I've been watching these in order and I've seen quite a few good episodes, but this is my favorite so far. So many absolutely great finds one after another. They could have made this episode 5 hours long and I'd stillbe here spellbound.
I'm so blown away by that plaited hair! I've walked on and around countless burials in Cornwall and Wales and always imagined what may lay beneath my feet...imagine!
I love the way Mick and Tony sit drinking coffee philosophising whilst the others dig - this seems to be a common approach and makes me smile as they are lovely guys.
This episode is one of my favourites. Everybody is so enthusiastic. They are all very excited and happy with their finds. I never saw John as happy as this. I love Mick and Tony’s conversation at the begining of the episode. I live in Hungary and I wish we would have programs like these.
An emotional roller coaster of an episode: the poignancy of a young woman's grave on one end, and John Gater pushing Mick Aston about in a wheelbarrow on the other. Five stars.
The archeologists' excitement is infectious on this amazing dig! No pun intended, but I'm watching this during the covid-19 lockdowns and the orange, smoke filled skies of the wildfires in the Pacific Northwest of the US. I'm a transplant from Belfast with a favourite auntie from Man. Absolutely intriguing! Go raibh maith mille agat Time Team! A thousand thanks!
Thank you, Victor, for your wonderful portrayals of persons and life in times gone by. You are truly the unsung hero of Time Team with your quiet dedication to your work and assistance in all that you touched to show what life was like so long ago.
I agree, Victor is amazing. As an artist, I stand in awe of his skills, not only in drawing, but in capturing the relevant periods, with costume, buildings, etc. So well done!
6:49 is funny to me and I had to chuckle. As a former Christian and now an atheist, I too have a fascination with the history, beliefs and practices of my former faith. I love visiting cathedrals, churches, religious cemeteries, etc, to see how other people worship. So I know there’s a lot of misconceptions about atheists, but some of us still love learning.
The subject of my doctoral thesis, the 1st Duke of Atholl, Lord John Murray, 1660 - 1724, at the University of Aberdeen, passed on the title of 'the King of the Isle of Man' to his son through his maternal grandparents, Lord and Lady Stanley - the Earls of Derby, which I found absolutely fascinating. Also, my step-father, a Garrett, was originally from Chicken Rock on the Isle of Man - a fact I tease him about sometimes. ^_^ - Chicken Rock - what a name! Love this show btw - thanks for uploading!!
Chicken Rock is a lump of slate that is covered by sea other than a few hours either side of low tide. It is located about a mile south of The Calf of Man and two or 3 miles away from the Isle of Man. Was he a lighthouse keeper? farm3.staticflickr.com/2709/4412041094_0f911ebcdd_z.jpg
@ 04:44 - 05:15 Yes it was scripted "drama" but Mick's reaction to Tony's remark about the geophysics was priceless..."Whoops" Mick was always a class act. Wonderful stuff...
A fantastic episode, not only for the finds but for the expertise. Stuart and Johns technological abilities to see underground combined with Phils nose.. an awesome team when put together Tony saying all I see is a pile of stones is almost embarrassing but then we know he's just the presenter thank god! Rakshar is still my favourite female digger, she knows her stuff too.. awesome trench ^^
@SuperGrumpy1980 Dr. Peter Reynolds passed away in 2001. Though he wasn't a permanent member of Time Team, he appeared in many episodes due to his expertise in experimental archaeology and the Iron Age. www.theguardian.com/news/2001/oct/05/guardianobituaries.humanities
Sad to say that Victor Ambrus died on 10th Feb this year aged 85. Some amazing life from his birth and early life in strife torn Hungary and his eventual emigration to UK. Someone who gave much for our entertainment as he bought the archaeology to life in his drawings. Thankyou Victor.
@@simpsonmark Humm... let me do the math. Pull out my antikythera thingymabob... oh, wrong drawer... ahhh, my abacus 🧮. 2013 + Phils shovel under his bed - addition of Gus (ugh...his flaying fingers at camera drive me batty) - addition of that hair on Tony's chin + revisit of Turkdean in Gloucestershire - 2007 = 6. Yup, those years of upper academia finally paid off. Yay!!!
I wonder why posters on these documentaries are so rude? It's such a great video, I wish people would stick to the subject and leave each other's opinions alone. A couple of points: I watched Bridget carefully. I don' t think her hair actually touched the skeleton. Whoever noticed that, you have good eyes. I never noticed how close she was to the burial. 2) The word Ogham can legitimately be pronounced with the hard g. The dating of the site was to the Christianized Viking era, which would mean that Ogham script was not pagan. The tentative translation of the Ogham was "corner, fifty, group." The final explanation is very nice and I hope they are right, that an ancient burial site was reused through multiple phases, preserving its sanctity.
I liked Mick's theory that the Ogham script was by someone practicing on a "scrap" slate. The inconclusive, tentative translation kind of supports that.
It's interesting to note that the Time Team crew were probably approaching 50 people, they could be called a group and they were in a corner of the golf course, almost as if the writing was prophetic.
Sad to say that Victor Ambrus died on 10th Feb this year aged 85. Some amazing life from his birth and early life in strife torn Hungary and his eventual emigration to UK. Someone who gave much for our entertainment as he bought the archaeology to life in his drawings. Thankyou Victor.
@@wbrewer5352 The translation is wrong and it's no "practicing". The correct translation is _... son of the tribe of Catiall_ (the name seems to be lost). Just look out for the BabelStone Blog and there for "A Throng of Fifty Warriors Routed by a Single Scholar : An Exercise in Ogham Decipherment". The article also contained a fine explanation of Ogham inscriptions.
I found what Tony said, "...bones are just a body, but hair is a person...", particularly poignant as my hair is the same colour & i wear it in a single braid.
Someone wept over that woman with the braid...was it a small child crying for its mother? I would have had to cry if I was the archaeologist who found her.
@Sandi Hurd I'm a 41 year old woman and my 62 year old mother still considers me her "child". I think that's what the poster may have been getting at.
The series finished years ago. Channel 4 decided that it was not attracting audiences anymore - i just recall the conversation on the television in the UK. I still enjoy watching the old episodes. Pity that it has not restarted seeing the comments below. 'Time' for a come back? Anyone know anyone in channel four?
+Christos Harrison As I understand it, they messed around with the format, replaced most of the crew (especially the production team behind the screens) and then quality and viewer numbers plummeted and it got cancelled. Maybe someone else will do something similar in the future in a slightly different format. TT has shown that archaeology can be made interesting for TV.
the show, sadly, is as dead as the skeletons being unearthed here... it's like bottling lightening, it aint gonna happen, plus you have a young generation that has zero interest in this subject matter.... go to a coin show or antique market... everyone is over 50...and im an archaeologist
@@Jigger2361 There may be some interest, as the show's main goal, I felt, was to get communities off their couches and into their backyards to have a go at doing test pits. I think it just got too expensive to do, as well as the fact that the idiots running things mucked about with the people. We liked the people, we enjoyed the work, the way all sorts of folks pitched in and had a look round England. I'm 56, and have loved archeology all my life. Even took a BA in Classical Studies at uni. But I never got a chance to use it. I found Time Team on YT one day and just about fizzled with delight. I had found a home! I hope you read this. I am Canadian as well, I assume you are because of the leaf. Regards.
I saw a different show that talked about this Celtic written language, I'm happy another piece of this language showed up. I truly enjoy these shows. Sorry they stopped making them.
have to love the long running joke with Phil. in this case " we will bring all our technology and Phil" heh. Phil could do just fine with out all that fancy tech. peace.
The IoM is, in my view, one of the havens of the British Isles, which has not been ruined by freeways and fast food outlets. It is my favourite ! [Aussie in BC]
Monday.2/3/2020. beautiful people, and show. i absolutely luv this program! I imagine that when this program was going on, that at each and every let's say Thursday night at 8:00 this program came on and people ran their Thursdays all around to watch each new show! Johns not using his car key as a pointer in this video!!!! is it possible to say in words, what the writing sounds like in a language??? just sayin
A very interesting episode. This looks like Mount Murray Golf Course, a newer but challenging layout. There's a wonderful clubhouse and hotel attached. I haven't played it yet but it'll be my luck the weather will be like the beginning of this episode when I do!
Typical golfer. And I say that in a good humored chiding way. But do please let us know what you thought of the episode. The fact it was a golf course really wasn't an important part of this episode.... sheesh LOL
"Give Mick a medieval chapel and he wouldn't care if we were in the middle of a blizzard" says Tony, as Mick sits protected at the back of a vehicle while others are out in the pouring rain digging. LOL
The team mentions the passage from the late 13th century Völsunga saga "Then Sigurd went his ways and roasted it on a rod; and when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it, if it were fully done; and then he set his finger in his mouth, and lo, when the heart-blood of the worm touched his tongue, straightway he knew the voice of all fowls ... ." Which appears on several carved stones: at Ripon and Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, at York and at Halton, Lancashire. Yet through ignorance or avoiding clouding the issue, they fail to draw a comparsion with the earlier Gaelic tale of Finn mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge. And the later Brythonic story of how the poet Taliesin received his wisdom.
*yank1776* We can rarely _know_ what they actually believed at any point in their lives. Being _civilized_ means simply respecting them, nothing less and nothing more.
The Sigurd story is just like the Salmon of Knowledge story in Ireland. Cú Chulainn tests the cooking salmon for his master by sticking his thumb into it. The story says that the first to eat of the salmon of knowledge will receive the wisdom. When Cú Chulainn sticks his thumb into his mouth because the fish was hot, he won the great knowledge.
Good finds in this episode. As to whether its okay to graves, it's nothing new. Many cultures will rob graves for profit not for learning. Cemeteries have their sanctification lifted all the time. It will be a constant clash of feelings and cultures. Sometimes museums are forced to give up remains they had for years. The native Americans are a prime example of this happening. Curiously at times asking for remains that technically their tribe might have wiped out. But now they are needing thing put back because again technically when they were removed from reservations archaeologists stole them from another sovereign nation. It is a very complex science and not in just finding and digging.
Are bones excavated at sites like these returned to their original graves or do they sit in storage for future research? The grave with the hair was very special. I agree that seeing that hair put a face on the woman's skeleton.
having followed time team episodes since #1 I find that pending the denomination of the site they are reconsecrated at another cemetery of same denomination... this site is Christian so after study they'll be reburied in same elsewhere..
*33lex55* I doubt the golf club actually believed that it was a cemetery though I doubt that would have stopped them. However it's no longer consecrated ground as that would certainly have protected the burial area.
@@haplessasshole9615 Either one has the potential to be pretty good. Think of the coffins popping up but on the green. a skeleton grabbing a golfer in a sand trap or when the retrieve their ball from the cup. The clubs in the bag turn into legs, and on, and on!
@@haplessasshole9615 Tangina walking away from one of the holes pronouncing "this whole is cleansed" while gesturing to the green. In the background a middle age lady is bent over to place her ball. Her husband erupts in laughter off camera!
Claiming the Vikings didn't do stoneworks isn't true. There's loads of raised stones throughout the southern Sweden telling stories about brave men dead on some mission abroad!
Bernie McCann yes bernie, the norse stated home.the ones that left were vikings,that is to say that to my understanding viking means to go raiding. im sure that this will be corrected or modified in short order.
Fantastic episode! Location and Information Re: Prehistoric Burial Site, found on Golf Course. From Wikipedia: Mount Murray, Isle of Man > Landscape and archaeology of The Graveyard, the fifth fairway of the Mount Murray golf course, is on the site of a prehistoric burial ground. The burial ground became the site of a keeill built sometime after the 9th century, and the area later became known as Speke Farm. The first mention of the keeill at Speke, is on a Mount Murray Estate map (1800) which shows a small rectangular east-west aligned building in an enclosure marked as ‘old chapel’. Google Maps > Location on the Mount Murray Golf Course: www.google.ca/maps/search/+fifth+fairway+Mount+Murray+golf+course+Isle+of+Man/@54.140555,-4.5523102,134m/data=!3m1!1e3 Blog to document all the ‘Keeills’ on the Isle of Man: manxkeeills.blog/2016/11/01/keeills-and-cake-speke-keeill-braddan/
I've been watching these in order and I've seen quite a few good episodes, but this is my favorite so far. So many absolutely great finds one after another. They could have made this episode 5 hours long and I'd stillbe here spellbound.
I'm so blown away by that plaited hair! I've walked on and around countless burials in Cornwall and Wales and always imagined what may lay beneath my feet...imagine!
I love the way Mick and Tony sit drinking coffee philosophising whilst the others dig - this seems to be a common approach and makes me smile as they are lovely guys.
coffee? on Time Team? no. That would be either Beer or Tea.
This episode is one of my favourites. Everybody is so enthusiastic. They are all very excited and happy with their finds. I never saw John as happy as this. I love Mick and Tony’s conversation at the begining of the episode. I live in Hungary and I wish we would have programs like these.
Im watching this for the 3rd or 4th time and honestly it's just as amazing now
@@susanhuntley9262 As am I. Certainly the third time, maybe fourth. I've never remotely become so invested in a television show as I have with TT.
An emotional roller coaster of an episode: the poignancy of a young woman's grave on one end, and John Gater pushing Mick Aston about in a wheelbarrow on the other. Five stars.
The archeologists' excitement is infectious on this amazing dig! No pun intended, but I'm watching this during the covid-19 lockdowns and the orange, smoke filled skies of the wildfires in the Pacific Northwest of the US. I'm a transplant from Belfast with a favourite auntie from Man.
Absolutely intriguing! Go raibh maith mille agat Time Team! A thousand thanks!
Ah so you lit our fires for ambiance to watch by,I understand 😊
Thank you, Victor, for your wonderful portrayals of persons and life in times gone by. You are truly the unsung hero of Time Team with your quiet dedication to your work and assistance in all that you touched to show what life was like so long ago.
I agree, Victor is amazing. As an artist, I stand in awe of his skills, not only in drawing, but in capturing the relevant periods, with costume, buildings, etc. So well done!
6:49 is funny to me and I had to chuckle. As a former Christian and now an atheist, I too have a fascination with the history, beliefs and practices of my former faith. I love visiting cathedrals, churches, religious cemeteries, etc, to see how other people worship. So I know there’s a lot of misconceptions about atheists, but some of us still love learning.
"We'll bring all of our modern archaeology techniques … AND PHIL HARDING...." Priceless!
That's Phil, Phil Harding! Her Majesty's archaeological secret weapon!
License to dig
As long as you have Phil, you don't really need anybody else.
"We'll bring all our modern techniques...and Phil Harding..." LOL!
Yeah, that was good one... :)
Yes! Loved that.
flat5sharp11w2
Stephen Bayliss I thought that as well. 😆
Uuuuh Aaaarrrrrrr.
Digging in a hurricane. These guys really are nuts! Love them for it. And they turn in a great episode.
The subject of my doctoral thesis, the 1st Duke of Atholl, Lord John Murray, 1660 - 1724, at the University of Aberdeen, passed on the title of 'the King of the Isle of Man' to his son through his maternal grandparents, Lord and Lady Stanley - the Earls of Derby, which I found absolutely fascinating. Also, my step-father, a Garrett, was originally from Chicken Rock on the Isle of Man - a fact I tease him about sometimes. ^_^ - Chicken Rock - what a name! Love this show btw - thanks for uploading!!
Chicken Rock is a lump of slate that is covered by sea other than a few hours either side of low tide. It is located about a mile south of The Calf of Man and two or 3 miles away from the Isle of Man. Was he a lighthouse keeper?
farm3.staticflickr.com/2709/4412041094_0f911ebcdd_z.jpg
@ 04:44 - 05:15 Yes it was scripted "drama" but Mick's reaction to Tony's remark about the geophysics was priceless..."Whoops" Mick was always a class act. Wonderful stuff...
A fantastic episode, not only for the finds but for the expertise.
Stuart and Johns technological abilities to see underground combined with Phils nose.. an awesome team when put together
Tony saying all I see is a pile of stones is almost embarrassing but then we know he's just the presenter thank god!
Rakshar is still my favourite female digger, she knows her stuff too.. awesome trench ^^
Spending my summer vacation (teacher) enjoying Time Team and getting to know the cast. Thanks for the content
One of your best programs. Thank you for all your efforts through out the years.
Such a excellent episode of time team once again RIP Prof Mick.
I hope thet Matt got all the credit for discovering that stone with the writing.
Stew's always wandering and wondering. It's Wanderful!
The finds of this dig are almost too good to be true! Great episode! And Mick in the wheelbarrow 😂😂😂
Strewth, Mick Aston, may he rest in peace, is and was a fascinating man.
@SuperGrumpy1980 Dr. Peter Reynolds passed away in 2001. Though he wasn't a permanent member of Time Team, he appeared in many episodes due to his expertise in experimental archaeology and the Iron Age. www.theguardian.com/news/2001/oct/05/guardianobituaries.humanities
@SuperGrumpy1980 Beric Morley, who appeared in ten episodes, died from Alzheimer's in 2015. He was TT's first semi-regular architectural historian.
Sad to say that Victor Ambrus died on 10th Feb this year aged 85. Some amazing life from his birth and early life in strife torn Hungary and his eventual emigration to UK. Someone who gave much for our entertainment as he bought the archaeology to life in his drawings. Thankyou Victor.
This was an awesome episode!!! Thank you for sharing!!
I only recently discovered this series, and am addicted...love it. Sad however to think that Mick passed away shortly after this episode. RIP
Not after this episode. He died After the series had ended after 20 seasons.
Professor Aston passed in 2013... years after this 2007 series.
@@deozeo4442 Well, six years.
@@simpsonmark Humm... let me do the math. Pull out my antikythera thingymabob... oh, wrong drawer... ahhh, my abacus 🧮.
2013 + Phils shovel under his bed - addition of Gus (ugh...his flaying fingers at camera drive me batty) - addition of that hair on Tony's chin + revisit of Turkdean in Gloucestershire - 2007 = 6. Yup, those years of upper academia finally paid off. Yay!!!
@@deozeo4442 🧑🎓👍
wow, have they ever had an episode with more extraordinary finds than this one?
Yes when they dug in the Scottish isles and found an unknown monastery, and some others too
@@spacewater7 The dig on *Mull* discovered the bones of a _Saint_ (probably).
gold in the moat.
I wonder why posters on these documentaries are so rude? It's such a great video, I wish people would stick to the subject and leave each other's opinions alone. A couple of points: I watched Bridget carefully. I don' t think her hair actually touched the skeleton. Whoever noticed that, you have good eyes. I never noticed how close she was to the burial. 2) The word Ogham can legitimately be pronounced with the hard g. The dating of the site was to the Christianized Viking era, which would mean that Ogham script was not pagan. The tentative translation of the Ogham was "corner, fifty, group." The final explanation is very nice and I hope they are right, that an ancient burial site was reused through multiple phases, preserving its sanctity.
I liked Mick's theory that the Ogham script was by someone practicing on a "scrap" slate. The inconclusive, tentative translation kind of supports that.
It's interesting to note that the Time Team crew were probably approaching 50 people, they could be called a group and they were in a corner of the golf course, almost as if the writing was prophetic.
Sad to say that Victor Ambrus died on 10th Feb this year aged 85. Some amazing life from his birth and early life in strife torn Hungary and his eventual emigration to UK. Someone who gave much for our entertainment as he bought the archaeology to life in his drawings. Thankyou Victor.
@@wbrewer5352 The translation is wrong and it's no "practicing". The correct translation is _... son of the tribe of Catiall_ (the name seems to be lost).
Just look out for the BabelStone Blog and there for "A Throng of Fifty Warriors Routed by a Single Scholar : An Exercise in Ogham Decipherment". The article also contained a fine explanation of Ogham inscriptions.
Amazing.. eyes got a little wet over her grave.
1,400- _ish_ years later, strangers mourn her death.
Same here. Her grave was monumentally sad. Overcome by that watching this.
The way they carefully arranged her hair...
I found what Tony said, "...bones are just a body, but hair is a person...", particularly poignant as my hair is the same colour & i wear it in a single braid.
I honestly wanted to know more about her.
Most of us just disappear from time. She at least has been mourned by thousands of people, all these centuries later.
Someone wept over that woman with the braid...was it a small child crying for its mother? I would have had to cry if I was the archaeologist who found her.
They said the remains with the hair belonged to a "woman" so, clearly not a child but, I am sure there were many tears that day and possibly still.
Hell, I cried and I’m just watching her on my iPhone.
@Sandi Hurd I'm a 41 year old woman and my 62 year old mother still considers me her "child". I think that's what the poster may have been getting at.
The series finished years ago. Channel 4 decided that it was not attracting audiences anymore - i just recall the conversation on the television in the UK. I still enjoy watching the old episodes. Pity that it has not restarted seeing the comments below. 'Time' for a come back? Anyone know anyone in channel four?
+Christos Harrison As I understand it, they messed around with the format, replaced most of the crew (especially the production team behind the screens) and then quality and viewer numbers plummeted and it got cancelled. Maybe someone else will do something similar in the future in a slightly different format. TT has shown that archaeology can be made interesting for TV.
Agreed. When they replaced key figures and tried to make it more commercial it lost its attraction.
the show, sadly, is as dead as the skeletons being unearthed here... it's like bottling lightening, it aint gonna happen, plus you have a young generation that has zero interest in this subject matter.... go to a coin show or antique market... everyone is over 50...and im an archaeologist
@@Jigger2361 There may be some interest, as the show's main goal, I felt, was to get communities off their couches and into their backyards to have a go at doing test pits. I think it just got too expensive to do, as well as the fact that the idiots running things mucked about with the people. We liked the people, we enjoyed the work, the way all sorts of folks pitched in and had a look round England. I'm 56, and have loved archeology all my life. Even took a BA in Classical Studies at uni. But I never got a chance to use it. I found Time Team on YT one day and just about fizzled with delight. I had found a home!
I hope you read this. I am Canadian as well, I assume you are because of the leaf. Regards.
@@Jigger2361 Seems you were wrong.
So Sorry to hear about Mick He was my Favorite RIP
Well done Matt ! The discovery of a lifetime for an archeologist
In the dig on *Mull* a couple of years later he discovered the bones of a _saint!_
Great episode. One of the best digs ever!
"...All our modern archaeological techniques, and Phil Harding..."
*chuckle*
Best Intro of them all. I love this episode.
*susan webb*
The intro to the *Mull* dig is at least as good.
One of the very best! I’ve watched it 3 times. From a Florida fan.
Magic. What an episode. ❤
This one rates as most memorable episode. Watching for the fourth or fifth time, and still gripping.
all these investigations are facinating, but this is really reveiling, great video, thanks Reijer
watching this episode with my Manx cats, so they can get a glimpse of their history LOL
Thank you for all your work posting these
So many times I've come back to this episode. Best one evar!
Thanks, Reijer Zaaijer! Just discovered you, just subscribed, Brilliant and compelling!
The best Time Team ! Congratulations
I saw a different show that talked about this Celtic written language, I'm happy another piece of this language showed up. I truly enjoy these shows. Sorry they stopped making them.
After 14 yrs it should be blatantly obvious! Oh, I love this channel!
I suspect the rest of the archaeology will outlive the golf course.
have to love the long running joke with Phil. in this case " we will bring all our technology and Phil" heh. Phil could do just fine with out all that fancy tech. peace.
Chris c, but he might keep Stewart 😂
He could do it all very well indeed. Phil is the best man for the job.
Fairway to Heaven.
I see what you did there. 👍👏
Probably the most interesting and exciting episode of all the series.
This dig must be one of the absolute highlights of all of time team!
Fascinating. Absolutely wonderful episode!
John G Scratching his head....WOW I was right I have been vindicated. Gotta love him
Beautiful shows - Thanks for sharing!
The IoM is, in my view, one of the havens of the British Isles, which has not been ruined by freeways and fast food outlets. It is my favourite ! [Aussie in BC]
“…and Phil Harding…” lmfao Tony always cracks me up! 😂
One of the best episodes.
It looks like everyone was having a great time in this episode.
Ty so much I really enjoyed this episode
Great episode. Definitely in my Top 5.
Monday.2/3/2020. beautiful people, and show. i absolutely luv this program! I imagine that when this program was going on, that at each and every let's say Thursday night at 8:00 this program came on and people ran their Thursdays all around to watch each new show! Johns not using his car key as a pointer in this video!!!! is it possible to say in words, what the writing sounds like in a language??? just sayin
What's the difference between me and a fossil? Eventually someone will date a fossil.
lol
give it 1400 years, you'll have your day yet
@Phil Cadey
Of course you can mention you nose here
Did you see that on a tee shirt,, Ha Ha. Just messing with ya, all good.
Well, there is that equation about men's noses and, there, uh...you know...shoe size! Stay safe everyone...even Phil!
A very interesting episode. This looks like Mount Murray Golf Course, a newer but challenging layout. There's a wonderful clubhouse and hotel attached. I haven't played it yet but it'll be my luck the weather will be like the beginning of this episode when I do!
Typical golfer. And I say that in a good humored chiding way. But do please let us know what you thought of the episode. The fact it was a golf course really wasn't an important part of this episode.... sheesh LOL
Not anymore mate, it burnt to the ground.
4:39........LMAO ! An old married couple :D These guys crack me right up !!
Phil & Mick....What great guys. Sounds like Briget is a Kiwi girl :) :) :)
*Barry Busci*
*Brigid* I think.
Digging how Phil’s “T” is always silent in “meters”. 😂😂😂
One of the best episodes. I'm really intrigued by the entire mound Stewart found. I wonder if there were further excavations after this?
I'm hoping that they didn't cover it all up again after they removed the bones, so that other scholars could view the site. Anyone know?
@@minimaker5600
I doubt it. Sites are usually re-buried to preserve them.
Best episode yet I've come across!
"Give Mick a medieval chapel and he wouldn't care if we were in the middle of a blizzard" says Tony, as Mick sits protected at the back of a vehicle while others are out in the pouring rain digging. LOL
The team mentions the passage from the late 13th century Völsunga saga "Then Sigurd went his ways and roasted it on a rod; and when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it, if it were fully done; and then he set his finger in his mouth, and lo, when the heart-blood of the worm touched his tongue, straightway he knew the voice of all fowls ... ." Which appears on several carved stones: at Ripon and Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, at York and at Halton, Lancashire. Yet through ignorance or avoiding clouding the issue, they fail to draw a comparsion with the earlier Gaelic tale of Finn mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge. And the later Brythonic story of how the poet Taliesin received his wisdom.
I totally understand being fascinated by religion, yet not following the tenants of the faith being studied.
Me too
+Kerry Brunson "Tenets" (I write phonetically and make typos like that too)
wow I didn't even notice the spelling mistake... yet still read it as tenets. amazing how speed reading can fill in branks and wash away errors.
branks ;)
I prefer Tennents
Thanks so much for posting
I'd like to know what the earliest manx cat skeleton has been found on the great isle.
Awesome discoveries!
This one is my favourite :)
Awesome episode!
Strategrophy! I love it. A new word for me.
*ML Feathers*
*Stratigraphy.* It's the study of layers in the soil.
Its not what we believe, its about what they believe at the time of their death.
And for us to disrespect that makes us less than civilized.
*yank1776*
We can rarely _know_ what they actually believed at any point in their lives. Being _civilized_ means simply respecting them, nothing less and nothing more.
Fascinating!!!
I believe this is my favorite Time Team ever. But I'm a linguist so...perhaps I'm biased.
Makes me almost want to run out and buy my first trowel and get digging!
Sometimes that's all the sound you can hear, the trowels scraping dirt and stone. I wonder how many Phil has gone through.
@@minimaker5600 None.
The handle has been replaced many times. The blade has been replaced a few times. The whole trowel - never.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Just think of where that trowel has been! :o)
34:08 "Are you feeling for the vibes or something?" -Phil Harding
The Sigurd story is just like the Salmon of Knowledge story in Ireland. Cú Chulainn tests the cooking salmon for his master by sticking his thumb into it. The story says that the first to eat of the salmon of knowledge will receive the wisdom. When Cú Chulainn sticks his thumb into his mouth because the fish was hot, he won the great knowledge.
Sounds a lot like old Odin One Eye.
Phil Harding's my main man!
It must be difficult golfing in that weather!
Might improve my game 😅
Phil is wearing the Dutch flag on his arm. Yay! ^____^
well . . . at least he isn't wearing it on his nether land . . . LOLOL
@@TheShootist LOL very droll ^____^
Good finds in this episode. As to whether its okay to graves, it's nothing new. Many cultures will rob graves for profit not for learning. Cemeteries have their sanctification lifted all the time. It will be a constant clash of feelings and cultures. Sometimes museums are forced to give up remains they had for years. The native Americans are a prime example of this happening. Curiously at times asking for remains that technically their tribe might have wiped out. But now they are needing thing put back because again technically when they were removed from reservations archaeologists stole them from another sovereign nation. It is a very complex science and not in just finding and digging.
. . "And Phil Harding . . ."
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John really ate the bear today, unlike several times when sadly enough the bear ate him.
Ahh young love. Such a special feeling just in the moment.
Outstanding :)
John(Gator )looks soo happy when they open that trench🤗
Are bones excavated at sites like these returned to their original graves or do they sit in storage for future research? The grave with the hair was very special. I agree that seeing that hair put a face on the woman's skeleton.
having followed time team episodes since #1 I find that pending the denomination of the site they are reconsecrated at another cemetery of same denomination... this site is Christian so after study they'll be reburied in same elsewhere..
I love Helen so much
I'd be more concerned about having people play golf on what is basically, a cemetery.
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I doubt the golf club actually believed that it was a cemetery though I doubt that would have stopped them. However it's no longer consecrated ground as that would certainly have protected the burial area.
Has the makings of a horror story. The ungodly child of the movie Poltergeist and Caddy Shack after a wild weekend.
@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer A *Poltergeist*, *Caddy Shack*, and *Weekend At Bernie's* mash-up, huh? Sounds like a winner to me!
@@haplessasshole9615 Either one has the potential to be pretty good. Think of the coffins popping up but on the green. a skeleton grabbing a golfer in a sand trap or when the retrieve their ball from the cup. The clubs in the bag turn into legs, and on, and on!
@@haplessasshole9615 Tangina walking away from one of the holes pronouncing "this whole is cleansed" while gesturing to the green. In the background a middle age lady is bent over to place her ball. Her husband erupts in laughter off camera!
Can't believe they'd put a golf course on such a small island like the Isle of Man. That land is too precious for that.
-we found graves in a churchyard-, i love those conversations...
Matt, Helen & Raksha must have been well chuffed with their finds.
Matt and Helen are both in the New Time Team episodes. Raksha isn't, but she is President of the Council for British Archaeology.
@@TheShootist That's lovely for Raksha. Thanks muchly for the update.
Claiming the Vikings didn't do stoneworks isn't true. There's loads of raised stones throughout the southern Sweden telling stories about brave men dead on some mission abroad!
John Mård
thank you for noting this inaccuracy.
Perhaps they meant in the UK(?).
Could the Vikings be distinguished from the Norse?
And elsewhere through Scandinavia with lovely artwork.
Bernie McCann yes bernie, the norse stated home.the ones that left were vikings,that is to say that to my understanding viking means to go raiding. im sure that this will be corrected or modified in short order.
Fantastic episode! Location and Information Re: Prehistoric Burial Site, found on Golf Course.
From Wikipedia: Mount Murray, Isle of Man > Landscape and archaeology of The Graveyard, the fifth fairway of the Mount Murray golf course, is on the site of a prehistoric burial ground. The burial ground became the site of a keeill built sometime after the 9th century, and the area later became known as Speke Farm. The first mention of the keeill at Speke, is on a Mount Murray Estate map (1800) which shows a small rectangular east-west aligned building in an enclosure marked as ‘old chapel’.
Google Maps > Location on the Mount Murray Golf Course:
www.google.ca/maps/search/+fifth+fairway+Mount+Murray+golf+course+Isle+of+Man/@54.140555,-4.5523102,134m/data=!3m1!1e3
Blog to document all the ‘Keeills’ on the Isle of Man:
manxkeeills.blog/2016/11/01/keeills-and-cake-speke-keeill-braddan/
Thank you for the Google Maps url , . . it says the golf club is permanently closed.
RIP Mick!
I'm American, and I'm surprised by how distinguished the Manx accent sounds. I think it's very pleasant. Interesting to hear the Irish slang as well.
good place to visit
+timwaywell Can you get in the water or is it too cold?
cold
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Addy C: manx people don't have an accent we all speak different