Birthplace of the Confessor (Islip, Oxfordshire) | Series 13 Episode 10 | Time Team

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @klarahvar746
    @klarahvar746 2 года назад +44

    Oh that adorable dog, he's like "This is my yard and only I dig here!"

    • @aserta
      @aserta 6 месяцев назад

      More like "Why the heck do they get to dig for bones when i get scolded?"

  • @TdotTwiFic
    @TdotTwiFic 3 года назад +157

    Phil's reactions throughout this episode was hilarious and made me laugh out loud often. Classic episode for a Canadian who only recently found out about this type of show and has watched many episodes and has found a soft spot in her heart for all these wonderfully sarcastic serious people.

    • @jeffbishop6043
      @jeffbishop6043 2 года назад +5

      Same, addicted!

    • @Ghostvertigo
      @Ghostvertigo 2 года назад +4

      Another Canadian same story wish we did more archaeology here in Canada I'm in nova Scotia tons of shipwrecks and stuff Just rotting away, the stuff in the sea will literally degrade because of the environment, or the fortress of Louisbourg which is huge but, could have alot more done!

    • @jaypeters5224
      @jaypeters5224 Год назад +1

      Same. I can't believe I've never seen this series. As a Canadian with Saxon bloodlines, this show is fascinating to me.

    • @mick7even
      @mick7even Год назад +4

      Who wears jort jorts? Phil wears jort jorts! Love him and the team

    • @Laura-ys7bx
      @Laura-ys7bx Год назад +2

      @@Ghostvertigo What do you think about the hunt for gold on Oak Island? Would it fit into the category of archaeology?

  • @steveo5138
    @steveo5138 3 года назад +107

    There used to be a notorious pub in Stevenage called, Edward the Confessor, but it was better known by locals as "Ted the Grass."

  • @townview5322
    @townview5322 Год назад +54

    Baldric has come a long way since his own medieval days. I love Victor's artwork. So many people, so knowledgeable, so enthusiastic. This is true reality TV.

  • @earlatkins9559
    @earlatkins9559 3 года назад +94

    Phil!, You're diggin' in the wrong garden!
    Love the expression of Phil's face when tony tells him that.

  • @4Usuality
    @4Usuality Год назад +34

    Of the 250+ episodes of Time Team that exist (so far) I've probably seen 200 at LEAST, and many of those multiple times since I discovered the show at the start of COVID-19 lockdowns, I love every episode, the cast, and what they find. Whether that is a Roman villa, a long wing of Westminster Abbey, or almost nothing at all! It's always a joy, keep up releasing these :)

    • @dot2562
      @dot2562 Год назад

      Loads .more on channel 4 on demand

  • @549RR
    @549RR 3 года назад +62

    10:01 watching Victor sketching is breathtaking. How effortless he made it seem!

    • @katecalhoun1104
      @katecalhoun1104 3 года назад +6

      For my birthday, I got some of the books that have his drawings in it, and I can’t stop looking at them!

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад +3

      @549RR - I know - the man makes a small pencil mark that doesn't look like much, but it can bring the whole picture into focus. He was extremely talented.

  • @topmog
    @topmog 3 года назад +69

    That live reading by Dr Sam Newton at 22:15 was pretty impressive.

    • @8888movietime
      @8888movietime 11 месяцев назад +2

      Especially as he was reading it upside down!

  • @Adam-Gates-Mudlark
    @Adam-Gates-Mudlark 3 года назад +59

    FANTASTIC episode as usual!! Victor will always be missed by his beautiful drawings. From the Kent Mudlark

  • @jjuniper721
    @jjuniper721 Год назад +3

    I'm obsessed.... since a week ( of which I was sick mostly) I've watch this all day, while crocheting. Nothing else has kept me so bound. Its so exciting.🥰🥰🥰

  • @mothmagic1
    @mothmagic1 Год назад +7

    I had the good fortune to grow up in this beautiful village. It also had a Rom Camp on top of the hill alongside the rad to Stanton Saint John. The old Rectory also has links to the civil war so the village has quite a lot of history worth investigating. The possibility that Edward was actually born in a hunter's lodge rather than a palace in which case it may have been somewhere else entirely.
    There is a field which is bounded on three sides by the wall of Manor Farm garden, a road and the brook. Because of the construction it would have long since rotted away especially as the field floods every winter. I'm referring to the field they begin digging on the afternoon of day 2 or the field to the south of it where the road curves round it.
    There is a picture of Edward on the north wall of the church under which is the wording of his gifting the place of his birth to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.
    In those days Brill would probably have been a day's travel especially for a pregnant woman. Very apt that the moated manor house was in that field as the farm next door is manor farm

  • @captainhornswoggle
    @captainhornswoggle 3 года назад +91

    There aren't many things heavier than a dog who doesn't want too be picked up.

    • @anotherbrickoutthewall9237
      @anotherbrickoutthewall9237 3 года назад +5

      A drunk passed out human 🍻😉

    • @willowscarclan
      @willowscarclan 3 года назад +2

      ! This made it into my Quotables book, Charlotte Fulford, with due credit.

    • @Libbathegreat
      @Libbathegreat 3 года назад +5

      It's like they magically create a gravity well wherever they sleep 😂

  • @AmyFutch
    @AmyFutch 3 года назад +15

    🤣🤣🤣 that dog!! We have a springer and he is exactly like that.

  • @jackkuppens8582
    @jackkuppens8582 3 года назад +45

    Yes another epic show so unbelievably happy we are still able to see all this fantastic work Thanks so much for coming back and continuing your marvelous program and proud to be a Patreon of Time team :):):) Please keep going.

    • @jeeleal5084
      @jeeleal5084 2 года назад +1

      Mick has been dead for like 10-15 or so years, so not really a continuation of a fantastic series

    • @DavidWhitley
      @DavidWhitley 2 года назад +2

      @@jeeleal5084 thats actually quite a hurtful comment, Mick is gone, yes and nobody will forget him, that doesnt mean timeteam cant continue or is rubbish

    • @123fishpond
      @123fishpond Год назад

      Instead of "like" 10 or 15 years it would better to say about it around . Like is the wrong word to use.

  • @GordonjSmith1
    @GordonjSmith1 3 года назад +61

    I think that the suggestion by Helen that Edward's mother may have been travelling with her husband (on a hunting trip?) and went into labour unexpectedly provided a new perspective for me. It also perhaps suggests that we need to be careful as to how we re-interpret history with contemporary lenses. Oddly for a dig that had many 'misses', I felt that it delivered rather a lot of insight!

    • @lenabreijer1311
      @lenabreijer1311 3 года назад +5

      This is true even these days. Neither of my children or my sister's were born on the day the doctors said the would be. One was 2 weeks late and the others were up to 2 weeks early

  • @p.martin974
    @p.martin974 2 года назад +8

    Phil is possibly the happiest man I have ever seen…love it!!

  • @emilymcfadden4360
    @emilymcfadden4360 3 года назад +12

    Love this Bunch. I miss them!

  • @larocca3
    @larocca3 3 года назад +26

    I love Anglo Saxon history and I love Time Team. Thank you.

  • @archangel807
    @archangel807 3 года назад +30

    Tony is so easy to understand...his diction is perfect...loud enough too.

    • @marypasco2213
      @marypasco2213 3 года назад +13

      He is a Shakespearian actor by trade. Hence, the diction and projection. An amateur archeologist as a hobby.

    • @PeaceLoveHonor
      @PeaceLoveHonor 2 года назад

      Mary Pasco is correct. You can see him in Blackadder, doing comedy. 😊 Sadly, we list him to cancer some years back.

    • @jeeleal5084
      @jeeleal5084 2 года назад +1

      @@RamonaAnne was going to say same thing about Tony, only know this as I know him personally

  • @matt_cummins28
    @matt_cummins28 3 года назад +51

    What an absolutely brilliant episode. Fantastic to see the way that archeology actually works. I didn't think it was disappointing at all, Tony. Mind you, I don't live in Islip. Fantastic stuff. Raksha - Queen of the Dig!! Thanks ever so much for uploading. Everyone was on great form in this one (you always are, of course!!).

    • @silva7493
      @silva7493 Год назад +4

      This is a really good one! I love the guy who can read the old English from the ancient book.😲

  • @craemac
    @craemac 2 года назад +7

    So glad Tony immediately clarified at the start of the video that the visible chapel wasn't the chapel they were looking for...

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 3 года назад +19

    *Jonathan Foyle, Architectural Historian,* is my favorite of those that were part of various Time Teams.
    Each were most worthy, but Jonathan seemed to have an extra speak of energy and insight, as he was quite valuable in several episodes he participated in, with successes.
    Beth (Sociology, Journalism, and *History* degrees)
    Tennessee, USA

  • @adriaank75
    @adriaank75 3 года назад +15

    New episode for me. Loved every second of it! Thanks for posting :)

  • @deborahschroeder763
    @deborahschroeder763 3 года назад +19

    Great episode as usual Time Team such a treat to watch your videos. Thank you!!!

  • @veldawells2839
    @veldawells2839 Год назад +1

    Excitingly undulating. Yes, we have it. No, we don't. Yes, we might have found it. No, we don't. The commitment of the Time Team crew is a credit to archaeology. Thoroughly tense at times. Loved the history from the books at Westminster about Edward The Confessor. So, tantalisingly close. Absolutely captivating. ❤

  • @jimfrodsham7938
    @jimfrodsham7938 3 года назад +10

    We lived in Ambrodsden about two miles from Islip when I was stationed in Bicester in the mid '80. I have drank in the Red Lion. I had no idea of it's history of course. I wish I had.

  • @belendemaria1989
    @belendemaria1989 3 года назад +13

    Very interesting! A pleasure to rewatch this episode.

  • @rainy5053
    @rainy5053 3 года назад +13

    I love this show with all my heart ❤️

  • @tamaracarter1836
    @tamaracarter1836 3 года назад +31

    Loved this. The village was absolutely beautiful also.

  • @anneburke3756
    @anneburke3756 5 месяцев назад +1

    Raksha has an infectious laugh!😂

  • @asdreww
    @asdreww 9 месяцев назад +1

    Love this show. Nice thing about a show digging up history is that it doesn't really date, as the subject matter doesn't change :D

  • @rosa733
    @rosa733 3 года назад +12

    Sir Tony was an outstanding presenter.

    • @jeeleal5084
      @jeeleal5084 2 года назад

      Was??? Don't you mean Tony Robinson is an outstanding presenter, he isn't dead yet lol

    • @rosa733
      @rosa733 2 года назад +1

      He is not the presenter now but he WAS originally. Death is not the only explanation in this case.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart 2 года назад +1

      @Rosa - Some of us watch "Time Team" in SPITE of Tony being in it.

  • @RedneckForge
    @RedneckForge 2 года назад +4

    I love the show I can't get enough of it got to which as much as I can.

  • @mymasmith7848
    @mymasmith7848 2 года назад +13

    I have to admit, whenever they mentioned the pub car park, I thought "well, it won't be the first historical thing found in a car park."

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад

      @Myma Smith - The separation of the Englishes - In the USA, what they dug in would be a "parking lot" while oftentimes, a "car park" or "parking garage" is a multi-story building with ramps where many more cars can park than otherwise on the same square foot lot.

    • @allysmith2284
      @allysmith2284 Год назад +1

      Like Richard the 3rd!

    • @casperbetz1949
      @casperbetz1949 10 месяцев назад +1

      It would have been the first, because the remains of Richard III were found six years after this episode was filmed.

  • @Merylstreep1949
    @Merylstreep1949 3 года назад +13

    The historian with the sunglasses is totally Zaphrod Beeblebrox from the original TV version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 😆

  • @nbk9372
    @nbk9372 2 года назад +4

    Love that Springer's protest; no no no' you're not going to dig up my snack bones! It took me five years to build up my supplies'!!!

  • @juspapa718
    @juspapa718 Год назад +2

    Love it. best “small” find: urinal. Best “big” find: loo. As Tony would say, “Brilliant.” As usual tis the story that makes TT so fabulous. Thanx

  • @AvaT42
    @AvaT42 3 года назад +8

    Excellent show as par usual!!!❣️

  • @ZeroAnalogy
    @ZeroAnalogy 3 года назад +9

    23:30 ... "could they be slipping in a few things that weren't quite true?" about Edward being born at Islip.

  • @ZeroAnalogy
    @ZeroAnalogy 3 года назад +61

    6:05 ... "No resistance from Geophys." That was funny, Tony.
    I wonder if that was an ad lib or later scripted.

    • @kathmorris6011
      @kathmorris6011 3 года назад +7

      I don’t think it matters. What does matter is that SOMEONE did think about it!!!!🤗

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 3 года назад +2

      He's pretty quick witted, so ...

  • @jaded_gerManic
    @jaded_gerManic 3 года назад +4

    Lol. Love the Time Team! Blessings all around 🎶

  • @jeffmartin540
    @jeffmartin540 3 года назад +4

    I just watched this episode yesterday on Odyssey. Great episode

  • @cklg88
    @cklg88 3 года назад +3

    Nice to see you all.

  • @callumbyrne3692
    @callumbyrne3692 3 года назад +2

    Again I love this historian in this episode.

  • @alfhilda
    @alfhilda Год назад +2

    I just love the banter in this episode 😄

  • @OnGod1007
    @OnGod1007 3 года назад +4

    I love this show so much

  • @jonathanwetherell3609
    @jonathanwetherell3609 3 года назад +4

    As always well worth the watch.

  • @morganstrom8584
    @morganstrom8584 Год назад +1

    Mick Aston's fashion is the real star of the show

  • @ancient_history
    @ancient_history 3 года назад +9

    Loved this episode and how it came to the - correct - conclusion that royalty need not to be born in a castle. It could just be a shed :)

    • @ancient_history
      @ancient_history 3 года назад +1

      @Celto Loco Well, castle, palace, mansion. Larger royal building. Whatever. Being built in wood, is not the same as being a shed. ;)

  • @madcowusa4277
    @madcowusa4277 2 года назад +3

    What a gorgeous family! 13:17 I hope they're doing well.

  • @Gilren1
    @Gilren1 3 года назад +4

    Interesting as always. Thank you!

  • @MickCampin-jp9kb
    @MickCampin-jp9kb Год назад +2

    Good old Phil. He's so much into flint and antiquities

  • @martinmarsola6477
    @martinmarsola6477 3 года назад +8

    A fantastic video. Very revealing. Thank you for your labours. Cheers to all. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

  • @deltadom33
    @deltadom33 3 года назад +44

    I am going to miss tony and Phil from the new episodes and his scepticism 🤔

    • @sabinehendriks8069
      @sabinehendriks8069 3 года назад +2

      Why is it that they are not in the new episodes?. Is that their own choice? It is what the program made it so special with Phil and Tony.

    • @MontyCantsin5
      @MontyCantsin5 3 года назад +9

      @@sabinehendriks8069: Yes, it's most definitely their own choice. Phil simply doesn't do as much digging on archaeological sites any more due to his age and Tony has said in interviews that he'd like people younger than him to take on the role of presenter for the new episodes.

    • @S_Evenwar
      @S_Evenwar 3 года назад +13

      @@sabinehendriks8069 in later episodes you can see that phil is having some issues with his back and knees. Digging over the years just wears on the body.

    • @pierson974
      @pierson974 2 года назад

      Is anybody from the old team going to be involved?

    • @filmbuffo5616
      @filmbuffo5616 2 года назад

      Yes,several of the people from the old series are involved.

  • @janesalisbury3686
    @janesalisbury3686 3 года назад +12

    Mmmm, a country so much past it morphs into myth, but wherever you dig something turns up even if it is only Victorian.
    It's all HISTORY after all. Fab, thanks.

  • @jodyshepard9482
    @jodyshepard9482 3 года назад +2

    Dig, dig, dig! It's not all gold coins and mosaic tiles. I'm exhausted just watching (from the western US). Bless them all.

  • @wiganowl05
    @wiganowl05 Год назад +2

    Great episode... You even get a Pet Shop Boy.

  • @AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq
    @AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq 3 года назад +1

    A nice Village populated by the nicest people in all of England.

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 3 года назад +10

    I did start to wonder if his Mother had the baby when the baby said it is time not when the court Doctors said it was time.

  • @MossyMozart
    @MossyMozart 2 года назад +4

    Those poor Islipians....you could see how disappointed they were, but at the same time, trying to be polite about it. 8^(

  • @MB-zy4cm
    @MB-zy4cm 2 года назад +2

    I grew up watching the se!! Sunday evening viewing!! Sir Tonys voice is Time Team for me!!

  • @brianpoffley1771
    @brianpoffley1771 3 года назад +4

    Hi , locked down and loving your adventures. Is Bridget a kiwi girl, I see her wearing a tiki in the looking for a fort episode.

  • @caittails
    @caittails Год назад

    Oh my god, that image of Edward in the tapestry. 😂 He looks like his courtiers just pulled a prank and he’s like “Ahhh, you silly guys really got me!”

  • @RobKoelman
    @RobKoelman 3 года назад +2

    1:43 Elvis lives!
    (Made this remark earlier on the 'Odyssey-version' too)

  • @markorollo.
    @markorollo. 3 года назад

    anyone know what the music starting at 9:50 is called, if anything. i always liked hearing that...

  • @paulmendolia8483
    @paulmendolia8483 3 года назад +6

    The reason why I lovecthe I Brittish. Any of them could be on stage and just read anything and they would sound like shakesperian stage actors. In a good way0 especially Phil.

  • @2RANbit
    @2RANbit Год назад

    How intriguing! Middle English: "freondlice" looks and sounds like halfway between "friendly" and German "freundlich". And there are more similarities in that script I saw in this Video...

  • @catherinekauffman7066
    @catherinekauffman7066 2 года назад +4

    I would like to know who comes back and restores the gardens that Time Team has dug up?

  • @borderreiver3288
    @borderreiver3288 2 года назад +3

    RIP MICK....YOU WILL BE SADLY MISSED......

  • @brandonjohnston7746
    @brandonjohnston7746 Год назад

    Anybody notice the dog at 45 seconds in? Same dog that was in Tony's episode of Britain's ancient tracks, when he was in the moors speaking with the lady that told the story about the witch and the hellhound. I love his ancient tracks series ❤

  •  Год назад

    Excellen Episode :)

  • @TimeTeamOfficial
    @TimeTeamOfficial 3 года назад +2

    Watch the official episode commentary with Dr Sam Newton here: ruclips.net/video/Z2VwZDhWuq8/видео.html

  • @Kholdaimon
    @Kholdaimon Год назад +2

    45:03: "It continued to be used as a barn or *out-house* till about 1780"
    Raksha a minute earlier: "It's a privy"
    Tony: "How do you know?"
    Raksha: "We found some degraded feces, I'm afraid."
    Am I mistaken that another name for a privy used to be an "out-house"? Sounds to me like they found the chapel... Look at the size of the walls, and out of stone! Who would build a medieval toilet out of thick stone walls?

    • @kevinjohnbetts
      @kevinjohnbetts Год назад

      You could be right. My thought was that they'd found part of the chapel, maybe an edge with the remaining walls of the privy being made up of robbed out stone. It's clearly a separate building but it strikes me as unusual that a small public toilet would be constructed so solidly and too much of a coincidence that it's where the chapel/barn/out-house should have been.

  • @henrycarter7563
    @henrycarter7563 3 года назад +7

    I watched this one on Odyssey yesterday, but, now Time Team is played on many different RUclips channels, some even acting like they made the videos

    • @TheShootist
      @TheShootist 3 года назад +3

      no one "acts" as if they made the original. Odyssey bought the rights, the rest are copies usually in lower resolutions (240p) only.

    • @henrycarter7563
      @henrycarter7563 3 года назад +1

      @@TheShootist Well, if I did not block the channel from my list, you would see a link here. But the one I am talking about is not at 240p but the same as it is here

    • @hydranmenace
      @hydranmenace 3 года назад +1

      Can you link to the Odyssey channel? I can't find it searching. I know they are on Patreon. Didn't know they uploaded to Odyssey as well.

    • @henrycarter7563
      @henrycarter7563 3 года назад

      @@hydranmenace ruclips.net/user/odyssey

    • @adacox
      @adacox 3 года назад

      @@hydranmenace … don’t worry. I thought the same thing lololol

  • @RocLobo358
    @RocLobo358 Год назад +1

    I think it's pretty clear the chapel barn was there, but it's probably in the road or under a house by now

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад

      @Stine W - Didn't one of the documents that Mr Stewart found say it was dismantled and the stones used to build something else?

  • @kennethsonier1766
    @kennethsonier1766 2 года назад

    I get caught up in these hunts and found myself terribly disappointed that you didn't find the chapel. This is such an amazing and wonderful program 👍☮️

  • @RobKoelman
    @RobKoelman 3 года назад +6

    38:45 Helen confirming she's pregnant!
    (Earlier shots already made that clear, but no speculation needed after her own statement)
    (Made this remark earlier on the 'Odyssey-version' too)

    • @deltadom33
      @deltadom33 3 года назад +1

      It would be interesting to get her child to get a look back at this

  • @RobKoelman
    @RobKoelman 3 года назад +2

    This episode was aired just two days ago on the 'Odyssey-channel'. Can't be a coincidence. TT-episodes are also aired by the 'Timeline-channel'.
    Anyone knows in which way 'Time Team Classics', 'Timeline' and 'Odyssey" are related? (If related at all; they could be just competitors)

    • @paigecunningham
      @paigecunningham 2 года назад +2

      Late response, but if anyone is still interested/unclear , this channel belongs to Time Team's own production company (as does Time Team Official), while the other channels have just licensed the rights to have the episodes available on their own channels as well.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад

      @@paigecunningham - I suspected as much. So, if I watch and "like" an episode on one of the other channels, then "Time Team" does not get the ad money for that? But if I watch on the "Time Team" channels and "like" the episodes, the TT gets the income?

    • @paigecunningham
      @paigecunningham Год назад

      @@MossyMozart It's officially licensed to the other channels, so they may get *some* income off it but it would be a portion of whatever income the licensee channels get, whereas on this channel TT likely gets a much higher percentage of the income.

  • @JamesTobiasStewart
    @JamesTobiasStewart 2 года назад +4

    Are there any fellow CGP Grey fans who started worrying when Thomas Hearne was cited at their only source, considered the number of errors Alexander Pope caught him making?

  • @jasonbecker4974
    @jasonbecker4974 Год назад +1

    It would be a joy to volunteer on one of these digs. Wondering if that is a possibility?

  • @janvafa9959
    @janvafa9959 3 года назад +5

    Hmmm it said used as a barn and PRIVEY … they found a privey!

    • @lissaquon607
      @lissaquon607 Год назад +1

      Used as a barn and privy and then materials taken to he used to build the new barn. And privy perhaps?

    • @jh-ec7si
      @jh-ec7si 10 месяцев назад

      They already had a barn and privy. Must have used the materials to build a privy and barn.

  • @atlantic_love
    @atlantic_love Год назад +1

    It may be of interest to done here that in the video game Elden Ring you can play as a "confessor".

  • @malcolmformosa1772
    @malcolmformosa1772 2 года назад +2

    I'm watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins2899 11 месяцев назад

    14:10 Phil is a diggin MFer! Jeez. Every 2 seconds he’s throwing a shovel full. He ain’t messin around.

  • @ianmedium
    @ianmedium 3 года назад +3

    I think that’s the first time I’ve seen dear Mick drinking beer!

  • @anthonytindle5758
    @anthonytindle5758 3 года назад +3

    dog:your not digging in my garden, the bone that I'm hiding is here. go dig next doors garden up not my garden sod off with your cameras.

  • @cynric5437
    @cynric5437 3 года назад +8

    Was Ed the Con the first gay king? Married but never consumates it. Then theres the incident with one of the servants reported in his hagiography. Servant comes into Eds bedchamber and helps himself to contents of the treasury twice while Ed reclines on the bed. On servants return for third handfull, Ed stops him. Immediately after the incident, in the hagiography, the nobles suggests it might be time Ed took a wife! ( Ed was just turning 40ish).

    • @snazzypazzy
      @snazzypazzy 3 года назад +2

      There's probably been more before him, if he was of that persuation. Currently we have about 5% of the men who are gay/into dudes I think? Statistically there have to have been a few royals in that group, historically. (Even if they didn't have the words for it, or would have identified themselves in a way that modern people do.)

    • @Libbathegreat
      @Libbathegreat 3 года назад +2

      @@snazzypazzy There's also Edward II (whose wife Isabella was mentioned briefly here), but of course he was significantly later. His affair with Piers Gaveston was notorious in his time, though probably not because of any squeamishness about homosexuality. Unlike Edward the Confessor, Ed II produced several heirs. Had it been left at that, it probably would have been fine. But Ed II neglected his kingly duties to shower Gaveston with gifts and spend all his time with him. Gaveston was also a hothead and troublemaker and Ed II happily enabled him and backed his squabbles.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад

      @Cynic - You really think he would be the first gay royal? Even if he was, who cares?

    • @cynric5437
      @cynric5437 Год назад

      @@MossyMozart Well, the first outed king. As to who cares,well I don’t but it might explain some of his actions in dealing with those around him. Anyway, I think that “ED” was in fact his cousin William (uncle to Will the Conk).

  • @ingridlinbohm7682
    @ingridlinbohm7682 3 года назад +6

    A Confessor may have been a priest, monk or clergyman but this need not be the case. King Edward was a layman. A Confessor was a person who died confessing the Catholic faith but was not a Martyer. This is best understood when comparing Saint Edward the Confessor with Saint Edward the Martyer. The first king died peacefully but the second was killed as a boy. Saint Edward the Confessor was named after Saint Edward the Martyer who was a kinsman of his. I hope this helps.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад

      @Ingrid Linbohm - Thank you for the explanation. Interesting.

  • @robynw6307
    @robynw6307 3 года назад +3

    Between glass urinals and degraded faeces, this dig is quickly going down the toilet. :)

  • @rdhunkins
    @rdhunkins 9 месяцев назад

    I would think that three days is not long enough to investigate something of this importance.

  • @annpartoon5300
    @annpartoon5300 3 года назад +3

    Question for Tim did Helen have a boy or girl ? and thanks for reloading these in larger screen

    • @SF-ru3lp
      @SF-ru3lp 9 месяцев назад

      Probably the child is in college at this point (2024)! G Ire

    • @RegBarlow
      @RegBarlow 5 месяцев назад

      Think she had two boys; don’t know if this was number 1 or number 2. And as @SF-ru3lp said, probably at uni now.

  • @DementedCaver
    @DementedCaver Год назад +1

    A church turned into a barn...well holy cow.

  • @BinkyTheElf1
    @BinkyTheElf1 Год назад +1

    What is a “confessor” in saintly and honorific terms?
    “In ecclesiastical history, one often finds the word confessor to signify martyr . This name was subsequently given to those who, after having been tormented by tyrants, lived and died in peace. Finally, confessors came to mean those who, after having led good lives, were regarded as saints at their death.”
    Saint Edward the Confessor was regarded as confessing in his life in the last sense above.

  • @jimmurihiku8009
    @jimmurihiku8009 3 года назад +12

    Well technically they found a throne 😂

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад +1

      @jim Murihiku - Yes, indeed!
      -----------------
      It seems to me, though, that with public buildings like a pilgrimage chapel, wouldn't they need toilet facilities somewhere nearby? They have never mentioned that in any of the episodes I've seen. (I realize that this particular one was 17th Century, so not associated with the Medieval chapel.)
      ----------------------
      Here in the states when old outhouses are found, they are excitedly excavated because people always threw their garbage in them - like a broken cooking pot and lots of other stuff.

  • @thisravenhasflown010
    @thisravenhasflown010 Месяц назад

    Who is watching for a second time? Or is it just me😮😂

  • @beekeeper8474
    @beekeeper8474 Год назад

    The seeker has been named!

  • @daveseddon5227
    @daveseddon5227 3 года назад +2

    First aired 26th March 2006 UK

  • @Sarah-to4lv
    @Sarah-to4lv 9 месяцев назад +1

    ...wait, "later used as a barn OR OUTHOUSE" while Raksha is literally standing in a cesspit, and they think it's not there? does outhouse not mean the same thing in Britain?

    • @PaulMahon-w2b
      @PaulMahon-w2b 8 месяцев назад

      Well like she says in an episode, that is where you can find great finds 😂

  • @georgelong9957
    @georgelong9957 Год назад

    Is that tea cup welder to Micks hand lol

  • @North_West1
    @North_West1 Год назад

    Pretty sure the brown and white pupper is the dig director. He was trying to tell everyone not to dig in that yard.