All your comments only appear if I press the ‘newest’ button, the only hint I had was that the number of comments didn’t match the number of cmments in front of me. Working class blokes cut down a tree, at least four arrested. Middle class professional steals actual treasures: nothing and there was a witness. I am very angry and this shows just how degraded the notion of justice and evenhandedness is now in this country. We used to be proud of our unimpeachable justice system. I didn’t hear much of the Radio 4 article but you could try ‘thief at the British Museum’ on BBC Sounds.

@@AllotmentFox Apparently the British Museum is now making a civil claim against Higgs. Why won’t the CPS? With the eBay transactions alone, there must be a good chance of a conviction? If the museum has now come round - albeit belatedly - to the idea of going for him, what is the barrier for the CPS. In the documentary, even Osbourne said he was confident they “have their man”. Awful to think about what has been lost.

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd unlike America-or am I thinking of Australia?-a civil claim will only recover losses. No punishment. Go figure,

I couldn’t do my crossword either which is more concerning. I have recovered my fitness: climbing those hills, I was up and down like a tarts knickers. I’ll have another go at intellectual fitness later. I forgot you were having a certain amount of introspection over there about prosecutions and in a much more serious way and I have been watching with interest: jury decisions, though, are sacrosanct if you want any freedom at all, well that’s my take anaway. The Indian general election has been interesting as well.

Roedd rhai o fy hen deulu o gwlad y haf. Midsummer Norton a Frome. I like how you explore the names of your area and reference the Brythonic route . Sommerset Gwlad y haf Gloucestershire Swydd Gaerloyw were the original heart lands of Wales, once we lost them then that was the power base lost forever; See those areas have the best arable lands. Of note have you noticed the English spoken by the poorer of less educated of these counties is spoken using sometimes the Welsh word order . I heard someone from the Forest of Dean say to me your learning me dda meaning your teaching me that .

@@user-nh2bs1oe6m Thank you. I have been making the case that the south to south-west of England had early Welsh speakers much later than most people think. If you look at Berkshire west of Reading only one settlement has a non-English name and that is Speen suggesting hegemonic English restructuring. Look south and west of Speen and we go from nothing to quite significant: Andover, Candover, Clere, Chute, Sixpenny, Cherhill, the win- in Winchester (“Venta” see Gwent), Cherhill, Fontmell, Archet and the list goes on. Much less hegemony. We could develop the theory that the Saxons were more tolerant there and we could also theorise that Sub-Romano-British (Welsh) resistance was strong enough that something of the culture survived, enough at least for placenames to survive. Margaret Gelling points out that the spelling of Fontmell tells us that it is 6th Century. There could be a geographical correlation with the Wansdyke, Bokerley Dyke and other dykes that are suggestive. I was surprised to find Glastonbury (which I thought ws firmly English) is an English translation of a British name funnelled through Latin. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi thanks for getting back to me. There's a book I read once talking about English being a contact language , I'll Try and find the name and post it up on here .

Yes, 2 miles north of it. I must learn Welsh, I had to use Google Translate to understand your comment. I note with interest the mutation from Caer- to Nghaer-, is that the nominative and accusitive case or is it like that for some other reason? Also, is that f in the middle pronounced like a v?

@@AllotmentFox yng ngh is a soft mutation. F= v ff=f

I wouldn't use churl either, it would be both pompous and ludicrous. Churlish is still used quite often here in the sense of being impolite.

He would’ve almost certainly seen it as quite normal for the state to compulsarily seize land for security purposes. But what on earth is this strange concept you call private property? The king owns everything, we are his mere tenants. It is worth mentioning that the hill itself would’ve had ritual significance

Yes of course. I am thinking 21st Century CE instead of BCE. I've been peering into the dark well again,and the face I see looks familiar. ...

It is an Iron Age fort, I have walked bits of it. It may well be the site of the famous battle of Dyrham. The road that goes east west thru Hinton has a lot of prehistory associated with its line but I can’t figure out: if it is an important road where it is going from and going to. The road heading north and just missing Hinton is a Romanised ridgeway as wobbly as it is. The intersecti9n used to have a barrow called the Mouse Barrow (a Saxon name) and had two Roman secondary burials. Thanks for watching

Thank you for watching, Mr Badger

Thanks Rhys

Pleasure. Thank you for watching!

Let me know, the Wansdyke needs discovering between the Roman road and the head of Horse Combe

@@AllotmentFox I will do. Would be fun to try and find that!

That position is slap-bing in the middle of political opinion for most citizens in this country. It would be entirely populat for a new Labour government to ser up trusts or whatever for public utilities and no one would blink. But what about the stuff where the fur will fly? The vanguard of the labour movement being made up of doctors who have deftly linked their cause withe cause of the NHS and on God knows what money already. Who are our allies internationally? The left were absolutely vile over the invasion of Ukraine and I resigned from my political grouping in my union when my union sent out three-three!-different and contradictory press releases when it started, leaving me with the choice of staying with those who would surrender to Putin or those who regularly surrender to the employers. I now aim for a quieter life, it is all entirely barking.

Eternal Father Strong to Save by the Midshipmen Glee Club

Annapolis. Huh. Interesting choice for a video about 20th Century English Communist Tumuli Enthusiasts. But it works!

@@JimBagby74 it is a protestant hymn in English. Hmmm, do you think we have some degree of shared cultural identity between our two countries? Seriously thpugh, classical and religious music on KZbin is quite difficult to find, especiallly profound and grave music. I might’ve chosen something else if I had had the choice, something from the Latin mass perhaps. It is well sung though.

Let me know and I’ll show you around!

Thank you for your kind words. Virtual life: a topic for a video I think

you’re welcome

Thanks, you are too kind. It was completely flooded and was a difficult walk. I also walked past a Bronze Age burial mound so I didn’t do it justice. There is also North Leach Roman villa (there is a hut with windows whicch you can see the mosaics through) just round the corner and a proper Roman road. The Saxon past is very evocative too and as the archeologists found the transistion between the two worlds is very profound in this area.

@@AllotmentFox You live in Britain? (non-specific), rain and mud are normal( outside the cities?) .I live in 'New South Wales', Australia. ...and we have had rain for so many weeks we can't remember the Sun. (The vast majority of 'Aussies' don't know old south Wales (discreet apology), let alone the 'Heridge' or the origin History... Thank you.

@@jaycrandell147 yes, I am English. It is quite normal for our winters to be wet and muddy. NSW is hot normally, no?

Yes, self-knowledge is a wonderful thing

I pronounce some words poorly because I learnt them from reading rather than being taught them. Did you say you were from Pennsylvania?

My reply seems to have disappeared so I’ll try again. There were no willows there, I don’t know whether that is odd or not. Bidet comes from French-according to Google-and describes straddling a horse. Interesting idea though

Some are plain curious though, they stay and check you out. But one I saw eating a golf course in Dorset spent a good minute getting closer to me because he couldn’t work out what I was. It was good footage

@@sirfranklloydyes, that is interesting. My best guess is lions rely on bushwhacking to eat. Just goes to show how we are the peak predators

@@sirfranklloyd A bit like those butterflies etc that look like they have massive eyes on their wings...

Yeah, they practice six times to build up fitness and only about a quarter are Morris dancers, the rest are civilians. There used to be more drink, there were way more half pints than I remember. They took me under their wing last time as well but I was barely out of short trousers. Was there anything going on where you are?

@@AllotmentFox I believe there was, but I had duties as a YouTubing Grandad to film and edit my Grandson's latest epic! Next year I want to have a crack at one of these. It looked fun.

thank you Rhys

Oh absolutely, a small white wine at Easter and Christmas is the normal routine. I drank myself sober, incidentally, there were a couple of big hills and it was a six-and-a-half hour walk. I was so sober I suspected the beer was adulterated. I wondered how the old Irish navvies worked on beer.

Thanks Harper. I was so unfit before I started this, I didn’t even like stairs. I have a hip issue which I am mending (according to the physio) by the walking, climbing etc.

We have several Dodd Hills up in the north west, so that’s “Hill Hill”, so you might be looking at a “Pond Pond”. The valorous dead is more appealing to my antiquarian sensibilities, though. The Roman Road looked good. Cheers.

Pond fits which is annoying because there are two references to Wæl here and I really wanted it to be it. Next episode is þyrs “ogre”

Thanks Rhys

Everyone forgets Jack exists and then he bursts onto your street once a year and tries to run off with your daughters.80s I think

@@AllotmentFox Ah, mid 1990s. Maybe I was just sheltered from his malign influence. Lived in Horfield and went to school in Cotham so the latter part of the route (just looked it up online) was around areas I was familiar with.

Thank you, are you a player?

@@AllotmentFox Yes. Interested, new comer.

A professional! I previously did parts of the Cold Ashton charter but didn’t do the eastern boundary because-I am ashamed to say it-I just wasn’t fit enough to get up those hills. Since then I have developed an interest in old names of streams, rivers and springs so this looks up my street. Immediately north of Marshfield is Nettleton, a Saxon charter that I haven’t seen cracked by anyone. I don’t suppose you found any useful field names etc, on that boundary? Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much. The bluebell wood was top-notch and the young buck too. I am enjoying the photography as an end in itself now. it used to be just a tool but now it is very much more than that.

I have sacked my sound engineer nonetheless. I thought he was shedding his winter coat too but I don't know for sure

I have no idea. Where would they go?

I need to grow some sugar beet and wheat too for the whole shebang.

Thank you, James, I'm glad you enjoyed it

The temptation is always to choose the more interesting definition but it really is the case that the early English were just matter of fact in their naming. But you might have a point because this particular wood was called frithwode which is basically wood wood which might incline me towards thinking of a different option for one of the elemeents. You may see me squirming with the same problem with another landmark in the next video

@@AllotmentFox I look forward to your next episode 😊

Thank you. And even though Lidar is brand new I have missed the boat with Lidar-based discoveries more than once

they've largely disappeared under suburbs. I did a video a few years ago tracing the outline of some civil war defences and told the story of a radical or two and the story of Colonel Washington, a royalist and relative of the US president, who broke through those lines. It is possibly the most fascinating subject in British history. Nathanial Fiennes surrended Bristol when he had inflicted 30% losses on the royalists and was tried for treason for it, but escaped the noose by family influence. I shudder whenever I hear the name Fiennes. Your civil war is entertaining as well, I read up on a few bits and bobs like Antietam. Horrific photos.

The area south of Nashville where I live was a big rolling battle site, culminating in the Battles of Stones River/Franklin. Bad days for the Confederacy. Five generals lost in one day of fighting. Nashville itself was occupied fairly early on by the Union Army. They controlled the river. My neighborhood was full of Union officers quarters. Some of the old houses remain. Then later on a fellow you may have heard of named Jesse James lived down the street.

lol, I was just complainig about another KZbinr being too quiet for me to hear properly. The software doesn't do it for me so I have to do it by ear and I am conscious I don't do it perfectly. I'll try to is all I can say

Thank you. This area is jam-packed with antiquarian interest, I haven''t seen anything like it before and I have done quite a few trips now. I shall be going south of Gt Bedwyn village at some point I have done three videos here now and a couple last year and I can't see an end in sight at the moment.

The central thrust of your argument, if I am reading you correctly, that they are all invaders at one time or another is true. I disagree with much else you have written. The Welsh, are the nearest to an indigenous culture coming in at 4,500 years since the migration of their culture here. The Gaels-if that is the correct terminology-come in at the same time as people speaking various dialects of a West Germanic language we call Old English migrating from the continent sometime around AD450, a good 3,000 years after the ancestors of the Welsh got here. So to answer your question, what I mean by English- (1) in the Early Medieval period, people who speak one of the Old English dialects; and (2) today, people who live in England, who speak English or otherwise newcomers who nonetheless invest in their civic responsibilities towards their new community. It has nothing to do with genetics or race and has a lot to do with language.

@@AllotmentFox So you're English?

@@freeman5209 Yes, my accent should be a big indicator

​@AllotmentFox I agree with your first paragraph, but Englishness is an ethnicity. If it were not, then most people now living in England would, uniquely, not have an ethnicity. The existence of ethnic minorities by an elementary logical process, presupposes an ethnic majority.

@@AllotmentFox The "Welsh" have preserved the name and language of the Khumry, particularly in North Wales where the language is more preserved, but the "Welsh" name was not part of that history until fairly recently. Yr Hen Ogledd took place in the "old north" where I'm from and despite my twenty odd percent saxon / norse heritage picked up there, I have majority ancestry descending from the Neolithic era which is more like 6300 yrs so that's kind of my point. That's typical for the English. A living descendant of cheddar man, who is reckoned to be 10000 years old was found a few miles from the grave site, which is way older than anyone claiming to be Welsh. These are the English people you are referring to as "invaders" and "usurpers" and who would have spoken in a dialect similar to pre 1750's "Welsh" which although has not been spoken in England for a long time, was certainly commemorated by my grandfather who made sure I knew this from a very young age. To say it is only about language is political modernity applied where it should not be. Khumry means kinfolk and that has a implied genetic meaning, to it and not linguistic. I refer back to what I said earlier about who are Khumry. In biblical terms the Khumry are the descendants of Noah, with the original inhabitants being descendants of Japheth, the red haired giants. The Dane, Angle, Saxon, Jute are descendants of the biblical Jacob through Dan who is the progenitor of the germanic tribes and Irish Tuatha de Danann. Before the biblical Babel all would have spoken a dialect of the same Celtic language, as I say preserved best in North Wales. They were Khumry. The later mixing up of languages and propagandised English / Welsh histories are a tool of a belligerent ruling Elite and you appear to be caught deep in that trap my friend.