Such a soothing friendly voice. I go back in time with Tony whenever the madness of today's world gets overpowering. I wish there could be more programs made.
Hope it doesn't sound cruel, but it was refreshing to see a presenter being real. His terror with the egg hunt really brought home the hardships of life then. This is a great vid, genius idea, and very well written n presented. Thank you for uploading it, I'm now going to binge on tge rest of the series.
I did the whole oxen till thing on my grandparents land in Kenya. It was so hard. But that's what my relatives use on their land. Utterly amazed at the work they do to live.
Probaly the best way. Very low to no cost to produce crops. Just grass and water for the ox and the seed. They are probaly more successfull than english farmers right now with their £500,000 tractors and fuel prices
I do really feel for Tony over that cliff. He was NOT happy. I can't believe his shoe came off! Watching that fall all that distance made my insides turn to water, and I'm not even afraid of heights!
Who would know better about dirty thankless job if not Baldric who labored for Blackadder FOR CENTURIES! Thank you very much, guys, what a genius idea that was to make a series of presentation on this topic. I always wondered what everyday's life would be like for an average person of Dark Age.
Baldrick was a fun character, but I liked his sharp version in the first, medieval season of Black Adder better than the dimwitted one in the later seasons. I'm envious of you for meeting Tony. If I ever get so lucky, I'll hug him and thank him for infotaining me for so long, and in such a great way. :)
27:38 Back out in the woods, Dave has been awake for 48 hours solid... Slowly nightmarish visions of his tours of duty as a Black-Ops specialist flash before his eyes. "So much blood," he thinks, as a wave of emotion engulfs him with savage intensity. With both dull glaze and a weary heart, to himself he ponders the question that has dogged him ever since those days: "what the fuck am I doing here?"
Lucas Davis He should build a pedestal on top of the coal mound to sleep on. If the coal mound catches on fire he would feel the heat, wake up and be able to put out the fire. 👍
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining. 9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing. 13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing. 19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc. 21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron. 23:16 - Ceorl charcoal making. 26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD. 28:40 - Anglo saxon monk life. 34:30 - Viking boat rowing. 37:28 - Moving a longship across land. 41:18 - Collecting of guillemot eggs. ------- Now thank me, you assholes. :P
I already watched the whole episode before reading your comment. However, I still will thank you for at least supplying me with a satisfying hard-on brought about by your pic. :)
I find it fascinating how many of these Anglo Saxon techniques were revived by early colonists in the Americas in the 17th & 18th centuries. Wattle and daub, wood plank making, charcoal making, and rough plowing were all used until the 1800s on the frontier.
Starting in the very late 1600s, most American colonists were actually German. To this day it's still the largest common ancestry of Americans. It's why we have our super-enunciated version of an english accent and not just a subtle take on it like the Australian accent.
9:07 - Saxon peasant = "churl" = jack-of-all-trades = farmer/woodsman/builder/baker/etc. 10:29 - #ETYMOLOGY - "acre" = old saxon word meaning the amount of land one could expect to plow in a day. 13:47 - #COBHOUSE - Wattle & daub = water, mud, straw, and manure. 23:33 - How to make charcoal #LOSTSKILLS. 28:38 - Saxon-era English monk life. Monks had to pray 8 times daily (similar to muslims today); they didn't live in cloisters, but instead built their own wattle and daub hut houses; the did pain by wading in ice cold water for hours. 35:00 - Viking rowing ships were tighly cramped and smelly, then fish guts were used to lubricate horizontal rolling poles which were used to slide the ships across land in what is termed "portage" 42:00 - Guniea Mott Egg-collector 42:37 - People believed chickens were sacred (WHY?), so you couldn't eat their eggs, but you COULD eat eggs of other birds.
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining. 9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing. 13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing. 19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc. 21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron. 23:16 - Ceorl charcoal making. 26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD. 28:40 - Anglo saxon monk life. 34:30 - Viking boat rowing. 37:28 - Moving a longship across land. 41:18 - Collecting of guillemot eggs.
I love the abseiling portion as my daughter began at 8 years of age. She loves it although her longest abseil is only 50 feet while her highest climb is 60 feet.
Building the Anglo Saxon house actually looked fun. As did plowing with the oxen team. It honestly seemed like a way of life I would actually want to try.
+Donald Vincent Like many jobs it would be fun for the first day but along about the 100th day it certainly would have lost its allure. I had a chance to try plowing behind mules. Even with a steel plow it is very difficult to keep a straight line.
Get yourself a metal plowing blade, that's the only way to make it fun. I have friends who owned Percheron's and used old plowing techniques on their farm, and it's still really hard!
Go ask North Koreans how fun ox-and-plow farming is. They're one of the few nations left on earth outside of Africa and rural China that has people still doing it this way. Those in extreme poverty are the only ones who do it. That should tell you all you need to know about how smart of a lifestyle choice it would be. Whats not shown is the lack of meats these people had. The produce was seasonal and very regonalized. Europe didn't even have potatoes back then! Let alone citrus fruits or bananas or most other fruits beyond bush berries and apples. Their vegetables were mostly root-based ones that we don't even eat today. They did have bread, but if you had bread that means you grew the grain and then harvested it and then milled it and then took it to a baker who you had to pay to bake it. The end result was a meagre portion that probably wasn't of great quality and was also seasonal and in short supply even then. They had indoor fires to heat homes and cook with. They thought the smoke was a good thing... if you had a cold back then they thought being in an extremely smoky room while you rested would speed you to health. In winters they'd build huge fires and often built lofts to sleep on because the heat, and smoke along with it, would rise to the top. Can you imagine what this would do to you cardiovascularly after awhile? Another great medical cure of the day was to use leeches to suck your blood, and then you would burn the leeches in a fire and bury them at least two feet under. How anyone ever came up with this idea is a mystery to me. I can understand things like blood letting, but that sort of stuff escapes me. Just because currency wasn't really used among peasents and there was no electricity or running water didn't mean that there weren't bills to be paid. The Lords and Ladies owned the land and tiny tracts were given to families. And I do mean tiny. You can still still the physical imprint this has left in the UK to this very day. When you see those overhead shots of countryside with the Tetris-like pattern of rectangles, a single one of those were given to families of 3-9 people. They paid keep to whomever owned their land and a peasent could never legally own his own land. You paid your cobbler and baker and blacksmiths. You had to buy your wooden bowls and plates and utensils. You had to pay taxes to both the Crown and local Lord. You couldn't even go out and collect all the wood you needed for fires and buildings and tools. You had to not only pay the local Lord, but cut double what you need and give him half. Most bills were paid in food or meat or wood or labor or cloth or in a trade skill if you had one. If you got behind to local Lords and Ladies, they would often take your children as indentured servants or you or your wife if the situation permitted. Moving up in society wasn't an option. People like the bakers and blacksmiths and cobblers were family businesses given centuries back by Lords and Ladies to a family whose ancestors always inherited it's rights. Even if you had extra eggs or grain it was illegal to sell them except for about 3 days a year. Some families would keep sheep, then cut all their wool and do about a dozen more steps to get it to usable wool. Then another 15-20 steps to make it into woven cloth. Then you have to take it to a local lord and pay them to use their water mill to pound the cloth to make it usable for clothes. You could make them for your family or sell the cloth, or wool that was ready for spinning, to the church. The church was the monopoly so you accepted their price or kept it. Speaking of the church, they collected not only tithes but also taxes. They were essentially rte organized criminals of the day. It's why their magnificent cathedrals still stand while the 99% lived in wretched hovels. Then if you wanted your daughter to ever get married you had to save for her dowry and if you wanted your son to get a wife you have to save resources to attract a bride. These days we can work hard and slog through the day to give our children markedly better lives but back then you had to do that and THEN SOME if you wanted your child to have no life improvement at all, but just the chance to have it as good as you did.
TRY DOING IT FOR A FEW YEARS, WITH BAD WEATHER YOUR CROP WILL FAIL, MUDDY LAND IF YOU HAVE HEAVY RAIN, IF YOU HAVE DROUGHT THE SOIL WILL BE AS HARD AS STONE AND YOU CANT WATER YOUR CROPS. NOT TO MENTION ATTACKING VIKINGS RAIDERS WILL TAKE YOUR CROPS AND YOUR WIFE. MAYBE IT LOOK FUN IF YOU JUST HAVE TO DO IT FOR A FEW DAYS. NO MODERN PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE LIVING LIKE THAT TODAY, WE ALL HAS BEEN SPOILED.
WONDERFUL!!👍🏻😀 l say if you are going to watch a lot of tv, treat yourself to something that's not just entertaining but really educational as well! Fantastic shate, thank❤️ you Reijer!👍🏻🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
I actually do feel bad for him during the cliff part. He's clearly feeling a lot of terror, however, the way he says his shoe fell off and the clip of the shoe falling makes me laugh so hard I drool on myself.
44:40 I'm actually doubtful that the egg collectors wouldn't have figured out to tie a simple climbing knot to lower themselves down. Actually I'm going to say it is ridiculous. Doing this was their life and I'm sure they figured out how to tie it properly, to safely propel themselves down.
You shouldn't be so doubtful. Look all through history. Even look today. There are so many examples of people doing risky work at height without using any rope etc. It may seem silly to us, but that's reality for you.
It never fails. Tony gets to deal with piss, shit, something really stinky and rotten, and some perilous height. Apparently he'll do almost anything for a paycheck. ;-)
WE ASIAN ALSO HAVE THE WATTLE AND DAUB TECHNIC SINCE ANCIENT TIMES TO BUILD WALL AND HOUSES....BUT WE AIN'T USING DUNG!! SOUTH EAST ASIAN AND EAST ASIAN USED COOKED STICKY RICE AS A BINDING AGENT...MUCH STRONGER AND MUCH CLEANER. BUT INDIAN DO USED COW DUNG THOUGH...BECAUSE THEY DEEM IT TO BE SACRED :p.
A large resource that Romans had was slaves. Might be good for us to use convicts. Better then have them pumping weights in prison gyms & thinking of ways to improve at criminal activities.
I think Id only last a few days at any of these jobs before I decided to off myself. But then again maybe not since suicide was considered a mortal sin. (if you were Christian that is)
Wow , poor Tony. Picking up poo. If they had just mixed the clay & straw in the round pens they would have known the only reason dung was in it was from the ox 's mixing the clay, water & straw. 🐂🐃🏠
thank you for the info. and also a luxury item. so i guess even if they had big draft horse only a king and his crew would of been able to afford one.. and i just do not see the noble saying hey you surfs, use this horse, it will make your job easier. LOL. i just assumed the draft horses came with the romans. my bad for assuming anything. have a great night.
Smaller versions of Shire-type draft horses were around in the middle ages, but oxen would have been a lot more affordable for peasants. In Saxon and Viking times, most people -- even warriors -- just had scrubby little horses.
Well ye but some was in north was for mining and so on ox like cows was used for farming ! so on . even back then there was some order to our we all was lol
Such a soothing friendly voice. I go back in time with Tony whenever the madness of today's world gets overpowering. I wish there could be more programs made.
Hope it doesn't sound cruel, but it was refreshing to see a presenter being real. His terror with the egg hunt really brought home the hardships of life then.
This is a great vid, genius idea, and very well written n presented.
Thank you for uploading it, I'm now going to binge on tge rest of the series.
This show takes me back :)
Natural presenter, and this just beats anything made today.
It is amazing how much hunger can be a motivator. You'll do ANYTHING to get fed.
I did the whole oxen till thing on my grandparents land in Kenya. It was so hard. But that's what my relatives use on their land. Utterly amazed at the work they do to live.
Probaly the best way. Very low to no cost to produce crops. Just grass and water for the ox and the seed. They are probaly more successfull than english farmers right now with their £500,000 tractors and fuel prices
18:22 "SLAAAP IT ON, SLIDEE IT... AWW YE SPLASH'D ME WIT YER DOLLOP"
As an American this sounds hilarious and awesome to me haha
I do really feel for Tony over that cliff. He was NOT happy. I can't believe his shoe came off! Watching that fall all that distance made my insides turn to water, and I'm not even afraid of heights!
Who would know better about dirty thankless job if not Baldric who labored for Blackadder FOR CENTURIES!
Thank you very much, guys, what a genius idea that was to make a series of presentation on this topic. I always wondered what everyday's life would be like for an average person of Dark Age.
And when they were done, Baldric made them a cappucino...
Tony Robinson, I love you. You're one of the greatest presenters in the world.
Baldrick was a fun character, but I liked his sharp version in the first, medieval season of Black Adder better than the dimwitted one in the later seasons.
I'm envious of you for meeting Tony. If I ever get so lucky, I'll hug him and thank him for infotaining me for so long, and in such a great way. :)
27:38 Back out in the woods, Dave has been awake for 48 hours solid... Slowly nightmarish visions of his tours of duty as a Black-Ops specialist flash before his eyes. "So much blood," he thinks, as a wave of emotion engulfs him with savage intensity. With both dull glaze and a weary heart, to himself he ponders the question that has dogged him ever since those days: "what the fuck am I doing here?"
Me too....
He just seems so calm and at the same time so sullen. I guess two days without sleep can do that to somebody.
Lucas Davis He should build a pedestal on top of the coal mound to sleep on. If the coal mound catches on fire he would feel the heat, wake up and be able to put out the fire. 👍
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining.
9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing.
13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing.
19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc.
21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron.
23:16 - Ceorl charcoal making.
26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD.
28:40 - Anglo saxon monk life.
34:30 - Viking boat rowing.
37:28 - Moving a longship across land.
41:18 - Collecting of guillemot eggs.
-------
Now thank me, you assholes. :P
thank you, sire
Kei Channing
You're welcome, peasant.
Thank you lord.
I already watched the whole episode before reading your comment. However, I still will thank you for at least supplying me with a satisfying hard-on brought about by your pic. :)
I find it fascinating how many of these Anglo Saxon techniques were revived by early colonists in the Americas in the 17th & 18th centuries.
Wattle and daub, wood plank making, charcoal making, and rough plowing were all used until the 1800s on the frontier.
Less than a century ago, builders were still using its offspring, lath and plaster.
Since most of the colonist were from England, and left because of their faith, they would have been very familiar with these building techniques
Maryanne Slater, way less than a century-my house was built in 1956 and has lath and plaster walls.
Starting in the very late 1600s, most American colonists were actually German. To this day it's still the largest common ancestry of Americans. It's why we have our super-enunciated version of an english accent and not just a subtle take on it like the Australian accent.
what about canadians then ? cant of been many germans there ?
You know its gonna be a good one when the first thing you hear Tony say is, "Oh Jesus Christ"! LMAOOOOO
LOVE YOU Tony
This is a common theme with Tony. He's so afraid of heights it's adorable.
9:07 - Saxon peasant = "churl" = jack-of-all-trades = farmer/woodsman/builder/baker/etc.
10:29 - #ETYMOLOGY - "acre" = old saxon word meaning the amount of land one could expect to plow in a day.
13:47 - #COBHOUSE - Wattle & daub = water, mud, straw, and manure.
23:33 - How to make charcoal #LOSTSKILLS.
28:38 - Saxon-era English monk life. Monks had to pray 8 times daily (similar to muslims today); they didn't live in cloisters, but instead built their own wattle and daub hut houses; the did pain by wading in ice cold water for hours.
35:00 - Viking rowing ships were tighly cramped and smelly, then fish guts were used to lubricate horizontal rolling poles which were used to slide the ships across land in what is termed "portage"
42:00 - Guniea Mott Egg-collector
42:37 - People believed chickens were sacred (WHY?), so you couldn't eat their eggs, but you COULD eat eggs of other birds.
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining. 9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing. 13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing.
19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc. 21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron. 23:16 -
Ceorl charcoal making. 26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD. 28:40 -
Anglo saxon monk life. 34:30 - Viking boat rowing. 37:28 - Moving a longship across land. 41:18 -
Collecting of guillemot eggs.
Thanks for uploading this.
The one legged stool was the original Pilates ball.
This was fun. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it!
That cliff looked like fun, until he lost his shoes!!! Poor Tony.. lol
Life was hard, short, and brutal. I hope they had a few good times scattered around somewhere.
+Dwight E Howell You know; that would be another good show. Recorded history of some of the fun times... If there were any. LOL
It would have been gods.
A couple of horns of mead and even a North Sea voyage probably looked OK :)
Do you know anything about Romano-Britain or the Saxons? Yeah, thought not.
The Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset is well worth visiting but at present is only open to the public for events
18:36 Tony Robinson: "If you find this therapeutic, Your psyche must be pretty messed up" haha
0:04 I swear, for a second it looked like Tony Robinson was winding up to knock down Hadrian's Wall...
Great series, and Tony makes history quite fun.
very interesting and thank you for posting this.
33:05. Watching Tony run into the surf made my day! Bravo!
"I see an egg! I see an egg!"
"Oh! Me shoe's come off!"
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA XD!!
gives a whole new meaning to shit house
Surely the charcoal makers would've had 4-5 charcoal piles going at a time instead of just 1?
I love the abseiling portion as my daughter began at 8 years of age. She loves it although her longest abseil is only 50 feet while her highest climb is 60 feet.
Edwin and Oswin are awesome
Building the Anglo Saxon house actually looked fun. As did plowing with the oxen team. It honestly seemed like a way of life I would actually want to try.
+Donald Vincent Like many jobs it would be fun for the first day but along about the 100th day it certainly would have lost its allure.
I had a chance to try plowing behind mules. Even with a steel plow it is very difficult to keep a straight line.
Get yourself a metal plowing blade, that's the only way to make it fun. I have friends who owned Percheron's and used old plowing techniques on their farm, and it's still really hard!
Go ask North Koreans how fun ox-and-plow farming is. They're one of the few nations left on earth outside of Africa and rural China that has people still doing it this way. Those in extreme poverty are the only ones who do it. That should tell you all you need to know about how smart of a lifestyle choice it would be.
Whats not shown is the lack of meats these people had. The produce was seasonal and very regonalized. Europe didn't even have potatoes back then! Let alone citrus fruits or bananas or most other fruits beyond bush berries and apples. Their vegetables were mostly root-based ones that we don't even eat today. They did have bread, but if you had bread that means you grew the grain and then harvested it and then milled it and then took it to a baker who you had to pay to bake it. The end result was a meagre portion that probably wasn't of great quality and was also seasonal and in short supply even then. They had indoor fires to heat homes and cook with. They thought the smoke was a good thing... if you had a cold back then they thought being in an extremely smoky room while you rested would speed you to health. In winters they'd build huge fires and often built lofts to sleep on because the heat, and smoke along with it, would rise to the top. Can you imagine what this would do to you cardiovascularly after awhile?
Another great medical cure of the day was to use leeches to suck your blood, and then you would burn the leeches in a fire and bury them at least two feet under. How anyone ever came up with this idea is a mystery to me. I can understand things like blood letting, but that sort of stuff escapes me.
Just because currency wasn't really used among peasents and there was no electricity or running water didn't mean that there weren't bills to be paid. The Lords and Ladies owned the land and tiny tracts were given to families. And I do mean tiny. You can still still the physical imprint this has left in the UK to this very day. When you see those overhead shots of countryside with the Tetris-like pattern of rectangles, a single one of those were given to families of 3-9 people. They paid keep to whomever owned their land and a peasent could never legally own his own land. You paid your cobbler and baker and blacksmiths. You had to buy your wooden bowls and plates and utensils. You had to pay taxes to both the Crown and local Lord. You couldn't even go out and collect all the wood you needed for fires and buildings and tools. You had to not only pay the local Lord, but cut double what you need and give him half. Most bills were paid in food or meat or wood or labor or cloth or in a trade skill if you had one. If you got behind to local Lords and Ladies, they would often take your children as indentured servants or you or your wife if the situation permitted.
Moving up in society wasn't an option. People like the bakers and blacksmiths and cobblers were family businesses given centuries back by Lords and Ladies to a family whose ancestors always inherited it's rights. Even if you had extra eggs or grain it was illegal to sell them except for about 3 days a year. Some families would keep sheep, then cut all their wool and do about a dozen more steps to get it to usable wool. Then another 15-20 steps to make it into woven cloth. Then you have to take it to a local lord and pay them to use their water mill to pound the cloth to make it usable for clothes. You could make them for your family or sell the cloth, or wool that was ready for spinning, to the church. The church was the monopoly so you accepted their price or kept it.
Speaking of the church, they collected not only tithes but also taxes. They were essentially rte organized criminals of the day. It's why their magnificent cathedrals still stand while the 99% lived in wretched hovels. Then if you wanted your daughter to ever get married you had to save for her dowry and if you wanted your son to get a wife you have to save resources to attract a bride. These days we can work hard and slog through the day to give our children markedly better lives but back then you had to do that and THEN SOME if you wanted your child to have no life improvement at all, but just the chance to have it as good as you did.
TRY DOING IT FOR A FEW YEARS, WITH BAD WEATHER YOUR CROP WILL FAIL, MUDDY LAND IF YOU HAVE HEAVY RAIN, IF YOU HAVE DROUGHT THE SOIL WILL BE AS HARD AS STONE AND YOU CANT WATER YOUR CROPS. NOT TO MENTION ATTACKING VIKINGS RAIDERS WILL TAKE YOUR CROPS AND YOUR WIFE. MAYBE IT LOOK FUN IF YOU JUST HAVE TO DO IT FOR A FEW DAYS. NO MODERN PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE LIVING LIKE THAT TODAY, WE ALL HAS BEEN SPOILED.
WONDERFUL!!👍🏻😀 l say if you are going to watch a lot of tv, treat yourself to something that's not just entertaining but really educational as well! Fantastic shate, thank❤️ you Reijer!👍🏻🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
18:10 Sir Tony is wearing his Anglo-Saxon watch. I bet he regrets that.
''Oh shit Davos, I see an egg.. Hold my mead'' ..
And thus the art of Gillemot egg collecting was born.
"a bed of rosaries"
ahahahahhaha nice.
I’m right with you in the rappelling, Tony. Yikes!
29:50 this is what I’d always imagined Bladrick’s house from Blackadder to look like
I kind of want to try doing a few of these.
i love the song!
Love this show
Hadrian's wall and Teutaberg forest. When Rome met the Scottish and Germans they got a bloody lesson.
Excellent sound at 1:52!! Any idea?
I love his stuff
22:25 that rock required no digging to dig up, and came out as clean as if it was run through a dishwasher!
the plowing made me laugh
That "bog ore" almost looks like meteorites! Wonder if that's where they come from or if it's some other explanation.
I actually do feel bad for him during the cliff part. He's clearly feeling a lot of terror, however, the way he says his shoe fell off and the clip of the shoe falling makes me laugh so hard I drool on myself.
Congratulations on your promotion Baldrick :D
they should rename this episode. "city boy on the country"
Old school edition lol
That pony when he picked up its poop 😁
Being Baldrick to Blackadder was the worst job you can imagine :D
Bede's World has been re-opened as Jarrow Hall
every job is the worst job when youre 87 apparently.
I’m afraid of heights but the hot, smelly, cramped jobs would really get me
44:40 I'm actually doubtful that the egg collectors wouldn't have figured out to tie a simple climbing knot to lower themselves down. Actually I'm going to say it is ridiculous. Doing this was their life and I'm sure they figured out how to tie it properly, to safely propel themselves down.
You shouldn't be so doubtful. Look all through history. Even look today. There are so many examples of people doing risky work at height without using any rope etc. It may seem silly to us, but that's reality for you.
Tony is awesome
Is this captured from finnish tv-channel?
Edwin and Osmond, WALK ON! LOL
pcaso100 oswin
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the stones ended up in local village house walls.
Am I weird for thinking I'd like to try out building a house wall like that once? ^^
Yeah kinda
LOL xd good to know ^^
When I was living in the Sudan I helped build a school in a very similar manner. Its definitely not as disgusting as it sounds
Nah, I'd love to have a go aswell.
As stated above me, cow-dung doesn't smell that bad at all.
why are they using shit?
They should do another episode with horse grooms in it!
Good show, I wouldn't liked being on that cliff either.
27.30 what s so hard to mention the Clipping, to make good Money. Check out Stephen Zarlenga. Coins making was a great Option, throughout history
It never fails. Tony gets to deal with piss, shit, something really stinky and rotten, and some perilous height. Apparently he'll do almost anything for a paycheck. ;-)
Why did we forget all the Roman knowledge and go backwards to chucking crap out windows? And living in mud huts? How was this knowledge all forgotten?
Yes, but - what else did the Romans do for us?
Sanitation?
...toilets?
Taxation?
Roads,temples,baths,markets,stable army, education, opportunity to become a citizen?
+Homo EconomicusX ...Brought peace?
Wait a minute... Roman & Anglo Saxon. The Welsh are Celts, not Anglos.
True, but it was the Welsh under Roman rule in this video.
The prequel series to Dirty Jobs.
I subscribe also If my ancestors were your invaders 😁😇. Thank you. Good job
the worst job to me sounds like adream job. climbing for a living
How can Tony only be worth one million in 2019 when he's been so successful?
Now I just read it's only $600,000.00 as of 2022, how can that be?
PLS NO, NOT THE BINDING AGENT!
this was entertaining.
The Toaly nargler was really bad. They used to 'suck' the shit from constipated rich folks back ends.
Really? Are there documents
but how are we to tell people about shitty dark age jobs. dont worry my lord i have a cunning plan
oh me shoe's come off! oh Christ!
Dung walls? *LAUGHS IN ADOBE MASTER RACE
WE ASIAN ALSO HAVE THE WATTLE AND DAUB TECHNIC SINCE ANCIENT TIMES TO BUILD WALL AND HOUSES....BUT WE AIN'T USING DUNG!! SOUTH EAST ASIAN AND EAST ASIAN USED COOKED STICKY RICE AS A BINDING AGENT...MUCH STRONGER AND MUCH CLEANER. BUT INDIAN DO USED COW DUNG THOUGH...BECAUSE THEY DEEM IT TO BE SACRED :p.
Now thinking compare to how old the Earth is this was not to long ago like the way we have evolved is amazing lol XD
We haven't evolved, society has evolved.
A large resource that Romans had was slaves. Might be good for us to use convicts. Better then have them pumping weights in prison gyms & thinking of ways to improve at criminal activities.
21 century Easter egg collecting.
11:12 Sir Edmund Blackangus?
music at 40:30 anyone please help ... much appreciated
Why do they make him say that spell about trying the worst job when he identifies it? He tries all of them, not just one!
Genius 😁😁😁
Being a churl isn't the worst life. I mean, it would be hard, but it's not so dangerous or difficult as being in the army or mining.
I think Id only last a few days at any of these jobs before I decided to off myself. But then again maybe not since suicide was considered a mortal sin. (if you were Christian that is)
I’m doing an assignment about this video Something about pros and cons and have no clue help
VIOLIN STRING FROM CAT GUT
No Black Adder?
using poop good idea, but so close to figuring out how to make concrete.
Wow , poor Tony. Picking up poo. If they had just mixed the clay & straw in the round pens they would have known the only reason dung was in it was from the ox 's mixing the clay, water & straw. 🐂🐃🏠
Wow, tony is lefthanded
Not all left-handers are good people, but all good people are left-handers.
This is excellent BBC series, egg collecting by the sea cliff has to be the worst job for that era with shit pile wall making without gloves
Actually most deforestation happened during Bronze Age.
Tony Robinson you got guts sod egg collecting and you lost a shoe. wonder who got it back if it were me those eggs be scrambled
I like Tony, more and more as time goes on, but what's with all this "we" business 😆
Seriously though did anyone have a non miserable life back then???
ox and cows stronger than horses? did they only have small horses in saxon time? no draft horses?
It took six horses to get Queen Mary across from the straits to Edinburgh. Six. Horses were fairly weak back in the day.
thank you for the info. and also a luxury item.
so i guess even if they had big draft horse only a king and his crew would of been able to afford one.. and i just do not see the noble saying hey you surfs, use this horse, it will make your job easier. LOL.
i just assumed the draft horses came with the romans. my bad for assuming anything. have a great night.
Smaller versions of Shire-type draft horses were around in the middle ages, but oxen would have been a lot more affordable for peasants. In Saxon and Viking times, most people -- even warriors -- just had scrubby little horses.
Pre-Norman horses were mostly small ponies
Well ye but some was in north was for mining and so on ox like cows was used for farming ! so on . even back then there was some order to our we all was lol