The Buried Ancient Roman Cemetery Inside A Dorset Hill | Time Team | Odyssey

Roman Cemeteries, bathhouses and more, these hills in Dorset have it all! Time Team are called in when a pig uncovers a Roman mosaic. What follows is an extraordinary slew of finds. Can Time Team uncover them all before their three days are up?
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[@SandraNelson063]

Time Team has never let me down. I'm currently in hospital, since Christmas. Almost 5 months now. Lots of pain and misery. TT has been carrying me through.

[@SonyaJeanette]

I hope you get better, hope you didn't get the jab!

[@Missangie827]

be strong Sandra-TT helped me through a health issue last year-

[@Raycheetah]

Here's to a prompt and complete recovery! =^[.]^=

[@susanchapman7332]

Prayers for a speedy recovery Sandra! Hope you see the end of your pain and misery

[@KaddyFeast]

Healing vibes to you. TT got me through lockdown

[@mchristiansen137]

I found Time Team during the first lockdown. It made the nights more bearable after a long day of staring out a window. Tony, Phil, John and the whole team were like walking in and finding a family.

[@sassyt1545]

How dramatic. 🎭😏

[@catpurinn]

How bitchy.🙄

[@Endle185]

Why didn’t u just go out side? U r free like the people in history. Don’t listen to a government, u r free like a bird. My life didn’t change. Saw all my family and never caught a cold.

[@erinobrien8408]

The Porcine Unit of Archeologists deserve a big round of applause! They located AND cleaned the tesserae! "That's some pig!"

[@perryg13]

Seeing Phil in the trench with the chickens made me so happy lol

[@lisakaz35]

He seemed to enjoy it. The novelty, perhaps.

[@charlesharper2357]

@@lisakaz35 Stopped him from saying "Stone the crows"!

[@shri081]

8:03… Even after all these years…Tony keeping everyone on their toes 😂😂… at John Gater an OG no less…man on a mission as always…god I love this show…

[@archygirl1750]

Phil and the chickens. Priceless

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Really cool to see the reenacted progression of burial customs through the history of the area! It's amazing to see how much funerary practices can change even within a single (albeit long-running and wide-spread) cultural bloc such as the Roman Empire...

[@phillipburke9522]

Phil Harding, a man equally excited by 2,000 year old artifacts as a chicken with a worm. 😆

[@christopherharris6145]

" Come on darling,,," is perhaps, my favorite Sir Tony quote.

[@SerDunk]

SIR Tony Robinson! Good ol' chap

[@peter4210]

I can't help but hear the black adder theme song when calling him sir

[@curnies]

Watching him excavate that little pot was soul healing. So gentle

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

I never comment but this show is sooo good. I hope you keep making shows from now on

[@michaela4024]

This is such a great program, I love Tony’s enthusiasm. I like how they recreated the different burial techniques used over time. Like other programs it makes the program so much more interesting, like when they demonstrated how a Roman snake bracelet was made or how they smelted iron. It must be amazing to live in a country that has been occupied over thousands of years with every age of people leaving their mark.

[@alienwerezombie6188]

Not a single chicken asked if they could enter Phil's trench. How rude!

[@CartoonHistory]

Watched an old time team yesterday featuring a Norman castle in some guys back garden... #lifegoals!!

[@lexiequinus55]

Wonderful work 👏 guys, love the Video's, just amazing thank you Team 😊

[@joshbeatty7211]

Absolutely love the show

[@cillieme4381]

Love the reruns . I just have the Willie's watching you do that mock burial poor guy laying in there.

[@Pinkgirl13]

Loved your documentary! It be nice if you could continue!

[@maxb4074]

This is a great episode thank you Time Team

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks for another great Time Team. And surprised me one I had not seen.

[@chrisbassett8996]

I love the way they reenact things and the artist is amazing.

[@peterjerchel4603]

Amazing Informative and entertaining! I’d love to see them do some extended digs for us😊

[@richmondvand147]

what gets me and I'm sure they get that sense too but just think about it. He is the first person to hold that little jar in 2000 years, a human just like us made that little thing and sat back in his/someone else's workshop and was satisfied they did a good job... it just shoves me right to that place where I can see it, I can feel what it was like and how they must've felt all those centuries ago.

[@Cadadadry]

Always a pleasure to rewatch that great tv-show. What I'm missing in this second or third broadcast so many years after beeing filmed is : was there any further dig or survey after TT 3 days, and is there a link to a website showing some results ?

[@delminoka]

Look for episodes posted by Time TeamClassics or Reijer Zaajier. those were posted a long time ago- and there are more posts about the episodes, more info etc

[@katerinakemp5701]

All reports and findings of TT excavations may be read at Wessex ArcheologyxSite for every dig they participated on. Happy reading.

[@dougvtx]

@@delminoka

[@catofthecastle1681]

Are you on a smartphone?

[@catpurinn]

31:32 LOL at "you cheeky devil" I absolutely love it!👍🐾😻❤😋

[@annamosier1950]

very good work

[@atkelar]

Random thought about the bronze age body position... it does require much less digging to make the grave if you put the body in like they did; besides the symbolism mentioned this could be a very practical reason: digging a deep hole with bronze age tools might have taken quite some time? Also given the fact that people don't (always) die when the weather is great for digging too, they might have used it to make the task of grave digging as simple as possible? Has some professional thoughts about that theory?

[@CostaWanti]

That is nightmare inducing🫣

[@dannysullivan633]

I thought the same just more practical

[@richmondvand147]

digging a hole with modern tools is a pain in the ass lol its why the army does it to punish people XD

[@bartadams2431]

the buried ancient Roman cemetery good shows

[@bradybrandenburg7422]

If they can find all that stuff with just three days to work with, just imagine what they could do with 5 days.

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Neat!

[@cindyrissal3628]

Please go back & dig more...the chickens are having a great time! 😁😉🐓

[@janicehill-es1br]

It appears someone could use lessons on depth of the soul and intelligence!!

[@bernardthebearbaiter9498]

the guy who got into the hole is metal as f

[@K1110.]

Excellent 🐓🐔

[@jameswebb4593]

Was there a follow up on this dig by T.T. ?

[@BETTEROFFDEADnz]

It’s crazy the amount of history buried in country’s like that and how humans had been altering the ground there for years

[@richmondvand147]

I mean most countries do but what really gets me is how casual it is, Tony walked onto that random farm field and went oh look here's some Roman pottery thats roughly 2000 years old just laying higgledy-piggledy on the ground.. bonkers

[@BETTEROFFDEADnz]

@@richmondvand147 not new zealand very much untouched in that aspect

[@llliden7724]

I feel for ya Jen. I have back problems, important to keep on moving. Does cortisone work for you? I keep putting it off. Jacob I have never been to the Biblical Wax Museum & have lived near & worked in Mansfield 40 some years. Will have to check it out!

[@earlatkins9559]

Season 11, Episode 13, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, Brimming with Remains.

[@katharinegarrison2568]

9:45. Victor’s head looks like it’s floating. Lol

[@jessemerrill6481]

Is it just me or does the homeowner look just like the actor Vinnie Jones?! The “yours says replica while mine says desert eagle .50”, probably one of my favorite roles in that movie!

[@Happyheretic2308]

I doubt the farmer is a yob!

[@roweng.4245]

Obviously, chickens do like archaeology - plenty of fresh worms.

[@ccccarriemchardy9216]

31.05, if you look at the clay that drops out of the beaker, there appears to be little clay bead shapes?.

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

Not a single word of concern about the terrifying erosion due to hundreds of years of ploughing... What is expecting to grow on those fields now the soil has gone forever??

[@johncella7931]

Anybody ever get that guy out of the hole?

[@lilirehak5569]

Seems to me the beaker in the burial would have been for a drink to get to the afterlife along with the pig bits and sword.

[@onemercilessming1342]

Why is Time Team limited to 72 hours?

[@MrMscotth]

The Buried cemetery? This describes most every cemetary on the planet.

[@dawngriffin3550]

❤

[@jadecarey4433]

I still don't know how they get all this done in just three days lol I'd think give it at least a week 😅

[@davidmunro1469]

If the chickens attack Phil the team will have KFP for lunch. Kentucky Fried Phil.

[@hanlens_on_hiatus]

Imagine having to dig graves in that chalk, I'd dig the smallest hole possible.

[@jameskearney4100]

I would have looked beneath the road.

[@mariahammarstrom7934]

Skip to 2:18.

[@Mr207terminator]

😂

[@SonyaJeanette]

My ancestors are from there

[@theoutofthisworldshow]

Awesome Video! please see mine on, the out of this world show

[@spymaine89]

Puppy , DID NOT WANT TO DIE. a curse on bad woman and her people.

[@thisisrenren3657]

The downside of Roman digs has to be tiptoeing around Guy's temper tantrums. He's so emotional 😅

[@jasonhare8540]

Just have this mental image of the pigs watching from across the street . "Hey , that's our discovery" ...

[@billyvan8362]

SPQR

[@riverlady982]

I'm not saying that their thoughts on why they buried people in that curled position aren't perfectly valid and possibly true too but what about how difficult it was just to dig a hole that size with their tools. Maybe it was somewhat practicality before the body began to stink to bad.

[@michaela4024]

Yes thats exactly what l thought when l saw that first example of a burial, they only have to dig half the length of a plot if the body was laying flat.

[@AchimEngels]

30:51 - oh no, that poor guy came a long way and was burried with earth and dirt from his home...they just said it was nothing.....

[@zonabrown9241]

Tony seems to delight in being awkward

[@cindyrissal3628]

They took apart the buildings that had the pieces available that they wanted for their project...

[@ivanolsen7966]

what happened to the farmers mosaic

[@taniagarciaduenas48]

(1492) la conquista del paradiso in la partenza della Nina della pinta è Santa Maria 🙏

[@Patrick_Cooper]

I don't know, but the burial of the lady and her beloved pet. At 66 years, I hope I live a few more, but I also have a little dog. If he dies before I do, I will morn him for years, If I die before he does I hope one of my son's takes him in and gives him the love I have tried to give him...

[@MrRight1000]

Roman cemetery? I thought that Romans burnt their dead 😯

[@deborahbaker4770]

They had Terrier puppies back then ??

[@Patrick_Cooper]

I know, My little boy Sarge, is part Boston Bull Terrier, and Jack Russel Terrier. He is the most wonderful, friendly dog I have ever seen. Built like a Jack, but his coat is Bossie all the way. Love my little Sarge. I hope he out lives me, because otherwise, I would be inconsolable until my own death.

[@teanus3412]

isnt a cemetery always buried? :)

[@dompiepom]

What’s with the green waxed coats I see people wearing all the time? Green coat with checkered insite. Not only worn by Carenza and Guy here. I see the same thing trough the whole series like a rash.

[@robbannstrom]

They're traditional British countryside windproof and bad weather gear, the best are made by Barbour. Not cheap!

[@taniagarciaduenas48]

Parlons du plus grand Empire romain byzantin La mer s'est répandue à travers le monde entre culture et religion politique Le nord de l'Islande fut un grand combattant pour la conquête du paradis (1492)

[@markgarin6355]

Could be the early bronze age they were put in so they had to dig the smallest hole they needed to. Hate too think they were that smart.

[@brandyrowleynanduri2626]

It could also be years of plowing in the area lowered the ground level. Some places the ground could have been much, much higher up when the burials took place

[@markgarin6355]

@@brandyrowleynanduri2626 referring to digging in rock hard chalk. The fetal position places them in the smallest footprint laid out on their side compared to the classic straight body in the coffins of the Romans.

[@ivanolsen7966]

37:55 ... " 6 feet " ! ? ...... no wonder women cannot reverse park that 3 feet at most

[@Ubique2927]

Nice to hear AD and BC. None of the new woke stuff that grates in the ear.

[@creolelady182]

May be they buried them in a fetal position to save space>

[@13coyote13]

Should have hired the pigs😀

[@MonikaEscobar1965]

It´s not Roman, it´s British! Welsh!