BREAKING NEWS - Massive Anglo-Saxon 'Palace' Excavated // Capital of Sutton Hoo's Raedwald?
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Find out more directly from the archaeologists via this amazing on-going series of video lectures:-
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Thank you for this additional info and your great videos!!! The way you put together your videos with short videos and music and your narration is very well done. Keep up the great work!!
Ill second that!! Heck yeah, thank you for the extra information!!
Thank You for the link Pete.
OMG The Sutton Hoo story is incredible. My dream is to visit England. I've been researching, studying and enjoying British history for over 25 years, so when I find a channel that offers great content and a great presentation that's it. Love both your channels especially the Sea People video and The Hittites. Thanks Pete!
I love all your videos. You put the actual "History Channel" to shame
Thanks fo watching.. actual history is always better than aliens!
As a fan of the channel and someone who grew up in Suffolk, what a brilliant video! Next time I'm in Ipswich I'll be sure to visit the museum and see some of those objects.
There's an awful lot of history in the area, some of which would have been lost to coastal erosion. Place likes Dunwich (former capital of the area, all but lost to erosion) have always fascinated me as they likely played a far larger role in this period.
Thanks for watching. The mystery of Dunwich is a fascinating one. I’m sure I’ll look into it in detail in a future video. Suffolk is a fascinating place.
This is an excellent documentary: clear, accurate, and beautifully illustrated. Thanks!
Thanks very much. Appreciate it
He's able to be understood unlike Dark5 lol
Ditto
Was going to say the same, won't bother now. 😁
Really enjoyed that, thank you 👍
Well I'm not sure how great the VDO is... lots of panning shots of fields, artifacts, and then maybe's, and could be's. In the end I'm none-the-wiser. But then again, it could be right.
Claiming descent from both Caesar and Odin seems totally legit. 😉
@Eric Ferguson lmao !
More likely and more realistic than most of the "we wuz kangs n'sheeit" claims made by artificially inflated egos in the modern world.
Ifor Bach how is that so? I haven’t finished the video yet. Could you explain in summary how it wouldn’t be surprising to be directly descended from them?
The most legit of all !
Eric Ferguson it’s crazy how some people like yourself hate Christianity so much that you can’t contain yourself from blabbering about it, no matter how far off topic it is🤣
Thank you Pete for your excellent documentaries. I used to live in Chester but now live in Ontario, Canada and my thirst for British history has grown since leaving my dear old land. Although I cannot be there to celebrate these wonderful finds, your uploads are the next best thing and keep me coming back for more. If we don't know where we've come from, how can we know where we're going ? Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦.
I have just read about the Yeavering Palace and to discover that a larger Early Anglo-Saxon example lies in East Anglia and all this research is going on is very exciting. Thanks Mr. Kelly I will keep up with the Suffolk Archaeologists as they produce free lectures.
Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. They are putting out a fascinating series of live video lectures by the archaeologists who worked on the site. Well worth checking it
Great content...the history of the English is being uncovered... and it is fascinating...thank you.
Absolutely. Thanks for watching !
Thank you for the fascinating look at some of these finds. And thank you, also, for referring to this period as 'early medieval' as opposed to 'dark age'. It was a change from the Roman occupation certainly, and it was different from the period following the Norman Conquest; but it's not like the sun went out, or anything - it was just different. And the skill and craftsmanship shown by these objects tells me that life was anything but 'dark'.
Thanks for watching . Appreciate it. Yep this is an utterly fascinating time. Definitely not dark
It was dark in the sense that there was a sparcity of literary accounts which were favoured by past historians, archaelogy has brought light to the dark
@@andybeans5790 Well, according to Petrarch, anyway. :)
There was a dark period after the ginormous explosion that covered the earth from Krakatoa!
It was Dark in the sense that all the major social and technical advances came from places where the people were way darker. Like the whole Islamic world which from 7th to 9th centuries made astonishing advances in scholarship esp math, medicine, astronomy/navigation, book publication and authorship protection in the arts and sciences, universities, the citation index, ecological conservation etc etc
In fact the Muslim societies are more advanced in pretty much every way including women's rights until about the Renaissance.
Love seeing ANYTHING Anglo-Saxon related.
Same. Plenty more on the way
Likewise. Rather be Anglo-Saxon than Celtic, Roman or, dare I say it, Norman.
The other countries of the British isles have always had a hatred of England partly because they are more Celtic & we are more Mongrels of Celtic, Saxon, Viking, other European settlements, well this English person is proud of my Anglo Saxon Germanic heritage
I'd rather be a mongrel than defeated
Bit of a fanciful narrative there, Ryan. As a Scot, I can assure you that nobody sits around up here pouring scorn on you all for your "mongrel" racial heritage. Doesn't happen.
And for you information; the Scottish are just as much a "mongrel" nation as the English; Britons, Irish, Angles, Vikings, Normans. We had 'em all here too.
There was no invasion by the anglo saxons, the comet of 562 decimated britain, the saxons walked in to find a people starving and decimated due to the comet,
There is no way they would have beaten the Britons, that is why there is no evidence of an invasion, there is a battle site in maesteg south wales called mynydd badon, this is where 30,000 saxons were beaten by 12,000 British,
According to ancestry dna, these are my people, minus some vikings and Norman’s. I feel very comfortable with this, plus I love the English weather…haha!
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Impressive helmet. Just imagine what the boat in that grave looked like. It probably would have been just as spectacular as those Viking ships they found in Gokstad and Oseberg in Norway.
Interesting on very early Nordic ships: sciencenorway.no/archaeology-bronze-age-ships/was-there-a-viking-age-in-norway--2000-years-before-the-vikings/1698522
@@AnnikaLidne Very interesting artical. Thank you! An extensive history of Norse ship building & trade going back to the beginning of the Bronze age. Fascinating research.
My genetic makeup includes Saxons & Swedes. Two not too dissimilar peoples after all.
Pete Kelly. I noticed in the art pieces that you show, some interlacings representing variations of a lying eight. I am a Frank, and in the same period, we had the same kind of interlacings designs in Belgium-France-Switzerland-Italy. I researched them and they were already present in the Sumerian art. I personally think they represent the cords which were holding the tents together.
No matter how many times I see that helmet, something wells up and roars inside me. It’s so beautiful, intricate and yet its ceremonial use would have celebrated war/victory! The late Roman cavalry units got the idea from German mercenaries... it’s not a Roman design.
That's why it's called GER-MANIA 😆
@@Wally-pu2hh yes, I’m certainly pretty manic about anything Germanic - oh dear... That’s terrible, nearly as bad as your’s, I do apologise lol 🙈👍
Excellent video,very interesting, the connection between Sutton Hoo and the Scandinavian, Swedish people is most intriguing. Thank you, Alan
Thanks for watching. Yep strong cultural links for sure. Until Christianity came along.
Magnificent Sutton Hoo.
Amazing place. Amazing artefacts
What a well presented video/documentary, so beautifully spoken and as accurate as the evidence has produced, thank you Pete
The English side of my family comes from East Anglia so this is pretty cool.
One of my favorite towns - and its history - is Bury St. Edmunds. I love to imagine what it was like both before and during the time of the great Abbey.
Hi Paul
Your from the iceceni tribe. Of queen Boudicca.
I was driving through a small village about ten miles NE of Royston as the local school kicked out.
It was amazing to see all the kids seemed flaxen blond.
Proof I guess a population can stay isolated and unique for centuries.
@@garyhewitt489 I remember a documentary about ten years ago where old people in a village in the Derbyshire dales (might be wrong about its exact location) had their DNA analysed and they were almost all still genetically danish settlers from the Viking period. All through the centuries they hadn’t really mixed with the local populations, even though they had no idea they were anything except English.
@@greva2904 This is an important communication.A proof that isolation and inbreading may conserve antique genes intact over centuries.
I’ve always loved anything history, but lately I’ve been really getting into European history, and this has been the perfect channel for it. Always easy to understand and very interesting, thanks man
Thank you for this vid. The Anglo-Saxon era is (to me, anyway) one of the richest, most fascinating periods in human history.
Love from the US! Thank you so much for the well-done films. You are helping make this history nerds' quarantine so much more bearable.
Amazing! Thanks for the links and for producing this video.
Wow, great work. Thanks. I have been following this story forever and this adds so much and leaves me with other places to explore. Excellent. Bravo!!
Brilliant narration.
Thanks for watching . Appreciate it. Plenty more on the way
Bringing up the coolest discoveries!
Thanks Pete Kelly ! 👍
Thanks for watching. You keep watching and I’ll keep making !
Kelly, you're one hell of a teacher! You take a subject about which so little is known and develop it into a terrific story that had ties to much of the then known world. I am subscribed, a huge fan of your renowned "Time Team" series, I could do no less when I found you. Keep up the fine scholarly edge you have to your vids and we'll continue to enjoy your hard work.
"East Anglia Kink" I'm imagining now what that could be. I suppose it involves a golden helmet.
And gloves.
Wonderful program. Indeed, respect for the serious, first class scientific work Pete. Thank You for both pleasant and educative content.
Absolutely brilliant presentation! I can't wait for the next installment. Fascinating.
Thanks for watching. Plenty more on the way
All so very interesting. Thanks Pete
excellent, I have a huge interest in this period and particularly the Anglo Saxons, Sutton Hoo is well worth a visit for anyone not having been there
Another insightful video on the history I am so interested in. So many informative directions and tools I can use to broaden my knowledge of this lost time and history. Thank you for sharing.
Most have a complete misunderstanding of what the "Dark Ages" was.
just come back from a visit to Sutton Hoo. Must go back there to see Rendlesham now after your video. Thank you for the links to videos about that area, will check them out. Very informative and interesting video!
Thoroughly enjoying these. Thank you.
I've been a JRR Tolkien fan for over 30 years. And watching this video I saw that the anglo saxons, and their language could have influenced the making of the horse lords of Rohan. Everyone attributes his writings from the epic story Beowulf, but I think Mr. Tolkien knew his English history as well. Great piece on early english history.
Huge Tolkien fan here too. Absolutely he was inspired by the Germanic sagas of old, Anglo-Saxon history, and also Finnish and Scandinavian sagas. Really interesting looking into where he found his inspiration
I should hope so, he was a professor of Anglo Saxon with a speciality in Old English.
Gary Hewitt my point is, I don’t think Tolkien thought it was a “dark age” in his time
@@majiclamp4857 I think your right. He would have been in a minority though.
I think the establishment at that time saw themselves as the inheritors of the Christian Roman civilising influence on the world
Anything that wasn't Christian or 'civilised' was disregarded.
A pagan warrior society that used wooden buildings , how could they be considered civilised ?
A bit like the pre Roman society was dissed .
Seeing as all his Rohirrim characters had Old English names, and the snippets of Rohirric language are in Old English, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.
Jackson pays some sort of homage to this in the Two Towers movie. (uncut) where Eowyn sings a lament for Theodred, entirely in Old English.
Thank you. Your hype-free channel is my new favorite place to learn more about things that I like to see.
If I came back and watched it again a month after first watch, shouldn’t I be able to “like” it twice? 👍👍👍
Pete your videos are such a joy to watch. thank you !!
Thanks for watching. Appreciate it
Thank you for this channel. It seems the more we learn of Raedwald, the more awesome he was.
Absolutely excellent.Thanks so much Pete🥰
I really appreciate your channels, Pete!
Thanks pete!
Keep those coming mate really loved it great freaking work my fav Chanel on youtube 😃
I'm really enjoying all of this new history the archeologists are digging up
As a life long student of history
I have to say I love your uploads 😍
It’s an incredible time for archaeology ! Thanks for watching
Thank you!🌹
You do such a wonderful job. Excellent!!!
That is friggin amazing craftsmanship!😲
Pete Kelly I enjoyed this so! Thank you sir!
Love the videos! Loathe the constant interruptions!
Oh my more pete kelly.Yay
Very nicely done :)
Thanks!
Absolutely brilliant
Just trying out Magellan TV and really enjoying it! Also love your videos Pete!
Cheers !
While we are very fortunate to find what's left of such long ago times, the average person going about their daily business in 650 AD is illusive. I imagine a mostly hard and laborious time was had, farming and attempting to raise a family. But there must have been an "in between" life, where being in service to a lord other than God, but still attempting to raise a family and participate in community existed.
Thank you for this documentary!
Excellent work.made me a subscriber! Thanks!
Extremely interesting. My ears pricked up when you mentioned Prtiilewell, which later grew to be Southend on Sea, which I regard as my home town.
Im pretty sure Pete was never a child and just came into the world fully formed as he is now..
Not that I am complaining, best narrator since David Attenborough
Yes
Cool! Still so much to learn about history.
Always more to learn
@Pete Kelly : Hooked, line and sinker. Just found this channel and what an introduction. Subbed . Thank you
Having just done a DNA ancestry this is really interesting as I have both English and Northern European DNA obviously from peoples that settled in those areas and got to work building my family tree. I will imagine I am related to the kings of course...just for fun, though, who knows. More likely a pub wench ;)
Quite probably both.
Great video! I was meant to work on the excavation at Rendlesham this summer as a student, but it was unfortunately called off due to the pandemic.
I love the history of these islands
That dude is gonna be PISSED when he gets to the afterlife and realizes his helmet is missing.
lf his beliefs were similar to Norse mythology he would spend most of his time in the afterlife getting pissed with his mates in some kind of Valhalla.
@@billythedog-309 Fighting all day, then party all night in Valhalla. So everyone's gonna make fun of him because he's not prepared.
@@billparker244 Pissed = drunk.
@@billythedog-309 Yes. I was just emphasizing the specific reason why he would be pissed/mad/angry/upset/discontent/flabbergasted/disgruntled/irate/reproached/annoyed/vengeful/unhappy/dissatisfied. I'm American, but I still know Britain and the Commonwealth use the word "pissed" instead of "drunk."
@@billparker244 Pissed as in drunk is a hundred years older than the US version. Pissed off, now that means less than gruntled.
This is a awesome discovery! And absolutely beautifully illustrated at its finest...unfortunately it was found at the wrong piece of time to get the fullest recognition that it deserves...hopefully this find will be appreciated to generations to come ..
Nice, Imagine how different the landscape was back then, Looking at Sutton Hoo on Lidar it was practically on an Island, Just a narrow neck connecting it to the mainland, Reminds me a lot of Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire too.
This is so amazing!
Awesome video. Incredibly interesting information.
You're lucky to have rivers that maintain their banks & don't change & wash away history.
once again a superb documentary Pete
Excellent news. A most excellent video.
Thank u Pete love your channels
Very nice presentation, Pete, and very exciting news. Please note however, at 14:00 "magnum opus" is correctly rendered in Latin "opus magnum" noun first, adjective second.
Excellent Peter, probs your best so far
Anyone noticed that the nosepiece moustache and eyebrows on the helmet are a dragon in flight...?
Another nod to the famed winged dragon serpents that are in many ancient civilisations folklore, in Britain’s case it was Wales.
@@Ganymede559 the story of St George actually began back in AD300 in Anatolia (Turkey) he was of Greek origin and served as a soldier in the Roman army. Was venerated as a Saint in circa the 5th century AD.
The dragon fable began way later in the 11th century.
Thank u amazing
18.00 Perishable items have disintegrated, no longer traceable....
Anyone excavating our era will unfortunately find practically nothing perishable. Mountains of plastic,artificial fibre and dangerously radio active weaponry - what a heritage!!!
The alglo saxons dresswd in bear skins and leather, it was the british who wore armour and helmets, im very skeptical that ghis is snglo saxon, but i really love this channel, the narrator is better than anything the bbc csn conjure up, well done pete.
Rivaling the death mask of Tut-Ankh Amun..
Brilliant stunning video 👏
I have to say that I wish there were not so much frequently repeated video footage. Surely there are archives Mr. Kelly could mine for more useful and insightful videos. The voiceover too was written more for suspense or for creating interest than actual facts. He should take lessons at the feet of Vindolanda, where there is much fascinating detail.
There is amazingly little information about early medieval Britain available generally. Before the discoveries made at Sutton Hoo that period of British history was written off as a time of darkness and chaos, but these new discoveries have helped change that picture and have increased our knowledge of that era. I'm am throroughly this series on pre- Conquest Britain.
Love to go over there. My maternal lineage is from Lincolnshire traced to around 1400.
You are the best!
This is awesome!!!!!
For just one small example, there are multiple shots of the magnificent Sutton Hoo helmet, but no mention of the possible meanings scholars have found in the helmet's impressive images.
This is a video about a palace not a helmet. It can’t be everything at once
Great video all around.....but I really enjoyed the old guy dramatisation at 11:04 lol
Have you done a video on the recent finds near Prittlewell?
Great video! Could you tell me what the music is that starts at 9 minutes. Thanks
Dear Pete, where did you find that stunning piece of music that begins at 0:17?
I wish The buildings that can be seen with a outline can be rebuilt
Hi Pete! I'd like to know more about the comparison of Gold / Garnet decorations between those from Sutton Hoo and the Hoard recently discovered in the last 15 years not far from Sutton Hoo. Are the y related? They would appear to be from the materials chosen and the workmanship and detailing.. Do you know if the ongoing investigations have covered this? Love your stuff. Just bought a Hoodie. See you in Valhalla!
Excellent documentary... The decorations on the Sutton Hoo helmet, tell me that life must have continued much the same after the Romans left... I'm reminded that in Japan after the fall of the Samurai the craftsmen who decorated their Armour; (The Art of Chokin), had to find a new market for their craft so started putting their designs on fine pottery... So why wouldn't the craftsmen who decorated Roman Armour just continue to decorate the Armour of their new rules....
'10.000 miles under the earth's surface'... 🤣... you stoned as hell bro..
Love every upload man ❤
I'm from Newark upon trent..
The centre of the Daines 5 county's.
we have places named -
DAINESTHORPE
SAXONDALE .
the most Incredible place
Wow! Amazing if this is Sutton Ho.
💜It is my greatest joy to see the terrifying fog that was the Dark Ages continue to evaporate!💜!:-)💜💜💜
Even possibly some of the highest or richest of rulers forgotten until rediscovered.