I love this program and miss it so much. Nobody gets on my nerves, I understand why they only spend 3 days on a dig (they all have real day jobs) and the world has moved on, people have passed away and moved on. It was of its time and is so precious to so many, so stop slagging it off, if you don't like Tony's voice or beard, tough, it is what it is, it was made so long ago there is no changing anything. Well done Time Team, great sites, great people, very informative and wonderful entertainment. Thank you. ❤️👏❤️
This is great! This is my ancestral home. My ancestors come from the Creich fife castle or Macduff castle. The spelling of my family name was changed when they had to flee Scotland.I would love to see all this. Thank you. Susan Elizabeth Creech-Lambert
Love this! Wish the history in North America would be investigated with such thoroughness, seriousness, humor and fun, and allow it to be public. We do have a couple that try, yet the are still limited by the controversial start of the U.S.
It's been 14 yrs since this episode aired. A google map search shows the cave isn't really any closer to the sea than it was, but it's clear from a little searching that the biggest danger is material collapsing in the caves (the rock is soft), and sadly, more human vandalism.
Jasonsenipor go google why Doggerland disappeared! It once connected the east coast of the uk to Europe. In fact you’ll find a time team video about it! But are you ignorant enough to not do a bit of searching up on the matter? In my lifetime the sea has risen a quarter of a metre. These caves are not that high off of sea level. Second factor to add in IS the storms, which are becoming more severe in nature. Another factor is the UK is shrinking in size due to coastal erosion, these caves are right at the top of the beach, how long do you think they’ll survive? If you can’t understand that all those things combined are a huge risk to these caves then i pity you, do you also think the earth is flat? But do come and tell the good folks at Save Wemyss Ancient Cave Society that you know better than them and people who live here genius. Please!
@@killerfunghoul3948 Maybe you should come to the south-east coast of the US where the sea level hasn't changed since my great-grandfather built a jetty. In fact, you can easily see where the water level still rests at the exact same spots on the uprights. Not an inch higher in over a hundred years. I really wish you climate alarmists would just stop breathing and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
@@killerfunghoul3948Doggerland was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Britain to mainland Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500-6200 BC. I wasn't aware humans were responsible for rising sea levels eight-thousand years ago.
Not to far from where I live , Billings Montana, are the Pictographic Caves.. which are quite well preserved and visited frequently. I haven't been there for some years, but I was impressed and fascinated thinking about the people who lived there and made records on the walls. I love the place names of western Europe, especially Scotland, home to my ancestors, and the close countries. The Firth of Firth, for example, compared to Circle MT... I thought I had watched every episode of Time Team, then I happened across this one .. I'm ecstatic..
i love how every single person uploading episodes of a program has to make them unwatchable because of copyright, like distoring audio, filtering the video etc... but all time team episodes uploaded are completely fine and crips clear in both video and audio
I take you haven't watched the episodes (many) where the audio track is off by up to 5 seconds and if you call this out of focus blur 'crisp clear' I suggest a trip to the optometrist.
Our line went from Pennsylvania to Illinois. I went to Scotland in August. Visited the Weems caves and museum, even met two Weems cousins from Alabama who were tracing Weems history. The Weems family are the Picts. Wm Wallace was a member of this family.
....so much garbled history in the US. Quite endearing, though it's all meaningless when you consider that we are ALL literally related to Charlemaigne et al, and family histories are littered with illegitimate children, and highly dependent on what was written down on certificates that may not be entirely truthful. Weems in the US could very well be something Anglicized around WWI like so many Germanic last names in the US.
Believe it or not, I just discovered TT! I’m in Texas, so that accounts for the lag. I binge-watched about two hundred episodes already. I don’t even mind repeating them again. What fun!
You can actually see my old house on the aerial pictures a couple of times. Pity they didn’t spend any time in west Wemyss though. Would have been nice to see them talking about the castle there.
Go Phil, Pict era! Wish TT had returned for a deeper dig, or update of one. 🐍❇ 🈷 👣 i so want to visit *Scotland,* my great Uncle was from Scotland and if he's a measure, they are wonderful people. *Love their accent,* sense of humor, and their spirit. Knowing a little about their Ancient Lineage, Scythian influence with a fair amount of Irish and then the influence from other east, they truly have their own unique flavor. Irish American Tennessee, USA
"Party layer" X-D Although despite that festive euphemism, I'm sure it was no fun to have to pick through. Caves and other sheltered sites seem to always have party layers, much of it comprised of discarded needles and broken bottles :-P
It's obvious if you watch enough Time Team shows that coastal erosion and deposition is radically changing the British coastline sometimes as much as several feet a yr as one of the men on the show said. Actual sea level change not as much at least at the present. Tidal gauge records give about a foot a century and that's down at least at the moment. The coast line and sea level are in constant flux.
I am really loving this show. Not only am I now in love with British (or in this case Scottish) history, I love learning the British vernacular. Today's gems I learned were "phoodeling around" and "higgeldy piggeldy". No idea if that's even remotely spelled right but I love it.
@@tjo1976 Higgledy-piggeldy is one I've heard but my mom's family were Scots-Irish for donkey's years, with a little border German to boot (I must be honest) Footling, no, but then some of what Phil and Co. says are his own precious slants on whatever he meant to get across. I love accents and have worked with a number of them but mostly Brits and Yorkshire can come up with some doozies.
For those who query the time of only three days for each dig, like Lina Beever and Annalisa Young, go back to the first episode and all will be revealed.
I am not Neil , King Kenneth MacAlpin's mother was a Pictish Princess , her marriage brought the Scotts right to the lands of Scotland . This is what happened to the Picts they became related to the Scotts . King Robert the Bruce and his ancestors have Pictish blood .
Brisdad53, well, my Grandma’s family were/are Glaswegian so I’m still in the ballpark! Thanks for the explanation. BTW, California might as well be another PLANET compared to the rest of America. Lol
The only show to say we ONLY have 3 days!!! But.... Lets take a crafting course mid way threw & try our hands at smelting 🤣🤣🤣 This show reminds me of being a kid & digging in the yard trying to find "Indian stuff". I would run to show my parents & ask them "whats this!?" I believe they mainly said its just a rock.
The silversmith didn’t know what he was doing at all. He work hardened to breaking point. If he had annealed the silver as he went along he could have pounded it as flat as he wanted. Where did they find that guy? He blew smoke up someone’s skirt.
I love this show also. I love all British tv shows ☺️ .that big nail must of been used to make some of those carved pictures! I was surprised they didn't mention that
Here is a guess. The overall design in the cave @47:13 et seq and the jewelry piece @47:02 et seq are similar - the "dogbone" image. That going through it might be a plant (assuming the ornament/pendant is held right side up). In the lower-left appears to be the head of a horse or other animal. The "dogbone", itself, becomes the image of focus, possibly representing sky and soil, the plant connecting the two. Connecting the three - plant, "dogbone", and horse, a possible theme a celebration of agriculture. I'd also want to examine in detail @47:15 - the same image as on the ornament, and perhaps even more important the cave carvings around it to give it some context.
If you look at the rock in the excavation hole at the time line of 43:46-43:48, there's vertical writing on a stone in that pit. Not sure what it says, but its worth looking into.
In Toronto, Ontario, Canada a lot of construction is near the lake. The engineers have to take the rebound of ground when the glaciers receded. The earth speaks volumes.
As the ice-sheets melt the land rises - but so does the sea level. The differential between the two will vary from place to place. Where the earth's crust is thinner it's lighter so the land will rise further. Where the earth's crust is thicker it's heavier s the land will rise less. I'm quite sure that there are many other factors too.
+James McCord Yes because governments who have legislative power and depend on fossil fuels and industrial production would obviously need to co-opt scientists all over the world to lie and fake evidence that fossil fuels and industry is a problem in order to "control the masses". Makes sense.
@@jamesmccord8895 as is that "carbon tax" which makes the "masses" feel like they are actually doing something all the while making the tax collecting governments rich!
Damn straight!! When I read Mick's books, I hear his voice saying the words in my head. I hope he's having a blast where-ever he is. He deserved it. I'm an old hippie's wife so maybe I'll see him one day!!
The rather odd idea that the Futhark would somehow mean God bless you. Though it sounds like she pronounce it Futhork, with Thor in the middle, but I've never heard anything else than Futhark before.
Dennis Josefsson you never heard that the letters and sounds of the futhatk were magic? wow.. each symbol and it's associated sound has a property tagged to it, here.. www.therunesite.com/elder-futhark-rune-meanings/
cut nails are still used in wooden boats i wonder if they foud the site of a old wooden boat thats been burned away or rotted bor somthing.looks like a keel fastening to me seeing as its so close to the sea
Somehow I don't think the picts lived in the caves. I reckon they used them for their cattle and sheep, maybe also for butchering them, and the carvings came from the bored boys who had to watch the herds. Historic graffiti done by the same spirited youngsters as today.
I've heard that people probably actually lived in caves pretty rarely, even in 'caveman' times. Use them for various things, occupy them temporarily for one reason or another. Sharing with bears and other critters doesn't always go so well, I suppose.
Shite. A lot of the properties were sold off to the local council the rest they still own are rented out by their own rental company ‘Wemyss property’s’ And no the lady Victoria Wemyss died decades ago. She was probably who you’re referring to. She was the Queen mother’s lady in waiting. The current family no longer title themselves as laird and lady. They are just Micheal and Charlotte wemyss
So hermits, Hermann's or otherwise, could not or would not also have been practical farmers? A decidedly strange assumption to make. Ah! Good ole Time Team blather.
The Picts were destroyed via genocide. The Irish tribe (Scotti)colonised and gave their name (Scotland) to their new occupied land. A tragic case. For all their rhetoric, The Scotti did colonise and subjucate the native people.
+Paul Anthony Balistrieri ... Hi, Paul. I desperately *do* appreciate your 24K solid gold comeback comment!! Ummm ... lemme see ... I went with *etiology* because *that* particular shady term seems to appear to be slanted more towards the sort of inchoate, self-defining organically grown fractal *[bullshit bullshit bullshit]* chaotic global meaning, or something like that there. *Etymology* appears to be slanted more toward a more simplistic set of analytical indices, and did I mention that I'm circumcised ...? ... Just some much-needed and wholly justified Sacred Clowning re: getting *too* hackademically nitpicky. Boys on a playground will argue so long about the rules of the game they are intending to play, that it gets too dark to even *play the game* ... whereas girls will simply get together, and start playing the game simply, purely (and brilliantly) as it lays, so to speak. I am tempted to drag up Inductive vs. Deductive, but *WHEW!!!* I noticed it in time, lol. Be Thou Eternally Vigilant against those slyly surfacing, and circling dorsal fins ... and I'm also absolutely alliterate ... I don't think I ever "earned" one single "academic grade", so much as provoke "Theatrical Reviews". The "teacher" either loved the show, or hated it, and acted accordingly. Well, in retrospect, what a fantastic solution to the eternal challenge of *FUCKING STAYING AWAKE IN CLASS.* Information Vs. Knowledge > Knowledge vs. Understanding > Understanding vs. Wisdom & etc. Dissect & critically analyze a butterfly as much as you will, and then try reassembling it and letting it fly away. And just where has *THAT* got you ...???
+Thomas Cervasio lol.. really it's a simple breakdown"painted words" trouble is we don't know what they were supposed to mean. www.fanad.net/lacus00.pdf well not all of them.. there was more, but i wouldn't count on them, they seemed to be less credible..
A bit different. The whole stretch of coast is being eroded quite badly. The small length in front of the caves has huge concrete blocks to help reduce the action of the water on the paths etc. But it won’t stop the inevitable. It’s at the point now that you can’t walk the Fife coastal path without going onto the beach where once you could.
Always funny when they say they found something that no one has ever seen before, but it was man made. Clearly whoever made those engravings didn't do it with their eyes shut! lol!
@@scarletfluerr look at you jumping right into ad hominem! You go you bad ass! I was talking about funny use of language, but it seemed to go over your head.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 I was trying to be a bit funny, playful with language. Now I've been attacked by TWO people! That's kind of cool. No one's said anything mean to me in comments for years!
Its tv. They could prob work years on a site to fully explore it. But that would be a boring series. Just like the home remodeling they do in a weekend. Its tv
@@lyndallcanter5096 Who would pay them to dig a site for years? Actually the three days was simply for practical reasons. People with full-time jobs in archæology gave up some of their free time for minimal pay to do these digs and even so the cost wasn't insignificant.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 And the fact that the show is mainly to do investigative work on the sites. I am interested to know if any of the sites carried on digging and what they may have found
Didn't you notice the bright things plugged into the yellow cables? I assume they were using generators supplying 110 volts as per health & safety regs. unless I am out of date on this info.
Just a question.... @28:26 the metalwork gentleman seems to be using a modern file, is this something that would have been available at the time or is he just cutting time ?
While he used a modern file (for speed, as you say), files are a pre-metalworking invention. In their earliest form they were probably stone tools or a combination of a wood backing with a grit abrasive. Stoneage technology...
That's not a Viking/ Norse rune, it's an Anglo-Saxon rune. She is right to say it's the 6th letter, but strictly speaking it's a C, not a K. It stands for "cen", meaning "torch". Appropriate in a cave, however, the C rune in that cave is inverted. It is generally accepted that a reversed or inverted rune has negative connotations, although that is debatable.
The area has been owned by the Wemyss family since the 12th century. So......Yer talking shite pal. The villages came after the Wemyss castle not the other way around. And I’ve never once heard of this and I grew up in the area. That’s 45 years of never hearing that and also having immediate family working for the Wemyss family for decades.
i know it is now water under the bridge... but an - Abu Simbel - never came to their mind? Not the time team. this needs more than 3 days. and i suppose - English Heritage - also could not have done it alone.
Surrounded by massive, ancient, mudfossils ... and can't see them, amazing. Look carefully @ 3:18 mins. in. there's a massive fish just above the man with the hat's head. When you get the hang of spotting *mudfossils* go back to the time teams episode on the Welsh mountain's lead mine. The man with the hat holds up a Tudor shoelace surrounded by million year old mudfossil heads. !!!
It is purely assumption that "a passing Pict would know what they mean." They may be decorative art. What does the Mona Lisa "MEAN"? It may mean nothing but the internal expression of the artist. It is assumption that this is written language. Mind you, I'm NOT saying that it isn't. Just that there is nothing that clearly defines these as linguistic, as opposed to heiroglyphics which clearly are linguistic by their context.
@@paulhickman278 african or euopean? Was it with a rope tied between two or just one holding on?😂😂😂 Did you hear that the coconuts in the Caribbean migrated 😂 genuinly I saw a fab documentary on youtube. I forgot what it was called
I love this program and miss it so much. Nobody gets on my nerves, I understand why they only spend 3 days on a dig (they all have real day jobs) and the world has moved on, people have passed away and moved on. It was of its time and is so precious to so many, so stop slagging it off, if you don't like Tony's voice or beard, tough, it is what it is, it was made so long ago there is no changing anything. Well done Time Team, great sites, great people, very informative and wonderful entertainment. Thank you. ❤️👏❤️
Only 1 does mine, but later Helen replaces her and I'm in harmony.
I'm sure she's really a nice lady.
@@bethbartlett5692I love all the ladies and men. My least favorite is Francis.
Well put
... aand Tony too had a day job, as an actor which meant he had different haircuts, he was even dyed blond half on season! 😂😂
I used to play in these caves as a kid back in 1976-78
The Party Layer lol. R.I.P. Mick What a guy.
Mick was such a cool guy I love watching him and his colorful sweater .I think his sweater should go on display along with things he found😊
He never found anything. He just took credit for other people’s work.
@@Invictus13666 And who might you be?
@@eboracum2012 does it matter?
@@eboracum2012 Whats your problem?
@@sharondreisbach4445
I didn't care for what he implied about Prof. Mick Aston.
I don't recall replying to you so MYOB.
Such a great mix of people and abilities. Glad to have found this program!
This is great! This is my ancestral home. My ancestors come from the Creich fife castle or Macduff castle. The spelling of my family name was changed when they had to flee Scotland.I would love to see all this. Thank you. Susan Elizabeth Creech-Lambert
Love Victor. A team member will ask him a question, and he utters a indiscernible answer, and everybody laughs. Obviously a man of great charm.
“The party layer” hahahahaha! Nice one Phil
Love this! Wish the history in North America would be investigated with such thoroughness, seriousness, humor and fun, and allow it to be public. We do have a couple that try, yet the are still limited by the controversial start of the U.S.
It’s a total shame, apparently a lot of archeology under our feet over here.
It's been 14 yrs since this episode aired. A google map search shows the cave isn't really any closer to the sea than it was, but it's clear from a little searching that the biggest danger is material collapsing in the caves (the rock is soft), and sadly, more
human vandalism.
I was wondering about that. I figure that caves probably wouldn't be flood by now and the deterioration is still heart breaking.
ruclips.net/video/_Ao0oOrlYsk/видео.html !!!
Jasonsenipor go google why Doggerland disappeared! It once connected the east coast of the uk to Europe. In fact you’ll find a time team video about it!
But are you ignorant enough to not do a bit of searching up on the matter? In my lifetime the sea has risen a quarter of a metre. These caves are not that high off of sea level. Second factor to add in IS the storms, which are becoming more severe in nature. Another factor is the UK is shrinking in size due to coastal erosion, these caves are right at the top of the beach, how long do you think they’ll survive? If you can’t understand that all those things combined are a huge risk to these caves then i pity you, do you also think the earth is flat?
But do come and tell the good folks at Save Wemyss Ancient Cave Society that you know better than them and people who live here genius. Please!
@@killerfunghoul3948 Maybe you should come to the south-east coast of the US where the sea level hasn't changed since my great-grandfather built a jetty. In fact, you can easily see where the water level still rests at the exact same spots on the uprights. Not an inch higher in over a hundred years. I really wish you climate alarmists would just stop breathing and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
@@killerfunghoul3948Doggerland was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Britain to mainland Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500-6200 BC. I wasn't aware humans were responsible for rising sea levels eight-thousand years ago.
Simply a sensational series
R.I.P. Mick
Has anyone ever noticed that when Phil says "I found some pot" they all come running 😊😊😊
Chris Walsh plenty was smoked in there back in the day I can tell you .
No problem with that. It's just a plant. :)
I mean, wouldn't you?
@@jasoncoates1835,of course 😂😂😂
@@jasoncoates1835, Matt is checking his pockets 😂😂😂
Not to far from where I live , Billings Montana, are the Pictographic Caves..
which are quite well preserved and visited frequently. I haven't been there for some years, but I was impressed and fascinated thinking about the people who lived there and made records on the walls.
I love the place names of western Europe, especially Scotland, home to my ancestors, and the close countries. The Firth of Firth, for example, compared to Circle MT...
I thought I had watched every episode of Time Team, then I happened across this one
.. I'm ecstatic..
Thank you for preserving history.
They don’t preserve it though. Archaeology is destruction.
This is just down the road from me, actually been in those caves. Had to watch when I saw this episode come up :-)
This was wonderful, well done. Makes me so sad and also proud
i love how every single person uploading episodes of a program has to make them unwatchable because of copyright, like distoring audio, filtering the video etc... but all time team episodes uploaded are completely fine and crips clear in both video and audio
I take you haven't watched the episodes (many) where the audio track is off by up to 5 seconds and if you call this out of focus blur 'crisp clear' I suggest a trip to the optometrist.
The resolution is only 240p which was "HD" in prehistoric times. Compare with episodes uploaded by Time Team itself, those are "crystal clear".
*Erik Simca*
It's a _conspiracy_ ❣️ 😉🙃😋
This is so interesting. My grandmother was a Weems and I'm always looking for information on the family. Thank you Time Team.
My grandmother was also a Weems. She ended up in SW Missouri.
Our line went from Pennsylvania to Illinois. I went to Scotland in August. Visited the Weems caves and museum, even met two Weems cousins from Alabama who were tracing Weems history. The Weems family are the Picts. Wm Wallace was a member of this family.
....so much garbled history in the US. Quite endearing, though it's all meaningless when you consider that we are ALL literally related to Charlemaigne et al, and family histories are littered with illegitimate children, and highly dependent on what was written down on certificates that may not be entirely truthful. Weems in the US could very well be something Anglicized around WWI like so many Germanic last names in the US.
Kay Milam
The
WEMYSS not Weems. Different family I’m afraid
I love visiting these caves :)
This is something close to the study that has had me curious about Archeology since the 1970's. Reading about Dr Leakey (sic) and Lucy
Can't get enough Time Team!
Believe it or not, I just discovered TT! I’m in Texas, so that accounts for the lag. I binge-watched about two hundred episodes already. I don’t even mind repeating them again. What fun!
Literally live 15 mins away from there it’s so cool there’s a documentary on it
You can actually see my old house on the aerial pictures a couple of times. Pity they didn’t spend any time in west Wemyss though. Would have been nice to see them talking about the castle there.
I’m hoping the Scot Gov has delved into this more. First time I’ve seen inside the caves.
Holy shit shanna??? Hey!!!
I'm in love with Raksha Dave!
So is her husband and baby. :)
Really?
Go Phil, Pict era! Wish TT had returned for a deeper dig, or update of one. 🐍❇ 🈷 👣
i so want to visit *Scotland,* my great Uncle was from Scotland and if he's a measure, they are wonderful people. *Love their accent,* sense of humor, and their spirit. Knowing a little about their Ancient Lineage, Scythian influence with a fair amount of Irish and then the influence from other east, they truly have their own unique flavor.
Irish American
Tennessee, USA
Thanks for posting
"Party layer" X-D Although despite that festive euphemism, I'm sure it was no fun to have to pick through. Caves and other sheltered sites seem to always have party layers, much of it comprised of discarded needles and broken bottles :-P
phil always ends up in the cool trench
🙋 Slainte! December 2019, from the NW Cascade Mountains!
Love the runes!
Awesome!
Brittons start to love their past not just with words but with activity.
Britons.
It's obvious if you watch enough Time Team shows that coastal erosion and deposition is radically changing the British coastline sometimes as much as several feet a yr as one of the men on the show said. Actual sea level change not as much at least at the present. Tidal gauge records give about a foot a century and that's down at least at the moment. The coast line and sea level are in constant flux.
I am really loving this show. Not only am I now in love with British (or in this case Scottish) history, I love learning the British vernacular. Today's gems I learned were "phoodeling around" and "higgeldy piggeldy". No idea if that's even remotely spelled right but I love it.
Footling, not phoodeling :) (and higgledy-piggledy, for future spelling)
@@fudgeweasel Lol thank you! I'm American so those aren't words I've heard before. So cute
@@tjo1976
Higgledy-piggeldy is one I've heard but my mom's family were Scots-Irish for donkey's years, with a little border German to boot (I must be honest)
Footling, no, but then some of what Phil and Co. says are his own precious slants on whatever he meant to get across.
I love accents and have worked with a number of them but mostly Brits and Yorkshire can come up with some doozies.
The artwork of the Picts is so Celtic in style, I wonder they don't make the link early on.
@Stevie Moore I always suspected that, but no works on the Picts I've seen make that clear statement.
For those who query the time of only three days for each dig, like Lina Beever and Annalisa Young, go back to the first episode and all will be revealed.
The shelf in front of the cave is here:
56°09'44.3"N 3°03'25.9"W
The site of Raksha's trench is visible in the grass.
Thanks. I like to search for the TT sites by Google map. Sometimes they're hard to find especially along rocky coasts.
Brilliant
They should have gone to Dunino Den...!!
I also didn't need time team to tell me that the Pics lived in Fife
Didn’t need them to tell us that the vikings were here either....
Phil had a bone to Pict
I am not Neil , King Kenneth MacAlpin's mother was a Pictish Princess , her marriage brought the Scotts right to the lands of Scotland . This is what happened to the Picts they became related to the Scotts . King Robert the Bruce and his ancestors have Pictish blood .
And Norman French
A dude carved letters into rock 2000 years ago: Archeology
A dude carved letters into rock 20 years ago: Vandalism
I have mostly Celtish ancestry, and a flair for the artistic. Always wondered if I have Picts in my family tree...
Brisdad53, well, my Grandma’s family were/are Glaswegian so I’m still in the ballpark! Thanks for the explanation. BTW, California might as well be another PLANET compared to the rest of America. Lol
Was here Dec 2019
The only show to say we ONLY have 3 days!!! But.... Lets take a crafting course mid way threw & try our hands at smelting 🤣🤣🤣
This show reminds me of being a kid & digging in the yard trying to find "Indian stuff". I would run to show my parents & ask them "whats this!?" I believe they mainly said its just a rock.
The silversmith didn’t know what he was doing at all. He work hardened to breaking point. If he had annealed the silver as he went along he could have pounded it as flat as he wanted. Where did they find that guy? He blew smoke up someone’s skirt.
Well spotted, I was thinking the same thing. Silver work hardens.
A live 15 mins away from here would of loved for them to find something epic here.
I love this show also. I love all British tv shows ☺️ .that big nail must of been used to make some of those carved pictures! I was surprised they didn't mention that
Here is a guess. The overall design in the cave @47:13 et seq and the jewelry piece @47:02 et seq are similar - the "dogbone" image. That going through it might be a plant (assuming the ornament/pendant is held right side up). In the lower-left appears to be the head of a horse or other animal. The "dogbone", itself, becomes the image of focus, possibly representing sky and soil, the plant connecting the two. Connecting the three - plant, "dogbone", and horse, a possible theme a celebration of agriculture. I'd also want to examine in detail @47:15 - the same image as on the ornament, and perhaps even more important the cave carvings around it to give it some context.
If you look at the rock in the excavation hole at the time line of 43:46-43:48, there's vertical writing on a stone in that pit. Not sure what it says, but its worth looking into.
In Toronto, Ontario, Canada a lot of construction is near the lake. The engineers have to take the rebound of ground when the glaciers receded. The earth speaks volumes.
💘 timeteam
So much for "rising sea levels". Turns out climate is more complicated than we think.
As the ice-sheets melt the land rises - but so does the sea level. The differential between the two will vary from place to place. Where the earth's crust is thinner it's lighter so the land will rise further. Where the earth's crust is thicker it's heavier s the land will rise less. I'm quite sure that there are many other factors too.
Given the weather round here, wouldn't the carvings on the wall be made by somebody sitting by a fire?
I’m soo curious to know how close the sea level is the the entrance today
Sad to lose sites like this to Mom Nature, but as Rod would say, "a pict-ure tells a story, don't it?"
+Kim Jameson Right on! "Global warming" is pure political hog wash, designed to control the "masses".
+James McCord Yes because governments who have legislative power and depend on fossil fuels and industrial production would obviously need to co-opt scientists all over the world to lie and fake evidence that fossil fuels and industry is a problem in order to "control the masses". Makes sense.
Bruce Wayne Like D.P.R.C.?
Leopararouen Hunh?
@@jamesmccord8895 as is that "carbon tax" which makes the "masses" feel like they are actually doing something all the while making the tax collecting governments rich!
Anyone else think that the drawing of the hermit in the bath, at about 42:27, looks a little like Mick?
Breaks me heart that phil n mick were given others scraps as they had lots to offer
Damn straight!!
When I read Mick's books, I hear his voice saying the words in my head.
I hope he's having a blast where-ever he is. He deserved it.
I'm an old hippie's wife so maybe I'll see him one day!!
well it is 2020 now and these caves are still not underwater,
The rather odd idea that the Futhark would somehow mean God bless you. Though it sounds like she pronounce it Futhork, with Thor in the middle, but I've never heard anything else than Futhark before.
Dennis Josefsson you never heard that the letters and sounds of the futhatk were magic? wow.. each symbol and it's associated sound has a property tagged to it,
here..
www.therunesite.com/elder-futhark-rune-meanings/
It’s a common name of the Rune alphabet, named after the first six signs.
They should have made the jewelry out of melted down spoons.
ironically...it turns out the pictish lozenge shape was a reworked roman silver spoon & the other one was a Victorian copy to make it, two ear rings.
cut nails are still used in wooden boats i wonder if they foud the site of a old wooden boat thats been burned away or rotted bor somthing.looks like a keel fastening to me seeing as its so close to the sea
The land was still rebounding from the last ice age too.
Somehow I don't think the picts lived in the caves. I reckon they used them for their cattle and sheep, maybe also for butchering them, and the carvings came from the bored boys who had to watch the herds. Historic graffiti done by the same spirited youngsters as today.
I've heard that people probably actually lived in caves pretty rarely, even in 'caveman' times. Use them for various things, occupy them temporarily for one reason or another. Sharing with bears and other critters doesn't always go so well, I suppose.
I would agree to a certain extent, live near the very front for some protection and use the inside for more ritual/industrial uses.
those caves wouldn't hold much livestock.
Reijer Zaaijer seasons 12+ are blocked in my country, do you know where they are not blocked so i can watch?
Tony Robinson would argue with a sign post and throw rocks at it, if it disagreed with him. lol
at 29:10 - the Ministry of labour would shut them down and charge them with an unsafe trench - here and Canada anyways
Did you know that the Wemyss has a lady Wemyss and you can only move they're or buy there with her permission!
Shite. A lot of the properties were sold off to the local council the rest they still own are rented out by their own rental company ‘Wemyss property’s’
And no the lady Victoria Wemyss died decades ago. She was probably who you’re referring to. She was the Queen mother’s lady in waiting. The current family no longer title themselves as laird and lady. They are just Micheal and Charlotte wemyss
So hermits, Hermann's or otherwise, could not or would not also have been practical farmers? A decidedly strange assumption to make. Ah! Good ole Time Team blather.
The Picts were destroyed via genocide. The Irish tribe (Scotti)colonised and gave their name (Scotland) to their new occupied land. A tragic case. For all their rhetoric, The Scotti did colonise and subjucate the native people.
You've just described the history of Mankind, in every place. ='[.]'=
@3:12 liquor bottles, booze barrels, bar foods...
... Ah. There must be the etiology of "Pictographs" ... 1:54 ...
+Thomas Cervasio I think you mean "etymology" - the derivation of a word. "Etiology" - the study of causes or origins of diseases.
+Paul Anthony Balistrieri ... Hi, Paul. I desperately *do* appreciate your 24K solid gold comeback comment!! Ummm ... lemme see ... I went with *etiology* because *that* particular shady term seems to appear to be slanted more towards the sort of inchoate, self-defining organically grown fractal *[bullshit bullshit bullshit]* chaotic global meaning, or something like that there. *Etymology* appears to be slanted more toward a more simplistic set of analytical indices, and did I mention that I'm circumcised ...?
... Just some much-needed and wholly justified Sacred Clowning re: getting *too* hackademically nitpicky. Boys on a playground will argue so long about the rules of the game they are intending to play, that it gets too dark to even *play the game* ... whereas girls will simply get together, and start playing the game simply, purely (and brilliantly) as it lays, so to speak. I am tempted to drag up Inductive vs. Deductive, but *WHEW!!!* I noticed it in time, lol. Be Thou Eternally Vigilant against those slyly surfacing, and circling dorsal fins ... and I'm also absolutely alliterate ...
I don't think I ever "earned" one single "academic grade", so much as provoke "Theatrical Reviews". The "teacher" either loved the show, or hated it, and acted accordingly. Well, in retrospect, what a fantastic solution to the eternal challenge of *FUCKING STAYING AWAKE IN CLASS.* Information Vs. Knowledge > Knowledge vs. Understanding > Understanding vs. Wisdom & etc. Dissect & critically analyze a butterfly as much as you will, and then try reassembling it and letting it fly away. And just where has *THAT* got you ...???
+Thomas Cervasio lol.. really it's a simple breakdown"painted words" trouble is we don't know what they were supposed to mean. www.fanad.net/lacus00.pdf well not all of them.. there was more, but i wouldn't count on them, they seemed to be less credible..
... I had the same problem with hieroglyphs. So I've learned to *never* rent- *always buy.*
Pictish party caves.
Wonder how different the area is now
A bit different. The whole stretch of coast is being eroded quite badly. The small length in front of the caves has huge concrete blocks to help reduce the action of the water on the paths etc. But it won’t stop the inevitable.
It’s at the point now that you can’t walk the Fife coastal path without going onto the beach where once you could.
Most of my people are now in Virginia and North Carolina
Ohhh arrre Tony I want some pic tattoos.. Stone the crows!
just gets more clever after reading it for the 100th time
Rising sea level. Milli-meters, centimeters or meters? How much sea level since 4-2013?
Always funny when they say they found something that no one has ever seen before, but it was man made. Clearly whoever made those engravings didn't do it with their eyes shut! lol!
Do you really need him to clarify the sentence with...something modern man has never seen? Or are you not intelligent enough to figure that out LOL
@@scarletfluerr look at you jumping right into ad hominem! You go you bad ass! I was talking about funny use of language, but it seemed to go over your head.
@@PatrickPoet Actually you were being pedantic.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 I was trying to be a bit funny, playful with language. Now I've been attacked by TWO people! That's kind of cool. No one's said anything mean to me in comments for years!
Maybe they have a time limit on the persons property or they only have a 3 day period to record
They all had other jobs and so they would take 1 weekend a month or in the early days every 2 months to do these digs.
Its tv. They could prob work years on a site to fully explore it. But that would be a boring series. Just like the home remodeling they do in a weekend. Its tv
@@lyndallcanter5096 Who would pay them to dig a site for years?
Actually the three days was simply for practical reasons. People with full-time jobs in archæology gave up some of their free time for minimal pay to do these digs and even so the cost wasn't insignificant.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532 And the fact that the show is mainly to do investigative work on the sites.
I am interested to know if any of the sites carried on digging and what they may have found
It's a shame that the production department didn't think of putting some light into the caves for the filming.
Didn't you notice the bright things plugged into the yellow cables? I assume they were using generators supplying 110 volts as per health & safety regs. unless I am out of date on this info.
Just a question.... @28:26 the metalwork gentleman seems to be using a modern file, is this something that would have been available at the time or is he just cutting time ?
While he used a modern file (for speed, as you say), files are a pre-metalworking invention. In their earliest form they were probably stone tools or a combination of a wood backing with a grit abrasive. Stoneage technology...
Does this mean that in a future time team all they will be able to find regarding resant day human occupation will be plastic rubbish?
Que tal uma legendazinha em português. Ainda existe gente que não sabe o edioma inglês.
I am getting the feeling that Time Team, was re-born into a new series but without Tony as their head spokesman..
Oh, if only!
That's not a Viking/ Norse rune, it's an Anglo-Saxon rune. She is right to say it's the 6th letter, but strictly speaking it's a C, not a K. It stands for "cen", meaning "torch". Appropriate in a cave, however, the C rune in that cave is inverted. It is generally accepted that a reversed or inverted rune has negative connotations, although that is debatable.
Maybe a warning for others to back off?
Wee free men
Problem with living in the cave and throwing crap around.. fills up the cave too fast.
Wonder if these caves have been swallowed by rising sea levels.
They have not.
Over the ages, the name of this area has been shortened from 'Wee Mystery' to Wemyss.
The area has been owned by the Wemyss family since the 12th century. So......Yer talking shite pal. The villages came after the Wemyss castle not the other way around. And I’ve never once heard of this and I grew up in the area. That’s 45 years of never hearing that and also having immediate family working for the Wemyss family for decades.
@chris Warren - er, no. Wemyss is derived from the word meaning caves.
When did they find the silver?
Another Science-Piction episode
When does it stop being vandallism, and start being historically significant?
its historically significant because an entire civilization and its culture has little written accounts of it, vandalism contributes nothing.
@@tourmaline1810 You can thank the English king Edward for that he burned most of our history.
i know it is now water under the bridge...
but an - Abu Simbel - never came to their mind?
Not the time team.
this needs more than 3 days.
and i suppose - English Heritage - also could not have done it alone.
Someone drove a car into that cave a few years back and set fire to it- so most of the carvings have been burnt to fuck anyway.
Surrounded by massive, ancient, mudfossils ... and can't see them, amazing. Look carefully @ 3:18 mins. in. there's a massive fish just above the man with the hat's head. When you get the hang of spotting *mudfossils* go back to the time teams episode on the Welsh mountain's lead mine.
The man with the hat holds up a Tudor shoelace surrounded by million year old mudfossil heads. !!!
It is purely assumption that "a passing Pict would know what they mean." They may be decorative art. What does the Mona Lisa "MEAN"? It may mean nothing but the internal expression of the artist. It is assumption that this is written language. Mind you, I'm NOT saying that it isn't. Just that there is nothing that clearly defines these as linguistic, as opposed to heiroglyphics which clearly are linguistic by their context.
Why isn’t anyone talking about that thing on Tony’s chin?
I never knew that Pictish women had coconuts
They were carried here by migrating swallows
@@paulhickman278 african or euopean? Was it with a rope tied between two or just one holding on?😂😂😂
Did you hear that the coconuts in the Caribbean migrated 😂 genuinly I saw a fab documentary on youtube. I forgot what it was called
Anyone else ever think the Firth of Forth should be directly next to the Fifth of Sixth? Eh. Just a thought.
Rising sea levels...yeah....not really...