Finding An Ancient Chamber Under A Garden In Cornwall | Time Team | Absolute History

The team try to discover what a 2000-year-old underground chamber beneath a garden was used for. Dowser Hamish Miller shows the extent of the fogou beneath the lawn, and Tony tries his hand at dowsing. But Mick is skeptical, preferring to rely on the geophysical survey. They are also trying to find the Iron Age settlement that would have adjoined the fogou. Joining the team are archaeological geophysicist Susan Ovenden, and county archaeologist Nick Johnson.
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[@joakimblomqvist7229]

Mick Aston was such a good sport, nice and friendly and charming besides the fact that he knew his stuff... He's very much missed. RIP Mick... Also this episode was a revelation to me... I didn't know Phil once had a side parting! I enjoy this stuff so much!

[@koningbolo4700]

RIP Victor Ambrus ([phone])

[@aprilpeterson9105]

Robin and his crafty smokes 😂

[@CaptCrewSock]

You’d think by now they would unearth a hairbrush and use it but No.

[@tiggergolah]

Lice. Can't kill the buggers. Like cockroaches, they're immortal.

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Great comment love it so funny

[@crowznest438]

That's funny right there!

[@aden1466]

lol

[@toats-mcgoats1833]

😂🤣

[@agarceran]

Seeing how moder tech has evolved since then I hope someone has gone there with some kind of ground penetrating radar or something similar to see if the fogou continues or not.

[@tommink8379]

At the very least, several years of having a popular show and an experienced staff would've meant that English Heritage would've passed through all the permits in the nod

[@misszombiequeen]

If you played a drinking game with every time they said fogou, you would die

[@rominaouteiral9855]

Ok. Hold my trowel!

[@rominaouteiral9855]

Immm fime. Jusssst 20 mole minuutts.

[@rominaouteiral9855]

10 minutos till end. Im allready dead. Salutes from de other side. We have cookies.

[@shayminty5906]

I love Time Team! Please keep uploading!

[@karenq8255]

All episodes are uploaded. Search time team

[@purplesue66]

Yay

[@waterbird91]

Could that word fugoue translate to Fugue ? as in place of "refuge , or ' hiding place'? Looks to me that it definitely could have been a used as a hiding place from warring soldiers , enemies of some kind.

[@brianpeck4035]

It seems like its got ventilation built in

[@saraheyler6047]

They could use a Lidar scanner today and see all kinds of things.

[@jigold22571]

Absolutely Fabulous!

[@revenge0lobster]

This was vastly more entertaining than I expected. Would love to see more TIme Team!

[@karenq8255]

Search time team. Someone has every episode for you to see

[@revenge0lobster]

@@karenq8255 Thanks, I will! I forget that pre-2000s content is searchable, too.

[@tiggergolah]

Imagine a perfect stranger at a party asking you, "Do you fougou?"

[@CreatorCade]

I can’t tell if this was recorded yesterday or sometime in the 90s.

[@deadpancherry8658]

1996

[@rbffbvs]

@@deadpancherry8658 Yes, they were young then. So was I, LOL..

[@CreatorCade]

Wow 96 I was 4 years old when they filmed this.

[@deadpancherry8658]

@@CreatorCade I wasn't even born then!

[@johngalt97]

The CRT display and keyboard were good clues.

[@kellycallen3195]

I love how new Phil’s hat looks!!! 😍

[@007vsMagua]

I don't think the Fogou was a lard locker or used for food storage. Why go to all the work to build a stone structure when all you need to do is dig under a large tree and use the main root structure to support the roof. In the U.S. our early European settlers built root cellars which were used to store root vegetables, potato's, and such over the winter.

[@jeffreyport1099]

dowsing works great!!

[@jeffreyport1099]

I would have liked to see the geophys and dowsing maps compared for accuracy.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@MsBizzyGurl]

How cool!

[@cindymosgrove4046]

Oh my, they all so young. Looking good. And Phil.... Wow... ❣️💋

[@professorsogol5824]

If you want to find fugu, come to Japan and try some fugu sashimi. It may make your lips tingle.

[@maxasaurus3008]

Holy shit! Tony can find well sites!

[@adamsjerome1839]

My parents house had a very deep well out back. I rented a whacking great pump with the belief that when I sumped out the water hidden riches would be mine. My hopes were rewarded, a bunch of nameless bottles and a motley mob of corroded tin cans. Heavy sigh!

[@STScott-qo4pw]

Tony has hair!

[@estoyaqui5386]

I am from the electronics field, satellites etc. But actually i love going into the woods and cut firewood. ... Anyway i love this documentary! :)

[@raphaelbernard7954]

They'll have you for global warming offences

[@johnlord8337]

Probably a root cellar, or a hooch distillery and brew storage area !!!

[@robertwilson3914]

I see you look at things differently, as I do. You must keep a prepared mind....aye??

[@johnlord8337]

@@robertwilson3914 RW -- aye !!

[@GiGiGoesShopping]

New age re the dowsing ? That's older than dirt. The geo fizzing is the new kid on the block.

[@Brian1Graves]

Tried dowsing some time ago. Didn't work. Fella said it was because I didn't believe in it. Didn't work for him either. Me suspects dowsers have more failures than successes but only talk about the successes. So overall. you have better chances with random digging.

[@purplesue66]

I dig these old hippies.

[@Trund27]

Nice! A fuggy hole! History is amazing.

[@componenx]

dousing- what a load of tripe! Might as well check the fogou for ghosts while you're at it.

[@MatthewSlaymaker]

Some people on here are actually claiming it works. Silly people.

[@charleswalker1185]

Dowsing is a viable finder...do not poopoo it...

[@componenx]

@@charleswalker1185 Yeah, then how does it work? And why do they claim to be able to find different things/substances using it. Physical phenomena must have a scientific explanation. It's crap, pure and simple.

[@yelsmlaugh]

@@componenx Physical Scientists do not know how consciousness works. When they find out what it is, they'll all be dousing.

[@componenx]

@@yelsmlaugh What is a "physical" scientist? All science is physical. I guess non-physical science would include bigfoot, flat earth, ghosts, aliens, vampires, Trump's intelligence, ALL the stupid conspiracy theory lies, and of course, dousing. Consciousness IS interesting; you should read "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith.

[@Starfire7888]

Im sorry I didnt hear properly, I just kept hear voodoo voodoo, evidence of the voodoo XD

[@jbc1715]

1867 a documented iron age site.....1910 lets built a house on it ?

[@FullPowerMasteryWithRa]

33:21 It makes me cringe seeing those electrical lines in the ground like that without any pipe enclosing them.

[@johnlord8337]

A very successful English farmland tornado/cyclone shelter - see no tornadoes/cyclones in England. Or Stone Age winter quarters (underground fire and heating) and fresh-air and sunshine above ground shelter for Spring-Fall !!! Look at the Cornwall map of all the fogous across the farmlands - (hint) farmlands.

[@1967buickriviera]

???

[@roamingcelt]

There's no blowfish in this episode!

[@niklar55]

Could be an air raid shelter.

[@blackunicorn374]

@absolute history: from which year is this documentary originally? Looks like around 2000 or so.

[@djblackwidow]

7 January 1996

[@djblackwidow]

List of Time Team episodes

[@charleswalker1185]

Gloves and grain shovels...

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

"INDIANA JONES THEME STARTS PLAYING" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johngalt97]

If there were memories of past solar-fry events, a fogou would be a good place to hide from the next one. If the only people to survive the last fry were the ones similarly shielded, the need to have and use a fogou would be an article of faith.

[@larkuel]

oof lost me at the dousing

[@avd-wd9581]

I'm pretty sure that was either requested by the land owner or added just for the "drama". No serious scientist - especially archeologist - would believe in that crap.

[@IronChief]

@@avd-wd9581 it can be done. I've found several voids underground as small as 2" in diameter. Proved myself several times.

[@promontorium]

@@IronChief You genuinely believe a stick or rod can magically detect water underground by moving, when these objects clearly have no attraction to each other, can't be replicated, is utterly unscientific, and is basically belief in magic? Have you considered that the ground has voids, so digging for them will find them?

[@IronChief]

@@promontorium I didn't say anything about water.

[@IronChief]

@@promontorium finding the voids before digging is the point.

[@wilfredmay5231]

Pity about Tony and his dowser chum,

[@yolandajane61]

Cool

[@1967buickriviera]

no u

[@rodney1818]

I think it's a Smokehouse

[@markgarin6355]

Dousing discovers water ......pipe . ..or not. Gee how would the residents know that those little bits were tin ore?

[@BirdWhisperer46]

What was it used for? it's where they kept their turnips.

[@barrydysert2974]

🙏💜🙏

[@EmmaSpAce111]

this rock broken, *YEET*

[@adamsjerome1839]

Looks like " cut and cover".

[@marygrove2616]

grove

[@rodney1818]

Roll out the music comments

[@komerwest3748]

Why only a short time to dig. Land owner seems to want them there

[@yelsmlaugh]

Because the bill payer was a TV station, not the government. The original broadcast would have been replete with ads.

[@RamblinJer]

I'm not buying it that they panned enough ore for smelting

[@LeSadistique]

She should have said "Oh fogou" instead of "fuck" when it broke.

[@beepboop3925]

why does phil look so young here? And where is his hat

[@Honkey-Donkey]

Can't hear it.

[@christianpatriot7439]

If they don't know what it is and there are as many of them as they say, why schedule the one in this program?

[@smd2768]

I could listen to Phil talk forever.

[@ionidhunedoara1491]

A lair for the Devon "wrackers" I daresay.

[@ChrisHyde537]

Dowsing? This is Heaven paging Mr James Randi, Heaven paging Mr James Randi.

[@starriderkittykat9064]

Was this show on 5 months ago? Because now Tony has no hair and what little he does have is white. I had to go watch another video to make sure it was him.

[@momof2momof2]

I guess to be a scientist you don't get your hair cut

[@johnmoss6631]

I guess to comment on Utube you don’t get to mind your own business on how one looks.

[@wegarnett]

The fact that Tony is talking seriously about a dowser made me thumbs down this one

[@doc2kiwidig663]

Yeah...proven tripe..

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Tony looked like he was baiting Mick

[@johnlord8337]

A long underground chunnel from Ireland to England for migrants. Or just another branch of all the tunnels under the Cairo plateau pyramids going in all directions !

[@aden1466]

love watching these older episodes :)

[@Daledsch]

99.9% of archeologists don't know their ass from their elbow, and can't admit they don't have a clue

[@johnlord8337]

Your digging into an ancient garden outhouse and sewage cistern !!! Fogous are ancient crappers. All those fogous across the landscape are outhouse locations !!! And it is pronounced "Fug - Oh!" or "Oh Fug !" from the smell !!!

[@anonymoustowers288]

WACH ON TIMELINE CHANEL , CARENZA,S RANBLING NONSENCE IS DELETED

[@johnmoss6631]

Watch on timeline channel, anonymous towers rambling diatribe against Carenza. Just another little male who is intimidated by a intelligent woman.

[@jr-wv4qw]

They sound english, but they're white. Weird watching this is 2020.