Time Team S12-E05 Northborough,.Peterborough

Love love love Time Team. Classics and new. Miss Mick, Victor, but all the rest are still there. And new people as well! Thank you all for making sure the episodes will live on through the internet.

I enjoy Phil Harding so much ! He's represents an accomplished modern archaeologist and yet with his grasp on prehistoric lore could fit in easily with those times !

When I started watching this show on YT years ago, I was doing it because it fed my brain's yen for archaeology. Classic Studies BA! But I also discovered it worked like a tranquilizer on my insomnia. Thank God. Bless them all.

Phil is the man.  I like the fact that he digs in dirt professionally, looks it AND pulls it off handsomely.  Who could dislike Phil ever?  Although, in some episodes, I've wondered if people whom he was near were leaning away from him b/c they were trying to steer clear of his hair... Phil is half the show!  Although I love the teams' bantering - their chemistry

lol Maizie, of Phil: “… A tough act to follow“! omg I love Victor's sketch around 37:00! The dog pulling on the footwear strap 😁

I have always liked Time Team and the specials. I am from the USA

Ahhh - I do SO enjoy these videos! Thank you, Time Team!!!!

So, not being an archaeologist myself, I cant help but wonder if the people making these double ring enclosures didn't do it as a kind of farm enclosure for the animals they used as food. If you put an animal inside an area with interwoven ditches around them, more than likely (unless they are scared) they will not try to cross them. Sort of like a modern day cattle grate at the entrance to a field. The animal would see the ditch maybe move to a "Causeway" but there is another ditch in front of it, so it doesn't try to leave the field. If it does manage to get past the first ring, there is another set of rings to try keeping the animals penned in.

Brigid is like a Norse warrior princess ! A formidable woman ! Yowsaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The last minutes of this programme are hypnotic.

The look on Phil's face when Maisie said "well there is cider" was almost as scary as comical.

Francis utters the word "ritual" at 2:48; he got it in before the five minute mark; everyone finish your glass.

I always get a little exasperated about the whole ritual vs. domestic argument. Why can't it be both? Think about it, even today when a building is put up quite often there is a small ceremony and a deposit in a cornerstone that is then sealed up and then pretty much ignored until the building comes down again. Which sounds, to me, suspiciously similar to the "ritual deposit". A second thought that occurs to me is that the whole area was fen land (swamp), now drained, that those segmented ditches that are quite deep would help keep the center dry by draining water away from the center. Would make it difficult for anyone to sneak in at night and steal your cattle while not restricting access to your people who are intimately familiar with the layout.  And ask anyone who has lived in one place for years you can navigate it with your eyes closed and half asleep if necessary while an intruder if an alarm was raised would be at a disadvantage in unfamiliar territory and possibly have their night vision ruined by torches or fires with the inhabitants having light at their back and not shining in their eyes.

"you don't bring your cows into church." stares in Ancient Egypt

Hilarious. I live in Peterborough (Ontario, Canada) and just north west of us is... Fenelon Falls.

I knew Phil liked finding flint tools. What I didn't know is that he's an expert flint knapper. Well done Phil!

Bring back Time Team.

Phil and his short, cut off jean shorts 😂 What a legend!

I can't believe they failed to mention that Maisie Taylor (the ancient wood specialist) is Francis Pryor's wife!

Francis, knows more than a lot of you who complain about him! Good show it makes you think, than go read study and see if you are so smart. Years of learning to get where he is😁 Phil he is great!! Every one I see on show Old It Is Now 2018..VERY SMART PEOPLE ,(Thank you for showing the show)