Time Team Commentary: 'Puzzle of Picket's Farm' | S12E10

[@mikeblair2594]

Picketts farm was one of my favorite episodes. It had everything one could want in an archeological dig. I do think the three day limit is too short though.

[@OLD_CROW]

American fan here. I think I've watched every episode of Time Team. This episode, to me, emphasizes how wonderful it must be to be an archaeologist in Great Britain. How many places, other than the continent, can you explore the evolution of civilization from the end of the ice age onward all in one landscape. Yes, there is more reaching back further also. It's all just amazing.

[@mikeblair2594]

As an American, I agree wholeheartedly with this position. When I lived in Berlin Germany, my father-in-law had me dig a sewer line by hand. I was finding artifacts in every direction and layer. Berlin is a thousand years old, but the wendish tribes (Slavs) lived around the wandsee for millennia before the Germans came to make it their own. My wife has a wendish family name so that proves a continuity between the people living there now and the people that lived there at the very least a thousand years ago.

[@OLD_CROW]

@@mikeblair2594 Thank you. I am of half Finnish and half Welsh ancestry. My Finnish Grandfather used to tell me that there is evidence of civilization going back to 9000BCE in Finland though I was too lazy to research any of it.

[@mikeblair2594]

@@OLD_CROW in most of Europe, you can't put a spade in the ground without digging up some kinda archeological things. I glued together a pot that I found digging my father in laws sewer line

[@Becca2334]

Thank you guys❤ So cool.

[@frankpellow]

a wonderful interview for an excellent episode. really enjoying these revisits of the show.

[@JessWLStuart]

I love how the episode this is a commentary on shows how the site was used over thousand of years! I love how Miles has all the Daleks and many TARDIS's (TARDI?) on the shelves!

[@bigsmiler5101]

This is a good "Part Two" for the primary video. Most KZbin viewers want to see Results and IF someone were to show an archeological dig that ends with Nothing Found, the viewer would be angry for wasting his time. BUT that is often the reality of archeology, anthropology, and any "detective" work. I'm glad this team was responsible enough to admit the new evidence changed the theories. I've personally worked with renowned scientists who Could Not do that.

[@Gremriel]

It was one of the charms of the show. It was rare, but the few times they did find absolutely nothing, they said so, without trying to play it up.

[@jeffcampbell1555]

Run, Miles! You're being invaded by Daleks...little, bitty Daleks!!

[@martygahanmartin6717]

Great work.

[@ShepStevVidEOs]

Who is his favorite Doctor?

[@deborahfielder4163]

This was extremely entertaining

[@christianbuczko1481]

I think its one of the more interesting sites, its one of the rarest sites found and was pure luck they even spotted it. Id bet there are more similar hidden away and not even suspected to exist except for the few finds located by a metal detector. Ive seen a site on youtube which i think would be good to see excavated, its had a bronze axe hoard, a very rare gold coin blank, lots of broken broaches and similar finds, and when i asked if theres a water source was told theres 5 spring sites in the field. Its literally screaming sacred spring site with history from the bronze age to roman at least. The finds have been reported but no digging by archeologists yet sadly.

[@man.inblack]

Maybe we could develop a system where with enough interest, we could crowdsource funds to bring in trusted grassroots archaeological organisations like time team. There was another episode where the owner paid for their own geofiz, which found enough to bring the team in. as long as its managed by archaeologists and historical groups rather than view seeking treasure hunters it could grow the idea of learning about our ancestors with responsible community archaeology. Gofundme some Roman mosaics!

[@christianbuczko1481]

@@man.inblack timeteam are doing exactly that, but they could never afford to do a site like this one. It didnt look interesting enough to spend so much cash on, people tend to want to crowd source exciting finds so sites which are known to exist will get priority instead of a random field where a few finds suggest something could be around. Those types of finds can be just the random scatter any empty field has, with nothing to excavate.

[@debbralehrman5957]

A Dr Who fan.

[@MarkNarducci]

Bravo!

[@nbrettoner]

Obviously a good bloke; surrounded by a family of blue P'lice boxes and guarded by an assortment of Daleks :)

[@zzydny]

I'm sure he said interesting things but I was wholly distracted by the array of Daleks, and I kept waiting to hear "exterminate!"

[@sandybarnes887]

Nice tardis

[@robburgess4556]

Tardises? Tardisi?

[@sandybarnes887]

@@robburgess4556 what about Dalek?

[@mikeblair2594]

Picketts farm was one of my favorite episodes. It had everything one could want in an archeological dig. I do think the three day limit is too short though.

[@bigsmiler5101]

Mike Blair, I agree but it all comes down to Funding and finding Volunteers such as students.