Hadrian's wall documentary- BEYOND THE WALL- Hadrian's Wall is [probably] not what you think it is

I flew the entire length of Hadrian's Wall recently you can find that epic video here: • The Largest Roman Stru...
Hadrian's wall documentary-
BEYOND THE WALL- Hadrian's Wall is [probably] not what you think it is
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Full documentary - revealing the real Hadrian's Wall and exploring the mystery of the Ninth Legion [Lego Hispania] and their disappearance.. which is perhaps closer to home.
Credits- thanks to English Heritage, Cadw, N.T. Vindolanda for drone permissions. All drone flights were compliant.
Drone flights- DJI Mavic Pro
Graphics- Flipped Pro
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Music-
Savfk.
"Savfk - The Age of Wood" is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
"Savfk - A Thousand Hollow Words" is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
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CO.AG music
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Drone footage Mavic Pro.
Locations- Vindolanda, Solway Firth, Housesteads Roman Fort, Newcastle Roman Fort, Southshields, Chesters Roman fort, Maiden's Castle Hill Fort, White Horse of Uffington, Hadrian's Wall Sycamore Gap, Caersws Roman Fort, Caerleon Roman Town, Silchester Roman Town, Portchester Saxon Shore Fort.
Films Featured.
King Arthur, The Last Legion, The Eagle , Centurion, Spartacus, HBO Rome, Game of the Thrones, Eagle of the Ninth BBC.
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[@julesdingle]

ATTENTION AUDIO- It has come to my attention from the comments that sound quality can be poor, unfortunately KZbin does not allow for re-uploading the sound track. The main issue is music mix [ironic in that I hate documentaries on t.v. having the dialogue drowned out], I should run the 'radio' test and put the sound track through small speakers [after mixing in the studio]. The current fix is to try using head phones or use the t.v. or desktop for play back. I have since upgraded my sound studio, and changed my approach to voice over in recent months which I hope is evident in recent videos. Thank you for your understanding. [ at some point I may re upload the entire video.. but try and retain views and ranking]

[@prankishsquire2663]

Partly a british propensity to sound like a frikken whisper.

[@julesdingle]

yes, I'm working on presentation and hope to move from British mumble to BBC!

[@bretnielsen5502]

You did an excellent job here and I am sharing this work with my friends!

[@thenovocastrian5772]

Incredible work!

[@JohnDoe-jy1kn]

It always surprises me how many people complain about production aspects of full length documentaries which take youtubers untold hours of work to complete. Keep up the good work. You have a new subscriber.

[@julesdingle]

thank you, in retrospect I would love to re load the audio... but I'm not George Lucas so it remains of its time! And importantly I carry on the lessons for the next production.

[@martinchambers7290]

Very interesting. Gave me a lot to think about. However, I think 'Stanegate' probably does not mean Stone Gate, as mentioned. Much more likely that it means Stone Road, from the Danish 'Gade', meaning road. After all, it's a road. 😀

[@julesdingle]

Robert a bit earlier in the thread pointed out that gate means street.. and has been noted, unfortunately I have to wait for 1000 subscribers to be able to post up a correction card! Thanks

[@andrewtolley3706]

Thank you for a fascinating look at the history of Hadrian's wall, a satisfying blend of scholarship and informed speculation, supported by atmospheric aerial photography.

[@vannjunkin8041]

Jules! Perfect eye with perfect narration.. predominantly Celtic in subject.. I usually have to dig for this stuff.

[@marktwain368]

Full of historical insights and detail, this is an excellent contribution to the Roman period in Britain, focused on its famous northern boundary. There are thought-provoking comments about battle tactics, construction of civilized towns, and the overall mandate of Rome in Brittania. Photography and modelling adds much to our understanding of this period. My congratulations to Jules Dingle for a worthy addition to our understanding of history.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Britannia

[@elauadeinsf]

A very watchable documentary indeed and I was intrigued by it all the way, and found the Iranian and Syrian troops new and inreresting information for me. A thought came to mind while listening to your speculations: I know nothing of battle tactics but play a good deal of chess: could the wall also have served as a way of slowing down, vastly slowing down, attack on York and other key town areas, allowing for unimpeded riders to notify York and others and thus help to keep the main body of the Roman Empire in Britain a lot safer?

[@julesdingle]

absolutely .. the idea of 'shaping' the battlefield that has come to light in a current war seems to be part of Roman doctrine.. and for instance the success of the legion over Boudicca's rebellion was their choice in the battle ground. very glad you enjoyed the video

[@GodTierComments]

I'm not sure if maidencastle and silchester should be in a documentary about hadrians wall but there's a lot of good content in this video I guess

[@harrietharlow9929]

excellent video. Being Clan Gunn through my Grandma I really enjoyed this. Go, Scotland!

[@tomjones7593]

Cracking video-thank you I fish when I can on Crag Loch-shown on your footage. Ive often thought no enemy was likely to attack through a lake or marsh then ascend a 3-400 foot vertical cliff-so why the wall? And-why the Vallum? Must have been more work than the wall itself-and its on the civilised side? And lastly-when you look at even 14th/15th century maps of Britain they are hopeless; how then did the Romans know that this was the shortest point to divide the island? Anyone have theories?-be glad to hear Tom

[@julesdingle]

As maps are another interest I'm going to do some videos one how Britain was mapped.. the Romans are a good place to start. But the main advantage the Romans incorporated was intelligence, local knowledge, scouts who were auxiliaries and basic map making and navigation skills.

[@caleb6595]

Amazing video. Idk how this doesn’t have thousands of views

[@julesdingle]

I’m working on building up the channel and thank you so much for the support

[@caleb6595]

@@julesdingle liked and subbed 👍

[@teamshaboobalu2887]

One on one battles influenced both force's moral & were quite common.

[@julesdingle]

I think the Celts quickly learned that head on battles would favour Rome..and tried to break up the formation. It took 30 years to fully conquer Wales and there is a report a Legion was nearly wiped out so the Legion never had it all their own way.

[@co.agmusic]

Brilliant video

[@kopynd1]

a remember that drama series, the guy who played the britain played an excellent part, he was the stable hand in folley foot

[@bretnielsen5502]

GrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAT video footage by a highly knowledgeable presenter. I have a lead plumb bob found metal detecting just off Hadrian's wall.

[@bretnielsen5502]

I am sharing this video with my History buff friends !!!!

[@julesdingle]

Thank you, it makes these late night editing session worth the effort.

[@terrytowelling1807]

Good documentary, enjoyed it

[@julesdingle]

Glad you enjoyed it- stay tuned, currently working on the Roman conquest of Wales and Scotland as two follow ups.

[@michaelwhite8031]

Interesting video

[@julesdingle]

I'm glad you liked it, as a personal story I did return and flew the entire length, adding an extended narrative .. you can find that in the Roman play list J

[@michaelwhite8031]

Many thanks.

[@robertmccoy9323]

Some interesting speculations on building to impress. The comments on how Romans didn't build forts but camps or bases for offensive operations is a hypothetical point of view but one worth looking at carefrully. take care rwmccoy

[@julesdingle]

But with exceptions, I was filming north of the wall Bremenium [Rochester] on the road to Scotland and that has ballista platforms to guard the road [you can even see the old stone balls built into the local old school house] and this has a role perhaps similar to medieval castles.. part base, part castle to hide in, and part forward control.

[@FreeSpeech1212]

Good video thanks.

[@danicornea]

Very good ....lessons of history...no Empire will be for ever....sooner or later will sucomb within itself...History is full of such example up until modern times....

[@foumar5217]

I‘m sorry for the legionaries who spent 25y of service and never saw battle. R.I.P. Good documentary 👍

[@julesdingle]

the non Roman auxiliaries did get their kids into good schools and a member of the empire .. but not too dissimilar to today's professional armies. A soldiers life at the time is overlooked in the history books.. perhaps an opportunity to do the research and build a story in an upcoming video.. thanks.

[@xavisanchez7522]

There were stationed in near by salou, so it wasnt that hard 😂

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Ignore BCE and CE . . . . continue with what we know, BC and AD.

[@iananderson3799]

No. We need to be phasing out references to the supernatural in science.

[@angloaust1575]

Quip from carry on behind Swedish archeologist says to professor Crump I have been examining hadrian's walls He only had one One what One wall hadrian's wall Sorry my english is not yet perfected

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

I often wonder what the British world would be like if Rome's, the Danes', and Anglo Saxon invasions never happened, if Celtic Britons were left alone to flourish.

[@julesdingle]

Effectively Ireland and Scotland were allowed to develop independently .. the most notable thing is the clan structure surviving in Scotland and a decentralised monarchy. However post Roman England, and mores in Wales reverted to the clan structure only being over turned later with the arrival of the Normans

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

"Mound and a ditch" was the western half of H's wall.

[@bretwalda100]

Agricola is not much remembered now, overshadowed, as he was, by his more famous sibling, Coca.

[@julesdingle]

In a more recent video I have learnt the correct pronunciation ..having missed Latin in school. It is a problem if you have read information rather than been told it😀

[@bretwalda100]

@@julesdingle The 'o' is a short vowel so the stress goes on the preceding vowel, 'i'. You're welcome. I'm here all week.

[@maesy6730]

Who did the actual building ?

[@julesdingle]

The legion, supposedly.. soldiers were civil engineers although they would build marching camps, quite elaborate earth, turf and timber ramparts ..similar to the western part of the wall on a frequent basis, sometimes daily. And they would have built their forts. However the Wall took years .. which would have tied up fighting troops. An interesting question.

[@maesy6730]

@@julesdingle at home they used slaves, but not here I think. Thanks .

[@jackwu9144]

I believe there is a great deal you have failed to understand about the Romans; it is apparent that you have made more than a few assumptions (intermingled with some facts). Remember the Roman Empire lasted for more than 1000 years. I have seen numerous Roman ruins across Britannia - even up to modern day Scotland. I have never seen a British ruin in Italy. This doesn't even begin to address the influence of Roman culture across Britannia.

[@julesdingle]

Could you be more specific on my assumption as you see it as I would be happy to explain them. Not sure on what you.mean about British artifacts in Rome. Rome was successful in most of Britain for nearly 400 years

[@anthonyjohnson1519]

Thank you! This guy is completely clueless.

[@julesdingle]

@@anthonyjohnson1519 as I said you need to be a bit more constructive- the why's and why nots.. clueless is close to an insult and I may delete your posts

[@purrdiggle1470]

There was a second, shorter wall built farther north by a later Roman emperor. It didn't work either.

[@julesdingle]

I'm going to a series with each part of the Roman conquest, starting out of order with the roman conquest of Wales, and followed by the roman conquest of Caledonia which will explore the Antonine Wall ..which is a bit different

[@purrdiggle1470]

@@julesdingle When you want to fight the Scots, it's best to avoid the preliminaries and go ahead and call in the professionals- the Anglo-Saxons.

[@robertkilroy5699]

Stanegate means “Stone street Not stone gate”. Gatan means street in Swedish. Thanks

[@julesdingle]

thanks, duly noted.. I may start to add correction cards! But I rely on sources which are sometimes wrong.. it is always good to get corrections. I nearly quoted a geology site in my latest video which claimed a road was built in the 80s...it was actually built 40 years earlier.

[@andymcd6689]

Barbarians to the north? Is that from a Roman point of view?

[@julesdingle]

nothing wrong with being a barbarian, the Romans considered everyone else, [including the Greeks a bit at least] to be uncivilised- not of the city. Barbarian meaning.. not a speaker of Greek.

[@spookmore]

Formation of Caledonia, was bodicien,Celts,I don't agree with some,historicaly wrong. So much of archeological, history was wrong. Many assumptions,read the Piercebridge formula, Raymond Selkirk.

[@julesdingle]

The video doesn't take a position on Celtic culture, and I studied it when I was younger. Celtic Britain had a lot of interesting culture and they were certainly no push over.. Britain was never fully conquered and it took decades for Rome to achieve what it did. Eventually after a few centuries Celtic Britain adopted a hybrid of the old culture and Romes.

[@SnakePlisskin.]

Segedunim not far from mine....

[@julesdingle]

I was up in Caernarfon recently filming for a series looking in detail at the Roman Conquest of Britain.. looking first at how the Cambrian tribes were suppressed .. and who eventually incorporated Magnus Maximus into their royal Welsh birth lines..and Druids.. so look out for that.

[@TheArtist8077]

Legionary, Legionaries, .... not legionnaires, .....

[@julesdingle]

thanks for the input noted

[@dragoon3359]

28:30 would be a cool place to live

[@julesdingle]

It is part of a small country estate called Castlestead near Newtown Cumbria.. in the days when you could build your walled garden and gardeners lodge on an old Roman Camp!

[@iananderson3799]

Bloody cold, in fact.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Agricola. Why pronounced like coca-cola?

[@corterapidoetramontina2904]

Lmao

[@Saucy_Beans]

Sycamore gap is not more (well at least the sycamore part) some tosser cut it down.

[@julesdingle]

yes I know, I did a short video on the felling/vandalism .. but when Sevenoaks lost some oak trees in the 87 storm it didn't change its name!

[@andrewmckeown6786]

Uriel's Machine is a book with an extremely interesting take on this wall...and many other things....

[@julesdingle]

I think I read the book, however... and spookily .. I'm working on an upcoming video that explores some of its themes that date back to the 6th Century BC and a close encounter for Earth with an Alien- a close proximity Comet that may help explain a lot of human history over the last 3,000 years. [so hit the subscribe!]

[@roonilwazlib3089]

@@julesdingle sold ✌🏻

[@spookmore]

Again undermining, the Celts and there history.

[@kimmccown8371]

Terrible audio

[@julesdingle]

not great but not terrible. But learning more about better sound production, and have invested in better equipment.. check out my latest videos and tell me if you hear an improvement..Thanks.

[@CandideSchmyles]

Its defìnitely terrible.

[@julesdingle]

terrible! one of the issues is I did not do the laptop test.. run the dialogue through small speakers, so not as clear as I intended especially with music.. but live and learn. Unfortunately I can not reupload the audio with correct balance.

[@CandideSchmyles]

@@julesdingle we live n learn! I use a tablet and the audio was not just muffled but drowned by the music. Since you took the time to respond and the title is intriguing I will try again with headphones. Cheers!

[@julesdingle]

@@CandideSchmyles it still needs improvement.. but I hope the audio is not too distracting from the story.. thanks.

[@pinkhead6857890]

u mumble rap

[@julesdingle]

The last 6 months have been a learning curve, I have obtained an improved mic, and try and record the entire script in one take. My voice changes it seems over the day. Thankfully the auto subtitles translate [everything but place names] pretty well. But will always endeavour to speak more clear especially for those who first language is not English. Check out my latest video and tell me what you think.

[@pinkhead6857890]

@@julesdingle Learning a new language while teaching history and editing videos? Your doing more with your life than I am.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@julesdingle Did you speed up the audio at all during editing? or do you read that fast normally? Often increasing the speed while maintaining the same pitch will reduce annunciation quite a lot. I know that with the few video's i read from script I did speed myself up by about 10% on account I am a very slow reader. And wanted to pace the production a bit better. And I still thought i was really slow. Though I had one or two people tell me they could not understand what I was saying all that well. I also opted to drastically reduce background music volume to be almost non-existent. I will check out the newer video's on the channel and see what I think of them too! FWIW I am having some mild difficulty understanding everything said in this video, but that is often when there is music that is a touch too intrusive. Having dyslexia myself though I find I need to really concentrate on what people are saying at the best of times. So I am an unusual case, while most others will not have any issues. But I have been finding even as this video progresses I am finding it easier to understand. Also the subject matter and presentation otherwise are fantastic. I will certainly check out other content here.

[@julesdingle]

@@wishusknight3009 Thanks for the comment, no, I didn't speed up the audio. My first issue was a pretty rubbish mic and only getting into voice overs in the middle of 2020.. so lack of practise. The next mistake was to follow KZbinrs lead in cutting out breaths.. and keeping up that pace. Adding to that I did multiple recordings, so my tone changes according to day. So after a few months of learning, I now ..speak naturally, use a better mic, and do the audio in on long take. I'm still learning.. my next venture [in the history subject] is the Roman conquest in detail, starting in Wales. So would appreciate a follow-up review.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@julesdingle I have been watching your production on Mawddwy Railway. And I have to say it is much improved in most every way! Both auditory and visually too. Great job!

[@anthonyjohnson1519]

Apparently you never heard of the Caledonians. Nice views. But completely false narrative. Perhaps you should study the history more.....

[@julesdingle]

Caledonians were simply the people the Romans named are those living in what is Scotland.. As it happens I'm doing a series of videos on each part of the invasion .. including the failed attempts in ..Caledonia [latin for the North of Britain] Wether there was a tribe of Caledon is unknown So what do you think? do you follow the more conventional ideas or do you have your own?

[@peterrooke5336]

We could send all the afghan refugees north to rebuild the wall and join the nights watch . Keep the wildlings and white walkers out 👍