Time Team S15-E03 5000 Tons of Stone, Hamsterley, County Durham

The Castles, near Hamsterley, County Durham, is an archaeological conundrum.
A massive rectangular dry-stone enclosure, some 75 metres by 90 metres, it has been described variously as an Iron-Age fort, a Roman penal colony, a native sub-Roman or Anglo-Saxon encampment, and a Romano-British farmstead.
Time Team's main objective at the mysterious site is to try to discover its true function and date.

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  • @johnaaron37
    @johnaaron372 жыл бұрын

    Time team are like old friends, I love listening to them even for background

  • @lisasargent2841
    @lisasargent28414 жыл бұрын

    "First time for everything" says Phil to Sir Tony!!! Love Phil.

  • @Immopimmo
    @Immopimmo4 жыл бұрын

    I almost choked on my tea and crumpets when Francis said -"This is massive defense!" instead of -"This is ritual!" Nice to see him with his feet on the ground for once. 😁

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930

    @hogwashmcturnip8930

    3 жыл бұрын

    The funny thing is,for once it may have been ritual rather than defence! Druids had to study somehwere? Lol

  • @toniwilson6210

    @toniwilson6210

    2 жыл бұрын

    Massive defense rituals were an important way for the ancients to honor their ancestors.

  • @Awitsaduck

    @Awitsaduck

    Жыл бұрын

    Ritual defence i presume?

  • @cyclingnerddelux698

    @cyclingnerddelux698

    5 ай бұрын

    My thinking is that structures built for defense or for ritual purposes must not be mutually exclusive. They could serve both at the same time.

  • @thetawaves48
    @thetawaves484 жыл бұрын

    I love the drawings by Victor Ambrus.

  • @Jigger2361

    @Jigger2361

    4 жыл бұрын

    ...Victor, ma main man!

  • @haplessasshole9615

    @haplessasshole9615

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Jigger2361 If you love Victor Ambrus's work, hit up your nearest library. He has illustrated loads of children's books -- especially ones involving horses. He loved drawing horses as a child in Hungary, caught someone's eye, they encouraged him to continue drawing, and.... It's amazing how the direction of a child's life can be influenced, for good or ill, by the words and actions of an adult.

  • @Jigger2361

    @Jigger2361

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@haplessasshole9615 oh I did not know this! Thank you, Hap!

  • @haplessasshole9615

    @haplessasshole9615

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Jigger2361 You bet, Jig! I'm big on, "This seems interesting. I wonder what the library has...." I'm sure libraries in the US don't have as many of his books on their shelves as the ones in the UK, but there are quite a few. I gather Ambrus has also written some "How To Draw" books, too. Have fun poring over his gorgeous work! Edit: Since you're into superior illustration work, go look up William Hogarth. I dare you. He was the umpty-great-grandfather of today's best comic/graphic novel illustrators. After you've had a look at some of his stuff, let me know what you think!

  • @Jigger2361

    @Jigger2361

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@haplessasshole9615 true Canadian libraries have taken a bit of a hit as well

  • @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984
    @bjorgolfurhavarsson39844 жыл бұрын

    I cant describe how happy I was when archaeologists found the oldest Viking longhouse in Iceland in the valley 4 km from my childhood home. And the biggest by faaaar. yayyyyyy

  • @aden1466

    @aden1466

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, do you have any links to the discovery?

  • @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aden1466 sure. There was an article in engleskolen in 19. let me find it.

  • @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    3 жыл бұрын

    icelandmag.is/article/new-archaeological-research-forces-historians-reconsider-story-icelands-settlement

  • @aden1466

    @aden1466

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bjorgolfurhavarsson3984 thank you good sir!

  • @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aden1466 happy to help Aden. Happy to indeed. After all, this is my homevillage and the finds buy me some serious bragging rights :-D

  • @wyzrd777
    @wyzrd7774 жыл бұрын

    I find this series educational and soothing.

  • @uncannydan
    @uncannydan6 жыл бұрын

    'This excitement is almost defined by the lack of anything exciting~!' That's treasure right there~~

  • @karmicpopcorn6440

    @karmicpopcorn6440

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol they had no idea what it was. Years ago my cousins built some smallish round stone huts in the woods on their farm. One day someone will stumble on them and this will happen again.

  • @uncannydan

    @uncannydan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karmicpopcorn6440 it's all rather funny~ Druids clued in that 'God' cannot and is not 'housed' like a temple or church. Roman's with their idols and temples simply couldn't understand that and actually feared that. Ancient celts were a 'boogeyman' to Romans. To their credit, Roman's payed respect to odd, bizarre mounds they thought were religious in nature. So what your family 'constructed' is simply...fun. Druids disliked construction, buildings, statues, unless, like the Spartans, when pinned up against a coastline, either religious or martial arts will save and preserve you.

  • @sergioluz9043
    @sergioluz90434 жыл бұрын

    I have no scientific knowledge to say something about the validity of the discussions. But I do like those videos because it's a very interesting way to bring academic research and history back to the day. It's like they're doing this in a place anyone could reach and be part of, without sensational sound track trying to transform the work into a science fiction movie. In spite of being posted 6 years ago, Congrats.

  • @MsKazart
    @MsKazart10 жыл бұрын

    You know you've watched too much Time Team when you dream about digging in the dirt and using words like, "in situ". (I even like the intro music.)

  • @Melanie220

    @Melanie220

    10 жыл бұрын

    I find myself humming the music all the time. :P And when I come across a bit of old terra cotta flower pot in my garden, first thing I think is 'ooh, Samian ware!' LOL.

  • @MsKazart

    @MsKazart

    10 жыл бұрын

    Melanie220 Samien ware!!! yep, I can identify it too!!!

  • @katajha831

    @katajha831

    10 жыл бұрын

    Im American, and just found this show. Is there a 12 step program to stop watching? OMG I am sooo hooked.

  • @MsKazart

    @MsKazart

    10 жыл бұрын

    susan webb No... forget rehab, doesn't work!!! I'm on my third go around of all the series.

  • @katajha831

    @katajha831

    10 жыл бұрын

    hmm darn, I once had a life, oh well. I am watching them willy nilly now, pretty sure I will rewatch them in order when I am done cherry picking. :)

  • @WolfieRich1
    @WolfieRich14 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else always get goosebumps hearing that theme tune?

  • @BigmaseHdog

    @BigmaseHdog

    4 жыл бұрын

    Every time.

  • @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    @bjorgolfurhavarsson3984

    4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely, my brain knows its about to learn something and the goosebumps come dancing 😆

  • @haplessasshole9615

    @haplessasshole9615

    3 жыл бұрын

    A field drum cadence like that will stir the blood of anyone not totally rhythm-impaired. Honestly, I felt it immediately the first time I watched an episode.

  • @wendywhite4537
    @wendywhite45375 жыл бұрын

    I love the time team episodes. Thank you for posting them

  • @robb2055
    @robb20555 жыл бұрын

    I like Tony in these later seasons better than the early seasons.

  • @evelynmoyer9069
    @evelynmoyer90694 жыл бұрын

    So grateful these episodes are now available on KZread! This enclosure is obviously a product of the Stone Age. Ha-ha-ha-ha! LOL

  • @peterfoote3864
    @peterfoote38644 жыл бұрын

    I can't help but think of this site as a bank, a cattle bank. It would have taken a huge community effort to build, and while few of the farmers might have lived within its walls, perhaps these few were entrusted with caring for others livestock in the colder months when grazing was sparse.

  • @kimkesson770

    @kimkesson770

    3 жыл бұрын

    I

  • @elizabethschaeffer9543

    @elizabethschaeffer9543

    Жыл бұрын

    This makes sense. "A huge community effort." That seems the most important lesson here.

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey9448 ай бұрын

    Thanks for posting

  • @lindasue8719
    @lindasue87195 жыл бұрын

    I wish they had delved into that mysterious wall more. We’ve never seen anything so insanely big (for its period) in the series. At best they claimed it was a fortified settlement, but the size of the wall is downright monstrous. I just don’t get that. IIRC it wasn’t even a settlement so much as a family group.They did say the people who built it weren’t the people who lived in it, which also is perplexing. This episode is going to drive me crazy LOL

  • @722dabba
    @722dabba4 жыл бұрын

    thank you for uplaoding these timeteams ,

  • @lisakilmer2667
    @lisakilmer26677 жыл бұрын

    Stewart again has the best answer: essentially a fortified farmstead. For once Dr. Pryor admitted he was speculating! (I also find him annoying but when he stops fantasizing he shows how scholarly he actually can be.) Even though the enclosure is over-built, why could it not have been some sort of local fighting or just plain paranoia (I like the suggestion that someone was a cattle thief) that caused the stone wall to be excessively large. It could even have been the place where successive farmers dumped their field stones, which would account for some of the rubble. Or even, since they were speculating, someone just enjoyed dry stone walling as a winter pastime.

  • @yaddahaysmarmalite4059

    @yaddahaysmarmalite4059

    4 жыл бұрын

    Paranoia will motivate conservatives to excessive lengths for defense against imagined boogey men and waste huge amounts of energy and resources.

  • @daniel7767
    @daniel77677 жыл бұрын

    Holy Crap i live about 2 minutes drive from the site. how the hell did i not know they were in my area haha

  • @Peter_Scheen

    @Peter_Scheen

    5 жыл бұрын

    I once lived to accident where they spilled enough oil in the river that it got to the news. I did not know it until the evening news. (pre internet)

  • @eveny119

    @eveny119

    5 жыл бұрын

    2013

  • @emilychb6621

    @emilychb6621

    3 жыл бұрын

    There was an ongoing terrorist attack 10 minutes from me and I saw it on twitter first.. Rather than the government emergency announcement app thing...

  • @CompetitiveAudio
    @CompetitiveAudio9 жыл бұрын

    Episodes with Professor Taylor are not my favorites. While Professor Taylor is extremely knowledgeable, he seems to have in his mind, a concrete (pardon the pun) preconception of a site's purpose BEFORE a spade of dirt is removed. He then sends the team off on one of his flights of fancy wasting a lot of time in an effort to "prove" his concept even with the flimsiest of evidence. Mick is always a good counter-balance to Francis as Mick keeps his opinion from influencing a dig and waits for evidence to turn up. When Francis is questioned about whether he found evidence for one of his "conclusions" @ 42:23 usually he ends an episode with "um well ah, no...no, we didn't" and will claim the evidence "was plowed away"..

  • @nicolacampbell5795

    @nicolacampbell5795

    8 жыл бұрын

    You mean Professor Francis Pryor, MBE, FSA? Yeah he hasn't a clue how do his job properly. Don't know why they would want him on the show. *eyeroll*

  • @dgpatter

    @dgpatter

    7 жыл бұрын

    I'd normally be inclined to your position respecting the archaelogist, but really this is Francis Pryor we''re talking about. He'd find "ritual landscape" in a colonoscopy.

  • @Wotdermatter

    @Wotdermatter

    7 жыл бұрын

    To all detractors of Francis Pryor, may I say that you all appear to have better education, experience, and are more knowledgeable in archaeology than he - i.e. more qualified to be on digs. If so, why not apply to take over his position? If you achieve that aim, maybe, just maybe you will be faced with the same type of criticism and comments and learn that you are not as "good" as you believe yourself to be.

  • @dgpatter

    @dgpatter

    7 жыл бұрын

    Wotdermatter H.H. Holmes was a fully qualified medical doctor.

  • @dgpatter

    @dgpatter

    7 жыл бұрын

    Wotdermatter Hey, exciting news! While we've been chatting this afternoon Francis Pryor found evidence of ritual activity on 17 archaeological sites in England, the Outer Hebrides, three of Saturn's moons, and a bowl of curry.

  • @WashuHakubi4
    @WashuHakubi47 жыл бұрын

    6:29 Bring on Frank the Farmer. They should have made him a permanent member of the team. To those commenters who believe this is a sheep pen, go to 3:54 (the old black and white photo) and look at it for a minute or so, then tell me that's a sheep pen. Then go to 13:17 (the aerial view) and look at the gate, apparently located so close "behind" the natural water-course, and tell me that's not defensive. It's a mighty awkward place for day-to-day entry and exit of sheep. A local leader in unsettled times (immediate post-Roman?) could have convinced his people to gather all the stones from all their fields as a final refuge for all the people and their livestock. They may have built on earlier remains. But some of the stones have been worked and placed in such a way as to indicate more than a simple sheep pen. The fact that it may have been built quickly and used only in emergency may explain why there are so few identifiable remains. This site reminds me (on a much smaller scale) of the late Mycenaean site of Gla. Also, someone should look for a well within the wall.

  • @boojay111

    @boojay111

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tony was being flippant

  • @Jigger2361

    @Jigger2361

    4 жыл бұрын

    ... Wash is now a member of the Team! Great addition!

  • @frankrydzinski2103
    @frankrydzinski21034 жыл бұрын

    NOW BREATHING ERRATICALLY ,, i just read that Mick aston passed away in 2013 aged 66 :( thats no age to die at in the noughties, i hope it was quick and painless ,, RIP MICHEAL ASTON ( and sandwell boy :) ) i was quite enamoured by him and his hippie attitude :)

  • @ungenerickerric6954

    @ungenerickerric6954

    4 жыл бұрын

    I miss him greatly when I re-watch all these. Very sad. :(

  • @Psychlist1972
    @Psychlist19725 жыл бұрын

    Gorse. Gorrrrrrrrrse. A very woody word. Not tinny at all.

  • @richardpaxford5792

    @richardpaxford5792

    5 жыл бұрын

    Much better than newspaper or ltter bin.

  • @Psychlist1972

    @Psychlist1972

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@richardpaxford5792 Frightfully tinny.

  • @stannousflouride8372
    @stannousflouride83728 жыл бұрын

    Whatever it is, it's here: 54°41'32.9"N 1°50'25.3"W

  • @bodkinofnurk8898

    @bodkinofnurk8898

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for all your efforts...

  • @mysterioussquirrel4456
    @mysterioussquirrel44568 жыл бұрын

    What nobody appears to take into account is many of the stones and timbers would have probably been cannibalised over the centuries for building elsewhere. This could have been a project started and not finished. It all seems to elaborate for an enclosure for a few people and some livestock.

  • @highonimmi

    @highonimmi

    7 жыл бұрын

    mysterious squirrel!!! damn, hun, long time no see. I agree about the cannibalization. God forbid the structure was used for sheltering people and animals. in Germany there were still people in small villages who lived above garages that were originally for livestock. why the hell these iron aged people couldn't have shared the same area as animals I don't know. maybe it was a temp shelter for shephard's and their flock during bad weather....

  • @mysterioussquirrel4456

    @mysterioussquirrel4456

    7 жыл бұрын

    highonimmi I think archaeologists are too quick to assume that they have found something important.

  • @imperialviking2817

    @imperialviking2817

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mysterioussquirrel4456 I think you are too quick to assume what experts in the field assume. Luckily you wont be employed on such sites since you are not an expert and your opinion holds no value.

  • @MelancholischerMond
    @MelancholischerMond4 жыл бұрын

    Antique dung is not cherished enough. Everyone should have iron-age dung at home. 🤣 I love TT. You learn about everything.

  • @haroldraby
    @haroldraby7 жыл бұрын

    Dry stone walls! Around 1970 I was 30 years old, working a 40 hour week and carrying 12 units in a local collage. School was Mon through Thur and on Friday my wife and I would go to the local public quarry and get a pick up full of stones. On Saturday we worked on a decorative stone retaining wall beside a path from our house down to the pasture. The wall was about 50 feet long and over 5 feet tall, not much but over. It was two or more stones thick voids were filled with chips and mud. This was in Oregon and we worked in the rain. Now, let's talk about what a 'Family' is. A family 2000 years ago would, by today's standards, might be called a 'tribe'. A head of household would have his or her descendants, his or her younger brothers and sisters and their families. This would be somewhere between 25 and 200 people. If they lived around the area as farmers/ sheepherders and everybody helped (after work and on the weekends? :-) ) I think that a hell of a wall could be built in a few generations. Remember that every square inch of ground covered by a rock can not grow whatever these farmers were growing so moving these rocks somewhere would be high on their to-do list. In this episode 2 or 3 people built a mall sample wall 3 or 4 feet wide by 4 or 5 feet long by 3 or 4 feet high and they did it in way less than 3 days. My vast knowledge of neolithic and iron age digging is completely contained in Time Team and a few hundred issues of Nat-Geo.

  • @chattykathie7129
    @chattykathie71299 жыл бұрын

    I hope they have a massage therapist on site for their backs ugh makes mine hurt just watching! this is a very popular, long running series. I watch other countries would follow suite, like Italy, Greece, USA, and great places in the middle east!! etc etc

  • @dominofalling2038

    @dominofalling2038

    5 жыл бұрын

    They did make "Time Team America" according to IMDB. There were only 2 seasons: 5 episodes in 2009 and 4 episodes in 2014. There are some of these episodes available on KZread. www.imdb.com/title/tt1556097/

  • @ebybeehoney

    @ebybeehoney

    4 жыл бұрын

    The American Time Team wasn't great...

  • @philaypeephilippotter6532

    @philaypeephilippotter6532

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ebybeehoney Agreed - but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as many make out.

  • @jkabholat
    @jkabholat7 жыл бұрын

    😊love the time team

  • @annazaman9657
    @annazaman96574 жыл бұрын

    I still think it's too elaborate to be a farmstead. So much effort must have gone into building the walls.

  • @spyderspillett6869

    @spyderspillett6869

    3 жыл бұрын

    People probably lived there for generations though and it was likely improved over a hundred or more years. Prrobably to keep animals in and prey out

  • @Jobotubular

    @Jobotubular

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@spyderspillett6869 -- except you don't have to improve on walls three feet thick (to 16 feet thick) just to hold animals Check out any long-running farm, and none of them make walls nearly that thick

  • @Roaproductiondk
    @Roaproductiondk10 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the upload

  • @thomasalvarez6539

    @thomasalvarez6539

    7 жыл бұрын

    Roa production

  • @thomasjohnson6665
    @thomasjohnson6665 Жыл бұрын

    I really dig archaeology Faye Simpson is cute as a button

  • @JohnFenlon
    @JohnFenlon4 жыл бұрын

    @17:57 Mick interrupts Phil in mid "actually" 😂

  • @Jobotubular

    @Jobotubular

    2 жыл бұрын

    he must have been channeling Carenza (or so one would think from all the complaints in the early episodes)

  • @jcmelborai
    @jcmelborai4 жыл бұрын

    I love this team. So funny

  • @elizabethbarnes9685
    @elizabethbarnes96855 жыл бұрын

    Victorian tourist attraction

  • @annazaman9657
    @annazaman96576 жыл бұрын

    I think the ridge and furrow destroyed anything that was inside the enclosure

  • @thorild69
    @thorild693 жыл бұрын

    Music panning at about 6:00 is perfect.

  • @kierangane734
    @kierangane7343 жыл бұрын

    MIck's the man.

  • @geirbalderson9697
    @geirbalderson96974 жыл бұрын

    The OCD in me wants to pick up all of those rocks and rebuild the walls. Is that too much to ask?

  • @JB-td4ei
    @JB-td4ei4 жыл бұрын

    Snooping around hamsterley on google earth. Found interesting markings in a nearby field. 54*40’47” N. 1*49’00” W. Get Phil, Tony, Francis and John together! 🤣

  • @courtneyhall7140
    @courtneyhall71404 жыл бұрын

    i think it was a giant hog farm to feed the roman soldiers.

  • @MR2Davjohn
    @MR2Davjohn25 күн бұрын

    I'm descended from Hodgekin (or Hodgkin). The name comes from Hode or Hodge, which coincidentally, is the birth surname of King Richard I. Later through history the name, by adaptation, became Hotchkiss.

  • @patgentry7268
    @patgentry72684 жыл бұрын

    What is the Time Team music? Love the show...iconic in so many ways.

  • @patrickkelly4070
    @patrickkelly40704 жыл бұрын

    i bought a pick like phil for gardening

  • @SkywalkerExpress
    @SkywalkerExpress3 жыл бұрын

    For such a massive fortified farm in the iron age, they probably kept a Unicorn there. During the Dark Age im pretty sure it was a Hog farm owned by local Baron.

  • @christinestill5002
    @christinestill50023 жыл бұрын

    I'm picking the wrong episodes but I'm still waiting for one solid conclusion, or a drawing !

  • @benediktmorak4409
    @benediktmorak4409 Жыл бұрын

    never mind it might be scripted, their voices, speech and body language, use of the arms and hands and facial expressions, a pleasure to watch. even if the z would find nothing. and come out empty handed. that it will be NOT, one can be assured by -the third day and we are nearly done-...

  • @rosemary4033
    @rosemary40335 жыл бұрын

    Me thinks it is a big stone pen for cattle sheep for a village full of people !!!😁

  • @chrispascoe8116
    @chrispascoe81168 жыл бұрын

    Could it have been just a huge sheep holding pen, and the "guard house" maybe just a shepherds shelter?

  • @JasonRoggasch
    @JasonRoggasch8 жыл бұрын

    Ironically my Gerbil acts very Hamsterley

  • @ebybeehoney

    @ebybeehoney

    4 жыл бұрын

    My reaction was similar when I heard that name.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b5 жыл бұрын

    Seems like an awfully massive undertaking for a cattle pen for one family. 5m thick walls? 100 man years? Hmm.

  • @RockmonsterX
    @RockmonsterX8 жыл бұрын

    Possibly the reason there was no evidence was they were an old family that was a thorn in the Roman side. The surrounding hill could be an earthwork. Like a make shift siege tower to take the fort. After it was raised, the family was probably "memory holed" to keep the locals from rallying.

  • @MrShnazer
    @MrShnazer10 жыл бұрын

    It was used to keep horses or cattle in

  • @dawngriffin3550
    @dawngriffin35504 ай бұрын

  • @patlong3903
    @patlong39034 жыл бұрын

    One does wonder if Francis Pryor, and his theories of "Round Houses" (Iron Age Structures, usually an extended family residence), which would be constructed of wood and thatch, both biodegradable.) fails - it's because it was "plowed away". No farmer in their right mind would risk their plow animals, or plows, in such stony soil.

  • @TheGuul667
    @TheGuul6674 жыл бұрын

    A likely story ...

  • @christopherwithers999
    @christopherwithers9996 жыл бұрын

    the lady eating mud seemed to look as if she soiled herself

  • @PerryTribeMetalBaker

    @PerryTribeMetalBaker

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah, she's an interesting character for sure. Dreaming of beetles and what not

  • @ruthbowman5928
    @ruthbowman59283 жыл бұрын

    I wish Stewart would have guessed at the sources of so many rocks. To what distance from exterior were areas largely rock-clear compared to neighboring areas? Did geophys show rock concentration of interior, that is, how much from there in the walls? Any nearby quarries, anything debris area to indicate working of surfaces. Maybe this was discounted, or studied since?

  • @891Henry
    @891Henry Жыл бұрын

    This is one of those rare Time Teams when I can't buy any of the conclusions. No evidence of anything specific to the iron age but they call it iron age and show images of round houses they did not find, rectangular structures (possibly) so we will say a building and an animal pen so maybe dark age. Basically, they have a lot of stones which probably built an enclosure with very wide and high dry stone walls (maybe packed with clay at some time). Forget the defensive gate since it is not a defensive site with higher ground around it. They have stones in a wall which could have been built between the prehistoric time and 1760 when it first shows up on a map. I think they knew that going in. Very frustrating results.

  • @michellemurphy658
    @michellemurphy6584 жыл бұрын

    Indefensible ,you've heard of thebow and arrow ?

  • @PhillipCowell01
    @PhillipCowell018 жыл бұрын

    Daft episode. Either vital shots were left on the editing room floor, or that's the craziest conclusion since someone decided the pyramids were build by aliens.

  • @lindasue8719

    @lindasue8719

    5 жыл бұрын

    Phillip Cowell I don’t remember the conclusion, but that wall is mysterious. I wish they had explained it further. I’m just assuming they couldn’t.

  • @danore7066
    @danore70664 жыл бұрын

    What's interesting is Its Ironage 🤔

  • @DT-sb9sv
    @DT-sb9sv2 жыл бұрын

    Looks like a prison camp, hence the lack of artifacts. I've worked on a couple of US Civil War prison camps as a North American archaeologist.

  • @neonskyline1
    @neonskyline14 жыл бұрын

    Music @ 13.17 sounds like Ultravox

  • @eveny119
    @eveny1195 жыл бұрын

    I guessed it was a cattle pen when they said the large flat stone held a gate. I winced when that one women was eating dirt samples, I thought probably manure.lol

  • @Pauldjreadman
    @Pauldjreadman4 жыл бұрын

    There are A LOT of stones, omg lol

  • @joanlculberson5870
    @joanlculberson58708 жыл бұрын

    The massive five foot deep and nine feet high walls may have been accomplished by a hundred Roman soldiers within. One of the purpose of Roman outposts was to train and get new recruits or conscripts into shape. Perhaps they kept their horses and weapons inside and camped, outside. Perhaps officers camped inside. Soldiers would not leave as much domestic finds as a village. It was a large area to dig. Think there is proof of life somewhere in there. The river may hold some clues, and the path between.

  • @Hypatia4242
    @Hypatia42429 жыл бұрын

    I've always wondered if places like this weren't official meeting places for robbers or smugglers. It could have been built up over generations.

  • @LintonHerbert
    @LintonHerbert3 жыл бұрын

    Hmm. Iron age feature with changes made in the dark age. Is it Camelot?

  • @oweolsson6780
    @oweolsson67807 жыл бұрын

    Its a iron-age Nobelmans family home, or a rich persons family farm... And it was maybe only habit for a short period of time.

  • @annazaman9657
    @annazaman96575 жыл бұрын

    It could be a place that was built but never occupied

  • @tompahdea9263
    @tompahdea92635 жыл бұрын

    These people do not understand that loves have been invented. It protects youtr hands from the roughness.

  • @philaypeephilippotter6532

    @philaypeephilippotter6532

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gloves desensitise fingers. Fingers are needed to feel things _properly._

  • @eveny119
    @eveny1195 жыл бұрын

    Wheres the metal detectors. I think the 1920's guy took any artifacts.

  • @jameswebb4593
    @jameswebb45933 жыл бұрын

    Whats it taste like ? Emma " Sheep Shit , but well digested '"

  • @TheHonestPeanut
    @TheHonestPeanut4 жыл бұрын

    35:53 what was the point of that shot lol

  • @maddog2771
    @maddog27714 жыл бұрын

    Was here Nov 2019

  • @peterasbjrnhansen2834
    @peterasbjrnhansen28343 жыл бұрын

    Turist trap

  • @TeresaTrimm
    @TeresaTrimm3 жыл бұрын

    First aired March 16, 2008.

  • @georgedorn1022

    @georgedorn1022

    3 жыл бұрын

    The order of the episodes on this channel is different from the original Channel 4 order. This episode was first broadcast on 16th March 2008 and was episode 11 of Series 15.

  • @TeresaTrimm

    @TeresaTrimm

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@georgedorn1022 Thanks! I will fix the post!

  • @JohnOBrienDesignerLimerick
    @JohnOBrienDesignerLimerick4 жыл бұрын

    The real question is, where did Phil go to on day 3?

  • @Jigger2361

    @Jigger2361

    4 жыл бұрын

    ....the pub

  • @chucku.farley3927
    @chucku.farley39273 жыл бұрын

    I think they go a little overboard for the camera sometimes, like tasting the dirt.wtf

  • @svenhoek
    @svenhoek7 жыл бұрын

    13:57 glorious!

  • @si4632

    @si4632

    5 жыл бұрын

    nice puppies

  • @ebybeehoney

    @ebybeehoney

    4 жыл бұрын

    Creep

  • @Eionful
    @Eionful8 жыл бұрын

    No castle me thinks but, perhaps the drystone wall is the remains of a Saxon cattle enclosure for cattle rustling. This would have been the location for holding the stock to take off to a market. I have read books based on historical events and cattle rustling and slave trading was a well known occurrence in the dark ages I believe. To me that would explain the guard - house and strong structure. For the construction I am not necessarily sure but I was brought up on a New Zealand high-country farm and I remember my father using a sled drawn by a draught horse to move stumps, rocks and timber in general; I am imagining them using much the same method but maybe 4 or 5 sleds drawn by a couple of draught horses or even bullocks. Eion Tought

  • @barnabyaprobert5159

    @barnabyaprobert5159

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ross Eion Tought I do a bit of dry stone wall building and that's some EXCELLENT work!

  • @453421abcdefg12345

    @453421abcdefg12345

    7 жыл бұрын

    You cant be serious ! Who is going to move 5000 tons of rock to keep a few cattle penned up, it would take many years even with a 100 people just to collect the stone! I have built a lot of dry stone walls, but none 5 mts across the base ! Just think about the logistics of this.

  • @sliewood

    @sliewood

    6 жыл бұрын

    Cattle.. Castle...????

  • @Jobotubular

    @Jobotubular

    2 жыл бұрын

    Of course, the work could be done -- it **was** done, or we wouldn't be discussing it. But you don't build walls 5 meters thick when 2m would do. And you certainly don't PLAN it that way (and dig terraces to do so), unless that serves some purpose. That ain't no animal pen. And remember, they conclude the guard house to be a later addition.

  • @robinandrews5478
    @robinandrews54783 жыл бұрын

    Could it be a place to keep animas overnight?

  • @robinandrews5478

    @robinandrews5478

    3 жыл бұрын

    Coral!

  • @lennytyler1571
    @lennytyler15718 жыл бұрын

    Who is professor Taylor?

  • @dieself3509

    @dieself3509

    5 жыл бұрын

    Old man Taylor's kid

  • @sstewart18761
    @sstewart1876110 жыл бұрын

    Archeoguessolgy. Lol ;)

  • @sstewart18761

    @sstewart18761

    9 жыл бұрын

    I used to love this show but overtime it became obvious that it is a farce. Seriously, look at the paltry evidence & what summation they present to the viewer. Sad really... :(

  • @CompetitiveAudio

    @CompetitiveAudio

    9 жыл бұрын

    Scott Stewart I wouldn't call it a farce, it's more of an introduction to archeology for the attention deficit general audience. A great concept that beats many of today's so called "reality shows". Time Team's 20 year run, shows they hit the target audience as 20 years is forever in television. A great show.

  • @MrKmoconne

    @MrKmoconne

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Scott Stewart Very unfair. For what ever reason, very little evidence was left at this site. It's a massively expensive site to dig for a definitive answer. TT deserves credit for what they could do in three days with THEIR money.

  • @rubyjools
    @rubyjools3 жыл бұрын

    No bones? No pottery? Did these people not slaughter, cook & eat? If it was a cattle enclosure which I don't believe there would have been evidence & why a guardhouse? For animals ..no. A frustrating dig & I'm not happy with their conclusion.

  • @georgedorn1022

    @georgedorn1022

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bone (and other organic artefacts) do not survive in certain types of soil, although they do not state that this is the case with this site.

  • @AnnBearForFreedom
    @AnnBearForFreedom5 жыл бұрын

    End in, end out wall. We could say its an E-I-E-I wall. "Old MacDonald built a wall, E-I-E-I..." Sorry, I'll stop now.

  • @Liz-sc5dg
    @Liz-sc5dg5 жыл бұрын

    As much as I love Tony, ironically he is holding a styrofoam cup that will never decompose and give future archeologist something to find.

  • @Philrc
    @Philrc10 жыл бұрын

    conclusion: It's a sheep pen.

  • @barnabyaprobert5159

    @barnabyaprobert5159

    8 жыл бұрын

    +kha sab Must have been some damn expensive sheep to put in 100 years of work building the walls!

  • @Philrc

    @Philrc

    8 жыл бұрын

    Barnaby ap Robert Must have been some clever sheep if they were building walls!

  • @haroldraby

    @haroldraby

    7 жыл бұрын

    kha sab; That's what it's all about, discovery. What was it, who built it? There was one episode where they found a toilet sump and they were so happy because it was a part of what there were hoping to find.

  • @philaypeephilippotter6532

    @philaypeephilippotter6532

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Philrc Correction: it's a _very old_ sheep pen.

  • @Philrc

    @Philrc

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@philaypeephilippotter6532 don't be a silly person

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird56344 жыл бұрын

    i swear these guys show holes in the ground with nothing i can tell is anything and they call it archaeology. Im sure it is, im just too color blind and daft to see it. It doesn't stop me from watching as many of the episodes as i can.

  • @phoule76

    @phoule76

    4 жыл бұрын

    subtle soil differences don't show up on camera well. that's why they digitally enhance some of the trenches. you'd notice if you were standing there.

  • @Jenalgo
    @Jenalgo6 жыл бұрын

    I can't understand why they didn't notice it's an Iron age palace.

  • @BryonLape
    @BryonLape9 жыл бұрын

    A Yank?

  • @NolaGal2601

    @NolaGal2601

    9 жыл бұрын

    Bryon Lape They've worked with Americans living over there on many previous occasions.

  • @sliewood
    @sliewood6 жыл бұрын

    I don't buy this one. Guess it lies as an eternal mystery. This structure is way too heavy duty to be the residence for an 'extended family'. Maybe that's what it ended up being used as- but that would've taken quite some manpower to construct. And as they pointed out- it's not even that defensible. Where's time travel when you need it? ☮️

  • @eveny119

    @eveny119

    5 жыл бұрын

    Id go back and give myself stock tips.

  • @Jobotubular

    @Jobotubular

    2 жыл бұрын

    exactly - I don't buy it either. While virtually every episode contains some comment moaning they need more than three days, this one really did

  • @animerlon
    @animerlon5 жыл бұрын

    42:08 & Emma puts it in her mouth, yuck.

  • @theangryostrich219
    @theangryostrich2194 жыл бұрын

    did that women really just eat a clump of dirt?

  • @readmycomment3157
    @readmycomment31573 жыл бұрын

    I think these stones are just naturally occurring, no way ancient humans could have done this with only basic machines.

  • @deankay8894
    @deankay889410 жыл бұрын

    phil got himself a cute, young, blonde partner didnt he?

  • @mikebarrow157

    @mikebarrow157

    6 жыл бұрын

    That "cute young blonde" is a professor and senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University - she teaches folk how to become doctors of archaeology. Yes, she is attractive, but now you can put it all in perspective, right? Heh!

  • @user-ge8yn4ql4i

    @user-ge8yn4ql4i

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Rory Morris if you can't look past tits you're a lost cause.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b4 жыл бұрын

    I bet Emma's favourite possession is a nailbrush!

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz84134 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what the Doomsday Book says about this area?

  • @philaypeephilippotter6532

    @philaypeephilippotter6532

    4 жыл бұрын

    *_Domesday Book._*

  • @Miracleislamicgemstone
    @Miracleislamicgemstone8 жыл бұрын

    Rod 1984 fake you