The Island Fortress Of An Ancient King | Time Team | Timeline

The Time Team travel to the site of a Dark Age man-made island - known as a crannog - in Llangorse lake, near Brecon in Wales.
The archaeologists have just three days to unravel some of the questions raised by a member of the public about the lake where, over 1,000 years ago, a Welsh king built an island base. The site poses a number of questions: what happened to the people who lived there? What was their connection with Ireland and the ancient script known as ogham, previously found on nearby stones?
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[@TimelineChannel]

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[@apo11o38]

Are all of the shows on there?

[@58customline]

Lol

[@AkodoAkira1]

"When I first came here, this was all lake. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a lake, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the lake. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the lake. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the lake. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England."

[@jonnesburg1249]

beautiful

[@SuperCuriousg]

I was just thinking of that.

[@gentlemanfarmer6042]

Ah, so this where GRR Martin got the idea for "Storms End" and the Castle of God's Grief.... Real history is much more interesting, ut its nice tk see a writer who realizes that as well....and uses it in own writing lol. Sooooo Interesting, miss the old Time Team...

[@LordWyatt]

“But I don’t *want* land.”

[@youknowwho1962]

"She's got huge....tracts of land!"

[@patrickwentz8413]

Everyone is so young in this episode! Love it!

[@Unknown_crusader]

Ikr? It's wild to see Tony with brown and long hair.

[@albundy9597]

It's very interesting, as an early video one can see that they don't yet know each other too well and are still careful in their interactions, in later programs one can see they are very friendly and relaxed with one another.

[@silvershocknicktail6638]

So glad this channel exists. I miss having easy access to decent documentaries.

[@Paxaboll]

i sure miss Mick. The world is poorer without him.

[@sammom8599]

While I enjoy all seasons of time team these early shows offer an honest simplicity to the nature of landscape archaeology. They also hold true to mick aston’s mission of teachable archaeology to all with the town presentations.

[@tiffanyr.4910]

RIP Tony Robinson's hair

[@MonkeyspankO]

15:40 That mane is magnificent!

[@amandaloriananimals9065]

U beat me to it

[@loganstroganoff1284]

He looks better bald haha

[@paulveitch5870]

Omg HAHAHAHAAHA😂😂😂

[@jimbodini9512]

F

[@greulich9635]

Episode so old Tony still look like a missing beatle

[@khill5686]

Ah, Phil! Where were you 30 years ago? I could listen to his voice for the rest of my life. 😘

[@moriahanderson]

Nothing like watching Time Team and seeing the stories I heard from my Welsh grandfather come to life.

[@laurenmclain6378]

Wow, this is an older Time Team, which is awesome, thank you for sharing!! Crannogs are fascinating...There's a crannog in Scotland that is much older than it was initially thought to be. It was built at a time when people were thought incapable of doing something such as building an artificial island in a lake. It would've required all of the material used to create it, an understanding of how to engineer it so that it worked and it lasted, enough people to build it, etc...This is all aside from WHY people built it? It must've been very important to them. It's going to be really interesting to learn what researchers discover about it and the people that created it.

[@vedantkale1163]

Such a wholesome video, really enjoyed it! Especially the visual effect of the 80s which gave it a more historic feel.

[@fivecitydirttracker4776]

Very cool to see these folks so young. Phil has always been my favorite. Enjoy them all actually. Being from California it's very informative of English history which is definitely longer than ours.

[@goldtopgrandeur6935]

It's so painful for me to be in California and watch these shows. I've been an unapologetic Anglophile since my early teens - and was greatly upset bcuz I was told I was "mostly German"...well, DNA testing for a study about my last name (which is English) shows I have little to no German in me and I'm nearly 50% British. The rest of me is mutt North Sea/English Channel countries. I'm now a firm believer in genetic memory because at 48, it's almost physically painful for me to not be in England. (I know you didn't solicit any of this information...but Tony's Hair©, the scenery, the accents, etc. got me all flustered. As you can tell, I take any opportunity to tell this story. I need to start a go fund me to cover my moving expenses...) Thanks for indulging me. Take care!

[@charlottecampbell4327]

Beautiful scene at 5:38 -- blues and greys and the stark white swan.

[@marthareis5873]

Very striking!

[@jonathanbennetts2632]

I used to go fishing in this lake, Full of Bream, Roach,Pike, and high bread Roach Bream, used to have a fantastic time there in the caravan park, the weather was not always bad.

[@maineeveryday3991]

Ahh British caravaning. I heard it's the bane of a drivers existence over there, especially so for Jeremey Clarkson. Lol. The same is over here although we have room to pass them on our roads including on the back roads as our roads are much much wider than british roads

[@feidry]

Just looked it up. This is season 1, episode 4. Originally aired 6 February 1994

[@ivx8345]

Thank you!

[@MrMbc77]

Feidry Well damn, this doc is older than me.

[@cpmenninga]

Thanks. Doing some historical investigating of your own!

[@lara-ce2kg]

Thank you so much.. I was wondering myself

[@melialialee5445]

Feidry awee

[@JacobafJelling]

Keep it up. Very good quality, you guys should upload every season

[@PieterBreda]

I loved that programme.

[@shannonburke275]

Its spelled “program”.

[@tommayer6018]

No it’s not

[@shannonburke275]

Tom Mayer yes it is.

[@tommayer6018]

www.lexico.com/en/definition/programme

[@monsterlair]

So. That is the whole first season uploaded, in the best possible quality, by this channel. Can we expect more?

[@ivx8345]

Indeed this channel is SUPER. Quality!

[@ayebosec]

Phil with full hair 🤣 I ❤️ u guys

[@theSwedessayshello]

This was really awesome!

[@simpsonmark]

Thanks for these. It's good to see these early ones that weren't so fine tuned.

[@landsurfer66]

They found "The Precious"!

[@terrymcginnis4633]

my precious!

[@RohanGillett]

@@terrymcginnis4633 NO! MY precious!! lol

[@rjlchristie]

Victor Ambrus' considerable talent was squandered by the producers of these TimeTeam series.

[@JorisKoolen]

With all the digging going on, I'm mostly just digging John's beard

[@tabathafeucht3513]

I cant handle Tony with hair.....😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@michelguevara151]

I can't stand Baldrick masquerading as a historian

[@jonarmour1864]

Yeah it's odd seeing him with that hair 🤣😂

[@notinmypurview8177]

no kidding how old is this..?

[@ammarsiddiqui3586]

@@notinmypurview8177 this is from 1994

[@meemurthelemur4811]

Tony had hair?!?

[@brettb.7425]

4:16 “I’d love you know what happened to the people who built it.” Without digging one shovel full, I’ll tell you exactly what happened to them. They died.

[@THENAFERATU]

one of my favourite episodes

[@RamblinJer]

From the helicopter over the island was quite the illusion. Reflection made it appear like it was in the sky.

[@hoosierhiver]

Almost seems like it would have been easier to extend the lake around a castle on shore.

[@klootviool14nl]

Hearing tonys voice in the intro... This gonna be a good one

[@lizryan6289]

I love this program

[@happyicare5053]

Wonderful

[@bongfuhrer]

The only thing that could had made this show better, would be that they had a week instead of 3 days.

[@cpmenninga]

If they had spent a week on each investigation it would now be 2022.

[@chaka947]

I appreciate the nonchalance attitude that's they have.

[@cesar_145]

Excelent doc

[@kittenclaws5775]

The video quality is remarkable! Is this restored?

[@brettb.7425]

Hey I’m from the southeast US. Those are long leaf pines he’s referring to. The lower down on the tree you go, the more sap there is. It’s the sap that burns well and puts off black smoke. This very sappy wood is called lighter.

[@aobacuteness3443]

Omg he looks so young! :0

[@davidwakefield6635]

Is this the only way we can watch time team any more

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Keep searching YT for *Time Team* and you'll find they're all here though in varying quality. If you use a VPN/proxy you can access them all from anywhere and they can all be downloaded (it's easiest using FireFox).

[@didierdenice7456]

You got to love the beautiful weather of that region... Do children know what a blue sky means ?

[@THENAFERATU]

I'm from Portugal so I spent all my time in Britain with 2 coats, whilst everyone else was wearing t-shirts and saying "oh! what wonderful weather"!

[@jonathanbennetts2632]

I used to go fishing there, its full of bream and roach, the weather is not always bad.

[@laurenalacroix5114]

like, these recreated, on location, history revelations

[@kevinmccroan5743]

Made in 1994 (if I saw that correctly at the end). That explains a few things.

[@EmberwolfXR]

Tony Robinson has changed so much i did not know it was him, i'm used to the tony of now....

[@billie-jobenway8658]

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[@benlauson555]

@@billie-jobenway8658 wow! Thanks for that!

[@billie-jobenway8658]

@@benlauson555 My pleasure. I have been watching and re-watching these for years and these shows are my absolute favorites. I watch at least a couple episodes nearly every day.

[@luismaldonado1494]

​@@billie-jobenway8658 Thank you for the info! I love this show, is so nostalgic to me for some reason i feel like i belong there maybe i've got some celtic dna in me.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

Digging Tony's purple fleece, classic early-mid 90s! Dont know if this company is in England but l.l. bean made fleece jackets like this back then that were a hot item in the southern u.s.!

[@MakerInMotion]

These people are really British.

[@ForeverLumoz]

Isn't it brilliant? 😃 I love that accent 👍🏻

[@benlauson555]

I wish I was there with them

[@carolinebarnes6832]

Tony seems to be the only one who has mastered some Welsh pronunciation, his Lls and chs are not bad.

[@ginya1]

why am I getting Saphy from Ab Fab from Tonys entire get up?

[@cpmenninga]

Yes

[@phillipfleming518]

I think they could stick a couple more adds in this don't you?

[@Ostarrichi996]

use AdBlocker. you wont get any adds on the entire internet anymore

[@craftpaint1644]

Lol

[@volkerwendt3061]

Yeah. they wasted a lot of space here.

[@Ostarrichi996]

@@volkerwendt3061 use AdBlock

[@thefunkosaurus]

A trick.... FF to the end, then replay... Voila!! No ads!

[@joansmith3296]

OMG!! How OLD was this show???

[@charlylimph]

"Air date: February 6, 1994"

[@phatkatracing]

About 2,000,000 hairs ago.

[@jessamyers8761]

Tony looks so different. He is so handsome then and now. Now is better though. I love his voice. I'm an american, I love any accent in Briton or Scotland.

[@fins59]

Who knew Tony Robinson had a mullet back in those days!

[@kungfuasgaeilge]

Wow, delightful quality for such an early episode. They might have researched the Welsh (I don't speak it), but by god did they butcher the Irish. ogham ("oggum") is pronounced 'owum' (all flat vowels), crannóg is as it's spelled. The long (fada means long in Irish and does what it says) accent transforms an 'o' as in 'of' to an 'o' as in 'crow'.

[@ssokolow]

According to the IPA on Wikipedia's "Ogham" article, it depends. As a word in Irish or Old Irish, your pronunciation is roughly correct, but, when it's used as an English loanword, their pronunciation is correct and there seems to have been some dispute over that, because Wikipedia provides a citation for the English IPA which points to the Oxford English Dictionary. (In other words, it's similar to how we say "Japan" which derives from the actual name (Nippon) by a game of telephone from European language to European language.)

[@kungfuasgaeilge]

@@ssokolow By an odd coincidence, just a few hours ago I watched the TT Special episode excavating the crannóg in Scotland! Robinson stuck to his 'egg-nog' pronunciation, while the native Scots said it with a flatter 'a' (same as Irish, or Latin, which you might be more familiar with), almost a schwa for the 'o' and a 'k' for the 'g', but soft and slightly aspirated. Wikipedia gives the Gàidhlig IPA as [ˈkʰɾan̪ˠak], but I'm afraid I can't read IPA fluently enough to decipher it. Certainly their pronunciation is closer to what I guess is accepted British English pronunciation, so that might be what Tony derived it from. I totally get anglicisation of loanwords (I would never pronounce France [fʁɑ̃s] unless speaking French), but as a general rule, if a foreign word is not common enough to be in common parlance, I always try to approximate the proper, i.e. native, pronunciation to the best of my ability. By the way (ignoring the double 's'), do you think I should pronounce your username with a /w/ or a /v/, or somewhere in between? :) Thanks for replying! It's always nice to see other people interested in languages.

[@ssokolow]

@@kungfuasgaeilge > By an odd coincidence, just a few hours ago I watched the TT Special episode excavating the crannóg in Scotland! Huh. I think I've seen that one. I know I saw one about *a* crannóg in Scotland, but I can't remember if it was a special. > (same as Irish, or Latin, which you might be more familiar with) My main areas of familiarity are English (my birth language), French (which I'm trying to find time to get back to learning), and Japanese (which I had an interest in back in high school, but didn't get *that* far on). The rest is just spotty bits and pieces because I'm a trivia sponge with a fascination for human languages, but most of my time is taken up with *computer* languages. > but I'm afraid I can't read IPA fluently enough to decipher it To be honest, I do it infrequently enough that I always have to resort to pulling up the per-language IPA charts Wikipedia offers. > I totally get anglicisation of loanwords (I would never pronounce France [fʁɑ̃s] unless speaking French), but as a general rule, if a foreign word is not common enough to be in common parlance, I always try to approximate the proper, i.e. native, pronunciation to the best of my ability. I'm kind of torn on that one. One the one hand, it makes more sense to be true to the original but, on the other hand, words like "ogham" are examples of changes to make pronunciation follow spelling in an obvious way, which is especially important for little-used words where the reader is unlikely to guess the correct pronunciation. Sort of like how Robert Louis Stevenson should have anticipated that people would start reading "Dr. Jekyll" as "Jeh-kul" (ɛ) rather than "Jee-kul" (iː) as I'm told it's supposed to be. (Don't get me started on how I wish we spelled "naive" as "naïve" and "cooperate" as "coöperate" so that "na-eev" could be distinguished from "knive" in the general case or "co-operate" from "coop-er-ate", or how we have no way to distinguish between voiced and un-voiced "th" sounds in writing. Is "this" the familiar word we know or the first syllable of "thistle"? If we still used þ and ð, we'd have a clean way to write them differently.) > By the way (ignoring the double 's'), do you think I should pronounce your username with a /w/ or a /v/, or somewhere in between? :) SO-kuh-low is how I grew up pronouncing it. (soʊkəloʊ, if I've got my IPA correct.) The "s" is doubled because my name is "S. Sokolow" and that's how I pronounce my nick. > Thanks for replying! It's always nice to see other people interested in languages. Likewise. I get surprisingly few responses on KZbin.

[@bonniebrock5109]

This is definitely one of the earlier ones as the main guy looks at least 6-8 years younger then I've seen him so far on the other videos of Timeline I've watched.

[@bluegent7]

Pleasant people. The country deserves preserving for posterity.

[@safeysmith6720]

“The cross commemorates Gurci, and Bleddius(Bledius/Bled(d)ios?) put it up.” You gotta love those Welsh names!

[@tonyfeuerhelm]

.....I got turned on to this program...then did some serious Binge watching. Never heard or seen this program..(being from California, USA)..having no idea how popular or how many seasons it ran. I am surprised when seeing any of the "Team" before they themselves became the "Archaeology" that they all search for...A.C.Feuerhelm

[@fivecitydirttracker4776]

Ditto Tony on binge watching. Yet never seen Time Team so young. Also CA native. ✌🌅

[@richardlahan7068]

Been binge watching in the US too.

[@TheSWolfe]

@@fivecitydirttracker4776 Same here; 1984 CA transplant.

[@matthewhines9787]

I love Damian. He's like my ideal dude.

[@rickr799]

What year was this filmed? Check out that Mr. Roger's startup kit! Lol

[@SnakeBush]

Time Team: Channel 4 from 1994 to 2014.

[@magpiefrogfrom2556]

season 1 episode 4 6th feb 94

[@revnook]

I was wondering the same thing...dude's got a lot more hair.

[@taylorlibby7642]

Why would they cancel a show this good?

[@_robustus_]

Lotsa folks, education is not dare fing.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Every *Time Team, Time Team Special* and most *Time Team America* programmes have been posted on YT by *Fillask, Reijer Zaaijer* and the _official_ *Time Team* channel. Try *DigVentures* too.

[@Darkboy2525]

Thats where azkaban was build! Without joking, awesome episodes! Never heard of the 'island' before! Really cool

[@BirdWhisperer46]

Burning question and it should be very obvious, why no video for "Boudica"?

[@dustyrusty6840]

You need more than 3 days to do any of this research. Seems in order to accomplish more of any findings, you need to have 3 shifts working around the clock, weather permitting. This is really interesting to watch, and thinking how much you missed with only 3 days to do it.

[@brenttaylordotus]

Don't bother watching I can tell you who built it - The fourth built castle by Prince Herbert's father, the King of Swamp Castle

[@phatkatracing]

But that castle sank into the swamp.

[@phatkatracing]

The replacement also sank into the swamp.

[@phatkatracing]

Even the third one, it burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.

[@REZAULKARIM-yn3mw]

I became more surprised with Tony's hair, how!!! It's really phenomenal🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑😐😇

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Yes, *Tony's* hair is much more important than any archæology. Or not.

[@antoineregis1976]

3:38 could anyone help me find the title of this song?

[@audreymuzingo933]

Just how long was this show on? Tony looks so young in this episode!!

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

I think they went for 20+ years

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@Skyfire_The_Goth Actually exactly 20 years as archæology although a few other programmes were made later - but they're _not_ excavations.

[@chinamanjw]

Corenza 😍😍😍

[@queenmelissalehman3490]

Tony is my fav dude I never seen the hair

[@cmpe43]

So this is where Harry Potter ended up.

[@stevokennedy2383]

PATRICK thats exactly what I was thinking *LoL

[@fivecitydirttracker4776]

Lol

[@k.s.333]

First time I've watched a Season 1 episode.

[@tomliemohn624]

One ring to rule them all.....

[@micklaycock71]

My name's Ben Elton, good night!

[@HarrysHouseChannel]

Alright y'all, I'm going to need to know what the music is on this.

[@chriscomics9415]

Amazing all these older documentary are way more enjoyable than modern ones

[@Dragon.Thistle.112]

Is it just me or does Tony look like a middle aged Harry Potter?

[@BantiarnaMacRaghnaill]

I was under the impression that "ogham" was pronounced, 'ohm'.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@Combat Bananas O' um.

[@klyanadkmorr]

Until the Anglo Saxons came invading after the Romans left and then later NorseVikings - All of British Isles like north west Europe France/Spain were CELTIC &Gaels with similar cultures per tribe region - So OFCOURSE the west of Britain Welsh Celts intermixed with constant migrating or warring Irish like the Scotlands & had similar living styles

[@BantiarnaMacRaghnaill]

@@MelissaThompson432 Thank you

[@brettb.7425]

Oh ok, this is before Phil bought his hat and started sweating in it.

[@virgiljjacas3955]

What year is this episode.

[@jsmcguireIII]

Tony's head looked a bit like a crannog at this time.

[@pinkiesue849]

I am guessing it was a church built out there. If you read John Wesley's Journal, he speaks of Ireland having so many remnants of the churches from St Patrick and his followers, many of them were on islands.

[@frijevc]

After this, its time for some Blackadder.

[@thefather5765]

A real crannogman? Damn

[@stevepearson5950]

So many ad, I felt like I was watching TV again.... 😭🤪

[@Ostarrichi996]

use AdBlocker. you wont get any adds on the entire internet anymore

[@bearbuster157]

Production date?

[@EscanV]

I have a cunning plan

[@NickC_222]

Look at that hair on Tony Robinson!

[@DIEGhostfish]

Did a previous catle catch fire fall down and sink into the lake?

[@4729Punisher]

Omg he's young. And he has hair. Wow

[@panzerabwerkanone]

People said I was daft building a fortress on an island lake but I built it all the same, just to show them, and it sank into the lake. So I built a second one and it too sank. So built a third one. That burned down, fell over and sank into the lake....

[@jrnsurlan405]

panzerabwerkanone I see what you did there.

[@elfpimp1]

So, I'm new to time team, why three days??

[@randyloire9857]

oh dear lord this is old Tony has hair!!

[@steveb1ish]

Mick guided Mrs. Mitchell to his ancient wood as she brought it in...

[@jebise1126]

baldrick!

[@lizycole8999]

46:52 what's up with the chicken?

[@Kanoshe]

actually what year was this? god i miss the 90's early 00's

[@montanatony5838]

94

[@alisterx8698]

Tony looks better with out hair and the glasses

[@craemac]

When the Time Team had hair...

[@desslokbasileus571]

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