Francis Pryor is wonderful. Every episode he's in was a delight to watch. His dauntless enthusiasm and childlike charm carried many of the digs he was part of.
I always liked his enthusiasm. I think finding magic in the world is always preferable to a stodgy dry "just the facts"approach. His willingness to guess and speculate is really fun!
I love him! And his first episode is among my favorites- Francis at dawn with the excavator, to the tide of ‘Ride of the Valkyries’…. Marvelous! Another favorite moment is his delight on Rough Tor at having finally identified “a Middle Bronze Age village!”
I love Francis. You have to admire his enthusiasm. Was sometimes a little too fantastical and put too much stock into ritual. But he looks like a kind of guy you'd have a lot of fun with. I hope that's true. And obviously very knowledgeable. But my favourite episode of his was the one in which everyone said there was nothing in the trench, just natural. Then he decides to dig it himself because he was convinced there had to be something more and it turned out there was a whole other important layer underneath. I think that was the episode where I decided to trust his gut (and expert) feeling a whole lot more.
One thing you can say about Francis is that he never found a large, flat stone that wasn't a Druidic sacrificial alter... His contribution to Time Team has become a source of a lot of humor in the field of archeology.
@@Divig The trouble is that a ritual can be any activity from a coronation to making the tea at breakfast time, and a ritual object anything whose purpose is unknown, so calling something "ritual" sounds like a catch-all term to hide lack of knowledge.
@@Kevin-mx1vi it still leaves us at the same place. To me it seems like many dislikes Francis since they do not understand rituals and how they might have functioned in prehistoric times. (Their perception of what he is saying is wrong. And I can admit that I was in that group of people in the first few programs I saw, since we had not yet seen his more rational side.)
Every single time team episode that Francis Pryor is in will have him identifying something on the site as involved in a ritual. They could be excavating a Victorian outhouse, and Francis would swear that it was a ritualistic outhouse.
Francis Pryor is so smart, but he came across as a real snob. Still. He knows his stuff. He has a lot of haters. I don’t understand that because he is an expert. All I can think is that it’s because he is a “public school” boy. People need to get over that. He knows his stuff.
Did he? The only one who came off a bit 'snobbish' to me was Guy de la Bedoyere, but that just seemed more to be his more cynical/cautious lean when it came to theorising, and he did have a bit of an acerbic/prickly personality. Francis Pryor always seemed to bubbly and excitable, he seemed to love talking to people.
Well he made a great video on how it looks in the archeologic ground, how the England really was 'invaded'. Very realistic on archeologic grounds and historical written facts.
Oh I don't mind him - he just a little stuck on ritual.... the one that I wasn't too fond of was Guy - a little too negative for me.... But we aren't all perfect.
Francis Pryor is wonderful. Every episode he's in was a delight to watch. His dauntless enthusiasm and childlike charm carried many of the digs he was part of.
I always liked his enthusiasm. I think finding magic in the world is always preferable to a stodgy dry "just the facts"approach. His willingness to guess and speculate is really fun!
He's a top archeologist.his enthusiasm is infectious and he's not afraid to be wrong or to tell it as it is.
Always adored Francis!!!❤
Yes, thank you for the reminder of his enthusiasm. He's a light to us all
A thousand years of archeology in three days. More please.
I love him! And his first episode is among my favorites- Francis at dawn with the excavator, to the tide of ‘Ride of the Valkyries’…. Marvelous! Another favorite moment is his delight on Rough Tor at having finally identified “a Middle Bronze Age village!”
I think the release of this video is incredibly exciting, Tony.
I love Francis! ❤ I especially love his laugh.
There seems to be some overlapping audio around the 8:20 mark, what's going on?
Francis Pryor is a blessing...
Great character and a fantastic author.
Love the classics.
I love Francis. You have to admire his enthusiasm. Was sometimes a little too fantastical and put too much stock into ritual. But he looks like a kind of guy you'd have a lot of fun with. I hope that's true. And obviously very knowledgeable. But my favourite episode of his was the one in which everyone said there was nothing in the trench, just natural. Then he decides to dig it himself because he was convinced there had to be something more and it turned out there was a whole other important layer underneath. I think that was the episode where I decided to trust his gut (and expert) feeling a whole lot more.
Francis Pryor, A great man!.
I love Fracis Pryor. But then I much prefer watching the Prehistoric rather than the Roman 😂
Thank You,
He’s my favourite archeologist. I teach history in high school and we watch the documentary he made about Otzi, I love it.
Oooh! I didn’t know that existed! Gotta find it.
Which episode is it where Francis gets up before everyone else and commandeers the digger?
😂yes,thats a classic.love Francis.
That was Kemerton in Worcestershire - season 6, episode 10.
@@JulianneTure Yes! His very first episode with TT- I love that segment!
Francis is almost my favorite team member ;-)
Thank you/
One thing you can say about Francis is that he never found a large, flat stone that wasn't a Druidic sacrificial alter... His contribution to Time Team has become a source of a lot of humor in the field of archeology.
Agree.
“The best of Francis Pryor”?
I give you the worst of Francis Pryor:
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I find his comments on the significance of the neolithic to be really profound. It’s when we stopped bring ancient.
He commits to his rituals, for sure.
Ritual = "I haven't a clue, but I'm chairman of the British Archaeological Society so I can't admit it"
Rather that he has excavated so many things that *were* ritual that ritual is his first bias.
@@Divig The trouble is that a ritual can be any activity from a coronation to making the tea at breakfast time, and a ritual object anything whose purpose is unknown, so calling something "ritual" sounds like a catch-all term to hide lack of knowledge.
@@Kevin-mx1vi yes, but "sounds like" and "is" are two different things.
@@Divig Perhaps instead of "sounds like" I should have said "may be perceived as" ?
@@Kevin-mx1vi it still leaves us at the same place.
To me it seems like many dislikes Francis since they do not understand rituals and how they might have functioned in prehistoric times. (Their perception of what he is saying is wrong. And I can admit that I was in that group of people in the first few programs I saw, since we had not yet seen his more rational side.)
Every single time team episode that Francis Pryor is in will have him identifying something on the site as involved in a ritual. They could be excavating a Victorian outhouse, and Francis would swear that it was a ritualistic outhouse.
No, that’s not true.
Francis Pryor is so smart, but he came across as a real snob. Still. He knows his stuff. He has a lot of haters. I don’t understand that because he is an expert. All I can think is that it’s because he is a “public school” boy. People need to get over that. He knows his stuff.
Did he? The only one who came off a bit 'snobbish' to me was Guy de la Bedoyere, but that just seemed more to be his more cynical/cautious lean when it came to theorising, and he did have a bit of an acerbic/prickly personality.
Francis Pryor always seemed to bubbly and excitable, he seemed to love talking to people.
I don’t know? He said “Slag”, like an extra from Eastenders, not an Etonian!
@@Blisterdude123Both Francis and Guy come from old money.
@@JulianneTure I mean sure, but that doesn't immediately denote 'snob' lol At least not in a way that was conveyed to me on camera I guess.
like Phil, you had WAY MORE than 30 mins of this inspiring man..
why so stingy?
Of all the Time Team folks, Francis is my least favorite. It is always all about him and prehistory even if the dig isn't prehistoric.
Never liked him.
Well he made a great video on how it looks in the archeologic ground, how the England really was 'invaded'.
Very realistic on archeologic grounds and historical written facts.
Oh I don't mind him - he just a little stuck on ritual.... the one that I wasn't too fond of was Guy - a little too negative for me.... But we aren't all perfect.
@@pennydoyle1806 he bugged me to, but I think Gator was the that really bugged me the most
Pity. Your loss, for sure.
@@RKHageman lol
No need for "best of." Whatever the question, the answer was "ritual."