Hunting King Harold (Portskewett, Wales) | S15E13 | Time Team
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Harold's Field has long been rumoured as a site where Harold Godwinson, later to become King Harold, built a hunting lodge in 1065 after defeating the Welsh. The site is a scheduled monument, protected from excavation; but a local petition has succeeded in persuading Cadw to allow digging. So Time Team have been invited in to do their stuff. While Stewart believes there are signs of medieval occupation, any finds from an earlier, Saxon period would be a first for this area of Wales. The team are joined by historians Sam Newton and Jeremy Knight, local pottery expert Steve Clarke, and maritime archaeologist Nigel Nayling.
Series 15, Episode 13
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I just love these shows when the two kings of the skeptics in Mick and Stewart get together and try to out-skeptic each other, it makes for great viewing. They spark off each other, with Stewart investigating the 'lumps and bumbs' with Mick's curious mind kicking in to help, it makes for great and interesting viewing.
I live not far from here in Newport. It's fascinating when the team are somewhere local.
I just LOVE how England is layered! There are Romans, Normans, Saxons, Jutes, Goths, Viking's, christans, Celtics, and various other visitors who came to stay. Never a dull moment in merry olde England. Makes me wonder why some ancient buildings survive and others don't. Always fascinating!
Celts arent English, its made up of Wales,Scotland and ireland
@@goburr1649 at no point did that comment say they were. Furthermore the evidence suggests a good portion of English people are ethnically celtic.
Goths did not make to British Isles.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlaswhere did they come from and where did they go . . .
@@yvonneemmert9185 from somewhere in Sweden then moved to the black sea area, then raid Rome for a bit... then they settle in Spain, Italy, and the Balkans all before Anglos, Jutes, and Saxon along with Frisians settled in British Isles.
The most brilliant thing about this episode is that man's eyebrows. EPIC!
It seems that the UK has an INSANE amount of incredible archaeology just waiting for someone to get around to unearthing it!!!! The Time Team project is a completely wonderful project that illustrates this fact delightfully. KUDOS to everyone connected with this exciting and educational effort: it's one of the best TV-inspired archaeological undertakings EVER!!!
Well, these islands have been inhabited for about 10,000 years so they're littered with relics of the past.
Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were touring through a rural area and stopped to look at an ancient church. It was about 600 years old, but the door lintel had been made by re-using part of an Anglo-Saxon cross that was probably twice that age !
Just the kind of thing you can casually find here.
Stewart Ainsworth is a dead-set legend. Never doubt this man and his magic eyes.
Great episode; the pottery expert brought a whole new level of eccentric, passionate nerd to the scene - loved it!
Beautiful art thats alive😊
Thanks so much for posting.
I was delighted to hear Tony Robinson say that he is a great fan of Harold. I think Harold could have been an excellent King and his previous record does I think support this. He was just so unlucky. I would like there to be a national memorial to this man.
That moment when Tony says he looked up at the wrong time.
@ne hes already got statues in the UK ilfranklin5644
@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR i am aware of the memorial at Waltham Abbey but please more details of the one you refer to.
You guys as a country are passionate about your history. Bravo.
Yes, I absolutely LOVE the artwork, the drawings. Victor is a wizard, he sees through time and puts it all on paper with pencil, pen & ink, or watercolor. Very good indeed.
Yes! It's great stuff. I especially like his signature 'running dog' which appears in (I think) every one of his beautiful, evocative illustrations. Woof! 🐕 :-)
@@Ana-tk4ty Would you happen to know the name of that episode?
@@Ana-tk4ty Thank you!
@marian smith - I think I read that Mr Victor has at least one book published of his wonderful drawings.
I would love to have some of those drawings hanging on my wall. They are beautiful.
Raised in the United States, in Colorado, the oldest thing I’d ever been to is Mesa Verde. When I went to Germany I was in a state of aww of all the old sites!! Can’t wait to visit other places in Europe! I’m also amazed how alot of people don’t realize how awesome these historical sites are!!
From Australia and went to Europe about 10 years and was blown away with the buildings and sites around Budapest. We were staying in a hotel in Buda and you could go down into the cellar of the hotel and see remains of an Abbey from the 15th centuary. Did a river cruise and the castles or remains from various centuries anything after the 17th centuury was considered new
RIP Mick Aston, a necessary voice of reason in an emotion-driven project.
Oh, I didn't realise he'd passed away. Sorry to hear that.
@@stewartmackayHe passed in 2013
@@Legion563 Yes, I just didn't realise that.
@@stewartmackay
Why on earth not? Everybody knows that fact.
@@trollmeistergeneral3467 Clearly not.
Every Time team episode is a history lesson that I have learned so much from. Thanks Time team.
Victor Ambrus brought all those sites to life and so many times put the archeologists and experts right into the historical scene. what amazing talent in so many disciplines!
And not to leave out Victor's renditions of the past. Well done, super job.
I will never complain about having to dig test pits in the dusty and dry environments of Mexico, Peru or the Caribbean again. Hats off to you guys!
Hats off to all archaeological and palaeontologists out there digging in dust and mud. I now won't complain walking in mud doing my horses. All you scientists are doing awesome jobs. Wish I liked science at high school but I was fascinated but I didn't like the classes or the teachers. There was no support for students with dyslexia. Education hasn't changed much at secondary (high school and college) school. My sons also are dyslexic and were also just pushed aside for the clever ones to get the attention. I'm sure my youngest son would have made a great palaeontologist.
@@ellenchristiaans7890 Don't let him give up, if the field of Archeology is his dream. He isn't the only dyslexic out there (😉), and there IS always another path to any goal.
@@ellenchristiaans7890 - The NYC school system has begun smoothly incorporating the needs of dyslexic students into their curriculum, no "special classes" needed. Perhaps your local school system can be convinced to do the same?
Stuart is a very good Intel guy. Very sharp.
What a great episode! I love Saxon and Norman and early medieval stuff. For some reason, the Romans don't have the same magic for me. I also really enjoy the comment section. Very interesting, positive comments all around. These uploads need a little love 🔆
I'm the same!
@@RUfrikkinkiddinME The Romans were square brained.
Victor is the artist Thankyou 😊❤
Hes dead now
That's so sad
@@glendamears3618 Yeah that's MICK,VICTOR & IAN the digger driver that have all passed away now..RIP
Very SAD 💜😔
Well I hope his descendents appreciate our comments and are proud him and them all
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks Team! 🌟👍
Tony Robinson is such a national treasure. Full of enthusiasm for everything he has ever commentated on.
Totally agree 🥂🍾
He is indeed unique and irresistibly charming 🍸🍸🥃
Love 💕 him from Canada 🇨🇦 and California 🍤🥠🍥🍡🌰🫖🏄
He is an absolute moron and the show would have been WAYYYYY better and had a hell of a lot more credibility without him on it... this episode is a prime example of why he was/is a moron and why he essentially took any credibility away from the show
@@richardgrace4500 what on earth are you talking about? In what sense did Time Team not have any credibility?! He’s an entertainer that brought Archaeology to a wider audience. If this had been a purely dry academic show it wouldn’t have been half as popular. He did a monumental job injecting energy into this show and it’s stood the test of time.
@@Shm00ly He's just a PITA!
Or fake cynicism!
Harold fighting the battle of Stamford Brige probably contributed to him losing the battle of Hastings. Guillaume's army was fresh and rested while Harold's troops had fought a battle and then marched from Stamford to Hastings
I read something similar not too long ago. Argh, it breaks my heart cuz Harold G. was THE MAN! Actually I'm certain he was my man in another life...😇😇😍😂😂😂😂😂
He got shot in the eye. Pretty sure that's why he lost. They even said it in this episode
@@Josh-ts9sr where did i deny they lost and he got killed? My point is that if he and his troops were fully rested he might not have been shot, in his eye or wherever and that is why i used the word 'contributed'
It's so fun to watch the different personalities come out. Matt has become a favorite too, though no one can compare with Phil, the real star of this show.
I've been binge-watching the Time Team stuff lately, and this is one of my favorite episodes so far. Primarily because, as an American, I find it hard to find anything in my country that has been standing for 100 years, let alone 1,000 years...but in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland - it almost seems like the things that are less than 100 years old are the anomaly. It's fascinating to see history being dug up from the ground, and to learn about the who, what, where, when, and why of it all.
I just want to point out there are many sites older than 1,000 years in the US. They just aren't colonial. There is an amazing world of archeology and history under your feet!
My college archaeologists here in Arkansas don’t have enough hours to dig everywhere they want!
We have sites in Nebraska that are well over a 1000 years.
As an American-I would recommend you go to Cahokia Mounds (or any Mound museum) Then head out To Arizona-and take a peek buildings built thousands of years ago. This country has physical history-It got dismantled and plowed over a lot in the East for sure. You still have the great serpent mound out east too and Etowah. But the stone buildings survive out west. Amazing places. Many yet to be discovered and explored.
@@catofthecastle1681Ah yes. My family is Quapaw- Ogapah . You guys keep digging up our beautiful sculptural pottery. It’s always so exciting to see pieces!
I don't think I've seen this one before, amazing! Thanks for everything my dear Time Team!
You all are so interesting and this group is well put together. The experts are well selected to show off the layers of the site. Stewart is always so important to pull the story together. I hope Phil's wrist did well. It does look sore. I watch this program so often that I feel friendly towards you all. Thank you for your enthusiasm Tony, et.al. I hope you each are fairing well; I guess a lot of time has passed.
I REALLY LOVE these TT Episodes. Even if I have seen them before, I am as excited as the first time.
Love you Time Team!!! Wishing you all safety and good health. Thank you for all you do!!
The pottery expert has absolutely magnificent eyebrows.
😲
Thufir Hawat no less!
They match his lovely hair tufts!
Made me think of the movie DUNE, 😆
He can fly. Those are stabilizers
This is so lovely: all the villagers, everybody coming out on the third day to see how it all turned out with Time Team. The girl with the puppy, the young man with the baby, our life today.
U mean our really bad life’s we lead now. Compared to the past. We are half the people they were.
@@Endle185Speak for yourself.
@@Endle185yes but we are getting twice as old
@@harrybruijs2614 il rather live there life then ares now we have woke ideology and technology that not many understand. Bad way the world is in.
50 years on this planet is enough for me unless things change
I love how the two boatmen just start laughing when asked if they've ever made that mistake.
Cool, I hadn't seen this one. Thanks TimeTeam.
As a Canadian, I was taught Canadian geography. I was taught of the tidal waters of the Bay of Fundy, but nothing of what happens on the other side of the Atlantic. This was very enlightening.
Its fascinating isn't it?! This show is wonderfully informative. Tony and all the cast/scientists couldn't be more brilliant!
Keep watching! You won't regret it.
I'd be willing to bet even in England, with a must longer history then the Colonial Americas, that history classes mostly concern regional history.
Yes, the tides here in the far Northeast and near the bay of Fundy are enormous
@@sanctionh2993 Yes, but Britain's region was a global empire.
Have you any idea how boring the principle exports of, e.g. Canada, Ceylon, Burma, Tanganyika, Jamaica, New Zealand, Guiana, etc. are for 11 & 12yo pupils?
:)
The Severn has the longest tidal-bore (& surf-ride) globally, Fundy has the largest tidal-range in the world, for the same basic reason; far too much sea trying to get into a small channel.
:)
Excellent stuff. Thank you for bringing these episodes to RUclips.
Dr Sam! Love Dr Sam Newton! Hi Stewart! So much knowledge and talent collected in one place - love it!
I never considered Harold a loser. Unlucky, yes, but a heck of a man. One of my favorite historical what if's would be his success.
Unlucky indeed. Anyone can get killed in battle, simply by chance. If Harold's head had been six inches to the right the history of England might be completely different.
As a young man, the future Henry V was hit in the face by an arrow at the battle of Shrewsbury and he was very lucky to survive. No Agincourt, no rousing speech (Courtesy of Wm. Shakespeare), no glorious victory over the neighbours. 😉
Just a loser as in he lost, not a loser as in "ah, what a loser!"
He was indeed great. England's last true English King. 👍
Not the best idea to build a wooden hunting lodge on the edge of enemy territory.
@@Kevin-mx1vi the problem for Harold was he was fighting on two fronts. Had there been no simultaneous Northern invasion he would've crushed William with ease.
I always liked Professor Mick Aston.
Being from the Black Country it was always good to see a local working class mon on tv instead of only hearing pathetic attempts at the Black Country dialect/accent coming from actors who couldn’t tell the difference between Black Country and Brummie people.
Mick ma mon yow was bostin wi a grate yed on yowr shoulders RIP
NH: Sad to hear of his demise, and can you please explain the term Black Country?
@@repetemyname842 hi no problem the Black Country is a region on the western edge of Birmingham in the centre of England. It’s called the Black Country because of the pollution that covered the area in the 19th and 20th century. It’s one of the areas where the industrial revolution took off and was heavily industrialised.
It has a unique local dialect which is one of the oldest in Britain and which still contains old English and Middle English words that come from the Anglo Saxons.
It and Birmingham also gave the world a lot of musicians such as half of Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant and John Bonham) and Black Sabbath. As a result some argue the term heavy metal comes from them growing up in an area with a lot of heavy metalworking industries. This is a myth although a nice one.
Cheers hope that helps.
@@nigeh5326 : Very much, thanks for the interesting lesson!
Saxons never went away
we are still here
Another excellent episode. So interesting to really see the layers in the soil!!
I've been watching these reruns for years and had no idea Mick had passed ...very sad
Great Dig, and that last sentence sums up Tony's popularity with the masses. Well Done TT.
victor is an amazing artist
Imagine all that'll be left of our time might be the shards of our novelty mugs...
Very true, trash/junk that even the Time Team of 3021 will ignore from the Ridiculous Age.
Never you worry.
You can rest easy in the secure knowledge that our plastic garbage and our nuclear waste will outlive any pottery shards by aeons.
...or coke cans and dead cell phones......how sad
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aaaaahhh the panic/anxiety of that my mugs will at some point crack & beak😱😓😭😭
Oh dear.
Best show ever. I've been bringing on all of these shows, & waiting for the new programming being developed. Can't wait to enjoy the first release...I'm almost as excited as I was to see Star Wars V !!!
Dear Time Team - please come back to Hastings!
Good to see Maester luwin’s still going 👍🏻
Always blows my mind how much of a varied history can be dug up on our little island.
Your little island is SO fascinating to me!
43:57 I have watched time team for many years, and have always been amazed and confused at their editing. Be warned, for anyone who has not noticed, they must take multiple shots of the exact same thing at different takes. The example here is amazing, when they finally zoom out, where is the original camera man?? but it syncs perfectly
Came looking for a hunting lodge, found something even more interesting
Thank you! Always uplifting!💖
Educational and real. I love this show. No way to fake things like everything else on TV. Genuine entertaining knowledge
Their local archaeologist pottery guy has the most EPIC eyebrows I've ever seen!
Excited for this one!
I love it when there's one I haven't seen is on 😍
Hope Time Team is revived one day. I have a site near me in Kettering of a manor house and fishpond that I always hoped they'd dig - the earthworks of which were once erroneously labelled a medieval castle (even the name of the site is Castle Field!).
There's a patreon running currently since December 2020 with aims to revive the show. Bit of a weird one for Patreon, sounds more like a Kickstarter thing, but I hope they can pull it off. Time Team did wonders for British archaeology.
It’s happening! Join their Patreon effort and support
It's back!
35 years ago
35 years ago I had a little sailboat with a Seagull motor that looked a lot like that one.
I'd love for you to survey Harold's lodge near Hastings for any evidence of it being looted or destroyed after his defeat by Guillaume.
Only the British yawn over “lumps and bumps” 🤣
Keep up the great work time team
I bet Phil's left hand tankard curl is as good as his right!
How the hell did I miss this one until now?!
Such a great show
Fantastic Episode.
English history is amazing
Phil's accent is so interesting to me!!
I especially like the ribald interplay between this group of people.Serious, but lots of fun.A great bunch.
I can dig this!
Cute!😂😂😂
I've watched nearly every episode of Time Team's 20 seasons. It's tempting to take out a clicker and count the number of times the words "fantastic" and "absolutely" are used.
So has anyone been asked to continue excavation below the medieval manor? Has Saxon been found since? What could be under the church? So many questions, so little Time :)
Thanks
Three days seems a ridiculously short time to examine these areas.
As someone who is actually from that part of the world (I grew up less than a mile away in Caldicot) this frustrated me a bit when they go on about water access and their "discovery". In Caldicot there is a castle and next to it there was a quite a wide river called the Nedern (now called Nedern Brook as it has shrunk so much) in which we used to catch Elvers which can only come from spawning Eels that have come from the sea (ie: up the the River Severn). Upstream from Caldicot is a Roman Fort in Caerwent (which is where the romans crossed The River Severn from Avon and went upstream and built their fort bysailing up the Nedern and the corner of the fort is literally the edge of the Nedern so you know where the water access was for the fort). If you followed that River downstream it led through the castle grounds, through Portskewett to the Severn (now blocked by silt). If you follow what is left of the Nedern, creeks from the Nedern reach the grounds of Harolds Hill that are still there, so it's not exactly a mystery and not exactly a secret and not exactly a discovery because as kids we used to follow it fishing for Elvers and Sticklebacks. So, in all honesty, the BS that they have "discovered" the waterway is insulting to those that live in the area because we all KNOW about the water ways and how it developed the area. All that has happened is the Pwlls have shrunk to streams, which have shrunk to brooks and then creeks and thanks to silt no longer give sea access but that's just history folks! The joys of TV and claiming they've "discovered activity just before the Normans" is pure TV BS hype and SHOULD BE quite insulting to the locals.
Archaeology nostalgia 🙂
II am surprised they did not find a beer spring. HA HA HA.
Amazing and interesting
Lol Baldrick and his Saxon pottery, is like listening to Francis and his rituals.
Amazing
Brilliant
Nice one TT. Even when seeing this again they done well in 3days. the discovery of the beach was my favorite bit. Was there a follow up by local archeologists to confirm TT findings? 😷
I feel like I should go smash a pot in my yard. Just to help out folks a 1000 years from now
Just like you do really 😂😂😂😂 ❤it!
Those eyebrows! Brilliant!
Harold's Hunting Lodge, my brain keeps converting it to Harold's Humping Lodge......maybe a dual purpose Lodge......😄
Bring back time team please.
Man i loved this show. One thing that I hated was the 'we've only got three days' line.
Hey Time Team, ever consider selling Victor's artwork? At least copies?
Victor Ambrus died recently, aged 85 y/o. His works were/are for sale in art galleries in Great Britain. e.g. www.mallgalleries.org.uk/artist/victor-ambrus-ps
Splendid idea 🐳🦋
Definitely would buy one 🦚🐇🕊🦩🦢🐓🦥🌱🍁🍄🌸🍄✨🌈🍒🥂🍾
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TT does not own Victors art work, his descendents do.
Ooides are NOT eggs, they are just egg shaped concretions, typically forming around shell fragments. Small little niggle. Love the show, I grew up on time team.
Need more of Kate Smith and that gorgeous red hair. :-)
Stratigraphy. Cool.
Looked like that sailor might get more speed from his hull if he cleaned it off once in while, people who race try to clean their boats off just before the race.
For some reason, Phil's sling triggered a memory of when, 30 years ago, I went to the Antiques Roadshow with my Dad. The pottery expert had his arm bandaged and in a sling, and my Dad asked whether he'd got it stuck in a vase. I laughed like a drain but the fella was not amused. Anyway, back to the archaeology...
"Local knowledge is needed to sail these waters" and then they manage to get the guy with the heaviest Dutch accent in all of Wales to sail the boat.
what happened to phils arm is loads of graft over the years love love to see him back what a dood trooper
RIP Mick Aston.
Why are the series videos in the playlists unavailable in the UK???
Phil should have went to Key West. What a trooper
Helen!
How come, they always find the same size artifacts? We’re is the rest of the pots?
The pic at the start. Lol looked like a well lol 😂
Nearest pub is the Portskewett Inn 4.7 rating.