From Constantinople to Cornwall (Padstow, Cornwall) | S15E10 | Time Team

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  • Опубліковано 19 гру 2020
  • After you watch this episode, check out the official commentary video on the Time Team Official UA-cam Channel! • Time Team Commentary: ...
    One summer during the 1980s, strange crop marks appeared in two fields on the north Cornish coast near Lellizzick. Locals have picked up a wealth of 1,500-year-old pottery and metalwork from as far away as North Africa and Turkey. Combined with some spectacular geophysics, it all suggested that this was once a busy international trading site. In Mick's opinion copper and tin would have been exchanged for foreign luxury goods. But Time Team are having trouble dating the site. They are joined by Steve Hartgroves from Cornwall County Council, Finds specialist Carl Thorpe, and Byzantine expert Anthea Harris.
    Series 15, Episode 10
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 413

  • @TimeTeamClassics
    @TimeTeamClassics  3 роки тому +181

    Apologies to our fans for uploading the incorrect episode earlier today! Please enjoy the full episode of 'From Constantinople to Cornwall' and be sure to check out this exclusive commentary video on the Time Team Official Channel ua-cam.com/video/h5gyxDkSmpo/v-deo.html

    • @davemonster2
      @davemonster2 3 роки тому +11

      2 new Time team I haven't seen in years in one day! Hell yea!!! \m/>.

    • @eat_shi_n_die
      @eat_shi_n_die 3 роки тому +10

      No need to apologies. Pulls us onboard faster;)
      Best of luck with everything in 2021 chaps and chapettes!!

    • @FandersonUfo
      @FandersonUfo 3 роки тому +2

      Very classy move guys - much appreciated

    • @emmaw6043
      @emmaw6043 3 роки тому +3

      I wondered what happened to the one I watched at 6pm when I looked back through my subscriptions. Thanks for uploading this one 👍

    • @franek_izerski
      @franek_izerski 3 роки тому +2

      You might put the season and episode in the title of the video.

  • @sophiaa1100
    @sophiaa1100 3 роки тому +464

    When I was really young, there were two jobs I wanted to do - either to be an archaeologist because I adored Time Team, or a zoologist because I loved David Attenborough. Now I’m a palaeontologist, merging the two jobs I wanted to do back when I was 4. Thank you Time Team. Rewatching makes me so happy

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 3 роки тому +13

      😢 I always wanted to be an archaeologist as a child (waaaaay before Time Team existed!)
      I’m a software developer :(

    • @MrRoz121
      @MrRoz121 3 роки тому +11

      Same with me still have a very strong passion for it. Now I’m a military helicopter pilot. I do get some great views of the landscape though.

    • @kyleighhope961
      @kyleighhope961 3 роки тому +5

      how is your paleontology work? i'm about to graduate high school with the dream to go into college and get a PhD in Geology to become a paleontologist.

    • @carolchristensen7039
      @carolchristensen7039 3 роки тому +2

      I did dream about digging up in the Holy Land. Found out young I am allergic to way too much dust types of any kind.

    • @f.drachenfels4503
      @f.drachenfels4503 3 роки тому +5

      That was my wish too, but due to an illness, which lasted for years, I couldn’t do the a-levels. So there was no way to attend uni, but it hasn’t stopped me to spend a lot of time reading or even visiting archeological sites.

  • @roseschrader6170
    @roseschrader6170 Рік тому +11

    oh!! I'm so glad I found this.its going to be wonderful
    I'm 81,so can't travel anymore.
    now I can from my chair.thank you.

  • @Just_Sara
    @Just_Sara 2 роки тому +38

    I just have to tell you all, as SOON as I saw that clay disc with a hole, I dramatically threw down the project I was working on, said out loud "THAT'S A DROP SPINDLE," paused the video, and went and found the one I made of clay about two years ago - I didn't want to buy one, and I had clay on hand - before resuming the video to see if I was right.
    Mine's too small, and this one is the perfect size. Other than the size, they look almost exactly the same. It's eerie.

  • @skausage
    @skausage 3 роки тому +160

    Being an American I had never heard of this show before. Since stumbling upon these episodes online I've been watching them voraciously! Such a fantastic show!

    • @Gardner0871public
      @Gardner0871public 3 роки тому +10

      Sean Lawler same here. Time team classic and time team hd are available on amazon prime if you have prime. I’ve watched almost every season, from 1-20. Some seasons aren’t on there and some others are not included with prime but are available for purchase

    • @Strongfortress7
      @Strongfortress7 3 роки тому +1

      Same. Aloha

    • @susancady2581
      @susancady2581 3 роки тому +4

      I totally agree! Found Time Team on UA-cam and I can’t get enough!

    • @craemac
      @craemac 3 роки тому +6

      Totally agree. Much better than any show currently running on American TV

    • @ruthsmith2434
      @ruthsmith2434 2 роки тому +7

      @@susancady2581 Yes! I enjoy them all. I've decided that it isn't possible to put a shovel into the ground in Great Britain without finding some history.

  • @vickiewallace415
    @vickiewallace415 Рік тому +17

    I can’t help it…Francis and Phil are both just so gleeful that every time I see them on screen I start grinning like a fool!

  • @FromaTwistedMind
    @FromaTwistedMind 3 роки тому +44

    Love TimeTeam.... best quote today
    "It's not as round as l thought. In fact it's not round at all", followed by "Apart from that, nothing's changed". Priceless.

  • @charbelyoussef604
    @charbelyoussef604 3 роки тому +40

    Fantastic show, I’m addicted. Hello from eastern Mediterranean where these potteries used to come from :).

  • @gregorymifsud5389
    @gregorymifsud5389 3 роки тому +32

    Phil is awesome. His enthusiasm is infectious.

  • @Spartan265
    @Spartan265 3 роки тому +95

    Thanks so much for uploading more of these. I'm American and only recently discovered Time Team about a year ago and I've loved every episode. Really wish we still had quality history shows like this one. To everyone at Time Team thank you for the wonderful content.

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 3 роки тому +9

      Hopefully if they get enough support they will relaunch the show with new episodes

    • @sanctionh2993
      @sanctionh2993 3 роки тому +4

      Same. Hoping to see more Yorkshires someday.

  • @HLBear
    @HLBear 2 роки тому +21

    This is a beautiful episode, from the landscapes, to the seaweed map, to the final illustrations of the village. Beautiful.

  • @YMJCMJC
    @YMJCMJC 3 роки тому +38

    I am watching a bunch of hippies playing in the mud, on a cold windy day, getting excited about a broken piece of flower pot and a scorch mark.
    I will be watching more, but I don't know why.

    • @KAT-ew9wz
      @KAT-ew9wz 3 роки тому +6

      about 90% of people who watch time team say the same thing, I think. I've been able to explain to friends all sorts of tidbits that they didn't know anything about, and when they asked how i know it, the only answer I have is "it was on an episode of Time Team".

  • @Blisterdude123
    @Blisterdude123 11 місяців тому +4

    What's amazing to me about episodes like this is the way we're all subtly taught to believe the ancient world was this disconnected and isolated series of separate cultures and civilisations that never shared ideas, or trade, that people never travelled. And sites like this are so important because they correct this enormous misconception. The world has always been an incredibly intricately connected place, it's just that in the past, this was far more difficult, but that only made it all the more impressive the way in which it was.

  • @aurktman1106
    @aurktman1106 3 роки тому +11

    That sand map was awesome!

  • @jonnawyatt
    @jonnawyatt Рік тому +16

    It's refreshing when Francis says "I was 100% wrong".
    So many others on this show would never admit that.
    😊

    • @philipsquire9056
      @philipsquire9056 Місяць тому

      I get the impression they’re pressured to give an opinion for the script when they might not usually do so without better evidence. I recall a Scottish TT dig where local archaeologists were “pressured” to say “it’s a Broch” but they wouldn’t without a lot more evidence.

  • @andyc787
    @andyc787 3 роки тому +66

    No need to appolgise,more is better. Great seeing the episodes in higher quality. Thank you.

  • @BlitzMekanika
    @BlitzMekanika 3 роки тому +13

    29:30 “So your saying the roundhouse might be rectangular.” “Yes”.😂

  • @lauramatilda3279
    @lauramatilda3279 10 місяців тому +3

    That sand map was awesome! Well done!

  • @veldawells2839
    @veldawells2839 7 місяців тому +3

    Just mind blowing! Love it. Love it. Love it. History of thousands of years ago just beneath our feet. No one would know, if it wasn't for The Time Team specialists, researchers and volunteers. ❤❤❤

  • @EvilPeaMia
    @EvilPeaMia 3 роки тому +28

    I used to love watching Time Team back in the day when I was a kid. It's been hard to get watching it since it went off air. My 4 year old son is very interested in archeology, we have been enjoying these in the evening before bed. It's been great to share my passions with him. And of course loves it even more when there's a digger on screen lol Wish we could have Time Team back on screen, even in a streaming service like Netflix or Amazon, new weekly episodes along with the old. Kids these days miss out on seeing history first hand rather then just reading about it.

    • @palbrekke9455
      @palbrekke9455 3 роки тому +9

      They are trying to organise a new series with Patreon support! :-) Check out www.patreon.com/TimeTeamOfficial

    • @EvilPeaMia
      @EvilPeaMia 3 роки тому +7

      @@palbrekke9455 Joined

    • @lauramatilda3279
      @lauramatilda3279 10 місяців тому

      If you really want the TV experience you could cast to your TV, I dunno if that helps but it works for our house 😊

  • @mermeridian2041
    @mermeridian2041 3 роки тому +10

    Love watching Mick and Stewart and Francis working!

  • @cornishchick2473
    @cornishchick2473 3 роки тому +14

    My daughter loved Time team too when she was young, she would shout " professor Strippy jumper is on " Many of our walks and explorations in the country side involved digging for old things, we had a collection of old yogurt pots! bits of animal bone and odd looking stones lol

  • @kerrymidkiff2072
    @kerrymidkiff2072 3 роки тому +14

    Hello. I've been watching your series for a few days. I absolutely love it. Phil is absolutely fantastic, he's like a dog with a big bone when it comes to his intuition and skill. KEEP DIGGING PHIL YOUR GREAT. And so is the rest of the team. God Bless.

  • @mjc11a
    @mjc11a 9 місяців тому +1

    Always enjoyed watching Time Team. But I must say, "mucking around on the beach" with the seaweed map added a refreshing and enjoyable element to the show. Absolutely brilliant!!!

  • @OnGod1007
    @OnGod1007 2 роки тому +9

    Mick looking old in this episode. R.I.P Mick you were by far the person I respected the most on time team

  • @davekinghorn9567
    @davekinghorn9567 2 роки тому +19

    I like how this guy can look at the smallest piece of stone and tell you its pottery from where, when, and what it was used for.

  • @willowmoon7
    @willowmoon7 7 місяців тому +1

    Experimental archeology requires imagination as much as knowhow, I love it. ❤

  • @screwthecabal6453
    @screwthecabal6453 3 роки тому +12

    Absolutely beautiful scenery!

  • @elizabethschaeffer9543
    @elizabethschaeffer9543 2 роки тому +2

    The color! Time Team is always wonderful, but seeing it in this gorgeous color is a real joy.

  • @jimmyclendenin3553
    @jimmyclendenin3553 3 роки тому +2

    Please don't apologize time team is an honest the best television ever

  • @jmc7034
    @jmc7034 2 роки тому +3

    Would love it if every series was on this channel. Really enjoying watching these vids even if I’ve seen some of them before

  • @johnrogers2826
    @johnrogers2826 3 роки тому +8

    Nice! Great Sunday edutainment. Martin Zero AND Time Team! Oh joy!

    • @Gardner0871public
      @Gardner0871public 3 роки тому +1

      John Rogers I also watch both. And Fred Dibnah also

    • @johnfreney3819
      @johnfreney3819 2 роки тому +1

      I watch all 3 too. 👍Met martin zero in stockport last month n had a chat. Top lad

    • @johnrogers2826
      @johnrogers2826 2 роки тому

      @@johnfreney3819 lucky you. That's pretty cool.

  • @kimbarnes378
    @kimbarnes378 3 роки тому +3

    Time team, brilliant as always I love my fellow Brits 🇬🇧👍

  • @peterpan9408
    @peterpan9408 Рік тому +1

    No worries mate .she'll b right. Jus glad to have u n able to watch.. blessings to all. Watch Soo many yrs from the outback of australia .

  • @mikehillas
    @mikehillas 3 роки тому +21

    40:40 Justinian's Plague also had a lot to do with the disruptions of trade routes.

  • @Frank_Nemo
    @Frank_Nemo 3 роки тому +15

    A classic episode. Watch out at around the 7 minute mark when joker Matt looks up at Raksha and shouts 'Slag!'

    • @Grievous-
      @Grievous- 3 роки тому

      I did notice that haha

    • @Missangie827
      @Missangie827 2 роки тому +1

      Matt is funny and handsome-

  • @TheFloorface
    @TheFloorface 2 роки тому +1

    that music always gets me. love time team.

  • @maxschon7709
    @maxschon7709 3 роки тому +13

    I hope there will be a "Time Team - Next Gen" soon. Of course they cannot be same like it was but it would be great if the torch is carried on. We need a how with entertaining education like TT !!!

    • @barbaraburton8914
      @barbaraburton8914 3 роки тому

      I love this show!! It calms me down when the whole world is going crazy. Life goes on. We live and die and the next generation picks up the baton and it just keeps going on. Remember when Y2K was the thing. Nothing happened. It's? 2021. 19 just flipped over to 20 and people were amazed.

    • @f.drachenfels4503
      @f.drachenfels4503 3 роки тому +1

      They have announced that they are going to continue.

    • @tomtinkersrezlife278
      @tomtinkersrezlife278 2 роки тому +1

      Go to Time team official and you will see who is returning and who is not like mick and Victor hav both passed away now 😢 and they have new faces and some old I think stew and Jon gator will b part of the new and I think Carenza will b part 9f the new ones

  • @museonfilm8919
    @museonfilm8919 3 роки тому +10

    Why are folks moaning about the ads?
    Haven't ANY of you ever heard of ad blockers?? It's the only reason why I still watch content on UA-cam.!!!

    • @jelloled
      @jelloled 3 роки тому +3

      Can't block ads on the phone app

    • @Books_Anime_92
      @Books_Anime_92 3 роки тому +1

      I can only block them when I am on my laptop.

    • @scrubsrc4084
      @scrubsrc4084 3 роки тому +1

      @@jelloled brave browser and watch UA-cam through there rather than the app, it blocks tha ads on mobile

    • @radieschen79
      @radieschen79 3 роки тому

      @@jelloled install Blokada app on your phone.

    • @radieschen79
      @radieschen79 3 роки тому

      @@Books_Anime_92 Install Blokada app on your phone.

  • @timsterrett2417
    @timsterrett2417 3 роки тому +2

    I'm surprised you didn't find more arifacts. Good job discovering that place just amazing.

  • @zonabrown9241
    @zonabrown9241 Рік тому +16

    After watching yrs of TT I reckon Stewart is usually right without the dramas that others go on with

    • @milafraser
      @milafraser Рік тому +6

      Yes! Absolutely!

    • @mjc11a
      @mjc11a 9 місяців тому +6

      @zonabrown9241...I have to agree with you. Stewart stays in the background quietly and diligently going about his work but what he uncovers is absolutely impressive to the overall project.

    • @martinscholes2023
      @martinscholes2023 5 місяців тому +3

      Yes, 100%. His uncanny ability to read a landscape while others get covered in mud and pontificate always impresses me. He often saves the day (once the others allow him to 😂). I adore this show and loved it when it was on every week in the UK. Quality broadcasting.

  • @stefangeorge2844
    @stefangeorge2844 3 роки тому +3

    My favorite show

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 Місяць тому

    Thanks so much for posting

  • @thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261
    @thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 3 роки тому +5

    Shouts to the geophys crew

  • @davidshelow5334
    @davidshelow5334 3 роки тому +16

    Another great episode from a great series! What's the most amazing mystery of Time Team? With all that digging, how does Phil manage to keep the fingernails of his left hand intact for playing guitar?

  • @chiseldrock
    @chiseldrock 3 роки тому +9

    At 29:50 Matt busts out what may be the best 1 liner ever on time team....Happy Solstice everyone.

  • @mike_lowndes
    @mike_lowndes 2 роки тому +4

    The Doom Bar. A great ale was named for that.

  • @macdameron9321
    @macdameron9321 3 роки тому +2

    love me some Time Team!

  • @thomasclyde3036
    @thomasclyde3036 2 роки тому +6

    Around the 18:00 mark they keep saying Turkish pottery dating around 5th or 6th century. Turkish pottery from Anatolia came much later than the 5th or 6th century. It should be Byzantine pottery, not Turkish

  • @garysmith2983
    @garysmith2983 3 роки тому +10

    Doombar, lovely Cornish ale.

  • @GoodVideos4
    @GoodVideos4 3 роки тому +10

    I have 'The World of Wonder' encyclopedias from 1936. It has a map of England and Wales, showing the total land that has been lost to the sea. Quite interesting, and quite a lot. So, that coast might not have been the same hundreds and thousands of years ago.

  • @josephsolowyk7697
    @josephsolowyk7697 2 роки тому +2

    I wish I hadn't seen every episode ten times haha...love them though.

  • @screwthecabal6453
    @screwthecabal6453 3 роки тому +7

    CRAFTMANSHIP TONY, CRAFTMANSHIP!!!

  • @borderreiver3288
    @borderreiver3288 Рік тому

    just amazing....

  • @Theravadinbuto
    @Theravadinbuto 2 роки тому +7

    It’s interesting that the Team assumed trade, rather than pirates and wreckers. Looks like a rather perfect location for preying on trade going up the west coast… and there is a bit of a tradition in that part of Britain…

  • @fokkenhotz1
    @fokkenhotz1 2 роки тому

    TimeTeam time. yay!

  • @Aoderic
    @Aoderic 3 роки тому +8

    I love how Phil says "Yarrr'n" 😀

  • @littlesth0b0
    @littlesth0b0 2 роки тому +1

    Phil saying "Yarn for garments" sounds fantastic.

  • @ThroatSore
    @ThroatSore 3 роки тому +2

    That sea man was a treat to listen to.

  • @mariansmith7694
    @mariansmith7694 3 роки тому +1

    Good show TT.

  • @azureprophet
    @azureprophet 3 роки тому +16

    I wonder if excessive deforestation in the period leading up to the present caused increased silting of the natural harbor and thus it was safer for ships back in the Iron Age than it is today?

    • @davidvasey5065
      @davidvasey5065 9 місяців тому +1

      Most of britain's deforestation had already happened by the iron age

  • @DuckReach432
    @DuckReach432 Рік тому +1

    Three days of glorious weather for a remarkable dig. Not a lot of shelter there when a winter storm hits, by the look of it.

  • @kevinmcneill7
    @kevinmcneill7 3 роки тому +9

    Salvagers crossed my mind after the bit about shipwrecks

  • @sergarlantyrell7847
    @sergarlantyrell7847 3 роки тому +9

    That stylus is not only the earliest evidence of writing in Cornwall, but the latest too...

    • @brokenglass9814
      @brokenglass9814 2 роки тому

      Ha funny, hilarious. Emmets have two jokes about us and fewer brain cells.

  • @willisgemutlich2608
    @willisgemutlich2608 3 роки тому +3

    that looks like a perfect place to land a kayak, which has a similar landing tendency as a viking or ancient egyptian craft. they were wider and shallower hulled, and with a lot less structure, ie when people have reconstructed and sailed them, they were surprised at how much they flexed and twisted at sea. (not stiff and sleek but deep) they also were making them as quickly as possible and not to last 100 years. in other words, they may (seem) to have been built for beach landings and sketchy river raids and hope to come back, hope to repair, and hope to last a couple years, not our modern expectations of ships, or scratching paint. it was either trade and go home, raid and go home, or a bit of both

  • @tarjei99
    @tarjei99 3 роки тому +4

    Isn't the sixth century the time of the Justinian Plague?
    It would be strange to trade copper from Cornwall since there are several mines around the Mediterranean. There are tin mines closer to Constantinopel.
    What about wool and leather? Could there be a quality difference?

  • @chrisbassett8996
    @chrisbassett8996 2 роки тому

    wow, love the map

  • @MegaKellyschannel
    @MegaKellyschannel 11 місяців тому

    There's something comforting in this time of generalized chaos and upheaval, both climate and political, watching things like this. Empires come and go, rivers move, climate changes. The people remain. The people always remain. Community and trade, the stuff of survival is largely unaffected by the 1% and people adapt as the land changes.

  • @mikehillas
    @mikehillas 3 роки тому +11

    Don't know why they keep referring to Turkey. It didn't exist in the 5th and/or 6th centuries. (Just ask Justinian). The land that is now Turkey was part of the Byzantine Empire, Christian and Greek in culture. More accurate to call the area "Anatolia".

    • @KAT-ew9wz
      @KAT-ew9wz 3 роки тому +6

      because a lot of people who watch this wouldn't know what was meant by that. If you say Turkey, they at least have an idea of what area of the world it's from.

  • @1234cheerful
    @1234cheerful 3 роки тому +4

    30:29 wow this is mpressive as a teaching aide!

  • @jeffreychurch2018
    @jeffreychurch2018 4 місяці тому +1

    One thing I would like to see would be having the team come to North America to see how the Native American tribes, past and present, did their flint and obsidian napping work, as well as pottery and house buildings. Phil would probably be in heaven looking at flint and obsidian tools. Some of the archaic pieces, such as the Folsom points, would most likely be exciting for him.

    • @SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR
      @SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR 3 місяці тому

      There was one but didn't last long 3 seasons I think??

    • @amandagreen4332
      @amandagreen4332 Місяць тому

      They came to Jamestown, Virginia. The local archaeologists were a bit too cautious for the Time Team approach. You don’t use backhoes here, and excavations are conducted very slowly and carefully.

  • @annk.8750
    @annk.8750 8 місяців тому

    Am I correct in thinking that an established droveway would be used on a daily basis? Cattle or sheep would need to be taken from a place like that to the nearest source of fresh water every day, if they didn't have a stream or pond in their own pasture. I can't imagine going to all the trouble of digging ditches along a track unless it were used frequently, not just once or twice a year.

  • @silverghost131
    @silverghost131 3 роки тому +9

    can we get the unshown pilot

  • @slave2damachine
    @slave2damachine 3 роки тому +5

    Cornwall produced 3 of the best pre Roman TT episodes in my opinion ,but I have to admit that I'm biased , I live there😃

    • @KingNoTail
      @KingNoTail Рік тому +1

      It's definitely a very beautiful place.

  • @darreno9874
    @darreno9874 3 роки тому +3

    It's great to see time team on you tube but why are so many episodes blocked in the UK, particularly as time team was a English production. Please open up all episodes so we can all enjoy them. Thanks

    • @KAT-ew9wz
      @KAT-ew9wz 3 роки тому +1

      because people want money

  • @jameswoods2129
    @jameswoods2129 3 роки тому

    GOOD LUCK BO !!!!!!!!!!!

  • @hashtag415
    @hashtag415 3 роки тому +23

    I want to let everyone know that my sister says "Hello".
    She has an awesome speech therapist.

    • @josephkarl2061
      @josephkarl2061 3 роки тому +7

      Hello to your sister 😄

    • @Spartan265
      @Spartan265 3 роки тому +8

      Hello random persons sister. Keep up the hard work with your speech therapist and don't let anyone make you feel bad for it. Hope you have a great day or night!

    • @thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261
      @thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 3 роки тому

      Oh hi!

    • @davidhocde007
      @davidhocde007 3 роки тому

      Mine keeps saying : "ello"...

  • @palmyrafoxy6860
    @palmyrafoxy6860 Рік тому

    please to register my job application for my next life to come: TIME TEAM you have convinced me that it will have to be my NEXT time life to be worth!!

  • @hanes_cymru_
    @hanes_cymru_ Рік тому +1

    One thing that always fascinates me is the thought of all the trade that went on in the ancient world, possibly more than these days. With no Immigration and border control, people traveled and traded in much different ways than today.

  • @hrbailey379xhd
    @hrbailey379xhd 7 місяців тому +1

    I’m wondering if the trackway that Frances was so excited about may be part of a shipbuilding/repair yard. Geo-phys was showing what he thought was an industrial site, and if it was a trading port then it would make sense to have some sort of repair/building facility for ships that maybe had a rough time getting there.

  • @ianmoseley9910
    @ianmoseley9910 2 роки тому +2

    They do not seem to address the possibility that the goods travelled through Europe and were shipped from the French/Spanish coast across the Bay of Biscay or the English Channel.

  • @michaeldunne3379
    @michaeldunne3379 Рік тому +1

    That was a really good episode. It made me wonder why the Romans were so disinterested in Cornwall. You’d imagine it would be one of their main bases because of the tin and copper. 🤔

  • @filmdude007
    @filmdude007 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the episode. Is it only SD, not HD?

  • @keithwallan9771
    @keithwallan9771 3 роки тому +5

    With all the talk about the dangerous coastline in this episode, I'm surprised nobody posited that the exotic pottery was scavenged from shipwrecks.

    • @jennymay4720
      @jennymay4720 3 роки тому +2

      The Celtic sea stretched down to northern Spain and Portugal. At La Guardia they have round houses on the peninsula exactly like these. It was so fast to sail instead of go by land. Trading from spring to summer wasn't so difficult.

    • @free_gold4467
      @free_gold4467 3 роки тому +1

      The ships had to get there, laden with goods to get shipwrecked- I'm sure they were there to trade if they didn't get wrecked so whichever.

  • @CanChikMay
    @CanChikMay 3 роки тому +1

    Kool that this was in 2008....! Watching in 2021

  • @hiddentruth1982
    @hiddentruth1982 3 роки тому +3

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say the strangely shaped building was a storage area for the trading. you don't want to leave everything out in the weather after all plus the traders could see what was for trade at a glance.

  • @calebmacdonald6189
    @calebmacdonald6189 3 роки тому +12

    Lost count of how many times 5th century pottery shards are referred to as Turkish. This promotes the misconception that modern Turkey was always Turkey and populated by Turks as well as the misconception that Rome stopped existing by this time. This was Roman pottery from the eastern empire based in Anatolia.

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 3 роки тому +3

      Why does Turkey get a pass on its awful history of invasion and takeover?

  • @upstaterelicsandescapades1599
    @upstaterelicsandescapades1599 2 роки тому +3

    Keeled seacraft didn't show up before the 7th century a.d. , so therefore it is plausible that a port may have existed there due there being flat bottomed seacraft prior to the 7th century a.d.

  • @Daehawk
    @Daehawk 3 роки тому

    Thats a long journey to bring ships.

  • @sirloinofbeef3862
    @sirloinofbeef3862 3 роки тому +2

    Nice

  • @christophersmith5691
    @christophersmith5691 Рік тому

    The site of the trading harbour is marked on the early admiralty chart - as 'hawkers ships cove'!

  • @gingerbeerkid1967
    @gingerbeerkid1967 3 роки тому +1

    Hi
    Does anyone know the name of the episode where they found the remains of a village wiped out by the black death, aerial photos or geophys showed the outline of the street and houses?

    • @gingerbeerkid1967
      @gingerbeerkid1967 3 роки тому

      Found the name of village, but episode not here, Wharram percy I think, or Eyam?

    • @georgedorn1022
      @georgedorn1022 3 роки тому

      They investigated a couple of deserted medieval/post-medieval villages - High Worsall and Ulnaby - but I don't think either was thought to be wiped out by the black death as there was evidence for occupation after the 14th century. Changes in land use are now thought to be a major reason for villages being abandoned in this period.

    • @KAT-ew9wz
      @KAT-ew9wz 2 роки тому

      I think the title for the episode includes the word Holloway, if that helps. You can find it on UA-cam but it's not good quality.

  • @klarahvar746
    @klarahvar746 Рік тому

    "Is it an early Rick Stein restaurant?" I love Tony.

  • @Mr.56Goldtop
    @Mr.56Goldtop Рік тому

    It's crystal clear from the areal footage that the lagoon and estuary have silted up over the centuries. No doubt that is where in coming and out going ships would have entered and moored, not in the dangerous rocky harbour.

  • @arnman2093
    @arnman2093 2 роки тому

    A thought - getting finds from Turkey does not mean the settlement is a trading center, but rather could simply receive some trade at times. It could be a fishing village using shallow draft small boats and the trade vessels from afar could moor in the depths of the bay with trips to the village in shallow draft boats. No ship harbor required. Putting the houses at the very end of the west bank allows for sheltered waters and the shortest trip to the main land for other life-required activity, including something that the trader from afar finds value in.

  • @charliespeegleokliving8595
    @charliespeegleokliving8595 3 роки тому +13

    Isn't it more likely that the village went into decline after the channel shifted and the safe harbor filled with sand?

    • @KAT-ew9wz
      @KAT-ew9wz 3 роки тому +2

      my guess is probably a bit of both. could be that a particularly heavy winter storm finally ended the occupation of the site as a trade centre around the time the byzantines collapsed.

  • @SublimatedIce
    @SublimatedIce 3 роки тому +5

    Could you enable subtitles on your video's? Even the UA-cam autogenerated subtitles? I have a few friends who want to watch your videos, but their English isn't great... and they find it helpful to have subtitles while listening?

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 3 роки тому

      "Videos". Simple plural. One video. Two videos.

    • @SublimatedIce
      @SublimatedIce 3 роки тому +1

      @@judeirwin2222 do you want to address that comment to Google speech-to-text software? Lol

    • @robertmac3596
      @robertmac3596 3 роки тому +1

      @@judeirwin2222 One pedant.....

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 3 роки тому

      @@robertmac3596 One semi-literate person...

  • @beebeelicious
    @beebeelicious 3 роки тому +2

    Bauldrick ❤️

  • @nicolejosan6364
    @nicolejosan6364 2 роки тому

    Is this available in HD somewhere?

  • @paulwood7798
    @paulwood7798 2 роки тому +1

    Just looking at the commercially available Aerial Imaging you can see crop marks over virtually all the fields in the vicinity of this site. It would be great to go back and do a bigger investigation here and let the sites story develop.