Blacklands: The Iron Age Brits Who Welcomed The First Romans | Time Team

The team are in Somerset to investigate the remains of a small Roman villa, dating back to just after the time of the Roman invasion in 43 a.d. But previous excavations suggest it was occupied by local inhabitants rather than Roman invaders. Could it have been built on the site of an earlier, Iron Age settlement? The team are joined by Roman specialists John Creighton and Tom Moore, and Claire Ryley makes an authentic period garden. Members of the Stranglers put in a surprise appearance
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[@blueocean9305]

This episode and the series is outstanding. It provides an excellent insight into western human culture. What a great team of people. Well done.

[@kiwimac]

I love Phil's response to the coin!

[@williamfindspeople4341]

Archeology is an amazing subject, been doing it all my life. I enjoyed people who get excited over finding an old building that no one has seen for a 1000 years. Love this show.

[@bethbartlett5692]

It offers "that feeling" indescribable at the moment, but you know my meaning.

[@t.c.thompson2359]

Also this site should get a revisit, that lone wall is really curious.

[@penguinista]

This series is the best mystery show ever.

[@biologychic7292]

I about died when they said the pigs were named Hilary and Monica🤣💀

[@allenjones2450]

I liked that one too

[@whiteybaze497]

🤣🤣🤣👌🤌🏼

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

IIRC, they were named that because they weren't intended to be eaten 🤣☠

[@atthebrink74]

@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft 😳🤣🤣🤣

[@thomasbell7033]

I hate to be a drudge, but after John Oliver's rrecent interview with Monica L., I can no longer laugh at her. She spoke about becoming a national punchline at age 23, and how she fell into the clutches of the most powerful man in the world. She spoke of these things without playing the victim, and she is far from humorless. It was quite poignant.

[@ultimatewitcherfan6677]

This show has always fascinated me. I love history and I love learning about different cultures from different time periods. Phil Harding is my favorite person on this show! His enthusiasm is catching!

[@hanes_cymru_]

I really like this episode in particular because of the incredible Pre-Roman coin found in Phil's Iron-Age round house. You can see what it means to him, Incredible find!

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

I'd like an update about this site. Surely they've continued excavations there...? Those fields have some wonderful stories to tell. Well done TT. This show never disappoints.

[@vickywitton1008]

I have tried to find out but it is not easy to find!

[@joannefrt4553]

Mmmmllllllppl

[@Janettemay64]

I'm so happy that Phil found the coin, his enthusiasm is infectious, he deserves every good find he digs up. Got to love the very dedicated man.

[@Sk8Bettty]

Watching Time Team soothes my worried mind.

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I love Phil being "all a quiver" over his coin find.

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

At roughly 37. you can see one of the ancient white horses on the hill behind the site. This connects with the coins Phil finds with the horses on the obverse. Epona was the Celtic goddess of the horse.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Epona is key.

[@BennyB5555]

Wow I love these documentaries!

[@shri081]

Phil getting positively giddy with that Iron Age coin was wholesome as hell 😁😁

[@Orcinus1967]

Great stuff, as usual!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting.

[@solipsismworld]

Time Team Series S14E02 "There's No Place Like Rome" Original Air Date: 21 January 2007

[@Tony7534]

I had too laugh at the walking tent this will bring smiles too a lot of veteran medics lol

[@t.c.thompson2359]

Gotta say the Iron Age stuff was more interesting than the Roman, though the most important is obviously the transition time.

[@hmalbet]

Brilliant episode.

[@Paleos1000]

Good to know the Stranglers were Time Team fans.

[@carveraugustus3840]

Fantastic indeed, Mick.

[@evatoll1899]

I have been searching for this episode! I love the iron age coin.

[@Sk8Bettty]

Hillary, Monica, & Punk Rock… I love this episode!!

[@mrkitty1367]

another wonderful show

[@pedrodepaca57]

I really love how The Stranglers are fans of TT.

[@RandyH400]

Thanks so much!

[@cynthiaporter3032]

Anorher fun dig Odissey team. Love ya Phil. Love ya Tony, you, Love you Tom. You guys Rock!!!😁

[@czgator9000]

It is Time Team, actually. Odyssey just repackages the original show that was on air for 20 years.

[@bretnielsen5502]

Probably Sir Tony's best episode.

[@SandraNelson063]

It wouldn't be Time Team unless there's a monsoon!🤣

[@batymahn]

This is a extraordinary episode relative to our time. Suppose the Iron Age citizens saw the concentration of wealth of the chieftain and than met these Roman chaps that were more like me? I might be tempted to join the invaders to get my share of the wealth?

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@robertevans8010]

The Celtic coins that they call Dobunni are the same in South Wales the Dobunni and Silures are of the same Tribes, the Horse is Epona , I have some 2nd Century BC Celtic Coins that were found above Llangynwyd in a very Large Hillfort, during the 19th Century, they have the Horse and a Man with spikey Hair , also Celts allegedly did not write, being Welsh and from a Family of Archaeologists we have always known that Celts did write and some coins have names on them, like Gered or Gyred also Meur, they are high Status. Nos da

[@Father9]

The Stranglers dig'n that golden brown!

[@patwithers1448]

Love from the old lady in Texas God bless you always and forever

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thannks.

[@Withnail1969]

29:16 The guardian of gardens was not Venus but Priapus. There was a statue of Priapus in every Roman garden but they can't show Priapus on this programme.

[@silentsnooper3307]

Ahahaha! That's great!! Lining up the pig grunts with the music! HA! That made my day! Brilliant!

[@passthebs.1341]

That was clever!!! Hillary C. and Monika L. Hahahaha! As an American. That was absolutely fking brilliant!!!

[@cmd406]

Omg! I just got the connection! 😂😂hysterical!

[@johnmarasigan5238]

I came to the comments to see if anyone else made that connection too. I started laughing out loud when he called out the pigs' names.....lol

[@RoseCarroll-pk6mt]

Thank you ❤😂🎉😊😅

[@jameswebb4593]

Tony to Helen " Hows it going " " Great have some finds, early Roman pottery , and a piece of Clay Pigeon " ------ fast backtract two thousand years " Legionnaires , Sling Shots at the ready ....... PULL.

[@rainman7992]

it appears you can put a trench anywhere and find something of historic value...what a place.

[@felixthecat4584]

I hate that you only have 3 days. I would watch 8 hours of this start to finish. I wanna know what you could do with the time needed.

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Nice video about archeology activities for finding proving existed of towers before Roman umpire existing in England island ...founded too old coin was an amazing occasion which was in ING history periods before Rome umpire existing

[@fredricful]

Vorfor startes det og stjeles på byggeplasser fra forskalingsnekkere og tømrere rørleggere elektrikere nor malere kommer på byggeplasser i Oslo? Vorfor blir ting borte med engang malere kommer på byggeplasser i Oslo?

[@jl696]

Interesting program. I enjoy watching programs about Roman history and archaeology..... As an aside, listening to Phil, I believe his accent has tones of the US Southern accent and where it might have evolved from in South Western Britain.

[@ocmersrekamedar2378]

you know Phil is from Wiltshire, don't you ?

[@jl696]

@@ocmersrekamedar2378 No, I did not. I had to look up where that is. LOL. South Central England then.

[@susanhill6438]

I think the same thing! It sounds a whole lot like the high tide accent found along the south eastern US in isolated island communities AND a lot like parts of my own accent. SO INTERESTING!

[@pseudonymoussmith2249]

Yeah I know he from England but I hear an accent that sounds Southern US. It's the way he pronounces his Rs. He also says the word "reckin'".

[@MarkDibley]

S14 E2 - "There's No Place Like Rome", 21 January 2007

[@h.r.hufnstuf4171]

21:23 that laptop

[@annettebrinson8426]

Tony, you savage! 'Get ya spade out. girl.' As you Brits say 'Cheeky!'

[@Blake_.Dryden]

Imagine the story of the people whom lived there.

[@SandraNelson063]

THAT is why archaeologists dig thru utterly mad conditions!

[@Happyheretic2308]

If you haven’t, try reading Lindsey Davis’ “Falco” series!

[@kraigcochran9995]

Anyone else catch the irony of the pigs names lol

[@4rdale]

I wonder if that’s an abandoned Anderson shelter behind Tony and the garden lady at about 39:00?

[@francesconicoletti2547]

“I for one welcome our new Roman overlords “

[@fredricful]

Vor kommer historie fra datamarskin?

[@bluenoteone]

LOL....Poor Matt!

[@domenicozagari2443]

A piece of land would be assigned to a Roman citizen, he would bring his family and slaves to the land, clear the land and build the villa for his family and slaves, over time the villa would turn in to a village.

[@fredricful]

På apsolutt alle byggeplasser jeg har jobbet på som forskalingsnekker asså med en gang malere setter sin fot innafor bygge området så startes det og bli borte ting vorfor?

[@molanlabexm15]

Everytime they say trench take a drink. Every time they dig trench take two drinks. Every time they find something in the trench take a chug. lmao

[@FlexibleFlyer50]

That's what happens when you get another culture coming into an area. Buildings go up, the natives take a look see and decide to incorporate some of the "good aspects" they see in construction or amenities. Other natives cling to the past and its familiar construction or necessities for daily life. The key thing is that people had choices---to follow traditional ways or adopt some Roman ways. That's what counts in the end---choices.

[@passthebs.1341]

Hey folks... in case you missed it. Just get to 11 minutes in exactly as they discuss The Gardening. You'll notice a clever jab.

[@ivanolsen7966]

why does no one see the end of a house ....where the ' gate house is ... why are the two ' flanks ' not post holes for a mammoth house not of stone .... and as the guy mentioned at 10 :34 ' stone cladding ' on their wooden building .... maybe not such a silly comment after all

[@sharimullinax3206]

Hilary and Monica are adorable!

[@fredricful]

Vorr mange trer har englan måtte kutte ned for og bygge alt det Di har i dag med tømmer?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Obviously some quickly adopted the roman lifestyle. Just as some stayed with it after the empire left. It wasn't just a military expansion but also a cultural one.

[@andrewharmon2369]

My Ucle came from the backlands.

[@alexisdespland4939]

did rome tradw with the british before julius cesar land if they did when did the trade start.

[@Atomsk102]

Show of hands, whenever they say "iron age roundhouse", who thinks of a big building where they store steam locomotives?

[@blktauna]

Why is this channel appropriating from Time Team's actual channel?

[@czgator9000]

Good question.

[@janislulle3034]

During my archeology practice such a excavation methods using excavator wold be wiewed as horrific. We did all with shovels. Layer after layer. And after layer was taken away all was fixed on special paper using scale and system of coordnates.

[@elianazz]

they only got 3 days.

[@janislulle3034]

@@elianazz , may be not all is shown here. But archeologist during excavation destroys historical monument ( villa, manor, fortress etc) he is excavating. So everything - trenches, ditches etc. - must be registered so that next archeologist may know where you were excavating, what you have found. It does not matter how long you dig - 3 days, week, month .... . It is wery interesting to learn new facts about Britain's history and i like these documentaries.

[@dianecrawford9204]

Monica is more like a teenager who made the wrong choices …like playing with C-shapes flints👀

[@alexisdespland4939]

why is it called blacklands the dirt is more brown the black in colot.

[@vickywitton1008]

I love this programme but the amount of Americans watching it that are confused by the accents makes me laugh!

[@wiretamer5710]

A farmstead site bigger than it should be: I'd put my money on short term animal concentration: many more animals than a single farmer would likely own. A pound for stray animals: Pay a fine to get your animals back. A temporary holding yard to assemble a herd for trading purposes, or tribute in kind, to the local warlord. The open fire in the round house has always troubled me because of the smoke issue. How could you get around the lack of a chimney without any evidence for a chimney? Answer make a chimney out of light weight organic material that would not survive in the archeology. A suspended funnel made of animal hide would generate the smoke stack effect and draw the smoke through the peak, It would also make an invaluable drying rack.

[@georgedorn1022]

Experimental archaeology has shown that the smoke filters out through the thatch on the roof without need for a chimney. Earlier attempts apparently left a central hole in the thatch but this created such an updraft that the flames would reach the roof and set it on fire!

[@wiretamer5710]

@@georgedorn1022 I understand this. The trouble with it, is it depends a lot on the internal humidity of the building and the roofing material. I’m not convinced that the limited amount of experimental archeology has covered all the variables. More importantly, indigenous fire culture is nothing like the western attitude to fire. We have an attitude of making a fire and then letting it do it’s thing, while we get on with other stuff. An indigenous person in charge of a fire, is constantly focused on its behaviour. It’s like driving a car. Starting a fire and fuel are a big deal, especially when fuel is scarce and the risks of letting a fire go, are catastrophic. Another problem is fine particulate matter below 2.5 microns which is invisible, does not trigger the cough reflex and tends to linger in enclosed spaces. These particles are too small for the lungs to expel, and they are an electrochemical vector for chemical and biological pathogens. Besides, the perennial problem of drying out wet clothing remains. These people need drying racks that don’t get in the way of food preparation and general activity around the fire. Suspending these racks would be essential when space is at a premium.

[@vickywitton1008]

The smoke just went into the thatch and it gets very smoky! I have been in one and my asthma prevented me from staying more than a second. People didn't spend much time inside but they must have been affected by the smoke

[@jesterboykins2899]

What back then or who, determined who got a villa or not? Did you just walk up to a Roman and say “I’d like to adopt your culture. Would you mind building me a villa with a bathhouse?” 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@boricuafina407]

Im sure no one cares but ive seen this guy on Absolute History channel as well?! Swapping history dudes? Idk 🤷🏻‍♀️.

[@tonib.3016]

Yes Tony is on that as well...if you havent seen Reel History thats worth checking out. I loved the episodes where they had 7 famous Brits who tried to live as working folks in the Victorian era...its very interesting!

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[@theUglyGypsy]

I imagine Monica and Hillary were made into sausages.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol no, if you name them you don't eat them.

[@seanh4841]

One should have been a she dog, guess which one

[@shawnsanborn2057]

What kind of chump would give this a thumbs diwn?

[@bethbartlett5692]

You can tell that both Tony and Mick have a strong dose of "Roman + Italian" influence. (Early Roman invaders to Italy were Germanics), after some generations they came to assimilate in the variables if Italian, i.e., (Etruscan, Greek, Phonecian, Sardinian, Basque) and the Etruscans were from the area around the Levant, as were the Phonecians and many of the Greeks. The Basque are their own indigenous Peoples largely found in the area between France and Spain, Basque Country, and they are the lineage if the White Berbers, Post Flood Peoples of the Canary Islands, and Post Flood Irish, the Rh(-) bloodline. Class dismissed 😉

[@hanes_cymru_]

Who else thinks that Phil looks a bit like Trump?

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol only with more brains and substance🤣🤣🤣

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

Bite your tongue!

[@williamdefries4460]

11:10 in I lost it in laughter... Hillary & Monica.... Hillary Clinton & Monica Lewinsky. Slick Willie's aka "Bill Clinton's" ladies those were perfect look a likes. LOL

[@lemorab1]

No Effing Way! I'd be willing to go halfway on Hillary with you, but those hogs really should've been named Linda and Lucianne. Now THAT is what I would call perfect look-alikes!

[@psikogeek]

Either way, they both got porked.

[@terryfoyfoy7926]

They were traitors

[@andremarais2706]

This series is so informative, but I get too irritated to watch. By Tony Robinson that is. The melodrama and limp wristed camp stuff, combined with domineering arrogance.

[@juhonieminen4219]

Tony felt arrogant at first, but the is not the main star in the show. He is just the narrator. And there are many moments when he is cheerful and good sport, and not just witty.

[@brentblake8306]

Many people agree with you, him scurrying around , sleeves flapping, negative and sarcastic BUT... it shows how truly polite, educated and lovely the many others that made up the best part of the show were! Please keep watching.

[@kschneckmalaret]

I love Tony!!

[@georgeradcliffe7511]

I seriously like Time Team but, I would love it if Tony and his nonsense idiocy was NOT part of it!!!

[@derrickd3900]

Phil and that exaggerated accent of his and those disgusting fingernails...🤮

[@bmortlock1956]

Then, DON'T WATCH !!! Simple choice here.

[@stubbogub8114]

@@bmortlock1956 stop yelling at people! lol Unless you're Tony Robinson himself there's no need to take it so personally!

[@thelionsam]

This might be the dummest comment I've ever seen online 😂 Well done Derrick 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jameswebb4593]

There are thousands of programs you can watch on Utube which may cater for your narrow minded biased view . So why are you bothering to watch something that obviously annoys you. OR are you just one of those waste of spaces that do nothing constructive , not even with a key board.

[@brentblake8306]

Phil picked guitar with the nails on his right hand. He's awesome!

[@hammondOT]

Is anyone else tired of Tony Robinson?

[@tanathos17]

Nope, not at all. I can listen to him all day :))

[@mariesillyvalentine633]

I am. His act gets pretty tiresome.

[@fetus2280]

Nope ... As i am more interested in the Archaeology and could care less who the Presenter is .. But thats me and ofc this is a Subjective q and a to respond to so obv there will be mixed opinions im sure . You can be happy knowing he Isnt the new presenter for the New TT show thats being filmed now on new sites ... not sure who the new one is but it isnt Sir Tony .

[@guillerbrady9261]

He has been around longer than you have been changing your underwear. If you are fed up then there are 1000s of other documentaries for you to watch that don't involve Tony or anyone from Time Team.

[@golfrival2702]

I am definitely tired of him. I used to like him but all his yelling and waving his arms about for the camera starts to get annoying.

[@blaggercoyote]

Oh I hate Tony Robinson.