Birthplace of the Confessor (Islip, Oxfordshire) | Series 13 Episode 10 | Time Team

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The team are in Islip, searching for the remains of a medieval chapel linked to Edward the Confessor.
Series 13, Episode 10
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[@steveo5138]

There used to be a notorious pub in Stevenage called, Edward the Confessor, but it was better known by locals as "Ted the Grass."

[@backblaise1255]

That made me laugh quite loudly.

[@JimBob-lz1gy]

👏👏👏

[@jamesgriffin3866]

😂

[@anthonyshephard6073]

!!!😅😅😅

[@klarahvar746]

Oh that adorable dog, he's like "This is my yard and only I dig here!"

[@TdotTwiFic]

Phil's reactions throughout this episode was hilarious and made me laugh out loud often. Classic episode for a Canadian who only recently found out about this type of show and has watched many episodes and has found a soft spot in her heart for all these wonderfully sarcastic serious people.

[@jeffbishop6043]

Same, addicted!

[@Ghostvertigo]

Another Canadian same story wish we did more archaeology here in Canada I'm in nova Scotia tons of shipwrecks and stuff Just rotting away, the stuff in the sea will literally degrade because of the environment, or the fortress of Louisbourg which is huge but, could have alot more done!

[@jaypeters5224]

Same. I can't believe I've never seen this series. As a Canadian with Saxon bloodlines, this show is fascinating to me.

[@mick7even]

Who wears jort jorts? Phil wears jort jorts! Love him and the team

[@Laura-ys7bx]

@@Ghostvertigo What do you think about the hunt for gold on Oak Island? Would it fit into the category of archaeology?

[@townview5322]

Baldric has come a long way since his own medieval days. I love Victor's artwork. So many people, so knowledgeable, so enthusiastic. This is true reality TV.

[@bobleicht5295]

RIP, Victor.

[@earlatkins9559]

Phil!, You're diggin' in the wrong garden! Love the expression of Phil's face when tony tells him that.

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

A choice look for Stewart, too.

[@topmog]

That live reading by Dr Sam Newton at 22:15 was pretty impressive.

[@8888movietime]

Especially as he was reading it upside down!

[@549RR]

10:01 watching Victor sketching is breathtaking. How effortless he made it seem!

[@katecalhoun1104]

For my birthday, I got some of the books that have his drawings in it, and I can’t stop looking at them!

[@MossyMozart]

@549RR - I know - the man makes a small pencil mark that doesn't look like much, but it can bring the whole picture into focus. He was extremely talented.

[@mothmagic1]

I had the good fortune to grow up in this beautiful village. It also had a Rom Camp on top of the hill alongside the rad to Stanton Saint John. The old Rectory also has links to the civil war so the village has quite a lot of history worth investigating. The possibility that Edward was actually born in a hunter's lodge rather than a palace in which case it may have been somewhere else entirely. There is a field which is bounded on three sides by the wall of Manor Farm garden, a road and the brook. Because of the construction it would have long since rotted away especially as the field floods every winter. I'm referring to the field they begin digging on the afternoon of day 2 or the field to the south of it where the road curves round it. There is a picture of Edward on the north wall of the church under which is the wording of his gifting the place of his birth to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. In those days Brill would probably have been a day's travel especially for a pregnant woman. Very apt that the moated manor house was in that field as the farm next door is manor farm

[@4Usuality]

Of the 250+ episodes of Time Team that exist (so far) I've probably seen 200 at LEAST, and many of those multiple times since I discovered the show at the start of COVID-19 lockdowns, I love every episode, the cast, and what they find. Whether that is a Roman villa, a long wing of Westminster Abbey, or almost nothing at all! It's always a joy, keep up releasing these :)

[@dot2562]

Loads .more on channel 4 on demand

[@larocca3]

I love Anglo Saxon history and I love Time Team. Thank you.

[@asdreww]

Love this show. Nice thing about a show digging up history is that it doesn't really date, as the subject matter doesn't change :D

[@AmyFutch]

🤣🤣🤣 that dog!! We have a springer and he is exactly like that.

[@Adam-Gates-Mudlark]

FANTASTIC episode as usual!! Victor will always be missed by his beautiful drawings. From the Kent Mudlark

[@Merylstreep1949]

The historian with the sunglasses is totally Zaphrod Beeblebrox from the original TV version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 😆

[@captainhornswoggle]

There aren't many things heavier than a dog who doesn't want too be picked up.

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

A drunk passed out human 🍻😉

[@willowscarclan]

! This made it into my Quotables book, Charlotte Fulford, with due credit.

[@Libbathegreat]

It's like they magically create a gravity well wherever they sleep 😂

[@jjuniper721]

I'm obsessed.... since a week ( of which I was sick mostly) I've watch this all day, while crocheting. Nothing else has kept me so bound. Its so exciting.🥰🥰🥰

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

Oh well of course there is no way to replace Mick, Helen, Phil, Tony, Steward and all the others, it's impossible, but I'm sure there are still some quirky and likable Archeologists around to make an proper continuation - I would so like to see that TV Format to be taken up here in Austria, it's just good educational TV.

[@Awitsaduck]

Helen and Stewart don't need replacing as they are part of the new team!

[@erin2535]

Austrian archaeology would be fascinating I bet

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

@@erin2535 It would be a personal dream of mine to see Austria as archeologicaly covered as Britain, or better put as covered by documentaries like time team, we're really thin on the ground with that

[@erin2535]

@@ErnestoBrausewind Really? Great dream, sounds AMAZING. Why don't you list some heritage places here in the comments, I'd be interested - LoL a bit of dreaming never did anyone any harm. Time Team needs an Austrian season, or its own spin-off 😂😍🥳

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

@@erin2535 Hmm, from the top of my head there would be Hallstatt of course, a place of salt mining over millennia and naming a whole early period of continental celtic culture - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture - the Roman period with Carnuntum as capital of a roman province, and base of Marcus Aurelius - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnuntum - the neolithic and bronze age pile dwellings on the alpine lakes. the migration period - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period - the paleolithic stuff like the Venus of Willendorf - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf - the Battle of the Marchfeld, one of the biggest Knight Battles and foundation of the rise of the house of Habsburg - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_on_the_Marchfeld - the sieges of Vienna, there's a lot going on when you're slap bang in the middle of a continent :)

[@mymasmith7848]

I have to admit, whenever they mentioned the pub car park, I thought "well, it won't be the first historical thing found in a car park."

[@MossyMozart]

@Myma Smith - The separation of the Englishes - In the USA, what they dug in would be a "parking lot" while oftentimes, a "car park" or "parking garage" is a multi-story building with ramps where many more cars can park than otherwise on the same square foot lot.

[@allysmith2284]

Like Richard the 3rd!

[@casperbetz1949]

It would have been the first, because the remains of Richard III were found six years after this episode was filmed.

[@archangel807]

Tony is so easy to understand...his diction is perfect...loud enough too.

[@marypasco2213]

He is a Shakespearian actor by trade. Hence, the diction and projection. An amateur archeologist as a hobby.

[@PeaceLoveHonor]

Mary Pasco is correct. You can see him in Blackadder, doing comedy. 😊 Sadly, we list him to cancer some years back.

[@jeeleal5084]

@@RamonaAnne was going to say same thing about Tony, only know this as I know him personally

[@GordonjSmith1]

I think that the suggestion by Helen that Edward's mother may have been travelling with her husband (on a hunting trip?) and went into labour unexpectedly provided a new perspective for me. It also perhaps suggests that we need to be careful as to how we re-interpret history with contemporary lenses. Oddly for a dig that had many 'misses', I felt that it delivered rather a lot of insight!

[@lenabreijer1311]

This is true even these days. Neither of my children or my sister's were born on the day the doctors said the would be. One was 2 weeks late and the others were up to 2 weeks early

[@emilymcfadden4360]

Love this Bunch. I miss them!

[@jackkuppens8582]

Yes another epic show so unbelievably happy we are still able to see all this fantastic work Thanks so much for coming back and continuing your marvelous program and proud to be a Patreon of Time team :):):) Please keep going.

[@jeeleal5084]

Mick has been dead for like 10-15 or so years, so not really a continuation of a fantastic series

[@DavidWhitley]

@@jeeleal5084 thats actually quite a hurtful comment, Mick is gone, yes and nobody will forget him, that doesnt mean timeteam cant continue or is rubbish

[@123fishpond]

Instead of "like" 10 or 15 years it would better to say about it around . Like is the wrong word to use.

[@tamaracarter1836]

Loved this. The village was absolutely beautiful also.

[@p.martin974]

Phil is possibly the happiest man I have ever seen…love it!!

[@matt_cummins28]

What an absolutely brilliant episode. Fantastic to see the way that archeology actually works. I didn't think it was disappointing at all, Tony. Mind you, I don't live in Islip. Fantastic stuff. Raksha - Queen of the Dig!! Thanks ever so much for uploading. Everyone was on great form in this one (you always are, of course!!).

[@silva7493]

This is a really good one! I love the guy who can read the old English from the ancient book.😲

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Jonathan Foyle, Architectural Historian,* is my favorite of those that were part of various Time Teams. Each were most worthy, but Jonathan seemed to have an extra speak of energy and insight, as he was quite valuable in several episodes he participated in, with successes. Beth (Sociology, Journalism, and *History* degrees) Tennessee, USA

[@nbk9372]

Love that Springer's protest; no no no' you're not going to dig up my snack bones! It took me five years to build up my supplies'!!!

[@craemac]

So glad Tony immediately clarified at the start of the video that the visible chapel wasn't the chapel they were looking for...

[@jimfrodsham7938]

We lived in Ambrodsden about two miles from Islip when I was stationed in Bicester in the mid '80. I have drank in the Red Lion. I had no idea of it's history of course. I wish I had.

[@adriaank75]

New episode for me. Loved every second of it! Thanks for posting :)

[@rainy5053]

I love this show with all my heart ❤️

[@deborahschroeder763]

Great episode as usual Time Team such a treat to watch your videos. Thank you!!!

[@belendemaria1989]

Very interesting! A pleasure to rewatch this episode.

[@martinmarsola6477]

A fantastic video. Very revealing. Thank you for your labours. Cheers to all. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

[@ZeroAnalogy]

6:05 ... "No resistance from Geophys." That was funny, Tony. I wonder if that was an ad lib or later scripted.

[@kathmorris6011]

I don’t think it matters. What does matter is that SOMEONE did think about it!!!!🤗

[@bethbartlett5692]

He's pretty quick witted, so ...

[@RedneckForge]

I love the show I can't get enough of it got to which as much as I can.

[@juspapa718]

Love it. best “small” find: urinal. Best “big” find: loo. As Tony would say, “Brilliant.” As usual tis the story that makes TT so fabulous. Thanx

[@rosa733]

Sir Tony was an outstanding presenter.

[@jeeleal5084]

Was??? Don't you mean Tony Robinson is an outstanding presenter, he isn't dead yet lol

[@rosa733]

He is not the presenter now but he WAS originally. Death is not the only explanation in this case.

[@MossyMozart]

@Rosa - Some of us watch "Time Team" in SPITE of Tony being in it.

[@callumbyrne3692]

Again I love this historian in this episode.

[@veldawells2839]

Excitingly undulating. Yes, we have it. No, we don't. Yes, we might have found it. No, we don't. The commitment of the Time Team crew is a credit to archaeology. Thoroughly tense at times. Loved the history from the books at Westminster about Edward The Confessor. So, tantalisingly close. Absolutely captivating. ❤

[@soniahamilton9914]

Excellent show as par usual!!!❣️

[@jaded_gerManic]

Lol. Love the Time Team! Blessings all around 🎶

[@deltadom33]

I am going to miss tony and Phil from the new episodes and his scepticism 🤔

[@sabinehendriks8069]

Why is it that they are not in the new episodes?. Is that their own choice? It is what the program made it so special with Phil and Tony.

[@MontyCantsin5]

@@sabinehendriks8069: Yes, it's most definitely their own choice. Phil simply doesn't do as much digging on archaeological sites any more due to his age and Tony has said in interviews that he'd like people younger than him to take on the role of presenter for the new episodes.

[@S_Evenwar]

@@sabinehendriks8069 in later episodes you can see that phil is having some issues with his back and knees. Digging over the years just wears on the body.

[@pierson974]

Is anybody from the old team going to be involved?

[@filmbuffo5616]

Yes,several of the people from the old series are involved.

[@ancient_history]

Loved this episode and how it came to the - correct - conclusion that royalty need not to be born in a castle. It could just be a shed :)

[@ancient_history]

@Celto Loco Well, castle, palace, mansion. Larger royal building. Whatever. Being built in wood, is not the same as being a shed. ;)

[@MickCampin-jp9kb]

Good old Phil. He's so much into flint and antiquities

[@OnGod1007]

I love this show so much

[@cklg88]

Nice to see you all.

[@alfhilda]

I just love the banter in this episode 😄

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

As always well worth the watch.

[@MossyMozart]

Those poor Islipians....you could see how disappointed they were, but at the same time, trying to be polite about it. 8^(

[@jeffmartin540]

I just watched this episode yesterday on Odyssey. Great episode

[@Gilren1]

Interesting as always. Thank you!

[@ZeroAnalogy]

23:30 ... "could they be slipping in a few things that weren't quite true?" about Edward being born at Islip.

[@atlantic_love]

It may be of interest to done here that in the video game Elden Ring you can play as a "confessor".

[@MB-zy4cm]

I grew up watching the se!! Sunday evening viewing!! Sir Tonys voice is Time Team for me!!

[@debbralehrman5957]

I did start to wonder if his Mother had the baby when the baby said it is time not when the court Doctors said it was time.

[@madcowusa4277]

What a gorgeous family! 13:17 I hope they're doing well.

[@malcolmformosa1772]

I'm watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@janesalisbury3686]

Mmmm, a country so much past it morphs into myth, but wherever you dig something turns up even if it is only Victorian. It's all HISTORY after all. Fab, thanks.

[@wiganowl05]

Great episode... You even get a Pet Shop Boy.

[@borderreiver3288]

RIP MICK....YOU WILL BE SADLY MISSED......

[@morganstrom8584]

Mick Aston's fashion is the real star of the show

[@jodyshepard9482]

Dig, dig, dig! It's not all gold coins and mosaic tiles. I'm exhausted just watching (from the western US). Bless them all.

[@brianpoffley1771]

Hi , locked down and loving your adventures. Is Bridget a kiwi girl, I see her wearing a tiki in the looking for a fort episode.

Excellen Episode :)

[@caittails]

Oh my god, that image of Edward in the tapestry. 😂 He looks like his courtiers just pulled a prank and he’s like “Ahhh, you silly guys really got me!”

[@catherinekauffman7066]

I would like to know who comes back and restores the gardens that Time Team has dug up?

[@freeholdtacticalmed]

Stewart is awesome…

[@MossyMozart]

@Paul Schonbrun - He's an architectural landscape genius.

[@paulmendolia8483]

The reason why I lovecthe I Brittish. Any of them could be on stage and just read anything and they would sound like shakesperian stage actors. In a good way0 especially Phil.

[@TimeTeamOfficial]

Watch the official episode commentary with Dr Sam Newton here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGO5qI16nbyop5o

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

A nice Village populated by the nicest people in all of England.

[@anthonytindle5758]

dog:your not digging in my garden, the bone that I'm hiding is here. go dig next doors garden up not my garden sod off with your cameras.

[@robynw6307]

Between glass urinals and degraded faeces, this dig is quickly going down the toilet. :)

[@RobKoelman]

1:43 Elvis lives! (Made this remark earlier on the 'Odyssey-version' too)

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

Are there any fellow CGP Grey fans who started worrying when Thomas Hearne was cited at their only source, considered the number of errors Alexander Pope caught him making?

[@BinkyTheElf1]

What is a “confessor” in saintly and honorific terms? “In ecclesiastical history, one often finds the word confessor to signify martyr . This name was subsequently given to those who, after having been tormented by tyrants, lived and died in peace. Finally, confessors came to mean those who, after having led good lives, were regarded as saints at their death.” Saint Edward the Confessor was regarded as confessing in his life in the last sense above.

[@stuartnewman6968]

I remember Sam the historian on "most haunted" also always enthusiastic

[@unclerojelio6320]

Helen!

[@ZeroAnalogy]

Geake!

[@markorollo.]

anyone know what the music starting at 9:50 is called, if anything. i always liked hearing that...

[@jimmurihiku8009]

Well technically they found a throne 😂

[@MossyMozart]

@jim Murihiku - Yes, indeed! ----------------- It seems to me, though, that with public buildings like a pilgrimage chapel, wouldn't they need toilet facilities somewhere nearby? They have never mentioned that in any of the episodes I've seen. (I realize that this particular one was 17th Century, so not associated with the Medieval chapel.) ---------------------- Here in the states when old outhouses are found, they are excitedly excavated because people always threw their garbage in them - like a broken cooking pot and lots of other stuff.

[@henrycarter7563]

I watched this one on Odyssey yesterday, but, now Time Team is played on many different KZbin channels, some even acting like they made the videos

[@TheShootist]

no one "acts" as if they made the original. Odyssey bought the rights, the rest are copies usually in lower resolutions (240p) only.

[@henrycarter7563]

@@TheShootist Well, if I did not block the channel from my list, you would see a link here. But the one I am talking about is not at 240p but the same as it is here

[@hydranmenace]

Can you link to the Odyssey channel? I can't find it searching. I know they are on Patreon. Didn't know they uploaded to Odyssey as well.

[@henrycarter7563]

@@hydranmenace kzbin.info

[@adacox]

@@hydranmenace … don’t worry. I thought the same thing lololol

[@janvafa9959]

Hmmm it said used as a barn and PRIVEY … they found a privey!

[@lissaquon607]

Used as a barn and privy and then materials taken to he used to build the new barn. And privy perhaps?

[@jh-ec7si]

They already had a barn and privy. Must have used the materials to build a privy and barn.

[@jesterboykins2899]

14:10 Phil is a diggin MFer! Jeez. Every 2 seconds he’s throwing a shovel full. He ain’t messin around.

[@Kholdaimon]

45:03: "It continued to be used as a barn or *out-house* till about 1780" Raksha a minute earlier: "It's a privy" Tony: "How do you know?" Raksha: "We found some degraded feces, I'm afraid." Am I mistaken that another name for a privy used to be an "out-house"? Sounds to me like they found the chapel... Look at the size of the walls, and out of stone! Who would build a medieval toilet out of thick stone walls?

[@kevinjohnbetts]

You could be right. My thought was that they'd found part of the chapel, maybe an edge with the remaining walls of the privy being made up of robbed out stone. It's clearly a separate building but it strikes me as unusual that a small public toilet would be constructed so solidly and too much of a coincidence that it's where the chapel/barn/out-house should have been.

[@jasonbecker4974]

It would be a joy to volunteer on one of these digs. Wondering if that is a possibility?

[@beekeeper8474]

The seeker has been named!

[@brandonjohnston7746]

Anybody notice the dog at 45 seconds in? Same dog that was in Tony's episode of Britain's ancient tracks, when he was in the moors speaking with the lady that told the story about the witch and the hellhound. I love his ancient tracks series ❤

[@ianmedium]

I think that’s the first time I’ve seen dear Mick drinking beer!

[@2RANbit]

How intriguing! Middle English: "freondlice" looks and sounds like halfway between "friendly" and German "freundlich". And there are more similarities in that script I saw in this Video...

[@rdhunkins]

I would think that three days is not long enough to investigate something of this importance.

[@RobKoelman]

This episode was aired just two days ago on the 'Odyssey-channel'. Can't be a coincidence. TT-episodes are also aired by the 'Timeline-channel'. Anyone knows in which way 'Time Team Classics', 'Timeline' and 'Odyssey" are related? (If related at all; they could be just competitors)

[@paigecunningham]

Late response, but if anyone is still interested/unclear , this channel belongs to Time Team's own production company (as does Time Team Official), while the other channels have just licensed the rights to have the episodes available on their own channels as well.

[@MossyMozart]

@@paigecunningham - I suspected as much. So, if I watch and "like" an episode on one of the other channels, then "Time Team" does not get the ad money for that? But if I watch on the "Time Team" channels and "like" the episodes, the TT gets the income?

[@paigecunningham]

@@MossyMozart It's officially licensed to the other channels, so they may get *some* income off it but it would be a portion of whatever income the licensee channels get, whereas on this channel TT likely gets a much higher percentage of the income.

[@stinew358]

I think it's pretty clear the chapel barn was there, but it's probably in the road or under a house by now

[@MossyMozart]

@Stine W - Didn't one of the documents that Mr Stewart found say it was dismantled and the stones used to build something else?

[@kennethsonier1766]

I get caught up in these hunts and found myself terribly disappointed that you didn't find the chapel. This is such an amazing and wonderful program 👍☮️

[@daveseddon5227]

First aired 26th March 2006 UK

[@benediktmorak4409]

jolly good advertisement here. after 5 Minutes Tony, one hour and 30 seconds rain and heavy thunder... at least under ONE carpark archeologists were very successful ( Richard the Third) to bad it was not Tony and his team who found it...

[@DementedCaver]

A church turned into a barn...well holy cow.

[@annpartoon5300]

Question for Tim did Helen have a boy or girl ? and thanks for reloading these in larger screen

[@SF-ru3lp]

Probably the child is in college at this point (2024)! G Ire

[@deltadom33]

X never marks the spot

[@gregb6469]

13:21 mark-- I didn't know tea came in Coke cans!

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhh arrre Tony you don't want to know my claim to fame... Stone the crows!