The Hunt For The Lost Viking Burial Site In Shetland | Time Team | Chronicle
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The Time Team crew trek to one of the outermost Shetland Islands, Fetlar, in an attempt to reveal the truth behind an ancient local myth. A cliff-top mound has long been known as the Giant's Grave. But what does it conceal? And could it be connected with some Viking pottery found in a nearby garden? What the team discovers could be one of their most legendary finds.
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wow what a show
This series has proved to be really excellent! I live in a apartment building that is 134 years old and from time to time I have found items such as pictures, coins, and the occasional tool. When I renovated a closet, I found a picture of a young girl in her first communion dress. It was from the 1920s. It was amazing to see this little piece of paper flitter to the floor. And when I bend down to pick it up I turned it over there she was! Innoway it was kind of creepy. So then I started leaving some of my stuff. I’m a musician so I left a couple of my CDs around various renovations that I did in my apartment. Are we did the utility room where the washer and dryer are, and I put together a time capsule and then put it in one of those food storage bags that you can suck all the air out of. Who knows, maybe 30, 50 or 100 years from now when they finally turn down all of the buildings and replace them with skyscrapers somebody might find the things I left behind.
Sounds like a fascinating project! Did you provide descriptions/explanations in the capsule, or leave just the objects?
That's fasinating. Sigh. Won't auto correct. But I loved 😍 love old things and photos.
Great idea! Of course, when they pull the building 150 years from now, they'll have the problem of finding one of those extremely antique and valuable working CD Players, so they can play them… 😊Unless they think, what the Archaeologists in Time Team do when they come across an object they cannot explain, they look at the CD and say that this was some sort of RITUAL Mirror! LOL 😂
I'm gently and friendly pulling your leg, GuitarUniverse2013! 😊 👍 I think it was a really fantastic idea! Who knows. Maybe you'll be the most famous Musician of this era, because your Music is one of the few examples that survived! Great idea with the vacuum bag. You should probably also have filled the bag with Nitrogen and put a Reactive Iron Pack inside to get absolutely every molecule of O₂ out. Oxygen will attack just about everything in time, and destroy it. Fingers crossed it will project your good self into the Future!
I lived in a small 4 floor walk up in T.O. in Ontario, Canada, 1913, it is on the building. Not a heritage site. When the plaster and lath walls were taken apart next door to our apartment, the supers invited us in and showed us the remnants of a coal shoot, an old kitchen fire that was stopped just in time, by our dividing wall, kitchens at the back of these apartments...and an intact log book from the Masonic Temple located in Toronto. I have visited that Temple, still going today!!
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Victor is badass... his drawings really bring everything to life. Im an artist myself and he blows my mind with his ability to listen to small details in a conversation then capture that scene on paper. I would love to have one of his artworks hanging in my home. Truly talented man ❤
Same! I grew up (well my teens) watching his drawings unfold. I was so disappointed when they started bringing in more computer graphics. They way he could draw a warrior on a horse or a scientist round house so in proportion was epic. Do you know if he bought out any books with these illustrations in it? And do you recommend any? Cheers from Australia
Their artist is amazing. He draws people as well as he draws buildings and landscape. Brilliant series!
I was also very impressed!!! ❤❤
What a shame the robbers got to the burial. I wonder how long after they were buried it was desecrated. The world will always have its creeps I reckon. This is a great show. I'm rewatching a lot. Thanks!
If egyptian tombs are any indication it was within one generation of the burial and probably people who worked on building it.
Are the members of Time Team and every other archeologist not grave robbers/desecrators?
@@John.Flower.ProductionsMany Indigenous folks in the Americas would agree.
@@sharonkaczorowski8690 Yes, and I believe we have gone too far, allowing living native Americans veto power over archeological sites they have no genetic connection to.
I really hate that your comment was first.
Best gosh darn channel EVERRRRR
It's a great channel for history lovers for certain. 🌻
A real jiggy buckaroo
DOGGONE CLOSE!
I adore Art documentaries with the amazing Waldemar Januzczak.
HYPE ❣️⛑️🇮🇲Man Yo so 🔨🔨⚙️WRIGHT ‼️😋🌄🌊🇳🇴 VIKINGS UNITE❣️🍵🌍🏰
Agree. But I’m just giving it three days!
This is definitely in my top 5 favorite Time Team episodes! We didn't want it to end.
You and I both! But I am biased I supposed, being a Real🇳🇴Viking myself.
Nice! My husband is a descendant of Cnut as well.
@@kellmac A Quarter of my Family is of Danish Nobility, so I guess it isn't impossible that my family tree has some common branches with King Knut/Cnut
It wouldn't be surprising. That's awesome!
Fantastic episode and Prof. Alice Roberts was there too. Thanks for this posting.
Out of all the classic and new Time Team episodes, this is my favorite!!!! Thank you
You and I both! 👍 But I am biased I supposed, being a Real🇳🇴Viking myself of the Lade Earls and King Harald Fairhair! 😊
We did actually find a viking time ship yard in Denmark, which had remnants of ships built with wooden pins! It was found on Falster which may have been partly controlled by a north German tribe for protection against attack from their fellow tribesmen in northern Germany, because of the strange names on the two isles, Falster and Lolland. At first it was belived to be one ship, but then it was found out that it was parts of several ships, being worked on for repairs. They also at one time further south found a ship which combined the viking ship with the later German Kogge. A roomy, flat bottom ship with defense posts in front and the rear.
That is fascinating and logical that people would combine the best of different styles.
This is one of the best time teams I have watched scenes I found this show 6 months ago . I earned more about history and archeology watching this show than I learned in school. I' m American. Go time team
A typical Mick Aston site dig, with most of the very early time of the dig given up to planning and research. He never seems to hurry at all in the 1st stages, it seems to me that was very much the mind-set that Mick had, along with gentle, almost courtly way he treated people.
I love it when the team start with all the scientific questions, then say we are going to have to extended the trench. that is part of the anticipation: the time frame and trying to solve the problem.
As a Norwegian interested in old traditional boats this is really fascinating😊
I so love Timel Team and never tire of their adventures!
Beth
Tennessee, USA
Irish American 🍀🇺🇸🍀
Slainch!
That soil looks so good, I wish it was in my backyard. I'd have one productive garden going.
Another AMAZING episode!! This was one of my all time favorites, just wow!
Be still my heart......it skipped a beat when I saw this Viking Video.
Thank you, ❤
Shield Maiden living in 2022
I also recently discovered my ancestry is related to them and am eagerly devouring all I can about them!
Falling in love with archeology..thanks for your passion and to preserve our sacred historical heritage
Third time I've watched this episode, and each time is as interesting as the first. Maybe I'm just pining for the fjords!
I miss Victor's artwork. His combination of line and color was (and still is) wonderful.
Imagine that being your backyard! Freaking amazing and fascinating!!
Could these small underground passages actually be draft flumes for the hearths similar to those used in igloos? Air would feed the hearths, and rise to heat the the house as a kind of dark ages Hvac system which would not expose the inhabitants to cold drafts.
This series is in my top five all-time favorites. Have a care, though. If they want your trench to be deeper at one end they may be planning for you to dig their new swimming pool.
Wow, a Time Team episode I have never seen before. Judging by the official T.T. channel I got the impression they only produced the same 20 episodes that now have to be re-uploadet over and over.
Wow, I really enjoyed the program! Thank you.
I am a Direct Descendant of the Viking King, Harald Fairhair. Not only was he a solid field tactician and excellent sailor, he managed to get all the little kingdoms of Norway to unite under one King. And he vowed not to cut his hair or beard until he had united the Norwegian Vikings, hence he got the nickname Harald Fairhair, from that rather long fair, blond hair and beard he walked around with just before the unification. Harald was a Visionary, and he built a strong Norway, which alas wouldn't last. In the medieval period we ended in a 400 year long union with Denmark. That was OK, as Norwegians and Danes are pretty much the same people with almost the same language.
After having cowardly flip-flopped themselves through the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Swedes happened to support the winning side right at the end of the Wars. As such they took Norway as loot in 1814! But Norwegians would have none of it. We got our own Constitution and our own Parliament. And in 1905 we reoccupied the Norwegian-Danish Forts and Defensive works on the Norwegian-Swedish Border, and threatened to go to war to get our Independence. The Swedes cowardly conceded. BUT, they kept half of Norway. That's why Free Norway is just a sliver of what it used to be. They also kept large swaths of the Danish territory they cowardly had acquired. To this day, people in Jemtland and Herjedalen, areas that used to be Norwegian, speak Norwegian, read Norwegian Newspapers and watch Norwegian TV. But they're forced to carry Swedish Passports.
But 1905 saw a new Norway born out of much turmoil, and Harald Fairhair's Dream came true. That's why you see an explosion of national pride, lots of hoorahing, kids with flags, ice cream and hotdogs on 17 Mai, May 17. to celebrate the foundation of our Independence, our Constitution of 17 May, 1814.
I am very proud of being Harald Fairhair's Descendant. It's true that the Vikings were cunning, absolutely fearless on the battlefield, and fought their best when outnumbered in a big way. But for the most part they were traders, fishermen, farmers and explorers. Their superior Ship Technology brought them to America 500 years before Columbus, it brought them to Russia, Constantinople, the Mediterranean and Africa. And they had a hand in building most of the Modern West European Nation States.
Yes, I am quite proud of being a Real Live Viking. 🇳🇴
MAGA = Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
Loved this episode!!!
I am a real live Viking of the Lade Jarls (Earls) and King Harald Fairhair (Hårfagre). And yes, I do sail big wooden sailing ships, the old fashioned way. That Salty Sea Water's in my blood, I suppose. I can confidently tell you that this plot of land would be HEAVEN for a Viking of the Viking Era! My family are still fisher-farmers, keeping sheep and reaping the bounties of the sea. And that land is just perfect for both! That, in addition to being situated right next to Highway Number 1, perfect for which ever direction they wanted to voyage. That is Prime Viking Real Estate!
I stumbled across these tv shows and I LOVE THIS SHOW! Watched 6 shows yesterday and have been watching the shows all day today!! Just have one question. Why do they only spend 3 days to excavate each location? Couldn’t they find so much more if they spent 7 days on an excavation? And what happened AFTER the show leaves? Do they fill in the holes they create? To they call another group to excavate further? Cuz you KNOW there has to be more to find…
I believe that sometimes they do fill in the holes but sometimes local or other university archaeologists continue the excavations. I believe the Time Team funding sources limit them to 3 days, and also the archaeologist cast members all have regular jobs with universities.
What an amazing place to live!
So interesting i have always loved history it was My favourite topic in school. I Hope you all have a wonderful Day 👍💖🌹
Such a fantastic episode
Tony, I'm surprised! Study up on Viking history, its amazing!!
Thank you.
That was an exciting dig.
I'm pausing this at about the ten minute mark to comment. The archeologist just mentioned the utility of the place as a jumping off point to Iceland and Greenland. This inspired the thought that if it were used as such, a settlement would be necessary to assist departures and receive returning people. So, even if better grazing land was available farther south, as it was further down the calendar, people would still keep a settlement there.
The broach is beautiful!
Fantastic 👏
I've never seen this episode 😳. Awesome!!!
Amazing work! (NB. Harald Fairhair was the first king of Norway, Svein Åsleifarsson was the guy who went raiding twice a year in Orkneyingasaga 😉🙂 )
As a Norwegian I can say all this look very Icandic, from the landscape, buildings (modern), horses and the people it self could pass as any Icelander, and no wonder seeing how the Vikings settled all these parts, an Shetland was once owned by Norway, and all Icelanders are part Irish/Scottish due to the slave trade which was a huge industry in the Viking age.
That’s fascinating!
Excellent.
It is a very good thing this is an old Time Team. I am lusting after that lady’s patterned black and white sweater/jumper!
Mick's hat and sweater remind me of Bernie Sanders' Inauguration Day mittens!
It's amazing that an archologist can get an x-ray in just a few hours whereas the population have to wait sometimes months. I think the hospitals need to get their priorities sorted.
My second great granny was from the Shetlands.
I initially wanted to be an Egyptian archeologist, but I became a hard rock petrologist instead. I much prefer hammering rocks to scraping soil with a trowel. Hammering, even with a heavy sledge hammer is far less hard on the back.
Is it possible she could have been a warrior as well in her life and therefore been buried with both the symbols of her fighting and her family?
Yes, it's absolutely possible
Just because someone was buried with e.g. weapons didn't necessarily make them a warrior. It could have been a token of respect of someone revered e.g. However, in the Viking society, women actually had quite a lot of rights. E.g. they could divorce. They were more or less on the same level as the men in many regards.
Also, the Viking religion (Asatro) stated that you would need things in the afterlife (similar to the Pharaohs in Egypt), hence you would bury people with nice things, their tralls (slaves) and so on.
Commenting before the end ,i keep thinking of how a boat in its old age could be broken up for fire wood leaving scatterd rivets
Never forget about the fairies at the bottom of the garden!
The map name «Noust Ness» in Norway we can name a place for boat houses for «Naust nesset». A bothouse is named «NAUST» on the odd or on the ness.
As a PS: The word "bu" or "bø" (both which are common as part of Norwegian place names and family names) means House or Settlement.
The word "noust" / "nousta", in Norwegian "naust" means Boat House.
Bu or Bo also means "I don't know" in Italian.
@@fairwfriend Wow.. that was a really relevant post
@@azynkron Thanks!
@@fairwfriend 🤣 very fitting for how I feel halfway through this episode.
@BadTrip, well, I guess this wasn't absolutely everybody's cup of @TeaLadyWhimsy But that claim of Italian…!
-I think that must be Pigeon Italian that even Italian Pigeons would have severe difficulties understanding,
unless perhaps it has something to do with an imitative voice of a dog barking or disapproval of a speaker or artist…?
Point taken…… 😜!
Hey, @River Lady - was it really THAT bad, eh!? Just imagine that the Ocean outside the dig like a great river, and the River Lady should feel right at home, right!? 😊 That's how my Viking Ancestors usually sailed it; - Down and up and down and up and down again. Or thereabouts. And then they sailed there. And back again.
These Norse structures from 800, 100, 1200 seem quite similar to Canadian First Nations residences from western Ontario and Michigan.
How so
@@dunnlanguage41 Longhouses exist in both Old Norse and some indigenous Canadian cultures.
The Iroquois Nations in New York state also used longhouses. There's a replica in the Onondaga village at the NYS Fairgrounds.
Structures like that existed everywhere on earth where humans and the proper trees coexisted
(I'm age 67, might be different now, but doubt it). But if you compare North American cultures with European ones, they weren't that drastically different.
ceramic bowl on top of a capped draining trench... I've got one of those, it's a water closet!
The big bowl was a toliet, near the tunnel out.
paradise and paradise. they needed some forest if to settle
I love listening to Tonyfrefaree the grumpy old men. You can tell that they have been morning together for years ! 😛. And both are noted professionals andUniversity educators with decades of experience each.
Prof Alice Roberts cameo appreciation
Without the sheep, that place would be so beautiful
What an odd criticism of the aesthetics of a place. What's wrong with sheep?
@@MrStn they stop vegetation from regrowing, including trees.
I suppose that makes sense. Though I'd rather blame humans for deforestation and the introduction of sheep. The animals are beautiful in their own way, in my opinion.
HURRAY for Timeline! 🥰🎉🎉
I wonder how many of these scientists dug up their backyards as children? 🖖🏼
Looking at the cold windswept rock shelters those Orkney and highland and Irish villages had to endure, my THEORY is that the redhead females ran TOWARD the Viking long boats appearing on the horizon, and they heard the boats were going to Portugal for the winter. I'M IN!
Great episode . Can somebody tell me what a suterrain, or sueterain, or sur terain is ? Can't find anything online .
soutteraine is like a basement.literally means 'under the earth'.
He's got a Status Quo polo shirt....nice
Interesting video... but... one of the guys says they have only 3 days to investigate. Why don't they come back every weekend until they really do justice to the hunt? Three days seems arbitrary. Also, I can't find a follow-up video. Sort of frustrating.
Serious archaeologists don't work like this. What if Howard Carter set a 3-day limit on his exploration?
As per my first comment a bowl used as a cooking vessel would be found atop a hearth.
"Viking" was an activity, a profession - not an ethnicity.
Was there any timbet ever growing in shetland?
Yes there are still some trees but not much. A lot of it is now turned into peat.
Series 10 Episode 4
first aired 26 January 2003
Its amazing the lengths we British will go to clearing our gardens for free lol.
Can anyone tell me if trees could grow on these islands if you planted them?
Yes but only given protection from the strong winds
Must have taken some time to paddle a longship with 25 big men all the way to the Shetland although i have heard that in good weather you can see light over in Norway from the fair isle but dont know if its possible
wow
Who gets to keep the broach and the bowl? Is it automatically sent to a museum, or does it belong to the family whose land it was found on?
Museum I believe.. anything found in Shetland of significance goes to the museum. Look up the St Ninians Isle treasure found by a schoolboy.
It's no mystery that the Norse and Vikings occupied all these islands for hundreds of years, so of course there will be evidence of their homes and burials on the islands.... It's practically only a stones throw away from mainland Norway..
About 200 miles from shore to shore.
i think someone will have a nice new playground -garden, after everything has been levelled once more. grass to sown and wait for it to grow...
What's with the three day limit?
Still the greatest mystery of all time 😂
Weekend warriors with other primary jobs at the time, plus advanced students and PHD candidates, who have commitments
So where are the brooch and bowl now? One thing that annoys me about the show--you never find out where the objects they find are kept.
Ask at the local museum, they can even tell you where other finds ended up.
Rebuild them all
How incredible is it to find viking artifacts just by planting a garden 😂
Three days is that enough time to make a conclusion or does it just add to conjecture I suppose archeology is also imagination to try and think of the people and what they were doing and how they lived
And to decide whether it might be worth trying to get funding to further the investigation in the future. Funding is hard to get. These sites are meticiously recorded then covered again.
shetland an orkney? do they not have mild winters via the north atlantic drift so warmer / milder in winter, than denmark or norway!!
Yeah reasonably mild
This is so off-topic, but I dead ass thought the old man talking at 5:15 was Tom Holland because I was just listening. Can anyone from the UK confirm if they have the same regional accent?
When you spot a younger Alice Roberts ;)
Alice Roberts starting out?
Which Season and Episode is this?
Season 10, Episode 4. "The Giant's Grave".
If I had a choice to employ Magnar Daland to excavate my viking ship... I would too.
How large is your ship ?
Rivets on Viking ship ? I was unaware they used metal nails ?? Thought all wooden ?
Previous excavations on Viking vessels showed that the Vikings used iron rivets, roves, and spikes. These were thought to be fairly low quality iron rivets produced from locally sourced bog iron ore. Going back further, rivets were commonplace during Roman construction projects, and yet we can still go back further, to the Egyptians, who used rivets to fasten handles to clay jars. Over 5,000 years of rivets being used.
Nick doesn't mind because he's getting his garden dug up for free....😁😉🥕
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By the way - where comes the Black Adders valet doing over there - and he-he
Why do they always only have 3 days ?
because they all have day jobs.
Mick Aston has no clue here : boat rivets but cannot be a boat burial.
Sutton Hoo had rivets
I did think Mick was playing the devils advocate here, saying what else it could be?
Why is it every excavation that you have it’s always three days
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vikings were huge people. I mean just look at that 20kg frisbee
If the "Giant's Grave" is just a pile of discarded stones, maybe they discarded broken boat pieces there, too...it's a garbage heap...
They would have recovered the iron
Harold Fairhair, nope doesn’t ring a bell at all
Aren't ancient Egyptian pharaohs shown riding a ship to the world of the dead?
Yes, your point?