The Archaeological Mystery Of St. Patrick’s 6th-Century Burial Ground | Time Team | Chronicle

One of Ireland's most sacred sites is where St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, set up his first church. On Cathedral Hill sits a magnificent church renovated from its medieval origins in the 18th century. the team look for the early monastic buildings where according to legend St. Patrick built a monastery and was buried. They are also digging up medieval finds, including roof tiles and glass, which indicate a high-status building. They soon identify the large double ditch which originally enclosed the monastery complex. A fascinating trip for the team as they traveled to Downpatrick in Northern Ireland to excavate one of Britain's most important religious sites.
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[@lazarusvo9584]

This channel is the reason why I can sleep and simultaneously escaping any responsibilities at night.

[@heatherdickau5335]

Me too. It is my go to comfort program before bedtime.

[@meeseification]

Me three

[@binkydonna]

hmm. lol

[@binkydonna]

so...going to bed is escaping responsibility? that sounds like a full schedule!!! Im glad you have this to sleep by. very fortunate. jeeez

[@SuzNbhollenberry]

Same! Calms my anxiety

[@dann5268]

Mick said he never made any money doing these weekend digs. so glad he and all the Time Team made the effort to make such interesting programs. RIP Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, lovely people whos good humour showed through.

[@a.azazagoth5413]

Robin as well. Such great people worked on this show.

[@cherylbrooks7005]

Love this show. it's like visiting old friends:)

[@nevillemignot1681]

On seeing this episode again after some years i can't help but think how Mick and Stewart would have loved to have drones to help them figure out the 'Lumps and Bumps' on a particular site. Instead of peering out the window of a helicopter, i can see them pouring over drone shots in the incident room.

[@jamescobban857]

They did survive until laser scanners, which see through leaves to map the surface to within a few centimetres.

[@nevillemignot1681]

@@jamescobban857 I don't know if saying this will illuminate my point more, but i do seem them getting drone shots from all over the site. But then zero-ing in on particular area's of interest with closer tighter shots for further investigation and then deciding were to dig.

[@Padraigp]

Im oretty sure they had drones back then. Theyve been around for decades. Maybe this show is older than i realised.

[@sandy-quimsrus]

Later they had the luxury of helicopters.

[@FlowerofDissolution]

In the never episodes, now professor Steward, is still part of the team and they are using drones for sure. Lots of more technical gadgets as well. Improvements for the geophys team. I love how these guys have become doctors and professors in their own right, though Mick will always be missed.

[@DonalLeader]

Finally I get to hear the voice of one of the greats of Irish archaeology and heritage, Peter Harbinson.

[@Awitsaduck]

RIP

[@derrickguffey4775]

I think my favorite part of this episode is in fact the music. I am a fan of medieval music especially and ancient music in general it has a rather calming effect on my mind.

[@Books_Anime_92]

I didn't know that this episode was filmed in 1997. No wonder everybody looks so young!

[@docnightfall]

You can tell early seasons by how long the intro sequence is. 😉

[@cdfdesantis699]

Time Team does St. Patrick! Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!

[@bethbartlett5692]

An Irish Subject!!! Yes! Irish American here ☘️ I want to go to Ireland and be with "My People"!!! 💚

[@debrah7548]

It was great to hear Robin’s lovely singing voice!

[@joshschneider9766]

RIP Robin Bush. He actually dies before mick did.

[@leslietarkin5705]

This is as always, a very enjoyable show. I love the old Gregorian chant and the harp music. They are very relaxing.

[@softanna27]

I thought I'd seen all the time teams from Ireland, so happy to find this

[@lizzy66125]

these early episodes are so much better.

[@VintageYakyu]

I find Tony Robinson's enthusiasm just delightful.

[@Yungtaterbug]

I believe Mick is the saint here for fixing johns glasses.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Loved that music. Beautiful. Love that harp

[@jacquelinepayne2012]

Very entertaining time team excavations, loved the singers.

[@robertabrito2024]

Happy Blessed Saint Patrick's day! ☘️🍀☘️🍀💚💚🍀☘️🍀🍀🍀☘️

[@jacksimper5725]

Love these old time team ,my theory is fact even though I have not one iota of proof to back my theory up syndrome.

[@jamesbingham4538]

Did Time Team ever market Mick's ionic sweater? I would love to have one.

[@1ACL]

It's from The Gap, I think. Maybe.

[@alleeum]

His wife knitted his iconic striped sweaters. ❤️

[@jesterboykins2899]

20:10 Robyn had a beautiful voice wow! Didn’t know he sang. Choir boy myself. Props

[@Engelhafen]

Good god google - less ads - the ads come like every two minutes

[@robertbernard6410]

God bless Ireland.

[@malahammer]

your god obviously missed Ireland for over 800 years.

[@Zine2me]

Cracks me up every time I see Victor "learning" how to use that quill pen.

[@jesterboykins2899]

28:20 Loved it

[@johnslaughter5475]

Very interesting. I have just read "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" by St. Bede, 731. Despite all of his mentions of Ireland, there is not a single mention of St. Patrick.

[@suellendelaney7458]

Another place with St. Patrick is the well just outside of Clonmel in z county Tipp. 💚💚

[@georgeosborn3223]

Joining us will be several musicians...

[@sandy-quimsrus]

Tony still sporting an earring!

[@erickdupont4503]

Imagine what they could find nowadays with Lidar stones and GPR, etc

[@jamesn4316]

Anyone know the name of the harp tune starting at 11:53?

[@michael5265]

You know it's been awhile tony has hair and it's not grey 😆

[@Kaz.Klay.]

Never been to Ireland n definitely not Catholic but hey!! it's almost Patty's day... Maybe catch some history n see some artifacts :-D

[@lindakynokephalos1136]

such horrible adds in a very interesting documentary, You tube stop interrupting programs with adds.

[@hanes_cymru_]

Saint Patrick was from Wales. He was a Welshman who, departing from Porth Mawr (whitesands, Pembrokeshire), arrived in Ireland because an angel had told him that the land of Dyfed had already been reserved for a man who had not yet even been born, Saint David (Dewi Sant), the Patrion Saint of Wales, as the story goes.

[@ivanolsen7966]

8:26 when why how the square current tower ?

[@seanpaula8924]

Time Team. The way TV should be. Not the drivel they show on American tv now days.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

This music is beautiful but, I cannot think of anything but Vikings storming a monastery.

[@bingsballyhoo711]

Isn't it possible that what you were looking for is actually on the nearby Mound of Down?

[@connorfullerton2626]

And a bottle of "Black Bush"to sip on to boot!

[@Official_King_Penguin]

How do these really old roads become covered in so much dirt? Is t from water pushing the earth over it or what?

[@katefinn6393]

Has anyone been able to date Mick Aston’s knitted rainbow jumper?😂

[@patriciadavis646]

I thought St. Patrick was buried over up on top of the hill called Tara. I remember seeing a show documentary on him and they found where he was buried at.

[@xotan]

Tara was a pagan site. the story, however, tells how Patrick came to Tara to face the High King and obtain his permission to christianise Irelan The High King was named Laoghaire (roughly pronounced Leerah). Atop the Hill of Tara there are extensive earth works. It is a very ancient site.

[@cynhanrahan4012]

@@xotan Permission? Hardly. Threats of and actual genocide are what gained "permission" to christianize. All you have to do is look at Anglesy in England for an earlier reference.

[@suburbanbanshee]

Quite the contrary. In Ireland as in most of Europe, evangelism was one guy with a few local friends, desperately trying to interest the rest of the country. The big difference was that Ireland had no martyrs, possibly because the hospitality traditions and permitted talking out of disputes traditions were so strong.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@cynhanrahan4012 It was the PAGAN Roman legion that went after the Druids on Anglesy. Human sacrifice was forbidden in the Roman empire. The Celtic Druids practiced human sacrifice. (Plus the Druids and the kings/ nobles were "on the same page" so to speak ... Both social groups supported each other against Rome and against the peasants ... when they did not comply. Capital punishment was not illegal -- Just so long as it was Rome that tried the person(s) and executed the person(s) The above is why the Temple hierarchy the Sanhedrin (the High Priest, Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees) had to go to Caesar's representative (i.e. Pontius Pilate) to request that Jesus be crucified. (Under Jewish law Jesus had committed blasphemy when he claimed to be the "Son of God" who would judge mankind. The penalty for blasphemy was death)

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

​@@xotan What do you mean, Pagan? Being non-Christian does not render one "pagan" .... it is just a church created example of discrimination, like so many others!

[@barbaracrain2975]

👍👏

[@drdem00]

This must have been before Lidar ...

[@troygaspard6732]

Hmmm, playing tennis on St. Patrick's grave.

[@jrmckim]

Is it just me or does robin look like a mixture of Winston Churchill and Herman Goring?

[@ducdejoyeuse]

It is impossible for the towers to be bell towers, for a start please explain were there is any room for a bell? Then as the entrance are above ground, why build it in such a way, when if it was a bell tower the entrance would need to be bigger, to fit the bell? ?

[@lellyt2372]

I don't know if I agree they were bell towers but he did say the monks went up to the top and rang the bells out the windows. That clearly means there was not a bell hanging there, just a high point to allow the sound of hand-held bells to be heard at a greater distance

[@brograb898]

I love you Tony Robinson

[@andrewfry6328]

I love the exaggerated running this guy always does

[@jrmckim]

As an American, I love when they go back to a time that used feet and inches aka imperial measurements. People give us crap for using it but its the Brits who started it. 😂 just a joke!

[@kerryhitzke4490]

Why is there no pottery from the Middle Ages?

[@aubreymellor1293]

why three days?

[@marknelson8574]

why 3 days?

[@swamp9136]

Anytime I see ol Tony I'm in it until the end

[@pentegarn1]

Was St Patrick even a historical figure? I tried to research him a few years back and I can't tell you where he was born or even where his grave is. It's like he's more like ST Christopher....a saint invented for need of a saint.

[@OscarDeltaSierra]

You can literally read his own letters today…

[@pentegarn1]

@@OscarDeltaSierra Yeah because the Church would never forge letters for or encourage the belief in a mythical person. I want a grave site...or better yet DNA. I believed in St Christopher almost all my life only to find out later it was all made up.

[@tgbluewolf]

@@pentegarn1 And how would any DNA be linked to him?

[@pentegarn1]

@@tgbluewolf It can't...fictional characters have no DNA last I knew.

[@eamonperkins8061]

comment 25th minute; salty !

[@artboxfashion4042]

Archaeologists: I have a phd to dig in dirt to find rocks and bones....

[@paulgraystone4919]

was slavery in ireland for life ?? or was it a set period of time as mentioned by the vikings.. hence patrick a english roman soldier when captured by the welsh an sold to the irish.. did not escape slavery, he walked free!!!

[@tedlawrence4189]

St.Patrick died after eating the last snake in Eire.

[@TomLeg]

Who is the person who thought it would be a good idea to soak a calf's skin in horse manure for a few weeks?

[@carolyneadams5386]

I think the difference are Diana was vulnerable. I don't see any of that in M. (I feel M is calculating).Diana stayed with the RF for a long time building who she would support (eg Aids and land mines) Diana did not attempt to commercialise the RF.. I'm not sure what ground braking support M or H have done. It seems they only get behind something when they can get some PR or an award (tongue in cheek) or there is a price tag. I could rant about this for hrs.

[@mandywalkden-brown7250]

Why are you babbling about this on this video which absolutely ZERO connection to your word salad?

[@carolyneadams5386]

@@mandywalkden-brown7250 Oops sorry wrong chat.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

St. Patrick and Roman catholicism almost destroyed Ireland. The Irish had one of the best legal systems, the Brehon, as well as their own Christian nunneries and monasteries. No discrimination or hypocrisy, religiously!

[@tgbluewolf]

Where did the Christian nunneries and monasteries come from, I wonder...? 🤔

[@danielleyoung1680]

The Round Towers ... what that you guys say...they were Bell Towers ? ? Nope never were they Bell Towers ! The Round Towers were there #1 first ..before the earlier structure of a Church , which was torn down and replaced with what stands today. These Round Towers were ancient...from ancient people..who had knowledge unsurpassed . The early Christians were mesmerised but these Towers ( which never had a cap originally), yet another Tower that was causing huge trouble for the Christians. The church was on the HUNT to locate them all within Ireland. Only a few still stand today in 2023. ( in original condition )... amazingly they do. The church couldn't get their grimly hands on them ! Cause they were ordered to be destroyed!! If ...if they couldn't get away with raising them to the ground, they were MODIFIED some capped, even windows- holes bashed into them. Explanation for some...ohh just old farm houses to store food and what not ! What was highly likely to have been where this church is today hides what was deliberately covered up, the church wanted to gather or be privy to a Power they couldn't explain . Paris France 🇫🇷 Notre Dame yes... there was another one of these Ancient Towers . GONE Interesting indeed

[@mariansmith7694]

Patty was a VERY WICKED MAN. We should NOT honor him...EVER.

[@suburbanbanshee]

A man who had no possessions, harmed nobody, and spent his entire life helping the people who had kidnapped and enslaved him. And you call him wicked.

[@alanbrady7116]

Asking the Irish not to honour him is pushing the boat uphill

[@karenfolan56]

Patty?

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

​@@suburbanbanshee You do not know the whole story.. He was the Judas Goat for Roma Catholicism!

[@lellyt2372]

who is "Patty" ? Seeing as that is a woman's name, I imagine it's not St Patrick you are talking about ?

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

Somebody needs to tell these Christian Miss missionaries that they need to be aiming his eyes for everything so that they don't spread infectious disease

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

I mean wake up you're going to third world countries these people most likely have diseases

[@derrickguffey4775]

Spread useless hated much

[@lellyt2372]

what are you talking about ? "aiming his eyes" what ?