The Mysterious History of a Romano-British Settlement

The Mysterious History of a Romano-British Settlement | West Hill, Northumberland

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@tobyplumlee7602 6 ай бұрын

Please keep producing these interesting videos! I'm self educated and love history especially ancient British history. Thank you!

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

I will; trying to plan the next series! Lots on but loving doing them!

@hhollyd66 6 ай бұрын

Thank you. Interesting video. I can only imagine living in a country with so much history still in evidence. Here in America, the history of the first peoples has mostly been destroyed. It saddens me.

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

I have a few friends who have worked in North American Archeology and it does seem that there is a lot to talk about, especially with the diversity of groups who lived there.

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Do you know The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages? They did an episode on the Spiro - m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3Wzaq1-l69-hJo

@lenrichardson7349 6 ай бұрын

It does add to our character, when we can see with ease the building blocks of our history. It's not just stories in a book, or KZbin, but set in stone which you can visit and touch. It brings it closer and no longer seems the distant distant past. However there is so much history in America ready yet to be discovered. The push into America from the West seems such a big adventure for those people to have undertaken. I guess similar to the push from Africa to Europe.

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

@lenrichardson7349 thanks for the kind words!

@garrisonsgorrillaz1 6 ай бұрын

Yes, another very interesting, thank you.

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ForestArchaicCollective 6 ай бұрын

great explainer on the site! big ups 🙌

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ScottOsborne 6 ай бұрын

That aerial photo is done with LiDAR right? Aerial LiDAR has revolutionized archaeology, or it certainly has on here in our side of the pond. Makes me regret that I ever abandoned pursuing an Anthropology degree in college. I would be interested in your take on how some of these newer technologies have changed your field - especially with some of these Romano-British settlements that you’ve been studying or have been involved with. Cheers!

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

A lot of the Lidar is open access, have a look at this website: houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map

@robertvermaat2124 6 ай бұрын

Was the landscape also without trees during the time of occupation/

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

It was more forested but not totally.

@alanshearer3682 6 ай бұрын

Hey man I like your channel as a history buff. Lot of key information. You should have more views. Try to add some comedy fun stuff to engage more viewers

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, I've got a gradual plan for how to grow it, I've had five hundred subscribers over the last month so depending on if you hit the right topic, growth can come very fast!!

@David-mo5jw 6 ай бұрын

Really interesting. Would you say it’s a largely agrarian community who grew crops or were they raising more cattle/sheep? .I ask as I assume growing crops would also indicate a more passive peaceful community .I know during the times of the border rievers it was livestock and very limited crop growing due to the risks of being a static target. Some interesting carbon dating from Tinnis castle in Scottish Borders appears to overlap late Roman although a fortified site until a burning event around or just after the Romans left

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Hi David sadly it has not been excavated, so we don't know their diet, but there is a lot of farming terraces around the hillfort so that would suggest that they are farming. I'll need to look into Tinnis Castle, it seems familiar but I've read a lot!!

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 6 ай бұрын

They loved their round houses

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Common across most of the British isles and Ireland during this time.

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 6 ай бұрын

@@AlexIlesUK Yeah mate they look pretty cool. Should bring them back

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf well, get started then! Be the man to get the trend going!

@ScottOsborne 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, and it’s interesting to see the evolution from round houses to L-shaped dwellings and sometimes to full-blown villas with courtyards as some Britons profited from trade with Rome.

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 6 ай бұрын

@@AlexIlesUK 😁

@danielferguson3784 6 ай бұрын

Maybe these families are those who supply produce that sustain the Roman military on & around the borders, like a client community that profits from Rome, & is kept secure by the Army in return.

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

Entirely possible!

@ScottOsborne 6 ай бұрын

Living just north of Hadrian’s wall must have been like living on a knife’s edge. To whom to you entrust your security and livelihood? To a completely alien Roman culture south of the wall, or to one of what must have been a bewildering array of competing chiefdoms to the north? Or maybe you hedged your bets and pledged fealty to either/both as the situation dictated? Reminds me of the Wildings (Free Folk) in the Song of Ice and Fire Series. I wonder if they called the Romano-Celts who lived south of the wall “Kneelers”?

@AlexIlesUK 6 ай бұрын

@@ScottOsborne I doubt they called them that. There were probably a lot of inter-tribal alliances, a bit like the Border Reivers, so that people continued to exist and live in the area, but I bet when the Roman army started to march, getting into the uplands started to get really attractive.