PHIL!!! Man it's always great to see him still in the field all these yrs later. The man is a national treasure.

3:59 .. WOO! It’s Phil!! Gonna be a good segment for sure!! .. love that man!! His interviews on YT are so much fun to watch.. he is an absolute GEM!

Coming from the background of being an ex archaeologist and having worked in a number of museums, it’s still upsets me to hear somebody say in her first three minutes that she’s about to see something that so FEW ever get to see. That’s what bothers me about museums; after they study it, unless it’s on display, it goes into a drawer somewhere. It would be nice if there was a way tofund a way to show all things found and have it on display at all times for everyone to see.

3:58 It’s a Phil Harding sighting!!! 🤩 Fabulous episode as always; but the ones with our illustrious flint-knapper extraordinaire are always that little bit more special. His enthusiasm is, to borrow his own words, “absolutely gorgeous” ❤

Soooo great to see Phil Harding still with trowel in hand and still enthusiastic about stone tools.

Prof Alice Roberts ....and Phil Harding (Time Team stalwart) - what a show!!

Good to see Phil doing so well in his environment! I've missed him since his departure from Time Team, and always look forward to catching a glimpse of his enthusiasm.

I don't find the new Time Team episodes as engaging as the original. However, this series, Digging for Britain, is so different in many ways that I think it surpasses and surprises other contemporary series and even all others before. Prof Alice Roberts is the perfect front for the series, so much so that she is, to my mind, the equivalent of being the David Attenborough of archaeology. Then, when you add Phil Harding to an episode, you know you will end up with a classic. What a combo they are. I am still smiling on hearing Phils laugh and witnessing his enthusiasm for the subject once again.

So very happy to see Phil! I am even more happy to see him in charge of this important site. His intelligent analysis of what he sees in the ground is always amazing. I appreciate not only his enthusiasm, but his reliability. Thanks for this glimpse of his site.

Yay! A Phil Harding sighting! 😊

When Alice said Wessex archeology, i was hoping Phil Harding would make an appearance. Yay

The reason so many soldiers were slaughtered in the first word war was down to their leadership, not their training.

Prof Alice is a real bonus treasure. So well spoken and professional. Always in my watch list.

Any day with Phil is a good day in archeology

As a retired U.S. Marine who served 26 months in combat in Vietnam I find it interesting that we were still digging emplacements with fire steps and laying out our machine gun positions much like these shown here. As an aside my grandfather served with the U.S. Army artillery in France during WW-1. Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam i965-66, 1970-71 0331,Infntry machine guns

Super cool to see Phil Harding on this program!!

I'd like to work with Phil on a Clovis site over here across the pond. We have very cool lithic sites over here. His enthusiasm is contagious, sometimes us archaeologists can get jaded.

I love this real archaeology. No three day limit. No tiny trenches. Just keep digging until you have what you came for. Whether that takes days, months, or years😊

Another fantastic episode. Loved the last part highlighting that babies have been loved and lost for all humanity.

Love seeing Phil again!!

This is absolutely fascinating. I would give anything to get to it with a shovel and spade myself. Phil Harding is a absolute legend.

Phil Harding a Good Bloke but let's not Forget my mate MIck Ashley a real Gem Thx lads 👍🇬🇧

Made me think of my own maternal Grandmother dead and buried in 1925 with her infant daughter in her arms.

Oh Wow!! the elusive Phil Harding on the digs! love this Guy and his enthusiasm for History and archeology!

As an American I’m more entertained by British History than the US. Because there is more there. And Prof Alice Roberts is beautiful and I love her accent.

Phil Harding is on the show .. and everyone is RIGHTFULLY flipping out :))

Nice to see Phil Harding again!

Phil is a legend!!

Phil Harding captures my interest for watching this video.

I *LOVE* Phil! Great to see him on this & not looking that much older than on TT!

Hello Phil !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a fab hoard they found on Jersey, truly impressive in its magnitude

My Grandfather trained on the Salisbury Plain during WW1. He enlisted at 14 years old, fudging his age. He served for England then moved to Australia where he served in the Australian infantry in WW2.

When Phil Harding is speaking in vowels only... he's got a good find. Aaaaa, Ooo, Uuuuu.... :)

0:38 Phil!! holy crap I remember him from watching time team with my dad as a kid

Always love to see Phil. This was very interesting.

That coin hoard seems to look like a sack shape, fascinating.

This is my first time watching. I think this may become one of my favorite channels to watch. 😊

What a lovely, great show! Thank you Alice, Phil and all the archeologists who work so hard to bring us informative stuff like this! Keep digging!!!❤

thank you for another fascinating video, always good seeing Phil

Big Phill in the house 🏠

Alice is fantastically talented ❤

I hope this never stops.

Absolutely brilliant.!! Thank you 👍

More Phil please!

Thanks once again for a fantastic documentary.

Maybe those large stones were placed on the baby's burial to perhaps prevent animals from digging up the burials.

I'd love to hear more updates on the excavations at Tintagel!

Phil!

What a bloody brilliant show! And who donInsee but Phil Harding! WOW!! He always makes everything better. Oh, how I long for the days of the OG Time Team. I still watch it regularly. Just cant get behind the newer TT although Ive tried. Tony is a banger presenter

Wonderful episode !

Great documentary Thankyou 😊

You are Doing a Great Job

Having dug minor entrenchments in training during my Army service, it's a staggering feat to replicate acres of "enemy" trenches and fighting positions. There had to be a double purpose for both assault preparations and their own defensive works. All that chalk must have been a real treat to dig with hand tools. They didn't likely have a fleet of JCB backhoes to do the hard work. Motivating men to work this hard in a peaceful field must have taken some skilled leadership. In France you would have had plenty of incentive to dig, with shells falling around you.

My own stamping ground. There is so much archaeology here it has to be a great place for students

"Not on the average take out menu "..... Love Phil Harding!!

“Sir?” “Yes ,Dave ,ya lil devil?” “You’re holding it backwards. The decoration is on the other side.”

9.40 Phil has special ceremonial balls it seems.....🤣

I am wondering if the young children's burials were so significant because of their vulnerability and loss to the community they were born into. That they were vital to their survival so each loss could be very devastating. I know that in jewish tradition that a stone put on the grave is often a sign of rememberance to those who have died. Christianity as whole was born from Judaism and we have some of remanents in christianity from Judaism. Just a thought on my part.

Goosebumps!

Thank you so much dearst Alice , afher a day hard work I am verry please to see your videos

Gracias

ENJOY YOUR SHOW 👍

Seriously, the idea that people 1500 years ago didn't love their children is bizarre...

The axe heads are actually golf club heads and the chalk balls are the golf balls. Stonehenge is actually a large putt-putt course. I could be wrong of course but that is archeology.

Brilliant and interesting,

On the henge with Phil maybe the stone balls were used in a leather sling for hunting

All excavations very cool. Thanks for putting this together. Tip. Whoever was the camera person for the Cave excavation site, where burials were inside and outside the cave during various time periods, must stop with the camera spinning, constant focus changes in slow motion, and other odd camera movements that cause vertigo, dizziness, and inability to keep watching. Steady camera and rapid focus . Smooth and steady.

wow very very interesting thanks more please

Placing a bone of your ancestor in the grave of the recently deceased shows the desire to maintain connection with family heritage.

The problem with WW1was not the training it was walking slowly across no mans land during a hail of bullets and artillery shells

We have been told by neighbors about or grandparents age that where I live was once the site of the old Indian encampment. When excavating a waterline approximately 175 foot long by hand we came across a circular spot of charcoal about 4 foot wide at about 2-5 in depth. We've discovered these same circular deposits of charcoal at other locations at about this same depth. We believe these are the old Indian campfires. We would like to have this charcoal carbon dated. Also one of the old fields here has been full of Indian arrowheads and flint fragments . In fact there is a large arrowhead collection of them about 2'/2'.

Keep digging' guys! It's all down there!

Learning a great deal about the "Raimans".

54:48 thank goodness these babies and mothers were found. Saving them from going into the ocean. That way they can be heard about their story of how they lived and died. 😢it is so sad though.

Im in love with your channel.

😊the legend Phil he was Time Team Alice just as brilliant as ever

About WW1 surely the point was that the leadership of the army were using out dated methods of sending men over the top, running towards the enemy trenches which predated the advent of machine guns. The days of bombardment for a number of days before the advance had little or no effect on the dug in Germans. No amount of training could equip men to face such a barrage of fire which just mowed them down in vast numbers. Such a pointless waste of human life. My grandfather was a dispatch motor bike rider and mechanic in France during WW1. He died of wounds 12 years after returning home to Australia. My mother was 10. Her last remaining memories when she died at 92 in 2012 with dementia, were mainly of the father she lost.

That Thornbury Horde is amazing. Geez that must have been a bank that deposited all that money. Just think of all the things that much money could of brought back then. Those gold necklaces that looked like big door knockers, i wonder how they got those on, his explaination of twisting them open didn't seem likely since they looked solid. Are there any paintings that show someone with this type of necklace? Good to see Phil.

This is like TV. I want lectures because I want to learn.

just fell over board in love the first time alice roberts appeared on what was at the time my favourite tv program. and many yrs later nothing has changed, the most good looking girl and women alice roberts. a true diamond.

Those axes look unused. The ridge flakes are still shiny. WOW. Ceremonial use?

The white quartz pebbles likely date that cemetery to the early Christian period. The purpose of the pebbles is known to the Orthodox Church. The pebbles were used by very early Christians to sing the Psalms. Pebbles were later replaced by prayer ropes, and after the Great Schism, Roman Catholics adopted the rosary. There would usually be 150 pebbles, but more or less, depending on how many prayer songs a worshipper could sing. I don't know if the pebbles were used by practicing Jews before the time of Christ, but I think it's very likely. If the cemetery is really before Christ, then it's probably a Jewish coastal trading outpost, or perhaps native Britons who practiced Judaism. Either way, it's not a pagan practice. It's Judeo-Christian. Being an Orthodox Christian, I'm always surprised at the knowledge that has been lost in secular academia's rebellion against God. They claim to be experts in their field, but the average Orthodox priest knows more about the past than any archeologist. It only goes to show, there's no such thing as an expert in secular archeology. Whoever buried that child put the pebbles there to sit and sing more than a hundred Psalms in prayer for the baby's soul. So sad. I hope they didn't remove the bones for their macabre, Neo-gnostic, death cult fascination.

Someone explain to me why only "bits" of pottery and other artifacts are found. What has happened to the rest of the item?? I would 5hink that if someone was living on this site a complete pot, plate or urn would remain.

I have eatched enough Time Teams to recognize the guy with the glass at Tintagle and the guy who has done a few Project Nightingale Richard Osgood just frim the intro bit.

Goodol Phil 😊❤

I believe they're storage Pits. Summer homes , winter homes , hunting camps. People have always done it. It's easier to leave it than carry it

"The coins are getting debased." Sounds like the Federal Reserve here in the US.

It's like an 18" Stone Henge right next door to the original. Really makes you wonder who the Druids were, and what they were doing.

50:13 What if that site was bandits or pirates who raided the coast and captured ships or raided towns and that became their stronghold for a go amount of time. Looks pretty rough, but sturdy for bad weather.

What a marvellous show. You can tell it'll be good if Alice Roberts is in it. 😊

i got a bit of a giggle with the military section because she kept saying "we never would have known they trained" like wow ok they did that poorly I didnt think so

Phil! Great to see you! But lose the comb-over, bro!

Tintagel: Wasn't that the top of a tin mine? All kinds of "shafts" underneath?

Have these digs been published?

I took latin as a language in highschool but my teacher kept getting sick from seizures so i barely learned anything. Would love to be an archeologist, but I would rather learn on the field then in a classroom. I'm a hands on visual learner and I retain the information better. I find these things very intriguing and fascinating, and exciting. Also took biology and anatomy and physiology in highschool.

I think Phil Harding was holding up a sling shot, not a religious item. Shot for slings were made of lead, stone, and clay in ancient times. Chalk would do plenty of damage, and quick to produce. I'm surprised he didn't know it right away.

Those chalk balls are for sling shots ,

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Went to the WW1 battle fields it was a disaster sending so many into machine gun fire a total mess they never stood a chance.

Phil!!!