Pets (mostly dogs) of our family have been buried on our property for decades. I'm sure that sometime in the distant future when some archaeologists discover the foundations of our homes, they will declare that it was some kind of holy shrine or temple and that we offered ritual animal sacrifices to the gods! LOL, archaeologists will attribute anything to religion!
That's because burials are religious unless by inundation and those are obvious. If it wasn't for religion people would be thrown out like rubbish or eaten its religion that determines how your corpse is dealt with
@@StuartAnderson-xl4bo Your whole post is about burying people. My post didn't say a thing about burying people. Pet and animal burials aren't religious. In ancient times animals that were sacrificed weren't buried with religion in mind. Dog and cats were buried as companions in the afterlife. Horses were buried to be used in the afterlife. Livestock was buried to provide food in the afterlife. Any animals that were sacrificed that weren't buried were eaten!
I have daughters. If they excavate my house in a thousand years, they will be convinced we worshiped a goddess represented by all the 13" slim, disproportionate, blonde plastic statues dressed in revealing sequenced gowns they find.
@@StuartAnderson-xl4boThat’s not necessarily true at all. I suppose you think only religious people love their families or place meaning on either life or death.
A devout christian would wrap all the most precious items in cloth and bury them to hide them from the invaders. I theorize this pot of treasure was never taken, but hidden by the owner so it could not be taken. I am not sure viking raiders would take the time to wrap up treasure they were likely to dismantle anyway. Armchair archaeology.
You’d rather it be known as the oldest in your little corner of Britain rather than the oldest in the whole of Britain? Talk about cutting your nose to spite your face.
Another outstanding and highly informative episode in what must be considered a landmark series, one in which not only the extremely knowledgeable experts, but the large army of enthusiastic volunteers can be appreciated. The series continues to be presented by the ever capable and equally knowledgeable Prof, Alice Roberts, adding, whenever necessary her own specialty in osto-archeology to the mix - absolutely splendid in every way :)
Each time I see evidence of ancient religion, I am convinced that these people believed in their religion every bit as much as those who believe in religion today. Personally, I don't believe in any religion. But I am amazed at how modern religions have no respect for those who came before.
I think ancient peoples didn't understand nature and invented "gods" to explain it. Now that we do understand natural phenomena gods aren't needed anymore. Time for our species to Grow Up and stop the artificial divisions these beliefs create!!
@stephanieyee9784 speak for yourself. I have a very strong belief in my God and a very personal relationship with Him. I know many people who do. I'm sorry that you don't have that experience in your life but maybe that is because your god is your modern life and that is who you are trusting in. Just something to consider.
A lot of references to 'Britain' when such an entity dint exist. Eg. 'The discovery of Britain's earliest Pictish fort', should be 'Scotland's earliest'.
A common ritual--- "Mum.... I broke the antler off my deer skull again" "Well dear, just toss it in the rubbish with the other broken skulls and I'll get you a new one tomorrow".
Extremely interesting, I made a video on this site after watching the Findings from the University of Aberdeen during the dig in 2015, amazing work to all involved 🏴
same, here, but was it more that the history Teachers were dull and boring, and just reading from text books? I excelled in Metalwork, a great Teacher, and Physics, and Maths, (taught same teacher) yet other subjects were a poor result, due to bad teaching
The Picts and their history seems fascinating and while much may be unknown that can make it all the more interesting . Im originally from North Yorkshire and also studied about the Picts and earlier history while at Aberdeen University.
Agreed. But let's have a Christian monarchy as we used to and eschew the satanic Marxism. Low taxes and high inward investment. Educate our young to be engineers, scientists, and yes, archaeologists. No men in women's private spaces.
@@dougallee7066 Alt Clut is a Saxon name ( Old English) for the Cymric ystrad Clwyd, the name Clyde is from Clwyd it was a Brythonic Celtic Kingdom from the Roman Period and before, Scots came over in the late 7th Century from Ireland with Saxons first and then Vikings to oust the Britons and comit Ethic Cleansing. That is why most place names that are ancient are in Fact Brythonic ( Cymric) Rivers as well Aberdu ( Aberdeen ) Glasgwyr ( Glasgow) Llanarch ( Lanark )Caereddynt ( Edinburgh) Firth Forth Clyde Dee and many others are Celtic, Fal ( Kirk) Arbryth ( Arbroath) Raith ( Raith) Caledon ( Caledonia) in old Cymric the area that is now Scotland was in pre Roman times " yr hen ogledd " the OLD North , Ystrad Clwyd Rheged and Caledon that is why you call an aged person HEN today, the earliest known Celtic poetry of Taliesin and Nennius from the 6th and 4th Centuries in Cymric and Latin ( Roman) talk of the Kings of the Hen ogleddwyr or Ogwillian,. To be Scottish you must be Irish and the Scotti were a Tribe of mixtures, your lands were on the West facing coasts around Dublin, that is why many Irish and Scottish have Red Hair the Norse inflluence, it is in your DNA,, you were ruled as part of Norway for over 200 Years Rollo was Norse, whilst the Bruce was British and not a Gael, family name Brewys, Breton Le Breos, his Family came back to cclaim Lands in the North and in the South in Powys and Gwent,, his Cymric ancestry is a lot older than Scotland England or Wales he was a Briton. so to was William Wallace William the Welshman has the Saxons named is Ancestors they were from Morgannwg and Powys also, with the Bruce and Tudor Dynasties in their Genes, British Blood not Saxon Germanic or Frankish. Alt Clut is a name to be rid of it is Germanic trying too talk Cymric! Pob Hwyl Prynhawn da. ( British)
Another example of the damage done by the "civilisation vs barbarian" bias. As if people stopped living after the departure of the Romans (in that case). Part of it could be due to the "historian bias" - only written sources are to take into account - but also to this "classicist bias" - only societies corresponding to a certain norm deserve interest. Luckily, archeology helps reducing both biases.
Arras is a Brythonic name and the French people there were still speaking Welsh in the 16th Century the French called it Gallois, Ypres Calais Paris Morlais Falaise Caen Amiens Rennes , as a person who has many French friends I can tell you they know they were British!
The "scribbles" on the "stone age"" pendant look like it could be a form of Ogham writing. Is that a possibility in the stone age time that this form of writing was used?
I agree. Matt is more than mere eye candy, and that's all they're using him for. These sites are fascinating, but presented in such a way that puts me to sleep. I give up.
As I understand. EVERY Viking family had a silver hoard. Supposedly if they buried it it would b there when they die. The hoards are always added to over time but never taken from
@@dinarusso3320 I'm pretty sure I'm currently living on top of one, well there's a 15th century church in front of the building I'm in, no graveyard. The building I am in is behind the church. Hmmmmm, or should I say whoooo hoooooo:)
Great stuff!! A question for me is Star Carr considered an actual settlement in the "hamlet" or early town sense? Or more like a Hunter-Gatherer permanent encampment and if so, would someone who knows explain to this non-archaeologist the difference?
It is believed that the dark ages were chaos, but I believe Britain was happy to see the Romans leave. So rather than chaos I believe the people mostly just went back to their previous ways of life. Chieftains or kings may have fought for land, but the peasants, farmers, traders, merchants just kept on with what they had. At least if I had been a Britain at that time I would have said good riddance when they left!
I think you underestimate the vast time period the Romans existed in Britain, and the cultural changes that occurred in those 400 years. compare that time to today, the leaders and officials leave... you really going back to live like people did in the 1600s? Roman is not my time period but from what I remember both cultures merged and the best parts of the Roman technology enhanced what the iron age Britain's were doing. nothing is ever as clear cut as "Roman invaders and British natives".
@@smoari3761 The Romans did significantly change Britain and many would have been sad and confused when the Romans left ( close to equal parts of the nation were likely for and against the Romans) but What I meant to say was I think Rome needed Britain, but Britain never needed Rome to continue as a nation. It was already perfectly capable of doing its own thing. Just never truly got the chance before roman conquest. Britain traded tin with Rome for ages. Tintagel Castle is possibly tied to tin, etc.
It is possible that those in the Arras mass grave were (or decedents of) people who had fought the Romans in Gaul and lost, and escaped the Roman genocide to Britain.
I always find these programs interesting but I do find the UK Archaelogical community a teeny bit elitist and a teeny bit over-speculative on occasions. It was often the case with Time Team that the bearded professorial types would cry out 'ritual deposit' or 'royal palace' or 'local king' on the scantest of evidence. I know it's TV but come on. And the hoary old chestnut of writing off the mass of unstratified metal detectorists finds as 'of little value' is just poor thinking. I wonder if it's because many of those detectorists are not University educated? And yet the chap in this episode was clearly as dedicated as any archaeologist if not more so. History belongs to all of us so how about being a tad more egalitarian profs? Just a thought :-)
It’s always been this way. Most major excavations have similar stories of the elites swooping in and taking the glory. Richard III and Sutton Hoo spring to mind.
If only they had found some evidence of Gikings. Gikings are like the vikings but they are relatively unkown, because they used to kill the women and shag the men, and so they made less little Gikings, although they were a considerable force at the time.
ADHD and dyslexia had to read your comment several times to get it right I thought they were burying you for Christmas present. Life is hard when your brains are scrambled.
Yet more building on greenfield sites! There is the usual endless expression of surprise that women were not treated as downtrodden & disregard people in ancient cultures!
Sweet Marie, the amount of bone, human or otherwise, that resides inside vaults in the UK must comprise the greatest Ossuary in Europe. Every bone that emerges from the dirt is caressed and cared for. What would the ancients think of that? Perhaps 23 centuries from now archeologists may come across my remains and what would they make of them? Is it right that we disturb the bones of the ancestors just to satisfy our curiosity? When is it right to start digging in the graves of the 20th century?
"Is it right that we disturb the bones of the ancestors just to satisfy our curiosity?" Yes, of course. It's not just idle curiosity, it's pursuit of knowledge. And any time is a good time to "disturb" bones. As far as I'm concerned, the graves of Elizabeth I, and Henry the VIII, and all those kings and queens should be opened an analysed. Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's are untouched sources of archaeology that's is just being neglected. Even Nelson's tomb should be opened and documented.
I love these videos, but the Galloway Hoard is from Balmaghie near Castle Douglas, in Galloway (hence the Galloway Hoard) not Dumfries, which is NOT in Galloway.
Your husband should be very proud of you. I watch a girl by the name of Alexis Dahl, she talks about Michigan the way you talk about these areas you explore. Both of you make it very interesting. Great stuff!
Most of the old Celtic words for king begin with 'ri', so 'rhynie man' follows that pattern. Brenyn derives from 'outstanding person', but is also used to mean king. The Welsh use it, but also have alternatives beginning with 'ri'. Pictish is believed to be similar to Gaulish and old southern Brittonic. Gaulish for king is rix. Latin, rex. Proto Indo European: hregs. Sanskrit: Rājan (quite similar to rhynie!).
There is not a single piece of evidence that says the Picts were Celts, researchers are only speculating by saying they must have been Celts. The Picts ancestors were the builders of the first stone circles, and those pre-date the Celts arriving in Scotland by thousands of years.
@garymcatear822 Pictish place names reflect Brittonic 'Celtic' language. Genetics show that the current Scots (including subsumed Picts), Irish, Welsh and Cornish are not that distinct from each other. We're talking about a small geographical area that contains people made up from various waves of incomers - you can't say the Picts had one ancestral group who built stone circles. The term 'Celtic' was over applied by the Victorians, and it stuck, but it's not exactly accurate - 'Celtic' may apply to languages and cultural styles more accurately than it applies to genetics and origins.
@garymcatear822 Who knows what the oldest Pictish language was - it might have been an isolate, but they spoke a 'Celtic' language at the time that the Rhynie Man was carved, so the post you responded to was logical, it's just that there are a few different words that can be used for 'King'...
trimmed antlers do not necessarily mean ritual...they could have been trimmed so the pieces taken off could become tools. The rest may have been placed, not as "offerings" but simply to supply better footing along the lakes edge. So many reasons, we don't really know. Think practically, not always ritually...
Great episode, cheers, but where did the soil that covers the Pictish fort on the seastack come from ? You'd think it would lose soil volume and not accumulate it.
I wonder if the material in the new trench was what People left behind when they had to move. And deer skulls and hides were often worn during hunting, as camouflage, and highly effective. Some early cultures used horns, hides and other camouflage to move more easily toward prey. Especially in the ages of clubs, spears and perhaps atlatls, closer was better in hunting. All the local deer herds might have been decimated and the group may have moved on. I wonder....
Archaeology should be split into two parts. The first part should deal with Pre Flood history and the second part should deal with Post flood history. The fact that there was a great flood is now proven to be beyond any doubt, yet we know little of history prior to that flood. And the reason for that is that Archaeologists refuse to accept evidence that points to civilisations that existed prior to those timelines as set out by Amateur Archaeologists in the 1800’s.
Crazy to think that there are ppl in the metal detecting community ( yes, there is one) that are jealous of the guy who found the viking silver then when u realise it made him a very rich man ( he halved the profit with the church that owned the field) then maybe not so hard to understand !
29:52 Where are the symbol stones ? Why were they removed . Dunnotter Castle . We used to play there as kids before it was taken over by know it all wise men . We always knew that Dunnotter was a Pictish Kings castle We didn't need a team of archaeologists to tell us
@@jont8707 There are just 11 EPISODES listed there. But there are more than 10 SEASONS of Digging for Britain out there somewhere! These 11 episodes have just whetted my appetite. I want to see all of them. Don't you? 🤔 I can only watch old Time Team episodes so many times.
The Pictish site beside Dunottor Castle just outside of Stonehaven and 16 miles from Aberdeen is in NOT in the Northern Alantic, It's in The North Sea. If they can get such a simple fact wrong, it makes me wonder what else they've gotten wrong?
They get facts wrong and they also make up that which they don't know. It's all purely speculation and the only thing that is factual about it is that they do not know !!!
29:37 Gordon Noble is a bit of a handsome bloke! Smart, seems like a lovely chap with a really sweet smile, bit of a brogue & good looking as the icing on the cake? My favourite (Phil Harding-less) Digging For Britain episode to date 😉❤ Oh, and the Pictish archaeology is pretty fab, too 😂
There was a discovery of a significant amount of human burials made near turnberry in Ayrshire including one buried with either a boat or a chariot. This discovery should have changed all of what was said to have been known about the history of this area but yet historic Scotland only took away a couple of examples through to Edinburgh and told the farmer to carry on laying his field drain and to fill the trench in.
