Is There A Norman Castle Underneath This 12th Century Hall? | Time Team | Timeline

Time Team investigate Oakham Castle in the tiny county of Rutland. It's Britain's best preserved 12th-century building but its grounds are full of mysterious lumps and bumps crying out to be investigated.
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[@RoseCarroll-pk6mt]

Thank you

[@cjhyatt1793]

Stewart is the unsung hero of Time Team to me. I love the rest of the team, but Stewart is like a secret weapon. That man's power of observation is amazing.

[@lynderherberts2828]

I love and admire Stewart, too.

[@daniel3231995]

he the long,scruffy haired oldie?

[@RobKoelman]

@@daniel3231995 Nope, that's Phil, one of the main diggers. Stewart is the landscape archaeologist.

[@bethbartlett5692]

I adore Stewart! He is such an intelligent likeable guy.

[@kathycarlson7947]

You are right! The man has vision. I love listening to his ideas.

[@lextalionis0]

I miss Mick; bantering with Phil, mocking John Gaiters geo-phys, getting the big picture from Stewart and pottery details from Paul Blinkhorn. RIP Mick

[@jodyshepard9482]

Love this series! I had no idea how valuable a landscape archaeologist was. Stewart is such fun to watch. Thanks all.

[@lynderherberts2828]

I agree. He's very smart and humble. I don't know of anyone else who has the skills that Stewart has. He's a rare gem.

[@joshschneider9766]

May God keep and bless the soul of Ian the digger man. He could use the scoop the way Phil used a trowel. The amount stuff we wouldn't know without him is vast. May his contributors to UK archaeology never be forgotten.

[@saveusmilkboy]

22:10 I cannot get over the guy standing to the right of Queen Edith, rocking a pair of Raybans... Also, Raksha inspires me so much. It seems to me that she often gets the "it's a long short" trenches, and quietly works at them until she can resolve the confusion. Tenacious, smart and humble every step of the way.

[@KellyBurnett138]

I always enjoy Stewart’s contribution to the show...he is humble and usually is spot on.

[@MossyMozart]

@Pink D - I appreciate him, too, and his unflagging enthusiasm.

[@victoriaeads6126]

Phil and Raksha are THE BEST! I love Mick and Carenza, but my personal Time Team feeling is that those excellent archaeologists have found other dig sites, both in life and at rest.

[@johnspencer2382]

Eyes on the road there buddy! It's bad enough when people look at their phones , you're looking at the back seat . Geez man ! LOL Love the show. Fantastic for history junkies

[@kittenclaws5775]

Tony: "'Morning, team! 'Morning, Phil!" Everyone else: [I-have-not-finished-my-tea-and-it-is-EARLY-glares at Tony]

[@ellielynn8219]

😂😂 that scene was hilarious 😂😂

[@katiealderman3251]

Bbbbnbbb

[@gaius_enceladus]

As a New Zealander, being from a young country with naff-all history to dig up, I **love** "Time Team"! I'm soooooo **envious** that British people can dig almost **anywhere** and find Roman or medieval artifacts!

[@c.s.7266]

Me too! Same thing in America.

[@jonrmartin]

@@c.s.7266 The US is covered in ancient artifacts from Native American settlements. When my dad was a kid in rural Tennessee he and his brothers would go out looking for arrowheads in creeks. I've got bags and bags of arrowheads, stone and bone spears, weapon sharpening stones etc.

[@dirtypure2023]

@@jonrmartin I used to hunt arrowheads around creeks and lakes in Texas, but compared to 2000+ years of Roman and Norman castles and the like, arrowheads are rather small finds.

[@kunya16]

Same in the US. You can find arrowheads, maybe beads and bones, but nothing on this scale. No castles or villas, no ornate stoneware dating back 2,000 or more years.

[@TonedMars]

Aye same here.. I’ve found an Indian arrowhead once and that was literally the peak of my archaeological work, jealous of these much “older” countries..

[@73honda350]

Stewart was always a quiet, patient, thorough and rather under-sung, yet valuable, contributor on time team sites.

[@valeriejohnson5283]

Amen! I trusted him more than the Geo-physicists!

[@kiwibird8441]

@@valeriejohnson5283 but they couldn't be as accurate without one another

[@valeriejohnson5283]

Kiwi Bird, I concede on that point. They do compliment each others work. 😎

[@gaylebrosnanwatters4991]

My grandmother’s maiden name was Ainsworth!

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@gaylebrosnanwatters4991 lol and.

[@cs_fl5048]

It was fun to watch these guys age over the course of this series... I'm enjoying the reprise.

[@lynderherberts2828]

I was thinking the same thing. 20 years of their lives. Very special people.

[@donnamealy4877]

Oh, I would love to be able to sit down and share a pint with these guys. They always make me smile

[@hydranmenace]

This was an excellent Time Team episode. One of those that I wish could have had more time, just given the sheer amount of things to go after.

[@nicolaivedel5067]

I always look forward to these Time Team docs, they're very good

[@kellychaiying]

"Will this drizzle stop?"

[@sunsettersix6993]

Love the "Warning: Grumpy Old Git" sticker on the cone near, to nobody's surprise, Dr. Phil Harding's trench!

[@chelledies5534]

Walkelin de Ferrers is my 30th great grandfather so this has been amazing to see his home come to life centuries later.

[@laurabrooks7655]

Walkelin de Ferrers was one of my ancestors. Always cool when a site has a personal historical interest.

[@loricarter2394]

I always enjoy watching the time team, they’re super entertaining and fun and you always learn a little something when you watch. It was great to watch even with the glitchiness lol.

[@davidmunro6939]

John and Stewart are always doing magic .

[@deborahallen3349]

I got to stay in Oakham years ago. Wonderful memories!

[@christophloewen174]

Season 20, Episode 7 - Horseshoe Hall (Oakham, Rutland) Love this show! Thank You for posting!

[@McLolzable]

"We simply don't know." Good, own it.

[@trishayamada807]

McLolzable thank you for that. Sometimes, the best or at least most honest answer is I (we) don’t know.

[@McLolzable]

@@trishayamada807 More academics should be willing to admit that.

[@riz3310]

That’s why I love Phil.

[@ruthsmith2434]

@@riz3310 I like Phil as well. His accent is different. Where is he from?

[@SimonSozzi7258]

Wow! I've never seen this not bootlegged. The HDness of it all! 🤯🦋✌🏼

[@susansouthard]

Tony and Phil keep me smiling and laughing

[@bigceelos]

Glad to see Baldrick got his act together. Blackadder would be proud!

[@baskervillebee6097]

It was a clever plan. 😊

[@catfolk]

Stuart is just the best .

[@shitbag.]

22:30 I didn't know aviator sunglasses were a thing back then. Cool.

[@adolfhonkler8324]

Have you ever seen top gun

[@stewartw.9151]

They were in use in WW2 1939 -1945.

[@shitbag.]

@@stewartw.9151 Never seen those movies.

[@componenx]

In that painting, there is another guy to the right of "sunglass dude" that has one in the middle of his forehead. I think they are missing sections of paint. (My first thought when I saw it was an eye patch- arrrgh, matie!)

[@bosse641]

Phil's no morning bird. ....lol ...such a funny fellow. Miss Time Team. Great show.

[@Rolfeelika]

I really miss this show. You are all incredible and so funny. Come back.

[@will2Collett]

Old video, BUT, a nice trip down memory lane with Phil and Tony 👍🏻🙏🏻💗

[@havingalook2]

I love Stuart. We wall want to be him when we grow up.

[@erynd2524]

Wow what a fascinating piece! Thank you!

[@PatrickPoet]

Fun watching the rare and expensive helicopter views and imagining what it might have been like for them if they'd had today's drones.

[@a.westenholz4032]

I have to admit that I thought Phil's behaviour in this episode was rather sulky and unprofessional. The way he kept going on at Stewart was beyond the good natured teasing they usually do. I don't know if he had other issues that may have been bothering him, but considering all those years that Stewart has been proven right, and what was known about that site specifically, I can see no good archaeological or historical reason for Phil to refuse to dig a trench outside the bailey to see if they could find some evidence of Anglo-Saxon settlement. Usually Time Team is happy to explore a site's complete historical context as far as they are able.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol maybe to do with all the utilities underground, Phil seems his normal self.

[@loganjohnson3589]

Maybe That's because he couldn't get Stewart to buy a round .

[@lucylastic]

Loved this one, so much history, being uncovered, makes you wonder what else there is to excavate...

[@janicehill5605]

Stewart's incredible knowledge of medieval landscape 😊

[@matthewbrady1678]

I love it when Phil act’s grumpy.

[@eoyguy]

I know, juvenile, but anytime I hear "..in Raksha's trench", I chuckle a little. Especially when he said "Raksha's perplexing trench"! " "I want to extend Raksha's trench because those curving walls really fascinate me". I died.

[@ismellstatic]

The editing in this period of the show (and television in general) is so funny to me. I'm guessing it's from the latter half of the 2000s into the very beginning of the 2010s, because that was they heyday of this ridiculously over the top WOOSH FLASH ZOOM SWOOSH camera work and graphics and it's just so delightfully unfitting for this very mellow, engaging show about experts bantering while digging up history.

[@BillAllyn]

Tony: "Can we date these skeletons?" Tony... you freaking sicko...

[@christibor8821]

The only thing I don’t like about this show is that they only get three days to dig. I want more!!!!

[@colleenpelletier1225]

Another wonderful Time Team documentary

[@connieheitz8982]

Tony "It'll be a garden feature". 😂😂😂

[@Stoic_Lizard]

33 mins in I love how they get on. I miss working with alright people.

[@anitagoodwin4785]

always enjoy the time team

[@guymandude999]

Had a lol 10:46 "Underturd Stewart's on his next mission" Keep your chin up Stewart, you'll be Overturd before long

[@kennethnash598]

With all those upside down horseshoes, That place is pretty unlucky.

[@mrgreengenes04]

Depends on the mythology you believe. I've read of it with the pointed ends up, to catch good luck, as well as the pointed ends down, to prevent bad "catching bad luck" and let the good luck pour on your house/anyone passing through the doorway.

[@benediktmorak4409]

@@mrgreengenes04 suppose depends also from which country you come from? where i live now, Moscow, the horseshoe must be open on top, so the luck does not - fall out -.

[@bartholomewesperanza3442]

RIP Mick

[@loganjohnson3589]

The BEST part of this episode . WARNING GRUMPY OL GIT when I saw that I almost fell out of my chair laughing .

[@gjalameda6686]

Love this show.

[@Accolaidia777]

I’m directly descended from the Willian de Ferrier , he was my 24 the great grandfather

[@blorac9869]

Enjoyed! TYVM!

[@Brinta3]

40:52 That highlight was very helpful to know what I’m supposed to be looking at.

[@cs_fl5048]

I have watched old Ian dig with his digger for a long time. No problem. He could dig a dime out of a sand pile without messing up the sand.

[@roberthonan3492]

An adventurer is Matt!

[@joshuamitcham1519]

This episode is awesome.

[@tonvanderzalm4612]

As always,💕💕💕💕💕, love this

[@toddnolastname4485]

So, when they ran the power line, what did they do? They undoubtedly dug up something that they had to move out of the way.

[@davidmunro6939]

So many brilliant people on one SITE WOW.

[@bobbybaldeagle702]

At timestamp 16:18 that looks more like a ox shoe more than a horseshoe... We used to call ox shoes steel pork chops because they're a shape of a pork chop.... LoL 😂😆

[@christianpatriot7439]

Would the D-shaped towers have been built by a knight who fought with Richard I? I thought rounded walls and towers didn't come about until after the Barons' Revolt against King John, since it was discovered that rounded corners were harder to batter about than 90-degree corners were.

[@RoseCarroll-pk6mt]

Thank you timeteam 😂❤😅😮😊🎉❤❤❤❤

[@madaug5101]

Thank you, I enjoyed this very much. I did cringe when I saw the horse shoes. They have let the luck run out. Maybe that's only an American thing.

[@alaskanalain]

At 22:09 There is a man wearing sunglasses on the medieval painting.

[@ktonder1]

I miss this series. Please renew it!

[@matthewhines9787]

41:15 Okay. That man is exquisite. Rob wins the hotness award. Dayum.

[@rufousdederp]

"Good morning Phil!" "😒"

[@ruthsmith2434]

I've watched a few of the Timeline videos and I think you can't dig anywhere in England without finding something historic.

[@jameskearney4100]

That is where the Rutles came from.

[@markhirstwood4190]

English, not 'Saxons'. Rutland is in the Anglian/Danish settlement area of England, not in any specifc central/southern Frisian or Saxon settlement area. The English are, by definition, specific groups from Anglia, Denmark. Jutes founded England in 449 CE, likey with many Angles in their war bands and later, many Frisians and Saxons joined in. Saxons had more land in northwest Germany so they weren't as motivated to go to Britain. Angles and Frisians were more motivated, being more coastal and often island dwellers and facing flooding in the times leading up to 449. The later term Anglo-Saxons covers these various groups including Norwegians that settled in the north of England in the 500s and even some Swedes. Anglo-Saxon should more accurately be English-Frisian or Angles and Frisians. The English are mostly Danish and Frisian today and still live mainly in boundaries set by about 600 CE. The English today share 25% to 41% of their DNA with the Danish and the Frisians (hence, 'Anglo-Saxons'). The English average 46% Germanic-Scandinavian/Germanic (37% Danish and Frisian, with some 9% Norwegian and Swedish), the biggest block in their DNA. Celtic and French-German are significant in the mix but not the biggest blocks. In speech, Anglo-Saxon often gets shortened to 'Saxon, but it's misleading and wrong. All English are not Saxon, in fact, most aren't. This really needs to change and for a show such as Time Team, you especially ought to know better and do better. Maybe today with the population growth of more recent times and wealth in the south of England, maybe more English are of Frisian descent in the south and central England, but historically, from the foundation of England and through most of its history, most English are just that, Anglian. They can't tell a first wave Angle apart from a later wave Danish Viking by DNA. Why don't we ever hear that? Why do we only hear this often repeated stat that 'the central English test virtually identical to Frisians.'? Nice to know but Frisians didn't found England. Saxons didn't found England either, Jutes did, under Hengist, specifically, at three points: landing at Kent, first settlement at Tyneside, then another settlement down in Hampshire (mainland and the Isle of Wight). Hengist controlled the coasts up and across and most shipping lanes. He ruled for 40 years and his great, great grandson, Æthelberht of Kent laid down the first written Germanic law code. Apparently Widukind, a later ruler of Saxons back in northwest Germany was directly descended from Hengist. As well, I have a hunch that at least one of Hengist's line went perhaps back to Denmark after a time, then one of his line went up to Norway and founded some other prominent lines, possibly even coming back to England in the Viking Age. I think all of this is a fairly small group of elite power lines within the R-L48 haplogroup, criss-crossing and going around the coastal North Sea area over time and that in the future, AI will prove all this. R-L48 took over Scandinavia around 1,700 BCE and by 449 CE, Jutes were the most powerful North Sea group. From 1,700 BCE, the boats/ships, the culture, language, myth of Odin, farming, metalsmithing, warriorship, R-L48 drives it all, to Hengist, to the Vikings and the Normans and even later onto the colonies of Canada, America, Aus & NZ, etc. English is the tribal dialect of R-L48 people, not 'Saxons' specifically.

[@samanthabennett-medievh5328]

Phil is having none of it. 😂

[@christianpatriot7439]

Why waste time doing geo-phys in Phil's 1st trench? Somewhere, somebody should have made a record of the services so Phil could have taken proper caution, and the 2 blocked up doors in the existing building should have made it obvious that there was a building or a walkway leading to a building for Phil to find.

[@davidmunro6939]

If Phil cuts that power cable he will dig with increased energy and a smoking hat?

[@acorntree404]

what id give to have a beer with them all lol

[@SasukeUchiha-pv4xn]

Can someone tell me what illustration was on the background of the thumbnail of this video.

[@G_Robb]

Yikes, 4:44, what is growing on Phil's cheek? Lol!

[@seansundby6286]

Phil is like me in the morning. leave me alone!

[@kathychildress18]

Seems like a fun bunch of guys

[@steveb1ish]

Phil guides Tony through Helen’s Saxon, Norman and her freshly exposed Viking dark trench

[@lizzy66125]

Listen to Stuart!!

[@kiminaustin]

I've always been taught that horseshoes should be facing with the open side up to keep in the luck. Upside down lets your luck fall out. So...that hall makes me super nervous.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol bunkum, you make your own luck or not, nothing to do with horseshoes.

[@lisajohnson3281]

I'm with you. and even if we do make our own luck why tempt fate that way? It's just asking for trouble.

[@annoenesther]

@6:11 Former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands! the left one!!

[@alfredmartinez7314]

I only watch Phil He’s the best

[@RobKoelman]

37:44: 'Half a plastic spoon and a ballpoint pen'...

[@knailstheman]

35:37 sword and martini guy!

[@brooklynsingleton2031]

Dude.... Freakin Phil....😂😂😁😁

[@r.s.renkirk170]

Found the cable!! Everyone else: 🙃🙃🙃

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I never understood why, on large sites, the team never used LIDAR. It's been used in deep jungles and even demolished concentration camps

[@PtolemyJones]

They seem to imply there were no Anglo-Saxon heirs after Hastings, but Harold had a bunch of kids.

[@retroactivejealousy-worldl1805]

Is this the Oakham where William of Oakham, famous for “Occam’s Razor” came from?

[@eliheyvaert3411]

Could it be that the little axe is a weapon instead of a tool from a craftsman? The vikings had a similar small axe on a long wooden stick. It was fast (swift) and due to the long stick outranged a sword in distance and perhaps more important, also outranged a sword in speed. The shape of this little axe tells that it had another function than only chopping. It's also shaped in an angle on one side. You could hook it behind the leg of your opponent to unbalance him, hook it behind the (armored) neck and pull him closer to your own dagger or sword. Large axes where used for chopping wood and a craftsman would have used other or straighter shaped tools. Anyway, it's a fantastic show. It's just a petty that they only dig for three days. Imagine how much more information is hidden, perhaps just centimeters besides one of the trenches.

[@Ijusthopeitsquick]

I thought the same thing. Battle axe heads were small and light, contrary to what is depicted in fantasy fiction.

[@polkadots2823]

i think it's safe to say that if you dig at your backyard if you live in england, i bet you'll find some romans, bronze age or even a treasure! 😆

[@Billio68]

This site is one that requires further investigation in my opinion

[@benediktmorak4409]

would be nice to know what happens to all those diggings, special when they find a wall or something, after the Timeline team leaves. will it be all covered up once more? ore are local archeologists digging further? to make it, as it was said here, also more interesting once more to visitors? after only 3 days for sure all cant be over? 2012,THEIR horseshoe is being dated. long time ago...

[@lisajohnson3281]

Those are good questions and the answer is both. The sites are recovered so as to preserve them after they have been thoroughly catalogued and mapped out in their exact positions. Sometimes a site is taken over by another group if the Time Team has found something worth further exploration and the Historical Preservation People will allow it. I know this because a couple of the episodes I watched a couple years ago made mention of a site being taken over by another group and how proud the team was about that. Because it was their trenches that had led to the other group choosing to explore the site further. I think they'd found a previously undiscovered Roman Mosaic floor in a derelict field.

[@benediktmorak4409]

@@lisajohnson3281 thank you for the reply.

[@lisajohnson3281]

@@benediktmorak4409 You're welcome

[@digginz8603]

yea!!!!! Tony Robinson!

[@lizzy66125]

miss Victors drawings and Micks input.

[@beaddemon2572]

I want to look at the bricks of the remaining building.