Bronze Age Runnymede: Excavations at Runnymede Bridge
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Before the M25 was built in this stretch of Surrey, archaeologists discovered one of the greatest Bronze Age sites in the UK. Now a Scheduled Monument, the area of Runnymede Bridge was once the Glastonbury of its day. Hear from archaeologists, curators and experts in this documentary, and view original footage from the excavations carried out in the 1980s.
Directed by Bill Thisdell and animated by Simon Clarke.
Thank you to the British Museum for permission to use their 1980s footage of the excavation
Funded through an 'Our Heritage' Heritage Lottery Funded project.
Excellent! I worked at Runnymede as a volunteer in 1984 and 1985, fascinated to see the videos of the excavation and some faces I haven't seen since, brought back a lot of memories.
The experience of working there had a big impact on me, I've worked in archaeology ever since and the approach used influenced some of my work.
That was great! Bronze Age people collected old stuff just like we do. That blew me away. We’re the same. Thank you so much for that insight. All the best from Washington State.
Wonderful. Fascinating documentary, beautifully made. Thanks to everyone involved.
In my experience working in archaeology, I found that trash deposits were places where the truth is to be found with little bias compared to buildings, shelters, and, especially, literary evidence.
This is a wonderful documentary! I would really like a documentary which explained the technology/skills needed to achieve this level of technical and cultural achievement!
The graphics in this are really awesome
But pretentious, uninformative and useless.
A place to watch the spring tides come up through London.
A time of refreshing the land by their gods .
kind of a Harvest festival of the river
as we go to watch the Severn Bore travelling along...
This was really well made and brings the place to life as well as making some poignant points...especially the lady at 30:00
Simply fantastic. I've already subscribed
The copper and bronze ages are fascinating: watching culture move from egalitarian neolithic farming societies to the heirarchical, warrior societies we'd still recognise today.
yeah, the rise of the hero!
The Ankerwycke Yew -possibly England's oldest - has been suggested by some to have been the Axis Mundi of local tribes and real site of the signing of Magna Carta much later, it stands on the opposite bank near Magna Carta Lane. on public land.
There's some evidence the Thames may have changed shape and the Tree was once on an 'island' on the river. I have no idea of the true historicity of this but the living tree at least 2-3000 years old is a site to behold. Meanwhile on the other side of the river where MC is commemorated there's nothing of interest particularly.
Surely if you put the skull on the post, the odds of it falling into the hole when the post rots are tiny.
Boatbuilders would put a votive coin beneath the mast, similarly.
Maybe, the post was just a few dozen centimeters tall. I can't imagine why but I can't imagine why a skull would be displayed, either.
I think the skull was placed in the hole as one would place something valuable or protective.
We are only beginning to piece together these curiosities, imagining it’s people and interpreting their struggles but particularly so as cultures intermingled to perhaps share ideas. We have of course a universal language uniquely identifying our species, when water, food warmth and shelter, overcomes our instincts to defend, just as our inquisitive nature chase’s away our shyness, helping us realise, that actually it’s possible to get along, well sometimes.
Archeologists are so romantic, they used cremated bones in pottery to act as a flux and glass former., it´s called bone ash and it is still used today on porcelain, glazing, etc...
Weird film, archeologists explaining/justifying their work on the Runnymede site. No cohesive information.
I liked the cute little German lady comparing the excavation to a strip tease, she seemed to have sex on her mind!!!
That's one of those fundamental things that makes us human throughout the ages.
Great introduction for lay people, like myself; they do exist.
Lots of 21st century assumptions: "appeasing" the river. "Proving your social status by throwing your most precious possessions in the river". "Possessions " is itself an assumption.
The cartoon showed only males working.
Etc etc etc.
Couldn't get past the music
Totally annoying music !
i liked it
Started to fall asleep for the poor choice of using classical music for a Archeological documentary? Sets the atmosphere of viewers into weather to change the channel or not.
The overdramatic, inappropriate music (Tchaikovsky??) is so annoying as to make this unwatchable. It's a pretty empty documentary to start with (they didn't find any interesting objects; they analyzed a lot of dead animal bones, and their conclusions are lot of politically-correct contemporary ideology way beyond what the evidence supports), and you can't jazz it up with ridiculously intense background music.
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England and Wales and for that matter Scotland didn't exist in the Bronze age they evolved over hundreds of years after the Romans left Britain thousands of years later. To mention these country's during the Bronze age is putting them and the Bronze age into a false context. It makes you wonder what else is put into a false context by people not being able to get out of the box of putting things into a modern context.
Pretty inconsequential study.
meh they were all to busy virtue signalling to tell us anything.