Time Team S08-E11 Canterbury

Over the August bank holiday weekend last year, Time Team took a crew of around 100 people to Canterbury for a three-day live dig. Or, rather, for three three-day digs because the live event focused upon three different sites.
One, at Blue Boy Yard, in the centre of the city, saw the Team looking for signs of the Roman temple and precinct that once stood on this site. At a second, also in the centre of Canterbury, the Team was seeking out remains of Greyfriars, Britain's first Franciscan priory. And a third, on Tyler Hill on the outskirts of the city, saw them investigating a medieval tile-making industry.
This programme tells the story of the three digs - our three tales of Canterbury.

[@dianespears6057]

At this point, I have watched the series as posted by you, Reijer, several times. I am in the USA, so, your postings were my only source, at first, several years ago now. I just want to say a very big thank you for getting this field of science and archeologists out there for so many to enjoy.

[@psleep4255]

Same! I’ve probably watched them 3-4 x. What a gem 💎!❤️🤗

[@mwheape]

Me too. Thanks so much!

[@Pii1968]

Your channel got me thru 2xcovid, and 1xflu, and a knee injury. Now, I watch it, whenever I need to slow down and relax. ❤ from Copenhagen 🇩🇰

[@jacobbevers8171]

I can cattle killer you

[@jacobbevers8171]

👆I can say this 👆, is definitely not a predictive text issue..

[@eskimberly7424]

This is one of the greatest TV series ever made as far as I’m concerned. This episode was a treat to me. Grateful there are still many seasons to enjoy! Thank you so much for posting the entire show organized by seasons.

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

And from me, with deepest thanks, I give you credit for my sanity for over twenty difficult years.

[@evelyneweissenborn8231]

I adore Robin Bush. ❤ Always wishing he had more screen time.

[@dominofalling2038]

He is wonderful. I adore that he is so respectful of the ladies he works with, if he introduces a female colleague he always gives her title "Doctor, Professor" etc, so they have a better chance of being respected and taken seriously. Robin is a total gentleman.

[@vincerussett7922]

Robin (sadly, of course, no longer with us) worked in Somerset where I live, and I was lucky enough to go to some of his public talks. Unlike archaeologists, he never used visual aids, but every talk I went to, he had the audience entranced (and laughing quite a bit). A very clever and funny man, and a respected academic. RIP, Robin.

[@PerryTribeMetalBaker]

as do i, and i have a feeling that he and Christopher Hitchens would have gotten along like Jonny walker black and Perrier water ;) All of which i adore

[@shnops]

I'd like to see a show watching Victor creating all the marvelous and imaginative scenes of a venue !!!!!!!!!! What an artist !!!!!!!!!!!

[@mydigitallife8311]

AND he is a Hungarian immigrant. AMF his name not even Victor. He is cool..

[@deborahparham3783]

Unfortunately Victor has passed away. He was indeed a very talented man.

[@shnops]

When Guy de la Bodayere speaks , people listen ! You couldn't get a word in edgewise ! But he speaks authoritatively and convincingly . I could listen to him all day long !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wendysgarden4283]

I'm only here for Phil in shorts.

[@sharimullinax3206]

Raysan doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He is very talented!

[@NickMusselle]

as far as i can see Sandy is being very Humble, i have great respect for her, and i had no idea about her academic status. lovely lady.

[@Whatareyouareyou]

Sandi toksvig > lisa fecking tarbuck.... these comments are crazy xD

[@Veerlejf]

"Can you see anything?" "I see wonderful things!" Archaeologists sure know when to quote Howard Carter opening the grave of Tutankhamon!

[@medhat4B]

Of all the TT episodes, this was a whirlwind. So much to find, so much to see. I my opinion, it could have been a 90 minute special. But I still love watching TT. Thanks, Reijer Zaaijer.

[@lesjohnson9740]

Reijer, why was this dig, stopped after three days?, if it was me, I would have carried on , even if the Main time team had to leave, lot's of willing helpers, all it needs a supervisory overseer, to point all these guys in the right direction, what do you think?. Les OU Earth sciences.

[@TheSpikehere]

Les, the Canterbury Archaeological Trust work on a number of sites during the year, not only in the city itself but around South-East England. Having Time Team broadcasting live over an August Bank Holiday was great publicity.

[@billie-jobenway8658]

For the entire six part showing of this episode go to this link. Fillask shows all the Time Team Specials including the hardest to find ones. I go to his channel to watch the ones Reijer Zaaijer doesn't have listed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/baezepuMirZ2bsk

[@synjensze5260]

I understand that this particular project was centered on Canterbury and its rich archaeological history but come on... Each site was worth its own episode! They could've done it like a mini-series, a Time Team's very own Canterbury tales!

[@Jaqueli9er]

you can find the episodes as they were aired instead of this shorter version. When you search "time team live canterbury" on youtube, there are 6 videos of it, 2 are short, but most are 45 mins long.

[@LutzDerLurch]

Part of me always wants to live in a home with medieval tiled floors, ceilings of hewn beams and with nicely plastered and painted walls with lead glazed windows....

[@joshschneider9766]

It's pretty but you grow numb to it and then it's just a pain in the ads historic tile you have to maintain to the specs of the national trust. I got way over that quote fast honestly lol

[@mermeridian2041]

Love this series more and more with each episode!

[@shnops]

Sandi seems to have taken over for Tony ! She's a little dynamo !

[@pamelatanner5082]

I Love Tony's hair in this episode!

[@mikewebb1514]

Tony and Mick as Monks. Haha! That was a great painting.

[@browneyedbitch62]

I have loved every time team program I have watched. I had now started binge watching it. I don't know how many time teen programs there were that I think I'm good for at least another year. Thank you time team

[@janielaurel]

twenty seasons ... you have a ways to go. I think I'm now on my fifth go-round on these programs. And I know I've downloaded all of them at least twice.

[@GrahamCLester]

I wish they had split this into two full-length programs.

[@angelitabecerra]

More like 3

[@benediktmorak4409]

i can't believe it there is SUN shining!!!!!! - Mr. Phil - ! he must have been chuffed like cheesecake!

[@Tocsin-Bang]

For those who are negative about Sandy, she read law, archaeology and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree, so she's more than qualified to appear in her own right.

[@zw5509]

She ruins the episode, quite simply! Do not care what she studied, her personality is Offal!

[@2006athena]

I think sandy is quick and funny myself

[@JustMeInJapan]

I love Sandy, regardless of her studies. She is witty and smart.

[@dominofalling2038]

Sandi is wonderful!

[@danielmccallon7033]

Its Sandy's voice like she sucked helium in this one

[@RamblinJer]

Thank you for uploading this great series

[@ManImJustSomeDude]

Tony's Slim Shady phase. hahahaha

[@pinkdogwoodtree]

I was so surprised to see Sandy! Love her from the Great Brithish Baking Show. She was a wonderful host. What an interesting person she is!

[@brandonsteinbach4208]

Tony, the real slim shady.🤣

[@bydaddykurt]

I scrolled way to far too find this comment!

[@zedwms]

Tony: How long would they have been on the road? Mick: Oh, sometimes for years. Tony: I hope that doesn't happen to us. (Time Team, season 8 of 20)

[@laurachapple6795]

TONY: addresses his question to 'shameless hussy' BARNEY: answers

[@stevegasparutti8341]

Love Lisa Tarbuck.

[@normplatt7549]

Great show ! Time Team!

[@patrickwalls1407]

so the lady is Sandy? wonderful woman, liked her excitement. what a great episode. thanks.

[@phantomkate6]

She hosts QI now, also available on KZbin

[@PeachysMom]

She was one of the presenters on Great British Baking show until season before last

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

I love Sandi. Great and engaging.

[@Songbirdstress]

I got to do a Time Team pilgramage! I had no idea Canterbury was so interesting!

[@chrisgordon5719]

No one ever mentions the amount of wood needed to fire a kiln. One of many reasons for the lack of standing timber in Southern England. Especially oak. A reason that Briton wanted to colonize New England for the vast oak forests. The need for wood in early England was insatiable.

[@vincerussett7922]

Hi, Chris. The story isn't quite that simple because woods that were managed by coppicing were quite capable of providing continuous supply of wood, and certainly wood was not a reason for colonising the New World. Most of the reason that there is so little woodland in England (and probably less in Wales and Scotland) was the high population density, and therefore need to grow crops from a very early stage, which resulted in many woods being cleared for agriculture. Everywhere in Somerset (the area I know best), the hedges around the fields show their origins in woodland clearance by the type of plants they contain.

[@annk.8750]

@Vince Russett In the Americas, New England used to have great forests of oak, much in demand for British shipbuilding. They're all gone now, leaving just scrub pine in most of the area. It isn't so much that they needed wood in general, but they had depleted most of the largest oaks in Britain that were necessary for ships and their masts.

[@uw1955]

Yes, that little Mrs. is somtimes hard to understand! But what great sites there in Canterbury. Good episode of that grand show. Greetings from Berlin.

[@Chubachus]

"Friar Robin!"

[@yuwish6320]

"We're gonna dig up dead people." Everyone else: "Macabre." Time Team: "Should be brilliant!"

[@FoundingFathers-hb4tj]

Great episode. Agree it could have been longer.

[@t.c.thompson2359]

Best place to tell stories.

[@debbieboring3422]

Thanks again for the video.

[@jamespfp]

37:52 -- "This is the trench where we had Sweet Fanny Adams." -- Ah Yes, I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@lisakilmer2667]

Someone asked about Franciscans versus Benedictines. The site chosn to dig was a Franciscan friary. The city was so important there was probably a building for every branch of Catholicism.The Cathedral was founded in 597 as a Benedictine site.

[@gregorys6074]

Becket,great movie..

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

I somehow missed Tony's bleach blonde phase in every binging of this show I have done.

[@MjC7192]

it looks soooo bad it's kinda hard Not to miss.....,lol

[@deborahparham3783]

The things actors will do to themselves to earn a paycheck. The other roles he played were responsible for all of his odd hairstyles and peculiar facial hair.

[@bjrntveter2847]

1:47 Micks hair makes people crave cotton candy.

[@kevingee4294]

Man in Hole; ive got something!! Freind of man in HOLE walks up and looks down into the HOLE at man and ask........wait for it............WHERE DID YOU FIND IT?...........

[@BlackIjs]

lol

[@phantomkate6]

Love Sandi. Thrilled she's hosting QI now!

[@marniesweet4677]

With that blond hair, Tony is beginning to resemble an Easter duckling.

[@TheCardolan]

Marnie Sweet don't think that's blond, it seems to be more white

[@susansimpson2181]

Leopararouen, she also told Tony she had never been a fan of his. pretty rude.

[@susansimpson2181]

Is Tony's bleached hair why he's not appearing very much in this episode? He's usually very visible, but not this time.

[@AngeliqueStP]

@@susansimpson2181 Guess you've never been joked/teased by a friend? Context is everything.... it was just a playful jab.

[@alanatolstad4824]

I too wondered if maybe it was for a between Time-Team roll in another production!

[@elvismark6816]

Hello Tony dr. Phil Doctor Mike it is a great pleasure to view today's dig I have learned a lot over the few years that I have watched you simple from Discovery Channel to a knee and now KZbin it looks like a very bunny of a day lives let's scare Niels Judy let's get some work in and see what we can find today but like I said I would like to hear from the time team after supporting him for so many years I deserve a Halo I'm also begging for a picture from the time team I would like to put it up on my wall it's not too often I meet a bunch of guys who I like especially in the ink anthropology archaeology I do like a whole lot I'm fascinated on what you do I do like digging in the dirt and finding answers I guess everybody does but I have been studying archaeology anthropology since there was four years old I'm pretty old today I'm about 57 turning to it I guess every day we get older and we get wiser especially with what we do to achieve that level I have to say thank you guys for the study in the education that I have been watching time team for both but like I said today's dig is worth it and sabonis that I get the chance to watch you on KZbin my other TV was knocked over but my two cats investigating it I guess I'm going to have to go in the backyard and dig a hole and put it in the hole and give it a proper burial he deserves his chance to live truly wonderful I'm very tired Tony a took some pills I have a brain tumour that I'm fighting I'm only buying time to stay alive and it is very complicated at times I sure like to help you guys get on my hands and knees and dick but now I'm in a wheelchair I appreciate watching this program because I learned a great deal from this program this is what inspires me to sit here and watch you I love learning

[@et4751]

Enjoy watching Dr Mark Horton entusiasm.

[@BlueChrysalis]

I love Sandy.

[@blaggercoyote]

So they made tiles on Tyler Hill, quel surprise.

[@Nangleator22]

42:53. Familiar looking monks. ;)

[@TheWilsonDelirium]

02:48 I hope Tony finds a well.... he needs some serious cooling from that burn :p

[@nickrich56]

... gotta remember it was a live broadcast so it came across different than your regular episode.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Good one!

[@rogerwilco2]

I wish I could travel in time and just do a few things that would really confuse archaeologists.

[@James_Lion]

You could do something now for archaeologists of the future

[@ancilodon]

Our ancestors did a good enough job of that. We will too.

[@stuartswan54]

All that was missing was Richard Burton.

[@TrikeRoadPoet]

From fragments they wrest the story of the whole and make it live again.

[@lisakilmer2667]

I just found TT Live Canterbury for the first time. And - this time I Like Sandi! Her strangled voice still annoys but her manner is fairly charming.

[@hollywilkinson5405]

Why is everyone hating on Sandi? She's ace!

[@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328]

aww I know. I guess some people just don't get her, but that opening scene was great, I love the lightheartedness she brings. All the pros have a good time in their own way but they're a tad dull and Sandi's like a laugh bomb amongst them all. People saying she's rude and whatnot, but she's just jiving her friends. Tony's way more rude and insensitive at times imo and really not that funny without a script

[@susansimpson2181]

Because Sandi is abrasive, and shows way too much cleavage. Not very ladylike, like Clarenda, or whatever her name is.

[@Wotdermatter]

Apart from an overexposure of cleavage, as you call it, but also obnoxiously abrasive in her speech pattern. As well as those things and a few not mentioned, she continuously interrupts and that is an annoying distraction in the transmission of the information. Not female, on her(?) own admission, but something else.

[@chrisgordon5719]

@@susansimpson2181 Oh grow up. If not for all the women diggers, nothing would get done. You expect the women to show up in nun's habits dressed in black? In the hot sun? Dual Standard. Men go shirtless in the hot summer sun. Women wear black tank tops. Some people might be happier in Victorian times when the sight of a woman's ankle was legal grounds for some twisted male to assault her.

[@AngeliqueStP]

@@chrisgordon5719 IKR?! "Oh no..... it's.....[shrieks in fear] TITS!" Bunch of prissy, socially constipated twits in these threads, god....

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

Always listen to stewart!

[@theknave4415]

For us, it's ancient archeology. For the Romans? Tearing down an old temple was a part of urban renewal. ;)

[@dawngriffin3550]

❤

[@baskervillebee6097]

35:12 wheelbarrow wrestling, a sideline of archaeology.

[@saintboudreau1545]

WOW bombing found it.. congrats for leaving and building around.that should be shown in all schools worldwide. and beneath that older stories.future methods will find without destruction. we know of this and we know we carry our ancestry in our bones.............but to see is wonderful.

[@Totaldane]

2:28: the naughties exclamation on TT ever!

[@calgacusofcaledonia]

Bit of grease, whatta ya got...Billy Fury...HA!!

[@389383]

Could someone explain how a "live event" show is different than a normal one. They both cover 3 days and they are presented on TV after post-production work.

[@alijud]

The Live event was broadcast with numerous programs over a three day bank holiday weekend. Later the recordings of these live broadcasts were edited to produce a normal length program which was broadcast later in the year.

[@389383]

Thank you.

[@alijud]

Originally there were regular broadcasts from a live weekend dig that were then edited after broadcast and the best bits shown again at a later date.

[@DragonFae16]

Any time one of these live episodes comes up, I woder how it worked. Did they just show footage the whole three days, or cross to the site at specific times.

[@mykingisbetterthanyours4346]

in America a building that is called a precinct is usually a police station

[@markorollo.]

The building called the precinct in my hometown is a shopping centre

[@johnmoss6631]

So what, this show does not take place in the U.S.

[@geirbalderson9697]

Geofizz sounds like a delicious drink. Whiskey shaken with a nice Canterberry syrup and ice?

[@eboracum2012]

No, no, I'd like to try elderberry syrup. What shall we call it??

[@colinfew6570]

ohhh. Sandi was on Whose Line way back in the day.

[@mimiboulanger2358]

I was in Canterbury in the late 1990"s and had no idea about all this Roman vestiges

[@meemurthelemur4811]

I was in Israel in '96. In the old city part of Jerusalem there are dozens of houses with Roman remains in their basements. Many have little signs hung outside where you can knock and for a few shekels they will let you go down to see them. The cubbie holes in the shops here reminded me very much of those.

[@mimiboulanger2358]

@@meemurthelemur4811 How amazing! I was only a couple of weeks ago thinking that I would love to visit Israel and now you tell me this astounding information. Thank you so much. I now have a new adventure to look forward to!

[@meemurthelemur4811]

@@mimiboulanger2358 I hope you do go! It's absolutely beautiful there. Another thing to keep in mind is that you can often walk around Old City walls in Jerusalem and find pot shards just laying off the sides of the roads. And you can collect them. I know that the people on TT get a bit worked up about stuff like that, but there is literally so much of it that it's pretty much treated like collecting rocks. The only stuff the state is interested in are the really rare intact pieces. And even then you can buy oil lamps by the box full in the shops simply because there are thousands of them. You'll only find shards on the sides of the roads, really, but it's always fun to look. When I left, my bags were searched, but nobody was ever bothered by the few I found.

[@mimiboulanger2358]

@@meemurthelemur4811 Absolutely Fascinating!

[@mimiboulanger2358]

I just can't believe what I'm seeing. Heavy machinery and pick axes on an archeological site??? Here in north america, Canada more precisely, we hand excavate everything and sift every inch that we recover. You guys are like bulls in a china shop. How amazing to have so much past that you can claim the " creme de la creme" and toss out the lower standard elements to the trash heap. This program is so wonderful " I see wonderful things" with every episode.

[@Pikkugen]

Most of Europe is built on scraps of slightly older Europe. We have thousands of years' worth of scrap in the ground, and you just have to sacrifice the modern scrap in order to ever get to the scraps of the century you aim at.

[@DanKetchum007]

She's funny. I like her.

[@shnops]

I swear , Katie and Jennie could be sisters . They favor each other a lot ! - Or I'm blind !

[@Jean-yn6ef]

💚

[@billie-jobenway8658]

For the entire six part showing of this episode go to this link. Fillask shows all the Time Team Specials including the hardest to find ones. I go to his channel to watch the ones Reijer Zaaijer doesn't have listed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/baezepuMirZ2bsk

[@talamioros]

Tony looking like Eminem here lolol

[@klondo]

Tony looks like an older version of Eminem lol

[@mr.aldini6801]

I wish Liza had been a regular!

[@elvismark6816]

Tony I would like to find out this man who was wearing afador green sweater and looks like fish slots can you tell me this young man's name Tony I don't think it has been name mentioned but this man is pretty intelligent towards anthropology and archaeology and he inspires me totally spires me to keep on going and learning like the man isn't boring that's one physical point that I like is a a man that's totally spot on spot-on I don't know if he's a teacher in archaeology anthropology or he's just very knowledgeable on archaeology he's a fascinating man and he's very extraordinary on what he does fantastic the gentleman is man on man TCB third son of Elvis Presley live and Wells some in Toronto Ontario Canada my daddy came here in 1957 to Maple Leaf Gardens my mom made them at the end of the hockey tunnel we're all the players come out of the ice rink and she felt the tap on her shoulders and an offer to go out to dinner and they had a night together this is how I come on hot damn I'm not bored and telling this story at all but if you want to find out told me about his death I can tell you another time Elvis I'm gone baby and that's the way it is man

[@willa1950]

I thought it was a Benedictine foundation in Canterbury, not Franciscan.

[@BS-qr5es]

Who went and put the queen of the leprechauns in charge of the dig?

[@timothyhart7587]

This is Episode 12, not 11.

[@calgacusofcaledonia]

Where the hell was Phil hiding?!

[@deborahparham3783]

He was last seen in a trench with Lisa what ever her name is. Curiouser and curiouser.

[@trishriederer1857]

Omg sandy

[@sliewood]

Anybody else notice sparks flying twixt the Hardman and the Tarby...???? They seemed to go awol at some point before the end credits too.... Hmmm....

[@mercedes523]

Never knew that Tony had bleached his hair. ??

[@ChristineImagines]

I really like Sandy, but I knew her first as a comedian/presenter. I thought she came across as an interested lay person.

[@edlechleiter7042]

Tony and Mick don't have the legs for shorts .

[@johnmoss6631]

Nor do you have the brains to make comments.

[@deborahparham3783]

Most men don't have great legs. That doesn't mean they should not wear shorts when it's miserably hot outside.

[@MyPoetik]

Tuffae are nor common in France 🙂

[@seanpaula8924]

Tony has Bieber Fever hair.

[@gregorys6074]

Some of these comments are silly,these are Scientist/Historians not actors.go read US magazine.trivial minds!!

[@edlechleiter7042]

Actually , at least three of them are actors .

[@eventyraren]

Å Äfter å

[@elvismark6816]

that 3D diagram blows me away Tony I've never seen anything like that and greater Architects use this kind of method I think cuz I did study of on architect in 3DS pretty bizarre I really liked it I never seen anything like this before but they probably use it now what one thing and Spurs mean the most is this dig and I would like to say God bless a fryer Elvis

[@maureenalbersworth3142]

What's up with tonysHair ?lol

[@malkacantor1670]

silly question but are these all real archaeologist or actors

[@lesjohnson9740]

I'd like to reply to this comment Malka, as you are well aware, some things are serendipity, students on furlow, History Science etc.......can I help?, Phil says, of course, have you got three days to help us out?, student reply's, do I get some scran and liquid, and off we go., I was there so to speak Malka.

[@alijud]

The archeologists are real. The presenters, in this episode Sandi, Lisa and Tony, are actors/entertainers with an interest in the subject.

[@mattkaustickomments]

Liza’s tarbucks are showing. Yowza!!

[@johnlord8337]

Still cant understand why we only find 1 piece of something. If it was tossed complete, or tossed broken, then wouldn't the trash heap have the completed or broken vessel in situ. Seems completely illogical we can only find 1 piece, and 80% of the pot, jug, plate etc missing ....

[@rogerwilco2]

+John Lord Often the reason is 2000 years of ploughing.

[@rogerwilco2]

+John Lord Often the reason is 2000 years of ploughing.

[@johnlord8337]

And what? post Iron Age, post Roman, post Anglo-Saxon, post Norman, post medieval, post Elizabethan farmers picked up the little pieces for do-dads or other funny business? Then where are all those fragments and pieces that were picked out. They should then be in a local trash area, like those era pieces of their own dating. And yet, we can't find them. The whole business of archaeology started in the renaissance, post-reformation 1800s. So 250 years of real collecting would have started ... and everybody else was busy enough with their own lives and surviving, instead of picking up and transporting shiny, curious objects to other areas. Hmmmmmmm!

[@12412...]

@@johnlord8337 maybe. I remember one episode about pig farming grounds and they found a ton of pottery.

[@FoundingFathers-hb4tj]

Did she (Lisa) say she likes a good dig, or did I hear something very different? 😂