Archaeologists Uncover An Entire Medieval Village Killed By The Plague

[@judyklein3221]

At 78 years old and having been fascinated by archaeology over sixty years this is a wonderful documentary.

[@chancewatkins5071]

I appreciate the video but I would recommend changing the title since the plague was like only referenced in a five second time span in the whole video; perhaps a title referencing archeology? It was a pretty awesome video tho' thanks for sharing and God Bless : )

[@CW-nt1sd]

Like Roman’s 1 England nil

[@oliverstuart]

I live in Mallorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain, The stone slingers in the Roaman legions came from these parts. They were the best at it, and had fought as mercenaries for the Romans, and Carthaginians before. The name 'Balearic' means 'stone slingers' in punic.

[@railtonfeagus8539]

Thank you. I didn't know that!

[@marciaspiegel5280]

Thank you.

[@Colorado68]

That sling throwing a lemon shaped projectile through a block of ballistic gel was crazy. Had no idea something like that could penetrate that far through.

[@TubeRadiosRule]

"Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. " - 1 Samuel 17:49. No hand weapon could hurl a small projectile as hard or as fast as a sling, until the invention of gunpowder weapons in the late middle ages.

[@taleenkassabian1196]

It’s crazy to think of the history and people we are walking over without even realising.

[@xsamrx4718]

I think about this all the time!

[@rosiex2018]

My weakness is- I'm not smart. I don't know a lick of history- but I still want to be an archaeologist to just go out and discover things.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Monty Python was a lie? I've been deceived, hoodwinked, bamboozled!

[@MoggieJr]

Did you a heckin' bamboozle, fren!

[@DulceN]

As others have pointed out, this video has nothing to do with the plague. And why all the dramatic soundtrack, is it really needed?

[@gonefishing167]

Absolutely fascinating but what did it have to do with the plague? Don’t get me wrong but did I read the title wrong.? We don’t give enough credit to these amazing people and what they could do. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@e.k.4508]

It's just one of the stories. it's easy to miss. See Plague City at 12:30

[@nabbunsechkie]

Are you telling me that there wasn't a guy yelling, "Bring out your dead"??? 😅

[@amandaquezada2854]

That was me during Covid 😂

[@CW-nt1sd]

It’s only a flesh wound

[@philroberts7238]

But there were such guys in London, three centuries later, in 1665.

[@macandrewes]

I'm not dead! I feel happy. I want to go for a walk.

[@maxasaurus3008]

I’m not dead yet! No I’m not!

[@9kat53]

The title does not describe the subject of the video? Is there another video perhaps entitled 'findings of various archeological digs' that in actuality talks about daily life during the plague (did the two videos get switched)? Enjoyed it, but wld still like to see the video abt life during the plague.

[@test-kf2zv]

No, I think they just used the title of one segment, even though that wasn't really the focus of the video.

[@e.k.4508]

Segment starts at 12:30, subtitle is Plague City. See the description

[@Kiwionwing]

Is bit annoying e. K is right too But still interesting Lovely presenter Her series of history of humans around the world was great but left more questions than answers. Now they found America's is much older than her show showed. But she did elude to that

[@robertdiehl1281]

Spectacular videos of archaeological discoveries. And the deeper look into the lives of everyday people in history. The amount of human suffering is staggering.

[@maryearll3359]

Late supper with this wonderful programme accompaniment. ❤

[@railtonfeagus8539]

Absolutely fascinating, I had no idea that the sling shots whistled nor that they were so powerful ballistically. One possibility that strikes me regarding the grouping of shot to the north of the fort, where the Prof postulated a massacre; I wonder if this is the only way out (indicating some kind of gap in the fortifications) might the grouping simply not be overshots which were not stopped everywhere else by the earthworks and wooden palisades of the fort?

[@robingalbraith323]

I assumed they were shot from the group at the top, down to that opening. There is the group of bullets at the top and rhey are much more in a straight line, like the other launching site at rhe bottom.

[@Fairyviewroad]

Seems like the wrong title for this video.

[@e.k.4508]

It's just one of the stories. See Plague City at 12:30 Edit: it's easy to miss it's (also) about the plague

[@andreabrannon6931]

"I feel happy! I think I'll go for a walk!

[@Coryraisa]

Intelligent, well-read people. I love listening and watching history like this.

[@briarelyse5136]

This is so cool! So many interesting discoveries, can't wait to see more about these sites.

[@paulburley7993]

It should be obvious by now that viewers DO NOT want all the dramatic and distracting noise they call music. Yet video makers persist in this very annoying proctice.

[@stevelansdowne]

Fascinating video!❤️

[@Hooibeest2D]

In my country Rachitis is called the English disease, not because of the underfed part but the lack of sunlight and vutamin D to bind calcium in your body and bad work and living space. Dutch and Germans do have the same climate but somehow the disease didn't effect northern countries or mainland Europe as much. I don't really understand why..

[@Countrygarden2023]

That brooch is incredible, so beautiful. I hope they find more things at Lindisfarne

[@christinaify]

I mean certainly the whistling would be psychological but also if you have a battlefield where 100's of those whistles are happening simultaneously I'd have to imagine it's just tactically more difficult, if not impossible, to relay commands. Whereas the Romans typically went into the battle already knowing their part in the machine.

[@Drainingtheswamp2022]

Alice ❤

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Fab documentary and exciting excavations kept me glued throughout the video !! 💟

[@FreejackVesa]

The woman talking about how people were using boat travel to show off their power, I think she's dead wrong on that. I think more likely there was some sort of pressure that necessitated boat travel - perhaps trade for needed items that just couldn't be found in the local area, or just trade in general. And I think the carved little balls could just be a bored person on a boat spending time carving their sling shot. Historically there are indeed artifacts that modern eyes view to have been created just to display one's power, see Tutankhamen mask for example, but at the same time it's entirely possible that at the time it was believed that that gold mask was required in order to protect the king during his journey in the afterlife. So there was utility, or perceived utility prior to the secondary function of the object highlighting class difference. All that being said, we are talking about small boats and carved balls. I think she is making a tremendous unfounded leap regarding the primary purpose of boat travel being about class. Rest of the doco is quite good, aside from her odd take.

[@barefootkiwi3079]

Totally agree about the sea travel. Based on the Pacific (my area of knowledge) and, as she said, the ocean wasn't the barrier it later became, sailing to the next island (or community) was vital for trade and it was probably quicker to travel by water (in a relatively straight line) than over hills and mountains and forests.

[@kieranb7747]

lol

[@Spica1000]

Scary shit thing here is there’s still no cure or treatment for this plague !

[@katherinecollins4685]

Really informative

[@MB-ub5ns]

13:29 Never Mind the Bollocks

[@patriciak8936]

So if they all died who buried them?

[@sallymoen7932]

Later people? Survivors of other places travelling into the village and finding the bodies, burying them, then taking residence of the manor house or equivalent? Interesting too that some of the dead were buried in churchyards, others on commons, or in pits, as there wasn't room for all of the dead in consecrated ground

[@Emeehhh]

There's a revenant burial in 17:33, which is very interesting in a place like a health care/hospital ambience burial site.

[@TheDevice9]

A sling bullet has nowhere near the power of a .44 mag as stated at 9:30 perhaps approaching a .38 special using a 30-50 gram bullet at 45 m/s as stated earlier in the show you might get 100-200 ft-lbs energy at most, probably much less while a .44 mag will have about 1200 ft-lbs at the muzzle or more.

[@dogleghobag]

you could probably toss quite a few rocks off the shoreline to the center of the loch if you had a trebuchet

[@oldschool8432]

This is Richard. We were bored soo we bug him up last week

[@MadamFizzgig]

This isn’t about the plague at all…?

[@reluctantheist5224]

Did you get to 12mins and 30 seconds?

[@sallymoen7932]

If you're interested in what living in a medieval village during the first wave of Black Plague was like, read Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Story involves present-day historians doing time-travel to gather data, and one of them gets sent accidentally to the wrong year, which turned out to be the year the plague came to England, and decimated whole villages along its path. Its pretty interesting, I think, finding out what people called it and what they did to try to prevent getting it.

[@imoeller126]

Wow, it must have sounded like the 4th of July, scary shit.

[@brunolondinese5857]

We might not be a small island. We might be in the top 10 biggest islands on earth and there are hundreds of thousands of islands on earth

[@VincentGroenewold]

I would imagine these lead bullets were quite valuable, so why didn't they take these away after the battle?

[@theShamrockShepherdWagon]

Re Iron Age Brock - doesn't this look more like a burial? Perhaps there wasn't much left of the person to bury. (accident, predation)

[@leslietarkin5705]

Little Carlton's Anglo-Saxon Monastery site was believed to have been built (at the time) on an island. Coins, timber footprints of buildings, & glass, along with the finds shown in the video, date the site to the 7th Century AD.

[@e.k.4508]

Perhaps this was (very) old footage? I found some interesting articles saying it was a peninsula of dry land in the surrounding marshland. The BBC, Guardian and Heritage Explorer got some interesting pages of this site.

[@NickMusselle]

Cracking video.

[@Coryraisa]

Amazing! And just think in the year 3000, archeologists will be exploring the remains of our current civilizations.

[@AS-qg1xu]

Will they bother, when everything about us is already recorded digitally? Why would they need to dig in the ground?

[@Coryraisa]

@@AS-qg1xu They would need to analyze and fact-check. And not every single thing is recorded, even today.

[@ericscottstevens]

Plague in a coastal habitat, it was brought in by ship most likely. 27:50 They simply kept building the island in layers as the waters around the world started to rise Most likely it was iced over when the rocks could be slid there.. 32:00 Doubt monks could convert Kings, unless gold payola was dolled out to the leaders who then did not care about their subjects anymore.

[@Saltfly]

The Roman sling bullets did not have the same ballistic momentum as a 44 magnum.

[@licorne2154]

Pas de VOSTFR Dommage...

[@mtpstv94]

There is no way that they can possibly know who a specific skull is.

[@rayerscarpensael2300]

Their teeth were 1000 times better as ours. This besides what do you do with the bones? No one cares about disrespecting eternal graves of your ancestors? To end up on a shelf in a box, what a shame.

[@vickicook7258]

I wonder how the upper fence would have worked. Set in rocks?

[@gijgij4541]

Not even an attempt to pronounce loch correctly. Very disappointing Prof Roberts...

[@eric.nathanson]

You really should use gloves to handle wet lead.

[@nathanspreitzer6738]

Probably should just leave the dead to rest instead of digging up their graves but go off

[@gigmcsweeney8566]

Great documentary, though they fail to explain why the Vikings attacked Lindisfarne and smashed the place up. The fact is, they hated Christians because of what Charlemagne did to their Saxon cousins, which is why those monks had it coming.

[@kabbystevens5167]

Why change his name to Richard?…

[@vector2864]

why does it seem to be only English universities and English archaeologist digging in Scotland like why isn't it Scottish universities or Scottish archaeologists

[@markp4967]

Are you beginning to understand why COVID-19 was not a "plague"???

[@GrumpyYank26]

30:31 'weapons of social exclusion' What on earth does that mean? They are lovely stone sphere's...carved, but HOW were they a weapon? Was string held in the grooves? And it would be helpful if the scholar would connect the dots (for me... others too?) What did these stone spheres have to do with boats?? How were they tools of 'social exclusion'? Confused old Yank...

[@sharonlefebvre1047]

How would these people like their graves distributed? This dig just isn't right.

[@WingsandBeer]

A thousand years from now what are they going to be discovering other than a Popeye's chicken joint was here?

[@AS-qg1xu]

Everything about us is recorded on the internet

[@gijgij4541]

And it's a BROCH, not a brock. A brock is a badger, for flips sake.

[@waskozoids]

stop digging up corpses!

[@hairywhiteprince]

Let Richard lie, FFS!

[@peterchapman3740]

All will be destroyed in the not far future

[@philoaviaticus]

Why are British fascinated with abbeys? Now dissolved. I have recusant roots so part of who I am. Is there sorrow (my feelings) satisfaction etc?

[@benmacdhui]

Black dearth = poisoned wells

[@philoaviaticus]

What is the name of the abbey? I am a physician anthropologist

[@stlouisix3]

Catholic monks > Vikings.

[@anthonyc417]

,44MAG bs at its best

[@denisecarl5519]

While fascinating, isn't it disrespectful to disturb these final resting places?

[@Olfop]

well thats the price we pay in our search of knowledge about our history.

[@retagorman4351]

I won't be fooled again. Will block ur videos. I hate liars.

[@rjhtrucking5429]

Can't be bothered to watch this crap , after 3 minutes of garbage talk, I've lost interest.

[@PazuzuDarkVoid]

Fascinating!

[@PeakyBlinder]

None were muslims

[@BillSendero]

Mmmmmm yummy

[@YouriCarma]

Much better than under Fauci.

[@gijgij4541]

Joke?

[@sitatoenga]

We are born in 1953, married in 1974, never wanted kids trying did and do we enough, reason? We did not want anything between us..... and we are still happy with it😂😂

[@connoroleary591]

Oh no not Alice Roberts. The one who sees history though the lens of her middle-class BBC bias. I shall give it a miss 😂

[@philroberts7238]

Your loss, not ours.

[@gijgij4541]

What a very silly comment.

[@first_dawn]

Just a question please. Does African countries on the African continent get to display this British history in their museums..? Also, if is hadn’t been for the Roman’s, and the Saxons, the English wouldn’t have got out of there caves, learnt anything about reading, writing, or even have a language…

[@gijgij4541]

Thank you for your irrelevance.

[@johnnybravo9096]

Lol. Moron. You do realise the modern world was created by the British. The fact we are speaking now in a common toungue over the world wide web is entirely down to the British. Many parts of Africa are still in the Stoneage, still using stone age technology, stone age cooking, stone age cultures. Not even the iron age lol.

[@philroberts7238]

The English WERE the Saxons, to all intents and purposes. Their predecessors spoke a brittonic celtic language, the ancestor of Welsh, and they'd left their caves many centuries before the Anglo-Saxons (and the Romans, come to that) arrived on the scene. I'm sure that African countries in centuries to come will have sections devoted to the colonial parts of their history as well as to the periods both before and after. Why wouldn't they?

[@gijgij4541]

@@philroberts7238 Indeed, the language was common to all those referred to as the West Britons, running from the Kingdom of Strathclyde (capital Alt Clut, "rock of the Clyde", now known as Dumbarton, from "fortress of the Britons"), down through Wales, Cornwall and over to Brittany/Bretagne. And, of course, it is from the Angles, one of the other northern Germanic peoples who came at the same time as the Saxons and settled primarily in East Anglia, that the name English is derived.

[@wendycrawford1792]

That would be “DO African countries on the African continent, get to display this British history in their museums? and “Also, if it hadn’t been for the Romans and the saxons, the English wouldn’t have left their caves, learned anything about reading, writing, or even have a language.