This is one of those episodes that truly marks the original time team …..team as great ….the presenters , experts and film crew wing a lot of it so so well and that is true professionalism and passion for subject

I can watch this for hours. Beautifully produced, great team, great photography, great music! I also really like that unlike most in the genre of reality shows, people are repectful, and seem genuine and authentic. Awesome program. Love, love, love the team.

Everyone loves Phil, understandably so, but I also love every episode Sandra is in! So spirited and fun.

Tony really changes with the episodes. His mullet was replaced with a chin beard which was changed to a clean shaven face. We’ve watched all of the guys age proper. Mick and Phil stayed somewhat the same.

'Stewart's already out and about, doing something strange.' Couldn't stop laughing after I heard that.

I watch these over and over! Just love the vibe between everyone and I end up learning so much! Amazing though, how they always know so much just from looking at a tiny sherd of pottery!

Phil had a slipped disc and was on an ambulance for 3 days! He revealed that in an interview. He and Tony were in every show they made

You guys are really good at picking out all of my favorite episodes to load!! This is probably the earliest of my favorite rewatch episodes in terms of initial broadcast. I love the range of times and types of locations, all in one site.

One of there best shows. Even had two future TimeTeam employee in it. Tells you how much I watch TimeTeam 💋

This show is a time capsule for computers and geophysics.

Watching this old episode right after watching the two new digs, I miss the clarity and continuity of the presentation. I prefer the little things, like highlighting where the change in color in a ditch shows up. And I really enjoy the recreations of what life was like in the time the site was in use. I hope future digs include some of these things, as it transforms the program from a dry (and somewhat confusing) documentary into informative entertainment.

This whole episode was fascinating! That strapend was impressive how they made it the way it would have been originally and it looked perfect, beautiful. That loom weight was exciting.

I've come to appreciate many episodes of Time Team but, I must say, this episode was truly impressive. The swordsmiths of that time period were indeed masters of their craft. It's been a long time since my training, but if I recall correctly, it takes about 200 pounds of force - or about 900 Newtons - to perforate that area of the skull. This was indeed an interesting episode and I thank you for posting. Be safe folks 🙏

27:57. "I'm good at rubbing out" hilarious. This was a great show. I can't wait for the 2 new episodes that are going to be made. Good luck you guys.

Of all Victor's drawings, that last one is my absolute favorite.

I don't believe I have seen this episode before. It is fascinating.

Keep them comin, I love the time team, so educated and well spoken

I love the logical and simple way of the lying in the field shows how cool it is when looking for earthworks!!

Great to see them all young again :-)

Isn’t this the first time we see Paul Blinkhorn the pottery expert?? 😄.. because he’s a fixture later on in many many episodes..

"It's not your loose change." In a recent Time Team interview Helen still blushes when she thinks of that line that reportedly followed her for years and years among her peers.

Enjoy your videos 📹 😊 here to help get your videos out to everyone 😀 please keep them coming can't wait for the new Time Team to start up again 😀

Every time Carenza pronounces the preposition "there" my Texan heart flutters.

Is there anyone who wasn't living there at one time or t'other? I can't decide if Stewart was waving in planes or learning to swim! I do love Stewart! He'd be the kind of person I think would be fun to invite to a dinner party.

Wonderfully done everyone!

It was later determined that the skull with the part chopped off was a surgical cut and not due to sword strike

Stewart shall be named "Sir Dances with Topography." What a brilliant chap. Touche.

Phil would go bonkers on the Jicarilla Apache or Navajo Reservations in the 4 corners area. Arrowheads and pottery still litter the ground everywhere, on the surface. At 37:40, where they lie down to see the hill, you can actually do this in a calm lake and lower yourself into the water til it's just below your eyeballs and you can see the curvature of the earth.Try it sometime.

Very educational really enjoy these series

I've rewatched this and something came to mind. One does not build a church alone and not in one day. Where did the stonemasons, carpenters, labourers, cooks et al live while the building was under construction? That must surely have left a mark on the ground?

A big thank you TT for fixing the sound balance :)

Please keep Sir Tony Robinson on the new Time Team!

“Our man fell dead from a gruesome sword blow slicing across his head!” No one: Phil: “Hooray!”

Time for a rewatch of this, poor Sue having Tony raving on really loud just inches from her ears in the incident room, twice!

Good to see more early episodes.

OMG, it took 10 people to follow Mick and Tony around the treches :)))

It's exciting to imagine that Phil could find an arrow head he made in a previous life?

Gracious I cannot get over how low resolution TV used to be back in the day. I have no memory of it ever being this bad even though I'm 30 years old, and surely was watching this type of resolution at the time and thought it was a okay. We truly have become spoiled with HD and 4K video. As always I love the content and please keep releasing more episodes as soon as possible.

I recon that this chap with swordblow on his head was actual a woman, or better a nun, who survived the blow for some hours and they tried to save her live. She died on the table of the healer. I think, they found it out within the post dig analysis and aired it in a christmas episode.

I love all your shows. Thanks

38:43 *"a local pottery expert"* - this is the first Time Team episode with Paul Blinkhorn! (a.k.a. "Give me 1 cm and I'll identify your pot!")

Dang the Time Team hustling to each trench like they discovered a super Roman villa 😂😂

Once again i ask, where can i order the entire Time Team series on DVD?

I'm a big fan of the restrained Phil.

I lived very near to that site and drove past it every day without knowing anything about it!

can we all just agree that this is the best series of videos uploaded in 2021? love it so much

Is there any hope that some time the extended live shows may be released as videos? I know you had a lot more content then this hour for the show.

Is this one of Helen's first appearances?! 😃

i wonder why ive never heard james may mention time team... he seems like hed fit right in

Great episode. Feedback for the people running the channel: if in doubt, aim for the most original reproduction possible - aspect ratio, white balance, audio etc etc.

How do you have a Norman Church ruin on your farm? Do you buy it? inherit it? Does it increase the value of your property? Blows my mind

Victor "I'm good at rubbing out." 💜🙏💜 Rest in peace dear man!

I want that Mick Aston doll so bad!

This show confuses me greatly some times. How is it that the coast line in this area is so much lower than it used to be if sea levels have risen so much in the last 10,000 years? England was connected to mainland Europe up until 8,000-9,000 years ago, then sea levels rose and that connection was severed. So has the area they are in uplifted because of receding ice sheets, or have sea levels dropped since the flooding of Doggerland?

Tony is also a comedian and actor who has to change his looks for his roles he plays

Near the end, that broken piece of a Saxon ceramic loom weight.. I'm pretty sure I'd have mistaken it for a rock. It boggles my mind what these people can see in tons and tons of dirt.

Yankee commenter here-HOW LONG HAS THIS SHOW BEEN ON? Tony ages and gets younger in each episode I watch, love it all, good thing I don’t live over there, I’d be digging everything up looking for artifacts!😂😂

Omg, sandy was on this show! I know shes done other things, but i just know her from QI

When Tony drives and talks it is nerve wracking!

"I'm good at rubbing out," says Victor! 🤣 Does that mean the same thing in Britain that it does in America? 😂

This is my home town, not seen this one but always wanted to go to the church as just a little further down is also Castle Rising and then further Sandringham house where the Queen spends Christmas

At the beginning of the video, Tony says they are doing this live, but this video is only a little under 1 hour long and the dig is 3 days.

I always watch these and try to find the sites on Google earth. I use the site description and the aerial photos and such, but I don’t know why I do it. It’s just an exercise in frustration, lol. If it’s not a famous castle or tourist site then I find them about 2% of the time. “Near Kings Lynn” and “Over there is the sea” just didn’t help. I guess things change dramatically in 20 years, I can’t even find the road configuration shown in the photo. .......I should really stop driving myself batty doing that. 😂😂😂 🇺🇸🍻🇬🇧

Probably the funniest description of Norfolk I've ever heard was from Jeremy Clarkson when he called it flat and featureless county.

38:37 pity Phil was injured - he missed out!

I have a question about the farmer getting his field back...does he? And continues to plow over those filled/excavated finds?

Excellent choices by Time Team for the narration and 'non academics' Love Sandi Toksvig and Sir Tony, their personal passion for history is enjoyable to see.

Perfect timing for a new (old) video!

I totally forgot that sandi, who does GBBO, also did time team sometimes.

1999, the neolithic of TV. When "aspect ratio" was not yet a thing...

34:12 and 35:01 Look at that amazing number of film-crew members following Mick and Tony! Remembers me a bit of official propaganda broadcastings with 'the great leader' of North Korea - Kim Jong-un - and the usual bunch of 'dedicated followers'...

Maybe a silly question at 23:40, but given that the compass didn't arrive into the west before 1190, how do you align a church precisely west-east?

John Gater is right a lot of times.

Fun to see Helen with symmetrical hair. Later she always has that asymmetrical 'do

How many pottery experts are there in England.

Lol the show when Tony got his first hair cut!!!

love the show but i have to ask ..What do you do with the remains that you dig up? They are some ones ancestor your moving from their resting place.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this Helen Geake’s premiere episode?

Oh, Tony - at 32:35 - never drink from a horn with the point turned up - that's a good way to get doused with the contents!

Beware of archaeologist who make you do push ups in an empty field!!! Lol

I think Sandy is wonderful. I watch QI all the time. She is just as good if not better than Steven Fry.

crack on, good luck! ha! perfect! it'll be difficult, but we'll give it a go! If we can convince phil to lie on an upright stretcher and just supervise (very important position) whilst eating grapes and being fanned I think it would be worth it. Might be too roman for his blood. Someone else can man the shovels and picks either way. You still have matt, right? And what about the overqualified ladies from the extreme archeology program? Love them all, of course, I've seen Katie Hirst and Alice Roberts on your program, but where is Meg Watters? My favorite moment was "no, I'm NOT happy, if my equipment was delivered this morning, as promised, I could have..." great balls of fire. Gotta love strong intelligent women. Scare me more than any burly man, and rightly so. My favorite allies. I call them battle axes. I don't know why, but it seems to make a lot of sense. My grandmere would have loved this program.

I'm interested in the rectangular patterns at 9.28 that is ignored.

Tony with hair. I feel young again. Also, that seriously looks like bad green-screening in the open. The background music sounds so much like Howard Shore's Hobbit themes. I'm guessing it's (vaguely) medieval, which shows the research Shore put into his composition.

Helen!! Look how young she was! Teenage almost

Sandi doing yoga! Brilliant!

This kinda hurts, but ... it must be done. After a heckuva lot of research... Francis Pryor is absolutely right. Not on every site, but certainly on many, if not most. It was all 'ritual' landscape for the ancients. In a weird form of emotional and psychological 'transference', they *lived* out their myths and ancestor archetypes/motifs - in real life. Start with Sacral Kingship and ancestor worship - which they undeniably did - and follow that up with the deification of their ancestors and royal families and chieftains. "As above, so below": What they saw around them, in their families and tribes, and in the world around them - was a very direct and real reflection of the gods themselves. iow, their gods lived among them. They were so certain that 'magic' was real, it never entered their minds to question the idea. e.g. play an MMPORG with magic and gods. Now, imagine that sort of thing happening all around you, irl. They couldn't imagine living any other way. That *was* the world of the ancients. Their worldview was not our worldview. It was *nothing* like our worldview.

Please upload this again but in its original aspect ratio.

Regarding the drawing at the end of the episode - it shows the horseman riding in one direction and swinging his sword in the other. Not likely, I'd guess. More like he'd use him momentum and swing forward in the direction he's riding.

Boy! The ancients sure threw their money around.

Looking like some crazy gophers , doing pushups !

SANDY IS MY FAVORITE!! Love when she shows up 😍

Phil looks like he’s in pain so sorry his knees and back really do get punished he works too hard someone please buy him a wee dram from me

You’ve taken a 4:3 picture and cut it off on the top and bottom to make a 16:9 aspect ratio.

32:18 That is *_not_* buttered wortes. Buttered wortes are boiled greens. That looks like salted fish or something.

Neil in this episode... Rather plump... Makes Tony look thin. Later episodes he makes Tony look fat because he is so thin. Oh how people change over the years.

I'm a bit ambivolent about metal detectorists. And archæologists. One will take what he finds and sell it on to someone who will appreciate what it is for just that. Others may, or may not, see the artifacts they find. Archæologists find stuff and hide it away in boxes and universities where only a priviledged few may see them. I wonder which is better....?

Thx for the upload. I'd rather have black bars and not have a chunk of the original video cut off.

Would loved to have heard more from the vivacious blond seated at the computer, what a knockout.

They now know that the man with the hole in the top of the skull was a woman and the wound was a result of a surgical procedure.