Boudica The Lost Tribe! Time Team Special!
Added 2025-08-27 07:00:09 +0000 UTCComments
I used to love watching Time Team. We have so much history here, I'm fascinated by it all. Wouldn't it be great to be able to go back and see how these people lived (and died 🫤).
Jason White
2025-09-02 01:24:29 +0000 UTCIf you enjoyed this then there's lots of Time team. It used to be on TV then moved to YouTube when it was finally cancelled. Also it's presented by Baldrick so there's that. I'm here for more Timeteam!
Mac
2025-08-28 04:40:34 +0000 UTCI'm from Hertfordshire and I count myself a proud East Anglian, too - even before I went to University in Norwich and later worked there and in Cambridge. I think it's whether you grew up in the Anglia TV region. "And now, live from the studios of Anglia Television in Norwich, it's time for Sale of the Century with Nicholas Parsons." That's regional pride for you :D
Andy Darley
2025-08-27 17:52:02 +0000 UTCPar example?
Tim Covill
2025-08-27 15:55:35 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you enjoyed this. I'm massively passionate about archaeology which is mostly due to Time Team. The rebellion lasted about a year. The famine was mostly likely caused by how the majority of people were travelling away from their homes and therefore not planting or harvesting crops which meant they didn't have stores for winter. Also, those same workers were then killed and so the able bodied, working population massively decreased, meaning there were fewer people to plant crops the following year, and so it continues. Fun fact - there was a rumour that Boudica was buried in the spot between what is now platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross Station. 9¾ maybe? It's false of course, no one actually knows what happened to Boudicca. Her actual death is not recalled, aside from Tacitus mentioning she poisoned herself. However, Tacitus would be considered a secondary source having only hearsay to source his work. Poisoning was a very Roman suicide method so it's likely not accurate. Another fun fact - Boudicca might not have been her real name. It means Victorious Woman, so could be seen more as an honorary title
Emily
2025-08-27 14:35:53 +0000 UTCYou really can feel the history here, and I notice the lack of that feeling in newer countries - and it’s not that they don’t have rich and incredible indigenous history but the difference is density
Kieran B
2025-08-27 13:43:18 +0000 UTCI was hoping they would
Kieran B
2025-08-27 13:36:07 +0000 UTCDid you notice that the presenter, Tony Robinson, is Balderick from Blackadder?
Louise Miller
2025-08-27 11:59:35 +0000 UTCBronze weapons were made by casting too rather than smithing
Kieran B
2025-08-27 10:59:37 +0000 UTCThey definitely had plaster, Roman cement is a very particular mix - plaster has been around for almost 10,000 years Butser gets used a lot for reenactors too - you can visit, and Flag Fen although sadly that suffered arson and vandalism recently
Kieran B
2025-08-27 10:56:06 +0000 UTCStonea is very near me, I actually know the local farmer who owns that land..
Tim Covill
2025-08-27 10:31:20 +0000 UTCAt around the 12 minute mark - you're asking how do layers of dirt essentially cover stuff, this was something I was curious about some time ago. As in how things just seemingly rise. But first it's probably worth knowing the timescale. Stevie said 'hundred of years', while technically true. Boudica's revolt was more like 2,000 years ago. The Romans left what is now Great Britain about 1,600 years ago. There's still some Roman walls etc you can see in Britain, at least the top of them. But towns typically get knocked down as you guessed, or we just build over roads as a newer technology comes along and materials shipped in from quarries. So a city can be a few meters higher than they were back then. Other areas like rural farm areas is a combination of flooding over years, organic matter such as peat naturally increases. Think of trees growing and dying or general vegetation. Not so much in the UK, but wind can also drastically change the landscape, but you see that more in ancient settlements like Egypt and China. But yeah, it does make you think how we just seemingly add layers upon layers. When you come to the UK, you could go and see exposed streets that are thousands of years old. Albeit they don't look like much.
Andy
2025-08-27 10:01:08 +0000 UTCDid no one notice the presenter had a cunning plan? i'm only 10 mins in...
Tim Covill
2025-08-27 09:50:16 +0000 UTCEast Anglia is still a thing, I am and always will be a proud East Anglian above everything else.. Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Rutland. Then the Dutch came along to help reclaim the Fens, which is a very fertile sedimentary effluvial boggy areas, very rich in nutrients and perfect for high quality produce like salad leaves and flowers. Once dykes were dug and the water flow managed, it opened up thousands of acres of farmland..
Tim Covill
2025-08-27 09:44:57 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, and so many years worth of Time Team for you to react to, covering so many periods of history. Bless him, Baldrick does such a good job of presenting in a way that makes it all understandable. One archeological find + one archeological find = some archeological finds!
Mark T
2025-08-27 09:34:05 +0000 UTCBack when Time Team first started in the early 90s, it was a little lower budget but they had a bigger budget than many teams around the country sponsored by Universities etc. So sometimes it was just a farmer would find something and they'd come and spend a weekend there. Other times there would already be a project, I remember one in particular on the West Coast of Scotland. Their funding was drying up and they were entering into the last summer of funding, so the TT came to help for a few days. The specials sort of sat alongside that and may be a particular subject or event coming up and they were recreating some artefact. I think TT is how many learnt about technologies and terms. In the early days they'd explain what the geophysics team were and how they'd do things. By the early 2000s all viewers were mini experts - "Oh they need to get the geo-fizz survey done, pronto...".
Andy
2025-08-27 09:18:16 +0000 UTCThere's certainly parts of East Anglia many would like to pretend doesn't exist, but it's still there.
Andy
2025-08-27 08:50:34 +0000 UTCThe gold was likely found in an area where the Romans didn’t build
Kieran B
2025-08-27 08:36:00 +0000 UTCRomans are still Iron Age, they’re contemporary to the Celts, they would have just cleared it to build their town, or in this case incorporated them - rather than being one civilisation replacing another after a long time
Kieran B
2025-08-27 08:30:36 +0000 UTCIt’s amazing what you can see here when it’s dry - old fortifications and towns become very visible from the air Roman towns were very much done on a universal grid, the Forum was always in the same spot
Kieran B
2025-08-27 08:24:56 +0000 UTCIt was a broadcast, it was massive national institution for decades on Channel 4. It’s all archaeology - they have 3 days usually It was on TV for 20 years from 1994 to 2014 and then it came back in 2022 as an online thing
Kieran B
2025-08-27 08:21:40 +0000 UTCEast Anglia is still a thing today (it was part of the Kingdom of Anglia before that) - it’s a region made up of counties (a bit like New England is a region made up of states) - Norfolk, Suffolk (North Folk and South Folk, and Cambridgeshire (and sometimes bits of Essex) are East Anglia; it’s famous for its Fens. It’s named after the Angles, just as Sussex, Wessex, Essex and Middlesex are named after the Saxons.
Kieran B
2025-08-27 08:20:11 +0000 UTCIt really was
Kieran B
2025-08-27 08:16:51 +0000 UTCAhhh Time Team, standard Sunday viewing for years ❤️RIP Prof. Mick Aston ....Every Sunday on Channel 4, we would sit & wait to see if it would be a mosaic or bones that week..& sooo many post holes. We all became armchair archaeologists.. how to spot a ditch in a trench? "Light earth, dark earth Tony".
Lemmy's Mole
2025-08-27 07:06:21 +0000 UTC
