I always smile when I see faces i know from time team, It's good to see them working in their respective fields and in their element outside of just that one show. It's like meeting old friends by chance out and about. 😄
never would i have imagined being able to see a ''fresh'' found blade being scanned AND getting to see such a clear result for pattern welding, amazing
I read somewhere and not sure of its truthfulness, that the Anglo-Saxons, after winning a battle, didn't bury Viking dead in the traditional manner. They would strip the dead Vikings of anything valuable, then seat them back-to-back and cover them above ground with sod. Over time as the bodies decayed the mounds collapsed. As I said it might just be a story.
I wouldn't want to have been the unlucky viking that fell into the hands of pissed off Anglo-Saxons. The mass grave of 50 or so decapitated vikings found in Dorset is a good testament to this. They found all the skulls in the grave, minus 3.
Much of what they dig in the UK is under threat by the construction of a highway, housing project or shopping mall. Given limited time, Archaeologists are rushing to document & remove what they uncovered while evaluating affected areas, then off to the next site. Commercial Archaeology plays a huge role in saving our history from being completely erased by modern development & for development, time is money. There's also Rescue Archaeology, they have little or no time to document/investigate a site or feature. eg: coastal erosion of a burial site, wind erosion uncovering a Bronze Age community etc. I have HUGE respect for them all.
@@StillmanVonStillman For Time Team it's 3 days & answering specific questions, but I imagine others take much longer (weeks, months, even yrs) investigating the entire site in question, as seen in many of Time Team's 'Special Episodes.'
I think a good number of discoveries in Britain are made when a construction project breaks ground. There certainly seem to be buried objects all over the place. I believe there are laws that provide for a limited delay of building to allow archeologists to assess and dig. If the site isn’t that unique the construction will go ahead, hence the time pressure? Or maybe these shows are just edited to make entertaining television.
@@girlnorthof60We're a little island it's insane they'll be no room to even fart soon, it's either preserve what we have left for future generations or let these stupid politicians concrete the whole place.
I’m surprised they’re allowed to make this program about our fascinating history without a hint of trying to discount our achievements. Spoke too soon, within 5 minutes the half black and half white badgers trying to negate our history.
This reminds me of the joke about the difference between Europe and the United States: "In Europe, 100 miles is considered a long way; in the US, 100 years is considered a long time."
They're everywhere these days. Perhaps less so in the past. It might have something to do with the numbers of foxes receding (just a theory). And perhaps our winters are less harsh?
After inspection, conservation etc, will the things that belonged to the dead warriors be returned to them and conserved together? After all, that is where they should always be.
✅▶What a fascinating discovery! The uncovering of an Anglo-Saxon war cemetery offers us a unique window into understanding the cultural practices, battles, and daily life of that historical period. Every artifact found is a piece of the puzzle that helps us reconstruct history and understand how these warriors lived and died. I can't wait to see more details about this incredible find and what it will teach us about the past!
Always find it curious that we weep and morn so much for those close to us. Generally care less about those we don't know. We bury our families assuming they will never be dug up. That is why we buy plots. Yet, look at how we move cemeteries for housing, so many forgotten and are now unmarked, and of course dig them up for science. Not trying to be negative, just seems we as humans really have little regard for the dead yet feel our lives are so important.
If there is a British person in the comments here, would you please be so kind as to explain to me why Britons pronounce "MAGDALENE" as "MAUDLIN" . ABSOLUTELY NO CRITICISM INTENDED. I'm an avid Anglophile...since my earliest memories I have been utterly captivated by all things to do with the British Isles. But this pronunciation has always puzzled me, with St. Mary Magdalene so well-known World-Wide. Thank you in advance.
Anglo saxon migration period of late 6th century, maybe it was the skirmishes & battles against the local britons of King Arthur (Artius) were he killed 900 saxons in decisive battles in wessex area..
Oh dear. Evo Inception and Alex Iles are two sites that examine the DNA evidence that shows the Angles and Saxons and Jutes were Tribes from mainland Europe i.e. Denmark, Southern Germany, There is an excellent documentary on the Chronicle site by Dr Francis Pryor who questions the notion of an 'Anglo Saxon Invasion' and argues. persuasively imo, that it was more of a gradual settlement over a period of many years. Recent grave evidence suggests that this settlement may have even started before the Romans left.
Cross over skills between soldiers and archeology? Who'd have thought it! Mind you burying the dead (army) and digging up the dead (archeologists) seem to be quite similar.
Archaeologists do important work too. For sure it wasn't just horse meat being harvested through unethical means at the time just before more bones had ended up in that mass grave at the time. Some wars against ancient Rome lasted for hundreds of years. Ancient Rome which was the best Empire of all only when it comes to knowing how to triangulate one larger community against another and the best Empire of all at exploiting people who are good at building structures for them too. Too bad that one character mentioned in the bible who was not nearly powerful as an Empire who only got good at triangulating the first community of human beings against one another in competition for the most recognition from their father at the time. Some then called that in one human language emasculating. Others using the same human language call it misogyny instead. Still others not long later may have called that only not being pro-life while they convenient enough at the time to them had left out some info about being pro-life concerning that one guy named Seth who ended up in the ground too while then his brother became a forced migrant for the rest of his life not long later after that one character mentioned in the bible thought he was victorious enough to gain all the glory instead at the time and for all time too.Their father calls it all just sin.
Love the revisionist history of believing these people were treated well---based on the fact that they were buried "correctly" & a scallop shell? Perhaps they were treated kindly by the religious order whose mission was to minister to lepers, & I understand the fear of people about getting this awful, untreatable disease. But I think it is pure wishful thinking that they would have been treated well by the general population or by church officials.
Click bait headline. These are not warriors, they are ceorls. In the 6th century they represented the free farmers who made up the core of germanoc society, and as a matter of course had a shield and spear. The man with the sword might well be "first among equals" but we are probably well before the consolidation of kingdoms that led to a kingly and warrior class. Doubt that ? - where are the helmets which people like to portray A/S warriors with (the one in the illustration used here is of a type found in Sweden - and never in England until Viking times, hundreds of years later !!!) Any mail coats ? - no, I thought not. I like Alice's work, but she does always leap into the old paradigm of A/S england being a place of constant warfare, which is not sustained by the evidence.
If you are English, you are Anglo-Saxon. They're synonymous with one another. Modern English ppl are also genetically the same as the English of the Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon periods
Anglo-Saxon warriors from the sixth century! I hope you realise how very unfashionable this is. You should reinterpret it all as evidence of largely peaceful social change. 😆🤣😆🤣
Very snobbish production. Qt; 'Is there an iron core'. Looking at the tang. Presenter knows jack. The soldier volunteer had Qt; 'A lovely idea' Regards the shield wall. He was stating the bloody obvious. Obvious to any man. Was he credited. No because a soldier is just an Oik. The aristocratic woman with the boys hair cut made out as though it were her idea. Typical Toff behaviour.
@@2msvalkyrie529 No it isn't. Don't be thick at school and then get a degree at university. Simple. I'm working class from a poor background. I got to go to university. What is your excuse? You could have done an archeology degree, no? Or you just too lazy and thick and dicked about at school?
“Our Story” sounds kinda racist. Ahmed next door doesn’t want to be left out so hope they find lots of diversity -some of us desperately need to keep a lot of lies affirmed as the truth.
Then you would deny the rest of us the knowledge those items could give us. There is a good reason why those laws are in place. People who do report their finds are given at least a finders fee, and can get a substantial portion of any sale price, as does the owner of the land on which the items are found. Nighthawks and others who don't report their finds have been prosecuted and gotten heavy penalties, including jail time. So I hope you're simply being facetious.
I plan on donating my organs or, if nothing is useable, donating my body to science, so I could not care less. In fact, if people can learn something, I'd be elated.
The Mosaic isn't Roman. Count the numbers. 8x5=40, 20. Breakdown the numbers - 40 years: Solomon reigned as king over Israel for 40 years. 20 years: It took Solomon 20 years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own palace. 4 chambers: The Temple Solomon built included various chambers and storerooms 8 years: As part of the timeline for building projects 5 cubits: The number 5 appears in the measurements and dimensions of various parts of the Temple and its furnishings
Interesting interpretation, BUT: 40 and 20 are really common numbers, the roman number system was base ten, so 5s are not rare too. If it were "strange" numbers like primes, I could see your reasoning for them being chosen on purpose, yet 5, 20, 40 to me seem like nice round numbers that any craftsman would like to have.
YEs the use of numbers to help us think is so very important. As for saying that only numbers are way more important to remember than anything else that has ever existed under the sun well then you know what I think of that. When there is such thing as being with too much only human wisdom.
I always smile when I see faces i know from time team, It's good to see them working in their respective fields and in their element outside of just that one show. It's like meeting old friends by chance out and about. 😄
And its really neat that time team also took part in the Op Nightingale dig in Salisbury Plain. Its fun to see more of the dig and Jackie at work
never would i have imagined being able to see a ''fresh'' found blade being scanned AND getting to see such a clear result for pattern welding, amazing
The Anglo-Saxons were pattern welding swords 600 years before the Japanese ever did.
The discovery of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery alongside a Bronze Age burial site is a thrilling testament to the layers of history waiting to be uncovered
Indo-European cultural continuation
Always happy to see Miles Russell, who I recall from Time Team, appear here from time to time.
maybe a copper cased lead weight was a way of assuring it didn't get trimmed
so an early weights and mesures control
I found this fascinating! I very much enjoy your videos.
Very interesting so far :)
I read somewhere and not sure of its truthfulness, that the Anglo-Saxons, after winning a battle, didn't bury Viking dead in the traditional manner. They would strip the dead Vikings of anything valuable, then seat them back-to-back and cover them above ground with sod. Over time as the bodies decayed the mounds collapsed. As I said it might just be a story.
I wouldn't want to have been the unlucky viking that fell into the hands of pissed off Anglo-Saxons. The mass grave of 50 or so decapitated vikings found in Dorset is a good testament to this. They found all the skulls in the grave, minus 3.
Thank you for this. For Dani - one reason you might have an ornamental mount for lead is if it was the essential part of a plumbline.
Sweet Prof Roberts…just read her book about the celts
I notice that quite often in these productions British Archeologists are under the threat of some dramatic time restraints when they are digging.
Much of what they dig in the UK is under threat by the construction of a highway, housing project or shopping mall. Given limited time, Archaeologists are rushing to document & remove what they uncovered while evaluating affected areas, then off to the next site. Commercial Archaeology plays a huge role in saving our history from being completely erased by modern development & for development, time is money. There's also Rescue Archaeology, they have little or no time to document/investigate a site or feature. eg: coastal erosion of a burial site, wind erosion uncovering a Bronze Age community etc. I have HUGE respect for them all.
@@girlnorthof60 Why is it always three days?
@@StillmanVonStillman For Time Team it's 3 days & answering specific questions, but I imagine others take much longer (weeks, months, even yrs) investigating the entire site in question, as seen in many of Time Team's 'Special Episodes.'
I think a good number of discoveries in Britain are made when a construction project breaks ground. There certainly seem to be buried objects all over the place. I believe there are laws that provide for a limited delay of building to allow archeologists to assess and dig. If the site isn’t that unique the construction will go ahead, hence the time pressure? Or maybe these shows are just edited to make entertaining television.
@@girlnorthof60We're a little island it's insane they'll be no room to even fart soon, it's either preserve what we have left for future generations or let these stupid politicians concrete the whole place.
I’m surprised they’re allowed to make this program about our fascinating history without a hint of trying to discount our achievements. Spoke too soon, within 5 minutes the half black and half white badgers trying to negate our history.
This reminds me of the joke about the difference between Europe and the United States: "In Europe, 100 miles is considered a long way; in the US, 100 years is considered a long time."
I'm from Texas (forgive me). Are you saying a hundred miles is a long way? Who thinks such an outrageous thing?
I thought jokes had a punchline.
Don't pay any attention to the grumblers, @susanmercurio1060... thanks for the laugh 😁
Ancient World trade and plenty of evidence make it not such a good joke. I have ten thousand year old flint blades n tools, kinda old ✌️
if badgers can destroy the site.. does it seem strange that in the thousands of years they haven’t done so already just by chance?
Wow! What a good question! That’s a real mystery.
They are more militant these days
Good question 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
They probably have destroyed other sites and they had already damaged this site as well.
They're everywhere these days. Perhaps less so in the past. It might have something to do with the numbers of foxes receding (just a theory). And perhaps our winters are less harsh?
After inspection, conservation etc, will the things that belonged to the dead warriors be returned to them and conserved together? After all, that is where they should always be.
True, true. That's how it should be.
41:00 why does the person wears a head scarf?
According to this channel the " all seeing eye " ( thumbnail ) was prevalent in medieval times.
This isn't Time Team. I miss Phil Harding.
We all miss Phil Harding, no doubt, but it's a bit insulting to the participants of this show to be informed of this - Every.Single.Time!!
No, this is Digging for Britain. Time Team was an entirely different show. Duh.
I dont miss him. I see him around now and again, he ain't changed a bit lol.
@philroberts7238 We all miss the old Time Team cast. However, being from the US, I'm just happy to have access to this wonderful programming.
@@thomasbell7033I feel the same. Sweltering here in NEW England.
I love the fact she used clingfilm to hold the urn together.
Baston Hill in shrewsbury Shropshire got lepper colony up there
✅▶What a fascinating discovery! The uncovering of an Anglo-Saxon war cemetery offers us a unique window into understanding the cultural practices, battles, and daily life of that historical period. Every artifact found is a piece of the puzzle that helps us reconstruct history and understand how these warriors lived and died. I can't wait to see more details about this incredible find and what it will teach us about the past!
Thanks Alice
19:50 balista bolt? Looks rather small for a balista bolt. Why not an arrow head?
I think ballista bolt tips were quite little?
Always find it curious that we weep and morn so much for those close to us. Generally care less about those we don't know. We bury our families assuming they will never be dug up. That is why we buy plots. Yet, look at how we move cemeteries for housing, so many forgotten and are now unmarked, and of course dig them up for science. Not trying to be negative, just seems we as humans really have little regard for the dead yet feel our lives are so important.
What no Africans in the graves?
Saddo comment. Get a life.
True! I wondered the same. And not even one woman who identified as man!
Some of the Romans came from North Africa such as Emperor Septimus Sererus born in Libya and died in York. 🫡
@@warrenstanford7240lol there's always one
@warrenstanford7240
That is because the Romans colonised North Africa after the defeat of Carthage. Severus was born in Leptis Magna.
Try coming up to roxiter the roman city in shrewsbury Shropshire
I hope they find my dad who went out for a pack of cigarettes years ago 😢
😢
😂😂
i'm not really yur dad.....let it go!😅🤣😂
Hmmm if he was able to do a thing like that, then maybe you should be glad he is gone….
He's busy trying to wedge the sword back into the stone
You're working for us now
If there is a British person in the comments here, would you please be so kind as to explain to me why Britons pronounce
"MAGDALENE" as
"MAUDLIN" . ABSOLUTELY NO CRITICISM INTENDED.
I'm an avid Anglophile...since my earliest memories I have been utterly captivated by all things to do with the British Isles.
But this pronunciation has always puzzled me, with
St. Mary Magdalene so well-known World-Wide.
Thank you in advance.
Anglo saxon migration period of late 6th century, maybe it was the skirmishes & battles against the local britons of King Arthur (Artius) were he killed 900 saxons in decisive battles in wessex area..
Maybe most swords weren't buried with the warrior but passed down to their sons, grandsons or other family member?
I seriously want the DNA on those skeletons. I don't believe the Anglo-Saxons were any different people than post Roman English.
Oh dear. Evo Inception and Alex Iles are two sites that examine the DNA evidence that shows the Angles and Saxons and Jutes were Tribes from mainland Europe i.e. Denmark, Southern Germany, There is an excellent documentary on the Chronicle site by Dr Francis Pryor who questions the notion of an 'Anglo Saxon Invasion' and argues. persuasively imo, that it was more of a gradual settlement over a period of many years. Recent grave evidence suggests that this settlement may have even started before the Romans left.
Yeah, a Germanic language just appeared out of thin air.
Derp. Educate yourself first, before questioning things already established as fact.
The post-Roman English WERE the Anglo-Saxons.
Are you referring to post- Roman Britons? 😅
@@adventussaxonum448 Absolutely, but of course there were Britons who avoided becoming Romanized. There was no invasion of Anglo-Saxons.
Alice is a real thing of beauty and purpose, and arguably only a man of power and wealth could conquer.
Its got lots to still uncover there yet
Cross over skills between soldiers and archeology? Who'd have thought it! Mind you burying the dead (army) and digging up the dead (archeologists) seem to be quite similar.
Alice looks like she's 20 years younger so I'd beet this aint new. It's fine, as lot's of these history doc's get recycled.
Hope she's gotten over her cold, though!
This is from 2014. So she was 41 here. Great looking lady.
We do so take modern antibiotics (and vaccines) for granted.
Who’s we?
You have some crazy soil there, all those rocks in it!
I want to quit my job and go be an archeologist 😭😭
5th century actually.
👍🏻👍🏻
Archaeologists do important work too. For sure it wasn't just horse meat being harvested through unethical means at the time just before more bones had ended up in that mass grave at the time. Some wars against ancient Rome lasted for hundreds of years. Ancient Rome which was the best Empire of all only when it comes to knowing how to triangulate one larger community against another and the best Empire of all at exploiting people who are good at building structures for them too. Too bad that one character mentioned in the bible who was not nearly powerful as an Empire who only got good at triangulating the first community of human beings against one another in competition for the most recognition from their father at the time. Some then called that in one human language emasculating. Others using the same human language call it misogyny instead. Still others not long later may have called that only not being pro-life while they convenient enough at the time to them had left out some info about being pro-life concerning that one guy named Seth who ended up in the ground too while then his brother became a forced migrant for the rest of his life not long later after that one character mentioned in the bible thought he was victorious enough to gain all the glory instead at the time and for all time too.Their father calls it all just sin.
You know it's an english story when the biggest threat comes from... Badgers! 😂
hi
Love the revisionist history of believing these people were treated well---based on the fact that they were buried "correctly" & a scallop shell? Perhaps they were treated kindly by the religious order whose mission was to minister to lepers, & I understand the fear of people about getting this awful, untreatable disease. But I think it is pure wishful thinking that they would have been treated well by the general population or by church officials.
An Anglo Saxon urn......?? About 2 groats an hour ?
Click bait headline. These are not warriors, they are ceorls. In the 6th century they represented the free farmers who made up the core of germanoc society, and as a matter of course had a shield and spear.
The man with the sword might well be "first among equals" but we are probably well before the consolidation of kingdoms that led to a kingly and warrior class.
Doubt that ? - where are the helmets which people like to portray A/S warriors with (the one in the illustration used here is of a type found in Sweden - and never in England until Viking times, hundreds of years later !!!)
Any mail coats ? - no, I thought not.
I like Alice's work, but she does always leap into the old paradigm of A/S england being a place of constant warfare, which is not sustained by the evidence.
What is her accent?
Damn….dontcha just hate those romans who end up being Angles n Saxon’s
They're not the same people. I mean the Ingvaeones initially replaced 80% of the pre-English population.
I’m all for archeology but let’s leave human remains where they lay.
Biggus diggus.
I'm 45 % anglo saxon now I know where my anger comes from
If you are English, you are Anglo-Saxon. They're synonymous with one another. Modern English ppl are also genetically the same as the English of the Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon periods
I would like to uncover Professor Alice
right? even with that hair!😅🤣😂 i guess her brains are sucking the nutrients from the roots of her hair!😅🤣😂
i made a funny comment and they deleted it 😅🤣😂 so sensitive....
@@arkangelnorthmanare you talking about the hair comment? Is not really a funny comment, more like a childish comment.
@@barbaradobner6050 oh....uncover alice isn't 😅🤣😂
Lol
were the badgers ok with the dig?
Veterans of what? WW2 ended long ago!
It’s always good for soldiers get practise digging trenches
Try and make your own content instead of regurgitating the same material as every other “historical documentaries” channel.
They don't make content, they license content from other broadcasters.
Grave robbers.
How about salvaging the legacy of those warriors so that they don't become fked by badgers?
Anglo-Saxon warriors from the sixth century! I hope you realise how very unfashionable this is.
You should reinterpret it all as evidence of largely peaceful social change. 😆🤣😆🤣
I would like to watch, but That Fake Voice She Has Puts Me Off. Plus She Can't Let Matt Talk At All.
Grave robbing isn't nice
tf you mean
Shut up, bot. It's called preserving a legacy.
this puts curses on a land
Very snobbish production. Qt; 'Is there an iron core'. Looking at the tang. Presenter knows jack. The soldier volunteer had Qt; 'A lovely idea' Regards the shield wall. He was stating the bloody obvious. Obvious to any man. Was he credited. No because a soldier is just an Oik. The aristocratic woman with the boys hair cut made out as though it were her idea. Typical Toff behaviour.
Yes. Archaeology is the exclusive domain of the privately educated.
Similar to BBC management ....
Good point!
@@2msvalkyrie529 No it isn't. Don't be thick at school and then get a degree at university. Simple.
I'm working class from a poor background. I got to go to university. What is your excuse? You could have done an archeology degree, no? Or you just too lazy and thick and dicked about at school?
You may have a point but does he have authority on the matter of Early English funerary practices?
“Our Story” sounds kinda racist. Ahmed next door doesn’t want to be left out so hope they find lots of diversity -some of us desperately need to keep a lot of lies affirmed as the truth.
IF i found lots of viking treasures? I wouldn't say a word 2 the government cos they will only take it from u, i would keep some and sell some? ❤❤
Then you would deny the rest of us the knowledge those items could give us. There is a good reason why those laws are in place. People who do report their finds are given at least a finders fee, and can get a substantial portion of any sale price, as does the owner of the land on which the items are found. Nighthawks and others who don't report their finds have been prosecuted and gotten heavy penalties, including jail time. So I hope you're simply being facetious.
@@HannibalFan52 So do I but I doubt it.
Jeez, the comments get dumber and dumber. You know there is a reason those laws exist? Just because you find something doesn't make it your property.
The Commies disagree.
That would be a felony. And a disgrace.
How dare you disturb these graves. How would u like it if someone did that to yours?
I would be dead so I wouldn't know.
I plan on donating my organs or, if nothing is useable, donating my body to science, so I could not care less. In fact, if people can learn something, I'd be elated.
You wouldn't care.
The Mosaic isn't Roman. Count the numbers. 8x5=40, 20.
Breakdown the numbers - 40 years: Solomon reigned as king over Israel for 40 years.
20 years: It took Solomon 20 years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own palace.
4 chambers: The Temple Solomon built included various chambers and storerooms
8 years: As part of the timeline for building projects
5 cubits: The number 5 appears in the measurements and dimensions of various parts of the Temple and its furnishings
Interesting interpretation, BUT: 40 and 20 are really common numbers, the roman number system was base ten, so 5s are not rare too.
If it were "strange" numbers like primes, I could see your reasoning for them being chosen on purpose, yet 5, 20, 40 to me seem like nice round numbers that any craftsman would like to have.
YEs the use of numbers to help us think is so very important. As for saying that only numbers are way more important to remember than anything else that has ever existed under the sun well then you know what I think of that. When there is such thing as being with too much only human wisdom.