The Extreme Excavation Under River Wye | Extreme Archaeology | Absolute History

The team travel to the river Wye to investigate a strange formation that only appears at low tide. Conditions are a terrible combination of sucking mud and extreme tides. The team's goal is to confirm the formation they can see is part of a bridge built by the Romans during their invasion.
Led by three fearless archaeologists, the team explores some of the toughest and most inaccessible regions to extract unique historic artifacts. Dr Alice Roberts, Katie Hirst and Dr Meg Watters will use their physical and mental guile to uncover untouched prehistoric sites.
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[@mtmannh]

We have these new inventions called mud boats. Amazingly they are designed for just such places as these. I agree with Sheadi, inefficient waste of time & too much drama.

[@pozzee2809]

Archeology in its essence is disturbing history. You didn’t have to actually walk out to know you were going to get stuck. Going out in a boat and sitting until low tide was obvious. Going out so unprepared is really quite outrageous. And thank “goodness” the “men” got involved 🙄 Too bad they didn’t know how to do a preplanning risk analysis.

[@sheadimods2709]

This seems to be the most inefficient method of getting over the mud and only done for the drama.

[@Fetguf]

Could'nt agree more with you. I can easily think of at least 10 other ways to get there, without getting stuck in the mud. Paddleboard being the cheapest, and a crane or lift being the most expensive. My first reaction was " What yall doing", I mean I know Alice Roberts to be a more than intelligent woman, but this is just stupid. How do you think the romans got out there? By sending out slaves, until they could walk out there on top of them...?

[@s1nb4d59]

I agree to,laying down plywood sheets could have gotten them out there for an assessment at least,that guy just made bad decisions,almost to make it hard for them.

[@The.Talent]

This is exactly my thoughts

[@ianobrien3248]

Hell, put on snowshoes at least!

[@emmettbattle5728]

@@ianobrien3248 that was my idea, i just thought i was an idiot and it wouldnt work so thats why they didnt do it.

[@Nathan-gn3ls]

Are any of these people actually qualified? These are definitely not Time Team caliber archaeologists here.

[@Ugnaught82]

Dr. Meg Watters was on Time Team America and Dr. Alice Roberts was on Time Team as a consultant. Both are very qualified. Blame the silly writers and directors.

[@emmettbattle5728]

this is clearly the kind of program meant to help people who arent normally interested in this kind of thing to get engaged. yes it was for entertainment and kind of a waste of time, but it is an educational entertainment program and they tend to have lots of stuff thats just for the fun of the viewer.

[@rosecowan7153]

Katie Hurst has been on Time Team a few times. But this has loopholes like where is the initial riverbank piles.I have seen 4 Extreme Archaeology programs and they are all about the same, kinda weak and quite old

[@componenx]

The team is qualified, except for their fearless leader- he's a few femurs short of a skeleton. ;-) It's the directing that sucks. Time Team also went downhill near the end by trying to make it more "mainstream".

[@73Datsun180B]

Well of course not, none of them drink for starters!

[@0kev1n0]

Over 40 minutes of mucking around in the riverbed... Then they just send a dude with a chainsaw and pull a sample in the last few minutes. I think I actually lost braincells from this "educational" show.

[@m0L3ify]

Thanks for that, after I read this I just skipped to the end. I was wondering how much blundering they'd do before they got to the actual job. But the actual job only took a few minutes of video and wasn't nearly as "extreme excavation" as "omg people could die!!" Such rubbish.

[@Honorsprenn]

@@m0L3ify To be fair.. they where trying to avoid the chainsaw to preserve as much as they could. it was the last option, they tried a handsaw first.. the walking in the mud did seem like a waste of time but they quickly switched to rigging the pully system after that

[@HistoryUniversity]

Everybody talks about Rome's military but we should never forget that they were also the best engineers.

[@johnree6106]

It is why they had such a good military if I remember correctly they are the first military to have an engineer brigade a unit that was just about building things like bridges quickly so the army can advance.

[@wo7925]

With Greek math as their best tool

[@paulmanson253]

@@johnree6106 Well think it through. Building a road with only the simplest of tools is even more gruelling than traditional farming. By the time the bad guys show up,getting into armor and killing someone would be a relief. And I grew up ,North end of the Fundy basin. Mud like we see here really is a killer. Putting a Roman bridge in there,wow just wow. I remember watching an old guy using mud shoes,basically like snowshoes,digging for quahogs. Big clams. Even he said,be careful. None of us even thought of going out into that crap. Once a year,using nets for Gaspereaux fish was legally allowed. At the weirs that separated salt water from fresh. Tasty but full of bones. Falling into brick red mud was the risky part of it. And relentless mosquitoes. Building a stone bridge ? Well,happy to watch,but not me,no thank you.

[@edi9892]

I honestly would hope that someone gathered somewhere instructions for how to reach a Roman level society in case some of us survive WW3... Because I highly doubt that we would be able to restore our society before too much knowledge is lost in order to repair the infrastructure and industry...

[@alecblunden8615]

@@johnree6106 Every Roman milites was an engineer and was equipped to build forts and roads and derivatives thereof.

[@chrishoeft4166]

This looks like a Pilot Episode of a new series called "How to Look Real Dumb, Real Quick" lol

[@wo7925]

Part of me thinks they purposely chose to walk through the mud than finding a more efficient way to cross/bypass it.

[@shopshop144]

Yep, three 'girls' stuck in the mud makes for better video then just one.

[@prechagirl]

A boat would have been better

[@philippelaurent3776]

Or a bunch of plywood board lol

[@EpicUwU_]

They could have just put flat wooden panels down and just walk across. The more area the less it will sink, like snow shoes.

[@mermeridian2041]

But that would have been nearly as sensational... Common sense and boards with scaffolding would have been too boring.

[@dollybelfiore7628]

LMAO! I kept yelling, "Row out at low tide... Row back at high tide!" It was a cool find though.

[@Pest789]

We had a tidal mud flat similar to that near my house in Anchorage Alaska. It's literally impassable with no equipment, but a sheet of plywood makes it behave just like a slippery sidewalk. You can even use the plywood like a boat and a pole to push yourself along. I thought of trying plywood when I was 12. Am I that much more intelligent than these scientists, or is the whole segment just for show?

[@brianoneel514]

They discuss -- pretty early on -- why plywood wasn't an option.

[@j.b.4340]

We used to traverse Louisiana mudflats with a pair of boots called “Mudders”. I could run across mud that would swallow me whole. But, I was after ducks.

[@JETWTF]

@@brianoneel514 And their reasons were absurd. Plywood would harm the site less than their first attempt to reach it and you can tie clothesline rope to the plywood to retrieve it. Don't even need to drag the plywood to solid ground, just anchor the rope and the current would do it for you while your eating lunch.

[@mariashelly4812]

Plywood is what we used! Yep. It sinks eventually with use but you can walk, crawl or sit on it until it until it does.

[@private15]

the initial attempt certainly looked like it was just for entertainment

[@wayneparris3439]

I am retired now but in my career in Aerospace, I used that equipment daily. The single station Theodolite is the least accurate tool we had. It would have been very easy with other equipment to get an exact location of the site from the bank without the Stadia rod. They clearly were ready and had planned to use a zip line and Bosens chair from the beginning. The steel structure they used on their side of the bank clearly shows the pre-planning for the zip line equipment. A much easier way would be to have been to use a wide-flat bottom boat and position it via the single station directly above the site. The tide will drop the boat down on to the mud then lift it up again at the end of the time all with the people in perfect safety. . This show clearly was edited to show drama, real life "on the job" is not so minute to minute drama loaded. I am not saying it was not fun to watch, it was but like most "live drama" shows, there was more involved.

[@haegarvonelz2451]

♥️👍

[@shopshop144]

Rent crane. Crane as many people as you want out to the rocks in 5 or 10 minutes, and do that twice a day.

[@ianobrien3248]

Nahhhh... Shoulda used Jetpacks.

[@nckoes]

@@ianobrien3248 would have been more practical than what we saw.

[@daneast]

The also directly demonstrated a better alternative - they could have beached the kayak on the feature and accessed in that way. One or two additional support kayaks could have handed off equipment to the person on the feature. If they excavated the road further from the river it would be out of the flood zone, and they could have found more intact artifacts like the pottery and things they were looking for.

[@tylerhensley2312]

Yeah I'm confident that whomever built that bridge walked straight through the mud... 🤦 This was incredibly hard to watch the stupidity unfold.

[@rickfordmorningstar130]

"we can only work at low tide for an hour "Katie's been in the mud over an hour" Quick maths don't add up.

[@lyfandeth]

Snowshoes (do you have them in the UK?) Or geocloth rolled down to the site would significantly reduce the mud drama. Or, you securely tie two flat bottom jonboats, paddle them out at high tide, and there you are at low tide. Stack the boats one inside the other, so even if the bottom one gets stuck in the bottom, the upper still floats up free.

[@MickAngelhere]

You gotta admire Kates dedication

[@poelmeister]

So, like, putting a few wide planks on top of the mud never crossed your minds? Astounding.

[@Pops1970]

If this isn't this biggest Time Team ripoff I've ever seen...except with Time Team, they actually accomplish something

[@GraefinO]

Why don`t they use a rubber boat to come over to the mud?

[@eyerobot6622]

Why not set up an anchored pontoon deck with a buoyed support bridge? It would float up with the tide, and keep them out of the mud

[@theautisticpage]

That was my first thought. Then carry a few sheets of plywood to work on.

[@parrotraiser6541]

"Forensic" means "legal or relating to law". It's not necessarily related to medical or scientific analysis. Going to the site in a boat when it's under water, then hopping over the side when the tide goes out would be easier. If there's a bridge there, there ought to be traces of the road on both sides. Work gloves ara a really good idea.

[@bananapeaches6370]

I enjoyed this one immensely, thanks for uploading. Also 45:47 I love the colour coordination... red hair in a plait, red sunnies,dark shirt. Dark hair in plaits, dark sunnies, red shirt. 😂 The little things make me smile 😊

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

I love this, thanks. It’s - How to make archeology an extreme sport 101”.

[@Jessiesutherland]

The engineering skills were outstanding in Roman times. Well done guys on your quest to find it all out. Exciting..

[@celticphoenix2579]

An experienced climber and caver didn't think to tell them that they need to effectively slide over the mud on a raft propelled with a stick, or else lay down boards to walk over so their weight is spread out over the sticky mud?

[@PatrickMHoey]

Should have called the Time Team boys in for this one.

[@componenx]

Phil would have told them walking wouldn't work, and Tony (as Baldrick) would have said "I have a clever plan...."!

[@stevemcelmury4618]

Love the jazzy, pounding music as the two boys paddle swiftly across the river just ahead of the treacherous onrushing tide over the deathly quicksand. These documentaries are going to attract bright, vigorous young people into the field. These gals should all be awarded some fancy medal at Buckingham Palace. Nice job, the whole cast & crew 😉

[@wcronin7307]

The coast guard patrolling the Thames River use inflatable platforms to rescue people stuck in the mud. This is what they should have used to form a kind of path down to the river.

[@Kaziklu]

I'm guessing this is early 2000s lol The clothing is very very early 2000s. I also can't believe that it took several days to think... boat... they literally thought.. walk through chest high mud before boat.

[@componenx]

2004

[@ross.venner]

Perfect application for a small hovercraft...

[@timsbitsca]

Congrats to the whole team. Is there a 2nd part to the story, I would love to see a follow up. What a great story, I wont ask how much it cost.

[@timsbitsca]

Did you or are you planning on finding the road on the other side of the river, that would be conformation. I was able to find your site on Google earth.

[@KeithMinnion]

So glad to see what Katie Hirst is doing these days!

[@componenx]

This was from 2004, so it's not new.

[@stephengardiner9867]

So contrived and choreographed that it is difficult to watch for any length of time.

[@robertgutheridge9672]

Why didn't they lay out a walk way of ply wood anchored down so it didn't float away with the tide. Work smarter not harder

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

The can not put structure over the site it might damage it.

[@robertgutheridge9672]

@@CreatingwithWinglessAngel DUH you just put it around it.

[@johnirby493]

You know, they've invented boats that can easily access the location.

[@lazyorangehousecat9164]

I love Katy. Scared to do it but does it anyway. That takes nerve.

[@MON383]

Wow... Could have slid down there in the kyak with a battery drill and core bit, plotted it with gps and been back on the bank in a few minutes... Perhaps they should get the old time team in to finish the job

[@rogerscottcathey]

Be interesting to see the landsat images of the area

[@victoriacervantes9239]

There’s no reason to advertise archaeology as some sort of extreme sport adventure. It’s already plenty fascinating all on its own. There’s no need to tromp through the muck and endanger each other in a riverbank. Why not try walking across some wide ply wood? They’re being extremely silly with this mud marching attempt. It’s a very obvious reach to make “content.”

[@ElysetheEevee]

They brought those points up though. I first though about building something weighted that could be easily slid over the mud to hoist someone down or a zipline, as they ended up doing. I do agree that their other attempts with floundering in the mud and such was just very poor planning and done for the sake of entertainment. I don't doubt that area can be extremely dangerous but still.

[@ElysetheEevee]

They brought those points up though. I first thought about building something weighted that could be easily slid over the mud to hoist someone down or a zipline, as they ended up doing. I do agree that their other attempts with floundering in the mud and such were just very poor planning and done for the sake of entertainment. I don't doubt that area can be extremely dangerous but still. Edit: fixed a typo

[@N1RKW]

This looks like a nearly perfect job for a small hovercraft.

[@DreamBelief]

@@MichiganPeatMoss as someone who has tried it - trust me, they don't work on mud like that. You get stuck in an instant

[@theresabraddock9310]

it wasnt entertaining either to watch if thats what they were going for. it was stupid and you wonder whose idea that was anyway

[@esbliss13]

Why didn't they use a sawzall instead of a chainsaw? If they didn't want to damage the wood there are better options. I'm not even going to mention the stupidity of the zipline, I'm sure the guy in the "safety" boat got a good laugh. 😂

[@thijsjong]

You can easily pull them out with a pully system. That was bloody idiotic. You can glue platic containers or barrels and make a pontoon bridge. Bundels of sticks. Put planks on top of it.

[@thijsjong]

When the myd is above your knees and you have to go deeper. It is imposssible.

[@gspot2112]

Plywood? Textiles? Any engineers handy?

[@chernobyl68]

I agree, its far too dangerous a site to get too. they had to use a boat! take an airboat to the site, flat bottom, no prop

[@daveb5540]

A low tech way to get there would be to put down plywood, each board tied off for recovery when the tide comes in. This was fun to watch but the dramatics do detract from the exploration.

[@rogerdiruscio1340]

rent a hovercraft and quit risking your girls

[@wtripley]

Women**

[@lukeouthwaite9999]

@@wtripley wimmin

[@contumacious5506]

Better yet, fire the camera crew and the dimwits they're filming, and just have some guy with a cheap camera that knows what he's talking about tell me about the sight and what we've learned from it, . . . no drama, and no me wishing they would go ahead and drown in all that mud.

[@RubenKelevra]

Why not use a stand-up paddling bord and get ropes to it from both sides, V shaped. You could easily pull yourself over the water and float on the water next to the structure 🤔

[@FreedomFarm18]

"I can't think why anyone would want to build a bridge here!" Mate, its a giant death trap, a bridge would allow you to walk over the giant death trap.

[@lauriedmills7581]

A big mistake but a good learning experience - a boat would have been wiser, or at least a mud sled/ferry contraption. I’m surprised by such an unwise and dangerous decision to walk in that mud as the team are usually very safe. Lived to learn.

[@kinomora-gaming]

This whole video can be summed up by just watching the last 5 mintues

[@meintdussel1240]

thanx

[@chrisbassett8996]

yes i was thinking take a boat and dive it. mind you the flow speed might cause a problem.

[@wolftickets1969]

Real killer quicksand.

[@componenx]

"sadly, I won't be going with them" So what else is new? You rarely do anything but yammer on anyway. Even at the end, all he does is go along for the ride.

[@sheilabitts6106]

My first thought was if not slip n slide, then, go by boat. Kyak...

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

95% mud drama, 5% history and archaeology. Very disappointing considering I'm here for the history and archaeology...... Oh well, I guess that's the dumbed down state of programming these days.....

[@nancydaly5414]

I am aware of the dumbed down state of programming....I was not aware of the dumbed down state of scientists facing real life obstacles. Not a boy or girl scout among them. is there....?

[@JETWTF]

6-7 sheets of 1/2x4x8 plywood, 1 eyebolt for each, 1 clothesline rope for each. Problems solved. Use the rope to drag the plywood across the mud to place it and to retrieve it. It's not rocket science and causes less harm to the sight than stomping through the mud. Or you can anchor a boat next to it and let the tide lower it next to the site and lift it out of the mud after. Either way is better than the not thinking it through and overthinking it that they did.

[@tristanray222]

I’ll never forget when they go like 2 miles into this cave and found all kinds of animal bones. Then they said the bones came from sinkholes depositing it into the cave then sealing shut. Everyone was so tired that it looked gruesome.

[@j.b.4340]

Stepbro! I’m stuck!

[@johnbumster3950]

Can't help but wonder with all the college degrees on the display on the bank of that river, none of them considered employing a dozen 8 by 4 sheets of plywood laid end to end to get to the bridge footing, no environmental damage and a simple solution but then again no big drama either.🙄

[@professorsogol5824]

Of course the carbon 14 date is the date at which the oak was alive. A mature oak could be 300 years old and the dated portion of the sample may not be the youngest part of the tree. If the dated sample is from the older material near the center of the tree, the date on which the piling was prepared could be several hundred years later.

[@Stephen-ou4sy]

Why not use a battery drill and a hollow core sample bit?

[@trending1539]

As a non native english speaker, I find the accent of the narrator here is very different from the usual Netflix series. May I know what accent of English is used in this video??

[@kellypayn7945]

I think he’s welsh? Not sure

[@ElysetheEevee]

This entire time my first thought was simply lowering someone down to the site. Why did it take so long to come to that conclusion I wonder? It's a very obvious solution that I'm sure most of us laymen watching thought of since the start.

[@drewpamon]

Cranes cost money

[@chriswhite2151]

2 words...hole saw 2 more ... hammer chisel Or maybe ..... Sawzall

[@Touchofaweepingangel]

Would mud shoes not work? Similar to snow shoes where the sole is ridiculously large to distribute weight and keep the wearer on top. I’m only a few min into the video… hope they figure out something better.

[@cnmnorris02]

Why not do a rope ferry like they did ancient times? It could be secured on both sides of the river

[@akselcarlhundal6606]

Why do it so diffricult? Why not use a small hoovercraft, same as NRLI are using for rescue from qicksand? You cold hoover up to beside it, and work in comfort from the craft. Maybe a local NRLI would be happy to help as an exersise.

[@joakimblomqvist7229]

Use a boat, wait at location for low tide get samples, airlift out or wait for high tide?

[@bazza945]

Why indeed.

[@SuperKristinG]

I miss Time Team!!

[@mariashelly4812]

Rivers evolve. When the Romans built the bridge, the mud may have still been upstream in the hills and mountains.

[@thebotformalityknownasdale2564]

You guys need swamp mats there big pads that will float they use them in oil exploration on tundra and you can run cat bulldosers heavy equipment with that it's easy to make a coffer dam and dry it out and dig giveing you a lot more than splinters to get a date .

[@affintlewoodlewix]

Start at 11.50 and cut out all the ridiculous contrived drama in the mud (unless you're here for the giggles of course). Not that it gets any better though

[@marynelson1349]

Hovercraft might be handy.

[@keithyinger3326]

After watching them struggle in the mud and trying to come up with another way.. my way would be put a boat in the water at high tide from the shore, would be boring but paddle around until low tide, then your right there. Lean out or drop down a ladder and get your sample. Of course then you have to wait until high tide so you can get back to the shore past the mud again.

[@icescrew1]

Ok I have to tell this story since I was whining about the over use of rigging. I worked in a climbing shop in S. Colorado in the early 80s. Some young climber covers came in and started buying many thousands of dollars of gear. Since they didn't work, and lived in their vans (dirt bag climbers, and that's badge of honor) I had to ask, where did you get the money. They ran into a Nat Geo film crew in a bar in town. Who were looking for guides / riggers to film the recently discovered Lechugilla cave system in New Mexico. These guys talked their way into a gig. They were quite good climbers and covers. They had a reputation tho, that I cant ever recommend in the least, of dropping acid and doing really dangerous routes. Like climbing Fisher Towers Utah whilst tripping hard. So the director gave them a blank check to buy ALL the gear for the project. (Ice climbing gear for caving 🙃) So later i ran into them. Yes they were tripping big time during the entire project. You can watch that documentary. It's quite fascinating...

[@bajancanadian4231]

Why not just anchor a kayak over it till low tide and take a sample before tide returns

[@jackiesanders489]

A simple raft to sit on the mud and float in high tide. !!!!!!!!

[@nancydaly5414]

They can't find pottery in that short little trench they dug. Of course not. It's a road not a settlement or a midden. So the guy says that a flood came and washed away the pottery that they imagine was once there....They also wonder why they find no carbon from the remains of a campfire...in the middle of the road. If they have degrees in archaeology, then Wal-Mart can make me one also, like it did for them.

[@jeanalton7369]

Sheets of plywood to make a path across, you're out there in a few minutes walk. How disappointing.

[@jeffreyschueler2223]

What about like snow shoes for the mudd

[@davidraines368]

Why not use snow shoes in these situation? Is this all for viewer drama. That would be very disappointing. I agree with most of the comments.

[@terencehawkes3933]

They need snow shoes to distribute their weight.

[@dylanangel2870]

bruh. you had a god damn boat!

[@brucejr.5833]

It's a bridge not a butterfly just throw some planks down get out there and do the archeology but I know drama pays the bills. All in all good show!

[@rodney1818]

This makes absolutely no sense to me I've worked in places like this you lay down sheets of plywood and walk across the plywood the plywood gives you enough surface area to where you don't sink

[@JohnDoe-uj7wo]

Perfect example that higher education dose not equate to higher knowledge. At their age I could have went out and did what they needed in an hour or less and been back on the bank. Saving thousands of pounds. I think they tried to make it look difficult and dangerous to justify their ridiculous salaries. What a clusterf*ck.

[@maralonent6257]

Why did you even have to waste time adding your failed attempt to walk across the mud? Get to the point before you bore people into clicking off and going elsewhere. Edit: clearly have to fast forward my way through the majority of this.

[@christinepearson5788]

Why didn't they use a small hovercraft or string a rope across the river and tether a boat that would drop on the sight when the tide swell lowers the water level.

[@TheWyzebum]

A whole episode of messing around, using the dumbest methods trying to get a sample and in the end 1 man with a chainsaw sorts it out in a few minutes.

[@amranackerman9656]

Romans always had Coins* Get the best metal detectors to scan the area. They may just pop your answers ***

[@engelwyre]

Why not lay out a series of boards to walk on? I feel like I'm watching my 7yo and 4yo sons figuring something out.

[@luthahvelken4653]

will you please stop interrupting the commercials with actual content?

[@karlso7314]

A blonde a brunette and a red head walked into the mud......................

[@frederiquejones1526]

1 minute in: wrong information: the Usk has the second highest tide in the world. 40 ft. Fact.

[@jomomma6015]

Didn't Team Time already do this site? I've notice they've done the same sites as Time Team has done 15 yrs ago.

[@hansvanderknaap4353]

What a waste of time and energy to near this target by feet , dagerous too , planned by academical men and woman . . . ! ?

[@thijsjong]

Applying your intelligence to an unfamilar situation seems to be the problem. If there was a way to make a bridge float? 🤔🤣 A pontoon bidge.

[@jeffreyallen1290]

I'm embarrassed for Alice to be on this show. She was clearly brought along for her star power.

[@tomrobertson3236]

a crane? through some boards down and walk on them skis ? walking through muck is not necessary

[@moniquenstein]

Ought to lay some wooden planks on the mud before walking out to the site; a whole lot less work and a lot more success would result.

[@RubenKelevra]

Why is the quality like 360p, while it's uploaded as 1080p?

[@haegarvonelz2451]

Try again, yt Takes some minutes♥️

[@RubenKelevra]

@@haegarvonelz2451 I'm watching the video in 1080p. The quality is just awful. So it was heavily scaled up or something went wrong on the production side.

[@HeyfaValico]

@@RubenKelevra I’m just guessing that this show was shot years ago. This channel seems to upload documentaries that were aired on tv at one point in time.

[@RubenKelevra]

@@HeyfaValico yeah but TV should be shot in 720p at least in the last 15 years. This doesn't look THAT old

[@Emmenie]

Helicopters weren’t invented by the time this program was recorded, I guess... 😳😆😳

[@chriswhite2151]

Or cranes