Time Team S07E08 basing house,.hampshire

The Team rubs shoulders with royalty when they visit Basing House in Hampshire.
It was once one of grandest homes in Tudor England and a haunt of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - until it was destroyed by Cromwell during the Civil War.

[@adamsjerome1839]

Love Phil's mangý and battered tool with a badly hand painted " Phil's box" on it.

[@deborahparham3783]

Phil is a very practical man. If he thinks something is still useful he holds on to it. He also adapts and modified things to extend their usefulness. Classic examples of this are the cut off jean shorts. He doesn't like to waste things.

[@aimeebrass5266]

Robin Bush was a fun Scholar. He had class, and new how to tell a historical story and give it flair.

[@robertsmith9076]

So Robin reads about a topic he knows nothing about and then relays it to us as his knowledge .

[@hyserbomb]

robert smith much knowledge is gained by reading.

[@TheShootist]

and towering over his colleagues in a manner reminiscent of John Cleese

[@Awitsaduck]

I don't know why he left there series - perhaps illness?

[@aimeebrass5266]

@@Awitsaduck He past away while the show was still going.

[@Hil0]

"I *always* say ooh, aah!" Phil is my favourite archaeologist ever :-P

[@corneliawissing7950]

Mine too, for his big laugh, good temper and archaeological expertise.

[@captainchaos3053]

Oh what a brick! I Have seen those molded and dried in those unusual shapes but never carved into hundreds of matching bricks by hand. Super labour intensive!

[@markrady9465]

As an American I truly enjoyed seeing all that history unearthed and the true companionship amongst all the members of the Time Team crew. I always found English history fascinating

[@LovisaLaholm]

I am an American and I love watching this show. I would like to thank you, Raijser Zaaijer for posting all these Time Team shows. I have watched Time Team America and can completely understand why it didn't last very long. I was nothing like this.

[@dieself3509]

sybil laholm Same here

[@dieself3509]

TOM GRAY it's like they were trying to hard to be something

[@boffeycn]

TOM GRAY That's the difference between crass entertainment and interesting education, something which seems to be a foreign concept in the USA.

[@thinkhmm]

Foreign to the mass media companies, anyway.

[@gregkruse5801]

The problem with the american show was we dont have any where near the occupation history of UK. It was so boring because there was nothing to find!

[@tjb968]

Carenza has such beautiful hair

[@dann5268]

I love Carenza , here she is working in the trench. Please stop focusing on the negative... A difficult thing to do ....

[@mimiboulanger2358]

I can never get enough of this show, The Brits have the best docs, the best history and the best comedy broadcasts. The Time Team cast is so well rounded and their individual expertise really complement each other. In the early seasons Carenza kept interrupting everyone and was quite annoying with always trying to make her point. However, by the seventh season she has quite blossomed into a very integral and vital team member. Worthy ,intelligent, and rather charming too. I am completely addicted to this program. THANK YOU REIJER ZAAIJER

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

In the early programmes *Carenza* was the representative of *English Heritage* (and its predecessor) so their points had to be voiced by her.

[@Go-Dawgs]

Carenza never fit in after Spain when Phil rolled his eyes because she did not want to give him one digger when she had over a dozen. This episode shows his fed up with her lol. They should have stopped giving her all those moments to jump in and act like she had been working long before they did. She is dirty when she has worked, most times she was clean and and acted like she had done it all.

[@l-b284]

Tony interrupts everyone on these shows. Since she's the only woman her voice is more noticeable.

[@l-b284]

​@@Go-Dawgs Did you even watch the episode in Spain?

[@souloftheteacher9427]

@@Go-Dawgs Somebody has a problem, and it's not Carenza.

[@TheNyah5]

15:50- Did he just say „They‘ll never measure it.“ ?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bacail]

yeah, i heard that, funny af

[@englishmaninfrance661]

Yes he did , and no they didn't 🤣

[@kentlatimer3706]

Oh my god. Can you *imagine* working the kitchens for a visit like that??!!! What a nightmare!

[@SandraNelson063]

Still loving Time Team.

[@greenhorn6582]

26:57 : The the best "Aha! I've ever heard for centuries.

[@roberthonan3492]

Tobacco pipe shards, the cigarette butts of archeology, and mud larking.

[@Karenlowry1]

William Paulet, 1st Marquis of Winchester, was my 15th great grandfather :P They were all mixed up with the Howards too, yea THOSE Howards. The 3rd Marquis of Winchester married Agnes Howard, and..it was just a mess that I'm STILL trying to untangle, without the aid of Ancestry's international hint access because it's expensive! UGH It's surreal though, to be watching this TV show that I so enjoy, and see it talking about the house of one of my ancestors! lol

[@Isalukich]

I used to visit Old Basing House regularly as a kid but I never knew that there was a New Basing House.

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

New and improved, gluten free and only one calorie !

[@thehairyhominid9972]

I'm in the US and I only dream that archeology would be something to take national pride in, be large parts of school curriculums and taken as seriously as the Brits do. In the US we hide our archeological artifacts in the bowels of the Smithsonian away from the public, and erase the true history of North America. The best example: refusal to acknowledge a mound building culture with very large city complexes that even Native American tribes don't who they were or what happened to them. We've robbed and bulldozed thousands of mounds, the Smithsonian swooping in to gobble up anything that doesn't fit the narrative. We may not have had centuries of empires occupying the continent or have nearly the amount of history as Europe, but what we do have is mediocre at best.

[@patriciabentley8840]

I absolutely love Time Team! My very favorite character is Tony. He's funny, kind, brave, bold -- oh I could go on and on but I will stop here. My husband turned me on to KZbin and all the wonderful shows that I was not aware of

[@patriciabentley8840]

And I have had hours and hours of fun watching all the shows. Ta Ta for now!

[@CompetitiveAudio]

Since I'm from the states I always have to "shift gears" when the show mentions "The Civil War". From years of indoctrination, my brain associates "The Civil War" with the 1860's..Then it's "oh it's the 1600's idiot." It takes a while for this American to wrap my mind around the period of the English Civil Wars.

[@juanitamcclendon3180]

Yes Phil is my favorite. I am always waiting for his part in the video. He seems to be fun to be around!

[@Tiger89Lilly]

@competitiveAudio I have the opposite problem when watching American history programmes. I always think 1600's not 1860's

[@michielvdvlies3315]

@@Tiger89Lilly same here although im dutch ;-)

[@kypo2674]

Great show, My four year old loves watching as i do, You make it very entertaining while also very informative about our past. A lot of producers should take a leaf out of your book.

[@Jenalgo]

What do you mean " you make it very entertaining"? You idiot. The person who uploaded this is a stinking pirate, and nothing to do with channel 4 you fool.

[@toniwilson6210]

This has to be one of Stewart’s finest hours

[@thehairyhominid9972]

Dude is a freaking visionary genius.

[@homersimpson3317]

Those pikes were surprisingly bendy.

[@Khalifrio]

I wish they had spent more time inside the Norman earthworks. That looks more interesting to me than digging for foundations of some ones country home.

[@michielvdvlies3315]

thank you for sharing these videos. i watched the series back in the days on discovery (nl) sunday mornings

[@bilgeratjim]

Tony wears his Baldrick hat in this one.

[@joe18750]

John Gator, "....we've got good Geophysics...." , You really got your nerve, ol' son.

[@fedraescuderohaldane6962]

42:35 That's Ruth Goodman, on the far right, of Edwardian/Victorian/Wartime Farm fame.

[@ej3016]

almost didn't recognize her without her"boys" 🙂

[@Wattablast50]

+Fedra Haldane Yep I recognized her right away. Keep wondering why we didn't see more of her and Peter in some of these episodes.

[@TheSpikehere]

+Ss Buman Because Ruth has done most of her television work for Aunty Beeb, not Channel 4.

[@ste1072]

in the later Time Teams that was the worst thing the producers ever did was let Stuart go and replace him with Alex Langlands the sado & Mary Anne 😭

[@billie-jobenway8658]

Did you also see the Secrets Of The Castle series? That was great! Ruth, Tom, and Peter in that one. They help build a castle in France. Stick to the Timeline postings- they are in proper order where other postings are not. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5XSg3SYpbyZebc

[@ellicooper2323]

All that activity and the dog sleeps thru it all at 43:30. Or perhaps he's taking a much needed rest from hours of digging?

[@imjusttoodissgusted5620]

Making lead balls was called Running Balls by American pioneers. I still make three different sizes for my .40 flintlock rifle, a .54 flintlock and a .62 cal smoothbore. I make them like the first little glimpse you saw of a single cavity mold. those are call bag molds. the ones on here appear to me to be rapine molds but they are out of business. Callahan bag molds are what I buy now.

[@GrahamCLester]

A brick enthusiast!!!

[@waltercannon4700]

graham lester I’ve never seen anyone so excited about bricks.

[@Chubachus]

Great story about melting down the lead coffins of their ancestors to fire at them, lol.

[@BryonLape]

On many of these sites, I am quite amazed at how much soil gets built up around them. Sometimes they are having to dig 8 or more feet when it has only been 400 years.

[@CologneCarter]

I've seen first hand how fast this can happen twice. First one was about 30 years ago, when I roamed the ruins of a shut down factory in a residential neighborhood. I was there about 5 years after it was shut down. Green was sprouting everywhere. Not only in the cracks, but all over. A thin layer of topsoil had covered the concrete in patches. The other one was a side with another shut down factory about 15 years ago. The side was used to deposit soil and rubble from other building sides. So it looked like a mix of old buildings mixed with giant mole hill strewn about higgeldy piggeldy. About 5 years ago I went there again and parts of the giant mole hills had spread all over the place, by wind and/or rain before the plants got real hold of them. It was amazing how much the place was overgrown allover But I have also seen places where nature reclaimed every nook and cranny without even a patch of moss growing on the concrete after decades of neglect.

[@gregb6469]

CologneCarter site

[@CologneCarter]

Greg B Yeah well, that's one of the nice side effects when one learns a second language mostly by listening. Words that sound the same sometimes come out wrong and spell check doesn't help much in those cases. But people are able to get the gist of what I'm trying to communicate and anyway, everyone makes mistakes.

[@gregb6469]

CologneCarter Glad I could help! Learning another language is not easy. That fact that many speakers of English don't always pronounce words clearly just makes it more difficult for persons like you. I have a Cuban friend who gets quite confused about "been" and "being" because they sound the same to her when spoken by most Americans.

[@CologneCarter]

Greg B Listening isn't much of a problem, writing and speaking is. I had very little formal education in English grammar and spelling and I am 40 years past my school days. Mix ups and wrong words usually happen when they sound the same ie. "meet-meat" or even worse "to-two-too". When I hear a sentence like "I know how to do it right", I have no trouble identifying the right word, but when I type (usually too fast) I often don't notice those mistakes, not even when proof reading, because in my mind they sound the same and unless I misspell the word the spell checker doesn't pick up on it. Usually when I see my text at a later time and reread it then (another of my "bad" words) I notice the mistakes right away, also when reading what someone else wrote.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@JeffreyAu1]

@8:07 A nest of idolatry! Perfect! When can I move in?

[@blktauna]

wow look, Ruth Goodman in the ECW camp 42:35

[@benediktmorak4409]

it is now old hat, and 9 years ago, but i might not agree with those experts how these - swung - bricks for the gateway were made. no one was chiseling around and away to get this form. but a - template -. most probably from wood was made. and the bricks were formed this way and than fired. since there were no conveyors and factories tose times who made all the bricks with machines,. these bricks were made by hand. ( there is a story on the net, about the Viennese -Ziegelpracker -, the poorest of the poor slobs who had to make bricks, the got paid - nothing -, they had wives and kids working there. and the owners became millionärs overnight. more or less. this was the time when in Vienna the big - Ring Road - was constructed.And for the Palazzi of the rich and famous, millions of bricks were needed...)

[@junestanich7888]

I wondered about that, much easier to mold them than to chisel them like that.

[@toypupanbai3544]

They should dig up the whole field, those bricks are worth a fortune!

[@bethbartlett5692]

These videos seem like they were filmed during an eclipse, meaning they dont have full light volume, as if some sort of Light Filter was used during filming. "?"

[@patriciaheil6811]

When they were trying to figure the setback of the house, did any of them try using the golden ratio, 1.618? It was part of classical architecture. Each of the beds shown should have been 1 x 1.6 in measure, and then the house would have been at the end of them. If they didn't, why not? If they did, I'll just shut up now, ok?

[@charlieherron5462]

When did England get over their Civil War? Asking for America.

[@mamavswild]

You should know; it has a lot to do with the founding of the American colonies! In the 1600’s anti-royalists won a brutal civil war with royalists and establish for about 10 years a ‘democracy’ that was a colossal failure. I say democracy in quotes because it was a religious-based system with the Puritan Christians in charge...it ended being no fun at all. Strict religious rules like the abolition of plays and music, church all the time...it was Iran for Christians. So the royalists took over again and fun was restored to the kingdom (yaye!). But where did these grouchy Uber-Christians go? They felt picked on in England- they couldn’t practice ‘under persecution’ which to them meant being forced to lived around people that could be happy and where bright colors. So where did they go? America! The puritans became the pilgrims and everything was hunk-dory again.

[@waltercannon4700]

Charlie Herron Whenever England stopped celebrating the lives of the losers.

[@mikebryant8122]

@@mamavswild That clears up a lot! But what might explain Morris dancing??

[@Happyheretic2308]

@@mikebryant8122 cider

[@haplessasshole9615]

26:13 -- That young lady in the lavender top has a gorgeous head of hair -- thick, shiny, and healthy. I wonder how she's wearing those gorgeous locks now?

[@maeve4686]

Noticed a lot of the diggers on this shows episodes are dressing like Phil. Check out the guy standing near him towards the last. Boots, faded jeans, vest and hat. I thought Phil was standing in front of a mirror.

[@Jigger2361]

Phil's stunt double and understudy Gil

[@maeve4686]

@@Jigger2361 Ya gotts love that an archaeologist has a stunt double. I know he has a bad back and welcome to the club(I broke mine in a fall from a rope as a firefighter. Wish I had a stunt double then...). I'm also glad they respect and value him enough to protect him. Or is it the mornings he was a bit heavy with the dew and needed a stand in vs a stunt double? I love him anyway. Never thought I'd have a school girl crush on a celebrity at the age of 66.Who does Tony have, his mirror image?

[@Jigger2361]

@@maeve4686 oh no I am so sorry to hear about your back! whoa! I hope you dont struggle with it to this day... Tony is an enigma lol i find that people love him or hate so taking on his stunt double role might bring grief for that chosen one... i am an archaeologist and love the show and yes, "man crush" on Phil for sure, he truly makes the show eh?

[@maeve4686]

@@Jigger2361 lol. I think it's just that Tony is an actor and with that comes a huge dose of narcissism. I have to realize that he's suppose to act as the layperson to bring questions an ordinary person would. Me, I like rocks. Just as a hobby. When my bf met me he kept expecting to take me shopping. Yuck. Poke my eyes out before I go shpng. But, I did find a fabulous flint scraper on my property and with Phil's "educating me" realize that rocks I've picked up for their shape are tools from Native Americans who had their stoneage years. (Mormons in this country believe that NAs are the missing tribes of Israel. Whatever) Never an arrowhead, but lots of hammers, boiling stones and metates. Thanks for the sympathy, but I mentioned it as understanding that Phil needs his breaks. Bad backs "ain't fun" as he says. Enjoy your weekend and happy digging or whatever your specialty is. I loved my job, but if I had to do it over again it would be archaeology or paleontology. Cheers!! and metates.

[@Jigger2361]

@@maeve4686 lol that is all awesome!

[@mortenriisberg]

Katie Hirst!! :D 4-ever!

[@mrs.schmenkman2858]

Huh. Guess this was a High Status site.

[@sodadrinker89]

42:36 A wild Ruth Goodman appears.

[@bevanpope7924]

pottman101 Well spotted.

[@peterprice6365]

Maw 'n maw foinds ere eh?

[@aprils6963]

Is this in Basingstoke?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

A couple of miles away.

[@zackstewart4109]

Ruth Goodman surprise appearance 42:36

[@dodo1opps]

Basing? As in Basingstoke? As Bisingstoke Roundabout?

[@shanhargest9844]

Yup

[@destoker]

31:12 Put on a hat!

[@BlackIjs]

Kind of like asking an Olympic swimmer to put on a life jacket sitting next to a children's wading pool. Safety first and all that, great, but in the background you can see two people in and next to a waist-deep trench... not wearing helmets. :)

[@pigoff123]

I grew up in base housing in Germany. 72-96

[@jimjenkins673]

31:20 why the silly hats? What’s going to drop on their heads? Are there cranes or something off camera we can’t see?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Yes.

[@ceesvw1450]

31.20 put your helmet on

[@madcowusa4277]

Wow, an episode I somehow missed this passed 20+ years of downloading/watching. It's like Christmas. Such a great show overall. Don't like the newer "woke" PC efforts at all.

[@Happyheretic2308]

This year’s season is more like the good old days of TT. Try it!

[@desslokbasileus571]

42:40　～　45:07　～　😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@wbrewer5352]

Always good to hear ooo-arr Phil tell Cow-renza she's wrong.

[@l-b284]

what is it with creepy old men watching this show?

[@souloftheteacher9427]

@@l-b284 Dunno. There are a lot of them, aren't there? Oblivious to how creepy they are, it seems. Ugh.

[@Go-Dawgs]

Finally Phil told Carenza "No it ain't" She tries to interject her theory and her theory must be the only Correct One. Frankly her TV minutes Explaining to us are getting a little tiresome. Let's watch Phil & Mick figure things out with the help of Stewart and John please?

[@l-b284]

It's clear that Carenza isn't the problem here

[@souloftheteacher9427]

@@l-b284 Agreed. K Jackson has a Carenza fixation. What should we suggest? Knitting? Bingo? Miniature golf?

[@johnmoss6631]

@@souloftheteacher9427 Best just to ignore the twit. Not worth wasting your time and energy on little kj.

[@souloftheteacher9427]

​@@johnmoss6631 Sigh. Yeah, I know. I wish I could stop wanting to smack the "now, little missy, best to leave it to the big wise men" commenters. Some of them are even women, which makes me wonder and, well, grieve. Who told that to _them_ when they were coming up? That's the sad bit. Lots of work yet to do.

[@lizzy66125]

@@l-b284 oh yes she is..and I am a woman.

[@jamesrivis620]

DO HOU HAVE TO SCREAM, TONY?? Totally unnecessary.

[@mrs.schmenkman2858]

Well...he's on.y like 4ft tall....he has to talk extra loud when he's outside

[@johnmoss6631]

How come you are screaming?

[@KOOLBadger]

Stupid music..😔