I love at the beginning when Tony and Phil check out the flint mine and Tony speaks of the bulb of percussion on one of the stones. Years of contact with the King of Flint, Phil, has rubbed off. Love it!
I was just going through my collection of sharks teeth and to my surprise I found 25 tiny flint and obsideon (?) arrowheads! I would not have recognized how important this was if not for Phil. They are probably for birds by their size..1/2" and smaller. Some look like Christmas trees and some are Eiffel tower shape and a few are like tiny three pointed throwing stars. Beautiful smalls I collected sitting on the beach in the Keys of Florida. Thank you time team for teaching us!
Phil would love the Flint Hills in Kansas, lots of finds all over. Walk creek beds and find all kinds of flint weapon heads, scraping tools, knives, petrified mammoth bones, bison bones, etc…
6:50 - Far future archaeologists will be roaming that flint mine and finding all Stone Age flints ... but also a few flints from the 20th century, and they will be puzzled. Thanks Phil.
Francis enthusiasm is absolutely wonderful (his enthusiasm sometimes reminds me of Brian Blessed), it so clear that he has an enormous passion for history
Spectacular! Thank you for showing my childhood home! Our history is often buried in the past, TT has brought it to life again. Superb, intellectually engaging episode. Thank you Time Team! Cheers!
😘 me too,l! But I love it when the "Standards of Science and Research" are followed. Mainstream Archaeologists don't really do this and it affects the story, almost every time. (You can't hold a Theory as your foundation if Fact. The 19th Century Darwinian Theory is Theory, and it isn't gaining any strong support from any venue. It will be retired 8n the near future and along with toy the Paradigm they created around it and its linear Timeline. That will open the top on Everything History! It will be a delicious feeling of finding the truths and they will be wonderful. Not restricted by narrow minds clinging to a story that has been their idea of reality. That's sad for them but far greater for the whole of Humanity. 😘 G0 IRISH!!! 🍀
Love the education Phil gives Tony on the flint they found and the way Tony tries to impress Phil with his knowledge of flint making. Good luck Tony. Now, Tony gets lost in the fog when in reality Tony is always in a fog. If it was me, I would have headed for the local pub and gotten out of the moisture. Eventually Phil would have shown up.
It is scripted so really shouldn’t be shocking... tony is a lifelong paid actor who know zero about history (outside of acting roles he was played in historical documentaries) and he knows beyond nothing about archeology....
@@richardgrace4500 The series had been going for 16 years by the time of this episode was and Tony himself has said in interviews that he learned farm more than he expected due to the show etc. Sure it could be scripted or it could be genuine and phils response to me says it was legit. If Tony had learned nothing from the show after all these years then he's more of a idiot than I thought..
@@richardgrace4500how many shows have we seen Phil instructing and explaining to Tony how to work flint? It would be more surprising if Tony didnt retain anything after nearly 20 years
The feasting must have been rather mediocre, because of the lack of abundance in cattle bones found. So yes... Straight out of the archeologist's imagination. Tony rocks!
It's so lovely to see these videos back and accessible to anyone. I love them and link to them on my map of archaeology points in Ulster and beyond. I have well over 6,000 places so far and your videos are a huge addition. Thanks for putting them back on here.
From Neolithic to Bronze Age, this settlement intrigued me. It puts a proper feel on how the "heroes," the cattle raiders, might have actually lived. Cool.
Time team classics I’m pleased to have found this team time channel. With the 1080p videos 🙏🏼 I love watching these. I refuse to watch the 480p crap uploads that on here. thank you so much 👌🍻
I love watching the episodes posted by two specific individuals. There were available LOOOONG before the official versions. And the non-official video posts leave in the very cool drum beats preceding and following the commercial breaks.
I'm currently in the middle of doing the Rosetta Stone Irish course and this video is giving me a pretty good insight into why Irish orthography is such a nightmare.
As a mechanic who went into engineering, I find the radar cart to be poorly designed. There's no reason it couldn't have larger wheels. You just use a drop axle. That would allow the sensors in the radar to be close to the ground but still having much larger wheels. You see the same thing on poorly designed for lawn mowers. The radar card was probably designed by electrical or electronic engineers. The frame and wheels should have been designed by a mechanical engineer.
You're right. The creators of this equipment never envisioned it being dragged across terrain like that. It was developed for finding pipes, services and cavities under lawns and other flat ground. I don't know enough about it to say whether the type of rig you're suggesting might interfere with their readings on certain machines. That said, this episode aired over a decade ago; hopefully they've made some improvements since.
Just watched episode of TT where they use a drivable machine with the 'detector package' on the front. Think it came from Denmark? Did'nt last long though, water got into its computer. Got it wrong, machine came from Sweden. Here's the episode: ruclips.net/video/zf6NFWMLpDE/видео.html
I have been thinking every season of Oak Island that they simply needed Time Team out there. Treasure vault? Found it at the end of day 3 with 10 minutes to go!
All I could think is that if he loves his flint enough to stick his hands between bushes upon bushes of stinging nettles - then that man truly loves flint.
Strongly agree! This is probably my favourite episode thus far: stunning location, compelling history and a glowing enthusiasm from the archeologists. This is what Time Team is all about!
@@lunaokittens9574 Only Americans talk such shit. The red states are the poorest and least educated and are parasitic on the blue states. But don't let reality interfere with your world view.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 It's not an opinion, It is a simple fact that you can check. The blue states subsidize the red states, Blue states send 100's of billions to the federal government more than they receive. Every state in the old confederacy receive more from Washington than they send in taxes. Red states are the poorest and least educated. This too can be easily checked, unless you think Government statistics are "fake news" which is the cretins answer to facts they do not like.
@@Anhorish Thank you dear person, from an inhabitant of a blue state. I feel we should tell the Southern Confederacy that a mistake was made. The Confederate States won the Civil War and they may leave the Union.
As an archeologist myself, I can appreciate the scope of this groups regional knowledge and insight.Very capable work for a relatively small group.Amazing really.
Looking forward, my Dad was born in Co Antrim and there is still family there. I don't think I will ever make the trip from the US, so this is the next best thing, I fear. I forgot to Mention, the family name is Robinson. Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In 1200BC Ireland was 80% wooded, so I'm wondering if there was forest amongst those buildings and on the promontory, and along the processional way...? Perhaps it wasn't so bare and bleak then.
It was interesting for me to see this as my grandfather was from the Mull of Kintyre and pointed out this part of Ireland from across the channel and his forebears had come from Ireland. They also worked with stone but as roofers.
The difference between Mick and Francis: They each find a piece of a pot. Mick: It was probably a storage jar for grain or something. Francis: It was a ceremonial pot placed here to honor the ancestors...
actually thats a sad disease historians and archaeologists have "dont understand what it is? Ceremonial!" It is too easy to dismiss mystery that way and it completely ignores the fact that throughout history, people have done seemingly pointless things for reasons other then ceremony or religion. Art and decoration are reasons in themselves, for instance. But somehow it seems like they think art for arts sake only started around the late middle ages or smth.
@@pathwanderer1183 Far too much supposition in these areas. Many academics seem to think their ideas are somehow fact. It's a mental disorder of sorts and leads to bad results. The truly intelligent and balanced mind can reason there is insufficient evidence to form a factual explanation.
@@jeannettedeblois691 Errmm, they can say that because they can see it didn't get it's shape naturally, hence it must have been worked, and you don't work a piece of flint for no reason.
@@pathwanderer1183 "ceremonial" is a very broad term. At one end of the scale, sitting down to eat together with your family is a ceremony of sorts, just as a coronation or a state funeral is. But I do agree with you that archaeologists want to give grand meanings to finds they can't identify a purpose for.
Great episode. Though I can't help but wonder what changes there have been to the local climate and landscape over the course of those 4000 years. Somehow I suspect that both were somewhat different at that time of the settlement, but I do wish they had actually mentioned what it actually was so I wouldn't have to speculate. However, it was already a rather packed episode as it was and perhaps it was impossible to squeeze something like that in.
@@Happyheretic2308 I wouldn't be too sure of that. The climate has changed quite a lot over the last 4000 years. With both warmer and cooler periods- and that can be seen to have a significant impact on lifestyle, settlement pattern, agriculture, etc.
The old myths have a lot of magic fogs, people getting lost in them or things appearing out of them, so I’d say they got a pretty good representation of that when they were up there
A 'raider' community was actually my first thought, 'defensive' yes, but rather to 'defend' the bullies from those they were stealing from. With so few resources on the headland, how could such a community sustain itself? From an 'economics' point of view, each house must have been expensive as the resources to build them had to come from further and further distances, and be very well built to withstand the weather conditions. Additionally as the raiders continued to 'raid' they would have needed to travel further to find cattle herds to steal. Very interesting 'dig' which again creates more excellent questions! Love it!
'Bullies' and 'victims' can be used virtually interchangeably. IF you are the one being 'bullied' then you are a victim. Occasionally, victims also bully the bullies. Strictly out of self defense LOL
Robbery is a zero-sum game for society as a whole. Once Ireland developed kings who ruled more than their own hill fort, it must have made sense for them to agree to stamp out cattle raiding, which needlessly wasted property and lives. Much like our police forces today try to stop gang warfare, rather than let the gangs wipe each other out.
@@faithlesshound5621 I'm not sure whether cattle raiding did get stamped out, at least back in those days. There was so much romanticizing and mythologizing around it, I wonder whether it might have become a sort of ritualized time-honored tradition in more stable periods. Sort of the way neighboring villages keep rugby rivalries alive for generations as a form of sublimated and (relatively) bloodless warfare. Really it's anyone's guess, I just happen to like mine :)
I can imagine the glee on Francis and Phils faces when John said he couldnt do the geophys. They love to give him a dig (pun intended) about getting back to traditional techniques. Friendship like that is a beautiful thing!
I could watch these on Amazon Prime, but I love reading all the positive comments that people leave on these videos, especially people from North America, given that I, myself, am a Canadian. Especially on the East Coast, Canadian culture is basically just British culture, so I feel like I'm learning about my ancestors from Time Team. Another few years, and I will likely take the dive and return to the land of my ancestors. North America is not all that it's cracked up to be anymore. It's golden age is over, sadly.
I miss Mick's centered, measured guidance. Francis says E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G is "Incredibly Exciting" and jumps to conclusions. Tony Robinson's last words in this particular episode -- "straight out of the archaeologists' imagination" -- underscores my point.
my mum use to just love time team all DVDs in her dementia period and guess what all the years later I am watching time team and live in Australia since 1989. I do not have dementia lol not at this stage
They may not have been using pottery or, more likely, it simply hasn't survived. Upland soils are often highly acidic and Bronze Age pottery was generally poorly fired by later standards and therefore not very robust.
As a mother I often wonder how young children were managed on a site like this! Did they tether the little ones to the entrance of the Roundhouse or what I wonder? Surrounded by cliffs and ditches they would have had to arrange something. Great show featuring possible ancient ancestors.
I love at the beginning when Tony and Phil check out the flint mine and Tony speaks of the bulb of percussion on one of the stones. Years of contact with the King of Flint, Phil, has rubbed off. Love it!
Then he goes and misses the roundhouse at 10:17 - taking him back to the drawing board!! Haha.
I love when Phil says "soon you'll be addicted to flint like me," and Tony shut that down with a quickness.
‘The King of flint’. I like that title you give Phil.
Or.... he is reading off a script since he is a lifelong paid actor
1:29 Phil's face when his hat blows off... for a second he thought his old friend was going over the cliffs. 🤣
I was just going through my collection of sharks teeth and to my surprise I found 25 tiny flint and obsideon (?) arrowheads! I would not have recognized how important this was if not for Phil. They are probably for birds by their size..1/2" and smaller. Some look like Christmas trees and some are Eiffel tower shape and a few are like tiny three pointed throwing stars. Beautiful smalls I collected sitting on the beach in the Keys of Florida. Thank you time team for teaching us!
Phil would love the Flint Hills in Kansas, lots of finds all over. Walk creek beds and find all kinds of flint weapon heads, scraping tools, knives, petrified mammoth bones, bison bones, etc…
6:50 - Far future archaeologists will be roaming that flint mine and finding all Stone Age flints ... but also a few flints from the 20th century, and they will be puzzled. Thanks Phil.
Francis enthusiasm is absolutely wonderful (his enthusiasm sometimes reminds me of Brian Blessed), it so clear that he has an enormous passion for history
yeah but if I took a drink every time he said "ancestors" or "ritual" I would be an alcoholic by now.
@@jaynedavis4667 And he's so damned dramatic, hands waving, head thrust forward and it always sounds like he's taking wild guesses about the place!
But no sense of humour watch him with philomena cunk😅 she makes him go up the wall!!
but obviously has massive anger issues
"While John throws his geophysical toys out of the pram!" 😂😂😂😂😂PRICELESS!😂😂
Absolutely!!
Calm down, it isn't that funny
Spectacular! Thank you for showing my childhood home! Our history is often buried in the past, TT has brought it to life again. Superb, intellectually engaging episode. Thank you Time Team! Cheers!
Ohhh I so love Irish history !! Good job Time Team , well done !!
😘 me too,l!
But I love it when the "Standards of Science and Research" are followed. Mainstream Archaeologists don't really do this and it affects the story, almost every time. (You can't hold a Theory as your foundation if Fact. The 19th Century Darwinian Theory is Theory, and it isn't gaining any strong support from any venue. It will be retired 8n the near future and along with toy the Paradigm they created around it and its linear Timeline.
That will open the top on Everything History! It will be a delicious feeling of finding the truths and they will be wonderful. Not restricted by narrow minds clinging to a story that has been their idea of reality. That's sad for them but far greater for the whole of Humanity.
😘 G0 IRISH!!! 🍀
Bless Henry and his own finds with all that mapping. Huge respect for that unassuming man. Wherever you are Henry, God bless you. 🙏😊
Apparently he is a Professor at Birmingham.
Oko
10:03 - Awesome little moment - must have been great to have a bit of light-hearted fun in the bad weather. Time Team is full of those little gifts.
Love the education Phil gives Tony on the flint they found and the way Tony tries to impress Phil with his knowledge of flint making. Good luck Tony. Now, Tony gets lost in the fog when in reality Tony is always in a fog. If it was me, I would have headed for the local pub and gotten out of the moisture. Eventually Phil would have shown up.
Is there anyone who does not love Phil and his enthusiasm?
No it's impossible to not love it
Yes.
Even John does, even though he's always giving him a hard time!
Lol Phil's surprise/shock at Tony finding those flint leftovers etc.
It is scripted so really shouldn’t be shocking... tony is a lifelong paid actor who know zero about history (outside of acting roles he was played in historical documentaries) and he knows beyond nothing about archeology....
@@richardgrace4500 The series had been going for 16 years by the time of this episode was and Tony himself has said in interviews that he learned farm more than he expected due to the show etc. Sure it could be scripted or it could be genuine and phils response to me says it was legit. If Tony had learned nothing from the show after all these years then he's more of a idiot than I thought..
@@richardgrace4500how many shows have we seen Phil instructing and explaining to Tony how to work flint? It would be more surprising if Tony didnt retain anything after nearly 20 years
Seriously tony and phil are so wonderful.
4:38 “while John throws his geophysical toys out of the pram...” 😄
Tony the peacemaker.....Da.
you gotta love the last statement, "this fantastic vivid compelling story, straight out of the archeologist´s imagination".
Yes!!! AHH!!! But Tony!!! It was once in the imagination of the people who built it too!
The feasting must have been rather mediocre, because of the lack of abundance in cattle bones found. So yes... Straight out of the archeologist's imagination. Tony rocks!
It's so lovely to see these videos back and accessible to anyone. I love them and link to them on my map of archaeology points in Ulster and beyond. I have well over 6,000 places so far and your videos are a huge addition. Thanks for putting them back on here.
A particularly brilliant episode, wish there had been a part 2!
Love the superior quality of these episodes. Thanks.
Love history can't get enough if it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
From Neolithic to Bronze Age, this settlement intrigued me. It puts a proper feel on how the "heroes," the cattle raiders, might have actually lived. Cool.
Time team classics I’m pleased to have found this team time channel. With the 1080p videos 🙏🏼 I love watching these. I refuse to watch the 480p crap uploads that on here. thank you so much 👌🍻
Be careful about being too grateful for free content.
I love watching the episodes posted by two specific individuals. There were available LOOOONG before the official versions. And the non-official video posts leave in the very cool drum beats preceding and following the commercial breaks.
hello from canada..we all love you..time team is back..😄
Nothing like history to while away hours of a lockdown, eh?
I went to Toronto a few years ago and couldn't get over how clean it was.
Hello from California...love you back...good luck with that tooth 😜
@@skiker6828 omg how did you know about my tooth.?
Hi from Quebec City
What would I do without Time Team in my extended lockdown? Thank you!
I'm currently in the middle of doing the Rosetta Stone Irish course and this video is giving me a pretty good insight into why Irish orthography is such a nightmare.
What a masterpiece of Archaeology
As a mechanic who went into engineering, I find the radar cart to be poorly designed. There's no reason it couldn't have larger wheels. You just use a drop axle. That would allow the sensors in the radar to be close to the ground but still having much larger wheels. You see the same thing on poorly designed for lawn mowers. The radar card was probably designed by electrical or electronic engineers. The frame and wheels should have been designed by a mechanical engineer.
A drop axle eh? What, kinda like this 0-_-0 ? I enjoyed ur comment v much btw.
You're right. The creators of this equipment never envisioned it being dragged across terrain like that. It was developed for finding pipes, services and cavities under lawns and other flat ground. I don't know enough about it to say whether the type of rig you're suggesting might interfere with their readings on certain machines. That said, this episode aired over a decade ago; hopefully they've made some improvements since.
Bro that’s funny. We don’t have an 😂 to click in this site, and that’s a bummer
Have a look at the new TT without Tony and see if those ones are any better.
Just watched episode of TT where they use a drivable machine with the 'detector package' on the front. Think it came from Denmark? Did'nt last long though, water got into its computer. Got it wrong, machine came from Sweden. Here's the episode: ruclips.net/video/zf6NFWMLpDE/видео.html
Love the show. You guys find more interesting things in 10 min than the Oak Island dopes found in 10 seasons.
I have been thinking every season of Oak Island that they simply needed Time Team out there. Treasure vault? Found it at the end of day 3 with 10 minutes to go!
@@southilgurl2003 Maybe they need to meet at the pub?
@@StanSwan ah, but they also found there was a wharf area, or whatever you want to call it. Lots of folks landed, explored and then just LEFT
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 Oak Island? I think they lost Marty.
They haven’t found anything on Oak Island because there’s nothing there to find; that show is entertainment, not archeology.
It's very helpful to watch these episodes with good quality CC.
Brilliant,thank you Tim and the gang."kia ora" from New Zealand
Fellow NZer here, was thinking throughout the episode how much Northern Ireland resembles New Zealand. Awesome stuff.
And a third NZer... Always enjoy the banter between the team - especially Phil.
Phil loves him some flint.
He sure does. You can see it on his face when he finds a good piece of flint.
@@FrostyBalls01 ,
@@nancymccracken4405 what’s up
always remembur, keep yor shovell as shorp as yor flint
All I could think is that if he loves his flint enough to stick his hands between bushes upon bushes of stinging nettles - then that man truly loves flint.
In the whole of the Time Team series, I'm not sure there was a more perfect site for Francis to be the leader of.
Strongly agree! This is probably my favourite episode thus far: stunning location, compelling history and a glowing enthusiasm from the archeologists. This is what Time Team is all about!
Professor Pryor is the Best Time Team introduced us to. Smartest on the Show!
I’m delighted for any episodes with Dr. Pryor. He’s marvelous!
_"That wind'd blow a pig into a coke bottle."_
My granny
LOL 😝
Damn that's a kinky granny
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Too funny!
Your granny had to be southern lol
There is some serious engineering in these roundhouses. Mankind seems to have had incredible knowledge for a long time.
Yeah, conservatives know how to build... liberals just cry because there's no roof yet 😭🤯😭...
@@lunaokittens9574 Only Americans talk such shit. The red states are the poorest and least educated and are parasitic on the blue states. But don't let reality interfere with your world view.
@@Anhorish so why is it the Dem cities and states that are always crying for federal money? And yet you say it's Republican states?? LMAO
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 It's not an opinion, It is a simple fact that you can check. The blue states subsidize the red states, Blue states send 100's of billions to the federal government more than they receive. Every state in the old confederacy receive more from Washington than they send in taxes. Red states are the poorest and least educated. This too can be easily checked, unless you think Government statistics are "fake news" which is the cretins answer to facts they do not like.
@@Anhorish Thank you dear person, from an inhabitant of a blue state. I feel we should tell the Southern Confederacy that a mistake was made. The Confederate States won the Civil War and they may leave the Union.
Gosh , Stewart - absolutely brilliant!
As an archeologist myself, I can appreciate the scope of this groups regional knowledge and insight.Very capable work for a relatively small group.Amazing really.
funny, I always heard negative feedback from archeologists claiming they are amateur hour and rushing their jobs.
Looking forward, my Dad was born in Co Antrim and there is still family there. I don't think I will ever make the trip from the US, so this is the next best thing, I fear. I forgot to Mention, the family name is Robinson. Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Never say "never," or "ever," or for that matter, "never, ever."
Much easier to go there now than in the old days. 8 hours on a plane and there you are! Easy peasy.
The Graphics at the End are really goood and give a vivid picture of how it looked.
Phil is the best, wish I could pick his brains for a few hours, such an honor!
Love time team. Thank you so much for putting the show online. X
This is going to be brilliant. Loved this one
This episode has such a fantastic ambiance
In 1200BC Ireland was 80% wooded, so I'm wondering if there was forest amongst those buildings and on the promontory, and along the processional way...? Perhaps it wasn't so bare and bleak then.
The Ancients must have found that fog to be very mystical
1080 makes all the difference.
Gorgeous, thank you.
Look at that landscape! It’s gorgeous!
It was interesting for me to see this as my grandfather was from the Mull of Kintyre and pointed out this part of Ireland from across the channel and his forebears had come from Ireland. They also worked with stone but as roofers.
To learn flint knapping from Phil would be great!
Francis was so underrated on this show but I just love him.
And John is so overrated 😂
@@christinecole330 Really think so?
This is very interesting and informative video. I love these people.
4:37 - Haha good one Tony!
The difference between Mick and Francis:
They each find a piece of a pot.
Mick: It was probably a storage jar for grain or something.
Francis: It was a ceremonial pot placed here to honor the ancestors...
Or they hold up a small flat rock and say Oh look a tool! Ha ha I love these guys!
actually thats a sad disease historians and archaeologists have "dont understand what it is? Ceremonial!"
It is too easy to dismiss mystery that way and it completely ignores the fact that throughout history, people have done seemingly pointless things for reasons other then ceremony or religion. Art and decoration are reasons in themselves, for instance. But somehow it seems like they think art for arts sake only started around the late middle ages or smth.
@@pathwanderer1183 Far too much supposition in these areas. Many academics seem to think their ideas are somehow fact. It's a mental disorder of sorts and leads to bad results. The truly intelligent and balanced mind can reason there is insufficient evidence to form a factual explanation.
@@jeannettedeblois691 Errmm, they can say that because they can see it didn't get it's shape naturally, hence it must have been worked, and you don't work a piece of flint for no reason.
@@pathwanderer1183 "ceremonial" is a very broad term. At one end of the scale, sitting down to eat together with your family is a ceremony of sorts, just as a coronation or a state funeral is. But I do agree with you that archaeologists want to give grand meanings to finds they can't identify a purpose for.
Great episode, thanks!
Great episode. Though I can't help but wonder what changes there have been to the local climate and landscape over the course of those 4000 years. Somehow I suspect that both were somewhat different at that time of the settlement, but I do wish they had actually mentioned what it actually was so I wouldn't have to speculate. However, it was already a rather packed episode as it was and perhaps it was impossible to squeeze something like that in.
The climate? About the same as it is now - wild, wet and windy.
@@Happyheretic2308 I wouldn't be too sure of that. The climate has changed quite a lot over the last 4000 years. With both warmer and cooler periods- and that can be seen to have a significant impact on lifestyle, settlement pattern, agriculture, etc.
The old myths have a lot of magic fogs, people getting lost in them or things appearing out of them, so I’d say they got a pretty good representation of that when they were up there
A 'raider' community was actually my first thought, 'defensive' yes, but rather to 'defend' the bullies from those they were stealing from. With so few resources on the headland, how could such a community sustain itself? From an 'economics' point of view, each house must have been expensive as the resources to build them had to come from further and further distances, and be very well built to withstand the weather conditions. Additionally as the raiders continued to 'raid' they would have needed to travel further to find cattle herds to steal. Very interesting 'dig' which again creates more excellent questions! Love it!
'Bullies' and 'victims' can be used virtually interchangeably. IF you are the one being 'bullied' then you are a victim. Occasionally, victims also bully the bullies. Strictly out of self defense LOL
Robbery is a zero-sum game for society as a whole. Once Ireland developed kings who ruled more than their own hill fort, it must have made sense for them to agree to stamp out cattle raiding, which needlessly wasted property and lives. Much like our police forces today try to stop gang warfare, rather than let the gangs wipe each other out.
@@faithlesshound5621 I'm not sure whether cattle raiding did get stamped out, at least back in those days. There was so much romanticizing and mythologizing around it, I wonder whether it might have become a sort of ritualized time-honored tradition in more stable periods. Sort of the way neighboring villages keep rugby rivalries alive for generations as a form of sublimated and (relatively) bloodless warfare. Really it's anyone's guess, I just happen to like mine :)
The landscape was completely different then, for one thing. Don’t you people learn anything of history?
I love Tony twit with his head in the clouds over what a garden is to him!!
County Antrim is where my ancestors lived before coming to America.
Francis Pryor is the smartest most knowledgeable person ever on Time Team. It's a joy to watch him.
Thanks I love all your shows
Phil and his lovely accent are not to be missed.
To think that centuries from now an archaeologist may find Phil’s body & some flints of another date.😀
I can imagine the glee on Francis and Phils faces when John said he couldnt do the geophys. They love to give him a dig (pun intended) about getting back to traditional techniques. Friendship like that is a beautiful thing!
I could watch these on Amazon Prime, but I love reading all the positive comments that people leave on these videos, especially people from North America, given that I, myself, am a Canadian. Especially on the East Coast, Canadian culture is basically just British culture, so I feel like I'm learning about my ancestors from Time Team. Another few years, and I will likely take the dive and return to the land of my ancestors. North America is not all that it's cracked up to be anymore. It's golden age is over, sadly.
not on Prime in the Netherlands?🇳🇱😢
Phil found flint, your probably in for a flint making demonstration, always fun 😀
Oh snap I called it lol
what a nice and wholesome episode :)
TIME TEAM, IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND....GREAT
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If you watch carefully youl see time team between the adverts 😁😁
What ads?
Ireland is an amazing place.
I’ll fire up the JCB.My favorite digging tool😎
Breathtaking
Every time Phil says 'actually,' take a drink! 2:40 and I've already had two.
You could die doing that! 😂😂😂
Love the irish culture 😍
Thanks for posting - interesting.
I miss Mick's centered, measured guidance. Francis says E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G is "Incredibly Exciting" and jumps to conclusions. Tony Robinson's last words in this particular episode -- "straight out of the archaeologists' imagination" -- underscores my point.
Yeah. Francis is only one of the all time giants of British archaeology, how dare he have a personality. Twat.
I was wondering what I could see on the horizon when in Scotland the other day.
@6:56. Phil Harding hands you a piece of flint he has just knapped.
What do you do with it? :)
Shave!
my mum use to just love time team all DVDs in her dementia period and guess what all the years later I am watching time team and live in Australia since 1989. I do not have dementia lol not at this stage
2:00 Tony looks especially like Baldrick here.
Just loverly.
Was past here today. Looking spectacular covered in snow.
I bet it did
Strange to hear it being pronounced Knockdhu, I get tempted with the Welsh, du being pronounced to dee and being the colour black. - so Knockdee
That's because it isn't Wales its, Ireland pronunciation is very different
Cnoic = Hill / Dubh = Black …. Love a bit of provenance etymology… Black Hill / knock doo …
I use to watch this every Sunday evening I loved this show.
Seeing Francis look at a bunch of tussocky hillocks and identify a bronze age round house makes my heart absolutely sing
Phil found his flint-loving soul-mate at this site it seems. :o)
No.
Excellent.
Our ancestors never cease to amaze me. Imagine how much hard graft their lives were. No wonder they hardly made it past 40 years
outstanding as always. I would’ve liked to know what those three black circles in the entrance really were for. obstacles against intruders?
If they were post holes, you can do something like that allow people to pass, but not stock, and yet you don't have to use a gate.
If I have a spirit that lingers after I'm gone you'll find it wondering the hills and shores of Scotland and Ireland.
47:05 tony is so savage hahah
1/8 Irish here, one of my great grandmothers came from County Down. Before it became a part of NI.
reminds me of Tre Ceri on the Lyn Peninsula, which in turn reminds me of the cyclopean Tyrins of the mighty walls et al. Citadels of yore.
Excavating the tractor, Weather Rules!
And we must dig them NOW!
Pretty easy to see the hilltop was secure from the three sides by the slope.of the hill. The flat area was then protected by the built ditches.
If it's the Bronze Age, it's strange no pottery fragments were found around the homes. Maybe the homes were burial chambers?
They may not have been using pottery or, more likely, it simply hasn't survived. Upland soils are often highly acidic and Bronze Age pottery was generally poorly fired by later standards and therefore not very robust.
6:07 we'll make an archeologist out of him yet :P rip mick...
@d3adsoulja Mick passed away in 2013. :(
As a mother I often wonder how young children were managed on a site like this! Did they tether the little ones to the entrance of the Roundhouse or what I wonder? Surrounded by cliffs and ditches they would have had to arrange something. Great show featuring possible ancient ancestors.
My great grandfather came from Larne, just down the hill.
Dont think kids were as cosseted back then.. they worked in the fields from very early ages.
And dont always think todays climate is the same than some thousand years ago.
True. I expect there may have been at least a few more trees about, or were they importing them from Scotland? =^[.]^=
A little less pollution I would imagine.
You know it's serious when they call Jackie in to dig eeeek
Was John expecting manicured lawns?
Yeah , but that is john we talk about 😂