bucketkev this clearly isn’t Micks medium, he’s no presenter, he’s an archaeologist! But, it’s a pleasure to see the dear man. I would love to see more about the Roman phase in Lowham! Thank you for the upload.
Watching this from Los Angeles makes me want to come home!...i was lucky to see time team from the first series but i never saw these so i'm really happy to see this, all our best and thanks for sharing, we All miss Mick, Robin and the the crew... 👏🏻🌟🌿🇬🇧
This is a fantastic local history document. Thank you so very much for sharing this so we can see a forerunner of Time Team and learn a brilliant story. Hearing from the local ppl, the family etc, adds enormously :)
What a wonderful video. Mick Aston was a wonderful person to listen to. He had a calmness about him, amongst the chaos of Time Team, which was lost when he passed away. Thank you for posting this. Such a shame there are no more available. I will go back to my Time Team binge watching now 😊😊
What a treasure that VHS copy has become, isn't it? Mick Aston worked his way through this investigation, enjoying his tea, while being offered all kinds of objects from the area he was studying in his unique way, with always an aureole around his head. May Mick Aston rest in peace and hopefully, he was allowed to keep that aureole 😉
Thank you for this! I wasn't aware of Time Team till I saw it on UA-cam a few years ago, and only just recently discovered that Mick predated that will his own series. 💗💗💗
Wow - that farm, with its wealth in layers of history was worthy of a whole series! It certainly left me wanting more. Nevertheless, this was a lovely piece of film, complete with a nice cup of tea. I loved it.
Nice, RIP Mick. So this was done in 1997 according to the date in credits. According to IMDB 6 episodes were done - New Towns of the Middle Ages (1997) - The Avebury Landscape (1997) - Deserted Villages (1997) - The Church in the Field (1997) - The Severn Valley (1997) - In Search of Cheddar Man (1997)
LOL Mick showed up to Time Team in a crazy sweater to tweak producers who had complained about his dull outfits, but they loved it, so crazy sweaters became his trademark.
I have really enjoyed this video, Mick Aston seemed such a lovely knowledgeable person. I was so very sad when I read of his passing. Thank you for sharing
Mick, even though he was an atheist, appreciated church and abbey architecture. To him the architecture spoke volumes about the people that worshiped at these places, and the builders that designed and built those marvelous structures. He was the archaeologist of all archaeologists.
I know we all miss Mick. He was such a mainstay in archaeology. He wanted people to understand that we are all one family, no matter what we choose to follow. I believe that is what his jumper represented. The rainbow representing all races combined, making a point that together ,look what we can accomplish. Even tho a rainbow has different colors, together it is spectacular. So are we.
I live in Maine called the pine tree state and the white pine cone is the state flower. My God I have never seen such a giant pine cone in my life! My parents had pine trees planted all around their property and they had big cones but not cones on steroids! :-)
seriously? It didn't look out of the ordinary to me. We have cones down here on the Gulf Coast that are just as large. I keep a few that the squirrels knock down and put them up in the wood shed in a milk crate to dry out and use them to tinder fires.
I am from Illinois and I love Time Team and the specials. Farmer's in the U.S. would not use a license plate on their tractors. I drove several and did not see a single license plate.
Its not difficult to see how this evolved into Time Team.Mick Astons enthusiasm and personality here in pure form,add Phil,Tony,Stuart etc watch the alchemy!
Wow, this is much more to my taste than Time Team, which I quite like. Professor Aston is a much more interesting man to listen to than Tony Robinson. My inner nerd is content to hear a professional relate a story.
This series was filmed in '97. Three years AFTER Time Team started in '94. You can also tell from the whiteness of Mick's hair. It was not as white as this in the early TT episodes. 🤣🤣🤣
i've been lied to! I read that mick didn't start wearing the gaudy colors until after the pilot of Time Team, but here he is two years before! They must have meant the pilot for this show, not the other.
I'm sure he wouldn't have accepted it if he had. He was very anti-establishment, bit of an Anarchist........ that's why we love him. Fantastic, lovely, great man.
That's nice to know houselab, I know he left Time Team under a bit of a cloud, I'll have to read that.......when I've read the ten other books I've started and not finished yet! Thanks.
I am familiar with coal stoves from my own family. But I was confused by the hinged covers on the stove when the tea was poured. Can someone explain what this is? Is this uniquely British?
That is called an aga (Swedish oven). They usually run on gas (propane) rather than wood or coal and are used for heating the hot water for the house as well as cooking so they are always on. The hot plate covers are there to conserve the heat rather than waste it by losing it to the atmosphere of the house, and to stop people from accidentally touching them as well. :-)
Such a shame that Mick didn't get to see out 20yrs in Time Team. Feeling obliged to leave after the programme makers chased viewer ratings by bringing in some "Eye Candy". Something which backfired on them as nobody liked her. Killing Time Team off.
is there any evidence that fingerprints are genetically linked so that let's say if someone's AY promo R1a or whatever does that give you a certain type of fingerprint That would be interesting to see if there's any correlation between fingerprints and genetic identity based on why or X chromosomes. and if that's the case it may help determine gender by seeing a fingerprint. possibly I don't know if there's ever been any studies on that.
The rule that always works in all relationships throughout the ages. In this short video we consider a story that happened in a very interesting time - in times of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I, whose exceptional reign has been called The Golden Age of England: ua-cam.com/video/VgD-o6GMv90/v-deo.html
This is my first time seeing Mick's Time Traveler series. I read he started this series because he was frustrated with the way Time Team was presented by Tony and the producers. I now see the way Mick wanted archeology presented, serious knowledge and facts! As much as I love Time Team it's clear to see it was getting a little off course with the archeology and more on course with who was the center of attention to get viewers tuning in. There were people there that clearly didn't belong there. I can see why Mick quit Time Team at the end because, by that time, it was taken over and controlled by children playing silly games, and pushing the girl power movement, while losing focus of the archeology.
YES, he became fed up when TIME TEAM used its limited budget to hire more eye candy "presenters" instead of more professional archeologists. Too much show biz , not enough science. Recall Mick never played "dress up" in any of TIME TEAM'S "historical" skits . Mick was old school cool....
It really is a pleasure not to have Tony and his foolishness. He was so rude to John. Thank you for sharing this. How fortunate that family had the sense not to go charging in and plowing up the Roman villa. The mosaic is preserved for all to see.
He wasn't more frustrated with the way Time Team was presented by Tony and the producers that he worked 13 years with TT after this. The last seasons of TT was not as good, but up until Mick, Stewart, Helen, and Victor left it's great to watch.
@@Frank-mm2yp You are refering to Mary-Ann, who actually is a professional archeologist. Don't take it out on her, the production/casting/agent most likely didn't fully explain what her job would be.
Mick hasn't left us as long as we have programs like this.
Sorry, this is the only episode I have. It was filmed at my family's farm so we had an old VHS copy I was able to upload.
bucketkev
Shot for sharing. Mick’s very own Time Team, complete with rainbow sweater and tea. What a legend!
bucketkev this clearly isn’t Micks medium, he’s no presenter, he’s an archaeologist! But, it’s a pleasure to see the dear man. I would love to see more about the Roman phase in Lowham! Thank you for the upload.
That was a real treat to watch. Thanks for sharing it.
Watching this from Los Angeles makes me want to come home!...i was lucky to see time team from the first series but i never saw these so i'm really happy to see this, all our best and thanks for sharing, we All miss Mick, Robin and the the crew... 👏🏻🌟🌿🇬🇧
This is a fantastic local history document. Thank you so very much for sharing this so we can see a forerunner of Time Team and learn a brilliant story. Hearing from the local ppl, the family etc, adds enormously :)
The world is a sadder place with out Mick.
I'm writing this on the seventh anniversary of his passing. I still miss him terribly.
Mick; Phil and Tony where the heart of Time team. I loved the bantered between the three. RIP Mick.
What a wonderful video. Mick Aston was a wonderful person to listen to. He had a calmness about him, amongst the chaos of Time Team, which was lost when he passed away. Thank you for posting this. Such a shame there are no more available. I will go back to my Time Team binge watching now 😊😊
What a treasure that VHS copy has become, isn't it? Mick Aston worked his way through this investigation, enjoying his tea, while being offered all kinds of objects from the area he was studying in his unique way, with always an aureole around his head. May Mick Aston rest in peace and hopefully, he was allowed to keep that aureole 😉
It breaks my heart Mick has left us, he's just a treasure.
@@AlwaysPossible100 certainly a life well lived
I am from Illinois and will miss him greatly.
When did he pass away?
@@susanlancaster6786, 24 June 2013. :-(
Mick was one of a kind. I miss his wit, wisdom, incredible knowledge and rainbow jumpers.
Thank you for taking the time to upload. It's great to watch someone as passionate with his work as Professor Mick.
I only discovered Time Team a few weeks ago and was instantly drawn to Mick. I was so sad to learn that he had passed away 10 years ago.
Such a wonderful character, miss him and his delightful attitude.
Thank you for this! I wasn't aware of Time Team till I saw it on UA-cam a few years ago, and only just recently discovered that Mick predated that will his own series. 💗💗💗
Mick came back to High Ham in 2011 with Time Team. Season 18 Episode 3
This was so much fun. I could watch again
All the vanished, and vanishing worlds! How quickly we and our times will become just a bump in a damp field. Thank you for the video.
Yeah for sure in the scheme of things we don’t add up to much
I remember Mick saying once that in 1000 years we'll be the archaeology and someone will be digging us up.
RIP Mick Aston
Mick Aston Sadly missed. thank you mick for time team and this program
I just discovered Time Team and Mick's work during COVID and really glad you posted this episode!
Rip mick we arm chair archeology students will miss you .Time team isnt the same without you
Dear old Prof. Mick showed up at the village in his old jumper.
leslie easton it really is the worst sweater! Lol, but I love it and him...
C4 told him to make Time Team more 'colourful' at the beginning and so he did! There was the rainbow Beanie as well
Actually was only 51 here !
Is see Mick I click. Respect from 🇦🇺
RIP Mick the world needs more people like you!!!
Wow - that farm, with its wealth in layers of history was worthy of a whole series! It certainly left me wanting more. Nevertheless, this was a lovely piece of film, complete with a nice cup of tea. I loved it.
Sounds quite nice, Robyn.
Nice, RIP Mick. So this was done in 1997 according to the date in credits. According to IMDB 6 episodes were done
- New Towns of the Middle Ages (1997)
- The Avebury Landscape (1997)
- Deserted Villages (1997)
- The Church in the Field (1997)
- The Severn Valley (1997)
- In Search of Cheddar Man (1997)
ahh Mick, you absolute mad lad and glorious bastard. Miss you buddy
Brilliant - Bert Bown was my Grandad's cousin. Molly Cullen still around and the steam fair still happens. Great piece of TV, thanks for uploading.
This was so wonderful! Thank you so much for posting !
Thanks so much for posting.
A Gentleman and a Scholar in the truest sense of the words. Head held high whilst others hang theirs in shame.
This is awesome. You can see the beginnings of Time Team. More Mick, please!
LOL Mick showed up to Time Team in a crazy sweater to tweak producers who had complained about his dull outfits, but they loved it, so crazy sweaters became his trademark.
what a fabulous look back with real people allowed on, that would be Mick's idea I would think.
It just makes me so secure in this world of madness 🇬🇧
Thankyou so much for uploading this, so good to see Prof Mick Aston again, miss him, he had a charm and was a great presenter RIP mate
Great program, thank you to bucketkev for uploading. Great to see Mick presenting, he was a fascinating person.
I have really enjoyed this video, Mick Aston seemed such a lovely knowledgeable person. I was so very sad when I read of his passing. Thank you for sharing
We always sing that same song at my church here in America so I was right at home when I moved to the UK for more than 10 years! :-)
It is almost a valedictory for a splendid man. RIP
Mick, even though he was an atheist, appreciated church and abbey architecture. To him the architecture spoke volumes about the people that worshiped at these places, and the builders that designed and built those marvelous structures. He was the archaeologist of all archaeologists.
Simply fascinating, uncovering so many amazing stories in the one location.
A truly lovely production.
In this would of madness this is sanctuary.
This is brilliant. Been looking for these for years. Have you any more episodes from the series? Many thanks for uploading this.
Prof Mick a legend
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Such a wise man
Thank you for the upload ! You can watch the other episodes online they are all fascinating to watch.
He had that jumper for years
Pure gold, thanks for sharing this.
Hooray for VHS
❤ thanks for posting
The place has change a lot, since I live in Langport. Very interesting about Low Ham
Fascinating and a delight.
A wonderful story, I did like Mike Aston so much more than Tony Robinson. A most interesting historical investigation. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Aston was an archeologist and a teacher. Robinson is an actor/comedian. Both made TIMETEAM great TV in their own:"unique" ways.
You missed out on part of the charm of the program , sad.
@@larryzigler6812 Sad is you, the opinionated troll.
@@RedcoatsReturn Name calling helps explain your lack of depth. Thanks !!!
Very interesting. Live Mick’s explanation of each area of the show. He certainly is missed
I didn't know that there was a show with Mich Aston, only seem him on Time Team. Oh all the goodness I can explore now.
There are also 4 videos called Time Signs that predate Time Team. A much younger Mick and Phil are in them.
Mick was an interesting dude.
Thanks alot for uploading this!
I know we all miss Mick. He was such a mainstay in archaeology. He wanted people to understand that we are all one family, no matter what we choose to follow. I believe that is what his jumper represented. The rainbow representing all races combined, making a point that together ,look what we can accomplish. Even tho a rainbow has different colors, together it is spectacular. So are we.
Oh god and they let women vote ffs
@@si4632 Who?
His mum knitted the striped jumpers just for tv. Normally he wore ordinary plain jumpers. You are reading too much into it.
I live in Maine called the pine tree state and the white pine cone is the state flower. My God I have never seen such a giant pine cone in my life! My parents had pine trees planted all around their property and they had big cones but not cones on steroids! :-)
seriously? It didn't look out of the ordinary to me. We have cones down here on the Gulf Coast that are just as large. I keep a few that the squirrels knock down and put them up in the wood shed in a milk crate to dry out and use them to tinder fires.
I am from Illinois and I love Time Team and the specials. Farmer's in the U.S. would not use a license plate on their tractors. I drove several and did not see a single license plate.
In GB all vehicles that use public roads have to be registered with Number plates and pay tax
Its not difficult to see how this evolved into Time Team.Mick Astons enthusiasm and personality here in pure form,add Phil,Tony,Stuart etc watch the alchemy!
Hi there thanks for posting this video. This is a fantastic series, do you have any more episodes. It would be great to see them. John
Wow, this is much more to my taste than Time Team, which I quite like. Professor Aston is a much more interesting man to listen to than Tony Robinson.
My inner nerd is content to hear a professional relate a story.
This series was filmed in '97. Three years AFTER Time Team started in '94. You can also tell from the whiteness of Mick's hair. It was not as white as this in the early TT episodes. 🤣🤣🤣
Thankyou
RIP Mick.
An archaeological version on Fred dibnah.
i've been lied to! I read that mick didn't start wearing the gaudy colors until after the pilot of Time Team, but here he is two years before! They must have meant the pilot for this show, not the other.
The late, great Mick doing what he loved. Could Low Ham be a site for the new look Time Team? Would also be a tribute to Mick.
Looks like Mick is wearing the same jumper as he does in Time Team 20 or so years later.
Do you have any more of these? I've always loved them and they are rare as hens teeth.
the tea first!
Miss you Mick . I guess you’ll know all the answers now.
like watching the professor open presents for us
Time team is still good but just not the same. RIP Mick.
I get that Mick wasn't a church going type but liked churches, I could be described as Pagan but I like having a look around churches.
NOW!!! That’s entertainment. Just magic . RIEP Mick .
Does anyone know where to find the rest of the series? Just curious to see the rest of this little gem
I just found about this series today..Its great to see Mick in his own show
mick aston should have gotten the knighthood
I'm sure he wouldn't have accepted it if he had. He was very anti-establishment, bit of an Anarchist........ that's why we love him. Fantastic, lovely, great man.
Min 1066 Tony Robinson wrote quite lovingly about Mick's likely grumbling disapproval in the knighthood segment of his recent autobiography.
🤓
That's nice to know houselab, I know he left Time Team under a bit of a cloud, I'll have to read that.......when I've read the ten other books I've started and not finished yet! Thanks.
Min 1066 That’s very true.
@@Min-xm8tp He objected to time team being 'tarted up', with presenters replacing archeologists! I did ,too!
Mick's hit the lottery pottery!
How old is this programme?Going from the music and the old chap at the start saying he started working in 1936 it must be nineties.
Aired in 1997.
Best member of Time Team
Is that necessary
Pine cones of that size is usual in south west France.
I am familiar with coal stoves from my own family. But I was confused by the hinged covers on the stove when the tea was poured. Can someone explain what this is? Is this uniquely British?
That is called an aga (Swedish oven). They usually run on gas (propane) rather than wood or coal and are used for heating the hot water for the house as well as cooking so they are always on. The hot plate covers are there to conserve the heat rather than waste it by losing it to the atmosphere of the house, and to stop people from accidentally touching them as well. :-)
Has anyone got the rest of the series???
We will meet again! Love Ukulele HollyBloe USA
Troy is in Turkey near the Aegean Sea.
Such a shame that Mick didn't get to see out 20yrs in Time Team. Feeling obliged to leave
after the programme makers chased viewer ratings by bringing in some "Eye Candy".
Something which backfired on them as nobody liked her. Killing Time Team off.
is there any evidence that fingerprints are genetically linked so that let's say if someone's AY promo R1a or whatever does that give you a certain type of fingerprint That would be interesting to see if there's any correlation between fingerprints and genetic identity based on why or X chromosomes. and if that's the case it may help determine gender by seeing a fingerprint. possibly I don't know if there's ever been any studies on that.
The rule that always works in all relationships throughout the ages. In this short video we consider a story that happened in a very interesting time - in times of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I, whose exceptional reign has been called The Golden Age of England: ua-cam.com/video/VgD-o6GMv90/v-deo.html
This is my first time seeing Mick's Time Traveler series. I read he started this series because he was frustrated with the way Time Team was presented by Tony and the producers. I now see the way Mick wanted archeology presented, serious knowledge and facts! As much as I love Time Team it's clear to see it was getting a little off course with the archeology and more on course with who was the center of attention to get viewers tuning in. There were people there that clearly didn't belong there. I can see why Mick quit Time Team at the end because, by that time, it was taken over and controlled by children playing silly games, and pushing the girl power movement, while losing focus of the archeology.
YES, he became fed up when TIME TEAM used its limited budget to hire more eye candy "presenters" instead of more professional archeologists. Too much show biz , not enough science. Recall Mick never played "dress up" in any of TIME TEAM'S "historical" skits . Mick was old school cool....
It really is a pleasure not to have Tony and his foolishness. He was so rude to John. Thank you for sharing this. How fortunate that family had the sense not to go charging in and plowing up the Roman villa. The mosaic is preserved for all to see.
He wasn't more frustrated with the way Time Team was presented by Tony and the producers that he worked 13 years with TT after this. The last seasons of TT was not as good, but up until Mick, Stewart, Helen, and Victor left it's great to watch.
@@sheilaghbrosky Tony was supposed to represent us, the common people, in the way he ask questions. He did that very well for a majority of time.
@@Frank-mm2yp You are refering to Mary-Ann, who actually is a professional archeologist. Don't take it out on her, the production/casting/agent most likely didn't fully explain what her job would be.
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T.ROBINSON TURNED ON HIS FRIEND MIKE TO SAVE HIS OWN JOB - ROBINSON IS A TRAITOR !!!!!!
Get a grip on yourself.
😂😂😂
Wow
Imagine being a weirdy beardy history man
I wonder what his sex life looks like
Are you a pervert?