The Lost Viaduct | FULL EPISODE | Time Team

[@paulcampbell5202]

I wish Time Team had made a coffee table book of all the lovely colour drawings that Victor did of all the various sites they worked on -I would have bought a copy as soon as it came out!

[@Pavewy]

This is an incredibly good idea. Now that I think about it, I wonder what they did with all of Victor's fantastic drawings?

[@Heegaherger]

Seconded.

[@maxschon7709]

Would be a great idea. In the digital age a book you can hold in you hands it much more interesting.

[@richardsanchez9190]

That be a good way to raise money to revive the show.

[@carrollswartz1075]

Victor does have a book. Go to the Time Team website.

[@KCsFunHouse]

Phil’s joy after they opened the Time Team logo showed so much of the inner child he has! I loved that huge laugh it was fantastic

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

The sad tone in his voice at the end of every dig always gets to me.

[@draven3838]

This was an awesome video for that viaduct to survive under all the weight of waste rubble and dirt is a true testament to how good of a quality of work they did back then. Amazing

[@653j521]

Amazing? Is this your first dig? They are always finding stonework.

[@jim3394]

Part of the reason I love this show is the unapologetic glorification of total nerds and geeks, which I love :)

[@josephdelisle73]

To bad every 2 minutes a commercial this is more than cable TV 🤨

[@jeeleal5084]

@@josephdelisle73 use opera browser as it has a bloody good ad blocker that blocks ALL of youtube adverts, not to mention its powerful built in VPN

[@tazclnsts7093]

@@josephdelisle73 fast forward through whole video then hit replay. most if not all ads disappear 😉

[@richardsanchez9190]

They have a certified Geake too

[@paul1fuz]

@@tazclnsts7093 you da real mvp.

[@Gremriel]

Time Team, the people who can make digging up a massive landfill entertaining.

[@BlackIjs]

This beats the hell out of Geraldo Rivera's search for Al Capone's vault!

[@alisapugh1474]

😂😂😂👍

[@lancehunziker5725]

Phil could find Hoffa.

[@richardwhite3177]

🤣🤣🤣

[@RamblinJer]

I almost forgot about that, lol

[@karenklnck1377]

The only thing Rivera digs for is sensationalism.

[@effen_aey_man]

Time team- Digs for 3 days and finds nothing Also Time team- Digs for 3 hours on the final day and finds exactly what they were looking for The love you guys have for archeology is infectious and really makes learning these kinds of things fun, I live in America and I would have never known about a lot of the things I've been learning from this show if it wasn't for you guys so thanks

[@classiclife7204]

I like the elderly couple arguing about where they used to live

[@oscodains]

That argument went on all week, it’ll never be settled 😂.

[@bastiennietveld7128]

Loool!!! I'm a railway conductor and some months ago I heard an elderly couple arguing about 'where their train would leave. I had to say to the lady ; ''I'm very sorry madam ; but for once your husband is right !" I think she wanted me dead but the husband had à Big Big smile !!!

[@RamblinJer]

My great grandfather was 11 years old when he went into the coal mines. He'd only been working for 2 weeks when a rockfall crushed his dad, my 2nd great grandfather. His dad broke his back and was bedridden for about 2 weeks before he died. That was in 1903 and not my only grandfather or relative killed in the mines.

[@ivanolsen7966]

sorry .... seems meaningless ...... but I hear you

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

Our great grandfathers lived hard lives. I lost 2 3rd great grandfathers in the American civil war, one from measles and another who survived the war only to drown in the Mississippi River walking home from the war when less than 50 miles from home. It hurt my heart to read about yours. We have it easy compared to them. 😢

[@653j521]

@@YvonneWatson-ff5ex Although not easier than the managers or owners?

[@HiraethMasonry]

The ads on the iPhone YT app were insufferable. So, I downloaded an ad blocker and watched on my web browser. Definitely worth it. For an American historian, these British shows are like a breath of air to a suffocating man.

[@rhus36]

This is the only time team that’s made me truly sad. Not only did the industrial revolution completely change every aspect of that landscape, people’s homes were covered with thousands of tons of garbage and a valley was lost forever.

[@tamcon72]

As an environmentalist, this one gave me enormous anxiety. So much garbage. So much. Obliterating valleys.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

If that makes you sad, don't check out the Ruhr area mining.

[@goodpplz123]

I’m addicted to time team. I can’t stop watching episodes since I discovered it. I wish US TV was like this. Normal, unpretentious people uncovering the vast history of the Isles. I’ve learned so much. I can identify Roman Samian ware by sight now. I am now planning a trip to England in the future to see all the wonderful archaeology and museums. Thank you to Tony,Mick(RIP), Phil, Carenza, Stuart, Victor, Guy, Raksha, and so many more wonderful intelligent people. You actually learn from this show compared to all the fake stuff on The “History” Channel, Discovery, and The “Learning” Channel.

[@Case2_0]

A good show is Restoration Road on Magnolia Network. It just started and it’s a guy going around documenting historic buildings being restored and a lot of them use the old ways to do it.

[@graceamerican3558]

@@Case2_0 Thank you. I’ll have to look that up.

[@graceamerican3558]

Time Team makes me want to skip to the Isles and follow them around with a trowel. 😅

[@karenklnck1377]

Something that showed up in the 'related episodes' on the side (that I haven't had time to chase down yet) is something called American Time Team. They only list 2 4-part (8 shows?) episodes, but there may be more. Part of America's problem, though, is that we've tended to destroy past works as unimportant until fairly recently. A lot of times there's maybe a line in some unread tome, if that.

[@653j521]

The best stuff is online. No need to expect tv to come up with enough viewers to make a show like this economically viable.

[@maxschon7709]

Again a huge "Thumbs up" for Tony. He asked always those right questions the viewerv would also ask them just now seening the show. Who do we this when we looking for this??? Best moderators are representing the viewers and Tony did that!

[@tommink8379]

Tony does have an obvious interest and expertise in representing the layman even after years of experience... but I wonder how much footage was edited to produce a coherent narrative. You can spot the nudges when there's graphics and voice overs added later

[@aserta]

@@tommink8379 Hey, they saved Star Wars (the original) in the editing room, so the editors and those who direct them are an integral part. Can't always get the right words, answers, and they'd lose hours if they tried to direct everything on site. Already, the show loses a lot of time because it was made for TV. In three days, had it been just for the digs, they would uncover quite a bit more.

[@grantmorrow8179]

I 'found' this series only a few days ago and have watched several episodes since, each is fascinating. This one, however, sent a shiver up my spine with its ending. Knowing the history of the Welsh miners and their vocal abilities, to hear the choirs, still in fine form, was amazing, even if I am half way around the world. Congrats Tony and the team, splendid work, splendid presentations..

[@ThePixel1983]

Why the quotation marks around "found"? Did the KZbin video "fall off the back of a truck"? 😉

[@grantmorrow8179]

@@ThePixel1983 No, I found/discovered/came across it. Although it was not lost, found is an appropriate way to describe the method by which I was able to view it.

[@YannaTarassi]

Welcome to the Time Team Family! :)

[@guinevere4365]

I’ve watched hundreds of episodes since finding them decades ago-it is a part of my life now at 75-family!!

[@PtolemyJones]

Wow, Victor is simply amazing, so talented. Unsung in this show, but he adds so much to it. And I think I have now seen Phil involved the three different kinds of metal working.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

I absolutely adore Sir Tony. I love how he breaks down the facts so it’s understandable and relatable. Also whenever he is around children I love how engaging he is with them.

[@ruthfarlow2892]

My parents and I spent so many happy years watching Time Team. Sadly they are both gone now but I still enjoy watching past episodes

[@BIendtecc]

Waaat :(

[@seanpaula8924]

One thing I have learned from Time Team is, any 2 out of 3 days in Great Britain, plan on rain. Easy for the weatherman. ☔☔🌞

[@barryyoung6159]

I read below from James White " Normal, unpretentious people uncovering the vast history of the Isles" and from J Im "Part of the reason I love this show is the unapologetic glorification of total nerds and geeks" . The Tony, Phil, Mick era is some of the most wonderful television I've seen. It is the record of "a kind of magic" that occurs very rarely. The program doesn't stop at the entertainment and engagement it offers. It has been responsible for uncovering so much previously unknown information about the history of the UK (and sometimes other countries), a great investment and return. I am delighted to see John, Stewart, Carenza, Matt and the rest of the team members both old and new in new episodes ⭐

[@Dovietail]

I really like the industrial age content. It's different and very interesting!

[@BlitzMekanika]

The size of that hole and the heavy machinery. This had to be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive time team dig on record.

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I love the Choral Group at the end. If you ever watched the classic HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, the miners always sang on their way home.

[@mermeridian2041]

Love seeing the photos of the workers - really nice touch.

[@Brinta3]

This industralisation of England and the ruining of the landscape is what inspired Tolkien to write about Orthanc and the Scouring of the Shire.

[@jdunaway38]

I have been obsessed with your Time Team, I absolutely love it!! This episode rocked, unbelievable that you guys actually FOUND IT!! Pure awesomeness from a fan in Washington State, USA

[@musicscores439]

Same bro, it was so cool when they lowered a camera in there and we could actually see what was inside! I would kill to see the whole thing excavated!

[@jdunaway38]

Louie Butterworth right?!? And I’m a woman bro Lol. It’s cool

[@stiannobelisto573]

@@jdunaway38 😂😂

[@charleseinarson]

Make that 2 from Washington that love this show!

[@thequeendt]

Make that 3 from Washington ! :)

[@Graybaggins]

Every bit as interesting as your stuff covering several thousands of years ago. Love yer work.

[@KCsFunHouse]

I just love this show! I wish the US looked at our history so realistically, the good and the bad.

[@nicolejosan6364]

What would one unearth in the US? Arrowheads? All the history in "the old world" is... well OLD :) In the new world, there is only a LOT of history in south America, but near to nothing in the US.

[@nicolawebb6025]

@@nicolejosan6364 nonsense, of course there's stuff to find. Wherever there have been people there is archeology and history

[@MH-ms1dg]

@@nicolejosan6364 that couldn't be farther from the truth it's not only uninformed about the wealth of Native American deposits from societies like the Mississippian and Anasazi but it also ignores all the archaeology from* white settlement onward (very much including everyone else too) look at the African Burial Ground, or the Five Points Irish archaeology project in NYC alone

[@nicolejosan6364]

@@nicolawebb6025 leather and wood are difficult to find though.

[@653j521]

@@nicolawebb6025 People posting here always assume if they don't know about something it doesn't exist. 😀

[@richardtorz2164]

I seen where Wales finally unearthed the entire tramway viaduct there, in all it's glory, it is a majestic sight to see in pictures, would love one day to see it up front and personal.

[@suppersdinner119]

Do you have a link to photos?

[@michaelomalley1856]

well they filled it in so where are these photo's you speak of?

[@nicolejosan6364]

This particular site hasn't been excavated again till now. Maybe at some time in the future they will get around to do it, but I doubt it.

[@Sean_Coyne]

What a fabulous episode. I found all of this totally fascinating, and the Welsh choir at the end brought tears to my eyes.

[@philroberts7238]

The Welsh choir had the same effect on me....very strange! I think it may have had something to do with the triumph of the human spirit to rise above truly dreadful circumstances. (Communal Socialism transcending rapacious Capitalism possibly.)

[@PtolemyJones]

Wow, that was epic. Certainly one I would like to see the results of if/when later archaeologists clear more of it.

[@annemiekevaneijkeren4486]

A railway viaduct was constructed in 1790; the structure disappeared and was unearthed in a 2001 episode of the archaeology television programme Time Team.[11] The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway is a scenic attraction rich in geological and historical interest. Blaenavon lost both of its passenger railway stations - Blaenavon High Level station closed in 1941, and the last train from Blaenavon (Low Level) (to Newport via Pontypool Crane Street) ran in April 1962. The lower line had already been closed for more than a year before the Beeching Axe took place. The lower line's passenger service was among many in Gwent (Monmouthshire) which Ministry of Transport de-classified papers reveal were axed because of rail congestion in the Newport area following the newly opened Llanwern steelworks.

[@653j521]

Why were the papers classified?

[@crowznest438]

Wow. Mystery, history, reproducing old crafts. It's all good!

[@dakotashea3561]

Would love to see them go back and uncover the site

[@christydowns783]

I would love a follow up on the sites that Time Team worked on

[@d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n]

I would love for Tony and some of the others to do a show revisiting some of the sites and updating the ones that have been more fully explored since they were first filmed

[@w250x]

I'd love full seasons, site specific, from discovery to fully uncovered.

[@acmejia]

I just looked up the area on google maps. Unfortunately there is no trace of the archaeology dig. It's all covered up again (the episode aired in 2001 according to a comment): www.google.com/maps/@51.7791378,-3.0904304,207a,58.9y,5.58t/data=!3m1!1e3

[@mcanta2898]

@@acmejia I think the reason they did that was to protect the site. they know where it is, and can find it again if need be, but underground, the structure would be relatively protected from the elements and could remain undisturbed and original, with no need of structural renovation and maintenance.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

I have recently, over the last month or so gotten hooked on this show, and loving and being as interested in history as I have always been, along with Archeology, this show is perfect. I end up watching two or three of them every night before bed:-)after all that digging... they actually finally found it and one of the small homes of the workers, which is also very important cause we are ALL walking history.. WTG time team!

[@MsFitz134]

This was particularly interesting to me as a few years back I discovered that there is an entire mining town buried near my home. Similar story although much more recent (1940s or so): when the mine area had been exhausted they needed to move about a half mile to a new deposit. They simply took anything worth reusing out of the homes and buried them (and an extensive rail system from the 1800s) in slag and rubble from the new mine. I've always been interested to know what the landscape used to look like before it was mined out and then buried, but only a couple sketches exist.

[@aserta]

Italy has a bunch of villages and coal mines like that from the 80's. So the practice is perfectly alive today.

[@tmkoson]

🛑🛑 The new team NEEDS to come and revisit this site for sure!!

[@jasulimaatsuli1472]

Wonderful and always curious to know ..... What a spirit teamwork you're done ....

[@AvaT42]

The choir sounded wonderful!!

[@askmitch]

I can't believe they found it. That shot of seeing in the viaduct was breathtaking!

[@Zenas521]

Well that was a classy ending. nice.

[@madaug5101]

Thank you, I enjoyed this very much.

[@stephenkayser3147]

The most impressive hole ever dug by Time Team and proof of their faith and skill (and desperation) I believe. Local knowledge is always helpful (mostly). I agree with many of the comments below. I wish I had a book of Victor's drawings. It would also be nice to share a pint with Phil. I look forward to the new dig on the new Time Team.

[@kristic4472]

this was way cool, and they all remind me of the archeologist versions of Crocodile Hunter with all their enthusiasm!! I would love to see the whole viaduct, but I would like to learn more about that little girl who was killed collecting iron-ore.

[@kristic4472]

He said 13

[@eliseluttrell]

yes i love time team uploads!! im probably about 50% through the entire series

[@corbinbacon9043]

Iv watched it probably four or five times through and still doesn't get old. Not only the archeology but watching the relationships grow over 20 years is something impressive as well for me. Cheers

[@lourias]

I would be done with the series if the number of commercials did not exceed that of normal TV. Oh wait... I said that wrong. I would be done with the series if it had fewer commercials than regular TV. Just a mere 15 minutes, and there were 5 breaks for commercials!!!! Nope. Too much for me.

[@mikecozart2505]

I'm amazed that viaduct ceiling can support all that top fill.

[@kimbarnes378]

I love time team ,my fellow Brits , great series, to watch be great Britain, love you guys. 👍😊🇬🇧

[@kurenable]

what a great episode! I was worried something so 'recent' wouldn't be that interesting, and I was wrong!

[@ingaborlowski1536]

What an exciting edge of your seat episode. So glad they found the viaduct in the end. Wonderful television programming 😊

[@jackjones1727]

Viva Nerds.....love this series.

[@ThePixel1983]

Weird how a *bridge* that's *still standing* can be too deep underground to explore... 🤯

[@beastshawnee4987]

This was the weirdest one for me... Industrial rubble just dumped willy nilly over the entire landscape...no apologies for lack of foresight into the planet’s ruination...Stuff is old but not very old. Puts perspective on how fast things change for sure.

[@mescko]

When you look at how tall that viaduct was, and how far down they had to dig just to get to the TOP of it, you realize how much rubble it took to bury it that deep. You couldn't possibly expose the entire thing--it would take a decade or more, even with those diggers. They basically filled up the entire valley: en-gb.facebook.com/Blaenavonindustrialpast/photos/the-buried-viaduct-in-the-field-between-the-garn-road-and-blaenavon-blues-the-vi/1634027743281360/

[@neildudley5446]

Awesome, the best one yet.

[@damianranger6910]

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you from Oregon!

[@54mgtf22]

Time Team is my happy place.

[@Joeybagofdonuts76]

Great thing to start my morning.

[@laurag7295]

Oh you brought me to tears when you found the tramway!!!

[@kaykay4038]

Omg.. i jus seen an earlier espoide where he was younger and had hair! Must say that is either commitment or a real hobby. Either way like the show!! Thanks for the uploads!

[@CanChikMay]

Incredible! Well done timeteam!!

[@mjrussell414]

That’s so cool that they got enough local ore to make the iron.

[@justacrocodile9486]

I loved seeing the Time Team logo that was made first, and then the iron wheel, just have to marvel at how simple it looked to make even though getting the exact amount of stone right as well as the temperature, had to be absolutely exact. I felt the same excitement and delight that Phil expressed as the iron poured out into the mould, and then was uncovered after it cooled to reveal the iron object.

[@inyobill]

So we go from "We don't even know where the valley was" to: "We're establixhing the bounds of the valeey" with no transition. Magic.

[@donaldfinch1411]

I started to cry when they sent the camera down into it. YAY!

[@paulgartner4619]

love every episode, but this is a great one

[@jenwatson2623]

Best job 👍👍🎩🍻❣🎉

[@ne0n1880]

Thank you

[@conradfisher2563]

Enjoying the dig and wondering when Phil uncovers some flints.

[@laurachapple6795]

Tony was fond of describing Time Team as 'a bunch of hippies digging a hole', so as the biggest hole they ever dug, this episode must be the peak of Time Team.

[@frenchjr25]

This would be an amazing site to do a complete dig.

[@Randrew]

I'd like to see the Welsh mine explorers at Lost Mines (kzbin.info) have a crack at it.

[@barryansell5981]

The time team has done another absolutely incredible job of locating a large piece of English history. Do we know why on earth it was buried.? and so deep. Perhaps it should be called Gobekli Tepe #3.It would be so good were able it to be restored to its former glory

[@kerriefearby9542]

The heros (in every sense of the word) of this episode were the digger operators. Blooming dangerious work!

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

i wish they had given credit to the chorus and band that played us out at the end.

[@ThePzrLdr]

Wow... shades of my life! I ran a cupola for 15 years till retirement in Aug. of 2020. Nothing has changed from back then till today. The ingredients, fuel used, how it was loaded... it's all the same.

[@baz44331]

Love this show

[@robinm3524]

Awesome. No ads

[@alembess9129]

Stunning!

[@NullStaticVoid]

"I have a cunning plan to dig a hole and find a viaduct"

[@Zenas521]

"I have a better idea Baldric. How about you go up the hill and find tetanus." 25:35 xD

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

This actually happened in Denmark some years ago allthough they discovered a bridge and not a viaduct. The railroad bridge dating from 1889 became in 1920 too narrow for the new type of tracks and it wasn’t posible to widen it so they barried it and lay the new tracks on top of the dam. Fast forward to about 2015 when a nature project meant that the dam had to leave an ingeneer remembered reading about this bridge and a project under the local county was established. And lo and behold, the bridge was 99.99% intact. About 400 kilos of steel needed changing. Sorry about danish only text. hemmeligesteder.dk/den-genfundne-bro.php

[@johnrampley8843]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Actually in English too! (and German)

[@giovanni4070]

All I can think of when hearing viaduct is the Groucho and Chico Marx routine . Groucho is explaining viaduct to Chico and Chico keeps asking " Why a duck ?" sidesplitting repartee ensues.

[@johnstevenson9956]

I don't know why a duck, I'm a stranger here myself...

[@alexd5028]

Why a no chicken?

[@scottpool4777]

Yes I do too I am new to the series interesting very very interesting thank you.

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

That's outstanding.

[@Lowest_Levels]

Interesting show.

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

“I think I might chuck it down piece by piece “ had me laughing out loud. 😂

[@nellinightshade3358]

binge watching these. love history, and this feeds the beast.

[@jdsetter]

Wow, i love it when TT works in the West Country and South Wales, where my ancestry is mostly from. This was totally enthralling as my Grandfather was born in Abertillery from Welsh mining stock. So this is only 5 or 6 km from my ancestral home I would think, quite possibly had ancestors working the mine.

[@kasie680]

How cool that they had someone who had seen the place, it’s like ripping someone from the Bronze Age to help them! No one’s usually alive that’s seen these places

[@nickg8424]

good job! perserverance (sp) and preperation = luck well done!

[@gwadja]

Episode 65 (Series 8, Episode 5) The Lost Viaduct, Aired: February 4, 2001

[@firefox5926]

19:27 you know the archeologists in 100 years are going to hate you for destroying their pristine 1970s middens lol

[@ColtGColtG]

thats the problem EH has to sort any time they approve a dig. They used to panic so hard about destroying potential future sites that they had insane regulations that they have since relaxed. If you see an early TT episode Carenza freaks out over some GeoPhys results and forces a hard stop on trench plans until an EH exec came out to authorise anything. wasting most of the time they had. I say wasted becasue when the exec came out, she was upset that she was called out just on GeoPhys and they hadn't done any preliminary light digging to verify there was something to the GeoPhys. EH regs though were so strict, at the time, that Carenza was terrified she would lose her job with EH if anything was damaged becasue the GeoPhys was pretty damn clear that there was a roman villa on site. Like it was a perfect outline. But man was literally everyone on site pissed at her, Including the county archeologist who normally has the power to authorise digs and themselves are part of EH and was trying to get it through her head to calm down, that light trench work was perfectly called for and routine to verify results. but again she was terrified and threw her full weight as EH rep for the dig around.

[@Austin_In_Ukraine]

Male Voice Choirs, Brass Bands, Archiology and the Industrial Revolution how typically British. Love it.

[@minglei2110]

Is that Baldrick? I have a cunning plan! Haha.

[@UberGrunk]

Well, it's not lost anymore! You can clearly see in the thumbnail that Tony has found it!

[@coloringwithd]

Amazing.

[@wheeler2581]

my grand father is from England John Wheeler and still has family out there i believe.England to me reminds me of the Canada i was brought up in. cheer's boy's!

[@tamcon72]

This was filmed in Wales?

[@derrickguffey4775]

A rather enjoyable episode. As always Phil and his humor are some of the best parts.

[@garyjene9146]

Now that you have the orientation established, if you wait for a year or 2 before making another dig, you might be able to find the side. That would make for another fine episode to have another dig.

[@proudvirginian]

Considering they originally filmed this 20 years ago, I'd say another dig is probably not going to happen. It's amazing how long this show lasted

[@richardpage9474]

Yep, during the night one daring man or woman drew the short straw. Geared up, roped up and went into the hole. Nobody's leaving that without taking a real peek inside.

[@lindahughes2289]

LOVE long haired men ! Enjoyed this show also.

[@orionpryme]

Stop interrupting my advertisements with Time Team!

[@TheNyah5]

OrionPrime up to every 3 minutes 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@QDStrength]

adblock user: what ads?

[@ginkarasu]

Brave Browser user here... what ads?

[@skivvy3565]

Stewart to the rescue once again!

[@jimwolford7294]

I like the advertisement on the bucket of the excavator for ESCO, (electric steel company) because it was made in Portland, Oregon.

[@rayshowsay1749]

A bit of industrial archeology more often rather than just about exclusively medieval and pre-medieval archeology during the series would have been welcome by many i"m sure.

[@alanrogers7090]

This whole episode reminds me of the open strip coal mines in eastern Ohio from when I was a kid. After taking off the upper soil to get at the coal, once the coal was gone, the soil would be replaced, changing the landscape from it's original contours. Today, they plant trees and other vegetation, but in those days,(fifty five years ago), they just threw grass seed over the top.