The Lost Scottish City Of Roxburgh | Time Team

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2 yıl önce

Five-hundred years ago, a major city occupied what is now a large and empty field in the Scottish Borders. Founded by a king as a hub for international trade, Roxburgh was, along with Edinburgh, Stirling and Berwick, one of the four great centres of medieval Scotland. While the other three became thriving cities, Roxburgh simply vanished. Tony and the team have a unique chance to uncover whatever remains under the pasture.
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@lauriepenner350 2 yıl önce

This show has made some really great contributions to archaeology. If for no other reason than landowners finally letting archaeologists dig up their land if it means they get to be on TV.

@lauriepenner350 2 yıl önce

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@wendywhite2642 2 yıl önce

Yep Lauri thanks for your reply I checked that out myself and found out it was true and so I deleted that comment

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@roninreturns228 Yıl önce

As a landowner, I'd be tempted to allow further exploration, provided that the parts that didn't yield good results were fully restored over the following year. With such a wealth of history, even given that short amount of time and meters to excavate, the site was revealing some fascinating finds.

@evensgrey 2 yıl önce

One of the things that strikes me is how unusual it is that what was once a major center of commerce was entirely abandoned. Trade towns, and towns in general, are built where they are for a good reason and those tend to continue to be good reasons for towns to be there, so they tend to be there for a long time and get rebuilt if some disaster destroys them. Had this area stayed Scottish for a couple more centuries, which wouldn't have been difficult, it would have continued on as a major trade center until the Act of Union made it no longer really an issue which side of the border it was on.

@TemplarsWildFire 2 yıl önce

To me, its like the Ghost Towns in the western United States. Huge towns (for their time) sprung up for the gold rush but when the gold ran out, the towns died. They're scattered all over the west, but in some places, they're basically gone. It only took a little over 100 years for the ground to reclaim them. It doesn't surprise me that this is what would be left after what, 800-900 years?

@armstronggermany2995 Yıl önce

It did stay Scottish, or am I mistaken ?

@evensgrey Yıl önce

@@armstronggermany2995 It changed hands several time during the various wars between the Scots and the English. The town and castle were destroyed in a battle in 1460 when James II of Scotland tried to take it back from the English (the last English-held castle in Scotland) while the English were busy having the civil war known as The Wars of the Roses. This demonstrates just how bad early artillery could be in terms of area damage: Everything the battle was about trying to get control of, and the King of Scotland as well, wound up in small bits.

@jrmckim8980 6 aylar önce

The oil field still does this in certain towns across North America. They find big pockets of gas/oil which brings an influx of people and business to these small towns. Then after 5 years the drilling is done and they move on.

@OrbitalAstronaut 2 yıl önce

You guys always are so respectful to the sites you excavate. Its nice to see people who really love history doing their work.

@batshit_for_ACME 2 yıl önce

I used to live in this region. My friends and I would often hike from town to peak to town, staying in B&Bs or campgrounds. Lots of options in this area, definitely worth a visit.

@chris...9497 Yıl önce

Speaking as an American who's had just the one visit to the UK, I think those not native to the UK have no grasp what the importance of nettles might be. Visiting a small stone circle at a roadside, I innocently encountered nettles brushing gently against my bare legs. Within a half-hour, it was burning & painful, and discomfort continued for days. Standing nettles are a big deal. People should appreciate what is being asked of those who have to survey, fieldwalk, or dig in proximity to them.

@CaptainAMAZINGGG Yıl önce

It stinging happens right away for me. However, if you rub dock leaf on the area, it eases it and for me, is fine pretty fast. Just a bit uncomfortable. Nothing big tho. And I'm basically allergic to everything, so am super sensitive. My skin sucks. If you ever go back, remember the dock leaves lol. They're always near nettles. ;)

@aprilstevens6498 Yıl önce

We have nettles in Pennsylvania.

@danielrowsey7667 Yıl önce

We have nettles in Alaska. They’re delicious.

@notsure5698 Yıl önce

🤣city slickers... buwhahaha

@julienelson6506 9 aylar önce

and California... you quickly learn which fields not to play in as a child

@earlmcdaniel1607 Yıl önce

I hope they continue with the archeology to find out more about the history of the town.

@jeffreyarnold2626 2 yıl önce

with such an important history behind this area, it truly deserves a more thorough dig.

@bluelight9669 2 yıl önce

thing is you can put a shovel in the ground almost anywhere in the british isles and hit arcology and since no one can sell what they find we are only seeing a sliver of what is available since this is one of the best programs. each show probably cost maybe 50K plus dollars for 3 days work. the government museum arcology money is put towards areas being rebuilt that has important finds that will be destroyed

@TheGotoGeek 2 yıl önce

@@bluelight9669 Tony Robinson and Tim Taylor have said it was about 400k Sterling per episode, which is still fairly inexpensive as TV goes, but in an absolute sense not cheap. And then Channel 4 screwed around with them to the point where the ratings fell and canceled it. The production team is reviving it on Patreon under the name “Time Team Digital”, and they are planning to make more episodes without the interference of Channel 4. “It’s worth backing,” says the guy typing this while wearing Time Team fleece jacket.

@IKEMENOsakaman 2 yıl önce

Scotland is a country full of wonders

@Odo55 2 yıl önce

Pistol Pete Yeah- Look at me❗ look at me❗ I'm a Disney character😖

@jdromero6902 2 yıl önce

I have learned more watching Timeline more than I had in college.

@marroosh9771 2 yıl önce

I will never ever grow tired of Time Team!

@kathywolf4558 2 yıl önce

It is really a shame these sites cannot be further investigated with a week or more of exploration.

@granthurlburt4062 Yıl önce

There isnt the funding. Wo. time Team, there wouldnt be these preliminary investigations which can be followed up by longer-term project. BEcause T.T are professionals, they follow professional procedures and keep careful records that can be used by later, costly projects.

@parkerw.2155 Yıl önce

@@granthurlburt4062 they don't follow professional human grooming etiquette though 40:24

@bobgillis1137 2 yıl önce

Fascinating, especially the carved arch keystone. I wonder where all the soil covering the site came from. Is it just progressive accumulation of organics and wind-blown dirt ?

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

Probably. Throw in a little flooding, multiply by a few hundred years ...

@gregkerr725 2 yıl önce

I am an American with the last name of Kerr. According to my clan history the Roxburgh area was my clan's stomping area. Very intersting.

@user-if3cm6qo1w 27 gün önce

Same here

@patrickwentz8413 2 yıl önce

I love it when he says join us after the break and 2 seconds later the show is back on!

@p7outdoors297 2 yıl önce

And no bumpers! Mark of an amazing show

@Mr2winners 2 yıl önce

A quick wee

@huck3204 Yıl önce

great britain is definitely an awesome place to be an archaeologist (and or student)

@barrymunro5535 2 yıl önce

I lived in Roxburgh and related Roxburgh-Hydro, as a child. Not the Scottish original, but the townships in Otago, South Island, New Zealand. That was the early 1950s. We celebrated the Queen's Coronation at The Hydro, 1953.

@katerinakemp5701 2 yıl önce

Lol yes had the sweetest apricots there. Hi 👋 kiwi.

@wewenang5167 3 aylar önce

how is the duke? Is he as snobby as what the time team said? What is wrong with him not allowing people to dig...lol

@altheacraig2904 10 aylar önce

I am descended from my great-grandmother Janet Thain who was born in Rathven, Banffshire Scotland, and great-great-grandfather James and great-great-grandmother Mary Sim of Perthshire. I do not yet know the city. I very much enjoy hearing anything about my ancestral home!

@julienelson6506 9 aylar önce

I am curious what happens to everything once you dig it up? Surely you do not just leave it exposed. Is it removed from the bulk of what is remaining or reburied?

@jimneedham4640 2 yıl önce

how an entire CITY can just disappear even knowing why is chilling.

@hopelewis5650 Yıl önce

Probably flooding

@quackaddict2203 Yıl önce

I second flooding. There's still habitation in the area as we can see. It's just further from the river in most places.

@tonylittle3508 2 yıl önce

It is amazing that a place like this could be abandoned just 500 years ago, and there is no historical documentation of the reason. I am not sure that the hypothesis put forward that it was related to loss of access to the port would be the full story, does not quite add up. I have a family link to Roxburghshire. I am wondering if it could have been destroyed at some stage being caught up in border clashes? Still, it is astonishing that there is no further historical record.

@tonylittle3508 2 yıl önce

According to one source, after being fought over many times, it was taken over by the English for about 100 years, and recaptured in 1460, by which time the town and church were just a pile of rubble.

@tonylittle3508 2 yıl önce

I would propose another theory in addition to my previous comments, that the English reduced this town to rubble to "send a message" to the rest of Scotland. It's location & importance would make it the first strategic target, it's destruction could be seen as psychological warfare.

@Odo55 2 yıl önce

@@tonylittle3508 I agree

@triciasomogyi5431 2 yıl önce

Tony Little - Sounds likely.

@EastyyBlogspot 10 aylar önce

I do get a bit frustrated with Scheduled ancient monument restrictions.....I can understand in many cases but often having watched Time team some of the sites hardly anything is known and often seems they jump to schedule sites without knowing that much about them

@granthurlburt4062 Yıl önce

Personally, the presenter of Time Line seems an empty-headed TV presenter. It just shows one reason why Time Team was so good.Tony Robinson ws so good - he is somehow matey, and also humourous, and also seems genuine, while the Time Line guy is almost laughably inauthentic but conventionally handsome. No one would cll the Time Team men conventionally handsome!

@richardgrace4500 Yıl önce

Tony Robinson was sooooo annoying and obnoxious... new absolutely zero about what he was doing or talking about and was/is a lifelong paid actor... he also has the most amazing level of disrespect and irreverence for burials/graves I have ever seen in my life and always wants to just “yank” stuff out of the ground... on top of all of that he is always talking about and worried about and focused on “firsts” and “making history” and “never before found”... they could have easily found an actual archeologist or historian to be the narrator for the show instead of some paid actor who knows absolutely nothing

@marilyncuaron3222 7 aylar önce

Poor Richard Grace. He'll go to his grave wondering why Sir Tony is so popular with the audience. Chin up, Richard! You needn't watch if Tony makes you unhappy. .

@marcaubin6091 8 aylar önce

Such a good show!

@gullrock14 2 yıl önce

This is the original reality show. “Will we answer all the questions in 3 days?” “Is geophysics new gear better than digging?”

@wendywhite2642 2 yıl önce

I sure hope you realize that this history hit TV / timeline group has absolutely no relationship to the Time Team group who created these videos. They have simply commandeered this content to make money off the advertising.

@cynthiatolman326 2 yıl önce

@@wendywhite2642 Your response confused me. I've only seen about 3 of these.

@karmaarmstrong6175 2 yıl önce

Thats so funny you say that cuz i just saw an episode called "keeping up with the gregorians" lmao

@joanneclarke771 2 yıl önce

No, but it is quicker.

@budrupe1877 Yıl önce

From what I can see on a map the community of Kelso, Scotland is only about 2 miles, 3.2 km away. What is the correlation between Kelso, neighboring communities and that archaeological site. There must be something in the historical documents of that area. Perhaps as the local communities evolved the lesser of and least productive was slowly abandoned. We have many small little populated areas and Villages that were thriving + - 100 years ago in United States that are nothing but points on a map nowadays. Many of these started out as homesteads and nearby villages but as properties were sold and land Holdings became larger the current population dispersed for whatever reason. One of the ways that you can determine the locations of old homestead sites is ivy growing on an old tree and other anomalies that would not occur naturally in nature. There are many one-room schools scattered across America still today that supported thriving small communities that don't seem to exist today.

@blackbird5634 2 yıl önce

Two three years of watching Time Team and I cannot look at dirt the same way ever again. That being said I can't tell the damn difference between one kind of dirt and another, but I look at it differently. And I keep scratching my head.

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

Colour and texture are the first two things to look for.

@claudettedelphis6476 2 yıl önce

Absolutely fantastic to follow your search 🦋🦄 Thank you for inviting us along and good luck 👍🍀

@Mote. 2 yıl önce

This is so fun. Lovely video. I havent even watched the full thing yet but its great so far

@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210 Yıl önce

You can tell how buff Phil is in this particular episode lol

@corkycobon1481 2 yıl önce

I feel sorry for John sometimes. Geophysing in nettles has really gotta suck!!

@TechGorilla1987 2 yıl önce

Prickly predicament, indeed.

@ledacedar6253 2 yıl önce

but I love it; Tony illuminates conflict for viewers engagement while John & Stuart argue their expert opinions & yet it's nettles that challenge the most. I love em...Eat Them, make tea with them Best wild veggie

@Johan-vk5yd 2 yıl önce

@@ledacedar6253 ”Urtica” Letting them infuse for several days provides for a smashing fertilizing liquid too!

@mikehartman5326 2 yıl önce

It would be a great deed to allow further site exploration in the name of history.

@t.7721 2 yıl önce

I friggin love Timeline and TimeTeam!

@choppareed6595 2 yıl önce

👊🍻🇳🇿

@fionaanderson5796 2 aylar önce

What puzzles me is why that big church would have been built OUTSIDE the protection of the town walls. Churches were usually fairly central.

@scheralgreider5406 2 yıl önce

Scotland, home to some of my ancestors.

@sebastianmaharg4025 2 yıl önce

They don't adequately explain how or when the city was effectively razed and cleared of all its rubble. It stands to reason that an entire town and its buildings don't simply "melt" into the ground.

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

Everybody in the area started mining it for pre-fab materials.

@katerinakemp5701 Yıl önce

This is a scheduled area, so they can only dig a certain area, anything outside the scheduled area can be dug. TT does exploratory investigative work, full reports are written up can be viewed for all TT digs go to Wessex Archeology.

@huck3204 Yıl önce

wow they found the church! amazing

@carolhofhine560 2 yıl önce

So what happens after 3 days? Do they just record their findings, and then bury everything back up?

@tessjuel 2 yıl önce

It differs. Some finds are sent to various museums, others are put back in place so that future archaeologists with (hopefully) better background info and technology can re-evaluate them.

@manaboutit1594 Yıl önce

A number of TT sites have been further dug and worked. Their Facebook page has a number of links to explore. A few of the expanded digs have yielded very nice finds.

@reneesotelo4929 2 yıl önce

Would love for you guys to be able to spend at least a few months to a year to study the area better.

@Fush1234 2 yıl önce

5 years ago.. when he was alive. 🤪🤪

@fairwitness7473 2 yıl önce

@@Fush1234 I didn't know he died.. 😥

@Fush1234 2 yıl önce

@@fairwitness7473 - brain hemorrhage. 62 years.

@ZytphenA 2 yıl önce

This should have been named ‘3 nights at the roxburgh’

@huck3204 Yıl önce

dang? archaeologists are AMAZING

@thomaskeil1437 Yıl önce

As much as I enjoy this series, I'm often frustrated and confused by the time-crunch as a factor. Archeological investigations, if thorough, require time, funding and workers. A three-day process simply isn't realistic if the intended possible discoveries are rushed to incomplete findings.

@granthurlburt4062 Yıl önce

There isnt the funding for the long-term projects that would be required to investigate every timie site. Wo. time Team, there wouldnt be these preliminary investigations of these numerous and previously unexplored suites. Time Team has enormously increased public appreciation of archaeology which is likely to result in more funding. BEcause T.T are professionals, they follow professional procedures and keep careful records that can be used by later, costly projects.

@granthurlburt4062 Yıl önce

The Time Team archaeologists are actually working for free (at least Mick Aston was) on weekends. Obviously Tony and the BBC crews were paid. That is another reason they were limited to three days. Exploratory archaeology is very important. some professional archaeologists were quite sniffy about the three-day structure initially, but I imagine they are very happy now to be featured on Alice Robert's shows. If you watch those, notice how weary the archaeologists are. The banter among the T Time methods exists because they're full of excitement at exposing brand new things and speculating.

@megelizabeth9492 Yıl önce

From what I can tell, most of the people involved were basically doing this as a hobby over three day weekends, and did have actual university jobs.

@HannibalFan52 Yıl önce

These exploratory digs are useful. They can help English Heritage and other such agencies decide whether or not it's worth investing their limited funds and personnel into deeper exploration of any given site for more detailed, longer term digs, rather than wasting time and resources on sites that don't turn up much in the long run.

@danielcadwell9812 2 yıl önce

I live in Kelso, Washington founded by Peter Crawford of Kelso, Scotland.

@drunkenobservations7483 Yıl önce

Sorry guys. Absolutely love your videos, and hope you keep high access on youtube, but last thing I need is another subscription especially in such a nich area

@joshuahernandez3216 2 yıl önce

I'm an American that really enjoys your channel, mate.

@virginiamartin9913 Yıl önce

Great again as usual !

@michaelwoods4495 2 yıl önce

I've wondered--why are so many old sited buried? Is dirt falling from space, enlarging the earth and burying ancient sites? It's curious...

@kuzzbillington6392 2 yıl önce

Dusty winds + foilage growing and dying for hundreds/thousands of years. And sometimes man moving dirt to cover old stuff for farmland, building new stuff and whatnot. And repeat.

@mercedes523 2 yıl önce

A remarkable amount of us YANK’s genealogy is traced right back to Scotland.

@averydizzle 2 yıl önce

Why was such an important church set outside the towns defenses??

@mikerotch4597 2 yıl önce

Scotland is where my family originated from very interesting

@lynneproudfoot3624 2 yıl önce

Does the team ever get an opportunity to Excavate a large sight an extra 3 days?

@armstronggermany2995 Yıl önce

Well their map showed Edinburgh where stirling roughly is.. and not south of the Forth.

@HelenTudor-Douglas 2 yıl önce

How can I get hired to work on these digs for Timeline? I'd work for FREE. Plus, I'm part Scottish. My Scottish DNA Brain could surely help guide them, I'd be an asset to the team.

@tessjuel 2 yıl önce

Timeline doesn't do digs. They don't do videos either actually, they buy them from different production teams just like TV channels do. But if you mean *Time Team*, they're starting up again these days and they've certainly used unpaid volunteers in the past. There's not much chance but there's no harm asking them. Contact info at their website, timeteamdigital.com Oh, and they're Pateron financed now since Channel 4 is out of the picture so there's always a way for anybody to support them if they want to.

@HelenTudor-Douglas 2 yıl önce

@@tessjuel Yes, I meant Time Team. : ) How do I find them? Do you know?

@sophieh8468 2 yıl önce

@@HelenTudor-Douglas they have a website and are on Instagram and Patreon. And the best part? No lie - they're coming back!!!!!

@dawnpeterson1269 2 yıl önce

My 3rd g. Grandfather was from Roxburghshire, would this be the same city?

@dannyfubar3099 Yıl önce

Who knew calculating square footage was so difficult.

@Patrick_Cooper 8 aylar önce

When Tony says at about 4:55 "florescence light tubes". I don't know how he didn't see the complete irony in that statement, given the young ladies florescence hair color. A lost opportunity for a joke. I always thought Tony got his start with comedy... Corenza mentions 1313 AD, isn't that the year of the signing of the Magna Carta. College is many years back, so please forgive me for not remembering, and being so lazy I don't even want to "google" it...

@hopelewis5650 Yıl önce

What about the bits in the tree roots?

@caughtthefevermagnetfishin3992 2 yıl önce

I've been watching episode after episode, had two surgeries in two months, so I have had plenty of time, I've learned alot, and I think I'm in love with Tony, really what's not to love, LOL. I wish I had know about it before now, But I'm in the States, so there you have it.. Keep it up guys....XOX to Tony...

@ArcticBreaze 2 yıl önce

Solved. I found Roxburgh , it got up and moved to central Otago, New Zealand. lol

@michaelwaynemartin3291 2 yıl önce

I lived in Stirling, about an hour toward the coast.

@aaronleverton4221 2 yıl önce

Nah, he's an actor in Australia, was a henchman in Mission Impossible 2.

@barrymunro5535 2 yıl önce

Yes, I briefly lived there circa 1950.

@chipthomas4169 2 yıl önce

Where in the British Isles is Phil Harding native to? His accent is something else.

@katerinakemp5701 2 yıl önce

Wiltshire, but he now resides in Salisbury at the mo he is doing a vid about Salisbury Stonehenge and the surrounding area.

@RobbyHouseIV Yıl önce

Could someone over in Britain petition the government to ban further use of Dan Snow's History Hit advertisements that precedes so many of these Timeline videos? Thanks, you're a peach!

@choppareed6595 2 yıl önce

Love this 🤙🍻🇳🇿👊

@mnichols1979 2 yıl önce

I love how John sounds like Ringo.

@evanz2704 2 yıl önce

And Paul like George.

@brucegibbins3792 Yıl önce

Where is it? Roxburgh has been relocated to Te Wai Punamu in Aotearoa New Zealand.

@jasper7072 Yıl önce

Why is there a timeframe of just a few days? I mean; I can understand the m2 part, but usually, these type of areas seem to be unused for large amounts of time per year.

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

Cost of keeping the team on site, fed, sheltered, equipment maintenance, etc, etc.

@archistoriac6716 2 yıl önce

Beautiful but Poor Mary! I hope the system is not heavy for her shoulders.

@hawkeyestiguy Yıl önce

Every episode of TT: TT: "We don't have enough time!" Also TT: Lets have everyone recite scripted lines & set up dramatic cuts between radio conversations for effect. Lol. Great show, but if they didn't waste so much time, they'd get even more done. Lol.

@ebrum7704 2 yıl önce

ELI5 - Can someone explain to me why they seem to always allow just, what seems to me to be (a minimal), a limited amount of square meters to trench.

@georgedorn1022 2 yıl önce

To ensure that a highly significant site is mostly preserved for the future when archaeologists will better understand it.

@danidu85 2 yıl önce

Love these videos. My question is though, why do you only have 3 days?

@joanneclarke771 2 yıl önce

The 3 day limit is for tension, keeps down personnel and rented equip costs. The Time Team group must move on to next week’s site pretty quick. But university archeology students probably continue the digs on the more promising sites.

@katerinakemp5701 Yıl önce

All the archeologists on these digs are employed full-time at various universities, some of the experts work for Heritage Trust, Scottish Museum as in this excavation, or are involved in their own longtime digs. TT do the exploratory excavations any other work will be carried on by others if warranted.

@Ulfhednir9 2 yıl önce

Yeah Brigid. you tell them pommies what for. New zealanders telling the English how to dig :D

@katerinakemp5701 2 yıl önce

🤣🤣🤣

@trevorsinclair3425 2 yıl önce

Does anyone know if Bridget is from New Zealand? I noticed her helmet had NZ1 on it plus it looks like she is wearing a Pounamu.

@kiwibird8441 2 yıl önce

Yes

@katerinakemp5701 2 yıl önce

Yep her and her husband Raysan and kids live in Waihi. Trust a kiwi to wear a kiwi brand🤣🤣🤣

@syvastian Yıl önce

Why is everything you guys do only three days in an empty paddock?

@rafael_lana 4 aylar önce

The 3 days things is the "gimmick" of the show, I doubt most projects were done in that short of time. It's just to generate a sense of urgency for the audience

@DVineMe 2 yıl önce

19:47 Lol in my city they thought the French were attacking at night so they opened fire... The next morning all the cows in the pasture opposite the city wall were found to have misteriously died during the night... 😂

@rainleistone9349 Yıl önce

why at 48:09 would the church be outside the defense wall?

@hopelewis5650 Yıl önce

Religious differences?

@deborahfielder5644 Yıl önce

Phil has tge most beautiful smile

@darkwaterlythops Yıl önce

The location of Edinburgh on the map about 6 minutes in? Weird.

@justinjohnson7153 2 yıl önce

I love how 2 people are working at 43:00 and 20 people standing and watching.... all while complaining of a time crunch/discovery area

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

Delicate work is ruined by a mob.

@hopelewis5650 Yıl önce

Villagers were just observing because there was nothing on the telly.

@l7846 Yıl önce

WHAT IS THAT HAUNTING MUSIC? The theme music?? Please tell. It is perfect for this series...

@aturnbull2787 2 yıl önce

I always wonder why they only get a few days to dig, you would think everyone would be interested in knowing their past and stop at nothing to find out. THE WORST is when they say the Government won't allow us , happens a lot on shows like this. ARE they afraid of the truth and that history is not the way it is ? DRIVES ME CRAZY !

@joanneclarke771 2 yıl önce

I think I’ve watched about 20 years of this show. Mostly, they are digging on private land and it’s owners not wanting their lawns or fields dug up.

@aserta 2 yıl önce

Can't have the master's lawn that he never looks at damaged. I despite owners who actively seek to hide things from the world. I'm betting there were archaeologists that even offered to pay for the privilege to dig. Just like rare car owners. They buy them, and then the cars vanish, turning up years later dilapidated and destroyed by disuse.

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

I'm so GLAD you know the true motivations if people you've never met! Now we're going to rip out your entire garden, on the *chance* of finding something interesting.

@teabearchurchill5600 2 yıl önce

What about Selkirk and Peebles?

@vocalveteran1894 2 yıl önce

It was so freakin' funny when Stewart didn't get his way. I thought he was gonna cry when his lower lip protruded out! aaawwwww poor widdle baby.....rofl

@ledacedar6253 2 yıl önce

The best part is Bridgit expressing her experience that the men stand around pondering & watching but do they dig, help out. It even took some time, as Tony points out to even get the message! Women are way more competent & engaged then left-brained men.

@bradmiller2329 Yıl önce

Which is why so MANY women are inventors, explorers, engineers ... /S/

@pepperco100 2 yıl önce

Tony already provides an introduction. Suddenly, some girly man who had nothing to do with the program lisps and sashays through an added additional unnecessary introduction.

@michelemcneill3652 Yıl önce

I love to hear some names.

@lazaruskarl2629 2 yıl önce

Greeting from Sarawak..💚

@adamlmedia Yıl önce

Man id love to work with phil. but im way over here in yankee land

@roryross3878 2 yıl önce

What's with the square meter limit? Landowner allowing only some legal requirement?

@georgedorn1022 2 yıl önce

The site is a Scheduled Monument. Excavation is limited in order to preserve it for the future when it can be better understood.

@Mote. 2 yıl önce

The guys boots look cool. The magnetic apparatus the two girls are carrying. 👍🏻And the one guy's dragonball shirt

@UnitSe7en 10 aylar önce

Dark forces are at work, in the shape of Stuart Ainsworth. 😄

@cheetah6881 8 aylar önce

That's Baldrick, isn't it?

@richardroxburgh2984 2 yıl önce

I think that’s were my ancestors are from

@shieldsjohnjr Yıl önce

Having a deadline of 3 days hardly seems like you can even set your site up let alone make sense of what you find.

@Libbathegreat Yıl önce

That's the challenge and why this makes a good TV program. Most of the time on a dig, you don't have all the experts and specialists on site at once to discover and interpret things in real time. The fact they're all there arguing together probably yields better results.

@rafael_lana 4 aylar önce

@@Libbathegreatit's definitely not 3 days, that's the "gimmick" production comes with to create a sense of urgency. Sometimes the ditches go ballistic in a few hours, which wouldn't be possible with careful digging

@Libbathegreat 4 aylar önce

@@rafael_lana it *is* possible when you're taking off maybe a meter or more of topsoil with a mechanical digger in the first couple of hours. Most digs I've been on they don't do that so it took 3 days just to get through the topsoil, which in an agricultural area is kind of a waste really. I do know that on TT, sometimes they'd have some geophysics already done and they've pretty well decided on a plan before they get there, but the plan usually got thrown out halfway through day one 😄

@rafael_lana 4 aylar önce

@@Libbathegreat also sometimes they have 3D models of what they found like hours after it, back in the day that took much more time. Judging by the computers I would say late 90s, early 2000s.

@Libbathegreat 4 aylar önce

@@rafael_lana Yeah show ran from 2003-2013 roughly. They had a whole graphics department working flat out though during the dig. You normally only see one but there were usually at least 4 or 5 (during the live digs probably more). And of course a lot of reconstructions (like the pots) are rendered in post.

@markgarin6355 2 yıl önce

So what's the city they just showed in the background? They made it seem like this town was gone completely...but there a big city immediately adjacent to the site they are looking for ...a town.

@joanneclarke771 2 yıl önce

Right, and that’s where most of the blocks from the houses in the original town went. They were used again in the new town.

@markgarin6355 2 yıl önce

@@joanneclarke771 Funny, they never seem to rebuild on the same site. Even bronze to Roman there were a few, but sometimes like only based on the value of the physical location, almost by accident.

@abydos7775 2 yıl önce

6:08 That is not where Edinburgh or Perth are at all. Miles off...

@festivitycat 2 yıl önce

Map at 6:00 puts Edinburgh somewhere in South Perthshire ...

@anthonylambert4523 2 yıl önce

I was just going to write the very same thing !!

@marcusbondura6996 2 yıl önce

I truly do not understand why they don’t have geophysics go a day or two before the rest do you have the whole site for most of it done on day one instead of afternoon day three when they don’t even have time to check any of it

@Du-Masses 2 yıl önce

I remember them doing that in some of the later episodes.

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Yıl önce

Thank you.

@whattowatchrightnow Yıl önce

what are they using to scan the earth? the geo-phys?

@RobKoelman 2 yıl önce

31:18 The location of the church is shown lying OUTSIDE the main defensive wall. Doesn't makes sense to me...

@suburbanbanshee 2 yıl önce

Some churches would be built outside the walls, because it was easier to bury bodies and because there were often inns, etc., catering to travelers who didn't make it inside the gates at night, or wanted to stay cheaper.

@suburbanbanshee 2 yıl önce

Also, if a monastery or bishop had lands outside the wall, you'd build a church on the lands you owned.

@amygodward4472 Yıl önce

Quite often, in larger towns, there would be two churches - one for the higher ground within the walls and one basic church just outside. Whether this resulted in a class division for the attendants of the churches - merchants and nobles who would live within the walls going to their local church and tanners and farmers going to the exterior church...I don't know