“The Trouble with Temples” (Friar’s Wash, Hertfordshire) | S16E01 | Time Team

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Sol=Sun in Swedish. "Kellar" -Cellar? Källare? (Swedish)
Words being connected through time like this is both amusing and makes me wonder how many words are coincidence and how many are directly related and where it was first x)

Does anyone else play the 'Time Team Ritual Drinking Game'? Whenever anyone (often Francis!) says 'Ritual' you have to take a swig of your drink. This evening it's a nice cuppa tea. Happy New Year, everyone, from S-E Hertfordshire!

Tony is such an ass. If it weren’t for my overriding interest in archaeology I wouldn’t watch. He’s rude and annoying more often than not.

I feel Stuart is often the key to unlocking these amazing sights. His ability to interpret landscapes is so impressive

Well this makes up for all the times they got my hopes up for a temple in past episodes lol.

Tiles look good, and also replace the old carpet around the altar with either a plain tile or more of that same pattern. Would put the chapel space over the top.

Why do they sound like pirates (aarrrgh) to me(as an American)?😂

They needed 3 MONTHS to complete this dig. What more could have been discovered???

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So Roman temples are like buses. You wait 15 years, and then 4 show up at once.

francis and phil are so excited on this site. i think mick would have been bonkers over this dig, three temples all in a pile. he always loved his religious sites!

I was talking about this show with a peer the other day and very humbling realized people get degrees using half the hours theyve aired of this show.

Technically you are educated. Its just moreso in british optimism. 😂😅

Helen: "Three bits of dating evidence..."
Guy, butting in: "Or coins as we call them in English."
Helen, off-camera, pops Guy in the snoot...

Seriously, a fascinating programme, one I've watched before and was glad to find again, not least because I used to live in St Albans and have a recollection of the local paper mentioning "site of national importance" to add to the many Verulamium already possessed.

I enjoy Francis' enthusiasm. I think you need faith for some of his interpretations but I would have loved to have had him as my teacher, on any subject.

It looks like a foot print

This is one of my favorite episodes of TT

Maybe each temple was dedicated to a different god/goddess?

Question ive always had is what happens to the dig sites afterwards? I only know of such digs as Egypt or Rome where digs are cleaned up and put on display for tourists. But most in the UK are just in random fields. Take this one for example, its in a farmers field, surely the farmer would want that land back to plant again afterwards?

Why is Guy never grubbing? Sports jacket?

Is it the first Roman temple found in Britain?

I smell bacon Those are pig pens😂😂😂not temples.

Haha, you got to love the person who came up with this title! 🤣🖖💖.
I'm with Tony: roughly circular.😃

I wish they had someone talking about orientation to the solstices.

Americans like me might be imaging finding such ruins like these in our backyards here As a descendant of European settlers, my ancestors' ruins lie elsewhere.

Thanks.

I really hope that most of this cast has never procrastinated. Except Baldrick... obviously

Wow! Professional people having fun. What a great group. What a great series.

In 15 years of the programme they find not a hint of a Roman temple and then they find at least 4 in one go.

Human sacrifice a step too far for the Romans??? The Colosseum in Rome must be the most blood-drenched piece of land on earth! They crucified people left, right and center for the slightest whiff of sedition. The gladiators saluted the god-emperor before they set about hacking bits off each other but human sacrifice was too much for their dainty sensibilities? She’s having a laugh!

Ay Tony I was in St Albans pub about a week ago near wisemans ferry here in new south Wales no Roman ruins here mate just , ticks, mosquito's, and black snakes , but the pub is very colonial all sandstone , love the time team wish the episodes were longer but thier is incredibly a large amount archaeology still buried in olde England, love the time team cheers to the team gidday to all from Sydney

If the Romans didn't allow human sacrifice how come they brutally used crucifiction?

"after a hot summer in the 1970s". Yes climate alarmists, we've had hot Summers before. Thanks for clarifying that time team 😅

There is nothing I could dislike about these programs or people. Having watched TT before internet was common I was brought on a journey of highs and lows with experts who were a delight to enjoy and learn from. Now internet is so common and I can watch on my iPad I get to watch and enjoy all over again. Mind you I still enjoy guessing the year from Tony’s hair style and tummy. ❤

"...and our sale of penny curses, especially on a Saturday night, is tremendous. We can't turn them out fast enough!"

We all can today read our own augury of the Roman God "Bellifluficus" belly button lint.😊

Fascinating 😃

The Roman gods were Saturn,Jupiter etc..........those planets are originally assigned to the most important demi-gods (described as living beings) of the Annunaki of Sumeria ( or as the Torah calls them, the Elohim) If you think thats all clap trap, look around and you will see that Saturnic worship is everywhere in the modern world today.

A big thanks to Tony early on trying to put Phil in his place, as he so rightly said Francis is the site boss, and therefore he tells others where to dig..........

Maybe a Roman 'Mr Potato-Head'?

Increasing elevation as people entered the temples, may simply have been due to accommodating regular flooding!

Circular

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Ave Time Team!

Phil has the absolute best job in the world

Time Team got me through Covid, and this is likely my favorite episode.

My favorite episode