The quarrying of older structures has always been a feature of the historical landscape. The perfectly shaped stones of the Roman architecture was particularly appealing it seems. When the Normans built Caernarfon Castle they recycled the stones of nearby Roman camp of Segontium to do it. Good vid by the way.just subscribed👍
It may have been or just purely for texture, the Roman bridge at Corbridge was decorated with a basket work marks, many can be seen in Hexham Abbey Crypt
In the past, any and all abandoned structures were robbed out for stone. Even going right down to the foundations, Hard work back then getting stone out of the ground just using hand tools.
after romans left there was no point keeping their villas, cold buildings that required huge amount of native slaves cutting fetching timber to stoke underfloor heating of cold mosaics when a native round house was snug and cosy with a small central fire, you couldn't light a fire in the middle of a roman villa, cold and draughty, plus setting light to your oppressive masters house was always going to be fun. Most saxon churches contain re-used roman stonework. DNA shows although natives mixed with saxons up to 30% there is almost zero roman DNA in our native population, proving we never did breed with the Romans and they kept themselves to themselves considering us mere barbaric slaves.
It would be difficult for "Roman" DNA to show up as the Romans weren't usually from Rome. They were from all over Europe and even North Africa. I have read that many marriages took place between native Britons and Roman soldiers and over the centuries that they were in England it makes sense that there would have been thousands of such unions.
@@j.pappas9083 its simple actually, they looked at historic skeleton dna from after the romans left and found the populus only had native Britonic dna with no noticable mixing during the previous 500 years and same for roman skeletal remains
Was the cross-hatching purely decorative?? I'd always (probably stupidly) assumed it was to do with the way the Romans quarried the stone!! A large structure made of stone decorated in that way must have looked almost other-worldly to the native Brits!!! Was it the Romans showing off.....or did it have some specific purpose??
The reused roman bridge stones in Hexham abbey are a mix of Broaching/crosshatching and basket work which must be decorative and las you say must have looked impressive.
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Nice to get up close with a bit of old building fabric - and that C13 cross slab is excellent!
Sadly the church starts to open around Easter but what I came to see was on the exterior
The quarrying of older structures has always been a feature of the historical landscape. The perfectly shaped stones of the Roman architecture was particularly appealing it seems. When the Normans built Caernarfon Castle they recycled the stones of nearby Roman camp of Segontium to do it. Good vid by the way.just subscribed👍
Thank you
Good work there. Interesting to think the wall went red as it ran through Cumbria.
Hand stones ,just right already cut and dressed ready to build a cottage 😊😊
Wow! Hi from australia. Oh oh could you show us some of the town stones too
I’ll add a few new videos on stone work soon
Was the cross-hatching decorative or did it act as a key for plaster?
It may have been or just purely for texture, the Roman bridge at Corbridge was decorated with a basket work marks, many can be seen in Hexham Abbey Crypt
@@romanhistorywalks6526oh oh show us 😊😊😊😊 please
In the past, any and all abandoned structures were robbed out for stone. Even going right down to the foundations, Hard work back then getting stone out of the ground just using hand tools.
I seem to recall quarrying is 2 thirds of the effort building in stone
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Was the diamond broaching a decorative effect or the result of how the stone was shaped/cut?
after romans left there was no point keeping their villas, cold buildings that required huge amount of native slaves cutting fetching timber to stoke underfloor heating of cold mosaics when a native round house was snug and cosy with a small central fire, you couldn't light a fire in the middle of a roman villa, cold and draughty, plus setting light to your oppressive masters house was always going to be fun. Most saxon churches contain re-used roman stonework. DNA shows although natives mixed with saxons up to 30% there is almost zero roman DNA in our native population, proving we never did breed with the Romans and they kept themselves to themselves considering us mere barbaric slaves.
Fascinating!!
It would be difficult for "Roman" DNA to show up as the Romans weren't usually from Rome. They were from all over Europe and even North Africa. I have read that many marriages took place between native Britons and Roman soldiers and over the centuries that they were in England it makes sense that there would have been thousands of such unions.
@@j.pappas9083 its simple actually, they looked at historic skeleton dna from after the romans left and found the populus only had native Britonic dna with no noticable mixing during the previous 500 years and same for roman skeletal remains
Was the cross-hatching purely decorative?? I'd always (probably stupidly) assumed it was to do with the way the Romans quarried the stone!!
A large structure made of stone decorated in that way must have looked almost other-worldly to the native Brits!!! Was it the Romans showing off.....or did it have some specific purpose??
The reused roman bridge stones in Hexham abbey are a mix of Broaching/crosshatching and basket work which must be decorative and las you say must have looked impressive.
One stone does not constitute ‘most’ of Hadrian’s Wall.