Time Team Special The Boats That Made Britain

Looks like they forgot to put the moss and beeswax caulking in BETWEEN the planking at the bottom...And that nylon stretches when it's wet!

Thanks so much for this and all you're time team uploads. Living in the U.S. as I do, I never had the chance to watch Time Team. Cheers to you Reijer!

Thanks again for another download, Reijer. I am addicted to Time Team.

I have learned so much from Time Team over the years.

How nice to see a Time Team special, almost two years after the series ended. I really mis that program. Somehow I did not get to see this special. Thanks for putting it up here.

Just goes to show our ancient elders actually were smart and knew what they were doing. They were masters of their trade. Skilled & genius artisans.

On the first build I knew the caulk wouldn't work. We call it caulk in America, mastic is for laying down flooring here in the states, it is used as an adhesive. Caulk isn't really meant for that application. It is meant to keep rain out or moisture out, but not water under pressure. I appreciate that they did have a second try and went back to the old way of sealing the boat. This was very entertaining. Phil was a gas as usual. I could see Phil in a pub in Calais. Or anywhere for that matter. Where there is a pub, there is Phil.

Always wonderful to see Phil!

To a degree, the swelling of the planks when in water would mitigate some of the leakage, which is why wooden vessels are left in the water once in the water. Hauling them out causes wood to dry and seams to open. They could have tested for leaks before the launch by simply using a garden hose to put water in the interior and see where it was running out and how fast. Roughly the same technique for testing of early steam chests. The Bronze Age, as is stated, heralded an explosion of technology. It is hard to comprehend the insight of the ancients when it comes to making stuff from what they dug from the Earth and chopped out of the forests.

Kind of funny how they thought using modern materials that do not expand for a shortcut would work. They should have asked a shipwright, they might have learned how you have to pre expand wooden craft before launch or all you get is leaks.

I love when they do these projects. I find the ancients fascinating and amazing. Thank you for posting and editing.

Thank you for sharing this delightful TT special. I have enjoyed all the Time Team episodes I have watched so far!

Absolutely amazing boat! Nice to see the ancient build succeed, where the more modern tweaks failed.

A brilliant project people with great sense of humour and No time lapse photography many thanks for posting this excellent video

Stop risking life and limb.. Wonderful program! THANK YOU!

An Expert traditonal Shipwright? Using nylon and expecting a new wooden boat not to leack? Any wooden boat is delibratley submerged for a month and allowed to swell. The same would happen with the ties, they swell to become waterproof. Though all wooden boats leack.

I think that this shows how much we have underestimated the skills and knowledge of the agent people as well as we have done with people from other places.

Totally brilliant programme . That gold was amazing , and the boat superb - eventually :)

Just imagine how it would have gone if they used it with people who could actually paddle

Maybe they need more than a "team" of experts, like a community for such a project, with each individual sharing knowledge and collecting and making the parts.