Buried Treasures Unveil Secrets From The Tudor Age | Digging for Britain

Dr Alice Roberts uncovers the history of a forgotten royal place, home to Tudor kings and queens, and the team reveal the secrets contained in the rubbish dump in Shakespeare's garden.
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[@SecretSquirrelFun]

I’m surprised (but also grateful) that they didn’t mention that whole “evil spirits” thing associated with Bartmann Jugs. Putting urine and pins and hair and other mad stuff into one and after sealing it up, placing it under the threshold floorboards, or seal it into a wall cavity or something like that as a “method” for warding off all of the evil spirits and/or bad juju. 😂 Finding a fully intact jug is amazing and would have been so exciting for them. On the Thames foreshore people find fragments of Bartmann jugs. If they are lucky, they find a fragment containing the face of the bearded man. They are also called Bellarmine Jugs, named after Cardinal Bellarmine because they used his face. Anyway, it’s a fascinating history if you’ve not read about it before 🙂

[@lionheart830]

Thank you for this information.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

@@lionheart830 You’re very welcome 🙂 I’ve remembered that they were called “Witch Bottles” when stuff was added into them.

[@lionheart830]

@@SecretSquirrelFun Again, thank you.

[@divaden47]

Thanks for this information! Really interesting. 👍

[@deniseroe5891]

My ears perked up when you mentioned Sir Thomas Gresham. That is my maiden name and Sir Thomas is my 10th great grandfather.

[@TheChaoticZebra]

Yay! New Tudor video! 🍿🥤🎉

[@HelenTudor-Douglas]

This video is from 2010. That's 14 years ago! I can only imagine what's been discovered since 2010, in London. In 2004, I discovered "The Windmill Pub" off of Regent's Street in London.....they serve BEST FISH'N'CHIPS in the World! That's MY Discovery, in addition to my own Authentic Tudor DNA. I guess I, myself, am a Tudor Relic...of sorts.👵🤣

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

I wondered about w😊

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

I wondered. Professor Ann doesn’t have the flaming red hair!

[@JJtvee]

Why would you cover the theater? It's of historical significance!

[@HiAnime697]

From what I heard from other shows over there, they kinda have to. You got to remember that there is 1000s of years of history and archaeology all over there. If they never built anything whenever they found archaeological evidence, there won’t be anything new built

[@thomasevans5467]

Valuble real estate

[@jegsthewegs]

Whether it's a Theatre or a Roman villa. Re burying them actually keeps them safe. We have many historical sights that get trampled on by millions of tourists feet, fingers pick and poke, rubbish is strewn. It's often the best thing to "save and preserve" our history.

[@EmilyChristiansen-j3b]

Not to mention, the entirety of the island of the UK can fit in almost two states of the US. There's just not much space for anything else besides building on some random person's field, which also probably has something of historical significance. Often times they'll honor what was there before with a plaque, maybe some small artifacts if they're getting real fancy. It's always sad to hear though

[@verablexitasap858]

I know, right? Gosh, theres barely anything left of anything in the past as it is. Just as we have the opportunity to explore more it gets ripped away!😢

[@brim89]

I love watching all the mudlarkers on KZbin

[@manusha1349]

Oooh love this subject ❤

[@ChrisBachmannHoCoMD]

@12:40 The end of a shoelace is called the... the... uh... A-G-L-E-T! Don't forget it! Brings us closer to our sole, yeah!

[@kevinjohnbetts]

You need to be brought to heel Chris. Or made to toe the line. 😁

[@alphooey]

Glad I’m not the only one going “aglet” at the tv

[@rrr92462]

So interesting. The narration is very good and draws you in.

[@cherylmaden5989]

😂 for quite a few years now!!❤

[@kristinmarra7005]

Loved this. Extremely interesting

[@ellenl5626]

Wonderful video, fascinating information presented in a great format.

[@AbsoluteHistory]

Many thanks! Shall we post more episodes?

[@ellenl5626]

@@AbsoluteHistory Definitely more episodes!!!

[@savannahborn4025]

Absolutely ​@@AbsoluteHistory

[@Girl_In_The_Forest92-2]

I like to watch things like this 😊

[@AbsoluteHistory]

More to come!

[@emilien.]

Even as a young girl I, really dug programs about archeology... and have "inherited" a pernicious penchant for making really bad puns... and abominable alliterations.

[@kevinjohnbetts]

Ouch ....... and ouch! 😁

[@emilien.]

@@kevinjohnbetts I hope you're pain has abated. I don't know what happened to my first reply to your reply and am wholly contrite about the tripe that spilled from my brain... until the next time🥹🙄

[@stevedavy2878]

I love the cliches used so often used by these presenters, every 5 mins " this could have been held touched, worn by Shakespeare, More likely Baldrick than Shakespeare he he he

[@cherylmaden5989]

Lol or some random dude named Geoffrey 😂

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

Good stuff. Best content around.

[@AbsoluteHistory]

Shall we post more Digging For Britain?

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

@@AbsoluteHistory I would certainly tune in.

[@buzzzzzz69]

​@@AbsoluteHistoryAbsolutely!!!😊

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

[@mariecooper3656]

Great show, very interesting

[@jsutin423]

Nice.

[@ccsullivan9164]

100%. I just hope the final report was titled “Shakespeare’s Sock”

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@eileenbass952]

That was amazing, thank you for showing this video.

[@AbsoluteHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johnlord8337]

It was the Kemptons of London, who were intimately connected with William Shakespeare. It was SIr Edward Kempton of the Black Boy upon Wallbrook, who made the stage costumes (and dress apparel) for Shakespeare (as Shakespeare records in his own diary notes). This same Sir Edward protected the last martyr under Queen Mary (Foxe's Book of Martyrs).

[@DrWrapperband]

Shaksper couldn't write his own name and didn't have a diary.

[@johnlord8337]

@@DrWrapperband be quiet troll and go away. you know-nothing.

[@rrr92462]

Such a rich history. They're practically tripping over artifacts. I love how the UK cherish their history. I think any history and artifacts found in our country (usa) would be nothing but controversial given how partisan we are.

[@northernengland]

You said it mate at 27.04.

[@jegsthewegs]

"Eye lurves Alice's Bristolian axsent" eye thanx er was uxpectin at this tyme.... 🌹

[@cherylmaden5989]

Hahahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Clearedforfree]

Love it

[@dewithistle910]

Fascinating! 👍

[@iamauntmeem]

Before I watch any further I have a slight beef, I am Lutheran, so you think taking the wealth from the rich Catholic monasteries and churches and spreading it out to the people was a bad thing? BTW, I love your archeology and watch every show, documentary, and lecture I can see. You are passionate in everything you do. So this is not a disrespectful question.

[@cherylmaden5989]

I think people tend to forget how powerful, manipulative, and wealthy the Catholic Church was( is?) they were pretty shady, so from that context the Catholic Church was definitely corrupt and awful

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

How much of the wealth garnered by the churches and Abbeys do you think went to the people? Most of the theft of donated wealth went directly into the coffers of the King and the nobles. Much of that was further squandered in wars against France and Scotland. The people lost their churches, their Holidays with the dances, celebrations, etc, as well as those who bought their Wool, provided them with jobs and healthcare. As a Lutheran I expect you are aware of the charity that the Calvinists, Lutherans, etc provided the poor of England.

[@j.r.shartzer]

I hope that they found two doors that belonged to tutors of the Tudors. 🤞

[@cherylmaden5989]

Aahhhhuuugh😂

[@robbyakes8736]

WAR IS EVIL

[@harridan.]

Agreed; when William Tecumseh Sherman said "War is Hell" he was speaking from bitter experience.

[@jegsthewegs]

Also those countries who seek to cause it ... wonder which country does?

[@cadderley100]

I literally went out of my way NOT to read Romeo and Juliet. I hated Romeo and Juliet. I actually ended up wanting to stab Romeo myself... I was always more of a McBeth guy.

[@Girl_In_The_Forest92-2]

I like Mcbeth better as well to be honest (:

[@cadderley100]

@@Girl_In_The_Forest92-2 I think that, if they were being honest with themselves, most people would say that they prefer McBeth. It's like Shakespeare's answer to modern films that have loads of mindless violence, for no apparent reason whatsoever, where everyone dies by the end of the film.

[@Girl_In_The_Forest92-2]

@@cadderley100 makes sense

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Plays are meant to be performed for an audience. In high school, I was made to read "Romeo and Juliet" when I could have watched Zeffirelli's movie. Totally daft.

[@cadderley100]

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff I was asked to read Romeo And Juliet in class also. I told my teacher to go and stuff herself. I got sent to the headmasters office.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

"Columbus discovered America" What???

[@WillYork-dl5zq]

Certainly news to the Native Americans!

[@kevinjohnbetts]

In fairness Columbus didn't know it was there thus he did 'discover' it. Native Americans, Vikings, Chinese, and (allegedly) the Welsh, got there before him but no-one is Europe really knew the Americas were there.

[@matthewhayden6505]

Columbus made America known to Europe so he basically did discover it. Also not once in Columbus’s entire life did he claim to have discovered new land. In fact he denied the prospect entirely

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

Why do Tudor houses look a lot like German houses.?

[@mutecryptid]

No one wants to make large impressive floors anymore💀

[@A_Bone1972]

some of the most bs conjecture i've ever heard in many parts of this. were all of the archaeologists representative of academia? shoot a long bow once a week from the age of 7? more so if one was good at it? that woman has zero concept of archery. i'd like to know what type of soft stone was used in the building of the inside of the main gate of the abbey to be in such a rubble state. why would such a low quality stone be used in the construction of what was once a garish display of opulence? what position of an archway would that stone have been to be rubbed for luck as people passed by on a daily basis? sure didn't look like anything that would have eventually been polished to a degree from such behavior, or am i to believe that the stone was damaged in the destruction of the abbey or perhaps eroded as it became buried over time. especially since the building became the quarry for the gentry house. speaking of repurposing the stone by using the abbey as a quarry, that isn't a sign of the birth of capitalism as that kind of thing has happened since ancient times all over the world. honestly, a lot of statements made based on so little sound like pure mental guesswork fantasies. smh ✌️🐝➕

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Home-schooled?

[@A_Bone1972]

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff why do you ask? am i to presume that in your education that a 7yr old could ever be able to even draw a longbow, let alone have a chance to be good at to then shoot more than one arrow a week without having to gain such archery skills through practice, coaching, and repetition by first using a shortbow? am i to then be as presumptuous as your question to assume your common sense has been corrupted by your gullibility into swallowing so much similar academic BS that you regurgitate in kind as some twisted belief as factual truth? ✌️🐝➕

[@Natepwnsu]

Haha that was absolutely not a tobacco pipe. I won't stipulate more but its too short and small for tobacco

[@DanaTheInsane]

Tobacco pipes used to be much smaller and have smaller bowls tobacco was expensive

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

You must be really young.

[@Laàvod]

The reeds are more than enough to carrots the biggest ROCK ty good 👍.