The Mystery of the Standing Stone - Full Episode Premiere!
Added 2025-03-22 09:00:13 +0000 UTCYou’ve already had a sneak peek at our new dig at Farley Moor, but now it’s time to see the full story unfold! Join us tonight for the complete episode as the Expedition Crew digs deeper into the mystery of this enigmatic standing stone.
You’ll follow Lawrence, Naomi, Derek, and Hilde as they investigate this rugged Peak District site, piecing together clues and uncovering the secrets hidden in the landscape. Could this solitary stone be a remnant of a lost Bronze Age monument, or does it hold a different secret entirely?
Catch the premiere tonight at 7pm (GMT) on YouTube, and don’t forget to join the live chat! The Expedition Crew themselves will be there to answer your questions, share stories from the dig, and, of course, probably make a few bad jokes along the way!
Thank you as always to our Patreons for all your support—we couldn’t do it without you. Hope to see you there! 💪🔍
Comments
This was a great episode. Thank you! I’m curious how this site was chosen?
Dyana Mason
2025-04-08 04:55:36 +0000 UTCI didn’t get the notification til now so missed 40mins :,,;
James Carter
2025-04-06 18:41:00 +0000 UTCI have finally watched this episode, and was enthralled. What a great dig.
Anthony
2025-03-27 13:30:05 +0000 UTCThis 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. 👏
Janet Hay
2025-03-27 06:30:20 +0000 UTCI 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?
Debbie Gerlock
2025-03-25 16:36:23 +0000 UTCSo enjoyable and informative. Always a pleasure to learn from experts who love their profession.
Jennifer Thompson
2025-03-25 14:07:48 +0000 UTCIncredible and ancient circles are found all over the world, maybe one day the link will be found 🙏
Lorna Dryden
2025-03-25 04:38:44 +0000 UTCLiving really close to the dig in Chesterfield its interesting to see what they discover 🙂
Adrian Todd
2025-03-24 22:14:05 +0000 UTCThis was an amazing show! Thank you for this. Super interesting. More please!!!!
Erica Griffith
2025-03-24 05:24:56 +0000 UTCWonderful episode. And a great result!
Pamela A. Parsels
2025-03-24 02:34:06 +0000 UTCReally 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.
Rick Shepard
2025-03-24 01:22:35 +0000 UTCSorry 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.
Frances Alayne Perrott
2025-03-23 19:57:55 +0000 UTCAdjust your monitor, I saw no issues...
Brett
2025-03-23 17:56:34 +0000 UTCHere's the article from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y06r662jzo Quite nice, but no direct link to the time team site.
Monika Schwarzbach
2025-03-23 13:31:14 +0000 UTCFantastic 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.
Simon Orchard
2025-03-23 10:51:09 +0000 UTCWas 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😁
Mika
2025-03-23 07:02:14 +0000 UTCFantastic episode. I love following the archeologists reveal this site. I haven't enjoyed an episode as much.
Tanis Sugden
2025-03-23 04:59:04 +0000 UTCThis was really well done. It gets the imagination going. I could see people coming to gather at the spring in my mind.
Robin Smith
2025-03-23 03:15:30 +0000 UTCMAGNIFICENT! 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.
Michael Sperry
2025-03-23 02:36:31 +0000 UTCI 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.
Barbara Bitgood
2025-03-23 01:18:52 +0000 UTCExcellent work. Loved seeing this small “strike team” working together!
Lynn Marsh Freeman
2025-03-23 01:01:10 +0000 UTCI 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.
Carl Johnson
2025-03-23 00:32:57 +0000 UTCIf 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.
Mike Worsdale
2025-03-22 23:16:10 +0000 UTCThe 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!
JUDITH COOKE
2025-03-22 23:14:32 +0000 UTCI didn't see the BBC or Times story, but they must have shown enough spoilers to spoil things.
Mike Worsdale
2025-03-22 23:11:34 +0000 UTCSeveral 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.
Alan Murdock
2025-03-22 22:54:22 +0000 UTCWhy 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.
Iain Odlin
2025-03-22 22:52:24 +0000 UTCBrilliant, well done team, and proving it was early Bronze Age, nailed the whole site!
Mike Darby
2025-03-22 22:18:52 +0000 UTCNot 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.
Robin Horton
2025-03-22 22:05:39 +0000 UTCGood to see progress on the site. At least, the weather is asleep! Ish!
Alan McMillan
2025-03-22 20:21:13 +0000 UTCGreat show. And nice to see the team show up in the chat.
Martin Packer
2025-03-22 20:09:49 +0000 UTCWell done Guys and Gals, that was fantastic! It would be great to hear more about any future plans the Forestry Commission might have for the site.
The Digging Gardener
2025-03-22 20:08:39 +0000 UTCThis was an incredible watch. Yay for the dating evidence!
Elessa Wylde
2025-03-22 20:07:33 +0000 UTCIcky Chert, rebellious archaeologist and rock drummer.
Ann Wagner
2025-03-22 19:32:58 +0000 UTCI saw that, too. I n 2 minds: Good publicity but definitely a spoiler. How we get there is, of course, important.
Martin Packer
2025-03-22 19:00:54 +0000 UTCLooking forward to it 💪
Des Doherty
2025-03-22 12:40:14 +0000 UTCI see BBC is spoiling the episode!
Mika
2025-03-22 11:39:48 +0000 UTCSo excited ☺️
Darylyn Phraner
2025-03-22 11:04:57 +0000 UTCcan't wait for this one!
Richard Seaton
2025-03-22 10:42:31 +0000 UTCAt last! Been waiting. ❤️🙏🏻
Patrik Hallberg
2025-03-22 09:37:58 +0000 UTCLooking forward to this one
Paul Faulkner
2025-03-22 09:16:11 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the viewing.
Laura Phaneuf
2025-03-22 09:09:37 +0000 UTC
