Origins of Salisbury (850,000 BC - 1300 AD)

A reupload with much better audio, going through all the ages that have helped shape Salisbury into the landscape that we know today. Over 850,000 years of human development and history.
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Intro - 00:00
The First Man - 00:58
The Mesolithic Warming - 5:32
Neolithic Hunter Gatherers - 06:31
The Birth Of Agriculture - 08:06
The Land Of Henges - 10:29
Respect For The Dead - 13:02
The Amesbury Archer - 14:49
Bronze Age Salisbury Plain - 17:00
Beginnings Of Old Sarum - 18:09
Sorviodunum - 21:25
Searobyrg - 22:36
Arrival Of The Norsemen - 25:40
Under New Management - 27:06
A Cathedral City - 30:29
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[@dickJohnsonpeter]

The book Sarum by Edward Rutherford is absolutely brilliant

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I shall have to give it a read!

[@travelorchidslondon]

Thank you, Alex😊 Well done. I really enjoyed the video. Will be waiting for the video about the next period of Salisbury

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I shall have to look into the medieval history of Salisbury to see if there is anything particularly interesting that I could talk about

[@travelorchidslondon]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Thank you 😊

[@haveanotherpinacolada]

Wonderful!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Thank you :)

[@catherinespencer-mills1928]

Could you do a video on Wells Cathedral? I am fascinated with the scissors arches. Thanks

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I will be doing a video on Wells cathedral eventually, I haven't actually visited it since it's quite far away for me! But it's definitely on the list.

I’m Alec the History Guy too!!

[@scallopohare9431]

Thank you!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

A pleasure :)

[@patricknorton5788]

Thanks for the video. We are visiting from Oregon, USA, and visited Old Sarum two days ago. I've been interested in it for years now, and read some about it, and listened to the audiobook of "Sarum" by Edward Rutherford. Wonderful book, and apparently well-researched, but a work of fiction nonetheless.
Could you point to some sources for the Roman seige and conquest of the Sarum hillfort? In the novel, it was surrendered by an ambitious young chieftain looking to ingratiate himself with the Romans, but that's just fiction. Was there a battle here, or did the Romans defeat the Celts in another place and then set up shop nearby? What is the evidence of Roman occupation there?

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I couldn't show you references without reflecting back to my research papers I used to make this video, but I understand that there are plenty of research papers discussing the history of Sorviodunum which is the Roman settlement following the original iron age site of Old Sarum.

[@patricknorton5788]

@AlexTheHistoryGuy Thanks. Our local library has an excellent set of subscriptions to academic journals, I should be able to find something on it.

[@wertperch]

I thought the title looked familiar =]

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Yes well I just wasn't happy with the audio issues. I will probably, eventually, replace all my old videos with new updated ones which contain either the same information, or better information

[@sirbouncyofwouncy8427]

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