Time Team S14-E04 The Druids' Last Stand, Anglesey
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2013
- In early 2006 an aerial photographic survey of Anglesey produced a remarkable image. On the slopes south of the town of Amlwch approximately four miles from the island's north coast - a large pentangular earthwork could be seen.
The earthwork, known as Y Werthyr, has long been known about - but until the photograph was taken nobody knew its full extent. It had never been excavated, nor properly identified.
If comparisons with other sites on the island are correct, however, Y Werthyr is one of a small group of pentangular or polygonal enclosures that date from the middle to late Iron Age. This was the time when, according to classical sources, the island of Anglesey was the centre of the ancient Britons' druidic priesthood.
Y Werthyr presented Time Team with a rare opportunity to excavate a large, previously uninvestigated, site. And perhaps, too, a chance to catch a glimpse of one of the bloodiest events in British history - the Roman suppression of druidic Anglesey.
Ian is amazing. He could scrape a dime off a sandbox without taking a layer of sand... and he can feel the soil and from his higher vantage can see the change.
I love how excited Francis gets. What a great group of people!
Glad to see Ian getting some recognition! He's an unsung hero of TT.
Wasn't that amazing! Loved seeing Ian get a bit of his own.
Be nice, appreciation goes a long way.
Victor is a very talented but modest artist of the show :)
Watching in 2019....Mick is still a legend and sorely missed, RIP.
Ditto in 2022.
Same in 2023
It's funny how time zips by as I watch these. As its ending, I think ' already?'. Love the history and archeology.
I would buy Phil a drink and I don't drink. Love watching him he really loves to dig.
I always wish they had more than three days! Love these guys ❤️
love the animated re-constructions, really fleshes out the finds, for example, the wall, the house, the grave
After 30 years of watching, I feel part of the family.
Wonderful Time Team. It is criminal that they axed it.
they get so giggly its like Christmas morning. LOVE to see there excitement.
*their
@@beardyface8492 and *it's
I think ive watched just about 20 yrs of time team..most enjoyable too.
The dug for 3 days to see if it would be a big enough discovery to bring in a whole team of archialogists to open it completely. They found so.e really great finds that way..and technology keeps advancing to make it easier.. id love to be on their team..
that guy named Phil is hilarious I'd drink a beer with him
He would make a joke and while you were laughing he'd drink your beer also.
no way i would have a beer with him.
That's a common reaction.
@@louiscyfer6944 Live a little.
randomplace, i don't drink beer, it is horrible.
Phil is such a character. bless him
impressed at Tony's ability to not laugh at 24:58, 'grotty as'
beforehand:
"Don't you say it"
"I'm gonna say it"
It's interesting how similar tribal peoples are worldwide and throughout history. I live in an area of the U.S. with many many native archaeological sites. Some of them have circular communal dwellings very close to the roundhouses in design.
I picture a scene of 2 Roman soldiers hammering a poor guy on a cross, casual chatting while the guy is crying and wailing in pain.
"Have you heard of the druids? I mean they're soooo cruel."
"Yeah... how could you do such thing to a human being. Btw, are you going to the amphitheatre tomorrow? I heard they're gonna let some lions maul some guys to death."
Ancient copper mines at Parys Mountain just next door... blank copper discs probably to be expected in the area. Too bad more cultural materials were not found. Great show.
We've got just 3 days to find out...
I have a *cunning plan*.
Are you still using that poor beaten-up hackneyed phrase..what an unoriginal fuck...I've only seen it 15,000 times on other Time Team commentaries..yeah..Robinson was Baldric..we know...
Now go get your shinebox!!!
Artificial deadlines add drama.
@@t.j.payeur739 Who hurt you?
I got the impression that the gentleman talking to Tony about druids being hippies in white might actually be a druid himself lol
Bada Bing , if they are artists poets music and such where is the result? any civilization that has these people shines them into history. nothing but tokens in swamps? I am not buying a peaceful artistic people at all.
Yeah, he looked pretty insulted lol
Probably just a Bangor uni historicist Marxist
Being of mostly Scotch/Irish/Welsh ancestry, I've studied the Druids history. They were highly spiritual people with musical/artistic ability being common in most families.
Including my family of singers, musicians, poets.and artists.
This series is/was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
I wish this show would film for three months at each site instead of just three days. I'm always left wishing for more information.
Janice Phillips same
That's a trick, so you keep watching the show ;)
Same. I get it - the main people on the show have their own regular jobs and etc., but surely they could switch out amongst themselves and the plethora of other archaeologists, historians, etc. living and working especially in Britain. If nothing else, each site where the team has made "amazing discoveries" - especially on Day 3 - should have spin-off specials of their own. I'd love to have seen that kind of thing. Excellent show - could be more!
Or even three weeks
It's a matter of money.
The crew is roughly 100 people...wages, accommodation, food, permits, machinery rental...
What I learned from this series it that you cannot walk anywhere in the UK without stepping on a grave.
I am grateful for the episodes, but also a little sad knowing the Time Team are no longer poking about the English countryside digging holes and sipping brew at local pubs.
Uhm, British countryside! This is Wales!
Time Team was a pain in the arse with their set time limit of 3 days. Why not leave the findings open and preserve them for younger generations to learn from? Very typically British, cover up and forget, we don't really give a toss about history, all being just about some broadcasting corporation, making money... And the shit they creates here outside Camelford at Slaughterbridge was a typical disaster!
@@robinanna5531 Wales is in Britain.
@@Arkantos117 Yes, but not in the English countryside as the original comment stated. 🙂
@@robinanna5531 Ah yes, sorry, clearly my reading comprehension at ~4am is terrible. :P
This is one of my favourite episodes, RIP Mick ❤️
Which one is Mick sorry new to this series
@@ccharms60, Mick is the one with the white hair 👍
@@chriswalsh6140 thank you I'm new to this series and I wish I would have went to school for archeology😜
God, I love this show and look forward EVERY night to see an episode or two!
I wish I could turn back the clock and become an archaeologist!!!
They need to start at the southern tip of England and do a rolling archeological excavation all the way to the northern tip of Scotland.
That would take forever. There's SO much under the soil.
My all time favourite programme, nostalgic Sunday memories here..
YES ! That time of the week was sacred .
My new favorite show. Thank you for the uploads!
The signs of the excavation are still visible on Google Earth here:
53°24'19.7"N 4°23'42.8"W
An if you put those numbers into a PC it stops an island exploding.
@@VCYT I'm in a band called driveshaft.
@@vermontvermont9292 I bet your music drives... People crazy. That's what the others tell me.
I find it hard to believe the Romans would be horrified at anything least of all human sacrifice given what they got up to.
generally their policy was 'hands off' via local practices , but Druids REALLY put them off !
Considering that crucifixion was a common punishment for even minor crimes, yes, I doubt it was human sacrifice that would have scared the romans so much. It was more likely they were afraid of the druids spiritual power.
Or a history of India written by Brits...
Using human sacrifice as an excuse for later atrocities is an old and timeworn tactic, too, (just thought of it) the spaniards used the same justification , after the fact, for their genocide in Central and South America.
@ajsimo222 I guess you could make a case for Suttee,(burning of widows alive on their husbands' funeral pyres) as a form of human sacrifice, but that is only women so I expect it doesn't count. Historically speaking, none of us have clean hands.
Still watching on 29/02/2020 love it !!!
Best TV show ever! Bring back Time Team & put Helen in charge.
No... You need BOTH Helen & Rakshah
i was hoping they would find the remnant of the sacred grove there. But it was a quality content as usual by the Time Team. Love it very much.
It's important to realize that the *ONLY* claims about cannibalism by Druids...was reported by their enemies the Romans.
+Barnaby ap Robert
That very true. The people they ate couldn't complain!
There is evidence on bones found etc of cannibalism
source?@@Philrc
@@kennethcrane9848 do your own research. It's on the net
The victors are the writers of history
38:50 It would have been worth bringing in some metal detectorists to probe the ancient shoreline closest to the enclosure.
+christosvoskresye Plus their wives would appreciate not having them underfoot at home.
You can’t put detectorists with archeologists. No lad, blood would be spilt. They would fight like cats with their tails tied, and hung over a washing line. Best not even think about it. (Thanks for that Libba the Great, I was just gassing, heh, heh, heh)
@@janskeet1382 They have metal detectorists helping on this show all the time. There are metal detectorists, and there are nighthawks. Metal detectorists report their finds responsibly, and help identify unknown sites. Nighthawks just rip stuff out of the ground and flog it.
John deserves more credit.
💯 I used to think he was a bit bitchy. With repeated viewings, he's really grown on me and now I think he's my favorite of the core team. I especially like that he always does right by his geophys team, gives them due credit. And he has quite a sense of humor. Still quite bitchy though lol
I am so jealous of the quality shows Brits get to watch. You all get Time Team and Restoration Home and we're stuck with the jiggling stupidity of Snooki , J Wow, Jersey Shore and the Simpsons.
+Marty933 If you watch the trailers and teasers at the end you'll find all of those shows on BBC too. A great deal of the crap we have here starts in England first and sent here for American remakes. Europe aint that much more "smart". State run TV is just as bad.
I miss it. Time Team was scrapped a few years ago, and there's nothing quite like it. I felt like I knew Dr Aston and Phil, which is the sign of a great programme.
fingal42 I am still watching the series in order and was horribly shocked about Mick's death and now to find out the series was cancelled! So sad to see reality shows "win"
Watching ''stupid'' TVs not compulsory (yet), TVs have off switches on both sides of the Atlantic, your viewing is only as stupid as you make it.
we are inundated with crap too believe me. There used to be so many wonderful progrzmmes, thankfully we still have a good selection but theres a lot needs ditching.
Oh how I wish they'd bring back Time Team.
They have a show now called Digging for Britain. It's interesting but not nearly of the same calibre.
ABOUT TIME ANGLESEY GOT SOME ATTENTION, LONG LEFT OUT. BUT YOU TAKE CARE OF MY ISLAND.... signed - The Weare twins.....
Got to Love Bridgid !!!!!
Brigid, a very cheeky introduction!
God damn I love this show
Every society, including ours, gets up to horrors that many take part in without a thought, but which many others can't stomach. We are no better. And humankind has a long way to go.
I still love this video. ❤️
I think this one is the best I've watched so far
Romans always losing their coins 🤦🏻♂️
Yep, I have Roman coins myself from Bath England
have you seen the guys that expose the coins and even STAMPS forgery? pretty intense. you'd think that flying dragons with claw fulls of coins leaked millions of ounces metal, billions of tiny pieces of paper all around the World.
Roman coins were found in Texas at the bottom of an Indian mound in Round Rock. The mound is dated at approximately 800 AD.
In 1957 near Phenix City, Alabama, a small boy found a coin in a field from Syracuse on the island of Sicily and dating from 490 B.C. www.liveabout.com/history-mystery-ancients-in-america-2593550
@@starleyshelton2245 come on, you know better than going to sites like that
There are burning effigies as traditions even today, here in Switzerland, to do with the harvest seasons...
America we do it to celebrate art, alternative lifestyle, get stoned and drunk and basically have one hell of a wild weekend!
Really? I would love to witness that! Can you tell us more about it?
The whole wicker man burning is like what we have here in the states in the middle of a desert, a festival called Burning Man. I've always wanted to go! Anyone else still watching in 2020??
That was a really good episode!
The British sense of humor (from the episode editor at the very least). 9:21 Quote: "...exposed stones..." [key shot of chick in tank top].
Scott Clinton I watched this with my husband before reading your comment. You men think alike. He laughed at exposed stones and I didn't get it until I read your comment. Thank You.
Scott Clinton I've watched a lot of this show and the camera men are quite "cheeky"!
Totally
+Scott Clinton If the weather is warm there's always some heart-warming down-blouse shots.
Ian cracks me up, love his accent....what part of the UK is he from?? My wife's uncle is from the south (of England), and has more of a standard English accent. We always love it when he comes to see us here in the States'.
Enjoyed that thank you.
WOW, I swear to god I noticed that GO? was taking on a much welcomed and valuable perspective in the show. I perceived this change and think it will be a great introduction to it`s value through Stuarts expert help. So now I know when I first saw this new for me, capability. Thank you.
I'm constantly boggled that they can discover the shapes on the ground, and that they haven't disappeared over the millennia!
I really, wish we had a better, understanding of the Druids and what they REALLY, were all, about. After all, how many of us today, may have been descended from them. Right?
My Best. Out.
They probably got the pick of the maidens for sure.
No the druids were a priestly cast. We may be related to the people of that time, some of whom became druids.
Excellent episode!
I love I'm Anglesey. Never seen this episode before. Love this series.
Druids would live lightly on the land.
If it takes three days to build such an effigy, and those branches snap that easily, I don't think you can keep someone tied up in there until it's time to set fire to the thing. Unless you keep them unconscious the whole time.
My conclusion is that the burning effigy might be true, but having living people burned inside it seems unlikely.
Don't you think they just left an opening and put the people in , sealed it shut and then lit the fire
Don't confuse the place of execution with the place of confinement. We kept people in jail before they were hung.
Willow can be dried and stored, then soaked before use. Then it's flexible enough to weave very tightly and the results can be pretty strong. Think of a giant wicker basket.
The willow was especially dry this year because of the weather - 28:30.
Imagining this made me giggle. Why would they try to build it around them?! "Right, you stand there and don't move" **Starts frantically weaving willow**
Fabulous, ThankU.
Beautiful England. Playing frisbee on a field, turns out there are dead dudes right below your feet. So much history around every corner! Here in the US I only find rusty nails and bottle caps with my metal detector :(
You're obviously not looking in the right places then. I'm a land surveyor in Florida, and have been a part of several archaeological digs. I've personally uncovered Meso-American sites, Spanish and English colonies, and long abandoned villages and settlements built by freed slaves. And that's just what I've been a part of in the state of Florida. I've also been to the Midwest and Pacific Northwest to survey dinosaur digs, and hope to be a part of an expedition to search for Mesolithic sites in South America in the near future.
Unfortunately, the TT really didn't find anything on this dig. I think the professor at the end is a druid himself.
He wanted to put the Time Team in the Wicker man and put a match to it. Robinson pressed his buttons.
It was annoying how he was repeating "intelligentsia". Tony got under his skin by making a good point.
... I shall *very* probably *greatly* regret this, but ... *WICKER KNICKERS!!!* 29:12
Francis Lynch.. what a legend for North Wales archaeology!
Really fascinating
How much archaeology was destroyed when they built those windmills?
none . because the land owner would have been required to do a survey of the site before construction.
none . because the land owner would have been required to do a survey of the site before construction.
windmills?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the oak groves were replanted?
That is a Roman myth. The Yew was the most sacred tree of ancient Gaels. The Celtic foreign invaders of which the druids were the administrative financiers would have been more into worshipping severed heads and other Barbarian Germanic practices.
Best ending of all of the series shows!!! 💥
Time Team: "Could be worse... could be raining."
Wales: Watch *this*.
I think that Different Degrees of Destruction may have recorded a Peel Session in the late 90s.
As I recall, it sounded like someone banging on a biscuit tin lid with a spoon for three minutes. Peel paused for five seconds at the end and drawled “Seminal! But he is Belgian and living in a basement squat and dying of TB”
That was good. I enjoyed it
Would love to see a year in Africa with Time Team!
The windmills seem to suggest that we haven't lost touch with the importance of the area and that we still see it as a place of power and significance. Literal bloody power.
So, the wind turbines, late Iron Age domestic, or early Roman import??
nah, its just wild wind turbines in their natural habitat minding their own business.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn my first real belly laugh today, and I've got the belly to do it. Glad I put my tea down.
German or Swedish
Future archeological discovery 2000 years from now - 21st century humans were wind worshippers.
Hahaha
Halfway through and i'm itching to know what the circular bits of the field are.
Who of the cast was selected for the wicker man?
During this whole episode I was thinking that Mick Astons' colourful cap probably had a more interesting history that the earth mould...
😂😂
There is a huge party called Burning Man Festival in the USA desert every year. Must be seen to be believed. This was an interesting video as always by the Time Team. I wish they had more time though.
I am always surprised at the way this genocide is portrayed.
I know right, those drawings are completely inaccurate. It was Batavian and Tungrian auxiliary cavalry not line infantrymen who slaughtered all the Celtic taliban.
So we can assume the guys putting up the windmills never looked down.
You'd be amazed at the amount of archaeology deliberately ignored to avoid interfering with building projects.
That one local advisor is definitely a secret modern druid, the way he goes on about it.
Love Mick’s hat! ❤
You could always stuff a few politicians into that wicker man.
Just a few?
the political remoaners?
I agree on the 22:30 comment. And this, too, is my new favorite show.
From what I deduce, the farmers are growing rocks. Very prodigious harvest, by the way.
Try Miranda Green's books, she's immense at deconstructing archaeological, classical literary & early Irish/Welsh mythological sources.
I love the comparison between British historians and archaeologists with American construction workers in that when you drive by there's only one person on the construction site doing something and 5 people just sitting around doing nothing. If you can read between the lines...
20 people watching if the one working is female, just sayin
Excuse my spelling but I believe the last Celtic chieftain was Caracticus Torquatus (Torque taker) who was killed with the druids at Anglesey...
Thanks for the info, I stand corrected. :)
Put it in some wet paper towels so it won’t dry out till you can replenish it’s oil and a little wax to seal it and bond it’s monocular properties ,,,it’s a beautiful-coin the Romans,,,Thank you for your videos we love the team
The kids are cutting wholes in the fool thang !lol good luck 🍀👍 🐺⚔️BLACK DOG OUT⚔️🐺...
Damn you time team. It’s 1 in the morning and I gotta go to work at 5. And still got 30 mins left on this episode.
As a Druid myself, I am happy to see our perspective presented in a more balanced manner than usual.
Youre not a druid.
senortonyful
You don't even know me in real life. It is never wise to make statements about which one has no real knowledge. Fact is, I am a Druid, and have been an active part of the pagan community in New England for many years.
PagnDad2 Yeah… You're not a druid.
Dan Hixson couldn't help it, needed to chime in on this, how do you know he hasn't been trained in the surviving stuff that was from ages past? Like they said, these were the sages of their villages the keeper of knowledge. We had to go underground and even train the next generation in secret with each person constructing their own books of reference for herbals and for the rules of nature/men when these who labeled us "backward country folk" started taking over and acting like they were the only ones that knew anything. That unreadable book? The one voinich brought to the world attention? That's one of ours its full of herbs and how to use them as well as astrology. We wrote in code later on as a way of protecting ourselves. We didn't disappear completely, we never will. We were and still are in some places, the people that others come to for help. In a way, all doctors and judges and even police men are druids in spirit
Yvonne Thompson There is essentially no surviving evidence of what the druids did, their rites, or even the exact role they played in society. The majority of our knowledge about the druids comes from the fairly unreliable source, in terms of reporting on his enemies, of Julius Caesar. All we know, and we don't even know this for certain, is that they venerated oaks and performed human sacrifice. You're neo-druids, which is a Victorian era made up religion.
It is truly ironic that the sociopaths with engineering skills - the Romans - would feign indignation at the practices of the Druids. They who considered a lovely day out to toddle on down to the forums across the empire to watch people being murdered in every way possible. They did this to up to a million individuals by some estimates. Not for spiritual reasons, not to provide any true sense of judicial process, but because they thought it was FUN watching people die in agony. Would have been a good opportunity to point that out here.
thats what pagans do lol
I wouldn't let it ruin my day. They also brought advancements in line with the Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese. Though it seems to be the bitch du jour, it's ridiculous to conflate practices of thousands of years ago to contemporary norms. Or maybe we should talk about reparations.
Radwulf Eboraci
They also left their own unwanted babies out on the municipal rubbish dump to die. Celtic tribes would have found that abhorrent
Actually they didn't. For Romans, the most important duty was keeping the family and the ancestor cult going after their death, so leaving a baby at the forum was an act of desperation and gave it a relatively good chance that someone else would pick it up.
@@nikolaus2688 Well it is commonly said to be the case
One of my fave channels.
The landscape looks like Washington State U. S. A. At least the eastern half of it. The wind and windmills are everywhere.
a m a z i n g
I am shocked at how many comments there are about Brigid's behind. FFS, can't you say something nice about her mind or archaeological skills as well?!
I blame the producers/directors of the show. They framed her behind in the scene quite well, when they didn't have to. And just to let you know, it is entirely possible to respect one's academic mind and appreciate their beauty as well. As one of the previous commenters posted...DAYUM. She is doubly amazing in my book. Brains and beauty.
+Unknown Mgtow it is hard not to show her behind, as it is visible in almost any episode.
Many men are hellaciously horny. Rather sad really. They spend their lives spilling seed only to shrivel like a spent husk. Imagine ogling a stranger's derriere' for recreation.....
@Donielle Stenson - I bet you're a laugh down the pub. Messy divorce?
Just imagine if she sat on the muddy ground for a moment to rest, and left a nice imprint of her buttocks which hardened and was preserved for posterity (posteriority?). Then imagine archaeologists 2,000 years in the future digging it up and trying to piece together our ritual practices.
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge
- _Nigel Tufnel_
Erm... No . They weren't a separate people they were the priests of the tribes. Just like your priest in his dog collar is today..
"we're relying on the highly sientific between the 4th and 5th tree method" im dead