2016 Tour of Bexhill to Hastings Link Road and Burgh of Alfred the Great
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- čas přidán 11. 01. 2016
- So here we are at the start of 2016 and so I thought you might like to have a look at the Hastings Link Road whilst it is still there. Susannah kindly agreed to hold the camera as we take a look at Alfred's Old Burgh at Hastings and why it is important to now reinstate the heritage that is there at Wilting. Hastings needs it's cultural heritage on the ground and not in theoretical books. The time has come for the archaeologists to confirm that Hastings town was at Wilting Manor where the first Sheriffs of Hastings were installed. Its written in books now lets get the tourism going like in all the other 22 Burghs Alfred Built. History cannot be hidden by a road or politicians when its written in the ground.
- Zábava
I wish you lots of luck, Hastings needs to hang on to its history and the true history has to be found out...
Good for you Nick! Happy New Year and good luck.
I worked on the road and the contractors allowed lots of archilogical digs and investigations
I love this, keep up the good fight ! A very famous man once said, “Never, ever, ever, ever, give up!” 😀
Grate stuff
Someone needs to teach him how to pronounce Burgh (it's like burr, the g is silent)
The Burgh of Hastings was several miles away, in Hastings. One of the ditches he said was the bughal ditch (and the smallest burghal ditch in England if it were to be true) was one of our right angled evaluation trenches we did before we stripped.
The archaeology at the top of the hill was Roman.
The archaeology in the valley was middle stone age. We were there so long because there was a fuck ton of flint to dig up systematically. We weren't the reason the road was late, as you know Al, we left over a year ago. The Crowhurst bridge was still unfinished in May...
+Alan Griffiths please can you cite the evidence for a pre-conquest burgh being 'several miles away at Hastings'. Thanks.
Time Team called it a Burgh
Statement 'Burgh of Hastings several miles away in Hastings' is only at Wilting please research and confirm because you are on the record with false information and it doesnt look good. Am quite happy to delete.
Burgh is pronounced Bur(g)h, Berr.
Please note, MANY of the Berrs built in Alfred's times where built upon many old hill forts, Roman places of occupation, or in places where local villages, hamlets would come together to defend their area. These were built normally to defend areas of travel via land or river,
Warningcamp in Sussex is an excellent example, besides the river Arun, or Chichester with its harbours....
Both were Burghs. One beside a river in a place that has been occupied by Celtic, Romans, Romano British and later Saxon/Jutish, whereas Chichester although not an ancient hill fort, or tying in with Alfred's dimensions of a proposed burgh, has got a bloody great Roman built wall around it that would have had a ditch in front of it and would have stood 5 metres tall, but a Burgh Chichester most certainly was.
Brilliant vid as always. Keep em coming.
I will add my tanner’s worth to the pronunciation debate. There is an interesting little town in Moray, Scotland called Burghead. It sits by a Pictish promontory fort of great antiquity. I always pronounced the name “Burra-head” as in Edinburgh (Edin-burra).
One day I was corrected by none other than my, now departed, elderly Mother. Turns out she was brought up in the area and the accepted/only way to say it was “Burg-head”.
Many of us are very interested in this yet we don't all use Facebook. It would be great of you could have one permanent web-page or something of that sort. I tried one of the links you posted on an upload and there was no page available. What is the situation with all of this now? Thanks. April 2020.
I agree with you point about Facebook. I have just found Nicks investigations into The Battle of Hastings. I find it most interesting. I feel a bit like a Flea,scipping around YT trying to get some sense of the chronological order to this investigation.
I have read stacks of comments, throughout the various video post that I have viewed. Unfortunately, it seems to me that NO questions ever get answered. I mark that down as 'Bad Form'. Did you ever get a reply to your own question?
It is now June 2022.
@@anthonytaylor9232 Good morning, Anthony. No reply received and no new information. Flogging a dead horse comes to mind. Rgds...
@@resnonverba137 Sad to say I agree.
Just watched a five min. piece posted Nov.2020. Nick asking for internet help Needs access to an XRF machine - capable of aging metal, in no time flat!.
I find the whole thing quite intriguing, and would dearly love to see the 'establishments 'learned' view' being shredded .
I have just ordered Nick's book, and I am looking forward to reading it whilst I am away on holiday!
Best wishes.
Ant.
Sorry, I LOVE the link road. And the road to nowhere takes me to work. Get all that traffic off the seafront.
That's a strange thing to 'love'...don't you get it...work is the road to nowhere?
LOL. But it means I get home quicker too.
+Alan Collins She still doesn't get it.
I totally understand what you’re saying...I hate traffic jams and long commutes too! But imagine Trafalgar Square or the Champs Élysées being bulldozed to make way for high-rise condos, or the Louvre or the Great Pyramids being purchased and turned into a fast-food restaurants. We have to learn to be very careful what we decide to trade away in the name of convenience or “progress”, because once gone, treasures are lost forever. 🙂
As long as you're alright then thats all that matters hey maxine? 🙄