From Constantinople to Cornwall (Padstow, Cornwall) | S15E10 | Time Team

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One summer during the 1980s, strange crop marks appeared in two fields on the north Cornish coast near Lellizzick. Locals have picked up a wealth of 1,500-year-old pottery and metalwork from as far away as North Africa and Turkey. Combined with some spectacular geophysics, it all suggested that this was once a busy international trading site. In Mick's opinion copper and tin would have been exchanged for foreign luxury goods. But Time Team are having trouble dating the site. They are joined by Steve Hartgroves from Cornwall County Council, Finds specialist Carl Thorpe, and Byzantine expert Anthea Harris.
Series 15, Episode 10
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No need to apologies. Pulls us onboard faster;) Best of luck with everything in 2021 chaps and chapettes!!

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You might put the season and episode in the title of the video.

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When I was really young, there were two jobs I wanted to do - either to be an archaeologist because I adored Time Team, or a zoologist because I loved David Attenborough. Now I’m a palaeontologist, merging the two jobs I wanted to do back when I was 4. Thank you Time Team. Rewatching makes me so happy

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😢 I always wanted to be an archaeologist as a child (waaaaay before Time Team existed!) I’m a software developer :(

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Same with me still have a very strong passion for it. Now I’m a military helicopter pilot. I do get some great views of the landscape though.

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how is your paleontology work? i'm about to graduate high school with the dream to go into college and get a PhD in Geology to become a paleontologist.

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I did dream about digging up in the Holy Land. Found out young I am allergic to way too much dust types of any kind.

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That was my wish too, but due to an illness, which lasted for years, I couldn’t do the a-levels. So there was no way to attend uni, but it hasn’t stopped me to spend a lot of time reading or even visiting archeological sites.

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I just have to tell you all, as SOON as I saw that clay disc with a hole, I dramatically threw down the project I was working on, said out loud "THAT'S A DROP SPINDLE," paused the video, and went and found the one I made of clay about two years ago - I didn't want to buy one, and I had clay on hand - before resuming the video to see if I was right. Mine's too small, and this one is the perfect size. Other than the size, they look almost exactly the same. It's eerie.

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Same. Aloha

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Totally agree. Much better than any show currently running on American TV

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@@susancady2581 Yes! I enjoy them all. I've decided that it isn't possible to put a shovel into the ground in Great Britain without finding some history.

[@vickiewallace415]

I can’t help it…Francis and Phil are both just so gleeful that every time I see them on screen I start grinning like a fool!

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Love TimeTeam.... best quote today "It's not as round as l thought. In fact it's not round at all", followed by "Apart from that, nothing's changed". Priceless.

[@charbelyoussef604]

Fantastic show, I’m addicted. Hello from eastern Mediterranean where these potteries used to come from :).

[@gregorymifsud5389]

Phil is awesome. His enthusiasm is infectious.

[@YMJCMJC]

I am watching a bunch of hippies playing in the mud, on a cold windy day, getting excited about a broken piece of flower pot and a scorch mark. I will be watching more, but I don't know why.

[@KAT-ew9wz]

about 90% of people who watch time team say the same thing, I think. I've been able to explain to friends all sorts of tidbits that they didn't know anything about, and when they asked how i know it, the only answer I have is "it was on an episode of Time Team".

[@HLBear]

This is a beautiful episode, from the landscapes, to the seaweed map, to the final illustrations of the village. Beautiful.

[@Blisterdude123]

What's amazing to me about episodes like this is the way we're all subtly taught to believe the ancient world was this disconnected and isolated series of separate cultures and civilisations that never shared ideas, or trade, that people never travelled. And sites like this are so important because they correct this enormous misconception. The world has always been an incredibly intricately connected place, it's just that in the past, this was far more difficult, but that only made it all the more impressive the way in which it was.

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Hopefully if they get enough support they will relaunch the show with new episodes

[@sanctionh2993]

Same. Hoping to see more Yorkshires someday.

[@aurktman1106]

That sand map was awesome!

[@jonnawyatt]

It's refreshing when Francis says "I was 100% wrong". So many others on this show would never admit that. 😊

[@philipsquire9056]

I get the impression they’re pressured to give an opinion for the script when they might not usually do so without better evidence. I recall a Scottish TT dig where local archaeologists were “pressured” to say “it’s a Broch” but they wouldn’t without a lot more evidence.

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[@BlitzMekanika]

29:30 “So your saying the roundhouse might be rectangular.” “Yes”.😂

[@davekinghorn9567]

I like how this guy can look at the smallest piece of stone and tell you its pottery from where, when, and what it was used for.

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No need to appolgise,more is better. Great seeing the episodes in higher quality. Thank you.

[@EvilPeaMia]

I used to love watching Time Team back in the day when I was a kid. It's been hard to get watching it since it went off air. My 4 year old son is very interested in archeology, we have been enjoying these in the evening before bed. It's been great to share my passions with him. And of course loves it even more when there's a digger on screen lol Wish we could have Time Team back on screen, even in a streaming service like Netflix or Amazon, new weekly episodes along with the old. Kids these days miss out on seeing history first hand rather then just reading about it.

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[@lauramatilda3279]

That sand map was awesome! Well done!

[@cornishchick2473]

My daughter loved Time team too when she was young, she would shout " professor Strippy jumper is on " Many of our walks and explorations in the country side involved digging for old things, we had a collection of old yogurt pots! bits of animal bone and odd looking stones lol

[@OnGod1007]

Mick looking old in this episode. R.I.P Mick you were by far the person I respected the most on time team

[@mermeridian2041]

Love watching Mick and Stewart and Francis working!

[@mikehillas]

40:40 Justinian's Plague also had a lot to do with the disruptions of trade routes.

[@mike_lowndes]

The Doom Bar. A great ale was named for that.

[@Frank_Nemo]

A classic episode. Watch out at around the 7 minute mark when joker Matt looks up at Raksha and shouts 'Slag!'

[@Grievous-]

I did notice that haha

[@Missangie827]

Matt is funny and handsome-

[@chiseldrock]

At 29:50 Matt busts out what may be the best 1 liner ever on time team....Happy Solstice everyone.

[@kerrymidkiff2072]

Hello. I've been watching your series for a few days. I absolutely love it. Phil is absolutely fantastic, he's like a dog with a big bone when it comes to his intuition and skill. KEEP DIGGING PHIL YOUR GREAT. And so is the rest of the team. God Bless.

[@GoodVideos4]

I have 'The World of Wonder' encyclopedias from 1936. It has a map of England and Wales, showing the total land that has been lost to the sea. Quite interesting, and quite a lot. So, that coast might not have been the same hundreds and thousands of years ago.

[@willowmoon7]

Experimental archeology requires imagination as much as knowhow, I love it. ❤

[@screwthecabal6453]

Absolutely beautiful scenery!

[@zonabrown9241]

After watching yrs of TT I reckon Stewart is usually right without the dramas that others go on with

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Yes! Absolutely!

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@zonabrown9241...I have to agree with you. Stewart stays in the background quietly and diligently going about his work but what he uncovers is absolutely impressive to the overall project.

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[@mjc11a]

Always enjoyed watching Time Team. But I must say, "mucking around on the beach" with the seaweed map added a refreshing and enjoyable element to the show. Absolutely brilliant!!!

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The color! Time Team is always wonderful, but seeing it in this gorgeous color is a real joy.

[@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261]

Shouts to the geophys crew

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I hope there will be a "Time Team - Next Gen" soon. Of course they cannot be same like it was but it would be great if the torch is carried on. We need a how with entertaining education like TT !!!

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I love this show!! It calms me down when the whole world is going crazy. Life goes on. We live and die and the next generation picks up the baton and it just keeps going on. Remember when Y2K was the thing. Nothing happened. It's? 2021. 19 just flipped over to 20 and people were amazed.

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They have announced that they are going to continue.

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Doombar, lovely Cornish ale.

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[@Theravadinbuto]

It’s interesting that the Team assumed trade, rather than pirates and wreckers. Looks like a rather perfect location for preying on trade going up the west coast… and there is a bit of a tradition in that part of Britain…

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No worries mate .she'll b right. Jus glad to have u n able to watch.. blessings to all. Watch Soo many yrs from the outback of australia .

[@thomasclyde3036]

Around the 18:00 mark they keep saying Turkish pottery dating around 5th or 6th century. Turkish pottery from Anatolia came much later than the 5th or 6th century. It should be Byzantine pottery, not Turkish

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Nice! Great Sunday edutainment. Martin Zero AND Time Team! Oh joy!

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John Rogers I also watch both. And Fred Dibnah also

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I watch all 3 too. 👍Met martin zero in stockport last month n had a chat. Top lad

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@@johnfreney3819 lucky you. That's pretty cool.

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Would love it if every series was on this channel. Really enjoying watching these vids even if I’ve seen some of them before

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that music always gets me. love time team.

[@kevinmcneill7]

Salvagers crossed my mind after the bit about shipwrecks

[@franek_izerski]

First Pirates of Penzance!

[@davideddy2672]

Stereotype bull

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

That stylus is not only the earliest evidence of writing in Cornwall, but the latest too...

[@brokenglass9814]

Ha funny, hilarious. Emmets have two jokes about us and fewer brain cells.

[@ThroatSore]

That sea man was a treat to listen to.

[@screwthecabal6453]

CRAFTMANSHIP TONY, CRAFTMANSHIP!!!

[@kimbarnes378]

Time team, brilliant as always I love my fellow Brits 🇬🇧👍

[@DuckReach432]

Three days of glorious weather for a remarkable dig. Not a lot of shelter there when a winter storm hits, by the look of it.

[@timsterrett2417]

I'm surprised you didn't find more arifacts. Good job discovering that place just amazing.

[@stefangeorge2844]

My favorite show

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Thanks so much for posting

[@Aoderic]

I love how Phil says "Yarrr'n" 😀

[@littlesth0b0]

Phil saying "Yarn for garments" sounds fantastic.

[@azureprophet]

I wonder if excessive deforestation in the period leading up to the present caused increased silting of the natural harbor and thus it was safer for ships back in the Iron Age than it is today?

[@davidvasey5065]

Most of britain's deforestation had already happened by the iron age

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love me some Time Team!

[@davidshelow5334]

Another great episode from a great series! What's the most amazing mystery of Time Team? With all that digging, how does Phil manage to keep the fingernails of his left hand intact for playing guitar?

[@KAT-ew9wz]

and so clean

[@josephsolowyk7697]

I wish I hadn't seen every episode ten times haha...love them though.

[@willisgemutlich2608]

that looks like a perfect place to land a kayak, which has a similar landing tendency as a viking or ancient egyptian craft. they were wider and shallower hulled, and with a lot less structure, ie when people have reconstructed and sailed them, they were surprised at how much they flexed and twisted at sea. (not stiff and sleek but deep) they also were making them as quickly as possible and not to last 100 years. in other words, they may (seem) to have been built for beach landings and sketchy river raids and hope to come back, hope to repair, and hope to last a couple years, not our modern expectations of ships, or scratching paint. it was either trade and go home, raid and go home, or a bit of both

[@borderreiver3288]

just amazing....

[@slave2damachine]

Cornwall produced 3 of the best pre Roman TT episodes in my opinion ,but I have to admit that I'm biased , I live there😃

[@KingNoTail]

It's definitely a very beautiful place.

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Good show TT.

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TimeTeam time. yay!

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[@jeffreychurch2018]

One thing I would like to see would be having the team come to North America to see how the Native American tribes, past and present, did their flint and obsidian napping work, as well as pottery and house buildings. Phil would probably be in heaven looking at flint and obsidian tools. Some of the archaic pieces, such as the Folsom points, would most likely be exciting for him.

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

There was one but didn't last long 3 seasons I think??

[@amandagreen4332]

They came to Jamestown, Virginia. The local archaeologists were a bit too cautious for the Time Team approach. You don’t use backhoes here, and excavations are conducted very slowly and carefully.

[@mikehillas]

Don't know why they keep referring to Turkey. It didn't exist in the 5th and/or 6th centuries. (Just ask Justinian). The land that is now Turkey was part of the Byzantine Empire, Christian and Greek in culture. More accurate to call the area "Anatolia".

[@KAT-ew9wz]

because a lot of people who watch this wouldn't know what was meant by that. If you say Turkey, they at least have an idea of what area of the world it's from.

[@keithwallan9771]

With all the talk about the dangerous coastline in this episode, I'm surprised nobody posited that the exotic pottery was scavenged from shipwrecks.

[@jennymay4720]

The Celtic sea stretched down to northern Spain and Portugal. At La Guardia they have round houses on the peninsula exactly like these. It was so fast to sail instead of go by land. Trading from spring to summer wasn't so difficult.

[@free_gold4467]

The ships had to get there, laden with goods to get shipwrecked- I'm sure they were there to trade if they didn't get wrecked so whichever.

[@MegaKellyschannel]

There's something comforting in this time of generalized chaos and upheaval, both climate and political, watching things like this. Empires come and go, rivers move, climate changes. The people remain. The people always remain. Community and trade, the stuff of survival is largely unaffected by the 1% and people adapt as the land changes.

[@1234cheerful]

30:29 wow this is mpressive as a teaching aide!

[@hanes_cymru_]

One thing that always fascinates me is the thought of all the trade that went on in the ancient world, possibly more than these days. With no Immigration and border control, people traveled and traded in much different ways than today.

[@tarjei99]

Isn't the sixth century the time of the Justinian Plague? It would be strange to trade copper from Cornwall since there are several mines around the Mediterranean. There are tin mines closer to Constantinopel. What about wool and leather? Could there be a quality difference?

[@chrisbassett8996]

wow, love the map

[@hrbailey379xhd]

I’m wondering if the trackway that Frances was so excited about may be part of a shipbuilding/repair yard. Geo-phys was showing what he thought was an industrial site, and if it was a trading port then it would make sense to have some sort of repair/building facility for ships that maybe had a rough time getting there.

[@michaeldunne3379]

That was a really good episode. It made me wonder why the Romans were so disinterested in Cornwall. You’d imagine it would be one of their main bases because of the tin and copper. 🤔

[@a.j.carter8975]

Don't forget the scones. 😋😋😋

[@upstaterelicsandescapades1599]

Keeled seacraft didn't show up before the 7th century a.d. , so therefore it is plausible that a port may have existed there due there being flat bottomed seacraft prior to the 7th century a.d.

[@hiddentruth1982]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the strangely shaped building was a storage area for the trading. you don't want to leave everything out in the weather after all plus the traders could see what was for trade at a glance.

[@klarahvar746]

"Is it an early Rick Stein restaurant?" I love Tony.

[@thomasbell7033]

"...An Iron Age floor in situ." Glad it didn't get up and walk away, Francis.

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please to register my job application for my next life to come: TIME TEAM you have convinced me that it will have to be my NEXT time life to be worth!!

[@jameswoods2129]

GOOD LUCK BO !!!!!!!!!!!

[@christophersmith5691]

The site of the trading harbour is marked on the early admiralty chart - as 'hawkers ships cove'!

[@CanChikMay]

Kool that this was in 2008....! Watching in 2021

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

I'm from the future of 2024..

[@annk.8750]

Am I correct in thinking that an established droveway would be used on a daily basis? Cattle or sheep would need to be taken from a place like that to the nearest source of fresh water every day, if they didn't have a stream or pond in their own pasture. I can't imagine going to all the trouble of digging ditches along a track unless it were used frequently, not just once or twice a year.

[@Daehawk]

Thats a long journey to bring ships.

[@silverghost131]

can we get the unshown pilot

[@paulwood7798]

Just looking at the commercially available Aerial Imaging you can see crop marks over virtually all the fields in the vicinity of this site. It would be great to go back and do a bigger investigation here and let the sites story develop.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

It's crystal clear from the areal footage that the lagoon and estuary have silted up over the centuries. No doubt that is where in coming and out going ships would have entered and moored, not in the dangerous rocky harbour.

[@ianmoseley9910]

They do not seem to address the possibility that the goods travelled through Europe and were shipped from the French/Spanish coast across the Bay of Biscay or the English Channel.

[@darreno9874]

It's great to see time team on you tube but why are so many episodes blocked in the UK, particularly as time team was a English production. Please open up all episodes so we can all enjoy them. Thanks

[@KAT-ew9wz]

because people want money

[@gsf5882]

Wow. You kept the end credits! It's much better that way than fading to that ugly carving thing.

[@filmdude007]

Thanks for the episode. Is it only SD, not HD?

[@sirloinofbeef3862]

Nice

[@arnman2093]

A thought - getting finds from Turkey does not mean the settlement is a trading center, but rather could simply receive some trade at times. It could be a fishing village using shallow draft small boats and the trade vessels from afar could moor in the depths of the bay with trips to the village in shallow draft boats. No ship harbor required. Putting the houses at the very end of the west bank allows for sheltered waters and the shortest trip to the main land for other life-required activity, including something that the trader from afar finds value in.

[@dwightehowell8179]

Ummm. Curious that no one suggested the obvious. That the locals might have been wreckers. If ships were going to sink here during storms it's unlikely they'd have let the loot go to waste.

[@KAT-ew9wz]

there would have been finds on the beaches if there was lots of wrecking

[@dwightehowell8179]

@@KAT-ew9wz 1. I don't think Time Team looked. 2. The cove seemed to be filling so any ancient wreckage was going to be buried deep. I'm going to note that while foreign objects were found the actual amount was pretty paltry. This doesn't suggest much of anything was going on to me.

[@Ayeshteni]

The Issue is that ships still need to get into the channel around the Cornish headland in the first place (it's a long distance), so they would have to be trading at some point along that coast (even it was further to the west) which is still against the dangerous tides, so there is no reason to thing they wouldn't be trading at that cove.

[@charliespeegleokliving8595]

Isn't it more likely that the village went into decline after the channel shifted and the safe harbor filled with sand?

[@KAT-ew9wz]

my guess is probably a bit of both. could be that a particularly heavy winter storm finally ended the occupation of the site as a trade centre around the time the byzantines collapsed.

[@calebmacdonald6189]

Lost count of how many times 5th century pottery shards are referred to as Turkish. This promotes the misconception that modern Turkey was always Turkey and populated by Turks as well as the misconception that Rome stopped existing by this time. This was Roman pottery from the eastern empire based in Anatolia.

[@TesterAnimal1]

Why does Turkey get a pass on its awful history of invasion and takeover?

[@abigailgerlach5443]

Trade routes aren't exactly new! Granted Cornwall isn't exactly on the Silk Road. But, if you have stuff to sell, it might be worth giving it a try. I wonder how the Cornish reacted to olive oil? I'd move to Devon or Cornwall if I could afford it. Beautiful counties. Very expensive.