"Excavations at Vindolanda - the evidence for a Frontier constantly in transition" by Andrew Birley

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  • Опубліковано 18 жов 2024

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  • @rogergriffith286
    @rogergriffith286 8 днів тому

    Fascinating story and details.

  • @numerian4516
    @numerian4516 10 місяців тому +1

    I’m 5yrs late but what a fascinating presentation. I specifically looked up Vindolanda and couldn’t have been more pleased that your post was the first I picked to delve into this archeological site. Hope all went well and prosperous after this was made…

    • @badfairy9554
      @badfairy9554 7 місяців тому

      I am sooo late. Hello.😊

  • @keithcoleman9449
    @keithcoleman9449 5 років тому +11

    Very good delivery, I thought. Not all academics can speak so fluently. Hats off, Mr B!

  • @SYBEX21
    @SYBEX21 4 роки тому +16

    Could you please, do more of these presentations and post them? They are vastly informative and a great primary source for those of us that are living historians here in the US.

  • @amandajstar
    @amandajstar Рік тому

    Love the sense of humour : )

  • @allenpeck8239
    @allenpeck8239 4 роки тому +8

    That was absolutely great. Amazing stuff. Love this kind archeological presentation. Thanx...

  • @danturner4709
    @danturner4709 4 роки тому +4

    Fascinating, I wish I could be there to help. I'm old and can't afford to travel.

  • @starfighter1043
    @starfighter1043 3 роки тому +1

    I liked when he took off the jacket 💀 🤣 he means business! I can tell this is gonna be a good one 👍

  • @terrygribb9185
    @terrygribb9185 3 роки тому +2

    Nearly two thousand years ago. It's just amazing.

  • @meljen8592
    @meljen8592 4 роки тому +3

    Excellent 👍

  • @maincoon6602
    @maincoon6602 4 роки тому +4

    Great video 👍🏻

  • @angeloargentieri5605
    @angeloargentieri5605 4 роки тому +3

    Wonderful Roma eterna

  • @danielslubski1028
    @danielslubski1028 4 роки тому +6

    It's so intresting bit later then the dead sea Scrolls,but it tells us about their daily lives, the Scrolls are mostly copies of the bible origina andl religious writins and they were monks living apart from the civilization on purpose, here its more regular folks and their life. Great lecture. ❤️ From 🇮🇱

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 2 роки тому

      The sect of the Essenes has nothing to do with the Old testament and for sure nothing at all with the new testament.

  • @helenhunter4540
    @helenhunter4540 2 роки тому

    In spite of his predilection for phallic and scatalogical "humor", he's probably a competent archeologist.

  • @raulkohli4410
    @raulkohli4410 3 роки тому +1

    Wonderful video
    Does that mean the North East is home of the UK's first recorded: brewer, written word (the letter), economic theory & toilet seat? or am I making that up?

    • @peterfreeman6677
      @peterfreeman6677 Рік тому

      Not the earliest wooden writing tablets, earlier ones have been found from Roman Londinium.

  • @editorinformal873
    @editorinformal873 2 роки тому

    Romans did not bury their deads, but cremated them. Was there any evidence about it or how dead bodies were disposed in Vindolandia ?

  • @lundworks9901
    @lundworks9901 2 роки тому +1

    It's in between of 2 watershed areas.

  • @marioflavin2141
    @marioflavin2141 3 роки тому +3

    The Lights went out in Britain when the Roman Empire Died and we went into the dark ages apart from raods /under floor heating/ baths/ saunas/ building streight streets what have the Romans Ever done for us.

    • @ItsJustMorris
      @ItsJustMorris 3 роки тому

      Aye, the Lights came on when the Romans buggered off back to their collapsing heathen empire

    • @dwightehowell8179
      @dwightehowell8179 2 роки тому +1

      @@ItsJustMorris It wasn't heathen by this time.

  • @mathiasniemeier4359
    @mathiasniemeier4359 Рік тому

    You would think the hole of England, would have never has poor people as years went on. I say this because the knowledge they would have given, via heated floors, Hot running water, etc. .Yet I have read about absolutely horrendous things happening , such as the , Work Houses for the Poor, and the demonosterely , growtestical ways they treated the people. It just seems like once the Romans had left. Britain, the remains of the country, went back to the DARK AGES OF HISTORY. I do believe the country as a whole , have barely gotten out of that frame of mind till the 1970's. I, not living in Britain ever, yet learned quite a bit about the country, with still having a QUEEN, yet also a Governing Body. Still has 1 foot in the past and a half a step into the present. You must remember , I am looking from the outside, looking in. I do So enjoy archaeology ,I find this video, or presentation. Fairly interesting. It would have been great! if it would have had , bit's where it would of had it more in a more live video, and watching how the discoveries would have been much more interesting. I don't see any correlation's from the comment about the DEAD SEA SCROLLS, being written by Monks , and hidden away. Yet here they show the slaves doing it. ..I see absolutely no correlation, as the Monk's did it because they felt it was a service to the HOLY FATHER, yet in Brittan it was forced by another man, and ..I might say was probably poorly feed, had to sleep with animal, and feces if they were lucky. I am pretty sure that slave would have like to be known he was doing a great service to , the Lord God Almighty! Thank you

  • @WAFFENAMT1
    @WAFFENAMT1 3 роки тому +1

    My guess is the reason that there is such a stench when they dig down into the Roman era layers, is that the area actually had a stench 2000 years ago, all these people living packed together with no modern plumbing would create a stench, also my guess the reason they found so many shoes is that the Romans were getting their shoes stuck in the Mud and when they pulled their foot out of the mud without the shoe they did not bother to pull the shoe out.

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 2 роки тому

      The most silly comments
      The Romans they build military bases and cities with an excellent plumbing system for the dirty water.. All over the empire on the three continents.

  • @hamshackleton
    @hamshackleton 5 років тому +4

    Interesting, to a historian. But the lecturer keeps going off-screen, to point out things that the viewer cannot see, because the overlay map(s) obscure him. He could have used the computer mouse to point out, but didn't.

    • @elizabethatkinson6689
      @elizabethatkinson6689 2 роки тому

      I agree - either the mouse or a laser pointer would have made it much easier to follow at times.

  • @zebbocaster
    @zebbocaster 4 роки тому +4

    Sir, forgive my nit-picking. You are a "Brittunculus" and collectively with the people in the audience, you are "Brittunculi".

  • @terrygribb9185
    @terrygribb9185 3 роки тому

    You say he's from Spain yet he's a Roman don't get it

    • @SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland
      @SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland  3 роки тому +2

      Hi Terry, people from all over Europe became Roman as they were brought into the Roman Empire, and Spain was known as Hispania: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania Hope this helps.

    • @terrygribb9185
      @terrygribb9185 3 роки тому +1

      @@SocietyofAntiquariesofScotland Thank you

    • @peterlaustra2892
      @peterlaustra2892 2 роки тому

      There weren't any such countries as Spain or Portugal during this period.

    • @zulemajohnson1413
      @zulemajohnson1413 2 роки тому

      Hispania was Roman spa in.

  • @royfr8136
    @royfr8136 3 роки тому

    Cut out the attempts at humour...David Brent