1/2 The Hidden Jewels of the Cheapside Hoard - Secret Knowledge

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2013
  • • Secret Knowledge
    First broadcast: 15 Oct 2013.
    Episode 8/12 In 1912, workmen demolishing a building in London's Cheapside district made an extraordinary discovery - a dazzling hoard of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels. For the first time since its discovery, all the pieces from this priceless treasure trove will be on display at the Museum of London in a new exhibition opening on October 11th 2013.

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  • @patrickbarrett5650
    @patrickbarrett5650 Год назад +2

    Well Mr Leane, this series couldn’t have found a better narrator. Your knowledge and enthusiasm shine through. Thank you.

  • @patrickbarrett5650
    @patrickbarrett5650 3 года назад +15

    At last, a narrator whose genuine enthusiasm shines through. 👏🏻

  • @deborahduthie4519
    @deborahduthie4519 3 года назад +7

    If only we could all enjoy seeing this full collection from Cheapside Street.

  • @joannasalvanou5694
    @joannasalvanou5694 5 лет назад +16

    That emerald watch though!!! Totally mesmerizing.

    • @deborahduthie4519
      @deborahduthie4519 3 года назад

      Joanna Salvanou All I could think of was, more those blue gloves away, because I was to see it unobscured. Very large gems indeed.

  • @Vancouverama
    @Vancouverama 8 лет назад +21

    I was so lucky to be in London when this exhibition was on, and got to see them.

    • @normasouthwood3182
      @normasouthwood3182 2 года назад

      I envy you. I lived in London for 10years but never heard about these until I came home to Lancashire.

  • @marycahill546
    @marycahill546 6 лет назад +44

    The Museum of London is fabulous, and free admission -- don't miss it if you are in London.

    • @agustasister5624
      @agustasister5624 6 лет назад +5

      Mary Cahill your right...use to go every year...but after my last experiences with your NEW citizens...I WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK...disgusting...and paris...omg...IS GONE....LITERSL SHIT HOLES.

    • @fatimahusein2424
      @fatimahusein2424 5 лет назад +2

      I just been there with my daughters and it's just a fantastic

    • @avaleighwalsh6161
      @avaleighwalsh6161 4 года назад +1

      @Johannes Liechtenauer u living in the UK with a name like dat sounds like your a "new citizen yourself ??

    • @avaleighwalsh6161
      @avaleighwalsh6161 4 года назад

      @@agustasister5624 aww were devastated you sound such a lovely person !!!!!!
      Hahaha

  • @elderlypoodle9181
    @elderlypoodle9181 5 лет назад +11

    Can you imagine the worker unearthing these? I wish I could have seen that in real time!

  • @schradeya
    @schradeya 9 лет назад +23

    Ohhhh England, I'm so jealous of you and your history! To me, the documents at ~9:10 are just as precious as these unbelievable jewels!

    • @Scooot1972
      @Scooot1972 4 года назад

      What's the matter with you? Are you jealous because we hadn't invented America at the time the jewelry was buried?

    • @avaleighwalsh6161
      @avaleighwalsh6161 4 года назад

      @@Scooot1972 invented America hahaha

    • @Scooot1972
      @Scooot1972 4 года назад +2

      @@avaleighwalsh6161 ok started the failed experiment that is America. 👍 That's why we tried again later on with Australia. It went better but we still didn't get the desired result. So we sent our criminals there. 👍

    • @user-rm1cl9nz1x
      @user-rm1cl9nz1x Месяц назад +1

      Wonderful history. Dreadful present.

  • @user-zw4hd8kt8t
    @user-zw4hd8kt8t 2 года назад +1

    OMG Super cool!!!!💎💙

  • @MicaRayan
    @MicaRayan 4 года назад +3

    The very definition of hitting the jackpot! Astounding.... if I was the one that found it, I might as well got fainted 🤣

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 3 года назад +1

      Incomprehensible post. Do you speak English? You certainly can’t write grammatically, so I’m guessing it isn’t your first language. Try this: “If I had been the one who found this, I might have fainted.”?

  • @AGM-ts5bb
    @AGM-ts5bb 4 года назад +4

    The emerald watch fob is beautiful.

  • @reginaromsey
    @reginaromsey 5 лет назад +6

    Sadly I went to The Museum of London in May 2018, and missed this through sheer lack of knowledge. There was an exhibition of the history of London, but nothing I could find about where the Hoard was or any of the items found in the Thames. Now I have to hope to save the money, friends and health to go again.

  • @theaansel8738
    @theaansel8738 3 года назад +1

    I was so fascinated that I froze when the video just abruptly ended. No worries the next part follows.

  • @christinecameron1612
    @christinecameron1612 5 лет назад +47

    Has anyone tried matching the pieces to historical portraits?

    • @cityandsuburb
      @cityandsuburb 5 лет назад +10

      A very interesting approach Christine, it may be the conduit through which final provenance happens....?
      You clever sticky.....!!

    • @josi4251
      @josi4251 5 лет назад +6

      If these were found at the jeweler's shop, they may never have been worn.

    • @AGM-ts5bb
      @AGM-ts5bb 4 года назад +1

      Great idea.

    • @mariapilarme
      @mariapilarme 3 года назад +2

      Yes Christine there’s a book os a Spanish art historian that do exactly that. I forgot the title , something along Jewels in art history. I am sure there’s an edition in English. Go to your public library.

  • @SandraNelson063
    @SandraNelson063 5 лет назад +12

    If you don't have an impressive bank vault to protect the family or business treasury, what do you do during times of upheaval? Well, in England folks bury things. They wrap up the silver, the nice earrings and necklace set that Aunty Calpurnia sent from Gaul, and stuff the lot down a whole in the back garden,or in the cellar floor. Of course, they do intend to dig it back up again when things calm down. But, stuff happens. The folks who have done the hiding think they're being clever by not telling anyone where the family/ business treasury has been squirreled away, that this is the best way to stop anyone from doing something foolish. And then something of a drastic nature happens , removing the "hider" from the scene, leaving no one to return to where the hoard was hidden.
    What could have happened to the owner of this collection? It was obviously worth quite a large amount. No one would willingly have left it behind.

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 4 года назад

      Hidden in a hole.. was a whole lot of nothing.

  • @JetPackDino
    @JetPackDino 3 года назад +2

    The imagination just runs wild. I can't even look.

  • @spuddy4845
    @spuddy4845 Год назад

    My favourite treasures, nothing comparable from this period survives

  • @SimonSozzi7258
    @SimonSozzi7258 3 года назад +6

    They spend a lot more time on the faces of the conservators than the actual jewelry. A bit disappointing.

  • @tppnr
    @tppnr Год назад +1

    If in Cheapside they used to make and sell jewels I wonder what amazing things they sold in Dearside...

  • @sissyrayself7508
    @sissyrayself7508 4 года назад +3

    That workman should have kept some of the treasurer for HIMSELF!

  • @AvaT42
    @AvaT42 4 года назад +6

    This is fascinating. I have never heard of the Cheapside Hoard. Why is there only half the story?

    • @arickett68
      @arickett68 4 года назад +2

      ruclips.net/video/1lbEg3-nBO0/видео.html

    • @AvaT42
      @AvaT42 4 года назад

      Angela Rickett Thank you Angela

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Год назад

    It’s great to hear the Greek name Berenice pronounced correctly! In Greek, it’s Berenike, of course, but the Romans stuck in their C for the K sound.

  • @auntsuga4359
    @auntsuga4359 4 года назад +1

    Fascinating

  • @tothelighthouse9843
    @tothelighthouse9843 2 года назад

    Find yourself a partner who looks at you the way this gentleman looks at someone discussing fine jewellry lol 13:43

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 3 года назад

    Why are some of those pieces not monogrammed? That's the question I have for this. One of them anyway. These are beautiful. Thank you for this video.

  • @spuddy4845
    @spuddy4845 Год назад

    The emerald watch is my favourite

  • @helloschoales
    @helloschoales 3 года назад +1

    The lady Jewelry historian is great

  • @Digitalhunny
    @Digitalhunny 7 лет назад +5

    It's collections of videos like you have here, that make me wish youtube had like, dislike and LOVE! Thank you for sharing! This one and Scott castle so far are my favorites! *Hugz

    • @agustasister5624
      @agustasister5624 6 лет назад +1

      Digitalhunny it would not represent the truth. Algorithms on most conservative channels have a dislke for ever 3 like....conversely liberal channels increase likes.....they also have many channels that do not record likes or dislikes because of "shadow banning" of people. The age of deception is beginning to emerge full force. UNFORTUNATELY most people are too lazy to research actual documents themselves to find the truth....nor to visit and see for themselves. JUSTICE ...especially now that there is a war to recreate the 2 tiered extreemly wide gap social system of slave and master as required in the koran has died.(slavery is legal and practiced in all islamic countries....yes real old fashioned slavery not just sex slavery to produce 99 percent of the worlds smut and snuff perversions*)..JUST LIKE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPLORATION OF IDEAS AND CONCEPTS...Dead as a doornail in the land that beought the world the magna carta. Tragic.
      * technically saudi Arabia claims to have recently outlawed slavery. However not one of the 100 bodies dumped each week in the desert has been investigated not anyone questioned seriously unless it was to blackmail..... them by the police. And conviction...lol..that is what your future is in england...and your almost there.

  • @yvonnemccullaghward361
    @yvonnemccullaghward361 3 года назад

    Never heard of this hoard before!

  • @MarcusLeepapi
    @MarcusLeepapi 4 года назад

    Looking nice....

  • @XX-gy7ue
    @XX-gy7ue 3 года назад

    very interesting

  • @maximhollandnederlandthene7640
    @maximhollandnederlandthene7640 Год назад +1

    Sadly all old gem buildings are demolished for new concrete and glass. 😒

  • @MSYNGWIE12
    @MSYNGWIE12 5 лет назад +1

    I am thinking of Alexander mcQueen and of how he'd have smiled in appreciation - the Egyptian agate- perfectly preserved!

    • @crazyoldhippieladyinthebib7357
      @crazyoldhippieladyinthebib7357 5 лет назад +1

      But it looked GLUED onto whatever it was on! I'm not much w antique knowledge but fairly sure adhesive isn't the wisest choice?

    • @MSYNGWIE12
      @MSYNGWIE12 5 лет назад +1

      @@crazyoldhippieladyinthebib7357 Hi another crazy old hippie lady here! I majored in art history and I outta know but I don't, I guess I shouldn't take so much at face value huh! You are right. Think about the scams involving the so called great auction houses over the last few years- what are a pair of crazy old HIPPIE ladies doing coveting such stuff!

    • @crazyoldhippieladyinthebib7357
      @crazyoldhippieladyinthebib7357 5 лет назад +2

      @@MSYNGWIE12I've always liked unusual jewelry-kinda drawn to old England's history. I just dabble in knowledge. And by doing that I don't have to remember huh? Too many drugs in the 60's-70's-80's etcetera...

  • @jeffbelcher1530
    @jeffbelcher1530 3 года назад +1

    I wonder if it had been part of King John's lost treasure?...

  • @vh2337
    @vh2337 4 года назад +4

    Is there a part 2? It seems to cut off before finishing.

  • @laurensouthgate2458
    @laurensouthgate2458 5 лет назад +3

    Is there more to this video it stopped to soon but very,very interesting.

    • @jo-vf8jx
      @jo-vf8jx 5 лет назад

      Lauren Southgate yes, there’s a part two

  • @vickinoeske1711
    @vickinoeske1711 6 лет назад +5

    Very interesting. Could the jewels have been stolen hence the burying of them?

    • @elizabethhenry6605
      @elizabethhenry6605 6 лет назад +1

      I was thinking much of it could have been buried during the Civil War to protect it from Cromwell's army (they melted down everything else). Not sure if the dates add up, though.

    • @patriciajrs46
      @patriciajrs46 3 года назад

      I was thinking spoils of one the wars in 1600's or so. Just a thought.

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 4 года назад +1

    Don’t let Smaug find out!

  • @LizzieWhiz
    @LizzieWhiz 4 года назад +2

    I think the CH was burried during the Great Fire of London and Cheapside is in the right area whic was affected by the fire.

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 3 года назад

      However, dearie, the Great Fire took place in 1666, and the narration states that the jewels date to Shakespeare’s era. He died in 1616. So... try another theory.

    • @teptime
      @teptime 2 года назад

      @@judeirwin2222 It's not impossible that they were hidden away by a pawnbroker as the Great Fire raged, in which case the jewels could already have some age, and even be considered dated by the fashions of the time. I'm of the mind that they were stolen goods, personally, which would support the surreptitious nature of their concealment.

  • @samplerstitcher
    @samplerstitcher 10 лет назад +12

    Tsavorite diamonds? Do you mean Tsavorite garnets?

    • @jo-vf8jx
      @jo-vf8jx 5 лет назад +1

      Mj diamonds come in all colors 😊

    • @beberivera7011
      @beberivera7011 5 лет назад +3

      @@jo-vf8jx diamond a tsavorite are 2 different minerals. No such thing as a "tsavorite diamond".

    • @caligulalonghbottom2629
      @caligulalonghbottom2629 5 лет назад +1

      @@beberivera7011 she also referred to the stones in that chain as diamond when Im not sure that they were. Maybe 'diamonds' is an interchangeable term for gems in the uk...?

    • @beberivera7011
      @beberivera7011 5 лет назад

      @@caligulalonghbottom2629 it's entirely possible but it is incorrect.

  • @goldenglove4663
    @goldenglove4663 4 года назад +1

    Shaune Leanne is a genius

  • @d.h.fremont3027
    @d.h.fremont3027 6 лет назад +6

    The musical score is unsettling to hear while trying to have patience to hear the speaker.

    • @evanroberts2771
      @evanroberts2771 6 лет назад +1

      Yes, his homosexual low masculinity tone makes him hard to understand.

  • @maximhollandnederlandthene7640

    The treasure of the Olivier Twist pickpockets headman. 🤗

  • @melodymann738
    @melodymann738 5 лет назад +1

    these items may ba part of the jewels missing from a royal kings carriage bogged down in the muck along a coastal area several treasure hunting tv programs have shown people searching for it - also these could have been hidden by someone during the war a jewelers treasured possessions tucked away during the bombing of London - thinking they would return after the war? that is where I would be looking for info on who worked the shop at later dates.?

    • @Alexandra-ix6cl
      @Alexandra-ix6cl 5 лет назад +5

      The hoard was discovered in 1912, so it couldn't be a result of wwii.

  • @Paulol100
    @Paulol100 10 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much I do not have a TV but love History. I have put this on Pinerest I hope you don't mind Ann Wardley ex pat Sheffield

  • @mariannesmith9541
    @mariannesmith9541 3 года назад

    I would check the royal tudor in entorrys

  • @claytondefreitas9521
    @claytondefreitas9521 5 лет назад +4

    Could the jewels have been part of the collection of Queen Mary of Scott’s hidden away

    • @caligulalonghbottom2629
      @caligulalonghbottom2629 5 лет назад +1

      no...theyre later than that. most are early 17th century, she was already dead.

    • @megenberg8
      @megenberg8 5 лет назад

      @@caligulalonghbottom2629Longhbottom its early 16th.

    • @carolmarshall2025
      @carolmarshall2025 5 лет назад

      They said it was in Shakespeare time which would be the 15th Century.

    • @carolmarshall2025
      @carolmarshall2025 5 лет назад +1

      Shakespeare time, the 1500’s. My following statement was wrong.

    • @carolmarshall2025
      @carolmarshall2025 5 лет назад

      T

  • @monelleny
    @monelleny 4 года назад +1

    Why does this end in the middle of a sentence?

  • @getin3949
    @getin3949 5 лет назад +1

    Many stones are missing from the salamander.

    • @TMPreRaff
      @TMPreRaff 4 года назад

      You're the expert.

  • @lizabethgussman331
    @lizabethgussman331 2 года назад +1

    Cheapside? How did it get that name?

  • @peterjoyce6697
    @peterjoyce6697 3 года назад

    Time Place and person perfect

  • @kc3718
    @kc3718 3 года назад

    are half mast trousers the fashion in London, or a niche thing ?

    • @cerberus6654
      @cerberus6654 3 года назад

      A fashion thing. Along with leotards now, as well.

  • @SimonSozzi7258
    @SimonSozzi7258 3 года назад

    How is it Cleopatra if it's 200-300 B.C.?Berenice II was 250 B.C. and there were many Cleopatras before The Cleopatra. Must have been an earlier one. Not really the same. Still fascinating...but still. Details.

    • @cerberus6654
      @cerberus6654 3 года назад

      She got that amazingly wrong didn't she.? And it's not even remotely the face of Cleopatra (the last one). It's probably just a representation of Isis.

  • @TheGranti7a
    @TheGranti7a 6 лет назад +1

    Awkward audiography on this video.

  • @AGM-ts5bb
    @AGM-ts5bb 4 года назад +1

    Just reinforces that no matter what material things are worth, you can't take it with you.

  • @patstokes7040
    @patstokes7040 8 месяцев назад

    1:00 brass rings around the neck isn't even original

  • @risenandreturning
    @risenandreturning 4 года назад

    Maybe long ago a royal or someone in their circles had sticky fingers.

  • @lolb1221
    @lolb1221 3 года назад

    Stoney Jack is a fucking lad!

  • @husseinhoteit3712
    @husseinhoteit3712 3 года назад

    50 000 only comm

  • @TheMintyMelon
    @TheMintyMelon 4 года назад

    The cameo of the Egyptian woman’s head could NOT be that of Cleopatra as she would not be around for another 3 hundred years.. This is a really embarrassing statement to make...!!

    • @wendypeterwendywendy
      @wendypeterwendywendy 4 года назад +4

      I believe the Cleopatra you are thinking of was actually Cleopatra VII Philopator, from a line of Ptolemeic Queens who shared the name Cleopatra. This leaves the possibility that the curator is correct and the agate is a representation of a Queen Cleopatra, just which one. Presumably the family symbolism, used to identify them to their subjects, was passed from monarch to monarch, much like the UK Royal family.

    • @patriciajrs46
      @patriciajrs46 3 года назад +1

      This is jewelry from the early 1600's and possibly passed down from generations before that time, as well. Cleopatra was a queen in the B.C. times. I don't think this curator was remiss, I think there were artisans who copied those way-early jewels, or these were passed down through many family, and war histories.

    • @TimothyJames-pg9bv
      @TimothyJames-pg9bv 18 дней назад

      @@wendypeterwendywendy Even when professional historians say "Cleopatra," they mean "Cleopatra VII," and she's talking to a layman, so that's certainly what she means here. I've seen that cameo described as THE Cleopatra in multiple other places as well. She just made a mistake.

  • @sonalpatel6119
    @sonalpatel6119 4 года назад

    🙍🏻‍♀️7 : 79 wenesday 5 Fabruary 2020
    Good Blass you ,

  • @rison.prasadkarayil787
    @rison.prasadkarayil787 3 года назад

    this guy looks like salman khan from bollywood

  • @medagbe
    @medagbe Год назад

    Er, Mabinogion

  • @medagbe
    @medagbe Год назад

    Man=binogion not there!!!~

  • @aaronwilliam7110
    @aaronwilliam7110 5 лет назад +5

    My gaydar is beeping when he starting to talk 😂

  • @Dmhlcmb
    @Dmhlcmb 5 лет назад +5

    Narrator is almost unbearable

  • @atmakali9599
    @atmakali9599 4 года назад

    Can’t stand bbc scripting.

  • @cerberus6654
    @cerberus6654 3 года назад +1

    Way too much time spent watching that jewellery guy wandering around and talking about himself. Cheapside Bored!

  • @grahamhill9499
    @grahamhill9499 11 месяцев назад

    Take that ridiculous earing out please