"We've got you a chapel; we've got you a monastery; and we may well have got you the bones of a saint. The perfect Time Team!" Indeed!

9 years alter, and i am still fascinated by these episodes...

My favourite episode. Did a Time Team pilgrimage to the site last year , the pull was so strong I just had to.

What a treat! I just found this episode after years of watching and rewatching episodes over and over again.

"that mystery is what has preserved it for us"... What a quote!!!... Love that ♥

Fabulous episode! One of my faves! Mick, Phil, Matt, Stewart, Helen & Tony are just super people. I think I would enjoy talking with Stewart for hours, he just fascinates me! Although, I'd probably enjoy drinking a few beers with Phil even more!

I'm a local and I remember going to the site while time team was there on a school trip!

"...or, are we just on a flight of fancy?" Now, check out Phil's expression! Priceless!

This episode of Time Team brought tears to my eyes, especially after the discovery of the partial celtic cross.

This is still one of my favorite episodes. Still hard to accept that Mick has gone, and we no longer have the advantage of learning something new and fascinating from TT. Thank God for You Tube.

I traced my ancestry back to Mull, the family left probably as part of the Highland clearances in around 1842. There's not many programs that show the area, so this is a real treat!

Having Mick on the scene really makes all the TTshows. What a fascinating man he was.

What a great episode! From the first glowering stare from Phil in the airplane, to the beauty of Mull, to the very last few outstanding finds in the ground. Simply wonderful.

That look from Phil in the beginning, when Tony says, "or are we just on a flight of fancy?"

I`V SEEN THIS ONE SO MANY TIMES ,,, I JUST KEEP COMING BACK TO IT AND I ALL-WAYS SEE SOME THING I MISSED BEFORE IT`S GREAT ,,,, REALLY LIKE IT

Mull is one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited - this episode was brilliant - kept me hooked from opening to ending - i just wish it had been six hours longer (at least) but hey can't ask for everything.

I agree, I can watch these over and over again.

Possibly one of the best ever Time Teams Ever, Keep up the brilliant work Tony & the Team

Such a good tv production. And personalities. Would like reboot of this show.

Motley bunch?!! Love these guys!!! Aye! Motley indeed!!!

As usual I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat watching an absolutely fascinating episode of Time Team. I am particularly pleased that they found the saints bones absolutely untouched. I believe these relics should be recovered an kept in a cathedral and documented properly; not in some cardboard box in a museum.

One of their best episodes.

Mull is such a beautiful place to visit and a trip across to Iona from Fionnphort is well worth the effort. There's a nice wee pub just before you get to the Fionnphort ferry building too. :)

Phil's face at 0:49 LMAO 😂

These people are all geniuses!! I have watched them continuously since I bumped into them on Utube!

One of my favorite episodes. I like how Mick always keeps his final opinion until it is done. Always a form of looks like, is similar to, could be. This episode showed how he didn't make a judgement until all evidence was provided. It is a huge difference compared to Francis Ritual Pryor. Francis would have been telling all kinds of stories about ancestor worship and rituals if he was the site director and it was iron age or bronze age. Mick being an expert in monasteries and chapels hinted at his thoughts but never confirmed them until the end. He knew what the site was but refused to admit it until it was confirmed, Francis claims a site is something first. Mick was a true archeologist, a true scientist. Francis? More of an educated storyteller. The other thing about the episode I liked was the environment. Pine forests, thin soil, stones aplenty, It was a difficult site with the jumble of stones and nearly none for soil layers. But they peeled it apart and found the structures. Amazing work as all I could see was a pile of stones until they started describing it and before the edited lit up Here you idiot! addition that I sometimes need for soil colors to spot the trench they wax on about finding in some episodes.

Thank you to the late Mick Aston, Just learned a lot that's been bugging me about Mull.

smiles all around ... history revealed ... excellent work by the whole Team.

LOL, I really liked the look Phil gave Tony when he said "flight of fancy" while the two were riding in the copter. So funny.

Dr. Alasdair Ross, historian, died august 2017, too young. RIP.

One of if not the best episode ever on #celticchristianity

saying the skill of the translators long ago is so easy to understand. Canada was translated by a translator who got the word wrong. It was Kanata and apparently meant Village. So translation or interpretation is quite believable.

I never realised that Mull was so incredibly beautiful. Another destination I must see during my lifetime!

This is such a good episode - shows the cooperation of TV, Universities and amateurs really well. One item of note: the progression of Phil's accent from moderate in Season 1 (1994) to broad and rustic in Season 17.

Thanks so much for posting.

The funniest comment in all of Time Team. Tony Robinson " now why did you make a noise like a pirate"

This was such a wonderful program. I wish they could do something like this in Japan and China. Even better if they could get some of the same archeologists. Thank you for presenting this wonderful program to us Zaaijer-san and for the editing you have done.

One of the best episodes and possibly my favorites. By the way if looks could kill Tony would be dead.

Some of these videos make me cry.

I am pleased to know the connection with the Isle of Man dig, up on the golf course above Douglas. This is the word "cill", a chapel. This episode on Mull has been very entertaining for me, and it shows how closely linked were all the ancient sites on the west of Scotland, Ireland and the IoM. [Aussie in BC]

This one is my favorite of all the TimeTeam's videos.

What a beautiful part of the country. Great episode!

Even Canada shares something special with the Isle of Mull, one of Canada's most beautiful cities, Calgary, Alberta was in fact named after a hamlet on the Isle.

Probably my favorite episode. Thanks for uploading.

Oh! Possibly my favourite episode!

One of my top 5 episodes for sure! So exciting!

You Folks are GREAT! Time Team must continue thru Time. Love You Folks!

we need shows like this in the US.. all we have is the Kardashians...smdh

This is one of the great episodes !

I really wish this was still on the air.

Love this history, so wish to go on a dig, thank you for sharing/posting these shows.

Strewth! Am gobsmacked by this episode.

Thank you Tony for saying, "Gaelic" and not "Gallic" like Helen. Gallic refers to the Gauls of France. In Irish "Gaeilge" (pronounced gwayl-guh) is what we call the Irish language. Gaelic is the anglicized pronunciation of Gaeilge, but really refers to the goidelic languages of the Celts in early Ireland, the Highlands of Scotland & the Isle of Man. Outside of Ireland, the language is simply referred to as Irish.

How brilliantly inspired by Mick. If you are relatively ignorant of the complexity of a object or building but versed on the purpose a person could see pluses and negatives to the said object .

LOL, Phil doesn't look to comfortable so high up 00:35 He's happier in a hole in the ground :)

Wonderful discovery~ one of the best episodes

Why did I only just realise that it's not normal for this to have been my favourite show when I was 8??? I tried to talk about it in history class and only the teacher had ever seen the show lol

Hearing them discuss the significance of the rounded quartz pebbles placed at spiritual and/or burial sites is so intriguing. I remember the first time I did it, and no one had directed me to do so. Also the impulse to stack stones in a tower; to create cairns...it seems to be in our collective consciousness.

The Baliscate Monastery is on Google Earth here: 56°36'37.2"N 6°04'45.0"W Not much to see through the trees.

Thank you for the upload! Love this episode and program.

saw this one today. Love the ending "The Perfect Time Team"

Thanks for the upload

without missing a beat: "now, why did you just make a noise like a pirate?"

Take a drink every time Phil says "Ooo-Ar"

fabulous

Good episode!

I enjoyed this episode lool good memories

There’s a good chance those white pebbles came from the quarry at Columba’s Bay on the Isle of Iona. It was a great tradition for monks and other pilgrims to take these stones with them as they spread out from Iona to take Christianity to the North. Such pebbles can be seen today as they mark the burial places of monks in the Abby on Iona.

I've heard Mick speak about St. Columba before. He may not have ever admitted it, but I think he had a devotion to him....its just the way he behaves when that saint's name comes up. He perked up!

I'm so happy Mick got his Saxon monastery!

When they first unearthed that piece of Celtic Cross I thought mammoth tooth

From now on, I'm going to take my Quartz pebbles with more respect.

Pet peeve about a wonderful series is they use ‘theory ‘ when they mean ‘hypothesis ‘.

Goosebumps.

Judging by Phil's lack of presence in the chopper in other episodes and his scowl while in the plane methinks he is not a big fan of flying.

The human remains are now on their way to Dr Alison Sheridan at the National Museum of Scotland for further research.

One of the very best!!!

Does anyone know why the reliquaries from this era were placed outside of the chapels? The episode Finds in the Fairway dug on the Isle of Man had a keeil with a relics box as well.

I half expected Tony to refer to Mick as "some obscure hulk".

Looks like Phil isn't very fond of flying :D

brilliant!

Just wow!

Seeing Mick in this episode, I notice how white his hair is now compared to previous seasons of Time Team.

thanks!

love the way they've obviously chopped the trees down to open the view just before the cameras arrived

Phil looks worried, probly about the Scottish weather.

The island of Mull where My Great Great Grandfather John Patterson was Born and Married

I'm an American who has visited Mull twice. There is a monk who is founding a monastery on the island. When he bought the property he was not aware there are what appears to be the circular outlines of possible monastic cells. It is known there were female monastics on Mull during the early years of Christianity right after St. Columba. The bones and teeth found are likely female. Male monastics lived on Iona. Check out Mull Monastery on the web. Father Serafim lives there. Linda Elizabeth

Finding the Sacred in the Commonplace

When the police showed up all I can think of is at the End of Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail the end scene where everyone gets arrested!

Unlike the thin skinned partisans of the Emerald Isle in the comments below, I'm pretty certain that St. Columba had more important matters on his mind than his birthplace, and, frankly, in Europe as a whole there still seems to be far more fuss made about where someone was born and who someone was born to, in detriment of what they actually accomplished. Take it from someone born in the USA, which has hardly any history to speak of, when you have such historical riches as Europe you shouldn't trade it for a mass of pottage of far more recent quarrels. It's what St. Columba accomplished that was extraordinary, and worth remembering. The buildings Time Team excavated are part of that accomplishment. And I doubt that he would have made much fuss about his name being Anglicized, and certainly not to the people he was trying to convert, as any sincere (and intelligent) Christian missionary abroad would avoid making a similar fuss about their name or their birthplace today. Can you think of any European today who has anywhere near the emotional potency and certainty of belief of St. Columba or St. Patrick or any Dark Age missionary of the Gospel who's name is lost to history? I can't. Even though much, if not most, of Europe are unbelievers, that potency of belief, in very large measure, has made the Europe we have today. We should emulate Mick, also an unbeliever, who chose a profession which uncovers and restores such history (and prehistory) and who personally was convinced that it was of first importance to do so, whether it was Neolithic, Roman, or Christian. That conviction shines through these programs from him and all the other members of Time Team. They not only love their job, they are convinced of it's importance, something beyond the entertaining differences of local British accents or the other foibles of their character that are equally entertaining.

A spiders web with tentacles. Yeah that sounds about right.

"...Tentacles of this web..." I know what he's talking about, but he's mixing metaphors

Of course, quartz pebbles could be some kid's rock collection. My kids have all sorts of gravel at the moment, but really like the smooth ones they find now and then. (They're 3 and 5)

SOOOOO Fascinating!!! Has the Pope been told?

Had to rub my eyes for a second. I thought there was a fish peeking into the shot. But it was just Mick's coat. 40:31

Its nothing like as easy down in england because the english went around destroying books and documents in Ireland. I assume they did the same in Scotland. Several manuscripts were descovered by an irish historian about a hundred years ago in a English lords estate. He showed them to him because he thought they were Egyptian. They were books of ancient irish law. The historian said "I feared the lord would notice how pale I turned when I first saw them, for if he knew what they were they would have been burnt" The historian let on he did not know what they were, took them back to trinity college and there they remain. There used to be colleges teaching law in Ireland over a thousand years ago all those were destroyed because that's what invading armies do.

It has always been the custom in both the eastern and latin church to put the relics of a saint in or under an alter, so it is possible that there was never a complete skeleton buried there. (I hope they treated the remains with proper respect.) Is there any evidence of a tradition of pilgrimage to this site?

Been there in the 70s :) Fishing for mackerels ..

Mick's fantasies aren't wild enough. "A fully functioning alien vehicle" would be wilder.