Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written series. A show that will no doubt go on to be as important as Time Team in documenting late 20th and early 21st century archeology, for generations to come.
Brilliant! Although it’s an old episode that I’ve watched two or three times before, the history that it brings to life for us is amazing. Dr Alice is absolutely the most brilliant person to headline these archeological wonders. As an Australian who had no idea of the fantastic history of Britain, except for the Empire Building they carried out, I’m now an avid watcher of all things regarding British history and culture. Wonderful! 👍🏼
@@elingrome5853 My sister was ill after the first jab. The hospital told her the second one will make you feel better. It didn't, it made her worst. She now has scared lungs, cancer of the bowel and incurable cancer of the stomach. She has been given 2 to 6 months to live.
Canadian here. So fascinated by these programs. I loved history ( not so much the wars) but as a young person I really found it interesting that people had been on the same lands where I grew up for generations and to take it back further over in Europe for much longer. I thought about being an archaeologist but my bones as I have recently learned certainly would not have permitted. I had to stop working in my profession as a nurse way too early. Yes love these programs.
Superb, as always. Professor Roberts possesses the ability to captivate her audience with her knowledge and exuberance. Many thanks, to herself, and to Unearthed History; "Meur ras".
Professor Alice Roberts & Bettany Hughes are my favorite narrators...!! I never tire of watching them and even simply listening to them on my headphones while working is a joy and pleasure..!! LUVELY Ladies... and I adore "Intelligent & Beautiful Women"...!!
Thank you for providing yet another episode in this fascinating and absorbing series, and as always, fronted and introduced by the ever engaging and hugely knowledgeable Prof. Alice Roberts. Early English history is currently undergoing some significant reappraisal - especially with regard to females, so effectively written out of history for many, many decades.So it was wonderfully surprising that the rediscovery of Eadgyh`s remains were included in the episode - I remember the moment of this exciting event quite clearly :) Sadly, the country in which I am now retired ( NZ ) will never include such a marvelous, educational series such as this on tv - far too cerebral - so thank you once again :)
@@barbarat5729 Ah, well you see, my late wife was a New Zealander, she grew weary of Oxford weather, and wanted to retire to NZ - and where she ultimately died - and, alas, I am now too old to move yet again :(
@@soupdragon151 Mmm - indeed. I am not, by academic background, a cultural anthropologist, and consequently I am unfamiliar with the movements of various Polynesian peoples.Whilst the NZ Maori do celebrate their arrival, by ocean going craft, their remains ( I believe ) some uncertainty regarding their specific and particular origins.
Thankyou for delivering this important historical information in easy to understand segments. If only my old, dusty school days history teacher had had a fragment of your enthusiasm then i would have taken a greater interest in this absorbing subject.
For those who are new to history, the Dark ages were so called, not because the time was dark and dangerous, but because little history was written down at the time, so knowledge of the history of the period is " dark".
Very, very interesting. Well put together production. Actually in one of those areas filmed and mentioned so it adds a little homegrown history and pride for such a story.
I have seen enough shows like this and many episodes of Time Team that I recognized Helena Hamerow from few episodes of Time Team (I am pretty sure that Alice was on one of them). I think Dana was on a few episodes as well.
I've had crush on Dr. Alice for 20 years. Ha! I am also surprised how many people there are in these documentaries filmed in the UK that speak English with an American or possibly Canadian accents.
We see Britain as a multicultural country from only lately? What? This country has been multicultural since day one, even in the 1800 Wales had Africans living in Cardiff, I've never got why we're made to look like an island with only the same people from 1000s of years, why do they push that idea into our schools? We have been made to apologise for our racist people, who we all know is crap, our country is more foreign than any other country, we should be getting repossessions from every country that invaded and killed the children, women, and when it comes to Ireland they had Africans killing kids, females, and anyone who they couldn't take back and sell, but the Irish people told the British who took care of the problem for them, but it was the Africans who started the slave trade and still do it today but people only remember the white people side of it,
Yes I understood it was the Jutes here first and settled in Kent, South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight with the Saxons moving in to Hampshire shortly after. Though Saxons etc had been attacking Britain for a while.
Professor Alice Roberts has become National Treasure. Anything she is involved in is worthy of attention. I find I am equally attracted to her beauty as I am to her knowledge and understanding of anatomical archaeology. What a woman!! There aren't many people like this in the world....I hope we are very proud of her....she deserves our collective adulation.
I'm new to this series and I'm enjoying it but I just cant' help be constantly reminded of the wavy hands British documentary historian portrayed by David Mitchell! Especially this guy''s exuberance at 28:26.
I'm so sorry. I'm mean no disrespect to Professor Mark Horton. But all I can see when he speaks or smiles is David Bamber as Mr. Collins in the 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice by A & E. He honestly looks just like the character portrayed brilliantly by Bamber. From facial expression to cheeky smile. God love him. At least no one will ever forget who he is because of the similarity. Even if he abhors the connection.
Honestly... one sceat and the professor excitedly builds a whole edifice of conclusions upon it! You need more evidence than that to be confident. There are so many ways that single sceat could have arrived at the site.
A Professor needs to be able to speak well and give a prime presentation. Prof. A. Roberts does this well. I think the camera work, is excellent showing us the suroundings like the excavation site, the land, seamarks, gives us more to assist our, imagine. And the camera moves, as the speaker, presents. Furthermore a professor needs expertise and Prof. A Roberts demonstrates that in her knowledge of bones and reading old English. The archeological value of the UK is worth so much.
I have melted sand at a light touch it changes pink and under colder temperament it can turn red. It a vase about a foot tall, with roses. It's clear translucent.
the ring is most likely a bishops and was likely to have been robbed from a tomb that was opened in the last 150-250 years. there are countless accounts from victorian times of tombs being opened (repaired!!) and the temptation to rob them was there for all to see.
There aren't many "TV" shows that are made for local broadcasting. It's Global Broadcasting now days. These older programs, from 2008, are before streaming became the thing. Love her shows & great that first viewing her on TT digs with her bright pink hair, was always a high light. (No pun intended). Fortunately, lot of programming has been loaded up for our entertainment. Plus, new content from people who film their passion of history, from who invaded whom & when to food history. Never a dull moment. Tho nagging commercials are raising their unapproved disgusting content.
They're made for local broadcasting in the country they're made i.e. the UK. Later they get put on YT by the production company. These were originally commissioned by and aired on the BBC. There are half a dozen or so "Digging for Britain" programmes per year that summarize the most important archaeological discoveries of the past year. I've already seen the most recent that have yet to make it onto YT.
Just a shame Bristol Museum has not put the Roman licking dog hoard found in 2017 on display. They have had it since 2019,and its still stuck in a box ,it was loaded to them on the understanding it would be on show for the benefit of the public
If DNA testing is done on a skeleton and a descendent is tracked down would the descendent have any right to ownership of the skeleton or the valuables found on the skeleton?
I know of no law that gives anyone the right to the dead body of someone who dies a thousand years ago. There would be close to a million people that could make that claim.
Dr. Robert's does a great job as narrator in this series. Like attenbourough or J. Burke....very engaging and interesting. With that said, sometimes the producers or writers inject too much agenda driven speculation I do not appreciate!
I wouldn't be surprised to learn burying wealth would prove to be the best way to elevate family ties, familial honour, and to avoid spats and disputes that so frequently follow inheritance claims today
Or just keep it safe until you recover it. Vkingis did it romans did it even Samuel Pepys buried his cheese to try and save it from the Great Fire of London (1666)
I do take exception to Alice saying the Anglo-Saxons ushered in the 'dark ages'. For a start that is a ridiculous, outdated term. Various Anglo-Saxon people were already migrating to Britain in the later years of Roman occupation of Britain. After that they came in greater numbers but the native post-Roman Britons were living in an already fragmenting society with various breakaway kingdoms appearing. Basically they were at each other's throats. You can read work of Gildas for this.
WAIT A MINUTE FOLKS look at about or just about 17:38 !!!! I’m having a Back to the Future moment, if anyone remembers that movie. 🍿 🎥 Does anybody see something here, that I know I haven’t seen for at least 20 probably more years ago. I know I had a card where I could go in and rent a movie or two for the weekend and get my popcorn soft drinks and in some places, they would rent out a VCR to you if you didn’t have one. Gosh I was so certain they closed up shop. I don’t believe there are any left in the Canadian cities I have lived in the past 20 years. Oh the time I, like many others of my generation, spent, trying to decide what movie(s) I wanted to get. The big “Blockbuster Ticket” sign v the memories.
I've always found it fascinating to think that at the beginning of the dark ages you had all these fur-clad illiterate and savage early Anglo-Saxons living in abandoned Roman villas and temples...such a juxtaposition of cultures.
I wonder how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings got along. Did they understand enough of each other’s language to communicate, did they have similar. values about community? I am a novice, but I wonder about the positives of mingling, not just the power struggles. J.
They kind of rubbed along after some initial conflict. Old English was a complex inflected language grammatically similar to german that mostly lost its complexities due to interactions with the norse speakers modern english is descended from an anglo-norse hybrid
a wetstone,to sharpen a knife...ok sofar...to sharpen a quill,to use for illuminating manuscripts so therefore evidence of literacy ...supposition,could also be used to sharpen a knife to cut meat for example. I do like the opportunity given to ordinary people to do conservationwork.
Great to shed some light on the dark ages, very interesting.. Maybe you can answer why the folks on site have to wear those brightly coloured vests ? It really seems like over kill, if it is for safety. A lot of times they are in open fields, which are pretty safe work sites in my opinion. They look like they would be hot and uncomfortable during the summer months. It seems to me that our societies are becoming overly safe in areas where it is not needed. A lot of times when I watch a doc and they are in boats or kayaks, they are wherrying life preservers. Even in shallow water. I can understand if a person can not swim , but come on now. Hope we can bring back the spirit of our rugged ancestors an be a little more reasonable about safety. Thanks for letting me rant.
Don’t blame meat for the tooth decay. I’ve been eating mostly meat for 4 years now and my teeth and gums have never been better. I would blame the flour and carbohydrates for the dental decay in these skeletons.
I think the hole point of tooth decay in that period is that,strands of food debris would be left in between the teeth areas ,abd would have been difficult to remove,and so would start a rotting process in the teeth areas..
I had a dentist many moons ago who claimed brushing teeth did virtually nothing, the key to dental health was removing debris between teeth. If I eat meat fibres, brushing doesn’t remove them between the teeth unless you have large gaps.
Those dam scientists and speciaslists with all their so-called training and knowledge - they know nothing! Me on the other hand, with my extensive research on RUclips and my opinions - they should listen to me!
There is a genetic element to the bad teeth of the Irish and English. How do I know this? I am half Irish and half Italian. (NY American). All the siblings who expressed the dominant Italian Gene's, have pearly white strong teeth that never get cavities. My brother and myself who are visibly paler blonde hair blue eyes, have yellow teeth prone to cavities. This has continued in the mixed generations of my children and grandchildren.
Sugar, sugar, sugar! Add to this the technique for grinding the flour between stone grinding blocks, the silica content gets added to the flour and acts like sandpaper on the teeth and over a short while, approx 30 years the tops of the teeth are ground flat. We see this over and over again in early farming communities worldwide. And remember; Th body interprets refined flour from wheats and grains as pure carbohydrates, ie _ SUGAR!
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Keep on digging! I love the UK and the history/archaeology of the region. Cheers from Canada!
Same here. Very enjoyable.
Same from Ireland!
These videos are always so well presented and fascinating. Alice Roberts does a great job.
unlike American stuff, which repeats it's self every 5 minutes
Perfectly worded.
Originally shown in 2010 & made by BBC.
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Very enjoyable and interesting doc by Prof Alice Roberts. Those ancient people were as we are now, doing their best with what life gave them.
Alice Roberts makes these great shows even better.
Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written series. A show that will no doubt go on to be as important as Time Team in documenting late 20th and early 21st century archeology, for generations to come.
I can’t get tired of watching and listening to this fine doctor🔥🇬🇧
Brilliant! Although it’s an old episode that I’ve watched two or three times before, the history that it brings to life for us is amazing. Dr Alice is absolutely the most brilliant person to headline these archeological wonders. As an Australian who had no idea of the fantastic history of Britain, except for the Empire Building they carried out, I’m now an avid watcher of all things regarding British history and culture. Wonderful! 👍🏼
I remember Dr Roberts as a young archaeologist on Time Team, with her hair died a vivid Pink.
Yes she looked very woke., like her narrative on history.
I remember her chastising the unvaxxed.....now we have 3 sigma deaths amongst the young
@@folkmoot36Oh noooooooooo, the woke.
@@elingrome5853 My sister was ill after the first jab. The hospital told her the second one will make you feel better. It didn't, it made her worst.
She now has scared lungs, cancer of the bowel and incurable cancer of the stomach. She has been given 2 to 6 months to live.
@@folkmoot36so woke is a look now is it
I really enjoy this series because of the incredibly diverse history. Thank you
At 17:40 we can see a Blockbuster! That's pretty much an archeological site in itself. Happy memories :)
😂the olden times
Scrolled to comments just to see if anyone else noticed lol.
Really dates this show haha. Although thankfully archaeology programs age pretty well, apart from any 2000's CGI
Canadian here. So fascinated by these programs. I loved history ( not so much the wars) but as a young person I really found it interesting that people had been on the same lands where I grew up for generations and to take it back further over in Europe for much longer. I thought about being an archaeologist but my bones as I have recently learned certainly would not have permitted. I had to stop working in my profession as a nurse way too early. Yes love these programs.
Alice your pace of speech and presentation of thought, with excellent diction, l love your presentations. Time Team YEAH!!!
great baps too
Superb, as always. Professor Roberts possesses the ability to captivate her audience with her knowledge and exuberance. Many thanks, to herself, and to Unearthed History; "Meur ras".
Blockbuster video rental! Archaeology is fascinating
I know 🤣
Professor Alice Roberts & Bettany Hughes are my favorite narrators...!! I never tire of watching them and even simply listening to them on my headphones while working is a joy and pleasure..!! LUVELY Ladies... and I adore "Intelligent & Beautiful Women"...!!
I am always fascinated by archaeology documentaries, narrated by Prof. Alice Roberts. I've been crushing on her for quite a while now!
Thank you for providing yet another episode in this fascinating and absorbing series, and as always, fronted and introduced by the ever engaging and hugely knowledgeable Prof. Alice Roberts.
Early English history is currently undergoing some significant reappraisal - especially with regard to females, so effectively written out of history for many, many decades.So it was wonderfully surprising that the rediscovery of Eadgyh`s remains were included in the episode - I remember the moment of this exciting event quite clearly :)
Sadly, the country in which I am now retired ( NZ ) will never include such a marvelous, educational series such as this on tv - far too cerebral - so thank you once again :)
New Zealand has such beautiful landscapes.
Yet you retired there.......
@@barbarat5729 Ah, well you see, my late wife was a New Zealander, she grew weary of Oxford weather, and wanted to retire to NZ - and where she ultimately died - and, alas, I am now too old to move yet again :(
It helps that we have a long history and NZ does not (it wasn't even discovered by the Maori when Bamburgh was built)
@@soupdragon151 Mmm - indeed. I am not, by academic background, a cultural anthropologist, and consequently I am unfamiliar with the movements of various Polynesian peoples.Whilst the NZ Maori do celebrate their arrival, by ocean going craft, their remains ( I believe ) some uncertainty regarding their specific and particular origins.
i love Hortons enthusiasm and passion for his work.
It's so nice to see some of the archeologists from time team still getting dirty and bringing the past to life. RiP to all the legends.
I know time team is back via RUclips but I do miss seeing it on tv
Thank you for posting this.
Thankyou for delivering this important historical information in easy to understand segments. If only my old, dusty school days history teacher had had a fragment of your enthusiasm then i would have taken a greater interest in this absorbing subject.
Great video, many thanks! 😃❤🎉👊👍
For those who are new to history, the Dark ages were so called, not because the time was dark and dangerous, but because little history was written down at the time,
so knowledge of the history of the period is " dark".
Love Prof Roberts' presentation. Excellent production overall. Thanks!
Finally a great tv programme from the UK. So many UK shows are sub standard these days but this one was excellent. thankyou.
This is from 2013
Might have something to do with the episode being 13 years old.
And from the BBC funded by the British taxpayer
Never watched David Attenborough? Or the Horizon series? Btw, it says BBC MMX right at the end of the titles, so 2010 in fact.
Very, very interesting. Well put together production.
Actually in one of those areas filmed and mentioned so it adds a little homegrown history and pride for such a story.
Excellent! Many thanks for the wonderful job bringing this information to us.
I love this channel. Keep up the great work.
It's not their work, it's stolen from the BBC
That is a perfect castle. Amazing.
Love history qnd archeology
I have seen enough shows like this and many episodes of Time Team that I recognized Helena Hamerow from few episodes of Time Team (I am pretty sure that Alice was on one of them). I think Dana was on a few episodes as well.
Wonderful. Thank you.
16:02 I wonder how many things were destroyed or missed building that road? It's always sad when modern building has to cover up history.
I've had crush on Dr. Alice for 20 years. Ha! I am also surprised how many people there are in these documentaries filmed in the UK that speak English with an American or possibly Canadian accents.
Yes my wife has always accused me of the same 😂
Welcome to the PROFESSOR Alice Roberts crush club😉
@@gwyngriffiths3669 im in too !!! one beautiful lady !!!
We see Britain as a multicultural country from only lately? What? This country has been multicultural since day one, even in the 1800 Wales had Africans living in Cardiff, I've never got why we're made to look like an island with only the same people from 1000s of years, why do they push that idea into our schools? We have been made to apologise for our racist people, who we all know is crap, our country is more foreign than any other country, we should be getting repossessions from every country that invaded and killed the children, women, and when it comes to Ireland they had Africans killing kids, females, and anyone who they couldn't take back and sell, but the Irish people told the British who took care of the problem for them, but it was the Africans who started the slave trade and still do it today but people only remember the white people side of it,
@@gwyngriffiths3669She's both.
Very interesting! Thank you for all the hard work making this wonderful video
Fool, this was a BBC production first aired in 2010.
@@CanalcoholicIt doesn’t matter when it was aired, still. Fascinating to a lot of us
@@pamcullen537 Not to me because to many archaeologist are theives but it is covered up. .
@@myview1875 Do you have evidence of this
@@pamcullen537it matters when it's not this channels work
I really enjoyed this
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, oh my!
Yes I understood it was the Jutes here first and settled in Kent, South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight with the Saxons moving in to Hampshire shortly after. Though Saxons etc had been attacking Britain for a while.
Professor Alice Roberts has become National Treasure. Anything she is involved in is worthy of attention. I find I am equally attracted to her beauty as I am to her knowledge and understanding of anatomical archaeology. What a woman!! There aren't many people like this in the world....I hope we are very proud of her....she deserves our collective adulation.
Wonderful!
Excellent documentary
Prof Alice Roberts 👍
Thank you for the upload
Alice Roberts you are amazing , Neven Roberts grts
I'm new to this series and I'm enjoying it but I just cant' help be constantly reminded of the wavy hands British documentary historian portrayed by David Mitchell! Especially this guy''s exuberance at 28:26.
Alice Roberts in the looking glass, archaeology for the sooth Sayers and she is very lovely & beautiful.
Fantastic
We are all here for Alice 🫡
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A magnificient video. Thank you. I have a question though : what language did these people speak ? Do you have an idea ?
Very interesting, thankyou.
keep on digging...!
Top-tier video, for sure.
♥️😀🇬🇧 fascinating. Really well made.
A Blockbuster video??? This must be a very old program!
You Rocked this episode
Love your show
Hi your on my TV right now with bright red hair in Egypt 😮😊❤ archeology
Bamburgh! Uhtred's of the Last Kingdom's Bebbanburh, named for a woman unusually, Bebba, a queen of the northumbrians.
I'm so sorry. I'm mean no disrespect to Professor Mark Horton. But all I can see when he speaks or smiles is David Bamber as Mr. Collins in the 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice by A & E. He honestly looks just like the character portrayed brilliantly by Bamber. From facial expression to cheeky smile. God love him. At least no one will ever forget who he is because of the similarity. Even if he abhors the connection.
Honestly... one sceat and the professor excitedly builds a whole edifice of conclusions upon it! You need more evidence than that to be confident. There are so many ways that single sceat could have arrived at the site.
Green eyes?
And yet Kent is still based on an ancient Celtic named kingdom
Some great finds on the A2 digs!
A Professor needs to be able to speak well and give a prime presentation. Prof. A. Roberts does this well. I think the camera work, is excellent showing us the suroundings like the excavation site, the land, seamarks, gives us more to assist our, imagine. And the camera moves, as the speaker, presents. Furthermore a professor needs expertise and Prof. A Roberts demonstrates that in her knowledge of bones and reading old English. The archeological value of the UK is worth so much.
I have melted sand at a light touch it changes pink and under colder temperament it can turn red. It a vase about a foot tall, with roses. It's clear translucent.
🧐She looks very Anglo-Saxon by herself.... 🇩🇪🏴👋👋🌹
the ring is most likely a bishops and was likely to have been robbed from a tomb that was opened in the last 150-250 years. there are countless accounts from victorian times of tombs being opened (repaired!!) and the temptation to rob them was there for all to see.
There aren't many "TV" shows that are made for local broadcasting. It's Global Broadcasting now days. These older programs, from 2008, are before streaming became the thing. Love her shows & great that first viewing her on TT digs with her bright pink hair, was always a high light. (No pun intended).
Fortunately, lot of programming has been loaded up for our entertainment.
Plus, new content from people who film their passion of history, from who invaded whom & when to food history.
Never a dull moment.
Tho nagging commercials are raising their unapproved disgusting content.
They're made for local broadcasting in the country they're made i.e. the UK. Later they get put on YT by the production company. These were originally commissioned by and aired on the BBC. There are half a dozen or so "Digging for Britain" programmes per year that summarize the most important archaeological discoveries of the past year. I've already seen the most recent that have yet to make it onto YT.
Just a shame Bristol Museum has not put the Roman licking dog hoard found in 2017 on display. They have had it since 2019,and its still stuck in a box ,it was loaded to them on the understanding it would be on show for the benefit of the public
Yupp that's England.
The Pub is still there!
I assumed the archaeological interest at 17:35 was the existence of an intact Blockbuster video.
Speaking of archeology n lost cultures theres a blockbuster video store on the high st in footage
25:20 "It's ironic the site is called the Meads, and they built a pub on it". That man IS an Anglo Saxon! It's no suprise at all, we love a bevvy.
Alice Roberts, is a fantastic narrator?
Why the question mark?
When was this made for Blockbuster to still have a store 17:35
If DNA testing is done on a skeleton and a descendent is tracked down would the descendent have any right to ownership of the skeleton or the valuables found on the skeleton?
I know of no law that gives anyone the right to the dead body of someone who dies a thousand years ago. There would be close to a million people that could make that claim.
Do you mean ethically or legally? Because they are pretty much opposites nowadays.
What is done with the bodies (skeletons) after they are done studying them?
Bet you're American,money is your God, not human understanding.
@@sticklebacksummer What does being American have to do with anything? No better nation on earth.
W-O-W!
You don't need historians, just Press Reporters, to shed light on Britain's Dark Age.
Alice 🥰
The gold and silver filigree must have been transferred, nearly molten, from flame to its position on the brooch by an incredibly small tool.
Dr. Robert's does a great job as narrator in this series. Like attenbourough or J. Burke....very engaging and interesting. With that said, sometimes the producers or writers inject too much agenda driven speculation I do not appreciate!
A mirror that comes apart hand held with sowing on the backing. Not sure where there at because my mother was the recipient of my personal choice.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn burying wealth would prove to be the best way to elevate family ties, familial honour, and to avoid spats and disputes that so frequently follow inheritance claims today
Or just keep it safe until you recover it. Vkingis did it romans did it even Samuel Pepys buried his cheese to try and save it from the Great Fire of London (1666)
Bede is reconciling the Anglo-Saxons to a status of dominance in Central Britain.
I do take exception to Alice saying the Anglo-Saxons ushered in the 'dark ages'. For a start that is a ridiculous, outdated term. Various Anglo-Saxon people were already migrating to Britain in the later years of Roman occupation of Britain. After that they came in greater numbers but the native post-Roman Britons were living in an already fragmenting society with various breakaway kingdoms appearing. Basically they were at each other's throats. You can read work of Gildas for this.
AngloSaxon mercenaries were in Britain, and in the employ of the Roman army as early as the 3rd century AD.
Dont need an Archaeologists for this were in the dark age for britain
The critters on that amazingly ornate ring looked like cute little fruit bats to me 😊
WAIT A MINUTE FOLKS look at about or just about 17:38 !!!! I’m having a Back to the Future moment, if anyone remembers that movie. 🍿 🎥 Does anybody see something here, that I know I haven’t seen for at least 20 probably more years ago. I know I had a card where I could go in and rent a movie or two for the weekend and get my popcorn soft drinks and in some places, they would rent out a VCR to you if you didn’t have one. Gosh I was so certain they closed up shop. I don’t believe there are any left in the Canadian cities I have lived in the past 20 years. Oh the time I, like many others of my generation, spent, trying to decide what movie(s) I wanted to get. The big “Blockbuster Ticket” sign v the memories.
With that fancy ring, did you find any thing underneath what looks like a lid?
I've always found it fascinating to think that at the beginning of the dark ages you had all these fur-clad illiterate and savage early Anglo-Saxons living in abandoned Roman villas and temples...such a juxtaposition of cultures.
They regarded roman towns as built by giants and haunted by ghosts, they generally shunned them
Those knee joints got to be HOP LAYLTENT VIROID
The venn diagram of Jordan Peterson and Alice Robert’s meets here!
I wonder how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings got along. Did they understand enough of each other’s language to communicate, did they have similar. values about community? I am a novice, but I wonder about the positives of mingling, not just the power struggles.
J.
They kind of rubbed along after some initial conflict. Old English was a complex inflected language grammatically similar to german that mostly lost its complexities due to interactions with the norse speakers modern english is descended from an anglo-norse hybrid
Prof. Roberts is gorgeous.
a wetstone,to sharpen a knife...ok sofar...to sharpen a quill,to use for illuminating manuscripts so therefore evidence of literacy ...supposition,could also be used to sharpen a knife to cut meat for example.
I do like the opportunity given to ordinary people to do conservationwork.
Too fine for an ordinary knife
Great to shed some light on the dark ages, very interesting.. Maybe you can answer why the folks on site have to wear those brightly coloured vests ? It really seems like over kill, if it is for safety. A lot of times they are in open fields, which are pretty safe work sites in my opinion. They look like they would be hot and uncomfortable during the summer months. It seems to me that our societies are becoming overly safe in areas where it is not needed. A lot of times when I watch a doc and they are in boats or kayaks, they are wherrying life preservers. Even in shallow water. I can understand if a person can not swim , but come on now. Hope we can bring back the spirit of our rugged ancestors an be a little more reasonable about safety. Thanks for letting me rant.
Meat doesn’t make your teeth rot and flatten out, grains do.
Yup, I was thinking that too. Mead is high fructose.
Don’t blame meat for the tooth decay. I’ve been eating mostly meat for 4 years now and my teeth and gums have never been better. I would blame the flour and carbohydrates for the dental decay in these skeletons.
I think the hole point of tooth decay in that period is that,strands of food debris would be left in between the teeth areas ,abd would have been difficult to remove,and so would start a rotting process in the teeth areas..
I had a dentist many moons ago who claimed brushing teeth did virtually nothing, the key to dental health was removing debris between teeth. If I eat meat fibres, brushing doesn’t remove them between the teeth unless you have large gaps.
Whut
Those dam scientists and speciaslists with all their so-called training and knowledge - they know nothing! Me on the other hand, with my extensive research on RUclips and my opinions - they should listen to me!
There is a genetic element to the bad teeth of the Irish and English. How do I know this? I am half Irish and half Italian. (NY American). All the siblings who expressed the dominant Italian Gene's, have pearly white strong teeth that never get cavities. My brother and myself who are visibly paler blonde hair blue eyes, have yellow teeth prone to cavities. This has continued in the mixed generations of my children and grandchildren.
Dr Alice.
Great ! Beautiful and intelligent,
Followed her journey in TV from the days of time team
A wonderful woman
Sorry if that's not PC
It was the mead.
29:07 This is not just evidence of literacy. It's evidence of WOMEN's literacy and participation in illuminating manuscripts.
Sugar, sugar, sugar! Add to this the technique for grinding the flour between stone grinding blocks, the silica content gets added to the flour and acts like sandpaper on the teeth and over a short while, approx 30 years the tops of the teeth are ground flat. We see this over and over again in early farming communities worldwide. And remember; Th body interprets refined flour from wheats and grains as pure carbohydrates, ie _ SUGAR!
Mostly just stone grit. Ancient peoples did not have sugar unless you were wealthy/high status.
Sugar didn't arrive in England until the 11th century. Honey would have been the main source of sweetning prior to that period.