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- Tony Robinson doesn't usually get to decide where the Team should dig, but in this episode he chooses his first ever site for investigation: a German anti-aircraft battery on Jersey. The dig director was Dr. Ben Robinson.
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As someone who lives in Jersey and has family (still alive) who were here during the war, its always fun to find a documentry on Jersey during this period. Glad i found another!
These shows are one of my favorites. I love archeology and history.
Love your facemask and hat bro maga all the way
All you have to do is tell Phill there may be a flint axe buried over there and stand back 😉👍🏻
Great videos.
put it in a monastery beside a bog... then you get Dr Francis Pryor and Dr Mick Astin too. lol
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"If you're tapping away at something that looks like this, stop tapping."
"Yes, is there someone available to look at my large ordinance?"
I can't say I blame them. In 2000 two Baja rally racers in North Africa (Algeria, I think) were killed by a previously undiscovered German mine left over from WWII.
Chances are any ordinance that they find here is not that dangerous because of exposure and ground contamination, water contamination. BUT, as with all ammo you never know. So it all has to handled as though it could go off any second.
@@Heegaherger They not dealing with land mines on this dig that would be a lot more dangerous @Thorsten did a better then i ever could at explaining what they are dealing with LOL
Great upload as always. Cheers.
40:24 "it's a machine gun post!" as he sticks a machine gun post into the ground lol.
At a local anti aircraft stand in Nürnberg we dug out a panzerfaust. We were kids but we knew it was dangerous. So we called the police. They were not happy to crawl with us through the wood! It's now 45 years ago and sometimes i still feel the shiver i had.
Great video, yet again.
I have always been interested in both Civil war, here across the pond from you all, and WW2 that took action in your neck of the woods as well, and all that went on from the time of Us coming over on D-day, all that gave their lives. Interesting find and dig.
This is amazing I'd volunteer free of pay to do something like thid extremely intriguing... wonderful
Dejan Jankovic. Chelsea. North Macedonia. Skopje...
You guys should go back in 2021 and do a followup on this one!!!
I finally came across an episode I've never seen! And it has one of my fav historians, Bettany Hughes!
She got an OBE last year.
I love Bettany!! Beautiful and intelligent. She's a double threat.
Me and my friends all like your videos thanks for years of dedication.
You single?
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Sounds luke the intro music has been updated. It's very good.
MORE time team plz. :) greetings from Denmark
Fascinating. Thank you.
12:59 looks to me like either a funnel or perhaps the flashing for a chimney that goes thru a tent roof
I was thinking chimney, may for a field kitchen
@@jehugo66 yeah that would do it too anything to funnel smoke of any kind realy lol
@@jehugo66 the other thing that came to mine was one of those acoustic early warning systems with the big ear trumpet things or maybe just a loud hailer / old timey megaphone or ever just a speaker from a pa system or an air raid siren
Man Tony is getting old :D Also love ya Phil you are my spirit animal :D
very good info
Was facinated when I was there in 1983, during a spring tide you could see many massive cannon barrels down on the shore
Still there
Them: hmmm that could explode
Also them: doesn’t call a bomb squad
Thank you.
13:40 during the war for independence the Americans created a fort with sand and wood walls as the defenses. It worked fantastically well. Later the fort was upgraded with stone walls. After that the fort fell quickly because the stone wall could not absorb or "eat" cannon balls the way sand could.
I watched a Chinese war movie that was based on that I think it was historical fiction so it had some truth. Stone walls I think are fine if you then add a sand barrier and wood or something on the outside edge. I’ve never seen a place that did that though.
If you’re ever in eastern US I toured the on fort where Francis Scott key wrote the national anthem. It’s a super cool fort that was by water so it was bombed by ships
Do you know the name of the fort with sand and wood walls? I’d love to read about it.
@@koltoncrane3099 I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the fort but I think it was around New England somewhere.
@@trentweston8306 I think it was fort Sumter. It's been awhile.
Oh the irony, steely and bronzy, Baldrick...🤔
Bettany Hughes, The legendary beauty!
She got real thick! she looks much better this way I like! :)
@@ezragonzalez8936 creep
-A spent shell, with no primer and 2 bullet holes on it, one at the base.
-"We have to dispose of it properly by blowing it up".
Come on... I know that the show needs some drama but that's pushing it.
I love this program more than any other on the History Channel.
Haha I love that wiley ol coot with the heavier accent and long hair! Especially his shorts!
Definitely can tell this is a British show from the reactions to even spent 7.62 shell casings. Here in the US, an empty case would be tossed in a finds try and a live round(of rifle caliber) might be handles a little more gently.
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It’s not a 7.62. It’s a German 7.92, 7.62 was a Russian round that became popular after WW11. It’s called archaeology!
I could tell it was a British show by their voices particularly
Any time they are digging wartime history it shows. It is a mindset that come from lack of exposure. I have seen this both in Europeans and in Americans who have never held a firearm. There is also the difference in cultural outlook, not only being from Europe, but also academia.
Even if you put it on a fire rifle rounds are not dangerous. The 20mm shells are probably explosive rounds tho
Weird to be doing archaeology on a site that's less than a hundred years old, but I guess that's one of the realities of it that you don't often think about.
Im glad all this happened. It makes for terrific history video.
Tony Robinson is awesome
From looking at the 20mm casing they found, it's empty. The whole front bit is obviously missing.
The fabulous Bettany.
Interesting how things are on this island. Some of the islanders acted humanely inviting soldiers to eat because they were starving. It is too bad that the starving slave labor was thought of as an untruth. Yet even if you could get food together, the slave labor would never have seen it. The artillery guns are huge. What size of horse team would it take to get a gun up to the site? As always a very interesting show. Thank you for sharing ♥♥♥
The 88s were not horsedrawn, they had their own carriage (another ingenious system "simply" adding wheels to the gun). The whole gun was drawn by heavy halftracks or tractors.
Pictures of some model kits :
www.google.com/search?q=tamiya+88mm
Grown man in a sand pit... Hey, I would like to play in one, we don't have those in Malaysia, unless you wanna be baked under the sun~ XD
My father was involved very deeply in WW2. Army Aircorps. 3 tours of duty. I'm 53. I served my country also.
You want a cookie?
@@jasonmonto4445 you want me to knock you out?
that funnel thing they talk about at 28:10 looks like top of a stil for making shine
The Dieppe raid was a rough one for Canada as they were earlier successful in Britain and Hong Kong
When the lady said , many times in history the men a of a nation will follow a tyrant and invade others lands!
The 1st thing that popped into my mind was the United Kingdom and there big history of tyranny on the world!
Did you mean their* big history?
Not a native speaker here so I'm confused.
Btw. It's not just in history. They're literally birthing tyrants now and people comply gladly.
Amazing what a tiny white face cloth can say. I guess humankind is ready to be under tyrants.
@Baxter James - I'm afraid you're wasting your time. You're talking about the realities of human nature to people whose petty xenophobia insists they think in terms of absolute good and evil - as I used to do myself when I was 5.
Just smile, and ask them to show you on the doll where your country touched theirs.
lol
18:26 is a german "losantin" container and not a razor case.
Poor Faye, she looked so worried about that bomb. I wanted her to get back far away when the guy pulled it out of the mud. Guess he knew it was safe but had me worried.
Was that 88 shell really live? I could not see any projectile on the end and it looked to have 2 bullet holes in as well. Was it blown up on the beach just for TV drama?
God I love these shows and I love Archeology..
The soil sure looks quite easy to dig.
When you only click because you’re from Philadelphia and your dumbass was thinking New Jersey lmfao
First aired February 27, 2011.
Love Phil.
Those Germans stuck on that island were the luckiest Germans of the war.
Very very true lol
Then there was always the Greek Islands....Santorini anyone?🌴🌞🥂
@1manuscriptman Still better than Stalingrad or the Falaise Pocket. Heck the locals even shared food with them.
After the ones packed off to North America.
That might have been one of the places Germany put its connected young men, whose families wanted them safe not to mention positioned.. I believe there was a presumption in 1940 that The British Isles would soon be conquered
Never seen 20 mm guns that big. A lot aircraft where armed with 20 mm cannon.
I freaking love Time Team!
As an ammunition reloader, I'm laughing as they find munitions and are terrified...
19:58 mark, bottom center, there is a pentacle in the lidar scan...check it out...
Is the geophysics crew ever enthusiastic? Always griping and pessimistic in every episode I've watched.
Right? I get that their work is tedious, but it has to be exciting too.
They always seem to be either grumpy that is very crowded (trees, geology, utilities), or they are walking for almost 30 kilometers get half a million points.
Did not notice that. They are just not crazy Americans.
"How's it look today? Nice field with some earthworks" 'Tony, it's an absolute nightmare.' Hilarious every time.
It's a obviously a scripted show.
I mean.
The arceologs always answer the same way
Everyone says the same things 😆
Oh wait, I just realized. Marta is in a bunch of historical documentaries! I knew her face was familiar.
When was this filmed?
Ok, being from Pennsylvania, I am sure Jersey isnt New Jersey lmao.
FYI 88 mm batteries operated with 4 88mm and 2 20 mm.
If you have three unexploded shells, and you add three more unexploded shells, what do you have?
Charley Noble for the bunker
Now we talkin New Jersey or Old Jersey?
Someone lost the island fortifications?!!
That's unbelievable.
Lol
The Nazis are gone?!
@@catofthecastle1681 wait what?!! Nuh uh!!??? I just saw one on the tele the other day!
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The Channel Islanders collaborated to a large extent, especially the constabulary and public officials.
They were deserted by the armed forces on the island. They came in hot, killing many. There was not much they could have done on the surface. A lot were doing subversive watches!
Did you feel the ions when you were on the middle of stonehenGe?
Bettany Hughes!? ❤️
Loving Phil's west country accent
Chuurrr
Did not know Stonehenge was off limits to people.
beautiful video and beautiful people
I think that one "unknown metal thing" may have been a piece of a toilet :P
I was thinking that too. Kind of a port a potti
couldve sworn ive seen this before. Like before sep,29 2020..
New Jersey?
There is a show on this island about ww2 . I forgot the name of it.
do they remember their government abandonning them? "the island was demilitarized and lines cut". they left them for the germans to take. that's horrifying.
Paris was declared an open city wasn't it? Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, the Brits withdrew and the Nazis moved in, but it was less death and destruction than otherwise? Same thing in Paris, saved from the destruction and death, not that the channel islands have the history of Paris, but as a cost effective measure it makes sense.
Then they had to go through the nightmare of absolute peace throughout the whole war lol
Oh my dad was an oceanographer geophysicist my God the things I learned from those scientists it's amazing what they don't make public
You just piqued my interest!!☺️
By chance, would you share with us
the thing(s) your Dad & the scientist discovered?
Thank you!!!🤜💥🤛☺️
hoorah you have found a stovepipe !!!!
I’m surprise you’re not using the Lindor technology it’s amazing what you can see underground with that Lindor
whats that
Do you mean LiDAR?
Lmao I see jersey and think new jersey, I was like wait what the Germans had a hold in Jersey? Oh wait nvm
So expensive to get to stone hinge from london. Molt'Liqour
A series of lumps and bumps that were very lumpy and bumpy
The 88's were chucked off a cliff at a place called Les Landes at the end of the war. Still there today. Guess where I live?
Time team FTW!
In WW!! trench art was very common,
where's Tino?
i see blistex worked wonders for you baldric me ol turnip
Stonehenge without tourists? Where are they, did ya CGi them off?
I was going to say... digging explosives doesnt bring th crowds. But it probably would these days.
Hoboken has always been an interesting place.
Tony unearths...? Since when has Tony...the presenter...dug up any earth?
trumps wet dream...his own fortified bunker island...to run to
Didn't they photograph, and record all this after the war? If no, why not?
You'd think there'd be more records/pics from both Germans who built/stationed there, AND whatever British group came in after the war and took the base apart. I can see the Brits not being keen on preserving the base as any sort of park, but some of those good German-engineered facilities could have been used for something. It would have called for a demolition team to come in and take it all apart. What do you do with several big 88s that are no longer wanted? And its amazing how fast nature takes back over developed land. Interesting, but my one big gripe is you advertise this with pics of big towers, but say nothing about them... only give us the little surrounding stuff.
They were basically slaughtered
I'm in love with Raksha.
Hence Bath.
All that equipment and no dictionary?
Potential does not mean possible.
This is an old rerun.
They're ALL reruns of this show. 😁 Time Team is no longer in production so there aren't any new episodes.
Boom!
I could watch Faye all day.
Thought that was crying Chuck in the thumbnail 😆
And here I was thinking that "the Germans" kept meticulous, and often damning, records of everything done, constructed, destroyed, etc. during WW2, ..........I guess C.I. must have been the exception to test the rule.
They did however there were a lot of sites, so some are going to finally slip through. Exciting!
It's a traffic cone!!
Wonder if they consulted German archives for information? Germans seem to have documentation on everything. I saw a different video in which lots of AA (?) guns were chucked into the sea.