Archaeologists Uncover A Medieval Mass Grave | Digging For Britain | Unearthed History

[@margievm2101]

When I was younger, I wanted to be an archeologist which unfortunately never happened, so I find these videos so interesting. Thank you from Canada!

[@gloriaturner3892]

Me too!! 😊

[@girlnorthof60]

Same here... from the Yukon 🍁

[@lilmike2710]

I wanted to be a paleontologist or a Geologist. I'm a truck driver today so obviously it didn't happen. But it's not from not trying.

[@girlnorthof60]

@@lilmike2710 Hey, nothing wrong with being a truck driver... you probably make better money & don't have a massive student loan looming over your head. Thank you for getting stuff where it needs to be.

[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

You can still be an archeologist, a volunteer archeologist that works without pay during summer holidays.

[@nightlite9009]

I don't think we understand how devastating the dissolution of the monasteries must've been to the sick and the poor. When you see how important one monestary was to healthcare in that area, I think it must have been very difficult.

[@jjaus]

As long as you realise, "healthcare" was not as it is now. They had nothing to cure people. Maybe take care of the sick somewhat before they died. Religion didn't cure anything. The church, the Royals and nobles were the only ones with money.

[@PamelaAnderson-bw9hs]

Yes and the travellers. Everyone was dumped out of the street w no help no food no medical care..good ole Henry vlll th egos..money .n hatred if humanity n fear of God..well God always wins. U always have to face God in the end. Lessons to all. Blessings

[@evenitao2430]

You can be an archeologist at any age. I went to school in my 60s. You got my degree. You can do it at any time if history truly fascinates you

[@annsmarpat9500]

Wow what an incredible inspiration you are. Congrats on your amazing achievement 🙌🏻 I'm 58, you're my hero!💫✨

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

One caveat…the cost. Not everyone has the money. In fact, most people don’t have the money.

[@cindytucker3065]

At 10:00 learning that Romans used the rocks making sound reminds me of the Aztec death whistle. Absolutely FASCINATING!!!!

[@alphooey]

Those Aztec death whistle sound terrifying. Imagine sitting around a campfire in and isolated forest and hearing that off in the dark?

[@peterkruse788]

Prof Alice/gang , this is the greatest show ! I’m hooked

[@annazaman9657]

Loved the whistling bullets!

[@sev-nutz8524]

If wearing earbuds, take them out before the ad it's 5x louder may cause hearing damage

[@graceygrumble]

I remember being in the USA and was asked what my three wishes would be, in a ’let’s get to know everyone scenario’. I was called upon first. I opted for: The ability to time-travel in absolute safety, personally and without messing with established timelines. The ability to speak and write in any language that had ever, or ever would be, spoken and written. The ability to become invisible when I wanted. Other people opted for world peace, an end to hunger and a cure for all illnesses, which made me feel like a bit of a selfish shit. Sadly, I realise that I am indeed ’a bit of a selfish shit’. My three wishes remain the same. I mean, just imagine!

[@___FS___]

They were totally lying though

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Well, aside from the invisibility, that all sounds like you need a TARDIS and the Doctor! ❤❤

[@joannemarie-mc4si]

I’d like to combine Wish #1 and Wish #3, so I could wander around in the past without bothering about fitting in.

[@watchmehope6560]

You gave an honest answer. They gave the socially "correct" answer, that wouldn't get them cast out from the group or noticed in a negative way.

[@graceygrumble]

@@watchmehope6560 Yep, at the end of the day, we all have a propensity to be self-serving! Still, it is a shame that we are all tw4ts! There is only the slightest veneer of civilisation stopping the world going to Hell in a handcart! I hope we outlive the mayhem.

[@gerbrand8132]

Those whistling lead bullets remind me of Junkers Ju87 from WW2. These planes dived towards their target and made a terrifying sound.

[@glendamears3618]

Professor Alice has an easy listening voice that makes the amazing programs easy to watch. Thankyou 😊❤❤❤

[@Maisiewuppp]

She gets on my nerves. She is always on tv. It’s not as if she is the only one who can present. There are far more creditable archaeologists around.

[@glendamears3618]

I'm Australia and don't see her too much

[@joannemarie-mc4si]

As a North American, some British accents are hard to understand. Professor Alice’s accent is clear, and her voice is nice.

[@Watcher1852]

Thank you from Canada, SHARE,SHARE

[@moonschildren]

Fascinating. The only thing missing is Phil!

[@thomasbell7033]

And he turns up in this series from time to time, as do many old faces from Time Team.

[@anitk.brahma7354]

I must say that your presentation is not only informative, but also thoroughly engaging. Thank you Alice.

[@davewilson9738]

When you consider that so many warring tribes and nations came here, it is no wonder we set out to colonise. Not saying we were right, but its in the DNA through most of Europe. Its just amazing.

[@polyoptika4382]

I agree. I’ve been curious for years what shifted us from cooperative to competitive, when we’ve always been under pressure. idk that it was the yamnaya, but I feel like they factor into the hard shift to war states somehow.

[@mmhthree]

All humans are/were warring tribes.

[@hyperboreanforeskin]

Europeans colonized because we had the right combination of high IQ and ingenuity.

[@helenhunter4540]

Dave Wilson. DNA is being used as an excuse for committing crimes against humanity. DNA doesn't make us do anything, neither crimes nor generosity. Those are people's choices.

[@hyperboreanforeskin]

@@helenhunter4540 That's not true at all. intellect and behavior are genetic.

[@MrTorleon]

Another well produced episode including some of the many digs in progress, as of 2017 - if I heard that correctly !!! Only one or two observations I would make. With Scottish lochs - I was slightly astonished that no thought was given ( apparently ) to the water level being substantially lower than today, which would make the building of the central mound a radically different proposition. I was also somewhat dissapointed to hear the words ' Anglo Saxon Invasion ' - an event which has been roundly discredited these days, through archeology and dna analysis, in favour of a more gradual movement of peoples from the continent. Other than that pretty good - and Prof. Alice holds it all together with consummate ease :)

[@texastrina25]

As a child, we read the story of David and Goliath, and the sones and slingshot sounded like like cute and fun. But to see it as a legitimate weapon is fantastic!

[@girlnorthof60]

I'm a member of Dig Ventures 😍 I haven't been on a dig... yet. (but I got the cool T-shirts) Cheers to all you venturers out there. 👋Yukon, Canada

[@gregedmand9939]

Wow! We tend to dismiss a sling as a child's toy or a weapon used as last resort by primitive people. But in the right hands, these slung lead bullets were bone breakers. Against an enemy not wearing any significant armour, they would be devastating. Perhaps they haven't been found in great numbers before, is because lead is so useful, easy to pickup and recycle.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Well done

[@rachelkoiks]

That’s true huh? “Oooh! Lead!” -Anyone from the past 1500+ years 😂

[@gregedmand9939]

@@rachelkoiks Yes "Lead!". Do a little reading and discover how valuable this very useful, versatile metal is and to what lengths people have gone to get their hands on it. Just because it's viewed as an inexpensive commodity now, doesn't mean it always was. Aluminum is another. 150 years ago, it was considered a precious metal more valuable than silver and gold.

[@CynthiaDavidsen]

⁠@@rachelkoiksooo p

[@alphooey]

@@gregedmand9939 definitely the theft of lead off of roofs is still happening

[@polyoptika4382]

those stone balls are all carved as if they’re meant to be used as weights for fishing nets.

[@dereks1264]

"Pots In Lochs." This is my new band name.

[@girlnorthof60]

🤣 love it!

[@monicacallesarenales5865]

I watched these program first time in England this year and now I will watch the rest of this serie cause I love it ❤️

[@deckiedeckie]

One must thank all the persons who worked in these sites, thanks to them our knowledge advanced a great deal....I'm an old spaniard living in the US and love all ur videos.....

[@carlacowling1789]

I think the whistling rocks are frickin TRACER BULLETS!!! If you've ever seen actual warfare with modern high powered ammunition, the enemy is targeted with tracer ammo. Today it's visible and lights up, but at that period it had to be based on sound!

[@Yourmomma92]

Good theory

[@nickharmer3049]

I'm so looking forward to this. Thank you very much 💯👏👏👏

[@SilverDawnArrow]

With the deviant burial in Lincolnshire, it reminds me a lot of re-interred remains of people believed to be revenants. Tightly bound and face down to prevent them from rising again, and the decomposition evident in the legs could indicate re-burial.

[@kathymaclaren2711]

That could also be that they're burying people alive. And they are tied up so they cannot get out. And if they did happen to get out they would have to be reburied alive. That's just as logical. We have vivid imaginations we human beings!

[@MEEDROID2]

Those round stones mentioned around 30:40 look like fishing net weights that go around the edge of gill nets more that an unwieldy weapon in my opinion.

[@DianeBuchta]

I believe Time Team did a show about this island years ago. They were the first to tell us this little isle was man made.

[@paulspice4717]

Specially trained men to fire slings, called, yes wait for it, slingers. Amazing

[@iainfoxell8543]

I'm hooked on your show.Always loved history. You make it fascinating

[@hughbean6785]

Thanks Alice enjoyed this

[@rachelmurray1228]

So interesting these new finds of the Anglo Saxon more South in England. One learn such a lot from the explanations being given. Great, keep up the good work and thank you for an excellent film.

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Incredibly awesome archeology.. thanks for your fascinating work

[@welshpete12]

I remember seeing a documentary on British television . In the 1970's where these balls with a hole in them . Were found on a hill fort in the south of England somewhere . I'm sorry I can't remember where . And a description of how they made a whistling noise when used with a catapult .

[@ArtbyKatina]

Looks like you’ve got a slingshot ball hoard there. 8:20

[@rachelkoiks]

Oooh that whistle. I swear wasn’t that same sound effect in Gladiator? But for the arrows or something. This is pretty sick.

[@havingalook2]

So interesting

[@akiozexfexferiaflyjapanese]

This so long ago I cry

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

I can’t remember who did the same thing with the bullets or maybe arrows that whistled but I’ve heard about it before. I’m thinking it was one of the native American tribes, but I could be mistaken. This video makes me remember what I loved so much about my Art History classes from so long ago.

[@budbundy364]

😂 Yes ... count me in too . I'm hooked & that's not easily done 😂 thanks for sharing

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@crazyemraled8494]

Incredibly interesting

[@rachelkoiks]

30:37 When I saw these, I instantly thought weapons since they remind me of similar styled rock weapons that was used in Hawai’i. The recesses is where the rope was tied to the wooden “handle.” It’s not super well known unlike a poi pounder. We can look at a poi pounder and instantly recognize what it’s purpose was but that rock weapon was something I learned about recently with a lot of research since I realized my home is built on what must be an archeologist’s dream. It’s how I discovered this show! 😂

[@alanatolstad4824]

Wow, just Wow!

[@mrkitty1367]

wonderful show !

[@lianefehrle9921]

31:38 those round objects to look like what they would put in a fire to heat up for boiling water or for heating up the inside of a bedding cover.

[@girlnorthof60]

😂 hence the ancient saying "move over, your laying on my hot balls"

[@ktloz2246]

I like ur thinking but most any rock could be used for that. I'm siding with the ones that are saying it's used as weights on fishing nets. Those groves would go in nicely in the strings.

[@si4632]

wow that brooch a huge hunk of metal

[@margaretjohnson4413]

Very Interesting video with a mixture of different things. It seemed obvious to me that the islands were man made and it also seems obvious why , for the same reason that Ducks build nests out on the water, predators were abundant water was a good barrier.

[@margomoore4527]

R U sure those small shaped stones aren’t weights for fishing nets?

[@jerrylong381]

I wonder why the assemblage of whale, deer and human jaw bone are thought to be associated with the decommissioning of the blocks, instead of the commisioning of them. The thought occured that remains of the revered ancestor may be found at the other sites in the area. Maybe they were the one that built the original Block, so were revered as a sort of visionary or saviour of the tribe. So much so that their bones became relics that brought strength to the structure and the people associated with it. Just a thought.

[@pollyb.4648]

As an anthropologist i love accents and am very curious about Dr Roberts'. Different than any other I've heard! Eg:"treeth" = truth. "hi" = how "a-ver" = over Fascinating but from where?

[@eileenlocke9397]

Interesting thank u 🙏

[@ajknaup3530]

I disagree with the hard & fast conclusion that the presence of lead sling ammo in & of itself means there was a siege. If the North & South camps were training camps, would there not also be such ammo about? Surely the slingers also needed to train?

[@markpreston4754]

God Bless US All

[@cordellseitz7741]

It’s an interesting place where perhaps many people once lived there

[@dianeatkinson2444]

Amazing

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

The first underwater pictures of the crannog had me remarking “Look! They had credit cards”. Maybe a dig marker but . . .

[@pcka12]

We know that the monasteries provided care for the poor, so why does the narration say that it is changing our view of monasteries in which the inhabitants were sworn to a life of poverty & service?

[@jimellis2118]

To me, the inscribed round stone looks like it was once a perfect circle with an arbor hole, for sharpening or shaping ,on a spindle. Maybe the name is his brand

[@antoniomoreira5921]

There are beautiful videos about Medieval welfare in Schwerpunkt's Christian and social history playlists that I strongly recommend

[@carolineleonard8214]

If I knew you, I would say celebrate the differences because they culturally enrich your life and those around you. It's fun, fun, fun. No harm done to anyone therefore enjoy it all. My American friend who's been in Wales over 35+ years, and has never had any desire to go back, has gradually and naturally lost all her Americanisms. She now says that she is Welsh but has a very slight American accent (Ohio). No gives it a second thought and just accepts her as she is, a wonderful lovingly friendly person. BTW, She shouts louder than I do and is more passionate in support of the Welsh Rugby team.

[@davidevans3227]

greetings from south wales 🙂

[@MarissaOliver00]

I wanted to be an archeologists so bad. I have the genetic for of rickets, so I knew I wouldn't be able to get in the dirt. So there was no point going down a road I couldn't travel. But I love history so much.

[@geodezix]

love to see burnswark, but there's no place to park

[@peterkruse788]

Parking is hard ! Walk it

[@geodezix]

@@peterkruse788 i live in the u.s.....that would be a long walk!

[@johnkidd797]

Archeological studies have found that people in the past were skeletons that live underground.😊

[@maggielarkin9314]

Were you saving that one up?...

[@frankanddanasnyder3272]

The carved stone balls have groves..attachment points for ropes to be used as a swing weapon like a mace...ll

[@jerrylong381]

I thought this too, but someone else suggested weights for fishing nets, which is also plausible. The time spent carving them leads me to lean towards the weapon theory though.

[@martinrooms3084]

More information would be good, as for the broach,it's weight where worn etc

[@peterwolf4157]

The only thing that I do not like about this is the HH add at twice the volume.

[@rabcspaniel5679]

Steven Mithen in the singing Neanderthals does talk about early people keeping their ancestors with them - even taking them when they moved location. Could the jawbone just be part of an ancestor kept in the sideboard?

[@crazyemraled8494]

Wow genius 😮

[@25172605]

Dose anyone know the name of the music that starts at 05:43

[@carolarmer1204]

Could the lake have been frozen over when the crannog was built ?

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Yep the Ibiza slingers where famous

[@1101millie97]

What seasons does this cover?

[@rabcspaniel5679]

Not only did Scotland invent the Modern world but also the Stone age . See also Skara Brae and Brodgar- one theory says the old orcadians moved south when the climate changed they taught the southerners how to build Stonehenge etc. Visitors were arriving from the med back then too. See Nora Chadwicks books on the spread of the Celts. Oh and one Alice Roberts celts book too!

[@stephenkunst7550]

Great show, though I am still a bigger fan of the time team format, where all the program is not predigested. In the states, we have little/no support for archeology. Developers want to plow plow plow with no barriers.

[@michaelkamradt4700]

How large is the labor market for archeologists, of all levels?

[@kiersteno.243]

Why do they handle the slingshot bullets without gloves during the dig, then wear gloves to handle them showing them off in the studio? 8:45-9:22

[@Chosies1]

🤓 Is it just me or are the pink dots purple? 🤔

[@ktloz2246]

Me too

[@smontone]

Same

[@thedourkin]

Lincolnshire... the north of Britain? The BBC/Digging for Britain producers really need to (even now, in the 2020s) work on both geography and their own cultural bias.

[@si4632]

Definitely northern

[@wayneclayton5426]

Anything north of Peterborough is North to me. When leaving London Kings Cross.

[@si4632]

Peterborough is definitely east midlands and to be fair so are some parts of Lincolnshire but the part of Lincolnshire they were referring to here was some place in northern Lincolnshire which looked further north than Sheffield 🤣 and anywhere north of Nottingham is northern they sound northern 🤣

[@thedourkin]

Thanks to everyone for confirming the stereotype of Home Counties dwellers.

[@wayneclayton5426]

@@si4632 Fun fact Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire is on the same latitude as Moscow. And the Greenwich meridian runs through just south of Cleethorpes.

[@michaelawinter4793]

What's the name of the man (Martin) from the Ken's Broch digging?

[@carl5652]

I was just about to go to bed

[@WeldingQueen]

I'll put something like this on to go to bed to but I end up staying up watching it bc I get so interested in it 😅

[@peterkruse788]

It’s fun ! Don’t sleep yet

[@elainebeard2922]

Susan gorgeous card 🌺

[@FlamingBasketballClub]

Professor Alice Roberts is doing a great job with the digging for Britain series. Intellectually gorgeous blonde as well. 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿

[@stutzbearcat5624]

Alright i found another vid with Dr Alice! I'm her #1 yank fanboy!!!

[@shostakovich99]

It still amazes me that archaeologists don't use gloves when handling skeletal remains. I guess DNA is extracted from the inside of teeth or inner ear bones, so the risk of contamination doesn't matter.

[@hotelsierra7441]

9:38 Hmmmm - I don't know who calculated it, but it doesn't seem right - the weight of the Roman projectile is about 30g (0.030kg), speed 45m/s => energy is 30J, momentum 1.5 kg.m.s-1; .44 magnum bullet weight approx.15.5g (0.0155kg, 240grs), speed 450m/s => energy is 1557J, momentum 6.975 kg.m.s-1. It follows from the above that the momentum of the .44 magnum is therefore 4.65 times higher and the energy 51.9 times higher than the projectiles used by the Romans - it's not even close.

[@ava.artemis]

Did anyone else think the dig director was Aphex Twin for a second 😂

[@margomoore4527]

Interesting to see those gorgeous healthy teeth in an ordinary person. The one, at least, must have been well fed, apparently, and had access to few sweets, or have been a person denying themself earthly pleasures (the plague pit).

[@mustangkarrie]

I also wanted to be an archeologist growing up! But my parents said trhere is no way to support yourself lol

[@sarahwatson3192]

The second they said mass burial, of all ages and gender I knew plague pit. Right time frame, close to the godly, and the only medical care around really. Plague was rare in the country side because people weren’t as closely packed but not unheard of. It just takes one shipment of goods from the city, or one person unknowingly carrying plague to infect a whole population. My professors loved using time team in archeology courses so you start picking up on certain words. 😅😅😅

[@RamBeloeZlato]

Yes ok ya my master

[@joestitz539]

At 31:00. Those cymetrical balls remind me if the roman dedacohydron objects found scattered among rome, germany, 1 in france i think. Were thus used same way these balls were. A status of pride and prestiege when carried about n shown off to all. That is perhaps why people took them to their graves. We find them there.!

[@mauricejohnston8454]

I love this series BUT,,why have did the constantly talk about locks and not lochs. A lock is what you put a key in or a boat in a canal

[@paulannable3734]

I wondered how long it would take to find this comment and here you are It’s because words in English English don’t include making horrible noises like the sound of clearing phlegm from the back of the mouth and throat.

[@martynnotman3467]

In my northern english accent they are pronounced exactly the same.

[@fionabryant7923]

Water levels could easily have risen over time also..leaving more

[@gittarollke3102]

Why is there always a time limit for digging for artifacts in these videos, why can they not just take their time until all is revealed?

[@clare2401]

Because someone owns the land. In the UK if the land is being dug for a different purpose ie, agricultural, commercial/residential building, etc, by law, you have to let in people for historical digs. That's normally 2-3 days max

[@giuseppe4909]

@@clare2401Not to mention that digs require funding…..

[@maeve4686]

I wonder if the stone balls might have been a game of sort. They're all the same size, except that elongated pinecone looking one. The grooves could be part of the skill needed. Remember those pronged balls they found at Ancient Roman dig sites? Early purcursor to a bocci style game? Hmmm...just an alternate view.. Since no one really knows.

[@maeve4686]

Per the Loch stone islands, land based round houses were used melinnial , lasted 200-300 years...why not stone island's having a ling history & handed down thousands of years as they are still there !

[@lorih2853]

This show needs to acknowledge those who went before. Time Team did an episode on cranogs (sp?) two decades ago.

[@maggielarkin9314]

The Time Team were pure showbiz... Tony Robinson running around with a stop watch, nattering on endlessly...This is about history only... much better

[@CaptchaNeon]

I really regret having kids so young and getting married when I could have lived my dream being an archaeologist. Kids are grown now and it's too late but I'd still love to be one or at least experience it for a day.

[@ktloz2246]

It's never to late if ur really wanted to

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

I don’t think that the Roman equivalent of a Sergeant did a good job of making the slingers pack out the ammunition they packed in. That lead was valuable. The question is why was there were so many unused bullets in that one place. Did someone bring a bag of them that was left there?

[@Yourmomma92]

I’d assume caches or negligence. People forget shit all the time, even in recent history

[@poopoosplatter99]

They may have been run out of their positions. Good seige weapons, probably not so good when you're mobile and you have lunatic iron age Scots on your ass lol

[@lukepollard2202]

I think the hypothesis for the stone balls is wrong, I think they're something to do with weaving.

[@poopoosplatter99]

JFC LMFAO! Two Roman structure forts on either side of a what appears to be an iron age hilltop fort with evidence of them tossed everywhere. Literal stacks of them underneath crumbled walls.....and you think the Romans were just out there weaving textiles in the middle of the iron age Scotland. SMFH

[@lukepollard2202]

@@poopoosplatter99 ģood point well made, perhaps the groves are to hold them in a sling, certainly not ceremonial or ritual offerings, is really my point.