Henry VIII's Lost Armoury and Jousting Yard | Time Team| Time Team

The Team visit Greenwich in search of Henry VIII's lost armoury and jousting yard, which was located beside his favourite palace - now the site for the Naval College and Maritime Museum.
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Series 10, Episode 5.
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[@PtolemyJones]

Henry VIII seems so current after watching so many prehistoric episodes lately.

[@Firedownunder26]

Seriously. I’ve been watching videos on Mercia and anything Tutor related has me thinking “pffff too modern”

[@sekhmara8590]

Right?! 500 years ago is like yesterday.

[@fidesimatupang]

@@Firedownunder26 yeah, but not that extreme for me. Starting to think that anything late 18th-19th to be too recent and having none of the "charms of the past" despite it being 200 years ago.

[@deborahfielder4163]

How exciting for Phil to wear a replica of Henry's armour ! And Tony was striding in a grand manner in his. A good time was had by all

[@jetsons101]

Time Team and all the cast are great but I would have loved to spend a afternoon with Mick talking history over tea or coffee... RIP Mick

[@Tokyomodeldetective]

When did he pass away

[@jetsons101]

@@Tokyomodeldetective Michael Antony Aston was born1 July 1946 in Oldbury, Worcestershire, England favorite

[@jetsons101]

@@Tokyomodeldetective June 24, 2013, Winscombe, United Kingdom.

[@Tokyomodeldetective]

@@jetsons101 thanks!

[@carlabraenne3469]

I know what you mean. I am fairly new fan of Time team. Amd I just realized how old this program is. So I looked everybody up. It was bitter sweet. I was happy that Phil is still alive but sadden at the loss of Mic. Yes RIP Mic. You ve now become real archeology

[@mamaosaazul9762]

I can just see the Kings ghost standing next to them yelling...'You Bloody Idiots, Tis Over Here!' ...lol

[@amybarb25]

LOOOOOL!!

[@erinlayke5452]

This comment deserves so many more likes!

[@madameghostie]

He could also show us all of the places he fell off his horse and bumped his head… but for pride’s sake, he probably wouldn’t! 😜🤣

[@jcortese3300]

I only just discovered this show and I've been binging it compulsively for the last few days -- this is wonderful. How fortunate the British are to live in such a richly layered country with a couple millennia worth of well-documented eras of history.

[@ghomerhust]

wow, phil looks right at home in that armor! someone bring his horse!

[@aplaceinthestars3207]

I thought Phil's discovery of Tudor toilets at 11:00 was a hoot, but getting geared up as Henry VIII was terrific!

[@campcrafter4613]

What a wonderful program! Great cast of intelligent and wonderfully humorous people. Great editing as well!

[@wendykleeb2071]

Just a note Aug. 16, 2021. The series has ended yet I'm loving it here in America! Thank you everyone involved. 💓

[@wendykleeb2071]

@dev null it ended years ago. You can find all episodes on KZbin. The producers are attempting a revival with others.

[@sUASNews]

It's back all on YT for free

[@classicambo9781]

New time team episodes being made on a smaller scale funded by patreon and uploaded to YT as well. New digs out this Spring (northern hemisphere)

[@mirapagan5703]

It's sad that this show has ended I enjoy it so much at least I have youtube

[@joshschneider9766]

Five ninety minute episodes so far with more to come on the KZbin channel time team official

[@SandraNelson063]

Time Team seems to attract wandering monsoons. Could be the answer for places with drought.

[@TheGirlKiba]

This comment is underrated

[@ths3100]

Absolutely fascinating. What an incredibly talented team of historians and conservators. Thanks for sharing this.

[@yvonneormsby9786]

I have watched these guys years ago, and just returned to watch and learn more fascinating English history. Cheers from NZ

[@erikandreassen6531]

The first bullet ---arrow proof vest. Watched a bit longer and chrome bumpers and fittings do not equal the shine of his breast plate, awesome craftsman. Watching this series reminds me we are all time teams family and friends, we have been entertained by those that 'only have 3 days'. Awesome journey that I won't stop watching until itr runs out. These are people that come into our home either from TV (original) or the classics posted on the internet, with the way the team draws you in there is no other word than family.

[@PieterBreda]

Expensive armour was not only important to flaunt your wealth, it could actually save your life in combat. Wearing expensive armour was like a big sign over your head saying: I'm rich. Take me hostage and get a huge ransom.

[@andrewroy6376]

They wouldn't shoot someone. That makes them useless and dead. An alive rich person is worth more as a hostage for ransom. You have now been schooled boy.

[@ericwilliams1659]

Yes the big fancy armor is a sign - keep me alive and you get payed. Battle of Agincourt is not a great example of this but many were still ransomed.

[@gothempress]

@@andrewroy6376 That was the point that Pieter was trying to make...you wear fancy armour, you get kept alive to be ransomed off. With low grade or none, you're fair game for slaughter. How's that egg on your face?

[@maxsdad538]

It's the same in EVERY war. In Vietnam, enlisted aircrew (especially Air Force) usually had a second velcro name badge for their flight suit, with an Officer's rank. An NCO wasn't very valuable "intel wise" to the NVA, but Lieutenants and Captains were, and if was a little more difficult for someone to disappear if he's already been reported to the Red Cross (and media) as captured. I was an enlisted weapons tech on an EC-121, and if I was ever shot down, I was going to go from SSgt to 1st Lieutenant ricky tick!

[@PieterBreda]

@@maxsdad538 Fastest promotion ever

[@chrisbassett8996]

Wow and one of them made that suit, in such a short time. Bravo man.

[@jodyshepard9482]

I'm so very grateful to all these gifted experts! All those years of study are paying off. Yummy! Thanks!

[@evelyndaly29]

Very exciting to see where my great (many greats) grandfather, Sir William Locke wandered about when he was in Henry VIII's privy council. Sir William is the person who took down the Papal Bull at Dunkirk.

[@aimeefriedman822]

So does your family still addressed, ",The Lord..."

[@marieanderson6311]

WOW! Phil in that armor!

[@Valarie834]

i got to visit there and it so massive and still a school, its so beautiful. so cool to know where i walked was a palace.

[@newwavepop]

it never ceases to amaze me how ancient sites end up under feet of dirt, and im talking sites that are only a few centuries old which really isnt that long. think of the famous terracotta army of soldiers found in Japan, how does stuff like that go buried so deep and completely forgotten about. as opposed to a site like say Stonehenge which is FAR older but has seemingly never slowly vanished into the Earth. i just mean there are sites out there in areas that people arent hanging around or messing with that get discovered and somehow over just a few centuries or even a millennia somehow manage to become covered in several feet of dirt. how does that happen. and again there are 1000 yeah old trees out there, and the ground level at their base is still the same ground level its always been. i just dont get how these other places get buried like that if they were not intentionally buried. there are even those places in the world where huge cities exist at ground level, yet there are also huge abandoned cities just underneath them which would now be 10 or 20 or 30 feet below the current ground level. where is this dirt coming from. i know at one time the Sphinx was almost completely buried, but thats in a desert where the sand moves a lot and build huge dunes. but in a place with grass and forests how do old structures end up disappearing under feet of dirt.

[@jacobgreengas7121]

Trees aren't torn down and built over. That's what happens in the cases that you're referring to. Although in the case of the terracotta army they were encased in a massive burial mound and the location was lost over the course of 2,000 years and multiple dynasty changes, war, and turmoil.

[@corneliawissing7950]

You mean, if anyone should dig out a Stonehenge stone, it might be double the length we see? (Thinking of the Easter Island 'heads'.)

[@krumplethemal8831]

The Earth collects on average 100 metric tons of space debris every day. This is small metorites and dust. That might not seem like a lot but it adds up over the years if you can imagine a constant rain of small particles every day lightly coating the ground. Tack on 300 or 400 years worth and you would see a meter or two of coverage.

[@graceamerican3558]

I would love to see the horse drawn polishing house.

[@loricarter2394]

I’m super excited to watch this!!

[@dandylionriver]

Same!

[@dirtypure2023]

@@patrickglaser1560 Unfortunately.

[@jimherron5540]

Quite the undertaking, and results. Well Done.

[@kinskifilms]

Phil is the man. A true Brit.

[@gwadja]

Episode 97 (Series 10, Episode 5) Joust Dig It, Aired: February 2, 2003

[@Adniram.]

I volunteered with an archeology team when I was in high school. They dug this huge flat just like this. When it was all said and done they just filled it all in again and laid down grass. I was shocked. After a couple days of rain it was if we was never there.

[@dirtypure2023]

That's not unusual at all for archeology and there's a good reason. It's important for us to leave archeological opportunities to future generations who will doubtless have much better technology and preservation techniques than we do. Modern archeology leaves extensive records and even exact GPS coordinates so any clues found are never lost again.

[@maxsdad538]

@Oliver Von arx Even with a highway on top of it, it's protected for the future and future archaeologists.

[@SindreGaaserod]

fantastic episode full of passion as always

[@andycap8469]

Good old "Chewdah" period

[@turquoise_hexagon_sun]

Love that Chewdah OG

[@PatrickPoet]

Most of the time, time team never says if the trenches will be closed up or continued to be worked. Sometimes they do. I this case I hope they'll be excavated more.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting

[@davidd6171]

Time Team is the best!

[@Dal606BBN]

Awesome video! Phil looks like Henry VIII and that suit of armor looks great on him!! I Love Time Team!

[@johnemerson1363]

Henry was over 6 feet tall. He was a giant compared to the average man. I would venture a guess that 5"5" was average for a man at that time. A tall, athletic, well muscled man would have been imposing!

[@marinadubois7347]

Everyone around Henry was in danger of death and many did die. He never took responsibility . He was paranoid. He was a bad father and a terrible husband. He thought he knew best. Sounds familiar except Henry was educated and smart.

[@drpsionic]

All of the qualities of a great king.

[@robingardner4228]

It is incredible how the Tudors found their way to the throne. I have been stuck to my computer watching these documentaries. The Tudors managed to be the firsts in history. So its not just Henry the Vll but all the other Henrys that came before him, not to forget his what his children contributed to England as well.

[@Happyheretic2308]

He was a Tydder, usurpers all.

[@freeholdtacticalmed]

I love mick and Phil and Tony BUT Stewart and his maps point the excavations to the team.

[@corneliawissing7950]

I'm one of those geographic-bump-less people who can go into a shop by one door, come out by another and be totally lost. What Mr Stewart does seems like pure magic to me: he looks at a landscape and the landscape seems to explain itself to him.

[@sirspikey]

Brilliant

[@angrybird9925]

Good lord!! Thank the heavens FOR GEO PHYS!!!!!!!

[@philiproseel3506]

That was a great episode, actually.

[@amazinggrace5692]

My closed captioning writes “chuder” whenever Phil says Tudor.

[@deborahmerchant7603]

My closed captioning writes so many wild versions of what was said it's almost a whole comedy show on its own.

[@silva7493]

@@deborahmerchant7603 Mine too. If I can't quite make out what was said and go back with the CC turned on, it gets pretty hilarious.

[@eighmeeloo]

Phil looked so regal! Hail King Phil

[@Thaelore]

Dude chisel scares me with that mushrooming on top... Liable to lose an eye

[@trojanette8345]

45:18 -- Phil......the man of the hour!! Time Team's own stones expert being pulled from the trenches to do his part for 'Mother England'. Gee, I wonder how much they offered to pay him to get him to suit up in the fancy armor?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@GutterSnipe11]

I watched a few episodes before realizing I was listening to Baldrick. What a unique voice!

[@corneliawissing7950]

I tried to watch one episode of 'Blackadder' and couldn't make out a word they said. I am not British, so the fault must be mine, but I was disappointed.

[@lucianon.carvalho6929]

Oh boy, look at Phil in full armour! **.**

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

well thats a dangerously seasoned Veteran Sergeant if I ever i saw one - Paladin of Whack, the God of Flint :)

[@samspade3227]

Love the show. Here in the states, we have a few Native American sites. We are now the Anglo Saxons, so a millennium or so from now you will be digging us up.

[@user-yf4jx6te2b]

I can't help but think that the host has a cunning plan.

[@aricgoetz910]

Oh boy have to watch and now im going to be late for work

[@charliedsurf1267]

One must have priorities.

[@CutThroatah]

I can’t lie I’m low key into this...🧐🤓😂💪🏾

[@tjo1976]

I am utterly amazed at how the Brits and Europeans live on layers of millennia of history. Where I live, we have nothing like that although now I want to go dig up my yard. lol When I was a kid I found a fossil of a shell in our front yard (and we are hundreds of miles inland). Turns out millions of years ago our property was under a shallow sea where dinosaurs roamed. We might have some native american history in the area but that's it.

[@awallner1]

That's history too. Natural history. You should go for it, and discovery the treasure in your background.

[@faroukabad]

yeah, me too. Almost anywhere you dig in England, there are historical artifacts. There was a hill out in a park near where I grew up, that had a ton of percussion flakes on it, obviously a place where the native americans made tools. My friend found a pestle, but not the metate. We looked and looked but never found an arrowhead there.

[@seanpaula8924]

I found one arrow head. Very exciting. Made me look at the area differently.

[@classicambo9781]

The geological and palaeontology history of the Americas is fascinating. Much longer timelines than anthropology alone.

[@jakeyb.o.h4651]

I like Mr. Robinson. What a swell fella!

[@ThisCrazyRALife]

*43:01* Tony looks so pretty ☺️ I love the little bounce in his step as he walks away

[@newwavepop]

that intro. ive watched a few docs about Henry and read a few things through the years, i know he was considered quite handsome in his youth and was very athletic and in good shape, i know that later on he had some health problems including the leg wound that would never heal. but i mean honestly the thing that always stood out most to me is the sort of treacherous ways he went about eliminating his innocent wives when they didnt get him what he wanted, so that he could just move on to the next one. its sort of difficult to hold him in a particularly bright light because of that particular flaw.

[@corneliawissing7950]

Agree!!!!!

[@HawkqOjOp]

There's another perspective one might consider. It's a two parter. First, you probably know that women were seen in a different light back then. I think men realized in that day that women couldn't REALLY control what gender they gave birth to, per se, but providing an heir was part of their purpose. So perhaps it was more about their fate - if Henry's wives' fates were not to provide an heir, then their fate, not their personal actions, were determined by a higher power to not be for the King. Having said that, part 2 - look at all that Henry did for Anne Boleyn and her family. He promised mistress first, then his heart, then his life, and then the throne next to him. He left his first wife, whom he loved for 20 years, changed his country and then religion to be with Anne -- many historians believe they truly loved one another, perhaps in a seismic manner. It was normal for Kings to have mistresses, especially during their wives' pregnancy, for his own happiness and the safety of the child. It may have still broken Anne's heart. For lots of other known reasons which can't be retold here, Anne was disliked by some very important people in the court. Seems they likely fabricated her infidelity to further accentuate her failure to provide a male heir, thereby breaking the King's heart. Twice. Perhaps it was not Henry's tirade of raging in madness to behead Anne, or even Kathrine Howard, solely for the reason of lack of heir, but he may have felt their behavior was the ultimate betrayal, and treason, if his heart was truly broken. Then he might have raged from the hurt of betrayal, unbeknownst to him, totally fabricated by a few close to him in court upon which he relied. Henry's broken heart and intolerance for betrayal of such great love makes him seem less mad, eh? Perhaps it was from the spiraling competition of men serving the king, by Cromwell, Norfolk and a few others, where madness may have truly spawned (before what seems like a possible brain injury from jousting, and other medical conditions, that may have caused the king to be one miserable man later on). Side note: a contemporary notation has recently been found that Henry expressed great remorse at his deathbed, for executing Anne. Cromwell hid the letter from the tower, which may have been dictated by Anne, where she expressed her innocence to the point of respectfully threatening Henry that he would one day face that reality when he met his maker. Perhaps since we have at least two poor copies of that letter today, that Cromwell didn't hide it good enough, and Henry found it before he died. Makes one think. On topic, uncovering dirt, sand, iron bits and floor tiles from the famous joust, is enough to keep us all awake, Phil. I've seen this episode at least 3 times like it was the first. :)

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@HawkqOjOp , An Iago at the court?

[@HawkqOjOp]

@@corneliawissing7950 Exactly!!

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@HawkqOjOp , Thank you, Sir/Ma'am! Mr William knew a great deal ...

[@pavelyakunin1409]

Liked the music in this video

[@GypsyTheGoatOnTube]

Will they leave it exposed somehow so the history can be seen? Just makes it all more real to see it

[@IreneWY]

It's usually covered up again to protect it.

[@byronlee8745]

Great info! New subscriber here!

[@ElmCreekSmith]

Did Tony get to keep the armour made for him?

[@jasoncollins1702]

I *heart* Jonathan!

[@iZacharyD]

Does anyone know the name of the song that plays through most of the episode. It’s at the beginning when he’s describing the palace. It’s kind of sounds like Enya storms in Africa but I can’t place it. Thanks!

[@Schmorgus]

24:09 - Time Team sponsored by Bedfords transport! xD

[@kierangane734]

If anyone has any doubt that women cannot do hard manual labour, they only have to watch Time Team!

[@ivanolsen7966]

where was the other jousting yard video made / found ..... I remember it being a walled garden now

[@MichaelS-pq1ep]

For the performer who was killed during the filming of this episode, rest in peace.

[@natenae8635]

What?! Where did you hear this from?

[@imjusttoodissgusted5620]

the chisel the metal smith is using should have the petals on the top ground off. they can come off during a hammer strike and they will put out an eye. or embed themselves in your skin, I caught one in the arm and still have the scar

[@LordEvan5]

Lol, I was thinking the same thing. Time to hit ye olde bench grinder!

[@Dovietail]

Phil is a dead ringer for mid-Henrican Henry!

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

The major reason Henry VII was so portly in older age was because he was so inactive, because of an injury from a jousting accident.

[@jennyvanniekerk9600]

What actually happens to the dug up walls and finds? Covered up again?

[@Mousy0913]

Depends on the site. Sometimes local archaeologists continue them, but if it's in a farmers field or someones garden it usually gets filled in. The finds get catalogued and go to universities or museums. And for the walls they take pictures, and make detailed scales so that future archaeologists with better tech and knowledge can find them again

[@coppertopv365]

SIR TONY HAS ARMOR! Befitting a Knight. .

[@corneliawissing7950]

AND Prof. Aston's lovely hat!

[@kasie680]

So if the remains can be up to 6 feet down, does that mean that over time organic matter breaks down creating more soil and the surface of the earth rises or do the archaeological remains sink?

[@weerwolfproductions]

any place of human occupation accumulates dirt and waste. over the course of centuries, roads may rise a whole floor, making the former ground floor a cellar. The city where i worked had an early medieval fortified house, a refuge with the door on the first floor. In times of unrest they could pull up the stairs and be safe. Less than a 1000 years later, it only takes two stone steps to reach the same door from the same street. An accumultion of dirt, waste, and resurfacings.

[@graemehunter5403]

Does time team ever return to old sites. After other have followed up on their initial investegation

[@weerwolfproductions]

a couple of times. They revisited the Turkdean site. There are also a few episodes where a university took over / continued a dig site and Tony makes a documentary about their dig, sometimes with a few other time team members in tow like phil and mick and carenza.

[@kraigcochran9995]

Phil looks good in that armor lol 😆

[@nunyabidness9895]

45:38 Phil IS Henry

[@krumplethemal8831]

I think Jonathan is the only brit who uses "feet" instead of meters. He must have studied archeology in the states for a while..

[@Happyheretic2308]

The Brits still think in feet and inches. We leave metric to the millennials, and the French.

[@cautionTosser]

32:04 camera shy or wanted in 2 countries?

[@TheSofres]

Do they fill the holes back in?

[@weerwolfproductions]

yes, and they replace the grass sods. few months later with a bit of rain and a few mowings and there'll be no visible trce the were there.

[@annahuffman7304]

King Henry the 8th is acually my many times great grandfather. My mom figured it out when she was doing very in depth geneological history research when she was pregnant with me

[@ranonampangom2185]

Um I'm afraid that is incorrect. None of Henry VIII's children had children of their own.

[@madameghostie]

@@ranonampangom2185 He had illegitimate children as well

[@ranonampangom2185]

@@madameghostie He had only one that we know of, Henry Fitzroy, who survived to be old enough to father a child. He died at age 17 though, and he and his young bride, Catherine Howard, had been ordered not to consummate the marriage. She remained at King Henry's court and was not pregnant at the time of her husband's death. So we can be quite certain that there are no surviving direct descendants.

[@ogedeh]

Probably in a collapsed mine somewhere

[@melodyhutton9307]

What makes me sad, is that we have lost all these buildings and play grounds. Why is it not feasable that we do not rebuild them so that we can really enjoy what they had in those days.

[@maxsdad538]

"so we can enjoy what they had in those days". Things like the Black Death? Dysentery? Cholera? Tuberculosis? Grave's disease? Starvation? Public flogging? Inflammatory bowel disease? Necrobiosis lipoidica (skin lesions)? Measles? Miscarriages (as high as 30%)? So much for your "good old days".

[@faroukabad]

yeah, they should build it back and have tournaments there, re-enacters still joust and learn double handed broadsword and stuff.

[@maryedunkin9839]

I don't know how you walk away after 3 days. Doesn't some one continue the search????

[@Blackadder75]

Mostly not, but they record and map everything they find, cover it up again so that future archaeology teams can continue. Occasionally a project will continue immediately, but usually not.

[@dirtypure2023]

It's important to leave archeological opportunities for future generations with superior technology and preservation techniques.

[@ProjectCambrian]

LOL, the geophys printout at 17:30 ish, looks like a UFO.

[@evilborg]

Was this ever fully excavated ???

[@Gil27225]

Do persons in Britian think like Tony - Henry VIII "one of our greatest kings." Most persons I know know in America think Henry was crazy & a tyrant.

[@katakimikusan]

I can’t help but to hear him say 13:52 “We actually only have one sauce and in this one salsce”🤷‍♂️😅 I know that he is saying source/sources, but listening half awake trying to fall back asleep it do sound like sauce/salsce😆😅🤗

[@pattimessenger6214]

I didn’t know there was a Placentia in England! I live in Placentia California. We are told it means “a pleasant place.”

[@kaptainkaos1202]

I worked a research project many years ago in Newfoundland. Near Placentia!

[@pattimessenger6214]

I found Placentia, Newfoundland on a map years ago. My daughter was in the Army, deployed to Iraq. I sent her an email to ask if she was lonely, if she missed Placentia Harbor, (we don’t have one). I asked if she missed the passing ice bergs. I included photos of The other Placentia, and a link to a website for them. She got a kick out of it. Piacenza Italy is our sister city. Placentia Newfoundland should be our identical(ly spelled) city!

[@karmayt8956]

Read “The other Boleyn” and Henry Viii was a womanizer who I had some respect for breaking with Rome. A country can only have one head and not two.

[@roslyndantinori7313]

I love how he says we will start digging , and yet, never picks up a shovel . He keeps saying we , he doesn't do any work .

[@stephenodell9688]

Not all work manual.

[@karphin1]

Roslynd Antinori But he is the emcee, the guy who ties it all together! He isn’t an archaeologist.

[@dirtypure2023]

Tony Robinson is a legend and a treasure, leave him alone.

[@cindygr8ce]

If you want to c Tony do "work" watch his worst jobs series. He triesthem all from all sorts of time periods in Britains history. His job on this show is to bring the viewers hes only reason i watch. Him and Dan Jones are my favorite British Historians.

[@zak-a-roo264]

He's part of the TEAM in "Time Team" .....its literally in the title.

[@judgemoses9015]

8:39 BASED fire shovel user second best hand tool for digging known to man (beaten only by rakehoe)

[@richardgrace4500]

Wasn’t Henry the 8th the king who had like 6 wives executed because he kept having affairs

[@madelinerago8631]

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

[@corneliawissing7950]

Katherine Parr survived him, Catherine of Aragon was sent into a convent ... check up.

[@maxsdad538]

No, that's the other henry VIII.

[@ben-jam-in6941]

I know Tony is left handed from many examples of him using it predominantly on many Time Teams. However he always looks like a right handed person trying to use his left anytime they get him to use a hammer or axe or whatever. I wonder if he is just that awfully uncoordinated or if it’s him playing it up for the show. It’s worse on his “worst jobs in history” show. Still love him as a presenter though. He is one of the greats for sure.

[@mangomehukaskulttuurimakas2579]

S10E05 Greenwich,.London.

[@cindygr8ce]

Poor guys the Armory might either be dug away or covered over in shit. Rofl although pretty much any digging in london is digging through shit since all the used to do was toss it out the window

[@gypsyboomer]

An armoury needs a huge amount of fuel for the forge, dry hard wood, stacked very high. Never seen anyone look for a fuel storage area to support alleged locations.

[@harbourdogNL]

Most likely brought in on barges, left on them and taken off on an as-needed basis. There would have been no logging or wood-cutting in the area so it stands to reason it would be ferried up the river.

[@jarlgawain8876]

Any wood storage from 500 years ago would be nearly impossible to find just from rotting away. Coal would be possible if they were using it at the time, but they are looking at the right thing by looking for hammer scale. Of the materials used by an armorer it would be the most identifiable of what is left.

[@gypsyboomer]

@@jarlgawain8876 there would be a tremendous amount of ash to be disposed of that does not rot away quickly. Throwing it in the river would be possible as well as use as fertilizer. Still find traces of it.

[@gypsyboomer]

@@harbourdogNL possible, still wonder about all the ash that was produced.

[@gypsyboomer]

@Brisdad53 what is your point, sport? fires require fuel and leave ash, traces of both have been found in much older formations, sport.

[@BinkyTheElf1]

Henry VIII = “One of our greatest kings”?! Bankruptcy, division, divorces, destruction & plundering, mass murder. Not so much.

[@V1Speed360]

good god can you imagine being the people that own this place or run it looking at the way that lawn looks lmao

[@johnmoss6631]

Yup, I’m sure Time Team just showed up one morning without any warning whatsoever and just started digging.

[@vanmeier9805]

I'm declaring it here and now... Julian Bowsher is my future husband! Holy smokes! 😍

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol you will have to ask his present wife, he is easy on the eye though.

[@Oh-hardy-har-har]

Modern armorer ruining his hearing. Prolly already ruined akshully.

[@tonygreene81able]

Jousting is one of them sports that just never took off here in the state's. What gives?

[@corneliawissing7950]

Think you only happened when the jousting craze had run its course.

[@maxsdad538]

Yeah, but we have Bikini League Football!

[@elenavaccaro339]

@@corneliawissing7950 😄😅😆😉😄😅😆😉😄😅😆

[@radwulfeboraci7504]

The original Fat Bastard.

[@bcm1567]

the guy who's show about digging up history is not doing any digging, he must work for the DMV!

[@MsDinoGal]

John takes a "geo-fizz" photo. Clearly shows a UFO. He calls it a "wall response." 🤨😂