Britain's Pompeii: The Perfectly Preserved Bronze Age Village
Published 2024-07-20
00:00 Introduction
02:43 Britain's Pompeii
At Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, archaeologists discovered an exceptionally preserved 3,000-year-old village, including roundhouses and artefacts like Britain’s oldest wheel and prehistoric food remains, providing new insights into Bronze Age life.
14:44 Wars Of The Roses: The Battle Of Barnet
Archaeologists find the first physical evidence of the Battle of Barnet, one of the most decisive battles of the Wars Of The Roses.
22:25 The Dark Age Tree Coffins
Excavations in Norfolk revealed unusual burial practices from early Christians, including hollowed-out tree trunk coffins, blending pagan and Christian rituals, and indicating the role of women in the spread of Christianity.
29:59 The Anglo-Saxon "Bed Burial"
An excavation in North Oxfordshire unexpectedly reveals a massive 7th-century burial ground belonging to the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy. At the last moment, they discover something incredibly rare - an Anglo-Saxon bed burial.
39:44 Shakespeare's Lost Theatre
In East London, the remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's most famous plays premiered, were unearthed, offering a glimpse into the theatrical world of the 16th century.
48:39 The Viking Hoard
A Viking hoard is discovered in southern England, shedding light on historical battles and alliances in Britain.
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All Comments (21)
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I love how we tend to get more than we bargained for on YouTube history documentaries. Oh, excavation of a Bronze Age village? Sign me up! But wait, I get an early Christian burial ground and a historical playhouse too??
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I find it so interesting to hear different hypotheses. I often wonder whether we are so desperate to find missing keys to history that we can apply too much meaning to things. I once read a comment of someone jokingly say that if a historian doesn't know what the object is, then it must be a fertility symbol, and any evidence of alcohol or drug useage must be ritualistic (and not just a Friday night at the boozer to socialise and unwind after a heavy week of battling and / or farming.) It makes me think - in 1,000 years time, archeologists may find my dog's grave and find a tennis ball next to her. No doubt they will speculate that I MUST believe in an afterlife because I put a gravegoods in with her, and I must've believed she'd take them with her into the next life. In reality, I guess we did it for symbolic reasons... when she entered the grave she wasn't a pile of bones but the perfect fluffy little dog she had been just a few days beforehand, and she loved tennis balls. It just felt like the right thing to do. If there IS a heaven, I'm sure there will be 1 million tennis balls, and she won't need to take one with her from the grave. I mean, we'd be pretty screwed otherwise, because we didnt put any poop bags or dog treats in there so it's going to be a very long (and very smelly) eternity. Same as archaeologists unearthing our graves - will they assume we'd reverted to Ancient Roman Paganism when they unearth cremation urns? Or will they realise that for most of us, it's just personal preference, or convenience, or even economic reasons, rather than holding any religious meaning. So my point is, the mixture of Christian and pagan practices in the mid Saxon graves in Norfolk got me thinking... sometimes not everything needs to be some huge indicator of religion, but simply tradition - maybe they were still using log coffins simply because that's what their grandmother did, and they liked their societal customs and traditions.
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0:36 spotted Time Team’s Phil Harding in the wild
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"No one knew where the Curtain theater was" Excavation is on Curtain road...
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YAY ! Alice is BACK!!!
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Really cool !! Only thing, when diggers are talking it would be nice to see their names on the screen too.
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Thank you for the quality content!
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Very interesting episode. Lots of discoveries.
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Fabulous history 😊 we must never forget & keep digging for Britain 😊
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❤️1:22 I 🫶just 🫶 adore your necklace… where can I get one like it?!
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Some amazing finds. Great work
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Magnificent program. Thank you.
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Sometimes we fail to remember that society then was not too different from society today wherein families live together and as children mature and become married themselves, their parents and other family members see to it that the young couple starts off their journey of adults with the things they need.
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Another excellent programme
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This is good stuff and love Prof. Alice’s presentation, she’s come a long way from Time Team. So glad there’s a great show to follow Time Team, and we get so much more with her overview of different excavations going on.
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When Augustine came to Canterbury in 597, Christianity was already well established. not sure about their 7th and 8th century date quotes.
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For folk upset at the title I first saw it in a mainstream news report when Must Farm site was dug. As the narrative says its the state of the preservation that reminded people of Pompei.
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It's a G R E A T time to be alive. Although my family has been in America for several generations, these are also my ancestors.😊 I've edited my comment due to my original wild guesstimation of how many generations removed from Britain my forebearers were. I had erroneously said 20, a gross overestimation, which I apologized nearly a week ago for after the first couple of corrections, but the post has continued to offend. My original comment was a response to the narrator's remark regarding the finding of evidence of the ancestors of the British people but it seems inconsequential in light of my extreme error, so I fixed it. Again, my humble apologies to all.
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What an extraordinary accent this young woman has. Linguist Historians should be interested. "rained hazes" (round houses?)
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Thanks for sharing.
