‘Furnace in the Forest’ (Derwentcote, County Durham) | Series 18 Episode 5 | Time Team

[@martintomlinson7039]

Francis - 'I know I'm sometimes rude about Stewart, but....' He is right 95% of the time! The great revelation for me in Time Team has been what you can learn from the landscape. Stewart is pure gold!

[@YvonneWilson312]

He really is! I used to love the banter between John and Stewart too!

[@clioflano421]

100%

[@Awitsaduck]

@John Thomas it does have Stewart!

[@wich1]

I remember watching some interview with or lecture by Mick where he mentioned that landscape archeology was actually the foundation of time team as it allows the archeology to be put in context and therefore more presentable to a television audience and then the addition of geophys made it possible to zero in quickly and do it all in 3 days.

[@joelail6741]

@John Thomas , it is still very interesting, but it just doesn't have the same energy and punch. I believe that the actual relationship between Tony and the old crew was where the fire was. Then there was always the humorous arguments between Phil, and any geo -phys team, and you had a perfectly intellectual show that called out to everyone to watch.

[@ecophreak1]

I love how much fun they seem to have had on this dig, it's not just great archaeology, but the banter and excitement clearly comes through

[@joshschneider9766]

English heritage actually does tours of the reconstruction of the cementation furnace. I am going to go visit next summer.

[@Cactus_Shep]

The way Tony brings everything together for the viewers is so skill full. 👏

[@larryzigler6812]

Indeed !!!! A master at his craft !!!!

[@joshschneider9766]

He was an actor for decades prior to time team. That's how he got the job.

[@katherinecooper6159]

he's ok, I guess. Phil is my favorite

[@Brienopoulos]

The quotability of Tonys narration is second to none; "Jerry will analysing the quality of this slag...but not everybody is enjoying the quantity of the slag, it's driven john around the bend and up someone's wall!"

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

That sounds some what perverted 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@silmarian]

I really appreciate the episodes where we get to see some of the more behind-the-scenes folk like Ian and Henry. It helps bring home that this is a larger team than we usually see much of.

[@joshschneider9766]

Look up Kerry Ely. He was a digger in several episodes but he also did the setup at each site prior to each episode being filmed. Without him we absolutely never have had time team

[@jenamyallen]

The photo ending.....one of the many reasons I adore time team!!❤

[@katjagirnus9573]

I totally agree ❤️

[@cherietillapaughhott1012]

I would give nearly anything to get to be there, on site, with the Time Team when they're uncovering these amazing finds! Here in the States, sometimes people find cool stuff, but there's just not the same kind of ancient, exciting discoveries y'all have over there across the pond. You know what would be cool? If Time Team held some kind of funding raffle that would allow the winner (or winners, if you wanted to keep it going) to come along with the Time Team on a dig. I'll bet you could raise a LOT of money for future digs, and you could make some lucky fans/supporters very happy! I would definitely throw my money in that pot!

[@Invictus13666]

There’s amazing stuff in the US and states always need volunteers.

[@joshschneider9766]

If one knows where and how to look theres an awful lot of pre colonial stuff hidden all around us. It can be God awful challenging to see in many places but it's there.

[@weerwolfproductions]

Native history in the US covers cities, ancient roads thousands of kilometers long, semi-nomadic campsites, longhouses, villages, canoes, fish traps, cropfields and irrigation systems, kivas - there's so much to discover and uncover, despite everything that's been (often wilfully in pursuit of Manifest Destiny) destroyed. But in (rightful) fear of having their legacy carted off to distant universities and musea, many Nations have put a stop to archeological research into their ancestors' legacy. Since so much has been stolen from them already, they want to preserve what's left.

[@Sk8Bettty]

Time Team has been soothing my sanity since 2020 lock down. There was an assassination attempt here & whenever I get overwhelmed by the news, I watch an episode of this show. It may be weird, but so am I. ;-) it works! ❤

[@gregedmand9939]

It was a sanity refuge for me during the Pandemic too. Now I'm revisiting hoping it will help keep my anxiety at manageable levels with what's facing the world due to recent election results. I've got a horrible feeling that the pandemic will seem like playtime, next to the threat of what may come in the next four years. 😢

[@holly50575]

Thanks!

[@Boom12]

This is my all time favourite episode of Time Team! The industry produced in this far flung region and the ingenuity to get it working was astonishing! That, and seeing Phil making the breakthrough by just extending a trench to find signs of burning makes me smile.

[@hydranmenace]

This was a fabulous episode. One of the handful that I wish a week could have been spent on.

[@victoriahhigman9611]

Phil is so knowledgeable with all kinds of different materials and pits he’s dug

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

Thanks for “re-mastering” these!

[@jacquelinegibson7420]

The excitement is so infectious!

[@ellipirelli4007]

I so wished that I had the money to be a patreon. I hope my views are good enough. Been following for about 2 years now. So it's a lot of views 😁👍🏻 You guys must have had the best of fun recording this episodes 😍

[@joshschneider9766]

They all count friend.

[@darraghchapman]

Sounds like the composer was feeling frisky for this episode, some nice variations on themes that I haven't heard before :) Great episode all 'round, such a lot going on!

[@fordprefect.betelguese]

Oh this brings back some memories... around about year 2000ish I lived just down the road from this location at a place called winlaton mill... beautiful valley following the river Derwent in this area... I spent many hours exploring... very interesting to watch this later excavation of derwentcote which always intrigued me... I now live in catalunya surrounded by massive amounts of much older archeology which I also am finding extremely intriguing... maybe in 20 years time team will catch up with me here....

[@luthahvelken4653]

I'm glad you found a way to make this video about you.

[@fordprefect.betelguese]

@@luthahvelken4653 thanks 😊 that's very kind of you to say so... 👍

[@allenfenwick6257]

You don’t understand how to use ellipses.

[@luthahvelken4653]

@@fordprefect.betelguese not very good at banter either

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@luthahvelken4653you can excuse crass rudeness as banter all you want. We all see your statements for what they are. A person whose sense of self worth depends on bringing others down. It's pathetic and you should see a therapist about it.

[@Driftwoodgeorge]

Boy Tony, all that work and ambition really shows on you.

[@larryzigler6812]

Indeed he is superb .

[@Hanes_Cymru-742h]

I love the diversity of this episode 😂 strimmers and water pumps, Phil telling everyone he's right, old photos and an industrial spy book! 😂

[@daveseddon5227]

First aired on the 6th March 2011 - UK

[@veldawells2839]

Wow! Three different kinds of metal production periods. Love the research, history and 1900s photo evidence. Awash with water (literally) - poor Phil - stone foundations, leats, ponds, iron and steel smelts and forges. Just absolutely amazing! The camaraderie with the team is second-to-none. What made me laugh was Phil and the JCB digger man debating over who made the mess. 😅 Stewart nearly went home, but his hard work always pays off. His amazing landscape skills take in the bigger picture. The ending was fun with evidence for prosperity. Superb archaeology. 😊

[@joshschneider9766]

The photo was nineteenth century. Eighteen hundreds love.

[@joshschneider9766]

Poor Phil but quite informative as to the mentality of the workers there. "Oh it's useless now just culvert it over" hehd

[@paulharris5541]

I love your shows guys thank you all 👍

[@hoggmotorsport]

Awesome, really enjoyed this one, being right on my doorstep 👍

[@Quantumrealitygraphics]

Love watching this and realising I've been for walks along the other side of that part of the Derwent

[@kurtbogle2973]

I think Archeologists should get recognition for their willingness to examine the evidence even when it's in the mud. You really had a dynamite team.

[@joshschneider9766]

Field diggers get much credit in academic circles

[@nicwilson89]

I grew up in this area and still live kinda nearby, never actually visited this before despite being so close. Think I have to have a look! Consett very close to here was well known for it's steelworks, too.

[@joshschneider9766]

Thanks for sharing about consett I'm reading about it now.

[@Mark-xx8go]

Boundless enthusiasm as usual, not least from Gerry, processing the crucible slag.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

I live in what used to be known as The Hanging Rock Iron region. Lots of charcoal iron furnaces producing until around 1869 when coke and coal furnaces began taking over.

[@joshschneider9766]

And then the bessamer process deleted the need for coal and all the workers got let go and left to rot.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

@joshschneider9766 they still used coal to make pig iron locally, and fuel the power plants and all the steam trains. Boy I bet the air quality was lovely back then.

[@joshschneider9766]

​@@beagleissleeping5359that's cool about pig iron work being available I guess. But yeah that air quality index was probably pretty depressing lol

[@katjagirnus9573]

Great episode! As always very entertaining and educational! ❤️

[@Musketeer009]

And not a Roman Villa with assorted mozaics in sight! A very interesting episode.

[@larryzigler6812]

Love the Roman digs

[@ilovetrancemusic2999]

So am I.

[@borderreiver3288]

stunning history as usual...

[@markorollo.]

Really would like to see some episodes from older series on here, ive not kept track of how often a new episode is uploaded but its the highlight of however long it is between uploads so the more episodes we get the better!!.

[@lizzyscorner]

Look for ‘Reijer Zaaijer’. There you’ll find the older ones!

[@joshschneider9766]

Reijer is missing about twenty of the original two hundred episodes but he's got most of them

[@jeannienash5249]

Great Show, Luv it! ❤

[@lookabomba32]

Need to expand on Venonis (High Cross) on new Roman finds. That place is well studied but there is lots of unknowns. Or Ravensthorpe. See if Vikings actually settled there. Maybe one day. With the new series of course. Keep up the good work.

[@katherinecooper6159]

it would be so nice to identify the people in the photograph!.

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@kurtbogle2973]

I think Tony Robinson is a very wonderful MC. I also think it would be appropriate for Phil Harting to get a trophy, or remembrance For years of stellar interpretations and explanation of the archeology. He is the person who educated us mostly. He will always have my respect.

[@mikeleach4201]

Thanks so much.

[@phlogistonphlyte]

I love the way you make Baldrick get his exercise in running around the sites. At his age, he should normally have had a litter and slaves to get him about. Leaps over/falls into small ditches like Britain's version of superman, (without the tights)! Phil as Professor of Hole Digging is invaluable, (has the same tailor/mens-wear consultant as myself, Oxfam Modes & Army Surplus Scrap), all in all, an excellent show. As one gets older, one's hose sometimes gets a bit blocked, fortunately he got his unclogged.

[@melthebell33]

I remember seeing this episode back in the day

[@dogwalker666]

Love these local ones.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks again.

[@bluerose7140]

Great stuff!

[@opheliaismyname9180]

"The best thing Phil can do now is stop hitting things with his shovel" (with the unspoken continuation 'but this is Phil, so we all know he won't listen if I tell him to')

[@moogiealways3016]

I love Phil.

[@Hanes_Cymru-742h]

44:02 - what Francis has for breakfast each day 😂😂😂

[@grantmarshall3026]

Anyone notice the banter between Phil Harding and the late great digger driver Ian Barclay? One of the underrated appeals to me was their “arguments” 😂

[@lnbjr7]

Stewart is my favorate… perhaps because we share similar personality traits… This is a classic!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@SandraNelson063]

When the pump breaks down, break out the buckets!

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

Kerry!! 🤠

[@mattymcloughlin5453]

Iv just found what I think is and old wagon wheel in the river at shotley bridge it’s the rusty metal core with 14 wooden spokes which are now worn to a couple of inches I wonder how old it could be

[@joshschneider9766]

If it's an iron wagon wheel it's most likely Victorian although I've heard of iron banded wheels as early as sixteen seventy. The word tire coming from the thing that ties wheels together and the word tire originally referring to steel bands holding wooden wheels together and all that

[@emk7132]

Said “blast furnace slag”; heard “blasphemous slag” 😆

[@jimmurphy6095]

Sounds like a great Death Metal band name

[@joshschneider9766]

Hah😂 now I'll never fail to think about that every time I watch a documentary on them lol

[@CannonRanger1]

Once again, Ian to the rescue.

[@katherinecooper6159]

I wonder if genealogy can tell more about the site. in some of the genealogy records what an individual - did, i.e. worked in mine - could shed more light on this area?

[@dcvariousvids8082]

Some of bricks in the floor were named ‘RAMSAY’, that would be, Derwenthaugh, Firebrick & Bone Manure, Manufactories, (Ramsay's Old Yard). In 1789 George Heppel began making firebricks at Derwenthaugh, his grandson, George Heppel Ramsay taking over in 1810. The works stood east of Garesfield colliery staith and in 1828. In 1880, a year after George H. Ramsay died, the brickworks and adjacent site were sold to Consett Iron Company, who continued making bricks till 1890, the bricks then marked GARESFIELD. Interesting that a firebrick in the floor of an iron & steel company. Was made by a company, who’s land would later be bought by another iron company, which itself would become one if the largest steelworks in Britain. Producing up to 90% of British steel in the late 1960s.

[@joshschneider9766]

Not interesting at all. Simply a history of concentrating wealth and the means of production in fewer and fewer hands . Infuriating if anything.

[@gabrielalemus9617]

Phenom...

[@14sgdpg82]

£4000 pound in 1740 is equivalent to £472,869.20 today that is a massive site

[@kurtbogle2973]

I find Time Team irresistable. I suppose I'm a curious person, but . What's in the whole?

[@aaronaakre9470]

You English people are so lucky you have so much history. We here in the states are stuck with the “Wild West”. And very little else. We do have the revolution and the civil war. But no cool architecture.

[@Tiger89Lilly]

I thought there was loads of pre-colonoisation history

[@aaronaakre9470]

@@Tiger89Lilly oh I’m sure there is but there are only so many log houses, and teepees one can look at. I have lived in rural heartland all my life and after awhile the cornfields and cows get a bit boring to look at lol.

[@souloftheteacher9427]

@@aaronaakre9470 Chaco Canyon. Mesa Verde. Keet Seel. Canyon De Chelly. And so on. And so on. And so on.

[@michaelfach4922]

I really like those episodes with younger archeology, much better than Saxons or Romans. Please upload more of this stuff!

[@krumplethemal8831]

Actually Tony is wrong here about the difference between Iron and Steel. Since iron has a few disadvantages when used purely by itself it was discovered that by adding charcoal, ie Carbon mixed in with the iron it drastically increases the iron's strength. The carbon can be added at any phase of the process as long as the iron is hot enough to mix with the carbon. So even during the purifying phase, charcoal can be introduced which can produce steel slag..

[@joshschneider9766]

The bessamer process ended the need for coal. Metallurgically steel is iron with a tenth to two percent of carbon.

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhh arrre Tony I do love the industrial revolution but Stone the crows I'm happier with flint!

[@johnnymacf1]

Still crushing hard on Phil as usual then. 😄👍

[@toddnolastname4485]

Um, did they get two episodes out of this dig? I feel like I watched this recently, and some parts I had, but some parts were new.

[@krumplethemal8831]

I would really like to meet Phil in person and have a pint with him even though I don't drink.

[@joshschneider9766]

He doesn't drink anymore, he's eight three years old 😂

[@dopeytripod]

to think how much was unseen from so little ago---earth is always churning

[@PatricioGarcia1973]

Anyone knows the name of the book Tony Robinson is looking at with the historian?

[@georgedorn1022]

It appears to be T and P Berg's translation of 'RR Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755.'

[@joshschneider9766]

It's a translation of angersteins journal. Just Google his name there's several

[@rjlchristie]

12:48 William Bertram was shipwrecked in 1693. Top hats didn't start to come into fashion until late 1790s. Up until then it was tricornes or wigs for gentlemen and merchants. Makes me wonder about the accuracy of Victor's drawing.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

first aired 6 March 2011

[@freemab222]

At 43:40 or so, they're prepping a sample of metal for the microscope to distinguish cast iron from wrought? or steel? Any competent blacksmith could give them an excellent first guess at that, and possibly an unequivocal answer, by means of a simple spark test. Requirements: A grinding wheel and a dim place to work. No doubt microscopy is more definitive, but do the spark test first!

[@joshschneider9766]

Uhm the spark test doesn't tell the difference between slag containing iron and pure iron buddy.

[@joshschneider9766]

The test he ran raises the dendritic crystal formations so they're visible. This is a method to display the interior crystalline structures and impurities. Nothing about the spark test answers the question of are there impurities and what are they made of.

[@freemab222]

@@joshschneider9766 A spark test indicates the amount of carbon in steel. However cast iron, with a high carbon content produces sparks different from high-carbon steel, possibly due to its carbon being largely graphitic. Pure iron produces sparks with no indication of carbon at all. It's a quick and easy test and can be learned quickly by comparison to known materials. Your phrase "... slag containing iron ... " is ambiguous in the context of the imprecise orthography employed by so many these days. I give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean "... slag-containing iron ... " (as opposed to "... slag, containing iron, ..."), which still could refer to wrought iron or wrought steel (the latter a possible product of a furnace, albeit likely less commonly so). A spark test will not determine the quantity of slag in metal (other simple tests can do that, including a simple acid etch), but it certainly can distinguish wrought iron from steel from cast iron. I'm not saying it's a better test, just that it's quick and easy and reasonably definitive.

[@mitchellhorn1102]

Anyone know the name of the book?

[@joshschneider9766]

It's a translation of angersteins journal. Just Google his name, there are several dozen versions of it

[@ddawe31635]

Could / would you call this a foundry?

[@alexisdespland4939]

where dose the iron f, charcoa;, and coal for the ills come from.

[@joshschneider9766]

All around them. Mostly they were sited near the resources needed. Derwencote no doubt really did occupy prior mill sites because it was already lowered and leeted. There were and are large managed forests all around it. And there's several seams of iron all around it. The global industrial revolution started because of the British search for coal and it started because of sites like this.

[@joshschneider9766]

And look at johns geophysics results. All those items are giant slag waste dumps now.

[@johnyoung1570]

ots always fgreat

[@djmossssomjd8496]

Ahhh archaeology from back in the days when Britain led the world in manufacturing. Shame 'they' started deleting this history in the 1970's! Great episode.

[@richardkaskeski8820]

How can I find my anniversary date?

[@TheShootist]

marriage certificate?

[@alexisdespland4939]

how manu people would have worked at derwent cote.

[@joshschneider9766]

At its peak about two hundred

[@tom_123]

Premieres in 4 days! Jesus

[@Medieval_Arpad_cooks]

Steel is not 'more pure' it's less so. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon, which makes it harder.

[@TheWeardale1]

why are all these sites (worldwide) buried under lots of feet of soil etc when they've only been there for a few hundred years? - and this is worldwide too..

[@kevinduffy6712]

It's called erosion. Wind moves the soil and leaf mater etc. aalso rain floods move the top surface the ground.

[@joshschneider9766]

Actually is called sedimentation. Erosion is what happens when something erodes something.

[@mikeblair2594]

Iron is a much purer form of steel. You make steel out of iron by adding carbon. In the ancient times you had natural steel. That was the iron that was on the edge of the bloom of iron made by bloomery process. It got its carbon from the charcoal that heated the smelt. Not that high in carbon. Then you had blister steel. You'd take sheets of wrought iron and laid them in a stone box with a layer of charcoal, chared leather and chared bone in between each layer of iron. It got its name from the appearance of what looked like blisters from the carbon migration. From blister steel you get shear steel. You would take the sheets out of the sealed stone box and forge weld them into a single bilet. That's singe shear steel. Cut it and stack it and forge weld it again and you get double shear steel and so on. In the 1730s Benjamin Huntsman invented cast steel by hardening shear steel breaking it into small pieces and melting it in a crucible. That made the carbon homogenous throughout the billet and this is why Sheffield was famous for their edge tools.

[@jeanpeuplu5570]

Fascinating, thanks!!

[@gsf5882]

It is annoying how they keep covering up the end credits. Not only do they show bits of the episode that didn't make it to the cut but I am also interested in the credits themselves. This episode more than ever needed to show the end credits as the photo was covered up so couldn't compare them.

[@joshschneider9766]

They're not really allowed to show BBC content though man.

[@katherinecooper6159]

"headless chickens" is it better than "chickens with their heads cut off" - not quite as gruesome?

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

No you figure the ones with cut off heads are dead the others are zombies 😊

[@joshschneider9766]

The entire town is a slag dump. Johns geophysics shows it empirically.

[@aodhan3153]

A “Stein” a spy? Say it isn’t so…

[@joshschneider9766]

Your parents really raised a gem didn't they...

[@kevinduffy6712]

A copy of this needs to be sent to the greenie politicians. So, they can start subsidies Eing the steel industry to make steel without electricity or gas. All Bowen and his band of followers need to do is work out how to make steel without carbon (coke and limestone) There is a big problem with the education level of today's politicians ! big time.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

Sweden managed the no carbon steel in 2022, but I don't know of anyone yet managing to make it without electricity or gas. The local furnaces (last one closed in 1972) used coal from local mines. I bet we used to be covered in fly ash.

[@joshschneider9766]

The explanation of what steel and iron are os categorically incorrect. Steel is not pure iron. Quite the contrary. Steel is iron with a tenth to two percent carbon in it.

[@seanpaula8924]

Does anyone else hear a phone ringing while watching this? Very faint and annoying 🤷‍♂️🤔

[@KarldorisLambley]

"steel is a purer form of iron". you what Tony? That is exactly the opposite of the truth. steel is iron with impurities.

[@egallagher41]

A great programme ruined by far too many interruptions (adverts) at least channel 4 gave us 15 minutes of show between adverts, if you tube want me to buy their advert blocker they are going the wrong way about it for all they are doing is driving me away.

[@joshschneider9766]

Yeah listen you get this for free instead of Tim Taylor maxing his profits and making a DVD set and banning KZbin from broadcasting them as he owns the rights to the show he invented. Say thank you Tim.

[@dakotashea3561]

Anyone else notice how this channel just pulls down and reposts the same few episodes over and over again?

[@RKHageman]

No. They are REmastering the *original* recordings that were filmed at the time. Every so often they add a new season. This happens to be season 18. It’s not “the same few episodes”,

[@joshschneider9766]

These are remastered originals. Give. To you freely by the series creator. He could just copyright strike all the channels hosting time team episodes and make people buy box sets of DVDs. But he doesn't. I think the words you want are thank you.

[@rick5793]

Needs lessons on how to use a weed eater CORRECTLY!!

[@rjlchristie]

That funny little man seems addicted to jogging into shots, talking his spiel and then rushing off camera. Sometimes he does the talking while still walking.

[@5herwood]

You Brits throw the word 'incredibly' around too much. The archaeology is not incredibly Complicated. It's complicated but not incredibly so. It's enough to say that it's complicated. You don't need a second modifier. You guys should be the protectors of the language, not the corruptors of it

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

What an incredibly useless comment.

[@5herwood]

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ffIs that supposed to be witty?

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

You make it an tell me how complicated it is, here from the USA 😊

[@5herwood]

@@PaulMahon-w2b What are you talking about?

[@revolvermaster4939]

All of these older episodes are already on KZbin so what’s the big deal?

[@TheShootist]

hi resolution for starters.

[@lionelgray]

Not for every country

[@curnies]

And this is the official account, so best to support the vids they put up ☺️

[@RKHageman]

A lot of them are uploaded from home-taped copies on VHS, ten years ago… these are remastered audio and video. For me, I don’t care that much, as I’ll watch them no matter what. But for a lot of folks, that’s the big deal. Also, watching them on this channel helps support the Team in making the new ones. 🙂 🦴🏺

[@JohnWalker-hk5pg]

Are you the same person that moans about this on every single video? I suggest that you get your head out of your arse and find somewhere else for your pointless comments.

[@malcolmformosa1772]

G'day to the Time Team it's Christmas (2022) very soon in 4 days time, I'm watching from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian. 🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧