The Norman Neighbours (Skipsea, Yorkshire)| S12E11 | Time Team
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For years Time Team fan Frances Davies has been collecting finds from the field outside her back door in Skipsea in East Yorkshire. She has uncovered Neolithic, Roman and Saxon items, but her best finds are medieval pots dating from the Norman Conquest. It's clear that there was some habitation in the area 1,000 years ago, but a geophysics plot of the site reveals incredible results, far beyond the team's expectations. Could Frances have had a whole Norman village in her field, a village lost to the records? And could there be a clue in nearby Skipsea Castle, the seat of power of the Norman overlord of the whole area? The Team have three days to find out.
Series 12, Episode 11
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Phil always steals the show for me, I'd love to see him again
Time team was a magnificent bit of telly and sorely missed RIP Mick
Its back, but on YT...... funded by Patreon. 2 full digs so far with more to come. Some of the old Team are there along with some new faces. No Tony, and we lost Mick of course. I like it. The two digs they did were really good too.
RIP Victor the artist as well. Loved that the show supported an artist as well and always helpful to visualise what things looked liked before. Modern shows just stick to computer graphics which is a bit bland.
Victor and Robin too.
Rest in peace. You guys really captivated and inspired me more than you will ever know.
It is always fascinating to see Victor's masterly interpretations of the Team's discoveries. His drawings are so full of life! RIP, you talented man.
Victor is so talented to be able to give Frances a lovely watercolour of how it could have been.
True. I love Victor´s paintings and drawings. It is amazing how he combines the scientific evidence with his enormous talent and puts life into the landscapes, like a time machine.
I'm an artist too and could never match Victor's ability to so beautifully interpret the figures and structures in the landscape. So much deep knowledge there, captured in a few lines and brushstrokes for each item.
Frances has passion, to pay for geo to be done before hand to get the ball rolling is amazing.
Bit like Penny in Esher, she said just keep digging I’ll put the dirt back.
Yeah, I don't understand why everyone is so upset at some holes. Leave them. Put the dirt back yourself. Don't ask your archeologist to waste time filling in holes when you wanted them there to dig them.
From what I‘ve heard, Penny actually kept the corner of the keep they found exposed.
Wonder if they gave her geo phys money back after digging it all ,it'd been nice.
Mick's hat and gloves in the beginning are just so delightful
Thank you for being an absolute star of a landowner Frances!
An absolute gem of an enthusiast you can tell by the look on her face!
@John Knight - I wish I was Frances.
Some of these deserve to be three hour movies. 😊
Stewart is unbelievable. He is the “Phil” of historic landscape interpretation.
I want to spend a day walking a field with Stewart!!
These are my favorite kinds of episodes. The ones with interested and enthusiastic land owners.
I'm so pleased to see geophys win the unofficial competition. I sometimes feel like John takes a lot of flack from the others, so it's great to see his specialists get credit for how amazing they are!
What made it even sweeter was that John seemed so genuinely pleased as well. He and his team don't get nearly the appreciation they deserve.
I think they give him so much flack because he is so good.
Phil was always one of the great work horses (I say that as a compliment) of Time Team. I would have given him a full breakfast with a POT of coffee or tea for all the work he did. And such a good natured guy too.👍☺️
Phil always got fed. A catering truck followed him about ffs.
Phil's knowledge continues to amaze me. He can look at a flint shard and tell you what it is, how it was fashioned and how it most likely ended up getting discarded.
Show Phil a flint and the only thing he can't tell you is the name of the person that made it. 😀
Apparently he has had a lifelong obsession with flint.
That’s dead common for any archaeologist.
I love Phil. Not only is he incredibly knowledgeable about every facet of archeology but he’s so enthusiastic. His enthusiasm is definitely contagious. He’s in his 70’s now and still going strong. How wonderful is that? I wish that he was a part of the new TT group. It’s not quite the same without him and Tony.
It’s so true that phill and tony are what gave the enthusiasm to interest us
This is one of the best Time Team episodes out there. They really don't make TV shows like this anymore.
Absolutely brilliant! Warmed my heart on a freezing day in Indiana.
Man I love how chill Mick is 😂 love him RIP Mick ☺️ thank you for all your hard work on this show 😊☺️
Had no idea Mick passed away. When he die? Loved these different characters and passion for the subject. Watching second time round and it is still a fascinating series. RIP Mick.
@@elizabethrigby-jones5085 In recent years Mick had been leading a team of volunteers researching the long-term landscape history of his home village of Winscombe in Somerset.
He is survived by his partner, Teresa Hall, a scholar of landscape history; and by a son, James, and stepdaughter, Kathryn, from his relationship with Carinne Allinson. An earlier marriage ended in divorce.
• Michael Antony Aston, archaeologist, born 1 July 1946; died 24 June 2013
from his Eulogy in The Guardian
The team itself was the real treasure. The artifacts were simply a bonus.
RIP you beloved wearer of the most awesome hats man ever laid eyes on...
:'(
Phil has a way of explaining thoroughly and succinctly!
I really love how the team includes the landowner ( I love you Frances! ) in the discoveries, and the discussion!
I love watching Tony learn more and more about everything, his knowledge of this field has grown SO much over time. I love how he can now really bring serious points to the team and have a back and forth about them. It makes things so entertaining because if you’ve been watching for a while you grow with him and he asks the questions you think of or asks things at the same level of education as you have about the finds or lack there of. I know it’s geared that way, but he does also seem to genuinely be learning and asking certain questions
What I find impressive is his ability to look fascinated, even when black burnished pottery, hypocaust tiles, and samian ware are explained to him for the umpty-leventh time. His acting ability makes him the ideal presenter/entry person for viewers.
I really like Stewart's interpretation; I think he's spot on, regarding the history. Very impressive, is our Stewart!
Stewart is the man.
if there's one thing i've learned from binging time team, is that stewart's always right xD
He’s even more wrong the vast majority of the time
@@akinohikari1000 ha ha yea . .
Love the man, he always gives us a better picture of what used to be there
“I’d be quite happy to eat out of that”...
“I wouldn’t if I were you”. Classic :-)
My first thought at hearing that was, "What glaze did you use? Did it have lead in it?".
@@winfieldjohnson125 My thought was why not? Thank you, lead would be a good reason especially if it was low fired. At 80 I must be letting my brain go nap attack after years of working with ceramics.
Thought lead glaze myself
This episode is one of the best examples as to why TT needs to continue.
I love that they are starting to update info on some of these sites. Perhaps a whole new spin-off of updates?
Here's hoping the whole lot gets uploaded...they're all classics to me - absolutely magical and the best thing that has ever been on TV (followed by the 'Farm' series with Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn). Regardless of the screen format or quality, please upload all of the Time Team episodes - I've watched so many episodes uploaded by other RUclipsrs, but to have them all on an official channel would be so much appreciated. Failing that make them available to buy...literally the only negative thing about Time Team is that you can't obtain the full collection.
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Meh, Our Yorkshire Farm has to be one of the greatest series for modern times i have ever seen...
Ruth Goodman lost all her credibility when she proposed, on national TV, that at the outbreak of WW2 all the farmers ran out and shot all their livestock for fear of sustaining them throughout the lean period to follow, and at Christmas 1939 turkey or chicken was replaced with some sort of mock up of baked veg with parsnips for legs and I forget what else, even I know that's a ludicrous idea, my neighbor at the time was of farming stock who had experienced 1939, I heard him laughing through the wall, the woman is an idiot!
Archaeology Yesterday469 subscribers: This channel did just that over the past few months, and now have been closed it would seem
@@dreddykrugernew Takes a lot to beat 'All Creatures Great and Small'
It really does matter how many times I see these, there is always a nugget that is new to me, fresh despite it's age. What a wonderful series this was and how wonderful to see Mick.
What an absolutely fantastic episode! The whole team made a fascinating story out of, essentially, mud! Oh, but no,, seriously, the pot throwing, the geophys, the environmental stuff (the changes to the landscape over time), the little snippets of history about the horrors of the Norman conquest, and all our favourite field archeologists. Thanks everyone.
Guys and Gals of Time Team: you are all awesome together in each and every adventure! I'm hooked on what you do to reveal more about the past.
This adventure and others...I am absolutely amazed at the green green of the fields. They are breathtakingly beautiful.
All of you are experts at what you do. Frances is a very lucky lady to receive knowledge of the findings about the past.
Thank you!
Lovely episode. Well... aren't they all, each in their own way? I could never tire of Time Team.
This is one of the most interesting ever. And who doesn't love John Gater?
Yes, so sweet seeing him light up at the end when he 'won'! He catches so much flak it's nice to see him and his team get some love.
Such amazing work by both Stewart and by the Geophysics team in this episode.
Sorry, but the title made me immediately think of some sort of sitcom:
*"Ep. 3: Aelwulf and Urtha get up in arms over Geoffroy and Edwina's plans to put up a motte and bailey next door. The neighbours retaliate by threatening to burn their house down: will they follow through? Meanwhile, young Aelfrith tries out some French words, and mum is right furious..."*
I am so jealous of Francis, so very amazing to have found all of this stuff on her land! Wonderful.
And what a character she is, so dry! I LOLd at all her asides. Loved her!
Defo one of the best episodes...... maybe not that much building wise, but hundreds of years of activity, with different uses for the land. Really incredible, and now Frances can look out her window, Knowing she is a small part in a massive part of history.....
This show is so wholesome
'Go on then, tea break over.'
'But I didn't get any tea.'
'It's still over'
LOLOLOL
I just love watching Phil talking, digging, and making philosophical comments. He's definitely from a blue collar background and acts and talks like a blue-collar person but has a tremendous intellect and knowledge. His overall hand eye coordination amazing. I have to laugh when he reminds me of somebody from the southeastern United States who knows a great deal and can do a great deal but makes you think he's as dumb as a rock. Then, he does a deal with you and you think you came out way ahead but later on you'll figure out he got the very best of the deal. I spent the majority of my adult life as a blue collar worker and then went back to college and got a PhD in vocational education. Then, I . people working in factory automation where I had to be able to act and function like a blue-collar person or they would not accept what I was teaching them. A big wink for Phil. 😉
As an archaeologist myself, we work on a lot of construction sites. Over educated ditch diggers, shovel bums are a few of the terms used. It kind of is a blue collar field. Field scientists are a special breed. Phil represents the us very well. I have a cowboy hat that looks about as beaten up as Phil's, with hawk and eagle feathers I've found in the field.
Phil is definitely my favorite, a well educated, grounded, funny old codger 😊 he’s himself unapologetically and it’s the most fantastic thing! I’m from New England in the US and I can 100% see what you’re talking about when you say he makes you think he’s dumb as a rock, so many people like that up here who are super smart and do the same thing!
@@DT-sb9sv Your hat is illegal if you're in the US, cowboy. Flagrantly so. The exact reason that possessing eagle and hawk feathers is illegal is so that people won't use them for decoration.
@@nunliski Spend 60 hours a week surveying Solar Plants in the Mojave Desert and get back to me.
My snakeskin boots need a target.
them nails . . .
Love and Light TTers, glad we're bringing this back :)
Just found this site. I love history/archeology but I am especially interested in this episode. My Goforth ancestors came from Hull and my Farrar/Ferror ancestors while Norman settled in W. Yorkshire around Midgely/Mytholmroyd.
I have Midgely ancestry. Had no idea there’s actually a place called Midgely in Yorkshire. My Midgely ancestor emigrated from Bradford to Australia.
Phil and His Fascinating Bucket …. Great band name!
Just love "Time Team". They're always so adept at taking tiny clues & telling the whole story of a site. Really good work.
Been watching TT since I was a boy in the 90's, such a great show
That would absolutely be overwhelming! Thousands of years of your home's past opening up before your eyes!
I was born in Hull and lived in Withernsea just down the coast from Skipsea passed Hornsea i have passed this place loads of times very interesting place and over the other side of Withernsea just before Welwick near Patrington is were the gunpowder plot was planned out. Skipsea caravan site has been going over the cliffs for a long time now
Right now, in Southern California, we are experiencing the worst fire in our history. You guys are the best distraction around!!!!!!
Clay is dug from fields in Zambia, pressed out to brick shapes and allowed to dry.
Then a large block like a small house is made of them, leaving small spaces between and tunnels below.
Firewood is put in the tunnels and left for a day.
The grey clay is now red brick for building with.
❤️ I've actually been able to make bricks that way in Uganda, north of Jinja. We built a new schoolhouse after the old one fell apart. There's nothing like the feel of squishing wet clay & straw in your bare feet!!
"Who'd be an archeologist on a cold day in Yorkshire?" Stewart!!! Yorkshire's native son.
As to the thumbprint on the "skillet", it could have been in the correct orientation if the "skillet" was actually something like a lid for a large pot... like the top of a "Dutch Oven". The thumb hold would make sense then... maybe?
Sure. The professional potter and the pottery experts don’t know anything at all....
What a great episode! Like all the others. Next I'd like to see Francis, talking about 'ritual' of course
I hate waiting for more timeteam! I need my daily dose of Phil, Mick and Tony!
I have seen the entire dvd box set for about $75US. Too rich for my blood
Especially Phil. He's hilarious.
How did you get here a day ago? Talk about FIRST! 😅🤦♂️
@@Simonjose7258 you can comment on the premiere thing!
Use a VPN. Set it to France (other countries might also work) and refresh the page. There are a load more videos on this channel that are currently hidden in the UK.
I always look forward to a new uploaded episode of Time Team!
I love rewatching the episodes over again…. I learn something new each time!
What a wonderful episode. Thanks for posting
Love this whole episode and I'd love more Time Team type episodes in East Yorkshire. I moved here 9 years ago and I love the whole area. A lot of history still in the ground here I think.
That artist is fantastic
Definitely hard to keep a dry eye towards the end of this one.
Loved it!
I just want to follow Stewart around as a stress reliever for myself.
An episode I'd never seen! Wonderful!
Loved that little snake bracelet, it was beautiful.
One of my favourite programmes in one of my favourite places.. This is amazing!
I like Phil Harding. To him, every day is 'Talk Like a Pirate'-day.
His favourite shop is AAAAAAARGOS
@@ianbest4866 ...and his favourite animal is an AARDvAARK...
Phil, Mick(RIP), Tony and Bridg were the core of an excellent team, Phil was the joker in the pack, and wore his enthusiasm and love of archeology on his sleeve. Aargh I miss Time Team. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
I just want him to take care of those finger nails 🤦♂️
Not all pirates sound like him but I love phil as well.
Best show to cure insomnia. Thanks doc for the recommendation
If this puts you to sleep, you have more serious problems than insomnia.
@@gregb6469 no I'm with him. It puts me in such a relaxed state with my old friends from my childhood Sunday nights I have to watch them 3 or 4 times
Great quality. I’ve watched every episode I’ve found but some are difficult the see all of the detail. When Phil starts talking about color or consistency changes in a dig, details matter. Certainly a group of people I’d like to have a few pints with, and frequently. RIP Mick. In of of the tea time videos Helen was drinking from a Mick striped sweater mug. I’d love to have one. Looking forward to more ☮️💟😷
"The Air Turns Blue", I love that phrase.
I didn't get it lol
@@Sish16 it mean, there was a lot of cussing and swearing. Have you not heard that phrase?
@@lorrainemerry8661 never in my life lol thanks for letting me know :)
I know there was a period in theatre history when scripts were censored by drawing a blue pencil line through words and phrases considered unsuitable for human consumption. Certain comedians were called "blue" if they used such unsavoury language. I don't know the time periods involved.
He would be mad enough to cuss a blue streak.
I really enjoyed watching them dig through the layers of built-up soil because it is obvious does it takes time to build up soil material like that. Once in awhile, they show where the landscape has been cut through by flowing water. I would like to see more of that from the landscape because if soil is being laid down somewhere, it's being removed from somewhere else. I was excited to hear about soil physically brought into this site and seeing where the ocean was taking land away. To me, it is as important to see where things have been taken away as it is to see where things have been built up. It's obvious you're not going to have archaeological finds where things have been taken away but they are all part of the process.
Incorrect. Soil builds up naturally.
Would love to see them do another 3 days at this site.
Worth the wait it was absolutely fantastic. Well done Time Team.
Well done…pulling it all together
I remember watching this when it first aired on TV great episode 😁😁👍👍
Ha! I live in a fairly windy coastal part of New Zealand, and as luck would have it, a massive gust of wind came through as Tony said "can you hear that wind!" at about 5:30 😂
I have heard that Wellington is the windiest part of New Zealand. I live on the Canadian prairies so I know all about wind and it gets a heck of a lot colder here than it does in Yorkshire.
@@ilanamillion8942 yeah, we do not get anywhere near the cold temperatures even yorkshire gets, let alone Canada! Just a whole lotta wind rattling the old chimney.
That was Phil regretting his last pint at the pub the night before.
I liked the pollen thing myself :) TFS, G :)
Another great episode from a great series! Where, oh where, did Prof. Aston get all his groovy knits?
The hat at least looks hand knit. I'd bet they were made just for him.
Please bring back Time Team, I would never be board watching.
They're trying. They have a patreon to try and bring it back
I hope they can bring it back. It's a hard sell these days of simpleton sheep. They only want explosions and nudity it seems like. Nothing they might learn from.
Over here in Texas giggling at how a skillet needed to be explained. Great show as always!
Just found this,live 9 miles away, guess what my lock down viewing is this weekend!!
Thanks so much for posting
Blows like this most days in the Texas Panhandle.
Ooh I blimmin love time team I do.. wonderful... Best thing ever made for TV, after David Attenborough of course....
I have to agree, John's data was SERIOUSLY impressive!
Brilliant!!!
Don’t blame Phil wanting a coffee if it’s cold when he’s digging👍👍🥇😁
P.s. regarding the somewhat irrelevant remarks about Phil being blue collar, if you have seen the episode where Phil’s DNA is analysed you will know that he is very proud of being as British as it is possible to be. He is also supremely indifferent to other people’s ideas of him An “educated” classless accent is not something he would likely value. How about Stewart come to that? Or the Scottish accents often heard. All part of the rich panoply of life in the UK.
Anyone who cares about his accent, is not bloody worth your time!
An American wholeheartedly agrees.
As an East-Midlander with a Leicestershire accent, I absolutely agree with you.
And of course Mick!
Then on the other hand poshos like Francis and Carenza.
Doesn't matter where they are from, they all know their stuff
Love to see the episode of Phil's dna ❤
I've lived in Hornsea and Wawne, not far from here, and the whole of Holderness is covered in ancient places...
Hands off the landowner, Tony!
Great episode.
Aah Time Team. Like revisiting your childhood home.
You simply can't do this waiting game to us!!! I'm dying........ lol
3:30 I quite enjoy the (possibly unintended) subtle implication that Phil's glasses are older than anything they've found on the site.
If "Cleeton" went under the waves, it didn't do it all of a sudden. The populace would have been moving inland the whole time, and might have felt it natural to call their new location "Cleeton" as well. I wonder if there's any evidence that might have been the case.
I'm surprised they didn't open up the lead bucket! What if there were tools inside or something other than just dirt? Could be an unintentional (or intentional) time capsule!
Wonder how much history Phil's sweater has seen?
Not as much as his hat!
@@potatofaery Lol! The first time I saw the stain, I thought it was rainwater that would dry up, but there it was in the next episode, which wasn't even from the same year. (I'm relatively new to Time Team.) I'd like to see what badges he has on the band.
the artist is great!
@9:00 I think that it's upside down because it is A LID to a frying pan
I love this stuff.
Hello from the Colonies.
Greetings from the mother country .
Same. I’m transfixed by Time Team. Tangent: my mum and Frances resemble each other.
Phil - " ... the air turns blue." Makes me wonder how they cursed in prehistoric times.
Loudly my guess 😊
Gosh, I wonder what that lady sees from her window after all this ...amazing!
I would kill to attend a lecture from Phil
The handle reminds me of a removable handle that fit on ceramic Corningware micro/oven dishes I had.
Was the handle with the thumb print on the wrong side a lid and not the pot?
38:36 great cut - laughed.
It’s really interesting to watch
Buzzing for this