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However, Discovery has shortened the episode by a few minutes compared to the original BBC version. so when using the BBC version one must fast forward approximately 10 and 80 seconds for "day 2 and day 3".
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this is Pat and Maurice Jones.
2 years ago they dug a large hole to place a fish pond there.

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and were scared shitless.

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they discovered a human skeleton in their back garden in Raunds, Northamptonshire.

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the local archaeological department was informed.


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He said it was a Saxon grave.

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she recommended that it be reburied again because of the costs of excavation.

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Pat didn't want to rebury the skeleton himself.

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she is a real Time Team fan.

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you said you did the excavation all by yourself?

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you did a very good job there.  and you
Did you then bury the entire skeleton again?

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Pat you would like to know more about the skeleton?

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yes I would like that.

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What do you call him?


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Henry.

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So you want to know who Henry is and whether he was buried alone or with others?


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Or you have a Saxon cemetery in your garden.

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Yes.

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Pat and Maurice asked us to figure this out in three days.

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where is Henry now?

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After Pat finished digging up all the bones, she put them in a bag.

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and reburied them in this hole.
but they're all gone Mick?

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yes very unusual for us,we had the chance to dig them up earlier.

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and working with it before we came here.

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it is an opportunity to learn more about the funeral.

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we'll tell you more about it after we examine the bones.

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This isn't exactly where he was found, is it?

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no, that's where his feet were.

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where was his head?

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it was facing that way

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so the location was something like this?

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How long did it take to dig him up?

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it took a week.

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as a reward for that work you have found these beautiful finds, which we will look at later.

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but in the meantime you have been very lucky

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because I've been doing the Time Team for ten years,

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but we have never found such a beautiful saxon jar as this one

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but this is what you have now....what is it?

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it is a jar for the afterlife, which she put in the grave.

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to put food or drinks in.
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it is very difficult to date this.
this jar actually shows why.

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the decoration is typical of the late 5th/early 6th century.

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but the form is more late 6th/early 7th century.

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Mick, do you think this person was buried alone?

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No, I rather expect a large cemetery over this entire area.

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how are we going to find it?

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we determine a large area and remove the top layer from it.

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and see if we can see if the graves have been cut into the ground.



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heard what he said? determine a large area....

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yes I have.

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so he wants to dig up your garden.

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depending on how much you allow us.

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you don't mind giving up 10 years of gardening?

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I am open to negotiation.

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you must come up with good reasons.

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if we start with the grass and the path then we can do a lot.

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Mick's plan is to open a large area in the center of the garden.

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Phil. keep going!

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Oh, yes.

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there is not much space so it is a challenge this backyard archaeology.

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I want to go ahead and start

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Geophys use radar.

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but they never find anything.

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they are under pressure to be ready so that the digging site can be staked out.

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where are you going like this?
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No, you don't, we're not ready.


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No one will help me get rid of these wild scientists, right?

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To make it even more difficult, our surveyor's name is also Henry.

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I think I'm getting a little confused.

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I should have called him something else, but not Henry.

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Archaeologically speaking, we know more about Raunds than most other places.

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because a large 10 year study was done here in the 1970s.

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a 9th century Saxon church and cemetery was discovered north of our digging site,

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and heavily damaged cremated remains were also found.

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the Jones family's garden is at the foot of a hill and in an area that has never been excavated.

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and Henry's grave including the grave finds,

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suggests that the Joneses may have found a pre-Christian Saxon cemetery.

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something that has never been found in Raunds.

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Soon we'll know if there are more Saxon bodies in Pat's yard.

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understandable that she wants to know more about Henry, the skeleton she dug up.

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to have sufficient time for the research,

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we sent a team back three weeks in advance to dig up the bag of bones.

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the Joneses had to break up their concrete around their pond to dig them up.

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they had buried the bones in a special bag provided by Northampton Archeology,

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so the bones were properly preserved.

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we took them to be examined and cleaned by our experts.”

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Henry was put back together in the laboratory.

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he has now been brought back to be reunited with Pat and Maurice.

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This is different, isn't it, Pat?

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yes, very much.

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the big question Alice, can we call him Henry?

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or should we call her Henrietta?

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That's the big question isn't it?
see that notch there?

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in a male pelvis it is narrow.
in a female pelvis it is wider.

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we then find a C-shape wider notch there.
so...it's a man.

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how tall was he?

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average for its time period, height changes over time.

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he was about the same height as Helen I think.


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I'm 5foot 9, by the way.

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Examination of Henry's spine showed that he had a bad back and pain in the neck.

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the pits here mean that all the cartilage is worn out.

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did he have arthritis?

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that's classic osteoarthritis in his neck.

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Henry's teeth also caused him a lot of problems.

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we see bone reabsorption here, holes in the palate.

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suggesting he had gum problems.

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How do you think he felt?

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he must not have felt well.

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he couldn't have antibiotics so he had a sore mouth.

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possibly also loose teeth, because they clearly started to fall out.

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this was evident before his death.

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age?

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it had apparently been worn and worn for many years.

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we would say he was well into middle age.

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these spots on Henry's arms and legs are very interesting.

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which could come from the copper of his dug knife.

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but the copper spot on his skull?

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the spot on the skull is more difficult, you would think of a helmet.

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but I think it's something that went with the grave goods or that we missed in the grave.

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we can find all kinds of things, textiles or wooden objects such as small boats.

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I think it is from a wooden boat with pieces of copper.

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this is quite well known and they are small things.

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boats are usually near the head.

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and turned so that the rivet of the boat was next to the skull.

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the whole boat was wrecked and this is the only evidence left behind.

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this photo of a section of Henry's grave

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indicated that it was dug in limestone and very clearly visible.

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would geophys see this?

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it's not easy.

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because we are bothered by all the garden material.

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but other than that it's a challenge, it's not a body detector.

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but we may see the hole in the limestone.

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Victor is working on a reconstruction based on this photo.

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which shows the strange position in which Henry lay.

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this space between his knees is large enough for a wooden box.

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or a feather pillow or a pair of shoes, anything really.

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So here you see the value of a reconstruction.

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of course they are assumptions, but you have to make a choice.

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I now see that some of my ideas are wrong.

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because the knife hangs vertically, as Pat and Maurice found it.

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the sheath cannot therefore be used to explain the discoloration of the hand or upper arm.


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it may explain the discoloration on the pelvis.

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because the top is in the right place.

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I think we have to look further to explain these two discolorations.

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we can also lay out the belt to determine the end.

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maybe he was really fat.

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with a belly about here.


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it brings him to life, it makes him a real person.

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in a way you have never seen before.

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Yes.

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Back at the digging site where Phil is investigating, the news is not good.

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this yellow clay with limestone in it

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is the natural substrate.

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as you can see it is all over the digging spot in it.

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this is the material we expected the graves to be made of.


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lunch time and we have a logistics problem.

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why do we need to move the excavated soil?

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We have only excavated 1 piece and now you can already see the high mound of earth.

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we haven't even dug where the grave was yet.

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If we dig up this side, we won't have anywhere to leave the earth.

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we can put the earth somewhere else.

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john doesn't want to move the earth until he geophyses the other side.

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can't you do the geophys there now?

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instead of lunch!

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In the meantime I would like to have a quiet word with Pat and Maurice.

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These coarse stones are very nice, aren't they?

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yes it is, it took a lot of time to do too.

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when did you do it?

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last year.

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Mick wants to dig it away.

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really and truly!

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is that okay?

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I am afraid of the plants.

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What if we put them in pots and put them on the other side?

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if that can be done, then okay.

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then we will think about it.

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we are always neat, you've seen us before!

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it always seems the same as when we arrived.....pretty much.

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If you've ever wondered if archaeologists are good gardeners?

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now you know.'

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For me, I was unlucky.

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Oh, I broke my things...


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that goes out of your salary, buddy.

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I feel like we're in the wrong program.


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there may of course be graves below.

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but by dismantling the quarry it gives us more room to maneuver.”

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and the Joneses have another garden area still completely intact until now.

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that is old and hard clay.

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we are now concentrating on the other part of the digging site that has been opened.

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and we dig near where Henry was buried.

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the question is, are there more graves in the garden?

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and we know how far apart they are.

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Helen and Carenza look at a plan in the emergency room

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from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Wakerley, 20 miles away.

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our grave can be like this one, if we are lucky.

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surrounded by other graves with the same orientation.

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If we are unlucky it will be just like this one and it could be meters further away.

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to find the next grave.

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although they are generally in the same direction

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in the same east/west direction in 3 parts.

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there is no border here, or conspicuous corner.

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so there are usually no boundaries.

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which makes you wonder how they relate to the landscape.

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we don't know, it's a gap in our science.

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Have you had your lunch John?

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yes thanks.

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the Geophys have explored the garden. their resistance research indicated medieval plowing.

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that is the spirit of farming.

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the radar survey yielded signals that may indicate graves.

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here we have 2 beeps.

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that correspond to where the white patterns are.

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once Phil has unraveled his buttons,

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we open a new area to test the geophys.

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if you were some kind of colleague you would help me,

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what? with scissors?

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it's late afternoon,

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I should have known better, but I really expected us to have another grave by now.

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I can't believe we didn't find anything in the big dig site.

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what is more worrying is that we have opened a new digging site behind the fish pond.

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and it doesn't seem that promising either.

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due to the orientation of the skeleton

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we thought we should look on this side, so we made a digging spot here of 3x2 meters, but we found nothing.

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nothing at all?
<< no, but I still enjoyed myself. >>

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you are a masochist.


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in their house, the Joneses are stoic about it all.

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they are watching a video of our conservation work

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of the Saxon knife and belt buckle from Henry's grave that Pat had dug up.

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these are the x-rays

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that can tell us more about what the objects actually looked like.

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this has been cleaned and loose pieces of corrosion have been removed.

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without damaging the blade of the knife.

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this is what the finds first looked like.

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this rusty lump of metal gave the biggest surprise.

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the x-ray showed a latticework pattern.

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part of a Saxon belt.

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despite being very caked, it is possible to now see a sharp image.

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because the x-ray showed it was there.

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and then we put the two together...

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like here,...

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so they fit together perfectly.

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and what is very special is that the corners were so caked.

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and there is no doubt that they belong together.

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and it turned out to be a special decoration.

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really great that you see such a good connection.

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did you think it would look like this?

296
00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,640
No, I never dreamed it would be like this.

297
00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:26,840
I am very grateful that you made the effort to collect all the pieces.

298
00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:33,080
in this case, this object looked the least interesting, but was actually the most interesting 

299
00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:38,560
thank you for giving us the opportunity for research and conservation.

300
00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,640
so thank you very much.

301
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,840
thank you for doing it.

302
00:15:43,220 --> 00:15:48,120
it's really amazing...I'm really overwhelmed.

303
00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,920
because I never expected anything like this.

304
00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,240
do you remember what the objects looked like the last time?

305
00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,600
I now have them back from the curator.

306
00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,560
Oh, wow!

307
00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,360
that's the buckle.

308
00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,960
that's really beautiful.

309
00:16:04,990 --> 00:16:08,760
the X-ray gave a better indication of Henry's burial date.

311
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:17,920
you see the sharp part where the iron is thinner and it has a curved back and a short handle and is missing something here.

312
00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,320
this curved back is characteristic of 7th century knives.

313
00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,600
fantastic, so now we know Henry was buried in the 7th century.

314
00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:32,520
we also worked on a reconstruction of Henry's belt.


316
00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,000
hi, Pat look at that.

317
00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,100
great.

318
00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:39,020
that's what it looked like.

319
00:16:39,020 --> 00:16:41,000
How were you able to determine it that way?

320
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,520
partly because of the photo, partly because of the buckle and partly because of the fabrication.

321
00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,400
we added the edge as you can see in the x-rays.

322
00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,400
we also added some decoration to the edges.

323
00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,680
you cannot see it on the x-ray, so this is a guess.

324
00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:01,450
are in fact the decorations of examples of oars from the 7th century.

325
00:17:01,590 --> 00:17:05,120
so it matches what I believe is the date of the knife.

326
00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:09,360
it's beautiful the way we slowly bring Henry to life.

327
00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:11,000
it's great.

327
00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:12,720
<<<<< day two >>>>>>>


334
00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,240
Mick, let's be honest, we didn't do well yesterday.

335
00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,280
yes, we made a lot of digging spots, they are in red here.

336
00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,540
and what's in it?

338
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,720
nothing just the natural ground.
   << exactly >>

339
00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,580
How on earth are we going to find this cemetery?

340
00:17:25,580 --> 00:17:29,960
I think we need to look in more places.

341
00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,760
if you look at the red spots here where we dug

342
00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:37,260
what percentage is that of the garden?

343
00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,840
it's only 5%.

345
00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,560
that's just a small area, this is something I drew earlier

346
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:49,160
this is the grave we know of, but there could be 10 more graves.<< Theoretically! >>

350
00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,840
which we completely missed with our capabilities.

351
00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,360
Even if we were to extend it...

352
00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,800
then maybe we would find this one.

354
00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,520
It's kind of like a submarine hunt, isn't it? (game)

355
00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,240
yes it is exactly submarine hunting.

356
00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,750
we can sit an inch from a grave and not see it.

357
00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:05,600
what can we do about it?

359
00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,160
I think we need to expand the places we look.

360
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,280
we can triple this place, and open a place here.

361
00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,920
another option is to dig outside the garden, which has a nondescript modern border.

362
00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:18,920
so where will we go next?

363
00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,000
somewhere where there is room for a large digging area.

364
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,280
the obvious place is the allotment garden here....

365
00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:30,360
it is not used now. we can open a big place there to add to our current small places.

366
00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:35,500
That's fine, but I don't want to neglect Pat's garden.

367
00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:39,320
we are looking for more Henry's in her garden.

368
00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:45,080
we are going to dig here, in the corner of the garden, even though it means more work.

369
00:18:45,190 --> 00:18:53,340
because this area is a dumping and holding area for various garden projects.

371
00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:58,180
but today we are also pressing a second and much larger hoe into the garden.

372
00:18:58,180 --> 00:19:01,580
so this extra work doesn't slow us down

373
00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,960
if there are more Saxon graves in this garden.

374
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,440
then Phil is determined to find them for Pat and Morris...

375
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,800
Since we didn't find anything yesterday, he wants to enlarge the digging site enormously.

376
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,320
so it goes from here to.....


378
00:19:15,230 --> 00:19:18,320
yes, we must keep a space free for the hoe.

379
00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,400
we can open the whole place. actually as long as you want

380
00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,880
it's a big area!


382
00:19:24,180 --> 00:19:25,880
Yes...!

383
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,760
across the road in a neighbor's garden we have set up a Saxon camp.

384
00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:36,740
these actors show Pat and Maurice what they would wear 1400 years ago. 

385
00:19:36,740 --> 00:19:39,540
Hello.

387
00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:39,540
this is Etha and this is Billa.

388
00:19:39,540 --> 00:19:41,960
is it okay if i feel this?

389
00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,840
Naturally.
I imagined it much cruder.

391
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:50,000
they could make very fine clothes on their looms.


392
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:55,600
I have leather shoes that are very comfortable.

393
00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,990
they take the shape of your feet.

394
00:19:55,990 --> 00:19:58,320
this is what you would have worn Morris.

395
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,240
very simple, very simple.


397
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,840
you can see that it has the same belt, the same width

398
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:12,660
it also has the same decoration as the one from Henry's grave, and of course the knife too.

399
00:20:12,660 --> 00:20:14,240
that's really nice.

400
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,600
you can see that it has the same angle or curvature as the one from your garden. 

401
00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:21,720
that's true.

403
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,480
that gave us the 7th century as the date of manufacture.

404
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,680
So Aen gave us the date which was very useful.

405
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,160
our search for a Saxon cemetery attracts the attention of the locals.

406
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,520
and several want to help us.

407
00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:38,400
and I said I found a skeleton in her garden.

408
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:44,520
and I believe she found a focal point.

409
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:49,240
If he is right and another grave has been found locally then we should check that.

410
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:55,680
on what they call the "new construction".
it is on the other side of the allotments.

412
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,080
this man, a dowser believes he can help discover the graves.

413
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:03,020
see how it moves?

414
00:21:03,020 --> 00:21:05,360
right here.

415
00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:11,320
his prediction that there are graves under the natural limestone soil,
made little impression on the archaeologists.

418
00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:14,120
it is in the limestone.

419
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,280
I looked at it once

420
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,420
Stewart, on the other hand, has studied the cards.

421
00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:25,560
and he discovered that in 1798, the Jones's garden
was part of this parcel of land.

423
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,360
which had an interesting boundary definition.

425
00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:34,400
it described the northern boundary at Marshall's Street and the eastern and southern boundaries.

427
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,000
but when he describes the western boundary, 

428
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:45,440
to the west at the next plot, the hedges, ditches and hills and blah blah blah.

430
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,220
so it calls hills....

431
00:21:48,220 --> 00:21:50,960
it is something that can be very important.

432
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:57,000
because sometimes the Saxons were sometimes reburied in earlier prehistoric burial mounds.

433
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,520
and if you look at the topography,

434
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,000
there is the garden, there is the road in front.

435
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,040
the house where Henry was found is around here somewhere.

436
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,040
the contour line for this high ground goes something like this...

437
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,320
so this is the highest ground of the river valley.

438
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,200
it is therefore a perfect place for a Bronze Age cemetery.

440
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,760
they are not always at the top, but often on the false flat part.

441
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,600
so that seen from below they were on the horizon.

443
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:30,680
suppose there are more hills. then you get cluster cemeteries around the hills.

444
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,520
our Henry can lie on such a side.

446
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:42,000
so the graves will be within such a mound ring. so we have to look here.

448
00:22:42,140 --> 00:22:46,260
now an update about our "naval battle game", we have opened two more digging spots.

449
00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:49,400
1 along the fish pond and 1 along the garage.

450
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,660
the view from the terrace is not quite what it used to be.

452
00:22:53,790 --> 00:22:57,520
Pat! come here.
you look quite worried.

453
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,080
no, I'm... (Laughs)
yes

456
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,260
please tell me you found something.

458
00:23:04,260 --> 00:23:05,520
is that what you're worried about?

459
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,560
I hope you have,
I'm worried if you don't have that.

460
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,400
we thought you were scared of the state of your garden.

462
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,040
no, no, just a little bit.

463
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,400
well, I'm worried that we won't find anything at all.

464
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,260
but in the meantime we have more information about Henry.

465
00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:26,640
David, you've done work on one of Henry's teeth to determine his age in another way?

467
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,240
yes, when teeth develop in the mouth,

468
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:34,320
are so white when you look under the microscope.

469
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,520
but above the age of 25,

470
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,220
the teeth become more transparent along the roots.

471
00:23:41,220 --> 00:23:45,880
from here into the bone, up to the top of the crown.

473
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,800
and the transparency increases along the length of the tooth.

474
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,560
so all I'm doing is measuring the length of this transparency.

475
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,960
and then compare it with teeth whose age we know.

476
00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,440
and that tells me how old he was when he died.

477
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,000
This is where I took out one of Henry's teeth, this hole here.

478
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,240
and this is the tooth that we split so we can look at it under the microscope.

480
00:24:11,260 --> 00:24:16,280
It's a very clear line actually?
yes that's why i'm very sure.

481
00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:21,760
Knowing that the Joneses are interested, Carenza quickly tells them the news.

482
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,200
this is surprising because we thought he was in his early 30s to early 40s.

483
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,880
but he's actually close to 60.


485
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,040
you're kidding.

487
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,280
I...thought they didn't live that long?

488
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,800
it's a very good age for that time.

489
00:24:38,990 --> 00:24:44,440
35 okay, maybe 40, but not 60.

490
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,520
I didn't think they could get that old back then.

491
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:52,280
How could Henry manage to live so long? how did he avoid an early death?

492
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,840
although no Saxon medical books survive,

493
00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,600
there are 10th century herbaria (dried plant books), which describe a number of herbal uses.

494
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:06,680
our surveyor, also called Henty, has been voluntarily assigned to try the old medicines.

496
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,120
we believe your skeleton had osteoarthritis in his neck.

497
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,780
so we have a solution here, 
nettles in oil.

498
00:25:13,980 --> 00:25:15,640
and what do I do with that?

500
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,480
you rub that on your neck.

501
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,040
fine!

504
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,360
Massage will make that better.

506
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,620
for the pain in your gums we boiled sage in water.

509
00:25:24,820 --> 00:25:28,400
so take a big sip, gargle and spit out.

510
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,760
so this is Saxon mouthwash?

511
00:25:31,860 --> 00:25:33,040
Yes.

512
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,600
what does it taste like?

513
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,040
it tastes good, like herbal tea.

514
00:25:37,740 --> 00:25:41,240
here's something for when you have an itchy butt.

515
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,000
how did you know about that?

518
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,000
Dr Alice Roberts is curious, but not enough to try anything out.

519
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,560
..asperine, which is tree bark, right?

521
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,480
now take yarrow, it is good for everything that ails you.

522
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,440
like paracetemol?

523
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,460
absolute.

525
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,000
take it for all aches and pains.

526
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,640
for a wound made by iron, you smear it with animal fat.

527
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,800
and put that on it, that will keep the insects away.

530
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000
I thought she used honey for that?

531
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,960
a lot of herbs in the herbal books are mixed with honey, an antiseptic.

532
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:19,200
When applied to a wound, it will hold the herbs in place and prevent infection.

534
00:26:19,940 --> 00:26:23,280
what's the news here?
<< nothing >>

536
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,040
nothing again?!

537
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:26,520
no, we immediately came to the natural limestone.

539
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,900
so how are you feeling?
<< depressed, burned out.

541
00:26:30,990 --> 00:26:36,400
the sad news is that no place found any trace of another grave.

542
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:42,440
and Mick wants to focus our work mainly on the allotment gardens, where the Geofys has just been completed. 

543
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,720
but we won't give up here.

544
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,500
the plan is for the team of young diggers to continue exploring the garden.

545
00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:52,900
we need to dig a strip to connect the 2 spots, 

546
00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,120
and as Catherine suggested, increase spot 1.

547
00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,120
that's this one here?

548
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:02,200
which way?
<< your way >>

549
00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:04,640
to another flower field?!

551
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,680
no, we won't get to the flower bed, we won't go that far.

552
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:13,000
but it gives us the opportunity to explore the hole in which Henry lay.

553
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,600
because it was a different type of soil than the soil in the digging sites. 

554
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,760
it sounds good to me personally, and I hope they're right.

555
00:27:24,260 --> 00:27:28,040
further out in the garden it seems Phil found a reason to keep digging.

556
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,790
I thought you had to be at the allotments?

557
00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:34,660
I won't leave until I know what's in that hole.

558
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:41,600
at this brown strip that is here,
there the shape is exactly like Henry's.


562
00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:46,800
so that could be a grave? not only that,
we also have a Roman potsherd.

563
00:27:46,990 --> 00:27:51,000
Now that is not a geological hole, but that is an archaeological hole.

564
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,520
it's the only hope we have.

565
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,880
the only way to see if it is a grave is to enlarge the digging area.

566
00:27:57,990 --> 00:28:02,400
is there something here Phil?
you can bet there's something there, look there's the edge. 

568
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:09,760
look down here, there's only yellow stuff.
that is the ground rock and that is the natural soil.

570
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,840
and here is the brown grave filling.

571
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,120
and look at more potsherds.
it seems very Roman to me.

573
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,800
why is a roman pot important when we are looking for a Saxon grave?

574
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,680
because the Romans were there immediately before the Saxons.

575
00:28:26,780 --> 00:28:31,320
It is often the case that we find Roman finds mixed with Saxon material.

576
00:28:34,020 --> 00:28:37,680
Phil is convinced, but we're not sure yet.

00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,280
maybe we haven't lost our submarine hunting game after all.

578
00:28:40,380 --> 00:28:41,800
maybe they are more widespread?

580
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:48,400
Oh, look......
that's where it happens, does that look like a grave or not?

581
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:54,660
If it's like yours Pat, the head would be on this side and his feet would be on that side?

584
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,320
It's a hit, what a relief.

585
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,760
can I grab my trowel?
<< would you like to come sometime? >>

588
00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:02,600
oh, yes!

589
00:29:03,260 --> 00:29:06,720
is this how you did the first one?
<< yes >>

591
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,280
did you do it so meticulously? did you clean it and do it exactly like this?
<< yes >>

593
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,640
and it was instinct that told you how to do it?


595
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,520
just by watching time team.
<< really >>

596
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,200
Carenza left in search of more information.

597
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:27,040
we heard that a Saxon skeleton was found in a garden in Spinney Street about 20 years ago,

598
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,000
Do you know which garden that was?
<< no, I don't know >>

602
00:29:32,860 --> 00:29:37,720
we were wondering if you have ever found skeletons in your garden?
<< no >>

605
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,240
how big is this cemetery?

606
00:29:40,340 --> 00:29:42,240
That's exactly what we're trying to find out.

608
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:48,520
eventually Carenza discovered the garden where the grave was, but......guess where it is?

610
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:52,480
right, right where we're digging.

611
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:58,640
It's been raining cats and dogs, but since we found the grave recesses everyone has been happy.

612
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,840
Even though we've turned Pat's yard into a hellhole, she's happy.

613
00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:07,200
because she finally has the chance to dig with her hero Phil Harding.

614
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:13,400
Are you happy with these graves in your garden?
yeah, it doesn't scare me.

617
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,200
It's weird that some people mind.

618
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,040
It seems only a short time ago that we found nothing in the garden, but now.....

619
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,680
do we still have a grave?
yes, the theory was correct.

621
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,200
David, show us where it is.

622
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:33,060
it seems like we are at the end of the cemetery here. it's hard to see through the mud.

623
00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:39,160
but we have, what you can clearly see, 
a bone here that goes down.

625
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,400
At the moment we haven't seen enough to be sure the bone is human.

626
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,720
but our diggers are convinced that our strategy is paying off.

628
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,700
it is on the same line as Henry and the grave further on.     so I'm happy again.

630
00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:55,360
so it is ancient Archaeologists 1,
young Archaeologists 1 ?

631
00:30:55,460 --> 00:30:57,240
Exactly it's a draw.

632
00:30:57,340 --> 00:31:00,440
It was a long wait, but now it's getting exciting 

633
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:06,760
because in Phil's digging spot we see not only a skull, but also the outside of a complete pot.

636
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,240
I guess it's too early for male/female identification?

637
00:31:09,460 --> 00:31:18,060
From what I can see it looks like a woman. the forehead is very straight and smooth.

639
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,280
and you can see the teeth?

640
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:25,480
you can see enough to know she has her wisdom teeth, so she's over 21.

641
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:26,480
so it looks good actually.

642
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,680
what do you have in your digging spot Phil?

643
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:36,680
below is a nice green thing. Unfortunately, it is very weathered due to soil degradation.

646
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:43,760
and here, hard to see, is a piece of an iron object, so that could be 1 whole object.

648
00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:46,400
Paul, how are things going in your place?

649
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,160
still very early, I have only exposed the side.

650
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,280
not yet at its full length, but it seems to be in the right place.

651
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,340
could the pot have fallen on its side when the grave was filled, and it fell over?

654
00:31:59,540 --> 00:32:02,320
yes that is possible..

655
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,220
this is the end of what turns out to be a very fruitful day.

656
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,820
I knew it was a big dig spot, but jeez?!!

657
00:32:09,990 --> 00:32:12,160
and that goes throughout the allotment garden.

658
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,800
the only thing we discovered is that the soil here is very different.

659
00:32:15,990 --> 00:32:17,280
very sticky.

660
00:32:17,980 --> 00:32:22,620
it is very different, we are afraid that we do not see the grave contours here.

661
00:32:22,820 --> 00:32:26,640
so what do you do? are you going further in that direction?
<< no, we're going that way.>>


663
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,860
Helen's plan is to open an even bigger digging spot.


00:32:28,990 --> 00:32:33,160
to find out if there are any more graves in this direction.

665
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:39,240
we want to be able to tell Pat whether the graves are a small group, or part of a large cemetery.

666
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,000
<< day 3 >>


688
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,540
no prizes for guessing who is in charge of the excavation of this skeleton.

689
00:32:53,740 --> 00:33:02,720
is that a hole in the middle? yes it is,
it goes here, and there's a wire to here.

691
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,040
and if I...
this is beautiful, this is great

695
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:13,680
Phil needs all his experience, because this Saxon woman is buried with mysterious items.

697
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,800
there is a small iron object here.

6699
00:33:17,990 --> 00:33:24,260
yes, I did.
and then there's this big copper plate here.

701
00:33:24,460 --> 00:33:27,800
and I have this big iron object here.

702
00:33:27,990 --> 00:33:30,560
I don't know if it's a knife or what.

703
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:35,160
at the bottom of the feet is also a complication.

704
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,240
it appears there is more than 1 skeleton in this grave.

705
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:44,840
Last night we found this long narrow bone, which looks like a bone from a leg.

706
00:33:45,140 --> 00:33:48,360
I think this must be the other leg.

707
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,280
or it is a humerus due to its shape.

708
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,360
at least it's not a baby, if the bones are what we think.

709
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,560
we have a small child here I think, a toddler.

710
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,400
yesterday our young diggers thought they had found another saxon grave in the garden.

711
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,800
now they are sure.

712
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,800
where is the skull?
OO, yes, yes, yes...

713
00:34:09,990 --> 00:34:15,960
even I can see the dark earth of this grave, which is small and narrow.

714
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,520
can you tell me some of what you've found so far?

715
00:34:18,720 --> 00:34:21,280
We just excavated the skull so I can't tell you much yet.

716
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:28,480
it might be a child. but if it turns out to be a 40 year old woman, I didn't say anything.

718
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,200
I'll see you later.

719
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,520
Including Henry's grave, we now have 3 graves in this garden.

720
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:39,160
but we need to find more to be sure it's a cemetery.

721
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,800
our best chance of doing that is in the allotments.

722
00:34:42,990 --> 00:34:46,720
where we open a large digging site in search of more graves.

723
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,080
when we go this way the soil type changes.

724
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,480
it is more similar to what the graves were found in.

725
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,400
it looks a lot sandier here.
so we hope we find one.

728
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,420
1 is already good.

729
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,480
in the camp of the Saxon actors

730
00:35:02,580 --> 00:35:06,800
Pat looks at the replicas of everyday things, such as wooden bowls and spoons.

731
00:35:06,990 --> 00:35:11,800
This spoon is made from a cow's horn. it is very flexible. 

732
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,800
If you put it in hot water you can edit it.

733
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,760
Very few such objects survive.

734
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,480
we almost never find remains of these handles......

735
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:27,600
and something like these tusks of a boar.
in acidic soil this will disappear.

737
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:34,200
all that remains are the metal parts. so you have to find out what it was from.

739
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,000
exactly what Phil and Paul are trying to do at the moment.

740
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:44,800
here are loose teeth, and under the collarbone you can see something sticking out, it is a bronze wire.

742
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:53,760
absolutely wonderful to see it, 
something that looks so old...

744
00:35:53,990 --> 00:35:59,040
you can see her with all her personal items that she wanted to show you her with.

746
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,280
that pot is there for a reason, and we get the benefit of it.

747
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:09,600
Helen, what do you think these people were?
Vikings or Saxon's or British?

749
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,640
I don't think they saw themselves as Saxon's.

750
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:19,200
people who consider themselves Saxons lived more in the south-west.

751
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:25,480
they probably saw themselves more as Vikings.
but they did not necessarily have to be descended from the Vikings.

753
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,700
although we think of great waves of Germanic invaders.

754
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:34,620
we had about 4 million people in Roman England.

755
00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:38,500
and to supplant that culture by the migration of Germanic people,

756
00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,600
would be impossible, you would need millions of Germans.

757
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:50,560
it is more likely that the Romano-British population changed their culture because it was fashionable to be Germanic.

759
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:56,240
so they could also be descendants of Romano-British people.

760
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,000
but they will not see themselves as British but as Vikings.

761
00:37:01,260 --> 00:37:05,500
the second grave we discovered is now certainly that of a child.

762
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:09,000
although we can't tell if it's a boy or girl without a DNA test.

763
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,360
we can easily determine the age by examining a tooth.

764
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,200
the roots are not developed because the tips are not yet closed.

765
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:23,720
they are still a bit open, this is what you see in 8 year olds.

766
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:29,000
so we have an 8 year old kid here, with about a year of slack.

767
00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:34,800
In Phil's digging site, a female skeleton has been unearthed and grave goods surrounding it.

768
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:41,000
the next job is to lift the mysterious copper object in a lump of earth.

769
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,760
so that it can be carefully viewed in the conservation lab.

770
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:53,260
pottery specialist Paul Blinkhorn carefully lifts the 2nd complete Saxon pot in Pat's garden.

772
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,440
it's a cooking pot, look how it's charred on the top.

773
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,000
that's soot
this is used on the fire.

774
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,000
we can see it was for cooking, 
but there are several possibilities as to why it was in the grave.

775
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:14,920
it can be used to store food and drink, or as a meal for the afterlife.
<< so the afterlife story? >>

777
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,640
it can also mean the woman's status in her life.

778
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,080
so for example she did the housework?

780
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,000
so she was the housewife, or the cook.


781
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,500
given that an anlo-Saxon household consisted of dozens of people. 

782
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:33,440
Are we talking more than a housekeeper?

783
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,240
you will also find female burial sites with keys on their belts.

784
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:46,000
which showed the wealth of the house.
it is not a submissive role.

786
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:55,260
In Phil's place we thought of a child buried near the woman's feet, but the bones aren't human.

788
00:38:55,460 --> 00:38:57,360
any idea which animal?

789
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,760
Because I was wrong yesterday, I'll keep it to myself for now.

790
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:06,700
Interestingly, there is no sign of slaughter on those bones, so it is not a portion of meat.

792
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:09,790
you wonder if it's a pet.

793
00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:13,000
Phil lifts the human skeleton,

794
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,000
starting with the feet and then towards the skull.

795
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,480
Isn't it: if you've seen one, you've seen them all?


797
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,380
no, absolutely not, it is a challenge every time.

798
00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:28,280
all these bones are cleaned and put together in the laboratory.

799
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:34,720
here is Henry's skull, which has been reconstructed by David Whittaker, using candle wax as glue.

800
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,360
a job that took 6 hours to do.

801
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:47,460
Victor wants to avoid the expert's opinion on Henry so he can draw him for Pat and Morris.

802
00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:53,240
the main thing in my mind is that it is a small skull.

803
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,000
I really expected it to be much heavier and more heavily built.

804
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:02,280
his eyebrows are not well developed.

805
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,640
it's not an Arnold Schwarzenegger type.

806
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,380
it is a more refined sight.

807
00:40:08,580 --> 00:40:13,720
he certainly has a protruding chin, it sticks out quite a bit.

808
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,560
very striking. The cheekbones are also striking.

809
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:21,400
they are quite wide in proportion.

810
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:27,280
so I think his face went from here to the chin.

811
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:39,440
there's still plenty to do, although the absence of grave goods in our 2nd grave makes it much easier than the one Phil digs out.

00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,000
I wonder what this little bead does.

00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:50,000
Phil has the difficult task of clearing the upper part of the skeleton of various grave goods.


831
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,520
Is it glass, Phil?
<< I think so. >>
it's beautiful, a nice blue color.



838
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,480
there's a piece of wire here that comes from here.

839
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,380
and there's another one here.

840
00:41:05,580 --> 00:41:08,520
and then we have this piece here.

841
00:41:08,820 --> 00:41:13,760
Phil discovers what appears to be a series of thin silver rings.

842
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:18,960
great mercy it's wonderful, all those little rings once belonged together?

844
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:24,040
well they look...ehhh...well look...

845
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,220
something is moving here.

846
00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:29,600
well then we better leave it in this position.

849
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,000
yes there is another one below that, check it out!

850
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:38,000
so there is a chain under her?.

851
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,480
I don't want to miss any of this, but....

852
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:45,000
I have to tear myself away because finally there is news from the allotments.

856
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,520
we heard you had some bones.
< they are here >

859
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:51,880
we think it's human, but we still need confirmation.

860
00:41:51,990 --> 00:41:54,560
this is just coming together. do you see that line?

861
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,680
that's where the 2 parts come together.

862
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:04,620
which means that the growth of the bone has stopped. So this is someone in their late teens.

864
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,680
the bad news is that the grave has been plowed by medieval ploughing.

865
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,080
you can see a trace of the plow cut in this section.

866
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,280
the only intact part of the skeleton are the feet.

867
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,780
these are the ends of the feet.
<< oh, yes >>


870
00:42:19,980 --> 00:42:24,980
the feet are outside the digging spot.

871
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:32,340
but this knife and other metal pieces tell us that the grave is Anglo-Saxon.'

873
00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:35,440
how far is this from henry?

874
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,440
Oh, about 100 feet that way?

875
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:43,000
is it a separate burial site or part of a cemetery?

876
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,160
it is unlikely to be separate.

878
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,780
Even though it's a different area now, it was the same area back then.

879
00:42:48,980 --> 00:42:53,600
now with 4 graves are you sure this is a cemetery?

882
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,600
yes I think we can say it officially now.

00:42:56,700 --> 00:43:01,500
<<yes we have a cemetery! >>
<< exactly what we wanted to hear. >> 

884
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,640
Now that time is almost up, the focus is on finding out as much as we can

885
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,260
about the Saxon woman buried in Pat's garden.

886
00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:10,240
her teeth, when she closed her mouth, most people have an overlap at the top.

887
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:16,400
but hers didn't, they fit exactly together.

888
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,990
is this a glass bead or made of stone?

889
00:43:19,460 --> 00:43:22,000
a real full circle here.

890
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:27,440
Although it is hard to see, it is a bone ring with a hole design.

892
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:34,040
We're almost at the end of our dig, and the neighbors are curious about what was found in Pat's garden.

894
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:38,480
this shows their garden and the digging spots we dug.

895
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,540
We've done so much more work than we would have liked...

896
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,800
Though we have uncovered the feet of the grave in the allotments,

897
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:51,000
we have to dig a lot more to see how many graves there are in this cemetery.

898
00:43:51,180 --> 00:43:54,160
you're all probably standing on top of Anglo-Saxon graves right now.

901
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,860
Stewart thinks that the Anglo-Saxons buried their dead close to the Bronze Age burial mounds.

902
00:44:00,990 --> 00:44:07,680
we can make an impression for the Joneses of what that looked like.

903
00:44:10,340 --> 00:44:13,440
our cemetery is right on the horizon, so......

904
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,420
Survivor Henry shows the graves in green in a 3D model,

905
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,080
and how they were visible from any point in the red area.

906
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,120
Victor heeft een reconstructie gemaakt...

907
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:29,080
most of all, Pat wanted to know more about the skeleton she dug up.

908
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,800
we did our best to bring Henry to life for her.

909
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:40,000
This is what we think he looked like. and Martin is here to give you an idea of ​​what he sounded like.

911
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:48,240
< (Speaking ANGLO-SAXON)

912
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,360
you'll want to know what that means.

913
00:44:51,420 --> 00:44:53,660
they said he was the (softest) nicest man,

914
00:44:53,660 --> 00:44:58,040
kindest to his people, and most eager for victory.

915
00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,320
He looks similar, don't you think?

917
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,320
that's absolutely amazing.
thank you very much.

918
00:45:04,420 --> 00:45:06,280
and we demolished your garden. 

919
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,040
no you haven't.
nothing that can't be put back.

922
00:45:10,090 --> 00:45:15,480
and it was true that Henry did not have a stand-alone grave, but was part of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

924
00:45:15,580 --> 00:45:18,000
the only one ever discovered in Raunds.

925
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,160
so what do you want us to do with it?

926
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:27,000
I think we should try to keep the rings separate.
<< ok >>

928
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,340
they seem different and they may be different.

929
00:45:30,540 --> 00:45:35,520
it is a new and exciting detail about life and death in the 7th century.

930
00:45:36,620 --> 00:45:39,060
totally independent don't you think?

931
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:44,640
but only after the excavation, when the finds had been cleaned and the bones studied,

932
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,360
we could get a picture of this grave from the 7th century.

933
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,360
this Anglo-Saxon woman was in her early 20s when she died.

934
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,800
she wore her necklace with silver rings and glass beads.

935
00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:59,700
she wore a bone brooch with a ring and point design.

936
00:45:59,900 --> 00:46:02,040
other objects were placed around her.

937
00:46:02,140 --> 00:46:07,280
a knife, a river pebble with a copper ring.

938
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:13,100
a small copper-plated wooden box, of which only the copper remained, and a cooking pot.

940
00:46:13,140 --> 00:46:22,990
the most unusual thing was that an animal was buried with her, we now know it was a small dog.

941
00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:30,680
what a translation job... never again... pffff.