Incredible New Discoveries Made at Roman Vindolanda!

[@hansenbee123]

Had I known how deeply I would fall in love with history as a teenager, I would have gone into the field of archeology for sure....

[@redmenacetv]

Had I known as a teenager how deeply I would fall in love with history , I would have gone into the field of archeology for sure....

[@grimmace9081]

I reflect on the very same thought.

[@karphin1]

I regret not doing that, as well!

[@Worldsamess2024]

Me to Ole. As a 7 year old in the 60s I would visit the library with my father and only come away with archaeology books from the adult section. My interest has never waned. I would visit museums as a teenager and stare at skeletons for an absolute age, wondering about their life etc. Always fancied going on a dig, but life children and marriage got in the way. Now watching this at age 65, I really wish I had gone into archaeology not hairdressing. Maybe in my next life.

[@Dusty357]

A love how the lady with glasses , has a strong accent but knocking about with us geordie folk you can here the twang in a words , lol love it , and fantastic finds thanks for sharing

[@davidoldboy5425]

Sounds more Scouse to me (I'm a Mackem) but yes I'm guessing shes Italian and studied in the UK, why aye lass!

[@skippyripley1239]

Hadaway and shite man...

[@davidoldboy5425]

@@skippyripley1239 Wheees keys are these marra? They'd cowp their creels round ere if you called that 'Geordie'

[@galghaidhil]

Her name is Marta and is originally from Italy. She’s been an invaluable researcher / archaeologist at Vindolanda for many years. And she’s a super smart and very nice person to boot.

[@davidoldboy5425]

@@galghaidhil So I was right Italian, yes she looks a nice person, come on then where did she learn her English?

[@davidoldboy5425]

I'm old now, but it has never failed to amaze me, especially in recent years, with visitor numbers booming to this world heritage site how little there is to see for them. The new visitor centre is great, as are all the museums but for a stranger, arriving possibly from abroad there is little to guide them from coast to coast, and I know, I have directed and taken many of them after being approached with 'where's the best place to go'? Most don't know about the reconstructions at Wallsend and South Shields, nor of the obscure temples, nor where the best forts are, they meander around looking for brown signs. Wouldn't it be fantastic if some enterprising body built a reconstruction of a fort, with a section of wall and a milecastle?, not necessarily near the wall, but not too far. Somewhere accessible by car where families, schools and visitors have the opportunity to truly gaze in awe at what was occurring two thousand years ago. They could possibly man it with pseudo troops and cavalry in the summer as a bonus, any rich benefactors left? Mind you nowadays with all the permissions, regulations, and safety/environment requirements Hadrian probably wouldn't have bothered would he?

[@dlevi67]

Well, English Heritage does something similar at e.g. Corfe Castle (or at least they did until the summer of 2018), so why not?

[@aidy6000]

Plenty of reenactment events up and down the land, i know of a few reconstructed pre-roman "villages" but not any castles. A reconstruction of Pontefract Castle would be immense.

[@stevetaylor8298]

Yes, yes yes, why am I now hearing your suggestion. David you should be knighted and take of tourism. (Oh and on a great salary as well)

[@helenamcginty4920]

First visited Vindolanda about 40 years ago. Have visited several times over the years. It never fails to surprise. Another favourite site my son and I always visited on our way back home was the little Mithraic temple at Carrawburgh.

[@jez750]

Visited amazing Vindolanda about 4 times over the years (the last time 2 weeks ago). The museum is wonderful and it has a lovely cafe. Visit the site and walk a section of Hadrian’s wall about a mile away.

[@stephensmith2601]

Very interesting. Looking forward to hearing more about this discovery as the excavations continue.

[@carolmarr6607]

Wonderful dedicated work to preserve the past.

[@christopherlaurence8897]

Enjoyed this. Hope you do more archaeology episodes like this in the future.

[@bluenoteone]

That is correct! The "Dark Ages" were anything but dark. Many magnificent un-reproducible cathedrals, art, writings, etc were accomplished. I could refer to it another way but that would be invite controversy; It is. indeed, one of the great misnomers of history.

[@xornxenophon3652]

Not really! During the time from 500 AD to 800 AD (aka "the dark ages"), populations in the formerly western parts of the roman empire declined rapidly and much knowledge was lost. Only after 800 AD was there some sort of consolidation (not improvement, mind you, but at least a stop to the constant decline in population, knowledge and economic strength). Rome had approximately 500,000 citizens in 455 AD! During the dark ages, but 10 percent of that population remained! Rome in 900 AD had but 20,000 citizens left! That is why it is rightfully called "the dark ages". It took more than 1,000 years after the dark ages until there was a city with 100,000 citizens in Europe again! We do not have much documents from the dark ages, as literacy was at an all-time low! Literature was almost nonexistent. The same is true for philosophy or mathematics (at least outside the Byzantine Empire).

[@Rymontp]

As far as I know, the "Dark Ages" are usually made out to be worse than what they were but it definitely wasn't such a good improvement as you make it out to be. Of course art was still created and books written but it was a time in which society shifted and Germanic customs were introduced in many places and mixed with latin ones. The "Dark Ages" definitely aren't some hidden renaissance. I'd be interested in educating myself further however so if you know some good books or documentaries, please do share!

[@bluenoteone]

@@xornxenophon3652 there was another civilization that by the 500 AD you mentioned it was already 450 +or - years along. We cant just review all this from the SPQR Corporate rule. THAT had to end, and end it did which then lent itself to the next almost 800 years to the 13 century where stellar minds built both true education as well as edifices. That era from Augustine to Aquinas was the true enlightened age. Mark it..."Tolle et Lege!"

[@paolorossi9180]

I like your video is very interesting.Greetings from Rome,Italy

[@andrewgilbertson5356]

Been there. Will go again

[@willemventer3935]

I did not know that the fort has survived into the christian era. I like the video

[@julianwarren7770]

I am NOT a history expert, but that carving of the man and the horse looks like a farmer to me...

[@e-curb]

1600 years ago, the artisan was telling his farmer subject that some day they'll think he was a god!

[@fuferito]

Marta Alberti (the one with glasses) has adopted the bad habit of her peers in referring to bronze as, 'copper alloy;' which, though factually correct, is nevertheless unnecessary and annoying.

[@cannyexplorer5357]

There in September. Wow. Certainly you need more than a day to see all of it.

[@pascalparise866]

I looks to me it is not shaped like a rocket but a fish. The fish was the first symbol of the Catholic faith.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Its just rocks and stone??? Whats so good about that?? You can find old rocks anywhere in the UK ???

[@davewatson309]

Excuse me, British Celtic christianity was exported to Ireland and from there to Iona. At Vindolanda christianity would have therefore preceded Columba's exile for mass murder to Iona. Christianity amongst the Picts also preceded Columba.

[@kc3718]

the ladies accent seems quite fitting at the Wall, neo geordie / ?.

[@angeloargentieri5605]

Roma il più grandioo e glorioso impero della storia; la grandezza,la potenza, la magnificenza e la gloria di ROMA È AETERNA, ROMA INVICTA ET LUX MUNDI 💪💪💯

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

You need to read some history books budd because the BRITISH had a bigger empire than the ROMANS at some point BRITTANIA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@logicaredux5205]

If the last artifact is from the Christian period, it could be a Palm Sunday depiction. Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey.

[@helenamcginty4920]

For goodness sake. Hes stark naked. No indication it is a Christian carving. Looks a lot like images of Mars.

[@logicaredux5205]

@@helenamcginty4920 - Well, maybe not a very orthodox depiction of Christ to be sure.😃 But yes, it could very well be pagan. Just because it came from the early Christian period doesn’t mean it is Christian to be sure.

[@fuferito]

I saw it as Hermes/Mercury, god of messages and travel (see the traveler's hat), but your theory works too, as Classical iconography adapted to a newer Christian message.

[@logicaredux5205]

@@fuferito - True. The earliest iconography of Christ from the Roman catacombs portrayed him as beardless and distinctively Roman looking. Some looked like Apollo.

[@tomjackson4374]

Sweetheart a straight nave with an apse at the end is not shaped like a rocket ship. More like a . . .

[@damionkeeling3103]

If the triskele was retained as a holy symbol by the early Christians it would seem it had major significance prior to that - ie pagan. So if that can be incorporated into the new religion then an earlier floorplan could also.

[@anonymous2513456]

Given that the bloke on that sandstone carving is wearing no trousers or shirt, in the NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND!, could it be that we have found the genetic origin of the modern day Georidie?

[@seanwelch71]

Was this a place of worship before the Romans?

[@gregt4202]

Very interesting. The video would benefit from a bit of EQ'ing, however. The woman's voice is screechy. I lay that at the feet of the audio engineers. Not her.

[@louisdemarco591]

Lady, that’s the shape of the Fish of Christianity, not a rocket. I’m surprised you wouldn’t know that.

[@bluenoteone]

there was another civilization that by the 500 AD you mentioned it was already 450 +or - years along. We cant just review all this from the SPQR Corporate rule. THAT had to end, and end it did which then lent itself to the next almost 800 years to the 13 century where stellar minds built both true education as well as edifices. That era from Augustine to Aquinas was the true enlightened age. Mark it..."Tolle et Lege!"

[@alecblunden8615]

yet you choose two of the most questionable thinkers to exemplify the era?

[@bluenoteone]

@@alecblunden8615 questionable, maybe, to the modernist Cartesian subjectivist tradition that laid waste to philisophy for the last 400 years. The Intellectual chaos we've been witnessing is an effect of both those ultra-realists who would deny to the senses an accurate reporting of the multiplicity of sense percepts from which can be abstracted what is truly intelligible, and, thus, true certitude of the nature of things outside the intellect and rational subject; the defects of atheistic materialism, on the other hand, destroys the spirituality of our life principle which truly transcends well over all others in the universe and CAN INDEED arrive at Truth.

[@hetrodoxly1203]

@@bluenoteone What?

[@taffyducks544]

I'm a Welshman who once put a rock atop another and was told I had found a Roman Wall. This fetish for all things Roman is disturbing. Rome was nothing but a fishing village.

[@Jess-bee]

I’m so early

[@HistoryHit]

first prize Jess!

[@jdshaman6448]

Incredible discoveries? Finding a 400,000 year old statue is an incredible discovery.

[@mrgillagorilla]

You are the liers and robbers, it all belong to all of us not you robbers.

[@mikereilly7629]

How is it that college educated people call it a Jesus fish??? They should know it's etymology... Icthis. ?Not to mention that the symbol itself has much older pagan connotations. Oh yeah that word pagan simply means country dweller