The Roman Masterpiece Buried In A Graveyard | Time Team | Timeline

The team face digging through a church graveyard in search of what could be one of the largest Roman structures ever built in Britain. Tony Robinson and his band are here at the request of the Reverend William Burke, vicar of the historic St Kyneburgha's church in Castor, Cambridgeshire. Under very close supervision, the Team must dodge the thousands of burials in the graveyard to get to an ornate mosaic floor.
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[@CodonQuixote]

I don't know who I am, I don’t know why I'm here, All I know is that I must watch every Time Team episode ever made.

[@yiannimil1]

the Great Algorythym brougth us here

[@samc5794]

thats all covid talk

[@bethbartlett5692]

We all adore Phil and Mick, we recognize the platinum value of Tony and his true Narrative gifts, but also, over time and the numbers of shows watched, it has become clear that Stewart and Helen are/were the weights that added the balancing harmony of this Production. The total having been the Success of this Show. They added what was required for us to enjoy so many episodes of enjoying the interactions of Phil, Mick, and Tony, and their torturing of John, Rakshar, and Matt, a true Team-Player! Love Matt. ...and everyone appreciates an Artist and their works. I adore Helen and feel she gave such a value to the energy balance of this show. Likewise I find immense value in Landscape Archaeology and and Stewart's works are what I've come to look forward to in each show. When I see a show absent of these 2, I immediately lose interest and scroll for another. The few I've watched w/o them are a pale comparison. I haven't quite figured out the Timeline of the Individuals but it seemed to have evolved well and then there's a wacky shift that loses the energy that makes it so fabulous a treat to watch. But, I didn't watch Time Team when it was current, I'm a USA KZbin viewer. Those obvious in not mentioned - "if you can't say something nice ..."

[@davidshelow5334]

A praetorium is the seat of the praetor, a local or regional official in the Roman bureaucracy. I would have liked to hear more about Kyneburgha. Helen is a gem: "Everybody likes something to pretty as well as functional... like my hat." What a great show, in a great series.

[@timothymercer3526]

Ppplp00

[@loricarter2394]

I’m 97% sure this has been uploaded before, but I don’t mind watching it again, it’s so entertaining. As an American, it’s amazing to me all the history that can be dug up. Much love from Tennessee ❤️❤️❤️

[@stephjezo6470]

A lot will seem like duplicates because there are several channels that have them in a lesser quality. I, too, don't mind seeing episodes again!

[@krisharms2537]

Hehe, I know what you mean. But there

[@davidmunro6939]

This priest and the time team are respectful professionals. This history is to good to loose.

[@SweatpantsPG]

Lose has one o. Just a heads up.

[@annarushlau9722]

I love Phil, “Forget that, this is reality.” About John the Geophysicist getting upset about his radar picture.

[@Tunapie]

Old churches and graveyards fascinates me.

[@bigbelix]

Tony Robinson really is an ASDA Attenborough, love him.

[@claymonsterpottery]

Stewart is a beautiful and brilliant human being.

[@chammomile]

"...the rectory garden next Matthew." "Anything you say Mr. Ainsworth!" Oh Matthew.

[@rachelcollins8158]

I absolutely love Time Team.

[@chrisbassett8996]

i love the way they act the part, and help us visualize how it really was, and how they made things. it'sfascinating

[@dickyt.6622]

The skeleton is sh**ing bricks!! Love the show learn a lot from you guys! Thanks for your efforts Time Team!

[@Lukathius]

That priest is awesome, seems genuinely excited, and interested about the excavation.

[@kathleenkilmartin5494]

I agree. But… oh my gosh I love your profile picture. I played that game quite a bit when I was younger.

[@pauljonorato4990]

The priest would be excited if they found a june bug! Can you imagine how dull a priests life is.

[@LesbianQueen97]

Ikr! its awesome to see people getting interested in stuff like this who have the ability to help grant access to work :)

[@rondifrankel]

Castor being derived from the Latin "castrum", meaning a fort. That alone indicates an important military establishment here.

[@mariansmith7694]

Need to give this site a YEAR, not just 3 days.

[@bartvandenberg4901]

Propper archeologist would give it a year, this is just digging around for amusment!

[@klarissak]

That’s been my thought all along watching their videos. The need more than just the 3 days allotted in each episode.

[@clarissavaida4058]

@@klarissak Me too! It kind of annoys me when they say, we have to do all this in just 3 days! And I think, why the 3 day limit? I always wonder if they keep on digging in those areas or stop because it’s just a show. I would love to see the results after giving each dig a proper amount of time. Still love the show, though. It’s keeping me grounded during these crazy times!

[@TheSofres]

@@clarissavaida4058 I wonder if they are just the starters and another team continues

[@ultimatewitcherfan6677]

You have to keep in mind that they were digging in a graveyard. They needed special permission to be able to do it. Plus they had to be careful not to disturb the remains. They could have been in serious trouble for desecrating the graves. People have been arrested for that so they had to be extremely careful.

[@DavidHukill]

It seems like I say this after every episode, but I really love this show!

[@estevaocunha5302]

In almost all of your programs that have been done over the years, rain is always a constant.

[@CelticSaint]

UK

[@veritas41photo]

You cannot believe how irksome are those super-aggravating History Hit ads at the beginning of every Timeline episode!

[@maxschon7709]

I guess the church is made hugely from the stones of the Pritorium. When Tony walken on the balcony of the church tower you see marking on the stones

[@intermodus2180]

*pretorium 🏛️

[@nouka9248]

@@intermodus2180 actually, Praetorium

[@intermodus2180]

@@nouka9248 my language is my own. But admittedly, i like your version better🖖

[@DM-wu5hn]

If KZbin had a "donate" button next to the "like" button, I would have pushed it.

[@michellezevenaar]

Thier are channels that have that option during live events. You often can then ask a question thats highlighted.

[@2tiddies404]

it rains every episode. britian is a crazy place.

[@davidmunro6939]

Phil is a magician. He could find a chamber pot on pluto. HA HA HA.

[@bonjouralliecat]

She's not wrong. That hat is magnificent.

[@inwalters]

I think the church is there because that's where the praetorium was located. When the Anglo-Saxons arrived they asked the locals, "who owns this?" and they said "the government". The Anglo-Saxons said, "Well we're the government now, so it's ours". Later an Anglo-Saxon king gave the land to the church, as they often did.

[@MINDSET4LIFE143]

Someone get Phil some nail clippers please

[@CelticSaint]

I believe he is a keen guitarist. Notice the nails are only long on one hand.

[@RoseCarroll-pk6mt]

Thank you ❤😂😊😅

[@jamesmark6547]

Another pleasant pottery & tile find, with a bit of rockery...

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

Who knew that Baldrick is so well versed on history, I thought he was only a turnip specialist.

[@timdevine6126]

But he dose have some cunning plans.

[@JohnThomas-wi3dl]

Just awesome!

[@coloringwithd]

This was great. For some reason it seems really familiar, as though I've seen it before. Either way it was good. ♥♥♥

[@TeresaTrimm]

First aired March 20, 2011.

[@justgonnagetbetter1037]

Thank you so much! Very helpful to us from the states that have just totally gotten hooked on timeline and wonder what the timeline of the show is!

[@TeresaTrimm]

@@justgonnagetbetter1037 IKR!? I started doing that when I realized that I was always curious about when it was first aired.

[@CelticSaint]

@@justgonnagetbetter1037 Google 'List of Time Team episodes' look on Wikipedia.

[@davidcollins9512]

All the lists I've found had this as Time Team Episode 6 of Series 18 "Under the Gravestones" Castor Cambridgeshire. First broadcast 20 March 2011 (so filmed during 2010)

[@TeresaTrimm]

Wow. I was way off!! I tried to get it right. Thank you!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

thank you

[@karenabrams8986]

Need to spend some more days here!

[@blorac9869]

Enjoyed!

[@SaucyBernase]

love all the different accents.

[@detlefschnepel2237]

Must be the wind direction… I think I can smell Phil’s hat

[@annamcnarin]

Wonder if they kept part of the steps out, since part of it was in a current walkway. And I do wonder if they cleaned and photographed any of the tiles before reburying those who had been disturbed by grave robbers. This episode was very fascinating to say the least.

[@williamfindspeople4341]

A great vacation site for the Historian.

[@varschnitzschnur8795]

1a: an ancient Roman general's tent in a campb: a council of war held in such a tent 2a: the official residence of an ancient Roman governorb: a splendid countryseat or a palatial residence especially in ancient Rome

[@MrSharp]

Bedankt

[@coyotej4895]

I was taught that for some 50 to 100 years in many parts of England and Europe in general there was an effort by some to wipe out Roman, Norman or "Viking" ruins. Would not this be a possibility here. Known Roman architecture demolished with out reference in the attempt to "Erase" them from the areas History?

[@matt47110815]

I would guess that it was just seen as old stuff, junk. My hometown Hamburg (Germany) went through a phase in the latter part of the 19th Century, the old Half-Timbered Houses were seen as outdated, dirty and such, and they were almost all torn down. I personally would not she a tear for any Architecture from the 1960s and 1970s, it looks horrible - yet 2000 years from now it may be seen as a time period lost and gone.

[@paulbennett5549]

Who would possibly give this a thumbs down??

[@polarisworks]

25:23 reference to Baldric 😃

[@SkyHoustonCrypto]

Salute #weRallONE

[@cgleck780]

I feel like I watched an episode of The Curse of Oak Island

[@lesmason7263]

What a delightful gentleman ( I use the term advisedly) the parson is. He who can read the Greek testament. Alas for my little Latin and non existent Greek. But, is he a rector or a vicar? The caption when he first appeared called him rector, but the video prologue calls him vicar. Rector and vicar are very different things . Still good English parson stands for all, and let the tithes fall as they may.

[@elizabethjansen2684]

A former coworkers daughter had to learn greek to become a Lutheran priest

[@cbm2156]

Did the guy who found staggering rates of artifacts do his digging before or after he visited the Pub?

[@bluenoteone]

Funny thing! Usually there is a sober but respectful regard for those buried, whether individual or a mass burial. Here, the dead are for the most part ignored. I assume the bodies will be gathered as well as possible and given a respectful re-burial or taken to a lab and storage facility, treated properly. Or are you just going to push soil back on top again and jump up and down over the fact you found a tile floor?

[@along9971]

Not sure why Phil's accent gets stronger on tje newer episodes, he sounds like Werzel Gummadge

[@matthewmann8969]

Greek, And Persian one's need to be uncovered a lot more also

[@OstblockLatina]

*ones

[@TesterAnimal1]

Not many in the UK.

[@troyheffernan1261]

The church is Templar. The clover in the windows is a dead giveaway.

[@SteelWolf13]

33:51 it's free.

[@drippzzfn5838]

Do the people leave the digs open, or fill them back in?

[@barbhacking8614]

you have the map upside down. the ruins are in the school yard, not under/adjacent to the road !!!

[@edgeplay4205]

If it is a preatorium, or a country house occupied by a governor, it would have had a temple to Jupiter in the grounds. It will have been converted into a church. This area would have been overrun by Vikings and the temple become a ruin. So when the church was built, it was not built on top as usual but immediately beside the rubble of the temple ruin to minimize cartage.

[@edgeplay4205]

@Napoleon Hercules Thanks - I been reading too much Greek. Fixed it.

[@MoeElliot]

For all us men of culture the real treasure can be found at 21:24.....cheers

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[@CopperAboriginies]

Hmm Time line it’s self is an interesting Title.

[@davidcollins9512]

Timeline reshowing Time Team giving two terrific titles

[@unclerojelio6320]

Helen!

[@seanjustinkvalsvig1581]

Jackie always has the same purple pants

[@varschnitzschnur8795]

Are you talking about a praetorium or pretorium?

[@wwhizz]

The Latin term praetorium-or prætorium or pretorium-originally signified a general's tent within a Roman castrum, castellum, or encampment. It derived from the name of one of the chief Roman magistrates, the praetor. Wikipedia

[@juliechi6166]

Stewart!!! So cute in that suit!!

[@Libbathegreat]

Colin Firth of TT indeed :D

[@lindakokinda8145]

its all in the local houses

[@froggleggers1805]

Heck, what's the diff? time? You never think about digging up thousand year old graves, but there is something wrong with digging up more recent?

[@KjKase]

Probably because the family is still alive.

[@pedrobernardo5887]

May I ask. Why do they only get 3 days?

[@mykeybarbee2587]

So does it all get filled back in or what? Why dig it up just to cover it over again?

[@carolnewton496]

Didn't they say one of the Emperors was there? Perhaps they built this for him and his "court"?

[@boydgrandy5769]

The site has been dug (read disturbed) by gifted amateurs, who have subsequently backfilled their digs. That means that everything is mixed and is not as it was originally deposited. That probably is the explanation for the poor performance of the geophysical survey equipment in these areas.

[@TiaMargarita]

Yes. Everything is mixed. It is common to backfill digs especially in Egypt

[@txtoolfan]

that fingernail @26:12 wow.

[@sophieh8468]

Phill plays guitar using his nails instead of a pick, hence the length.

[@twobucca]

I wonder if the time team likes to party...

[@richardtorz2164]

Time team ran across many of Artis's drawings and plans, some were spot on, most were not. Most of his plans and drawings are what he thought things looked like. It was after the first few times in the run of the show following his drawings that time team started to use his drawings with a grain of salt, you could say, being careful not to say the drawings were absolute unless there was archaeological evidence to back it up lol.

[@robertandrews6915]

Why do they only have three days? It takes time to excavate and rushing only causes mistakes. Why not have the team work for weeks or months? I get they have deadlines but you don't need the same host and I think they would find better stuff if given the time.

[@milwaukeejt]

My thoughts, for whatever they are worth to anyone. 1) This is television. Spending all season at one dig would be boring, as long-term excavation is inherently tedious, with long stretches of nothing new. Long-term is also expensive. Combine expensive with boring, and you have a canceled tv show. 2) The owners/controllers of the sites have say as to whether extensive digging is wanted or permitted. Many of their sites are "registered" and the amount of digging allowed is strictly limited by law. Many other sites are on private property. The land owner may want verification as to what is there, but have not yet decided whether they are comfortable having extensive excavation done on their land. Finally, more extensive digging requires significant financial backing. Organizations like universities require evidence of likely return on investment before committing funds. The work of Time Team helps to inform those decisions. 3) Exposure of ruins has a potential downside. They can degrade from exposure to the elements, vandalism/theft, wear and tear from visitors, etc. 4) This approach provides variety for the viewers: different eras, cultures, settings, types of evidence, etc. are presented. It also provides a foundation for more extensive work, if it is desired.

[@megelizabeth9492]

Another reason is that most of the people involved probably had day jobs at universities/museums/etc, so the digs were done over long weekends.

[@nicii179]

can someone explain why they always just get so little time at each site? is it due to it being a series or is there some legal process behind? or is that simply standard practise, to see what you can get in a few days and so find out if its worth spending more time with? it just seems like sooooo little time.

[@nicii179]

@Napoleon Hercules aaah that’s interesting, thank you!

[@Nemshee]

It's a TV show format. I expect a lot of these sites would have never been dug (or re-dug) if the show wouldn't have payed for it.

[@ellenl.5581]

Better by far than thw movies, Old friends. And Tony I love his wit. Phil is forever sexy.

[@Mr.Deleterious]

Low and behold indeed, low and behold indeed! Quite litch'ralay (literally in America) an awesome vitch'yo (video in America) 😂 love my British brethren 👍🏻🇺🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻

[@bobmcsnark]

lo*

[@matthewglass1764]

gEo FizZ

[@LWJCarroll]

Interesting and wondering if they could have tried for DNA samples from the remains of the people there. ?

[@phoebeel]

Isn't that the church from Broadchurch the series?

[@davidcollins9512]

Sorry, no - that was St Andrew's Church in Clevedon (133 miles away!)

[@timdevine6126]

If you have three pieces of ancient Roman pottery and you add two more pieces, what do you have?

[@marzinakhatoon7966]

Plz provide caption

[@clvrswine]

You know enough English to be annoying and lazy to use "Plz" but can't use a period at the end of the sentence. Start your own KZbin in your own language or shut-up. This is an American site and so, it's gonna be in English. No obligation to provide "caption" (sic) to anyone.

[@marzinakhatoon7966]

@@clvrswineits mah life man what I will use I will decide not u man..so mind ur own business ...

[@sagidasyed6314]

0:33

[@petekdemircioglu]

💚💜💚💜

[@lindamavrikis2229]

Why do they not uncover everything

[@ryancresawn4726]

Never heard a brit say Cool before lol

[@zonabrown9241]

Wish this dan snow would take a hike

[@jonnyqwst]

I couldn't watch these because I couldn't take baldrick seriously. But this one is great now I see tony as a real regular guy

[@petebondurant58]

But in the first series of Blackadder...Baldrick is the serious intelligent one.

[@alancsalt]

If you're going deaf like moi, then here's same vid with closed captions/subtitles. kzbin.info/www/bejne/onbKdpZshKihmdU

[@nickinurse6433]

anyone else go straight to the end of these archeology docs to see what they found/

[@bartvandenberg4901]

26:17 Look at those nails, never new Brits kept their nails that long!

[@robhorne8016]

It's a diggers trick. When half of your day is spent in dirt, protecting your fingers becomes a priority.

[@nataschajohnson6828]

If you're talking about Phil's nails, he plays guitar and keeps his nails long on one hand as natural picks.

[@notgoodatnormal]

So now what? it was just covered over again?

[@jleeblackmon5340]

Yep when all they did was scratch the surface, there is probably easily over a years worth excavation at this site there is no telling wat kind of historic artifacts tht lies in this one site

[@Glee73]

well.. they now have a wealth of data that could well be revisited by future archaeologists with more time and funding to carry out a full dig. or they might not, as the church is in the way and the graveyard.

[@melaniek7577]

Very wrong to disturb these graves, no matter if they are old, they are marked. Disrespectful to the maximum.

[@stephanietorres5679]

That top hat is what president abraham lincoln was wearing.

[@LauraTeAhoWhite]

3 days? You would need at least 3 years to find everything.

[@salia2897]

Yeah, but not what a TV-show like that can do and finance. For that, you have to finance a long term project of archiologists, and maybe knowing now that something large is there, that will be done at some point in time.

[@duncanidaho2097]

The guy who dug earlier in the early 19th century complained about the severe winters. This era was still in the Little Ice Age in 600 or so years. If you mention it to man made global warming lunatics, they go either absolutely bonkers or blue screen. Love these digs.

[@user-fv5tt8zi2w]

유적도 많네요.

[@timothydockery534]

How did it get under the ground

[@markgarin6355]

Geofizzing...ha

[@knunyabeasewhacks8744]

Exactly what is the timeline where it's socially acceptable to start digging up the dead?

[@TesterAnimal1]

They do not care. They’re dead.

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