Time Team's Phil Harding flint knapping - Waterloo Uncovered
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Time Team's Phil Harding (an expert flint knapper) describes the evidence of flint knapping found at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Farndon Fields in Nottinghamshire, and explains how flints can connect us to the Battle of Waterloo.
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Phil Harding is a true educator and master of the craft
Phil is great. Id like to sit and listen to his stories.
I can't stop smiling when I watch phil Harding.
Love our Phil ❤️
Love to meet him.
Flint's are fascinating, nothing to be ashamed of there Dr. Phil.
Phil, has to be a National Treasure, what a guy.
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@@barrydysert2974 AYE AYE LAD!🇳🇿
Yes! He definitely is a National Treasure!🥀🥀
International Treasure. People all over the world love Phil Harding. Any time something pops up with 6:07 Phil in it I always click on it and watch it. Love that guy.
Dr Phil is such a quietly intelligent and passionate man, it really comes across in pieces like this.
Phil you are my favorite! You remind me of my dad and my uncle. My dad and uncle both knap and my uncle also made his own bows and arrowheads.😊
Incredible to see Phil back, best of the best. The man exudes passion, a national treasure!
The fact that Phil's so passionate and profound in talking of Archaeology makes me excited to learn about it this September. Though I'd love to be taught by Phil, I imagine he's a lot happier in a trench.
Always a pleasure to spend some time with Phil!
Came for a practical lesson on flint knapping, found something much more profound
Thanks Phil!
Love this: 'I don't give orders, I just give requests and I expect my requests to be obeyed.'
Phil is my hero! Love his laugh
Phil feels fabulous, flintin' fervorously, flakes freely flying. Forming fellowship from forlorn friends.
Nice 👌👍🖖
Alliteration about littered flint.
One great guy down to earth and super talented and knowledgable Real honor for us to have him teaching us.
love all you do phil, my hero......
I absolutely love Phil! I could listen to his country accent all day.
phil as good as ever, perfect for tv perfect for YT
Would love to see more of these lessons for him!!
One of my most favorite humans ever. Thank you sir!
Phil talks good story! Brings things to life. Thanks for sharing!
An excellent talk, Phil. Appreciate you relating that connection to the past as a visceral and real thing.
While raking behind her home in Clarkston Michigan the 1970's, my grandmother uncovered an Adena point. I have identified it as having come from the lower, smaller surface expressed portion of the Onondaga formation, quite a distance by foot from her home, and positioned perfectly at a hunting ground "bottle neck". She recently passed, and it now belongs to me.
Always learn something new with Phil
I do love the way Phil tells a story. I would love to have worked at a site with him. My goal when I was younger was to be an archaeologist.
Absolutely brilliant presentation! Phil, thanks for your passion and ability to communicate it!
Appreciate you love of flint snd flint tools.
Ha!!! Caught you knapping. Amazing story about how you could even tell where the person sat my mapping the flint flakes. I always loved finding arrowheads. So amazing holding one and thinking about the person who made it. I always wanted to be an archeologist Your my hero! 😁👍
Wonderful presentation. I feel like Phil took us time traveling to the distant past.
Thanks Phil
Thank you Phil.
Thanks Phil! Very interesting!
Phil is an awesome fellow.
What a fantastic insight,and a great video to inspire future Archaeologists. Thank you for providing such excellent content to UA-cam.
Thank you Phil...for bringing the people (although hazily) to life...and their history with them
Fascinating. As ever.
That was a funny intro Phil!😂😂😂So happy they are bringing a New Time Team series back!! I hope to see you back Phil if only for some appearances. Search Time Team Patreons in the search bar and see what level you want to sponsor if anyone is interested in becoming a Pateron for as little as $6.50 a month(US). 😁😁😁😁🥀🥀🥀
Thanks Phil!!!
Very skilled work.
Thanks, Phil. I enjoy your presentations.
Phil is the goddamn best
To all of us Phil Phans...his birthday is this month (January) & he turns 75...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PHIL !!!🎉🎉❤❤😊
I found plenty of such piles in the Netherlands, Friesland province. I thought a machine might have broken them but this makes me think differently
Recreating an event that happen something like 13,000 years ago.
So like when that hat was new? Just kidding, love the Time Team show.
We had Time Team USA over here for a season
but it just seemed to be missing something in the story telling of the Archaeology
and you know in that entire season not one Roman Mosaic. ;p
I have yet to watch the TT USA version, the characters are what made the show on BBC. aside from that, America doesn't have thousands of years of recoverable archeology, aside from a random flint arrow head. no stone buildings, extensive modern building on anything that might be there, and the few interesting places (Indian burial mounds) would be very much off limits
@@scottallberry6713 Hey Scott I live in Ohio, Serpent Mound, Seip Mound, and most of the discovered mounds are State Parks and you can wander around all you like..Some are so isolated that you have the entire place to yourself...Very fortunate to see these sites..cause the landscape in my county you can clearly see were roads went right thru the mound...lol
Recently found a Paleolithic axe of obsidian . Didn't know it at the time & don't know where I found it as I was on a rockhounding trip of 10 days. I was just driving down the highway & pulled over a couple of times to pick up obsidian nodules. It had been raining & specimens were covered in mud. Got home & didn't get to cleaning them for a few months.
What a gift...😊
Thank you 😊❤️
Thank you
Never saw TT as a small person, but now im a big person, i reckon its one of the best TV progs ever, with unique characters. Cannot be beaten now unfortuneatly
Very interesting 👍😊🙏❤️
Love the sound of the flakes.
Farndon Fields, only a few miles from where I grew up as a child, Blidworth...
...so much history all around what will always be my "Home".
Good to see you! Ejoyed the video, thank you.
You rock Phil pun intended
Damn, that was really really cool
Phil - I always enjoy your insight and expertise on all things ancient & not so ancient! I too knapp occasionally, as well as metal detect American Civil War camps and battlefield sites and I keep detailed records and maps of all of my finds! I also collect ancient Native American artifacts from the Paleo, Archaic & Woodland time periods here in the Mid-Ohio Valley. I have one Clovis point and many Archaic & Woodland points ad stone artifacts and I too have found the working sites of all of these early knapping groups! It is as you said, little waste and a very tight working area. Thank you so much for doing these videos as I do miss Time Team but I can always go back and watch them on UA-cam! Take care & stay safe!
Is that the same hat? Luv ya Phil! Fascinating and informative as always.
No. That's one of his others.
interesting man ole Phil
Recreational knapping !!! classic Harding!
Im subbed to this channel and digventures. Also i drive past farndon on the way to my local gokart track.
Wessex archaeology as well as Waterloo uncovered have channels also
@@joshschneider9766 thats what i meant, and dig ventures...
Happy 71st, Phil!
I just love Phil, he’s a no nonsense man and I really look up to people like him lol. That being said, he’s talking about “knapping” and I thought he was talking about “napping” lol. You can tell that I’m a sleepy girl lol.
sorry it's Doc Phil Harding .. miss the old team .. Tony getting shouted at by Phil " get out of my trench "..
My goodness... he has a new hat!
Phillllllllllllll!!!!
How large and how heavy would the pieces of flint have been when gathered at the original collection site. Also, assuming good quality and no misfortune in the knapping process, how long would a typical piece of flint have lasted a moderately skilled knapper?
We may never know but I recall an old pick-up Phil used to have and the back was full of pieces of flint he'd amassed - all shapes and sizes. I hate to think what it did for his fuel consumption.
Thank you. hope to see you one day so you can help me with a flint axe.
Love💚 DA NEO-HISTOY OF NAPPn ME LOVERZ💚 ..& PROTECT DEVON COUNTRYSIDE⚡ FOREVER!!🇳🇿🙃🇬🇧
Doctor Harding on a Hill Flint Knapping, Everything is right in the world.
The only difference between advising a team of archaeologists and military, is that the military follow orders because they are taught to, and archaeologists follow the experts requests because they can be sure the request is the right one - same result, different reasons ...
There’s dirtbag archeologists that don’t do a good job and there’s dirt bag military officers that don’t do a good job. And obviously the reverse is true as well. Also archeologists disagree constantly and absolutely follow “orders” they disagree with. So i don’t really know what you’re talking about
I guess my point is archeologists are probably taught to follow the orders of the head of the dig
Being interested in history certain things catch one's eye, for example the returning theme of Phil's wardrobe and with that especially his wel used out door jacked with a certain flag promenent in the shots for many a time team episode. While it goes well with Phil's hat I as a Dutch viewer newly joined in the adventures of the Time Team was wondering if there's any meaning behind it or just a fun coincidence?
Here Phil is knapping on the job and some archeologist 100 years from now be thinking "some neolithic man been knapping here"
That's why he is always so careful to not leave waste on the ground.
Mr Harding. I have reached out one other time concerning what I have been discovering on my property in the Mountains of North Carolina. The more I find and the more I learn I am realizing that this is a lithic period re-tooling and manufacturing location that was used repeatedly for eons it seems. A friend who is an archeologist is amazed at the different periods of time that I am finding together on top of the ground. The roots of the trees are pushing the ground upwards I'm assuming. I have recently found tools and a spear head made out of a few different kinds of heavy black rock possibly biotite and iron ore ..not sure yet. The amazing thing is what you would be interested in. The process of manufacturing these tools. The mines are close. The pieces found being used range from 15 lbs (always layered ) to tiny bits. I strongly feel they were beginning to shape the stones while in a very large state to achieve a degreed angle. Once smaller (due to the layers) pieces were achieved there would already be a descent edge on one side(sometimes both sides) and a distinct middle line top and bottom. way too many examples to ignore. If this site could teach us more about the lithic peoples it needs to be investigated by someone. I am still having no luck getting anyone here and I do not understand why. Not looking for money or notoriety just knowledge. If it was a small scale thing I would not hinder you. I have never seen anything on media that has this much to find. I have buckets full of worked pieces and these are the easy ones I have picked up with ignorant eyes. Please help!!
I have wanted to learn knapping for years. Pity I live in Pennsylvania where there is no darn flint!
One of the first things a flintlock black powder shooter learns, make a gun flint.
I'm not sure if I would want to test Mr. Harding with a bad joke he has already heard a zillion times before......when has obviously got a rock in his hand. If he taught a class, he is the type of professor I always wanted. If you learned the standard stuff that got graded is neither here nor there....you would learn oodles of other things in addition and in a most interesting way.
Lost your old copper wrist band? 30 years or something. Miss your character on tv Phil. Good health old friend.
And I thought he looked really chipper! :)
"But he fired at me, and I, at he, and killed him in his place."
Curious as to what the hammer Phil was using was made of..?
Wood
Antler
How many hats has Phil had in his career?
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Loved that joke haha
Phill really needs a knighthood he should be Sir Phill he has done so much for our countries history
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They were Flint napping and drawing on walls cause they didn't have internet and youtube .
They were actually knapping flint.
Whilst at a shooting club in East England one man had a flintlock pistol. The flint in it looked like a squared off end of a chisel. It was very uniform. He claimed it had been recovered with thousands of others from a sunken merchant ship off the coast from the early 19th century. Maybe this was made up but I see no reason for it. They would have been shipped out to British Troops on the continent in some quantity so some being lost is plausible. I wonder what Phil would make of a pile of thousands of near identical flints after the wooden box/barrel had rotted away.
Phil should leave his flint shavings behind just to confuse some archeologist in the future.
A man called flint....
I think that Philip Harding is now worthy of a Knighthood from King Charles 111. Shoot me down, but that is my firm opinion.
Let’s have a new time team . It’s been toooo long
they are making a new Time Team go watch TeaTime with Tim and Guests...
It's slowly being crowd funded as we speak
If you don't want flint lying about then there won't be any for future archeologists!
Not convinced that Phil should take the flakes away with him. In 10,000 years some future archaeologist may investigate that road and ought to discover that a modern day flint knapper filmed themself there. Might be worth pushing the camera tripod into the soil too to make mini post-holes.
That is one worn hat.