The Bizarre Disappearance Of This Lost 14th-Century Medieval Village | Time Team | Chronicle

Time Team travels to High Worsall, near Middlesbrough, a village that almost completely disappeared hundreds of years ago. The team endeavors to find 14th-century buildings and a manor house. Also, historians Robin Bush and Dawn Hadley are followed while they research the village and create a portrait of life in the village.
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[@crumpuppet]

I love how you can easily date a Time Team episode by the length of Tony's hair, the bushyness of Phil's beard and the darkness of John's glasses.

[@juliesiefke1173]

Notice how Robin immediately introduces Dawn as Dr. Hadley, making it clear she is his colleague, not his assistant.

[@cruisepaige]

These people are the best allies. When I was a young lawyer they always thought I was the court reporter. And dressed very formally and severely.

[@RickL_was_here]

And?

[@meatyoakergeorge]

People read into everything others do, then judge them for tiny issues, or things that mean so very little, it's just a bunch of first world problems, that's all... but keep it up, do you, and be a whiny, shrivelled up soul, who only points out issues where there either is none, or ones that are non-issues, in today's world anyway

[@shri081]

Tony and Mick were so adorable together this episode…god I miss Mick….

[@steveclark5357]

this show never gets old

[@PNWwonder]

My how young they all are, we have all gained some years but I still love this group of people and the Time Team family! Tony still gives it to them.

[@susanmacdonald4288]

I love seeing view of fields from overhead...it's amazing how relatively easy it is to see structures, roads, etc. from there.

[@bettyir4302]

After all these years, the aerial views are still amazing.

[@andreahaley4770]

I can imagine many small villages disappeared once the Black Plague ran its course, there were no survivors.

[@Padraigp]

Absolutely none. 😂

[@socialisttrafficregulator2015]

There's probably a pit full of skeletons somewhere around there.

[@Marlaina]

I wonder where Brits and Europeans came from after the plague happened. Did they just sprout up out of the dirt or fall off trees in order to repopulate? 😂

[@steve-0493]

Ikr!!ppl must've got busy rebuilding, and got busy, getting busy lol....🤷‍♂️🤪🤣✌️🍻🥃

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

ialisttrafficregulator2015 Who would.....😢bury them ?????

[@janicehill5605]

😊I'm glad you had them put the fish in the river before they died!

[@timtaylor8406]

Having been a student at Durham I can understand why this highly exposed village was abandoned...it's just too cold and windy!

[@nicolawebb6025]

If that was a reason no one would live anywhere in Britain 😄

[@ferrusmanus184]

Medieval village mysteriously abandoned in the 14th century... Black Death, anyone?

[@frauleintrude6347]

Yes, the plagues and wars. There are 24 smaller lost villages in our region that have been wiped out during the 14th to 15th century. Maybe the third or more of the population died, the rest moved elsewhere, nobody knows. What is left are archeological findings and historical sources as maps, church or tax registries, certificates and local names for places.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Was going to say aliens just to spice it up,but a plague works to......

[@LlamaLlamaMamaJama]

Ooooh I love a mystery involving a mass disappearance!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Roanoke Island?

[@Kali-Yuga-Peace-Corp]

​@@iahelcathartesaura3887 Isn't that one solved? DNA evidence says they ended up with the neighbouring tribe of natives.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

You have seen my pay check?¿???

[@nevillemignot1681]

Oooooh!!...........................There is nothing more that Mick and Stewart likes than a good collection of 'Lumps and Bumps'.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Especially the ones 2 inches high.....

[@nekopineapple4353]

Love Mick's sweaters every episode, especially the really colorful striped one this episode. I miss him a lot bless his soul

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Liked his finger less gloves myself.....

[@watcher171]

Tony kissing Mick…priceless ! 😂

[@dotcassilles1488]

And mick saying he would have to put something in Tony's tea... I'd have liked to see what happened, if mick was game and how long it took Tony to discover what mick did, lol. They were good mates and had a bit of larrikin in them as well. Blessings, Dot

[@monicacall7532]

Yet another TT that I haven’t seen yet! Happy day!

[@brittany1679]

Thanks your energy towards your history is a wonderful thing to see . If everyone did history/ exploration like you do many more people would learn much easier. Your enthusiastic delivery is so exciting. Hope to see much more like this.😊

[@bethbartlett5692]

These are *"Time Travel Time Team"* Exciting to see Phil looking so very young. Everyone else seemed to remain the same for 20 years, what's that secret?

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Alcohol.

[@yakult3881]

Maybe the medieval spirits blessed them

[@bethbartlett5692]

​@@Vicus_of_Utrecht 😁 I subscribe to that + Omega 3 and Vitamin E. Being the Good Irish Girl I am! ☘️🍺 Tennessee, USA

[@bethbartlett5692]

​@@LelaHolliday Tea does contain Antioxidants! I like Earl Grey, need to do more Tea breaks for sure!

[@mm-qd1ho]

Joking aside, I think that they all love what they do, they're good at it, and they have real affection for each other. If only all group endeavors could be like this! Fresh air, hard work, and the visits to the local pubs for camaraderie 🙂

[@HurricaneWanderer]

This is probably one of my favorite Time Team episodes.

[@anitaoconnor3748]

So interesting! Thank you for all the work involving this historical discovery.

[@nancyM1313]

Love Time Team. Much appreciated💕only get to watch on KZbin. Tfsharing~

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Time team channel is up now.....

[@dustbowlhammer7119]

It's Ironic that the graveyard is the only tangible evidence that remains. Why not look for names, then try and find out if there are any descendants of people that lived there?

[@theCosmicQueen]

i can not believe the amount of stuff being dug up in britain. thousands of things, people, buildings etc.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Imagine digging New York, recent it is but deep it's stories they are.....

[@seanpaula8924]

Love time team.

[@edwin5419]

Tony Robinson with hair?! This must be ancient!

[@brandyjean7015]

Season 5 episode 8... The most recent Season was 20..

[@nevillemignot1681]

I do think we work out the vintage of these long running series of programes by Tony's hair!!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Subscribed!

[@abigailgerlach5443]

There was a law in the U.S. that said you couldn't serve your servants/prisoners lobster more than a couple of times a week! I want to time travel!

[@componenx]

That's because lobster was considered a "trash fish". I wish it was still the case so prices would be lower!

[@Padraigp]

Same with salmon in england!

[@Padraigp]

​@@componenx you can get them free if you buy a few lobster pots and put them near a sewage outlet and theres plenty of leaking sewage these days!

[@redentorreyes1494]

Baldrick!!

[@montananerd8244]

❤️❤️❤️ just showed it to my millennial tenant who thought he didn't like Rowan Atkinson...he stands corrected.

[@Erraticfox]

This channel is the equivalent to the (good) History channel around in the 2000s.

[@johannaholmgren8088]

Oh my. Everyone is so young here!!

[@josephcroft]

This show is awesome, I'm always interested in real history

[@robertafierro5592]

I always wanted to travel to Britain..u guess this is the closest I'll ever come! This particular video entices me! WHERE could a very old village go? Nowhere! It's still there waiting to be discovered!

[@leannesmith3480]

I hope you get the chance to!! Wonderful country.

[@Marlaina]

Scotland is a must visit! Spectacular country, especially the Highlands

[@jenniferlyons4150]

RIP Mick..

[@shariesmith302]

Sayer was my Grandmother's maiden name.? It's nice to hear how old it is.

[@jesterboykins2899]

I feel like until Tony cut his hair, by this point it was the elephant in the room lol. After he cut it everyone could exhale. I did at least lol. Much respect sir Tony

[@bethbartlett5692]

Do I have this correct? ? So, eveywhere throughout England, the actual Land was owned by those with a Title, ie: King, a Duke, Lord, Marquis, and the remainder were the Working Class aka Peasants whom lived on the Owners Property and Worked ... for that Owner? Thus, the Peasant never could earn money, or enough miney, to own their own property/home? Other than Peasants were the Craftsmen/women, the Clergy, and Teachers. Did I get this right? What gloom, no wonder there were so many shipping out to be Pirates. (Worse for women, they would have few choices: marry, teacher, Nun, or Harlot.)

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Pretty good analysis. And it hasn't changed that much! They just kid themselves it has!

[@andreacraik9757]

He’s like archeology on crack! “We have 3 days to excavate… get digging!”

[@jasonshumate6456]

Burned by Danes, avenged by Uhtred of Bettanburg!

[@feralbluee]

Tony seems quite on edge during this dig. he usually seems much more even keeled, even though hurrying things along. the producers may be putting pressure on him for some reason or, as he said, they don’t have enough people for this episode. 🏯 🌷🌱

[@GodsOath_com]

3000 years = King David/Solomon's time, end of the Bronze Age, and they did have glass.

[@TheSchmuck01]

At one point they say that having river fish was a "jealously guarded privilege" and only the lord would have had trout or salmon, but later on they say that everyone was eating salmon and they had to limit how much of it people fed their apprentices. Which was it, a rare privilege for the rich or a common as muck peasant food?

[@wyvrennemacdaniels6813]

okay so i think i might be able to help. if I remember correctly early on the really rich and monastery owned everything especially the waterways. so Fresh fish was the right of the rich. the poor lived on salted fish. unless the monastery or lord gave them a fish. as it became later in the era between the dissolution of the church and the black death killing off people in droves the rules of waterways became more lax in an effort to keep peasants from moving around as much. it's like the story of butter but reversed

[@Sutorenja]

​@@wyvrennemacdaniels6813 ok, whats with the butter?

[@wyvrennemacdaniels6813]

​​@@Sutorenja okay during the height of the monasteries power no one owned large areas of common ground and anyone who wanted could graze their animals on it. so anyone could own a cow. than as rich people took over and fenced off common ground for private hunting areas and gardens, poor people would have to rent fields to graze animals so only the moderately wealthy peasants and wealthy could afford to feed cows. hence butter becoming a food of the rich. food is always so interesting to learn about.

[@gregb6469]

Perhaps the privilege was the catching of the fish, not the eating of it. By controlling who could fish, and when, they were praticing an early form of conservation.

[@toniomalley5661]

It was first just for the lords as they controlled the river then as they got fed up with eat fish so much they said the servants could have it in Limerick they put it in the article s of employment that servants could only be fed salmon three times a week’s fashions change now it’s loved again

[@joaomanoel3197]

Muito bom

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

Omlette du fromage?

[@vivianlidberg9031]

We can dig a f find lots of things but it gets covered up like we don't already know it 😊

[@williamharris8367]

It is often for the best that things are kept hidden from the public at large. I can remember making "discoveries" in historical sources (i.e. old books and documents) of things that were already well-known to historians in the local area. They then kindly explained _why_ these things were not publicized or publicly discussed. I liked being part of the cabal.

[@laserbeam002]

I kinda liked time team but I always wondered WHY they only had THREE days. Tight budget maybe???

[@cookingsherry8784]

Probably had more to do with production schedule and TV time.

[@cookingsherry8784]

I always thought 3 days was unrealistic as well considering most archeological sites are explored for multiple years.

[@laserbeam002]

Well, actually what time team was doing was simply the preliminary or exploratory dig. Still, I never got the 3 day thing. Why not 5 or 7???

[@holly50575]

My understanding from years ago, was these people all have regular employment during the week and gather together for this on the weekends.

[@lindafarnes486]

I think two reasons. One was that archaeologists were only given 3 days on development sites if archaeology of some sort was discovered. Also, good gimic for a tv show. People could let them in and out to multiple sites to make lots of shows in the course of the year. Lots discovered and learned in the process.

[@swearenginlawanda]

Lol. He said " Forever Amber" wonder how many people get that reference.???? I know I do. ( My mom got upset I actually read the book. Hahahaha )

[@JSAC66]

What season and episode numbers?

[@wewenang5167]

IS THIS 20 YEARS AGO? DR CLARISSA LOOK SO YOUNG!

[@Gil27225]

Why the 3 day limit. Makes no sense at all.

[@gotsome1]

0:58 Hmm 🤣🤣🤣

[@radwulfeboraci7504]

'Planned housing' in neat little plots you say ... couldn't be feudalism, could it?

[@mutualbeard]

Tony Robinson should've dialled his critique of the experts down a little.

[@zonabrown9241]

Tony at his infuriating best

[@socialisttrafficregulator2015]

Black Death probably killed them all, and the village was razed.

[@tylercoombs1]

Tony's like a child lol

[@arthurjamesaltmann729]

Besides the obvious its easy to judge how old an episode is by how battered Phil's hat is. Looks pretty new here so must be an earlier episode..

[@allangibson8494]

And the colour of Tony Robinson’s hair which gradually went gray…

[@GreatGreebo]

Don’t forget the aging of Mick’s striped sweater 🤣

[@dotcassilles1488]

Phil had many hats over the more than 20 years/seasons of time team. There was one that looked like an Australian Akubra (cowboy) hat and another that looked like something a re-enactment archer would wear (think robin hood) with a small brim at the front, a short crown and a feather. Mick had many jumpers, some with vertical stripes and some with horizontal stripes. I've heard the rumour that some fans actually knitted them specifically for mick. I find the technology, the hair styles and receding hairlines as well as the different styles of Tony's glasses are more helpful when I'm trying to guess the year/season of an episode. Blessings, Dot

[@Evri500]

Boldrik!

[@italianbirdvideos6190]

I love this stuff but don't like how this channel rebrands and retitles older shows that we've sen before. You see the title and get excited about the show and then you realize that you watched it ten years ago...

[@marknelson8574]

why only 3 days?

[@thehairyhominid9972]

Anyone know which series and episode this is?

[@JulianneTure]

Season 5, episode 8.

[@thehairyhominid9972]

@@JulianneTure thank you!!!

[@Stay_at_home_Astronaut81]

The sheer number of commercials in these videos, is extremely distracting.

[@kelly30269]

Why do you work over the weekend? Is everyone volunteers? How are government offices for the historians open on the weekend?

[@lesabri]

I wish we cared about our past like the Brits do.

[@Fjodor.Tabularasa]

The tsunami of babarian colonists in the UK will change that totally.

[@agreedydragon]

The average layman doesn't care about history, but there are organizations that show some major interest. For early American history I've been watching Jamestown Rediscovery on KZbin. They're an organization that's been doing archaeology for nearly 30 years at the Jamestown site.

[@larryzigler6812]

Just who is we ?

[@lesabri]

@@larryzigler6812 USA

[@robertafierro5592]

We only care enough to cover our tracks. America has very little to be proud of right now, but we will be back! I am a Patriot, and the Corruption and Apathy just break my heart. I will NEVER. stop talking about this.

[@Miguel_and_The_Microbes]

I cannot stand the taste of salmon and must spit it out. It must be a gene that determines if uou can stomach salmon’s flavor 😂

[@Horseyperson12]

I agree. Can't stand it.

[@Discopuss]

Brits gonna brit!

[@leadingauctions8440]

Authorities. Was this a BBC show?

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

It was Channel 4

[@canonder5178]

Third

[@battery781]

First

[@ktozy2149]

I thought the dude in the thumbnail was Joe Rogan

[@nevillemignot1681]

It's Baldrick of course......

[@johnclark1612]

95% talk 3% history

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Odd that the talk is about history! Shame you missed that.

[@turpyturtle8621]

Pretty fat for vegetarian

[@dann5268]

Bread?

[@ledacedar6253]

I bet Victor sketched in Mick somewhere in his many art pieces of extraordinary representative art works. Mick, after a kiss on the cheek from Tony says, he'll have to put something in his tea. Oooh, I can see Murder Mysteries happening. The young Tony, still thinks he's a high & mighty star actor so he confronts all the esteemed archaeologists with his mundane perspective; not a drop of respect evident in his uneducated assertions. Really irks me. Where's the respect Tony? What a fool you were then eh!

[@Tiberiotertio]

Nice to see some old reenactor friends, the White Company has been gone now for almost 20 years.