I wonder why the call ground "the floor?"

​@nothingtonooneinparticular8500 so when you go a bit deeper you have a new phrase "cellar"

You act as though bucket grading isn’t a thing. You’re no operator. Stop lying.

I love her. She is very good and can find what she needs too. She is up there with Phil Harding. Two very good archeologists. The best I think!

Last I heard she was running an outfit called dig ventures. Google them they do all sorts of community involved archeology

I thought she was great, too

PLUS I believe she's kinda hot 🔥😊😊

Raksha was always so awesome. I hope she's doing well.

Lost for words reading your comment, I am however gladdened that these episodes enlighten your heart and spirits from the inside… I too love seeing these episodes o Reijer Zaaijer popping up on UT- algorithm… Be Well and Spirited my fellow human..

thank you.

I’m glad you found this. This and similar shows kept me sane the 3 years I was bedridden with M.E. and still help me get through the rough patches. I’m still quite limited and have to be vigilant, but am mostly able to enjoy this quiet life. Hold on to hope and don’t give up. Take good care.

@@sgrannie9938 thank you keep hoping❤️

@@sgrannie9938 thank you.💝

Phil is such a joy. He loves his work. I so enjoy watching and listening to him. Wouldn't be TT without him.

I would love to share a pint with Phil

Phil for PM

@John Matrix yeah, they were always so bad, the short shorts weren’t doing him any favors, nor the scraggly hair.... but I love him just the same. We all have our issues.

@@tampanativeson I think due to the intermarrying of Royal lines from across Europe over the centuries, I’m probably more English than her as well!

I forget which episode it was, but Ian, one of the diggers, spotted the archaeology before everyone else on site. he said he could feel the difference in the weight and noticed a slight color change of the dirt in his bucket.

yes, series 14 episode 4

The older digger driver Ian (the younger one is also Ian) was absolutely a master at his craft. He saved TT a lot of time and effort by being able to take off a couple of centimeters at a time, which would normally need to be done by hand.

The unsung heroes of this show are the retards from long ago that kept dropping pots, solely so people in the future could find them,

And here we are burying vast piles of plastic for Future Phil to puzzle over.

Until I watch the weather.....

@@user-hy7zb2vl3tIsn't it a hoot? I told my husband early on in my COVID-era binge through _Time Team_ that it seemed to rain about 1/3 of each dig. Later, I ran into an episode in which Robin Bush and Carenza Lewis were set the task of finding out what percentage of their digs' duration was spent in the mud. It turned out to be a bit more than 33.4%. For once in my life, I had been conservative.

It’s a fascinating field. But it’s long, hard, dirty work in extremes of weather, and then hours spent recording the finds, at least for a couple of decades before you specialize in a more narrow area. Geophys ppl have to carry their equipment for miles and miles. I guess I’m glad I worked in publishing and now can enjoy watching other people delving in the dirt.

cogidubnus1953

They sure in hell did a hell of a job too

Why did I read that with Phil's accent? :D

the saxons were the first minimalists. they sure knew how to tidy up

@@Fangs4DaMemories I dunno but I did too. Honestly after months of bingeing Time Team I just assume all early Britons sounded like Phil.

@@laurachapple6795 Actually the Anglo Saxons sounded like Me! Or as near as we can get kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8uIZZSmzLm4Z2Q.html

The new one is crap, though..

Love that accent! Anyone know where he's from?

@alison webster : What exactly does ones age have to do with how adorable they are?

Thank you for saying that!!!😂 I've wanted to say that for a long time!!! I just adore Phil Harding!!!❤️🤗🙋‼️

Doesn't everybody?

Aylbdr Madison I think it was just a comment dear... let’s not go under the microscope with it?

@@stannousflouride8372 You're the most consistently-helpful commenter I see on the *Time Team* episodes. Thank you for all your contributions, Stan! (May I call you Stan? Typical US over-familiarity, there....)

Right? I was expecting them to come back at the beginning of Day 2 to it "tipping down" as Tony so often says.

3 sunny days in a row. That's a heatwave surely☀️😂

If you think about it, we do have a long and rich history; it is just that that history for many of us is in a different part of the world. Our individual ancestries and histories extend into the past beyond the point where our progenitors emigrated to America. When I watch these Time Team documentaries, as a person with a majority English blood (and with virtually all my ancestry from the UK), I am watching my own history as well.

the first nation natives certainly do

(I wonder how many times I've said this): The Western Hemisphere has an unbelievably rich history, ca. 15,00 BC on. And before, if you love earth history. Get curious. Look under your feet. Visit a library.

Danes are now a long way off from Vikings, though...

Upsydasy Me i

frankish dna ! je me souviens. Je suis nee a montreal

Perhaps they were Normans.

Danish were Saxons with Longships! There are 2 versions of Norse. The Danish lot are basically Saxon. So the Normans were yet More bloody Saxons! Lol! Me and my late partner used to tease each other. Their father was Irish, their mother was Welsh, so we assumed that was Celtic. My maternal family would appear to be Saxon and my surname is Norman So we would call each other 'Bloody Ce¡t!' and 'Bleedin' Viking!' Stopped a lot of Rows! Lol

*Chris Dooley* It certainly inspired many youngsters in the *UK* as well throughout most of the anglophone world. Look up *DigVentures* here and you'll see some of it.

*Tech & Game Eras* *_Adge_** Cutler* rules! 🍻🇬🇧🙃

When I was a boy, scouts all carried knives in sheaths on their belts with a 5 or 6" blade. In the case of Sea Scouts they wore a jackknife on a lanyard.

100% True, they assume everyone is a threat and a criminal. However if it's a folding knife, not locking. And the cutting blade is 7.62cm 3 inches,or less , it's legal.

@@equaliser2265 Yea that's what I use in Germany. Don't usually need a long blade for random stuff from opening letters, to packages, shrink-wrap etc. Though mine does have a locking blade and can be opened one handed. But at ~2.5 inches it hasn't yet piqued the interest of police officers the two times I was stopped and asked about potential weapons. (The being able to open it with one hand part of the law is kinda tricky, because I can also open a Swiss army folding knife with one hand, but those are clearly legal). Not that it really matters, someone carrying a knife as a weapon is very unlikely to be carrying it on a belt. They'll be carrying some kinda stiletto thing in their inside jacket pocket etc. Something purposefully made to be used as a weapon, and completely useless as a tool.

When at school all the lads carried a knife.not one person was stabbed or threatened.i still carry a small knife.

Sad .........you all sound like us Americans bemoaning all the bullshit gun laws. It is not the tool that commits the crime, it’s the person.

I'm jealous...in a good way!

Yes, and so many episodes show beautiful scenery.

Yes, and so many episodes show such beautiful scenery.

Victor never says much, but I think he's got a sly sense of humor....

@@MelissaThompson432 Oh, absolutely! Ambrus frequently draws Harding, Aston, and Robinson into his crowd scenes. He loves to depict Aston as a monk, partly because of his natural tonsure, but also because he was a vocal agnostic/atheist fence-sitter whose archaeological specialty was medieval religious sites. And a guy who lived in Hungary as a child during WWII can draw a funny Nazi, yeah -- that guy has to have a glorious sense of the absurd.

Isn’t the “S” logo for Scandia?

That'd be a great reason to support their Patreon! Tim Taylor take notice!

No...she is not unattractive...but somewhat of a plain Jane. Nice but not ravishing.

Carl, are you talkin' to Brian?

@veldawells2839 - He was told that he was NOT Roman, but a Celt. See 41:40.

Phil is pure Celt and seems quite chuffed about. Gotta love that guy.

Yeah, ended around the dot com implosion. I haven't been able to figure out the event that messed up MTV though.

Now You have to pay to see docs.

Now the only factual type history shows we get are wrapped in uneblievable theories and hunts (ghosts, crypto, aliens) and those two idiots who are butchering an entire island with oil derrick equipment and way too much time without a single true interest or spot of respect for the actual history of Oak Island.

and now we have ancient aliens!

Now we get the "exciting" music in the background

As England's navy grew during the Tudor period, the need for timber began to seriously pick away at the woodland: from an estimated land coverage of 15% in 1086, England's forests and woods had dwindled to just 5.2% by 1905.

A previous episode on the ship 'Grace Dieu' hints at that.

Remember there were a lot less people!

“Heart of oak are our ships...” Blame Bonaparte, and the Navy built to fight him, for that.

+Radwulf Eboraci Phill is probably living in a round house knapping pieces of flint when he's not digging.

People have to remember that genetically we are all extremely closely related. The minute differences in our DNA only shows you some biological information about where some of your ancestors may have come from. An individual's DNA is not really that important. People always tend to think it conditions how they feel and think but it doesn't. You see crazy comments like " _I wondered why I always liked horses_ " . or " _so that's why I've always loved Irish music_ " That kind of thing. As if attitudes like that could be passed on genetically. It's nonsense of course. Much more important is culture. The culture you grew up in *does* have a huge influence on your attitudes, your language (of course), your likes and dislikes and so on. It has a big influence in forming our personality.

There may be plenty of Celtic blood in Irish, Scottish, welsh, and Cornish people but don't know about the English. And I don't know how Roman Norman or Viking would be difficult to find in the British population. Other than Angles and Saxons that's pretty much what they are. The celts were there first.

@@rogerwilco2 Some say he survives on an exclusive diet of beer and goes to bed every night cuddling his trowel... Others claim that his sole purpose in life is digging... All we know, is that we call him Phil!

The Celts were not there first. The earlier inhabitants, such as the people descended from Phil's maternal ancestor from the Dordogne, were already there and had been for a long time (don't forget that Britain's landmass was connected to the Continent until around 8000 years ago). The Celts had to come by sea. Traces of Early Europeans, like the Dordogne ancestor, are mostly found through maternal DNA , which is passed unchanged from mother to child, but only passed along through females. Early European Y's have almost disappeared, replaced by Celtic Y's, (and Germanic ones in Northern Europe, both groups originating in the area of Western Eurasia that also produced the Indo-European language group). How so? Remember what typically happens when people invade and conquer: they eliminate the local males and mate with the females. Khasab: there is a recent field of research called epigenetics. This relates to acquired traits that are passed down along with the genes proper. A sort of programming that determines how a particular gene will be expressed that is apparently pre-set by an indidivual's experiences and environment and transmittted to their offspring. This isn't immutable and can be changed under certain circumstances. Could very well explain certain predispositions that run in families and which are found even among certain relatives who were raised apart in completely different cultures.

funny that, because I thought his favourite word was "ephemeral"... heard it at least 4 or 5 times on another video... and I don't even think he knew what it meant tbh lol.

Lol Oh yeah!

The New Time Team is crap.

I would guess war, especially from invading armies has been a real DNA mixer.

Geo phis are wankers

yes she is, and she is as lovely off screen as she is on

She is !

Beautiful voice as well.

Same here in the US. Basically time stopped in the Neolithic because we're both so far from the conquering people crowded on a tiny continent needing more land 🤔

*graham lester* I don't suppose you wanted to be told this but it's from the *French* word _manqué_ which means _forgotten._

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 That's quite interesting actually. I hadn't thought of it but it makes sense.

Codenwarra Cove don't be rude about Tony- he's one of our national treasurers😊

Both dead

Tom thx why would you say that? John Cleese is still alive (as of 21 May 2019)

Brilliant!!! Although these guys all are pretty close already!!!😂 love the banter! Tony is really funny with his reactions, as are they all!!!

@alison webster Weston Super Mare

We are the knights who say neet.

Comes from the German word to dig. Also related to the word grave.

Spotted it! Very funny :)

Wish he would've changed that manky hat more though...lol

If the river was shallow enough to easily ford, then no bridge would have been necessary until modern times.

*spacewater* *Helen Hamerow* is actually *English* but studied in the *USA.* But there many *USA* natives working in archæology all over the world.

And I know a *Doctor Phil Harding.* Mind, he's a mathematician!

All of these archeologists are teaching professors at some or other universities. Thank you Tony for bringing them together..

Kaarli Makela yeah, that is the best line of the whole series. 😁

Well said Phil!

those shorts, though!

@@lemming9984 Great shorts. We like them!

@@souloftheteacher9427 ...Until he crouches down and they ride up. Just as well he's not "well built" !!

Many of us Brits are Catholic so we have no problem with references to confession - we’ll just ignore your misogyny, instead.

Perhaps she was on the sauce the night before?

I am sure her husband and three children love her and perceive that she is sweet, likeable and loving.☺

I'm NOT in love (being a normal chick), but enjoy Helen immensely!