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That's coming in the next video, I had to wait for the oven to dry properly first

It's lime wash; limestone is heated in a furnace to produce quicklime, which is then slaked in water to create lime putty and lime wash.

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I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

It's a vintage felling axe, I chose it for its similarity to Saxon examples such as those found at Flixborough.

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I'm not sure about the different gait - if that were true, you'd expect to find modern populations of barefoot hunter gatherers walking the same way. But they don't, they still walk mid-foot or heel first, albeit much more softly. Wearing this type of shoe almost every day for several years now, I find I contact first on the mid-foot to heel area, a sort of 'soft' version of the way people generally walk today, and only on very thorny ground do I walk toe-first in a tip-toe style. Definitely when running, you run on your toes or the balls of your feet, but I don't think it's a natural walking gait. If it ever was used in the Medieval period, as seems to be the case in some manuscript depictions and paintings, it could be the case that it was more a 'cultural style' of courtly fashion, perhaps to accentuate those ridiculously long pointed shoes!

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I bought this leather, but I'd like to show hide tanning in the future!

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Interesting! I'll have a read on the Sarmatian theory. Thanks for sharing!

@gesithasgewissa as I understand it's not scientifically all that well regarded as it's mostly conjecture. (Especially swords in lakes have factual examples everywhere. Apparently Arminius' people filled entire lakes with Roman weaponry as a manner of sacrifice.) Still glad if you could take anything away from my throwaway comment.

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True, although whether reduced is the right word, I am not sure. With the massive population decrease after Roman withdrawal and various plagues and instability (keep in mind, a lot of this infrastructure, particularly the hypocausts, were kept running on cheap slave labour), there simply wasn't the population to warrant the inhabitation of cities and large and complicated infrastructures, such as public baths, plumbing, aqueducts, the mass production of brick and stone and so on. This doesn't necessarily need these people to be more primitive in their way of thinking, only that, for a smaller population with a much smaller slave workforce, it simply wasn't viable, and the populations became much more self-reliant, insular farming communities. I imagine the same could happen today if the world's population saw a drastic decrease for some reason.

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It's very true! Quite hard to adjust to sometimes, but when you are in the quiet rhythm it just flows

They don't really stretch no ☺ you can make a pattern for the upper based on the circumference of your foot at the toe, balls of your feet and the highest point of your foot

Hah 😆 Man enough to stand comfortably in my own shoes 😉 Try googling the 'suebian knot' for a Germanic man bun

@ Lose the girly haircut. Or are you a girl?

Thank you, I didn't, it's all good!

Haha, just a realistic portrayal of Medieval life...lots of bare legs amongst the peasantry. Don't be too offended...everyone's got them underneath their trousers ;)

@@gesithasgewissa longer shirts might be as realistic

@@Walt-z4u my tunics are based on the Högom tunic, one of the few surviving close to the Anglo-Saxon period, and the original was shorter than mine here, at 70cm

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Yes, but the long Winter, followed by the Plague of Justinian must have been a terrible time to live through in Europe!

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About 4 days!

How come? They're comfy enough, but don't last long on modern surfaces ☺

@@gesithasgewissa Because the sole is very thin. In fact, it's just a leather sock. When walking, you'll feel every grain of sand and unevenness. I never even buy regular shoes with thin soles.

@@vladspb_ That's the joy of being barefoot - to feel the earth underneath your feet. But each to their own!

@@gesithasgewissa Barefoot lovers don't need any shoes at all

Thank you! I am something of a hermit, but I get a little lonely sometimes. However, genuine Anglo-Saxons are hard to come by these days 😆

@@gesithasgewissahahaha i’m sure you’ll find your dream anglo-saxon partner someday 😆

😆😆 can't tell if you're joking...but sounds great!

Very blessed indeed!

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Perhaps, but archaeological diet analysis suggests a low consumption of meat across all social scales. So the evidence doesn't support this. Oxen were highly valued as draft beasts.

@@gesithasgewissa alright, maybe you could do a separate video showing their meat-eating habits

@@ajrwilde14 That's a good idea, I'd like to have some livestock eventually. So would be able to show that properly then; the raising, processing and preserving of meat. For now, I'll show a few meat recipes every so often. To reflect their meat-eating habits

@@ajrwilde14 There's more information on it in this video's description by the way ☺

Thank you. You could hobnail them with a layered leather sole, in the same that the Romans did. But there have been no hobnails found in Anglo-Saxon contexts, so it's unlikely that they were used.

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That's a good point, thanks for sharing ☺

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Indeed!

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Bark tanned yes, the Anglo-Saxons also used alum tawed leather, but I'm not sure whether or not that would have been suitable for shoes.

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Not particularly on its own, although they may have been layered or padded for use underneath chainmail. It was certainly used as everyday and ceremonial clothing amongst the warrior elite. The roof is completely waterproof, I haven't had any leaks since I finished the ridge off.