My Great Uncle was killed by a shell fired by a gun of the likes of this one on October the 12th 1917. He was marching up with the 33rd Battalion AIF in preparation for an assault on German positions at Paschendale.
This is so awsome Tony all this incredible archaeology just under your feet I was a bit of a amateur Egyptology person but all these Roman, medievil , Celtic ruins , dotted all over England I think it's totally cool here in Australia I mean we only have 200 yrs of recorded European history what went on b4 that archaeology is really anyone's guess , but it is a very big country and let's face it all sorts of visitors may have literally bumped into our enormously long coast line I would love to go on a dig with phill and you Tony, totally would be blown away keep these awsome videos coming time team love it cheers from Sydney mate and your entire team thier all extremely profesional thankyou .
I go metal detecting all over the UK and I've got tons of French,Dutch,Roman,Viking treasures .They all go into the boxes in the loft and left there and I've never had them looked at either by an expert..
finding all those nameless completely forgotten skeletons might really have sent me off on the complete pointlessness of life. existential devastation.
The Roman’s built such well planned, useful, beautiful, and solid works I don’t understand how they were left to waste away/demolished and/or re-used by the next wave of the population to come through. There seemed to be a massive step backwards in the living conditions.
The problem is for all their apparent engineering excellence, they were uninsulated stone buildings with hard floors. I used to live in a uninsulated stone building with hard floors and it was damp and absolutely freezing from November-March. The amount of fuel needed just the keep one room warm was ridiculous. It's no wonder that the Iron Age Brits stuck with their traditional roundhouses well into the Roman period, and went back to timber framed/wattle & daub or whatever homes after as they're a lot warmer and more practical for the British climate.
@@mattsmith4053 haha I didn’t think of the weather, as an Australian I can’t comprehend just how cold it must get over there. Cost in the upkeep would be another factor I guess.
@@louem2491 it's not as bad now, but even 30 years ago when I was a kid it got down to -15C fairly often in winter. Always makes me chuckle wondering whether the Romans had to do the 6am pitch black tip toe run to the bog for a piss like I had to before my dad had got up to light the fire lol
Castor Church dig seems like the Romans had some kind of worship thing going there and didn't they often go right on top and/or take in older spiritual sites? Part occupation tactic part influenced by supposedly Romanized Britons? Doesn't it seem like the "X" marks the spot would actually be centered on center of the Church? Is there any way to discover if the church was built on the x spot? Any records that could assist in pondering and speculating? That would be a fun conversation would it not? Seems like an abnormal amount of people buried on and around that ground. Old churches always have a lot of that, but does this seem more than usual? Is there any way to see if that's true? Be neat if it was and then we could do some fictional speculative pondering on why? Fun to think on how for very long periods people did things a certain way. Very fun to see another of these best of episodes.
So glad I discovered your videos my Sundays were always spent watching Timeteam on channel 4 .Now I can watch again X
I can never get bored with Tony Robinson's presentations. He is good, he could get anyone interested in archaeology.
yaay time team =)
My Great Uncle was killed by a shell fired by a gun of the likes of this one on October the 12th 1917. He was marching up with the 33rd Battalion AIF in preparation for an assault on German positions at Paschendale.
Quite a coincidence, my Great Uncle died on the 12th October 1916, during the battle of the Somme, a year to the day before your Great Uncle.
Harness racing not for me. Saw too many horses break legs on hard tracks. Really horrible to see. :(
This is so awsome Tony all this incredible archaeology just under your feet I was a bit of a amateur Egyptology person but all these Roman, medievil , Celtic ruins , dotted all over England I think it's totally cool here in Australia I mean we only have 200 yrs of recorded European history what went on b4 that archaeology is really anyone's guess , but it is a very big country and let's face it all sorts of visitors may have literally bumped into our enormously long coast line I would love to go on a dig with phill and you Tony, totally would be blown away keep these awsome videos coming time team love it cheers from Sydney mate and your entire team thier all extremely profesional thankyou .
I go metal detecting all over the UK and I've got tons of French,Dutch,Roman,Viking treasures .They all go into the boxes in the loft and left there and I've never had them looked at either by an expert..
I think the whole of England is a graveyard.
How did you work that out..
Love the Time-Team & Toni Robinson 😇💟💓💜
This is a true testament to efforts made in archeological education.
I mean, if you can get Baldrick to sound this intelligent…..
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Bodies from the Plague? That's what I think when they find a bunch of medieval skeletons.
finding all those nameless completely forgotten skeletons might really have sent me off on the complete pointlessness of life. existential devastation.
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I find my only refuge from existential devastation is the Eternal Present. That and eating not just a slice, but the entire humble pie.
Moterrised Lone ranger of the potteryworld.🤣😂😆
The show must go on, dig them all up!
Your work is SO interesting - and enjoyable to look at :) Thanks
It's like old home week isn't it!
Lush Helen
The Roman’s built such well planned, useful, beautiful, and solid works I don’t understand how they were left to waste away/demolished and/or re-used by the next wave of the population to come through. There seemed to be a massive step backwards in the living conditions.
Chaos can reset everything knowledge lost even.
The problem is for all their apparent engineering excellence, they were uninsulated stone buildings with hard floors. I used to live in a uninsulated stone building with hard floors and it was damp and absolutely freezing from November-March. The amount of fuel needed just the keep one room warm was ridiculous. It's no wonder that the Iron Age Brits stuck with their traditional roundhouses well into the Roman period, and went back to timber framed/wattle & daub or whatever homes after as they're a lot warmer and more practical for the British climate.
@@mattsmith4053 haha I didn’t think of the weather, as an Australian I can’t comprehend just how cold it must get over there. Cost in the upkeep would be another factor I guess.
@@louem2491 it's not as bad now, but even 30 years ago when I was a kid it got down to -15C fairly often in winter. Always makes me chuckle wondering whether the Romans had to do the 6am pitch black tip toe run to the bog for a piss like I had to before my dad had got up to light the fire lol
@@mattsmith4053 -15c holy moly! I start to cry when it gets below 10c. Going to have to toughen the f up though, planning a UK visit next year 🤞🏽
Castor Church dig seems like the Romans had some kind of worship thing going there and didn't they often go right on top and/or take in older spiritual sites? Part occupation tactic part influenced by supposedly Romanized Britons? Doesn't it seem like the "X" marks the spot would actually be centered on center of the Church? Is there any way to discover if the church was built on the x spot? Any records that could assist in pondering and speculating? That would be a fun conversation would it not?
Seems like an abnormal amount of people buried on and around that ground. Old churches always have a lot of that, but does this seem more than usual? Is there any way to see if that's true? Be neat if it was and then we could do some fictional speculative pondering on why? Fun to think on how for very long periods people did things a certain way. Very fun to see another of these best of episodes.
Was always fascinated by this dig.
Skeletons in the Shed is one of my favorites. Second episode I watched on this channel.
I swear Helen G was and is the one person who helped me accept this name - I hated it as a child 😂
If you can pay thousands of pounds to a trafficker......
YOU'RE NOT POOR, FRANK🤔
Surprised 'Finds on the fairway' didn't make the top 3.
Or the one in ancaster where they found a roman inscribed stone inside a grave
Me, too. That's one of my favorites.
Must be some artifacts where my family lived PAGE ( 959 ) HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES of LEICESTERSHIRE. TEMPLE pedigree
Same
Just started it and have seen your comment- how did that not make it?? *ah is it about finds in burial grounds?
They always seem to find bones in burial grounds and graveyards, it's mad.
Yeah you wouldn't of guessed that would you.
Lets see; how many times ‘Artis’ is repeated…
26:25 so why is the wall behind Tony ..... part of a church / chapel .... the window is fancy enough
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very cool.
Phil getting grief in burial 2 xD
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Very cool
why wearing hard hats to dig in a field - absolute nuts!
Excavators, working in trenches and people dropping things from above etc...