Why Are There Human Bones Sticking Out This Cliff? | Digging for Britain 

Its really nice to see the enthusiasm of the people in this field. they all seem so energetic and excited to be doing this. Really wholesome and sweet

Dr.Roberts presentation is amazing , she is a British National Treasure!!!

I used to love watching Julian's Meet the Ancestors.

Really interesting series. Could do without the sudden stupid extremely annoying loud adverts which start without warning. Mute button, and 'skip' at the ready.

When does grave robbing become archaeology? Just an interesting question , no agenda behind this question.

Alice presents , This always gets my attention , Such a good presenter, The enthusiasm and knowledge are wonderful to watch .

To those concerned about the excavation of graves - be aware that actual grave robbers operate in the UK, in the form of 'nighthawkers' - unscrupulous people with metal detectors, usually operating at night. I suspect that first dig in the Cotswolds was for just that reason - I remember a similar dig in a later episode where predation by nighthawkers was cited as a reason for excavation. Once word got out - those graves would have been destroyed by criminals, with all knowledge of the past lost. Far better to learn about those who went before...

Dr. Naoise Mac Sweeney has such a soothing voice.

I am constantly amazed that some viewers criticize on unimportant aspects despite the amazing information shown.

Celtic Christianity is a subject that needs to investigated more, if it's possible.

Food on the grill. Good history show. Ale in hand. I'm good.😂

NOTE TO THE EDITOR: Please lower the volume level at your ad for History Hit because it makes me instantly stop the video to fast forward past it every time. I understand you do it to get the viewer's attention, but you're not thinking about viewers using headphones or people who are watching trying not to annoy or wake-up others around them with the noise from the video. I know I'm not the only person to comment about this so please consider it as I think more people would take more notice of the ad if it wasn't blasted at them in the middle of a calming history video. And for those who wish to complain about my complaint,....I'm allowed to have and voice my views, just like you. Have a great day.

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Gorgeous Archaeology Documentarie’s! As always videos so adorable and classic! Dr. Alice put your heart and talent to create this video so perfect, love your beautiful personality, and everything about you is so unique and attracts the eyes and captivates the mind in an inexplicable way. They are intelligent and value scientific knowledge, and doing great for the soul. Congrats. Much thanks from St. Louis, Missouri. 🇺🇸🦅

Very nice,i hope this never stops.

it's actually so crazy how physically demanding this work must be. just hours and hours on your knees digging.

A truly spellbinding documentary. I have such mixed feelings about the digging up of bodies. I understand the need to "know" but why can't they be left in situ and simply photographed after bone samples and some teeth are removed for testing? I'm fascinated by all the archaeological discoveries, but the 10 year old boy and his little teeth got me. My Grandson is 10 and that little boy became real to me. I wish he could have been left to rest in peace.

In England, Sir Walter Scott's romantic literature restored the dignity of the Saxons and, in a way, stimulated the development of both historiography and archeology. Echoes of this can be seen in Brazil. First in the romantic literature of José de Alencar, who later encouraged the study of indigenous societies and the archaeological sites they left in Brazilian territory. But no one produces TV programs like this in Brazil. Here the memory needs to be buried because there are still landowners who covet indigenous territories, invade it to cut wood, extract gold, etc... Businessmen like Elon Musk bought tons of gold criminally extracted from indigenous territories during the Bolsonaro government. Even today there is a well-structured political right that propagates hatred against Indians and encourages organized violence against them. These conflicts do not exist in England, but I suspect that the proliferation of programs like this serves another purpose: to divert the population's attention from the distributive conflicts caused by neoliberalism to concentrate income. The same problem (the institutionalized greed of the rich) produces the same results through different devices (erasure of memory in Brazil, overexploitation of the past in England).

i love that the professor kept the old school casio watch as part of the archaeology from the dig lol what an awesome teacher he must be! i'd never be late for class lol

Fantastic

Good compilation guys thank you,one thing could you have the volume level for the ad adjusted to the same level as the rest of the video,cheers.

My first thought when they mentioned the first graves were from non Christians who buried their dead with nice things, was God Bless Them! How wonderful. Not I’m thinking what I would like to be buried with (Christian, but I don’t see why I shouldn’t have things like transistors, vacuum tubes, micro chipped Garfield the cat, plastic Moon Lander. Things like that. Of, yess, also lots od costume jewelry!

I love it thank you

Was expecting Philomena Cunk to walk up to the camera 😂

In case anyone is interested..... This is Season 8, Episode 1, WEST

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Please try to ensure your programme and advertisement sound levels match so we're not suddenly having our eardrums assaulted by your ads! Thank you.

Wow, luckily, they didn't need to dig much to find this lot. Digging up the dead, it's mental.

Alice Roberts ❤️🥰

2:30 -- Given the very large number of archeologists, volunteers, film crew, and local landowners who know the location of the site, I wonder how much of a "secret" it really is.

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Does every UK documentary have to have a 2min opening with the exact same music and drone shots?

very good I like

Does the tank do more damage than an archaeologist, who removes all the burials? Is a burial mound anything more than a pile of dirt after all the burials are removed? Is it worth protecting when it is just a memory of what it was?

If i didnt have heart disease this is the women that i would love to follow around for the history of Britain

How old do graves have to be before it's okay to dig them up?

I think the beads were put in by a grieving mother! And the sword by a grieving father.

How old does a burial have to be for there to be no respect for the dead?

" If anyone knows where his feet are ! " 😂😂🙂

Another excellent episode: I'm surprised Richard Osgood and his team weren't climbing all over those Centurion tanks, after all, they are quite ancient.

This truly one time I would be crying. Terrible? 😊😢_

How did they misspell Dr Naoíse Mac Sweeney so badly?

Can you please turn the sound level up to help people like me who are hearing impaired. The advertisement is better but maybe turn it up just a tad, thanks.

tanks would apply a similar pressure per area, as the infantryman who follow them

Glass is actually one of the strongest materials around It is very hard and very stable, it has very high compressive strength but very low sheer strength. It is also extremely stable. It is already a rock. I think it is so rarely found intact has more to do with the fact people don't generally throw out intact glassware, but the often throw out broken glass.

I really wish they would document everything then put it all back where that person was buried with all their items. Treat them with respect and reverence. The actual items can be x-rayed, MRI, photos and a mold copy. Why do they have to put it all in a box in a storeroom?

The walls the Narrator is standing in front of has some of the Archeology of the area. Evidences of creatures trapped within the rocks used in the construction of the wall, can be seen in every introduction she presents.

Alice the Red 😊❤

To protect it from those rouge archaeologists out there. 😠.

Feel a little sorry for the guy who first found it. Seems like the archaeologists came rushing in.

The burial of the teenage/young man with the arms over his head wasn't put in there in some weird manor he was rolled in by someone who couldn't lift him or didn't care how he went in and kicked him in. The arms go like that when they are rolled in and the always land on their face like he was because of gravity, he was on his back next to the grave and then once they dug it they push or kicked him in and when you do that, they go face down 9/10 times.

“Eroding backward” as opposed to eroding forward?

Intact deposits could be tested for DNA to give a profile of all the animals and peoples that were present in the cave. The neanderthal/human interface could be crucial to answering key questions on the story of neanderthals in Britain.

for a reasonably modern production, USE of B.C. should be B.C.E. and C.E. Not B.C and A.D.

These burials are really fascinating, BUT I can never completely feel comfortable about digging up someone’s grave and poking around their possessions. It’s a FREAKING gravesite, forCRYING OUT LOUD!That is sacred. I’d be out for blood if somebody dug up my husband‘s grave and started poking around his things. I mean this woman is looking at this glass bowl and they make the comment, “gosh, this could be even from the Roman times and an heirloom.” a private and treasured possession of this human being, carefully placed with him when he was laid to rest! Yet they’re totally OK with taking it. Kind of sickening when you think of it like that. So yeah I’m sorry I just can’t get past it. What’s really creepy is I recently saw a video of someone’s clothes taken off their corpse, put the corpse back in their burial spot but keep the clothes and put them on display at a museum. And I’m not talking about ancient ancient ancient grave, I’m talking about one that was in the 16th century AND they knew who it was, yet they still thought that it was perfectly OK to take their clothes and stick them in a museum. I’m sorry. That is a completely disgusting thing to do. I mean, how long does a person have to be dead before their burial items become “fair game“? So gross! It really cracked me up when the guy goes, “yeah we’re the only people that’s looked at this guy and his stuff since the day he was buried. I’m just can’t help but feel emotional!“ Yeah sure buddy. wasn’t emotional enough of an experience to stop you from grave robbing.

I think that evey field in England has some history

arms above head shows he was dragged in and left

Read Velikowsky!

I want to help. I want to play!!!

What a great program. I'm in live with Alice. What a pretty woman.

It's a sort of show about sort of digging sort of up sort of bones out of sort of dirt with a sort of shovel and sort of trowel and sort of guessing at a sort of explanation and sort of involves a lot of sort of guesswork.

Digging up the dead. Is there nothing sacred ?

Because they were buried there and the ground eroded away exposing them ?

@3:15 The grim reaper. 👹.

Flood?

Who are we looking at? The founder of the first branch of Starbucks in Salisbury.

Could someone explain to the uninitiated, why older archaeological strata is lower to younger archaeological levels, is the earth rising as time goes by…?

Pronunce your os pleeeease . Roving archaeologist becomes , raving archaeologist!!!!

It is funny how there is no evidence of all these logs? And log rolling?

The skeletons will be mostly .....................

THis FAIRY flying above doing photos WHILE they dig ?!?!?!?! Go find a short pier and long destination friend right lol

What destroyed the village.

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Grave robbers 👀

Does anyone knows know where his legs are""" 😂😂 haha

It's a Bargain Basement Pound Shop Time Team. {:o:O:}

ROYAL ? = $$$ OR WHO TOASTED,,? WHO ?

Out "of" this cliff

Isn’t this grave robbing😂

"...converted to Christianity." At the end of a spear..

How many ads can one video have?

‘Correct’ grammar would be more appropriate from a grammatical point of view…

I just love redheads! 'probably reason why I married one🤪

I really enjoy these Archeological digs, the people doing them are just in awe, but there seems to be a lot of preconceived ideas still from these people. Why would it be so unacceptable for a man who might have been an unparalleled warrior, wearing amethyst beads? There are LOTS of Cultures that were filled with ideas of men being just as blinged up as the women, especially a well to do Warrior who might have well become the ruler of their little tribe of village of whatever it would be, and a status of his position might have been wearing something that we, today consider more feminine, in our current culture. Comments like this make them look really unprofessional and kind of sexist if you really think about it, with the standard Female entitlement standing there speaking about Feminine things such as amethyst beads and other fineries then telling about the weapons and armor and other things that are more masculine. Gimme a break. What was considered masculine and feminine back then likely would have been vastly different than today, or in the woman's own mind! I as a man would have no problem wearing amethyst beads, if in a proper configuration with other items, that would have likely long rotted away since. so preconceived ideas are enemies to the professions of Archeology and Anthropology. Kind of irritating if I'm being honest and it doesn't give a good impression about this person's talents and knowledge. If you look into Japanese Culture, the very artistic nature of the Culture and the great devotion to the arts would mislead the uninitiated into what a man would wear and what a woman would wear. the type of Cloth worn in Japan's ancient History saw a great deal of floral motifs worn by both men and women. the higher up in Japanese Society a person was did not differentiate in what was on the cloths so much as the style of the clothing made from it. So, do we really have enough information about the old Saxon cuture that we can say a man would never wear Amethyst beads? I think not.

Well the history of early man came out of the east and also out of the west, so is this a cultural argument or a geo political argument both have merit and none of the political science people agree with the former either so.... I digress.men had legs, boats, and they also had more wander lust back then to explore, and as well as we know every culture did the same, hence the history of man kind.

Haha .

Her accent is all posh and middle BBC English now, what happened to her West Country accent that she clearly used to have?

Interesting, but I do not like the way you say, in the first part of the vid, when you say "most Britons at this time were pagans" clearly the Anglo Saxons you watched being dug up were not Britons, but invaders and were pagans, but the actual Britons were very far from being pagans, I do not understand why you archaeologists constantly make this error.

Speeka the english maybe I unnerstan you

Grave robbers at it again.

If we went to the graveyard's And dug them up and robbed the contents like these people do we would go to jail. But these people do it legally and get rich. Even the Dead ain't even safe from the greed of these greedy people in this world. I reckon rest in peace.Don't really mean what it says .

"Sticking out this cliff"? Proper grammar please!

I can’t help but feel like they are doing wrong pulling people out of the ground who have passed and been placed there by loved ones. Not saying I don’t enjoy these types of documentaries. Just on the fence about it.

The skeletons must conform to WOKE theorems or else.

Where do you lot put the poor peoples skeletons after you have ripped them from their graves. 😪.

Well, I would have watched your video all the way through. You ruined it with your cheap, nasty and commercialistic trick. Maybe next time you wont hike the audio gain for your nasty little advert. So no, I shall not, on this occasion, be subscribing.

Britain is not a country ffs

People are ignoring actual known human history. The actual historical records and DNA migrations show that everyone spread out from Mesopotamia. Ancient history is essential for everyone to know, especially the sixteen original civilizations… from the sixteen grandsons of Noah. Learn ancient history before trying to learn science. 1. The first inhabitants of Italy (K) Tubal 2. Thracians (L) Tiras 3. Mediterranean Greek sea people (T) Javan 4. Siberians (N) Meshek 5. East Asians (O) Magog 6. Medes (PQ) Madai 7. Western Europeans (R) Gomer 8. Hebrews and Arabic (IJ) Arphaxad 9. Elamites (H) Elam 10. Assyrians (G) Asshur 11. Arameans (F1) Aram 12. Lydians (F2) Lud 13. Cushites (AB, C) Cush 14. Egyptians (E3) Mitzrayim 15. Canaanites (E2, D) Canaan 16. Original North African Phoenicians (E1) Phut The D paternal haplogroup Sino descendants of Canaan migrated from Canaan east to China all the way to Japan and Tibet. The C paternal haplogroup descendants of Nimrod migrated as far as South Asia, the Pacific, Mongolia and all the way to the Americas accounting for the Olmec civilization as well as the Q haplogroup descendants of Madai ancestor of the Medes that crossed the Atlantic to Central America. The A maternal mtDNA haplogroup belonging to the Semitic N lineage accompanied the Eurasian Q paternal haplogroup to Central America. The C&D maternal haplogroups belonging to the Eurasian M lineage also accompanied the Atlantic crossing of the Q paternal haplogroup Medes and probably the C paternal haplogroup to Central America. The Semitic B maternal mtDNA haplogroup seems to have crossed the Pacific Ocean to South America. The Mediterranean paternal R1b and the maternal X2a also found in Galilee represent another Atlantic crossing of the Phoenicians in the days of King Solomon considering also the Mediterranean paternal haplogroups of T, G, I1, I2, J1, J2, E and B in addition to the R1b in Native American Populations. J1 and J2 is Arabs and Jews. (I1 is most likely Dan and I2 resembles the movements of the tribe of Asher) Of course there is also the Cohen modal haplotype of J1 P58 as well which identifies the IJ lineage of Hebrews and Arabs that are descended from Arphaxad. J2 M172 is the largest group of descendants probably of the House of the kings David and Solomon. Now you know a lot more of what is verified human history. Neanderthals were Eurasians descended from Japheth and Denisovans are a mix of Eurasians and Canaanites and or Cushites descended from Ham.

Wokery

Disrespectful to the dead