Keeping Up With The Georgians (Somerset) | Series 15 Episode 7 | Time Team

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The team descend upon a field just outside Bath to investigate the remains of what could have been one of the country's grandest Georgian houses. An impressive set of stone arches is all that remains of the house built 200 years ago by local MP Sir Francis Popham, but a couple of paintings show the building in its prime. If they are to be believed, it could have been mistaken for Buckingham Palace.
Series 15, Episode 07
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[@JayRob31145]

As an American living in the distant colony, California, I have no idea why I am so enthralled watching a bunch of delightfully quirky adults digging bric-a-brac from ancient English fields. I suppose it's because Time Team offers such a refreshing, quality contrast to the mind-draining trash that's offered elsewhere. It continues to be a fascinating learning experience and I am hopelessly addicted to the ever-changing content above and below ground (and water) level. What a fabulous body of work! Keep digging, please!

[@Dashrenderful]

Amen 🙏

[@vh2337]

I agree (as another California colony resident), I just love watching this show!

[@willowhofmann7409]

Because when we find old stuff in the ground, it's from like 1920 and we're like amazed they're talking Neolithic era here. It is amazing. I also live in California. This I can't get enough of the show. It's crazy how old this stuff is and they're just like it's only 1400 years and I'm not thinking 40 years and I'm like over the moon that's why

[@pattysue2516]

Are you referring to California as a colony of Spain? It was never a British colony. Just saying.

[@JayRob31145]

No, not an English colony. But some family members were from England and Scotland, so I guess that's what I meant. Thanks for the note --Jeff@@pattysue2516

[@JohannesSHBjerg]

Time Team has become a kind of an OCD thing for me: I have to watch an episode or two before I go to sleep. I must have been through the hole shabam 5 or 7 times. Utterly satisfying.

[@Legion563]

'Mind your knees', 'Manganese?'....lmao Phil!

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

😂 😂😂

[@Gandalf22476]

4:40

[@MrOllieBD]

Best clip ever to come out of time team! Three mates just laughing 👌

[@sharonwalsh2851]

Omg just as I read your comment and watching time team Phil has literally just said this . Eek scary stuff

[@samuelbhend2521]

@@MrOllieBD Search for the Clip "Phil spots a Anomaly" where he mistakes writing on a Geophyssurvey for a Response 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tomp7847]

I love how Stuart always puts everything in context in the landscape

[@khutt19]

Makes one wonder why they do not ask him in the beginning as opposed to the end, save themselves a lot of work,hahaha

[@judeirwin2222]

His name is Stewart.

[@Just_Sara]

I laughed so hard when Phil, delayed response, popped up with, "Manganese??" that I almost threw up just now.

[@LilieDubh]

Best discovery of the whole pandemic. Time Team episodes about everything from Mesolithic to modern. Georgian mansion? So interesting to see how people managed to upscale and disguise. More Time Team! Please!!!

[@lisakilmer2667]

Look for Reijer Zaaijer on KZbin - he uploaded most of the whole series a few years ago.

[@PauluzP]

Panhahahademic....sheep

[@julanesutton9626]

Thank you for the tip, having viewed all there is on this channel I'm now rewatching favourites, but I feel like a kid who's lost their favourite toy.

[@lisakilmer2667]

@@julanesutton9626 I think Seasons 9, 10, 11 are the best. Really content-rich and they hadn't begun to add fake "conflict" - check them out!

[@julanesutton9626]

@@lisakilmer2667 Yep, thanks

[@tetchan5964]

Wohoo! I’ve been watching one or two a day since January. Recently archeology has been creeping into my dreams too! Once Mick was in my kitchen asking for a biscuit to go with his cuppa ☺️

[@joshschneider9766]

Can you imagine mick and Tony just knocking on your door and asking to dig a giant hole in the yard lol

[@Spartan265]

@@joshschneider9766 I'd be saying yes before they could finish asking. Then I would help dig any and all areas they wanted. Would also probably continue after the 3 days are up because I love history and would want to properly preserve and record all of it.

[@meganbell8432]

Lol i dreamt I was swimming with the whales with the Time Team crew and then John Gater and I were walking on the ocean floor! Have I been watching too much Time Team I wonder? Pretty sure there's no such thing as too much Time team Haha

[@joshschneider9766]

@@Spartan265 heh id suggest leaving the actual trenching to the professional archaeologists. id have never noticed three quarters of the stains in the ground lol

[@ibexdnb2879]

@@joshschneider9766 I would definitely be demamding that i get to give a helping hand in the whole adventure.😊

[@speedbrake22]

Why is it so satisfying to watch people talk about stuff they have knowledge about?

[@queensandknaves]

nothing inspires me more than Phil Harding's denim cut offs

[@milliebanks7209]

We call them Daisy Dukes. They look good huh?

[@larryzigler6812]

Inspires you to do what?

[@SleepscapeSerenity]

google Lemmy Denim Cut Offs

[@larryzigler6812]

@@SleepscapeSerenity No thanks

[@larryzigler6812]

@@SleepscapeSerenity Google Bon Scott - shorts

[@talanigreywolf7110]

Thank you Tim Taylor for bringing these back into the public eye!

[@alisterx8698]

Home improvement?

[@avaadler4652]

"I've been slapped in the face by the wet haddock of reality' is probably one of the top sayings to come out of this show lol

[@haplessasshole9615]

Yeah, Jonathan Foyle's a pretty funny guy, on the whole. He's almost as good with a turn of phrase as Tony Robinson, and always knows how to explain things in an interesting way. Also, the line makes me think of Monty Python's infamous Fish-Slapping Dance.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Whomever did the "Production Prep, "all the necessary city/county approvals and paperwork", all the pre-planning to each subject, and then, all the Footage editing, were truly working as hard as any "digger" and they get totally overlooked by the unaware audience. *This series also had to be managed by some effective and efficient Executives.* Amazing magic to pull off 3-day Digs, film them, and be appealing to an audience for some 20 +/- seasons. Yep, they definitely are Award Worthy!

[@musical3lottie]

I've recently been looking into records about local history thanks to TT rekindling my interest, and even with so much information available digitally - and the ability to search digitally - I have even more respect for the researchers and archivists than I did before. Sourcing records and maps, obtaining copies and often having parts enlarged, seems to still be quite a task even now, yet before digital archives were available it must have been infinitely more time-consuming and difficult. We always see the old maps and records on the programmes but not the effort that went into finding them. Add to that all the other areas you mention, my mind boggles at how much work it all must have been.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@musical3lottie Few realize the vast energy behind the scenes. The unsung hero's for sure!

[@devonseamoor]

Best combination of entertainment and teaching, these Time Team episodes. As a Dutchy, with a crush on the British island, its landscape, nature and history, I'm enjoying this episode with laughter about your expressive way of moving about, and your comments and discussions. With your sense of humour alive, you're truly a team achieving results that are significant in some way. Even when no evidence of structure, or trace of objects, is found, your team manages to take your "losses" with a round of beer or wine in a local pub. Eager to move on to the next exploration, digging each time with unwavering enthusiasm, cracking jokes. It's like Lilli Haicken, in her comment below, says. In the Dutch pandemic, these episodes are vitamin shots for the spirit.

[@haplessasshole9615]

I'm from the US. I discovered this series in March of 2020 during the early days of COVID, and had watched my way through all 20 series/seasons by the end of that summer. I learned more about British geography and history during that period than I'd ever known in my life. Developing a better understanding of British history, especially throughout the Tudor years, gives me a clearer idea of the conditions that led to the emigration of British to the American continent, and a British perspective on the Georgian era -- the era during which the American Founding Fathers invented the United States.

[@samworthy5891]

Tony starting on a horse. I'll say again, the greatest youtube channel. Can't wait for the new stuff Time Team. The classics are superb.

[@RB-bq5zq]

Time team is the best show ever! We watch an episode every Sunday :)

[@ChrisPopham]

Really really cool to see time team digging up my family's old gaff! the names mentioned here are in my family tree, and that goes back to 1160, I feel drawn to go and visit the place now

[@adrians2190]

Please don't, you'll probably be really irritating about the whole thing.

[@estellemartin9712]

Pls

[@blasphemertheseventh]

Hey! Did you go for a visit?

[@ChrisPopham]

@@blasphemertheseventh no, Things have taken a turn for the worse

[@ChrisPopham]

May go some day though

[@MichaelRand-r9w]

There was never a better cast brought together than TT. Not even Dad's Army got close! Thank you TT you have made my life better than it could otherwise have been.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Only fools and horse's

[@WendyDarling1974]

Great episode that shows the process by which investigators have to compare their original hypothesis to the evidence - over and over - until they come as close to the truth as logic allows.

[@matthew9871]

Well if Time Team is going to come back, Stuart's Elizabethan mansion would be an interesting dig.

[@coppertopv365]

Would be nice to see done ..

[@joshschneider9766]

@@coppertopv365 stuart ainsworth owns an elizabethan mansion?

[@coppertopv365]

@@joshschneider9766 Your Funny! Watch the Show.. he found where it was Located.. they didn't have time to look ..

[@darthpaul490]

@@joshschneider9766 that's what I thought he meant😂😂😂

[@coppertopv365]

@@darthpaul490 🙏🙄 LORD !!

[@grimmace9081]

struck Gold...thought i had seen every episode at least twice....this was a new find

[@benji4840]

I used to watch this show ironically, now it's an everyday thing...

[@fishingsouthwestflorida1586]

SAME

[@TermiteUSA]

Love these replays. You just know Phil is gonna crack off a winner. And, It's cooler and Rainier than normal here on the East USA mid-Atlantic. Don't even have to make iced tea. Feels like the Channel a bit. Cheers y'all.

[@sharimullinax3206]

Young Ian is so versatile. Great respect from this old lady.

[@janesalisbury3686]

Well! Pride goes before a fall (Mr Popham), thank goodness the beautiful lodge still remains AND is inhabitable. Best not think too much about what was destroyed for vanity and swanking, heyho it gives archaeologists summat to do !!! Loved this episode, it is very near where I live.

[@ChrisPopham]

Sir John Popham lord chief justice was an evil sod, he threw a newborn baby on a fire and was cursed along with every first son in line, I am the last as I had 3 girls and I feel I have taken the brunt of the curse for that :o(

[@janesalisbury3686]

@@ChrisPopham Goodness! I have heard a story about a ''Lord'' who threw a new-born into the fire. The midwife had been blindfolded but recognised his voice. I work as a guide in a Stately Home not far from Bath, many stories are told and retold some are fabricated but it would seem that this one is true. Dreadful. Thank you for your reply.

[@ChrisPopham]

@@janesalisbury3686 are you talking about Littlecoats hall?

[@janesalisbury3686]

@@ChrisPopham No, the one with lions.

[@ChrisPopham]

@@janesalisbury3686 I live in Lincolnshire, I have only heard of "Littlecoats hall" as one of our family's stately homes

[@karenbartlett1307]

I've watched Francis Pryor before, on "Britain BC and AD" on KZbin. And I somehow found Time Team, with its knowledgeable and hilarious archeologists. Phil probably talks like some of my ancestors, who I think originally were from Norfolk, probably farmers, with the name Marler. (I think every farmer in England knew one Marler or another.) This series is addicting. Thank you, Time Team! 🙂Going now to watch something about the Fens!

[@RKHageman]

I am an enthusiastic fan of Francis Pryor. I love his ebullient manner and cheerful approach to everything. Best antidote I know of to existential gloom.

[@karenbartlett1307]

@chrishankin9119 Ok, thanks. Are the accents anything alike?

[@TermiteUSA]

You're not normal until you re-watch the replay after scrutinizing the matching commentary every single episode lol.

[@joshschneider9766]

Oh good thought I was going round the bend hehe

[@AvaT42]

😂😂😂

[@annaholiday3881]

I feel i’m there with you all. It’s Christmas day here in sydney Australia 🇦🇺 I love watching you all preparing for Christmas eve. Merry Christmas to you all!

[@debrah7548]

“I’ve been slapped around the face with a medieval haddock.” Great line there.

[@joanbrucks446]

Love the humor😄and the content😍!!

[@Dovietail]

Tony, this is so much worse than the anxiety surrounding a new Doctor Who. Time team won't be the same without you! 😥😥😥

[@eligunthair11]

Thank you you guys for the awesome videos

[@Cj-bw3hn]

Love Time Team and Tony Robinson narrating

[@martinmarsola6477]

Another great video. Always look forward to them! 😉👍🇺🇸

[@nnagle9224]

I do not remember any other time they could dig with such abandon. Hurray for digging and discoveries!

[@paulstan9828]

Can’t get enough of time team. Especially on a rainy Sunday evening in Ohio.

[@heidiburkard7464]

Recently found the show and really enjoy it.

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

My favorite thing about this show is Phil and his "I've got pot " lines.

[@timheller8475]

One can always solve the dating issues with chocolate's and flowers haha

[@chasingtheblueandgray6189]

Francis: “Mind your knees.” Phil: “Manganese?’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@junkabella6324]

Tony on horseback is a delight i didn’t know i needed! :)

[@LorenKadison]

I may not be as mobile as I used to be but I would love to be part of the discovery

[@biggseybigg3875]

Wonderful show bring it back please

[@BrinToo]

One of the first colonies formed by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1607 was the Popham Colony in Virginia, named after Sir John, who was also a major financial backer.

[@ChrisPopham]

That's my great great ggggg grandfather ;o)

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Pretty sure the Popham Colony was in Maine, although virtually all of the East Coast from the Carolinas up to New England was Virginia Company claimed land in 1600.

[@southernrelics]

Wow! Awesome episode! I have a friend here in the US of the last name Popham. I wonder if there is some relation?

[@josephmiller997]

I believe Popham senior backed the pilgrims financially. Would be interesting

[@StoriesbyIrish]

Guys! When you watch documentaries on KZbin, you are bound to find duplicates. Especially on ones like Timeline, Absolute History, etc. This is because they purchase licenses so they can upload them. This is not something Time Team can predict let alone prevent.

[@alisterx8698]

So is this bad or good?

[@Stephen-cr3sc]

I've got cast iron cookware I know belonged to my great grandmother, and may have been hand-me-downs to her. 70-year-old pottery wouldn't strike me as the least bit odd. It would be stranger if a household DIDN'T have some old stuff in it. British archeology is so different from U.S. archeology, it's hard to grasp. Both have been inhabited by humans for millennia, but stone just wasn't a thing in North America. The Incas and Aztecs were into stone, but native North Americans just weren't. Very nomadic. The people living in North America now move around a lot. I can't remember having the same neighbor for more than two decades. In the 7-1/2 years I've lived in my present location, I've had three next-door neighbors come and go, and the place is vacant right now. I always kind of worry that I may end up with an ongoing pain-in-the-ass.

[@emilyflotilla931]

I feel your pain!

[@mercedes523]

I’ve moved only three times in my life. Here’s where I’ve been for 30 years. I want my home to stay in my family for generations. Fingers crossed 🤞.

[@deanmc178]

a fantastic dig ,, well done team

[@workingguy-OU812]

Jonathan Foyle was great on this episode. Very communicative and engaging. He was a good addition - was he the lead (or part of the lead) on any other Time Team digs?

[@icarusairways6139]

Good old Time Team.

[@darrellbedford4857]

Another great dig. My question is if these dig sites are only 200 to 300 years old why are they so deep in the ground. Have they been back filled my man over the centuries or is it a natural cause.

[@knaperstekt7953]

I’m not sure, but I think the foundations and eventual cellars were dug down into the ground to begin with.

[@qatsi4897]

Seems unlikely it is by natural cause. Because that would mean there's half a meter soil added all over the UK, and the rest of the world. Besides, they used the rubble to fill the empty basement also.

[@donnamealy4877]

I know half of my yard in another 20 years will be at me neighbor’s house!😄

[@IreneWY]

As an actual Georgian (country) thus title spoke to me :)

[@forthwithtx5852]

Such a great show.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I assume Mary-Ann Ochota won't do any interview for the show? What happened to her was not right as it wasn't her fault regarding all the changes, blame that squarely on Channel 4. Just a shame Mick never got given a producer title then he'd have had more say and made more money.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Ahhhhhhh nice American Accent and well spoken @ 5:55 and 38:10. Caught me off guard. (Elaine Chalus, Historian) ...and Phil sounds quite "Cokney" in this episode. 😁 Tennessee, USA 🇺🇸

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Nothing like Cockley more farmer Giles..

[@unknownperson-re7yn]

I have personally met most of the team and enjoyed every meeting

[@samplerstitcher]

Well i've been slapped round the face with the wet haddock of reality.....

[@jamesbailey9007]

Phil should have his own show

[@emk7132]

Is there an owie under Tony’s right eye though?

[@rosajucglaserra4506]

Moltes gràcies! Thanks so much 🙏 But, how can a digger archeologue have these kind of nails???

[@oitsamy]

When they are diggers who are also musicians. Those nails are for playing stringed instruments.

[@AlRobNB]

I was wondered forever, Ian powkesland, I’ve seen him in a ton of episodes Was he a heavy machine operator that was bored and learned how to be an to dig Or an archeological that happens to know how to run digger

[@JuleyC]

an archeological that happens to know how to run digger

[@Vickie22]

@Celto Loco Which episode was that? Thought I had seen them all, but I don’t recall seeing that.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Ian is a actual trained dig archeologist, he got training from Ian Barclay the main operator so he has acquired many of his skills from Ian Barclay RIP.

[@MrCBiologyIreland]

Kettle’s on, biscuits are ready. C’mon!

[@TheShootist]

G'day from the Arizona and Mexican border. Savory scones with a bechamel on the breakfast menu. That's biscuits and gravy for the Colonials in the New World.

[@Cherub77]

Tony Robinson rocking the Tony Montana sunglasses!

[@alisterx8698]

I never understood this about older generations make artwork really small in detail and really accurate but put it up really high and far away so that the common eye can’t really see it 😄 o and make it the same color as the wall itself.

[@AndyMartin401]

Brilliant

[@peterlomax7143]

I have been wondering on the effects of the window tax have on estates. How many large house, mansions and castles were pulled down to it?

[@davidtrishhope9841]

Watching from New Zealand

[@sadiethompson9629]

Forgot what a very interesting and educational series this was nowt like today's shite brilliant

[@michaeltelson9798]

I just if in the 1700’s that the ability to obtain wood of good quality was more limited as the English oaks are reserved for naval construction. Oak lumber had to be imported in from Europe (German) to maintain construction and repair of vessels, luckily a supply of captured vessels supplemented the fleet.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Lols😂

[@ThisAlbino]

Tony must be taking the piss with those Armani glasses.

[@SimonElenor]

They had three Italians hanging on the walls for three years! How strange!

[@melindalehan2060]

Francis Popham portrait looks like Phil Collins to me in the eyes head and chin wow

[@wadestclair249]

Phil love his daisy dukes

[@alisterx8698]

24:50 please don’t pop your collar 🤣🤣

[@anttimaja9931]

Kerrassaan mahtavaa tietoa ❤️

[@lauralake7430]

Ohhh, Phils got shorts on!

[@TheShootist]

Timeline popped this one out last week

[@TheShootist]

@wulpurgis the perils of a near eidetic memory.

[@katerinakemp5701]

@wulpurgis 🤣🤣🤣

[@TermiteUSA]

I remember too much anyway!

[@StoriesbyIrish]

@@TheShootist I don't even watch Timeline anymore for Time Team episodes lol

[@TheShootist]

@@StoriesbyIrish i really have the need to click. the time team intro is my ring tone.

[@johankan3757]

Addicted to TT!

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I think you need to go to rehab😂

[@TimeTeamOfficial]

Hi, the official commentary for this episode is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmPFlnWVgreMsLM

[@TheOriginalRick]

Love English archeology. You can practically stick a shovel into any patch of ground and hit something that someone built centuries ago.

[@mercedes523]

The mountain I live on here in North Georgia, USA is peppered with literally 1000’s of stones. They lie on top of the soil. Some are the size of small cars. I use the rocks 🪨 frequently in my ornamental gardens. Future archeologists should have a field day.

[@rmg03c]

I’d like to find more about the painting of Francis Popham. I may have spelled the name incorrectly, but I can’t find it. It is the painting featured in the program of the man who was purportedly responsible for this odd construction. If you can help, I’d be grateful. ☮️💜

[@milliebanks7209]

Please, I want to know why did they take the building down?

[@deborahpeterson8523]

Wow I would get a ladder and get down in that whole lol

[@CANDUN121]

Where at Hunstrete is this former mansion located? A lot has changed in that area, since this episode was made in September 2007?

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Probably been built over by now..

[@TermiteUSA]

''Mangaknees?"

[@claireandersongrahamkeller2744]

manganese - vs - mind yer knees.

[@gregb6469]

So what happened to the Tudor mansion John Popham built?

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Went to the moon

[@cynthiacarter514]

I believe Phill is definitely the English cousin to southern USA.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Definitely..Have you watched a video on KZbin about the american fishermen who talk exacly like Mick it's so weird and they are 100% born Americans and they still use some olde English words..😊

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Mid east coast not southern 😊

[@katerinakemp5701]

Love Brigids taonga she is wearing.

[@primecustoms6153]

Tony looks like a baby owl. 😂🤣😅

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I think he looks like a Hawk especially that beak of his..

[@Isabelle-hk1og]

Jonathan Foyle is always interesting to listen to

[@Happyheretic2308]

And lovely to watch!

[@sadiethompson9629]

I watched this series on Channel four on a Sunday around 7.00sh till they dumbed it down , and Mick Aspen left the programme he created Sadly gone

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yup same I think every English family's did because we only had 4 channels BBC 1 BBC 2 ITV CHANNEL 4 Wow compare that to now where we've got thousands of channels remember that screen test card on TV when it hit 12:Oclock and went off the little girl with her Teddy I think??

[@neilfleming2787]

seems they were working with a really small team for that one

[@Lulu-ut9pv]

It's a shame that these buildings don't exist no more, image spending so much money in your life time only for it to be torn down later on

[@jessestone3915]

I call them the three day wonders

[@davemonster2]

Nawah I've seen this one already!

[@Al_Ellisande]

I'm not surprised the nephew pulled it down. You wouldn't want future generations to be saddled with the crumbling debt of a dead woman's will.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

An episode I've not seen.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

I guess I've seen this one.

[@AndyRedbeard]

"cranky angle"

[@TermiteUSA]

Mangaknees!

[@private15]

Has Tony ever ridden a horse before?? I think not. Lololo