Hey folks - apologies for re-uploading this video again, but I am looking to see if this re-render of the original has produced better image quality for you. Please to see any feedback you can offer.
scholagladiatoria Why was the quality bad the last time? I don't know much about uploading videos, still I'd like to know. Was it something related to format or compression?
Do you keep _don't google me_ images next to the things you want to insert in your videos? I recommend you, sorting things: buisness/channel/private and in private a dirt-folder ;-)
We were in the UK years and years ago. It was during the Summer Holidays, at a place called Windmill Hill. It wasn't hard at all for the weather to stay the same. It was always raining.
And that, kids, is what happens to your average castle if it isn't maintained. Reminds me a bit of some tourist viking sites in Denmark. Apart from some standing stones engraved with runes, most of the ruins were just grassy bases of walls. But the ships in the museum at Roskilde looked amazing.
I love watching your videos when I'm working. This channel in particular I think really inspired me to get into hema and these long videos are especially nice because they're like sword or history or whatever podcasts.
"In the 12th century, the encasing palisade on the plateau was replaced by a stone curtain wall, the gatehouse was blocked and heightened into a four storey keep, with a new gateway to the west. The motte was abandoned and its ditch backfilled, to make a keep and courtyard castle, with alterations and rebuilding being carried out in the 14th century. Some of the castle buildings were used until the 15th century but during the 16th century the castle became untenable"- according to castleuk dot net...
I visited the castle William the Conqueror grew up in last month in Falaise Normandy. One of the best castles I've visited, everyone is given an iPad with an AR overlay for each room in the castle. It was also interesting to see another angle on his story and very educational.
Yeah they're flint walls! A couple Roman structures in Britain (Burgh and Portus Adurni) have the same. Lots of places in Britain have chalk bedrock, which is soft...but has flint nodules in it. Flint is really hard, so a lime mortar+flint cobble mix was used. Shit now I see you're talking about his photo lol.
Daniel Davis Yeah I was joking but that's really interesting information. Flint walls. That sounds pretty damn hard. And the flint is the stone used to fill the wall, yeah? Not the face stones?
It can be facing, but generally it is filling the whole wall. You always use the cheapest aggregate you can for the filling, and in that area flint genuinely is the most common "real" stone (chalk is too soft). Flint cobble is always at the base of chalk cliffs (like Dover), in chalk streams, and in the soil over chalk.
I didn't see a problem with the old video. I did have a problem with the one where you cleaned your dirty weapon with Lucy, though. It was so blurry I couldn't make out any of the hot rubbing action.
William de Brouse lord of Gower, and Bramber kept having sons, and grandsons named William. There were like 6 more William de Braose lords of Gower and Bramber, with a couple Phillips in there. Presumably after William the First. (King of England) I did a paper/story on the house for the Marcher Lords. They were heavily involved in the wars with the Welsh, and Irish as well as Empress Mathilde. (A claimant to the throne that had a little insurrection. I used to have a Mathilde penny.)
Matt. Next time you're in the Sussex area could you do a brief overview of Bodiam Castle, perchance? It used to be one of my best playgrounds as a child more than sixty years ago; it's a gorgeous late Norman castle, my favourite in many ways. I live in Vancouver now and don't get to UK often but a view of Bodiam would bring back many wonderful memories. Thanks and Cheers, Dave.
I'm sure that I'll never go to England, so I appreciate your videos allowing me to see these kinds of sights. I like that your first instinct is to use English measurements rather than metric. If they had built a stone keep on top of the motte originally, could those stones have been cannibalized in order to build the later wall? Would that explain the lack of remaining structure on the motte?
The anglo saxons did know about hill forts, so motte and bailey couldn't have been that much of a stretch (just going the extra mile; two hills instead of one, or one small and prominent hill above the rest, instead of a bunch of them). I think some hill forts (or oppidum, or whatever you wanna call them) were pretty strategically built too.
Yes they built their own burhs all over England, though these were more like fortified towns. I think the part that would be most unusual to them would be the very localised mound and the keep on top of it. I don't think they had anything like that before Norman influence (perhaps first under Edward the Confessor).
Regarding the building dates of the various structures - I have to agree with your assessment that the curtain wall and gate house date to the same period (likely the 12th century). The curtain wall would usually have a large gate house, and gate houses are useless without a wall, so ... yeah. It makes no sense that they wouldn't have been built together.
Totally. I cannot understand the info sheet's reasoning for having the wall dating later than the gatehouse... It very much seems to be part of the same structure to me.
If as you said, as you were walking on the wall, that that was the height of the original walkway, that means that the main part of the wall is about 10ft high, by maybe 6ft wide, for something like that, you shouldn't need any buttresses.
Matt, I really like these occasional diversions into the architecture and history of your area. You wouldn't happen to know of any UA-camrs who do similar things up in North or West Yorkshire (where my families come from), would you? (And yes, I have searched.)
I couldn't help but laugh: is this another example of the English divide between North and South? 'Lloyd's up north, so maybe he knows.' Just kidding, Matt! I may ask Lloyd; couldn't hurt.
A very interesting video. But one thing I've learned when making video, is that you should try to move the camera as little as possible. I think more static shots, where you alternate between walking and filming, would lead to a less dizzying experience. It would also help if you faced the sun, instead of having it behind you, when talking to the camera. Overall it was interesting though.
One question about destroyed castles in GB: Appearently in Germany many castles and city walls were demolished during the early 19th century as outdated. Was there something similiar in England?
OK, I read something a while ago about the origin of castle ruins and about a quarter of them where demolished, making it the second cause after abandonment and before destructions during war(I think this included WW2).
Gday Matt, I support my other favourite youtube presenters on Patreon for $5 per month. Would like to do the same for you if I had the option on your page.
Unfortunately I can only offer one support option and the per video option works best for me - I only upload 3 unique videos per month though. People can therefore pay as little as they like (down to $1).
scholagladiatoria I don't know about that Matt, I'm 30% Irish so I'm a victim of British colonialism, 60% Welsh so a victim of anglo-saxon invasions and 20% Persian so I'm a victim of Greek facist leader Alexander the Great as well.
Well, who colonised and oppressed who? The Irish invaded both Wales and what is now Scotland in the 5th-7th centuries. The 'English' are roughly 50% Welsh genetically (on the maternal side). Scotland was a group of small princedoms who were all gradually conquered by the Scots. The Northern and Southern Welsh were separate cultures and North Wales was largely conquered by Southern Welsh soldiers who were loyal to the English crown. If we go back far enough, everyone has been conquered or assimilated by someone else and everyone is inter-related.
Hey folks - apologies for re-uploading this video again, but I am looking to see if this re-render of the original has produced better image quality for you. Please to see any feedback you can offer.
scholagladiatoria Why was the quality bad the last time? I don't know much about uploading videos, still I'd like to know. Was it something related to format or compression?
Over-compressed. I was rendering videos at MPEGs. This one is rendered as MPEG-4
The image of the white tower (24:03) seems to have been replaced by an image of a sword hilt.
lol... that's what comes of saving over an image on your desktop between renders.... still... a sword hilt... it could have been MUCH MUCH worse.....
Do you keep _don't google me_ images next to the things you want to insert in your videos?
I recommend you, sorting things: buisness/channel/private and in private a dirt-folder ;-)
The image is so much sharper and clearer Matt. Looks a lot better
Fantastic thanks. I just rendered it as an MPEG4 instead of MPEG. Takes a lot longer to render, but of course much less compression.
scholagladiatoria You're welcome Matt. Thanks for taking the time and effort for your audience man.
Well done Matt, this is much clearer than anything you've put out before. Looking forward to lots of new sharp footage of sharp objects.
Awesome, thanks.
Spiderkite puns!
Wow you went back and reenacted the whole video with a new camera? Nice! Good thing the weather was the same, or it would have been hard to get right.
VaanG0v Very british comment, implying that it's difficult that the weather stays the same xD
We were in the UK years and years ago. It was during the Summer Holidays, at a place called Windmill Hill. It wasn't hard at all for the weather to stay the same. It was always raining.
It's amazing that the tall tower remnant is still standing, given that it's just filler material with all the facing stones removed.
And that, kids, is what happens to your average castle if it isn't maintained. Reminds me a bit of some tourist viking sites in Denmark. Apart from some standing stones engraved with runes, most of the ruins were just grassy bases of walls. But the ships in the museum at Roskilde looked amazing.
Watching at the same resolution on the same device (big TV) and this is much better quality than the previous version. Cheers Matt.
Great news!
Yes, much better quality. Worth it for this beautiful scenery!
Definitely looks better.
Thanks
The image quality is leagues better. Thanks for the reupload
Great stuff, thanks.
I love watching your videos when I'm working. This channel in particular I think really inspired me to get into hema and these long videos are especially nice because they're like sword or history or whatever podcasts.
"In the 12th century, the encasing palisade on the plateau was replaced by a stone curtain wall, the gatehouse was blocked and heightened into a four storey keep, with a new gateway to the west. The motte was abandoned and its ditch backfilled, to make a keep and courtyard castle, with alterations and rebuilding being carried out in the 14th century. Some of the castle buildings were used until the 15th century but during the 16th century the castle became untenable"- according to castleuk dot net...
The quality indeed is far better than in the previous version. Please do, if possible, more castle videos. Really interesting stuff.
I visited the castle William the Conqueror grew up in last month in Falaise Normandy. One of the best castles I've visited, everyone is given an iPad with an AR overlay for each room in the castle. It was also interesting to see another angle on his story and very educational.
Glad to finally see the deep drop you were talking about :-)
Much, much, better.
Arundel Castle also in West Sussex still has its Norman motte which gives a good idea of what they looked like.
I got to Arundel quite regularly - some of my earliest videos are there :-)
Those stones at 24:00 were really unique.
I was really confused at first. XD
Yeah they're flint walls! A couple Roman structures in Britain (Burgh and Portus Adurni) have the same. Lots of places in Britain have chalk bedrock, which is soft...but has flint nodules in it. Flint is really hard, so a lime mortar+flint cobble mix was used. Shit now I see you're talking about his photo lol.
Daniel Davis
Yeah I was joking but that's really interesting information. Flint walls. That sounds pretty damn hard. And the flint is the stone used to fill the wall, yeah? Not the face stones?
It can be facing, but generally it is filling the whole wall. You always use the cheapest aggregate you can for the filling, and in that area flint genuinely is the most common "real" stone (chalk is too soft). Flint cobble is always at the base of chalk cliffs (like Dover), in chalk streams, and in the soil over chalk.
I didn't see a problem with the old video. I did have a problem with the one where you cleaned your dirty weapon with Lucy, though. It was so blurry I couldn't make out any of the hot rubbing action.
William de Brouse lord of Gower, and Bramber kept having sons, and grandsons named William. There were like 6 more William de Braose lords of Gower and Bramber, with a couple Phillips in there. Presumably after William the First. (King of England) I did a paper/story on the house for the Marcher Lords. They were heavily involved in the wars with the Welsh, and Irish as well as Empress Mathilde. (A claimant to the throne that had a little insurrection. I used to have a Mathilde penny.)
Quality is ten times better than last one.
Awesome
That image quality is fantastic, soooo much clearer than the previous upload. Glad to see your experiments are working!
Great news, thanks
I love flint+mortar construction in ancient/medieval Britain, such a weird and unique appearance.
Matt. Next time you're in the Sussex area could you do a brief overview of Bodiam Castle, perchance? It used to be one of my best playgrounds as a child more than sixty years ago; it's a gorgeous late Norman castle, my favourite in many ways. I live in Vancouver now and don't get to UK often but a view of Bodiam would bring back many wonderful memories. Thanks and Cheers, Dave.
Definitely better image quality, I almost want to rewatch it lol I hope I can visit it some day
Awesome ! I always love it when you can see the gradual evolution of a fortified structure in situ. :-) Relatively few sites preserve such elements.
This is fantastic...I wrote a Robin Hood-style story; it had Bramber Castle as a location.
I like the Easter-egg saber that replaced the picture of the White Tower.
A quick tip if you want to quickly convert feet to meters - just divide by 3 :)
(actually it's more like 3.3 but 3 gives a good approximation)
*better tip: Just stop using feet
PLHarpoon basically use yards
Still fantastic... You should definitely make more videos like this in the future.
Looks sharp!
But were there any machicolations? :O
Looks good to me.
Great thanks
I'm sure that I'll never go to England, so I appreciate your videos allowing me to see these kinds of sights.
I like that your first instinct is to use English measurements rather than metric.
If they had built a stone keep on top of the motte originally, could those stones have been cannibalized in order to build the later wall? Would that explain the lack of remaining structure on the motte?
This definitely looks a lot better.
The anglo saxons did know about hill forts, so motte and bailey couldn't have been that much of a stretch (just going the extra mile; two hills instead of one, or one small and prominent hill above the rest, instead of a bunch of them). I think some hill forts (or oppidum, or whatever you wanna call them) were pretty strategically built too.
Yes they built their own burhs all over England, though these were more like fortified towns. I think the part that would be most unusual to them would be the very localised mound and the keep on top of it. I don't think they had anything like that before Norman influence (perhaps first under Edward the Confessor).
It's possible.
Matt, when are we getting the Doug Marcadia breaks swords videos
lol
Took me awhile to get around to watching but great video. Very interesting topic that you don't hear much about.
I think the trees are also there to stabilize the ground, otherwise rain and wind would destroy it.
The Bastard got giddy with M&B castles around this part of Yorkshire, 2 in my City and at least 4 others within 10 miles
I don't know what you've changed but it's lots better! 👍
Regarding the building dates of the various structures - I have to agree with your assessment that the curtain wall and gate house date to the same period (likely the 12th century). The curtain wall would usually have a large gate house, and gate houses are useless without a wall, so ... yeah. It makes no sense that they wouldn't have been built together.
Totally. I cannot understand the info sheet's reasoning for having the wall dating later than the gatehouse... It very much seems to be part of the same structure to me.
Maybe the wall was reinforced later but the Gatehouse has been kept. But normaly it was the other way round.
If as you said, as you were walking on the wall, that that was the height of the original walkway, that means that the main part of the wall is about 10ft high, by maybe 6ft wide, for something like that, you shouldn't need any buttresses.
Matt, what's your favorite sword to wear while doing "business"?
Matt, I really like these occasional diversions into the architecture and history of your area. You wouldn't happen to know of any UA-camrs who do similar things up in North or West Yorkshire (where my families come from), would you? (And yes, I have searched.)
No I don't know unfortunately. Lloyd/Lindybeige could though, as he's in Newcastle.
I couldn't help but laugh: is this another example of the English divide between North and South? 'Lloyd's up north, so maybe he knows.' Just kidding, Matt! I may ask Lloyd; couldn't hurt.
What's going on at 24:03 lol
Lungorthin
That's what I was wondering.
A very interesting video. But one thing I've learned when making video, is that you should try to move the camera as little as possible.
I think more static shots, where you alternate between walking and filming, would lead to a less dizzying experience.
It would also help if you faced the sun, instead of having it behind you, when talking to the camera.
Overall it was interesting though.
Even noticeably better on mobile!
Do more castles!
Interesting video!
Much improved!
One question about destroyed castles in GB: Appearently in Germany many castles and city walls were demolished during the early 19th century as outdated. Was there something similiar in England?
Sometimes for expansion of towns and cities, yes.
OK, I read something a while ago about the origin of castle ruins and about a quarter of them where demolished, making it the second cause after abandonment and before destructions during war(I think this included WW2).
Holy crap - its like you are in my lounge!
If only I were....
It does look better.
Looks better to me.
Yeah its much better, looks less like youve run it through a grater
Great! MPEG4 rather than MPEG this time.
scholagladiatoria ahh yes that would help my good sir!
btw, I can now see even the things that you thought we wouldn't be able to see
I just watched the old ole one, then saw this. XD
Much better!
so much better
Machiciolations!!!!
Yes definitely better
For Shadiversity!
It is in West Sussex, not East Sussex.
I think this version of the video lacks the rustic charm of the 2006 version.
MUCH BETTER!!! =D
Awesome
but matt, I love your face!
C'mon meters are easy! One meter is just a bit more than one yard (about 1.09).
Looks appropriately pixelated in 144p
Very nice, the grainy look is gone.
Great!
more dpi than reality
19:00 what is that?
Excellent reupload - whatever was causing your videos to look like Minecraft appears to have been fixed.
Gday Matt, I support my other favourite youtube presenters on Patreon for $5 per month. Would like to do the same for you if I had the option on your page.
Unfortunately I can only offer one support option and the per video option works best for me - I only upload 3 unique videos per month though. People can therefore pay as little as they like (down to $1).
scholagladiatoria No worries mate, I will get in on that because Im new to the channel but been binge watching your videos!
Yes, much better. I guess I'm going to post a link to my video on the same castle, here: ua-cam.com/video/e6LWNwPiI60/v-deo.html
So.. why do they call em rapes? Is it just me?
Apparently it is derived from ropes and the length of something.
So you're south saxon and scottish, but how much victim are you ?
As much as you?
scholagladiatoria I don't know about that Matt, I'm 30% Irish so I'm a victim of British colonialism, 60% Welsh so a victim of anglo-saxon invasions and 20% Persian so I'm a victim of Greek facist leader Alexander the Great as well.
Well, who colonised and oppressed who? The Irish invaded both Wales and what is now Scotland in the 5th-7th centuries. The 'English' are roughly 50% Welsh genetically (on the maternal side). Scotland was a group of small princedoms who were all gradually conquered by the Scots. The Northern and Southern Welsh were separate cultures and North Wales was largely conquered by Southern Welsh soldiers who were loyal to the English crown. If we go back far enough, everyone has been conquered or assimilated by someone else and everyone is inter-related.
Can't really tell on this rubbish phone screen.