The Archaeological Mystery Of St. Patrick’s 6th-Century Burial Ground | Time Team | Chronicle

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  • One of Ireland's most sacred sites is where St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, set up his first church. On Cathedral Hill sits a magnificent church renovated from its medieval origins in the 18th century. the team look for the early monastic buildings where according to legend St. Patrick built a monastery and was buried. They are also digging up medieval finds, including roof tiles and glass, which indicate a high-status building. They soon identify the large double ditch which originally enclosed the monastery complex. A fascinating trip for the team as they traveled to Downpatrick in Northern Ireland to excavate one of Britain's most important religious sites.
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  • @lazarusvo9584
    @lazarusvo9584 Рік тому +110

    This channel is the reason why I can sleep and simultaneously escaping any responsibilities at night.

    • @heatherdickau5335
      @heatherdickau5335 Рік тому +7

      Me too. It is my go to comfort program before bedtime.

    • @meeseification
      @meeseification Рік тому +3

      Me three

    • @binkydonna
      @binkydonna Рік тому +2

      hmm. lol

    • @binkydonna
      @binkydonna Рік тому +1

      so...going to bed is escaping responsibility? that sounds like a full schedule!!! Im glad you have this to sleep by. very fortunate. jeeez

    • @SuzNbhollenberry
      @SuzNbhollenberry Рік тому +2

      Same! Calms my anxiety

  • @dann5268
    @dann5268 7 місяців тому +17

    Mick said he never made any money doing these weekend digs. so glad he and all the Time Team made the effort to make such interesting programs. RIP Mick Aston, Victor Ambrus, lovely people whos good humour showed through.

    • @a.azazagoth5413
      @a.azazagoth5413 2 місяці тому

      Robin as well. Such great people worked on this show.

  • @cherylbrooks7005
    @cherylbrooks7005 Рік тому +45

    Love this show. it's like visiting old friends:)

  • @derrickguffey4775
    @derrickguffey4775 Рік тому +30

    I think my favorite part of this episode is in fact the music. I am a fan of medieval music especially and ancient music in general it has a rather calming effect on my mind.

  • @DonalLeader
    @DonalLeader Рік тому +17

    Finally I get to hear the voice of one of the greats of Irish archaeology and heritage, Peter Harbinson.

  • @nevillemignot1681
    @nevillemignot1681 Рік тому +34

    On seeing this episode again after some years i can't help but think how Mick and Stewart would have loved to have drones to help them figure out the 'Lumps and Bumps' on a particular site. Instead of peering out the window of a helicopter, i can see them pouring over drone shots in the incident room.

    • @jamescobban857
      @jamescobban857 Рік тому +4

      They did survive until laser scanners, which see through leaves to map the surface to within a few centimetres.

    • @nevillemignot1681
      @nevillemignot1681 Рік тому +4

      @@jamescobban857 I don't know if saying this will illuminate my point more, but i do seem them getting drone shots from all over the site. But then zero-ing in on particular area's of interest with closer tighter shots for further investigation and then deciding were to dig.

    • @Padraigp
      @Padraigp Рік тому

      Im oretty sure they had drones back then. Theyve been around for decades. Maybe this show is older than i realised.

    • @sandy-quimsrus
      @sandy-quimsrus 10 місяців тому +1

      Later they had the luxury of helicopters.

    • @FlowerofDissolution
      @FlowerofDissolution 7 місяців тому

      In the never episodes, now professor Steward, is still part of the team and they are using drones for sure. Lots of more technical gadgets as well. Improvements for the geophys team. I love how these guys have become doctors and professors in their own right, though Mick will always be missed.

  • @Books_Anime_92
    @Books_Anime_92 Рік тому +25

    I didn't know that this episode was filmed in 1997. No wonder everybody looks so young!

    • @docnightfall
      @docnightfall Рік тому +2

      You can tell early seasons by how long the intro sequence is. 😉

  • @cdfdesantis699
    @cdfdesantis699 Рік тому +8

    Time Team does St. Patrick! Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 10 місяців тому +3

    An Irish Subject!!! Yes!
    Irish American here ☘️
    I want to go to Ireland and be with "My People"!!! 💚

  • @debrah7548
    @debrah7548 10 місяців тому +3

    It was great to hear Robin’s lovely singing voice!

    • @joshschneider9766
      @joshschneider9766 Місяць тому

      RIP Robin Bush. He actually dies before mick did.

  • @softanna27
    @softanna27 2 місяці тому

    I thought I'd seen all the time teams from Ireland, so happy to find this

  • @leslietarkin5705
    @leslietarkin5705 4 місяці тому

    This is as always, a very enjoyable show. I love the old Gregorian chant and the harp music. They are very relaxing.

  • @lizzy66125
    @lizzy66125 Рік тому +2

    these early episodes are so much better.

  • @VintageYakyu
    @VintageYakyu 6 місяців тому

    I find Tony Robinson's enthusiasm just delightful.

  • @Yungtaterbug
    @Yungtaterbug Рік тому +5

    I believe Mick is the saint here for fixing johns glasses.

  • @robertabrito2024
    @robertabrito2024 Рік тому +2

    Happy Blessed Saint Patrick's day! ☘️🍀☘️🍀💚💚🍀☘️🍀🍀🍀☘️

  • @jamesbingham4538
    @jamesbingham4538 Рік тому +9

    Did Time Team ever market Mick's ionic sweater? I would love to have one.

    • @1ACL
      @1ACL Рік тому

      It's from The Gap, I think. Maybe.

    • @alleeum
      @alleeum Рік тому +4

      His wife knitted his iconic striped sweaters. ❤️

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins2899 4 місяці тому

    Loved that music. Beautiful. Love that harp

  • @Zine2me
    @Zine2me 8 місяців тому

    Cracks me up every time I see Victor "learning" how to use that quill pen.

  • @jacquelinepayne2012
    @jacquelinepayne2012 Рік тому

    Very entertaining time team excavations, loved the singers.

  • @Engelhafen
    @Engelhafen Рік тому +5

    Good god google - less ads - the ads come like every two minutes

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins2899 4 місяці тому

    20:10
    Robyn had a beautiful voice wow! Didn’t know he sang. Choir boy myself. Props

  • @robertbernard6410
    @robertbernard6410 Рік тому +9

    God bless Ireland.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer Рік тому

      your god obviously missed Ireland for over 800 years.

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins2899 4 місяці тому

    28:20
    Loved it

  • @jacksimper5725
    @jacksimper5725 Рік тому +1

    Love these old time team ,my theory is fact even though I have not one iota of proof to back my theory up syndrome.

  • @johnslaughter5475
    @johnslaughter5475 10 місяців тому +1

    Very interesting. I have just read "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" by St. Bede, 731. Despite all of his mentions of Ireland, there is not a single mention of St. Patrick.

  • @georgeosborn3223
    @georgeosborn3223 Рік тому +2

    Joining us will be several musicians...

  • @suellendelaney7458
    @suellendelaney7458 Рік тому +3

    Another place with St. Patrick is the well just outside of Clonmel in z county Tipp. 💚💚

  • @sandy-quimsrus
    @sandy-quimsrus 10 місяців тому

    Tony still sporting an earring!

  • @lindakynokephalos1136
    @lindakynokephalos1136 Рік тому +1

    such horrible adds in a very interesting documentary, You tube stop interrupting programs with adds.

  • @erickdupont4503
    @erickdupont4503 2 місяці тому

    Imagine what they could find nowadays with Lidar stones and GPR, etc

  • @michael5265
    @michael5265 Рік тому +3

    You know it's been awhile tony has hair and it's not grey 😆

  • @jamesn4316
    @jamesn4316 7 місяців тому

    Anyone know the name of the harp tune starting at 11:53?

  • @Kaz.Klay.
    @Kaz.Klay. Рік тому

    Never been to Ireland n definitely not Catholic but hey!! it's almost Patty's day... Maybe catch some history n see some artifacts :-D

  • @hanes_cymru_
    @hanes_cymru_ 6 місяців тому

    Saint Patrick was from Wales. He was a Welshman who, departing from Porth Mawr (whitesands, Pembrokeshire), arrived in Ireland because an angel had told him that the land of Dyfed had already been reserved for a man who had not yet even been born, Saint David (Dewi Sant), the Patrion Saint of Wales, as the story goes.

  • @bingsballyhoo711
    @bingsballyhoo711 6 місяців тому

    Isn't it possible that what you were looking for is actually on the nearby Mound of Down?

  • @katefinn6393
    @katefinn6393 8 місяців тому

    Has anyone been able to date Mick Aston’s knitted rainbow jumper?😂

  • @kevinmccarthy8746
    @kevinmccarthy8746 11 місяців тому

    This music is beautiful but, I cannot think of anything but Vikings storming a monastery.

  • @ivanolsen7966
    @ivanolsen7966 Рік тому

    8:26 when why how the square current tower ?

  • @connorfullerton2626
    @connorfullerton2626 Рік тому

    And a bottle of "Black Bush"to sip on to boot!

  • @seanpaula8924
    @seanpaula8924 Рік тому +10

    Time Team.
    The way TV should be.
    Not the drivel they show on American tv now days.

  • @barbaracrain2975
    @barbaracrain2975 Рік тому

    👍👏

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard6732 10 місяців тому

    Hmmm, playing tennis on St. Patrick's grave.

  • @patriciadavis646
    @patriciadavis646 Рік тому +1

    I thought St. Patrick was buried over up on top of the hill called Tara. I remember seeing a show documentary on him and they found where he was buried at.

    • @xotan
      @xotan Рік тому +7

      Tara was a pagan site. the story, however, tells how Patrick came to Tara to face the High King and obtain his permission to christianise Irelan The High King was named Laoghaire (roughly pronounced Leerah). Atop the Hill of Tara there are extensive earth works. It is a very ancient site.

    • @cynhanrahan4012
      @cynhanrahan4012 Рік тому +2

      @@xotan Permission? Hardly. Threats of and actual genocide are what gained "permission" to christianize. All you have to do is look at Anglesy in England for an earlier reference.

    • @suburbanbanshee
      @suburbanbanshee Рік тому +5

      Quite the contrary. In Ireland as in most of Europe, evangelism was one guy with a few local friends, desperately trying to interest the rest of the country.
      The big difference was that Ireland had no martyrs, possibly because the hospitality traditions and permitted talking out of disputes traditions were so strong.

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 Рік тому +4

      @@cynhanrahan4012
      It was the PAGAN Roman legion
      that went after the Druids on
      Anglesy.
      Human sacrifice was forbidden
      in the Roman empire. The Celtic
      Druids practiced human sacrifice.
      (Plus the Druids and the kings/
      nobles were "on the same page"
      so to speak ... Both social groups
      supported each other against
      Rome and against the peasants
      ... when they did not comply.
      Capital punishment was not
      illegal -- Just so long as it
      was Rome that tried the
      person(s) and executed
      the person(s)
      The above is why the Temple
      hierarchy the Sanhedrin (the
      High Priest, Scribes, Pharisees,
      Sadducees) had to go to Caesar's
      representative (i.e. Pontius Pilate)
      to request that Jesus be crucified.
      (Under Jewish law Jesus had
      committed blasphemy when
      he claimed to be the "Son of God"
      who would judge mankind. The
      penalty for blasphemy was death)

    • @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401
      @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 Рік тому

      ​@@xotan
      What do you mean, Pagan? Being non-Christian does not render one "pagan" .... it is just a church created example of discrimination, like so many others!

  • @drdem00
    @drdem00 Рік тому

    This must have been before Lidar ...

  • @jrmckim
    @jrmckim Рік тому

    Is it just me or does robin look like a mixture of Winston Churchill and Herman Goring?

  • @ducdejoyeuse
    @ducdejoyeuse Рік тому

    It is impossible for the towers to be bell towers, for a start please explain were there is any room for a bell? Then as the entrance are above ground, why build it in such a way, when if it was a bell tower the entrance would need to be bigger, to fit the bell? ?

    • @lellyt2372
      @lellyt2372 Рік тому +2

      I don't know if I agree they were bell towers but he did say the monks went up to the top and rang the bells out the windows. That clearly means there was not a bell hanging there, just a high point to allow the sound of hand-held bells to be heard at a greater distance

  • @brograb898
    @brograb898 Рік тому +1

    I love you Tony Robinson

  • @andrewfry6328
    @andrewfry6328 Рік тому

    I love the exaggerated running this guy always does

  • @kerryhitzke4490
    @kerryhitzke4490 9 місяців тому

    Why is there no pottery from the Middle Ages?

  • @jrmckim
    @jrmckim Рік тому +1

    As an American, I love when they go back to a time that used feet and inches aka imperial measurements. People give us crap for using it but its the Brits who started it. 😂 just a joke!

  • @marknelson8574
    @marknelson8574 Місяць тому

    why 3 days?

  • @aubreymellor1293
    @aubreymellor1293 Рік тому

    why three days?

  • @swamp9136
    @swamp9136 Рік тому

    Anytime I see ol Tony I'm in it until the end

  • @pentegarn1
    @pentegarn1 Рік тому

    Was St Patrick even a historical figure? I tried to research him a few years back and I can't tell you where he was born or even where his grave is. It's like he's more like ST Christopher....a saint invented for need of a saint.

    • @OscarDeltaSierra
      @OscarDeltaSierra 10 місяців тому

      You can literally read his own letters today…

    • @pentegarn1
      @pentegarn1 10 місяців тому

      @@OscarDeltaSierra Yeah because the Church would never forge letters for or encourage the belief in a mythical person. I want a grave site...or better yet DNA. I believed in St Christopher almost all my life only to find out later it was all made up.

    • @tgbluewolf
      @tgbluewolf 10 місяців тому

      @@pentegarn1 And how would any DNA be linked to him?

    • @pentegarn1
      @pentegarn1 10 місяців тому

      @@tgbluewolf It can't...fictional characters have no DNA last I knew.

  • @eamonperkins8061
    @eamonperkins8061 Рік тому

    comment 25th minute; salty !

  • @artboxfashion4042
    @artboxfashion4042 Рік тому +1

    Archaeologists: I have a phd to dig in dirt to find rocks and bones....

  • @tedlawrence4189
    @tedlawrence4189 Рік тому

    St.Patrick died after eating the last snake in Eire.

  • @paulgraystone4919
    @paulgraystone4919 10 місяців тому

    was slavery in ireland for life ?? or was it a set period of time as mentioned by the vikings.. hence patrick a english roman soldier when captured by the welsh an sold to the irish.. did not escape slavery, he walked free!!!

  • @TomLeg
    @TomLeg 9 місяців тому

    Who is the person who thought it would be a good idea to soak a calf's skin in horse manure for a few weeks?

  • @carolyneadams5386
    @carolyneadams5386 Рік тому

    I think the difference are Diana was vulnerable. I don't see any of that in M. (I feel M is calculating).Diana stayed with the RF for a long time building who she would support (eg Aids and land mines) Diana did not attempt to commercialise the RF.. I'm not sure what ground braking support M or H have done. It seems they only get behind something when they can get some PR or an award (tongue in cheek) or there is a price tag. I could rant about this for hrs.

    • @mandywalkden-brown7250
      @mandywalkden-brown7250 Рік тому +1

      Why are you babbling about this on this video which absolutely ZERO connection to your word salad?

    • @carolyneadams5386
      @carolyneadams5386 Рік тому

      @@mandywalkden-brown7250 Oops sorry wrong chat.

  • @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401
    @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 Рік тому

    St. Patrick and Roman catholicism almost destroyed Ireland. The Irish had one of the best legal systems, the Brehon, as well as their own Christian nunneries and monasteries. No discrimination or hypocrisy, religiously!

    • @tgbluewolf
      @tgbluewolf 10 місяців тому

      Where did the Christian nunneries and monasteries come from, I wonder...? 🤔

  • @danielleyoung1680
    @danielleyoung1680 Рік тому

    The Round Towers ... what that you guys say...they were Bell Towers ? ?
    Nope never were they Bell Towers ! The Round Towers were there #1 first ..before the earlier structure of a Church , which was torn down and replaced with what stands today.
    These Round Towers were ancient...from ancient people..who had knowledge unsurpassed .
    The early Christians were mesmerised but these Towers ( which never had a cap originally),
    yet another Tower that was causing huge trouble for the Christians. The church was on the HUNT to locate them all within Ireland. Only a few still stand today in 2023. ( in original condition )... amazingly they do. The church couldn't get their grimly hands on them !
    Cause they were ordered to be destroyed!! If ...if they couldn't get away with raising them to the ground, they were MODIFIED some capped, even windows- holes bashed into them.
    Explanation for some...ohh just old farm houses to store food and what not !
    What was highly likely to have been where this church is today hides what was deliberately covered up, the church wanted to gather or be privy to a Power they couldn't explain . Paris France 🇫🇷 Notre Dame yes... there was another one of these Ancient Towers . GONE Interesting indeed

  • @mariansmith7694
    @mariansmith7694 Рік тому +3

    Patty was a VERY WICKED MAN. We should NOT honor him...EVER.

    • @suburbanbanshee
      @suburbanbanshee Рік тому +2

      A man who had no possessions, harmed nobody, and spent his entire life helping the people who had kidnapped and enslaved him. And you call him wicked.

    • @alanbrady7116
      @alanbrady7116 Рік тому

      Asking the Irish not to honour him is pushing the boat uphill

    • @karenfolan56
      @karenfolan56 Рік тому +2

      Patty?

    • @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401
      @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 Рік тому

      ​@@suburbanbanshee
      You do not know the whole story..
      He was the Judas Goat for Roma Catholicism!

    • @lellyt2372
      @lellyt2372 Рік тому +2

      who is "Patty" ? Seeing as that is a woman's name, I imagine it's not St Patrick you are talking about ?

  • @Amanda-cd6dm
    @Amanda-cd6dm Рік тому

    Somebody needs to tell these Christian Miss missionaries that they need to be aiming his eyes for everything so that they don't spread infectious disease

    • @Amanda-cd6dm
      @Amanda-cd6dm Рік тому

      I mean wake up you're going to third world countries these people most likely have diseases

    • @derrickguffey4775
      @derrickguffey4775 Рік тому

      Spread useless hated much

    • @lellyt2372
      @lellyt2372 Рік тому +1

      what are you talking about ?
      "aiming his eyes" what ?