Time Team S10-E04 Fetlar,.Shetlands

[@globalheart]

Bless Victor and Mick, won't we be missing them both forever !!? Victor's drawing makes the brooch, and Mick was ever the supreme presence, the kindly sage

[@tom23578]

Chubachus....from an American....you are so right!! And Annalisa...AMEN!!! This type of program should be what one sees on television. It is educational, interesting and done with an entertaining quality; so unlike the majority of television programming in America.

[@neeters5]

Does it make me an addict that all I want to do is watch Time Team?!

[@miked12191972m]

yes .......what night is group...im an addict too

[@Pauldjreadman]

You like the unearthing of history. So do I.

[@suecastillo4056]

My name is Sue and I’m a TimeTeam Addict...🙋

[@suecastillo4056]

RonApP SF Why yes... yes it does! Welcome to TTA!!!

[@ian_b]

@@suecastillo4056 ...I went a whole week without watching but last night I binged all night...

[@LilieDubh]

Love every Time Team, this one is a fav. Seeing the team outside of mainland Britain...love.

[@conorleeson-davis6666]

Get your wreck of a garden sorted for free and find out all this amazing brilliant stuff as well. Talk about a win-win situation. Brilliant episode - loved it.

[@michaelexman5474]

one of my favorite episodes

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@ian_b]

I've just realised how I can get my garden cleared. I just call Time Team and say I think there might be a Roman shrine under it!

[@sandilou2U]

Then John does a geophysics survey and informs you it's just a septic tank. 🤪. But, I like the way you think.

[@Libbathegreat]

I literally came to make this exact comment.

[@juliechi6166]

One of my favorite Time Team episodes!

[@baranduyn]

I was so moved by the look on the field archaeologists' faces when they realized the boat grave had been robbed. Not angry, just heartbroken. The idea that what was found may have been melted down for the metal and the rest either kept as souvenirs or tossed out...I lean toward angry, much good that does.

[@Deftonesdsm]

Well up untill modern times humans looked at the earth and ancient things as things meant for man to use. Even up untill 20th century before population exploded everyone viewed the earth as endless support for humans. This mentality is what gave us mummies for sale in egypt streets, marble covering pyramids building Cairo, and boat graves robbed for iron. I mean b4 modern times to find already processed materials saved you MASSIVELY. So sad yes but its how human culture has ebbed and flowed. I know if i was in nature just surviving and found thousands of pieces of iron pre forged id use them. Survival is so easy now of days our perspective has changed. So while yes its "sad" its 100% understandable.

[@jimjenkins673]

Awesome comment so everyone who watches knows the ending......duh

[@Gremriel]

@@jimjenkins673 Don't read comments while you're waching?

[@markx9623]

what are you talking about, idiot it's not even a spoiler .. just bullshit glad I watched it anyway ..

[@elenavaccaro339]

As a descendant of people who probably did go Viking (Swedish from Upsula area), I am saddened her grave was disturbed for financial gain. As an amateur anthropologist, I am very disappointed that the information this could have provided was stolen. Fantastic that they did find it was a ship burial!!!!

[@SuperFriendBFG]

In this episode, Phil taught me that Archaeology can be a lot like Jenga at times.

[@dinx556]

One of the best ever, almost makes me want to move to the Shetlands - almost...

[@north9603]

just had to notice the stone at 41:33, because i have used stones just like that used as weights for fishing nets, in Norway, fishing for halibut.

[@nickrich56]

... more TT here than anywhere else I've found. Thanks again RZ !

[@whatisanAyesha]

The brooch must've been such relief to find

[@erinobrien8408]

46:00 "It's like pineapple upside down cake!" Or as people in Australia call it, 'pineapple cake'... Or as Australian pineapples call it: 'The cayke of dith!'

[@elenavaccaro339]

As a descendant of people who probably did go Viking (Swedish from Upsula area), I am saddened her grave was disturbed for financial gain. As an amateur anthropologist, I am very disappointed that the information this could have provided was stolen. Fantastic that they did find it was a ship burial!!!!

[@holymags2495]

Fetler is where one branch of my family tree originates, exciting to think my family may have walked this very spot.

[@EgholmViking]

sigh, again it makes me homesick :D thanks for uploading

[@bethbartlett5692]

This is an Excellent Dig(s)!

[@lisatempleton987]

This was riveting! No pun intended.

[@PaulMahon-s8h]

But appreciate it😊

[@lilirehak5569]

This was EPIC!

[@ToriEnglishArtsandPaws]

Only Phil can sound so excited by a tiny boat nail XD

[@lyndashaffery979]

Really liked this ty for sharing

[@XploringKB]

I've loved discovering Time Team during Covid. But I do wonder why they did so fw Viking sites. Would have loved to have seen more like this one.

[@j.nilsson5362]

In Sweden, close to where I live we have a king’s grave that is a mound of stones. Search on google for: king's grave kivik

[@richardlawton1023]

One of Time teams best

[@BaronVonGordon]

Technically its only addiction if it is having negative consquences on your life you consider fairly significant. Like getting in trouble at work/school. If its causing problems in social relationships things like that. Otherwise, you must watch!

[@TallulahB58]

The best one yet

[@WashuHakubi4]

"We've taken Nick at his word. We're going to destroy his garden." If only Tony could say something like that when they're digging up the lovely lawn of Lord Snooty-Toot.

[@Jigger2361]

...toot toot!

[@dancingwithnature5303]

The same type of blue green schist is all around my gardens in NW Washington State, USA in the mountains. It's fascinating, the geology! We have a volcano nearby.

[@AlexGargilisChannel]

it was warmer when Vikings settled there

[@cleot151]

Good one!

[@tasatort9778]

I really wish people would stop lumping all the Norse under the name "Viking". It's unfortunate and I personally find it annoying. Norse is the broad name of a related group of Germanic peoples from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Viking is more of an occupation; a very small percentage of Norse people would go "a Viking" or raiding. It's like calling everyone from France "Cook", or everyone from England "Gardener".Sorry for the rant, I'm shutting up now.

[@jonathanday6692]

+TAsatorT Technically, "Viking" just meant people of the bays, same as "Heathen" means people of the heath. Raiders tended to be Viking because most targets were overseas, but forts and castles do exist inland. Those would have also been raiders, but they wouldn't have been Viking.

[@tasatort9778]

My point is lumping an entire people under a label that only applies to a relatively small percentage of that population.

[@jonathanday6692]

Very true. It seems to be a highly specialized label designating a specific professional activity performed by a specific people that spent well over half the time farming and most of what was left trading. So even for that tiny percent of the population, the label is true only a tiny percent of the time. So I think we're saying the same thing, just from slightly different perspectives.

[@tasatort9778]

I agree; Same thought, different words.

[@2l84t]

+TAsatorT Norse refers specifically to Norwegians. Norse Vikings invaded France and settled hence the area called Normandy. The Danes invaded England taking half, known then as the Danelaw. Russia gets its name from the Swedish Vikings who explored as far as Constantinople.

[@slhughes1267]

Have to wonder if the garden bowl was a bread trough: a large fairly deep bowl for kneading up your bread.

[@littledikkins2]

That is what I'm thinking, I have a cherrywood bread bowl that belonged to one of my great grandmothers. Grandma's cherrywood chopping bowl wore out about 25 years ago so I bought my own. Food processors just do not chop or mince well.

[@lisahunt5900]

I'm thinking not, because wheat or other grain flour would be in about as short supply as wood. I'd love to have one for that though! (modern, not robbed)

[@pseudonymoussmith2249]

Let's move the trench out 5 more meters. Sometimes just watching Time Team makes my back ache. HAHA

[@swedichboy1000]

21:45 The music reminds me of Uru: Ages Beyond Myst.

[@ImpmanPDX]

If you soak soapstone in water for a day or two before working it it becomes even softer and you can work it very delicately with less chance of unexpected flaking.

[@colinp2238]

Nick just wanted his garden dug really, the rest is just a bonus, but what a bonus. I'm sure that the red haired digger is Prof Alice Roberts probably not a professor at that time.

[@Whatareyouareyou]

"Big orange trowel" lol

[@catzenhouse]

Were there industrial-grade garnets in the schist? From the video "close-up" that went rather fast, it did appear so.

[@SandraNelson063]

This was riveting. Sigh. I'll see myself out.

[@lindasue8719]

Another great episodes. At approximately 40:41… New camera person? I was getting dizzy - it was like the way the general public tries to film using their phone.

[@OstblockLatina]

Mick's woolen hats were 100% made by hand by a non-professional. I keep wondering whether he knitted them himself xD

[@Bamboule05]

No, apparently time team fans do knit that regularly and send their art work to him. And he was kind enough to wear them

[@tammydriver5759]

Harald "Fairhair" is an ancestor of mine, 44 generations direct bloodline.

[@Seeker386]

Wow. That's some serious record keeping.

[@tammydriver5759]

@@Seeker386 I've been doing genealogy for nearly 40 years. Some lines I've gotten pretty far back. Others, I've run into brick walls after only a few generations.

[@willowscarclan]

@@tammydriver5759 I follow Herstory, the line of the mothers, which holds truer than paternity. Isn't it exciting to be living in the age of DNA! It's cracked genealogy wide open.

[@tammydriver5759]

@@willowscarclan I've never heard of Herstory.

[@ChristaFree]

I find it interesting that there was one native American tribe, located in Georgia on the coast, that did not make pottery. Every other tribe did. Instead they carved this type of stone. They also had spirals carved in stones similar what's found with viking artifacts. Those stones are still there today. I think vikings sailed further down the coast of N. America than what's admitted.

[@wewenang5167]

it could just be coincident.....many tribal community all over the world did not make pottery but used stone and wood instead. early Anglo Saxon for example did not make pottery but only used wood, stone and later copper alloy and iron cooking utensils. They only started making pottery after meeting the romans and celts.

[@ChristaFree]

@@wewenang5167 coincidence, by definition, is improbable

[@jcortese3300]

If they had stone nearby that could be carved as easily as soapstone, then that's all that's needed, really. They'd have just discovered it could carve well on their own.

[@BlackIjs]

Love Mick.

[@juttamaier2111]

I got the impression that Phil with his stubby fingers was working more delicately around the kiel than the lady around the brouch. And how can he not break his fingernails in this line of work. He's one of a kind.

[@Invictus13666]

As a fairly accomplished finger style guitarist, I believe you’ll find Phil doesn’t have “stubby fingers”...

[@jan-eriktrres3654]

The landshortage theory is not that relevant in the early 800s really. In Norway, the population in the beginning of the socalled vikingage, was only about 80 000 people. However, three hundred years later, the population was about 250 000. Then the landshortage theory becomes more relevant. And it was Norwegians that settled on these northern islands.

[@wewenang5167]

yeh they just raided and came there just for the sake of raiding and to get money and slave...no land shortage what so ever.

[@wynwilliams6977]

the 80 thousand figure is likely an underestimate and is really only one historians view, most peg it at around 150,000 rising to half a million a few centuries later, even at 80,000 there would not of been enough land for each family to have it's own farm or production area so it was natural to look outwards

[@Chubachus]

I'm sure American Discovery Channel thinks this is too intellectual for American audiences, the bastards.

[@michellearohde]

As much as I detest conspiracy theories, I swear there is a massive conspiracy to keep us (Americans) all as stupid as possible!

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Michelle Twidwell Still, US scientists get the most Nobel prizes in the world. But wait, that is of course some other conspiracy. A Scandinavian one no doubt.

[@tasatort9778]

+Ronald de Rooij It's them damned Cubans again!

[@samplerstitcher]

+Chubachus Lol...

[@bullettube9863]

+Chubachus No it's because BBC4 won't or can't license the program. If you're an American, you can't access content on the BBC4 website.

[@kiltymacbagpipe]

The audio always seems to get out of sync on some of these videos.

[@scarletfluerr]

So what? You want perfection go buy the vids. It's not like the rest of us haven't noticed but didn't bother to say anything.

[@billie-jobenway8658]

If a video is too out of sync I download it and play it on my Gom player. Gom has a huge amount of ways to alter a video and its sound and I can easily speed up or slow down the video to match the sound. Best of all it's free and easy to use. Best player I have ever found.

[@Jobotubular]

@@scarletfluerr - rather smug to assume it's available for sale everywhere; search for Region 1 DVDs and you find they aren't

[@bluewolf993]

Does anyone know who the discoveries belong to? Like in this episode the huge pot and brooch. Do the people who own the land get possession of these items or does the team retain anything valuable to then place in various museums or sell, etc.?

[@billie-jobenway8658]

Ay finds belong to the landowner first and foremost. However, if the objects, or multiple objects, like hoards, are very valuable or important to the country it is claimed by the crown and the experts place a monetary value on it. this value is payed to the owner. A great example of this is their video about the Saxon hoard. In this one a metal detectorist and the landowner share the cash but it principle is the same. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3nNmWuhgZWXbZo There are even more videos on it now. Find them with a simple google search for Saxon hoard.

[@jefflanam]

That's in England and Wales. The laws in Scotland are a bit different, I believe.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

Soapstone also known as Talc or French Chalk.

[@ruudjoo11]

I wonder why the boat grave robbers would have also taken the bones ????

[@CravingCanada]

Yes it does! And ditto to that!!!

[@danaringquist9730]

thanks for the post 6-16-2022

[@Hemulen40]

Go Vikings , go ! ( :

[@lizzy66125]

such a shame that the grave was robbed out.

[@davekinghorn9567]

Not only they found the Viking house... but people are still living in it.

[@deborahparham3783]

Not living in it, they're living on top of it.

[@ianwiliamson6972]

very green island it is.hundreds of people died there with smallpox in 1700s

[@0351nick-ch8ee]

Why not use geophysics or metal detecting initially ?

[@laurasimpson2870]

Is there a Time team Facebook group?

[@077jason]

yeah i am on it but ts not much

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

It’s getting better.

[@jb281723]

@23:45 someone get that cat off the piano

[@0623kaboom]

cats enjoy pianos because when played well they enjoy the relaxing vibrations from the wood of the piano ...

[@MyPoetik]

The name of this island is kinda clues

[@Seeker386]

That's a strange name.

[@fantastic7heaven]

No because it is like Christmas, you don't know what you are going to get (or in their case, find!) Everything else on TV is mindless crap.

[@brushbros]

"X" was the deceased's name of course.

[@Jean-yn6ef]

💚

[@harbourdogNL]

23:19 Sorry folks, but the Vikings WERE bloodthirsty animals, there are no shortage of records to attest to the fact, even Viking records. Yes, some did settle and become more domestic, after they had slaughtered the original inhabitants of the areas they invaded, but the savagery is no myth.

[@andershansson2245]

Like the Romans, then...

[@harbourdogNL]

@@andershansson2245 The Romans were much less so. They were smart enough to co-opt local chieftains and tribes who were at war with one another and either enlist one tribe against a more troublesome tribe, or subjugate both tribes so there was peace all around; they also (eventually) got the locals to see the benefits of trade with the Romans and leaving peacefully side by side; hence lots of inter-marriage and the emergence of Romano-British peoples. Not that Romans didn't lay waste now and again, but nothing like the Vikings (who eventually did become settled farmers again, which is what they had been before.)

[@J70a.m-zg6gi_wha0]

no common woman would have been buried in a boat she was a woman of standing.

[@peterbockholm3176]

"Permanent snow" It's Norway and Sweden, not Greenland. We do have summers here, and in the summer the snow melts all the way up to the north. Someone needs to do his homework.

[@0623kaboom]

dont feel bad americans still think canadians live in igloos ... but we have seasons too ... some people just dont bother to educate themselves or even bother to not continue a falsehood they no to be a falsehood.

[@Invictus13666]

@@0623kaboom Americans have what to do with anything at all here, you xenophobic twat.

[@markgarin6355]

Looks like his shirt says 'Status Quo'

[@roweng.4245]

On this and other episodes, they speak of "cleaning up" brooches and other metal finds, but no mention is ever made of examining them for mineralized textile fragments, which makes me a bit uneasy.

[@trbratt9941]

Another vid with sound out of sync. UGH

[@scarletfluerr]

Frequently it's done on purpose to avoid copyright problems. Seeing as you're not having to pay for these suck it up buttercup.

[@hellspite]

The audio went out of sync half way.

[@thomassurette6118]

Maine usa i found a viking long house

[@lindalawrence9351]

Why do they call every patch of bare crab grass a "garden"? Not one flower or flowering shrub.

[@bluewolf993]

Linda Lawrence In the US we just consider it a ‘yard’. ie The backyard.

[@nocturnal1097]

Just a different word for yard

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

Why are they not satisfied with the wonder that they have found without trying to fit it into a pattern of what they already know?

[@Deftonesdsm]

How the hell does phil deal with those long ass finger nails full of dirt all the time. I mean i work in dirt but cant stand it under my nails so i clip em short. That would drive me nuts

[@Deftonesdsm]

@SuperGrumpy1980 ah makes sense then

[@deborahparham3783]

Phil is a finger style guitar player. The nails on his right hand are long to pluck the strings instead of using a pick. The only time his nails are dirty is when he is digging in mud. Otherwise he keeps his hands scrupulously clean. Get over it.

[@melvynbraithwaite8563]

Check the Edda the Norske Vikings were Christians they sacked only the Catholic Churches MB Nyvlem Stone

[@citizen1114]

Darn....early grave robbers got there before the modern grave robbers.

[@hippymama100]

YES! A grave is a grave is a grave. Shouldn't be messed with.

[@amanofmanyparts9120]

@@hippymama100 The early grave robbers were thieves after treasure. The modern archaeologist is after something much more precious: Knowledge.

[@cargilekm]

Discovery channel has gone the reality not real tv mode. Such a waste of broadcast space. Soon History and H2 will follow and just as reality shows die on the regular channels. I miss educational entertainment.

[@RobynHoopergarner]

Googbye TIME TEAM GUYS. THANK YOU

[@franceslewis7214]

cargilekm After Time Team been cancelled and Time Time America failing after eight episodes there are a few shows or specials left but you have to look for them. Smithsonian, National Geographic and PBS are the ones I check online weekly for informative T.V.

[@cargilekm]

thankyou and it is nice to know there are places we can go to find intelligent entertainment.

[@1028dianemarie]

Love this series and love Phil, but dont be eating a snack when they show a close up of his fingernails!!!!!! Egads!!!!!

[@tubbytimmy8287]

7:15 - cut your damn nails!

[@6reve]

He's a guitarist.

[@hippymama100]

Those nails are darn handy for picking at detritus and scraping dirt!

[@Jigger2361]

... great, another "nail" comment --- the dude is a serious guitarist

[@deborahparham3783]

Mind you own damned business. Phil is a serious guitar player and uses his nails instead of a pick. All finger style guitarists have longer nails on their dominant hand and shorter nails on the hand they use on the frets.

[@dann5268]

Unless you are perfect you probably should withold your criticism especially since you are home on the sofa.

[@daginn896]

Hmm, they have no Clue about Scandinavian histroy.

[@Hippiemanthc]

Poor Mick,having to listen to Tony’s pessimism for years. Seems fair he have a go. I have to fast forward through all of Tony’s crap.

[@jeffreychurch2018]

Tony's pessimism is an act. He is making comments or asking questions the average viewer would if they could. He and Mick were actually very close, and when Mick and Tim Taylor were putting together the ideas for TT, 3 people Mick wanted were Phil Harding, Robin Bush, and Tony Robinson.

[@djmossssomjd8496]

Three quarters of a metre? Why not just say 30 INCHES!!

[@Seeker386]

Please tell me you are trolling.

[@gregpenny4384]

Because there are 195 countries on earth and only 3 use feet and inches, Burma, Liberia, USA, all the rest are metric, so that makes you an american in the minority, need I say more.

[@citizen1114]

Up to 13:40....why in the world would anyone in the Viking age waste that much iron? It was already made from the ore and just that fact would mean a massive savings in labor. Yet the bald hippie seems to think that they just tossed the rivets into a rubbish heap or a pile of stones in a cairn. No wonder these guys are on tellie instead of employed full time buy a museum of archaeology survey company.

[@Jdp-rl6zy]

Ethan Allen actually they are all employed as architects or at museums. That is why they only have three days. And they are all extremely prominent in their fields. And the bald hippie is Mick, my favorite. RIP Mick!

[@Jdp-rl6zy]

Not architects archaeologists.

[@johnmoss6631]

Ethan Allen, you degenerate the good name of EA. Something more appropriate for you would be Donald trump.