Incredible Saxon Graveyard at Bamburgh Castle Could Contain Northumbrian Royal Family 

Did you go to Dunstaberg castle just south of Bamburgh .

@@richardperry4115 hi Richard. No, I didn’t get to Dunstanburgh Castle. I just watched a video on it, so thankyou for the introduction. Very different from Bamburgh, as these are castle ruins, but very beautiful nonetheless. Sorry I missed out on the experience. Although it’s wonderful to see videos of these amazing places, nothing compares to being there in person. ❤️

@@jillwanlin9558 Most beautiful castle I have ever been to. Hope you get the chance one to revisit England 🇬🇧

Are you a fan of the Last Kingdom?

@@dawnatkinson7704 hi Dawn. I haven’t seen it but I have seen many people commenting in other videos on Bamburgh castle about the series being based there and how fantastic it is. If I get the chance I’ll be sure to watch it ❤️

Previous generations disinterred old skeletons regularly to make room for new burials. The bones were kept in charnel houses or dumped in charnel pits. Squeamishness about human remains is relatively recent. Personally once im dead i couldnt care less where my skeleton is. In fact as i will most likely ve cremated there wont be one. But the molecules and atoms that made up my body will go up in smoke and end up in other things whatever.

It's a English law. All grave finds must be reburied.

I still think it’s incredibly important to gleam whatever knowledge we can from the remains. (not speaking out my ass either, I more than likely have ancestors currently buried there.)

​@@Shitballs69420​ I appreciate the sentiment in your post but it's hard to take you seriously when your name is so crass, especially juxtaposed next to your display pic, I bet you didn't realise at the time it'd still be funny after 12 years, albeit due to context. 😆

@@giansideros funny thing is that’s a recent change, was far less crass 12 years ago believe it or not. Can’t take yourself too seriously.

IIRC, the invading Saxons, Angles, and Jutes also included Frisians.

@@BinkyTheElf1 True. In fact, Frisians were posted at Hadrians Wall in the second century and had their own divisions in the Roman army, like the Numeri Hnaudifridi (Hnaudfrid’s warband). Pottery and brooches and a certain DNA marker hint that they never really left and hence predated the ‘adventus Saxonum’. Fact is that OldFrisian and OldEnglish were slmost identical. But to constantly find shared words in our contemporay languages still amaze me. Wês hiel (waes thu hael) en oant sjèn ( and until we see -each other).

Indeed, we should be referring to Anglo-Friesian, rather than Anglo-Saxon.

I live in a city where few habitants are aware of more recent events like the large (mistake) bombing of 1944 or the great fire of 1914. As for medieval, the unknown location of the viking camp and not even a sign to mark the location of the absent medieval castle.

used to play in a crumbeling ruin dating from the 1600s. Not sure any vikings ever passed by the river it stands next to.

Appreciate your passion here, but don't forget that a history equally as rich and ancient has taken place here in Turtle Island (North America). Plenty of structures too, not just the few castles that are present.

A few miles down the road from me there's a 13th century church. Hardly anyone knows it's there. Strange to think that the oldest surviving wooden church was 300 years old when it was being built. Theres a church dating from the 7th century built with stone from Roman ruins marked 6th legion. But wherever you are in the world, history is hidden under your feet. Go to the aegean. Greece , Turkey etc far older stone buildings are everywhere and mostly just left to crumble away as picturesque ruins, while a few star attractions get all the attention and money.

That’s how I use to feel until I started to really delve into our history, being from the Canadian Maritimes I’ve come to realize there’s far far deeper history here than I had initially thought. For example the Vikings were here, the oldest known shipwreck off the coast of Nova Scotia dates to the 1530s when the Basque fishermen frequented our shores. There’s a lot there ya just gotta go looking. Didn’t realize until I was in my 20s that I’d grown up playing on the former homestead one of the most influential figures in Canadian history from the 1700s. So yea ya just gotta look and don’t just take for granted that we have no history. (And of corse I’m only referencing European history, don’t get me started on our wealth of native history stretching back at least 24-ish thousand years)

Indeed

I am descended from Uhtred and my moden surname is Outterson which startred as Uhtredson. Just as the author Bernard Corwell. Good fun just the same@@andydunn5673

You surely mean Bernard Cornwell, whose ancestor came from Bamburgh

After seeing the defensive works of some castles, the ability to funnel invading armies into kill zones, and understanding the near impossible feat it was just to get to the first gate, it makes you wonder how these men had the courage to storm a well designed castle. But you also understand why some only fell because someone on the inside allowed it to happen.

@@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 True

A lot of sieges were exercises in attrition, too. Would the defenders starve and have to surrender or would disease, weather conditions, and poor morale catch up to the attackers first? Actually assaulting a castle is not as common as one might think because, as you say, it is a formidable task.

Plus covered by clouds of smoke mixed with pepper gas.

Apparently I had ancestors who did, thought that was so cool when I realized.

Imagine being one of the multitude of slaves, serfs, villains, who lived in service of those in possession of the castle...

Most of what you see was created by Lord Armstrong and is not original, sadly. It was pretty much in ruins prior to his ownership.

@@BadYossa Lord Armstrong did a great job though!🤔😃

@@mikemccall373 Sadly, he never lived to see it completed as per his vision. He was an incredible man and well worth finding out more about.

Northumberland is NOT IN SCOTLAND.. or IRELAND ..it’s the NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND.. 🙄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@@Ionabrodie69 I didn't say it was in Scotland. Untwist your panties.! I'm just thanking Scoyland and Ireland. I could thank England but I don't feel like doing that.

You're welcome!

Yeah I think so, I don't know if that guy new exactly what he was on about. Could be excess grains also, from the phytic acid

From what I gather, they’re only allowed to dig so much of a SSSI site. So, if they dug them up, took the bones then filled the holes, they can’t just go back to dig and bury them again.

They never called themselves Angle or Saxon, the term was coined by the Venerable Bede to describe the Germanic tribes settling in the British Isles.

wrong Saxons and angles was a generalised term Saxons were also germanic people what you are thinking of is after the great heathen army attacks and then the unification of Norse men and English in which the predominant kingdom of Wessex then united the land as anglos (after 1066 they are known as Anglo Saxons) which is where we get England there's a massive clue as to why you're so incredibly wrong want to know what England (Anglo land) means? foreign land or land of the foreign. also i might add at this time the people that lived to the south were Mercian or Wessex or east Anglian and some other smaller kingdoms you also contradict yourself Northumbria is about as north of England as you can get east Anglia was east of what we call London you know hence the EAST part...... not entirely sure how you can fuck that up but hey ho there you go the NORTHumbrians weirdly lived in the north. but the generalisation of what we would call English were either Saxon or angles but that's almost like saying Europeans in fact the east Anglians were east Anglian the Northumbrians were Northumbrian the Mercians (midlands) were Mercians etc etc. however you are right but you're also wrong the graveyard is indeed not Saxon but nor is it "anglic" (not a word by the way as previously stated Anglo just means foreign so saying foreign...ic just makes no sense also calling your fellow countrymen foreign also doesn't make any sense the reason they are anglo saxon after william the conqueror is because well he was foreign so uhm yeahhhh kind of self explanatory really) but however they were and still to this day although we don't use it much still are Northumbrian but go by Yorkshire or Lancashire etc etc anything above the humber river is Northumbrian.

@@hetrodoxly1203 yes we did you are right that angle and Saxon was a term of Germanic tribes settling in the British isle you missed jutes and so many more, (however you weren't a angle or a Saxon if you just moved to the British isles you were a Anglo Briton or a Anglo Saxon or just a Anglo or you were what ever nation you came from angle and Saxon is a a generalised term like saying a European (sort of)) also as mentioned above why are we called Englishmen that live in England if we never called ourselves Anglo Saxons? england...angland. due to the whole battle of Hastings and William the conqueror who was Anglo (foreign) did rule Anglo land (England). to me anyone that does not live in England is Anglo however I myself am Anglo Saxon because i live in England technically I'm Northumbrian so I'm a Anglo Saxon Northumbrian, confusing right?

The thought of trying to keep it clean would keep me from ever owning one, even if I had the millions to afford staff to do such work 🤣

@@04williamsl A quick jaunt on the 150 ft. yacht will clear your mind of worry 😁

Probably drafty, cold, and full of ghosts. However, castles are cool! So much history.

Those old piles are not simple houses, but communities in themselves, not least since it takes a sizable staff to maintain them.

"Probably wanted"? They are dead and gone. But these dead have very slightly more "life" now than before. 2k years from now we will all be less than nothing. But just just maybe a future archeologist might discover some remant of your life and a teeny tiny little bit of you might have a bit more existance for while and you might be remembered again (slightly). The entire point of a burial is to leave some commemorative mark/reminder of your life. I say job well done nameless dead guy from so many many years ago. We should all be lucky.

It would be from honey. They drank it as mead, ate it `raw’, and used it in cooking. Their teeth would be worn down by their diet even without the honey. Bread (debris from grinding the grain) and vegetables(not thoroughly washed) could be abrasive…also in the absence of forks, you’d be ripping meat apart rather than cutting it into bite size pieces

From the 13th-15th ce. as far as I currently know.

Yeah course you have…along with half of us in Northumberland.. bloody Americans have to try to own something that’s not yours…🙄

@@Ionabrodie69 i guess royals were heavy on hot times with the public

Trade

@@Tawadeb Possibly. But I think that the primary source of sugar would be honey and this can hardly have been available in great quantities.

Thanks, I was about to make my own comment. Sugar would not be why they had tooth decay. Like, at all.

@@julilla1 Strange that a so called expert in historical matters jumped to a conclusion without a moment thinking of this practical matter. The victims in Pompeï and Herculaneum had mostly perfect teeth. They had as little access to sugar as 6th century Anglo Saxons

@@christianwouters6764 yes, if I had to make a guess, it would be bread. It was hard to mill finely and usually contained grit. Once you've cracked a tooth or even just the enamel, tooth decay is inevitable.

I'm 91% ancient Briton/Celt. I'd like my Island back please. DNA is a funny thing. There is actually very little Anglo Saxon DNA in the modern English. It ranges from 42% in the East to as little as 10% further west. I'm 9% germanic/scandinavian.

Same here. We were dupped into coming to a free country.. not a controlled social experiment. I stand against the forced migration and want my German and Scottish fortune and land back! As well as the land they were given after the revolutionary war.

@@Cranberryknifecloud Tough shit …you’re a yank deal with it..

Probably true, yes. There is a long history in Europe of larger population groups adopting the language and cultures of a stronger, nearby culture or of a powerful but small ruling elite. I do believe a warrior elite of Angles and Saxons did come to Britain and founded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms but I believe the modern 'English' people are mainly descendants of the original Britons who adopted Anglo-Saxon culture. It happened a lot in Europe and beyond: the Franks and the Gauls, the Greeks and Levants of Asia Minor/Anatolia becoming 'Turks', even right back to the Indo-European horse warrior elites imposing their languages and cultures on the sub-stratum peoples of Europe, Persia and India. The same is thought about the 'Celtic' languages and culture of Ireland and Britain: it was adopted from the continent when the Celts were at the height of their power. There is certainly little evidence that the Irish, Welsh/Britons, Scots, even English share a great deal of DNA with the peoples of central Europe, where the original Celts were believed to originate.

Por una linea de sangre noble?

You okay?

@@sisuguillam5109it’s Cambridge that has a problem

@@canuck3169 not really.

​@@sisuguillam5109 It is Cambridge that has a problem trying to change history

@@SandileNgwenya-gv7nx the concept of research evolving seems to elude you.

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@@freyatilly why did I laugh at this

Well, they did, I think. That is how they know that eight of the bodies were from the area and the rest were from far afield, all over Europe. I realise that skeletons can reveal a kind of watermark, indicating where a person grew up, but I would imagine they used DNA, too.

@@graceygrumble The isotope chemistry of tooth enamel is used to establish where a person grew up.

@@Padraigan13 Splendid.

Top comment.

Wait what?

I thought that was the BBC?? It came as a general cultural grouping... Basically, from mid and lower Denmark (Jutland). But Alfred the Great used the term during his later reign, which pretty much brought the two cultures together.

Yep that's what there now teachung

Not that they didn’t exist , but that they didn’t come and conquer ..

@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 From the Telegraph 03/06/23🙃🙃 Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’ University aims to ‘dismantle the myths' around British and English identities as it seeks to make its teaching more 'anti-racist'

Anglo-Saxon word for fortification is Burh or burg. Loads of place names originate.

“Burgh” is quite visible in the suffix in Bamburgh…

Finally a Utred comment

Still are just the language has a lot of Latin influence

😂

Northeast people pronounce it as Boro.

@@grahamdhv3812 We pronounce in Bambra not Bamboro

Same reason as Edinburgh is pronounced Edinburra. Don't ask.

@@murrayscott9546 Fair enough.. I guess its just one of those things.. it just puzzled me since I always have pronounced "burgh" as "berg"

I struggle with it, too.

Yet, Americans are rated above the English when it come to bad teeth hygiene and most of Europe 😂

Oh pulling that old trope again are we… you obviously dont bother to educate yourself or you would know Britain ranks FAR higher than the yankees as far as Dental healthcare…but of course you would have to be able to read and comprehend to do that.. 🤔🇬🇧

An English thing💀

English actually have better teeth than Americans and most of the world

That will be why we are WELL above you yanks in the world rankings of Dental health… you lot don’t take care of your teeth you just keep getting ultra white veneers ..🙄👍