Phil Harding: Insights from His Fifty-Year Career in Archaeology
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- In this episode of Careers Unwrapped, host Mark Fawcett is joined by the legendary Phil Harding, a Fieldwork Archaeologist well-known for his appearances on Channel 4’s Time Team.
Join them as they discuss:
• Excavating significant sites
• The changing landscape of archaeology
• Insights and stories from fifty years in archaeology
• The value of persistence when pursuing a career
• And much more!
Phil Harding has worked in archaeology for over fifty years. As well as regularly appearing on Channel 4’s Time Team, Phil has published academic publications relating to some of the most significant archaeological sites of the last fifty years and is an expert on prehistoric flint-knapping. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006.
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What a wonderful, magnificent human being is Phil Harding. As an archaeologist, his abilities were demonstrated time and time again on the first Time Team programme (I do miss him on this second version), but he also shines as a humanitarian, one who doesn't use a fancy offical vocabulary in an effort to impress the uniniated, but tells history in terms we all can understand because that's his goal; to bring an understanding of history to everyone. And on a personal level, he's a warm, gentle, people loving man with a very strong yet fair sense of right and wrong. National treasure?... you bet! I'm just very, very sorry there aren't more people like him. Thank you, Phil, for showing us what we can be.
Very well said!
Phil Harding is an absolute Legend.
I think one of the most intimate ways in which Phil can tell a story linking prehistoric archaelogy to his finds is how his DNA is linked to the first people who colonised what is now England. The people who made the flint arrowheads and knapped those cores. They were His People.
You cannot get any closer than that!
Nobody can even hold a candle against Phil, he's the best.
Having watched every Time Team at least once, Phil feels like a valued friend to me. Thank you very much for another chance to hear him speak about his passion.
As an American , my knowledge of British history was generalized and academic. Time team made it all come alive through the wonderful things they found and the lessons on history, topography and geology tying it all to the people who were there. With love and obvious passion. Thanks for the free college level classes.
I admire and respect Phil Harding so much! Being in America I never got to watch Time Team when it was on regular TV, but discovered it on RUclips. I've watched every episode on RUclips. The advances that one show brought to the field is remarkable. It's a calling of the heart, being an archaeologist.
Me too! I rewatch them everyday
Me three.
Same here!
Phil is a multi national treasure!!
So wonderful to see Phil in any form now but so miss him on the new Time Team.
Phil Harding is an absolute legend
A great conversation and glad to see Mr Harding again.
As a Patreon for the NEW TIME TEAM - I just want to say we all miss you Phil!!
But respect the fact that you put your shovel down, your old hat on the hook & take the time to enjoy yourself, but if you ever want to drop by a new dig site just to say hi...
...I think well over 10000 Patreons would be over the moon!
Fantastic Video that sums up all I love about Time Team. Phil made Time Team a favorite element of my life. I am about 6 months older than Phil and wish I had worked for Time Team from its first show I saw in the 90s (I was a US citizen often working in the UK on computer software who loved history/archeology and visited many Time Team sites in my spare time). Time Team made me aware of (and love) the evolution of human society, science and the basic elements they grew from. Phil deserves LOUD thanks from anyone who saw Time Team in the last 30 years (or the next 70 years!).
Mick Aston needed a shout out.
Phil made the show.....we always looked forward to seeing Phil and his opinions on finds.
I first came across Time Team as a thirty something year old Australian, when I was taught history growing up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, we were told about the previous two hundred years of White Australian history. Until Time Team i had never heard about the Roman Invasion of Britain! Watching Phil and the other people on the show and learning from them, has been a huge learning experience for me, so now I can’t get enough of Archeological shows. Thanks Phil and Time Team. 👍🏼👍🏼
I became a Phil fan when he said on one show that Peter Green was his favorite guitarist.
Phil, on those rainy hills in the Devon / Dorset moors, digging in piles of stones: "Bliss" , from an earlier Time Team episode.
Time team was from the off an amazing programme. It brought archaeology into everyday homes and made it so watchable. One of the biggest reasons for that was Phil Harding. A wealth of knowledge with a way of explaining it that sunk in. There is no doubt Phil that your career has been one of the biggest influences to archaeology that the UK has ever seen. This stems from the physical discoveries you have made to the countless next generation archaeologists steered into the profession by watching you on Time team. It is great to hear you have enjoyed your career, effectively getting paid for what you love.
I too had that drive as a small boy. From the word go I only wanted to be one thing. A Vet. Up until I was 17 all was on course. Then the wheels came off. I crashed and burned. Took any job to earn a crust and spent the next 43 years doing what I hate and still am. A life wasted, with nothing to show for it. That can't be said of Phil. Great career and plenty of achievements.
Phils a Hero, cheers Phil for ya hard work & dedication, flint for the win
Thanks Phill for you work on time team and your downtown earth way of speaking 💐🏴
St.Phil=Patron Saint of Shovel Bums!🇺🇲
Just charming. So glad to hear how he is doing.
Apart from everything else, I just love the way that Phil sticks with his West Country accent and doesn't ever sound in the slightest like a TV person.
Love Phil Harding!
Phil, I wish you had been in the U S A in your earlier days. My sister is 81 years old, with a Doctorate of Paeleontology from the University of Champaigne-Urbana in Illinois. She worked her way through college. Unfortunately, she got little work in her chosen profession, as those jobs went to men. It did get her teaching work in Geology. She went back to school and got degrees in Geology and Hydrology, working in oil fields and as a State Hydrogeologist. She retired at age 72 but is still working. She now works more hours a week volunteering, than she did "working", running a food pantry for people in need.
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This is 30 minutes with an amazing man. I've watched the Time Signs three or four times and then found Time Team on RUclips in about 2015. I think I've watched the full series at least 8-10 times and have a full set downloaded as well. I am so admiring of Phil Harding. He has taught me so much over the years, and I simply adore his personal energy. Well done interview. Thank you so much.
I've watched everything Time have ever created probaly 3 times. Seeing how they have all aged over the past 20 years or so is probably my greatest reminder of the fact that we all age and finally will die, much more so than my own family members whom I have seen age very slowly day to day. Tis is why this video moves me quite a lot more than it should, given I have never met Phil in person. Strange things happento us in the media age.
Also, since the age of 10 or so I have really only ever wanted to be an archeologist myself, but the other goal in my life has always been to have a family and be able to provide for them. So, after initially inscribing for archeology at Heidelberg University, Germany, I then chickened out, after seeing all the posts on the faculty's black board on how to get retrained to get a real job and I ended up with a degree in economics and have since worked first in corporate finance, then corporate IT, making 100k/year and providing for my wife (now ex-wife since last year) and 3 children. Tough call for me whether those decisions have all been the best ones possible, but anyway, I still follow time team and the likes of professor Alice Roberts with passion and, yes, a lot of envy.
I have recently found Time Team on RUclips within the last year. Being in America, I had no idea about the show until my son clicking on a show by accident. Now I've seen every episode at least 2x, and continue to watch it almost every day as I wind down for bed most of the time. Phil is one of the best on the show in many ways along with others like Guy, Helen, Sir Tony, Stewart (i love Stewart lol), Robin, Matt Alice, and most of all Mick...Mick is/was my favorite to listen to. One I can't seem to recall, a Roman finds specialist...Mark Corney I think...I know I butchered the last name but he was also a good one. Sooo many others as well but Phil tops them all imo.
I'm so happy to come across this. I adore Time Team and Phil Harding. I've seen every episode about ten times! As an American, I am now so in love with Britain and its history. Would love to see you interview other Time Team members. I also love Matt Williams.
Absolutely love and respect this man! Forget celebrities, hollywood actors, millionaires, give me Phil Harding, any day! Thank you for all you do, Mr. Harding! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, your sense of humor, and your unique perspective and personality. AWESOME interview!
I have always enjoyed Phil he has a dynamic personality and really enjoys what he does. I just wished he was involved with the new Time Team.
US fan here. . .. have watched the entire Time Team series more than 15 times over the last 10 years. .. . yes, all the way through. LOVE & RESPECT to Phil. Wish I could have the privilege of meeting/talking to him. Hoping to be in Wiltshire this September. I want to visit TT sites & Barrow Clumps! Sure wish Phil were participating in the modern TT, but glad he's writing & adding to the historic discussion. KUDOS Phil, I'm your biggest fan! (and I normally don't gush about personalities)
Phil I'd sure like to see you back on the new Time Team!
I’d love to see him do a cameo, at least.
I hope Phil Harding knows how much influence he has had on people like me who only had a passing interest in archeology. Time Team showed up in my feed and I have been hooked ever since. Phil and his enthusiasm and knowledge are a big part of that. I never thought I be interested in flints! So, Thanks Phill. ❤
Bonjour à tous et à toutes. As a French, I struggled to get Mister Phil's accent. After binge watching TT during the covid crisis, it got better. Now, I'd spend hours listening to this wonderful man and having a few pints with him.
I watched an early season episode recently and his accent was less then; it broadened over time. I think perhaps he was told at the beginning to dampen it for viewers' sake.
@@MelissaThompson432 I can hear him saying : why don't they bu..er off ? And far from me ditch.
Bonjour. Do you have difficulties in understanding accents from other parts of France? We have many different accents across the UK and can find it difficult to understand each other.
What a wonderful person. Love this man.
I came late to watching Time Team but I have watched all the episodes at least one on RUclips. I so enjoyed hearing Phil speak today. If youare able to please convey to hime that I am a Patreon supporter of Time
team for this year's dig at
Sutton Hoo. Patreon members were given a choice of having their name or a dedication put on this flag. I choose to make a dedication to Mr. Harding . It reads, " For Phil Harding, field archeologist supreme." I have missed seeing him.
Absolutely fascinating, but I'd expect nothing else from the great Phil Harding! It was fantastic seeing him again now that Time Team Original Series is over.
Thanks for this Phil has been a hero of mine since seeing his first tv appearance. I have watched all of time team several times. An excellent interview.
PHil is a national treasure!
Love that man! And admire he is living his own dream, great role model. ❤
I love this video. I discovered Time Team after Covid, but have been a fan. The antiquity is a real draw, thinking about the people who lived thousands of years ago, but also, there's the interactions between Time Team members that just brings the human element in a different age upfront. Phil is definitely charismatic. I'm almost as old as he is, so I am not starting a career. I just love pondering what the relations were between the ancient people, and the natural environment in which they lived, and their connections to others who sometimes lived far away. Thank you for both your efforts in producing this interview.
A good man
Miss him on time team. My interest in archology is because of time team. I'm a sponge now can't get enough
Thanks Phil
One of the very best 👍
Discovered Phil on Time Team. He made that show so much more with his enthusiasm about what he found and created.
I would love to have a flint tool made by him!
I love this man. ❤
C'mon Phil join the rest of the team on the new RUclips Time Team channel! You're the only one missing, and we all want you back!
So few can follow their passion. Phil was fortunate to live his dream.
I started watching Time Team (in Canada) as I was channel surfing. I heard Phil's voice and he had the same voice as my cousins! We are Wiltshire/Somerset people. Harding is a name in my family tree and I sure hope it means we are related!
Phil is very intelligent and so respected. TT has impacted not just the world of archeology, but the whole world! Phil's writings are just the icing on the cake of the legacy he is leaving. Phil may think he was at the right place at the right time but I think a higher power put Phil there because the higher power knew the world needed Phil Harding!!
Brilliant blog, Phil and company brought archaeology into the 21st.Century; I was one of those lucky ones who worked in architecture, and was my passion. Thanks for all those hours of Time Team.
May we all “just do my job” the way Phil does! I’d listen to Phil talk about archeology for hours. His writing advice is spot on, too. I’ve got to make some notes, to share with my students.
Brilliant interview....plus an important lesson for all in choosing careers....
Phil Harding is a jewel, and a true legend! ❤
Good video. Much love to Phil. I admire his positive mind ser.
I have long and deeply admired Phil Harding. He is a crack archaeologist, and even more importantly he is a dear, warm, caring man. Thank you, Mr. Harding. You have taught and do teach us so much that is good.
Many blessings sent !!! Thank you for everything. Carry on and enjoy !!!! Fr USA
Congratulations on over 50 years of passion and skill!! Being able too see what lies within a chunk of flint and the ability to realize it are master skills very few can conceive or realize. Bravo!!
Thank you for this!
I love Phil!
I came late to Time Team and quickly became a Phil Fan, and I'm so pleased to finally hear him talk about his career. Thank you for this!
I love how he gets so excited about discoveries even after fifty years of having seen nearly everything
Phil is one cool old man. Wow. This is the kind of older person I strive to be.
I was introduced to Time Team about 3 years ago. I have watched every episode that I have found. Sometimes twice. Now I am watching episodes that the young ones are now middle aged or more and the excitement is still there. Phil, you have afforded me more laughs than anyone and the knowledge you have is so exciting. We don't have the archeology in Middle Tennessee that you have but I can relate that it is so exciting to find an arrowhead or shard. Keep it going Phil.
I saw a picture of Phil with his wife. His hair was cut short and he looked quite respectable.LOL.Time Team without Phil and his hat and short shorts, would not have been the same.
I still watch TT here in the U.S. My absolute favorite program. I'm lucky that it's been available on youtube from a guy named Reijer Zaaijer & his channel, with all 20 seasons & the extra shows. Fun !
American lady of a certain age here. Phil was always my favorite. 🥰 FLINT!
I can recognize, and name a dozen archeologists, they are all on the old and new time team.
As an American, with genealogy from UK/ Ireland, I discovered Time Team about five months ago. I’ve lost count how many episodes I’ve consumed thus far. When I was young I wanted to be an Egyptologist; since then I have cultivated a passion for the anthropology of art, scent and medicine. What a wonderful interview with this legend.
Thank you!!
What does your genealogy have to do with it?
Thank you so much for this interview! I love Phil Harding (and the old TIME TEAM team)!
What a star ⭐️ Really fascinating - hard work, tenacity and passion.
I like Phil’s short shorts.
And hats and love a man with long hair ! Phil made me laugh !
It’s still interesting watching time team and there are new episodes again in 2024.
I’m just delighted Phil is still with us, he was the star of TimeTeam but he seemed to disappear, I thought the worst. Quite made my day.
Phil and Tony were in all of the Original series. He even turned up with a broken leg! He has been involved in a long running project at Waterloo and working with Forces vets with PTSD and disabilities. I assumed that was why he had not been involved in the new TT. But it may go deeper. People, especially the producers, conveniently forget that Mick Aston walked before the series got pulled, because he didn't like the way it was being dumbed down. No it is all "Saint Mick of Time Team" in the New show. I did hear rumours that Phil wasn't happy either. Also that he was asked when they resurrected it, but turned them down.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930I think it was Mick with the broken leg. Phil had slip disc once and a sprained wrist another time
@@annazaman9657 Well, I watched a Q & A with Phil and he said he broke his leg? He said he used to turn up on site in an ambulance.
Thank goodness that I have found this video. I have always hopped that I would find one that had insights of Phil Harding's career. I consider Phil Harding to be the greatest archaeologist on this planet. Pardon the pun, but, he is "down to earth"... he does not speculate or exaggerate... he would always investigate and extrapolate. He never let anyone intimidate him just because they were of "higher position"...Site Director... Professor... etc. One of my favourite moments was when Phil said to Francis Prior..." eh?... that's a hell of a stride you've got there!... and Prior conceded instantly that Phil was right... because... Phil WAS right! Always has been... always will be. Thank you!
Great interview. I love Phil ❤
Really enjoy watching Phil Harding. Have learned alot from him....I from deep South Texas....
Legend. Seen him giving an impromptu talk about shovels to a rapt audience of middle aged blokes. Might still be on RUclips. Amazing man.
Just amazing!!!!
If God were to pick the head of the Royal Archaeological Society of the Kingdom of Heaven, Phil would be his top choice
crown prince to king mick aston i would venture
@@user-zi6hw4zm1n Karma makes the final decisions from among qualified applicants
What an interesting interview with our much loved Phil Harding. Thank goodness that Time Team Official channel, here on you RUclips, are carrying on the excellent work of Phil and the dear late Prof. Mick Aston. www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamOfficial
My experience as a Field Archaeologist was similar to Phil's as when I worked freelance in the 90's - 2000's there were few 'secure' jobs and most of us worked temporary contracts on a not very impressive salary. For years we'd live in tents on-site at summer digs and in cheap B & Bs if we were lucky. Great fun, but after back problems and not finding a secure job in the field I reluctantly gave it up. If only I'd trained more recently I could've had a proper career path, but now there are far more archaeology graduates being produced yearly for still relatively few jobs.
I love this guy, just a super person
Phil is the best.
Like Phil.. I could never understand why people did jobs for their life that they found no pleasure in? at 73 I still can't believe that people do that.. Phil your a great one! thanks for doing this interview.. I guess he (like me) is part of the old school..
on Time Team , it was always a toss-up as to who had cuter legs; Helen, or Phil.
It was really a toss-up! 🤣 I've great respect for Phil. Living his best life doing what he loves. It doesn't get better than that.
Oh yeah. Those short shorts
* sigh * ... Phil is showing his age. I am saying that from the same age as Phil ... pretty much. He was born 25 Jan 1950 ... and I on 02 Feb 1950 .. so he beat me here by a week. What fun to watch Phil and the others on the Time Team show. Speaking of the show .. just looked it up and it premiered in 1994 The first thing that always comes to mind thinking about the early years of the show is that Tony had hair.
What a fun romp with Phil and I was impressed enough with Mark that I sub-scribed.
Phil,I spent 53yrs in a job that I got no satisfaction out of,except for a pay check @ the end of the week.
Legend
I would like to find out from Phil, what the leather pouch was that he carried the whole time in TT? Was it a cell phone holder? Never saw him use one....
It holds his small hand tools for delicate scraping, etc. He showed it once on Time Team.
@@BritGirl-fg9gj Thanks....I really enjoyed watching TT and listening to Phil explain things in his simple straight way
@@vincentdorsey8545 Time Team was great. My planned major in college was archeology, but I changed it to history but I am still fascinated by what's dug out of the ground. Phil is a national treasure as was Mick.
Phil was the pretty boy of Time Team when it started.
He was indeed. He was and still is also very intelligent, enthusiastic, talented and a whole lot of fun to watch.
Just wondering if Phil ever married. What a wonderful man.
15:30 Where is the site?
Ancient Atlantis may be at my spot... 5000 km question may have been answered...
I wanted to be an archeologist but i didnt want some Uni tosspot telling me what archeology sctually was an how its done.
"Toime Team." LOVE the sound of that...don't get involved with archaeologists. Their lives are in ruins...
Phil shows how a crazy man and his daisy Dukes can join to become a sex symbol
One of these days...somebody is going to bring up Phil's other great talent: playing guitar.
Why is it never mentioned anywhere?
Why would anyone know anything about his personal life? That's creepy.
@@iamperplexed4695 🤣🤣🤣
Phil is such an awesome and clear man; love his accent and grass roots common sense guy. I had no idea that archaeology wasn't a recognized profession! Good on Phil for following his passion and that it finally paid off.
I would love to see him in person to talk on about his many experiences good and bad over his career. and then get a hug that would I expect like a bear hug. Freedom Loving Canadian here.