The Last Outpost Of The Roman Empire | Time Team | Timeline

Another close-up look at the process of archaeological discovery - at Ribchester, Lancashire, a site which, for the first 100 years of Roman rule in Britain, was part of the northern frontier, an inhospitable location where all that separated the invaders from the hostile tribesmen were ditches and forts.
Working against the clock, the Time Team reveal by excavation a unique piece of military engineering that holds the key to just how the Roman army survived - around AD100 - in this remote outpost of the Empire.
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[@goodgriefwhatarelief8899]

I like how slow-paced this episode feels in comparison with newer shows

[@leeavalondick9531]

Finding such old footage must have required a fair bit of Archaeology in itself.

[@danisyx5804]

Archive archeology

[@kaylacarter2010]

For sure I hardly recognized them at all compared to the more recent vids

[@andrews9715]

I think i must have watched the whole series about four times. R.I.P Mick Aston.

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

Tony Robinson with hair looks so... alternate dimensiony.

[@DisAlex666]

more Baldricky, lol

[@PhoenixLyon]

LOL Too true! I started watching this and wondered who had replaced Tony....Then realized that WAS Tony! Wow. It isn't often that you can see changes over years with TV folks. Such a pity that America lacks such high quality, educational, yet entertaining, television programming. Alas, Time Team America did not last a whole season. ✌

[@danisyx5804]

Baldrick!

[@Oldwhiteguy]

It’s rented

[@danisyx5804]

@@PhoenixLyon that could probably have to do with the fact that anything that might have been here was very few exceptions was destroyed by the last ice age or simply hasn't held over very well and South America just really isn't the kind of place for film crews as you are just as likely to end up dead and have your equipment stolen as you are to produce a television show which is why we see so little come out of South America of course we can probably blame North America for that problem

[@KeikoKeepSmiling]

Tony Robinson with Sasuke hair? My day has been made.

[@giantred]

This made me Naruto run with joy xD

[@Missangie827]

I hope Jim has those beautiful drawings framed and displayed. Victor added so much to this series and rarely said anything. RIP Victor and Mick.

[@garryadamson8507]

What the... a show created in the UK about the UK which cannot be viewed in the UK?!?! What genius thought that one up? Thank goodness for VPN.

[@katiekat4457]

garry adamson i have the app for KZbin. If I got a VPN could I still use the app or would I need to go through Safari with a VPN? Does it matter what VPN I should use? Or are they all basically the same? Would I lose Safari and Google if I used a VPN. As you can tell I am technology challenged.

[@garryadamson8507]

@@katiekat4457 Personally I use savefrom.net, there is an plugin for most browsers but of late it hasn't worked all that well and I end up having to copy and paste the URL into their web site to get anything downloaded. As for which VPN, I just use whatever they built into Opera, seems to work well enough.

[@garryadamson8507]

@@katiekat4457 Figures, just found a fix for savefrom.net on my system after saying it was having issues. Seems that the cached data for youtube was causing the plugin to go haywire. Cleared the cached youtube data and its working fine now.

[@Gargoyle_Guy]

Damn Tony looks so young, I didn't even recognize him until he started talking.

[@musicallydisneyamvs6731]

GargoyleGuy right?!

[@THENAFERATU]

PHIL THOUGH

[@1D991]

Same!

[@oitsamy]

Oh, my. They are all so young! What a great series.

[@GentTX]

Why cant History Channel have shows like this?

[@thepunadude]

CUZ THESE ARE BRITISH ...

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

The history channel sold out to reality TV years ago. And PBS tried an American version of this show. It was short lived.

[@patriciahadley2374]

Tony Robinson is so tremendously perfect for this role, though I must admit that the first time I saw him I found him rather irritating and a little sarcastic. Now I adore him...his intersting questions and his running around the fields flapping his arms like a baby bird learning to fly. His boyish enthusiasm is very stimulating. Bravo Tony!

[@HeadR47]

Dude looks like Harry Potter in this one.

[@clioflano421]

@@HeadR47 you should check out episode 1 series 1 his hair is charcoal black and he has round wizardie spectaculs

[@ant697]

This is the second episode of time team aired 23 January 1994

[@PhoenixLyon]

Wow. So glad I found this one! I've seen many of the older episodes, including Mick's passing. 😿

[@heenanyou]

@@PhoenixLyon Mick passed away during an episode?

[@PhoenixLyon]

@@heenanyou No, sorry if I made it seem that way. After he passed, the Time Team crew did a special in his memory. This group of folks truly impress me. Not only are they very well educated in their various fields, the enthusiasm was felt by me when I watched (okay, binge-watched [the shows on You Tube,]) half a world away, and many years after their original airing, and nothing was lost. Now, it's time to go find the episodes from 1994 and on. ✌♥️

[@heenanyou]

@@PhoenixLyon You had me worried there for a minute. And I too must confess to binge-watching this show. I never get enough of it. Having a bad memory helps my enjoyment as I can still be surprised...

[@PhoenixLyon]

@@heenanyou I can relate to that! 😸 I have always loved archeology, and the crew of Time Team always made things interesting. Loved all the experimental archaeology they did. ✌😸

[@denniscleary7580]

You guys are great, anything Roman Empire. Hadrian’s Wall was quite magnificent 👍

[@1D991]

This is so painfully '90s. Also Tony has HAIR!

[@movingpicutres99]

Thank you so much for this. It is wonderful !

[@kevinrauber8117]

very nice show, i like the oldschoolish vibe, informing done in a lovely way, thx

[@josephstalin4143]

If I'm not wrong,the centurion is the same centurion in a Lindybeige Roman soldier video .

[@32dras]

I just love that modern mideval tune :D I thought I watched all Time Team episode, but I guess I was wrong, this one is first timer for me.

[@james5460]

They wouldn't have worn their armor when digging ditches. They were Roman, they weren't stupid.

[@rachelpatten8889]

Mick to Tony, “Oh, you are a misery!” Such great camaraderie.

[@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.

[@dr5117]

So young, so young. It's almost sad to watch. But Carenza looks the same, bless her!

[@HyPnOsS1933]

When tony Robinson still had hair an a earring 😆😆

[@odyshopody9387]

This must have been late 80's early 90's. I don't think I've seen any of these guy's looking so young!

[@anttitheinternetguy3213]

Not to mention how unironically stylish The clothes are 😳👏🏼

[@kayleeriley3591]

LOL I’m not sure which season this episode is from but the show started in 94 and incredibly it ran until 2014

[@darycooking3806]

Amazing place!

[@johnmullens2857]

I wonder if he still has cunning plans..

[@CanChikMay]

Second time watching this to learn about the romans!

[@marionhulspas1391]

Very interesting

[@davidlavigne207]

This is a very fascinating episode concerning the history of Rome in Britain's past. As an American viewer I am also amazed at the number of different dialects of English spoken by the different members of the cast. I wish I knew more about how to identify where these people are from in the UK. Can anyone help?

[@paulmentzer7658]

American accent regions are even stranger. The single largest local accent is Western Pennsylvania and into northern West Virginia and Eastern Ohio but not North of I-80. The Eastern border is debatable, many days it is Allegheny Mountain, which is also the Eastern Continental divide (east of Allegheny Mountain rivers flows into the Atlantic Ocean, west of Allegheny Mountain Rivers flows into the Gulf of Mexico). The other Eastern Border is Blue Mountain, or the first mountain ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. Between Allegheny and Blue Mountain you have a low population rural areas that have slight difference to the dialect in Western Pennsylvania but minor. Thus some liquests consider the dialect between those two mountains one dialect, others a slight sub dialect. The worse part of the Western Pennsylvania dialect is it matches up with the Bituminous (soft) coal region of Western Pennsylvania. Basically the coal miners moved all over Western Pennsylvania and into Ohio and West Virginia to work the coal fields of the Pittsburgh seam of coal. This made the people start to sound alike more then any other similar region on the USA. The Steel Workers of Western Pennsylvania were also known to work the farms and coal mines of the same area, further strengthening the use of one dialect in Western Pennsylvania. The rest of the USA have smaller or larger dialect regions but each region have sub dialect, which in Western Pennsylvania is only found in the Mountains. Just a comment on dialects and there are dialect maps of the US on line, most show the Western Pennsylvania dialect as its own small dialect region for it does not fit in with the dialects of Eastern Pennsylvania, Up state New York State, the East Coast of Maryland and Virginia and most of West Virginia South of Morgantown West Virginia (through West Virginia has been influence by coal miners going to West Virginia from older coal fields in Western Pennsylvania).

[@davidlavigne207]

@@paulmentzer7658 Indeed Sir, American (North) dialects are prodigious and colorful. Where I grew up in Massachusetts there are at least five distinct dialects. One is in and around the city of Boston, another spoken on the North Shore. People from the northwestern region speak very much as do the folks from New Hampshire, whereas speakers near the border of Vermont are influenced by the sounds of that state. I lived in the southwest area which borders Connecticut and I tended to have that type of dialect in my speech patterns. I currently reside in Tennessee and have for well over twenty years. My family back home say that I have developed a southern accent which is spoken in the mid state region. I have discovered at least six distinct accents in Tennessee so far, but believe that there are many sub-dialects as well. Thanks for you interesting response

[@vapingotter7518]

Phil is from the North. Its opposite to us here in the States. Where our Southerners have a drawl their northerners have something similar.

[@clioflano421]

Not only are the British accent British but this is before the accent became polluted with Americanism's.with thatl said it would be the younger presenters of today in TV that have that Americanism etc etc. Where the British accent is diluted now.

[@clioflano421]

@@paulmentzer7658 very interesting.

[@Bongwater33]

Did you say - Biggus Ditchus??

[@sbenton62]

I'm in the US, first time seeing this. Phil with the long hair, accent sounds like Sam Gamgee in the LOTR films :D. Very interesting program; can't imagine finding such history in one's garden.

[@Doiknowyou566]

On the subject of garden finds, Britain has a lot less landmass compared to the US, making it easier as things tend to be ALOT closer together. Also there’s a lot of history to find, with civilisation going back a long way.

[@sbenton62]

@@Doiknowyou566 I couldn't agree more. Britain has a great deal of history and I am glad to see that others have taken pains to uncover, explore and preserve it.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@mick7even]

I think, and I’m no producer, but when you introduce Phil you should mention his short shorts. Making archaeology sexy 😂

[@KombatFlix]

Tony Robinson . OG ✊🏿.

[@JDSFLA]

This video has a post date of July 28, 2019 but it has the feel of the late 1980's to it - car models in town, the poor resolution, the dress of people. It makes me wonder when it was made.

[@miccal99]

Someone above said it's from 1994

[@Missangie827]

it's the first half of the 90's

[@mandywalkden-brown7250]

It says 1994 in the credits at the end.

[@edvvardcash6109]

That country looks so beautiful

[@micklaycock71]

I thought Phil had just let himself go in his twilight years, watching this it appears I was wrong.

[@mick7even]

Someone please tell me how to get Jim’s artwork or did I mean victor? I’ve watched too many of these out of order. Tony has hair…he doesn’t…, but he is a great emcee

[@NjK601]

You should put that Tony Robinson is in this in the title, would definitely draw more people to it and it deserves to be viewed by a wider audience, we don't get these kind of shows anymore (at least not in Canada/North America) and the only time history isn't showing something like Pawn Starts/American Pickers or Ice Road Truckers is if it is a day or week leading up to a big event like 9/11, The Somme and Normandy Invasion

[@PhoenixLyon]

What's sad is, consider the general IQ of those who enjoy that type of programming. Frightening, isn't it? ✌😸

[@NjK601]

@@PhoenixLyon That is a good point, I didn't mind them at first but didn't realize it would be a trend to takeover the network and that there would be 10+ seasons, same with the gold hunting shows, they somehow just manage to keep reeling people in for the next season when if any major discovery had been made it would be announced months before in the news when the shows are actually filmed

[@PhoenixLyon]

@@NjK601 I rather had a feeling when MTV started with 'reality TV', and lost the 'Music' part of TV, that things were going downhill for intelligent programs. Case in point; "Time Team America" (yes, it did exist) didn't even last an entire season. Sad. ✌😸

[@evil_regal]

@@NjK601went from History Channel to Reality TV channel

[@katiekat4457]

NjK you are right! A show like this would be great. All the channels suck now; MTV, VH1, TLC, Discovery, History, and so many more just do reality TV about ordinary, not that interesting people.

[@ena81xx]

Back when Tony was 13 years old. :)

[@lisakaz35]

When Rowan Atkinson was still thinking about another Blackadder series.

[@daviddesmondlee]

1:13 Damn for a moment I thought it was Sean Bean

[@miccal99]

This seems so...mellow compared to the later series.

[@clioflano421]

The history teacher reading the letter smacks of Jim'll fix it...Dear Jim...!!

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

That property owner sounds like Nigel Mansell. lol

[@ch1pnd413]

Carenza looks exactly the same as she does today... it’s like she forgot to age with the rest of the crew lol

[@SatumainenOlento]

Ageless archeologist :) She will be digging up stuff few more centuries :D

[@admiralpercy]

What do you mean when you say geophysics

[@chinamanjw]

Corenza😍😍

[@chilla7893]

Wow, I didn't recognise Tony on the thumbnail.

[@destubae3271]

Tony's dressed up like Flanders going on a jog. 1992?

[@jslay88]

Always baffles me that we ever thought these clothes and fashion were ever in style.

[@beckettman42]

Well i think what we have here is what is known as a 'plotter. It dates to time when people still sometimes wore neon.

[@kayleeriley3591]

I don’t care what year it is I will wear neon whenever I damn well please LOL❤ but maybe I’m the weird one 😂

[@aeonhelendale8777]

That hair made this episode ^.^

[@lindahughes2289]

YAY !!!

[@dsloop3907]

When was this originally aired?

[@ant697]

This was only the second episode aired on 23 January 1994

[@jrhandley]

What book was the host quoting from?

[@mandywalkden-brown7250]

Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science by Flavius Vegetius Renatus

[@jrhandley]

@@mandywalkden-brown7250 thanks

[@casstevenson203]

RIP mick man AND VICTOR

[@aishaboy]

80's episode gang.

[@jl696]

The guy with the long hair almost has a southern US accent. I wonder what region he's from and if that region had some influence on the colonists in the Southern US.

[@Missangie827]

as a southerner I never have trouble understanding British accents and many of the phrasings are similar- we say 'reckon' all the time too- Georgia was named after the King of England and lots of us have ancestors who were sent here when it was a penal colony

[@katerinakemp5701]

I suspect you are referring to uncle Phil, Wiltshire lad from the land of The Stonehenge south England.

[@jimjones1130]

I'm telling my kids this was Fabio

[@Brzcastas]

They look 30 yrs older back then.

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

I think Kath and Phil go to the same hairdresser.

[@101MRSPICE]

Last outpost surely that was Hadrian’s Wall???

[@amad1985]

24:00 flying low

[@katiekat4457]

amad1985 lol now we know where you look when you talk to people. I have a bad habit of looking there but I guess I don’t look there as much as I thought I did. Didn’t notice until I read your comment.

[@Lurker1979]

Does he have a cunning plan?

[@Thoth_al_Khem]

Oh FFS.....How NOT original can you get?

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Call tine team to dig up bones and they always manged to dig up stuff in the neighbors yard plus 10 miles away.

[@fionnagrant6636]

Sounds like the voice of experience. Tell us more.

[@RobKoelman]

If the property owner with the roman walls in his garden would have been speaking twice as fast, they could have spend at least an extra 10 minutes on archaeology...

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Wow look at all that hair - and not even that grey!

[@bradhanrahan1729]

Omg look at that hair

[@skipsabin7157]

TONY WITH HAIR? WOW YOU THINK A GROWING YOUR HAIR BACK SPONSER WOULD BE INVO;DED...

[@thomashernandez8700]

350 years later. you mean?

[@AmBotanischenGarten]

Alright geniuses, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE RED BOOK at 42:52:

[@katiekat4457]

Victor A. 8:54 the name is; Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science (translated with notes and introduction by N.P. MILNER). It also says Liverpool University on it.

[@bonniebrock5109]

The book should be called 'Roman Forts For Dummies". LOL.........Just joking.

[@Curdle7]

Liam neeson

[@Fush1234]

Isn’t ageing cruel.

[@simonk5571]

it was probabaly ran by local conscripted soldiers

[@lindahughes2289]

Yup, TONY IS A MISERY , 100 %.