In the Shadow of the Tor (Bodmin Moor) | S14E13 | Time Team

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Tony Robinson and the team descend on the bleak, beautiful landscape of Bodmin Moor to face one their biggest challenges yet.
Series 14, Episode 13
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[@dons123111]

" Go watch your tv show on the bedroom tv where they dig holes in the ground." This is what my wife tells me when I don't like what she is watching. Time Team never disappoints me.

[@marykayrourke574]

Lol

[@angrydragon2910]

Preach Brother!!!! If I’m not forced to watch 90day Fiancé, I’m watching the team!!

[@ChristaFree]

Lol

[@CaptainAMAZINGGG]

@@angrydragon2910 I'm actually interested in that show tbh. fascinating!!!! Lol.

[@venust.4119]

She doesn't have to be so dismissive about your interests. Not all of us here have great partners BUT we all have great taste:)

[@raedale6472]

I love watching this, especially to fall asleep listening to at night and I do it so much that I've started dreaming with everyone having a British accent 🤣🤣

[@Lerie2010able]

hahaha he hasn't got a British accent - I think his soft North American accent is Canadian. I like his voice it's not all shouty like a lot of the younger ones, trying to sound all excited. I like clear explanations and this guy gives us that.

[@kreiner1]

I have so fallen in love with this show, and I really couldn't understand it. I'm not that into British history, and Roman is my least favorite time. I realized it's the archeological itself that I find fascinating, and Phil has stolen my heart. I love how excited he gets over a tiny shard of stone, or how he sees so much in the soil changes.

[@stalinsghost1090]

Likes archeology hates the Roman’s…Lolol why are people so stupid that’s like saying I like showers but hate water

[@deltadom33]

“Up On Phil's trench it is a wonder how he will make any sense of these pile of stones but at least Phil is happy, “ it is just worth listening to time team for Tony’s sarcasm

[@molanlabexm15]

This is the TopGear of archeology shows.

[@Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover]

I just can't get enough of this show.

[@Spartan265]

Good thing it's coming back with new episodes.

[@bethhelminiak5063]

Agreed. So interesting and educational, and entertaining!

[@alexritchie4586]

Amazing to think someone at some point pitched "Speed archaeology" to a TV production company, and they ran with it! Thank goodness, hey :D

[@ChristaFree]

New episodes on time team official channel. 3 episodes from last week

[@ChristaFree]

@@Spartan265 did you see them? 3 episodes last week. "Time team official" channel

[@tubularap]

9:26 - It rains on the wide open moors. Phil takes off his coat so it can dry: "Oh, Bliss." And I sit inside, dry, and enjoy all of it. Thanks so much Time Team, for all that you did and do, in past, present and future.

[@StarChild420]

Its just amazing there is so much history in UK's soil that a whole show with so many seasons could be made. Why can't tv be more interesting like Time Team?🙈

[@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430]

Yes just watch time team on tv and popcorn . i think i have to pretend im watching sports .

[@StarChild420]

@@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430 Hahaha i know what you mean, you know you're different when you binge things like this🙈 (good thing i like being different 😂)

[@siliconjim2554]

Channel 4 is a shadow of its former programming self, unfortunately.

[@Cmcmillen77]

No funding for it.

[@brandon074]

@@siliconjim2554 LOL You should see the History Channel. It's far worse now. Used to be great up until about... what?....8-10 years ago?

[@Peggyanns]

There are no words I can think of to express how much I love this channel. My family has been in the New York City area only since the 1870s. Before that they were in NE Scotland, Ireland, and Yorkshire for centuries. Every time I watch an episode I think to myself that the places the crew is working could very well be my ancestors home. It gives me chills. Thank you all for your comments that are educating me and for the people who made this amazing show.

[@jakesmerth1919]

Yeah, you and 75% of white America.

[@mirika888]

one of my most treasured memories is when I was on a pony camp in the 70´s and we rode on Bodmin Moor, I was only a teen then from Sweden but fell helplessly in love with Cornwall and I will enjoy this..

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

I'm English and I've never heard of a pony camp before?

[@tobylowe4482]

I literally got back from stomp round Bodmin Moor earlier today, looking at the settlement and cairn, to find that this had just been posted. Absolutely superb, it is a great site to visit :-) Well worth also looking at the Neolithic Tor Enclosure on Rough Tor itself as well (there are 3 stone circles that are nearby as well).

[@yarnycat_crochet]

Lucky!

[@jamesbryant8133]

I'm off to look for them. Hails from the other side of the tor 😁

[@wudip6306]

You are very lucky. As a CDN I am envious of all the major sites in England that you have there. Being used to a 400 km drive as a short one, I would take every weekend to visit a site on your beautiful Isle if I lived there.

[@steve-0493]

Yes-The Tormato album/CD pages talk and display maps of the Tors,they were trying to base the album name of the Tors mainly it seems..

[@vickiewallace415]

HOLY COW!! I’m an American and had to look up how far 500 meters is… THAT’S OVER 5 US FOOTBALL FIELDS!! To quote Phil, “that’s a great whacking distance!!”.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

500 should have been the clue it just sounds huge.....

[@yarlkymcfirblatherington9879]

500,000 cm! 5 millions mm,!

[@jet4906]

One meter is just over one yard (about 39 inches). That’s the easy way to figure it…one meter = one yard plus three inches.

[@philjohnson1744]

Every shot of that countryside is Moor beautiful than the last.

[@averydizzle]

Agreed 🤟🏽

[@StuTheMoose]

It can be beautiful, no doubt, but trust me as someone who lived there for 10 years... when the weather is bad, and it's bad there an awful lot of the time, it's one of the most miserable places on the planet😂 When it isn't howling wind, driving rain or depressing, soaking mist/fog/low cloud it really is a stunning part of the world though!

[@Brik-in-the-sticks]

The layout of the (animated) village made me think of an authentic Fijian village I've visited years ago. People all over the world and time think the same when it comes to practical solutions.

[@jamesbryant8133]

Because they were simple shapes.

[@bonzey1171]

Went up there with my missus a few years back, that line of stones is absolutely massive

[@carlthorpe5538]

It was a fun episode to do... but certainly the wettest Time Team I took part in :)

[@vickywitton1008]

So exciting though to be part of something so wonderful!

[@PtolemyJones]

I wonder how often they spend time telling each other things they already know, for our edification.

[@tubularap]

Indeed !! Cute to think that these professionals listen to each other, while their own brains are swirling with knowledge, and hear them explain it to us laymen. And also that they have to shoot certain 'scenes' multiple times, to have it filmed close-up, ànd from a distance without a camera crew in the frame. So much going on, besides the plain old archeology itself.

[@annasteiger7817]

I listened to Tony Robinsons autobiography and he talks about this.

[@alexritchie4586]

Time Team were once doing an excavation in the village I used to live in, so a friend and I went down to have a look. When we arrived, Tony was snoozing in the car, the others were having lunch, and the digging was being done by about a dozen students from Exeter University. One of the students found something, so the producer told them to cover it back over with a bit of soil, grabbed Phil from his lunch, woke Tony up, and set up the whole shot of Tony pretending to walk between trenches, coming over to Phil, and Phil lifting away the soil pretending to 'discover' the poor anonymous student's find on camera :p

[@cameleonfleuri]

@@alexritchie4586 Oh! A little bit deceiving!

[@alexritchie4586]

@@cameleonfleuri Oh, nobody was upset or anything. It's just how making a TV show goes 😄

[@allandavis8201]

Sir Tony Robinson “welcome to one of the most inhospitable places in Britain today” Me, looking up from my chair to screen expecting to see “Prime Ministers Question Time” oh, thank goodness for that, it’s TimeTeam.

[@ici_coop]

Haha 😂

[@chiseldrock]

Phil has the ultimate PHD (Pile it higher and deeper) lol

[@StuffOffYouStuff]

Not seen this. I love Cornwall and the stone age so this is perfect! It's very therapeutic watching these again, much of my later childhood/teenage years watching these at home with mum and dad. Good memories.

[@alanhughes6753]

I used to know the Rough Tor well since my parents lived near by, and my wife, children and myself often climbed the Tor (the children just loved the top). I still feel amazed that there was so much hidden from us under the grass at the foot of the Tor.

[@LilieDubh]

Started watching this show at the beginning of the lockdowns last year, am totally hooked. Am also contemplating writing some fiction about archeologists.

[@tubularap]

@Lilli Haicken - Yes, this all can be very inspiring. Besides the archeology happening, there are the archeologists themselves, and each one is a character. Nice to hear that it gets your creative juices flowing. Happy writing !!

[@suzannecrowe7775]

I’d buy that book!!!

[@Spartan265]

Same here. Well minus wanting to write something. Not much of an author myself. Good luck on yours though if you do give it a go

[@anitaevans2432]

Elly Griffiths: Ruth Galloway series.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

I just watched the updated commentary on this episode and now re-watching... So glad I found this on KZbin cause I am making to sure to write down each one I watch, and some of what history the crew shares, for some silly reason, also helps in my own genealogy research...The beginning where all you see is Phil walking in the rain up the path, and then sitting in the tent looking out at the scenery in the rain. was awesome!

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

You've got the same surname as me I don't find that name very often on KZbin its quite rare actually and we could be family??

[@Wisconsin.pikachu]

"Do frogs bite?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kurtbogle2973]

Phil Harding is Awesome. I have learned a lot from listening to him. Considering that his family was one of the first in England. Its like archeology explained by the spirit of the European people.

[@wewenang5167]

what do you mean his family was one of the first in England? Nobody knows who was the first people that live in England 100 000 years ago lol

[@daveellis9569]

In one episode that took his DNA and traced his ancestors

[@peterokane9253]

i love this show. it may have been on new zealand tv back then but i don't remember. i wouldn't have watched it anyway. but damn i waite for every episode now.

[@soniahamilton9914]

🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Me too Peter. I did not appreciate this show when it was on tv in my younger days!🤦‍♀️ now I am totally fascinated❣️

[@jarfullofbuttons]

I remember this being on TV when I was a kid (80s and 90s). I loved it then and love rewatching it now!

[@K8E666]

Absolutely love Time Team - I live in Wales the land of Castles 🏰 We have 427 of them !! We love a good Castle…. For such a small country it’s bordering on the ridiculous…

[@lordeden2732]

Now Now ant-ienglish joke there!

[@nathalielemay7353]

Bonsoir C est toujours un plaisir de regarder vos émissions.

[@jamesbryant8133]

My god that's just over the hill for me. If someone wants to see some neolithic ruins in cornwall try a place called minions near to Liskeard. There's a village and stone circles with an amazing view of the south coast of Cornwall. Can easily see plymouth.

[@TheShootist]

Tony, Francis, Phil, Helen, Stewart, John, Claire, Emma, Henry, Victor, Raksha, Bridge, Ben and Matt

[@ChristophersMum]

...and Mick...and Mick the dig!!

[@maxsdad538]

@@ChristophersMum I could do without Mick the prick and his condescending attituded.

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

And Kerry and Ian. . . . This wonderful program is based on both the excellence of the science and the interaction of the crew with the deep cooperation and appreciation of each other that makes them a whole. They don't just show us the cultural heritage of Great Britain, they are a part of that heritage.

[@stephanieyee9784]

It's so great to see all our old friends together on the old digs. Time Team was such a wonderful show.

[@tetchan5964]

What a beautiful place! I'd love to visit one day. My ancestors are from the UK, but I live on the other side of the world, in Japan.

[@jamesbryant8133]

I live in the UK right next to where they are here. Can we maybe house swap for a week. I would kill to go to Japan, just for a little.

[@magdahearne497]

I'd love to visit Japan. I may have been born in England but part of my heart & soul is in Japan :)

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

With the last representative drawing, at 46:15, I suddenly had an intrusive thought. (I live in Cornwall, in St Austell, and am WELL aware of how intense the weather can be down here) The drawing, showing the site and the works (I refuse to call it a cairn), and it struck me that it looked more defensive for the lower community than anything else. Not defensive against an attacking group, but to divert heavy rains away from the village proper. If you've spent any decent amount of time here, you'll know that we get pounded by meterological elements from either side of the peninsula as they make landfall, resulting in the most extreme variation in climate. When the rain's very heavy, it can turn the hills into dangerous places, and such constructed works would have been well placed to help try and divert some of the rain as it came from higher up the slopes.

[@dt9683]

I sometimes think these explanations make more sense, than things being religious or ritual.

[@chuffin-nora6568]

This is my favorite episode from time team. What an amazing place, to live. Keep ya Roman temples an villa's, with under floor heating. This is freedom and simplicity, a community living and working together.

[@ditchdiver7531]

I been watching the seriies for a while now. Worked my way up to S14. I seen Mick passed away in 2003 or there abouts and I have to say nothing but admeration for him. It was refreshing to see the thrill and excitment in his eyes with every discovery. You can see the truth and the facts meant more to him than anything else. Mick may you rest in peace good sir and thank you for teaching me about the past.

[@Libbathegreat]

35:10 Tony: Was it a big one? Emma: It was a very big one. Emma: **clears throat** Tony: **cracks up** Priceless

[@theastronomer5800]

What a beautiful location. I love the UK and its history!

[@Greenpoloboy3]

One of my favourite episodes. Love the mystery surrounding this place The music after the intro always gets me in the mood 0:07

[@tuvajacob5050]

Cant wait! This episode is BY FAR my favorite of all!

[@krumble104]

One of my favourites 👍

[@Timotei75]

Any relating to prehistory are awesome, not many of them being given the remaster treatment here though.

[@krumble104]

Emma Tetlowe is right up there with my fav Time Teamers 👍

[@williammcfarlane4969]

Can't wait for another great episode....fantastic series

[@KAT-ew9wz]

a couple minutes in, and I have never seen Phil Harding look more miserable at the prospect of a dig. He looks like he'd rather give this one a miss. And yet, as soon as he gets out into it, he changes completely

[@serenagrisdale6969]

He has a look of deep contemplation! The Phil face 😆

[@andrewsharpe2587]

@@serenagrisdale6969 Pensive. Yes.

[@TermiteUSA]

No he was thinking something like ''just wait a bit for Muvver Nature to blow th' froth off".

[@bryanfrombuffalo7685]

Give this one a miss...I'm gonna use that

[@jamesbryant8133]

He's thinking Jamaica Inn is just over that hill. Warm fire, hot food, cool ale. Poor lad.

[@stevemarshall3481]

Just think how much work went in to building that pathway Phil was doing, thousands and thousands of stones and rocks to in-fill the middle must've taken years and years of hard work.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

You people are giving us very interesting topics. Thank you from Bakersfield California USA.

[@lyndashaffery979]

Thank you so much, I totally enjoyed this

[@davidhoward5586]

This was an amazing episode. So baron yet so full of information as the crew showed us.

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

My favorite TT so far. I have to admit that when I heard “Do frogs bite?” I almost fell off my couch laughing. 😂

[@sarahholloway7393]

Great to see this episode again.

[@christineterry3079]

I love watching this programme full of history ..

[@steve-0493]

Emma:clears throat,enough about beetle dreams... Tony:cracks up.... Love it 😂😂😂😂!!

[@juliajs1752]

The intro... "the most hostile environments in Britain"... continues to show lush green fields and an abundance of drinking water :)

[@stephanieyee9784]

What a wonderful episode. It makes me want to visit Bodmin Moor now.

[@englishmaninfrance661]

This literally sent chills up my spine :)

[@onnieduvall2565]

To answer Tony’s opening question, they came because Phil was playing with his flint and it was fun to watch him. They left once he used up all the good stuff and moved on to greener pastures with better pubs.

[@martinmarsola6477]

A wonderful video. Very informative and interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧😊👍🇺🇸

[@budgetboxuk]

Tony looks like he wants a hot bath a toddy and somewhere dry. He looks totally chilled to the bone.

[@judithburke1539]

So does Francis! (Not sure of the proper spelling, sorry.)

[@milliebanks7209]

Female is Frances. Note the e. Male is spelled with an I or the male has a ball and bat! Helps me keep the spelling correct. Hope this helps.

[@TurbosTantrums]

They all do, really.

[@iangillham9647]

Excellent episode.

[@jasonsearle7832]

Coming from a country with only approximately 1500 years of human occupation (New Zealand) this is terribly fascinating stuff.

Another brilliant dig. Interesting how the peopel shaped their enviroment over generations

[@benr7018]

Back here again in December 2023! Been watching time team since it first started when I was a 11. Its literally timeless. The very show time team will be digitally excavated by archaeologists in thousands of years into the future.

[@dianejohnston3733]

One of my favourite episodes

[@mastrofnone8025]

I must say the UK is the one place I would love to see outside my own country.

[@mellie9633]

Fascinating I am amazed how ancient the Tor is but not surprised.

[@lizzy66125]

one of the best episodes!

[@graemebrumfitt6668]

Great show guys! TFS, GB :)

[@amandachapman4708]

Ooh, that weather! But great archaeology.

[@susytomable]

Thank you.

[@carinakaron8068]

Time Team really bring the past society's to life. The rise and fall of so many civilization's. This is real magic✨️🌻✨️✨️

[@jackielolli3488]

Bravo!

[@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430]

Yay more time team.

[@BobBoB-ez1pi]

Joking aside love this program. PLEASE BRING IT BACK.

[@RKHageman]

And voilá, they have done it!

[@AndyMartin401]

Brilliant

[@thesehandsart]

Waiting with my morning cuppa!

[@K1110.]

Excellent.

[@annethomas9302]

Professionals at work.

[@imjusttoodissgusted5620]

Blue tips on American ordinance means training ammo. Maybe the same for English ammo.

[@katherinecooper6159]

The archaeologists are great teachers for Tony Robinson.

[@beckyburrow8576]

Right? It is captivating!❤️

[@drpsionic]

Nothing like the weather in Cornwall during July.

[@quilliejones4314]

I sure do miss Mick.

[@69canarycamaro8]

Francis is good but he’s no Mick.

[@catofthecastle1681]

And Robin!

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

@11:20 absolutely brilliant.

[@lynnsmith4017]

Was that Victor Ambrus I saw? The sketch was beautiful. The whole episode and discovery was just fantastic.

[@jakesmerth1919]

A cairn can also be a way to protect, preserve and even somewhat refrigerate food so, one inside a living area might literally be the family fridge.

[@bonneyfinnegan8514]

Yes, Phil is a delight!

[@jbradshaw4236]

My favourite episode

[@ritialydia]

I honestly think if Phil was buried when the BIG shovel in the sky called...he would just be digging away. God Bless you Sir.

[@tarlcabbot2551]

They should have dug during May. Helston has an ongoing deal with the Devil for good weather for the Floral Dance on May the 8th every year.

[@ashleysmith3106]

Regarding the dwelling/cairn:- a stone dwelling similar to an Irish Clochán or Italian Trullo would surely collapse into a "cairn" over a few millennia ! (many of these ruins to be seen among the fields and olive groves around Alberobello in Italy’s Apulia region)

[@soniahamilton9914]

That was good the man allowed Time Team to dig trench three.

[@ASA300k]

absolutely fascinating that the bronze age people are actually responsible for the destruction of the forest on the moors. I thought that was much later happening and todo with ship building. Totally groundbreaking easter island moment here.

[@vivienrhodes4248]

I am very glad they found what they did after many a year Wonderful

[@GabbyMcGabberson]

I wish I had this enthusiasm working on my property with features of structures coming up everywhere. But gawd darn it! Do I hate that pickax by now. Respect to all those unsung heroic diggers!

[@wordwoman9900]

Oh, it's Frances! Get ready to take a shot every time you hear the word "RITUAL"!

[@graceamerican3558]

We wouldn’t make it through the 45 minutes if we did.

[@wordwoman9900]

@@graceamerican3558 But we'd have fun trying! ♥

[@graceamerican3558]

@@wordwoman9900 😅

[@kevinbarney5615]

Francis is so melodramatic about everything.

[@Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover]

Id live there. So much history..

[@wanderwoman5558]

I'm curious to see on the top of the Tor. What does the village look like from there? Is there a possible astroarcheological connection? WHY is there a curve in part of the trackway?....again more questions to answer.

[@maurypontiff3219]

If you like drinking games, take a drink everytime Phil says pottery without the T's. lol

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

Theres just something about the moors that sketches me out..

[@JDRELGOR]

I used to live on Bodmin Moor and I've never heard of Roe Tor, Rough Tor yes.

[@111squadron]

It'll always be mispronounced by emmets, for our amusement. 😊 "Bo'castle" by some pretentious plum gobbed wally, will always be my favourite though.

[@JDRELGOR]

@@111squadron the other one was Porth GaVern oh and we had Stives not St. Ives last one San Deny ( St. Dennis )

[@buggs9950]

My absolute favourite I heard in person is Tin-ter-gall. The M&S advert for Davvidstow cheese was pretty good as well. But, I'd promise not to laugh at one single visitors mispronunciations if only they promise to learn how to reverse a car..

[@JDRELGOR]

@@buggs9950 we also had Dubla Bwa that's how they pronounced it, we worked it was double Bois.

[@frelincloyd4396]

good release

[@LordoftheBadgers]

Could you be more spooky??? - me and my mate visited this site only last week (for the first time). Lovely sunny day too ha ha.

[@KAT-ew9wz]

yes, easily. The weather seen here isn't anywhere near as bad as it gets. There's times when the fog doesn't lift for days, and you can only see a few feet. That's when you use that giant row of stones as a marker for where the hell you are

[@LordoftheBadgers]

Ah I meant - could they be more spooky in terms of coincidence of showing this one when I'd just visited the prev week 😊

[@fabulouschild2005]

Genuinely had no idea Bodmin Moor was once habited, and I grew up nearby