Seeking Out Ancient Artifacts North of London
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2019
- Hertfordshire (Herts, for short) and Cambridgeshire in southeastern England contain fascinating sites and museums to explore. David Miano and Mariza Lockhart will be your guides to ruins and artifacts that can be found in St. Albans, Welwyn, and Cambridge!
Remains of ancient Verulamium, the third largest Roman city in the country, are still standing in St. Albans and are not to be missed. Nearby in Welwyn, the remnants of Roman baths can be found underground. The magnificent city of Cambridge is rich in past history, but we look specifically at the museums that contain ancient artifacts and treasures.
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I know I mentioned that my wife used to work at the Petrie in the comments of the last video but as you specifically mentioned the Jewellery near the beginning of this video I can’t help myself but to mention that she did some of the conservation work on the necklaces there 😀
Ah, what a fun job that would be!
We took the train to St Albans when we were there in 2000. I drove from Bath to Portsmouth, that was plenty. Driving around London would have killed me
Bath was a lovely place, I haven't been in years, plenty of history in & around bath.
Imo places like bath StAlbans are much more interesting than London. And cheaper too!
I think StAlbans has the most pubs in such a small city .
York has excellent Viking museum , Chester has loads of Roman ruins and medieval buildings.
I honestly think the city's towns around England are better to visit than the usual overpriced tourist spots in London , bad traffic, parking restrictions etc , London is hard work, I moved to StAlbans after my first child was born.
Just stumbled on this video looking at Roman History stuff and your videos on Atlantis theories (which were very insightful and interesting) and figured I'd check this out as we're from St. Albans. Most of us visited these ruins on school trips and hung out around them as teenagers and adults. As teenagers we hopped fences into the theatre and hung out there before getting chased away. Anyway, what's the chances you probably saw our band play! Mad coincidence, we were performing at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks that day and the band you see very briefly in your footage there is one of our buddies called Kaspar and the Swamp Dogs - I think we played a little before them but I don't really remember now. Glad you enjoyed your visit, you had a beautiful day for it and it was a great day to play at an incredibly old pub. Anyway, great vids dude. Cheers for the content.
Oh my. That IS a coincidence! We may have seen you - I don't know.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this and these videos! Great work
I live in St Albans! Its a great city which is packed with history
Really cool to sub to this channel via Stefan and then find a video on my home town lol
Your correct about the inhabitants of verulamium had special status, a municipum, which is kinda surprising considering one of the brothers in line for the throne of the catuvellauni a warrior called Caratacus continued to wage guerilla warfare against the Romans long after the invasion, eventually he was drugged ( by Cartimandau), a Celtic queen from north England and handed to the authorities .
He was taken to Rome for public execution and ended up impressing the emperor and was given a villa in Rome and slaves to look after him .
I feel your pain--I once took the same tourist tour in a rental car-- It broke down in St Albans. When the garage mechanic complained about the rental company's maintenance, calling it, "quite dilatory", I realized we were not in the U.S anymore.
Nice video. These are the places I hang around a lot. I live in Hertfordshire! But I punt myself.
Really enjoyable video,
I've spent 25 years excavating verulamium and the whole area around StAlbans .
Its amazing nobody has found the killing ground ( battle site) of the Romans meeting the unorganized rabble of drunken Celts,
Seutonius gives decent landscape descriptions, & we know its north of verulamium somewhere on the watling street..
Probably on the lords land . Gorhambury estate .
@@silverkinjal it could well be, sadly the landowners are against us excavating their land, the largest half of the Roman city is on gorhamburys land .
They've almost destroyed the archaeology belonging to the Roman era due to the deep ploughing since WW2 , only reason they stopped in 2005 was after the government paid a huge amount for them to stop ploughing.
Lumps of mosaic floor are on the surface as well as other archaeology that ploughing has dragged up to the surface.
It's so annoying & could have all kinds of unknown information.
(Replaces earlier comment) Just to mention, the Devil's Dyke at Wheathampstead is worth a visit. It's near St Albans (pr. St. Orlbuns btw), postcode AL4 8PF. Sir Mortimer Wheeler thought it was the site of the Catuvellauni's last stand against Julius Caesar, there is a plaque at the entrance to this effect, but the theory is now questioned. However it's an impressive earthwork
@@pwmiles56 interesting point , wheelers wife, Tessa is buried at St'Stephens chruch , a 10th century Saxon church , still has some of the original church walls etc .
Tessa is remembered in the museum, apparently she was in charge on majority of digging inside verulamium,
I've seen footage of Mortimer running/ scrambling up the devil's ditch , old BBC footage I think.
Caesar never attacked the place leg alone defeated the catuvellauni.
No evidence at all,
@@pwmiles56 Tessa wheeler grave has a small stack of Roman brick/ tile under her name etc .
I nice touch I thought :)
Hah, I remember being taken to St Albans (from London) for a school trip as a kid and literally the only thing I remember from it was my teacher saying that's where she grew up. I'm sure they maybe taught up some cool stuff about the Romans but I was like 7. So this was fun to actually learn!
And yeah we don't really have AC here apart from in maybe some big modern buildings. Our houses are meant to trap heat in, typing from the future in January I wish they'd trap some more.
The Archaeology and Anthropology Museum in Cambridge is good, but the best museum in the city for ancient history fans is the Fitzwilliam Museum. They've got some truly world-class stuff there- from Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near and Middle East and more, as well as spectacular art collections, arms and armour and more, all housed in a fantastic neoclassical building. I dunno whether it was closed when they visited or whether they just didn't have time or something- Cambridge has A LOT of museums and some of them have odd opening hours.
"Odd opening hours" is a big thing when it comes to museums in the UK nowadays, largely due to defunding and loss of staff. Often they open for just a few hours on three days a week, and may even close completely for a few months. It's best to check online before a visit.
You got the only theatre in Britain part wrong, Caerleon has a theatre.
A larger one at that.
But this makes sense because it was an important port city at the time.
Figured I should mention it because you are a good historical channel and would most likely want this information.
Verulamium is also not an element in the Periodic Table. Boudica was terrifying but she and her "army" had a just cause, especially her personally.
What had the Celts of verulamium done to deserve their fledgling city to be destroyed ??
Absolutely nothing.
Her daughters were raped. I would burn cities to the ground for my daughters
So something more mundane, how do you pick the person who accompanies you on these tours?😊
this guy is not a scientist but a touring guide!
@WorldofAntiquity I can't find another way to reach you except through the comments. It's not about the video. I thought you would want to know that the book download has a "typo" (page 5, paragraph 2; "You may have been heard").
Okay, thank you.
Why doesn’t Mariza have her own mike? We can’t hear her.
We only had a mic attached to the camera. Sorry about that.
What evidence is there that Boudicca was also a Druid?
{:-:-:}
Not much, as I recall. I think her mother or grandmother was a druid.
I thought only men could become druids. Though maybe a (high) priestess or shaman or some such.
20 miles from London?? What way did you go ?
Lol, north London is about 4 miles away if that from Stalbans 🤗
Let's play a game - how many words can we mispronounce in 20 minutes? Go!
its a city not a town
I didn't mean any disrespect. The word "town" is used differently in different parts of the world. In some cases, as it often is in America, where I am from, it is an alternative term for city.
World of Antiquity it's okay we all learn :)
Happy to help
I've noticed Americans use town for everything. Like they'll say "I'm from a really small town, there was only like 50 people" and in my head I'll be like "I'm pretty sure that's a village if not a hamlet".
@@WorldofAntiquity Loads of British people say 'I'm going into town' when they mean a city, not just Americans. It's a pretty pedantic thing to complain about.
Btw* Caesar never defeated the catuvelauni.
I understand the confusion because old history books accepted Caesars claims to be fact.
Modern archaeology and all the technology available to us , not one bit of archaeological evidence exists to support Caesars claims
But then he wasn't ever going to admit to being chased out of Britain twice & blamed the weather both times , Lol, people swim the channel from Dover to Calais.
You can see France from South East England.
And you wont find a single archaeologist who believes Caesar defeated or destroyed the catuvellauni or their settlement in wheathampstead.
Historians don't have to stick to facts
That's why history
( His - story) isn't a science, it comes under the arts.
Archaeology is a science we don't go with imagination we study the evidence record the the facts .
Not one single thing has ever been found that dates to Caesars time.
I was corrected on this same point earlier by another commenter. I appreciate you letting me know. I will not repeat this claim in future.
@@WorldofAntiquity its not your fault, it's Google its wiki its historians,
bc although its wrong its still a better story that saying it didn't happen
(around 30 yrs ago)
When I first started working & i heard nobody had found evidence ,I spent any free time digging hoping to be the 1st person to find evidence, & found nothing at all.
It's not just bc there's no archaeology, other things such as: Caesar claims to have left with documents agreeing to make payment taxes, slaves, to be sent to Rome on a regular basis . Yet,
In Rome nothing mentions Britain, paying or owing anything..
I know you already know,
.. I'm just trying to explain the wider picture, apart from the archaeology.
tbh I don't believe Caesar wrote ( finished his books) before his untimely death.
But that's another story & just my opinion :)
I checked my comment and I noticed I accidentally clicked Dislike. Sorry if you saw that
Please stop.
Stop what?
Stop ! What and why ?
Anything that promotes StAlbans, Roman verulamium is a good thing..