New finds at Sutton Hoo help archaeologists fill a hole in a very special bucket
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Time Team and National Trust archaeologists and volunteers at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk have unearthed missing pieces from a 6th-century Byzantine bucket.
The first fragments of what's known as the Bromeswell Bucket were found in 1986 and when the brass pieces were fitted together they reveal an elaborate African hunting scene. The rare bucket is now on display at Sutton Hoo alongside a replica showing how it would have looked to the Anglo Saxons who used it. The new finds have only recently been discovered thanks to ultramodern technology brought to Sutton Hoo by archaeologists and experts from Time Team. These cutting-edge geophysics and photogrammetry surveys are helping to shed new light on the site’s prehistory. In this video, the National Trust's Archaeology and Engagement Manager at Sutton Hoo, Laura Howarth, explains what makes this bucket such a rare and special find.
Time Team and the National Trust are collaborating on a two-year archaeological research project to build a greater understanding of the Suffolk site, most famous for the Anglo-Saxon ship burial discovered there in 1939 by amateur archaeologist, Basil Brown. It is still one of the most important historical digs and the largest in Europe.
Time Team have spent the last month filming the dig in front of visitors for a documentary special presented by Sir Tony Robinson. It will complement Time Team’s development of a separate documentary, following the reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship.
The Sutton Hoo story was recently retold in the British drama film, The Dig, which received critical acclaim when it was released in 2021. It was directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, which reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, and Monica Dolan.
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Yay, Time Team! Mick Aston lives on. What an amazing legacy.
Just want to also appreciate that beautiful replica: extraordinary skill in that!
Thank you for sharing this video and this knowledge. What amazing finds. History allows the people of the past to speak to us today and what they have to say is incredibly interesting!
I’m a Time Team Patreon and this is so exciting. 🎉
Big fan of the Time Team and was a member of the National Trust for the decade I lived in England.
XRF is X Ray fluorescence which identifies the exact proportion of each element in a sample. Samples from the same source object will tend to have the same proportions.
Imagine being someone from the time that the bucket was made and being used. Likely would have been MANY of those things......people fretting over little fragments of one of them that was buried in a field would probably give them a real laugh.
There may have been many plain buckets, but one with african scenes and greek writing would be unusual and maybe a few hundred years old.
Impressive discovery regarding the Sutton-Hoo area. This in my opinion means only that there is still so much to discover 🇬🇧👍👍👍👍
Very interesting to learn more about the Bromeswell Bucket. Lovely video.
One fragment at a time, the full story will unfold...
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Thank you National Trust & Time Team. 🙏
I'm a happy new subscriber from Canada.
Cheers everyone ☕
Top tip... Try making the speaker's voice louder than the background noise. Might work. Duh!
I didn't have a problem hearing her, nor was the background music loud, however they could have omitted it altogether.
@@BritGirl-fg9gj- Mute?
@marypasco2213 ?? If it was on mute, you couldn't hear the speaker. It was just the background music that was distracting. Too many of these videos play annoying and unnecessary music.
@@BritGirl-fg9gj - I understand. You meant omit the background altogether. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Fascinating stuff !
annoying background music that drowns the speaker, please get a real audio engineer next time, thanks
Great video. Thank you for sharing.
It would be great to include a well lit 360’ view of the item!
Dave Roper. Master Craftsman.
Hmm? How exciting. This find now entitles archaeologists to say: "A visit to Sutton Hoo is top of my bucket list."
Such a wonderful discovery but I find it so difficult to support or get excited about any of the Sutton hoo finds due to the treatment of the original excavator at the site. on which the film, “the dig” was based
Amazing, the commitment to the past that archaeologists, the National Trust, & Time Team all have to the past. It IS important to know where we came from. P.S.---do Brits pronounce solder as SOUL-DER & not SODDER (American) or did she just not know? Not a word you'd necessarily ever come across as an archaeologist, I'm not criticizing, just wondering---we are 2 countries separated by different languages, LOL!
Yes, Brits pronounce the "l." SODDER is for the US & Canada (where I'm from). (P.S. I found this info. by looking up the word on Wikipedia.)
@@dancekeb1308 I usually look everything up on the internet but didn't occur to me that it would be there---of course it would, EVERYTHING is SOMEWHERE! Thanks for the info---OK, now I'm wondering about Australia...I may have too much time on my hands, LOL!
@@vintagelady1 Solder in Australia have a good day
I’m not an archeologist but I made this guess when the movie came out because the boat points to Oslo Sweden and this started me thinking. Now, you have filled it all in with details.🎉
I think you mean “Oslo, Norway”, not Sweden.
What?
Very neat. Love it that Sutton Hoo has a connection to northern Africa. Time Team is a huge asset to the world, or at least to the many of us who love looking at the past.
The music is distracting.
Music so intrusive
Thanks👏🏻👏🏻
Why did you turn this into a music video? I would love to *understand what the curator had to say! Couldn't you have listened to the music in another room? There are people who are interested in antiquity, you know...*I'm happy to elaborate why the music prevented me from following the narration.
@@boredgrass I agree. Too many of these videos have distracting music that takes away from what is being said. It's unnecessary in most cases. I'm more interested in what the person presenting has to say.
If you click on the video then turn on cc you can at least read the captions. I do it all the time.
No music please, it takes over!
Being a man, the replica maker is a craftsman, not a 'craftsperson'.
Why the background music???????
Can we please be reminded how it was all found?! Didn't know Saxon dowels were magnetic! This is unacceptable of the highest order.
Turn the music down, can't hear her.
I did a research paper on Sutton Hoo in my college archaeology class. It was such a shame what happened to that site during WWII. Whatever idiot decided to let tanks practice in the area is hopefully sitting in purgatory trying to sift through an eternity of low artifact soil that cats have had access to.
@evilsharkey8954 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I hope you aren't from the USA, because with a few exceptions, sites that could hold a treasure trove of finds, are paved over or excavated with no regard to what may lie beneath. We have many Indigenous American sites that have been lost forever because no one cared.
And the pieces they recently found?
Yeah, 2012 😂. 12 years ago is probably considered recent to Archaeologists.
Time travel
Is this the place portrayed in the film, The Dig?
Yes it is. You can find out more about Sutton Hoo in this video czcams.com/video/1mBe6TAMqRM/video.html
typical national trust referring to a named man as a craftsperson.
Exactly what I thought.
Will it cost a family £100 to see it ?
Will there be a Safe Space for trans ?
Have they looked for the ice machine that goes with that bucket yet. Everyone knows that Anglo-Saxons preferred drinking chilled champagne
Now is it a bucket or a pail or a saucepan? Calling it a bucket without proof? Archaeologists state guesses as truth. I think it is a pail.😂😂😂😅😅😅😅