I’m amazed by the curiosity and generosity of Mrs. Pretty. What an amazing gift she gave to the world with that discovery. This could have ended very differently.
I've been teaching Beowulf to my students for 30 years. These stories, like Sutton Hoo or the Staffordshire Hoard, never cease to amaze me as they bring that magnificent epic poem into life!
I wish I knew these things in school! Would have pointed me to where I want to be so much younger. Thank you so much for being that teacher that brings our past to life. I really wish I had someone to teach us the ways of the world before us 💘
I have just finished watching the Time Team Documentary on yet unfinished Replica Boat from Sutton Hoo. The owner an owner of the estate was not the only woman involved in the excavation. Two women who were studying Photography apparently out there shooting roll afte roll for a few years. These two women's dedicated work over a few years, have made measurements of thye rivets and wood possible. Their detailed incredibly astute photos made the ship building possible! How amazing!
I understand but I think it was actually well done. Much more romantic this way and we can come here if we want to dig deeper. A beautiful movie nonetheless., Very moving.
@@claudelebel49 The tale young Robert told his Mum beneath the stars was as poetic as anything else in the film, too. Props to the screenwriter and director for what could have been a 30 minute documentary. (Altho I realize it was based upon a novel.)
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Basil Brown.... Took the British Museum a very long time before recognizing Basils role in discovering the Sutton Hoo. British Museum who took years before recognizing his role at Sutton Hoo.
Like Survive the Jive pointed out in his "An Eye for Odin" video, one of the eyes did not have gold plating behind the garnets, making the eye appear darker. This was probably a reference to Woden, who sacrificed his eye to Mimir to drink from his well of wisdom.
Become an archaeologist, but don't dig in North America, too much B.S. because of politics involving misguided interference by The indian tribes' misguided sense of appropriation.
Im here because of the fascinating stories sorry haven't seen the dig but absolutely love time team have done since it first aired on our screens in the 90's completely captivated by the Sutton hoo stories and our heritage. Has anyone seen any of the documentaries on what has been uncovered from the Hs2 Route thats very interesting too❤
This is the exact match to the Staffordshire Hoard. Yet the video about The Hoard never mention Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, the biggest find in Britain in it's time. The Staffordshire Hoard is worth watching as well.
@@richbutler718 I’m still here! I thought you were lost, too! I set up an email for you if you want to contact me through it. It’s ythrr@yahoo.com If you want to connect through that email address then I’ll give you my personal email afterward. I don’t want to post my personal email address publicly here. I hope you are well. Helen
@@richbutler718 Hi Richard! Yes, I’m glad, too. I’ve watched just about every video on Sutton Hoo that I’ve found on RU-vid. I’ll watch my email fir your next message. Take care. It’s still cold and snowing here. I’m ready, very ready, for spring 🌻
@@richbutler718. Hello Richard, I hope you are able to get this message. I haven’t heard from you so I thought maybe I was being too forward by suggesting our communication be through email. If that’s the case, I am sorry. I’ve really enjoyed our back and forth chats especially about the Sutton Hoo excavation. You have been places, like Stonehenge, that I can only see on RU-vid, and I truly envy you! I wish you safe and exciting travels; there are so many places to experience! Be well; peace to you, Helen
The believe the man in the burial was left handed. Because where the sword was placed and the wear pattern on it. The pummel is sooo close in appearance to the other Saxon hoard.
The voice of the wearer would echo from within and the facial decor was designed to intimidate which proves that the creator of the character “darthvador” was probably a history student.
Yes he was he included thing from many centuries from han solo and boba fett being a cowboy and bounty hunter to the storm troopers looking like Roman legions heck even Leia's Egyptian look when she was rescued from jabba.
I drove with my sister to Sutton hoo to deliver exhibition pieces (My sister was a courier) one thing I noticed on the Track was that many of the trees had Mistletoe, lots of it on them. Makes me wonder, with it being The Golden bough and also the dart that killed Balder and On A quick look it is also said that Vikings Believe it to bring back the dead as in the story of Balder. So, if you visit at the right time of year(I think, not being a Mistlexpert) Have A lookup in the trees on the track high up. The place had an atmosphere, even saw a beast loping into the hedgerow. I thought it may have been recycled around the area for centuries-Who knows.
Thankfully, Sutton Hoo did not fall prey to treasure pirates over the centuries. Since it was within the boundaries of a private estate, wealthy landowners acted as unwitting caretakers of antiquity.
Minute 16:56 If they were Anglo-Saxon kings, they could not have come from Scandinavia, but from northern Germany, from an area now called Lower Saxony , and from "Angeln" (Anglia) in the north of what today is Schleswig-Holstein right at the border with southern Jutland (Denmark) on the Baltic coast.
Boat burials is a Scandinavian tradition, and the findings in sutton hoo is one of a kind in England, otherwise non existing outside of Scandinavia, while quite common here and especially in Sweden. You people lack knowledge about this.
@@VVyzard Germanic culture and linquistic was born from the Nordic bronze age, from Scandinavia.. NOT Germany. Germans are largely celts that adopted it.
i am a jeweller by trade,its all i have ever done i live in Australia,i finished a formal apprenticeship as a jeweller when i was 19,started at 14/15,i feel such an infinity with these pieces,i think i made them in a last life,its so weird ,...
Old comment but it looks like it has more roman inspiration, it has that little thing (depicted as a snake on the helmet) that goes from the fringe to the bottom of the helmet
@@NubiansNapata not impressive? Are you kidding. Anglo Saxons metal work and jewellery it's some of the finest the world has ever seen. You are clearly lacking in knowledge
Unfortunately the movie was only loosely based on facts and many events were made up for the film. Most disappointingly Peggy Piggott( played by the beautiful Lily James) didn't really have it off with a airman in an old barn! Lol.
It catches my attention that among the objects in the treasure there is a lyre. A thousand years before, and at quite a long distance (I am referring to the southwest of Iberia in the Tartessian area), the lyre was also a common element which is represented among important dead people. I observe coincidences between cultures belonging to both areas. My idea is that these similarities are due to a common origin of both of them in Scandinavia. Now, what I would like to know is what underlying reason there is for this musical instrument, the lyre, to be one of the frequent elements accompanying the deceased. I would like to hear any comments about this topic. I would appreciate it.
Its a shame they couldnt take some kind of plaster cast of the ship imprint. Im sure now they could use a drone to scan the whole vessel and transfer the shape into a computer!
How is it known that there was so much embellishment on the helmet when the original one that was found doesn't have that embellishment from what I can see?
Old comment but you can clean the rust of the fragmented pieces and peice it together You can also tell what's depctied on the helmet by looking at bulges from the back(inside part of the helmet)
The nation was amazed with the discoveries at Sutton Hoo. ..... So they drove all over the site in tanks. Even driving clean through the middle of the excavated SHIP! WTF!
@@ce1834 have you never heard of the dark ages? you know, the period where europe famously lost much of its technological and societal prowess? no shit it isnt as amazing as other parts of the world during this period, unlike every other period.
@@canismajoris6733 Yes I am aware, you mean after your roman masters left lol, the Romans and Greeks were truly amazing civilsation compared to untamed barbaric civilisations of the north, where a helmet and a coin seems to be a national treasure :)
ce183 damn dude you sound sooooo racist. All history is intriguing and every era in every part of the world has a story to tell. Get off your high horse and enjoy the fascinating discoveries of the world.
In the old roman city of Wroxeter, which carried on being used after the Romans left, they have found baboon bones, ( these have also been found in a 6C context in Ireland and Russia !) It seems warlords had unusual pets at their court as status symbols and testifies to long distant trade with North Africa. They also found a headstone of a Hound King called Cunorix, from the Holly tree tribe.
not shocked but dismayed that the upper class pig took away this amazing man.s achivement at the time this would have been normal and of course a reflection ot the entitlement culture of the upper classes moreover im sure mr basil brown should have been hansomly rewarded in a much that his life made easyer with some compensation class snobery makes me sick im a brit so i know what im talking about
@@davidhoogendyke2774 you think English and British mean the same thing? Are you from the USA? The levels of ignorance in that Nation are legendary worldwide of course but you may have a special case of your own.
This film kept mentioning the uniqueness of the helmet and the other Sutton Hoo items. They are unique in more ways than one, for example, they weren't stolen from another country.
