Archaeologists Explain Life In Early Dark Age Britain | Digging For Britain

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  • British archaeologists hunt for traces of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, an event which marked the beginning of the Dark Ages in Britain. Artefacts like Roman belts reveal how identities were reinvented during this period. Sites like Bamburgh Castle offer glimpses into Anglo-Saxon life amidst centuries of occupation. Discoveries of graves and intricate jewelry shed light on societal aspects and the transition to Christianity amidst pagan beliefs.
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  • @ralphstephan353
    @ralphstephan353 9 месяцев назад +16

    What I appreciate most about this program is how it builds on prior scholarship in order to establish authenticity of recently discovered artifacts. A truly wonderful 33:44 presentation.

    • @xavisanchez7522
      @xavisanchez7522 9 месяцев назад

      Current chronology dates are wrong.

    • @thomasbell7033
      @thomasbell7033 4 месяца назад

      ​@@xavisanchez7522Sr. Sanchez pronounces without evidence, then, like the furtive bat, flutters away into the night.

  • @Burning_Tyger
    @Burning_Tyger 10 месяцев назад +340

    Early medieval, post-Roman, pre-viking Britain has recently become one of my favorite historical placetimes. You got the Britons who were Celtic, but by this time, had varying levels of Roman cultural adoption. Then you got the the Welsh, and the "Old North" of Celtic peoples of Goddoddin and Rheged and Elmet. Then way up top you have the Picts who were almost certainly a kind of Celtic, but different from the others further south and may have elements of an older heritage. Then the "invading" Germanics, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. Latin vs. Celtic. vs Germanic, Early Latin Christianity vs. the prexisting Celitc beliefs vs. Germanic. Irish invaders and pirates. Music and poetry and war and a kaleidoscope of kingdoms. It's such an amazing clash of cultures and beliefs and history. No wonder that period birthed so many legends.

    • @karphin1
      @karphin1 10 месяцев назад +11

      Does sound fascinating!

    • @kiwiwifi
      @kiwiwifi 10 месяцев назад +9

      Who is next? The Chinese?

    • @redroostermcmlxxl
      @redroostermcmlxxl 10 месяцев назад +6

      😂 ​@@kiwiwifi

    • @simonpayne8252
      @simonpayne8252 10 месяцев назад +18

      I think you'll find that the Britons were just Britons. What we call the Welsh today are the last remnant of the Britons.
      Celt is a lazy modern term adopted to refer to a group of languages that share some similarities.

    • @Burning_Tyger
      @Burning_Tyger 10 месяцев назад +25

      @@simonpayne8252 I am familiar with the distinction. But there was I think a difference between those Britons who were largely incorporated into Roman culture in southern England from those that were less so in what we now call "Wales". And for lack of a better term, I used the word "Welsh". I also concede your point about the term "Celt". However, I still find the term to be useful when differentiating between broad cultural groups such as Latin, Germanic, etc. But there is no doubt that the "Celts" were not some homogeneic culture, but many different cultures spanning across millennia and the breadth of Europe.

  • @NameRequiredSoHere
    @NameRequiredSoHere 8 месяцев назад +50

    Speaking of ancient artifacts, at 17:35 there's a Blockbuster video store. In the previous century. local inhabitants would enter this structure to purchase a form of entertainment called "Video Tapes" which were inserted into a special machine. Actual viewing required yet another device that projected moving images through a very large glass object called a "Cathode Ray Tube" .

    • @cesnor
      @cesnor 6 месяцев назад +7

      I came to the comments hoping someone said your exact first sentence haha

    • @mattfoley4654
      @mattfoley4654 6 месяцев назад +4

      There is some speculation by the experts that this documentary was copied off one of the ancient video tapes.

    • @thomasbell7033
      @thomasbell7033 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@mattfoley4654Indeed, it does bear the occasional artifacts of such an appropriation.

    • @kywildcats94
      @kywildcats94 4 месяца назад

      Lol good 1😅😅

  • @MsSteelphoenix
    @MsSteelphoenix 9 месяцев назад +63

    I love how enthusiastic everyone is. :)

  • @pendragon2012
    @pendragon2012 10 месяцев назад +53

    It has been really interesting to me lately to learn how gradual a lot of these changes were as opposed to sudden falls. Great video!

  • @jango1970
    @jango1970 9 месяцев назад +42

    The ring (31:22) was found at a nunnery at Berkley Castle in Gloustershire which was the captial of Mercia. Lesley Webster (from the British Museum) said the ring (with wolf heads) is from around 825. Around that time, the king of that area would be King Aethelwulf of Wessex. Æthelwulf (Old English: [ˈæðelwuɫf]; Old English for "Noble Wolf") was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance over Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber. The ring (with wolf heads) must be for that "noble Wolf"; the king of Wessex !!

    • @susieare
      @susieare 6 месяцев назад

      Maybe it belonged to his daughter, who married the King of Mercia?

  • @J.P.MistaPista
    @J.P.MistaPista 10 месяцев назад +28

    These experts have been on another show called 'Time Team'. I just love that series, mainly Mick Aston with his colourful pullovers. In this documentary my 'heroes' look so young.

  • @thedarkhorse100
    @thedarkhorse100 10 месяцев назад +43

    Great Doc, what amazes me is the craftsmanship people had considering what they had to work with

    • @ljb8157
      @ljb8157 10 месяцев назад +4

      What amazes me is that @1750, I glimpsed a Blockbuster video!

  • @LenayeMarsten
    @LenayeMarsten 10 месяцев назад +17

    Beautifully done! Thank you, I really enjoyed this 😊

  • @dcmackc01
    @dcmackc01 10 месяцев назад +11

    I really enjoy watching and learning with Dr Roberts's videos.

  • @amypatterson-bocchi2514
    @amypatterson-bocchi2514 9 месяцев назад +6

    Wow! That community involvement is FANTASTIC!!! Great for high school excursions too!!!

  • @dinarusso3320
    @dinarusso3320 8 месяцев назад +9

    😊 Visiting England was amazing! It's so interesting how ancient the cities and towns in all of Europe. Here in America, we barely have anything that's 2 or 300 years old.

    • @sandramaiden4707
      @sandramaiden4707 8 месяцев назад +1

      Same here in Australia! Rarely anything much over 200 years old!

    • @Nicefoolkilla
      @Nicefoolkilla 7 месяцев назад

      Same here in Canada. Oldest would be the mid 1600s.

    • @boulevard14
      @boulevard14 5 месяцев назад

      I thought you were saying you barely have anything that's 2 years old 😂

    • @boulevard14
      @boulevard14 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Nicefoolkilla Is there much to see from the 1600s?

    • @modernguitarist1992
      @modernguitarist1992 5 месяцев назад

      @@boulevard14 Some places in Newfoundland. That was the earliest settlement in Canada.

  • @paulybeefs8588
    @paulybeefs8588 7 месяцев назад +4

    Significant archaeological find at 17:36. Blockbuster Video.

  • @markgiles3
    @markgiles3 9 месяцев назад +6

    It's exciting to think of what may be dug up in the future. Great doco. Thank you.

  • @GermanicDottir
    @GermanicDottir 10 месяцев назад +14

    Fantastic documentary. Thank you.

  • @Familylawgroup
    @Familylawgroup 10 месяцев назад +18

    You know you are watching a video about “state of the art” analysis of ancient and medieval archeology when the documentary includes video of the hosting walking into a shopping center with a prominent “Blockbuster video” store front. I don’t know when Blockbuster vacated the UK, but the American LLC ceased operating as a business on November 6, 2013. Before that, Blockbuster was known for its “preservation” of antiquated media content and antiquated media formats, I.e. VHS cassettes.

  • @Amanda1234-nqc
    @Amanda1234-nqc 10 месяцев назад +16

    I love Bamburgh, stunning and so is Lindisfarne

    • @kevcaratacus9428
      @kevcaratacus9428 10 месяцев назад +2

      Bamburgh is easy to see why it had been used as a place to build forts , castles etc from around age onwards .
      I've never been but it's on my list

    • @Amanda1234-nqc
      @Amanda1234-nqc 10 месяцев назад +2

      @kevcaratacus9428 I go every year in summer. it's so beautiful. You can see the Farne Islands and Holy Island from there on a clear day. You will love it , make sure you go.

    • @snappytomatoe
      @snappytomatoe 9 месяцев назад +1

      Is it free to visit?

    • @Amanda1234-nqc
      @Amanda1234-nqc 9 месяцев назад

      @snappytomatoe Yeah it is. You pay to get into the castle and the car park but thats it.

  • @Hydroxica
    @Hydroxica 10 месяцев назад +14

    Nice a new video just in time for me to watch while eating lunch!

  • @BalmforthGG
    @BalmforthGG 10 месяцев назад +34

    Excellent work this. RUclips is better for having such quality content. Thank you.

  • @ConLustig
    @ConLustig 10 месяцев назад +21

    That ring 😳 but also the size of the band. That person had to have been massive especially from the times stands

    • @garyevans8083
      @garyevans8083 10 месяцев назад +14

      allot of the rings back then were made to fit over gloves.... possibly why it's so big?

    • @kevinmcmillin870
      @kevinmcmillin870 6 месяцев назад

      @@garyevans8083
      Maybe it’s a ring for a ehm… different purpose?

    • @tonynicholson3328
      @tonynicholson3328 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@kevinmcmillin870What a lot of Koch!

  • @nole8923
    @nole8923 8 месяцев назад +6

    A reminder of how lucky to live in the times we do,

  • @Jackjackjack533
    @Jackjackjack533 10 месяцев назад +62

    The real archeological find is the blockbuster at the mall lol

  • @rconger24
    @rconger24 10 месяцев назад +4

    14:15 Author W Cleon Skousen born in Canada had the best writing about the brothers Hengst and Horsa that I've seen.

  • @c1ph3rpunk
    @c1ph3rpunk 10 месяцев назад +33

    As the video itself become archeology: a living record of a standing Blockbuster store.

    • @sforza209
      @sforza209 10 месяцев назад +3

      I had no idea blockbuster made it across the Atlantic.

    • @BethmcDanal-qb8qr
      @BethmcDanal-qb8qr 10 месяцев назад +3

      ,😂😂

  • @thomasbell7033
    @thomasbell7033 9 месяцев назад +7

    Not too long ago I read that CSI Sittingbourne lost their place in the shopping mall. I do hope they found another home.

  • @brianbadonde8700
    @brianbadonde8700 10 месяцев назад +21

    36:40 the woman says they had tooth decay because of a lot of meat, meat does not cause tooth decay, there's nothing in meat that can cause tooth decay, it was starches and sugars obviously maybe combined with some nutrient deficiency

    • @GGK2006
      @GGK2006 9 месяцев назад +7

      Mead not meat. Mead is made by fermenting the sugars in honey.

    • @brianbadonde8700
      @brianbadonde8700 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@GGK2006 I hope they said mead because if she said meat that's ridiculous and completely false

    • @brianbadonde8700
      @brianbadonde8700 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@GGK2006 I checked the video again she did say they were eating a lot of meat and attributed the dental decay to that but did also say they were drinking mead

    • @theclumsyprepper
      @theclumsyprepper 9 месяцев назад +3

      No, she didn't.
      She listed what the people ate and clearly said that the starches in the flour and sugars in mead were to blame. She never said meat caused tooth decay.

    • @brianbadonde8700
      @brianbadonde8700 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@theclumsyprepper yes she did say that but she also said meat before she listed those things listen back carefully AGAIN

  • @patriciaingraldi4719
    @patriciaingraldi4719 8 месяцев назад

    Fascinating findings revealing so much history

  • @TheMelbournelad
    @TheMelbournelad 10 месяцев назад +17

    Must be an old doco, with that blockbuster being there at the Meads

    • @davedixon2068
      @davedixon2068 10 месяцев назад +6

      well it is archaeology maybe it was an old Roman Block Buster

    • @karphin1
      @karphin1 10 месяцев назад +2

      I thought that, too! Haha. And Alice looks quite young.

    • @Thylakoids-are-Go
      @Thylakoids-are-Go 10 месяцев назад +2

      😂​@@davedixon2068

  • @justintindall9515
    @justintindall9515 6 месяцев назад

    Great piece of work!

  • @evilbunnyzombie
    @evilbunnyzombie 10 месяцев назад +6

    That was interesting, I love archaeology

  • @linkrm75
    @linkrm75 9 месяцев назад +14

    Building a highway right through an ancient Saxon grave site. What could go wrong? Has no one seen Poltergeist?

    • @-KMA-
      @-KMA- 8 месяцев назад

      😂 right

  • @bigoldgrizzly
    @bigoldgrizzly Месяц назад

    That whetstone at 29:19 looks remarkably like those quarried around Charnley forest in present day Leicestershire.

  • @RicVee1
    @RicVee1 9 месяцев назад +2

    WOW..i remember Alice from the days of Time Team, now she has her own show!! Good job Alice!!

    • @cesnor
      @cesnor 6 месяцев назад

      She’s had her own show for about 15 years lol

  • @roostershooter76
    @roostershooter76 10 месяцев назад +36

    When technology fails, I'm certain that some archaeologists, 1000 years from now, will be convinced that our society lost all ability to read and write, and we were all rich and wealthy. We all carried around these plastic little boxes so that we could look at our reflection in it's glass. This goes to show you how future societies come up with their "Best Guess" when it comes to past civilizations.

    • @Grace-ms7un
      @Grace-ms7un 10 месяцев назад +7

      The amount of phones with cracked screens and not in gravesites will definitely confuse them.😂

    • @Julie-ex1jr
      @Julie-ex1jr 9 месяцев назад

      ❤l hope you are well and happy love you
      2:32 ​@@Grace-ms7un

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider9766 10 месяцев назад +6

    the romans conquered lands and then administered them by installing friendly locals and basically making them fantastically wealthy compared to everyone around them but still subservient to rome. there is clear evidence that this happened during the roman invasion of britain. it makes perfect sense to me that the angle saxon and jut tribe members would do similar.

  • @MelindaCanter
    @MelindaCanter 9 месяцев назад +5

    I was really surprised people weren't wearing glove while handling such precious objects. 32:57

    • @JenniSiri999
      @JenniSiri999 7 месяцев назад

      That's exactly what I was thinking. The acid on the fingers will deteriorate the bones.

  • @amenhotep651
    @amenhotep651 9 месяцев назад

    Very well done, thank you

  • @miker252
    @miker252 6 месяцев назад +1

    After seeing the Cunk videos, I'm having difficulties taking this seriously. I keep waiting for the funny line.

  • @spaceman081447
    @spaceman081447 9 месяцев назад +4

    Concerning the man who died in battle, I wonder whether he was killed by a single sword stroke or did his opponent just keep hacking away at him until he was dead. I'm just curious.

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад

      that seems to have been a kid like maybe a 12 year old or younger. Sad how they acted in those days. He didn't stand a chance, probably tried to defend himself. Also that is why the crippled and kids had weapons in the graves- those were for self defense.

  • @EimaiEmpusa69
    @EimaiEmpusa69 9 месяцев назад +2

    I didn't know you guys still have Blockbuster. @ 17:37

  • @tennillepatterson5500
    @tennillepatterson5500 10 месяцев назад +9

    I have to wonder if these Germanic people's were wearing their spoils of war . Many Romans were eliminated in Germania right before this time period. Maybe they weren't assimilated, but warriors that took trophies.

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад +1

      could be, but those people were already excellent gold smiths and jewelry makers, and that seems to have been brought from early Scythian forebears, who used similar designs. .

  • @nataliehozjan9103
    @nataliehozjan9103 7 месяцев назад

    Very interesting Thank you

  • @vanmanrick1
    @vanmanrick1 10 месяцев назад +25

    Everybody is so shocked when they see examples of craftmanship from that era. However even today the best craftsman in the trades etc are of saxon stock.

    • @Evus-st5di
      @Evus-st5di 10 месяцев назад +6

      Utter rubbish.

    • @Wmaddox333
      @Wmaddox333 10 месяцев назад +5

      Literally all European peoples were expert craftsman and produced artifacts of immense beauty and amazing detail. These people were apprenticed from a very young age and possessed knowledge and skills that have been changed or lost over time. Saxon craftsmanship was however incredibly popular and sought after all far beyond Europe - It does have a certain enchanting power and Naivety which is very unique - you can even see other cultures in Asia which attempted to emulate Saxon craftsmanship - from weaponry To jewellery.

    • @Wmaddox333
      @Wmaddox333 10 месяцев назад +3

      That said I do make silver pieces and naturally everything comes out looking like Saxon work.

    • @Wmaddox333
      @Wmaddox333 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@Evus-st5diit’s not, saxons are the best.

    • @vanmanrick1
      @vanmanrick1 10 месяцев назад

      @@Evus-st5di sounds like jealousy.

  • @karinetyrrell1402
    @karinetyrrell1402 8 месяцев назад

    Wonderfully written narrative.

  • @tylerbaughn2377
    @tylerbaughn2377 7 месяцев назад +1

    Was that a Blockbuster?? Talk about ancient history

  • @ljb8157
    @ljb8157 10 месяцев назад +12

    I'm sorry, but @1750, did I just see a blockbuster video store?
    Just how old IS this documentary?

  • @neal4711
    @neal4711 8 месяцев назад +2

    What are the odds of these artefacts dug out of the dirt all being so significant as being connected to a king? Is it possible some of them were perhaps more common than we realise?

  • @CincinnatiRay
    @CincinnatiRay 8 месяцев назад +1

    I really struggle with people disturbing the graves of a loved one! It’s not a game or a podcast! Someone placed them with their love and now you think you have some license because it’s been 500 years. I don’t think so!

  • @veiledrecalcitrance4314
    @veiledrecalcitrance4314 6 месяцев назад

    Old old is this show? It’s got to be fairly old due to the Blockbuster store in the background @17:39.

  • @phildavies7666
    @phildavies7666 10 месяцев назад +4

    To quote that highly respected group of historians; what have the saxons ever done for us

    • @Funeeman
      @Funeeman 10 месяцев назад +5

      They were the greatest people to walk this earth.

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад +1

      We thier descendants and the whole culture got a lot from them , in dna and in culture and language. Speak for yourself, because you must not be their descendant, i f you try to devalue them. That 's your hate and sour grapes . . the colonies of the Brit empire were all populated mostly by them, and we are their descendants as well.

    • @phildavies7666
      @phildavies7666 9 месяцев назад

      @@Funeeman monty python.... yes they were/are

    • @phildavies7666
      @phildavies7666 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@cobainzlady it's a pun on Monty Phytons Life of Brian . Look up 'what have the romans ever done for us'

    • @marinafernandez8934
      @marinafernandez8934 4 месяца назад

      You've gone and triggered everyone now hahaha /jk​@@phildavies7666

  • @Waya420
    @Waya420 10 месяцев назад +5

    I wish i could do the archeological store thing 😭

    • @ChristophersMum
      @ChristophersMum 10 месяцев назад +1

      You could enquire at the University involved...if they still have that type of programme running...
      Good luck.

  • @alexandrasmith4393
    @alexandrasmith4393 10 месяцев назад +25

    The Anglo Saxon s didn’t bring the Dark Ages. Islamic war and slavers caused trade to almost cease across the Mediterranean, and people had to start trading via landmass.

    • @roxydog08
      @roxydog08 10 месяцев назад +6

      slavery comes with the beginning of time

    • @roxydog08
      @roxydog08 10 месяцев назад +1

      we play like married and share the work load .

    • @wor53lg50
      @wor53lg50 10 месяцев назад

      Whats that got to do with Islamic invader s, they marry their own the reason they dont ever integrate..

    • @DaviniaFernandezdeLanda-jh6qe
      @DaviniaFernandezdeLanda-jh6qe 9 месяцев назад

      the Dark Ages started different in continental Europe

    • @rylarhoades6033
      @rylarhoades6033 9 месяцев назад +7

      There were many things all over the world that brought about the Dark Ages. Ya can't blame JUST Islamic cultures and slavery. Slavery was ALL OVER the world. Doesn't make it right it is just a fact and our history whether we like it or not. Ya cannot just blame one culture or one act. There were many things at play and many different cultures all over the world that played their parts.

  • @virginiainla8085
    @virginiainla8085 8 месяцев назад

    @25 - they're glass inserts. They are missing the metal stands

  • @danielcarson4122
    @danielcarson4122 9 месяцев назад +1

    Any of frictions between Angles and Saxons? Was there a split and in what period(s)?..

  • @MrSkeetSkeeter
    @MrSkeetSkeeter 8 месяцев назад

    Digging up Bebbanburg? Uhtred would like a word with you.

  • @lillyd2311
    @lillyd2311 8 месяцев назад

    39:23 I'd love to know where she got this necklace from

  • @dianeboross6978
    @dianeboross6978 10 месяцев назад +15

    The British Isles was really a melting pot of many tribes and cultures.

    • @wor53lg50
      @wor53lg50 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah all North western European neighbours of similar cultures...Diversity is nobody's strength, it is what it says on the tin DIVISION?!..

    • @Datacorrupter234
      @Datacorrupter234 9 месяцев назад +4

      false culturally yes ethnically definetly not

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад +2

      and some were related to each other, and most all were of western europe.

    • @neilog747
      @neilog747 8 месяцев назад

      @TexasCoffeeBreak777 Evidence?

  • @CountryWilly
    @CountryWilly 3 месяца назад

    To say the very least most interesting

  • @JohnSpo
    @JohnSpo 2 месяца назад

    Did they find that Blockbuster in one of their digs?

  • @cnilecnile6748
    @cnilecnile6748 10 месяцев назад +13

    Seems like the same thing happens over and over about every 1000 years or so.
    And nobody ever learns from it.
    You can literally just change the names of the countries/societies, and it is still pretty much all the same.
    "Human hyenas, wound up by their hate, snap at the heels of the wise and the great,
    with no regrets.
    Well, we're all very cultured,
    speak in soft tones,
    sitting in front of a plate full of bones,
    with no regrets.
    Let us Prey,
    State of the world today.
    Darwin say,
    "It's nature at work-
    so it must be ok"
    "Let us Prey"
    (Fetters/Nyswonger)
    The Raisins
    1981
    Strugglebaby Records

  • @carlericvonkleistiii2188
    @carlericvonkleistiii2188 9 месяцев назад +1

    Bernard Cornwell's Bebbanburgh!

  • @CountryWilly
    @CountryWilly 3 месяца назад +1

    Question in a thousand years is someone going to be digging up Queen Elizabeth or other people

  • @tracyjozefiak9931
    @tracyjozefiak9931 10 месяцев назад +2

    Omg Blockbusters!!

  • @silent_safaris
    @silent_safaris 7 месяцев назад +2

    Meat doesn't decay your teeth, in fact in most cases it strengthens it and helps to carry away the damaging particals of starches stuck to the teeth during chewing.

  • @hblock8361
    @hblock8361 9 месяцев назад +1

    Blockbuster Video? When was this made? seems ancient too

  • @weaselduke
    @weaselduke 7 месяцев назад

    They released the homeowner with no charges.....finally and thankfully. Per Jakob Rodgers of Mercury news.

  • @shiptj01
    @shiptj01 8 месяцев назад +2

    The hostess has got it going on.

  • @sharlie62001
    @sharlie62001 8 месяцев назад +3

    37:50ish..talking about teeth/bone development. ALL my children had teeth very early. The dentist did not believe me when I told him my daughter just turned 5...he said "If she had just arrived as a refugee,he would have to give her age 7 based on the development of her teeth"

  • @hefipaleburp9543
    @hefipaleburp9543 10 месяцев назад +17

    Anglo Saxon invasion? Raiders began to plunder the defenseless land?... how old is this documentary...?

    • @crazyquilt
      @crazyquilt 10 месяцев назад +7

      2010. I was wondering much the same.

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 10 месяцев назад

      So outdated. There are much better docs on here about what Probably happened. This is the old Victorian twaddle 'Wave upon wave of warriors' Really? Did they disappear on landing? .There is No evidence at this time to suggest anyone 'Invade' Nor is there any proof that the country fell apart after the Romans left. Things happen Gradually, it isn't like shutting or opening a door!

    • @ljb8157
      @ljb8157 10 месяцев назад +4

      Old enough to have a Blockbuster Video store in it.

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад

      Right. if anything they fought while working for a neighboring king. Or just settled there.

    • @sebe2255
      @sebe2255 9 месяцев назад

      It was an invasion though, anything else is just cope

  • @bertieschitz-peas429
    @bertieschitz-peas429 9 месяцев назад +1

    Do those trowels get smaller an smaller?

  • @sarah-jane3627
    @sarah-jane3627 3 месяца назад

    32:35 anyone else take one look and go, bats 🦇

  • @MarcelAspenite
    @MarcelAspenite 8 месяцев назад +1

    Unlike in the medieval times, today everything is made with plastic none of which will be dug up a thousand years from now to reveal how life once was.

  • @nmh83
    @nmh83 8 месяцев назад +1

    13:45 - actually, it is treasure

  • @Fantasylover12248
    @Fantasylover12248 10 месяцев назад +42

    Just so everyone knows this came out in 2010.

    • @nmh83
      @nmh83 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yep, you can tell as Alice doesn’t have funky coloured hair yet

    • @RegmoX
      @RegmoX 4 месяца назад +1

      No wonder Alice Roberts looks so young. She is only about 37 years old when this was filmed. She's an old lady now.

  • @wendyHew
    @wendyHew 10 месяцев назад +12

    The groups of angles, jutes, saxons ect did not come from France. Only Northern Germany, Denmark and Dutch coasts and the nearby areas. They were Germanic peoples

    • @juliaforsyth8332
      @juliaforsyth8332 10 месяцев назад +2

      Normandy ?

    • @wendyHew
      @wendyHew 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@juliaforsyth8332 Normandy did not exist at that time and it is far further down on the French coast. Normandy meaning North man was land given to the Viking Rollo the walker by the King of France in a cowardly attempt to try and stop the Scandinavian raids on the country. The group would continue there until Rollos descendant William the Conqueror invaded England as he had a claim to the throne, so the Normandy element joined the saxons far later

    • @Gladedancer
      @Gladedancer 9 месяцев назад +5

      True, although the Franks were Germanic too.

    • @wendyHew
      @wendyHew 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Gladedancer Yeah they had some Gaul ancestry but also mixed heavily, the original French would have been far more Germanic before they were replaced. The Normans were the viking descendants who did marry into some French lines but many also took norman or sometimes Briton partners. Intriguingly it is said that despite Robert Duke of Normandy having a wife (who has disputed origin due to a lack of documentation leading to the name William the bastard) he also had a relationship with a Briton woman and it is said that this Briton may in fact be William the Conquerors mother. The Britons were a Celtic people who had migrated to France, likely due to the Anglo-Saxon groups arrivals.

    • @michaeldpa1333
      @michaeldpa1333 9 месяцев назад +1

      She might have been referring to the French (Viking) Normans.

  • @lindakynokephalos1136
    @lindakynokephalos1136 4 месяца назад

    Too many stupid adds in this very beautiful and interesting documentary. Adds should not interupt the program.

  • @kevcaratacus9428
    @kevcaratacus9428 10 месяцев назад +4

    I can't find a date for when this programme was recorded.
    Since 2010 a lot of tbings have changed
    And a lot of this info is missing relevant facts .
    Such as a lot of what thsy refer to as saxon jewellery is not totally saxon.
    But a composite of original Roman, re used Roman used to make saxon jewellery
    Romano/ Saxon..

    • @darkstarr2321
      @darkstarr2321 10 месяцев назад +3

      2010 was when it was recorded

    • @kevcaratacus9428
      @kevcaratacus9428 10 месяцев назад

      @@darkstarr2321 its crazy how fast ( because of new technology) archaeology, is changing.
      I started working for the museim archaeology unit almost 35 years ago.
      When resistivity and magnetic surveys were improving and updating old ideas.
      Since then especially from 2010 onwards technology seemed to improve almost overnight each month each year .
      We used to set up before any digging using the old levels and staffs, sorting a benchmark from which every new layer every artifact would use to record the exact details.
      Now there are geo surveyors who turn up & set up a machine that scans the whole archaeological site using satellites while we ( field archaeologists) clear off for 15 mins and have a coffee .
      It's like something you see on tv when cops a few recording a crime scene.
      Plus changes in dating finds and analysing soil from undisturbed layers of archaeology, & core samples
      The results are amazing, compared to when I started the limitations, the time it took the varying results.
      Now everything seems possible.
      When belgic settlers started farming, what thsy farmed , what animals they kept , the changes throughout the decades re weather, hotter wetter than usual, any changes to their usual routine.
      Times of trouble or lack of labour due to "plagues " etc
      The changes , its all happening so fast.
      GPR , and Lidar are two of my favourites.
      But thankfully nothing as of yet has been created that replaces people like myself the humble field archaeologist and our trowels , our experience are still needed to 'dig stuff up" ;)

    • @kevcaratacus9428
      @kevcaratacus9428 10 месяцев назад

      @@darkstarr2321 its crazy how fast ( because of new technology) archaeology, is changing.
      I started working for the museim archaeology unit almost 35 years ago.
      When resistivity and magnetic surveys were improving and updating old ideas.
      Since then especially from 2010 onwards technology seemed to improve almost overnight each month each year .
      We used to set up before any digging using the old levels and staffs, sorting a benchmark from which every new layer every artifact would use to record the exact details.
      Now there are geo surveyors who turn up & set up a machine that scans the whole archaeological site using satellites while we ( field archaeologists) clear off for 15 mins and have a coffee .
      It's like something you see on tv when cops a few recording a crime scene.
      Plus changes in dating finds and analysing soil from undisturbed layers of archaeology, & core samples
      The results are amazing, compared to when I started the limitations, the time it took the varying results.
      Now everything seems possible.
      When belgic settlers started farming, what thsy farmed , what animals they kept , the changes throughout the decades re weather, hotter wetter than usual, any changes to their usual routine.
      Times of trouble or lack of labour due to "plagues " etc
      The changes , its all happening so fast.
      GPR , and Lidar are two of my favourites.
      But thankfully nothing as of yet has been created that replaces people like myself the humble field archaeologist and our trowels , our experience are still needed to 'dig stuff up" ;)

    • @file13whereareyou
      @file13whereareyou 9 месяцев назад +1

      At 35:41, yep. Those are English teeth 😂

    • @darkstarr2321
      @darkstarr2321 9 месяцев назад

      @@file13whereareyou Tired and boring American stereotype for the British, not English. Americans have worse teeth

  • @cobainzlady
    @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад +10

    American of English descent here . love this archaeological history, it' s also ours. We kept the old Saxon English Tun Moot for our New England Town Halls, from the beginning. All the adult men voted on things and elected thier local leaders, and colonial governors.

    • @russellcameronthomas2116
      @russellcameronthomas2116 8 месяцев назад +6

      With respect, I think it is a stretch to say that New England Town Halls are directly related to old Saxon Tun Moot. (I study 17th Century England.). More likely, New England Town Halls are derived from ship-based cultures of the period, including joint-stock company ships, colonial trading ships, and privateer (pirate) ship cultures, which all had relatively flat democratic governance structures that included all the stakeholders (i.e. people on the voyage who contributed to the well-being of the ship.). It is safe to say that New England settlers had little or no understanding of English history in the Anglo-Saxon period.

    • @catalina1968
      @catalina1968 5 месяцев назад

      False.

  • @johnransom1146
    @johnransom1146 8 месяцев назад

    Speaking of archeology, I saw a Blockbuster video

  • @DeanUSAman
    @DeanUSAman 10 месяцев назад +14

    Always a thin philosophical line between Archeology and Grave Robbing...

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад +1

      indeed. i hope they treat those bones well while and after photographing and studying them. But as for the gold, the dead did not take it with them. burying it is a waste.

  • @thenoxbox3871
    @thenoxbox3871 8 месяцев назад

    Did anyone else see the Blockbuster store? OMG!

  • @Senzotan
    @Senzotan 8 месяцев назад +6

    "ANGLO SAXONS", with deliberatley BBC approved brown hair and brown eyes!

    • @scottgraham1143
      @scottgraham1143 7 месяцев назад +3

      I was thinking the same. The two at the beginning look more like Spaniards.

  • @hanfleet
    @hanfleet 9 месяцев назад +2

    I didn't think we were still using the term 'Dark Ages' anymore?

  • @Bastillian
    @Bastillian 10 месяцев назад +17

    Pax Romana backfired across the Empire. Subjugation and pacification left an indigenous population unschooled in martial skills. When savage incursions from Pictland could not be defended, the Romano Britons were easily seduced by the Germanic warrior-traders they hired to die for them. The canny Anglo-Saxons decided to take the land for themselves. Internecine wars left the established English Heptarcy vulnerable to the warlike Danish trader-pirates and the Danelaw eventuated, leading to an Anglo-Scandinavian golden age.
    A thousand years later, an effete society is about to be supplanted by a warlike radical invasion by sea, and a new, ignorant and primitive dark age is upon us.

    • @DeanUSAman
      @DeanUSAman 10 месяцев назад +2

      Indeed... sadly, indeed.

    • @hodgeelmwood8677
      @hodgeelmwood8677 10 месяцев назад +5

      Riiiight.

    • @MickAngelhere
      @MickAngelhere 10 месяцев назад +4

      Pretty much history repeating itself, because people fail to study history and learn from it. Thus history is ignored, but feelings rule the day aided by ignorance

    • @karlkarlos3545
      @karlkarlos3545 10 месяцев назад +3

      get over yourself, you drama queen.

    • @karlkarlos3545
      @karlkarlos3545 10 месяцев назад

      get over yourself you drama queen.

  • @SuperZippyzippy
    @SuperZippyzippy 10 месяцев назад +1

    Where does the term Anglo Saxon come from?

    • @Ax3y
      @Ax3y 10 месяцев назад +5

      The two groups combined to fight off Vikings incursions into northern England. The Angles and Saxons. Unfortunately for the Saxons the Anglo bit stuck and became Angleland, then eventually England. The French still call us Angleterre.

    • @SuperZippyzippy
      @SuperZippyzippy 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Ax3y thanks !!

    • @Funeeman
      @Funeeman 10 месяцев назад +2

      The term Anglo-Saxon seems to have been first used by Continental writers in the late 8th century to distinguish the Saxons of Britain from those of the European continent, whom St. Bede the Venerable had called Antiqui Saxones (“Old Saxons”).

  • @hubert-z2d
    @hubert-z2d 16 дней назад

    Very interesting video. Was paedophilia as widespread in Anglo-Saxon times as it is now? It is not well documented, neither in Old English nor in Latin. I dare not think so. Now, it is no secret that the UK has become a hotbed of child abuse. Even the most conservative official figures show this. The head of the National Crime Agency has stated that there are between 550,000 and 800,000 paedophiles in the UK. The subject of paedophilia is no longer a secret, even in the highest levels of the British establishment, as frightening as that may sound. Even within the royal family (remember Prince Andrew and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal?). But this is not proven (yet). These may just be conspiratorial rumors to discredit the royalty. Great caution is required regarding all kinds of allegations concerning the British elites who are often accused of all evils for political purposes. Unfortunately the UK is not the only country affected by this plague, there are paedophile criminals all over the world. But it is good to know the moral state of this "scepter'd isle" and the media's silence on this issue is clearly not acceptable. All parents are worried and concerned. In any case, the current situation is a real shame and those responsible will have to be held accountable someday. Anglo-Saxons wake up!

  • @bruceshaw2402
    @bruceshaw2402 10 месяцев назад +9

    Why are these academics always surprised that folk centuries ago looked after one another , the one thing that hasn't changed from the dawn of time is human nature .

    • @ConfusedIceberg-vd7qc
      @ConfusedIceberg-vd7qc 10 месяцев назад +2

      Because all there was violence a lot of the time. Because they know more than you and are immersed in it… A big part of human nature is violence. Don’t kid yourself. We live in tame times. We are still animals.

  • @RadicalRoots23
    @RadicalRoots23 9 месяцев назад +2

    The point of them looking after disabled is that humans nature is NOT all 'greed and war' as people often say. We also cooperate and are kind. and that is very important, because it means a non-capitalist society IS and already HAS been possible.

    • @lelandkinsella7380
      @lelandkinsella7380 6 месяцев назад

      Sorry my friend......there will never be a "Communist Utopia". You can undoubtedly find a good person in most scenarios but generally speaking people as a group are NOT inherently good......at all. These Neo Marxists will claim they can "do Communism the right way" but it's impossible. Even done "the right way" would require 100% government control and that will just pave the way to another disaster with a Psychopath in charge.

  • @thomasschofield6633
    @thomasschofield6633 10 месяцев назад +10

    I beg to differ, it was sudden change at first, then a gradual acceptance of Christianity and Roman culture. Case in point, why did the Romanized Celts in western Britain emigrate to Brittany: They were escaping the sudden takeover by the Anglo Saxons.

    • @hogwashmcturnip8930
      @hogwashmcturnip8930 10 месяцев назад

      They did not go to avoid Saxons, they went to avoid Romans! 400 years out? Also there was 'No sudden takeover' That is Victorian blah

    • @thomasschofield6633
      @thomasschofield6633 10 месяцев назад

      So the romanized celts were escaping from themselves. You make no sense.

    • @thomasschofield6633
      @thomasschofield6633 10 месяцев назад

      So the romanized celts were escaping from themselves???​@@hogwashmcturnip8930

    • @kiwiwifi
      @kiwiwifi 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@thomasschofield6633 By the 'old' themselves

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад

      the Celts already had Christianity whent he Romans took over. They got it from missionaries, not from Rome. But rome did take that over as well.

  • @andreweden9405
    @andreweden9405 9 месяцев назад +4

    Can you imagine a Muslim archeologist in a Muslim country saying anything like "this famous Islamic historian may be our best primary source from the period. However, his work was highly biased by his Muslim faith, so we should take it with a grain of salt"? If the answer is no, then that tells you that something is deeply wrong with 21st century Western civilization!

    • @felipecortez1042
      @felipecortez1042 9 месяцев назад +2

      I think she was contrasting the pagan English kings, with Christian ones, but I know what you mean

  • @kellysouter4381
    @kellysouter4381 9 месяцев назад +14

    Sugar and starch may give you bad teeth. Meat does not. That was just pushing the message.

    • @cobainzlady
      @cobainzlady 9 месяцев назад +1

      you need vitamin A and D for good teeth, and minerals. maybe fish eaters had better teeth. Beef or lamb is more for muscle. but if it's pork, it's basically good for nothing .

    • @Connor6569
      @Connor6569 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@cobainzlady Good thing meat has vitamin A and D and minerals.

    • @wooj82
      @wooj82 4 месяца назад

      ​@@cobainzladyMeat is protein. That's all, a source of amino acids

  • @krisgrenz8653
    @krisgrenz8653 9 месяцев назад +2

    She says the glass beads aren't treasures, i beg the difference, i think they are

  • @garysmith8276
    @garysmith8276 9 месяцев назад +1

    The only Dark Age that existed was our knowledge of that time . With archaeology we have open our knowledge of the so called Dark Age.

  • @purpurina5663
    @purpurina5663 7 месяцев назад +1

    I wish the post-Roman/Middle Ages would cease to be called "Dark Ages". There's really no reason.

  • @raysargent4055
    @raysargent4055 10 месяцев назад +27

    The first Anglo Saxons were invited by the Briton acting as overlord two shiploads of jutes led by two Angle brothers Hengis and Horsa came as mercenaries hired to repell invading non Romano Britains from the north .

    • @MikeLiteraus
      @MikeLiteraus 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@CeltopiaYeah, the BBC told me they are all African 😂

    • @sportsfisher9677
      @sportsfisher9677 10 месяцев назад +7

      It is true that some fought for Rome, but Indigenous Celtic Brits were not invading Romano Britan, because it was theirs they sought to win it back.

    • @shawnsanborn2057
      @shawnsanborn2057 10 месяцев назад +1

      Bs

    • @CharlieWadsworth-z3o
      @CharlieWadsworth-z3o 10 месяцев назад +6

      Wow were you there? It’s just historians don’t know but you have the answer

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax 10 месяцев назад +3

      The old told story, yes, we know that one. Ask a historian for real details. Like, for example, the ones advising this video.

  • @peterellams166
    @peterellams166 10 месяцев назад +3

    When the Anglo Saxons moved in was the land empty.the only graves were Saxon . ?? who named the area controlled.i.e. Essex Sussex .. was there a problem between the occupiers and the natives??

    • @urseliusurgel4365
      @urseliusurgel4365 10 месяцев назад +2

      Unlike in the people of rest of the Western Roman Empire - Gallo-Romans and Franks in Gaul, Visigoths in Spain, Ostrogoths in Italy etc. - the Romano-Britons put up a considerable fight against Germanic incomers. It took about 150 years before the Anglo-Saxons achieved the upper hand over the natives.

  • @kevcaratacus9428
    @kevcaratacus9428 10 месяцев назад +4

    Videos like this can be very misleading when talking about the history of an island from north the South , such a complex time into a few short progs, can mean people think the same thing happened around the same time in the same way across the whole country .
    Which is untrue.
    What happened to the post Roman people of Verulamium throughout the 5th 6th centuries.
    Is completely different to the people in other Romano British towns and cities, 50 miles away or 200 miles away.
    Each region was different, if prefer programmes like this focused on one area that was attacked and overtaken and another that at the same time had Germanic settlers who chose land that nobody lived on or farmed and lived peacefully a few miles away from their romanised neighbours .

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 7 месяцев назад +1

    I wish these docos would label themselves honestly as "Digging for Britain"

  • @MotoWorld777
    @MotoWorld777 6 месяцев назад +1

    so because he was a Christian we can't trust his account? What rubbish, if anything he would be motivated to be more honest!

  • @HarrisHVAC
    @HarrisHVAC 9 дней назад

    I can't think of a stronger person than one who lives with disabilities and fights to belong and be useful all their lives. Too often they fought simply to survive.