Ah good old Francis. He could walk into my garage, pick up a random offcut of wood he didn't immediately recognise the shape of, and it would be "ritual use". Hunts down an picks data that supports his constant Ritual claims and ignores anything else. It's always fun when Stuart leans in with "...or maybe it was a farm" or similar - the considerably more likely scenario.

How is it called? The prairie. And this road? Prairie Road.

Francis almost alway cherry pick the data to come up with his ritual bullship.

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Am I the only one that noticed that farmers had last name "Irish" and quarryman "England"

Why the hell should I even attemp to watch????

the reason them ditches were so deep was to keep all them big elephants out

question,,,,,,,,if the planet was half mile this ice ,,nothing would live 2 thousand years,,,,,,,so wat happened to all the ice??????????

I would think that one way of raising the ground level in a boggy area would be to dig trenches and use the soil to create a mound. More likely for defence rather than any mystic reasons. When you are up against it in the wild, it's best to be practical.

600 years of TT goodness

@1 the auroch bone is only significant if its not one of many thrown in the ditch excavating the center of the compete curve of the ditch only then saying oh this is really important as it in the exact center is sort of making your own importance for your excavation unless you check the whole ditch to know whether bones were thrown in it all around its as meaningless as archaeologists calling everything unexplained a ritual site @2 "palisade of sharpened stakes " really so not a stake used to weave a fence through , or lay a hedge , or lash a fence to ,from one stake piece you get a palisade of sharpened stakes wow did you use the tarot cards or a cristal ball !

The Fen we still call it Fean.

I can honestly say that I do not appreciate a number of the digs that Time Team did. They usually ended up causing more damage to the sites that they went to. I will NOT forgive them for tearing up Seahenge when they visited the site. They tore up a monument that had religious meaning, for no apparent reason, a monument that had been on that site for thousands of years. They come along and, in one season, for no apparent reason other than that they could, they destroyed the site for everyone.

So what was so Tragic about the Skeleton in the Shed?

For me Stewart is the secret hero of time team.

I will never forgive the selfish Henry VIII for destroying all the churches, etc., and ripping apart all the great tombs, etc. Disgusting.

It’s a ritual site! It always a ritual site.

This is why I love metal detecting and the ever improving relationship between detectorists and archaeologists is great to see!! 😊

Grinding corn, sure. Grinding maize, not so much.

So exciting! You did so much in 4 short weeks. I’m looking forward to hearing about all the finds in the longer version when released. I’m so honored to be a Patreon member. Maybe, if you have member participation again, I will apply to be there. I missed being able to apply this year.

best compilation ever

As American, we find little archeological history here. I'm fascinated by this show

Oh my God. You could put Francis on a boat directly over the Mariana Trench, he'd say 'there's something ritual here!'

What fascinates me from the neolithic is they were in tune with the nature using everything to it<s maximal extent. but most of all they< made technological advancement based on using those resources daily finding new things and new uses somewhat weekly or in very short amounts of time improving stuff and such

If I wasn't retired, I would donate as I've always loved time team.

Don't forget Doggerland had a huge impact on the tribes. Mass migration from what is now the North Sea was still a big part of life until the area flooded. I still think that mainstream science does not cater for these structures and settlements being much older. Even 3000-years Doggerland was still disappearing under water. This brought about social cohesion on what is now the East Coast. You will see similar on the other side of the Channel. Communities had no choice but to work together as they were forced by nature to move inland. You are welcome ❤😊

The depth of insights shared here is remarkable, akin to exploring uncharted territories of thought.🍓

Thanks for the links.

The passion and dedication demonstrated by participants are palpable. It's clear that everyone here cares deeply about the topic at hand.✨

One of the most amazing cathedrals. And that whole area has some of the finest architecture in the world!

tell them about the etruscan vases scene

when Tony said to the landowner that talking to him was like extracting teeth I think the landowner was certainly not impressed judging by his face ! it was unusually rude for Tony Robinson..

I can definitely see how the changes made were not for the better. I miss Helen and Stewart and victor!

Ended up on an old farm in Ontario (settled ca 1900. In shaving soil off the top with a hoe, the 25×25 ft square was littered everywhere with pottery shards, broken metal pieces, a huge assortment of nails fromtiny to large (most mangled in shape but little rusted). Seems the old farm house burned down & the family lost all. Inspired by 'Time-Machine' and watching all work, have taken to amature recovery & sorting all out for study, complimented by story of the area available from neighbours whose kin settled here.

I have never fully understood phill. Literally I dont understand a word he says😅😅😅 He just said fench for fence I think but I think he's great..

Good to see Mick again 👍.

I wonder if the weird dendrochronology guy was ever asked back ? possible mental health problems I think.

Could you post the Exact Location of this Dig. There is no mention of any nearby Towns or Villages and no mention of the Latitude & Longitude of where this site is. I would like to know.

As soon as I saw that road I immediately thought of the bronze age roads (trackways) all over England and the presumably ceremonial Neolithic cursus (ditches) that connected (or align with solstices) some of the earliest barrows around 3600 BC. There were many of these just like there are monuments but most are incomplete or totally erased via farming. They were huge earthworks at the time and now they're practically invisible.

Awesome 👍

Did they ever find any Dumbonian settlements?

No wonder the Scots are such a sturdy people.

"the glass beads of anglo saxon england" is available as a free pdf, just look it up. written by a lady who was one of the diggers at sutton hoo as it turns out. fascinating book.

a user named stannous chloride had been giving GPS coordinates to all the episodes locations on a private users channel, i wonder if the turkdean parchmarks are visible on google earth. Ill bet theres craploads of private satellite survey imagery of turkdean in data vaults gathering dust. hmm... thought provoking.

oh and to be honest, ive done replica bloomery melts and even *I* would have remelted those sponge iron chunks lmao

wanna know the cool post script to this episode? tata steel still uses a blast furnace to th is day. it has THIRTY tuyeres hehe

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So jealous of the warden that lives on the island, what an amazing job !

So this is my dream vacation. What would you need to do, or contact/website available to be able to volunteer…

Phil says "actually" a lot.