“A 21st century deposit has appeared in Phil’s carefully cleared barrow trench” LOL

Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well. But what he died from is hard to tell.

I just cannot get enought this team. Phil and Tony's banter is giving me the much needed daily dose of giggles. I love and enjoy them all. ,❤💞

It's not hard to see why the babies might have been put in there. They're being tucked back into the womb of the earth to give them a chance for a new life.

Dr. Pearson is a gem. That guy single handedly solved the Stonehenge riddle. His passion for the stone age is second to none.

those rock-slides within that 2nd cave make me wonder if there is another shaft or two upwards. Maybe the original main entrance is actually yet to be dug/found?

they may have removed the person's lower legs to get them into the chamber. caves are hard enough places to move in when you're alive.

I am 73. When I was a girl sometime in the Bronze Age, the little boy next door always wore rainbow sweaters that his mother or maybe grandmother knitted to use up left over wool ( yarn)

CAVES ! No way in hell you’d get me in there. My pulse rate goes up just watching others go in those tight spaces.

Those that go into the caves are to be admired for their bravery. Thanks for all the hustory. 🌻

Mike Parker Pearson has a real good voice. He could be talking about people having their legs cut of and it still sounds pleasant

It's a shame they didn't have a miner team with them that could've dealt with the rocks. That "rock fall" is extremely similar to a chute, and there are simple and effective ways to deal with them where you introduce a dam and start removing rocks from the bottom, turning the whole affair into a "rock dispenser". In a matter of days you can remove a few tons of it. Whenever we explore old mines, that had blocked off stopes and similar, that's a simple and effective way to get rid of them (provided there's a bottom level, of course). My theory, is that there's a top level to that "rock fall" and that there's another mud filled entrance above where those rocks, bones, items were thrown in. GPR could've been used to find where that entrance was (relative to the position in the cave) and access from the top would've fixed the problem as well.

50 feet underground, crawling through a muddy hole in the ground with barely enough room to move, rocks and dirt randomly falling all around, and just to boot there are a bunch of skulls and bones of long dead humans scattered about all around you. I can't think of too many places on earth I'd rather not be.

“A cow crapped in the trench!” Why did I cackle harder than I should have

one of my favorite episodes, ever. Extreme archaeology at its best!

The drawings of the "big nose people" remind me of the old stories of dwarves. I wonder if that is where the tales came from, a social memory of ancestors with this characteristic.

You guys do a wonderful job of showing us the incredible stories hidden in the earth, and caves! Great camera work, editing and I love your humor. This was one of my FAVORITE episodes. You should rename Yorick; Pinocchio Cave!💚💙

girl: *nearly dies* presenter: "Ought we do this tomorrow?" girl: "yes" Unappreciated lol moment lol

I have to ask. Were there any mothers in the excavation team???? As one, I could see where from a mother's point of view, the cave was a "safe" place to put her child. It was dark so there is the relationship to returning to the womb. If this was the burial place of a community, there would be other women who had placed their small child there. they would be resting together, not alone. Infant death was far more common that we would want but at least these mothers had a bit of comfort in where their child would rest.

On vacations...I prefer remote areas, away from so many people. I have found bones etc. in caves, even a few items etc. They stay where they were found. I say a prayer, apologise for disturbing their rest and back away. At one site, once outside...I climbed up the rocks and made a little rock slide to protect what was inside. Could have maybe made $$$ you say ? Maybe...but to me, if someone way back when, thought enough of their loved one to do their best to ensure the safety of their body in death, why would I want to go in and rob them. To me, what was buried with them...is theirs..not mine to steal. But they are dead you say ? Yes...but still not my things to steal. Just me

"I found a broken urn" ...he says after recklessly digging a hole with a massive pickaxe

What are all those pits dotting the landscape around the cave? Are those more cave entrances or were our ancestors conducting mining or what. Seems strange that no one mentioned those features, especially as Stewart was there.

Dang, those cave diggers are waaaaay braver than me.

They need to bubble wrap this whole team so they make it as long as possible

Listening to the sounds of those rocks continually coming down, gives me the heebie-jeebies. You couldn’t pay me enough to get be down there, slogging around in those slippery, slimy, unstable holes in the ground. No, this would have been one of the digs (and there have been others) where I would’ve called in sick.

Love time team…… But wholly moley this episode gives me some mini heart attacks…..I can’t do caves 😳😳

I quite like the idea of a limestone cave burial, slowly becoming part of the cave over thousands of years

me living amongst the giant redwoods, sheds a tear for the barren English countryside. but the grass is the greenest I've ever seen. and shimmers flourescently in the overcast sky.

what always gets me in these caves including many in South America, is who the hell goes climbing into these things in the first place centuries or millennia ago. they didnt have the headlamps and the cables and all the things the people doing it today do, can you imagine how pitch black and tight it is in there back then. surly they must have used torches of some sort, but they you are holding torches in these tight corridors with the flames right in your face and the smoke adding to the probably thin air, do torches even stay lit down there with the thinning air. i jusy cany comprehend why people were wandering down in there back then.

That cave archeology is dangerous. I give TT a lot of credit for their efforts. They did a great job.

I love the program, but this has to be the sorriest edit job I have ever seen for a channel of this level!

Given likely infant mortality in those days all cemeteries probably had this many newborn and infant bones... It's just that here, they were preserved.

Just a glance at rainbow sweater... 💙💙💙

Balderick feckin loved it ....didn't he . What a ledge

thanks for posting

That were great discovery of the ancient buried very interesting to learn about How these people were Dead thousand of years ago.

I was fortunate to be an exchange student in London in 1988. I saw these barrows all over but never knew what was inside of them or why. Thank you for teaching me this..😊

I love documentaries

I watch hide timeteam all night. I just love that it’s everywhere they dig over there. Nothing like that where I live.

Long live Phil Harding!

Oh I love these shows!

Thank ya kindly for your brilliant knowledge that you share with us and inspire the world. From Ohio, USA bless everyone on your crew. May you all continue your journey and exploration with Lady Luck by your side. Your new friend Connie-Jean Rose.

Woo that second break was a long one.

Lovely bit of cave history but I had a panic attack watching as I'm claustrophobic.

we can laugh now. but i think bck than, the GPS helmet for Stuart was a good idea! get lost in that milk soup and for sure you're lost...

I am so clusterphobic I could barley watch this episode. Great program as always.

this is a awesome discovery

As for why the infant bones are there, think "womb of the earth".

Ooooh I hadnt seen this episode yet!

Very brave those youngins.

The gentleman looking at the bones was in the Episode on Mystic Britain (The Revenants) Dr Simon Mays.

Thank you.

I don't think it's odd or a mystery why there would be so many baby skeletons in these caves, they were returned to The Mother Womb.

What were those dimpled mounds all over the landscape in that last shot?

Happily finding a horde of baby skulls is what Time Team is all about😆

I've had a serious Crush on Prof. Alice Roberts since the very first time I ever saw her on TV. She's super intelligent and conveys information in a way everyone can understand. Plus she simply SMOKIN' HOT !

The GPS hat is a hoot, now we all carry a GPS locator aka cell phone everywhere all the time.

27:58 that was a beautiful throw

If the community was interrelated, it is possible that the children may have had genetic defects that caused high infant mortality.

Lately I've been watching a number of these episodes of Time Team, and I got to wondering ,what has become of the artwork that has been drawn during each program? Does any one know?

They should have got in a mining expert and some machinery. The expert could probably help stabilise the cave and the machinery could have helped them carry the spoil to the surface much faster.

Alice Roberts would later narrate her own archaeology show.

mud is like cement. the more you work it the more the water comes to the top... It starts out looking ok...but keep walking on it and it becomes soup.

Going to leave it in my will to scratch up the lid of my coffin like I was trying to get out and then to put my phone in my hands like I gave up and started playing a game .... I know it's a long shot but imagine the archaeologist's face if the coffin survives 😂

I always wondered why they flipped the pots upside down. I would think that I would of put the bottom down and covered the top so nothing got in. How did they stop the ashes from falling out when they flipped the pot over. Always thinking about that.

My favorite quote from the show: "Does my bum look big in this?"😀

Looking at the landscape, they were hypothesizing what the surrounding communities may have looked like, where they were located, ages, etc. But they did no site Geophysics this time. Was there a reason for not doing the survey?

that hole reminds me of the badger bit from abcs of death lol

Nothing, absolutely nothing, would induce me to scramble down into those caves! Kudos to Alice, Katie and the "cavemen" who did spend time in there.

With the amount of mud and the sloping of the entrance, would the cave access and passages been far larger thousands of years ago?

The further back in time you go, the higher the infant mortality rate. Even in Victorian times it was still very high. Giving birth in insanitary circumstances, is a recipe for disaster. Alternatively, if there was a food shortage, they could just have been dumped. .

Okay, is it just me or did it go black halfway through? I've tried on several devices. The timestamper is still moving along but there's no sound or video. Other videos on KZfaq are working fine

Any volcano's or meteorites around back then?

I'm not an expert but the risk of cave exploration is the dangerous outweigh the potential findings Especially with those shallow caves that you're working with 15 m is about 45 to 50 ft I would have put vertical shafts down and then access them that way it's safer you have a lot better access and less chance of injury

Seen it. The Big Nose clan.

@8:44 If that isnt a pipe for 'ahem', then ive never seen a pipe! (I currently have 3 in front of...ahh, never mind,,,,I do love me some ancient history!)

Wow wow wow everybody was on the top shape. Perhaps the lady from Rome was born there and they brought her back to her homeland?

Big noses? Check out the stone head discovered at Karahan Tepe. Might even have been from the same time period.

I would say that some of ur burials are people that were found buried when a house was being built of some sort and they took the bones out and threw them into the cave.

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This is kinda strange. So many people excited to dig up a cemetery. That "mud" is decomposed people.

Wasn't there some way you could have shorn up the caves a bit so you could have gone deeper?

What's up with the "protected footage"?

“Have I got a big nose, Mum?” “Stop thinking about sex!” “I wasn’t!” “You’re always on about it. Will the girls like this? Will the girls like that? Is it too big? Is it too small?”

The host is also the singer of Iron Maiden.

Why cut off the legs? Perhaps they thought doctors in the afterlife could put them back on, and a body in smaller pieces is easier to carry into the cave. Perhaps they wanted to prevent the person from walking back out. In some sort of undead fashion.

I have probably watched too much Game of Thrones but I am surprised that sacrifice was not considered a possible reason for those child bones being in there.

gloopy

to the editor(s) of this episode: do better! cut those annoying breaks and dark scenes, please. to the channel: thanks for sharing this great series for free!

Katy Hirst 😊❤

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But why would they cut off his legs? Pre- or post-mortem?

Very soft baby skull. Perfectly sliced at the top. Like a little egg for breakfast!!! @..@ i cannot

is everyone forgetting that ( back then ).. just to survive being born was a miracle .. .... and to get to 5 years of age another ....

These caves are horrifying. Im not even claustrophobic

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Would the big nosed family have been outcasts in society?

Mudflood?

Using ads to sell an ad free service after people already pay to avoid ads is beyond scummy.

"Bring out yer dead, Bring out yer dead!!!"