Time Team S13-E13 The Taxman's Tavern, Alfoldean, Sussex
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- Tony Robinson and the Team travel to Alfoldean in Sussex to uncover a 'mansio' - an official Roman coaching inn. Located on Stane Street - now the A29 - the mansio was at the heart of a much larger community. Time Team ambitiously set out to uncover the story of the whole settlement.
As trenches were opened over a 600-metre-square expanse of land, the archaeologists uncovered structures and finds suggesting that Alfoldean was once a thriving village, but that it suddenly fell out of use halfway through the Roman occupation of Britain.
Atrocious weather and the sheer scale of the site pushed the Team's resources to the limit. But with the help of a local school's archaeology students and some heroic work by Phil Harding and the diggers, Time Team revealed some remarkable details of a settlement that exemplified Rome's ruthlessly efficient control of Britain's resources.
I'm from Sweden and I love Time Team. A much more interesting programme series than Idol and Bake Off competitions.
I'm from the USA and agree 100%.
Cheers alot of my relatives live in Malmo...
All of the time team members are essential to solving the mysteries, but Stuart adds his expertise that is so important. I feel he is so underated sometimes.
Couldn't agree more Cynthia, Stuart is the one who glues it all together and sets the complete scene. I've worked with historic landscapes in the UK all my life and I take alot of inspiration from Stuart, and time team 👍👍
I feel the same about John Gater and his team. Trying to make sense out of pixels and data. Often times wrong, but so satisfying when they're right.
Everyone staring at Ian failing to saw a tree with a dull pruning saw and then Phil dryly taunting "That ain't much of a tool, Ian" man i died. Thought I was back on the building site for a second.
The gentle humour is wonderful. Mick and Tony drinking tea under the van awning while the poor bugger from geophys passes up and down in the rain between them and the camera. Comedy classic.
Poor John Gater
Got to love the British sense of humor it makes me long for the days of Benny Hill and Monty Python
(16:46)
Reijer, I just thought it was about time I said thank you for uploading these. They've been the high point of my evening for weeks now, as I work my way through the series. And there are still loads to go!
Watch it, they'll get their ponytails in a tangle.
He's only been thanked a zillion times. (Thank you, by the way,) Please, people, don't bother to thank him again. Read all the other comments for thanks first before adding yours🤡
@@eboracum2012yeah cuz mentioning that six years later wasn't a clown move 😂😂😂
16:46 - 16:56 one of the best bits of British’s TV ever, John walking through the foreground makes it brilliant.
Agreed, Tony and Mick were a great double act :)
Coronavirus pandemic, the second week of state of emergency and #stayathome or #ostanikodkuce worldwide. Rewatching TimeTeam for the who knows what time, enjoying it immensely, finding laugh, comfort, humanity and even learning something, every time. To TimeTeam fans around the world and all of us outthere who understand how unique, comlex, wondrous and fragile human life is, I send love and support from Serbia 💜
Me, too! 3rd time through this ep for me
Well said! There is great comfort in these programmes a sense of timeless continuity.
@Ann Fitzgerald Not here Ann eh?
Cheers to you from🇨🇦 Stay safe😀
Greetings from Miami. Long live Serbia!
Gotta hand it to those dedicated archeologists...digging in the rain and mud like they were still enjoying themselves!
Brochs were remarkably sophisticated for their time.
In effect, they were a supersize cavity wall structure.
Cavity walls didnt come into popular use for houses in England until the 1920-1930's.
With a cavity wall, the outside wall keeps the weather out, and the inside wall keeps the warmth in, making them a dry and pleasant living place. Given the typical Scottish weather, as seen in the program, dry and warm would be highly desirable.
Space between the walls could have also been used for storing food, and other materials.
With a Broch, they were also defensive structures, and anyone trying to break through the outer wall would have found themselves trapped in a narrow 'corridor' where they would be quickly eliminated. The steps within the space would also act as 'wall ties' to stabilise the two walls, and keep them together.
They would have also been ideal lookout towers, and the inhabitants would have been able to spot invaders, like the Vikings approaching, with plenty of time to sound the alarm and get people into the safety of the Broch.
Anyone close to the walls would have also been likely to catch a large rock dropped from the top.
I’ve never set foot in the UK but I’m obsessed with this stuff
Where else but the UK could you get an education in historical archaeology infused with such humour and insousiance?
Yeah, I find it addictive and therapeutic. Love the music as well as the jokes.
This episode is so exciting. They can't mechanically dig because of the power line and must dig by hand. They thought it would take forever to find anything. They find two parallel stone walls relatively fast. Then it just keeps getting better. Thank you for sharing this! I love these guys.
Even without the power line, they should have had to dig by hand mostly. There is only a very thin turf before hitting 'rock' (either natural or archeological).
Please people, read the comments first before adding another unnecessary one. Yes, two episodes have been mislabelled, which already was addressed over three years ago. And so what!? Obviously Reijer has put a ton of work in it for all of us to enjoy. So for once, give the guy a break, enjoy the series, or put a cork in it!!
Kees Tuinman; Right you are. Half the fun (well, maybe 10%) is reading the comments before I watch the episode. I get to see what to watch for and Stannous Flouride's numbers for Google.
Kees Tuinman the labels dont match......this aint right!!!!!
I really immensely enjoyed all the ones I’ve watched, so far. I have now only seen 13 seasons. I wish way more then just 20 years existed. As I’ve got family from some of the places they’ve been digging in LOL
Fuck you!!!
@@nielgregory108 do take a long walk on a short pier.....
I have seen Mick scrap in ditchs, older now he has the right to take it easy he teach so others can learn about time forgotton,with out him and others there would be no one to teach people about history! Thank You Teachers😃😃 England has lost a Great Man And Teacher.R.N P.Mick
You’ve never seen Mick “scrap” anywhere. No one wants to read your bizarre and pathetic groupie fantasies.
Enthralling, learning and laughing! I love Time Team and all their jokes and characters!
Nowhere else will you find as many series of Time Team ...
Thank You uploader for these wonderful series
I think the channel 4 app has all of them on box set.
Episode 12 and 13's titles and descriptions are swapped for some reason. It's a first, and such a minor hiccup in light of the 20 years that are involved in this series.
Reijer, you are and always will be the best. Thanks for your time and effort to provide this great series to us. We love you.
I was starting to think I’d missed something ☺️
"3 stones makes a wall" "Aye, a short one."
I like Mick. He wears a lot of handmade sweaters. He must love his wife or mother a lot.
The handmade sweaters were from fans of TT. Wearing the striped sweater was started in the first or second season. The producers liked how much easier it was to spot him on-site and it became his trademark. Fans of the show made him more of them, both identical ones and different ones as well.
I absolutely LOVE Time Team!
Can you imagine how secure it must have felt to live in a brock at that time. They must have felt like they had reached the pinnacle of home security.
Thank you so much for uploading this series!
Good point...that would be a bad feeling. lol
When I was 20 years old I would have argued against your conservative pronouncement. Now that I'm old I am forced to agree. lol
I can see the wisdom in that law.
I hope neither of my kids marries before 25 years old. Ten years ago it didn't occur to me to think about that. So that is exactly how it goes. We live and learn my friend and it sure is a great trip..ay?
broch!
Love this show. Really peaks the curiosity and wonder of the past.
I am SO enjoying these...... every evening I stream at least 2 episodes. I think Time Team was such an important and well organized show, and I thank you for putting them up!
when you put a broch on a hill, the hill becomes a brochen hill... and when the broch falls down, it's a broken broch, the hill isn't broken hill but it's still a brochen hill.
Well, that was a bit convoluted. 😀 Also a bit of a dad joke. 😃
If you say so!
The little boy was so cute!
One of my Top Five episodes..
Perhaps future generations will be able to build "time machines" and go back in time and observe things that were done.
I'd be happy with a camera that could do it.
And lot of very wet archeologists, many of them of undetermined date and design...lol... I loved this guy for all his career. He is so funny.
Go, Dougie, go! Bless him.
Tony: Mick, I don't understand why people go on Mediterranean holidays when they can enjoy the great British summers.
Mick: Nor me, nor me. It's ridiculous, isn't it? Go camping, instead.
ROFL!!
FYI - To me my Best summer holidays have been escaping the Texas HOT heat and visiting England, Wales or Scotland...but in B&Bs!!!
Debbie Cooper
Do not forget to pick me up next tyme you go...packed and ready.
Hey Debbie did you ever go on a driving tour from Bath? I was a historic tour guide there, going to Cotswolds, Stoenhenge, Avebury etc, and we had a few Texans come through who loved the weather. Lovely folks all, my love to you and the USA ❤
... Reijer ... as a subscriber I can not only excuse but understand screwing up an uploaded videos description or title ... fret not we couldn't care less. You have managed to "bless" us all with episodes that we have never seen of our favorite TV show. I've been awakened by a CZcams Email daily at 6am for the past few weeks and I think I've watched 'em all. Hours and hours. Thanxthanxthanx !!!
One of my favorite TT’s anyway!
managed to steal someone else's intellectual property.
Love this episode - I saw brochs when I visited Shetland, especially the amazing Broch of Mousa - despite horrible weather they kept going and got a result.
The best episode I have seen in ages. The Best as in satisfying,there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of guess work involved and also it paint decent picture of an age we dont know to much about.
I love these. They are my new obsession!!
Mine too!
"We've never worked in such rocky soil!"
I've got 6 acres just like it in NW Washington State in the US. On the bright side, there's a free stone wall with every hole you dig!!
3 stones make a wall, after all 🤣
Kitsap!!
@@danyael3546 Skagit!
Daniel .Watrus ditto
@@danyael3546yay another Kitsap!!!!!
Thanks so much for posting.
It's scary that I can identify Phil from just a shot of his boots.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing with the world!
Great line @ 4:31 - 4:37 perfectly delivered..LOL
+CompetitiveAudio It certainly was a classic!
I've watched that several times, and I laugh every time :D I'm a big fan of 'that's what she said' type of jokes.
Thanks for the uploads! These are wonderful antidotes to the stresses of grad school & perfectly pleasant + educational!
Thank you for posting these.
Thank you , Mother.
I'm loving micks campervan
Matt.
This wonderful series & this one in particular, illustrate that our ancestors were on the same intellectual level as the 18th & 19th inventors, just with more basic materials
"Oh and, we're right underneath an 11,000 volt powerline." Ha ha ha! Haven't heard Tony say that one before!😄
Back a few decades an archeologist in the UK proposed in a book (!!!) that the drystone walls, as in my North Yorkshire Moors’ s Rosedale and , in fact, throughout Britain, were not walls per se but instead were ways of stacking the rocks [ out of the way of the feet of animals (cattle) ] which yearly keep emerging from the hillsides. I recall being incensed by what I perceived as a fatuous supposition.I still do because instead of being either or they are both and the farmers who built the walls, often 6’ high, were simply using AVAILABLE MATERIALS and running most of the upland walls the shortest way up the inclines as that helped support the structures. Now, to slightly add credence to that author’s claims, now that wire fences have taken the place of stone you do find rocks in casual rubbish piles as there is presently little use for them except as landscaping or road support adjuncts.This comment stimulated by discussion at approximately 23.1.
Great episode
"That ain't much of a tool Ian." - Phil
"I've heard that before. " - Ian
So often the English are pictured as stodgy, boring, and humorless. Other than the upper crust I find them hilarious. I'd love to tip a few pints with this crew!
@@kenmadden6294
I never heard that the English were humorless.
They are very well known and liked for their sophisticated and sometimes very dark and cruel humor :)
@@kenmadden6294 we've never ever been described as humourless we're known world wide for our humor
@@kenmadden6294 I've had that pleasure; it was hilarious and I had the best time of my life. RIP Mick 😢
@@kenmadden6294 Please Note: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_comedians
Afoldean or Scotland - you just know you are in for a great programme : many thanks.
I really enjoyed this one. So interesting. Thank you for posting
Reijer! Thank you!
How in the world did they manage to find that little glass bead in all of that mud?
*Linda Doggett*
Good eyesight - and I'm not even joking!
Very much appreciate being able to watch these.
Being the meat and potatoes under Archaeology in my list.
Reijer Zaaijer and Stannous Flouride; Thank you both. I wanted to say that I just wish I was smart enough and well educated enough and had enough knowledge and training to do half the stuff that you two do.
Mislabeled? Who cares? You know you'd have watched it anyway with the right data...
Soooooo....shaudup. 😂
😀😁😃 It's just incentive to find the right title & see if it matches this title. Also gives you an excuse to watch another episode.
The overlays are rather well done for the timeframe this was produced
Tony: "He's a big geezer ..."
The ancestor of the castle. A home for the chief. It serves as a viewpoint. It serves as a refuge when the group is attackedA proto donjon. Later on, there will be another wall added.Pardon my English.
I like to see you dig in Newfoundland Canada. We have rocks with soil instead of rocky soil.
The ring shape of the probable possible broch is visible in the grass here on Google Earth:
57°25'48.9"N 5°48'52.4"W
I remember the first time I ever heard of a "Broch" it was the science fiction movie "The Man From Planet X" (1951) directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
"There can be only one."
For a good idea of what a Broch would have looked like remember Highlander the movie. After our hero has been banished from his tribe he is living in a sort of Broch (a big one I'd say but still round and stoney.)
I wonder why they would build a Broch so close to an 11kv power line?
Stupid statement, power lines are newer than the broch
@@jeeleal5084 Oh my you are an intelligent one.
No sense of humor either.
Um duh, obviously Bronze Age civilizations had massive coal powered 100megawatt power plants!!! That’s why they’ve found all of those Bronze Age smart tablets and lcd TVs.Hahhahahaha😉
The structure would make a great navigational landmark, for approaching sea vessels.
I like Brachs. Really good candy
kvarietyfan Very punny. LOL.
Mmmm butterbrachs
The episode S13-12 was The Taxman's Tavern Alfodean. This is Scotch Broth Applecross Near Skye. Someone has confused your uploads. This can be very frustrating for those of s who keep rewatching them.
This episode is Time Team Season 13 Episode 13 'Applecross' NW Scotland.
I am just putting this here for information
Episodes 12 and 13 titles have been switched. The Taxman's Tavern is S13-E12's proper title. Scotch Broth, Applecross is S13-E13's proper title.
I don't think its a broch, it would had come in contact with the powerlines ;)
That is exciting they found a Brock!
A badger?
time for Tony to come to British Columbia and try the mountain logging roads.
"Broughologists. . . " Good heavens, I thought he said "proctologists!"
Both do a lot of diggin around in the muck 😂
a small fire making smoke, a bellows to test air flow .
and confirm seperate rock builds
'Brochologist'. Probably Time Team invented a new word here... ;-)
Ive never understood the rejections on CZcams simply switching to something else is such a easy thing, why would you stay long enough to be disappointed?
Sometimes people actually watch a YT video first but, other than that, I agree.
This episode and 12 seem to have their labels crossed.
first use of insulation. Air space.
We don't not not have a broch...lol
What happened to the legendary Zanab?! I miss her pertinent and exiting input! 😂
Indeed!!!
The titles on this and the Applecross episode are mixed up. This is Applecross, but says Alfodean; and the Alfodean one says Applecross. Still, both wonderful episodes. :)
Kate Miotto Yes...and also it's Scotch Broch not Broth...LoL
Mz MM Surely Broch to Broth is the fault of autocarrot! Or spellcheese.
I enjoyed this comment.
first time ive seen Mick without either his rainbow sweater or hat...must be in the wash............hang on, there is something rainbow-ish on day two.....and there it is in all its glory on the final day
Rainbow sweater IS here,under rhe
Raincoat as seen in rhe first minute of the program..
This is Applecross in Scotland...
21:34 'A big round structure of indeterminate age and design, a pit full of rubbish of indeterminate age and design and a lot of very, very wet archaeologists. many of them of indeterminate age and design.' Brilliant!
Sorry guys, but this episode is labelled wrong.! I love this episode, 'coz I was a builder, & this about a Scottish Broch, but Alfoldean, Sussex is way in the South of England, halfway between London & Brighton ! Confusion bothers me !!! WTF is going on ??? I was thinking that I would get some dodgy underground vent for a barley kiln (if memory serves) but this deals w/ Scottish boulders & glacial erratics etc. !!! Wake me out of my confusion, please LOL ! This does not make me lose any affection for the Series, or Herr Zaaijer (Guessing this dude is German or randy Scandy, as S Toksvig puts it). Cheers! From a grateful Yank !!!
ok so after watching many of these vids, I love them by the by. Why do you always only get 3 days to do the work?
This is actually the 'Scotch Broch' episode. Still fascinating, though.
The startling thing I realized was the fact that even though prehistoric man only lived half as long as modern man , he spent an extraordinary amount of time constructing structures from materials he found in his environment . His outlook on life must have been full of fear and dread . Thus his hope of an afterlife drove him to spend inordinate parts of his life constructing religious structures as an expression of his desire .
The ONLY reason why life was short was because they often died young from injury or nasty diseases. If they survived that, 70yrs wasnt unusual at all. In fact around the time this structure was built, someone was writing about humans living 3 score and 10years in palastein.
Scary 18 mile bend? I'd pay to take my Mustang there and camp on that ridge!
Anybody notice that this is not the episode the title says it is? It's about
brach's in Scotland, not Roman taverns in Alfodean.
Roboviewer Yes. We know.
45:10 something like this is to be found in Mozambique
Those Brock experts what a cagy bunch.
I keep wondering if archaeologists have heard of this modern thing called a weather forecast.
+RogerWilco Ah, yes, because as we all know, weather forecasts are *always* reliable over the weeks and possibly months in advance that these kinds of digs have to be planned in.
Apparently you missed the part where they said they had a 3 day window to complete this excavation.
What job do you stop work because it's raining? With outdoor jobs, you often have to work in the rain (especially in the UK) or you don't get paid, people know that before they train for the job
At 45.40 they discuss possible alternate uses for the brough. How about, since it is almost the exact shape, it was also intended as a lighthouse and/ beacon in order to catch early sight of invading Vikings and others.
Vikings are much later in date. They are (depending on where you are of course) ca. 800-1000 A.D. Brochs are from c.a. 200 B.C.-200 A.D., give or take a century on either end, but definitely not built with Vikings in mind. I don't really think that there were that many raiders in that part of the world coming from the sea, that it alone would justify the huge effort to build it. I think if you combine all the various practical aspects mentioned in the episode of a broch, defensive, indoor climate, status symbol, together they would justify the investment in effort it took to make one.
What are they doing in north west Scotland, when the title say's they should be in Sussex, England?
at 13:15 If i look i can see that the grass where they are digging is way more yellow then the rest of it, so no suprise they find something!
Love this program! One has to wonder who paid the brochologists to keep changing their minds as it was or wasn't a broch? Does anyone else out there think Phil and Francis have told the experts to keep changing their minds just because it is so much fun irritating Sir Tony? He, Tony, wants things quick and easy where Phil and Francis take their time not jumping to any quick conclusions. Me personally, would rather have Phil and Francis and Mick.
Who provided/paid for the labor needed to build this thing? I wonder if the owner wasn't the biggest farmer/merchant in the area, but rather that he owned all of the land and collected part of his rent in labor.
I wonder why the Scottish specialists did not start digging at this site instead of waiting for the time team to come?
They seem to have hundreds of sites and they get a TV show to pay the cost for this one.
This episode is mislabeled. It's about a broch near Applecross.