Archaeologists Unearth A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Fort | Digging for Britain 

I could listen to Alice Roberts reading the phonebook out loud.😊

Vindolander… the gift that just keeps on giving. Great history

Tablet 291 of Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Lepindina “ the birthday invitation”tablet is a gorgeous piece of writing.

She's one of the best archaeology speaker I've ever heard. 💯💯

Really good show. Educational and informative but not boring and a intelligent and lovely host.

Im so jealous that we dont have too much of this to find in the Americas ! SO cool history.

Soldiers would never leave their swords. If you can only bring one thing with you it would be your weapon. Very strange for them to be there.

Extremely interesting but why the intrusive music ?

Vindolanda is amazing. You could film a full season of episodes there. I'd love to see it in person. Hello from USA. :)

It wasn't just the "English" civil war, it was the civil war of the British Isles, as there were also battles in Ireland, Wales Scotland and at sea.

"DISCOVER THE PAST BLABLABLA" Why does it has to be SO LOUD?

Dr alice has the smarts and the looks that very rare I love any show that she on she tells such a great story the facts she knows what she talking about is what makes is so good bravo Dr alice

Advert for history hit is way too loud.

Was so pleased to see a new post 😊

41:13 could they have stolen these items after a battle?

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I’ve never seen that kind of Roman script before-it’s almost cursive. I couldn’t read it initially the way I could the Roman capitals that are still so similar to our own letter forms.

Nice to see the famous tree that was so shamefully felled 😞34:44

For heaven's sake - the Picts constantly picked at the picky Romans !

The guy with the dreads looks like cheddar man!!!

Pity Alice didn't mention that famous Roman general Gluteus Maximus.

Amazing that a roman fart could be preserved so well

How did such a complex and all the items be untouched after abandonment? You can't leave a house for a week until it's vandalized and for many years after it continues to be discernible thus inviting even more visitors. So how did the Roman sites lay undisturbed that even swords were still there and not quarried for all that could be re-used?

Hold up, swords on the floor? These are valuable to anyone. They must've left in a hurry *and* the buildings destroyed quickly after to cover up the swords. Was there any evidence of burning at Vindolanda?

If it was left behind, why didn't someone else, contemporary, claim it at the time, considering the value of the swords? Why was it completely abandoned till now?

Thanks it was getting hot the same way.

The roman things north of Hadrian's Wall could be the result of trade, 1st 2nd 3rd or more trades distant from the romans. Weird idea that the Picts would be ISOLATED if they had no contact with the romans!

I initially read that "o" as an "a". I was like, how do you trap one of those for 2000 years?? Haven't stopped laughing.......... 🤣 I am a child

Just lookin🥰oi oi oi

Someone please explain why during these digs only pieces of items are found. A piece of a glass, bracelet, pottery, etc. What happened that only pieces are discovered.

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24:58 Are those the only clothes she has?

Were the swords on the floor or under it? They start out saying they took up the floor and then say the swords were left on the floor? A previous floor that was built over?

Mnn! Did the Romans willingly trade, or did the fiendish Picts borrow the goods at the point of a weapon?

"It must have belonged to a powerful man." "Fight to attain and retain it." " Bronze Age overlords, if you like." What if we don't like? Or think these theories proved?

WAR IS EVIL

maybe they were the sea people

I can’t believe some commenters are concentrating on an academic host’s looks and dress.

Well they called germanic tribes who did not coorperate also barberians. But barbarians have their own culture too.

Didn’t hadrians wall have sporadic gates between the north and south,to allow travel between the two areas? If so it seems logical to assume trade or other simply day to day transfers between north and south We can’t conquer you but that doesn’t mean we can’t buy and sell stuff!

I have some ancient treasures that I intend to smuggle to England. When I get there with them, I'll rent a car and head to a remote location. After driving a few hours, when I find myself in a place far from any city, town or village, I will stop the car on the highway. At night I will go into the woods to bury the ancient treasures (ancient Roman and Greek coins from different centuries and a chipped stone ax made by Brazilian Indians) and I will bury everything with care as if it were an offering to a deity. Local stones will be used to completely line the bottom and sides of the small hole in the earth. Then I will return to Brazil with one certainty: in the future, all of this will be discovered by an amateur and will cause a great debate among English historians, archaeologists and anthropologists. They will be very intrigued to find objects from such different periods buried in the same location, apparently far from any excavated human settlements. And I'm sure no one will remember that I wrote my plan here, because there is no better way to hide a plan like this by revealing it on the Internet because no one really pays attention to comments made on videos like this.

A beautiful and brilliant woman, wearing fashionable clothes while discussing archeological discoveries... What's not to like?

Is it me or is Alice smoking hot and has a way to make these shows cool and worth watching?

In the time of the Roman occupation in Britania (a name given by the Romans) were not or they didn't identify themselves as British, therefore, there was no British Revolution against Rome.

Whoever gave her that outfit is not her friend.

Yes rom mejdet ingland for2000thazen hirs

Speaking of archaeology, where did the narrator dig up that awful looking skirt?

Am i the only one that clicked on this because i thought it said "excavating a Roman fart', not fort

That soundtrack begad

Maybe those pesky Romans shoulda/oughta stayed home and minded their own business!

Those swords are not Roman Gladio, way to long and way to thin, they could be cavalry spatas or sword used by the Pits bur surely not a legionnaire gladio.

More priceless and irrecoverable history destroyed for TV.

Let's be realistic "people are going to people" even today local tribes will work with an invading army so why should it be any different 2000 years ago?

I've come to doubt the claims that entire countries or regions "became Christian" as a result of Christian missionaries, however famous. What likely happened is a few "leaders, kings, members of the elites" adopted the cult out of curiosity or politics. How much do we know about the relationships between leaders and people? Would leaders have expected the people they governed to accept a religion at their command? Imagine if missionaries of an unknown religion were to come to any country or region now.

British rebels? Britons!

This show is good; but not as good as most claim; and a long way worse than Time Team, the show it is based on. The 'dig diary's' are good; and Alice Roberts is a treasure; but the script she reads is too often numb and banal. What she says about the relationship between the Picts & the Romans was out of date decades ago. We already know the Romans were 'soft investing' with the Picts . The repeated use of 'savage Picts' devalues the narrative.

oh dear what is she wearing lol

Sorry, but the Romans didn't refer to the Barbarians as savages, nor did 'barbarian' have the negative connotation associated with the term today. This idea of barbarians as savages is a modern concept, based on much later ideas of the 'uncivilised' natives of the New World & sub Saharan Africa. In fact for the Romans 'Barbarian' meant uncorrupted people, not spoilt by the decadence of the world of baths & city politics. They were admired for their rugged manliness. virility, & 'natural' society, in contrast to the venality of the supposed elite class of Roman gentry, Senators etc, who had allowed themselves to be overawed by a series of tyrant Emperors, such as Nero & Domitian. The only real criticism of the Barbarians was to do with the apparent disorganised, unsophisticated, political arrangements, sometimes seen as dependant upon bloodthirsty priesthoods, & their 'habits' of unreliability when in alliances with Rome. The other weakness expressed by Tacitus for instance, was their vulnerability to the lur of the pleasures of the Roman life style, baths & wine etc, which could quite quickly undermine their natural, 'authentic' existence, making them soft like the people of the Mediterranean.

Bring back time team! Digging for Britain isn't as good because it's boring and nobody dares not to be "normal".

Before the Christians being there. I think the Druids were there.

Whats up with that dudes hair?

Too many adds, greedy!!

Not the way to be at all declare them u give people bad name

Anyone else look a the thumbnail and go, "Not dressed like that you don't."? lol

Jerusalem - what type of a bulshit question ?

Cant stand this woman , shame as i would love to watch this programme

i wonder wat they thought as they cut down the last tree,,,,,,,,,,,ohh shit, there's no trees left,,,,,,