Time Team S11-E03 Loch.Migdale,.Scottish.Highlands

At the western end of Loch Migdale, in the Scottish Highlands, sits a mysterious island. It could be a crannog; a man-made prehistoric island probably inhabited at some point in prehistory.
On the shore nearby, there is an enigmatic circle cut into the ground. It might be a henge, or a cairn - no-one is sure - but it also seems to have been left by the prehistoric people who lived in this part of Scotland.
The team work flat out in these beautiful surroundings, diving, hill walking and digging as they piece together the extraordinary story of Highland life 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.

[@tuttuttuttut5061]

When I am feeling down this show lifts me up.

[@mefford67]

*This show is impossible to resist AND always leaves you a little more intelligent. A win-win!*

[@crowjr2]

Phil assisting with the underwater survey had me in stitches! 31:05

[@PeterPeer]

So nice to watch this video at the spring equinox of '22. And to consider that this moment in the year has been a significant one for thousands of years.

[@judithmacfadzen9516]

I'm watching on the spring equinox of 2023! 😊

[@PeterPeer]

@@judithmacfadzen9516 Happy equinox! May all seeds you seed this year grow and thrive! Thanks for your reaction on my comment. It makes me realise last year has been a tremendous changing one. In the end of spring we went on a month long trip. That set us on selling our house, move into a caravan and start travelling the world. We are on the road now, tomorrow we will enter Portugal. So for me '22 was a good crop. I hope this year will bring you whatever you desire!

[@MeMommyEms]

Phil and Henry really made me laugh out loud. 😂

[@vickywhitesell4156]

I just love Stewart, mild mannered patience, perserverance, level headed thinking, go away and see the BIG picture!

[@janinealderete2633]

God I love Phil. "Im not going in there!c"im not going in there!"made me crack up so hard.

[@joelquebec]

"Keep going Phil, you'll be fine!"

[@deborahparham3783]

Got to wonder why Henry is trying to drown our Phil. Not nice Henry.

[@jayebyrd9953]

Phill has referred to Henry as "The little fella" a time or two. Perhaps a little revenge. @@deborahparham3783

[@jppcasey]

One of the best episodes. Very mysterious findings.

[@hjpngmw]

I love this show. It makes me feel, however, that, in 500 years when archeologists excavate the area where I live and call it an example of a late 20th/early 21st century residential area filled with single-family dwellings, they'll discover the graves in the backyard of our cats wrapped in the remains of hand-embroidered pillow cases and think we worshipped those cats rather than that they've found the remains of our beloved pets.

[@zoltanz288]

Not if they discover some of our tombs and graves.

[@gendeb9666]

I have cat friends. They do worship them. But the cats are too aloof to care. 😂

[@Zavala1]

If all documentary evidence is lost in some universal disk error/book burning/collective amnesia then maybe.

[@rubynibs]

@Carol Lott Waller: HA! So true! Why is it archaeologists overlook normal human behavior, and ascribe every token of affection or respect as "worship"? Oh. It's just hit me: because they don't understand worship. They're mostly atheists. To them, worship is incomprehensible. They see the outward trappings, nothing more. When "outward trappings" appear, it must be worship. They need to team up with psychologists - and theologians.

[@TallulahB58]

@@rubynibs Oh, we understand worship and don't find it incomprehensible at all. We see it as an interesting psychological phenomenon.

[@darrylcotton2322]

im in CANADA and every time i watch this show . it always makes feel good after watch it . their no history here in NA . everything seem to have been built yesterday. you got to love uncle Phil . he's the guy you want to buy a beer for . just to hear his story's .

[@maddiecat4190]

What year was this first shown?

[@darrylcotton2322]

@@maddiecat4190 JAN. 16 , 1994 was the date the first episode aired . i think the best episode is "Finds on the Fairway" Series 14 (2007) it's the first episode . check it out .

[@darrylcotton2322]

@@maddiecat4190 this episode aired on 18 January 2004 .

[@darrylcotton2322]

@@maddiecat4190 here is a link to all the episodes were they were digging . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Time_Team_episodes#Pilot

[@maddiecat4190]

Thanks. ◉‿◉

[@stannousflouride8372]

The crannog is here in Google Earth: 57.892503ºN, 4.319505ºW And the henge/enclosure is here: 57.892696ºN, 4.322522ºW

[@suwaidajalal]

Stewart is amazing! He really knows his stuff!

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

My Scottish grandmother would have told the team that you never EVER remove a solitary post in a field. It might be holding down some sort of a negative spirit that you don't want to let out. :-)

[@gentlemanzackp6591]

heard the similar stories

[@EdibleOutdoors]

Well it's a good thing she was not an archeologist.

[@guymorris6420]

I've never heard that but it's interesting.

[@Headwind-1]

@@EdibleOutdoors why?

[@Andreazor]

Melody Szadkowski Thats a great premise for a horror movie! Tv archeology team unleashes evil spirit.

[@StephiSensei26]

One of the best. What more could one ask for, Bronze Age excavations, underwater recovery, Phil tippy-toing through the watery site and Tony just being cheeky lovely Tony! Great! Thanks TT!

[@Timotei75]

I've never seen Stewart so animated. It was obviously a very special dig for him.

[@fogducker3968]

Phil looks straight out of the Incredibles!!!

[@EdwinHenryBlachford]

I note Phil decided to overcome his earlier fear of water. It's fascinating to watch this since it catalogues his personality - a stout man ( far less sturdy than me but substantial none-the-less) he has faced his Demons and won. A lesson for us all - never accept your limitations but instead seek to overcome them. Therein lies excellence. I can see why soldiers are draw to Phil's personality. Also he has the same Brough as my father and so I must assume he is a warrior

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

Chk his wiki page.... he is the president of the Nautical Archaeology Society. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Harding_(archaeologist)

[@EmeraldVideosNL]

Edwin Henry Blachford fear of water? When was that? I has been many seasons back that they dug for a sunken ship in a river, and he was among the divers. Though when tony went for a last dive, Phil didn't join him. As the two days of diving had gotten to him. I assumed it had something to do with his health, the mixture in the oxygen mix or something. But that was fear?

[@amel6206]

Surely he wasn't so afraid of water that he couldn't lie face down in two feet of water with a mask and wetsuit on?

[@juttamaier2111]

Fear of water? Phil Harding??? Not in this universe.

[@Invictus13666]

Harding, fear of water? Are ye daft lad?

[@bethbartlett5692]

I wish Time Team had done 20 more digs in Scottland and even 3 in Ireland, aka "the Southern Ireland", particularly Counties Kerry and Cork. That would be so neat! Maybe the New Time Team will !!!

[@KYIRISH1]

Finding a 4000 year old piece of history definitely calls for more than one wee dram, Tony. Loosen up with it!

[@virginiamartin9913]

Love these shows...no matter how old or new!!!

[@lorawiese5897]

Oh my! Laughed out loud at Phil and Henry's exchange.

[@animerlon]

Found your comment just as it started. Henry: "You'll be fine." I don't think Phil believed him. 😀😁😂

[@harrybond1485]

Fascinating area.I would dearly love to have worked that site.So very unusual.Well done Time Team.😊

[@lekre8421]

I love the episodes with Carenza. She is so awesome and funny. These finds are just amazing. The thing that is so amazing about Time Team for me is the incredible antiquity of thriving and complex societies/cultures in England/Scotland/Wales/France, etc... Very few other areas or cultures can compare, maybe Chinese civilizations and proto-Egyptian civilizations.

[@lekre8421]

Le Kre oops, and the Sumerians.

[@lekre8421]

Le Kre oops, and the Sumerians.

[@hippymama100]

This is some colonial BS. There were thriving ancient civilizations, with complex societies, all over the world.

[@ceeej1290]

It began in Africa

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

@@ceeej1290 Prove it based on the archeology, I'll wait. Fun fact; it didn't, because NOTHING is left to prove it.

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Scottish Peoples are quite attractive.* My great Uncle Mitchell was a true specimen that supports this and looked quite dapper in his kilt. Irish cousins the DNA indicates, we owe our look to the Basque, as well as" *our tenacity* aye Caesar? lololol - Thanks to Caesar's writings and others referencing him: *"When you go through that pass, do avoid the locals, for they will cost you much time, you can't kill em, they just keep coming back and are a serious formidable stock"* Oh, God Bless the Basque! Tennessee, USA 🍀🇺🇸🍀

[@rubynibs]

The Basque don't look Scottish or Irish. The Basque do have a certain look (even a certain type of calf of the leg), but it's not Irish or Scottish. I've been wondering why there's supposed to be a connection, yet the Basque don't look like Irish or Scottish.

[@EdwinHenryBlachford]

quote: "now we appear to have a stake that goes with our chips".. clever bunny Baldrick..

[@Pauldjreadman]

Well he is there to translate to readers of the Beano ;)

[@thomasbernecky2078]

I love it, being half Scottish, I think the first Scot led them in the wrong direction on purpose, they being Sassenachs; and the second fellow being a good Scot gave them the right ones., as in: Carry on, you can't miss it! I do love their self deprecating humor, or rather, humour.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

28:31 i would have preferred to hear Tony say, _" ... and at the Crannog, we have found more wood than we can shake a stick at."_

[@Marie-or6hz]

The narrow opening is a symbol of birth. I've seen this on other finds, and found that they are a circle celebrating life, each tribe having their own version.

[@Invictus13666]

@Chrris Smith many states have programs looking for volunteers, free training and all the bugs you can eat...ring up your local historic resources office.

[@garyshayne5825]

I wish they replayed Time Team in the USA, just as the do Top Gear from the BBC.

[@Wally-H]

Thanks to BBC worldwide, BBC programmes will always be available to you Stateside. Unfortunately, programmes like Time Team rely on a US network spotting their potential and buying them. It's clear from the feedback from so many Americans on KZbin that your networks really missed a trick by not picking up this show when it was out there

[@ceeej1290]

Or a mash up of the two... time gear!! , with clarkston covered in mud looking for old hammonds :)

[@harrybond1485]

Phil is really game for trying alot of things.😊

[@carolriggs4284]

I have enjoyed watching this video very much. Looking forward to watching the other videos' posted. I love this kind of discovering our past history. THANKS!!!

[@alixena9340]

I am feeling cold just looking at the water in the loch. Speaking of which, thank you to Tony for pronouncing this word correctly.

[@APIEngineering]

When Stuart first joined TT, I didn't like him, I must confess. I thought he was a bit of a pompous arse who just had to be right. But, over the episodes, I've learned he really does know his stuff, has the eyes of a hawk, and without him they would be in the dark, so to speak. Stuart, Robin and Guy are all super-star members of the team as far as I'm concerned. And I like his jacket.

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

Stuart is very knowledgeable about many topics. He is usually right. Once in awhile he's not. He's very dedicated that's for sure. But bottom line if I were putting together a team, I'd choose him for sure.

[@josephmills3864]

I always like how Stewart doesn't go along with the group but has his own ideas and pushes to prove them

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

Imagine if they Sent Stewart ahead the day before..... Time team would only be a half day of digging.

[@amel6206]

I LIKE Stuart. He's my favorite, really. At first I didn't appreciate the nervous kind of way that he spoke but then he grew on me because he was right so much of the time and I really needed his insightful overview of the scene. The fact that the others tended to make fun of Stuart no doubt caused him to seem a "pompous arse" because he was always having to defend himself. I'm pretty sure that the producers created scenarios to improve viewership--such as perhaps encouraging the conflict between John (who is my least favorite because of his superior behavior) and Stuart. (No. I take that back. Carenza is my least favorite. She talks way too much, overriding other people including Mick. No. No. I'm wrong. My least favorite is Francis Pryor. His insistence that everything was ritual was exhausting.) I expect the producers knew which button to push for every one of them and who could best push it. It was MIck who held them all together because they were an otherwise ungovernable bunch with a lot of competition between them to be the one who knows. But God bless them all wherever they may be now. It was fascinating watching.

[@Pauldjreadman]

I liked him but I do agree that he grew on my me other time and the contributions he made.

[@jabowi2528]

Phil cuts quite a figure in a wetsuit. Good on him.

[@ceeej1290]

Was thinking the same

[@bryngerard4334]

The ancients had a greater connection with the 'wholeness' and interconnectedness of life. Unlike modern man, they were focused upon the entirety of the world around them and knew their position within it. They were not worshipers, they understood that they were not separate from any part of the entire cosmos. The Crannog was the place where the 'observer' lived and would let people know when the moment was right for different activities. No calendars or watches in those days (of course these observations were their calendar) . They lived as a connected and harmonious part of life.

[@polaide8036]

I think people at all times has had a 'great connection' to the things that matter to them. What your concept of 'wholeness' and 'interconnectedness' actually reflects, is a bit unclear to me. Is it spiritual awareness? Is it a close bond to the ecological environment around them? Is it a philosophical framework for their understanding of the world? The romantic idea that ancient man lived in harmony with nature, is not quite accurate. There are indications that prehistoric man is responsible for the extinction of various animal species, mainly larger mammals.

[@rubynibs]

The ancients were far more focused on small areas of life than what we are today. They did not understand their position in the world around them, only in their own village or clan. Constant warring and violence, always trying to stay alive, many by thieving from others. But silly people today to love to dream that people were somehow magically better back then.

[@benediktmorak4409]

it still amazes me what the experts, and i mean EXPERTS, can get out of lumps and bumps and pieces and bits of stone and wood.

[@juttamaier2111]

Thanks for the upload. Very enjoyable

[@harrybond1485]

Tony again being a bit cheeky.😊

[@kvarietyfan]

To have a Henge,any size, in your back garden.

[@077jason]

finally tony asking some good quetions to sturart very informative

[@conniemadcraftymom5015]

Found this just this year. I am glade there is so many episodes but it is sad too that they have ended the show..

[@animerlon]

They're working on bringing it back in some form. Just this week they've raised money on Patreon towards that end.

[@lisakilmer2667]

It's a really good dig but TT missed a point by never defining "henge" as they have done elsewhere: to be a henge the monument must have a ditch inside the bank. Tony says at 21:24 "now we know we have a henge..." but never explains how that certainty was arrived at. Other than that, it was interesting and showed different smart people politely arguing about their dig. And of course Stewart is a joy to watch. He has such a special set of skills, one wonders how many people in the world can do what he does (I'm guessing not many). As an aside, I aspire to a perfect head of white hair like the landowner.

[@georgedorn1022]

Indeed, and it is ironic that the most famous 'henge' site, Stonehenge, is not technically a henge at all as the ditch is outside the bank. And yes, Stewart is great. He partially inspired my decision to do a landscape archaeology degree.

[@Invictus13666]

Lots of people can do what Stew does. It’s even more fun when they do it in thick overgrown forest ...

[@Invictus13666]

@@georgedorn1022 Nice!

[@lauramiller4044]

I hope if it’s a good spot, others come in and finish your dig!

[@garychynne1377]

thank u gare

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

Scottish are the best episodes

[@animerlon]

I'm rather partial to the Welsh ones, but the Scottish ones are a close second.

[@maddog2771]

Was here some time in Dec 2019

[@Hypatia4242]

7:41 is great looking. I know it's a serious job, but I hope I look half as relaxed as these guys when I'm working.

[@jsv1891aik]

Cermonial.. Francis favourite word...

[@ancilodon]

Mesolithic to Iron Age, the most mysterious and fascinating period(s) in the British Isles.

[@offamychain]

Odd they seem to have no archaeoastronomer readily available. When working with henges & religious sites, more pagan than others, it's a very handy skill to have access to. Although that's not my specific field, I've dabbled with it for 30+ years & with modern technology, it's not really that hard to "roll the sky back" to any period of known history.

[@mamavswild]

offamychain ‘Archaeoastronomer’...that’s a new one for me! :-)

[@Libbathegreat]

It's not that odd. In a previous episode, they had an archaeoastronomer at a site in Spain (a Beaker site) and you got the sense they were sort of amused by him and his theories, even though they lined up well with the evidence.

[@vliegendehollander55]

I love Scotland and the people. only hate the weather there...

[@sharonmacdonaldwilliams1070]

That's why it is so green lad!

[@sarahpersonalexcellenceguide]

34:30 for future reference! Lol I love Francis!

[@Shaden0040]

I truly love this show but it would be nice if they returned to some digs for follow ups say 5 or 10 years after the original dig/show. Give us updates on what has since been found and discovered from artifacts to pure science of how our ancestors lived in these times.

[@Wally-H]

Sadly, Time Team is a dead duck. Tony Robinson has tried to revive interest in it at various times, but the people with their hands on the purse strings don't want to know.

[@wbrewer5352]

They did revisit some sites but I assume only when the production co felt a follow up would make compelling tv (so Channel 4 could sell more ads).

[@spottyskunk1898]

Like some of the Roman sites.

[@digemsmacks5690]

Phil is my favorite i think. Who is you favorite TT member?

[@user-hy7zb2vl3t]

Mick 😊

[@BryonLape]

I'm guessing Brigid is just shy of 6 feet tall.

[@Philrc]

she's over 9 foot i'd say, on a windy day

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

5"10", actually.

[@ceeej1290]

5 foot 16 and a quarter in her stocking feet :)

[@WOLFROY47]

they never say its a thiefs stash

[@virginiamartin9913]

Great...I was getting a little bored with some!!

[@theshadow5800]

Our land as if anyone can have dominion over it...the land that we're currently temporarily occupying, and hopefully being custodians and caretakers of, is more like it.

[@naturelover1284]

wow what happened since this show 11 yrs ago

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

3 /4/ thousand years ago scotland was a warm welcoming place as temps were 3/4.c. above todays temps, . Just a thought on posible global warming, on who will benifit and who will lose...

[@juttamaier2111]

That warm weather was caused by the gulf stream, nonetheless. With temperatures rising in the Atlantic, there won‘t be a gulf stream much longer, and Scotland will become more like todays Iceland. Desirable?

[@fredblogsmac.5697]

@@juttamaier2111 no its was caused by oblicty at its max and waning now

[@DonniePalmer57]

FYI: for better picture quality, boost brightness, contrast and saturation. I sure cleaned up the image for me.

[@greenwaterdragon888]

surly the lake level is higher much higher then in the days of occupation?

[@gregb6469]

I know that with just three days they wouldn't have had time to do this, but the best way to dig the crannog would be to build a coffer dam, then drain it and dig on dry (or at least drier) ground.

[@peterforden5917]

+Greg B and destroy ALL the archeology....

[@loditx7706]

Greg B , Well, I think that's a great idea I certainly would not have had. Maybe someday some people will have the time and funds to do that. With a large enough dam and a sieving system for water pumped out I don't think any archeology would be lost. In fact probably more would be revealed.

[@cathjj840]

These are exploratory digs to see if there's reason to go further or schedule it. In the meantime, things are best left as they are; if they've managed to be preserved for thousands of years in those conditions, they'll be safe for at least the near future.

[@animerlon]

They would lose any organic finds as they start to decompose as soon as they're exposed to oxygen. Whatever they take out has to be kept in water to preserve it.

[@KWKeith-yq2gh]

Are there episodes that dig in east Lothian, Aberdeenshire, Stonehaven, castle Dunnotter ??

[@ceeej1290]

There's one in fife one in Orkney one in mull one in NE scotland Peterhead area and one in govan thats my knowledge of Scottish episodes

[@baskervillebee6097]

With the cold water temperatures, how did the poor ancient people manage to build out there in the water? Of course they were tougher than us, but still how did they continue long enough to build once they were numb?

[@Exiledk]

It was warmer back then...

[@wizardsworld1152]

I just love how a lot of archeologists see a structure or the remains of a structure they cant understand and its automatically a 'religious structure' But with that being said, I love these guys.

[@TeresaTrimm]

First aired January 18, 2004.

[@NothingToNoOneInParticular]

What are the rules considering the ownership of archeological finds on modern personal property? Do the belong to the people or automatically belong to the Crown?

[@orwellboy1958]

That depends on the finds e.g. more than two coins is considered treasure trove.

[@Jaqueli9er]

there is a special episode about a hoard found in a private land; the guy who found it with a metal detector and the land's owner split the money half/half (after it was sold to a museum)

[@AchimEngels]

I´d call it a "Hengy"

[@steveharris4958]

Whenever the good Dr. Pryor is on a dig, I take whatever he says with a grain of salt. His statements of fact are, basically, set on no factual truth whatsoever. He definitely likes to make "100% without a doubt" statements before turning even the first clump of turf. It's amazing to me that he has his doctorate.

[@lisakilmer2667]

He annoys me, too. But he Was Asked what his gut instinct was -- and of course he said 100% prehistoric, because that's his field. At least for those first few minutes he wasn't speculating past the evidence.

[@bryngerard4334]

He went to Eaton, so he is a bullshitter, just like all of his alummni who are now in government.

[@josephmills3864]

Without a doubt

[@ceeej1290]

@@lisakilmer2667 his usual response tbh

[@deaconsmom2000]

Is Carenza from Cornwall? Her name sounds Cornish to me; I could be wrong.

[@annk.8750]

"Glacial deposit" and "crannoch" are surely not exclusive of each other. If you were building a place in a lake, wouldn't you want to take advantage of any natural deposits as a starting point?

[@shannonvilandre8349]

I don't know why they didn't know that the circle could have been a around house 😕

[@juttamaier2111]

No finds of human occupation, like animal bones or pottery. Before watching TT, I couldn‘t have snswered that question.

[@Invictus13666]

They explained it rather thoroughly...please never watch another episode, you’re too stupid.

[@Exiledk]

Tony got his maths wrong.. 2000 bc means 4000 years of activity... not two..

[@cathjj840]

I think he was referrnig to the period occupied by the people responsible for their finds at this dig.

[@lawrences5288]

He is referring to period of habitation. They had just said the wooden post carbon dated to late iron age - c. first century, while the initial evidence of habitation goes back to early bronze age, c. 2000 BCE.

[@WeeeWriter]

Where's Mick???

[@sharimullinax3206]

Stewart can be such a stick in the mud.

[@nickrich56]

...no Mick ... less learning

[@alecrothery587]

nickrich56

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

Remove the peat, use it on a fire. Lasts for hours, sometimes days 🤣

[@spookytkid]

i think is was a gazebo where ppl were married.

[@389383]

I wonder what the fee was.

[@VideoJocky1]

I don't know what is more alarming Phil in a skin tight wetsuit or in his traditional Daisy Duke short jeans. 🤣

[@deborahparham3783]

Nothing alarming about either of them. Some of us appreciate how Phil looks no matter how he is dressed.

[@kieronbevan7489]

crannog is a Welsh word eh

[@wewenang5167]

DR MIKE IS STILL YOUNG BUT HE WAS LOOSING A LOT OF HAIR HERE...HUHU

[@lauramurdoch135]

Christianity is highly documented. Pre-Christian worship is a vast field on unquantifiable knowledge stretching back millennia. We want to know the unknown not necessarily spend time on that which is by comparison well known.

[@vliegendehollander55]

Why they call it the bronze age? Its for the rest of the world the copper time...

[@cathjj840]

The copper age was just before and I believe didn't last long, because once someone figured out how to make the much stronger and more useful bronze, they didn't look back, unless they had no choice by not having access to tin.

[@Jaqueli9er]

I love Stewart, but i don't agree with him saying "this is not a henge because it's not as big as Stonehenge" (not with this exact words). A henge is a henge, it doesn't matter the size. It's like saying a small shark is not a shark because it's not big enough, or even a stone. The size doesn't matter. Maybe Stonehenge is the exception, not the rule.

[@lainecolley1414]

Why doesn't anyone ever mention they might be silos?

[@saintboudreau1545]

some jerk 2k years ago stole the hoard got scared and never came back or was killed as jerks often are..............

[@Chabyya]

,

[@vigouroso]

I HATE DEADLINES. ‘Just 3 days to find out...’🕰

[@tommcluckie6034]

all these people are English thought this was Scotland lol what happened to all the Scottish people [ immigrated to Canada i guess lol

[@7777777roma]

Geological evidence of traces of descendents of Akenaten / Moses

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

A. Wrong video. B. Geological!

[@johndoes2434]

Some reason you haven't learned the circled code where they build the churches in stuff in circles and pentagram and Star Trek symbols mathematical hell secret equations the Templar DaVinci Code type thing there's a documentary you really need to see on it. Its old good to see

[@amel6206]

soooooo...how the world do they know that the people who lived on the hillside were the same people who built the "henge"? This is the thing that bugs me because that's just supposition.

[@loditx7706]

A Mel: They all left their names and geneologies scaped with a metal stylus on thin shavings of willow bark.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@loditx7706 Or, to be a tad more sensible, why wouldn't the people who built the henge live near it?

[@zyriacus8360]

Incredibly enough these englishmen are talking about meters and centimeters instead of inches and feet. They must be scientists!

[@sharonmacdonaldwilliams1070]

Dear Zari acus,.....Sadly, in the closing years of the 20th Century the U.K. abandoned their centuries long use of what is called Imperial Weights and Measures ie. Miles, pounds, gallons etc. to please their new European masters. I think, ironically, that the good old U.S. of A. is the last bastion of the Old British weights and measures system.

[@sharonmacdonaldwilliams1070]

PS Dear Zyri, please don't continue to make the usual error of thinking that the term English and England are interchangeable with Briton or United Kingdom They are most certainly not. There are Scots in this video and English and perchance Welsh and Irish they are collectively Brits.,Britons or British.

[@loditx7706]

Zyri acus: Perhaps, but for whatever reason, it's irritating for nonmetric people to dredge old knowledge and make guestimates.

[@juttamaier2111]

Or they simply move with the time. The metric system makes more sense.

[@juttamaier2111]

In every other language but English, the term England stands for the UK, so chill out.

[@maxdecphoenix]

"We just dug a 4000 year old piece of timber!!! What an unprecedented discovery!" ~ Francis. Wasn't wood. Was 2000 years off, at minimum. Every Time Team episode: Bold claims. Dig. Bolder claims. Send for testing. Underwhelming lab result. Credits.

[@ceeej1290]

So many assumptions

[@loditx7706]

craig jack: With a place like Britain which has so much available archeology I think all one can do is make an assumption and then work to either prove or disprove it. If one proves it; Hooray! Let's get out of the wind and have some grog. (Whatever the hell grog is.) If one disproves it, it's back to the site and more digging so one can make another assumption. As you do, if one is archeologist.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@loditx7706 *Grog* - read *_Swallows And Amazons_* _et seq.._

[@BushiM37]

Get so tired of Francis and his jumping to the “ritual” conclusion.

[@juttamaier2111]

Me too. His „ everything hasto be done in a certain way“ ceremonial style is rather found in Asian societies, not around here. Maybe the henge was used for livestock throughout the year, and as a calender two days ...

[@readmycomment3157]

Its possible these are the remains of ancient Egyptian settlements, they had a huge empire and similar structures in egypt

[@graceamerican3558]

Why build an island that tiny? Sure you’ve got the place to yourself but why? Where are you going to graze your animals? Even if it’s pygme goats it will still need grazing area. Makes zero sense to live on an island that small.

[@silviac221]

Around minute 30, Tony stops sexist and pompous Nick Dixon who thinks that a Cambridge scholar (Carenza) wants to find "pretty things" because she's a woman!!! How clever can that man be? She had a perfectly sensible answer herself, though.

[@Michelle-oh5ws]

Dixon was disgustingly condescending and I’m glad Tony jumped on it right quick as well as equally glad that Carenza didn’t miss a beat as she swept it aside by point blank referring back to archaeology with her clarification of “as far as structure”.