Archaeologists Uncover A Massive Anglo-Saxon And Bronze Age Cemetery | Time Team

No video

Archaeologists Uncover A Massive Anglo-Saxon And Bronze Age Cemetery | Time Team | Chronicle

Рет қаралды 93,671

Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries

8 ай бұрын

The team investigates reports of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery lost in the ground in Lincolnshire. All they find on day one is two teeth, but on the next morning, they begin to discover a wealth of finds very, very quickly.
Welcome to Chronicle; your home for all things medieval history! With documentaries covering everything from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance, from Hastings to Charlemagne, we'll be exploring everything the Middle Ages have to offer.
Subscribe now so you don't miss out!
Chronicle is part of the History Hit Network. To get in touch please email owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com.
📺 Discover the past on History Hit with ad-free exclusive podcasts and documentaries released weekly presented by world-renowned historians Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Matt Lewis, and more. Get 50% off your first 3 months with code CHRONICLE 👉 access.history...

Пікірлер: 107

@kevinmccarthy8746 7 ай бұрын

I look at Phil and shake my head at just how tuned into THE LOOK of a ditch he is.. One time he hears the girl say to shut things down and Phil ,looked into the hole and 30 feet away he spots some Neolithic pottery that really looks closer to a semi burnt brownie, Amazing guy under that Cornishmans hat,

@kingquad6677 4 ай бұрын

The moment he pry'd up the spine & set in her palms........ Was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!....... RIP Saxon warrior dude!...... RIP

@206stonner 7 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Victor R.I.P Mick you are missed

@kevinmccarthy8746 6 ай бұрын

I need to look into that, very sad

@flamingogirl57 7 ай бұрын

I am seriously hooked on this series!! Fascinating finds.

@alanatolstad4824 7 ай бұрын

So much history. Wish America had a show like this.

@smontone 7 ай бұрын

I wish America had archeology like this

@duke7803 6 ай бұрын

@@smontone You are ignoring thousands of years of human habitation. There where many very complex and facinating civilisations in north and south America that left behind archeological traces.

@rustybayonette6641 6 ай бұрын

@@duke7803 Mate I don't care about a couple tepees and flint arrow heads

@acuteteacher 6 ай бұрын

Well there's lots of archaeology in western parts of USA but in the southeastern USA, most everything has rotted away due to the climate here I think. Lots of arrowheads, though. My mom said when she was a girl (ine the 1930's), she used to pick the arrowheads up and play with them a while and then throw them back down on the ground. They were common. They've been collected now so you don't see them as much if at all.

@duke7803 6 ай бұрын

@@rustybayonette6641 Ah, you are ignorant by choice. Should have just said so then no one would have bothered trying to get you to learn something.

@mollymcnaughton3133 7 ай бұрын

Archeology is just fascinating...👀

@princessofthecape2078 7 ай бұрын

The Anglo-Saxons were so fascinating. In the span of about 40 years at the beginning of the 5th Century, England went from Roman rule (a standing army, domestic industry, coinage, trade, rural villas, etc.) to reverting to the Bronze Age (no coinage, no industry, almost no trade, no army, no real upper class). It was the wholesale destruction of civilization.

@1942catman 5 ай бұрын

They mention one or more of the skeletons as being angles as apposed to Saxion how can they tell??

@QuizVortex.1 7 ай бұрын

I'm thoroughly enjoying this video, thanks to the hardworking creator.

@annazaman9657 7 ай бұрын

My favorite episode. I've been waiting for this one to be uploaded as it's not available on KZbin like the rest are

@annazaman9657 7 ай бұрын

@@Steve-ou4vm 2001

@GodsOath_com 7 ай бұрын

Has anyone ever looked at the Conqueror's burn pattern? He burned out all villages and monasteries that didn't comply. While he was later than this site in 1066, surely his burning down the towns resulted in many evacuations of older sites when they were left uninhabitable.

@cosmicgoatlady6957 7 ай бұрын

Feels like a mass grave from battle carnage.

@katsuyaki7605 7 ай бұрын

It seems like there isn't a square foot of British soil without a bone or two just a little ways under the surface.

@archerbyrne8103 7 ай бұрын

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in in-depth Anglo-Saxon history I hotly recommend Schwerpunkt's dedicated playlist

@dalekundtz760 7 ай бұрын

Tony doesn't disappoint again. It amazes me that he does not realize, even though he has been out of the digs for a long time, that it is not uncommon for archiologists to send many days or longer searching and finding very little. He has always expected to find major finds with every shovel full of dirt. Mick Aston puts up with Tony where I would ask him to leave. He is nothing but a rich fool.

@karlkarlos3545 7 ай бұрын

@@dalekundtz760I'm sure this is just a bit for entertainment value. He plays the impatient in every episode.

@seamushassard4770 7 ай бұрын

Tony is doing his job as a presenter and making it entertaining for casual viewers and newbies. Would be a rather boring show if it only catered to the initiated.

@sixxygrrl 7 ай бұрын

@@dalekundtz760 Tony is a Historian and author in his own right. He is also an amateur archeologist and very very real and good friends with Mick and Phil and the rest of the crew of Time Team. Tony is the Emcee/liaison/host and is bridging the gap between the Academics and the average citizen. Archeology is a sadly underrated, underrepresented and often misunderstood branch of history and science. Tony's job is to explain what's happening, keep it interesting and keep the average person interested. He does his job well. Plus he is the one who arranged a lot of the interviews with local specialists, historians, and even the local citizens too, in order to present a cohesive and interesting show.

@MrWompz 7 ай бұрын

@@dalekundtz760I could be wrong in this assumption, but I would suspect Tony and the team do this on purpose.

@christianchristian57g. 6 ай бұрын

passionnant!

@NotChar 7 ай бұрын

I love how much beef these dudes always have with each other

@TheNaturalLawInstitute 7 ай бұрын

(The buried woman without goods was most likely a slave. check her knees, shoulders, and hips for wear - especially for wear from grain processing)

@sekhmetsaes 7 ай бұрын

I wonder if the skeleton that appeared to have been thrown in the pile of rubble was perhaps killed when the building fell?

@clownkidcentral 6 ай бұрын

i think its funny that one of the people wearing a necklace freaked them out so much

@amandapittar9398 6 ай бұрын

I sometimes wonder what the folk who used to be the skeletons would make of all the fuss about the dig. They lived quiet rural lives. Hard, but they just thought it was the way life was. The people would find it incomprehensible the fuss and bother the archaeological excavation of their remains entailed. I wonder a couple of things, when do remains become archaeological and not remains, or are they always treated as human remains? Also is it possible ( £££aside) to extract DNA from the remains and are descendants living nearby, or anywhere? Can they build a profile of the person? I suppose as the technology improves and becomes cheaper, it will become a reality. I LOVE TimeTeam, I’m a huge fan. Long may it reign. 😊

@seanpaula8924 7 ай бұрын

Tony Bieberson is back!

@KingDuumb 7 ай бұрын

My question is. Why after living with and alongside the Romans for hundreds of years did the Saxons go back to living in basically squaller and not living in the homes left behind?

@gregb6469 7 ай бұрын

The Anglo-Saxons did not live alongside the Romans for hundreds of years; they only began immigrating/invading Britain at the very end of the Roman era, and who they encountered were not Romans per se, but Romanized Britons, the descendants of the Iron Age Celts who were there when Caesar first cast his covetous eye across the Channel.

@KingDuumb 7 ай бұрын

@@gregb6469 Ok then the ones that came across must have lived under Roman rule in what is now Europe so same question.

@gregb6469 7 ай бұрын

@@KingDuumb-- No they came from what are now the countries of Germany and Denmark, which were never part of the Roman Empire.

@KingDuumb 7 ай бұрын

@@gregb6469 OK but they came to a land where roads were already built. Houses and cities were there. Great constructions still stood and the original Britons resided. Why did they not upkeep these things but instead went back to a lesser existence?

@gregb6469 7 ай бұрын

@@KingDuumb-- They probably didn't know how to maintain the Roman buildings and roads, and with the language difference between them and the Britons (never mind the fact that they were waging war against the local people, and destroying those places anyway), they couldn't ask for upkeep instructions. The Anglo-Saxons had no desire to become Romans.

@vansongs 7 ай бұрын

I wonder if the person just thrown in, was put there by someone not far behind and was the best they could do.

@dianemuhs1105 7 ай бұрын

What happened to the Bronze Age mentioned in the title?

@themercer4972 7 ай бұрын

Why always do they have just 3 days? I understand having a limited time, but 1 week (say Monday to Friday) seems more sensible.

@karlkarlos3545 7 ай бұрын

Because a weekend doesn't have more than 3 days.

@gregb6469 7 ай бұрын

Most all of them have Monday-to-Friday jobs, and are available to do this on weekends only.

@reddyandre 7 ай бұрын

@@gregb6469 These people are not amateurs. I don't understand. This is their work. Isn't it?

@gregb6469 7 ай бұрын

@@reddyandre-- Most of them are members of college faculties, and have classroom and lab responsibilities during the week.

@reddyandre 7 ай бұрын

@@gregb6469 yeah put fieldwork is part of their job. As somebody who worked as a university researcher and educator, I made time for both field work and education and writing during my work week. There are archaeological sites that have been opened and continuously worked on for decades. This 3-day thing seems to be for the sake of an exciting TV show.

@elizabethmurray5037 6 ай бұрын

This is where my migrating ancestor came from to America in 1630.

@guyplachy9688 2 ай бұрын

I'm wondering if Phil's skeleton, the "tossed in" one, was a slave. Slavery was commonplace during this period & the posibility of a young slave girl dying in childbirth or through disease should not be overlooked. As this is a rather aged episode I assume some further investigation has been carried out somewhere (although I note that there are lots of recent discoveries being made by looking at finds from 80 years ago that haven't been looked at since they were uncovered).

@SweetSensi1 5 ай бұрын

Tony in his Eminem phase

@ajknaup3530 7 ай бұрын

I'd love for further explanation of how a medical event which took place when the individual was 3 y.o. could have a visible effect on the adult teeth? Perhaps I misunderstood. Lovely dig, lots of interesting stuff, TYSM!

@JDHetzer 7 ай бұрын

As I understand it, the teeth are still developing at that age and an imbalance of minerals due to disease causes the enamel to be misformed. Similar to tree rings in years of drought, cooling, or diminished sunlight.

@ajknaup3530 7 ай бұрын

@@JDHetzer So the adult teeth are already pretty well developed at that age, then? Thanks, I'd never really thought about that.

@Adniram. 7 ай бұрын

@@ajknaup3530in their defense she did say "about 3" i do see your point tho 🤷‍♀️😁

@ajknaup3530 7 ай бұрын

@@Adniram. : perhaps the adult teeth are that large already at 3yrs. I am not a dentist, nor am I an osteoarcheologist.

@annazaman9657 7 ай бұрын

@@ajknaup3530we are all born with our permanent teeth in our jaw. They just haven't emerged. If you Google image search jaw of newborn you'll see what I mean

@Dougallism420 6 ай бұрын

@1:40 "it's their turn for the corrall?" Coincidentally (i don;t like dentists) a cow got loose near the train station today. a good laugh, city council 'rangers;' are hopeless.

@woodyh4650 5 ай бұрын

Cool the way Brits say cemetery. "Sema-tree" or "symmetry"

@angelabrady9342 4 ай бұрын

I wondered about the stones in the midst of the Saxon burials of the grassy field. I can’t recall any other TT episode where there was a cairn … can anyone correct / guide me?

@CapturingtheAwesome 7 ай бұрын

The body with a "male" pelvis and female jewellery may possibly be gender nonconforming or even transgender who have always existed. Quite possibly an example of Anglo-Saxon trans individual. I absolutely love this show. Have since the early days on TV.

@kitb7624 6 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same. Maybe not much is known about the culture of the Anglo-Saxons, but these types of shows always seem to apply a modern Western lens to understanding gender

@kingquad6677 4 ай бұрын

Not likely - don't try to feminize this grown man! Very uncool - probably just a gift from a loved one. He was a stong Saxon warrior - doubt seriously he was a gender bender.. Why wouldn't they just take 5min & put a dress or skirt on him? Unbelievable.

@jacquiedwards160 7 ай бұрын

Perhaps the young woman found " thrown in" was a murder victim?

@juliaforsyth8332 7 ай бұрын

Or a slave?

@lordski1981 7 ай бұрын

Or both?

@seantice 7 ай бұрын

awesome

@williamharris8367 6 ай бұрын

As for the Roman pottery being found almost everywhere, is there any evidence that soil was brought in from elsewhere, say to fill-in or level uneven ground for argiculture? There was an archeological dig in the city where I grew up that found all sorts of anomalous artifacts. The conclusion was that the site (located close to the waterline) had been filled-in at some point to raise the ground level. The soil being excavated had been brought from somewhere else and dumped there sometime after the original occupation of the site. I do not know if the investigation ever continued to the layer(s) below the added fill abd/or if the experts were able to determine which artifacts were from the original site.

@dickJohnsonpeter 6 ай бұрын

Why is there always pottery everywhere? It isn't like we throw our cooking materials around everywhere we go and in 1000 years they're going to find all our pots, pans, bowls, and teacups everywhere more than anything else like we were a bunch of walking kitchen cabinets. I understand pottery lasts and they used it for various uses but it's like up until just recently everyone always brought ton of pottery everywhere they went and chucked it around the earth.

@nancytimmer9026 4 ай бұрын

@@dickJohnsonpeterpeople often just chucked cracked or damaged pottery in their rubbish pits. These pits are getting dug up or ploughed out over time and thus the contents get spread far and wide.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 7 ай бұрын

Amber, then as now only comes from the Baltic Sea coastal areas of Pomerania. Up until 1945 it was the German coast of East Prussia around Koenigsberg and Danzig that changed hands and became part of post-war Poland. Thanks to Uncle Joe Stalin!

@jeannienash5249 7 ай бұрын

31,314 watching now - Please hit that LIKE button!

@CathodeRayNipplez 6 ай бұрын

Wearing hard hats in a field with nothing overhead never stops being bureaucratically hilarious. 🤣

@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard 7 ай бұрын

Special guest presenter.... Eminem!! Yayyyy

@lecolintube 7 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you.

@HimWitDaHair98 Ай бұрын

I never knew Tony Robinson went through a Slim Shady phase 😂

@robertagriffin28 6 ай бұрын

Most digs take three months at least. Why the rush? It's not a game show. Pay for the time it takes to do it carefully!

@jeffmccann437 6 ай бұрын

They have the first three days of an archaeological dig to do as much as they can and then they hand it over to more permanent archaeologists at that point. They basically get first dibs because of the show.

@tomjenkins1405 6 ай бұрын

But it would not be time team. Another show for long digs. Everyone is happy.

@jimcatanzaro7808 7 ай бұрын

Let them rest in peace

@EilishAdeline 7 ай бұрын

They would be so terribly bored in the USA. Lol. We don't have anything like this. So many Native American cemeteries were respectfully marked or in mounds. Easy to locate.

@kathleenmartin7498 7 ай бұрын

I'm sure there are many thousands of Native Americans who were not buried in mounds or identified graveyards. If there wasn't metal objects buried with them, the graves aren't usually found unless accidentally dug up. Humans have been here in the US for at least 15,000 years, so I'm sure there were many different ways of taking care of their dead.