The Hunt For The Stone Age Ruins Buried Under Sussex

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The team travels to what could be a Neolithic settlement in the Sussex Downs. Initially discovered by John Pull in 1923, the site is littered with remains of 6000-year-old flint mines. But Pull claimed to have discovered a second site nearby, which has so far eluded other diggers. The team are joined by archaeologist Miles Russell, pottery expert Sue Hamilton and wood specialist Maisie Taylor. Neolithic lifestyle specialist Jacqui Wood makes some elderflower tea and threatens to make a new hat for Phil. Phil and Francis demonstrate the relative merits of mesolithic and neolithic axes.
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@kikufutaba524 2 жыл бұрын

I think Victor was an amazing man with immense talent and a kind heart. His work is amazing as his life was full of trials.

@alekseyy9277 Жыл бұрын

Get Phil new hat and manicure

@DragonFae16 Жыл бұрын

It's sites like this that challenge Mike's assertions that you could learn almost everything you needed to know about a site to understand it in the first three days of a dig. Three days only allowed the team to touch the top of the first layer of a 10-layer cake of mystery, most of those layers being ones we will never be able to comprehend.

@NobodyWhatsoever 2 жыл бұрын

The descriptions of his difficulties really make me curious about the quality and work of John Pull versus the two doctors who seemed to work so hard to stop him.

@jonpatterson7211 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds a bit like the way the fellow who discovered Sutton Hoo was treated.

@Afro408 2 жыл бұрын

Same back then as is all too present now. Professional jealousy. Snobbery. Class hatred. You name it. How dare a basically educated person find something the stuck up big nobs couldn’t find if they tripped over it! “I mean, c’mon, we went to university and spent years learning the science and now some jumped up ex soldier thinks he knows all about archaeology!” And because they were Doctors, they were credible and poor John Pool was not.

@wrorchestra1 Жыл бұрын

@@jonpatterson7211 Basil Brown

@willowmoon7 11 ай бұрын

Someone needs to make a movie about him

@montana.topeoplewakeup6142 2 жыл бұрын

I love binge watching Time Team🥰👍

@ShipCreek 2 жыл бұрын

I dont think that flint was buried. I think it was stocked piled for their use and most probably trade. Its the thousand of years that filled it in. The time team missed an opporunity by not checking the quality and sizes of the rock as they were digging it up. I find it annoying that our ancestors arent given full respect for being very clever. Not everything is about superstition.

@simonscott1121 Жыл бұрын

Yup. Either that or perhaps even classifying the flint to some degree. Dig up a bunch of flint, bring it over, and someone takes/chips away the good stuff and throws the bad stuff in a hole. People havent changed much in 10000 years, some clever sods were around. The frustrating thing about time team is certainly the 3 day limit.

@seaghanobuadhaigh8240 Жыл бұрын

Given how hard it was to survive back then, I suspect the average IQ was well above what it today.

@lavinleitrim44 2 жыл бұрын

Id just like to point out that Time Team have their own YT channel, have uploaded all their episodes since the 90's and are uploading new episodes periodically. I think its roughly 19 seasons.

@RatelHBadger Жыл бұрын

They haven't uploaded ALL of the episodes.

@Je-Lia 2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful find--this channel! I have always had a keen interest in archaeology.

@ruthanneseven 2 жыл бұрын

💗 these so much! The OG of British archaeological entertainment!

@fukemnukem1525 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video guys. Fantastically done! Thank You.

@raempftl 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, they have taken someone else’s work and published it as their own. Please watch the original videos on Time Team Classics.

@Nomad77ca 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that circle was an early form of a warehouse, or maybe was meant as a cache for later use.

@jamesretta5690 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding, fabulous, fascinating. Thank you!!

@m.asquino7403 2 жыл бұрын

Im tired of hearing about the panic. I think Ill binge watch the Time Team.😁

@ivanolsen7966 2 жыл бұрын

panic ?

@danpoole4915 2 жыл бұрын

Great film, fascinating, intriguing, and filled with wonder (and flint).

@bigswede7241 2 жыл бұрын

This is for sure gonna be my bed time story to night!

@paolo4002 10 ай бұрын

The most satisfying aspect to this episode. Blackpatch is still a very important site and is now a scheduled monument. Well done Mr Pull

@Hurricaneintheroom 2 жыл бұрын

I love to watch Time Team and it is sad that they don't make this show anymore. I didn't like the new people at the end. They just didn't seem to fit. There have been several of the people on the show that have passed away like Victor, Mick, and the professionals who used to come in and talk. But at least we have the ability to watch the old shows.

@inthemaze7441 2 жыл бұрын

Love these shows. Being a dummy, I was wondering if it was sandstone or another being used in the water to polish the flint. Was wondering other by sheer use how the guide channel was formed.

@jonathaneffemey944 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting.

@ashleysanders2821 2 жыл бұрын

I love this episode!

@accessaryman 2 жыл бұрын

another hypothesis could be, the ring ditch was a living space, with a supply bank of raw flint for future use, it had a tree left standing in its interior for shade, and the hut or huts where place around its interior , but their features where shallow enough to be destroyed by the bulldozer. just another hypothesis

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@Owen Bell - Those early peoples created a beautiful way to warehouse their mined flint. They were real landscape architects.

@lilirehak5569 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps the pits were to store the flints which I am sure were difficult to mine. Why not put it in a "sacred burial type circle" to keep the looters away and safeguard the flint for future use and trading? John Pull's work was fascinating. Sorry he was given such a hard time and not recognized until many years later.

@elizabethjury2930 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating - thank you for the video. 🌻

@billclisham8668 Жыл бұрын

I almost wonder if the "reburied" flint was more of a stash by seasonally traveling people to come back to the next warm season????

@Willy_Tepes Жыл бұрын

As there are no Neolithic monuments below 90 meters in southern Britain, I think archeology has missed something important, THE SHORELINE. If you understand the shoreline, you will find much more and understand more about their culture. And you might want to look closer at Fisherton de la Mere just west of Salisbury. It was a coastal fishing port once like the name implies. And all those hill forts are in fact coastal forts. You'll see it if you plot the sea level.

@rachelhall5522 2 жыл бұрын

Phill's grin when the tree branch broke. So good,

@bellbeaker7014 2 жыл бұрын

Time Team is the best

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@borderreiver3288 Жыл бұрын

brilliant...

@pigoff123 2 жыл бұрын

Aw Tony my man where fore art thou...

@wiretamer5710 2 жыл бұрын

If there is a general rule to cultural and social development, things remain undefiled and fuzzy until this becomes unsustainable logistically. The idea that neolithic industry would be inseparable from ceremony and collective identity is not only plausible, it can be observable in many aspects of contemporary life. Industry is not only 'work', it is often celebrated as a way of life. Add into the mix, the idea of the lone hold out, who won't give away a way of life. Often personified by eccentric hermits living in abandoned mining towns: a caretaker. A hoard of flint, makes sense in the context of a caretaker, living on a disused flint mining district. A ring could be both sacred, or a drain for a animal skin tent weighed down with sacks of ballast, that would leave zero archeological trace.

@charlesvigneron565 3 жыл бұрын

What was the recipe of the food?

@williamfindspeople4341 6 күн бұрын

Prehistoric Archeology is very interesting because of the time distance between groups. Flint and trees.

@ruthanneseven 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was a communal storage area for the flint?

@maxmoore9955 Жыл бұрын

TOMORROW, LOVE THAT FROM AN ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO CONCENTRATES ON YESTERDAY.BUT LOOKING BACK CAN STOP US MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES.

@Zippezip 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible that it was just a bank where those who mined the flint left it so they could come back and use it later, I mean who wants to carry around 400 lbs. of rocks?

@LiberationNL 2 жыл бұрын

I think it is a bank of the "used" flint.

@JJRudell 2 жыл бұрын

another hypothesis: What a better place to hide your stash, than inside a grave. lets say I discover the seam of flit, I start to mine it... later I come back and see that someone else has been in the mine..... I am going to now extract as much as I can in a season. but where am I going to keep it? your not going to drag it around but your not going to leave your hard work behind for someone else to just "pick out the good stuff", bury your goods. Dig a few "Markers" to give you a landmark... mound up the dirt and dig your "place of the dead around it" then when you're out passing by, you can dig out what you need with minimal effort, time and resources?. and anyone else, who you know have been in the area. would leave it alone. I dont think that would be far off of an idea from a 21st-century point of view.

@lynnmitzy1643 3 жыл бұрын

Great fun . Digging up the past👏👍yes💖

@diannefoster3297 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe a workshop or storage are of flint ot be used later.

@andreasleonardo6793 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video about discovering of a Neolithic settlement Buried under Sussex...by archaeological activities..hard works

@jessetravelsgriffith2454 Жыл бұрын

They had a good time with those axes 😊

@edwardhamm5535 3 жыл бұрын

The best

@LaurinhaPimenta 3 жыл бұрын

Eu tenho uma raiva desse prazo de 3 dias

@moonoggin 3 жыл бұрын

Best one yet!

@alannabanana6255 3 жыл бұрын

When was this filmed?

@annazaman9657 3 жыл бұрын

2006

@alannabanana6255 3 жыл бұрын

@Nordmalm Nordmalmsson nice

@alannabanana6255 3 жыл бұрын

@@annazaman9657 thank you

@edwardpatrickdetrafford-mo8347 Жыл бұрын

⚔️Phil’s hat might have been a representative of a character’s hat in the movie Raider’s of the lost Arc?🛡

@9087125498172345 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like Wim Hoff

@sharonpeek4578 2 жыл бұрын

I'm told my British ancestors came from came from Sussex/Kent area in the 16th century. Perhaps my several times removed Grandparents (surname Hosmer) walked that very area.

@conradraymond6473 Жыл бұрын

Roman Dwellings

@kevinmccarthy8746 2 жыл бұрын

WOW very sad.

@sharimullinax3206 2 жыл бұрын

Find this man's work and bring vindication for his family. Maybe the barrow was flint storage for future generations.

@TheSeafordian Жыл бұрын

I've been to Myrtlegrove Farm. They sell really good ice cream.

@birdolla4441 Жыл бұрын

The two manger commodities of the era Flint and Oak. So they panted both hoping for them to grow.....The oak no problem, The flint not so much

@JonFrumTheFirst 2 жыл бұрын

Through the whole episode, I thought they were saying John Paul.

@agold2125 19 күн бұрын

Couldn’t they have been hiding a valuable cache of flint? Maybe it was recognized as that important.

@stconstable 2 жыл бұрын

Just when you think you've watched them all....

@peasenhalljesus Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the small pits where a set up for skinning animals ….

@patricaomas8750 2 жыл бұрын

John Pull definitely good source for Agatha Christie

@freqenc 2 жыл бұрын

I really feel bad for the people the end up digging and finding our time here.

@nerida20 2 жыл бұрын

masses of cell phones + play stations, lol

@toomanyopinions8353 2 жыл бұрын

Our structures won't be as visible but it'll be an archeologist's wet dream with all of the trash and objects and such.

@conradraymond6473 Жыл бұрын

Roman Dwellings

@kaiokendo 3 жыл бұрын

0:11 fuck those microscopes man

@MarkDibley Жыл бұрын

S13 E09 - Sussex Ups and Downs, 19th March 2006

@peterjerchel4603 Жыл бұрын

I really hope this rushing against a timeline is for affect and not reality

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@Peter Jerchel - Bingo!

@lizzy66125 Жыл бұрын

is reality,they only had 3 days,as all of them had other day jobs as well.

@donthespotter6550 Ай бұрын

At least phil's hat is better than Balrdric's trousers

@fado792 2 жыл бұрын

Neolitic, with a picture of someone with an hand-ax??

@kuzzbillington6392 2 жыл бұрын

They were still used at that time, and even later into the bronze age.

@fado792 2 жыл бұрын

@@kuzzbillington6392 A picture for every time. actually I still use one for my potato's. Thanks Buzz.

@archibaldchuzzlewit1848 Жыл бұрын

Gentlemen, I give you Brittania! Gambling with all the glitz and glamour of the British Isles. Best of all, the waitresses and showgirls are all real Brits, fresh from the streets of Sussex, they are.

@NullStaticVoid Жыл бұрын

Just say "Cunning Plan" once.

@leeneufeld4140 2 жыл бұрын

Might the ring ditch have been an ongoing memorial to miners killed in cave-ins? They would have no body to bury.

@christianbuczko1481 2 жыл бұрын

In some respects thats possible, as well as them having to sacrifice part of the resource to thank the gods for what they took.

@wewenang5167 11 ай бұрын

HOW ON EARTH DID NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE PEOPLE FARMED ON THAT CHALK INFESTED LAND? AND DID THEY SAID THERE WAS TREE THERE ONCE UPON A TIMES? HOW CAN TREES LIVE ON A CHALKY LAND LIKE THAT?

@conradraymond6473 Жыл бұрын

*LatinoHeat* StoneAge

@had2galsinthebooth 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta be Hobbits. The smaller round dwellings are not likely the grand earthen houses of Hobbiton it'sself but could easily be the more modest homes of the laborers and tradesmen who served Bilbo and his neighbors. You laugh now but when they find a wizard footprint where he stepped in wet chalk next to a small hole from leaning on his staff kindly remember I called it. :)

@Ggowmitch 2 жыл бұрын

Oi. Get out of here here with your small fiery ring men

@jeagle64 2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering what Jim Carrey was up to until I saw this thumbnail.

@V.Hansen. 2 жыл бұрын

You can’t call a field archaeologist’s hat disgusting 😂 Even if it is! Rude

@marcelasantander7457 2 жыл бұрын

47:22 ...if only those plastic "disposable drinking cups" had been some other life-friendly stuff...

@fredferd965 Жыл бұрын

No, you're probably thinking of Parliament.....

@filipoerikssso9935 2 жыл бұрын

the other archeologs murder him`? this is such a rough work

@nevyen149 2 жыл бұрын

When I first caught it out of the corner of my eye, the face in the thumbnail looked a lot like Bryan Cranston. But the channel and the other images told me it was about prehistoric things...and for a second I thought it was a new spin off about a prehistoric ancestor of Walter White...maybe called "Breaking Bronze".

@YnseSchaap 2 жыл бұрын

No matter what field of science.... there's always envy and hatred 😁

@matthewthomas3890 Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Life & fools

@YnseSchaap Жыл бұрын

@@matthewthomas3890 😁

@morkusmorkus6040 Жыл бұрын

Yeah its almost as if scientists are humans. Oh wait...

@markhall9412 2 жыл бұрын

on pause 20:32 / 48:31 could that camera man be looking at same thing as I , who me?🤗

@windwardhaven 2 жыл бұрын

Time Team cameramen never failed to catch the down-blouse angles, also....

@abQUINTON1 2 жыл бұрын

It's Dr. Alice Roberts, so yeah. She's a stunner for sure. The Bath dig the cameraman really likes her :) She has her own show called "digging for Britain"

@belbrighton6479 2 жыл бұрын

Have you got the #copyright to post this video? Given that #timeteam have an official KZfaq page? Plus #channel4 own the rights of broadcast too?

@morkusmorkus6040 Жыл бұрын

Lol why the fuck do you care

@rupertmiller9690 2 жыл бұрын

The drums in the intro make me angry for some reason I can't figure out. It's just drums. No need for getting all bent out of shape, yet here I am, stupidly angry about drums.

@PeachysMom 2 жыл бұрын

I love the drums, I drum along

@isilder 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they thought the tree roots actually burrowed deep into the ground to find flint ? So its more of a garden for trees, they just thought flint would help grow trees ?

@kevinwhilock1457 2 жыл бұрын

Why Neolithic, when there was a Brythonic people's before the Romans came, see the Genetic study from Oxford University, 17 similar but distinct tribal groupings in British Isles and the Welsh who are related to the Basque people, so much older. Why are the ancient Britons ignored, as if they never existed? Kevin from Staffordshire

@philipr1567 2 жыл бұрын

Neolithic refers to technology, not to racial or tribal identity.

@Less1leg2 2 жыл бұрын

Its very interesting investigating Ice Age Era human living conditions. What I believe though that academics don't seem to appreciate is the living conditions next to a mile high Ice Sheet. Obviously living anywhere next to a mountain of shear ice was the fact, water flowing off the elevated Ice Sheet washed away a lot of history. This is why I believe human existence evidence is hard to come by. The Ice Age Retreat was not slow and not drip per drip simple as academics keep implying. I believe in many instances, it was violent and massive. What ever was in the way, wasn't there or evidence it was there to begin with. It's why North American human existence is so difficult to prove what was there. Water does that, washes the slate clean of everything. Then where it does pile up, it totally destroys the record of existence of what was there over time. But we do find some evidence of human existence. Even then, academics close their collective eyes at what they see because they don't want there pat long time belief system uprooted. This Siberian Ice Age travel story needs upgrading. And Neolithic people weren't dimwits. If anything with the meager tools they had. They did quite well under the circumstances.

@kevinwhilock1457 2 жыл бұрын

So would a devastating event such as world wide catastrophe, including a flood!

@wizardofoz1390 2 жыл бұрын

The three-day time limit a ludicrous and defeats the purpose of a research project in my opinion

@johnnicol64 Жыл бұрын

Look at the hits, etc.Its entertainment not PhD work. As a TV show it expanded interest in the ancient world , like never before. Your opinion is both negative and completely missed the point.

@georgedorn1022 Жыл бұрын

Time Team undertook archaeological evaluations - targeted trenches to answer specific questions about a site - rather than full excavations. It is a standard method of archaeological fieldwork. From a recent issue of Current Archaeology: 'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion. This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'

@tardismole 2 жыл бұрын

John Pull has been exonerated. Makes me, a (mostly) self-taught archaeologist, want to cry for joy.

@morkusmorkus6040 Жыл бұрын

Stick to armchair archaeology of you're "self-taught".

@lindasummers9823 Жыл бұрын

Why only 3 days if they find something. Why not let them go on

@agold2125 19 күн бұрын

Why, in this modern age, do you all insist on “bc”, as opposed to “BCE”. It’s not current, and the world doesn’t revolve around Jesus.

@Fush1234 3 жыл бұрын

Forget the past….. You can experience Neolithic living in some of Auckland New Zealand suburbs rite now.

@alannabanana6255 3 жыл бұрын

curiosity piqued...

@larryzigler6812 3 жыл бұрын

A bit too fancy for you ? Try Alabama.

@amberkaywalton1187 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. With or without lock down. Glad to see I'm not the only one passing lock down with time team.

@katerinakemp5701 2 жыл бұрын

Lol at least you still alive to comment about it.

@larryzigler6812 2 жыл бұрын

@@katerinakemp5701 Is he ?

@michaelstevens3479 2 жыл бұрын

If nothing is found they like to draw a picture of what they would like to find.

@proofnewtestamentistrue2948 3 жыл бұрын

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@micheleandhenrycasavant386 3 жыл бұрын

???????????????lol

@proofnewtestamentistrue2948 3 жыл бұрын

@@micheleandhenrycasavant386 No. That is my writing that I have a YT channel on the New Testament being authentic and true!

@katerinakemp5701 2 жыл бұрын

@@proofnewtestamentistrue2948 🤫🤔🤫

@roccosage8508 2 жыл бұрын

Book recommendation for anyone interested in this subject matter: “Man Being Volume 1: The Transmission”. It covers everything from dreams, death, the afterlife, time travel, reincarnation, extraterrestrials, portals and gateways, Vatican and Renaissance secrets, Ancient civilizations, Lemuria, Atlantis, Jesus, Sinai, Egyptians and the Pyramids, Hebrew letters, etc. Wild read. Best I’ve had in years.

@kevinwhilock1457 2 жыл бұрын

You read about the real Jesus in the Bible...

@larryzigler6812 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinwhilock1457 The real Jesus lives in Mexico. Actually there are lot's of them.

@papricep6248 3 жыл бұрын

These people invented lasers and still chose to make their village underground. Amazing.

@annazaman9657 3 жыл бұрын

What

@mnichols1979 3 жыл бұрын

@@annazaman9657 probably a glitch in the bot's programing...

@mickbrown8249 Жыл бұрын

Neolithic man took centre blue Stones from Priseli mountains Very close To Camarthan SOUTH WALES We were supposed to have them BACK When I would like 2 NO??? Elgin marbles from Greece they want them BACK TO???

@BryonLape 2 жыл бұрын

There is no more a closed mind than a published academic.

@OUigot 2 жыл бұрын

Thumbs down for stealing Time Teams videos and as your own content under a different name.

@joncawte6150 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with archeology and this programme in particular is that without time and absolute evidence, it is all just total speculation, unfortunately. And tbh, with time team, I do dislike Robinson, I think he is surplus to the programme, the archaeologists could present the programme better by themselves and maybe just have that geordie bloke that does voice overs, on many other programmes, do a voice over when needed!

@morkusmorkus6040 Жыл бұрын

Tony Robinson (but also Phil) was the heart and soul of this show. New TT sucks.

@michaelchase418 Жыл бұрын

This video confirms the stigma of English teeth.

@leesweets4110 Жыл бұрын

Im going to call BS. You guys know the area was bulldozed and yet you only dig a three inch deep "trench" to find archeology from 6000 years ago. I take it you dont actually want to find anything.

@awhite2501 Жыл бұрын

Why show them as white 🤔.

@phillipstroll7385 3 жыл бұрын

Sacred my ass. They dug it up then they worked it. The pits with it stacked is where they worked it. When they had enough to trade they moved on. Years later they might have returned. There is nothing saved about it. Knock it off.

@mikloslegrady965 2 жыл бұрын

Drop the gimmick of "just three days to find out"; it's manipulative and unnecessary.

@georgedorn1022 Жыл бұрын

From a recent issue of Current Archaeology: 'One of the more hotly debated aspects of the show was the three-day format. While this was, to some extent, borne out of production necessities, members of the Team who came from a commercial archaeology background have noted that this fast pace replicated the realities of much day-to-day archaeology. A significant proportion of archaeological work is reactive rescue archaeology, with teams called in to quickly evaluate and record a site against a ticking clock, before it is lost forever to a housing development, a new train line such as HS2, or a natural threat like coastal erosion. This speed did not compromise the integrity of the Team's archaeological work: more than 200 published reports produced by Wessex Archaeology highlight the considerable contribution the show made to archaeological literature, and while the programme was filming it was second only to English Heritage as a funder of archaeology in the UK. Several sites have been scheduled as a direct result of the Team's work, while their excavation at Blaenavon, near Pontypool, assisted in the industrial site achieving World Heritage Site status in 2000. Moreover, one of Time Team's excavations abroad, investigating a Roman barge in Utrecht, is currently part of a wider application under consideration by UNESCO.'