Archaeologists Uncover A Massive Anglo-Saxon And Bronze Age Cemetery | Time Team | Chronicle

[@206stonner]

R.I.P. Victor R.I.P Mick you are missed

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

I need to look into that, very sad

[@kingquad6677]

The moment he pry'd up the spine & set in her palms........ Was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!....... RIP Saxon warrior dude!...... RIP

[@flamingogirl57]

I am seriously hooked on this series!! Fascinating finds.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

I look at Phil and shake my head at just how tuned into THE LOOK of a ditch he is.. One time he hears the girl say to shut things down and Phil ,looked into the hole and 30 feet away he spots some Neolithic pottery that really looks closer to a semi burnt brownie, Amazing guy under that Cornishmans hat,

[@hectorpascal]

Cornish ? !🤔

[@lizzy66125]

Somerset hat.

[@alanatolstad4824]

So much history. Wish America had a show like this.

[@smontone]

I wish America had archeology like this

[@duke7803]

@@smontone You are ignoring thousands of years of human habitation. There where many very complex and facinating civilisations in north and south America that left behind archeological traces.

[@rustybayonette6641]

@@duke7803 Mate I don't care about a couple tepees and flint arrow heads

[@acuteteacher]

Well there's lots of archaeology in western parts of USA but in the southeastern USA, most everything has rotted away due to the climate here I think. Lots of arrowheads, though. My mom said when she was a girl (ine the 1930's), she used to pick the arrowheads up and play with them a while and then throw them back down on the ground. They were common. They've been collected now so you don't see them as much if at all.

[@duke7803]

@@rustybayonette6641 Ah, you are ignorant by choice. Should have just said so then no one would have bothered trying to get you to learn something.

[@annazaman9657]

My favorite episode. I've been waiting for this one to be uploaded as it's not available on KZbin like the rest are

[@annazaman9657]

@@Steve-ou4vm 2001

[@dianaholvik2554]

Wow. Fantastic episode. I used to watch Time Team a lot. It's been a few years. Yeah, RIP, Mick. And the people who were buried there 1500+ years ago. It's amazing what we can learn from looking at sites like these. Thank you to all of you.

[@QuizVortex.1]

I'm thoroughly enjoying this video, thanks to the hardworking creator.

[@mollymcnaughton3133]

Archeology is just fascinating...👀

[@hectorpascal]

Love the way Maggie Darling looked at 2 small battered pieces of pot found separately and confidently said: "Oh come on, this is definitely the same pot... you've actually got a form 31! That's true expertise.

[@princessofthecape2078]

The Anglo-Saxons were so fascinating. In the span of about 40 years at the beginning of the 5th Century, England went from Roman rule (a standing army, domestic industry, coinage, trade, rural villas, etc.) to reverting to the Bronze Age (no coinage, no industry, almost no trade, no army, no real upper class). It was the wholesale destruction of civilization.

[@1942catman]

They mention one or more of the skeletons as being angles as apposed to Saxion how can they tell??

[@christianchristian57g.]

passionnant!

[@GodsOath_com]

Has anyone ever looked at the Conqueror's burn pattern? He burned out all villages and monasteries that didn't comply. While he was later than this site in 1066, surely his burning down the towns resulted in many evacuations of older sites when they were left uninhabitable.

[@NotChar]

I love how much beef these dudes always have with each other

[@SweetSensi1]

Tony in his Eminem phase

[@cosmicgoatlady6957]

Feels like a mass grave from battle carnage.

[@archerbyrne8103]

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in in-depth Anglo-Saxon history I hotly recommend Schwerpunkt's dedicated playlist

[@dalekundtz760]

Tony doesn't disappoint again. It amazes me that he does not realize, even though he has been out of the digs for a long time, that it is not uncommon for archiologists to send many days or longer searching and finding very little. He has always expected to find major finds with every shovel full of dirt. Mick Aston puts up with Tony where I would ask him to leave. He is nothing but a rich fool.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@dalekundtz760I'm sure this is just a bit for entertainment value. He plays the impatient in every episode.

[@seamushassard4770]

Tony is doing his job as a presenter and making it entertaining for casual viewers and newbies. Would be a rather boring show if it only catered to the initiated.

[@sixxygrrl]

​@@dalekundtz760 Tony is a Historian and author in his own right. He is also an amateur archeologist and very very real and good friends with Mick and Phil and the rest of the crew of Time Team. Tony is the Emcee/liaison/host and is bridging the gap between the Academics and the average citizen. Archeology is a sadly underrated, underrepresented and often misunderstood branch of history and science. Tony's job is to explain what's happening, keep it interesting and keep the average person interested. He does his job well. Plus he is the one who arranged a lot of the interviews with local specialists, historians, and even the local citizens too, in order to present a cohesive and interesting show.

[@MrWompz]

@@dalekundtz760I could be wrong in this assumption, but I would suspect Tony and the team do this on purpose.

[@katsuyaki7605]

It seems like there isn't a square foot of British soil without a bone or two just a little ways under the surface.

[@dianemuhs1105]

What happened to the Bronze Age mentioned in the title?

[@TheNaturalLawInstitute]

(The buried woman without goods was most likely a slave. check her knees, shoulders, and hips for wear - especially for wear from grain processing)

[@sekhmetsaes]

I wonder if the skeleton that appeared to have been thrown in the pile of rubble was perhaps killed when the building fell?

[@seanpaula8924]

Tony Bieberson is back!

[@KingDuumb]

My question is. Why after living with and alongside the Romans for hundreds of years did the Saxons go back to living in basically squaller and not living in the homes left behind?

[@gregb6469]

The Anglo-Saxons did not live alongside the Romans for hundreds of years; they only began immigrating/invading Britain at the very end of the Roman era, and who they encountered were not Romans per se, but Romanized Britons, the descendants of the Iron Age Celts who were there when Caesar first cast his covetous eye across the Channel.

[@KingDuumb]

@@gregb6469 Ok then the ones that came across must have lived under Roman rule in what is now Europe so same question.

[@gregb6469]

@@KingDuumb-- No they came from what are now the countries of Germany and Denmark, which were never part of the Roman Empire.

[@KingDuumb]

@@gregb6469 OK but they came to a land where roads were already built. Houses and cities were there. Great constructions still stood and the original Britons resided. Why did they not upkeep these things but instead went back to a lesser existence?

[@gregb6469]

@@KingDuumb-- They probably didn't know how to maintain the Roman buildings and roads, and with the language difference between them and the Britons (never mind the fact that they were waging war against the local people, and destroying those places anyway), they couldn't ask for upkeep instructions. The Anglo-Saxons had no desire to become Romans.

[@clownkidcentral]

i think its funny that one of the people wearing a necklace freaked them out so much

[@amandapittar9398]

I sometimes wonder what the folk who used to be the skeletons would make of all the fuss about the dig. They lived quiet rural lives. Hard, but they just thought it was the way life was. The people would find it incomprehensible the fuss and bother the archaeological excavation of their remains entailed. I wonder a couple of things, when do remains become archaeological and not remains, or are they always treated as human remains? Also is it possible ( £££aside) to extract DNA from the remains and are descendants living nearby, or anywhere? Can they build a profile of the person? I suppose as the technology improves and becomes cheaper, it will become a reality. I LOVE TimeTeam, I’m a huge fan. Long may it reign. 😊

[@woodyh4650]

Cool the way Brits say cemetery. "Sema-tree" or "symmetry"

[@guyplachy9688]

I'm wondering if Phil's skeleton, the "tossed in" one, was a slave. Slavery was commonplace during this period & the posibility of a young slave girl dying in childbirth or through disease should not be overlooked. As this is a rather aged episode I assume some further investigation has been carried out somewhere (although I note that there are lots of recent discoveries being made by looking at finds from 80 years ago that haven't been looked at since they were uncovered).

[@vansongs]

I wonder if the person just thrown in, was put there by someone not far behind and was the best they could do.

[@seantice]

awesome

[@Dougallism420]

@1:40 "it's their turn for the corrall?" Coincidentally (i don;t like dentists) a cow got loose near the train station today. a good laugh, city council 'rangers;' are hopeless.

[@Sk8Bettty]

I think my cats are triggered into digging in their litter by all the trowel scraping sounds they hear when I watch Time Team 😂😂

[@themercer4972]

Why always do they have just 3 days? I understand having a limited time, but 1 week (say Monday to Friday) seems more sensible.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Because a weekend doesn't have more than 3 days.

[@gregb6469]

Most all of them have Monday-to-Friday jobs, and are available to do this on weekends only.

[@reddyandre]

@@gregb6469 These people are not amateurs. I don't understand. This is their work. Isn't it?

[@gregb6469]

@@reddyandre-- Most of them are members of college faculties, and have classroom and lab responsibilities during the week.

[@reddyandre]

@@gregb6469 yeah put fieldwork is part of their job. As somebody who worked as a university researcher and educator, I made time for both field work and education and writing during my work week. There are archaeological sites that have been opened and continuously worked on for decades. This 3-day thing seems to be for the sake of an exciting TV show.

[@williamharris8367]

As for the Roman pottery being found almost everywhere, is there any evidence that soil was brought in from elsewhere, say to fill-in or level uneven ground for argiculture? There was an archeological dig in the city where I grew up that found all sorts of anomalous artifacts. The conclusion was that the site (located close to the waterline) had been filled-in at some point to raise the ground level. The soil being excavated had been brought from somewhere else and dumped there sometime after the original occupation of the site. I do not know if the investigation ever continued to the layer(s) below the added fill abd/or if the experts were able to determine which artifacts were from the original site.

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

Why is there always pottery everywhere? It isn't like we throw our cooking materials around everywhere we go and in 1000 years they're going to find all our pots, pans, bowls, and teacups everywhere more than anything else like we were a bunch of walking kitchen cabinets. I understand pottery lasts and they used it for various uses but it's like up until just recently everyone always brought ton of pottery everywhere they went and chucked it around the earth.

[@nancytimmer9026]

​@@dickJohnsonpeterpeople often just chucked cracked or damaged pottery in their rubbish pits. These pits are getting dug up or ploughed out over time and thus the contents get spread far and wide.

[@elizabethmurray5037]

This is where my migrating ancestor came from to America in 1630.

[@angelabrady9342]

I wondered about the stones in the midst of the Saxon burials of the grassy field. I can’t recall any other TT episode where there was a cairn … can anyone correct / guide me?

[@ajknaup3530]

I'd love for further explanation of how a medical event which took place when the individual was 3 y.o. could have a visible effect on the adult teeth? Perhaps I misunderstood. Lovely dig, lots of interesting stuff, TYSM!

[@JDHetzer]

As I understand it, the teeth are still developing at that age and an imbalance of minerals due to disease causes the enamel to be misformed. Similar to tree rings in years of drought, cooling, or diminished sunlight.

[@ajknaup3530]

@@JDHetzer So the adult teeth are already pretty well developed at that age, then? Thanks, I'd never really thought about that.

[@Adniram.]

​@@ajknaup3530in their defense she did say "about 3" i do see your point tho 🤷‍♀️😁

[@ajknaup3530]

@@Adniram. : perhaps the adult teeth are that large already at 3yrs. I am not a dentist, nor am I an osteoarcheologist.

[@annazaman9657]

​​​@@ajknaup3530we are all born with our permanent teeth in our jaw. They just haven't emerged. If you Google image search jaw of newborn you'll see what I mean

[@jacquiedwards160]

Perhaps the young woman found " thrown in" was a murder victim?

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Or a slave?

[@lordski1981]

Or both?

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

Special guest presenter.... Eminem!! Yayyyy

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

Wearing hard hats in a field with nothing overhead never stops being bureaucratically hilarious. 🤣

[@jeannienash5249]

31,314 watching now - Please hit that LIKE button!

[@robertagriffin28]

Most digs take three months at least. Why the rush? It's not a game show. Pay for the time it takes to do it carefully!

[@jeffmccann437]

They have the first three days of an archaeological dig to do as much as they can and then they hand it over to more permanent archaeologists at that point. They basically get first dibs because of the show.

[@tomjenkins1405]

But it would not be time team. Another show for long digs. Everyone is happy.

[@lecolintube]

Wow, thank you.

[@CapturingtheAwesome]

The body with a "male" pelvis and female jewellery may possibly be gender nonconforming or even transgender who have always existed. Quite possibly an example of Anglo-Saxon trans individual. I absolutely love this show. Have since the early days on TV.

[@kitb7624]

I was thinking the same. Maybe not much is known about the culture of the Anglo-Saxons, but these types of shows always seem to apply a modern Western lens to understanding gender

[@kingquad6677]

Not likely - don't try to feminize this grown man! Very uncool - probably just a gift from a loved one. He was a stong Saxon warrior - doubt seriously he was a gender bender.. Why wouldn't they just take 5min & put a dress or skirt on him? Unbelievable.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Amber, then as now only comes from the Baltic Sea coastal areas of Pomerania. Up until 1945 it was the German coast of East Prussia around Koenigsberg and Danzig that changed hands and became part of post-war Poland. Thanks to Uncle Joe Stalin!

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

Let them rest in peace

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

Season 8 Episode 1, I suppose?

[@EilishAdeline]

They would be so terribly bored in the USA. Lol. We don't have anything like this. So many Native American cemeteries were respectfully marked or in mounds. Easy to locate.

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I'm sure there are many thousands of Native Americans who were not buried in mounds or identified graveyards. If there wasn't metal objects buried with them, the graves aren't usually found unless accidentally dug up. Humans have been here in the US for at least 15,000 years, so I'm sure there were many different ways of taking care of their dead.

[@HimWitDaHair98]

I never knew Tony Robinson went through a Slim Shady phase 😂

[@hectorpascal]

Don't forget that in between hosting TimeTeam episodes, he was also earning his living as a REAL actor! The various different hair/beard styles were usually for roles he was playing.

[@SittingDuc]

S08E01

[@isabellelantigny2116]

Antiochus is not in today Syria but in Turkey, in a forbidden area

[@jega157]

Archeologist or grave robber? Oh wait.... one in the same.

[@nancytimmer9026]

There's always one...😑

[@randomvintagefilm273]

Modern day grave robbers, digging up our ancestor's sacred burial grounds.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Better than being left and plowed to buggery.

[@gregb6469]

Get a life!

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

Seriously? Maybe you can sacrifice a goat for them and call it even.

[@edge7387]

Grave robbers

[@dann5268]

Dramatic aren't you

[@kristi.s9922]

Ignorant thing.