Uncovering Prehistoric Burial Sites Beneath A Lake | Time Team | Timeline

The first stone henge to be discovered in Britain for a century would be cause enough for major celebration. But there's double bubbles as Tony Robinson and his hardy team of archaeologists celebrate their 200th dig.
The site is the bed of a Devon reservoir with a strange assortment of prehistoric remains. The reservoir has been specially drained, but the diggers still face three days of wading through thick, sticky mud as they piece together the story of thousands of years of rituals performed in this beautiful secret valley high up on Dartmoor.
The Team slowly uncover a network of monuments that suggest they have found a major prehistoric site. But the best discovery is left until the last day when they unearth the remains of that stone henge. It's the perfect end to a milestone in the programme's history.
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[@wakcackle3555]

Having grown up while playing in a creek, I would like to remind the team that Martha doesn't like to walk through the mud when she gets the water she needs. Henry needs to access the creek to find those perfect sized rock to use as a hammer to knap the flints for his favorite rifle. This could easily account for the remainder of his work circa 1852. Did the creek bed show evidence of fish, craw-fish, cattails and other useful vegetation in the mud? Sandbanks would be nice to sit on while doing knapping work while the craw-fish trap was out. Often pits were dug for such work as the chips left behind could cut little Johnny while he's playing in the mud, so either bury them deep or toss them into the swift section of the stream. All of these could easily be within the view of that old stone circle in the valley.

[@bluegent7]

This is edutainment of the highest order. You feel good while you learn and are made to identify with people long gone.

[@Marimilitarybrat]

I love this group of gnarled archeology lovers. I am amazed by the progress in development of "Geophys", just during the time this program has existed.

[@williamnordeste1169]

It is obvious he made that stone the night before.

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

From the perspective of 82 years, I would suggest less of the "gnarled" please. You are looking at years of experience.

[@alinasosina1246]

I just love Francis so much ♥️ He is so positive and gets so excited about temples and rituals, he is so adorable 😊

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol he is into his rituals, flummoxed though when it turns out it had nothing whatsoever to do with rituals. Still I like Francis with all his idosynchrosis, bother spell check.

[@stephanierossi7032]

Rituals ... ... just a bit flirty there aren't you . .... .

[@stephanierossi7032]

@Alina Sosina ..... you are extremely flirty there aren't you..... Nothing about the show ?

[@wildplumbeauty]

Watching Phil get that excited about flint is HILARIOUS 😂 Made my day anyways :)

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

It is HILARIOUS to you because you don't understand what it means.

[@madaug5101]

@@jeromegoodwin3848 what's with all the hate. Do you want people to be as unhappy as you seem to be.

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

@@madaug5101 How is a true observation hate?

[@madaug5101]

@@jeromegoodwin3848 saying to someone, that you don't understand what it means is hateful and hurtful. We love watching Phil get excited over small things.

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

@@madaug5101 So the truth does hurt after all.

[@MrSpartanicus]

If Phil is excited... I’m staying to the end of the video regardless.

[@WickedFelina]

I love so much all the little things which make Phil so excited, most of the world would just, pass by.

[@donnadequire-rios3531]

Great video. I so enjoyed this show. Thank u for 48 minutes of decent, interesting and enjoyable entertainment.

[@samaramartinez9206]

I love Phils, passion and excitement over the flint scraper, I thought maybe I was the only one out there like that :-)❤

[@patwithers1448]

Love from the old lady in Texas may God bless you always and forever

[@danisyx5804]

This may be my favorite episode yet

[@jeanfish7]

I SO love the catapillar operator!:) 💘

[@danisyx5804]

It takes an amazing amount of skill to do what he does I love that you recognize that

[@primevalseeker3952]

I loved this episode, thanks Timeteam

[@shitbag.]

This show is so much better in HD

[@johnanthonyfingleton2954]

I'm still following this series....in my own order.....Great!!!

[@reginaromsey]

Watching from 2021, eager for the first NEW Time Team episode in years! If you like this look for Time Team’s Patreon page and be part of the comeback! I wonder if some of the Lidar or other looking through the overburden can be done with Drones?

[@MuttieRo]

congratulations on your 200th dig....really enjoy all the dig's you have done so far...here's to 200 more

[@elisa8044]

Extraordinarily FANTASTIC ....

[@dennislindqvist8443]

I love how excited we get when we're digging up...stones. Or when we send a multi billion dollar robot to mars which is sending us photos of...stones.

[@shwhitebuffalowoman6276]

Me too !

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

So you have never been stoned, LOL

[@dennislindqvist8443]

@@jeromegoodwin3848 Yes I am, sir.

[@spiegelburg]

Archeologists would get excited about other things as well ... If those would survive in the ground for over 6000 years!

[@williamnordeste1169]

Maybe they are stoned all the time??????

[@terenceconnors9627]

Phil and flints. :) Always a good show.

[@danielflintknapping]

I hear you Phill, there's nothing better than worked flint

[@bethbartlett5692]

Enjoy these shows so - *What a "History Time Team Created"* - awesome group of individuals. *Truly a production/series that offers intelligent entertainment* while we gain a bit of knowledge. Mick in Non-Physical now - know his friends miss him. Now he knows the Facts about all of Ancient History - including the Pyramids. ...now he knows the various previous Intelligent Ancient Civilizations - 😉 Much Positive Energy be yours Mick - always. You'll be back and possibly viewing work you did with Phil in your 20th-21st century Life Journey. Truly loveable characters both Mick and Phil. 🇺🇸 Tennessee, USA Viewer

[@giboron]

I love Timeline Documentary learn so much

[@carolelerman9686]

I do too, but this guys digs are sooo boring so far a ring, a flint, a broken piece of pottery.

[@giboron]

@@carolelerman9686 I know it ant much but I still love it

[@carolelerman9686]

@@giboron Still much better than American TV!

[@giboron]

@@carolelerman9686 yes that's y I don't watch TV just KZbin

[@carolelerman9686]

@@giboron Mee too.

[@dave-in-nj9393]

I can see that as a simple farm. wood building, then stone circle put the house on the dryest place use the gravel from the fields to make a walkway and put larger stones to either side. from what I watched, it could be a place where people lived and farmed and every year or so, added to the neighborhood

[@sgrannie9938]

“A whole heap of flinty goodness” ⭐️

[@LarrainesUniqueShop]

Not because of Tony but because of the TEAM.

[@rutabagasteu]

It would be great if these shows were on DVD. Probably too long ago. And the cost would be more than I could afford.

[@ThePeejRR]

With all the rituals and the building of ritual places it's a miracle pre-historic people got anything else done!

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

Like what RADIO? They were hunter gatherers and they celebrated a kill and a growing season and built a village. They got more done than you would.

[@jeanfish7]

@@jeromegoodwin3848 lol, amazing how much time people have to get things done without TV, radio computers and CELL PHONES!:)

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

@@jeanfish7 OK but would you know to do what they did? I don't think so.

[@Sunshine-Dragon]

That's why they died early 😅, they were so exhausted! ☠

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Loved this, what exciting discoveries! (I really hope that the excavation amd study can continue here, and that the resinous can be placed elsewhere!)

[@jesterboykins2899]

Phil making flints take 45. Action. All the times he’s done this. One of many through the years

[@jenniferh.k.7123]

Phil explains what evidence he is seeing and all I can see is different colours of dirt on dirt and on dirt 😁🤷🏼‍♀️

[@adacox]

Never knew there was so many colors of brown

[@jameswatson5370]

Am I the only one who sees a face on that rock at 17:12 to 17:34?

[@suzannepatterson307]

That was definitely a face on the rock!

[@sgrannie9938]

I saw it as well.

[@screwthecabal6453]

This country no doubt has some of the most awesome and beautiful landscapes and country sides around. I'm wondering why so many regions and towns end in "shire"....??? Does anybody have any info on this??

[@Sunshine-Dragon]

Shire means division. You devide the land into parts and give each part to someone else to supervise it for you. Now minor problems get solved on it's own and you can deal with bigger problems.

[@suzannepatterson307]

Use it like “county”. I have a friend from derby. He said Derbyshire. County Derby.

[@SimonSozzi7258]

Oh this is official! Crystal clear!

[@PtolemyJones]

Curious how Phil can be so certain about the age of flint, it would be interesting to give him a collection of old flint and some that was knapped more recently.

[@georgedorn1022]

Stone tools are dated by their type/style. Earlier excavations have shown which types of tools are found with date-able evidence from the Mesolithic/Neolithic/Bronze Age. So it is possible to give a broad date. Whether a newly made Bronze Age-style arrowhead, for example, would be identifiable compared to the real thing in similar condition is an interesting question.

[@tr33m00nk]

Don't forget - flint has subtly different coloration depending on its geographic source, etc. So an expert can see much more in a piece than us 'mere mortals'. Also - what @George Dorn said.

[@tommyh.8391]

Also, there were no prehistoric burials uncovered. A bit of clickbait.

[@swengeer]

Does anyone else see a face in the stone at 17:20 ?

[@beverlystewart1096]

Love Phil.

[@Hollylivengood]

They always say "ritual." How do they know It's not some family Didn't decide to build a home on an island in a shallow lake, and put in stepping stones to get to it?

[@magpie8351]

I mean, I'm assuming it's because they haven't been able to find any evidence of a homestead, like cooking and hunting implements, or even evidence of cooking fires or discarded food waste, like bones. They simply don't have enough evidence to decide for sure what the purpose of the site was, so it's better to assume it's for "ritual purposes".

[@dirtypure2023]

Prehistoric stone circles of that size are always ritual in nature. Remember also the series of 4 to 5 foot tall standing stones that were found tipped over, each equidistant from the next. You can be sure these features were not stepping stones. You have to put yourself in the mindset of the people who would have erected these things. The effort of moving large stones, placing them in exact positions in various geometric patterns, it's that effort in itself that implies ritual purpose when no practical function could be derived from such a laborious task.

[@dave-in-nj9393]

on land, there are plants, and leaves that build up over centuries. with water over the area. the bits and bobs are not covered with mans use. Makes us wonder what is 300 feet below sea level before the Great Flood. untouched for 10,000 years.

[@sfjuhispst8144]

I swear to god that I've heard Ian talk only once. In all the episodes I've watched.

[@uyraellsensenmann8931]

The offset of the stone circle from the earlier mound could-well be explained by the single line of stones running East to West if both the single line of stones and the stones within the circle have or had a calendric relationship to each other. * (I noticed, in the distance, the peak of the small hill to the left of the mound was directly aligned with the center stones of the single line of stones. ) *Which was My first thought when I saw the single line of stones, and then the proof of the stone circle. I hope this small observation is helpful to you, Time Team. Congratulations on your 200th episode, Time Team and Crew; Kind and Respectful Regards, Uyraell, NZ.

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

The waterway changes direction also.

[@sallybright7172]

It would be interesting to know if the alignments were on a winter summer soloist or a lunar alignment.. with some of the lines and paths being east west I'm thinking it's on a soloist.

[@tr33m00nk]

"Soloist" = solstice ?

[@Unknown_crusader]

I find it incredible that they can date sites just by looking at tiny nondescript looking artifacts.

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[@tomtinkersrezlife278]

Love this show wish it was still on never liked the one they made here in the USA it didn't feel right miss Mick. Tony and good old Phill

[@JacobafJelling]

Mick is important. But phil and Tony are the mvps for me

[@reginaromsey]

It is Back! New Time Team with many of the old gang and some great new people is doing shake out under the original producer! Check out the new info about their progress and the Patreon Page that is helping finance it!

[@DavidSmith-yx7kn]

Don't they have sleds in the UK, John?

[@jesterboykins2899]

I think Tracey needs some more jewelry on...

[@mikef.1000]

"and we're going to think Neolithic thoughts..." dear old Francis Pryor, he just can help assuming what he's trying to prove.

[@virgiljjacas3955]

When we ate going to enjoy similar program here in the states without " mixing it " with politics.

[@edcrichton9457]

Honest history requires a political context.

[@MonkeyspankO]

even by UK standards, Time Team is a very unique program, born out of a small core of like-minded people. Theoretically you could have it anywhere, except you don't. I guess its just special, even after all these decades.

[@MonkeyspankO]

@@daveshrum1749 perhaps, its especially frustrating, because some evidence suggests that human occupation exceeds clovis in the americas. Possibly by tens of thousands of years. There probably is A LOT left to be discovered!

[@daveshrum1749]

@@MonkeyspankO you're absolutely right. I was thinking more " modern" archaeology like Roman not prehistoric. The indigenous people, American Indians left very little Trace simply because of the way they lived. And even the early European settlers built everything pretty much from wood which also left very little Trace.

[@bluegent7]

Compared to television in the rest of the Western world, it is astounding how much American documentaries lean toward a certain narrative of history and reality. Same with news media.

[@CanChikMay]

Would loveto have pamphlets on changes in understanding...

[@maddog2771]

Bin here in October 2020

[@dummonkey1706]

I thought this was a video about Stonehenge?

[@jeanfish7]

They found a " stone" hedge there...

[@Choochin]

Ahh Torquay. The "English Riviera".

[@stephanierossi7032]

I thought a form of lockness then I thought time capsule that people left for us to see. because of positioning of rocks, like Arrows pointing to direction of finds .

[@glendamears3618]

Has Time Team ever found Petrified wood???

[@waynebrady7439]

My trip to england keeps being interrupted by sudden advertisements

[@RKHageman]

Note: this is wonderful, but the site is in Dartmoor. It has NOTHING to do with Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

[@dirtypure2023]

It's mini-Stonehenge.

[@MarkAZ001]

You`re right, but its A stonehenge and not THE Stonehenge.

[@hottubmobileneil]

I am not Neil , congratulations on your anniversary .

[@Kid_Kootenay]

Remember when you could watch time team now you watch commercials with a little time team for flavour. Ice never seen so many commercials on a KZbin show ever.

[@robroy6804]

get VPN

[@apronhugsingreeenbay]

100,000 - 150,000 shelter & artifacts

[@stephenfreeman7808]

The resivor has been there since water was flooded into the valley? Ok... but did this by any chance happen to coincide with the building of a dam?

[@PtolemyJones]

At this point in the episode, I wonder if they are digging up a Victorian folly.

[@astroman2112]

More adds please...

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Get a better browser and adblock.

[@rodchallis8031]

Yes, adblocker is very easy to install. It's not a bad first line defense or prophylaxis against malware, too, which is primarily why I run it.

[@tr33m00nk]

@@rodchallis8031 I've tried "adblocker" twice. It was too 'buggy'. "Privacy Badger" works really well however. I have NO affiliation or investment in it, by the way.

[@MendTheWorld]

Can't speak to the archeology, but the geology is a bit dodgy. At 4:29, he reaches _past_ what _might_ be a piece of granite (light grey, with phenocrysts) which is *not* a volcanic rock, to pick up a piece of what _might_ be a piece of basalt (dark grey, fine grained) which *is* a volcanic rock. (Both, however, are igneous rocks.) And then, at 4:45 he clearly has a _different_ rock in his hand (which _might_ be granite?) At least basalt, which is relatively iron-rich, usually exhibits a remnant magnetic signature imparted when the rock was formed, and certainly would interfere with a magnetic survey (or whatever it is they do). Granite, which is relatively low in iron, can be weakly magnetic in some cases.

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

Go take over the team. BTW they can't show everything so how do you know they never examined it?

[@TeresaTrimm]

First aired February 6, 2011

[@Angelbach1995]

I'm (PhD statistical analysis on social sciences) always skeptical when I hear, "without shadow of doubt."

[@AnotherWittyUsername.]

Look at Phil's fingernails! How could somebody who spends so much time digging in the dirt have such long nails, when I break mine folding the laundry?

[@katerinakemp5701]

Our Phil plays a guitar, hence the long fingernails on the left hand, he doesn't use a plectrum.

[@ebybeehoney]

I love this documentary but this channel has the worst timing for ads of ANY KZbin channel I've seen.

[@screwthecabal6453]

I really do love this show because I love history and because most people here in the US don't understand where their ancestors came from. Mine came from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Hawaii of all places! You can thank the lds church for their hand in this when they sent missionaries to Hawaii to convert the "Polynesian tribes" into mormonism, the fake church started by a 19th century con man, liar, criminal, womanizer, thief, arsonist, polygamous, dishonest dropout that didn't know how to spell let alone read and write but did tell a good story copied from the old testament and introduced a new religious book called the "book of morons", chuckle chuckle, by Joseph Smith.

[@rudyrush6015]

Bingo .......... Dino DNA

[@SK-du5ns]

I don't know??? Seems the Time team sees through rose coloured glasses...Just saying.

[@lisakaz35]

They get trained to read very subtle things the average eye won't see, like a shift in soil composition or color, on chalk deposits. It's quite amazing and yes something I just can't see how they see. It could be the resolution of the film. That is, it might be easier to pick up in person. Or they have become incredible sensitive to minute things. Just because I have trouble seeing it doesn't mean it's not there. Think of all the experience assembled by these people. I couldn't pick out a piece of Stone Age flint. Phil can. It's not rose-colored glasses otherwise they wouldn't find so much stuff. It comes from education and experience. Could you identify and date a Roman or medieval piece of pottery from little more than a shard? Well, they get people who can. Watching a dozen episodes of Time Team won't make me or you archaeologists. But at least I can appreciate the work of professionals.

[@SK-du5ns]

@@lisakaz35 Yes, I very much appreciated their talents and asergens but adter watching them time, and time again, I, like Toni can't help but point out the shortfalls of their over enthusiastic predictions. I've enjoy watching every episode thus far but believe the team could show a little more constraint in their predictions before the conclusion of the dig... just saying.

[@lisakaz35]

@@SK-du5ns Do you really think there'd be no shortfalls or mistakes when a "wrecky dig" (Dr. Turi King's term for a quickie) is done in three days? The behind-the-scenes view shows the producers liked when things like bad weather had them scrambling because it made for better TV. Digs often take months and even years to get things right but you wanna complain about them not being completely perfect all three days? Seems to me you have a great mis-perception of the field. Even the miraculous dig that found Richard III took weeks and while they found him they didn't get everything they wanted and had to excavate for a second time. Despite this, TT do some great work, on their own format or by assisting ongoing projects. In one case, previous work situation a Tudor structure via an artistic drawing that they discovered was completely off. They figured the complex was situation not over a garden area but beneath the homeowner's stables. Mistakes can and do happen yet the discoveries are pretty consistent despite your criticism.

[@SK-du5ns]

@@lisakaz35 I dont consider constructive criticism as complaining, lol far from it. I like every other viewer revels in their discoveries, but 'facts first' make for good TV. Cheers Lisa Kazmier have a great life ;)

[@dirtypure2023]

@@SK-du5ns These are archeology and history nerds. Of course they get excited and hopeful. How boring would it be if they had no enthusiasm or hope for the incredible possibilities on a dig? And it's not unusual that their hopeful predictions are justified by the finds.

[@jeanneamato8278]

Wet to dry = birth?

[@wulfricnoth9833]

18:27...someone needs to do the archaeology on that ladies blouse.

[@watermelonlalala]

"Now, what kind of people would wear a blouse like that? What can we say about them?"

[@mikehurst3245]

18:27 is 3 men standing on a mound 😬

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Phil Harding, the Real Deal!* Latter, DNA revealed "Phil Harding" is the most original English (pre Anglo Saxon) in the bunch. The post Flood and Ice Age English, Welsh, and Irish were all originally Basque. Each went on to gain their own admixture. However the Male Ernglish were noticeably Largely ereaticated, replaced by Anglo Saxen and some few Norman and to a lesser degree Roman. Phil is *"the Real Deal"! ...and possibly, my cousin. 😁

[@jeromegoodwin3848]

How did they fish?

[@USAOnlineCasinos]

Mr bean is the host?

[@katerinakemp5701]

Lol its Baldric.

[@robertbabb]

I WANT TOO SEE MORE OF THE BLOND ps what are you smoking i want some

[@rushdiahmad2435]

I felt sorry for people of Dartmoor their water supply is distrupted cos' somebody's want to do archeological dig..

[@spiegelburg]

At least they got a huge party and champagne!

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

The dig _wasn't_ why the reservoir was emptied.

[@Paul-vk3gh]

I'd give my left foot to have actual archeologists like this come to ohio. Instead we are stuck with energy company stooges who get paid to ignore local history

[@tygeron3145]

Why is this titled Stonehenge Documentary when it isn't about Thee Stonehenge

[@moendopi5430]

Granite does not come from volcanoes. It is a intrusive rock, nor does it often have a lot of magnetic minerals. Rocks like gabbro (intrusive) do, and volcanic rocks like basalt do as well. Basalt does come from a volcano.

[@drinozhao2905]

The harmonious yacht problematically want because virgo covalently consist atop a loutish character. disagreeable, unused bugle

[@natewatl9423]

I get so tired of videos about stone henges because of the construction or so-called reconstruction of the site commonly known as Stonehenge around 1920 or so. It was then that workmen with simple ropes and pulleys placed some of the horizontal stones on some of the vertical stones. I wish there were an accurate and honest disclosure of how many, if any, vertical stones were put in place during that project, and exactly how many horizontal stones were put in place during that project and what the thinking was in placing fallen horizontal stones on two particular vertical stones. I have to laugh when this video is called some of the best prehistoric archaeology in Britain, given that the tampering with "the" Stonehenge occurred during some of the worst of British pseudo-archaeological activities. In fact, in my opinion, they do not deserve the name archaeology but simply pillage and ruin, followed by intellectual dishonesty. Given the ongoing history of recalcitrant deception, I simply put not much stock at all in anything I see taking place in the British Isles. They do seem adept at telling tales,, some of which may actually be true. If true, I am convinced that it is only accidental and not scientific truth. *My apologies, but I am not at my PC and I am not going there so that I can consult Google then copy and paste the photos to which I refer. I recommend that you do your own search and see what there is to see.*

[@PtolemyJones]

I like to joke about Geo-Fizzle and how Gater seems to think too highly about himself, but Francis and his silliness about ritual and ceremony is my least favorite part of this show. Luckily there is still much to love. Odd that the layman host is often the one grounding their speculation.

[@loriwalker6669]

Kinda boring

[@honeybsweetnectar1713]

Yep

[@knaperstekt7953]

Thank you for your review Lori, now go back to history channel with the exiting alien and scrapyard programs with flashing lights and exciting upbeat music.