Archaeologists Find Extraordinary Hoard In Anglo-Saxon Cemetery | Time Team | Chronicle

Investigating a Bronze Age barrow in the New Forest, Tony and the team uncover a Saxon Cemetery with a startling array of grave goods - spears, shields, jewelry - and a collection of rare buckets unique in Britain. A Byzantine brass bucket - one of only 11 in the world - was found during a three-day live dig in a Saxon cemetery a year ago. Time Team is now returning to find out more about the people who lived and died here.
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. It is described as "possibly the finest collection of early medieval artifacts ever discovered.
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  • @thecourtlyalchemist
    @thecourtlyalchemist8 ай бұрын

    If I owned land in the UK, I would spend the rest of my days digging holes.

  • @aliveandhearty7321

    @aliveandhearty7321

    7 ай бұрын

    😂😂

  • @lisadolan689

    @lisadolan689

    7 ай бұрын

    Nope. You’d spend every night for the rest of your life stopping randomers digging up your fields at midnight. It freaking happens. All the time!! People sneak in after dark and dig etc 😒

  • @user-co5ny9nb7f

    @user-co5ny9nb7f

    7 ай бұрын

    Go for it, good luck

  • @deborahbaker4770

    @deborahbaker4770

    7 ай бұрын

    Me too I find it so amazing what is buried under everyday field’s and garden’s I try and picture the people from that time and way before them it’s so fascinating to me‼️‼️‼️👍🏻😊

  • @ginmar8134

    @ginmar8134

    6 ай бұрын

    Try metal detecting instead.

  • @miked2662
    @miked26628 ай бұрын

    My man rockin’ those jorts hard AF.

  • @jbrunch8082

    @jbrunch8082

    3 ай бұрын

    Real men wear jorts! LOL!

  • @miked2662

    @miked2662

    3 ай бұрын

    @@jbrunch8082 Agreed 👊🏻

  • @FLEABONE
    @FLEABONE8 ай бұрын

    A a woman born in East Anglia but mostly raised in the US with a few years schooled in Lowestoft I love your shows. It brings me home especially when I catch a suffolk accent. I'm a proud relative of Amos Beamish the Famous Giant of Barnby he is my great great great... uncle.

  • @christigoth

    @christigoth

    8 ай бұрын

    how tall was he? and what ancestry?

  • @CemeteryHillFarm

    @CemeteryHillFarm

    6 ай бұрын

    I'm of British descent and can trace my ancestry for centuries. This show brings me close to my ancestors ❤

  • @the8419

    @the8419

    4 ай бұрын

    @@CemeteryHillFarmyes, you and literally anyone else of European descent...

  • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    21 күн бұрын

    A lot of words combined but no coherent sentences.. Quite impressive and simultaneously worrying.

  • @user-fv5ms4sz8e
    @user-fv5ms4sz8e8 ай бұрын

    I want everyone to understand what this documentary is getting at: which is, that artifacts discovered do not necessarily mean the people who made the item, ever lived in the area. I've seen so called archaeologists find an item older than the place they know the age of, then ascribe the item's age to the location, instead of ever thinking it was taken there. Ancient people were just like us today; they admired their treasures. They held in high esteem loot taken from their enemies. Monarchs and high officials hoarded war trophies, just as eagerly as WWII vets prized a German Luger. So, in such reasoning we must apply a simple logical deduction of if the item originates there or did it originate in a different year and location and eventually wind up where it was found?

  • @sharonkaczorowski8690
    @sharonkaczorowski86908 ай бұрын

    All these double burials suggest something bad happened here…probably an attack. The burial with the infant/toddler was very touching.

  • @christynpassalaqua2661

    @christynpassalaqua2661

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes the burial with the two adults and the toddler pulled at the heart strings. The way the male in the left leaning in to the person next to him you can definitely visualise the funeral. Definitely the most emotional and moving episode

  • @komradtombstone
    @komradtombstone8 ай бұрын

    I have a theory about the large number of double-burials, with so much weaponry buried along with the corpses: there was an attack on the village, and those people buried together were relatives who died in the raid, the adults having attempted to defend the village. The fact that the one skull, at least, showed signs of blunt-force trauma could definitely point to someone killed in battle. Like many of the peoples of that time period, the Saxons were a "warlike" folk (I mean what Germanic people WASN'T in those days?). They believed in basically the same gods and goddesses as the Norse (Vikings) did. To those people, dying in battle, defending one's home and family, would have been seen as a "good death," and they would have been buried with their weapons as a sign of their warrior honour. If it was a raid, and a large number of family members were killed all at once (even the elderly and children were considered legitimate targets in olden times), it stands to reason that brothers would be buried together, children would be buried with parents, etc. This is all an educated guess, but I think it fits.

  • @christigoth

    @christigoth

    8 ай бұрын

    not only that , but once the nurturing adults were killed, the children would fare much worse and maybe die not long after, of pure neglect or lack of breastmilk, etc.

  • @tdpay9015

    @tdpay9015

    8 ай бұрын

    It couldn't have been a complete rout, or else there wouldn't have been anyone to conduct the funeral, and the most precious goods would have been taken by the victorious party.

  • @stewartbonner

    @stewartbonner

    8 ай бұрын

    father and son warriors that died in the same battle.

  • @SnowTiger45

    @SnowTiger45

    8 ай бұрын

    I was thinking something similar. It seems in the one grave it may have been a father and son buried together, both of whom who may have been killed at the same time, either in battle or as a result of an attack. Since there are fewer women, I can only guess they were taken and raped and either kept as sex slaves or were killed elsewhere.

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    @@tdpay9015 Yes. It most certainly looks like a battle and it sure looks like this village won it. The victors lose people in battles, too. But the victors are buried with respect. Losers who tried to kill your family definitely do not get buried with respect, if at all. (It's hard work to dig even a simple grave.) More likely they were left out for the wolves - who would have heard the battle and been waiting...

  • @bettyir4302
    @bettyir43028 ай бұрын

    There's a hole in your bucket, dear Tony, dear Tony. There's a hole in your bucket, dear Tony, a hole. 🎶🎶

  • @cruisepaige

    @cruisepaige

    3 ай бұрын

    Im so glad I was not the only one who thought of this!

  • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    21 күн бұрын

    Its in his head

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby8 ай бұрын

    The Anglo Saxon period is probably my favorite for Medieval england

  • @judithmacfadzen9516

    @judithmacfadzen9516

    8 ай бұрын

    Mine too! ❤

  • @christigoth

    @christigoth

    8 ай бұрын

    they had town hall meetings and voted, just like New England did here, and we descend from that partially, in our colonial familes and in our colonial government, and now. Tun moot, and hundred moot. much more egalitarian than the norman conquerors, who turned them into an oppressed class.

  • @balderii7340

    @balderii7340

    7 ай бұрын

    Its stone, bronze, iron, Roman, Saxon, Norman and thén medieval. It’s the word for a separate time-period.

  • @dann5268
    @dann52686 ай бұрын

    Just noticed Carenza's sunburned arms, so dedicated! Love this team !

  • @Cara-39
    @Cara-398 ай бұрын

    As a Medievalist, the Staffordshire Hoard and Sutton Hoo helmet are some of my favorite artifacts and in my opinion, are the embodiment of Anglo-Saxon Britain.

  • @Dignity_first

    @Dignity_first

    24 күн бұрын

    Interesting!)

  • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    21 күн бұрын

    "Medievalist" with a fascist Ukrainian emblem in your profile. I can see you are not one of culture.

  • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    21 күн бұрын

    "Medievalist" with a fascist Ukrainian emblem in your profile. I can see you are not one of culture.

  • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode

    21 күн бұрын

    "Medievalist" with a fascist Ukrainian emblem in your profile. I can see you are not one of culture.

  • @Patrick_Cooper
    @Patrick_Cooper8 ай бұрын

    The literal meaning of 'kick the bucket".

  • @IntrepidFraidyCat

    @IntrepidFraidyCat

    8 ай бұрын

    Darn it, Patrick! You beat me to it! 💀🦵😂

  • @barbaraalice8973
    @barbaraalice89738 ай бұрын

    Wonderful explanation by museum why/how finding of amateur followed proper identification procedure thus encouraging Time Team investigation. That itself is exciting for public education.

  • @dalekundtz760

    @dalekundtz760

    8 ай бұрын

    More educators like this one from the museum are needed to help educate amateur diggers so that important finds like this are not damaged or lost.

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd

    @JohnEglick-oz6cd

    8 ай бұрын

    Ancient history is so fascinating , especially when getting into the Greco - Roman periods , and that dark ages that followed after Rome fell mi- late 400s A.D. The Spanish empire was a continuation of Roman ways , but was Christian .

  • @chrisfoxwell4128

    @chrisfoxwell4128

    8 ай бұрын

    Policies don't exactly encourage such proper identification. While some people are strictly interested in history, others are exploring for profit. Certainly that bucket held some value for someone it probably wouldn't help someone retire. But, find a horde of gold and they'll be lucky to receive a fraction of a fraction of the value.

  • @johndewey6358
    @johndewey63588 ай бұрын

    Looks like more than one person had kicked the bucket!

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    Groooaaan! (Embarrassed that I didn't think of it!)

  • @pedrovitsch
    @pedrovitsch4 ай бұрын

    As always, a wonderful episode about England's rich history! I love the protagonists, some of whom are already legends!

  • @Jerbod2
    @Jerbod28 ай бұрын

    This is one of the most interesting episodes.

  • @bettyir4302

    @bettyir4302

    8 ай бұрын

    Never an uninteresing one.

  • @richardbooth4573

    @richardbooth4573

    4 ай бұрын

    Certainly one of the more profitable digs. Finding those spears is exciting. I would like it if they found a bit of pottery with the burials.

  • @jeannienash5249
    @jeannienash52498 ай бұрын

    Hello from Forest, Ontario, Canada

  • @future_me_6067
    @future_me_60674 ай бұрын

    I love the Anglo Saxon fondness for antiquities from other cultures.

  • @Prfdt3

    @Prfdt3

    2 ай бұрын

    Are you being facetious?

  • @thomasspravka1370
    @thomasspravka13707 ай бұрын

    I love the pace of walking, as if the artifacts were about to run and hide!

  • @cruisepaige

    @cruisepaige

    3 ай бұрын

    Tony has do much enthusiasm! He’s got a bunch of cunning plans!

  • @timothyaschauer1993
    @timothyaschauer19937 ай бұрын

    Awesome dig, love to have been there and lent a hand.

  • @chuckschillingvideos
    @chuckschillingvideos8 ай бұрын

    I don't think Phil's jorts are short enough.

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins28994 ай бұрын

    Day 4… wow. The only one I know of. Very cool.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet3598 ай бұрын

    In England one can throw a rock and where it lands a treasure of ancient history will be found.

  • @Blessings.429
    @Blessings.4298 ай бұрын

    Since this was so long ago I am hoping it includes all test results on the buckets . What was in each one which grave they came from ect. An update on anything else, after the program finishes… that’s what I wish to know…

  • @bethbartlett5692

    @bethbartlett5692

    7 ай бұрын

    The "Follow-ups" would be a great subject for the "New Time Team" episodes.

  • @maxdecphoenix

    @maxdecphoenix

    6 ай бұрын

    I have to believe it took you longer to type out that comment, than just type a few keywords in to google and read up on it some 20-years later.

  • @Blessings.429

    @Blessings.429

    6 ай бұрын

    @@maxdecphoenix thank you my dear for your sweet comment, I just had the biggest belly laugh ever. Get over yourself 😳🙄😵‍💫

  • @markhand4530
    @markhand45308 ай бұрын

    Regarding the question as to 'why such young people would have been buried with weapons?' i would say it had to do with the warrior mentality of that age in believing that any afterlife would be a violent place where you had to protect yourself as this is all they knew like in norse views of the afterlife.

  • @christigoth
    @christigoth8 ай бұрын

    the maggot spear head- might have had maggots pupating on it since it was covered in flesh and blood of the enemy. and sat outside for at least a day before buried ( flies laid eggs on it).

  • @lorilea3188
    @lorilea31888 ай бұрын

    "Fly puperia ... in association with the corpse" sounds much more pleasant than being eaten by maggots.

  • @richardbooth4573

    @richardbooth4573

    4 ай бұрын

    The stench would have been awful. Bodies when decomposing fill with rancid gas that will erupt suddenly. Hopefully the flies kept that from occuring

  • @NedKelly1967
    @NedKelly19678 ай бұрын

    I have noticed over 40 odd years of watching archeologists they have a tendency to transcribe their own modern “opinions” onto many of these finds. This is a serious problem as the non bias analysis of our history shows an unrealistic picture of many finds and events.

  • @bethbartlett5692

    @bethbartlett5692

    7 ай бұрын

    Which is why they try to use it being found in undisturbed ground as a validation of age of the dig layer, but true, it doesn't validate who created the piece. Archaeologists are a odd mind, resistant and yet rush to determine it is the: "earliest, or validation of" Only, of course, when it validated their predetermined Beliefs, Theory, and their "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline", which defines "Mainstream Academia/Archaeologists" ...

  • @johng4093

    @johng4093

    3 ай бұрын

    So much conjecture based on so few clues.

  • @58Kym
    @58Kym7 ай бұрын

    🎉Sandi Toksvig! Isn’t she from QI? My oh my, she is a lot younger. I had no idea how old this show was.

  • @njswimdad
    @njswimdad8 ай бұрын

    From a complete amateur, but don't we know that the vikings had gotten around the Iberian peninsula and into the Med, and established trading ports?. That would seem a much more likely route for Levant produced goods like the decorated bucket, especially since the area being excavated is on the way back to Jutland and the Scandinavian countries. As to the nesting buckets, any bushwacker used to hiking into unknown areas has a set of nesting pots for cooking, carrying water, eating, and even carrying smaller items. If I was a warrior who had gone off to battle, I would have well used such a set. And of course you'd always carry weapons; pigs and goats just don't jump into the pot when you're campaigning.

  • @NickMeisher
    @NickMeisher8 ай бұрын

    I hope they do DNA tests on all the bones and add it to the DNA database that people today can compare to

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    Doesn't look like the bones are in good enough condition to still contain any DNA.

  • @219043204

    @219043204

    3 ай бұрын

    They couldn't because of the bone condition and they are contaminated by the soil

  • @robertballard8833
    @robertballard88338 ай бұрын

    Oh, the mystery of the bucket . biggest Question- Did He kick it when He died....

  • @herschelmayo2727

    @herschelmayo2727

    8 ай бұрын

    LOL😂

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb8 ай бұрын

    I wish there was more information on which episode this is… he mentioned the 3 live episodes. Is that time team digs? I’m in the US and we haven’t been privileged with Time Team. I’ve been watching on KZread but no idea which season it is… just a rough estimate based on Tony’s hair

  • @Padraigan13

    @Padraigan13

    8 ай бұрын

    Seven Buckets and a Buckle, Breamore, Hampshire | S09E13 | Time Team

  • @savannahwhite1064
    @savannahwhite10648 ай бұрын

    Still boggles my mind that ppl doubt the trade power of that time truly and amazing time

  • @SierraThunder

    @SierraThunder

    8 ай бұрын

    It's like the myth that all sailors stayed close to the shore rather than sail in wide expanses of open water. Sailing close to any coastline was far more hazardous than sailing in open water, and peoples of that time knew far more about sailing by the stars & sun than people do now. Even if the globe hadn't been intensely mapped in the 6th century, I seriously doubt that the majority of the continents, and/or large islands hadn't all been either discovered or at least sighted. After all, we really don't live on that large a planet, and there are seriously old tales of trading with any number of different tribes & civilizations, on different shores by then.

  • @Tugela60
    @Tugela608 ай бұрын

    Cemeteries are bad places to hide treasure hoards due to the probability of them being looted.

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
    @JohnEglick-oz6cd8 ай бұрын

    The English language is considered Germanic , and the word england comes from Angleland ; land of the Angles who , like the Saxons , and Jutes invaded England right after the collapse of the Roman Empire mid to late 400s A.D. . It's fantastic how the Roman Empire lasted nearly 600 years !

  • @susanmercurio1060
    @susanmercurio10607 ай бұрын

    I am reminded of the quip that explains the difference between the US and Europe: "In the US, 100 years is a long time; in Europe, 100 miles is a long way." When you talk about 1500 years, I, as an American citizen, can hardly grasp it.

  • @garyvee6023
    @garyvee60238 ай бұрын

    I truly wish I had been influenced when I was younger (I am 65 now) I would of immigrated to the UK to look for the lost history..., never was interested as a kid about "William the Conqueror" in 1066 (the only thing I remember as a kid from my history lessons)..., being from Australia. 😢

  • @barbaraburton8914

    @barbaraburton8914

    8 ай бұрын

    Doesn't every kid have that date drilled into their little head. FL/USA. 😂

  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe52298 ай бұрын

    What does the writing on the bucket say? What are the pictures on the bucket about?

  • @dustbunny3824
    @dustbunny38248 ай бұрын

    Other theory. The journey to the afterlife was more likely to be successful if not made alone. The weapons were for defense along the way.

  • @dongray9852
    @dongray98528 ай бұрын

    Perhaps a family cemetery of the owner/operators of a bucket manufacturing community..?

  • @barrywassel3899
    @barrywassel38998 ай бұрын

    Turns out this was a sub-group of the Jutes, a group called the Bucket People !!! Hyacinthe was descended from these people ! (Sorry to the young people, couldn't resist this whimsicality for us boomers !)

  • @donnadenis7699
    @donnadenis76997 ай бұрын

    why do you only have three days? wouldnt it be good to dig up the whole thing?

  • @SusanRaickle
    @SusanRaickle4 ай бұрын

    When he said something about Antioch?? 😅 my brain goes all Monty-Python, "so THAT'S what the bucket is!!! Behold, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 (*in my own defense, I couldn't HELP it 🤷‍♀️*)

  • @jeffkeeley4594
    @jeffkeeley45948 ай бұрын

    Alice Roberts and Helen Geake in the same episode....I'm a happy little vegemite!!!!

  • @MrWeedWacky
    @MrWeedWacky8 ай бұрын

    36:20 - that speculation on how the bucket got from Byzantium to Britain is awful... It could quite easily have gone in one go... Here is how... A Varangian Jute, retires, takes his wealth, including the bucket and moves from Micklagaard (Constantinople) to Jutland, then he brings his family to a better life in Britain because he can afford it.

  • @michaelrudolph7003

    @michaelrudolph7003

    5 ай бұрын

    Or, because the Roman empire shuffled so many people from so many different parts of the wide empire around, perhaps a Byzantine person came to be stationed near this area and started a family here. Or nearby and later moved into the area. Maybe the bucket thing was something cultural or familial that they brought with them to their new land. So many possibilities.

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman8 ай бұрын

    I've often rhought the whole afterlife reason for burying valuables was a bit spurious. I think it was more likely out of respect for the owner and to reduce squabling between close relatives over the spoils of someone's death.

  • @joythought

    @joythought

    8 ай бұрын

    Because you assume your culture was similar to a culture over a thousand years ago? There's a lot of burial practices from our past that includes slaughtering servants, pets etc. And you think that was not so the important person would have their servants and pets in the afterlife, but instead it was about not sharing with surviving siblings?

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    @@joythought There are scattered instances of slaughtering servants, etc. Those are mostly the rich/powerful narcissists. The vast majority of everyday people were probably much more like the average people nowadays. They just don't make for good TV.

  • @jaycee5968
    @jaycee59687 ай бұрын

    So interesting!

  • @Sarafimm2
    @Sarafimm28 ай бұрын

    Breamore in Hampshire is where this is located. There are several museums the items could have been sent to, but I'm wondering if the Salisbury Museum was one of them since it's listed on the map. There are also bigger towns on the map, too, but I didn't see any obvious "Museum" markers for them.

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman8 ай бұрын

    Less than a hundred years after Roman governance collapsed there was likely to be a lot of power grabs and warlording going on. You spear and shield would be your best friend, and only your direct family could be relied on in a fight.

  • @balderii7340
    @balderii73407 ай бұрын

    If it is so odd for a Saxon burial, maybe it’s not Saxon. What about the Juts who occupied the area before that Saxon invasion? Maybe these remains are Juts, buried with all those weapons, cause they died fighting so bravely against the Saxons.

  • @tdpay9015
    @tdpay90158 ай бұрын

    I wonder what Hyacinth Bucket would think of all those buckets.

  • @EarlyMusicDiva

    @EarlyMusicDiva

    8 ай бұрын

    Well, you know, they were all keeping up appearances. :D

  • @Fox1nDen
    @Fox1nDen4 ай бұрын

    My ancestor Geoffrey de Stapleton wed Alene Penrodus Comnenos of Cyprus 1180 , they are my 26th great grandparents. I have been wondering if she, or someone like her, was the owner of the nested buckets that Time Team found. 1180 is perhaps not as old as the Saxons, but graves persist, don't they? Anyway, food for thought. People from the Mediterranean often traveled, naturally easy by sea, and after all that is how the Romans took over way back. It's fascinating when buckets from the Middle East show up in British soil.

  • @ChuckNorris-yx7ef
    @ChuckNorris-yx7ef7 ай бұрын

    LOve time team spent a lot of time watching them lol

  • @christigoth
    @christigoth8 ай бұрын

    as an american woman of the wild west and early colonial families, i can tell you why the women were armed. It is defensive. they lived in a hostile dangerous land that had enemies about, and they wanted to survive . the women were part of the defense, in the home and possibly outside it. Just like many of us American women were and are still today. "it was probably our ancestors" lol. i wouldn't be surprised. ever the colonist adventurers.

  • @MadMax-bq6pg

    @MadMax-bq6pg

    8 ай бұрын

    We defend the ones we love. Your comment makes me think of an anecdote from my grandmother’s childhood (approximately 1905, in a tiny settlement on the far south coast of New South Wales). A snake started coming up through a gap in the floorboards. Great grandmother grabbed a shotgun from above the fireplace, snapped the action shut & Joe Blake copped both barrels from the hip. Side note: later in life, when I knew a little more, I questioned Nanna (ie my grandmother) asking “didn’t your mother have to load the weapon?”. Her reply was “oh no, all 4 guns & rifles over the fireplace were permanently loaded…..” Hi from Oz🇦🇺👍

  • @pfranks75

    @pfranks75

    8 ай бұрын

    Even with a minimal education during Colonial times, first person singular would be a capitalized I.

  • @robertprestonsr2453
    @robertprestonsr24538 ай бұрын

    Hence. we have learned the exact origin of the phrase: "To kick the bucket"!

  • @trajancanada

    @trajancanada

    8 ай бұрын

    Bucket? It's pronounced "Boo-kay".

  • @antoniomoreira5921
    @antoniomoreira59218 ай бұрын

    For anyone interested in Anglo-Saxon territorial and political history I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

  • @majorblue777

    @majorblue777

    8 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I can't get enough of these medieval england videos!

  • @revolvermaster4939

    @revolvermaster4939

    8 ай бұрын

    Wow, what a treasure trove of history vids!

  • @judithcoloma613
    @judithcoloma6133 ай бұрын

    I'm American with German ancestory. Going way back with my own findings. The folks were very practical and only had useful items. Since the skeletons are buried in pairs with things, could the buckets be wedding presents to take take to the after life? Watching this program makes me want to dig up my own backyard and see what I wind up with. Washington State does have a history.

  • @Raycheetah
    @Raycheetah8 ай бұрын

    10:08 "These were rural folk with clean water and uncrowded housing. Two people just *couldn't* have died of a communicable disease at the same time. Much likelier that they left the grave open for new bodies to be added. Don't worry yourself that both skeletons appear to remain nicely articulated, in spite of the prolonged exposure I posit, or that those grave goods were left exposed along with the rotting bodies." =9[.]9=

  • @christigoth

    @christigoth

    8 ай бұрын

    yeah, it could have been just a few, not a raging epidemic. families living together would be vulnerable i f one got sick.

  • @SierraThunder

    @SierraThunder

    8 ай бұрын

    Even with clean water & uncrowded housing, Cholera outbreaks were still possible at that time. But I think that, as another commenter has suggested, that the deaths were likely caused by a sudden raid on the small community. It would explain the multiple double burials, and the blunt force trauma skull fracture on the one skull.

  • @Raycheetah

    @Raycheetah

    8 ай бұрын

    @@SierraThunder That would also explain the variances in ages in the burials. At least there were survivors to bury their dead, and valuable grave goods still to be had, which means either a raid was repulsed, or the deaths took place away from the settlement. ='[.]'=

  • @frankgordon8829
    @frankgordon88298 ай бұрын

    Women always make the best archeologists. They LOVE digging up the past.

  • @Greblav

    @Greblav

    4 ай бұрын

    Know the past, most have its origin there ❤

  • @kimberlypatton205

    @kimberlypatton205

    3 ай бұрын

    Ugh.

  • @PrimarchEldarAutarch
    @PrimarchEldarAutarch8 ай бұрын

    Do you respect them and give them a proper burial when done poking them? was it spears up if they were fighters taking out enemies, and spearhead down was for taken out without getting an enemy?

  • @staceys4044
    @staceys40448 ай бұрын

    Im willing to chip in and buy Phill a longer pair of shorts and haircut

  • @deborahparham3783

    @deborahparham3783

    4 ай бұрын

    Shut up about Phil's shorts and hair. Phil is perfect the way he is.

  • @philiprobinson3160
    @philiprobinson31607 ай бұрын

    How do they determine what graveyards are OK to dig up?

  • @silverhooligan1256
    @silverhooligan12567 ай бұрын

    That one bucket could have been a baby Dalek.

  • @MrEnajiza
    @MrEnajiza7 ай бұрын

    One of my favourite Historians Alice Roberts

  • @marilynleveque2497
    @marilynleveque24977 ай бұрын

    We had 3 family members in 1920s that died of diphtheria in one 24 hour period. Very common.

  • @gregb6469
    @gregb64698 ай бұрын

    33:25-- Jay Leno's ancestor?

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins28994 ай бұрын

    Sandi is always fun. I like her

  • @jesterboykins2899

    @jesterboykins2899

    4 ай бұрын

    I always found Margaret a handsome lass

  • @superscope27
    @superscope278 ай бұрын

    Ive never seen someone point and gesture so much with their middle finger.

  • @trajancanada
    @trajancanada8 ай бұрын

    Always thought Baldrick and Mrs. Miggins were kindred spirits.

  • @corricatt
    @corricatt8 ай бұрын

    WOW!!!

  • @williamkinkade2538
    @williamkinkade25384 ай бұрын

    Need MEDIEVAL GOLD!!!

  • @mickvonbornemann3824
    @mickvonbornemann38248 ай бұрын

    Maybe the buckets indicated they were dairy farmers who belonged to the local co-op

  • @lazygardens
    @lazygardens8 ай бұрын

    That';s a Byzantine BooKay! Not a bucket!

  • @catspaw3815

    @catspaw3815

    8 ай бұрын

    ha ha. good ole keeping up a-spearances

  • @MareShoop

    @MareShoop

    7 ай бұрын

    I think I’ll invite you to one of my candlelight suppers 😂

  • @markfitzsimmons7544
    @markfitzsimmons75448 ай бұрын

    I've always wondered...rhetorically, what gives us the right, legal or otherwise, to dig people up? Is it OK after a certain amount of time? Or if it's not a designated burial ground? I know it's done in the name of science etc., but I don't know if we should? Anyway, interesting program. Thanks!

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    Graves, like funerals, are for the living. The dead are gone. How they are treated depends on if there is someone left to defend them. Pathetic, yes. The native Americans, for example, have a terrible time with desecration of their graves and other sacred sites because they have so little power to defend them. These "Saxons" (or Saxon subjects) have nobody to defend them, so we dig them up. That's just the harsh, cruel, human reality of it. Most of us only seem to matter to ourselves and our immediate circle.

  • @michaelrudolph7003

    @michaelrudolph7003

    5 ай бұрын

    @@briangodfrey7424 Also, many of the people living in the area have a long lineage of living in the area. They're seen as ancestors and if their closest kin want to learn about them, who is anyone else to say no? How else can we learn about the past if we ignore graves? Isn't that potentially important information lost? Also, once a grave or graveyard is found, even if the professionals left it, is it a better outcome if the graves are robbed at a later date? Now we learned nothing, the dead were disturbed anyway and things would be stolen. I don't think that's better on any account.

  • @Brian-uy2tj
    @Brian-uy2tj8 ай бұрын

    I disagree with their conclusion that someone sat in that spot making flint tools. I think it is much more likely that they were made and carried with them as a bunch and something happened. The chances that someone sat there peacefully making them and then just left them there, while possible, I consider unlikely.

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    What they were showing are the waste flakes that are cast off when knapping flint. They would not moved them any farther than was needed so they wouldn't step on them and cut their feet. That's why it is safe to assume that someone sat there knapping flint.

  • @corneilcorneil
    @corneilcorneil7 ай бұрын

    I expected a album from the rockband Saxon! 😂

  • @colonelweird
    @colonelweird8 ай бұрын

    What if the British government funded a scheme to systematically identify and properly excavate sites like this throughout the country? In other words, what if the UK chose to no longer rely upon chance and amateurs with metal detectors to shape its understanding of ancient/medieval Britain? Such a fantasy, I know. But still... what if?

  • @christigoth

    @christigoth

    8 ай бұрын

    well, do they really want to dig everyone up like that ?

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    I hope they don't. I just read where there are already so many ancient artifacts in British museums that they are getting rid of a lot of them because have run out of room to store them. So what's the point of digging up more? I think they should leave them alone in case some future archaeologists are better supported and able to preserve and learn from them.

  • @CT--jv2ur

    @CT--jv2ur

    7 ай бұрын

    @@briangodfrey7424I agree

  • @nancytimmer9026
    @nancytimmer90268 ай бұрын

    Made in Antioch? Did they find the holy handgrenade too?

  • @trojanpussy
    @trojanpussy8 ай бұрын

    3rd time watching. It must have been 1 of my foemer lives😚

  • @helenamcginty4920
    @helenamcginty49203 ай бұрын

    Britain is a tiny island off the coast of Europe but seems to have been quite densly inhabited for a long time.

  • @richardbooth4573
    @richardbooth45734 ай бұрын

    What were the buckets used for ? Were they for waste material ?

  • @ROBERTN-ut2il
    @ROBERTN-ut2il7 ай бұрын

    Go, Helen go !

  • @nickinurse6433
    @nickinurse64338 ай бұрын

    It's very interesting to uncover & learn about these people but 250 years from now, I fear they will look back in us & roll their eyes at us as we do to those who robbed Egyptian tombs, stone henge & destroyed so many native American inca & Aztec sites. Because we should photograph, analyse, test all we like, then we should return them to their graves WITH ALL THEIR GRAVE FINDINGS OUT OF RESPECT FOR THESE PEOPLE'S BELIEFS. If you were a warrior who felt you needed your weapon in the afterlife who are we to say they are wrong & put their weapons in our museums? It doesn't matter what WE believe, it's what they believed.

  • @regnepinak9864

    @regnepinak9864

    8 ай бұрын

    You don't have o wait 250 years my friend. I am first nation in Canada where we have buried our people with pots and pans to cook their meals on the other side. the belief that they died on this plane and live in the next one. We still often feast our relatives who have gone to the other plane for four years. The practice has been lost due to colonization. I am really surprised that all the education and knowledge in that field, they don't know this and are making outlandish guesses.

  • @johng4093

    @johng4093

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@regnepinak9864"Making outrageous guesses" is part of the job description of an archaeologist.

  • @laurieb3703
    @laurieb37034 ай бұрын

    Why do they only have 3 days? Please tell me the sites won't be destroyed

  • @philip1quillen
    @philip1quillen8 ай бұрын

    Interesting and informative video, but why in God's name did they think they needed a background drum track?

  • @antipodesman2
    @antipodesman24 ай бұрын

    I haven't finished watching yet but is that not Alice Roberts working anonymously as a grunt, back to the camera in the trenches at 10:30?? This must be a very early episode.

  • @hilarymorrison8211
    @hilarymorrison82117 ай бұрын

    Tony: That bucket could belong to Hyacinth !!

  • @kilcar
    @kilcar3 ай бұрын

    Yes, they all have weapons. Dangerous times require Weapons for survival.

  • @tricivenola8164
    @tricivenola81647 ай бұрын

    This is all quite wonderful, but please! Antioch, now Antakya, is in Hatay Province in TURKEY.

  • @GoldenArrow297
    @GoldenArrow2978 ай бұрын

    This place seems to be a bucket manufacturing unit😂

  • @Texasbiologyhelp
    @TexasbiologyhelpАй бұрын

    What do they do with the skeletons discovered?

  • @cruisepaige
    @cruisepaige3 ай бұрын

    IT’S BOU-QUEEEET!!!!

  • @WilliamWyckoff-of2ku
    @WilliamWyckoff-of2ku6 ай бұрын

    Well that could be part of Harold's doing he went up the side raidding and aquireing material from the native English living there

  • @GTMemes
    @GTMemes8 ай бұрын

    🤔Just when does grave robbing end And archeology begin?

  • @kylegawron5358
    @kylegawron53584 ай бұрын

    im too poor to afford a gold/metal detector D: would love to metal detect.

  • @mercedespicot6543
    @mercedespicot65437 ай бұрын

    Are you still planning on completing and living in the apartment at the Convent? Is the plan for Downey to move in with you in France?

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
    @JohnEglick-oz6cd8 ай бұрын

    The Saxons name comes from the Germanic word Seax , meaning a small shiv like weapon , or handle of a small shiv like weapon .. The Saxons and Vikings were racial cousins , and many of the GODs of the Germanic tribes were the same , as well as the runic letters , and symbols .

  • @KAZSANable
    @KAZSANable8 ай бұрын

    💚

  • @pattiwhite9575
    @pattiwhite95758 ай бұрын

    A bucket would be something of high value to every person. To carry a fire, water, cook food in. So many things the bucket can be used for. A potty. I mean everyone would want and need one. Wood buckets for carrying water. or making a wine. It would be very personal. Double burials? I think it some kind of ritual thing. I am not sure of where these humans came from. That is to be announced later I am sure. Very important to know. In other parts of world people would be buried with a slave. Maybe? What I find interesting is that it is of different sexes and ages.

  • @briangodfrey7424

    @briangodfrey7424

    8 ай бұрын

    Carry a fire? These weren't Neanderthals. That's a different video. But you are certainly correct that buckets are very useful. Even to this day I keep three or four stacks of empty drywall mud buckets around because I'm always needing one it seems.

  • @MrGriffo666
    @MrGriffo6667 ай бұрын

    the buckets were obviously buried with the ancestors of Hyacinth Bucket. DYS?

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