Why Are There Mysterious Human Remains Near This Iron Age Settlement? | Time Team | Odyssey
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- Time Team investigate an Iron Age settlement at the Sommerset levels. At first, this site would appear to hold an ancient walkway, but the discovery of human remains calls this into question. What was the real purpose of this area?
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Watching Mick trying not to laugh at Tony’s horrible pun was priceless.
I just love these guys! It is the original team… So sad we lost dear Mick awhile ago… he’s sorely missed. Tony is so young here!!🤣this was and is such a sterling show! Grateful to see these❣️🌟🙏🏻🥰
Is it just me, or did anyone else hear echoes of the original building team - learning as they went, laughing as they worked, and then standing back with other members of the community to admire the fruits of their labor?
Love your vision!!
I doubt they had much fun doing so back then.
Well said Cat woman.
These guys joke and jostle about what is, what is not, and what could be, just like children do. But in the end and in my humble opinion, I think they are very sure of what they need to do, or can decide on a razors edge what to revert to doing without hesitation, depending on the moment of the day or in particular on their inherently strong suspicions from their experience with what they have seen and discovered in previous situations.
I believe them to be a crack team of geological and artefact centered experts, and genuinely being dedicated people who are at the top of their game and give all they have to resolve their charge at the time of the request.
I suppose that's why they are the Time Team!
There's people like you who see that and then there's people like me who hear The echoes of the people destroying it and turning it into garbage like all humans do they destroy and pollute their own habitat and don't care about anything but themselves. Humans can be the scourge of this planet so thank you for your point of view because there's very few people like that and let's be honest when it comes down to it you still create garbage you pollute you don't care about things.
Stay off ma land!!! ☠️
This has to be one of the very best of Time Team digs! It has everything! Bones , tools, and laughter.
I live for this show please please don't stop posting these videos
Absolutely love this episode, the fireside scene with everyone around the fire struck a chord with me, the unique personalities of each of these amazing people are a cherished memory of this original team ❤️
Hey Odyssey All these video should have info season & epidsode number at least the airing month & yr would be nice; since you say this is a history channel
Holy crap they are all so …”young” in this episode. I loved time team it was a great show
That was really cool that Mick mentioned those burials in Florida. Sure do miss that guy. Btw that was the Windover bog bodies. I believe that was an 8k year old cemetery. Very rare in the states.
Miniminuteman did a vid on that site
If that had not been found in 1982 there would be no knowledge of it, since NAGPRA in 1990s nothing can be done and no knowledge will be learned from much archeology.
Oh no did he die? I haven’t watched time team in years I love this series
@@Niiiiith unfortunately he's been gone since 2013. Real pity
@@cuncata …. Well. Damn. Loved his crazy hair, brilliant individual and scholar.
It's amazing how much teamwork and ingenuity was exhibited by our ancestors in these types of projects 🤔
What a joy to see young "field research student" Jenni Butterworth. In later episodes she would be identified as Doctor Jenni Butterworth ! (38:50 to 39:40)
Loved watching the excitement of discoveries from the early days of Time Team. What a wonderful program.
The composition of the shot in the hardware store was brilliant what with the seed racks as a backdrop for discussion surrounding pollen, plants, species and their origins. That was really well done with having to use a local facility for filming.
I really liked this episode. All that amazing paleobotany and reconstruction, and the marsh environment are so fascinating.
I love the good nature's squabbling.
Young Tony … so impatient
smashing job of it , all !!! ... the Irish in me says "reward yourself tonight with two pints , one for each hand " !!!
‘Go away and poise somewhere else’ that’s classic!! 😂
Good to see these more rare episodes.
Anybody know what season this it almost has to be somewhere between series 6 and 10 because tony has lost the long bad hair but hasn't went to short grey/bald no offense on the bald part love this show and miss mick and the gang shame i only found this about 6 months ago but I've watch every episode that i can find too bad america doesn't have anything like this 🤬
@@johncarmon9528 ......season 5 episode 2
RIP Robin Bush & Mick Aston
And Victor of course, who at least made a decent age unlike Mick and Robin who were taken far too young
I love these guys 😊
Still love time team. Just can't beat it.
Very thought provoking series. It's been a useful tool within my own pre-columbian N. American research. Comparing humans in prehistoric Britain with those of paleolithic/archaic N. America there's a bottom line easy to see, people are people! Burial mounds to basket making the similarities including techniques are fascinating and question raising. Only real difference it seems is where they lived. Do these similarities indicate a recent common ancestry between them, or is it simply the result of evolution? I think it's a question worth asking.
Way too simple of a question.
It need not be convergent evolution, more like practical usage.
There are many more differences than where it is. Let me give you example-
You hear people say goofy things like "pyramids mean same culture" type crap. Yet if you actually compare say Mayan to Egyptian, they do not share much at all. Maya built rough stone walls and filled them with rubble, then faced the outside. Then they built walls on top of that, filled with rubble and faced the outside.... on up. Then they slathered on plaster on the outside.
Egyptian pyramids are blocks stacked or mortared together and faced with limestone or granite.
Maya had stairways on the outside and a temple on top. Egyptian had hidden access not used after the burials.
Pre-Columbian Europe is far richer in its offerings
@@christopherellis2663 That’s definitely not the case. North and South America offers a wealth of artifacts and much to be learned, we know very little about the ancient cultures that flourished, especially in Peru. So much to be discovered and don’t forget about the Cerutti Mastodon site.
I'm only at 42:00 minutes in and I think they are making one mistake with the upright posts. I think they probably would use the system that we still use in the swamps in my home are today. you drill a large hole in the post or plank you are going to drive into the ground, then you cut a LONG ironwood pole to put through the hole in the post. Next you have a couple or four guys holding the upright post in place and AT LEAST 4 guys will get up on the ironwood pole and start bouncing up and down. If you can find a large piece of ironwood about 4 inches in diameter it will easily hold 6 guys on it, THAT is a lot of weight to drive a post into the ground and it wont take long!
I believe ironwood is not native to England, therefore the original builders of the trackway couldn’t have used it.
What is better is to have an over size post driver tube of 20# with a 5" inner diameter with two handle on eacc side in the shape of 2 "x6" rectangle you can use it with a single person or 4 by using (2) 2"x6" x 6' boards slipped through and blocked in place and with added' just lift and drop lift and drop.,
As usual, very enjoyable as well as profound history.
Always time for a pint at the end of the day
Thanks so much for posting.
We live in a world when truth become the most expensive reality..
this is the biggest mistake. At the macro scale, outside of physical laws, truth is man made and conjectural to a particular society, history and survival strategy. It does not mean human societies made truth is not important, it's very important to have a consensus for a society to function, but that is all it is. This is a very difficult reality to understand for 99.999% of people and i don't expect you to understand.
It's interesting to see the cast 20 years younger than the current episodes.
i love all your documentaries. i would love to see one on the Sheela Nah Gigs of ireland :)
Just love these series
Wow, these iron age people must have really wanted to cross this area to put that much work into making planks, along with Time Teams effort to reconstruct what the bridge might have looked like.
Fantastic episode.
If they left that walkway they built up I hope they put a couple of labels on it. That way whoever finds it and tries to figure out what it's purpose was 3000 years from now doesn't have to play too much in the mud like they did.
I loved watching this show with my dad when I was kid.
O, a younger Phil. Also, Tony with long hair. Love it. This was probably before Helen's children were born. I know they are all grown now.
Time Team = elderly archaeology nerds!
With excellent leadership and communication skills.
My God! Phil is such a young looking man in this episode!
Oh my goodness!!! Tony has hair... awwwwww
Why are these Time Team episodes being titled and so many being re -uploaded on youtube? Most seem to be filled with adverts.
Thannk you.
So young. ❤️
Ad placement is terrible. This show has natural breaks for advertising but CZcams puts them in the middle of an important scene.
No ads if you use Firefox and Ad Blocker.
Bravo
Someone needs to help Tony out with his technique for swinging a mallet
Loverly!
Wow! TR with black hair!? What yr was it shot!? Must be the late 90's.
Here in 2024 enjoying again !
This is Season 5, Episode 2. I think the title was “The Trackway Through the Marsh,” and it aired in 1999.
Tony himself is almost prehistoric here.
i love how richard looks ike they ripped a celt straight out of 40 AD and gave him an archeology degree
Cool
Why does every show start with, "We got just 3 days to do it?"
That's the hook for the audience to give the episode a sense of urgency
All of them have regular day jobs, this is a w/e project.
Duhhhhhhhh
How much more might these wonderful people have found, had they been allowed more time on any given site? Three days? Why not a week?
The idea that Mick Aston had was to make archaeology interesting to the average viewer. Three days adds a little suspense; the professional archaeologists had real jobs, that they attended to Monday through Thursday; and there was the little point of financing the television show. So, three days. On some of the sites, the Team is called in to help with an ongoing dig, which continues after they leave. Or the dig continues by local archaeologists.
Definitely an Eowyn.
We shouldn't see LotR on Ideas anymore as Lego don't allow Ideas for current themes.
I like the Prancing Pony idea for a wide audience, I would like a Peter Jackson cameo minifig.
I love the Green Dragon, especially since I've visited it, on my to Moc list.
Lothlorien is on my Moc list too, so good to get more Elves.
I still love my Tower of Orthanc and would prefer a Barad dur before another Orthanc.
I've created Durin's Tower for the Balrog fight but Khazad dum is more popular.
Gondor rangers with an Oliphant is awesome.
Wow LotR CMF range ❤.
Greyhavens Ship would be cool.
Big yes to a fellbeast.
Lego already have Balrog and Fellbeast in the Lego Game and a Tom Bombadil.
I love Ents and have made my own Entmoot featuring Treebeard and 3 random ents.
Thanks for the vid, hope to see more Lego sets and your vids... easy to make it to the end when it's LotR.
Wonder when this video was made ? he looks a lot younger
like 1991 to 2002 date range
This episode aired 1998
@@annazaman9657 cpoyrighted 1998....this was season 5 episode 2
I dont know how i feel about them cutting down a 200 year old oak just for some recreation but... good episode regardless.
Back in the days when Tony still had hear.
Or even hair
@@elizabethfairlie8296 oops, typo
It would have been slippery 😮
70 paces, 175 feet+/-
WHEN was this documentary made, please?
1998 copyright season 5
44:06 could be Lemmy or Robert Plant
Ouhhh they just go handling the human remains like that :(( imagine if Phil just got handed your humerus
no offense to Phil
If I'm dead, I don't care :P "Stone the corws!" :P
Died hair and an earring? Slay.
When you recover human remains, like the bones in this episode, do you have to consult the local police and coroner to certify that they arefrom the distant past and not something more recent?
They can build a walkway like that, I'm sure those people had some kind of pile driver. Some kind of a rock pull it up, drop it down. pull it up, drop it down, big rock they were strong.
Why didn't they use smaller diameter hole starters to get the upright into the ground straight and held while they drive the larger support in? Or a three pole tripod with a weight to drive the pole in? Where do tree roots grow in a peet bog? Heavenly days even ancient people would have been able to use a string line or a set of sighting posts!
I've never seen this channel before, and I haven't watch the video yet but I will so I can figure out how the answer to the title could be anything other than "Because that's what a settlement is. A place where humans gather together and live. You would probably expect to find some human remains." So now I'm going to watch and see if there is a more obvious answer to the title.
A low-altitude sky burial?
So... ground too soft for small digger, but tractor can go back and forth for hours?
Tractors have a smaller footprint with those bigger tyres, rather than narrow tracks.
Where is this place?
Somerset Levels are an area of southwest England - just south of Bristol and across the Bristol Bay from Cardiff, Wales.
What happened to the time team CZcams channel?
I think the wood just broke down and fell into the ground
I love the hilarity and humour, beautiful people God save the Queen.
What's she got to do with it?
@Lotad-Is-Hungry all we know is... She's called The Stig
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It is a good documentary I love history but I just need to know where that guy bought that sweater that should be against the law lol
I heard that after the first couple episodes, a producer told Mick to wear something more colorful so he started wearing these crazy sweaters as a joke and it stuck.
Mick was ahead of his time 😀
@@123lodge8 i read something similar to that but i read that some lady actually made it for him after the producers told him that so he wore it and then she made others and also hats or what ever the english all them lol
@@johncarmon9528 even better. Thanks
@Jason Olivas....in some of the later episodes ( like past season 12 or so ) a quick eye will show a stuffed teddy bear, alongside
the computer technicians in the research lab, with a colorful sweater similar to the one Mick is wearing.
Physical labour ensures less waste of resources and effort
TT such a great show love watching tony and the gang just drift away in to relaxing TV
This documentary is more about 21st century social interaction in England than archeology. You can see how this group interacts and get wasted at the pub like englanders do.
And no mobile phones.
when and why did people cgange from living in circular dwellings a into square or rectagular houses.
090322. Alexis Despland, "cgange from living in circular dwellings a into square or rectagular houses."
Improvements in jointing material. When you only have shaped rocks or chiseled timber, it's more structurally sound to overlap the ends of your material. So eventually makes a rounded structure.
Introduce cement to joint bricks (Romans) or nails to join timber and all of a sudden you can create right angles and square/rectangle structures that maintain strength.
Smart question, housing and temples in ' the old middle east' were allready rectangled/squared before it was common to the European region . The ' foot' of pyramids is also a square aso ... . Could the devellopment from an organic ( round forms of floorplan) to a more mathematical ( square, rectangle) way of building had anything to do with having better living conditions ( more spare-time), abundance of workers ( slaves ?) or just some sudden rise of brainpower ( advanced tools ?) in the human species ? This shift in building style is also seen in the archeological sites of eastern-Turkiye, as GöbekliTepe, KarahanTepe and so much more ... . Yep , smart question indeed.
they are all invited for a cup of tea
so many adverts😔
Who knitted Micks rainbow jumpers?
His wife and some by fans.
#whatif
Discarded items could just be… discarded items! You’ve found rubbish pits in settlements, living close to the water these people would’ve probably thrown their rubbish in the water. Much easier than having to fill a pit when it’s full. The “all aspects of life dominating” religion only started when Christianity was forced upon the people. Before that their belief was in life itself, divinity was everywhere and in everything. Nature was God.
I will go to Cairo Egypt and the line will work the true treasure,
we of the Chun family that are here in america nowadays hope you check out our castle in outside penwith in cornwall, we fully consent to you getting archaelogical data or anything that furthers any understandings of anything even geology should you need the stones that remain of our castle, beneath the dolmen nearby is our ancestor chun. id even go as far as to give permission as a descendant of the ancestry to exhume his bones and confirm or turn the family legend that our ancestor there was a giant. these permissions i give to you toni robinson and your chosen team of whoever you deem worthy to fully study and use our old family Chun Castle and the Chun dolmen nearby. sincerely, Jody Golden, descendant of the Chun on my mothers side, tracked all the way back before the times of Lancelot and John Chun. formerly Lords of Fairlawne in Kent 1066
Why only 3 days?
bromma1979: They have only 3 days because they all have regular ‘day jobs’ during the week. So, they settled on a quick 3 days to get at least a start on historical sites. The uniqueness, as well as the importance, of their ‘finds’, determine if the sites are worth going back after in a full excavation and preservation.
The Wikipedia page explains it all.
@@marypasco2213 thank you
Is the DitchWitch too heavy?
the bichingue anno laciato his capital but a great bataglia escaping in Egypt e bacdad gold diamond giolieli the cavalry dressed in gold for the cause Della rebellion against Africa e schiavi
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I have a hard time believing anything out of jays mouth. 5 picks for the US open- Justin rose, Brooks koepka , Denny McCarthy , victor hovland , cam smith
Armstrong College videos
Why do you cut yourself so short on the time of doing these is it because the farmer has to plant and why don't you ask to do it sooner I'd really like to know thank you love you all
Apparently it had to do with long weekends. They would gather a group and work on this for a three day weekend. Then go back to their regular jobs.
uh, cuz people died there?!?!? duh!
I though the guy in the thumbnail was one affable youtuber.
Do you know how to get a male Archeologist to do the dishes. Tell them they are Roman dishes from the first century...
The reason the majority of archeologists are women is because they're good at digging up the past 😂
obviously three days is not enough to build anything.....back to the drawing board
History Hit ad again? Get some real content on your platform and people will pay for it. A podcast platform won’t cut it.
The three day gimmick is getting tiresome.
Since they all had regular jobs they could only get them together for an extended weekend. Not a gimmick it was a necessity to have the people on camera and afford the staff to record the video. I am sure you can take weeks off work when you want and can afford a film crew to be around for weeks at a time but they had a small budget.
@@badgerpa9 to begin with, most of them look to be retired, or should be, so this is a side gig. I would rather see them come back to a site than do a partial job and multiple sites. With 411,000 subscribers, sponsors, and TV revenue I don't think their budget is as small as you think...if they can afford to fly around in helicopters, they can afford to stay on the ground and dig. I am purely convinced it is for dramatic effect.
@@Step-n-Wolf I guess you do not know this is from the 1990s. They all had a regular job and had a very small budget that only grew the 3rd year. At least 2 of the main characters have passed on. What they did in the 3 days would help others decide if they wanted to spend the next few years at the site to write their Thesis. They have a very large following through all but the last year, they changed things to much and lost viewers. Look up "Time Team" and you have about 10 years of videos to watch. Tony Robinson also did other shows. This is from the old days in England and you do not get TV sponsors on some of the channels there.
@@Step-n-Wolf BTW to take a half hour flight in a helicopter used to be moderately inexpensive, they did not own it.
@@badgerpa9 I love that they are doing what they are doing. If I had limited resources and time, I would do it in stages, but it is more dramatic fitting it in 3 days. Thanks!
Care as act like she is in charge do not like her