The Siege of Hopton Castle with Phil Harding - Lockdown Lectures

[@paladinbob1236]

always got time to stop and listen to words from Phil harding :) Gods , i miss time team.....i was a revolutional program for its days, and was so informative for history nerds like myself :)

[@jo1650]

I miss Time Team too!

[@davidsradioroom9678]

I miss it, as well, and I live in the U.S.

[@Gremriel]

Time Team has a channel on youtube, where they are uploading complete episodes.

[@jamesglass4842]

One of the Greatest series ever made. I always looked forward to it at tea time on a Sunday.

[@savannahborn4025]

Phil Harding is a treasure. More please.

[@QuantumLeap83]

Mr Phil Harding you may never see this, but you're one of my heroes. You may never realize just how much you've contributed not just to archeology itself, but also to kindling the passion in others. Bless you sir.

[@dallassukerkin6878]

Always a pleasure, Phil. My late wife was a particular fan during your Timeteam years ... she would often use your phrase "Bit of flint nappin'!" in an appalling impression of your accent whenever she would start a task that was going to take a while :).

[@R.Craig.Collins]

Being a resident of the US, I was not aware of the wonderful Time Team or Phil Harding until recently... I am doing my best to get caught up. I appreciate the history, and the distraction during these terrible times. Thank you

[@MelissaThompson432]

Nobody tells a story like Phil....

[@pup1008]

I *LOVE* Phil - Have done for years. He has that amazing natural touch & ability to hold a listener's attention. Not that this one would probably every happen but a bucket list item would be to have a beer with him!

[@mezellenjohnson2753]

I so enjoy not only listening to Phil but watching him, I find his enthusiasm contagious and enlightening too. I have trouble hearing but I can hear Phil, he doesn't shout but his voice carrys better than many others who to my ears mumble, and my sound has to be turned down for Phil. Thank you for sharing your love and experience on history and archeology Phil. It means a great deal sweetheart.

[@Arelak]

Listening to a history lesson with that unique accent of Phil's just makes it even better.

[@grahamnash9794]

Phil makes a great educator. And what he don't know ent worth knowin'. Great series. Thank you.

[@jturtle5318]

You mean "what 'e don't know".

[@simoncoxe1070]

Cheers Phil. You are one of the main reasons that I became an archaeologist many years ago. Thanks for helping me discover a life of excitement and satisfaction. Keep up the good work, I'm certain your efforts are inspirational to countless others.

[@JWade-pe6td]

Phil Harding is really one of my favorite people on this planet....so passionate and informative....I would love to be an archeologist.

[@bosse641]

Phil's the best.

[@edmondpecotjr.8888]

we love all things Phil Harding...

[@schoolingdiana9086]

Thank you, Phil! Stay healthy! We love to keep learning. ❤️❤️❤️

[@bretnielsen5502]

Phil is one of the very BEST! I wish I'd had him for my history instructor.

[@jefffisher528]

GREAT!!! To see Phil after all these years since Time Team. Love hearing him then as I do now explaining the findings and theories. Thabknyou.

[@VintageHippie78]

Love this man and love his stories.

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

I have really enjoyed these lockdown lectures so thank you all so much. Phil mentioning Time Team was great too, loved that show.

[@jenniferholden9397]

Phil puts flesh on the bones. He tells their stories. Thank you.

[@jo1650]

Love Phil as an educator...and an archeologist...and a beer- drinking fun guy. He looks like fun and makes history feel alive...thank you! Love the Waterloo archeology!

[@GrumblingGrognard]

I will have you know; when I see one of these when I log into KZbin, it damn near makes my evening. I then just have to decide if I watch it right off...or more likely save it for later when I am relaxed, with a drink and it is my quiet time. Thanks for posting, you have more fans than you could ever imagine! :) [edit ~6hrs later...(seriously) I am watching now. My belly is full, I have a drink & smoke. Live is good. Thanks Doc! :) ]

[@dilihopa]

Love Phil. So informative and enthusiastic!

[@riggerparish]

Thank you, Phil

[@michaelbrowning5567]

wish they would do time team again, allways educational and informative.

[@b747guy9]

Phil, you are da man!!

[@jkabholat]

One of my favorite people 🙃

[@padochribentv2623]

Love Phil, his excitement and passion is just infectious and like many others who have posted here, good lord i miss Time Team!

[@andriettebergakker6604]

Recently discovered Time Team and I am binge watching while working from home. I love that there is more content starring Phil. I enjoyed listening to him.

[@kurtbogle2973]

This planet we live on is in a way it's own storybook. Every layer of archeology being a different page taking us farther back in time. A truly good archeologist is expert at taking us to the right page. A stellar archeologist is able to tell the story of what actually happened in a clear and understandable manner. This combination of being able to tell the stoty at the actual location looking at artifacts that were from the actual event. Is as close as we are going to get to getting in a time machine and traveling back in time. "Like Sherman and Peabody! " The Phil Hearting Tony Robinson team is at the top of their field at taking us there.

[@karab6364]

Love Phil....!

[@fabbocake6807]

Thank you for producing such fascinating lockdown lectures. I always get excited when I see a new lecture featuring Phil, his passion about the subjects he talks about makes him a joy to listen to. I have so much admiration for him, and his vast knowledge and understanding of history and it’s processes. I’m glad I got to grow up with him in time team and that I still get to enjoy his talks now on this channel.

[@bettytimberman8210]

Thank you Phil missed you glad to find you again. Keep telling the stories and showing history.

[@722dabba]

i love this guy.

[@petehall889]

Brilliant! Can't get too much of Phil...

[@PoliticalFuturism]

Phil Harding, you are an amazing storyteller, a fantastic archaeologist and an inspiration.

[@babanarr3311]

I was a member of the Sealed Knot for many years and this explanation of a fight was brought home very clearly. Brilliant.

[@cita_m]

He's also a skilled musician!

[@denisejackman1165]

Very interesting Phil I could listen to you all day. Len

[@michaelwhite8031]

Thanks Phil

[@CreatingwithWinglessAngel]

I remember first seeing Phil on Time Signs. Then Time team.

[@mariantaylor7465]

Thank you so much for these talks -have really enjoyed them .

[@briansparks8528]

Excellent video thanks.It is good to listen to Phil who is very knowledgeable and learn.

[@ukzen9309]

As other comments have said absolutely love being informed by you , need you back on telly asap

[@stuartrobertson7912]

I miss time team. Phil is brilliant

[@davidbowman271]

First time I have seen Phil Harding wearing a clean shirt!

[@OpenAirOutdoors]

Love listening to Phil👍

[@garygalt4146]

Thanks phil; you have reached so many with your knowledge

[@zw5509]

Thanks Phil!

[@fenham]

Brilliant descriptions from a master expert and story-teller

[@WyattRyeSway]

Oh the classic Phil Harding Time Team hat has been replaced. Pity. Still love Phil. I guess COVID lockdown has brought me Time Team. I have watched so many in the last 6 months. He’s changed so much in his time from the first episode to now. Still.....he’s bloody brilliant. Wish they had gone to US civil war battlefields. Outside Pompeii or Herculaneum. Soviet battlefields from The Great Patriotic War. Plenty of them left out in the open then and just barely visible now (or covered by weeds).

[@katiesmith5124]

Phil you are awesome! Thanks for the info...

[@TheArmourersBench]

Great stuff.

[@simontaylor4791]

Phil is a legend his self

[@Daracdor]

The Waterloo battle field is a great place to visit . Hougoumont is now a museum and there are three old trees just outside the grounds riddled with musket fire . A new visitors centre built to commemorate the 200th anniversary is a welcome feature . But for those who are thinking of visiting that never been before the battle field is NOT at Waterloo but a few miles away . From brussels step off the train at Braine-l'Alleud or expect a decent walk . You can then catch a bus to the Lion monument from there .

[@jenniferlaurensmom]

Phil was a great blues guitar 🎸 player too

[@matthewm2528]

Phil!

[@williamfindspeople4341]

Outstanding educational video

[@robinm3524]

Love that accent!!

[@ddouglas3860]

Not surprised you did not find much at Hastings it's starting to look like the battle field was up the road from where historians anationly thought! Do you agree? Love your recordings,always educational and interesting 👌👌👍👍😊

[@salopian4037]

Hopton Castle has been partially restored since the programme. Not a lot to see, but well worth a visit. The site is said to be very haunted.

[@wandapease9214]

I wish there was a similar Archeological effort for Gettysburg, or one of the battles that marked the American Civil War (just as Civil as the English). The anger is still with us but the humanity and the reasons are being whittled down to a silliness of evil versus less Evil.

[@benmichaud3769]

Phill love the white hat!😀 nice look when your not in a ditch!

[@MrsGlynn07]

Phil Harding? I click.

[@DW-dd4iw]

They were literally fighting tooth and nail!!!

[@christianpatriot7439]

I dread to think of what could be found at Antietam, Shiloh or Gettysburg.

[@crisslastname9417]

Anything with Phil.

[@beerkegbob6952]

What most people dont understand is a lot of ruined castles didnt happen because of time. During the English Civil War many castles and fortified houses were destroyed or "ruined" by the Parliamentarians to stop them being used by the Royalists.

[@estamedley930]

Hey Phil thought I'd share a little Harding story with you my grandmother's name was Jesse Harding her great-great uncle was John Wesley Harding the man that shot the man for snoring I think they were in Texas all I can say is Jesse had a temper too

[@rpm1796]

By the sword divided.

[@tonygarcia0072]

I wonder if a mass grave will ever be found at Waterloo, given the known fact that bones were being ground up and exported as fertiliser, as well as the notorious "Waterloo teeth" phenomenon.....

[@bobporch]

So what does this video have to do with Waterloo???

[@anonymoustowers288]

8:11 SHOWS BODYS AT SOUTH END OF WALL

[@Gremriel]

Damn, Phil hasn't changed one bit over the years.

[@davidfuters7152]

Just a new hat I wish he had taught me history at school

[@mikeelliott2736]

Bodies on battlefields were not generally left there. They were interred in consecrated ground if possible. That's why you don't find bodies on battlefields.

[@valeriecreech6208]

Please, not the last one! ☹️

[@tonyjedioftheforest1364]

I read something about bodies being dug up to be ground up for fertiliser, is that true?

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

Really? IWUTIT that human remains were dangerous as fertilizer because of the risk of disease. That's why we burn or bury in consecrated ground.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle generally speaking, human remains aren't infectious much longer dead than they would be alive. Practically speaking, you wouldn't want to use remains as long as they're actively decaying. After that, it's more about the unseemliness of it than the risk of contamination. If I had to venture a guess about how often human remains have been used as fertilizer, I'd hazard a guess that it wouldn't be often; only if the devastation were widespread and devastating. In terms of Waterloo, it doesn't seem likely. It's a pretty fertile place and there wouldn't be huge areas of contamination to the extent that you'd have to work around the bodies to get a crop in. If you don't HAVE to use bodies as soil, you probably wouldn't do it. By the time they're not identifiable as bodies, who knows if anybody would be left who remembered where all the graves were?

[@williamfindspeople4341]

It's true. Common practice throughout the ancient world. It really depends upon the religious beliefs. The Churches usually controlled the burials, from about the 7th century. In Sicily the French invasion changed all that and the first public appearance of cemeteries began. My knowledge comes from my fields of study. Environmental archeology and Family history.

[@tonyjedioftheforest1364]

What about all the hundreds of thousands of the no known grave fallen from WW1? My grandma’s brother William Beddows who served with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry went all the way through the war only to fall in August 1918. He has no known grave and it would be very distressing to think that had happened to him.

[@paulmanson253]

@@tonyjedioftheforest1364 Big difference with 20th Century practice. The answer is no,as far as I know. The soldiers simply marched home. Farmers filled in the trenches,the only handling of remains would be farmers returning to their fields. Reestablishing the drainage systems that managed the Flanders area water movement must have been a nightmare. Centuries of patient digging flattened by shelling. And dealing with human remains of four years of carnage,unburied. Probably the Catholic families that did that put the bones to the side of the fields. Likely priests saw to it they were gathered up. Then off to a war cemetery. Hopefully that offers a little comfort. Just thinking of the cleanup effort required makes me shake my head. There are likely records somewhere as to just what was done. If you wish to search.

[@rodney1818]

So that's what Phil's dress hat looks like

[@susanbean7171]

Love Phil. Any DNA in that tooth to test?

[@rayfraser1773]

I do like you I do !

[@stephanievegter5438]

🇿🇦♥️

[@donnyboon2896]

Both sides tend to take their dead home with them. So it would be difficult to find someone who is just left to rot.

[@donnyboon2896]

@Brisdad53 - And that's why Phil always finds dead bodies on battlefields. 🤔 You bury the dead because of religion or to stop the spread of disease. Black Plague? Mass graves. Rotted where he fell? Not for long.

[@michaelroberts4970]

I wonder if there is any archaeologist that has found a freshish dead body and dig site turns into crime scene

[@annpartoon5300]

Bet he lives in a brand new house if it was old he would be digging it up garden and all

[@annpartoon5300]

@Brisdad53 it was written tongue in cheek

[@gamebook727]

Most of the time I suspect that people came along later and removed the bodies for a decent Christian burial. Only in the case of the largest battles may large quantities of bodies have had to be buried in mass graves on the field itself. Phil during his Time Team days did find plenty of skeletons with abundant evidence of brutal and fatal injuries from weapons, it's just that they weren't buried on a battlefield but done so somewhere else. For example they found what they thought may have been a nun whose skull was split open by a sword cut, perhaps from Viking raiders. She lived for a short while as there was evidence of an attempt at surgery. In another dig they found an entire mass of bodies in a pit, all sorts of people piled together in a jumble, and it looks like they were massacred and thrown in. Bodies just abandoned in a field is something that never seems to have happened though, even murder victims got at least thrown in a ditch to get their corpse out of sight.

[@franklubbock8400]

Whats so civil about war anyway? am I right blokes?

[@rayfraser1773]

Please don’t dig in my back yard !

[@VikingRhys]

Would I be right in suspecting, that the reason that human remains may be so difficult to find at Waterloo, is that during the Napoleonic wars, it wasn't unusal, once a period of time had passed after a battle, for the human remains to be gathered up and ground to dust and used as a fertilizer on farmland? Quite distasteful by todays standards on every level, but nothing compared to the infamous "Waterloo teeth", which were collected from the battlefield only days or even hours after the fighting, where teeth would be removed from corpses for use in dentures. So, given the degree of looting, trophy hunting and scavenging that probably happened at Waterloo, I think Phil is lucky to find even the buttons and musket balls that he has.

[@hunter_abney1237]

I just found out I have royal blood from this video

[@roberthonan3492]

What have you done with the real Phil Harding? Sure, he looks and sounds like him, but that hat is far too sharp and fancy for the real deal.

[@charlesroberts2166]

I would have been able to take both Phil Harding & Mick Aston a lot more seriously if they had had decent hair cuts :-(