Time Team Digs 06 Medieval England (2002)

Tony Robinson and the team go back to re-examine some of their finest discoveries, looking at objects they have uncovered from the Medieval period.

[@Littlegoatpaws]

I've noticed these older documentaries, especially of the 1990's vintage, have the best quality in terms of good research, amount of information, and decent enough visuals and acoustics that succeed in taking you back in time without going overboard with special effects. It seems most modern "documentaries" are more infotainment and drama than anything.

[@HollyMoore-wo2mh]

I do enjoy seeing what the buildings might have looked like without going overboard. Too many rely on special effects.

[@bokhans]

I guess it’s all about the guys in charge of the money, research cost money, now everything is made on the cheap. The tyranny of the bean counters.

[@willjones7132]

The networks high quality programs were doomed when they figured out people would do anything for free to get on TV, and people will watch anything that's hyped enough and put in front of them, hence reality TV; I'm surprised they don't charge people to be on reality shows to make money from both ends. Sure there have been some decent programs, but they are rare and only good because of the rare individuals that care about what they work on, the networks get lucky sometimes, by hiring these types, corporate hiring practices are such where it can never be more than that.

[@TheShootist]

@slagar the cruel fully 1/2 of the viewing public have below average intelligence.

[@donyates4855]

@@TheShootist That would seem to define “average,” no?

[@fliconmigo]

I love Sandy's voice. She is such a character!

[@scottscottsdale7868]

Mick is so excited about the front of the house turned in to a basement. 😂😊

[@sgrannie9938]

With good reason.

[@cg256y9]

Victor's watercolor drawing at 35:47 shows Tony, Phil and Mick visiting the hospital in medieval times. 🤣🤣🤣 He drew them into several drawings in several episodes.

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

When Victor passed and TIME TEAM moved to CGI, an absolute intellectual art was lost. His devotion was indeed involved in every beautiful drawing as well as his sense of humor.

[@Mimzie-Arizona]

I never noticed!

[@cindydintn]

Thank you, Reijer. You gave a generous gift that lives on. I am sorry I didn't get to meet you in person.

[@Marty933]

I've learned more about British history watching these shows than I did all the way through school. In American schools, the history classes basically talked for a day or two about a couple of kings and that was it.

[@giovanniserafino1731]

Not surprising in the least. An American university student was recently asked which European country did United States fight during the Second World War? His response was, "MEXICO?" Very interesting indeed!

[@colleenbeulecke2259]

Marty933 r

[@THENAFERATU]

History are lessons to be learned, mistakes not to repeat and happenings to be proud of. It honestly makes me sad to hear that, we cherish history a lot here in Portugal haha, we have to know so much for our evaluations as kids, but then it all sorta makes sense in the future haha

[@deborahparham3783]

​@@giovanniserafino1731 Not interesting. Just incredibly sad.

[@52daa]

It’s so amazing that such detailed information can be found! I love this show, discovered early in the Pandemic I can’t watch it enough! Thank you so much for sending me sanity and entertainment! Grateful , from an American!

[@cindydintn]

Mick, thank you for your knowledge!!

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

I love these earlier shows, including for example the one with a much younger Gus Milne. You come to realize that Time Team itself has become part of this country's cultural heritage. Great job, guys! And many thanks.

[@antfart5299]

1 Robin bush is worth 3 on the land. R.I.P Robin and Mick.

[@thomasandersen2534]

I love this show ! Thank you for all the uploads !

[@marcbolland6992]

Now living in New Zealand. How I miss English history and the great Time Team

[@kaarlimakela3413]

That darn Henry the 8th!

[@paulanthonybalistrieri5978]

Robin Bush was way cool. You feel very well informed when he speaks. (Too bad about his rather "sullied" surname.) A wonderful historian. RIP

[@elisa8044]

Pandemics times and we have that great oportunity to learn more about our Planet...Thanks to Time Team, we've ,in Pandemics :time to imagine, here in Brazil :oportunities to think what it's really significant, centuryes back...Sorry for my english it has been also class of that idiom for me here in the other side of our Blue Planet...

[@clayguy1]

Just love these wonderful shows.. Thank you so much for posting them.

[@niklar55]

Henry was a fool, and a delinquent, he was also descended from an illegitimate King, and so was also paranoid, lest his tenuous claim to the throne was challenged. He would have profited far more if he had just taxed the monasteries, rather than destroying them. Its amusing to watch Tony's hairline change during the series, from excessive, to nearly non-existent.

[@daveminor1058]

I agree I love the time team

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

Was Dr. Phil Harding also a professor who taught classes as well as participating in TIME TEAM

[@unowen9668]

Yes.

[@matthewkirby5394]

The rainbow pen at 40.36... i had the exact same one!

[@vincewhite5087]

Love those 'time team' t shirts! team moral you know.;)

[@TDFMonster40K]

I'm fine with core drill samples but I would never allow anyone to use a Sawzall to one of my beams.

[@lucygray6162]

Especially Mick the Twig. Imperious little twit.

[@sgrannie9938]

Dig Ventures has a couple of lovely tributes to Mick Aston.

[@MrsRosencranz1]

Great just great

[@angelitabecerra]

Watching this series has shown that people in the British Isles are quite happy to let strange archaeologists dig up their yards and drill into their walls quite happily. Here in America we're far more suspicious and Time Team wouldn't get as far knocking on neighbors doors

[@readmycomment3157]

Americans live in fear all the time because people might be armed, terrible place to live

[@audreyvann5336]

That's completely ridiculous- the US is huge and has vastly different communities across regions. I have never lived in fear. I would love to have archaeology in my yard. This was 20 years ago, and they didn't just go bang on strangers' doors. That's not how production works. If you watch them all, you can see that some people are more hesitant, and people that said "no" don't make the show.

[@scottscottsdale7868]

Regarding the tile kiln, this is how bricks are made today in Madagascar. Anyone can do it and they do. There are no guilds.

[@jennytheratbry4624]

Bagshot Row, New Row aka Sharkey's End

[@annazaman9657]

There was an episode that showed further excavation of Coventry cathedral but can't find it on KZbin. Anybody have a link?

[@Schmorgus]

Imagine the evolution, if churches didn't stop people from learning about the human anatomy... The plague would've been less lethal if they knew that a body didn't just contain liquids xD

[@bokhans]

Imagine USA 2020 where science and superstition have the same value among huge parts of the population. If sick, ask a politician! 🤮🤯🤦‍♂️

[@deborahparham3783]

​@@bokhans Not if you want to survive.

[@jeanneamato8278]

Henry was just plain evil.

[@cindydintn]

Raise up a child in the way he should go and when he is grown he will not depart from it. Henry never learned how to cope with pain or failure very well.

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@cindydintn If Henry VIII really wrote 'Greensleeves', that counts in his favour.

[@monjiaitaly]

No wonder the advancements England and Europe in general were able to make. They had a wonderful diet, resources to be creative with and finally an amazing navy not to mention a beautiful environment.

[@vincewhite5087]

The state churches often funded rival monarchs or rulers and funded rival armies when needed. the pope often financed certain rulers to wage war. And often fighting enemies of the State Church system (RC) was a requirement for papal support.

[@destonlee2838]

"Signs of Ship building industry" like the nettles used for ship rigging and such, tony?

[@scottscottsdale7868]

It looks like I watched this video earlier this year. Funny that.

[@sgrannie9938]

Aston Ayre breaks my heart.

[@Dem0D1ck]

The more I watch these shows the more I realize what a vindictive asshat Henry the VIII was. Not satisfied with killing his wives, he has to destroy beautiful architecture also. A despot by any other name is still a despot.

[@justaguitardude]

+Dem0D1ck yeah. im guessing it was fro that accident he had.. brain damage.. altered his way of thinking.. since he did not go off the deep end until then.. it seems from what iv read.. he was a guy people liked, could get along with.. no mood swings, paranoia, etc.. of course we can never prove it.. but it seems right after his jousting accident, heads would start to roll.

[@stannousflouride8372]

+Chris c A report published this week (3/3/16) addresses the subject: news.yale.edu/2016/02/02/did-henry-viii-suffer-same-brain-injury-some-nfl-players

[@cathjj840]

@Chris. Finally, some sort of excuse for the guy. Brain damage fromm that accident could very well be the primary culprit. I know a woman whose loving, complicit, best friend kind of husband and father to their 3 kids very rapidly turned into a vindictive, unlivable monster. Turned out he had a brain tumor, and by the time it was diagnosed, too far gone to treat. He had gotten his family to believe all the false accusations about her and they actively helped thwart her efforts to get any financial support he normally owed even for the children. When he died and medical truth was revealed to them about how such a disease can be responsible for such a radical personality change, most of them came around.

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

Your not a king we don't care about your liberal communist opinion! Death to the left!

[@wewenang5167]

AS SOMEONE WHO WERE BROUGHT UP IN THE USA SANDY SOUNDED VERY BRITISH LOL

[@daveminor1058]

I love sandy shes a hoot

[@mercedes523]

Was Sandy some kind of celebrity?

[@juliechi6166]

Who is Sandy Toksvig? Odd.

[@brettb.7425]

This show is so amazing. I live in America so the oldest artifacts made by white people are just over 400 years old. To live in an area where artifacts are easily 2-3 and maybe even 5-6 times that age would be amazing! I find arrowheads here in TX that are 1200 years old and that is pretty cool too. Great show!

[@angelitabecerra]

Hence why the best artifacts were made by not white people here in America. Infinitely more interesting.

[@maeve4686]

You could dig fossils. Texas is full of them and much older than people "fossils". Plus, native ancestors crossed the land bridge tens of thousands of years ago. Research their wonderful stories and attributes to their own respect and understanding of nature.

[@moorek1967]

wow, that child would be 14 today.

[@asticou04]

moorek1967 And 17 today!

[@granskare]

In the UK, they say "zed" while in the USA, we say "zee"

[@sgrannie9938]

Sad but true, but you’re forgiven 😊

[@desslokbasileus571]

47:00　　😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@readmycomment3157]

Glad they got rid of sandi

[@sharimullinax3206]

I agree, I hate her voice.

[@nigelparks6855]

I like Sandi, in fact I have met her, but like you I don't feel she is right for Time Team

[@readmycomment3157]

@@nigelparks6855 yes nothing against her personally but I prefer the real nerdy academics getting passionate about it

[@monjiaitaly]

Henry was a pig.

[@mercedes523]

The only part of history I remember is how our government works. I can’t remember anything British.

[@erinobrien8408]

Mr. Z's mark looks more like an S...

[@patwithers1448]

Love Time Team enjoy watching it but can't stand carenza