American here, a California girl....Covid brought me to the Time Team...a big, fat THANK YOU to those who are responsible for letting this be posted!!!!! I have never been a binge watcher of anything!!! The Covid has changed things and Time Team is the ticket...the Time Team crew are rock starts!!! Again, THANK YOU!!!
I have bought a couple of seasons of these, but most are not available. Being in the Deep South of the US. Without these being uploaded, I would never have seen them. Thank you to those who upload British shows.
This is my fifth time working through the entire series. It gets better every time and I learn new things on every go. My COVID fix as well. Now.....where’s my trowel!!
Holy smokes Tony Blair lol. I don’t remember him in this episode before. But Phil was talking to him just like he does everyone else. It’s why I love Phil on here
Another great story unfolds on our screens. What a wonderful program that brings history to life and highlights the diversity of landscapes of the British Isles. Thanks for uploading.
I've been watching these shows during quarantine in lockdown and I want to tell you how much I enjoyed them I love feel and the way he loves what he does and his sense of humor.
Agree. I started watching this series when quarantine began and love it. While my friends were obsessed with Tiger King or whatever, I'm really enjoying Time Team. Lol
I know this will sound like a "Mr.Obvious" statement, but as I watched all these episodes of Time Team for which I am so thankful to Reijer for uploading, I was struck with the thought of how "poke and hope" archeology was in the era before the magic of "Geophys". When you consider all the discoveries that were made in the early days without the benefit of electronics, it's amazing how well early archeologists were able to locate sites let alone the amount of finds they discovered...Just felt a tip of the hat to the early discoveries and discoverers was in order..
+CompetitiveAudio As I have gone through every episode to post the geo-coordinates I have observed that the series contains a very interesting history of modern technology. From early dot matrix printers and B&W images to colored radar, from walkie-talkies to cell phones, from simple geophys readings to GPS scans that can create a 3D image of the land in a computer. It is amazing how rapidly these things have changed over the 20 years of the series and how that technology has changed archeology in general.
I've actually been going through the series backwards, I started with the most recent season and now I'm here. I agree, it was amazing to see the first episode they had the more advanced geophys stuff, and now everything much more guess-work. It's been fun!
I took an archaeology class in the early 80's at college, and I was taught that human beings are creatures of habit. You can have good luck near water sources, for instance. But geophys has sure helped pinpoint things!
I am amazed the program worked even though I love watching it. Like Tony said which is very apt "Pin the tail on the archaeological donkey" Put Guys name in the search as I stumbled across his channel. He goes into great detail about his experience with Time Team
When they referred to Tony Blair (rocking the pink tie) as the "local MP", I thought this episode was extra old. Turns out they were just playing with us. Season 10 is from 2003. Tony Blair was PM from 1997 to 2007. He was the local MP as well, but that's downplaying things a bit :)
How I miss TimeTeam! Truly usefull and educating tv show... and beyound. I get so sick of nowdays tv shows... or from tv anyway... Our lifes have changed so rapidly! It is not good sign.
In America, when people disagree, they burn police carts and businesses and post offices, and shoot police officers. It's quite a relief to stay away from the evening news and just sit and watch Time Team with their gentle arguments.
@@lucygray6162 No. In America, SOME of the people, who are criminals, are glorified and praised as peaceful protesters, etc what you said. Generalities are ignorant.
Phil looks and sounds like a bumpkin, but in actuality is a wealth of knowledge and instinct. When he launches into one of his theories, he becomes incredibly articulate and very well spoken. I think his "bumpkin" persona is very well developed and cultivated for his TV image, and it works perfectly. I'm a huge fan.
Good episode. It would have been just average, but the kiln was a great find in excellent shape & the coin experiment was crude, but interesting. Being non-British, I have no real like or dislike of Tony Blair, but it was still neat to see him pay a visit.
Loved his remarks at Princess Diana's funeral. Well, hated why they were made necessary. No one will ever convince me those paparazzi didn't cause her death, blood alcohol/pot/whatever.
I ,too,really enjoy Victor’s work and obvious talent as he tries and masters new techniques with ease.Only thing is for some reason I can’t fathom I don’t like his watercolour paintings of figures.Not a criticism purely an observation and more than likely a lack of taste on my part.Anyway the man has a wonderful talent and seems to be a charming gentlman too.
What amazes me is that there is a Roman road/trackway there and the gate is located on top of it!! I mean this is going 2000 years and the gate and old roman road are still co-located. And I don't recall anybody on the team remarking on that. Did they and I just missed it?
Well mentioned! I expect the archaeologists noticed the gate matches the trackway. However, archaeologists sometime assume everyone else knows, too. The road was likely used for the next millennia + before the gate went across. I'd expect a conversation years back, "Why you got a gate in the middle of your field, Ned?" "Dunno, Ted. There's been a gate here as long as any of us can remember."
Just realized Phil's hat IS NOT disgusting !! At some point I think a trade mark hat becomes a mental illness. When it as 10 kilos of sweat and grime on it, but well done cleanish hat
Despite the lack of evidence of habitation, I still think that the people obviously did live there. So did Phil if we are to go by what he said at the end. It makes no sense that they would have all that small time back yard industry only to live elsewhere. So one must conclude that by sheer accident that TT simply chose the "wrong" plots to dig by opting to go with the ones that showed industrial use on the geophys, and that perhaps those, like animal pens, were separated from ones they lived in. In archaeology one should always recall the maxim that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Channel 4 did us a great service by leaving these programmes for posterity. Is there any possibility of another series but of necessity, much less expensive? Pity that in this techno age, sound and vision can't be synchronised. Oh, and Phil Harding's " over the top" silly laugh drives me bonkers!!
It's interesting to read these comments and discover how certain things effect people so differently. For myself, I've frequently thought that Phil's laugh was quite appealing. I see it as revealing his strong self-confidence. He's expressing complete joy without any reservations. He's quite comfortable in his own skin. I like that in a person. If we were all the same and all liked the same things this world would be quite boring.
People must have been more aware of counterfeit money before? I've never thought too much about it, but I assumed coins where more or less worth their weight in the metal used?
was there anything that Victor could NOT do? drawings, paintings, sculpturings, - dies - for making coins, painting on wet plaster... and most of the time from basically - no - information through lifelong experience... - chapeau- even now
I don't care for Blair either but his local pride was quite endearing all the same. A and Phil got to show off his hard work to a future prime minister which is always a nice feather in the cap
Since they are using brass blanks, they could take a hint from gun ammo re-loaders, heat the blanks almost red hot then rapidly quench in cold water. That will make the brass soft and easily struck.
Mick Ashton actually commented on that in one of the Time Team Special episodes. He said the three day exercise is representative of how much archeology is carried out. It has a lot to do with determining what is in the ground more than doing extensive excavations.
The person who does the illustrations is so talented. I would urge him to put more women into the technical and production pictures. So far he has been featuring men doing all of the technical labor and the women sort of standing in the background. Women would’ve been involved in building, farming, pottery making and herding. No 1950s women around just sitting at home cooking once in a while.
Another possibility is that they were stashed in a hurry when the Romans left Britain, perhaps by someone who hoped they would get the chance to return and collect them later. other hoards found in Britain have been attributed to this.
They found shards of Roman glass in a burned area and the first thing I thought was a glass blowing hearth. I don't understand why nobody thought of that immediately. The Romans made glass. It would explain why it's a burned area but there's no slag or kiln.
It seems to me that what you have, given Guy's theory of "hoards" of coins but no military signs, is a camp of civilians who do some metals and pottery works, maybe a watering stop for the passing Romans on their way to the Wall....lots of work there! The coins are the winnings of a few of the semi-permanent workers who were gambling with the passing soldiers just to kill time. The Romans liked to roll the dice you know!
Another possibility they haven't discussed is before Roman soldiers went into battle, any soldiers in ancient times, would have gone into the woods , buried there coins in spots . They would have put them in cups , leather or cloth bags. Intending to come back after a battle. If they did not make it , the coins stayed. That's why you have lots of scattered broken pottery, lots of scattered coins and other goods. Then throw in a mix of a settlement . Then give it 500 years of plowing to break and scatter things even worse . This wasn't 3 separate hoards. I believe as Gil said in the beginning roughly, we have no knowledge of any Roman here before. I think this on his part was an attempt to grab these under the hoard umbrella to be sorted at a museum. So the finder keeping half the value rather than the whole thing .
Hang on. At the beginning Tony mentions this "very unusual figuriene of a goat", but there's no explanation on what it is? An army mascot names Baldrick perhaps?
how come they only have 3 days all the time? I know they call it the Time Team but sometimes they are rushed pretty good and if they had more time they could do more thorough job
Partly budget, partly that the archaeologists all had regular Monday to Friday jobs too outside of Time Team. The 3-day format let them take a day off work to make a long weekend they could film on.
"Can I come your trench Catherine? " Oh dear Tony! GUY, "do you know how old this coin is? It's 1900 years old! It was made in the fourth Century!" wtf?
Did anyone else notice Guy saying that the child's coin was better than any of the coins "we" found in the field? I believe they only found one and rest were found by the detectorist which were declared as a hoard because some of them were rare. The detectorist found a previously unknown settlement and for his trouble will loose half of his collection. Bet he never calls Time Team or loans his collection to any archaeologists again.
Wow! Phil gets to impress ole Tony Blair....least that oo e looks lyke! He deserves it! My main man. With a platoon of men like him I could take on any troop of Romans.
why NOT ? those silver coins were *hard* earned by those poor people and buried as a group 'hoard' in an attempt at proto-banking. 1 silver coin per family all buried as a COMMUNITY 1800+ years ago to avoid it being stolen during hard times.
Actually Britain has one of the very best systems of protecting its cultural heritage. When ancient treasure is found it is required by law to be reported to protect sites from looting and the resulting destruction of any archaeological context and information. Failure to report such finds carries stiff penalties. If the finds are deemed valuable the finder and landowner are paid for their finds at better than market value. This eliminates the motivation to sell such items illegally on the black market. It is a very good carrot and stick approach. It is definitely in the interest of the governments of all countries to protect the cultural heritage of their citizens. If this site had been dug by profiteering treasure hunters instead all the historical and cultural information would have been lost. I wish that all countries had similar laws to protect their ancient sites.
KYIRISH1 Actually, there is no actual evidence that Robin Hood ever gave anything he stole to anyone else! His story is based on an historical group of people but the were just your standard everyday thieves. Over the centuries, the story got embellished. Hollywood took it the rest of the way into fairy tale though. Wish they'd stop telling people how to live...they are just as rich or richer than the very people they demonize for being rich! People who pay the money to watch their movies are the ones they are robbing...and they don't 'give' theirs to the poor either.
Victor and his vast and varied skills are soooo underrated and under appreciated.
Victor was a fraud.
Is there anything artistic that Victor Ambrus can't do ? He's got to be the most versatile artist I've ever seen ! Brilliant !
He's a very highly considered archæological artist with an excellent international reputation.
Unfortunately Victor has passed away.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Except that’s not true....
American here, a California girl....Covid brought me to the Time Team...a big, fat THANK YOU to those who are responsible for letting this be posted!!!!! I have never been a binge watcher of anything!!! The Covid has changed things and Time Team is the ticket...the Time Team crew are rock starts!!! Again, THANK YOU!!!
I love how Phil treats Blair exactly the same way he treats everyone else. A true man of the people, our Phil. :)
id treat him with less respect than i treat other people, and im a labour supporter!!
my stomach cringed when Blair showed his mug on screen, a demon unsanctifying this dig
Not entirely tickled to see Blair but at least he seemed interested and asked decent questions.
@@BluntofHwicce Blair probably got someone to buy him the clift notes so he looked as if he knew what he was talking about
Should have thrown him in the trenches when they were filling them back in before leaving.
I have not made it through the whole series, but I think I have watched way more than I should! I dreamed about Phil last night and laughed all day!!!
My Covid-19 coping binge watch. Thank you, internet, thank you Reijer, thank you Time Team!
For me, too, to get away from the doom and gloom. :o(
me too
same here! also helped me get through my first ever full apartment move during quarantine and 114F heat index (40+C)!
Binge watching Tony, Phil, Mick, Stuart, John, Robin, and Victor, plus Carenza, Raksha...it's all so wonderful.
Keeps my brain from turning to mush! Thank you so much for your efforts!
I just want to add my voice to those thanking the uploader. That there are few to no ads is even better! Thank you sir.
Chris Mills I believe Reijer, the person who posted these passed away. I saw a post somewhere
I have bought a couple of seasons of these, but most are not available. Being in the Deep South of the US. Without these being uploaded, I would never have seen them. Thank you to those who upload British shows.
The more Time Team I watch the bigger fan of Victor's art work I become.
This is my fifth time working through the entire series. It gets better every time and I learn new things on every go. My COVID fix as well. Now.....where’s my trowel!!
I am probably on my third time through. The show inspired me to learn all the counties/provinces/ states of England.
My watching is nowhere near organized enough
to know
Holy smokes Tony Blair lol. I don’t remember him in this episode before. But Phil was talking to him just like he does everyone else. It’s why I love Phil on here
Why not? He was just a back bencher then, hadn’t been selected to stand for PM.
Phil's my hero!
@@Invictus13666this was broadcast in 2003, he was PM at that point
@@captainjamesmartin Try again princess.
@@Invictus13666dickess
Another great story unfolds on our screens. What a wonderful program that brings history to life and highlights the diversity of landscapes of the British Isles. Thanks for uploading.
Victor the artist deserves a lot of credit. As a professional artist myself I am always impressed.
I've been watching these shows during quarantine in lockdown and I want to tell you how much I enjoyed them I love feel and the way he loves what he does and his sense of humor.
Agree. I started watching this series when quarantine began and love it. While my friends were obsessed with Tiger King or whatever, I'm really enjoying Time Team. Lol
Victor is so artistically multitalented it completely boggles my mind.
Thank you for uploading Time Team! Love this series. 🙏
I know this will sound like a "Mr.Obvious" statement, but as I watched all these episodes of Time Team for which I am so thankful to Reijer for uploading, I was struck with the thought of how "poke and hope" archeology was in the era before the magic of "Geophys". When you consider all the discoveries that were made in the early days without the benefit of electronics, it's amazing how well early archeologists were able to locate sites let alone the amount of finds they discovered...Just felt a tip of the hat to the early discoveries and discoverers was in order..
+CompetitiveAudio As I have gone through every episode to post the geo-coordinates I have observed that the series contains a very interesting history of modern technology.
From early dot matrix printers and B&W images to colored radar, from walkie-talkies to cell phones, from simple geophys readings to GPS scans that can create a 3D image of the land in a computer.
It is amazing how rapidly these things have changed over the 20 years of the series and how that technology has changed archeology in general.
I've actually been going through the series backwards, I started with the most recent season and now I'm here. I agree, it was amazing to see the first episode they had the more advanced geophys stuff, and now everything much more guess-work. It's been fun!
I took an archaeology class in the early 80's at college, and I was taught that human beings are creatures of habit. You can have good luck near water sources, for instance. But geophys has sure helped pinpoint things!
CompetitiveAudio That and using a digger would have been unthinkable.
I am amazed the program worked even though I love watching it. Like Tony said which is very apt "Pin the tail on the archaeological donkey" Put Guys name in the search as I stumbled across his channel. He goes into great detail about his experience with Time Team
When they referred to Tony Blair (rocking the pink tie) as the "local MP", I thought this episode was extra old. Turns out they were just playing with us.
Season 10 is from 2003. Tony Blair was PM from 1997 to 2007. He was the local MP as well, but that's downplaying things a bit :)
How I miss TimeTeam! Truly usefull and educating tv show... and beyound. I get so sick of nowdays tv shows... or from tv anyway...
Our lifes have changed so rapidly! It is not good sign.
It’s so nice to see adults not throw tantrums on camera when they disagree 👍🏻
In America, when people disagree, they burn police carts and businesses and post offices, and shoot police officers. It's quite a relief to stay away from the evening news and just sit and watch Time Team with their gentle arguments.
@@lucygray6162 No. In America, SOME of the people, who are criminals, are glorified and praised as peaceful protesters, etc what you said.
Generalities are ignorant.
Victor's talents never cease to amaze.
Phil looks and sounds like a bumpkin, but in actuality is a wealth of knowledge and instinct. When he launches into one of his theories, he becomes incredibly articulate and very well spoken. I think his "bumpkin" persona is very well developed and cultivated for his TV image, and it works perfectly. I'm a huge fan.
if you see him in other t.v programme,he is just the same,so I think it isnt a persona.
From 9:00, gotta love Mick trying to feign interest in this Roman site. (He's sick of Roman digs and isn't shy about saying it.)
More enthusiastic about pre than Roman as well.....
Good episode. It would have been just average, but the kiln was a great find in excellent shape & the coin experiment was crude, but interesting. Being non-British, I have no real like or dislike of Tony Blair, but it was still neat to see him pay a visit.
Loved his remarks at Princess Diana's funeral. Well, hated why they were made necessary. No one will ever convince me those paparazzi didn't cause her death, blood alcohol/pot/whatever.
My favorite is the phrase,” blobby pitty things”. 😂😂
Doctor has a cream for that now.....
@@PaulMahon-w2bI could listen to people from the UK talk for hours. 😂
I love to watch all these episodes. Thanks.
Victor used to bring the archeology/ history to life with his wonderful artwork, now Roman coin forgery too?
Victor, you are so multitalented!
I ,too,really enjoy Victor’s work and obvious talent as he tries and masters new techniques with ease.Only thing is for some reason I can’t fathom I don’t like his watercolour paintings of figures.Not a criticism purely an observation and more than likely a lack of taste on my part.Anyway the man has a wonderful talent and seems to be a charming gentlman too.
Thank You Again for posting these videos!
What amazes me is that there is a Roman road/trackway there and the gate is located on top of it!! I mean this is going 2000 years and the gate and old roman road are still co-located. And I don't recall anybody on the team remarking on that. Did they and I just missed it?
Well mentioned! I expect the archaeologists noticed the gate matches the trackway. However, archaeologists sometime assume everyone else knows, too. The road was likely used for the next millennia + before the gate went across. I'd expect a conversation years back, "Why you got a gate in the middle of your field, Ned?" "Dunno, Ted. There's been a gate here as long as any of us can remember."
18:25 Mick mentions it
I think because things like that in Britain are fairly commonplace.
Th is a very interesting show mates...Thnk u for the upload, we all really appreciate this thnx....
These and hand crafts, unbeatable combination. Yes, thank you.
Thanks for posting
Just realized Phil's hat IS NOT disgusting !! At some point I think a trade mark hat becomes a mental illness. When it as 10 kilos of sweat and grime on it, but well done cleanish hat
Despite the lack of evidence of habitation, I still think that the people obviously did live there. So did Phil if we are to go by what he said at the end. It makes no sense that they would have all that small time back yard industry only to live elsewhere. So one must conclude that by sheer accident that TT simply chose the "wrong" plots to dig by opting to go with the ones that showed industrial use on the geophys, and that perhaps those, like animal pens, were separated from ones they lived in. In archaeology one should always recall the maxim that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Well, well, well, Mr. Prime Minister! Good job, Phil & all the Time Team!
The tent with 🦵🦵🦵discworlds luggage 🧳
???
Maybe it was chasing after Rincewind.
Channel 4 did us a great service by leaving these programmes for posterity. Is there any possibility of another series but of necessity, much less expensive? Pity that in this techno age, sound and vision can't be synchronised. Oh, and Phil Harding's " over the top" silly laugh drives me bonkers!!
It's interesting to read these comments and discover how certain things effect people so differently. For myself, I've frequently thought that Phil's laugh was quite appealing. I see it as revealing his strong self-confidence. He's expressing complete joy without any reservations. He's quite comfortable in his own skin. I like that in a person. If we were all the same and all liked the same things this world would be quite boring.
Donna Perez agreed. Also his excitement in other episodes is so pure and contagious
A historic fact: counterfeiting was invented 30 minutes after coins.
Probably not quite. More like an hour.
People must have been more aware of counterfeit money before? I've never thought too much about it, but I assumed coins where more or less worth their weight in the metal used?
Actually, recent finds from Egypt suggest that counterfeiting was invented BEFORE coins.
@@laurachapple6795 Thank you. That's not surprising, It's human nature. I appreciate the info. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing! !!
"Blobby pitty things". Man mick was great
was there anything that Victor could NOT do? drawings, paintings, sculpturings, - dies - for making coins, painting on wet plaster...
and most of the time from basically - no - information through lifelong experience... - chapeau- even now
I don't care for Blair either but his local pride was quite endearing all the same. A and Phil got to show off his hard work to a future prime minister which is always a nice feather in the cap
Blair was PM when this episode was filmed.
I love listening to the pronunciation oh the “sh” in “shed loads
Accents from episode amazes me seeing how small the country is compared to the USA.
Though cross state lines hear an you may not get them either.....
Since they are using brass blanks, they could take a hint from gun ammo re-loaders, heat the blanks almost red hot then rapidly quench in cold water. That will make the brass soft and easily struck.
i know cost and schedules played a part in it but i always wish they got longer on each dig, like a week or 5 days.
Mick Ashton actually commented on that in one of the Time Team Special episodes. He said the three day exercise is representative of how much archeology is carried out. It has a lot to do with determining what is in the ground more than doing extensive excavations.
The person who does the illustrations is so talented. I would urge him to put more women into the technical and production pictures. So far he has been featuring men doing all of the technical labor and the women sort of standing in the background. Women would’ve been involved in building, farming, pottery making and herding. No 1950s women around just sitting at home cooking once in a while.
17:20 Once again, our intrepid diggers are followed by the Tent Beast...
So funny that they didn't mention Blair's name at all 😋
Would you?
You're a stinker. I've noticed that before. Keep it up!!
Victor again comes through. The man was a treasure himself
God how much time has changed since 2003. We know more about how coins were made during the Roman period now.
Well I definitely wasn't expecting a wild Tony Blair to appear!!
I remember seeing this episode when it first aired on C4 when Tony Blair was Cool 😎 Britannia🇬🇧 and archaeology was the new rock n roll👍
What I love is how they can lift a tiny piece of pottery and determine what it's shape and size was.
High status items found in a low status settlement suggests someone probably had sticky fingers and hid those items about the area.
+John Doe Quite possibly....seems as plausible a hypothesis as any.
Another possibility is that they were stashed in a hurry when the Romans left Britain, perhaps by someone who hoped they would get the chance to return and collect them later. other hoards found in Britain have been attributed to this.
They found shards of Roman glass in a burned area and the first thing I thought was a glass blowing hearth. I don't understand why nobody thought of that immediately. The Romans made glass. It would explain why it's a burned area but there's no slag or kiln.
I wonder if the "bronze" coin blanks, the Romans used had a % of lead in the alloy. Lead is still added to other metals, for better machining.
It seems to me that what you have, given Guy's theory of "hoards" of coins but no military signs, is a camp of civilians who do some metals and pottery works, maybe a watering stop for the passing Romans on their way to the Wall....lots of work there! The coins are the winnings of a few of the semi-permanent workers who were gambling with the passing soldiers just to kill time. The Romans liked to roll the dice you know!
Another possibility they haven't discussed is before Roman soldiers went into battle, any soldiers in ancient times, would have gone into the woods , buried there coins in spots . They would have put them in cups , leather or cloth bags. Intending to come back after a battle. If they did not make it , the coins stayed. That's why you have lots of scattered broken pottery, lots of scattered coins and other goods. Then throw in a mix of a settlement . Then give it 500 years of plowing to break and scatter things even worse . This wasn't 3 separate hoards. I believe as Gil said in the beginning roughly, we have no knowledge of any Roman here before.
I think this on his part was an attempt to grab these under the hoard umbrella to be sorted at a museum. So the finder keeping half the value rather than the whole thing .
I agree! I usually love Guy but he was unusually arrogant and obstinate in this episode. Not a good look.
would have been nice if Phil had finished off with a good old-fashioned citizen's arrest
You mean like Citizen's Ah-Ray-Est? RIP Gomer
Sadly these older videos have lost the sync between sound and image. Weird that they start ok but progressively get worse.
Wow, a surprise visit from then-Prime Minister Tony Blair!
Hang on. At the beginning Tony mentions this "very unusual figuriene of a goat", but there's no explanation on what it is? An army mascot names Baldrick perhaps?
I think he was hinting about Blair.
Tony was in a John Wayne movie as a courier on a motorbike. Cycling must still be in his blood!
And was pushed into the Thames by The Duke himself.
Can the audio and visual not be sorted out before uploading?
Isn't it possible the Romans had some kind of archaic cutting press to clip the brass coins, rather than use chisels? They look clipped...
Interesting that they may have chosen bronze for the coin die rather than iron.
Victor is awesome, RIP buddy.
Did people just randomly bury coin hoards in the countryside and then forget about them? This is just very curious to me.
Gambling winnings hidden from the missus and the taxman in the back garden, only left due to sudden demise?
how come they only have 3 days all the time? I know they call it the Time Team but sometimes they are rushed pretty good and if they had more time they could do more thorough job
Partly budget, partly that the archaeologists all had regular Monday to Friday jobs too outside of Time Team. The 3-day format let them take a day off work to make a long weekend they could film on.
'losing his finds'....can you spend Roman coinage at Sainsburys?
Yes, Guy is back, my favourite Roman expert.
"Can I come your trench Catherine? " Oh dear Tony!
GUY, "do you know how old this coin is? It's 1900 years old! It was made in the fourth Century!" wtf?
BC?
That would make it 2300 ;)
*Paul D*
Have you never made a silly mistake when speaking?
Carenza has a baby bump
Spoke too soon on the idea of passing troops being supplied.....we'll see if my gambling theory pans out...no pun intended.
My covid binge watch too…watch3d about 30 eps now..
Did anyone else notice Guy saying that the child's coin was better than any of the coins "we" found in the field? I believe they only found one and rest were found by the detectorist which were declared as a hoard because some of them were rare. The detectorist found a previously unknown settlement and for his trouble will loose half of his collection. Bet he never calls Time Team or loans his collection to any archaeologists again.
Is that THE Tony Blair and the end?!?!?!?!?!!??
Fan question: Did Tony Blair show up in any other TT episodes??
I don't recall ever seeing him in other episodes. Was this area part of the district he represented?
Yes, this was aired in 2003, he was the MP for Sedgefield, and the PM of England.
Wonder if they stumbled on the someone booty!! Low status village high value coins. Thieves maybe? So cool to just think who and why
We have found the clay molds for the coins. It is not much of a mystery.
Isn't Niles the guy who bought Scargill castle and invited tt to dig it?
Is Dana Goodburn-Brown related to Damian Goodburn?
I've often wondered that, but Google has failed me.
They are married.
a Roman tax dodger.....things never change.
"Local MP Tony Blair" ... what year was this??
Kaarli Makela 2003
A bad one.
How do you do that? Filming Tony on the ATV up close and then zoom out so there is no evidence of a cameraman or drone......................!
Ah, the magic of TV or perhaps separate takes of filming. It's the same when they switch from a group scene to a close up shot.
Damn. They missed their chance with Blair. They could have easily covered up the evidence. Ahh, missed opportunities.
Around here, we call it SSS.
@@eboracum2012 SSS?
Man stole a bag of coins. Stashed it before he got caught and killed. Coins didnt get found until modern times.
I wonder if Stuart Pryor is any relation to Francis Pryor.....
So the Government thinks the amount of change I end up with in my pocket at the end of the week is a hoard...whats that make what they take.
Legalized extortion?
I think I'll go into the reproduction Roman coin biz! lol
Fuck off there's enough confusion in archaeology
Shame you spoilt it with the EVIL war criminal at the end.
Wow! Phil gets to impress ole Tony Blair....least that oo e looks lyke! He deserves it! My main man. With a platoon of men like him I could take on any troop of Romans.
I appreciate your fervor but no you would all be slaughtered lol
why NOT ? those silver coins were *hard* earned by those poor people and buried as a group 'hoard' in an attempt at proto-banking. 1 silver coin per family all buried as a COMMUNITY 1800+ years ago to avoid it being stolen during hard times.
then they forget or die
So this was back before Blair was Prime Minister.
Mid level drug pushers from the burbs I bet
First aired on March 23, 2003.
special guest appearance by Tony Blair
If only he'd make an appearance during the next session at The Hague.
@@marcusjohns5166 And brought Bush with him.
Good ol' Gub'ment. You find. We own. Now bugger off.
Actually Britain has one of the very best systems of protecting its cultural heritage. When ancient treasure is found it is required by law to be reported to protect sites from looting and the resulting destruction of any archaeological context and information. Failure to report such finds carries stiff penalties. If the finds are deemed valuable the finder and landowner are paid for their finds at better than market value. This eliminates the motivation to sell such items illegally on the black market. It is a very good carrot and stick approach. It is definitely in the interest of the governments of all countries to protect the cultural heritage of their citizens. If this site had been dug by profiteering treasure hunters instead all the historical and cultural information would have been lost. I wish that all countries had similar laws to protect their ancient sites.
Robin Hood and his merry band had a different idea. According to Hollywood it worked for awhile anyway.
KYIRISH1 Actually, there is no actual evidence that Robin Hood ever gave anything he stole to anyone else! His story is based on an historical group of people but the were just your standard everyday thieves. Over the centuries, the story got embellished. Hollywood took it the rest of the way into fairy tale though. Wish they'd stop telling people how to live...they are just as rich or richer than the very people they demonize for being rich! People who pay the money to watch their movies are the ones they are robbing...and they don't 'give' theirs to the poor either.
Well, except a grave marker.
Donna Perez Correctomundo, the name of the game is to rob from the poor and keep it!
A blobby picky thing...ha ha real science talk
imagine this was in 2003. at the height of Tony Blairs war in Iraq. he was in his prime for being Evil.
Uhm Bush!!!!!
Your man maybe okay a lesser devil.....
Tony Blair, always dummer than a box of rocks Time Team would dig. His specialty is talking about himself.