King Cnut's Manor | FULL EPISODE | Time Team

The Team delve under the floorboards of a 15th-century manor homeowner. In their attempt to locate the signs of a fine Saxon hall that once belonged to King Canute.
Season 11, Episode 11
#TimeTeam #BritishHistory #AngloSaxonHistory #KingCnut
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[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

The real heroes are the guys who put everything back after the show had ended.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

25+ years experienced woodworker here fully agrees.

[@aseformo2449]

@@aylbdrmadison1051 Kudos to you! I would love to see a video titled "The clean up".

[@jeffburnham6611]

Not only that, but they had to pour in a new cement floor and replace all the floor tiles they busted out.

[@Schmorgus]

Well that's pretty ignorant. 99% of the time when archeology is planned, the owners calling them are already planning on renovating the site anyway. Knowing the renovation contains old history, only shows that the owners care enough to call them before they smash everything to pieces. Time Team most likely saved the owners a lot of money removing that floor for them. Sad that some people tend to think archeology is only causing a mess...

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

@@Schmorgus In heritage houses, you can't just renovate as you please. Also, if that tile floor wasn't going back, they wouldn't have taken (or tried) such care to get them up.

[@DeadlyInsanaty]

"...so the challenge for Bridgett and Matt is to get [the tiles] up intact." Next shot: There's a broken tile.

[@frankhoeppel2314]

Pretty sure Matt pissed someone off - he gets all the crap jobs!

[@Jerbod2]

10:13

[@creativebobbo]

Good Lord that made me shake my head. Without cutting away the grout the odds of success drop considerably. What they needed was an oscillating saw, but I don't know if they were being produced when the show aired.

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

Right, I thought those tiles were protected. They were smashing into them with a pick axe afterwards!

[@cameleonfleuri]

@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA Exactly! At the beginning they say that they have to carefully lift them up without breaking them... then later we see them smashing them to pieces with a pickaxe, hammers and shovels!?!

[@theknave4415]

I dunno why, but every year or so, I have to go back and binge watch Time Team.

[@AnaComesonotante]

Same here! 😊

[@HannibalFan52]

Welcome to the club!!

[@gmar7836]

Worth watching? Can you provide a link?

[@ianscott9396]

Its relaxing, and educational

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

​@@gmar7836official time team channel.....

[@timpauwels3734]

13:15 “How’s the SARS quarantine area going?” Funny to hear that these days.

[@jakubj_]

SARS version 2.0 sends its regards.

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

I was first like. Wait what? Then I remember the SARS outbreak

[@si4632]

now we have lockdown forever and nobody complains

[@edlingja1]

Still going, apparently everybody in the world needs a vaccine for it but you can still get sick just might not die.

[@clarebebbington9984]

The homeowner certainly was brave to let them dig inside her house.

[@ColtGColtG]

lol Tony with Bridge: politely asks permission to enter the trench. Tony with Phil: Hop right the hell in there just to piss him off

[@PatrickMHoey]

Tony’s lucky Phil loves nothing more than digging trenches and scrapping clay off pottery shards 😂

[@NikkiBikkiNZ]

Phil is so cool, definitely someone I would want to hang out with 😊

[@sassandsavvy007]

Phil playing the flute... priceless. What a pleasure to watch this.

[@morgandrye3311]

As an American it really trips me out to imagine living in a house with so much history in it. My house is "old" and it was built in the 1950's

[@Spartan265]

It would be totally cool to have a home with such history behind it. Or even if it was in my garden or something lol.

[@FrostyBalls01]

We have houses that have some history. I live in a house that was built in the 1840. It’s not the 1100 but it’s still pretty old and American built so it will last another 1000 years.

[@freedpeeb]

It is so interesting to see floors laid right on the ground. As a Canadian, that makes me shiver!

[@BirdWhisperer46]

America has no history at this point. In Britain, there are lawns older than the discovery of America.

[@FrostyBalls01]

@@BirdWhisperer46 you do know there where Native Americans here before we got here. I’m not saying our history’s are the same. But we did have tribes here for a while now.

[@RobertBaruch]

Time Team: This is a scheduled building, so we need to put back the tiles in exactly the same way. Also Time Team: Smashes up tiles.

[@pablovivant9089]

I had the same reaction: surprised the final edit gave us this complete contradiction so vividly!

[@allysmith2284]

I saw this too!!!! 😮

[@dr_orient4782]

...the musical instrument discussion was heavenly to this musicologist's ears...

[@kimberlyolson4705]

"The big yellow trowel"..........lmao. I love this channel!!

[@RobKoelman]

Love the owner of the estate, who is giving permission to dig inside her house. In other episodes, even the removal of just one stone of a terrace in a garden seems to be problematical...

[@CaravelKiwi]

the owners are both archeologists

[@HermicraftAddict]

@@CaravelKiwi That explains why they're so willing to have their beautiful home dug up.

[@juliomandiaga9612]

property value, historial site, ancient king of England's home

[@ilovetrancemusic2999]

Wish to own one of the Pictures drawn by Victor. I love the Pictures he' s doing to understand the History Team Team is looking about.

[@emilyflotilla931]

I bought a book of his drawings. Incredible artist.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Matt was with TT way back, he is one of my top 3 favs: Stewart, Matt, and Phil. Course *"everyone loved Mick"* 💫❤💫 Really great group.

[@rachelgilmer4519]

The way Phil rolled up the tapestry like an old towel! The lady was horrified!

[@PublicBudgeting]

And this is why this American returns to England again and again. The archeology is stupendous.

[@belendemaria1989]

I've seen it before and yet I never tire. Great episode. No other show educates as much on the subject as this one. Miss it greatly.

[@bosse641]

What a lovely little ancient town. ..that's the England I love.

[@garnetcecilgarnetcecil8610]

Phil playing that instrument gives me energy to do all my homework on time 😂

[@Reijack]

It's the first appearance of the great Paul Blinkhorn, pottery identifier extraordinaire!

[@johannesofie777]

Actually he and Helen was first in an episode in Norfolk or around there. It was a church on a hill that was very visible. I watch one episode each evening and it was a while ago, so I don't remember more.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Who did he PO?

[@karmayt8956]

That was a beautiful house. Those owners were either brave or crazy or both.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Owners are themselves archeologists, they already excavated in parts of the floor.

[@margomoore4527]

My late mother would have loved this show-this episode especially! Imagine living in a house that once contained King Canute’s hall-more or less. I mean, the floor tiles are placed on the actual soil instead of a concrete slab! Living cheek by jowl with real history! It would be fun to build such a building and live in it, but I don’t suppose it would be allowed, at least in Chicago-building codes!

[@georgielancaster1356]

I am in a mood tonight... When that chap was playing the flute pipe thing, it suddenly occurred to me, that in an alternative universe, some nerdy red head could have stopped, introduced himself as a specialist in Anglo Saxon music, and just played anything at Phil, nodding at Phil's admiring disbelief, playing more music from the fly poo above the words... Like a long, straight faced joy of inventing a person and career, and pulling it off... I don't think I could do it. I'm watching this, sitting on my bed, tapping on my phone, with a cat purring, leaning against my hip and a possum coming in the house, asking for a piece of bread, then pinching a half an avocado. So the whole thing is a bit surreal.

[@mknuth99]

Always have been interested in King Knute know for his wisdom. The story says his followers told him he was all powerful and could hold back the ocean. The king told them to bring his throne to the ocean and as the tide came in it covered the throne. King Knute was known for his wisdom . ( my last name is Knuth and always wonder if my family is related.) I do know my fathers ancestors were from Scandinavia.

[@kiankier7330]

@kim Dier wrong family. The family of King knut was the Knýtlinga or know as the Jelling dynasty

[@steenbronkegmail1]

Knud (Cnut) is an old Nordic boy's name originating from the Norse knútr (= knot). The name is available in several variants, here mentioned in order of frequency: Knud, Knut and Knuth. In Flateyjarbok it says that Gorm the Old's father was named Knud and grew up as a foundling and slave, but ended up as king. That Gorm's father was actually named Knud is probable, because Gorm's eldest son was named Knud Danaast. Even then, the name must have been widespread, because Knudstrup is a common place name, also in Danelagen; and it occurs in Normandy, where it is also known as a family name. Förstemanns Namenbuch mentions an Old High German Chnuz from the period 774 - 786, and a Knut is known from Dutch territory in 834. The first with the name in Norway is Knútr of Jathri around the year 1150, but he was the grandson of Svend Estridsen, and probably named after relatives in the Danish royal house. Knut was a common name in Norway in the Middle Ages. More than 30 people with the name are mentioned in Regesta Norvegica (from the period 822-1430). The name came to Sweden with Swedish warriors in Knud the Great's army, and by marriage between Danish and Swedish princely families. In Latin it was perceived as Canutus (= the gray-haired, venerable). In England, the variants Canute and Cnut are known side by side in the Domesday Book from 1086.

[@georgielancaster1356]

That was seriously interesting, but halfway through, I started hearing Monty Python taking over the inner voice. I was seriously thinking STOP IT! I am trying to concentrate...

[@georgielancaster1356]

That was seriously interesting, but halfway through, I started hearing Monty Python taking over the inner voice. I was seriously thinking STOP IT! I am trying to concentrate... I think it started with Gorm. My inner voice noting thst he was in no way GormLESS, then it was off...

[@kille7543]

Not to mention Knudsen ( Knuds son) a very common sir name 😊

[@collectorofcats294]

I’m watching this with my cats and they were VERY concerned about the noise from the reed mouth piece at 34:59, lol!!! They don’t like my flute, either, 😂!!!

[@todddenio3200]

I just discovered this show yesterday and this episode caught my attention because while its not uncommon for people of today to be descended from King Harald the Bluetooth, King Sweyn, and King Canute/Cnut, as an American it is still a point of pride for me.

[@maxsdad538]

In perspective, 100% of people with British heritage are descended from King Edward I, and 100% of people with European heritage are descended from King Charles (Charlemagne). The dependents of Harald and Cnut number in the hundreds of millions. (from WikiTree/Genealogy Today)

[@aseformo2449]

I'm stuck on the instrument-guy! Makes it look so easy. Thank you for these videoes!

[@unclerojelio6320]

We have to put these tiles back in exactly the same spot when we are done. Nah mate, hand me the the sledge hammer.

[@Honeydwarf85]

13:15 quite fitting these days! lol

[@paullettefrancoeur6111]

Thanks for the full episode. I rely on these to get me through covid times.

[@parashantadna1624]

Just sing covid ko ho ho ho ha ho,covid ko neenda udaya sarigam laya rabba ho ho ,ho ho ho Good luck.

[@Maridun50]

Thank you from my heart for excavating this hall where my ancester, Knud den Store ( Canute the Great) once lived .......

[@kathycarlson7947]

I have watched many of these fascinating dogs, but this one really pulled me in. Maybe it's because I'm Swedish, so the Viking history fascinates me. And I admire the collaboration and disagreement among all the experts. Thank you for this continued work!

[@kathycarlson7947]

Digs, not dogs.

[@sleepynightowl1550]

@@kathycarlson7947 I think she meant docs, as in documentary. It tickles my funny bone that, with a simple typo as this, the word could well become digs. Cheers!

[@koningbolo4700]

Phil a member of the Anglo Saxon Beatles... Love it...

[@gaylongregg1540]

Very funny; Jane (the owner) gives Phil a look as he is folding up the wall tapestry like... be careful with that your folding it wrong. Meanwhile Phil is going on about trenches and excavation in the house.

[@mikereilly7629]

That's a beautiful home.! I could live happily there, wrapped up in the arms of history,as far from New York State as I can get.Far away in the physical sense and far away in the mist of the distant past. Literally beneath you feet.

[@DanTheMan454]

It helps to get tile up if you take a flat head screwdriver and remove the grout from in-between them and those tiles are nice and thick the ones i've had to save are thin maybe a 1/4 of the thickness of them.

[@Dovietail]

Note to self: never let these people into your house!

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

Unless they find something and the property value goes through the roof (if you still have one)

[@sirloinofbeef3862]

Love this show. From America.

[@r.c.miller6161]

Give Bridgette her own show! She was right from the beginning.

[@RARDingo]

"No point having a blunt knife" :- why we love Phil.

[@sawillie1680]

Love this show! Thank you so much for the wonderful work everyone has done over the years. You go to all the places my ancestors have walked and it really means a lot to me. 💞💞💞🧚‍♂️🌻

[@Stekpannadeath]

The English pronunciation of Knut is hilarious 😂

[@arianafadroski6789]

“We have to keep these tiles in tact” 10 minutes later: *cut to scene of smashing tiles*😂

[@emilyflotilla931]

First time I've caught this episode! Matt is so young! Great find, @Time Team Classics. Victor's drawings were so lovely. What an artist. I truly could picture King Knut there.

[@gallendugall8913]

THAT SOIL! That's a beautiful sight.

[@empty8777]

For the comments on the broken tile's far as i know from some of their behind the scene's video's if they damage property or things they promised wouldn't be they do have to replace them so in reality they can break as many as they want but also means their cost for the episode goes up granted im not sure how many experts they have for landscaping and such since i do remember Tony in a prior behind the scene's saying they have gotten alot better at landscaping due to Time Team.

[@maxsdad538]

Just because a house is listed, doesn't mean that all of the contents and building materials are as well. A house can be listed for "this wall, this door, those windows". meaning that recent repairs or remodeling is fair game for "sledgehammer removal".

[@classicredwine]

I love that they broke the 4th wall and showed the camera crew today. All hands on deck lol

[@Sarge80]

"This is a sheduled house and the tiles have to go back as we found them" They start smashing them with a pickaxe and a sledgehammer hahaha gotta love it.

[@roweng.4245]

Phil and the Saxon horn scared the cat off the desk. . . ;-)

[@aserta]

Easy way to remove tile is to make a rubber "stamp" of the same size (maybe a hair over), it has to be thick, and of a hard durometer. You place it on top, and with a heavy rubber mallet, you smack the tile under in all corners using a stout wooden drift. in a circular pattern. In theory (because some tiles will break inevitably), you break the bond, and then it's just a matter of using a wet sucker to pull the tiles up. I've had great success with tiles up to 12x12x1 tiles. Works even better if they are laid with a spacing of grout.

[@terrydamron4770]

BRAVO ....TO THE HOME OWNERS.. BRAVO

[@rosiya189]

Phil playing that instrument gives me energy to do all my homework on time 😂

[@Wosiewose]

1:40 I fell in love with that gorgeous old clock behind Jane!

[@kevinquist]

gotta love the british. standing IN a 700 year old building ripping up the floor looking for 'something old'. w/love from America. (old is 150 years)

[@neilfarrow1535]

One of the funniest episodes I've ever seen. How I miss these peoeple.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@Sailor376also]

Cnut's Hall is here. 52.53623, -0.45674 2.38 kilometers almost exactly SW of your target house. Closer toward the SE is the original village.

[@williamfindspeople4341]

Love these stories ❤

[@kevinslawta5829]

"doesnt much help to have a blunt knife, does it?" Phil harding

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

For someone who spent decades doing restoration work, watching Matt and Bridgett just fully destroy those tiles was kind of painful. lols

[@ktswandering]

Best episode of that season!

[@fieroboom]

Barista: "...yes sir, we'll get that to you asap, and what's the name for your order?" King: "Nut with a C" 😂🤣😂🤣

[@GregorydavidMck]

Ha ha. The boys finally tell Tony to go pound salt. Loved it.

[@Becca2334]

Yes I was wondering about the clean up crew! Would love to be a part of it!

[@canihavesome2591]

Literally a 20 minute drive from where I live.....lots of archeology (as was alluded to in this prog) hereabouts.....

[@arianafadroski6789]

It’s wild how much of a difference 1000 years in Europe and 1000 years in America are wildly different

[@riverAmazonNZ]

I love hearing Brigid’s Kiwi accent

[@TheLazyGeneTV]

What's left of it

[@katerinakemp5701]

As a kiwi it's still strong, kiwis shorten their vowels, really noticeable when sentences are long.

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Fush n chups

[@annk.8750]

I remember a different TT episode, in which they were talking about halls built with a beam slot, and the supporting post holes on the OUTSIDE of the buildings rather than the inside. I don't know which period of history that referred to but I thought that was also Saxon. Might that be an explanation of why the walls and the posts were so close together, and the hall was mostly on the outside of the house, just all destroyed by later work?

[@robbleeker4777]

At least they do not have to worry about weather conditions,

[@lauraharmon354]

I love this show!! Is there any place to find all episodes aside from KZbin ?

[@danielflintknapping]

Saw there were 10 seasons on Amazon prime Sweden. I suggest you contact them and ask how many are available in your region, maybe you could watch all 20 season in your region?!

[@lauraharmon354]

Thank you !

[@ne0n1880]

Thank you

[@skivvy3565]

13:14 😳 '' *How’s the SARS quarantine area going?* '' If only you knew, Brigid, if only you knew ...

[@elfeneule103]

I know this is an old comment. And although I have seen this episode twice before. I just went like: "What is she saying?" Quite funny in retrospect. 😀 I never noticed this before.

[@skivvy3565]

Lmao

[@susanhansen1505]

I love Time Team. I really do. But commercials every two minutes?? C'mon, guys!

[@karmayt8956]

That was a beautiful house. Those homeowners are either brave or crazy or both.

[@BryonLape]

Wow. This is a VERY different episode.

[@plstewaf3]

I was wondering: who spells Cnut that way? Have I been wrong all these years? I am glad to see the description clears that up!🤣

[@ivanolsen7966]

13:59 ... love how the CURTAINS WERE LEFT HANGING .... NOT !

[@annamarie9858]

😂 Day 2 trenches always seem to be under the spoils of Day 1 trenches! 😂

[@markgarin6355]

So much for putting all the tile back where it came from....ha

[@biaberg3448]

His name was probably Knut (Norwegian) or Knud (danish), not Cnut. And the pronunciation is a bit wrong in English 😆. The pressure is on the u, not the n. This name is still in use in Norway and Denmark.

[@Stekpannadeath]

And Sweden 😀

[@taniak8228]

Is this the first time we see Paul Blinkhorn and then see him more after this?

[@chalmynz6811]

Was just thinking this also

[@broshmosh]

I'm almost certain he was in episodes prior to season 11. Saw an earlier episode than this the other day with him in it, but I could be wrong.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

No cellar? I am greatly suprised! In New England it's in the cellar you can see the original foundation stones and you can almost tell how old the building is, if you are skilled enough!

[@Tom_Quixote]

And the answer will always be: Not that old.

[@krumplethemal8831]

I always like how Tony gives geophys grief..

[@mountains7694]

His name was Knut, though. Common Scandinavian name. It's not like we say city of Låndån. Or King Willjøm. Not that hard.

[@edennis8578]

No, his name was Cnut, alternate spelling Canute. It doesn't matter how YOU think his name ought to be spelled; the common modern-day spelling has nothing to do with it. I think we should change the spelling of YOUR name to something else. Who cares if your name has been spelled the same way all of your life, on all of your documents, chosen by your parents, and everyone you know has been spelling it that way? I don't happen to approve of how your name has always been spelled, so I'm changing it. 🙄

[@mountains7694]

@@edennis8578 I'm Danish, as was he. His name was Knut, pronouced Knutir - but called Canut in English, because you don't know how to learn other languages or respect other cultures, in your history. Knut den mektige (norrønt: Knútr inn ríki; født ca. 995, død 12. november 1035), også omtalt som Canute på engelsk, var konge av England fra 1016 til 1035 og av Danmark fra 1018 til 1035!

[@mountains7694]

@@edennis8578 no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_VI_av_Danmark

[@aseformo2449]

@@edennis8578 Don't be an idiot - Canut is the English alternation of the name, his name was Knut. He is, and always has been called Knut in Nordic nations, as that is his name, his birth name. :D

[@Rikard_A]

King Cnut was a Dane/Jute.

[@SkywalkerExpress]

i think the owner of the manor give them permission in hope that if its proved to be king Cnut's Manor it would raise the value of the place.

[@frankiechristians7813]

Canute the Great, son of Sweyn Forkbeard. His grandfather Harald Bluetooth made the Danes christian.

[@aseformo2449]

Knut the great, son of Svein Forkbeard/Tjugetjegg - literally the "beard that grows on trees" , his grandfather, Harald Bluetooth had no idea that the device we all carry on our devices would be named after him.

[@todddenio3200]

I just found this show and as an American this episode really caught my attention because like so many others can say, Harald the Bluetooth, Sweyn and Canute are in my ancestry. I know its not uncommon for people of today to be descended from them, but to me it still means something.

[@cameleonfleuri]

It seems like Tony has something personnal against John because he's on him all the time! At first it was funny but, on the long terme, it beggins to feel uncomfortable, excessive and downright offensive! John can't botch his job or work faster then the machines do... and if the results are not what they expected, it's not his fault either.

[@alexvlk]

This dig looked horrendous. So many rocks, tight spaces, etc.

[@bparmenterful]

I’m glad the archeologists finally called Tony on his negativity. It’s exhausting. He’s like a soccer mom who has never played a sport, sitting with her latte, yelling at the kids what they should be doing and then grabbing the glory when they win.

[@RKHageman]

You do realize, that’s all scripted… it’s what he’s supposed to do.

[@160rpm]

I thought they said the tiles had to go back in? And then they just smash them lol

[@rosep5672]

Wooohooooo!

[@larrysorenson4789]

Would it not have been fun to use the floor stones in some manner to show the locations of the pre-Saxon archaeological remains underneath? It might have been as simple as just the pattern of the stones or possibly using a slightly different color stone to illustrate the history beneath? Talk about a conversation piece. And the fact that portions of the current home date from the 1100’s is absolutely fantastic. Here in Arizona an historic building will date from the 1830’s because there is nothing older for the bureaucrats to fret about. 🤣

[@f7holdings653]

Wall one side, post holes the other. It would seem to me that we are looking at a stable.

[@barbaracampbell7127]

Interesting figure in the window, second level and to the right of the door of the housed, at 0:18~

[@Jesse2ful]

Window of the vehicle or lower window of the House ?

[@tudorpottudorpot8423]

Why wasn’t Helen Geeke, Saxon specialist here? Or Sam Newton? They didn’t give measurements?

[@BaburBaggins]

King Cnut Blues. oh yeah

[@NilsNormann]

Mislabelled. This is Series 11, Episode 10. First aired 7 March 2004

[@richardbarrett7404]

I didn’t know I heard her say something bout quarantine thought she was joking about Covid

[@knutem2155]

Congratulations on another pretty darn good presentation. Thanks especially for pronouncing 'KNUT' almost perfectly; lose the 'A' in Canute and you've got it! Cheers from Knut in Vinland.

[@AnniM88]

Thank you :) I was a bit thrown of by their pronounciation of the name

[@Neophema]

@@AnniM88 The word initial k before n was lost in English, so it's awkward for them to pronounce it, I guess.

[@kille7543]

Now you just have to replace the t with a soft d and Kong Knud would be happy ❤

[@RustyOfficial.]

It actually sounds like Knott.