Is This Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Time Team's Most Important Find? | Time Team | Odyssey

This has got to be a top 5 Time Team find. Amazing work. Truly awesome.

2 many ads, every 5min. after this episode never watching odeyssey again

Too many ads , would suggest looking elsewhere for this episode

You should hear the dark humor of police, fire and ambulance.

Seeing how shallow the trench is makes you realize how short our timespan is here on earth, 2000 years is about 1-4 feet

Amazing discoveries, the sarcophagus is like hitting archeological gold. Good thing Phil saw the potential and gave good reasons to continue, considering the skepticism that the team often starts swimming in.

I miss time team i used to watch it with my dad when i was a kid because it was usually the only good thing on the tv

you guys like to talk and not do any f'ing work. Get-er-done!

Phil's sensitive is always amazing and heartwarming.

Outstanding episode, very informative information on a Roman God.

These folks are all so interesting and smart. I just love following them.

ancient roman good show

fuck yeah! best episode ever

Thank you.

I wish this show could be imported to Germany. But I think our bureaucracy would eliminate any thought of digging somewhere without proven evidence. And then the German scientists crying about unscientific digging, destroying valuable findings or encouraging common people to start digging holes everywhere only to find some artifacts. I sadly don't have any hope to view such a show made here.

which episode is this

I can feel the dedication of the guys. Such an underrated show.

I don’t think that Margret realizes that it’s been in the ground for two thousand years there’s is no way organic matter from Decomposition could be dangerous.

Sounds celtic

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there should be a part 2 of this one. i need to know more

Phil is an absolute LEGEND! Mick is STILL a paragon! Rest east Mick! You inspired a whole generation of archeologists.

Ya, think that fellow in the grave was an early Christian who may have brought the Gospel to the locals, honored by entombing him in the ruins of the old temple that represented a past that was no longer believed the truth. Just my take.

Who will replace Tony Robison on time team? Why did he accept a knighthood given his beliefs about the social order? Let's celebrate him - he'll always be Baldrick - a character for all time. Cheers.

Teamtime is the best show ever made in uk today

Looks as if Baldrick is still digging trenches like in Blackadder Goes Forth. ;)
Keep going! This is an amazing and interesting series.

Adds every 5 mins too much

The way he was throwing artifacts back in that SUV was shocking. Hire an actor though, what does one expect?

Perhaps you should geo-phys an existing ditch that looks promising

@ the 46 minute mark, the Red area is a natural island, initially chosen by the people who occupied the island. The area between the red and yellow line is the area where the river encircled the island. After water control reduced the volume of water in the river, that natural island became part of the landscape.

Okay, because there is so many comments about the three day limit, here is some information. Mick Aston had a dream. He wanted to make archaeology more interesting and accessible to the average Briton. Eventually, after talking about his idea with a lot of people, it was proposed that a tv program with a three day time limit on each dig would accomplish this task. The time limit would: 1) allow nationally famous archaeologists to attend, but still do their day jobs (most were at universities) the rest of the week; 2) create a little suspense-could the goal be accomplished in just three days?; and 3) be a reasonable length of time for the non-archaeological viewers to get an idea of how a dig is done, what goes on in terms of preservation of the finds and who does that, and the importance of finding out what has gone on, before the present time. In my personal, non-archaeological view, Time Team accomplished all these goals magnificently. And they did it for 20 years!

A little info about Phil Harding. He is from Wessex-think of all the southern counties of England that are on the English Channel. He is entirely a self taught archaeologist, with no formal training at all, but so knowledgeable, he became a very well respected digger. His digging style is impeccably accurate. He is also a world know flint expert, and knapper, again self taught. On Time Team, against the posh accents of many of the others, Phil’s Wessex accent stands out as very different. I am a 79 year old American woman, who is a proud Anglophile, and I love to hear Phil give Tony a hard time, as the difference in their accents is classic. In a field that is known to draw eccentric personalities, Phil has definitely found a home. At the time of Time Time, he is so well respected, he is a lecturer at Wessex University. I wish I could have met him, as well as all the rest of the Time Team experts.

This the second episode of Season Nine, and aired in 2003. My records show the episode was titled, “The Roman’s Panic,” with my description that an earlier settlement is brutally demolished to provide space for a Roman walled city, and a sacred site contains a stone dedicated to the Roman God Veridius. My notes from a History Hits episode are very detailed, including Phil’s reaction to the sarcophagus, as opposed to bare bones, and that Mick is “really chuffed” about the inscribed stone going into the textbooks!😁

Being pre-Roman Catholic, it could be that the burial was a synthesis of paganism and Christianity. Viridius could be a local incarnation of The Green Man, who many believe to be the root of the story of Jesus. It could very well be that late pagans or early Christians would have viewed a Viridius-like deity to be one and the same with Jesus, making conversion somewhat unnecessary bc they would have perceived Jesus to be the same figure they were already worshipping. Just speculation, but the Latin 'viridis' is the root of 'verdigris' which is, of course, green. This cannot be a coincidence.

Verde or Veridus means green. So I wonder if that god was something to do with growing crops or keeping the forest or land green and fertile. Just a thought.

A Very interesting Video 👌🏻👍🏻

the women yapping about the lead is so annoying my gosh ive worked with lead for decades and she likes to tell tall tales..and these episodes are 20 years old or so

I really dislike the 3 day deal.

And to think they turned down the king in the carpark. How that must hurt.

Por favor, ponham legendas em outro idiomas. Há adultos, idosos e crianças que gostariam de ter acesso ao conteúdo do canal, mas que não entendem inglês (porque nunca tiveram acesso ao ensino da língua)

Grato!

As a former Motion Picture Television Production Major...the Only Three Day thing could be due to tv production times...

I have updated but no nd filter option. I have special labs turned on but no options.

Typical Mick: Stop digging here, there's nothing here.
Typical Phil: (throws wallet on table) Bet.
Typical Mick: I knew it all along.

all the people in this program are smart, educated, compassionate, and just plain funny!

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Could all of those jumbled skeletal remains be of native Britons, and the walls have been put up when the native Britons rebelled against the Romans?