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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2012
Saxon Hoard - Saxon Hoard A Golden Discovery
Extract from: BBC News
Marion Blockley, an archaeologist, wonders if there is a clue in a lament written in around the 9th Century that describes a 7th Century battle and raid in the Midlands.
Did warriors ransack a settlement and leave with captured treasure?
"It's possible as they fled that they may have taken the hoard with them and buried it, hoping to come back but sadly they were killed," Ms Blockley said.
"I'm not saying it's true, but you know, it may well be."
'Significant items'
The Staffordshire Hoard is made up of thousands of items, including pieces of weaponry and dozens of ornate sword pommels, so could they have been part of a king's collection that had somehow fallen into the wrong hands?
Ms Blockley said nearby Tamworth had been a royal treasury.
She said kings used to receive gifts of "significant items of weaponry" which they would then redistribute to their favourite warriors.
Some say a key part of solving the mystery of the hoard could lie in where it was found near what was an important route between the Midlands and London, Watling Street.
Marion Blockley, an archaeologist, wonders if there is a clue in a lament written in around the 9th Century that describes a 7th Century battle and raid in the Midlands.
Did warriors ransack a settlement and leave with captured treasure?
"It's possible as they fled that they may have taken the hoard with them and buried it, hoping to come back but sadly they were killed," Ms Blockley said.
"I'm not saying it's true, but you know, it may well be."
'Significant items'
The Staffordshire Hoard is made up of thousands of items, including pieces of weaponry and dozens of ornate sword pommels, so could they have been part of a king's collection that had somehow fallen into the wrong hands?
Ms Blockley said nearby Tamworth had been a royal treasury.
She said kings used to receive gifts of "significant items of weaponry" which they would then redistribute to their favourite warriors.
Some say a key part of solving the mystery of the hoard could lie in where it was found near what was an important route between the Midlands and London, Watling Street.
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FYI.....Later the Farmer/Landowner are no longer friends with the finder/detectorist. The farmer/landowner thought he was entitled to all the money himself.
Why not show the treasure instead of the commentaters
PART OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE
1:17 perhaps the most beautiful eyes i have ever seen
Why does everything the public finds ,end up in that traitorous shthole called londanistan
As a 7th Gen 'Pakeha' (Anglo Saxon) Kiwi. I'm thrilled to view this find from afar. About as far away as one can get from their ancestors and this discovery of my people's creativity, culture, and art. Fortunately, the foul attitude permeating white America currently. A daft apologetic, guilt strewn self hate, and a constant forced position of having to own the historic victimization of various minority groups at the hands of 'our people'. HASN'T TAKEN HOLD HERE IN NZ. So I can watch this short documentary with awe and pride. While my yank brethren have to disown this find or after the discourse has been hijacked by assorted ninnies nit-wits and nimcompoops. Disfavor the find and its contents altogether..
As a Canadian, it's hilarious to see the host (John Snow?) wearing a zipped up parka (winter jacket) on a beautiful sunny day when we would wear at most a sweater (cardigan)! It's obviously nowhere near the freezing point! But then again, I'm all for comfort. So it's ok with me, even if it is a bit funny! 🤣😂🤣
Surely Sutton Hoo is larger?
Aussie here, a Cockatoo & Galah will swear their head off. Most domesticated ones will learn to talk without even teaching them, and they are like children, they pick the swear words up real quick 😂
Without the detectorists this hoard would have never been found
TOO BAD ENGLAND IS NOW AN ISLAMIC NATION!
Gad and OG words are mentioned a lot in wealas or Wales. Og was last giant of israel.yes the bible says there were giants in those days.very tall gene.i.e.childe of hale.
We are the ten lost tribes.jutes vikings from tribes of Dan and naphtali.dan mark(Dan's field)Norway (youthwave)Sweden(gad)Finland(wanderers)Reuben(France)nederlands(Zebulon)simeon.benjamin.(Portugal and France)bri tannymeans alliance or covenant people.the covenant was our god of israel.made with Abraham.
We now know that the saxons were the sacae tribe.from Israel.one of ten lost tribes.actualy poss Judah as sacae means sons of isaac
FIRE CLAY.....LIME QUARRIES.....BROWNHILLS.....SHIRE OAK
Omg that ladies eye are nuts!
LOL I have to laugh at the number of supposed 'historians' in the doco who are clearly beholden to their own preconceived biases with bugger all regard to any other possibilities, particularly (and unsurprisingly) the fucking god-botherers as usual. I have to laugh at the one who waxes lyrical about the poetic romantic ways in which the artifacts were bent, while completely overlooking the possibility that they've been in the ground for so long that it's entirely more likely they were bent by ploughshares and the like!
Irish gansters now have their hords buried in Tamworth. 🤫
Really informative documentary excellent work!
You had a disaffected noble (He caught the King in bed with his wife and killed them?) then took what he wanted from the kings armory going into exile. In the process of running and going into hiding, all signs of who the blades and other weapons belonged to were eradicated. They then hid the valuable materials and never got a chance to come back for it.
The fact that sword is bent in half makes me think there was a lake there at some point! Wonder if they were offerings as even the bracelets appear to have been broken! I think there was a pier or jetty there, and it was used as a place to drop offerings from. I don’t think they were buried! I personally wonder if Vikings used some of their plunder to appease the gods! Especially with a symbol of Christian’s faith, that many might have taken into battle. And what better way to make an offering to your Viking gods than to throw in a symbol of their enemies faith! 8:06
Anything with Sir David Starkey in it is bound to be a real treat - being Irish and living in the U.K. myself, Sir David is my favourite historian, this man is a national treasure 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The best place to hide your treasure was under the ground. I remember when the hoard was found and they said it was mangled up from tractors plowing the field. This seems quite feasible to me.....pity they didnt show each piece up close and clean 🥰🏴
Why is it a hoard in this area, but ‘objects for the afterlife’ in Egypt
The boar is every much the symbol of Lezsno, Silesia, Poland. The Royal city of the Slavic Realted to Hastings and Northumbria which goes to Normandy.
Buried in the bank.
The man who initially found the burrial treasure was never given any credit because he lacked institutional credentials. His father trained him
They were the Dark Ages because the world became two to three degrees C cooler than it had been during the Roman period.. It stopped being warm just before 400AD. The Ages were dark because everyone was very cold and very hungry.
holy crap that girl has massive eyes
They probably buried it to keep it from the Vikings
Yeah
The farmer apparently had a falling out with the detectorist because the farmer was upset he wasn't getting all of the money, turns out rather than salt of the earth etc he was a bit of a dickhead
yallz british needs to stop talkin y'own version of english and talk like murhicans..i cant understand whut yallz is 'sayin.. why you gotta go do that?
quality of life, were they happy or not, do we assume they were miserable, be cause they lived in less grand surroundings, life is hard if you're not used to privation or hard work, we assume they were unhappy yet they flourished, and produced artthey gifted us with the basics of law a jury of ones peers comes from the magna carta
To my mind one of the most interesting things about the hoard is how the Christia objects were bent and broken before eing deposited. That's how heathen Germanic peope treated things they gave to the gods-first they spoilt them for further human uee and then they threw thechritin kings of northumbria.m into bogs or other hard-to-search places. I believe the hordwa a sacrifice: Penda's offering to Woden for his vctory over oneothe
Why the professional folk haven't worked out it was plowing that bent and twisted the hoard.
but where were these pieces made? Just because they possessed them doesn't necessarily mean they created them.
I would imagine if you were travelling through the countryside at that time , you'd rutinely bury your valuables when you rested for the night. Perhaps they got attacked and killed? My guess is its booty from a battle because there are so many sword pommels. I can't see why you'd have so many for any other reason, especially as they seem to have been a popular expression of wealth and status. I can imagine the victors of a battle sharing out the spoils and heading back home through a very militarised and dangerous landscape. Perhaps they were killed as they slept, leaving their gold undiscovered for 1500 years..
15.36 Bede may have been writing "in a vacuum" from where we sit now, but we have no idea what has been lost over the past 1500 or so years. If Bede was doing it then why not others too?
There is no better and healthier escape, than Discoveries like this! I could watch these videos all day!
Whoops…talking about Penda and showing Lichfield Cathedral’s statue of the (Christian!) king Pæda… The rest is truly excellent!
Why didn’t that woman go to the dentist?
... so... the king orders all these trinkets to be made by a jeweler merchant... ... and the dude delivering the goods gets raided by bandits... ... heck of a train robbery...
Long live the English!
Yes from a native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany.... We are one tribe🌹🏴🇩🇪
Amazing collection!
The titan elohem fell to self dismay into gients do to being lonely. And the gients eating tribes of ginets whitch we call humans . Was in total indasinated ignorince . I died when i was the wovan gient simply becuse i was out of the body elohim . Its also a shame to be out of the the god bodie being a conforment to his suroundings rather then conforming his suroundings . Hallarugga the night anglo saxions into a being of life 1 love .
I live around the corner from here
I'll tell you what I'd like to "push into a hole" and that is that lady's DENTIST> My gosh get some dental work done. I'm not an historian, I'm a caregiver no insurance but HELL!!!! Her teeth are disconcerting.
People should be asking how did they learn how to create them. Items that can't be recreated today. I bet this knowledge was passed from a time where these techniques date back thousands of years before Anglosaxons.
Archaeologists detest metal detectors but here they all are waxing lyrical..A few years back the archaeologist society of Great Britain announced its discovery of the year.It was a stone axe head.The reason the chair said was simple enough that it couldn't be found by a metal detector.The same yeear numerous large finds of gold and precious items had been found by metal detectors sad bunch really.
9:16 the rainbow behind him - pure luck they say...