Time Team's Top 3 NEOLITHIC Finds

WELCOME TO PREHISTORIC WORLD. Full episodes below:

00:00 - 'A Neolithic Cathedral?'
(Northborough, Peterborough)
Series 12, Episode 5

17:50 - 'Sussex Ups and Downs'
(Blackpatch, Sussex)
Series 13, Episode 9

33:58 - 'Reservoir Rituals'
(Tottiford, Devon)
Series 18 Episode 1

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[pmotherat]

Love rewatching the old episodes so much. I’ve joined Patreon for the new episodes. Wish Tony was back full time. So what if he has wrinkles. We all do and are still enjoying his energetic presentation.

[magdahearne]

Oh to have been in the pub listening to them discuss the finds of the day 😍

[arkhamasylum]

My wife and I still chime in “ritual landscape” to amuse each other

[Davlavi]

Love rewatching the old episodes so much.

[davemcdonald]

really enjoy the neolithic episodes Phil and Francis really shine I wonder how much of these enclosures have to do with security for families and animals ancient practices of cattle stealing as well as protection from wolves I wonder if the practice of animals and owners staying in same dwelling had to do with having everybody make it through the night

[KernowekTim]

Looking at the area and it's surroudings now, my initial thought was, " My goodness, I wonder what a Neolithic person would have made of today's set-up?" Un-natural, springs to mind.

[MickCampin-jpkb]

I remember a field trip to the South Downs at Pratts Bottom back in 1977. We were just doing soil analysis on cross section of the Downs

[JeffinBville]

Francis! I found a rock!
That's not a rock! That's a cultural icon representing the way the ancients perceived their God!

Francis! I found a beer bottle!
A beer bottle to you! But to the people who lived here that was a cultural and religious manifestation of their arrival here in Great Britain!

[bonnieskilton]

Wait a minute… wait just a minute… Phil digs a 1 foot hole and pulls up Neolithic flint. That man is a genius.

[belbrighton]

Réservoir rituals is one of the best episodes ever.

[TheDesertwalker]

If the occupants of these sites really thought that ceremonies would help, then that was PRACTICAL, and a good use of their precious time and labor.

[townview]

The mystery of the stones in the holes reminds me of a Billy Connolly joke: (paraphrased) "Why do they make you put on your lifejacket when your plane is crashing? When it hits, it's going to go into the ground like a dart!! So that in 2000 years, when archeologists dig it up, they'll think there was a river there."

[bigbensarrowheadchannel]

Francis Pryor has one wild imagination. Everything is ritualistic or related to a ceremony.

[catheydaniel]

If these were seasonal and from Hunter/Gatherer sites why cant the cairns be for more than burials? Why cant they be to store foods or blank flint for tools, or even sacred objects dedicated to the Gods to keep the Site safe until their return?

[saw]

At that point in time, given the probably limitations in engineering, could these ditches not be defensive in nature?

[barloswkitheweasel]

Have a look at Mike Taylor Embargo Cletic village New Zealand. The Kaimanawa wall. Split Apple Rock.

[lorilea]

"You don't let your cattle poo in church"...unless cattle are held sacred, every bit of the animal helpful/useful to humans, including the "poo".

[greyhairedphantom]

Certainly a salvageable home, no..or minimal Salt Damp is a big plus. The movement cracks aren't extreme as in some other old homes.
It needs to be saved soon as the roof is beginning to leak, which will cause irreparable damage.
The fact that it is way out in the paddock has saved it from human building materials parasites and vandals wrecking it.

[townview]

I vote security for the causeway ditch. Try sneaking through there on a dark night. splash! splash!

[skalar-haubitze]

Francis sees a ritual sight in pretty much anything.