Dark Age Remains Uncovered In An Englishman's Garden | Time Team | Timeline

The Time Team turn their attention to Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Over their allotted three days, they reveal in present-day gardens and, in the kitchen of one family, fascinating evidence about the early development of a medieval town and an important aspect of England's past.
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[@londawarren8278]

All I could glean from the info shown above was that this vid was posted in 2019...then I saw all our friends were MUCH, MUCH younger. Finally found that it was actually filmed in 1994! Thanks to whoever posted that because I was about to write to the 'Team to find out who their plastic surgeons were!

[@flitsertheo]

Notice the sharp edged cars , typical 1980s, which would still have been around in the early 1990s.

[@beanixdorf6977]

😂😂😂😂

[@lewissmart7915]

not just that but they're all much more nervous on camera (except Tony)

[@emmafre-haack1746]

Victor Ambrus…I really love his way… silent but never missing a Word…this Episode is a precious! Thanks from Germany…

[@THENAFERATU]

I miss Mick, he was, and will always be, a kind, beautiful man

[@TheRainblossoms]

Verily

[@kevinvilmont6061]

I adore Mick.

[@damon7890]

This is probably the most relaxed start to a Time Team I’ve ever watched Tony and the gang do 😂

[@Andvare]

It was the first episode filmed (apart from the pilot).

[@somecunninglinguist]

Wow I had no idea how long this show ran, this is practically a different product - I'd love more!

[@annazaman9657]

All the episodes are available on YT. Just type time team

[@ghomerhust]

i think they started in late 1993 or early 1994, and ran for a very long time. i saw one episode where they were celebrating their 200th show

[@georgielancaster1356]

Inman ways, I prefer it

[@evanm2911]

“Much Wenloch in Shropshire” is just about the most English thing I’ve heard in a long while.

[@joannamallory2823]

Evan M I was on the verge of saying that very thing.😂

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@joannamallory2823 But would you have said *Much Wenlock* as that's how it's spelt? It's near *Wenlock Edge* which runs to *Craven Arms* which is nearly twenty miles away.

[@tamarschwartz3642]

😆😆😆

[@davidpeterson5647]

Right next to "Buggering-on-Madcow with tea and crumpets."

[@kevinvilmont6061]

That’s English? It sounds like a foreign language. 😂

[@Chantwizzle]

They're all so young! But I love that they've maintained their enthusiasm all these years.

[@mi_kirsh]

Oh man, Phil is just DOING IT with that mane of hair, my stars.

[@laurie4275]

Wow! This was 26 years ago already. Time flies! Doesnt seem that long ago.

[@stephengardiner9867]

The name of that creek, though! Don't head up that without your paddle! Gotta love it! I believe that there is a "Piddle River" as well... Damn, but the medieval real estate agents had their work cut out for them!

[@thepeach2428]

I love how they are basically fangirling over a wooden beam and stone arches!

[@laurametheny1008]

Younger Tony! Yay! I've been missing these and I love Tony. He brings one of my fave subjects to life. History! Thankyou😍🤘🇬🇧

[@bluegent7]

This whole program is so pleasant. It's a witness of a culture, it's architecture, values, attitudes, well worth protecting and preserving. Beware or it will soon be overrun, as countless others have been throughout history. It will take open eyes and a firm stand. Do it for posterity. Let them enjoy what you have been gifted with.

[@opencarrier8607]

Best Channel on YT.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

There are other channels on YT with many, many more *TT* episodes.

[@bluezauza]

I really love the first episodes of Time Team.

[@gkai8000]

Sad I wasn’t able to experience these as they came out before but grateful to see them now

[@hiddentruth1982]

It's nice to see these old episodes and see how it all started out. Then to see one of the last episodes and see how much it evolved.

[@jonathanbennetts2632]

Tony doing his Harry Potter look.

[@rachelpatten8889]

They are so young-1994! The geophys machine was as big as a backhoe. Love that folks can write in and ask about what they found in their back garden.

[@MWhaleK]

AH! More Time Team! I love that show!

[@ruthannemackinnon588]

Love the young Phil, good looking guy!

[@irishtino1595]

This video blows my mind, first season of TT, but the show is finally hitting it's more fluid pace that we all came to know and love. More polished, better pacing to keep energy in viewer interest involved. Transitional.

[@overlord8658]

A Yank with British roots, I really enjoy this show!

[@patrickbuildsit]

I love these early episodes, before everyone came out of their shells and showed their true endearing personalities.

[@TooLateForIeago]

Oooof. Tony with a mullet looks scary.

[@adamnomdeplum3]

Ieago jarring to see such an early episode

[@karanfield4229]

Hmmmm I really had to mullet it over.....🤦🏻‍♀️

[@coppertopv365]

More like a skullet

[@kevinmulcahy7991]

Thoroughly enjoyed it. I believe it to be the oldest (chronologicaly) of all the episodes I've watched.

[@adamsjerome1839]

I think the sophistication of any civilization can be measured by how much they value their gardens, large or small.

[@kafon6368]

People living in the same structures from different eras of history! Imagine how many people walked by there and are now gone! Wow!

[@taylorlibby7642]

Exactly!

[@thrice1888]

Kenny Jorge at least 5 people

[@taylorlibby7642]

@@thrice1888 😂🤣

[@sheilaghbrosky4150]

This was one of the earliest Time Teams. The format isn't as formal as the later ones. More hair on the presenters too.

[@lindahedman3115]

Love your story telling, Tony!

[@maineeveryday3991]

Amazing the size decrease in the ground radar equipment

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting,

[@saw6436]

Watching this in 2021 now. We were all so much younger then.

[@mariansmith7694]

I hope the fellow, now proud owner of a grand ditch, gets a grand new garden out of all this fun.

[@Schmorgus]

This was recorded in 1994, hopefully, he's still well and having a nice garden :)

[@jw4620]

This has to be 30 years old, because it's before Tony lost his hair.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Baldric talking about Old England Good times

[@crustycobs2669]

Great episode

[@happyicare5053]

Wonderfuuul

[@josephbailey4463]

Back when the epaulettes on Phil’s coat still had their buttons..

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Every *Time Team, Time Team Special* and most *Time Team America* programmes have been posted on YT by *Fillask, Reijer Zaaijer* and the _official_ *Time Team* channel. Try *DigVentures* too.

[@EmeraldVideosNL]

Timeline, please number these episodes (as there are 20 seasons), upload them in order, and put them in (a) playlist(s).

[@Bosper]

THAT just needs to happen! A remastered version would be a huge bonus (if at all possible).

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@Bosper There are all 20 years worth of episodes on YT courtesy of both *Fillask* and *Reijer Zaaijer* and there are others now from the official *Time Team* channel. Associated channels are *DigNation* and *DigVenturs.*

[@TechGorilla1987]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Not to mention that the TIme Team channel versions are in EXCELLENT quality. Quite a lot of the TT episodes are 1080potato.

[@georgedorn1022]

This is series 1 episode 3, although it was the first episode of Time Team to be filmed (apart from the pilot which was never broadcast). It was filmed on 9th-11th April 1993 and first broadcast on 30th January 1994.

[@Tula-cs1ef]

@@georgedorn1022 wait episode 3 was the first to be aired?

[@minnalove6877]

Ooooh they are all so Young ❤️

[@djjmc]

Air date: January 30, 1994. Gripping stuff. 1994 is a very very long time ago.

[@c.s.7266]

@Gene I'm with you! It wasn't that long ago. :)

[@lteht6919]

I like these early episodes, the hair and the glasses. Makes me smile

[@TheRainblossoms]

So interesting. Much paper and not a lot of scanning or technical data. This looks like the bridge of archaeological sleuthing and technical science in digging up the past.

[@PatrickMHoey]

Phil looking like a kid!

[@assaultracoon4183]

I love IT real Nice 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@assaultracoon4183]

Thanks

[@motorcop505]

Its nice to see that Phil’s hair has always been outrageous! Tony Robinson actually has hair, too! As an aside, one never properly says “Over and out.” “Over” means there is more to come, while “Out” means there is nothing following, so one has to pick one or the other.

[@maineeveryday3991]

Omg. Tony's hair. Loll and Phil Harding lol. Blast from the past

[@dinahjackson8146]

I just watched my EARLIER, TIME TEAM... 1991 ❤ FANTASTIC !!! ❤

[@angelamewes4176]

OMG!!! Tony has HAIR!!🤣🤣🤣💖💖💖🎇🎇🎇🤗🤗🤗

[@hixyhicks]

This must be an early episode,shame about Mick passing .Rip .

[@PatrickMHoey]

Naughty neighbor showing Mick and Tony the whipping post in her home was bad 😅

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

I don't want to take a dip in that brook.

[@angelamewes4176]

MICK??!! WOW!!!💖💖💖

[@Morccanna1822]

Yay!

[@fionnagrant6636]

I'm in NZ, and this show always makes me weirdly jealous of the soil in England. So rich and dark. I wonder if it's just geology or if it's because it's been cultivated an fertilised with animal waste etc for so long.

[@spikeluv84]

the soil is bc of volcanoes

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*Fionna McCormick* Both.

[@fionnagrant6636]

@@spikeluv84 we also have volcanoes.

[@fionnagrant6636]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 thanks

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@fionnagrant6636 The *Romans* wanted *Britain* for the farming surplus it generated. There were also lead, copper and iron but the food was primary. Most of the _villas_ were farmhouses as well.

[@nickinportland]

A what brook?! 😂

[@collin4592]

i miss living here.

[@RobKoelman]

33:20 They are all drinking wine. In the later episodes, they changed to beer...

[@galvestoncandlecompany5696]

wow... the nineties style

[@WS-kk2iz]

Dem haircuts and dem computers... lol

[@HarlemWorldMagazine]

10:24 "A Whipping Post..."

[@meowwl]

Err, what kind of brook at 26:09?! I had to look at that twice to see if what I was hearing was what I was hearing! I wonder if that's the origin of the infamous creek that one doesn't want to be up with out a paddle.

[@gerardpickett5108]

wow very interesting my blood line goes back to Montgomery

[@1028dianemarie]

I miss Robin 💜

[@karanfield4229]

There is only one Tony....

[@yuwish6320]

They all look so young...

[@kattyaaa1676]

Medieval ? 👏😃

[@lindahughes2289]

2024 and thank you !

[@ncooty]

Alright, lads, our arbitrarily short 60-hour speed-archeology window is closed. Fill it all back in.

[@THEtodd_83]

Must be an old episode, Tony has more hair! 🤔🤣

[@tgbluewolf]

I'd give just about anything to live in a house with bits that old!

[@matsteeuw3533]

21:58 Aged Tony Robinson

[@caelyclifford6133]

Why does Tony look like everyone's mom from an old home movie

[@desslokbasileus571]

24:15　25:00　37:01 47:17　48:33 48:46

[@hankrogers8431]

Tony was young then. 😉

[@townview5322]

So, people just live in houses - or parts of houses- that are HUNDREDS of years old? Do those houses cost more to buy? Are they considered prestigious - or just a bit ho-hum? I live in Sydney: these are very important issues. PS We've had Time Team here since TV days

[@kkloikok]

Woah he has hair. This show must have been on for a while

[@ErinReviews]

You know in an odd way this group reminds me of Arthur and his knights of the round table lol

[@primroseproblematic2059]

They were so much more happy and friendly when they were young 😂

[@marilyncuaron3222]

So was I.

[@crowjr2]

Dang, those dendochronologists are all alike, no? 😄

[@jlwaddey9579]

anybody what year this may have been?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Wikipedia.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Haha! That guy with hair? And that other guy, with the same hair cut?

[@benediktmorak4409]

how young they all were...

[@livingterminal5792]

JCB is a company not a machine !!

[@eloiseteklu84]

Do you fancy a climb?

[@marcocc2643]

I first thought I was Looking at Harry Potter ))..well he aged a bit (;

[@someperson5961]

Ads. ev'ry five seconds, Yay !

[@frankturrentine]

I get none at all

[@paul662]

Here

[@tracishea5053]

As an American, the Brits just seem way too casual about this stuff. Lady, you've a doorway more than 500 years older than my whole freakin' country! Be amazed! 😂

[@flitsertheo]

That is nothing compared with roads which date from Roman times. Though we must admit these have been refurbished from time to time. Not that it really shows.

[@Hillcapper1]

As an American whose had the opportunity to travel in Europe some I’m always amazed at how old things are. We get excited about 18th century archeology, the Brits just dig past the stuff and keep going.

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@Hillcapper1 🤣🤣🤣

[@ronnyhamze1795]

ive been binging this and was shocked when i saw him with black, long hair. This must be real old

[@Tocsin-Bang]

I don't think any of the changes over the years improved in any way on this early format.

[@thomashernandez8700]

Since when are the 1200s the DARK AGES (circa 450-1066)?

[@sablatnic8030]

Over and out = You just talk, I won't be listening!

[@MultiSirens]

Ho my they always change where they dig! Lol

[@grayelmore9425]

Foond sum puhry did you !

[@edbaker5619]

Say Geo Fizz one more time.

[@zuur303]

Would be nice if the description contains stuff like original air date. I now have to take a stab at dating the program. Judging from clothes and hair styles this is pre-Roman.

[@alanaadams7440]

Lol