The Hunt For The Lost Roman Mansion | Time Team

The team travel to Alfoldean in Sussex to uncover a mansion, an official Roman coaching inn. Located on Stane Street - now the A29 - the mansio was at the heart of a much larger community. The team ambitiously set out to uncover the story of the whole settlement, and as trenches are opened over a 600-metre expanse of land, the archaeologists uncover structures and finds that suggest Alfoldean was once a thriving village.
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Great hope you get to wear the T shirt Archaeologists dig the past.

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It was the same for me in 2000. 20+ years later and still inspiring people.

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I love the random shots of Ian zonked out in the digger 🤣

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... Rome is everywhere ...

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They had a large Empire.

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[@neilfranklin5644]

Ar and they still not dug up phils rancid hat

[@patricktracy1966]

Hooray! A new hat for Phil! The old one probably started crawling around on it's own, it was so "rancid", as Phil said.

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It is a tough "new-beginning" for some... 😁 Phil needed a New Hat, I can only imagine attempting to "Produce with Phil" lol. *He is priceless though.*

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[@carveraugustus3840]

Props to the Director and cinematographer for that overhead shot. I don’t know where they shot that to get a view of that big trench. no drones when this was made

[@mikeabbott8516]

Was very common for time team to use a helicopter. Very often Stew and Mick would go for a ride and look at the landscape

[@carveraugustus3840]

@@mikeabbott8516 right but I think that was probably a crane or boom shot, seemed low for a heli

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GD I love this sht. Roads. Places to go. Forever. Still goin.

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CLASSIC Time Team

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Tony is a true American Hero.

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lol - but a Brit!

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[@marcelovolcato8892]

Phil's new hat looks better than the dig itself.

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Watching This Too

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Another great story, thank you.

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Every time I hear the term “Diddly Squat”…. The only thing I can think of now is Jeremy Clarkson’s farm 😂😂

[@chrisbassett8996]

I hope they watched the video later to see how funny moving the gazebo/tent looked

[@8beef4u]

The title and description should both say "Mansio" and not "Mansion" as they are completely separate things

[@Afro408]

The Hippo Sandals could also have been very good defence for the horses in warfare, to protect them from being crippled by Caltrops, thrown down by the enemy.

[@MarkDibley]

S13 E12 - "The Taxman's Tavern - A Roman Mansio", 9 April 2006

[@66kbm]

These banked enclosures that roads run through the middle are actually quite common. There is one at Honiton Devon under the A30 dual carriageway near to the old road/railways bridge and one just to the south west of Bradbury Ring in Dorset at Shapwick.

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Time Team Forever!! (Eats trowel full of dirt)

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FASCINATING!!!💖💖💖

[@townview5322]

The school unforms intrigue me. Are they a continuation of an historic version?

[@graceamerican3558]

So many questions..

[@ellenl.5581]

About a hundred years ago or so some cities taxed windows.

[@robertgreen9150]

I'm not a "pot digger"! Found one record site once and immediately notified the proper professionals.

[@zonabrown9241]

Fantastic better than this overnight time team IMO

[@mercedes523]

I miss Phil’s old hat 🧢.

[@phoule76]

"a big pile of pants" would be a new one

[@wayabajo2820]

I love your documentaries its just you should exchange some of yours plain talkers for more skilled people with manpower especially. then you'll find more evidence in 3 days

[@photomukund]

05:07 Yet another cunning plan, eh?

[@Roth2775]

what I don't geht is the fact that the new street a former roman street is..... cause the ditches are crossing the street. what is th meaning to build a ditch around a building to protect it and them with a street

[@suziperret468]

Poor horse has to try take shoe…

[@johnpodesta4966]

Why only three day. Under so much pressure to find something. At least five days would be fair.

[@garyhorton5873]

So the bathhouse is the outhouse

[@nigelsouthworth5577]

The Romans didn't call it Stane Street, the Saxons did, hundreds of years later

[@janetsanders5356]

Mansio not mansion of the title

[@NetanyahooWarCriminal]

Is this made for KZbin or is it an old TV show ppl upload?

[@tomtinkersrezlife278]

Old UK show they do have there own channels though just so u know it's time team classics and another ill get back to you on 😆had a brain fart

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It's time team official lol sorry but those are the 2 I watch for all these episodes

[@NetanyahooWarCriminal]

OK cool, thanks for the clarification. I found the classics channel yesterday, I'll go sub to the other one as well. I like this show.

[@robertgreen9150]

I hunt for surface "turlebacks".

[@cathmcgrigor6779]

I have enjoyed this program for many years, don't get me wrong. But, AMITOO who notices just how many people of the archaeological sciences have speech impediments? 🤔 It's pwetty perwpwexing. Jk ... if I could only be in their shoes.... what a fascinating life they must lead.

[@ivanolsen7966]

24:16 ..... why could that not be the blacksmith's shop

[@vice4134]

Three days was not enough time. A month would be better.

[@highpath4776]

Its a Mansio , not a Mansion

[@pigeonlady3525]

What are those students wearing?

[@dougs7367]

Religious school uniforms

[@Beechhill]

@@dougs7367 Traditional rather than religious I should think.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Proper school uniforms, not sweatshirts and jogging bottoms, thankfully.

[@Happyheretic2308]

They’re pupils, not students.

[@bethbartlett5692]

What Humans do to animals ... 😶

[@UnitSe7en]

Sugar cane? In Britain? My question is... ...What?

[@Happyheretic2308]

We grow sugar beet, not sugar cane, in the UK.

[@UnitSe7en]

@@Happyheretic2308 Yes, indeed.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

sunflowers

[@frederickgoodwin4172]

Why the fuck only 3 days

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

If you have a computer and internet access, you can look it up.

[@RPe-jk6dv]

a mansio was not a mansion.

[@MissBillieBadass]

What is it then?

[@RPe-jk6dv]

@@MissBillieBadass a mansio was something like an inn or a hotel. the word mansion derives from mansio, but the meaning is a high status home, a stately home.

[@vocalveteran1894]

Thank God for the fast forward button....everytime I hear Stewarts voice....I get physically ill!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Have you seen a doctor?

[@helix1061]

Hi from the US. Great watching something free of politics, sex and violence. (Although you guys must be bored after 17 years of this using the same underlying knowledge.)

[@search4truth104]

Get that guy some fingernail clippers

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol why does he need clippers, our Phil is a guitarist when he is not grubbing in the soil, I just wish my nails were as robust as his ones are sadly they are not I get pishd about that.

[@bethbartlett5692]

I can barely make out what the guy (blue shirt) is saying. @ 2:44. Its like he's speaking with noodles in his mouth. (Please, I don't mean this in a personal verbal assault, rather "Voice and Diction" aka speaking of the language.)

[@dougs7367]

I listened to it a few times and came out with this: "Winbolt christened it a station, but I think he had in mind like a police station, a place where some Roman troops or Roman soldiers were stationed with hostile natives outside. Today we prefer to say no it's more to do with a mansio or hotel - it's kind of a cross between a motorway service station and (unintelligble) coachway inn."

[@bethbartlett5692]

@dev null Oh! lol I was worried I might offend someone. I appreciate 2 replies from folks with Witt and Mature Minds. Made my day. ...and we forgive the "hub" for his environmental influences 😁 Beth Tennessee, USA 🇺🇸

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@dougs7367 You are a Gentleman and a Scholar! I appreciate this interpretation! Best Wellbeing ... Beth Tennessee, USA 🇺🇸

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@bethbartlett5692 lol yes, he is what I myself would call a mumbler, indistinct words that seem to emit from his mouth which cheeses me off🤣

[@hammondOT]

Phil's fingernails are completely disgusting.

[@Beechhill]

He's a skilled guitar player. The nails are for picking strings.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol uncle Phil is a guitarist hence the long nails, completely disgusting you say, you definitely need a hobby take up digging.

[@hammondOT]

@@katerinakemp5701 I've known plenty of guitarists in my life. None looked that disgusting.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@katerinakemp5701 I wondered bout that. Thanks for sharing.

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@hammondOT lol uncle Phil doesnt use a plectrum also his fingernails are fine obviously, jeez some people.