Time Team S09-E05 Ironbridge.Gorge,.Shrops

This programme takes Time Team back to the earliest beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the area now known as the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire.
In the village of Leighton the Team is investigating a particularly interesting cellar; the archaeology could take us back nearly 400 years. The cellar, based in a pub, contains the remains of a blast furnace - used for making iron.
What more can be discovered about the story of Leighton's lost furnace?

[@joshschneider9766]

Something about Micks grand dad being a foundry man makes me inordinately happy.

[@jamesheald7971]

This program is a gem. It has been said that television is a "vast wasteland," but among all the rubble and clutter of typical programming, Time Team has proven its value over and over again.

[@Strigulino]

"It's like trying to look at the oil industry by looking at a petrol pump" - that is such a good analogy for why you study what's going on around something.

[@gaylec258]

I don't think the guy that does the sketches gets enough credit. He has an awesome imagination. Being able to "see" the way it use to be, and bring it to life, for us, on paper. It takes talent to take a pencil and paper to create a scene just from viewing piles of stone, dirt, and rubble. I realize a computer can generate a more precise picture, but one that is less "human", and without character. Wonderful job. Thank You.

[@mikenotmichael]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ambrus

[@joshschneider9766]

In time team alone he's drawn painted carved wood and stone engraved a coin stamp and taken photos. Truly a renaissance man.

[@corneliawissing7950]

Fully agree!

[@tulips3967]

@@joshschneider9766 He sculpted, too! R.I.P. Victor Ambrus

[@seanmcgcostumes]

I was so sad to hear about when he died this past February, but I'm so glad that the new episodes of Time Team are using his vast cache of drawing that he made for Time Team over the years (with his family's approval, of course). When something they're digging is the same period/item as something he drew before (i.e. an 11th century manor, a Roman road, etc.), Time Team can now use an old work of his as a visual aide for the audience. I love that his work will live on in the show like that! And Time Team's website also sells books of his art, too.

[@lisasargent2841]

What a cutie the heavy equipment operators doggie is. He's very excited to go to work with his dad!!!

[@thomasbell7033]

This is one of my favorite episodes, largely because from here in Brooklyn that Shropshire landscape looks awfully beautiful.

[@MeMommyEms]

That dog is living the digger’s life! ❤️

[@speedbrake22]

Phil's enthusiasm at 27:00 is so awesome to see (and contagious)

[@sweettart130]

I just had a mini freak out at timestamp 40:56 when she said "George Hartshorne"... that's one of my ancestors!

[@tammydriver5759]

That's cool!

[@nancymills1884]

I recall the first time I saw molten steel being poured- it was amazing to see the red steel glowing. It was also at night so it was stunning to see. How these men lived in that heat, especially in the 1700’s. Just amazing.

[@joshschneider9766]

As a modern foundry worker I went from 186 pounds to 156 the first six months I worked lol

[@tammydriver5759]

Cute puppy in the cab of the backhoe

[@lorawiese5897]

Smiles. .he is making sure they are doing it correctly. Such an adorable pup.

[@cindydintn]

@@lorawiese5897 iy in iiygyu. K. N. . J.g

[@kevinmcneill468]

Border Terrier, we have one now and had one before, best little dog on the planet

[@annk.8750]

I visited the furnace in Quincy, Massachusetts, oldest in the USA, with mammoth reconstructed bellows. Impressive! Built in the 1640s.

[@lizeggar2421]

Wow!! When did the Pilgrims arrive? Imagine carving something like that out of the wilderness. Pretty impressive, I would say. I live in Telford, very close to Ironbridge.

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@lizeggar2421about twenty years prior but the Spanish had been here for over a century.

[@joshschneider9766]

The Brits were late to the colonizing game compared to the rest of Europe. Elizabeth was basically pressured into it by greedy speculator types

[@patriciabracken7546]

I love the dog in digger..

[@robinandrews5478]

Me too!

[@cindydintn]

I wonder how many people made Mick sweaters?

[@DanKetchum007]

It's every dog's dream to be able to dig like that.

[@adamsjerome1839]

Victor's artistic abilities were vast. He was a member of prestigious artistic societies.

[@roxnoil]

So enjoy these Time Team episodes, not stiff, formal like most American production. Tony perfect as a host to bring that mix of real science and rye humor.

[@jantruitt9241]

Maybe he meant “dry humor”?

[@mjrussell414]

Jan truitt No, wry would be more correct - he just doesn't know how to spell.

[@brookscima]

Maybe not…my husband thinks he is humorous when he drinks rye.

[@mermeridian2041]

Thank you for posting these - they've helped keep me somewhat sane during COVID 2020.

[@BryonLape]

I do believe Phil would giggle himself to death if he uncovered a stoned crow.

[@gaylec258]

thanks for the laugh

[@joshschneider9766]

Except he's saying "stone the croze". In Midland dialects the word for the cork on a barrel was croze. Stone the croze means smash the beer barrel cork with a rock

[@alexhando8541]

@@joshschneider9766 Except, Phil's from Somerset

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@joshschneider9766 , Fascinating! So Mr Phil actually says 'open the beer barrel!'

[@sharimullinax3206]

Thanks for the laugh!

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

The one clear thing I learned was the expression "useless git" now it really makes sense.

[@piotrnerka]

Is it just me, or does everyone see the phrase "I have a cunning plan, mylord" storming with ill-deserved confidence into the direction of the conversation whenever Baldr... I mean Tony opens his mouth. ;-)

[@firesongn]

Loved the dog in the digger!

[@santoparfano1910]

These are getting harder to find. You are one of two channels that have timeteam. Much appreciated!

[@smeghed1025]

Thanks so much for posting these! It must have been a big effort.

[@lisatwitchell403]

I had to learn to sand cast, like where they are casting the actual cannon balls, in 1970 while I was getting a degree in Industrial Arts. I actually made a wooden mold and made a special tool to rebuilding motorcycle crankshafts. The more things change the more they stay the same.. LOL

[@joshschneider9766]

I've sand cast metal as well as done open face castings of glass where we poured molten glass into impressions in sand rather than used a cope and drag. I miss molten material

[@stannousflouride8372]

The car park is here: 52.646124°N, 2.577345°W The stone bridge is under these trees: 52.644806ºN, 2.576458ºW And the dam was around here: 52.649263ºN, 2.574832ºW

[@markfox1545]

Did anyone ask?

[@corneliawissing7950]

@@markfox1545 , No, but being incurably inquisitive, we like to know.

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@markfox1545no and nobody asked you to snark for no reason. Any knowledge is good knowledge you useless git.

[@a.j.carter8975]

❤ thank you so much for uploading these. 😊😊😊

[@heathen-greaser]

Really nice pub with friendly staff too

[@gailolson6324]

In Hopewell, PA, they have a couple furnaces and they made charcoal. The guys worked 24 hours a day taking turns feeding the charcoal fires, to make enough charcoal to feed the furnaces.

[@ColleenJousma]

The dog deserves credit on IMDB.

[@grannypantsification]

Phil usually has neat square trenches with perfectly vertical sides. To see him in a rubble filled pit is so strange.

[@eboracum2012]

love to have a basement with a vaulted ceiling like that!!

[@joshschneider9766]

Trust me the headache of having to consult federal officials for as little as deciding what color to paint the walls gets old. Yeah I guess it was worth it but it is a god awful headache dealing with county archaeologists and national heritage people. Im glad archaeology gets saved but there's a lot of headaches.

[@kuripangui]

The dog !!! 💖💖💖

[@heatherdickau5335]

New bucket list destination.

[@vlg8482]

I live in Telford by Ironbridge 😁 and still love to hear the history on where I live.

[@hildeelisepedersen4323]

I still Gry when i see Mick ashton i did love him soo mutch rip

[@AndyMartin401]

Brilliant

[@1101millie97]

I love that dog....

[@deanmc178]

a lovely place to go .. i went to the bridge in 1984

[@kevingouldrup9265]

As an American i am always interested in anything from Shropshire! Thanks to the Shropshire slasher and Bugs Bunny.

[@meeseification]

I usually don't comment on anything over a few weeks old, but I'm glad I'm not the only person to giggle when someone says "Shropshire" thanks to Daffy Duck

[@cookiesshorts6118]

Name? Shropshire Slasher Occupation? Shropshire Slasher

[@joshschneider9766]

I just googled the slasher and holy crap what a case!

[@gandalfthegay420]

Great pub that 👌

[@colinboneham7387]

I live only a couple of miles from this at the time it was filmed, but not many knew it was happening as it did, if it was done today thanks to Facebook and other such feeds you’d know in minutes of the team arriving it was going to happen.

[@paulbriody297]

Interesting!

[@lizzy66125]

Stuart always manages to make everything clear

[@corneliawissing7950]

Prof. Mick's wearing a jumper with vertical stripes!

[@lauralake7430]

It must have been nice to be a charcoal makers family in the winter. Think how lovely and warm the house would be with that big earthen heap of fire in it. The children would be warm as toast.

[@scrubsrc4084]

I used to run a blast furnace, best job I ever had. Couldnt help notice there are never any calls for equality in the work place in that industry.......

[@keicbell]

I'm transfixed by that gorgeous ginger pony tail

[@Swaggerlot]

Fortunately it looks like its been protected for renovation rather than demolition.

[@garvikzukov5445]

Great

[@judeirwin2222]

Ah. Stewart revealed the answer to my question as to why the firing campaign stopped during the summer. It had to be because the water level of the stream dropped then, making its force insufficient to drive the wheel.

[@debbieboring3422]

Good thing they did it in the winter. WOW Hot more than Phoenix.

[@nevyen149]

Google Earth still shows this pub as closed. It's all boarded up and the parking lot is closed off with cement blocks. Jan. 10, 2016

[@johnnyveganite9141]

+nevyen It'll probably 'accidentally' get set on fire, then demolished and a block of flats put on it. Thats what has happened to most of the grade 2 listed buildings around here (essex).

[@nevyen149]

NoMeatMe Sad. It's destroying history for an undoubtedly ugly set of Apts.

[@MWGiesbrecht]

nevyen open now!

[@nevyen149]

MWGiesbrecht Cool. Have one for me. Then have one for yourself. Then have one for me. Then have one...

[@berthiltanke8377]

It is still closed, now during the corona crisis.. they are not very Lucky..

[@chrisphilhower6029]

Ar 25:02, Did I see a Brake Rotor?? Didn't know they were around that long.

[@maddog2771]

Was here Nov 2019

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

I love how, even though Phil's a prehistoricist, he can still get a brain-boner for an issue in industrial archaeology, too! Nice one, Phil!

[@joshschneider9766]

He's been doing a bunch of work over the last two years on the battle of Waterloo and even though he's a flint man he always dips his cap to the men who died in the battle. He's a dear. There's actually a life like statue of him at the museum in Salisbury.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

@@joshschneider9766 Warm glow time. :)

[@piotrnerka]

Shows like Time Team are a great example of the great programming on Discovery Channel (and other documentary themed channels) in the 90's and the beginnings of the '00 years. It al got awful afterwards with American [place your occupation here] shows afterwards. I hardly ever really watch Discovery, History or NatGeo anymore because of this abysmal change of content. I wish we could go back to the times in which program content was meant to intrigue and educate instead of being a fake sensation seeking theatre like its nowadays.

[@Rover200Power]

It isn't a Discovery made program though, it is just a repeat of a show made by Channel 4 in the UK.

[@piotrnerka]

@@Rover200Power That's beside the point. Wether they produced TT themselves or not, Discovery channel gave it a spot in their programming back in those days. Compared to today's programming, imo things have gone downhill the last 20 years.

[@brianvittachi6869]

I like Stewart's job the best.

[@themissouriwoodwaltzer7827]

The Team didn’t have far to travel to get to the Pub at the end of the day. lol

[@parrotraiser6541]

That "trench" in the car park looks more like a crater by the end of the excavation.

[@maddog2771]

I was here in September 26 2019

[@cjpenning]

'fettling' seems to be the word of the day

[@hughgordon6435]

Did the pupper get a mention in the credits?

[@andrewcornwell8347]

I love Time Team, so please don’t get upset… I always feel sorry for the archaeologists doing the work whilst they seem to be outnumbered 3:1 by people looking into the trench.

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

1000 to one looking we are looking as well 😊

[@joannamallory2823]

The industrial revolution is a bit of a snooze for me but I so love this team I watched all but the recreation bits.

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

think of the people working... ugh. life expectancy of ???

[@cathjj840]

Maybe not much more than glassblowers - whadja think?

[@brentlichtenberg]

38:14 sounds like Tony slipped into an after school special.

[@Timeren2010]

That guy has a horsetail attached to his neck.

[@Biofilmz]

"Any joy yet?" ... blechhhhhh Otherwise a magnificent episode!

[@Cohowarren]

Pub dig,, Phil's dream.

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhh arrre Tony straight to the pub... Stone the crows!

[@julie7292]

Its indiana stewart. Love tge hat!

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Google says I have to translate 😊

[@nopeyadayadayada1248]

That pub is dangerously close to the road. Or visa versa.

[@basstrammel1322]

38:09 "Ok, so the million $ quiestion: Did they experiment with coke?"

[@wibbletthewobblet9558]

"It's 8:30 in the morning and I'm looking for a pub" -Tony Robinson

[@rustyreturns9754]

I’ve been curious since I started this series over a month ago. Who replaces all that they dig out? Is it returned to the way they found it? Are some sites left exposed for history’s sake? I really, really want to know

[@joshschneider9766]

Occasionally sites are preserved in an open pit state but in time teams case a guy named Kerry was the site supervisor and occasionally in episodes and typically he and a team of three or four folks would take detailed drawings and measurements and then rebury everything

[@joshschneider9766]

In this car park and other such cases relevant contractors were paid to repave stuff and so forth as I understand it

[@rhoddryice5412]

40:38 that’s some nasty looking burns she got.

[@lilyjones9564]

I live in ironbridge

[@johnDukemaster]

At 21 minutes reading the document, there's a chap called Mathias Gervais..I wonder if he's related to Ricky?

[@blaggercoyote]

They still make charcoal like that in many places.

[@NICOLAASARIE]

Moet je eens naar die pub kijken op google-earth, Failliet naar ik aanneem. Look for the pub on google-earth. It looks shut.

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

Just goes to show you how good the folks were that did make the coal for the furnace.

[@joshschneider9766]

It was a generational skill same as carpentry or stone work or blacksmith. As time went on it became a standardized industry. All but dead and dusted now. Very few people on earth can make a good clamp.

[@alisterx8698]

11:40 I’d be looking at the mountain in the background kind a looking to see if any ancient ancient civilizations have dug into it Britain has a lot of ties with ceremonial mounds, Stonehedge to represent solstice of the years ext.

[@peanut71968]

Proof no one ever rose above it sitting on their arse!

[@judeirwin2222]

I still think, having spent so much time showing how charcoal is made, that they skimped on the explanation of how coal becomes coke.

[@shawnkelly2958]

Wait... you need red hot charcoal to make charcoal? How does that work?

[@mastrofnone8025]

Heat is needed to burn off moisture and gasses out of wood . Charcoal can be made with a coal bucket with a top and a small hole in the bottom and set over a fire. Once the volatiles are gone you have charcoal.

[@angelitabecerra]

Anyone know what Tony means by "coke"?

[@lizzy66125]

coke is another fuel source,used instead of charcoal

[@angelitabecerra]

@@lizzy66125 I gathered that much. What *is* it? Like what is it made of?

[@alanmorgan8647]

@@angelitabecerra roughly speaking, coke is produced by 'cooking' coal to drive out impurities in a similar process to producing charcoal from wood.

[@angelitabecerra]

@@alanmorgan8647 Thank you for the explanation

[@patrickwentz8413]

That was a lot of work for a cannon ball. You would have thought they would have made them like ball bearings.

[@cactus1202]

2:39

[@iandarall4551]

If yd used a big jet wash in the digging with a big extraction pump yd have found a he'll of a lot more in half the time

[@jimeb2jim256]

Roughly 5:45, I believe I hear him pronounce the word fragile as “fragg aisle.” Is that how they say it in the UK?

[@LoneKharnivore]

40:08 *fewer

[@HaulinWulf]

The man made dam story don't confinces me. If you hold back the water, fed by a small, slow stream, you empty the "stored" water in no time, because you can't level up the dam fast enough. So I think, the creek was holding much more and faster moving water in the time back. But anyway, Time Team is still my favorite.

[@michaelmccaffery2684]

You can temporarily reroute the stream channel so you can build dam, once dam is finished reinstitute the original stream channel. One option.

[@boatfaceslim9005]

@Graf: 1. The point of a dam is to create a reservoir to control flow. 2. Yes, through winter there would be a larger volume of water.

[@adammullarkey4996]

2:20 Wait, so, they're digging a trench against the wall to find out if it's safe to dig a trench against the wall?

[@educatedmanholecoverbyrich8890]

Born in a barn, Tony. Shut the fucking doors!

[@ronc7743]

I wouldnt mind climbing into Dr. Butterworth's trench!

[@charlottetom1526]

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[@leydimayo4741]

is there in spanish language?, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... For my students in lationamerica

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

I don't think so.

[@Rover200Power]

You would have to add Spanish captions, I don't think there is a version dubbed in Spanish.

[@jonb6417]

"You can't believe the palaver" said Tony. Oh yes I can! Many of these inefficient, bureaucratic parasites are the bane of British life.

[@shellythom7248]

Is it just me or did Ian look like John Lennon in the earlier videos? Still has his face just the hair is different now. LOL

[@misslady0075]

What you saying?

[@desslokbasileus571]

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