This is the kind of content that keeps me glued to the screen! The Gateholm expedition sounds like a real-life adventure story - zip lines, rugged terrain, and centuries of history waiting to be uncovered. The possibility of it being a sacred site spanning multiple eras is mind-blowing. Can’t wait to see how the Unearthed History team brings this to life. Keep up the amazing work uncovering the past!
The UK needs to revise all of their Iron Age dates. It is (said) Anatolia of Catal Huyuk Hyksos Empire worked iron in 1220 BCE. There is a small Egyptian sitting iron statue in the Cairo Museum. Yet, there are no mines in the Mideast, except for the Timna copper mine complex in Petra Jordan. If anything, all of the iron-rich rock and sands of Petra and Wadi Rum, you would think they would be smelting that immense volume and working iron. There are NO iron mines in Europe until the 1100s - that is the time of the CRUSADES and the KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. British and Scandinavian Iron Age is (said) as 500 BCE. Yet, these British Iron Age hill FORTS say that something else was happening, and they were protecting from invasion, raids, or conquests ... of what ???? Raids for slaves, or raids for getting natural resources - like iron ??? All the UK has known metal mines of silver, copper, zinc, tin, lead, ... and iron from the most ancient of days, ... and realistically the Iron Age (with no iron mines in Scandinavia, Europe, Africa, or the Mideast, then the British Isles should have their Iron Age pushed back to 1220 BCE if not earlier - WAYYYY earlier. Just to make a mention. The Book of Genesis mentions that the Cainites who were banished into the Land of Nod (India), had to intermarry with pre-Adamites and their genealogies as mentioned before the Flood ~1987 BCE. It is noted that Tubalcain (Vulcan) "worked Bronze and Iron" in that pre-Flood period of the 2000s BCE. Did Noah chop down all his forest trees with a Stone Age hatchet, or Copper, Brass, or Bronze ... or Iron ? Did any Flood survivors bring along that metallurgical knowledge after the Flood, and the real Iron Age of the planet should be pushed back into the 2000s BCE, and then after the Flood, the only place with active mining would be the British Isles and their appearance in the 1830s BCE and started all metalworking and iron working then. So British Iron Age hill forts should go back as far as the 1830s BCE !!!!
Think of hill forts more as communal centres, some housed small villages others where used as gathering places, most of them didnt really have a military focus at all. The huge banks and ditches around them where more for status, to show off to other people that they lived there.
The water levels were much lower, and rising rapidly, during the Mesolithic. It's possible, and it's also possible that erosion did a solid number over millennia.
That was my thought. There are coastal islands here in Ireland that were attached to the mainland a few centuries ago and were cut off abruptly in a particular storm or event, such as the tsunami in the late 1700s that isolated Aughinish island in Galway Bay. Check out Bishops Island, near Kilkee, County Clare where there are monastic remains from when it was part of the mainland.
The late period episodes with Maryanne have always bothered me… Tony has been more than adequate as a linchpin / communicator. Last time I watched this episode I took note of the photographers deliberate framing of Maryanne’s profile when they were reviewing the previous finds. This time, I picked up that when Phil was gloating over a Mesolithic arrow head the camera was framing up in front of a younger attractive archeologist’s breasts. (I’m a straight, 60yr old woman, sand coming at this from a feminist perspective). Am I over analysing? What do others thin?
agree that she was used as "eye candy" sometimes but I think the main difference between her and the other team members which strikes me is that she seems Neurotypical (and slightly "fake TV Host" whereas everyone else is def Neurodivergent - incl Tony (I say this as an Autistic adult)
@@scottrowles6015that’s and interesting perspective. I agree the earlier episodes really focus on the archeology and letting people be themselves. This newer season seems more made for TV.
Always interesting to me how little the various disciplines work with each other. Perfect example: GATEHOLM. What does that mean? Place names can give you clues. Just a wild guess, gate means...gate. it's a gateway to the fort, you can see who's coming for miles around on the sea & send a warning, raiders or merchants or residents coming home. Also look at the language to see which culture named the place, & look for previous names. The other interesting thing is how bound by our own culture we are. Always assuming some dire war---no, just little raids & neighborly brawls, terracing so the little bit of soil doesn't slide away in the next gale, channeling the "enemy" into "kill zones" or channeling the sheep goats into the enclosure every evening? As for every archaeologist leaping on the "sacred site" bandwagon, to primitive people, I expect religion was as much a part of their daily life as using a cellphone is in ours---just b/c we confine it to one day a week & our sacred sites are carefully walled buildings, that doesn't mean that everyplace was more or less sacred to the ancients. When you have so little science to understand the why of things such as death & disaster, & your only recourse is religion to explain these things, I'll bet almost everything you do has some connection to religion. Like, when there's no Viagra, you plant a stone penis & hope the gods notice!
This is the kind of content that keeps me glued to the screen! The Gateholm expedition sounds like a real-life adventure story - zip lines, rugged terrain, and centuries of history waiting to be uncovered. The possibility of it being a sacred site spanning multiple eras is mind-blowing. Can’t wait to see how the Unearthed History team brings this to life. Keep up the amazing work uncovering the past!
Fascinating video!
The UK needs to revise all of their Iron Age dates. It is (said) Anatolia of Catal Huyuk Hyksos Empire worked iron in 1220 BCE. There is a small Egyptian sitting iron statue in the Cairo Museum. Yet, there are no mines in the Mideast, except for the Timna copper mine complex in Petra Jordan. If anything, all of the iron-rich rock and sands of Petra and Wadi Rum, you would think they would be smelting that immense volume and working iron. There are NO iron mines in Europe until the 1100s - that is the time of the CRUSADES and the KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. British and Scandinavian Iron Age is (said) as 500 BCE. Yet, these British Iron Age hill FORTS say that something else was happening, and they were protecting from invasion, raids, or conquests ... of what ???? Raids for slaves, or raids for getting natural resources - like iron ??? All the UK has known metal mines of silver, copper, zinc, tin, lead, ... and iron from the most ancient of days, ... and realistically the Iron Age (with no iron mines in Scandinavia, Europe, Africa, or the Mideast, then the British Isles should have their Iron Age pushed back to 1220 BCE if not earlier - WAYYYY earlier.
Just to make a mention. The Book of Genesis mentions that the Cainites who were banished into the Land of Nod (India), had to intermarry with pre-Adamites and their genealogies as mentioned before the Flood ~1987 BCE. It is noted that Tubalcain (Vulcan) "worked Bronze and Iron" in that pre-Flood period of the 2000s BCE. Did Noah chop down all his forest trees with a Stone Age hatchet, or Copper, Brass, or Bronze ... or Iron ? Did any Flood survivors bring along that metallurgical knowledge after the Flood, and the real Iron Age of the planet should be pushed back into the 2000s BCE, and then after the Flood, the only place with active mining would be the British Isles and their appearance in the 1830s BCE and started all metalworking and iron working then.
So British Iron Age hill forts should go back as far as the 1830s BCE !!!!
Think of hill forts more as communal centres, some housed small villages others where used as gathering places, most of them didnt really have a military focus at all. The huge banks and ditches around them where more for status, to show off to other people that they lived there.
I enjoyed your history lesson
Might this have been a peninsula long ago?
The water levels were much lower, and rising rapidly, during the Mesolithic. It's possible, and it's also possible that erosion did a solid number over millennia.
That was my thought. There are coastal islands here in Ireland that were attached to the mainland a few centuries ago and were cut off abruptly in a particular storm or event, such as the tsunami in the late 1700s that isolated Aughinish island in Galway Bay.
Check out Bishops Island, near Kilkee, County Clare where there are monastic remains from when it was part of the mainland.
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This is my favorite episode!!! I have a question though. How did Iron Age, Romans, etc get to the top of that island??!!
I would guess that it wasn't an island in the Iron Age. There was probably a small land brigde that has eroded and fallen into the sea since then.
I wonder what the inhabitants did for water out on the island?
Rain?
30:50 I dig it
Cernunnos! He was their protector 🦌
You think the Trust would have given you a helicopter!🥰
Looks like no problem at low tide.
The late period episodes with Maryanne have always bothered me… Tony has been more than adequate as a linchpin / communicator.
Last time I watched this episode I took note of the photographers deliberate framing of Maryanne’s profile when they were reviewing the previous finds. This time, I picked up that when Phil was gloating over a Mesolithic arrow head the camera was framing up in front of a younger attractive archeologist’s breasts. (I’m a straight, 60yr old woman, sand coming at this from a feminist perspective). Am I over analysing? What do others thin?
Get a hobby??
I notice that sometimes too.
agree that she was used as "eye candy" sometimes but I think the main difference between her and the other team members which strikes me is that she seems Neurotypical (and slightly "fake TV Host" whereas everyone else is def Neurodivergent - incl Tony (I say this as an Autistic adult)
@@scottrowles6015that’s and interesting perspective. I agree the earlier episodes really focus on the archeology and letting people be themselves. This newer season seems more made for TV.
I noticed that, it seems like a poorly framed shot either way
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would the sea been lower or high back in the ages you are digging.
Always interesting to me how little the various disciplines work with each other. Perfect example: GATEHOLM. What does that mean? Place names can give you clues. Just a wild guess, gate means...gate. it's a gateway to the fort, you can see who's coming for miles around on the sea & send a warning, raiders or merchants or residents coming home. Also look at the language to see which culture named the place, & look for previous names. The other interesting thing is how bound by our own culture we are. Always assuming some dire war---no, just little raids & neighborly brawls, terracing so the little bit of soil doesn't slide away in the next gale, channeling the "enemy" into "kill zones" or channeling the sheep goats into the enclosure every evening? As for every archaeologist leaping on the "sacred site" bandwagon, to primitive people, I expect religion was as much a part of their daily life as using a cellphone is in ours---just b/c we confine it to one day a week & our sacred sites are carefully walled buildings, that doesn't mean that everyplace was more or less sacred to the ancients. When you have so little science to understand the why of things such as death & disaster, & your only recourse is religion to explain these things, I'll bet almost everything you do has some connection to religion. Like, when there's no Viagra, you plant a stone penis & hope the gods notice!