'Under the Gravestones' (Castor, Cambridgeshire) | Series 18 Episode 6 | Time Team

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Rector Burke seems like a fantastic steward of the site; Knowledgeable, humble, a polyglot, an avid historian, and an all round charming fellow. I'm not religious myself, but it warms the cockles of my heart to know there are people like Rector Burke caring for and tending to the flock of the faithful :)

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He also looks like quite the archiologist with his field bag, jerkin, and manky hat.

[@slowerpicker]

And it says something about his integrity to be willing to put to scientific test his personal, pastoral belief about the existence of the praetorium on the site.

[@Avratin]

He's a wonderful man. I grew up in Castor and attended the church as a child.

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@@Wally-H Being half Hebr. no need for extravagant building, yet it’s the hat and what’s beneath it that counts in a yard like this one.

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Love Stewart and Matt’s attempt at historical recreation! Learning is done that way too! (Matt was always such a good sport. It is wonderful to know he has continued on and is still a known professional Archeologist!’

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I used a surveyor's chain just like Matt's when I worked for the local County Surveyor's Department.

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It’s incredible how much history still lives under our feet .What I like the most is that you show what the building would have looked like in its day.And when you think of how primitive the tools were and no diggers or power tools .These Romans did some pretty amazing buildings,aqueducts,roads etc. Then after they left we went back to living in wooden huts with one main room and it makes you think the people must have been silly after seeing amazing structures then to wood huts ..Even the castles were not much better as at first for a long time they had no windows just covering.Yet the Romans had underfloor heating .Quite funny really .This was a great dig.The steps and the floor was a really great find .Well done everyone 🥰

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The sheer scale of the Roman construction projects just continuously boggles my mind! 😮 Looking at those fragments of wall embedded in the older churchyard boundary there, for example - they're huge! The robbing of old Roman & Romano-British sites for already-quarried stone has made archaeologists' lives so much more difficult, but I guess one cannot blame the locals of the time for recycling such excellently-cut stone? I'm always surprised that they didn't also seem to relocate any of the incredible mosaic art 🤔 (Apparently leaving most of it to be ploughed up, or uplifted by 19C antiquarians....?)

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They were believers . In science !!!!!

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I agree. I'm also very happy that his surmises about the praetorium were verified! Well done!

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I practically grew up in graveyards in Europe. When my dad was stationed in Germany we went to a lot of graveyards while he was doing his genealogy research. Lucky for us a lot of cemeteries had playgrounds so we played while they searched and talked to people taking care of their family plots.

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Itnreslly don't understand why some one ßpemds their whole life digging for archaeological remains , and what.....they just get filled in again.......this really is NOT exciting.....seems like these guys spend their whole lives reinventing the wheel......

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@@juliawitt3813 Information about the past is priceless. Dig it up and study it while it's still there in the ground because most things eventually completely disintegrate and the the information is lost forever. The past is like the biggest and best jigsaw puzzle in existence.

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It's more that they didn't move all their trash out of sight the way we do. As another comment said, if you could see the amount of broken glass and ceramics an average modern household produces over a hundred years it would be a different story, but nowadays it all goes to landfill or recycling.

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we bin there too, digging up Jamestown

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Edmund Artis was mentioned on time team before. In the bedford purlieus wood episode

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Tony to Tracy.. is that a pipe in your trench😂

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@@larryzigler6812 paul is not the only one. i know it is not fair to the - new - team. Special because there are many of this team still involved. But i suppose Tony Robinson or Professor Mick Aston, just to pick two, are one of a kind.

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In your dreams.

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I really liked the horrible histories episode where they talked about burial and said they'd throw things in to confuse future archaeologists.

[@Michelledetecting]

I live in Peterborough I found a Roman coin in a well known woods near me 😃 castor is only down the road from me. I’ve asked the parish council if there’s anywhere in castor I could metal detect but I’ve had no response 🙁 been doing a lot of research of castor and the river Nene since I found the coin, there’s so much Roman history here xx

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[@johntimbrell]

Did anyone else notice that the roads around the church and the site indicate an important site before Roman times?

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[@ericashmusic8889]

Was I mistaken -I heard Peter at approx' 26:45 saying with over 20,000 burials in this churchyard ! ?

[@naturebehindglass6512]

That's not that difficult for old European graveyards... We either stack them or remove individual burials and sort the bones in communal vaults after a few decades. Or we would've run out of space a few centuriea ago...

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Bodies over bodies..

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Got to love the Romans.... And Artis

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QUESTION... TIME TEAM. I WISH OR HAVE YOU EVER DUG INTO OR NEAR OR AROUND ANY BOGGS..????...

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A question 🤔 from the US are you talking about digging a swamped area or a cesspool?

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great show...thanks

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This channel has been new to me. (I was just channel surfing the internet and came acrossed you.) This is so interesting. I have had an interest in archeology since my teenage years.. And believe me, that's along time ago. Anyway, keep up the searching and I'll keep up watching.

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This show got cancelled years back sadly and replaced with REALITY TV drivel..

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How fascinating 🤔

[@jasonashley4579]

Man that's neat! I live in the midwest of the United States, there just aint the history here, Jesse James is buried down the road from me but that's about it.

[@gregb6469]

We in the States call a building of a hundred years real old; in England they would call it too new to bother with.

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There's plenty of Native American history in the United States stretching back thousands of years. Colonizing populations just decided that wasn't real history and we're still dealing with that baggage.

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I’m in an area with a heavy amount of native history. Ever hear of the Spirit Lake Massacre? That happened here where I live. We have history it’s just not white history. Look around, you’ll find history.

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The US has been populated for thousands of years before the English invaded

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So the Roman buildings must be where they got the herringbone brick design from the Tudor period! Cool!

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Thank you 22-15-6

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I live in America. I really wished we had tv shows like this that aren’t scripted or have blonde haired bimbos running around. This is really educational and keeps one intrigued in what happens next. We like watching people suffering here in America on tv. It’s all so strange how we are.

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UK tv is wonderful

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24:19 The Colin Firth of Time Team!

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Based on the title and thumbnail, this seems like a whimsical adventure program where two chipper (probably Brits) dig up graves in cemeteries for fun and education. I'm on board.

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“Functional as well as pretty… like my hat.” 😂

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Thought that was well played myself 😊

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21:18 what are those black trees? they look beautiful

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Love this!

[@lotus1695]

I love this!! ❤ However, I don't understand why Artist recovered up his archeological finds? Can someone fill me in? Thanx 😉

[@seregiel9541]

Time team does this as well - it preserves the archeology for future digs that might have more resources to investigate findings.

[@lotus1695]

@@seregiel9541 but isn't that a shame for us all? We never get to see it in real life? Thanx for the info. 😉

[@reginaromsey]

@@lotus1695 he couldn’t leave a great big hole open next to the town. Plus he had no way of covering things so the weather wouldn’t just melt it into mud. Always necessary to leave things so when it’s redug in later years with new technology there is something to find. Archeology has been terribly destructive in that digging all this up destroys pieces that might be very important come new ways.

[@mball831]

@@reginaromsey This is also why scheduled sites have such well defined limits on how much you can excavate - archaeology, even well intentioned modern archaeology, is an inherently destructive process.

[@reginaromsey]

@@mball831 I think of Kathleen Kenyon, known as a fine archeologist who never published notes or the type of details that are demanded now. Archeologists rail against Heinrich Schliemann’s slashing through the Trojan mound, but what she did was nearly as bad. The areas dug are gone forever with their stratigraphy and evidence that future refinements might use. It is so important to note down and photograph and write up digs. Sadly Kenyon didn’t and took it to her own grave.

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very interesting!

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Great episode!

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i love this guy. :) 🌷🌱

[@ristube3319]

17:01 what an idyllic picture with the rainbow over the church.

[@gregedmand9939]

I think it's pretty obvious where most of the stone went from that massive collection of official Roman buildings... St. Kyneburgha Church!

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What are u boys up to!! Sheesh.

[@tucays1]

so big was Hadrian involved, is it as big or any relation to Vindalanda fort and village on the Hadrians wall?

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Yes but No..

[@jodienovello5881]

I honestly don't understand why these very solid and beautiful buildings would have ever been destroyed. when so many other medieval buildings are still in use today, over there.

[@CartoonHistory]

26:23 you can always date a time team's episode by the developing sweat stains on Phil's hat

[@blaggercoyote]

Surely a Praetor was a local governor - the representative of the state in a particular area or province.

[@EarleALLEN]

as a Certified Minister,I hope they marked that grave of 5 human ancestors as a mark of respect though we will never know who they were