Was This Industrial Town One Of Roman Britain's Most Important Cities? | Time Team | Odyssey

Time Team investigate the town of Castleford, a Yorkshire mining town that may have once sat at the very edge of the Roman world. Was Castleford really one of Roman Britain's most important settlements and if so, what treasures does it hold?

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[ericdavid]

Time Team is amazing. Never would have discovered it without you tube.

[riaanshaigh]

Who would have thunk that Baldrick from Black Adder would capture the world with teaching history and eventually become knighted. Love ya Tony

[ismellstatic]

John's long, nervous explanation of his plan for the football pitch dig followed by Tony ignoring everything he'd said, turning to the small crowd and saying "ladies and gentlemen, this man is about to stick a bore hole through his anomaly" and then walking away may be my favourite joke in the history of this series. So sharp, so quick, so smoothly done.

[TrophyNZ]

Could you imagine how cool it would have been to go on one of these digs with this crew

[stonner]

the way i can tell how old or new the episodes are by how much hair Tony has left

[NjK]

Huh, just when you think you've seen all of Time Team, a random one drops out of nowhere

[steveschultz]

I sure wish that Odyssey would number these videos. Or put the date of televising. I would like to see them in historical sequence.
Also, Has Odyssey thought about having a tour of the digs? Maybe a 6-7 day excursion for us tourists from America.

[RamblinJer]

So all those pots Phil was pointing out, is that what you call pot luck? 😄

[hugodesrosiers-plaisance]

Imagine you show an ancient Roman glass-blower one of our modern glass sky-scrapers.

[AAO]

The children at 19:13 .
This show was made in 2002 . How nice it would be to find out that they are archaeologists today...
🙂

[AdamBechtol]

8:22 Wowza, that immense level of flirting only helps to confirm my suspicion that Phil is a colossal Casanova 😋.
With his Indiana Jones attire and playful pub-like attitude, I can see how he'd be secretly big with the ladies.
Also neat how that other guy knows and gives us the form numbers for the pottery.

[parisite]

If you think you found the road under the river, why not cut a trench on the bank to confirm? We’ve seen GPR get other hits wrong that they were so sure of. Makes me scratch my head.

[rickb]

That village now is essentially one big parking lot. They should be able to do plenty of digs

[allygee]

Time Team was Mick Astons invention he wanted to bring archaeology to the wider world this excellent show was on BBC and sponsored by them too hence the 3 day timeline Phil appeared in every episode He works with Wessex Uni The new Time Team which has some if the old team in there is run maimly on subscriptions on YT and Patreon Sir Tony has recently rejoined them i think no Phil Harding at this stage But yes I would have loved to be on these digs Archaeology was one of my career choices but sadly was unable to do it

[matismf]

How long until we get more Hilde van der Heul?

[chrisbassett]

I hope someone is actually watching where that boat is going.

[maddiethomas]

Ugh! We have family near there. Castleford is someplace you don't go at night. Not a nice town... I wonder is Time Team had any issues in that regard.

[aubreymellor]

so sick of him telling us they've only got three days - yet NEVER telling us why.

[alexisdespland]

w who and when was gyo-phisics invented

[christinedazzo]

I really enjoy your channel but I have seizures and your spinning camera work is making sick. Please keep this in mind with the speed and flashing. Your information was great Please keep that up. 👍