The Secluded Welsh Valley Hiding Treasures Spanning Thousands Of Years | Time Team

This episode gave Time Team a lot of professional credibility - It proved to their peers that they used sound archaeological process, and used good logic to reach conclusions.

This has long been one of my very favourite Time Team episodes. Exposing hoaxes, whether perpetrated by whimsical antiquarian vicars or possibly more avaricious modern seekers of tourists, is one of the most valuable activities archaeologists can perform for us today.

Tony Robinson going out of his way to explain that the sword is held on to someone's belt by a BALDRICK is hilarious.

This is, perhaps the most compelling episode of Time Team I've ever witnessed. It delivers a painfully important message. Thanks for sharing it.

Send the team to Oak Island and let them expose the ongoing scam there as well! This was an epic episode!

how rich someone must be to dump original items into a mudhole. And how insane

I found this episode particularly fascinating : to think that "someone" went to great lengths to "manufacture a bogus archeological site - within living memory".

The fact that the owner of the property does not want to be interviewed on film seems slightly suspicious.

38:21 Love Tony's slight pause before saying baldrick :D

On camera, at least, the Time Team crew showed remarkably restrained comments when the archaeological story began to unravel.

The local archaeologists who refused to take part obviously know the landowners better than time team. Seems they may have a reputation already.

I thought I had seen every episode of T.T. until this one today. And then about halfway through, I was wondering if this was the episode of the faked archaeological site. Then they found the sword with the barbed wire underneath it, and I realized it was. I had not seen the episode for about 7 years, so I kind of forgot some of it. I think we all can now understand and trust that archaeologists absolutely know what they're talking about.

One of the many reasons I like and miss Tony, how in the opening when the dog comes up to him, he without hesitation gives him a pat.

Tony & Mick were exactly right. If an artefact is removed from its original site, it loses its historical significance. This site is, at best, an antiquarian hoax - at worst, a criminal endeavor.

This is like a MythBusters episode crossed with a Time Team episode. Splendid.

The amount of commercials are just mindblowing, after 9min of the video I've had 3 commercial breaks in total of 14 minutes. That's 5 more minutes than I've watched the show!!

What an interesting episode! I find it massively cagey that the actual owner should be so wary of taking part, having a last-minute "change of heart". If you have all this potential archaeology in your backyard, you'd want to get in there and find out everything there is to know! Maybe the stepson really didn't know, but I smell something fishy, definitely. I knew in the first few minutes of the episode the ancient stuff was nonsense, since the older standing stone was plonked in the middle of a newer trackway. That sword part though, hurt. tisk-tisk

This is just as impressive as finding a real site. Their expertise is really on par here

It's pretty clear what's going on here - the site is a hotspot for time traveling anomalies; people get stranded there from all timelines and must sacrifice a belonging in order to open a new portal to their destination. okay jokes. Red flags were waving for me when Tony said the local archies refused to be a part of it. If you were a local digger you'd know about that site and you'd be chomping at the bit to get your hands on it and prove it's legit. Unless you already knew it wasn't. I bet the camera-shy father let the local digs use it for a playground and didn't think TT would actually turn up. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the house that evening...

Absolutely fascinating. The coin piles on the table and determining what period of time saw the most activity. Now I wish I'd gone down this route in my education instead of mechanical engineering. Stumbled upon this video by pure chance as it played after something else I was watching, got up for a cup of tea and here it was. What a treat. Thank you