‘Romans on the Range’ (High Ham, Somerset) | Series 18 Episode 3 | Time Team
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2022
- Tony and the team get a unique opportunity to dig at an army firing range at High Ham in Somerset, and investigate a series of mosaics first discovered 150 years ago.
Series 18, Episode 03
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rest in peace Mick, time team was never the same without him
done with UA-cam and adds...miss mick
My mums lecturer at the open university for a bit. She said he was an excellent teacher.
Your right it isnt
I agree
To true
Hats off to Matt, he has such a gentle way about him, and such a positive attitude towards whatever they throw at him. Such a nice guy!
I totally agree with your evaluation of Matt.
Phil is like a kid at christmas waiting to open presents. That is what makes him so fun to watch.
From my point of view, in all the years I have been watching television -- 1955 until now -- this is the most consistently interesting program in the history of English language television. Wow. I can't get enough.
Just love that Victor Ambrus's wonderful artwork always has a dog in it 😃
I never even realised! And I’m a dog lover.
He passed away
There's nothing quite like Time Team - all of the Team have such infectious enthusiasm, are all so knowledgeable and so great at communicating their ideas and the history, work so incredibly well together (despite any disagreements!), and have such amazing chemistry. It's always a great comfort and joy to watch :) (and as a side note, I always enjoy poor Matt having to do the experimental archaeology side of things. What a good sport!)
Elaborate Roman mosaic-
Mick: they’re not bad, not that impressive.
Rotted Saxon post hole-
Mick: this is amazing!!
Mick didn't like Roman digs, he was more into anything after them 😊
He had to defend saxon establishment, the monarchy, etc. That was his real job, like anywhere else, the destiny of the history teacher...🤔
Mick is my favourite part of the show, certainly am going to miss him in the new episodes. He reminds me of my favourite university professors
I'm American so I never knew about TT til youtube. I love this show. I majored in Anthropology but didn't have the patience for digs, though loved what digs produced. Plus I'm a British history buff. So TT does the work and I benefit from the results. Perfect! Many thanks 😊
Aha so you are catching up on your education then? 😁
Haha!. I’m a physician who is addicted to other scientist’s research! Poor Matt. What a sweetheart. I would have beat someone half to death (especially for the boots off) by the end of 24h. I’m kind of a girlie girl (I have to have a bucket of water to clean my hands , even with goatskin gloves) to work in the garden. After I took the ASVAB in high school I got calls from every branch wanting me as a mechanic. Uh, nah.
Superlative series: completely hooked. I haven't learned more about archaeology before or since watching these episodes. I've always been a history nut but learned precious little at school but went on to read it at uni, however. Love the humor and down-to-earth (pun intended) presentation and interaction between the participants; quite entertaining. Someone who isn't a Brit can learn much about it's society and culture from this.
Phill squints his eye fabulously ,he owns the show
Loved watching this show on a Sunday. Fish and chips and time team the perfect combination
Oh yeah
...it's nice to see Matt back in TT Series 21, looking forward to 22!!
Indeed it was a pleasure to have in back!!!!!
I am always in awe of their backhoe operator's delicacy.
always loved this series. Tony & Phil picking on each other was always my favorite part
Loved Phil putting Tony in his place. Need to see more of it.
@@dalekundtz760 I do think Phil just loved putting not only Tony in place!!
I love the british history. SO rich on information. Can't stop viewing all videos.
All history really is.
indeed, all history is. But it seems to me, as a non-british, that British do value it a lot, preserve a lot, document it a lot and make it kind of priority over "more important" stuff. Where I live, if when someone is buiding another hypermarket for a big chain, if they find an archaeological site duging the process, people mumble as "such a waste of time digging for old junk and stopping progress".
I think somewhere up there Mic is having a laugh and a broad smile (with Victor and Ian) thanks to the "Team" and their impressive efforts with the old and new episodes etc. and the support of their loyal and grateful fans. He like me (and others) I think knew one reason for the "Team's" success was their respect and trust in each other (obtained over the years of the "Team's" experience) even if they disagreed. Only when this is true can you have the trust, fun (and personal shared humour) and loyalty that they obviously had with the show and each other. They all took their tasks very seriously but with the equal consideration of the other members of the "Team" and the purpose of each episode. Like many I have found this show over many years to not only be educational and entertaining but also destressing (from our personal lives) and to have given me energy and optimism (which it continues to do so). Even in their less successful episodes they have derived success though not necessarily that which they expected. Thank you Time Team (seriously). It would give me the greatest pleasure to meet even just one of the "Team" for a dinner, drink or cuppa (my shout) to share with them their and my thoughts on the "Team". Being in Oz (Australia) makes this less likely (if not impossible).
Thank you.
Matt is so nice. I just Love him. what a Good guy.
That's not what I hear !!!
Mick Aston was/is a National Treasure. I grew up to my Sundays being filled with Time Team, my wife is Dutch and recently got her into Time Team, she loves it.
I love seeing these older episodes with Mick, he seems like a nice bloke. It’s weird, myself and now also my kids grew up with Time Team and Micks contagious giggle and enthusiasm. It’s strange but I feel like I know him, (does anyone else feel like that, or is that just stupid?) I wish I had got the opportunity to meet him, and Phil! I met Tony when he came to Canberra Australia. He was actually really cool, friendly and actually stopped to talk to my kids and I, I was stoked because I wouldn’t been devastated if he was a dckhead! Haha. It wasnt a quick hi goodbye, he had photos taken, signed my kids book and I think he was quite surprised and actually anit chuffed that my kids knew so much and could recall their favourite digs, but also from his other series worst jobs In history etc. such a great show. I often wonder how many of todays archeologists and students were inspired by Mick and the team? Cheers from Australia, I hope you all are safe and well. 😊
I love the episodes with Neil. So much knowledge of Roman Britain. Amazing dedication to the subject.
Phil makes his own fun.
i have always wished that i lived in a place where i could just dig a hole in the middle of nowhere and it could be possible that i would just find a cool ancient artifact. these ancient coins arent always really of that great of a value, but for me it is all about the historical value and to find it myself would be a rush of emotions.
I wish that was true as I spent years landscaping and we never found any archaeology in the UK
@@deltadom33 nothing ever? i dont mean i expect it to be a common or easy thing, just saying here in the U. S. it is pretty much no possibility at all. several years ago i watched some documentary showing places associated with Robin Hood legends, and they showed this fairly small square 2 story little building that was a pub down stairs, it was one of the places Robin is rumored to have died in. anyway they mentioned the place was built in ten something and that is so crazy to hear here, i dont know if i have ever actually seen a building in person that was even 100 years old, and it was just this little 2 story place made out of the same sort of red bricks you see used in stuff today, i never would have guessed it was that old from looking at it.
Well, absent that, dig a hole and put stuff in it for the next guy.
LOVE THE BANTER...GOING TO MISS MICK...HE WILL BE SORELY MISSED....
They should make a tv series Phil living in a roundhouse but prehistoric would suit him more with flints
They should make a series of him as a troll living under a bridge where he belongs. What a disagreeable person
@@stefeniedavidmusic the only troll here is you, phil is a swell old boy
I'm so used to watching your old videos that I didn't realize this was actually a new show. What is it 15-20 years of Time Team, and poor Matt is still being picked on. He's a good sport.
Not a new show, rather a release of an episode from series 18. Season 20 was the last of the old shows, but the did release 2 new digs from this year on the Time Team Official channel.
Old episode, Phil, Tony and Mick isn't in the new ones. Mick Aston died in 2013, Rip.
a feisty Phil....why can't we be immortal and just do these things forever
Mick's sweater, seen in many an episode, will live on in my memory until I die, and I'm not even British.
He got them sent in by old groupies who used to knit them for him..
Those post holes IN the mosaic floor suggest a final phase of degradation of the villa when the ceiling and walls had gone and a wooden hut, perhaps with a thatched roof, was erected on the stone platform. No pottery relics, because the Anglo-Saxon stuff was so basic it crumbles back into earth.
Good point. I've seen things like these in our days. Old villas from the 80's, dilapidated and then taken over by poorer people, with wooden roofs inside, wood going right through expensive marble. :))
lol at some angelo saxon farmer living in a hut with a mosaic floor haha
Cold, wet and windy. Sounds like every British Army firing range I have ever been on.
Complaint of typical Time Team Weather....You're in Britain it's typical British weather.
Yup
Phil on time team makes the show and his accent is great .
Author Jack Whyte wrote a series of historical fiction novels called "The Dream of Eagles". They were based on this exact subject. Roman Britain just before and after the withdrawal of Rome/Roman Army from Britain. Excellent, very well researched books! Have read the entire series a few times.
Really like Philippa. Classy, smart, very informative.
they should have a whole battalion on shovel detail for this.
A lovely warm summers dig on Time Team.
Wow, that mosaic is beautiful
Phil is the greatest, He finds some many amazing things all the time. I saw Phil perceive a small piece of pottery, in the excavation over 20 feet away. Incredible.
Great stuff as always. Great fun ("a little bit chav" Tony?!). Very informative. Thanks.
Matt, you are priceless. Just love this series.
I'd love to walk bare foot on the mosaic. Absolutely amazing piece of our history.
17:24 "a highly technical approach, known ... as guesswork" XD
When you hear 'our own slave' or 'volunteer' you always know 'Matt' comes next.
I'm with Phil! Let's just dig a hole. I ❤ you Phil
love your show. watching from the usa.... what beautiful history..
This just makes me feel better.💚
They dug on a military training range. "If it ain't raining..." 🤣
I want to start by saying thank you for all the episodes you have posted and now the request could you please do some of the special like Coventry and London thanks
this episode reminded me of an Asterix's history. Colonized people willing to look like Roman, to live the roman dream and roman way of life but they were only, as said, chavs
Ahhhh classic Time Team❤️💞❤️ Loving TT all the way in New Orleans. I’d like to buy some merch but international shipping is crazy.
Your last name made me recall a episode from Doc Martin!
You can’t BUY stuff from TT!!!’n how very Stateside
@@janel342 …it's on their website…
FINALLY they got a mosaic!
This is one of my all time favorite episodes. Poor Matt... always the one getting picked on.
Great episode!
"Rome, Rome on the range,
Where the praetors and legionnaires play;
Where slaves are not heard,
'Cause they can't speak a word,
And the rain pisses down every day..." 😝
Rome on the Range.
Where Phil and John Gater engage.
Rock on the Range is a great concert every year at Columbus Ohio
Bravo
Great episode
the post holes make me smile thinking of some angelo saxon farmer living in a hut with a mosaic floor haha
Angelo??? ANGLO
You can picture the officers and troops from the Victorian British Army somewhere like Kenya, India or Australia. They remember, vividly the shooting range back home with the bitter, freezing wind. Then, contemplating the lovely warm weather in this new land, the inevitable happens. "We claim these lands for Her Majesty!"
Sir Tony with thick gloves. it must have been really cold out there? wonder how many episodes they had where it was NOT raining, or snow or sleet and freezing cold?
'romance on the range' actually a pretty good book title
thanks this is great again🙂
Phil was so precious with geophys 😍😍
Excellent Episode
Thank you.
ありがとうございます。
I really like Phil… but when he talks with that Devon Accent I wish he’d say “Mister Frodo” just once! 😂🤣😂😎
I love time team❤❤❤
Maybe the end of the Roman Warming period helped end occupation of the site? Seems like it is not as nice weather wise now.
First aired 20th February 2011- UK
Are they still make videos?
@@dannyalex5866 Two new digs last year and maybe 3 this year. Funded by UA-cam Patreon members - the information is here:
ua-cam.com/channels/DvcavTI2xgfXZdF9MaPKIQ.html
Enjoy! 🙂
@@dannyalex5866 sort of, there is a new revival but it’s not the same as budgeting is difficult now.
Thanks!
Thank you for supporting Time Team!
Growing up in Louisiana the only thing I ever got when I dug was mud😂
Yes love this show the new TT is OK but I miss the banter everyone is too serious and lived Phil miss him
Don't like new one and don't watch it it's just not the same with these guys not being in it..
As quite often, the roman coin shown does not match up with what we were told. The one shown is an VRBS ROMA / wolf & twins type from the 330s. Coins of Theodosius (the first, most likely) are 50 years later. Very late roman coins have always tended to be rarer as they are often small, so missed, although the number of late silver roman coin hoards being found does suggest a reasonable amount of wealth and coins into the early 5th century.
So I'm supposed to believe you, an armchair "expert" over the actual real life expert who is a specialist in her field and probably hand picked by the real archaeologists to do the job of identifying the coins. GTFO
@@justinmorgan2126 actually I am President of the South Wales & Mon Numismatic Society and a member of the Royal Numismatic Society. I have collected and studied roman (and other coins) for 30 years, and helped my parents for 20 years on their roman dig, as well as dug (as a volunteer) in Israel. I can categorically state that I am respected by my local archaeologists for my numismatic knowledge. I identify finds for quite a number of local metal detecting clubs. I don't know if that counts as someone with real experience or not, but for most people that would be enough. I am actually an expert on these things.
@@rolandmumford89 I GOOGLED the South Wales & Mon Numismatic Society (founded in 1958), and it lists Roland Mumford F.R.N.S. as President. To be fair, I was thinking the same thing that Justin said, and now must admit that based on his credentials, Roland is most likely correct. But in the heat of the moment, it's understandable how something can be misidentified, especially by someone who isn't a coins expert. That's why we HAVE experts.
@@maxsdad538 one of the things to realise, is that archaeologists aren't necessarily coin experts. Just like I'm not an expert in roman pottery. It's also possible that the wrong coin graphic was matched to the description - I can belive that as well. I have watched every Timeteam (many times), read (and own) every Current Archaeology, but my passion is roman coinage.
I wish you would look over my bags and bags of roman relics what I've collected over 35 years of metal detecting all over the BRITISH ISLES they are all in the attic I've not been through some of them for years..
"Chunky Rim Sherds" must be my new band name....
Mozaic bizantin !
Cant beat a good mosaic!
So this episodes all about Rome, Rome on the the range.😊
Poor Matt. 😂
"Why don't we just dig a hole!"
Poor Matt he always gets the short end of the archeological stick when it comes to your re-enactments
Watching them scrape big holes into the mosaics always freaks me out.
There tough as he'll been down there for centuries
Do they put visible markings on the sites before they leave, to make sure they won't ever get plowed?
GPS plus its a MILATARY FIRING RANGE so belongs to the government so it will be left there without disturbance..
Brilliant to get the Army to stop firing.
My hunch is the four petaled rose is a rank and where the sideboard stood.
My Phil ❤️
New to the Time Team series, so possibly dumb question: What happens to the mosaic after they dug it up? Did someone come along and recover it for a museum? Or did they just bury it again?
They painstakingly record it and rebury it in such a manner that future archaeologists can unearth and study it. The safest way to protect it is just cover it back up and make sure nobody is allowed to dig or plow over it haphazardly. But often a local archaeological organization (university, school, civic group) will assume control over a dig and continue it for (in some cases) years.
@@maxsdad538 Thank you!
or they could dig it up and put in the BRITISH MUSEUM and put it in the ROMAN SECTION..
Wind chill of minus ten… That's nothing. And there should have been an Army Depot somewhere in the vicinity. Break out a few Arctic packs and you're all set! 😊 👍 I just love these Classic Episodes of what is arguable THE BEST High Quality Programs ever made for TV! I didn't like the last seasons with all the "pinball" sound effects and ornamental "presenters" constantly asking stupid questions, as if the audience was equally stupid, after having learnt from Time Team for years and years. No wonder Mick walked off the set.
But these episodes here with the "ole' Crew" are simply BRILLIANT! I never seem to tire from watching and re-watching these Classics!
Depends on whether it's -10f or c. BTW, Mick left the show in it's final season (20th) when Mary Jane Ocho and her "disco Time Team" screwed everything up. She actually reminds me of Her Royal Majestic Tallness Nagham Markle.
@@maxsdad538 I don't blame him! I didn't agree with his Politics, but you rarely come across more knowledgable Archaeologists than Mick! When those to Kindergarten Clowns appeared on the Scene, I started to lose interest. It is talking down the nose and all kinds of BS which taught me nothing and basically just wasted my time with the same nonsense that every other channel was showing.
I hadn't really thought about it, but you're absolutely right, Maxdad 53! She does indeed remind me of, as you so eloquently put it: "Her Royal Majestic Tallness Nagham Markle" LOL 😂 👍
Lovely, but I don't remember seeing this one before?
My favorite Mick saying was "I'm available ". I guess he was single and it was a true Freudian slip
Matt gets the short straw... again, he should write a book . In modern times , there would be a black range rover vogue parked outside .
Why did this great show ever got canceled????
To the unknowing eyes, those printouts look like QR codes. lol
I wrote a song to the music of an old song that I just heard “Born Free” from an ancient movie about lions. I call it “Ode to the Parasites: Banksters, Financiers, Fed leaders, and CCP cadres.” It is copyrighted, but these are some of its lyrics:
“Born thieves, for thieving is easy, to cheat, to lie, and to steal,
Born thieves, defrauding is fun, to lie, to cheat, and to steal,
To steal, just kill those who defy you,
Just bribe, to plunder, and rob,
No matter what crimes you commit,
You are free, with no prison walls around you,
No matter what crimes you commit,
Born thieves, your thieving is easy, you cheat, you lie, and you steal,
You creep, and slink to steal power,
Your money was free as the grass,
You are free, so your life is worth living,
Sucking the blood from your poorer brothers,
As you ruin the lives of the poor…”
To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. Think. Who, among the ultrarich, cannot ever be criticized in modern media?
Release it and you'd get all the free publicity in the world because everyone would be talking about it especially the media😂 fun seeing there faces 😅
It would be interesting to do a time team video game and with a dig I always wanted to support a dig with a time period pop up restaurant, as there is no Roman or Bronze Age restaurants
Rome and other big cities had fast food restaurants occasionally with seating. In fact many people probably got all their meals from them. Basic form a L shaped structure with holes for pots of what ever that were heated to serve food out of.
But formal sit down restaurants I'm unfamiliar although no real reason the same cities with the fast food did not have them as you have a large population with coin to spend but not rich enough for their own villa.
I can’t understand why they wouldn’t remove the two sections of mosaic, clean ‘em up, and display them in a museum! Leaving them in situ does not guarantee their preservation, rather leaving them to moulder away in the ground. The rose design in particular should be seen by the public. These mosaics are so tasteful, unlike some of the lurid pagan designs of some elite dwellings. I’d like to see them replicated in modern forms, either porcelain or even sheet vinyl. I’d buy them!
Wasn't Matt a servant/slave in a previous episode dealing with an abbey? Read your next contract VERY carefully!! 😉😂😂👵🇺🇸
john:could be a patio lol
The slave deal was a bit hokey.
My eldest daughter Amber and her Dad are watching the Time Team from all the way down under from Mount Gambier in the State Of South Australian.🥇🇦🇺🦘⚜️👑⚜️🏴🇬🇧
Do you write same comment on every TT VIDEOS???
Stema vestică dela dreapta la stânga India si invers Ger !
Somehow, I knew it would be Matt.
The new Time Team series is just not the same without “Baldrick” & Phil.
It won't be those guys made time team
Agreed
😭
Ahhh. I call him Bauldrick too 💙
Phil and Mick were the wonderful core, Tony Robinson was and in my mind will forever be an A******e.