Unearthing a Lost Medieval City | Whitefriars Gloucester Priory
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2024
- In July 2021, the remains of a 13th Century Carmelite friary, also known as Whitefriars, were recently found by archaeologists beneath a demolished multi-storey car park in Gloucester city centre.
Historians knew roughly where Whitefriars had stood, but its exact location was a mystery. The dig, ahead of redevelopment work as part of the regeneration of the city's King's Quarter. The medieval monastery was founded in about 1270 but was mostly demolished in the 16th Century, and only traces of it had survived on historical maps.
In this documentary, which features a 3D reconstruction of the priory and its surroundings, city archaeologist Andrew Armstrong explores the archaeological team's findings in Gloucester and what they can tell us about the Carmelites.
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The music is absolutely perfect for the period and evokes the mood of the friars as they sang.
How do you know it evokes their mood? Quick answer: you don't and it doesn't.
@@samuelgarrod8327 Wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
@@samuelgarrod8327wow. you must be so fun at parties.
funnily enough i'm only a minute in and tired of the "music" already..
just talking would be fine..
I'm old enough to remember the cattlemarket on this site before the multi-storey was built. When I was a youth in the 1960s, it seemed that the City Fathers were more than keen to obliterate Gloucester's epic past. In recent years, that seems to have changed and I'm so glad that this piece of our city's history is now being explored.
Yet another wonderfully educational video! This is one of my absolute favorite channels for History. Keep up the fantastic work and keep 'em coming! 👍 🖖😎🤘🇨🇦🕊️
Thank you very much!
Fascinating, as a local resident who has seen the new development go up, it's really interesting to see what was underneath.
More of this please
An excellent production
This a very beautiful documentary!
Glad you think so!
Great video. There’s no shortage of ruined monasteries right across England. Quite sad, really.
Unlike the demise of the cult that built them.
Not really ,that's life , beginnings and endings .
@@paulm3033 Sure I definitely tend to agree, but to dissolve all these monasteries which provided education, farming, wool production, mining, healthcare, hospitality, charity, economic stimulation, and infrastructure to the entire surrounding communities, and all because the pope wouldn't annul his marriage? Causing such a seismic shift that permeated all of British society for little more than an ego and a marriage dispute seems foolish at best.
@@jrjubach it was much more than a desire to remarry , his dynasty, the Tudors was very much the new kid on the block , he was only the 2nd Tudor king and he not just wanted , he needed to secure it by having a male heir , and the only way he could do that was by getting a divorce .After the Pope refused, he had no choice but to break with Rome and having done so it was a natural progression to dissolve the monasteries,not just because they were no longer necessary, following the the break ,but because they would have been a hotbed of attempts to kill the king and replace him with a catholic,as after the break ,the Pope excommunicated him, effectively making it the duty of good catholics to get rid of Henry , by any means , including murder.
@@paulm3033 I can with some of what you said but not all. Yes, there was a tussle between the king and the church in Rome about who had supreme authority and the demand by Henry VIII for an oath of loyalty, but Henry kept to the catholic doctrine. It was the likes of Cromwell and other reformers who pushed towards the new faith. What tipped the balance towards the dissolution was parliament not giving in to Henry’s demands for more money and Cromwell (ITMA) coming up with the wheeze to take all their money. He had precedence of course, a French king prefabricated a reason to dissolve the Knights Templars to take their money a couple of centuries beforehand.
Always interesting. Thank you. 👍
Very glad you enjoyed it!
👍👍thanks for uploading.
Love the channel!
Our pleasure!
Fascinating stuff. Thank you!
The Romans had a fort and settlement ... The white Friars a monestary ... Modern times ... A car park 🤦
Money always wins.
Gloucester is now safe from Welsh raiders, we aren't quite as religious as our medieval ancestors and there are a large number of cars around. I think it's a sign of the times.
@@willf1175 ... unless those cars are desirable to the Welsh ... 🤔
😂😂😂 what next I wonder...?
I would like to know when they put the sewer drain in they didnt see any of this?
Was thinking the very same thing, especially when you see that chopped in half/disturbed ancient burrial by a drain put in by Victorian builders.
(Back more than a 100 years people don't seem to really care that much about hitting an historical "excavation" spot - a real shame. )
Didn't care ...for a long time there was little interest in the past ... More important was to make things modern (and in the case of sewers sanitary).
Presumably they would have had to move the rest of the bones so yeah I just don’t think they cared that much
Yeah, integration of archaeology into town planning only really got going in the 80s in the UK with legislation passed in central and local government. Before then archaeology was slowly getting involved with councils, but their influence and power to intervene was limited to small teams or individuals making mostly ignored recommendations. And further back pre-war archaeology would depend on whether there were any antiquarians with influence in the area.
Well done. Very educational. Awesome 3d recreation.
Very interesting educational video. Well done again!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Wonderful. Thank you.
Oh, leave the chap alone. Some of us talk with our hands.
Cobblers. If you can't talk without meaningless hand-waving - SHUT UP!
Really interesting, lovely to see it sort of ‘come alive’ 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Even Dr foster went there
Thanks for this video. Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Medieval urbanism I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's relative series. Keep up with the great work! Love, Jacques
Thank you.
Not enjoying so many drone views because I associate archeology with working on ground level and sharing views of the digging and the discoveries. Interesting historical information.
Very interesting
Can any kind person tell me the name of the acapella choral piece at the beginning? Is it by Samuel Barber? (I think I heard "agnus dei" in there, but I'm not sure; it's hard to hear properly with the chap speaking over it.)
sadly they will never uncover all the history and treasures burried from the past and some history will be lost forever. Never knowing the true life of those that came before.
Advances like LIDAR mean we may not need to dig much anymore, and anyway modern archaeology wants to preserve most of it intact for better analysis in the future. Remember what happened to Troy. Uncovering now may mean we lose some history forever.
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Great videos, but why you didn't notice and stop that weird sucking sound or the editors didn't take it out in post is beyond me
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Why are this man's arms and hands held so close to his trunk while bouncing up and down as if on a Puppeteer's strings. It distracts from what he's saying and makes him look silly.
I agree, why can't they keep their hands still. He is like Magnus Pyke.
The constant hand and arm movement is very distracting.
i said the same thing to my girlfriend 🤣😂🤣
😢😢so bloody distracting your arm waving😢😢😢
The hand movements are part of his conversation. Do not let it annoy you and you won't notice the movements.
They are still annoying
Some honest criticism... the host should try not to wave his hands around so much, it's kind of distracting. Otherwise this was a great little doc.
Please stop the hand-waving.
You keep waving those hands buddy ... It's like you are orchestrating that monastic choir.
😂 thanks for that now I am just watching for it lol
He's at risk of taking off.
I'm glad you don't have any mannerisms that others less tolerant might find annoying... Remember, he's an archaeologist, not a TV presenter. He's also a good bloke who's done a huge amount to promote the history of Gloucester.
Please stop the unnecessarily critical and pointless comments.
You really should stop moving you hands it detracts from what you are saying and makes trying to concentrate for some of us unbearable