Why Is There A Roman Statue In This English Village? | Time Time | Absolute History

The team try to discover why a 15th century village church has a small pagan Roman statue embedded within its walls.

[rickjohnson]

I live in the states and have in the last 2 weeks found this time team stuff. I had no idea that some are 27+ yrs ago!! Love this stuff always wanted to find treasures like this in history. I'm way to old to start now (67) but can relive some childhood thru these shows.

[Tullinia]

This is a fabulous "blast from the past", they have all become at least 20 years younger, it's lovely to see them all again.

[sararoman]

can we talk about the kid just cruising around in the electric toy car 6minutes in? like he is just vibing XD

[a.westenholz]

Aside from the wonderful archaeology, what I also enjoy about this episode, and later subsequent episodes, is about English Heritage and the discussion of whether to dig vs. preservation of the site. What you can clearly watch by following TT over the years is the changing attitude to that issue within the field of archaeology as a whole. While they still do schedule, they are far more willing now to dig some part of a site to at least have some record for prosperity of what was there, not to mention wanting to be quite certain as to what is being scheduled. Also I think everyone involved over time realized there were limits to how much one could blindly rely on what the new technology could tell you without some sort of confirmation, as Carenza seemed to argue for at that moment, and even in later episodes she herself seems to have changed her opinion, at least somewhat, on this point.

[serenagrisdale]

This is an amazing find that has been treated so harsh that if you took yrs on it bet it could reveal a lot with extensive digging. Amazing. Robin is such a character!

[kcarter]

I love that this episode shows the serious decisions that have to go into investigating a site or not! Amazing!

[sherrylelee]

This is a really early episode- look how young Tony and Karensa look 😅

[jodyshepard]

It's hard for me to realize that huge palaces, etc., can just disappear instead of being maintained and cared for! So sad.

[laurachapple]

I wish my life contained less election anxiety and more old stone fish.

[bethbartlett]

BTW, a number of Cathedrals and Large Churches, particularly in Europe and those going back to 15th Century, have a variety of mythical creatures and what can be called pagan sculptures that decorate their exteriors, including Gargoyles.

[Dawnsdelightsart]

Absolutely wonderful find, feel bad for the property owner, his field of produce can't be planted 🤦‍♀️

[kristic]

what a beautiful flowery green field!!

[quickredfx]

I enjoyed the part where tony was running around like a kid in the field and they were just slowly chasing after him

[adamsjerome]

Every one of the original Time Team addicts please pray to your Gods that somehow a cast of this brilliant show can be assembled again. Alas I am pessimistic about this, even with Devine intervention.

[samikirk]

I wonder when this was filmed. Tony still has hair & hasn't switched to contacts 🤔

[julianhermanubis]

"I have a cunning plan to confiscate this farmer's land."

And I've personally been to Britain multiple times and have visited as many British-Roman sites as possible, but the subject of this statue is unfamiliar. I have seen statues and reliefs of Mithras and Coventina and Rosmerta and the Three Mothers and most of the Olympian pantheon and Jupiter Dolichenus and probably Herne but I have no idea about this god here. The staff did make me think it was Aesculapius at first glance, but the expert says not.

[baberoot]

There must have been a shortage of hair combs/brushes, during Merry Ole England's 1990's.

[trollmeistergeneral]

Have heard of Swindon.
Have certainly heard of RAF Lyneham.
But have never heard of “Tockenham” - or whatever it’s called.

Mick Aston - dead.
Robin Bush - dead.
Victor Ambrus - dead.

I’m a fan of TimeTeam, but there ain’t many left of the original crew.

[aaronandrews]

It's funny to see how much people have changed in 20 years, except for the older man in the rainbow sweater. He still wears that same one. LOL.

[robertschumann]

The mosaic at the end said 1994. Tony and his dark wavy hair has a nice career ahead of him. Kinda prefer the more modern episodes. Seems like they have better content and more interesting dig sites.