Why Is There Ancient African Pottery In This British Seaside Town? | Time Team

[@thedrunkenelf]

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[@JonBrownSherman]

Damn this was top notch. Thank you Time Team and shout out to Carl the Cornish coin connoisseur!

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

One wouldn't necessarily require to reach the shore to trade, the ship in question could lay anchor at safe depth whilst a smaller local raft or barge could be used to ferry items from the shore and to the ship.

[@MsTankrat]

Aah TT. Our hope in this insane world.

[@Rand0mFemale]

Yes! I had never heard of it prior to the pandemic. I’m glad I did! We are literally watching old hippies dig in the dirt for a hour each episode, but it never fails to fascinate me!

[@nicolejosan6364]

I just love how Tony keeps teasing them with the "not very round house". He's the soul of this series.

[@jaynesegman7847]

i like him too. but i find his voice too shrill. god series

[@monicacall7532]

TT rocks! I’m addicted to this show. The archeologists, geo phys guys, experts on pottery, etc. are top notch. Even if the digs don’t deliver any results the archeological process is always fascinating to me.

[@Blessings.429]

Oh great, just found out my Ancestors came to Australia in the late 1700’s from Cornwall and I know nothing about Cornwall

[@susanjackett9268]

Hi from Cornwall

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Your ancestor probably stole a cornish pastie 😆

[@surreygeorge11]

I really like this series. Phil and Mick are so involved in the digs, they pull you along with them.

[@issith7340]

At least you said that the “turkish” pottery maybe came from constantinople and not from Istabul.👍

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

They also have him saying regularly that samian ware comes from 'France' and not Gaul. Apparently the producer thinks that the British audience couldn't handle the difference.

[@issith7340]

@@JonFrumTheFirst 🙈😂

[@gratius1394]

Thank you, I've found that annoying too. What's their problem with saying "East Roman", "Byzantine" or, if they're so bent on geographical terms, "Anatolian" is completely beyond me. Calling 5th-6th century AD finds "Turkish" is just as anachronistic as saying that Julius Ceasar wrote a book titled "French Wars"...

[@zuzudernegger9721]

Turkish... when Turks were still in Eastern Siberia. It was and is still Anatolia or Asia Minor.

[@zuzudernegger9721]

@@gratius1394 The ignorance of English historians is staggering. And as English is the current lingua franca a-lot of misinformation and Anglo-centric, distorted version of history spreads around the World with the help of the Internet. The English historians were supposed to be top-professionals, I thought.

[@Tzuriah]

So happy to run across a TT I haven’t seen before! Thanks! Theory: the ‘harbor’ silted up too much for the ships to come in anymore (possibly too silted even for boats from a ship anchored out in deeper water), thus stopping the trade. Yes, I’m an armchair archeologist. Lol! It’s getting to where I can say the time period of most of the pottery found.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

Quite a few harbors from the ancient world are now far inland - like a mile. Silting does that.

[@rsoubiea]

parts of san francsico is built on top of old ships that have sunk in the harbor, this was pretty common, along with the silt issue.

[@anira_archeron]

Armchair archaeologist, love it. That is me through and through. I'm forever watching these going, "That shape on the geophys look kinda like something." or they'll pick up a piece of pottery or a coin or something "Oh that looks a such and such." One day I'd like to actually study archeaology but until that day, Armchair archaeologist it is 😂

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Ref 'rubbish' in the middle of the wall, back in the 00'ties me and a colluege worked on the coast of Norway and all hotels was full, so we had to stay at a farm with an old woman, she, (probably not she personally) had moved an old house to make food, she claimed it was built like it for thousands of years, it was basically an inner wall and outer wall, filled with sand in-between, and the 'funny point' was, she told us they built it wrong the first time, it was impossible to be in the house because it was sand everywhere, and the reason was, the roof they built was covering also the outer wall, what they did was, shortening the roof, only covering the inner wall, letting rain water fall into the sand, in-between inner and outer walls, she claimed the house was perfect, and it looked really good, but is do not know

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I found this series a couple of days ago; they dont do history like this anymore!! Love the show

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I'm hooked !

[@Atomsk102]

Every time they say "iron age roundhouse" I think of a big building where they store steam locomotives.

[@trevormiles5852]

An Iron Age roundhouse to me, conjures up an old man kicking the side of my head into an other era.

[@jaysonpida5379]

5th/6th century finds and Tintagel Castle is up the coast only a few miles ---sounds like a certain 'King' might've visited the port......

[@lynnjaskowiak9963]

TT has made me reflect on what those in our own distant future will think of the lives we've lived...Skeletal remains will find us unhealthy and all the wasted petrochemicals will lable us as a suicidal global subhominid group.

[@williamfindspeople4341]

This is amazing stuff. Man had no written history in the 6th century, to find this information and figure it out is absolutely perfect.

[@Gasher82nd]

i don't know about trading port, but wreckers comes to mind, sinking ships and local folk stripping beached sinking ships. Would explain why so much varied pottery comes from.

[@jesikebiking]

Who ever drew the map of the known world was really talented =it looked great

[@johncarmon9528]

Most likely victor ambrus he was the lead artist on the show he past away 2021

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[@andreasleonardo6793]

Another amazing & enjoying video about archeologists activities for finding historical provinces ...strange discovered...circulation houses, coins and other particles from bronzed age ...enjoying video

[@classiclife7204]

Wow, a lot of grouchy bastids in the comments. Seeing a Time Team episode outside the official channel is a risk. A lot of jokes about why "Baldrick" is here and yet Robinson is more famous for Time Team - even knighted for it, I think - than his work in some 40-years'-old comedy show, good as it was. I guess some Brits hate Robinson? Then there are all the Rome-a-boos or Byz-a-boos - "ItS EaStErN rOmAn NoT tUrKiSh gahhh!!11" Sheesh.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting

[@srfrg9707]

Turkish my arse! This is greek pottery.

[@AidestheKiwi]

I'm really glad I found this video today, it's providing me so much background information for a RPG campaign I'm righting!

[@trininl2196]

Thank you. Love watching the episodes!

[@nevillemignot1681]

I just love the enthusiasm of Francis.

[@elirien4264]

The map on the beach....wow.

[@elisabethbennenbroek8382]

In time of war, or pirate ships, people as Vikings are an intermediate, international trade force

[@cyndybutler7330]

These guys always make me smile lol but also interesting

[@trevormiles5852]

love the banter and gentle professional ribbing. " the not so round , roundhouse " " it may just be the least convincing pottery reconstruction ever but...." These comments keep me coming back. and keeps us all honest.

[@cyndybutler7330]

@@trevormiles5852 yes

[@patriotUSA2007]

Love this series. Corsica and Sardinia were left out of the map of Europe drawn in the sand. :(

[@bjw4859]

Just out of curiosity, it's been a while since I watched this show on TV, why is it they only have 3 days ?, seems a bit rushed.

[@richardbore2693]

I always assumed they all had real jobs. Mostly academics/students/post grads at Universities and the like. They arranged it over a long weekend.

[@RKHageman]

@@richardbore2693. Exactly right. In addition, the television company Channel 4 was funding the digs, and they didn’t have infinite resources to do that. So, they had to balance out the options- more days? Or more digs? Can’t have both.

[@duster.]

Surely if they were trading tin and copper then Camelford is the wrong place to trade. Tin and copper was mined much further southwest where Penwith is now and Camborne / Redruth / St. Agnes and suchlike.

[@leannemayor5755]

I love watching this program but I want desperately to know what happens to these digs when this team has finished. Do they cover them back in ? Do more archeologist just continue the digs ? Please some one answer me because they are incredible finds that need to be protected . Thanks

[@georgedorn1022]

The trenches are backfilled and the site reinstated to its previous condition, as far as possible. Then the post-excavation work begins of analysing the finds and collating the information/data recovered to begin putting the report together. The post-ex work is undertaken by Wessex Archaeology and many of the site reports can be found on their website. Sometimes other archaeology groups will continue working on a particular site, but in most cases no further work has taken place.

[@leannemayor5755]

@@georgedorn1022 what a shame it’s not investigated further . Thanks for letting me know

[@georgedorn1022]

@@leannemayor5755 It is a balancing act between wanting to satisfy our intellectual curiosity about a site right now and also knowing that if we wait a few years we will understand it even better due to advances in archaeological science and understanding.

[@leannemayor5755]

@@georgedorn1022 of corse with updated carbon dating ,computers have made identifying things so much easier. I have always loved finding history secrets. To be an archeologist would be fascinating . I am grateful for these kind of shows. Now I am forced retirement ,these even the very old ones help me fill in the time and learn a little something . Thanks again from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

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I'm disabled and pain keeps me awake most nights so time team is a good distraction for me. There are more channels that show time team videos. "time team official", "time team classic", "history hits", etc. They feed my quest for archaeological info and help keep my imagination from going stagnant. Blessings, Dot

[@michellel564]

Yall I thought I found a glitch n the matrix for a min there!! That spindle bout scared me😱😂😂 nice guys!

[@chris-8092]

a spindle whorl, this is such an ancient tool, I remember my great grandmother used this tool to spin the yarn

[@RKHageman]

I and many others still use them today! Definitely not a lost art… there’s a continuous thread connecting us spinners over the millennia.

[@bethbartlett5692]

This has the Potential of an: *"Every great History story has Pirates"* - "the History Guy", see his Channel on KZbin A fabulous Professional Narrator and Historian. Back in 2019 he traveled to Britain on vacation and filmed/shared part of the experiences from his UK vacation. *the History Guy" is one of my fav's and I Highly Recommend a Watch* 🇺🇸

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I have been watching him for years. He knows his stuff and does his research meticulously. Shows like Time Team, The History Guy, and others work well with each other.

[@patlong3903]

A TT I don't remember seeing. EUREKA!!! I got misty-eyed when I heard Nicks voice.

[@IvannaNukya]

Thank you for calling it the right name eastern Roman Empire , not byzantine

[@jeremiahsawyer2123]

Glad to see Phil finally cut most of his talons lol..

[@oldschoolman1444]

I'm sure he's quite the ladies man. =)

[@eironwyman8157]

he grows them for guitar playing

[@jeremiahsawyer2123]

@@eironwyman8157 🤣🤣 Sounds like a lame excuse for being lazy at hygiene...I have a few friends that play and they absolutely do not grow talons and they play amazing 😆. Also look at TONS of other's playing guitar...

[@eironwyman8157]

@@jeremiahsawyer2123 look at every single Spanish guitar player. You can have long nails and good hygiene. Ask the majority of women. lol

[@katerinakemp5701]

Doubt uncle Phil is worried about you in the least lol would prolly call you a Berkshire Hunt to your face.

[@chrislusk3497]

If Baldrick's going to front shows like this he needs to learn some basic history and geography. 5th or 6th century pottery can't have been "Turkish" as Turkey wasn't a thing then. He means Asia Minor, or Anatolia, which didn't become Turkish until the 11th century when the Seljuqs invaded. So it was Byzantine (or Eastern Roman) pottery from Anatolia. It's a bit like saying that Boudicca mounted a rebellion against the Romans in "England".

[@douglasjohnson4382]

Perhaps they were a community of wreckers? Preying upon ships washed up on the sand.

[@deschuter]

Really just came here to watch a good program. Iam battered by ads--political mostly, and now fundraisers, and offers to pay this site to not batter me with ads. This is a good series and you really do overdo it with the endless ads and distractions. This makes the show just a lure.

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Totally agree.It use to be on TV.but that had adds.I am sick of the push on Wion,it is just all political and painful.

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We have eliminated the ads when we watch KZbin. You can do that, too.

[@RKHageman]

Click the Skip button, that helps.

[@scottgordon1781]

Yes lovely view of the Cornish coast , with an excavation in the foreground . Friendly landowners , who tidies up ?

[@elisabethbennenbroek8382]

During all times by Vikings, Spanish, Portuguese and Roman, there was trade. Think of the journey to China of Marco Polo. Slave trade and all kinds of goods

[@RobKoelman]

39:40 'This may be the least convincing pottery reconstruction ever'... 🙂

[@borderreiver3288]

love the banter that goes on between them.....

[@shihtzusrule9115]

Good ole Iron Age, where you still keep great-great gran in the kitchen.

[@thebackyardbear]

Not a harbor... more like a pirate style community based on salvage of ships which sank in deceptive waters.

[@joesanchez979]

Great video mate 🇬🇧🇦🇺

[@mrcane1851]

This job looks awesome.

[@ronnestman4696]

The British isles are simply stunning.

[@scottgordon1781]

Very cool , though foreign bits of pottery where being found over 50 years ago . maybe bits came ashore ?

[@harryhole5786]

Trading site? No, the population has not changed that much from then to today: pirates.

[@scottb4029]

Poor Francis, he tends to lose a lot of things. At least he tells an interesting story.

[@MarkDibley]

S15 E10 - From Constantinople to Cornwall, 9 March 2008

[@letthedeedshaw7541]

Some of my ancestors lived in the side of hills... stone entry.

[@Jsmith2024]

Good find, Baldrick!

[@lindahughes2289]

We humans are just fleeting beings on the land of earth. Sad. We come and go so fast

[@nycgweed]

I’d like to get my hands on some treasure while on the 🏖

[@steveb6103]

I would like some updates on past digs.

[@jakubkoucki8668]

Baldrick?

[@markg454]

Carl T is in the house! So good.

[@Orlyyep]

Love this show

[@matthijsnaylor4000]

I absolutely love this show, its therapeutic even. But am I the only one that is a bit annoyed with the anachronisms " Turkey" and "turkish" when we're actually talking about the Byzantines who considered themselves Romans....at the very least they could've said Anatolian.

[@konaken1035]

You'd be safer if ships couldn't get to you.

[@sheilawhite8314]

he has been amazing doing this series love this series

[@talisikid1618]

Roman Empire lasted to 1450’s. Only the western half collapsed just before 500AD. This is not post Roman. Just post Roman Britain.

[@PoleTooke]

@36:13 Girl: "That's really nice cuz (...)" Guy: "Hm, yes, okay." *walks away* Bruh, how disinterested can you be 😂

[@carlsmith8815]

Good....but when they drew the map in great detail that could have marked the extent of the eastern Roman empire in , that existed for a thousand years after the sack of Rome in 410 AD . Constantinople was sacked by the Turks in 1453 . Plaque was the big setback in the 520s ' as the eastern Romans attempted to retake the western empire for Roman rule around the period unearthed in Cornwall.

[@robertwilliams624]

Where's the evidence oif what they were trading?

[@briancornish5857]

When in Cornwall do as the Roman's do..

[@elisabethbennenbroek8382]

How bad we might think about Muslim, Asian people, trade is always possible

[@jameswebb4593]

Muslims didn't exist before the 7th century.

[@katerinakemp5701]

Hmmm ok this vid was From Constantinople to Cornwall S15 Ep10 TT lol thought I had lost my marbles.

[@scottgordon1781]

After a long trip from the East of the Med , past Portugal etc , would be happy to find any safe haven .

[@lindasummers9823]

Why only 3 days if you are finding things

[@sirridesalot6652]

I wonder if such a dig and exposure to it causes any of the children who see it in person grow up to become a scientist in any of the disciplines involved?

[@letthedeedshaw7541]

World trade......they have artifacts found in Oregon... that were from central america...

[@dashcroft1892]

Geo Fizz - Tony’s favourite soft drink. Goes great with ethanol.

[@OriginalMudSlinger]

any old fireplace is a furnice ooh haa

[@weilandiv8310]

You got the Hadrian coin, let's move on and try to find a hoard for Pete's sake!!

[@ivanolsen7966]

35:45 .... that could also be a weight for a net over the thatched roof ... to stop the wind tearing it away / off

[@mattstarr8203]

JCB equipment like Ford equipment in states very common equipment

[@johndownie9385]

the more episodes you watch , you can tell that this is fixed up for the cameras...its funny how the finds popup when the camera comes along , also the so-called experts are clutching at straws all the time. Maybe when they made this show they should have followed unfilmed digging from amateurs that the show couldve confirmed or denied their finding

[@barkershill]

Bang on John . A lot of stuff you see on TV. is not quite what it seems . They can get away with it because on the whole , they have a gullible and over credulous audience

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@MolotovAustralia]

The Ukraine

[@callmemonkh9020]

I vote for john gator NOT having an opinion.

[@letthedeedshaw7541]

You are beginning to see... it takes a keen eye...

[@bigbasil1908]

❤ ☭ 🇷🇺 𝒵

[@christinerobinson9372]

Why do you have only three days?

[@thirdrockjul2224]

👍

[@ChristianAuditore14]

What is a byzantine? -.-

[@mpampismarketos2253]

turkish pottery ????????? amateurs

[@MCMLXXXVICCXII]

Its just mind-boggling how much gap there were between minor asian' civilizations and britons' 2000 years ago. One of them were debating on the matters of universe and the other were building round houses along the beach... Fantastic.

[@christianbuczko1481]

The celts were advanced in medicine and metal work. Round houses were used because they are easy and cheap to build using local matarials.

[@benjohnston1303]

The sand map is awesome

[@TheDesertwalker]

Bring back the Black Adder man. We miss him.

[@RKHageman]

He’s right there on the screen…

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I want his job so bad.

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@richardmullins1883]

Anthea Harris is 🔥

[@علي-ش7ث8ب]

In ancient geography,this part of the World used to be called: -The Land of humus soil -The sixth Clime -The land of Gog and Magog

[@hiccacarryer3624]

Also Belerion, Albion - the shining land, the land of plombus albus - 'white lead' or tin. We have a legend of the giant GörMagot who was defeated by an ancestor Trojan from Anatolia called Corin who gave his name to the the land of Cernou.

[@علي-ش7ث8ب]

@@hiccacarryer3624 Ancient geographers divided the Earth to regions not like modern ones who divide it to continents , directions and states,if you read any ancient geography book you will find that Gog and Magog is the region which's now called Northern Europe! -Prophets of Israel warned them against these nations and it happened when "greeks" and "Romans" invaded them which coincided with the time of Jesus(pbuh) and this was considered a sign of his time! -The same thing happened to Muslims the prophet Muhammad(pbuh)warned them against these nations and it happened when western nations colonized the Muslims World and when you read the Quran and traditions of the Prophet you will be amazed by details he mentionned and this coincided with the time of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the Imam Mahdi and the Promised Messiah kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnOViniCfb1nnZY&t

[@Umang111-j4y]

Thanks...