The Mysterious Iron Age Tunnel Under A Garden | Time Team | Odyssey

[@shri081]

Phil with that toast to the family…always a consummate gentleman..my favourite time team member…

[@rking63441]

Mick's patience is highly admirable

[@dirtedirte8771]

Definitely

[@CartoonHistory]

so is tony robinson's hair

[@myinnerlightfaith]

It’s fun watching these older episodes and then comparing with the newest ones and just seeing the vast change in technology to understand archaeology.

[@piccalillipit9211]

The last series they had 3D underground maps of the Roman ruins after scanning them - this is a "blob" on a bit of paper.

[@rhondajhunter9091]

@@piccalillipit9211 ANY INDICATION OF WHAT YEAR THIS EPISODE ORIGINATED?

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@rhondajhunter9091 About 1995 I believe.

[@rhondajhunter9091]

@@piccalillipit9211 THANK YOU!

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Old school time team. Yes!!

[@billfoster6479]

It feels sort of strange to me living in a time of such, continuous change, and rapid technological evolution. To think that society and the day-to-day work a day things remained the same for hundreds of years, for our ancestors.

[@iamme6773]

It's so weird. Where I live in western Massachusetts, in USA, there are remarkably similar structures in the woods. We also have standing stones and mounds. There are similar places in the whole northeast. All anybody knows is that they're really old, pre colonial. But, the natives say they were there before them. Nobody's been allowed to investigate them in modern times. The most they'll let them do is geophys, but even if it shows something, it's just noted and they still aren't allowed to dig even a test pit. I wish we were more like other countries in the Americas, and could learn about our past, but nobody's ever allowed to dig up anything. Our archaeologists have to go to Mexico or Egypt to use their degrees.

[@vixendoe1189]

Not exactly an accurate assessment. My youngest sister got her master's in archaeology in Louisiana. One of her first digs was down there on a plantation. Later she was invited to participate in a dig out in Arizona/New Mexico.

[@wimheitinga728]

Could you possibly film some of those structures and share them on YT? Or do you know a link to a vid?

[@piccalillipit9211]

Time team went to America - they nearly pulled thier hair out with frustration. They almost had to get a certificate for ever spoon full of soil they excavated - then they had to sive it to make sure there was nothing they were missing.

[@NickanM]

@@vixendoe1189 Digging on a plantation is a VERY different thing compared to something potentially thousands of years old.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

@@piccalillipit9211 You mean they were required to do good archaeology? Shame, that.

[@NorwayT]

Even with the mysterious dowsing, these older episodes are a million times better than the ones with the Kindergarten BS courtesy of Ochota and Langlands. They, and whomever decided to bring them on, really wrecked Time Team completely. Hopefully the new Time Team will never stoop to talking down to the audience like we are idiots. This episode, like all the Classic Time Team episodes, is just BRILLIANT!

[@wewenang5167]

its not the fault of those two tbh...we should not blame them but the production team. Both Langland and ochota are a great academicians.

[@Raycheetah]

0:38 Robin always dressed like a Time Lord. =^[.]^=

[@alexandermccarthy]

Hocus pocus doesn't age well! I'm glad the scientific method was adopted for the rest of Time Team. What an awesome series of programmes.

[@marionchase-kleeves8311]

It is entirely scietific! The COPPER rods are responding to electromagnetic fields generated by water, pipes, wires and even stone. The earth is a giant magnet and those magnetic fields allow life to exist on this planet.

[@jacobbevers8171]

👆💯

[@catofthecastle1681]

It’s just that most people can’t read them and the metaphysical part is nonsense! And if the water or magnetic fields are very far down, it has no effect. My father in law hired one and had to give up, turns out the water was 370 feet down in an underground quartz-limestone cave!

[@Evilminiature]

@@marionchase-kleeves8311 water does not generate electromagnetic fields...

[@marionchase-kleeves8311]

@@Evilminiature says who? You generate a magnetic field, so does running water. It is just not high in voltage

[@EffectPlaceboThe]

Keeps food cool for storage. I see little difference from a root cellar

[@jturtle5318]

That "New Age" dowsing was practiced by my family in the 19th and 20th centuries, possibly before that. They used a stick, usually a Y shaped willow branch, because willows grow by water. It's a very old "New" technique.

[@larryzigler6812]

Been proven not to work

[@beezo2560]

I've used 1/4" copper or stainless steel L shaped rods. Welding rod will even work. The art however is in the interpretation of the movement before you even dig. This I cannot do.

[@gayeinggs5179]

My father was a doused in Rhodesia he always found boreholes

[@bartvandenberg4901]

Episodes with Robin Bush are my favorites!

[@PoorMansChemist]

I love the way he talks. "Toym teim" 😄😄

[@intothewildexplore]

15:22 "Oh FUck... SHit..." 🤣🤣🤣

[@Rusty_Gold85]

My idea is the Fugou are for camping during the Blizzards and foul winter snows or escaping wild animals that havn't gone extinct yet. Most inventions come from necessity

[@wewenang5167]

Cornwall are not known to be full of blizzard or heavy winter....if that's why they made it then Scotland should have more fogu than anywhere else because its bloody weather over there compared to Cornwall in the southern tip of the British isle.

[@newwavepop]

i have no idea what fogue were for way back then, but i know what i would use them for if i had one on my land. im going to have my D&D group play down there.

[@chrisconnor8086]

I love this so much

[@balderii7340]

The Fogou’s were for storage. If so very many were found, it’s hard to believe every family would have their own “church”. The site was domestic: pots and pans and the fireplace, nice little house and a wall to keep them safe. Life was hard, survival came first, the effort of making the tunnel had to have contributed to their survival. Otherwise it would not be worth the effort.

[@jacobbevers8171]

Here in southern Tennessee we call it witching for water and you have to be born with it in you to be able to witch for water. Dowsing is supposed to be for finding water. My uncle has dug hundreds of wells for people in the country and hits water every time. About 20% of them end up being sulfur water but all the rest have clean drinking water. And we use a forked stick. Idk about the rods this guy is using but you can witch water with a stick and it has to be a fresh green stick. It can’t be dry. Anyway just an fyi if anyone wanted it.

[@johnwallace7002]

Baldric another great show.

[@simonorr594]

He was also president of the British actors union. Like Ronny Raygun was in the US

[@piccalillipit9211]

*ITS VERY NICE* that the guys family cooked the whole team a meal

[@JGrowl-er9md]

I miss the 90s

[@Iammrspickley]

Whoooooo..... scary stuff..... hihi Tony is funny 😋

[@enterthecarp7085]

All of the theories of what it might be are correct.

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@obscurazone]

How the HECK did we ever figure out what tin ore is and that it could be smelted?!? It's mind boggling, just watching Phil and that chap panning that stream, and managing to extract a teeny tiny bit of tin ore, to then thinking someone at some point decided to smelt that and "hey presto"....

[@nelsonted1]

Dad was a dousing champion. None of the rest of us had it in us. He could find unmarked graves in our lawn, water.lines and sewer lines. He had a blast doing it. Us kids and friends were just ignorant and incompetent

[@bouncycastle955]

It's a shame he didn't teach you the old con, could have scammed a few bucks off some gullible people.

[@piccalillipit9211]

We used to find waterways in the fields with them. I have no idea how they work, but they do.

[@bouncycastle955]

@@piccalillipit9211 lol, no they don't

[@nelsonted1]

We held the dousing rods exactly as he did. We'd watch him and try to mimic him exactly. He'd say lets go next door and we'll search for the sewer. OR take us out and find tile drainage lines in fields. He told us we either had it in us or we didn't. Not having it is not a personal failure. We ran ourselves in circles trying to copy him exactly and watch every move he made. Nothing.

[@bouncycastle955]

@@nelsonted1 Really? Someone who knew where the sewer and drainage lines were could find them and people who didn't know where they were couldn't find them? Wow, it really must work... 🤣

[@simonstergaard]

its some prehistoric walk-in cooler...how hard can it b to see that

[@playwithmeinsecondlife6129]

Tony's distant descendant in two thousand years will find a root cellar and call it a frontier church.

[@thesh8101]

They do seem to like labeling everything as a religious monument. I always wondered how close they come to hitting the nail on the head, for all we know Stonehenge could have been a shopping mall.

[@AchimEngels]

I have a bible in my home and yes, I haveread it. I have no understanding of it as any christian would do, but the point it, is anyone is digging my house in a thousand years and finds the bible, he would proclaim me a believer in this religion. Tony´s distance decendant may even call me a priest - for God´s sake.....@@thesh8101

[@JamieTransNyc]

Dowsers always have excuses

[@townview5322]

Are the defensive walls and ditches against animals or hostile neighbours or marauding gangs? Life, then, wasn't as simple as it may seem. I rarely, if ever, wonder about my safety.

[@ColleenJousma]

I love how they have the unscientific stuff in the shows. It reminds me of the site they did with all the follies. Good stuff.

[@jamesbutler6253]

Phil looks so young here.

[@balderii7340]

Why can it not have been a triple-banked enclosure? This was mentioned in 1702, there’s a big gap between then and now wherein a lot of the surroundings may have changed.

[@elizabetheakman]

Maybe foo gou was for stashing their butter !!!

[@Nicolesid1]

Tony's hat in the beginning is a choice😅.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

if you get 5 dowsers to walk across a lawn you'll get 5 different results. It may not be complete bogus, but it's not reliable enough that it's of any use in scientific context

[@ACroppyBoy]

Anyone know what season this is from?

[@casperbetz1949]

lmgtfy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes#Series_3_(1996)

[@alexandrupantea6576]

not sure about the season but this episode is from '96

[@annazaman9657]

S3 E1

[@iceqween089]

@@alexandrupantea6576 Tony's hair gave it away, for me xD so luxurious!

[@mikereilly7629]

Could it have served the same function as the Arab Qanat,a permanent water catchment system?

[@chrisconnor8086]

Why would they do that if they had a nearby stream? No need for that sort of thing in cornwall

[@stevennesmith7988]

S3 E1 - aired 7 Jan 96

[@Nepheos]

they look so young in these older episodes... like... they have FULL HAIR

[@giuseppe4909]

They all seem to forget about all of the things that site may have gone through in the past 1500 years….

[@bouncycastle955]

Seems they talked quite a lot about the past 1500 years in this episode.... Maybe you should watch it before commenting...

[@rossc4977]

Cut a metal coathanger in half, make two dousing rods. Roll out a power extension lead on the lawn and walk over it at 90° angle, the rods will move if you hold them lightly as you go over the wire. Proof of concept 👍🤠

[@voodoochild5440]

So, according to that man, the accuracy of dowsing depends on the mindset of the person doing it? Maybe he expected to find something and that's why his rods 'found' something.

[@mississippiatheistette8769]

no matter whether or not you pay for youtube premium , they are gonna sneak those ads in there aren't they? Also, DOWSING??!! The time team really let people come in and try to swindle them with dowsing rods?! I am appalled. I thought they might be smarter than that. I am glad that at least one of the was speaking some sense by saying that he would rather look at the geophysics.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

Dowsing - what an embarrassment.

[@georgelong9957]

After this dig did they all sit around and listen to deep purple

[@PoorMansChemist]

12:14 They dig BEFORE they've had someone come in an locate all the gas, water, electric, sewer, and cable lines????? That's just plain reckless!!! 😲😲

[@GLF-Video]

Dowsing is nonsense.

[@andriesquast2028]

Prove it.

[@casperbetz1949]

​@@andriesquast2028 Burden of proof is on the proponents. Dowsing is nonsense.

[@Jutte777]

Suppose you better tell that to the owner of the Road Engineering firm that used dowsing to pin point an underwater seepage/stream that was causing grief with the repair of a section of highway that I was working on. Instead of getting an expensive ground penetrating radar - he just had a worker grab two "L" shaped wires - found the stream - did their civil engineering bit and fixed the problem. When I asked about the dowsing, the worker replied that they did it that way all time. To them it was just a nothing out of the ordinary. The whole crew could do it and it just happened to be the woman truck driver that did it when I saw the dowsing. Sure dowsing is nonsense - except they did it all the time successfully. Don't ask me why it worked it just did.

[@beezo2560]

Anyone can do it. It's remarkable when it almost comes out of your hands because jerked so violently. The art is identifying what is in the ground by the feel. Rods will hit on metal, water, open areas subterranean. Buy two lengths (24") of 1/4 inch copper wire, put a 90° bend at one end of each. Long end facing out parallel to each other. Short end pointing up. Carry lightly at shoulder width with your thumbs on top of the short ends. I guarantee they will cross on their own in 50 paces. Anyone can do it. It's interpreting that is the skill. Edit- spelling

[@GLF-Video]

@@Jutte777 I appreciate the anecdotal story. There are a million on them. But honestly. It's complete nonsense. Study Berkson's Paradox.

[@n00n1n]

The more history hit TV adds I see the less and less likely I am to get it. I cannot stand history hit TV because it's been shoved down my throat on every single video

[@marionchase-kleeves8311]

The rods have nothing to do with anybodys mind. Use them to find pipes and burried electric wires. Open spaces dont generate a magnetic field, unless of course, there is flowing water in a ditch. Give it a try, just dont hold the copper rods tightly, but just keep them horizontal/parallel to the ground

[@paulstan9828]

😁👍

[@gayeinggs5179]

Yes they are have hair still !

[@marionchase-kleeves8311]

Electromagnetism is what mskes the COPPER rods move toward eachother. They can find burried pipes and wire for power. Flowing water also generates an electromagnetic field. The copper rods move toward eachother like + and - poles of a... magnet

[@beezo2560]

The dowser should have let Mick have a go. Anyone can do it. It's astonishing to feel the rods or willow turn. But the art is knowing what is in the ground before you dig just by feel.

[@Bamboule05]

Why is it people always think that iron age folks had alot of spirituality? They superimpose their belief onto them, which is rubbish. The fogou might have been a public toilet for all we know. But spiritual??? Those people may have believed in gods and demons inhabiting the same realm, but they didn't wordship them the way monotheistic societies do.

[@bouncycastle955]

Because all of the records we have of people all over the world going back long before this site shows that we were consistently looney.

[@ColleenJousma]

You make some good points. I would point out that sometimes we are use modern terms to best describe things that look like modern practices or we don't have other words for them. But again, it could be like most archeologists when they don't know what something is they default to "ritual". lol

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Its Probably somewhere to camp underground during the blizzards of winter. Most inventions come from necessity . Or from wild animals that have long became extinct

[@catofthecastle1681]

You’re making as many assumptions as they do! Don’t ascribe 21st century thinking on ancient peoples you know nothing about!

[@laquitacreel]

Those bricks weren't stacked and kept in place by the weight. Every stone down there was once all red bricks; like every other ancient tructure in the world were all built with red bricks. You guys are so off on this. Meltology is the new archeology and geology.

[@catofthecastle1681]

Get a life!

[@martanegron3425]

This person who writes bad words shoulld not be writing anything dont have respect for people, keep those words to the self wash your mouth with garlic please

[@Bamboule05]

If you don't like it, don't listen to it, but let others do as they bloody well please.