Time Team S18-E06 Under the Gravestones

[@LilieDubh]

"...like the Venerable Bede here..." - snickers. Tony teasing Mick is so much fun!

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

That church is unbelievable. Something the community should really be proud of.

[@ruththinkingoutside.707]

I just love this bunch of people.. this show was lightning in a bottle.. just perfect.. I absolutely LOVE that Stewart and Matt are both involved with the reboot.. they’re two of the most good natured, long suffering members.. this Artis costume bit was awesome 😂

[@Fangs4DaMemories]

I love the fact the church was willing to work with Time Team!! They were just as excited to find out about the land's past as everyone else! :)

[@reimagine207]

Fangs4DaMemories FABULOUS

[@cpswyl2]

Thanks for putting all these Time Team episodes up on YT. Cheers.

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Stuart and Matt you never looked better! Love it!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@mglopr]

Love the interaction between John and Phil at 7:07. Both great sports!

[@ChildrensSongStorytimeCorner]

R.I.P Mick...you gave Archaeology to the masses!

[@jamesfraser4173]

Micks gone? When did that happen!?

[@ashleye1048]

@@jamesfraser4173 i think it was about 4 years ago or so. 😔

[@ashleye1048]

@alanrtment porter I can see that. I watch all of the early episodes from season 1 to 10 and the camaraderie is amazing & hilarious. He absolutely adored what he did & loved everyone as family. I still follow Tony as he does the history docs but it isn't the same without the whole team. 💕

[@Pauldjreadman]

If you want to watch something related, checkout Dig Ventures channel on KZbin. Created in his memory

[@ashleye1048]

@@Pauldjreadman Thank you !!

[@lennartforsberg1519]

Time Team was a superb show. It was sometimes very entertaining and funny.

[@adamsjerome1839]

Fascinating that the religious leaders are so agreeable to archaeology. A fresh breath. At least in Britain.

[@m.asquino7403]

I'm from New England, Massachusetts. I love watching these stories

[@stannousflouride8372]

Trench 1 site on Google Earth: 52°34'20.6"N 0°20'32.3"W The rectory site (hidden by trees) 52°34'22.5"N 0°20'26.7"W And the bath house is here: 52°34'19.9"N 0°20'35.5"W

[@mgclark46]

Helen:"... everybody likes something to be pretty as well as functional, like my hat.."She had me at "functional".I have such a crush on Helen!

[@omikronweapon]

for someone who's almost 20 years older than me, and not a classical beauty, she's got some peculiar attraction. She's quite sexy in her own way.

[@thomasandersen2534]

Me too she is lovely 🤗

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Helen is such an adorable personality.* She adds light energy to all episodes she's in. My favorite female Team Member. ...and I like Bridget, Rakshar, and that little lady that's a part time sort of Manager, I love her voice/speech. I call her the "Little General"! The colors of personalities are the flavors that further, added to their skills, making this show such a likeable success!

[@Biosolid101]

love her

[@sonjaanne4594]

Neat programme! I'm excited to watch all the episodes. Yay learning

[@hilaryc3203]

***** Why do you assume she doesn't?

[@hilaryc3203]

***** Why do you assume I was offended?

[@hilaryc3203]

Celto Loco Books will never be rated second next to a program or a movie. Are you serious? LOL, I don't know what level of education you have, but speaking for myself, I didn't get where I am today from watching movies. Kids come and stay at my house and whilst I do have a broad variety of dvd's to choose from, I invariably find them cloistered in my library pouring through books. Society needs to be academically and intellectually nurtured, not dummied down by movies.

[@hilaryc3203]

Celto Loco a frantic three day dig hardly trumps books and a solid education. The show is an entertaining diversion but I wouldn't invest my future in it. lol

[@hilaryc3203]

Celto Loco I don't know what kind of children you know, but the children in my life rarely watch movies as they are too busy. They are athletic and academically prone, love museums, science, history, excel at sports, travel (with me as well as their parents), love to read and wouldn't think about being so irresponsible as to "doodle in books". Two year olds doodle in books, anyone older than that should have been taught better by their parents. Have a nice day.

[@keithjensen6961]

love it when Faye is included...lovely

[@MrAlumni72]

27:00 - points to her left side and says she needs to determine the depth of the wall ... goes back to digging on her right side.

[@omikronweapon]

think she's just pointing to her trench in general, in a way that the person she's talking to can actually see her gesture. And then continues on where she left off. It really doesn't come down to a matter of inches to the left or right when digging for a wall, does it? grasping at straws mate.

[@22101museum]

On a Time Team Marathon, thanks again for upload.

[@jamesfraser4173]

It strikes me that Tony, Phil,and some others formed the Garden Force team!

[@joshschneider9766]

Man could you imagine having to treat a grave as a de facto two meter deep excavation trench lol! Much respect to all involved, this was a gem among gems of an episode.

[@ndotgw]

Helen is so chic! I love her changing hairstyles.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

+E! Carroll She's a classic English rose.

[@omikronweapon]

@@mrvarus8957 why dont you show us yóur face, mate? And we'll tell you what we think of thát.

[@suntomymoon369]

covid19 is giving me a lot more time to watch time team :) normally i only get to watch 1 time team for week :( but now i can watch a DAY :)

[@TheCarin12]

'His long suffering servant, a part which I can emphasise with". lol.

[@Skitrex]

Baldrick XD

[@onnieduvall2565]

In that get up Matt does look something like a taller Baldrick, doesn't he?

[@judeirwin2222]

Empathize, not emphasize.

[@peterbockholm3176]

I would have loved to see a special episode with Stuart showing the old ways of his trade.

[@judeirwin2222]

Stewart.

[@joanneclarke771]

Thank you so much for uploading these and making them available to me in Florida!

[@mrvarus8957]

Why did you post the same comment twice ?????????????????????????????

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@mrvarus8957 It's a YT glitch, not a *Joanne Clarke* one.

[@MirekHeikkila]

One of my favorite episodes by far!

[@paulthetallsigma1552]

Phill's hat is made of 80% salt

[@spinneborstel]

You mean sweaty body salt....not the fancy Himalayan salt i assume :p

[@paulcook2592]

It's the beer from the night before

[@scarletfluerr]

He said he could grow carrots in it, there is a good percentage of dirt.

[@suntomymoon369]

WHAT :)

[@adamsjerome1839]

So is my black baseball hat of 20yrs. When it rains the hat stays dry but my eyes rot out from salt water streaming down.

[@JohnVance]

Time Team is the best

[@franceslambert8070]

I really wish I had known about Time Team when they started. I have really enjoyed watching the team find some really great things. I wish something like this could be done here in the USA.

[@martynnotman3467]

They tried it. There was a Time Team USA. it was awful..

[@shewho333]

The US is too regulated. We can only dig 5x5 trenches in limited number. We don’t like education and expanded minds.

[@allenhonaker4107]

You can't do it here because our government refuses to really support public television. The closest thing we have to this is Ken Burns Specials, carried almost exclusively on PBS.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@martynnotman3467 Not awful, just nowhere near as good as its parent. *USA* TV, even PBS as that was, usually seems to deliver pre-digested sensationalist pap these days. *TTA* _tried_ to do it right but guess what - they weren't allowed to. Sadly even *UK* TV seems headed that way now which is why I _never_ watch the broadcast stuff.

[@martynnotman3467]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 BBC4 has loads of fabulous stuff. Its basically all I watch now

[@potaround]

Having lived within 2 miles of Hadrian's Wall I was not surprized that the team cold not find the wall they were looking for if they had been left exposed the locals would have used the masonary for building Many old farm building in the area around the wall are built with some roman stone many have any carving hidden & faced into the wall but I have seen some carving exposed in some internal walls

[@MrAlumni72]

I'm out of breath just reading that sentence. If Roman ruins were used to repair or build anything in the immediate area, wouldn't they be identifiable, at least as being dressed stones? That roadside wall at the beginning clearly had a section that was Roman, and there were no carvings in it - just some extremely different rock facings from the rest of the wall.

[@scarletfluerr]

Stewart looked good in his period costume. Poor Matt, always the bottom rung.

[@robcombs3785]

Outstanding Posts!!!

[@KYIRISH1]

We have history in the US. In the UK they have ancient history! When we studied European history in school it would have been great to see presentations like this instead of reading a dry history book and memorizing dates.

[@TheCarin12]

Burial mounds date back 6000 years in North America.

[@KYIRISH1]

Near here is the Falls of the Ohio 375 million year old exposed Devonian Age fossil beds. Supposed to be the largest visible in the world. Great interpretive center overlooking the accessible fossils. You can also cast a line if you are into fishing. www.fallsoftheohio.org.

[@schradeya]

TheCarin12 We do have some really fascinating history and archaeology in the US. The thing I'm super jealous of the UK about, though, is that their archaeology is _everywhere_ while ours is pretty well spread out. Nearly anybody can just go out into their back yard in the British Isles and dig up some incredible history. And just about nobody in the US can do that! And +KYIRISH1, you are damn right about school!! I wish we could have had presenters Attenborough or shows like Time Team in school, rather than some boringly written book that (I personally feel) we can't really even trust! I definitely think I would have gotten interested in history much earlier than I did if we had such quality shows over here! BUT!! We have DINOSAURS on our continent! So HA! ;)

[@Canuckmom128]

+KYIRISH1 Many thanks for the tip - now added to my "possible stops" list for the next UK trip. I agree with my US neighbour about how our friends in the UK and Europe are standing on ancient history pretty much anywhere you go. Roman here...Saxon there..."finds" in practically every Farmer's field. Amazing stuff. Thanks to Time Team for letting us in on the fun...without having to get muddy 👍🙂🏛⛏🏺🇬🇧

[@Canuckmom128]

+Canuckmom1958 Oooopps..just realized I misread your post - so will switch that to my "possible stops" on a USA Road Trip. 😊

[@MelissaThompson432]

Edmund Artis really got around!

[@PatrickMHoey]

What I wouldn’t give to sit down and share a fat joint and a long conversation with Phil 👍

[@JasonRoggasch]

Baldrick is the most affable gent in the world.

[@Skitrex]

I recognized his voice and started to wonder if it really was him.

[@tellingthetruth3726]

He has a cunning plan......

[@Hashassin95]

Sir Baldrik now, he's been knightedby the Queen

[@dfuher968]

I keep wondering... wheres his sausage?

[@lisakaz35]

I bet various authorities can't say no to him when he asks to dig somewhere.

[@PatrickPoet]

Stewart is my favorite -- and Phil

[@Libbathegreat]

And the Time Team Good Sport Award once again goes to... Matt Williams.

[@corneliawissing7950]

Oh yes, now and always!!!!

[@kazem766]

they excavated another site of Artis' works in another episode. that one also turned out to be true. The guy knew what he was doing.

[@javamann1000]

22 yards, 1 chain................10 chains, 1 furlong......8 furlongs, 1 mile........... Oh dear, school days!

[@briansmith9439]

After reading dimensions in old property deeds measured in chains and links for 3 decades, it is (to parrot Phil) absolutely wonderful to actually SEE a chain with the links being used. Makes so much more sense now. Thanks Time Team for doing so and Reijer Zaaijer for posting!

[@javamann1000]

I never quite understood; Rod, Pole or Perch!

[@briansmith9439]

For a somewhat detailed and confusing attempt at explanation see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perch_(unit) Turns out to not have anything to do with fishing (as in fishing rod or pole and catching perch - go figure!)

[@briansmith9439]

Even better see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit) It is equally confusing but contains all 3 terms, stating that all 3 are equal, measuring 16.5 feet (as is the lug)

[@carmineredd1198]

one inch equals 1600 feet segmented quadrant bearing gradient curvilinear . thank the gods for chakra

[@Exxxhaust]

I want them back on the Discovery channel. I always looked at there programm

[@lucienlachance2476]

Matt williams. As in Matthew Williams. That. As for the rest of the program, I really enjoyed it :3

[@SDOtunes]

Aaaaaaw yeah. ;D Yep, he's a cutie.

[@phoule76]

in one episode, he gets naked. no joke. keep bingeing, I've put the time code on it. it's one where they make him move tons of stone around and drink nearly as much beer.

[@Concetta20]

Oo! A rainbow at 16:53!

[@WeeeWriter]

I love that rainbow sweater lol

[@RoyalFizzbin]

WeeeWriter It’s kind of his trademark.

[@WeeeWriter]

@@RoyalFizzbin What a sweet fellow he was.

[@emilyhandler122]

26:09 "With over 20,000 burials in this graveyard..." Did he misspeak? Is this possible?

[@maraagneta]

It is. Think of the 1000 years it has been used as a graveyard. Roughly every 60 years the the equivalent of the number of inhabitants is buried there ...

[@stannousflouride8372]

+Emily Handler A search of the county records shows about 3,100 people interred in an average year. Though this parish is just a small part of that it still adds up rather quickly.

[@morrigan191]

In Europe you don't own a grave space, you rent it. People in the US where we have more land and not so many centuries of people buried don't really understand the difference.

[@judeirwin2222]

Sure. Stacked up like pancakes.

[@msmltvcktl]

They had Tony up on the leads at the start; a slippy place to be to be sure! I wonder if he's slight enough for it to have been safe.

[@SandraNelson063]

It just isn't TT unless its bucketing down like a monsoon.

[@mooramcmillan1066]

I Feel sad and upset looking at the bones but nice episode

[@spinneborstel]

imagine if all psysical remains had a personal grave. The planet would be one graveyard. To dust you shall return...the soul is safe ;-)

[@gman922]

Upper Class Educated English Birds .Got to love um

[@fedraescuderohaldane6962]

Didn't Artiss lead the team astray in an earlier dig?

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

+Fedra Haldane He DID! In season 17!

[@jowants2cvids]

38:22 isn't that a roman coin at the bottom on the mosaic?

[@jan-eriktrres3654]

I have to agree with Mick Aston that roman digs are the least interesting. Being a Norwegian I of course like anything to do with the norse, but medieval, anglosaxon and further back is what is the most interesting. Too bad there are so many roman digs on Time Team.

[@ste1072]

jan-erik Tørres I think Frances Pryer is the best site director on Time Team This Ben on some episodes just makes it up as he goes along! 👍🏻

[@tomthx5804]

It's all fascinating

[@jbrobertson6052]

I couldn't stand History in school and now I can't get enough of it I think Why I didn't like it was because I didn't believe the teachers and besides I kept falling asleep. Now we know that what they were trying to ram down our throats is all wrong or was an outright lie

[@WashuHakubi4]

How many people out there can say "A couple of years ago the grave diggers called me... And they actually lowered me into the grave."

[@Indiana82]

Gee-o Fiz

[@johnnytastetest]

Just the beverage after a hard day's work.

[@brian554xx]

Whoever is holding the camera at 20:49 may be on my wavelength. Hail Raksha, Queen of the Dig!

[@jameshunt6879]

I've just started watching Time Team, there does appear to be quite a few of those camera angles...

[@phoule76]

lumps and bumps

[@clydewilson5907]

One of my favorite shows....love Phil, but whatever happened to, "Rest in Peace?" Is there a time limit and then you're opened up?

[@benediktmorak4409]

i just got a 3 minute clip that - Sir Tony Robinson- is joining the TIME TEAM again. Don't know where, when and how. Will he be the single presenter like in the -old - Series? I definitely will be waiting what comes up on my thumbnails...

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

Who knew that Batman was so short?

[@poolbear2160]

Stuart the mad hatter!

[@judeirwin2222]

Stewart.

[@irajayrosen4792]

I don't understand why they pretend to not believe the antiquarian who first found the ruins. In Season 17, Episode 13 they confirmed the accuracy of his work at a nearby Roman industrial site. (I've been binge watching).

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*Artiss* wasn't disbelieved, they needed to check it all out to correct the maps.

[@MrAlumni72]

11-foot-high walls don't just disappear or get buried over time that adds up to perhaps 100 years. What's to prevent this Artiss fellow from digging up some minor fragments and then drawing illustrations of what he THOUGHT the ruins would have looked like IF they had been intact?

[@MrAlumni72]

12:35 - this guy with the light blue shirt and glasses uses the expression 'look' just like Mick Aston does. I assume it's a local expression from wherever they hail from, much the same as the Irish will say 'yeh'.

[@zoltanz288]

Lots of walls disappear.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*MrAlumni* 1. *Artiss* is dead. 2. They dug to find what he found and drew. They found it.

[@jcny11]

Hm. I can't get this to play??

[@tphvictims5101]

Is this a case of the church selling the same gravesite to different occupants ?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

No.

[@paulcook2592]

Racsha is stunning

[@judeirwin2222]

Raksha.

[@marlenejojo1]

I will admit I don't know much about archeology etc, but can someone tell me how or why all of these great builds from historic times ended up underground?

[@pollyb.4648]

Mostly erosion. Also buildings are knocked down into their cellars then covered over.

[@zoltanz288]

You need to learn physics not archeology.

[@judeirwin2222]

Where would you expect them to be? Floating in the sky?

[@valeriejohnson5283]

Why does Matt always get sucked into doing slave work and other period jobs? He is an archeologist!

[@scarletfluerr]

To keep the show interesting, it a entertainment show...not a science documentary.

[@Libbathegreat]

He's also a fantastically good sport, which I suspect is the reason he always gets roped into those things.

[@getin3949]

So, now what - do they just fill it all in yet again, draw and photograph and leave it to future archaeologists?

[@rorytolmie6504]

+get in Pretty much, their job is to evaluate and describe the chronology. They aren't going to excavate the entire thing. This site would possibly take years to excavate. Buried buildings are safe. In the past, excavation happy groups wrecked a great deal of sites. So now its treated as, preserve it for the future after figuring out WHAT you have. Then map it and protect it. Which is the most important part, protecting it from further damage so in the future, when we are EVEN better at it, we can learn so much more, because the whole site wasn't torn down to understand it.

[@getin3949]

That is good to hear and I truly hope that is what happens. Thanks Rory

[@phillipburke9522]

It really bugs me that they have dug ancient burials MANY time before with zero shits given, yet they frame the beginning of this whole episode by talking about how they are possibly disturbing graves. WHAT?

[@georgedorn1022]

Most of the burials they have previously excavated have been Medieval or earlier. Those in this episode are likely much more recent and are buried in currently consecrated ground which adds an extra layer of red tape, permissions etc. The names of the people buried in the churchyard are known and some of their descendants may still be living locally. I am currently working on the excavation of a disused cemetery. In some cases we have been able to put names to individual skeletons and we know some basic details of these peoples' lives. It makes it much different, more personal and poignant I suppose, to digging a prehistoric, Roman or Medieval burial. That said, excavating human remains is always a privilege and is done with due dignity and respect.

[@rickjohnson5386]

If I had known in my younger years that there would be HOT ladies that love digging in the dirt looking for old stuff I would have been more serious about that line of education.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Considering the abusive years of Roman and Anglo Saxon aggression and control, one would think that the British would have had more Empathy for Ireland - and left them alone to be their own free people. That remains a serious scar on British history and up through mid 20th Century. 💚Ireland

[@lizziedripping71]

You seen it with modern eyes & values. We should not judge as we were not there ! Fair enough, we would not do that today (We hope)

[@judeirwin2222]

Gosh, your grasp of history is amazing. And of human nature.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@lizziedripping71 I feel it with Empathy, imagining the hardship and losses, of loved ones and their homes, land, and traditions. I know it from the perspective of having had to be born in a foreign land, with both a more recent lineage if G-Grandparents from County Kerry and a lineage that dates to before the American Revolution which creates the DAR status, "Daughters of the American Revolution. It isn't a subject that one is best served by overly focusing in nor separating feelings as unimportant due to a time distance, it is real in its effects having continued to be largely ignored and so lightly dusted over, the continued attitudes, on both sides, that have yet to gain a true resolution. Resolution requires dealing with the facts and in this case those that are real feelings, and real families, separated from their land and family. Land that can still be tracked and traced through Pubilic Records. Imagine being removed from your home and then having to live in a 2 room structure on your land, and having to pay the individual living in your house for this privilege, while working for them and having such a low amount of pay that it doesn't cover the necessities of food, clothing, and housing, while being treated as unworthy of life itself. That constitutes a most Narcissistic level of ongoing emotional abuse and often it was accompanied by Physical, Sexual, Child, and Spiritual, *Abuse.* If one is familiar with and understands Quantum Physics Science, and understands we have Thoughts and Feelings that are either through our Lower Mind aka Ego Mind or our Higher Mind. From the perspective of the Higher Mind, one can discern, it is clear these energies are still present and until their firm changes, there exists disharmony. The whole of the subject was a Lower Mind associated actions, given that's where all the negatives reside: fear, judgemental, prejudices, jealousy, envy, abuse, etc. The Higher Mind comprising the positives: Love, Joy, Laughter, Self Worth, Harmony, and where Wisdom resides. Healing happens when the negative energies are released and focus is on the positives, the desires. Truths and sincere actions towards resolutions are key. In the 21st Century, there's a potential and probabilities for this to be explained. I believe it is a true reality in the now and we (the Irish) will have a freeing from those old energies.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@judeirwin2222 ❤

[@WOLFROY47]

they find a building mapped on an old map, so where do they dig in the bit with nothing marked ? crazy or what

[@phoule76]

they didn't have permission to dig among the graves on Day 1. plus, it's more interesting to dig in uncharted areas, compared to what has already been excavated.

[@ayrtonhockaday]

Tony on the roof... where was elf and safety?. No hi viz and no hard hat? Any risk assessment produced... of course not... it's called common sense

[@MrAlumni72]

Elf and safety? Where do you live, the north pole?

[@pehmomarsu]

I was a bit irritated that etymology of the name "Castor" was not brought up. "Castor" comes from old english word "ceaster", mispronounciation of the Roman word "castra", meaning a fort. Therefore, if I would be excavating place, described in Roman perioid writings as "Castor outside the town of Durobrivae", I would not be very surprised if there would be remains of roman fortress or some sort of military installation. Time Team is lacking their homework unlike Artis did.

[@Wotdermatter]

Just came across this episode. What is interesting is that during the whole thing the local vicar, or whatever he is, did not know that the term PRAETORIUM is mentioned in Matthew 27:27 and John 18:33 in the Holy Bible. He showed his ignorance regarding a serious part of the trial of Jesus Christ by not knowing this fact. Near the very end of the three-day dig, at 38:00, he reveals his lack of knowledge by trying to cover up and "DISCOVERS" the word in the Bible. Surprising he could not come up with the word earlier in the programme Would never trust a person in his position ever again to know about the life and death of Christ.

[@TheRedleg69]

Wotdermatter you're a loony. They never asked him for one. And B, the show is scripted.

[@johnbull1986]

@@TheRedleg69 the show wasn't scripted. Clearly, Tony's pieces to camera are but they're written 10 minutes before doing them as it is filmed over 3 days and they don't know what they will find.

[@tpseeker3367]

Just because they are digging on the grounds of a Church, that Doesn't mean that the Praetorium word in the byble has the same biblical meaning. They said a Praetorium is a BUILDING which Many Praetoriums are scattered around & even in Rome. Cherry 🍒 picking gone awry once again.

[@Libbathegreat]

@@johnbull1986 Sorry to burst your bubble but, yes, it is scripted. There are some spontaneous exchanges caught as well because they had cameras rolling all the time, but most is scripted.

[@Libbathegreat]

So he's "ignorant" but he knows how to read ancient Greek? K. Also the show is scripted, so he gave he information when he was asked to give it.

[@WOLFROY47]

i thought that the church is C of E not catholic, so why is the vicar so glad its roman and not anglo saxon or norman ?

[@fpreston9527]

In America they only find cowboys and Indians

[@bethbartlett5692]

Hey ....... 😒

[@lorawiese5596]

Not really, there are many places that have never been discovered, they are also finding dinosaur bones which is older than roman bones...so the experts say.

[@RoyalFizzbin]

Americans commenting here are sure to mention pre-historic finds that dot our land, and that’s all well and good, but to me, that stuff doesn’t match up to the wealth of Roman to medieval stuff you have in England. No contest.

[@adamsjerome1839]

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[@morrigan191]

I'm pretty sure Matt is a masochist...

[@andrewroy6376]

GEOPHIZZZZZZ.....The only thing that's annoying with this program. The rest is great as usual. Just please don't abbreviate.

[@HO-bndk]

That irritates the heck out of me too. I'm surprised he doesn't call it "Archie" instead of Archaeology.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@HO-bndk It's just verbal shorthand. Try not to let it bother you.

[@bizlove6876]

Just sprinkle some pottery on it ...

[@dianapotter8970]

I enjoyed this as I do all the episodes, but I was distressed that, after piously talking about how the buried bones should be respected, they just talked around them and gave them no respect at all. Even the vicar said nothing at the end! The bones should be exhumed and properly buried, or at least acknowledged and put into a protective container instead of being literally left in a ditch.

[@a.westenholz4032]

That would probably require digging a larger area to make sure you got all the bones belonging each individual, which would likely uncover more bones in so doing. Instead they respectfully simply allowed the bones to remain as they were, resting as they had for at least a century in the same graveyard they were buried in long before they were later moved to their present resting place. We can't even be sure to what extent those people's bones aren't to be found elsewhere as well. Besides all this assumes that it is possible to separate one body from the other, and not have to end up burying them all together again. Moreover, in what way were the bones left "literally in a ditch"? A hole was dug to put them in within the graveyard when digging another hole for a grave. You might as well call any hole dug for a grave a ditch. Or do you really think that people have always been burying their dead in coffins, pots or stone-lined graves? All through the Middle Ages and later most people went into the ground with just a linen shroud.

[@dianapotter8970]

@@a.westenholz4032 Thank you for this thoughtful reply to my comment above. I take your points and see the sense of them. Best to you, Diana

[@a.westenholz4032]

@@dianapotter8970 Your'e welcome. I only wish more people were like you- and not feel that they absolutely had to defend to the death anything they may have stated. We are all in the wrong at some point or another. I know I personally need to work on that myself. :)

[@dianapotter8970]

@@a.westenholz4032 Thank you, A! Best, D.

[@tpseeker3367]

Don't forget we only see a Very small snippet of the 3 day digs.

[@Lasher500]

Phil...such a bumpkin

[@WOLFROY47]

the original guy wouldnt have been using meters, we used yards chains perches poles feet inches etc etc not that foreign rubbish

[@PhillRobinson]

Utter disrespect of the dead

[@paulcook2592]

Which program did you watch?

[@tpseeker3367]

Which people are you referring to? The people that just threw the bodies in one atop of another on top of a floor or TT taking their time respecting the bones of the dead?

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

Would Tony please stop shouting?

[@minimaker5600]

turn you sound down . . .

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

Faye down-blouse at 26:24. You're welcome.

[@areyouavinalaff]

26:37

[@extolzebulon9831]

No wonder why Britain is going down.

[@7777777roma]

Looking at Old Bones how disrespectful to the deceased. This needs to be addressed correctly . Respect for the Dead.END

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

+Kathleen Fraser Fuck the dead.

[@7777777roma]

No that is not the way to go Have respect for the Dead Some day you will be there too.

[@garyrobinson2409]

I'd be perfectly happy for someone to "look" at my bones in several hundred years from now in the pursuit of knowledge. I have no idea what you're fussing about. Bones are bones. Even the vicar was fine with it, and what a brilliant vicar, educated, curious and open-minded, exactly how a rural vicar should be. He values the two thousand years of human history that rest beneath his feet.

[@7777777roma]

Respect all peoples all cultures and their religions and you do not have the spiritual good health mental good health to make a statement these bones of the deceased are barbarians - they are Celts revered the land and revered the power of life and were are more civilized then you will ever become. It is you who is the barbarian for your arrogance and pursuit on negative quantum physics . These people possessed a highly developed culture and Just who the hell do you think you are to determine who is a barbarian and who is not. Never never never never disturb the internment rest of the dead and their burial rituals or someone in the future may determine you are the barbarian an dig you up. YOu know nothing about GOD at all.

[@aimeebrass5266]

I am sure they try their hardest to dig them up respectably. To me disrespect would be yanking the bones out without care and throwing it in a pile. Plus, they did NOT start digging (or even thought about digging) until they knew they had permission. I think these people are more respectful than you give them credit for. And if the grave digger already disturbed graves, the damage is done. Time Team will hardly be ruining anything. And I know (having watched tons of their videos) they are as careful and thoughtful as possible. I have no clue where you got the word "barbarian" from. They didn't use it.

[@bobnoturbusiness9156]

Thumbs down for posting lo res fuzzy videos.

[@joanneclarke771]

Thank you so much for uploading these and making them available to me in Florida!