There's a Villa Here Somewhere (Litlington) | Series 17 Episode 11 | Time Team
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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The quiet village of Litlington in Cambridgeshire gets the full treatment as Tony Robinson and the digging team hunt for the missing remains of what is believed to be one of Britain's biggest Roman villas. A mysterious Roman building hidden in a copse and a 19th-century map suggest the next door field contains a massive villa. The Team's task is to find this missing structure.
Series 17, Episode 11
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Time Team was the best thing that ever happened to television.
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They would have done well to remember Micks famous words "absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence"
"There's a Villa Here Somewhere" could be the title of, like, a few hundred Time Team episodes lol
Lol when I saw the title of the premiere on my way home, that’s exactly what I told my family!
The most confusing villa’s I think tend to be the ones visited by antiquarians
Or it's a temple.
Well done
I am thinking of watching the episodes and commenting "I watched this once, maybe twice". So that I know. Some episodes are so similar.. Specially when talking about villas hahah
I sure miss this group and this show. They were always so patience with the children and treated the home owners and their property with such care!!! RIP Mick.....
enjoyable episode.
Maybe someday therell be a documentary called " The Pubs of Time Team".
Good idea!
@@UnitSe7en it's a lovely idea.
Raksha digging with the little boy, teaching tomorrow’s archeologist, was absolutely adorable.
Tony: “where’s my villa?!” Sometimes Tony can be so, well, Tony.
Words I’ve learned from Time Team: copse & in situ.
You knew what 'hypocaust' meant before binging TT episodes? I didn't!
@@jeanpeuplu5570 I thought they were saying hyper cost until recently 😂
@@Sk8Bettty Well if you're a Harrods regular, that makes sense ^^
Romans used lurid colors? I've seen victorian houses in their original colors, that you can say the same thing about! The best thing about Time Team is they actually enjoy working with each other and make archaeology fun! Definitely the best series of this type ever made!
Defintely - it’s no coincidence. The Victorians really had a thing for classical art/architecture/poetry etc. Victorian jewellery very often copied Roman jewellery styles
Want to see lurid? Check out properties for sale in Portugal. The interiors are almost blinding and so cluttered you wonder how the inhabitants move from room to room. Not all properties, obviously. But “taste” is very subjective, and highly influenced by culture, class and conditioning.
@@01123581321341 You're right! I hadn't thought of that before.
@@judeirwin2222 I just googled "interiors of homes for sale in Portugal" and you weren't kidding!
I'll take those colors over 1970's pea green and baby poop yellow that was all the rage then.
Those kids looked absolutely horrified when Phil was describing the bathhouse and joking about his own bath, lol.
they probably saw his fingernails
You have to be careful what you say to children, they take it literally. When my son was five he asked me why I go to work each day. 'To make money' I said. That was a mistake - he actually thought I was printing the stuff!
@@kevvymetal666 Phill's using his nails to play guitar.
@@Cadadadry well, pluck me then. that makes sense :)
To my knowledge, Tony’s description was misleading. Most Romans were shaved and strigiled (scraped down to remove scurf and dirt) outside the bath. Slaves did these jobs, and they would not have been standing in the same bath as their masters shaving them! Tony often “goes off on one” withou5 presenting any sources as evidence. Luvvies often dramatize, don’t they, darling?
I love how the residents participate by letting Time Team dig up their properties. They're all great sports.
44:55 I'm agreeing with Guy here. I think most of our digital records will be lost or unintelligible in 200 years.
I really liked the way they incorporated Victor's illustrations into the computer generated bath house
Great for the people of a small town like that to discover what has been so close to them but hidden away for almost 2000 years. Well done Time Team!
the kid digging with raksha is sooo cute. wonder if he made the choice to go into archeology after that
The argument at the end made me chuckle. Gotta love Guy!
Tony didn't sound so happy when he delivered the final verdict. Somehow he seemed not so convinced by this rather slim evidence.
None the less, the team is always great, and their interactions make my day!
Couldn’t start my day without a new episode of time team keep up the great work you all do
Tony you really kick bottom as a presenter. Phil for a hard s worker what a good dude. I think Guy does well in Mick's absence. Ms. Dave, sweet lady you and Phil make a great team. What a great bunch the works of you all.
I feel like you do when you find a forgotten tenner in an old coat pocket.
Thanks to years of shift work then moving abroad, even after a covid era binge watch of Time Teams I just found another one Ive never seen. And Ive seen most since the start so this is a treat.
Love this show. Thanks for uploading. RIP television
I enjoy the uncovering past lives and how the surviving of harder times then ever lived. People in today's time give thanks your not in the shoes they had to go threw.
But totally give thanks to the past history we wouldn't be here, if not for them.
Yes! I also find it remarkable how some luxuries a few people were blessed to enjoy, most of us would be apathetic about. And I sometimes imagine earlier people's reactions if they were to see someone flipping a switch in the evening and the whole room became flooded in bright light. Or by them pressing a button (or something) and from a cold element, instantly having the right amount of heat under a cooking pot or inside an oven. Another amazing thing to me is how as with most of America, those things only happened at my grandparent's family homes well after they'd grown up and left.
@@silva7493 The progress of technology could be summarized with ‘how far away can we possibly put the fire and still be warm in winter’.
You’re not. Not your not. Jeeze.
just completed my weekend perfectly..with another brilliant time team saga!😊👍
28:55 Phil should of loaned his trowel to that kid 🤣🤣🤣 he looked well interested lol
I know I have watched one too many episodes when during a meeting I was looking at a flow chart and then thinking the circles are Iron Age/Anglo Saxon and the squares Roman. I began thinking of trench locations and geophysics.
Well as long as you can refrain from flint knapping during meetings, no need to worry ^^
I hadn't seen this one. Thank you for the opportunity to watch it.
“Popped his clogs” I was reminded of that saying by this episode. Yet another gift. :)
I have seen some very skilled excavator operators in my time, but this guy is a Ninja!
I love the looks the kids (especially the girl) gave Phil and Tony regarding the baths!
Thanks for upload. Always love an episode I've never seen.
'Dig Up.'
this was one of the best time teams i have watched since i found this show nearly three ago.
Time Team a great discovery during this miserable pandemic. And Detectorists, too.
This episode is made better by Guy de Bedoyere bringing some sensibility to the bashing of 19th century antiquarians. These early excavations were essential and they did preserve a large amount around the world by having a natural aptitude. There were no bulldozers, excavators etc, so they really could only do a limited amount of damage to anything.
This has been a brilliant episode. Thanks very much.
"Fuddling about in the copse" Oh, Sir Tony, talk dirty to me
"A few floor tiles, some walls, ah yes a marvelous Roman villa indeed. Cheers, old sport." ~Antiquarians probably
Another fine adventure. Thank you. Cheers!
Loved this episode, so much humor 🥰🤣
Interesting point by Guy, we might laugh at 1800' cartography, but the future might laugh at our own.
I realley love this show!
I thought that I had seen every episode on one channel or another. I had a refreshing experience with this one. It was a first for me. 👍👏
Man has always built in the best locations, if you go to most towns in the south, there will be roman villas underneath the houses, so hunting for villas,should surely start in towns, take care
22:25 start 'em early
Wonderful . Thank you 🙂
Love Stewart. Honnest and straight.😊
I do like puzzlers where you get to hone in on the real story. I don't know the site personally but just adding to the site knowledge with modern techniques has to be a plus and I also note on the commercially available aerial photos the area has lots of cropmarks showing at various times and I bet this was not a site in isolation.
Thanks time team this was a great discovery!
Racksha: Can we do it together?
Kid: NO!
Lol
Raksha.
Had to laugh at the little boy picking his nose. Poor lad is going to be on film forever doing that. He was just doing his own excavations lol
Those are the most frustrating kind of excavations, you can feel it, you know its there, but just can't get a HOLD of it! :o)
Phil: Where do you want to put this?
Pregnant pause, as the one he's talking to struggles not to say the obvious. Then they all break out in laughter.
Almost feels like a new series
I am smitten by Phil!
They narrowed it down. LOL good episode
I wonder what percentage of Britain John has surveyed and geo-physed? How many miles have they walked back and forth? Had to be a lot.
Really nice Team❤
04:20 - Phil 'The Bulldozer' Harding. His face is priceless when asked a question moments later..
05:40 - Stewart 'Map man' Ainsworth. More to the guy than meets the eye.
12:25 - Faye 'Femme-Fatale' Simpson. Need I say more?
22:30:
Time Team: "Shall we dig it together?"
Little boy: "No"
Time Team: "No? Okay😭"
🤭lol
23:36: Looking at that aerial view; I see anomalies to the left side of the fields. Looking suspiciously like the grounds of a large building complex. Very possibly Stables or paddocks.
28:54:
Boy using a very special way of cleaning bogeys while the grown ups drag him and his class into a field and blah blah on about nothing that will ever be remembered by tomorrow.🥱👆
38:12: Dog with a bone. I like that contrasting, symbolic imagery! It translates to me a playful continuation of the Cemetery dialogue. Nice imagery. That jolly, jesting attitude of good-feels runs through this show like a seam of gold. I think that's what the underlying appeal is that chimes with so many people. Plus the personal aspect of people's working lives; There is symmetry in how we see an over-the-shoulder view of the Archaeology work being done;- The blood, sweat and tears and jokes and banter, reflecting the story of the lives of the people being investigated, hundreds to thousands of years in the past. The open candidness of the individuals' vulnerabilities as they toil and strive, hard at work, slipping and falling at their most vulnerable and transparent, honest selves. It's so wholesome and comforting to watch, because it makes me feel honoured to be given that privileged view of these wonderful, lovely people. It's such a great vibe about this show. I truly miss it DEARLY, dearly. ☺
Thanks again.
Well done, you found an Anderson shelter..
It's a good thing I wasn't living in the UK. I'd have been offering to dig and scrape all the time! Hard to earn a living while being a volunteer digger for Time Team!
19:07 That's quite the backyard glass conservatory, or whatever you Brits call them. Looks custom and expensive either way.
I remember this show being on all the time as a kid and thinking this is honestly the most boring thing that could possibly be put on TV.
now look at me. purposely watching it online 20 years later..
Sound like normal reactions at two different periods!
yes but now its hard to find on the net ??? lol
It was never boring.
I love it already
Me, as a homeowner: Hello, can I help you?
Time Team: We'd like to put in a test pit--
Me: 😍😍 DIg whatever you want! Would you like some tea?
Stewart is always right in the end.
When they overlaid the villa onto the field, the first time, while stewart was talking, you can actually see crop marks lining up with it just slightly offset at 09:30 and at the very start of the show, you can see a wide, straight crop mark running in a very straight line diagonally through a bunch of different fields. Wonder if that wasnt a road
Many years ago, I binged all the episodes, but I don't remember this one. I wonder if successive seasons were posted after I thought I'd reached the end.
Guy de la Bedoyere's little debate at the end is very relevant today, we have whole generations of young people coming up now wanting to revision history to their opinions and judge and condemn past generations for all manner of things.
take politics elsewhere, please
Revision of history is quite literally how we learn and progress in society. Had we not revised history, we would still be chopping off people's heads and burning "witches". If that's what you'd prefer, I do believe you would enjoy living in some of the less progressive societies in the middle east.
I love the small guy picking his nose.I love time team, and have done so since it’s incantation. But one has to ask, will he be an archeologist or a banker
28:55 "This guy keeps going on and on about roman baths and tile. Can we go home now?"
I love how they just ignore the geophys results and throw a trench in anyway, lol.
Probably the best thing that ever happened to Litlington I grew up there
45:15 This man is a prophet.
This episode came out in October 2010, and worst luck Google Earth only has historical imaging around that time for the area in October 2008, and September 2012, so two years either side. Phil's tree destruction is clearly shown as a nice grassy area in the middle of the copse in 2012, looking about the same in April 2015, completely overgrown in May 2020, then mostly cleared again in March 2022, then the summer leaf coverage returns to partly obscure the sight again in August 2022. So it appears it was filled in for some years, then someone excavated it again during.
28:55 Somewhere there's an adult out there who was once a kid on telly with his finger up his nose ^^
In Europe, wine is drank by almost everyone no matter the age. Especially in France. Back in the Middle Ages, you couldn't drink the water because of cholera and other diseases so wine is the only other liquid thing to drink.
Good ale, my dear! Brewed by the village alewife.
Watch at 20:51 - Ali-G working the computer back right! Tesserae in da haus!
Really enjoy my TT!!!
Guy has a point with his argument at the end. Try finding a punch card reader to download data from mid 1960's experiments. You might eventually be able to get the data off optically, if you can't find a reader, but it'll be a slog. Now, imagine trying to find a computer 75 years from now that has USB ports. When was the last computer you saw with a floppy drive? Computers don't have Cd drives anymore either. Information is subject to loss over time.
Older CNC machines still use 1.25 floppies. I have had to use them a lot
For long-term accessibility you can't beat words printed on paper. The only technology you might need to read them is your eyeglasses.
The Archaeology Data Service is a digital repository of (mostly) UK archaeological site archives generated by commercial units, university research, and local and national government bodies. Part of their work involves future-proofing to ensure that the data are maintained in the most up to date formats so, in theory, the issue of changing technology/hardware should be minimised.
mine has cd
@Celto Loco got a sharp very good
I had no idea what a ‘copse’ was until this episode
It’s a corruption of “coppice”. Read about coppicing to understand why our ancestors used this method of woodland management. It’s still practiced, but nor widely. The UK has largely forgotten how to use forests sustainably.
Be a heck of a job, but always wanted to see the series arranged in a time line sequence.
There are channels on UA-cam that do it in sequence
Jon’s such a stud
Phil,s bath scraper is a JCB. HA HA HA.
Villa was where it was supposed to be, just that the field moved as the town grew
The Roman’s decor was plain compared to the Victorians. One home I’ve seen had at least 1500 paintings hanging on the walls. It was a sign of affluence. Also, the wallpaper had arsenic in it, especially green along with many other everyday items.
Its a fair copse guv.....
good video
The villa is much bigger than their finds. I moved from Litlington a few years before the dig. My house bordered the big field with the cemetery. I had a vegetable plot. I couldn't put a spade in without turning up Roman roof tiles and other pices. I am sure it was the site of a collapsed roof. I xuxpect that the villa was more than twice as big as the simulation they ended with. I suspect the whole village was the associated compound. The old bits are suspcisously square in layout. I don't know who advised them. There were other things they missed.
There is a Roman stone coffin displayed outside the church. Nearby Limlow Hill was the ploughed out site of a Roman period barrow, another burial place (Low means a barrow locally. There are other Roman barrows in the region). The remaining evidence is flint scatter. The footpath past the barrow which I walked more than most is surrounded by scattered tile and perhaps pottery fragments. A field walk would have revealed a lot. They also failed to mention that one boundary of the cemetry field was the Roman Road, the Ickneild Way known locally as Ashwell Street. So maybe a staging post developed into a villa? That said nearby villages have active springs. Litlington doesn't, at least now, although the area was marshy in earlier times so maybe it didn't matter. The presence of gravel suggests a stream at some time.
Yessss!!!
Trees & brush grow in old burnt out barns and collapsed farm buildings' foundations more so than the fields.
RIP MICK...YOU WILL BE SADLY MISSED....
So all it took to get Ben to admit it was a bath house was Fay to ask him.
I absolutely adore Prof. Geake. Shwing
First aired 31st October 2010 UK
Stuart 🥰
Helen!
I swear my IPad is telling youtube When I’m getting high, because it’s the only time I watch this show
The copse has deteriorated into an ivy haven. It's disturbing to see how ivy will grow, take over and destroy the trees originally growing in the small stand/copse. It's actually a treat to see the ivy cleared, despite the damage to the trees. But the trees had become merely a support for the ivy. Folks, don't plant ivy in your landscape! Time Team will have to pull in the equipment to remove it!
As a footnote, look at the ivy as the members of Time Team push their way into the foliage. The ivy fights for sunlight, climbing the trees as support until the leaves of the trees are cut off from sun, essentially killing the trees. It is not a WELL MANAGED copse of trees. It's a stand of ivy trees.
I wonder if the family who owns the copse area kept it exposed!
My understanding is that a Bath House is a semi-extention of a Villa, and at odd times not even in them at all, but close to them. If it was not i the field, but they found evidence of one closer to the village in the shrubbery, it seems to be very sensible that they then should be looking around there doesn't it? .............................................Posted in the middle of day two.
Ben: "Where do you want to put it though?"
Phil: "🥴"
Surely that's "UP from Hades", Guy. :-)
26:40 - sir, you are clearly high af :D