Time Team S15-E07 The Naughty Nuns of Northampton, Towcester, Northamptonshire
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2013
- When eight-year-old Amy Coleclough buried her cat 'Paintpot' in her garden, she uncovered a massive stone wall. Time Team is called in to investigate.
Sources suggest that a 12th-century nunnery had once stood in the vicinity, but its exact location had remained a mystery for centuri
If it wasn't for British series like this, TV in the States would be an irredeemable wasteland. Thank you guys for this!
A wonderful episode! As a teacher [retired] I was especially delighted that the school students were invited to observe this amazing investigation as a part of ancient British history! Thank you from Canada.
I am jealous of those kids that get to be involved in these digs😊
Can we get a hand for the patient & cooperative family allowing their lawn & landscaping to be ravaged in the name of historical exploration? The Coleclough family, everyone! XD
YAY!
bobbofly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
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They are. My grandad found signs of an ancient site on his farm (possibly Iron Age?) showed us what he found but also told us not to say anything because he didn't want his farm being invaded and turned into a dig site. A lot of people just don't contact anyone if they find something.
RunningFromABear I wonder if the cost of having to re-landscape after discourages people more than the actual chaos and disruption of the dig?
I just watched this again after all these years and it's so weird looking back at how small I was 😊
Amy Coleclough wow is this really you on time team?! How old is this episode then?
Haha yeah it is me. I was 6/7 when it happened and am 18 now
wow what the hell! As if! you have an amazing home! i also live in Northamptonshire!:D
Thanks I don't live there anymore unfortunately but I only moved a year ago
ah still you got to live there for 17 years! do you still live in northamptonshire then?
Absolutely wonderful! I loved Mick's face at the end. He looked so genuinely happy that they had found, and were able to prove so much!
This was a great series. a little history, a lot of laughs and great characters.
Time flies so fast and still love this program.
Aww Paintpot's grave is by the fireplace, all warm and cozy in the afterlife.
What a journey Amy! Not only did you make history but you unveiled lost history. Such a learning experience for you, your family and others, including myself. I love that your home contains a part of the original structure and that the burial sites are no longer lost. Thank you to you and your family for allowing this process. And God bless Paintpot who is also now a historical figure.
Love these series especially this one as it involved two sweet little gils and an adorable cat
The family seems so kind to their children and for letting Time Team get to work!
What a gorgeous house!
Paws up for Paintpot! I bet he's the most famous cat in archeology. :)
Surpassed only by the mummified Egyptian cats in the pyramids perhaps?
& how many of those cats names are recorded for posterity?
@@NinJestre Not nary one!
i would have hoped for a time team grave marker for him.
One of the best Time Team chapters Thank you to the family and paintpot the cat
Whenever there are kids on the show, it just shows up how incredibly kind and gentle the Time Team really are. I love them, every one.
This was the first time team I ever watched. Found it about a year ago and I've watched every single episode that's on RUclips now. I love coming home from work, showering, cracking a beer and watching an episode. Great way to wind down.
What a very nice family and two adorable girls! Bringing the school class to the site was also wonderful! Whoever had that idea, it was brilliant. The Time Team group were great with them. I was particularly impressed with the osteoarchaologist's statement that the bones weren't scary at all to further encourage the students to look. What a classy production all the way around! I'm so glad for the internet since it allows us to enjoy this in the USA, where we otherwise wouldn't get to see it. Thanks so much for sharing this.
There was BBC America in the 90's, This show aired on that channel too. It's not thanks for making it available in the US today but making it available years after it was originally aired as a free to watch video rather than it being forgotten. Oh and one of those little girls, Amy is the top commenter here, that's a cool thing.
@Jim Elliott nice.
Motorcop505 Hello: don't see anything amusing about Dead people buried below it's creepy and scary 😱😲 it must be Haunted place yacks😬🥺!!!
Ditto!
@@elizavetallq9423 we all die eventually it's a part of life. Definitely not scary.
How Wonderful Amy was able to bring her whole class to the site. I Love these Time Team Programs.
God bless you Paintpot. Your legacy will live on with this show.
What a lovely episode ❤️
This has been one of the best episodes!
This is fascinating! What a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the past. What a treasure.
Still probably my favorite episode, after all these years. Those two little girls were absolutely adorable. Poor Paintpot! lol
What an amazing experience for the little girls. Such an exciting thing to have an archaeological dig in your backyard.
Fairly sure this is my favourite episode yet. I am hooked to this show and sad that I missed it when it was actually still running.... Amy Coleclough, you and your sister were both so sweet! And SO lucky to have experienced this!!! Wonderful!
8:02 "Well, in the 14th century, a lot went wrong for a great many people". LOL what an understatement.
Elaborate please
@@smwrbd 14th century was riddled with plague, flue, famine, war and serfdom, take your pick
Now in 2020 we have Megan Markle.
Read Barbara Tuchman's book, "The Calamitous Fourteenth Century" Much is explained. Understatement for sure.
@@rogerdickinson920 This must have been written just before Covid 19 became a pandemic. Meghan Markle isn't exactly what 2020 will be remembered for.
Layard. Schliemann. Evans. Paint Pot. The list of archaeological giants continues to grow.
lol yeah and what a fitting grave marker the cat now has ... really shows how much he felt loved he gave back a bit of lost history that tied into the house in essence giving them the best blessing he was able ... they now know they live on a religious sight and part of their house is built inside the chapel ... at the entrance even ... being welcomed in as it were.
One if not the best of the lot! So personal and real. The girls, the cat, the graves. I feel as if I know you. Thanks.
Thanks to the Coleclough family for a great experience.
I just discovered this series on RUclips. What a wonderful history and rich culture England has. I can't stop watching the shows. Many thanks from America! I am learning a tremendous amount, and even starting to understand some of the Brit colloquialisms now.
I echo your feelings exactly, Michael! I can't stop watching these, sitting here in California. Fascinating! My only problem: Every time Tony speaks, I half-expect Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder to add his obligatory barb to the conversation.
I love this series, too. However, we shouldn't be so quick to call Britain's history "wonderful". There was also centuries of murder, genocide, and oppression. Mention Edward I in Wales, or, Scotland, or, utter the name of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, and see the reactions you get. Then, there was India, Africa, and the Middle East.
As a second generation Irish-American I understand that, but if you step back and see the depth and richness of the history it is amazing. Be careful not to judge ancient times by the mores of the present.
***** All of history has it’s ugly side, not just England or America.
I must admit that as a Swede, I didn't even know England had a civil war once, before this series.
This is my first time watching this program. Very interesting and entertaining. I will never forget Paint Pot.
The cat.
oh you should binge watch three or four episodes ... and you will be hunting down them all ... they cover so many different era's and even do some role play as well on some of the sights to get a better idea of what it was like ... at one point Phil makes Mead ... and the monk in the picture early on was supposed to look like one Mic Aster ... fluffy grey haired guy passed before the show stopped and they kept his memory alive with little things like that.
I am from Singapore and got totally hooked on this program. It's amazing to see how the Brits are so interested in their history. The archaeologists, too, seem to be so dedicated and enthusiastic about what they are doing.
Not only that - they really do the great work visualizing them! There are so many documentaries, with actors and really great staging. I truly enjoy them :-)
Brian Vittachi it’s a remarkably rich and fascinating history!
right, britain that demolished and rebuilt stonehenge (fakehenge), builds high rises and highways over historic treasures, that british love? ahem.
Love British History
i love how the years of time team they hit the sights that were maybe's for the society and looked quickly into if it would be justified or required to do something about the potential sight ... a few like this one they figured out fully and that was good enough others they found enough to say ooops gotta make this a registered sight and save it now .... I wish the group was still together and going around the world doing this on various out of place archeology sights and conspiracy ideas ... places like oak island and the feet of the sphinx or south africa with all the stone circles ... and the various pyramids around the globe etc .... they have a reputation for wanting the facts and the main stream ideology be damned ... if the facts say this then that is what it is ...
36:21 *A bunch of kids show up*
Tony: “How would you youngins like to see some dead bodies?”
Kids are interested in such things.
"Sure...wing or thigh? Dark or white meat"?
they SOUNDED like they were interested
me as a babysitter:
Kids are too sheltered nowadays
Rip paint pot may you be at the rainbow bridge you were loved ..your family is sweet
what a lucky family to live in such a beautiful place with such lovely mum and dad :).
Do English people really spell mom that way, or were you trying to write your dialect?
@frankos rooni I grew up using "Mum, changed as I got older because of others using "Mom". Both are acceptable.
everyone says mum unless in the us as they like to try to rewrite words,,like football ect ect
maybe the people who went to start the usa were not very good at grammar
Monjiaitaly Hello: don't see anything being lucky at all with dead people buried below are u kidding me it must be Haunted as Hell. I wouldn't want to leave there it's Scary place 😬 !!!
Canadian here, first time I ever heard of this show. Fascinating show with some great people in it. That was a nice family with sweet children. I just love the British and their programming. :)
I miss Mick. May he rest in peace.
I loved this for so many reasons; obviously, first is Tony Robinson (a.k.a. Baldrick and one of my enduring loves); second, how amazing to be a young girl and uncovering such a fantastic find ... I imagine several young minds were turned in the direction of archaeology!! And, third, this is so "Secret Garden" and "Bones" all in one!! Delicious!!
2019 here! I must be getting old to enjoy such videos. They are interesting and somehow satisfying to watch the long gone structures come back to life.
Adorable! They seem like really nice folks all around. Dedicated to the long lasting memory of dearly departed Paintpot. :)
Except the dad Stephen Coleclough was done up for child porn and extreme bestiality photo possession and distribution in 2016.
Glad to see Phil's hand/arm, which in previous episodes this season were swollen and initially revealed in a sling, are in this episode apparently back to good use.
Thanks for not only the amazing detective and digging work, but for the family who has allowed history to be revealed.
Love Time Team, and this one was particularly interesting. What a gorgeous chunk of real estate these people have. Lucky little girls, and well done good ole Paint Pot for leading the way to history. 😽👍👨👩👧👧⛪️
Still exciting in 2019. This is one of the very, very best!
the nuns eating oysters joke went over everyones head lol
To think if Amy had kept the secret to herself about the wall Medieval history would have been lost as well as the discoveries. Wonderful and informative with actual tiles from the Medieval period....fantastic!
thank you so much for posting these full episodes. this one of old Paintpot's grave in the nunnery was wonderful. please, for us channel-4 deprived Americans, please keep posting more episodes - especially from the earlier seasons. thanks!!
Omg, absolutely favorite episode ever!!!! These guys are hilarious! Listening to at 3am(insomnia) & keep laughing out loud! Many many thanks for this one!!!
3:55 am and I'm watching it! 🙂 I live this show!
7: 06, and but I've been up since 2: 55 (woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, been youtubing and playing phone apps ever since). Absolutely _loved_ this episode. So rare to see so many things going right during their digs. Was really nice to see one where the pieces all seemed to fall into place.... and all of it because of a dead cat. Thanks, Paintpot! Good kitty! =)
What an outstanding exploration! I may never be able to work on an authentic archaeological "dig," but I can now say I've watched a good one.👍😊
The house is absolutely stunning!
*Dear Amy, I think this is so exciting!!!!* I would have loved to be there!! *Just to think that Paintpot started all off this!!!* Its so interesting!!!
I laughed when they said they need to ask the owner if they can use another metre!!! HaHaha they are nearly destroying the whole garden --- whats another metre??? 😀
Youre family can just be glad they didnt break down your house!!!
*I just loved wathing this!!!* *THANKYOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!*
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So those suspected garden ornaments turned out to be actual graves...crazy!
Fascinating to see this again after so long , and brilliant deductions from the archeology
Some years ago I downloaded the whole lot, 80+ gb so my mum could watch them all This episode is one of the Greats. The download speeds 10+ years ago left a lot to be desired, 5 or 6 days from memory.
This was so interesting! I LOVE all the ancient mysteries locked in Europe!
"Dig out the whole garden" that one is totally becoming an archaeologist :D
I was wondering what her father's stomach did when she said that. That had to be a Pepto Bismol moment for the guy. =)
The young misses are adorable. Hopefully this memory will stay with them and they will continue down this path with their own future education and carriers.
Great job of making that seal replica, that is a skill that is becoming rather rare now-a-days.
Thank you for time very well spent! 🇺🇸
It's Great Britain.You cant sling a dead cat without hitting some old stone wall.
+joseph fulks That's why live cats are preferred.
+joseph fulks lol
+joseph fulks lol
+joseph fulks That adds an interesting new dimension into how Paint Pot was interred.
Joseph Napoli and
Great family to allow this to go on, on their property for Historical purposes. Thank you ♥ Wish America was more interested in it's History!
So here I am in the U.S. finding this some 6 years after this was posted and it's quite fascinating. This type of stuff has intrigued me for a long time. The amount of history buried throughout Britain is overwhelming. It's literally everywhere. Thank you to the Coleclough family for allowing this dig to take place and for patiently putting up with the chaos that came with it.
I'll be looking for more of these.
Every *Time Team, Time Team Special* and most *Time Team America* programmes have been posted on YT by *Fillask, Reijer Zaaijer* and the _official_ *Time Team* channel. Try *DigVentures* too.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 I'm actually watching season 10 episode 8 as im typing this on Reijer's channel. Still just as fascinated as I was when I watched this one
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The second *Athelney* dig! The first one was truly amazing and the second even better. I hope you're enjoying it.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 I absolutely am. This stuff fascinates me being in the States. Now its Kew Garden
@@Whatthechuckttv
I'm in the *UK* and I don't live _that_ far from *Alfoldean* (S13 E12) - it's actually on my bus route to *Horsham.* A *Canadian* called the schoolkids uniforms _draconian_ but they're not. When you've seen that episode you can message me here if you want and I'll tell you a bit about that school - _and you might have trouble believing it!_ My mother _and_ my uncle went there.
So, in 1,000 years somebody will come along and wonder what on earth a Kitchenaid was for and how they made those blades go around so fast. And then, they will dig up a clay jug and wonder how it fit with the Kitchenaid.
And then they will promptly declare they've discovered the enigmatic iPod.
1000 years from now the planet will be uninhabitable..
@@afrog2666 that's what they said 1000 years ago.
@@mydogsioux please explain my stupidity so I can not make the same mistake next time around.
The earth will go on. It may take a while for it to bounce back, but it will. With or without us. Even if there is a major bottle neck in the human population, there is such a variety in our genes and we are a species that specifically evolved to survive in harsh times. It's likely that we, as a species, will survive.
RIP Paintpot!
This is the most adorable episode of Time Team I've seen yet 😄
I like those medieval "Snoopy" tiles.. :))
"Cave Canem"
Brilliant! I could watch this over and over again. It's fascinating to see how the various bits of information are drawn together to recover this lost building.
Completely and utterly fascinating in all aspects.
So very cool! And Amy and her sister were so cute! Really fun to see her commenting on this video.
But all I could think was, "Oh my gosh that beautiful garden!" I wonder how long it took before it completely recovered?
What a magnificent clip!! Incredible story, both old and new. Thank you soooo much for sharing! Absolutely incredible. Best wishes... Ax
Oh. I thought perhaps Amy grew up to become an archeologist! Very interesting! Amazing that the Dad was ok with them digging up his beautiful lawn and gardens, but this history is so wonderful!
I am watching on 4-12-19 in Arizona USA. So very interesting.
Indiana.
History never dies, and always awaits to be woken. Great piece, and shows what stories lie beneath the dirt we live and walk over unknowingly. Did a lot of digging in just a few days and put together a lot of information from multiple sources. As an archeologist, I wanted to be there; too bad it couldn't have been excavated more completely and more, well, shall we say more "carefully".
What a cool family! I love my lawn but if it needed to be dug up in the name of science, I’d be like, “have at it, Time Team!”
Great work. I love their excitement. Regards from Brazil.
Such an amazing show!!! I love history! And the family is super awesome during all of this!
This is what I love about European architecture in general. Buildings were made to last and to be lived in for generations. Most times just building right on top of the other.
What a legacy for Paintpot the cat!
British tv is so much better than any of the crap here in America. I enjoy watching it on youtube more than I do anything on my tv lol
RUclips NEWEARTH
Same for Spain.
Marlene, I am so with you. I quit watching American TV quite a while ago. Since I have a lot of ancestry in England, Scotland, and Ireland. This has become my passion.
I also forgot Wales. My Mom was a Jones.
Actually, if you look at things like the Science channel, the Smithsonian channel, the History channel and quite a few others you can see shows exactly like this one. Maybe you need better cable?? Though you can't really say that because they have shows like this on PBS which is free, as well... Heck you can find them on Netflix....
Brilliant and interesting. I think I need to explore more of Northamptonshire history. I love watching Time Team!
I don't know if anyone will read this but I have been watching a lot of TIME TEAM but this one made me cry!!!!! Long live Paintpot!!!!!
Been read and be well 😊
I love living in Europe, you kick in the ground and find a treasure. You walk the street and you walk in the history.
The little sister looks so sad talking about her passed cat...she brokes my heart!
Its wonderful to know Mic will always be remembered and can be found online. RIP MIC
I thoroughly enjoy the older seasons even though sad to know how many have gone on.
Thank you for quality programming on youtube
The UK is amazing!
Dig up a carpark and you find a king (Richard III).
Dig up a garden and you find an old nunnery.
As someone from elsewhere, it seems as if it's impossible to dig anywhere there and *not* find a really cool piece of history.
I thank the correct term is a Convent not a nunnery. A nunnery is a house of ill repute.
here in the States dig a hole, earthworms and arrowhead every time.
It's true! Every time I bury a deceased pet with a silly name I dig up ancient relics. Only last week I had to excavate the final resting place of Whopper, my pet ant, and I found prehistoric evidence of bicycles.
@@haroldbearden6273 You mean when Hamlet tells Ophelia 'Get thee to a nunnery' he was referring to a house of ill repute?
And Richards descendants have yet to pay his parking Fee!
Who's still watch g 2019????
I am!!!
Me:)
Gina Kay me too in Canada
I do
Me, too. Texas, USA
Wow! Very nice. That home and the enormous yard is SO beautiful, too. It must've been a wonderful place to grow up in. I find it so interesting how they built a gorgeous home that doesn't look inexpensively made, not a corner-cutting sort of place. Goodness it's been standing a very long time and still looks fabulous, yet they incorporated a couple of much earlier walls from another building in it, and I'm not sure why. I've certainly never heard of that before. Where I'm from (California) they' would just knock the whole thing down. We don't have anything old here, but they knock down perfectly good houses and buildings all the time to put up something bigger, newer, more modern, etc., and never save anything of what stood before, so that's a mystery to me. What could it have added to the structure? It seems like instead it would quite noticeably reduce the interior space. Was it just too much expense and/or trouble to knock down? There would probably be quite a large amount of stone that could be very useful for something, too. Ah well, life. There's never any end to the mysteries you run across.
Oh my goodness I was so glued to this video..Remrkable finds. Thank You to PaintPot and his young owners for this great discovery.
I am so glad to have discovered this story. I will look forward to watching your series and tell my friends about it. Fantastic!!!
One of the best episodes I've seen so far. Lot of evidence, less guess work.
Did they say when the house itself was built? It's neat that the builders used what was left of the church's walls in their design.
Said house was Victorian... refering to Queen Victoria.
I wonder did they mark the layout after the dig. After all, it's now a legit dig site and if they left part of it exposed, that would be something to tell your family or buyers for generations. I'd cover the north/south wall with a green house and wooden boards. for show and tell.
GaslitWorld f. Melissa B One of the commenters here is Amy Colechaugh not sure on the spelling of her last name. She is the Amy who owned Paintpot and lived in the house. You might ask her.
Wonderful! Just stumbled upon it via UTube, Thank you! I’m a history buff, but would never have the physical endurance nor the patience to b an. Archeologist! Library research for me! Thank you for the hard work and enthusiasm for discoveries! Great show...
The Naughty Nuns of Northampton sounds like the title of a porno. LOL
More like snuff film
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one would only know that if that's the sort of thing that interests you!
Or a Monty Python skit.. lol
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Who’s still watching this in 2018
i watched it and i still believe ashes to ashes do not bury me
I will be watching all the episodes. I'm watching - didn't know about these videos. I love archeology!!
Currently enjoying it. Not sure how I went from murder mysteries to Nunneries.... but I’m ok with it.
I am rewatching after a couple of years. It is still fascinating.
Count me in, very interesting stuff
It's sad you don't live here anymore. I hope the new owners are happy with the history they are living on top of. 😍👍
This is the first time that I've watched one of your videos. And I'm totally amazed at what you found out in a matter of 3 days. I think I'm going to watch more of your episodes from now on. Thank you so much
Rip paintpot
This story made me get my cat and cuddle her. I dont know what I would do without her. A pretty sad story, but poor Paintpot seemed to have had a very nice life with that lovely family.
There was a nunnery in Pittsburgh PA that was torn down in the 60’s.
When they dug up the basement they found a number of babies skeletons there.
Were they aborted babies? Being that they are nuns, them being pregnant by the monks was definitely a scandal.
Let’s not forget that people often left children to the sisters at these nunneries. If they were sick or dead the nuns would need to bury the bodies. Let’s not be so hasty as to think that all nuns were sexually active and killing their children.
@@kenyettaready Nonsense unmarried pregnant girls being sent to convents to avoid scandalising their family was pretty much the norm in catholic households rich and poor the world over. the surviving babies would have been adopted those less fortunate that died after being "treated" ( by complicit catholic doctors keeping them out of hospitals ) were buried unregistered and undocumented.
@@philc3912 Fascinating. I'd love to know the source(s) for this item.
@@polemeros Start with the Magdalene Sisters and work back from there. Then google Tuam County Galway "It has been confirmed that significant numbers of children’s remains lie in a mass grave adjacent to a former home for unmarried mothers run by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam, County Galway"
My eight year old self would have skipped any and all gift-giving holidays for a year in return for a field trip to see old bones sticking out of the dirt! I hope these little duckies know how lucky they were!
I've been a fan of Tony's for years. Cheers bro,