Archaeologists Find Extraordinary Hoard In Anglo-Saxon Cemetery | Time Team | Chronicle

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  • Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
  • Investigating a Bronze Age barrow in the New Forest, Tony and the team uncover a Saxon Cemetery with a startling array of grave goods - spears, shields, jewelry - and a collection of rare buckets unique in Britain. A Byzantine brass bucket - one of only 11 in the world - was found during a three-day live dig in a Saxon cemetery a year ago. Time Team is now returning to find out more about the people who lived and died here.
    The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. It is described as "possibly the finest collection of early medieval artifacts ever discovered.
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  • @miked2662
    @miked2662 Рік тому +28

    My man rockin’ those jorts hard AF.

    • @jbrunch8082
      @jbrunch8082 11 місяців тому +3

      Real men wear jorts! LOL!

    • @miked2662
      @miked2662 11 місяців тому +3

      @@jbrunch8082 Agreed 👊🏻

  • @FLEABONE
    @FLEABONE Рік тому +32

    A a woman born in East Anglia but mostly raised in the US with a few years schooled in Lowestoft I love your shows. It brings me home especially when I catch a suffolk accent. I'm a proud relative of Amos Beamish the Famous Giant of Barnby he is my great great great... uncle.

    • @christigoth
      @christigoth Рік тому

      how tall was he? and what ancestry?

    • @CemeteryHillFarm
      @CemeteryHillFarm Рік тому +1

      I'm of British descent and can trace my ancestry for centuries. This show brings me close to my ancestors ❤

    • @the8419
      @the8419 Рік тому

      @@CemeteryHillFarmyes, you and literally anyone else of European descent...

    • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode
      @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode 8 місяців тому

      A lot of words combined but no coherent sentences.. Quite impressive and simultaneously worrying.

  • @thecourtlyalchemist
    @thecourtlyalchemist Рік тому +194

    If I owned land in the UK, I would spend the rest of my days digging holes.

    • @aliveandhearty7321
      @aliveandhearty7321 Рік тому +4

      😂😂

    • @lisadolan689
      @lisadolan689 Рік тому +19

      Nope. You’d spend every night for the rest of your life stopping randomers digging up your fields at midnight.
      It freaking happens. All the time!!
      People sneak in after dark and dig etc 😒

    • @TeinakoreArii
      @TeinakoreArii Рік тому +1

      Go for it, good luck

    • @deborahbaker4770
      @deborahbaker4770 Рік тому +3

      Me too I find it so amazing what is buried under everyday field’s and garden’s I try and picture the people from that time and way before them it’s so fascinating to me‼️‼️‼️👍🏻😊

    • @ginmar8134
      @ginmar8134 Рік тому +4

      Try metal detecting instead.

  • @bettyir4302
    @bettyir4302 Рік тому +19

    There's a hole in your bucket, dear Tony, dear Tony. There's a hole in your bucket, dear Tony, a hole. 🎶🎶

  • @komradtombstone
    @komradtombstone Рік тому +113

    I have a theory about the large number of double-burials, with so much weaponry buried along with the corpses: there was an attack on the village, and those people buried together were relatives who died in the raid, the adults having attempted to defend the village. The fact that the one skull, at least, showed signs of blunt-force trauma could definitely point to someone killed in battle.
    Like many of the peoples of that time period, the Saxons were a "warlike" folk (I mean what Germanic people WASN'T in those days?). They believed in basically the same gods and goddesses as the Norse (Vikings) did. To those people, dying in battle, defending one's home and family, would have been seen as a "good death," and they would have been buried with their weapons as a sign of their warrior honour.
    If it was a raid, and a large number of family members were killed all at once (even the elderly and children were considered legitimate targets in olden times), it stands to reason that brothers would be buried together, children would be buried with parents, etc. This is all an educated guess, but I think it fits.

    • @christigoth
      @christigoth Рік тому +10

      not only that , but once the nurturing adults were killed, the children would fare much worse and maybe die not long after, of pure neglect or lack of breastmilk, etc.

    • @tdpay9015
      @tdpay9015 Рік тому +13

      It couldn't have been a complete rout, or else there wouldn't have been anyone to conduct the funeral, and the most precious goods would have been taken by the victorious party.

    • @stewartbonner
      @stewartbonner Рік тому +3

      father and son warriors that died in the same battle.

    • @SnowTiger45
      @SnowTiger45 Рік тому +5

      I was thinking something similar. It seems in the one grave it may have been a father and son buried together, both of whom who may have been killed at the same time, either in battle or as a result of an attack. Since there are fewer women, I can only guess they were taken and raped and either kept as sex slaves or were killed elsewhere.

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +6

      @@tdpay9015 Yes. It most certainly looks like a battle and it sure looks like this village won it. The victors lose people in battles, too. But the victors are buried with respect. Losers who tried to kill your family definitely do not get buried with respect, if at all. (It's hard work to dig even a simple grave.) More likely they were left out for the wolves - who would have heard the battle and been waiting...

  • @dann5268
    @dann5268 Рік тому +2

    Just noticed Carenza's sunburned arms, so dedicated! Love this team !

  • @sharonkaczorowski8690
    @sharonkaczorowski8690 Рік тому +25

    All these double burials suggest something bad happened here…probably an attack. The burial with the infant/toddler was very touching.

    • @christynpassalaqua2661
      @christynpassalaqua2661 11 місяців тому +1

      Yes the burial with the two adults and the toddler pulled at the heart strings. The way the male in the left leaning in to the person next to him you can definitely visualise the funeral. Definitely the most emotional and moving episode

  • @peterdorninbalance
    @peterdorninbalance Рік тому +2

    As always, a wonderful episode about England's rich history! I love the protagonists, some of whom are already legends!

  • @Cara-39
    @Cara-39 Рік тому +43

    As a Medievalist, the Staffordshire Hoard and Sutton Hoo helmet are some of my favorite artifacts and in my opinion, are the embodiment of Anglo-Saxon Britain.

    • @Dignity_first
      @Dignity_first 8 місяців тому

      Interesting!)

    • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode
      @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode 8 місяців тому

      "Medievalist" with a fascist Ukrainian emblem in your profile. I can see you are not one of culture.

    • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode
      @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode 8 місяців тому

      "Medievalist" with a fascist Ukrainian emblem in your profile. I can see you are not one of culture.

    • @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode
      @JohannesVanDerStuyvebode 8 місяців тому

      "Medievalist" with a fascist Ukrainian emblem in your profile. I can see you are not one of culture.

  • @Jerbod2
    @Jerbod2 Рік тому +13

    This is one of the most interesting episodes.

    • @bettyir4302
      @bettyir4302 Рік тому +3

      Never an uninteresing one.

    • @richardbooth4573
      @richardbooth4573 Рік тому

      Certainly one of the more profitable digs. Finding those spears is exciting. I would like it if they found a bit of pottery with the burials.

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby Рік тому +27

    The Anglo Saxon period is probably my favorite for Medieval england

    • @judithmacfadzen9516
      @judithmacfadzen9516 Рік тому +2

      Mine too! ❤

    • @christigoth
      @christigoth Рік тому +2

      they had town hall meetings and voted, just like New England did here, and we descend from that partially, in our colonial familes and in our colonial government, and now. Tun moot, and hundred moot. much more egalitarian than the norman conquerors, who turned them into an oppressed class.

    • @balderii7340
      @balderii7340 Рік тому +1

      Its stone, bronze, iron, Roman, Saxon, Norman and thén medieval. It’s the word for a separate time-period.

    • @mhansl
      @mhansl Місяць тому

      Day four? What?!?!

  • @barbaraalice8973
    @barbaraalice8973 Рік тому +40

    Wonderful explanation by museum why/how finding of amateur followed proper identification procedure thus encouraging Time Team investigation. That itself is exciting for public education.

    • @dalekundtz760
      @dalekundtz760 Рік тому +6

      More educators like this one from the museum are needed to help educate amateur diggers so that important finds like this are not damaged or lost.

    • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
      @JohnEglick-oz6cd Рік тому +1

      Ancient history is so fascinating , especially when getting into the Greco - Roman periods , and that dark ages that followed after Rome fell mi- late 400s A.D.
      The Spanish empire was a continuation of Roman ways , but was Christian .

    • @chrisfoxwell4128
      @chrisfoxwell4128 Рік тому +2

      Policies don't exactly encourage such proper identification. While some people are strictly interested in history, others are exploring for profit. Certainly that bucket held some value for someone it probably wouldn't help someone retire. But, find a horde of gold and they'll be lucky to receive a fraction of a fraction of the value.

  • @thomasspravka1370
    @thomasspravka1370 Рік тому +4

    I love the pace of walking, as if the artifacts were about to run and hide!

    • @cruisepaige
      @cruisepaige 11 місяців тому

      Tony has do much enthusiasm! He’s got a bunch of cunning plans!

  • @timothyaschauer1993
    @timothyaschauer1993 Рік тому +4

    Awesome dig, love to have been there and lent a hand.

  • @WilliamCooper-l6f
    @WilliamCooper-l6f Рік тому +30

    I want everyone to understand what this documentary is getting at: which is, that artifacts discovered do not necessarily mean the people who made the item, ever lived in the area. I've seen so called archaeologists find an item older than the place they know the age of, then ascribe the item's age to the location, instead of ever thinking it was taken there. Ancient people were just like us today; they admired their treasures. They held in high esteem loot taken from their enemies. Monarchs and high officials hoarded war trophies, just as eagerly as WWII vets prized a German Luger. So, in such reasoning we must apply a simple logical deduction of if the item originates there or did it originate in a different year and location and eventually wind up where it was found?

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 7 місяців тому

      I have abook from 1902, still in decent shape. But neither I, nor my parents, nor my grandparents lived at that time.
      Totally understandable that things say in use. When you have a perfectly fine byzantine bucket, you keep using it. And when you perish, your children get your bucket, and then their children, and their children.
      And that doesn't even account things things can travel. An object can move from generation to generation, each time a bit further, ending up somewhere completely different.
      Just imagine what happens if future archaeologists find one of our modern day museums.

    • @Ignat449
      @Ignat449 5 місяців тому

      You are right i think.
      These graves look a lot like ritual trauma graves from skandinavia. Viking graves.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios 7 місяців тому

    The buckets fit perfectly into each other. A very space saving way to store them.

  • @Patrick_Cooper
    @Patrick_Cooper Рік тому +20

    The literal meaning of 'kick the bucket".

  • @future_me_6067
    @future_me_6067 Рік тому +2

    I love the Anglo Saxon fondness for antiquities from other cultures.

    • @Prfdt3
      @Prfdt3 10 місяців тому

      Are you being facetious?

  • @jeannienash5249
    @jeannienash5249 Рік тому +4

    Hello from Forest, Ontario, Canada

  • @johndewey6358
    @johndewey6358 Рік тому +13

    Looks like more than one person had kicked the bucket!

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +2

      Groooaaan! (Embarrassed that I didn't think of it!)

  • @Blessings.429
    @Blessings.429 Рік тому +23

    Since this was so long ago I am hoping it includes all test results on the buckets . What was in each one which grave they came from ect. An update on anything else, after the program finishes… that’s what I wish to know…

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Рік тому +2

      The "Follow-ups" would be a great subject for the "New Time Team" episodes.

    • @maxdecphoenix
      @maxdecphoenix Рік тому

      I have to believe it took you longer to type out that comment, than just type a few keywords in to google and read up on it some 20-years later.

    • @Blessings.429
      @Blessings.429 Рік тому +4

      @@maxdecphoenix thank you my dear for your sweet comment, I just had the biggest belly laugh ever.
      Get over yourself 😳🙄😵‍💫

  • @markhand4530
    @markhand4530 Рік тому +8

    Regarding the question as to 'why such young people would have been buried with weapons?' i would say it had to do with the warrior mentality of that age in believing that any afterlife would be a violent place where you had to protect yourself as this is all they knew like in norse views of the afterlife.

  • @susanmercurio1060
    @susanmercurio1060 Рік тому +3

    I am reminded of the quip that explains the difference between the US and Europe: "In the US, 100 years is a long time; in Europe, 100 miles is a long way."
    When you talk about 1500 years, I, as an American citizen, can hardly grasp it.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 Рік тому +9

    In England one can throw a rock and where it lands a treasure of ancient history will be found.

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins2899 Рік тому +1

    Day 4… wow. The only one I know of. Very cool.

  • @judithcoloma613
    @judithcoloma613 11 місяців тому +2

    I'm American with German ancestory. Going way back with my own findings. The folks were very practical and only had useful items. Since the skeletons are buried in pairs with things, could the buckets be wedding presents to take take to the after life?
    Watching this program makes me want to dig up my own backyard and see what I wind up with. Washington State does have a history.

  • @frankgordon8829
    @frankgordon8829 Рік тому +6

    Women always make the best archeologists. They LOVE digging up the past.

  • @58Kym
    @58Kym Рік тому +2

    🎉Sandi Toksvig! Isn’t she from QI? My oh my, she is a lot younger. I had no idea how old this show was.

  • @Raycheetah
    @Raycheetah Рік тому +10

    10:08 "These were rural folk with clean water and uncrowded housing. Two people just *couldn't* have died of a communicable disease at the same time. Much likelier that they left the grave open for new bodies to be added. Don't worry yourself that both skeletons appear to remain nicely articulated, in spite of the prolonged exposure I posit, or that those grave goods were left exposed along with the rotting bodies." =9[.]9=

    • @christigoth
      @christigoth Рік тому +2

      yeah, it could have been just a few, not a raging epidemic. families living together would be vulnerable i f one got sick.

    • @SierraThunder
      @SierraThunder Рік тому +4

      Even with clean water & uncrowded housing, Cholera outbreaks were still possible at that time. But I think that, as another commenter has suggested, that the deaths were likely caused by a sudden raid on the small community. It would explain the multiple double burials, and the blunt force trauma skull fracture on the one skull.

    • @Raycheetah
      @Raycheetah Рік тому +2

      @@SierraThunder That would also explain the variances in ages in the burials. At least there were survivors to bury their dead, and valuable grave goods still to be had, which means either a raid was repulsed, or the deaths took place away from the settlement. ='[.]'=

  • @MrEnajiza
    @MrEnajiza Рік тому +1

    One of my favourite Historians Alice Roberts

  • @Gladtobeleaving
    @Gladtobeleaving Рік тому +12

    From a complete amateur, but don't we know that the vikings had gotten around the Iberian peninsula and into the Med, and established trading ports?. That would seem a much more likely route for Levant produced goods like the decorated bucket, especially since the area being excavated is on the way back to Jutland and the Scandinavian countries. As to the nesting buckets, any bushwacker used to hiking into unknown areas has a set of nesting pots for cooking, carrying water, eating, and even carrying smaller items. If I was a warrior who had gone off to battle, I would have well used such a set. And of course you'd always carry weapons; pigs and goats just don't jump into the pot when you're campaigning.

  • @christigoth
    @christigoth Рік тому +7

    the maggot spear head- might have had maggots pupating on it since it was covered in flesh and blood of the enemy. and sat outside for at least a day before buried ( flies laid eggs on it).

  • @NedKelly1967
    @NedKelly1967 Рік тому +17

    I have noticed over 40 odd years of watching archeologists they have a tendency to transcribe their own modern “opinions” onto many of these finds. This is a serious problem as the non bias analysis of our history shows an unrealistic picture of many finds and events.

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Рік тому +2

      Which is why they try to use it being found in undisturbed ground as a validation of age of the dig layer, but true, it doesn't validate who created the piece.
      Archaeologists are a odd mind, resistant and yet rush to determine it is the: "earliest, or validation of"
      Only, of course, when it validated their predetermined Beliefs, Theory, and their "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline", which defines "Mainstream Academia/Archaeologists"
      ...

    • @johng4093
      @johng4093 11 місяців тому

      So much conjecture based on so few clues.

    • @LesleyDunning
      @LesleyDunning 5 місяців тому +1

      So why only have 3 days?

  • @garyvee6023
    @garyvee6023 Рік тому +3

    I truly wish I had been influenced when I was younger (I am 65 now) I would of immigrated to the UK to look for the lost history..., never was interested as a kid about "William the Conqueror" in 1066 (the only thing I remember as a kid from my history lessons)..., being from Australia. 😢

    • @barbaraburton8914
      @barbaraburton8914 Рік тому

      Doesn't every kid have that date drilled into their little head. FL/USA. 😂

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
    @JohnEglick-oz6cd Рік тому +4

    The English language is considered Germanic , and the word england comes from Angleland ; land of the Angles who , like the Saxons , and Jutes invaded England right after the collapse of the Roman Empire mid to late 400s A.D. .
    It's fantastic how the Roman Empire lasted nearly 600 years !

  • @Fox1nDen
    @Fox1nDen Рік тому

    My ancestor Geoffrey de Stapleton wed Alene Penrodus Comnenos of Cyprus 1180 , they are my 26th great grandparents. I have been wondering if she, or someone like her, was the owner of the nested buckets that Time Team found. 1180 is perhaps not as old as the Saxons, but graves persist, don't they? Anyway, food for thought. People from the Mediterranean often traveled, naturally easy by sea, and after all that is how the Romans took over way back. It's fascinating when buckets from the Middle East show up in British soil.

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb Рік тому +5

    I wish there was more information on which episode this is… he mentioned the 3 live episodes. Is that time team digs? I’m in the US and we haven’t been privileged with Time Team. I’ve been watching on UA-cam but no idea which season it is… just a rough estimate based on Tony’s hair

    • @Padraigan13
      @Padraigan13 Рік тому +10

      Seven Buckets and a Buckle, Breamore, Hampshire | S09E13 | Time Team

  • @dustbunny3824
    @dustbunny3824 Рік тому +3

    Other theory. The journey to the afterlife was more likely to be successful if not made alone. The weapons were for defense along the way.

  • @robertballard8833
    @robertballard8833 Рік тому +4

    Oh, the mystery of the bucket . biggest Question- Did He kick it when He died....

  • @savannahwhite1064
    @savannahwhite1064 Рік тому +8

    Still boggles my mind that ppl doubt the trade power of that time truly and amazing time

    • @SierraThunder
      @SierraThunder Рік тому +2

      It's like the myth that all sailors stayed close to the shore rather than sail in wide expanses of open water. Sailing close to any coastline was far more hazardous than sailing in open water, and peoples of that time knew far more about sailing by the stars & sun than people do now.
      Even if the globe hadn't been intensely mapped in the 6th century, I seriously doubt that the majority of the continents, and/or large islands hadn't all been either discovered or at least sighted. After all, we really don't live on that large a planet, and there are seriously old tales of trading with any number of different tribes & civilizations, on different shores by then.

  • @chuckschillingvideos
    @chuckschillingvideos Рік тому +7

    I don't think Phil's jorts are short enough.

  • @christigoth
    @christigoth Рік тому +10

    as an american woman of the wild west and early colonial families, i can tell you why the women were armed. It is defensive. they lived in a hostile dangerous land that had enemies about, and they wanted to survive . the women were part of the defense, in the home and possibly outside it. Just like many of us American women were and are still today. "it was probably our ancestors" lol. i wouldn't be surprised. ever the colonist adventurers.

    • @MadMax-bq6pg
      @MadMax-bq6pg Рік тому +2

      We defend the ones we love. Your comment makes me think of an anecdote from my grandmother’s childhood (approximately 1905, in a tiny settlement on the far south coast of New South Wales). A snake started coming up through a gap in the floorboards. Great grandmother grabbed a shotgun from above the fireplace, snapped the action shut & Joe Blake copped both barrels from the hip.
      Side note: later in life, when I knew a little more, I questioned Nanna (ie my grandmother) asking “didn’t your mother have to load the weapon?”. Her reply was “oh no, all 4 guns & rifles over the fireplace were permanently loaded…..”
      Hi from Oz🇦🇺👍

    • @pfranks75
      @pfranks75 Рік тому

      Even with a minimal education during Colonial times, first person singular would be a capitalized I.

  • @Sarafimm2
    @Sarafimm2 Рік тому +1

    Breamore in Hampshire is where this is located. There are several museums the items could have been sent to, but I'm wondering if the Salisbury Museum was one of them since it's listed on the map. There are also bigger towns on the map, too, but I didn't see any obvious "Museum" markers for them.

  • @antipodesman2
    @antipodesman2 Рік тому +1

    I haven't finished watching yet but is that not Alice Roberts working anonymously as a grunt, back to the camera in the trenches at 10:30?? This must be a very early episode.

  • @NickMeisher
    @NickMeisher Рік тому +28

    I hope they do DNA tests on all the bones and add it to the DNA database that people today can compare to

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +3

      Doesn't look like the bones are in good enough condition to still contain any DNA.

    • @219043204
      @219043204 11 місяців тому

      They couldn't because of the bone condition and they are contaminated by the soil

  • @lorilea3188
    @lorilea3188 Рік тому +4

    "Fly puperia ... in association with the corpse" sounds much more pleasant than being eaten by maggots.

    • @richardbooth4573
      @richardbooth4573 Рік тому

      The stench would have been awful. Bodies when decomposing fill with rancid gas that will erupt suddenly. Hopefully the flies kept that from occuring

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Рік тому +7

    Less than a hundred years after Roman governance collapsed there was likely to be a lot of power grabs and warlording going on.
    You spear and shield would be your best friend, and only your direct family could be relied on in a fight.

  • @barrywassel3899
    @barrywassel3899 Рік тому +4

    Turns out this was a sub-group of the Jutes, a group called the Bucket People !!! Hyacinthe was descended from these people ! (Sorry to the young people, couldn't resist this whimsicality for us boomers !)

  • @dalekundtz760
    @dalekundtz760 Рік тому +16

    At 16:17, Tony shows his chauvinistic side when he seems dumbfounded that a woman could be a warrior after a spear and shield were found with a female burial. Yes Tony, women were are are warriors from the time of this burial and still are even today.

    • @revolvermaster4939
      @revolvermaster4939 Рік тому +7

      Go back to your safe space

    • @jeanpeuplu5570
      @jeanpeuplu5570 Рік тому +3

      Chauvinistic 😂

    • @SierraThunder
      @SierraThunder Рік тому +5

      Tony isn't being chauvistic, far from it. As the host of the show, Tony is there to represent the common man, or woman, on the street who knows little to nothing about the ancient past, or how it might be interpeted, or deciphered.
      I'm quite positive that after so many years of hosting "Time Team", that he's learned a great deal about history, and the sciences of what goes into an archaeological dig. But, it's scripted out so that he asks the questions that any interested, unknowing observer might ask when watching people digging into mounds, pastures, ancient structures, etc.
      So please, unless you know far more than Tony Stewart does, would you be so kind as to leave your prejudices & political correctness at home.

    • @KendraEMoyer
      @KendraEMoyer Рік тому +2

      Scythians had female warriors 1000 years before this Saxon period. Some scholars suggest Scotia came linguistically from Scythia. Ice Age Sahelians and Khemetians had maps, knew they were on a globe, and developed a solar calendar boats before Rome or Macedon/Persia existed. Greece was then Mycenae (visitor and professor emerita)

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Рік тому +10

    I've often rhought the whole afterlife reason for burying valuables was a bit spurious. I think it was more likely out of respect for the owner and to reduce squabling between close relatives over the spoils of someone's death.

    • @joythought
      @joythought Рік тому +3

      Because you assume your culture was similar to a culture over a thousand years ago? There's a lot of burial practices from our past that includes slaughtering servants, pets etc. And you think that was not so the important person would have their servants and pets in the afterlife, but instead it was about not sharing with surviving siblings?

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +3

      @@joythought There are scattered instances of slaughtering servants, etc. Those are mostly the rich/powerful narcissists. The vast majority of everyday people were probably much more like the average people nowadays. They just don't make for good TV.

  • @ChuckNorris-yx7ef
    @ChuckNorris-yx7ef Рік тому

    LOve time team spent a lot of time watching them lol

  • @jaycee5968
    @jaycee5968 Рік тому

    So interesting!

  • @gregb6469
    @gregb6469 Рік тому +1

    33:25-- Jay Leno's ancestor?

  • @dongray9852
    @dongray9852 Рік тому +3

    Perhaps a family cemetery of the owner/operators of a bucket manufacturing community..?

  • @jesterboykins2899
    @jesterboykins2899 Рік тому

    Sandi is always fun. I like her

  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe5229 Рік тому +2

    What does the writing on the bucket say? What are the pictures on the bucket about?

  • @Tugela60
    @Tugela60 Рік тому +3

    Cemeteries are bad places to hide treasure hoards due to the probability of them being looted.

  • @philiprobinson3160
    @philiprobinson3160 Рік тому +1

    How do they determine what graveyards are OK to dig up?

  • @balderii7340
    @balderii7340 Рік тому +2

    If it is so odd for a Saxon burial, maybe it’s not Saxon. What about the Juts who occupied the area before that Saxon invasion? Maybe these remains are Juts, buried with all those weapons, cause they died fighting so bravely against the Saxons.

    • @SandileNgwenya-gv7nx
      @SandileNgwenya-gv7nx 7 місяців тому

      They are most probably Angle as they are in Staffordshire which was in Mercia and sometimes people use the word "Saxon" referring to all Anglo Saxons

  • @donnadenis7699
    @donnadenis7699 Рік тому +2

    why do you only have three days? wouldnt it be good to dig up the whole thing?

  • @TravisBrady-wn8fr
    @TravisBrady-wn8fr 3 місяці тому

    Saxon Jackson was a popular entertainer in the day

  • @glendibben2381
    @glendibben2381 Місяць тому

    🎉❤.
    Shalom Eleichem.
    As to how the Buckets from Syria got into Angle land.
    We had 6 million Hebrews matched out , thru the Caucasian Mnts, to the Crimea in 723 BC.
    By Tiggpalasa 111. .Rd.
    These Hebrew tribes frargmented , some traveled thru Francs, thru to Scotland, and the lower areas of England..
    They carried lots of memorabilia, especially from the areas of Syria.
    Shalom Eleichem

  • @PrimarchEldarAutarch
    @PrimarchEldarAutarch Рік тому +3

    Do you respect them and give them a proper burial when done poking them?
    was it spears up if they were fighters taking out enemies, and spearhead down was for taken out without getting an enemy?

  • @Brian-uy2tj
    @Brian-uy2tj Рік тому +3

    I disagree with their conclusion that someone sat in that spot making flint tools. I think it is much more likely that they were made and carried with them as a bunch and something happened. The chances that someone sat there peacefully making them and then just left them there, while possible, I consider unlikely.

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +5

      What they were showing are the waste flakes that are cast off when knapping flint. They would not moved them any farther than was needed so they wouldn't step on them and cut their feet. That's why it is safe to assume that someone sat there knapping flint.

  • @robertprestonsr2453
    @robertprestonsr2453 Рік тому +1

    Hence. we have learned the exact origin of the phrase: "To kick the bucket"!

    • @trajancanada
      @trajancanada Рік тому

      Bucket? It's pronounced "Boo-kay".

  • @tdpay9015
    @tdpay9015 Рік тому +2

    I wonder what Hyacinth Bucket would think of all those buckets.

    • @EarlyMusicDiva
      @EarlyMusicDiva Рік тому +5

      Well, you know, they were all keeping up appearances. :D

  • @jeffkeeley4594
    @jeffkeeley4594 Рік тому +3

    Alice Roberts and Helen Geake in the same episode....I'm a happy little vegemite!!!!

  • @richardbooth4573
    @richardbooth4573 Рік тому

    What were the buckets used for ? Were they for waste material ?

  • @colonelweird
    @colonelweird Рік тому +7

    What if the British government funded a scheme to systematically identify and properly excavate sites like this throughout the country? In other words, what if the UK chose to no longer rely upon chance and amateurs with metal detectors to shape its understanding of ancient/medieval Britain?
    Such a fantasy, I know. But still... what if?

    • @christigoth
      @christigoth Рік тому

      well, do they really want to dig everyone up like that ?

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +3

      I hope they don't. I just read where there are already so many ancient artifacts in British museums that they are getting rid of a lot of them because have run out of room to store them. So what's the point of digging up more? I think they should leave them alone in case some future archaeologists are better supported and able to preserve and learn from them.

    • @CT--jv2ur
      @CT--jv2ur Рік тому

      @@briangodfrey7424I agree

  • @marilynleveque2497
    @marilynleveque2497 Рік тому +1

    We had 3 family members in 1920s that died of diphtheria in one 24 hour period. Very common.

  • @antoniomoreira5921
    @antoniomoreira5921 Рік тому +7

    For anyone interested in Anglo-Saxon territorial and political history I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

    • @majorblue777
      @majorblue777 Рік тому +1

      Thank you! I can't get enough of these medieval england videos!

    • @revolvermaster4939
      @revolvermaster4939 Рік тому +2

      Wow, what a treasure trove of history vids!

  • @tricivenola8164
    @tricivenola8164 Рік тому

    This is all quite wonderful, but please! Antioch, now Antakya, is in Hatay Province in TURKEY.

  • @FinelyOnTrail
    @FinelyOnTrail Рік тому +4

    I've always wondered...rhetorically, what gives us the right, legal or otherwise, to dig people up? Is it OK after a certain amount of time? Or if it's not a designated burial ground? I know it's done in the name of science etc., but I don't know if we should? Anyway, interesting program. Thanks!

    • @briangodfrey7424
      @briangodfrey7424 Рік тому +5

      Graves, like funerals, are for the living. The dead are gone. How they are treated depends on if there is someone left to defend them. Pathetic, yes. The native Americans, for example, have a terrible time with desecration of their graves and other sacred sites because they have so little power to defend them. These "Saxons" (or Saxon subjects) have nobody to defend them, so we dig them up. That's just the harsh, cruel, human reality of it. Most of us only seem to matter to ourselves and our immediate circle.

    • @michaelrudolph7003
      @michaelrudolph7003 Рік тому

      @@briangodfrey7424 Also, many of the people living in the area have a long lineage of living in the area. They're seen as ancestors and if their closest kin want to learn about them, who is anyone else to say no? How else can we learn about the past if we ignore graves? Isn't that potentially important information lost? Also, once a grave or graveyard is found, even if the professionals left it, is it a better outcome if the graves are robbed at a later date? Now we learned nothing, the dead were disturbed anyway and things would be stolen. I don't think that's better on any account.

  • @corricatt
    @corricatt Рік тому +1

    WOW!!!

  • @corneilcorneil
    @corneilcorneil Рік тому

    I expected a album from the rockband Saxon! 😂

  • @RonnieOwens-kv4oe
    @RonnieOwens-kv4oe 4 місяці тому

    I've always thought spear heads near the head meant died in or ready for battle. Spear heads near the feet were warriors or elders that did not die during fights.

  • @mickvonbornemann3824
    @mickvonbornemann3824 Рік тому +2

    Maybe the buckets indicated they were dairy farmers who belonged to the local co-op

  • @Texasbiologyhelp
    @Texasbiologyhelp 9 місяців тому

    What do they do with the skeletons discovered?

  • @nickinurse6433
    @nickinurse6433 Рік тому +2

    It's very interesting to uncover & learn about these people but 250 years from now, I fear they will look back in us & roll their eyes at us as we do to those who robbed Egyptian tombs, stone henge & destroyed so many native American inca & Aztec sites. Because we should photograph, analyse, test all we like, then we should return them to their graves WITH ALL THEIR GRAVE FINDINGS OUT OF RESPECT FOR THESE PEOPLE'S BELIEFS. If you were a warrior who felt you needed your weapon in the afterlife who are we to say they are wrong & put their weapons in our museums? It doesn't matter what WE believe, it's what they believed.

    • @regnepinak9864
      @regnepinak9864 Рік тому +1

      You don't have o wait 250 years my friend. I am first nation in Canada where we have buried our people with pots and pans to cook their meals on the other side. the belief that they died on this plane and live in the next one. We still often feast our relatives who have gone to the other plane for four years. The practice has been lost due to colonization. I am really surprised that all the education and knowledge in that field, they don't know this and are making outlandish guesses.

    • @johng4093
      @johng4093 11 місяців тому

      ​@@regnepinak9864"Making outrageous guesses" is part of the job description of an archaeologist.

  • @williamkinkade2538
    @williamkinkade2538 Рік тому

    Need MEDIEVAL GOLD!!!

  • @trajancanada
    @trajancanada Рік тому

    Always thought Baldrick and Mrs. Miggins were kindred spirits.

  • @nancytimmer9026
    @nancytimmer9026 Рік тому +1

    Made in Antioch? Did they find the holy handgrenade too?

  • @mercedespicot6543
    @mercedespicot6543 Рік тому

    Are you still planning on completing and living in the apartment at the Convent?
    Is the plan for Downey to move in with you in France?

  • @superscope27
    @superscope27 Рік тому +2

    Ive never seen someone point and gesture so much with their middle finger.

  • @TheInstinctWithinV2
    @TheInstinctWithinV2 2 місяці тому +1

    "...Cooperation with finders..."
    Cooperation with morons. Finders keepers. I find the treasure = MY TREASURE. Not the stinking government's, not the museum. ME.

  • @staceys4044
    @staceys4044 Рік тому +3

    Im willing to chip in and buy Phill a longer pair of shorts and haircut

    • @deborahparham3783
      @deborahparham3783 Рік тому

      Shut up about Phil's shorts and hair. Phil is perfect the way he is.

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
    @JohnEglick-oz6cd Рік тому +3

    The Saxons name comes from the Germanic word Seax , meaning a small shiv like weapon , or handle of a small shiv like weapon ..
    The Saxons and Vikings were racial cousins , and many of the GODs of the Germanic tribes were the same , as well as the runic letters , and symbols .

  • @philip1quillen
    @philip1quillen Рік тому +1

    Interesting and informative video, but why in God's name did they think they needed a background drum track?

  • @ROBERTN-ut2il
    @ROBERTN-ut2il Рік тому

    Go, Helen go !

  • @poorasslawstudent
    @poorasslawstudent Рік тому +2

    I'm always frustrated when we are given genetic and isotope information on corpses. how closely were these people related? did they grown up here or did they immigrate from somewhere else. Were they Germanic or had they interbred with the local Celtic population. what genetic diseases were these people prone to. Are their descendants still in the area or are they more closely related to a group elsewhere. Come on people!

  • @johnhaug1747
    @johnhaug1747 11 місяців тому +1

    Beer buckets?

  • @silverhooligan1256
    @silverhooligan1256 Рік тому +1

    That one bucket could have been a baby Dalek.

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 Рік тому

    @ 36:03 Helen follows the "Mainstream Academic" denials, "the buckets got there by Ship" period, it isnt difficult to imagine, it just merely diesnt fit the "Mainstream Academic/Archaeologist" worn "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline", which is so obvious in its not adhering to the "Standards of Science and Research " which prohibits using a Theory as Fact, and is overwhelmed by countless observable Artifacts and Structures worldwide.

  • @patmayer7222
    @patmayer7222 Рік тому

    Yes,,,i get the documentation of old,,,...but it is still a grave,meant to be for eternity,,....so if these robbings,,go,,your disturbing their grave,....maybe looking,maping,these finds,,but to take,move,,hoard these,elsewhere,,,isnt allowed in forever,😮..forever is stopped when these are taken,,..so where is the gold,silver,gems,???...please reply

  • @jbstarkiller4626
    @jbstarkiller4626 Рік тому +2

    16:15 Boudica and Cartimandua were not warriors😒 the Anglo Saxons were a warrior culture at their core and someone being buried with weapons does not at all mean they were warriors, this is something an amateur would say. I knew better than to say this and I have zero credentials, embarrassing🤦🏻‍♂️ "why not?" Because it makes no sense and there’s zero evidence for it😒

  • @MrWeedWacky
    @MrWeedWacky Рік тому +10

    36:20 - that speculation on how the bucket got from Byzantium to Britain is awful...
    It could quite easily have gone in one go... Here is how...
    A Varangian Jute, retires, takes his wealth, including the bucket and moves from Micklagaard (Constantinople) to Jutland, then he brings his family to a better life in Britain because he can afford it.

    • @michaelrudolph7003
      @michaelrudolph7003 Рік тому +1

      Or, because the Roman empire shuffled so many people from so many different parts of the wide empire around, perhaps a Byzantine person came to be stationed near this area and started a family here. Or nearby and later moved into the area. Maybe the bucket thing was something cultural or familial that they brought with them to their new land. So many possibilities.

  • @lazygardens
    @lazygardens Рік тому +6

    That';s a Byzantine BooKay! Not a bucket!

    • @catspaw3815
      @catspaw3815 Рік тому +2

      ha ha. good ole keeping up a-spearances

    • @MareShoop
      @MareShoop Рік тому +1

      I think I’ll invite you to one of my candlelight suppers 😂

  • @blewis66112
    @blewis66112 6 місяців тому +1

    Didn't Phil play in AC/DC.

  • @hilarymorrison8211
    @hilarymorrison8211 Рік тому

    Tony: That bucket could belong to Hyacinth !!

  • @kilcar
    @kilcar 11 місяців тому

    Yes, they all have weapons. Dangerous times require Weapons for survival.