Commanding Heights (Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire) | Series 17 Episode 12 | Time Team

[@FatBlockOfHash]

Ah this really is comfort watching for me... Anytime I feel bad, or am stressed, or can't sleep, this is my go to. Takes me back to my childhood, simpler times. Stone the crows!

[@julanesutton9626]

Much the same for me, a form of escapism perhaps.

[@FatBlockOfHash]

@@julanesutton9626 Very, very much so escaping the real world.. And I always learn something too, which is a good bonus lol

[@MissLizzy882]

Me too!!!

[@elizabethchevalier7740]

Same. It’s therapeutic somehow.

[@terylou-u2i]

Yes, I agree

[@dorothyprior2615]

Years of absolutely brilliant programmes. What a Team! The progs keep me sane, as I watch civilisation crumble around me: wars, pandemics, dodgy politics…..Breath of fresh air, and the slight ‘comfort’ of seeing that it’s all happened before.

[@FrostyBalls01]

Just wait. My uncle is crazy and says he’s from the future he said in 2026 millions die from major pandemic. He said a super bug escapes a lad in Greenland and kills 60% of the worlds population. He read it in a museum when he was in the future. He says he went to 2499. But we do make a comeback and cure all diseases people die of old age or an accident that’s it.

[@lisatempleton987]

Yes, I agree Dorothy. A great escape from the insanity that is our world now. Even if, it is but for a little while.

[@si4632]

jewworld order

[@fritzworley6316]

I would pay a very large amount of money if they would put every episode out in a Blu ray box set. Maybe with Tony and Phil or even Stuart, John, Raksha, and Helen doing commentary on all or at least some of the episodes. This is my favorite show of all time. I’ve even gotten my last two gfs in to it because they watched it so much with me. Lol

[@annayosh]

It's such a wonderful thing to hear Phil talk about archaeology!

[@laraq07]

I'm always amazed at their ability to picture what these structures would have been three-dimensionally, in their heads.

[@Wolfeslad]

Well said! I’d happily listen to him talk about what’s in a mile long trench!

[@WatcherintheDark69]

Phil Harding is fantastic as an archaeologist and a great sense of humor.

[@omarra6781]

Phil might just be my favorite. Love 'em all, but he's a character.

[@megan6989]

Francis’ face at 4:33 when John says the geophys isn’t very good is PRICELESS. 🥺 Please protect his infectious, unconquerable joy and positivity at all costs.

[@christinebiada1292]

And poor John had to skip breakfast!

[@JorisKoolen]

And John's face when Francis is sharing his plans after that is even better!

[@southeastcoastalphotography]

Total absolute disappointment. I felt sad for him when I went back and rewatched that part because I saw your comment. Plus John had to skip breakfast to find nothing. Haha.

[@lassebong3902]

I've been binge watching Time Team these last weeks. My impression is that no one takes geophys really serious. Most of the time they think there is something, it is either nothing or previously known from earthmounds or crop marks.

[@lassebong3902]

Now I watched this episode to the end and stand corrected. There you have it.

[@stalinsghost1090]

This show is like therapy

[@54mgtf22]

Time Team. My happy place.

[@thecontinuedvoyage3746]

I had forgotten how much I loved Time Team, love being able to watch some old and new digs here!! Bring it back to TV!!!!!!!

[@Llllbbb.123]

I love Stewart’s input. He is brilliant.

[@wanderwoman5558]

Kudos to John. Geophys is always the dog getting kicked around but cuddled in times of stress. Ainsworth is like the Shakespeare's antagonist. Tony is the frustrated by stander....lmao

[@MaMaSmo123]

:huge sigh: Time Team will never be the same without Tony! Do not see how watching will have that touch of argumentative humor we love so much!

[@katerinakemp5701]

Uncle Phil a man in his element, enjoy the banter by all, Tony's skepticism and sarcasm. Those ancestors certainly knew about constructing those massive ditches.

[@MaMaSmo123]

Both will be missed. Don’t see how it could be the same. Networks must have felt the same if they couldn’t find funding & had to turn to Patreon.

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@MaMaSmo123 true

[@MaMaSmo123]

@@katerinakemp5701 Tony got Network funding for his project Odyssey (which I love) his is a bankable name. We’ll see but if it’s members only guess I’ll be out. If I contributed to every channel I like… I’d be broke. Just my opinion but I think this Patreon business will go bust just like the .com era. I see problems ahead with that. Just an opinion… take care!

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@MaMaSmo123 tell me about it, know how you feel.

[@DuckReach432]

When I was young and fit, I dug out foundations for a shed. It was hard work. The sheer hard labour to make that ditch and rampart is very impressive. Respect to those Neolithic people, that was a serious engineering effort.

[@eifionjones559]

iron age not neolithic, they had metal tools

[@milafraser]

Gosh, I love Stewart's work.

[@jenniferlyons4150]

Absolutely love this stuff. I love history, architecture, cultures, old stuff, and travel! I particularly like old buildings, methods of building, and materials used to build. Maybe I'll go back to school when I retire from my current career!!! Never too old to learn . 😊

[@RRS8840]

TimeTeam is awesome. I live in Alabama and stumbled onto the show. It has made archaeology fun. I’ve learned so much. Thanks to the team for getting me hooked.

[@cdfdesantis699]

Love seeing Time Team get excited over ditches!

[@MattDeMille]

Much as I like the archeology (and I do), I love just being in these out of the way corners of Hobbiton . . . what it feels like. Which is a good thing. As a trained moviemaker (production design) I have spent time on location shoots and sets troubled by bad weather and all the other problems: I feel your pain, but, I love the shots of the rain and trees and mist. Here in my comfy, dry, warm chair of course. Also, the pub. Love it when you guys go to the pub.

[@martinb5626]

My uncle used to bring back videos of this show from the UK to us in ZA I loved this show as a kid and once I moved here I was able to watch a lot on CH4. Amazing show! Phil is my dude!

[@bruceklassen8261]

Probably the most amazingly well put together show/team ever put together

[@Morgana0x]

Great episode. I especially loved seeing Bettany Hughes in it. I love all her documentaries.

[@jesterboykins2899]

She’s a dish. No doubt. Her intelligence is the sexy part.

[@Pianoguy32]

5:20 got to love John holding his laugh on the ditch being made 40 meters

[@kcsunshine4008]

Watching time team episodes for the 3rd or 4th time….love all the great interpretations, social history and the banter makes me feel a bit like I’m among friends….

[@ruhankarsten7352]

Watching time team on the throne is my favorite hobby

[@dinerouk]

Thank you your majesty!

[@nathong3229]

"Absolutely not a sausage!" - Great episode, I have loved Time Team from the very first episode back in the 90's

[@valswhitewolf6611]

No one us like this show.I love eating my meals and rewatching this wonderful show.

[@lambjalfrezi]

It is pretty incredible to see how they cut all that rock from the ditch and then used it to layer the ramparts. It is even more incredible to think that it had been entirely undiscovered until this was filmed.

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

Stewart never needs geo-phys. He doesn't even need maps. He just uses his eyes! {:-:-:}

[@BeExcellent1]

Thanks for sharing, one of my favourite series! Tony is a national treasure!

[@jamesrivis620]

For two years in the mid 50's, Dinmore Manor gatehouse was my home. At that time it was owned by the rapidly rich inventor of the glass 'cat's eyes' built in a rubber seat into the white line in the middle of a highway and reflecting a car's headlights. He invited our family up for a drink at Christmas ! If this is the chapter I saw when Time Team first aired it, it is up behind Dinmore Hill.

[@archstanton1628]

It's a pity he was long dead by the time of this episode, he was a true eccentric by all accounts and would have been a great interviewee 😁

[@edwardbentley3512]

Percy shaw? I thought he lived his whole life in Halifax

[@leesloan8216]

@@edwardbentley3512 he did as far as I can tell!

[@lizeggar2421]

Wow!

[@angeladawn805]

Wow, I spent a few years living in, "Hairyforrd" and can testify that cycling up Dinmore hill was quite a challenge, it's nice to see the old stomping grounds :)

[@catherinetodorowski6633]

This program reminds me of home so much. There is even one sow that is filmed in County Durham. Just listening to the English accents is very comforting and archeology has always been a passion of mine.

[@sarahpersonalexcellenceguide]

I laughed so hard at 4:33 and 4:36 I nearly cried! Love Francis! Love Time Team!

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

"I've started to collect it. Black as your hat! Lovely, lovely charcoal." I love Phil telling Brigid about his find!

[@ThisAlbino]

*Faye

[@Radders123]

This takes away the Sunday evening blues so well. Thank you!

[@SindreGaaserod]

Time Team is the best show ever

[@matt_cummins28]

Absolutely fantastic episode! Such a lot of history and a brilliant insight into the lives and skills of our ancestors. Brilliant stuff, thanks so much.

[@sagrammyfour]

I kept looking up "INH" as an archeological term.... I also like "Vahst uth wux..." Once the language barrier was overcome, I really enjoyed the content. Very "exsoit-ing..."

[@Llllbbb.123]

I love every person on Time Team. Wish we had one in America. I know you have come to our country and was glad for it.

[@ste76539]

I wonder if they knew at the time of filming, that 'Dinmore' (din mauer) means 'Great Fort'

[@sooky2253]

Wow! Interesting. In what language? Welsh?

[@Temujin1206]

@@sooky2253 It would be Welsh if Din Mauer is the correct etymology. It's certainly one possibility but other conteders in Old English could be Hill Moor, Brown Moor or Dynna's Marsh (Dynna being an OE personal name). Given the site's location on a raised promontary in close proximity to a river and associated wetlands all four possibilites seem possible.

[@sooky2253]

@@Temujin1206 Very interesting. Thanks for the info. I studied applied linguistics but not etymology, so enjoyed the lesson 🤗

[@larryzigler6812]

No , they are all uneducated.

[@eifionjones559]

@@sooky2253 yes

[@AvaT42]

That was exciting. I thought for sure it would not be an Iron Age hill fort, but at the last minute it was!! The ditch Phil was standing in was so impressive, and amazing to think was built without major tools or machinery.

[@wanderwoman5558]

Phil told them on day one....its a series of 4 different improvements. One trench....told the story.

[@gaijininja]

One of the amazing things with Time Team is how well they rehabilitate the areas they dig. Of all the places I have located on Google Maps, only once, and only because the satellite view was taken two months after filming, could I see slight evidence of a trench, due to the slightly dead looking grass rectangles. Their digs are less obvious than the thousands of year old buried archaeology. It's a testament to their professionalism.

[@brainfreeze1925]

Love the old school stereo glasses for airphotos. I spent a lot of time using them once upon a time. (27:37)

[@siliconjim2554]

Always hoped Time Team would do a program on Credenhill where I'm from. Hill fort in Credenhill, roman town Magnis, now the village of Kenchester next door in a farm, which is still called Magna Castra farm. Oh! And welcome to Herefordshire, always plenty of rain and mud.

[@Tecting_Kev]

Always an interesting watch with the varied slots in time and fantastic locations , Never get bored of watching this 👍

[@petpet9467]

Greatings from Holland. Like the shows

[@sooky2253]

"We might find some structures. Might we, John?" "I don't think so..." "Oh, god!" Hahaha 😄

[@northwoods3d]

i love Time Team, and thought I had seen them all, at least once, lol, but i dont think i have ever seen this one.. Yay for a "new" one.

[@brendaberkstresser6910]

This show is the first time I saw an archilogists surveyor I believe in Stewart!!

[@staceym71]

He just needs to cut those fingernails 🤣

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@staceym71 it never fails to amuse me how uncle Phil's nails enters into the comments section. He is a accomplished musician as well, finger picking blues player so you have no chance of seeing him with short nails on his right hand.

[@alisterx8698]

Can’t believe I’m just stumbling across this show, love it so far all the way from the states. I like the guy with the gray hat and the long hair his accent and the way he is is a typical American stereotype of a country Englishman 😂. Not dissing it rather like it it kind of reminds me of a hobbit character.

[@gmanhi5]

Well now your addicted haha 😂 I know I am I’ve seen them all.

[@alisterx8698]

@@gmanhi5 I got so many seasons to catch up on it’s like finding a new show on Netflix….I’m so excited 😆

[@adacox]

I grew up watching Unsolved Mysteries and Antique Roadshow… fell in love with Phil all the way from Ky

[@deekane9432]

Settle in because you'll be totally engrossed by this series and yes, Phil is quite the character. Brilliant mind.

[@alisterx8698]

@@deekane9432 Yeah he seems like it, seems like a kind of guy that I like to have a beer with at the bar and hear the stories he has.

[@deltadom33]

Keep them coming 🙂 when I saw the title I thought it was Hertfordshire rather than Herefordshire I know there have been some local shows to where I live . I also lived in Canterbury where they did the big dig.

[@valswhitewolf6611]

For five months I suffered with a Verizon phone that didn't work and I was not able to watch KZbin I missed my favorites like Time Team.

[@EIixir]

Another very interesting episode. So much hidden history.

[@benediktmorak4409]

hat off to all the people who -slogged - through all that rain and miserable weather. and since i am watching now since quite some time, this happened quite frequently. REAL sunshine must have been as rare as hens teeth?

[@carola.campbell86]

It also relaxes me and I would like too see another visit to Dinmore hill (excavations) to finish out the mystery.

[@seleeneparis]

Stewart, you have excellent choice of pens! Pilot Precise V-5! :D

[@Bleakhouse7]

Loved the graphic of the tribe near the end of the video

[@Andy_Ross1962]

Stewart is the man!

[@coraghallaigh1675]

want more? join in supporting Time Team digs on Patreon www.patreon.com/TimeTeamOfficial/posts - 340 more subscribers needed by end of July if there's to be ***3*** digs this year!

[@eifionjones559]

might have helped if they had looked at the name , Dinmore translates into early Welsh as " big fort", Din= fort settlement , and more = mawr = big ( in modern Welsh)

[@carola.campbell86]

I’ve done this also. I wondered why more research of the name is not done before they start? I guess it would kill the mystery and getting us all hyped up for the finale. I love this show.

[@thomasevans5467]

In the earlier episodes they regularly had Robin Bush and other archivist/s researching the site in the "incident room" while they were out on site digging he surely would have mentioned this. Idk what of when he left the show, I do know he is no longer with us here on Earth. The deep past pre-history stone age and before is such a fruitful area for pondering and conjecture, so much fun. The film; "Standing Stones" is a great film i think it is on KZbin....Holy Cannoli is that Betany Hughes making a cameo appearance?

[@katerinakemp5701]

@@thomasevans5467 Robin Bush is no longer with us, along with Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus & Ian Barclay.

[@elizabethjones9781]

I was coming to say exactly that. Saw the name and it seemed like an enormous clue before they even got started. Of course there is research before sites are selected and to see which might be interesting, and it may have formed part of the reason this site was chosen for excavation. Other examples of din=fort can be seen in the better known TIN-tagel and E-DIN-burgh.

[@RKHageman]

@@thomasevans5467. That’s Bettany all right. I was surprised to see her on Time Team… I only knew her from the NatGeo miniseries The Greeks.

[@thevinylrevival5197]

Anyone know the episode where Phil Harding says absolutely not a sausage Tony always cracks me up nice to see these episodes again takes me back

[@chrisoddy8744]

I think he says it to Tony about half way through the Mont D'Orgeuil episode

[@RKHageman]

Francis Pryor says that in this episode, but I think in another episode, too.

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhh arrre Tony I do love a aerial photo.... Stone the crows!

[@gullrock14]

The original reality show!

[@ojwatts]

See, the trouble with Herefordshie is, it doesn't boast about any of its history. I love I'm Hereford and if I hadn't have come by this episode, I would have no idea at all that this place existed at all. I know Dinmore very well, but had no idea. We've got a Fire Cracked road/pathway that predates Stonehenge and the built a fecking road over it. It's one of two discoveries in the world, the other being in Arizona I believe. The council is a joke.

[@marilyncuaron3222]

Phil Rickman writes a great series of mysteries based in a fictional village named Ledwardine near Hereford. The protagonist is a woman priest of C o E and as the region's exorcist she bumps into the supernatural a lot. Her daughter wants to be an archeologist and joined the fight to preserve the Dinedor Serpent. These are entertaining and informative books that deal with archeology quite a lot. I think you might like them (they are deliciously spooky but Never over-the-top.

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

So good. Love the time team

[@mrkolasa.]

Brilliant i never saw Bethany Hughes on time team before

[@sanityormadness]

And in the segment 24:15 - 25:46, she seems decidedly unconvinced about the decisions which led to her hiking through the woods in the rain, with bare legs and a high probability of getting stung or cut by nettles, brambles, etc!

[@Legion563]

She joined around the time Time Team started getting dumbed down before it got shit canned so she wasn't around for long essentially.

[@Tiger89Lilly]

She was in the Westminster Abbey episode

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@jenniferlaurensmom]

Is like my extended family so enjoy Phil

[@FINNIUSORION]

You had me at bettany Hughes. I was born in the 80's and I'm guessing I was less than normal. My first crushes were bettany Hughes and Barbara eden lol.

[@terrydamron4770]

PHIL.. IS THE MASTER OF THIS THIS GROUP. THE MASTER OF READING THE LAND AND MASTER DIGGER OF THIS GROUP..... BRAVO PHIL..

[@RegBarlow]

Stop shouting.

[@terrydamron4770]

@@RegBarlow get over it... move on

[@terrydamron4770]

@@RegBarlow piss off

[@terrydamron4770]

@@RegBarlow piss off

[@MauriceTarantulas]

Close to where my ancestors were from! Might try and visit this area next summer.

[@devonseamoor]

At the 26th minute, Phil's head with that blue cap and those wet strands of hair, with that smug smile 😂

[@birminghammotorhomeman]

sundays not the same on tv without timeteam lets get it back on tv

[@RKHageman]

They can’t. There was no television company interested. So we, the fans, are funding it ourselves…

[@karmayt8956]

I’d love to be an archaeologist but my spine is so busted up I can’t dig. I can barely garden. Sucks to be so limited.

[@BeExcellent1]

A lot of archaeology requires passionate people willing to look at stones, metals and woods at a desk under magnification, there's always a place for passionate historians, contact your local heretidge foundation you'd be surprised how helpful and fulfilled you can be :)

[@maxsdad538]

Not all a archaeology requires digging. Henry's a surveyor, Raysan al-kubaisi (Brigid Gallagher's long time partner) is an architect, Victor Ambrus was "just" an artist, and Bridig herself is primarily a conservator. Not everyone plays in the band, someone has to hold the baton.

[@SandraNelson063]

It wouldn't be TT unless a monsoon was tipping down. In England, snorkel gear is part of an archaeologist's kit. And go ahead, ask Mike Allen about snails. Go on, dare ya.

[@kigglestraw4987]

Never knew you did one in my county I live in the city of hereford and my nan lives right near there and my uncle is a game keeper at Dinmore Manor

[@katetorode8411]

Huge cattle market? It sits well on the north south river n east west hill fort lines

[@angrybird9925]

Oh my God. Thank heavens for the bloody GEO PHYS!!!!!!!!!

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

first aired 14 November 2010

[@Adam-Gates-Mudlark]

This was so interesting!!! I count Mudlarking as archeology ;)

[@mrkitty1367]

lov this show

[@Mossyz.]

I grew up watching these :)

[@abigailgerlach5443]

Is there anyplace in the UK that wasn't populated by someone in the last 5,000+ years? Probably not. One day, some time in the far future, some excited archeologist is going to dig up a high rise apartment complex. Can you imagine what they find for dating material? A landfill?

[@grendel_nz]

If you are keeping pigs in an area, you don't need a very high palisade. Having steep banks and ditches helps contain and drain the land.

[@pingpong5000]

These are a historical treasure about learning the hows whys and whens in Britains long and glorious history. Baldrick's part is clear, to ask the stupid questions we the non archaeological viewers are thinking and he cheers the hell out of the experts, but I am unhappy eith a little celeb calling those qualified docs and Profs ' bickering' during and interesting piece of discussion demonstrationg how they see the same thing different, it is the most imformative part of the program and where those of us who want to learn a little more do, I love the look on Phil's face sometimes when Tony talks like he is the chief, they priceless, just the same as you would give a puppy that's just done a poo in your house, classic. Peopel of that type are of that time and can not exist now, we are not allowed to be.

[@jimsantiago6017]

LIDAR?

[@chrismadden7127]

John, how's the geophysics? I can't see a damn thing. Haha. Seems to be his favorite line.

[@garyfitz7013]

I love Time team, however I have a question. If they were aware of the wet weather drawing in, why did they not cover the trenches to prevent them becoming water logged? It appears to me that forward planning was not taken into concideration to prevent this which in turn made the trench un-unworkable the next day. Am I missing something here?

[@uncletomcobley6950]

because water will flow through once it is coming down fast enough?

[@anthonyanderson9326]

Totally agree

[@maxsdad538]

This is England, Slick... there's ALWAYS the chance of wet weather.

[@p24hrsmith]

It's puzzling as to why they would go to so much effort to fortify somewhere, then not live in it

[@williamallen8082]

it may be the last ditch.

[@Just_Sara]

Maybe pottery doesn't last well in that soil. But there was antler, and wood, so... ???

[@p24hrsmith]

@@Just_Sara even that is very little for such a big site maybe they were a tribe of vegan's who lived in tents and were ocd about keeping site clean you never know

[@jimjohns9595]

I agree with you completely.

[@anthonyanderson9326]

They must have been living up there. High, dry, and great views

[@gregedmand9939]

Stewart and Bethany seemed smitten with each other...

[@davidmerkle9541]

I would love to have met Phil!!!

[@leeandrew5638]

Is it true about they had a lost castle in Rochdale

[@mikealangaloe1774]

I really want to move to the uk

[@daveseddon5227]

First aired 7th November 2010 UK

[@roselynpark9950]

It really does show how archaeologically packed the British landscape is, not only seeing those two hillforts flanking the enclosure, but Hampton Court Palace just the other side of a narrow strip of woodland.

[@karlkarlos3545]

Yeah, and all other areas in Europe are archeological wastelands. Because nothing historical ever happened anywhere else. (Roll eyes)

[@roselynpark9950]

@@karlkarlos3545 Chur Bro, I live in Aotearoa - New Zealand, where we have Pa - hillforts - but are not actually replete with Tudor castles and the like. I agree with you that Europe is also full of archaeological features. I've only spent 10 weeks in the UK & Europe, and that was back in 1994. I'm keen to learn more, if you have some favourite sites you wanted to point out. Thank you.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@roselynpark9950 Well, I live in Germany where you can't build a new subway line without unearthing an archeological site. Of course it's no different in France or Italy. And Spain is interesting with his old moorish/islamic history.

[@roselynpark9950]

@@karlkarlos3545 I think the article was from 2017, but I recently saw the MacDonalds in Italy where you can see an old Roman road under the floor… I’ll search around online for more European sites to get a broader picture; what you said about Spain gives me a great place to start. Thank you for that. 🙂

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

Could the Romans have used it as well? Dear Phil`s jacket is soaking wet. The material of the jacket is absorbing all of the rain. I wonder if he has noticed.

[@jesterboykins2899]

John lol “I don’t think so”

[@larryzigler6812]

Love the guy who put Phil in his place !!!!!!

[@deltadom33]

I love tonys sarcasm

[@TheSpeakingSnail]

I find him really annoying

[@harbourdogNL]

7:30 on a Sunday night, on my second pint of IPA, and just found a TT episode I haven't seen before!! Yes!! "Hang on, nympho cheerleader twin sisters, just watching something on KZbin…"