The Monastery and the Mansion (Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire) | Series 12 Episode 2 | Time Team

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The people of Nether Poppleton, near York, are itching to know more about their village. Mysterious earthworks cover a field around their church and they have bought the land to protect them, but what do they mean? Is the village originally Saxon, Norman or medieval?
Series 12, Episode 02
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Tony? He's a PITA!

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"... no I think they're legs." Hysterical. Great comic pause.

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[@Blisterdude123]

"Are you being rude about my pottery?" Them's archaeology fightin' words.

[@stjbananas]

The child burial, and presumed story behind it, was very touching.

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Phil's over zealous archaeological look is hilarious. I remember Tony mentioning the smell of Phil's hat one episode haha

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[@schoolingdiana9086]

This is super interesting after watching Dani’s behind the scenes interview with Matt. I would never have guessed there were so many test pits, or that they actually did 16 trenches, not 3-ish. Excellent interview and loving rewatching this episode!

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Can I ask why you upload the episode again just 8 months after you uploaded it the previous time? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIC3l5aGh96Aeq8

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Bless the time team. Giving a talk to a town this small helps pick it up in their eyes, the young might not want to leave as the thing to do but to be of that town. We have lived in a number of small towns, they are hard to become one with them and all you hear is "you moved here ! I've been trying to get out!".

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Love Time Team it was my favourite show as a child and still one that I come back to time and again, great to deal with my anxiety. The way they treat the child remains in this episode is testament to how they care about the people of the past. BTW if anyone is interested in the rules archaeologists have to follow regarding bodies in the UK there are sites you can visit, like Historical England, which go into detail.

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The best TV-show ever made! Love it! As a swede I'm more interested in british history than swedish history. At a small timeperiod vikings ruled a big part of England, interested times!

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[@terry902]

I love this episode! Not only did they teach the volunteers but the program taught me, too. I can watch these over and over. Thanks!

[@Luddite1]

I love this ! Getting the whole area in on it is just brilliant

[@amasulem]

15:03 Find you someone who looks at you like Mick Aston looks at Saxon pottery.

[@amasulem]

Monastic breadcrumbs.

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26:00 She's really good. I reckon she could even become President of the Council of British Archaeology one day.

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Grand idea.

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I concur!

[@nbk9372]

Ms. Raksha Dave, very reserved, knowledgeable and can carry her own load+! Like Phil, it will be very difficult to confine them in an academic setting, they love the field work as much as Mick did to his final days. JMO, cheers!

[@davidedwards6473]

Just started watching this one again but just wanted to say what a sensible approach to archaeology in getting community to feel involved and also adds hands and sample data as well as getting them invested in the process and learning. Spot on 😊

[@Kardashev1]

Amazing! ten more episodes

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

I truly love and enjoyed this Episode mainly due to these people, weather they knew each other or not, all got together and had a great time digging up their gardens to help find out the age of the entire village. Looked like a awesome three days, for one and all. What DID come out of all this was pretty great as well..Gotta Love Phil, when Mick and Tony are at the church, and Phil discovered the child's burial, and says, he is gonna give it the proper respect and just leave it where it is, and move on.. WTG Phil!

[@maxsdad538]

It's still a village of only 2000, most of the people would have known (or known of) most of the other residents.

[@Heligany]

23:48 one perplexed dog LOL

[@jaceromeo]

Context is always so important on TT and this episode is great example of The Team explaining who/what/why & when

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Great to have these back.

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The reason this show is so memorable to me is its characters, with Tony and Mick my favourites, they for me are the perfect pair that bounce off other so well.

[@januzzell8631]

Gosh! I used to live there back in the late 60s!! Wonder which house was ours ^*^

[@bosse641]

Awesome.

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Thanks so much for posting

[@machellep1]

This is my favorite episode of all time.

[@JustMeJH]

Thanks for posting this! I’m looking forward to watching the next episode!

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

This episode is about 15-20 years old now..

[@alexritchie4586]

Phil rocking those jorts again, as always 😂 Ooh, and Matt's looking particularly twinkish this episode 😘

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Another great episode, thank you very much.

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Had the episode on mute for a minute and then saw Tony at 3:23 and said to myself, hey now what's this Romanesque wavy-handy gesture all about?

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Fabulous video. Cheers to all! 🇬🇧👍🇺🇸

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Woohoo for Stewart! Just the best!

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This was a great idea. If you want to see more either join then or as I found out you can buy them on DVD.

[@Becca2334]

Great dig!🌝❤️Fantastic team work!🤗

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Stewart.:: I swear every episode mvp

[@NorrisHistoryCorner]

23:48 a very good boy wondering if the microphone boom is a threat to the archaeologists...

[@TermiteUSA]

Bless their souls, no offense intended, but the scene of the townspeople marching off with picks and shovels made me think it was Monty Python's peasant army gojng to chase away the gophers from the golf course. Great episode TT!

[@roxysimmons]

Haha the kid in the background at 2:17 😂

[@debrah7548]

Loved this one!

[@jimmyt666.]

Awesome 👌

[@johnd6171]

I love how they don’t give a crap about grooming or fashion. Just pure business. The show just wouldn’t be the same without Mick’s wild hair and rainbow sweaters, and Phil’s Daisy Dukes.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yeah if they'd faked this show it just wouldn't work at all..

[@whotknots]

Such a pretty place!

[@DuckReach432]

After discovering the increasing concentrations of Saxon pottery towards the West of the village, I'm surprised that all subsequent digging was at the East. The Tudor mansion was an amazing discovery, but I wonder what else awaits uncovering at the Western end. It was great to see so many people involved in their home village's historical discoveries.

[@qthelost]

Cute dog tilting his head alert ... 23:45

[@carolynwestlake7670]

That was great! Thank you😊😊

[@lisaenglert3202]

I’m waitinggggg 🤩🤩🤩

[@jimshomestudio]

I am certain this episode was already in my likes but I can’t find it. Storybook British town. Adorable episode. Mick. ❤️

[@evilborg]

yup -- I know iI have watched this before

[@schoolingdiana9086]

Head over to the Time Team Official channel because before they post here, they have an interview with someone that was on each newly featured dig there first. In this case, Dani just interviewed Matt on some behind the scenes information.

[@archangel807]

Thanks....more please!!

[@evilborg]

Been waiting months for a new/old episode!!

[@GeoRick]

Great episode, love watching these. Thanks.

[@wiretamer5710]

While Mick Ashton plays a rather passive role on screen through out this episode, few academics get to realise their hopes and dreams for their field of expertise as he has here. He is quite clearly content to let the event play out around him. If ever there was a celebration of community archeology it is this episode. It’s a deep shame that the classic time team format was so short. There really needs to be a multi part director's cut of this episode, with less voice over and more vox pop. I have no doubt that Nether Poppleton was changed forever by this event. I would not be surprised if there are good and bad aspects to this change. It would be interesting to know if residents who chose not to participate in the Time Team community dig at the time, have later become positive about it.

[@_Uh_Oh_]

That bit with Henry plotting and the music had me laughing, really unexpected

[@twobluestripes]

Was there ever a town name so English as “Nether Poppleton”?

[@krumble104]

Yes, where Noel Edmonds lived; Crinkley Bottom! 👧🤣👀👍❤️

[@AndyM_323YYY]

Well, isn't "ton" Anglo Saxon? So I'm a bit confused because this is in the Danelaw.

[@tadcastertory1087]

@@AndyM_323YYY The Danelaw was very mixed between Saxon and Norse settlements. The majority were probably still Anglo-Saxon, many of whom sided with the Norse against the House of Wessex.

[@richardpaxford5792]

"Nether Wallop" And "Lower Slaughter"

[@Richard_Jones]

Dunno if it's particularly 'English' but I was very amused as a child when we visited a place in the west country called Brown Willy.

[@palletcabin-YR_Author]

Good one, thanks.

[@philjohnson1744]

The oldest part of the village seems to be the people who volunteered. Good on them.

[@maxsdad538]

Correction: "The oldest part of the village seems to be the people who WORKED!"

[@simonmcpherson1323]

so sad to think about the parents burying their child in the middle of the night

[@forthwithtx5852]

Funny doggy at 23:47. 😁

[@estevaocunha5302]

I love these historic programs but what I don't like is the constant rain. I've seen your various programs, but most of them, it rains.

[@richardpaxford5792]

Unfirtunately, it rains a lot in Britain. In Roman times one of our exports was a special sort of big wooly rain coat 🙂

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

I really like the way they show so much respect to the bones of the Infant probably buried one night.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

I do wish they’d have taken a sample of DNA from the remains. It would be cool to see if anyone from the child’s family was still around.

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

@@kaptainkaos1202 Tend to agree but maybe there could have been legality issues, if it were up to me I would have made it standard practice to take a DNA sample from bones from every excavation they do.( I read that teeth are the best source of DNA) !

[@hollymunford6857]

Classic fun! Love Ukulele HollyBloe

[@Thirdbase9]

30:20 Perfect John Gator

[@some______guy]

Love the sexy shot of Phil in the beginning. The confidence of this man is so fucking cool

[@jackyryan8]

@23.46mins in...the dog in the garden 😂

[@evilborg]

How Mick never got a OBE is beyond me.

[@twobluestripes]

Can it be awarded posthumously?

[@gregb6469]

He didn't seem to be the sort who was into titles.

[@schoolingdiana9086]

He gave Tony great grief for taking one. I doubt he would have ever accepted.

[@maxsdad538]

@@twobluestripes No, a dead person can not be "knighted". And MOST honors are "life peerage", meaning they last only as long as the person is alive, and can not be inherited by heirs.

[@georgedorn1022]

Mick was an anarchist so he might not have been particularly interested in receiving such an 'honour'.

[@user-kt3zv1cm5j]

Karenza on the warpath 😂😂😂 we watch this show as much for the stars as the history

[@franksmith7247]

Just imagine-If people back in time were not clumsy and forgetful, archaeologists would never know their history.

[@briangoldberg4439]

@taylor I can imagine far in the future. Some extinction level weather event nearly wipes out the human race and nature slowly takes over and people begin to rebuild. Archeologist will start to hunt for and open up landfills. This is, of course, a best-case scenario that we don't 100% pooch the whole planet.

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

@@briangoldberg4439 Not if they happend today, the more times goes the harder it is for us to end, but lets not start a debate

[@dergoldeneschnitt9548]

Mystery of History...⛏️

[@patriciaparsons906]

YAY!

[@thegray5730]

14:10 The camera man must have leaped over that wee dog.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

At time 10:45 I wish they had taken a DNA sample of the child that was buried there. Would have been cool to see if any off the child’s family is still in the area.

[@joegardiner4220]

Wonder what happens to all the scraps of pottery

[@MsRedwiz]

Tony using geofis terminology - "Buildingy" LOL

[@andyalder7910]

31:50 they mentioned a vallum, could that relate to valence as in Benham Valence?

[@burnieplace]

I couldn't help noticing that the artist's impression of the Tudor manor looked like a thinly disguised picture of Gainsborough Old Hall.

[@thomasc5605]

I notice that the PIcture of the Tudor house hasn't any chimneys. Brrrrrrrrr.

[@bainfinch]

Tony misses teachable moments with his rants about 'finding absolutely nothing' and the 'stains in the ground' rants, among others. The rest of the time, he's brilliant.

[@marcgauthier3158]

The same episode was presented on this channel November 11th 2020!!! A little disappointing since I thought I would actually watch a new episode.

[@JerryB507]

Thanks for clarifying. I thought I was having deja vu all over again.

[@evelynatcraneshearth]

I think it might be because they are going back to the Tudor house at some point as a return dig for new seasons.

[@evelynatcraneshearth]

But also, it looks like at say 43:43 there's new visual information that they didn't have before.

[@schoolingdiana9086]

This is reposted because Dani did an interview with Matt on what kind of work goes into test pits vs trenches, and this episode was chosen as a focus. There was a lot of behind the scenes revealed; for example they show 3 trenches but actually 16 were dug. And I’ve seen this episode at least 4 other times and I’ve noticed something different every single time.

[@maxsdad538]

Pssst... sorry, Mork, but there ARE NO "new episodes" [yet], and there haven't been for 7 years.

[@DeanoEssex]

I wondered why you haven't postd episodes for a while.. :-)

[@schoolingdiana9086]

I think they’ve been making sure the preliminaries for the 2 digs later this year are all in order.

[@tlclark9260]

Where there's a Tudor mansion, a monastery probably existed before! 🤨And before the monastery, quite possibly a Roman settlement was nearby. That seems to be the pattern I've stumbled across, anyway.

[@v.britton4445]

Love TT

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

I would love to see this in a USA town, I live here and wonder..... Would our town come together or become to b itchey an cause it to fail. I keep hope though 😊

[@georgemain889]

I am curious about the mansion find. Since the locals had "no idea" that it was there, my question is, is there evidence that the construction of it was completed? Was it inhabited? I just wonder if the structure was never finished, it went to ruin, and its remainder when on to build the other Tudor house as suggested?

[@gizwiz5502]

I'm really confused.... You have the "Time Team Classics" channel, then you announce the "Time Team.... revival...????" episodes. Will these all be on this channel or will you have a new vs. old episode channel? Looking forward to the new ones, but really don't want to have to Google search each one....

[@schoolingdiana9086]

They have several updates on this on the Time Team Official channel, in some detail. Those who have been donating through Patreon have funded enough for 2 digs.

[@mandolinistry3207]

It's Evil Tony from the Mirror Universe! You can tell because of the beard.

[@Richard_Jones]

Not that far from the truth, I suspect this was when he was also playing The Sheriff of Nottingham in kids' show Maid Marian & Her Merry Men.

[@JETWTF]

Kinda curios as to how you can get more medieval than Norman England in England. Tudor was the transition period from medieval to renaissance, Saxon was the dark ages between the Roman and Norman periods ending in 1066 with the Norman conquest. Norman England was Medieval England... Tony never explains this conundrum he presented in the intro.

[@captainhornswoggle]

Didnt this channel already have this episode? Ive never seen TT on TV, but ive seen this one.

[@apriljohnson1514]

Yes, I saw this a few days ago. At least the new one is closed captioned. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIC3l5aGh96Aeq8

[@twobluestripes]

I think some of the ones they posted first were not available to watch in every country/region, so now they are reposting them. There also appears to be some overlap with the ones on the Timeline Channel?

[@captainhornswoggle]

@@twobluestripes Ah. That's probably it. I was using a vpn because i noticed that a lot weren't available in the the uk without one. Ta

[@schoolingdiana9086]

They’re featuring episodes tied to interviews they post on the Time Team Official channel. Dani just did an interview with Matt on test pits vs trenches, and this episode was chosen to highlight that with some of his behind the scenes details.

[@markclemente1503]

I think the statement of the child burial under the church might be a bit of a stretch. We do know that under Catholicism, especially during the medieval times, people were often buried under the church or under the awnings of a church with the belief that the rain that fell on the roof would fall off onto the burial and bless the burial. This was believed to bring the deceased closer to their god and secure their place in heaven. We could assume that this could also be an example of that.