Archeologists Discover Buried Relics In Anglo-Saxon Graves | Digging for Britain | Unearthed History

From ornate burials to violent upheavals, Professor Alice Roberts discover the remnants of a lost culture. Dive into the complexities of this Dark Age through artifacts, bones, and forgotten tales. Uncover the legacy of the Anglo-Saxons, their warrior culture, and the transition that shaped England's history. This episode delves deep into a world of swords, jewellery, and forgotten stories, shedding light on a period obscured by time.
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[@richiephillips1541]

Alice Roberts makes these great shows even better.

[@dianeknight4839]

I remember Dr Roberts as a young archaeologist on Time Team, with her hair died a vivid Pink.

[@folkmoot36]

Yes she looked very woke., like her narrative on history.

[@elingrome5853]

I remember her chastising the unvaxxed.....now we have 3 sigma deaths amongst the young

[@John-qb8vd]

@@folkmoot36Oh noooooooooo, the woke.

[@dyfnwalmoelmud8362]

@@elingrome5853 My sister was ill after the first jab. The hospital told her the second one will make you feel better. It didn't, it made her worst. She now has scared lungs, cancer of the bowel and incurable cancer of the stomach. She has been given 2 to 6 months to live.

[@kevrussell5972]

@@folkmoot36so woke is a look now is it

[@cyndiknapp4904]

These videos are always so well presented and fascinating. Alice Roberts does a great job.

[@dansmith3706]

unlike American stuff, which repeats it's self every 5 minutes

[@KernowekTim]

Perfectly worded.

[@wattyler6075]

Originally shown in 2010 & made by BBC.

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[@thisoldnurse1521]

Canadian here. So fascinated by these programs. I loved history ( not so much the wars) but as a young person I really found it interesting that people had been on the same lands where I grew up for generations and to take it back further over in Europe for much longer. I thought about being an archaeologist but my bones as I have recently learned certainly would not have permitted. I had to stop working in my profession as a nurse way too early. Yes love these programs.

[@theastronomer5800]

Keep on digging! I love the UK and the history/archaeology of the region. Cheers from Canada!

[@stephentroake7155]

At 17:40 we can see a Blockbuster! That's pretty much an archeological site in itself. Happy memories :)

[@mick7even]

😂the olden times

[@MTreatVO]

Scrolled to comments just to see if anyone else noticed lol.

[@chegeny]

Very enjoyable and interesting doc by Prof Alice Roberts. Those ancient people were as we are now, doing their best with what life gave them.

[@invokalink162]

Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written series. A show that will no doubt go on to be as important as Time Team in documenting late 20th and early 21st century archeology, for generations to come.

[@ChrisPelletier73]

I can’t get tired of watching and listening to this fine doctor🔥🇬🇧

[@whitneylake2107]

I really enjoy this series because of the incredibly diverse history. Thank you

[@LotsofWhatever]

I have seen enough shows like this and many episodes of Time Team that I recognized Helena Hamerow from few episodes of Time Team (I am pretty sure that Alice was on one of them). I think Dana was on a few episodes as well.

[@KernowekTim]

Superb, as always. Professor Roberts possesses the ability to captivate her audience with her knowledge and exuberance. Many thanks, to herself, and to Unearthed History; "Meur ras".

[@AndyJarman]

25:20 "It's ironic the site is called the Meads, and they built a pub on it". That man IS an Anglo Saxon! It's no suprise at all, we love a bevvy.

[@MrTorleon]

Thank you for providing yet another episode in this fascinating and absorbing series, and as always, fronted and introduced by the ever engaging and hugely knowledgeable Prof. Alice Roberts. Early English history is currently undergoing some significant reappraisal - especially with regard to females, so effectively written out of history for many, many decades.So it was wonderfully surprising that the rediscovery of Eadgyh`s remains were included in the episode - I remember the moment of this exciting event quite clearly :) Sadly, the country in which I am now retired ( NZ ) will never include such a marvelous, educational series such as this on tv - far too cerebral - so thank you once again :)

[@pfranks75]

New Zealand has such beautiful landscapes.

[@barbarat5729]

Yet you retired there.......

[@MrTorleon]

@@barbarat5729 Ah, well you see, my late wife was a New Zealander, she grew weary of Oxford weather, and wanted to retire to NZ - and where she ultimately died - and, alas, I am now too old to move yet again :(

[@thercguy420]

It's so nice to see some of the archeologists from time team still getting dirty and bringing the past to life. RiP to all the legends.

[@suemount6042]

I know time team is back via KZbin but I do miss seeing it on tv

[@alexc6324]

Finally a great tv programme from the UK. So many UK shows are sub standard these days but this one was excellent. thankyou.

[@dukeon]

This is from 2013

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

Might have something to do with the episode being 13 years old.

[@pennybunny]

And from the BBC funded by the British taxpayer

[@annbretagne2108]

Never watched David Attenborough? Or the Horizon series? Btw, it says BBC MMX right at the end of the titles, so 2010 in fact.

[@scrivener68]

I assumed the archaeological interest at 17:35 was the existence of an intact Blockbuster video.

[@cg256y9]

I've had crush on Dr. Alice for 20 years. Ha! I am also surprised how many people there are in these documentaries filmed in the UK that speak English with an American or possibly Canadian accents.

[@countmalin70]

Yes my wife has always accused me of the same 😂

[@gwyngriffiths3669]

Welcome to the PROFESSOR Alice Roberts crush club😉

[@GhostRider247]

@@gwyngriffiths3669 im in too !!! one beautiful lady !!!

[@darrenmorgan870]

We see Britain as a multicultural country from only lately? What? This country has been multicultural since day one, even in the 1800 Wales had Africans living in Cardiff, I've never got why we're made to look like an island with only the same people from 1000s of years, why do they push that idea into our schools? We have been made to apologise for our racist people, who we all know is crap, our country is more foreign than any other country, we should be getting repossessions from every country that invaded and killed the children, women, and when it comes to Ireland they had Africans killing kids, females, and anyone who they couldn't take back and sell, but the Irish people told the British who took care of the problem for them, but it was the Africans who started the slave trade and still do it today but people only remember the white people side of it,

[@bgrigg07]

@@gwyngriffiths3669She's both.

[@larsfinlay7325]

Blockbuster video rental! Archaeology is fascinating

[@reddyandre]

I know 🤣

[@vincentrandles8105]

Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, oh my!

[@Gosportinfo]

Yes I understood it was the Jutes here first and settled in Kent, South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight with the Saxons moving in to Hampshire shortly after. Though Saxons etc had been attacking Britain for a while.

[@bgrigg07]

I am always fascinated by archaeology documentaries, narrated by Prof. Alice Roberts. I've been crushing on her for quite a while now!

[@freyatilly]

Very, very interesting. Well put together production. Actually in one of those areas filmed and mentioned so it adds a little homegrown history and pride for such a story.

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

Thank you for posting this.

[@joshhoffman1975]

Great video, many thanks! 😃❤🎉👊👍

[@vermontvermont9292]

16:02 I wonder how many things were destroyed or missed building that road? It's always sad when modern building has to cover up history.

[@franktuckwell196]

Thankyou for delivering this important historical information in easy to understand segments. If only my old, dusty school days history teacher had had a fragment of your enthusiasm then i would have taken a greater interest in this absorbing subject.

[@vickipark1392]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@tomgore9696]

Excellent! Many thanks for the wonderful job bringing this information to us.

[@savantianprince]

Love history qnd archeology

[@davewilson9738]

Wonderful!

[@lianefehrle9921]

I really enjoyed this

[@user-nt4cw2tc2w]

Alice your pace of speech and presentation of thought, with excellent diction, l love your presentations. Time Team YEAH!!!

[@Zardox-The-Heretic-Slayer]

great baps too

[@tangie777uk]

Thank you for the upload

[@Charlene1970]

I love this channel. Keep up the great work.

[@pennybunny]

It's not their work, it's stolen from the BBC

[@garyproffitt5941]

Alice Roberts in the looking glass, archaeology for the sooth Sayers and she is very lovely & beautiful.

[@williambock1821]

That is a perfect castle. Amazing.

[@duncanbirnie4158]

Prof Alice Roberts 👍

[@jeffreywilliams2091]

Excellent documentary

[@bookbunny16]

Very interesting! Thank you for all the hard work making this wonderful video

[@Canalcoholic]

Fool, this was a BBC production first aired in 2010.

[@pamcullen537]

@@CanalcoholicIt doesn’t matter when it was aired, still. Fascinating to a lot of us

[@myview1875]

@@pamcullen537 Not to me because to many archaeologist are theives but it is covered up. .

[@pamcullen537]

@@myview1875 Do you have evidence of this

[@pennybunny]

​@@pamcullen537it matters when it's not this channels work

[@Watcher1852]

THANK U FOR A GREAT VIDEO SHARE, SHARE

[@robertneven7563]

Alice Roberts you are amazing , Neven Roberts grts

[@reddyandre]

I'm new to this series and I'm enjoying it but I just cant' help be constantly reminded of the wavy hands British documentary historian portrayed by David Mitchell! Especially this guy''s exuberance at 28:26.

[@markperrault5678]

Fantastic

[@drstone1167]

Dr. Alice Roberts is a very smart and beautiful woman, who does excellent job narrating our human past history. I pray she finds God✝️ in her search through history. My prayers are always answered in Gods time.

[@drstone1167]

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. Saint Augustine

[@chrisscotney4124]

Dr Alice. Great ! Beautiful and intelligent, Followed her journey in TV from the days of time team A wonderful woman Sorry if that's not PC

[@glendamears3618]

Hi your on my TV right now with bright red hair in Egypt 😮😊❤ archeology

[@jim-do5pt]

keep on digging...!

[@davidwhelan1545]

And yet Kent is still based on an ancient Celtic named kingdom Some great finds on the A2 digs!

[@mikef.1000]

Honestly... one sceat and the professor excitedly builds a whole edifice of conclusions upon it! You need more evidence than that to be confident. There are so many ways that single sceat could have arrived at the site.

[@gregdales8627]

Green eyes?

[@lutomson3496]

poor people buried for over a thousand years and dug up and their items seperated from them wonder if their spirits are wandering around.great history though!

[@fion1flatout]

I thought that too even though I don't really believe in spirits. Point is, they believed so it's disrespectful. But better than just going ahead with the roadworks

[@kb-tu2kf]

A magnificient video. Thank you. I have a question though : what language did these people speak ? Do you have an idea ?

[@crazycressy7986]

Just a shame Bristol Museum has not put the Roman licking dog hoard found in 2017 on display. They have had it since 2019,and its still stuck in a box ,it was loaded to them on the understanding it would be on show for the benefit of the public

[@albionmyl7735]

🧐She looks very Anglo-Saxon by herself.... 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👋👋🌹

[@microfarmers]

All carnivores in the animal kingdom live and die with good teeth. Most omnivores have fair teeth, while many plant eaters gain tooth decay. Just a thought.

[@weatherman1978]

Our cat will prove you wrong 😂

[@maeve4686]

There aren't many "TV" shows that are made for local broadcasting. It's Global Broadcasting now days. These older programs, from 2008, are before streaming became the thing. Love her shows & great that first viewing her on TT digs with her bright pink hair, was always a high light. (No pun intended). Fortunately, lot of programming has been loaded up for our entertainment. Plus, new content from people who film their passion of history, from who invaded whom & when to food history. Never a dull moment. Tho nagging commercials are raising their unapproved disgusting content.

[@Koolarrow1987]

I have a set of oyster clam half's shells earrings!

[@copkent1]

Prof Roberts is extremely beautiful

[@intheframemedia]

Speaking of archeology n lost cultures theres a blockbuster video store on the high st in footage

[@uncbadguy]

Yupp that's England. The Pub is still there!

[@TheVCHorseguy]

42:39 TINY TIM!!!.

[@SirAdamMeek]

A Blockbuster video??? This must be a very old program!

[@NuclearMango.]

I'm so sorry. I'm mean no disrespect to Professor Mark Horton. But all I can see when he speaks or smiles is David Bamber as Mr. Collins in the 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice by A & E. He honestly looks just like the character portrayed brilliantly by Bamber. From facial expression to cheeky smile. God love him. At least no one will ever forget who he is because of the similarity. Even if he abhors the connection.

[@retired3067]

Best looking archeologists on the plant. Can you dig it!

[@robertsabharwal9787]

Prof. Roberts is gorgeous.

[@Wulfdoom]

Alice 🥰

[@Koolarrow1987]

I have melted sand at a light touch it changes pink and under colder temperament it can turn red. It a vase about a foot tall, with roses. It's clear translucent.

[@Koolarrow1987]

Are these coins centered stone or foreign metal? Upon one of my research studies I had two different tribes that were making different particles of elements to the tables. Coins that were manufactured on large stones that had the depictions of the molding but the center of them were made out of out of place substances and was just the beginning stages of plating gold and silver they would choose of the stone out of a solid form and then slowly pour over the liquid state of either gold or silver.

[@AndyJarman]

I wouldn't be surprised to learn burying wealth would prove to be the best way to elevate family ties, familial honour, and to avoid spats and disputes that so frequently follow inheritance claims today

[@apb3251]

When was this made for Blockbuster to still have a store 17:35

[@captntorthenaer-do-wellcad3191]

Sugar, sugar, sugar! Add to this the technique for grinding the flour between stone grinding blocks, the silica content gets added to the flour and acts like sandpaper on the teeth and over a short while, approx 30 years the tops of the teeth are ground flat. We see this over and over again in early farming communities worldwide. And remember; Th body interprets refined flour from wheats and grains as pure carbohydrates, ie _ SUGAR!

[@mauricecalliss1303]

Those knee joints got to be HOP LAYLTENT VIROID

[@harbourdogNL]

I've always found it fascinating to think that at the beginning of the dark ages you had all these fur-clad illiterate and savage early Anglo-Saxons living in abandoned Roman villas and temples...such a juxtaposition of cultures.

[@user-kb7zk3pp9r]

A Professor needs to be able to speak well and give a prime presentation. Prof. A. Roberts does this well. I think the camera work, is excellent showing us the suroundings like the excavation site, the land, seamarks, gives us more to assist our, imagine. And the camera moves, as the speaker, presents. Furthermore a professor needs expertise and Prof. A Roberts demonstrates that in her knowledge of bones and reading old English. The archeological value of the UK is worth so much.

[@yensid4294]

The critters on that amazingly ornate ring looked like cute little fruit bats to me 😊

[@alanatolstad4824]

W-O-W!

[@jetranger47]

Nice to see the windmills off the coast of Kent in the wind... NOT TURNING (14:00).

[@user-nt4cw2tc2w]

I wonder how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings got along. Did they understand enough of each other’s language to communicate, did they have similar. values about community? I am a novice, but I wonder about the positives of mingling, not just the power struggles. J.

[@lizzy66125]

a wetstone,to sharpen a knife...ok sofar...to sharpen a quill,to use for illuminating manuscripts so therefore evidence of literacy ...supposition,could also be used to sharpen a knife to cut meat for example. I do like the opportunity given to ordinary people to do conservationwork.

[@billmurray4895]

With that fancy ring, did you find any thing underneath what looks like a lid?

[@user-uj7dm8jy6z]

the ring is most likely a bishops and was likely to have been robbed from a tomb that was opened in the last 150-250 years. there are countless accounts from victorian times of tombs being opened (repaired!!) and the temptation to rob them was there for all to see.

[@chris93703]

If DNA testing is done on a skeleton and a descendent is tracked down would the descendent have any right to ownership of the skeleton or the valuables found on the skeleton?

[@StanSwan]

I know of no law that gives anyone the right to the dead body of someone who dies a thousand years ago. There would be close to a million people that could make that claim.

[@cosmicpsyops4529]

Do you mean ethically or legally? Because they are pretty much opposites nowadays.

[@charlenequinilty7252]

What is done with the bodies (skeletons) after they are done studying them?

[@sticklebacksummer]

Bet you're American,money is your God, not human understanding.

[@StanSwan]

@@sticklebacksummer What does being American have to do with anything? No better nation on earth.

[@Koolarrow1987]

A mirror that comes apart hand held with sowing on the backing. Not sure where there at because my mother was the recipient of my personal choice.

[@maxineblick451]

Britain will certainly have a mixture of different ethnicity bones to dig Up in the future.

[@Koolarrow1987]

There is some forms of the gothic style themes of the cathedral churches that were in the same formal structure of this design the outer shell of the churches were supposed to be capitalized on the outer edge of plating of either gold and silver and then they would mortar over to not show the value of what they would consider a homestead. The entire building would be gold silver inner design and covered with concrete on certain parts counseling the worth of there earnings. There home was there bank.

[@serviustullus7204]

Bede is reconciling the Anglo-Saxons to a status of dominance in Central Britain.

[@eileenlocke7877]

Interesting th u

[@markbriggs4807]

It was the mead.

[@maudclaud6132]

The venn diagram of Jordan Peterson and Alice Robert’s meets here!

[@grahampayne8376]

😢😢😢

[@lawrencecarlstrom3465]

I wonder what kind of weapon might have done the damage to the young man whose entire left side was cleaved through.

[@darrenmorgan870]

That coin found up north which is nearly unheard of with many found down south, and that tells me the northerners were just as tight then as now, as in they kept their wallets close and coins closer

[@AndyJarman]

The venerable Bede never left his monastery in Jarrow. What would he know about what happened 200 years earlier?

[@barkershill]

I guess wandering all round Britain would not have helped much either . Probably did the right thing by sitting at home and reading earlier written accounts

[@sallywatton2580]

that ring almost looked modern . i feel the heads are of foxes .

[@zuzuspetals38]

When is this video from? Oh Nvm Saw Mark Horton , younger Guessing it’s at least 10-12 yrs old!?

[@nicktecky55]

First aired on the BBC in 2010, now out of date.

[@archangel807]

Where is Queen Boudica buried??

[@sandraswift3489]

sax is from sacae tribe way back. 1000 yrs before.sacae means son of isaac.the son of abraham

[@michelleharrell8452]

More people go to Malls. Exhibitions in Malls is a fantastic idea

[@Afro408]

Regarding that skeleton of the apparently deformed young man, because of this, he could have been regarded as gifted and a Shaiman and hence very important to his clan.

[@pennybunny]

There wasn't clans during this time

[@Afro408]

@@pennybunny and you know this to be true? How??

[@nigelsmith2457]

He could have been a pervert for all we know.

[@johnbrereton5229]

Many of these graves have been designated as Anglo-Saxons due to the grave goods and the style of burial. However, when dna samples have later been taken, its discovered that they are actually Britons, not Anglo-Saxons at all. Its a bit like digging up a body wearing Levi jeans and assuming its an American, or bured in a BMW car and assuming its owner is German. I wonder if they did any DNA tests on these skeletons it would be interesting to know the results.

[@PortmanRd]

Strange that they should be buried with Germanic grave goods then.

[@Diogenes_43]

Meat doesn’t make your teeth rot and flatten out, grains do.

[@niallwildwoode7373]

Yup, I was thinking that too. Mead is high fructose.