Is There Really A Roman Fort Buried In Wales? | Time Team | Odyssey

The Roman legionary fort of Caerleon in South Wales is one of the most famous and best-preserved Roman sites in Britain. It stood on the edge of the Roman Empire, its huge amphitheatre, immense baths, and the scale of its ruined walls all testament to its power and importance. Tony and the team are joined by a group from Cardiff University to cast new light on a site once seen as solely a military outpost.
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[@texgowing7359]

I just love your program. I'm 71 years old and still love listening to educational history.

[@fyrchmyrddin1937]

I remember visiting Caerleon over 30 years ago, and learning that it was one of the sites associated with the mythology of Camelot (along with Tintagel). It's wonderful to see how new exploration is revealing even more.

[@CaponeCabin]

I first found this channel during Covid craziness and fell in love. Now, still in love with this program during the current gas price situation 🙄 Since going for a casual drive is now like buying gold

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wait for next 5 -10years..and buy fresh water is like buy a gold coin

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A treasure

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Same! I’m hooked

[@theaxe6198]

Love it too.

[@MrMathieu112]

I love Guy! hes so passionate and always gives his honest opinion. He's jumping for joy in this episode, always so happy to see him!

[@chraffis]

Tony Robinson is a Burrowing Owl 🦉

[@jerrydean2065]

.... thats funny

[@Zuckerpuppekopf]

Watching these old episodes is an archeological excavation in its own way. Wonderful to see all the old fellows of the show when they were younger. And the Team was well-rounded by all the help from Cardiff as well a sharp guest presenter, Mary-Ann Ochota, who I must admit is quite the find, more riveting than a finely engraved Roman intaglio center stone. Mr. Harding may be great to listen to, but Ms. Ochota is a fair sight easier on the eyes, that's for sure.

[@darcycoderre3236]

Matt was get ting wise in his elder years. "I brought my own camper van." 😁

[@mick7even]

Gotta live on site 🤣

[@flattblackcopper4558]

Think if he was smart he would have invited her back there.🙃

[@riorockers]

@@flattblackcopper4558 If this van's a rockin', don't bother knockin'!

[@godfingah]

It's always fun watching these

[@Purged_Existence]

I needed this! Thank you so much!!

[@benediktmorak4409]

i know it is not fair to the new team. but i like Sir Tony and - his - team more...

[@njm3211]

Such an interesting series. Fascinating history of Britan. Amazing reach of the SPQR.

[@thomaszaccone3960]

Is this a new series? I think I saw most of the older ones. They are awesome. Britain is a gigantic museum.

[@assmaster420]

not sure but i live the curvy blond addition

[@thomaszaccone3960]

@@assmaster420 Good point!

[@tempsitch5632]

No. This show is old and has nothing to do with this channel.

[@thomaszaccone3960]

@@tempsitch5632 😢😢😢😢

[@tempsitch5632]

@@thomaszaccone3960 Don’t be sad. There are 20 years worth of episodes available.

[@orig1990vintoy]

I ❤️ baldric

[@markhall9412]

yes was lots of energy going thur that place and history thanks.

[@hdvisions7465]

The best part about karma is that it comes for you in weird ways. Using Lead pipes, plates, cups etc. is a perfect example.

[@catherinecornick7940]

Great dig

[@carolinam4301]

I miss Mick 😢

[@markhall9412]

oh here they come well are actors but this really was real at one time and colorful it seems okay back off of pause is great three days to me and more that watch this program

[@barbarapatterson4132]

Why haven't the new program done further excavation on those that were only three days long. It would be great to see the sites completely excavated.

[@ivaxnog6157]

A common situation to the ones morning excercises hey lawrence

[@evanrowe8817]

I love the narrator but all I can do is think and here is bauldrick lmao 😂 anyone who watched blackadder knows what I’m talking about

[@Sksk27547]

Floor was still intact. That means that people got rid of everything but walls back then.

[@steveb1ish]

Tony gets so excited as Helen allows Phil to inspect her freshly exposed trench

[@iamblackthorne]

I see what you did there! 😆

[@steveb1ish]

@@iamblackthorne they say this kinda thing all the time…

[@f0ob]

Your definition of “perfectly preserved” and mine differ greatly.

[@wolfganggugelweith8760]

Oh my god! Were the Romans allowed to do that? 🙀🙀🙀🙀👆👆👆👆👆

[@faydulaksono]

hi! when this video recorded?

[@lewisclark5694]

I still don’t get how something can be buried by two feet of dirt over the course of only 1,600-2,000 years in the middle of a field.

[@ColleenJousma]

I'm glad the new episodes went back to the old Time Team. Am not a fan of the last two seasons of the original run. (I still watch them, but definitely not the same).

[@angelinamorgan1486]

More than expected. The greatest Roman colony was Britannia. Ask Arthur and Merlin.

[@kevinmackey1986]

Dig a hole ,as it's called here in Ireland. Other wise know as Time team and Tony Robinson does an excellent job of the commentary, being an Actor for the best part of his life makes it a lot easier . As for water becoming as Expensive as Gold, Our Government tried to bring in Water Charge's and we told them to 🦆 off 😁

[@MarcodeBoer]

Which episode is this?

[@GarrettMedina09]

Where do I apply to work for you guys?! For real. I wanna do this.

[@LouAlvis]

this is Time Team. a bbc production, Odyssey does not produce these. just re-posts them.

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@@LouAlvis damn. Like for real this looks like a dream job for me

[@TheMellowGrenade]

also, most of these episodes are years old.

[@tempsitch5632]

Go to school and learn archaeology.

[@JuergenGDB]

They should reconstruct it to its former self... would be cool.

[@markhall9412]

yes am watchin the program follow all the new ones but well this woman on pause is well refreshing look at that wonderful smile 25:35 not his but her damn add coming in fine you'll be back but well they won't me press button them gone me back ha ha ..........ads in 5 NOT! it's a wheel i call it well i thought we don't need your stinking wheel be off fine whatever all my work will pay off one day. button skip ads yeah i'll be back

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Thats reknown fama

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Mary tighten those breeches love ❤️

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

as a helpful guide to other fans, ive listed all the time team episodes that suck, below. .

[@stevennickell2604]

Go to Southern Britain, throw a rock.

[@jayfelsberg1931]

Who watches Phil? Or, who minds Phil?

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I don't believe comparing your channel with Netflix is very good promotion😬

[@mariannefiller4436]

do they ever use LIDAR?

[@maf6856]

To many ADS

[@ssstephen801]

But after why if these are Roman buildings were destroyed or just mando what happened to the Rock foundations and where did they go to

[@charlesmayzak594]

Amazing 10 feet down there was a global mud flood

[@garycraigart3579]

When did the phrase "perfectly preserved" apply to remains of stone foundations? Love the channel, object to the false hype.

[@mrcrowley8889]

Fucking Tony, at it again !

[@Teddy_Graham]

If it took 2,000 years to bury that civilization imagine how many civilizations that’s buried under this one slowly being pulled towards the earths core to be melted and spewed out as lava?

[@WinstonVanCoon]

You have a healthy imagination.

[@j11smith]

I can't help but wonder how things like this were buried so intact and so far down. At the rate that soil is built up naturally through erosion and deposition this would appear to be an astronomical amount of earth that suddenly buried all this....

[@davedammitt7691]

It's been 2,000 years. There's stuff from 50 years ago that's six or eight inches under the soil

[@j11smith]

@@davedammitt7691 in that part of england? or in the sahara?

[@j11smith]

@@davedammitt7691 also no there is not.

[@nathandodge665]

I have a cunning plan sir

[@markhall9412]

over dare we got a orrible lil man over there yup she's so fine probably smart as heck and looks wonderful. heck i can imagine this going the walls it was scary to meet wariiors like this on a feild i would think and short life span what a set up it must of been in those days it was going. the fights in the arena looking down the arms flying up in cheers. not spartgus but real. yes was slaves but on their bleachers had this was no foot ball it was real not that was safer in the pads if not careful but we did not have their weapons the energy in this places must of been intence.

[@Ubique2927]

19:45… lots of assumptions from that figure. All guesswork.

[@garyfrancis6193]

I have a different definition of “ perfectly preserved”.

[@TheMellowGrenade]

what? you expected to see all the wooden walls and roof's preserved too? that's asking for a bit much don't you think? lol. anybody who came to this video expecting to see an actual fully perserved Roman fort deserves to be dissapointed, because that's a ridiculous expectation.

[@naui_diver9290]

More like perfectly preserved footings

[@bobbys4327]

Why do they only have a small limited time to work there?

[@davidmoser3535]

money

[@Ubique2927]

It looks like civilian warehouses to me.

[@jomon723]

most gladiators were not killed , very seldom

[@guitarzelot]

Interesting vedio but the caption is very misleading. I see no "perfectly preserved" Roman fort. Only what's left of the foundation.

[@jfb.8746]

Agreed. And I think I've seen that video before a few years ago. Anyway, very interesting documentary. I would love to visit that site one day

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

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

[@kentonge1812]

got your trowel? what.matt is a profesional

[@billyvan8362]

SPQR...

[@kirkstinson7316]

Wow! So perfectly preserved it looks like they left yesterday. Sorry but that's not perfectly preserved at all

[@tempsitch5632]

Yes it is, you just don’t know the meaning of the words you’re using.

[@gearbox3773]

I like that British are interested in my ancestor. Britain was around 450 years under the eagle

[@KekoMontana]

𝓝𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓼𝔀𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻

[@ivaxnog6157]

Je mange place

[@andrewjones-productions]

It is a fantastic site and a lot of good work going on. However, it is sad that whilst they are busy with learning about the past they cannot be bothered to learn the correct pronunciation of Caerleon and afford the present the same level of respect that they are attempting to give the past.

[@Ubique2927]

I doubt that any one alive today knows, 100%, for sure how people spoke 2000 years ago. They certainly did not speak modern welsh.

[@andrewjones-productions]

@@Ubique2927 I am referring to the pronunciation of Caerleon in the present!! 'Caer' means 'fort' in Welsh and whilst not always the case, often refers to a place that was originally Roman. The town of Chester in Welsh is simply Caer and Chester is well known for its Roman ruins and roots. Kindly stop making excuses for laziness and a lack of respect. Furthermore, the Welsh language is a phonetic language and the pronunciation in Welsh will not have changed much if at all.

[@Ubique2927]

@@andrewjones-productions .. Are you joking? The language would not have changed over 2000 years! Don’t be an idiot. The welsh language has changed leaps and bounds in under 100 years. And if you think you know how people spoke 2000 years ago you are delusional.

[@davedammitt7691]

The childlike piano music is horribly distracting and annoying. This video would have been much better without it

[@voornaam3191]

Why doesn't Oddyssey start with ODD?! It is odd! You all say odd. Then please write odd. Butt you don't. That's weird.

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[@wizzardofpaws2420]

There's not a square inch of England that doesn't have some kind of Roman ruins, or ancient other ruins. Better than Egypt for archeology.

[@awrygargoyle]

Egypt was also a part of the Roman Empire. And part of so many others apart from their own that what you have stated is just....

[@TheMellowGrenade]

LMAO, are you smoking crack???? there are thousands of incredible Archeological sites throughout Egypt which are FAR better preserved than those in England. Do you think Egyptian Archeology starts and stops with the Pryamids?? loll you sound like a bias brit who think's their history is better than anybody elses. You should do your homework before saying such silly things, because you're only embaressing yourself....and the fact three people gave you a thumbs up is just sad lol.

[@TheMellowGrenade]

@@awrygargoyle To be fair, the Egyptian empire is thousands of years old, it only became part of the Roman empire in the very late period of it's exsistance, in the era of Cleopatra, and she was born closer to the invention of the iphone, than the building of the Pramids.

[@markhall9412]

woo gotta pause this is cool fish i crave wood heck recast this fish would be cool fish but in wood will look great the finds are awesome. capture is so cool here on youtube can zoom it later and really see the detail of these pieces.and crave elk horn wood look cool in elk horn this fish in pipestone as beads. that horse to imagine it with legs and look one up here and find a photo it was cool.or in this green stone have here got supentin oh yes capture is great so is these pieces of art that star did again craved so could fill with glass and pipestone dust or elk horn or abolone sand it down would look awesome for like say a personal cooster hum be back will take it back and capture it to inset this with stones have here mother of pearl pipestone and abolina or elkhorn altogether cool yes the ideas flow to me great pieces is to me personal am 64 have made draggers and more in hardwood make great letter openers. bartored with them oh can find wonderful photos of them are scary some of them but as letter openers a lil safer but still scary and well deadly.

[@claracapriotti7356]

Are you okay

[@jeffburnham6611]

The title is misleading. This wasn't a "perfectly preserved Roman Legionary fort". If it was "perfectly preserved", you wouldn't need to excavate to uncover its secrets as it would still be standing above ground, complete with its defensive trenches and walls.

[@TheMellowGrenade]

if you seriously thought, even for a momment, that that's what you were going to see in this documentary then you deserved to be disappointed lol, everything above the foundation would have been made of WOOD, and thus would not stand the test of time, and nobody would expect it too. when they say perfecvtly preserved, they are referring to the stone work.

[@tempsitch5632]

You’re not very smart.

[@MassMultiplayer]

future digger will find bone of unhealthy cheese meat eater :D irony

[@markhall9412]

yeah use the sword 25 years of this. is no yes i can oh we lone recruits there's benifits really 🙄😁😁😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣yeah the camp kitchen might make 25 there and get to snack NOT! we don't snack here. you can wash the pots and pans right that was work i did that........you don't do my knifes or skillet not in my dish water. all cooks i knew diis and carried those knives. and well this water is hot and clean that greasy pan in it right nope fine. thought pot washers did this. i'm not that guy. the black woman was great cook got along with after that for one year. food was awesome. she did her pan like i was taught to. it was kept oiled and clean. functional like her sharp knives.sharp knife in my water with that pan that's scary and deadly and well cannot always see a knife under water and not warned about it. it stopped that day. I never let go of a wood handle knife and wash it or let it soak in water all the way under dirty pots and pans in a sink.

[@survivingsam4404]

looks like a slave pen and the amphitheater is a sales floor. This whole fort could have been a slave market.

[@Mimzie-Arizona]

Ain't? I thought that was an American word from is not

[@Ubique2927]

Very much British English. From Am Not.

[@Cityboy-cl4mt]

to much talking, not enough digging

[@ivaxnog6157]

at Parse Your Sheet Togheter

[@zerocool1344]

36:34 I thought it was Trump as a hobo lol

[@rickstanley9710]

Oops. As soon as Mary Anne popped up I switched it off. Nope. I agree with Mick, it's useless faffing about. I can't stomach it either.

[@timothysmith4855]

How come none of these diggers aren’t wearing knee-pads !!!???

[@Gwaithmir]

Maybe the earth is too moist and the pads would get soggy.

[@funfact8660]

I restore and sell ancient Roman coins and small artifacts for a living

[@Random-JustAnother]

Really!? That would be fascinating!! I could get obsessed with history, and the mysteries of it! I lived in NM once and we would go out on our land and search for arrowheads and pottery, etc. And my family found a lot. It was one of my most enjoyable things to do, and really when I discovered just how much I loved history. What a job! Where do you live?

[@funfact8660]

@@Random-JustAnother I live in La Jolla, but one of my relatives in Croatia spends me the uncleaned coins and small artifacts in the dirt,he finds with his metal equipment. I restore and sell the finished items, and we split the profit.... I have a collection of arrowheads and knives from around here as well

[@kellymartin8090]

Your title is very misleading. The find is hardly perfectly preserved. I sat through that entire video only to find at the end you discovered some broken down foundations and some interesting artifacts. Not nice.

[@ks-qu4kj]

"perfectly preserved"?? 😂😂😂 theres nothing there..! pompeii is perfectly preserved, not this!

[@an-tm3250]

The amazon brunette doesn't work, just ask questions. She adds nothing. Where's Stuart, John, Carenza, Helen & Francis? The change is a short change.

[@John-ev3rm]

Why do You Tubers always have to lie, in this case, using words like " perfectly preserved"?

[@rickjohnson9558]

I hate to nit-pick, but that doesn't look perfectly preserved to me.

[@BB-gd5pk]

This is White Excellence

[@gameexe6337]

that is not what "perfectly preserved means"

[@oldmanjenkins38]

Sad that Mick didn’t want to do the series after Mary Ann was brought on board. I’m sorry. I’m a long time Time Team fan but that is just misogyny. Sure she was a model. But bloody hell she was educated Emmanuel College Cambridge in Social Anthropology (Graduated 2002). She had done her time in digs and still does to this day pushing anthropology to the forefront. Mick was from a different age and his internal biases against a “pretty face” that can’t be smart. We have to accept that a person can be more than one thing at the same time. He was brilliant but in this instance he was wrong.

[@TheMogregory]

To be fair to Mick there were many reasons he left the show. It was as much about who had been sidelined (you can spot that for yourself) as who had been added. Plus Mick thought the show had been 'dumbed down' thus insulting the intelligence of the viewers. Viewing figures dropped and shortly afterwards the show was cancelled. So, it seems he was right. To call it misogyny is outrageous when you consider the important and active roles played by ma`y women throughout the series.

[@falconvisionuav]

How about the manipulation of historical data related to biblical geography and the falsifying documents