Hero's Hill (Knockdhu, Co Antrim) | S16E03 | Time Team
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A previously unexcavated massive Bronze Age promontory fort conceals the remains of a sophisticated society.
Series 16, Episode 03
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1:29 Phil's face when his hat blows off... for a second he thought his old friend was going over the cliffs. 🤣
"While John throws his geophysical toys out of the pram!" 😂😂😂😂😂PRICELESS!😂😂
Absolutely!!
6:50 - Far future archaeologists will be roaming that flint mine and finding all Stone Age flints ... but also a few flints from the 20th century, and they will be puzzled. Thanks Phil.
Is there anyone who does not love Phil and his enthusiasm?
No it's impossible to not love it
Yes.
Even John does, even though he's always giving him a hard time!
I love at the beginning when Tony and Phil check out the flint mine and Tony speaks of the bulb of percussion on one of the stones. Years of contact with the King of Flint, Phil, has rubbed off. Love it!
Then he goes and misses the roundhouse at 10:17 - taking him back to the drawing board!! Haha.
I love when Phil says "soon you'll be addicted to flint like me," and Tony shut that down with a quickness.
‘The King of flint’. I like that title you give Phil.
Or.... he is reading off a script since he is a lifelong paid actor
Phil would love the Flint Hills in Kansas, lots of finds all over. Walk creek beds and find all kinds of flint weapon heads, scraping tools, knives, petrified mammoth bones, bison bones, etc…
I was just going through my collection of sharks teeth and to my surprise I found 25 tiny flint and obsideon (?) arrowheads! I would not have recognized how important this was if not for Phil. They are probably for birds by their size..1/2" and smaller. Some look like Christmas trees and some are Eiffel tower shape and a few are like tiny three pointed throwing stars. Beautiful smalls I collected sitting on the beach in the Keys of Florida. Thank you time team for teaching us!
Lol Phil's surprise/shock at Tony finding those flint leftovers etc.
It is scripted so really shouldn’t be shocking... tony is a lifelong paid actor who know zero about history (outside of acting roles he was played in historical documentaries) and he knows beyond nothing about archeology....
@@richardgrace4500 The series had been going for 16 years by the time of this episode was and Tony himself has said in interviews that he learned farm more than he expected due to the show etc. Sure it could be scripted or it could be genuine and phils response to me says it was legit. If Tony had learned nothing from the show after all these years then he's more of a idiot than I thought..
4:38 “while John throws his geophysical toys out of the pram...” 😄
Tony the peacemaker.....Da.
Francis enthusiasm is absolutely wonderful (his enthusiasm sometimes reminds me of Brian Blessed), it so clear that he has an enormous passion for history
yeah but if I took a drink every time he said "ancestors" or "ritual" I would be an alcoholic by now.
@@jaynedavis4667 And he's so damned dramatic, hands waving, head thrust forward and it always sounds like he's taking wild guesses about the place!
But no sense of humour watch him with philomena cunk😅 she makes him go up the wall!!
but obviously has massive anger issues
As a mechanic who went into engineering, I find the radar cart to be poorly designed. There's no reason it couldn't have larger wheels. You just use a drop axle. That would allow the sensors in the radar to be close to the ground but still having much larger wheels. You see the same thing on poorly designed for lawn mowers. The radar card was probably designed by electrical or electronic engineers. The frame and wheels should have been designed by a mechanical engineer.
A drop axle eh? What, kinda like this 0-_-0 ? I enjoyed ur comment v much btw.
You're right. The creators of this equipment never envisioned it being dragged across terrain like that. It was developed for finding pipes, services and cavities under lawns and other flat ground. I don't know enough about it to say whether the type of rig you're suggesting might interfere with their readings on certain machines. That said, this episode aired over a decade ago; hopefully they've made some improvements since.
Bro that’s funny. We don’t have an 😂 to click in this site, and that’s a bummer
Have a look at the new TT without Tony and see if those ones are any better.
Just watched episode of TT where they use a drivable machine with the 'detector package' on the front. Think it came from Denmark? Did'nt last long though, water got into its computer. Got it wrong, machine came from Sweden. Here's the episode: czcams.com/video/zf6NFWMLpDE/video.html
you gotta love the last statement, "this fantastic vivid compelling story, straight out of the archeologist´s imagination".
Yes!!! AHH!!! But Tony!!! It was once in the imagination of the people who built it too!
The feasting must have been rather mediocre, because of the lack of abundance in cattle bones found. So yes... Straight out of the archeologist's imagination. Tony rocks!
Love the education Phil gives Tony on the flint they found and the way Tony tries to impress Phil with his knowledge of flint making. Good luck Tony. Now, Tony gets lost in the fog when in reality Tony is always in a fog. If it was me, I would have headed for the local pub and gotten out of the moisture. Eventually Phil would have shown up.
Seriously tony and phil are so wonderful.
Bless Henry and his own finds with all that mapping. Huge respect for that unassuming man. Wherever you are Henry, God bless you. 🙏😊
Apparently he is a Professor at Birmingham.
Oko
The Ancients must have found that fog to be very mystical
_"That wind'd blow a pig into a coke bottle."_
My granny
LOL 😝
Damn that's a kinky granny
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Too funny!
Your granny had to be southern lol
Ohhh I so love Irish history !! Good job Time Team , well done !!
😘 me too,l!
But I love it when the "Standards of Science and Research" are followed. Mainstream Archaeologists don't really do this and it affects the story, almost every time. (You can't hold a Theory as your foundation if Fact. The 19th Century Darwinian Theory is Theory, and it isn't gaining any strong support from any venue. It will be retired 8n the near future and along with toy the Paradigm they created around it and its linear Timeline.
That will open the top on Everything History! It will be a delicious feeling of finding the truths and they will be wonderful. Not restricted by narrow minds clinging to a story that has been their idea of reality. That's sad for them but far greater for the whole of Humanity.
😘 G0 IRISH!!! 🍀
Spectacular! Thank you for showing my childhood home! Our history is often buried in the past, TT has brought it to life again. Superb, intellectually engaging episode. Thank you Time Team! Cheers!
hello from canada..we all love you..time team is back..😄
Nothing like history to while away hours of a lockdown, eh?
I went to Toronto a few years ago and couldn't get over how clean it was.
Hello from California...love you back...good luck with that tooth 😜
@@skiker6828 omg how did you know about my tooth.?
Hi from Quebec City
From Neolithic to Bronze Age, this settlement intrigued me. It puts a proper feel on how the "heroes," the cattle raiders, might have actually lived. Cool.
A particularly brilliant episode, wish there had been a part 2!
I'm currently in the middle of doing the Rosetta Stone Irish course and this video is giving me a pretty good insight into why Irish orthography is such a nightmare.
Phil loves him some flint.
He sure does. You can see it on his face when he finds a good piece of flint.
@@FrostyBalls01 ,
@@nancymccracken4405 what’s up
always remembur, keep yor shovell as shorp as yor flint
All I could think is that if he loves his flint enough to stick his hands between bushes upon bushes of stinging nettles - then that man truly loves flint.
What would I do without Time Team in my extended lockdown? Thank you!
What a masterpiece of Archaeology
10:03 - Awesome little moment - must have been great to have a bit of light-hearted fun in the bad weather. Time Team is full of those little gifts.
As an archeologist myself, I can appreciate the scope of this groups regional knowledge and insight.Very capable work for a relatively small group.Amazing really.
funny, I always heard negative feedback from archeologists claiming they are amateur hour and rushing their jobs.
In the whole of the Time Team series, I'm not sure there was a more perfect site for Francis to be the leader of.
Strongly agree! This is probably my favourite episode thus far: stunning location, compelling history and a glowing enthusiasm from the archeologists. This is what Time Team is all about!
Professor Pryor is the Best Time Team introduced us to. Smartest on the Show!
I’m delighted for any episodes with Dr. Pryor. He’s marvelous!
Love history can't get enough if it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
There is some serious engineering in these roundhouses. Mankind seems to have had incredible knowledge for a long time.
Yeah, conservatives know how to build... liberals just cry because there's no roof yet 😭🤯😭...
@@lunaokittens9574 Only Americans talk such shit. The red states are the poorest and least educated and are parasitic on the blue states. But don't let reality interfere with your world view.
@@lunaokittens9574 you Septics can't talk about building, you live in a third-world shithole that happens to have a few thousand obscenely rich people.
@@Anhorish so why is it the Dem cities and states that are always crying for federal money? And yet you say it's Republican states?? LMAO
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 It's not an opinion, It is a simple fact that you can check. The blue states subsidize the red states, Blue states send 100's of billions to the federal government more than they receive. Every state in the old confederacy receive more from Washington than they send in taxes. Red states are the poorest and least educated. This too can be easily checked, unless you think Government statistics are "fake news" which is the cretins answer to facts they do not like.
Francis was so underrated on this show but I just love him.
And John is so overrated 😂
@@christinecole330 Really think so?
To learn flint knapping from Phil would be great!
It's very helpful to watch these episodes with good quality CC.
Time team classics I’m pleased to have found this team time channel. With the 1080p videos 🙏🏼 I love watching these. I refuse to watch the 480p crap uploads that on here. thank you so much 👌🍻
Be careful about being too grateful for free content.
I love watching the episodes posted by two specific individuals. There were available LOOOONG before the official versions. And the non-official video posts leave in the very cool drum beats preceding and following the commercial breaks.
Phil is the best, wish I could pick his brains for a few hours, such an honor!
It's so lovely to see these videos back and accessible to anyone. I love them and link to them on my map of archaeology points in Ulster and beyond. I have well over 6,000 places so far and your videos are a huge addition. Thanks for putting them back on here.
Love the show. You guys find more interesting things in 10 min than the Oak Island dopes found in 10 seasons.
I have been thinking every season of Oak Island that they simply needed Time Team out there. Treasure vault? Found it at the end of day 3 with 10 minutes to go!
@@southilgurl2003 Maybe they need to meet at the pub?
@@StanSwan ah, but they also found there was a wharf area, or whatever you want to call it. Lots of folks landed, explored and then just LEFT
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 Oak Island? I think they lost Marty.
They haven’t found anything on Oak Island because there’s nothing there to find; that show is entertainment, not archeology.
Francis Pryor is the smartest most knowledgeable person ever on Time Team. It's a joy to watch him.
The difference between Mick and Francis:
They each find a piece of a pot.
Mick: It was probably a storage jar for grain or something.
Francis: It was a ceremonial pot placed here to honor the ancestors...
Or they hold up a small flat rock and say Oh look a tool! Ha ha I love these guys!
actually thats a sad disease historians and archaeologists have "dont understand what it is? Ceremonial!"
It is too easy to dismiss mystery that way and it completely ignores the fact that throughout history, people have done seemingly pointless things for reasons other then ceremony or religion. Art and decoration are reasons in themselves, for instance. But somehow it seems like they think art for arts sake only started around the late middle ages or smth.
@@pathwanderer1183 Far too much supposition in these areas. Many academics seem to think their ideas are somehow fact. It's a mental disorder of sorts and leads to bad results. The truly intelligent and balanced mind can reason there is insufficient evidence to form a factual explanation.
@@jeannettedeblois691 Errmm, they can say that because they can see it didn't get it's shape naturally, hence it must have been worked, and you don't work a piece of flint for no reason.
@@pathwanderer1183 "ceremonial" is a very broad term. At one end of the scale, sitting down to eat together with your family is a ceremony of sorts, just as a coronation or a state funeral is. But I do agree with you that archaeologists want to give grand meanings to finds they can't identify a purpose for.
Love the superior quality of these episodes. Thanks.
Gosh , Stewart - absolutely brilliant!
Brilliant,thank you Tim and the gang."kia ora" from New Zealand
Fellow NZer here, was thinking throughout the episode how much Northern Ireland resembles New Zealand. Awesome stuff.
And a third NZer... Always enjoy the banter between the team - especially Phil.
I can imagine the glee on Francis and Phils faces when John said he couldnt do the geophys. They love to give him a dig (pun intended) about getting back to traditional techniques. Friendship like that is a beautiful thing!
This is going to be brilliant. Loved this one
Look at that landscape! It’s gorgeous!
It was interesting for me to see this as my grandfather was from the Mull of Kintyre and pointed out this part of Ireland from across the channel and his forebears had come from Ireland. They also worked with stone but as roofers.
County Antrim is where my ancestors lived before coming to America.
The Graphics at the End are really goood and give a vivid picture of how it looked.
I love Tony twit with his head in the clouds over what a garden is to him!!
Love time team. Thank you so much for putting the show online. X
1080 makes all the difference.
Gorgeous, thank you.
Great episode, thanks!
To think that centuries from now an archaeologist may find Phil’s body & some flints of another date.😀
I miss Mick's centered, measured guidance. Francis says E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G is "Incredibly Exciting" and jumps to conclusions. Tony Robinson's last words in this particular episode -- "straight out of the archaeologists' imagination" -- underscores my point.
Yeah. Francis is only one of the all time giants of British archaeology, how dare he have a personality. Twat.
Looking forward, my Dad was born in Co Antrim and there is still family there. I don't think I will ever make the trip from the US, so this is the next best thing, I fear. I forgot to Mention, the family name is Robinson. Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Never say "never," or "ever," or for that matter, "never, ever."
Much easier to go there now than in the old days. 8 hours on a plane and there you are! Easy peasy.
Thanks I love all your shows
If you watch carefully youl see time team between the adverts 😁😁
What ads?
Ireland is an amazing place.
Phil and his lovely accent are not to be missed.
Was past here today. Looking spectacular covered in snow.
I bet it did
Phil found flint, your probably in for a flint making demonstration, always fun 😀
Oh snap I called it lol
Thanks for posting - interesting.
Breathtaking
Great episode. Though I can't help but wonder what changes there have been to the local climate and landscape over the course of those 4000 years. Somehow I suspect that both were somewhat different at that time of the settlement, but I do wish they had actually mentioned what it actually was so I wouldn't have to speculate. However, it was already a rather packed episode as it was and perhaps it was impossible to squeeze something like that in.
The climate? About the same as it is now - wild, wet and windy.
@@Happyheretic2308 I wouldn't be too sure of that. The climate has changed quite a lot over the last 4000 years. With both warmer and cooler periods- and that can be seen to have a significant impact on lifestyle, settlement pattern, agriculture, etc.
The old myths have a lot of magic fogs, people getting lost in them or things appearing out of them, so I’d say they got a pretty good representation of that when they were up there
reminds me of Tre Ceri on the Lyn Peninsula, which in turn reminds me of the cyclopean Tyrins of the mighty walls et al. Citadels of yore.
I was wondering what I could see on the horizon when in Scotland the other day.
Excavating the tractor, Weather Rules!
4:37 - Haha good one Tony!
A 'raider' community was actually my first thought, 'defensive' yes, but rather to 'defend' the bullies from those they were stealing from. With so few resources on the headland, how could such a community sustain itself? From an 'economics' point of view, each house must have been expensive as the resources to build them had to come from further and further distances, and be very well built to withstand the weather conditions. Additionally as the raiders continued to 'raid' they would have needed to travel further to find cattle herds to steal. Very interesting 'dig' which again creates more excellent questions! Love it!
'Bullies' and 'victims' can be used virtually interchangeably. IF you are the one being 'bullied' then you are a victim. Occasionally, victims also bully the bullies. Strictly out of self defense LOL
Robbery is a zero-sum game for society as a whole. Once Ireland developed kings who ruled more than their own hill fort, it must have made sense for them to agree to stamp out cattle raiding, which needlessly wasted property and lives. Much like our police forces today try to stop gang warfare, rather than let the gangs wipe each other out.
@@faithlesshound5621 I'm not sure whether cattle raiding did get stamped out, at least back in those days. There was so much romanticizing and mythologizing around it, I wonder whether it might have become a sort of ritualized time-honored tradition in more stable periods. Sort of the way neighboring villages keep rugby rivalries alive for generations as a form of sublimated and (relatively) bloodless warfare. Really it's anyone's guess, I just happen to like mine :)
The landscape was completely different then, for one thing. Don’t you people learn anything of history?
And we must dig them NOW!
I’ll fire up the JCB.My favorite digging tool😎
TIME TEAM, IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND....GREAT
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I use to watch this every Sunday evening I loved this show.
And dont always think todays climate is the same than some thousand years ago.
True. I expect there may have been at least a few more trees about, or were they importing them from Scotland? =^[.]^=
A little less pollution I would imagine.
Strange to hear it being pronounced Knockdhu, I get tempted with the Welsh, du being pronounced to dee and being the colour black. - so Knockdee
That's because it isn't Wales its, Ireland pronunciation is very different
Cnoic = Hill / Dubh = Black …. Love a bit of provenance etymology… Black Hill / knock doo …
Just loverly.
my mum use to just love time team all DVDs in her dementia period and guess what all the years later I am watching time team and live in Australia since 1989. I do not have dementia lol not at this stage
I could watch these on Amazon Prime, but I love reading all the positive comments that people leave on these videos, especially people from North America, given that I, myself, am a Canadian. Especially on the East Coast, Canadian culture is basically just British culture, so I feel like I'm learning about my ancestors from Time Team. Another few years, and I will likely take the dive and return to the land of my ancestors. North America is not all that it's cracked up to be anymore. It's golden age is over, sadly.
not on Prime in the Netherlands?🇳🇱😢
2:00 Tony looks especially like Baldrick here.
Seeing Francis look at a bunch of tussocky hillocks and identify a bronze age round house makes my heart absolutely sing
Excellent.
They always expect to find things at the bottom of the trench. I can tell you now, that if my mom was in charge back then, every scrap of anything would be cleaned away...
Love the irish culture 😍
clever ideas will always make their way into history books and into use forever
I hope respect was paid to the 'Gentle People' of the Glen's of Antrim
Every time Phil says 'actually,' take a drink! 2:40 and I've already had two.
You could die doing that! 😂😂😂
Our ancestors never cease to amaze me. Imagine how much hard graft their lives were. No wonder they hardly made it past 40 years
Phil Harding needs a Tilley hat. I've got one or two spare if he's interested !
Phil found his flint-loving soul-mate at this site it seems. :o)
No.
1/8 Irish here, one of my great grandmothers came from County Down. Before it became a part of NI.
One lot of my ancestors came from knockdhu ☺️🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
My Great Grandfather came from Larne, just down the hill
As a mother I often wonder how young children were managed on a site like this! Did they tether the little ones to the entrance of the Roundhouse or what I wonder? Surrounded by cliffs and ditches they would have had to arrange something. Great show featuring possible ancient ancestors.
My great grandfather came from Larne, just down the hill.
outstanding as always. I would’ve liked to know what those three black circles in the entrance really were for. obstacles against intruders?
If they were post holes, you can do something like that allow people to pass, but not stock, and yet you don't have to use a gate.
You know it's serious when they call Jackie in to dig eeeek
I’m surprised they got a bulldozer up there!
When Phil disappears he’s either at the pub or knapping flint, I would be even more of a bit deaf if I had that particular talent.
Wow, an American accent. Neat.
6:07 we'll make an archeologist out of him yet :P rip mick...
@d3adsoulja Mick passed away in 2013. :(
Relax, John. Sometimes you just do the best with what you have.
Brilliant