➤ Time Team's Mystery Trenches...

[@wattyler6075]

If I wasn't retired, I would donate as I've always loved time team.

[@lisagerman2111]

Oh my God. You could put Francis on a boat directly over the Mariana Trench, he'd say 'there's something ritual here!'

[@irt1971]

He's a pretty smart well educated man, I'd trust his judgement over someone like myself.

[@raeperonneau4941]

😂

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

I know, he annoyed me often, but he is actually often right. People were indeed into life and death and had different believes.

[@robroy5352]

🤪🤪🤪🤪 yould think hed give it a fkn rest

[@invertevision4757]

People thousands of yrs ago had completely different mindsets than we do today. Francis is extremely well educated and an expert in the Neolithic time so I'd say it may seem odd to us but more likely than not, he is right.

[@anitalewis2230]

I'm a Yank, but love all things British. My grandmother spent many of her summers in London, way back in the 1920s. Maybe someday soon, I'll be able to visit our family in London.

[@PaulRoden-r9f]

Never tire of watching great British characters delivering great British TV😊

[@RNCguy]

What fascinates me from the neolithic is they were in tune with the nature using everything to it

[@robroy5352]

shit they hadn't even invented the fridge 2 keep the beer cold,,,,

[@jofranklin5794]

​@robroy5352 I bet they had, we just haven't recognised it yet

[@elephantsarenuts5161]

In the Neolithic you had no choice but to be in tune with nature.

[@DJ-XTRM]

Don't forget Doggerland had a huge impact on the tribes. Mass migration from what is now the North Sea was still a big part of life until the area flooded. I still think that mainstream science does not cater for these structures and settlements being much older. Even 3000-years Doggerland was still disappearing under water. This brought about social cohesion on what is now the East Coast. You will see similar on the other side of the Channel. Communities had no choice but to work together as they were forced by nature to move inland. You are welcome ❤😊

[@imwelshjesus]

Wot a prat you are. You're welcome.

[@thecommissaruk]

Ah good old Francis. He could walk into my garage, pick up a random offcut of wood he didn't immediately recognise the shape of, and it would be "ritual use". Hunts down an picks data that supports his constant Ritual claims and ignores anything else. It's always fun when Stuart leans in with "...or maybe it was a farm" or similar - the considerably more likely scenario.

[@neilindorsetuk.4757]

Thanks

[@simonstergaard]

best compilation ever

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks for the links.

[@Davlavi]

Love the classics.

[@alanflint7732]

I would think that one way of raising the ground level in a boggy area would be to dig trenches and use the soil to create a mound. More likely for defence rather than any mystic reasons. When you are up against it in the wild, it's best to be practical.

[@tarakihi256]

Looks like a corral to me, adapted over time.Gather the available wild stock then domesticate it. Move it on to other sites for farming. That's what I got. Also bit surreal watching the traffic in the background knowing what went down before. Always will love time team. Thank you

[@kayewilson8391]

I love this series. I always think when they are saying something or someone is buried here that thousands of years of warfare yep pretty good bet. I’m getting used to the new time team folks too.

[@jonmce1]

No wonder it is a mystery, Fenelon Falls near Peterborough is in Ontario.

[@johnsmit2348]

What I was thinking! But we are just a copy!

[@markcecil7512]

In US there are signs that Paleo-Lithic hunter hunted bison females while the were calving. when they are most vulnerable and easier to hunt. Some folks to chase away the heard and some to attack and kill while the female is down giving birth. This would be much safer way to hunt just means they could only hunt during the birthing season. The Neo-Lithic hunters could have hunted the Oryx using the same method.

[@karinasarfo]

Francis is an interesting person. I dodnt use to like his eposodes, brcause something about him was a bit jarring compared to the others. But I noticed he was just as often right as tje others, but that was somehow suprising to me. I realiteten that while Francis communicates the same as then other experts, his style is so different that it makes him stand out. While Mick would say "probably, possebly " Francis says "its here, I know it". When Mick says " this is an important find" Francis says " lovely lovely lovely" 😄

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

The Fen we still call it Fean.

[@djames6780]

"Cut through rock, just using people with their bare hands"! .............................with iron tools? Thats like me moving tones of concrete with my bare hands.........and a JCB.

[@sadielevens1144]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@jan-reiniervoute6701]

Grinding corn, sure. Grinding maize, not so much.

[@wlbyrd1]

Barley Corn...

[@raeperonneau4941]

In England the word for Corn is Maize. Back in the day, they used the word Corn in the same way modern English uses Grain.

[@philipr1567]

Well, we can be fairly sure they weren't preparing mashed potatoes.

[@stevethepirate123]

i would say the Pyramids out do it massively

[@jimTB.]

It’s a ritual site! It always a ritual site.

[@markg454]

“Gordon Bennett”? I’m a Texan. Can someone explain? Thx in advance.

[@flyerphil7708]

It’s a way of saying god without saying god as an exclamation. Religious people are not supposed to do that I believe. Gordon Bennett was an American and had a trophy named after him.

[@adeptusmagi]

@1 the auroch bone is only significant if its not one of many thrown in the ditch excavating the center of the compete curve of the ditch only then saying oh this is really important as it in the exact center is sort of making your own importance for your excavation unless you check the whole ditch to know whether bones were thrown in it all around its as meaningless as archaeologists calling everything unexplained a ritual site @2 "palisade of sharpened stakes " really so not a stake used to weave a fence through , or lay a hedge , or lash a fence to ,from one stake piece you get a palisade of sharpened stakes wow did you use the tarot cards or a cristal ball !

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

I'm not enjoying these partial/mixed dig videos. Just as I'm getting invested in the dig, the dig changes to another.

[@angelabrady9342]

Just follow the link in the description

[@bani1046]

I have a question. I have always wondered why 3 days only. Seems a waste of time for anyone really trying to do Archaeology that is not even enough time to really set up a proper search grid. It's the major reason they never really find ant answers to anything. Just enough time to go something my be here but we dont know if it really is what we think it is.

[@hollandsemum1]

They all had full time jobs so the only way the series could be filmed was on the occasional 3 day weekend. They were all top of the field and many of their best digs were then followed up by local archeogists at a later date. The also had some episodes in which the helped local archeologists that didn't have the means to dig deep enough.

[@g-r-a-e-m-e-]

Obviously the episodes took a lot longer including documenting and clearing up afterwards. But for a TV show 3 days makes sense.

[@angelabrady9342]

Look at all the people in front of and behind the scenes, think of the wages bill! An hour long tv program can only generate so much $$ and has to pay for itself. They do a good job of getting an outline, and leave stuff for future exploration. There is so many sites to choose from, and the breadth of expertise they can draw from (depending on the type of site) meant that TT could really advance the knowledge of a site in a short time frame. (Eg the mausoleum at Vinlandia, where the main fort area had been totally excavated over many years, while this rare structure had lain unknown until TT struck!)

[@robsin2810]

If you don’t have a clue, just say it could be ritualistic 😂😂😂😂

[@TC-qd1zw]

Being in deeper holes. To lol to worry about what happened a thousand years age. Spend the money on services that benefit the people..

[@dennisgarrison3537]

Faye is a distraction.

[@kenbyers8036]

Francis almost alway cherry pick the data to come up with his ritual bullship.

[@alanmarston8612]

Why the hell should I even attemp to watch????

[@gregorywildie37]

You might learn something

[@sannesteers]

Because you will learn something about the (potential) history of the family of men. Sometimes it has something of gossipping on a higher level. It makes daily life easier to live. Or simply: it gives you pleasure. Or, as Francis often suggests: if in doubt, the best answer is: "Ritual. The ancestors connected with something higher than just daily life, with magic, with the godlike, which gives sense to life.'

[@TheKencoffee]

History is the story of how things came to be how they are. To understand how it came about helps us better understand the now.

[@robroy5352]

the reason them ditches were so deep was to keep all them big elephants out

[@robroy5352]

question,,,,,,,,if the planet was half mile this ice ,,nothing would live 2 thousand years,,,,,,,so wat happened to all the ice??????????