Fantastic to see Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd featuring again. Brilliant video. Have said it before, and will say it repeatedly, the time and effort you put into these films deserves so much more in terms of subscribership. Genuinely one of the highlights of my Sunday
I've visited Barnard Castle and the Bowes Museum every few years since I was a kid in the 60s, and seen the altar stones many times, but have never walked out to the shrines, and, barring a miracle, I now never will. So thank you very much for this video. I must admit to feeling quite moved myself.
Thank you for sharing your memories of the altars - such a shame they’ve been moved out to storage - seems wrong. I found this one quite affecting too.
You're proper oop north, then! Thank you and that's great feedback which I appreciate. When I started this I really wanted to put obscure sites on camera and tell their stories. I'm so bored with how a few famous sites - nearly always down south - dominate. It's satisfying that people are watching and finding these places as interesting as I do. Cheers from oop north, England!
Such an outstanding “team” effort! And it’s so great to see the lovely Mrs. WC21 sacrificing life and limb to lift these videos to stellar heights. Thank you both for another edu-taining presentation. From your biggest fans in West Virginia, USA…CHEERS!!!🍻
Hello Mr & Mrs WC UK Productions Ltd. What a stellar performance. An episode packed with information and entertainment. Well done to you both. County Durham is an underrated county and its beauty and history is largely ignored. It’s the county of my wife’s birth and we enjoy our frequent visits to the towns, villages and moors. Little did we know of the existence of these Roman shrines. Thank you for continuing to both educate and entertain us. Here’s hoping that the “dream team” return soon with another joint production. 👏👏👍😀
Too add a little perspective to the video, it has been roughly 666,000 days, sunrises and sunsets, since the two shrines were built back in 200 A.D. And still there.
Ah, perfect, another video of this always stylishly dressed Brit (as far as I can tell as a German) and his attractive lady of the heart for Sunday evening. And then that wonderful dry British humor. Love it! Thanks for that. I'm already looking forward to more videos.
Hunting across the land, and very thankful for all they saw around them, they built shrines, not commemorating a death or a victory. They built shrines celebrating life and the hunt, and you let us know that they are still there, marking the spot where a Roman soldier looked out and said “ I am happy, this is good, I am thankful for being here!” and the essence is still there.
Thank you - it was a very evocative journey out to those shrines and you could absolutely imagine the centurions there on their days off. And being thankful for it.
History, humour and glamour (not you Darren Mrs WC21~(UK) Productions Ltd - bet she loves her parents for that one), just keep these gems coming each Sunday dear both - they are brilliant. Also loved the Scargill gag, and the womble Uncle Bulgaria crack.
Absolutely filled with delight, merriment and fascinating learnings (is that even correct English?) from start to finish! Is it just me that gets a huge involuntary smile every time I hear the boom boom boom of the Roman Gazette title sequence? I particularly enjoyed the brief Uncle Bulgaria appearance - and like to think that was perhaps a nod to my trip to Wimbledon? Clock hammers must be pulled off before ringing... a stifled guffaw from me there. My guess for the plundering of the bath house was the Georgian era - they were a terrible lot for that sort of thing! Breathtaking moorland scenery from 14:00 onwards, and I loved the colours towards the end which must presumably have been towards sunset? Great to see Mrs WC21 on screen again as well!
Thank you kindly, Tweedy! And my apologies - you absolutely did provide the inspiration for Uncle Bulgaria! I think it’s you and me who get that involuntary smile! Nobody else has ever mentioned it - which is odd? Thanks for noting the moorland footage - I was pleased with it. Some of it - mallet, tripping into the sunset - was filmed on the way back to get that lovely winter sunset. Really, I was very lucky - it’s normally in the clag up there!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd The delight at the music is partly down to having had that privilege of making a guest episode for your channel, I found something immensely satisfying about the cut from a segment of talking to camera to the boom boom boom of the title sequence, and during editing I found myself watching that transition over and over again. It makes me wish I had something similar for my own videos! Alas probably too late for me now, I suspect if I tried to shoehorn that in at this stage I'd get some grumbling from the peanut gallery... The moorland really was beguiling, a reminder it has been too long since I last did an outdoorsy video!
@ oh you’d get grumbling from that gallery, I’m sure! I do think the RG music works really well. I chose it because it was so dated sounding and in no way Roman. To me it has a sort of urgency to it that fits with my self important mission. I think the Coastal Catalogue has a similar thing, but with some sadness beneath the urgency, whereas the Rambling Hiking music is ludicrously portentous. The Compendium music was chosen as a misguided attempt at “Drill”! I’m probably overthinking this…
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd 😂 I love the idea of the Compendium of Curiosities theme tune being chosen based on the fact it was an example of Drill! We must have discussed it before, but are you aware of the (extremely narrow) musical genre of Chap Hop? I'm sure it's a very Marmite sort of thing, and some of it is a bit tedious and hackneyed, but I've always enjoyed Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer's "Drunk" and there are moments in Reginald Pikedevant's "A Belated Introduction" which achieve a status of high art: "My teeth may be crooked, my skin rather pallid, but I've got more rhymes than Roxburghe has ballads".
@@tweedyoutdoors "Chap Hop"! That sounds marvelous, just by the name. I need to look this up - anything called, "A Belated Introduction" has got to be good!
No disappointment at all, as usual a well researched and executed piece of investigation, well done. Interestingly there are dedications to Sylvanus at Colchester where a Thracian unit was garrisoned. May both you and your missus be well.
Thank you and that's interesting about the Thracian dedication to Silvanus at Colchester. Really interesting. I will have to look out for that when I eventually get to Colchester. Thanks for your best wishes and to you too.
@ The dedication is also a ‘collab’ (strange was watching Amandaland this evening and a character in that used the term, you are obviously part of the trendsetting social network crowd) Sylvanus and another British deity, dates from the 2nd century I think. May only be a coincidence about the Thracians of course.
Awesome video. Your wife has a great sense of humour and Great Uncle Bulgaria! Wow, that's a blast from the past. Thanks for bringing us the things that we wouldn't have learned at school that really help to build a bigger picture of Roman Britain.
You are a brave man according to my very aged next door neighbour that is proper bandit country! Apparently one of his ancestors was ambushed and defrocked not once but twice near that moor!
Once again another top notch video Mr & Mrs WC21 Productions Ltd. There was certainly something Heathcliffian about you up on those windswept moors. Thank you for sharing these shrines, there is so much local history that remains unknown. It strikes me that if it wasn’t for the Romans / Romano Brits we wouldn’t know anything about the Celtic gods and goddesses in Britain. Traditionally these Celtic gods were gods of a place or area, Vinotonus being the god of agriculture and the wilderness you can see why the shrines were placed where they were, the water course must have had a sacred context to it too. Your films really make my Sunday, I definitely think you should get sponsorship from local tea shops or cafes.
Cheers Adam. Yes, Vinotonus Silvanus was an interesting fusion, I thought. I read various descriptions and open/wild country seemed to be a theme - totally fitting to this setting, which I think would have been largely similar in Roman times (minus drystone walls). I reckon you're right about the beck too. The location was perfect. Sheltered and with water for a drink and a votive offering.
Probably close to one of your best vlogs to date and you both worked very hard to achieve a wonderful, well presented vlog. I wouldn't of found it easy going wandering through the moor hunting so thank you to you both. Would be nice if Mrs WC21 could be in more to help you out more, time permitting as she does a wonderful job too 👍I think you have another 50+ subs since this time last night and getting close to 7k, hopefully by the end of the week 😃👍 I'm nearly finished watching all the old ones, single figures to see now. Keep up the fantastic work! Regards, Richy 😃👍
Thank you so much - very encouraging. And for watching the old stuff - some of those seem to be picking up the views now too. I think the Missus is up for more, we just need to co-ordinate our time a bit better to facilitate that.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Just keep doing as you're doing, the channel is going in the right direction! Rome wasn't built in a day, neither were the henges and stone circles.😃👍
I came across your videos about 18 months...they are all gems, windows into a world that is all around us if you know where to look..as I don't, each video is an education....Bowes Museum! Who knew! I will visit there this summer. Ps you are the most sartorial team on UA-cam....not a cagoule in sight.
Thanks for another excellent gazette Darren. For most folk, these would be just some lumps of historical stones on a moorland, but you (and now Mrs. WC 21) have a way of delivering a possible backstory that brings them to life. Ant-aquarium story-tellers if you like... Long may it continue 👍
Thank you kindly. I often wonder if these obscure sites disappoint, but to me they’re very evocative. Walking from the fort to them connected me to those two centurions - 1800 years later.
A truly fascinating tale of 2 shrines … I think, if I were uprooted from Thrace and sent to patrol one of the boggiest parts of Northern Britannia, I’d want a modest shrine beside a sheltered chuckling beck to help me relax on a weekend and feel a bit better for my lot !! Having passed right by Bowes via the good ol’ A66 a fair few times over the years … I’d never appreciated there to be such an imposing ruin lurking behind the trees. I have now made a note to self to ensure I stop off and appreciate the castle at first hand, given the opportunity on some future voyage. Sadly, I doubt I will have the advantage of being accompanied by such a glamorous assistant … Out of curiosity, based on Google Earth and your own drone footage, I note the moors to be greatly manifesting a chequered appearance .. is this the result of extensive peat diggings? … if not, what is the explanation? An excellent production as always …
Thanks David and I often wonder at what those poor centurions from places like Spain and Bulgaria made of ending up on the A66… Yes, do stop off and take a look if you get time - a really interesting site with the Norman castle standing on the Roman fort. I think the squares on the moor are something to do with how they manage it for the ground nesting birds. They still use burning on the Forest of Bowland near me.
If the area was a hunting ground then perhaps the shrine functioned as a place to break down the game and consume it. A facility as much as a shrine. I wonder if bones were found. Reading parts of the Iliad in my youth- the depictions of lamb sacrificed to the goddess, burnt on sweet wood with herbs sounds a lot like a barbecue to me!
Good points. I was interested that they found a glass vessel in there. I suspect much wine was consumed in between sessions of worship! Maybe that burnt thatch resulted from a particularly “lively” session?! Cheers
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd The moors looked great but I was getting a tad concerned the light was fading fast. Up there at night in February is not the place to be!. More so when you spot random mallets lying about. 🤔. You did the subscribe bit wonderfully. It helps you, but it also helps folks who enjoy your vids see when you've posted new content...as well as previous vids. Best bit being it's completely free.
Nice one folks, if I'd known you were in Barny, I would have popped through to say hello! As you come through the gates at Bowes Museum, on the right hand side behind the gate house, next to the wall, is a ring and cup marked slab, careful in the undergrowth as it's popular with dog walkers......👍
Hi Billy, oh that was a missed opportunity! Will check that cup-marked slab next time I need to do the eyesight test. I expect that gets a bit tiresome if you live there?!
Cracking video guys thanks 🙏 seems a busy little clough that, I wonder if later on in time alot of the stones from the shrines were removed and reused by the people mining very nearby and the bridge abutments could be reused stone from them, alot easier to reuse stuff nearby.
Thanks. Yes I guess they were robbed over centuries, but apparently quite a lot remained for Wilkinson to see in 1936. I’d love to stumble across something like that!
Good Morning (here anyway) and always a joy to get up on a Sunday morning and get at some Antiquarian STUFF! Nice to see Mrs. WC21! Antiquarian adventures are best shared!
Sir it is always a great pleasure to view your Post's I thoroughly enjoy them work's of art and knowledge should be compulsorily viewing in schools the little droids might learn something of BRITISH HISTORY. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you and yes, I don’t know why prehistory, Roman and early Medieval seems to be eschewed these days. Awful those local altars have been packed into storage!
@WC21UKProductionsLtd Maybe a certain group or Organization want British culture and history removed not being a conspiracy theorist but what was the old dictums a nation that forgets its history will in time cease to exists.🤔🇬🇧
@ I struggle with the idea of overarching conspiracy theories too, but I do think things go in and out of fashion in education, and they are subject to political correctness too. Hopefully it’s just another phase!
Spooky. The church bells struck 5 just as I started watching at 20:37 - what are the odds? Terrible continuity, carry on. Also, good job Mrs. WC21. I’d have liked to see more of the Vivienne Westwood, personally, but I imagine the old Ant Aquarium would have cut that out.
Thanks Barry. You are not the only one to have mentioned odd coincidences with the church bells. As Michael Aspel used to say, “strange, but true?” You’re right about the old Ant Aquarium - he binned loads of Westwood footage!
It wouldn't be a proper Ant Aquarium video without a rough trek to cross a beck or some such. Can't say I've been to Bowes but have had the vision (gettit?) to visit Barnard Castle and the Bowes Museum and couldn't recall seeing any Altars there. Now I know why. Of course you could have asked if you could see them in storage - sometimes works
Cheers Leslie. It wasn't all bad, I can see really well now after that visit! I did ask and the young lady was very helpful, but they've been put into storage somewhere else. I thought that was tragic and something of an insult to the team who excavated the site in the 1940s. They've been in that museum since then until relatively recently. Argh!
So good to see you on my local patch.. Have you been to the Stenhouse Museum in Maryport? Great collection of Roman Altars there. A very lovely Museum it is too. I'm with the Mrs on the Vivian Westwood exhibition, fabulous! ( us Traceys must stick together😂)
Thanks Tracey and it was good to get out that way. I haven’t been to the Stenhouse Museum, but it’s on my huge list! Can’t believe they moved the altars into storage a few weeks before we arrived - they’d been there since the 1940s!
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode, as always, especially the additional contribution of the lovely Mrs. WC21(UK). Wasn’t Lavatris just down the Roman road from Vloginium, Brittania’s media hub? 🥾🥾🌂
Awesome, thank you. Please do take a look at the Woodchester Mosaic in the Cotswolds. One of the best and biggest mosaics and they covered it all up. I did a short video on it and relatively few people know about it so it did well by my lowly standards. It’s not from London!
Hi, I think you’ve mentioned this before and I did pop it on my list. Always a challenge if there’s absolutely nothing to see. Maybe I can work it in to broader subject video at some stage. I did have a look at it and it is very special. Cheers
Well, AAA and Mrs WC21 you have produced one of your best video presentations so far. Apart from the discontinuity issues I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I would have hidden the weapon so no-one could use it. No celebrity AAA or strange lurking figures in the back this week? Is it worth a visit from an AAA from the Antipodes in June? AAA - authentic antiquarian apostate.
Another interesting journey into the past. I'm sorry you missed showing us the shrines by a few days, but your efforts were not in vain. Thanks to your hike we could 'see' the two Centurions' hunting day out more clearly. Nice to meet Mrs WC21 too.
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it. I couldn’t believe that altar had sat in that museum until a few weeks ago! And that they’re just in storage now is a great shame.
Totally amazing and still becoming more professional in research and execution with every video! Great participation of Mrs WC21 once again! I guess I am showing my age when I add to the 'woke' statement of great talent as a presenter, the galant old fashioned observation of rather lovely appearance and character. It's only meant in the most positive way! Anyhow, I think that 3500 views in the first 12 hours show that the two of you collaborating more often can only add tho the uncanny recent success of the channel. I am ever so slightly jealous of the shear wealth of pre-historic material you can work with in your part of the world!
You're fine saying that here, Matt. Woke free zone! I will highlight this to the Missus. Thanks as ever for your positive comments - it's feedback like this that spurs me on whenever I feel tired! Yes, we are very lucky to be able to strike out in all directions and discover these little known gems of antiquity. I guess the upland terrain and lack of massive developments has played a part in that. If you look at the night time shots of the UK on the news you can see it - the largest part of the country that is not aglow with neon lights.
Really enjoyed that. You painted a picture I could imagine what it was like those romans in there boredom walking on the moors worshiping and I’m sure a nice little drink something to eat hunting and then a nice go in the boathouse. Lovely thanks
Great video as always. I thought if one of the soldiers was the auxiliary prefect then he would have commanded the unit and outranked the auxiliary centurion? I am no expert though?
Yes he was. Although the shrines were dated to the same sort of period, we don’t know if Julius and Frontinu knew each other. Maybe Julius built his next to the one that was already there. Cheers
Fantastic effort crossing the Moor to find the shrines 💪. Very interesting, it would be fantastic to see something like this in the flesh. I hope Mrs WC21 used some of the production budget to get an overpriced cup of tea and a scone in the museum cafe.
Interesting location, no doubt arduous for the Centurions too. That they chose such a spot raises a number of questions. Did the raising of altars become prohibited at Roman garrisons by the 3rd/4th Centuries? Was the siting of them a matter of practicality, away from intrusion? That they were so close to running water may well have played a role also. Thanks for another excellent exploration and good to see the virtual Mrs WC21.
Thanks. I do think the burnt thatch possibly speaks of a changed policy towards pagan gods. Off the top of my head, it was outlawed in the 4th century, so I think the shrines were not breaking any laws when first erected.
Great video and will now refer to the team ! I wonder when Christianity was introduced into Britain by Constantine in about 330 AD those shrines might have fallen into ruin. Just a thought as it were. Very interesting and hard worked video!
Thanks and yes, worshipping pagan gods did end up getting outlawed in the 4th century, so maybe that burnt thatch tells a story of deliberate destruction?
hello again Darren and MRS WC21 PROUCTIONS, yet another really cool interesting video, so Americans want us to beg.....Figures , well done and thank you both 😊
No lol....Time zones are important. MrWC21 releases his vids 8-30 am GMT. A perfect time for me in Aus as that's 7-30 pm for me, but the middle of the night in many time zones in the US. By the time they wake, UA-cam will likely have buried MrWC21's vid unless our American friends are subscribed. If they do subscribe, UA-cam's algorithm (that wants folks to watch vids) will ensure his vid is pushed at subscribers when they wake and log in regardless of their time zone...A free win win for all.
Now the question is, is this in North Yorkshire or Durham. Must be pretty close to our Northern frontier. I was watching one of Tom's (Allotment Fox) older videos this morning and that had two Roman shrines, one rectangular and the other circular in close proximity, I wonder if there is anything in this? I suppose we will never know. Once again I thoroughly enjoyed your Sunday offering.... It's just hard to wait a week for the next! Frank
Thanks Frank and that is flattering feedback to receive. I really appreciate it. Yes, I think I remember that AF video now you come to mention it. Interesting. If contemporary, I wonder if the Prefect got circular and the regular got rectangular. Perhaps that's how it worked!
Hi Darren and Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd, What a great production this was thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish, absolutely nothing AI about Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd, although it would be nice to know her first name as typing Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd takes a bit of time!! Great opening sequence - For Whom the Bell Tolls, the Spanish Vutones in this case!! Bad luck with the museum, if you’re sharp Darren you know what to buy Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd for Christmas (see what I mean about having to write Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd every time, not that I’m resorting to copy or paste or anything like that!!) I am right in assuming that the stones in the church was where the rev who excavated them preached? Of course the other Norman keep that you have previously featured was Portchester Castle, the walls there stood intact. I do enjoy looking at the old maps and you know they are old because they are black and white, different font etc, the route tracing on the modern map was excellent and it wasn’t until you could see the beck that you could understand the squiggle at the end. Not quite sure what that rodent trap was for have they suddenly become frightened of the water? Nice UA-cam foot in the snow sequence, but that moor did look very menacing, glad you made it back ok. The drone work was excellent!! All the best!!
Oh was she hinting at what she’d like me to buy her, David? I’m terrible at that stuff! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for noting the drone, my confidence with V.3 is growing! I think the inscribed stone in the church turned up in the vicarage garden. You know what the old school reverends were like. Always digging stuff up and then getting stalked by dark shadows… I hate those “rodent” traps on the moors. All about protecting the ground nesting birds so hoorays have plenty to shoot. Sometimes they accidentally get knocked over!
One of your best videos yet. It would be interesting to see Lidor images of these areas. There is a US company that does worldwide datasets but I hate to think what an image costs to download. What were the square shapes at 15:00? As regards the AI images of Mrs WC, you need to make them more realistic and not so good-looking.
Thanks Ron, that’s great. I probably should have looked at the LiDAR - I expect a chap called Phil will post some on our Facebook page - he often does! Those square shapes are a result of how they manage the moor, I think. Something to do with creating the right environment for the birds they shoot. I will share your comments with the Missus and I agree!
If you fancy a field trip, I’d suggest a “field trip” to the Roman Museum in Lyon and a side trip to Vienne to see the Roman Temple and the remains of the Port and warehouse buildings (plus Museum) on the other aide of the Rhone.
@ the museum is built down a hillside and at the bottom a large wall and sitting area which forms the Roman theatre. The museum is full of statues, mosaic floors and inscribed stones. Then there’s Nimes (spent christmas there once)
Morning Darren- Lavatris? Thought you were going to tell us that was Roman public conveniences!😄 And that sign in the church needs re-wording methinks; clock hammers need to be pulled off? Ooer missus!! Appreciate the risks you took on our behalf mate👍
Morning Carol. Couldn’t resist including that sign, which is bad of me, I know. I guess only those of us with a certain type of mind will notice, though! Thanks - it was a bit arduous, but worth it, I hope.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtdyou are as bad as me mate! I always see the unobvious; hope I'm not the only one to notice if so what does that say about me ? 😐
Very enjoyable trek to the shrines, following the Roman soldiers' footsteps. Arthur came to mind when you said Scargill moor & bingo he appeared - I wonder if he's watching. Next time take a brush-hook & clear that bracken off the wall (they have Scottish sheep on Os hillfort to keep the bracken down). Lovely to see Mrs WC again with matching trilby (?). I'm never disappointed by trying to find something, it's the journey, and the atmosphere remains.
Thank you and they are my sentiments as well. I think there’s only been a couple of occasions when I’ve given up on a video and that’s been weather, rather than a disappointing site. However difficult to see they may be, there’s a story. I very much got a connection on this one. Walking out from where those centurions lived to where they hunted and built their shrines. It wasn’t hard to imagine them there.
Fab session. Maybe these centurions prayed to those gods right out in the middle of no-where because it was banned and outlawed. A form of rebel worship long after it was against the law. It was discovered by the new god worshippers, and it was burned...
Thanks. I do think it’s interesting that the shrines were burnt and sense the Christian outrage! Vinotonus Silvanus is yet another of these Romano British hybrids - fascinating stuff.
Really enjoyed this, I read that the unit at Brough was always a scouting cavalry unit and the Fell Pony museum site states that the unit was “cohors I Thracum equitata civium Romanorum (512) at Bowes and Birdoswald” so part of the 512 and maybe some infantry to Garrison the fort.their job was to patrol the bleak area of the North Pennines preventing raids and incursions, I wonder as there are 8 shrines in one small area ,is it possibly the site of an ambush were they. a unit of 6 Alae approximately 192 men and 2 Centurions were caught in the clough ,and managed to fight their way out. It’s a lot of shrines in a random spot?
Wow Mark, that’s really interesting and not something I’ve come across in my researches. I’m sort of glad I didn’t know about that whilst I was in that remote spot - not that I do mumbo jumbo, of course! I’ll take a look at that site. Thanks.
Great video. We’ve been tempted several times to find the site of the shrines but conditions put us off. Now we don’t have to,thanks! There’s a Roman well on the track running along the river btw . (Plus a couple of Neolithic mounds just beyond the perimeter ditch) I imagine the Nicholas Nickleby links (Dotheboys Hall, Smike’s grave etc) are too modern for you. Did you read the story of the tragic lovers in the church? It’s been all go in the past in Bowes!
Thanks Rod and that's music to my ears, "now we don't have to"! I was so lucky with the weather that day - would have been impossible in the more normal, claggy conditions I suspect. Interesting about that well - didn't stumble on that in my researches. Will have to Google the "modern" stuff about Nicholas Nickleby!
It amazes me that when Britain was absolutely skint, still rationing food and clothing that the government sent people out to dig a couple of Roman shrines. Mind you, you could probably get a dozen excavations done for the cost of one 'Political Advisor' checking his eyesight. I learnt recently that hunting estates take up much more acreage in the UK than all the golf courses, football and cricket pitches combined, all so some Executive can murder a wee birdie ....
Yes Iain, we could learn lessons from that time, I think. And just look at those cast iron MOW signs. Made to give work to our own industry, I suspect. Staggering what people are paying nowadays to shoot birds. It’s a shame how those “rodent” traps do sometimes get knocked over!
@WC21UKProductionsLtd Officially I'm sure they're described as 'Mink Traps' but I'm pretty sure they'll trap any unfortunate of about the same weight and size. We've had quite a few grey squirrels traps locally for some time. Never seen a squirrel in one. Most seem to be fairly old so I suspect there was a one off government grant at some point. I understand why grey squirrels are verboten and locally the reds are making a welcome come back ... but the softie in me hates to see any animal trapped.
@WC21UKProductionsLtd Yeah, they're to kill wee animals that kill wee birdies (eggs). Which landowners don't want because they make money out of big eejits shooting wee birdies. Same reason they kill raptors and want to keep Joe Public off their land. The Scottish Government has removed the loophole of hunting estates registering as charities (brazen cheek) which means they could pay much lower tax on their profits. In England the loophole, and the inability of English people ( or anyone) to set foot on 92% of their own country remains. The occasional 'permissive' footpath is not the answer.
Flabbergasted that the nincompoop TV stations haven’t tried to snap you up. Brilliant productions, thank you once again.
Thank you kindly! I also ask myself that most days!
tv just isnt popular anymore. we all watch youtube.
He'd fit well in channel 4
@@vsvnrg3263 that’s what I’m thinking. Give it a few more years!
Very informative and entertaining, thanks both 😀
Thanks British Long Barrows - appreciate it. Good name there too.
Fantastic to see Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd featuring again. Brilliant video. Have said it before, and will say it repeatedly, the time and effort you put into these films deserves so much more in terms of subscribership. Genuinely one of the highlights of my Sunday
Thanks for your support, Peter - always appreciated. Hopefully the wretched algorithm will notice us one day!
Clock hammers being pulled off, eye sight tests at Barnard Castle combined with some history? Spot on!
Thank you very much!
At 18:30 the Historic England Research Record states there were fragments of six other shrines found. Thats amazing, an entire complex of them
And given the 100 odd year period in use, it looks to have become a bit of a tradition at the fort, with others dragging their own altars up there.
I've visited Barnard Castle and the Bowes Museum every few years since I was a kid in the 60s, and seen the altar stones many times, but have never walked out to the shrines, and, barring a miracle, I now never will. So thank you very much for this video. I must admit to feeling quite moved myself.
Thank you for sharing your memories of the altars - such a shame they’ve been moved out to storage - seems wrong. I found this one quite affecting too.
Absolutely loving these vids from oop north, its refreshing to see something new that hasnt been done to death already. Hello from Scotland.
You're proper oop north, then! Thank you and that's great feedback which I appreciate. When I started this I really wanted to put obscure sites on camera and tell their stories. I'm so bored with how a few famous sites - nearly always down south - dominate. It's satisfying that people are watching and finding these places as interesting as I do. Cheers from oop north, England!
Such an outstanding “team” effort! And it’s so great to see the lovely Mrs. WC21 sacrificing life and limb to lift these videos to stellar heights. Thank you both for another edu-taining presentation. From your biggest fans in West Virginia, USA…CHEERS!!!🍻
Thank you very much and I know the Missus will appreciate your lovely feedback. Great to have fans in West Virginia too!
Hello Mr & Mrs WC UK Productions Ltd. What a stellar performance. An episode packed with information and entertainment. Well done to you both. County Durham is an underrated county and its beauty and history is largely ignored. It’s the county of my wife’s birth and we enjoy our frequent visits to the towns, villages and moors. Little did we know of the existence of these Roman shrines. Thank you for continuing to both educate and entertain us.
Here’s hoping that the “dream team” return soon with another joint production. 👏👏👍😀
Thanks Andrew and bang on. So much to discover in County Durham. I’ll be returning soon!
Great work as always 👏
Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
Brilliant opening shot, it must have been a beautiful day! Nice to see Mrs WC21 again, she definitely has a sense of humour. Great video, as always.
Thanks. Yes, lucky with the weather for once!
Too add a little perspective to the video, it has been roughly 666,000 days, sunrises and sunsets, since the two shrines were built back in 200 A.D.
And still there.
Wow that does put it into perspective. Incredible really!
Ah, perfect, another video of this always stylishly dressed Brit (as far as I can tell as a German) and his attractive lady of the heart for Sunday evening. And then that wonderful dry British humor. Love it!
Thanks for that. I'm already looking forward to more videos.
Thanks Harald - a pleasure to have you viewing - it really is rewarding to be enjoyed by folk outside the UK.
Hunting across the land, and very thankful for all they saw around them, they built shrines, not commemorating a death or a victory. They built shrines celebrating life and the hunt, and you let us know that they are still there, marking the spot where a Roman soldier looked out and said “ I am happy, this is good, I am thankful for being here!”
and the essence is still there.
Thank you - it was a very evocative journey out to those shrines and you could absolutely imagine the centurions there on their days off. And being thankful for it.
and look around you. you were there. thanks for sharing.
Very good channel
Viewing from Austin Tx USA
Thank you kindly and glad you’re enjoying it. An honour to be watched in other parts of the world.
Most enjoyable. All that running about in ditches at start had me wondering if you were imagining Tony Robinson. 😄
Thank you! He’s always with me in spirit!
It's sad that churches in Australia are now locked between services. I always love sitting in the coloured light from the windows in an empty church.
That is a shame. We’re lucky that ours remain largely open.
History, humour and glamour (not you Darren Mrs WC21~(UK) Productions Ltd - bet she loves her parents for that one), just keep these gems coming each Sunday dear both - they are brilliant. Also loved the Scargill gag, and the womble Uncle Bulgaria crack.
Thank you! Lovely feedback and much appreciated. Couldn’t resist putting a duck on Arthur’s stack of combed over hair!
Cracking stuff Team. Another enjoyable presentation. A little more work required on those scratches I feel ;-)
Thanks Paul and glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps there’s an opportunity for a course on film scratches?! I’d sign up!
Thanks Paul and glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps there’s an opportunity for a course on film scratches?! I’d sign up!
Absolutely filled with delight, merriment and fascinating learnings (is that even correct English?) from start to finish!
Is it just me that gets a huge involuntary smile every time I hear the boom boom boom of the Roman Gazette title sequence?
I particularly enjoyed the brief Uncle Bulgaria appearance - and like to think that was perhaps a nod to my trip to Wimbledon?
Clock hammers must be pulled off before ringing... a stifled guffaw from me there.
My guess for the plundering of the bath house was the Georgian era - they were a terrible lot for that sort of thing!
Breathtaking moorland scenery from 14:00 onwards, and I loved the colours towards the end which must presumably have been towards sunset?
Great to see Mrs WC21 on screen again as well!
Thank you kindly, Tweedy! And my apologies - you absolutely did provide the inspiration for Uncle Bulgaria!
I think it’s you and me who get that involuntary smile! Nobody else has ever mentioned it - which is odd?
Thanks for noting the moorland footage - I was pleased with it. Some of it - mallet, tripping into the sunset - was filmed on the way back to get that lovely winter sunset. Really, I was very lucky - it’s normally in the clag up there!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd The delight at the music is partly down to having had that privilege of making a guest episode for your channel, I found something immensely satisfying about the cut from a segment of talking to camera to the boom boom boom of the title sequence, and during editing I found myself watching that transition over and over again. It makes me wish I had something similar for my own videos! Alas probably too late for me now, I suspect if I tried to shoehorn that in at this stage I'd get some grumbling from the peanut gallery...
The moorland really was beguiling, a reminder it has been too long since I last did an outdoorsy video!
@ oh you’d get grumbling from that gallery, I’m sure! I do think the RG music works really well. I chose it because it was so dated sounding and in no way Roman. To me it has a sort of urgency to it that fits with my self important mission.
I think the Coastal Catalogue has a similar thing, but with some sadness beneath the urgency, whereas the Rambling Hiking music is ludicrously portentous. The Compendium music was chosen as a misguided attempt at “Drill”! I’m probably overthinking this…
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd 😂 I love the idea of the Compendium of Curiosities theme tune being chosen based on the fact it was an example of Drill! We must have discussed it before, but are you aware of the (extremely narrow) musical genre of Chap Hop? I'm sure it's a very Marmite sort of thing, and some of it is a bit tedious and hackneyed, but I've always enjoyed Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer's "Drunk" and there are moments in Reginald Pikedevant's "A Belated Introduction" which achieve a status of high art: "My teeth may be crooked, my skin rather pallid, but I've got more rhymes than Roxburghe has ballads".
@@tweedyoutdoors "Chap Hop"! That sounds marvelous, just by the name. I need to look this up - anything called, "A Belated Introduction" has got to be good!
No disappointment at all, as usual a well researched and executed piece of investigation, well done. Interestingly there are dedications to Sylvanus at Colchester where a Thracian unit was garrisoned. May both you and your missus be well.
Thank you and that's interesting about the Thracian dedication to Silvanus at Colchester. Really interesting. I will have to look out for that when I eventually get to Colchester. Thanks for your best wishes and to you too.
@ The dedication is also a ‘collab’ (strange was watching Amandaland this evening and a character in that used the term, you are obviously part of the trendsetting social network crowd) Sylvanus and another British deity, dates from the 2nd century I think. May only be a coincidence about the Thracians of course.
Absolutely loved that ❤🎉😊
Great. Thank you Spoonbob!
Awesome video. Your wife has a great sense of humour and Great Uncle Bulgaria! Wow, that's a blast from the past. Thanks for bringing us the things that we wouldn't have learned at school that really help to build a bigger picture of Roman Britain.
Thank you Oonagh! I think she probably needs a great sense of humour to cope with me…
Lovely feedback.
@WC21UKProductionsLtd I wasn't going to say that. 😆
Another excellent video! Very enjoyable to watch on a frigid Sunday afternoon.
Thanks! Yes, terrible out there today - glad I had a good day for that bit on the moor!
Awesome
Thank you!
You are a brave man according to my very aged next door neighbour that is proper bandit country! Apparently one of his ancestors was ambushed and defrocked not once but twice near that moor!
Well it wasn't me...I was ...erm... making broth at the time...maybe playing chess.
Thanks! When it comes to finding antiquities, I have no fear. Although I’m glad I didn’t know this before…!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd so you did not see any frocks lying around up there just mallets?
Once again another top notch video Mr & Mrs WC21 Productions Ltd. There was certainly something Heathcliffian about you up on those windswept moors. Thank you for sharing these shrines, there is so much local history that remains unknown. It strikes me that if it wasn’t for the Romans / Romano Brits we wouldn’t know anything about the Celtic gods and goddesses in Britain.
Traditionally these Celtic gods were gods of a place or area, Vinotonus being the god of agriculture and the wilderness you can see why the shrines were placed where they were, the water course must have had a sacred context to it too.
Your films really make my Sunday, I definitely think you should get sponsorship from local tea shops or cafes.
Cheers Adam. Yes, Vinotonus Silvanus was an interesting fusion, I thought. I read various descriptions and open/wild country seemed to be a theme - totally fitting to this setting, which I think would have been largely similar in Roman times (minus drystone walls). I reckon you're right about the beck too. The location was perfect. Sheltered and with water for a drink and a votive offering.
Probably close to one of your best vlogs to date and you both worked very hard to achieve a wonderful, well presented vlog. I wouldn't of found it easy going wandering through the moor hunting so thank you to you both. Would be nice if Mrs WC21 could be in more to help you out more, time permitting as she does a wonderful job too 👍I think you have another 50+ subs since this time last night and getting close to 7k, hopefully by the end of the week 😃👍 I'm nearly finished watching all the old ones, single figures to see now.
Keep up the fantastic work! Regards, Richy 😃👍
Thank you so much - very encouraging. And for watching the old stuff - some of those seem to be picking up the views now too. I think the Missus is up for more, we just need to co-ordinate our time a bit better to facilitate that.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Just keep doing as you're doing, the channel is going in the right direction! Rome wasn't built in a day, neither were the henges and stone circles.😃👍
I came across your videos about 18 months...they are all gems, windows into a world that is all around us if you know where to look..as I don't, each video is an education....Bowes Museum! Who knew! I will visit there this summer. Ps you are the most sartorial team on UA-cam....not a cagoule in sight.
Thanks Michael and do visit Bowes Museum if you get the chance. Even if they’ve lost their Roman altars it is a wonderful place!
It’s hard being a UA-camr in winter. But then it’s winter up there all year round.
I can’t really argue with that, can I? But I was lucky to get sunlight on that moor - it’s rarely like that!
A quite interesting video, thank you for creating and sharing 👍
Thank you Phillip!
Well, that was dramatic and the missus got to go shopping! I'd call it a pretty good day.
Thanks and yes, it was a good outing. Glad you enjoyed it.
great stuff again as always interesting and fun you make history so accessible
Cheers Mark - always encouraged by feedback like that.
Thanks for another excellent gazette Darren.
For most folk, these would be just some lumps of historical stones on a moorland, but you (and now Mrs. WC 21) have a way of delivering a possible backstory that brings them to life. Ant-aquarium story-tellers if you like...
Long may it continue 👍
Thank you kindly. I often wonder if these obscure sites disappoint, but to me they’re very evocative. Walking from the fort to them connected me to those two centurions - 1800 years later.
A truly fascinating tale of 2 shrines … I think, if I were uprooted from Thrace and sent to patrol one of the boggiest parts of Northern Britannia, I’d want a modest shrine beside a sheltered chuckling beck to help me relax on a weekend and feel a bit better for my lot !!
Having passed right by Bowes via the good ol’ A66 a fair few times over the years … I’d never appreciated there to be such an imposing ruin lurking behind the trees. I have now made a note to self to ensure I stop off and appreciate the castle at first hand, given the opportunity on some future voyage. Sadly, I doubt I will have the advantage of being accompanied by such a glamorous assistant …
Out of curiosity, based on Google Earth and your own drone footage, I note the moors to be greatly manifesting a chequered appearance .. is this the result of extensive peat diggings? … if not, what is the explanation?
An excellent production as always …
Thanks David and I often wonder at what those poor centurions from places like Spain and Bulgaria made of ending up on the A66…
Yes, do stop off and take a look if you get time - a really interesting site with the Norman castle standing on the Roman fort.
I think the squares on the moor are something to do with how they manage it for the ground nesting birds. They still use burning on the Forest of Bowland near me.
If the area was a hunting ground then perhaps the shrine functioned as a place to break down the game and consume it. A facility as much as a shrine. I wonder if bones were found. Reading parts of the Iliad in my youth- the depictions of lamb sacrificed to the goddess, burnt on sweet wood with herbs sounds a lot like a barbecue to me!
Good points. I was interested that they found a glass vessel in there. I suspect much wine was consumed in between sessions of worship! Maybe that burnt thatch resulted from a particularly “lively” session?! Cheers
That was fantastic, well done guys!. Also it's wonderful to see the County Durham moors. Well done remembering to mention subscribing. 🤣
Cheers Phil! Didn’t the moors look grand too?
Did I do the subscribing bit OK?!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd The moors looked great but I was getting a tad concerned the light was fading fast. Up there at night in February is not the place to be!. More so when you spot random mallets lying about. 🤔. You did the subscribe bit wonderfully. It helps you, but it also helps folks who enjoy your vids see when you've posted new content...as well as previous vids. Best bit being it's completely free.
@philcollinson328 Cheers. I must remember to keep doing it now! Yes, what was that mallet all about?!
Nice one folks, if I'd known you were in Barny, I would have popped through to say hello! As you come through the gates at Bowes Museum, on the right hand side behind the gate house, next to the wall, is a ring and cup marked slab, careful in the undergrowth as it's popular with dog walkers......👍
Hi Billy, oh that was a missed opportunity! Will check that cup-marked slab next time I need to do the eyesight test. I expect that gets a bit tiresome if you live there?!
@WC21UKProductionsLtd giz a shout next time you visit, all the best.
Cracking video guys thanks 🙏 seems a busy little clough that, I wonder if later on in time alot of the stones from the shrines were removed and reused by the people mining very nearby and the bridge abutments could be reused stone from them, alot easier to reuse stuff nearby.
Thanks. Yes I guess they were robbed over centuries, but apparently quite a lot remained for Wilkinson to see in 1936. I’d love to stumble across something like that!
As always brilliant!
Thanks Carole!
Nice one Darren and missus Darren.. excellent episode again today 😎⚔️👍👏👏👋👁️
Thanks Andrew and I do love - and appreciate - all the emojis you post!
@ I am actually back home in the UK due to a family death …. So enjoying your work near to hand!! 👁️⚔️🤪🥪😎🤣🤣🤣🍻
Just joined on my home computer, thanks for the interesting videos. Regards, Mark D Bishop
Thanks for watching, Mark and glad you enjoyed it.
Really enjoyed this Darren. Thank you
Thanks Phillip! Appreciated.
The weather looks a bit better up on the moors..!! Thanks for sharing this with us all,best wishes from sunny Birkenhead....E...😊😊...
Yes, very lucky that day. Hesitating to go out today - it’s not like that now!
Birkenhead looking a bit bleak too, bracing walk on new Brighton promenade tomoz...full English to follow...😅😅😅
Great video mate keepup the good work
Thanks Ian!
+1 for the history, humour and glamour provided by Mrs WC21~(UK) Productions Ltd. Your helper is quite good as well.
Thank you very much, Keith. Was that my helper in the church?!
Interesting, thanks; Mrs AI too!
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it.
Good Morning (here anyway) and always a joy to get up on a Sunday morning and get at some Antiquarian STUFF! Nice to see Mrs. WC21! Antiquarian adventures are best shared!
Interesting. Nice secluded place, just right for a spot of quiet worship. Peace and goodwill
Thank you. Yes, you could see why they chose the location. Sheltered and with water too.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Don't forget Arbor low captain.
Thanks
Cheers Phil!
Sir it is always a great pleasure to view your Post's I thoroughly enjoy them work's of art and knowledge should be compulsorily viewing in schools the little droids might learn something of BRITISH HISTORY. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you and yes, I don’t know why prehistory, Roman and early Medieval seems to be eschewed these days. Awful those local altars have been packed into storage!
@WC21UKProductionsLtd Maybe a certain group or Organization want British culture and history removed not being a conspiracy theorist but what was the old dictums a nation that forgets its history will in time cease to exists.🤔🇬🇧
@ I struggle with the idea of overarching conspiracy theories too, but I do think things go in and out of fashion in education, and they are subject to political correctness too. Hopefully it’s just another phase!
Mrs WC21 forfilling her vow
She did promise, I believe!
Spooky. The church bells struck 5 just as I started watching at 20:37 - what are the odds? Terrible continuity, carry on.
Also, good job Mrs. WC21. I’d have liked to see more of the Vivienne Westwood, personally, but I imagine the old Ant Aquarium would have cut that out.
Thanks Barry. You are not the only one to have mentioned odd coincidences with the church bells. As Michael Aspel used to say, “strange, but true?”
You’re right about the old Ant Aquarium - he binned loads of Westwood footage!
Another interesting and amusing watch. Thank you for creating and sharing
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it!
It wouldn't be a proper Ant Aquarium video without a rough trek to cross a beck or some such. Can't say I've been to Bowes but have had the vision (gettit?) to visit Barnard Castle and the Bowes Museum and couldn't recall seeing any Altars there. Now I know why. Of course you could have asked if you could see them in storage - sometimes works
Cheers Leslie. It wasn't all bad, I can see really well now after that visit!
I did ask and the young lady was very helpful, but they've been put into storage somewhere else. I thought that was tragic and something of an insult to the team who excavated the site in the 1940s. They've been in that museum since then until relatively recently. Argh!
Another well-presented and informative video. 👍
Many thanks Gordon. Glad you enjoyed it.
So good to see you on my local patch.. Have you been to the Stenhouse Museum in Maryport? Great collection of Roman Altars there. A very lovely Museum it is too. I'm with the Mrs on the Vivian Westwood exhibition, fabulous! ( us Traceys must stick together😂)
Thanks Tracey and it was good to get out that way. I haven’t been to the Stenhouse Museum, but it’s on my huge list! Can’t believe they moved the altars into storage a few weeks before we arrived - they’d been there since the 1940s!
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode, as always, especially the additional contribution of the lovely Mrs. WC21(UK). Wasn’t Lavatris just down the Roman road from Vloginium, Brittania’s media hub? 🥾🥾🌂
😂 that sounds worthy of an investigation! What would they make of us - having “media hubs”?! Cheers
@@WC21UKProductionsLtdThe average Romano Brit would probably refer to a media hub as a “Fabulosiorum (as in ‘barely credible’) Forum”. 😝
@ 😂
That bell ringing sign 😆😆😆
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Thank you for scratching. So here is a tickle for the algorithm
Thanks as ever for your sterling work!
Interesting they were both next to the beck .Both Celtic and Roman people were always chucking offerings in rivers and streams.
Yes, I guess it was a bit more sheltered down there, but I’m sure there may have been some votive offerings.
A great video again and all the background details from both of you brings it to life. Love the cheesy humour as always!
Thanks Chris - appreciated!
Awesome, thank you. Please do take a look at the Woodchester Mosaic in the Cotswolds. One of the best and biggest mosaics and they covered it all up. I did a short video on it and relatively few people know about it so it did well by my lowly standards. It’s not from London!
Hi, I think you’ve mentioned this before and I did pop it on my list. Always a challenge if there’s absolutely nothing to see. Maybe I can work it in to broader subject video at some stage. I did have a look at it and it is very special. Cheers
Please join us again to the Mrs, we like her! XO from your UA-cam gang
Are we a gang now? I want a cool nickname.
Love a Roman Gazette, thanks both of you!
Thanks Dan! Glad you enjoyed it.
Well, AAA and Mrs WC21 you have produced one of your best video presentations so far. Apart from the discontinuity issues I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I would have hidden the weapon so no-one could use it. No celebrity AAA or strange lurking figures in the back this week? Is it worth a visit from an AAA from the Antipodes in June? AAA - authentic antiquarian apostate.
Thanks Andrew and yes, very definitely worth a visit in June! Give it a go - “fun” to get to!
Another interesting journey into the past. I'm sorry you missed showing us the shrines by a few days, but your efforts were not in vain. Thanks to your hike we could 'see' the two Centurions' hunting day out more clearly. Nice to meet Mrs WC21 too.
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it. I couldn’t believe that altar had sat in that museum until a few weeks ago! And that they’re just in storage now is a great shame.
Totally amazing and still becoming more professional in research and execution with every video! Great participation of Mrs WC21 once again! I guess I am showing my age when I add to the 'woke' statement of great talent as a presenter, the galant old fashioned observation of rather lovely appearance and character. It's only meant in the most positive way! Anyhow, I think that 3500 views in the first 12 hours show that the two of you collaborating more often can only add tho the uncanny recent success of the channel. I am ever so slightly jealous of the shear wealth of pre-historic material you can work with in your part of the world!
You're fine saying that here, Matt. Woke free zone! I will highlight this to the Missus.
Thanks as ever for your positive comments - it's feedback like this that spurs me on whenever I feel tired!
Yes, we are very lucky to be able to strike out in all directions and discover these little known gems of antiquity. I guess the upland terrain and lack of massive developments has played a part in that. If you look at the night time shots of the UK on the news you can see it - the largest part of the country that is not aglow with neon lights.
Fantastic, im glad i have found you, love a bit of roman history 😊
Thank you and we’re glad you found us too. Cheers
Interesting and entertaining as usual. Great to see a hidden corner of England. Cerealis ? Was that an early reference to muesli and Weetabix ?
Thanks Eric. I can imagine the ad for that cereal. On a stone tablet!
Really enjoyed that. You painted a picture I could imagine what it was like those romans in there boredom walking on the moors worshiping and I’m sure a nice little drink something to eat hunting and then a nice go in the boathouse. Lovely thanks
Thank you and very encouraging feedback. Cheers
Great video as always. I thought if one of the soldiers was the auxiliary prefect then he would have commanded the unit and outranked the auxiliary centurion? I am no expert though?
Yes he was. Although the shrines were dated to the same sort of period, we don’t know if Julius and Frontinu knew each other. Maybe Julius built his next to the one that was already there. Cheers
Christianity had such profound influence in those times
Yes, I do wonder if that burnt thatch is telling us a story about the switch to Christianity…cheers.
Fantastic effort crossing the Moor to find the shrines 💪. Very interesting, it would be fantastic to see something like this in the flesh. I hope Mrs WC21 used some of the production budget to get an overpriced cup of tea and a scone in the museum cafe.
Thank you and she did. A big cardboard cheese scone, I believe!
Interesting location, no doubt arduous for the Centurions too. That they chose such a spot raises a number of questions. Did the raising of altars become prohibited at Roman garrisons by the 3rd/4th Centuries? Was the siting of them a matter of practicality, away from intrusion? That they were so close to running water may well have played a role also. Thanks for another excellent exploration and good to see the virtual Mrs WC21.
Thanks. I do think the burnt thatch possibly speaks of a changed policy towards pagan gods. Off the top of my head, it was outlawed in the 4th century, so I think the shrines were not breaking any laws when first erected.
Great video and will now refer to the team ! I wonder when Christianity was introduced into Britain by Constantine in about 330 AD those shrines might have fallen into ruin. Just a thought as it were. Very interesting and hard worked video!
Thanks and yes, worshipping pagan gods did end up getting outlawed in the 4th century, so maybe that burnt thatch tells a story of deliberate destruction?
Weirdly it was exactly 9 am when I started the video and the church bells rang.
They started chiming the moment I got out of the car to start filming this. I took it as a sign of approval!
Nice Sunday morning coffee and another amazing production, thanks so much
Cheers! I’m still on tea at the moment, but a coffee is now required!
hello again Darren and MRS WC21 PROUCTIONS, yet another really cool interesting video, so Americans want us to beg.....Figures , well done and thank you both 😊
No lol....Time zones are important. MrWC21 releases his vids 8-30 am GMT. A perfect time for me in Aus as that's 7-30 pm for me, but the middle of the night in many time zones in the US. By the time they wake, UA-cam will likely have buried MrWC21's vid unless our American friends are subscribed. If they do subscribe, UA-cam's algorithm (that wants folks to watch vids) will ensure his vid is pushed at subscribers when they wake and log in regardless of their time zone...A free win win for all.
Cheers Davie! I hadn’t thought of it like that, but I see Phil has provided his rationale below!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd true
Now the question is, is this in North Yorkshire or Durham. Must be pretty close to our Northern frontier. I was watching one of Tom's (Allotment Fox) older videos this morning and that had two Roman shrines, one rectangular and the other circular in close proximity, I wonder if there is anything in this? I suppose we will never know. Once again I thoroughly enjoyed your Sunday offering.... It's just hard to wait a week for the next! Frank
Thanks Frank and that is flattering feedback to receive. I really appreciate it.
Yes, I think I remember that AF video now you come to mention it. Interesting. If contemporary, I wonder if the Prefect got circular and the regular got rectangular. Perhaps that's how it worked!
“Look to it” 😮
It must be catching!
thank you very much that was most interesting
Thanks Dan, glad you found it interesting. It drew me in whilst making it.
I thought it said “Amazing woman shines on moor”.
Probably would have gone viral if I’d found some of those!
Hi Darren and Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd,
What a great production this was thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish, absolutely nothing AI about Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd, although it would be nice to know her first name as typing Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd takes a bit of time!!
Great opening sequence - For Whom the Bell Tolls, the Spanish Vutones in this case!!
Bad luck with the museum, if you’re sharp Darren you know what to buy Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd for Christmas (see what I mean about having to write Mrs WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd every time, not that I’m resorting to copy or paste or anything like that!!)
I am right in assuming that the stones in the church was where the rev who excavated them preached?
Of course the other Norman keep that you have previously featured was Portchester Castle, the walls there stood intact.
I do enjoy looking at the old maps and you know they are old because they are black and white, different font etc, the route tracing on the modern map was excellent and it wasn’t until you could see the beck that you could understand the squiggle at the end.
Not quite sure what that rodent trap was for have they suddenly become frightened of the water?
Nice UA-cam foot in the snow sequence, but that moor did look very menacing, glad you made it back ok. The drone work was excellent!!
All the best!!
Oh was she hinting at what she’d like me to buy her, David? I’m terrible at that stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for noting the drone, my confidence with V.3 is growing!
I think the inscribed stone in the church turned up in the vicarage garden. You know what the old school reverends were like. Always digging stuff up and then getting stalked by dark shadows…
I hate those “rodent” traps on the moors. All about protecting the ground nesting birds so hoorays have plenty to shoot. Sometimes they accidentally get knocked over!
One of your best videos yet. It would be interesting to see Lidor images of these areas. There is a US company that does worldwide datasets but I hate to think what an image costs to download. What were the square shapes at 15:00? As regards the AI images of Mrs WC, you need to make them more realistic and not so good-looking.
Thanks Ron, that’s great. I probably should have looked at the LiDAR - I expect a chap called Phil will post some on our Facebook page - he often does!
Those square shapes are a result of how they manage the moor, I think. Something to do with creating the right environment for the birds they shoot.
I will share your comments with the Missus and I agree!
Fantabulus great show as always
Thank you very much James!
If you fancy a field trip, I’d suggest a “field trip” to the Roman Museum in Lyon and a side trip to Vienne to see the Roman Temple and the remains of the Port and warehouse buildings (plus Museum) on the other aide of the Rhone.
Thanks. I would very much like to do that. Hopefully one day!
@ the museum is built down a hillside and at the bottom a large wall and sitting area which forms the Roman theatre. The museum is full of statues, mosaic floors and inscribed stones. Then there’s Nimes (spent christmas there once)
Long may she rein.
My sentiments exactly!
Morning Darren- Lavatris? Thought you were going to tell us that was Roman public conveniences!😄 And that sign in the church needs re-wording methinks; clock hammers need to be pulled off? Ooer missus!! Appreciate the risks you took on our behalf mate👍
Morning Carol. Couldn’t resist including that sign, which is bad of me, I know. I guess only those of us with a certain type of mind will notice, though! Thanks - it was a bit arduous, but worth it, I hope.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtdyou are as bad as me mate! I always see the unobvious; hope I'm not the only one to notice if so what does that say about me ? 😐
She’s back. At this rate I may consider subscribing. ( I already am 😊)
😂 I’ll ask her to do the subscribe bit next time, see what difference that makes!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd
Sure it will make a huge difference. But I thought she was real and you are AI.
@@ducthman4737 Oh no, I'd better check! How does one know if one is AI?
Another crackin vid. Durham isnt too far away so I should check the place out
Thanks and go for it - hope you get a good day!
Very enjoyable trek to the shrines, following the Roman soldiers' footsteps. Arthur came to mind when you said Scargill moor & bingo he appeared - I wonder if he's watching. Next time take a brush-hook & clear that bracken off the wall (they have Scottish sheep on Os hillfort to keep the bracken down). Lovely to see Mrs WC again with matching trilby (?). I'm never disappointed by trying to find something, it's the journey, and the atmosphere remains.
Thank you and they are my sentiments as well. I think there’s only been a couple of occasions when I’ve given up on a video and that’s been weather, rather than a disappointing site. However difficult to see they may be, there’s a story. I very much got a connection on this one. Walking out from where those centurions lived to where they hunted and built their shrines. It wasn’t hard to imagine them there.
Fab session. Maybe these centurions prayed to those gods right out in the middle of no-where because it was banned and outlawed. A form of rebel worship long after it was against the law. It was discovered by the new god worshippers, and it was burned...
Thanks. I do think it’s interesting that the shrines were burnt and sense the Christian outrage! Vinotonus Silvanus is yet another of these Romano British hybrids - fascinating stuff.
Is my hangover so bad that I missed the answer to when the bath house was robbed out? Was it comically recently? 1800ish?
No you didn’t miss it - I left it for the comments. You’re in the right ballpark. Victorian antiquarians once again!
Really enjoyed this, I read that the unit at Brough was always a scouting cavalry unit and the Fell Pony museum site states that the unit was “cohors I Thracum equitata civium Romanorum (512) at Bowes and Birdoswald” so part of the 512 and maybe some infantry to Garrison the fort.their job was to patrol the bleak area of the North Pennines preventing raids and incursions, I wonder as there are 8 shrines in one small area ,is it possibly the site of an ambush were they. a unit of 6 Alae approximately 192 men and 2 Centurions were caught in the clough ,and managed to fight their way out. It’s a lot of shrines in a random spot?
Wow Mark, that’s really interesting and not something I’ve come across in my researches. I’m sort of glad I didn’t know about that whilst I was in that remote spot - not that I do mumbo jumbo, of course! I’ll take a look at that site. Thanks.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtdthat Ford ? Is it very near, where they crossing the Beck, lovely spot for an ambush!
@ yes, I guess it is. The side I came in from was pathless, but may have been different then, of course.
Perfect presentation and content Mr
Thank you very much!
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Thanks Agent!
Great video. We’ve been tempted several times to find the site of the shrines but conditions put us off. Now we don’t have to,thanks! There’s a Roman well on the track running along the river btw . (Plus a couple of Neolithic mounds just beyond the perimeter ditch) I imagine the Nicholas Nickleby links (Dotheboys Hall, Smike’s grave etc) are too modern for you. Did you read the story of the tragic lovers in the church? It’s been all go in the past in Bowes!
Thanks Rod and that's music to my ears, "now we don't have to"! I was so lucky with the weather that day - would have been impossible in the more normal, claggy conditions I suspect. Interesting about that well - didn't stumble on that in my researches. Will have to Google the "modern" stuff about Nicholas Nickleby!
It amazes me that when Britain was absolutely skint, still rationing food and clothing that the government sent people out to dig a couple of Roman shrines. Mind you, you could probably get a dozen excavations done for the cost of one 'Political Advisor' checking his eyesight.
I learnt recently that hunting estates take up much more acreage in the UK than all the golf courses, football and cricket pitches combined, all so some Executive can murder a wee birdie ....
Yes Iain, we could learn lessons from that time, I think. And just look at those cast iron MOW signs. Made to give work to our own industry, I suspect.
Staggering what people are paying nowadays to shoot birds. It’s a shame how those “rodent” traps do sometimes get knocked over!
@WC21UKProductionsLtd Officially I'm sure they're described as 'Mink Traps' but I'm pretty sure they'll trap any unfortunate of about the same weight and size. We've had quite a few grey squirrels traps locally for some time. Never seen a squirrel in one. Most seem to be fairly old so I suspect there was a one off government grant at some point. I understand why grey squirrels are verboten and locally the reds are making a welcome come back ... but the softie in me hates to see any animal trapped.
@ had a slightly stroppy comment from someone saying they’re for stoats and weasels - like that makes it OK!
@WC21UKProductionsLtd Yeah, they're to kill wee animals that kill wee birdies (eggs). Which landowners don't want because they make money out of big eejits shooting wee birdies. Same reason they kill raptors and want to keep Joe Public off their land.
The Scottish Government has removed the loophole of hunting estates registering as charities (brazen cheek) which means they could pay much lower tax on their profits. In England the loophole, and the inability of English people ( or anyone) to set foot on 92% of their own country remains. The occasional 'permissive' footpath is not the answer.
What’s the story of the mallet? Are they often left out like that in England?
I’ve never seen one like that before, Jane. It was slightly troubling in that remote spot!