FULL EPISODE | CLASSIC TIME TEAM SPECIAL
Between 2007 and 2009, English Heritage restored Dover Castle, a fort built by Henry II and the most expensive secular building in Europe at the time, to its original 1180s condition. As a key fortress connecting Angevin France and England, it was one of many constructed at the time, but served as a centre-point of the empire and a showcase of his power. £2.45 million was spent on recreating the appearance of the main keep’s interior. Around 250 people including academics and artisans were involved in researching and recreating period accurate items ranging from armour and weapons to furniture, clothing, utensils, and tapestries.
Original broadcast date: 19th December 2009.
Discover more about the Dover Castle here: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/dover-castle/
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Thank you for uploading this! I'm sharing it with my SCA friends!
Wont be much money left after the academics pay themselves !
Always wondered why the drawings are always so cartoonish. It isn't as if they didn't have the labor and time during the era to have the people and animals depicted in more realistic detail. Same question of the drawings on Egyptian pyramids.
Bloody H'ell !
my family and I happened to visit on the day of the official opening. Amazing experience. I grew up just outside Folkestone so Dover castle was somewhere we visited frequently.
Gorgeous – both the refit of the castle and the narrative. Now I understand castles and their accouterments.
The colors were as rich as stained glass windows and properly muted when they were inside the castle and properly lit.
Thank you.
Wow, just Wow! I just added another place to visit urgently on my list.I wish things like this were undertaken by cultural heritage in The Netherlands.
Loving it. More please
Top notch as always love Time Team xx
Awesome.
Spectacular!
Thank you Time Team.
With all the trouble and expense of recreating these furnishings, we see them with museum lighting, which kind of defeats the purpose a bit. It's commendable work, but I think the vaulted ceiling would also have been painted with chandeliers hanging.
Wonderful show. Love the factual history that was created. Tony always brings the excitement..and comedy to special.
This is absolutely incredible! I love your specials and I really love this one. Very, very educational.
What's most remarkable to me is that this project was done with a budget of £2.45 million. It seems to me to be impossible to have this many artisans and artists working on such a large array of furnishings and decorations on this size budget. Perhaps some craftsmen donated their time? Whatever the case is, kudos to everyone involved, and this has to be one of my favorite Time Team episodes.
Did I just see the Isle of Lewis chess set on display in the video? Discovered in 1831 and made by the Norse…🤔
It's Tod Cutler with more hair!
Absolutely impressive result indoors, a warm festival of dim lights over primal colours. But I'm disappointed by the poor look of the external walls, weren't they supposed to be all permanently whitewashed ?
30.50 it's Ronnie Corbett
Exquisite, therefore, best not to put one’s hands on the stuff.
I love Dover Castle. What a wonderful restoration project!
I’ve seen Dover Castle many times,
but only from afar!
I hope to make it back there again,
someday!
Knowing the history,
makes it that much more fascinating!
Thanks for this great educational presentation!
Keep your smiles on!
It’s overdone, looks too opulent
VERY selective parts of the film footage (for "family" viewing) of the very good 1968 movie, "The Lion in Winter" (Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, et al.) could be considered for possible showing there, as well as the 1964 movie, "Becket" (again with Peter O'Toole abd also starring Richard Burton). These excellent movies do contain violence and questionable material for 18 and under in a public setting; however, certain clips might work.
this was the best special yet . the end was like walking back in.
It is all very well to fill the interior with authentic furnishings, but the exterior looks decidedly grubby. A good steam cleaning would change the appearance enormously. The sandstone Anglican cathedral here in Melbourne was steam cleaned a few years ago, which changed its appearance enormously. Imagine the keep of Dover when cleaned; it would be sparkling white. Quite dramatic.
Brilliant (literally)
History—Rich White men continually wanting more. This fabulous and intriguing TT account leads clearly to Putins and Netanyahus and Trumps. Shouldn't we have reassessed greatness by now? Is this restoration of Dover Castle really just a coloring book for grownups….
Hello Tony. Good to see you old boy. Youre like a warm and loving welcome into the new year. And the castle is as permanent as ever. Ill never forget my visit to this magnificent show piece of a building. Truly serves its intended purpose even all these centuries later. I would never mess with it's owner that's for sure 😂
It would be amazing to have the exterior of the keep whitewashed again .
? I Think Old Stretch and sew is looking down and smiling ?