Please, don't ever stop making these episodes...thank you Time Team for helping me shut off the noise of my day whilst taking me to a place of wonder and exploration.

I’ve watched so many of these, the cookies on my computer turned into biscuits.

If the Patreons can bring this show back, I really hope they'll use all those digital models and make a VR version where you can walk around the dig site. That would be amazing. Make it interactive, where you can "find" all the finds from the episode in their original locations. That would be the greatest history lesson in the world!

I don't know who I am, I don’t know why I'm here, All I know is that I must watch every Time Team episode ever made.

Phill Harding is always something terrific and endurably exciting.

Please come back Time Team! A talented team - educational, entertaining. That's a rare find on its own!

I have watched time team on TV and i watch it on youtube too. I never get tired of watching it. Through the years i have watched the seasons several times. I love the team!

It is always amazing to me how much the time team can discover with digging trenches in three days! A lot of talented people here!

Time Team drinking game.... Tony- "Find out tomorrow" / "Giofizz Results" Mick- "Temple/Monastery" / "A series of small trenches" Phil- *Flint excitement / *Randomly mocking Tony Francis- "Ritual burning" / *Says it's one thing for it to be something else. Stewart- "Well, I don't think so." John- "A series of anomalies" ** This is just a throw together.. If the regs want to add or change. Post and I'll edit it for Sunday.. Did you get your 2 bottles Ian ??? lolol

Emma Tatlow was fantastic in this! I love her enthusiasm for dirt. :)

I found this site as challenging as the archaeologists apparently do. If it was a round house enclosure, who exactly encouraged so many people to build it? I remain unconvinced that the history of this site has yet been 'discovered', but is that not the wonderful thing about this series? - It shows the issues in revealing our past. Wonderful!

I'm quite perplexed as I just recently found the show Time Team thinking it was not that old of a show. Some of the cast I've developed a almost heroic and intricate weaving in as a constant personality of the show and find they have passed on (Mick Aston). I do love Tony as kind of the leader of the show and Phil is the one personality I've grown to love most and can relate to. Living in the US and thanks to KZfaq I am bing watching every episode that pops as if it's a new show daily. I'm an American fan of Time Team for life. Thanks all for the show.

Phil with his hat and Mick in his sweater 😁

Having just dug a 3" by 2" cairn for my 16 year old cat. Lined it and covered it with burn stones. I have a great more respect for the original builders and those poor diggers having to move so much stone about.

I love the elderly gentleman. I wished I had a teacher like him. When ever he interviews one girl or an other he asks all these enlightening questions that are a wonderful tool he uses. Only a real expert can convey his ideas as he can very deep questions arise.

I think I might know what this is all about. I'm From The Netherlands and i recognise this as an early example of things we have and have found in the Netherlands during the revolt agains the Spanish oppression. We call it a "Schans"(gutteral pronounciation). It was used as a refuge for people who were out in the fields or traveling, on the roads ,and things like that. Knowing there were 'troubles' in the area but did not have the time to get at a real fortification. So they'd flee to a schans. And as of the looks of this one you found it must be old. And that would be the best explaination for the reasons you did not find any datable evindence because the people were on the run/move. And they would not have many possions on them. And if they would, It would be the things they needed beeing on the move. Like sheepherders. Thats why the wall is that thick. The rule of thumb was, that you wouldn't attack the schans and would only approach it when in need. The people sheltered-up there would trade something of food and things like that, to satisfy the 'passer-by'. And sometimes this schans woulde be attacked if the refugees could not give something. Thats why its considdreble thick walls but not that high. And thats why its easy acces because its for the herders and people that had not enough time to reach a settlement or fortifications. There is much more about the uses we had them for but in the UK it must have gotten out of fashion quick. because in The Netherlands they became pretty elaborate. And were build like a miniature star-fortifications sometimes. Just a thought.....? Excuse my bad English...--------------------------------------------------------------- Update: A Google link in Dutch but with pictures for example: Boerenschans (Farmers fortifiacation). Schans came from the old Dutch: Verschansen. To fortify/To hide. www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALeKk00NbZm9FgrhUkVBJcUbByD0TdXKvg:1612745279283&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=boerenschans&client=firefox-b-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp_O-riNnuAhURP-wKHeqXDl4QjJkEegQIAxAB

Really glad you’re uploading these later eps! Thank you!!

Years ago I visited relatives in Sweden and saw my grandmother's childhood home. Around it on at least two sides is a stone wall that's 2 meters in some places, , and 1-2 meters wide. I was told that all the stones were taken out of the ground to allow farming. I don't know how old the wall is, but my grandmother was born in 1886. It looked like a huge effort, but one that a small team of men could have done over a short period of time. This wall isn't THAT much bigger.

My mother was born in Darlington County Durham and I love watching time team. It gives me an idea of the county that my mum lived and grew up in.

This is one of my favourite episodes. What an enigma!

To me I have a hard time to think if this was a farmstead, the amount of stones to make an enclosure would have taken years and years for it to finished ! I can’t even envision the small number of individuals even doing this let alone the Time Team having to dig and scrape to expose what might be there! Amazing!

Parts of my father's family have lived in the USA since the mid-1600's, but their roots trace back to Hamsterley, County Durham. How fun it has been to get a glimpse of where his people come from.

" Victor " and his art work will be missed ! I often wish that his art was available to purchase.

Great to have something to look forward to, T.T have saved my sanity many a time.

You gotta love Emma the soil munching brummie, it’s always fun when she makes an appearance.

huh, earlier on I had thought 'enclosures' for cattle/etc. A time machine would come in so handy right now :-) I hope to see more and more as i wish I was capable of digging with them. I didn't know there were so many specialized experts in this or that.We are all learning so much aren't we? Brilliant!

I just love this stuff. Thank you Time Team for all your very hard work. I always wanted to do this kind of work for long time.

I would love to have had a class by Mick. What a treasure

Great to have a dig close to home. TT have been everywhere man😀

Please bring time team back on out tv screens a very important tv show with a huge following.

Would have joined for the chat but had to put my eldest to bed! I remember the farmers collie becoming very fond of me... odd site this one.

Slap bang in line is my new favorite phrase

Time Team is the proper corrective to the television and movie imagineering of these ages and what they mean.

I would love to see a map of the whole island - layer by layer - of the different digs and finds y’all have done ie; Iron Age, Roman etc.

i love this show so much and just 2 or 3 months ago i never knew it existed. but now i get to watch it and for an hour i feel cleansed of the awful reality shows that clog up the TV these days. does no one any more desire knowledge or seek their origins, rather than reveling in the glory of watching moronic dram between classless people.

I used to watch Time Team with my kids in the 90's

10k views in 5 hrs...says it all cmon gotta be a production company taking note??!!! New series please with as much of original cast as possible pls

This has always been one of my favourites. One of the things I love most about rewatching these is that I some ended up where the "castle" is indeed a sheep pin or .. a castle put up in the 19th century to show off for house guests. In my memory, these are mixed a bit. A rewatch unravels the mystery, which is extremely enjoyable. Cheers guys. Happy to support you in Patreon as well.

All the questions the older guy ask are so to the point. Just the way he asks a question it is so enlightening to me.

These are the only youtube videos where i let the ads play fully weather that helps with the monetisation or not, get them all money they need to restart the show.

IF you're just trying to keep livestock in, the size of the wall is like going rabbit hunting with a Howitzer.

Tony had an incredible amount of energy.

This dig needed a traveller from the future to put everyone out of their misery.

I’m so disappointed that Tony’s not coming back to the new show.

For those saying where did all the stone come from, consider there are no less than 7 castles in a few miles radius from this site

The sound of the trowels on the stone...

I live about 10 mins from Hamsterley Forest and have been there many times, and have never known about this place until now...

OMG .. I can’t believe I just stumbled across this.. I live in Hamsterley , my husband was born and bred here… 😂 We regularly walk that route.. Unfortunately they picked the wrong site.. we have Templar connections in a house 10 minutes walk from there.. and a 12th Century Church.. 😊

"Have fun storming the castles!"

I saw this episode long ago on BBC America. Interesting that Tony's casual speculation at the beginning that the structure might be a sheep pen turned out to be accurate.

Love Tony Robinson and Phil Harding 💕🌹😊

One of the best educational programmes on UK tv

It’s lovely to see this episode again .

When looking at buildings and doorways - is the direction of the prevailing wind taken into account?

The building materials of older sites like this often get pilfered through the ages to build newer structures elsewhere without having to cut new stones from raw materials. That massive amount of stone would take scores of people cutting rock and hauling them to the structure over a considerable length of time. Locating the quarry would likely yield broken pieces of stone cutting tools that could be used to date the finished stones. But also, permanent inhabitation over a long length of time would naturally generate dead bodies. Would they not be buried nearby? Their burials could yield trinkets which could also date the site. 3 days is just not enough time.

They could've been very special sheep. Why is Tony the only one with vision 😂

Used to visit Hamsterley Forest as a child in early 1980’s. We used to go down to the river, picnic and wallow.

I still think it's a bit of an enigma. 5 metre wide - 3 metre tall walls for a farmstead? Something which would have taken a family grouping years or decades to build. I don't think they really added much clarity of this one. It's a shame there wasn't any dating evidence.

Oh my!! What have i found KZfaqing tonight!!! 👍👍👍

Wish they'd gotten more time for places like this one.

Can't wait!

Loved this show started my life long love of history

Those yellow flowers are really nice.

Another episode where my old boss Tony Wilmott gets a namecheck

Mick was the Perfect Professor for this Subject, Show, and Team. ❤ *May he be blessed with external Positive Energies and Delightful experiences in NonPhysical and in Physical, should he return to this plane.*

Leaves more questions than answers.

i choose the wrong career..!!!! i love archeology..!!!!! and oh i forgot, i have been binge watching for 9 days now.!!

So many different accents in one episode.

Such cool structures built by people so long ago who used what they found around them. Brilliant!

I cannot fathom living in a country so utterly crammed with history that a gigantic collapsed stone enclosure can just be sitting right there and no one knows what it was. It's amazing though that something that once must have dominated the landscape can have been forgotten. Very "Ozymandias."

Well, it's good that, while having some idea of what went on here, there is still mystery. If humankind ever reach a point where we know everything about everything, life will get pretty boring.

Francis Pryor! Love him.

Our cookies have turned hard as rocks- flint rocks.

Thanks so much for posting.

Tony is a brilliant presenter.

I hadn’t seen this one. Very mysterious location. I wish they had found more; alas such is the way with archaeology.

This enclosure reminds me about a base for a wooden castle. In Finland there are remains for over 100 castle hills - up on at least some of which there has been a wooden castle. And some of such seem to have had a stone base on which it would have been built. Those were used in late iron age - well same time than Vikings were about. But it would have been built on a very hard to climb a hill with an entrance on the easiest side. And usually it would have been located near a river - and there would have been warning fires on top of other hills down the river. As it was clearly different looking the viking boat when they were out pillaging and plundering - and when they were out to trade - given that they used different boat types for one and other. So it was pretty much possible to see if they were going to attack or want to trade and thus with warning fires - it was possible to tell people to send out alarm when an attack was pending for people and cattle to get to the wooden castle. Well it was generally against Vikings or Novgorodians. But yea - the wood on top of those a bit less 'squared' stone base-structures have by now obviously vanished and not all hills needed full enclosures being impossible to climb on some sides - and this thing makes me think of such a base for perhaps wooden walls that could have stood on top. All though I think it is particularly Finnish way of making castles prior to the medieval fully stone castles. As they aren't made on hand built hills and not really shaped like those Norman versions that where anyhow later, and temporary before stone structures.

Interesting site, one thing not mentioned is where did the stones come from? were they quarried locally or brought in.

Anyone else ever watch Archaeologists and think to themselves “I want to make something really elaborate and dumb just for future people to find.” Like for example making a 10 foot stone wall to guard literally nothing. And I’ll die knowing someone somewhere in the future will see it and think “there must have been something important here.” 🤣

bring back the show!

Best on TV ever classic history ❤

This dig just goes to show how sustainably our ancestors lived. The only thing they left behind was a configuration of stones, not a trace of other rubbish. Can't say the same about us, since we've coated practically every square meter with pollutants and plastics.

Time Team was really an incredibly good concept from an era which comprised a sea of mediocre mainstream television programmes.

Classic watched them loads n still learn stuff

I remember doing a survey on Studland Beach near Poole using the old fashioned method of front and back sighting.

Great hunt that Gareth....some fantastic finds 👏

14:20 You’re welcome. 😂

1:18 As an American, I've watched so many of these and gotten so used to the various British accents that it was actually weird hearing the American-sounding finds liaison officer. 😂

Revamping it again I read, in 2023-24 with "Sir" Tony as host. Mick sadly died in 2006. Phil recently got married. I am hooked on this show I am learning so much.

God Bless the Professor

As a geologist when I saw Emma take a bite ‘o core, I knew she was estimating whether it was silty or clay-rich. I chuckled when Tony gently asked her what she was doing

Phenominal watch!!🌸👍🏼🌸

A new drinking game idea for you: Take a drink every time Phil says “slap-bang”. This episode may kill you though. I counted five in four minutes at one point in this episode.

I need some footing put in for an extension. I know, Time team!

Love Time Team

I purchased the Time Team book. I’ve watched these episodes a few dozen times… am I an expert?

Shame on C4 for ever cancelling this show

Nothing much survives of the people that lived there as most of what they had was organic and rots away. But the remains of beetles survive; how bizarre is that?

All those stones would be a dream come true for my guys, my man and son!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Saw a comment on another site - relating to the livestock and the prevailing wind direction - no mention of that in the dig - does anyone there at the time recall if it was discussed?