Archaeologists Investigate An Ancient Sunken Settlement | Digging For Britain

[@549RR]

I LOVE how Rob had the site survey of the Roman settlement on his shirt and gestured to it while he was explaining. Brilliant

[@watersipper1116]

We don't see that very often. Less likely to lose your map if you are wearing it.

[@frankmitchell3594]

Although the Mesolithic people are described as nomadic, surely it is likely that they had an annual "circuit" of some kind when they visited sites they knew would be favourable for each season or month?

[@frankielov]

It’s amazing how archaeologists are still learning from the past, still lot to learn, fantastic episode 👍🏽

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you. Watching from Alaska. The study of these early settlements has fascinated me for decades.

[@SongOfSongsOneTwelve]

24:46 This archeologist has my appreciation for remaining open to the truth and not assigning his assumptions as truth, as many archeologists do. I also appreciate how they didn’t remove the remains out of respect for the dead. 👏👏👏

[@RoseStoller-xq7sh]

It is tremendous to see this happen. They explored, discovered, took a bit to research and study and recovered. What would it have served to remove all of the bones. Must honor their common sense.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Archaeology is amazing.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌺

[@myview1875]

WWAAAAHHHEEEEEYYY. At last a caring archaeologist leaves the dead bodies to rest in piece where their family put them. 🙂. Dr Martin Papworth I raise a glass to you. 🍺.

[@judithsands2737]

Peace

[@cassieoz1702]

Great episode as always. Good to see the mesolithic platform challenges archeologist's ASSUMPTIONS about hunter gatherers and 'settlement' and their dogma that it was one OR the other. Never forget that this use of assumptions and teachings applies to most of their work on pre recorded language people

[@m.6292]

Brilliant idea, bringing all these sites together for us. The USA needs to do this too, a vast space, with countless universities doing every kind of dig. I don't think even an archeologist could keep up with it all here. Still a die hard Time Team fan too, if ya havent seen the new Sutton Hoo dig & ship in 2024, do yourselves a favor(Tony's back!)

[@wmanad8479]

While plywood (laminated wood in sheets) was invented in the late 19th century, "cheap plywood" didn't exist when those WW1 launches were built. The ribs in question were laminated to the forms required, glued up in layers from several thin pieces of wood, making them stronger than solid wood ribs steamed and bent to shape. Laminated ribs are easier to produce than steamed and bent solid wood ribs and the final product is stronger.

[@therub2191]

They used plywood and veneers in ancient Egypt

[@wmanad8479]

@@therub2191 Yep, people have glued stuff together for a long time, but it was all piece-work.

[@oldschoolman1444]

Our ancestors abilities are underestimated,always seems like they get the short end.

[@OnlyJalenPhd]

I agree. I’ve often thought technology is our downfall. We need computers and calculators, they didn’t. I’ve always wondered how they taught math, to calculate in their heads. We’re getting dumber. It’s not the other way around.

[@TheLibraryChamber]

Think it's time to rethink the whole "pre-settlement" phase. Star Carr is another site and is an indication that the "settlement phase" happened much sooner than we give our ancestors credit for.

[@gregedmand9939]

My Great-grandmother and her 13 year old daughter emigrated from Glasgow to Edmonton Alberta Canada. They nearly bought passage on Titanic, but could get better accommodation aboard the Lusitania for the same price. That turned out to be a good decision all around. Every time I am reminded of what happened to "The Scottish Ship" in 1915, I regret not sitting down with gramma and recording her memory of the voyage and reaction to the news of Lusitania's loss in a 1915. If your grandparents were diary keepers, I envy you!

[@FrostyBalls01]

My grandpa was a diary every day of his life from 13 to 97. There’s a lot of note books. But the bad part. My grandpa when he was 13 make up his own written language. A few of our family and me was taught how to read it. But there’s a lot of note books full of unspeakable words that needs translating. I started going through them in 2020 during the pandemic and 4 years in I got 10 books done. About 300 plus more to go.

[@m.6292]

Great story she left ya.

[@mersmithy1269]

It would have been far quicker moving to France.

[@christradgett-affiliates]

Great to note that the Roman boundaries have persisted as field hedgerows

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Calling all of you clever people watching this video - This is out of context I know, but the prison hulks triggered a memory that I’m have trouble resolving. As a small child I saw an British movie. The movie was already old in the 1970s (I think). The only scene I remember clearly is of someone living on a windswept shingle/sand beach, in what appeared* to be a medium sized upturned wooden boat. There was a door cut out on one side and a small chimney poking out through the roof. A child was one of the main characters and visited whoever it was that lived there in the upturned wooden vessel. Outside the waves crashes and the wind blew, but inside the unconventional dwelling it was cosy and warm. *i think it was an upside down wooden boat’s hull, although it could have been some kind of traditional style of coastal dwelling. The movie was in English set somewhere in the UK. Does anyone remember this movie? The scene? The book it’s from? I keep thinking that it might have been adapted from one of the famous English authors. As you’re all such clever people here, I thought I’d try my luck and ask you. ❤any help is greatly appreciated.

[@549RR]

David Copperfield (Dickens). Google Peggoty's house. I'm sure there have been several film adaptations over the years.

[@farmkay]

@SecretSquirrelFun The book David Copperfield by Charles Dickens fits the description. The boat belonged to the Peggetts. I may have the spelling wrong. I have no idea if it was made into a movie in the 70s.

[@christopherlawley1842]

​@@farmkay I was thinking that

[@chickenfist1554]

As @farmkay said I think it's from something by Charles Dickens but I couldn't tell you what.

[@RosannedeVries-i3w]

Amazing finds. Fascinating.

[@MJanovicable]

Love the t-shirt, brilliant!

[@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect]

@UnearthedHistory 29:18 The Lusitania did not get "ripped in two and sink in 18 seconds". The ship sank in 18 minutes, not 18 seconds.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Dig, Dive and Discover !! There, easy, better intro 👍

[@CoryMT]

Had to do a double take when I noticed the pottery was being stored in a plastic Haribo box at 7:19.

[@jefferymyers7435]

I love watching you Alice

[@haylieland7344]

Maybe the young people that were buried were bound after death in order to transport them more easily to a safer, more meaningful, or more visitable burial site?

[@OnlyJalenPhd]

I think we need more questions like this! We should have a lot of “what ifs” so we don’t get tunnel vision. Great question! 😊

[@gregrice1354]

I could dig it!!! I do!!! Wonderful work!

[@lovelyskull3483]

Wonderful, thank you.

[@TheDreamtimezzz]

Love these ❤❤

[@jackinthebox507]

My great great grandfather Horace,,1 of 10 kids lived in Dorset,,street named Physic Well

[@barkershill]

Think that’s on Portland

[@Girl_In_The_Forest92-2]

Very interesting 😊

[@michaelwilliams3232]

Exactly when was the mesolithic platform above water? Might it coincide with Pulse 1b? Might it be 12ky?

[@chuckhillier4153]

Awesome

[@vegas1a]

Series 8, Episode 3, SOUTH.

[@whalhard]

I don't understand why they talk as if it is not well known that there were plenty of sedentary or semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer cultures a lot older than 6000 years. Or is this particular to Brittain?

[@callumclark3358]

I’m living for the day they discover some fabulous artefact and exclaim “ How wonderful! Pig-ugly though.”

[@VickiMcGuire-db7kj]

Thank you ❤

[@davidtomsett]

I found a Bronze Age tanged and barbed flint arrowhead on this dig at Barcombe in 2013.

[@Growersguidetocannabis]

This woman just blows me away makes my heart thump and wistful Pathetic I know but I can’t help it !!! 😂😂😂😂

[@suzieriz]

Yep, pathetic.

[@luapnosboh7421]

Nah she's a great presenter, she's got it 👍

[@myview1875]

@7:50 I wonder if that piece of blue class came from a cup similar to the Lycurgus Cup. 🤔.

[@RoseStoller-xq7sh]

Makes sense to recover and remove the bones where the site is being eroded. Hopefully reinterned elsewhere and not to storage somewhere.

[@dragonflydreamer7658]

They were not made cheap they used laminated wood for strength so they could use a smaller support so it was lighter and would make the boat faster. Like using carbon fiber lighter and stronger. This is Britons future we should learn to love it.... THREADS the movie

[@markboekraad7525]

Excellence , compliments

[@cassieoz1702]

Did the local Dorset tribe reject adopting Romanisation or did they just not see significant Romans until shortly before they packed and took off??

[@RoseStoller-xq7sh]

Excuse but Archeologist miss spoke, a whorl is not for weaving but for spinning. Or was it a weight for the loom for weaving the fabric? Hard to tell for sure from the image I saw.

[@niallwildwoode7373]

What I wish someone would tell, is what were the Roman mosaics sat on? Sand, lime plaster, or anything less obvious?

[@restezlameme]

Mosaics were usually applied onto a layered base of concrete and wood, I believe. The many tesserae that made up the mosaic itself would be adhered onto the topmost concrete layer. I'm unsure of the exact steps involved in constructing said floor over a hypocaust heating system... Miss Google could answer that a bit better 🙃

[@myview1875]

Larry the lobster. 🦂.

[@chelu4u]

Could the platform be a floating pier?

[@markgarin6355]

We shall call it 'Bob'. Shouldn't be that difficult to reconstruct if they documented where the pieces came from. But do they have any idea what the sea level was when it was in use?

[@joyatlast3927]

If coming to Britain on holiday, Where do you recommend to go if you enjoy rich history, but not tourism...

[@jeannerogers7085]

Rich history is everywhere on that island. Just go someplace you never heard of, and guaranteed, there will be something interesting there.

[@barkershill]

Wiltshire is good for history, but you cannot entirely escape the tourists I’m afraid . Try Lacock , Avebury, Stonehenge, (crowded with tourists) Salisbury Cathedral, Stourhead and Wilton House , but the quietest spot in this county would be Tisbury tithe barn and Wardour Castle and the nearby little villages of Ansty and Ashmore are worth a look .😊

[@barrymurton8988]

Where as Wandsworth had a brewery and candle manufacturing, Prices!

[@malingehring165]

Archaeologists are not necessarily good at math. The Lusitania did not sink in 18 seconds... It was 18 minutes!!!

[@jamiebizness1]

The timbers are under attack . I think they may have seen their Las legs quite a few thousand years ago.

[@MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS]

dig past the Romans and you will almost always find pagan, celtic or druid foundations and artefacts in Wales, Scotland and England

[@chrisvalford]

Somehow I cannot believe that someone brining products to England first thought is "How / where do I pay import tax"

[@karamia1392]

Nisha has a beautiful voice.

[@Ellie8447]

Ridiculous amount of commercials I couldn’t get through this

[@christopherlawley1842]

Not the channel's fault. It's down to YT

[@Ellie8447]

@@christopherlawley1842 oh ok. I didn’t know that, thank you

[@HughONeill]

Plywood was not a cheap nessesarly a cheap material in WW1, only invented 50 years prior to that, already recognised as a flexible and strong material it is commonly used in marine construction today. Though it was a technology still in development and what we know as Marine Ply was not invented for another 15 years.

[@MrPoilleke]

Thoss people probably fell several times through former made platforms and figured out they had to interlock the beams to become tighter and stronger?!

[@dropnoelfield295]

Plywood = laminated..? Yes? Structurally superior.

[@OnlyJalenPhd]

Agreed

[@OccuPiiUs]

Dr. Roberts I have beat you to The Theory of "Creclusion".

[@OccuPiiUs]

Now you will all see every mystery revealed.

[@RobinCrusoe1952]

Best at 1.5 playback speed.

[@davidlloyd150]

👍

[@myview1875]

Why would a stone age civilization keep their settlement under the sea just seems a bit odd. 🤔.

[@JC-kk5wg]

Amazing amount of investigations and digging going on in this presentation. Very interesting with overseeing by Prof Alice Roberts now a redhead. Prefer blond. The professionalism and handling the human remains to investigate and return them to a grave and the clay modeling seeing the face of one gentleman 200 years or more after his death. Also I may have missed the DNA analysis were some relatives discovered that are living? Finally the underwater recovery is due to the water level of the ocean increasing as the glaciers melted. This level must have been right at sea-level at that time as it was a raft or walkway very wet. Site 11 meters under water that is about 36 feet is doable but with water currents making it very difficult. I would love to help on that as I am a diver. Very interesting indeed. Good Luck.

[@lyndseyanselmi-un3ql]

Professor Roberts wouldn't care less whether you preferred her hair blonde or red I imagine. Totally her choice and absolutely nothing to do with this programme and something that doesn't warrant comment.

[@jpdj2715]

Alice in wonderland

[@boerboel313]

Lol, it's wood stacked on top of one another thousands of years ago. A wood pile, that's all it is. Dead wood piled up by heavy rain torrential flooding.

[@myview1875]

The Romans may of flown over the walls and landed using a helicopter bypassing the special knock on the front door. 😀.

[@christopherellis2663]

Meso- as in method, melody, medley, merry, Mexico 🇲🇽 meditation Mediterranean. Mend.mess, mega-

[@rogermiller2159]

What is roid building?

[@elsainnamorato2231]

Once that thing is out of juice run;😅

[@daveofyorkshire301]

I miss the Time Team... Is Digging For Britain its offspring? It's unfocused and too unstructured to maintain interest...

[@philipr1567]

The offspring of the original Time Team is Time Team, with new presenter. Some familiar faces have gone, but many are still there. Digging for Britain is an annual review of some of the most interesting regional archaeology projects, so of course it won't focus an hour on just one project.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@philipr1567 Where can you see Time Team now? They're new episodes?

[@christopherlawley1842]

​@@daveofyorkshire301Some are on YT some are on TT'S patreon channel (which is how TT is being paid for)

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Motor Launches... The USA was never neutral in either WW1 or WW2. It was always about making money until 1917 rolled around and it was looking very much as if the Allies were going to lose the war. At that point the US became an active belligerent and changed the course of history so as not to lose all of the money that their banks and Wall St had invested in Allied victory. The same thing happened in WW2. Who wins wars has NOTHING to do with right and wrong or good and bad, it just doesn't.

[@AHLUser]

Maybe God decides who wins & loses wars..?? She decides who lives & dies..!! USA was definitely NOT "Neutral"... It was all about "Public Opinion" and 'Proper Timing" to ensure re-election for the 'Party In Control'... It's always about 'Profits & Power'.... Just Look at President Kennedy... They took Jack out b/c he did not want a War and put Johnson in and got what was necessary to make tons of money... Congress gave him the authority to send in fully active troops, not just advisors, increasing from 20k to 190k soldiers, w/o a Declaration of War.

[@charitywattenburger4550]

I so wish our government would just stop sticking their noses in things that aren’t any of our business. Our people are going broke just trying to feed ourselves, and what does the jackass in the Oval Office do, he send Millions $$$$ to Ukraine. Why?? Our American people 🇺🇸 need it here, we need the cost of food and gas and everything else lowered. So frustrating and it makes me 🤬🤬🤬🤬.

[@lindaross783]

Spoken like a good Nazi

[@CannaColeman]

After WW2 the world was forced to use and purchase American made products for decades. With the premise that the States would help bring the world out of starvation and poverty. In a realistic world that isn’t possible. Now that the world realizes and understands this the world now wants the States as an “equal”. I truly hope the world is ready for the world we have now stepped into. The States have lived well beyond what much of the rest of the world has. The resources that are extracted and stolen from other nations is sickening at this point. The future looks “bleak for the States. @@charitywattenburger4550.

[@brianball2002]

Just like society today really. The Durotriges already living in the country not willing to be ruled by the Roman incomers. Change Durotriges to British and change Roman to illegal immigrants and it's exactly the same

[@gdblackthorn4137]

I know one thing and that structure is not 8000 years old. The dating methods used such as carbon 14 and others are a joke!

[@davidd6171]

Professor Alice Roberts? More like Professor Alice sexy! Anyways great video! Love the history and science!

[@suzieriz]

Weird and gross old man

[@therub2191]

Derp

[@fandoria09]

Constitine was a Pagan who invented Christianity for prophet not for the religious beliefs many think. As was told during my year in biblical college.

[@judithsands2737]

Profit

[@OnlyJalenPhd]

Constantine

[@OnlyJalenPhd]

Also, the Old Testament was written 3,000 years before his birth, and the New Testament was written 200 years before his birth. You were given horrible theological instruction.

[@mvmv-pn8zt]

“Approved entry points”. 🤣 what a lot of nonsense. There were gates thru’ which people entered. That’s it. I love these shows but the language can be odd verging on silly.

[@kcstafford2784]

Alice.....What did you do to your hair you was. Pretty..

[@suzieriz]

How completely irrelevant, her hair doesn’t affect her knowledge of all things archaeology. Why not comment on everyone else’s hair? Weirdo

[@AHLUser]

She did her 'Red Hair' look a long time ago... Professor Roberts is INCREDIBLE..!! I Never tire of watching her and even just listening to her "Luvely Voice" while working..!! I know she's married with a family and all... But, still have a sweet crush on her that warms my heart....🥰

[@aleksandarglisic4583]

Alice is so fkng hot red hair woman🔥

[@sentinal2343]

Did she say HER ancestors? ha ha hilarious !