Is This The Location Of A Previously Unknown Bronze Age Society? | Time Team

[@mchristiansen137]

Just about anywhere one walks in the U.K, Scotland or Ireland, one is literally walking on history. My Cousin took my wife and I on a walking tour out towards Hadrian's wall, it was something to actually touch something built over a thousand years old. This show has been a staple for me during this pandemic, and has brought back fond memories of England.

[@spymaine89]

every where on earth

[@dubthedirector]

Indeed

[@bigbasil1908]

Stone circles, standing stones and burial cairns/dolmans are a lot older.

[@mchristiansen137]

@@bigbasil1908 Too true, but a lot of those were off limits or closed. We did however get to go to Hazelton to the Cairn there. That was a great trip.

[@mchristiansen137]

@tacfoley You might want to read what I wrote: "Built over a thousand years old" Key word, "OVER". Since it was completed in 130 AD, and our visit was in 1984, that would have put it under 2,000 yrs. old.

[@archygirl1750]

I would kill to work as an archaeologist in the UK, until I saw this and Cooper's Pool videos. That is dedication! I'm sticking to my desert archaeology, but what all of you do is so fascinating and reaffirms my life's decision to follow my heart and be an archaeologist. I also really really really want to work with Phil.

[@mclarenscca]

I think knowing more about ancient history is probably one of the most exciting, and intriguing aspects of historical knowledge!

[@nopeyadayadayada1248]

God bless all those involved with bringing this show into existence. If I were younger I would've consider a career in archeology with this show being an influence in that.

[@promontorium]

Living up on that hilltop while trading across sea meant they could see boats from miles away coming or going. Their earthworks not only protected them from other people, but 3,000 years ago there were still wolves and wildcats in Ireland, which are not so likely to attack people, but could have killed their livestock..

[@itsmeagain1745]

The fact that there were animals that could ruin your day seems to be overlooked far too much. Keep the wolf from the door as well as some cattle thieving mofos.

[@bjw4859]

I'm so happy I re discovered this channel, I have never had so much fun watching digging in the dirt & finding bugger all, well done.

[@bunzeebear2973]

Well, there was this fog(it smelt like burning rope) and went on all day after day.

[@glorialange6446]

Dr Phil's comment that he didnt find the garden but he found the potting shed!!! Thats why I love that man!

[@Oscarspoem]

The enthusiasm is infectious. Really enjoyed this episode.

[@Oscarspoem]

@wyomarine To be honest I work in construction and more often than not we deal with archaeologists before site can commence. I have always found them to be a bit pretentious. A bit better than the us. Not all, but the majority. I do like though in all walks of life enthusiasm in what you do, hence my comment.

[@erictaylor5462]

It kind of blows my mind that you can dig a hole, even a rather small hole, and someone can come along 3000 years later and know someone dug a hole there.

[@davesstillhere]

No kidding. I often entertain myself by building, cutting, or burying something completely random, and think of the future archaeological "implications" of nonsense. Lol

[@erictaylor5462]

@@davesstillhere People of the ancient world or even as far back as the Paleolithic era were not any different than we are today. They didn't have our level of technology or our level of knowledge of the world but they had the same basic desires and needs we have today. They wanted to make sure they had enough food to feed their family. They wanted to raise their children to be happy fulfilled adults, they wanted to hang out with friends and protect themselves from enemies. As children they pretended and played games and had toys and dreamed of being grown up. As grown-ups they had everyday tools, they made toys for their kids and they played at recreation. But archeologists want to find important things, so a child's toy, lost 6000 years ago becomes a religious artifact. As does a broken tool cast aside by someone's wife.

[@Mdeaccosta]

Oh, those ruts cut by that tractor will be there for hundreds of years.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@Mdeaccosta Did I say anything of that kind? Did they not point out the evidence right in the video, that the Earth had been dug into 3000 years ago?

[@Mdeaccosta]

@@erictaylor5462 cutting ruts like that, no bueno. Don't know what you're going on about.

[@AB-by8xu]

Love these people and the way they are passionate about telling history

[@bunzeebear2973]

Very imaginative, after the fog of "hooch" the stories they can tell. I did notice that the ground had no rocks or gravel in it, it was all sod.

[@sandraleenerts6805]

I keep trying to figure out why "Time Team"i is SO addicting. The "Why" is beyond me...like 'mudlarking' on the Thames...history, artifacts, hints, and whispers of those who lived before me are embedded in my DNA, I think. If I am here, a curious, wild, interesting, genetic trail got me here. My parents didn't share all that much, and as individuals, we don't matter all that much. Oh, we do, to our families and loved ones; but history is not interested in specifics. It thrives on what nature allows to remain. Time Team is an anchor to connecting me to a mysterious genetic gift. I love those old bones! I love thinking about those old bones being lusty and lush, giving me life! Who knew? They didn't. I don't...wonderful!!!

[@Sk8Bettty]

Francis’s enthusiasm always improves my mood. ❤

[@molanlabexm15]

This is the Top Gear of Archaeology Shows.

[@bigbasil1908]

40:51 That dug out canoe is huge in the photo. Amazing that whoever carved it found such a big tree to 'dig out' (or more likely burned and dug out as to do all the work with flint tools alone would have taken forever).

[@susanjackett9268]

Wonder if many workers were used, like at Stonehenge for example ?

[@bigbasil1908]

@@susanjackett9268 I wouldn't have thought there would be many making the dug out canoe as people would need room to work. It was probably just two or three people I reckon

[@Libbathegreat]

Not sure they would have burned it out. Damian said in a previous episode Natives in the US used trees like pine which are easily flammable, whereas the trees they would have had to work with in the British Isles retain too much moisture for that to work well. I think what we're looking at is the result of many hours of hard graft 😳

[@bigbasil1908]

@@Libbathegreat Oh yeah, I've watched videos of people making dug out canoes much smaller than that one and it took a huge amount of work and time. Stone circles and pyramids got built because people were bigger than the amount of work and time. Where there's a will, there's a way

[@lionelpink7187]

@@bigbasil1908 here in Australia the first nations people cut the bark peeled it and bound up the ends and put smaller bark based outriggers on one if both sides. Bark wouldn't last long so there wouldn't be evidence of them, but it makes sense that they were made there too as it FASTER and easier to make boats that way, than scooping out big trees, though it is proven that this was done too.

[@jusdafax1]

Francis is slipping in his old age. It took him almost 2 days to get hooked into his "ritual" mode. In every single Time Team episode he appears in, there comes a time when he decides that everything that they have looked at, from cooking pots to cow barns is ritualistic or ceremonial.

[@janehoyt2435]

I do love watching Phil with his flints. I hope that all these years later he is still at it!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@JonBrownSherman]

I don't think I've ever seen an episode of TT where there wasn't intense rain and high winds. I'd say "film it in summer" but I bet they probably do...

[@ruthdann3880]

Only during the summer.

[@SandraBonney]

I was just thinking about that too after just watching the one about the Broch in Scotland. I live in Australia and I'm always wonderous of how people thrived and survived back in those ancient times. It looks difficult in these times with modern equipment. Kudos to past and present

[@michaelgrimes1131]

Went to Belfast back in 1993. Would have loved to have checked this site out if it could have been visited. Great show!

[@ValMartinIreland]

I don;t think anyone knew about it.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Pretty sure you could walk it. There’s public access to most such remote places in the UK and NI.

[@dianesmigelski5804]

What a great episode. I loved the roundhouses and the flint mine nearby. The sea down below in a neighboring village. I’m sure trading went on for good flint tools to use on the farms. Maybe grain, seafood and vegetables were traded for the flint tools. I am sure all the best flint workers would come to work the flint in such a great mine. ⭐️ My imagination is a wonderful thing.

[@christianbuczko1481]

Trade with the med was very possible in neolithic britain and ireland. The peoples that built this site in ireland are directly connected with the rest of europe, with burials of people hundreds of miles from where they lived and artifacts like flint axes being found far from the source.

[@JasLoney]

Thank you, as usual--really great. The really big question left begging by this broadcast is the economy of the settlement, built with enormous patience and ginormous expenditure of human musclepower over long and repeating periods of time. From the broadcast itself, it's pretty obvious how terrible a place this would have been to try to raise crops (do you wanna try harvesting oats in fog?). And the effort needed to bring victuals from the lowlands up to these towering heights .... a LOT of energy for peoples who didn't have much time (or energy) to climb high heights with heavy loads of food on their backs. Ultimately, this episode doesn't elucidate much at all about the site, a shame but there's 3 day archeology for ya. Anyhow, thank you for your efforts but please do try to keep the economy of life in mind in future. No village on this promitory would have been sustainable unless there was a significant culture below it in the valley and beyond to support it. Be well!

[@alayneperrott9693]

The climate is thought to have been more clement at that time.

[@ginnygin7141]

The climate was different, and the landscape was completely different. There was most likely much more foliage and trees, etc. And the water line was probably not where it is now. Likely Nothing would look how it does here

[@70stunes71]

Antrim area .Where my great grandfather came from. . .fascinating

[@mariashelly6392]

Oh Tony! It is so much fun watching you get excited over the dig!!!

[@adventussaxonum448]

Good to see Francis Pryor within his Bronze Age specialist field, rather than trying to persuade us that the Anglo-Saxon invasions never took place.

[@thomaswright5492]

Interesting and humorous and the enthusiasm of the experts is contagious. I am glad I found this episode.

[@BryonLape]

How can Tony never say "I have a cunning plan" on any episode?

[@eileenbell8965]

LOL I wish!!!

[@kumasenlac5504]

Well I'm afraid it'll have to wait...

[@Utubepooperful]

I wish I was a millionaire. I'd privately pay the same crew to spend a few weeks up there to get a full picture of the site, every house and cairn, and build a partial reconstruction for tourism/my own personal pride in local heritage. Also, great to see Northern Ireland on Time Team!

[@derekcrymble9085]

Well you could if you had "A cunning plan".

[@tantraman93]

There are crowd funded archeology digs. I only looked at one but I would guess others exist.

[@Blagger3000]

Better to do a little and leave some for archeologists and universities in the future I think.

[@Utubepooperful]

@tacfoley Draconian, not "draconic"

[@gusgone4527]

Well said. But the Irish history is not so fascinating as on the British mainland. I would like to know the extent of Irish trade and other interactions there were with the Romans.

[@MuscarV2]

We need more people like Francis in control over our planet. Imagine world leaders like him: "Were killing ourselves and nature and we must fix that NOW". Love his enthusiasm and immediate call to action!

[@neilfranklin5644]

So true

[@tomparker9001]

The Hagred guy cracks me up

[@mzeewatk846]

I always suspected that Baldrick was secretly the real boffin. :)

[@snopure]

Sort of hints at it in the initial installment, I think. Edmund was the dumb one in the first series, while Baldrick made the wisecracks.

[@robinsydney140]

Fantastic documentary. Guidance narrative by Tony EXCELLENT! Tony, you make us travel in a time machine from home. Thanks!!!

[@FINNIUSORION]

Their reason for not using the geophysics cart is ridiculous... hook up some ropes and drag it up. As long as the bottom stays facing down it'll work.

[@danceyrselfkleen]

Okay boss

[@FINNIUSORION]

@@danceyrselfkleen seriously. Without it you're shooting in the dark. Just throwing a trench down and hoping you hit something. The geophys takes all the guess work out of it.. that's why you do it before you dig anything.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Usually they cut the grass on the site so there's no problems with the cart, minor hills aren't an issue. I think he was being a douchebag.

[@sirridesalot6652]

@@FINNIUSORION Ah, but there have been episodes where the geo phys did NOT show stuff that was found with an exploratory trench.

[@valswhitewolf6611]

You will never know how much the Iowan historian poet valures these old classics. If its my lunch or bedlunch my cats and I are watching maybe fir the tenth time Time Team. Thanks

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Some day, I would love to take a trip across the whole area, from this kind of fort to cairns to rock art to rock circles of multiple kinds, there are so very many places to peek into our neolithic past! I really wish I could! 🥺 Thank you for sharing. ❤❤

[@thomashiggins9320]

The richness of the dark soil looks amazing. We have no soil such as that, in my part of the United States.

[@gerardmcgonigle1310]

That's the bog in the soil lovely and dark I have my hands in it most of the time lol

[@SurlyCurmudgen]

That site needs a good four to six months' attention.

[@grbradsk]

If there were cash, I think it would be cool to fully reconstruct a site or two and have a bronze age village you could live in for a bit as a tourist. Work flint, defend the ramparts, eat a cow cut by flint.

[@suecastillo4056]

Fun but I ain’t cuttin’ any poor cow with a flint anything!!! We’re doin’ veg!!!!😂🤣♥️‼️😘

[@feloniousbutterfly]

That would be SO FUN. A living history museum you can be a part of. I would love that so much.

[@DennisMoore664]

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[@suecastillo4056]

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[@jasminsurridge9126]

I remember visiting Flag Fen (a reconstructed Bronze Age village) as a child and it was one of the main reasons that I am so invested into archeology and history. I was so convinced that the actors were real people that lived in the village and I wanted to join them so bad. I now live in the US and I can’t wait to return and revisit all of the history that we don’t have here.

[@svenbeowulfsson641]

We shell consider that in the Bronze Age the climate and so the weather was much better than today. So life was much easier and there where even more forests. A lot of people could live her and the sea provides fish and other seafood.

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

Seeing the effort people put into defense, made me think of an old song from 1971, One Tin Soldier - Coven. I don't know why, just think it would be a beautiful if hard life

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

@Aniwayas Song it is a great song. I'm not big on anti-war songs, but that song really nails it.

[@dianawingate8887]

I graduated high school in '71. "ONE TIN SOLDIER" was always one of my favorite songs. "Turned the stone & looked beneath it.....Peace on Earth was all it said." Too bad more people didn't remember.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

I can't tell the number of times I've heard an archaeologist say "It must have taken an ENORMOUS effort ..." But in fact, time and again, all over the world, people did build these things. So it can't have been that bad.

[@ivanolsen7966]

the ditches would also collect rain water to drink

[@douglasruss2889]

Bravo ! Always enjoy 'Time Team' ! ❤️

[@TechGorilla1987]

"Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. Promontory Rider used to ride so high. I don't know these days just seem to ride on by. Once the wind was warm and sweet, but this must be your place. Cause you don't change this chilly range, for any other place. Say, Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger." ~~Robert Hunter/Grateful Dead

[@danceyrselfkleen]

Grateful Dead sucks.

[@TechGorilla1987]

@@danceyrselfkleen "That's just like, your opinion, man"[ ~~The Dude

[@indyrock8148]

I'm always intrigued by their interpretation hillforts etc are to show prestige. Anyone who has owned a nice house will know it's hard to keep people from nicking your stuff. Even bronze Age Irish had the same problem.

[@blablabubles]

Aecheologists have a tendency to overplay cultural and 'nice' explanations and way way way underplay practical uses and more importantly violence and social conflict. We've seen that over the last 2 decades as genetics has shown that aechelogists thought that almost almost all cultural change was elite Capture and cultural change, when in fact the genetics now shows it was often very violent population replacement.

[@jennymay4720]

The Celts sailed to N Portugal where there are other round houses on high sites and probably furthur,They were vital sailing people.

[@MseeBMe]

Wow, you even had J.P. Mallory. Impressed.

[@mistydawnoliver6717]

Human endeavor never fails to amaze me ❤

[@matthewhines9787]

15:11 Trust me Tony, that isn't the _first_ tool on this site.

[@davidroetzel5500]

Nice to see how some of your people lived ages ago

[@thisisrenren3657]

"we've found a collection of plastic tools we believe to be cutlery, and based on the plastic casings we believe to be computers, we're prepared to date this to the late 20th century, early 21st century.

[@patrickwentz8413]

I have not seen this one before. It was fun to watch Phil flirting over flints.

[@spacelemur7955]

As in Italy, "Oh no! Not another great site we can't affort to excavate properly."

[@borderreiver3288]

just amazing how they lived back then....

[@mevenstien]

Great job ya'll always enjoy your shows 🙂

[@dano4572]

BEAUTIFUL

[@clydecox2108]

Interesting to me that the team kept asking who these people were when it's obvious they were Irish. Then at the end, the story of stealing some cattle from a nearby village, well that just sealed it. Mistry solved because my neighbor has cows and I always wanted to steal one and feast.

[@conorsullivan8108]

We do love a good cattle raid

[@wewenang5167]

so before potatoes you guys are known as cattle people eh. xD

[@clarkblount7788]

Good thing alcohol was invented to protect the cattle and taters from the raiders.

[@garybobst9107]

When I was a kid, I got to live in Thailand for a few years. The place we lived had been continuously occupied for the last million years or so, and it had that 'lived in' look.

[@mrpopo8298]

That would be pretty difficult considering that humans only inhabited Thailand around 60-70,000 years ago.

[@indyrock8148]

@@mrpopo8298 you mean homo sapiens. There were many previous species

[@mrpopo8298]

@@indyrock8148 Where is your evidence for that in Thailand? As far as I know the only older hominid evidence in SE Asia is Java man. OP was talking shit. No two ways about it.

[@indyrock8148]

@@mrpopo8298 he was probably wrong about 1 million years. but there were several Neanderthal type species getting around. There is evidence of at least 2 in the DNA of Australia Aborigines. This is in addition to their Neanderthal DNA.

[@mrpopo8298]

@@indyrock8148 I was talking about Thailand specifically, not the entire history of human evolution. I am well aware of our present understanding regarding that.

[@shizukaakatatsu22]

I always pity the guys that have to sort out, whether the flint tools scattered around on site are genuine or just Phil's lunchtime crafts... :P

[@standingbadger]

Only Phil Harding could spend an idle lunch hour ‘knapping’ 😉

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@elkanovitch]

God, I love this stuff. It's so intriguing to get these glimpses into history.

[@Justforfun-wq7mr]

Good episode. Cool location.

[@sallyreno6296]

Jim Mallory!

[@OlJarhead]

Amazing to think some of my Irish ancestors could have possibly stood on this hill, digging and building these walls and ditches.

[@zlayd5146]

Francis is on one hell of a drug called history

[@balderii7340]

It’s interesting to consider that these people repopulated the lands after the glacier had retreated, rebuilding a world their ancestors once had to leave.

[@gregarcher468]

Should be no surprise they occupied a site of solid basalt .yes a giant magnet. They knew about energy lines and how you were able to think with greater clarity on certain dates. They were in tune with the earth which they thought was there ancestors communicsting with them. These people were zoomed in on this energy and knew the signal was strongest in these sacred.locations.

[@nigeltown6999]

...cutting bassalt with antlers - are you off your trolly?

[@Alarix246]

Basalt comes apart by its own. In hexagonal shape.

[@nigeltown6999]

@@Alarix246 only when it solidifies in the perfect conditions for it to crystalise.

[@Alarix246]

@@nigeltown6999 are you sure it wasn't the case?

[@christopherray1105]

Would be really cool for you to do an episode in Buckinghamshire About the statues that we’re just found during construction

[@natalya9821]

Thank you. Subscribed.

[@awallner1]

I love Phil.

[@Hallands.]

Such a huge, rich site, never fully excavated is a bit mind boggling to me. After a full excavation, you might even consider a reconstruction and rake in tourist $$ by the truckload, given the right marketing effort…

[@cdd4248]

I would love to go!

[@Hallands.]

@@cdd4248 I read every nordic saga I could find as a kid. The Irish kings held a big place of respect and wonder in the minds of the vikings. I think finding and exhibiting Irelands rich and deep story would benefit the nation and its people.

[@Hallands.]

@Celto Loco Do something? Found a movement?

[@cdd4248]

@@Hallands. absolutely agree!

[@adders45]

And destroy it!

[@lana6335]

I love listening to stories of what's it was like before... New subscriber here... 🙋‍♀️

[@mera2876]

I'm curious about what trees and plants would have been growing on the top of that promontory back when humans lived there. Is there evidence that the settlement deforested the area? Those ditches would have made good water catchment systems if there were living trees. But I suppose the water table was pretty high back then, too.

[@deborahbaker4770]

It seems a shame to dig up that ground because it’s so beautiful out there with buildings going up all the time and construction almost everywhere you look something like that is really nice to see‼️

[@benjaminrush4443]

Enjoyed. Thanks.

[@christinakiefer5981]

I would like to see a sight after they have repaired the grounds

[@bunzeebear2973]

They don't repair the ground. There would be no need to. No one can find it in the fog. They catalogue what they find and where with GPS and future Geoanalysts have the data to study and maybe do more on the site(or not) IMG

[@Kamamura2]

Ah, Ireland... I remember that low stone wall... they are everywhere. I must have been to that site, lol.

[@joelwillems4081]

Very neat. Wonder why they didn't use ground penetrating radar or a laser grid system to help more accurately chart the terrain. Time, cost or maybe that basalt promontory foundation?

[@maryluger-sartor9411]

They said in the episode that the ground was magnetized

[@jameshaines789]

There’s a group of “trained” archaeologists trying to track down the steps of ancient people thousands of years ago, but they can’t stay in contact with each other in the present?!? Phil! Phil!!! Where are you?!?! PHIL!!!!!!!!!!! 😜😆😜

[@sarcasmo57]

Would love to go back and see what they were doing.

[@dat2ra]

Dang! Your excavators work fast.

[@cyndybutler7330]

Interesting stuff

[@butwereallsombdyspecial]

What fantastic channel this Wow. Thank you

[@johnhall7850]

There would've been trees and a different climate 5k years ago. 😶

[@sophitsa79]

It wasn't all that different at that point.

[@michaelrowave]

This is so awesome.

[@roger2641]

Where did their drinking water come from, I saw the ocean but didn't see fresh water, I may have missed it so perhaps the trenches were a water storage network.

[@bintheredonethat]

Where did they get wood. I imagine the area was forested at that time?

[@louisesumrell6331]

As for finding things in the fog, how about downloading a gps app onto your phone? You can use the "my elevation app" to find the elevation and coordinate, then use the gps app map to find a certain spot with blinkers on...

[@sirridesalot6652]

Did such exist back in the 1990s when many of these digs were made?

[@dominiccirino2069]

I love this very much........from Mandeville, Québec, Canada.....i love everything Irish,☘️🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀❤️😎

[@seanfaherty]

You should’ve more discerning 😉

[@philsarkol6443]

It amazes me what a desolate place on the hill that is. Still the question as to, why did they settle there, is unanswered. Where did they get wood or turf to burn, what did they eat, where did they hunt or grow crop. How many people within that community and how where they socially organised?

[@caloss2]

Hero's Hill (Knockdhu, Co Antrim) | S16E03 | Time Team; is what this video is.

[@janegilmore102]

LMAO @ Francis putting Stewart to work. Damn fog, cos Stewart would’ve been hiding in the skies LOL No trees to hide in.

[@omaindustry3502]

@41:30, dugout canoes c. 8,000 BCE in Lake Phelps, North Carolina USA

[@djedi308]

Of course you need a good defense system, since anybody can sneak up on you in such fog. They lived the Carpenter movie, bronze age style :)

[@mzeewatk846]

Hill Fort specialists can be a bit persnickity. Big enough for a banshee, by Mother Mary, easy.

[@richardh8082]

Thank you all

[@akyak333]

some of these characters look like they are straight out of Harry Potter

[@Ms.Mel.Creates]

It’s almost a shame we record everything now - not so many mysteries for the future.

[@ctb7376]

"The Sea is always right"

[@omaindustry3502]

@38:00, the arc of the earthworks is to steer herd animals into the enclosure