Is There A Saxon Hall Under This Man's Living Room? | Time Team | Timeline

Digging up fields and car parks and back gardens is all very well, but how could Time Team pass up a chance to dig up a living room? The manor house in Nassington was purchased in a derelict state, and while restoring it, several massive post holes were investigated that are of a size and spacing to be a Saxon great hall.
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[@johnqpublic2718]

That "SARS quarantine" comment threw me for a second.

[@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430]

Yes back then it was a light hearted joke. Now a reality.

[@brianjohnson8918]

Planting tulips. "Roman villa". Digging for water pipe "Dammit, ANOTHER Saxon hall". Trip over shoelaces. "Stone age burial mound". At this rate I'll never get anything done around here !

[@unclerojelio6320]

“This is a listed house. All these tiles will have to be put back in place. “ Cut to Bridget smashing tile with a sledge hammer. Lol.

[@amandajstar]

Hilarious!

[@LQOTW]

How lucky are the people who get to live in this building. So much awesome in one place.

[@pauljefferies2091]

Am i the only one who cringed when they started breaking up that tile floor?

[@danielkershner3269]

They had to Karen

[@danielkershner3269]

Or else they wouldn't know what is under their

[@danielkershner3269]

@SEAN PETAIA oof another Karen

[@Garblegox]

3:33 "But this is a listed house, and the tiles must go back as we found them" 9:59

[@amandajstar]

Yeah, what happened to that? Now I shall have to watch this episode in full!

[@mav5204]

Patch that with some grout

[@lvxmagick9560]

Just open up the Creation Kit & move the house model over.

[@danielkershner3269]

Karen

[@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430]

Alt F10? Or clr alt delete. Lol

[@flatfeat]

Next time on Time Team: "Is There An Ancient, Lost Marks & Spencer Under Mrs. Twiggly's Strawberry Patch?"

[@lglglg]

The dead butterfly being mentioned twice made me laugh out loud hahahaha

[@CoffeeLover-mz7bk]

And this was a LISTED house!

[@robintst]

Me: "It's not even 2 minutes in, surely they're not going to rip the fl---they're ripping the floor up."

[@mav5204]

Every tile to be put back as it was except the few smashed with a pickaxe

[@claudettedelphis6476]

Great history lesson 💕 Thank you so much for sharing with us 🔦🎻🎼🏆🍾🥂🍹🥮🍤🍒🥑🥭🍓🍇🌈🍀🌼

[@angelique7618]

Another fascinating video. Thank you!

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

Wisely, Mick had a party that week-end ^^

[@gmoney6198]

Nice opinel phil!

[@MrShoki44]

I suppose that Knút Sveinsson (Knud 2 "den Store") is more known in Scandinavia

[@lucybrunson2216]

IF ANY PLACE IS OLD ENOUGH IT'S BUILT ON SOMETHING

[@justinanthonyprochemdirect401]

Exactly so. Previous great resets of history. Old World been demolished one by one. JonLevi videos

[@lyndashaffery979]

Loved this one ty

[@franksimms2567]

Inj

[@franksimms2567]

. hi and i.

[@Cadadadry]

Music is (30%) too loud and totally unappropriate ! Pls solve this for next episodes...

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Looks like a very nice place. If it were mine I wouldn’t want to tear it apart just to unearth an old ruin.

[@amandajstar]

I wouldn't, either. What are they thinking?

[@victoriap1561]

Specially to find Saxon stuff because they tend not to find anything.

[@andreamarshall911]

Maybe the homeowner wanted to refloor and dig a pool for the eventual sale of the home. To save on cost, write it off, and possibly skirt around historical site laws he called the time team to make it possible?

[@antiquesuncovered1137]

@@andreamarshall911 I mean it seems like they have a small private museum (see 6:50) so I think they just really like history.

[@Decrepit_Productions]

Agreed. If I want to see an old ruin in my home I just look in the mirror.

[@ryancoulter4797]

Just have a series where you dig up under peoples houses then bail on them whether or not you find anything. 00:01 “we’re digging up this family’s kitchen to see if there’s a medieval forge underneath...” 59:00 “nope! Well goodnight everybody!” “But what about our kitchen?!” “...Goodnight everybody!” *scarpers*

[@AuroraSinclair]

What's the benefit to the landowner if something of historical importance is found? Many of the landowners seem so keen to have the team work on their property. I don't know about the UK, but here in Canada we'd be slapped with so many restrictions that it would make it almost impossible to do anything to the property without costing a fortune.

[@papricep6248]

The real question is why they would choose a residential area for their hall.

[@Russia-bullies]

The better question is why is the show,which ain’t an American production,the best reality show there was.

[@Decrepit_Productions]

@@Russia-bullies I think you answered your own question. =)

[@jeffgarcia5210]

Geolocp

[@HawkqOjOp]

@@Russia-bullies I'm American, and I agree with you. England has the most interesting history on the planet and Time Team finds the truth with the best research skills and personalities out there, including their guests, such as Dr. Lipscomb. Been researching my roots there for years. :)

[@vonVince]

One day he will escape from the circle of Stonehenge.

[@maxtyson9035]

Nice video.

[@SimonSozzi7258]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say NO. Otherwise the title would say "Saxon Hoard FOUND under..." Why not?

[@gregderozier3846]

Lots of work done w

[@followthewhiterabbit1089]

They are gonna regrets they made such a poor dust wall,

[@valiantredneck]

Three days? 44:16. Yep. Sneaky bugger.

[@michaelcarley9866]

If we want a Saxon Hall under our house in the New World we have to build it our self.

[@sandycottonjones3329]

Wouldn't you love to see the repair of the house and lawns? Do they save the sod? Do they walk away? Who repaired the house?

[@flyiny_sqiurrel]

Spare you time, this all about a hull in the ground 🥱

[@chickennuggetscoon6900]

All that for a couple shards of old pottery??

[@annsanse2935]

who cuts the grass at stonehenge?

[@LQOTW]

Sir Tony Robinson: "Today on Time Team we'll be digging beneath this Elizabethan hall to find a 'turnip in the country.'"

[@Research0digo]

44:12 timber beam & earth infill, or half-timber. :)

[@nastybastardatlive]

Is there a cess pit buried in my back yard? Tune in tomorrow for the scintillating answer.

[@athenazoey5093]

i didnt know James May is now working on stones and soil...

[@workingguy6666]

I have never wanted to murder a musician more than when the torture started at 21:35

[@archangel807]

owner wanted a new floor

[@elsalisa146]

Seems like a lot of digging and conjecture, like usual.

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

If this was Knut is house, why do you call it Anglo-Saxon? He is not an Angel nor a Saxon...

[@stillsalty947]

Its a time period in britain...

[@davecurda2350]

What a bust nothing to see really.

[@jjbrown675]

Why in the world would the homeowners let Time Team destroy an irreplaceable tile floor to look for stains in the dirt.

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

Because it isn't irreplaceable, there are industries in the U.K. dedicated to making replacement parts for old buildings, using the same techniques and materials as they did for the originals, so when parts need replaced they are replaced with parts that might as well be original. So those ones that got broken can be replaced with pretty much identical tiles. It isn't just tiles either, it's everything from roof beams to columns to floor and roof tiles, to the chains and other fasteners used. As long as they made a genuine attempt to preserve as many as possible the floor would still be considered original.

[@michaelcarley9866]

Hurt a lil watchin it.

[@beestains779]

Especially when the narrator says “like other Saxon halls nearby.” If I were the homeowner I would be like, “umm can’t you just go look at the other ones?”

[@georgedorn1022]

Definitely not irreplaceable - reclaimed Victorian quarry tiles are easily available and not expensive.

[@jpenneymrcoin6851]

an english show with an english guy wearing a T shirt from.....UMASS?!?!?!?! sorry, I mean THE MOST ENGLISH SHOW EVER....WITH BALDRICK!

[@lisaglynn3121]

I did a double take on the UMASS tee shirt!

[@lecoureurdesbois86]

I'm going to invade it

[@tyquanfleming8554]

Mandy vs naomi

[@dwightehowell8179]

If I had been the steward/ custodian/owner of that wonderful old house time team would have been told to shove off in no uncertain terms. A new layer of concrete can be laid down but that tile is scrap!!!

[@victoriap1561]

They called them.

[@FightTalkMMA]

Shove off? They were given permission hahaha. Calm down

[@michaelcarley9866]

Just hire the cheapest contractor you can find to put down some nice linoleum.

[@beverlystewart1096]

The property owners contact Time Team, not the other way round.

[@georgedorn1022]

@@UncommonSense-wm5fd It's a Listed building which doesn't mean it belongs to the crown.

[@SkarKingg]

Do you know what was under that clown Gacy's living room?

[@papricep6248]

Pretty sure you aren't supposed to hop the cordons and walk around stone henge like that.

[@unclerojelio6320]

No Helen, no upvote. 😕

[@bchin4005]

True, but Carenza lights up any episode she's in.

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[@lburch7290]

Pottery guy had a serious bad attitude, he needs to go and take useless carenza with him

[@Research0digo]

Oh for fox sake! ALL civilisations have done this! This entire show (no offense, Tony) is a heap of stupid hyperbole. And why in the did anyone in their right mind allow the destruction of this magnificent 'house' to even be considered?! I really wish I knew who wrote Tony's script. :( "So, we've got two buildings, we've got an older one ... and then a later one..."