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The Toxic Life Of A Medieval Lead Miner

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Lead was an important building material and Tom and Peter mine their own using Tudor techniques, while Ruth makes a stained glass window. On the rivers owned by the monastery, tenant farmers could rent fishing rights. Ruth makes baskets to catch eels in and sets about trying to find some.
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@Velmakinzy Год назад

It’s so fun to see the enthusiasm of the historians as they experience the things they’ve worked so hard to study. I do wish they’d taken some more precaution around the lead though haha

@lourdesetchecopar9825 Год назад

😊😊😊

@lourdesetchecopar9825 Год назад

😊😊😊

@joshzayas5144 5 месяцев назад

😊😊😊

@lisanneschop7317 Год назад

Ruth is an amazing woman. Throughout the series she gives good leadership. She is a kind and knowledgeable woman, someone to respect.

@chasjetty8729 Год назад

This is how tv should be. Thanks for bringing this to us. Much appreciated.

@megancrager4397 2 года назад

I love watching Ruth being taught new things when she's usually the teacher ☺️ That man is so sweet about how he teaches her too

@Pindrop22 Год назад

Entering those old mines seems rather dangerous

@jasonarcher7268 2 года назад

I'd noticed that if I placed an oak log on top of my stove to preheat it before placing it inside, that it burned very energetically. I had no idea that I was making "white coal". Pretty cool though.

@hicknopunk 2 года назад

I do this, but just to drive a little water out of the next piece of wood.

@moonasha Год назад

@@hicknopunk same with campfires too. Get the wood as close as possible without it catching fire. I feel like everyone who learns to tend fires discovers this sooner or later

@ckbeep1313 2 года назад

Enjoy this series and others like it. Really wish tv and producers would make more shows similar to it. instead of the dumbing down of your intelligence of reality TV shows and fake people.

@livescript4462 2 года назад

For real

@capbaby75 2 года назад

I agree 💯

@reallife3338 2 года назад

Yeah there was a time a long time ago in the History channel was always like this

@helenhoward5346 2 года назад

Yeah. It really brings history to "life", excuse the cliche. It's humbling

@helenhoward5346 2 года назад

It's humbling to see how hard it was to just survive back then. It's easier to understand the historical social perspective. I mean, it's fascinating to see how one could've even possibly lived off the land; nearly everyone pulling their weight and putting in the hard sometimes meticulously tedious graft all day sometimes, although I realize they had rest periods as well.

@trulyinfamous Год назад

The size of the fire makes me think more of one for making limestone into lime rather than something for smelting a metal. The kiln they used for refining is more of what I was thinking of, but using charcoal instead of wood. I'm guessing the large fire is because the average farmer didn't have a whole lot of charcoal to spare back then.

@sirlvcivs 2 года назад

those are the best documentaries ever! ruth peter and tom are great, and i very hope they will do more and more and more documentaries like this! and actuallly.....where i can find a puzzle jug??

@lynnclapper997 2 года назад

This series is ADDICTIVE

@takeohtyme 2 года назад

So you're telling me... He who smelt it, dealt it? 😂

@larcomj Год назад

so what im learning from this series is that the church was the original corporation

@padfinancial1781 Год назад

Great video, hard to believe it doesn't have more views and comments. Love this kind if content, please keep them coming.

@vosechu Год назад

There are so many wonderful tidbits in this series, I really appreciate it! I knew that eels were a delicacy, but I never knew how they were caught or prepared! Also, I didn’t realize that taverns would be under the churches ownership, but it absolutely makes sense; who else would have the cash to make something like that?

@aztec4033 2 года назад

As a huge history and ancient history buff. I would love to visit this part of the world.

@420JackG 2 года назад

This business of going into a 130 years derelict mine sounds sort of dangerous.

@shannoneckelbarger5566 Год назад

Danger is ok. This generation fears literally everything:) it is going to be ok. Viruses don't kill for the most part either. Vaccines are also dangerous but most don't avoid them.

@erickcontreraslopez5009 2 года назад

The way they speak and learn at the same time make it more interesting and helps you learn even more.

@o.milonova9664 Год назад

In our times we can only envy the quality of the clothes of simple workers from the Tudor era.

@cdfdesantis699 Год назад

This is absolutely one of the most enjoyable shows of its kind. Life was hard then, but these folks always manage to have fun with it.

2 года назад

lead has also been one of the most important materials in forming medieval ideas and philosophy.

@Justanotherworker Год назад

Ruth is awesome. Really helped make this docuseries as good as it is, for heavens sake 😊

@raulayala7572 Год назад

Trade school student and history major here. I have most definitely enjoyed the series of documentaries offered by this channel. A fantastic insight into the life of working people of the past and the history of the trades.

@lacarnin Год назад

The scene at 57:10 is a marvelous composition for a painting!

@amandapittar9398 Год назад

I love shows like this. When you think on it, most folk would be under 40, I wonder if there would be lots more children around than we are used to? I think it would be quieter, especially at night. No traffic and industrial noise in the background. Just the odd owl. How lovely. I wonder about the “crime” though, with villages and towns being smaller, it must have been harder to commit a crime. Oh questions, questions…..

@dancingdemon1958 Год назад

oh god its hard to watch this, lead is poisonous even just holding or touching, they arent wearing any protective gear or ventilation, this is hard to watch (o o

@robertmoore8602 Год назад

Is there a playlist on this youtube channel that only contains the videos that have Ruth, Tom and Peter in them?? I notice only some do like the "Secrets of the castle" series. You can see in their faces and hear it in their voices the passion and enthusiasm they have for medieval history. It's awesome how they don't just talk about the topics but they actually LIVE it for a while. So cool. I can only find documentaries with them scattered about the channel. Thanks.

@barbc7698 Год назад

It’s true, here in Amish country we still say you get the best return of all livestock out of a hog. I don’t let mine just run, however, they are kept in the barn

@sarcasmo57 2 года назад

How did they know that there was lead there?

@pauline1809 Год назад

they dug holes til they found lead

@davidschmidt270 21 день назад

I really enjoy and appreciate this series... especially like the opening...the sun in the clouds...the very very faint voices...what is that called? It's really something else!

@KevinSterns Год назад

That mine entrance resembles the eel trap (shudder).

@manK2022 2 месяца назад

There should be a perfect audiobooks from this tv series. With professional narrators.

@julianlutchen4108 Год назад

I love drunk Ruth haha

@thegrumpyamerican2174 Год назад

Whenever global society ultimately collapses due to the severities of our inevitable demise, I will be glad to have watched these because Tudor life may be the new normal within our lifetime.

@MarcoCuauhtemocMejia Год назад

Would women be allowed to drink ale in the pub/inn??

@01mickgreen Год назад

Very interesting and well made. Way, way too many interruptions though...

@hudsonfrank1121 Год назад

Being a crafter I've made window panels like this before you can buy from your common craft store. Most of the time you just make your mold, put it in an oven safe tray and heat it to temp then let it cool down.

@kalziumbones1557 Год назад

Love these documentaries.

@jaminbenlavandera5717 Год назад

Greetings from Ensenada Baja California México. Thanks for your work and insight. Giving us a window in time. Taking a peek at the everyday life. In Tudor's England and it's hard work.

@aarongusel442 Год назад

I’ve always wondered how they got all the metal so make weapons and armor throughout history. Mind blowing to me

@MarcoCuauhtemocMejia Год назад

31:00 What a shame, the dissolution of the monasteries.

@kristinholzerart Год назад

I adore this series! Love the team. Please make more just like this!!

@dominic.h.3363 Год назад

You know you could at least number the episodes so people could watch them in chronological order...

@carlycaye90 2 года назад

yes awesome upload very epic !

@larcomj Год назад

that crude soldering iron make me really appreciate the one i have.

@castoresnegros Год назад

I would love to be teaching by that fine stain glass teacher.

@berenicemarchese1593 2 года назад

really interesting but constant disruptions from ads spoils it.

@teshayazzie3095 2 года назад

Lol she’s right I was judging the eel by the looks. 🤢 I will take her word for it and go for the pigs.

@vulkandrache1928 4 месяца назад

Are you talking about eel in general? Try it if you ever get the chance.

@ratgirl34 2 года назад

I now understand how the stereotype of farmers… loving their pigs very much…. Could have started.

@chuckschillingvideos Год назад

In medieval times, it didn't much matter what you did if you weren't in the clergy, royalty or nobility. Your occupation was almost certainly going to kill you.

@shitbag. Год назад

Thanks

@mikealangaloe1774 Год назад

This looks like such fun....I want to go hang with this crew

@preserveourpbfs7128 Год назад

How would entire tons of lead be moved? Or would there have never been a complete fother in that era?

@nope24601 6 месяцев назад

All that mining and not a bit of dust on them. These guys really are expert, huh?

@Blue_Safari9 Год назад

Ah, before the age of Lead market price manipulation. Such great times!

@mattgambill5543 Год назад

I wouldve figured trout and/or salmon and pike would be the top freshwater fish

@Josephinekhalaf 11 месяцев назад

Why is my screen pitch black????

@ronstewart9764 Год назад

Bring Alex back miss him

@juliawirch2454 Год назад

I wonder when they learned about the benefits of cutting glass under water...

@marthaj67 Год назад

Is that Ruth's husband, Mark Goodman, at 44:09? Or do they just have the same surname? It's a common enough surname, I would guess. Does anyone know? 🤔

@morgorth3242 Год назад

about the melting of lead. why dont they just make a kiln? they did the effort to dry the oak.. with a type of oven.. why not also invest into a proper kiln?? and why not also just make charcoal instead??

@MrSheckstr Год назад

Those aren’t pillows! (If you have ever seen Planes trains and automobiles) But if you have only seen by foot, by hoof, and by wagon wheel I give you That’s not my knee!

@bonnymcdermott1240 Год назад

I just figured out who the narrator is...michelle dockery 🤗

@moosekababs Год назад

this is terrifying. i know they're trying to be age accurate but this is so scary....

@joanhuffman2166 2 года назад

Watching these poor guys pumping the bellows and remembering that Europeans were using inefficient single chamber bellows long after the Chinese had been using double chambered bellows. The single chambered bellows blows only intermittently. A double chambered bellows blows steadily as long as you pump it. As one chamber is filling up the other chamber is blowing air.

@justadildeau 2 года назад

And in conclusion?

@SquiddlyInk 2 года назад

@@justadildeau single chambered bellows blow....

@MyPhobo Год назад

oh hell no

@thetrainwreck1469 2 года назад

Did I miss the part how they made the color of the glass?

@itsukori609 Год назад

No they didnt show how the glass was made. Just how it was cut/shaped and held into place with the lead

@ThePizzaGoblin Год назад

Not much about the toxicity. Should change the title not to be so misleading

@HolyPineCone Год назад

I see what you did there, mis-lead-ing 😆 but the episode about surviving winter they didn't mention snow, cold or heating at all. They did mention food here and there but focused a whole lot on monastery tile floors. So this one was quite good in comparison.

@generatoralignmentdevalue Год назад

Meanwhile there's an episode this channel posted as "how did medieval people decorate their homes?" which doesn't answer that question at all...but this episode does. Good show but clickbait uploader.

@maxasaurus3008 Год назад

I know it’s not quite accurate to have our historians sporting huge goggles but SOME kind of eye protection is in order for mining sharp rocks.

@pjschmid2251 Год назад

Great how the church controlled so many aspects of people’s lives to their own financial advantage 🤨

@mortalclown3812 Год назад

44:14 Ruth's husband Mark. :-) ♡♡

@Traderjoe Год назад

Do eels have teeth that can bite you? Venomous?

@adorablecockroach5131 Год назад

To my knowledge non are venomous, unless you mean sea snakes which are VERY venomous. Electric eels from the rain-forest can also give you a nasty shock too.

@tonymac1349 Год назад

Ginger Ruth 😮‍💨🤤

@LilStoops Год назад

56:08 Doesn't bestiality get jail time in the modern era! You can chalk this up to 'archaeology'

@begusmegus6628 Год назад

"Basket maker Simon *Cooper*" It should be Simon Basket-maker then, if he's not a cooper then he should change it.

@ashInTheWoods Год назад

Y'all are really just out there raw doggin that lead eh?

@frydemwingz Год назад

I scrolled down here for the Stardew Valley jokes, and im not seeing any. Let me get you started Talk about how they might find dangerous slimes down there, note how in Stardew, you're a farmer that often mines metals, they are going to level their combat skill in there and then turn on the French, etc.

@superstar5123 2 года назад

❤

@hicknopunk 2 года назад

Eels are not fish. They would count as meat back then.

@HolyPineCone Год назад

I don't know about Tudor times but in medieval times anything that swam counted as fish. So they ate a lot of beaver when restraining from meat. They had similar ideas about birds and flying.

@masonmurphy6968 Год назад

Eels are fish though..

@hicknopunk Год назад

@@HolyPineCone beaver as fish 🤣🤣😂 thanks for that insight

@josesiliezar1758 2 года назад

Seeing the single chamber bellows reminded me of the last election and the double political fellows As one politician is blowing hot air the other is going through your knickers to make sure "you've paid your fair share"...

@bryanguzik 2 года назад

Haha! Love the bold, and badly camouflaged, utilization of that overused old saw "those who control the present control the past". No hints, because if it's not glaringly obvious, then you've already been re-written. It's enough to stop me subscribing. For a purported history channel, what else will they fiddle with?

@thejennadaisy 2 года назад

This is a re-upload of a BBC show from 2013 my dude

@bryanguzik 2 года назад

@@thejennadaisy and?

@StanHowse 2 года назад

@@tinygrim Calm down Dr. Phil.. You kinda took this reply section over. Your "so what?" comment only begs the same damn question, so what? So what about what you think? So what if someone is "really sick", which I don't understand your implication of disease, from a comment about a TV show... Again, SO WHAT?

@pauline1809 Год назад

sooo confused by this thread

@bryanguzik Год назад

@@pauline1809 understandable

@all4one5 2 года назад

LVL 1 peasant cap

@ingabinga47 2 года назад

i wish you would tiitle this as part of a series. Misleading. I like this but not you do this time and again

@megancrager4397 2 года назад

I've seen these series on other RU-vid channels

@Tom_Quixote Год назад

"600 degrees fahrenheit". Why is this series using fahrenheit? Use modern units please.

@adorablecockroach5131 Год назад

Freedom units!

@johndoeiii9767 2 года назад

_"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell