Time Team S07E04 waddon,.dorset
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2013
- Time Team descend on the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset, where neighbours Grace Brooks and David James discovered a huge amount of old pottery in their shared garden during excavations for a new septic tank.
The pottery dated from Medieval, Roman and Iron Age times and was in excellent condition. What lies beneath the five houses of the village?
Thank you so much for posting these episodes without ads; it’s the only way I can get to sleep. Listening to Time Team at night is so peaceful, and I have a hard time finding documentaries without ads in the middle, so thank you for sharing it!
I am the same way! I also watch during waking hours, but I found TT at the outset of the pandemic and find the even tone and the content interesting to get me over insomnia.
I’m the same! I save my TT’s for bedtime when I need something calming.
Agreed! I love waking up and trying to remember what my dreams had in them from the time team episode I was watching when I dozed off 😂
Man, I envy that David and Grace: a lovely bit of property with several millennia of well preserved archaeology on it, an excavation in front of them to prove it, replication archaeology, and experts to explain it, including a nice chat with Dr Robin Bush in their own sitting room.
Exactly my thoughts.
It does not seem to matter to Phil what he is digging as long as he is digging. His love of archaeology is true to the core, and infectious.
Love the whole team but Phil is such a dear. They run to everything, so nice to their local resident guests, and just seem thrilled.
I agree. I think when his time comes, may it be timely and peaceful, he will likely go with trowel in hand and hat on head. Phil Harding is the perfect example of a person who loves digging, has always loved digging, and has found the way to make his digging both a career and vitally important to UK history. I particularly love the episodes where he gets to wax poetic about prehistoric flint tools 💖
The Kindness in his voice giving the flowers, even though he was obviously
nervous, makes Phil our favorite. Mick is still the Greatest But Phil is loved also!
I don’t know about everyone else, but this series helps my mental health and relaxes me. Also, best educational series I have ever watched, and feel that I know these folks personally. They’re all lovable, and down to earth people.
It's uncanny how Victor drew a roundhouse almost exactly where the Phil found one. As for Stewart, just turn him loose with some maps and aerial photographs and he's a happy chappy.
Victor is underestimated in Time Team for sure.
first glance Stewart has a 10k hike with a phd candidate? hmmm.
@@Schmorgus
As is Stewart. I also love what Robin brings, how could we understand so much without him??
Just amazing, the scene of Grace looking through her window to the Stone Age huts gave me shivers. How wonderful for her to sit and see her beautiful view of today but also of the many periods before.
This all had to thrill Grace. That guenine energy from the "Team", in their excitement to share each piece with Grace *moves my heart in emotions.*
This is why we all so enjoy this show, it is the Passion of each and their desire to share the experiences.
Best to each, always. 💫❤💫
I don’t know why but this episode of Time Team has me feeling more emotional than usual
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I really enjoyed seeing the mixed-age results of this dig (and finally, you found a nice spot the Romans did NOT build a villa on!), the experimental archaeology with firing clay and glazes, the presentation of the bone needle to the homeowners at the end with everybody there, and then Tony looking at the fake sunrise....
I really enjoyed this one!
Thanks!
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MM 27 I think your emotional response to Timeteam is shared by many and is the core its success.I have read and heard that people suffering from depression have found some solice by watching.I think that discovery,honest attempts at explanation and good educational methods shared with us through an enthusiastic and friendly team is what makes us ,the audiance ,feel like we are almost there.I feel happy that you clearly enjoy these episodes as much as I do,a shared pleasure with someone I don’t even know is indeed a pleasure.I wish you well.
@@Toontex I have binge-watched TT for the last few months and I can say that it does wonders when my anxiety is high, or I'm in one of my depressive lows. It's a good way to escape for a little bit and even better, learn a few things.
@@Toontex
Ha! Interesting!
I have bipolar disorder if you’re doing a survey. 🤘🏻
@@bettygreenhansen Sadly I am not equipped nor intelligent enough to do such a job.I do hope that people who are in need of help can get access to advice and what ever they need to make life better.I wish you well
What a wonderful stream of comments, and made possible by Time Team! A double win for which I thank you 🙏
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Stuart IS THE MAN!! He can tell U as much as Geophys- just by reading the topography. Whew!!
Stewart, yes. He knows his stuff well. It's almost as if he's kept on an arms length the first 36 hours, so he won't spoil the suspense for us.
What a beautiful landscape full of history! Just as a view out your window...fabulous!
These shows are so addictive, and educational. Such an inside window for the layman to see and understand why the field of Archaeology is so fascinating. The unique aspect of this show is that we get to go along with them from the very beginning of a dig and see actual artifacts being dated, then them pulling together the history of the whole site. There has never been nothing like this on TV before.
My people are from Dorset (1500's onward) and I hear my granfer every time Phil speaks. My father was an archeologist in Canada and I know too well the rocker sifter to find fish bones, bird points and parched corn kernels. And the excitement of finding where wooden uprights had been by exposing pit marks.
This episodes offer the comfort of continuity.
This episode is one of my favourites.
"we found stuff in our backyard"
Phhoooom! Jackpot ! and in view of the owner in her chair !
Just realized too... anyone who saw the episode could...drop by and say hi... (wonder if that was a pain in the end.)
The banter between Phil and Grace is priceless 😁
Prof. Aston always seems so kind and interested in what his people say. I wish I had a Professor like him now.
Yeah was a perfect pick to lead all these digs..and all these egos.
Phd's love to to say " you dont know what your talking about' .lol
Mick is a great diplomat.
I’ve seen every episode and this one’s snuck into my Top 10. I really enjoyed the interplay between everyone and the archeology was fantastic.
V. B. ?.
Please tell me.
Which episodes are your top ten?
Sooo curious!
I have seen ALL of the episodes I can find.
There are so many, and yet, sadly, not nearly enough.
I usually watch on my phone while falling asleep at night so I can dream of digging holes, searching for and finding hidden treasures!
Try it!
I Love Phil, he is always happiest when he is digging and it doesn't matter if he finds anything or not, it is the quest of the dig. Mick was so kiddy that there was a Henge that was found, thanks to Stewart and his piecing together photographs and lumps and bumps of the landscape... And the Mid evil Cottage foundation that was also found makes for one awesome dig!
*medieval
Fascinating...I just can't get enough of this program.
So much history right beneath your feet, just waiting to tell it's story, and those who've added their expertise to bring those stories to light in three day's time is simply extraordinary. Well Done to all involved.
it amazes me again and again, from little bits and pieces and bumps and lumps how much information the team actually does present in the end.
One of the best episodes I’ve seen. Truly excellent.
Incredible to think of the sweep of human history. Time Team does terrific job of making that ever receding horizon manifest.
To live in such a place that people have always lived ... this and Aston Ayre my fav digs 😊
This is one of the best of time team I think.
I really enjoyed this episode. What a marvelous place to live as well!
Arcadia
"I'm not very keen on this spoil tip archaeology, but he has left us summat."
this one was fascinating,. I am so glad I found this series
The segment at 31:00 and following are among my absolutely favorite things in any TT episode ever. Stewart and John explaining to Mick what they have found is just delicious anticipation!
One of my fave episodes. The whole landscape was used for during different times. It's a wonder they didn't run into each other!
Being centuries, indeed millenia, apart may have helped.....
One of your best presentations. Thank you all.
4000ya fascinates me most. That needle, to know all that time ago human hands at work
Compared to paleontology 1000’s of years ago is very small. But we learn even in our own life span time is deeds not days.
Watching the marks left in ground we know the universe finds it shape and reality in each tiny bit.
Every microbe and every dinosaur the universe thru all time maintains itself only with the structure of all. Physicist say ‘’humans may never understand ‘time’ ‘’. I believe we do every yesterday and tomorrow is a place.
This is a great episode. I appreciate the teaching and the learning of building and assembling from nothing to something. I think I could actually build that mud and straw kiln and throw that pot.
ONE of my favourite episodes this
An excellent episode. I would love to live there!
I think it is just wonderful that two retirees in a minute hamlet could write in and get a big investigation done. I would love to know what any follow-up showed about the henge. In the final wrap up, did anyone else notice the local police officer in the back, with his checker-trimmed cap? Delightful. And Phil trying to get the elderly lady to laugh by calling her a lucky devil.
There is only a few bumps around in the field where the henge is...so I assume all covered up and left now!
Thank you. Hopefully the county archaeology unit will get to it!
My favorite episode 😊
It feels like a Hobbitton. Lobelia sure could be coming round the corner any minute so they better hurry up
This is one of my favorite episodes. They are so good to Grace. And how awesome is it to have two round houses in your back yard?
Only two roundhouses they know about. There could be others.
I love learning about word origins. Today I learn where “pitcher” comes from 👍🙂
How awesome would it bee to have a hut from 600 BCE in your own yard!!!! Would make a great conversation piece and hopefully increase your property value. Over here in Texas all we have are Native American sites but some of those can go back 10,000 to 12,000 years so we colonials have at least some archaeology to get excited about.
I'd recreate it in real size on the very spot.
@@daylight8208 And you'd hide the sore sight of the septic tank as well!
Yeah..one of my favorite episodes...
28:13 Someone living round there must keep a rookery, the whole episode all you can hear is cawing.
So what
Last time I checked, theyre called CROWS...not domesticated, FOOL
@@kennethsullo3145 According to on-line references rooks and crows are two different types of bird with no mention that one is a domesticated version of the other.
At some parts you can see the nests in the trees though.
Some people who have doves are some kind of happy with them. A bird of prey, hunting for their doves, soon is in trouble with the crows. See them attack the bird and think them as planes and you have a nice re-enactment of Battle of Britain.
Amazing discoveries! Seems like you can put your spade in the earth anywhere in England and find archeology! Fascinating to this American!
Bonne Susan. You know what ? Where I'm from, Andard in the Loire Valley, we too have centuries of archéologie underneath. I remember when I was 10 that a team came to dig and they found a Gallo-roman temple, a fanum. I recently learned there might be archéologie every 100 meters...
@@davidhocde007 amazing!
Phil is smitten!
Phil's pulled :)
I do wish Time Team were still in action!! It's always fascinating, plus I don't fancy having to till my garden and it would be brilliant to be able to call Time Team... 😁
You know when they come in your garden soon it will look like Verdun in WW1 🤣
Exceptional...
Tony did an excellent job knitting ithe story together. At first I didn't enjoy the replication sectikns, but now I appreciate it.
As an American I find this show very interesting and wonder if the sites may have been the home of one of my ancestors. Another thing that fascinates me is the differences in terminology such as what you call a back garden we call the backyard and plant vegetables in the garden. Also the sheer amount of tangible archeology amazes me since many of the native people near the area where I live lived in more primitive structures. Maybe I could visit your beautiful countryside some day.
@Brad Winquist all I know is when I drink an authentic Earl Gray tea I stay Awake for three days
It's a bit nasty to call your natives primative. In fact no acient people were primiative, they would never have survived. Climates , rescourses etc vary from place to place, let alone continets. You use what you have to be warm, comfortable and well fed. 'Primative' equipment develops over millineum of empirical use, because it works.
@@chrisbahr1064 Try original NAFFI (Naval Army and Air Force Institue ) tea, keps you awake, coats your teeth, and if rumour is to belived, the Bromide takes your mind off things. :-)
I'd love to know what the area was like around the site, if there was a seasonal flood area near there then it could have a willow bed as you find in Somerset. if so the bone awl from that round house could of been used for willow basketry as it's similar to a modern English bodkin and has similar wear :-)
Fascinating exploration!
Fantastic episode!
Id be curious to see Phil's backyard... lol.
It's just one big trench 🤣
Very good.
Victor is amazing!
The first trench is here:
50º40'14"N, 2º32'29"W
Hi, Are you writing these coordinates with the correct formula ? my Google earth can't understand them, (that is literally the error message I get)
I got these from their Wiki page but they're all in decimal notation.
On the later episodes I translated them to standard Longitude and Latitude, this one like the early ones, is still decimal coordinates. There are several sites that will translate it.
Here it is:
50º40'14"N, 2º32'29"W
decimal notation is preferable..
@50.670685,-2.5417153
Those ducks, though!
Interesting to listen to the archaeologist from Dorchester, Dorsetshire vs Phil from Wiltshire. Definite similarities, but Dorset accent is slightly less broad, fewer flat vowels. One could tell these counties are near one another even if one knew nothing of their actual geography.
Corenza😍😍😍
Yes!
Portland Bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) at the southern end of the Portland.
Famous for the prision and the fact you musn't mention...Furry , burrowing things with long ears, related to a Warner Brother's cartoon carechter. When the film Wallace and Gromit and the Were.. aformentioned furry thing.. was shown in the local cinema the word was removed from the posters. Alongside is Chesil Beach, used as a test bed for the Dam Buster's bouncing bomb. It was also a prominent Royal Navy dockyard.
And if you sit in the garden of the pub at the end of Portland, by the lighthouse, in springtime, with nothing but miles of sparkling sea between you and Brittany, with your loved one by your side, you are in one of the best places on Earth to be...
Does anyone else wince a little when someone starts rubbing a big greasy finger all over Victor's pencil drawings?
im not the only one!!!!
Woad plants are very heavy feeders. People would have had to rotate fields out for 3 yrs between woad plantings.
i was like i hope those pots they didnt make them selvs when i looked at them smashing the crap out of them lol
Carenza said "inertia", she got it right.
Wondering what made the woman drop her awl and never return to get it. Tough times.
A loo break?
I pictured that maybe a child picked it up then it rolled under something and was not found so they made a new one, forgetting about the first one altogether.
Can anyone tell me the species of bird reciting an angry manifesto in the background of several shots?
They are most likely to be rooks
Hi, yes they are indeed rooks. Sounds like there is a rookery very close by, LB😊
Yes, they are indeed rooks: you can see some nests in the trees around the site. They make a lot of noise in late winter when the young are growing. They are also incredibly intelligent birds: I used to be a monitor for rookeries (the nesting sites) for a wildlife organisation, and when they would bomb other people, once you had visited once or twice, they would know who you were and leave you alone.
Thanks for asking and answering.
I was wondering too!
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The species would be Corvus frugilegus.
septic-tank septic-tank septic-tank .. .. .brilliant .. .u crazy english u .. .. .
I just kept waiting for Phit to say, "Stone 'a crows." It would have been so appropriate. (Despite the birds being rooks most likely.)
That's Stone The Crows.
Hmm 🤔 remnants of the first indoor privy!
We see pottery in American archeology sites. How or when did that technology come to the Americas? Like the Clovis and Solutrean points. Did they come from the East (Europe) or West (Asia). No one knows or agrees.
People aren't stupid. Obervation of millenium, and the old 'I wonder if...'. often come to the same conclusions. A practical shape is a practical shape.
the potter's wearing a robin hood hat.
And tights!
Didn't he wear a hood ;)
@@GreenFlash1790 Hose, not tights made of wool. I've had to wear them for film work, there actually quite practical, if itchy and bloody hot in summer. There is a draw cord in the waist that fits through yourr shirt and any underwear to hold the whole lot up.
those birds are loud as hell.
They always are...the rook youngsters come here for breakfast....at dawn!!
Rainbow Russell thanks I didn't know that. Very interesting.
The rookery is in the trees right by Waddon House!
27:25 The Proposition!
Now there's a sitcom I'd watch - "Phil and Grace."
11:44 no, not the pots!
Chubac
"that's right, yes"
Yes Dave, just geography. British henges are an indigenous phenomenon and nothing at all to do with ancient Egyptian civilisation.
Also Dave, what about the pyramids in south america, the great earthworks in southeast asia and the megalithic architecture in france/italy/sardinia around the same time.
Overall, i'd say building such structures is something that is ingrained in the species. The henges and pyramids of the 19th century are called cathedrals and palaces, the current ones are called skyscrapers. we all have this deep desire to build something massive. to show off we were here.
Tony forever playing the amateur (in the later episodes) to help get explanations for the more ignorant of their viewers. Great sacrifice that
The property owners don't seem enthralled.
Has the henge been further investigated meanwhile? I can’t seem to find anything about it outside the TT reporting.
“Stone the Crows!!”...no really, somebody do something about those noisy damn birds.
Matt Kustom Kostumes It's better than standing next to a highway, rather hear these sounds of nature than city noises.
Get tinnitis. You'll have that sound all the time and prolly won't notice the one coming from outside your head.
After awhile noise like that fades into the background. I know this from experience. We lived on a busy highway once and guests would comment on the noise. We’d be like, what noise?! 😂
MM 27, the first night in our new house, the train, which is about 2 blocks away rumbled through at 3 in the morning. We both popped up and looked at each other “Well THIS wasn’t in the brochure!” Now it’s as if the trains don’t run anymore.
If you’d stone everything that makes irritating noises mankind would be extinct.
Interesting, the piece of pottery didn't really match the "drawing" of what type of item it may have came from.
Tony does an inordinate amount of running for someone not affiliated with a certain blue box......
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4000 years ago , people here, building a henge,
in Egypt, building pyramids, just geography?
And rescourses and tradition. Wood was persicious in Ancient Eygpt, in England at the time there was loads of it. Though as Time Team shows there were trading routes across as far as India a lot earlier than most would credit.
who's watching this for anth. midterm u of m?
Carenza has nice feet.
Did anyone else hear mictor victor
It's a bad idea to excavate anywhere near a Septic System. Obviously you could cause mechanical damage to the tank and/or the tile bed. But you will certainly disturb and potentially damage the surround ground that serves a function of the effluent treatment system. Furthermore, that excavator shouldn't be anywhere near the tile bed, let alone on top of it.
**Retired - Certified Building Code Official / Chief Building Official & Inspector / Provincial & Municipal By-Law Enforcement Officer / Licensed Architectural and Septic System Designer ... etc etc :)
09:56 - Woden, also known as Odin. So... vikings?
I believe Woden was also revered by the early Anglo Saxons before they were christianized.
Is it just me, or is that pottery guy bizarrely thin?
Leopararouen
My brothers looked just like that when they were young but if you had to see them today you would never know that.
Dress them up today as a Viking Warrior, wearing a horned helmet with long hair and get them to carry a weapon like Thor and you would find them huge (over 6ft and brawny) and intimidating. Reddish light brown is the natural colour of our hair.
dumpdigger dave they had a rubber ducky on a spring like The Farside comic.
Now that England has excavated the whole of great britain and turned it all into scheduled monuments. Yall should come to do some digs in some of the remainder of the "empire" that remains here in canada there is so much aboriginal prehistory under all the colonial settlement that has yet to be touched . Its the least you can do.
Nothing to do with archeology...I wonder how long the neighbor lady had to wait for the orthopedic surgery?
that one excavating girl is a lot thinner (20:10).
325im20 I know right, poor girl. She reminds me of myself. I'm 1.80m and 58kg, hard for us to go anywhere without people instantly assuming anorexia or something. While really, I can eat anything I want and never get fat, it's great! :P
(now Dr.) Jenni Butterworth
I still don't understand, why are those drums so loud.
Nice view at 20:10
Sam Johnstone creep
44:27 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I love this show across all of the series to this point, and one thing that bothers me is this: does Tony ask the silly questions based on his ignoronce, or does he ask the questions to help the viewer understand what's going on?
I mean some of his questions, and comments, are down right dumb and annoying!
also keep in mind, to be a fieldworker, you need 3 years at Uni, to be a field archaeologist like phil and mick, you need 4 years of Uni and a few years of field experience. I've heard professors of history ask questions that tony has asked in this show.
I'm easily annoyed by such things as well, but not here. Tony represents the non-expert enthusiast that the show is geared toward. My concern as I make my way through the series is that it will become dumbed down, but I don't see that yet.
Green Flash
You can see when it declines because mick aston leaves. Think its safe at least up to season 17-18 therefore
Green Flash I agree with your assessment of Tony's role. He does ask some very basic questions at times. In one of the specials, Phil commented on Tony's mistake of running into a trench without permission. I guess Phil chewed him out for the error. This further supports Tony's position of representing the amateur.
Tony is Jewish so he has no clue about Christianity and the integral role it has played in much of Britain's history. Some of his questions, comments, and behaviors leave me scratching my head. How could he have lived in a Christian country for 50 years yet know so little about the religion--even if just by osmosis.
Why did they have to let Carenza do all the Explanations to Tony about the pottery?? Jim was perfectly able to say what he was doing! I feel like Carenza just must tell us in depth about something each episode....Even when she doesn't dig (which she does) or when she pretends she has Dug it (which she sometimes does with no dirt on her lol)
She can Not Go Without Explaining in her long way around. Helen hurry up lol
Tony says, “ It really is the end of the day for Carenza and I.” Nope. He means “for Carenza and me.”
This is actual British English as it is spoken by those who created English.
As British as you can get
all those f'ing birds the whole show......someone should have given Phil a shotgun and turned him loose on those things.....
A slingshot and a handful of rocks so he can really stone the crows.