Saxon Death, Saxon Gold (West Langton, Leicestershire) | Series 18 Episode 2 | Time Team

[@ajalvin2012]

Is it wrong to lie in bed on a Sunday all day doing absolutely nothing apart from watching repeats of Time Team ? Absolutely not 👍

[@markorollo.]

Not as bad as doing that at 1:15 on a Wednesday afternoon, I really should get up......

[@christinem3914]

😆🤣😆👍 exactly what I’ve done all day! I do have a sinus infection so had to rest up anyway 🤧😉 Thank goodness for Time Team!!

[@clareahorgan]

If it's wrong I don't want to be right!

[@jamesevans739]

Only if your alone. What exactly does April do?

[@ajalvin2012]

@@jamesevans739 all sorts 😉👍

[@pinstripesuitandheels]

Phil is adorable, the way he talks to his finds. "Come on , baby!". He's a treasure.

[@pamelagardner2116]

I have an extremely stressful job but for some reason the stress goes down dramatically when I watch Time Team. There’s something about it that is so calming! Love Phil. I’m 1st generation American and 100% British Isles ancestry. This show is so amazing. Wish we could watch you in US every day!

[@Teddy-mj9wd]

You can on u tube

[@HanseaticConsortium]

Phil is the best

[@adamsjerome1839]

Absolutely loved how Rakshah rather sheepishly asked if she could take Matt with her to the after life. So absolutely cute.

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

Just LOVE these old episodes! Can watch them over and over! As an American I find these so informative and fun! Wish they would have continued forever!

[@karenriggle5435]

Can't allow us commoners learn to much

[@sirloinofbeef3862]

Agreed.

[@Hannah_Em]

Well... there are new episodes in the works! Two new digs and their associated episodes are up online already (on the "time team official" channel), and their patreon is open looking for support for the next digs! Hopefully they'll be able to do more than two digs in the next run, but the more support they get the more they can do, essentially (I wish I was in a position to be able to support the patreon myself tbh, I'd love to see even more) (I imagine many people reading this already know all that, but I figure it can't hurt to spread the word as far as possible)

[@lexirose8189]

I just wish the american time team had gotten enough attention to make just as many episodes as the british one! Twice the time team!

[@ajalvin2012]

@@lexirose8189 I didn't even know there was a USA version. I'd have liked to see that. I did see a docu about James town a few yrs ago. They excavated an old well and found a tiny boys little shoe. Was really moving to me as a Brit. Those pilgrams either had alot of true grit as our Americans cousins would say or as we say in England " daft as a brush " 👍

[@walterlegere1403]

What a wonderful episode! I've seen almost all of them but this one eluded me for some reason! Such an amazing entertaining and educational show! This world needs more of these kinds of shows on TV and less of the "reality" garbage! I miss the original Time Team. They may be gone but they are not forgotten! Thank you Tony, thank you Phil, thank you Mick (rest in peace), thank you Carenza, thank you Helen, thank you Francis, thank you Raksha, thank you Stewart, thank you John, thank you Matt. You people as a group single-handedly made archeology and anthropology really cool. fun and very interesting not only in England but all over the world. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing it with us all so selflessly. We will always love you.

[@richardharrold9736]

Don't forget Ian the JCB driver, and Victor Ambrus the artist, both sadly no longer with us. At least Time Team is back in a new format, but minus Paul, Raksha, Phil and Tony. The new faces are great, but they really need Paul's pottery expertise back...

[@Tawadeb]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@walterlegere1403]

@@richardharrold9736 - I really wasn't all that impressed with the Time Team reboot. The "duel spokesperson" concept was a bit annoying and the subject matter, while interesting, was too overshadowed by all the new fancy tech equipment used on the show. I felt the same way about the American version of the show as well. You can copy even a priceless Rembrandt painting but it's still not the original. Get what I'm saying?

[@petethebeak636]

This one "eluded" you? How can you forget Tony's shirt? 😅

[@caroletomlinson5480]

Don’t forget Ian!

[@aussiescraphunter7808]

This is maybe the best time team l have watched because of one thing, Phil's love of what he does so well, his enthusiasm, his passion and his knowledge are a sight to see, watching him work so carefully with the brooch was an honour,

[@fannyparkins6937]

I also love this one. I found it very personal as I was born and grew up very close to this dig. My dad and myself spent hours in this area usually walking the dogs, and when I was young he would tell me the history of the place. Both my Dad and Mum got scattered close to here on passing, and I find great comfort knowing they have become part of the full history of most beautiful place.

[@sekhmetsaes]

Phil's "I found GOODIES!!" Growl at about 25:00 is so quintessentially Phil that my partner was in the other room and came running out asking "Ooooh!! What'd Phil find????"

[@lizzy66125]

🤣🤣

[@martinezlucia101]

I love this comment

[@WolfRoseQUEEN]

You sound like parents with a kid named Phil! I LIVE FOR THISSSSS

[@irishtino1595]

I found 'Time Team' by accident about 7 years ago on KZbin, probably looking for 'Black Ader". I absolutely think this is one of the best shows I have watched in my life. I felt horrible when the show wound down after Micks passing. Everything is impermanent.

[@GarryAndrews_]

All structures are unstable

[@platedlizard]

They’re back, with funding from Patreon 😊

[@KarldorisLambley]

mick dying and the show going off air had nothing to do with each other. he left the show, slagged it off, died, show ended.

[@Tawadeb]

@@KarldorisLambleyhe didnt like the change in format

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Tony was great in Black Adder too.

[@marcusalford1750]

After 4 long months classic time team episodes are back can't wait !!!

[@reginaromsey]

Makes me think about arranging my natural burial. Purple Silk shroud, my favorite Singer sewing machine, favorite jewelry, repro Anglo-Saxon belt fastening, blue jeans, linen pirate shirt with lace jabot and cameo broach, garnet wool jacket, Stetson hat, Ugg boots, salt water taffy, honey glazed ham, sweet potato fries, CD’s of my favorite books, DVD’s of pictures of my house and my cats, cans of blackberry and pomegranate cider. Daggers, sissors, seam rippers, sewing kit with bees wax, needles, pins, a bale of my favorite woolens, silks, and brocades. See how much fun you can have watching Time Team!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Somebody might dig you up in 500 years time .?

[@reginaromsey]

@@2msvalkyrie529 that’s the concept. Archeologists of the future will have poor pickings from today’s burials. Maybe some jewelry but that is about it,!

[@b.a.d2249]

Awesome

[@anntee9036]

My dog, my favorite vinyl, my best outfit+ heels and jewelry, family photos, a handwritten note from my true love and an ice cream sundae 😂

[@georgenewickstrand4434]

Not much jewelry. It's discouraged to prevent grave robbery.

[@ecophreak1]

One of my favourite episodes, Raksha's 'cremation' is an excellent piece of reconstructive archaeology, and shows the value of it so well - also showing off the humour of the team, and of course one of the best finds on time team

[@madthomm9648]

I found it interesting that at the end where there was the ritual tribute to Raksha that there were no comments from her or even camera shots of her face.

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

@@madthomm9648 According to what I heard on set that day, she was too weirded out to allow either to be broadcast.

[@speedy29676]

Alas, poor Raksha. I knew her well (from watching all the TT episodes when originally broadcast in the US and from rewatching the episodes over and over again).

[@cacamilis8477]

@@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft I suppose I'd find it very strange to witness my own funeral, even if staged! I love how she picked her grave goods though, of course you'd want your trowel and shovel!

[@PakaBubi]

The pottery guy is amazing. Looking at a small piece of pottery, seize of a coin and can tell when it was made. Absolutely amazing.

[@Celticcross688]

Good to see these old classics again.. Never tire of them. Good to find the treasures of our heritage.

[@luketjacobs]

Fantastic episode!!! Tim and the production team deserve a lot of credit, this one has some of the best directing, cinematography, and writing of any episode!

[@Endle185]

I always think Matt is underrated considering the amount of work he does. Shame. He should be the new presenter on the new time team

[@musical3lottie]

Matt's expertise is being used in the trenches of the new TT 🙂

[@briannaneff4717]

That broach is absolutely stunning! That artistry and design is so intricate, and I love that we can see the detail so clearly.

[@Moz666UK]

Time Team has always been a show I never get tired of watching! Even after first watching it back in the early 90’s. It’s incredible to think the town in this episode is only a few min drive from where I was born and grew up, and yet i’ve only heard of the history in that specific area a lot later in life. Leicester is probably more widely known for the Battle of Bosworth & king Richard III, and maybe the Roman ruins in the city centre. The Saxon history is really interesting. It’s great to still learn more about your home county.

[@MelindaCanter]

I'm almost at the end. Time Team ABSOLUTELY NEED MORE TIME at this site! ABSOLUTELY!

[@Acadian_Proud]

I am currently working my way through the old episodes and loving every one of them!

[@ziply123]

How I wish my mom were alive to enjoy this marvelous series!!!

[@PaulMahon-w2b]

Yeah ii understand fully.....

[@borderreiver3288]

LOVED WATCHING THIS SERIES ON TV MANY YEARS AGO....GLAD TO SEE THEY ARE STILL DIGGING FOR HISTORY....

[@Mr100741]

Nearing the end I was just getting ready to write - Wow, 3 days with Time Team and no rain. But that was not to be because here comes the rain. I never knew before watching Time Team that it rained so much in England.

[@matthewbooth9265]

farmers get time team in to dig a field, just so they get rain for their crops.

[@matthewbooth9265]

@Sterling Archer It's position in relation to the gulf stream and the jet stream is the most important factor really, and also why sometimes it ends up very dry too.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Phil’s eyes! I mean damn! 25:59 “It’s a very clear line” Me: “it’s dirt, what line?” Just the amount of vision to see that. Blows me away

[@alanmorland3666]

I definitely have learned a great deal about life in Britain, Scotland, Wales and all the other places that make up the history of that amazing island.

[@DS9TREK]

Scotland and Wales are part of Britain. It's like saying "I have learnt a lot about America, Texas and New York."

[@benjaminlocke214]

I’m so happy you started adding more classic episodes again! 😬 I got worried after Christmas when nothing else appeared after Hopton Castle

[@emmahardesty4330]

Great one. Gotta say, the original Team remains a favorite.

[@SomeDaysYoureBarbra]

So cool to be watching this episode today. Just yesterday I listened to 2022 Time Team talking about this very episode.

[@sapphonymph8204]

I love Helen's homage to ''are you being served '' ''first floor, going up ''

[@fetus2280]

You caught that too eh :) Loved watching that show when i was younger .. Bloody Hilarious stuff .Not many know of the show, in the west anyways, Nice to see theres more fans out there . Cheers .

[@sapphonymph8204]

@@fetus2280 l absolutely love the early shows. Up until Mr. Lucas left.

[@sapphonymph8204]

@@fetus2280 oh, I'm from Tennessee, USA

[@fetus2280]

@@sapphonymph8204 ha Yes ! Me too . The cast was Perfect, like a lot of good shows from 70s and 80s.. they just Worked . Cheers from Canada :)

[@vouzcrow8478]

I caught it too! I grew up in maine and watched rybs on pbs!

[@Winston.Smith101]

For me, TR is the only TT presenter 😊❤ ... and the original archaeologist 🔬

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

He's not a archeologist he's a Actor..

[@Winston.Smith101]

@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 you miss my point

[@aserta]

That broach was breathtaking. A shining example of artisan work. 'Gobsmacking' as Tony put it. Honestly, had i been in the room with them i would've been unable to speak, just wanting to absorb all the details. From previous experience i know that cameras don't do justice to this kind of thing, in person, they always look even more amazing. Stunning, just stunning.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I've got loads of broaches they are so easy to find in the UK I've been metal detecting for 35 years old over the BRITISH ISLES and found some amazing stuff...

[@jayrey5390]

One of the most interesting and examples of oddly dense archaeology and a great newer classic "Time Team" story! Nostalgia!

[@arrangrant6037]

Great classic TT episode. I miss really Phil not being in the new TT episodes 👍

[@larryzigler6812]

I love the new episodes

[@jamiewashere]

This episode was excellent! That find at the end was amazing. TT is my favourite show of all times haha.

[@adamsjerome1839]

The only improvement to lolling a sundae away watching Time Team in bed would be a good pot of tea in the AM and a couple of bottles of half decent plonk for the PM.

[@jeffaltier5582]

I love the Saxon period, so I found this episode to be especially interesting.

[@احمداحمد-ن4ك2ي]

Good evening. And a kind greeting to all who appeared in this documentary, especially the presenter of. Proposing, managing and delivering information in a creative way. Greetings from Iraq

[@alisterx8698]

Love from USA 🇺🇸, love the older videos the new ones just aren’t the same 😢

[@RKHageman]

No, not the same. But they’re just as good.

[@stayinalive9434]

I agree 😀 the old ones are perfect.

[@allanlewisorr335]

Love learning about my/our ancestors. thank you.

[@TheHappy2cu]

Great history. Helen is a very lovely person.

[@michelleheslep8877]

I love how Jackie picks up a bone the size of my fingernail and says it looks like a forearm, wow.

[@mikerinn6187]

This episode is one of my favorites.

[@RatelHBadger]

I love how their theories keep changing and developing based on each peice of sleuthing they do. Geophys and they think one thing, metal detecting and they change their minds, then someone looks at the whole site from a crane or helicopter and they change again. Then someone digs out the historical records and it changes again.

[@karendavis7988]

I love watching Time Team!! So informative and entertaining. Thank you!

[@chasee1563]

another wonderful episode. Raksha is awesome!

[@jab5915]

Superb episode. Glad that Time Team Classics is back!

[@tinaharrison9354]

I cannot wait to start my day with a new episode of TT

[@oldstevemurray]

Informative, educational, interesting, enlightening and entertaining, what more could one ask for? One of those pork batches please, history aside that roast looked amazing. Time team is a great example of what the original organisers of the BBC had in mind for public television not soaps and terribly scripted, so called, reality shows.

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

You show has helped me through a tough stretch. Thank you so much. Keep up the great work

[@dustbunny3824]

Good to see you again Bill. It looks like there is so much history in Rome there is hardly room for people and the artifacts!

[@tomwatson9710]

Wow, that was an amazing episode.

[@angelajones9852]

Wonderful to come across this episode. My fathers family came from this area (Tur and Church Langton) Family history goes back to Richard the Third.. Thank you Time Team, from an Aussie, from Church Langton.

[@CartoonHistory]

Any episode with Sam Newton on is alright by me!

[@zoromer1]

They way tony it asking questions to the staff and they explain to him what he is looking at is what i miss from the new shows. Tony sums up well or "does not have a clue" and that leads in to what happens next. he is just better then Gus i think.

[@lotsofspots]

Gus's narration is just too late-night-radio-host, find myself nodding off!

[@Sam-gf6ue]

I think it's just he had been doing it for so long. 18 series vs 6 episodes is always going to make you better

[@sUASNews]

Bit unfair, let the new folks settle in

[@staceyfunk9689]

@@Sam-gf6ue Look at season 1, Tony was always better.

[@fortheloveofmusic860]

Love the scene where John shows his results to the three ladies and they go:"Whoe!"😂

[@AAD2698]

About the man and woman buried together. If you are going to accept the theory that a major part of how and why someone is buried in a certain way, then you also have to accept that it was the FAMILY of these two people who decided that they should be together forever. That doesn't sound like just two people who died at the same time and it was just the "simple" thing to bury them together. They were family in life. If not husband and wife then MAYBE siblings.

[@WhatsCookingTime]

so happy tony is back

[@Daninater]

I remember Phil talking about this broach during a Time Team panel years later in another video. He said he ignored all the pressures to uncover it and insisted on taking it out in a block of soil to the preservationist, it clearly paid off.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Almost like you could just go to England, get a shovel, dig down 2 feet at any point, and you’ll find archaeology. Roman, Saxon, Tudor, on and on… such a historic place. So much history. Like Ireland! Love Ireland! My ancestral home!

[@Debbie-henri]

You're not far off. I presently live on a site that is, at the very least, Tudor on account of bricks and tiles. Also, I discovered the remnants of an old smithy (tools, nails, charcoal heap, barrel rings, and horseshoes) - while excavating a piece of ground on which to place my husband's workshop, anvil, and small forge. So yes, without realising, we intended to build a blacksmith's shop on top of the remains of another blacksmith's shop. When I was a child, my mother took me to a new children's playground the council had just built, and she found a Roman coin laying on top of the newly seeded grass. Turns out, the area had been an important Roman Mint.

[@jesterboykins2899]

@@Debbie-henri very cool

[@AndreasMadsen]

Wonderful! Thank you 😊

[@mattnewrocki4943]

Yes do miss these folks. Absolutely love helen.

[@DavidGodwin57]

I love it when Blink'n Paul Blinkhorn rides in to save the day!

[@MsRain49]

This one was a real WOW! Is there any more to this site that needs investigating I wonder? That broach was incredible!

[@georgecoates2079]

Wow. What a crop of canola! Cheers from Saskatchewan Canada.

[@jackmchammocklashing224]

You should allow more ameteur detectorists on each field, We would be happy to search and just Flag sites of a possible find, then your professionals could dig the flag We do not want pay or reward, our reward is to detect and have a day out detecting

[@rknowling]

How wonderful to hear the Anglosaxon spoken at the end!

[@SteveMikre44]

Hopefully Raksha Dave can get involved with future Time Team digs...

[@richardharrold9736]

Unfortunately, she won't be returning, she's now very busy as President of the CBA, and Paul Blinkhorn isn't involved either.

[@AnnieWarbux]

me too!...⚒⛏🗿

[@constancemiller3753]

Whatever she's doing today I hope her epitaph includes the Anglo-Saxon titles of 'digger Lady' and 'sharp-shovel wife'🎖.

[@dragondawn420]

@@richardharrold9736 No, Paul is still involved in the new Time Team shows, still advising on pottery sherds. Jackie McKinley is also involved as well with the new programs.

[@richardharrold9736]

@@dragondawn420 Paul came back later. I was in touch with him when the reboot was first announced and he told me he hadn't been invited, along with several others.

[@grapeshot]

I know they say it's hard to pinpoint Saxon settlements because since they're made mostly out of wood and of course wood rots over the centuries.

[@larryzigler6812]

Thanks professor

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

But wood and clay can still leave a stain in the soil.

[@matt_cummins28]

Absolutely fantastic episode. Thanks very much.

[@iaindavis4417]

Rashka is like the phoenix rising from the ashes even more beautiful

[@celticwolff5429]

Years ago, I read a Star Wars book where Luke & his son Ben attended a cremation. It talked about how there was a point in a cremation where people don't what to see what is happening so the ceremony ends before that.

[@DanielRand]

Matt's t-shirt made me very nostalgic for Kingdom of Loathing

[@nevillemignot1681]

The start of this episode that mentions field walking brings back memories for me of doing some myself. It was in the far past, and a long, long way way from Leicestershire, it was in the 70's and in the Australian outback and it answered the question that the boffins were asking.

[@brianjohnson8918]

You know you're a valued member of Time Team when you're voted next to go on the funeral pyre!

[@NorwayT]

Well done, Phil! Wow! What a find!

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

Oh Where did Raksha and Jackie go? I hope they're well!

[@jakubj_]

Raksha is kind of a big deal these days, she has done extremely well.

[@rickansell661]

Raksha is the current President of the Council for British Archaeology (as Jakub says, kind of a big deal), Jackie McKinley is the current Principal Osteoarchaeologist at Wessex Archaeology.

[@dragondawn420]

@@rickansell661 Jackie has been on the new episodes of Time Team, as has Paul Blinkhorn.

[@theromanorder]

Ive missed these guys

[@tarawilson2403]

Great episode. Very interesting to learn about!

[@andrewtongue7084]

This is (to my mind) one of the very best from the original crew on Time Team; the only Archaeologist missing in this episode is the ebullient, Bridget Gallagher.

[@Tawadeb]

Love Bridge. Good Kiwi archeologist

[@andrewtongue7084]

You have that right, Deb 🙂

[@phoule76]

there were two whole days of summer that year in England

[@patcullen9304]

I remember watching this the first time it was on TV

[@CaptPugwashProductions]

I think Time Team should buy some land and build a working Dig site, so everyone could come and see, as well as a great educational value.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Who should pay for that?

[@sUASNews]

Would this be a contender to return to for the Roman?

[@jeannienash5249]

❤Luv ya bunches @Sir Tony Robinson❤

[@sandymccrone5676]

The new Time Team has begun and is on Patreon.

[@michalcebula8857]

perfectly restored, nice colors

[@Auxius.]

1:55 a classic way of finding Anglo Saxon sites? I never knew I was doing that when playing mine sweeper..

[@philipkavanagh8981]

Fantastic episode

[@dubrockn]

Aww. I miss Mick.

[@ujbecker]

4:20 hilarious and timeless!! :)))) 😂

[@sharp-1000]

Racsha(sorry if misspelled) is the coolest person on Time Team Tony is cool but she is more

[@mangalover0149]

It's Raksha! She really is. She's the President of the Council of British Archaeology now.

[@sjl197]

“The fieldwalking map suggests the fieldwalkers kept going to the same bit of field where they’d initially found something good, but didn’t spend much time in the rest of it”

[@l7846]

Tony... what is that watch you're wearing ? Please share info!! White metal, square or rectangle face, w Roman numerals....

[@mreckes9967]

So much better to watch when they actually find a bit of stuff. Some very happy diggers in this episode.

[@tairneanaich]

Love the continuing theme of poor Raksha being killed/buried in every time period 😂

[@barbmcconnaughey3070]

Beginning at 3.53. ❤

[@vincentrandles8105]

Why only three days per any one site? I can't understand the premise....

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@amyogden7376]

Only watched one of the most recent - new hosts do not show any where near the enthusiasm and interest as Tony always did😒

[@wings4victory]

I'm surprised it wasn't Matt who was the corpse. He usually draws the short straw..