Me being a Dutch guy...seeing these guys join in diggin' up our history puts a big smile on my face. Love the show, and although my general interest in history is not about Dutch history, or the Roman era, these guys basically are making it more enteresting. :D
Btw, this boat was covered up with clay again to preserve it for future analyses. I guess they'll excavate it completely in the future. They found another one of these in 2008 and a replica of that one is sailing around Holland. Picture: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schepen_van_De_Meern#/media/Bestand:Fiducia_reconstructie_Romeinse_punter_de_Meern_6_in_haven_van_Woerden.jpg
@@EdEditz Thank you for that nifty update! I don't know about you, but I've managed to learn a lot of cool stuff during the age of COVID. What are you delving into now?
This show is keeping me company during the pandemic. Great company! What I loved in this episode was the Dutch archaeologist bursting with laughter when the dendrochronologist (very nice lady, by the way) confirmed that the calculations he had made in his SEVEN years of research were right! Good reason to celebrate.
So interesting, when they do digs in other countries! I love how I can slowly piece together the whole of roman history. If you ever visit my home town, Turicum (Zurich, Switzerland), visit the roman baths beneath the city and other sites concentrated around our lovely Lindenhof (beautiful observation point overlooking the river Limmat and the old town of Zurich). Many thanks to Time Team and Reijer Zaajier for making and uploading this outstanding series!
I just love these programs, I thought I had seen them all then this one popped up, thank you. I really miss Time Team not just for the history but the interactions between the team members.
I love the range of personalities on this show--Mick the voice of reason excitable by find, patient with geophys, the peacemaker; Tony animated by skepticism and an actor's temperament; and Phil so excitable by finds and intrepid, quite the athlete in the trenches, never intimidated and never aggressive though often provoked. This was a great show. maybe they will give us some reunion shows making updates, even though Mick will be looking over their shoulders this time...
he has passed on. google Mick Aston and you'll find it. That was some time ago. He is still in the clips they use to make their specials, that I am delighted to watch, so I don't have to memorize the shows by rewatching them. They are gentlemen in my sight, even Tony who goes a bit over the top now and then, as actors are wont to do. Though this will probably prompt some more venom from one of my insulters....LOL LMAO LOL
pardon me for saying, but between the two of us, you're the one who needs to be blocked, leopararouen. Just one opinion I am sure is shared. You weren't paying attention or you see I did mention his temper, but without aggression. He never comes onto a show already mad at everyone and I never saw him raise that fist so maybe you are talking personal experience? Is your mind wandering a little maybe? You can block me all you want. And otherwise how simple is it to simply omit to read my posts? They are clearly marked, if you are paying attention.
YES! Thanks Reijer Zaaijer for posting this. I've been looking for this one forever. I tried telling my friends from work about this but they didn't believe me. They are so ignorant of history they didn't even believe me when I said that Britain was once part of the Roman Empire! (smh)
@@jwnagy Technical they have right when they say the majority of the invasion troops where not Roman. With Legio XX Valeria Victrix and IX Hispania half of the original Roman Empire Invasion Troops where from Spain and XVI Gallica African and French. The only "realy" Italian aka Roman Legion during the Invasion was II Augusta. He can ask them what sounds better. Their ancestors raped and pilaged by the Roman Empire or by the Frenchies, Africans and Spain i bet i know the answer
i am watching the -old - Time Team since quite a few month. i hope the Episodes will never end. At least as long as i am still around. And be able to turn on the computer and click with the mouse...
Preservation is exactly the reason why they left it in the ground. The waterlogged soil has preserved it for the last 2000 years and it will remain doing so as long as the groundwater table doesn't drop to much. Digging it up means that you need an awful lot of expensive technology to conserve it, whereas the soil can do it for free.
What many people don't seem to understand, is that the most efficient way to preserve old archealogical finds is to do exactly what they did here: leave it buried underground. If they had to dig it up completely, it would mean a multi-million dollar operation and who is going to fund the operation? When they dug up Pompei, they found that the ruined structures which had been preserved so well buried under the ashes and rubble, would start crumbling and decaying much faster in the open air.
Celto Loco you can't keep every place where there's something in the ground preserved for possibly in the future excavating it. It'd mean you can't ever build anything, anywhere. It's the same with the glut of "industrial monuments", buildings being earmarked so they can't ever be torn down and replaced making filling the country to the point where new construction becomes impossible. At some point you have to make choices, and they're not always choices everyone will like. And do mond that this boat did NOT end up under buildings, it ended up under a city park and paved pathways and bicycle tracks. What ended up under housing was the theoretical, predicted but never found, remains of a Roman border fort, of which dozens of others have been excavated and documented in minute detail.
Celto Loco The site of the boat is now a protected archeological site. So no building on top of it. In fact it is now beneath a cycle path. Can you seal it better, and in a more Dutch fashon? I would not worry too much about the boat. It will be preserved as the site is now not only protected but also the ground water level is regularly monitored. If the level changes too much, the boat will be excavated.
POUNDS! Not dollars... Or euros, seeing as it's in the Netherlands... 😛 Joking aside, you are absolutely right! There are times where lifting the entire site is justified (the site being endangered, or the historical value being too great), but most of the time, the archeology is best left where it is found: the ground has preserved it thus long, it can carry on doing so!
I know I'm late to the party but nonetheless: If anyone wants to read up on the boat it is called the "De Meern 4", one of 6 roman ships found in the area. They never fully excavated it, deciding to leave it in the ground for conservation reasons as I understand.
It would really be amazing to recover stories of Roman soldiers, who wrote home about what it was like on all of those fronts. Like what they saw, what the people looked like, what the people did in all of the areas Rome conquered.
I lived for a time in Strasbourg, France. The place used to be a fort against the Germanic peoples out to the east, but developed a whole town west of the Ill river where the borough of Koenigshoffen now is and the finds there are quite interesting. Some tablets were found, amongst other things, (ceramic, I think), with a list of names of soldiers who lived at the fort (supposedly). The exact reason why the names were on such a tablet I have no clue for, but it is speculation that it had some link to commerce, the tablet being found near what used to be a Bakery. The tablet (incomplete) states the names of the men, as well as their role (Hastati, Principae...) but nothing else. I hope this might spark your interest, as the finds around Strasbourg could help us understand the everyday life of a legionary!
What incredibly preserved finds. I won't be a spoiler and go further but if you enjoy ancient Roman ships this is the episode to see....Shades of the Mary Rose...
What a wonderful collection of tools at about 23:00! The planes are spectacular--I've seen Victorian-era planes in worse shape at flea markets! Some day I'm going to have to build a replica Roman plane and compare it to later wooden bench planes.
+uw1955 I don't know about Phil but Raksha leads volunteer staffed digs where they help archaeologists on various sites around the world. Here's one for this April: us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=22a0f4e4c7f72ba483492ac1b&id=15ac73b28c&e=be5f494479 I have done several volunteer vacations including a dig in Cumae, the first Greek settlement in mainland Italy (near Naples and Pompeii) where we were looking for a 2nd c. Temple of Isis but instead uncovered a 4th c. glassworks that used the temple's water supply. Look online under "volunteer vacations" and go get dirty.
Phil is working as a Wessex archaeology field archaeologist to this day among s bunch of other things. Google "Phil Harding Wessex archaeology" and his page will pop u0. Email him about volunteer work.
And Stannous as a glass blower is be interesed very highly in the reports from that site if they are around sounds like an amazing experience glad you got to have it
...i have seen so many boats on so many rivers in this exact position... some are eventually saved, many are just left to mother nature due to the full weight with half being under water... fascinating!
such a shame that they were or had not intended to uncover or dig up the whole thing, but just wanted to get as far as getting it dated and then bury it for a bike path. All those involved in this was so Great since everyone brought their own experience and knowledge to this dig..
For those interested in Roman ship digs, look up Gallo-Roman shipwreck off Guernsey. The show Digging for Britain season 1 episode 1 has a clip about the wreck in the last 10 minutes of the episode.
personal belongings, trade goods, rubbish dumped in the area later, hard to tell by now. Seeing as the boat was deliberately sank there rather than by accident, it's highly unlikely they were actually left behind by the crew.
The Netherlands is by far the most altered area in which they have done an excavation so you can't even find the original course of the Rhine anymore on Google Earth or Maps. But the site is here: 52°04'49.1"N 5°01'22.8"E
One time in South Wales they were looking for the remains of a 20m high viaduct and the houses at its base. After 3 days the eventually hit the top of a brick arch that turned out to be enclosing the road bed of the intact and fully erect viaduct at the bottom of a “trench” which was by then 10m deep.
Utrecht was north of the Rhine. Utrecht in that time in the frisian area. They traded with the romans in the city Dorestad (nearby the city Wijk bij Duurstede) on the Rhine.
As a Dutchie I love it how people sometimes butcher the names of Dutch places... Dutch ground holds a lot of archeology... I live in Flevoland and there's always archeology going on or being found somewhere around the island... not just WW2 stuff, but also much older stuff such as wooden boats etc...
107531kop 'Dutchie' really? What a stupid term is that. Everytime I read this term it's always by a Dutch person. Nobody else in the world calls you guys like that. Only Dutch themselves give themselves this nickname. Why do you do this? And it isn't even original but clearly a rip off from the Aussies. How pathetic.
@@hansolo2121 I hope you realize how ridiculous your comment is when a lot more Dutch people do this? And you'd be surprised how many more nationalities have nicknames that are similar to Dutchie or Aussie (which I've heard more commonly as Ozzy)... New Zealand for example: they call themselves Kiwis... so it's clearly not a rip-off as you say... And just like the Aussies are proud of their nicknames, us Dutchies are proud of ours... no need to start bashing it (would be just as pathetic as me giving some backhanded comment on your account-name just because I think it's ridiculous, so I follow what I was thought: if you can't say anything nice say nothing at all)...
T.J. Payeur triarii is from early republican Roman army, a spear point like that on the Rhine frontier in that time frame is more than likely from a Roman auxiliary recruited from non-roman tribes
"it wasnt used as a speer because we didnt find a shaft" (24:25) exuse me ,but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. mayby they had spare parts?
they explained that the ship could have been accidently sunk and therefore still had personal items on board... recalling how well preserved the wood of the cabin itself was, it seems unlikely to me that it was supposed to be a speer… it could be a spare part, but then wouldn't there be more???
On a chainsaw , the groove that guides the chain wears on the bottom side , when it wears out you flip the bar over , when the second side wears out then buy a new bar
Interesting. If the craft was scuttled for river defences, why wasn't the cabin emptied of the barge master's valuable tools? Maybe the landslide of rocks sank it? Who knows... Roman measurements in Roman please, aka Imperial!
The smaller boat with the cabin was not scuttled but surely the victim of an accident or storm. It was shown in being drenched in a shed. So far, there aren't any signs of a cabin on the larger boat they were excavating in this episode.
FloppyHares because I wanted to make a small correction without doubting anyones good intentions, I don't think I need to apologize for my minor remark, if you are insulted or offended by it, that is your problem!
Radiocarbon dating would provide a date range for the wood, perhaps of a few decades, but dendrochronology can often identify the specific year of felling, sometimes the season of that year.
I also asked the same question: Why did they call Time Team when they were already doing the job? I wonder if that call represented additional financial support and/or media attention to complete the project? Bringing in Tony means that there has got to be some "me" or "our" recognition; like sharing credit. Name recognition does sell books, and give credibility in the academic world.
Good question - If TT was televised in the Netherlands, it could have been for done for general public "awareness" of these sites / projects, with an unstated goal of securing public funding for future projects in that locale.
Yes, I wondered that also. Perhaps TT brought an extra injection of resources and attention that were needed - someone else posted that the boat has been given protected status.
TT at this time had stellar ratings and PR... plus the show can handle some $$$ parts of digs... and they may get better permission to dig given the shows potential to out them... They dont want anyone thinking they dont want to recover it before it erodes. Politicians love appearing to save things we care about.
Kelley That is IF they called the Time Team. The Time Team might as well have called the Dutch to gain access to the digging to help promote the series - and ITV in the Nederlands.
Trillock 1945 not always, anytime we find anything we are always told to cover it up and say nothing (archaeologist can hold up a construction development for months costing the company a fortune both in lost income / out goings to the banks and having to pay for the costs of the archaeology dig) most never comes to light, simply because governments put the costs off on to the private sector.
@@JohnDoe-ee6qs Yup, but if I found something of interest in the ground, I would let someone know about it. Plus, holding up a development site, does cost the company a fortune, as they want to get building and then sell whatever they have built to get their money back. But not always. But without these finds, big or small, we would have a lot less knowledge of our ancestors, like how they lived, what tools they used, pottery, house building etc., from the first peoples who lived here, then the various periods in time with all the various invasions. I think it is good, and makes visits to museums very interesting and worth the time.
@@phantomkate6 Well if I found something buried in my garden (highly likely though), I would take it to a museum in town to get someone to assess if important or not.
They are conducted over a long week end. All of the team have full time jobs at various Universities, so can only afford a dig of 3 days. Mick Aston is a professor of archieology at Bristol. Phil works for Wessex Archieology etc.
@@fredgrove4220 The true answer is that Mick Aston told Tony when they discussed the idea of an archeological programme, that three days would suffice to make an interesting programme that would reveal enough to give ordinary people a good idea of the history of the place they live in.
Modern Humans are in deep 💩. Turn of the electric and you have a catastrophe. We have forgotten more than we now know. Brilliant series. Tony(Baldrick) is the best. Phill, well what can you say about Phill that hasn’t already been said in cackling bridge troll periodicals.
You can see the new housing buildings going in and what awful and generic architecture. the craftmanship of beauty is lost to us and modern architects.
People have to live somewhere, and this is one of the most smallest and densely populated countrie in the world. We have to build for people of all different sort of income. In a world perspective its not that bad.
I have to say this has got to be the best all around show on RUclips. It just enthralles me
I just discovered it today
I'll second that
Me being a Dutch guy...seeing these guys join in diggin' up our history puts a big smile on my face. Love the show, and although my general interest in history is not about Dutch history, or the Roman era, these guys basically are making it more enteresting. :D
@Tjitse Wolf
LOL... I`m Slovenian and I`m just as excited as you :)
Same here. I'm also Dutch. I never knew Time Team did a show in The Netherlands. Great to see how well our Dutch clay preserved the ship :)
Btw, this boat was covered up with clay again to preserve it for future analyses. I guess they'll excavate it completely in the future. They found another one of these in 2008 and a replica of that one is sailing around Holland. Picture: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schepen_van_De_Meern#/media/Bestand:Fiducia_reconstructie_Romeinse_punter_de_Meern_6_in_haven_van_Woerden.jpg
@@EdEditz Thank you for that nifty update! I don't know about you, but I've managed to learn a lot of cool stuff during the age of COVID. What are you delving into now?
@@haplessasshole9615 yeah Covid made me bingwatch the whole time team series. It’s so interesting and entertaining. I love history!
Reijer Zaaijer thank you so much for all the seasons of time team☺️
Thanks for posting
This show is keeping me company during the pandemic. Great company! What I loved in this episode was the Dutch archaeologist bursting with laughter when the dendrochronologist (very nice lady, by the way) confirmed that the calculations he had made in his SEVEN years of research were right! Good reason to celebrate.
I have just started watching this series, it is so captivating. Whoever does the illustrations is very talented.
the illustrator was the late Victor Ambrus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ambrus
So interesting, when they do digs in other countries! I love how I can slowly piece together the whole of roman history. If you ever visit my home town, Turicum (Zurich, Switzerland), visit the roman baths beneath the city and other sites concentrated around our lovely Lindenhof (beautiful observation point overlooking the river Limmat and the old town of Zurich). Many thanks to Time Team and Reijer Zaajier for making and uploading this outstanding series!
I just love these programs, I thought I had seen them all then this one popped up, thank you. I really miss Time Team not just for the history but the interactions between the team members.
I love the range of personalities on this show--Mick the voice of reason excitable by find, patient with geophys, the peacemaker; Tony animated by skepticism and an actor's temperament; and Phil so excitable by finds and intrepid, quite the athlete in the trenches, never intimidated and never aggressive though often provoked. This was a great show. maybe they will give us some reunion shows making updates, even though Mick will be looking over their shoulders this time...
Leopararouen No problem with you disagreeing but why the gratuitous insult at the end of your post?
he has passed on. google Mick Aston and you'll find it. That was some time ago. He is still in the clips they use to make their specials, that I am delighted to watch, so I don't have to memorize the shows by rewatching them. They are gentlemen in my sight, even Tony who goes a bit over the top now and then, as actors are wont to do. Though this will probably prompt some more venom from one of my insulters....LOL LMAO LOL
pardon me for saying, but between the two of us, you're the one who needs to be blocked, leopararouen. Just one opinion I am sure is shared. You weren't paying attention or you see I did mention his temper, but without aggression. He never comes onto a show already mad at everyone and I never saw him raise that fist so maybe you are talking personal experience? Is your mind wandering a little maybe? You can block me all you want. And otherwise how simple is it to simply omit to read my posts? They are clearly marked, if you are paying attention.
Fox1nDen as
Total agreement here. There's no need to name-call or insult people. Your comment was very positive, after all.
Amazing! I loved this episode. So much in tact to look at, research and learn from. Phil's enthusiasm is totally contagious. Love it.
Oh Brigid... thou art fairer than the dawn.
YES!
Thanks Reijer Zaaijer for posting this. I've been looking for this one forever. I tried telling my friends from work about this but they didn't believe me. They are so ignorant of history they didn't even believe me when I said that Britain was once part of the Roman Empire! (smh)
APIEngineering Your friends are fucking idiots
APIEngineering .
Everyone knows that fact.
Your friends must be pretty stupid.
The Romans never reached my part of Ireland.
Or did they? 😂
@@gerardmartin6353 or reach my part of scotland, we kept em at bay the had to build a wall
Imagine that! In a society where the average reading level is 7th grade.
@@jwnagy Technical they have right when they say the majority of the invasion troops where not Roman. With Legio XX Valeria Victrix and IX Hispania half of the original Roman Empire Invasion Troops where from Spain and XVI Gallica African and French. The only "realy" Italian aka Roman Legion during the Invasion was II Augusta. He can ask them what sounds better. Their ancestors raped and pilaged by the Roman Empire or by the Frenchies, Africans and Spain i bet i know the answer
i am watching the -old - Time Team since quite a few month. i hope the Episodes will never end. At least as long as i am still around. And be able to turn on the computer and click with the mouse...
This is one of my favorite digs. I love the door with the incredible locking mechanism.
Preservation is exactly the reason why they left it in the ground. The waterlogged soil has preserved it for the last 2000 years and it will remain doing so as long as the groundwater table doesn't drop to much. Digging it up means that you need an awful lot of expensive technology to conserve it, whereas the soil can do it for free.
wow...what good fortune to find an artifact in such a good state of preservation. What a tribute to the craftsmen who built her.
What many people don't seem to understand, is that the most efficient way to preserve old archealogical finds is to do exactly what they did here: leave it buried underground. If they had to dig it up completely, it would mean a multi-million dollar operation and who is going to fund the operation?
When they dug up Pompei, they found that the ruined structures which had been preserved so well buried under the ashes and rubble, would start crumbling and decaying much faster in the open air.
Celto Loco you can't keep every place where there's something in the ground preserved for possibly in the future excavating it.
It'd mean you can't ever build anything, anywhere.
It's the same with the glut of "industrial monuments", buildings being earmarked so they can't ever be torn down and replaced making filling the country to the point where new construction becomes impossible.
At some point you have to make choices, and they're not always choices everyone will like.
And do mond that this boat did NOT end up under buildings, it ended up under a city park and paved pathways and bicycle tracks.
What ended up under housing was the theoretical, predicted but never found, remains of a Roman border fort, of which dozens of others have been excavated and documented in minute detail.
Celto Loco The site of the boat is now a protected archeological site. So no building on top of it. In fact it is now beneath a cycle path. Can you seal it better, and in a more Dutch fashon? I would not worry too much about the boat. It will be preserved as the site is now not only protected but also the ground water level is regularly monitored. If the level changes too much, the boat will be excavated.
Celto Loco There probably are.
POUNDS! Not dollars... Or euros, seeing as it's in the Netherlands...
😛
Joking aside, you are absolutely right! There are times where lifting the entire site is justified (the site being endangered, or the historical value being too great), but most of the time, the archeology is best left where it is found: the ground has preserved it thus long, it can carry on doing so!
@@jwenting Well if you can't dig it up and still want to preserve it under a modern city. Then putting a park over it would be a pretty good idea.
I just love Time Team, it never fails to entertain and inform. Fantastic.
"It's a drawing arm we call it". "Back in England, we've got a bloke called Steve who does that with a pencil" 😂
Hahaha that shit was so funny. Tony’s sense of humor always cracks me up!
Giancarlo Eiras Blackadder humor 😂
Where's the pointy bit, the prow? Love Tony's questions.
This is one of my favorite episodes purely because of the wonderful Dutch archeologists.
Oh Baldrick, you are an epic part of history yourself.
I know I'm late to the party but nonetheless:
If anyone wants to read up on the boat it is called the "De Meern 4", one of 6 roman ships found in the area.
They never fully excavated it, deciding to leave it in the ground for conservation reasons as I understand.
They couldn't afford to excavate it properly.
Yes this episode is really Amazing and it’s worth watching them
Archeologist's dream!!! This is my favourite episode! Amazing stuff!
It would really be amazing to recover stories of Roman soldiers, who wrote home about what it was like on all of those fronts. Like what they saw, what the people looked like, what the people did in all of the areas Rome conquered.
Google "Roman soldiers letters home" and you'll get to look at some.
Everywhere2 That's cool man, thank you. I looked that up, and found others from soldiers guarding Hadrians Wall.
I lived for a time in Strasbourg, France. The place used to be a fort against the Germanic peoples out to the east, but developed a whole town west of the Ill river where the borough of Koenigshoffen now is and the finds there are quite interesting. Some tablets were found, amongst other things, (ceramic, I think), with a list of names of soldiers who lived at the fort (supposedly).
The exact reason why the names were on such a tablet I have no clue for, but it is speculation that it had some link to commerce, the tablet being found near what used to be a Bakery.
The tablet (incomplete) states the names of the men, as well as their role (Hastati, Principae...) but nothing else.
I hope this might spark your interest, as the finds around Strasbourg could help us understand the everyday life of a legionary!
Yeah or if they made videos...
They all speak English apart from Phil
@John Ooh, Ar!
Humble Trekker If you listen to the earlier series, Phil seemed to make more efforts to to speak English 😁
I spit my tea. Lol
Crackin’ commant! ;)
@@losttribe3001 , Re Caligula: he also wanted to name his horse a senator of Rome - 'slightly demented' sounds a slightly understated.
A fascinating episode. Great to see it again.
Fascinating! Thank you, Reijer.
was hoping it would all come out of the ground.but great episode and thanks for uploading.
What incredibly preserved finds. I won't be a spoiler and go further but if you enjoy ancient Roman ships this is the episode to see....Shades of the Mary Rose...
Incredible! That barge is huge.
I love everyone's enthusiasm.
What a wonderful collection of tools at about 23:00! The planes are spectacular--I've seen Victorian-era planes in worse shape at flea markets! Some day I'm going to have to build a replica Roman plane and compare it to later wooden bench planes.
one of my favourite episodes!
I loved going up an down the Rhine river an sitting at the cafes in Bingen am Rhein people watching
Was here Dec 2019
This was a satisfying one. Got to see lots of "stuff"!
My husband was born and raised in Utrecht. It's a nice area.
Those shears at about 23:15 remain exactly the same design today. My wife has a pair for gardening!
Just amazing.
I just would like to get on a dig with Phil.
+uw1955 I don't know about Phil but Raksha leads volunteer staffed digs where they help archaeologists on various sites around the world. Here's one for this April:
us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=22a0f4e4c7f72ba483492ac1b&id=15ac73b28c&e=be5f494479
I have done several volunteer vacations including a dig in Cumae, the first Greek settlement in mainland Italy (near Naples and Pompeii) where we were looking for a 2nd c. Temple of Isis but instead uncovered a 4th c. glassworks that used the temple's water supply.
Look online under "volunteer vacations" and go get dirty.
@@stannousflouride8372 thanks for that link! I'll look into it! 😁
Phil is working as a Wessex archaeology field archaeologist to this day among s bunch of other things. Google "Phil Harding Wessex archaeology" and his page will pop u0. Email him about volunteer work.
And Stannous as a glass blower is be interesed very highly in the reports from that site if they are around sounds like an amazing experience glad you got to have it
...i have seen so many boats on so many rivers in this exact position... some are eventually saved, many are just left to mother nature due to the full weight with half being under water... fascinating!
Such Roman etc sites should be protected ! Go ARMY
such a shame that they were or had not intended to uncover or dig up the whole thing, but just wanted to get as far as getting it dated and then bury it for a bike path. All those involved in this was so Great since everyone brought their own experience and knowledge to this dig..
Did I hear him right?!? "Hadrian's Wall IN SCOTLAND"???
It is 100% in ENGLAND, thank you Tony!!
There was no England in the Roman era.
@@Tugela60 And no Scotland.
For those interested in Roman ship digs, look up Gallo-Roman shipwreck off Guernsey. The show Digging for Britain season 1 episode 1 has a clip about the wreck in the last 10 minutes of the episode.
I hope they didn't attack that one with a chainsaw.
it happens the same in Venice:perfectly preserved bodies and coffins in the local cemetery after centuries: nature of ground and temperature
Those are vampires
Where is there a cemetery in Venice?
@@gregorymalchuk272 You would have used less time asking to a search engine. And you would know it by now
Splendid episode!
Do I love time team!
yes Yoda, love them you do
The metal tools discovered in the boat are amazing! Are those all for boat upkeep?
personal belongings, trade goods, rubbish dumped in the area later, hard to tell by now.
Seeing as the boat was deliberately sank there rather than by accident, it's highly unlikely they were actually left behind by the crew.
The Netherlands is by far the most altered area in which they have done an excavation so you can't even find the original course of the Rhine anymore on Google Earth or Maps. But the site is here: 52°04'49.1"N 5°01'22.8"E
One time in South Wales they were looking for the remains of a 20m high viaduct and the houses at its base. After 3 days the eventually hit the top of a brick arch that turned out to be enclosing the road bed of the intact and fully erect viaduct at the bottom of a “trench” which was by then 10m deep.
I love the idea that this boat was used as a levee.
Very common practice throughout history.
Utrecht was north of the Rhine.
Utrecht in that time in the frisian area. They traded with the romans in the city Dorestad (nearby the city Wijk bij Duurstede) on the Rhine.
love time team brilliant show tfs
Is there faint Enya in the background sometimes?
As a Dutchie I love it how people sometimes butcher the names of Dutch places... Dutch ground holds a lot of archeology... I live in Flevoland and there's always archeology going on or being found somewhere around the island... not just WW2 stuff, but also much older stuff such as wooden boats etc...
You should tell them to stop cutting up Roman artifacts with chainsaws.
107531kop 'Dutchie' really? What a stupid term is that. Everytime I read this term it's always by a Dutch person. Nobody else in the world calls you guys like that. Only Dutch themselves give themselves this nickname. Why do you do this? And it isn't even original but clearly a rip off from the Aussies. How pathetic.
@@hansolo2121 I hope you realize how ridiculous your comment is when a lot more Dutch people do this? And you'd be surprised how many more nationalities have nicknames that are similar to Dutchie or Aussie (which I've heard more commonly as Ozzy)... New Zealand for example: they call themselves Kiwis... so it's clearly not a rip-off as you say... And just like the Aussies are proud of their nicknames, us Dutchies are proud of ours... no need to start bashing it (would be just as pathetic as me giving some backhanded comment on your account-name just because I think it's ridiculous, so I follow what I was thought: if you can't say anything nice say nothing at all)...
my favourite episode
Such oak nails have a resist of two and a half tons-much better than every nail and waterproof! 38:34
Fantastic boat and serie
Look at that boat cabin!!
"The owner may have been a retired soldier." If so, that spearhead (24:32) may be the one that he carried for years, perhaps as a triarii..
T.J. Payeur triarii is from early republican Roman army, a spear point like that on the Rhine frontier in that time frame is more than likely from a Roman auxiliary recruited from non-roman tribes
I hope they do dig up the rest of this boat. Seems like it would be a historical crime to leave it underground.
Geweldig !
*snort* Caligula was "slightly demented". I love the British penchant for understatement.
Good show. To drink a cold beer to.
Tony mentions Hadrian's Wall as being in Scotland. Surely the wall is actually in England.
Indeed, probably just a scripting error by one of Time Team's 'foot soldiers'. I doubt he wrote that
LOL thanks to the VINEX locaties!
They must have had a big biscuit jointer.
so close to my hometown \o/
"it wasnt used as a speer because we didnt find a shaft" (24:25)
exuse me ,but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
mayby they had spare parts?
they explained that the ship could have been accidently sunk and therefore still had personal items on board... recalling how well preserved the wood of the cabin itself was, it seems unlikely to me that it was supposed to be a speer… it could be a spare part, but then wouldn't there be more???
Romans had Many weapons that had spear shaped tips. Hence not knowing the length of the shaft it can't be classified as a spear.
The fields are scheduled, yet no one knows what's in them?
19:30 "woodspecialist" i bet Phil want's to provide some
0:27 Nice shoes, mate. I have some Airwalks like that still from back in the '90s. Cheers.
Oh, Roman boat, you say? That's the archaeological dig?
They should get the barge up and bring into a Museum.
Why did they put the bar on the chainsaw used to cut the boat on upside down? LoL hope they don't have a lot of cutting to do lol
On a chainsaw , the groove that guides the chain wears on the bottom side , when it wears out you flip the bar over , when the second side wears out then buy a new bar
Living in St Louis, the Mississippi River also reveals similar finds
Somehow I doubt you have 2,000 year old ships...
@@charlesharper2357That's a river boat, not a ship.... And remember, the native Americans left behind things far older.
Amazing 🌝
Just thinking of pottery, when the sponging down of wood...
I wonder what foreigners think of Phil's accent.
Mr Varus
As a dane, I love it. Phil are a huge part of the reason to follow the Time Team.
Interesting.
If the craft was scuttled for river defences, why wasn't the cabin emptied of the barge master's valuable tools?
Maybe the landslide of rocks sank it?
Who knows...
Roman measurements in Roman please, aka Imperial!
The smaller boat with the cabin was not scuttled but surely the victim of an accident or storm. It was shown in being drenched in a shed. So far, there aren't any signs of a cabin on the larger boat they were excavating in this episode.
Idd, die was ik nog niet tegen gekomen!
I see Phil cut new shorts for this trip.
Back when people still commonly drank beer from glass bottles.
Dat was mooi! :-)
So the barge was built during the reign of the emperor Domitian (reigned AD 81 to AD 96), the last of the Flavian dynasty.
With all due respect, but the river Rhine was mainly used to replenish the roman troops in Trier end Xanten.
What makes anything that was presented in this program wrong because of that fact?
FloppyHares nothing!
@@jandeeg152 OK, then why preface it with "with all due respect"?
FloppyHares because I wanted to make a small correction without doubting anyones good intentions, I don't think I need to apologize for my minor remark, if you are insulted or offended by it, that is your problem!
I don't understand. Whatever happened to radio carbon dating?
Carbon 14 dating did date items for a time. Now it's not considered accurate enough.
Radiocarbon dating would provide a date range for the wood, perhaps of a few decades, but dendrochronology can often identify the specific year of felling, sometimes the season of that year.
Hadrian's wall is in the north of england and was never in Scotland, even today its miles away from scotland.
We needed something to keep them ginger bearded freaks out 😂
OK. Yes. Who's saying it was in Scotland?
By the way; Guess what a Roman's number one weapon was....
.....a shovel.
30k new houses...need that in basically every American city. 30k *affordable* houses
I also asked the same question: Why did they call Time Team when they were already doing the job? I wonder if that call represented additional financial support and/or media attention to complete the project? Bringing in Tony means that there has got to be some "me" or "our" recognition; like sharing credit. Name recognition does sell books, and give credibility in the academic world.
Good question - If TT was televised in the Netherlands, it could have been for done for general public "awareness" of these sites / projects, with an unstated goal of securing public funding for future projects in that locale.
Yes, I wondered that also. Perhaps TT brought an extra injection of resources and attention that were needed - someone else posted that the boat has been given protected status.
TT at this time had stellar ratings and PR... plus the show can handle some $$$ parts of digs... and they may get better permission to dig given the shows potential to out them...
They dont want anyone thinking they dont want to recover it before it erodes. Politicians love appearing to save things we care about.
Kelley
That is IF they called the Time Team. The Time Team might as well have called the Dutch to gain access to the digging to help promote the series - and ITV in the Nederlands.
Would have been nice to have cargo tonnage capacity...oh i guess i can figure it out...
I live in utrecht :)
The romans left this boat there for a reason, perhaps to entertain future antiquarians? Amazing they are over 150 years old
I hate large housing developments
But, on the good side they do sometimes discover history when ground works begin which no one knew about.
Trillock 1945 not always, anytime we find anything we are always told to cover it up and say nothing (archaeologist can hold up a construction development for months costing the company a fortune both in lost income / out goings to the banks and having to pay for the costs of the archaeology dig)
most never comes to light, simply because governments put the costs off on to the private sector.
@@JohnDoe-ee6qs Yup, but if I found something of interest in the ground, I would let someone know about it.
Plus, holding up a development site, does cost the company a fortune, as they want to get building and then sell whatever they have built to get their money back.
But not always.
But without these finds, big or small, we would have a lot less knowledge of our ancestors, like how they lived, what tools they used, pottery, house building etc., from the first peoples who lived here, then the various periods in time with all the various invasions.
I think it is good, and makes visits to museums very interesting and worth the time.
@@Trillock-hy1cf Everyone's got an opinion about preservation until someone tells them to get out their MasterCard!
@@phantomkate6 Well if I found something buried in my garden (highly likely though), I would take it to a museum in town to get someone to assess if important or not.
Why are teams always limited to 3 days ?
They are conducted over a long week end. All of the team have full time jobs at various Universities, so can only afford a dig of 3 days. Mick Aston is a professor of archieology at Bristol. Phil works for Wessex Archieology etc.
@@fredgrove4220 Mick was, sadly.
@@fredgrove4220 The true answer is that Mick Aston told Tony when they discussed the idea of an archeological programme, that three days would suffice to make an interesting programme that would reveal enough to give ordinary people a good idea of the history of the place they live in.
Leuk een Nederlandse :)
Modern Humans are in deep 💩. Turn of the electric and you have a catastrophe. We have forgotten more than we now know.
Brilliant series. Tony(Baldrick) is the best. Phill, well what can you say about Phill that hasn’t already been said in cackling bridge troll periodicals.
You can see the new housing buildings going in and what awful and generic architecture. the craftmanship of beauty is lost to us and modern architects.
People have to live somewhere, and this is one of the most smallest and densely populated countrie in the world. We have to build for people of all different sort of income. In a world perspective its not that bad.
Ik vraag me af of ze niet alleen naar het Zandveld zijn geweest, maar misschien ook naar het Zandpad? ;D