Hello, Professor Alice Roberts! I love this “Digging for Britain” program! These episodes are so well-executed, inspiring and uplifting! Riveting as always! Please, keep up the good work! Thank you! Lots of love from across the world! Cheers!
I just wonder if the ancient people who buried the sheep with the horse’s head were thinking, “Let’s mess with the archeaologists who are going to dig this up in a few thousand years!”
When you think of all the weird cults around today, with all our scientific knowledge, it's not really surprising that exotic cults emerged back in a time when all of nature was scary and mysterious.
Habitation or dense vegetative growth builds up strata , just grassland or agriculture build up less , especially if the fertile soil level is thin too start with
I often feel like arguing with archaeologists because it seems that everything they dig up has to be all about some RELIGIOUS RITUAL - IE they seem never to just decide this person was just buried because they died, or the animal was buried whole rather than just it's bones, because it was a religious sacrifice - rather than it was obviously sick & they knew they could not eat the meat else they too would get sick ! IOW they seem to have a real 'thing' about always deciding something was religious. But I think people in those days were very much like us, and did not necessarily get all religiously hysterical about every darned thing that happened ! .
I agree. Some animal could be burried whole because they were dear to them, a pet, or a gift it would be insulting to desacrated, or because they meant something for the comunity, like a brave dog who saved lifes, a horse who brought hope by his strenght and allowed humans to carry heavy and important things, and so as a thanks would be burried whole. A bit like the statue of that japanes loyal dog ! Nothing religious. For the mixing of the two animals it could be a form of art, or medical experimentation, or just sharing of ideas. I was surprised they decided the sauna was a ritual, there are lots of sauna/sweating rooms that are just for relaxation today. It's enjoyable, a group activity, a bonding opportunity. It could even be just a medical treatment. It's a bit weird that they imagine them so different from us somehow, but I still appreciate those dovumentaries, they keeps us updated.
I don't think it was religion as we know it.A belief in something is a very basic and fundamental part oflife in many races and countries ancient and modern. Belief is a very basic part of life and death of course. So many discoveries are religious based. Whatever is wrong with that ? Just because people don't believe doesn't make it wrong. It's how civilisation develops or crumbles. Well done you for your input. @@alisong2328
Yes, I totally agree. I have told my children that I don’t care what they do with my body after I’m dead. They can give it to an artist to pickle or to use as an art installation, sealed in a box so that everybody can watch me decompose. I genuinely do not care! But they are absolutely NOT to waste heaps of money getting rid of my carcass, not for my benefit.
Welsh in Wales now that is a shock, but English in Wales a bigger shock, up to the 16th Century Gloucester was in Wales , Thousand years before Britain was mostly Cymric ( Welsh) .
Yes I love that in Gloucester town they have a wetherspoons that has Welsh under the signs 🙊🤣 used to make me feel at home when I lived there for a brief moment ❤
I tried to watch your channel but your background audio is unbearably dramatic and loudly overpowers the voice over. Example" "In Illinois, a flat land (THUNDERBOLTS AND CRASHES), there are fields of corn. (FRANTIC WINDING NOISE WITH A RESOUNDING SMASH SOUND). Sometimes birds will land in a cornfield (TORNATIC SWIRLING SOUND WITH A MONSTER RUMBLING CRASH THAT ECHOES!!!!). And the birds will peck the corn. (FULL ORCHESTRAL CRESCENDO WITH FULL BLAST OF APOCALYPTO TRUMPETS). Please. Is there a high school sophmore boy doing your audio? I will check back with your channel in a few months and would love to watch all of your episodes. I just can't make it through the first 2 minutes. Please remaster. Others feel the same as me. Thanks.
Jim’s living in cloud cuckoo land with his hypothesis 🤣 Much like Carenza when she commented on the Saxon sword that had modern barbed wire underneath it 🤣
I have participated in many Native American sweat lodges. These remains look exactly like what you would expect to find for one. Sweat lodges were always required before religious ceremonies to purify the participants. In sacred ceremonies that lasted several days like the Sun Dance (which I have participated in) a sweat lodge is done when you get up in the morning and another one after that days' ceremony. These finds are special and very interesting!
Am i the only one who thinks they should remain buried? It was clearly the will of the families to put them there and bury them with those items. If we have to dig them up, at least take your pictures and put them back.
If one day my remains were to be excavated, I would be thrilled to contribute to the body of human knowledge. And they could keep my bones if they wished. But that's just me.
Graverobbing became archaeology in recent years, not for the first time. If field archaeologists wonder why there is a lack of recruits, they should understand that people like myself studied for the position, but never went into the profession simply because they don't consider these things. And for context, I am not religious, or superstitious in any way. I simply respect people's choices and their right to have that respected. These are not simply bones, they are the final resting place of my ancestors. A message to all field archaeologists, your curiousity does not outweigh a person's right to rest in peace.
@@dancrawford2690 pretty sure if they dug up your grandma you'd have a different opinion. But besides that, it is more than possible to record a grave in minute detail, without robbing from it or stealing the corpse.
You don't have to be performing 'rituals' to be using a sweatlodge/sauna. They are a good and healthy way to cleanse the body, and are routinely used in Finland - many hotels and private houses have, or have access to, one. Particularly in cold weather, they would have been, in a pre-mediaeval culture, more comfortable than washing in cold water and probably easier to use than heating up large containers of water. Public or communal bath houses have been in use in Eurasia since the Third millennium BCE - it shouldn't be a surprise to find a local cold-climate variation in Britain. Will far future excavators interpret fragmentary remains of rubber duckies as animalistic ritual objects? Archaeologists should revisit Dr. Horace Mitchell Miner's June 1956 paper in _American Anthropologist_ - 'Body Ritual among the Nacirema.'
When I was standing in the middle of Woodhenge a vision of a Cherokee Council House and fire that I knew of, appeared. I experienced many Sacred Rock Lodges (Sweat Lodges) prior to our ceremonial events. 1st time another connection has been revealed to me and more evidence of Atlantis' reach.
@maryearll3359 I read a novel called "Domesday Book" twenty years ago. The story was that archaeologists dig up strains of Bubonic Plague that had been dormant since the 1340s. Inevitably the disease escapes from them and causes mass deaths amongst the general public. Does this seem unlikely? Not after COVID it doesn't.
10 000 years from now. Someone will find my bones with my phone in my pocket. I'm guessing they will think I worked for Samsung. Just because the Aimsbury Archer had gold hair wraps doesn't mean he was a metal worker. People who work over hot fires don't tend to have long hair either.
The European. Conquest started in This area. The Spanish. The Conquest. Collecting, welth, and slaves. St. Patrick was one of thos slaves. Sold in Ireland. The 2nd was the South America Conquest then to the Nations of the Native tribes. The welth and claim of the land to commit to global Conquest.
St. Patrick was captured by Irish pirates from Britain and sold in Ireland around the year 405. (The Spanish were not involved.) This Welsh village is from about 1,000 years later.
@alisong2328 Britain and Spain. Were in the slave markets. Britain, Army ,England. Crown. English. Crown. Of Spanish Philip Charles Philip 2. King of Spain To The Charles Philip of England. So yes they were.
What gives you the right just to dig dead people out of the ground. They were buried with love loss feelings belief's. What do you do with them?. You are grave robbers who think you can dig these passed people for they were people without a care in world.
Hello, Professor Alice Roberts! I love this “Digging for Britain” program! These episodes are so well-executed, inspiring and uplifting! Riveting as always! Please, keep up the good work! Thank you! Lots of love from across the world! Cheers!
Always lovely to see new finds ( even if only new to us) from around Wales. Many thanks.
Not sure how new this is. This is an old episode.
I just wonder if the ancient people who buried the sheep with the horse’s head were thinking, “Let’s mess with the archeaologists who are going to dig this up in a few thousand years!”
When you think of all the weird cults around today, with all our scientific knowledge, it's not really surprising that exotic cults emerged back in a time when all of nature was scary and mysterious.
Her accent is lovely and very easy for a southern American to understand!
Well yeah? Do you always have a hard time understanding English?
I'm sure she put it on just for you
@@chrisp308there are some atrocious accents out there
It’s a tv program… they are supposed to put someone with a good pronunciation and diction ….
Jeez, he's just saying he likes her voice. Concur! And she's easy on the eyes, too 😆
It is striking how these archaeological remains are not that far from the ground surface.
Habitation or dense vegetative growth builds up strata , just grassland or agriculture build up less , especially if the fertile soil level is thin too start with
Great to see Matt again, I remember his Time Team era.
Thanks so much for these fascinating programmes. One of my favourite go-to series. 😊
Cool episode, thankyou
I often feel like arguing with archaeologists because it seems that everything they dig up has to be all about some RELIGIOUS RITUAL - IE they seem never to just decide this person was just buried because they died, or the animal was buried whole rather than just it's bones, because it was a religious sacrifice - rather than it was obviously sick & they knew they could not eat the meat else they too would get sick ! IOW they seem to have a real 'thing' about always deciding something was religious. But I think people in those days were very much like us, and did not necessarily get all religiously hysterical about every darned thing that happened ! .
I agree. Some animal could be burried whole because they were dear to them, a pet, or a gift it would be insulting to desacrated, or because they meant something for the comunity, like a brave dog who saved lifes, a horse who brought hope by his strenght and allowed humans to carry heavy and important things, and so as a thanks would be burried whole. A bit like the statue of that japanes loyal dog ! Nothing religious.
For the mixing of the two animals it could be a form of art, or medical experimentation, or just sharing of ideas.
I was surprised they decided the sauna was a ritual, there are lots of sauna/sweating rooms that are just for relaxation today. It's enjoyable, a group activity, a bonding opportunity. It could even be just a medical treatment.
It's a bit weird that they imagine them so different from us somehow, but I still appreciate those dovumentaries, they keeps us updated.
Well, back then people were never exposed to alternative views. Religion was just their way of life.
I don't think it was religion as we know it.A belief in something is a very basic and fundamental part oflife in many races and countries ancient and modern. Belief is a very basic part of life and death of course. So many discoveries are religious based. Whatever is wrong with that ? Just because people don't believe doesn't make it wrong. It's how civilisation develops or crumbles. Well done you for your input. @@alisong2328
Veronicaroach3667 - not strictly true . I don't think flint tools, leather sandals or pieces of pottery were classed as religious burials. Do you ? 😊
I’m sorry for people who are sensitive about this, but I would be happy if my remains are used for research and historical research!
Yes, I totally agree. I have told my children that I don’t care what they do with my body after I’m dead. They can give it to an artist to pickle or to use as an art installation, sealed in a box so that everybody can watch me decompose. I genuinely do not care!
But they are absolutely NOT to waste heaps of money getting rid of my carcass, not for my benefit.
Welsh in Wales now that is a shock, but English in Wales a bigger shock, up to the 16th Century Gloucester was in Wales , Thousand years before Britain was mostly Cymric ( Welsh) .
Trellech, Three Leeks.
i SHALL HAVE NIGHTMARES NOW.
Yes I love that in Gloucester town they have a wetherspoons that has Welsh under the signs 🙊🤣 used to make me feel at home when I lived there for a brief moment ❤
Fascinating finds... Incredible, thanks for sharing! And trench supervisor Rose is a smokeshow 😏😆
@wretchedrider2157 why do you keep making comments like that? Im sure they would prefer you didn't objectify them while they do their job.
@malicemacey You feeling okay? Because complimenting a woman's beauty shouldn't be offensive.
@@wretchedrider2157 it is when they are doing a job that is unrelated to their looks.
@@malicemacey Agree to disagree, then. I don't think there's a wrong time to compliment the beauty in life.
@wretchedrider2157 no doubt you have made many women uncomfortable in your life then.
I tried to watch your channel but your background audio is unbearably dramatic and loudly overpowers the voice over. Example" "In Illinois, a flat land (THUNDERBOLTS AND CRASHES), there are fields of corn. (FRANTIC WINDING NOISE WITH A RESOUNDING SMASH SOUND). Sometimes birds will land in a cornfield (TORNATIC SWIRLING SOUND WITH A MONSTER RUMBLING CRASH THAT ECHOES!!!!). And the birds will peck the corn. (FULL ORCHESTRAL CRESCENDO WITH FULL BLAST OF APOCALYPTO TRUMPETS). Please. Is there a high school sophmore boy doing your audio? I will check back with your channel in a few months and would love to watch all of your episodes. I just can't make it through the first 2 minutes. Please remaster. Others feel the same as me. Thanks.
This seems to be a trend - to increase the drama by adding ridiculous soundtracks. It's only slightly less annoying than AI narration.
I agree drives me insane and on the TV I can't make out what's being said,please turn background music off no need for it
Yeah goodness me.
I didn't even notice the soundtrack, I was so drawn into the information. I think they do a perfect job.
Jim’s living in cloud cuckoo land with his hypothesis 🤣
Much like Carenza when she commented on the Saxon sword that had modern barbed wire underneath it 🤣
I have participated in many Native American sweat lodges. These remains look exactly like what you would expect to find for one. Sweat lodges were always required before religious ceremonies to purify the participants. In sacred ceremonies that lasted several days like the Sun Dance (which I have participated in) a sweat lodge is done when you get up in the morning and another one after that days' ceremony. These finds are special and very interesting!
I like how they're using an old bedframe as a grid. :)
Can we assume that Ed Blinkhorn is related to Paul?
I believe it's possible that it was a sweat lodge but i wonder if they've given any thought that it could be a large oven
Good morning 😊❤
IS IT STILL MORNING THERE ?
Trellech = Town of slate / slates ....❤
Of course a sweatlodge. Even aboriginal peoples in Canada had sweatlodges when there was European contact
ROSE IS WELL FIT TIDY made me smile
?WOO,WHOO
Some Finnlander floated over on a chunk of ice and said you guys stink. I’ll show what you have to do.
"Archeologists Uncover 700-Year-Old Medieval Town In Wales?" In other words they took a wrong turn on the way to the pub?
avon is welsh for river
Am i the only one who thinks they should remain buried? It was clearly the will of the families to put them there and bury them with those items. If we have to dig them up, at least take your pictures and put them back.
If one day my remains were to be excavated, I would be thrilled to contribute to the body of human knowledge. And they could keep my bones if they wished. But that's just me.
I agree. As exciting as archaeology is, I have always felt uncomfortable watching them pull people out of their resting places 😕
Graverobbing became archaeology in recent years, not for the first time. If field archaeologists wonder why there is a lack of recruits, they should understand that people like myself studied for the position, but never went into the profession simply because they don't consider these things.
And for context, I am not religious, or superstitious in any way. I simply respect people's choices and their right to have that respected. These are not simply bones, they are the final resting place of my ancestors.
A message to all field archaeologists, your curiousity does not outweigh a person's right to rest in peace.
@Celadonfae that's your view, my view is they are simply bones
@@dancrawford2690 pretty sure if they dug up your grandma you'd have a different opinion. But besides that, it is more than possible to record a grave in minute detail, without robbing from it or stealing the corpse.
You don't have to be performing 'rituals' to be using a sweatlodge/sauna. They are a good and healthy way to cleanse the body, and are routinely used in Finland - many hotels and private houses have, or have access to, one. Particularly in cold weather, they would have been, in a pre-mediaeval culture, more comfortable than washing in cold water and probably easier to use than heating up large containers of water.
Public or communal bath houses have been in use in Eurasia since the Third millennium BCE - it shouldn't be a surprise to find a local cold-climate variation in Britain. Will far future excavators interpret fragmentary remains of rubber duckies as animalistic ritual objects? Archaeologists should revisit Dr. Horace Mitchell Miner's June 1956 paper in _American Anthropologist_ - 'Body Ritual among the Nacirema.'
I think the fact that it was located within the henge is probably significant in this instance.
Please include Digging For Britain in the title.
When I was standing in the middle of Woodhenge a vision of a Cherokee Council House and fire that I knew of, appeared. I experienced many Sacred Rock Lodges (Sweat Lodges) prior to our ceremonial events. 1st time another connection has been revealed to me and more evidence of Atlantis' reach.
With respect I think you're trying to conflect unrelated events
I can't stand Alice Robert's vocal fry either.
It's not Mold, is it?
You're right. It's mould.
@maryearll3359
I read a novel called "Domesday Book" twenty years ago.
The story was that archaeologists dig up strains of Bubonic Plague that had been dormant since the 1340s.
Inevitably the disease escapes from them and causes mass deaths amongst the general public.
Does this seem unlikely?
Not after COVID it doesn't.
Finding medieval Richard the 3rd under a shopping centre parking lot
How did the Anglo-Saxon horde become a horde? I mean, why were all these objects gathered together?
@@larryashman7258 ask an anglo-saxon...oh wait.
Good grief there's a lot of certainty by these archaeologists over things which can only ever be conjecture.
they'l never dig me up, because i'm being cremated.
Just makes it harder to find you , but they’ll get you
Either way, I'm sure I'll be beyond caring at that point! 😅
@@alisong2328 😅👍
😂@@patrickkeane1285
Medieval towns villages to find them in England wales Scotland rarity
10 000 years from now. Someone will find my bones with my phone in my pocket. I'm guessing they will think I worked for Samsung. Just because the Aimsbury Archer had gold hair wraps doesn't mean he was a metal worker. People who work over hot fires don't tend to have long hair either.
They will think you worshipped a god called Samsung, that looked like a black rectangular device.
Do we know who ended this band of super- soldiers?
Anything they don’t understand they label a ritual or a sacrifice, just make stuff up won’t you.
The European. Conquest started in This area. The Spanish.
The Conquest. Collecting, welth, and slaves. St. Patrick was one of thos slaves. Sold in Ireland.
The 2nd was the South America Conquest then to the Nations of the Native tribes. The welth and claim of the land to commit to global Conquest.
St. Patrick was captured by Irish pirates from Britain and sold in Ireland around the year 405. (The Spanish were not involved.) This Welsh village is from about 1,000 years later.
@alisong2328 Spanish sold slaves from a global standard. The individual account would need to be available.
@alisong2328 Britain and Spain. Were in the slave markets. Britain, Army ,England. Crown.
English. Crown. Of Spanish Philip
Charles Philip 2. King of Spain
To The Charles Philip of England.
So yes they were.
Can someone tell me what the time limit is to call it archeology or grave robbing.
Police-less Medieval Britain.
u with me?
i have a very important service that relates to fortnite on mobile
What gives you the right just to dig dead people out of the ground. They were buried with love loss feelings belief's. What do you do with them?. You are grave robbers who think you can dig these passed people for they were people without a care in world.
Grave robbers and charlatans.