The Incredible Neolithic Finds At The Ness Of Brodgar | Digging For Britain 

Fetch the Spikey Point! Hiya Matt! It's like seeing an old friend by surprise. Matt's a great addition to an already good series. Glad to see all those years cheerfully doing the work paid off.

My husband and I spent a week on Orkney. Not only is the archaeology amazing but the living people are wonderful and welcoming!

Wait a minute, that's Matt!! Look at you out of the dig, all respectable and whatnot!! So happy to see you!

I'm disappointed Matt didn't get to participate more in the presentation. It was just a token presence & involvement. I'm sure Time Team did an episode at Johnathan's cave, cause i seem to remember Phil & Raksha being there, so it's likely Matt was too. Even if he wasn't, the producers could have had him mention their time there. (gonna have to try to find the episode to see if my old brain remembered correctly 😄) It's great to see him anyway, even if it was a token appearance. EDIT: So i went looking & am pleased to say my memory didn't fail me. Matt was there, but didn't work in Johnathan's cave itself, Phil & Raksha did, he worked in what is called the Well cave. Interestingly, he had to wait till they finished the laser scan before he could start, so he was probably there when the clip they showed of it was filmed. I don't see why they couldn't give Matt a minute, or even 30 seconds to talk about it. 😞

I love it when kids get to help out with digs. such an amazing learning experience for them.

GOOD TO SEE U MATT, GREAT VIDEO, SHARE, SHARE THANK U BOTH

Oh my goodness, Professor Alice Robert's is really cool I also think she might be the most beautiful professor I have ever laid eyes on. Fantastic show thankyou team.❤

Here is a cat to put among the pigeons. Instead of the discarded mace heads being a ritual cache. They are simply a collection of broken tools collected by a child. Just as kids collected shrapnel during WW2.

Hey look it’s that young guy from time team!

6:05 Perhaps to make Occam happy, a simpler explanation for the broken mace heads is that they simply broke during use. Most mace heads do. Further, it’s reasonable to believe that the craftsman who lovingly used it for many years would want to discard or “bury” it in some respectful way.

Brilliant show; love all the new (for use) history being unearthed. And; all of it showing us again, that the Victorian view of "Cavemen" - that was requited verbatim for so many years - was as solidly true as their actual morality.

Ah, Matt; Time Team's go to lad for living experiments. Remember his rivetting performance as a Roman slave?

I love seeing them still doing shows for the public. Time Team will always be one of my all-time favorite shows. I've seen every episode probably 20 times or more!

❤️Still crushing on Matt❤️

Matt from Time Team is one of the presenters. Could have gone a bit more in depth on the sites.

I really enjoy the mix of women and men in this field. Men seem to have more of the director positions but its refreshing to see so many intelligent and adventurous women doing this important and fascinating work. Side note: Those ponies must have been bummed when the ice was gone and they realized they were stuck on a fuckin island with a bunch of people coming over all the time for a lovely day of hunting and picnicking

fantastic viewing alice and mathew , keep digging

I adore these videos, thank you.

Phil Harding found those Pict carvings in that cave during Time Team. Glad locals came in to preserve it.

What a great job people!! Thank you for your invaluable great work.

I love Alice, but yes, more Matt.

Is this at the house featured on Time Team where they did a 3 day dig, with great finds ,one being a huge soap stone shallow bowl, broken on one side? There was a lot more to find, but TT had that 3 day limit...

Great show. Thankyou.

Love this!

FANTASTIC

@unearthed history - Thank you for sharing these. It would be great if you could put a note, even if only in the description, to say when these episodes were first broadcast.

Hey, it's Matt!! Great to see you, 😁.

Just watched you when you were in Modbury Matt working for the Time Team program. I do like my obsession with history which began with TT. Watching and reading about the history of Britain has been something that I've liked doing since I was at school during the sixties. This is something that I would have liked to have done, but circumstances didn't allow that.

Wonderful. Deserving of more subscribers. Cheers.

Excellent!

A very interesting video Alice and Matt 👍👍

Great show.

Eivor must sing at the location to make it even more awesome. She is an authentic Viking Princess. Anything Viking and Eivor comes into my head. Has much Archaeology been done on the Faroe Islands I wonder? Must look.

Alice is not only knowledgeable but, good gosh!, she is also very beautiful.

WOW Amazing

Another very well presented episode - always interesting and informative, if as inevitably somewhat dated, and with a number of these digs a fair percentage of new evidential discoveries have been found, both skeletal and artifacts since this episode was recorded. I felt slightly uncomfortable and unhappy with the structures at The Ness of Brodgar being called a Neolithic Cathedral - the term ( for me ) simply doesn`t sit right, and rather unimaginative I would have thought. However, still enjoyable to watch - but I would like to see a bit more medieval archeology - a period which is often overlooked :(

Thank you

Deep respect.

Excellent as always, and love to see Matt.

If anyone's interested I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's langskip video

I'm getting ready to watch the show and I appreciate the warning because loud commercials wherever they're at are obnoxious

The stone mace heads the grooves are for fixing with leather straps they are soaked wraped then dryed to contract i beleive my theory is sound

Don't complain about a few seconds of commercial; that's one way to pay for this program. Sit down and enjoy the show.

Great program. Thanks. Good job to the lady narrator too.

Cool content. Thank you! The lady showing the items 6:54 looks like she’s wearing a swatch style watch! Retro/cool.

Lovely

Unusual to see a longship with a gaff rig in the thumbnail. The longship, in common with other ships of the era and region, had a square rig.

Great to see Matt the timeteam mascot doing well ! And no sign of a slave outfit in sight ! Superb especially the goodnight from 😂😂

I had no idea the vikings played cricket! 🏏 5:40

thank you for another great video filled with historic artifacts and history

That well is impressive.

on point

That Neolithic site shows us they were much more advanced than we thought. Those flat stones are not naturally that flat. Those mace heads would have required a harder rock, and that broken one has a perfectly drilled circle in it. How?

Any type of digging for anything old or ancient is exciting as I could want lol 😂 I only dig old bottles up ⬆️ but I still get to study 📖 it keep it and show it to others 😂

When my now adult children were small we spent a week on Harris huge fantastic beaches on which to play . Lots of sheep and teedweavers in Nissen huts lots of abandoned cars by the roadside

Tony Wilmott was on Time Team a few times. And I think Time Team was at those caves for ine episode.

Just brilliant work and research

Thank you for the respectful, reasonable length commercial. I'm going to the break room to buy a Reese's.

If you think these are new digs: bear in mind this is a ten-year-old episode.

Can we say that some of these markings are signatures of the builder/designer as it is with the Thatcher's with their reed roof 🤔

Excellent as always. The un-molested V boat burial is superb! For me, the true archaeologist of the past went as far as they knew was feasible, with all means at their disposal. And then they back-filled their work; re-instating soil layers in order of excavation, in the sure knowledge that the scientific advancements of the future would lead to better analysis of these sites. These heroes are to be thanked and applauded, just as the teams that rescue endangered historically significant locales are. No, "I see wonderful things", and then pushing on regardless, just to claim status amongst their peers; or an entry in the 'Magazine of the day'..

On my hike on the Buckeye Trail I have seen this and wondered. The stone walls are laid in a non quarried appearance.

I think it was abandoned over night because the occupiers were routed and quite literally drove into the sea and the victors enjoyed the spoils of war, they feasted for many months in celebration of their victory

Most ancient sites for sure are on the parts of the continental shelf that is already underwater. The water rose drastically and most paleo sites would have been near the sea and thats where the flood comes from

I remember when you were student archaeologists on time team. If I remember rightly Alice had pink hair.

I always thought the Vikings buried the things that they wanted to 'return to the earth' or that they couldn't agree on who would inherit it...after its owner died. Maybe it was ceremonial. They didn't intend to need it to go back to where they were born.

Could use some art of what the site looked like in its day. Is the drawing guy from time team still around?

That Neolithic material from Orkney is fascinating and it's got a lot of stories behind it that are still untold. If I wanted a rock to bash people on the noggin I'd look around for a suitably sized stone and pretty much use it as is. If I were gong to do a lot of noggin bashing I might work some indentations into the stone so that I'd be less likely to drop it during a busy session. The amount of work on the stone with the almost grenade-like working on it suggests to me that it was not a regular weapon. Even the fist-enhancer doesn't strike me as a practical regular weapon. In both cases (and with many of the other artifacts that were shown) someone put a _lot_ of work into making them, work that, at least in some cases, didn't add to the functionality. That suggests that those people had means of feeding and clothing themselves that left them enough time that they could build astonishing structures and also put huge amounts of time and work into working stone into fine, decorative objects. And that raises some very interesting questions regarding Neolithic economies and means of production. Regarding the "altar" stone in the remains of the temple or "cathedral", I suddenly thought that it and a number of other standing stones from that period are not pillar or spike shaped but rather door shaped. The tops of those "doors" tend to be a bit skew-whiff these days but they may have been more rectilinear when they were made - or perhaps the oblique tops had a meaning for the people who erected them. Doors in turn might represent a passage from one reality into another. I'm just speculating here but I'd be interested to know if the experts have speculated on this question.

This woman doesn't age. 51 years old and as stunning as ever.

I remember in the animated film " Beowulf " the lead character voiced by actor Ray Winstone tells a tale of fighting a tribe of Giants from Orkney, l know Hollywood films tend to take a lot of poetic license but is there any truth in terms of mythological significance to that claim in the film ? Were there giants supposedly living on Orkney ?

I also dislike loud commercials whether they be RU-vid or TV.

i was told once that when a archaeologist says it ritual what they are saying is they don;t have a clue what it is or what it was used for

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Could it be a Courthouse things belonging being smashed, size of building to have room for the clans

Is this a re-upload?

7:34 I don't know why archaeologists assume every artifact had to have a function...maybe these are just nic-nacs, tchotchkes, or small sculptures for the sake of it. Clearly these people were highly advanced, so why not some 'fun' objects just because?

What on earth has Stonehenge got to do with London? Stonehenge & Avebury are miles away in Wiltshire!

This is Series 3 "North"

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Speaking of Orkney I somehow share 1 segment of dna with an Iron age Pict from the island and I am clueless as to how that happened cause one I have absolutely no british or scottish ancestry but I do have viking dna and I don't even know how that happened either! 🤷‍♀

They must have fixed it seems ok now. Time team did a program about the Orkney dig seems really familiar anyway.

Why do you not speculate that many of the very carved stones were used for textile manufacture? Making twine, flensing rushes or flaxes. All pre metal people made textiles.

Ah, Matt. Still just *so* cute! And I do love the archaeology, particularly the prehistoric stuff.

For the feast they must of had some level of animal husbandry in the Neolithic

Viking boat burial at 38.00

I couldn't find anything about the 'only fully intact Viking boat burial in mainland Britain'; however what I did enjoy was an interesting account of neolithic archaeology finds on the isle of Orkney, which is NOT on mainland Britain.

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What if the little scratches in the stone walls represent a family name, or the name of a “business”?

Can’t beat a slice of Alice, even if it is quite a few years old

10 years was yesterday

The last ice age never ended. We're still in it. That's why we have ice caps.

Oh dear, the archaeologist lady narrator needs to brush up on her history about The Battle of Culloden. Bonnie Prince Charlie was not fighting against "The English" at this battle like some re-run of the much earlier Scottish Wars of Independence. The battle, in 1746, was between a Jacobite British army (mostly made up of Scots, English, Irish and French) and a Hanovarian British army (mostly made up of Scots, English, Welsh and Germans). Bonnie Prince Charlie was fighting to try and restore his Stuart Royal Dynasty to the throne of Great Britain.

Weren't the Shetland Island ponies native to Scotland at least 4,000 plus years ago? Size of bones may indicate this. Maybe this was a single herd isolated on the island & easy to hunt...

Almost everything is deemed a “ritual” site or “ritual” complex.

Why cant archeological sites that find pots , skeleton or artefacts from digs like well preserved walls bath houses or pits bring in psychic mediums, surely energy is still with these artifacts?

Janina Raminese the one for Vikings. Alice not her.

What is it with digging up PEOPLE who have been laid to REST?

A double disk LOL LOL

Well , are you not the lucky one.