Is This The Best Archeological Find Of The 21st Century? | Digging for Britain | Unearthed History
In this episode of Digging for Britain, Alice Roberts and the team are looking at the best archeolgical discoveries from the East of Britain. Must Farm is one of the best preserved Bronze Age sites in Britain, so much so that it is even referred to as 'Britain's Pompeii'. From complete roundhouses to glass beads, the archeological implications about the Bronze Age that can be gleamed from this site are endless. Could this be one of the most exciting finds of our lifetime?
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I love that we can put away the idea that humans were not grunting Stone Age warriors. These discoveries and stories make me realize that people have been much more sophisticated than earlier thought (and taught). Thank you from New York, USA.
This is older than I thought! However, I've never heard of either a bed, or tree burial! Every day's a school day!
Not only is she a brilliant anthropologist, but she brings it to a point where even someone with minimal education in these fields, like myself, can understand it. Thanks Dr. Roberts!
She's easy on the eyes too lol she be hot 🔥
Your country is beautiful. Thanks for all the great history shows.
It is always a pleasure to listen to Prof. Alice
She is something of a woke idiot. Especially over her bc/bce stance.
And an absolute joy to look at too.
She's interesting and beautiful.
Do we get a Phil sighting in this one too!!? That’s awesome! 😁
This episode was the most astonishing & exciting to watch & that’s no shade to other episodes at all. I was utterly engrossed from the start & even speaking aloud the same words as they were said on screen. To the burned roundhouse that so much of their household items were lost in the fire & the loss of them the hardship of the people to Christian people buried in carved out trees. The seventh century bed burials of highly regarded women of faith that didn’t need a man or marriage and had important work to do all the way through to our “Thane” & Alfred the Great being on the same coin and yet in recorded history in the chronicles being changed by the finding of the silver hoard by the intrepid & persistent (nothing for 5 hours) metal detector man was so amazing. To see the coin and jewellery that was obviously telling the story of the alliance between them was gobsmacking!!!! Thanks Alice & everyone else, I love digging for Britain. I don’t comment usually but sending *virtual hugs* all the way from Perth Western Australia ❤
When Prof. Roberts says... " This is where archeology gets really exciting for me... forcing us to confront our expectations.. it's going to make us change our minds.". I'm just an amateur student of archeology... but I couldn't agree more.
Only our imagination limits what we think.
With the details of the roundhouse you are revealing their humanity bring the connection closer
The old team was so good. I miss them. Their interactions were formed over years of close work together and it showed.
Well, isn`t this marvelous, another splendid episode in this outstanding series. In retrospect, Time Teams self imposed time limitation of three days per dig placed serious impediments on their ability or expectations of making making a major discovery. The success of this series, by contrast, is in each dig making a film record on a daily basis, which could then be edited, as each dig would last far longer than three days, and then the results incorporated into an hour long episode - a terrific concept, and one that British archeology has gained a heightened profile and a substantial following - including me :) Prof. Alice Roberts leads a team of highly qualified presenters to make each discovery easily understood, and, invariably, exciting !!!!!
Unearthed history is one of the best archeology channels, every time I get a new video notification I go rushing to watch it knowing something new and incredible to learn about will be on every video.
I'm a Canadian far removed, and still I watch as soon as I'm notified.
we English still think of our people who moved away to new lands as our own don't worry about that even if they don't we always will
@@danielwardle5374 Maybe that's why I don't feel far removed, just geographically and temporarily seperated.
Fellow Canadian here, also geographically far removed. But I just love this series. Auntie Beeb and documentaries, close to perfection.
Canadian lass here (Scots/French background), *huge* fan of ancient history. I'd probably watch Prof. Roberts opening a letter, she's so compelling. Keep these fabulous documentaries coming!
Northampton, MA here. Wanted to be an archaeologist growing up. Now retired, I dig behind my house (woods) and find treasures from pre colonial times up to the 1950s (2” high plastic GI Joes post WW2, silverware from the old cutlery factory down the street. This channel, Time Team, anything is great. I remember this discovery when it was originally publicized.
Thank you Alice for another bit of history 👍❤
If I was 20 years younger I’d study Archeology and move to The UK! I got hooked watching Time Team, and the US doesn’t have the endless history like the United kingdom
It is so exciting to see the archaeologists getting actual joy from the things they are finding.
For all our modern day accomplishments we are so naive when it comes to evaluating our past those poor simple souls that lead to our existence. This is the best archeological series of all time , as we are shown all the people involved from dedicated excavators to superb experts and great amateurs but who brews the tea and coffee? Leave no one out congrats to all involved.Thanks from a future ancestor.
What an amazing discovery of the Viking period coins. Coins from this period are rather scare and expensive for collectors. You can for example get nice Roman coins from 500-700 years earlier for as little as $20-50, but Anglo-Saxon and Viking coins tend to go for $1000 or more each!
These are the best showings that you have shown. 😮
Great show, Alice, keep up the good work.
Superb as usual...
Irish but watch on line in Spain . Brilliant and always interesting programe.
The Bronze age village is like the Wreck of the Invincible where everything is found to be ordered & labelled, showing us how people in the past were far more sophisticated than people imagine.
I just love these new finds and often wonder what else is to be found on these great Isles
Awesome documentary! Must be very exciting to excavate.
Simply incredible
Mind-blowing stuff. Loved it
Great show, thanks for sharing.
My studies (long time ago) highlighted that there was a blending of beliefs following the arrival of Christianity in Britain to the extent that many of the monks were recalled and replaced because of it. So not surprising that a blending of Christianity and other beliefs that were imbedded in culture of the time would remain for some time. It wasn't were one thing and overnight we became something else.
It's another Glastknbury Abbey! The monks also set up an Authorian legend all those years ago to get the pilgrims in! We think it's only been a paid for attraction since English Heritage took it over. We wouldn't pay to go.
Nice Job Prof. AlicE!!! Cheers JJ
I have been going in and out, watching this episode between tasks. Wondering why the bronze age residents of this home left so much behind. What happened to make them leave this well outfitted home?
They explain at the beginning but The whole area burned down. Thats why they left and why everything is stil lthere. It all burned fell into the marsh they lived on
@@ginnygin7141 I must y have moving about way too much. Missed that.Thanks.
Wonderful👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Ohalo II is an amazing seldom talked about a 23,000 year old site with evidence of agriculture.
Cheers ! Happy thoughts!
great programme , i dont miss one :}
OCD may have originated here. By keeping similar things in one place, everyone know where to look for supplies they need. You'd need to return them to their correct places so others could use them.
That is not "OCD", it's common sense.
I wonder if the wooden tree trunk of that burial place was the start of the wooden coffins we know today,
I was wondering the same, and think it is reasonable to assume it could be...
Brilliant,
Yet again we find that our Bronze age ancestors were way more sophisticated than our prejudices would lead us to believe. The Iron age even more so I would assume.
Let's not forget that our "Bronze Age ancestors" built the pyramids, Athens and Babylon.
Human intelligence was the same, the improvement or otherwise of behaviour is, I imagine, contentious, just the technology has vastly changed an improved (?).
"Our prejudices "??...very presumptuous of you...we can only go by what we were taught in school/college by our "informed " teachers... as adults , we rely on so called " experts in their fields" to inform us.... calling people prejudicial is ignorant and condescending.
@@maggielarkin9314good job that you are so non judgemental
It's true that for a long time our views on our ancient ancestors were fairly prejudiced, but over the last 50 years that has been changing. The main reasons for this are that new discoveries expand our knowledge base. We can only describe times long past based on the evidence available to us, and as technology improves, so does our ability to understand the traces left behind by our ancestors. Must Farm is a prime example of this process in action. Prior to this discovery, all we had to go on was mostly post holes, a few discarded, broken, or ritually deposited artefacts. Sites like Must Farm are *exceptionally* rare, but exponentially increase our understanding of these ancient people.
And now just a few minutes later in the program, they start mentioning woods that were not good for what they needed them for at the time, but would be extremely desirable for making musical instruments, although that was not what they were looking for Wood for at the time… I hope this makes sense!. I’m just saying because I’m a guitar nerd!
I know a young man studting archeology at oxford, his name is Evan Proudfoot, I did a search for his name and came up with a picture of him working at pompeii, how cool is that?
I still can't understand why a bronze age ax head was made like that, making it necessary to find a forked handle to fit. ( did they make hammers like that also ? )
Arthur was buried in a log coffin too, in Glastonbury
Its a wonder what happened to the roundhouse village to cause all those finds to be preserved and saved almost like it was a Pompeii
The houses caught fire and collapsed into the oxygen depleted marsh. That's why it's so well preserved. Also burnt things tend to not decay
omg! i WONDER IF ANYONE THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT A TREMENDOUS LOSS THIS REPRESENTED FOR FAMILIES? Were they all killed? Or did they have to re-start everything? What a tough row it would have been.
I find my self concerned for those working in the lower areas years ago I was working indoors where a crane was running in the overhead the people working in the lower areas were inhaling a hazardous mix of carbon monoxide and air, some of them got a bit sick those of us above could smell the diesel exhaust, but we had no trouble, we didn't know the carbon monoxide was settling.
It's hard to imagine a stirrup as technology, in today's day and age.
am i the only one confused as to how Barnet is in the east of England? - Also, has anyone ever considered that the reason women are only found in 7th century bed burials is because they died in childbirth?
Another masterpiece by Unearthed History. Thanks to everyone involved. And Doctor Roberts you are extremely hot.
Just because you got a bit of paper doesn’t mean you’re smarter than your ancestors why shouldn’t Bronze Age people be sophisticated
I think the mighty KZhead Algorithm that also chooses the adverts has a way to go. I got adverts for both Coke Zero ("Real Magic") and Pepsi Max ("Max taste, zero sugar") during this video. I would have thought that the people who watch things like Unearthed History would be the last people to try to sell these sorts of drinks to. They might be interested in mead or home brewing, especially if the home brewing were advertised as traditional. You'd probably see your stock flying off the shelves if you offered reproduction neolithic spindles with unscoured fleece from the earliest known breed of sheep, or perhaps an early variety of flax.
Ceolwulf was probably killed by Alfred and that's why he's not in the history books, or if he is , is described in derogatory terms. Also Mercia was given over to Alfred's son after ceolwulf " disappeared". Doesn't take a genius to understand what happened
I'm curious what a wheel was doing at a site which was illustrated as being out in the water? Not arguing, just curious.
Perhaps it was a water wheel? 😆
They probably found it, had no idea what it was, but brought it home as a curiosity!
You can't steal the cart on the shore, if you have a wheel up on your island house. Like a car up on blocks LOL
I can never stop watching Alice she is a very smart Gorgeous hot lady🥰,
'Our' ancient history is the most interesting to me, as a man of Breton/Conish, Welsh and Eire ancestory. Our menhirs, barrows, enclosures and roundhouses; Our identity . Meur ras Alice.
living before single famly homes
How about you keep your ad free podcast and give me the ad-free documentary that I've paid for!
Thier beliefs back then if the lord took them in thier sleep this is the way they was given
I love Alice
Sorry to raise a mild criticism; but at 26:12 Professor Roberts says: "...amongst the first Britains to convert to Christianity." There were Roman/British Christians here from at least the 4th Century. "...amongst the first English to convert to Christianity." Is a quantum measure better summation of evidence. I wonder why the script writers chose 'British' instead of 'English'.
There have been Britons living on the island of Britain long before the English were even a thing, so it's not inaccurate to say British, also the current series is called Digging for Britain, not Digging for England.
@@tomnicholson2115 I am sorry, but you have missed my point. Roberts saying/reading:"...amongst the first Britains to convert to Christianity." for an Anglo-Saxon site is clearly wrong. If you read my post I say that there were British Christians here from at least the 4th Century.
@@glynwelshkarelian3489 No part of the island of Britain was known as England till 927 AD so there were no English people till then! So that would answer your question, why chose 'British' instead of 'English' and that seemed to be the point of you're first comment. Even if Christianity came centuries before that the people would still have been British.
@@tomnicholson2115 No. The point is that there were many people, now known as British, who had converted to Christianity centuries before the 'Anglo-Saxons' arrived. So saying 'first British' is wrong.
The problem with round houses is you can’t find a corner to piss in
What a pathetic thing to say
@@floppysmith1181 Not so pathetic, but rather an amusing fact I'd say 😉 plus every comment helps with the algorithm putting out to more folks. Just seems like a bit of typical bit of British toilet humour to me 😃
err there were christians in britian in roman times
What a beautiful looking woman ❤❤😂
I find it odd that the narrator says "our ancestors". As a viewer, I suppose that's possible, but certainly not a given.
i have the biggest crush on alice😂
Ironic that they see the Christian church giving them power when they had equal rights to men in Norse paganism where the Christians treated women as property. Still property of a king has power over commoners atleast.
First?!
Alice is such a hottie
I'm trying to say this without sounding rude. It sounds like to me that the archaeologists are just beginning to realize that our ancestors were humans too. Not just archaeologists, any profession that deals with the past when telling the story of their discovery seems like there's a disconnection with people of today. Remember this is OUR past. Today's, tomorrow's and, in history humans are going to human!
how is this the best archaeological find of the 21st century?
I question the host interpretation of several segments. When facts are unknown, she tends to come up with an explanation with a suspicious slant.
Its a tv show, not a peer reviewed study
@@ginnygin7141 It’s a propaganda piece.
I love great shows doco"s etc like this best job ever . But OMG how hot and god dam sexy is the presenter truly eye candy
Alice is hot.
Can we cut out the stupid comments about this lady, you are watching the wrong material if that’s what you want.
What a waste of time, there are hundreds of these in every mash and peat bog all over the UK, who will try to individualise it for validation to give themselves work...lol...!
Shes got a great pair of......
i hope the archeologists dont misgender the skeletons. Also the inclusion of woke culture in revisionist history here is very disturbing. The constant push to claim "women and queens were more powerful than kings" shows a level of modern misandry that is absurd.
I like watching her walk, smart as a whip bedroom eyes!
@markopolo3445 How about you keep that shit to yourself?
I love the show. But I want to know at what point do you draw the line at desecrating and robbing graves. We all know the scientists are motivated by grant money but do they ever draw the line?
Grave robbers work for selfish profit, Archaeologists work for the knowledge of all of us, so there is a difference! I think it's just stupid to call archaeologist's grave robbers.