Time Team S06E09 TurkdeanRevisited,.Gloucestershire

At the end of the 1997 'live' broadcast, hundreds of viewers demanded to know more about the Roman villa site that Time Team had uncovered at Turkdean in Gloucestershire.
This year, for the first time revisiting an excavation, the Team came back to the site to see if they could make sense of the spectacular geophysics results that they had not had time to investigate during the live dig.
Suggestions of what these could mean ranged from a temple with a sacred spring to a barn, but what the Team actually found bore no relation to either of these...

[@mch12311969]

20+ years later and this is still quality tv

[@SandraNelson063]

The sound of gurgling water all around....humans have always loved that. Fresh, clear, quenching. It's the sound of life.

[@robertahauck6804]

I just need to admit that these programs are saving my sanity in early 2020 🇺🇸

[@Jigger2361]

...hmmm they have gone "viral"

[@G.D.Traveller]

@Annie Holt Any good addblocker will take care of that

[@mamavswild]

...And it got worse....(at least here in the US)... I need a program to uninstall 2020.

[@bacail]

it's august now and good lawd, you don't wanna know.

[@cindygr8ce]

There IS NO SANITY in 2020. At least, mine has flown the coop 6 months locked up inside with my 4 kids and their father, fear of the pandemic(I have a compromised immune system) politics reaching a boiling point with a traitor President and an imbecile running against him, wars, fires, and now countrywide rioting😁😳😅😜😝😆😖😵

[@inwalters]

21:55 - the water flowing in that culvert is mind boggling to think about. It was flowing when Romulus Augustulus abdicated as Roman emperor, it was flowing when Charlemagne was crowned, it was flowing the day King John signed Magna Carta, it was flowing the day Columbus landed on San Salvador, it was flowing the day the USA declared it's independence, it was flowing the day men landed on the moon and it's still flowing today.

[@David-fm6go]

I had the same thought, it is truly amazing that it continues as such.

[@becgould3772]

Very impressive, wondering if any of the stuff we do will last like that.

[@David-fm6go]

@@becgould3772 Cellphones and plastic waste.

[@TheNyah5]

David don‘t forget nuclear waste/radioactivity

[@randypischel6922]

I want to have a big taste of it.

[@MeMommyEms]

I love Phil’s laughter! It’s so nice to hear!

[@johnrogers2826]

What a thrill to see Mick so excited in the helicopter looking down at the site. Wow, that's enthusiasm! Hopefully he's still looking fown at fields and bursting with excitement.

[@Jigger2361]

...amen brother

[@buddrud]

I've seen this episode a lot. I love it when John and Chris are scanning and looking for a kiln. Chris says "No, it's not a kiln. It's probably a rubbish pit". Then John says "Or a Ford Cortina 20 meters down". Then Chris responds "Again". I wanna know when and where they originally found a Ford Cortina buried.

[@seanpaula8924]

I had to look up a Ford Cortina. Ford didn't put in their best efforts on styling, did they? 😄

[@ginnygin7141]

​@seanpaula8924 probably why it ended buried so deep. Cant have that mess popping back up haha

[@mcburcke]

I love the guy dropping the coin at the beginning!

[@lisakilmer2667]

Both of the Turkdean digs make a marvelous lesson in Roman archaeology. The collaboration of disciplines, the humor, the metal detectorists helping rather than hindering, Carenza back in full fit form, and a thorough enough job to tell a lot of the story of the site. Just wonderful. I'm so grateful that Reijer Zaaijer posted all these videos.

[@crazycressy7986]

hindering ?????? I will have you know a lot of history and sites and finds fill the British museum ,we have saved a lot of history thank you ,

[@RICHBISS]

CrazyCressy7 Well said Pete

[@SNP-1999]

It's good to see Phil wearing knee protectors, which they should all have been issued with. Decades of kneeling on cold stone and earth will only result in a nasty Arthritis when older, something you really don't want to experience, believe me ! 😭 Great series, I could watch it non- stop from beginning to end then start right from the first episode again ! Thanks so much for uploading them, we are all much indebted to Reijier Zaaijer for providing the series ! 😘

[@mariabarreira5177]

I quite agree with you that "we are all indebted to Reijier Zaaijer for providing the séries". I could go on watching the episodes again and again.

[@animerlon]

Now that i'm 63, i'm focusing more on the physical effort involved as i re-watch these. I also keep thinking, if future archeologists were to find & examine Phil's (& the others') bones they would see they had been archeologists too.

[@michaelmccaffery2684]

trust me, we archaeologists all have knee pads in our kit

[@TheShootist]

@@mariabarreira5177 while we all quietly ignore the copyright violations and disregard for other's property? Check.

[@janielaurel]

@@TheShootist If Time Team had been offended, they would have shut down his postings many years ago. The number of views on these 20 years of Time Team episodes is testament to its enduring popularity, even with Time Team (Inc.) upgrading videos and re-posting them, Reijer's posts remain :) ~ it's a good thing.

[@marylavine2632]

These programs show life continues in these troubling times, very needed. Thank you.

[@annarushlau9722]

This show is such a gem, I love how well they all get along 🥰 The overall vibe of the crew is just amazing and is just so lovely to see 🥰🥰🥰

[@smallhillorchids]

Thank you so much, Reijer. I live alone and Time Team keeps me somewhat sane. The hardest parts of life are when change happens and the loss of Mick, Robin, and the program as a whole is a change that's hard on some of us.Thanks again.

[@claidheamhdalaimh3694]

Comeonnow,really? I, too, live alone and the Time Team videos really help me as well. Books, my laptop, and my cat are the only sources of entertainment I have. Because of the excitement level and humor of the team, My mood gets lightened with each Time Team video I watch. I'm not only grateful that these documentaries were made, but that Reijer took the time and trouble to post them.

[@bitsnpieces11]

You can add my gratitude for Reijer also. I had to quit working at 52 because my back self destructed. These videos are a major portion of what keeps me sane.

[@marthareis5873]

Yes, thank you Reijer for posting these some years back. I came across them recently and they are a real source of comfort and interest in a rough patch.

[@ELCADAROSA]

Wow!!! I thought the first visit to this location made for an outstanding episode, but this is even more impressive! I bet the land owner had absolutely no idea what he had prior to these digs! Carenza in Roman attire, and the discovery that Phil is a real time traveler! :D What a great team they all made! Continued great work by all involved, including the excavators, volunteer diggers, and video crew!

[@kalenreichert]

Thank you, Reijer Zaaijer, for posting/sharing these fantastic episodes with the world! ❤️

[@dbbrown1949]

DearTime Team,take it from a Canadian..if you can't see your breath of isn't bitterly cold.

[@mermeridian2041]

Annnnd doin' a rewatch here in 2022! Found TT during Pandemic 2020 and have (obsessively?) watched, rewatched, and rere... ever since. Bless the TT for existing and am thrilled they've revived the show (albeit slightly different). Kudos!

[@janielaurel]

@Mer Meridian - I found these back in about 2015 ... and have watched the entire series at least seven times - I have to admit that I've escalated my watching during the past several years of politial chaos. I downloaded them all and still find I come back to Reijer's channel to watch them here. It's like watching it with family. And this is the second time thru in 2023. No stopping me now. Because each time I watch them I see something I missed the last time through. Turkdeen is one of my favorites, because it IS so detailed ... and the Roman episodes are always so interesting.

[@parrotraiser6541]

It's amazing how much of Roman Britain is still only the thickness of a modest turf below the surface.

[@ian_b]

It really is amazing. I wonder if I've ever walked across an unknown Roman villa just two inches beneath my feet.

[@alexhayden2303]

And like S. Africa, when the organisation left, it all fell into decline and ruin?

[@bevanpope7924]

I love time team too. Am quite addicted and watch it daily and repeatedly. Worked on Hopton Castle dig with them. Now back in South Africa and get quite “homesick” for the UK. Even if Phil didn’t have a back problem, knee pads are practical! 👍

[@kimjameson7979]

It's duly noted that the metal detectorists pulled their weight. Also, it's groovy that the Roman's two thousand year old water supply system is still working fine.

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

At the height of the empire, Rome's water supply was epic. It wasnt replicated or surpassed again until after WW2. blows my mind.

[@vincerussett7922]

Yes, we found the same at Charterhouse on Mendip in Somerset: we traced the lines of the Roman culverts (known as gouts in Somerset), and when we excavated down to them, there was the water still running. One of them bringing overflow water from the Roman town emerged lower down the hill, and was a holy well (Mawdlyn's Well) in 1533. If only they'd known...

[@salahel-nesr9864]

Vince Russett .

[@peanut71968]

“Duly noted”? “Groovy”? In the same paragraph! 🧐🤔🤓😂

[@pollyb.4648]

This is the best episode yet. I'm so glad I found this program, Thank You from America!

[@ruththinkingoutside.707]

9:47 .. John and Chris in their matching geophys rain suits is wicked cute 😁 especially debating a buried ford cortina 😝

[@kvarietyfan]

Love it. Poor Phil, of course the fil engraved stone should be in his trench. Thanks Reijer for all the Time Team.

[@granskare]

I am from USA and I like Time Time and the specials! In the late 1950's I was in Turkey with the USAF, 1957-1958.

[@thedrunkenelf]

Whoever lived there probably thought it was so grand it would stand forever. Makes me look around my house and realise it won't be here forever,

No excuse for not hoovering.

[@magdatorruellas9122]

Seán O'Nilbud Fine ! I will take the hoover back out then.

[@Wally-H]

How cool are those Roman culverts - brilliant.

[@marthareis5873]

I am always amazed at how well and how finely they can date various pottery shards and coins.

[@Jigger2361]

..i found a coin that says "1959" on it but I can't find out what year it was minted

[@mariabarreira5177]

Me too! And they só that só quickly!

[@0623kaboom]

I honestly think the first visit to turkdean impressed english heritage ... and that's when they started using TIME TEAM to get some info on sights they new little or nothing about ... and why they let them back into turkdean to finish the job ... they discovered more than english heritage ever knew about the place ...and barely even scratched the site

[@Cheeseatingjunglista]

This is the fifth or sixth time I have watched this pair, still brilliant, masive thanks

[@romelnegut2005]

That must have been a great feeling for them to return at that site.

[@nnagle9224]

I like that they were able to go back and continue a dig that was too big.

[@KYIRISH1]

Damn, Mick gives me the willies when I see him lean out of the chopper like he often does. I realize he's strapped in but the potential danger of the situation chills me out. Don't like heights!

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

he's a pilot.... and he became an expert Aerial Archeologist. (as a skydiving instructor i can tell you being scared of heights is normal. 50k yrs ago ...anyone who wasnt scared of heights eventually fell off cliffs....so now we all have a built in survival mechanism.) Being strapped in makes all the difference. or have a parachute on. I have climbed around on the wings of cessna's quite a bit...lol)

[@scarletfluerr]

He gets so excited I always think it's a miracle he hasn't fallen out yet.

[@5chr4pn3ll]

And at the end they got their blue colour. Good episode.

[@nachtschadedoggerbank1089]

A kind of thanks from the Goddess of Fortune for praising her name perhaps?

[@StephiSensei26]

Terrific episode!

[@lafeelabriel]

Still one of my favorite sites on the entire show all these years later.

[@BryonLape]

I never cease to be amazed how on one site that is 1,600 years old, everything can be found a few inches down, while another from the same era is multiple feet.

[@nachtschadedoggerbank1089]

7:17 Reminds me about when I was with a group of guys digging for some more modern stuff. Two digging close to eachother. One throwing his soil in the digging space of the other. He did this a few times. A little later you could see one chasing the other...😂

[@magdatorruellas9122]

Roman jeans...love it!

[@scorch33]

I'm glad they came back to Turducken, I was hoping to see more of this villa.

[@benediktmorak4409]

Knowing the story and history of Carenza Lewis, i just admire this courageous Lady!

[@CanadaCob]

Thank you so so so much for uploading..Ur the best Reijer:*)

[@fliconmigo]

One of my favorite episodes!

[@cyclingnerddelux698]

Wonderful episode! My favorite yet. Thank you Time Team!!!

[@David-fm6go]

I loved this episode and it is clear the team loved this site.

[@aimeebrass5266]

It is so fun to watch these Archaeologists get so excited when they come across stuff. Their like a bunch of kids at a playground. LOL

[@jimsac2000]

wow such an amazing find!

[@starbreaker1983]

Mick @ 20:49 LOL!!! What an awesome guy

[@klarahvar746]

Amazing job, team. The Romans may have borrowed knowledge from other cultures, but man... how well did they know how to use it!

[@Happyheretic2308]

They really didn’t borrow, apart from Greek art.

[@granskare]

Time Team is my favorite program -from USA. I have been at Swindon on may way to Malmesbury.

[@WOLFROY47]

seconded Thanks Reijer

[@tunahelpa5433]

As usual, credit where credit is due - to folks who sweat and took in the trenches

[@earlydaysseaangling007]

I live not far from turkdean I remember this being filmed

[@ArtFreeman]

In 1998 I was living in Japan getting Lehman Brothers ready for Y2K. I never knew about this program and I am a bit sad that I did not

[@granskare]

when I was in Turkey, 1957-1958, we saw moaics in ditches, etc.

[@Chubachus]

They should really have had a guy with a metal detector checking the excavated dirt and area surrounding in more episodes.

[@RICHBISS]

Yeah always bothered me that. Why didn’t they and just imagine how much they were missing

[@pollyb.4648]

And screening the spoil piles! Seems they often have watchers who might volunteer.

[@marianneluban3347]

@@pollyb.4648 The cameras can't be on everybody. That's what is seein in other episodes--the metal detector guys checking the excavated dirt.

[@savannahborn4025]

Much needed still Jan 2021

[@schradeya]

We've got the final results from the pregnancy test! LOL, Tony!

[@schradeya]

37:44 - orrrrr... in a lovers' quarrel? I like that idea a little better myself. ;)

[@schradeya]

??? No, they didn't. I pulled that out of thin air as a silly alternative to their theory, quite unrelated to anything anybody said.

[@daviddickey9762]

Thinking of carenza in leather knickers and I have to pause to get my mind back on the video.

[@scottclinton2061]

20:52 Field Trip!! (don't pretend you don't remember!)

[@kathardman2152]

-Time Team' aka 'Trench Maniacs!' 😄

[@user-cz2jo4nq2i]

Tony Robinson is talking about leather knickers like we didn't all see him in Blackadder's Christmas Carol

[@JulianneTure]

Pretty sure that was intentional! 😂

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Hard to forget the image 😮

[@Bayernpracht]

Always thinking: To whom does young Guy look similiar ? Yesterday I found it out: go and check pictures of young Johnny Cash! Amazing! God bless you, Guy!

[@michaelexman5474]

funny stuff i think some people are about to get verry verry excited

[@stannousflouride8372]

Here is the upper spring source site on Google Earth: 51.868585N, -1.855104W

[@DanKetchum007]

Leather knickers. lol

[@nickrich56]

Dig ... dig ... dig ... an artifact is worth more than an interpretation.

[@WOLFROY47]

agreed the summing up could be done once the trench had been dug and cleaned

[@tibfulv]

Another Roman word that might work for 'team' is _cohors,_ which can mean anything from a retinue through a ship's crew to an armed force or unit of a legion according to Wiktionary. Not that that would help the discussion at the time, lol. It's apparently the word from which _court_ is derived.

[@mrs.schmenkman2858]

Cohort is still used ro describe workshop classes etc...at least in the USA

[@PerryTribeMetalBaker]

Landowner Wilf Musto?! There was a TT special where they had a guy who boiled cows horns called Bodger Hodgeson haha, where do they find these people?

[@Palifiox]

lat 51.8694, long -1.8578 A 1945 aerial photo on Google Earth shows vague rectangular traces. Twenty metres down is the best place for a Ford Cortina.

[@CanChikMay]

Third time im watching this one!

[@bluenoteone]

Re: the coin at about 9:10.....Did he say the inscription was: "Securitas Res Publicae"?

[@unwindedcom]

finding 2 brooches that are 1st century doesnt mean you can assume the site spans that entire period. It could have been something passed down a generation from a different area and then lost there. Not that it couldnt be 1st century but you cant assume it ....love the show !!!

[@yvonnethompson844]

lots and lots of stuff goes on without making it into the final cut, plus,this is a reinvestigation, they were here before,

[@evilcanofdrpepper]

The one dig they had 6 days to dig!

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*Nevis* was 6 days.

[@77fonebone]

When 3 days just isnt enough.

[@megelizabeth9492]

9:57: is there a reason he says it could be a Ford Cortina (sp?) 20 meters down?

[@margomoore4527]

Vitruvius’ recipe called for the blue colorant to sit on the fire overnight. That would mean over coals and embers (low and slow), not over a blazing fire! Obviously the recipe got incinerated! It wanted to be cooked, not burnt! Think of cooking brisket….

[@BryonLape]

October in England....bloody 'ell.

[@demonic477]

I'm pretty sure the romans knew about Lapis lazuli it has been used for eon's to make blue paint and one of the Caesar's invaded Egypt around the 2nd or 3rd century if I remember so they would have had lapis for blue paint.

[@nathaliemarshall3079]

While lapis lazuli was used for blue paint it was incredibly expensive and so not actually a common choice for a blue pigment due this.

[@marianneluban3347]

@@nathaliemarshall3079 et al---Lapis Lazuli came from Afghanistan. The Egyptians had to get it from there, as well. The Egyptians had a kind of ware made of paste called faience and could get a beautiful blue shade with it. But now I know from this episode how the Egyptians could get a red color from yellow ochre [which they used to paint the skin of females] by adding vinegar, which they certainly had. The skin of men was traditionally painted red--even if it wasn't. Love this show.

[@uw1955]

It's now over 15 years up to now thatTimeTeam went a second time to Turkdean. Has the villa and all its complexes been excavated? And has there a fully excavation report been issued? Anyone here who perhaps knows this ? ? ?

[@CologneCarter]

English Heritage would know.

[@garyrobinson2409]

The reports can be found on the Wessex Archeology website for all the Time Team digs and follow up work where Wessex Archeology was involved which seems to be most of them.

[@e.h.3798]

Phil Harding is an employee of Wessex Archaeology and a founding member of Time Team, so they're involved in all the TT digs.

[@TheRuthPo]

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1408772

[@claidheamhdalaimh3694]

@@TheRuthPo Thank you for the link!

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

The Las Vegas of Roman Britain??

[@sgrannie9938]

Barbecuing the balls?! 😳😂

[@margomoore4527]

It would seem that the Romans really took over Britain and made it over. But you don’t hear about them doing so much in France and Germany. Or were the Teutons and Franks more resistant to being Romanized? Or were they equally influenced? They had a lot of influence in Spain, certainly. Was Britain considered more primitive and therefore in need of more “help”? Now I’m curious about how much influence they had in the other parts of the Roman Empire.

[@willowscarclan]

First Time Team appearance of the scholar Guy de la Bédoyère, author of Praetorian, Roman Britain, et al.

[@Unreissued]

He appeared first in the previous seasons' extra episodes, as well as a few regular ones before this

[@blaggercoyote]

If it was a big villa then surely the domestic activity would surely be where the kitchens were located and a laundry etc. You would not have wanted your important guests to be bothered by all that domesticity - the staff would have just entered the dining area carrying the sumptuous food.

[@crazycressy7986]

To all you anti detectorists out there ,get off your high horses and realize what history we have found and saved and filled the museums and PAS sites with, there is and have been so many metal artifacts lost in soil spills from JCBs and shovels and picks from ARCs its shocking ,if a team of detectorists were to go in and scan the site first and then a few times every 100mm of the dig you would have twice as much history saved ,its not just pottery and walling you know

[@TheJohn316uk]

CrazyCressy7 here here Cressy7 x

[@crazycressy7986]

Fed up of them breaking bridges instead of building them

[@RICHBISS]

Totally agree

[@mamavswild]

There’s anti-detectorists? Why?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

​@@mamavswild Some people and quite a few archæologists are rather anti because of a _very few_ metal detectorists, known as _nighthawks,_ who have pillaged archæological sites for profit. This tars the majority with the reputation of being thieves. It's wrong and unfair but the _nighthawks_ don't care as long as they profit. *TT* used detectorists on later digs, particularly on the spoil heaps, and they have found quite a lot that might easily have been missed.

[@margomoore4527]

Really, “minim” means “the smallest,” or, better, “the least”; the smallest change possible in the coinage.

[@petenielsen6683]

A better name for Time Team in Latin might be the equivalent of "Time Platoon."

[@Moshe_Kraintz]

Wouldn't mind seeing carenza I n leather knickers

[@angelitabecerra]

OK, I know enough British to know what knickers are, but what the hell are bloomers?

[@neilcampbell2222]

Women's knee length baggy underwear. The style worn in the 18th century.

[@sandrasmith7065]

I don't understand why they didn't use egg white to make the color blue.

[@vermontvermont9292]

Wish they would dig the entire sites, and not cover them back up. Make it a place for people to come and walk around and look at. Maybe pay a tiny bit to take a look, and to keep the site up.

[@AquaFurs]

This video suffers from a lack of building and site plans to inform the viewer of the layout of the site. Its all a bit confusing trying to make sense of what is where.

[@steph291]

it's a pity that we don't have Roman Archaeology in North America... French mixed with English then firsts Nations...

[@fawneoconnor6894]

With the odd bits of Norse on the northeast coast

[@steph291]

@@fawneoconnor6894 yes I forgot... 1000ad N.F.L. this was a fantastic visit, sad they got not along with firsts nations :(

[@HippyJohnWales]

The problem is that they assume it was just one family of generations who lived there. There could have been 20 different owners.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

There certainly could have been many owners but the probability is one family.

[@0623kaboom]

securita republica ... wouldnt that be security of the republic NOT safety of the state ... even though they have similar meanings

[@psiclops521]

I'm befuddled by the "meticulously recorded" bit. There's a fellow standing there with a pencil drawing the positions of the stones on a sheet of paper. I'm no archaeologist, so I don't know the details, but did the Time Team not have access to a device invented some period of years ago called a "camera"? And would said "camera" (if I am spelling it correctly) not have been capable of recording multiple views of the positions of the stones more rapidly than a fellow with a pencil and a sheet of paper? Or am I completely mad?

[@vincerussett7922]

Quite right. Then (and even more now when high-quality digital cameras are easily available), photographic records would have been made. Drawing plans is not a completely objective action, as thinking carefully about the position and thus relationship of each context to the next, helps you to understand the site better. Even with superb photographic recording, I still like to do the old fashioned drawing for that reason.

[@angelitabecerra]

They have always done both once camera technology was advanced enough to use in archaeology. Don't put all your eggs in one basket so to speak.

[@desslokbasileus571]

44:06　　45:30　😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@blaggercoyote]

As usual, lots of investigation into "blobs"! ;-)

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Oh but I love investigating blobs😊

[@WOLFROY47]

a rubbish pit, quick wheres racksha

[@carpii]

15:19 - apparently Carenza is on the blob. Best not argue with her