Why Is This Field Filled With Roman Babies And Other Archeological Mysteries

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  • Professor Alice Roberts and the Digging For Britain team investigate the incredible archeological sites found all over the United Kingdom and beyond. What mysteries does the UK's soil and seas hide?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 53

  • @Monica-gj2yx
    @Monica-gj2yx 6 днів тому +10

    Maybe they were sacrificed to the gods?

    • @MaryCornell-f3g
      @MaryCornell-f3g 6 днів тому +2

      I said the same thing

    • @theenclave6953
      @theenclave6953 6 днів тому +4

      In the Roman Empire babies were not often sacrificed to the Gods, especially babies that were of Roman blood or descent. It may have been a cult that did this so your idea does seem plausible though or invading tribes who caused it which have a history of human sacrifice.

  • @colleenmayes1537
    @colleenmayes1537 6 днів тому +6

    A house of ill repute close to a Roman fort

  • @EverettvonNordeck-gf2cw
    @EverettvonNordeck-gf2cw 6 днів тому +6

    I think I speak for all the plebs that can't afford a sub. Thanks for the new content!

    • @VaBellaBeautz
      @VaBellaBeautz 3 дні тому

      ‘Pleb’ I ain’t heard that in years 😂 they’re plenty of plebs around these days.

  • @TheRustyLM
    @TheRustyLM 6 днів тому +3

    5:24 somebody has a crush 😍

  • @RichWhite-wd2lb
    @RichWhite-wd2lb 3 дні тому +1

    I hate grave robbers.

    • @beanzieobeanz2955
      @beanzieobeanz2955 День тому

      I think you made this same blindingly stupid comment on a Time Team vid, or there's actually someone equally as moronic - or do you simply hope to provoke replies to help assuage crippling loneliness?

    • @RichWhite-wd2lb
      @RichWhite-wd2lb 5 годин тому

      @beanzieobeanz2955 I remember my first crush. 😘

  • @bradleydass3075
    @bradleydass3075 6 днів тому +2

    Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust,your ancestor may have made you sneeze earlier today or helped a tree to grow. Ease your mind the Spirit moves on.

  • @elizabethTorres-c7n
    @elizabethTorres-c7n 5 днів тому

    The Slaughter of the innocence, infanticide but why, when and by whom.. Sad. 😪

  • @jesterday2222
    @jesterday2222 5 днів тому

    2:10:42 Am I the only one seeing bats? (in the amazing ring)

  • @patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558
    @patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 5 днів тому

    Ugh 3 hours plus.
    Not starting this right now😅

  • @BIGBEENIS
    @BIGBEENIS 5 днів тому

    Why did you region lock so many of your vids!

  • @beanzieobeanz2955
    @beanzieobeanz2955 День тому

    38:40 "ritual" - drink up players

  • @JaNa-pw3sq
    @JaNa-pw3sq 5 днів тому

    No Philomena... you can't be serious. ☺

  • @TheLOLWHATTTTTTT
    @TheLOLWHATTTTTTT 5 днів тому

    160kg .. 2 adults? wait what?

    • @LauraSmith-to1yx
      @LauraSmith-to1yx 4 дні тому

      I'm 70 kg, that would leave 90 kg for my partner, so yes, two adults. What's so weird about that?

  • @miltonbates6425
    @miltonbates6425 6 днів тому +3

    For the same reasons given by archaeologist Stewart McAlister regarding the children's bones found in Gezer (i.e "The Sin of the Amorites"): Because of a form of ritual child sacrifice.

    • @theenclave6953
      @theenclave6953 6 днів тому +3

      Gezer did have systematic sacrifices occur as proven by archeological evidence, but that was during the Bronze Age, not the time of the Roman period. These two events in history do not correlate.

  • @MoD_Master_Of_Disaster_
    @MoD_Master_Of_Disaster_ 6 днів тому +1

    If both of you are first, then I’m 2nd. 😂

  • @sethlogee
    @sethlogee 6 днів тому

    Why is there no new episodes😂

  • @iangoddi
    @iangoddi 5 днів тому

    Children died after birth a lot back then.

    • @LauraSmith-to1yx
      @LauraSmith-to1yx 4 дні тому

      So, 2yrs old before they are fit to be buried in an adult cemetery, but there is no range of children here, only those at 40 weeks. And it does take quite a bit of time to grow 97 fetuses, surely the work of more than one woman?

  • @Lukas-t2o
    @Lukas-t2o 5 днів тому

    Sacraficed to Venus the Goddess of love by some of her priestesstitutes

  • @tomobedlam297
    @tomobedlam297 6 днів тому +5

    So much for "Rest In Peace". Do we bury our loved ones just to have them dug up and bothered? 😵

    • @theenclave6953
      @theenclave6953 6 днів тому +3

      These are not graves they excavate.

    • @s0nnasauras630
      @s0nnasauras630 6 днів тому +2

      It's not a grave like you know it's a mass grave they were killed then buried all together in a giant hole nothing peaceful about such rest for these children

    • @shell1951
      @shell1951 6 днів тому +4

      They are not bothered by these scientists..

    • @tomobedlam297
      @tomobedlam297 6 днів тому

      ​​@@s0nnasauras630 It evokes the witches cauldron scene in Macbeth: "finger of birth-strangled babe,
      Ditch-delivered by a drab" 😬

    • @tomobedlam297
      @tomobedlam297 6 днів тому +1

      @shell1951 So it's ok to go to your local graveyard and conduct a bit of archeology on someone's loved ones in the name of science?

  • @Drakktnigh
    @Drakktnigh 6 днів тому +1

    Imagine being in 2025 and claiming “first” anyways, eff you all, I’m first.

  • @MichaelKaiser-f9p
    @MichaelKaiser-f9p 6 днів тому +4

    First

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 6 днів тому +2

    Good luck without captions, and even those are pathetically inaccurate

  • @c1neal
    @c1neal 4 дні тому

    Planned parenthood….

  • @DavidLJarvis
    @DavidLJarvis 6 днів тому +1

    Your "world view" and "morality" was not theirs. It's not for us to "judge".

  • @jfjoubertquebec
    @jfjoubertquebec 6 днів тому +1

    We are an island... no you're a people... many people in fact.

  • @MaryCornell-f3g
    @MaryCornell-f3g 6 днів тому +2

    The babies were sacrificed to the gods

  • @sharonrouleau-bryan1456
    @sharonrouleau-bryan1456 6 днів тому

    😂😂😂 14th