I always come back to the video s with Sir Tony Robinson and Time Team. I am permanently stuck in my bed ,in the dark 24/7 with severe M.E,and luckily still able to watch this. I used to walk alot and enjoyed nothing more than nature and history. this gives me so much joy to be able to still see it in this way.thank you Tony.
Sir Tony Robinson is not just a national treasure, his gifts of knowledge are extended to the entire planet, and this one is clearly one of his masterpieces.
So well done!! I’m American- I’ve worked in London and driven the roads of Scotland and now living in my country, out west. But this takes me back. I must say, I love anything Tony Robinson does! This series is just thrilling! The idea of hugging one’s landscape by walking it to point out the history of the land’s being is so totally British, so wonderfully magical. I’d love to see a series like this created to chronicle our vast nation, but with the keen attention to not only the obvious but also the small details a landscape can offer up heard from the voices of the ancients, but done as well as Tony does with his ancestral home. Just lovely- perhaps in one of my former lives I was an ancient Brit- as I feel every footstep in this film…
Perhaps in another life you were. If a person's family came to this continent from The British Isles, while we are a world apart culturally,we do share history of our ancient people with the British/English people,how could we not? All the different sides of my family tree were all British or English.
@@jlindsey79 - Exactly - Sir David Attenborough! In his 90s and still going strong, burning with curiosity and questions. I am not a big Robinson fan because of the goofy, manic way he behaved on "Time Team", but he is much more chill here in this series; much more palatable to me. The pathways also were very interesting and beautiful. It was great to end the series at the home of Charles Darwin. I do not blame Robinson for being so excited to be in Darwin's study as I would have been, too!
As a German I love that we live in peace with each other now and I hope it will last forever. I love GB and I'm investigating like crazy also through your lovely program the country and it's history. It feels like my true home - I really can't explain it ... Thank you!
If it is left up to people with out influences from the so called leaders of the world. I doubt any of us would fight unless maybe a one on one old fashioned occasional punch in the face.
I'm a US citizen, and my son is married to a British subject , they live in Enland. Sir Tony helps me to understand the history of England. Thank you, Sir Tony.
Many years ago, I walked a part of the Ridgeway on a morning in May, with the hedges blooming and the birds darting and fluttering, and myself singing some of the medieval May songs.
Would have been cool to have Stuart Ainsworth along on this trek...mind you, the show would then have been about 12 hours long, as I'm sure he'd have seen so many things in the landscape that warranted investigation and explanation.
Every time I see the Uffington White Horse I think of Tiffany Aching and the Scouring Fair. Then I think of Terry Pratchett and get a jolt of loss and gratitude. “Taint what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be.”
I wish I could show Phil my huge collection of paleolithic American chert tools. We don't have real flint. But the joy of finding even the mundane small tools never gets old. Most people know how to look, but so many never learn to see
Just wondering if there are books/maps/field guides for this ancient roadway. Here in the U.S. we have a 2,180 mile trail but it isn't all that old. Back in 1900, a man began planning it out as a scenic trail & get back to nature thing and there are plenty of field guides available. Hoping one day I can vIsit England and see such interesting places for myself. It looks like a walk in the park compared to the Appalachian Trail.🤔
Hello! And thank you for more wonderful content on this channel! QUESTION...Toward the end of this, Tony Robinson mentions that there are some languages that use the same word for "traveling" and "thinking". That really fascinates me, so off to Google I went to see what more I could find out about that. Could very well be I don't know how to search for it effectively, but I'm coming up empty. Could anyone tell me which language(s) Tony was referring to? Thanks again!
@Melissa Jenkins - There are several RU-vid channels dedicated to exploring other languages and ancient languages. Perhaps you can ask at one of those?
Interesting coincidence that after visiting the flint mine, you go to Thetford, Thetford Mines is the name of a city in Quebec Canada. It was the home of one of the largest asbestos mines in the world. Another interesting coincidence, Edward Thomas was killed, as you said on April 9, 1917 the first day of the battle of Arras, which is better known in Canada as the first day of the battle of Vimy Ridge, the greatest Canadian victory of the First World War. RIP.
Fascinating stuff, especially because my heritage is rooted in the area around Cambridgeshire, Sussex and Suffolk. One of my great grandmother's maiden name was Royston.
Nice mission with your life. I am so impressed with Gods servants, like yourself. The younger generation seems lost in America, when it comes to our roots of Christianity. Our fault,our parents or there parents. They seem drawn to Atheism. Thank you for your life!!!
As i heard about the flint miners and why they suffered hardship to mine specific flint that was special. It reminded me of Nauhuac (Aztec) miners that mined special flint in deep mines for mystical reasons (although in Mexico they preferred a green flint) that again could be harvested above ground.
they could trade them for more value than the flints found at the top. possibly the exotic source was a selling point. could be the black flint was more sturdy than the surface flints. possibly it could be worked into larger tools because of its origins.
Boy how Canterbury had the racket going. Science museums should adopt those. "Oh, I kissed the statue of Newton, and miraculously understood calculus! (all for a penny and a pound) LOL
At 59:38 you get to see Jason Kingsley, I bet he's the guy who owns that land. Regardless, he has his own channel Modern History TV and hes also co-founder and CEO of Rebellion Developments. The guys who make Sniper Elite!
'Dammit, I've got 42 sacrifices to perform today, a field full of stones, and nothing to burn. Let's get these boulders out of the way before the god of chicken armpits gets upset '
*something i find interesting is our thoughts on their thought of survival...* i actually think these people were interested in learning.... i don't think survival was their primary interest.... i mean... with food and shelter... warmth may have been something different back then... they probably were able to regulate their body temperatures differently than we do... living amongst it all the time... exposure....
the neolithic were familiar with caves.... i'm sure britian has some... gibraltar does.... they knew the stone they worked with... in different ways then we know the stone we look at....
we've forgotten -right, and you show a ripe batch of cattail flowers gone to seed, ie past the edible stages of the flower and you don't show the tubers at all.
Good video - still not over my PBS days. I know a little bit about roads that are 2000 years old and who walk down them a Good Samaritan walk down them and that was the last good one there ever was and take a town like London holy macaroni that town has seen so many people over and over the generations and the centuries that have walked them streets including Jack the Ripper inuded every other famous. 2,000 years people putting curses and the bloodshed and The Vibes and the energy and the skin cells left behind I want my fresh land no matter how you look at this cake the bottom line is I'm the last little crumb on the plate
Well hey hey. If I lived in Britain I'd be waving my magic metal detector all along these babies, as allowed under the law. I mean there might be billions in treasure over two millennia along roads trod by everyone from Kings on down.
*you people are trying to think like what you imagine a neolithic person might think...* thy thinking like yourselves... or... maybe imagine someone a little more advanced than you are.... why would you dig into the earth?... if you were they.....
It’s a language thing. What Americans call corn is called maize in England. Corn, in the English language, means any cereal. Typically wheat, barley and oats. HTH.
