Walk through a Roman 'Villa' + Iron Age village at Wittenham Clumps (Earth Trust)

[@willisgemutlich2608]

wow that was an excellent no edit public speaking event! no boring lecture there, that was just packed and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. great job!

[@mareepavletich4761]

Thank you. Very clearly delivered. The visual cues of seeing the trenches and the finds are so important.

[@firsttankcrews]

Great video, thank you for sharing the information from your excavations. Looking forward to your next report Indie

[@bobrussell3602]

Very interesting. Congratulations for recording / filming it, before it's lost forever.

[@doncook2054]

Thank You; a natural narrator!!!!

[@antonvanvollenhoven6610]

I so enjoyed your comment on what your best find ever was! Everybody wants to know that whereas it should be about the story of the site (context hey!).But luckily after many years of excavating military sites in South Africa, I am also able to answer this one after finding very nice insignia from the uniforms of British soldiers. At last!

[@neilensor9699]

Fascinating info, so professional & well presented Indie. My old courting grounds in the late 1960's (Left Wallingford 1972, now watching from Perth Australia, age 70)

[@elliewyatt1356]

Amazing video Indie!

[@sergiuenache4118]

Really beautiful presentation. I just discovered this channel and I saw only a few videos, but I love how you make archaeology interesting and fun. And your t-shirt is awesome. I would love one too. I used to be an archaeologist in Romania (I still am one theoretically, but I had to work on a very different field) and we have the same joke about "it's ritual". You are doing a really great job.

[@aidanreynolds5432]

Thanks Indie, that was excellently presented and very informative.

[@chrissinann]

Thanks. that was very useful, clear and informative.

[@bokhans]

Love the T-shirt, the archeologist mantra! 😂

[@paulking9880]

Loved it Indie :D Look forward to meeting up with you guys in the hopefully not too distant future!

[@indiejago5314]

Paul King can't wait to get back on site with you guys!

[@michelleleboutte9184]

Fab thank you Indie! 👍🏼😃👍🏼 x

[@DougHopper]

Thanks Indie. That was really excellent. I was supposed to be on the community dig this year, so hope I can make it when it is reinstated. Looking forward to all the other videos and will try and get the time right in future!

[@simonblackmore6915]

Really interesting - and very well presented. Thank you.

[@Hiltok]

Thank you, Dig Ventures. Well done, Indie! Love the puns.

[@janiswinkworth5566]

Thanks very much. Look forward to more.

[@annmarielamb7748]

Love these, GREAT job. Keep them up and so wonderful to see how even at home you can be employed to produce work as well as help others through much needed distraction as well as learnings. Also, nice to see someone young as it can also provide a great example for other young people to get engaged.

[@TheEnglishnurse]

Thank you so much for putting this video together. Very interesting!

[@annazaman9657]

Time team did a lovely dig here

[@grahamstokes2696]

Thank you so much for this excellent and informative presentation. I very much appreciate updates to such digs and their learning and discoveries.

[@indiejago5314]

Graham Stokes keep your eye out for new videos. Especially as over the next two weeks we will be posting videos showing some of the finds from the site!!

[@7cColin]

Thank you! Very clear presentation and this is a fantastically interesting site. Very complex too. Going back to check Time Team excavations.

[@MichaelJohnson-jw4zm]

Nicely done and very informative.

[@RobBoudreau]

Very well done Indie, great presentation.

[@kevinron7559]

Absolutely brilliant, your a natural. See you on Time Team soon.

[@TheJs12347777]

Thank you. It would be great to see a map showing exactly where the site is in relation to the clumps and local area.

[@Digventures]

Noted... we'll remember that for next time!

[@alisonjarvis6213]

Time Team found a woollen loom weight around the area you are digging, I know some one who found a flint arrowhead from one of the hills, does the inclusion of these 2 things provide evidence of Stoneage? Also there are 2 water sources, infront and behind...

[@barontait4985]

I think the river Thames may be very close as a water source. You may have noticed it?

[@neilfleming2787]

what, what??? I dug there back in 2004. I remember Iron Age stuff (we had a burial in a circular hole (could have been the top of a storage pit as there were many pits on that part of the site). Very interesting that Google Earth currently has that site stripped down like you show in the diagram at 2:47. I think the bit I worked on (with the Oxford unit) was to the right of 5 &6 and may fill in the 'reverse' 'C' area, though after nearly 20 years I'm not 100% sure.

[@Indigo_European]

Indie, Greetings from Los Angeles! It was wonderful to be able to come home and watch this. By the way, you are just about the most beautiful person I have ever seen. I remember the Time Team episode; everyone crawling on the ground looking for the newts. haha

[@67iconn]

Loving your videos

[@sadramistes]

Hi, thank you for the presentation! It was nice to get us in the field and get a feeling of it. The combs are amazing! Their decoration with circles reminds me of a copper aloe brooch I found in Greece at the site of a Roman bath has the same decoration. My best find is that brooch but also a copper aloe lamp, small one probably decorative with its chain intact! I am also wondering if you have found any important findings from the interior of the Roman building and if you have done a survey to see if there is any other building in the surrounding area. Thanks!

[@indiejago5314]

Hello :) The Roman building has not yet been excavated, it will be excavated as soon it is safe to return to site. From the surface though and two exploratory slots we know that there is a layer with a large amount of Roman pottery. We also found an Iron Key within the building, you can view this and many other finds on the projects timeline -> digventures.com/earth-trust/timeline/ . The building did not show up on the geophysics or any crop marks it only appeared after the topsoil was removed from the excavation area! So we are unable to see its extent. Time Team found another Roman building just across the road from where we were excavating. You can check that out here -> www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/on-demand/35983-009 . Hope this helps :)

[@zanthornton]

Thank you wish digventures were in usa

[@lynnedwards7462]

Wittenham Clumps... Newt hunts! Great Crested Newts, fingertip searches before opening Time Team trenches... Are they still in the area around Round Hill? Did you find any when opening your trenches? Excellent presenting, Indie, by the way. Well done. Thank you for keeping us informed.

[@indiejago5314]

Lynn Edwards, newts are still in the area and we did get a visit from the ecologist whilst we stripped the trenches but we found no newts. 🐸🌿

[@karenwells5493]

Thank you .Very interesting and really well presented.

[@Digventures]

Indie's a natural!

[@jamesrivis620]

Very well spoken with, as an ex-Brit of 50 years, now in USA, one point. You refer to 'household waste' as 'refuse' spoken as if saying 'I refuse your offer' whereas it is spoken over here as 'REFF-yooze'. Is there no pronunciation difference in England ?

[@lindaha268]

This was great. 👍 Unfortunately I‘ll have to work next friday, but will watch it later.

[@Digventures]

you'll have something to look forward to when you get home!

[@judithpayne7641]

Thank you that was really interesting. We live near by!

[@Digventures]

when this is all over, you'll have to come and visit and join the community dig!

[@judithpayne7641]

DigVentures would love to!

[@dashpoet]

Great insights.. thank you!

[@lindaengbrenghof5405]

Hello Indie, hi team! That was excellent, thank you very much, Indie. I am in New York and not as familiar with this area as many of you may be so I plan to watch the Time Team episode that relates to this in order to visualize the location a bit better. Could you please post the link to the Time Team episode? You may have done this already but I've overlooked it. Looking forward to next Friday's tour. I will try not to be late again.

[@Digventures]

Here you go - it's Season 11 Episode 9. Not sure if you can watch 4od from the States, but give it a go: www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/on-demand/35983-009

[@lindaengbrenghof5405]

@@Digventures Thanks very much. No, it won't let me. I found it, though, for anyone in the US: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3y9oYx3h69-p7s

[@winnywin]

Cheers - loved it!

[@bevanpope7924]

question; if you were to come to Cape Town, could I take you out for dinner? Been watching Time Team forever. Even worked on an episode myself and have become majorly into archaeology.

[@Gitternmaker]

Excellently presented, and the T-shirt made me chuckle. I was trying to get a sense of the scale of the roundhouses. Are any of them large enough to need a double row of post holes, the inner ones supporting a mid-rafter ring?

[@indiejago5314]

Paul Baker in our trenches we couldn't see an example of a roundhouse with a double line of postholes. The largest example of a roundhouse uncovered during our 2020 excavations is the one discussed in the video. But we had so many postholes, perhaps some were from a larger structure... 😁

[@Gitternmaker]

@@indiejago5314Thanks. I thought the ones I could make out looked like cosy one-family nests. But I wish you luck sorting out all the holes. I wonder if AI could help?

[@prof.cecilycogsworth3204]

Thank you so much for a fascinating talk! Are t-shirts with that design available to the public?

[@indiejago5314]

They will be from next week! You can view all the items in DV's shop here -> digventures.com/shop/

[@davidbingaman4303]

Brilliant!!

[@nyamajohnson3274]

Hi all the way from County Durham, up North - miles away lol

[@Digventures]

Haaai

[@myview1875]

County Durham here also. Not sure why You Tube recommended this to me when my hobby is metal detecting and has been for 40+ years and as a rule the two topics are generally kept apart.

[@mobuch7558]

Thank you for a fascinating talk. Can you say what happens to the bodies after the excavation is finished? Are they reburied in situ or taken away? And will the Earth Trust be planting trees through the grave sites?

[@Digventures]

Hi Mo. We'll be following the usual archaeological practice when human remains are found, which is that they are first examined and recorded by an osteoarchaeologist, and then returned to the site, where they will either be reburied, or kept in a special place close to where they were originally placed.

[@christianbuczko1481]

@@Digventures i presume that means you dig a hole, and drop them in...

[@Digventures]

@@christianbuczko1481 we would never just 'drop them in'. how awful. we always make sure human remains are treated with the utmost care and respect, in line with usual archaeological practice

[@christianbuczko1481]

@@Digventures I was joking, but its not far off in that they will be reburied and forgotten except for a mark on a map and a few research papers. The fact is, theres simply so much stuff found theres not much else that can be done, and i dont disagree with doing it. If theres any sacrilage, its when they got dug up, and reburying and leaving is what those people would wish. The whole field of archeology would bury civilisation if everything got preserved.

[@cliveffitch5202]

Very informative, thank yo!

[@royshirkey9048]

What he do you go by so I can follow you indie

[@phoule76]

awesome t-shirt

[@stiannobelisto573]

Hahaha the T-shirt!

[@TravelBDvlog]

This is really amazing video. I am trying to create few interesting videos like this.

[@christianbuczko1481]

Raised barns and holes that could have been sealed could indicate brewing.

[@indiejago5314]

Christian Buczko As could the corn dryers!! 🍺🍺🍻 its definitely a theory we will explore 😁

[@suegraham1997]

Really fascinating- thank you!

[@Digventures]

You're welcome!

[@avortinus6031]

What a beautiful girl.

[@philomenamuinzer4805]

Not much of a walk-through. The camera showed the presenter all the time. It's described as a "walk-through" of the site.

[@bork2739]

A warning about an archaeological excavation finding burials with human remains that some might find disturbing. What sort of weak society have we become!

[@myview1875]

I watched this video through but unfortunately it was exactly as I suspected it would be from the perspective of archeologists. Even people who are very interested in our great history found in sites full of round barrows and Roman villas with graves and pits must be interested in the metal work these people wore and used ie jewellery and coins. Why are these items never shown. The reason being is because there is always the stigma of people who pursue the hobby of metal detecting. I have been part of this hobby for over 40 years and even now I cannot understand it when archaeologists refuse to mention personal metal work items. All those graves that you excavated there would I think have had some sort of metal grave goods in them. Please show those items because even me as an amateur metal detectorist are interested. I understand that archeologists are very reluctant and even scarred to do so but please remember in my hobby the percentage of people who are the scurge of the earth ie night hawks are a very minimal amount and grouping those in with the perfectly law abiding detectorists make it that we miss out on seeing the marvellous things that can be found in our great country.

[@hamshackleton]

The lady needs to speak a bit more slowly, and a lot clearer. She's gabbling and slurring.

[@doncook2054]

Wow; a hearing test is in order; She has a very clear speaking voice.