Lindisfarne before and after the Viking raids // aerial 3D flyby

Featured in Assassins Creed, Last Kingdom, and Vikings, the tiny island of Lindisfarne was the site of one of the first Viking raids on the British Isles.
At the time, it was home to a wealthy, undefended monastery which was famous for producing beautiful sculptures and metalwork, and became a major destination for pilgrims.
This animation shows you what the island would have looked like when Vikings attacked, and some of the real archaeological remains that have been discovered over the last few years.
It's all based on crowdfunded archaeological excavations carried out by DigVentures and Durham Unviersity. Thanks to all the DigVentures crowdfunders and subscribers who made it possible!
See more discoveries from the excavations at digventures.com/lindisfarne
Find out how to take part in the next year's dig at digventures.com/get-involved
See everyone who has supported the research so far digventures.com/dig-team/lindisfarne
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[@northernskys]

Absolutely beautiful CGI of Lindisfarne. And awesome music to boot. Keep up the awesome work!

[@Digventures]

Cheers Peter!

[@dane-xxx-8713]

All my life I am obsessed with History, mostly Roman and Viking, this vid just takes you back in time a littlebit...seeing the nice annimations what ones was, and now is forgotton ,to light :D Thank you!

[@yokohamamama160]

Beautiful work, everyone! From an American lucky enough to have made the trek there.

[@nigelcrisp68]

Stayed for two nights in Oct 2019 and loved every second of it, so seeing this video brings it fresh in my mind, almost like you could reach out and touch. Thank you for the work in creating it.

[@llewellynpatrick160]

Excellent melding of CGI with aerial footage; it really brings a clearer sense of the past into what can be seen there today. I'll definitely be re-watching this just before visiting Lindisfarne again.

[@susanvinson2667]

I wish I had known more about the history of this beautiful island when I visited in 1979. It was one of the more fascinating places we visited.

[@jennyc4269]

Very cool cgi. Loved that. Thank you

[@lizstevenson7801]

Thank you this is so lovely to see.

[@Digventures]

You're welcome Liz!

[@Monkey_SK]

What an excellent video, well done. Will have to visit next year for sure.

[@girlnorthof60]

A brilliant production, highlighting the incredible hard work and time spent investigating the magical Island of Lindisfarne. 🙏 💖

[@dallastaylor5479]

Fascinating! Thank you!

[@cliveffitch5202]

Brilliant!

[@davidmccourt9949]

Wow. This is an amazing video. Quite emotional to see it in this light. Thankyou.

[@theolewell7535]

793 - year of a dragon. interesting. thank you :)

[@metamcdaniel74]

Excellent! So well done, fascinating and peaceful (except that whole Viking raid part)! I love waking up to a new DigVentures video! So much better than starting with the news!

[@Digventures]

Aww thanks Meta! Big hugs :)

[@FlyzJono]

Superb film

[@akahler5509]

Wonderful - Thank You!

[@Digventures]

you're welcome! glad you enjoyed it :)

[@katekenyon8525]

Beautiful

[@eironwyman8157]

Vikings...saving valuable church relics and artifacts since the eighth century.....

[@naveenpinto13585]

Time Team brought me here!

[@karenwells5493]

Thank you, brilliant as ever. Gave me a peaceful moment in this confusing world.

[@Digventures]

what a lovely response! the music is very calming!

[@spreston1996]

Beautifully done!!!

[@Digventures]

Cheers buddy! Hopefully we'll be able to make more things like this in the coming years

[@MrNas42]

Brilliant CGI. Thank you for your contributions to RESCUE's lecture "Digging into the future of digitisation" a couple of weeks ago

[@Digventures]

It was a pleasure!

[@SuperLancashire]

Wonderful. Thank you

[@Digventures]

You're welcome!

[@polgara1573]

brilliant

[@matthewbryant958]

Great work. Would love to re visit those times. How times have changed and not for the best

[@ericlange209]

I doubt you would be saying that while a 6'5 Norseman with an axe is running at you lol

[@georgenorris2657]

Please please more like this!

[@Digventures]

We'll try our best! It's not easy, but clearly well worth it!

[@kevwhufc8640]

Brilliant that you've got the funding , all we do is rescue digs at StAlbans museums, council owned and been over 10 years since our last dig just to answer questions.

[@robertmartin1812]

Superb

[@Digventures]

Cheers!

[@PreppyPreppyPreppy789]

Nice

[@markusarrow]

very very nice graphics .cheers

[@Digventures]

you're welcome Markus. Glad you like them :)

[@vulpsturm]

Wow, I had no idea the sea level was higher back prior to 1000AD.

[@harrybuik9763]

It's a pity we today cannot visit the first monastery,churches,and out buildings it would have been a wonder to behold iona as well but we can guess accurately near enough

[@KingGosh]

Wow what program did you use you recreate the images? It looks amazing

[@adamgetzendanner]

Love this video! But wasn’t the Viking raid in 789ad at Portland, Dorset the “beginning” of the Viking Age in England? Not as brutal, but a raid nonetheless.

[@haffoc]

I've been there. It really looks like that.

[@Digventures]

if only you could hear the seals in the animation!

[@amys2650]

Didn’t Mick Aston do a dig there in the 70-80s and then time team did it with some of your archaeological team in early 2000’s??? So after they left you went back and found more?

[@laurenced609]

Who wrote the music?

[@editorinformal873]

A refined work . Congratulations. Did anglo-saxon at this early time (King Oswald) use Latin alphabet ?

[@michelleleboutte9184]

💚

[@67iconn]

So can someone please tell me the difference between an artefact and a feature?

[@llewellynpatrick160]

An artifact is portable, e.g. a coin or a shield, whereas a feature is fixed in place like a road or the wall of a roundhouse. Hope that's of help.

[@67iconn]

👍

[@adrianapascu4674]

How long ago did this happen

[@Digventures]

The first Viking raid on Lindisfarne was in AD 793

[@helgehinderaker3041]

It was this first raid that suggests the beginning of the Viking era. I've been informed (but lost the source) that Portsmouth in South England was sacked many decennia before. A one-time raid by navigational error and "lucky" convenience for my forefathers? An interesting and believable theory about the viking surprise attacks has it that they maneuvered their ships to land sideways to shore or river banks, so that the entire crew of warriors could disembark "explosively" as one marauding horde, rather than climbing one-by-one across the higher ship sides up front. Does anyone in this group have info on the Portsmouth raid?

[@prussianeagle1941]

I dont have any info on that raid. All I know is that there were at least 1 or 2 attacks on the island of Britain DEFORE the raid on Lindisfarne, so (timestamp) 1:39 is inaccurate from what I've read. Vikings had been around for at least a few years, and had conducted some small raids around northern and western Europe.

[@t9x971]

It wasn’t the first raid, Dorset in Wessex was raided 4 years prior to lindisfarne by Vikings.

[@sharonhearne5014]

Hurry because with sea rise from climate change this could become a memory.

[@OpinionatedChicken59]

That's what it looked like? Man talk about basic, I'm surprised there was anything there worth stealing.

[@IamBatman616]

I don't know about u but that place looks kinda weak and unprotected. Just saying u know 👀