The Archaeology of Prehistoric Dartmoor | INTERVIEW: Dr. Lee Bray |

[@TheLadyJain]

Your presentations just keep better and better - thank you!

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Glad you like them!

[@susanhepburn6040]

This has to be one of my favourite interviews! So interesting and such a great communicator as your interviewee! I am unable to travel far outside of Gloucestershire/Herefordshire these days but love hearing about developments all over the place. Thank you so much, and I really hope to hear from this guest again.

[@williamjohnson1618]

always want to say hi to you. You are such a beauty I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm Williams by name from Arizona phonex and you where are you from?

[@itarry4]

With colour in pre history you only have to look at how most people see medieval castles. Most people see them as drab grey stone buildings. It's only fairly recently that the true bright colours have been put with them. What a very well spoken and good communicator Dr Bray is. Archology needs more people like him and yourselves to bring history alive and give it a voice. I'm not surprised he was inspired by Time Team, fairly certain he'd have found a place as he gets the message across very well, something missing from most media creations these days since TT left us. Thanks great interview.

[@rialobran]

I'm so glad Dr Bray brought up colour and used the Native American cultures as an example of how not everyone through the ages would have looked like Cat Weasel. If you ever make it down here I'd love to buy you both a coffee, I spend every weekend on the moor looking at the settlements, rows and kists.

[@stanlibuda96]

Great interview, I especially liked his reverence to Time Team and Mick Aston

[@lindalines603]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you.

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

Heyguys,Vonda in Oklahoma USA again. Great show, great show. I have so much to comment on, but I don't want to type a book again. SO I'm going to go with something from a previous vid, touched on briefly in this. If either of you recall, well it was Rupert who replied to me, saying you both sort of had the same idea about cursus, because in my comment I had said I always sort of thought they looked more like crop or maybe "special ceremonial crop" fields to me. Well I was watching a University lecture online, something like 23 part lecture on the black death, plague, choose a name but the lecturer was talking about the Feudal system and showing diagrams of the layout of villages around that time. She said something that caught my attention. She said the the reason the farmers land or fields were long and narrow (like cursus) was because they plowed with oxen and they are very difficult to turn around, so you plow in a straight line as long as you can, THEN turn the ox around and go back and forth that way. So in all the villages, the layout was pretty much the same. Church with its cemetery as the center of everything, with mercantile and blacksmiths etc...lining the main road and farmers house spread out from there. Each had plots of land to work and she says if your wondering why they are not like today's fields, but very long and narrow was because.....insert my oxen comment. I doubt they plowed the cursus with oxen but I wasn't there so IDK. Did they use oxen in the stone/neolithic age? Even if not, maybe it's just easier and faster to do it that way. It sure is when I go to mow my lawn lol. So much I want to say about this program, but maybe I'll come back after dinner and leave it in a diff. comment. I don't want you wasting time reading my rants and raves lol. THANKS AGAIN and I am so on the sequel to Standing Stones! That would be awesome. I'll check the Patreon link, but crowd sourcing or funding I thought was how the previous one was paid for. I know it's a huge job, but you guys made it seem easy breezy. That's what knowledge and a great passion for the subject does tho. You guys are great. THANKS AGAIN!~

[@lindagates9150]

I like to write long comments too but it's time for office work so I shall just give you another thumbs up👍🙋🏼‍♀️🇨🇦

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Thank you Vonda!

[@nightlyshift]

In Scotland, the fields were long and narrow until the agricultural reforms of the late 18th Century or later, if my memory serves; it was known as the "run rig" system (hence also the name of a well-known band). You have just explained to me why this came about! This system was abandoned eventually because it ended up with individual farmers having several long, thin ribbons of fields spaced widely apart from one another, making the work very inefficient for one person working alone.

[@dianespears6057]

At about 24.00 mins and Lynn Kelly's theories.... I saw her talk on YT and she was very logical and compelling in her theories. I was very glad to hear her work mentioned. Great interview. Thank you. Cannot wait to go Dartmoor !

[@nightlyshift]

hi Diane, have just downloaded Lyne Kelly's book "Codes of Memory" and hope to be able to read much of it soon - could you send me a link to the talk you mentioned, please? One of my favourite subjects, EVER. Thank you and looking forward to discussing it with you! S.

[@williamjohnson1618]

always want to say hi to you. You are such a beauty I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm Williams by name from Arizona phonex and you where are you from?

[@greendragonreprised6885]

OK, since you asked. Get out there. Get out to Dartmoor, but do it when it's safe and healthy to do so. The crazies hit the pubs at midnight. I'm sorry I missed this live. I tuned in but I was away from home house hunting and was in a hotel with crap wi-fi and it paused mid-syllable making watching impossible. Still, I found our next home. Mrs GDR thinks I bought it for the huge kitchen. Don't tell her I bought it because it's between a hill with a bronze age cairn at the summit and another with an Iron Age hill fort.

[@lazenbytim]

Same here and also watching standing with stones.

[@melaniehefner1098]

Virtual tour of Dartmoor here I come!

[@stumccabe]

Fascinating - thanks.

[@marcsmallwheel]

Amazing. Thank you for this, really enjoyed listening. Dartmoor is a fantastic place and a must visit.

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@janice1131]

Throw in a map once in a while so we Texans can get our bearings. Love your show!

[@inkerlot]

Excellent Thank You all so much

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Our pleasure!

[@louisbaldwin7097]

great guest many thanks

[@halley8890]

Another informative interview...thank you:) The quote about our own projections on the past was/is spot on!

[@cork..]

Its been a year, here's your reminder to get to Dartmoor

[@bobritter7197]

Great stuff gentlemen. (I hope the 'bronze age' won't be renamed the 'copper alloy age'.)

[@SymptomoftheTimes]

Thanks!

[@ThePrehistoryGuys]

Thanks CJ, much appreciated:)

[@Kergrist]

Again a very interesting interview, thank you for this.

[@CandideSchmyles]

"Never think you understand! "

[@deormanrobey892]

👀 Good stuff. 👍

[@BlueBaron3339]

I loved Time Team too. Well...the first ten or so seasons. The version they tried to make for us Americans failed utterly because their chief criteria for cast selection was how good people looked on camera. Hmmm....come to think of it that was part of the undoing of the British version in later years. But I digress. Wonderful interview! 👍

[@nightlyshift]

Is this the place and time, I wonder, to confess that I never took to Time Team? I always found it very shallow, looking only for "sensational" info and pleasing faces shouting great discoveries into the camera; altogether far too much like a reality TV-show… which of course it was, but Hey. Am I going to be excommunicated for this comment now?

[@BlueBaron3339]

@@nightlyshift Oh, I very much doubt that this crowd would find the simple fact that you didn't like Time Team worthy of controversy. And you're right. It was shallow. It was reality TV. Fair points! It popularized archeology though even if it was an often silly show.

[@llwyde1104]

@@nightlyshift certainly not. Much of tv archaeology is about image not substance...Time Team created interest in and respect for the past, in my view, and that made it ok with me.

[@williamjohnson1618]

always want to say hi to you. You are such a beauty I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm Williams by name from Arizona phonex and you where are you from?

[@susytomable]

Thank you🌸

[@re4lar]

You boys did a good thing when you brought this young man on, good job!!

[@black5f]

Sorry gentlemen, I missed the live. I'm quite fascinated where human recorded time / activity starts to overlap with geological change that kind of wipes the slate clean, and the smatterings of elusive but very interesting evidence. Very interesting.

[@esthermcdonald2297]

Another excellent talk!

[@dallastaylor5479]

In the USA our archeology consists of dinosaurs and Jamestown. That's pretty much it. I do wish they'd bring back time team.

[@evanhadkins5532]

It would be great if you could interview Lynne Kelly.

[@rhondasisco-cleveland2665]

Time Team! 😍

[@llwyde1104]

Mike and Rupert...you lucky people...as Max Miller used to say.

[@heidimelena4018]

😊🧚‍♀️🍃

[@llwyde1104]

Oh and get back out on Dartmoor...

[@evanhadkins5532]

re layers of organic matter. Composting?

[@kimmcroberts5111]

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[@fearlessjoebanzai]

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[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

unsubbing over that is kinda petty and childlike. But I got a huge laugh out of it because in my country Sanitary towels, napkins and pads...are women's "monthly" products

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

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[@lenabreijer1311]

Oh wow that is great! I have quite a few really interesting face masks. I love having these kind of accessories that are both interesting and keep me and my family safe! You will feel much better if you accept masks as a fashion or interest statement and enjoy wearing them. I may never give them up. My face is now warm in the winter and the mask filters out pollen and pollution and germs.

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

@@lenabreijer1311, hey that's fair enough for OAP's that are in their 90's like yourself. Ha, masks as "fashion"! How quaint.

[@lenabreijer1311]

@@fearlessjoebanzai lots of young people feel that way too. The Agenda is to protect the community. You might as well enjoy it.