Time Team S11-E10 Nassington,.Northants
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Dorset farmer Simon Meadon's land is packed with archaeology. There's a large Roman building, which might be a villa, but may be too big. On the other side of the hill there's a Bronze Age boundary ditch, a circular ring-ditch, Iron Age or Roman enclosures and another Roman building.
But most importantly, a number of burials have been found on Simon's farm. No one knows for sure who these people were. Three of them look like they're probably Romano-British, but the others might be later. Were they related to the large Roman building on the other side of the hill? Were people being buried here because there were prehistoric ritual monuments in the area? Are there prehistoric burials here as well? And what about the post-Roman people?
The Team have the task of untangling all the elements of the site, and then trying to identify more clearly who these people were, whether there are more of them buried here, and how they might be linked with the archaeology around them.
28:40 Phill has some crazy bushcraft skills. And I noticed he likes Opinel knives. Good taste. Once again, BRILLIANT series. Billions of hrs of BS television, and then there’s Time Team. Thank you very much.
By the way, my apartment looks like the after shots of the house.
I noticed that too. knife skills ..
he's a flint tool obsessive it should not be surprising he's a knife master
It looked like a #8 carbon steel.
This show never fails to make me happy.
The draughtsman that does the sketches is amazing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ambrus
He just passed away last week , sorry to say....RIP SIR !! You were an Amazing Artist !!
I've seen a lot of these shows but I don't remember ever seeing them dig INSIDE a standing structure before....amazing!
Thanks so much for uploading.
There have been a few, but it wasn't exactly common practice for them. I can only vaguely remember one, maybe two other times. Of course, if I was told there was historically significant archaeology beneath my house, there'd be an "unfortunate" fire, leaving the land clear to excavate. I mean, what else is Homeowner's Insurance for?🤣
Wow, lol, we used to cut elderberry bush when we were kids, strip out the insides and make a sort of pea shooter pressure rod gun with them here in Indiana....I never even thought about trying to make an instrument with it. How neat.
Hoosier love.
Watching them make the instruments in the ancient ways is fascinating. Thank you Zaaijer-san for posting this
Love the part around 41:50 where Phil's jamming on the lyre with the musicologist!
+mariposahorribilis
"King Canute Blues" LOL!
Duelling Lyres!
@@jimdille6015 it's Cnut, but yeah, that was priceless.🤣
Thanks for posting all these episodes...hours of interesting delights!
Playing the Time Team theme at the end was awesome.
Clever.
When I was a kid, back in the late 50's, we used Elder as peashooters with Hawthorn berries as ammo.
I love how at the start they talk about having to put all the floor tiles back in the exact right spot, and then later you can see where they broke a bunch of them and then just chucked others aside.
I'm not sure, but I think they have a craftsman that uses period appropriate materials and techniques fix all that. I know that the UK requires that for all repairs to scheduled buildings and monuments, so I'd assume that was the case here too.
@@SkunkApe407 If i were the owner i would put some kind of see-through flooring over the digs inside the house!
If she was allowed by the historical commission or whatever its called. @aphrabenn3233
this is a very interesting and well made episode, because it gives a clear picture of the disagreements that often will exist in an archaeological investigation like this, where only parts of the ground can be dug out
I'm just amazed that the homeowners consented to ripping up what must be ancient floors. Where do you get 12 century tiles like those anyway?
Big differance between this lady and other owners TT has had to deal with. Some worry about a bit of lawn, she allows them to tear up her house!
Their getting a free remodel
And think of the worth of the manor now - it stands on the place of the King Canute's hall, and it all was on TV show ;)
My perennially sore back salutes Phil and all other archeologists who work and shovel in trenches. I guess if you start as an undergrad and keep at it, the body adapts.🍻👍
Always enjoy how touchy John gets defending geophys results, and how everyone seems to just roll with it "oh that's just John being a grump again" 🤣
I love Phil. I admit I watch just to listen to Phil's accent. Plus he reminds me of Mad Eye Moody.
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Agree. ❤
I agree with you ❤❤❤
As a moment of social archaeology, the joke about the SARS quarantine has only gotten darker with age. 😵
Good thing it's a good episode!
"It's the King Cnut blues, man" - Phil.
The cranky-meter is registering levels through the roof in this episode.
It's neat that they can go down a short distance below the floor of the house and find the remains of a previous building. It's a good thing the builders of the current house didn't want a basement!
Those ancient markings above the text of the songs are called "neume", and are also used with the old Gregorian songs.
The big Viking looking chap who hands the drink to Tony at the end of the programme was Kim Siddorn.
He was responsible for bringing the Anglo Saxon and Viking way of life to the ordinary person in the street, by way of the reenactment society he formed in the 1980's.
He left a huge legacy of work behind him, from the many hundreds of events he organised all over the UK, through to the books he wrote and the experimental archaeology he practised.
RIP mate.
That's really great to know, thanks for sharing the info. I'm interested in that kind of thing so I'm going to look for his writings.
@@deetsy4jesus you're welcome. You can also contact the reenactment society he formed, Regia Anglorum, if you like.
@@mannixflinn6227 I spent about 2 hours on their website already, LOL. Not that I can join it, I'm from the US. I just LOVE history. He looked like a friendly man. Sorry for your loss.
@@deetsy4jesus He was a very nice chap. He had a great passion for Anglo Saxon history and just wanted to share it with others. I'm glad you're going to continue that passion in whatever way you intend.
Every episode is enjoyable to watch. Just pick one and sit back & relax. How many TV programs can say that?
The Top Gear after the old Top Gear but before the new Top Gear.
Big Yellow Trowel. Brilliant Tony.
This was great! King Canute shows up in my genealogy. This was really fun to watch.
BS
41:17 "I shall now play you the song of my people." - Dr. Phil Harding
Something tells me Phil is a Captain Beefheart fan. Call it a hunch...
@@SkunkApe407He is a Peter Green fan. It has been a very long time since I've heard anyone reference Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
@@deborahparham3783 yeah, I may have dated myself a tad with that one...😅
@@SkunkApe407 Thanks for the little stumble down Memory Lane. Made me smile.
@@deborahparham3783 you're quite welcome. I'm glad to have brought a bit of pleasant nostalgia and joy to your day. Any day I can make someone smile is a good day.
bruh that ending. love this show so much.
Phil's band rocks!!!
What an insanely beautiful home.
I actually played the recording again to make sure I heard ‘13th century house’ correctly.
The house is here but not much is visible:
52°33'09.6"N 0°26'01.5"W
They did add a nice labyrinth to the back garden in the area that was excavated though.
love the music at the end!
I don't think Kerry got as much credit he deserved.
Well ‘The King Knut Blues’ was a triumph! Who knew Phil was a an archeological Hendrix 😂
Interesting way to light a space. At Thomas Jefferson's Monticello the same technology was used to light spaces but the surviving example they have is a base made from alabaster.
TIME TEAM: have trowel, will travel.
We're in trouble.
How prophetic. Did you hear her ask how the sars quarantine was going?
At last I've seen and heard a lyre and a flute! Now only a rebec to go!
Notice Brigit asks hows the SARS quarantine area? @13:20....this was 2005
I really like this episode, but I find myself missing Robin Bush!
Not true. Robin was an archivist. His skill was not knowing everything, but knowing where to find everything. Nobody knows everything about British history because that would be impossible.
He and Mick we such lovable old farts. Despite not having known them, I can't help but feel like I lost something with their passing. Can't imagine I'm the only one either. The world truly is an emptier place without them. May they both rest peacefully.
@@Wally-H either someone deleted their comment, or you clicked the wrong one. That said, you're right on all counts. The thing about Robin though, was that despite not knowing everything, he was a very good steward of knowledge. He could find whatever you needed, and then explain it to you in such a way that you not only understood, but retained that info. I would have given anything to have at least one teacher as brilliant and articulate as he was.
@@SkunkApe407 You are right, someone deleted their comment which basically accused him of reading a script based on research done by other people. Their deletion suggests I successfully made my point.
The musical ending was too cute.
Here is the correct description of this episode.
King Canute's Manor - Season 11, Episode 11. The Team delve under the floorboards of a 15th-century manor for the homeowner in their attempt to locate the signs of a fine Saxon hall that once belonged to King Canute.
Can't write with any authority on pronunciation at the time but here in Scandinavia the name Knut (which also means knot) is still a man's name and is pronounced 'Knoot'----The Canute thing is almost certainly a distortion that came with the spread of written 'English' a lot later.
And yet, words like "Knäkebröd" are pronounced with the same hard "K" in Sweden. Hmm...
Cnute Cyning in Old English. That's "Kuh-noot", like every other Cn/Kn word was pronounced up until the 17th century. The same as "knecht" in modern Dutch and German. "Kuh-necht", not "necht".
@@RagPlaysGames yes? K in Knut is hard? What he said is that there is *no vowel* between the "K" and the "n". Knut, not Cunute.
@ Yes? The vowel is there in English because a K directly next to an N is usually silent when read aloud.
When you write that something is pronounced "knoot" we'll read that as newt. Just as "knight" becomes night.
I wonder if John ever wants to just smack Tony in the head?
@@ianrutherford878 Why? He is the most loveable, genuine guy at the place.
@@markuspalmqvist3692 can't explain here---I'll delete before more people react.
Daily, I'm sure.
I've wondered the same. Next to Mick, John seems like the nicest and most self-effacing of the lot, so I've never understood why it is he in particular and Geophys in general gets the most grief and snark. Maybe because he's most willing to poke fun at himself?
I think Tony is very rude at times.
did you find any newts in King Knewts hall!?! =-)
... "No Newts is good Newts!"
A newt?!
‘....I got betta...’.
Is someone standing in the 2nd floor window as Tony approaches the house in the beginning?
Would have liked to have seen them make a gemshorn
Where is Mick? Is his leg still broken?
I would have never let them break up my tiles!! It was awful to watch it. I hope it was worth it!
If a listed property , would homeowner be required to keep the unattractive tiles ( the ones she covered up with a rug lol) . I think I would have laid some radiant heat down. I was curious regarding the history and age of the tiles. Could she donate them to a local pub perhaps ? Maybe the public could enjoy them there.
Thank you!
The description doesn't seem to match the video.
Indeed, so it is ! Didn't see that before.
Right you are. Enjoyed this episode just as much as the previous ones anyway, Thanks, Reijer!
Seems to me like the description of S11 e13 fits this episode better!
That’s the worst sod cutter I’ve ever seen!😂
Brigid is from New Zealand? 🐨
Yes she is.
Phil. The man. The myth. 🎉
Why wasn't Cnut called the Conqueror? For surely he was a conqueror.
One of the significant things about the story of King Canute adjudicating in the dispute between a Dane and a Christian Bishop, is that he decided in favour of the
Bishop and not the pagan Norse fellow. That shows how carefully he made judgements. No favouritism toward Scandinavians, just a balanced view. That would have gained him considerable respect.
if they dont find what they are looking for would it be that knute find it ? ;)
Brilliant choice of location. The homeowner seemed very brave but she also got a lot of free archaeology done. I wonder if the frustration so evident in the team was because there was extra pressure to produce what she wanted. I also wonder who on earth Gary Ancell is/was? He had nothing after his name and the only Gary Ancell a Google search finds is a Registrar for Poole, of all things! Another birdsong-filled episode (clearly April based on the daffodils and wrens).
good questions there, what would have happened if Canute ( that is the way - we - write it)? You would have had no French, German,Greek or Austrian ( actually it is Carinthian, where I also raised, though not as a king...) forebears to the present man who calls himself Charles III.
@30:16 I know as a presenter, Tony is supposed to keep things interesting, but sometimes he really knows how to piss of the professionals.
Winston O'Boogie They're practically family and Tony is the annoying little brother :D
He is playing devil's advocate, that's all. They well knew this but little arguments made for great telly
Does he? Since he is only reading scripted lines and acting out what's in the script, you may wonder who really wants to piss off whom. Tony doesn't do anything on his own nor does he act spontaneously even though they make it look that way.
It isn't scripted in advance of the show. They will have quickly gone through what they were going to discuss and then done the piece to camera for real, but scripted, no. They didn't have the time to write and learn scripts.
You obviously haven't watched Time Team - Behind The Scenes.
43:10 -- Bindimalish? Yes, it does have that Bindimali look to it.
"Well I dunno about you, but I can see it's Bindimali heritage immediately."
Would've been interesting if Knut's North Sea Empire wasn't so short lived.
Who are Jo and Gary O.o
Was here Dec 2019
Show me the bit where tey found the note saying, "King Canute lived here." Otherwise, it's all a bit speculative, isn't it?
Most 'history' related to the Saxon period in Britain is full of speculation. Academics specialising in that period of British History have been dining out on 'reappraising' the same old scant information for decades. I studied the period as a postgrad at Cambridge and to be honest, the experience left me thinking that what we actually know compared to what academics think they know, is a very tiny amount of information! As long as they can sip their fine wines in their plush suites of rooms in Oxbridge colleges and enjoy formal hall banquets, whilst patronising students about their inability to read an Old English or Latin text correctly, they're happy as anything. All they need to do is keep the debate going by inventing a 'new angle' on some old Saxon charter, usually by deciding some of the words don't quite mean what was previously thought, write it up in the Anglo Saxon Journal and bingo, your career is safe for a few more years.
The Jayser A bit cynical and bitter, but I ‘liked’ it anyway since it’s probably true. Still like the field, and one word...Tolkien! At least he took the ideas and created something out of it.
Normal people watch shows about people beautifying their mundane homes with a makeover and we watch shows about people who take beautiful homes and turn them into building sites.
Whaddaya mean he “shows up”? You mean like a stain on a bedsheet?
21:48 Why on earth does the Fourth Doctor have his sonic screwdriver in his mouth?
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the Danish parenthesis. sounds delicious.
Matt looks like he's about 13!
and he never married Raksha
13:23 wow that joke feel strange now after 2020
'orientate me....'. What a pick up line.
What's always amazing, they pick up a one inch piece of pottery shard .... Someone knows exactly where it's made, sometimes from clay composition, when, an probably who did it. Every so often, they find some unknown pottery operation, then go to show what the could make there. But they never find a piece of ceramics and go....'beats the crap out of me....'. Even when they find pottery at a site where they later find a kiln, the pottery isn't from there
The history here is a little dodgy too. King Knut was did not rule Norway, he was overlord for a period of ONE year before the rightful king of Norway took back power.
I think you'll find he said "controls Norway" not rules it.
Why did they do this one? Its to much for Matt to try to lift tiles to go back plus was this lady just wanting to find out more for free work? This episode bothers me. It was for her not really history.
When you are a king, why do you send your children into battle. Greetings from Denmark
So that they learn to fight. Otherwise no-one will respect them, and they won't be king after you.
Those Saxon pipes sound awful.
So do bagpipes on their own. They're just one instrument to be played in an ensemble.
@@RagPlaysGamesBagpipes on their own can be quite beautiful when played by a piper who knows what they are doing.
No wonder johns hair is thin on top
an fsb with a jcb
I thought elder wood was toxic.
The berries from it are I think, the wood was used in bows for years!
@@becgould3772 Elderwood is not poisonous. However, its use was attributed to the practice of witches in the Middle Ages and during the Inqusition in Catholic Europe. That is why every clever man has avoided setting it on fire or burning it.
Yew berry kernels are poisonous and bows are made from yew wood.
Elderwood is unsuitable for making bows.
Knud var IKKE saxer men DANEEEEER!
G Bob
And here goes Carenza bossy miss telling everyone she knows best and she wants to dig where she wants to dig! She acts like she is Site Director everytime Mick is away. He no longer lets her get away with that attitude unless he agrees it's worth it. Watching her again second time with series 1 till now I see it more. She did have her baby yes, but she is still way toooo argumentative and a know it all. I can't wait for full time Helen.
Actually, you sound like “ the know it all”.
You sound like a fragile male who can't handle a strong willed woman lol.
sorry but the story Carenza throws together in a last ditch attempt to sound as if she s solved the whole site with total unsubstantiated claims just shows what she imagines herself to be..
Interesting post but the music sucks
I call bullsxxt to say that much on that small of pottery is so unprofessional and reckless. When they cant even agree on the building the hall could of been across the street. Could of had many large barns to say the king live in one of them is bullshit.
That Jo Story comes across as a rather unpleasant person. She seems to have a superior, know-it-all attitude and the look on her face, when Paul talks about his theory, is one of impatience and arrogance. Even outright disdain for Paul's thoughts.
She's a feminazi
The "music" was most horrid.
No way would I accept this in my house....leave the past rest in peace.
John Anthony Fingleton, good thing then that this was not your house.
To each his own... but I'd want to know what is underneath my floor, and it might be possible to integrate ncient structural remains into the modern home, like with a sunken floor. That could be uber-cool
Lame. The past is more important than your house. It needs to be studied and better understood. History and the past are incredibly important.
You know what anyone group of scholars is called? An argument.
Why does Tony keep referring to King Canute as a Viking. Was he a warrior king? He was Danish (a Norseman). He became king of England, Denmark, and Norway ... hardly a warrior Viking.
Probably poor research by those who wrote his script
This archeology site was a dud....
So are you.
I think that Time Team is a very interesting and informative series and the archaeologists are knowledgeable and wonderfully able to tell us what we are looking at. But I am getting irritated by Tony Robinson's snide comments which I think are meant to be humorous. You can see the team gritting their teeth and somehow not telling him to fuck off. I'd like to have heard what they said behind his back and off camera.....
*Sir Tony Robinson* is a respected amateur archæologist and long-term friend of *Mick Aston* who recommended him for this programme. His job was to get the archæologists to expand and expound on the archæology.