Does This Hill Hide A Buried Palace From Celtic Legends? | Time Team | Odyssey

The Ulster Cycle is one of the most iconic works of Irish mythology, but its ties to real history have always been foggy. Now, Time Team are investigating the site that could be one of the palaces of Conchobar mac Nessa. Is there any truth to this myth or have the Time Team stumbled across something else entirely?
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[@brianwillerton8659]

I'm sure that when Mick, Phil and that farmer were all standing together there that every Barber in Great Britian was squirmin'...

[@-on_porpoise-7972]

I like how in the beginning shots, the cows are all lined up, curiously watching the humans dig.

[@katemullen7349]

Hearing Tony pronounce all of the Irish words properly (for the most part) makes me love him 100% more.

[@nataliemay415]

I think he really does try his best, I know he did a excellent job on his Australian tour.

[@pageribe2399]

I'm a grateful American who wouldn't know how to pronounce any of these words without Tony's help.

[@PLnbdy]

He did a great colonial Boston accent when time team was running geophys in the harbor looking for tea service.....

[@TheBadMoJoe]

Just when I think I’ve seen every episode, I suddenly stumble upon a gem like this one.

[@AtomicBlonde1]

I agree

[@jrhpng]

Have you watched Time Signs, it's what came before Time Team, with Mick & Phil etc

[@katherinebonkowski8925]

He has been doing this for years.

[@kathieoray2990]

@Lefein Noel you û6h66 you 555

[@ruththinkingoutside.707]

Early Time Team is some of the best ones, because Tony is new to a lot and they are still working on the whole production flow.. It’s a nostalgic feel and it’s not as ‘high tech’ besides John 😁 A magical cast of characters, they caught lightning in the bottle with this show.. it’s nearly perfect ‘tv’.. can watch and watch and rewatch and still love it all ❤

[@Rebecca-le9hn]

I live in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the oldest area of Philadelphia. There are old buildings being torn down and new buildings going up with no concern about looking for old items. It's sad.

[@brianmitchell8422]

My family is from the same area I’m related to William jones.

[@suzannekosic4088]

Fight it, protest it, you are so right! These buildings should be saved.

[@stilllookingup9999]

That will be purposeful sorry to say, if they look for and find anything then they would likely have to postpone their building project. Also there's the whole hiding our true history part of it. It is sad, very sad.

[@Aries-gn4vv]

Sounds like everywhere else. Sorry though that you live in Philly.

[@Russia-bullies]

FYI.There was an American Revolution battle named Germantown.

[@mistyvaughn6356]

I didn't learn abt the show until long after Mick's passing, but I have a little chuckle when I see his striped sweater throughout soo many years of the series ❤

[@eboracum2012]

The best seasons had Mick.

[@willmfrank]

For that matter, did Phil Harding EVER buy a new hat?

[@bluelagoon1980]

​@willmfrank He did, indeed! He even proudly proclaimed that the old one was rank. Considering how much sweat soaked into it over the years, it's no wonder!

[@Birdtoes]

@@willmfrankYes, a new felt and a new dressy straw.

[@Birdtoes]

Mick had more than one striped sweater over the years. So wish he was still with us❤️

[@MsKariSmith]

Time Team is an excellent program and should be a part of the history program in schools.

[@ward26102]

How did I never come across this wonderful program before? I'm binge watching all of them now. Thank you, Time Team and Odyssey.

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

It was great fun to watch for the first time, and for the 2nd, n 3rd etc...lol

[@Fetguf]

Time team has their own channel, with lots more episodes

[@billbeau]

There's 20 years of episodes, so binge away. I've been watching them since the late 90's. I think partly it's Tony Robinson, he's so entertaining. You might also like his series of videos trekking across the ancient hiking trails of English countryside, from village to village.

[@azynkron]

It started on Discover before that became a reality TV channel. Then it was on History.

[@davideldred.campingwilder6481]

Did you know that the presenter Tony Robinson was Rowan Atkinson's(Mr Bean fame) sidekick 'Baldrick' in the Blackadder series?

[@jonpatterson7211]

I never tire of these programs. It's wonderful that folks are exploring history, even if it's of another nation other than my own. Thank you so much from Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

[@vickiewallace415]

They have an updated time team on Patreon! Not all of the same cast and no Tony but many of the same archaeologists. Quite enjoyable and worth looking into! Edit: Marietta Georgia USA

[@iron_rush_theater1246]

Same, but I keep asking "why only three days?"

[@iron_rush_theater1246]

And don't think I didn't catch the Iron Maiden "Killers" shirt at 24:17!

[@rubynibs]

@@iron_rush_theater1246 Time limit: 1. money; 2. a time limit is a way to add excitement and tension to a storyline.

[@Russia-bullies]

You should try viewing Time Team America without the same expectations.

[@mlr4524]

Walkie-Talkies added so much more drama and suspense back in the day lol. Loved playing with them as a kid. Just not the same with everyone having a cell/smart phone these days.

[@IV9000]

Wonderful show. These always bring me peace and I wonder if I should have become an archeologist instead. Reading up on the team, I realize both Mick and Robin passed away a number of years ago. Sad to watch them knowing they’re long gone.

[@BC-ui9yt]

Victor as well, sadly.

[@seandoyle2983]

@@BC-ui9yt ah Victor, what an artist.

[@jennstewart3003]

There are ways to join Archeological digs now without any prior training. This show has inspired me to take on the task at some point

[@vivianramsay2527]

I think that it hardly matters if a palace per se is found cause all of the historical evidence is so exciting! Short of digging the entire area the fun part is finding the puzzle pieces, the discussion, the analysis, the speculation! And all the local folks excited to see their own history!

[@defluonemo]

Time Team Season 3 Episode 5 - "Palace of the Irish Kings" air date: February 4, 1996

[@1MoGuzzi]

Thanks

[@leecarlson9713]

The three day time limit had a number of reasons behind it. 1) It adds interest and suspense-can they do it? 2) the professionals all have regular jobs, many of them at local universities, so a three day dig allowed them to work Monday through Thursday. 3) and financing, of course.

[@Tanya-ty2rc]

What I like about time team.. you can go back and watch the ones when tony had hair.,!! and Phil wasn't grey..! a good dig is a good dig it's timeless 😅😊😂

[@crazyquilt]

Having Baldrick as a presenter never ceases to make my brain seize.

[@melanisticmandalorian8909]

He has a cunning plan !!

[@allon33]

He is a one of kind.

[@tonyevans9999]

Sod Off?

[@lowspark68]

Forget Roman mosaics. Where's the giant fossilized turnips?

[@Spondre]

Strange thing is that when they said "Neolithic Axe" I heard "Teeth fully waxed."

[@harridan.]

the drawing which prefaced this episode is, i think, of a compelling painting titled "Meave" which i saw in the wonderful book Warrior Queens by Lady Antonia Frazier. amazing painting

[@thomasmitchell828]

Wow! Tony, when he had hair. btw great video

[@leecarlson9713]

Love that Cormack is using a piece of train rail as an anvil. It would be hard enough, and easily transportable.

[@ezerlab1]

What an ancient Time Team episode! I must dig this out now!

[@kafon6368]

When you see the hair, yea, it's an old episode 😂

[@therewillbecatswithgwenhwyfar]

Hahahahaha The beauty of the Internet: old hairstyles last forever. 😁 I want to give him a haircut but I’m so glad they did this exploration!

[@susanpallister8037]

Time team season 3 episode 5 February 4 1996 Tony and Phil have hair!

[@lindseyelliott7038]

This is my new favorite show. Much love from Dallas Texas. I really wish we had more archeology here qwq. I would have gone to school for it if I could do it all again.

[@flipflopski2951]

We would never do "archeology" like that in the US... too much to go into here but for beginners every bit of dirt would be screened and the painful excavation of the spur was obviously put on for show. It's an entertaining show but shouldn't be viewed as serious science. OMG bronze and Iron age stuff where there should be castles!.. Shocker... since every site in Europe has an older component like that.

[@BlueNJazzy]

I live in Indianapolis. I agree with with you to a point. I live on a property that the settlement is 200 years old. With three bored kids one summer, I bought a cheap metal detector. I used it and pinpointed where signals were. The boys had so much fun looking for finds. I did a test pit in one far corner of the property hoping to find the old outhouse pit. My youngest grandson started digging and found milk glass shards. I learned from time team and a wee bit on to another generation.

[@bettygreenhansen]

I appreciate that your only advert is for more history on a pay channel. 👏🏻 I do not appreciate the videographers who sponsor and hawk products like razors and home meal delivery.

[@reneharkamp4309]

AMSTERDAM 🌷 TO TONY, 👏🏼👏🏼💪🏼 ( l am 72 now) YOU ARE SO TALENTED SUCH A NICE PERSON I DID LIKE LESS KNOWN WORK OF YOU EXPLAINING THE BIBLE TO KIDS, YOUR WAY GOD BLESS YOU MAN❤️

[@reneharkamp4309]

GOD as in David Allan ; ,,May your God,be with you

[@ChristaFree]

In America, at least around my town, these Neolithic type stone tools are everywhere. My property is full of them. Pottery and little carved stones too. They were smelting iron in my backyard. I found the furnace liners when putting in a septic system. Slag everywhere too. It's hard to find a stone that hasn't been touched by man. There's pottery in every ditch and there's mounds everywhere in my small town. I've personally documented 70 different places, etc is every place I've looked. My entire property is mounds with a small bayou going through it which used to be a river tributary until they created the reservoir.

[@stephanieyee9784]

Lucky You. That sounds like my Dream Property!

[@chiararomano1818]

What town do you live in?

[@V.Hansen.]

Are you in Ohio?

[@pal4204]

Do they have a Bayou in Ohio? 😏@@V.Hansen.

[@V.Hansen.]

@@pal4204 since the definition is just a marshy body of water, I do suppose any river, lake or creek could be marshy. Even in Ohio And Ohio is covered in mounds made by natives

[@kerriefearby9542]

OMG they are all so young and Phil's hat looks brand new. what series and episode was this? Anyone know?

[@deborahwade3002]

A wonderful program I will watch them all...Thank you Time Team

[@Alasdair37448]

Is brea liom gaeilge, is i teanga go halainn. ☘

[@christinawhalen644]

My Irish ancestors from Oster moved to New York to Ulster county. I never knew this and then I moved to Ulster county and place called Kingston New York. Germantown is across the river from us in Dutchess county. It’s pretty crazy.

[@perryg13]

27:08 John - "We can't afford scissors." lol

[@JuxZeil]

@36:57 Did anyone else notice the similarity between the geophys pattern Tony was following with his finger, and the carved stone Stewart found?...🤔

[@Zine2me]

I do wish they'd have found a smith that wasn't a bit of a turd. So fun to see everyone - Timeless crew there will be a pleasure to watch for decades to come.

[@zacksbeyondourplate6784]

I've been studying how to film my channel which is about food adventure, and comparing my edits to this Time Team works. How the different disciplines work together, the behind the scenes ,and how this is very educational in many ways. I'm getting there!!!

[@dhkent55]

Wow! So young and alive!

[@thomasandersen2534]

34:45 I love this part. Such a nice touch 🍺 🎶

[@Aemirys]

Another of the very first episodes! Love it!

[@allon33]

When Tony still had hair.

[@skellabnella]

@@allon33 and the frumpy pullover/ugly dad sweater were the height of men’s fashion.

[@breannadyck3415]

Mick saying deadass at 8:43

[@KptnHaddock_]

Made me laugh so hard! Is this a common british slang word? I only know it from current pop culture.

[@paulapridy6804]

Never get tired of this team❤

[@leecarlson9713]

This is Season 3, Episode 5, which aired in 1997. Obviously, this is County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.

[@nataliemay415]

34:43 I love that song, especially because it has my mum's name in it (JM) ❤ 35:26 cheers Tony 🍻

[@meredithcook6829]

I'd love to see what some of the other geological features from around the area...just west of Navan Centre and Fort there is a forested area with geological anomalies.

[@cattymajiv]

Do they purposely choose cloudy days? Or is it always like that in the UK and Ireland? How depressing! I live in place like that too, and it's hell. Nobody ever feels good. You don't recover from months of cloud with one sunny day.

[@adidnac]

The cows! Love these early time team shows

[@ernestbroadway4477]

the artwork of the lady on the cover was done by my opinion the finest artist in modern time..the detail in his ad and cover work was unmatched

[@stinew358]

It's an early 20th c illustration of queen medb from the ulster cycle

[@ernestbroadway4477]

@@stinew358 J C leyendecker..

[@taxiuniversum]

The guy who can’t stop speaking in Gaelic is hilarious. 😆

[@marymcsherry1965]

He's speaking in the old soft Gaelic language as it should be spoken, he obviously grew up with it. Nowadays it's often harsher and not pronounced so gently unless in the Gaelic speaking areas

[@TimG133]

I have read these stories this is fantastic that it exists thank you.

[@ufxpnv]

Wow this is an old one. Tony and Phil both have hair but Mick looks pretty much the same.

[@edwardmckenzie3402]

the ditches look like that rock carving

[@annazaman9657]

The navan center is a gorgeous building

[@SmashedCr4bs]

I like how Micks hair hasn't changed in 30-odd years. The man is nothing if not consistent

[@jesterboykins2899]

Tony is ecstatic! lol 12:30

[@vickywhitesell7482]

I love all of Time Team!

[@themyceliumnetwork]

24:16, kid's got a Iron Maiden Shirt on Tony has hair, this must be from 1983 LOL

[@4rdale]

At 21:00 I wanted to say “get your fingers off that book!”

[@kevadonis]

i often wonder after a night of drinking if the time team works the next day with a hangover lol. if they do they do a splendid job hiding it. i watch every episode i love this team.

[@DT-sb9sv]

Yes. Us archaeologists do. It's a matter of pride.

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

I've watched episodes in which they absolutely do work with hangovers. No excuses, just get digging. I seem to remember a few with Matt groaning a bit.

[@gradbuckie]

Robin Bush is amazing R.I.P. fine Sir.

[@jonerlandson1956]

@31:20... that prehistoric carving looks to me like two sets of opposing legs...

[@marcharsveld2914]

It's a Volkswagen.

[@jonerlandson1956]

@@marcharsveld2914 the peoples choice...

[@neoclassic09]

given they always have just 3 days they should change the name to "Not Enough Time Team"

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Ireland offers so many magical ancient finds.* ☘️ What Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists call Myth is far more real, though sadly misinterpreted, understudied, while the Academics seek that which supports their 19th Century Theory based Paradigm, and that is far more Myth than any story left by our Ancestors of any time in History. Arrogance truly is an Ignorance and wastes so much time, work, and monies. This is changing in this very era, and a "return to Discoveries using the "Standards of Science and Research".*. That is such an exciting expectation! ☘️

[@StRaphael-we9qn]

Hi there, try working out Australian history based on some old cave paintings 😮

[@RM-zu2nh]

The castle may have been at the other end of the carriage track but they threw out everything into the pond. The hump in the middle of the pond is all the collectables.

[@richardtippett729]

I miss Victors drawings :(

[@larryzigler6812]

take a pill

[@jujucox694]

Stewart is brilliant.

[@JamieTransNyc]

@ 12:28 Tony is such a great actor..... It almost looks like he is actually bored!

[@seosamh7486]

I can’t imagine that Barbary macaque lasted very long here.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@VulgarWhitey]

Every episode from the last 30 yrs of time team is available on KZbin for free You don't have to sign up for anything. It's there for the taking. It's brilliant television. Don't let anyone capitalize on our history

[@binkolney196]

I wonder how many times the archeologists wanted to tell Tony to buzz off ...

[@michellepollard3591]

Love listening to the accents of the peoples of the different country's that make up the U.K .

[@cindyrissal3628]

I find it very interesting that the spur looks exactly like the ones found in tack stores today...

[@BinkyTheElf1]

Contra the comment early on, Camelot did exist, and more recent archaeological finds seem to prove something like it. Could we say: it’s good to be sceptical about the “absolute certainties” of earlier eras of skepticism?

[@JessicaStinson-og1rq]

I don’t know if you guys go back and read these this was an episode I had not seen till recently, but I have noticed a lot of times you guys talk about people moving in to another site and using the old homes or ritual sites, etc. why did the people have to move in? Why couldn’t they be the same people generation after generation, I’m just changing their tools and mood of living but not moving out of the old neighborhood I lived in in the same neighborhood for over 50 years and it changed a lot in 50 years so I could only imagine how much something to change and thousands of years, but still be the same ancestors of the original people

[@janettebrown8910]

Look at their coverings each one is great looking. In Ireland your outside coverings had meaning.

[@ianscott9396]

They were so young

[@KelticTim]

Ya gotta love the way English archeologists dress and act. They absolutely still blackball “blue collar” archeologists who aren’t part of their little club.

[@jennstewart3003]

I love how their bronzesmith just decided on his own to only speak the native Gaelic to confuse the hell out of Phil and be more "authentic."

[@janegaughran9828]

Haven't heard Irish in decades ..gives me shivers

[@stephenwright414]

The cedlieh looked like fun

[@mckjoshua1]

I love the bronzesmith would only speak in Irish lol😂

[@MrMomo182]

Watching this now is the same time difference as watching a program from 1968 was then.

[@Redgolf2]

At 38 mins, is that a Sigma SA300 or SA7 that John is holding?

[@andrewsock1608]

To me it looks obvious that the medieval people filled the Bronze Age ditches. The medieval people wanted to ride their new horses so naturally they filled the ditches. Probably for the fox hunt.

[@cindyrissal3628]

I want to see him make a bronze disk w/ period tools, rather than some of the modern ones he uses...

[@karmakat8016]

I'm afraid that's very expensive

[@Val.Kyrie.]

They have three days not months.

[@doggonemess1]

This is Tony's Ben Franklin stage. :)

[@davidhakes3884]

I had a hit after viewing the "Rock art/carving" and it looks very similar to one of the just made electronic charts?

[@jesterboykins2899]

Hard to not have a good time in Ireland. Very hard. Good times. 35:30

[@doitatit]

Another great episode. But I was a bit taken aback by Phill’s comments to the Gaelic speaking craftsman. Email Macha is of deep cultural and emotional significance to Irish people. Would Phill have said what he did to a Welsh speaker? I hope not. I love Phill’s authentic West Country accent, and would watch any show with him in it. I especially enjoyed his Waterloo digs. It was a bit of a surprise and disappointing to hear him seemingly disrespect the young Gaelic speaker.

[@mangela9517]

You misundersood Phil because you are listening with prejudice. This was pure joy and fun. He was laughing at the fact that he could not understand gaelic and was given the task to present what's going on. If you followed his 20years in Time team you would know that

[@wendymortimer6862]

What is the reason for language? It’s to understand each other. If you know I can’t speak your language but you can speak my language, how stupid and disrespectful are you to speak a language to me that I can’t understand when there is an alternative. The smith is just being bloody-minded.

[@NancyCampbell-rk9rm]

​@@wendymortimer6862Reminds me of my time in the US Army, we were working with the French Army and the guys were having a hard time getting anything done, the French guys refused to speak English. I was the night shift maintenance supervisor and when they tried that with me, I pointed out they had no problem speaking English when they were trying to pick up the American girls at our barracks. They didn't even look guilty for doing it. Needless to say I blackmailed them into speaking English to me and we got the job done. I didn't rat them out either.

[@kasketchayne]

interesting to me how similar the marks on the geophys at 37:00 are to the marks on Stewart's rock he found at 31:45

[@pauls3204]

These odd looking circles (usually covered in trees) appear all over Scotland n Ireland No one goes near them in Ireland as they call them fairy circles and think they are haunted My neighbour in central west Scotland had one in his field 80 feet across in a near perfect circle covered in extremely old trees He reckons it was just a place to dump field stones in centuries long ago when the nearby land was first ploughed . He says it would be the natural shape(slightly domed) if you look at a pile of field rocks dumped at the end of a modern ploughed field you could hardly argue against his opinion

[@laetitialogan2017]

@@fallschirmjager0000 exactly... we respect them

[@karmakat8016]

We don't go near them because we believe the " quare folk" own it and you will bring wrack and ruin on your family if you mess around there.

[@alexhayden2303]

Many of your new citizens will not care a jot, as long as you feed and house them!

[@pauls3204]

@@laetitialogan2017 same thing

[@dieselfeesul4928]

@25:04 is that high pitch from the anvil or the bronze?

[@nancytimmer9026]

From the "anvil", since it's not bolted down. It's a small section of train rail.

[@alexandergaus493]

😂 As often as you hear a place could have a ritualistic purpose from time time, I'm beginning to think the cliché about archeologist always wanting to assign a ritualistic purpose to a site if only because they didn't find another purpose, they have been responsible for the "creation" of that cliché all on their own.😂 I love them so much!

[@pauls3204]

This must be an old one Baldric had got hair !

[@Blessings.429]

Me 68ys My mother and I would visit my granny in hostel ( retirement home). I was 3-4 anyway my granny would speak English but would more often speak Gaelic , with thick accent. Sometimes I would answer in thick English accent, took me ages to lose it that day. I remember one time she yelled at me to speak bloody English. I have never tried to learn Gaelic.

[@jcw99]

It's not actually 'Gaelic'. Gaelic is the language spoken in Scotland. They are related. In Ireland it's official name is 'Irish'. When speaking in Irish the name of the language is 'Gaeilge'.

[@VulgarWhitey]

This odyssey business is just a middleman you don't need

[@christinecole330]

Oh Robin 💜

[@amonamaria2000]

My mother's heritage Dublin Ireland and Paris France I am mostly Irish with Basque.

[@elisabethbennenbroek8382]

Stories of the Vikings are important to find connections with cultures in Russia, Middle East where the Vikings had trade and worked as hired warriors, slave trade

[@udalimb384]

And the next generation gets bitten by the archeologist bug. A lovely thing to see.

[@Hovite_Wanderer]

I was involved in the establishment of the pub named Conor Don North of Oxford Street in London

[@ULYSSES-31]

The posh English make an absolute balls of the Irish names. Tony Robinson gets it right.

[@floriangeyer3454]

Oh Sir Tony with a mane line a hippie🤣

[@JosephineMaKoala-ig3yb]

Wowee