The Roman Town Durobrivae | FULL EPISODE | Time Team
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2020
- The Team face one of their strangest challenges ever: digging through a church graveyard in search of what could be one of the largest Roman structures ever built in Britain.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Castor near Peterborough was right next to the important Roman Town of Durobrivae! Check out the Time Team discovering all of Castor's buried treasures…
Series 18, Episode 6.
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This was possibly the last full episode I sat down to watch with my late father, we both loved this program, and being so local to us, this episode was extra special!
Stewart was my favorite and I loved this episode. He had exceptional skills and I think his contributions were often downplayed. His costume brought his personality alive. And, as always, Matt's character performance was perfection.
Absolutely... but poor Matt! 😂❤
I never get tired of this program. I’ve learnt a lot, been entertained and the cast really make it. In my opinion they are the best in their field and do very well the whole television presentation thing as well. It’s also well edited and researched. I do miss Mick and his colourful clothes but he lives on through this series. ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
I LOVE this episode. I am related by marriage or descent to at least 30% of the bodies (20,000, did someone say?) in the graveyard here, and could quite clearly see my gt grand parents' (and other relations') gravestones several times. I've walked and photographed this cemetery and the church itself on a number of occasions, and can't wait to go back.
Jean Wyldbore --- If you go by the scientific study from 2013, in which geneticists Peter Ralph and Graham Coop showed that all Europeans are descended from exactly the same people. Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, Drogo, Pippin and Hugh. So depending on number of bodies and the dating (even if the bodies were buried after the 9th century) everyone in the UK is related to these people...
So I'm definitely related very distantly, to a lot of my school mates! Lived amongst others descending of European immigrants. Basically a bunch of Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Greek, etc.
@@Liofa73 How can you say such a thing when so many people now in the UK immigrated during the last couple of centuries only? Think of all the citizens of Indian or African or Jewish descend! Raksha, for example, might be descendant from a Gupta princess or a court scientist of the Karkota Empire, but certainly not from some barbaric Anglo Saxons.
@@danyelnicholas You misread @Liofa - "...that all Europeans are descended"... And the "everyone in the UK" is clearly included only the Europeans, as all others are still a minority.
@@nicolejosan6364 I am a bloody European myself and I am not descendent from any of those cretinous villains.
I've been watching through a ton of Episodes the last few days, and I'm delighted to see that Edmund Artis's work has been used in a few earlier episodes too - he really is remarkably consistent for his time period!
23:50 “...your long suffering servant, a part with which I empathize.” Nicely played, Baldrick, nicely played! ❤️
I spent my childhood fishing for pike and chub in Castor Backwaters a few hundred meters from the village. I had no idea it was such an important Roman site.
Time Team: Keeping me entertained and educated for over 20 years... Tony... you are nothing short of amazing... thank you for just being you. Also Phil... boy do i want to drink some beers with you! you're the best!
No one likes an asskisser.
@@evanroberts2771 It's called being complimentary. You might try it once and a while, it usually results in people being nicer to you, and you don't come off like a complete douche bag like you did here.
Evan Roberts And no one likes an asshole...
That’s Sir Tony Robinson now. (Yes, he’s been knighted.)
As long as Phil’s there too. Can’t have a pint without ‘em.
Thank you so much for the upload. It is so rare for me to come across a previously unseen episode. Again, thank you.
what a wonderful episode,i think Stuart illustrating that there is some element in it all that is beyond science, the intuition and some sort of artist skill matters, I love that.
I love episodes of Time Team that feature Mick and Stewart, for me they are kindred spirits that work so well together, both having so much knowledge and both gentlemen with a capital 'G'.
I don’t disagree, but it’s a silly distinction to make, since the overwhelming majority of episodes feature these two.
I do humbly apologize, please forgive me for being so very silly. @@jrk4893
@@jrk4893 Do pardon me if i'm not rude in return.........
"Everyone likes something to be pretty and functional... like my hat!" I love that line. I miss Time Team.. (but not anymore)
I'm so glad it wasn't Phil who made that comment!
Time Team is returned. Kind of... Just search for Time Team 2022
"Forget that, this is reality" I love Phil.
That is a very old fashioned thing to say, 50 years ago it would be OK to say this this kind of thing, but these days when planning a dig Geophys is highly valued tool. Only a very stupid person, with a hatred of all things new would say it in this day and age.
@@nevillemignot1681What the hell are you talking about??? Lols
I think your post and the way you talk to others is a really good example of what i was talking about.....@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
I just returned home to Australia from Peterborough & the South of England. Absolutely loved the history and buildings, Stonehenge ect. Can't wait to go back and visit the northern part.
I have never been out of Australia, I would so love to go somewhere and see something very old, as we don't have anything like that here.
A wonderful episode! I love the conclusion of it on several levels. The one thing I miss, perhaps, is a view of what that huge building looked like in the landscape from afar, from ground level (as it was seen by the people). It must have been an awe inspiring and imposing sight, and very visible.
Truely wonderful stuff. I used to love visiting all the old Roman places back in 1980-1982 when we were over there.
Facinating history. Cheers for sharing.
19:37 I reallly love this background music!! So mysterious
26:37 Phil's face! XD
Time team , digging in England : We found some Saxon pottery on top of the Roman foundations, some Roman pottery and coins.
Me , digging in Illinois : I found an arrowhead. ..
@Brisdad53 Nasty
I love the show ! Been watching can't get enough.
I don't seem t ok binge watch too much, but real CSI of time team I make an exception.
Please bring the show back! 😢
23:57 A sneaky little blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference, Tony.... ;)
Original theme at the end, nice touch. Thank you for uploading
Amazing and wonderful.
Love this series!
I find Time Team fascinating, not only for the things they unearth, but also for the fact that from a few rocks in a trench they can insinuate an enormous building of which they have virtually no LINKING evidence. It is extremely frustrating that they cannot finish what they started, only having three days to do anything, in spite of the weather! The other thing that amazes me is that throughout the land they can dig and find artifacts ranging from Stone Age through several thousands of years of civilization; whereas here in Australia, Aboriginal stone artifacts could be 100 years old or 10000+ years and since they all look the same there is generally no way of dating them. Last point is that I am amazed by the amount of soil cover over most sites, and how a featureless field can hide an entire roman town, for example.
Keep in mind that they actually published all but a couple of their digs and could be doing followup work for up to 2 weeks or so with some of their sites. At the very least, almost every single site got more than 3 days of work all things considered. So while you do not get grand season long excavations of a single villa or whatnot, they did finish what they started 90something percent of the time. Which really makes it all the more impressive when you look at what, 150 published digs over 20 years.
New favorite show to watch!!
*Reijer Zaaijer* and *Fillask* have posted many more episodes but not in such good quality.
This spot is really interesting to navigate on Google Maps street view, The Church of St. Kyneburgha. It's cool to be able to "look around" at it now, even while I am at home in the US!!
OMG WHY AM I SO ADDICTED TO THIS SHOW?!?!?
Where do I find the whole set??
On You Tube
I think they may have them on the channel4 website. But you should find most here on RUclips
They say, what I have thought many times....
Little do we know, where we walk and on what we walk!
I love this show!
Thank you
Never seen this episode - thanks!
I have been trying to find all the episodes but it isn’t on any video service- I hope this channel has them all on it. This is a good show.
Love it!
The only thing which frustrates me about these digs is the time limit.... they discover enormous amounts of archeology, manage to get some conclusions, then go away, but there must be so much more to uncover. Do they handover the dig to another team, or do they just fill it all back in and leave it to a nebulous future?
See this page for an explanation of what happens immediately after a Time Team dig:
www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/time-team
If you are interested in finding out what happened at a site in the years afterwards, a google search of the place name, "Time team", and any key discoveries (such as "Roman villa") will often reveal a website with follow up investigations by other groups.
They don't "hand" the dig over, but many digs are continued by other groups of archeologists. That was revealed in one of the newer interviews with one of the team members.
The time limit of three days is what makes this show for me, it forces the powers that be be to seek answers that need to made within that time, if they can't it does force them to try, and at times it does lead to some quite interesting race's against time.
I'm told by an archaeologist I know, that 3 days is the standard investigative dig time. That gives them time to have a quick investigation to see if there are enough artefacts to warrant a full investigation and dig. Time team come in usually at the request of an archaeological group, who know there's *something* there, and typically keep going after TT leave.
"Six meters sixty? I'm getting into an eighteenth-century mindset."
This was a fantastic episode. Stewart dressed up looked great. The finds were so good too. The wall chunks were the first clue, massive. The finds that came out told an amazing story. If you piece it together, you have 200Ad small occupation, which grew towards the 300Ad. Between the 3rd and 4th Century The Pretorioum was built........ with continued occupational finds for another 6 to 7 hundred years. Trully amazing. That mosaic floor, although not as coloured as others we have seen, was so well constructed. That initself shows that a floor, 1700 hundred years old is still solid in the ground like that had to be from a very substantial building. Incredible History......
Thank you.
Liked the blackadder reference
Stewart's hat omg I laughed so hard
Wow, that would have been quite the building in its day.
Nice !
MORE MORE MORE!
Nice Blackadder reference!
Any possible exploration of Calehill in Little Chart, Kent??!! :)
The Master Metric; the Chain Man , Imperial!
A recipe for confusion!
More so, as surveyors used miles, furlongs, chains & rods for length based around the length of a rod [which was very close to 5 metres, and predated feet & inches].
4 rods to a chain, 40 rods to a furlong, 40 x 4 rods = an acre = a day's ploughing;
ironically very close to metric lengths.
Meanwhile, there's breaking news from the graveyard.....
The Guy went on tv and TT wearing a batman t-shirt
Episode 230 (Season 18, Episode 6): Under the Gravestones, Aired: March 13, 2011
I always look for your comment. Thanks for posting the information on the episode
Looks like the front of the Greenbrier Hotel in W.Va.
Thanks for posting this, great show.
What season/episode is this? I can't find this title listed anywhere...
S18 E6 "Under the gravestones"
@@zarabada6125 Great, thanks. :)
The season and episode is the first thing mentioned in the video description. /js
@@ginkarasu It is now. That was the first place I checked when I saw this comment and it wasn't there at the time.
If Artis excavated but then left the trench open, or if the locals knew where it was, it seems likely that the walls were robbed out shortly after his discovery. Already-cut stone was a desirable commodity.
A praetorium is like a combination governor's palace and military stronghold. We can think of it like the Roman version of a castle.
Ahh nice one always thought what that was 👍
Love the women archeologists on Time Team
I like the clergyman edition, it is neat he brought some light to one of their mysteries, wonder how he deals with his contradictions, reminds me of the priest Dougal changes in Father Ted.
I wish they wouldnt have distracted the team with that rare day two dig site. Otherwise great episode. I would have been like: if we cant get three days. we will be digging else where.
This is my favorite program but these ads literally every 2 n a half minutes are killing me
What's the episode where Phil says, "Where I go my shovel goes Tony."?
I don't remember the season and episode number but it's the one where they're digging a Roman villa on a railroad and their equipment truck gets jacked.
@@Libbathegreat I recently found it, season 8, episode 9. "The Inter-City Villa".
I've run (and thrown) 66' chains!
they should show a computer model of how a roman bath house worked, and what it looked like when in use. I would like to see that.
The program has been off air for 6 years you’ll have to use your imagination
@@sleepysartorialist did not know that. Oh well.
It was on channel 4 I have not watched the channel since they cancelled time team.
I'm envious . Australia's only a couple hundred years old and it's history is way different . But to dig and find such amazing things . Bugger !
Australia has 60,000yrs of history. I dont think you have anything to complain about
@@christianbuczko1481 Who's complaining ?
@@whitemanriding you did say you were abit envious. Personally id like to see some of that, most of euro history has forgotten or been lost from then, and australia still had a culture which barely changed. I think the best way we can learn about the earliest humans thoughts is to ask them. You could do that down there.
@@christianbuczko1481 I'm not saying we don't have a history , there's nothing to dig up except dinosaurs.
@@whitemanriding its not often wed get the opportunty to actually dig a site like this either. But id highly recommend you visiting britain if you get the chance, as we have sites like vindilanda and housesteads fort, both are exceptional as well as stonehenge ect. Id love to visit down under but the heat would kill me even if the local wildlife didnt.
how did it get so far down in the ground
Pretty and Functional. Like my hat! LOL
I bet Sir Tony never imagined one day he'd become a student of archeology
As far as I know his interest in archeology was what got him on the show in the first place
Probably never imagined he'd be "sir Tony" either.
RIP!
Where is the mosaic?
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matt, im looking for a private chainman! 😊
everyone, '' I love this episode absolutely amazing,'' me, '' Bones!!!''
tony has fabolous shirts every time u shuold merch out something like them for patreons or something, with tonymatopoeias on it like SlapBang! or Swank!
Interesting...the number of Roman roads that aren't roads today. In the USA many old trails eventually became major highways.
But why do they constantly go back and forth between the artist rendering being completely full of crap and trying to validate or use the information?
I can think of three reasons:
Firstly, the original explorer was not a very good amateur surveyor, so the distances and alignments on his charts are wrong.
Secondly, he did not fill his excavations in himself after drawing them, so others came along and removed the stone for their own purposes before farmers and gardeners made the land useable.
Thirdly, as was said on the programme, he used artistic licence to fill in floors and walls that were not intact when he dug them out: which Time Team itself does in its computer graphics.
Tony Robinson calling someone else a long suffering servant..........lol
Series 18 episode 6.
of course Stuart mean 32.8 links since there were no metres in that time period in England.
I’m kind of shocked at how casually they have treated those human remains and skulls. Pottery shards seem to have been given more importance and respect. I love this show I have watched dozens of these but this is the first time that human remains were secondary and in the way of the floor they were looking for.
The church sanctioned the dig. The remains are within consecrated grounds.
Not a casual treatment at all. In fact it would have been a lot easier if they could have treated them casually.
Note how they leave the bones where they lie wherever possible and dig around them, even when it is not convenient to do so.
They can't take the bones for carbon dating in a laboratory, so finding artifacts like pottery are the only ways to provide dating evidence.
The remains were treated much more respecfully than the way they were treated in the past. Did you not LISTEN to what they were saying?
OK, maybe not physically “treated” but “regarded”.
@@gkess7106 what do you expect them to do?
There was one great Roman building on the site and was completely destroyed after the Roman’s left? They couldn’t find a use for it and created arable land instead?
Before modernity people were great recyclers. Nothing went to waste. The building or buildings in question were probably already in a state of disrepair and dereliction - ruins basically - and no one had any use for them anyway other than for what masonry remained to be salvaged and reused in other buildings
The early Germanic settlers built in wood and cob, and so there would have been few people with the skills to maintain and repair brick and stone buildings.
They seem to have avoided the derelict Roman towns: there's an early Anglo-Saxon poem which calls them "the abode of giants."
When they eventually started to build with other materials, the Roman ruins would have been useful for foundations. Old churches, like the one here, may have Roman stones dotted randomly about the walls.
Could you imagine if someone dug up a roman era wall in america? I mean yes very bery unlikely anyone settled large strutures in america back then, but god damn that'd be cool. I just wish i coulda seen america through lewis and clarks eyes. Completely untouched nature. Millions of acres of natural land. Yes there are still areas that look the same but the midwest is ALL farms now. No grass lands still around. Kinda scary the amount if land we have molested just to feed the wayyy to many 8billion humans.... To see the great plains meet the bluffs with no humans must have been awe inspiring.
I love archeology and like to see artifacts coming out of the ground if they solve an enygma or are the missing link everybody looks for. But what do you gather only shards of broken pots.
A bit of a pity that unwanted background music is added when Tony is explaining things...
My favourites in this series is the rosy cheeked cute Helen, Stewart, Phil, Mick, John, (young) Matt, Raksha, Jackie, (sexy) Faye and Carenza, Tony (and a few others), and these original old series are far better than the modern version with mostly unknown people in it , to tick some boxes, so rarely watch them...
all those people you mentioned were unknown till people got to know them.
Of course the modern version has different production quality - its no longer on TV budget$
They had to evolve or die, or there wouldn't be anymore time team
The original series evolved into its heyday and when it ended they could have just hung up the trowels, but they decided to keep the drive forward to learn about our past - and IMHO thats a good thing
now their only future is crowdfunding and public opinion.....
@@man.inblack
These remakes never seem to work, such as this show, and the commentator has a dreary voices with not a lot of animation in it, and should probably stick to reading bedtime stories to young kids. The same thing happened to the remake of Dad's Army, Top Gear, and a few more shows. People get used to seeing the same characters in these shows, and get used to the people over the years, then it stops, and a new cast (mostly) get hired with many new characters hardly anyone knows about, and like me, quit watching as it is pretty boring now, and I don't think it will run for enough years for an audience to get used to them. I do watch TT, but only the original the original cast.
@@Trillock-hy1cf that sounds like a “you” problem.
Too fussy for the world without TV budgets?
Can’t abide grassroots efforts?
With that sort of attitude you will forever be on the road of diminishing returns as productions cope with real world issues.
Change is inevitable- not coping with it is a disadvantage
@@man.inblack
Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah....
@@Trillock-hy1cf an appropriate response for a poorly conceived opinion.
Come and dig in Australia. English 18th century then Stone Age Stone Age Stone Age Stone Age Stone Age
somebody get phil some nail clippers.....
@basil fawlty he doesn't even need a trowel
He plays acoustic guitar as a hobby without a plectrum. If you look more carefully the nails on the fingers of his other hand are much shorter.
Nice program, too bad it’s interrupted every five minutes by ads
Great episode but adverts every 2 or 3 minutes spoils it.
Stewart looks smashing in the period clothing. I think we should pay him to dress like that every day.
Also Helen is correct, people do like things to be pretty as well as functional... like her lovely hat 😂
As much as i like phil, his fingernails drive me mad
it seems that the had the nails grow larger only on his right hand, which could mean that he may have been a guitar player
@@derzemel youre right. I just googled him and he indeed plays the guitar. But still... i get the chills looking at them
jonasandstuff Poor dear.
jonasandstuff , try hard not to look at his fingernails then. Pay more attention to his experience, expertise and overall character.
@@johnmoss6631 dont get me wrong john. I think hes briliant. I love phil, his expertice and his personality
I think it is a bit too many adverts. For this (short) 46 minute program, it's 8 of them. I do understand that the money is needed but when you consider that 6 of the adverts make the program skip between 10 seconds and 2 minutes afterwards it's sort of irritating.
And it's not just this program, the others show the same pattern. The Time Team videos are the only ones that I have encountered that skips parts of the video after an advert.
Ads are inserted by RUclips not the original program makers.
@@jameswebb4593 yes but you think that the owner of the channel would have some say about it.
wether its old TV formats or new online platforms, program producers have always had to work to guildelines set by government or corporate legal stipulations.
there are rules to how many seconds per minute they get to hijack your attention
its how you 'pay' for your access to the content
Jesus did not go to church he went to Temple. Jesus was Jewish not christian.
he arguably became the first 'christian' and his temples were churches, so from that perspective its fine.
its all said in past tense and heresay anyway so no biggie
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The wonderful thing about pseudo-scientific archeologists is that they can endorse all sorts of fanciful theories, but when they're proven wrong, no one really gets hurt. Entertaining nonsense. EDIT: I apologize to all the anonymous YT children commenting below who didn't realize that there's no Santa Claus, or that Time Team was a "reality" TV show masquerading as scientific inquiry.
Imagine thinking ANY archaeology was any better. Next you'll tell me Psychology is science. HAHAHA
Who are you labelling 'pseudo-scientific archaeologists', Patrick?
I'd be interested to know who these "pseudo-scientific archaeologists" you refer to actually are in this particular context. Please tell us more, because your insight must be amazingly valuable and it would be criminal not to share it with the rest of us..
what are you even talking about? or rather, who? conjecture is necessary when trying to work out archaeology.
..can you also pee on my corn flakes tomorrow? I am an archaeologist yet I don't come here to crap on the show
You can tell why Tony and Mick are sitting there watching Tracy. She's got her shirt halfway unbuttoned, far enough to tell she's not wearing a bra. So, They're watching what Tracy is 'revealing' in her trench.
You and Giovanni, eh?
@@philroberts7238 Well, generally Time Team has put a bit of flesh on show for the boys, the audience that is. But watching Tony and Mick, with chairs to boot, was hilarious :) They'd obviously been watching for a while.