The Archaeological Mystery Of The Abandoned 12th-Century Castle | Time Team | Chronicle

The team investigates Scargill Castle, a medieval site in Yorkshire/Durham. The current owners have Invited them to try and unravel the history of the building and what it was designed to protect. Niall and Caroline, both archaeologists, received the castle as a wedding gift. The team is trying to uncover the castle's true appearance, but there's uncertainty about its structure.
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[@Canopus68]

I've been following Time Team for years. I just wish they would add more days. You barely get started when you run out of time. I worked as an archaelogist and I know how long it takes to do a good dig.

[@franhunne8929]

Well, all the diggers and archaeologists and historians in this have "day jobs" ... TimeTeam is just a side hustle. Plus - for every day spent digging follow weeks of research and documentary after. Because archaeology is not only about finding treasures and stones in the grounds - it is also about putting them into context, preserving the evidence, process the finds. The longer you dig, the longer all the unseen work takes after.

[@aariley2]

As an American, it's SO amazing the age of structures still standing...and inhabited!!!!

[@AllTheHappySquirrels]

American chiming in - I'm amazed there are buildings all over Europe that are hundreds of years old still being used. Where I live (Washington State, USA), there were indigenous people here for thousands of years, but their buildings weren't built to last like the stonework in Europe. Even 500 year old buildings sound practically ancient over here.

[@SpringNotes]

@@AllTheHappySquirrels another American here. And a lot of the times, wonderful, historical architecture are destroyed, and replaced with something "modern", or a parking lot 😔 Such a lack of respect and appreciation...

[@AllTheHappySquirrels]

@@SpringNotes so true. One can't have too many box stores or parking lots 🙄

[@randybobandy9828]

​@@SpringNoteslike what...

[@Neophema]

Thousands of years old, even. :) @@AllTheHappySquirrels

[@townview5322]

So, do Niall and Caroline own the whole farm or the tower and its surrounds? The thought that there are farms with ancient buildings in the back yard, blows my mind. To live in a country with that sort of live history is amazing.

[@MsTom916]

I go there as often as possible. Trying to convince my husband to find a vacation home there!

[@margaretlumley1648]

It's always delightful to hear Tony Robinson's voice. It's like hearing the voice of a dear friend ❤

[@janetshade4659]

a friend with a cunning plan!

[@drlong08]

As an architect that has had to deal with figuring out 200 year old homes to see what's been done to them so any work we do ties in correctly, I can appreciate 600-800 year old puzzles of construction, renovations, additions, repurposing, etc. Great video!!!

[@ethanbarnes-et4jr]

I love that part where they had no leads and tony said at times like this you can only turn to one man and panned to phil hes always been my favorite ik they were gonna show him as soon as he said it phil always saves the day

[@NinaHansen2008]

It is wonderful to know that Scargill Castle is now a delightful home, available for vacationing!

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

So many of those castles are lost to history, These videos have great detail

[@joshschneider9766]

This is definitely a castle in name only lol.

[@joshschneider9766]

Look up Edward long shanks ring of iron in Wales. A series of truly mammoth castles that strangled Welsh resistance to his rule

[@jasonking3466]

I love getting Time Teams that I haven't seen before.

[@alexwest2573]

I love these medieval mystery episodes

[@user-ru3ql6ji4p]

More like a Tudor mystery...

[@MossyMozart]

@alexwest2573 - I do, too. And by the end, they proved it was originally a Medieval building.

[@hollyw9566]

Having a noble visit, let alone a royal one, must have seemed like having a plague of locusts descending upon the hosts! An honor and a knightmare. (Pun intended.)

[@noremorsewoodworking2258]

A bit like receiving a visit of an american president.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

When the king with his court comes around and chooses your house to stay, it has pros and cons. pros: you'll get the prestige of housing the king cons: you have the cost of housing the king.

[@kenj.8897]

​@@noremorsewoodworking2258Biden crapping his pants in your parlor

[@ferocient]

You are exactly right. Medieval and renaissance kings used a royal visitation as a form of control through financial burden. You wanted the king to stay for as little time as was possible. A royal procession to many different residences throughout the year was also a necessity as the consequence of so many hundreds of people living together was an extreme level of stench due to a massive accumulation of human and animal waste etc.... For example, Henry VIII traveled to many of his 60 different palaces and other aristocratic residences throughout the course of the year as a matter of necessity. So grateful for modern plumbing and sanitary standards!

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

I agree. Can’t imagine the expense and terror 😅

[@annazaman9657]

Niall Hammond, the owner, was a guest archeologist in an earlier TT episode

[@theparkourlady894]

I'm no archaelogist, but if this site is on the border between scotland and England, is there not a possibility of it being in scottish records instead of english ones? Perhaps it was originally scottish, maybe got stuck in a struggle between sides with some swapping of hands, and ultimately mislabelled as a site or castle that maybe was originally located somewhere nearby but which had been destroyed? I would love to see guesses of what this site might have looked like. If i owned the proeprty and scored a sketch of it somehow, I'd try to rebuild an approximation of it 😅

[@lawrencehitchen8516]

Aye, McScargill.

[@FrostyBalls01]

Now if everyone thought like this.

[@manuelkong10]

good thinking!

[@meeeka]

You mightn't be allowed to rebuild a replica as it is scheduled by English Heritage.

[@dickmcshan9778]

My thoughts, exactly. That said, “History is written by the winners” is a prime factor involved here! 😉

[@jeffashley5512]

Watching takes me back to my archaeological studies in college. We did salvage archaeology in middle Tennessee and finds ranged from Civil War timeframe (Tennessee is second only to Virginia for battles) to archaic Indian sites dating back to 9000 B.C. or 11000 BP using the new nomenclature. I miss those days in the 80's.

[@hodaka1000]

I miss the AC/DC concerts and stuff like that 🇦🇺

[@familiecole]

Hi, is there an equivalent or similar show in the US that I could watch?

[@jeffashley5512]

@@familiecole Unfortunately there is not an equivalent series in the US that I can find. There are short videos of a particular excavation but in this longform format. Maybe someone else knows of one I'm unaware of so we both can enjoy.

[@Randy7th]

I think you need to check your numbers as the ranking for battles and skirmishes is Virginia, Georgia, and Missouri for the top 3

[@zuzuspetals38]

My gosh I’d love this to be my wedding gift 🤯♥️ Amazing property I wish they’d gone back yrs later, and shown us the mock up of what it all looked liked back in medieval time And we could hear the history 😬🥳🥳🥳😄

[@Ancient_Pollyanna]

If I had some of the ruins we see on this series in my backyard, I probably wouldn't fill it in - make some kind of fantastic patio!

[@joshschneider9766]

The thing is, as the lady of the house said at the beginning of the episode, it's a scheduled national monument. Which is like the national historic ledger in the USA. It's down to what the county archaeologist says is permitted or not above and beyond what the land owner says, same as you can't structurally change a building on the USAs national historic record without government authorization even if you are the deed holder.

[@joshschneider9766]

Although I suppose if he himself was said countys archaeologist he could in theory abuse the crap out of his position and do whatever his heart desired lol. Doubt he would wreck anything though but I suppose he really could have if he were in that position.

[@harbourdogNL]

Or skateboard park!

[@kristiskinner8542]

​@@harbourdogNLhell no🙄

[@kristiskinner8542]

​@@joshschneider9766meh dont know how or what they would get out of it. Maybe piss someone off & cause a zoning change or something like that possibly but most archeologists have a hard enough time getting funding for digs in the first place so it wouldnt help them at all to go around pissing ppl off

[@lecolintube]

Thank you so much. Wonderful to see Mic, Victor and the crew again. Not sure what it was like behind the cameras, but loved seeing Mic and Phil’s brief banter 14:49 😉

[@jennylea8687]

I have been loving and enjoying Time Team for many decades. I live in South Africa. There are Stone Age relics here, but almost no examples of stone buildings. Not to mention no signs of writing, or of civilization as people of the First World might think of it. I suppose this is because of our sub Saharan unconducive climate. As is that of Australia. I don't know enough about South America. Third World countries that we are. I love this planet. So much to learn,and to think about!.

[@tomjenkins1405]

In the United States we go back to stone tools so quickly. Not near as much fun as these cool shows from England.

[@bartonbella3131]

I have always wanted to visit South Africa. It seems like a beautiful place. How is the political climate right now? Western news sires are painting a very safe picture of South Africa right now

[@gnostic268]

​@@tomjenkins1405There is a long and extensive history of Native people in North America. If you prefer Eurocentric history then move back across the Atlantic

[@TheVerdantGryphon]

Oh my god, it's Baldric!! Just hearing his voice transports me joyfully back to my childhood in the '80s when I watched all the Blackadder episodes about a million times. And now he's giving us real mediaeval history! This makes me so happy!

[@Mrs.Crawford2014]

I completely enjoyed this episode. Thank you

[@emelle9705]

This site is now a B&B and I’m ready to book it!

[@tuercaslocas]

Phil's accent... I could have an episode of Tony and Phil just talking and would be great still 😅

[@daphnewilson7966]

I inherited a pioneer homestead in California: so much "newer", and yet such empathy with the pride of the past, and what is lost, even in my lifetime, but what is connected to history. I didn't realize, at the time, that the last vestige of the historic sawmill was being eradicated by the logging 25 years ago. I will be the last survivor to know where it was. The coyotes still sing at "Coyote Flat."

[@charlotteralff769]

Thanks for posting this on KZbin 😊

[@donaldwilson2548]

What a wonderful group of people. I just love the videos. Thank you so very, very much! Donald William Wilson. Tacoma, Washington. (5th generation Scottish American).

[@bethbartlett5692]

I really like the episodes with Helen the best. Helen lends energies that have a sort of "Independent Thought, Imagination, Thinking with Potentials for the Greater Realities". (The Realities that are not limited to cold physical Science, but unclude the Higher Minded Science of Quantum Physics, yet while being aggreeable and conforming for cooperation, a bit of Conscious Thought Consideration of both sides of the Coin can give one the feeling of watching a Tennis Match, yet it Results in identifying the solid convictions with Ethics and Acievements.) Helen has what's needed for Anglo Saxon Archaeology, as often, only the Shadows remain. Its apparent that the TT Individuals, those in greater focus of the shows, had/have a great shared ebergy of their Passion and "had great fun doing "their Gig"!

[@marlenaamalfitano1558]

These videos are so very satisfying!

[@jacquiedwards160]

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode ❤❤

[@Pembroke.]

Congratulations on your wedding 🥂🥂🍾🍾

[@Myrdden71]

Best episode I've seen, great job!

[@Sheila-G]

I just love Phil and Mick!!!

[@louiseclark7967]

Love the olde Time Team ❤ So glad to find one I haven't seen!

[@sheldonwheaton881]

Perhaps "gatehouse" is just what the ruin came to be known as at some later date?

[@johnorchard4]

It was mentioned that Scargill Castle was once owned by the family that eventually gave rise to Arthur! Arthur Scargill was the son of a descendant of the Scargill family. It is interesting that he was Barnsley based because there were connections to both parts of Barnsley and also Saddleworth. I traced the origins of the manor of Cudworth back to its creation as a part of the newly created Honour of Pontefract for Ilbert de Lasci. The manor of Cudworth was physically created from two other manors within the honour and granted to one of Ilbert's lieutenants, Gilbert de Stapleton along with eleven other manors. This family had a lineal descent as lords of the manor of Cudworth until it was sold in the sixteenth century because the then family were recusant catholics and sold the manor to pay their fines. During this five hundred year history, the named family ran out of male heirs. On one occasion the female heirs inherited the divided estate, and one such lady (a Tunstall) married a Scargill. At this time this lady also held Saddleworth manor.

[@vanveakrin276]

I have never heard the name " de Stapleton" ..are you saying the Stapleton was originally a French name ..??.. Gilbert de Stapleton..is this a Fake name ..??

[@johnorchard4]

@@vanveakrin276 It is as real as any name, they are all simple devices we adopt to more easily identify each other. The name exists in many documents and charters, and these collectively confirm Ilbert 's claim to these manors under the Liberty of Pontefract. I cannot understand why this man adopted an English place as his moniker, but he did so. His main manor, closer to Pontefract, still has a Stapleton park associated with it. Was Stapleton the name already in existence in 1090? Did he also hold another manor of Stapleton - there is a contender near Darlington or Northallerton!

[@casieperry9047]

I would love to see the resolution of these digs. It's not a cliffhanger. It's an unfinished track

[@tarzan8575]

I like this series but I do not believe that any significant work can be done on something like this in just three days.

[@mammamiia08]

15:00 "Fine, fine!" *muttering* "Shouting at me again.." 🙄 😂 I think that's Phil's natural loudness Mick 😅😂

[@jgambe78]

Such a fantastic show!

[@gonefishing167]

That was great, thank you. Loved seeing Phil again 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@douglasruss2889]

Always enjoy. Bravo ! 😊

[@PerEng2405]

Absolutely brilliant. Thx.

[@sheila1115]

i often wonder if the archeologists stay longer than the filming crew to satisfy their curiosity as to the origins of some of these digs

[@SittingDuc]

The digs are filmed over the weekend. The big named archeologists (phil, mick, helen, stephen, john, et al) have/had "day jobs" (teaching, curating museums, etc), so they leave with the film crew and (sir) tony. A number of the junior workers (matt, tracey, raksha, et al) may well stay behind for days or more (even skipping the next episode) to document, clean, and rehabilitate the site. So a little bit more archeology happens after the film crew leave, but not much.

[@davidmatthews3093]

One of my favourite TT episodes.

[@lisawilson2912]

Absolutely loving it. ❤

[@anna-mae.c]

I think the tall pot is a coffee carafe not a tea pot and the creamer pot would not have a lid. Hope that helps. Very exciting project!

[@keithhaycraft3765]

It will be very interesting to see where the family takes the structure from here. Will they rebuild further document& cover the site up again?

[@NinaHansen2008]

Do a google search. They’ve made it into a beautiful residence.

[@rondamelendez7523]

In some cases if they are registered historical pieces you can buy them from what I understand and restore them but only if you have them restored to what they would have looked like in their period of restoration. Like you were to purchase this castle or what were to have been for instance the remains of Eileen Donan Castle (I can never spell that castle's name right) which I believe is on a small island near Scotland......in order to make it to where they can pay for it unfortunately they always end up turning beautiful hotels or bed and breakfast type of places -- and that is a sad thing to see such nice and wonderfully majestic kind of places as these kind of castles/buildings end up being.

[@piripi40]

Great episode

[@sharynhughes1061]

Amazing!!

[@greghelms4458]

Very good episode.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Its apparent that the TT Individuals, those in greater focus of the shows, had/have a great shared ebergy of their Passion and had great fun doing "their Gig"!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

I adore Phil Harding, and all these archologists!

[@freaktown2109]

I trust phill with my life

[@manuelkong10]

They're thinking it's All Tudor now....but are we Sure they dug past the Tudor layers to actually hit anything medieval?

[@gaylefassbender457]

Love your program but it's always only 3 days wish it was longer

[@Harry-Hartmann]

A Very interesting Video 👌🏻👍🏻

[@snowcloudshinobi]

caroline has the same chipper-sounding welsh accent as domnhall of zena! i could listen to it all day.

[@testicularoxide5055]

He has a cunning plan...👍

[@truewellu7700]

Nice mystery

[@dfjtobin]

I like how the thumb for the vid is basically Tony Robinson.

[@4urluvjones155]

Good Ole Stewart! He kept the faith

[@lowspark68]

Mick, you are missed.

[@dann5268]

Lost at 66 years old!

[@glendamears3618]

Awwh poor Mick😢😊

[@Dark-Star63A]

I always get the feeling that theres an underlying old-school "beef" between Mick and Phil?

[@tambramccauley2132]

so much rock!

[@manuelkong10]

What a wonderful show....wish they did one like it in America;....Time Team should have Always included a psychic medium....yep

[@meeeka]

They did try to do one in the US; it was remarkably unsuccessful.

[@MossyMozart]

Always trust Mr Stewart!

[@repoocrj]

They would sometimes “boil a cow up in its own hide!” Now that is medieval fast food! 🙌🏼🤣

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

Dig it!

[@luanafarina3626]

Looking at it, it reminds me a bit of Manhope Castle in Scotland (aka Lallybroch). 🤔

[@anthonytroisi6682]

I am a fan of Outlander and thought the same thing based on the structure of the so-called gate house which has small rectangular windows similar to Manhope Castle.

[@sharptalons3474]

Would love to know their plans for the site. Are they planning to restore it? Redesign and make their own additions to the site, or just leave it to crumble more.

[@meeeka]

As it's a scheduled property, there is only so much that can be done. It's a sheep property.

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

How can a gatehouse be 2m wide and have a opening to only one side. At least the first fellow discarded the owners theory on the spot and they are supposedly archaelogist .

[@beagleissleeping5359]

Someone needs to do a re-upload of the Seahenge episode with better picture quality. 😊

[@forshizzlemywizzle]

The thumbnail is Stanis Baratheon and I refuse to be told otherwise

[@user-zi6hw4zm1n]

I''m far too old to have been crushing on Helen Geake for as long as Ihave

[@salvelegio1425]

Very interesting, think about it…… what treasures you got. All that history, almost unbelievable. One thing that I can’t help thinking about is the history of all them men and women that help build this country but today are almost hidden in the haze of history and without graves and not one word written to remember them. Writing this and at the same time listen to Amazing Blondel. Suitable I guess!?!

[@harrymarsee2782]

I thought Tudor WAS the Middle-Ages, so isn't that medieval, too?

[@wildgoose82667]

What is the yellow lawn mower like machine called? I presume it is used to identify buried walls?

[@juliec4985]

Is it just me, or does the guy on the cover look like Tony, or at least a close relative?

[@gwenhardie]

If the humpback tombstones are thought to depict houses, could they not be depicting the bottom of upturned Viking boats? I have read that the Vikings used their upturned boats as roofs for a temporary shelter or house if they had to stay somewhere remote through the winter. If they were settling in a new land, it would make sense to use their boat as the roof of their first house. It would save a lot of work and material; and it certainly was waterproof.

[@MikeWhiskyTango]

I think those 'marauding scots' were my ancestors. Ooops. I have relatives called 'Noseless Clemmy' and 'Wild Will' who were originally French (Flemish) mercenaries who founded the Crosier Clan east of Carlisle.

[@boris8787]

I still prefer the medieval village of Chillingbourne.

[@dianewarfield8067]

hahahaha! I love this moving cartoons!

[@ANIMATIONS2024]

happy Bday

[@SMF314]

An example of a “last ditch effort” paying off!

[@13minutestomidnight]

Hehe Stewart's just like "oh yeah, this was a medieval fortified manor house and the centre of a medieval village,, but it must have been depopulated early on." What does everyone else figure out a day later?

[@aaroncarson1770]

Archaeology in England; no matter what you're looking for, you find something Tudor.

[@MzClementine]

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[@dustycrowfoot2040]

Dusty is interested as to what constitutes the medieval period. Glossing this program, the medieval period seems to end w the ascention of the Tudors. Mmm, me, not so sure. Thoughts?

[@cesaravegah3787]

Well, support a casttle is expensive, lots of them were abandoned when their owners didn't needed it or were unable to afford the costs

[@JudgeYuri]

OMG IT'S BALDRICK!!!

[@JudithJongewaard]

Very interesting but text in front of all of the KZbin videos is maddening 😡

[@buffysheffield1328]

An ancient precursor to the businesses of the legendary Route 66, lol

[@jameswebb4593]

Strong walls to keep out the Highland Heathens .

[@cluttergirl]

I found the show fascinating as I've always been interested in archaeology but I must confess, I got stuck on the cow skeleton. Why would a cow be buried? Why not eat it?

[@buffyjohnson1035]

It probably had the good bits taken off and the skeleton buried. Or could have been diseased and buried immediately to prevent spread?

[@lwebster7100]

Wouldn’t it be amazing to strike up a new fire in that old fireplace?!

[@shlby69m]

Prestiwich reminds me of Patton Oswalt from King of Queens, Hmmm

[@eleniantoniou534]

How about the friend of Michael’s that did the ghost hunt at the chateau?

[@ek-nz]

Wait, how come the biggest bit of evidence for a medieval tower is 14th century pottery under the biggest wall…. which means the wall was built after the period when the history shows they weren’t actually there.

[@user-ru3ql6ji4p]

I love the Romans. They left behind forts, coins, pots, mosaics and bath houses...

[@hanslund308]

what is up with the 3 day policy?