "I have a cunning plan ..." 🙃

  • @susanprather1021

    @susanprather1021

    11 ай бұрын

    I still laughing at little every time Tony starts and episode because I first heard Baldric!

  • @paulprice1705

    @paulprice1705

    11 ай бұрын

    @@susanprather1021 How many sugars do you want in your coffee!

  • @maureentupaea4205
    @maureentupaea42052 ай бұрын

    Fabulous...just what I needed to hear❤

  • @oliviasayshi7517
    @oliviasayshi75179 ай бұрын

    I love Jo, he seems like a character 😊

  • @gern7535
    @gern7535 Жыл бұрын

    Back in the Iron Age one of the ways to prank some of the dumber people, was to tell them to stand in the corner of a round house.

  • @CloneShockTrooper
    @CloneShockTrooper11 ай бұрын

    I loooove mysteries ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Tawadeb
    @Tawadeb Жыл бұрын

    Love Francis Phil and Tony

  • @freeaudiojungle4407
    @freeaudiojungle440710 ай бұрын

    44:15 naomi has a great reaction to hearing that was the first example he had seen in south west wales

  • @Blessings.429
    @Blessings.429 Жыл бұрын

    ❤Ask the older folk about old folk tales songs ….as well as all the research you normally do

  • @rafehr1378
    @rafehr1378 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful news, work. Thank you.

  • @SarahGreen523
    @SarahGreen523 Жыл бұрын

    Oh dear, they dug that woman's lawn up, only to find vintage bottles. She was nice about it though, you could tell by the tone in her voice she would rather have not had that done.

  • @edwardfletcher7790

    @edwardfletcher7790

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a lawn, the bottles are more important 👍😂 She'd have been bragging for years of they'd actually found anything interesting !

  • @rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185

    @rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the spoiler

  • @edwardfletcher7790

    @edwardfletcher7790

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185 Hot 🔥 Tip - Watch the video first... LoL

  • @xtr3m3fLx

    @xtr3m3fLx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@edwardfletcher7790 No doubt. I'll never fathom why people go to the comments before finishing the video and then get all upset. Common sense is becoming as rare as archeological finds in that woman's yard, anymore.

  • @EnglishInfidel

    @EnglishInfidel

    Жыл бұрын

    Of all the things to complain about, spoilers for Time Team episodes 😄 hilarious.

  • @Drgiggles5555
    @Drgiggles5555 Жыл бұрын

    Odyssey best show ever

  • @aserta
    @aserta Жыл бұрын

    With all the respect to Mick, i think he was wrong in his assessment that smiths would've lost their "charm" by that time. I mean, we have to consider that the church, in their blatant attempt to curtail any kind of education that might've liberated the 'flock' from under their control, culled all kinds of science except for a few vital jobs, like... smiths. They were always on the edge of the profane, and they always had knowledge that surpassed most other's. Let's not forget that aspect. Not everyone can be a smith, something that still holds today despite the wide proliferation of knowledge via the internet.

  • @lisadesalis781
    @lisadesalis781 Жыл бұрын

    Three brilliant eps!

  • @BoyProdigyX
    @BoyProdigyX Жыл бұрын

    When Tony says "Fantastic color..." @ 33:10, it really does look funny, on my TV anyway.

  • @danjenkinsdesign
    @danjenkinsdesign5 ай бұрын

    "the dowser's trench isn't looking too good" I'm shocked at that news!

  • @paulstan9828
    @paulstan9828 Жыл бұрын

    Enjoying 2 and a half hours of videos.

  • @valswhitewolf6611
    @valswhitewolf6611Ай бұрын

    I love them with Mic most and Phil.

  • @jamestillman3150
    @jamestillman315010 ай бұрын

    I did not expect to see Baldrick on this episode. Nice surprise!

  • @valswhitewolf6611

    @valswhitewolf6611

    Ай бұрын

    I love all who know Sir Tony as Ballrick. In my family every Thursday and Saturday night lovers of the BBC at my house in Waukon , Iowa watch Boack Addar in the kitchen by the cook stove.

  • @valswhitewolf6611
    @valswhitewolf6611Ай бұрын

    I love when the teams in Walse.My thirteenth grand mother and grandpa came from Walse in 1600 to America last name Thomas.

  • @vincentrandles8105
    @vincentrandles8105 Жыл бұрын

    At least Tony got "Geophsics" out of his mouth, when talking about a Geophysical survey! And why is it I never see anyone shift through the spoil from the trenches?

  • @man.inblack
    @man.inblack Жыл бұрын

    After watching Time team for years, I take umbrage to the portrayal of Archaeologists in Graham Hancocks Netflix fanfic. He paints a picture of bureaucratic conspiritorial academics, but I see Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor, Raksha Dave, Phil Harding et al. The idea that archeologists refuse to dig the holes he wants probably has more to do the lack of funding than a refusal to confirm his opinions. If he really wanted to 'find the truth' he could fund a dig rather than just critique other peoples work, and make conclusions from their toil. Here's to the trowels of the soil scrapers, who make possible the little evidence of our past that we have. We could advance society from studying the lessons of history. its a shame we don't.

  • @vincentrandles8105

    @vincentrandles8105

    Жыл бұрын

    Were you watching the same Graham Hancock show I watched? Because I found it to be quite true, and entertaining as well as enlightening! Quite different than what you might hear from academia in general, & for the most part - "true." I've no axe to grind with academia in general, I just find what he had to say very interesting.

  • @JamesF0790

    @JamesF0790

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vincentrandles8105 I mean from everything I've seen of Hancock his archeological theories are... extremely questionable. He ignores evidence, cherry picks and misinterprets data he does use and manipulates what other people has said. I have watched the same show and honestly I found nothing enlightening in there. It's nothing but pseudoscience, dishonesty and honestly has some very concerning undertones.

  • @davidbodeker6752

    @davidbodeker6752

    Жыл бұрын

    For clear perspective on the misteachings of Hancock, look at KZread channel World of Antiquities.

  • @laurahensel9086

    @laurahensel9086

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@vincentrandles8105The KZreadr Minuteman made a a series of videos going through every episode of Hancock's netflix show and detailing exactly why Hancock is wrong and/or misrepresenting evidence in each. Highly recommend

  • @thhseeking

    @thhseeking

    8 ай бұрын

    @@davidbodeker6752 Or Miniminuteman - he did a whole series on Graham Hancock. Hancock came close to causing the destruction of a whole archaeological site in Indonesia with his "von Daeniken-esque" ideas.

  • @gregholl5011
    @gregholl501116 күн бұрын

    Tony with a shovel! That's an interesting find!😊

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey9442 ай бұрын

    Thanks for posting.

  • @soggymetal
    @soggymetal11 ай бұрын

    Yay Naomi great find!

  • @maryfrump7937
    @maryfrump7937 Жыл бұрын

    I love this show

  • @HeyBusterLuke
    @HeyBusterLuke Жыл бұрын

    58:18 is that Phil actually saying 'ooo arrrr'?

  • @deborahparham3783

    @deborahparham3783

    7 ай бұрын

    Sometimes he says "God Ah!" And then there is "Stone The Crows!"

  • @Alkmaar50
    @Alkmaar509 ай бұрын

    Are we really sure that was a "crafty smoke" going on there? 😂

  • @heathercave
    @heathercave Жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday Molly! 🎊 ❤

  • @dawnarobertson9577
    @dawnarobertson95778 ай бұрын

    So, when casting bronze in the Iron Age, they used . . . Wax? The lost wax process in Iron Age Wales seems doubtful . . . Later, the Romans may have introduced it . . .?

  • @gabriellew6467
    @gabriellew64679 ай бұрын

    Anyone needing music - choose and play your own. Those of us who are interested in the subject do not need muzak. Amazing that people feel lost without constant extraneous noise. Truly messed the whole thing up

  • @Alex-tm4fz
    @Alex-tm4fz Жыл бұрын

    I would assume the big mug is a single person's drink back then but no one knows for certain

  • @larrylemke9587
    @larrylemke958710 ай бұрын

    Fort, is derived from fortification. First defence against intrusion, later the source of military aggression, as a support for the defence originally defined by the fortification, The Fort.

  • @stephanieflores8914
    @stephanieflores89146 күн бұрын

    Mejórate pronto David!! Vamos!! Te queremos!!

  • @kccorliss3922
    @kccorliss3922 Жыл бұрын

    Wouldnt there need to be a well in the hill fort?

  • @BenSHammonds
    @BenSHammonds6 ай бұрын

    I enjoy this one much, a "hill fort" is a fortified village more often than not, a protected home base for the people of that region and area, if and when there happened to be any attacks from abroad then they would have a place much more safe than if it was not protected. it is no more complicated than that.

  • @joshbeaulieu7408
    @joshbeaulieu740811 ай бұрын

    Man, the bread made from that flour would certainly give you some grit.

  • @ariannedechateaumichel7777

    @ariannedechateaumichel7777

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes. One thing archeologists often point out when they find skulls is the amount of wear that they find on the teeth because of the amount of stone grit that got into the flour used for bread. They can use this wear to estimate the age the person had been when he/she died, adjusting for how big a part of the local diet bread was at the time.

  • @imtheeternalscholar
    @imtheeternalscholar9 ай бұрын

    This bloke Tacitus actually gives me the runs!!!! How can a man who never set foot in Britain have such a huge opinion about its geography and way of life of the people living there! Especially since it was AFTER the Italians had left????😳 And people still listen to him???

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