The Archbishop's Back Garden | FULL EPISODE | Time Team

Season 2 Episode 4: Did London's first Roman road cross the Thames at Lambeth rather than Tower Bridge? Join the Time Team for another dig into Britain's history.
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If the original Roman road into London crossed the river at Lambeth does this mean that Lambeth was the site of the original Roman settlement? The Time Team travel to Lambeth Palace, in the heart of London, to uncover the secrets of Roman London.
Time Team is a British TV series following specialists who dig deep to uncover as much as they can about Britain's archaeology and history.

[@thomashendrix4900]

If the History Channel still made shows like this rather than the obssesive amounts of reality shows on television. I would still be watching the History Chanel

[@dwightehowell8179]

Even reality tv beats Ancient Aliens and such garbage.

[@RickBoat]

8000years of history with 2000 documented vs 300 odd documented in north america and few urban sites outside of Cahokia etc means the US producers have so much less to dig.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

It was actually made by *Channel4* and shown first on *British* television. The *_History Channel_* just paid for the right to broadcast it.

[@davidsiler5505]

AMEN!!!

[@suwaidajalal]

Whenever I watch the History Channel nowadays, I feel like Christoph Waltz looking at his game show contestants on the SNL skit and saying in a disappointed tone, "What have you become?"

[@trinkab]

I live how that Bishop turned up and is like "there is nothing here but garden because we have records back to 1200!" And Mitch is "well, under that. There is history before your garden." And the bishop is like..."Oh. That? I guess so. "

[@Art4ArtsSakeVideo]

I love this very early episode so much. Tony's in fine form, offering gibes about digging up the Jubilee Line; the team's scoffing John Smith's bitters out of tins in the Archbishop's garden; the laptops are grinding to process just a handful of data points; and they're using a builder's tape measure tied to a brick to plumb the Thames. Oh, and I had a silk tank just like Carenza's and a cream linen jacket like Tony's -- which must be the daftest thing to wear while mudlarking on the Thames.

[@nanahand1959]

I found this series a few weeks ago and can't stop watching. I love it. Makes me want to be there digging right along side them. Tony when he had hair & it was dark, Mick & his rainbow sweater, Phil with his enthusiasm digging in the dirt and to everybody else that made the show fun & informative. Thank you everyone!

[@stevedawson8128]

I am so glad I'm not the only one hahaha

[@conniegarvie]

It happened to me, as well. I'm completely addicted. I save each video under History to watch them all again later!

[@frozencancukfinearts]

Tony's little story describing the use of a dead horse head to catch eels in the river Thames is delightful. Phil's reaction to the story while eating jellied eel is splendid.

[@chromosundrift]

And when the guy said "smoke 'em as well" does Tony say "Haven't got any papers"?

[@zeroDOTjon]

I love watching this show but the episodes from the 90s are the best. The old tech makes me laugh so much. Look at their phones and laptops! Look at AutoCAD! It's so great.

[@JohnVance]

This show is so damn wholesome

[@daehawk9585]

God that library is a dream. With the right books in there I could live in it. And look how young everyone was!

[@PaulRizzo504]

Got to love how this show just casually rewrites the history books ever time they dig. It is a very addictive show. Super surprised Netflix has not bothered to call you up.

[@Spartan265]

It's weird to think I was only 2 years old when this came out originally. As an American who loves history I'm glad I came across you guys. Our history channels gave up showing history years ago. It's a shame.

[@Dovietail]

Yep. History channel is pure trash. This is television gold--archeology for the masses.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

Exactly. I have been a Family Genealogy Researcher now for going on 28 yrs and found this program here on KZbin a few months ago and been glued to it ever since. since Genealogy, History, DNA and Archeology all come together.

[@adacox]

@@donnal.oglesby4806 …. Hey, not sure your location, but check out sidestep-adventures channel… they have a playlist called forgotten cemeteries. It might assist you in your genealogy endeavors.

[@IckyNeko]

Watching Tony go from a long haired "hippie that had to get a job" to "metro granddad that will steal your boyfriend" is fascinating.

[@stevennault5447]

I've always found British history fascinating, this show helped bring it to life...

[@weyjosh5213]

This show keeps me happy

[@RobBoudreau]

I've seen every show several times, and will undoubtedly see each one several times more. It's such a fascinating, entertaining and captivating show it's addicting. Thank you all so very much.

[@joshschneider9766]

Is this officially run by the production?! If so thanks for all you have done. It helps my depression.

[@TimeTeamClassics]

Yes this is the official channel. Thanks for watching!

[@joshschneider9766]

@@TimeTeamClassics to put it in Tudor speak may all your wishes be true may all your tapestries shine and may all your problems be swiftly solved :d

[@minimaker5600]

@@TimeTeamClassics I've always been fascinated by history and archaeology. So I'm staying home in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic and binge-watching starting right from the beginning. Wonderful stuff you Brits produce! Fun, too, to peek back in time as to clothes and hair :o)

[@joshschneider9766]

Tony did a bunch of other historyrelated programs as well if you find this interesting you will no doubt like the rest. Also honestly blackadder he's hilarious in it

[@minimaker5600]

@@joshschneider9766 Thank you, yes, I have started watching some of them. History has always been my passion, and YT has a buffet to pick from; so good in these troubled times. I watched a few minutes of Blackadder on YT; Tony is good but Rowan Atkinson doing his thing is a bit much for me.

[@junebyrne4491]

Time team is timeless.

[@ColtGColtG]

Dang, look at Tony all dressed up for Miami Vice. I love the video archeology you can do watching some of these early episodes lol.

[@rknowling]

I really enjoyed the thrill of uncovering the solution to a mystery from Robin Bush's work in the archives.

[@wanderwiththeworkmans8643]

This episode is the Miami Vice of Time Team

[@Madlyshort]

They don't leave the helicopter?

[@Liquessen]

Thank you for uploading these. Time Team is my go-to show when I am feeling down or just bored, because I just love these excited nerds in all their nerdy glory!

[@jackkuppens8582]

Best ever show on TV love it and still watching it as much as I can

[@tomtinkersrezlife278]

Miss this show I have binge watched all I could find but this is the only channel that has them in HD and the love it it's like seem them for the first time

[@Alexx.winter]

Timeline also have them in HD.

[@motorcop505]

It was very cool of the London Fire Brigade to help out with their boat! It really reflects great credit on them to help on very short notice.

[@williamharris8367]

Who else loves Tony's white linen jacket? I remember really wanting one when they were in style...

[@kacperpluta3036]

They never went out of style :-) Linen jackets are a must in South Italy, for example. They are perfect for a hot climate. But I am afraid, Tony as many times before got the size of this jacket wrong. It looks too big and rather sloppy on him.

[@emilychb6621]

@@kacperpluta3036 That's just 90s style, the linen jacket a size or two too large

[@loricarter2394]

I love learning about British history, even if I’m American, lol. I love watching anything that has to do with archaeology and paleontology, etc, and the Time Team just makes it even better!!

[@nancymills1884]

Tony looks so Don Johnson/Miami Vice in this episode. Phil looks like a young dirt digger, and Mick strutting about so easily. I am glad I can watch this episodes now.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Phil looked so Young, and had such a sly little smile. 😁 ...we know he's anticipating Happy Hour! 🍺

[@nautifella]

Phil is a trooper. I gagged at the _thought_ of pickled eel. I assuredly would have spewed if they waved it under my nose.

[@emilychb6621]

Unagi sauce in Japan was originally made with fermented eel as well. And fish sauce and garum, and even Worcestershire sauce include rotten fishies as well.

[@rizzijulia7304]

I would never touch eel myself, not after my grandfather told me they were all over the dead bodies floating in the sea after a ship sank in WWII

[@RKHageman]

They’re fish.

[@catzkeet4860]

gotta love the high tech techniques....a tape measure attached to a brick LOL

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

and it worked quite as well as anything else + it was cheaper.

[@Mandark4ever]

I'm in the US and I just found this show love seeing old ones the host had hair

[@nemo6686]

Time Team's great for giving us insights into ancient artifacts and culture: Hofmeister Lager and Tony's Miami Vice styling - the past is truly another country.

[@philipross2013]

Just what I was thinking , Sir Tony with his Miami Vice white jacket on , I mean really !

[@nevillemignot1681]

Yes Tony's looks very Miami Vice-ish in the early part of the show, but i don't that it improves him at all!!

[@johannaholmgren8088]

When Tony says "Gormenghast" it took me back to when I was in my early 20s and an English (ex) boyfriend lent me his trilogy. In all these years, I've only ever known one other person who'd heard of it and read it.

[@doriWyo]

Watching the early episodes, it is interesting to see how much everyone has changed, or not, in 20 years.

[@joshschneider9766]

My how the computer tech has improved since this first aired too lol

[@hydranmenace]

Love the archaeology starting right away. That ancient "paper map" thing was amazing. :P

[@Ptrhairis]

Love this show, thank you so much for officially uploading them. This episode contains an especially special moment: Mick's face around 13:05

[@josephmiller997]

Yes, I didn't feel like he cared for the Bishop overmuch.

[@JorisKoolen]

Haha, thank you for pointing that out

[@roxysimmons]

Joseph Miller Mick was atheist 😁

[@josephmiller997]

@@roxysimmons Of course! But something else was going on there. He didn't mind if other people believed differently. He was perfectly sweet around all the other priests and vicars I've seen him work with on TT.

[@roxysimmons]

@@josephmiller997 absolutely - he was a lovely man.

[@christinemoir5510]

Great to see this on youtube. Needs to be back on TV.

[@gnarshread]

I absolutely love the end of day libations.

[@CaponeCabin]

Tony's Don Johnson 80"s look....classic

[@stephaniebake417]

I love you all!! So awesome that this is wholesome and interesting!! Bless you all!

[@Arthagnou]

The kids in this video are in their 30s now....time moves swift and without mercy

[@CanChikMay]

Such a young time team!!

[@papaquonis]

Even with so finds few finds, it's still a fascinating episode!

[@Mandark4ever]

Also I'm sure this has pushed this show to the max and now has so many views

[@RobKoelman]

Look at Phils hat: still immaculate! Looking at later episodes, he must have worn it for at least 10 years before he got a new one (I remember some episode in which that fact is mentioned).

[@rizzijulia7304]

And domehow I think that old hat is still in his home, he just got a bew one for the camera...

[@paulstan9828]

Always super interesting to watch.

[@CanChikMay]

An episode that i havent seen? Wow..amazing.. thanks for uploading this classic

[@christopherderrah3294]

A sand bar can change in a few months, as its location is based on water currents. 2000 years later it would probably be very different.

[@joshschneider9766]

Mi5 is literally next to a fortress near a Roman road. Cozy indeed lolol

[@Gremriel]

Gotta love these ancient software versions on CRT monitors and monochrome laptop displays :)

[@cdd4248]

The Archbishop of Lambeth - very fancy!

[@fivizzano]

we all miss Mike ... a great great person

[@auntieruthwarrick2191]

Yes I wish we had some of this in the States

[@PtolemyJones]

Tony seems so young here, he reminds me of Marty McFly.

[@troywhyte9103]

So.... is this Sir Anthony Robinson working through his Su-Sussudio Phase?

[@ColtGColtG]

I think it's more his Miami Vice phase.

[@beerbread]

Fascinating! ❤️

[@TheBunzinator]

The notion of using the sandbank between Stangate Sairs and Thorney Island as evidence seems a bit wrong to me. A river is a very dynamic part of the landscape, and for a sandbank to persevere in the same place for 2000 years seems a bit if a stretch to me. Of course, I'm not a potamologist, so I'd be happy to be educated on this.

[@cawfeedawg]

Love Tony's comb-over..

[@Schmorgus]

FYI, "steingate" translates to *stone street* in modern norwegian.

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

Gate is a narrow passage, not a street. Ja 😊 In English, Dutch, German and probably also in Norsk.

[@Schmorgus]

@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 well. It's closer to street. A small street among houses kind of thing. Norway says gate. Sweden says gata.

[@emilychb6621]

@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 Gata is a small road in Swedish.

[@emilychb6621]

@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 And what related word to gate is used in German? The word for gate is Tor, which isn't the same as gata.

[@mickimicki]

@@emilychb6621 Gasse

[@thaifreeburma]

Palaeo-topography (prehistoric landscape) is a term geologists are very familiar with; given the new land-surface surveying techniques being employed in archaeology there's room for a new term - archaeo-topography

[@AvaT42]

Fascinating!

[@KCsFunHouse]

This has to be from one of the first seasons, look how young they all are.

[@brandonpliskin2310]

No it’s actually season 18

[@deborahparham3783]

​@@brandonpliskin2310No. It's season 2, episode 8.

[@deborahparham3783]

Oops. Season 2 episode 9.

[@liamhoward2208]

Enjoying a pint at end of day

[@cosmicgoatlady6957]

There are roads today in parts of Michigan U.S.A. that have a log base. Very common in the timbering days.

[@rizzijulia7304]

And guess where they learnt it from...

[@kcsunshine4008]

Excellent

[@edsimnett]

On Google Maps a line straight up the Old Kent Road hits the river at Waterloo station, a few hundred yards north of Lambeth Palace?

[@adacox]

37:39 I just spit my coffee on my screen 🤣

[@philipross2013]

Ha ha , at 25:13 chap digging is called Barney , would that be Barney Rubble ?

[@rizzijulia7304]

Yeah, about those eels. My grandfather told me that during the second world war, when they collected the corpses drifting in the sea after a ship had been sunk, they were full of eels as well. He never touched a dish of eels afterwards, and its not served in my family ever.

[@elfeneule103]

I really love this series, but today showed again that they could have saved themselves some digging if they would have let Stewart do some reseach beforehand.

[@manbearpig13211]

I feel like Mick and the Bishop had more to say

[@JohnHerring]

I just realized that the footage around 29:08 is actually reversed. Boats and cars traveling in reverse.

[@peters7196]

How did you persuade Phil to drink a can of John Smiths? As a real ale man he probably hated doing that!

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

Probably with the time honored - it's wet, cold and available - trick

[@douglasruss2889]

Bravo !

[@Russia-bullies]

Barbarians:”We’ll hit the you ancient Romans while you’re travelling on your roads.” Ancient Romans:”Our roads are 60-66 foot wide.” Barbarians:”Omg!Some of your combat formations can fit in those.” Ancient Romans:”Yes.Hee.Hee.” 😀

[@fernandodoria8717]

I'm surprised they did not use historical and digital Hydrographic Charts of the Thames to help them.

[@gwadja]

Episode 8 (Season 2, Episode 4) The Archbishop's Back Garden, Aired: January 29, 1995

[@cs_fl5048]

REminds me of the streets in Prague.

[@ShalomMichael]

First time seeing this episode. Wow, they all look so young. Mick "The Dig" looks more like a hipster before the term was coined. Check out that beard. So enjoy this program. Glad to see that they are coming back in 2021.

[@ritialydia]

Phil is my best pirate hero eveeeeerrr.🤭

[@serenagrisdale6969]

I wonder if Phil every meet a wife fro making this show. In his day he was pretty cute 🥰 with a nice and strong 💪 lol

[@townview5322]

Mick, on his best bevaviour, "Jolly good." Pricelss. I wonder if he kicked himself afterwards

[@peterebel]

I'm just here for the geophysics and that ERT has made my god damn day. Month. Year.

[@Stephen-cr3sc]

Watching this, London has a huge problem developing. Rising water levels are going to wipe out several structures along the Thames river. They may need a lock system to maintain a lower water level.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

I've been there!

[@rocketbackhander6280]

Tony had so much hair!

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

They're all sitting in the garden at the end of the day. What! Couldn't they find a pub?

[@kbsltd11]

I like how he is drinking all the time. It makes we wish I had enough money to drink sometimes.

[@emilychb6621]

Start making your own beer. Only need some sort if grain, and beer yeast, though you can use bakers yeast. Before the 14th century, in my native Northern Germany, beer was brewed with oats and without hops, and local herbs for flavour. So you could make mint or fennel beer etc.

[@edherdman9973]

Quite a few stutters in some of these episodes - example at 3:52. Not just on one device or corrupted file, either. Is a time base corrector being used in the capture setup? Also, Carenza was right - Bernard Davis finding the road with his first trench was too good to be true!

[@BoBandits]

Tony is so young. And Mick..

[@adizmal]

Phil trying to keep that eel down... omg yuck lol

[@deborahparham3783]

Too bad he didn't barf it back out on Tony. The little weasel deserved it.

[@ivanolsen7966]

32:30 .... why are the cobbles NOT on a diagonal to the road ...... so wheels don't make ' rutts .... and why are they so far apart

[@grandperesdream3183]

Were one to dash a great pot of spaghetti onto the floor, the result would resemble a street map of London...

[@sarahkienzle9965]

Approximately what was the original recording date? Or at least year?

[@karenq8255]

The first series was 1994. Has to be then into 95 or a little later. I can’t remember when Tony cut his hair. You can count seasons dating back to 94.

[@karenq8255]

Watch downloads by searching time team season 1. They’re all labeled as to seasons. Easier to follow

[@georgedorn1022]

It was recorded on 8th-10th July 1994 and first broadcast on 29th January 1995.

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

So how old you reckon those Kids are today? Mid-Late 30ies?

[@malcolmformosa1772]

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[@stephenconnolly3018]

The archbishop looked very confused but then they don't get the job because their IQ.

[@vonries]

That's really cool idea, but can you prove it for sure? Or is that your best guess?

[@angrybird9925]

GEO PHYS is just the beginning

[@chinamanjw]

Corenza🥰🥰😍

[@williamharris8367]

Sigh.

[@ralphbranham8663]

Everyone had more hair and less gray , lol .