The Excavation of Seahenge 

Its as though none of the negative comments here watched the video 🙃 Thank you for doing your best to protect such an amazing site. I love that a honeysuckle rope was found, how beautiful it must have looked when it was new 🥰

Many thanks Neil. Thanks to all those who recovered and saved this unique monument of extreme National historical significance and importance from complete destruction by the actions of the North Sea. Those of us with clear vision are well aware of the importance of the archaeological rescue mission that took place..The 'blind' will never regain focus. Those not of the earth will never be complete. The 'deaf' will never 'grow ears'. The 'Gods' were kind enough to make this rare offering to us. It would have been particularly rude not to have accepted it.

From 1985 to 1988 I lived in East Anglia, taking regular visits to the Norfolk coast. During the pandemic I began watching decades' worth of Time Team, including the episode about "Seahenge." Yes, thanks to RU-vid, all the great British television unseen by me three decades ago I got caught up on. This presentation is an outstanding gift to continue learning about and understanding the site and the controversies attached to it. Thank you!

Many thanks for a considered and interesting explanation of an important excavation, including the practical difficulties of coping with those who opposed the dig.

The point you mention about the electrical discharge experience likely indicates that the site was chosen in pre-history as a place where 'unseen' forces could come into play during auspicious moments and as you know all of the 'ancient' gods were the unseen natural forces.

Fantastic. Thank you for the lecture

Thanks for sharing this process with us. Great care and consideration was taken to conserve this awesome part of our history ✨

Thank You, Neil, a very informative interveiw. I was at the Museum in earlier June, and found it quite an amazing sight.

Loving this, and all the things that happened before, during and after were wonderfully told. This must have been like a great adventure. So glad you shared your story in such detail. I love archaeology and storytelling.

Thanks. This was an interesting perspective and outline of the discover and complications around seahenge.

Thank you for sharing this informative video. As an amateur archaeologist, I am aware that archaeology is destructive: once a site has been fully excavated, there may, as in this case, be nothing left to see. However, the site would, in any case, have been covered and lost repeatedly, until it eventually disappeared completely. What can be learned from recovery and detailed study of the timbers can tell us much about climate, availability of resources, tools, techniques and workforce required to construct such structures, as well as develop theories of why and how they were built. I appreciate that this may run counter to the sentiments of those who believe that they are the guardians of ancient beliefs, and that the removal of the timbers may represent an attack on those beliefs. I think it is important to acknowledge that the destruction of a site is irreversible. But I also believe that what can be learned adds to our knowledge and understanding of ancient technology and thinking, and helps reduce often irrational speculation about the origin and purpose of sites of worship, habitation and burial.

Outstanding work! The druid parts were hilariuos xD

Thank You for the work and for sharing this!

Excellent talk thank you.

Very interesting Neil. many thanks for making the effort. I remember well the Time Team event.

Fascinating video, thank you for uploading

Well done. 👏

Thanks for this. Very informative/insightful. Do you have any further insights into Seahenge II/the decisions taken/made around it?

Rather coincidental, I must say, but a couple od days ago I read an article correlating humans with trees - a tree puts roots into the ground while human consciousness puts roots into the aether. It struck me, for no reason in particular, that I'd read years ago about tree trunks being installed upside down in this manner but didnt nake that connection umtil just now. So I wonder if it was indeed a gesture designed to connect between the realms. The synchronicity of this video is enough for me to further contemplate this possibility. Thank you for posting!

thanks

Seahenge, Boudicca’s University of Druidic Sciences?

It's a farm, I have nothing to back this up. Its pure speculation, but theoretically that place could be used to grow mussels

I had not heard of this site before. I wonder why you felt it necessary to destroy this site at all . .

THE....OGHAM....RUNIC TREES

The rings represent the planet saturn the projector of our reality 👍

Should have just left it where it was. You literally destroyed it by “preserving it”

They must have had vehicles and industry...look at how they made the sea level rise😂😂😂

Thanks for this, do you have any regrets? I personally think you should have left it as was. Heritage has a history of messing around with sites that it had no proper understanding of such as Stone Henge, moving the standing stones out of their original positions and concreting them into place where they thought most convenient. I can understand why people would be apprehensive with Heritage poking around. For what you learned from the archaeology it was hardly worth the effort and all the upset you caused. It's no wonder why Heritage is so hated, the arrogance and the hubris that you always know best and ignore the wishes of people who have a real connection to these ancient sites. You don't seam to understand that this is our heritage not your bloody awful organisation and it's board of executives. What was the monetary cost of all this by the way. Got to use up that budget after all....

a communal dwelling perhaps

Why didn’t you just leave it alone , science did not find anything that they could have not just been researched at the site, an absolute disgrace to the the science of archaeology

Thank you. Fantastic educational video, very well presented. Can't see why there was so much controversy, but then you can't please everyone. Still, those that blinker themselves from science shouldn't stop the quest for knowledge of our distant past. If you had not carried out your work as you did I would never have been able to watch your fascinating and informative lecture. You have enriched the history of the human race.