"FASCINATING Mystery!" | Archaeologists Find Burial Site From 12th Century Near Richard III Body

[@youarewhatyouare]

They were probably old age pensioners denied winter fuel payments

[@whiteshark0000]

or people who posted nasty comments online

[@peterlincoln3067]

😂😂😂😂

[@JuliaStone-d8l]

😂😂😂😂

[@JohnSmith-nc6ul]

😂😂😂

[@SootyHunt]

😂😂😂😂

[@Rigante]

Trying to think of any possibilities that could cause such a large loss of life, possibly through starvation, bad weather, and I find myself thinking "did they have a labour government back then?"

[@user6c7mxkmg]

Pandemic?

[@stewartgow2413]

@Rigante 😂😂😂

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

Was there a crop failure resulting in famine? He just brought that possibility up, I hadn't watched it all the way through.

[@lucius4556]

Plague of some sorts?

[@Nylon_riot]

Most likely conflict.

[@cloverite]

If there are more than three of them, and they are Anglo Saxon, does that make them a far right mob.

[@robinmcewan8473]

@@cloverite no, immigrants

[@bri_____]

I get the feeling that our ancestors are furious with us..

[@LWD1099]

They've definitely turned in their graves that's for sure!

[@xgtwb6473]

Ancestors? My grandad is 99 he told me the other day there's too many Nick Jaggers

[@glowfx1238]

@@xgtwb6473 Hello xq…would you agree your grandfather is a manly man? If so please please pleaseeee speak to him and get him to tell you what he wants happening…Especially if he was in the war, please give us his insight on the matter…you don’t understand how incredible it is that you still have your grandfather at 99 of all ages…As he was alive from 1920’s onwards meaning he is one of the very few of the closest things we have to an ‘original human’ as we are all corrupted by all sorts media technology food etc etc psychological warfare from a very young age. Him being as old as he is means he grew up as normal as you possibly could be nowadays. Honestly just his general insight on what’s happening is enough…I just know that our old timers are who we need to look to to aid us, however it’s literally up to us, not them as they are literally too old for this shi.

[@JuliaStone-d8l]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@FaithRomero-ms5kq]

He was probably still using their vote to get in

[@andym3017]

For God's sake don't tell starmer he will want them for unpaid taxes

[@leighcunningham756]

sign the petition calling for a new election

[@DavidBrown-sr8di]

perhaps they didn't vote for him?

[@williammkydde]

Humza Y's reaction: "Body #1 - white. Body #2 - white. Body #3 - white..."

[@AbigayleCorcoran]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ninamoores]

Maybe they were buried in 3 disused wells. ..or old mine shafts.

[@Geraden]

😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant!

[@williammkydde]

@@ninamoores I've read a better account since (in The Guardian - bc this is what google search brought first). They did not stand upright, feet to head, as this host was saying. They were dumped all in a heap in an old shaft, relatively wide, in random body positions. So, there's nothing really mysterious; at a time of a deadly epidemic, the town might not have enough healthy people to go about a regular burial ritual.

[@Atom-Phyr]

Happy to filp those numbers. It's inevitable.

[@jamesturnbull3698]

The BBC will run with this story and try say it was a non binary diverse person

[@rbb5072]

they were African. lol

[@noname-k9t3e]

​@@rbb5072septimius severus was north african and ruled rome and died in ancient britain

[@Wee_Langside]

And killed by Climate Change but ours is worse and we're to blame.

[@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo]

@@noname-k9t3e To Roman parents.

[@Daniel_D_King]

Definitely all gays and probably black too

[@EthanKnight97]

The 12th century sounds great compared to now.

[@mustertherohirrim7315]

Wait til the sun goes down....

[@barneyclifton6402]

Lol, really? In short: It wasn't.

[@OldtricksForolddog]

😂😂😂

[@sterlingdafydd5834]

At least they knew what a woman was back then

[@barneyclifton6402]

@@sterlingdafydd5834 yeah because otherwise how could the figure out who to oppress?

[@rogermellie8068]

Is it the missing black royal family that were persecuted by ye olde far ryghte

[@bevc5349]

Best comment! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chrishill7797]

😂

[@francesfallon8121]

@@chrishill7797 Missing black royal family???

[@MakapoluEsq]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@t.t6191]

Don't worry Harry married one of thier descendants so it's all good now lol

[@dnstone1127]

Starvation due to Norman colonisation, will the woke brigade get involved?

[@pennybunny]

BBC will say its our black ancestors lol

[@Legionnaire7777]

😂

[@stevetaffy8780]

How the hell do you make a hole that bloody deep with the limited tools they had. Mad !

[@Tubeite]

Lots of people and plenty of elbow grease I imagine. People didn't just sit around waiting for their benefit payments to roll in back then. Digging a pit with limited tools can't be that taxing otherwise civilisation would never have got off the ground.

[@judycorbett4462]

Great Question No mechanical bores in those days ?

[@LynneHarrison-gg5ix]

Wells were dug by hand using tools. Men were lowered down with a rope and bucket for soil and stone to be hauled up. No idea what the deepest well dug was but it would have been impossible to go deeper than the water table.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

@@LynneHarrison-gg5ix The Romans went deeper. If you can haul rock out of a hole you can haul out water. How else can you dig a well?

[@avryllsixtus3429]

Immigrants slaves..

[@londonlogan4868]

When you close it up, stick starmer down there😂😂

[@Imfaaoo]

Starmer the farmer harmer

[@Joy-w5j]

​@@ImfaaooSS 2Tier, Free Gear, starmer the farmer harmer!

[@Salamis.-330]

rachel reeves is the spitting image of richard the 3rd

[@victoriacritchlow9069]

Agree !!

[@cynthiastogden7000]

Please do not Insult much maligned King Richard. !!!

[@ShaunChurchill-t6o]

Who would have thought TDS was around that far back😂

[@ShaunChurchill-t6o]

The monarchy brought in a tax on burial plot sizes and the locals were exploiting a loophole that didn’t matter about the depth vertically.

[@britanniau.k.4352]

She reminds me of Snape from Harry Potter.😮

[@VonRyansExpress-v3r]

Yes but are the burials "Diverse" ? . . Its important to know if this discovery is "Racist" . . . . Get Narinda Kaur on to advise us if it needs decolonisation

[@Mylostsock11]

😂😂😂😂👏👏👏

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

😂😂😂😂

[@section5760]

Please put her in it? 800 years from now they will say it was a diverse burial 🪦 .

[@spaceskipster4412]

Well, Well, Well…🕳️🕳️🕳️ three holes in the ground ! 😂

[@colleen36]

Wow this is crazy , cant wait to see what the DNA says.

[@tillyt4054]

The state of our Woke Academia , it will say they were all black and trans

[@alandmark53]

it was the Pringle family

[@craftwolzip5356]

That comment really made me laugh! 🤣🤣🤣

[@larrybrown9583]

Sounds like they were thrown down a well.

[@SassySar]

Probably hiding and maybe someone forgot to get them out

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Leicester sounds very interesting to see old relics 😊

[@roderickkennedy2192]

it is, i'm one and live there.

[@marciabaldwin2506]

Totally amazing and fascinating looking forward to finding out more once it's known ❤

[@johnbeggs9669]

Reparations?.....just asking in case im related...

[@Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak]

So fascinating.

[@uttaradit2]

buried in a well .....simples

[@deirdrenugent1887]

I was just thinking that

[@barryanderson3598]

Maybe it was a well that dried up,so they repurposed it as a burial site.

[@jhutchings7627]

Would they have used a contaminated well for the burial?

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

I thought that's a possibility, it would explain why the vertical burial. There was a case of a medieval disused well being discovered in Norwich, England, that contained multiple bodies. However, these bodies showed signs of pre-mortem damage such as decapitation and other injuries. I believe they were the result of a Jewish pogrom, a very sad part of our history. It was deemed an unusual burial and the bodies were not buried with care but thrown in one atop the other, men, women and children. So the biggest difference in this case is that the bodies were buried with care. Perhaps vertical burials were practiced more often than previously supposed. I know vertical burials have been practiced by neolithic peoples and by native Americans, too. Vertical burial is sometimes a space saving measure but that seems fairly unlikely in this case if only 300-odd people were living there.

[@JohnSmith-nc6ul]

They probably didn’t pay their ULEZ and were dealt with accordingly.

[@pauldurkee4764]

Don't tell me, they were mostly black.

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

😂😂😂

[@elis7283]

Propably.

[@sensational_cellar8606]

All laid down with heads pointing to a certain city in Saudi Arabia 😅

[@Treeman196]

But if coarse they where they built Britain don't you know 😂😂😂😂

[@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204]

Black transgender muslims

[@user-ed7iq7pm1j]

What an incredible find.

[@ericfontaine2145]

Very interesting, glad they got Ashley back 🙂

[@pickleonions4277]

Perhaps at the time it was within a walled city and they used an old dry well to solve the problem of multiple burials.

[@johnfisher247]

Richard III was buried as an act of charity under the floor of the Franciscan Friars church. This is a distance from the church mentioned in tjis clip. Each church had a grave yard and places of honour were under the floor in main church, priory, friary, convent, abbey or cathedral floors. All churches and grave years are parts of sacred space in which the baptised await the resurrection. The churchyard, porch, nave, sanctuary, altar and tabernacle where the Sacrament reserved are degrees of sacred ground around the Christ's body soul and divinity in the Eucharist offered at the altar and the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle. There is no shock in graves surrounding or in a church.

[@jimmychalmers8733]

They must of seen a labour government coming and committed suicide then jumped on to each other

[@barriejones2890]

History Records from the time record the Heating allowance was withdrawn to see what the result would be for future generations 😂🤬🤣🤬 it was a Labour of an experiment.

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

Labour or Conservative, they're both as bad as each other! 😂😂😂

[@jimmychalmers8733]

@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 agree completely

[@telstar4772]

How could they have buried them standing vertically on top of each other ? I doubt they would even have been able to dig a hole over 10 feet deep without it collapsing in.

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

You can dig holes over 10ft deep without collapse or support, I've seen my own father do it when he got rid of construction waste after renovating one of our homes. But it depends on the soil. You can dig out wells,mine shafts etc by hand. Neolithic people managed it with bone and flint tools at Grimes Graves in Norfolk, England for example, and that's a LONG time before the 1200s! You can also reinforce the sides with wood or other materials. I'm assuming if these burials were done with care that the corpses at the bottom were put in place and supported by soil and another layer put over their heads, then the next layer of corpses and so on. It's labour intensive but certainly not impossible.

[@aesopstortoise]

I assume that the grave wasn't just one person wide.

[@kathleenward6268]

@@aesopstortoise That would make more sense.

[@gladiatorprogramme]

So the body at the bottom must have been down 650 to 700 feet.

[@kathleenward6268]

As has been suggested there was probably one group 'standing' on top of another group. Seems more plausible. I'd love to know.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

The shaft can't be one body wide.

[@Jafmanz]

Logical deduction based on utter ignorance isn't logical at all

[@Wilkins_Micawber]

There was a Jewish pogram in England about 1190. Could these burials be involved in that event. 1190 could be within the margins of error in Carbon dating. Could the fact that they are buried vertical that a water well was used.

[@GS-dc4dt]

I cannot remember the programme but there is documented evidence that whole families of Jews were indeed thrown down a well here in Britain, the poor blighters were persecuted and when they didn’t cowtow to the townsfolk they were hoisted out of their homes and deposited down the well. Wish I could remember but it was quite a few years ago I saw it.

[@dwbunloaf8245]

@@GS-dc4dtI’m sure that was time team I seem to remember that.

[@acustomer3518]

@@GS-dc4dt and the incident;[my memory not google] a ship load of jews on the thames, the tide was out the captain said take a walk go get some exercise, let them drown when the tied came in, infact one of the first recorded genocides i thin k.

[@joanblack2154]

@@GS-dc4dtI thought that happened in Norwich? Happy to be corrected.

[@tavuzzipust7887]

They all had Covid shots.

[@lizmacrae4970]

I am intrigued by the digging involved…like digging a well…or did they use a handy defunct well…..

[@alanhay-i5d]

Reperations for the anglo saxons from the french (Normans)?

[@thehum1000]

Danes bro not french lol

[@kevinkenny6975]

Swedish

[@BornAgainAnglo-Saxon]

@@thehum1000Normandy conquered Britain too…

[@alanbeaumont4848]

You still have a largely Norman set of landowners. Aside from the Royal family of course. They're descended from Germans.

[@marilynwade9448]

They built the car park on holy ground

[@CitrusBlue1973]

Whether car park or church they’re both built for collecting money from the public.

[@michaelshore2300]

Wasn't when the made the car park

[@finch45lear]

What an enjoyable interview about a fascinating subject. Thank you.

[@SamDavid-v6g]

This is how the city of Leicester delt with their illegal immigrants arriving in dinghies, back in the 12th century..Or maybe their citizens weren't taxed heavily enough, and therefore this village succumbed to the effects climate change.

[@avryllsixtus3429]

Great stuff..great replies.

[@mikeycraig8970]

The earlier one is called the Plague of Justinian. Because it started in the Byzantine empire under the reign of emperor Justinian. It actually stopped him reconquering Rome and reuniting the Roman empire. And it was over indulgence in lampreys that killed Henry I. Not eels. Lampreys are a jawless fish parasite.

[@iainsan]

Could it be that they were buried vertically because the space available was very limited?

[@lindafarnes486]

They talked about this elsewhere. The bodies are all tidy and intact, so must have been wrapped up in shrouds, before being dropped into the pit or shaft. There are from memory about 160 bodies? Don't quote me on that. They include men, women and children. In the Anglo Saxon Chronicles, or recorded history of the time, they describe assorted plagues and pestilence killing a lot of people at this time, and they think these people died from some plague. Samples have been sent off for testing.

[@vincentswift7]

Having trouble picturing 130 people vertically stacked upright on each other how deep is this shaft is it a single shaft or multiple shafts assuming an average height per person of say 5-5 Ft x 130 = 715 Ft deep

[@jeffholt9437]

Quick, call David Olusoga - I'm sure he has a compelling answer for this......

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@DorothyDianeParker-to2qr]

Nearly fell of my chair laughing at the comments....

[@marilynwade9448]

Stacking bodis is not unusual. Family burial sights are known to stack bodies

[@kathleenward6268]

Yes, but not standing them one on top of the other.

[@perryseehoe590]

The rumor was always that first predator accidently landed in the UK

[@markeddowes1467]

Why not interview the actual archaeologist directing the excavations ??? Duuuh ..

[@farallimacha]

Look into comments, people here don't even care.

[@markspence5288]

Don’t give labour any ideas of hate crime punishments

[@Worldsamess2024]

😳😱🤫

[@Vinimarshall450]

Maybe they were dropped down a well ?

[@dominicgilmartin5943]

Someone threw the town council down a well.

[@CarlStJohn-x9w]

Plague pit..

[@ShaunChurchill-t6o]

Vertical burial plots due to the monarchy and lord blackstarmer of toolmakerstone introducing a limit on plot size so they exploited a loophole by burying them vertically😂

[@tonygarcia0072]

It does suggest also that it was consecrated ground already at that earlier date...

[@alexanderscott1466]

Thrown down a well maybe…..

[@neilfranklin5644]

Wonder how deep it was as burying vertically would use up a lot of space,

[@Winchester4lastorders]

Could be they had limited space so dug deep holes did one row at a time then supported the bodies with heavy soil before starting on the next row.

[@susanohnhaus611]

Well or mineshaft repurposed for burial. DNA and dating of bones will tell us.

[@antoma6844]

Rachel Reeves has faithfully kept Richard III haircut.

[@EdmunddelaRiviere]

It sounds like they used a well as a hasty grave. But that seems pretty deep even for a well.

[@SF-ru3lp]

Sounds like there were alot of deaths at once and decision was mad the bury the biodies vertically down a well. G Ire

[@roses9339]

Oh dear!!!!. It's like watching a movie and the end reveal is lost. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 74yrs

[@roderickkennedy2192]

sounds like the mysterious black hole, the DWP are looking into it.

[@margaretvanson3601]

Buried standing up used to be known as a pauper's grave.

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

Very late for human sacrifice, it would have been done away with by then. Rural, very isolated places may have possibly continued the practice in secret. But this was a town and the bodies had no signs of homicide, so I think that's extremely unlikely.

[@krs4976]

Interesting

[@robertwoolstencroft5946]

What I want to know is who dug the burial pit

[@pauldurkee4764]

The bloke at the bottom of the pile.

[@Mylostsock11]

The one who dunnit 😂

[@Worldsamess2024]

A very clever person!

[@Mylostsock11]

12th century?? Knights templar age?? Maybe theyre turning in their graves that much theyve unearthed themselves lol?? Random theory 😂 Edit: Can we apply for reparations of any kind?? Asking for a friend.

[@leannekelly2033]

I was going to say anarchy there was a lot of that back in the day it's so sad ❤

[@josephsolowyk7697]

So how deep is it? 5x123 feet give or take? I don’t believe they’ve dug 600 feet lol.

[@kathrynstone3856]

Yes quite agree no Winter Fuel payment. 😢😮

[@deydododontdedoh.5672]

Actually interesting from Kevin, what he's best at, not the usual god awful biased political rants.

[@cornelia9778]

But the holes must have been incredibly deep to bury them vertically. Was it one big hole or separate holes?

[@d.l.l.6578]

I’m curious they were buried vertically. I’ve never heard of that.

[@LittleJo-]

Possibly buried alive.., no injury to body. Maybe like an oubliette

[@bobbyald]

So, the hole must be about 600ft deep. How was that dug?

[@perryedwards4746]

but the guess!!

[@williammkydde]

123 people? How you dig out a pit this deep, with those technologies? Weird - weird.

[@michaeldunham3385]

Couple of thousand years after the pyramids, don't underestimate human ingenuity

[@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380]

No, the 1200s are A.D, not B.C.

[@williammkydde]

@@michaeldunham3385 Agreed about pyramids. After 500 years of dark ages, in England (not in Egypt), for 123 people, time 5ft tall each average = 600ft=200m. How, in the 12th c., do you dig out a 200m-deep 0,5m wide well? Not every coal mine today is 200m deep. Or were there multiple wells less deep? More like a wider burial terrain? I guess we need more data on what exactly was discovered.

[@michaeldunham3385]

@williammkydde did they claim they were buried head to foot on top of each other? No they didn't did they

[@williammkydde]

@@michaeldunham3385 Michael, I have just found a report in The Guardian (the 1st one randomly from google search). Of course, they were not buried upright, feet to head; that was a misrepresentation. The bodies were dumped in a relatively narrow shaft, in disorder. No traces of violence.

[@kevinpalmer8107]

I read (years ago) that he was buried in an old convents? Garden. Sorry if I'm wrong. K's mother.

[@baycast]

Talk about a cliffhanger!

[@BawlzOfuzz]

Wadda bawlz up of an interview!

[@danielferguson3784]

These bodies were not stacked 'standing' vertically, but laid flat one upon another. The number is not high for a starvation or disease episode.

[@terricollins8450]

They were all at a wedding and ate poisoned food 😂😂

[@janiecelang2558]

Wow, just woq😮

[@double_vision00]

Perhaps it was a hospital of some sort

[@kimturner2105]

How deep was the hole? Feet on head?

[@Atom-Phyr]

I know. If they were 5'5 each it would be 675.5 feet or 208 meters.

[@cherylbrooks7005]

Cool

[@FaithRomero-ms5kq]

Thats one hell of a deep hole 123 bodys head to feet ,even if the body is crouched ,thats 3 feet ,thats nearly 400 ft deep

[@Sn00pyJ508]

If it was my guess…….and what was it?

[@leprechaun7667]

They are lying about dates!!

[@Kw1zard]

People of Leicester were trying to grow human trees

[@REX4340]

Aliens👽

[@AndyJarman]

Andrew Bridgen's ancesters asking too many awkwards questions?

[@StephenBosworth-ms7iz]

Quick sand,They were just unlucky.

[@uktreemaster]

Leicester's Grey friars burial ground. about 200 to 300 years. Before Richard the 3rd was killed. Can't understand why they need to bring Richard into it. They did an extension to Leicester Cathedral about 3 years ago where had to move alot of graves this is when this must have been found.

[@Snoopy86Jenner]

The great sweat struck at twice and the black death was Primary Pneumonic Plague

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Is the carbon dating as reliable as we assume? We seem very certain.

[@nigeljames83]

mass murderer dropped the bodies down a well!