Iron Age Britain's Bizarre Chariot Burials

[@DieNibelungenliad]

Chariot burials make sense. Chariots were incredibly expensive and even today are difficult to craft with just hand tools and joinery. Burying a charioteer with his chariot would be much like burying a surfer with his surfboard or a child with his teddy bear. People are emotionally attached to their things

[@theostapel]

Cannot take it with you - donate it to the worthy or loved ones - always be sensible and generous - more contentment - to all. Fare thee well - on life's journey

[@nosillalaluna7078]

Sometimes the simplest answer ,is the answer

[@daviddawson1718]

​@@theostapelwise words, so don't expect people to listen

[@theostapel]

@@daviddawson1718 Oh hmmm. Your reply - is a reflective one Still think - we may act as our heart - hints

[@JETWTF]

Wrong about the difficulty in making them. They are just a cart with different side rails. The most simple wagon is by and far more difficult to make and none of those were considered status symbols along side 2 wheeled carts. It's not about the chariot but the charioteer. As for modern chariots the difficulty in making them is where to lose weight and not break at bend 1.

[@NotProFishing]

Cannot get enough of these beautiful documentaries. Thank you for such amazing content.

[@martynnotman3467]

Its not their content. Its BBC Digging For Britains content

[@s1nb4d59]

Great camera work and production,alice roberts..absolutely the encapsulation of british tv narration documentary at its best,hi from new zealand,we love your shows.

[@Suebee1988]

Regarding why crannogs at the time they were built & the discussion of defense...There may or may not have been danger from other humans but were bears and/or wolves around at this time? I have seen modern "on water" home builds that set up ropes and floats for their veg patches to keep them from land animals and certainly having a dwelling not easily breached by predators with or without animals you keep for food purposes would be of benefit. Look forward to any thoughts on this.

[@PippaRilley]

Ah. Good point re wolf, bears & vegetables. Was wondering why we build on \ in the water. Got wee but lost thinking lack of wood.😂 Finally dawned on me, the time.

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Mountain lions too.😁👍👌

[@soupdragon151]

@@nickthegardener.1120 Er..... not in the UK.

[@soupdragon151]

There certainly were large carnivores bears wolves lynx and wild cattle (aurochs) bloody huge beasts 6' at the shoulder with horns a yard from tip to tip much more massive than domestic cattle more like bison in size. But building in a lake requires is a huge amount of effort and resources its the labour of a lot of people which suggests its more than mere dwelling its an important site for whatever reason could be chieftains house or a temple or something other than ordinary

[@nickthegardener.1120]

@@soupdragon151 hill lions?😁

[@mademoisellelanoire4632]

I have seen your programs before, Professor Alice Roberts! And I just want to say that I enjoy them immensely! This documentary was also great, one hour just passed so quickly! I love England and Great Britain! And actually, I like seeing Britain’s shape on the map for real! I really think that the island is rather nicely shaped lol…! Anyway, that is that! Please, keep up the good work! It is just riveting! Cheers!

[@Karl.Jayce-DE]

I'm really loving this kind of videos, while napping.

[@PippaRilley]

Do enjoy watching or reading any thing Alice Roberts B involved in. Find her presentation & questions along with informations & how she genuinely enjoys whats she does. Also respects the other folk & lets them talk with out pushing or talking over or down to them. 🎉

[@teresakelton8286]

Very informative video!

[@bytesback.]

So if this land is going to be for housing does that mean that people are going to get Iron age chariot ghosts charging through the living room ?

[@soupdragon151]

If their imagination is lively enough

[@gregedmand9939]

I've often wondered why Rome decided to abandon conquest beyond Hadrian's Wall. Was it simply because it was impossible to conquer the Picts and other northern tribes? Or was some Roman economics genius who just did the math? Yes there is glory to defeat your barbarian enemies... But at what cost? Invading southern Britain was a no-brainer. The vast agricultural potential and easy to access minerals were known to Rome for perhaps centuries. But the farther north you travel on the island, the fewer grain crops can be grown in rocky terrain. Much more severe winters and difficult travel play a large part of the equation. If it was just because of the "savage" northern tribes alone, it makes little sense that Rome backed away. There were far larger tribes in the south to defeat and that was a fight worth investing in for Rome.

[@barborakopalova4583]

What i guess, Romans go for fertile land more than anything else, they never want to conquer Scotland, there isn't much of fertile land.

[@thekaxmax]

They tried, and failed, a number of times to conquer them. Gave up and put up a wall.

[@a.j.carter8975]

Savage chuffing midges migt have influenced them.😮

[@coryfice1881]

Cause there was no long term incentive to conquer it. Rome conquered places that they could tax reliably.

[@barborakopalova4583]

@@coryfice1881 I agree.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

The cost of those two horses can be unimaginable this truly had to be some kind of leader

[@lauraamundson769]

They said they were old ponies.

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

@lauraamundson769 an old Pony can still pull a plow an old Pony can still pull a cart to the market and we're talking about two you think just anybody owned a pony a pony that has to be stable a pony that has to be curried and shod the Pony that has to be fed a pony whose Health has to be maintained a pony we're in a world where starvation was more common than not those old ponies the ponies that this all had to be done for them through their lifetime those old ponies were the odds were that you would be born in a mud hut rather than in a villa we're like a million to one

[@oliverwilson11]

Horses weren't rare back then. Sure the cost was probably a lot (cost of two horses is a lot now even) but very imaginable

[@oliverwilson11]

@@WilliamSmith-zk4tj they probably had no horseshoes before the romans got there. Romans used horse sandals around that time

[@soupdragon151]

@@oliverwilson11 a lot of effort in training too. Chariots were the elite fighting vehicle the tank of its time not only in britain but across the ancient world

[@scrubsrc4084]

Prof roberts had really grown on me as a presenter

[@cordellkent4790]

How did the earliest generation of boundary builders choose a level to work with the contours? (On the ‘Hill Fort’).

[@thekaxmax]

By eye; none are actually level

[@bobbolieu9013]

A point to consider and discuss maybe for the "Diminutive" Older Rampart Wall is that it is possibly a Foundation or Retaining Wall for the much Larger Rampart Wall that followed. The smaller wall is on the outer edge of the Rampart. Without a foundation or retaining wall the larger wall is prone to slippage down the slopes simply due to gravity.

[@woodyh4650]

Why are all the graveyards in Britain symmetrical? Every time they talk about one, "This Iron Age SYMMETRY has chariot burials." 😉😁

[@MarshaShelley-t3n]

Nice to Raksha post time team!

[@serralheirosaoroque1599]

oh my dear... all hair colors look beautiful on you...

[@stephengent9974]

If you think of the length of the perimeter of hill forts, it would have taken thousands of people to adequately defend it.

[@soupdragon151]

Em, they're more like fortified villages a collection of roundhouses and essentially small farms it probably housed no more than a few hundred at any time. They weren't always at war defences act as a deterrent and its not a fort in the modern sense, its not a garrison though numbers would have swelled in a time of conflict when people in the surrounding land would pile in

[@k.williams]

Lake-Town, Bard, & Smaug. ❤

[@thomasbell7033]

Okay, I've been watching these Brit archeology shows addictively since COVID lockdown and I've learned one thing: After 12,000 years of civilization we have forgotten how to throw a great funeral.

[@soupdragon151]

Ugh.

[@matthewpopp1054]

I could imagine them bringing the horses and the chariot into the dug pit and then holding them with sticks and ropes as they buried them alive by pouring in mud through a flood gate into the pit

[@soupdragon151]

That would have left a characteristic deposit of silt

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Here in Spain our ancestors were too a very civilizated people..many centuries before the roman invasion,of course..

[@soupdragon151]

Which ones? The hispano-celts or the Carthaginians or...

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

@soupdragon151 you must read more about it..😂

[@colinb9148]

The Roman fort / waist high walled hill top - Looks a great location for an Iron age Tesco (meat isle on the right) or Weekly town market ( once upon a time a popular event ). When will Prof Alice Roberts sort Time team out? Post-Baldrick and Rip Mick Aston, this attempt of a re-ignited show needs a wake up slap round their boring mullets - Prof. Alice Roberts clearly the ideal host who could save, such a classic show!

[@AnthonyRees-st3uz]

Great Programm, really interesting. Could it be possible that the reason they built their Homes on water, because there were some Big Scary Animals!!! Around in those times and on the water they had security? Tony

[@soupdragon151]

Then why only one house wheres the rest of the town?

[@AnthonyRees-st3uz]

@ Have another look at the program, there was ONE pier leading to an estate!Tony

[@ByronBreese]

I've begun to have scruples about digging-up Iron Age, Viking, etc., burials. In the US we no longer simply dig-up Indigenous burial places b/c it is desecration of another people's ancestors. Even though in Britain they are mostly digging up their own ancestors, it is clear that these are intentional religious sites. It's proper archaeology, for sure, but it's still disturbing a grave. Geophysical technology can "see" so much more than ever without disturbing the ground. I understand that the archaeologists see themselves as objective, rational scientists, and that is part of the problem or at least a blind spot. On the other hand, yes, a great deal is learnt by studying the remains and artifacts themselves, clearing up a lot of suppositions and misconceptions. I think I've just come to believe that graves artifacts should not go into museums; they should be reburied. These Brits are in fact disturbing their own ancestors and if you are not merely materialist, it's kind of upsetting. Over time it's just become a little uncomfortable to watch the constant digging-up of people who were just the same as us with feelings for their own dead loved ones. BTW, other archaeology of houses, forts, garbage pits, totally fine.

[@giovannamessineo8196]

Gruesome😱😱

[@arthurprentice7110]

T'would seem iron age wealth was in their livestock so hillforts may have been primarily safe pens for the afore said.

[@alexleitchbscopen3905]

You need the the keys to the Time Machine for first hand experience ?

[@123gh]

Clay makes me think trap rain water?

[@00Klingon]

Our Iron age leader looks cut out of the same cloth as Dave Canterbury right here on YT. They look like the same person. I have a theory that people who look alike often have the same personality characteristics. In Dave's case he is an ENTJ.

[@s1nb4d59]

But when they killed the pony's either outside the grave site or in it situ reminds me something of which the Egyptians did to carry that persons soul to the afterlife with their belongings,people would have been able to fish off the "kranogs"? also,just like off of modern piers.

[@soupdragon151]

Crannog. Irish term they were first identified there and they have plenty of them (plenty of wet places to build them too)

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

I'm interested in the diet

[@JETWTF]

The problem with calling a hill fort a hill fort is too many assume fort = military. Then once they find evidence that people lived in them they swing to the complete opposite side and all the defenses are a status symbol. Not going into the middle ground with the defenses being defenses for defensive purposes to defend against the people living in the hill fort across the valley that's built to defend against the hill fort being studied. The bronze and iron ages was not all everyone get along and sing kumbaya. It was the development of centralized societies and they would go to war with each other just as post Roman kingdoms did. It's just a matter of scale. Bronze age those kingdoms were small village sized, even just a couple roundhouses. At any time a neighboring village may decide to take your stuff and women. And so they built on any defensible position. Get to the iron age and small villages are not small anymore but not city state sized.. also not affiliated with the neighbors and may fight with them or trade and sometimes both depending on the current rulers. War could happen at anytime and putting your village ontop of a hill with defenses is just practical. Military? Sure if you include every able body in the village when needed but exclude an actual military. As for a status statement as some claim... flops like a fish out of water when everyone else has it too and there are hundreds of hill forts. Nobody will be impressed.

[@petradegroot3578]

I do feel sad for those pony’s 😢

[@brizerwatt]

Julius Ceaser was such a brutal murderer that his mass slaughter of the population of Gaul even horrified many Romans (people who watched gladiators kill each other for sport ) , and yet we were taught that the Ancient Britons (our own ancestors) were the "strange barbarians" . Imperialism is weird

[@XAirForcedotcom]

So explain to me how you can’t get prosecuted for grave robbing : )

[@XAirForcedotcom]

Can you walk into any cemetery around the world and start digging things up? What’s the difference between an archaeologist and a grave robber?

[@XAirForcedotcom]

Lol

[@ellen4956]

Imagine the stories, beliefs, songs, rituals and lives these people had, and we would have known so much more had it not been for the Christianization of all the people, forced on some and eventually forced on many. They surely had stories and songs, whether written down or not, and the names of some of these people would still be known. Christians and other religious groups have had a habit of destroying what they couldn't integrate or fit into their own beliefs, and by doing that, so much was lost forever to us.

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Destroyed with non stop ads as usual. Well done uploader hope you are proud of yourself. Channel's like this are what has destroyed yt for everyone. Greedy 🙄🙄🤬🤬

[@soupdragon151]

You think they had anything to do with it?

[@Aegopodium]

The ads are added by KZbin. I watch without ads!

[@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558]

I don't think it would be an exaggeration to think burying horses alive with a dead guy isn't far off from being BARBARIC in anyone's mind! IT IS INDEED STRONGLY 100% BARBARIC AT ANY TIME OR SPACE IN CURRENT OR PAST HISTORY!

[@jeanmorgan4343]

😢 I absolutely agree with what you say. It would be despicable to bury poor horses or ponies with some dead guy . Truly barbaric and horrific. I don't care who they were burying, it's disgusting. 🇨🇦🐎🐴🇨🇦 .

[@thomasbell7033]

Okay, then it's agreed: In the Year of Our Lord 2024 we think burying horses just for show is not.very nice. Glad that's all sorted out now. I'm sure we all feel better.

[@PippaRilley]

​@@thomasbell7033 😂 Well done. 😂❤

[@gregedmand9939]

Burying horses alive? You really think that's what happened here? These people were no different than you and I. They loved their horses. The notion of burying an animal "alive" implies a degree of malice and cruelty, that tribal societies rarely tolerate. Deliberate sacrifice of valued, even beloved, animals is a different matter. The spiritual significance is that they wanted the owner and his favourite team of horses to be available in the afterlife. This maybe a foreign concept to you, but it was very common in "pagan" times. Like a burial discovered of an early Saxon woman found with the skeleton of her little dog. This isn't a display of wanton cruelty, but in the deeply held spiritual beliefs of people who wanted their most precious animals to share the next world with them.

[@cuddersop]

@@gregedmand9939well said. No one has the right to pass judgement on people from 2000 years ago. We didn’t live their lives or understand their belief systems. If they could see how we live our lives today and how we treat our planet they would quite possibly be utterly appalled.

[@ramthian]

❤

[@cerdic6586]

Yes, Alice. The ancient Britons did need civilising.

[@adewunmiogunfuye4065]

Our African ancestors heard the same thing from your people...

[@theoldar]

This starts by setting up a straw man that she can knock down. No one has said those negative things about iron age Britain for over half a century.

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

Snow boots

[@mokita3562]

Second

[@callowayuk1757]

Third

[@The_Pet_GuyYT]

FIRST!

[@BBRAIN1977]

No idea who the hot red head is but pfewww she is cute

[@josephinekush5056]

Why can't you be both sophisticated & cultured yet not be warlike? I mean this is silly. For societies to come together & prosper it requires organization & nothing organizes a people more than war. The Romans were not far wrong in their descriptions, the people of Britain like humans all over the world were warlike. The Romans themselves were blood-thirsty barbarians by today's standards. But they also possessed culture & sophistication. Our societies today owe much to warfare, from advances in simple everyday technology that are taken for granted to sciences and the arts. We have always been a violent race & always will be. Ask any sabre-tooth tiger that had the misfortune to encounter a band of hunter-gatherers armed with pointed sticks. It is how we, against all odds, with only our brains for weapons have survived. We weren't always busy planting daisies or apple trees as we spread over the globe. And it's time for these eggheads to accept reality. - George Kush, UE, CD.

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

I think of a certain City in your you know they call it Venice and what was the reason for them building their City on the water sounds like there's pressure on the community especially if you think that people live along the sea don't Don't Starve in the winter you know we get this story about them but we don't get anything about climate conditions other tribes and people's in the area it's like peeking into the windows that somebody's house I can't even smell the fresh bread you got to do better

[@soupdragon151]

TThey built the original settlement in the venice lagoon as defence against attack by marauding huns and visigoths and lord knows what else rampaging around italy after the fall of Rome so a similar idea of defence, yes.

[@giovanni5063]

There appears to be no hesitation to digging up ancient remains, is that because they were not Christians? If that is not the reason, then when is it all right to start plundering Christian burials? When do we dig in Church Graveyards for science? When death comes, does an individual surrender their "Rest in Peace" promise while awaiting Resurrection to satisfy science?

[@soupdragon151]

Go away

[@kcstafford2784]

so hard to take Alice serious with that clown hair????

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Why?

[@kcstafford2784]

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff clown hair don't explain it????

[@magsrankin6166]

What's with the need to get nasty? How's your own appearance?

[@Tiki63]

Not about her hair ,you the clown

[@soupdragon151]

@@kcstafford2784 WTF are you talking about?

[@Unoduetrequattro340]

I don't think "sophisticated" is appropriate. It is interesting but, still, no writings... no philosophy... no complex engineering... water management... calling them sophisticated is really a long stretch, but if they need this sort of British pride, let them have it, with all their "oooohhhss" and "aaaahhs". Interesting really.

[@AncientÓCléirigh]

Funny how a 50 year burials bone would be dust but a 2000 year burial skeleton are still solid 🙄I call bullshit on these historical findings

[@soupdragon151]

Oh dear. We have an idiot in our midst.

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

Soil types and water tables all effect the durabillity of bones in the soil... Sand acid soils like at Sutton Hoo eat away anything organic and even iron ... Something in an acid peat bog everything like fabrics wood skin hair can remain perfectly intact .. see the The bog burials in the uk Ireland and scandinavia .