In the Shadow of the Tor (Bodmin Moor) | S14E13 | Time Team

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Tony Robinson and the team descend on the bleak, beautiful landscape of Bodmin Moor to face one their biggest challenges yet.
Series 14, Episode 13
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[@dons123111]

" Go watch your tv show on the bedroom tv where they dig holes in the ground." This is what my wife tells me when I don't like what she is watching. Time Team never disappoints me.

[@marykayrourke574]

Lol

[@angrydragon2910]

Preach Brother!!!! If I’m not forced to watch 90day Fiancé, I’m watching the team!!

[@ChristaFree]

Lol

[@CaptainAMAZINGGG]

@@angrydragon2910 I'm actually interested in that show tbh. fascinating!!!! Lol.

[@venust.4119]

She doesn't have to be so dismissive about your interests. Not all of us here have great partners BUT we all have great taste:)

[@kreiner1]

I have so fallen in love with this show, and I really couldn't understand it. I'm not that into British history, and Roman is my least favorite time. I realized it's the archeological itself that I find fascinating, and Phil has stolen my heart. I love how excited he gets over a tiny shard of stone, or how he sees so much in the soil changes.

[@stalinsghost1090]

Likes archeology hates the Roman’s…Lolol why are people so stupid that’s like saying I like showers but hate water

[@deltadom33]

“Up On Phil's trench it is a wonder how he will make any sense of these pile of stones but at least Phil is happy, “ it is just worth listening to time team for Tony’s sarcasm

[@molanlabexm15]

This is the TopGear of archeology shows.

[@carlthorpe5538]

It was a fun episode to do... but certainly the wettest Time Team I took part in :)

[@vickywitton1008]

So exciting though to be part of something so wonderful!

[@tobylowe4482]

I literally got back from stomp round Bodmin Moor earlier today, looking at the settlement and cairn, to find that this had just been posted. Absolutely superb, it is a great site to visit :-) Well worth also looking at the Neolithic Tor Enclosure on Rough Tor itself as well (there are 3 stone circles that are nearby as well).

[@yarnycat_crochet]

Lucky!

[@jamesbryant8133]

I'm off to look for them. Hails from the other side of the tor 😁

[@wudip6306]

You are very lucky. As a CDN I am envious of all the major sites in England that you have there. Being used to a 400 km drive as a short one, I would take every weekend to visit a site on your beautiful Isle if I lived there.

[@steve-0493]

Yes-The Tormato album/CD pages talk and display maps of the Tors,they were trying to base the album name of the Tors mainly it seems..

[@anonimoose3018]

I am flying into the UK from Australia this week specifically to see Bodmin Moor, thanks to this episode! Thanks for the tip to see the enclosures on the summit. I can't wait.

[@raedale6472]

I love watching this, especially to fall asleep listening to at night and I do it so much that I've started dreaming with everyone having a British accent 🤣🤣

[@Lerie2010able]

hahaha he hasn't got a British accent - I think his soft North American accent is Canadian. I like his voice it's not all shouty like a lot of the younger ones, trying to sound all excited. I like clear explanations and this guy gives us that.

[@lelena1402]

omg this is SO relatable

[@juliemorgan8755]

I'm so happy to be rediscovering Time Team. Tony cracks me up and really pulls me in to the beauty of the digs. Love these people.

[@raedale6472]

@@Lerie2010able he is from the uk

[@raedale6472]

@wijjit for sure, it's even made me look in to going back to school for archeology. And anything Egyptian lol

[@tubularap]

9:26 - It rains on the wide open moors. Phil takes off his coat so it can dry: "Oh, Bliss." And I sit inside, dry, and enjoy all of it. Thanks so much Time Team, for all that you did and do, in past, present and future.

[@StarChild420]

Its just amazing there is so much history in UK's soil that a whole show with so many seasons could be made. Why can't tv be more interesting like Time Team?🙈

[@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430]

Yes just watch time team on tv and popcorn . i think i have to pretend im watching sports .

[@StarChild420]

@@paradoxxaudiovisualproduct9430 Hahaha i know what you mean, you know you're different when you binge things like this🙈 (good thing i like being different 😂)

[@siliconjim2554]

Channel 4 is a shadow of its former programming self, unfortunately.

[@Cmcmillen77]

No funding for it.

[@brandon074]

@@siliconjim2554 LOL You should see the History Channel. It's far worse now. Used to be great up until about... what?....8-10 years ago?

[@PtolemyJones]

I wonder how often they spend time telling each other things they already know, for our edification.

[@tubularap]

Indeed !! Cute to think that these professionals listen to each other, while their own brains are swirling with knowledge, and hear them explain it to us laymen. And also that they have to shoot certain 'scenes' multiple times, to have it filmed close-up, ànd from a distance without a camera crew in the frame. So much going on, besides the plain old archeology itself.

[@annasteiger7817]

I listened to Tony Robinsons autobiography and he talks about this.

[@alexritchie4586]

Time Team were once doing an excavation in the village I used to live in, so a friend and I went down to have a look. When we arrived, Tony was snoozing in the car, the others were having lunch, and the digging was being done by about a dozen students from Exeter University. One of the students found something, so the producer told them to cover it back over with a bit of soil, grabbed Phil from his lunch, woke Tony up, and set up the whole shot of Tony pretending to walk between trenches, coming over to Phil, and Phil lifting away the soil pretending to 'discover' the poor anonymous student's find on camera :p

[@cameleonfleuri]

@@alexritchie4586 Oh! A little bit deceiving!

[@alexritchie4586]

@@cameleonfleuri Oh, nobody was upset or anything. It's just how making a TV show goes 😄

[@vickiewallace415]

HOLY COW!! I’m an American and had to look up how far 500 meters is… THAT’S OVER 5 US FOOTBALL FIELDS!! To quote Phil, “that’s a great whacking distance!!”.

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

500 should have been the clue it just sounds huge.....

[@yarlkymcfirblatherington9879]

500,000 cm! 5 millions mm,!

[@jet4906]

One meter is just over one yard (about 39 inches). That’s the easy way to figure it…one meter = one yard plus three inches.

[@Erizou90]

Thanks for teaching me that 1 US football field is about 100m long ^^

[@elizabethflynn8455]

😂​@@yarlkymcfirblatherington9879

[@philjohnson1744]

Every shot of that countryside is Moor beautiful than the last.

[@averydizzle]

Agreed 🤟🏽

[@StuTheMoose]

It can be beautiful, no doubt, but trust me as someone who lived there for 10 years... when the weather is bad, and it's bad there an awful lot of the time, it's one of the most miserable places on the planet😂 When it isn't howling wind, driving rain or depressing, soaking mist/fog/low cloud it really is a stunning part of the world though!

[@jamesbryant8133]

My god that's just over the hill for me. If someone wants to see some neolithic ruins in cornwall try a place called minions near to Liskeard. There's a village and stone circles with an amazing view of the south coast of Cornwall. Can easily see plymouth.

[@chiseldrock]

Phil has the ultimate PHD (Pile it higher and deeper) lol

[@Brik-in-the-sticks]

The layout of the (animated) village made me think of an authentic Fijian village I've visited years ago. People all over the world and time think the same when it comes to practical solutions.

[@jamesbryant8133]

Because they were simple shapes.

[@Peggyanns]

There are no words I can think of to express how much I love this channel. My family has been in the New York City area only since the 1870s. Before that they were in NE Scotland, Ireland, and Yorkshire for centuries. Every time I watch an episode I think to myself that the places the crew is working could very well be my ancestors home. It gives me chills. Thank you all for your comments that are educating me and for the people who made this amazing show.

[@jakesmerth1919]

Yeah, you and 75% of white America.

[@Star_Gazing_Coffee_Lover]

I just can't get enough of this show.

[@Spartan265]

Good thing it's coming back with new episodes.

[@bethhelminiak5063]

Agreed. So interesting and educational, and entertaining!

[@alexritchie4586]

Amazing to think someone at some point pitched "Speed archaeology" to a TV production company, and they ran with it! Thank goodness, hey :D

[@ChristaFree]

New episodes on time team official channel. 3 episodes from last week

[@ChristaFree]

@@Spartan265 did you see them? 3 episodes last week. "Time team official" channel

[@KAT-ew9wz]

a couple minutes in, and I have never seen Phil Harding look more miserable at the prospect of a dig. He looks like he'd rather give this one a miss. And yet, as soon as he gets out into it, he changes completely

[@serenagrisdale6969]

He has a look of deep contemplation! The Phil face 😆

[@andrewsharpe2587]

@@serenagrisdale6969 Pensive. Yes.

[@TermiteUSA]

No he was thinking something like ''just wait a bit for Muvver Nature to blow th' froth off".

[@bryanfrombuffalo7685]

Give this one a miss...I'm gonna use that

[@jamesbryant8133]

He's thinking Jamaica Inn is just over that hill. Warm fire, hot food, cool ale. Poor lad.

[@kurtbogle2973]

Phil Harding is Awesome. I have learned a lot from listening to him. Considering that his family was one of the first in England. Its like archeology explained by the spirit of the European people.

[@wewenang5167]

what do you mean his family was one of the first in England? Nobody knows who was the first people that live in England 100 000 years ago lol

[@daveellis9569]

In one episode that took his DNA and traced his ancestors

[@somni2246]

​@wewenang5167 he's descended (on his matrilineal side, iirc) from the Celtic Britons who inhabited the land from the British Iron Age onwards-- their descendents diverging into other Celtic tribal groups and interbreeding with later Saxon/Germanic invaders. As such, they are considered indigenous to the British Isles. If you go back far enough into human history, then virtually *no group* can be considered indigenous to *anywhere* , save, perhaps, the place in which the very first anatomically modern humans diverged from our most recent hominid ancestors.

[@bonzey1171]

Went up there with my missus a few years back, that line of stones is absolutely massive

[@TheShootist]

Tony, Francis, Phil, Helen, Stewart, John, Claire, Emma, Henry, Victor, Raksha, Bridge, Ben and Matt

[@ChristophersMum]

...and Mick...and Mick the dig!!

[@maxsdad538]

@@ChristophersMum I could do without Mick the prick and his condescending attituded.

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

And Kerry and Ian. . . . This wonderful program is based on both the excellence of the science and the interaction of the crew with the deep cooperation and appreciation of each other that makes them a whole. They don't just show us the cultural heritage of Great Britain, they are a part of that heritage.

[@stephanieyee9784]

It's so great to see all our old friends together on the old digs. Time Team was such a wonderful show.

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

I just watched the updated commentary on this episode and now re-watching... So glad I found this on KZbin cause I am making to sure to write down each one I watch, and some of what history the crew shares, for some silly reason, also helps in my own genealogy research...The beginning where all you see is Phil walking in the rain up the path, and then sitting in the tent looking out at the scenery in the rain. was awesome!

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

You've got the same surname as me I don't find that name very often on KZbin its quite rare actually and we could be family??

[@allandavis8201]

Sir Tony Robinson “welcome to one of the most inhospitable places in Britain today” Me, looking up from my chair to screen expecting to see “Prime Ministers Question Time” oh, thank goodness for that, it’s TimeTeam.

[@ici_coop]

Haha 😂

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

With the last representative drawing, at 46:15, I suddenly had an intrusive thought. (I live in Cornwall, in St Austell, and am WELL aware of how intense the weather can be down here) The drawing, showing the site and the works (I refuse to call it a cairn), and it struck me that it looked more defensive for the lower community than anything else. Not defensive against an attacking group, but to divert heavy rains away from the village proper. If you've spent any decent amount of time here, you'll know that we get pounded by meterological elements from either side of the peninsula as they make landfall, resulting in the most extreme variation in climate. When the rain's very heavy, it can turn the hills into dangerous places, and such constructed works would have been well placed to help try and divert some of the rain as it came from higher up the slopes.

[@dt9683]

I sometimes think these explanations make more sense, than things being religious or ritual.

[@tetchan5964]

What a beautiful place! I'd love to visit one day. My ancestors are from the UK, but I live on the other side of the world, in Japan.

[@jamesbryant8133]

I live in the UK right next to where they are here. Can we maybe house swap for a week. I would kill to go to Japan, just for a little.

[@magdahearne497]

I'd love to visit Japan. I may have been born in England but part of my heart & soul is in Japan :)

[@peterokane9253]

i love this show. it may have been on new zealand tv back then but i don't remember. i wouldn't have watched it anyway. but damn i waite for every episode now.

[@AvaT42]

🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Me too Peter. I did not appreciate this show when it was on tv in my younger days!🤦‍♀️ now I am totally fascinated❣️

[@jarfullofbuttons]

I remember this being on TV when I was a kid (80s and 90s). I loved it then and love rewatching it now!

[@Libbathegreat]

35:10 Tony: Was it a big one? Emma: It was a very big one. Emma: **clears throat** Tony: **cracks up** Priceless

[@Wisconsin.pikachu]

"Do frogs bite?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@budgetboxuk]

Tony looks like he wants a hot bath a toddy and somewhere dry. He looks totally chilled to the bone.

[@judithburke1539]

So does Francis! (Not sure of the proper spelling, sorry.)

[@milliebanks7209]

Female is Frances. Note the e. Male is spelled with an I or the male has a ball and bat! Helps me keep the spelling correct. Hope this helps.

[@TurbosTantrums]

They all do, really.

[@K8E666]

Absolutely love Time Team - I live in Wales the land of Castles 🏰 We have 427 of them !! We love a good Castle…. For such a small country it’s bordering on the ridiculous…

[@lordeden2732]

Now Now ant-ienglish joke there!

[@alanhughes6753]

I used to know the Rough Tor well since my parents lived near by, and my wife, children and myself often climbed the Tor (the children just loved the top). I still feel amazed that there was so much hidden from us under the grass at the foot of the Tor.

[@BobBoB-ez1pi]

We will be dated by plastic. Oh ahh Aye that be early 1970's Tuppa ware

[@mirika888]

one of my most treasured memories is when I was on a pony camp in the 70´s and we rode on Bodmin Moor, I was only a teen then from Sweden but fell helplessly in love with Cornwall and I will enjoy this..

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I'm English and I've never heard of a pony camp before?

[@si4632]

always lovely seeing the wild ponies lovely to see in the new forest as well

[@StuffOffYouStuff]

Not seen this. I love Cornwall and the stone age so this is perfect! It's very therapeutic watching these again, much of my later childhood/teenage years watching these at home with mum and dad. Good memories.

[@juliajs1752]

The intro... "the most hostile environments in Britain"... continues to show lush green fields and an abundance of drinking water :)

[@nathalielemay7353]

Bonsoir C est toujours un plaisir de regarder vos émissions.

[@K1W1fly]

Hang on, you're washing a soil sample, from which you hope to find pollen and seeds, in a stream flowing across open grassland? I would have thought that the stream water would contain minute traces of pollen etc anyway, therefore you are contaminating your sample...

[@quilliejones4314]

I sure do miss Mick.

[@69canarycamaro8]

Francis is good but he’s no Mick.

[@catofthecastle1681]

And Robin!

[@LilieDubh]

Started watching this show at the beginning of the lockdowns last year, am totally hooked. Am also contemplating writing some fiction about archeologists.

[@tubularap]

@Lilli Haicken - Yes, this all can be very inspiring. Besides the archeology happening, there are the archeologists themselves, and each one is a character. Nice to hear that it gets your creative juices flowing. Happy writing !!

[@suzannecrowe7775]

I’d buy that book!!!

[@Spartan265]

Same here. Well minus wanting to write something. Not much of an author myself. Good luck on yours though if you do give it a go

[@anitaevans2432]

Elly Griffiths: Ruth Galloway series.

[@adriennewalker1715]

… and Francis Pryor too .. the Alan Cadbury murders: 1 The Lifers Club & 2 The Way, the Truth, the Dead. 👍

[@noelclarke8082]

Stripping the topsoil before building a big wall; sounds more like common sense foundation to subsoil, than a ritual significance. But as the psychologists speculate, if something makes sense for a society, then it becomes religious doctrine, so suppose they may not be entirely wrong.

[@imjusttoodissgusted5620]

Blue tips on American ordinance means training ammo. Maybe the same for English ammo.

[@tuvajacob5050]

Cant wait! This episode is BY FAR my favorite of all!

[@krumble104]

One of my favourites 👍

[@Timotei75]

Any relating to prehistory are awesome, not many of them being given the remaster treatment here though.

[@dianadeedy1025]

3000 years before the Romans...!

[@chuffin-nora6568]

This is my favorite episode from time team. What an amazing place, to live. Keep ya Roman temples an villa's, with under floor heating. This is freedom and simplicity, a community living and working together.

[@theastronomer5800]

What a beautiful location. I love the UK and its history!

[@williammcfarlane4969]

Can't wait for another great episode....fantastic series

[@michaelgrey7854]

It's making me cold just watching this.

[@onnieduvall2565]

To answer Tony’s opening question, they came because Phil was playing with his flint and it was fun to watch him. They left once he used up all the good stuff and moved on to greener pastures with better pubs.

[@krumble104]

Emma Tetlowe is right up there with my fav Time Teamers 👍

[@Greenpoloboy3]

One of my favourite episodes. Love the mystery surrounding this place The music after the intro always gets me in the mood 0:07

[@christophloewen174]

Oh Gosh, poor Time Team soaked to the bone. Hopefully nobody got a cold from this dig

[@stevemarshall3481]

Just think how much work went in to building that pathway Phil was doing, thousands and thousands of stones and rocks to in-fill the middle must've taken years and years of hard work.

[@Shaden0040]

The reason why it is now so inhospitable is because you cut down all the bloody trees ya right gits.

[@katerinakemp5701]

🤣🤣🤣

[@markcopsey4729]

Yes, first thing I would do is get rid of the sheep.

[@SkeletonDrums1]

I hope everyone watching this stays as excited, interesting and active as Phil Harding as we slowly grow up! What a bloody legend!

[@doggedout]

Soil = Sheep Poop

[@lyndashaffery979]

Thank you so much, I totally enjoyed this

[@jasonsearle7832]

Coming from a country with only approximately 1500 years of human occupation (New Zealand) this is terribly fascinating stuff.

[@mastrofnone8025]

I must say the UK is the one place I would love to see outside my own country.

[@tarlcabbot2551]

They should have dug during May. Helston has an ongoing deal with the Devil for good weather for the Floral Dance on May the 8th every year.

[@wanderwoman5558]

I'm curious to see on the top of the Tor. What does the village look like from there? Is there a possible astroarcheological connection? WHY is there a curve in part of the trackway?....again more questions to answer.

[@ashleysmith3106]

Regarding the dwelling/cairn:- a stone dwelling similar to an Irish Clochán or Italian Trullo would surely collapse into a "cairn" over a few millennia ! (many of these ruins to be seen among the fields and olive groves around Alberobello in Italy’s Apulia region)

[@noahway13]

18:54 I wanted to see her hands when he handed them to her. So I rewind it. Then I was mad because they didn't show her hands, just his with dirty finger nails, scrapes, scratches and Band-Aid. I rewind again and saw they were HER hands.

[@deltadom33]

This is like the extremes of time team in wet English weather , digging in the North Pole or Sahara desert 🏜 would be interesting for time team With special heated clothing or water cooled clothing for the diggers Phil the Indiana Jones of time team They need time team waterproofs and heated jackets

[@TheBadMoJoe]

Why does Francis have a hood on his jacket if he never uses it?

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

I can hear his wife asking the same question.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Theres just something about the moors that sketches me out..

[@LordoftheBadgers]

Could you be more spooky??? - me and my mate visited this site only last week (for the first time). Lovely sunny day too ha ha.

[@KAT-ew9wz]

yes, easily. The weather seen here isn't anywhere near as bad as it gets. There's times when the fog doesn't lift for days, and you can only see a few feet. That's when you use that giant row of stones as a marker for where the hell you are

[@LordoftheBadgers]

Ah I meant - could they be more spooky in terms of coincidence of showing this one when I'd just visited the prev week 😊

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

You people are giving us very interesting topics. Thank you from Bakersfield California USA.

[@thesehandsart]

Waiting with my morning cuppa!

[@forthwithtx5852]

After many TT episodes, I’m beginning to think that Britons are accustomed to being rained upon and their hair being soaked.

[@lindafielding6733]

Only too true sadly

[@sidneytaylor8341]

I'm from the UK, I never holiday here. I want sun😂🤣

[@Happyheretic2308]

Nothing wrong with our climate.

[@davidrenton]

Ironically places like Miami, New York, Rome, Paris get a higher annual rainfall than London. Cornwall , i.e where this was filmed is generally one of the warmer parts of the country, the problem is the moor is exposed , coastal, and elevated so it's wetter, also it's was probaly filmed in early spring. Cornwall and Devon nearby actually get a form of Palm tree that natively grows there. Cornwall also get's the brunt of the Gulf Stream coming into Europe, so for it's Latitude, i.e it's as North as Calgary, i.e 50N in Canada (i.e Winter olympics) it's far more temperate, warmer than it should be for it's Northely position. I think people don't understand the UK is actually quite far North, more North than the majority of populated Canada, i.e Edmonton canada , would be about half way North in England, ,1/3rd north in UK i.e Manchester, yet Manchester is far warmer, far less snow than edmonton. So for how far North we are, we are actually warmer than places at a similar latitude, which probaly causes more rain, less snow

[@helix1061]

Perhaps the waether was much better in that region over 5,000 years ago,.

[@doubleL_S]

Exactly! These people don't understand that climate change has nothing to do with us.

[@davidhoward5586]

This was an amazing episode. So baron yet so full of information as the crew showed us.

[@cg256y9]

3,000 years of cutting down all the trees for building, firewood and clearing for farming and animals. Ancestors unknowingly ruined the land. The soil is now acidic and trees won't return. Lessons to be learned there.

[@Happyheretic2308]

What, that we should go back to living in huts or caves? Drivel.

[@DC-wt2vi]

The soil will always be acidic on account of the granite. Those Tors aren't stuck on, you know 😂 The land is great for production of livestock for food, for clothing, and useful byproducts. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a farm near that place where the dung from modern cattle is utilised as feedstock for electricity generation in a bio-digestor. Our ancestors had no electricity, but did use their cattle and sheep dung for fires.

[@onslaughtgaming-742h]

Why have Time Team not done an episode on St David's head? The place has at least 7 stone round houses just sitting there In plain sight 😂😂 I'd love to see an episode there

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

My favorite TT so far. I have to admit that when I heard “Do frogs bite?” I almost fell off my couch laughing. 😂

[@dinsdaleseven1627]

I'm amazed Brits don't grow gills and fins what with the constant rain. Lovely place to visit but I wouldn't want to drown there.

[@laurag7295]

The gatherings to build the monument may also have been a time for young men and women to meet, new blood and all that.

[@martinmarsola6477]

A wonderful video. Very informative and interesting. Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧😊👍🇺🇸

[@johnferguson185]

What if the big pile of rocks is just the result of the people clearing the land for farming and piling up the rocks . We have lots of piles of rocks from people clearing the land here in Pennsylvania .

[@marcfosh3398]

Some of the rocks come from Wales, they have been able to identify from where they were moved from.

[@jakesmerth1919]

A cairn can also be a way to protect, preserve and even somewhat refrigerate food so, one inside a living area might literally be the family fridge.

[@fabulouschild2005]

Genuinely had no idea Bodmin Moor was once habited, and I grew up nearby

[@AvaT42]

That was good the man allowed Time Team to dig trench three.

[@trinkab]

I wonder if FitBit would survive being on a GeoPhys worker.

[@biancacastafiore383]

Rough Tor looks gloomy and mythical even today. 🧙🏻‍♀️

[@vondur.kottur]

Historia est magistra vita

[@ditchdiver7531]

I been watching the seriies for a while now. Worked my way up to S14. I seen Mick passed away in 2003 or there abouts and I have to say nothing but admeration for him. It was refreshing to see the thrill and excitment in his eyes with every discovery. You can see the truth and the facts meant more to him than anything else. Mick may you rest in peace good sir and thank you for teaching me about the past.

[@James-ih4gz]

i think you may mean 2013

[@bailarcoruna9546]

At 44.05 Did Tony actually say "What do we do, Guys? We dig a fucking great hole in the middle of it." Did he actually swear and it wasn't edited out? :D

[@Libbathegreat]

No. He says "socking", not fucking.

[@wordwoman9900]

Oh, it's Frances! Get ready to take a shot every time you hear the word "RITUAL"!

[@graceamerican3558]

We wouldn’t make it through the 45 minutes if we did.

[@wordwoman9900]

@@graceamerican3558 But we'd have fun trying! ♥

[@graceamerican3558]

@@wordwoman9900 😅

[@amandachapman4708]

Ooh, that weather! But great archaeology.

[@steviestevie6868]

Totally completely love TT, but surely at 12.23 they were contaminating the soil sample from thousands of years ago with current running water with current seeds and modern pollen! Ignoring that - love TT ! Please bring it back.

[@Ijusthopeitsquick]

There aren't too many seeds in my tap water. As for modern pollen, I would think it looks a lot fresher than 6,000 year old pollen.

Another brilliant dig. Interesting how the peopel shaped their enviroment over generations

[@tejjensen9402]

Of course, it's important to dig in places where digging has taken place before ... not to disturb other places where an innumerable number of columns of heavy tanks have damaged these ancient monuments forever.

[@cameleonfleuri]

Yep, I agree!

[@mikelheron20]

It's pronounced "Row (like an argument) tor" - not "Row (like a boat) tor" .

[@Satnavtomington]

Better than emmets calling it "Ruff Tor"!

[@edgeplay4205]

Where did the rocks come from ? With all these rocks around and decent water supply some distance down the hill this is not a great place for farming. Surface rock is not a feature of the general landscape so this was not clearing land for pasture as there are not stone fences in the countryside.These tors are some of the best spots of exposed rock in the area as we see it today. There is a smaller tor a km to the south which has a large enclosure circle of rock containing what appears to be an abandoned quarry. The landscape is notable for the smooth horizons but Rough Tor is a notable exception. It appears that the summit of Rough Tor has been quarried out to leave a lacuna.It appears that people came here for the stone. If I were moving lots of big rocks around I would want to be moving them downhill rather than across or up.The "road" could be a kind of bowling alley down which the rocks could be rolled. It would almost make itself if you had a gang of wild youths who enjoy throwing rocks off of mountains. All the rocks are flattish like big wheels. If they are too big to move any further they are stuck up on their edges to create a channel. Additional rocks are needed on the outside to support them so they are not pushed over when the rocks roll down the race.These rocks were used to house workers while they quarried, and would have fenced the animals that would have been there for immediate needs. But you do not do all this just to build a few huts. The rocks must have been exported, but where are they now ? This proposal should be checked by examining the edgewise stones facing into the race for abrasion by the stones being rolled past them.

[@drpsionic]

Nothing like the weather in Cornwall during July.

[@JDRELGOR]

I used to live on Bodmin Moor and I've never heard of Roe Tor, Rough Tor yes.

[@111squadron]

It'll always be mispronounced by emmets, for our amusement. 😊 "Bo'castle" by some pretentious plum gobbed wally, will always be my favourite though.

[@JDRELGOR]

@@111squadron the other one was Porth GaVern oh and we had Stives not St. Ives last one San Deny ( St. Dennis )

[@buggs9950]

My absolute favourite I heard in person is Tin-ter-gall. The M&S advert for Davvidstow cheese was pretty good as well. But, I'd promise not to laugh at one single visitors mispronunciations if only they promise to learn how to reverse a car..

[@JDRELGOR]

@@buggs9950 we also had Dubla Bwa that's how they pronounced it, we worked it was double Bois.

[@silva7493]

At 44.01 Tony, who is a bit overcome at the magic of the moment and the astonishing discoveries they've made, etc., etc., exclaims; "..so what do we do guys, we dig a fucking great hole in the middle of it!!!" My closed captions said "sucking", but that isn't what I heard. It has been a while since I've watched any American TV shows, but last time I did I believe there still would've been BIG trouble for the broadcasters if the presenter or anyone else had said that and it wasn't blocked or muted. Can that sort of thing be said on British TV nowadays?

[@georgedorn1022]

You seem not to be the only one who heard that, but he said "...a socking great big hole..." I believe that Tony did sneak in a "bollocks" in one of the earlier series though!

[@kevinbarney5615]

Francis is so melodramatic about everything.

[@kevinkelly5780]

Archeologists always fall back on ritual and religion, but I reckon that was a stone age dance floor and then best dancers got to stand on the Tor and give the crowd a view of their best moves

[@townview5322]

Talking about making your home a cairn: If you were being forced out, perhaps you would destroy all the buildings so the bastards couldn't use them.

[@ianmoseley9910]

I'd call that a raised walkway

[@steve-0493]

Emma:clears throat,enough about beetle dreams... Tony:cracks up.... Love it 😂😂😂😂!!