As an American metal detectorist it never ceases to humor me watching British historians being DISAPPOINTED by Victorian finds. 🤣 It really is true -Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance, and Americans think 100 years is a long time.
Our time sense is skewed because our country is so much younger! Nearly everywhere you go on the other side of the world has history going back at least 1000 years,and in England especially great sites are built over or found in farmers fields!
@@kimberlypatton205 Yup! And a lot of us (Americans) seem to think stuff like the Revolutionary War, the signing of the Declaration, even the Civl War, was "forever ago" like Biblical or something, LOL ! No, on the grand scale it was just yesterday. Of course, there have been Americans for thousands of years, but from a metal detectorist's point of view, there "wasn't." -Native Americans didn't use metal whatsoever.
@@kimberlypatton205 Yep...or your backyard...thats what ghets me. I go to my backyeard, I dig dirt. My cousins (Scotland) dig in their backyard...Iron Age.
amen. I drive 75 miles a day just getting to and from work and errands. and thats nothing but my family house goes 'ALL THE WAY BACK' ..... to the 1900's (wow. thats OLD) lol.
@@kevinquist Exaaaaactly, ha. Heck I live in Mobile, Alabama, the 14th oldest city in the U.S.. And the oldest cemetery in town is right around the corner from my house. But it is super hard to find any gravestones with a '17' in them (as in 1700's) and when you do it's somebody who was BORN in like 1798 or something. -That's "yesterday" in Europe. 😆
As a (now retired) career horticulturist, it never stops amazing me just how wonderful it must be to grow things on the island! It is a plant paradise and climate!Also Phil is my favorite!
So your question actually made me pretty curious, they are pretty silly but I thought there has to be a symbolic reason for them so I looked it up, turns out the wig and robe is a sort of uniform which separates the law and its associated people (the lawers and judges) and the people being brought up in front of or against the law. But I personally think it's more about tradition now than anything. Good question 😊
Tradition! Mate, tradition! Everything is based on tradition! Wigs for courthouses, colours & regimental insignia for the Army, bosuns pipes for the Navy, & aprons for the butchers, everything is based on tradition!
Watching this (the part about the field where refugees from the great fire escaped to) as we’re just hearing and seeing the devastation of the Los Angeles fires is an entirely different experience than the last time I watched this episode.
On my first trip to England, back in the late 1990s, I stayed with a friend who lived in the City in close proximity to these law courts and related buildings. I remember passing a (judicial) wig shop as I meandered around. At one point I wandered all over this area, not so much lost as curious. I don’t think it’s tourists would usually be hanging out so I remember being pretty much by myself going into various courtyards and in the square, etc.. I also found the Old Curiosity Ship.
The vast majority of Victorian building projects, would have called everything in their way towards digging foundations as "muck". It could be 13th century court house stones, Roman mosaics or Broze Age burial mounds. Aside from the odd curious Antiquarians, they just didn't care what was in the way of progress. Nowadays in the UK, just coming across a bit of old human bone, can bring a whole highway project to a screeching halt.
Well they kinda had to. They were still breeding like previous generations but far more of their children were surviving, and all those people needed places to live, shops to buy from, churches, schools, etc etc etc.
Ok reg tree roots and gio phyic, can a dye of some none lethal substance be injected into tree to show them on gio phyic clearly and separate from other in ground stuff. Love your shoes no show. Wink.
It just doesn't work like that. The dye can't go into the roots from the tree it would have to be spayed all over the ground and it could take God knows how long for it to be taken up by roots and geophysics equipment can't pick up any sort of dye, it can only very roughly see large dense objects or varying densities.
It's funny how the site director hijacked half of time team to use them on his own completely unrelated personal interest. It's honestly hilarious that not only couldn't he find anything, he only got down a few centuries anyway. Brave to demonstrate how selfish and unreliable you are on national tv hehe. ...This wasn't the guy who actually brought them to the Lincoln's Inn site, right?
My favorite part: "Not a single geranium was harmed in the making of this video"... 😆
I know. British humor is absolutely lovely. 🤣
Best thing about this episode.........this is the most rebellious time team has been with the rules!
@ 17:16 " and then smash it out " priceless comic timing from Tony the maestro.
As an American metal detectorist it never ceases to humor me watching British historians being DISAPPOINTED by Victorian finds. 🤣
It really is true -Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance, and Americans think 100 years is a long time.
Our time sense is skewed because our country is so much younger! Nearly everywhere you go on the other side of the world has history going back at least 1000 years,and in England especially great sites are built over or found in farmers fields!
@@kimberlypatton205 Yup! And a lot of us (Americans) seem to think stuff like the Revolutionary War, the signing of the Declaration, even the Civl War, was "forever ago" like Biblical or something, LOL ! No, on the grand scale it was just yesterday.
Of course, there have been Americans for thousands of years, but from a metal detectorist's point of view, there "wasn't." -Native Americans didn't use metal whatsoever.
@@kimberlypatton205 Yep...or your backyard...thats what ghets me. I go to my backyeard, I dig dirt. My cousins (Scotland) dig in their backyard...Iron Age.
amen. I drive 75 miles a day just getting to and from work and errands. and thats nothing but my family house goes 'ALL THE WAY BACK' ..... to the 1900's (wow. thats OLD) lol.
@@kevinquist Exaaaaactly, ha. Heck I live in Mobile, Alabama, the 14th oldest city in the U.S.. And the oldest cemetery in town is right around the corner from my house. But it is super hard to find any gravestones with a '17' in them (as in 1700's) and when you do it's somebody who was BORN in like 1798 or something.
-That's "yesterday" in Europe. 😆
The way Phil goes on about beer, you would think it was illegal lol
That's right Phil,wave and smile at the lawyers LOL!
This episode is one of my favourite 'Phil and Paul's episodes. You can see the respect and friendship there.
13:05 “Not only has Phil dug up a Victorian courthouse, embarrassingly labeled ‘Victorian courthouse’ on the map…” 😂
What an honor it would be to meet any of the Time Team, but could listen to Phil talk about flints forever.
This is Time Team Series 16, Episode 10 originally aired March 8, 2009 and titled Called to the Bar.
Thanks for doing what these multiple channels should do!
finally I have found someone fan related time team
Another great Show 👍🏴
I sure love these gents! Especially the host
As a (now retired) career horticulturist, it never stops amazing me just how wonderful it must be to grow things on the island! It is a plant paradise and climate!Also Phil is my favorite!
great production value this whole doc series
"Keep off the grass!" 🤣🤣🤣
Time Team is excellent!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
The real mystery is why the British barristers / lawyers are still wearing those ludicrous wigs.
I guess the British love tradition.
@@kille-4B To a point; they ditched it during Henry VIII's reign. But those wigs are silly though. 🤣
So your question actually made me pretty curious, they are pretty silly but I thought there has to be a symbolic reason for them so I looked it up, turns out the wig and robe is a sort of uniform which separates the law and its associated people (the lawers and judges) and the people being brought up in front of or against the law.
But I personally think it's more about tradition now than anything.
Good question 😊
Tradition! Mate, tradition! Everything is based on tradition! Wigs for courthouses, colours & regimental insignia for the Army, bosuns pipes for the Navy, & aprons for the butchers, everything is based on tradition!
Yes, and why are the wigs made from horse hair?
Love the T Team flowers. Great archaeology
A Time Team I hadn't seen until today and I thought I'd seen them all.
Me too!
Thanks so much for posting.
Watching this (the part about the field where refugees from the great fire escaped to) as we’re just hearing and seeing the devastation of the Los Angeles fires is an entirely different experience than the last time I watched this episode.
So much for the "stay off the grass "sign😂😂
My great grandfather was a judge and was admitted as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn 150 years ago.
Excellent! Enjoyed every minute!
Cool idea!! Good stuff thanks gents
I do love Phil's accent. It just tickles me. Especially when he gets going on about something!
Is he from Arkansas?
No south west England. It sounds like he is from Dorset.
@@hannytierlierblaauw192 Same thing. 😉
Everybody knows Phil comes from Wiltshire!
@@jeanpeuplu5570 I didn’t but Wiltshire is next door to Dorset and it’s the same dialect
I love that jug I miss the original time team members thank you for keeping me fixated all these years.
That jug WAS pretty awesome - with the face on it and all.
On my first trip to England, back in the late 1990s, I stayed with a friend who lived in the City in close proximity to these law courts and related buildings. I remember passing a (judicial) wig shop as I meandered around. At one point I wandered all over this area, not so much lost as curious. I don’t think it’s tourists would usually be hanging out so I remember being pretty much by myself going into various courtyards and in the square, etc.. I also found the Old Curiosity Ship.
Thanks Tony
Once again Phills hat is true Archeology.
Imagine if the geraniums had been damaged... 😂
The vast majority of Victorian building projects, would have called everything in their way towards digging foundations as "muck". It could be 13th century court house stones, Roman mosaics or Broze Age burial mounds. Aside from the odd curious Antiquarians, they just didn't care what was in the way of progress. Nowadays in the UK, just coming across a bit of old human bone, can bring a whole highway project to a screeching halt.
The Victorians always building over good archaeology...
Well they kinda had to. They were still breeding like previous generations but far more of their children were surviving, and all those people needed places to live, shops to buy from, churches, schools, etc etc etc.
The Coolness!
I agree! Isn’t history amazing ❤
I always wonder how older buildings get buried 2-4 feet under the newer ones. Do they sink? Do people just pour a load of dirt over them?
Tree is probably OLDER than the buildings
I wonder if the gardners wear their. Wigs Bsrristers should be usefull for Something
On a pas fait plus beau, plus edifiant et plus transcendant que le Moyen Age.
But why did they build it underground?
For the life of me I wish I could see an explanation of how so many buildings (even entire cities) are supposedly underground.
@@audreymuzingo933 Proof of a flat earth if you ask many experts.
@@PapriceP Ahhh, of course. 🤣😆😂
Very funny.
am i correctly picking up black adder vibes?
Yes, Baldricks other gig 😂
Time team. i dont even know why you would accept the proffer to dig there! so restricted. id tell them no.
Why don’t you list original dates of airing…..🤦🏻♀️ This is not new
3:00 He looks like MERLIN .😂
Phil needs a new hat. That’s just nasty. 😮
That's called "character"...
@@mcburcke ha!
" . . . room for a pony . . . " Now, where have i heard that before?
Tony IS Eeyore. 'ill be alright.ill just sleep out in the rain"
Archaeologists Find A Medieval Palace Buried Under Central London .......Nope! They didn't!
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Ok reg tree roots and gio phyic, can a dye of some none lethal substance be injected into tree to show them on gio phyic clearly and separate from other in ground stuff. Love your shoes no show. Wink.
It just doesn't work like that. The dye can't go into the roots from the tree it would have to be spayed all over the ground and it could take God knows how long for it to be taken up by roots and geophysics equipment can't pick up any sort of dye, it can only very roughly see large dense objects or varying densities.
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smh. standing by a building dating back to 1489..... "looking for something old". lol. w/love from America.
Tudor Herb and the Spice girls. oops. Garden
How do they tell what they’re looking at? It all looks like basic dirt to me! 😂
It's funny how the site director hijacked half of time team to use them on his own completely unrelated personal interest. It's honestly hilarious that not only couldn't he find anything, he only got down a few centuries anyway. Brave to demonstrate how selfish and unreliable you are on national tv hehe.
...This wasn't the guy who actually brought them to the Lincoln's Inn site, right?
Maybe the bucket held liagniappe for attendees/ passersby
Oh well. You can’t win them all.
Google satellite view doesn’t go back that far?
Why is all the ancient history under everything else? If it is all under everything else why isn't more people onboard with the small earth theory?
Cousin Ralph Neville or could Bishops be married then?
lol, please cart off the grass...