Time Team S03-E05 Palace of the Irish Kings (Navan, Co Armagh)

[@darrencox9880]

Stuart always amazes me with his ability to field walk and pick up on what I can never see. I could always imagine him to be a really nice guy.

[@csottohal]

I am sure that he is a nice person.

[@0623kaboom]

did you notice in an earlier episode the lady restoring one of the stone statues up on some scaffolding was also an Ainsworth .. I suspect his wife or a sister perhaps

[@julievazquez3839]

@@0623kaboom I remember the episode, but I didn't catch that about her last name. I'll have to go back and check it out. Thanks!

[@basstrammel1322]

Stewart strikes me as a man it would be fantastic to share a bottle or two of wine with.

[@davefoc]

@@0623kaboom I noticed it also. I tried to figure it out but I couldn't find strong evidence about her relationship with Stewart. But I think she is his wife. She is listed on the web as a restoration type person and the information about her I found said she has two children. Stewart has two children. That's my evidence.

[@thenewkhan4781]

Stewart is a genious, really. A Sherlock Holmes of landscapes. How does he see all those things on maps, pictures, fields? They've made so many discoveries just because of him noticing something, amazing.

[@PtolemyJones]

He really is amazing.

[@johannaholmgren8088]

I always imagine Stewart to be the little kid who spent hours laying on the ground just looking at stuff.

[@lafeelabriel]

Such a nice guy too, soft spoken and always polite. The more you see and read of him the more you like the guy.

[@1968jitbag]

This playlist helped many through COVID quarantine. Now this is helping me through hard times in 2023, with insanity seemingly everywhere. Just a fantastic mix of archaeology, entertainment, professionalism, integrity and "humanity"(the pint at the end of the day to unwind).

[@blex5579]

got your booster?

[@jsmcguireIII]

Tony Robinson WITH GLORIOUS FLOWING HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better to have had and lost than never had at all

[@danphillips3589]

And a thin Phil! 😃

[@melissaspier4840]

Giggling

[@lorawiese5897]

Lol...I doubt if most men feel that way but loved the quote.

[@meganw.4457]

Have you ever seen the old documentary of very young Phil demonstrating a stone axe?

[@virginiajayhudgins8277]

Good laughs. Thanks, fellow TT addicts.

[@poorplayer9249]

The aerial shots from all over the Isles in this series are spectacular. The hedgerows and rolling topography, small holdings along side waterways, and towns nestled here and there all contribute to a beautiful pastoral landscape which begs to be wandered over.

[@lacritzer3070]

You can archeologically date these episodes by Tony’s hair 🤣

[@queencersei2644]

And the longer haired guy. (The dude whose hair stays long but also turns white.)

[@WyattRyeSway]

Queen Cersei ...Mick? The guy with Einstein style hair? Phil’s hair eventually went grey (from reddish brown to grey, as it is today) but never really white. Mick was really an old hippy and he and Phil just seem like old hippies digging in the ground. It’s quite lovely. Robin was so dignified, he made such a contrast but all are fascinating people. I love these shows even though many I’m watching were made before I was born.

[@basstrammel1322]

Mick is hard mode, not a lot changes at all.

[@Awitsaduck]

And to be even crueller his waistline

[@theogangryscotsman7607]

Or lack there of

[@kschneckmalaret]

Binge watching from Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. It’s been a life saver during these surreal times.

[@terdferguson1736]

Must have been tough to just pack up and take the family to the P.R. House when things got tough in the city. Probably coildnt even bring all the help with you.

[@owenoulton9312]

It's amazing to watch these old episodes and see Tony with full Baldrick coiffure.

[@AlohaMilton]

Phil be like "dirt be thee best bandage fer a blister" Love that guy he is so freakin focused on his passion

[@eboracum2012]

His sentence makes sense and you can see 'ye olde dude' in the past giving such advice. Especially up in Yorkshire. Only I doubt Phil "be" like anything.

[@DutchFurnace]

I love the cows sometimes randomly watching the team.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

It always amazes me at how Stewart looks at things, on maps and then the bump or a hill on the landscape and piece it all together. Awesome! Tony, when his hair was still semi thick and flowing all over, and at a time when even Phil had more hair. I have been watching Time Team on youtube now for a few months and I am not only hooked on the show but Proud to say that I now am a digger supporter as well:-) Plus am looking at getting books form them as well..Wondering, with this site, and all that they can find in all this, and none of which has been dug before, if there is a way to go back for another 3 day dig???

[@Metaphix]

this show is so wholesome, it helps to relax me and cheer me up, thanks for uploading!

[@aleatoirefrancais]

that's why I watch it most days as well!

[@Landoficeandsnow1]

Stumbled on this by accident and i am hooked :-)Cheers from Iceland

[@peterdarley5161]

Hi! From Peter and Sally from Yorkshire UK.

[@WeeeWriter]

Cheers from Canada!!

[@browneyedbitch62]

USA here. Love the shows. I've been been watching them for months

[@bradwalden546]

Same here... USA

[@barbaraburton8914]

I'm from North Carolina, USA. HI. I've been binge watching it for weeks too. Got to have something good out of the Covid 19.

[@zedwms]

This may well be the best television ever made. The gods bless them all for bringing the science, and the fun, of archaeology to the attention of the world. There may be nothing more important than understanding our ancestors.

[@sharimullinax3206]

What a fun party on the second evening!

[@pjzdreamz]

I just love the live(stock) audience . . . !

[@TheEvilDruid1]

Angus's Holsteins from Jersey..

[@juadonna]

Yes, I've heard that the Irish natives are very friendly!

[@jbug13158]

The "rock art" or carved stone looked like directions on a map to me. Sure wish the old time team were still doing this! Really miss all those guys!

[@THINKincessantly]

Robin Bush was having a hecuva good time @31:00 RIP old friend!♥️

[@heywardfi]

Love this episode. Thank you so much for putting Time Team on your tube. I love this show

[@louisenewman4074]

heyward fisher Paul

[@radketim]

Love Mick's sweaters and the bovine audience

[@ObeyCamp]

Best sweaters in all of Europe. RIP...

[@thomasandersen2534]

No ones gonna talk about that awesome party they were at ? Dancing drinking and great music ! Brilliant

[@talamioros]

Ah that's a ceilidh, they got lots of those xD

[@bethbartlett5692]

That young Irish guy did an amazing work with the metal. Stunning art!

[@asakurad]

Thanks so much. This series is delightful. It feeds the romantic in me.

[@peggyjenkinson4514]

2 years ago, I watched this. I guess I've forgotten. It is so much better than watching Season19.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Would’ve loved to have spent time with everyone after a good day of digging having a pint and a song. Looks like a great time. Laughing smiling dancing singing music. Honestly genuinely a grand time with good people. I love the Irish/UK culture.

[@76-UVB]

10:30 finding a Barbary Ape skull in an Iron Age site poses a lot of questions.

[@biancacastafiore383]

nothing as soothing as to watch time team during a pandemic lock down. People of the past had it much worse compared with us in the 21st century with a vaccine on the way. Thanks for uploading!

[@aleatoirefrancais]

such a good point. a very good thing to remember after having a bad day!

[@whererosemaryflourishes]

Really loving this series. Many thanks for uploading!

[@MrAlumni72]

33:12 - that second geophysics survey pattern looks exactly like the pattern carved into that rock that Stewart found earlier - doesn't it?

[@typerexc]

I thought exactly the same thing, as soon as I saw it. The rock carving is at 27:39. It's remarkably similar.

[@mimiboulanger2358]

I've seen Tony in other productions and you are wonderful in every one Tony. Time Team is especially interesting as they take us into the realm of archeology and science that in usually preserved for the experts. What an eye opening experience. I wish I had seen these earlier. Thank you Reijer Zaaijer !

[@saxon6749]

This show was so good for so long. I've watched this show before bed every night for 4 years straight now. I get thru it all then start over again at Season 1. I don't think I'd be able to sleep without it. Don't know, never tried. Don't wanna! Although, starting at s11 it started getting kind of bad.

[@janwertz2257]

I also stumbled on it by accident, and have been letting my friends in on it. It's a real gem!

[@christosharrison]

It's amazing to think that as a result of Time Team's efforts, this is now a historical site with a centre for the public to visit and see. Maybe not so amazing - just a fact that this show changed the perception of real archaeology post-Indiana Jones. It's a pity that it has not been re-instated.

[@talamioros]

it has now!

[@christosharrison]

@@talamioros isn't it through their own effort or has mainstream TV provided the funds?

[@RKHageman]

@@christosharrison Funded by enthusiastic fans by way of Patreon. 8,000 supporters so far

[@eboracum2012]

I saw Victor dancing at the celildh. Robin is full-on buzzing.

[@TheLdoggett]

I could listen to Chris Lynn all day.

[@melissaspier4840]

I've been to Navan... 🤗 been there did that! Loved the wonderful museum with the grass roofs 😛🤗🥰🤩.... Baldrick MARRY ME please 😉😍😘😁💙💑🤭💞💜❤💚

[@BryonLape]

Having seen later episodes first and now watching the earlier ones, I can understand why Mick starting to not like where Channel 4 took the show before they canned it.

[@CologneCarter]

Me too.

[@eboracum2012]

@@lmtt123 Cackled when I read that!

[@OUigot]

By the last season the girl power movement hijacked the show and ran it into the ground. All the guys, except Tony and Phil, quit or got fired and they were replaced by under-educated kids, it was a children's show by the end.

[@stannousflouride8372]

This field 2 Creeveroe Rd Armagh, UK N 54° 20' 54.344'' x W 6° 42' 25.581'' (54.348429, -6.707106) in a view on Google Earth that is filled with circular fields and many crop marks.

[@jordanhicks5131]

@Michael Halligan are you stupid or what? Northern Ireland currently belongs to the UK and is part of the UK, hence why Brexit is causing such a kerfuffle in the 6 counties that make up Northern Ireland.

[@jordanhicks5131]

@Michael Halligan and Ulster is a unionist term you stupid wannabe plastic paddy fuck. You are trying to act all pro Republican by calling northern Ireland a colony and denying it is part of the UK yet you use Unionist to refer to the place. LIKE A FUCKIN ORANGE ORDER PROTESTANT. Take a hike ya fuck, you know fuck all about Ireland

[@ldbkbarnea]

The cows looked on anxiously, is this a barbecue pit?

[@lorawiese5897]

I love the Irish accent. Actually I love many accents but the Irish sound is so melodious IMO.

[@kevinchambers1101]

It would be great if the new time team could go back to these early digs with their new technology and see what they could now come up with.

[@sixtopian]

In Might & Magic VII, there was a area called Castle Navan. I spent many hours in that castle and the surrounding area. Fun times.

[@EdEditz]

You can archaeologically date these episodes by the state of Mick's sweater :P

[@GiftofChaosStudio]

It is pretty pristine in this one!

[@library.collective]

Same for Phil's hat

[@alexiswelsh5821]

And Tony’s hair. Look how brown and long it is here!

[@canuzzi]

So while these would probably not survived - only on special conditions like if they all ended up in a swamp at this time - we could date them by the type of laptop and computer they use.

[@stannousflouride8372]

I think you'd called it stripeographic dating.

[@kenthonea5533]

Time team is one of the best shows I have ever enjoyed.. it isn’t related but if you like this check out All Creatures Great and Small!!

[@1364960]

I love both

[@jamesross6640]

Love the James Harriott books. And time team.

[@eboracum2012]

That series was my first introduction to British television! Then, I had to have the books.

[@johncostello5869]

HANG ON, the curving features shown at 33:10 looks VERY like the curving lines they found on the carved stone earlier in the program. Is it just me or anybody else see this?

[@donhardy6661]

I thought the same thing, immediately.

[@OUigot]

I read your comment and thought "I wonder if he's talking about John's map?"......Bingo!!

[@jayfigg7981]

WOW does Tony look young! Like the older, sassy Tony better! Thanks again for posting these!

[@sforza209]

Damn tony is wearing the epitome of dad clothes! And look at the bill on that hat!! It’s like a awning!

[@lizzy66125]

🤣🤣

[@thomasevans5467]

When some fruit trees Bud in the spring time the buds and their subsequent branches are a red color peaches come to mine particularly and I think some species of cherries as well

[@kenthonea5533]

Tony’s hair is crazy!!! Dang Mick was young there!!

[@Feckinpaddy29]

Wow! Tony is so young here!

[@miekekuppen9275]

Awww Phil´s so young!

[@vincerussett7922]

Check out 'Time Signs' (all four episodes) It's a series made before Time Team in Devon. Mick and Phil were even younger there. I did a bit digging there, mainly on the farm site (which I think was called Shop). In this programme, I loved the 90s hair on the younger diggers... and the pullies!

[@shannonottarson9247]

I swear mick is wearing that sweater in season 19😂

[@annickb7313]

Yes! King John’s lost palace... just watched the episode before this on.

[@coffeync]

Mick had a closet full of those sweaters. His uniform.

[@pattimessenger6214]

I still have a pair of cowboy boots that I bought in 1976.

[@alexiswelsh5821]

If I could time travel, one of the things I would do would be to get a shirt that says “Not a Time Traveler” and just appear at every Time Team dug I could. That would be something wouldn’t it?

[@maddog2771]

Was here in 2019

[@annajohansson7116]

I just want to be there! :)

[@Books_Anime_92]

You know that it's a really old episode of Time Team when Tony had hair. I would love to visit the area where this was filmed.

[@BoredCertified]

(2:42-ish) The cows are so close I thought they were going to walk into the trench! Too funny. Maybe they'd like to help.

[@leannechase7617]

We've obviously been attending very tame ceilighs! Guess this calls for a trip to Ireland.

[@Kfied]

Can't beat Time Team!

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Noticed in these earlier episodes they're not freezing and wet😊

[@patriciaheil6811]

Archaeologists agree that traditions set in early times are not invented by later writers from the ground up. so no monk invented Conor's three palaces. Axel Olrik's Oral Narratives Principles show that 3 is a common number in oral traditions. Since the tradition is tied to a place, it's likely that place genuinely has something to do with the tradition. Archaeologists obviously have only limited time and energy and can't dig everywhere as far down as they'd like to go.

[@sarahleonard7309]

It's fascinating to see the juxtaposition of going full-steam-ahead with massive digging machines and gently removing a grain of sand at a time with brushes and dental picks!

[@joer8854]

A lot of people have criticized them for the way they did things but those people don't mention the fact that most of the stuff they found because of this show would have been destroyed and lost without them. I realize removing the top portion which doesn't contain anything useful isn't standard procedure but they were under time constraints and as I said these sights there was no other way and Most of what you see in the show would have been lost.

[@melissaspier4840]

I tried to study Gaelic, giggling... that's it... I TRIED 🥴

[@maryannmacmurray4279]

I twoughted

[@maryannmacmurray4279]

Twided’

[@JETWTF]

I think I just realized why Tony cut his long hair in later episodes... he had a bald spot that kept showing in the intro's. I quite liked his long locks.

[@jordanhicks5131]

@@melissaspier4840 you'll need a cunning plan

[@melissaspier4840]

hicks giggling .... I'm up for suggestions 🤷‍♀️

[@deborahparham3783]

Tony is an actor and he had to change his hair style for different roles he played. That was also the reason for some less than flattering facial hair and for bleaching his hair blonde. You do what you have to do to pay the bills.

[@heliotropezzz333]

It's Navan with the emphasis on the first syllable - not the second. At least Tony Robinson gets it right.

[@gwadja]

Episode 14 (Season 3, Episode 5): Palace of the Irish Kings, Aired: February 4, 1996

[@terdferguson1736]

Wow john gater looks so different as a younger man, quite astonishing transformation.

[@tphvictims5101]

You’ve got your own pyramids there, you also got a resourceful shovel/trowel/engineer /Antiquities Guy(Phil). Egypt eat your heart out.

[@lorawiese5897]

Ouch...the cut on Phil's finger makes my finger hurt. Guess you can tell I am not nurse material.☺

[@betsymcgovern3267]

Armagh Rhymers at 31:00!

[@darladahmen5413]

Love Mick sweater of many colors.

[@bertjilk3456]

It seems that the sacrificial pond would have yielded far more interesting artefacts than yet another ‘ditch’. Maybe I missed something.

[@kevinmurphy65]

Why do they have to "move in"...why not a simple continuity. There's always the statement of "replacement" that I think is overstated.

[@mimiboulanger2358]

Also I'm Canadian and we still have ceiledhs in Prince Edward Island and in New Found Land and we still speak Gaelic

[@OUigot]

You left out Cape Breton....

[@mimiboulanger2358]

@@OUigot Yes I did! So sorry about that.

[@TheDaragh123]

the kings tables are on the eastern slopes of slieve gullion. cliff

[@peggyjenkinson4514]

OMG Stewart has hair in these early shows.

[@Tiger89Lilly]

Stuart's, look at John's, and his jumper. This show takes me right back to the 90's I think my mum had the same jumper and half the blokes in my town had the same haircut as the irish guys

[@benbowmen6650]

Tony sticks out like a sore thumb but Mick didn't change the entire life of the show

[@lbburgett]

My Family Tree brought me here. These are some of my people.

[@Metaphix]

7:29 Deadass?

[@Sarge80]

I always come back to this episode every few years, just because of how uninterested Tony looks when the guy is explaining the history at around 10:05 😂

[@fimackenzie2319]

The cows look rather annoyed that their field has been dug up.

[@richsw]

Poor Tony at 10.10. He looks bored to death, lol

[@janeb5725]

He looks hung over.

[@marybethchmielewski3051]

Anyone know the name of the book that keeps being referenced?

[@jody1367]

Mary Beth Chmielewski it's based on on Medieval texts. Tain Bo Cualinge or less formal The Tain is a legendary tale of the Ulster cycle. I had to read it when i was a kid. It's extremely worthwhile checking out.

[@lmtt123]

Pronounced "Tawn bu coonyu"

[@julievazquez3839]

Stewart looks like a baby in this one! I don't remember him looking so young!

[@jsmcguireIII]

The difference today is scholars try to explain past cultures and structures in the context of reality. Only until recent times did this lack of understanding result in mythologies about fairies and giants that came before us. Ascribing supernatural explanations to our ancestors is actually quite insulting to them and their achievements.

[@mikesemon7392]

santacruzer Agreed. Sometimes I see places on history or archeology shows and they try to say sacrifice and religion. I'm thinking Fighting arena and just getting drunk or high.

[@pollyb.4648]

As a trained archeologist it had always annoyed me that most everything found is assumed to be of religious significance.

[@megelizabeth9492]

Although, it is worth keeping in mind that the sharp distinction between science and rationality, vs religion and other spiritual practices and even magic is a very modern innovation. To pre-modern people, these distinctions would have been much more fluid, or simply not exist at all.

[@marilyncuaron3222]

@@megelizabeth9492 Well said--their ideas of cause and effect were totally different from ours.

[@davefoc]

Does anybody have any idea why this episode is not available on Amazon Prime? The other five episodes from series three are on Amazon Prime. I haven't seen Amazon pull a single episode of a season for any series that I've watched.

[@himssendol6512]

The way Carenza says “shut up” is so posh. I’d imagine Phil saying it would sound very different.

[@lucygray6162]

Oh that's rich, Carenza telling someone else to shut up.

[@OUigot]

Carenza needs to be told to shut every ten minutes, she rudely interrupts people continuously. When she tells someone else to shut up it usually means she's been proven wrong, yet again.

[@dann5268]

Having watched most of these shows I have to disagree!!! Carenza has as right to speak. She is a hard working professional!!

[@koggyb]

I find similarities between the Ulster Accent and that of central/eastern Pennsylvania.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

koggyb Northern Ireland or b3lfast as a better term as ulster =/= northern Ireland and there are diffrent accents in northern Ireland

[@ledacedar6253]

Returning is fun 2022 realizations of Tony's long, straggly hair, Stuarts awesome work & full head of darker red hair, Phil's flat stomach with the younger Mick; so exciting Time team is returning soon with a new, young cast OF EXPERT ARCHEOLOGIST'S! Will Phil return or Tony? Will their replacements live up to the fun, characters & Brit lingo?

[@DeborahParham-ve1vp]

Tony does but Phil doesn't. That's why I don't watch the new ones. No Phil equals no fun.

[@stannousflouride8372]

I used to take modern dance and tango classes at a disused building in San Francisco that originally been owned by the Sons of the Red Branch. I looked up the name but other than the fact that it was an organization of pro-Republican Irish-Americans the availabl information was pretty lacking. Now I know.

[@harbourdogNL]

28:46 And apparently there's the remains of a wall and doorway directly behind them...that they don't mention...

[@danielwhelan2397]

want to hear great Irish ancient history look up the Brehom law academy. or the Tu de dannan.

[@mikesemon7392]

Daniel Whelan Yep. I was hoping they would find something to prove it. The sons of Tuirean, Land of Tyr na Nog, the salmon of knowledge and children of Lyr are my favorites.

[@theknave4415]

Odd, that Mick is only four years older than Phil, but looks much, much, older.

[@Thirdbase9]

Viewers surprised that Phil found a flint axe? Zero. Phil would find a flint axe in a 1970s garbage dump.

[@emmadennis8680]

navan is in co meath or is there another

[@eimhingalvin8864]

Emma Dennis it's navan Fort, diferent places

[@eimhingalvin8864]

OMG that bronz Smith is a legend 😂😂😂😂

[@Oeyvind]

So much hair

[@Tsumami__]

Lmfao I'm glad someone said it

[@romelnegut2005]

+Nunatag1 Good one :)))

[@brianbaas8650]

😂😂😂 brilliant comment 👌

[@joequigley9212]

k

[@OldSkoolWax]

Ballydoo = Baile Dubh 'black homestead/townland'.

[@tphvictims5101]

I’m from the USA and I can’t help but notice how beautiful the land is. Also I am amazed there are not more trees and forests. Is that all food crops? Amazing history. 18:25 absolutely beautiful.

[@AnotherWittyUsername.]

Some are food crops, some are cow pasture and some are probably also winter feed for the cattle (Mangelwurzels and hay).

[@deetsy4jesus]

Tony said, "I find it hard to get excited..." 2 minutes later he showed us how bored he was! At 10:08 I wanted to slap him!! Don't get me wrong, I love Tony and what he represents on this show, but this clip made me laugh hard!!

[@nathalia65157]

+Donna Perez Haha I totally noticed that at 10:08! Normally he is quite vigilant in front of the cameras :)

[@heliotropezzz333]

Possibly a hot room combined with a hard night down the pub the night before?

[@louisenewman4074]

Paul holmes

[@louisenewman4074]

Donna Perez