Time Team S14-E05 Shorncliffe Redoubt, Sandgate, Kent

[@peanut71968]

One really cannot help but develop genuine love for these folks! 🤔🧐🤓

[@juliemorgan8755]

I've been watching Time Team all through 2020. Very comforting somehow. Has kept me relatively same and is now a permanent habit. So grateful to everyone connected. Brilliant .

[@MegaMeaty]

I love the show too, but I wish they would not use the term 'bitterly cold' when there is not even snow on the ground. I live at 10 thousand feet, and we have cold when it is at 0 degrees with 3 feet of snow. Bitterly cold starts at -30f, and 4 feet of snow on the ground. I don't think the UK guys could hang with us up here if they consider it bitterly cold, and there is not even ice or snow on the ground.

[@stichtingyimak9695]

inevitably i watch a couple episodes whenever i get the chance

[@pollyb.4648]

​@@MegaMeatyIt's all relative!

[@shnops]

Stewart is possibly the most capable member of the whole group . His energy and acumen for ' lumps and bumps ' is quite impressive !!!!!!!!!!!! Plus he finally bought the first round for the first time ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Clearphish]

And his name is so appropriate. Ainsworth = is composed of the Olde English pre 7th Century personal name "Aegen", from "aegen" meaning own, plus "worth", a homestead; hence, "Aegen's homestead". (homestead= enclosure)

[@PtolemyJones]

I still put Phil at the top, but at what he does, no one compares to Stewart!

[@makrsk09]

@@Clearphish, I am an Ainsworth and had never known that meaning of the word. I had only heard that it is a "place name!" Thank you.

[@robert4724]

So refreshing to watch a “reality” show where the cast members are not having temper tantrums, cursing, throwing objects at one another or trying to stab each other in the back. I love this show. R.I.P. to Mick Aston and Robin Bush.

[@tripleransom4349]

Or having every other word bleeped out.

[@ghendar]

Time Team is so refreshingly different than anything that would be on American television. There's no big dramatic buildup for its own sake. There's no BS. They just get right down to it and try to find the truth. We need more shows like this.

[@yclepe]

@alanrtment porter Correct, I call them "unreality shows"

[@steveamsden5250]

@@ghendar more truth would be awesome

[@Gremriel]

Beric Morley has passed away as well :(

[@eatoffthegoodchina155]

Tony: They just killed their monarch. Mick: Well I don’t have a problem with that. Time Team binge watching during COVID-19.

[@RobKoelman]

(9:36)

[@ioogy]

I was about to comment this... lol. Just another reason to like Mick!

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Poor Stewart, everyone is always ready to discount him! He reads the landscape like nobody else!

[@miekekuppen9275]

He´s so much fun to watch though!

[@catofthecastle1681]

Maybe wonder who taught him!

[@yank1776]

Helen's smile always made my day.

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

More like Raksha's 🥰

[@Jigger2361]

...and Phil's .... doh!

[@danajeannenorris3036]

Stewart's "wandering through the woods"... I love Stewart, he's great.

[@AlfieGoodrich]

Fascinating. Especially as I grew up around here, spent many happy days on the beach at Sandgate and some time, whilst in the army, at Shorncliffe Barracks.

[@Missjulie1975]

Stewart running - “high technology coming through” with a measuring tape in his hand!

[@RobKoelman]

(35:18)

[@sherryelliott4795]

Love the little “Mick” in his jumper doll in front of the computer!

[@haplessasshole9615]

That showed up first in the earlier seasons -- maybe season 3 -- and seemed to be the mascot of computer graphics artist Sue Francis. I don't know who made it, but it's brilliant. Aston even used to wear a black hat just like that. Green wellies were standard footwear for him then, too.

[@chrismerkel9604]

Tony was in seventh heaven that he was able to deploy his "Geo Phys!" Phil in the pub nursing his pint of ale. Classic Time Team episode.

[@51WCDodge]

The Rampart is a military berm, it is designed to be shot at by cannon. The last thing you want is a load of stones. If hit by shot the stones shatter and send fragments everywhere. A clean earth bank just absorbs the shot.

[@MR2Davjohn]

Tony, the local Duke wants you to supervise the building of a 15 room long-house with a barn, a gate house and a guard tower. Oh, did I tell you, you have just 3 days to do it.

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

I think tony Is going to fail without a lot of really good editing 😅

[@ldawson61062]

The mention of the Martello Towers reminds me of the one still overlooking the harbor, and Bay of Fundy at St. John, New Brunswick which was still used as an observation post as late as WW II.

[@runlarryrun77]

+ldawson61062 Really? Great.

[@tonyfranks9551]

Excellent.....including the pub scene!

[@rosevale3218]

I think this series was so popular because the people from the digging archeologists to the supervisory crew and presenter are all very entertaining as well as being experts in their fields. They are or give the appearance of being very approachable and would join you for a pint in a pub.

[@WashuHakubi4]

3:34 Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred. Or was that, into the Forest of Death marched Stewart with his string.

[@Jigger2361]

lol!!!!

[@semisophisticate63]

Yes, Mick definitely had no use for Monarchies!

[@Jigger2361]

...or the butterflies

[@marniesweet4677]

Helen is a real sweetie, and a real pro.

[@ILostCountAgain]

I'm going to need Stewart on my apocalypse team.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@dodo1opps]

When ever I think of the 95th Rifles, I thinks of "Sharp's Rifles" and Sean Bean.

[@trishamason1855]

Especially in the dark green uniforms.

[@bigdave46148]

What I think is funny is they sent Helen on a wild goose chase. They could have figured out the tunnels and magazine was never built if they had John run his radar over the area.

[@Calais2017]

I have a brain crush on Stewart Ainsworth.

[@PtolemyJones]

Always fun to find a new one. Harder and harder these days.

[@baskervillebee6097]

The 95th Rifles were the soldiers depicted in the Sean Bean tv shows of Sharpe's Rifles adventures.

[@rlace356]

Thanks so much! I knew I was missing something but hadn't a clue what.

[@stannousflouride8372]

Naught to see but the redoubt is here: 51°04'34.1"N 1°07'48.0"E

[@marcomcdowell8861]

Johnny Frog's view...good one.

[@yeslizziecalogero]

and then "Jean le Grenouille..."

[@poolbear2160]

I loved Phil tapping Brigid with the Handle.

[@RobKoelman]

(40:53)

[@TheLawDawg]

Interesting how they discuss rifled muskets showing up under John Moore in 1800. The British learned about them firsthand as early as 1775 when American Minutemen picked off redcoats with impunity using rifled muskets at Concord and Lexington. Funny they didn't bring that up ........ :)

[@TheEvilDruid1]

Johnny Frog,.....Bwahahahahahahah!! /Classic :)

[@margomoore4527]

The dark green uniforms, practically invisible amidst the trees, seem to be an early form (the earliest form?) of camo!

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

I thought it was because they didn't want to die as totally obvious targets 😊

[@markanixon77]

15:49 Stuart’s first round! 😂😂

[@GrahamCLester]

Tony's summing up at the end really tried hard to put a positive spin on the fact that they didn't find much of what they were looking for. Still a fun episode though.

[@tudorpottudorpot8423]

The redoubt wasn’t needed after 1803 as Napoleon couldn’t get boats/ships organized to Cross the channel. Invasion was canceled.

[@giljensen1132]

Loved seeing Phil in teacher mode with Brigid in student mode

[@grinch1963]

I want to have a beer or 10 with Phil.

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

More like 20, knowing him rofl. I'm an American Sailor, and he drank ME under the bloody table at the pub.

[@W4iteFlame]

Also nice insite into military techniques

[@alanatolstad4824]

I like history, but I had a rough time enjoying this episode. Stewart was the only one fun to watch this time!

[@bastiaan4129]

Any Team Time episode that isn't about the Romans is a joy to watch. Roman archaeology is so intensely boring.

[@laura-bianca3130]

@@bastiaan4129 I think quite the opposite, my favourite episodes are the Roman ones 😊♥️

[@jamesedwards2483]

52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry?? Possible Forerunner Of The Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire(Ox & Bucks) Light Infantry???

[@davidpayne8413]

Ox and bucks 43 and 52 became the 1bn Royal Green Jackets

[@ManImJustSomeDude]

Thank the Kentucky longrifles for your fancy greencoats. lol

[@lizzy66125]

Stuart is the hero here!

[@W4iteFlame]

History is a very interesting thing... Knowing it you can be certain that race or ethnicity does not really matter, everyone are still people and connected to each other

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

Tony was right at the end: what they came to look for, they never found.

[@jeffsprague1366]

Dr. Jenni B. returns!

[@ronc7743]

Getting started in the morning must be really difficult for these guys!

[@laurentf9848]

8:57 ok, I'll just stand on the other side of this warning tape... OW!!!

[@spacewater7]

Somewhere around twenty four minutes Helen finds a button, but not a brooch in sight. Wait, am I still watching Time Team? Buttons vs Dog Tags, let the debate commence!

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

23:20 It's from a ten pounder.

[@yeshualionofjudah7107]

Now why don’t they finish showing the excavation from Ep 04?

[@scottclinton2061]

9:38 lol I knew Mick was a damned left-winger! ;) Rest in peace friend!

[@CompetitiveAudio]

Scott Clinton Mick was one of the "Good Ones". Being on the other side of the Atlantic, I only recently became acquainted with his knowledge through the series. It is apparent he was very much an academia treasure and in a most positive sense, somewhat of a "character". Thank You Mick for teaching me and May You Rest In Peace...

[@Tripserpentine]

+Scott Clinton to oppose a king is left winged? :P aren't republicans right winged?

[@edbadyt]

+Tripserpentine It's the left wing that oppose the royal family here in the UK. It makes sense, the left wing want fair distribution of wealth and they stand up for the working man where as the royals are over privileged and pampered just because of an accident of birth and they have money given to them without having to work.

[@Tripserpentine]

yeah true in traditional sense rigth winged is for rich people and the ruling class and maintaining the status quo (certainly in Britain), and the left winged are for the working class and normal people and equality. But in this sense, he was against absolute monarchy and every democratic person (left and right) would agree that absolute monarchy is something that belong in the medieval times.

[@johnblythe5731]

whats wrong with being left wing asshole clinton fuck

[@TeresaTrimm]

First aired February 11, 2007.

[@blaineadams7484]

What do you call a group if archeologists? A re-doubt!

[@graceamerican3558]

The Ferguson rifle. That rifle was used at the end of the American Revolutionary War.

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

Oh Mick ! "whitewash the coal" ! I love it ! An image of The epitome of useless work !

[@spacewater7]

Season 14 - the time they learned that what looks like 'natural' probably isn't 'the natural' at all. The fort reserved and reclaimed the topsoil and sod during its construction to place atop the ramparts to stop erosion. Just like the 'Show After the Show', 'Re-Pimp my Garden After Time Team Trashed it.'

[@spacewater7]

These juicy tidbits occurred to me at about twenty minutes in by the by.

[@ruthsmith2434]

I've just started on this one and am puzzled as to why the British make a big thing of William the Conquerer and don't like it when the French want to invade again.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

Tony has never heard of the word "Cruciform".

[@elishevanesher8580]

george waite Tony probably has heard the word. He often in this program asks about less commonly used words to help the public.It is very likely all in the script

[@hxcdanny3x]

do you what makes a good archeologist sharpe? yessir, the ability to find 3 artifacts a minute in any weather, sir.

[@jimmyowens5415]

So why on some digs ike this they have to dig very deep to just find things from 200 years ago and others they can find roman on the top soil?

[@jimmyowens5415]

Thank you Rebecah,a;ways wondered why

[@Whatsinmypocket]

James Owens en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downhill_creep A flat area will have very little. An area with a slope will have a lot.

[@jimmyowens5415]

Thanks so much whatsinmypocket

[@chrispascoe8116]

OMG! Much deeper and they'll come across more Roman stuff! lol

[@maggieboys2543]

"Could we have seen off the French?" To an American, that's a preposterously gentle way of asking, "Could we have beaten them and saved England?"

[@freeholdtacticalmed]

Who closes the trenches?

[@scarletfluerr]

There is around 100 people in total associated with this show. They have people to follow behind and fill in.

[@melissasueh.]

In several episodes they let slip that Wessex Archeology, Phil's company, did the follow up work and closed the trenches. If others, the Time Team diggers and machines did the job.

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

9:35 we see who the monarchists are

[@adamsjerome1839]

" Johnny Frog". How politically incorrect, but hilarious.

[@georgenewickstrand4434]

What's the point of this little exercise?

[@tracybeme1597]

Sir Tony? What's the point in bringing in bricks? Something called noble favoritism and feather bedding. Not to mention the word embezzlement. I remind you that Aristocrats were above the law and could not be prosecuted; only by the king/queen. In the colonies, the colonial governor (aristocrat) demanded tribute and then tribute again to do business here. That's the principle reason why the American colonies fought a civil war. We just call it "politics" (corruption) today.

[@tracybeme1597]

Example. The tax code of the day required all colonial farm produce to be transported and stored in England, taxed again to transport your own property back to the colonies for sale/consumption. This added extensive warehousing and transportation costs to the average farmer plus the produce could not be used for 5 to 10 years from the date of harvesting. Each information request took 9 to 12 months for the mail to be transported by sea. Thus, there were endless "information requests" by the government which further increased warehousing costs. One missed information request (paper tax) and the farmer lost all his revenue because of seized produce. If you did manage to jump through all the hoops and obstacles, the farmer discovered after paying all the rents that his produce "magically disappeared" (stolen by the nobles) or "rotted and thrown away" upon first transport to England with debts still owed for warehousing and taxes due. The colonial farmer soon realized it was better to be outside the law than to be robbed of all his product. He was then sold into slavery for non-payment of taxes. Now here come the red coats to enforce "the British colonial system" and off runs the farmer into Indian lands. You wonder how those mansions and estates were built? Now you know. Sheer banditry. You said the Romans were barbarous in their behavior. I suggest you take a second look at the great "British Empire".

[@cathjj840]

Lovely chap, and smart to know that crime and abuse of power pay.

[@edlingja1]

@@tracybeme1597 the apples and cabbages were never transported across the ocean and back again. There were methods of taxation to accrue a positive balance for the queen and the local officials, but they would never for example ship bulk grain to England, then store it, then ship the majority back for the colonists food and sales. That would be utterly retarded- instead they used as much as they needed locally and through free market economics it went to who needed it all whilst being taxed by every hand along the way.

[@rcelectronicsllc9400]

MUSIC is WAY TOO LOUD!!!

[@KellyfromMemphisDD214]

What’s all the Britain vs USA in these comments?

[@Ubique2927]

No decent engineer would put black top soil at the bottom of a bank. It would be put aside to cover the new bank or removed from site.

[@captainbedworthy]

Jeebis boys and girls, you HAD the map of the Comandant's house and knew they'd knocked a rampart down to see the sea and you're all disheveled over not finding the shiite that was replaced by it? Unbelievable.

[@peterbrown9662]

It must have been a very impressive fort it it's day, but all the French had to do was, go round it to London and leave a few hundred Soldiers to surround the fort, sit tight and starve Sharpe and me merry men out, without a shot being fired, holding up in forts is way out of date even in the 1700s

[@theeddorian]

At least they aren't dealing with poison oak/poison ivy.

[@obscurazone]

Stewart is pretty much the ONLY person who is consistently correct, so I've no idea why he gets constantly ribbed by everyone. Jealousy?

[@benediktmorak4409]

- poor - grunts, had do dig back than, dig, later and still being -misused - to dig now... when the Commandant wants a new house...

[@aureliusvictor4285]

At the very beginning "France declared war on us". Là, il faut pas pousser les rosbifs et ne pas renverser les rôles ! C'est bel et bien l'Angleterre qui a déclaré la guerre à la France en 1793 (1er Coalition d'une longue séries de déclarations de guerre à la France) !!! Si la France révolutionnaire a guillotiné Louis XVI, je vous rappelle que vous avez fait de même avec votre roi Charles Ier en 1649 !

[@cjamthepatricianakabilldoo7852]

Tony Robinson as sharpe

[@shadetreader]

There's nothing dreadful about abolishing monarchies.

[@Happyheretic2308]

Really? Compare Bhutan, or Thailand with the mess the US is in now.

[@margomoore4527]

The divine right of kings goes back a long way, to King David and Solomon. There is a tradition that at least the English royal line descends from those gentlemen.

[@ronc7743]

Lots of plumber crack on these Time Team episodes….

[@miekekuppen9275]

I don´t know what men´s fashion was like at the time but for women it was nearly impossible to find jeans that went up high enough OR tops that went down low enough to avoid showing more than you wanted to when bending, kneeling, or - really - just existing quietly.

[@kennethjackson4716]

Archeologist’s trench?

[@ancilodon]

"Builder's crack" in the Queen's English.

[@Brinta3]

@@miekekuppen9275 It makes some of the sunnier episodes great to watch: Downblouse, bellies, muffin tops…

[@tonyfeuerhelm]

...white wash the coal....I had to paint telephone poles (white)...you Britts are so different ....A.C.Feuerhelm

[@neonskyline1]

And why exactly would you want to die for a thieving ruler not to be ruled by another one ?

[@Jean-yn6ef]

💚🏜

[@svtabasco1]

I very much enjoy the series, but I cannot understand the degree of patience exhibited by the team members for Tony. Had I been on the team Tony and I would have had a conversation behind the woodshed. He is often obnoxious. I can only hope that is scripted and not his true personality

[@JuleyC]

Scripted

[@jmeyer3rn]

Brits still enlist old gray haired men?

[@patrickwentz8413]

Putting the magazine on the outside of the fort did not make much sense.... No wonder the empire fell.

[@Jigger2361]

LOL!!!! General : "We are under siege! We need more cannonballs! Where are they?" Private : "Umm, all the cannonballs are outside the fort walls in the magazine...we can't get to them" DOH!

[@Jigger2361]

@@BluntofHwicce true there are two Canadian examples of that that come to mind one being Fort York in Toronto it blew up and killed Zachary Pike of Pike's Peak fame... think about it, Pike invaded Toronto, burnt it to the ground then was killed when the fort's magazine blew

[@SharpAssKnittingNeedles]

@@Jigger2361 As a Coloradan, I feel compelled to point out that Pike's Peak is named for Zebulon Pike. Way more epic than Zachary 🧐

[@tehbonehead]

Waiting to see if they give us Americans any credit for the military advance of "riflemen..."

[@Jigger2361]

ummm no

[@johnmoss6631]

tehbonehead, who cares at all about giving America credit for this?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

You're probably right in many ways but it's irrelevant here.

[@maeve4686]

As Tony said, " We'd just lost the colonies ". Nope, we whipped your axxes with our own home grown Kentucky long rifles. Just ask Daniel Boone...lol.

[@margomoore4527]

Don’t hold your breath. About as likely as an Italian saying, well, Marconi didn’t invent the telegraph-it was some Russian fellow!

[@000001willy]

Much Ado About Nothing!!!

[@pennydoyle1806]

not the real time team channel. Fan or not this shouldn't be allowed. Takes away from the time team channel.

[@jamesmccord8895]

I keep thinking that if the French had attacked, they would have promptly surrendered and called on America (U.S.A.) to bail them out.

[@baskervillebee6097]

James McCord In WWI the American phrase was,"Lafayette, we are here." This was the payback for their help in the Revolutionary War.

[@claidheamhdalaimh3694]

James McCord You probably didn't know this before you made your asinine statement, but if it wasn't for France the United States of America would have failed as a foolish dream of the revolutionists. They supplied large sums of money, arms, and know-how to help us get out from under the yoke of Britain and Mad King George. Yes, they needed help in WWI and WWII, but so did so many other countries. It's always good to know the history of how countries interacted with each other before making such broad, disparaging comments.

[@albundy9597]

@@claidheamhdalaimh3694 and look how you've ended up, lots of wide open spaces surrounded by teeth

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

@@claidheamhdalaimh3694 Ah, but King George wasn't "mad" as in insane. He suffered from prophyria, not madness (at least initially). That was just propaganda generated by the parliament to retain their power, since they knew the plebs would otherwise have their heads on the tower gate.

[@Jigger2361]

...well it only took America 3 years to get into the fighting after the Great War started and almost 3 years for WW2 .... not exactly lightening fast "bailing" there

[@paulmcguire3789]

all of this to defend against French invasion, you just need to yell at them in Germain to through down their weapons and surrender

[@RoamGaming]

considering the French had already taken over England twice (Celts and Normans) I'm guessing they were probably correct to be worried. And as the Romans, Germans (saxons), and Vikings had all taken the island previously as well, this might be the first time England didn't roll over to invaders.

[@michelformika]

Throw

[@johnmoss6631]

Paul Mcguire, your stupidly and ignorance is showing.

[@bokhans]

Baldrick is back and still he is a pretty useless soldier. 😂

[@johnblythe5731]

call them the we dont know team . get a lot of money for fuck all

[@thomasbell7033]

Usually the situation room is in some tweedy, thatchy loft in a converted barn, or a 17th Century library covered in oak and leather-bound volumes. In Kent, they get this dumpy old gymnasium. If I wanted to see that I could walk to the end of my block here in Brooklyn.🥲