The Palace Beneath The Playground | Time Team | Timeline

For 100 years schoolboys have been playing a few feet above the remains of the most opulent palace in Britain. The Manor of More was masterminded by Henry VIII's right-hand man, the all-powerful religious leader and statesman Cardinal Wolsey, who was also responsible for Hampton Court Palace. Tony and the team do their utmost to find out what remains and visualise its former glory.
It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit, the world's best history documentary service, at a huge discount using the code 'TIMELINE' ---ᐳ bit.ly/3a7ambu
You can find more from us on:
/ timelinewh
/ timelinewh
This channel is part of the History Hit Network. Any queries, please contact [e-mail]

[@mrjones2721]

Former archaeology student here to confirm: Wheelbarrows make excellent lounge chairs. Saliva on ancient finds also checks out. In the dig I was on, we found an odd white stone and passed it to our rock expert to identify. He licked it. LICKED IT. Straight out of the ground and into his mouth. Then he said, "Marble." "How can you tell?" "Well, marble has a certain taste, so..." A glance around to check if we were buying it. We almost were. "...Look, you can see the grain now." He passed it around. Now that the flattest edge was clean and wet, you could see that it was indeed marble. Later, our bone expert taught us that if you're not sure whether a flake of something is stone or bone, touch your tongue to it. Bone sticks to your tongue, stone doesn't. Fortunately almost all the bits of bone we found were animal bone from kitchen waste, but the number of archaeologists who have licked human bone is considerably greater than 1.

[@SkarKingg]

Thanks Indy

[@joannamallory2823]

I think not...🤢

[@tjo1976]

Now that's being very dedicated to your field lol

[@lisatempleton987]

Thanks for the education. Sometimes the old way of doing things can tell you just as much as this expensive technology.

[@jatzbethstappen9814]

That Paul Blinkhorn chap - knows what he is talking about and seems like a great bloke!

[@gmrsickking7350]

I’ve been watching Time Team since I was eight years old. I’m 29 now and I’m still enjoying it. Thank you.

[@stuff185]

P0 iycm hey no info yall

[@Peg__]

That's awesome! I wish the U.S. had a show like this when I was a kid. I love history shows! We had "Unsolved Mysteries", but it doesn't really compare to this show.

[@gmrsickking7350]

My friends did laugh at me cause I got excited about people digging up old stuff. Rona rekindled my excitement again.

[@Peg__]

@@gmrsickking7350 Same here! I've been thinking of volunteering through a museum or a University here. I want to dig, dang it!

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@Peg__ There is *_Time Team America,_* slightly different to *TT* itself but still archæology.

[@nevillemignot1681]

As a long time watcher of this show, the most obvious change over time to me is how the latter episodes have been dumbed down. There was so much more information and interest to people like me, and i must admit that i do miss some of the folks who appeared in earlier episodes.

[@RatelHBadger]

You can see why Mick Aston left the production. Things went away from documenting a 3 day dig and all the processes along the way, to the more American styled edu-tainment. You can see some focus group saying "just show us the good bits".

[@K1W1fly]

Paul identifies Tudor tile whilst lounging on a digger 5 meters away... the Man has style!

[@Tula-cs1ef]

Style and experience two things old guys like him have in spades

[@AndrewAliferis]

Very interesting, and intriguing that this episode includes surveillance by drone. It’s clear that drones have come a long way in the past decade.

[@guinevere4365]

Thank you so much-I don’t have any money to donate until our money systems straighten out. I’m 76 and have been watching Time Team here in the USA for decades!!!! Love your new programs!!!

[@judilynn9569]

9:35 Oh look! My other favorite host/narrator, Susie Lipscomb. :)

[@SkarKingg]

Isn't she just fabulous?

[@LSmith-zy9cy]

I found this show on youtube during my bout with COVID. I love this show, and am envious that in the US, we don’t have all that history under our feet.

[@MikeH-sg2ue]

Wow, over all the years of watching Time Team, I never saw this episode! A good one it was too! Drive, & dig carefully, & smile often!

[@StanSwan]

I have been binge watching Time Team. My laptop speakers were not cutting it with my poor hearing. Just got a set of speakers with an amp so I can hear it all clearly. Worth the $15 dollars from Amazon.

[@SkarKingg]

I'm glad you can continue watching

[@hopelewis5650]

Close captioning?

[@ColtGColtG]

England, one of the few places where you can pop a shovel into the ground randomly and come up with something historical lol.

[@karanfield4229]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mercedes523]

Here in the USA 🇺🇸, we pop a shovel in randomly and find a NAPPY (diaper) lol

[@goldilox369]

@@mercedes523 no we do not. Beer cans/bottles/tops, old rusty cars, tires for sure. Diapers are for the landfill, you know, to suck up all the water.

[@mattyb9991]

Except for.. you know, all of Europe 😂

[@emlij10]

I love the humor and light heart ness of these docs. Not all upity info.

[@ILostCountAgain]

And now I've learned a new word: demotic. Thanks, Time Team.

[@WildWombats]

I wish they'd let them dig into the ground for longer than 3 days. I know they're at a school and all but this history goes way beyond that, and would benefit historians very much to be able to dig much more than they were allowed.

[@josephwolfe1833]

They only dig for three days because they are all working for various universities and the best they can do is a long weekend. All their digs are fully documented, drawn and recorded and any of national interest are returned to, and dug, by other archaeologists.

[@mrjones2721]

Agreed. I get that it's a TV show and the time crunch is supposed to make everything more exciting, but it just leaves me frustrated. Even extending it to five or seven days would lead to far more interesting finds.

[@PtolemyJones]

@@mrjones2721 I would be happy if they went back to the sites later to learn if anything else was discovered in the cases where the digs were taken over by others.

[@PtolemyJones]

@@mrjones2721 I would be happy if they went back to the sites later to learn if anything else was discovered in the cases where the digs were taken over by others.

[@mrjones2721]

@@PtolemyJones That would be cool, too. Sprinkle in some episodes that are follow-ups in two or three past cases.

[@heather173]

As a Canadian, I'm so jealous that all I get in my pastures are rocks and trees and absolutely nothing interesting. We're so much "newer" here. Brits are so lucky to have so much history literally inches under their feet.

[@42_cc87]

Well depends on what part of Canada you live in.

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

your land had a large native population that you slaughtered and now pretend had no history just like the other americans

[@spyrofrost9158]

@@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis Oops, the natives lost the war.

[@CodonQuixote]

I don't know who I am, I don’t know why I'm here, All I know is that I must watch every Time Team episode ever made.

[@BillyTheKidOfficialYT]

Overused comment

[@CodonQuixote]

@@BillyTheKidOfficialYT My prime directive is to watch Time Team and relay this message.

[@BillyTheKidOfficialYT]

@@CodonQuixote I think it’s to get likes

[@thurayya8905]

I am absolutely astonished: Martin looks just like his schoolboy picture: amazing! No missing him in that lineup.

[@PtolemyJones]

I love how curious and bright to children seem to be, so excited to see what is going on.

[@SkarKingg]

All children prior of video games and smart phone would be as well

[@GroundhogDay-]

@@SkarKingg yeah, and now 2 years later most kids have at least a mobile phone and have turned into Tik Tok (Or some other drivel) Zombies. Have any of you seen Omegle and all it's filth? Once their innocence is gone they lose contact with reality.

[@tjo1976]

I have just discovered Time Team (I am not British) and I find it so fascinating. Do you know what happened on the ground of my playground at school? Probably not a damn thing. lol Maybe a few pioneers passed over it, or native americans, but that's an IF. That'd be it. We have signs made here in this area of North Texas that say "On this spot in 1888, absolutely nothing happened here." Boring

[@chadsimmons6347]

Shawnee Mound, thats what was in the playground at the local school near our farm. A big pile of dirt shaped like a loaf of bread, nobody dared to dig it up, Federal Offence!

[@piccalillipit9211]

£60,000 a year that school... For that amount of money you get archaeology thrown in for free...

[@jeeplvr2000]

God I miss this show.

[@VRBLNSLT]

We need new episodes yeah.. 😬

[@baskervillebee6097]

@@VRBLNSLT Mick is gone and the new version of TT doesn't have Tony or Phil. 😞

[@Paula7379]

Love this channel. Always looking forward to the next upload.

[@logan5824]

So jealous of all their history. I got nothing but worms in my yard.

[@VRBLNSLT]

Just dig deeper 😉

[@karanfield4229]

In New Zealand here, I have underwear that's older than some of our antiques and buildings...🤣🇳🇿

[@auntyb6313]

We have old cars buried in our paddock lol

[@cynthiaskidmore7545]

I watch so much BBC, I wonder if I live in the wrong place.

[@bdb34mc84]

Very interesting but Suzanna Lipscomb is so gorgeous and that accent all I can see or hear😊

[@alexx3914]

Wow thank you for posting. I needed it esp during this pandemic. This is awesome! How did it get buried????

[@joshschneider9766]

It was torn down in 1599 I think it was, after being left derelict when Woolsey and Henry died. The tudor dynasty only lasted about a century and even in its own time was very controversial.

[@RosalieF1]

Jimmy the geophysics guy is a hottie!

[@jakemarten9405]

wot

[@grannypantsification]

Every time I see the spectacular excess of religious leaders it makes me think of the poor people who paid what little they had or worked for room and meager board in hopes of avoiding the purgatory of which the said leaders threatened to enrich themselves so disgustingly.

[@darkmoon4852]

Thats what makes me think that it’s just a power grab. Everything makes sense when you look at it politically and in terms of military manpower. Religion = more morale/more manpower/consolidation of power.

[@gregb6469]

Would Jesus have built Himself a fancy palace?

[@shendaraalshedir1933]

@@gregb6469 nope! 👍

[@VRBLNSLT]

@@gregb6469 the vatican seems to think so.. 😜😂 Religions are just a big scam.. no news there 🤷‍♂️

[@munizanasir]

So interesting that you guys are still digging n discovering after 20 yrs

[@Yeoman7]

So, grounds keeper Willy gets the find of the programme

[@mandy7422]

I watched this in my earlier years and yet here I am again it never gets old

[@hannahl.7202]

Another great video . I wonder why that palace was demolished finally ??

[@PatrickPoet]

Raksha Dave is brilliant and beautiful. Nigel Jeffries is brilliant and handsome. What a match. I'm sure their daughter will astonish the world

[@joshschneider9766]

She's working digventures now you should Google it.

[@Ijusthopeitsquick]

New glasses.

[@thurayya8905]

As wonderful as the Time Team is, it's the faces of the excited schoolboys that steal the show.

[@thurayya8905]

Although the days of the manor are over, looking out at the houses that surround the school, it still remains quite posh.

[@rebeccaenlow4900]

But , why was it torn down if it was so spectacular?

[@cameleonfleuri]

Does somebody know if they went back to explore further or if another team of archeologists did a thourough excavation of the site???

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@lindahughes2289]

RaKSHA and Paul made me laugh. Tony take a walk, bye bye . LOL

[@mercedes523]

What about that early drone?

[@marypasco2213]

Absolutely LOVE to listen to Harding! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Missjulie1975]

24:21-26:01 - the boys will definitely want to watch this as you can see!

[@filmdude007]

what season and episode is this?

[@Hockernant]

Why on earth is this not acceptable/watchable in the UK, Time team was made and filmed in the uk please make these videos watchable for the UK viewers

[@standstrongwwg1wga235]

Can’t watch anything in the U.S. by the U.S. can’t watch anything in the U.K. Made by the U.K. Why? They want to strip all history and without history we’ll always repeat the past

[@alexx3914]

Because your people buried it. You people don’t deserve tea time

[@Meine.Postma]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3W2lH2XndhnmJI

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Get a _free_ VPN/proxy.

[@bradyelich2745]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 VPN does not help, unless you had the VPN before your accounts.

[@annwltr]

That portrait of Thomas Moore, why does it remind me of someone? Who does that look like? Can't put my finger on it

[@alexd5028]

Terry Jones, perhaps?

[@irenem3854]

Lawrence Olivier

[@neonskyline1]

great program, let's not forget how many people suffered for this history though, still privaleged people in britain today

[@scruffmcgruff03]

.... oh F off

[@klnkat6600]

Envy of others is how Karl Marx grabbed the devotion of so many in the 20th century and obviously is enjoying a resurgence now due to the indoctrination of the West's youth in public education. Envy is a common, but unproductive emotion that does nothing for the one who is jealous in any way. What is does do, is to create a spirit of resentment and entitlement to the things produced by others rather than creating something for yourself. Why work to a future when you feel you will just be oppressed either by class or race? That is why Marxism became so deadly when it gripped the world last century. Looking at others as either oppressed or oppressor sets up an unbridgeable divide that only breeds hate. Between 100 and 200 million people died in the last century because of the inevitable result of jealousy and the creation of an intricate web of lies necessary to keep the narrative going and the peasants cooperative. Marxism works just as viciously when race is the wedge used to divide a nation - see current day America. It takes all of us, who see the takeover by the world's Globalist elite, to resist and keep living in reality rather than yearning for an untenable Utopia that hides it deadly underbelly in relentless, deceptive propaganda.

[@micklaycock71]

"Can I spit on this priceless relic?"

[@ChrisHyde537]

Who knew that demotic is a word? Now I do.

[@josi4251]

I'm an English teacher. While I'd heard it before, I didn't remember what it meant. Thanks, Time Team, for a new vocabulary word!

[@dianestafford6968]

I wonder if this inspired any of the kids to become archeologists

[@louisprinsloo5709]

Rebuild the historical towns closest to the studies made, where possible. Instead of using it as tourist attractions, get the willing people of the nation in study to inhabit the rebuild historical towns/places with the agreement that they live a life identical to the peoples back then during the visiting hours, to attract and inspire visitors. All whilst keeping good faith and kindness, without trespassing modern or all time laws. After visiting hours, the people living there for the "show", could start up their solar powered equipment and also promoting green echo friendly living. Thus it will bring back life to the historical towns and lessen the poverty most people of all nations face.

[@Chlo-ee]

All that digging in just 3 days 😮

[@MammaKush88]

Phil is so bae😍

[@sWeddingDressesMomsie]

I miss Stuart Ainsworth. Weird to not have helicopter with Mick but to use pics from drone thing. I love time team but i dont like intro man-must pass him talking. I only like time team people.

[@PtolemyJones]

Oh Jackie, don't like her, she is so mean. In one episode she seemed to really be mean to Raksha, and I never forgave her.

[@Phi1618033]

If all my history teachers looked like that I probably would've paid more attention in class.

[@MrBiggmartin]

Found thanks to the Swedish ground radar.....

[@GroundhogDay-]

33:08. Buffalo girls go round the outside too.

[@thay_ct1030]

🤙🇬🇧

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

Why they find always under the ground

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

Oh My, in the last part of this video, you have tony talking to Jackie in the back by what it to be a long gallery, and you have an old man in his late 60's or 70's digging in the trench. Seriously?? where are the younger people doing this?

[@HabarudoD]

Why only 3 days ;_;

[@lindahughes2289]

2024. BRAVO !

[@TesterAnimal1]

No more site surveys by helicopter these days!

[@VRBLNSLT]

Why would you if you can use a drone with lidar? 🤷‍♂️

[@josi4251]

I wonder why this was torn down in the 1590's.... anyone know?

[@IamwhoIam333]

How did it get buried ?

[@Kacy-pb3xz]

Looks like it was dismantled to help build the other palace.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

With a shovel - little by little

[@joshschneider9766]

It went into disuse and then decay and then decades later was torn down for parts

[@elizabethshaw734]

Why would I pay for something I can't afford and I can get for free?? I can get all the historical documentaries I wish to watch for the rest of my lifetime for free.

[@mikehartman5326]

The massive amount of advertisements should be against the law. Sure I can just click them to end, but maybe you could cut the amount in half so there are only 43 million of them.

[@gunnarelisigurjonsson2587]

Baldrick has a cunning plan indeed

[@shendaraalshedir1933]

Lol! 👍😅🇨🇦

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

How wolsey became so rich?

[@PollyJuice]

Just show Time Team, skip the commentary.

[@piccalillipit9211]

£60,000 a year that school...

[@LoveVanillaRose]

I don't hear anyone questioning why and how the entire thing is buried in mud.

[@ledacedar6253]

SERIOUSLY... Time = dirt piles up man & all of us here know this having listened & watched intently 20 yrs of their educating us.

[@mrjones2721]

The dirt got wet. That's why it's mud. Are you a mud flooder?

[@WPAPi3.14]

HATE THE FREAKIN GUY AT THE BEGINNING!!!!!!!🤬🤬🤬

[@LabelsAreMeaningless]

Those striped uniforms are awful. I hope they have meaning, and aren't just a bad design

[@isaiahwade1484]

Is it just me or does it bother anyone else that she keeps calling the grass astroturf? That is not astroturf, that is grass and you can easily see that because it's growing unevenly in places. Astroturf is usually made from polypropylene or nylon and it doesn't grow at all. Lol

[@arleccio]

She's talking of the stuff inside the tennis(?) court. The fenced thing they dug behind of. That's not grass in there. It's beige and looks artificial.

[@JimBo-ho8qw]

Would it be so difficult to put the actual documentary name, season/episode and IMDb link so people know what they are watching? Everyone knows the original content creator is the UK's Channel 4 and this content is from 2013 and older. There's no point in attempting to obfuscate this information.

[@elleanorpetch3452]

could you tell me what it is please

[@SkarKingg]

Ragshaw, what a beautiful British name

[@melissaorellana6951]

Why keep touching these old documents- please tell me they are replicas.

[@elizabethshaw734]

Woolsey was done wrong! Sort of.

[@papwithanhatchet902]

Sorry, he’s fifteen @3:06? He looks thirty.

[@JacobafJelling]

24:40 this is a special from pakistan or India?? The title of the video is wrong? Greetings from Denmark

[@DDickinson458]

Yea I hardly saw any British children at that school.

[@karenbaird8795]

? This is in England are you talking about the children? They’re English!

[@Sarahlaguiri]

@@karenbaird8795 Damn right! xx

[@Ijusthopeitsquick]

​@Tim Dyer Unfortunately the experiment of multiculturalism is not going well. Even Merkel pronounced it a failure. To be British, you must integrate into British culture, rather than maintain your own culture separate from that of the host population. Failure to integrate always leads to communitarian conflict, and the more aggressive culture will displace the less aggressive. We already see this happening in parts of the UK, as I'm sure you know, although perhaps you prefer to ignore it. Of course those kids could very well be culturally British, but in that case they are not a good example of multiculturalism, the joy of which you enjoy so much.

[@greghall4836]

@T0ny M0ntana 2,5 million British subjects from India and Pakistan voluntered to fight the Germans, Italians and Japanese so that peoples like yours could have their own countries. Maybe you should be a bit more respectful.

[@user-vx8qz4fi8d]

Irritating music!

[@beaubeaukitty5301]

🥇 First Comment!🥳🎊🎉

[@HolyTravWanderer]

Woot woot ❤️

[@alexx3914]

Get over yourself.

[@fatnsassy99]

But you didn't comment, you just said first 😹

[@beaubeaukitty5301]

fatnsassy 99 are you sassin me? LoL it says comment LoL

[@gregb6469]

You can tell this is one of the later episodes--too much fluff and eye candy, not enough actual archaeology.

[@alexramirez-qd6hx]

The fluttering squid undoubtedly itch because question biomechanically back without a foamy thunderstorm. axiomatic, courageous decrease

[@rgwholt]

is this in India ???

[@fahmidarose5389]

The one change startlingly dislike because ash emphatically bump up a hurt fish. nosy, long-term statement

[@davidmorrison3814]

Oh god, not more unnecessary music @Timeline. It is not as if it is even appropriate music. Did you put the work experience kid onto it? Certainly will not be subscribing if you are going to butcher the programs.

[@buddylight2191]

This is all based on pure conjecture and they have no idea.

[@mothersuperior6751]

No it is not. They are looking for physical evidence. The Tudor history period is well documented. The original land titles and the giving and taking of those titles can be read. Even as far back as the Viking invasion written records were made. Letters, legal documents (as shown in the video). These items like Dutch pottery tiles are easily recognised. They are not trying to prove the building was there. They are trying to confirm it was as grand as Hampton Court. Also. Hampton Court, at that time, was considerably smaller than it is now.

[@adscri]

As usual with these programmes, 15 minutes of content is spun out into 45 minutes with a ridiculous amount of repetition. And also as usual almost nothing is found. Watch the last 5 minutes and you see everything.

[@jakemarten9405]

for some its about the journey not just the destination

[@rosamunger547]

The repulsive palm distally harass because tin strangely fire worth a cooperative cirrus. tearful, stupid vault

[@twinsonic]

In English?

[@rebeccaenlow4900]

What? That’s gibberish

[@dorothybadger1340]

The husky duck respectively flower because moustache relatively shelter unto a decorous revolve. uninterested, teeny microwave

[@teleopinions1367]

What a waste of time and £. And the weather, you didn't get a sunny day.

[@joshschneider9766]

The waste of time and money is your comment and paying for inter net access to do it

[@petratorrey1776]

Love it I’m very distantly related to sir Thomas more 🥹 so awesome to see history being recognised

[@HolyTravWanderer]

Wow. Thank you for posting. I needed it esp during this pandemic. This is awesome! How did it get buried????

[@wels2342]

Very carefully

[@ah-nononoo]

Damn, everything's already opening here. Rip us

[@MissPresley69]

@@wels2342 Good answer 😂👍