The Lost Iron Age Hill Fort At Dinmore | Time Team | Timeline

Aerial photographs and dogged local investigation suggest Dinmore Hill in Herefordshire may have been a vast Iron Age hill fort. Can the diggers find the evidence to confirm this important discovery? With the site covering 40 acres, the team expect no shortage of targets to dig, but a frustrated geophys team can't find a single satisfactory target.
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[@goulash75]

Sometimes I just wish they would revisit sites like this one to learn a bit more. I'm sure TT has been the cause of many much longer & in depth excavations. It would be great for them to go back & find out if their initial theories were correct or somewhat off.

[@anntee9036]

They’ve begun doing this!!

[@Ashley-wi4ng]

man i thought the deadlines in the entertainment business are bad but 3 days to dig a site to prove its worth continuing is wild, what a weird and awesome line of work. Keep on keeping on Baldric love that i stumbled upon this channel because I was Googling what the stars of Blackadder were up to now.

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This video is informative and entertaining. I liked the light, sometimes comedic, banter between these scientists.

[@googiegress7459]

If you want your blackberries cleared out, take a grainy photo of a ditch and call Time Team!

[@ghomerhust]

get the diggers!

[@brandyjean7015]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Cautionary_Tale_Harris]

I was fortunate enough to spend the better part of a year in Oxfordshire. I'm from the very Deep South of the US and it's always somewhat amusing to see how the clothing worn in Herefordshire in July corresponds to the clothing we wear in January.

[@carolinebarnes6832]

I'm a Brit, but lived in Phoenix Arizona for twenty years. In Phoenix a really cold winter's day would have a high of about seventy degrees. In England anything over seventy degrees is a heat wave. As a teenager I remember my grandmother holding onto me and saying, OMG it is so hot I can hardly breathe. The temp? About seventy two, lol.

[@feliciapate7926]

@@carolinebarnes6832 -- 72F? Here in Alabama we pray for days like that. Our summers are usually about 95F with 80%+ humidity. The humidity makes the air feel like pea soup.

[@Bramble451]

It's kind of cool that while neither Francis nor Stewart were right, neither of them were entirely wrong. The end result seems to incorporate aspects from both of their ideas.

[@testname547]

13:41 The scrolling timeline is a Wonderfull feature!

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thanks so much, im enjoying the show.

[@googiegress7459]

This series is a study in the inevitable deterioration of Phil's hat

[@wijjit]

Absolutely agree Googie. That thing gets pretty manky at the end. Sadly you can feel Phil's sadness when he replaces it. That peice of history should be preserved, maybe bronzed in honour of Phil and the Team.

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You gotta love the hat

[@Tawadeb]

That’s how you know what episode you’re on!!

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Lovely! Love this program!

[@munromark1400]

A guess by Francis and Stewart is 100 times better then my guess.

[@sledgehammer9739]

" found something exciting in the woods and he is keen to show it to Bettany" Is that legal?

[@joelfrombethlehem]

Cheeky!

[@private15]

As long as she is willing and interested. Seems that she is happy enough so far but he is making a rather broad suggestion..... 1000, 2000, 3000..?.. 🤫🤫🤣🤣🤣

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@@private15 hahahahaha 😜

[@rickduncan7527]

It would be great to have time team shows from Africa south America ect. There's lots of interesting history in many places

[@johnwathen7320]

I'm Anglo Norman-French my father's side comes from Bristol and my mother's side comes from Soubise, France-this is a really COOL video !!!

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26:33 - _Never seen a man so excited about charcoal._

[@SindreGaaserod]

Fantastic episode

[@Tawadeb]

Iron Age stuff is fascinating

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Keep on postin'.

[@radianman]

Dinmore sounds like an old British Celtic (i.e., Welsh) name , e.g., din or dun=a fortified hill or town (dinas in modern Welsh), + more=large or big (mawr in modern Welsh/Cymraeg). Given the name, I would not be surprised to find a large hill fort there.

[@armyvet8279]

I found this fascinating.

[@jenniferlaurensmom]

Fantastic

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Nice video about last irony stage of British history its enjoying video from historical channel time line...

[@mariansmith7694]

LOL, Tony's strangely washed jeans are funny.

[@dennisfrank6308]

Hello Marian. . I like the video... How are you doing?

[@sranje3000]

Just imagine the terror those people must have faced if they needed to dig through the rocks with toothpicks in order to create a more safe place to live.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@estevaocunha5302]

The famous English rain, no doubt because England is a country of much green landscape... with so much rain what country wouldn't? There is still so much to discover, so much history...

[@L0j1k]

OMG Bettany Hughes got it GOIN ON bruh.

[@markgarin6355]

There were several curves in the data from the geophizzy stuff, but he didn't seem concerned about those.

[@sranje3000]

Tony: How did it go? Francis: 😃 John: Not very well. Francis: 😐

[@tiffd516]

Ive always wondered what happens after the taping is done. Its not like they just close it all up and walk away, do they? Please tell me that they turn it over to a museum team to finish up.

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Looks like Seattle in June

[@dennisfrank6308]

Hello Stef... maybe it is.. How are you doing?

[@kimfleury]

Well that was interesting.

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Tony the ultimate presenter

[@alisterx8698]

At 4:15 I’m pretty sure they also cut those rocks at Sharpe angles so if you do try to climb up it would be like trying to climb a cheese grater.

[@scottthecamper2110]

Same thing with Holecombe Hill near Ramsbottom...

[@albertamirais254]

I love tony!!

[@chiseldrock]

Where's Mick when tou need him? rip Yoda Mick

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Nice topsoil

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24:46 Oh dear ...

[@Tawadeb]

I do like Francis Pryor

[@0328320]

"crikey" Reminded me of Steve Irwin XD

[@theCosmicQueen]

Q: so, if that was the iron age, are we now in the steel age? They just said the hill fort could be 6000 years ago- isn't that the Bronze age? copper age (chalcolithic)? maybe could have been used for all the above.

[@philjohnson1744]

There were more testy attitudes on display than I've yet seen from the team.

[@SkatersHeaven]

Rain will do that.

[@coppertopv365]

Needed more time because of the rain

[@steveb1ish]

"Jackie? may i come in your trench?" Tony asks as he jumps in her huge ditch.

[@joelfrombethlehem]

Cheeky! Cheeky British humor/humour.

[@joelfrombethlehem]

Ha! Ha! Ha! A sexual innuendo!

[@johnbreckenridge2264]

The fact that it s a parable is mind-blowing...

[@markcopsey4729]

Does Dinmore come from Welsh dun mawr, large fort?

[@davidhocde007]

En gaulois, a dun is a fort, like Verdun, the big fort. En Breton, it's a din, like Dinan, the small fort...

[@dennisfrank6308]

Hello Mark

[@BabylonNov2009]

The native Irish speaker in me instantly thinks “so you’ve found what’s probably the largest of the local hill forts in the area. The name Dinmore (“large hill” in most Celtic variants) didn’t do it for you?” Also a river (Lug) named after a major Celtic deity flowing past the front door should ring a bell that you’re by a significant site.

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Canadian gal "digging" your program.

[@spankyoulater]

Does he live in that cockpit?

[@ydnsr3699]

Lol no it's same intro as all others Be awesome if he for some reason he did that everytime

[@spankyoulater]

@@ydnsr3699 yeah that's why I was like , he might as well lol

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For god's sake Dan!!!!! don't even mention Schlock masters Netflix.

[@RobKoelman]

Ehm, between 09:00 and 10:31 I only see a black screen. ?????

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kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJKnf2doet-Ymtk no black screen overhere

[@briannaneff4717]

The fact that it is nearly circular, and thought to be a meeting place for large numbers of people, reminds me of the "Round Table" from the King Arthur tales. King Arthur was believed to have around 1200 knights if I remember correctly. Pretty sure they'd all fit in such structure for congregations. Fascinating if you think of it that way.

[@TrondOleJensen]

Why only 3 days ? Is there some kind of law in the UK that prohibit archeology for more than 3 days?

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[@claraedouwesdekker6389]

I don’t want to be too negative ...... He could have fooled me!,

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

"Me last lesson's on Friday."

[@larrystenger1247]

No ancient tea pots? Can't be in the UK.

[@admiralpercy]

Why on earth don't you use shoring in the ditches??

[@thedarkmoon2341]

Where does all the mud come from?

[@Haraldsvensk]

Why do they only have 3 days on them?

[@philiproseel3506]

Where is Mick? I thought this was his wheelhouse...?

[@RobertShyanNorwalt]

What no one says is “yet.” Three days and a few ditches?

[@jvs9467]

Francis ... The archaeologist who's always wrong🧙🏼‍♂️

[@wanderwoman5558]

I just love Francis....such an outreaching personality and imagination .....you gotta fill in the blanks...eh?

[@karlkarlos3545]

And where exactly was he wrong, smartass? He was right with almost everything.

[@Wanker527]

So we have to dig a ditch...to see if it looks like a ditch was there? Got it.

[@JamesDoylesGarage]

Why do you guys only get 3 days!? Does English people get 4 day week ends?

[@katerinakemp5701]

The archeologists work at universities and on their own longtime digs, hence 3 day digs, however other diggers will sometimes continue after they leave if something of importance has been discovered.

[@outinthesticks1035]

Could be they get a week , two days for the weekend , one to travel there , three to dig and one to travel back

[@joashcruz6263]

What

[@hellavadeal]

How come when they do not know what the people were doing there, it is called a "religious center"?

[@Bramble451]

While it's true that religion gets pointed at too much, I don't think it's entirely wrong either. (Although I really think Francis from TT goes overboard with it.) Today we live in a world of "separation of church and state", but that's not the normal model for human societies. Even today, you can go to rural villages throughout the world where almost everything people do is in some way guided by religious ritual. Even our own calendar has a Christian religious festival for almost every day of it, we just aren't familiar with most of them anymore. So market places, "meet-and-greets", etc. probably gained religious significance simply by virtue of being a place where people met. So you'd chop up some animals for a feast, and have somebody perform some religious ritual to make sure they had the blessings of the gods not to zap them with lightning. Similarly, on other episodes, we've learned that unmistakable temple grounds could also serve as trading places during festivals.

[@hellavadeal]

@@Bramble451 Could have been anything. A military training camp, a farmers market, a place where the settled disputes in ritual combat. But no evidence of anything but a wall and a trench , therefore religious sight.

[@davidhocde007]

There are no centers without any bits of religion.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Because many things point to it, that's why. This kind of comments always make me roll my eys. If in 4000 years some archeologist would excavate a Church and trying to make sense of its features, some smartass would complain: Why have they always come up with"religious center"?

[@hellavadeal]

@@karlkarlos3545 Many things??? A dead goat that someone cooked?

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

"I don't want to be too negative." Tony, I think you are lying here. You love to be too negative.

[@MatthewB-Kornafel-xv6oi]

All mud flooded tartaria. They are standing on skull and bones from the millions who died in the 1750-1800 from the world reset. Ty controllers.

[@valiantredneck]

01:25 Get bent.

[@jockellis]

It’s pouring cats and dogs. If you don’t know to down a pint you ain’t British.

[@gracenr3342]

@sledge hammer - Really? That's the direction you want to take this? Grow up

[@tdh0903]

Stop having your cover photo looking the same. Makes all the episodes look the same.

[@aserta]

I know the shtick of the show is 3 days, but come on. In situations where the weather is adverse, it should be delayed, or even forecast planned to avoid. There's quite a few episodes where this has happened. It's not just the fact that the dig suffers, but also that the diggers suffer as well, one of them could get a cold or worse pneumonia. This is the one thing i don't like about the show.

[@townview5322]

To give up and wait for better weather? That just isn't British!!

[@marcusjohnbondurajr]

Weird Francis says he likes simple explanations around 4030ish into this video yet on that documentary he is in about the Saxons he says the exact opposite that you have to question the simple explanations and the validity of them. Or something like that so I’m a bit confused if he knows what he’s actually talking about or if he’s just blowing rancid gangrenous taint juice out his torn hemorrhoid gooch. Bring Brung Bring Napoleon /!: and Stewart’s ranch dressing taint.

[@middleagecrazy4234]

Tickles me when they say something like this area is over 3000 years old. I tend to want to shake my head thinking duh, millions. We humans are just visitors. Early early generations probably were very careful at leaving any traces to the unknown lol.

[@weaselrippedmyflesh]

Wow! They found rocks and dirt.

[@robotslug]

This is gonna be a re-upload with the several minutes of blackscreen.

[@barbarab.8613]

As usual, Francis doesn't have a clue! Totally clueless, always totally clueless, why is he there?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

How small is it?

[@edgeplay4205]

14 mins in and you do not deserve a new series. The site is contained in a three-quarters bend in the river. This means that besides the river, the easiest defense is at the neck ! That is where you should be digging for defences. Anything else can be intermediate ramparts, worn roadways, waste water courses etc. 20 mins in and they knew the previous day it was going to rain 25 ml yet they did nothing to cover the trenches.

[@jackhuffman9313]

i think this is an early form of a crop circle

[@steveb1ish]

Phil persuades Rakshar to trim back the undergrowth around her mound before exposing the interior of her trench.

[@wilfredjurassicyes]

Did somebody finally talk to him about those nails?

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Don't much like Bettany, most of these people are fairly open and straightforward, her snottiness taints it for me.

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[@zicada7661]

I'm so sick of this intro. If you really are so privileged, make more intros, if not please spare us. You got these cheap and slapped this intro in front whoop de do what a wonderful gig

[@mordeys]

does you device not let you fast forward through it?.

[@Bramble451]

Anti-anxiety meds are cheap.

[@outinthesticks1035]

This was a tv series , every tv series I have ever seen , they played their intro before each episode