Rooting for the Romans (Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire) | Series 17 Episode 13 | Time Team

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Phil Harding is a legitimate national treasure and must be preserved at all costs ✊🏾

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Phil and Helen, if I may.

[@cuncata]

@@DJMarcO138 yes Helen ❤

[@dot2562]

Video on u tube with Phil doing a Q&A sailsbury 2020 in his gaff. Zoom

[@dinerouk]

Whereas Tony!

[@mikevelilla9757]

Galactic treasure*

[@tonim2322]

Victor Ambrus really brought the findings to life in his drawings! Such a talented man and truly missed. The computer generated depictions just don't evoke the emotion that Victor's drawings did. Such an interesting man if you care to look him up online. RIP Sir.

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❤

[@RamblinJer]

The chemistry between everyone is what made this show great, really was a team

[@bakerk2047]

Totally agree, loved these two original member's, Robin Bush & Victor Ambrus. Never understood why the producer's bought in guest' like, Bill Oddie, Sandi Toksvig & Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall, losing the plot! No wonder MIck Aston left!

[@kactus_3008]

No, or maybe true for English people. It was the novelty or archeology technics like geophiz described plainly for the common people.

[@FatBlockOfHash]

I love these videos, I used to love watching time team as kid, always wanted to be an archaeologist my whole life, because of this program. RIP Mick, legend

[@anira_archeron]

Same here

[@nigelparks6855]

I love watching Ian the dig work, he was so skilfull with the backhoe

[@jamesc7526]

As a Canadian, is it normal my tea consumption has increased exponentially since I started watching these videos?

[@katekohl6059]

It's normal - two blue Betty teapots a day! From Oregon (and half Canadian from Windsor Ont.)

[@gillianr-w8720]

Only if it is a good strong tea that a spoon would stand up in or otherwise known as Builders tea. 😂

[@veldawells2839]

LoL 😅😅😅

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

And have your eyes been colonised yet as well as your Tea consumption??

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

​@@gillianr-w8720I have my Tea milky with loads of sugar..

[@gaylelescanec4410]

Absolutely love it when you ask Guy as the Roman expert. He's so sensible, and well informed. He's one of my favs.....other than main team

[@mrmainlobster]

When you see Guy you know the project is in good hands. He's one of my favorites! Go Team!

[@karlkarlos3545]

Yeah, as if roman archeology is difficult.

[@larryzigler6812]

@@karlkarlos3545 Trump U grad ?

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@larryzigler6812 I graduated as a linguist, if that matters to you. The Roman periode is one of the most documented and most researched periodes in European history. There is really no challenge in uncovering yet another Roman villa or Roman garnison. The Romans have also standardised every structure or pattern (not to mention coins). So, all those Roman experts have to do, is check out their books. Lol. And you people are in awe. Give me prehistory or post-roman history. That's fascinating.

[@Tawadeb]

Guy has his own KZbin channel it’s really good!!

[@hollingsworth01]

Made in a time when TV programs were worth watching.

[@lorrainegreen6782]

Agree!

[@MH-ms1dg]

wasn't this one made just last year?

[@Arkantos117]

@@MH-ms1dg It was made somewhere around 2011.

[@EchoatTheOakAnchor]

I love Phil's personality, he reminds me of my dad, if my dad had the chance to pursue an education. Just as boisterous and full of stories.

[@Invictus13666]

Phil has no actual education.

[@JamesF0790]

Tony and Phil's banter is wonderful

[@captainswoop8722]

Roasting iron ore was still done into the 19th century. All around Rosedale on the North Yorkshire Moors are the remains of 'calcining' kilns still in use until the mines closed in the 1920s. One of the benefits of roasting the ore was to reduce the weight which reduced the cost of shipping he ore by train to the blast furnaces on Teesside.

[@countOfHenneberg]

I'd heard there was similar in the woods south of Swainby, but I couldn't find them, linked by the railway spur that comes off at Potto.

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

I enjoy these Timeline programs much better than what pops up nowdays.The Team are really super in these Timeline series.Be Blessed All.Thanks for the show from an Ex pat far away.

[@bakerk2047]

I decided to attend evening classes at Birmingham University Archaelogical department, bascally because of Time Team. Some of our lecturer's appeard in the series, particularly the one program aired in 1997 about one of the most important sites of the Industrial Revolution, Matthew Boulton's 18th-century mint, in the suburb of Soho, Birmingham. The one thing though I didn't enjoy was field walking, especially after the farmer's had ploughed the said field, nothing like the program's. The other lasting memory was a lecturer giving a talk on Archaeology & Local Authorities, he said the restriction's laid down by them was making the recovery & research on site's vertually impossible to sustain in the coming year's, so a career was very difficult to consider! A professor since 2012 at the Univ of Birmingham, Alice Roberts, first appeared on television in the Time Team Live in 2001 working on Anglo-Saxon burials in Hampshire, she served as a bone specialist. She's gone onto many award's & honour's along side appearing on numerous tv program's.

[@gillianr-w8720]

I have always enjoyed Alice Roberts and the other programs she presents.

[@BryonLape]

There are at least 4 channels with Time Team reruns. I've seen them all, but I still watch every new share.

[@martinmarsola6477]

A fantastic video. A astonishing amount of time to be done with your team. Thank you for this wonderful video. Cheers to all! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

[@faithlesshound5621]

It was good to see clips of Phil and colleagues smelting iron by a process similar to what the Romans used 2000 and more years ago. The late Christopher Roy has a video on KZbin showing in detail traditional iron-smelting in Burkina Faso. He got village elders to show their young men how to carry out a similar process which has been abandoned in favour of importing iron from China.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Why would the doings of those in Burkino Faso be of any interest?

[@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

Why would they not? ;)

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yeah I watched that a couple of years ago..

[@vovachammonet5771]

Have been binge watching TT since Friday - Tony's finding the timely fitting turn of phrase especially when hunches do not pan out are brilliant and keep me watching. The good natured-ness of the program is so attractive to me living in Florida, USA. Whether the team answer's the question or not affirming someone's hunch or predilection quite frankly does not even enter my mind thats how well the show is done. Full of good cheer.

[@nicolejosan6364]

Same here. I'm knitting away and binge watching TT for the last week or so. They are not only top notch professionals, but so good natured and lovely in their interaction and friendly ribbing, that's what is missing from most modern series.

[@vovachammonet5771]

@@nicolejosan6364 Nicole... Today is Friday I have reached the one week mark for sure ..

[@dinnerwithfranklin2451]

Brilliant. I always enjoy seeing Mick again. Thanks

[@badabing9234]

Love it around the 25:05 where Phil is holding a chunk of pot and talking about its size, uses etc... but he starts whispering like a normal voice would be just too much and the pot shatter further. Phil is the man. Hate when I heard about Micks passing.. I dug online and found the info on former Tine Team members like where they are now.. doing this ir that. Years and years now I've enjoyed this program.. family and friends just dont get it. Why the attraction to history and digging in the ground to tell that story. Let them go back to their video games lol.. I'm the richest by far because of Mick, Phil, Tony, carenza just to name a few of the original so to speak cast. I've grown older with them and couldn't imagine never having stumbled up on the programme to end up hooked like a smack junkie lol. My soap box time is up.. thx

[@lorrainegreen6782]

I also am the only one of my family and friends who loves this! I’m addicted to this channel since it showed up in my feed. The camaraderie between all the people is lovely. 👋🏻 from America.

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I agree I love this program also

[@katekohl6059]

@@lorrainegreen6782 I concur, from Salem, Oregon 🙏🏻

[@annazaman9657]

My sentiments exactly

[@EIixir]

Great episode. This site is so large it makes me wonder what other things could be hidden in the area.

[@TheSLUser]

I want to see the two episodes where they found the Roman Villa that got bigger and bigger, so big they went back to the same site in another video a year or two later and carried on digging further down the hill. I think there was only one other site in the whole show they visited twice. The other was from the Pilot where they only really field walked and did the ground survey for the first time on TV, was fun in that show watching them put both results up side by side and show what 10 years or so had done to the science and technology in such a short time

[@EIixir]

@@TheSLUser Sounds like some good episodes. Lets hope they come up in the future.

[@sherrylelee8274]

Well done love all your Time Team digs - thank you for adding value to an otherwise dearth of comparable programmes. ❤️👍🏻🇳🇿 New Zealand

[@cherihayward350]

The closest thing to time travel i will ever experience and im loving it 😊❤

[@dragonflyviz6546]

What a find and significant blend of science, art and tenacity. Love love all of your series. Yes Phil Harding is a national treasure and is the kind of talent that is rare. Thank you Time Team and so sorry to hear of Mic’s passing.

[@rrr92462]

Wow, Roman walls visible on the surface!! So cool.

[@SteveMikre44]

Great Time Team episode...

[@chriskennard5920]

Wow, look at the reflection of Mick's jumper at 38.22 - no seriously, these programmes are worth their weight in Iron or gold!

[@elisa8044]

Many many thanks, that's greatly apreciated here in Brazil also...!

[@dbren124]

Thank you for your helpful tips. Qe are just bavk from a trip to Norway where everyone was knitting 'in the round', so totally new to me. I live in the Sunshine Coast Australia and learn on two needles. Continental knitting and circular needles are very new to me. Using your tips I hope to learn this new skill. Regards, Dale

[@petersmafield3474]

I have seen this episode of Time Team at least once before. I like to watch these a couple times because it helps me to remember the information.

[@caelyclifford6133]

Anyone else want a montage of Phil and Tony's friendship

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Definitely not..

[@paulainsc8212]

Greetings from South Carolina 🇺🇸

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Fun to see Edmund Artis popping up again! I remember the Castor episode where they re-excavated some significant Roman ruins with mosaics that he'd explored, and (unusually for antiquarian of the era) his ground surveys etc seemed to be remarkably well documented & reliable? Although possibly the villa sketch (shown again here) might've been partly a reconstruction on his part. Edit: interesting! Looks like maybe the shrub deadly nightshade in the UK is a different plant than the same-named small plant that is a noxious weed here?.... Ah yes, a quick Google suggests our NZ version is mostly actually 'black nightshade', being called by an incorrect name. Always learning things from these programmes - not just historical stuff either! 😜

[@megelizabeth9492]

Yeah, Artis has actually come up a few times in the show. I get the sense that he was a really good archeologist, especially for the time period.

[@Invictus13666]

This was the first, not “again”.

[@richard8417]

Always glad to see them wearing hard hats when digging. Safety first 😁

[@deltadom33]

Keep them coming 🙂

[@irt1971]

Tony: I eat my words. Phil: That's right. lolol.

[@willisgemutlich2608]

nice, thanks. I'm looking forward to the new dig. October, right? I can't wait to see the changes in tech. Well, yes I can, and I will, but I DON"T WANT TO! WHEN IS IT COMING? I'll set an alarm for a half hour early.

[@jfc213]

stuart is the mr spock of time team lol

[@dean31black]

where are the first time team episodes??? any why not start the full series again from the start? release 1 a week on a sunday evening, people will love that, i would look forward to my 1 hour a week after sunday dinner watching the old ones

[@kit000003]

I would love it if they started at S01E01 and just kept rereleasing them in order.

[@sanityormadness]

S1-11 (except S9 for some reason) are on the Channel 4 website, which probably has a lot to do with the earliest episodes on this channel being from S12!

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Amazon prime

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Great STUFF guys n girls. Im loving your programs. My father was a foundry worker or moulder. Very interesting Thankyou 😊❤

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I love Time Team. ❤

[@martynharveythepoet5114]

Possible Identification of mystery object at 13:09?? Well - I'm no expert but I am interested in archaeology, so I've been watching loads of these episodes and yes, there is the usual mix of bits of old pots, coins and brooches dug up - all identified by the TimeTeam bunch. However, they seem puzzled by the object at 13:09... Well - as a guitarist/fiddle player/musician of some 45 years experience, I'd say that's a Roman finger pick (or whatever you want to call it). I don't use them myself because I learned to use my actual fingers/nails but they're popular with many guitarists (using the finger-picking style) and pretty much essential for any banjo-ist! I believe guitarists (who use 'em) have 3 on their Index, Middle and Ring finger plus one on the Thumb (of the picking hand). Not sure which instrument they would have used... a Lyre?? Or any of the myriad of hybrid instruments brought over from eastern Europe/Mediterranean? Hope this helps! :-)

[@margomoore4527]

It did look like a finger-pick!

[@SL-sd3sg]

Amazing we use electronic equipment to find compounds, when the romans knew by eye.

[@daveseddon5227]

First aired 17th April 2011 UK

[@snodrog5]

That close to the Nene, the odd stone is a killick.

[@beepboop204]

took some googling, but now i understand

[@archangel807]

Need Season 20, Ep 5.....the best

[@Phiyedough]

I watched this a few weeks ago so it must already be on KZbin.

[@kit000003]

Yeah, there's four different channels releasing TT videos. Sometimes they overlap. I try to watch them on TT Classics to keep the money going to them.

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It is on KZbin. That's how I get it in Florida.

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They have been on various KZbin channels for a decade or more

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I really like how the Internets is Forever!

[@tombaja4.9]

Great work! Thanks for sharing. Peterborough: Pietro's villa?

[@rainy5053]

I love this show so much! Watch an episode before bed every night! Strange dreams about Phil though then...😘😘😘😘

[@lorrainegreen6782]

lol

[@katekohl6059]

I'm not the only one who likes a TT episode before bed! I find it helps refocus my mind after dealing with all the crap going on in life nowadays. No dreams of Phil, though. More like Roman centurions marching around LOL 😴

[@annethomas9302]

Love the music.

[@astronomyphilly]

Back when TV was worth watching eh

[@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793]

Can't touch the trees. A quarry on the other side that destroyed the archeology

[@andyleighton6969]

Know the woods well, my running club often uses them for "hare and hounds". The word "purlieu" actually means [royal] forest - as in hunting ground - passed to private ownership. The boundaries of the wood have probably been respected since the Norman Conquest.

[@Happyheretic2308]

@@andyleighton6969 it’s a gorgeous word, and great etymology.

[@nickverbree]

Is there a playlist of all the videos referencing the work of Edmund Artis?

[@christinec7892]

Did Roman Villas ever have their own bakeries, blacksmiths, mills, etc large like large British estates?

[@ViolinStimme]

13.15 looked like a finger plectrum to me!

[@finbarscanlonwolf]

I wonder how much was destroyed where the quarry next to it is. Did they even report anything if they found something.

[@krumplethemal8831]

Roman Magistrate: "Okay let's get the day on." Roman Smith: "I cant find my key, I dropped it somewhere.." Roman Magistrate: "We will have to abandon this place if you cant find that key."

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

Since when is a Tuffa a Limestone since the Tuffa is volcanic product is it not???? Lmst is a marine deposit is it not? Great show team All Be Blessed

[@martynnotman3467]

Tufa limestone is laid down by hot springs. Tuff (which is confusingly sometimes called Tufa) is volcanic

[@HungryHillSarah]

Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water.

[@nilsmuninsheim4279]

'Bizarre Sheep Handling Device' shall now be the name of my next band.

[@britters220]

I want to get time team on dvd or blu ray.... and then have as many people who are still alive sign it.... *sigh*

[@tetchan5964]

Wohoo! Highlight of my week.

[@TheSLUser]

I love this show but i have an older tv and have to use my xbox one to view them, and i have noticed that it fails to show all the videos on the channel, I also use a laptop so I know the app is missing videos....

[@annethomas9302]

Great company…

[@juliadanvers8862]

Phil Should get an Honorary Doctorate.

[@couttsw]

He has

[@captainswoop8722]

How much was lost to the landfill site?

[@malcolmformosa1772]

We are all watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@Rusty_Gold85]

What has me buggered why any taller wall sections have not survived? Why has everything been levelled to ground? And were the Roof sections were made of wood so the top was not going to survive a few hundred years . But amazing this site in my opinion may only have survived a few decades digging up the Ore and the Supervisor made himself comfortable while workers went hard at it

[@hatjodelka]

Robbing the stone or brick for building other things is usually why only foundations survive.

[@TIOCI_0]

Wow can you see the details inside the white part of mound what looks like a road & massive rectangle structure across it at 3:05 & 10:22!? Edit: (Stuart then points out the structures at 12:45)

[@charl5632]

Love it

[@SL-sd3sg]

Could that stone have been used to weigh down something?

[@hilndr3279]

That stone is a faerie stone.

[@anthonytindle5758]

phills the best, why have geophis when all you need is a man willing to bend his back and use the garden spade?

[@harrybond1485]

It is interesting that despite all the new high tech gadgets, spades and trowels are still necessary.

[@jamesleighninger1828]

Have not received email notices of this or the interview airing today (Saturday). Stopped giving us advance notices?

[@swedichboy1000]

31:10 Anyone else seeing the letters A & C just above Phils thumb?

[@mrkitty1367]

going to be another goodun !

[@kevingates503]

Maybe it's a Roman Armory that would explain no high status super status Villa and a lot of concentration iron working

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Midgeys and little spiders or ok at least we haven't got mosquitoes or poisonous Snakes and Spiders thank god because i hate big bugs..

[@12dougreed]

Mind the Bedfordshire spiders

[@WaveWatcher10]

You might want to google what ‘rooting’ means in Australia

[@aubreymellor1293]

why Three Days?

[@davidbeem184]

LMAO I love you having the old hippies doing the work! Good job folks

[@northernerinnc3179]

Flabbergasted at the potential size of this site! Equally flabbergasted that "deadly nightshade needs to be protected". It is invasive in many areas of the US and getting rid of it is always done. Buddleia on the other hand is sold in plant nurseries and encouraged as butterfly and bee attractors! oh my

[@Happyheretic2308]

We aren’t the US, thankfully.

[@northernerinnc3179]

@@Happyheretic2308 Believe me when I say, that I have researched other parts of the world to find sanctuary...and continue to follow the machinations and horrors here.

[@deltadom33]

Would the iron be used for swords , what was the use of the iron ? 🙂

[@snodrog5]

Hinges, handles, harness, hobnails...

[@deltadom33]

@@snodrog5 😊

[@faithlesshound5621]

axes, hoes, knives, spades?

[@oldprussian3130]

Oh god... 21:22

[@john_air]

he looks like a roamn seneator

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

11 Years and a pint too many.

[@waltershumate5777]

All this digging around in England makes me wonder if they have ever accidentally uncovered any unexploded ordinance left over from the war? .(France may even have a worse problem with this.)

[@georgedorn1022]

Unexploded ordinance is definitely an issue in certain locations. I have worked on three disused air field sites just this year and a UXO survey is always undertaken before we break ground. Occasionally you hear about WWII bombs being found, most often on urban sites I think. I heard a news story in the last couple of weeks where a tree surgeon was cutting through a stump or roots and suddenly sparks began to fly - he obviously stopped his saw immediately, investigated and discovered a buried cache of WWI hand grenades! I think this was in someone's garden. In northern France and Belgium farmers regularly plough up artillery shells etc.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yup they've found loads..

[@Invictus13666]

@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Jesus no they haven’t. Quit lying.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Castor turned out to be another antiquarian bust

[@Invictus13666]

Ummm....no. It didn’t.

[@stephanievegter5438]

🇿🇦♥️

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhhh arerr toney Pearly Wood! Stone the crows!

[@Libbathegreat]

Manganese??? MIND YOUR KNEES!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@PikePlays]

Guess who ended up digging at Castor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/onbKdpZshKihmdU (bit of extra time team for y'all on a binge today).

[@mrkitty1367]

goodun

[@dennisp.2147]

Romans never ground maize. It's a new world food.

[@faithlesshound5621]

When they say "corn," they're not talking 'Murcan.

[@dennisp.2147]

@@faithlesshound5621 He specifically said "maize" Listen for yourself 25:29 Describing a mortarium.

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@dennisp.2147 You're right, Tony Robinson said it could be used "for grinding food like corn, or maize, to make bread." He started out right, but then went down the wrong alley.

[@dennisp.2147]

@@faithlesshound5621 I'm fully aware that the British vernacular usage of "corn" refers to just about any cereal that can be ground. I also never mentioned the word "corn" in my initial comment. You'd think the television presenter of an archaeological program would be aware of something as important (and basic) as the Columbian exchange. Regardless, a mortarium was NEVER used to grind maize.

[@Showsni]

There's a chance by "food like... maize" he meant "grains similar to maize (but obviously not maize itself)" just to give the audience an idea, but yeah, could just be a flub by the scriptwriter.

[@Sapharone]

Wasn't this already uploaded by TT Classics?

[@shainemaine1268]

Never heard of "strimming"... String-trimming??

[@AndrewTBP]

strimmer noun (TRADEMARK IN UK) a powered grass trimmer with a nylon cutting cord which rotates rapidly on a spindle.

[@archaeomanda]

Known as a weed whacker in the US.

[@shainemaine1268]

Wow this was already a year ago ... And ok generally we just say trimmer

[@علي-ش7ث8ب]

In ancient geography,this part of the World used to be called: -The Land of humus soil -The sixth Clime -The land of Gog and Magog

[@vlmellody51]

Aw, crap! They're going to cut down trees 🌳

[@dennisp.2147]

Nope. It;s a national forest. They can't even cut middling thick roots.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Grow up

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@Happyheretic2308 🤣🥰🤣

[@globalnonsens6816]

when are time team going to release the information about the dig thay did in Chester about 10 years ago, time team excavated 4 bodies on the meadows on the river dee in are local papers it stated that thay where the oldest body's ever dug up in the uk, and thay where believed to be warriors monks, and it was thought to now be the site of the oldest battlefield in the uk, but time team never released and information about it and never made a program, 2 months after the dig time team done a separate dig about 3 miles down the river and made a program about the local farm but never once made any reference to the previous dig, time team are hiding what thay found on the meadow on the banks of the river dee and the country has the rights to know what thay found, you can search the internet and there's nothing to even prove that thay where there, other than newspaper articles from the local standard,

[@lenabreijer1311]

They produce a detailed description of all that they do. You will have find the papers in the archives. Newspapers are not interested in things like that and not the place where these reports are published

[@globalnonsens6816]

@@lenabreijer1311 i found a Wikipedia page about it heronbridge Roman site

[@lenabreijer1311]

@@globalnonsens6816 well that is a start.