Dig By Wire (Full Episode!) | S19 E01 | Time Team (Gateholm Island, Pembrokeshire)

[@TimeTeamClassics]

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[@davidbeazley1958]

I don’t get it… why not just walk over at low tide?

[@mersmithy1269]

Grow up!

[@montanawardog]

This one has always been a pleasure to watch. That crazy zipline ride across the straight there. Looking forward to seeing 500+ more of us on Patreon!!

[@maggiebrinkley4760]

For all those who remember early 'Blue Peter': Sir Tony Robinson, the John Noakes of Archaeology! Congratulations to all the archaeologists and support staff for making a fascinating video in very trying circumstances. Bravo!

[@kevinfoster1138]

This is really old now but still BIG THANKS to the safety team on this dig!!!!

[@Tayet4Buri]

I'm so happy I found you. I thought I'd never see Time Team again after 2014!🥳

[@a.j.carter8975]

❤😊good to see Alex , loved the various farm series

[@frankiebluej6902]

Thank you for another video. ❤❤

[@Davlavi]

Love the classics.

[@thomasfarley6052]

I have been watching Tony since 2005. I will be joining Patreon tomorrow!

[@karenglenn6707]

Just NO to the zip line trip!!! And I still miss Mick Aston 💔

[@apb3251]

This was when the replaced him with a female specialist (early signs of woke)

[@rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282]

Me too. I loved his serious goofiness!!

[@georgedorn1022]

@@apb3251 Silly sausage.

[@apb3251]

@@georgedorn1022 no sausages are not permitted only kebabs

[@SDE1994]

not only has it been eroded from a peninsular to an island but its probably also lost a lot in width

[@jh-ec7si]

It was also cold that day

[@jdarkwind]

I've been hoping you'd eventually upload the rest of the episodes, so this was a welcome find! (I assume you've been biding your time while licenses expire or some such.)

[@ragnarironspear1791]

Brilliant as always 🇬🇧

[@fepeerreview3150]

I expect there has been a lot of erosion in that whole area over the last 2000+ years. It would have been interesting to hear from a geologist about how much land might have been lost, along with its archeology. Not a complaint though! This is a fascinating place. 45:50 There we go! Thank you.

[@alayneperrott9693]

Some of the Iron Age promontory forts around the Pembrokeshire coast have been badly eroded by the sea, for example about half of the site at Porth-y-Rhaw, near Solva, has already disappeared.

[@a.j.carter8975]

❤🇬🇧 hey we all need some Ruth, Peter and Alex in our lives. Joanne and I lived and suffered through that series with them. Still love TT tho.😊 too clever for modern scheduling though. Perhaps if they did it on ice?😂

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@English.Andy1]

Cheers for this. It’s great 👍

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

First aired 22 January 2012

[@guyplachy9688]

I can't help but keep looking at the gap between Gateholme & the mainland, & wondering exactly when the land-bridge collapsed. Here in South Australia I have seen land-bridges, that I walked over as a child, collapse during a big storm &, a few storms later, you'd barely credit that there had ever been a solid path between the mainland & the island. I find it highly credible that during the Iron Age, & possibly even later, there may have been such a land-bridge to the island.

[@darenhoey7458]

What are the chances that there was a land bridge when it was inhabited. Note to self: watch to end before committing.

[@ne0n1880]

Thank you

[@joristigelaar7850]

That looks like a water tank for live fish, Phil.

[@Tin_Lizzie]

Finally!!!

[@alayneperrott9693]

From the Mesolithic for several thousand years, sea level was lower than today around the west coasts of Wales - hence the drowned forests at places like Borth, so walking across to the island and accessing marine foods around the shoreline would have been easy.

[@vsznry]

I'm sure they could sell old seasons to US networks like Discovery , Prime, smaller city ones, services like Nebula etc... Idk why they don't do it.

[@Schmorgus]

Because they more than likely doesn't want to pay for "non-us" shows :P

[@RKHageman]

TT ran on Discovery Civilization in the USA for a few years, back in the day. That’s how I saw it, on Discovery Channel DIRECTV in the early 2000s.

[@whitewalker9622]

That name, gateholm. It´s norse-ish. Holm is islet in our tongue. Gate is english. So gateholm is telling me from the name it´s the area name. "The gate to the islet". Trading or some other importance I would say. You don´t see the ditches in the pictures of the island? And sorounding areas on the main land. Where is Stewart Ainsworth?

[@Schmorgus]

Gate translates to street (gate, gata). So it's 100% Norse. Should translate pretty nicely to "the street on the islet" or "isletstreet". The bigger question is what it was used for to get a Norse name later on, since there's no evidence that it was ever used by the Norse.

[@davesimpson85]

​@@SchmorgusI live not too far away from gateholm and we have norse settlements all around here. There stands a big chance it was at some point used by norse settlers

[@RKHageman]

Series 19 was when the TV execs at Channel 4 brought in Mary Ann Ochota to supplant Tony, and Alex Langlands, trying to appeal to a younger demographic, and they told Stewart and Helen to buzz off. **That’s** why Dr. Aston walked out- they laid off half his team without even consulting him. Also why Francis Pryor and Neil Holbrook are doing the site director thing that season.

[@andershansson2245]

It's entirely Old Norse, in this case Gateholm translate as 'Goat Island' (if you know any Scandinavian you know it makes sense), looks just like the terrain where people even today breed livestock like goat and sheep. What's odd is with that name, where are the Norse finds? Amber of course being traded from the Baltic lonng before, and after the Viking era.

[@54mgtf22]

Cool 😎

[@stevethepirate123]

maybe because its a beautiful place, build a house on it and people would deffo buy and live in it

[@jimf1964]

How did people get water to drink? I’m sure even there rain wouldn’t have been reliable enough, no?

[@garythomson713]

They mentioned that the site had been excavated at least twice (that they know of). How do they know that what they were seeing wasn't potentially damaged site or refill from previous digs. even the Lidar images could have been misleading or distorted from previous dig pits. Would have been interesting to know how much , if any , information they had about the previous digs.

[@georgedorn1022]

There are probably records showing which parts of the site already been excavated. Any half decent archaeologist will quickly be able to identify when a feature has previously been dug and backfilled if they re-dug it.

[@BorgTinderne]

What is the loading on that zip line ?

[@2gulfalco]

Where's Stewart!? 😮

[@RKHageman]

The TV execs at Channel 4 dismissed him and Helen G in Series 19. That’s a big part of why Dr. Aston left.

[@rapido2962]

I understand that the producers got rid of him to get a replacement which would appeal to the younger audience. Why they should think youngsters don't appreciate experience and skill I have no idea!

[@DevotedMonk]

So glad Time Team are supported by fans now, This episode was the beginning of the end, Mick Aston has left, Channel 4 made cuts back of Stuart and Helen and added faff like "Bushcraft"

[@bguns8486]

This episode is already available... Please release more episodes.

[@westcommonroom9737]

Not on official channel

[@autumn_r_t]

If you want more episodes, are you supporting TT on Patreon?

[@bguns8486]

@@autumn_r_t i'm talking about the earlier seasons...

[@OneiLean]

Earlier seasons (series’) are on the channel 4 website/app. I suspect channel 4 have the rights to those episodes and not these that this channel posts.

[@RKHageman]

The episodes released by TT Official have been remastered for high definition and high quality audio.

[@SafeTrax1]

Alex Langland is HOT!!! Lol

[@justdoingitjim7095]

To an archaeologist, a religious site is like the Holy Grail! So, it stands to reason that no matter what they find, they're going to imply it has some kind of religious ties to it! So many of the "religious temples" found in the past have turned out to be nothing more than a simple residence or a stable.

[@robbleeker4777]

Still prefer to watch the original series over the new one.. Its by far superior in my opinion..

[@DT-ep3lz]

Hel-i-cop-ter. Why not use that?

[@RKHageman]

😂 Do you see anywhere on that islet to land one? Building a landing pad meant destroying the underlying archaeological evidence.

[@DT-ep3lz]

@@RKHageman never saw a lift chopper, have you? There was plenty of space to lower a load. And prior to diggging, they could have landed. I do cede that the cost would be greater.

[@alayneperrott9693]

Helicopters cost many hundreds of pounds an hour, especially if they need to carry multiple persons and/or freight.

[@joekenorer]

This episode is already available on this channel, why reupload it?

[@adamrollins4087]

did you ever think that felicopters was used on the person or in a person don't be so literal don't be so spiritual sometimes an artifact is an artifact because that's what it is the deer could be as simple for her in the hunter possibly not definite and the phallic object could have been used just for that A sex toy Like humans haven't made them before.

[@classicambo9781]

Having seen what humans insert into themselves (and get stuck) on a semi regular basis, I'd be surprised if it hadn't been used in such a way.

[@ZeroRyoko]

@@classicambo9781 made of stone? ouch that would chafe a bit. Did they have lube in the darkages :D

[@EcclesBludnock]

What is annoying to anybody who took history in High School. The illogical assumption of every site/people were or are religious artifacts. Remember in regression Therapy, everyone was a King/Princess!! It took "Tony" 20 minutes to realize that the "Island" was once a headland, quite obvious to the naked eye, that weather swept away the 'Bridge" to the mainland about the time they are assuming. The show would be interesting to any one that was interested, But what Tony And The Mad Professor are trying too hard to do, is make the show sellable to Private Networks to make monster loads of cash on the pretense of being a type of interesting movie that Indiana Jones would star in!! Utter Crap!!

[@alayneperrott9693]

"Monster loads of cash" is a gross exaggeration. They need income to fund the new programme of crowd-funded Time Team digs. Archaeology is very expensive when you no longer have a major TV network backing you and you have experts, equipment, film crews, local food and accommodation, and a production team to pay for.

[@thenoworriesnomad]

I expect you will doing a video very shortly on the subject of the iPhone 17 leaks and don’t buy the iPhone 16 because the leaks say it’s a nano second faster and one more pixel to the camera…😂😂😂