Time Team S11-E08 Goldcliff,.Severn.Estuary

[@gwendolynfish2102]

I love Victors’ beautiful drawings. They add so much to the series!

[@robb2055]

Gwen Fish agreed

[@MistressQueenBee]

I cannot thank Reijer Zaaijer enough for having great insight to upload Time Team to KZbin and then share. It makes my day to come home to watch my "episode a day", then wait for tomorrow and the evening whilst I dine and learn. Thank you from the Great State of Texas. What brilliant television. So much of it isn't.

[@kop-uv2dx]

I know right! I've got this list of episodes from all 20 season running constantly in the background while writing my BA thesis on vampiric folklore (it is handy to have a desktop running Time Team episodes while writing on my laptop)… it works surprisingly well while writing

[@oldtimer5283]

I love it to..so happy days 😁😁😁..but ask yourself this..while the onwer of this channel gets paid..has this channel paid royalty fees 😜😜😜

[@ian_b]

@@kop-uv2dx I have it running while coding. It's perfect to tune in and out of, mentally. It's stimulating enough that it stops your brain running in ever decreasing circles so in a strange way helps concentration if you see what I mean.

[@TheShootist]

As long as you're good with theft of intellectual property and ignoring copyright laws . . . fine.

[@diannkelley3481]

I do the same thing. I look forward to seeing this program every night!

[@GrahamCLester]

Phil Harding is one of the most interesting and fun characters that has ever been on TV.

[@jjteacher7482]

I keep hearing a very intelligent Hagrid in his voice.

[@amlouellet711]

Tony as a narator is perfect

[@JamesSmith-fz7qk]

@@amlouellet711 tony hosts many good shows! From Egyptian to worst jobs in history. Many good “walking” shows too.

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

With great legs.

[@anntee9036]

I couldn’t agree more. As an American, he’s the person across the pond I’d most like to grab a pint with.

[@jeanneamato8278]

To touch footprints of someone who walked 7 thousand years ago is beyond speech. Again another tear making episode.

[@silviac221]

We have a place like that, also around 7 thousand years old, in Monte Hermoso, Argentina, in the Reserva natural Pehuen-co, which is now at the seaside but used to be a lagoon. I've been there and it's really moving to walk among the footsteps of adults and children.

[@kathleenclymer38]

I love Time Team. I am constantly intrigued by what they find. THANK YOU!

[@JackKlemeyer]

Reijer, thank you! Your uploads of Time Team got me through the great shut down and more!

[@johntoffee2566]

Bring back Time Team! Thanks so much for uploading these episodes.

[@DawidGabriel]

Time Team is coming back! Help their return 2021 by pledging your support on the official Time Team Patreon page!

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

Hey Raksha has joined the team!

[@Pauldjreadman]

I have been watching one episode a night. I watched most when they were originally on TV. Great uploading. Thanks.

[@thomaspatton4401]

I thought the shot of Andrew "Bone" Jones "watering something" while Tony spoke of "Some great relief" was a very humorous implied visual for us to pick up on. Thankfully the camera man panned around to show that it was actually a garden hose and not a "Personal Implement" that was being used. Too funny! Bless their hearts.

[@dr.douglaswilde1155]

@ 4:35 - "Your very delicate with that apparatus." Oh Bridgette! The relaxed inter-play in T.T is great.

[@jokerjur]

Bingewatching all of these for the past few weeks, thanks a lot for uploading!

[@lisakilmer2667]

Fascinating. Such different conditions to work in. At first I had to re-watch the footprint segment a couple of times until I could start to see what they were pointing out. This is the first did where we hear Raksha's good-natured chuckling repeatedly.

[@Travellersjoy3]

Brilliant, thanks so much for uploading this!

[@ricothepuppetmaster]

Enjoying the life of the hunter gatherers while being stuck in times of corona is the best therapy one can have

[@benediktmorak4409]

- How do you know it is quicksand-? - you sink in it -...I love their sense of humor!!!!!

[@amlouellet711]

For a canadian living in a "young" country with no such archeology, I find that tv serie fascinating. Thank you for sharing

[@MjC7192]

the vikings were there around the upper east coast and you also have Oak island

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

Oh I guess you would also find neo- and mesolithic archeology in Canada and probably not even very different. There were people there, they were hunter/gatherers and also farmers. What is different I suppose that Canada is ginormous and the population was significantly less dense, so it's a bugger to find, but i'm convinced that if you look at the right places what you will find will be equally fascinating. In fact it's a crying shame that we know jack shit about the natives of north America, but then, if they talk about the iron age on TT, well, they had round huts and a certain kind of pottery but what we know about the culture is thin at best, despite what all the Celt-Experts experts tell you. The really big difference I see is that in Europe people startet digging around 150 Years ago through layers and layers of occupation, whilst over there one era of cultural continuation suddenly stopped and a new and completely unrelated began and because there are no connections, nobody knows where to look.

[@ErnestoBrausewind]

@@vvnstn I'll check it out, theanks

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@BoredCertified]

The footprints are fascinating!

[@saintboudreau1545]

very interesting great effort . a gift for all of us Thank you

[@motaman8074]

Once again, Victor creates a masterpiece.

[@jimleon7894]

Amazing art from Victor.

[@poetryqn]

I enjoy these episodes so much! Thank you for posting...but somehow all I can hear is Terry Jones saying, "Oh, there's some lovely muck down here, Denis!"

[@NoelG702]

Phil and those damn short shorts.

[@miekekuppen9275]

People should wear what they like - especially with legs like that.

[@deborahparham3783]

Hot Legs Harding has the finest legs I have ever seen on a man. Love those shorts.

[@deborahparham3783]

Phil wears those shorts very well. With legs like his it is a shame to hide them. He still wears them and some of us will always appreciate that. Bless him for the adorable teddy bear he is.

[@christophloewen174]

Thank You for uploading all these videos, without I'd never know about this awesome program. Only in UK seems.

[@degmar]

39:38 - lol at the camera angle - "great sense of relief".

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Great episode, I could hear the children laughing!

[@kellywagner5130]

Cheers to having Time Team here, I always look forward to watching during my downtime at work in between my rounds....

[@tphvictims5101]

14:30 holy Mackerel, Phil is an artifact magnet. So is the rest of the team.

[@FERALDOG4]

There’s something about this show that soothes me

[@phoule76]

Victor's drawings were the MVP of this dig.

[@jenamyallen]

I love this episode!! so unique!!!! thank you so much for this❤

[@LintonHerbert]

I'm with you; looks like a great life. The appeal of farming is that you don't have to leave old geezers like me who couldn't keep up when it was time to move on. Maybe bundle them into canoes and follow the waterways.

[@meganw.4457]

When people say that hunting and gathering died out, I always imagine that as more people settled to farm, there were still crack hunters who spent most of their time out on the "range," bringing home food, furs, etc., who just didn't take to settled life as much. So what used to be a lifestyle became a profession. Same with gathering. The people who were fascinated by plant life wouldn't have forgotten about it. They'd have been out there in the woods and fields, picking medicinal herbs, looking for rare treats that you can't cultivate, and maybe trying to figure out how to cultivate some of that close to home. Maybe some of those herbalists didn't take to village life so well, either, and stayed out in the wilds most of the time, maybe only coming home in winter. So again, a lifestyle became a profession. Sure, over time, a lot of that knowledge would have been lost. It was probably a big deal to go apprentice to people who still knew so much about the natural world.

[@judithlashbrook4684]

That thought makes my heart sing...

[@ekayanaify]

Great episode

[@harbourdogNL]

39:38 "A great sense of relief" Tony says, over the visual of what looks like the guy having a whizz....utterly hilarious!!

[@margaretmathis4775]

A fascinating episode!

[@geirbalderson9697]

Phil used the lens to discover the cornerstone of a Mesolithic religious building!!! Amazing!!!

[@Jaqueli9er]

me, watching this and imagining Tony travelling to the past, to the mesolithic period and looking at the hunter gatherers while saying "THAT'S your tool? I'm kinda frustrated by it, it's not very impressive." LOL

[@MichaelHolloway]

28:00 A Methodology for Mud Flat Field Archeology: GPS the exact location of trench. Use a digger to strip thin slices off the top of the mud flat in 1 metre square sections. Label each bucket-full for trench grid position and depth. Remove each sparately to an on-shore wash area. Use a wire to cut the mud into manageable sizes - label each slice for location. Put slices into a gentle washing machine (like a student with a wash bucket). Wash until all the clay is dissolved into the water then strain through a mesh that lets only clay sediment through. Place remainder into a bag labeled to indicate location and depth. Input finds into a 3D model (in this description, resolution would be 1m) - synchronize model with GPS information. Make a 3D Map of the field with finds at correct depth and correct position in the trench grid. Replace spoil to the hole you made in the mud flat.

[@LeeAnneGuerin]

But that might wash away the footprints?

[@MichaelHolloway]

ElleJay Gee Yeah, different methods for different objectives. Thinking to locate, define settlement sites.

[@sgrannie9938]

Goosebumps!

[@BlackIjs]

The footprints were cool. Totally unexpected.

[@angelitabecerra]

Wouldn't it have made a lot more sense to focus on cutting out the at risk archaeology and leave the forensic excavations for a later date in some lab? Saving the information seems significantly more important than analyzing it right now.

[@ChelliChan]

They said at the beginning of the episode they only had two hours a day where the tide was low enough that they could cut these blocks out, might as well use the extra hours in the day to excavate.

[@JereForsyth]

7000 year old footprints likely made by a family. YAY HUMANKIND! 😋

[@Pauldjreadman]

funny 10.000 years ago there was no English channel either.

[@oldtimer5283]

CLOWN 🤠🤠🤠

[@slowburntm3584]

It is crazy how rare it is to find fossils. They have to die in a very specific place then they have to get buried quickly before Scavengers find the body.

[@awatt1404]

As usual, very interesting, thank you for bringing this programme. One suggestion should the Time Team return to this area or a similar muddy site: why don't you use snow shoes?

[@wickeddelight]

Snow shoes get really heavy with mud. What you actually want are something like skin tight knee boots fastened firmly above the calf and at the ankle.

[@ghendar]

"Bone" Jones is an awesome name

[@jskjsk3986]

Nice bunch of folks.

[@adoxartist1258]

39:48 The man sounds like Eric Idle! 😂

[@lesjohnson9740]

Stannous Flouride all this is very much appreciated, were you part of the team... Les OU.

[@andreadalton7181]

Both Phil and Raksha are my favourite time team members - Tony obviously there as well, very happy about the diversity

[@skippyroo7597]

Just did a great line of coke time to enjoy some great time team

[@MjC7192]

you suck...lol ......save me a bump

[@devinangola3458]

Hah, 5 years later I’m doing a bump watching this!!😁

[@wickeddelight]

I'm quite confused about raspberries being described as a late summer crop here. I've got 3 different varieties of raspberries in my yard and they go in late spring to early summer. Not a berry left by the end of July.

[@monikagrosch9632]

GRden Raspberries are bred to be earlier. As a child in Germany we would collect wild ones in July and August

[@scottwilson9773]

Love y'all with everything you can imagine. But that cows tooth wasn't anything bigger than I have seen on Texas 🤔😘

[@1101millie97]

This is Phil's episode.

[@adamsjerome1839]

I don't think Kerry got as much credit as he deserved.

[@tphvictims5101]

Mud wrestling or wrestling with mud? Wrestling with mud I’m certain.

[@areyouavinalaff]

why do they think those arrows would take time to kill a beast? those arrows look pretty heavy so they must have bows with some good poundage to them otherwise the arrows would be pretty useless... and those arrows would dispense with almost anything pretty quickly if you get a lung shot. Now, prehistoric man doesn't need to understand biology to know that lung shots get a quicker kill or quicker incapacitated beast, they'd only need to get a few lung shots to know from experience that it worked better than an arrow in the asshole lol. these archaeologists paint a picture of hunters firing dozens of arrows at an orox and it maybe taking some hours to kill the thing, but the reality might be very different... 2 or 3 arrows loosed at once by a team of hunters, all on target at the chest flank... orox would collapse in 30 seconds.

[@spacelemur7955]

I don't get why they had to process the mud cubes on site each day. Just get a lot of diggers, collect many square metres and let Reading University students & professors analyse them for weeks, months or years , as needed, back in Reading.

[@LintonHerbert]

OK, maybe it's a stretch them bringing down an aurox with nobody much noticing. But there really was an aurox footprint right there (maybe another season). You've seen video of hunter gatherers bringing down a giraffe. You don't have to kill the beast outright. Just annoy it enough to get it to move away. Follow it for three days. It won't travel in a straight line. Animals are territorial. So it will come back again and again until it drops from exhaustion. Dogs would be a great help.

[@a1aprospects470]

Love this show, but does Tony own any jacket, coat, or sweater that isn't way too big for him?

[@HannibalFan52]

Did I spot Raksha in this episode?

[@AquaFurs]

Brigid ... wow!

[@TeresaTrimm]

First aired February 22, 2004.

[@MjC7192]

took'em 2 1/2 days to figure out that they should be washing/siving the mud lol

[@basstrammel1322]

Oh my gawd and saviour, Brigid was such a darlig.

[@Fox1nDen]

why only three days? is that a budget feature? or are these experts working on their weekends?

[@nevyen149]

+Fox1nDen Experts working on their weekends. Tony's an actor, and the rest all have 'day jobs' in education, history, or archaeology.

[@TheSpikehere]

+Fox1nDen The main reason for the three-day format was to assess sites or to help publisize digs that had been going for some years. Sometimes this was at the suggestion of local residents, sometimes at the behest of County, or Regional Archaeology units. An umbrella organisation called Wessex Archaeology keep all the information on record so that it can be accessed by Museums, Universities, and Schools.

[@gregb6469]

Format of the TV program.

[@juliemeanor6531]

Fox1nDen u

[@Wally-H]

I am sure it was mainly down to budget. Time Team was famously very expensive to make, and so cramming it into three days made a lot of sense. Imagine, for example, the accommodation and catering costs for all those people (including the filming crews), per day. It is true that some of the academics might have found it difficult to commit to more time, however it would be an exaggeration to think people having other jobs would have been prohibitive to longer shoots. Most of the 'foot soldier' archaeologists would have been glad of the work, because for many of them, paid work can be hard to come by. They could have had additional days of digging without all of the leading lights on site, and simply got the stars to do their 'piece to camera' sections when available.

[@shintetsuken]

39:39 potty humor

[@eboracum2012]

Revealing dress?? Because her leg is visible? Do Brits go mad at the sight of an exposed ankle??

[@ElleLillian]

That was my reaction, too, upon hearing that remark from Tony. Like, did I just hear him right? 🤦

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

One of those blocks of mud in the range of 2 stone or about 36 pounds.

[@kennethnash598]

They are just playing with mud pies ;P

[@meganw.4457]

Were they using any kind of boats at that time? If so, I imagine a scene my friend's grandmother told me, passed down from her grandmother, of fishermen in Norway. The small boats would come back from fishing, and the women and kids and whoever else wasn't busy would all walk down to the water to help pull the boats up past the tideline, and carry in the catch as a group back up into town.

[@thomasandersen2534]

Very nice story. I’m of Norwegian decent and that warms my soul reading that. Makes me think of stories my Grandpa would tell us.

[@KOOLBadger]

That bird is bothering me! Especially that there are no birds in the picture.😖

[@dinx556]

Awful lot of speculation in this episode, one raspberry seed does not a seasonal migration make.

[@shainemaine1268]

Also, 11:38 "due to climatic warming and rising sea levels, sites like this are being uncovered..." They dont even attempt to sound believable anymore. Because they know most people don't actually pay attention

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@shainemaine1268 Rising sea levels mean higher tides which means that the sand is eroded away. Isn't that believable?

[@garethamery3167]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 I think you were responding to an uninformed troll, who, desperate for attention and relevance seeks to dump on time team in order to bolster their self-centered world view... their ``logic'' is:I (uniquely amongst all humans) know the truth (probably through revelation, or Fox news), therefore you must be wrong, therefore climate change is not true, therefore timeteam is a (retrospective) conspiracy...which, of course means that I am even more special in my amazing insight! Bottom line, it is all about me me me... this is how civilizations fall

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@garethamery3167 You're probably right but one sensible post won't hurt. If he comes back he'll regret it, I assure you. Almost every proper *TT* poster will happily queue up to destroy him. They'll reinforce his inferiority complex until he won't dare post again. People know about this type of troll and won't put up with them. They're very much in the minority and they're _stupid._ I know because I follow the *Richard Dawkins* lectures and the _creationist_ trolls that are there _always_ trip themselves up. At least this one seems able to spell!

[@garethamery3167]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Oh I agree...just impressed at your patience! I must confess that I grow ever more irritable...

[@BryonLape]

Footprints preserved by magic.

[@BryonLape]

I have been to the beach many times. I have left many foot prints. None made it to the next day. None survived a change in tides. None survived a storm.

[@fandancingangel]

Bryon Lape Footprint preservation in salt marshes and mud is not unusual (they've found dinosaur prints too), since it dries hard and clay-like, then the silt fills the prints. Beach prints don't last because sand is not as dense and dries grainy, and so blows or is washed away.

[@CompetitiveAudio]

Catherine Cook You are correct Catherine. Here in my little patch of paradise (Texas) we have Dinosaur Valley State Park where there are well preserved dinosaur footprints and tracks visible across 100 acres in formations of limestones, sandstones, and mudstones deposited during the early Cretaceous Period around 113 million years ago along the shorelines of an ancient sea. The prints and many many fossils were discovered back in 1908.

[@jamesmccord8895]

+CompetitiveAudio There's also a place down in Texas that has Human & Dino prints that cross each other 113 million years ago? I don't know..

[@CompetitiveAudio]

+James McCord The majority of the so called 'human tracks' were fakes made by locals in the 1930's to sell to the rubes and tourists . Recently Glen Kuban conducted research on the trackways in 1986. He found that most of the so called 'human tracks' formed a wide “V” at the end and showed grooves in places that were not consistent with those in a human footprint. Kuban determined that the tracks were made by bipedal dinosaurs with three toes. The area is in my backyard and I know it well. Other well-known and studied sites containing similar trackways are the Taylor Site, the Blue Hole Ballroom, and the Blue Hole Parlor.[

[@paulanthonybalistrieri5978]

Tony finally "gets his hands (and feet) dirty". And also, why do they always call then "Professor" rather than "Dr." or "PhD"?

[@alijud]

A professor is a head of a teaching department which can employ many PhDs

[@Bloopbliepbloop]

Oeioeioei dat was een heftig nederlands accentje😂

[@aimeebrass5266]

This is one of the dirtiest examples of Archaeology. Definitely need a hosing and then a shower lol

[@spymaine89]

hunter gatherer , move about, has been disproved for that time period 8k yrs ago. they have found homes that had people living in for 500 years. by lake . all they needed, fish wild pigs deer, . no need to travel ..

[@Exiledk]

Encridibul. That's Aussie for 'incredible'. Just trying to help.

[@ddscott12]

Keith Chamberlain Bridget’s accent is actually New Zealander not Aussie, hence the e-I swapping

[@rickjohnson6347]

Brigitte is 🔥hot.

[@Gothlite-i1l]

Hey, what's Mick doing pushing clay-baked duck eggs on Stewie? I thought Mick was a vegetarian!

[@lizsuckow6429]

Some vegetarians will eat dairy and eggs, it is called lacto-ovo vegetarianism. Their objection is to animal flesh, not animal products generally.

[@edbadyt]

Vegetarian, not vegan. He wasn't preachy about it either. He didn't care if people ate meat around him, he just chose not to.

[@tripleransom4349]

Time Team finds archaeological evidence of 6,000 years of human mud wrestling on the Severn Estuary. Then they decide to recreate it. Tony tries in vain to make the discovery sound interesting. Not my favourite episode. Just kidding - I like them all, but some better than others. ;)

[@helix1061]

Grasping at straws?

[@basstrammel1322]

I expected Richard Pryor to be here to claim that everything is ritual?

[@claudeusgothicus6453]

Richard Pryor was a comedian.. Francis Pryor is an archaeologist..

[@eboracum2012]

@@claudeusgothicus6453 Hope that was on purpose otherwise, what a dumbass.

[@mysterioussquirrel4456]

I hope we can see more Time Team students in tight tops floundering in mud.

[@ElleLillian]

what?

[@daveminor1058]

I think this was a nude beach??

[@laserbeam002]

really boring

[@rainbowchaser9604]

The earth is only 6000 years old

[@philjoslin4109]

Can't be true, Tom Cruise is 7,000 years old a least

[@steveamsden5250]

Stupid

[@eboracum2012]

Go away, way, way back in your hole, under your millions of years old rock.

[@RapiersSting]

if your a vegan Duck eggs or any eggs of any type are a friggin NONO its still flesh

[@ndotgw]

Mick wasn't a vegan, he was a lacto-ovo vegetarian.

[@Xtant-audio]

An egg isn't flesh, it's one half of something that could potentially become flesh. If it was a fertilised egg then that's a different matter but generally the eggs we eat aren't fertilised - it's like eating sperm, not flesh :)

[@eboracum2012]

@@Xtant-audio Shut it down with that, didn't you?

[@djmossssomjd8496]

Yawn......global warming to blame again tut tut.

[@ElleLillian]

...do you not believe in it, or something?

[@devinangola3458]

@@ElleLillian you’re being lied too, co2 does not control our climate and we’re still coming out of a interglacial period called the Holocene.

[@colinmarble2552]

I just don’t buy the archeology in this program, especially the footprints. How do they know the hazelnuts weren’t eaten by animals? And a 6-ft tall oryx is not the size of a minibus. This episode was really a disappointment. The archeology in this program is all about conjecture and supposition. Theories are not proof of fact.

[@colinmarble2552]

I really need to find something else to do during C19 than watching KZbin, since I’m getting so irritated hearing Tony trying to make it sound exciting since they have only 3 days to make their fake archeology television entertainment program.

[@ElleLillian]

?

[@ebybeehoney]

It amazes me that the anti-climate change trolls are so interested in the science of archaeology and geology, but can't be bothered to try and understand how there are effects to unnatural pollution and destruction.

[@devinangola3458]

CO2 is not a pollutant and there’s dissolved co2 in all water ways and oceans.. that’s how crustaceans build their shells it’s natural. I know this is 4 years old, but it’s hard to not reply to ignorance of the cult global warmests who don’t look into anything and presume everyone not buying your BS is not educated in archaeology, palaeontology, earth sciences and cosmology. Funny though, in 2024 they have unveiled that the climate crisis is a hoax , it always has been because they don’t understand how the climate works….