Siege Of Basing House: The Bloody Mystery Of Tudor England's Grandest Home | Time Team | Chronicle

Published 2023-05-03
Time Team rubs shoulders with royalty when they visit Basing House in Hampshire. It was once one of the grandest homes in Tudor England and a haunt of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - until it was destroyed by Cromwell during the Civil War.

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All Comments (21)
  • Cromwell destroying everything and Henry destroying the Monasteries, continues to devastate me.
  • @bella151272
    For a long while I thought Stewart and John were the same guy 🤦🏼‍♀️ love them both. I cannot get enough of this show, I watch it every day 😍
  • @time_for_fast
    it's an amazing thing to suddenly learn of the sheer size of these buildings being able to entertain several thousand people and just think of all the space needed for those Elizabethan collars
  • @diane8885
    I thought I had seen all of Time Team. I missed this one!
  • @ghrrum
    God, I love Phil. He's a delight.
  • @tgbluewolf
    1:40 Tony: "why does it look like a flying saucer?" the History Channel: "hold our tinfoil hats"
  • @brianle1593
    Love your videos. I’ve always wondered, how does a building get buried that deep? Is that a normal occurrence due to time? Quite interesting.
  • @johnhere59
    this is so old the computers there using has been E-waist for 30 years now.
  • @balderii7340
    The queen came there with 1500 people… that’s ridiculous! I know nobility were big employers, but 1500 people (as a travelling party, she had more at home!) to get only one person through the day, that’s absurd. Something went horribly wrong after the Norman conquest.
  • Since the three day Time Team digs rarely actually find anything, are there any follow up episodes that revisit sites with actual discoveries?
  • @galesal1109
    What do they do after they dig up the structure walls? Fill it back in?
  • @jimmusson
    History hit network, pilfering time team.
  • @kevinquist
    i know your not allowed to do anything in england anymore (REGISTER YOU KNIVES NOW! OR ZU VILL PAY). but we still use similar clay pipes almost every day. (were still allowed to smoke here. for now).
  • @ledacedar6253
    YOUTRUBE ELIMINATES likes TO EMPHASIS NOT LIKED! wtf?
  • @Noah_E
    Sorry, but the "expert" is totally wrong at @15:19. Does he think the masons were fools back then? This curved pieces were formed in a mold just like every other brick. Why would anyone 1) hand craft every single one or 2) do it at a work bench? He pulled that nonsense straight out of his a$$.
  • @laserbeam002
    Why would they need safety helments when they are in the trench scraping away and there is nothing above to fall and hit them. Just stupid british regulations I suppose.