The Mysterious Stone Age Ruins Of Sussex | Time Team | Odyssey

The team travels to what could be a Neolithic settlement in the Sussex Downs. Initially discovered by John Pull in 1923, the site is littered with remains of 6000-year-old flint mines. But Pull claimed to have discovered a second site nearby, which has so far eluded other diggers. The team are joined by archaeologist Miles Russell, pottery expert Sue Hamilton and wood specialist Maisie Taylor. Neolithic lifestyle specialist Jacqui Wood makes some elderflower tea and threatens to make a new hat for Phil. Phil and Francis demonstrate the relative merits of mesolithic and neolithic axes.
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[@DragonFae16]

It's sites like this that challenge Mike's assertions that you could learn almost everything you needed to know about a site to understand it in the first three days of a dig. Three days only allowed the team to touch the top of the first layer of a 10-layer cake of mystery, most of those layers being ones we will never be able to comprehend.

[@kikufutaba524]

I think Victor was an amazing man with immense talent and a kind heart. His work is amazing as his life was full of trials.

[@alekseyy9277]

Get Phil new hat and manicure

[@NobodyWhatsoever]

The descriptions of his difficulties really make me curious about the quality and work of John Pull versus the two doctors who seemed to work so hard to stop him.

[@jonpatterson7211]

Sounds a bit like the way the fellow who discovered Sutton Hoo was treated.

[@Afro408]

Same back then as is all too present now. Professional jealousy. Snobbery. Class hatred. You name it. How dare a basically educated person find something the stuck up big nobs couldn’t find if they tripped over it! “I mean, c’mon, we went to university and spent years learning the science and now some jumped up ex soldier thinks he knows all about archaeology!” And because they were Doctors, they were credible and poor John Pool was not.

[@wrorchestra1]

@@jonpatterson7211 Basil Brown

[@willowmoon7]

Someone needs to make a movie about him

[@montana.topeoplewakeup6142]

I love binge watching Time Team🥰👍

[@ggelsrinc]

So they mined flint and put it back into the ground. Sounds to me like a good way to store flint, it takes time to get from finding flint to making a product from it. It wouldn't be logical to produce flint products from scratch each time they were needed and flint was valuable enough to trade. Burying flint to store it makes sense.

[@MossyMozart]

@ggelsrinc - Sort of a decorative way to store their flint. Those ancient peoples were landscape architects!

[@DragonFae16]

That isn't taking into account the fact that because flint was rare, it was special and therefore had value outside its practical uses. People have buried gold for millennia with no intention of digging it back up, because it held value and burning it with a dead person showed that that person was important.

[@the_rover1]

maybe that mound was some sort of storage facility. they might not wanted to carry that stuff to their settlement and needed a place to visibly store it.

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

I agree. It makes sense to stash away flint for the next time they passed through. There could be an element of returning the flint to the earth but not all of it.

[@jamesretta5690]

Outstanding, fabulous, fascinating. Thank you!!

[@paolo4002]

The most satisfying aspect to this episode. Blackpatch is still a very important site and is now a scheduled monument. Well done Mr Pull

[@lavinleitrim44]

Id just like to point out that Time Team have their own YT channel, have uploaded all their episodes since the 90's and are uploading new episodes periodically. I think its roughly 19 seasons.

[@RatelHBadger]

They haven't uploaded ALL of the episodes.

[@Je-Lia]

What a wonderful find--this channel! I have always had a keen interest in archaeology.

[@m.asquino7403]

Im tired of hearing about the panic. I think Ill binge watch the Time Team.😁

[@ivanolsen7966]

panic ?

[@bigswede7241]

This is for sure gonna be my bed time story to night!

[@ShipCreek]

I dont think that flint was buried. I think it was stocked piled for their use and most probably trade. Its the thousand of years that filled it in. The time team missed an opporunity by not checking the quality and sizes of the rock as they were digging it up. I find it annoying that our ancestors arent given full respect for being very clever. Not everything is about superstition.

[@simonscott1121]

Yup. Either that or perhaps even classifying the flint to some degree. Dig up a bunch of flint, bring it over, and someone takes/chips away the good stuff and throws the bad stuff in a hole. People havent changed much in 10000 years, some clever sods were around. The frustrating thing about time team is certainly the 3 day limit.

[@seaghanobuadhaigh8240]

Given how hard it was to survive back then, I suspect the average IQ was well above what it today.

[@fukemnukem1525]

Excellent video guys. Fantastically done! Thank You.

[@raempftl]

Unfortunately, they have taken someone else’s work and published it as their own. Please watch the original videos on Time Team Classics.

[@ruthanneseven]

💗 these so much! The OG of British archaeological entertainment!

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

I love to watch Time Team and it is sad that they don't make this show anymore. I didn't like the new people at the end. They just didn't seem to fit. There have been several of the people on the show that have passed away like Victor, Mick, and the professionals who used to come in and talk. But at least we have the ability to watch the old shows.

[@lilirehak5569]

Perhaps the pits were to store the flints which I am sure were difficult to mine. Why not put it in a "sacred burial type circle" to keep the looters away and safeguard the flint for future use and trading? John Pull's work was fascinating. Sorry he was given such a hard time and not recognized until many years later.

[@Nomad77ca]

I wonder if that circle was an early form of a warehouse, or maybe was meant as a cache for later use.

[@Willy_Tepes]

As there are no Neolithic monuments below 90 meters in southern Britain, I think archeology has missed something important, THE SHORELINE. If you understand the shoreline, you will find much more and understand more about their culture. And you might want to look closer at Fisherton de la Mere just west of Salisbury. It was a coastal fishing port once like the name implies. And all those hill forts are in fact coastal forts. You'll see it if you plot the sea level.

[@rachelhall5522]

Phill's grin when the tree branch broke. So good,

[@billclisham8668]

I almost wonder if the "reburied" flint was more of a stash by seasonally traveling people to come back to the next warm season????

[@danpoole4915]

Great film, fascinating, intriguing, and filled with wonder (and flint).

[@accessaryman]

another hypothesis could be, the ring ditch was a living space, with a supply bank of raw flint for future use, it had a tree left standing in its interior for shade, and the hut or huts where place around its interior , but their features where shallow enough to be destroyed by the bulldozer. just another hypothesis

[@MossyMozart]

@Owen Bell - Those early peoples created a beautiful way to warehouse their mined flint. They were real landscape architects.

[@ashleysanders2821]

I love this episode!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting.

[@inthemaze7441]

Love these shows. Being a dummy, I was wondering if it was sandstone or another being used in the water to polish the flint. Was wondering other by sheer use how the guide channel was formed.

[@elizabethjury2930]

Fascinating - thank you for the video. 🌻

[@wiretamer5710]

If there is a general rule to cultural and social development, things remain undefiled and fuzzy until this becomes unsustainable logistically. The idea that neolithic industry would be inseparable from ceremony and collective identity is not only plausible, it can be observable in many aspects of contemporary life. Industry is not only 'work', it is often celebrated as a way of life. Add into the mix, the idea of the lone hold out, who won't give away a way of life. Often personified by eccentric hermits living in abandoned mining towns: a caretaker. A hoard of flint, makes sense in the context of a caretaker, living on a disused flint mining district. A ring could be both sacred, or a drain for a animal skin tent weighed down with sacks of ballast, that would leave zero archeological trace.

[@pigoff123]

Aw Tony my man where fore art thou...

[@maxmoore9955]

TOMORROW, LOVE THAT FROM AN ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO CONCENTRATES ON YESTERDAY.BUT LOOKING BACK CAN STOP US MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES.

[@bellbeaker7014]

Time Team is the best

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@moonoggin]

Best one yet!

[@borderreiver3288]

brilliant...

[@JJRudell]

another hypothesis: What a better place to hide your stash, than inside a grave. lets say I discover the seam of flit, I start to mine it... later I come back and see that someone else has been in the mine..... I am going to now extract as much as I can in a season. but where am I going to keep it? your not going to drag it around but your not going to leave your hard work behind for someone else to just "pick out the good stuff", bury your goods. Dig a few "Markers" to give you a landmark... mound up the dirt and dig your "place of the dead around it" then when you're out passing by, you can dig out what you need with minimal effort, time and resources?. and anyone else, who you know have been in the area. would leave it alone. I dont think that would be far off of an idea from a 21st-century point of view.

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Nice video about discovering of a Neolithic settlement Buried under Sussex...by archaeological activities..hard works

[@Zippezip]

Is it possible that it was just a bank where those who mined the flint left it so they could come back and use it later, I mean who wants to carry around 400 lbs. of rocks?

[@LiberationNL]

I think it is a bank of the "used" flint.

[@jessetravelsgriffith2454]

They had a good time with those axes 😊

[@ruthanneseven]

Maybe it was a communal storage area for the flint?

[@charlesvigneron565]

What was the recipe of the food?

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Great fun . Digging up the past👏👍yes💖

[@edwardhamm5535]

The best

[@edwardpatrickdetrafford-mo8347]

⚔️Phil’s hat might have been a representative of a character’s hat in the movie Raider’s of the lost Arc?🛡

[@sharimullinax3206]

Find this man's work and bring vindication for his family. Maybe the barrow was flint storage for future generations.

[@sharonpeek4578]

I'm told my British ancestors came from came from Sussex/Kent area in the 16th century. Perhaps my several times removed Grandparents (surname Hosmer) walked that very area.

[@conradraymond6473]

Roman Dwellings

[@alannabanana6255]

When was this filmed?

[@annazaman9657]

2006

[@alannabanana6255]

@Nordmalm Nordmalmsson nice

[@alannabanana6255]

@@annazaman9657 thank you

[@diannefoster3297]

Maybe a workshop or storage are of flint ot be used later.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

WOW very sad.

[@stconstable]

Just when you think you've watched them all....

[@TheSeafordian]

I've been to Myrtlegrove Farm. They sell really good ice cream.

[@9087125498172345]

Looks like Wim Hoff

[@patricaomas8750]

John Pull definitely good source for Agatha Christie

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

Through the whole episode, I thought they were saying John Paul.

[@kaiokendo]

0:11 fuck those microscopes man

[@LaurinhaPimenta]

Eu tenho uma raiva desse prazo de 3 dias

[@leeneufeld4140]

Might the ring ditch have been an ongoing memorial to miners killed in cave-ins? They would have no body to bury.

[@christianbuczko1481]

In some respects thats possible, as well as them having to sacrifice part of the resource to thank the gods for what they took.

[@archibaldchuzzlewit1848]

Gentlemen, I give you Brittania! Gambling with all the glitz and glamour of the British Isles. Best of all, the waitresses and showgirls are all real Brits, fresh from the streets of Sussex, they are.

[@freqenc]

I really feel bad for the people the end up digging and finding our time here.

[@nerida20]

masses of cell phones + play stations, lol

[@toomanyopinions8353]

Our structures won't be as visible but it'll be an archeologist's wet dream with all of the trash and objects and such.

[@birdolla4441]

The two manger commodities of the era Flint and Oak. So they panted both hoping for them to grow.....The oak no problem, The flint not so much

[@peasenhalljesus]

I wonder if the small pits where a set up for skinning animals ….

[@jeagle64]

I was wondering what Jim Carrey was up to until I saw this thumbnail.

[@conradraymond6473]

Roman Dwellings

[@NullStaticVoid]

Just say "Cunning Plan" once.

[@peterjerchel4603]

I really hope this rushing against a timeline is for affect and not reality

[@MossyMozart]

@Peter Jerchel - Bingo!

[@lizzy66125]

is reality,they only had 3 days,as all of them had other day jobs as well.

[@MarkDibley]

S13 E09 - Sussex Ups and Downs, 19th March 2006

[@had2galsinthebooth]

Gotta be Hobbits. The smaller round dwellings are not likely the grand earthen houses of Hobbiton it'sself but could easily be the more modest homes of the laborers and tradesmen who served Bilbo and his neighbors. You laugh now but when they find a wizard footprint where he stepped in wet chalk next to a small hole from leaning on his staff kindly remember I called it. :)

[@Ggowmitch]

Oi. Get out of here here with your small fiery ring men

[@wewenang5167]

HOW ON EARTH DID NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE PEOPLE FARMED ON THAT CHALK INFESTED LAND? AND DID THEY SAID THERE WAS TREE THERE ONCE UPON A TIMES? HOW CAN TREES LIVE ON A CHALKY LAND LIKE THAT?

[@belbrighton6479]

Have you got the #copyright to post this video? Given that #timeteam have an official KZbin page? Plus #channel4 own the rights of broadcast too?

[@morkusmorkus6040]

Lol why the fuck do you care

[@fredferd965]

No, you're probably thinking of Parliament.....

[@nevyen149]

When I first caught it out of the corner of my eye, the face in the thumbnail looked a lot like Bryan Cranston. But the channel and the other images told me it was about prehistoric things...and for a second I thought it was a new spin off about a prehistoric ancestor of Walter White...maybe called "Breaking Bronze".

[@V.Hansen.]

You can’t call a field archaeologist’s hat disgusting 😂 Even if it is! Rude

[@marcelasantander7457]

47:22 ...if only those plastic "disposable drinking cups" had been some other life-friendly stuff...

[@fado792]

Neolitic, with a picture of someone with an hand-ax??

[@kuzzbillington6392]

They were still used at that time, and even later into the bronze age.

[@fado792]

@@kuzzbillington6392 A picture for every time. actually I still use one for my potato's. Thanks Buzz.

[@conradraymond6473]

*LatinoHeat* StoneAge

[@kevinwhilock1457]

Why Neolithic, when there was a Brythonic people's before the Romans came, see the Genetic study from Oxford University, 17 similar but distinct tribal groupings in British Isles and the Welsh who are related to the Basque people, so much older. Why are the ancient Britons ignored, as if they never existed? Kevin from Staffordshire

[@philipr1567]

Neolithic refers to technology, not to racial or tribal identity.

[@filipoerikssso9935]

the other archeologs murder him`? this is such a rough work

[@YnseSchaap]

No matter what field of science.... there's always envy and hatred 😁

[@matthewthomas3890]

Yeah. Life & fools

[@YnseSchaap]

@@matthewthomas3890 😁

[@morkusmorkus6040]

Yeah its almost as if scientists are humans. Oh wait...

[@markhall9412]

on pause 20:32 / 48:31 could that camera man be looking at same thing as I , who me?🤗

[@windwardhaven]

Time Team cameramen never failed to catch the down-blouse angles, also....

[@abQUINTON1]

It's Dr. Alice Roberts, so yeah. She's a stunner for sure. The Bath dig the cameraman really likes her :) She has her own show called "digging for Britain"

[@Less1leg2]

Its very interesting investigating Ice Age Era human living conditions. What I believe though that academics don't seem to appreciate is the living conditions next to a mile high Ice Sheet. Obviously living anywhere next to a mountain of shear ice was the fact, water flowing off the elevated Ice Sheet washed away a lot of history. This is why I believe human existence evidence is hard to come by. The Ice Age Retreat was not slow and not drip per drip simple as academics keep implying. I believe in many instances, it was violent and massive. What ever was in the way, wasn't there or evidence it was there to begin with. It's why North American human existence is so difficult to prove what was there. Water does that, washes the slate clean of everything. Then where it does pile up, it totally destroys the record of existence of what was there over time. But we do find some evidence of human existence. Even then, academics close their collective eyes at what they see because they don't want there pat long time belief system uprooted. This Siberian Ice Age travel story needs upgrading. And Neolithic people weren't dimwits. If anything with the meager tools they had. They did quite well under the circumstances.

[@kevinwhilock1457]

So would a devastating event such as world wide catastrophe, including a flood!

[@isilder]

Maybe they thought the tree roots actually burrowed deep into the ground to find flint ? So its more of a garden for trees, they just thought flint would help grow trees ?

[@rupertmiller9690]

The drums in the intro make me angry for some reason I can't figure out. It's just drums. No need for getting all bent out of shape, yet here I am, stupidly angry about drums.

[@PeachysMom]

I love the drums, I drum along

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@micheleandhenrycasavant386]

???????????????lol

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

@@micheleandhenrycasavant386 No. That is my writing that I have a YT channel on the New Testament being authentic and true!

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@proofnewtestamentistrue2948 🤫🤔🤫

[@tardismole]

John Pull has been exonerated. Makes me, a (mostly) self-taught archaeologist, want to cry for joy.

[@morkusmorkus6040]

Stick to armchair archaeology of you're "self-taught".

[@wizardofoz1390]

The three-day time limit a ludicrous and defeats the purpose of a research project in my opinion

[@johnnicol64]

Look at the hits, etc.Its entertainment not PhD work. As a TV show it expanded interest in the ancient world , like never before. Your opinion is both negative and completely missed the point.

[@georgedorn1022]

Time Team undertook archaeological evaluations - targeted trenches to answer specific questions about a site - rather than full excavations. It is a standard method of archaeological fieldwork. From a recent issue of Current Archaeology: 'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion. This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'

[@michaelstevens3479]

If nothing is found they like to draw a picture of what they would like to find.

[@Fush1234]

Forget the past….. You can experience Neolithic living in some of Auckland New Zealand suburbs rite now.

[@alannabanana6255]

curiosity piqued...

[@larryzigler6812]

A bit too fancy for you ? Try Alabama.

[@amberkaywalton1187]

Agreed. With or without lock down. Glad to see I'm not the only one passing lock down with time team.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol at least you still alive to comment about it.

[@larryzigler6812]

@@katerinakemp5701 Is he ?

[@papricep6248]

These people invented lasers and still chose to make their village underground. Amazing.

[@annazaman9657]

What

[@mnichols1979]

@@annazaman9657 probably a glitch in the bot's programing...

[@BryonLape]

There is no more a closed mind than a published academic.

[@roccosage8508]

Book recommendation for anyone interested in this subject matter: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from dreams, death, the afterlife, time travel, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years.

[@kevinwhilock1457]

You read about the real Jesus in the Bible...

[@larryzigler6812]

@@kevinwhilock1457 The real Jesus lives in Mexico. Actually there are lot's of them.

[@lindasummers9823]

Why only 3 days if they find something. Why not let them go on

[@OUigot]

Thumbs down for stealing Time Teams videos and as your own content under a different name.

[@joncawte6150]

The problem with archeology and this programme in particular is that without time and absolute evidence, it is all just total speculation, unfortunately. And tbh, with time team, I do dislike Robinson, I think he is surplus to the programme, the archaeologists could present the programme better by themselves and maybe just have that geordie bloke that does voice overs, on many other programmes, do a voice over when needed!

[@morkusmorkus6040]

Tony Robinson (but also Phil) was the heart and soul of this show. New TT sucks.

[@michaelchase418]

This video confirms the stigma of English teeth.

[@mickbrown8249]

Neolithic man took centre blue Stones from Priseli mountains Very close To Camarthan SOUTH WALES We were supposed to have them BACK When I would like 2 NO??? Elgin marbles from Greece they want them BACK TO???

[@awhite2501]

Why show them as white 🤔.

[@leesweets4110]

Im going to call BS. You guys know the area was bulldozed and yet you only dig a three inch deep "trench" to find archeology from 6000 years ago. I take it you dont actually want to find anything.

[@phillipstroll7385]

Sacred my ass. They dug it up then they worked it. The pits with it stacked is where they worked it. When they had enough to trade they moved on. Years later they might have returned. There is nothing saved about it. Knock it off.

[@lagresomadsl]

10:55. Fairy tale alert. Bones and wooden sticks. The matter of fact is that we dont have a single clue about this times peoples technology, time span or how the life really was. The next joke is the "6000 year old" idea about an ancient settlement 2 cm below the surface. The real questions is: 1) Why did the settlement leave and or die out, not being able to tell anybody about their way of lifestyle? 2) If they died out, why didn't the next people, walking into this area, make use of something already constructed? 3) When and or how was this settlement covered up by earth? 4) If the idea about simpleminded, stupid imbecile people with limited knowledge, how did they manage to make use of bones? 5) Why is every earlier people portrayed as simple people with simple tools?

[@kaptainkaos1202]

At no time have I ever heard Time Team refer to prehistoric persons as dumb. Quite the contrary, they are always amazed at how ancient persons adapted to their environment and attempts to control it. The reason they theorize how the bones and sticks were used or their purpose is due to the effort of experimental archaeologists. You’ll see them featured thru out the series. By examining microabrasions on bones and sticks they can see how they were used. Lastly how can you say we don’t have a single clue about their technology? What are artifacts? Like bones found at the site, knapped flint? I’m not entirely sure what your purpose is to your post.

[@mikloslegrady965]

Drop the gimmick of "just three days to find out"; it's manipulative and unnecessary.

[@georgedorn1022]

From a recent issue of Current Archaeology: 'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion. This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'

[@chrisnelson4708]

I'm going to take credit for your discovery because you're not an academic 🤬screw PhD s

[@awhite2501]

It's not all Anglo this Whitewashing must be stopped . There was no Anglo before 1046 .show me proof of Anglo . The yeddish and Anglo Turks are the ones who spoke yeddish, Gaelic , Celtic wasn't native to this land. Show proof that Anglos are native to UK or Israel ??