Why Was This Ancient Roman Man Buried On A Pile Of Meat | Digging For Britain

Alice and the team discover a series of intriguing Roman artefacts, including a bundle of coins in Somerset, and a man who was buried on a layer of dead animals. They also look into the mystery of 97 murdered babies.
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[@futurepig]

My respect to the man who found a treasure and went to the proper authorities instead of Ebay. Also, bury me face down on a bed of pizzas just to puzzle future archeologists.

[@morimori7456]

with this digital footprint? good luck

[@bullseyenow1]

junk

[@axeman33333]

I say he’s stupid

[@bazkib]

He was buried with the meat because he spoke incessantly to everyone about being a vegan!

[@WhySoSaVaGe-f5y]

Bruh 😂😂

[@lynnorman4235]

Yes but was he binary or non binary?

[@johnruddick686]

Probably non trinary!

[@deborahbaker4770]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@inspectre69]

Maybe he never got a last meal.

[@calebwilliams7659]

I suppose the coin hoard was equivalent to people today tossing a coin in a fountain to make a wish. After 40 years of people doing that you're going to have a pretty sizable mass of coins.

[@sailingayoyo]

Or an offering or giving thanks to the fertility of the field. It is amazing that it could have been cropped for so long and still have barley growing in it.

[@heidijay5902]

I’m a heathen/ pagan & a lot of us still leave some kind of offering in thanks, not necessarily coins (although I do know of people who do), but some sort of token of appreciation.

[@glennchartrand5411]

Looks like someone dumped a body in the offal pit just before covering it up. No need to worry about anyone noticing the smell.

[@judyklein3221]

Fascinating archaeology! So glad they had opportunity to excavate before it was lost forever. I lived in England 1967- 1972 and it was archaeology heaven. Every step you took was historically important.

[@edwardfindley8483]

Actually Ron Swanson has the meat funeral in his will.

[@SECRETORDER1336]

All the things thats still not been found in the UK your virtually walking over history not knowing whats under your feet.. Awesome

[@magster6022]

If it was all dug up, there'd be no room for the current population!

[@maryabreu8956]

What I find most amazing is when something is found it tends to be slightly studied put in a box and out of sight and the site is reburied

[@CemeteryHillFarm]

I wonder if metal detecting is a popular hobby there. It is in America, along with magnet fishing

[@jesterr7133]

I could watch Prof Alice all day along. I am fascinated by the history of Britain. It is quite amazing that so many different cultures have all intersected in this one area. It is so amazing seeing all the fabulous things there are out there.

[@davidfarmer2049]

.......and the poor people HS2 took the homes off. You are a shallow bunch. lol

[@melissapinol7279]

My major was in Anthropology, and several sources I read said that it was common Roman practice to only raise a few children, and only one or two girls. The father of the family had the right to examine the baby after birth and regect any that were "imperfect" or "unwanted". The wife had no say. It was considered shameful to sell them as slaves, so these unwanted babies were "disposed of". In other words, killed right after birth, before the parents became attached. This is a very good explanation for me in a Roman populated area.

[@deniseadkins2901]

The Christians in Rome saved many of those children.

[@uzinine7760]

@@deniseadkins2901 Not true they DID THE KILLING all in the name of your man god

[@WalterHildahl]

I'm a parent. And I can testify that I was attached to my son before he was born.

[@michielderuyter6011]

@@deniseadkins2901 And they have offspring who are sitting on the streets and highways. And throwing tomatosoup at van Gogh painting and such…

[@dexikid]

lol you are gunna wanna read the Greek. No they didn’t. The Roman’s killed Christians because they were a csa and drug cult. Why was Jesus in the garden with a naked boy at 3 am? Why was the boy putting a “ medicated bandage on his genitals “ as they came upon him? did he exclaim” I am not a child trafficker” and then why was he crucified next to two other child traffickers? Because that’s what Christianity started out as. That’s why they still protect r4pist priests. Don’t bother reading the oldest texts. Just the new ones that have been bastardized to hide what they really are:

[@jfc213]

how great is alice ? more please

[@Adaman368]

The repetitive flag waving gets a bit nauseous tbh

[@davidfarmer2049]

Hmmm, dig a little and you might discover differently.

[@TheSchmuck01]

Quick sidebar question about hypocaust systems, did they need to be swept and cleaned like modern chimneys? Did soot and resin build up till they ignited or did they send slaves under the floor to clean it out?

[@Trebor74]

Probably be a young slaves job to clean the hypocaust in the summer when it wasn't used. Assuming any soot wouldn't make it up the wall vents. So they'd stay relatively clean.

[@johnruddick686]

The tend to be quite large area wise so I imagine small slaves or children were probably used to keep them clean.

[@magster6022]

They were very prone to fires, I believe.

[@s1nb4d59]

Love the digging for britain series,and alice roberts as the narrator

[@jamesdolan4042]

I must give Alice Robets a lot of credit. She does not gloss over difficult subjects. In this episode she did an excellent and detailed inquiry into the deaths of the babies. excavated circa.1912 from a Roman villa.

[@HJJSL-bl8kk]

There was a later UK TV programme that did further research and (if memory serves) they realised because of a statuette that was a protector of pregnant women and babies, as well as another artefact (a protecting amulet) that it was unlikely to be a brothel, but probably a centre for women and difficult births and likely that the infant remains were stillborn.

[@mattmatt6572]

Abortion clinic the Roman's were big on abortion

[@markharrisllb]

@@mattmatt6572Would they wait until full gestation to abort? Is it worth going through all the risks of aborting when they could have waited for the birth and committed infanticide? I know childbirth was far more dangerous than today, but it has to be safer than the other option.

[@davidfarmer2049]

YOu might not if the Self SErvative Gov had taken your property for a bean. Know what nda is?

[@davidfarmer2049]

JUST BE AWARE THE MELODIOUS ALICE GOT HER FEET WELL UNDER THE TABLE WITH TORY GOV HS2 (FRAUD). SO, IN EFECT HER FEES HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM YOUR NHS CASH NEXT TIME YOU CALL FOR DOCTOR OR YOUR AUNT OR UNCLE: I'M AFRAID ALL IS NOT QUITE WHAT IT SEEMS NOW ON BBC TV.

[@andrewlouis3475]

Odyssey, your channel is a real discovery for me!! Thank you for content. 🙏

[@2012escapee1]

The man buried face down could have been a sacrifice or an executed criminal. As for the 97 babies, an ancient abortion clinic?

[@GavTatu]

seems a little odd that prostitutes would allow getting to full term before killing ?

[@JasonSmith-q6u]

Such a large number in one place and all about the same age, plus the fact the very large villa was in close proximity to a large military camp really does seem to point to a brothel. The Romans didn’t have any problems with prostitution in their society and as the narrator points out we’re not averse to committing infanticide. The brothel owner isn’t going to make any money from pregnant prostitutes, and certainly isn’t going to want to care for a large number of “bastardized” children. It’s cold blooded, but the women were most likely slaves (aka property) so they were probably not given any choice in their profession or their pregnancies. Just goes to show for all their advances the Romans were also still quite barbaric in some ways.

[@mattmatt6572]

Nothing new under the sun. How little has changed

[@johnruddick686]

It may have been a poachers burial. Or possibly a butcher?

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

⁠@@JasonSmith-q6u- Currently abortions are legal at 40 weeks in seven American states. Perhaps we haven’t advanced as much as we think?

[@DH007-w2d]

25:07 I know this coin. My stepdad had found one in his garden, in Andard, near Angers. The horsewoman is called "cavalière aux seins nus". I could read PIC, and guessed it came from the Pictes, south of the Loire to Poitiers...

[@SECRETORDER1336]

Yeah I've got a couple as well i go metal detecting all over the UK and found some amazing stuff..

[@jacklloyd7995]

Somebody probably had beef with him

[@Diogenes_43]

Why go with brothel and murdered babies instead of a midwife where many babies were born some died.

[@kathrynsmith3417]

Because similar burials have been found in Europe, in history, not due to plague.

[@Nn9496-j6h]

Occam’s razor.

[@dh2032]

fits the story, but as you hinting its only based on similar finding, but where similar finding, true too? could a sort Chinese whisper's, the context is still there but none on the substance ? its still guess,

[@uptoolate2793]

The mid wife would go to the mother giving birth and midwife would not be taking the stillborn home with her to bury. All these births would not be happening in one place.

[@janettweedy2193]

they did say beacaue the babies had 'died' all at same age (at birth) not at varying stages of pregnancy .

[@ava.artemis]

It looked to me like he was tossed in the rubbish heap? Like that was the pit where animal parts were thrown after butchering and he received an ignominious burial with them for some reason? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Considering that was sort of the headline of the video they spent the least amount of time on it, would love to know more. But I love these videos!! Excellent work, thank you for sharing them. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@garywagner2466]

It’s the Earl of Sandwich.

[@susanpallister8037]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@Obiter3]

Yes!

[@ayakotami3318]

😂

[@kevynbrownell719]

I wonder if the babies were a certain sex. Like the girls weren't wanted, so killed when born. Or the boys... whatever.

[@lauramata4244]

I saw on another episode that the babes were both genders.

[@Nookdashiddole]

This chick is mint❤

[@m.e.345]

'Super Size Me'.. 1st century AD edition. 😄

[@davemitch729]

Why on earth was that lady using a metal bladed trowel to remove the coin hoard 🤦🏻‍♂️ plastic trowel would be the sensible option to avoid causing unnecessary damage.

[@sneeringimperialist6667]

I have the same problem with crime shows, where they pull a bullet out of wood with metal pliers. Like.. What are you doing? That would ruin the ballistics...

[@davemitch729]

@@sneeringimperialist6667 absolutely if you do a documentary/show you have to be accurate with how you portray techniques and procedures that are used in these fields. all credibility is lost when they do inaccurate things.

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

You try digging through heavy clay with a plastic trowel sometime, mate. 🤦‍♀️ It can be hard enough with a metal one.

[@davemitch729]

@@Darkstar-se6wc they were digging into Roman coins clumped together which doesn’t require a metal bladed trowel

[@jameswells554]

I would guess that he committed a crime of some sort given the manner in which he was "buried". He looks like he was just dumped into the offal pit.

[@johnruddick686]

Possibly a poacher?

[@angh18]

They didn't have 'offal pits'. Nothing of a slaughtered mammal's parts, was wasted.

[@giovanni5063]

Babies were an impediment to maintaining steady income for the women that made a living servicing the Gents that were stationed at the fort. There was no prohibition of fornication and, well, that's why you find that stuff because no problem with a baby expiring in those days.

[@bwrs2bwrs1]

It's an awful situation 😢

[@MsMike651]

You’re Right,Egypt was but Britain also supplied corn.But the main things from there the Roman’s wanted were it LS base and precious metals.A lot of mining there.They supplied wool and cattle also.

[@FatKat67]

Assuming that the ladies were "making a living" isn't correct. Assuming there had any choices regarding the babies is also incorrect. Why? We can answer both ideas by reminding everyone that almost EVERY prostitute in the Roman Empire was in slavery. How much choice does an inslaved whore have? I think you know the answer that.

[@budd2nd]

@30 surely these pits were just dug for food storage? First used for grain storage and then later for other food items. Why assert a ritual when it is far simpler to consider simple storage requirements?

[@ColdHawk]

The Archeology cliché has its roots in reality.

[@robwilsn3219]

I can't even believe you asked this question. It was to feed the Gods! That man was a sacrifice! Along with all that meat...

[@mm-yt8sf]

so did the position of the bones of the meat pit imply that the animals were whole and not just bones discarded after eating? if so that seems very wasteful to just bury it all... oh unless they were were all diseased maybe and not fit to eat?

[@annboyce1090]

Fascinating selection of finds, thank you. The amount of explanation provided was perfect for me.

[@erwinbreyson]

Hey guys can i have just one Roman coin please? For souvenir only, please?! 🙏

[@SECRETORDER1336]

I've got loads of them there not that rare especially here in the UK I go metal detecting around the BRITISH ISLES

[@disconnectpub]

The dramatics. You’re such a good one. It’s so nice to see you traveling around the world, pointing the camera at yourself. Can you give us a recommendation on deodorant, please

[@destonlee2838]

Best episode title and, re: coin hoards as votive offering, I'm not sold. What evidence is there of similar caches of pre roman artifacts to base a continuing cultural practice on? I've heard scant to none. Like one stone does not make a castle, one hoard does not make a significant cultural practice. I'm moved to it being a stash of metal for future excavation and repurposing. Look to existing artifacts and see if there is evidence, as with the vikings, that coins were reforged into jewelry. This seems far more practical and enduring of occasional razor I'd reckon.

[@destonlee2838]

Occams razor, ty.

[@giovannipallavicini1781]

Excellent presentation, please keep providing more Historical vídeos!

[@djsnyder001]

The mystery surrounding the infanticide suggested around time stamp 13:45 is no mystery as it indicates how ancient prostitutes dealt with unwanted pregnancies. Through testing it might be possible to tell how many of these newborns were related to one another via mitochondrial DNA.

[@ColdHawk]

Why would all the infants have been killed at parturition? It’s strange to me that there were no remains from spontaneously (or otherwise) terminated pregnancies before term. Out of 97 there were no pre-term deliveries where the fetus was not viable? That seems very strange.

[@RichMitch]

Alice is the ultimate woman. Heavens 🥵

[@GavTatu]

i live in jersey, when the camera switched and said guernsey, i thought nooooo..... don't tell me alice went there and not here !

[@JLiger]

that girl trying to hit that guy lol xd

[@richieleeallen6667]

I'm in Love with Dr. Alice

[@davidfarmer2049]

You might not be if you knew. .......and the poor people HS2 took the homes off. You are a shallow bunch. lol

[@Stumpybear7640]

She is a Professor ❤

[@janetsmith5172]

Where’s meat guy? Watched half but all I’m seeing is bs about dead kids

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The hord makes me wonder how the coins are ordered in the pot. If they are chronologically with the oldest at the bottom and the newest at the top, the coins might've gone in there one by one over a lifetime. If they're all mixed, they might've gone in at one time.

[@dh2032]

wounding why there not moving the location of this new road? a bit ti the left or bit to right looks been put one most densely packed archaeology sites in the UK? looking like road is going Stonehenge, was little closer the stones, they world of just bulldozed the them out of the way?

[@IratePuffin]

There’s something pretty much everywhere you dig.

[@manuellubian5709]

Regarding the infant burials perhaps just seeing the sheer number of more or less discarded bodies Disturbed him greatly. Perhaps it was just all too much for him to bear and the only thing he could think to do was just to quickly and neatly pack them away in a box and make very little mention of them.

[@chezsnailez]

@3:45 ~ reminded of Monty Python about the man who built his castle on a swamp...

[@juanzulu1318]

He was buried with his wife. Because he identified as a goat.

[@Obiter3]

I'm already at 28 minutes in ... where's the beef?

[@nohandle257]

What a great video. Thank you! Definitely subscribing. And I'm in love with Alice. 😚

[@Stumpybear7640]

We all are 😂❤

[@wonderwond]

she is a beauty, her husband is a lucky guy

[@chadclay1643]

Thanx

[@yvonnesmith6152]

Madam de Montespan went to a witch who performed a dark ritual to retain the King’s favor (as his mistress). The investigation thereafter, describing the sacrificial killing of an infant for each ritual, is well documented. These rituals are as old as humanity, and sadly, aren’t fully eradicated to this day. These rituals were performed every time a supplicant asked for a specific favor, and each ritual necessitated an infant. La Voisin was the witch who performed and described the ritual, if anyone would want to read more about this macabre tradition that many Elite observed. Abortions, even during the ancient times, were undertaken as soon as the monthly course had ceased. There were many herbal remedies, but also “mechanical” ways in which a pregnancy (and the infant) could be aborted. A prostitute wouldn’t wait until full-term, the last trimester would make her less appealing to her customers. This villa was the agricultural estate of a very rich Roman family who obviously had the means to coerce the locals to give up their infants

[@alanwilkinson9487]

Love the vid... Many thanks..

[@maryabreu8956]

Man wasnt supposed to stay in one piece and supposed to not be in the peaceful rest of death i doubt that was any sign of endearment

[@markdicker686]

More archeology and less presenter please

[@claudialandgraf4450]

Who else loved the poetry of the army of weelbarrows ready for the next dicoveries?

[@freyatilly]

Increadible. I live on the Isle of Thanet and had no idea of this find until now (5/7/24) It also shows the grwat shame that takes place with modern civil engineering destroying ancient sites for such a thing as progress. Perhaps in future there will be an automatic preservation order for the sites and replanning a modern development would be the result instead of total loss.

[@V.Hansen.]

Practically every inch of England has archaeological significance. It’s a small place and has been inhabited for millennia

[@harryreading7083]

7

[@harryreading7083]

😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@DeborahRosen99]

I'll propose an alternative theory to the "baby killing villa." That's both shocking and attention-grabbibg, but it's also absolutely nonsensical, along the lines of the religious fundamentals screeching about "abortion up to birth!" today. (Hint: it didn't happen then, and it doesn't happen now.) I propose that the place we call Yewden today was, at that time, a place where women could go to have their babies, whether for religious reasons or local safety or because someone knowledgeable about childbirth was known to live there. And that 97 infant skeletons, all aged about 40 weeks, were stillbirths, not murders. We know that death was viewed very differently then as compared to now, with nearly a thousand years of Christianity throwing judgment and sin and "eternal punishment unless you're buried in consecrated ground" on top of everything. We also know that childbirth was a very dangerous process for women then, and if someone had a reputation for helping others through it safely, their services would have made the place a local mecca during their lifetime. But even the best midwives of the day lost patients, both mothers and infants. Infants would have been buried onsite - women who didn't make it would have likely been taken home to their origin places if they hadn't come far. And of course, we would have no record of the numbers of women who departed the place with their babies, alive and healthy.

[@Adaman368]

Sure the British are special 😅

[@GoodnightJLH]

It’s certainly possible. But I don’t think there is any evidence of such birthing centers in the time period. Another possibility is that it was an orphanage where women (mostly unwed) paid for their children to be kept. Such institutions were much more profitable if the infants were terminally neglected or even actively killed.

[@jasonflay8818]

It would be interesting to see the breakdown of date ranges per coin strata. If each strata had similar dates but diff from above or below the idea of ritual deposits I could see. If the dates are similar from the top most coins to the bottom most I'd argue it was a single deposit and I would say given the size not ritual. 4 years salary is a sizeable amount for a ritualistic burial. I wonder if it had a more utilitarian purpose as a bank. Being partially covered it is unlikely someone could steal it easily, and with a small opening one could reach in pull out coins in small amounts, like a paymaster for example, or the community wealth. In times of trouble it can be completely covered making it difficult for raiders again the thinnest of the pot would keep a raiders from running off with it. I think the key lies in the breakdown of the coins. In my scenario though dates would be largely homogeneous, there still would be older coins at the bottom as the stores were emptied the last coins would remain towards the bottom and as coins were deposited they would bury the older coins, but the newer coins would be the first withdrawn. Unless someone liked sticking their arm down there and staring them up which , would be something I'd do if I were in charge of taking care of the coins

[@johnschmidt792]

I thought Egypt was the bread basket of the Roman empire not Britain.

[@maryearll3359]

Britain had, and still has, the rainfall and closer proximity to Europe. Egypt was too dry and too far away,

[@MSjackiesaunders]

Egypt didn't raise enough grain to support the Roman Empire. They barely raised enough for their own use (occasionally having to buy outside grain in bad years). The access to more fertile regions was a primary reason for Roman expansion. The steady rainfall in Britain and western France was essential for the well-being of Rome.

[@MONTY-YTNOM]

Libya was

[@Boro87]

Cleopatra was black​@@MONTY-YTNOM

[@MONTY-YTNOM]

@@Boro87 and ?

[@maricogan2903]

I am disgusted that the government of GB values a new roadway more that their own history.

[@mattmatt6572]

Britain is small and over populated and completely covered by history maybe they should just abandon their country to preserve the history.

[@IratePuffin]

If they didn’t value their history, they wouldn’t stop projects to allow archeologists to investigate. It’s a small country and there’s just about something everywhere you dig. Can’t exactly never progress because some Roman had a villa where you want to put something. 🙄

[@neatchipops3428]

Naw... your assumption is wrong, because "their own history" started in 1066 AD. The People have a separate History.

[@jeannerogers7085]

That has never been my impression.

[@juliuscaesar2792]

Alice is foxy

[@mediamass1404]

17:26 that seems like a buizzar leap in logic

[@magster6022]

I'm constantly shocked that bones and metal objects are handled with bare hands, without regard to DNA or acids and oils.

[@Mountaingal212]

I'm quite sure they are aware and know what they are doing.

[@seadragon3350]

The worms would eat him faster or no one would dig him up do to stink and a nasty mess .

[@manuellubian5709]

The guy found a nearly intact pot. But by the time your so-called portable archeology group got involved they actually busted open the circumference of the nearly intact pot and destroyed it. What I don't understand is why they did not opt to excavate completely around the further circumference of the pot for perhaps in case it in plaster get it lifted out, and then take it elsewhere for further study but the fact that, the man had found a nearly intact pot only to have this portable team hack away and destroy it meant little or nothing to the man's efforts to try and preserve such a significant archaeological find. It's quite disappointing if you ask me.

[@ledwardsak]

One of the experts has said the pot walls were so thin that they had to set down the pot then add coins to it. Also after years of water and soil collecting in out with the coins it was probably determined that the pot soils have to be dismantled into pieces to them to excavate the coins which were bound together with the soil over time from mud to solid. I am sure the pot shards were labeled and then afterwards put back together or able to be reassembled

[@charlene2400]

for a time, couple years ago, the most downloaded picture, was "Man with bacon"

[@ranierberger8697]

at some point the villa was transformed into a temple and burial ground for kids

[@maryearll3359]

The subject of the bones of 97 full term foetus' was very gently handled. So disturbing for all involved. Well done and thank you,🌹

[@ElizabethDMadison]

They're babies.

[@carolbaughan8768]

My brother died at birth. Stillborn.❤

[@disconnectpub]

Waste of time. This is really lame.

[@MrJm323]

29:55 ....Well, it's not a "Roman man" buried on a pile of meat, but a Celtic man who was buried in that pit.

[@VitoVisintini]

If you don't eat your meet...

[@markfriedersdorf4750]

It's spelled meat.

[@punkeasy]

He had a beef about the cost of burials.

[@Stumpybear7640]

I wonder at the significance of the man being buried face down. Did the natives or romans oractice this? X

[@Pizzpott]

If I found it - it's mine. Hammer any gold and silver I find into an unrecognisable lump, flatten it out and cut it up and sell it. Why should the crown have it when it done not belong to them? They could have the rest. I'd trust them to give me a fair price as much as |'d trust a second-hand car salesman to offer me a fair and proper price for my car. Professor Alice Roberts is lovely, and her Bristol accent is stunning.

[@rachmondhoward2125]

The man on meat depicts a ritual of transformation to reincarnate or rebirth and most likely of a so called noble or a sacrificed victim on behalf of nobility for their wellbeing. The hesitant theory that the 97 babies were sacrificed victims from a "royal" brothel may be correct. In my free online chapter, Akashic Records and Holy Grail, I discuss some Hindu rituals around "holy royal" postitution of children and even where ground from a brothel was considered holy. The numbers 40 (weeks), 9 and 7 bear significance in ancient cosmological gematria.

[@concettaworkman5895]

Because humans are hyper-obligate carnivores, with a stomach PH of the same as a vulture, or bird of prey. Figure that out, all of you stuffy professors. MEAT is our food.

[@Auxius.]

The man was very adamant the pot of coins wasn't meant to be retrieved, and intended for offerings. It's silly to me that this hoard would've been known by a community and there wasn't a rat in between them to secretly dig it back up and live large.

[@isoldam]

Is there some reason to think the community knew where it was buried? Maybe priests buried it in a secret place?

[@Auxius.]

@@isoldam The pot is too thin to hold that amount of coins, a single person couldn't hold that many coins (Indicates multiple people emptied their pouches in the pot). The locale is not notable, the pot is plain. The pot indicates there was care put into the burial, and protection of the coins- why place them in a pot otherwise? If it was ritual, why use a plain pot? This smells of desperation, but everything around this is speculation at best. So best practice is to not assume anything until more evidence is found nearby or in the contents/on the pot, that's my critique of the man's claim ruling out the possibility it was intended for hiding.

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

You’d have to move some considerable distance away, since your neighbors would have a pretty good idea of your legit finances, and that would be an inconveniently heavy horde to transport for any distance. Also, since most of the individual coins were of little worth and may have been deposited over a period of time, it’s possible that no one realized how many there were all together.

[@user-pd5vl4lr5p]

If these were offerings for the Gods, then they wouldn't be stolen for fear of Gods wrath.

[@arturovaldes546]

Man buried with meat , possibly a Thief, buried with his loot , as a warning to others. Roman considered dead bodies sacred and to be buried with meat sends a message.

[@Catherine-ty8ss]

If you want to keep money from being stolen by burying them in a thin container that would break apart upon removal is a smart idea. You would have to spend time transferring coins to another container to transport. Longer it took more likely you would be caught!

[@actoraa]

Beautiful. The documentary is good too.

[@MichaelKusugak]

So, Dr Alice, how about a talk about the human needs in those old olden times, I mean peeing and the other thing. Nobody ever talks about those bodily functions.

[@mradventurer8104]

Many options including brothel but another is some sort of hospital for women to give birth. It is known that many babies died at birth during the past. Then if it was some sort of women's hospital it could be true?

[@tonybaker55]

I reckon his friends were having a laugh when they buried him on meat. He was probably a vegetarian whilst alive.

[@chickenfist1554]

I often refer to my wife as an Archaeologist due to her habit of digging sh!t up from the past!

[@Infantryvet156th]

Seems he was likely tied down on top a large pile of rotting meat to torture and kill him. Probably attracted many flies and scavengers which slowly eat him. Then after he died the most horrific death. They buried the scene of the horror.

[@nzessmam]

Vindolanda is a fascinating place - I’ve been regularly visiting for over 60 years

[@MarthaOprisko]

I couldn't help but wonder if all the skeletons of young babies might be due to the fact there was a doctor involved. Might these babies have died due to malnutrition because their mothers were slaves or perhaps their mothers were prostitutes? It is of importance to be able to determine over how long a period of time these babies had been buried,

[@markfriedersdorf4750]

If i found gold or silver i wouldn't tell anybody, finders keepers

[@bartonbella3131]

I wonder if it was a village "bank" meant to safeguard the village due to changing rulers and chieftains?

[@Elohimanu]

yeah its cool to be in a space just ur organs loose them shape and ur bones maybe wont able to hold u any longer after return but hopefully im wrong

[@donovanwise8547]

40 years to do 15%? That sounds like a massive failure.

[@kasie680]

Lol they cannot excavate every month of the year and they don’t have constant people to dig, most of these archaeologists donate their time to discover and teach the younglings lol

[@ruadhscottygirl2480]

Be aware that if you are an epileptic, there is a lot of rapid flashing of white screen in this episode.

[@danielschmitt1935]

Actually the flesh of his enemies brought him good luck in the afterlife.

[@EarthGeographicalRecon]

Who cares lol

[@alicethompson653]

His crime was being a vegetarian!

[@Sagacity61]

Were the many baines in the raind haise human?

[@Piggelgesicht]

Could the villa have been some kind of maternity ward?

[@grandam195]

He probably was a glutton and choked on a too large piece of meat. So they buried him with the rest of his meal.

[@mcgoo721]

He was a meat rider his whole life so they were just like let him ride that meat in the afterlife too

[@markwhitcombe8670]

Try coming to roxitor the roman city in shrewsbury Shropshire

[@mrjj1f]

World class production. Bravo!!

[@dragonflydreamer7658]

Everything is a Ritual when we don't know anything, Cult Ritual. THREADS

[@brianSalem541]

Or blame it on aliens from space

[@SuzanneTatham-so1jj]

Love this program and the host is excellent.

[@markfriedersdorf4750]

Imagine that, a pretty english redhead,with good teeth 😂😂