Hey folks - apologies for re-uploading this video again, but I am looking to see if this re-render of the original has produced better image quality for you. Please to see any feedback you can offer.
scholagladiatoria Why was the quality bad the last time? I don't know much about uploading videos, still I'd like to know. Was it something related to format or compression?
Do you keep _don't google me_ images next to the things you want to insert in your videos? I recommend you, sorting things: buisness/channel/private and in private a dirt-folder ;-)
We were in the UK years and years ago. It was during the Summer Holidays, at a place called Windmill Hill. It wasn't hard at all for the weather to stay the same. It was always raining.
And that, kids, is what happens to your average castle if it isn't maintained. Reminds me a bit of some tourist viking sites in Denmark. Apart from some standing stones engraved with runes, most of the ruins were just grassy bases of walls. But the ships in the museum at Roskilde looked amazing.
I love watching your videos when I'm working. This channel in particular I think really inspired me to get into hema and these long videos are especially nice because they're like sword or history or whatever podcasts.
Yeah they're flint walls! A couple Roman structures in Britain (Burgh and Portus Adurni) have the same. Lots of places in Britain have chalk bedrock, which is soft...but has flint nodules in it. Flint is really hard, so a lime mortar+flint cobble mix was used. Shit now I see you're talking about his photo lol.
Daniel Davis Yeah I was joking but that's really interesting information. Flint walls. That sounds pretty damn hard. And the flint is the stone used to fill the wall, yeah? Not the face stones?
It can be facing, but generally it is filling the whole wall. You always use the cheapest aggregate you can for the filling, and in that area flint genuinely is the most common "real" stone (chalk is too soft). Flint cobble is always at the base of chalk cliffs (like Dover), in chalk streams, and in the soil over chalk.
I visited the castle William the Conqueror grew up in last month in Falaise Normandy. One of the best castles I've visited, everyone is given an iPad with an AR overlay for each room in the castle. It was also interesting to see another angle on his story and very educational.
Matt. Next time you're in the Sussex area could you do a brief overview of Bodiam Castle, perchance? It used to be one of my best playgrounds as a child more than sixty years ago; it's a gorgeous late Norman castle, my favourite in many ways. I live in Vancouver now and don't get to UK often but a view of Bodiam would bring back many wonderful memories. Thanks and Cheers, Dave.
I didn't see a problem with the old video. I did have a problem with the one where you cleaned your dirty weapon with Lucy, though. It was so blurry I couldn't make out any of the hot rubbing action.
The anglo saxons did know about hill forts, so motte and bailey couldn't have been that much of a stretch (just going the extra mile; two hills instead of one, or one small and prominent hill above the rest, instead of a bunch of them). I think some hill forts (or oppidum, or whatever you wanna call them) were pretty strategically built too.
Yes they built their own burhs all over England, though these were more like fortified towns. I think the part that would be most unusual to them would be the very localised mound and the keep on top of it. I don't think they had anything like that before Norman influence (perhaps first under Edward the Confessor).
William de Brouse lord of Gower, and Bramber kept having sons, and grandsons named William. There were like 6 more William de Braose lords of Gower and Bramber, with a couple Phillips in there. Presumably after William the First. (King of England) I did a paper/story on the house for the Marcher Lords. They were heavily involved in the wars with the Welsh, and Irish as well as Empress Mathilde. (A claimant to the throne that had a little insurrection. I used to have a Mathilde penny.)
"In the 12th century, the encasing palisade on the plateau was replaced by a stone curtain wall, the gatehouse was blocked and heightened into a four storey keep, with a new gateway to the west. The motte was abandoned and its ditch backfilled, to make a keep and courtyard castle, with alterations and rebuilding being carried out in the 14th century. Some of the castle buildings were used until the 15th century but during the 16th century the castle became untenable"- according to castleuk dot net...
Regarding the building dates of the various structures - I have to agree with your assessment that the curtain wall and gate house date to the same period (likely the 12th century). The curtain wall would usually have a large gate house, and gate houses are useless without a wall, so ... yeah. It makes no sense that they wouldn't have been built together.
Totally. I cannot understand the info sheet's reasoning for having the wall dating later than the gatehouse... It very much seems to be part of the same structure to me.
I'm sure that I'll never go to England, so I appreciate your videos allowing me to see these kinds of sights. I like that your first instinct is to use English measurements rather than metric. If they had built a stone keep on top of the motte originally, could those stones have been cannibalized in order to build the later wall? Would that explain the lack of remaining structure on the motte?
Matt, I really like these occasional diversions into the architecture and history of your area. You wouldn't happen to know of any RUclipsrs who do similar things up in North or West Yorkshire (where my families come from), would you? (And yes, I have searched.)
I couldn't help but laugh: is this another example of the English divide between North and South? 'Lloyd's up north, so maybe he knows.' Just kidding, Matt! I may ask Lloyd; couldn't hurt.
One question about destroyed castles in GB: Appearently in Germany many castles and city walls were demolished during the early 19th century as outdated. Was there something similiar in England?
OK, I read something a while ago about the origin of castle ruins and about a quarter of them where demolished, making it the second cause after abandonment and before destructions during war(I think this included WW2).
If as you said, as you were walking on the wall, that that was the height of the original walkway, that means that the main part of the wall is about 10ft high, by maybe 6ft wide, for something like that, you shouldn't need any buttresses.
A very interesting video. But one thing I've learned when making video, is that you should try to move the camera as little as possible. I think more static shots, where you alternate between walking and filming, would lead to a less dizzying experience. It would also help if you faced the sun, instead of having it behind you, when talking to the camera. Overall it was interesting though.
scholagladiatoria I don't know about that Matt, I'm 30% Irish so I'm a victim of British colonialism, 60% Welsh so a victim of anglo-saxon invasions and 20% Persian so I'm a victim of Greek facist leader Alexander the Great as well.
Well, who colonised and oppressed who? The Irish invaded both Wales and what is now Scotland in the 5th-7th centuries. The 'English' are roughly 50% Welsh genetically (on the maternal side). Scotland was a group of small princedoms who were all gradually conquered by the Scots. The Northern and Southern Welsh were separate cultures and North Wales was largely conquered by Southern Welsh soldiers who were loyal to the English crown. If we go back far enough, everyone has been conquered or assimilated by someone else and everyone is inter-related.
Gday Matt, I support my other favourite youtube presenters on Patreon for $5 per month. Would like to do the same for you if I had the option on your page.
Unfortunately I can only offer one support option and the per video option works best for me - I only upload 3 unique videos per month though. People can therefore pay as little as they like (down to $1).
Hey folks - apologies for re-uploading this video again, but I am looking to see if this re-render of the original has produced better image quality for you. Please to see any feedback you can offer.
scholagladiatoria Why was the quality bad the last time? I don't know much about uploading videos, still I'd like to know. Was it something related to format or compression?
Over-compressed. I was rendering videos at MPEGs. This one is rendered as MPEG-4
The image of the white tower (24:03) seems to have been replaced by an image of a sword hilt.
lol... that's what comes of saving over an image on your desktop between renders.... still... a sword hilt... it could have been MUCH MUCH worse.....
Do you keep _don't google me_ images next to the things you want to insert in your videos?
I recommend you, sorting things: buisness/channel/private and in private a dirt-folder ;-)
The image is so much sharper and clearer Matt. Looks a lot better
Fantastic thanks. I just rendered it as an MPEG4 instead of MPEG. Takes a lot longer to render, but of course much less compression.
scholagladiatoria You're welcome Matt. Thanks for taking the time and effort for your audience man.
Well done Matt, this is much clearer than anything you've put out before. Looking forward to lots of new sharp footage of sharp objects.
Awesome, thanks.
Spiderkite puns!
Wow you went back and reenacted the whole video with a new camera? Nice! Good thing the weather was the same, or it would have been hard to get right.
VaanG0v Very british comment, implying that it's difficult that the weather stays the same xD
We were in the UK years and years ago. It was during the Summer Holidays, at a place called Windmill Hill. It wasn't hard at all for the weather to stay the same. It was always raining.
Watching at the same resolution on the same device (big TV) and this is much better quality than the previous version. Cheers Matt.
Great news!
And that, kids, is what happens to your average castle if it isn't maintained. Reminds me a bit of some tourist viking sites in Denmark. Apart from some standing stones engraved with runes, most of the ruins were just grassy bases of walls. But the ships in the museum at Roskilde looked amazing.
Yes, much better quality. Worth it for this beautiful scenery!
It's amazing that the tall tower remnant is still standing, given that it's just filler material with all the facing stones removed.
The image quality is leagues better. Thanks for the reupload
Great stuff, thanks.
I love watching your videos when I'm working. This channel in particular I think really inspired me to get into hema and these long videos are especially nice because they're like sword or history or whatever podcasts.
Definitely looks better.
Thanks
That image quality is fantastic, soooo much clearer than the previous upload. Glad to see your experiments are working!
Great news, thanks
Those stones at 24:00 were really unique.
I was really confused at first. XD
Yeah they're flint walls! A couple Roman structures in Britain (Burgh and Portus Adurni) have the same. Lots of places in Britain have chalk bedrock, which is soft...but has flint nodules in it. Flint is really hard, so a lime mortar+flint cobble mix was used. Shit now I see you're talking about his photo lol.
Daniel Davis
Yeah I was joking but that's really interesting information. Flint walls. That sounds pretty damn hard. And the flint is the stone used to fill the wall, yeah? Not the face stones?
It can be facing, but generally it is filling the whole wall. You always use the cheapest aggregate you can for the filling, and in that area flint genuinely is the most common "real" stone (chalk is too soft). Flint cobble is always at the base of chalk cliffs (like Dover), in chalk streams, and in the soil over chalk.
The quality indeed is far better than in the previous version. Please do, if possible, more castle videos. Really interesting stuff.
I visited the castle William the Conqueror grew up in last month in Falaise Normandy. One of the best castles I've visited, everyone is given an iPad with an AR overlay for each room in the castle. It was also interesting to see another angle on his story and very educational.
Much, much, better.
Glad to finally see the deep drop you were talking about :-)
Looks sharp!
Arundel Castle also in West Sussex still has its Norman motte which gives a good idea of what they looked like.
I got to Arundel quite regularly - some of my earliest videos are there :-)
Matt. Next time you're in the Sussex area could you do a brief overview of Bodiam Castle, perchance? It used to be one of my best playgrounds as a child more than sixty years ago; it's a gorgeous late Norman castle, my favourite in many ways. I live in Vancouver now and don't get to UK often but a view of Bodiam would bring back many wonderful memories. Thanks and Cheers, Dave.
Definitely better image quality, I almost want to rewatch it lol I hope I can visit it some day
Awesome ! I always love it when you can see the gradual evolution of a fortified structure in situ. :-) Relatively few sites preserve such elements.
Looks good to me.
Great thanks
Still fantastic... You should definitely make more videos like this in the future.
Quality is ten times better than last one.
Awesome
This is fantastic...I wrote a Robin Hood-style story; it had Bramber Castle as a location.
I didn't see a problem with the old video. I did have a problem with the one where you cleaned your dirty weapon with Lucy, though. It was so blurry I couldn't make out any of the hot rubbing action.
Took me awhile to get around to watching but great video. Very interesting topic that you don't hear much about.
A quick tip if you want to quickly convert feet to meters - just divide by 3 :)
(actually it's more like 3.3 but 3 gives a good approximation)
*better tip: Just stop using feet
PLHarpoon basically use yards
The anglo saxons did know about hill forts, so motte and bailey couldn't have been that much of a stretch (just going the extra mile; two hills instead of one, or one small and prominent hill above the rest, instead of a bunch of them). I think some hill forts (or oppidum, or whatever you wanna call them) were pretty strategically built too.
Yes they built their own burhs all over England, though these were more like fortified towns. I think the part that would be most unusual to them would be the very localised mound and the keep on top of it. I don't think they had anything like that before Norman influence (perhaps first under Edward the Confessor).
It's possible.
William de Brouse lord of Gower, and Bramber kept having sons, and grandsons named William. There were like 6 more William de Braose lords of Gower and Bramber, with a couple Phillips in there. Presumably after William the First. (King of England) I did a paper/story on the house for the Marcher Lords. They were heavily involved in the wars with the Welsh, and Irish as well as Empress Mathilde. (A claimant to the throne that had a little insurrection. I used to have a Mathilde penny.)
I love flint+mortar construction in ancient/medieval Britain, such a weird and unique appearance.
"In the 12th century, the encasing palisade on the plateau was replaced by a stone curtain wall, the gatehouse was blocked and heightened into a four storey keep, with a new gateway to the west. The motte was abandoned and its ditch backfilled, to make a keep and courtyard castle, with alterations and rebuilding being carried out in the 14th century. Some of the castle buildings were used until the 15th century but during the 16th century the castle became untenable"- according to castleuk dot net...
This definitely looks a lot better.
I like the Easter-egg saber that replaced the picture of the White Tower.
Interesting video!
I think the trees are also there to stabilize the ground, otherwise rain and wind would destroy it.
Do more castles!
Regarding the building dates of the various structures - I have to agree with your assessment that the curtain wall and gate house date to the same period (likely the 12th century). The curtain wall would usually have a large gate house, and gate houses are useless without a wall, so ... yeah. It makes no sense that they wouldn't have been built together.
Totally. I cannot understand the info sheet's reasoning for having the wall dating later than the gatehouse... It very much seems to be part of the same structure to me.
Maybe the wall was reinforced later but the Gatehouse has been kept. But normaly it was the other way round.
I don't know what you've changed but it's lots better! 👍
Matt, when are we getting the Doug Marcadia breaks swords videos
lol
But were there any machicolations? :O
Much improved!
What's going on at 24:03 lol
Lungorthin
That's what I was wondering.
I'm sure that I'll never go to England, so I appreciate your videos allowing me to see these kinds of sights.
I like that your first instinct is to use English measurements rather than metric.
If they had built a stone keep on top of the motte originally, could those stones have been cannibalized in order to build the later wall? Would that explain the lack of remaining structure on the motte?
Matt, I really like these occasional diversions into the architecture and history of your area. You wouldn't happen to know of any RUclipsrs who do similar things up in North or West Yorkshire (where my families come from), would you? (And yes, I have searched.)
No I don't know unfortunately. Lloyd/Lindybeige could though, as he's in Newcastle.
I couldn't help but laugh: is this another example of the English divide between North and South? 'Lloyd's up north, so maybe he knows.' Just kidding, Matt! I may ask Lloyd; couldn't hurt.
One question about destroyed castles in GB: Appearently in Germany many castles and city walls were demolished during the early 19th century as outdated. Was there something similiar in England?
Sometimes for expansion of towns and cities, yes.
OK, I read something a while ago about the origin of castle ruins and about a quarter of them where demolished, making it the second cause after abandonment and before destructions during war(I think this included WW2).
The Bastard got giddy with M&B castles around this part of Yorkshire, 2 in my City and at least 4 others within 10 miles
Holy crap - its like you are in my lounge!
If only I were....
Machiciolations!!!!
If as you said, as you were walking on the wall, that that was the height of the original walkway, that means that the main part of the wall is about 10ft high, by maybe 6ft wide, for something like that, you shouldn't need any buttresses.
It does look better.
Matt, what's your favorite sword to wear while doing "business"?
Much better!
A very interesting video. But one thing I've learned when making video, is that you should try to move the camera as little as possible.
I think more static shots, where you alternate between walking and filming, would lead to a less dizzying experience.
It would also help if you faced the sun, instead of having it behind you, when talking to the camera.
Overall it was interesting though.
Even noticeably better on mobile!
I just watched the old ole one, then saw this. XD
Looks better to me.
so much better
19:00 what is that?
btw, I can now see even the things that you thought we wouldn't be able to see
MUCH BETTER!!! =D
Awesome
It is in West Sussex, not East Sussex.
but matt, I love your face!
Yeah its much better, looks less like youve run it through a grater
Great! MPEG4 rather than MPEG this time.
scholagladiatoria ahh yes that would help my good sir!
Very nice, the grainy look is gone.
Great!
C'mon meters are easy! One meter is just a bit more than one yard (about 1.09).
For Shadiversity!
Yes definitely better
I think this version of the video lacks the rustic charm of the 2006 version.
Looks appropriately pixelated in 144p
So you're south saxon and scottish, but how much victim are you ?
As much as you?
scholagladiatoria I don't know about that Matt, I'm 30% Irish so I'm a victim of British colonialism, 60% Welsh so a victim of anglo-saxon invasions and 20% Persian so I'm a victim of Greek facist leader Alexander the Great as well.
Well, who colonised and oppressed who? The Irish invaded both Wales and what is now Scotland in the 5th-7th centuries. The 'English' are roughly 50% Welsh genetically (on the maternal side). Scotland was a group of small princedoms who were all gradually conquered by the Scots. The Northern and Southern Welsh were separate cultures and North Wales was largely conquered by Southern Welsh soldiers who were loyal to the English crown. If we go back far enough, everyone has been conquered or assimilated by someone else and everyone is inter-related.
more dpi than reality
Excellent reupload - whatever was causing your videos to look like Minecraft appears to have been fixed.
Gday Matt, I support my other favourite youtube presenters on Patreon for $5 per month. Would like to do the same for you if I had the option on your page.
Unfortunately I can only offer one support option and the per video option works best for me - I only upload 3 unique videos per month though. People can therefore pay as little as they like (down to $1).
scholagladiatoria No worries mate, I will get in on that because Im new to the channel but been binge watching your videos!
So.. why do they call em rapes? Is it just me?
Apparently it is derived from ropes and the length of something.
Yes, much better. I guess I'm going to post a link to my video on the same castle, here: ruclips.net/video/e6LWNwPiI60/видео.html
Can't really tell on this rubbish phone screen.