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The Mystery of the Standing Stone - Full Episode Premiere!

🕑 Added 2025-03-22 09:00:13 +0000 UTC

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Dyana Mason

This was a great episode. Thank you! I’m curious how this site was chosen?

James Carter

I didn’t get the notification til now so missed 40mins :,,;

Anthony

I have finally watched this episode, and was enthralled. What a great dig.

Janet Hay

This is a great format, resulting in an excellent programme, with all the best Time Team features. Impressive and very helpful graphics too, though I would have appreciated a few more highlights in places to make things clearer. This programme shows the huge potential for the X dig format. Thank you all. 👏

Debbie Gerlock

I love this new X format! Have a question, I noticed parallel grooves in the stone that Hilde was working on. Were they natural, caused by plowing, or from ancient times?

Jennifer Thompson

So enjoyable and informative. Always a pleasure to learn from experts who love their profession.

Lorna Dryden

Incredible and ancient circles are found all over the world, maybe one day the link will be found 🙏

Adrian Todd

Living really close to the dig in Chesterfield its interesting to see what they discover 🙂

Erica Griffith

This was an amazing show! Thank you for this. Super interesting. More please!!!!

Pamela A. Parsels

Wonderful episode. And a great result!

Rick Shepard

Really enjoyed this! I've seen reporting about this other than the BBC that clearly credits Time Team and Lawrence and Derek specifically. Great to see TT getting some recognition.

Frances Alayne Perrott

Sorry to be critical of a very nice episode, but your diggers are confusing the iron-rich illuvial B horizon of a typical British acid soil, with the natural bedrock.

Brett

Adjust your monitor, I saw no issues...

Monika Schwarzbach

Here's the article from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y06r662jzo Quite nice, but no direct link to the time team site.

Simon Orchard

Fantastic episode. Smaller more targeted digs but with the same high standards of production are clearly easier and cheaper to produce. Can't wait to get back out into the field again myself.

Mika

Was an excellent episode - a focused one, showing how the trenches progressing changed the interpretation and the discussions around it. A detective story, really, with pieces coming together at the end in a satisfying way with the spring, the stone platform and the 2000 BC radiocarbon dating (with the reclining stone's standing stone credentials and the stone "pathway" still left slightly open). Towards the end of the episode, it looked like Hilde's trench matched the colour of her hair while Naomi's and Lawrence's trenches were close to their respective colours as well. Some kind of mystic "colourative determinism" in trench selection, or maybe a little inside joke by the production team in exaggerating these colours😁

Tanis Sugden

Fantastic episode. I love following the archeologists reveal this site. I haven't enjoyed an episode as much.

Robin Smith

This was really well done. It gets the imagination going. I could see people coming to gather at the spring in my mind.

Michael Sperry

MAGNIFICENT! What a great expedition! I love the highly focused aspect of the story, just trying to answer one specific question. And what an answer! Wow! I love the camaraderie between the team members. Makes me wish I could be there with them.

Barbara Bitgood

I wonder how the landscape would have looked if the people who erected the stones tended the site to keep the iron rich soil exposed? That would have made for a stunning color contrast for anyone coming upon the site.

Lynn Marsh Freeman

Excellent work. Loved seeing this small “strike team” working together!

Carl Johnson

I wish I could have watched the live stream today, but still enjoyed watching later in the evening. I really enjoyed the presentation of the dig. The blend of close and wide shots really made if feel like I was there and the 3D imaging of the ancient landscape with all the stones mapped made it easier to imagine how the stones could have been used. And finally, the team owes Naomi a round for getting that date from the flakes of charcoal.

Mike Worsdale

If the cobbled platform was in place before the standing stone, I wonder how they managed to erect the stone and in such a way it appears to be floating. Definitely a site worthy of further research.

JUDITH COOKE

The photography was absolutely marvellous, providing the viewer with an extraordinarily intimate and emotional connection with the site, the Team and the action. I could almost feel and smell the grit! Well done everyone and congratulations to Naomi for the sensational dating result. And I just love that standing stone!

Mike Worsdale

I didn't see the BBC or Times story, but they must have shown enough spoilers to spoil things.

Alan Murdock

Several questions: #1 Since the water table is shallow and tree roots are near the surface. How would they disrupt the stones? #2 There are features on the lidar map showing many pits in a row. Are they the results of forestry or something else? #3 What was the environment like when the stones were placed. Was it a forest, grassland, mixed? Been a member since this started, inquiring minds want to know.

Iain Odlin

Why has this been "teal and orange"d? Archaeology is a real subject, and all screwing with the color space does is make the world look distractingly and horribly unreal. There is absolutely no reason for intentionally making the picture ugly and making the skin of every human look creepy. Please *please* stop doing it.

Mike Darby

Brilliant, well done team, and proving it was early Bronze Age, nailed the whole site!

Robin Horton

Not just the BBC. Opened my Times this morning and there was the story before it got to the BBC website. Somewhat spoilt my day. However enjoyed the intellectual process of arriving at the conclusion shown in the video. Well worth watching.