The Hidden Roman Graveyard Hidden Under Bath | Time Team | Odyssey

Time Team visit Bath to investigate parch marks seen in the park lawn of the Royal Crescent, indicating the presence of a large Roman road, possibly local remains of the Fosse Way. They also look behind the Crescent for Roman sarcophagi and wall lines found by builders of the now-gone St. Andrew's Church in the 1870s and noted by an antiquarian at the time.
Featuring from Time Team: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Stewart Ainsworth, John Gater, Guy de la Bédoyère, Henry Chapman, Alice Roberts, Ceinwen Paynton, Sophie Jackson, Catherine Edwards, Jim Mower.
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[@VintageCarHistory]

I don't know what I like most about Time Team: the archeology and history or the banter. Perhaps both.

[@deplorablecovfefe9489]

Good thing you dont care about results...lol

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[@donaldritte7319]

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[@jayquinn222]

As an American, this is the greatest show out of the U.K. I have discovered. Great history revelations.

[@lemonaid8678]

Fellow American here, and yes it seems the UK has the best tv.

[@graceyap1498]

Time team to me is like an insomnia medicine.. there's something about it tht calms me down so much 💙

[@englishmaninfrance661]

Tony , Mick , and Phil can never be replaced . Outstanding :)

[@MrSnead-vp1ll]

No they truly can't, however if we would like to see more digs we need to support the new time team .

[@TrophyNZ1]

@@MrSnead-vp1ll Totally, i think over time ( no pun intended), the new and the old will Blend, and be as awesome as this great team

[@MrSnead-vp1ll]

@@TrophyNZ1 I think so as well. They all are wonderful, get along together well it seems. Now, all the old people like me just need to be more pliable. Trust me it's hard. We get set in a certain way, and of course dislike (some) changes.

[@luisdacostagomez6703]

Tony & Phil are my two favorites people. They keep the show well entertained

[@bonkersmcgee4356]

That pottery is a key indicator of where society was at the time. It's not just trash. Rejected pottery shows what level of craftsmanship was considered acceptable at the time. If high quality product is being rejected, inferences can be made about how prosperous this place was at that time.

[@casperbetz1949]

No, those inferences can not be made. "Rejected in the firing" means the process didn't work out for one reason or another after the pot was formed and dried. If anything, that simply means someone made a minute mistake before the firing, and probably it was not even a fault of their own. Also, Roman pottery generally is a high-output craft compared to the eras immediately before and after - think of the amphora which were single-use containers and produced in the thousands. High-output means that you rather produce more, i.e. faster, and hence have a slightly higher percentage of reject, than do it slow and have each piece perfect. That is not feasible anyway, and attempts at reducing the reject before firing may just have been un-economically because they are taking too much time.

[@Hinata.Sakaguchi]

I love watching time team every midnight 😂 idk why i can't sleep so i watch it.

[@mike83ny]

Phil was pretty cold, pretty wet and pretty miserable but he's digging so he's happy as a clam.

[@liammcevoy2775]

7:33 an unexpected serve 💅

[@tattgal600]

I want Micks sweater

[@reneeheld8458]

How about the cap? They are all cool!

[@lizzy66125]

thank you for the upload,much appreciated!

[@kathleenmorrissey2152]

I love the guy with the hat and the crazy hair 🦳

[@makisa.6853]

Dr. Alice yey! Good too see her again in archeological sites

[@texgowing7359]

Again I love history & your channel like a hand in a glove.👍

[@adidnac]

Phil? Are you gettin any finds out of that? Oh aye!

[@sharonholdren7588]

Love your work, but it would help if you had "closed captions" or subtitles. Your use of music is one of a very few that does not drown out dialogue. Thanks!

[@micahmorrill6966]

The closed caption button at the top works for all Time Team videos

[@neilmichaelwalsh3940]

The program itself nor those who posted on KZbin were never meant to be video curators. You sort it out.

[@kimb777]

This show is awesome

[@wendywhite2642]

Tony was just such a fantastic writer for this show! I guess that's why they knighted him, isn't that correct?

[@fokkenhotz1]

hi Tony, Phil, crew tuning in here to see what y'all are digging about. 😘

[@lilianevanfrankrijk7490]

I wish someone could explain to me how a sticking up Roman wall ended up two and a half meters underground, without anyone actually spending several hours shoveling dirt over it at some point. Did it just get less and less tall with the dust of centuries as people walked by and some medieval Grandpa said, Hey, when I were young, that wall came up to past my waist, and now it's down to my knees."?

[@trevormiles5852]

Many times instead of tearing something down, they covered it up and made area level. Jerusalem , they are still digging down as well as modern cities in united states. San Francisco, After fire and earthquake it was covered over and piled and pushed into ocean creating extra land. In san Diego where I came from you see when streets are being dug up old trolley rails that wre covered instead taken out. Indeed in San Diego rooms and trolley stations have been found. The ballet foclorico in Mexico city, used have steps going up and now have steps going down. Mexico City was built on a lake. And like San Francisco is sinking where heavy buildings are built on soft dirt . Many cities are built on top of old native sites. Same is true in Europe.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Grasses growing and dying turn into soil and it builds up each year.

[@giuseppe4909]

@@trevormiles5852 …Don’t forget Seattle. There is quite a labyrinth of Old Seattle underneath the current Pioneer Square area downtown. Several factors contributed to this, including, fire, tides, toilets and rats…. Do the research, it’s a great story as well.

[@trevormiles5852]

this happens over and over again. A flood will bury it and rather than dig it out, build over it.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@Dovietail]

That the entire crew did not succumb to double pneumonia at some point never ceases to amaze me.

[@Mimzie-Arizona]

It seems to always rain!

[@TheMrksmth]

Damn this show is so good. I hope Tony don’t go nowhere Big fan in America

[@Mimzie-Arizona]

Where's the excavation? It's defined by the area with no grass on it. They are funny!

[@newwavepop]

isnt it funny how in almost every episode they find signs of stone age/prehistoric/Neolithic activity and settlements and they are generally very Meh about it, yet where i live people would be over the moon to find evidence of Prehistoric settlements and occupation.

[@trevormiles5852]

The scary part is that it is getting closer and closer to 10 Downing.

[@vigilantpatriQt]

With all of the bath houses in Rome underneath the city was literally hell furnaces cooking all over the place

[@wmritchey1101]

Roadside bodies were previous archeologists succumb to the weather on a dig

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

maybe the local can join in too enjoy

[@mlentsch]

35:01 - POW!

[@lemonaid8678]

I didn’t think Phil owned a pair of jeans he hasn’t cut the legs off of.

[@deborahparham3783]

He only does that when the knees get worn out. He is a very practical man. He adapts things to extend their usefulness.

[@lemonaid8678]

@@deborahparham3783thanks for commenting on this. I’m going to rewatch it again.

[@morganverizon1]

@3:01 look at the huge skull looking piece at the top right corner

[@floriangeyer3454]

35:02 No road ditch!

[@jonashagstrom4664]

Digging in soggy Britain I am surprised that the archaeologists dont have proper rain gear.

[@taxiuniversum]

That three-day bullshit pisses me off to no end! 😡 Why? What’s the point?

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Exploratory work to see what's there and maybe contine another day if they can get funding.

[@susannedutton1609]

These people have other jobs.

[@deborahparham3783]

They all had regular jobs and they did these digs on three day weekends.

[@clementtempleton4250]

Why only 3 Days??

[@isacchris1]

7:36 A guy with finger nail polish!

[@jamesdavis7492]

"it's like netflix" thanks for the warning not a selling point

[@jonnynguyen6246]

It doesn't seem like a "tradition" to bury them in the ditches on the sides of the roads. I think given they were males in their 20s and 30s without many objects, they were possibly the road-builders themselves and passed during construction.

[@FRAME5RS]

Is there ever a 3 day period where it doesn't rain in the UK?

[@philmace81]

Why doesn't Tony ever say those 5 wonderful words "I have a cunning plan"

[@zonabrown9241]

Tell you what I wouldn't work in those conditions

[@jansenart0]

Are we sure these roadside corpses are burials, or were they victims of crucifixion?

[@Ken_Scaletta]

Nothing about them showed signs of crucifixion, plus crucifixion victims were not permitted to have proper burials. They were usually left on the cross to rot and if they were taken down they were buried in common trench pits.

[@1959Berre]

If Phil keeps on digging, he might one day find the grave of his barber. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy.

[@deborahparham3783]

Leave Phil's hair alone. A lot of us love Phil just the way he is.

[@vigilantpatriQt]

Sarcophagus translate to flesh eater

[@giuseppe4909]

Romans sure were sloppy with the handling of their coins….

[@deborahparham3783]

Maybe they didn't have pockets in those togas.

[@todwest]

Code does not work

[@poletooke4691]

3 days was WAY too short for this one. You only JUST got started and then it ended. :/

[@davegnarlsson4344]

Sometimes your guesses and assumptions are just plain wrong. I can imagine a commander saying "Build the road here". It doesn't matter if the incline is slightly more than 1000 meters away. Also, imho, you can't conclude anything from small digs scattered sparsely across the countryside. Eithe dig it up completely or accept the fact that you will be wrong half the time.

[@Scotto6977]

Mick🌈sweater ✔️

[@deborahbaker4770]

Don’t they need the approval of the QUEEN before digging into anything historical ?

[@moonraker7381]

We spent $100,000 and found a wall

[@steveb1ish]

Tony is disappointed as he inspects Helen’s freshly exposed trench

[@michaelmckinnon7314]

Saint Andrew's in Bath, UK was the burial place of British Royal Family members for years (they were laid to rest in the church). Iron Age was before Bronze Age. The Romans wouldn't build a road over buried bodies (they believed it would curse the road) so that would explain why the logical route wasn't taken.

[@stevew8233]

Iron age came after the Bronze age. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-age_system

[@michaelmckinnon7314]

@@stevew8233 ok, then explain how Neolithic man made iron nails and hammer heads if they couldn't smelt iron then, it goes Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age, Industrial Age, and Modern Age. Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information about much, it also says The Raid at Entebbe occurred July 4, 1976 and if I need a reminder of the actual date in 1983 that it happened, considering I was on the hijacked flight, had a Nickel plated Walther PPK held to my head, was in the control tower when the ATC talking to the IDF pilot said "turn back unless you want a missile in the cockpit with you" the unit that raided the plane was GSG-9, and of the first time I killed someone (with a Heckler and Koch MP-5 and it was a head shot, right between the eyes).

[@deborahparham3783]

Bronze age was BEFORE the Iron age.

[@stevehuffman7453]

Since "Romans" lived and died in Bath, England, for quite a few years, why wouldn't there be some Roman sarcophagi there? It wouldn't be practical to send all the dead dudes over the years back to Italy/Rome for burial. Be more surprising if there weren't any "Roman" sarcophagi under Bath, or any other occupied city of the Empire.

[@patrickregan3302]

Well if U don’t find them under the bath U mite try looking under the shower??????

[@claudiosaltara7003]

I did not understand this episode.

[@philipking8497]

Stewarts in love again. No wonder he can't find anything. Why does a lovely local female Archeologist always zombify us. Oh well, such is life.

[@dj-kq4fz]

Was Tony contractually obliged to say the word "Geo-phys" in every episode? Perhaps, to me, the most annoying simplification of a very technical (and interpretative) process in the history of the show.

[@karenbaird8795]

Cranky much?😎

[@dj-kq4fz]

@@karenbaird8795 Ha! Not any more, thanks!

[@jpweb5632]

John Gator using false initials 😉

[@johna.4334]

Whinging POME?

[@khalidshah8398]

History will teach us nothing

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.