Time Team S12-E10 South Perrott,.Dorset

[@daisymay5823]

Victor’s ability to see the past, as n artist, is amazing. R.I.P Victor. You were a treasure!

[@Invictus13666]

Victor was a pathetic old hack.

[@shnops]

I might also add that Phil's passion and sheer joy in what he does is extraordinary !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@craigfroese6689]

This is my favorite episode. The owners of the farm are so gracious and all the experts are amazing!

[@obscurazone]

FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF ARCHEOLOGY!!! That episode was off the scale! I'm never usually that enthusiastic about the neolithic, but this was so so brilliant to watch unfold. Totally thrilling episode, and the end shot of them all stood in the circle of the barrow was just wonderful.

[@shnops]

I've seen close to 100 of these episodes and of all the dozens of archeologists I've seen , Phil is the master of 'em all . His insights and experience and intuition shine like a beacon ! He's almost always dead on in his determinations . ( Brigid isn't any slouch either !) I could watch Phil all day long . And what a joy to share a pint of two at a pub with him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@brian554xx]

I truly admire Tony's ability to spontaneously produce a compelling summary of events so far. This is the reason he is sent to negotiate.

[@mermeridian2041]

Love watching Stewart work - he and Phil and Mick are all so enthusiastic and knowledgeable about their work.

[@conniepenner4795]

Watching this team work together, laughing and respecting each other is like a breath of fresh air. I love it and can't get enough. Great learning tool.

[@basstrammel1322]

The farmer giving up that much of his crop deserves some credit. It's his livelyhood, a farm runs season to season depending on weather and market prices, and it's not a very high income profession in the first place. Hats off to a great guy.

[@CologneCarter]

Negotiations about the dig are part of the work that is done in advance and we don't get to know whether or not compensation was offered. There is a lot of "before", "during" and "after" off camera stuff that we don't get to see.

[@kkeyz69]

“Chance of a lifetime” the farmer said. Plus, he’s compensated. And they don’t destroy the whole crop. Wanker

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

@Kevin : Random name calling for no reason whatsoever; I guess you don't realize that makes you the joke here.

[@thiebault]

Wow, Trammel, you have no idea what you're talking about but you don't really care cause talking big makes you feel big for once, you little twat, don't you.

[@Pauldjreadman]

Lifetime opportunity as he said.

[@spacewater7]

-whispers in a ghostly voice from the cornfield- 'If the Romans built it, Time Team will come'

[@makrsk09]

LOL!

[@DEVILLXX74]

Sounds about right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johncarmon9528]

Thats too funny and also very true lmbo

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Might not find"it", but they may find something more interesting.....

[@robertolerota4234]

I wish this show was still going. So interesting and educational. Because of time team I have grown to have a passion for British history

[@saintboudreau1545]

well us USA people are stock from Britain , of course 2016 there is a bigger diversity. I am mostly Celtic so that light brown hair is family.the indigenous Americans were here 12000 years ago. so there is archeology of humans . just not my closer relations.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

There is archeology from after Europeans settled in America also. But it's just not that old... yet. And that's not even considering that there could easily be settlements of people from other continents going back much much farther. Even pre-Viking. Because we haven't found something, doesn't even imply that it didn't exist. Not to mention that there is a *lot* of non-European archeology here, and that's every bit as interesting.

[@dmcgee3]

Speaking of US, I was just watching a History Guy video on the first European to cross east to west overland. Scottish man and in Canada. Took multiple trips but what I found interesting was it took 150 something days to get 60%+ across the Canadian wilderness. That seems like a surprisingly short time. I always found it fascinating how quickly people spread across and down the americas once those first few crossed the land bridge/ canoed along the coast. They didn’t have the technology we do today but anatomically they were the same as us. No reason to think they weren’t as intelligent. The mezzo Americans were brutal but also extremely advanced in math and astronomy. Warfare was less about killing but capturing warriors who would later be sacrificed. Blood was very important to the gods, they self sacrificed as well. Like genital piercing or basically running razor wire through your tongue. Blood was important, blood was life. At the same time Europeans were still on the 4 humor system from Ancient Greece. Which included blood letting. Also still burning woman for being witches. These Stone Age people were just as civilized, minus the technology. The Spanish Catholic Church burning all the Aztec history is so depressing. Out of tens of thousands of books (scrolls? Codexes? They had a unique way but it was written on paper) I think maybe 4 survive in different states of completeness. Sorry I got off topic. Sometimes it’s just cathartic to write/talk things out. I should really deal with my depression

[@garethmason7920]

OMG Phil made me laugh when he shouted DAVID!!, i said to myself if that barrow doesnt have a grave in it, it will do soon lol

[@crzynrs100]

Phil is the kind of guy you want to sit with at the pub.

[@deborahparham3783]

Don't go stomping through Phil's trench without permission. According to Phil that is a hanging offense.

[@marthareis5873]

Brilliant explanation by Stewart, which can account for the things that first appear to be something else.

[@zedwms]

Did you see the way Bridget was looking at Phil, while they were checking out the schist scraper, and she gives Ian all kinds of praise, even though she's jealous that he's finding so much more than her. Bridget has a heart of gold.

[@deborahparham3783]

I was more interested in Phil's little happy dance because he got a nice flint scraper. He does love his flint.

[@adamsjerome1839]

Believe it or not a skilled excavator operator can feel what they are in to by the feel on the handles. Ian (the super skilled JCB operator) can feel the drag on his bucket and adjust the angle of the drag.Super skilled and very unique.

[@msmltvcktl]

Ian and his giant trowel 🤣

[@EmeraldsFire]

Definitely one of the best episodes. Phil and Tony really made the show 😂

[@hwplugburz]

ooohh! Nice :D this is 1 of my favorite episodes:) A totaly unexpected bronze-age monument, and they could so easyly missed it all. I Love Time team and have searched the internett for episodes for like 5 years, I estimate i have seen abouth 80% of the episodes , but until i found your channel I have Never had the chanse to see evry single episode cronologickly. So thanks SO much from an addicted Time Team weiver from Norway(where they have never even aired the show).

[@JamesSmith-fz7qk]

Tony hosts several cool shows.

[@peggyjenkinson4514]

Good unusual show. I found this dig quite fascinating. Why do you viewers want to criticize these people? Go out and dig in the dirt for 3 days and see what your mood is and have a brew or two!

[@SafeTrax1]

KUDOS TO ALL PROPERTY OWNERS! Watching the hundreds of people that allow TIME TEAM to come onto their property, dig up their crops, nice yards ( gardens) and go into their homes, should be congratulated! In the states we find pottery and flint tools, arrowheads, pictographs, petroglyphs and stone houses, and granaries, but don’t know as much about our past as you in the UK. Thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@donaldkhafre3639]

Reijer Zaaijer, again, many thanks for these wonderful Time Team videos! Although I usually prefer the smaller scale excavations, this large one was great fun! I enjoy when geology and archeology intersect and the search for context begins. Neolithic, Bronze Age, or Roman Era, the occupants would have faced similar environmental challenges so it's not surprising putting which artifact with which era is difficult. Our beloved Mick was Mr. Context on this episode and his experience really showed here. A note on the Roman coins: The Romans were more superstitious than religious. I suspect if they'd seen a collection of bones and pottery collecting in one agriculturally rich area, they would have considered it a sign of good luck and continued the tradition of putting offerings in that location. I miss Carenza. :-(

[@jeanneamato8278]

The artist paints such evocative scenes. Easy to place yourself in them.

[@blex5579]

Stuart is the unsung hero of the show.

[@markshulaw3283]

Never see Phil happier then when he is finding flint.

[@Fox1nDen]

I want Phil's laugh about the handscraper find as my ring tone.... sigh

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

You madam need therapy! Lol!

[@Lanfear40]

Hahaha...I've watched all the episodes so far (many thanks to Reijer Zaaijer for uploading) and the one thing I keep noticing is that everyone seems to diss Tony for his disrespect or smart mouth or beard or whatever. I think he's great. He makes me cringe sometimes, but that's his job. I almost can't wait to see what he will do next, or who he will piss off...lets face it, in reality, that's what he does and why he is here.

[@KYIRISH1]

Tony is cool. He makes his point but does need to lighten up at times.

[@Lanfear40]

Elisabeth Carroll Lol, Exactly. he's there to represent the layman, question things and provide a little light entertainment as well. As time goes on and you watch the whole series you'll notice on several occasions Phil or somebody will look at him with narrowed eyes and say 'You're winding me up, aren't you?'. That's partly what he's there for, and the team know it and in reality rarely get offended. They sometimes turn the tables and wind him up too.

[@CompetitiveAudio]

Lanfear40 You are spot on. Tony's an actor, responsible for tying segments together, keeping the pace of the show moving and most important attempting to engage the audience. As an actor he's trying for any reaction from the audience, positive or negative. His job is the hardest as, even though I Love the program concept and the subject, it is for the average person pretty dry, basically watching a group of people digging a ditch. Tony keeps the show moving, asks the questions a casual viewer would ask, all while keeping it entertaining. It worked well, as 20 years of programs is "forever" in terms of television time.

[@Fox1nDen]

Agreed, his job is to make a very unpredictable process seem less chaotic. However, I don't think his nagging tones at times, during entire shows, adds to understanding or the entertainment value. When Tony's on the nag I watch with the sound off. Back to this monument, I wonder why they keep calling it that when they have evidence of domestic occupation and the palisade suggests a protected home. The ditch is not very deep. If it has been filled with plowsoil, it could have been drip from a reed roof instead of a barrow ring ditch... how about a neolithic monument over which was built an early bronze age round house?

[@lisakilmer2667]

Whenever they had a round house in the past seasons, the drip gully is really, really small. Usually Tony is scripted to ask them to explain their thought processes better than was done here.

[@rosemary4033]

History!! It is so intersting , love it !!😃😃

[@robinm3524]

It's amazing how shallow they dig to find these things

[@annazaman9657]

loved this episode. finding something that was in essence a fluke.

[@Jigger2361]

...and a flake

[@debbiew.7716]

Love this episode! RIP Mick

[@t.j.payeur739]

I've watched hundreds of hours of British TV over the years and this is the first time that I've ever seen a cornfield..."maize field" just doesn't have the same ring to it...great episode...

[@AcidArt362]

Phil gets an honorary doctorate in paleoarcheology year 18 of time team..yeah! Dr. Phil Harding Aston passes June 2013..tony knighted a few years after time team. Matt goes on to do a museum science show for channel 4 BBC. rakshur keeps up with all members online four years after time team ends. still a beautiful bachelorete.

[@Jigger2361]

@@00BillyTorontoBill thanks for this! i just signed up!

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

@@Jigger2361 hehe I may be there in 6 mos... need to get ducks ina row.

[@WOLFROY47]

well done, phills luck strikes again, way more interesting, than the common roman junk, their supposed to prefer, but they really could have done with francis pryor, hell be sorry he wasnt there

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Great Episode!

[@Libbathegreat]

24:19-24:25 Editor clearly had some fun putting this little bit together XD

[@kevingouldrup9265]

What a great program!

[@stannousflouride8372]

The ring ditch is visible as a crop mark here: 50°50'41.1"N 2°45'11.8"W

[@Jess-ey5rh]

You're the best for always leaving these.

[@stannousflouride8372]

Thanks.

[@Gil27225]

Tony is a complete smart allic. Wonder how many times he has had his butt kicked. Probably never.

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Have you seen how fast he can run around, hard to catch😅

[@Wings_of_foam]

DAAVVVIIIIDDDDDD

[@deborahparham3783]

Thou shalt not traipse in Phil's freshly cleaned trench without permission. He will go ballistic on you. Phil considers it a hanging offense.

[@tunahelpa5433]

In talking about the guesses as to what they've found, Mick stands on 300+ years of scientific method - he wants to hold off on any pronouncements until AFTER there's sufficient evidence

[@edlechleiter7042]

Tony keeps asking if Romans would do such and such. But,the people living there would not be Italian Romans but Romanized Britons who would retain their own cultural bias.

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

Fuck the Romans!

[@chrissmith7669]

What have the Romans ever done for us?

[@mamavswild]

Chris Smith Ah, shucks...just a few little things....like a written language, a rule of law that became English common law and the parliamentary system, plumbing, central roads connecting multiple points together in an efficient and lasting fashion, engineering, advanced metalworking, architecture, a common western philosophy that forms the basis of song, story and poetry....you know...just little things.

[@dianetersigni7359]

@@chrissmith7669 Civilization.

[@chrissmith7669]

Sigh, does no one remember „the life of Brian“?

[@medik1660]

I am absolutely hooked on this show, and late to the show. I think I love Bridgett..lol

[@SandraNelson063]

That plot of land has had use for about 5000 yrs. I'm in Canada, shaking my head.

[@Jigger2361]

... i just worked on a site here in Ontario that is 11,000 years old

[@janielaurel]

Watching them plow under the maize I'm reminded of Kevin Kostner's film "Field of Dreams" ... as the neighbors stand by watching I can hear the voices, "he's plowing under his corn, the damned fool" LOL ...

[@Wppk765]

If you build it, they will come

[@RigmodsModding]

If Phill shouted DAVID! at me like that I would shit my pants

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

+Rigmods Modding LOL! You're so right! He looked like he was going to go all Viking on his ass!

[@nutsaboutnames3805]

+Rigmods Modding Same! But I love the guy's reaction! He's sort of laughs it off.

[@deborahparham3783]

As long as you don't go traipsing through Phil's trench without permission you have nothing to worry about.

[@ancilodon]

Glad that Phil prefers the Neolithic. So do I. Also glad he's a flint snapper. So am I; just not terribly good at it. There's a real learning curve to it.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

It is a genuine skill and looks extremely difficult.

[@ancilodon]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 It is for me! Seems easier for others, but I think there's a lot to be said of how one is taught.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@ancilodon Always!

[@annazaman9657]

Flint knapper

[@ancilodon]

@@annazaman9657 Thank you. Damn auto correct

[@Go-Dawgs]

"Lordy Lord" Tony Gets funnier every Year

[@Pauldjreadman]

Once in a lifetime opportunity. Damn right

[@JessicaStinson-og1rq]

It seems so odd to me to think that the Romans, or anyone else for that matter, would think their gods would be happy with their scraps and less scraps and broken bits were all they had I guess

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Full items are broken to pass them on to the gods 😊

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

But to be fair I'd be pissed you gave me broken things and forgeries as tribute if I was your God 😮

[@mikeradford5630]

Tony may try to lord it over some of the diggers but @33:50 you can see he treads very carefully where Dr.Phil is concerned and rightfully holds him in high esteem !

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*Tony* is an amateur archæologist and was a good friend of *Professor Aston* and *Doctor Harding* before *TT* was even mooted. His job in *TT* is to get the archæologists to explain things for you.

[@ohkaygoplay]

LOL. RIP, David.

[@22101museum]

In "Time Team" heaven. Thanks very much. :)

[@Tocsin-Bang]

Why do people have to be abusive, offensive and obscene in their comments. Because you don't agree with someone doesn't give you that right. Be a bit more adult please.

[@bigbearfuzzums7027]

Go fuck yourself!

[@Tsip89]

The archeological plot twists are absolutely fantastic in this one.

[@WOLFROY47]

the farmer has got the right idea, forget the roman, this is way more unique, and therefore, surpasses anything roman

[@JSin1969]

"Geo Phys and the Field Walkers" possible name of the band leading the next British Invasion?

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

Hardingese: "Summit" = "Something".

[@asticou04]

Barnaby ap Robert *Summat

[@Exiledk]

Oh ah.. = Yes.

[@Wppk765]

Don’t forget about “Innit?” aka Isn’t it?

[@Ana_crusis]

They seem to rule out aliens from the planet Zog.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

To rule out planet Zog is unwise at best.

[@Bellazme]

They keep missing the possibility that the roman finds may not have been from Romans but from Romanized locals who now used and valued roman goods and therefore now deposited them where their ancestors once worshipped. The theory that only a Roman would find value in a Roman coin and use it as an offering makes no sense.

[@Jerbod2]

16:22 was hilarious.

[@vincewhite5087]

Keeps the artist busy!

[@lizzy66125]

really interesting episode.

[@granskare]

In USA we say "corn" and in the UK, it is called "maize".

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

I'm not being offensive here but it really is called _maize_ rather than _corn._ _Corn_ is a very old *European* word, over 1,000 years old in fact, for any cereal crop while _maize,_ which is also known as _sweetcorn,_ is the crop used for _corn-on-the-cob._

[@BlackIjs]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Kind of like we call it soccer in North America, but most countries around the world call it football. It's the same sport, neither is 'wrong.' You call it maize, we call it corn, which would include sweet corn, popping corn, flour corn, dent corn, etc.

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

5000+ yrs ago... wow... (makes the romans seem 'recent')

[@paddybrennan3644]

I wish that you would tell us the topography of the area was that Woodland or is it always been open Meadows and Fields someone please reply and give me an answer to this

[@rogerlacaille3148]

Geophys and the Field Walkers... sounds like an early 60s band

[@spacewater7]

31:10 'If that was your bike, you wouldn't make it home in a hurry.' ROFL

[@lisakilmer2667]

Well done episode with early assumptions continually revised over the course of the dig. I wondered about that speculation at first, then at minute 31 Mick starts to really change his tune and I began to think they adopted the circle as a "barrow" on purpose to create extra interest later on. And it does seem that every time there is a neolithic site the speculation gets strung out pretty far from the evidence (even without the dreaming Francis Pryor).

[@DaithiKerr68]

Great episode, thanks for uploading, pity that there are a lot of morons posting in the comments section, at least the rest of the respondents are normal decent humans..OK queue abuse from said moronic trolls.

[@mr.aldini6801]

16:13 The wrath of Phil!

[@Baby_Valentine]

This Saturday for one show only, "Geophys and the Fieldwalkers" performing their greatest hits.

[@CanChikMay]

By 33 mins in, im thinking roundhouse?

[@leslieeaston3383]

Tony said it's like pulling teeth. He forgets that Mr. Legg is a farmer with a living to make. He's not a TV presenter nor an archeologist. Farmers don't mark areas of archeological interest in the course of their daily labors. Lighten up Baldrick.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Lighten up *leslie.* It's just light-hearted banter, nothing for anyone to worry about. *Mr Legg* was very happy about the dig and I'd be fairly certain that he readily let them use as much of his resources as they needed. Every farmer I've ever known would!

[@christianpatriot7439]

Unless this site had locals who had a collective memory that the mound had some religious significance, why would the Romans have thought that the mound was anything other than a natural feature? How does a society that doesn't have writing maintain a continuous, collective memory for thousands of years? I don't know about the British Isles, but in America it isn't at all uncommon for cemeteries to be completely forgotten within just a generation or 2 even with written records. Just recently where I live construction workers were digging soil for use on a job site elsewhere when they unearthed human skeletal remains. But, it was quickly realized that the remains came from a cemetery for a black community. The cemetery was still in use as recently as World War II, but nobody remembered or knew anyone who remembered that it was there. With this situation in mind, what chance could there be that ancient Brits could keep track of their sacred sites for thousands of years?

[@georgedorn1022]

As it would not have been deeply ploughed (if it had been ploughed at all), it is probable that the mound and ditch would still have been discernably manmade. We know that the Anglo-Saxons often placed their cemeteries in close proximity to prehistoric monuments which were clearly visible after the Roman period. It is likely that the mound and ditch were ploughed out in the medieval or post-medieval periods.

[@deviwolf3365]

Before writing was developed, people relied on oral history. Oral histories could remain reliable for thousands of years, as modern scientists have verified by correlating them with cataclysmic events such as volcano eruptions.

[@spencersanderson2617]

End him rightly with your pommel sir!

[@deborahparham3783]

More likely a smack upside the head with a certain well known shovel.

[@Fox1nDen]

It's a Roman coin. set on purpose as an offering into a bronze age barrow, not necessarily by a Roman. The coin dates the offering, but does not tell us who did it. There were survivors of Roman occupation and of course they would still venerate their ancestors, maybe with something metal, if the ancestor had been a metal worker. There is no reason to assume a Roman would venerate a bronze age barrow.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

+Fox1nDen Unless that Roman, like many Romans in Britain, adopted local springs, mounds, etc...that were seen as holy.

[@Fox1nDen]

+Barnaby ap Robert Good point. A twist on the when in Rome adage.

[@gregb6469]

Perhaps not a Roman from Rome, but a Briton who was living during the Roman era may well have, since the Bronze-age barrow would have been built by his ancestors. Remember, even during the Roman era the majority of the population was still people of Celtic British descent (with no doubt some pre-Celtic blood mixed in).

[@Fox1nDen]

yep.

[@marcusjohns5166]

So.... What happened with regard to the building materials???

[@mrvarus8957]

At the beginning of every episode they always think they are about to dig the most grandiose building.lol

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

And sometimes they do!

[@mrvarus8957]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 And mostly they don't.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@mrvarus8957 Actually mostly they don't expect grandiose buildings. Sometimes, though rarely, they do. The have dug viaducts, factories, granges, caves, pit houses, farms, roundhouses, cells, burials, chapels, churches, middens and many other functional or humble structures, all comparatively successfully. I've seen every *TT* episode and special. Their batting average is much higher than you seem to think.

[@KYIRISH1]

Viewing the folks walking through the field of maize, or corn, reminds me of the line in the movie Field of Dreams, "Build It and they will come!"

[@gregb6469]

Well, about 4000 years ago some neolithic people built a ditch with a fence in it, and in the early 21st century, they (the archaeologists) came!

[@justinsanford997]

bridge: hottest time team babe!

[@geirbalderson9697]

Yes, such a lovely English lass.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@geirbalderson9697 *Kiwi.*

[@Fox1nDen]

how does he get away with calling it a burial mound when they have no burials or bones at all? the pits by the door may be pit stops, if you get my drift. the finds found in the ashes, all the neolithic tools, might have been cleared off by new residents after the neolithic were done with it, and the transitional bronze age new residents took over. interpretations here are flying fast and loose and not much being revised based on actual finds or lack of them. No bones, for example, so the interpreter says they left people here for sky-burial and took bones off to another site. If bones go to another site, this is no longer a burial site BARROW, is it? the egg shape suggests two circles of different circmference palimpsest

[@mr.aldini6801]

Good bless Brigid and her tiny shirts!

[@WOLFROY47]

as reguards to it being romans burying coins, most of the so called romans wernt roman, but from all over europe, and just because the coins were roman, it doesnt mean, that the people burying them were, roman

[@dr.johnpaladinshow9747]

Maize... we call it corn. Corn... we call it wheat.

[@mjrussell414]

Dr. John Paladin Show Corn was a term for different types of grains, like "barley corn, or the "Corn Laws." Is was in use prior to maize being discovered in America.

[@dr.johnpaladinshow9747]

@@mjrussell414 Yes, I know. Thank you.

[@bevanpope7924]

Is it only me or should the be a flipppen podcast? No visual at all?

[@59acres]

Nothing worse than itchy Legs.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

+59acres An itchy hoo-ha might be worse.

[@TeresaTrimm]

First aired November 26, 2007.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

As an American I find tony's use of the term "maize plants" funny.

[@yvonnethompson844]

+Barnaby ap Robert well that's what it is... "corn" is the designation for any edible grain. as in the chicken that did all her own work and ended up with a loaf of bred? "who will help me grind the corn? " "not i "

[@alanmacification]

+Barnaby ap Robert In Britain "corn" is any naked grain, i.e. wheat corns barleycorns, peppercorns. What we call flint corn or Indian corn. is more correctly a variety of maize.

[@janetpercell3989]

the British called OUR corn, wheat...their corn, now is maize...

[@Ana_crusis]

erm...no that doesn't sound right....

[@BladeRunner21577]

What is really funny is how they find coins and things on the surface and then come along with a digger, strip 12" off the top and start looking! What about the 12" you took off the top, whats in that!

[@seekernz7790]

The turf is scanned with metal detectors after removal,its simply not featured in the footage.

[@BladeRunner21577]

@@seekernz7790 That will help you find pots wont it!

[@georgedorn1022]

Artefacts present in the topsoil and subsoil have limited archaeological value as they will have been ploughed out of their original context. That does not mean they aren't of interest but you cannot be certain where they originated from. Often fields will have been enriched in the past with manure and domestic refuse that were brought from off-site, for example. The point of stripping down to the natural geology is that any features cut into it will preserve the archaeology in context, making dating and stratigraphic relationships relatively secure.

[@BladeRunner21577]

@@georgedorn1022 What if its never been touched at all since Roman times and its ignored because its so close to the surface?

[@georgedorn1022]

@@BladeRunner21577 If the site has been untouched then it is unlikely that there would be Roman artefacts in the current topsoil and subsoil. As our hypothetical site is still present it obviously hasn't been eroded to a great extent so natural processes will have formed soils (or more likely sediments, depending on local geology and other factors) through material being brought onto site through the action of wind, water, erosion of bedrock etc. If the site has been untouched then the topsoil, subsoil and other post-Roman horizons will be fairly archaeologically sterile. The Roman ground surface, if not eroded prior to or as part of the formation processes of subsequent soils/sediments, may survive in the stratigraphy as a paleosol. Any artefacts deposited in the Roman period will be below this horizon rather than in the topsoil and subsoil that formed more recently. Soil science and site formation processes are pretty complicated and involve many variables depending on local geological and environmental conditions. It's been a few years since I've studied this so I may have forgotten or misremembered things. Also, I hope I have actually given an answer to the question you asked!

[@tammydriver5759]

48:37 Phil is NOT happy!

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

That's the credits, not *Phil.*

[@katajha831]

Im more prone to that being 2 round features, maybe a barrow, and a round house. The smaller one looks like it overlaps the bigger one in the trees If you stop the tape at 4804. I see 2 round features overlapping, and you can even see the lines in the trees. :/ Oh armchair archaeology you so fun. LOL just saying.

[@jerbear-mane8362]

@ bellazme.....you think they dont know that...they are always talkin about the romano-british and you're not the first to think of that, you didnt even know what they were called lol

[@uw1955]

But no one of them taks of that Bronze Age thing as a Henge.

[@phoule76]

"archeological mystery tour"

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*Mick, John, Stewart* and *Tony.*

[@phoule76]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Dig up!

[@edwilkes306]

A zodiac wheel, astrology been around for a longtime. It means something a farmer

[@bethbartlett5692]

If you guys got "the Simpson's", *How come we didn't get "Time Team"?* Well, that's not very "sharing" ...😶 Night "Time Team" ...

[@chraffis]

Tony Robinson is an owl

[@Concetta20]

Whoa, Phil's got a scary temper.

[@furrantee]

But if you watch him at 34:00 or so dancing and giggling like a kid in a candy shop its a different story.

[@CompetitiveAudio]

Anna Ferrara Phil is REAL protective of his archeology. In a very early episode he sets Tony straight on trench etiquette and Tony from that point on ALWAYS ask before he set foot in any trench. Phil is great, and like all of us has "three buttons". You can push two but it's not a good idea to push all three at once LOL...

[@Concetta20]

:) Ah.

[@megelizabeth9492]

RIP David.

[@deborahparham3783]

Only when he is provoked by a serious breach of trench etiquette.

[@Yamswool]

I wish Phil hosted a few episodes. I'm sure he'd be great. Tony asks some of the most ridiculous questions sometimes and he gets on my nerves.

[@edbadyt]

He was always asked by the producers to ask stupid questions, the sort that someone with no understanding of archaeology might ask. This was to make the show more accessible to even a first time viewer. If Phil presented it it would be the same. In fact, when Phil is sometimes talking to a fellow expert, he is made to ask questions he obviously knows the answer to.

[@baskervillebee6097]

"a comedy kneecap" 😄

[@Fox1nDen]

huge piece of iron could be evidence of smelting metals, all the broken coins and broaches could be a recycling hoard for metalworking. a wooden workshop maybe non-Roman. the ditch is bronze age confirming land use there ongoing into Roman years, by non-Romans. jewelry maker or sword maker or armor maker or blacksmith for cavalry? they jumped to the Roman shrine and other buildings really fast.

[@BladeRunner21577]

Why is it always a temple or a villa. Why do you never see the normal places people lived, the squalid huts and hovels that the normal people lived in throughout the centuries :-)

[@strollinwithrollin]

because squalid huts leave no trace