I love how we tend to get more than we bargained for on UA-cam history documentaries. Oh, excavation of a Bronze Age village? Sign me up! But wait, I get an early Christian burial ground and a historical playhouse too??
Well if you were expecting to find there were volcanoes in Britain, ho hum! The title is actually quite a good one, as it looks at a site that was caught in a cataclysmic moment, just like Pompeii.
@@neilmarshall2315 very few people would mistaken the title with Vesuvius or that it had anything to do with volcanoes. Pompeii = a unique snapshot of ancient life, frozen at the moment it was buried,as well as insight into ancient urban planning. my advice to you is: to read much more, and educate yourself more before commenting on subjects you do not know … live long and prosper
This is good stuff and love Prof. Alice’s presentation, she’s come a long way from Time Team. So glad there’s a great show to follow Time Team, and we get so much more with her overview of different excavations going on.
I find it so interesting to hear different hypotheses. I often wonder whether we are so desperate to find missing keys to history that we can apply too much meaning to things. I once read a comment of someone jokingly say that if a historian doesn't know what the object is, then it must be a fertility symbol, and any evidence of alcohol or drug useage must be ritualistic (and not just a Friday night at the boozer to socialise and unwind after a heavy week of battling and / or farming.) It makes me think - in 1,000 years time, archeologists may find my dog's grave and find a tennis ball next to her. No doubt they will speculate that I MUST believe in an afterlife because I put a gravegoods in with her, and I must've believed she'd take them with her into the next life. In reality, I guess we did it for symbolic reasons... when she entered the grave she wasn't a pile of bones but the perfect fluffy little dog she had been just a few days beforehand, and she loved tennis balls. It just felt like the right thing to do. If there IS a heaven, I'm sure there will be 1 million tennis balls, and she won't need to take one with her from the grave. I mean, we'd be pretty screwed otherwise, because we didnt put any poop bags or dog treats in there so it's going to be a very long (and very smelly) eternity. Same as archaeologists unearthing our graves - will they assume we'd reverted to Ancient Roman Paganism when they unearth cremation urns? Or will they realise that for most of us, it's just personal preference, or convenience, or even economic reasons, rather than holding any religious meaning. So my point is, the mixture of Christian and pagan practices in the mid Saxon graves in Norfolk got me thinking... sometimes not everything needs to be some huge indicator of religion, but simply tradition - maybe they were still using log coffins simply because that's what their grandmother did, and they liked their societal customs and traditions.
Yes, they are giving the impression of surprise that the room uses were in separate areas. I do sometimes eat in bed, but lighting a fire and cooking in the bed is not easy, and sleeping on top of the weaving-loom was very uncomfortable. However, I do store my precious tools and things under the bed. So really, perhaps there are practical reasons why you do not find the pans full of food stored in the bed, or the hearth set up under the weaving-loom, and we are still similar today. Nothing changes really. I hate to think what future archaeologists would make of dogs buried with tennis balls inside them, who have died of obstruction, and if they find one, they may surmise that most dogs only buried after a tennis ball was inserted first, to prevent them making smelly messes in the afterlife?
Remarkable!!😀👍👍, I live in the fenlands in a town called March in Cambridgeshire, I would be interested to find out more about as it goes back to Anglo Saxon times. 👍
It's a G R E A T time to be alive. Although my family has been in America for several generations, these are also my ancestors.😊 I've edited my comment due to my original wild guesstimation of how many generations removed from Britain my forebearers were. I had erroneously said 20, a gross overestimation, which I apologized nearly a week ago for after the first couple of corrections, but the post has continued to offend. My original comment was a response to the narrator's remark regarding the finding of evidence of the ancestors of the British people but it seems inconsequential in light of my extreme error, so I fixed it. Again, my humble apologies to all.
@@owenfoxcroft9459 Wales is so beautiful! Have you seen it? Yes, I joined Ancestry without knowing any family history at all besides my father's name on one side, and just up to my grandparents on the other. We lived on opposite coasts, and I rarely got to spend any time with them. It turned out most of my ancestors were here before the Revolution, and quite a few fought in it. Thanks to the amazing church records kept in Britain, there's SUCH a wealth of information dating back to the 15th century. It was really eye-opening.
@@silva7493 you realize that by saying 20 generations that you are saying you can trace you root in America back before the first permanent European settlement in America. And 100 years before the first English settlement...
Oops. My apologies for what does appear to have been a wild overestimation. In my defence, numbers have never been my good friends. Anyhow, out of just the four (very English) last names of my grandparents, the first of the lines born in England, who died in the American Colonies were born between 1608 and 1658. Naturally, there were many female lines with similar stories I shall not bore anyone further with.
For folk upset at the title I first saw it in a mainstream news report when Must Farm site was dug. As the narrative says its the state of the preservation that reminded people of Pompei.
"Now we're going to dig up a cemetery" what fun. When you are buried do you expect someone to come along, find your graveyard accidently and dig you up?
In Britain if a dig time is up but they've found things that change history what do they do? Rebury it or just leave it open? What does the actual land owner do? Keep paying taxes and mortgage when the site is found historically important?
I enjoyed the Christian burials, because Yosef of Arimathea is my 261st great grandfather, and he mined metal and owned property in Glastonbury. When he was driven from Israel after the crucifixion of Christ, he came back to England, and tried to share Christ, but it really didn't take off for at least 100 plus year's. He used the metal to sell it to the Romans for armour and other thing's being made at the time. Yosef, or Joseph as most know him from the Bible was rich from his many business dealings abroad, and their are stories that young Yeshua traveled with him, which accounts for other country's having history's of his visits. There at one time was a small lead structure in Glastonbury where Christ walked onto the land, and they made this memorial to remember him, as many of the worker's were of Israeli origin. Yosef took Christ off the cross, and many believe he was the uncle to Christ, and next of kin after Mary's husband Joseph died, because woman had no right's at that time. The pharisees and the sanhedrin wanted his body destroyed with the wicked, but through Yosef being well respected by the Romans, and being next of kin, Christ was released tp Yosef for burial. I was directed to this channel by the Viscountess Julie and her husband look, glad to have found this, medieval history has always interested mee. G-d bless.
They have to turn it over to the government, where it's studied and valued. It is then offered to museums and universities. The finder is given a percentage of the price.
Excellent show and i think the presenter is great, but i finally figured out what's odd (to my ear) about her accent. She has no /u/ sounds. British viewers please lmk if this is a regional variation you recognize or if it's idiolectic. Thanks!
Since William S. Didn't write any of those plays, why do we keep saying he did? I'm asking this as I really want to know. If you are standing by that he did, that's fine but Im looking to hear from people who have an actual understanding of this. He was an actor and he did say he wrote them as nobility in Queen Elizabeth's...or poss any court of that time, were not allowed to produce comedy/farce,as these plays are. Thank you for anyone with some valuable info
The pagans allowed other religions to practise. And yet the Christians couldn't let it go. They pushed and pushed at the pagans. Plus if youve never seen moving theatre. You should. Theatre i believe was practised wherever the stage could be set and that wasnt always on the actual stage it pivoted around it. Actors appearing from the crowd and on balconies.
Sorry but I have walked the streets of Herculaneum and Pompeii and although the Bronze Age finds are important they can hardly be compared. I would say that the nearest comparison would be Skara brae and that’s 5,000 years old, and it’s no where near the size or magnitude of the Italian cities. It is however about 3,000 years old.
She has. Time Team excavator . So she got muddy. Plus, to get that " Dr." in front of her name, she had to put her shoulder to the wheel and STUDY her butt off for years. Yeah, she works.
Have you watched this program at all? This is a review of the entire year. All the footage was filmed by the archaeologists themselves. How could Alice be at all these digs for every discovery simultaneously? She takes a few days out of her actual job, narrates the footage, meets with the teams in her little presentation room for those scenes, then goes back to her normal work. For most of the normal programs that focus on 1 or 2 sites she's out in the field, working right alongside the team, and then she's also recording the narration track, all squeezed in around her regular job of being a professor at the University of Birmingham AND helping run a large charity. She's a very hardworking lady!
I get what you mean. But it's not literal. Just like Pompeii isn't 'perfectly' preserved as such. It's more in reference to the material and layout being preserved in the spot. Title could be better worded, but as far as they're concerned, it's as perfect as they could expect to find from the Bronze age.
Alfred and Ceolwulf were were both of Germanic heritage. At the time Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Scotland, and half of Ireland were ruled by Jewish dynasties. Hercules was a Jew. All dynasties of Royal Scythian origin are Jewish.
The title, as described in tge episode, has to do with how well preserved the houses and their contents were. They never said a word about volcanoes. You assumed that, so the click bait is in your head, not in reality.
YAY ! Alice is BACK!!!
Fabulous history 😊 we must never forget & keep digging for Britain 😊
Yes, indeed, and over here across the pond in Houston as well. 🥰
Thank you for the quality content!
0:36 spotted Time Team’s Phil Harding in the wild
❤ love Phill!
Very interesting episode. Lots of discoveries.
I love how we tend to get more than we bargained for on UA-cam history documentaries. Oh, excavation of a Bronze Age village? Sign me up! But wait, I get an early Christian burial ground and a historical playhouse too??
Some amazing finds. Great work
Magnificent program. Thank you.
Well if you were expecting to find there were volcanoes in Britain, ho hum! The title is actually quite a good one, as it looks at a site that was caught in a cataclysmic moment, just like Pompeii.
@@neilmarshall2315 very few people would mistaken the title with Vesuvius or that it had anything to do with volcanoes.
Pompeii = a unique snapshot of ancient life, frozen at the moment it was buried,as well as insight into ancient urban planning.
my advice to you is: to read much more, and educate yourself more before commenting on subjects you do not know
… live long and prosper
This is good stuff and love Prof. Alice’s presentation, she’s come a long way from Time Team. So glad there’s a great show to follow Time Team, and we get so much more with her overview of different excavations going on.
I find it so interesting to hear different hypotheses. I often wonder whether we are so desperate to find missing keys to history that we can apply too much meaning to things. I once read a comment of someone jokingly say that if a historian doesn't know what the object is, then it must be a fertility symbol, and any evidence of alcohol or drug useage must be ritualistic (and not just a Friday night at the boozer to socialise and unwind after a heavy week of battling and / or farming.) It makes me think - in 1,000 years time, archeologists may find my dog's grave and find a tennis ball next to her. No doubt they will speculate that I MUST believe in an afterlife because I put a gravegoods in with her, and I must've believed she'd take them with her into the next life. In reality, I guess we did it for symbolic reasons... when she entered the grave she wasn't a pile of bones but the perfect fluffy little dog she had been just a few days beforehand, and she loved tennis balls. It just felt like the right thing to do. If there IS a heaven, I'm sure there will be 1 million tennis balls, and she won't need to take one with her from the grave. I mean, we'd be pretty screwed otherwise, because we didnt put any poop bags or dog treats in there so it's going to be a very long (and very smelly) eternity. Same as archaeologists unearthing our graves - will they assume we'd reverted to Ancient Roman Paganism when they unearth cremation urns? Or will they realise that for most of us, it's just personal preference, or convenience, or even economic reasons, rather than holding any religious meaning. So my point is, the mixture of Christian and pagan practices in the mid Saxon graves in Norfolk got me thinking... sometimes not everything needs to be some huge indicator of religion, but simply tradition - maybe they were still using log coffins simply because that's what their grandmother did, and they liked their societal customs and traditions.
Does ritual imply religion? I don't think so. Honestly what you described are pretty much rituals.
Yes, they are giving the impression of surprise that the room uses were in separate areas. I do sometimes eat in bed, but lighting a fire and cooking in the bed is not easy, and sleeping on top of the weaving-loom was very uncomfortable. However, I do store my precious tools and things under the bed. So really, perhaps there are practical reasons why you do not find the pans full of food stored in the bed, or the hearth set up under the weaving-loom, and we are still similar today. Nothing changes really. I hate to think what future archaeologists would make of dogs buried with tennis balls inside them, who have died of obstruction, and if they find one, they may surmise that most dogs only buried after a tennis ball was inserted first, to prevent them making smelly messes in the afterlife?
They will think I'm odd then a can of John smiths smooth and a half eaten shoe, he was a bull mastiff that loved beer n shoes 😂😂😢
😯AMAZING HISTORY AND FINDS !! 😲
Enjoyed watching this 👌
Remarkable!!😀👍👍, I live in the fenlands in a town called March in Cambridgeshire, I would be interested to find out more about as it goes back to Anglo Saxon times. 👍
Really cool !! Only thing, when diggers are talking it would be nice to see their names on the screen too.
Then they would have to pay them and give IMDB credits lol
Good old Phil, I remember bumping into him in home town (Salisbury) Before I moved to Wales.
Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting!
It's a G R E A T time to be alive. Although my family has been in America for several generations, these are also my ancestors.😊
I've edited my comment due to my original wild guesstimation of how many generations removed from Britain my forebearers were. I had erroneously said 20, a gross overestimation, which I apologized nearly a week ago for after the first couple of corrections, but the post has continued to offend. My original comment was a response to the narrator's remark regarding the finding of evidence of the ancestors of the British people but it seems inconsequential in light of my extreme error, so I fixed it. Again, my humble apologies to all.
Sure bud
20 generations? I’m a 4th generation American who’s ancestors came from Wales 100 years ago
@@owenfoxcroft9459 Wales is so beautiful! Have you seen it? Yes, I joined Ancestry without knowing any family history at all besides my father's name on one side, and just up to my grandparents on the other. We lived on opposite coasts, and I rarely got to spend any time with them. It turned out most of my ancestors were here before the Revolution, and quite a few fought in it. Thanks to the amazing church records kept in Britain, there's SUCH a wealth of information dating back to the 15th century. It was really eye-opening.
@@silva7493 you realize that by saying 20 generations that you are saying you can trace you root in America back before the first permanent European settlement in America. And 100 years before the first English settlement...
Oops. My apologies for what does appear to have been a wild overestimation. In my defence, numbers have never been my good friends. Anyhow, out of just the four (very English) last names of my grandparents, the first of the lines born in England, who died in the American Colonies were born between 1608 and 1658. Naturally, there were many female lines with similar stories I shall not bore anyone further with.
This is so amazing! -- each and every single digs featured
What an extraordinary accent this young woman has. Linguist Historians should be interested. "rained hazes" (round houses?)
Thankyou for this Documentary.
❤️1:22 I 🫶just 🫶 adore your necklace… where can I get one like it?! ❤️
For folk upset at the title I first saw it in a mainstream news report when Must Farm site was dug. As the narrative says its the state of the preservation that reminded people of Pompei.
Amazing!!! ....
Another excellent programme
"No one knew where the Curtain theater was" Excavation is on Curtain road...
It is funny, but I don't think they meant they don't know where in London it was, but where exactly in that area.
Hollow logs, now it's refined woodwork we get put into.
"Now we're going to dig up a cemetery" what fun. When you are buried do you expect someone to come along, find your graveyard accidently and dig you up?
Misleading title, but a fascinating video
Is this the new time team? Asking from Canada
Are the tree-trunk burials facing East, or facing Sunrise?
Probably elm ,sometimes known as coffin wood 🤔
Don't let starmer see it be 5.000 imargrants in it
No kidding!
In Britain if a dig time is up but they've found things that change history what do they do? Rebury it or just leave it open? What does the actual land owner do? Keep paying taxes and mortgage when the site is found historically important?
When Augustine came to Canterbury in 597, Christianity was already well established. not sure about their 7th and 8th century date quotes.
I enjoyed the Christian burials, because Yosef of Arimathea is my 261st great grandfather, and he mined metal and owned property in Glastonbury. When he was driven from Israel after the crucifixion of Christ, he came back to England, and tried to share Christ, but it really didn't take off for at least 100 plus year's. He used the metal to sell it to the Romans for armour and other thing's being made at the time. Yosef, or Joseph as most know him from the Bible was rich from his many business dealings abroad, and their are stories that young Yeshua traveled with him, which accounts for other country's having history's of his visits. There at one time was a small lead structure in Glastonbury where Christ walked onto the land, and they made this memorial to remember him, as many of the worker's were of Israeli origin. Yosef took Christ off the cross, and many believe he was the uncle to Christ, and next of kin after Mary's husband Joseph died, because woman had no right's at that time. The pharisees and the sanhedrin wanted his body destroyed with the wicked, but through Yosef being well respected by the Romans, and being next of kin, Christ was released tp Yosef for burial.
I was directed to this channel by the Viscountess Julie and her husband look, glad to have found this, medieval history has always interested mee.
G-d bless.
So I'm curious. These people who find these treasures do they get to keep it or paid for what they're worth?
They have to turn it over to the government, where it's studied and valued. It is then offered to museums and universities. The finder is given a percentage of the price.
Nothing can be done with an artifact without the expressed written permission of the original owner and that can take forever...
@@SandraNelson063 thank you for the explanation
@@christyfray9412 You are very welcome! 🤗
@@bertvosburg558 Not surprised. From your pic, you definitely look like a 'momma's boy.' You might even be one yourself someday, huh miss?
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Excellent show and i think the presenter is great, but i finally figured out what's odd (to my ear) about her accent. She has no /u/ sounds. British viewers please lmk if this is a regional variation you recognize or if it's idiolectic. Thanks!
Since William S. Didn't write any of those plays, why do we keep saying he did?
I'm asking this as I really want to know.
If you are standing by that he did, that's fine but Im looking to hear from people who have an actual understanding of this.
He was an actor and he did say he wrote them as nobility in Queen Elizabeth's...or poss any court of that time, were not allowed to produce comedy/farce,as these plays are.
Thank you for anyone with some valuable info
He died in the war with the Vikings.
The pagans allowed other religions to practise. And yet the Christians couldn't let it go. They pushed and pushed at the pagans. Plus if youve never seen moving theatre. You should. Theatre i believe was practised wherever the stage could be set and that wasnt always on the actual stage it pivoted around it. Actors appearing from the crowd and on balconies.
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Can we please put one thing to bed? Britain is not a small island. It's the ninth biggest island in the world.
Compare this to Pompeii is really clickbait. But amazing find anyway.
I love this series but as one of a few colonized I find it hard t9 keep an open mind. That accent
Who colonised you?
Pkil Harding ❤❤
Sorry but I have walked the streets of Herculaneum and Pompeii and although the Bronze Age finds are important they can hardly be compared. I would say that the nearest comparison would be Skara brae and that’s 5,000 years old, and it’s no where near the size or magnitude of the Italian cities. It is however about 3,000 years old.
Yeah 5 swamp hunts aren't exactly the same thing as an entire Roman City
Size isn't important. The details, the contents are much more important then some stone walls of which there are thousands.
I'd like to see an episode on the impact that's the years around 535 and 536 AD and the sun blocked out from volcanic activity changed the area.
I forgive you
We want to watch ch all of these. No reason for bs titles.
britain's pompeii 2 - 1 actual pompeii
Does alice ever do any work?
She has. Time Team excavator . So she got muddy. Plus, to get that " Dr." in front of her name, she had to put her shoulder to the wheel and STUDY her butt off for years. Yeah, she works.
You assume that presenting this program is not work?
Have you watched this program at all? This is a review of the entire year. All the footage was filmed by the archaeologists themselves. How could Alice be at all these digs for every discovery simultaneously? She takes a few days out of her actual job, narrates the footage, meets with the teams in her little presentation room for those scenes, then goes back to her normal work. For most of the normal programs that focus on 1 or 2 sites she's out in the field, working right alongside the team, and then she's also recording the narration track, all squeezed in around her regular job of being a professor at the University of Birmingham AND helping run a large charity. She's a very hardworking lady!
Professor FEMINIST at it Again with all her normal BS
Yea that's all well and good but in khan's London he's banning flying the english flag
you mean the St George's Cross, the symbol of a middle eastern migrant?
So basically you made a compilation of other people's work and called it your own video...hmmm.
Not cricket people not cricket!!
Misleading title. I won’t watch any more of these
What’s new? Bait and switch.
I get what you mean. But it's not literal. Just like Pompeii isn't 'perfectly' preserved as such. It's more in reference to the material and layout being preserved in the spot. Title could be better worded, but as far as they're concerned, it's as perfect as they could expect to find from the Bronze age.
Were you expecting a volcanic eruption in bronze age England?
@@randynesbit4497: Yes! Iceland has them in similar northern zone! Shouldn’t be that far-fetched.
This is a great video, about a well-preserved little town in England😊
Pretty cool... but think it's more Britain's Bronze Age Mud Village. You don't need to sell the past.
What a waste of money...leave the dead alone...
Ha ha ha ha. Grow up
Alfred and Ceolwulf were were both of Germanic heritage. At the time Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Scotland, and half of Ireland were ruled by Jewish dynasties. Hercules was a Jew. All dynasties of Royal Scythian origin are Jewish.
Hot lady 😍
Were is the Click bait / Volcano?? I love England. You destroy the program by using this discusting click bait.
The title, as described in tge episode, has to do with how well preserved the houses and their contents were. They never said a word about volcanoes. You assumed that, so the click bait is in your head, not in reality.
If there was only a channel that does nothing but Yadda Yadda Yadda without actually saying anything.