What Archaeological Secrets Is Drumlanrig Castle Hiding? | Time Team | Odyssey

Twenty years ago, during a particularly dry summer, parch marks revealed what seemed to be a huge Roman fort a few hundred metres from the Duke of Buccleuch's extraordinarily grand house, Drumlanrig Castle, in Dumfries. The discovery lay untouched until Time Team took on the challenge to investigate it further.
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[@mcburcke]

These shows are just amazing...good to know they're all going to be seen again! The whole Time Team series is just an iconic example of how to popularize a scientific discipline in an entertaining and educational manner. This fort site is such a pristine example, I hope it attracts full-scale excavation in the future.

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Agreed, I don't understand how TV like this can't be made anymore, can't cost a fortune

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@@MrTeaTwoSugars Because everything has to be very exciting, CGI and bangs and crashes. A bunch of codgers and some stones isn't considered enough to keep the short attention span lot amused. Strange when you think we're talking millennia here so it's not going to be fast and furious.

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hard to know if it wasn't trying to run away from the noise...

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[@barbarawangerud618]

I have spent many years as an armchair archaeologist enjoying Time Team. Thanks for bringing these back!

[@shri081]

Geophys really did an amazing job at this particular site…EDIT: that dragon standard was really well thought out…I can totally see it giving it a more imposing character to an approaching Roman cavalry….loved that experimental piece…

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Wow a Roman Fort near a later castle! I guess key terrain never changes.

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[@Bareego]

the geophys of the fort is phenomenal

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What I am amazed by, is seeing the drawings and stuff they create on this show. They are just like the game Assassins' Creed Origins. The Egyptian countryside is beautifully rendered in the game, and many of the buildings look just like this one...

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I live in the desert and I teared up a little watching all that beautiful green grass being dug up- LOL! I LOVE TT for many reasons; the beautiful UK Countryside being just one!

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In the UK climate, it will grow back to pristine green turf well under a year, once backfilled in.

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Go Stewart! I enjoy his expertise so. (However, on another topic) ▪ I wonder, did they not get "the sound story backwards". The Pics and Scotts were the innovators of using Sound to create fear in their advisaries. (Sidebar: We Westerners place the Roman far above where they truly and actually were, as people and as innovators. They took from others and got the credit for its origination, like Aquaducts, Concrete, and Roads, the Etruscans inventions, and the Roads were earlier than the Egyptians.) The Painting of their faces and bodies + the use of horns and reeds to elicit fear as they entered the field of warfare, and prior to Roman occupation in England. Note the use of face painting also existed in the Pics and Scotts, likely Irish, and the Phonecians, later found that the Native Americans, Africans, and indigenous Australians were also using these Practices. There continues to be subjects that make global connections in far Ancient History. We are another chapter, others existed prior to "Modern Humans". Let all the data draw the picture of History.

[@penguinista]

Even though it was never attacked, the fort could still serve a very useful function: soldiers could rest there in safety. If there was no impregnable structure, they would have been under constant attack.

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I love these programs. Geology was my uni major but I never finished, but I’m really interested in archaeology. Do you fill in all these digs when you are finished your exploration ?

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Series 12 Episode 4, originally broadcast 23rd January 2005.

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I really appreciate they took the time to make sod squares instead of just killing their grass where they dug trenches haha.

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They would replace the sod when the dig was finished, to protect the archaeology from weather and souvenir-hunters.

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Tony and his chin brush LOL

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Guy mentioned the Sarmatians, a cavalry outfit from the Ukraine area of whom I discovered when I spent a lot of time in Southern Ukraine of Odessa. They were originally from Iran and had situated themselves in central Ukraine taking in the Dnipropetrovsk region from approx 300 BC to 400AD +

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Yeah. Dig a trench in that.

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Complete escapism TV....love it

[@nnagle9224]

Have to wonder how Drumlanrig and other archaeologists acted on this information.

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I love it when they run around lol

[@williamj.dinwiddie2425]

They are not far from Clan Dinwiddie and Clan Johnstone lands in the fifth century also the Clan Maxwell, Clan Jardene area that attacked clan Dinwiddie, and others.

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41:58 ... the guy looking backwards through an SLR camera lens (50mm??) at a piece of glass.😄

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Why do these people remind me of a story I heard about an archaeologist sometime in the future who excavated a bathtub and reached the conclusion that it was part of a religious ceremony where the person in it placed his/her toe in the plug hole.

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As an American, I have to say that we really don't have the respect for history that we should. Certainly our country is kind of young, but things have happened here.... and nobody seems to care. Perhaps if some of our billionaires got into castle building..... based on the photo I am already convinced. Have to subscribe, I suppose...

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Oh man, you need to go check out the ancient sites we have right here in the USA. There are some really fascinating Anasazi village ruins in Arizona that you can walk around. It’s like traveling 3000 years back in time. Just one of many in the continental us. If you include Central and South American too, there’s literally thousands of ancient sites. Like older than “ancient Egypt” old.

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@@conclavecabal.h0rriphic Yeah, but there is little to nothing to see east of the Mississippi, beyond some middens and burial mounds.

[@williamrumsby5612]

I will try to count how many times Phil uses the word " actually " in this episode. Its actually quite a lot.

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Which episode is this? I am categorizing the episodes I have watched

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Perhaps the dragon head was a wooden flutephone covered in the copper, with holes on the top.

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What I can't work out is, if those Amphorah are that size and very heavy on their own, how the heck did they manage to lift and move them around when they were full of olive oil and other liquids!

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My thoughts to 😊

[@NotaHuskywolf]

Still can't believe they made it all up for 20 years

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

I know it should have been longer.....oh wait it is YAY!!!!!!😮😊

[@fredleserowitz3636]

That this buried Roman fort is under a Scotch Manor home is not surprising. When the Romans retreated and the Scotch re-occupied their country, the Lords would have cited their power houses in the same area as the Roman did. There must be buried roman forts under every Scotch Manor house that was located in Roman Occupied Scotland. Happy digging.

[@steveholmes3471]

Scotch 😆

[@kevinroche3334]

Urghh, scotch is a drink, Scots is the nationality.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Hard to take anyone seriously when they can't tell the difference between a drink and a nation. Kind of invalidates anything they write

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[@Bella-wl6fn]

When he's shoveling that site there should be a second tarp to catch all the strata he's losing as he digs. That kind of minor stuff can really mess up the data, just sayin u guys appeared to dig that whole trench in quite a hurry for a study team but I loved the video anyway, thank you 🤗

[@jamesellsworth9673]

I would say the dig has been edited for TV and the time frame has been condensed to add a sense of urgency to an otherwise slow, painstaking process.

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@@jamesellsworth9673 Ya, you are probably right, it's funny that I even caught that since I watch history docs to relax and fall asleep LOL 🤗

[@brickstreetsprockets]

Siston court has those around it

[@jackpine1033]

Is there an ancient ROMAN FORT above DRUMLANRIG CASTLE also too?

[@bethparker1500]

Annex. What if that was the septic dump? Wouldnt want that close to living and eating.

[@Eleina1951]

Watching this in October 2022 I am of the opinion that the new Time Team that started last year should revisit some of these older sites and try to paint a bigger picture of the situation. What do others think?

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

Are you telling me Baldric doesn't know? Black Adder won't be happy..

[@unclerojelio6320]

Helen!

[@clintonslayton4512]

See Ranger Richard Riley much later on Salvage Hunters (Full Episode) Season 1, Episode 1, still at the Drumlanrig estate.

[@markgarin6355]

"intact Roman fort"... always thought they were taller.

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

First!

[@deethebee80]

I THOUGHT THE DRACO HEAD FLUTES WERE ACTUALLY LIKE LONG HORNS LIKE A DISTORTED TRUMPET ?

[@SuperOverlord666]

The annex would probably be used for livestock pen..

[@alexmegalos7144]

I am sorry you must get this allot. But can you take the new script that you found on the Isle of Mann and lay it side by side. If I remember the script talked about a corner then a group of residents then a group of warriors, can that script be date to the same period of this base that you are looking at? If you how the script is written and the lay out of the corner, kind looks like it maybe old invasion plans?

[@deethebee80]

I have a dumb question ! How do all these forts etc end up covered with 4 ft of earth and then grass ? where does all the earth come from !?

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Time and landscaping, I guess then other sites walls poke out the ground neat!!!!!😊

[@MarkDibley]

S12 E4 - "Fighting on the Frontier", 23 January 2005

[@anicabutnaru1459]

AS !

[@Vote_Blue]

drumlanrig isn't a castle. its a manor. if it isn't a fortified position, designed to be defended by arms, it isn't a castle.

[@michaelmontagu3979]

It's on the site of an earlier castle, so they just kept the name, as other places do that are nothing like castles, such as Wardour castle and Castle Howard, which is on the site of Henderskelf castle.

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Released 4 months ago on Time Team Classics - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2ioipmqraqfZ6c

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[@ragnaroik]

Regarding the chinese whistle @25:18 why make the handle so long? I cannot se it as feisible, to be able to spin it like similar to auberiginal digeridoo, perhaps with a flag of somekind at the back to angle to device with air intake, or simply by sesign to spin and make a sound. just saying, but i get it there is no basis for my reasoning just as there is limited reasoning for how used in this video. That "questioning" aside, amazing videos, i love them. I have watched lots of them from all sources i can find. They are great. From what i can gather it is pretty well spread over the world to have a device like this. Which in itself raise questions.

[@catzkeet4860]

At first they were just on the stick do they could swing them around fast enough to get enough air flow to sound. The Draco, the item they were wanting to use them on was a standard..... by definition, a standard is tall so that it can be easily seen, hence the long pole.

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🥳🎉

[@johnwatson3948]

Time Team Season 12 E4 number 128 - Original airdate 23 January 2005

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32:42 💀💀

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I love how Helen looks like a 12 year old boy lol

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Andiamo Brandon !

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Guestion: Can you get more time than just three days, if you find something special? Greetings from Finland.

[@Blackadder75]

no, the time team all had other jobs during the week. These were always short visits, but if they found something special it could later be picked by a dedicated team. But usually not. the UK has far more dig sites than dig teams

[@maryhanger4519]

So what if there is?

[@kevinroche3334]

so what if there isn't.......what?

[@bradyelich2745]

tONY'S BEARD IS CROOKED.

[@johnmoss6631]

Oh great, now the beard police are on the site.

[@BryonLape]

Tony, talk to the red head.

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Quid te velis nos facere, domine? (What do you want us to do, lord?) Omnes ignite! (Burn everything!)

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The more things change, the more they stay the same?

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I found a viking home in maine usa

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The angle of his goatee is so bad

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She almost fell over

[@krisbest6405]

So in l understand night headwear but my nose freezes, any thoughts. Australia has dinos but even this history is sparsly investigated, so this is fascinating for us Aussies starved of history.

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Australia has aboriginal history going back thousands of yrs.. But it's not as interesting unfortunately

[@bernardfinucane2061]

Romans used Chinese dragons like WWII dive bomber whistles.

[@batmscot6149]

As per usual that is NOT ! A castle rather it is a stately home .The original castle was probably a tower long ago obscured by 17 ? 18 and 19 century building work and renovation.

[@taniagarciaduenas7102]

Non la segunda valle de tromba in Rome villa Adriana del emperadores was an African emigrant From Greece abuto slaiavi Ché portaba a combate re al coliseo romano they were all mixed agricultores

[@DOTTYTIME]

Why was Tony so rude

[@giljensen1132]

Raksha is a doll

[@ramsesv5339]

Amazing show but three days is not enough time for a proper dig

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

It is not supposed to ba a proper dig.It is a Reccie to decide which sites need futher investigation. Digs are incredibly expensive and when you have as much stuff as the UK has, you have to prioritise.