Post Dig Analysis – The Monks' Manor (S13E07)
Added 2021-01-21 10:12:38 +0000 UTCWe're often asked what happens to the finds after a dig, and how our understanding of the site has developed since. Time Team's resident small finds specialist, Dani Wootton returns to shed more light on the intriguing site at Brimham, near Harrogate in Yorkshire.
Through a close reading of the report and some desktop digging, Dani provides new insight into Brimham's links with the grand Fountains Abbey. She has also tracked down the finds to the local archive.
But it seems that one key piece of the puzzle remains unsolved to this day. Perhaps a budding researcher among you can help settle this mystery once and for all?
Watch the episode on Time Team Classics: https://youtu.be/K20BfA6lf5k
Watch the commentary on Time Team Official: https://youtu.be/g5EINZgpyfY
Read the report by Wessex Archaeology: https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/brimham-hall-harrogate
Comments
I think it would be wonderful to get more follow-up on earlier sites. Such as, have any sites been revisited by archaeologists since Time Team, or have any new finds in areas near previous sites changed any of the previous conclusions?
Erica Long
2021-02-08 16:55:36 +0000 UTCI also would love to see a return to this particular location to see what other treasures and information lie waiting to be discovered. Also, it seems to me that the inscription was the missed opportunity of the dig. Some letters might be worn, but assembled together as a sort of puzzle, I imagine it would be like trying to decipher a first graders writing. In the end, a pattern would begin to emerge, and our brains would translate.
Ellen Holt
2021-02-04 14:46:24 +0000 UTCfrom the beginning, the letters you received from the 'ordinary' non archaeologist farm owner/town dweller, were the initial and exciting reasons to watch the program. it would be lovely to see a return whenever possible of viewer participation/excitement for their area/village.
High Street Pictures
2021-02-02 05:52:23 +0000 UTCChalk (ahem) another one up as being a fan of these retrospectives, really interesting. I was also curious about not further looking at the inscriptions present, in the report they only list one inscribed stone (object number 539) and that seems to be because it was in a field wall and the stones reused in buildings are not included. Mick and Tony even talk, near the start of the programme, about getting them all photographed and analysed, and then to the end Tony does say that it was too fragmented or worn down to make out what it said.
Christopher Samuel
2021-01-30 18:29:26 +0000 UTCWonderful! We need more like this please! Lengthy discussions about a dig and site are tops. Do more! Do more!
Melissa Rybb
2021-01-28 19:34:42 +0000 UTCBettny Hughes might be good.
David & Violet Bunting
2021-01-28 18:48:29 +0000 UTCOMG! I am a 70year old archaeology nerd! Thanks for the link to the site dig conclusions I went there and read the whole report....why oh why didn’t I go into archaeology at the university all those many years ago.......thanks for all the great entertainment and knowledge!
Tebbin Salvesen
2021-01-27 22:42:31 +0000 UTCHi Stephen. That's strange, thanks for bringing it to our attention. We haven't done anything different with this one, but please let us know if the issue persists or if it crops up on any other pieces. We can raise it with the platform. Thanks
Time Team
2021-01-26 18:28:03 +0000 UTCThe audio from this video doesn't work in the iPad app. Other Time Team Patreon videos do work so there is something different about this one. I watched it in a browser.
Stephen Herbert
2021-01-26 16:36:19 +0000 UTCThis is one of the best interviews so far. Thanks.
Stephen Herbert
2021-01-26 16:35:41 +0000 UTCThis is a brilliant partner to the programme. Great stuff, thank you.
Stephen Southworth
2021-01-24 01:30:42 +0000 UTCInteresting to learn about the likelihood of a kiln being nearby because of the tiles with production faults. Another great chat with new insights into one of the digs.
David Boon
2021-01-23 21:57:37 +0000 UTCDani’s passion and humour are so engaging to watch! Definitely agree on the abbot’s name being one to remember!
Kerryn
2021-01-23 15:47:28 +0000 UTCloved this episode and all the retrospective content. thanks
Frank Pellow
2021-01-23 07:11:34 +0000 UTCSo informative. Thank you. I wanted to sort out the words too!
Anne Collinson
2021-01-22 22:35:22 +0000 UTCThank you for another very interesting talk. As others have said, yes we really need to look at the inscriptions again.
Chris Hughes
2021-01-22 05:42:02 +0000 UTCAnother great conversation! Love hearing Dani's take on it all. And yes I did giggle at the name too!!!
Sarah Copeland
2021-01-22 04:48:34 +0000 UTCGreat to hear Dani’s commentary on an interesting dig. Keep’em coming!
Eggs Ackley
2021-01-22 02:31:34 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this conversation. The role of sheep and peasants brings forth the political climate of the time.
Carole Cox
2021-01-21 21:11:50 +0000 UTCAnother great conversation shedding some extra light on familiar programmes, really enjoyable. And absolutely right about the farming origins of the ‘chalk and cheese’ phrase!
Justin Freeman
2021-01-21 20:14:05 +0000 UTCand "The Confessio Amantis by John Gower was written between 1386 and 1390. Gower was a contemporary and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was a trilingual poet who wrote in three languages – French, Latin and Middle English".
Susie Stockton-Link
2021-01-21 18:08:01 +0000 UTCI looked it up ! "Where did the phrase chalk and cheese come from? The first known usage of this phrase comes from John Gower in his Middle English text Confessio Amantis, 139. In this text an untrustworthy shopkeeper was selling chalk under the pretence that it was cheese: 'Lo, how they feignen chalk for chese."
Susie Stockton-Link
2021-01-21 18:07:03 +0000 UTCThank you wonderful insider info, lets find out what the inscriptions said
Dale Wilson
2021-01-21 15:06:14 +0000 UTCReally enjoyable to see the team members reminiscing about digs. It adds another dimension.
Bob Pockney
2021-01-21 13:37:48 +0000 UTCI enjoy the personal anecdotes so please keep including the ‘bits’ that the viewer doesn’t see!
Irene Daly
2021-01-21 12:46:44 +0000 UTC
