A Village Affair | Time Team (Archeology Documentary) | Timeline

There's a problem in the chocolate-box village of Bitterley in Shropshire. The village's school and cottages cluster prettily around the green. But the village church and the manor house lie more than half a mile away, on the other side of a lumpy, bumpy empty field.
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[@johngraham5964]

What a wonderful show. Time team has a strange placating effect on me. Whenever I am going through a rough time I find myself watching it. I don’t know what it is exactly but it’s a visual sedative.

[@sixxygrrl]

Same for me. It helps me get through rough days with a nice calm air.

[@solomonkain]

Yes, it's the same for me!

[@eliscanfield3913]

me too, sometimes it lulls me to sleep. Which doesn't sound very good, I admit, but I do rewatch when I'm conscious.

[@georgemink1813]

It MAY be the voice and overall manner of speach of the shows host. I don't know. I do know that whatever I watch on youtube, I don't have to leave the thing playing for long before KZbin decides I want to watch Timeteam. They seem to be right, as I've watched several episodes without any intention of sitting all of the way through. Not sure how I feel about that.

[@DAYBROK3]

When sick it’s what I watch.

[@shendaraalshedir1933]

"But there's still no pub in the village." Poor Phil, lol! He handles even *the worst* news like a trooper!!😂🤣 I LOVED how the whole village turned out to help!- The little girl in the blue t-shirt is surely a futre archaeologist!👍🏻 So cute! I would LOVE to own a coin from 1902, how cool is that??!!👌🏻 And Alex Langlands, what a GREAT addition!!👍🏻 I watched all of his series, such as Tudor Farm, he's brilliant! Hi to Raksha & Mick too! I absolutely loved the inclusion of locals from kids to seniors, really lovely to see!👏🏻💖 And you *KNOW* you are loved when your co-workers and friends build you your own mini outdoor pub, "The Phil's Head", omg, brilliant guys!!🏆👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻😂 I have loved all the Time Team episodes over many many years, but there was a real homey family feel to this one that really appealed to me. And of course Phil always rocks, always a great laugh!👍🏻🤗 And Welcome Alex, wonderful to see you again!!🤗💖 Absolutely stand out episode everyone!🏅 🤗💖🌈🇨🇦☮️

[@lisatoronto7265]

Miss you Mick you were a gem

[@mariancroome1478]

Each and every episode brings something SO interesting,.... I am addicted, in love with Phil's laughter and the banter of the team at large. Love you guys. ❤❤

[@therainbowwillow4453]

“But... there’s still no pub in the village?” Iconic line haha! Maybe they had to remove the pub so the Walcots didn’t drink themselves broke!

[@Schmorgus]

*RIP* Mick Aston. The biggest star of Time Team _(and Time Signs)._

[@kierangane734]

"I got done for trespassing recently..." Good old Mick.

[@mariancroome1478]

I'm SO sorry that Mick is not with us anymore. RIP Mick, you wil be missed sorely. 💕💞💖

[@shendaraalshedir1933]

I had no idea, l feel like an idiot. So sad, l will miss those funny cheery bright sweaters!! I hope you find good stuff to explore up there 🌫️🌈🌌Dr.Aston. Rest In Peace, Mick. 🌹😔🌹. 🌈🇨🇦☮️

[@Unknown_crusader]

I love how enthusiastic the whole village was.

[@Lauralee25]

So awesome to see the whole village getting involved

[@daveshrum1749]

There's no Pub and no shop?! That's not a village that's just a collection of houses! 🤪

[@barbarajmartin6218]

I love the neighborhood working together!

[@bluebird5361]

"So you go and lie down with a bag of cold peas on your head" - priceless!

[@trevormiles5852]

It is great how the adults and children of the are partake in the digs.

[@Wayzor_]

This one make you really miss Mick.

[@RobKoelman]

18:12 'Are you sure about this?' 'Yeah, well, well... We'll play the mad archaelogist card if he is stroppy about it'... Brilliant!

[@jeremymatthies726]

"Village with no pub" sounds like the title a song by the Irish Rovers LOL. To hear Phil say it sounds like he's gonna break out in song

[@hanes_cymru_]

12:38 - you're not alone in thinking that old Phil haha

[@paulvanobberghen]

Wish I could hit the thumb up button multiple time. Probably the most touching episode I’ve seen so far in the series.

[@cjpmedic]

I’ve fallen in love with this show. But even more so for that stunning brunet in the crew….seriously she is STUNNING!

[@NorwayT]

It would have been nice if you could add the production date of these episodes in the descriptions.

[@sharimullinax3206]

I want more Time Team!

[@raunothomas]

I am writing from Estonia. Firstly I thank you for all the most interesting work you have done! You have educated people. It is most important! Bad side is, that robbers of sites have also learned. You have speeded up understanding history... and finding it. I am from Estonia... and we have so very much violent digs! Robbers get somehow better... cause of knowhow, and this is sad. Too sad. They dig out our rich history from times of vikings and even more! But i hope, that there has been more good than bad. I loved the show. Sincerely.

[@SigEpBlue]

Bitterly. No pub. Has to be a connection.

[@a.westenholz4032]

While this isn't a bad TT episode (well none of them are really that) I do miss the older team. I miss the expertise that Carenza, Helen and Stewart all brought to the show. While Mary-Ann and Alex may have done other excellent shows, they somehow never fit in on TT. That may not have been their own fault, I couldn't say, but rather what roles they were asked to fill in a show already so well established.

[@agatenby41]

mick left the show because of her, he died soon after

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@pinkbunny6272]

Alex, one of my academic fancies... He's so perfect for the show!

[@Barbara_Schulz]

Keep digging. The pub is underground!

[@graceamerican3558]

lol

[@wildbill6675]

Love this show just found it about a month ago

[@jrjubach]

Really really interesting. I feel they make a lot of assumptions and are so sure of their findings. Maybe they just don’t include any footage of the painstaking reassurances that likely take place afterwards.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@kelly623]

loved it thank you so much!

[@SupermanJH68]

Ahhhhh, the Trimble GNSS rover, in driving mode, collecting data points. Fantastic stuff.

[@joshschneider9766]

I heard they can do a lot of Autonomous mapping with drones too now

[@bchin4005]

I miss Carenza and Helen.

[@valeriejohnson5283]

I do too! Maryanne isnt very knowledgeable about much. I think she was just suppose to be a pretty face. She doesn't do half the research that Helen and Carenza did. Mick didn't like her very much either, thats why towards the end of the last Seasons Mick didn't do any more episodes.😢🥀🥀🌹🌹

[@GreatsToo]

same they both hot woman

[@johnmurray4918]

Nice video. I really liked the ww 2 digs though.

[@lindahughes2289]

Tony can be rude and a pushy PIA, BUT STILL he is an engaging rogue. Lol

[@billcleveland2983]

That looks like a good beer, interesting video.

[@christianpatriot7439]

How would a field like the one around this manor house have escaped cultivation for wheat during World War II? And would plowing have unearthed the remains of the earlier field boundary walls since the stones seem to be so close to the surface?

[@betrueist]

So excited to see Alex! My favorite historian!

[@brytownsley3887]

Been a hot minute since I last seen Tony’s mug.

[@johnknight7296]

What beautiful country

[@samaramartinez9206]

I just love Marianne I hope we get to see more of her as the series progress :-)

[@neonskyline1]

Damn she's in it

[@jomama5186]

I love when the English say. "In-it"

[@lessofyou]

Watch ashens, he says it a lot

[@nacht98]

the younger archeologist is quite cute!

[@AnotherWittyUsername.]

Alex Langlands is an archaeologist and historian that has been in plenty of BBC shows, most notably their series of "Farm" experiments. If you haven't seen them I would recommend stating with 'Tales From The Green Valley'. It's well worth the time and you'll wish it would go on forever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/moPNYoyPo9h1fc0

[@soniaadam6419]

Agree..but would be cuter if he trimmed his nails.

[@christianpatriot7439]

The presence of the roads doesn't explain why the village houses and the church were so far apart.

[@Shaden0040]

Why didn't you call the makeshift pub, "Bitterley's Bitters"?

[@PtolemyJones]

Phil seems so quiet and unenthusiastic, wonder if he was under the weather.

[@johncarmon9528]

Maybe so but i think it has more to do with the other people on the show and being so spread out during this particular show also not much to show for their efforts

[@allthingsharbor]

LoL Some of those stones are Leavirithes...leave it right here.

[@joshschneider9766]

I noticed that too. It's unreal to think with modern cranes a lot can be used even today. Not that they would but yeah.

[@joshschneider9766]

The amount of skilled craft on such large scale is nuts

[@MrSteamDragon]

do we know the date of this episode ?

[@arlenebrown4946]

Alex was great on Victorian farm

[@RobKoelman]

33:03 FOUR people talking and FIVE pints on the table... ???

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

First aired 29 January 2012

[@dnmtorp]

I have never figured out why they only have 3 days.

[@georgina3358]

To make good television

[@riverAmazonNZ]

dnmtorp because they did it on the weekend

[@keithagn]

Yes, the show was done over three days to generate interest, excitement, to show progress, and of course, budget concerns. As well, the Time Team members all had day jobs to contend with.

[@MelissaThompson432]

And because, as Mick pointed out when he and Tim were tossing around ideas, modern archaeology tends to be a quick in-and-out. Unless there's some reason why not, finds tend to be left in the ground and reburied against the day when technology is better. Modern archaeologists remove thing that are about to be destroyed, like things buried in dunes next to the sea, or remains brought up by badgers in places like Barrow Clump. Other than that, they look at it, determine what's there and what needs to be done about it, throw the dirt back, and go home. Practically speaking, archaeologists are hired consultants, and the less they cost, the better their contractee likes it....

[@valeriejohnson5283]

They all have other jobs during the week. Most are professors. Tony is an actor among other things. If they find a lot of history during the 3 days, other Archeologist come in and excavate the rest.

[@andreacalisi4699]

Hey Alex, where's Peter? :D

[@profaneangel0842]

I can't decide if Mary Ann's presence was annoyingly superfluous, or superfluously annoying..

[@ledacedar6253]

Love the banter: Have you taken your pills; your going to go have a little lay down... ,r misery guts Tony stocks our fires...

[@meanhe8702]

Tony La la la loooooves to say “geo phys-(ing).” 🤓

[@PtolemyJones]

They don't seem to do the aging of wood by the coring anymore.

[@dwallich56]

Q - If you excavate a village suspected of being abandoned due to plague, do you, as an archaeology team, take measures to protect against exposure to dormant plague bacteria on or near the buried medieval structures?

[@georgedorn1022]

As I understand it, the bacteria has the potential to survive in the soil for a number but of years but not for centuries. With modern health and safety legislation, precautions would have been taken if there was considered to be any sort of risk. You can even excavate the remains of plague victims safely with no additional measures. Incidentally, as Mick explains during this episode, it is now thought that very few villages were abandoned primarily due to plague.

[@gwenmartinsen3979]

Bubonic plague can now be treated readily with antibiotics. It's amazing to me that a disease that caused so much pain, misery and death over hundreds of years is now treated so easily and effectively.

[@cynsi7604]

Why is is his name Alex wearing a dream catcher around his neck?

[@benediktmorak4409]

the - owner - of the manor house is a louse. all this books and things that show the history of the place, lumped together in a box?

[@rockzalt]

The vehicle Tony drives at the start of the video makes an awful amount of noise and it's not even a muscle car.

[@dwallich56]

Think diesel engine.

[@KTrackers]

Who got the prize the blacksmith made?!?!?!? I guess the team wants to film a show 300 years from now to see if they can dig it up to reveal who won it.

[@MelissaThompson432]

At the very, very end you can see the little girl holding it, just before Mick bites his cup to applaud. She's the winner.

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

I'd say it was the girl holding it at the end of the show that won it.

[@kkloikok]

When you have so many kings you end up having to ask experts which king is that? This post made by america gang.

[@edwardgarza2980]

How do these people even survive there’s no farms there’s no factories what’s up with that

[@georgina3358]

How do you know there are no farms in the area?

[@edwardgarza2980]

Georgina I guess I’m just used to seeing a farm every mile and when they panned out the camera it’s obviously no factories and might be a farm one every 30 miles just say I don’t know for sure

[@daneclark3161]

Because they're running livestock, not row cropping.

[@knottyboy6086]

Trenching blind. Ok.

[@TheJapanChannelDcom]

A dude who digs in dirt for a living should REALLY cut his nails. :-D

[@keithagn]

Phil Harding is an accomplished guitar player, and his nails are left long for picking. They did a Time Team in America where Phil and other musicians did a performance.

[@kkloikok]

How else is he gonna dig?

[@leesalt]

This is ok, but the intro music needs to be 10x louder.

[@janaoh5785]

They are sidelining Mary Ann Ochota in their conversations. It is as though she wasn't even there. That's not nice..

[@kgspvgsp7569]

Jana Oh she aint got much to say

[@Scotto6977]

Mick🌈sweater✔️

[@Schmorgus]

8:18 - Is she insane? Worn down pottery doesn't have sharp edges!

[@IanHaywardCalvados]

Far from being insane, Dr Cassie Newland is an archaeologist, Research Associate at King's College London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol. And if you listen to what she said - "...if it's a round piece of stone like that, I think you're pretty safe to throw that on the spoil heap." - it's stone she's talking about, not pottery.

[@Schmorgus]

@@IanHaywardCalvados I'm sorry, my sarcasm wasn't on point that day :P

[@IanHaywardCalvados]

@@Schmorgus ...and I'm probably being a little over defensive!

[@Schmorgus]

@@IanHaywardCalvados No harm done. I've been watching all of Time Team multiple times and had a "somewhat" drunken evening and felt a bit mischievous ;P Totally understand your point of view! :)