Archaeologists Discover Britain's Only Prehistoric Mummies | Digging For Britain

Archaeologists Discover Britain's Only Prehistoric Mummies | Digging For Britain | Unearthed History

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3 ай бұрын

A team of archeologists investigate the mysterious Cladh Hallan site in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and discover skeletons that challenge previous notions about Bronze Age Britain. Find out all about the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age, as well as Roman influences on Iron Age settlements in this episode of Digging for Britain.
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@1972tommyc 3 ай бұрын

Henry Chapman sounding a bit like Francis Pryor…love it👍😊

@gillbaldwin712 3 ай бұрын

Great to see Henry again now Dr Henry Chapman well deserved

@jamesbingham4538 3 ай бұрын

Dr. Henry Chapman! Congratulations Sir

@oldsguy354 2 ай бұрын

This episode was filmed in 2011, so Dr. Chapman has held the title for some time now. :) But I get it, it sounds "new" to us Time Team watchers. :)

@tassia1954 3 ай бұрын

My grandmother had such a flour grinder the handle of the upper piece was wooden .I remember my mother grinding flour and rice.Although we had mills for a large quantity in the area people still used the stone mills in their house.Now all those items are in the traditional museum.In old times people kept their tools and utensils!And use them!I come from Greece and I am 68 !Thanks for your work and reminding me of my grandmother!

@jessiejones4003 4 күн бұрын

@MrTorleon 3 ай бұрын

Well, another outstanding and rewarding episode, and presented by the equally outstanding and brilliant Prof Alice Roberts. I feel some genuine regret that I am retired to the far side of the planet, but through the internet I can remain fully informed regarding the important archeological finds, and keep up to date with the latest research, with the consequent adjustments to our understanding of pre-history Britain. Amusingly, I recall one or two of these discoveries being made, as one of my past colleagues and ardent archeologist would hurtle into my rooms, excited to share the news of the absolute latest find from some very muddy dig :) We are very fortunate indeed that this fabulous series continues to be uploaded to KZbin - thank you !!!!!!!

@LindaCasey 3 ай бұрын

Yesssssssssss

@user-ck3uu8rj3x 3 ай бұрын

Good luck with your relocation and subsequent 'new' life, Sir.

@einsam_aber_frei 3 ай бұрын

I’m sure even in Australia or New Zealand there are things worth excavating.

@MrTorleon 3 ай бұрын

@@einsam_aber_frei Well, indeed. A young post-grad I know has been gaining experience working in a number of digs, both in NZ and at various Islands. However, NZ is a young country, and only settled by Europeans a few centuries ago. The Maori - indigenous or not depending on one`s point of view, were, fundamentally a hunter -gatherer society utilizing stone tools, but with no written language and timber construction of dwellings etc. Consequently archeology is a bit then, as I understand it, but there are, undoubtedly artifacts which continue to be found, and there are a number of outstanding Maori historians whose deep knowledge of their culture is absolutely vital for greater understanding and appreciation :)

@MrTorleon 3 ай бұрын

@@user-ck3uu8rj3x Thank you, you are very kind. My wife was a New Zealander, and wished for us to spend our retirement in NZ.She is dead now, so that I live in a country that I have little familiarity with, and as an Emeritus Oxford Prof with a ' posh ' English accent, I most definitely don`t fit in :( 36 hour flight times are no longer a rational choice,but I remain in good contact with many academics and professionals to keep me in the loop and abreast of current advances in a range of research that are still of interest to me - distance is only a small disadvantage - thank you, and take care :)

@Ericsaidful 3 ай бұрын

Alice does it again. Beautiful.

@karphin1 3 ай бұрын

I always enjoy watching her programs on the archaeology in Britain.

@gregedmand9939 3 ай бұрын

Yes she is! Alice has had my full attention since she first appeared on Time Team, back in her strawberry hair days. Beautiful and very bright.

@simracingwales4997 3 ай бұрын

she doesn't know it yet but i will marry her 100% 🤣🤣

@williscopeland7114 3 ай бұрын

Get in line, man.

@gregedmand9939 3 ай бұрын

@williscopeland7114 There's something so hot about osteoarchaeologists, isn't there?

@maeve4686 2 ай бұрын

Lovely seeing TT alumni who weren't Dr's. or Professors yet.. Dr.'s Henry Chapman, Jeremy Taylor, Katie Hirsh, etc.....& Prof. Alice Roberts !

@davidfarmer2049 Ай бұрын

HS2 land-grab. Everything comes with a receipt

@carolefreeman2544 3 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful necklace that Alice is wearing! I would love to have one so Celtic!

@pageribe2399 3 ай бұрын

Things like that are easy to make with silver wire!

@christophermacleod3726 3 ай бұрын

So would I!

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERTS IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.

@davidfarmer2049 Ай бұрын

HS2 land-grab. Everything comes with a receipt

@lynnedelacy2841 Ай бұрын

Try using Google Lens on a screen grab to locate one

@iamauntmeem 3 ай бұрын

So much information to absorb and reify, I had to watch it twice. I love Dr. Alice Robert's sheer enthusiasm and how she presents the findings. She makes the information personal as well as exciting. Great jam-packed show!

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@davidfarmer2049 Ай бұрын

HS2 land-grab. Everything comes with a receipt

@Summerrose400 Ай бұрын

Brilliant series by amazing archaeologists and professors. Well done

@Glenn1892 3 ай бұрын

Alice could talk about stamp collecting and I'd still watch it.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

AS I SAY IM SORRY TO SAY ALICE ROBERST IS A FRAUD. SHE HAD HER LEGS WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH THE HS2 FRAUD THAT WRECKED MANY MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HS2 IS A TORY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. HS2 WRECKED HUGE SWATHES OF THE MIDLANDS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE. LIKE THE GOVERNEMNT IT IS NOT AN HONEST ORGANSIATION. IM SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT CAUSED.

@davidfarmer2049 Ай бұрын

HS2 land-grab. Everything comes with a receipt

@jennytheratbry4624 3 ай бұрын

Our Henry! Good to see another TT alum.

@theeddorian 3 ай бұрын

Burying the bodies in peat is no explanation of peculiar assembling. If the buried bones were, indeed, in a tightly flexed position, then there is an enormous problem with why they were, in fact, mixed up. Assuming the archaeological crew are not the ones who scrambled the bones around, then interments were constructed - by the people who buried the bones, to appear as single skeletons, laid in an individual grave. That raises a lot of questions. I have worked at interment sites where burials were taking place more rapidly than previous interments decaying, and the earlier fragments were simply dropped into the grave pit after the new occupant was placed and any ceremony conducted. The older bones, sometimes still partially articulated, were dropped into the grave pit fill. That can create puzzles as you try to reassemble skeletons - _and_ serious acculturation problems for descendants monitoring the work encounter a reality their oral histories have never included. This is an entirely different class of strange, even compared to some Tibetan customs, or Native American platform burials employed by some Rocky Mountain societies. The mussel shells may also have been an instrument like a rattle, which were widely used in prehistory all over the globe. The Iron Age posts might, in addition, or in addition to "making a statement", have marked a safe path through a wet land, even when the track submerged by flooding. It is a curious reality of archaeology that nearly all actions that people take, individually or collectively, "make sense" in several different dimensions, often ritually, socially, and economically, all at one time. The inclusion of "grave goods" in a burial, in addition to sentimentally sending gear and valuables along to the afterlife with the dead, also maintains or enhances the economic value of examples remaining above ground, regardless of whether we are finding tools, weapons, decorative items, or even evidence of storeable foods.

@maryanneslater9675 3 ай бұрын

The burial in peat to stop decomposition suggests that the body was kept on display for a time. It's possible bits went missing over time, so I wonder if the remains were arranged in a way that gave persons a complete skeleton for the afterlife, even if two or three spirits had to share it.

@theeddorian 3 ай бұрын

@@maryanneslater9675 There is some strong evidence that around that time period, (Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and perhaps even the later Neolithic) there was a widespread interest in the dead, and possibly in "consulting" them. I would like to know if there is any temporal span between the various parts assembled as a skeleton. Another possibility is that the various bodies were all thought to contain the same soul. There was a widespread belief in transmigration or reincarnation that followed the Indo-European/Iranian spread. Hindu beliefs (where Buddhism arose) still include it. When your child starts talking about remembering brown eggs from when she was a little boy, or notices and properly identifies the odor of horses shortly before she even sees one for the first time, you start to wonder how they might have thought about that 5,000 years ago.

@esmeralda3858 3 ай бұрын

@@maryanneslater9675 I wondered something similar. Could it be that after a natural disaster, battle or other event in which people's body parts were separated, survivors put them back together to form a complete skeleton, even if there was no certainty the bones belonged together? It could have been an attempt to restore dignity to the dead.

@ChrisShortyAllen Ай бұрын

It was a fence.

@maeve4686 2 ай бұрын

I think the iron punch (spike) could have been used for making horseshoes as well. The end of it looks proper for making holes for nails for application.

@jeffsmith2022 3 ай бұрын

Outstanding video, thank you...

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@BenSHammonds Ай бұрын

absolutely fascinating, composite skeletal remains, would not have thought of that if not for the science behind the investigation, very much enjoyed this program and enjoyed seeing Henry

@budd2nd 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating as always.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@marthafenimore4279 3 ай бұрын

Always surprises and learning from these documentaries. A fan of TimeTeam and today my surprise was Henry, now Dr Henry Clapton. Congratulations Dr. Clapton.

@brettbrown9261 3 ай бұрын

He still is a current member of the New Time Team.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@PattyMoore-vd1ug Ай бұрын

Thank u these programs are really interesting

@elizabethfairlie8296 Ай бұрын

Yes. I think she is wonderful and really inteligent. So much respect for her and all she does. She has a knack of taking complex information and making it accessible

@SmokeyTreats Ай бұрын

So fascinating! Thanks so much.

@estherlwhittle7568 3 ай бұрын

Always amazing discoveries. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

@EmbraceTheJourney 3 ай бұрын

another fantastic journey in time. Dr. Roberts and her team are the best.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@davidfarmer2049 Ай бұрын

HS2 land-grab. Everything comes with a receipt

@kevingreen3781 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant presentation from Alice very intriguing

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@davidfarmer2049 Ай бұрын

HS2 land-grab. Everything comes with a receipt

@deedee-tc4fh 14 күн бұрын

Compared to what?

@lianefehrle9921 3 ай бұрын

I wish I was younger and went to collage to become an archaeologist

@GailBrenner-vt9ou 3 ай бұрын

Probably you could have been a spelling teacher except for one small problem. Lol ❤😂

@1346crecy 3 ай бұрын

Bit harsh Gail. No need to join the grammar police. I know you meant it as a joke, but it doesn't come across that way.@@GailBrenner-vt9ou

@davidevans3227 3 ай бұрын

never too old. mature student...? open university.. lots of options.. 🙂 maybe give something a try.. x

@gayeinggs5179 3 ай бұрын

Yes me to but. Me as. A girl was not given the opportunity

@mrcool2457 Ай бұрын

Collage ! Yes, I love the Arts too 😋

@stephengent9974 2 ай бұрын

We seldom hear about the large animals still present at this time, like wolves, bears , aurochs, wild boar lynx and others, making it a more dangerous place to be.

@samuelgarrod8327 8 күн бұрын

This programme is about human history.

@lincruise5275 Ай бұрын

I'm so glad I found you🤗 wonderful! Will follow🙏 xx

@christineingram55 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating.It makes you look at history differently.Theres things I found,I had not even known .Great video ..Thank you 😁

@lovelyskull3483 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, fascinating video.

@davidwhelan1545 3 ай бұрын

Very informative and eye opening, even having worked alongside many archaeological digs throughout Kent over the years. Although I've now had to retire, I still keep in touch with some top archaeologists, just to keep them on their toes.❤

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@fedupwitumboth 3 ай бұрын

Just love these documentaries!

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@biddiemutter3481 3 ай бұрын

30:33 the fence around the dig is helpful in showing the lay of the land before the dig.

@T5623QCOM 3 ай бұрын

JUST AMAZING HISTORY! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SUCH A WONDERFULLY INFOMATIVE SERIES!

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@davedart147 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, just great to listen and watch 😊

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@ellenlascola6858 4 күн бұрын

Fabulous episode

@lisasimourd2453 3 ай бұрын

I love the presentation! Thank you

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@SirAdamMeek 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting! Thank you!

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@iamme6773 3 ай бұрын

Nevermind, if mummies were more common. I'm much more curious, about whether it was common to mix and match them, like Frankenstein's monster. THAT'S what makes them so unique.

@Jordan_Starr 3 ай бұрын

Right? Especially the one with two different upper and lower sets of teeth. So it's not like they cut someone's head off and put it on another body, it's a whole other jaw. If the mummification happened while flesh was being preserved as this documentary implies, then surely it's quite a gruesomely made mummy of parts.

@paulpowell4871 3 ай бұрын

Always great

@maxdaly8185 3 ай бұрын

This was fantastic.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@frankanddanasnyder3272 Ай бұрын

How do they know the bronze age Wavenly river posts extended meters above ground..and were not just the foundations for a wooden walkway across the wetlands?

@kingjsolomon Ай бұрын

I love her necklace 🌀

@LindaCasey 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant doc

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@rachel-rb4bp 3 ай бұрын

very interesting thank you

@robertdiehl1281 3 ай бұрын

Awesome video. So much rich history on the island. All remarkable and some very sad. Seems violence was a ubiquitous reality in all cultures.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@johnjacobs1625 24 күн бұрын

Nice!

@Nickmedium 3 ай бұрын

Excellent programme and Narration from Alice

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@charleshess678 3 ай бұрын

I started watching this ɓeautiful woman her passion for her field and her narrative skills are amazing and incites you to follow her on her trips into pass history ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@Leningrad_Underground 2 ай бұрын

The more reent British "Mummies" can be found in the " Houses of Parliment" . Big Mausoleum next to the river, Can't miss it. don't be put off by the smell .

@carolefreeman2544 3 ай бұрын

I wonder how the first person to make metal from rocks discovered this?

@ronbyers9912 Ай бұрын

While bones, swords and pottery are wonderful, I want to hear the stories of the lives of the ordinary people. How did they use those pots? What did they eat? How did they educate themselves? They were mostly farmers. What was life like on a farmstead? How did they live through the seasons?

@biddiemutter3481 3 ай бұрын

23:03 initiative and common sense. People working as a team ❤❤

@bertplank9892 Ай бұрын

Prof Alice is TOP NOTCH!!.....I can thoroughly recommend Alice and her wild swimming doco....which proves the Doc's red hair is not natural......Alice is a real find for archeology!!.

@westcountrymudlarks 3 ай бұрын

great video as amateur dump diggers ourselves we really enjoyed this thank you

@52daa 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic I know Henry from Time Team👏👏👏😎

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@ozzyluvngirl 3 ай бұрын

One thing I would like to know is how in the head. Did they ever figure out that you could take the rock internet into metal? I mean, what could have been the process for them to have figured that add out?

@kathleenmartin7498 3 ай бұрын

And, how did they figure out how to add metal ores together to make it stronger??

@michaelcaffery5038 3 ай бұрын

If you mean get metal from ore, probably noticing a strange, hard shiny material coming from rocks under fires for cooking, funeral pyres or ceremonial fires.

@michaelcaffery5038 3 ай бұрын

@@kathleenmartin7498I guess curiosity, "I wonder what we'll get if we mix these 2 metals", and trial and error like most developments.

@gar6446 3 ай бұрын

I suspect it came from the colour of the rock, they started out with green/copper, and progressed with higher heats and different colours, but how they went from pure copper tools to alloys is amazing really.

@adamdavies6248 Ай бұрын

Clay kilns are likely the first sources of metal, as saif about other high intensity heat environments, less likely cook fires, mayby pyres, but a bronze age smelting kiln is similar to a pottery oven, and this is Potentially, how we discoverd smelting... By the hard, probably colourful, bits of probably copper. :)

@Sagacity61 3 ай бұрын

I'm always fascinated to learn about Raimen Baines

@jacquigriffin5973 Ай бұрын

I love her accent too!

@mrains100 3 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@louisgiokas2206 3 ай бұрын

At about 45:25 the statement is made that the road is running in a straight line. Surprising for pre-Roman Britain. Surprising indeed. Once, when I was living in Winchester I was at the castle. I asked for directions and the person I asked said something along the lines of, follow the straight road, the Roman road.

@206stonner 3 ай бұрын

Being in the USA im so jealous of all the archaeology in England-Europe.

@LarsonPetty 3 ай бұрын

That has always caused me great envy, as well. People that can roll back the history of their homeland to the tune of THOUSANDS of years dont realize just how lucky they are when considering such an aspect of their national identity. Ancient Egypt and Feudal Japan also come to mind.

@petersmith6974 3 ай бұрын

👍🏻. I’m in Yorkshire England

@lleach7 Ай бұрын

Then you do not understand what Archeology has and continues to add to the history of the Americas. It extends back far beyond these findings with massive structures and civilizations.

@DJWESG1 3 ай бұрын

We seem more keen to understand how ppl live once they are gone. But in life we dare ask how ppl live in fear of the answers they might give.

@denisehall4818 3 ай бұрын

thanks

@Canalcoholic 3 ай бұрын

Series 2, episode 3, first aired September 2011.

@KernowekTim 3 ай бұрын

Still waters allowed ancient people to literally see themselves. They were the mirror of the living. On the otherside of the mirror was "the other side"; the dark side: Death. The power of water, fire and speech are manifold. They are the basis for the ascent of humanity, I think. But I digress...... Thank you all at Unearthed History for providing so much fascinating information and great food for thought.

@GhastlyCretin85 3 ай бұрын

There is evidence of mirrors from 8000 years ago.

@kennethtasa5959 3 ай бұрын

Did the mummies have their ancient dna sequenced ? My having South Uist ancestry makes it of special interest.

@dominofalling2038 3 ай бұрын

Professor Alice Roberts is a superb communicator. Would you have made the same remarks about a male presenter?

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is. Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.

@patrycjakonieczna 3 ай бұрын

These timber fences resemble me Polish village of Biskupin. 😮

@outdoorsy01 Ай бұрын

14:36 it doesn't matter who you are. Put your PPE on, or get off site

@Garwfechan-ry5lk 3 ай бұрын

There are Massive Iron deposits in South Wales, that were worked by the Celts and later the Romans

@pennywood5653 3 ай бұрын

How long ago was that filmed? I'm sure that the Calleva dig stopped for good about 10 years ago. It was a mile or so from Silchester where I lived. Used to go for runs around the Calleva site.

@Dontstopbelievingman 3 ай бұрын

I always wonder if things we think are rituals, based on very small samples, are actuslly the behaviours of serial killers or other outliers who performed their own private rituals on their victims. If you think of the remains some of our modern killers have left, you might think their personal burial areas were official, in hundreds of years time. Well, if we lost all written history.

@biddiemutter3481 3 ай бұрын

23:30 I was wondering whether it marked a safe route through marshy or otherwise regularly flooded land?

@dangalli1 Күн бұрын

Gentlemen of Culture, we meet again...

@smillabutryn7517 3 ай бұрын

Similar burial rites were performed in many places in Europe...once upon a time

@annaholiday3881 Күн бұрын

you are so F-ing talented owl is amazing

@robertspeakman1174 3 ай бұрын

Everything perfectly beautiful will you read stories on you tube xx

@meganmeherbanigilbert9762 15 күн бұрын

Who says there was no insurance? If the archeology shows us anything it shows these people were just like us. I think that’s a large assumption 😊

@pipfox7834 3 ай бұрын

However did those mummy teeth look so good without any added fluoride in their water? Dentists please feel free to elaborate 😂

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is. Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.

@lollibolli2601 2 ай бұрын

No sugar in their diet

@pipfox7834 2 ай бұрын

@@lollibolli2601correct!😊

@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 3 ай бұрын

The presenter's strong point is her melodious voice. Her weakness is, paradoxically, her strong point. Today I closed my eyes to better appreciate what Alicia Roberts was saying and I almost fell asleep. Her tone of voice captured me, calmed me and made me wander and I immersed myself in the dreamlike universe as if I were easy prey for a Greek mermaid singing information about archeology in English. But it's not necessarily her fault. I was a little tired.

@ici_coop 3 ай бұрын

Alice 😴

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

@teeteepalooza 2 ай бұрын

that’s not creepy 😅

@ljmrecords2564 2 ай бұрын

Possible rapist.

@ghockings Ай бұрын

I also fell asleep listening to this program and had a pleasant dream.

@anthonylong5941 3 ай бұрын

I think we need to put all our efforts into the present. And save humankind so we actually survive to look back into the past.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

The first intelligent reply Ive seen here. As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is. Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.

@sherrihaight2724 3 ай бұрын

Really interesting content, though music seems a bit overkill for science. Lol

@Iz0pen 2 ай бұрын

The Comanche sometimes burnt all their belongings and killed their livestock in mourning.

@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 3 ай бұрын

This was really rather good. Subbed. {:o:O:}

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

Too good paid for from many wrecked lives. As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is. Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.

@MrHowardking 12 күн бұрын

if Iron Age coins had the names of tribal leaders on them, surely writing must predate the Roman conquest

@mikef.1000 3 ай бұрын

Alice Roberts was doing well until the closing sentences: "The Romans brought us writing, but written history only tells part of the story. Archaeology not only fills in the gaps; it paints a much more complex picture of our past, and connects us with the lives of ordinary people." This is the kind of pitting of documentary evidence against archaeological evidence that is so partisan, and so unnecessary. They are just different forms of evidence, and they complement each other. I mean, it could have been equally said, "Archaeology only tells part of the story. Written history not only fills in the gaps, but it paints a much more complex picture", etc. Can we please get over our immature reflex of pitting one discipline against the other, and learn to work together and respect each other's disciplines?

@barkershill 2 ай бұрын

Agree, and I also see ancient written accounts being either accepted as factual or dismissed as being biased depending on what the scholars want to portray

@IosuamacaMhadaidh 3 ай бұрын

Obviously they traded and traveled to the continent, and Mediterranean historians mention Britons in various works predating Roman invasion. It's not too surprising to see more intricate and fancy accoutrements in Celtic Britain.

@lauraleecreations3217 3 ай бұрын

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@Garwfechan-ry5lk 3 ай бұрын

the Cara silver and gold coins have been found in Wales , Caratacus was the Cymric Chieftain and King Caradoc, certainly we have so many place names with his name and family around Llyswyrnwy and Pentre Meurig also at Twyn Caradoc and Caer Caradoc above Brynna , he in our History that was handed down, was Known to the Romans , we know there were Large Battles with the Romans around this area, because there are so many Roman Forts and Roman burials here, Caer Caradoc has one of the Largest Bronze Age Burials in Britain and there are literally within 10 miles more than twenty Hillforts, many were still in use when the Saxons entered in the 6th Century and left pretty well soon after coming back over the next 300 Years for Battles they lost. Wales is a No No for archaeologists, why because there are answers here that the English establishment and the British Museum aka English Heritage will not want to hear and see. Roman and Etruscan pottery has been found in South Wales the Greeks and later Romans were trading here from at least 800 BC. Celts also travelled to the European Mainland and Brythonic Celts were with the Etruscans in the Punic Wars, the Etruscan city of Caeri like Fiesole has many Celtic Burials. We were as the British people a lot more sophisticated than you think, for Romans wore our Clothing in Rome, the first Gucci and Versace perhaps! Diolch yn fawr i ti, Nos da.

@ChrisShortyAllen Ай бұрын

Are you related to Neil Kinnock?

@archangel807 2 ай бұрын

Look for the war grave of Queen Boudica....and her daughters...

@ChrisShortyAllen Ай бұрын

Myth

@davidmullens6927 3 күн бұрын

‘Some Historians were sceptical of the facts.’ This is the problem, the story gets changed and verified and still it gets questioned. Open your minds, especially to facts.

@Seekay-oe3qz 3 ай бұрын

Are we not still in the iron age ? Given that each age is named after the predominant metal ,seems to me we are still in the iron age ? (+ Plastic + oil )

@DJWESG1 3 ай бұрын

I think its called the anthropocine

@maryanneslater9675 3 ай бұрын

For western Europe, archaeologists and historians use the term Roman Period to follow the Iron Age. The Roman Period was followed by Early Medieval, Medieval, Post-Medieval (aka Renaissance), and Industrial/Modern. The last one is ours. Anywhere else the periods may be quite different. In Southeastern Europe, the Iron Age was followed by Hellenistic, then Roman Period, Byzantine, Ottoman, Industrial/Modern. Asia, Africa and the Americas are really different.

@ChrisShortyAllen Ай бұрын

Stainless steel? Copper is big again. Chromium? Numpty

@eileenlocke7877 3 ай бұрын

Interesting th u

@vavilovasvetlana9044 3 ай бұрын

I support all comments.

@davidfarmer2049 2 ай бұрын

paid for from many wrecked lives. As I say IM sorry to say alice roberts is not what you maay think she is. Paid up by the HS2 railway scam.

@TineBeo 3 ай бұрын

OR... people discovered some bog bodies and gave them a reburial.

@oculusangelicus8978 3 ай бұрын

Of course, it is entirely possible that they might have kept the dead among them, as several other societies have done or still doing, but it may just have been a way for the people to preserve their kindred dead as a way to assuage their religious beliefs, or in conformity of them. they might not necessarily keep the dead above ground, like this guy says to keep providing their wisdom, I do not think so poorly of our ancient ancestors to think they would be as unintelligent as to keep the dead around to keep giving their input to their society, I think it would be more in line with religious observations, or to make the wake of a person's passing happen not only once but twice as they were recovered from the bog looking incredibly lifelike and lasting within the grave much longer than a person being buried shortly after passing. we have to remember that religion played a significant part of ancient societies than today, and they were much more structured in line with their religion that today as well. That's my take, anyways. Could you imagine having your beloved life partner put into a peat bog to preserve the body and then returning them to their home? can you imagine the re-opening of that very recent wound in your heart? and once they returned from the bog, they would be preserved, yes, but still not anywhere near the way they were in life and I'm not so sure that people who have tender hearts would want that. that is a way of keeping a wound open, not close it. there is something that provides closure to a loved one's life when they are buried. I can certainly see some societies having prolonged wakes for their dead but not much more than that. even societies that exhume their kindred dead do it only temporarily and not very often.

@esmeralda3858 3 ай бұрын

I agree. The people of the past were just as human as we are today. They loved people and grieved when their loved ones died. They may have had religious practices we don't have today, but these would be performed in the context of grief for loved individuals, and the comfort the practices gave to the living.

@Jordan_Starr 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking this. I'm also baffled by the fact some of them are made of different body parts - how would / could you remove the jaw of a family member and just put someone else's lower jaw on them and all these other parts, THEN bury them in peat, and then later on remove them as some kinda franken-mummy? It's confusing

@ElectricRose9001 3 ай бұрын

It's weird to consider that this is also a large part of America's history, because we'll find something like "Look guys! North American Mummies in Florida!" And we all give a collective "Yaaaay! Oh..Wait..That's not actually us."

@paolo4002 3 ай бұрын

The Waveney site was interesting in that it showed how similar we "modern" people are to people of the past. The people of the past used planking and post to navigate across boggy ground and the investigating archeologists used the modern equivalent to solve the same problem ... modern day pallets. When lifting the posts from the peat, a log, rope and human muscle power. Are we really that different from the people of the past, or is it that our tools are just a little better.

@edmundmiller70 Ай бұрын

Romans brought writing to an otherwise civilized society and destroyed all resistance. It is habitual and sad. If we really understood tolerance, we might be able to better survive difficult times without mass destruction of each other. Many more natural events will continue. It is interesting how it corresponds with Earth history for thousands of years, and the nature events that occurred during those times -- meteors, volcanoes, earthquakes, typhoons etc.. These events constantly occur and create instability. Man creates worship. Earliest worship was done to the sun, probably by amoeba, and continued with multi-cell creatures which emerged and adapted. In every age, when food became scarce, it resulted inevitably in clashes with raiding parties of starving people. Romans took things to a great level. They brought writing, some superior engineering and their version of civilization. They also brought sloth, greed, and slaughter. As in every culture, you can get clues by observing the lower classes who most suffered. This trend continues to date.

@suzannehaigh4281 3 ай бұрын

The Romans hardly visited Scotland and that is what they did. The Scots frightened them so they turned back only pushing to Antoines Walls, little above Hadrians. Also I do not think these are the "only" prehistoric skeletons of Britain.

@Ashevillein 3 ай бұрын

There certainly must have been Romans in Brittain, or at least Roman sympathizers before 43 or the Romans would not have sent legions to aid them. Refined dining bits should not be surprising.

@gar6446 3 ай бұрын

The interplay between the continent and the British Isles long predates the Romans. Parisii chariot burials in the north, La tene ware in the south east, amorica linked with the south west, not to mention Denmark, low countries etc with the east coast, the Irish and baltic links. These trade routes go back to the neolithic, 'so it could be said they were well established ! In fact, the wealth created by this trade may have given the Romans the false impression that there was lots of gold available in Britain.