Fabulous episode! One of my faves! Mick, Phil, Matt, Stewart, Helen & Tony are just super people. I think I would enjoy talking with Stewart for hours, he just fascinates me! Although, I'd probably enjoy drinking a few beers with Phil even more!
Something sublimely satisfying about them finding that grave and then a piece of the cross that marked it. All archaeology is about people, of course, but this felt personal somehow.
What a great episode! From the first glowering stare from Phil in the airplane, to the beauty of Mull, to the very last few outstanding finds in the ground. Simply wonderful.
This is still one of my favorite episodes. Still hard to accept that Mick has gone, and we no longer have the advantage of learning something new and fascinating from TT. Thank God for You Tube.
I traced my ancestry back to Mull, the family left probably as part of the Highland clearances in around 1842. There's not many programs that show the area, so this is a real treat!
The clearances sent several of my ancestors scattering all over Scotland and northern England. We’ve lately managed to connect and verify a few of the dots, but we don’t have much by way of records to work with. Even oral history is thin on the ground 🙁
Mull is one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited - this episode was brilliant - kept me hooked from opening to ending - i just wish it had been six hours longer (at least) but hey can't ask for everything.
I agree and he seems to have a very soothing way with him. Tony calmed down quite a lot and behaved himself on this episode. I was very upset with Tony on the two previous episodes. He had become a nasty character.
Tony Robinson 'nasty'? C'mon, don't be silly. He was always playing it up for the camera. He and Mick were great friends and that's what started the series in the first place.
Mull is such a beautiful place to visit and a trip across to Iona from Fionnphort is well worth the effort. There's a nice wee pub just before you get to the Fionnphort ferry building too. :)
This is such a good episode - shows the cooperation of TV, Universities and amateurs really well. One item of note: the progression of Phil's accent from moderate in Season 1 (1994) to broad and rustic in Season 17.
This was such a wonderful program. I wish they could do something like this in Japan and China. Even better if they could get some of the same archeologists. Thank you for presenting this wonderful program to us Zaaijer-san and for the editing you have done.
As usual I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat watching an absolutely fascinating episode of Time Team. I am particularly pleased that they found the saints bones absolutely untouched. I believe these relics should be recovered an kept in a cathedral and documented properly; not in some cardboard box in a museum.
Hi Allington Marakan, It makes no difference whether the remains are from atheist, agnostic, pagan or religious people. A person's body is an intimate part of that person. It does not matter whether they are buried three thousand years ago or three days ago it still would have personally counted to them and their families. I believe that these scientists should do the tests needed on the skeleton and then they should be re-buried in an ossuary in either sacred ground or an appropriate place where they will not be disturbed again. I personally hope that my remains will rapidly decay and disappear so that no one will dig me up one day. Best Wishes
I generally tend to go by the living memory rule. If the bones are new enough to have people alive today that knew them, such as great granddaddy's bones or mom's, leave them alone. Beyond anyone's living memory, fair game, although if a person of a sure religious or ethnic background is to be reburied I think it courteous to observe the religious or cultural norms for that society. Therefore, dig up a Jewish person, when done with examining the bones, turn them over to fellow Jews to see properly reburied, etc. I am an atheist and put no real significance to the corpse after death, but still try to be respectful of other's beliefs when possible.
Regardless of one’s religious affinity, what’s important is the history. The bones belong in a Museum, prominently displayed for all to see and wonder about. Similar to the US’s dilemma about what to do with statues etc of Southern soldiers and flags. Because they represent a time in American history that condoned slavery some want them destroyed. But destroying art smells like communism. I think these “ relics” belong in a museum.
@@dawntheberge5876 The bones would have been studied, copied and reburied in consecrated ground, probably on *Mull.* The copies would be displayed. That would be usual practice in *Britain.* Not to so rebury such bones would be considered disrespectful here and, bearing in mind where they were found, probably illegal in this case.
@@dawntheberge5876destroying southern statues is equally as good as destroying Stalin/hitler statues. They represent evil and hate. A very un Christian view you have.
Phil stays well grounded. As an eminent field archeologist. Tony is a curious fellow who started as and dance() star on broadway. I will probably stick on phil's instruction.
@@marcopolokitty I think that you may be on the wrong person - see Tony Robinson on Wiki, there's no mention of him being either a dancer or appearing on Broadway.
I am pleased to know the connection with the Isle of Man dig, up on the golf course above Douglas. This is the word "cill", a chapel. This episode on Mull has been very entertaining for me, and it shows how closely linked were all the ancient sites on the west of Scotland, Ireland and the IoM. [Aussie in BC]
Baby Boo If you go to Dig Ventures channel...they have digs that are done I think in the summer months...and anyone who can can join in with the dig....there is a comment from them on this page and a link to their site....enjoy
One of my favorite episodes. I like how Mick always keeps his final opinion until it is done. Always a form of looks like, is similar to, could be. This episode showed how he didn't make a judgement until all evidence was provided. It is a huge difference compared to Francis Ritual Pryor. Francis would have been telling all kinds of stories about ancestor worship and rituals if he was the site director and it was iron age or bronze age. Mick being an expert in monasteries and chapels hinted at his thoughts but never confirmed them until the end. He knew what the site was but refused to admit it until it was confirmed, Francis claims a site is something first. Mick was a true archeologist, a true scientist. Francis? More of an educated storyteller. The other thing about the episode I liked was the environment. Pine forests, thin soil, stones aplenty, It was a difficult site with the jumble of stones and nearly none for soil layers. But they peeled it apart and found the structures. Amazing work as all I could see was a pile of stones until they started describing it and before the edited lit up Here you idiot! addition that I sometimes need for soil colors to spot the trench they wax on about finding in some episodes.
saying the skill of the translators long ago is so easy to understand. Canada was translated by a translator who got the word wrong. It was Kanata and apparently meant Village. So translation or interpretation is quite believable.
How brilliantly inspired by Mick. If you are relatively ignorant of the complexity of a object or building but versed on the purpose a person could see pluses and negatives to the said object .
Thank you Tony for saying, "Gaelic" and not "Gallic" like Helen. Gallic refers to the Gauls of France. In Irish "Gaeilge" (pronounced gwayl-guh) is what we call the Irish language. Gaelic is the anglicized pronunciation of Gaeilge, but really refers to the goidelic languages of the Celts in early Ireland, the Highlands of Scotland & the Isle of Man. Outside of Ireland, the language is simply referred to as Irish.
There’s a good chance those white pebbles came from the quarry at Columba’s Bay on the Isle of Iona. It was a great tradition for monks and other pilgrims to take these stones with them as they spread out from Iona to take Christianity to the North. Such pebbles can be seen today as they mark the burial places of monks in the Abby on Iona.
Why did I only just realise that it's not normal for this to have been my favourite show when I was 8??? I tried to talk about it in history class and only the teacher had ever seen the show lol
Even Canada shares something special with the Isle of Mull, one of Canada's most beautiful cities, Calgary, Alberta was in fact named after a hamlet on the Isle.
Hearing them discuss the significance of the rounded quartz pebbles placed at spiritual and/or burial sites is so intriguing. I remember the first time I did it, and no one had directed me to do so. Also the impulse to stack stones in a tower; to create cairns...it seems to be in our collective consciousness.
Another commenter said this of the bones about two years ago; 'The human remains are now on their way to Dr Alison Sheridan at the National Museum of Scotland for further research.' I am assuming this is correct. I am happy for Scotland, both for finding this place and for having it be unchanged and not destroyed by the later changes to the landscape. So much history lost and destroyed.
I'm an American who has visited Mull twice. There is a monk who is founding a monastery on the island. When he bought the property he was not aware there are what appears to be the circular outlines of possible monastic cells. It is known there were female monastics on Mull during the early years of Christianity right after St. Columba. The bones and teeth found are likely female. Male monastics lived on Iona. Check out Mull Monastery on the web. Father Serafim lives there. Linda Elizabeth
I've heard Mick speak about St. Columba before. He may not have ever admitted it, but I think he had a devotion to him....its just the way he behaves when that saint's name comes up. He perked up!
St. Columba was a true Saint. Our Lord said: "Heaven is taken by violence, and the violent bear it away." The "violence" He speaks of is the violence one does to himself in order to have command over the passions, bringing the flesh under the subjection of the intellect instead of living like the brutes who live only in the moment. This saint was a truly penitential man. I think that is what the humble Mick Aston liked. Virtue.
Does anyone know why the reliquaries from this era were placed outside of the chapels? The episode Finds in the Fairway dug on the Isle of Man had a keeil with a relics box as well.
It's true. Americans simply do not appreciate history, hence, we aren't learning our lessons. I'm an American and an honorary daughter of the American Revolution, and I find it incredibly sad that many so-called popular Americans today don't even know their own constitution. It's tragic, and I'm afraid we're in for more very harsh lessons in the very nearfuture. I'm even concerned about my safety here, and I wonder ifI need to sell my house and move back to France for better healthcare. I lived there for two years, and it's so so sad that many ex-patriated Americans are leaving this country and moving abroad, because we're on the brink of another civil war.
I don't think that it's the US public, I think it’s the TV companies that assume that their audiences won't accept anything that's not _dumbed-down._ *_Time Team America_* could have worked and it's sad that it didn't.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Once you find the British versions of shows and America tries to do it, its crap. Love British TV, don't even watch any American TV.
A fair point.Because this is aimed towards catching a broader audience than would normally get into 'old stuff' , they probably like to avoid too many syllables and academic-sounding words.The result of this thinking and mass-media is new factor influencing language thru 'common usage'. Over time 'theory' may come to be accepted as synonymous with 'hypothesis'.
@@ianrutherford878 In mathematics, and probably elsewhere, a _theory_ is unproven but probable. A _theorem_ is proven. A _hypothesis_ is a logical conjecture. _Ain't words fun!_
Of course, quartz pebbles could be some kid's rock collection. My kids have all sorts of gravel at the moment, but really like the smooth ones they find now and then. (They're 3 and 5)
Bryan McGucken : I'm 63 and I have a collection of rocks that were picked up all across the east coast, northern Europe, England, Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
It has always been the custom in both the eastern and latin church to put the relics of a saint in or under an alter, so it is possible that there was never a complete skeleton buried there. (I hope they treated the remains with proper respect.) Is there any evidence of a tradition of pilgrimage to this site?
I’m new to time team and I see they’ve been around awhile. I’m wondering when this episode was actually shot as I’m traveling to Mull summer of 2020. Would love to hike to this site if possible.
Unlike the thin skinned partisans of the Emerald Isle in the comments below, I'm pretty certain that St. Columba had more important matters on his mind than his birthplace, and, frankly, in Europe as a whole there still seems to be far more fuss made about where someone was born and who someone was born to, in detriment of what they actually accomplished. Take it from someone born in the USA, which has hardly any history to speak of, when you have such historical riches as Europe you shouldn't trade it for a mass of pottage of far more recent quarrels. It's what St. Columba accomplished that was extraordinary, and worth remembering. The buildings Time Team excavated are part of that accomplishment. And I doubt that he would have made much fuss about his name being Anglicized, and certainly not to the people he was trying to convert, as any sincere (and intelligent) Christian missionary abroad would avoid making a similar fuss about their name or their birthplace today. Can you think of any European today who has anywhere near the emotional potency and certainty of belief of St. Columba or St. Patrick or any Dark Age missionary of the Gospel who's name is lost to history? I can't. Even though much, if not most, of Europe are unbelievers, that potency of belief, in very large measure, has made the Europe we have today. We should emulate Mick, also an unbeliever, who chose a profession which uncovers and restores such history (and prehistory) and who personally was convinced that it was of first importance to do so, whether it was Neolithic, Roman, or Christian. That conviction shines through these programs from him and all the other members of Time Team. They not only love their job, they are convinced of it's importance, something beyond the entertaining differences of local British accents or the other foibles of their character that are equally entertaining.
Karmakshanti Vyapini And lets not forget the Picts! Whom the Monks displaced and converted. I’m quite sure they and all indigenous peoples of the world were doing just fine before Christianity.
Its nothing like as easy down in england because the english went around destroying books and documents in Ireland. I assume they did the same in Scotland. Several manuscripts were descovered by an irish historian about a hundred years ago in a English lords estate. He showed them to him because he thought they were Egyptian. They were books of ancient irish law. The historian said "I feared the lord would notice how pale I turned when I first saw them, for if he knew what they were they would have been burnt" The historian let on he did not know what they were, took them back to trinity college and there they remain. There used to be colleges teaching law in Ireland over a thousand years ago all those were destroyed because that's what invading armies do.
My favourite episode. Did a Time Team pilgrimage to the site last year , the pull was so strong I just had to.
9 years alter, and i am still fascinated by these episodes...
"We've got you a chapel; we've got you a monastery; and we may well have got you the bones of a saint. The perfect Time Team!" Indeed!
What a treat! I just found this episode after years of watching and rewatching episodes over and over again.
"that mystery is what has preserved it for us"... What a quote!!!... Love that ♥
Fabulous episode! One of my faves! Mick, Phil, Matt, Stewart, Helen & Tony are just super people. I think I would enjoy talking with Stewart for hours, he just fascinates me! Although, I'd probably enjoy drinking a few beers with Phil even more!
Indeed!!! 🤗
I think of all the Time Team as my friends!
This episode of Time Team brought tears to my eyes, especially after the discovery of the partial celtic cross.
Me too. I thought I was the only person crying over Time Team and God. A great team.
Something sublimely satisfying about them finding that grave and then a piece of the cross that marked it. All archaeology is about people, of course, but this felt personal somehow.
What a great episode! From the first glowering stare from Phil in the airplane, to the beauty of Mull, to the very last few outstanding finds in the ground. Simply wonderful.
OneWorldHistory I was just going to comment on Phil’s opening glare lol he looks so over the speech lol
@@2006athena through the whole episode he looks preoccupied (JMO)
I'm a local and I remember going to the site while time team was there on a school trip!
Connor J Weir Amazing 😉
And how was it for you?
So very cool!
This is still one of my favorite episodes. Still hard to accept that Mick has gone, and we no longer have the advantage of learning something new and fascinating from TT. Thank God for You Tube.
Checkout Dignation/ ventures in the memory of mick. They have a channel.
Possibly one of the best ever Time Teams Ever, Keep up the brilliant work Tony & the Team
I traced my ancestry back to Mull, the family left probably as part of the Highland clearances in around 1842. There's not many programs that show the area, so this is a real treat!
The clearances sent several of my ancestors scattering all over Scotland and northern England. We’ve lately managed to connect and verify a few of the dots, but we don’t have much by way of records to work with. Even oral history is thin on the ground 🙁
"...or, are we just on a flight of fancy?" Now, check out Phil's expression! Priceless!
I agree, I can watch these over and over again.
Mull is one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited - this episode was brilliant - kept me hooked from opening to ending - i just wish it had been six hours longer (at least) but hey can't ask for everything.
Having Mick on the scene really makes all the TTshows. What a fascinating man he was.
good to hear that theme tune again!
I agree and he seems to have a very soothing way with him. Tony calmed down quite a lot and behaved himself on this episode. I was very upset with Tony on the two previous episodes. He had become a nasty character.
Tony Robinson 'nasty'? C'mon, don't be silly. He was always playing it up for the camera. He and Mick were great friends and that's what started the series in the first place.
@@lameesahmad9166 he’s an actor, he plays a foil.
how I miss Mic
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smiles all around ... history revealed ... excellent work by the whole Team.
These people are all geniuses!! I have watched them continuously since I bumped into them on Utube!
One of their best episodes.
I`V SEEN THIS ONE SO MANY TIMES ,,, I JUST KEEP COMING BACK TO IT AND I ALL-WAYS SEE SOME THING I MISSED BEFORE IT`S GREAT ,,,, REALLY LIKE IT
Thanks so much for posting.
Mull is such a beautiful place to visit and a trip across to Iona from Fionnphort is well worth the effort. There's a nice wee pub just before you get to the Fionnphort ferry building too. :)
Thank you to the late Mick Aston, Just learned a lot that's been bugging me about Mull.
One of if not the best episode ever on #celticchristianity
Motley bunch?!! Love these guys!!! Aye! Motley indeed!!!
On with the Motley! (whatever that means)
Such a good tv production. And personalities. Would like reboot of this show.
Agreed but it won't happen. Too much has changed since then.
This is such a good episode - shows the cooperation of TV, Universities and amateurs really well. One item of note: the progression of Phil's accent from moderate in Season 1 (1994) to broad and rustic in Season 17.
It's called "The camera effect".
This was such a wonderful program. I wish they could do something like this in Japan and China. Even better if they could get some of the same archeologists. Thank you for presenting this wonderful program to us Zaaijer-san and for the editing you have done.
This one is my favorite of all the TimeTeam's videos.
What a beautiful part of the country. Great episode!
As usual I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat watching an absolutely fascinating episode of Time Team. I am particularly pleased that they found the saints bones absolutely untouched. I believe these relics should be recovered an kept in a cathedral and documented properly; not in some cardboard box in a museum.
Hi Allington Marakan,
It makes no difference whether the remains are from atheist, agnostic, pagan or religious people. A person's body is an intimate part of that person. It does not matter whether they are buried three thousand years ago or three days ago it still would have personally counted to them and their families. I believe that these scientists should do the tests needed on the skeleton and then they should be re-buried in an ossuary in either sacred ground or an appropriate place where they will not be disturbed again. I personally hope that my remains will rapidly decay and disappear so that no one will dig me up one day.
Best Wishes
I generally tend to go by the living memory rule. If the bones are new enough to have people alive today that knew them, such as great granddaddy's bones or mom's, leave them alone. Beyond anyone's living memory, fair game, although if a person of a sure religious or ethnic background is to be reburied I think it courteous to observe the religious or cultural norms for that society. Therefore, dig up a Jewish person, when done with examining the bones, turn them over to fellow Jews to see properly reburied, etc. I am an atheist and put no real significance to the corpse after death, but still try to be respectful of other's beliefs when possible.
Regardless of one’s religious affinity, what’s important is the history. The bones belong in a Museum, prominently displayed for all to see and wonder about. Similar to the US’s dilemma about what to do with statues etc of Southern soldiers and flags. Because they represent a time in American history that condoned slavery some want them destroyed. But destroying art smells like communism. I think these “ relics” belong in a museum.
@@dawntheberge5876 The bones would have been studied, copied and reburied in consecrated ground, probably on *Mull.* The copies would be displayed. That would be usual practice in *Britain.* Not to so rebury such bones would be considered disrespectful here and, bearing in mind where they were found, probably illegal in this case.
@@dawntheberge5876destroying southern statues is equally as good as destroying Stalin/hitler statues. They represent evil and hate. A very un Christian view you have.
That look from Phil in the beginning, when Tony says, "or are we just on a flight of fancy?"
Ok
PpTomos Davies
Phil stays well grounded. As an eminent field archeologist. Tony is a curious fellow who started as and dance() star on broadway. I will probably stick on phil's instruction.
@@marcopolokitty I think that you may be on the wrong person - see Tony Robinson on Wiki, there's no mention of him being either a dancer or appearing on Broadway.
@@rjmun580 He was on stage at an early age in London as one of the kids in a production of Oliver!
You Folks are GREAT! Time Team must continue thru Time. Love You Folks!
This is one of the great episodes !
Probably my favorite episode. Thanks for uploading.
One of my top 5 episodes for sure! So exciting!
I am pleased to know the connection with the Isle of Man dig, up on the golf course above Douglas. This is the word "cill", a chapel. This episode on Mull has been very entertaining for me, and it shows how closely linked were all the ancient sites on the west of Scotland, Ireland and the IoM. [Aussie in BC]
Oh! Possibly my favourite episode!
Love this history, so wish to go on a dig, thank you for sharing/posting these shows.
Baby Boo
If you go to Dig Ventures channel...they have digs that are done I think in the summer months...and anyone who can can join in with the dig....there is a comment from them on this page and a link to their site....enjoy
Wonderful discovery~ one of the best episodes
Some of these videos make me cry.
Me too! I Would move to Mull from the US if I could. I will be content with yearly visits for now...
I never realised that Mull was so incredibly beautiful. Another destination I must see during my lifetime!
+Ronald de Rooij
Exactly
Just leave the hideous dutch accent at home please, the Islanders have done nothing to warrant enduring that migraine inducing torture
It is beautiful. Was there in 2013. Also a destination for UK movie buffs, as some scenes from 'I Know Where I'm Going' were shot there.
@@mescko And *_I Know Where I'm Going_* is a truly _wonderful_ movie.
Thank you for the upload! Love this episode and program.
LOL, I really liked the look Phil gave Tony when he said "flight of fancy" while the two were riding in the copter. So funny.
Good episode!
One of my favorite episodes. I like how Mick always keeps his final opinion until it is done. Always a form of looks like, is similar to, could be. This episode showed how he didn't make a judgement until all evidence was provided. It is a huge difference compared to Francis Ritual Pryor. Francis would have been telling all kinds of stories about ancestor worship and rituals if he was the site director and it was iron age or bronze age. Mick being an expert in monasteries and chapels hinted at his thoughts but never confirmed them until the end. He knew what the site was but refused to admit it until it was confirmed, Francis claims a site is something first. Mick was a true archeologist, a true scientist. Francis? More of an educated storyteller.
The other thing about the episode I liked was the environment. Pine forests, thin soil, stones aplenty, It was a difficult site with the jumble of stones and nearly none for soil layers. But they peeled it apart and found the structures. Amazing work as all I could see was a pile of stones until they started describing it and before the edited lit up Here you idiot! addition that I sometimes need for soil colors to spot the trench they wax on about finding in some episodes.
Phil's face at 0:49 LMAO 😂
Strewth! Am gobsmacked by this episode.
Thanks for the upload
I enjoyed this episode lool good memories
LOL, Phil doesn't look to comfortable so high up 00:35 He's happier in a hole in the ground :)
I really wish this was still on the air.
One of the best episodes and possibly my favorites. By the way if looks could kill Tony would be dead.
saying the skill of the translators long ago is so easy to understand. Canada was translated by a translator who got the word wrong. It was Kanata and apparently meant Village.
So translation or interpretation is quite believable.
How brilliantly inspired by Mick. If you are relatively ignorant of the complexity of a object or building but versed on the purpose a person could see pluses and negatives to the said object .
Thank you Tony for saying, "Gaelic" and not "Gallic" like Helen. Gallic refers to the Gauls of France. In Irish "Gaeilge" (pronounced gwayl-guh) is what we call the Irish language. Gaelic is the anglicized pronunciation of Gaeilge, but really refers to the goidelic languages of the Celts in early Ireland, the Highlands of Scotland & the Isle of Man. Outside of Ireland, the language is simply referred to as Irish.
saw this one today. Love the ending "The Perfect Time Team"
Judging by Phil's lack of presence in the chopper in other episodes and his scowl while in the plane methinks he is not a big fan of flying.
fabulous
The funniest comment in all of Time Team. Tony Robinson " now why did you make a noise like a pirate"
There’s a good chance those white pebbles came from the quarry at Columba’s Bay on the Isle of Iona. It was a great tradition for monks and other pilgrims to take these stones with them as they spread out from Iona to take Christianity to the North. Such pebbles can be seen today as they mark the burial places of monks in the Abby on Iona.
The Baliscate Monastery is on Google Earth here:
56°36'37.2"N 6°04'45.0"W
Not much to see through the trees.
It's here: 56°36'41.7"N 6°04'51.9"W
You can clearly see it in the open.
Why did I only just realise that it's not normal for this to have been my favourite show when I was 8??? I tried to talk about it in history class and only the teacher had ever seen the show lol
It appears you had the advantage. Good for you!
goes the same for me here in Hungary...
One of the very best!!!
Even Canada shares something special with the Isle of Mull, one of Canada's most beautiful cities, Calgary, Alberta was in fact named after a hamlet on the Isle.
Interesting! I've lived in Calgary, AB my whole life and never knew that!
Hearing them discuss the significance of the rounded quartz pebbles placed at spiritual and/or burial sites is so intriguing. I remember the first time I did it, and no one had directed me to do so. Also the impulse to stack stones in a tower; to create cairns...it seems to be in our collective consciousness.
Dr. Alasdair Ross, historian, died august 2017, too young. RIP.
Goosebumps.
Take a drink every time Phil says "Ooo-Ar"
I'm so happy Mick got his Saxon monastery!
beautiful,inspiring...the Clearances took the oral history with the people it displaced.Mull looks wonderful.I wonder what becomes of the bone.
Another commenter said this of the bones about two years ago; 'The human remains are now on their way to Dr Alison Sheridan at the National Museum of Scotland for further research.' I am assuming this is correct. I am happy for Scotland, both for finding this place and for having it be unchanged and not destroyed by the later changes to the landscape. So much history lost and destroyed.
Clearances took my ancestors from their homes in Mull so am fascinated by this episode
The bones would ultimately have been reburied in consecrated ground, probably on *Mull.*
brilliant!
I'm an American who has visited Mull twice. There is a monk who is founding a monastery on the island. When he bought the property he was not aware there are what appears to be the circular outlines of possible monastic cells. It is known there were female monastics on Mull during the early years of Christianity right after St. Columba. The bones and teeth found are likely female. Male monastics lived on Iona. Check out Mull Monastery on the web. Father Serafim lives there.
Linda Elizabeth
without missing a beat: "now, why did you just make a noise like a pirate?"
I've heard Mick speak about St. Columba before. He may not have ever admitted it, but I think he had a devotion to him....its just the way he behaves when that saint's name comes up. He perked up!
St. Columba was a true Saint. Our Lord said: "Heaven is taken by violence, and the violent bear it away." The "violence" He speaks of is the violence one does to himself in order to have command over the passions, bringing the flesh under the subjection of the intellect instead of living like the brutes who live only in the moment. This saint was a truly penitential man. I think that is what the humble Mick Aston liked. Virtue.
thanks!
Does anyone know why the reliquaries from this era were placed outside of the chapels? The episode Finds in the Fairway dug on the Isle of Man had a keeil with a relics box as well.
we need shows like this in the US.. all we have is the Kardashians...smdh
they did try a US time team series but it really didn't work that well unfortunately :/
It would be pleasing indeed to find some of them dead under stones.
It's true. Americans simply do not appreciate history, hence, we aren't learning our lessons. I'm an American and an honorary daughter of the American Revolution, and I find it incredibly sad that many so-called popular Americans today don't even know their own constitution. It's tragic, and I'm afraid we're in for more very harsh lessons in the very nearfuture. I'm even concerned about my safety here, and I wonder ifI need to sell my house and move back to France for better healthcare. I lived there for two years, and it's so so sad that many ex-patriated Americans are leaving this country and moving abroad, because we're on the brink of another civil war.
I don't think that it's the US public, I think it’s the TV companies that assume that their audiences won't accept anything that's not _dumbed-down._ *_Time Team America_* could have worked and it's sad that it didn't.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Once you find the British versions of shows and America tries to do it, its crap. Love British TV, don't even watch any American TV.
Just wow!
I half expected Tony to refer to Mick as "some obscure hulk".
love the way they've obviously chopped the trees down to open the view just before the cameras arrived
From now on, I'm going to take my Quartz pebbles with more respect.
When they first unearthed that piece of Celtic Cross I thought mammoth tooth
Seeing Mick in this episode, I notice how white his hair is now compared to previous seasons of Time Team.
Looks like Phil isn't very fond of flying :D
Pet peeve about a wonderful series is they use ‘theory ‘ when they mean ‘hypothesis ‘.
A fair point.Because this is aimed towards catching a broader audience than would normally get into 'old stuff' , they probably like to avoid too many syllables and academic-sounding words.The result of this thinking and mass-media is new factor influencing language thru 'common usage'.
Over time 'theory' may come to be accepted as synonymous with 'hypothesis'.
@@ianrutherford878 In mathematics, and probably elsewhere, a _theory_ is unproven but probable. A _theorem_ is proven. A _hypothesis_ is a logical conjecture. _Ain't words fun!_
Of course, quartz pebbles could be some kid's rock collection. My kids have all sorts of gravel at the moment, but really like the smooth ones they find now and then. (They're 3 and 5)
Bryan McGucken : I'm 63 and I have a collection of rocks that were picked up all across the east coast, northern Europe, England, Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
*Bryan McGucken*
Quartz pebbles are a sign of pilgrimage and this was a monastery.
Been there in the 70s :) Fishing for mackerels ..
35:08 Why Mick disliked London so much?
Big city lots of people my guess 😊
It has always been the custom in both the eastern and latin church to put the relics of a saint in or under an alter, so it is possible that there was never a complete skeleton buried there. (I hope they treated the remains with proper respect.) Is there any evidence of a tradition of pilgrimage to this site?
I know little of pilgrimages but the remains are always treated with respect here in the *UK.*
I’m new to time team and I see they’ve been around awhile. I’m wondering when this episode was actually shot as I’m traveling to Mull summer of 2020. Would love to hike to this site if possible.
*Time Team* itself has long finished but _all_ 20 years of it (and more) is here on YT. *Mick Aston* and a few others involved have, sadly, died.
Yay! Dr Ross! 6:00, 24:10, 41:00 for all Stirling University students
SOOOOO Fascinating!!! Has the Pope been told?
My people are from Mull.
Matt to great grandkids, "Then there was the time I found the bones of a saint in an 8th century monastery. The find of a lifetime!"
Unlike the thin skinned partisans of the Emerald Isle in the comments below, I'm pretty certain that St. Columba had more important matters on his mind than his birthplace, and, frankly, in Europe as a whole there still seems to be far more fuss made about where someone was born and who someone was born to, in detriment of what they actually accomplished. Take it from someone born in the USA, which has hardly any history to speak of, when you have such historical riches as Europe you shouldn't trade it for a mass of pottage of far more recent quarrels. It's what St. Columba accomplished that was extraordinary, and worth remembering. The buildings Time Team excavated are part of that accomplishment. And I doubt that he would have made much fuss about his name being Anglicized, and certainly not to the people he was trying to convert, as any sincere (and intelligent) Christian missionary abroad would avoid making a similar fuss about their name or their birthplace today.
Can you think of any European today who has anywhere near the emotional potency and certainty of belief of St. Columba or St. Patrick or any Dark Age missionary of the Gospel who's name is lost to history? I can't. Even though much, if not most, of Europe are unbelievers, that potency of belief, in very large measure, has made the Europe we have today. We should emulate Mick, also an unbeliever, who chose a profession which uncovers and restores such history (and prehistory) and who personally was convinced that it was of first importance to do so, whether it was Neolithic, Roman, or Christian. That conviction shines through these programs from him and all the other members of Time Team. They not only love their job, they are convinced of it's importance, something beyond the entertaining differences of local British accents or the other foibles of their character that are equally entertaining.
Karmakshanti Vyapini And lets not forget the Picts! Whom the Monks displaced and converted. I’m quite sure they and all indigenous peoples of the world were doing just fine before Christianity.
Its nothing like as easy down in england because the english went around destroying books and documents in Ireland. I assume they did the same in Scotland. Several manuscripts were descovered by an irish historian about a hundred years ago in a English lords estate. He showed them to him because he thought they were Egyptian. They were books of ancient irish law. The historian said "I feared the lord would notice how pale I turned when I first saw them, for if he knew what they were they would have been burnt" The historian let on he did not know what they were, took them back to trinity college and there they remain. There used to be colleges teaching law in Ireland over a thousand years ago all those were destroyed because that's what invading armies do.
scati1971 And please tell me that Phil had heard of the “Clearances”. Isn’t that taught in history classes?
@@dawntheberge5876 The _clearances_ weren't taught in _my_ history classes though I expect that *Dr Harding* knows of them.
The human remains are now on their way to Dr Alison Sheridan at the National Museum of Scotland for further research.
Any results from bones.
Phil looks worried, probly about the Scottish weather.
Brashing! My papa has always used that word for trimming and caring formthe hedges. Now i know where he got it! ... his mum is from Scotland.