The Enormous Bronze Age Fortress That Loomed Over Ancient Ireland | Time Team | Odyssey
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- A previously unexcavated massive Bronze Age promontory fort conceals the remains of a sophisticated society. Tony and the team have just three days to unearth the mysteries of one of the most significant Bronze Age finds in British archaeology...
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I would kill to work as an archaeologist in the UK, until I saw this and Cooper's Pool videos. That is dedication! I'm sticking to my desert archaeology, but what all of you do is so fascinating and reaffirms my life's decision to follow my heart and be an archaeologist. I also really really really want to work with Phil.
Just about anywhere one walks in the U.K, Scotland or Ireland, one is literally walking on history. My Cousin took my wife and I on a walking tour out towards Hadrian's wall, it was something to actually touch something built over a thousand years old. This show has been a staple for me during this pandemic, and has brought back fond memories of England.
every where on earth
Indeed
Stone circles, standing stones and burial cairns/dolmans are a lot older.
@@bigbasil1908 Too true, but a lot of those were off limits or closed. We did however get to go to Hazelton to the Cairn there. That was a great trip.
@tacfoley You might want to read what I wrote: "Built over a thousand years old" Key word, "OVER". Since it was completed in 130 AD, and our visit was in 1984, that would have put it under 2,000 yrs. old.
I'm so happy I re discovered this channel, I have never had so much fun watching digging in the dirt & finding bugger all, well done.
Well, there was this fog(it smelt like burning rope) and went on all day after day.
I think knowing more about ancient history is probably one of the most exciting, and intriguing aspects of historical knowledge!
Interesting and humorous and the enthusiasm of the experts is contagious. I am glad I found this episode.
God bless all those involved with bringing this show into existence. If I were younger I would've consider a career in archeology with this show being an influence in that.
Living up on that hilltop while trading across sea meant they could see boats from miles away coming or going. Their earthworks not only protected them from other people, but 3,000 years ago there were still wolves and wildcats in Ireland, which are not so likely to attack people, but could have killed their livestock..
The fact that there were animals that could ruin your day seems to be overlooked far too much. Keep the wolf from the door as well as some cattle thieving mofos.
Lol uncle Phil is in his element with all the flint laying on the ground, our prehistoric man in the flesh.
They could be digging an ornate Roman tesseract mosaic floor and if one flint comes out 2 trenches away, Phil would plow through people to get to it.lol
I’ve always found it rather hilarious that Phil who looks & behaves most like a prehistoric man(long unkept hair, burly, loud)is the prehistoric expert/enthusiast. While Mick who is obsessed with & an expert on Medieval era archeology is more quiet/refined *yet eccentric* like a medieval scientist, researcher or “healer”…with his stark white hair & preference for brightly colored clothing. 😂🤣😂 So the question is: do you start dressing &/or behaving in the way which is social expected/related to your job, field of study &/or passion *AFTER* entering that profession? OR does the behavior, professional personality & style of fashion come first?🤔🤔
- I personally think both can be true. *However* there ARE PLENTY of professionals who don’t look &/or behave *ANYTHING* like what is considered “socially expected” when not at work or even *while at work* IF their workplace has either a lax dress code or no dress code at all.
Dr Phil's comment that he didnt find the garden but he found the potting shed!!! Thats why I love that man!
I wish I was a millionaire. I'd privately pay the same crew to spend a few weeks up there to get a full picture of the site, every house and cairn, and build a partial reconstruction for tourism/my own personal pride in local heritage.
Also, great to see Northern Ireland on Time Team!
Well you could if you had "A cunning plan".
There are crowd funded archeology digs. I only looked at one but I would guess others exist.
Better to do a little and leave some for archeologists and universities in the future I think.
@tacfoley Draconian, not "draconic"
Well said. But the Irish history is not so fascinating as on the British mainland. I would like to know the extent of Irish trade and other interactions there were with the Romans.
The enthusiasm is infectious. Really enjoyed this episode.
@@wyomarine6341 To be honest I work in construction and more often than not we deal with archaeologists before site can commence. I have always found them to be a bit pretentious. A bit better than the us. Not all, but the majority. I do like though in all walks of life enthusiasm in what you do, hence my comment.
Ever since the 1980s i have been so keen on other programs like this one. Much later,I discovered TIME TEAM and am still addicted to it. Have seen so many repeats its not funny. I still browse one occationally. 😁😁😁🎥👍
It kind of blows my mind that you can dig a hole, even a rather small hole, and someone can come along 3000 years later and know someone dug a hole there.
No kidding. I often entertain myself by building, cutting, or burying something completely random, and think of the future archaeological "implications" of nonsense. Lol
@@davesstillhere People of the ancient world or even as far back as the Paleolithic era were not any different than we are today. They didn't have our level of technology or our level of knowledge of the world but they had the same basic desires and needs we have today.
They wanted to make sure they had enough food to feed their family. They wanted to raise their children to be happy fulfilled adults, they wanted to hang out with friends and protect themselves from enemies.
As children they pretended and played games and had toys and dreamed of being grown up. As grown-ups they had everyday tools, they made toys for their kids and they played at recreation.
But archeologists want to find important things, so a child's toy, lost 6000 years ago becomes a religious artifact. As does a broken tool cast aside by someone's wife.
Oh, those ruts cut by that tractor will be there for hundreds of years.
@@Mdeaccosta Did I say anything of that kind? Did they not point out the evidence right in the video, that the Earth had been dug into 3000 years ago?
@@erictaylor5462 cutting ruts like that, no bueno. Don't know what you're going on about.
I'd like to be up there on a clear night, I can only imagine how heavenly it would be.
There is every indication that this area of Co. Antrim was denuded of trees and shrubs at much later period than the Neolithic and/or the Bronze age. A semi forested area rich in flora and fauna would have provided ideal habitation for the Neolithic and the Bronze age peoples.
You will never know how much the Iowan historian poet valures these old classics. If its my lunch or bedlunch my cats and I are watching maybe fir the tenth time Time Team. Thanks
Love these people and the way they are passionate about telling history
Very imaginative, after the fog of "hooch" the stories they can tell. I did notice that the ground had no rocks or gravel in it, it was all sod.
I don't think I've ever seen an episode of TT where there wasn't intense rain and high winds. I'd say "film it in summer" but I bet they probably do...
Only during the summer.
I was just thinking about that too after just watching the one about the Broch in Scotland. I live in Australia and I'm always wonderous of how people thrived and survived back in those ancient times. It looks difficult in these times with modern equipment. Kudos to past and present
40:51 That dug out canoe is huge in the photo. Amazing that whoever carved it found such a big tree to 'dig out' (or more likely burned and dug out as to do all the work with flint tools alone would have taken forever).
Wonder if many workers were used, like at Stonehenge for example ?
@@susanjackett9268 I wouldn't have thought there would be many making the dug out canoe as people would need room to work. It was probably just two or three people I reckon
Not sure they would have burned it out. Damian said in a previous episode Natives in the US used trees like pine which are easily flammable, whereas the trees they would have had to work with in the British Isles retain too much moisture for that to work well. I think what we're looking at is the result of many hours of hard graft 😳
@@Libbathegreat Oh yeah, I've watched videos of people making dug out canoes much smaller than that one and it took a huge amount of work and time. Stone circles and pyramids got built because people were bigger than the amount of work and time. Where there's a will, there's a way
@@bigbasil1908 here in Australia the first nations people cut the bark peeled it and bound up the ends and put smaller bark based outriggers on one if both sides. Bark wouldn't last long so there wouldn't be evidence of them, but it makes sense that they were made there too as it FASTER and easier to make boats that way, than scooping out big trees, though it is proven that this was done too.
I do love watching Phil with his flints. I hope that all these years later he is still at it!
Went to Belfast back in 1993. Would have loved to have checked this site out if it could have been visited. Great show!
I don;t think anyone knew about it.
Pretty sure you could walk it. There’s public access to most such remote places in the UK and NI.
Antrim area .Where my great grandfather came from. . .fascinating
What a great episode. I loved the roundhouses and the flint mine nearby. The sea down below in a neighboring village. I’m sure trading went on for good flint tools to use on the farms. Maybe grain, seafood and vegetables were traded for the flint tools. I am sure all the best flint workers would come to work the flint in such a great mine. ⭐️ My imagination is a wonderful thing.
Trade with the med was very possible in neolithic britain and ireland. The peoples that built this site in ireland are directly connected with the rest of europe, with burials of people hundreds of miles from where they lived and artifacts like flint axes being found far from the source.
We need more people like Francis in control over our planet. Imagine world leaders like him: "Were killing ourselves and nature and we must fix that NOW".
Love his enthusiasm and immediate call to action!
So true
Tony makes it. His narration makes this program so much fun not to say the others aren't cute too
It's pretty dry subject. Hours of tedious labour with the occasional find of interest, and much of the "excitement" is the intellectual pursuit.
Tony brings enthusiasm to the subject along with the passions of people involved.
The US version of Time Team was so dull. They fell into the austere documentary style.
Love the content, enthusiasm, and the videography. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, as usual--really great. The really big question left begging by this broadcast is the economy of the settlement, built with enormous patience and ginormous expenditure of human musclepower over long and repeating periods of time. From the broadcast itself, it's pretty obvious how terrible a place this would have been to try to raise crops (do you wanna try harvesting oats in fog?). And the effort needed to bring victuals from the lowlands up to these towering heights .... a LOT of energy for peoples who didn't have much time (or energy) to climb high heights with heavy loads of food on their backs. Ultimately, this episode doesn't elucidate much at all about the site, a shame but there's 3 day archeology for ya. Anyhow, thank you for your efforts but please do try to keep the economy of life in mind in future. No village on this promitory would have been sustainable unless there was a significant culture below it in the valley and beyond to support it. Be well!
The climate is thought to have been more clement at that time.
Fantastic documentary. Guidance narrative by Tony EXCELLENT! Tony, you make us travel in a time machine from home. Thanks!!!
Oh Tony! It is so much fun watching you get excited over the dig!!!
I don't think you were flailing Phillip, you did great! As always love the channel, a great respite the past few months.
The Hagred guy cracks me up
Francis is slipping in his old age. It took him almost 2 days to get hooked into his "ritual" mode. In every single Time Team episode he appears in, there comes a time when he decides that everything that they have looked at, from cooking pots to cow barns is ritualistic or ceremonial.
Thanks so much for posting.
Bravo ! Always enjoy 'Time Team' ! ❤️
Beautiful rich soil for food farming and feed for livestock. In Florida we have such sandy soil it needs augmentation to be more productive. For example deer in Florida are pretty small. Apex predators such as bear and Panthers are also small. The reason is lower nutrients in plants native to Florida.
Interesting!
George Zimmerman is rather large.
Actually reverse trend in black bear-- larger in Fla than more northerly areas.
@@leenewsom7517 Black bears caught on trail cams in southern Fla look positively skinny to me - no bellies. Trail cams in the northern states? Roly poly.
It's also the weather. Bigger bodies are harder to cool, hence smaller stature of deer, panthers and bears
Great job ya'll always enjoy your shows 🙂
Some day, I would love to take a trip across the whole area, from this kind of fort to cairns to rock art to rock circles of multiple kinds, there are so very many places to peek into our neolithic past! I really wish I could! 🥺
Thank you for sharing.
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I love listening to stories of what's it was like before... New subscriber here... 🙋♀️
Thank you.
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What fantastic channel this Wow. Thank you
Enjoyed. Thanks.
I so loved this show, sadly living in the USA only got to see it for the first time in 2012. Why I never studied archeology - well I didn't know much about it until watching time team.
Good to see Francis Pryor within his Bronze Age specialist field, rather than trying to persuade us that the Anglo-Saxon invasions never took place.
Their reason for not using the geophysics cart is ridiculous... hook up some ropes and drag it up. As long as the bottom stays facing down it'll work.
Okay boss
@@danceyrselfkleen seriously. Without it you're shooting in the dark. Just throwing a trench down and hoping you hit something. The geophys takes all the guess work out of it.. that's why you do it before you dig anything.
Usually they cut the grass on the site so there's no problems with the cart, minor hills aren't an issue. I think he was being a douchebag.
@@FINNIUSORION Ah, but there have been episodes where the geo phys did NOT show stuff that was found with an exploratory trench.
Good episode. Cool location.
God, I love this stuff. It's so intriguing to get these glimpses into history.
BEAUTIFUL
What a glorious place…
This is so awesome.
Interesting stuff
This is my favorite episode.
Seeing the effort people put into defense, made me think of an old song from 1971, One Tin Soldier - Coven. I don't know why, just think it would be a beautiful if hard life
@Aniwayas Song it is a great song. I'm not big on anti-war songs, but that song really nails it.
I graduated high school in '71. "ONE TIN SOLDIER" was always one of my favorite songs. "Turned the stone & looked beneath it.....Peace on Earth was all it said." Too bad more people didn't remember.
How can Tony never say "I have a cunning plan" on any episode?
LOL I wish!!!
Well I'm afraid it'll have to wait...
Thank you.
The Celts sailed to N Portugal where there are other round houses on high sites and probably furthur,They were vital sailing people.
We shell consider that in the Bronze Age the climate and so the weather was much better than today. So life was much easier and there where even more forests. A lot of people could live her and the sea provides fish and other seafood.
Love this show
AWESOME 👌
Wow, you even had J.P. Mallory. Impressed.
Human endeavor never fails to amaze me ❤
15:11
Trust me Tony, that isn't the _first_ tool on this site.
I have not seen this one before. It was fun to watch Phil flirting over flints.
I always suspected that Baldrick was secretly the real boffin. :)
Sort of hints at it in the initial installment, I think. Edmund was the dumb one in the first series, while Baldrick made the wisecracks.
just amazing how they lived back then....
The richness of the dark soil looks amazing. We have no soil such as that, in my part of the United States.
That's the bog in the soil lovely and dark I have my hands in it most of the time lol
Absolutely amazing !. i am wondering though 3 days in terrain such as we see here, is 3 days enough to really to see a full picture?. is funding a issue or is there just is so much for the team to do on other sites, that 3 is all that can be given to this amazing adventure?
I think it's a production decision to set every episode at 3 days balancing budget and time constraints. It is as much an archaeology operation as it is a TV production. Keeping at a set number of days makes it far easier to plan and execute multiple episodes. 3 days is enough for an hour long episode. I don't mind their 3 days so much as it saddens me that nobody else fronts any time or money so often Time Team are the only ones who have done any digging on any of the locations they have visited in the past 20+ years.
Would love to go back and see what they were doing.
I love this very much........from Mandeville, Québec, Canada.....i love everything Irish,☘️🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀❤️😎
You should’ve more discerning 😉
This is the Top Gear of Archaeology Shows.
Very interesting!!!....greetings from México!!!👍
I'm always intrigued by their interpretation hillforts etc are to show prestige.
Anyone who has owned a nice house will know it's hard to keep people from nicking your stuff.
Even bronze Age Irish had the same problem.
Aecheologists have a tendency to overplay cultural and 'nice' explanations and way way way underplay practical uses and more importantly violence and social conflict. We've seen that over the last 2 decades as genetics has shown that aechelogists thought that almost almost all cultural change was elite Capture and cultural change, when in fact the genetics now shows it was often very violent population replacement.
"Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger.
Promontory Rider used to ride so high.
I don't know these days just seem to ride on by.
Once the wind was warm and sweet, but this must be your place.
Cause you don't change this chilly range, for any other place.
Say, Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger."
~~Robert Hunter/Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead sucks.
@@danceyrselfkleen "That's just like, your opinion, man"[
~~The Dude
Nice to see how some of your people lived ages ago
If there were cash, I think it would be cool to fully reconstruct a site or two and have a bronze age village you could live in for a bit as a tourist. Work flint, defend the ramparts, eat a cow cut by flint.
Fun but I ain’t cuttin’ any poor cow with a flint anything!!! We’re doin’ veg!!!!😂🤣♥️‼️😘
That would be SO FUN. A living history museum you can be a part of. I would love that so much.
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I remember visiting Flag Fen (a reconstructed Bronze Age village) as a child and it was one of the main reasons that I am so invested into archeology and history. I was so convinced that the actors were real people that lived in the village and I wanted to join them so bad. I now live in the US and I can’t wait to return and revisit all of the history that we don’t have here.
That site needs a good four to six months' attention.
I love Phil.
Would be really cool for you to do an episode in Buckinghamshire About the statues that we’re just found during construction
Very neat. Wonder why they didn't use ground penetrating radar or a laser grid system to help more accurately chart the terrain. Time, cost or maybe that basalt promontory foundation?
They said in the episode that the ground was magnetized
I always pity the guys that have to sort out, whether the flint tools scattered around on site are genuine or just Phil's lunchtime crafts... :P
Only Phil Harding could spend an idle lunch hour ‘knapping’ 😉
As in Italy, "Oh no! Not another great site we can't affort to excavate properly."
I can't tell the number of times I've heard an archaeologist say "It must have taken an ENORMOUS effort ..." But in fact, time and again, all over the world, people did build these things. So it can't have been that bad.
LMAO @ Francis putting Stewart to work. Damn fog, cos Stewart would’ve been hiding in the skies LOL No trees to hide in.
I'm curious about what trees and plants would have been growing on the top of that promontory back when humans lived there. Is there evidence that the settlement deforested the area? Those ditches would have made good water catchment systems if there were living trees. But I suppose the water table was pretty high back then, too.
the ditches would also collect rain water to drink
@41:30, dugout canoes c. 8,000 BCE in Lake Phelps, North Carolina USA
Interesting to me that the team kept asking who these people were when it's obvious they were Irish. Then at the end, the story of stealing some cattle from a nearby village, well that just sealed it. Mistry solved because my neighbor has cows and I always wanted to steal one and feast.
We do love a good cattle raid
so before potatoes you guys are known as cattle people eh. xD
Good thing alcohol was invented to protect the cattle and taters from the raiders.
Jim Mallory!
I just miss the history since coming to Australia in 1989 so much better in UK
When I was a kid, I got to live in Thailand for a few years. The place we lived had been continuously occupied for the last million years or so, and it had that 'lived in' look.
That would be pretty difficult considering that humans only inhabited Thailand around 60-70,000 years ago.
@@mrpopo8298 you mean homo sapiens.
There were many previous species
@@indyrock8148 Where is your evidence for that in Thailand? As far as I know the only older hominid evidence in SE Asia is Java man. OP was talking shit. No two ways about it.
@@mrpopo8298 he was probably wrong about 1 million years. but there were several Neanderthal type species getting around.
There is evidence of at least 2 in the DNA of Australia Aborigines. This is in addition to their Neanderthal DNA.
@@indyrock8148 I was talking about Thailand specifically, not the entire history of human evolution. I am well aware of our present understanding regarding that.
Ah, Ireland... I remember that low stone wall... they are everywhere. I must have been to that site, lol.
Such a huge, rich site, never fully excavated is a bit mind boggling to me. After a full excavation, you might even consider a reconstruction and rake in tourist $$ by the truckload, given the right marketing effort…
I would love to go!
@@cdd4248 I read every nordic saga I could find as a kid. The Irish kings held a big place of respect and wonder in the minds of the vikings. I think finding and exhibiting Irelands rich and deep story would benefit the nation and its people.
@Celto Loco Do something? Found a movement?
@@Hallands. absolutely agree!
And destroy it!
Poor Phil should have brought a hat with a chin strap.
The raiding party model seems to be problematic due to the apparent lack of presence of animal bones.
I. Really like thèse shows . It's à pitty thèse shòws ended as they are interesting .
Francis is so optimistic.
The world's first town house community!😀 Wonder if they had an HOA?😂😂😂
Should be no surprise they occupied a site of solid basalt .yes a giant magnet. They knew about energy lines and how you were able to think with greater clarity on certain dates. They were in tune with the earth which they thought was there ancestors communicsting with them. These people were zoomed in on this energy and knew the signal was strongest in these sacred.locations.
It seems a shame to dig up that ground because it’s so beautiful out there with buildings going up all the time and construction almost everywhere you look something like that is really nice to see‼️
Amazing to think some of my Irish ancestors could have possibly stood on this hill, digging and building these walls and ditches.