Archaeologists Investigate An Ancient Sunken Settlement | Digging For Britain

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  • @549RR
    @549RR Před měsícem +50

    I LOVE how Rob had the site survey of the Roman settlement on his shirt and gestured to it while he was explaining. Brilliant

    • @watersipper1116
      @watersipper1116 Před měsícem +3

      We don't see that very often. Less likely to lose your map if you are wearing it.

  • @SongOfSongsOneTwelve
    @SongOfSongsOneTwelve Před měsícem +11

    24:46 This archeologist has my appreciation for remaining open to the truth and not assigning his assumptions as truth, as many archeologists do. I also appreciate how they didn’t remove the remains out of respect for the dead. 👏👏👏

  • @frankmitchell3594
    @frankmitchell3594 Před měsícem +17

    Although the Mesolithic people are described as nomadic, surely it is likely that they had an annual "circuit" of some kind when they visited sites they knew would be favourable for each season or month?

  • @gregedmand9939
    @gregedmand9939 Před měsícem +20

    My Great-grandmother and her 13 year old daughter emigrated from Glasgow to Edmonton Alberta Canada. They nearly bought passage on Titanic, but could get better accommodation aboard the Lusitania for the same price. That turned out to be a good decision all around. Every time I am reminded of what happened to "The Scottish Ship" in 1915, I regret not sitting down with gramma and recording her memory of the voyage and reaction to the news of Lusitania's loss in a 1915. If your grandparents were diary keepers, I envy you!

    • @FrostyBalls01
      @FrostyBalls01 Před měsícem

      My grandpa was a diary every day of his life from 13 to 97. There’s a lot of note books. But the bad part. My grandpa when he was 13 make up his own written language. A few of our family and me was taught how to read it. But there’s a lot of note books full of unspeakable words that needs translating. I started going through them in 2020 during the pandemic and 4 years in I got 10 books done. About 300 plus more to go.

    • @m.6292
      @m.6292 Před měsícem

      Great story she left ya.

  • @christradgett-affiliates
    @christradgett-affiliates Před měsícem +5

    Great to note that the Roman boundaries have persisted as field hedgerows

  • @frankielov
    @frankielov Před měsícem +19

    It’s amazing how archaeologists are still learning from the past, still lot to learn, fantastic episode 👍🏽

  • @myview1875
    @myview1875 Před měsícem +11

    WWAAAAHHHEEEEEYYY. At last a caring archaeologist leaves the dead bodies to rest in piece where their family put them. 🙂. Dr Martin Papworth I raise a glass to you. 🍺.

  • @TheLibraryChamber
    @TheLibraryChamber Před měsícem +23

    Think it's time to rethink the whole "pre-settlement" phase. Star Carr is another site and is an indication that the "settlement phase" happened much sooner than we give our ancestors credit for.

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz1702 Před měsícem +6

    Great episode as always. Good to see the mesolithic platform challenges archeologist's ASSUMPTIONS about hunter gatherers and 'settlement' and their dogma that it was one OR the other. Never forget that this use of assumptions and teachings applies to most of their work on pre recorded language people

  • @wmanad8479
    @wmanad8479 Před měsícem +17

    While plywood (laminated wood in sheets) was invented in the late 19th century, "cheap plywood" didn't exist when those WW1 launches were built. The ribs in question were laminated to the forms required, glued up in layers from several thin pieces of wood, making them stronger than solid wood ribs steamed and bent to shape. Laminated ribs are easier to produce than steamed and bent solid wood ribs and the final product is stronger.

    • @therub2191
      @therub2191 Před měsícem +1

      They used plywood and veneers in ancient Egypt

    • @wmanad8479
      @wmanad8479 Před měsícem +1

      @@therub2191 Yep, people have glued stuff together for a long time, but it was all piece-work.

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 Před měsícem +7

    Archaeology is amazing.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌺

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 Před 29 dny +1

    Thank you. Watching from Alaska.
    The study of these early settlements has fascinated me for decades.

  • @oldschoolman1444
    @oldschoolman1444 Před měsícem +5

    Our ancestors abilities are underestimated,always seems like they get the short end.

    • @OnlyJalenPhd
      @OnlyJalenPhd Před měsícem

      I agree. I’ve often thought technology is our downfall. We need computers and calculators, they didn’t. I’ve always wondered how they taught math, to calculate in their heads. We’re getting dumber. It’s not the other way around.

  • @SecretSquirrelFun
    @SecretSquirrelFun Před měsícem +7

    Calling all of you clever people watching this video -
    This is out of context I know, but the prison hulks triggered a memory that I’m have trouble resolving.
    As a small child I saw an British movie. The movie was already old in the 1970s (I think).
    The only scene I remember clearly is of someone living on a windswept shingle/sand beach, in what appeared* to be a medium sized upturned wooden boat. There was a door cut out on one side and a small chimney poking out through the roof.
    A child was one of the main characters and visited whoever it was that lived there in the upturned wooden vessel.
    Outside the waves crashes and the wind blew, but inside the unconventional dwelling it was cosy and warm.
    *i think it was an upside down wooden boat’s hull, although it could have been some kind of traditional style of coastal dwelling.
    The movie was in English set somewhere in the UK.
    Does anyone remember this movie? The scene? The book it’s from?
    I keep thinking that it might have been adapted from one of the famous English authors.
    As you’re all such clever people here, I thought I’d try my luck and ask you.
    ❤any help is greatly appreciated.

    • @549RR
      @549RR Před měsícem

      David Copperfield (Dickens). Google Peggoty's house. I'm sure there have been several film adaptations over the years.

    • @farmkay
      @farmkay Před měsícem +1

      @SecretSquirrelFun The book David Copperfield by Charles Dickens fits the description.
      The boat belonged to the Peggetts. I may have the spelling wrong.
      I have no idea if it was made into a movie in the 70s.

    • @christopherlawley1842
      @christopherlawley1842 Před měsícem

      ​@@farmkay I was thinking that

  • @m.6292
    @m.6292 Před měsícem +2

    Brilliant idea, bringing all these sites together for us. The USA needs to do this too, a vast space, with countless universities doing every kind of dig. I don't think even an archeologist could keep up with it all here. Still a die hard Time Team fan too, if ya havent seen the new Sutton Hoo dig & ship in 2024, do yourselves a favor(Tony's back!)

  • @10_rds_Fire_For_Effect
    @10_rds_Fire_For_Effect Před měsícem +4

    @UnearthedHistory 29:18 The Lusitania did not get "ripped in two and sink in 18 seconds". The ship sank in 18 minutes, not 18 seconds.

  • @MJanovicable
    @MJanovicable Před měsícem +3

    Love the t-shirt, brilliant!

  • @edwardfletcher7790
    @edwardfletcher7790 Před měsícem +2

    Dig, Dive and Discover !!
    There, easy, better intro 👍

  • @whalhard
    @whalhard Před měsícem +2

    I don't understand why they talk as if it is not well known that there were plenty of sedentary or semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer cultures a lot older than 6000 years. Or is this particular to Brittain?

  • @jefferymyers7435
    @jefferymyers7435 Před měsícem +2

    I love watching you Alice

  • @jackinthebox507
    @jackinthebox507 Před měsícem +3

    My great great grandfather Horace,,1 of 10 kids lived in Dorset,,street named Physic Well

  • @user-io9gb4tp3r
    @user-io9gb4tp3r Před 27 dny

    Amazing finds. Fascinating.

  • @callumclark3358
    @callumclark3358 Před měsícem +1

    I’m living for the day they discover some fabulous artefact and exclaim “ How wonderful! Pig-ugly though.”

  • @TheDreamtimezzz
    @TheDreamtimezzz Před měsícem +4

    Love these ❤❤

  • @Growersguidetocannabis
    @Growersguidetocannabis Před měsícem +8

    This woman just blows me away makes my heart thump and wistful
    Pathetic I know but I can’t help it !!!
    😂😂😂😂

    • @suzieriz
      @suzieriz Před měsícem +6

      Yep, pathetic.

    • @luapnosboh7421
      @luapnosboh7421 Před měsícem

      Nah she's a great presenter, she's got it 👍

  • @malingehring165
    @malingehring165 Před měsícem +2

    Archaeologists are not necessarily good at math. The Lusitania did not sink in 18 seconds... It was 18 minutes!!!

  • @lovelyskull3483
    @lovelyskull3483 Před měsícem +1

    Wonderful, thank you.

  • @vegas1a
    @vegas1a Před měsícem +4

    Series 8, Episode 3, SOUTH.

  • @michaelwilliams3232
    @michaelwilliams3232 Před měsícem +2

    Exactly when was the mesolithic platform above water? Might it coincide with Pulse 1b? Might it be 12ky?

  • @chuckhillier4153
    @chuckhillier4153 Před měsícem +2

    Awesome

  • @Girl_In_The_Forest92-2
    @Girl_In_The_Forest92-2 Před měsícem +2

    Very interesting 😊

  • @gregrice1354
    @gregrice1354 Před měsícem

    I could dig it!!! I do!!! Wonderful work!

  • @myview1875
    @myview1875 Před měsícem +3

    Larry the lobster. 🦂.

  • @haylieland7344
    @haylieland7344 Před měsícem +2

    Maybe the young people that were buried were bound after death in order to transport them more easily to a safer, more meaningful, or more visitable burial site?

    • @OnlyJalenPhd
      @OnlyJalenPhd Před měsícem +2

      I think we need more questions like this! We should have a lot of “what ifs” so we don’t get tunnel vision. Great question! 😊

  • @dragonflydreamer7658
    @dragonflydreamer7658 Před měsícem +1

    They were not made cheap they used laminated wood for strength so they could use a smaller support so it was lighter and would make the boat faster. Like using carbon fiber lighter and stronger. This is Britons future we should learn to love it.... THREADS the movie

  • @myview1875
    @myview1875 Před měsícem

    @7:50 I wonder if that piece of blue class came from a cup similar to the Lycurgus Cup. 🤔.

  • @cassieoz1702
    @cassieoz1702 Před měsícem +1

    Did the local Dorset tribe reject adopting Romanisation or did they just not see significant Romans until shortly before they packed and took off??

  • @niallwildwoode7373
    @niallwildwoode7373 Před měsícem +1

    What I wish someone would tell, is what were the Roman mosaics sat on? Sand, lime plaster, or anything less obvious?

    • @restezlameme
      @restezlameme Před 20 dny

      Mosaics were usually applied onto a layered base of concrete and wood, I believe. The many tesserae that made up the mosaic itself would be adhered onto the topmost concrete layer. I'm unsure of the exact steps involved in constructing said floor over a hypocaust heating system... Miss Google could answer that a bit better 🙃

  • @VickiMcGuire-db7kj
    @VickiMcGuire-db7kj Před měsícem

    Thank you ❤

  • @Ellie8447
    @Ellie8447 Před měsícem +2

    Ridiculous amount of commercials I couldn’t get through this

    • @christopherlawley1842
      @christopherlawley1842 Před měsícem +1

      Not the channel's fault. It's down to YT

    • @Ellie8447
      @Ellie8447 Před měsícem +1

      @@christopherlawley1842 oh ok. I didn’t know that, thank you

  • @markboekraad7525
    @markboekraad7525 Před měsícem

    Excellence , compliments

  • @joyatlast3927
    @joyatlast3927 Před měsícem +1

    If coming to Britain on holiday, Where do you recommend to go if you enjoy rich history, but not tourism...

    • @jeannerogers7085
      @jeannerogers7085 Před měsícem

      Rich history is everywhere on that island. Just go someplace you never heard of, and guaranteed, there will be something interesting there.

    • @barkershill
      @barkershill Před 3 dny

      Wiltshire is good for history, but you cannot entirely escape the tourists I’m afraid . Try Lacock , Avebury, Stonehenge, (crowded with tourists) Salisbury Cathedral, Stourhead and Wilton House , but the quietest spot in this county would be Tisbury tithe barn and Wardour Castle and the nearby little villages of Ansty and Ashmore are worth a look .😊

  • @barrymurton8988
    @barrymurton8988 Před 25 dny

    Where as Wandsworth had a brewery and candle manufacturing, Prices!

  • @jamiebizness1
    @jamiebizness1 Před 14 dny

    The timbers are under attack . I think they may have seen their Las legs quite a few thousand years ago.

  • @chrisvalford
    @chrisvalford Před měsícem

    Somehow I cannot believe that someone brining products to England first thought is "How / where do I pay import tax"

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 Před měsícem

    We shall call it 'Bob'.
    Shouldn't be that difficult to reconstruct if they documented where the pieces came from. But do they have any idea what the sea level was when it was in use?

  • @HughONeill
    @HughONeill Před 27 dny

    Plywood was not a cheap nessesarly a cheap material in WW1, only invented 50 years prior to that, already recognised as a flexible and strong material it is commonly used in marine construction today. Though it was a technology still in development and what we know as Marine Ply was not invented for another 15 years.

  • @chelu4u
    @chelu4u Před měsícem

    Could the platform be a floating pier?

  • @JC-kk5wg
    @JC-kk5wg Před měsícem +1

    Amazing amount of investigations and digging going on in this presentation. Very interesting with overseeing by Prof Alice Roberts now a redhead. Prefer blond. The professionalism and handling the human remains to investigate and return them to a grave and the clay modeling seeing the face of one gentleman 200 years or more after his death. Also I may have missed the DNA analysis were some relatives discovered that are living? Finally the underwater recovery is due to the water level of the ocean increasing as the glaciers melted. This level must have been right at sea-level at that time as it was a raft or walkway very wet. Site 11 meters under water that is about 36 feet is doable but with water currents making it very difficult. I would love to help on that as I am a diver. Very interesting indeed. Good Luck.

    • @lyndseyanselmi-un3ql
      @lyndseyanselmi-un3ql Před měsícem +2

      Professor Roberts wouldn't care less whether you preferred her hair blonde or red I imagine. Totally her choice and absolutely nothing to do with this programme and something that doesn't warrant comment.

  • @karamia1392
    @karamia1392 Před měsícem

    Nisha has a beautiful voice.

  • @MrPoilleke
    @MrPoilleke Před 5 dny

    Thoss people probably fell several times through former made platforms and figured out they had to interlock the beams to become tighter and stronger?!

  • @RobinCrusoe1952
    @RobinCrusoe1952 Před 17 dny

    Best at 1.5 playback speed.

  • @MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS
    @MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS Před 27 dny +1

    dig past the Romans and you will almost always find pagan, celtic or druid foundations and artefacts in Wales, Scotland and England

  • @dropnoelfield295
    @dropnoelfield295 Před měsícem +1

    Plywood = laminated..? Yes? Structurally superior.

  • @davidlloyd150
    @davidlloyd150 Před měsícem +1

    👍

  • @jpdj2715
    @jpdj2715 Před 3 dny

    Alice in wonderland

  • @boerboel313
    @boerboel313 Před 5 dny

    Lol, it's wood stacked on top of one another thousands of years ago. A wood pile, that's all it is. Dead wood piled up by heavy rain torrential flooding.

  • @myview1875
    @myview1875 Před měsícem

    Why would a stone age civilization keep their settlement under the sea just seems a bit odd. 🤔.

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 Před měsícem +1

    I miss the Time Team... Is Digging For Britain its offspring?
    It's unfocused and too unstructured to maintain interest...

    • @philipr1567
      @philipr1567 Před měsícem +5

      The offspring of the original Time Team is Time Team, with new presenter. Some familiar faces have gone, but many are still there.
      Digging for Britain is an annual review of some of the most interesting regional archaeology projects, so of course it won't focus an hour on just one project.

    • @daveofyorkshire301
      @daveofyorkshire301 Před měsícem +1

      @@philipr1567 Where can you see Time Team now?
      They're new episodes?

    • @christopherlawley1842
      @christopherlawley1842 Před měsícem

      ​@@daveofyorkshire301Some are on YT some are on TT'S patreon channel (which is how TT is being paid for)

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 Před 25 dny

    Meso- as in method, melody, medley, merry, Mexico 🇲🇽 meditation Mediterranean. Mend.mess, mega-

  • @myview1875
    @myview1875 Před měsícem

    The Romans may of flown over the walls and landed using a helicopter bypassing the special knock on the front door. 😀.

  • @elsainnamorato2231
    @elsainnamorato2231 Před měsícem

    Once that thing is out of juice run;😅

  • @karlheinzvonkroemann2217
    @karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Před měsícem +9

    Motor Launches... The USA was never neutral in either WW1 or WW2. It was always about making money until 1917 rolled around and it was looking very much as if the Allies were going to lose the war. At that point the US became an active belligerent and changed the course of history so as not to lose all of the money that their banks and Wall St had invested in Allied victory. The same thing happened in WW2. Who wins wars has NOTHING to do with right and wrong or good and bad, it just doesn't.

    • @user-js7ek9oh3p
      @user-js7ek9oh3p Před měsícem

      Maybe God decides who wins & loses wars..?? She decides who lives & dies..!! USA was definitely NOT "Neutral"... It was all about "Public Opinion" and 'Proper Timing" to ensure re-election for the 'Party In Control'... It's always about 'Profits & Power'.... Just Look at President Kennedy... They took Jack out b/c he did not want a War and put Johnson in and got what was necessary to make tons of money... Congress gave him the authority to send in fully active troops, not just advisors, increasing from 20k to 190k soldiers, w/o a Declaration of War.

    • @charitywattenburger4550
      @charitywattenburger4550 Před měsícem +2

      I so wish our government would just stop sticking their noses in things that aren’t any of our business. Our people are going broke just trying to feed ourselves, and what does the jackass in the Oval Office do, he send Millions $$$$ to Ukraine. Why?? Our American people 🇺🇸 need it here, we need the cost of food and gas and everything else lowered. So frustrating and it makes me 🤬🤬🤬🤬.

    • @lindaross783
      @lindaross783 Před měsícem

      Spoken like a good Nazi

    • @CannaColeman
      @CannaColeman Před měsícem

      After WW2 the world was forced to use and purchase American made products for decades. With the premise that the States would help bring the world out of starvation and poverty. In a realistic world that isn’t possible. Now that the world realizes and understands this the world now wants the States as an “equal”. I truly hope the world is ready for the world we have now stepped into. The States have lived well beyond what much of the rest of the world has. The resources that are extracted and stolen from other nations is sickening at this point. The future looks “bleak for the States. @@charitywattenburger4550.

  • @rogermiller2159
    @rogermiller2159 Před měsícem

    What is roid building?

  • @davidd6171
    @davidd6171 Před měsícem +3

    Professor Alice Roberts? More like Professor Alice sexy! Anyways great video! Love the history and science!

  • @mvmv-pn8zt
    @mvmv-pn8zt Před měsícem +2

    “Approved entry points”. 🤣 what a lot of nonsense. There were gates thru’ which people entered. That’s it. I love these shows but the language can be odd verging on silly.

    • @jamesrowden303
      @jamesrowden303 Před měsícem

      If some of the more sophomoric comments are anything to go by, that's this videos version of Nigella's fairly obvious double entendres.

  • @brianball2002
    @brianball2002 Před měsícem

    Just like society today really. The Durotriges already living in the country not willing to be ruled by the Roman incomers. Change Durotriges to British and change Roman to illegal immigrants and it's exactly the same

  • @gdblackthorn4137
    @gdblackthorn4137 Před 13 dny +1

    I know one thing and that structure is not 8000 years old. The dating methods used such as carbon 14 and others are a joke!

  • @fandoria09
    @fandoria09 Před měsícem

    Constitine was a Pagan who invented Christianity for prophet not for the religious beliefs many think. As was told during my year in biblical college.

    • @judithsands2737
      @judithsands2737 Před měsícem +1

      Profit

    • @OnlyJalenPhd
      @OnlyJalenPhd Před měsícem +1

      Constantine

    • @OnlyJalenPhd
      @OnlyJalenPhd Před měsícem +1

      Also, the Old Testament was written 3,000 years before his birth, and the New Testament was written 200 years before his birth. You were given horrible theological instruction.

  • @kcstafford2784
    @kcstafford2784 Před měsícem +1

    Alice.....What did you do to your hair you was. Pretty..

    • @suzieriz
      @suzieriz Před měsícem

      How completely irrelevant, her hair doesn’t affect her knowledge of all things archaeology. Why not comment on everyone else’s hair? Weirdo

    • @user-js7ek9oh3p
      @user-js7ek9oh3p Před měsícem

      She did her 'Red Hair' look a long time ago... Professor Roberts is INCREDIBLE..!! I Never tire of watching her and even just listening to her "Luvely Voice" while working..!! I know she's married with a family and all... But, still have a sweet crush on her that warms my heart....🥰

    • @jamesrowden303
      @jamesrowden303 Před měsícem +2

      Oh ffs. Get a grip.

  • @aleksandarglisic4583
    @aleksandarglisic4583 Před měsícem

    Alice is so fkng hot red hair woman🔥

  • @sentinal2343
    @sentinal2343 Před měsícem

    Did she say HER ancestors? ha ha hilarious !