The Largest Underwater Ship Excavation Since The Mary Rose | Digging For Britain

[@jesterr7133]

Wow. The preservation of the items from HMS Invincible was amazing. I never expected to see the items in such good condition after that much time.

[@InstaPotCaptain]

I really really love these ship wreck documentaries! More please.

[@RhonwenBear]

One of my ancestors was a Hessian who was shipped to America by Great Britain in the Revolutionary war, who stayed in America after being held as a POW.

[@pcka12]

Britain & the British colonies of North America had German Kings in the House of Hannover, so naturally German soldiers followed them, it never ceases to surprise me that people do not know this!

[@jimplummer4879]

I would not doubt it if a lot of them stayed on.

[@jimmorrison7417]

I’ve read that the Hessians were dumbfounded when arriving at the bountiful farms and American settlements. They thought the Americans had it made and couldn’t grasp as to why they would revolt against their protector Britain. Many settled in Pennsylvania after the war.

[@j.dunlop8295]

Definitely Hessians were repeatedly told of the German settlers in Pennsylvania with nice chubby daughters, I've read reports from 1700s on it!

[@michaeltelson9798]

My hometown in NJ has a story about Hessian troops making a cattle raid that got them stuck in the silty mud of the Hackensack River as the tide retreated and angry Dutch farmers finally catching up to them. The Hessians not being a coastal people weren’t used to tidal changes.

[@hughbean6785]

Thanks Alice great archeology and history

[@gabehartman6832]

Dang Dr. Robert is a British National Treasure!!

[@jesterr7133]

I'm totally in love with her, lol. They could not have found a better host for the show.

[@vixtex]

Thank you for posting this video 🌎

[@dcmackc01]

Wonderful video! Amazing new history revealed. Dr. Roberts is a fantastic presenter!

[@lovelyskull3483]

These documentaries are wonderful. Thank you.

[@LadyAxe13]

Lovely doccie to listen to while working a boring job! The excuse is to watch it again after work to finally enjoy the visuals!

[@killeresk]

Great episode. Good job guys.

[@EmbraceTheJourney]

thank you so very much for this wonderful video

[@pamjohnson5363]

Wonderful documentary. One suggestion, would you be able to show a quick map of Great Britain at beginning of announcing each discovery with an X or whatever marking the location of the discovery. Thank you for your excellent work!

[@gowdsake7103]

Ummmm did you not watch ?

[@puppy2haley]

Another awesome video! Thanks to you both for the beautiful adventures you take us on. Love your channel!! Stay safe! 👍❤️

[@brianshipman5313]

What a geat program. Being brought up in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight and being ex navy, I found the section on HMS Invincible very intresting.

[@joshschneider9766]

im so used to seeing Raksha Dave up to her nose in a trench on time team. to see her expertise in a lab shine also is pretty darn awesome. keep up the great work Raksha!!

[@pierrewagenaar3162]

All is so new to me. We have as common horses Belgians and Friesians over here. Fox trotters was a unknown name to me. Keep looking and learning. Clyde's dales I only seen in the Uk untill I found your channel

[@philprice3870]

Prof Alice Roberts,to me is on a Par with Sir David Attingbrough Inbthat they have an ability to talk too Less intelligent people like myself in such a way I feel They are talking directly to me on MY level of understanding .That is a talent I wish more presenters had ,but sadly don’t .

[@ginnygin7141]

This is a great example of why i would never want to be buried. Couple hundred years and they'll have built a massive abbey on top of you until it caves in on top of you and some college student is digging your ass up and poking around in your coffin. And thats a best case scenario. At least its a landmark building and not a parking lot

[@sforza209]

And then they will claim you were a Christian. Lmao.

[@stlmopoet]

I don't think I'd be too upset either way.

[@ginnygin7141]

@stlmopoet in that youd be dead or you dont have any spiritual beliefs in what happens to you and your corporeal form after death. In which case why spend 30k in burial costs

[@stlmopoet]

@@ginnygin7141I am a Christian. I was thinking about being dead a few hundred years and people then shuffling my bones around. I can't afford anything except donating my body to science, so I really don't care what happens to my remains.

[@twin40dave]

Well done guys 😊 pushing the envelope

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

I love that soldiers are using archeology for various reasons

[@terencephillips6833]

Great to see Raksha from time team again ..Sharp shovel wife lol.

[@lianefehrle9921]

This place that will be just talked about is part of my last name from my father’s side. Our name has been changed in the spelling over the years until now. 57:55

[@techfixr2012]

Logistics is everything.

[@caledoniantours220]

In fact Britain is "a fairly large island as far as islands go", according to Professor Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.

[@nickmiller76]

It's only a tenth the size of Greenland, the official largest island, so it actually IS pretty small, irrespective of what some obscure Canadian says. Then populate it with 80 million people and it feels very small indeed.

[@caledoniantours220]

If you don't include those continental land masses, Britain scores higher. It's ninth, behind Greenland, New Guinea (Indonesia/Papua New Guinea), Borneo (Indonesia/Malaysia/Brunei), Madagascar, Baffin Island (Canada), Sumatra, Honshu (Japan) and Victoria Island (in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago).

[@sforza209]

9th in what?

[@GEAyres]

Just to correct you. A cannon is used on dry land. A cannon that is on board a ship is called a gun. A gun on dry land is a cannon. A cannon on board a ship is called a gun.

[@gowdsake7103]

When they were on the ship they called them guns

[@jonpru82]

Former redleg here. Cannon and Gun are used interchangeably on ground. I can’t say the same for naval guns; as my experience is in the US Army.

[@angelabrady9342]

Makes me want to learn about the lives of soldiers that populated Pride and Prejudice! I’m sure there are research papers out there!

[@hiddentruth1982]

The battles always make the stories but it's the time between battles that is 90% or more of the time.

[@caledoniantours220]

So if we include those as mega-islands, Britain would actually be the lucky 13 - the 13th largest land mass on the planet."

[@darlenejordahl3187]

I think I like either the brown or the knotty pine tone.

[@nickjohnson410]

Naming a vessel "Invincible" is the same as spitting in Poseidon's face... The ship will be claimed by the ocean without a doubt. One person's hubris hundreds of years ago is our gain today... Awesome dig.

[@ajknaup3530]

I was thinking the same thing, something like calling the Titanic "unsinkable."

[@rocketamadeus3730]

I'll be sure to NEVER GET HISTORY HIT TV! THANK YOU FOR THE VOLUME!

[@sforza209]

Quit ya whining.

[@jodyknight]

I totally agree with you, and you whine about whatever you like, lol.

[@techfixr2012]

I want to know, who put the britches on to see what they actually felt like to wear. Were they hot, binding, easy to wear and absolutely functional? What are they like?

[@restezlameme]

All contemporary dress of the time was tailored to fit the wearer, and a king's wardrobe would be of the finest cut and quality. He'd also have some sort of undergarment made of fine breathable fibers that would've been very comfortable. I don't know if he could do cartwheels in them, but they would fit perfectly, and be pretty easy to move around in.

[@thomasbell7033]

I would bring up the Battle of Trenton, where George III's Hessians received a sound whacking from Washington's ragtag provincial troops, but that would be churlish, so I won't.

[@richardh8082]

@thomasbell7033 As an Englishman, every 4th July, I thank God I'm not American

[@549RR]

@@richardh8082as a Canadian, I do the same daily.

[@ElizaPurest]

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[@brucebrothers2373]

I have a working English bronze cannon from the 1700's that looks just like the swivel gun they found. The only difference is that mine is 2 1/2 inches long. A child's toy of that period.

[@michaelrobbins9679]

Beyond Time Team?!

[@jester5ify]

A 74 gun ship that could 'blow anything else out of the water'...sniff... Guess that's why she was captured then.

[@boydgrandy5769]

French ships were notoriously lightly built, prone to hogging and poor performance in heavy seas. Perhaps the way she was timbered was new, and maybe she was faster than a British 74, but she was still taken as prize in the end and broken on the reef she grounded on. Her heavy guns were probably salvaged soon after the grounding, especially as the larger guns were probably made of admiralty brass and very valuable. Swivel guns were cheap and made of iron, as were many of the lighter calibers, and not worth the salvage.

[@philipr1567]

It would be interesting to know the circumstances of the capture. She might have been able to fire mighty broadsides, but if an enemy warship crossed astern and hit her rudder she would be helpless.

[@susanhayirli8474]

DreamTeam works wonders

[@dawngriffin3550]

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[@robbyakes8736]

WAR IS EVIL

[@Stu1664RM]

Alice! All these years later and she still makes my toes tingle! She’s like a fine wine. Getting better each year. By God it’s a heady mix. Style, beauty and a PhD with an ology!! What a Sunday morning in bed that’d be!! “Here you go love, cuppa tea, couldn’t tell me about how Napoleon over stretched himself in Russia again could you?”

[@billyandrew]

Stole a ship, renamed it, then, somehow, ran it aground.

[@RamBeloeZlato]

10 second black out Xena's Thrust no more spells.

[@stlmopoet]

Thie Invincible was vincible.

[@Mossyz.]

[@Emtbtoday]

In these times still no expense is being spared! Yeah right let it rot fix the roads or something with it!

[@TimDavies1955]

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[@bobmarshall3700]

Why is she wearing a black arm band?

[@paulpasternak2026]

Too many cuts and clips. Gave me a head ache after 2 minutes

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

HMS Invincible (1744) was a 'Third rate' ship. She could not "literally blow anything' out of the water". She would have not had a chance against a First rate. This series is good, but it is full of lazy mistakes like that, from people who think they know TV, but know back all about history.

[@williammartin2593]

Yes, that was sloppy writing and not enough review by other historians. I am not sure anyone hires an editor anymore. But some of the amateur historians on KZbin are talented!

[@thomasbell7033]

I feel your pain. I'm an aviation writer, and the way popular history docs treat the subject has just about put a permanent wince on my face.

[@danielwardle5374]

if it had connon it can

[@MrTorleon]

I agree with you, to a point. Personally, I have always considered HMS Warrior ( 1860 ) to be the more significant vessel, saved in time from what would have been a tragic loss to British maritime history. Now, Warrior, really could blow anything out of the water :)

[@jonpru82]

You see the same types of lazy statements with WWII documentaries; especially regarding tanks.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Climate change will redraw the map of England. Much of what is now considered dryland archeology will become maritime archaeology. London will be a paradise for diving archaeologists. But unlike their ancestors, they will be able to use maps of the ancient city to make their dives. What is not now discovered on and near the English coast will be buried forever at the bottom of the ocean. RIP... 10 seconds of silence in honor of the precious objects and bones that will forever be forgotten without being revealed and studied. England better start building new archaeological museums in the highlands, otherwise entire collections will be destroyed by rising sea levels.

[@barneymagee3285]

😂😂😂

[@jonpru82]

Satire? Because coasts have always shifted; and are not necessarily indicative of rising sea levels.

[@aib0160]

Yes infant mortality for those with white privilege running higher than it was on a slave plantation. The difference being the lives of the slaves were worth something but the working class poor not so.

[@HumansTheWorstThingToEverLive]

I think historians will begin to sound smart and convincing when they can think up their own sentences and stop over using certain adjectives over and over again to describe a piece of antiquity

[@standingbear998]

200 years old is hardly even interesting

[@ForestFelvey]

The hair color is a mistake.

[@jskjsk3986]

I really enjoy these shows. I can't help but to wonder, are we grave robbers?🪦

[@HumansTheWorstThingToEverLive]

I think historians will begin to sound smart and convincing when they can think up their own sentences and stop over using certain adjectives over and over again to describe a piece of antiquity

[@HumansTheWorstThingToEverLive]

Also why does she have the same reaction to a wet piece of 18th century rope as a Bronze Age or Viking hoard? Such a weird show that’s so disingenuous to our history