The Monk's Manor (Brimham Hall, Hartwith, Harrogate, Yorkshire) | S13E07 | Time Team

[@MetalHead5787]

God bless mick, what a legend. Knows his stuff and very knowledgeable. I coukd listen to him all day to his knowledge and expertise. RIP Mick

[@markjawitz6363]

Yes ... RIP. But I wouldn't be surprised if a few rays of light did not come down to illuminate my explorations through a trench he dug in heaven !

[@animaanimus8011]

When we lose some men we lose a library of knowledge. He was such a man.

[@neilrushton7169]

The late Professor Colin Platt (who directed the 1960's dig at Brimham) was my tutor at Southampton University. He was a great bloke and became a good friend. He told me that many of the archives from his 60's digs in Yorkshire were lost after being damaged by a flood in the stores at the University of Leeds. Hence there only being a few remaining photos.

[@mbak7801]

This is where digging at all is bad. An ancient structure is dug up and destroyed. Notes are made and then lost by one means or another. Not digging would mean the remains were still available for the future. All the time in Time Team we are told of previous digs but little to no information. The more you dig the more you lose.

[@maxsdad538]

@@mbak7801 If you don't dig, you don't find and you don't learn. I guess you're not an archaeologist, or you'd know that, like it or not, ALL archaeology is destructive. Neil, thank you for the additional information.

[@harbourdogNL]

@@mbak7801 What a load of bollocks.

[@SaltyMinorcan]

@@mbak7801 it all depends on your priorities in the matter. some people don't want their place dug up no matter what's underneath. others get a thrill out of knowing. but technology is changing. the previous diggers probably went as far as they could with what was available.

[@nzlemming]

@@mbak7801 Bollocks.

[@adamsjerome1839]

The landowner and his wife are certainly tremendously nice people.

[@PeggyMcclure-d1z]

I'm addicted to Time Team, from the US

[@mrmarmellow555]

Thankℹ️N YOU LAD ‼️ ❤️To "THE 🚜🌳 🌳#STRAY!🌳FRM 🥝🇬🇧

[@devonseamoor]

Oh my, Matt is exhausting himself with this way of scything. It's supposed to be done while standing upright, moving one's two arms in such a balanced way, that the scythe moves in a smooth half-circle around one's body without bending over. It takes practice, and once it's done in the proper position, it's almost like dancing. It's a meditative sort of job, and a rewarding one too!

[@jimherron5540]

I agree, my Papaw had one, and I’ve used it.

[@royfearn4345]

Looks as though it could do with a good honing too!

[@joshschneider9766]

Yeah I don't get the scythe experiment at all. It's use has literally never died off. Folks in Europe and north America use them just as always to this day

[@allistairmitchell3845]

Okay - I’ll try it. Anything to cut down the tall grasses in my Far West TX yard!

[@joshschneider9766]

yep theres a ton of people in eastern europe who still use them to harvest and cut down stuff, thats exactly how they did it. watching them do it and just listening to the swish swish swish is definitely meditative to see for sure!!

[@reanehooper3085]

Tony just gets an absolute evil look on his face when it comes to trashing someone's garden. So hilarious. Hello from Wisconsin

[@katherinecooper6159]

Hello from Ohio! I lived in Milwaukee!

[@mollydidusch5891]

Hello from Kentucky. I'm from Ohio 😂😅

[@tracyjozefiak9931]

HELLO WISCONSIN!!! Born in Portage raised in Endeavor, Wisconsin!! Miss it!!

[@thearmchairadmiral]

the look on Phills face as he grabs his pint

[@Legion563]

Everybody needs someone who looks at them in the same way Phil looks at that pint off Mick lol.

[@lyrand6408]

Tony telling Phil to "watch and learn" was just priceless :)

[@mrmarmellow555]

#Eey_BY_GUM CHAMPION 💪😊.🎬🎥🔦📺 0:11 😏

[@lmtt123]

Comedian telling a Professor of archeology about archeology 🙄

[@cleeks5549]

Mick peeping his fuzzy head over that stone wall has made my night XD

[@549RR]

A delightful episode. I always love when the architectural historians are involved, surveying and explaining the layers of renovation through the ages.

[@SandraNelson063]

What a beautiful place! I don't know how they could leave it. I'd want to live there forever.

[@tigerlilytousled]

inherited by younger, fitter sons and daughters.

[@joshschneider9766]

Tigers right. It's the reason more grange sites haven't been studied. They kept on being working farms after the dissolution. They were profit engines then and they remain so today.

[@devonseamoor]

I must admit, these drawings, made of the Time Team sites under investigation and spades, are very well made, and beautiful.

[@Happyheretic2308]

That’s the wonderful Victor Ambrus (RIP) for you.

[@joshschneider9766]

Google his name. He's done far more than simple illustrations like that. He even wrote instructional books for artists. Guy was an absolutely amazing human being.

[@adrianrouse5148]

How can a few people digging holes be so educational. Fun. Entertaining. Thanks time team

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Matt, being the good sport. Mick sharing interesting facts. Phil standing in the toilet pit and his joy of 🍺 😊 You can't beat these episodes, treasures each one 😊❤😂

[@TimeTeamOfficial]

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[@firefox5926]

stand and deliver this is a stick up give me all your old episode lol

[@heithdotysadventures7824]

This is one of the sites to revisit and find out what John found on the last day and from watching Tim on patron he has asked if and where should we revisit some unfinished sites. ( I am a site supervisor on patron and recommend this as one of the spots .) Kind of like a part 2 I guess. This place and a few other like the island of Mul have lots more to info to give up . 👍

[@katherinecooper6159]

I am a 'patreon'

[@brettwalters-n4u]

@@katherinecooper6159 me too, and loving every part of the NEW Time Team, Mick would be so proud of the whole gang, old and new!

[@paulstan9828]

Nothing like a good time team episode on a Sunday.,😁 Hello from Ohio

[@imbwildrd3693]

or on a Monday or a Tuesday or Wednesday....... lol

[@SK-du5ns]

True that Paul. Gotta love it, even on a Monday morning in New Zealand. Cheers!! 😁

[@paulstan9828]

@@imbwildrd3693 Ha!!!! 👍

[@suspunk.germany]

Same here in Cologne, Germany 👋☺️

[@paulstan9828]

@@SK-du5ns 😁👍

[@angelnight2129]

Watching Tony jump and try to cut that limb had to be the funniest/best thing ever exactly what I needed at 5am

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

mick and tony are so lovely together - I can imagine them as schoolboys up to no good

[@marjane4344]

I adore the digs. The knowledge and details of a trench plus the dressed stone and what it reveals of the building is massively interesting. Mick is a fountain of knowledge. Great dig team !

[@joshschneider9766]

Google the following "Brimham hall Wessex archaeology" and you will find their website about work done there. It's a remarkable site.

[@adler7-l7z]

Thanks for posting this episode. It's always good to see one of these with Mick Aston. What a great archeologist and person he was.

[@walrusgumbootable]

This might be my favorite episode. I love the whole Time Team group!

[@Hanes_Cymru-742h]

This one could be my favourite episode because of the incredible pre-roman coin found by Phil! (LINK BELOW) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmWlY5hnedSDjMk

[@davidshepherd397]

Love Time Team, great history, great locations. Poor Lay Brother Matt, but in the middle ages he would have been brought up with physical labor and probably would have found working for the monastery easier that for the local lord.

[@brim89]

I love time team and this farm is beautiful. I just found out that it recently sold in December 2020. I hope the new owners don’t tear down the buildings

[@bethbartlett5692]

Thanks for sharing The update.

[@harbourdogNL]

How much did it sell for? And I would imagine all the buildings are listed so they would not be permitted to tear anything down.

[@trooperdgb9722]

@@harbourdogNL I would agree... mind you..the UK is replete with buildings that ELSEWHERE would be very special... but at home... not so much!

[@joshschneider9766]

It's a scheduled ancient monument as I understand it. If that's the case tearing any of it down would land you in prison 😂. Might not be though.

[@cob9834]

What a beautiful farm what wonderful stone buildings

[@cob9834]

I wonder what he produces on his farm?

[@SueOtness]

I love watching these folks joke around with eachother. I especially have a crush on Phil Harding.

[@speedbrake22]

“Story of my life” Phil is just too funny,

[@maryprantephd6736]

John and Stewart are simply primo!

[@stuartnewman6968]

"the house has gotta come down" lol really funny. Rest in peace Mick, I hope the new episodes are up to your unique high standard. I would love Phil to just feature in one of the new digs.

[@Billtownhistorian]

❤again Phil is like an archeologist from the movies absolutely amazing

[@motaman8074]

Poor Matt is always "volunteered" to be a slave, a serf, a lay brother laborer etc. Not quite what he had in mind when he was studying archeology.

[@JerryB507]

He probably had them add a 20% bonus for "Volunteered" work after the first season.

[@devonseamoor]

Yes, isn't it funny, how Matt seems to be taken out of his present timeline, reliving some of the pasts by taking up such roles? It's a very practical approach to learning about archeological periods with their characteristics, isn't it?

[@Pikkugen]

Some people do that for fun and even pay for the opportunity, myself included. *shrug* I'd do that for work if I could.

[@frankrshirer8851]

This is a definite case of the producers wanting to "how the life of a lay worker" exceeding what they actually showed and, to me, was a waste of Matt's time working on his trench. And I remember the lay brothers at the Catholic College I attended here in the USA, who ran the college farm and the book bindery in the library, thus I already knew of their life of work and daily prayers.

[@North_West1]

There is a field called experimental archeology.

[@erinobrien8408]

That novice master constantly has a sadistic smirk on his face while he watches Matt work hard, being a good sport! 3 cheers for Matt, 3 boos for the novice master!

[@69canarycamaro8]

Phil gets even more likable after a pint or two!

[@pieterfischer9638]

I never cease to learn on this program and i love it!

[@reanehooper3085]

Tony is such an evil little gnome..lol He gets such a trill out of trashing someone's nice garden 😂😂 just love it

[@erinobrien8408]

The singularly helpful cows digging up finds... it's Archecowlogy!! 🐄

[@TheWeskercroft]

Thank you time team for all the hard work you do! You have so much history in your country. So many unexpected finds and theories!

[@johnhanson5943]

Know that area of the world well. My family come from there and many still live around there. A great series. Hope it returns. Tells us so much about our history and identity. Fascinating!

[@jamgart]

Yay! This is my part of the world. Lived in this area since ‘89. It’s beautiful ♥️ Love a good walk around fountains abbey and brimham rocks too!

[@joshschneider9766]

Man I'm so envious I would walk around the Abbey every day lol. The whole bit about how people in the area just kept farming always makes me smile when I think of granges. The local people just kept doing their thing. Also thanks for Samuel Smiths oatmeal stout. Costs me way too much here in the states but it's insanely good

[@componenx]

Getting up at 3am for prayers just wouldn't work for me; these days, getting up at 10am is hard enough! I loved watching Tony jump with the loppers, I can relate!

[@lindawoodard1330]

Matt is a very good sport. Hopefully he gets good bonuses in the pub.

[@alancook196742]

The best thing on tv 📺 for along time

[@Merylstreep1949]

Wish I had Time Team episodes during high school, would have aced history for sure

[@Metallica4Life92]

Chris Bradley is the kind of guy you would want to meet as an archeologist when you have to search around on his land.

[@juliajs1752]

Right? Polite, interested and always up for shenanigans.

[@christinemeleg4535]

@@juliajs1752 That comes from his name," chris, my first name as well, I'm always up for a bit of shenanigans!

[@joshschneider9766]

It certainly made for an extremely endearing story. It's seventeen years since this was aired, I hope he's enjoying a nice retirement now.

[@barbaradyson6951]

That field wall makes a smashing horse jump.

[@joshschneider9766]

Til your horse sees a stick it mistakes for a snake and throws you onto it 😂

[@deborahallen3349]

Thank goodness for Detectorists and the nod to Time Team.

[@thomasholland599]

this programme should be continued with new episodes it is so very interesting and with some very funny moments please bring it back .

[@jbradshaw4236]

This was a really great episode. Enjoyed it just as much this time as I did first time round.. so exciting , what an amazing place..

[@lsmith992]

I cycle this area regularly when the weather permits and am regularly finding links to Fountains Abbey. Like tracks over fields that monks will have walked. Buildings linked to it and the big fish pond behind How Hill tower on the Sawley estate that must have been the main fish pond for Fountains Abbey. There's a house in nearby Shaw Mills on Law lane that is linked and I haven't researched as yet but there are paths across the fields that link to the abbey. But my biggest find is unproven. From one entrance to the grounds there are comfrey plants running all the way back to How Hill. Monks made much use of this very useful plant and I can imagine them walking between the Abbey round to the fish pond planting bits of comfrey root on the way. There are also many many comfrey plants along the roads around nearby Markington which is also close and old enough to be linked.

[@monkeytennis8861]

Leaps of fancy

[@joshschneider9766]

Kinda makes ya think the entire county was used to funnel profit to some fat monks for centuries doesn't it lol. Least it left behind cool archaeology and a tremendously skilled farm and craftmanship legacy.

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@monkeytennis8861probably not as much as you think. Consider the size of Brimham hall farm and then consider that it was one of over two dozen owned by the Abbey in that area of Yorkshire.

[@seanpaula8924]

Enjoyed this one. Poor Matt.

[@heathermurray9939]

When I was younger my family used to stay in a cottage in Filey north Yorkshire and the lane down from the cottage was a wall which had bricks/ rocks with letters and numbers on, none of the locals knew anything about them

[@nigelparks6855]

Oi do it awl year round dunn oi. 🤣 Love it Phil 😁

[@joemfk1]

Binge watching on a Saturday night. Life is good!

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

Oh, England. Your slumber I dare not waketh, Lest I be showered and cowered under black, stormy skies. Your sunbeams; brightly do they cometh, Over low hills and sprightly through tree line to mine eye, My cheeks, warm and rosy from time spent well, In your honeyed, wine-sweetened evenings. I shall think fondly of you as I rise and fall, quickly, In seas rough and winds cold, I am shaken. But it is you, of whom I will remember so dearly, From within my dreams until I awaken. I love you, my dearest England. -Anon.

[@imjusttoodissgusted5620]

I love the beer drinking at the job. when I was statiioned in Europe I noticed that the German construction works got to have a bottle of beer with their lunch.

[@dinerouk]

I worked in Bavaria for over 8 years first worked as dishwasher, made bearable by a beer machine in close proximity in the kitchen. All Bavarian kitchens would have one, or they don't get a good supply of new dishwashers!

[@joshschneider9766]

Ah yes echos of society wide alcoholism, the joys 😂

[@heathermurray9939]

I used to live in northallerton north Yorkshire and spent many good times visiting fountain abbey and Harrogate.

[@rosiya189]

This is such a great episode :D

[@jodyshepard9482]

One of my favorites! I hope the owners can keep some for the sites open. Terrific show!

[@kimvibk9242]

Q: What is Time Team's favourite drink? . . . A: Geo-fizz

[@oldschoolman1444]

Cask ale! =)

[@devonseamoor]

Oh hahaha, that's a good one. I always find that term intriguing, also because the interpretations of the results turn out "fuzz-y" often 😁

[@angelaparker4110]

🤣

[@FigaroHey]

My uncle is a monk. He was raised on a farm and he is familiar with hard physical labor. In his monastery there's no way he would become a priest - he hasn't got the educational background or academic ability for that. Likewise, he's not suited to management or research or writing books. He IS suited to farm work and the kind of labor that is required for the monastery to be not only self-sufficient for their own food, but able to earn money by the products they produce. He and other monks like him are absolutely vital to the monastery. They are not second-class and they don't live an awful life. All the monks follow a rule of life in which they must stop at intervals throughout the day for prayer, recreation and rest. It is in fact a very balanced life, spiritually, physically and intellectually. Monks tend to be more healthy than the general population, have much lower levels of mental illness and to live longer. Just because the monks they are researching were medieval and had to do manual lab or without modern equipment, remember that there were hundreds of lay brothers and they could easily manage the tasks of running the monastery. My uncle has an identical twin who married, worked for a living, raised his own and some adopted children and fostered many children with his wife. The brother who is a monk looks a good 20 years younger than his identical twin who lives 'in the world.'

[@joshschneider9766]

There's purity in farm work. It's drawn men like your uncle to lay brotherhood for centuries. If he's one of those Belgian chappies, tell him I say thank you for the delicious beer and cheeses that make their way to the USA. I'm both happy and proud to support monks work by buying their products. Precious rare commodities here in the states. And honestly some of the absolute most delicious cheeses I've ever eaten in my life and I managed a deli for six years lol.

[@dr_orient4782]

...Fountains Abbey is huge with musicologists (I'm one) because of a set of fragments of music on parchment from there...

[@joshschneider9766]

I googled it and isn't that amazing. Actual sheet music from so long ago. How wonderful that is thanks so much for sharing.

[@darlenelane9010]

Thanks!

[@TimeTeamClassics]

Thank you for supporting Time Team!

[@joshschneider9766]

i must have watched this episode thirty times and only now noticed the guy training matt was sitting there with a t shirt that had the enterprise from star trek te next generation on it. i watched that show weekly as it first aired. absolutely near and dear to my heart

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Brilliant , I've never be seen this episode before !

[@kasie680]

Wow what an amazing farm!!!

[@deewhitney9298]

I love 💕 watching these. But, it makes me sad also. American history can only go back so far . BUT you can go back centuries. Your houses are incredibly beautiful.i could spend the rest of my life looking at the houses and buildings

[@eshbena]

That's only true of the history of the colonists. American history goes back tens of thousands of years. Native Americans have a long rich history on the continent.

[@adampaul454]

@@eshbena that's true. But they left no archaeology behind.

[@DeborahParham-ve1vp]

​@@adampaul454 They left massive amounts of archaeology behind. The mounds, the pueblos, the cliff dwellings, the petroglyphs, pottery and stone tools. They left traces all over the country

[@coloringwithd]

This was cool. Interesting how they took apart one building to build another. Also the size of the first building is so big, I imagine that the stones would have been just as big, I'm guessing that's where the stones went into the foundations of the other buildings. Such interesting information. Thank you for the interesting content ♥♥♥

[@justforever96]

That's how a lot of buildings were built, it's why you usually only find the foundations of old buildings instead of piles of stone where the walls were. You think about how much labor it took to quarry, cut and dress those blocks by hand, with nothing but hammers and wedges (even with almost free labor), it represents a huge expense. Cut stone was very valuable stuff, so they would reuse it whenever possible.

[@joshschneider9766]

A common practice for many centuries. Given the amount of work just to make a stone into a rectangular block for example it just makes good sense to recycle and reuse sqnything you possibly can.

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@justforever96indeed, as well as window and roof lead, wooden beams, clay tiles, etc etc.

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@justforever96I bet there was a lot of fun and joy in repurposing alot of stuff too.

[@julieblackstock8650]

this team gelled so well. I am sad that Tony has stepped back from any future episodes. Big shoes to fill by the next presenter

[@joshschneider9766]

He will be doing documentary style content he just didn't especially care for being a narrator. Also Google his name he went on to do a bunch of documentaries that are extremely fascinating to watch.

[@PatrickMHoey]

One stone is just a stone, two stacked stones make it a wall, three stacked stones make it a Roman villa.

[@Acornhouseworkshop]

When they were doing the historical research, I thought a name sounded familiar. Roger de Mowbray was my 26th great-grandfather.

[@ericashmusic8889]

The Script engraved stones @ 43;08 & 47:25 is upside down in the wall, if turned thro' 180 deg- it can easily be read. I am surprised they missed that ! ?

[@stevedarcy9542]

Fantastic viewing, more more more please.

[@zuzuspetals38]

I love this show! Love history and adore the team♥️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@strangemachines_]

Hello, somebody please if you can answer this question 🙋 at 21:45 a piano piece begins to play - I need to know the song and the artist. 🙏 I will be forever grateful I’ve never been able to know! Ty !

[@joenava3551]

Did you ever find out the name of the piece? Been trying to find it as 🙏🏽

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

Well for me it's just a bit of soundtrack recorded especially for the episode, vaguely inspired by Erik Satie's Gymnopédies. The real thing here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ_ElJeFftSHeLM

[@TermiteUSA]

Hello from the U.S.

[@barrydysert2974]

Wonderful! Thank you. 🖖

[@bosse641]

A lovely farm in a beautiful landscape.

[@nicolejosan6364]

The ghostly monks at 22:08 are really something!

[@Hanes_Cymru-742h]

Love how Matt always gets dragged into playing the role of a people of the period

[@corneliawissing7950]

Matt is in the wrong time altogether - he's a saint. The one and only saint of archaeology.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol girl, fangirling over Matt.

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@katerinakemp5701 , Oi vey, I'm 79 years old, so no girl ... But Matt's an outstanding young man!!!

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@corneliawissing7950 us old girls are allowed to fangirl over these lads, Im partial to Phil he has such a wicked sense of humour.

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@katerinakemp5701 I aIso like Phil, for his generous laugh. And I loved Prof. Mick. Go on loving: it is invigorating!

[@Happyheretic2308]

@@katerinakemp5701 the delicious Jonathan Foyle …

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

I always pray for a fourth day.

[@SaltyMinorcan]

Ol Phil's a flirt and a drinker. God love him, though he's a hard worker.

[@Manormouse-04]

What is the impressionist piece at 21:44?

[@strangemachines_]

I know!! I asked the same question. I need to know 🙏 I’ve been trying everything to find it. Please reply if you ever find out!

[@vicmclaglen1631]

24:20 "thumping great-big" Finally heard a new one, thought I'd found all possible combinations of Brit "big".

[@peanut71968]

So much fun!

[@AAZAZELHAZEL]

38:06 oh my, I think this performance by Matt has just unlocked something in me...

[@meganbodily5073]

Around 30:25 The camera perfectly caught John laughing at the argument. 😂

[@eliseluttrell]

im always down to watch time team ❤ hello from Toronto!!

[@marthasalter405]

hope the cows appreciate those medieval windows

[@pixiejenkins]

Amazing there were no finds of artefacts, pottery. They must have really cleared it out when the monastery fell into disuse.

[@lyndaturner9294]

Very interesting episode!

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

I Love this program and am watching all the shows here on youtube. so admire Phil and the rest of the team...Question here, is there a way that this program form the UK sells those Time team T shirts??, if so how much are there and can you get one online?? I Live in Upper Northeast Illinois here in the states, across the pond, as you call it:-)

[@orgonewarrior1604]

at 43:53 you can see the chapel imprint just above the middle and to the right in the grass

[@ianmoseley9910]

However hard the lay brothers life was, I suspect they were more protected than the average peasant.

[@Axelgear2006]

Poor Matt. Imagine being a trained archaeologist, getting the chance of a lifetime to work with Time Team (which funded more digs than most universities in the UK combined), and then being interrupted in the middle of your dig to go LARP as a monk!

[@trooperdgb9722]

Experimental Archeology? (Or perhaps Anthropology...lol)

[@EmeraldVideosNL]

I can't imagine this wasn't planned in advance. The producers usually had a script. They would make sure to have someone available to do the experimental archeology/reemactment on the actual film days.

[@kimberleyfallon9661]

Poor Matt its always him who gets volunteered poor guy just wants to finish his hole!

[@Raycheetah]

I recall watching an older episode in which one of the lady archeologists was tasked with a similar role as a novice nun, and it turned out to be a real ordeal for her. ='[.]'=

[@kimberleyfallon9661]

@@Raycheetah ive seen that episode to the difference was that she isolated from everyone during the time and I think the isolation is what got to her. The worse one is when I gent (not matt) played the part of a prisoners it practically destroyed him !

[@Raycheetah]

@@kimberleyfallon9661 Oh! I remember that episode with the prisoner now! That *was* truly awful! @[.]@=

[@mossygreen2790]

@@kimberleyfallon9661 Oh gosh I remember that episode, (couldn't forget it!.) I really felt for the poor young guy, you could see him struggle to get through his ordeal. It showed how brutal life was back then. Didn't he have to break rocks/stones? I recall a mini mountain of rocks (?) outside his cell, that he had to break, for about 12 hours a day & then was given a bowl of gruel as his main meal (?). Also no one was allowed to talk or engage with him, except for the prison guard, (screw), who would bark his orders & do the prison drill, etc. Talk about a memorable episode, I wonder how he feels about his experiences, now, over 20 odd years later? !

[@WraithChick22]

Poor Matt, he looked like he would rather be digging! 😂

[@joshschneider9766]

Matt has actually spoken about how much he appreciates the experimental archeology he did. You do realize he volunteered for it all right?

[@ingerfaber3411]

The lay brothers who worked in the monasteries had grown up with hard labour and frequently scant food. Not doubting it was hard labour, but so would working on a farm have been too

[@joshschneider9766]

Actually research shows that peasants ate a pretty robust and healthy diet with the exception of famine and plague times. The rich people ate refined white flour for example while the peasant bread was the less posh and amusingly way more beneficial parts of the grain. There are many such examples. But the idea that they worked like Matt did without sustained diet to match is silly. They simply would not have been able to farm the way they did without corresponding dietary intake.

[@Textech1997]

Love this channel