2+ Hours Of Digging For Britain's Most Shocking Discoveries

00:00 Roman Britain

The remains of 97 infants were discovered during the excavation of a Roman Villa; Professor Alice Roberts is on a mission to find out what happened to them. Meanwhile, archaeologists excavate forgotten Roman towns and amphitheaters to weave a captivating tapestry of history.

50:30 Viking Britain

From buried chess pieces that tell tales of Viking warriors, to ancient burial grounds that shed light on the St. Brice's Day massacre, join Professor Alice Roberts as she tries to uncover the truth about Viking Britain.

01:41:50 Bronze Age Britain

A team of archeologists investigate the mysterious Cladh Hallan site in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and discover skeletons that challenge previous notions about Bronze Age Britain. Find out all about the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age, as well as Roman influences on Iron Age settlements in this episode of Digging for Britain.

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[BillH-itsv]

I bet the guy said if I'm going to live in this cold rainy place build a villa live like an emperor.

[johnlord]

Putting swords into lake mud (actually clays) is not a religious casting of a weapon to some lake god/goddess. It is one of the best anti-oxidative soils where swords can be buried, but also out of sight. Clay layers are a known sealant in water ponds etc. Clay is water-repellant, and can't seep through - as silt and sands with greater particle size will have water seepage through their more-porous material. Clay by geological terms is particles that are smaller than 0.002 millimeters or 0.00007874016 inches = 8/100, 000ths of an inch and smaller ! Definitely, a damp-applied clay covering dried into a dry covering around a sword. This is then pushed into the lake shoreline bed - and would be safe, secure, and long-term preservative method. Outside human shelters, moist housing, rain, wind, weather, oxidative air, ... rapidly oxidizes cast iron, or higher quality iron compositions. So bury it, and you don't have to constantly be cleaning and polishing your table silverware etc.

[johnlord]

Having the British Bronze Age to Iron Age turnover (as said) in the 900s BCE, shows a very clear and problematic timeline. The first Mideast documented ironworks were at the Anatolian Catal Huyuk of the Hyksos empire 1, 220 BCE. This is followed in quick succession by an iron Egyptian statue, dated in the same time period, on display in the Cairo Museum. Even Tutanhkamon's meteorite iron sword/spear was in the mid-1250s BCE ... before the metallurgical evolution from bronze (copper-tin alloy) to base-smelted iron.

Having the British Iron Age evolve some 320 years later than the Midwest metallurgical technology appears to truly be in some greater reality in error. Lets even give some 100 years later than the Mideast evolution, that would still put the Iron Age evolution in Britain at 1, 120 BCE.

A challenge ! Go back in history, and it is entirely possible that the British Iron Age WAS THE FIRST evolved metallurgical area (having all the iron mines (and western Europe), then exported into Europe, Anatolia, Egypt, and Mideast. There are no actual known ancient iron mines in the greater Mideast, even in the Greek and Roman empire periods. A huge-sized English publication Barrington's Atlas (?) showing all of the roads, cities, mines etc. in that period from archaeology and historical records of the Grecian and Roman times, only shows the Tishbite copper mines (Elijah the Tishbite) of the Petra region of Jordan, even back to the time of King Solomon. No mines, thus no metallurgy, but being an imported technology. This gives Britain the real heads-up on metallurgical technology.

So British archaeology, needs to reconsider the dates of the British Bronze Age (Mideast dates ~3, 300 - 1, 220 BCE) and British Iron Age far older than documented at (1, 220 BCE - onwards).

[David-mojw]

Very interesting
Where I’m from in the upper Tweed valley there are clusters of multiple hill forts but the farming land isn’t particularly good and it’s very hilly.I can’t see where the population comes from to build unless there was organised movement of people.Makes you think

[matthewbrown]

Alice you are Amazingly beautiful! You put Aphrodite to shame.

[tjs]

From the Roman Villa: 3 artifacts out of over 1000 being enough to say it is a birthing center because they reference different versions of the mother goddess? Sorry, the brothel still sounds more likely because brothels are populated by women (and slaves) and in an era where household shrines were a given, there are going to be symbols of the mother goddess.

What's more likely, brothels disposing of unwanted babies in a location along a track between the river and a town or a "birthing center" in the middle of nowhere during an era when most women didn't travel away from their home because they were caring for children and working in fields if they were normal people or lounging in their villa and have slaves and a midwife on hand if they are Roman?

[spqr]

DARLiNG: Plant ACACiA TREE ON THE SLOPE BENEATH OR WALNUTS TREE AND EROSiON WiLL STOP

[funfact]

I restore and sell ancient Roman coins and small artifacts