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Getting into the nitty gritty of discoveries in Britain and there's a lot. Some amazing treasures found. Love history n your reactions bro keep it going
I saw that belt buckle in person , when you get up close the detail is astonishing. There's so much archaeology in the UK and its so popular we even had a weekly TV show called time team - they'd do 3 day dig at a historical site . You'd have loved it .
The episodes are currently available on TH-cam and they have actually reformed and started up again, minus a few unforgettable members who are no longer around.
You were pretty spot on with the Archbishop. The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine in 597 ad. Only one year after Pope Gregory sent the missionaries to England.
Kudos for that!
The first recorded Christian church in the world was at Glastonbury (or possibly Llandaff nr. Cardiff) in AD 61. Apparently 12 Hyde’s of land were granted to the church by the King of the time, and were noted as not having to pay tax in the Doomsday book. Catholicism and the early Christianity were absolutely not the same thing.
However during the reign of Henry in order to get his divorces the Archbishop of Canterbury switched faith from Catholisim to Protestant faith and Pope lost England for all time as a result nowdays the most senior figure in the Protestant faith is the Archbishop of Canterbury of course the Queen is head of state and defender of the faith she is the head of the church as is any monarch.
@@RK-zf1jm Thank fuck .
@@RK-zf1jm Well, not quite, Thomas Moore (Archbishop of Canterbury and lifelong friend of Henry) was executed because of his refusal to agree with Henry VIII over the principle of the divorce.
You should try to find a show called "Time Team". It was on for years. Basically a reality show following real archeologists. It was presented by Tony Robinson who plays Baldrick in Blackadder and some of the experts were real personalities. It was great hangover TV for a Sunday morning/afternoon back in the day.
It was a bit slow paced but interesting seeing all the different technologies and techniques they used.
Yep they did one at the village I live at. Plus one where I used to live.
If I move again I'll check time team first lol
Brilliant show👍
Yes
And they now have a TH-cam site and have recently been back to Sutton Ho, defo worth a checkout for history nerds.
@@nigelleyland166 I'm currently working my way through what they have on TH-cam. Just as good as it was first time round.
I've had family living and working on the river Thames for the last 400yrs, getting harder to trace back further. My great great grandfather found an Anglo saxon sword below a temporary bridge at vauxhall in London in the 1890s. It's currently in the London museum.
Connor, the most almighty find of gold and precious objects was found at Sutton Hoo: the largest ever found world-wide. It gave historians enormous amounts of info regarding Anglo Saxon life of the time. I have seen the objects displayed, and they are jaw-dropping.
World-wide? Really? I knew that Sutton Hoo was a really big find but I had no idea about that.
The Staffordshire Hoard is something similar. Biggest gold find ever. Helmets. Coins. Swords. Biggest find since Sutton Hoo.
With a very similar helmet too, although the Staffordshire one was thought to have Roman style horsehair plumes. There is a suggestion it was connected in some way to Penda of Mercia, and I would really like to think that's true.
The intricacy of the Sutton Hoo jewellery was so complex a modern day jeweller cannot replicate it. Which destroys the myth the Saxons were no more than brutish barbarians. In fact, they were highly cultured. For example, there was a dig at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, a USAF base and the bones of a Saxon warrior were found, with his horse. Also, what was found was his sword which had been pattern welded, like the Japanese katana. However, the important thing was, the sword's cutting edge was made of carbon steel. Considering blast furnaces had not been invented back then, not until the 14th century, nobody knew how the Saxons could produce carbon steel.
Remember, the Saxons did not walk across the North Sea, they sailed across in boats, like the Vikings did four hundred years later. The Saxons sailed far and wide in search of trade, yet this is mostly ignored in favour of the exploits of the Vikings.
(Viking is a Saxon word meaning pirate or similar).
The Sutton Hoo site is Angel, not Saxon. It's in East Anglia, the area's named after them. The Saxons settled a little further south. The English are made up of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, but the majority were Angel.
@@creepingdread88 I agree but collectively, including the Saxons from Friesland in Holland, were all Saxon tribes. The Anglo-Saxons settled in many different parts of the country - the Jutes ended up in Kent, the Angles in East Anglia, and the Saxons in parts of Essex, Wessex, Sussex and Middlesex (according to whether they lived East, West, South or in the middle! I understand they were all called Saxons because of the Seax knife they carried.
@@creepingdread88 The English are (genetically) about 50-60% Brythonic Celtic, depending where you look. Anglo-Saxon defines the dominant cultures in the lands they conquered. the SE has the lowest concentrations, at about 40%. Wales, Cornwall and Cumbria are at 70-80%, for comparison.
Just to clarify, archaeology is the study of the human past; fossil hunting is a branch of paleontology.
If you like sutton hoo then i suggest taking a look at the staffordshire hoard, the biggest find of saxon art since sutton hoo. Saxon weapon fittings with red garnet inlay are some of my favourite artefacts.
Mary Anning - Victorian fossil finder on the Jurassic Coast in Victorian times. She did the same thing, wandering on the beach, opening up boulders. She always carried a wicker basket for her finds. She would have received more plaudits for her research had she not been a woman. (Another USA / UK contrast. We pronounce sieve as, “siv”.)
A good subject like this is the sinking of the Mary Rose. It had been a battleship for 34 years and best warship during the reign of Henry the 8th.
In 1545, the Mary Rose was part of a defensive fleet when a large French armada attacked the Isle of Wight, with the intent of invading England via Portsmouth. It was raised in 1983 live on TV to a global audience.
For 437 years had passed since is sinking and is now a living exhibition that is sprayed with water to keep it alive and drying it out would destroy it. Its in a Portsmouth museum with the sole purpose to display the only surviving part of the ship. Very good to check that out Conner.
Before the Mary Rose was raised the British Museum had the only Tudor arrow in existance, after Mart Rose came up there were thousands of them.
I was late for work because of watching the lift on TV.
If you're ever in Stockholm, go see the Vasa museum. Pretty much the same story as the Mary Rose, but she sunk after firing an overloaded gun deck just as a high wave hit her, days after being put to sea for the first time, and the Scandinavian river waters preserved her EXTREMELY well. She's the msot complete medieval ship you can see, and being a royal flagship, she's got all the fancy bits and artefacts you could want.
Also, I never got o see it but the Visby museum. A battle where the dead lay in the hit sun for days before they could be recovered, and were so putrid that many bodies were jsut tossed into the burial pits without having their arms and armour stripped from them, so a lot of it survived. Some fo the most in-tact medieval armoury anywhere in the world.
When it was launched on it's maiden voyage, it sank! Right in front of Henry V111....
@@davidhoward2487 And, of course ,as it had only just begun it`s voyage all of the contents of the ship went down with it .
I think the point of the discovery of such variety of objects that would have been found in Britain during Roman times due to the interconectedness of the Empire and trade networks in the "Dark ages" showed that actually the common perception of the time that this was a time devoid of culture and trade was wrong. So yes you are correct that objects from far flung places like Syria and Sri Lanka were probably available to people of comparative wealth to Anglo Saxon nobility, its that they were found with an Anglo Saxon that showed how wrong the contemporary thought was.
Finding foreign objects in an Angle burial site, just means they took the objects from the Britons who came by them via the Romans. I'm not sure what he (Simon?) was getting at, trying to suggest there was some kind of trade route between East Anglia and Sri Lanka, that would be a strange conclusion to reach. Travel was slow and difficult, neighbours traded with each other, so objects could end up in far off destinations, but that's all.
if it interests you we have a show in the uk which is called time team, where they excavate sites to discover the history beneath our feet, all episodes are on youtube and they announced that they have secured permission to use the latest tech to re-examine the site at sutton hoo
You should watch time team
Yeah,that was an enjoyable program, except when they only found a spoon and a bit of a wall from the 1950s,or something similar, lucky didn't happen often.
The grave probably was Raedwald. The clue lies in the helmet, which was ceremonial, not for battle. All the garnets used in it were backed with gold foil, making them glitter. Both the eye-holes were rimmed with garnets, but on one eye, the garnets had no gold foil - so by fire and candle-light when he was trying to impress people, one of the eyes would have been in darkness while the other glittered. It would have suggested he had one eye. Woden had one eye, and all the Anglo-Saxon Kings claimed to be descended from Woden - so the owner of the helmet was claiming royal descent. And the coins give a clear indication of who the King was, at that time - Raedwald.
We still have treasure trove laws (the exact mechanics of which escape me) that determine whether objects founds may be wholly or only partly kept by the finder. The treasury may be entitled to part of the value in other words and in Tudor times treasury equated to king.
This, the Royal Mint which is in charge of minting coins was originally founded in the Tower of London as part of the Royal Treasury.
Also splitting money with the king also keeps you in the good graces, so there's more value to giving the money to the king than there is keeping quiet and taking all of it.
Sutton Hoo is minutes away from me, and I worked on a dig there in the mid 80s. Nothing tops standing on the site in the morning mist.
Seriously you need to watch Time Team In the Halls of a Saxon King. And once you've watched that you will be spoiled for choice of which part of UK history you can watch be uncovered by Time Team.
Absolutely, Time Team is your ultimate destination. EI’m specially seeing that its starting up again.
I've just suggested Time Team in my own comment. Great show. I miss it. If you're in the UK, I think it's all still on 4OD.
Time Team Official is re-visiting some of the Sutton Hoo area , look at their channel for when it is due to come out early 2022.
oMG you'd go INSANE in Ireland. When we first rented out 200 yr old cottage (25 yts ago) My partner (an archaeologist found a well in our garden. Next to it, he uncovered worked-flint, some 4000 yrs old -suggesting peoples since that time had been using our well which, incidentally, sits on a Fairy Path linking standing stones in all 4 cardinal points of the compass. we LIVE among the ancestors here.
As so the British? I have a cottage with a 2000 yr old shrine beside it.
A cool thing to know that you might not is that burial mounds are basically everywhere in Britain, in differing frequency and not rarely from earlier cultures but still you’re never more than a few hours away from one
All the rulers in this time were descended from Woden (Odin), essentially a requirement for being a king, but usually it would be names as far back as they know and then 7 or 9 (I can’t remember) slightly mythological figures and then Woden, whichever number it is being very important to Germanic paganism, Woden sacrificed himself to himself for however many days to become a God etc
There's been another find, this time in Essex...then Covid struck!...
@@davidhoward2487 that’s cool, apart from covid delays, but I don’t know how I hadn’t heard about it, being from and in Essex, but anyway thanks for telling me
You asked could the stuff be found in Britain, we are not renowned for having gemstones, the Garnets came along way, the gold can be traced, don't think it was Welsh Gold, which is British. As an add it looks like there is the intention to revisit the site with modern technology. East Anglia has lots of find, metal detectorists often turning up stuff.
Watch many of your reactions and really enjoy them - you choose interesting subjects!
You're not far off questioning whether Gregory became the Arch Bishop of Canterbury (I think that was what you were alluding to). However, as the pope this would heve technically been a demontion! Pope Gregory sent Augustine as a missionary to convert the English to Christianity and it was he that became the first Arch Bishop of Canterbury, I believe.
it might be worth looking at the snettisham great torc , it is a amazing item of bling related to the iceni tribe.
I only live an hour drive from Sutton Hoo.
All schools in East Anglia teach about Sutton Hoo, I remember a history school trip.
We've been to Sutton Hoo a few times and it is an amazing place. There is a certain atmosphere there, slightly eerie, but strangely comforting. Love it there.
When they mention the bowl came from Constantinople they are able to know that from the style of the pot. As many areas were disconnected from each other they developed their own styles. When you dig up any piece of pottery in an archaeological dig it is just as important as if you find a coin with a date on it. They can define a specific time period for when the pot, or even the piece of pot, was made just from the shape or the curve of the rim. The bowl mentioned would also have been decorated in a specific way that would have been unique to Constantinople's makers. As for the other items mentioned many could not be found in Britain.
think he means the romans could have brought them to the uk and these people collected them from people in the uk and had no trade or ventured outside the uk, but my guess is they know roughly when the objects were made so maybe could have only been collected in the time frame these peoples were alive, pure guess
Sorcerer John Dee, employed by Queen Elizabeth I over 400 years ago, was reputed to be one of those grave diggers, perhaps looking for pagan human bones to be used for incantations ;-) The Sutton hoo ship has just been reconstructed and is being rowed about in the estuary one month ago! Also look up The Dig or the Time Team excavation looking for the nearby Anglo-Saxon palace. Later Viking ship burials, were often in peaty soil, instead of acidic, and the whole boat, wood and all, is recovered. Actual small Viking long boats have been reconstructed and sailed on the open sea. The burial mound of Beowulf himself, in S Sweden, is still awaiting excavation BTW.
Nice video, I'm sure you'll love the videos about the recreation of the Sutton Hoo helmet ( I saw the collection at the British Museum) the workmanship is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful!!! Also check the documentaries about the Staffordshire Hoard... or just look at some photos of it first... not saying any more, the objects speak for themselves. Hope you're dream of doing a real treasure hunt comes true...
You should react to episodes of Time Team, the greatest archaeology/History show ever
There's a movie out called "The Dig" starring Raif Fiennes as Basil Brown working on the dig. Great movie. Sutton Hoo has fascinated me for years, the craftsmanship that has gone into these items is amazing.
Luckily I watched the intro and was in the right room, as a sassenach, my haggis would have been an insult!!
I'd never worked this out before, but my father was a toddler in this area at the time, Suffolk is beautiful and worth a visit!!
Another interesting video you might want to check out is the Amesbury archer burial near Stonehenge.
I am an 82 years old English man living in Portugal , now but I love your enthusiasm for E nglish History love your videos keep making them 😎
Its the law. To this day, if you find buried treasure, half goes to the government or queen.
On the south coast of England there’s a stretch of coast called the Jurassic coast, as the cliffs erode dinosaur fossils are exposed, you can literally walk along the beach a trip over dinosaurs. (If you are lucky)
I heard it said, if you scratch Britain it bleeds history.
As I understand it, the source of precious metals and gemstones can be identified from the impurities they contain - a bit like a chemical fingerprint.
AH! Grandfather Raedwald Wuffingas, King of East Anglia, my mother is a descendant of his. Famous for his boat, his hat, his amusing surname and a 1970s automotive product for stopping radiator leaks was named after him!
Connor, upwards of 60-70 percent of the English language you speak today is rooted in the ancient Anglo-Saxon language. Even to this day, many hundreds of years since they arrived in Britain.
Hey Conor , love your content man. You have said on other posts that you are.a mix of American, English Scottish and Irish. Would be good if you could make something that tells us about that history for you and how you know about it? Keep posting. Greetings from Manchester U.K. 😀
A gentle slope is a slope that's not very steep, it can be mistaken for fairly flat land from a distance, and close up.
Why split money with the King? Depends if you fancy living or not. You don't just become independently wealthy and live your best life, hundreds of years ago. Give tribute to your King and the the King is likely to give you power and influence and get invited to all the best parties.
Hi Connor , 08:17 Reason for splitting with the king:
If you dig up stuff that was buried in England (maybe the UK) it is considered Treasure Trove, which means there is tax to pay on it, otherwise people would bury their wealth before death allowing descendants to inherit without paying death duties. If you dig up something that was lost it is not Treasure Trove, and generally no tax is required.
Saint Augustine was the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Viking’s attacked the places where there were most spoils - churches where there were the few people who could read or write.
I think you’d split it with the king or run the risk of having all the riches taken from you and your head taken from your body.
Often the finds were on crown lands. That entitled the Monarch to ownership, so the proceeds were split.
went to Sutton Hoo a couple of years ago, impressive site walking around the mounds on a hot summers day.
The box at 3:35 was not part of the Sutton Hoo finds. Its the 'Frank's casket', thought to have been made in Northumbria
Connor there's a difference between anglo saxons and vikings. pls remember this
He didn't actually say that this leader went to the places the artifacts had come from only that the artifacts travelled to Britain regardless of how. Thereby showing that Britain wasn't isolated from the world but a part of a bigger network with trade routes.
The British museums “curators corner” did a fantastic video series which goes further in depth on the items found like helmet. The Netflix movie the dig is about this too.
Although that Dig movie is pretty ridiculous..
@@Lotsielots I hated it! We live near Sutton Hoo, and have been many times..there's a lot more about Mrs. Pretty, but that nude scene in the film, was just to "sex things up" on a serious, mind blowing, fabulous, discovery...
I also find the assumption that ancient people were idiots hugely frustrating. "How did they navigate by the stars!?!" Well, they could see them and had a LOT of time to look at them with arguably the same intelligence we have today.
Thanks for bringing us this one….fascinating ! And more enjoyable because of your queries, interest and enthusiasm 👍🤗
St. Augustine of Canterbury
In addition to a palace in Canterbury, the archbishop has a seat at Lambeth Palace in London. The first archbishop of Canterbury was St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604/605), a Benedictine monk who was sent from Rome by Pope Gregory I to convert the Anglo-Saxons in England.
I worked on the accessible book (tactile images with braille for blind people to interact with the exhibition) for the British Museum and the intricacy of some of the pieces is amazing. The buckle has 13 intertwining creatures within it, made up of tiny punched circles inlaid with niello, a real show of superb craftsmanship and the carvings on the ivory casket points towards the conversion to Christianity mentioned in the clip.
Why is awesome !!! 🤣 such an American phrase !!!🤣🤣🤣👌
We went to Sutton Hoo recently and it's amazing, they have a viewing tower there so if you climb it you can see the whole site . They also have a replica of what the ship would have been like so you can see how big it was.
I think the golf ball story is more that the sloping nature of the ground wasn't obvious to the naked eye and was only spotted when the golf ball happened to pass over it.
He’s not saying that person travelled so far and they and him are very clearly post Roman, it’s more a proof of a great trans continental trade, showing that the world wasn’t nearly as cut off as previously thought
The weather. You heard about our weather - four seasons in a day. That would be one of the reasons why that fragile grave was recovered - apart from looters/casual destruction. East Anglia is VERY flat. Their idea of a hill is something 10' tall. Ridiculous. So the guy's golf ball refusing to go "up" on such a "flat" landscape would be suspicious. The Anglo Saxon and Celtic stuff found in the UK is wonderful to see.
Remember learning about this in primary school ,t also the dig is a very good film, nice gentle watch 🙂
The whole 'dark ages' name and the theory that the people then were uncultured was down to the fact that there wasn't really any archaeological finds that hinted at the complex cultures that say the romans had. All the evidence we had from stuff found from that time was that things had taken a huge backward step after the departure of the romans.
Don't know if this is available on Netflix in the US, but look for the film "The Dig" it's a dramatization of the events around Sutton Hoo.
It stars Ralph Fiennes aka Voldemort and The Red Dragon. It is very good indeed.
(St.) Augustine of Hippo was a monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 597.
Tony Robinson
The gentle slop was not noticeable until he could see the golf ball rolling that peaked his curiosity…..and the rest as they say is history.
Through a dark glass on these times, matters are illuminated in these unearthed treasures.
The Anglo Saxons predated the Vikings by hundreds of years.
Technically not as the vikings recent ancestors and the anglo Saxons were practically the same peoples, as so the Anglo Saxons were essentially cousins with the vikings, only being separated by an ocean and a religion.
You mean the Anglo Saxon arrival in Britain, predated the Vikings arrival by a few centuries
@@oldcountrycrossfire280 No, the Anglo Saxons date from around the 5th century and the Vikings didn't invade England until the 8th. About a 300 year gap.
The Corniche were Celts so wouldn't have much connection to the English. Same with Welsh people.
@@skadiwarrior2495 yes, the Britons were pushed west by the Anglo Saxons to what would become wales, and they would become known as the “welsh” which translates in old English to “Foreigner; Slave”. The people of the British isles here before the Romans, Vikings & Anglo Saxons, were the Celts - (Now: Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Brittany and Cornwall)
Always interests me
Its not that they thought they were 'Idiots'..... its just that they left behind so little physical evidence so it enlightened the world to their craftsmanship
There's a movie about this dig called, The Dig, starring Ralph Fiennes (who also played Amon Goeth in Schindler's List). It's a good movie actually.
You're 100% right. I studied archaeology once. The site we dug was a Saxon settement in the Yorkshire Wolds, and ALL OVER the site were pits dug by metal detectorists where they'd found something and taken it away without recording it, probably to put it on eBay. I've seen Bronze age (Maybe 3-4,000 years old) leaf-shaped swords sold on ebay for a few hundred dollars (yes, US dollars), and had arguments with people who come on holiday to the UK from the US to pillage our heritage, who take a 'finders keepers' attitude and because it's illegal, will take artefacts without recording anything about them: where they were found, what they were found with, which makes them archaeologically useless and dead. I don't know how common that is, but I'm happy to provide a few high-velocity arrowheads to anyone I find digging on my property without permission.
Edit;: Also holy shit! Martin Carver (28:50) was the head of my archaeology deaprtment. Had no idea he was involved in Sutton Hoo. You're totally right to be angry about what should have been found but wasn't. I don't know how many irreplaceable artifacts have been melted down into gold and silver bullion, valued only for their metal worth and not for the amazing works of art and culture they once were. You read accounts about 1800s gentlemen excavating Paviland Cave in Wales (30,000ish years old) and talking about items 'crumbling before their eyes' and it almost makes you shout. If they'd never found those things, modern archaeologists would have been able to discover SO MUCH MORE from those finds but now they're gone forever.
There’s a movie based on this called “The Dig” it’s good
It was referred to in this video, briefly and rather scathingly
Exactly. We underestimate our Ancestors. Even as far back as the stone age ..Even the ancient Greeks knew about Britain. Knew tin was mined here .
22.21 the point of the objects in question imply that the chieftain had access to goods that were traded for in the Mediterranean Area. That implies that trade routes were in place. A very important point, it suggests that the Anglo Saxons were not cut off from the European mainland or any Scandinavian settlements during their time of rule.
Artifacts can be dated; so a bowl from Constantinople coming from trade can be distinguished from something left earlier by the Romans.
The first archbishop of Canterbury was St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604/605), a Benedictine monk who was sent from Rome by Pope Gregory
i have the gold belt buckle as a tattoo on my arm.
16:30 - yup. The Amber Room springs to mind..
22:10 - yeah nah, well... They could have been "found" in Britain but the cloth, bowls and gemstones would still have come from Sri Lanka (the type in question don't occur naturally in Britain) and Byzantium to then be lost in Britain and then be found again for the burial (or more likely traded). They've been tested (STEM etc.) to the point where they can tell which mine these stones and things originate in some cases - so they *know* where, much more than just casually think based on a style. Cloth for example doesn't just need to be of a particular design or style but the fibres and dyes need to match the same chemistry as those known to have been used in "wherever" at that time, weaving patterns are recorded under the microscope and have vast archives of square inch samples to cross-reference (kinda cute). As you were saying about wanting to get into an archaeological dig - do it, find a way and just do it!! (Meme video edit pls.). These things have become much less "gatekeepery" in recent decades, so it's entirely viable but do *tend* to have students and graduates alike throwing themselves at the opportunity, since we've had a fair few decades of archaeology on TV by now, it's not niche anymore. There are generally archaeological organisations in most countries but maybe just don't expect to get to do the cool/fun stuff immediately, most of these guys n gals have their own student grants/loans to justify. So it could be a day, week or a year or two before you get [allowed] into an active trench. But plenty of other work needs doing around the dig. Plenty of amateur clubs too. Sounds dumb but just try digging down in your backyard, see what you can make out by looking at the different layers as you go a couple o'yards down. And finally - plenty are using Google Earth to find somewhere locally from above that might be interesting on the ground.. Had 2 of our 3 'pre-Viking' mounds here on the farm excavated, waiting on the National Museum to do the last one but probably have around 15-20lbs of stone knives, scrapers and axes etc. from the fields over the years. Jealous of my Gran though, they dug up a silver hoard that's in the N.Museum back in the 50s.
Haggis is a sheep's stomach stuffed with Barley, but these days I reckon it's stuffed with Smack!
Around my village Roman bits, like arrowheads and weapons, are quite common. There is a Roman road running past the village and as kids we used to wander down it searching for anything. We got all sorts, most of it probably put there by our dads 20 years earlier when they searched - but also real finds.
I live about 10 miles from Sutton Hoo, but still haven't visited the site - merely cycled past the entrance a couple of times.
Not that I would encourage using movies to study history, but there is a movie called "The Dig", which is all about Basil Brown and Sutton Hoo. Worth a look at.
It's a little mean to accuse certain stories of being 'suspicious' or that they might need to be 'discredited', the polite way to do it is just say that they sound 'apocryphal'.
It's a little annoying the way he (the bearded man) skirts around the facts and suggests how things were. The Vikings that raided England were mostly Danish, just as the Angles were. They were the same people. The Viking are well known for their savagery, but they were boys in comparison to pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons. It was Christianity that turned the mightiest warrior race in Europe, (and probably the world) into more gentile folk. The same thing happened to the Vikings later, too. The word Barbarian is what the Romans called the Germanic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes etc). The Romans couldn't beat them in battle, so they hired them to fight on their behalf. It's what the Angles, Saxons and Jutes were, mercenaries. It's how Hengist and Horsa came to be in Briton. They didn't come to Briton to arrange flowers, they came to fight the Scotts, Irish and Pics, because the Britons (Welsh) had become soft and civilised, like the Romans. The English did what they were hired for. Whether it was because the Britons didn't meet their end of the bargain or it was because the English realised it would be a good place to live, (after all, who could stop them?) The end result was the same, the English settled in Briton and founded what is now England.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is senior leader of the Church of England which wasn't formed until the 16th century.
There is a cultural difference between American and British archaeology. As there are so few finds in America you find that everything is sifted to the nth degree. Here in the UK although we will do that more often than not the spoil is put into wheelbarrows from the trench and put onto massive dirt piles. Often though digging can be very boring! I was once on a dig in a town that has its roots back to the 8th Century and didn't find anything! Not even a post hole. We went down over six feet before we had to stop because of the sides caving in!
As a history buff you'd love to visit the UK. In my village alone there's a 12th century priory and a house that was used as a prison for 'witches' until they were hung. The house is supposedly haunted and has been on a few TV shows. Plus 'Time Team' did a programme here also.
Hi Connor, you should research the Staffordshire hoard, this was discovered much more recently.
My grandfather was an archaeologist with Basil Brown on the Sutton Hoo Excavation
"Have you fast forwarded already..?".
He didn’t become Archbishop of Canterbury. Augustine was 1st but he was sent by Pope Gregory.
Speaking of "The Valley Of The Kings"... Will you react to historical videos about Egypt?
Why share found treasure with the King? Even to this day, Treasure found underground is " Treasure Trove" and theoretically belongs to the Crown. There is law that you have to inform the Crown of the find.
The discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure was far more important than the discovery of King Tuts tomb. Egyptian tombs we’re relatively ten a penny but from the Anglo Saxon period there was absolutely nothing. This discovery filled a huge gap in historical knowledge of early Britain.
It was turned into a film this year called The Dig.
Unfortunately it was very disappointing. Seemed to have concentrated more about the relationships than the finds
sutton hoo has been revisited in 2020.the results will be on youtube in 2021.
I live about 30 miles from Canterbury Cathedral, been trying to get a job there for so long, I'm thinking of volunteering just so I can get more chances to go there tbh. I'm not even religious it's just so fuc*ing cool and historical and I want to take care of it 😤
I live not too far from Sutton hoo the museum there is well worth a visit if you’re in the area
Ancient Egyptian artwork was all in 2D!
Yeah they were good at making things, they developed many processes and systems, the wealth was in making and crafting anything from jewels to pyramids, many of them learned it as a trade, but if they could draw 3D we wouldn’t be confused by their art.
That drawing ability is an indication their brain power was less.
We knew a bit more about our ancient history than he is saying. We have writings that go back to the time of the first English settlements. The Church was already established here too.
you should watch a video on Vikings in North America circa AD1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus