Do These Ancient Artefacts Reveal When Humans First Came To Britain? | Digging For Britain

Dr Roberts explores Norfolk, Orkney and Devon for ancient remains of lost civilisations. She finds early flint tools, ancient shipwrecks and evidence of early religion, including cattle skulls and goddess statues.
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[@user-eg3yv3xr7s]

You know who would really love to see those ancient stone tools ? Phil Harding !

[@estherlwhittle7568]

Yes. He's retired. ❤

[@user-eg3yv3xr7s]

@@estherlwhittle7568 I love watching the Time Team Classics, Phil is one of my favorites.

[@oldskool731]

@@user-eg3yv3xr7s this is better than time team

[@gloriaturner3892]

Alice is always so excited about explaining what is found. She clearly loves her work. 😊❤

[@Auggies1956]

This is something that has always interested me. When I was a kid I dug holes on our sandy lot and discovered all kinds of stuff. One was what was left of a pocket watch, and another was a third of a 1920 car's headlight lens. My grandfather told me I was likely to find anything as the neighborhood was over eighty years old and people back then buried their garbage.

[@loricampbell4370]

Fantastic journey through history! Thank you!

[@marvellousmarvin]

Thank you Alice ❤🤗🥀

[@bobhead6243]

The joy of this series is Alices excitment and interest in the places she visits , I could watch her talking about hitory and Archeology all day . 🙂❤🙏

[@nohandle257]

MORE Alice please! I could watch and listen to her FOREVER!

[@konstantinavalentina3850]

The Orkney site is curious. It's such a hard and difficult place. With all the rest of Britain offering green, fertile fields, and certainly more comfortable and sustainable ground for putting down roots, why Orkney? Was the rest of Britain already occupied?

[@bobhead6243]

Great video , good interpretation of what may have happened all that time ago .🙂

[@cyan1616]

22:50 I think the upside down cattle skulls were just placed that way to hold wooden poles in place. The horns would dig in to prevent the poles from moving or changing position. The stones only went up part of the wall, and the upper part of the wall would be made of wattle. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a toy is just a toy.

[@slappy8941]

No, they were obviously put their for ritual significance.

[@cyan1616]

@@slappy8941 lol Yeah, I just thought wow, this is a clever building technique to prevent pole movement and the ends of the poles from rotting. Silly me

[@user-eg3yv3xr7s]

Do we think that maybe this " rock art " was their way of saying to others " Look at what I saw " ?

[@curiositycloset2359]

Not what people usually call a small island.

[@dryciderz]

❤ Alice

[@richardstever3242]

0:54 - Freeze frame...who could do this job better?

[@therealking6202]

I love searching for....artefacts. It's more fun finding...artifacts... But whatever.

[@thekaxmax]

Depends on US or UK.

[@BillPatten-zh6lx]

I often have wondered how many times in my life have I possibly picked up a stone or wood, a shell perhaps, which was a piece of antiquity. I get a strange feeling when I see an actual piece of history in a museum, like looking in our family bible, or a great grandfather's mark carved on a tree he carved as a child. I wish I could go back, and keep that shard of flints instead of dropping it and moving on.

[@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv]

Perhaps the cattle skulls were placed that way as symbolic protection, as a herd would protect it's young from predators by forming a defensive circle. It was probably spiritual in nature if not religious.

[@richardprescott6322]

Bit weird but I always think these people want to be found and their stories told.

[@venator76]

Please don't block videos on Medieval History for viewers outside the U.S. I'm talking about the Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries. I kindly ask you to let us see the videos. Thanks

[@hayaaatmahamed9765]

guys when this video film is 2010 or 2024 plz answer

[@seanh4841]

2025, we're in a time warp

[@CheekyMonkey1776]

21:00:00 Why would they assume the climate was the same as current? We’ve been warming from an ice age for the last 10,000 years.

[@lenabreijer1311]

They can tell by the flora and fauna that were there.

[@Auxius.]

24:44 well if that ain't a meme idk what is.

[@FINNIUSORION]

or...its just a figurine. I'm sure kids liked toys thousands of years ago.

[@markdawson5215]

Interesting material, well presented, but the tinge of ardor in mundane phrases lessens the impact of the truly amazing, and is quite tiring. Rather than all caps, the narration is all italics. Wonderful job otherwise.

[@thekaxmax]

This is pretty sandard presentation technique, UK and us

[@markdawson5215]

@@thekaxmax And I suppose that's the basis for Philomena Cunk's humour. :-)

[@bobhead6243]

Loving " Wifey " 😊

[@benediktmorak4409]

Nick Ashton? It is not such a common name isn't it? Does he have anything - to do- ( relations ? ) with Professor Mick Aston from Time Team?

[@thekaxmax]

Ashton is not Aston

[@lenabreijer1311]

He was on a time team episode however.

[@seanh4841]

​@lenabreijer1311 ooh which one, that would be fun to watch

[@lenabreijer1311]

@@seanh4841 elvenden. Season 7. Prehistoric dig with Nick's team .

[@seanh4841]

@@lenabreijer1311 Thanks

[@robbyakes8736]

WAR IS EVIL Reply

[@jandrews6254]

Terribly popular though

[@seanh4841]

However inescapable, it's a non-negotiable part of all animals, Human kind are animals

[@doubleL_S]

800k to a million? Give it a rest 😂 end of the last ice age was 12k year's ago

[@liamfraser8734]

History began way before the ice age. Do your research.

[@boba2783]

12k years ago was younger dryas not the last ice age, that was 15-17k years ago, the younger dryas was a one off event

[@slappy8941]

You don't even know how to use apostrophes, so don't speculate on archaeology.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Homo erectus has been around for 3 million years. So, not too odd

[@thekaxmax]

You didn't listen, I can tell