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.

[@asaiira]

if your 78 why does your name say ''klein'' which means small in german hmm

[@AlanKelly-nm9lx]

cause its fake and staged lol facepalm!

[@clementpoon120]

@@asaiira it's a common surname in german

[@asaiira]

@@clementpoon120 no

[@arturofuente4832]

@@asaiira "if your 78 why does your name say ''klein'' which means small in german hmm" Suggestion: Breathe deeply. Exhale. Take your meds. Lie down. Find your happy place.

[@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!

[@sackme4377]

You have to think, people find stuff in their gardens all the time. Evidence of a Roman settlement was found underneath an entire residential street. You're walking over top of everything that has ever lived and died on that land.

[@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

[@ennayanne]

god bless content thieves of shitty content

[@Strokes1983]

​@@CW-nt1sdScotland you mean

[@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!

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

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

[@MoggieJr]

Did you a heckin' bamboozle, fren!

[@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.

[@edtizzard8064]

Thanks for the info, but would not a shield 🛡️🛡️ stop them

[@AndyJarman]

​​@@edtizzard8064I dunno, if there were hundreds of them and they were raining against your shield it could still ruin your day. Cowering behind your shield as the Romans advanced and studded your shield with their pilums.

[@edtizzard8064]

@@AndyJarman thank Andy, for the info about what it was like back there.

[@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?

[@JimmyJones-ki8tb]

It speaks of a small village that was struck by the plague but don’t talk about it in Much detail which is a letdown

[@sarahchristine2345]

@@JimmyJones-ki8tb100% agree… it had the potential to be such a good story and instead it’s like they just wanted to fill time and drag out more episodes or something

[@wisteriadumster]

I have watched this video almost every night to fall asleep for over a month and it's the only thing that truly puts me to sleep

[@cathipalmer8217]

When you get tired of it, try Uncle John's bedtime stories. Great channel! Or listen to 1493. Or the earlier Fall of Civilization podcasts.

[@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

[@JaziRedz]

17:51 Crazy to think those skeletons were once inside flesh and walking around like regular people.

[@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.

[@bobbelcher678]

I’d say it’s relatively the same amount of suffering humans today, still go through, just in different forms and definition.

[@kiw0xi]

What I absolutely love about these documentaries is how excited and jovial the people are who discover and talk about these historical findings. It makes me happy to see them like that and how they care about human history. Really lovely to watch these.

[@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

[@Coryraisa]

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

[@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.

[@maryearll3359]

Late supper with this wonderful programme accompaniment. ❤

[@briarelyse5136]

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

[@RightGirl123]

I have always wanted to work in this field. History amazes me

[@Countrygarden2023]

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

[@mrs.marken4609]

About the crannogs: I find it difficult to believe that these were meant to be permanent settlements. I feel like the more likely explanation would be a safe place to retreat if there was an attack. Attackers would hardly bring boats with them there. Get to the island, bring food to wait out the attack, then go back when the attackers have left. Anyone who decided to swim would be easily dealt with. I think it would be interesting to look at the shores of the loch to see if there was a more permanent settlement there.

[@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.

[@loudloveen]

Everyone is good at something. 😉

[@ian.swift.31614]

Not everything is for everybody. It's great to have passion but leave it to more qualified individuals.

[@NeuvilletteTheOtterlette]

You can still build up your knowledge and skill. If that doesn’t work for you though, there’s always a door to something else.

[@edtizzard8064]

@@rosiex2018 discovering the unknown, the misteries of life, will connect to live itself.

[@jennyoyster5054]

Knowing history doesn’t make you necessarily smart.

[@alfabsc]

Thanks for sharing. I am in the US. I did one of those DNA tests and discovered that I am 97% English-Scotch-Irish. So those are my ancestors too. Very interesting.

[@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..

[@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

[@stevelansdowne]

Fascinating video!❤️

[@gaasyendietha5070]

That broche is amazing 😮

[@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.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Really informative

[@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.

[@jesseramon4880]

Thank you very much for the documentary!!!!!

[@andreabrannon6931]

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

[@Strokes1983]

British history is the best

[@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

[@SweetChicagoGator]

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

[@Emeehhh]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@kepperMN]

Excellent book! Very informative for a fiction thriller science fiction style story! Lots of history mixed in the fiction!

[@bblair2627]

"45 meters per second," said no one in the UK 🙄

[@Circadianic]

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

[@NickMusselle]

Cracking video.

[@mtpstv94]

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

[@nickfoster9350]

This was so fascinating. Those whistling bullets would be terrifying to behold.

[@VincentGroenewold]

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

[@MarloweDash]

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...

[@Drainingtheswamp2022]

Alice ❤

[@MadamFizzgig]

This isn’t about the plague at all…?

[@reluctantheist5224]

Did you get to 12mins and 30 seconds?

[@richardsweeney197]

I am confused, The Hospital at Thornton Abby, should not have been a surprise. It has long been the History of Catholicism that religious orders provided health care in their areas, in many cases they still do. While one order was well known as the Knights of Saint John Hospitaler, now called the Military order of the Knights of Saint John Hospitaler of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta, aka, the Knights of Malta. It took an organization as large as the Catholic Church to do the widespread research and communicate the results through out the range of where they were.

[@MB-ub5ns]

13:29 Never Mind the Bollocks

[@nicii179]

are there the full length documentaries of these snippets somewhere? youtube preferably

[@samwyz69]

Monks were not “rich”. They were supported by the people, served the people, aided the people, gave the sacraments, said Mass, shared the food to the poor. A true monk, himself, was not “rich” and owned nothing for himself.

[@trishriederer1857]

That was later, originally monestaries were landowners w a lot of money. I forget which king it was, but they later got it all taken away

[@prestonhanson501]

I cant get over how beautiful the countryside is of that land. Endless green grass. Occasional tree. Just beautiful. I wanna visit that place someday if they arnt tired of forigners on there land. Only I wouldnt stay. Just visiting

[@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

[@starkickermusic2100]

Love the history and archaeology in all of this! Wish there was a way to get rid of the music I find it emotionally jarring to be led by it. Other than that thank you for the great work!

[@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.

[@gijgij4541]

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

[@dogleghobag]

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

[@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

[@licorne2154]

Pas de VOSTFR Dommage...

[@ruthisrael6447]

@15:25 ...Be careful with that Black Death bacteria! What will you do with it - keep it in the refrigerator?

[@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)

[@JanaBergevin]

Lol, that Red tail hawk cry at the beginning 😅

[@leslietarkin]

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.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

I read the thumbnail as 'BAD BREATH" and thought "Whoa, that was a dark turn..."

[@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

[@Daygard1]

I bet none of these people would be happy about there graves being dug up. Sick

[@imoeller126]

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

[@gb123-ej8wh]

I would be very nervous if uncovering such a fate

[@WillaHerrera]

When I saw the little hole my first thought was they whistle

[@ceeceexiong2270]

Just a quick question…why aren’t any of you guys wearing gloves while handling skeletons?? Especially if they died of diseases?

[@kimberly8185]

Can someone explain to me how those timbers still exist after thousands of years underwater? Did i hear that right? 😳

[@prevost8686]

Low oxygen levels in the water

[@eric.nathanson]

You really should use gloves to handle wet lead.

[@garfstiglz3981]

No doubt Archeologists do good work but to go to somewhere random without reason and start digging up medievil graves to me is simply disturbing graves.

[@No_One-d9z]

Frazier and Duncan look like kin, they're so cute lol!

[@alexhuber4926]

09:50 If you throw a stone fast enough with a hole inside it whistles, we did that as kids with slingshots. Maybe that was more terrifying then just stones hitting you? just a thought. Well. 10 seconds later he explains exaxly that lol.

[@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.

[@senka2578]

Scottish bagpipes were used to disturb the army of an enemy who may have never encountered such a peculiar sound.

[@EBAGNELL1]

How did they figure out that was the hospital?

[@TonyHavenMusic]

Question for everyone, would you rather be relatively rich in medieval Britain, or relatively poor in modern Britain?

[@intothemultiverse1033]

31:00 Pre-historic bowls

[@mumplaysminecraft3029]

Erm there are thousands of deserted medieval villages in the UK, its not unusual at all. In fact some of those registered as Medieval turn out to be Roman instead.

[@atik17]

I wonder why romans didn't collect back all those lead still bullets. Lead must be expensive back then.

[@ndi5670]

If those “bullets” are indeed made from lead, then I would highly suggest wearing gloves when handling.

[@vickicook7258]

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

[@lindadority1056]

why only 2 weeks?

[@ricki-bobby]

Doctor Roberts is a serious babe❤

[@robertquinlan9297]

Why do they only have two weeks to do their work, you see that same statement all the time, whether its a salvage operation, on land or at sea, they always say they have two weeks or a very limited time time to complete the job. Is it a permit thing?

[@stlouisix3]

Catholic monks > Vikings.

[@asaiira]

10:15 yeah but thats not something that would turn you on right? is this normal ? whats up with the sigh ...

[@21299]

I hope they don't dig up the plague out of all that dirt. Is that possible?

[@ViolentRainbow]

No the bacteria can't survive long at all outside of a living host. Kinda stupid when you think about it, by killing the host the plague is killing itself.

[@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.

[@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

[@lethalschannel2759]

The irony... people that question the approved archaeological orthodoxy by suggesting our conception of dates for artifacts etc might be wrong get ridiculed and excluded from discourse. Now someone within their community finds evidence that the narrative for northern Scotland was wrong, by thousands of years, they are going to "rewrite" text books. A nice way to admit "we really just edit the narrative in accordance with whatever we find next" while excluding the potential that they might be wrong about EVERYTHING they expect us to just uncritically accept from them.

[@kabbystevens5167]

Why change his name to Richard?…

[@asmrcarousel]

Very interesting, really! Sadly I had to click out after 20 minutes... I mean, 2 consecutive ads every two minutes was too much, too disruptive. Maybe it's KZbin, but it really is too much.

[@jws1948ja]

So many of them appear to have most of their teeth.

[@alexburke1899]

Our modern diet is worse than when we mostly just hunted meat and gathered berries and nuts. Grains have phytic acid in them and phytic acid can prevent absorption of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium hurting your teeth and bone health, but in some cases it can help a bit because it’s an antioxidant so it’s complicated lol. Carbohydrates can also turn into sugar quickly as it mixes with saliva so grains are bad for your teeth sometimes in that sense.

[@GregPrice-ep2dk]

Why weren't those people wearing hazmat gear while digging up that mass grave. Don't they know pathogens can persist for centuries after death?

[@crabslabbabs]

Plus those are purple dots

[@clamo3707]

I think you need more ads

[@polianasantos3471]

💐🕯

[@giannidcenzo]

I can dig it.