After watching dozens - maybe a hundred - episodes of Time Team, I've finally cracked the reason that the Romans left Britain. It wasn't the economy, nor the troublesome celts, nor the fall of the Roman Empire. It was the RAIN! Any fan of this show must have heard the phrase "the rain is tipping down" dozens of times.
We play a drinking game. You take a sip if they say villa, a swig if they say temple or bath house and you down and attempt a Karate kick when they say 'Round house!'
You're "one of my People"! Journalism, Sociology, and History Majors. Class of 1981 Univesity of Memphis ...and I research and still take classes, most recent Yale University. It was fabulous! "History of the New Testament era" best Professor Emeritus ever! Best Wellbeing ...
An episode that is the epitome of what makes this series so great! A bunch of archeologist mates who love nothing more than exposing the past, joking with each other, and ending the day with good food and a pint. And they've invited us along. Fabulous stuff. "Brilliant!" as the Brits say. LL 🇨🇦
Well said-(from here in Ottawa Canada.) What I would give to live in a place where digging into the smallest garden/lawn will often result in finds of something or other that's older then that time we set fire to the White House in DC.. These days we can watch Americans do it themselves. And I'm just watching it with my heart singing "burn baby burn". ...but back to time team- I have been binge watching episodes for months!
@@CaravelKiwi "We don't sit on the archaeology." "Ooohh, sorry, sorry, sorry!" Oddie had to learn to hunker.You have to develop your hunkering skills before you can start to wield a trowel.
I live in the USA and we don't have anything like this series. I absolutely 💖 this show! I wouldn't even mind rewatching them, but so far I haven't had to! I only wish I'd have found it sooner ❣
Sure we do...we have all sorts of shows with paid lifetime actors wearing an earpiece and being told by someone off camera what to say/ask/do and acting like they know what they are doing or talking about when they really have no clue
I always wanted to be an archaeologist ever since I was a little girl digging up arrowheads and Indian beads. I'm a boomer and I still want to dig in the dirt for treasures, as well as know enough to get in arguments with colleagues as to where exactly we should dig!
As a teenager, I had a huge pull toward studying archeology. It was fascinating. As a TT fan, I see you go at those fields with shovels and my back hurts just watching, which makes me wonder if I would have held up to the task had I chosen that career. Still, here I am, eh? Thanks, all.
You described me to a “T”. I have always loved archeology, wanted to be an archeologist and now have a bad back. I love this team and show. Not use to the new team. It doesn’t have the excitement that is produced by this team.
Was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark last night and this site was mentioned in one of the university lectures. Thanks to TT I had already seen the 2 C4 digs here so knew a little bit about it already. Reality meets fantasy. Still a good film after all the years gone by.
Maybe I missed an explanation of this in the actual episode, but who was he and why was he even allowed to "help" with the excavation in the first place?
LOVING THIS. Keep it up, I beg you. I can now keep up with the right order of releases. Please don't think that specials and all things time team aren't relevant. These episodes are nowhere to be found in HD. I sincerely thank you, from Denmark. PS. I watch them all
I follow up online by searching the name of the dig. Eg: Turkdean Roman Britian Archaeology. Most of the digs have furthur updated info online from local societies or universities. Its fascinating.
I have to say I grew kinda fond of Bill throughout this episode, he seems genuinely keen to learn. Even when he makes mistakes he takes it in, he seems like an anxious person but he seems to really try, I found his fumbling nature a bit indearing and I chucked often watching him. Not sure Paul loved his fumbling but I thought he handled teaching him well 😊 I am fairly sure I have made a comment on this video before but I can't find it now :(
@Kazy Reed - To be honest, I like Time Team IN SPITE of Tony, not because of him. With someone more knowledgeable and less goofy, the show would have been much improved.
I have been watching and rewatching TT for months now. This episode, or episodes if you watch the live programs, along with the later return episode are easily in my Top 5 of the series. I miss Stewart not being here, but he shows his skills and becomes a lead protagonist in the return episode.
@@Spartan265 Thank you. Is it this one? ruclips.net/video/mInuesqb6e4/видео.html "Back To Turkdean: Revisiting One Of Britain's Largest Roman Sites | Time Team"
Les Rose from Western Australia here. It is so nice to see Bill Odey in this dig. I'm sorry for stuffing up his name. I just think he's one of the funniest men and he is so great at his at his craft.
I'm totally addicted to this ... I watch it even double or triple while crocheting. And I'm totally invested in their findings. I'm so excited when they find their date able little pieces of potteries or coins.
How many of y'all accidentally read Turkdean as "turducken" (turkey, duck, and chicken)? On a serious note, I love this show and am thrilled to hear that it's being brought back. Sure, It's not the same team but hopefully they'll have time to develop chemistry and bring life to places many of us around the world will never get to see in real life.
Thank you for uploading. While this episode is incredible, it was also interesting to read that Tony rated this one of the most incredible moments of his life. I think that says enough. Thanks again.
Great stuff! I'm soooooo envious of the UK having ancient archaeology like this! Here in New Zealand, you do a dig like this and at the most you'll find a few chicken bones or beer bottles. Not quite the same...... :(
I often wonder if thousands of years from now a bunch of archeologists were to find the fossilized "remains" of a bucket of KFC chicken wings. What kind of creatures would they think we had running around. Or should I say "flying" around! 🤭LL
This episode lets us know how versatile the scripts were for TT, instead of it 'bucketing down', that have used 'tipping it down' in this one..................................Keep on mixing it up guys!!!!
7:15 - 8:00: The difference between British TV and American TV in a nutshell. An American production team would have simply shat themselves upon seeing that hair.
I keep forgetting about Tony's epic turn as Baldrick in Blackadder. Then, in this episode, who should turn up but Bill Oddie, one third of the inimitable Goodies. Both legends of British comedy. I'd watch a show with the two of them swapping stories.
Until now I've seen 80+ episodes mixed out of all seasons. But this episode is so what of a teacher within it's first 4 minutes! Absolutly incredible. Thx a lot for letting me watch it for free! .. Oh, and it's really funny to see the years.. the time.. team ✌😌
I simply have no idea why the pewter bowl mold didn't have registration marks and the pouring spout at the foot. I'm sure that old-time mold-makers would have done that, and it would have made the pour about a thousand times easier. This series is my new favorite thing on RUclips. 🙂 So happy to have found it!
Now this was really interesting! So many great finds. I hope within my lifetime I will find out what this site is, villa or palace. Thank you so much for the great entertainment. ♥♥♥
My sister married a Filipino and they use a salty fermented fish sauce as well. Smells terrible but tastes great on any rice dish.. which is everything.
There could be restaurants, like in England and Italy, that specialise in ancient Roman foods. It could include foods from ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and ancient Mesopotamian nations. That is if there aren't already such restaurants.
Roman garum...AKA rotted fish sauce which, was probably the reason for gladiatorial combat! They had to have someway to work out their aggression from being forced to eat garum.
@R. Blakehole - Garum was used in the whole of Roman society, not just among gladiators. It had the ubiquity that ketchup does today in the USA and salsa does in Hispanic dishes. Besides, one person's "rotted" is another person's "aged".
Lacking in refrigeration, they probably needed stronger flavors to cover the gaminess of meat that was not ideally fresh. Also, garum, being fermented, may have contributed in a really positive way to gut health! And read the label on Lea and Perrins’ Worcestershire sauce: it includes anchovies. I would guess authentic garum may have been the ancestor of “Woostershire” sauce!
I love the Erwin Street Gaurd (If that is the proper spelling. My English at times is poor). The Gaurd is a fantastic visualization addition. Thank you For posting
I'm from Western Kentucky Indian country I have found arrowheads and small things like. We don't have the things like England and Europe has got I would love to be on some of those sites with them folks love this show
@10:23, thanks for not jumping out of the Helicopter without a parachute. I understand the mind blowing nature of that view. Vesuvius Crater by EB3, low pass was cool. Thats a Sub. I recently made a gigantic discovery here on my property..., 68 foot Crocodiles, Alligators, Caiman, Turtles all Ice Age. Stone age tools in neighboring counties in Ohio, U S A
Fantastic episode. I've seen it a couple of times, but just noticed at 24:52 a digger with word 'eläin' on his cap. 'eläin' (Finnish) = 'animal' (English), never heard of that brand...
I still think Carenza got the short end of it. At least they would’ve had an updated scale of the area with her point of interest and would’ve saved them time later on.
I honestly don’t think bill knows what he’s sitting on, breaking, and handling with complete disregard... are irreplaceable historical artifacts that survived centuries just to encounter Bill for a few seconds and be completely trashed
Well, he IS a comedian - and I'll lay odds that his entire time on screen was thoroughly scripted and that the (replica?) potsherds were placed in the dig for him to knock about.
...which leads me to this further thought: Time Team was/likely still is absolutely loathed by many 'serious' archeologists - the posh, up-their-own-arse sort who think that if you make it 'accessible' you make it 'contemptible' - and what better way to wind them up/take the piss out of them than by introducing a shambolic music-hall comedian who literally stumbles through the dig? Genius!
What an episode! Epic:) the only thing missing, was a bit of focus on the feast meal. I'd love to have found out what they cooked. Fried field mouse anyone?
That Phil is a cutie. He could be an extra on LOTR, lol. But no, just no, on the daisy duke shorts, no matter how nice his legs are. That being said, I am loving this show. It is so interesting and just seeing how excited they get over a piece of pottery is awesome. Love seeing people so invested in learning history, not matter what it is.
Wouldn't it be amazing if they would build the same villa completely new somewhere near the findings and make the whole site into a roman museum? Or an adventure restaurant where people can dress up as Romans and eat as Romans inside? Or maybe even add a public roman bath to it ( even though this site didn't have it), but with all the rain in the UK 😅 it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a steam bath. Or add a market for the tourist with tiles and stone ware and street food in roman style like they had it in Pompeji.
What would REALLY be great is if they actually WENT to America and do what they do so wonderfully. "Time Team: the Next Generation" Make it so. 😉 🇨🇦 LL
Oh no.. I ended up watching the "Back to Turkdean: Revisiting One of Britain's Largest Roman Sites" episode before this, where they go BACK to this site and dig again. If you want some continuity, maybe you should watch that episode directly after this one!
When I dig in my garden near Boston USA, I find the broken glass, rusty nails and assorted metal that my former neighbor threw over his fence before my house was built. No indian arrowheads, no nothin.'
What is great about this one is that it wasn't plowed to bits for centuries. It seems to have gone right to pasture after the walls were taken for use elsewhere.
It's one if my favorite parts! "LOOK!...LOOK over there .... LOOK! Parch marks THERE. MORE OVER THERE, LOOK!" SO excited! Like a kid in a candy store and he just discovered the stock room.
My instinct would be to heat the pewter mold so the metal has more time to flow before cooling. I've discovered in cooking low and slow yields the best results. Hot and fast, inevitably yields poor results. Pouring hot metal into a cold mold just strikes me as doing it wrong.
Well, first comment in about 1 year, and it's actually a question. Of the dozens of episodes I've watched, quite often the archeology that is close to the surface has been ruined or roughed up by plowing !!!! Have these pastures only been used for sheep grazing since Roman times ???? WOW, who needs geophys, John ????? (just joking!)
How did Mr. Bill Oddie get to be a guest? Going by Tony's voice introducing him (about 10:53), not all that welcome. A VERY enthusiastic amateur, must have been his very first time on a site.
I think he was one of the writers for Time Team from the production crew. Perhaps he was excited by working on the show but had never actually been on site before. Would explain why they had to tolerate him even if they didn’t necessarily want him working on the dig. Who knows?
The guy was perhaps on the spectrum. He seemed to fail grasping what he was seeing and then having to repeat. He had to be shown how to use a trowel rather than witnessing it in use, in addition yanking that pot out of the ground when everyone around him was acting with finesse around artifacts. He also almost trampled what him and Phil had just dug. He had a few mannerisms that I would consider on the spectrum
After watching dozens - maybe a hundred - episodes of Time Team, I've finally cracked the reason that the Romans left Britain. It wasn't the economy, nor the troublesome celts, nor the fall of the Roman Empire. It was the RAIN! Any fan of this show must have heard the phrase "the rain is tipping down" dozens of times.
Yes those roman soldiers definitely got the least pleasant assignment, weather-wise.
This is now the true history for me about why the romans left. The rain.
Read asterix much?
😄 Yu are likely correct!
We play a drinking game. You take a sip if they say villa, a swig if they say temple or bath house and you down and attempt a Karate kick when they say 'Round house!'
In my 73 years (more than 50 of it in journalism) I have never seen a better series with so many neat people. Dennis
The production is remarkably consistent frome season 1 through 19. Amazing template.
Any advice for an up and coming journalist. ? I'd love to hear some advice based on expierence. I'm going into investigative journalism 🤗
I love that it is real and not staged.
You're "one of my People"!
Journalism, Sociology, and History Majors.
Class of 1981
Univesity of Memphis
...and I research and still take classes, most recent Yale University. It was fabulous! "History of the New Testament era" best Professor Emeritus ever!
Best Wellbeing ...
a 73 year old knowing how to look at series in RUclips, and write a comment, yeah bullshit 😂 you arnt 73
An episode that is the epitome of what makes this series so great! A bunch of archeologist mates who love nothing more than exposing the past, joking with each other, and ending the day with good food and a pint. And they've invited us along. Fabulous stuff. "Brilliant!" as the Brits say. LL 🇨🇦
Well said-(from here in Ottawa Canada.) What I would give to live in a place where digging into the smallest garden/lawn will often result in finds of something or other that's older then that time we set fire to the White House in DC.. These days we can watch Americans do it themselves. And I'm just watching it with my heart singing "burn baby burn". ...but back to time team- I have been binge watching episodes for months!
and "special guest" Bill Oddie! wow
AND Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall! strewth
@@CaravelKiwi "We don't sit on the archaeology." "Ooohh, sorry, sorry, sorry!" Oddie had to learn to hunker.You have to develop your hunkering skills before you can start to wield a trowel.
I live in the USA and we don't have anything like this series. I absolutely 💖 this show! I wouldn't even mind rewatching them, but so far I haven't had to! I only wish I'd have found it sooner ❣
We also had our own Time Team but it was canceled after just one season. And this Time Team was in Maryland.
Sure we do...we have all sorts of shows with paid lifetime actors wearing an earpiece and being told by someone off camera what to say/ask/do and acting like they know what they are doing or talking about when they really have no clue
Me too i think I've seen al.ost every episode!
@@richardgrace4500 Except this show only had 1 of those. And Mr Robinson's done a lot more in his life then merely be an actor.
I agree! I have not been able to stop watching!
10:30 Mick is so excited if he wasn't belted in he might have fallen out of the chopper.
I was getting really uncomfortable at that scene. Something about how it's shot makes it look like they are not at all secure in there.
That is exactly what I just thought! Lol
Mick got so excited while in the helicopter I thought he might jump out
I was worrying about that also.
I always wanted to be an archaeologist ever since I was a little girl digging up arrowheads and Indian beads. I'm a boomer and I still want to dig in the dirt for treasures, as well as know enough to get in arguments with colleagues as to where exactly we should dig!
Me too, but I became an engineer in Chemical Plants in Houston.
I am loving these older episodes too ... Also so fun to see that they still referenced this dig many years later.
As a teenager, I had a huge pull toward studying archeology. It was fascinating. As a TT fan, I see you go at those fields with shovels and my back hurts just watching, which makes me wonder if I would have held up to the task had I chosen that career. Still, here I am, eh? Thanks, all.
You described me to a “T”. I have always loved archeology, wanted to be an archeologist and now have a bad back. I love this team and show. Not use to the new team. It doesn’t have the excitement that is produced by this team.
I had never realized how much digging has to be done by archaeologists. WOW! TT is so impressive. Bless the diggers of history!
This episode could have easily lasted 12 hours more, really. Guys were in such high spirits!
Was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark last night and this site was mentioned in one of the university lectures. Thanks to TT I had already seen the 2 C4 digs here so knew a little bit about it already. Reality meets fantasy. Still a good film after all the years gone by.
Phil had a great deal of patience. I would have lost it with the "special guest."
The level of despair in Phil's voice after the nitwit yanked out that pottery was unlike anything I've heard out him before.
A grotty little, semi-popular popstar!
Maybe I missed an explanation of this in the actual episode, but who was he and why was he even allowed to "help" with the excavation in the first place?
@@MrZkinandBonez Just shown as special guest. Wikipedia says: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Oddie
Bill Oddie is a British icon
LOVING THIS. Keep it up, I beg you. I can now keep up with the right order of releases. Please don't think that specials and all things time team aren't relevant. These episodes are nowhere to be found in HD. I sincerely thank you, from Denmark. PS. I watch them all
I so wish they could keep digging for a month and really expose the whole site,
Agreed. I hope that at very least the local college's archeology department carries on the work!
Yeah. Three days? I don’t care if they spend thee months out there as long as it makes an interesting show.
They do go back to this site and make a second episode
I follow up online by searching the name of the dig. Eg: Turkdean Roman Britian Archaeology. Most of the digs have furthur updated info online from local societies or universities. Its fascinating.
One year after this dig.
ruclips.net/video/mInuesqb6e4/видео.html
I have to say I grew kinda fond of Bill throughout this episode, he seems genuinely keen to learn. Even when he makes mistakes he takes it in, he seems like an anxious person but he seems to really try, I found his fumbling nature a bit indearing and I chucked often watching him.
Not sure Paul loved his fumbling but I thought he handled teaching him well 😊
I am fairly sure I have made a comment on this video before but I can't find it now :(
I love seeing the Ermine Street Gaurd what an incredible idea and asset for understanding the Roman era.
Oh wow finally one of the Turkdean eps! I love these two episodes
I absolutely adore watching Baldrick talk about history. What a treasure Sir Tony is!
@Kazy Reed - To be honest, I like Time Team IN SPITE of Tony, not because of him. With someone more knowledgeable and less goofy, the show would have been much improved.
I have been watching and rewatching TT for months now. This episode, or episodes if you watch the live programs, along with the later return episode are easily in my Top 5 of the series. I miss Stewart not being here, but he shows his skills and becomes a lead protagonist in the return episode.
This episode was fantastic! I love the episodes when they find a bunch of structures. This site definitely deserved more than 3 days 🤗
Don't know if you are aware but they have another episode in which they come back to the site and dig more.
@@Spartan265 Thank you. Is it this one? ruclips.net/video/mInuesqb6e4/видео.html "Back To Turkdean: Revisiting One Of Britain's Largest Roman Sites | Time Team"
Les Rose from Western Australia here. It is so nice to see Bill Odey in this dig. I'm sorry for stuffing up his name. I just think he's one of the funniest men and he is so great at his at his craft.
I'm totally addicted to this ... I watch it even double or triple while crocheting. And I'm totally invested in their findings.
I'm so excited when they find their date able little pieces of potteries or coins.
How many of y'all accidentally read Turkdean as "turducken" (turkey, duck, and chicken)?
On a serious note, I love this show and am thrilled to hear that it's being brought back. Sure, It's not the same team but hopefully they'll have time to develop chemistry and bring life to places many of us around the world will never get to see in real life.
I totally read it as "turducken" at first glance 😂
Turducken!! hysterical!!
Mick's enthusiasm is fantastic
Thank you for uploading. While this episode is incredible, it was also interesting to read that Tony rated this one of the most incredible moments of his life. I think that says enough. Thanks again.
Great stuff!
I'm soooooo envious of the UK having ancient archaeology like this! Here in New Zealand, you do a dig like this and at the most you'll find a few chicken bones or beer bottles. Not quite the same...... :(
I often wonder if thousands of years from now a bunch of archeologists were to find the fossilized "remains" of a bucket of KFC chicken wings. What kind of creatures would they think we had running around. Or should I say "flying" around! 🤭LL
@@Laura-Lee With all the things we waste, they will probably assume our trash dumps were sophisticated religious offering sites 😁
crowjr2 You should check out ‘the hotel of mysteries’ book.
@Scrooge McGruel Yes, thanks for correction.
Ha ha ha lol. Yup fellow kiwi here.
This is absolutely fascinating and riveting. I love the dog paw print on the roof tile.
“The only wildlife is a few archeologists.” LOL
That made me laugh too. 😄
The three days is for TV drama. _Will they uncover anything ? They better hurry, time is running out!_
@@noahway13 yes the follow-up to this episode is Return to Turkdean.
This episode lets us know how versatile the scripts were for TT, instead of it 'bucketing down', that have used 'tipping it down' in this one..................................Keep on mixing it up guys!!!!
Wonderful thank you for uploading! Gotta love Phil !
I love rain. Maybe that is just one more reason I enjoy Time Team so much.
And that my friends is why you just have to love Britain !
7:15 - 8:00: The difference between British TV and American TV in a nutshell. An American production team would have simply shat themselves upon seeing that hair.
I love this comment
I keep forgetting about Tony's epic turn as Baldrick in Blackadder. Then, in this episode, who should turn up but Bill Oddie, one third of the inimitable Goodies. Both legends of British comedy. I'd watch a show with the two of them swapping stories.
39:00 "Overnight, Tom has experimented with temperature and lubricant..."
Until now I've seen 80+ episodes mixed out of all seasons. But this episode is so what of a teacher within it's first 4 minutes! Absolutly incredible. Thx a lot for letting me watch it for free! .. Oh, and it's really funny to see the years.. the time.. team ✌😌
So fun to watch!!!!😘
It is wonderful to watch intelligent people excited by their work.
10:49 *shoveling middle of screen* they throw an entire shovel full of dirt right into another person’s face lol
It took a good old fashioned British rainfall to tame Mick's wild gray hair
This was amazing! Love seeing a classic.
Hut hoch !!! I would have loved to work with time team for just once !!!
So glad you guys are coming back!
This was an excellent episode.
It's nice to see that the archaeologists so excited
Thank you.
Wow! Exactly twenty-five years ago today.
I simply have no idea why the pewter bowl mold didn't have registration marks and the pouring spout at the foot. I'm sure that old-time mold-makers would have done that, and it would have made the pour about a thousand times easier.
This series is my new favorite thing on RUclips. 🙂 So happy to have found it!
The best episode of Time Team ever until Turkdean 2.
That one is the best. Return to Turkdean
Now this was really interesting! So many great finds. I hope within my lifetime I will find out what this site is, villa or palace. Thank you so much for the great entertainment. ♥♥♥
My sister married a Filipino and they use a salty fermented fish sauce as well. Smells terrible but tastes great on any rice dish.. which is everything.
There could be restaurants, like in England and Italy, that specialise in ancient Roman foods. It could include foods from ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and ancient Mesopotamian nations. That is if there aren't already such restaurants.
Roman garum...AKA rotted fish sauce which, was probably the reason for gladiatorial combat! They had to have someway to work out their aggression from being forced to eat garum.
@R. Blakehole - Garum was used in the whole of Roman society, not just among gladiators. It had the ubiquity that ketchup does today in the USA and salsa does in Hispanic dishes. Besides, one person's "rotted" is another person's "aged".
Lacking in refrigeration, they probably needed stronger flavors to cover the gaminess of meat that was not ideally fresh.
Also, garum, being fermented, may have contributed in a really positive way to gut health!
And read the label on Lea and Perrins’ Worcestershire sauce: it includes anchovies. I would guess authentic garum may have been the ancestor of “Woostershire” sauce!
the fix for pour is simple, have two inlets about 45 degrees apart and pour simultaneously or heat the mold.
Best Roman dig ever
I love the Erwin Street Gaurd (If that is the proper spelling. My English at times is poor). The Gaurd is a fantastic visualization addition. Thank you For posting
I'm from Western Kentucky Indian country I have found arrowheads and small things like. We don't have the things like England and Europe has got I would love to be on some of those sites with them folks love this show
Ahhh, coming to this episode from the S08-E03 Llygadwy, Wales episode, that was an artificially created site. Both fun in their own ways!
Great, But I wish you would "date" THE episode better, these were all posted at least a dozen or more years ago.... Not that I get tired of them...
Wow, what a great episode of Time Team! Did they ever go back to this Turkdean site?
Yes in season 6 iirc
@@Rigyification Thanks so much! :D
@10:23, thanks for not jumping out of the Helicopter without a parachute. I understand the mind blowing nature of that view. Vesuvius Crater by EB3, low pass was cool. Thats a Sub. I recently made a gigantic discovery here on my property..., 68 foot Crocodiles, Alligators, Caiman, Turtles all Ice Age. Stone age tools in neighboring counties in Ohio, U S A
Love the history, love the show.
Fantastic episode. I've seen it a couple of times, but just noticed at 24:52 a digger with word 'eläin' on his cap. 'eläin' (Finnish) = 'animal' (English), never heard of that brand...
Given the dig location I reckon it's the Welsh word for "fawn", not Finnish.
I think a great addition to this "villa" video would have been to have the participants evaluation of their "feast".
Combovers just don't work in the wind.
Thought Mick was going to fall out of the Helicopter. 😅
I still think Carenza got the short end of it. At least they would’ve had an updated scale of the area with her point of interest and would’ve saved them time later on.
Love this one - Thank You!
I honestly don’t think bill knows what he’s sitting on, breaking, and handling with complete disregard... are irreplaceable historical artifacts that survived centuries just to encounter Bill for a few seconds and be completely trashed
Well, he IS a comedian - and I'll lay odds that his entire time on screen was thoroughly scripted and that the (replica?) potsherds were placed in the dig for him to knock about.
...which leads me to this further thought: Time Team was/likely still is absolutely loathed by many 'serious' archeologists - the posh, up-their-own-arse sort who think that if you make it 'accessible' you make it 'contemptible' - and what better way to wind them up/take the piss out of them than by introducing a shambolic music-hall comedian who literally stumbles through the dig?
Genius!
@@robertmacdonaldbespokekilt3063 - Rather, pathetic.
What an episode! Epic:) the only thing missing, was a bit of focus on the feast meal. I'd love to have found out what they cooked. Fried field mouse anyone?
That Phil is a cutie. He could be an extra on LOTR, lol. But no, just no, on the daisy duke shorts, no matter how nice his legs are.
That being said, I am loving this show. It is so interesting and just seeing how excited they get over a piece of pottery is awesome. Love seeing people so invested in learning history, not matter what it is.
I love Phil’s accent
@@Tawadeb uncle Phil is from Wiltshire but now resides in Salisbury.
Yesterday I watched 14 ep 08 the nothing found episode, today Turkdeen episode or the one where they found too much. Great episodes.
I'm about to watch that one right now. So they found nothing?
@@richardsanchez9190 not nothing but not anything truly important, just evidence of a field being a field for centuries.
Wouldn't it be amazing if they would build the same villa completely new somewhere near the findings and make the whole site into a roman museum? Or an adventure restaurant where people can dress up as Romans and eat as Romans inside? Or maybe even add a public roman bath to it ( even though this site didn't have it), but with all the rain in the UK 😅 it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a steam bath. Or add a market for the tourist with tiles and stone ware and street food in roman style like they had it in Pompeji.
I wish Time Team would put more episodes out on DVD for USA.
What would REALLY be great is if they actually WENT to America and do what they do so wonderfully. "Time Team: the Next Generation" Make it so. 😉 🇨🇦 LL
lunalouhoo It’s on Amazon Prime, at least in Canada.
Laura-Lee Rahn There was a Time Team America series.
Oh no.. I ended up watching the "Back to Turkdean: Revisiting One of Britain's Largest Roman Sites" episode before this, where they go BACK to this site and dig again. If you want some continuity, maybe you should watch that episode directly after this one!
When I dig in my garden near Boston USA, I find the broken glass, rusty nails and assorted metal that my former neighbor threw over his fence before my house was built. No indian arrowheads, no nothin.'
What is great about this one is that it wasn't plowed to bits for centuries. It seems to have gone right to pasture after the walls were taken for use elsewhere.
Professor’s comb over not doing so well on the windy country side
And your point is?
@@johnmoss6631 oh move on you easily offended little man
was Stewart influenced by the Manchester scene. when it comes to the landscape. he's my fav
Mick looks like he's going to jump out of the helicopter 🚁 when he sees all the parch marks.
It's one if my favorite parts! "LOOK!...LOOK over there .... LOOK! Parch marks THERE. MORE OVER THERE, LOOK!" SO excited! Like a kid in a candy store and he just discovered the stock room.
I wonder if the building complex goes all the way down to the river and docks.
My instinct would be to heat the pewter mold so the metal has more time to flow before cooling. I've discovered in cooking low and slow yields the best results. Hot and fast, inevitably yields poor results. Pouring hot metal into a cold mold just strikes me as doing it wrong.
Excellent point! You are likely correct.
Well, first comment in about 1 year, and it's actually a question. Of the dozens of episodes I've watched, quite often the archeology that is close to the surface has been ruined or roughed up by plowing !!!! Have these pastures only been used for sheep grazing since Roman times ???? WOW, who needs geophys, John ????? (just joking!)
The enthusiasm of these guys . 🤙
Wow, Tony looks so young here. Must be an early one, he actually said Geophysics instead of geo-fizz.
Tonys Hair are as good a dating artifact as mid-saxon pottery
@@ErnestoBrausewind 😆 true
@Ernesto Brausewind I saw an episode where he had long hair. Had to call my husband who came running just to see.
How did Mr. Bill Oddie get to be a guest? Going by Tony's voice introducing him (about 10:53), not all that welcome. A VERY enthusiastic amateur, must have been his very first time on a site.
And he's a little bit of a knucklehead, but he's quite excited I'm sure.
I think he was one of the writers for Time Team from the production crew. Perhaps he was excited by working on the show but had never actually been on site before. Would explain why they had to tolerate him even if they didn’t necessarily want him working on the dig. Who knows?
@@jemzeldab7086 He is an old British comedian.. He was probably all they could afford 🤣
The guy was perhaps on the spectrum. He seemed to fail grasping what he was seeing and then having to repeat. He had to be shown how to use a trowel rather than witnessing it in use, in addition yanking that pot out of the ground when everyone around him was acting with finesse around artifacts. He also almost trampled what him and Phil had just dug. He had a few mannerisms that I would consider on the spectrum
Would be great if ? a Sound Track CD ( Music ) of Time Team was available.
Lovin your ear stud Toni. You're the man!!! 🤩
Beautiful rain. 😑🌧️🌧️
This site is amazing
can't wait for the live show! lmao
You can see very faint parchmarks on google maps satellite view still on the site. Still looking for info about further excavations.
Totally cool. I love google earth. Go for it! LL 🇨🇦👍🏻👌
Watch Return to Turkdean.
Lmao I swear that my dad has the exact same outfits as the one Tony’s wearing at the beginning 😂
ok i have to ask something... isnt pewter.. due to the large content of lead.. poisonous?
Yep
What I would like to see is a COMPLETE map of all the sites that have been found.
18:30 Don't chastise him! You said he could take it out with no proviso! Not a word as to how.
Thanks Jontron I keep reading this as Turducken...
I showed this to my niece, she told me " i don't remember that villa in AC Valhalla"
Tony got hair this must be a old Time Team
Mick has a bit more than we were used to see and Phill is a bit more ginger.
Yup, the good old days.