The Mystery Of St. Hilda's Lost Anglo-Saxon Monastery | Time Team | Chronicle

Time Team goes in search of a lost Anglo-Saxon monastery on the rain and wind-swept Headland at Hartlepool. They have just 3 days to find the exact location of a monastery that 1,200 years ago had a thriving community of monks and nuns, presided over by Saint Hilda. She was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664. An important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognized for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice.
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[@dann5268]

RIP Robin Bush historian, Mick Aston archaeologist, Victor Ambrus artist/author. Wonderful work.

[@ictesting]

RIP. 🙏

[@lindahughes2289]

So SAD to lose these GREATS !!! REST GUYS, ENJOY THE HEAVENS....

[@WendyDarling1974]

Something I like about this program is that you never know if they’re actually going to find anything. Some episodes turn up big revelations where they kind of hit the jackpot… and others go on for three days and at the end there’s a pot shard and a lot of trenches. It’s realistic. Most of science is failure with discoveries coming bit by bit..

[@robertbowers9856]

Referring to their skelaton of 1300 years ago, "If we're going to date her...." I think it's too late to do that

[@componenx]

Dating a nun probably wouldn't have been much fun anyway.

[@robertbowers9856]

@@componenx / Well, who knows what they were capable of back then, but would the have accepted a night of bowling. Chuckle

[@maureenfitzpatrick440]

I spit my coffee all over the screen and out my nose😂😂😂😂😂

[@sheldoniusRex]

Finally, a woman I'd enjoy a conversation with.

[@deborahbaker4770]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jesterboykins2899]

31:25 That ringtone! Those phones! lol… ahhh time flies doesn’t it…

[@townview5322]

And Australia has very litte archeology. The Aboriginal people have been here for 60,000 years. Because they lived a semi-nomadic life, living off the land, they have left very little evidence BUT fantastic cave paintings. Europeans arrived in 1788, so that's as far back as we can go. We have a TV show called "Resoration Australia" which tracks people saving and renovating some of the country's original homes. I love it.

[@ghighiannemorrison4922]

Actually we have a lot of archaeology. Indigenous Peoples were not nomadic wandering hunters and gatherers across the whole Australian landscape. In both WA and Tas there was written records recorded by early sailors of small huts on the beachfront. There is other evidence of wattle and daub huts pre-colonization. Not to mention fish traps, middens, scar trees, shell dolls grinding stones and every now and then people find Indigenous graves.

[@doggyteabreaks9362]

​@@ghighiannemorrison4922and shipwrecks too

[@CaptainCed]

Mick's reaction to the notion of having to join the Tories😂😂

[@schipfan360]

Join the BNP! Blood and honor

[@zoranocokoljic8927]

What I liked the most in this clip is the balmy ehglish wheather.

[@FranzBieberkopf]

Our wet little islands at their best!

[@zankhanamistry799]

So fascinating!

[@larrybesel9423]

Thank you!

[@roccogentilella2134]

I wonder who's garden that was they dug up

[@joaomanoel3197]

Muito bom

[@jeanfish7]

Bede was a very important historian, he may have exaggerated a few facts:)

[@CzechMirco]

31:15 - Tony inadvertantly speaks the truth here. 20 years have passed and his cell phone is already considered "medieval".

[@jrjubach]

Fantastic episode.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

England is a small country with a very long history on the surface of its territory and under it. Confinement in a small geographic space surrounded by the ocean seems to have made the English obsessed with the diverse pasts of their rainy island. In Brazil, the opposite occurs. We live in a huge country and we rarely care about history. Nobody here investigates the few archaeological sites much. Historical research is done, but it is always confined to Universities. TV shows like this are simply NOT made in my country.

[@jboss119]

I bet it has more to do with economics and overall education. At least thats what Brazil has in common with other countries that have similar issues compared to europe, Asia, and the US for instance. On a side note Brazil specifiaclly has a massive corruption issue that, when resoloved, will fast track the economy and educational initiatives.

[@Faeyakim]

​@jboss119 It may have more to do with a history of colonialism. In order to colonize a land with people already in it, you have to convince yourself that they are really less than human. Those attitudes linger in a subtle way: Who wants to dig up evidence of a people that are less human? I live in Canada and know several people that have Archeology backgrounds. None of them are working in the field: the interest and resources just aren't there.

[@jboss119]

@@Faeyakim no sorry its more as i said. Other colonized areas have a richly studied history like northern Africa. Canada is a poor example as there isnt very many ancient structures for instance to study.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

@@jboss119 The one who always corrupts Brazilian institutions is the CIA's dirty money.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

@@Faeyakim In colonial Brazil, the overwhelming majority of the population did not speak Portuguese, but the Tupi language (whose grammar and vocabulary were described by the Jesuits in the mid-16th century). The Portuguese language was only spoken by a small aristocratic elite and settlers from Portugal. The Marques de Pombal banned the use of Tupi in 1758 and that was what really caused the almost complete disappearance of the indigenous cultures preserved by the mestizo population into which the Indians were being integrated. The books and documents produced in Tupi were almost all destroyed. Nothing similar has occurred in the US. There the Indians were exterminated in the 19th century. The civilizing stage of the Brazilian Indians when the Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1500 was more or less similar to what existed in Britain when it was invaded by the Romans. 15 centuries of difference between the formation process of England and Brazil makes a difference, I suppose.

[@nevillemignot1681]

A typical Mick comment while it is tipping it down................................'You guys keep on going, while i have s coffee inside in the warm'.

[@aariley2]

I hope they saved some for DNA!!!:)

[@susannetroost5634]

Read Fidelma books ..

[@christinebutler7630]

Love Fidelma!

[@denisenilsson1366]

So a double monastery is a co-ed monastery?

[@christinebutler7630]

Not really co-ed; it's more like a male monastery and a female monastery, built close together, sharing one administration (Abbot or abbess, prior or prioress) and some tasks and resources.

[@denisenilsson1366]

@@christinebutler7630 Thanks for the clarification! I really do appreciate it!

[@DH007-w2d]

Bonjour. As I've worked in Fontevraud l'Abbaye, where Richard Cœur de Lion had been buried, I can say most "mixed" abbaye were managed by women. Usually a tough posh nut.

[@josephineclayton7625]

😀

[@GodsOath_com]

But it might have been a Viking fort

[@jamesbingham4538]

What happened to Robin Bush?

[@karlkarlos3545]

RIP

[@jayebyrd9953]

From Wikipedia. "Robin Bush died on 22 June 2010, aged 67, after a long period of illness. He is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas's Church, Corfe, in Somerset."

[@mariekatherine5238]

Strange to be in your bed, sleeping on top of a bunch of nuns!

[@jrmckim]

Everytime I see a TT with Robin Bush, I cant help but think he would be the result if Winston Churchill and Hermann Göring could make a baby.

[@CaptainCed]

Such a shame he died so young.

[@thebaronofbelco2615]

@@CaptainCedhow did he die?

[@pwile2002]

Ive only seen three so far the one about the nail, the steam leak and the man in the wheelchair watching jis best friend and girlfriend. I don't think the rest were shown in Nova Scotia.

[@GodsOath_com]

She was probably a real Prophet

[@Missangie827]

Brits unknowingly stomping around all day on top of their history-lol

[@josephineclayton7625]

hi

[@nanoyabarrett8852]

I love the way the Anglican Church has taken over all the Catholic saints and churches including Westminster Abbey. Shame on the English church. Give them back

[@FranzBieberkopf]

When the Northumbrian saints were around, there was only one Christian church The Orthodox and Catholics split in 1054, the beginning of the Protestant Reformation was 1517. Anyway, the Catholics have had their revenge-in the English north-east, every Catholic school seems to be named after Bede, Oswald, Hilda or Cuthbert

[@janicehill5605]

DITTO Where's Hilda buried? You'd think it would be well marked

[@janbadinski551]

I love the striped shirt.

[@LootShrimp]

Some of the staff for this show are blasphemers, and straight up disrespectful.

[@thebaronofbelco2615]

WHAT? Why?

[@ginnygin7141]

How so