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[@Geographus666]

I like that it shows what an old episode this is when they still had to explain what GPS is.

[@kaytiej8311]

Tony always asks such intelligent but relevant questions. And builds the story so well. He has always been a brilliant storyteller.

[@ShitterMcGavin]

Nothing in the world quite like early to mid nineties Time Team. All the classic personalities. Cant get enuff

[@alexmendoza4261]

I saw one episode with another commentator and didn't care for him to much, I read that Tony was coming back in 2023 so hopefully he will stay this time. I truly enjoy Tony's commentary best.

[@FrankTheTank612]

Tony is the best.

[@franhoadley7189]

Love the ‘old’ Time Team. The new presenter is too serious and treats each find with almost religious awe. Too much. Need more humor and sass.

[@PeachysMom]

I know what you mean but I’m going to give him some time to develop some chemistry along with the rest of the cast. Some new episodes are better to have than zero new episodes lol

[@man.inblack]

Nostalgia is a great way to limit your viewing. The new time team is evolving to be able to continue without tv budgets and dedicated support in the new age of ‘content’. They couldn’t just reboot the franchise , they had to see if it could work in a patreon economy. but they persisted. Sensationalist “history” channels have wild opinions that bring in the views, but they chose the stories from the trenches, of reality and in their ability. I don’t think they’ve said they’ve sat on their laurels, someone has to the volunteers chip away at the ignorance of our ancestors. It just sounds like your opinion, man, and these guys are doing the best they can despite the lack of TV training you get as an archaeologist. Time team had already been awarded for a massive contribution to British archaeology, but still they persist. I thank them for that.

[@nathanbrooks2581]

@@man.inblacknobody said they were bad my guy. They shared a preference between the two. There’s no reason for you to be so insufferable.

[@rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282]

And even the sass was respectful.

[@alexandergaus493]

Well, everyone has a valid point but my opinion aligns more with giving them time and also I think that both eras, the TV and the new era have their charme and benefits. Still love them. But I like that the community is very respectful and thankful for the teams work. Even arguments are more or less friendly. Everyone tells their view and sometimes they end up seeing things differently. This conversation was such a conversation. With each comment my view changed a little and ended up seeing things a bit differently in the end. I love that as much as the content itself.

[@EastCoastFringe]

I recently binged watched old episodes of Time Team on various platforms . It really is/was great content ,delivered with class by Tony and crew. Very informative ,very well done and I would love to spend an evening in the local pub and share a pint or three with them!

[@cecileroy557]

I sooo agree!!!

[@suestroud]

Love this show. It's so fascinating.

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

Sitting here in the hospital desperately looking for a distraction and good ol Time Team pops up…❤❤❤

[@mariyamwaniki]

Hi from Massachusetts, get well soon👋✌️

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

@@mariyamwaniki thank you, dear! I so appreciate that…💓💓💓

[@mariyamwaniki]

@@thatwiseoldbitchchannel had to wish you well because your name made me laugh. 😄

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

@@mariyamwaniki I’ve heard that before! 😂 thank you! 🙏🏽

[@gregsscubavids5128]

Be well soon. Hospital’s no fun any time of year. Best wishes.

[@kaboom-zf2bl]

that odd antler is for removing the fur from a rope ... it is still used today ... it defurs the rope and relaxes the strain to each strand making the rpe stronger and removing its prestressed sections

[@ivenothumbs]

Even though Sir Tony Robinson is British he should still be considered a national treasure

[@kurisensei]

This sentence is so confusing to me

[@Charlie.M.Green1905]

@@kurisensei national treasure is usually used in an American context... If that helps

[@timmaxwell2348]

Absolutely fascinating. This legacy of discovery is why I still continue to support the Time Team mission with my dollars ❤

[@EventHorizon3.14]

Not going to lie I watch the channel for Phil Harding

[@gumshoe2273]

Huge Alice Roberts fan here.

[@cecileroy557]

I loved all of them but Phil was SUCH a character!! Actually - they all were. ++ I was typing this while watching. I heard "flasid" and my head popped up! 😂 I think it was Flasid Cave.... 😉

[@Michael-ln7us]

Me too, love his passion

[@seantice]

but of course.

[@FreeFallingAir]

I adore these old episodes

[@bethbartlett5692]

"A sort of Sociology Archaeology of "Time Team", perspective ": In the 2nd episode: 1:18:50 --> a bit challenging to follow, they are talking on top of each other and Corenza's voice, more high pitch, shrills, cuts through, staking her point ... reminding me how reflective this is of the early shows, before Tony took his role to a higher level of "Direction", a necessary point of clarity for the flow and points of each Show's Subjects. The Production certainly Evolved, and that was supportive of its overall Successes.

[@Tipi_Dan]

1:19:42 This is the best party I've ever seen on Time Team. This is one of the best parties I have ever seen on television.

[@joanscott8698]

Happy Christmas Time Team 🎄!!!!!

[@bluelagoon1980]

Loved listening to Phil talking with Tony about flint was wonderful. Working flint might just be the most human thing you can do, especially when you think about how long humans have been around, and how short a time we've had the abilty to create metal tools.

[@benediktmorak4409]

And , as usual, Tony Robinson and his Merry Diggers, sorted everything out in three day... though it is also understood, special by all the - every episode must see - viewers, that long before and even longer afterwards, it are the locals, the local geological or archeological societies, are doing the rest of the work.

[@gumshoe2273]

Some episodes were better than others, but I enjoyed them all. I think what made some better than others in my mind was just personal interest in the area of the dig and era.

[@quinnabun1173]

In New Zealand somewhere I was when very young with my Mother & Aunty,Was a beautiful grass field & when walking we came across a hole in the ground/field that appeared to be a great fall into a hollow cave type system.In there once we went down& around to try& find the opening was at least possibly 3or more sheep bones just directly under the hope above.So in other words they all at some point naturally fell in. Was fascinating as a child.Cant for the life of me recall where this was.South Island is the most I know.

[@joesanchez979]

Excellent episode 😊

[@davidfletcher6703]

Back in the Stone Age when Tony had hair, lol

[@leecarlson9713]

I do enjoy Robin Bush, he makes history so interesting! (This from an American who is an Anglophile.)

[@2gulfalco]

There is something extra special about the ones with Mick ❤

[@chrisbassett8996]

our family had the potential for a nose like that, thankfully its not that big. however when my brother and I went to see our father in his coffin, as we were walking toward the coffin he saw dads nose sticking up and said oh no, Americas cup. and I had to check the coffin lid to make sure it wasn't going to squash dads nose. and I remember feeling sure dad smile as we were discussing it.

[@cecileroy557]

😉😂

[@j.b.4340]

1:42:48, the black soil layer is where mammoth bones are found, in the southern US. It’s a thin, bog layer, and on top of it, is yards of wind blown loess. Good times, to very bad.

[@glendamears3618]

Great stuff I've always loved time team and your all so young😊❤❤❤

[@martihetrick609]

I'm thinking they should do 5 days

[@lizzy66125]

still wonder who thought of the names of the rockchambers. Love Mike Parker Pearson.

[@AKSnowbat907]

That stone aged antler tool reminds me of a seed drill.

[@PattyMoore-vd1ug]

Thank u for sharing so interesting

[@taebundy658]

I love this show.

[@leadengineer4105]

I love the host; Baldrick is just great 👍 But why do they keep calling him Tony?

[@sapphonymph8204]

Cat= not a dog.

[@Missjulie1975]

I thought Tony was joking with Stuart about the GPS helmet 🪖!

[@MotDoiAnLac258]

cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ.

[@C0maT0ast]

The fact that the second episode shown was on the edge of Loch Finlaggan and nowhere near the West coast of the Isle of Islay shows just how 'off' Tony's navigational skills were. Him pointing off behind the ruins in Loch Lannegan is him roughly pointing towards Sanaigmore Beach lol. I'm no Scotsmen, but the only thing off the coast of Sanaigmore Beach is ocean and more ocean for quite some time.

[@sar_e_bear]

It seems that you are looking in the wrong direction from where he is standing. You can look at Google Earth and see where he was standing based on the land in the background. From there you can draw a line straight from where he is standing through Bridgend to the coast of Ireland.

[@chadsimmons6347]

@@sar_e_bear I remember walking from Bridgend to Ireland as a young lad

[@volvo850rex]

love the Peak District. Didn’t know about any caves

[@glendamears3618]

That armour is like a straight jacket😮

[@giovanni5063]

How on earth did the ancients get into this hole without flashlights. It is a mystery how people from BC did the things that we have discovered. People are the strangest creatures ever invented.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

We call them torches and fire😊

[@rotapp7268]

Name of the archeology artist please, those are tremendous concepts right there.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Victor ambrose

[@VeryCherryCherry]

Wow. What year was the second episode? The first one was about 20 years ago.

[@ryeblocker2297]

Reijer Zaaiger for more episodes. Mostly commercial free. Enjoy! ❤

[@SuperOverlord666]

Please someone explain to me why only three days to establish some archeological breakthrough for a reason to make this significant for what end?

[@SuperOverlord666]

I want the unfettered truth.. production.. License.. contract… why only three days…

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

​@SuperOverlord666 they said that's what they are going to do and show us. Want documents look it up I guess 😊

[@arthurprentice7110]

The babies were probably returned to the 'womb' of mother earth.

[@PeachysMom]

That’s actually a beautiful, comforting thought!❤

[@dawngriffin3550]

❤

[@adamsjerome1839]

Completely agree with Fran. The problem is that where are ypu going to find another mob of archeologists with a wealth of knowledge mixed with wry sense of humor.

[@KAZSANable]

💙💫

[@101bravohotel6]

why did he say "THAT CAVE!" like that lol

[@jatzbethstappen9814]

The 'eating' scenes freak me out

[@MyCroydon]

why only 3 days ?

[@taebundy658]

Tony is a star……

[@JackyHeijmans]

I thought that the UK was pretty much forested in ancient times, but that the woods were all cut down for firewood, building and other uses... Hunters can hunt in the woods too, I'm just wondering, was it always that bare?

[@Dan-ow5es]

😅

[@JackyHeijmans]

@@Dan-ow5es Glad you find it funny. I'm not from the UK. Sorry if that was a stupid question.. Have nice holidays!

[@ryeblocker2297]

There were oak forest that the Roman's cut and burnt down to run the picts out. They address this in another episode. How you find time to watch more time team.

[@JackyHeijmans]

@@ryeblocker2297 Thank you! ❤

[@cecileroy557]

It was NOT a stupid question. A while ago I learned that vast areas of Europe were covered with oak forests!

[@user-ie3oo2ho8h]

All those babies in the caves bring to mind old fairy tales where trolls, elves or fairies (with huge noses?) stole newborn babies and took them deep into their underground kingdoms. Sometimes fairy tales have their origins in real events...

[@Charlie.M.Green1905]

Sadly most do... Usually never good ones

[@comradeamerican4393]

That chainmail would have been worn over that gambason

[@cherylwilson6107]

Why are you limited to three days?

[@evpalfy-mt7lb]

Why does Tony look young there when he is actually older this must be an old video that they put up again

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

A clone so he doesn't age between seasons

[@eugeniastravels8954]

Why are there only bits and pieces of skulls and skeletons? Where are the rest of them?

[@carolcampbell5623]

Anyone know what all the pits are?

[@primevalseeker3952]

Why the 3 day timeline??. I think there would be some damage and losses because everyone is freaking out to discover stuff in time to make the deadline for the TV show.

[@lorikulas6098]

I think it's because some of the presenters are university professors in archeology and Time Team is just their weekend gig.

[@velvetunderpants44]

The skull at 43:00 looks almost neanderthal

[@velvetunderpants44]

I wouldn't go into that cave with a gun to my head

[@dawnarobertson9577]

Frightening cave excavation. Really.

[@alexandergaus493]

Mud and caves. I would have lived that as a child. It's a wonder that I made it to adulthood! 😂

[@alexandergaus493]

One a bit stupid question: In the videos description it says "burial rights". I am not a native english speaker and did self-taught English. I would have thought it's "burial rites" or did they mean something different? Maybe they just got 'auto corrected'?😅

[@glendamears3618]

There's small pot holes everywhere near that cave😮?

[@primevalseeker3952]

It would be helpful to illustrate what they cave looked like 3500 years ago. perhaps it was much more obvious and without all of the overburden and quite clearly a cave. Now its just a mossy hole in the ground.

[@glendamears3618]

Simon Mears shares my sir name 😊

[@alexmendoza4261]

49 mins in and they are starting a another episode, why can't they use the 2:45 to keep working on that?

[@alexmendoza4261]

This played two weeks ago, passed like and it's gone like I'm starting all over again, this is BS

[@SecretsOfScripture]

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[@sahastintitli532]

As a french i always knew brittish were eating humans, we only eat SNAILS !!!!!

[@AECRADIO1]

Francoise escargot..

[@mrhassell]

Haha see when they had satellite mapping of the area on the old school IBM DX2 PC's.. drawing nonsense lines on the screen.. show that was made during the dark ages of computers!

[@AAD2698]

Why so many children/babies?? Well, even up to the Tudor age only about 50% of children made it past 5. and if these were related, there might have been genetic issues that made survival difficult. But why the cave? Might I say this is where a very wider team with perhaps an archeologist who is also a mother might have at least given the option for speculation. Come on, the guys do it often enough! A cave is dark, you enter through a narrow opening. Sound like something a new born might know? To a mother, returning her child to as close to a womb as she could, would, I think, have been a comfort. And that is something to remember. Every child who was placed there had a parent who mourned it. Even if you knew the odds of survival were low, you still hoped your child would beat the odds.

[@user-xb5pq8fh9r]

Rome's melon minister should be ashamed of the prison lock and a true crime of power without food, medical care there is no cure 🥺

[@susanrobertson984]

You know it is an old episode because Stewart has brown hair.

[@alanrogers7090]

Cute, "It looks like our site is cloaked in MIST-ery", while showing a foggy landscape. Baby skull next to adult femur seems, to me at least, that the mother and child died in childbirth and were buried together.

[@kadran3263]

Den for murderers and thieves I reckon.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Really low class and uncomfortable ones then 😊

[@horsetuna]

only the first one is neolithic.

[@johndayinthelife6837]

That wu tang symbol in the thumbnail. I guess wutang is in fact....for ever

[@Nickubus99]

I wonder what Rat is up to these days?

[@PeasantsRevolt]

Someone should DNA test the bones to see if they have any living relatives

[@PeachysMom]

I agree! Or at least to determine what their relationships are to each other. They’ve done that recently on a barrow much further south and the relationships between the individuals interred are just fascinating.

[@vincentrandles8105]

How hard is it to say "Geophysical" there "Tone!?"

[@chrisbassett8996]

spell check sorry

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

I understand 😊

[@mikekristaparke3229]

i love dirty finger nails. they have been workin.

[@janescavanleeuwen9781]

Hi all those many years i enjoy this program. So i offer you 3 days my helping hand on my own expense. No camera time or my name in the screen. Only a humble place at your after hours table is my fee. Hope your interested!

[@airbornmartin3238]

is it a man or woman narrating

[@leecarlson9713]

The narrator is a man, Tony Robinson as he was then, now Sir Tony Robinson. Before becoming the narrator of Time Team, he was famous for his portrayal of Baldrick. He definitely has a a tenor voice.

[@DreDre3318]

Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries... One of the many places where you come to get your PSEUDOHISTORY fix. Going to be a glorious day when ALL TRUTH is revealed. :)

[@Ffttttt02]

Do you smell burnt toast?

[@L4v3]

You must have some concrete evidence to prove everything shown in this video is false to make claims like that.

[@PeachysMom]

Kookoo kookoo

[@cecileroy557]

The Time Team had/has many experts. Odyssey might have share some documentaries etc. that aren't great BUT Odyssey did not produce Time Team. Look into it!

[@speedymccreedy8785]

What this show could have been without all the fluff and most of the cast. Very sad.

[@ruththinkingoutside.707]

Everyone is entitled to their opinions and preferences.. Seems like it went on an awful long time for there to be too many issues with the cast.. It went out when they changed it.. And crowdfunding has brought it back.. with most of the originals available.. This particular episode is drawn out to a point.. but they’re not all like that.. I prefer prehistoric topic episodes personally but this is one of the episodes that I skip more than others.. They filmed an awful lot of these😁 some just definitely aren’t as good a watch as others.. lol

[@davekinghorn9567]

Archeology is a big team of many specialists and supporting people. They all contribute something to the forensic investigation.

[@j.b.4340]

You’re weird.

[@thedude8046]

​@@davekinghorn9567more archeology en less team jibba jabba.

[@drhyshek]

This is 20 to 30 years ago. Look how young Tony looks! Why complain about it now? People always have to bellyache about something!

[@jacobtracy7847]

Hate Phil's accent

[@leecarlson9713]

You may not like Phil’s accent, but he is an archaeological treasure. He is a self taught archaeologist, and an extremely well respected flint expert, and knapper.

[@TheVeek192]

I love it. So that cancels you out.

[@PeachysMom]

I love it. He’s an original character.

[@someidiotonline9005]

its funny to me that your parents can go through the effort ot burry a child so noone will disturb them, then some bloke finds them and writes on the inside of their shattered skull

[@beastshawnee]

The big nose family…has a descendant line in Atlanta. I met this lovely lady-totally normal and even beautiful head on but her profile was noticeably prominent. -even she asked me one day if she should get a nose job because people always said her nose was so large. I said “what rude people-they should get their tongues removed instead.” And I told her that Someone had once said something mean about my nose and said it was too pointy and “snippy”. I said after that I developed a complex about it also because I preferred longer elegant noses UNTIL one day one of my Jewish customers referenced my “nosejob”. I looked confused but said I didn’t have a nose job. “oh my gosh I am sooo sorry I just assumed you did because all us Jews are getting work done and you just have the most perfect nose!” I said “I’m not Jewish.” “Oh oh my gosh! I thought this was a Jewish store.” I explained the owner was yes but only a minority of employees were. Anyway point was she thought MY nose was perfect! So I told this woman- “Do it or don’t do it- but make sure you know first that whatever we get born with is always ok-Never let nasty people control how you feel about yourself. Someone else loves the way you look! It equals out.”

[@bob.fagg-bois657]

the amount of times these time teams have been aired and then put back on under a pr-tence that it`s new is getting beyond the joke, MONEY FOR OLD ROPE as the saying goes.