Time Team S20-E06 Lost Mines of Lakeland

Tony and the Team head to the Lake District on an expedition that takes them both higher and deeper than they've ever dug before.
They're on the trail of a forgotten piece of the nation's industrial heritage - the Lake District used to be a major source of valuable copper.
There are nearly two dozen old mines across these mountains. Some tunnels that are still visible 1500 feet up mountainsides are thought to have been established 400 years ago, when the valleys would have been studded with workshops, scaffolding and water-powered machines, and home to a brave band of Tudor miners.
But few signs remain of their presence, and nobody really knows what this place looked like back then. Archaeologists hardly know anything about Elizabethan mines.
The Team battle the rain, the wind and dangerously unstable trackways. But the combination of sheer effort and some ultra-high-tech kit finally takes them into the heart of the old mine-works.

[@jimdille6015]

Ian Powlesland is an amazing guy. He digs manually as well as Phil, drives the diggers with laser precision and knows his archaeo stuff as well as the professors.

[@janielaurel]

Ian is a Dr of Archeology at Bristol University. He's written at least one book I know of, and really knows his "stuff" ... I always find it so interesting that he's one of the two "Ian's" who operate the diggers, but he is so much more than that.

[@cookiesshorts6118]

He's been an archaeologist with the team since the beginning and this is the first direct comment unrelated to him in the digger. After 20 seasons. I'm an Ian fan!

[@danspooner2013]

Vnf😊

[@billijomaynard8924]

Nice to see Stuart back in a episode.

[@ilanamillion8942]

What a gorgeous place! The scenery is simply spectacular.

[@DesertWolf392]

Reason 484 why Phil is one of the best on the show

[@deserthunter8363]

The American West is full of old "stamp mills" in older mining areas. I remember "South Pass" WY. had one, I honestly can't remember where all of them were but we visited many many ghost towns and lots of them had stamp mills, usually 4 hammers.

[@om3g4z3r0]

What i like about this is how authentic their love for these expeditions, each and every one of these guys have a lot of respect and love for history and this is what makes this show so enjoyable. Theres nothing this authentic in tv or even internet nowdays.

[@michaelmccaffery2684]

yes, we archaeologists tend to love our history!!

[@Pauldjreadman]

This series is mindblowing. The reason it's so bloody good.

[@Spartan265]

What's funnier is the later seasons are not as good either. Specially after Mick left. Yet everything else on tv sucks so bad that even a lower quality time team is still miles better than anything else on lol. But I love all of it. Even the stuff without Mick.

[@barbaraalice8973]

Ju667y6766 8 July 6y66 it û6ô😊

[@barbaraalice8973]

Ju667y6766 8 July 6y66 it û6ô😊

[@jlindsey79]

To who ever made this channel... youre an amazing person.. my mental health thanks you sincerely for many many many good nights of sleep

[@eileenflute9382]

10:36 Phil bare-footing it through the water. What a trooper!

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Incredible episode!

[@sarahcoleman5269]

I'm not even 5 minutes in, and can I just say how beautiful this area is? Like, I need somebody to buy me a plane ticket to this place.

[@jenniferholden9397]

Sarah Coleman It's only about half an hour from my home. People ask me why does it rain so much in the Lake District. Well if it didn't it wouldn't have lakes. There are other reasons that are a bit more complex but that one suits me. It is really very commercialised now though, bloody Beatrix Potter (joke). Best wishes from the wet and windy wild (north) west.

[@Headwind-1]

with your parachute

[@adoxartist1258]

@@jenniferholden9397 Is this a caldera? Looks like it to me. I had no idea the UK had volcanoes. Don't know where I thought the coal came from. 🤦

[@jenniferholden9397]

Adox Artist If you look at Edinburgh Castle, it's built on a volcano. The great thing about the UK is that is quite small relatively speaking so all the archeology is quite compacted. You can't "turn a sod" as they say, without finding some archeology. I live in a little village near Lancaster, yep, Romans, hanging witches and wars of the roses, half an hour from the Lake District, 1hr45 from Manchester and Liverpool, 10 minutes from Yorkshire, the losers in the war of the roses and I'm really proud of it. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@adoxartist1258]

@frankos rooni Thanks for the replies, Frankos and @Jennifer Holden! I would love to visit the UK and Europe someday!

[@Lurker1979]

This place would be an epic setting for a classic horror movie. With that landscape and weather.

[@Pauldjreadman]

After the 19th season, things somewhat back to normal. After the first few episodes, you can tell the difference can't you.

[@TheShootist]

prior to complete cancellation. Mick's Bane destroyed the program.

[@JCO2002]

@@TheShootist Then when they tried to bring it back a couple of years ago, what did they do? Main hosts a black man with a white woman - pure woke cuckold crap, rather than a focus on archaeology.

[@thecoolchannel6431]

trying to imagine phil as a kid is the funniest thing ever

[@jenniferholden9397]

I wonder if those are his original shorts from his school days?

[@toniking7756]

Whaddayah mean? He gets excited and runs around, and had only the barest of filters... No matter how old he gets, all I see is the kid in him and I like him the better for it.

[@yulenapern6191]

Believe it or not, the opening of this episode makes me really, really miss the UK. :(

[@jdemo7167]

In hindsight I wonder if they realized how much danger they were in coming up that seasonal two track path. Simply breathtaking scenery, I want to visit there. Thanks for posting.

[@englishmaninfrance661]

In the mid 80's , I drove my girlfriends Fiat X1-9 up a very steep hill in this very area . When we got to the top we found a completely deserted Roman Camp . Got out to take a look and we could HEAR the legion marching around , it was so bizarre it sent tingles up my spine . Nothing to do with copper mining of course but I thought some might find it interesting . Oh , and on the way back down we were stopped and told we shouldn't have been up there because the road was closed . There had been not a single sign saying that . Lake District is a fabulous area .

[@granskare]

they could have driven a nice DS-21 wagon :) In the UP of Mich.,USA , indians had mined for copper eons ago...the Keeweenaw was loaded with copper.

[@lordleonusa]

Britain is such a magnificent Country, more topographically diverse than about any other country on earth, for its' size

[@billhenry7213]

Except for New Zealand, Or Hawai'i (though not a country, Hawai'i is still a small isolated body of land with a diversity from alpine to rainforest to desert.)

[@neonskyline1]

the problem is it belongs to only a few, end of your fantasy about it

[@sc0ttishlass]

Yay Stewart is back AND no more co-hostess. Season 19 was such a mistake. Poor GeoPhys .. being used as guinea pigs :) I love the cameraderie of the whole lot.

[@Pauldjreadman]

I am guessing they changed it back in this series due to public feedback. Why else would they only appear and then disappear? The original format is far superior minus the late Mick Aston R.I.P

[@phoule76]

still no Victor!

[@theastronomer5800]

Beautiful location. Aiming to do my next trip to that region (from Canada).

[@MsLeebee2]

l cant beleive its there summer. looks more like our winter here in Australia. great show just love it tfs

[@mermeridian2041]

I keep holding my breath in fear that someone's going over the side into the sometimes-visible lake! That does NOT look like a safe dig site but they handled it well.

[@phoule76]

There is one Dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath!

[@johannaholmgren8088]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ThomasBenjaminBenHuggett]

31:26 - John wanting so much to join the camera table

[@ezpipes]

My goodness she is stunning, beautiful, and smart.........

[@johnsowerby7182]

Fond memories of hiking around Coniston...

[@stephanblack4558]

Me too on the Old man.

[@EgholmViking]

i love that landscape and the weather :D reminds me of home a bit further north :) mm.. i realy want home to the Faroe islands again soon :P

[@dr.douglaswilde1155]

@ 9:00 is the first appearance of Suzy Lipscombe. She was appointed to a personal chair as Professor of History at the University of Roehampton in January 2019.

[@MelissaThompson432]

Does she still mispronounce "Houghstetter"? I know Hochstetters, and I feel very sure the name is the same, just spelled with pre-standardized Elizabethan spelling.... The "CH" sound is pronounced as a gutteral "CH" today, as is "GH" in words such as "lough," which I presume is the reason the name was spelled "hough"-stetter.... In any case, I doubt it's pronounced "hosh"-stetter.... I may be somewhat obsessed, but it stops me cold. I have no idea what the woman said other than "hosh."

[@rbzvncnt]

@@MelissaThompson432 As a German here, the pronunciation was allright, there is some variance between the German dialects and even small differences in quite close localities. Hochstetter can well sound like hoh-shtetter

[@Moshe_Kraintz]

I live her documentaries on English history

[@doncook2054]

@@MelissaThompson432 in a southern german dialect ...how she pronounce ed it would be correct...You are referencing the Hoch-Desutch..Tne southern dialect is the major pronunciation in the english-speaking world.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@doncook2054 I'm American. It seems English is a separate language. Everybody I know says "ho{chh} stetter"

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Francis and Stewart work well , so refreshing from the attitude that John geo phys always has on site!

[@MelissaThompson432]

I love John, and, you might not realize it, but John and Stewart also work very well as a team.

[@jeremyrobbins8033]

He did, didn't he... He always came off as annoyed and irritable. imo

[@efox2001]

We love the Lake District, can't wait to go back there! Can anyone, familiar with the area, say whether Coniston is a good spot for hiking? Catbells is on our list of places we want to revisit.

[@richardjh929]

Everywhere in the Lake District is good for hiking!

[@petersmedley459]

I understand that you are not native to the area...but are you from Earth or do you have interstellar wisdom to share...? P.S. Yes, Coniston is quite okay for hiking...keep going, you’ll find Scotland, it will blow your mind ;)

[@jenniferholden9397]

There was an elderly chap who walked the Lake District for most of his life. Each hike he did he wrote a review, drew a line sketch and who that walk was appropriate for, he put these in his book and it’s so handy to have to accompany on your hike, stops you missing things. This gent is now deceased but his many, many books are still very popular. His name was Wainwright and I would like to think that he’s still wandering around and occasionally stopping to draw another little view.

[@efox2001]

@@petersmedley459 I'm afraid I can't answer that for you...

[@StephiSensei26]

Grand episode! Um-pa-pa!

[@1andonlylynda]

INCO in Ont. Canada has a copper mine in the very small town of Conniston. Guess now I know where they got the name originally.

[@1andonlylynda]

Celto Loco A friend of mine from England said she could never figure out why BC was such a draw for British people. She said southern Ont. was so much more like England. As for names we also have Stratford on the Avon.

[@jacksprat9344]

***** Lived on Pentland Walk in Portobello for a few months back in winter of '72...

[@1andonlylynda]

that is not really northern Ont. about 10 hours south east of us. :)

[@Headwind-1]

@@1andonlylynda no . .Stratford-upon-Avon

[@juliechi6255]

And I was raised in Keswick...Keswick, Virginia, US.

[@jeremyrobbins8033]

Jim Henson designed Francis's laugh.

[@NathanielKempson]

And they call it a mine! A MINE!!

[@CFarnwide]

Diggy Diggy Hole 😂

[@ItsMe-io5bl]

The rest of it is underneath, goes down at least another 1000 feet from there, below sea level, which is why a lot of the workings are now flooded

[@michaelmccaffery2684]

maybe you are not familiar with the definition of a mine because these definitely fit the bill. a. A hole or tunnel dug into the earth from which ore or minerals are extracted. b. A surface excavation where the topmost or exposed layer of earth is removed for extracting its ore or minerals.

[@thesteadingoffranya4423]

I agree more of a dark hole of death than a mine

[@DD-bn2mx]

wow, a 3 day expedition and their hotel reservations are about to run out!

[@theeddorian]

They really rather blow the "explanation" of how the ore was handled. The material put into the stamp mill would have been fairly chunky. It would have been brought from the ore face after being mined in hand or animal drawn carts, directly to the stamp mill. There it would been pounded into anything from fine gravel to powder. That would have been moved to the smelter. The extracted ore at the working face, would have required nothing but a primary processing other than to pick the material over, tossing waste rock and retainaing any color. The small mortars could have been used to crack away extra waste from ore. That would enrich the material sent to the stamp mill, and depending on how they were paid could have increased the entire crew's pay based on the weight of extracted metal.

[@lc4011]

I'm pretty sure Francis is feeling car sick.

[@schwadevivre4158]

8:33 "Copper mining ... industry virtually unknown" until Elizabethan times. Please tell the miners of Devon Cornwall and, famously, the Alderley Edge Blue John mines

[@spacewater7]

Not to mention the bronze age

[@Travius94]

Thats why they say "as an industry"... They do not say that they did not mine for copper... They just didn't do it on an industrial scale

[@schwadevivre4158]

@@Travius94 Please visit Alderley Edge and then tell me Blue John mining was not on an industrial scale.

[@Travius94]

@@schwadevivre4158 Mhmm they look massive, although between Roman times and the 1690s they were apparently not worked... So to be fair: this seems to be on a fairly large scale in Roman times. But the point is, to be on an industrial scale it takes a lot more than just some big holes in the ground. For example here in Germany there are mines that date back thousands of years which are also massive. However nobody would suggest that it's on an "industrial" scale since the pre-requisits are not met. I remember that other show with Sir Toni where he walked this historical paths in East England and Phil showed him the pre-historic flint mines. These were massive and there were a lot of them, but you surely wouldn't suggest that they mined flint on an industrial scale. Since I can't visit Alderley Edge myself I unfortunately have to rely on Wikipedia and from what I can extract there I still think the show was right.

[@schwadevivre4158]

@@Travius94 It seems you have a limited definition of "industrial" Cornwall was the prime supplier of tin in western Europe but there is little evidence of tin mining because the methodology was to "stream" the tin (and copper) a little like panning for gold There is some evidence of shallow drift mining (similar to the Lakeland lead miners) on the edges of the moors. The problem is that much evidence of the scale seems to have been lost due to the later massive exploitation of the resources following the introduction of the overhead (overhand) stope and shaft mine methods by the Rhineland and Cumbrian miners. That said the Stannary Parliament provided extensive income to the Duchy throughout the mediaeval period

[@ruthtuschling8362]

The Swallows and Amazons children's books from the 1930s, set in the Lake District, include references to copper mining and exploring abandoned mines (in Pigeon Post) - don't do this at home!

[@darreno9874]

Miners did have machines, water, horse or man powered. From windlass and whims to stamp mills. Look at De Re Metallica. They may not have used all the machines available, but probably a whim at least. As for the actual mining hand drilling could have been done and the holes filled with quick lime to break the rock, a plug and feathers could also be used, as could fire setting. To move the ore around they could have had wheel barrows, sleds hand barrows.

[@MG-gt6hp]

Phil is so cool lol.

[@underwaterlaser1687]

Tirol is not Germany at all. Apart from the fact that Germany didn’t exist yet during Elisabethan times. Breathtaking landscape - need to visit the Lake District!

[@maeve4686]

Phil gets a doctorate and Tony gets knighted. Raksha started a program to encourage girls into archaeology, Bridg went back to Australia and onto her own show there. Matt and Phil are at Wessex Archaeology. Anyone else know what happened to the other regulars? John, Stewart, Mitch the Dig, Rob, Ian, the artist? (I'm old and can't remember his name or any other regs- P.S -don't get old) plus the lovely couple who did computer work...

[@annk.8750]

In the last year Victor Ambrus (artist) died, as did the occasional contributors Berwick Morley and a couple of others.

[@SharpAssKnittingNeedles]

Bridg is a kiwi good lord how could you mistake her accent? 😘

[@StevenWilliams0302]

@@annk.8750 I didn't know Victor died! :(

[@antonyandrerenaissanceart977]

somewhere in the 20 years of time team Phil Harding got his doctorate in archeology. to Dr. Phil Harding.

[@pumkinvine4175]

Phil's doctorate in archeology is an honorary degree.

[@tripleransom4349]

@@pumkinvine4175 He certainly deserved it.

[@scarletfluerr]

Just because his education came from the trench and not from the book does it mean he didn't deserve a doctorate. He knows his archaeology better than many in the field.

[@lindasue8719]

28:32 I couldn't resist, I checked an online historical currency converter. 8 shillings in 1550 equals almost £110 per bucket.... But it took a week to progress 1 ft. I wonder how many buckets that is the equivalent of? That was Elizabethan times - heck, if one could speculate that 1 ft equals at least one bucket, I've worked jobs around the 2000s that earned that little (Vancouver is a terrible place for incomes and affordable living)!! So only one quarter of that depending on the quality of the ore.

[@stephanblack4558]

Hi Coniston from Regina, Canada.

[@WOLFROY47]

my dads favorite saying " if a jobs worth doing its worth doing properly " nowdays its, throw it away and buy a new one, no pride, in what is produced, and, what about the people who would have repaired things ? throw away objects, throw away people, i dont think much of your future

[@Headwind-1]

us o' twits have had the best of this world, good luck with it you youngstars

[@WOLFROY47]

whats weird about it smelling of copper ? even copper pipe smells of copper ask any plumber

[@ronc7743]

"Coppery smell of blood", I read that many times.

[@JETWTF]

Well I hope copper smells of copper.

[@markjackson5665]

@alanrtment porter No, she definitely says it "smells" of copper. (Nothing to do with blood, though, I agree...) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXnJhKOroZWApdU

[@jdurao6112]

lol! those roads where hard on their old bones.

[@karmayt8956]

Queen Elisabeth was an educated businesswoman.

[@jehansanzterre3956]

Sounds like the knockers got old Simon.

[@blaggercoyote]

I used to find lots of bits of clay pipe in my walled garden which dated back to 1851.

[@gazzaboo8461]

I imagine smelting at the mine area would be necessary for forging tools, repairs and making jigs, just like we do today. It's not as though they could quickly nip off to the local hardware store, and they are a long way from anywhere, even by horse and wagon. You needed to be a lot more self sufficient back then. I can't imagine how uncomfortable, strenuous and dangerous the life they endured up there. Those were some manly Men for certain.

[@benediktmorak4409]

one can understand why it is - 3 days only-. after all there were 40 people up there. and their gear. one has to feed them. have their TEA!!!!!!! they needs toilets.. and a million other things. even that -we - all know by now that it needed more than just those - 3 days -, the logistics for those weekend digs must have been amazing.

[@kimepp2216]

They should have looked in the lake, thats where waste objects would be thrown.

[@conniekiers9554]

that pipe stem found in the 1st trench, where they thought was a forge, could that pipe, instead of being used for smoking tobacco, not have been the blowpipe from the assayer's workshop like Jerry MacDonald said?

[@vickiewallace415]

I defy anyone ,no matter where in the world you are… to approach what you do for a living with his much joy and innocent glee as a car full of archaeologists

[@jessewilson8676]

If the tunnel was originally hand dug I would expect they might have used the heat and splash method of driving a mine tunnel should have been evidence of that if they looked.

[@jamieivester6123]

on a secondary note- dr.suzanah lipscomb...hands down hottest historian ever

[@Headwind-1]

she is hot

[@OUigot]

She is easy on the eyes....but she's a 2nd rate historian.

[@GrahamCLester]

Score a point for Francis!

[@tphvictims5101]

Do they camp on these digs?

[@MrAlumni72]

It certainly would have saved them a lot of time traveling back and forth at the start and end of each day. I always wonder why they don't set up camp in places where they have to go very far; in this case it could have potentially doubled their time on-site.

[@Raven101able]

At 30:20-30:36, the far bank of the waterway looks to be man made, as does the hole (mine-shaft?) in the background and the square hole with remains of a wall and several slabs of wall laying nearby, above the far bank below the shaft (Cave?). Perhaps the stampmill straddled the creek and was anchored above the man made wall on the far side?

[@brianhaskard1042]

Suzi is beautiful, but Cassie is more my type, pretty, clever and a bit cheeky.

[@Headwind-1]

I bet she does I bet she does . . . .

[@richardphillips6281]

But would she think you are her type?

[@PtolemyJones]

What? Stacked stones and Francis didn't claim temple, or ritual? Shocking! hehehe... Curious about that law suit thought regarding waste, did the guy change how he did business after that fine? I also wish they could have spared five minutes about the plane crash.

[@scottscottsdale7868]

You would think that finding evidence of destructive mining would be easy.

[@WOLFROY47]

they got a bit desperate, so, two tiny bits of copper ore were made to be more significant than they really were, if it had been a tudor house, two bits of pot wouldnt have been considered as proof, also, wheres the wheel pit ? OR the channel for the water run off, yes i did see that the wheel was off of the ground in the drawing

[@TheSWolfe]

I believe their plan to approach/dig this like any other archeological site worked against them. Might've done them some good to incorporate a bit of cultural anthropology & include a seasoned mine exploring team awa old timers who'd once worked nearby mines & would've, most likely, had historical knowledge, passed from generation to generation, of the site layout & where each section of the workings would've been & their purpose.

[@Sarge80]

a small piece or ore and a cobbled surface, and they know its the stamp mill, thats stretching it abit too far, then say, we guess it was here, because with just that you cant prove it.

[@karmayt8956]

I heard the old timers built fires next to the mineral seams then poured cold water on the rocks to crack the seam open.

[@blaggercoyote]

Are we nearly there yet?

[@heatherdickau5335]

English verison of Mordor.

[@happygardener28]

it makes no sense to say the tudors would not have used machines... during construction of 12th century castles, cathedrals - human hamster wheels were used to lift loads so the logical thing would be to have something similar at the mines. many common things are left out of descriptions and drawing because they were common or they were a craft secret.

[@DanKetchum007]

Oh god. I once had to edit a documentary full of Oktoberfest music. I got so sick of it I still can't stand it.

[@lameesahmad9166]

In Cape Town, South Africa a lot of the European Immigrants were Germans who were escaping the economic and social hell caused by the 'Thirty Years War' and the 'Great Northern War'.They brought their Oompa music with them. This music gradually changed and became what they call "Boere Musiek" (farmers Music). It is a cross over between a jovial country dance tune and the Oompa rhythm. The Afrikaner population love it and have a wonderful time dancing to it. They call their dance 'Saki Saki'. It escapes the dour double bass, clarinet, accordion or trombone and drum overture by combining it with the rhythms of the squash box, banjo, fiddle and sometimes the cymbal. To get them into the party mood these people normally lace this musical confectionery with a good dollop of either Coke and brandy, a bottle of good quality Cape wine or one of their own locally distilled spirits sobered with a large braaivleis (barbecue) with loads of meat, salads and toasted cheese and tomatoe sandwiches. It is light music and actually quite enjoyable. But it does have its limits and stays within the border of the Afrikaner folk. It is dying out as most of the new generation would rather die than start their own 'Boere Musiek' band. Most of the members of the most popular bands have grown old and died. Luckily for the Afrikaner with today's technology a lot of the old records have been recaptured onto CD's and DVD's by modern apparatus making the music available for future generations. If they have a barbecue and someone plays the Boere Musiek they still love it and if they have room enough they will grab their partner and 'Saki Saki'.

[@genemayne1577]

AND ALL MONEYS WENT ROYALS

[@eleidal]

Is Austria not a concept here? Tyrol has never been German (except under Hitler...) They are notorious for tidy clean habits. I wonder if that would result in less artifacts left onsite?

[@mmtmc2320]

What was Francis near the water doing at the end?

[@jarnonelis1518]

Phil representing the Netherlands

[@robinconkel-hannan6629]

I thought the copper mines were in Wales..

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Several places.

[@robinconkel-hannan6629]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 Several places in Wales or also in England

[@seekernz7790]

They were mining copper in Wales(great orme) 3500 yrs ago, the largest bronze age coppermines in the world! The tudor mines are chicken scratchings in comparison.

[@1959Berre]

Don't mention the war.

[@GrahamCLester]

Tony mentioned it briefly but I think he got away with it.

[@TrapperAaron]

400 years ago during the age of queen Elizabeth. America: she looks really good for her age.

[@Fox1nDen]

mining is dirty. Germans are tidy. the alcoves are mudrooms and dog houses for storing muddy boots and tools and removing muddy clothes. the thing with the lintel over the fire was a grill for cooking or the lighter heat suggests for drying clothes. Germans are fastidious, they would not have left rubbish around their work places. That is why they left you no finds.

[@chinamanjw]

Omg dr lipscomb 😍

[@user-mz6ts4xn6i]

ye shes mega hot. academic crush

[@ronc7743]

Why was it necessary to store copper ore inside a building? I think the buildings were more likely shelters against the weather. Of course copper ore would have been inside, it would have permiated everything. But what do I know….

[@cathjj840]

Risk of theft? Easier to get out? Less risk of any being lost sliding down a pile?

[@Headwind-1]

why not

[@LarryThePhotoGuy]

The minors were payed per bucket of ore. Stealing is a lot easier than mining.

[@johnryan2193]

To to is worried about his belly

[@markgarin6355]

Piles of rocks outside a couple of mines...hmmmm. Duh

[@WOLFROY47]

irony or what ? cobblers level has a cobbled floor, no, not a boot mender, hed be in the town

[@gb5uq]

Always makes me chuckle when he says our history and our ancestors when his ancestors were Turko Mongolian Khazars.

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

Who?

[@roncrouse1469]

This episode is, unfortunately, a great example of "a little bit of knowledge being dangerous".

[@jillbecker8651]

She didn’t say ‘smell copper’ she said ‘smelt copper’...look it up!

[@robinconkel-hannan6629]

Copper has a scent and taste of it's own.. All ores do..

[@Satters]

Indeed smelting is the process of producing the metal from the ore

[@LarryThePhotoGuy]

Then why were they sniffing it and handing it around? Ritual?

[@icelandviking1961]

Larry The Photo Guy laughing my ass off you are right but Jill needs to correct grammar and spelling.

[@niklar55]

The producers thought they could turn the show into a 'personality' show, and forget the archaeology. Mick Aston, the archaeologist who had started the program disagreed and left. The 'personalities' were no substitute for the main interest, archaeology, and the show died. Another 'cunning plan' that failed.

[@Gribbo9999]

+niklar55 Agree - lowest common denominator rules again. A great pity.

[@niklar55]

Gribbo9999 Mmm, Unfortunately, by the time their mistake became obvious, Mick Aston had died, probably of a broken heart, so they no longer had his guidance to get the program back on track. Presumably, nobody else was interested in reviving a 'dead duck.'

[@Lemma01]

Robinson was always dumbing this down, right from the start. A revised version - only with intelligent commentary, rather than his mixture of sub-BlackAdder mock-cynicism and feeble bonhomie would be so much better...

[@SharpAssKnittingNeedles]

To be fair, Susie is way better than the chick in season 19.

[@michielderuyter6011]

9:08 Suzannah 😍 22:21 🥰 32:06 😘 38:45 🤪

[@russell7489]

Copper mining not until Elizabethan times????? Copper tin mines & exported back to pre Roman times at least all the way to Med

[@ashleycurtis7741]

the first part where they look at the burnt chared earth in the fire pit looking thing some feet down, they were like well if was fire place or pit where's the smoke stack etc . if was copper mine I think it was a oven like thing to melt it, why no smoke stack or chimney n why looks chared all around n a fire pit. I heard them say every possible thing except that. jus sayin lol.

[@joshua.snyder]

24:48

[@lashersquirrelslayer]

Suzie Lipscomb has hair that makes me wanna give it a little tug...;)

[@mch12311969]

She's distractingly beautiful

[@richardphillips6281]

And she would probably give you a good face slap in return!

[@tehbonehead]

The animated stamping mill strongly resembles a fairly annoying obstacle from God of War....

[@annk.8750]

I think the illustration might be from "De Re Metallica". I once had a copy of that, translated into English by Herbert Hoover.

[@Headwind-1]

what about cornish miners and the pint quaffing blonde . . .!

[@mickymickle2764]

at 30 sec MINERS not minors! (Galaxy Quest reference)

[@mickymickle2764]

@@philipwilliams5808 "Everyone should watch Galaxy Quest." I would highly recommend it, but some people don't like sci-fi, even if it is really a comedy sci-fi. It is best if you know the original Star Trek, but works even if you don't! I had this in/out of my "cart" multiple times, not knowing anything about it and finally decided to give it a try. Now, having watched it so many times, I say if I had to give up all my movies but one, this would be the one I would keep! So many good performances, Alan Rickman was very very good (5 curtain calls...), but my favs during the first viewings and even now are some of the "aliens", most of whom I have never heard of! They were awesome! Sam Rockwell, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shaloub, Tim Allen, even the bit players like Justin Long and Dian Bachar and many others!

[@Headwind-1]

@@mickymickle2764 s weaver is a alien

[@minimaker5600]

@@mickymickle2764 I LOVED Galaxy quest, all because of Alan Rickman at his droll best!

[@Paleoman]

Ooommpa Ooommpa band- Lets bury the band for a time team 3oo yrs from now. They'll figure it out & be snap on why the band was buried with their instruments....

[@spacewater7]

Can't help but notice that by day 3 and with a new driver they are booking it up that track. Also Cassie may be cute as the dickens but Lord gal you need to work on your hammering technique. Here gal, let me show you how it's done.