For those of you wondering- the app I started using to find archaeology is the Megalithic Portal app. It’s incredible - search for ‘pocket guide megaliths’
You had me screaming with laughter and crying in solidarity at your lockdown experience.🤗 I have health issues so I’m still mostly staying in… this is getting old y’all.🐝❤️😳
This video is awesome. It's a perfect example that we are surrounded by interesting pieces of the past if we look hard enough. Even though 2020 was a metaphorical "year without a summer" there are always things to quest for. Often times the looking is better for us than the finding.
Brilliant. I'm from Oregon US but my family is long from the UK...the Mothership! Enjoy your videos so much. I have been to the UK so many times . Your lockdown mania was hilarious. ❤❤❤
Thank you for documenting this. Not enough is done in documenting Nottinghamshire’s (or the Midlands in general) ancient history. I wish more in the local area were interested in their local history.
Indeed and let's not forget that it actually Mercia who stopped the Vikings only to be swallowed up subsequently by Wessex who rewrote history to 'big themselves up'
@petekelly as a young lad from lower saxon netherlands i recently moved to sweden (just missing all the lockdowns) and have been busy translating a set of rune stones that seem to not exist in any databases or transcriptions not that they are to interesting for example the one im working on right now only says "Brutningr" and it is in no app or database whatsoever yett the stone atleast 2 meters tall. Anyway love your work from a fellow enthusiast!
Excellent videos, you deserve a lot more views as your so good. Really enjoyed a look around Nottingham as I’ve never visited there. These historic places are really amazing Thank you from a Brit in Texas.
You Sir, are what we in the hollers of Shenandoah call "Shot Out"!, with that lock-down reminisce! I was dying trying to breath through the laughter! Cheers Mate! Well done! Lmao!
This was a fantastic video, Pete. I know that feeling of wanting more local ancient/medieval history (I'm from Brum!). What an adventure you had! Have you ever been to Richard's Castle, a pre-Norman ruin in Shropshire? One of my favourites.
Pete you really need to do a video about the rottom bottom bog bow. You'd be the first to make a video (that I can find anyway) of such an important find
There's a lot of interesting things in Nottinghamshire. Check out the Thynghowe in Sherwood Forest, Laxton Village, the last area still using strip farming, Scrooby was the starting point for the Pilgrim Fathers. Of course the Civil War started in Nottingham and ended in Newark.
Dear Pete, been following your channels for quite some time now and I love it to bits. Particularly because you've taken it into a a modern form of storytelling. And storytelling to me is something that's iconic to all the people in the UK and Ireland. Maybe 'archeology' of storytelling might be a direction to take when hill forts, temples and stone circles are hard to come by? Would love a marvellous storyteller like yourself to ga after them and those authentic folk who can tell them in a voice that spurs the imagination. Cheers from the Netherlands.
I feel your pain, my 2020 sucked too. Since I am Swedish and things looked okay here late summer I visited 2 sites the entire year. First I visited the Petroglyphs of Tanum, a couple of thousand made in the bronze age (the most awesome one is like a comic with Tyr and the Fenris wolf, it even have a lost part where he is talking to some kind of bird (crow? raven? magpie?) with some kind of crop in his beak. And lots of ships. I am pretty sure the guy with the hammer is Thor (but it might be an oddly made axe?) and the archer might be Ull or not. The second place I visited was Sandby borg in Öland, a strange iron age fortified village where something really bad happened 1600 years ago. Someone attacked it, killed all men and children (no women have been found yet but only a small part have been excavated yet) but left all the valuables. Then they just left and even today the locals think the place is cursed and refuse to go there. It was an interesting place, I visited the museum and looked on the artifacts from the dig this summer. 2021 have been slightly better but not much...
@@masterdrewanthony Not that much in English about it besides a few short articles sadly. There is this texted short vid: th-cam.com/video/lfnfuaEfgrA/w-d-xo.html and this even shorter English vid: th-cam.com/video/PfDZE52rWRs/w-d-xo.html
@@loke6664 Thank you for the link! Grim stuff indeed. Definitely would be cool to figure out the motives behind the attacks, although that is probably not likely to happen. The brooches they found at the site were quite beautiful. Would also be interesting to know why the site was left abandoned for so long afterwards. Mysterious...
@@masterdrewanthony The current theory is that a nobleman from somewhere else on the island (it is pretty large) got upset and wanted to make an example. Afterwards he forbade everyone from going there and the locals started to think the place was cursed and avoided it. Metal detecting without special permit is illegal on the island and a local who had cows a bit from there saw someone going around there so he called the cops and the museum sent 2 archaeologists with metal detectors to check the place out and found a lot of interesting artifacts so every summer they do some digging but I think they have dug out 6-8 houses so far or maybe 50 so there is still a lot buried there. The 5th century was a rather violent time all over Europe and while a little writing did exist in Sweden at the time I don't think they found anything interesting with runes on, at least not yet. It is also a time we still have limited knowledge about, we know a lot more about the 6th century and Vendel (most famous for making strange helmets including the Sutton Hoo helmet). They did however often have some kind of temple in villages, often with thin gold pictures of Gods and Goddesses which haven't been found there yet. It is still a mystery, it is a small Hillfort on the eastern side of the island, they think it might had 400 people and seems to have had a lot of workshops and sea trade. I live on the mainland so maybe an hour by car to get there, maybe a little less and an archaeologist tipped me off to the place. Öland is pretty full with treasure, they have found a lot of gold and silver coins as well as jewelry all over the island from around 200-1000 AD. The interesting thing about the place besides the mystery is that it gives us a snapshot from a single day in history and those are rather rare, like Pompeii (but far smaller). The preservation is also very good. Most places have been constantly settled or destroyed by plowing but the soil is pretty bad and Swedish farmers tend to leave old monuments alone so we have a lot left still. So yeah, it is an interested place for many reasons. I try to visit as many of those as I can and the pandemic have made me visit more local places. It is not as grandiose as the nearby Kalmar castle where all of Scandinavia was ruled from but I think I liked it more. And I am sure there are interesting places all around if you look. :)
If it makes anyone feel any better, I took an indefinite leave of absence from my PhD studies in 2020, moved somewhere cheaper to escape crazy urban rents in Canada, couldn't find a job, left behind the closest friends I've made in years, and close family that I had never been closer with, and spent all of 2020 and 2021 being unemployed and feeling useless, listless, and worthless. Now I'm buying a house, starting a new PhD in another city, and my wife and I are expecting our first child in early 2022. Ffs. After all this, the only thing I'm certain of is that I don't fucking understand the world anymore. BRING IT ON, 2022
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant video, Pete! Wish there was more available to learn for archeology around where I live. There is still a gap in our knowledge of Native American peoples of the PNW.
Omg Pete! You’re hilarious! I’m dying! Then you said, “and of course…..we lost people….” And it was just exactly perfect. Love you AND your brother! What a couple of nutters and history savants!
You know there was an Anglo Saxon Graveyard found in the 40's down near the river in Netherfield ? Nottingham Uni has some of the finds (7 cremation pots) but the site was lost shortly after. I have had a wander about and there is a field down there it would be worth doing a field walk once the crop is out in the autumn.
This one made me cry. Yeah, some of us lost someone... but I had someone toss me away, instead. After 38½ years of what I thought was a very happy marriage. No chance for counseling, nor reconciliation. The day after our 39th anniversary, he filed for divorce. I've been in hell for nearly a year and a half, now. And the pain is still as much as it was the day he left. How does someone stop loving a soulmate they've loved their whole adult life?
Interesting vid! I didn't know about Burton Lodge. Have you heard of Crow Hill though? It's located at the top end of Bramcote Park near the car park. There's a (rather pathetic) menhir there with a little hole in it. The big slope it's on, looks like some ruined tree-covered earthwork but probably not to those who have no interest in these things. Worth checking out, then you can cross the road after that, to the Hemlock Stone. Cheers.
Thought you had almost lost it there Pete. Back on your feet boyo. Do what you do best. Wow us with your imagination and inspiration. And listen to Merlin. He knows the path is there before you. One step beyond the other is the way to find it. The prize is there under your feet. Onwards and downwards.
15:00 If you want to blame something for the lack of archeology in Nottingham, blame the legend of Robin Hood. If you are not doing a Robin Hood dig then good luck finding funding. Salisbury plain is where the Iron Age dig funding is at with little in the way of medieval, funding can be adversly affected by location popularity.
The issue with calling them forts is the military ideal of a fort. People see the name fort and think it must be a military fort and can be nothing else but military. Fort is short for fortified, and that means the use can be anything. Fortified ramparts and simple walls atop them is perfect to keep the wildlife from eating the chickens and keep the bandits from raping a pillaging a house on the edge of town one night... and thus you have a whole town inside a fort but not a single soldier needs to be there. The evidence of roundhouses and common everyday life inside the forts suggests they are simply fortified towns. And it fits for the time, there was no unified government during the bronze and iron ages in England. Wars were fought village against village with villager against villager. Being there are many villages and small towns war would be as commonplace as trade. Fortified towns and villages would be the norm, and being on a hill makes that better but also says "Trade Here!" to traders if the walls and ramparts were particularly impressive... which is also a deterrent for attack.
David here Pete and 2020 was guitar lessons online with Lauren Bateman on TH-cam please check it out and you make music like the Kelley’s across the pond!
For those of you wondering- the app I started using to find archaeology is the Megalithic Portal app. It’s incredible - search for ‘pocket guide megaliths’
Cant find it. 😥
@@planetvegan7843 me neither, but I suspect it's because my phone isn't up to the standards needed to use it.
Play filters out apps you can't use.
Is it just for the isles or is it world wide??? Was wondering if it shows data for North America?
Maybe it's not a US App??.
You had me screaming with laughter and crying in solidarity at your lockdown experience.🤗 I have health issues so I’m still mostly staying in… this is getting old y’all.🐝❤️😳
Pete, Thanks for the adventure, I think a lot of us around the world need a good adventure now and then.
This video is awesome. It's a perfect example that we are surrounded by interesting pieces of the past if we look hard enough. Even though 2020 was a metaphorical "year without a summer" there are always things to quest for. Often times the looking is better for us than the finding.
Brilliant. I'm from Oregon US but my family is long from the UK...the Mothership!
Enjoy your videos so much. I have been to the UK so many times . Your lockdown mania was hilarious. ❤❤❤
Thank you for documenting this. Not enough is done in documenting Nottinghamshire’s (or the Midlands in general) ancient history.
I wish more in the local area were interested in their local history.
Indeed and let's not forget that it actually Mercia who stopped the Vikings only to be swallowed up subsequently by Wessex who rewrote history to 'big themselves up'
@petekelly as a young lad from lower saxon netherlands i recently moved to sweden (just missing all the lockdowns) and have been busy translating a set of rune stones that seem to not exist in any databases or transcriptions not that they are to interesting for example the one im working on right now only says "Brutningr" and it is in no app or database whatsoever yett the stone atleast 2 meters tall. Anyway love your work from a fellow enthusiast!
The music and the vibe, it's great!
Yes work on music is advanced, but please don't forget stereo users : sound level for music is twice too high compared to voice level...
Excellent videos, you deserve a lot more views as your so good. Really enjoyed a look around Nottingham as I’ve never visited there.
These historic places are really amazing Thank you from a Brit in Texas.
You Sir, are what we in the hollers of Shenandoah call "Shot Out"!, with that lock-down reminisce! I was dying trying to breath through the laughter! Cheers Mate! Well done! Lmao!
This was a fantastic video, Pete. I know that feeling of wanting more local ancient/medieval history (I'm from Brum!).
What an adventure you had!
Have you ever been to Richard's Castle, a pre-Norman ruin in Shropshire? One of my favourites.
Pete you really need to do a video about the rottom bottom bog bow. You'd be the first to make a video (that I can find anyway) of such an important find
There's a lot of interesting things in Nottinghamshire. Check out the Thynghowe in Sherwood Forest, Laxton Village, the last area still using strip farming, Scrooby was the starting point for the Pilgrim Fathers. Of course the Civil War started in Nottingham and ended in Newark.
I am so glad you are back and sharing your adventures! Looking forward to your next video.
Dear Pete, been following your channels for quite some time now and I love it to bits. Particularly because you've taken it into a a modern form of storytelling. And storytelling to me is something that's iconic to all the people in the UK and Ireland. Maybe 'archeology' of storytelling might be a direction to take when hill forts, temples and stone circles are hard to come by?
Would love a marvellous storyteller like yourself to ga after them and those authentic folk who can tell them in a voice that spurs the imagination. Cheers from the Netherlands.
Ohhhh Pete Kelly. I was looking for machine-gun Kelly and was confused. Lol. Great video mate.
The intro👌🏻
Pete Kelly's gone mad!
Me:"Yay! Just like the rest of us..." Thanks for the video, great stuff as usual.😁👍
I feel your pain, my 2020 sucked too.
Since I am Swedish and things looked okay here late summer I visited 2 sites the entire year.
First I visited the Petroglyphs of Tanum, a couple of thousand made in the bronze age (the most awesome one is like a comic with Tyr and the Fenris wolf, it even have a lost part where he is talking to some kind of bird (crow? raven? magpie?) with some kind of crop in his beak. And lots of ships. I am pretty sure the guy with the hammer is Thor (but it might be an oddly made axe?) and the archer might be Ull or not.
The second place I visited was Sandby borg in Öland, a strange iron age fortified village where something really bad happened 1600 years ago. Someone attacked it, killed all men and children (no women have been found yet but only a small part have been excavated yet) but left all the valuables. Then they just left and even today the locals think the place is cursed and refuse to go there. It was an interesting place, I visited the museum and looked on the artifacts from the dig this summer.
2021 have been slightly better but not much...
That second visit sounds pretty cool, ngl. I will be looking into that instead of sleeping, I suppose 😊
@@masterdrewanthony Not that much in English about it besides a few short articles sadly. There is this texted short vid: th-cam.com/video/lfnfuaEfgrA/w-d-xo.html and this even shorter English vid: th-cam.com/video/PfDZE52rWRs/w-d-xo.html
@@loke6664 Thank you for the link! Grim stuff indeed. Definitely would be cool to figure out the motives behind the attacks, although that is probably not likely to happen. The brooches they found at the site were quite beautiful. Would also be interesting to know why the site was left abandoned for so long afterwards. Mysterious...
@@masterdrewanthony The current theory is that a nobleman from somewhere else on the island (it is pretty large) got upset and wanted to make an example. Afterwards he forbade everyone from going there and the locals started to think the place was cursed and avoided it.
Metal detecting without special permit is illegal on the island and a local who had cows a bit from there saw someone going around there so he called the cops and the museum sent 2 archaeologists with metal detectors to check the place out and found a lot of interesting artifacts so every summer they do some digging but I think they have dug out 6-8 houses so far or maybe 50 so there is still a lot buried there.
The 5th century was a rather violent time all over Europe and while a little writing did exist in Sweden at the time I don't think they found anything interesting with runes on, at least not yet.
It is also a time we still have limited knowledge about, we know a lot more about the 6th century and Vendel (most famous for making strange helmets including the Sutton Hoo helmet).
They did however often have some kind of temple in villages, often with thin gold pictures of Gods and Goddesses which haven't been found there yet.
It is still a mystery, it is a small Hillfort on the eastern side of the island, they think it might had 400 people and seems to have had a lot of workshops and sea trade.
I live on the mainland so maybe an hour by car to get there, maybe a little less and an archaeologist tipped me off to the place. Öland is pretty full with treasure, they have found a lot of gold and silver coins as well as jewelry all over the island from around 200-1000 AD.
The interesting thing about the place besides the mystery is that it gives us a snapshot from a single day in history and those are rather rare, like Pompeii (but far smaller). The preservation is also very good. Most places have been constantly settled or destroyed by plowing but the soil is pretty bad and Swedish farmers tend to leave old monuments alone so we have a lot left still.
So yeah, it is an interested place for many reasons. I try to visit as many of those as I can and the pandemic have made me visit more local places. It is not as grandiose as the nearby Kalmar castle where all of Scandinavia was ruled from but I think I liked it more.
And I am sure there are interesting places all around if you look. :)
Your lockdown history part had me rocking with laughter!
If it makes anyone feel any better, I took an indefinite leave of absence from my PhD studies in 2020, moved somewhere cheaper to escape crazy urban rents in Canada, couldn't find a job, left behind the closest friends I've made in years, and close family that I had never been closer with, and spent all of 2020 and 2021 being unemployed and feeling useless, listless, and worthless. Now I'm buying a house, starting a new PhD in another city, and my wife and I are expecting our first child in early 2022. Ffs.
After all this, the only thing I'm certain of is that I don't fucking understand the world anymore.
BRING IT ON, 2022
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant video, Pete! Wish there was more available to learn for archeology around where I live. There is still a gap in our knowledge of Native American peoples of the PNW.
Dude you're the best...thanks for the laughs and knowledge you share
Didn't realise you were localish to me. Might have to check out some more stuff around Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire myself
Omg Pete! You’re hilarious! I’m dying! Then you said, “and of course…..we lost people….” And it was just exactly perfect. Love you AND your brother! What a couple of nutters and history savants!
This still makes me laugh! Thanks, Pete!
You know there was an Anglo Saxon Graveyard found in the 40's down near the river in Netherfield ? Nottingham Uni has some of the finds (7 cremation pots) but the site was lost shortly after. I have had a wander about and there is a field down there it would be worth doing a field walk once the crop is out in the autumn.
Thank you
This one made me cry. Yeah, some of us lost someone... but I had someone toss me away, instead. After 38½ years of what I thought was a very happy marriage. No chance for counseling, nor reconciliation. The day after our 39th anniversary, he filed for divorce. I've been in hell for nearly a year and a half, now. And the pain is still as much as it was the day he left. How does someone stop loving a soulmate they've loved their whole adult life?
You can visit like 6 castles in a single day if you scoot around north west Yorkshire.
Where I live, anything older than WW2 is considered old. Take care.
you in oz?
LA County, Southern California.
really enjoyable program
This thumbnail.. love it
Oh yes best thing on youtube
Interesting vid! I didn't know about Burton Lodge. Have you heard of Crow Hill though? It's located at the top end of Bramcote Park near the car park. There's a (rather pathetic) menhir there with a little hole in it. The big slope it's on, looks like some ruined tree-covered earthwork but probably not to those who have no interest in these things. Worth checking out, then you can cross the road after that, to the Hemlock Stone. Cheers.
You should definitely go to oxten hill fort. It's very impressive. If you need a lift I'll take you. I live in Mansfield.
Pete Kellys pandemic sleep paralysis demon is actually a former history professor who is just annoyed. Lucky!
Thought you had almost lost it there Pete. Back on your feet boyo. Do what you do best. Wow us with your imagination and inspiration.
And listen to Merlin. He knows the path is there before you. One step beyond the other is the way to find it. The prize is there under your feet.
Onwards and downwards.
How did I miss this gem?
15:00 If you want to blame something for the lack of archeology in Nottingham, blame the legend of Robin Hood. If you are not doing a Robin Hood dig then good luck finding funding. Salisbury plain is where the Iron Age dig funding is at with little in the way of medieval, funding can be adversly affected by location popularity.
Pete you're such a fucking hero. Please consider comedy as a side hustle.
Cool vid
Wait what's the name of the app?
Bump. @Pete - would be nice to have it in the description.
How about consulting some natives?
Does the lower corner of a Soma Labs LYRA-8 Synth come in to frame at 4 minutes and 20 seconds from the start of this video? If so I'm jealous!
It does. Great synth. Absolutely weird though so takes a lot of getting used to. Excellent for soundscapes and drones
I feel ya, luckily Australia is slowly getting better.... Oh wait no it's not 😮💨
Yeah that was pretty trippy beginning, damn you must smoke a lot of pot hahaha
The issue with calling them forts is the military ideal of a fort. People see the name fort and think it must be a military fort and can be nothing else but military. Fort is short for fortified, and that means the use can be anything. Fortified ramparts and simple walls atop them is perfect to keep the wildlife from eating the chickens and keep the bandits from raping a pillaging a house on the edge of town one night... and thus you have a whole town inside a fort but not a single soldier needs to be there. The evidence of roundhouses and common everyday life inside the forts suggests they are simply fortified towns. And it fits for the time, there was no unified government during the bronze and iron ages in England. Wars were fought village against village with villager against villager. Being there are many villages and small towns war would be as commonplace as trade. Fortified towns and villages would be the norm, and being on a hill makes that better but also says "Trade Here!" to traders if the walls and ramparts were particularly impressive... which is also a deterrent for attack.
Whats exactly happening I'm not trying to joke are you okay? think I'm going to go ahead and bounce on out of here
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what, the app isnt real?
Megalithic portal app. It’s the best !
What the f*** is happening right now
Someones been smoking a bit to much weed!! good lad!
🤭👏👏👍☮❤
David here Pete and 2020 was guitar lessons online with Lauren Bateman on TH-cam please check it out and you make music like the Kelley’s across the pond!
… good pills mate