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  • Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
  • Join Tony Robinson as he journeys along some of Britain's most ancient pathways, retracing the footsteps of Romans, Celts, Druids, Saxons and more. Along the way, he encounters striking scenes from Britain's past- from sites out of strange myths to nearly forgotten landmarks.
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  • @bigbensarrowheadchannel2739
    @bigbensarrowheadchannel2739 Год назад +187

    Doesn't get any better than Phil Harding in a flint mine. Love that guy. He's a gem.

    • @dmac7403
      @dmac7403 Год назад +1

      Wouldn't go that far he's cool but Odyssey has a few really good folks reporting on history they love and have invested their lives to .

    • @peggyjones3282
      @peggyjones3282 Год назад +17

      Made me happy to see him. 🙂

    • @libbys.1708
      @libbys.1708 Год назад +9

      I think he’d prefer to be a hand axe than a gem lol

    • @NH_RSA__
      @NH_RSA__ Год назад +2

      Gem. Or maybe a flint.
      56:13 Have those trees been sculpted? Looks like a moose.

    • @nikesports79
      @nikesports79 5 месяцев назад

      Driver yet❤❤ 30:44 ​@@dmac7403

  • @lizzy66125
    @lizzy66125 Год назад +55

    I always come back to the video s with Sir Tony Robinson and Time Team.
    I am permanently stuck in my bed ,in the dark 24/7 with severe M.E,and luckily still able to watch this.
    I used to walk alot and enjoyed nothing more than nature and history.
    this gives me so much joy to be able to still see it in this way.thank you Tony.

    • @KOOLBadger
      @KOOLBadger 4 месяца назад

      Sounds miserable.. Im glad you got this to use your imagination..
      God bless you..❤

  • @Maddoktor2
    @Maddoktor2 Год назад +24

    Sir Tony Robinson is not just a national treasure, his gifts of knowledge are extended to the entire planet, and this one is clearly one of his masterpieces.

  • @uptoolate2793
    @uptoolate2793 Год назад +28

    Tony, age has turned you into an international treasure. International, assuming the brits will share you. Thank you for being there, all these years.

  • @trinkab
    @trinkab 11 месяцев назад +11

    "A friend of mine dug it."
    Me: Oooh!! A Time Team member?! I hope it's Phi-"
    **Phil speaks**
    Me: YES!!!!

  • @rdaniceh-s7442
    @rdaniceh-s7442 Год назад +64

    Thank you! There is no one to compare to Tony Robinson as narrator, this makes your story so exciting.

    • @Teresa-ih4sn
      @Teresa-ih4sn Год назад +2

      Absolutely!!

    • @jlindsey79
      @jlindsey79 Год назад +4

      Sir David Attenborough.. js..

    • @rustlerpete8902
      @rustlerpete8902 Год назад

      Oooooooooooioiooooooooiiooiooooooioooooooooooiihhiiiiiiiii imyyy

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад +1

      @@jlindsey79 - Exactly - Sir David Attenborough! In his 90s and still going strong, burning with curiosity and questions. I am not a big Robinson fan because of the goofy, manic way he behaved on "Time Team", but he is much more chill here in this series; much more palatable to me. The pathways also were very interesting and beautiful. It was great to end the series at the home of Charles Darwin. I do not blame Robinson for being so excited to be in Darwin's study as I would have been, too!

    • @theCosmicQueen
      @theCosmicQueen Год назад

      yeah i play these vids while doing other stuff, and LISTENING is so pleasant.

  • @dmshouse1
    @dmshouse1 Год назад +29

    So well done!! I’m American- I’ve worked in London and driven the roads of Scotland and now living in my country, out west. But this takes me back. I must say, I love anything Tony Robinson does! This series is just thrilling! The idea of hugging one’s landscape by walking it to point out the history of the land’s being is so totally British, so wonderfully magical. I’d love to see a series like this created to chronicle our vast nation, but with the keen attention to not only the obvious but also the small details a landscape can offer up heard from the voices of the ancients, but done as well as Tony does with his ancestral home. Just lovely- perhaps in one of my former lives I was an ancient Brit- as I feel every footstep in this film…

    • @KevinSmith-yh6tl
      @KevinSmith-yh6tl 6 месяцев назад +3

      Perhaps in another life you were.
      If a person's family came to this continent from The British Isles, while we are a world apart culturally,we do share history of our ancient people with the British/English people,how could we not?
      All the different sides of my family tree were all British or English.

  • @Gilren1
    @Gilren1 Год назад +23

    As a German I love that we live in peace with each other now and I hope it will last forever. I love GB and I'm investigating like crazy also through your lovely program the country and it's history. It feels like my true home - I really can't explain it ... Thank you!

    • @TracyD2
      @TracyD2 11 месяцев назад

      If it is left up to people with out influences from the so called leaders of the world. I doubt any of us would fight unless maybe a one on one old fashioned occasional punch in the face.

    • @teresavandal4973
      @teresavandal4973 9 месяцев назад +1

      Emotions and feelings don't need to be explained; just trusted... Enjoy your second home as I do mine in Poland!!

  • @Boogra
    @Boogra 6 месяцев назад +4

    Sir Tony is a treasure of Western Civilization. He never fails to hit this American right in the feels. Much love, and Godspeed, Sir Tony.

  • @roweng.4245
    @roweng.4245 Год назад +17

    Many years ago, I walked a part of the Ridgeway on a morning in May, with the hedges blooming and the birds darting and fluttering, and myself singing some of the medieval May songs.

    • @Benjamin-id1vg
      @Benjamin-id1vg 11 месяцев назад +3

      I've always sung as beautifully as a tortured cow being shoved in front of a train, but I know what you mean.

  • @jeffaltier5582
    @jeffaltier5582 Год назад +29

    Folksy and low key, and yet somehow really fun and interesting. It's nice to see the several episodes all in one video. And hey, we get to see Phil!

  • @harbourdogNL
    @harbourdogNL Год назад +25

    Would have been cool to have Stuart Ainsworth along on this trek...mind you, the show would then have been about 12 hours long, as I'm sure he'd have seen so many things in the landscape that warranted investigation and explanation.

  • @UATU.
    @UATU. Год назад +14

    Every time I see the Uffington White Horse I think of Tiffany Aching and the Scouring Fair. Then I think of Terry Pratchett and get a jolt of loss and gratitude.
    “Taint what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be.”

    • @Benjamin-id1vg
      @Benjamin-id1vg 11 месяцев назад +1

      And always check a used camel for runny paint and plaster teeth...
      May Sir Terry be tormenting everyone he runs into.

  • @kaylaantonio6460
    @kaylaantonio6460 8 месяцев назад +3

    “Did you say offerings?! So it’s not just a bunch of hippies cooking vegetarian sausages?” Oh, Tony! 😂❤

  • @EventHorizon3.14
    @EventHorizon3.14 8 месяцев назад +4

    If Phil is involved then I’m definitely going to watch and like the video. 👍

  • @thekiltedwoodworker
    @thekiltedwoodworker 7 месяцев назад +3

    Nettle is one of the best names for a doggo I’ve heard in a long time! What a brilliant show.

  • @time_for_fast
    @time_for_fast 8 месяцев назад +2

    my grandparents on both sides came from england and wales , watching this i realize how much i would love to visit the UK

  • @melissacoulter3996
    @melissacoulter3996 Год назад +4

    Wow!! Even Phil with his flint!

  • @MarcusAnderson0308
    @MarcusAnderson0308 Год назад +11

    I really like the way he narrates and the theme to Ancient Trackways is beautyful so dreamy and low key powerful :-)

  • @mikereilly7629
    @mikereilly7629 Год назад +8

    I wish I could show Phil my huge collection of paleolithic American chert tools. We don't have real flint. But the joy of finding even the mundane small tools never gets old. Most people know how to look, but so many never learn to see

  • @kevin-vt7dw
    @kevin-vt7dw Год назад +5

    I can't get enough of your history it fascinates me now

  • @susansouthard
    @susansouthard Год назад +6

    Phil and Tony together. It doesn’t get any better than that!

    • @deborahparham3783
      @deborahparham3783 11 месяцев назад +2

      The only thing that would make it better would be if Mick was there with them.

  • @jimr9499
    @jimr9499 Год назад +8

    Awesome show! I really found fascinating the Dave with the christian carvings in it. The mystery of who could've carved them is what amazes me.

  • @BoneMamaAZ62
    @BoneMamaAZ62 2 месяца назад

    Ahhh. Such a delightful journey with a gem of a human being. Lovely. Simply lovely.

  • @MrWompz
    @MrWompz Год назад +5

    The scale of that mine is simply incredible.

  • @joannamallory2823
    @joannamallory2823 Год назад +3

    🎶 roads go ever, ever on…over rocks and under trees 🎶

  • @alexialorentz2428
    @alexialorentz2428 Месяц назад

    I put this on to take a nap to, and forgot to nap. It was SO good!

  • @lynnthomason6589
    @lynnthomason6589 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great video Tony. Enjoyed every minute. Your presentation is so unique to each adventure. Thanks so much. Be well.
    Lynn in Naples FL

  • @Backroad_Junkie
    @Backroad_Junkie Год назад +4

    If America has an Ancient Track, it's the Natchez Trace. It's probably the oldest road in the US, though it's only about 600 years old...

  • @caroletomlinson5480
    @caroletomlinson5480 Год назад +6

    I feel like I’m walking with him; so soothing.

  • @christinaarenare5601
    @christinaarenare5601 10 месяцев назад +1

    I wish this was an IFit video. How amazing it would be to walk these trails from my treadmill!

  • @kateburk2168
    @kateburk2168 Год назад +10

    Just wondering if there are books/maps/field guides for this ancient roadway.
    Here in the U.S. we have a 2,180 mile trail but it isn't all that old. Back in 1900, a man began planning it out as a scenic trail & get back to nature thing and there are plenty of field guides available.
    Hoping one day I can vIsit England and see such interesting places for myself. It looks like a walk in the park compared to the Appalachian Trail.🤔

  • @MotDoiAnLac258
    @MotDoiAnLac258 5 месяцев назад +1

    cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ.

  • @RianShafer
    @RianShafer 10 месяцев назад +3

    Love all of these documentaries but I really liked Sam Lee's Dark Eyed Sailor (?) song. he has a very nice voice.

  • @davidcarr7436
    @davidcarr7436 Год назад +7

    Interesting coincidence that after visiting the flint mine, you go to Thetford,
    Thetford Mines is the name of a city in Quebec Canada. It was the home of one of the largest asbestos mines in the world. Another interesting coincidence, Edward Thomas was killed, as you said on April 9, 1917 the first day of the battle of Arras, which is better known in Canada as the first day of the battle of Vimy Ridge, the greatest Canadian victory of the First World War. RIP.

  • @frankj.artino2203
    @frankj.artino2203 Год назад +2

    From a decedent of Charlemagne, you've done it again. Excellence. Very well done.

  • @jerrymcdaniel4539
    @jerrymcdaniel4539 Год назад +2

    I bought two books based on this show. Very interesting

  • @IratePuffin
    @IratePuffin Год назад +2

    I now want to fly overseas to make the same pilgrimage.

  • @johndoubleu5942
    @johndoubleu5942 Год назад +6

    I could listen to Tony talk for hours. Any of the Time Team for that matter.

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 Год назад +4

    If you're not used to the ''ee, oi, and er'' sounds of Phil's dialect you'll miss much of what he says.

  • @sky.the.infinite
    @sky.the.infinite Год назад +2

    JASON KINGSLEY!!!
    🥰 this was a great series/episode!

    • @galthea
      @galthea 7 месяцев назад +1

      I was so looking for this comment:)

  • @jessmarie8850
    @jessmarie8850 Год назад +3

    Beautiful voice ❤️ Samlee

  • @frankiesaotoandmore5872
    @frankiesaotoandmore5872 Год назад +1

    So amazing the history

  • @MrMathieu112
    @MrMathieu112 Год назад +7

    Tony is a legend!

  • @Charlie.a
    @Charlie.a Год назад +1

    Thank you

  • @promiscuous5761
    @promiscuous5761 Год назад

    Thank you.

  • @johankan3757
    @johankan3757 Год назад

    ❤ so good to see you again

  • @verasmith4767
    @verasmith4767 Год назад

    Excellent.

  • @duanepetersonakaroadkill7161
    @duanepetersonakaroadkill7161 4 месяца назад

    Nice mission with your life. I am so impressed with Gods servants, like yourself. The younger generation seems lost in America, when it comes to our roots of Christianity. Our fault,our parents or there parents. They seem drawn to Atheism. Thank you for your life!!!

  • @lizzy66125
    @lizzy66125 Год назад +1

    beautiful camera work.

  • @charlescrawford1788
    @charlescrawford1788 Год назад +3

    Boy how Canterbury had the racket going. Science museums should adopt those. "Oh, I kissed the statue of Newton, and miraculously understood calculus! (all for a penny and a pound) LOL

    • @Benjamin-id1vg
      @Benjamin-id1vg 11 месяцев назад

      It's a good thing I am not the incarnation of the person who invented indoor bathrooms...

  • @topherthe11th23
    @topherthe11th23 20 дней назад +1

    56:21 - Notice the magnificently antlered deer standing on the horizon-line at about the middle of the screen left and right, with gray sky behind him. No doubt a hybrid between and Elk and an Elm. It's probably a Treed deerT, the only species known to be palindromic.

  • @melissajenkins1040
    @melissajenkins1040 Год назад +4

    Hello! And thank you for more wonderful content on this channel! QUESTION...Toward the end of this, Tony Robinson mentions that there are some languages that use the same word for "traveling" and "thinking". That really fascinates me, so off to Google I went to see what more I could find out about that. Could very well be I don't know how to search for it effectively, but I'm coming up empty. Could anyone tell me which language(s) Tony was referring to? Thanks again!

    • @carolynfisher4756
      @carolynfisher4756 Год назад +2

      I'm curious too! Anybody got an idea?

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад +2

      @Melissa Jenkins - There are several RUclips channels dedicated to exploring other languages and ancient languages. Perhaps you can ask at one of those?

  • @thomasevans5467
    @thomasevans5467 4 месяца назад

    Love the Jason Kingsley cameo cheers guys

  • @zephyrandboreas
    @zephyrandboreas Год назад

    Nice to see Jason Kingsley in this series.

  • @sedamcclurg9699
    @sedamcclurg9699 Год назад +1

    Great to see falconry highlighted :)

  • @suziecreamcheese211
    @suziecreamcheese211 Год назад +3

    What is it about ancient man wanting to move huge stones around, the Egyptians, the Mayans, the people of Easter Island and England.

    • @Benjamin-id1vg
      @Benjamin-id1vg 11 месяцев назад +1

      'Dammit, I've got 42 sacrifices to perform today, a field full of stones, and nothing to burn. Let's get these boulders out of the way before the god of chicken armpits gets upset '

  • @linotrevinio6709
    @linotrevinio6709 5 месяцев назад +1

    As i heard about the flint miners and why they suffered hardship to mine specific flint that was special. It reminded me of Nauhuac (Aztec) miners that mined special flint in deep mines for mystical reasons (although in Mexico they preferred a green flint) that again could be harvested above ground.

  • @Fox1nDen
    @Fox1nDen 5 месяцев назад +1

    they could trade them for more value than the flints found at the top.
    possibly the exotic source was a selling point.
    could be the black flint was more sturdy than the surface flints.
    possibly it could be worked into larger tools because of its origins.

  • @takethepowerback83
    @takethepowerback83 Год назад +2

    I recognize Jason the lad with the horses in this video!

    • @TristanCtrissy
      @TristanCtrissy Год назад

      I noticed him too! I love his RUclips channel

  • @jonerlandson1956
    @jonerlandson1956 Год назад +3

    the neolithic were familiar with caves.... i'm sure britian has some... gibraltar does.... they knew the stone they worked with... in different ways then we know the stone we look at....

  • @jonerlandson1956
    @jonerlandson1956 Год назад +1

    *the reality of realities...* time will tell.. if... we can reach it....

  • @mattsmith8160
    @mattsmith8160 Год назад +3

    Lost me at dousing rods. They're bs.

  • @jessmarie8850
    @jessmarie8850 Год назад

    Wow 😳 the bird!

  • @RestoreMoreMCM
    @RestoreMoreMCM Год назад

    These places and names sound like they are from a Lord Peter Whimsey account. Lovely to go places that I could in no way travel.

  • @user-ym7gl1gn9c
    @user-ym7gl1gn9c 7 месяцев назад

    The background music affects my heart and soul. What is it, please?

  • @topherthe11th23
    @topherthe11th23 20 дней назад +1

    1:24:59 - The date of this coin makes me suspicious. A friend of mine was once taken in by a mint-mark on a Roman Empire coin, "207 BC". It turned out to be fake as Hindu-Arabic numerals were used instead of "CCVII", and in Latin the word "before" should be "Ante" and so the abbreviation should not have begun with a "B".

  • @hannahbrown2728
    @hannahbrown2728 10 месяцев назад

    At 59:38 you get to see Jason Kingsley, I bet he's the guy who owns that land. Regardless, he has his own channel Modern History TV and hes also co-founder and CEO of Rebellion Developments. The guys who make Sniper Elite!

  • @jonerlandson1956
    @jonerlandson1956 Год назад +4

    *something i find interesting is our thoughts on their thought of survival...* i actually think these people were interested in learning.... i don't think survival was their primary interest.... i mean... with food and shelter... warmth may have been something different back then... they probably were able to regulate their body temperatures differently than we do... living amongst it all the time... exposure....

  • @jeannienash5249
    @jeannienash5249 6 месяцев назад +1

    ❤Luv this!!!❤

  • @user-xb5pq8fh9r
    @user-xb5pq8fh9r 4 месяца назад

    ❤Everything was based on a single feudal policy,😊

  • @topherthe11th23
    @topherthe11th23 20 дней назад +1

    1:16:00 - I've never seen where there is any land near the Uffington Horse where you can climb up and look down and see the horse. Every photo and every video I've ever seen of it is from a hot-air balloon, helicopter, or airplane. So how did they draw this horse when they could never see it? The land isn't even flat. How could they know how to translate a drawing on a flat hide or papyrus onto UNDULATING terrain? (No, I don't think a'liens did it. I wonder if a wooden tower used to exist, and if any trace of it has ever been found by archaeology.)

  • @janicehill5605
    @janicehill5605 9 месяцев назад +1

    Flintman does it again 😅

  • @varjen018
    @varjen018 Год назад

    LOL!
    Naming a pony "Kaiju" is probably VERY apt. (For those few that have insight in both fields.)

  • @kurisensei
    @kurisensei 2 месяца назад

    Surprised to hear Tony get Thomas Becket’s name wrong so many times

  • @jonerlandson1956
    @jonerlandson1956 Год назад +1

    *those neolithic people may also have dug into the earth to understand it...*

  • @lavadahaga5886
    @lavadahaga5886 7 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤

  • @deepgardening
    @deepgardening 6 месяцев назад +1

    we've forgotten -right, and you show a ripe batch of cattail flowers gone to seed, ie past the edible stages of the flower and you don't show the tubers at all.

  • @chriscarrol9373
    @chriscarrol9373 9 месяцев назад +1

    I keep waiting to see him running across the countryside with some hobbits an elf and a ranger?

  • @richardmartin404
    @richardmartin404 Год назад

    What about the Dandelions you were walking all over before you meet the Poet?... They are a Health Healing Plant...

  • @robyndavis3043
    @robyndavis3043 Год назад

    The “white horse” could also (or maybe) be associated with the “nascar lines” here in the US

  • @dawngriffin3550
    @dawngriffin3550 7 месяцев назад

  • @whitemonkey7932
    @whitemonkey7932 Год назад +2

    Luton isn't a suburb of London, rather of Pakistan

  • @teri2962
    @teri2962 Год назад

    What is that blue thing at 2:04:03

    • @EnglishJoanInOregon
      @EnglishJoanInOregon 6 месяцев назад

      A tradesman’s van on the road. There’s a car later on too.

  • @melodyc9402
    @melodyc9402 Год назад

    Good video - still not over my PBS days. I know a little bit about roads that are 2000 years old and who walk down them a Good Samaritan walk down them and that was the last good one there ever was and take a town like London holy macaroni that town has seen so many people over and over the generations and the centuries that have walked them streets including Jack the Ripper inuded every other famous. 2,000 years people putting curses and the bloodshed and The Vibes and the energy and the skin cells left behind I want my fresh land no matter how you look at this cake the bottom line is I'm the last little crumb on the plate

  • @d.g.rohrig4063
    @d.g.rohrig4063 3 месяца назад

    The black dog the background story for the Hound of Baskerville?

  • @avlea2
    @avlea2 5 месяцев назад

    Sorry, too many ads. More than regular tv.

  • @j.michaeljefferson60
    @j.michaeljefferson60 Год назад

    47.30 poem of WW1

  • @cherylmillard2067
    @cherylmillard2067 8 месяцев назад +1

    Icknield Way

  • @m.asquino7403
    @m.asquino7403 Год назад

    We have the same structures in North America. But the origins of the makers stifled, why?

  • @greendeane1
    @greendeane1 Год назад +1

    All of the wells on the land I grew up on were "found" by dowsing.

    • @Benjamin-id1vg
      @Benjamin-id1vg 11 месяцев назад +1

      I was introduced to it a while back and it worked every time until I went in search of my mind.
      Seriously, it works.

  • @almo8311
    @almo8311 Год назад

    ❤😊

  • @AngelaVallejo-wh4fh
    @AngelaVallejo-wh4fh Год назад

    Yes im a angelo saxon they come from Noth Europemy family name means the son of peter,which is Parkerson

  • @invinciblejets4690
    @invinciblejets4690 7 месяцев назад

    Corn in Iron Age Britain? Am I missing something?

    • @EnglishJoanInOregon
      @EnglishJoanInOregon 6 месяцев назад +2

      It’s a language thing. What Americans call corn is called maize in England. Corn, in the English language, means any cereal. Typically wheat, barley and oats. HTH.

  • @user-xb5pq8fh9r
    @user-xb5pq8fh9r 4 месяца назад

    ❤😊this is beautiful England in the (III)¹-1273-1378) time of Scandinavia (X-XIII) Italy Germanic Empire Henry (II) becomes King (1554) on the Fiefs of the French crown of Normandy is Great Britain 😊

  • @kendexter
    @kendexter Год назад

    i asked for the maikel line lol

  • @thefunnyman51784
    @thefunnyman51784 9 месяцев назад +1

    Phil should be knighted

  • @stephenkolarac5305
    @stephenkolarac5305 Год назад

    How do they prevent those ancient sites from being vandalized?

  • @jonerlandson1956
    @jonerlandson1956 Год назад +1

    *you people are trying to think like what you imagine a neolithic person might think...* thy thinking like yourselves... or... maybe imagine someone a little more advanced than you are.... why would you dig into the earth?... if you were they.....

  • @teresavandal4973
    @teresavandal4973 9 месяцев назад +1

    LOL, Sir Tony bite your tongue; you are NOT armchair by ANY means!!!