Time Team meets Morris and Pat Jones who, when digging a small pond in their Northamptonshire garden, unearthed a skeleton – laid out with a knife, ceremonial pottery, and a valuable buckle.
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Great one💝🕯🙏
Be certain to stay off the grass now 😂
Henrietta the dog Slayer😂😂😂
Are these archaeologist going to reimburse this woman for tearing apart her yard and landscaping?
Thanks for posting.
Finally a Saxon. Dig that wasn’t just vague shadows of pole holes. ImGin knowing was in your yard.
so wat about the hole in the guys skull???
Wow, just wow. Thank you
One of my favourite TT episodes ever! 🧡
Pat's appreciation for and application of all she learned from Phil and the Team; her labour of love so amply rewarded.
Dear Henry, found to be such a special man; his very essence captured by the incomparable Victor's sensitive drawing. 🩵
And the young woman, buried with her dog at her feet.. 🩷
Such a rewarding dig, and not only scientific but emotionally invested and enriching for viewers. Thank you. 🙏
this was an abnormally moving episode. loved it so much
Had these people not seen the studies a year or two back? English dna 76% replaced iron age Britons only rebounding in British dna after 1066 and after the rebound English people can estimate 5% Swedish and 25-47% Anglo-Saxon.
There may not be a elimination to extinction but the genetic study revealed an initial invasion centuries before the ethnic cleansing stopped
The reason the average age of someone in the ancient or medieval world was around 30 was because of the large number of people who died in infancy or childhood and the large number of women who died in childbirth. Someone who lived to adulthood would stand a good chance of living to 60 or 70. Even the Bible records the time of a man's life as three score and ten (70), which we've improved on very little. So Henry reaching 60 is not all that remarkable.
Good show, thanks
48:55 "It's been the best three days of my life." Oh my goodness, this was a special one. Very touching when they gave her the illustration of Henry and read the poem.
A little upsetting they are assuming gender
the respect and consideration these people have for history and culture is beautiful
Errrr…. Didn’t they actually find the other grave exactly where the dowsing old man said it would be…. 😮
The weird thing is, last weekend I searched through all my old DVD'S to find this episode, because it's one of my favourites. Now its just popped up on YouTube!
Just love it ❤
Can you imagine 500 yrs from now when the forgotten bag of bones was rediscovered how the future archeologists would be trying to solve the puzzle of a pre-christian culture having the technology to make that type of bag and why only "Henry" was buried that way 😅😅
I love this episode of TT. So humanizing of these ancestors.
How many more different finds does Mother Nature hide from us?
Touching and respectful ❤ They adopted Harry.
To add a bit of levity, I'll closely quote 'Pirates of Penzance" General – "I do not know whose ancestors they WERE, but (now) know whose ancestors they they ARE!" Loved this episode 🥴🙊.
Hence the phrase “pushing up daisies”.
This was very good
How haunted they backyard and house have to be😅 they should've use a spiritbox to learn more from the dead persons they've found