The Ancient Masterpieces (And Bodies) Buried Within This Saxon Mound | Time Team | Unearthed History

foreign among these trees is a Saxon site full of unbelievable Treasures prayers and their families were laid to rest with all their riches ready wow three days time teams joining up banding together with a team of soldiers to piece together the story of this site they found Hollow you want to dig there oh sweetheart oh okay who's buried here when and why oh look fabulous oh that's amazing oh that is and as it's a military site we'll be eating in here starting to dig at exactly oh 900 hours and sleeping in these well some of us will not me obviously not for three days [Music] welcome to Salisbury Plain oh this is home from home for me I love it love it up here you're really looking forward to this dick ain't your action you're really really looking for is it the archeology or is it a military muscle that might be up here where's the archeology field crazy archeology yeah I'm sure about that [Music] over the past month a team of soldiers have been working alongside military experts and Wessex archeology on a project to excavate a site of real importance [Music] for the next three days they'll be joined by a crack force of time teamers ah my beloved shovel I mustn't go anywhere without my shovel bro let's show it is in those trees this place known as Barrow Clump is in the middle of the mod's training ground on Salisbury Plain Wiltshire [Music] it's in a landscape with serious prehistoric pedigree the Bronze Age people who were building Stonehenge around 2000 BC also created hundreds of Barrow monuments huge man-made mounds of Earth surrounded by a ditch Bronze Age people use them to bury their dead 2 500 years later in the 6th Century the Anglo-Saxons reused Barrow Clump as a cemetery for their dead they buried men women and children with staggering artifacts from Spears to Spoons beads beads to broaches and the reason we know all this Badgers there's a Race Against Time before their intense burrowing decimates the archeology this is the first year of the three-year dig to completely excavate this site and Richard what a sight it is eh it's pretty impressive isn't it it's nice to see a big excavation like this on the plane so what do you want us to do I want you to help me in establishing whether there are burials on the north side of the mound we know they're all around here are there any here so where are we going to put our first trench in it's gonna go in there the current state of knowledge if you like is a plan that shows some of the burials these blue squares and you can see that they're primarily around the perimeter of the monument in the ditch now this trench will actually extend the search in this direction to actually see if the burials continue around here it will also enable Richard to get a complete slice through the monument itself it's not just an excavation of anglo-saxon burials you've got to examine the Bronze Age as well so how big is this trench going to be it's going to be about 40 meters long why so big uh because that's how long he wants it normally I've expected an archaeological explanation but we're on a military site we do what we're told it's not day one anyway nobody's ever looked at this half of the Barrow before so this whopping great trench is a window into Uncharted Territory time slice running from the center to the perimeter ditch first it'll enabled Sergeant Phil and private raksha to work out the entire size and date of the Bronze Age Barrow secondly it'll tell us if there are any Anglo-Saxon graves in this half find more than we did the last time we worked on Salisbury Plain Ian [Music] well you could be in luck because before we even arrived 25 Anglo-Saxon skeletons had already been Unearthed that's a nice looking female that's a key question the team want to answer is if there's a pattern to the burials time teams Cassie Newland has been drafted to help excavate one of the graves so we've got an adult because the size of the bones the trouble seems to come when you get down to the feet I mean I've got nothing here I might have a bit of um ankle Bond possibly the tall bars but they're disintegrating the guys here are a mix of serving soldiers and those in the process of leaving the forces they've been here for four weeks on operation Nightingale a pioneering scheme funded by the Army and charity to help soldiers recover from injuries sustained in Frontline Afghanistan alongside the visible wounds of double amputations and burns are hidden scars deafness blindness severe post-traumatic stress and depression one of the people behind the Project's development was site supervisor Corporal Steve Winterton an explosion in Afghanistan left him with spinal damage and depression come into terms of losing a career that you love and enjoy doing to suddenly having nothing and being sat at home all right what am I actually doing today yeah it's it was hard very hard he just we've drew into himself um he wasn't motivated in spending time with us doing anything with the children didn't see him smile for a long time you were more than just depressed that weren't yeah yeah I was suicidal I was had a backpack so I was ready to go and do something stupid to be honest how do you feel about that [Music] one thing kept Steve going time team lifting him out of depression it sparked off the whole idea for operation Nightingale we had it on permanent record all the series and he would sit there every day some days he wouldn't even get dressed and he'd sit there and just watch time too what was it about time team that attracted you so much just a bunch of hippies in the field Phil Arden in their Mark pants you know you just can't get away from them no I don't know what it was it was just to me it was helped me relax I don't know why just watching people just get along just dig in a hole seeing what was in it I don't know it's very strange for me it's just it really did help me relax one year on and Steve's leaving the Army to study and pursue a career in archeology Barrow Clump is the sixth sop Nightingale dig Sergeant Dermot Walsh looks after Soldier welfare we've had a number of soldiers who've arrived we'll come in they will go into the corner they will not engage they've become very demotivated and what we finally come here very quickly they'll start overcoming that they start feeling comfortable what we're doing and has rebuilt our self-esteem [Music] the project provides the soldiers with new skills skill and working as a close team helps them readjust to Everyday Life [Music] into archeology Barrow Clump takes some beating already Cassie's grave is revealing its first find we might know something else about it because we think we've probably got a male it's an awful lot kids starting out to be how is it is it looking like a boss it's looking a lot more like a shield boss and a lot less like a bean tin now got a decent point on the top that's coming into this sort of conical shape here yeah it's not starting to flatten out yet yeah I just hope this isn't a really weird mortar shape [Music] buried with covering the face the boss was the metal centerpiece It's All That Remains now the wooden board has rotted away and is the fourth one discovered so far [Music] oh unfortunately in his trench Phil's not striking quite so lucky [Music] Danish [Music] mid-afternoon and Phil and Racha are still stripping topsoil from their enormous trench through one half of the Barrow what's coming out of the rest of the site this was once a substantial Monument a magnet for Anglo-Saxons who often deliberately chose ancient places to bury their dead foreign s were a combination of three powerful tribes angles Saxons and jutes Warrior Farmers from Northwest Europe they started settling in Britain around 450 A.D establishing kingdoms each with their own royal family Barrow Clump was in the Kingdom of Wessex to piece together a picture of the community buried here we've enlisted our Saxon specialist Helen geek presumably these didn't all come up today no no but they are all from our site and and Their fines that are absolutely typical of an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery amber beads traded from the Baltic and an antique broach are among the riches already found at Barrow clump Spears presumably yup a range of spearheads all quite small but all nicely dateable all sixth century and brooches yup but this is really worth looking at closely this this has thick gilding over copper alloy and they would have used Mercury to stick the gilding on so we've got a lot of materials that are difficult to get hold of difficult to transport Mercury they're all here on this brooch why do they get buried with so much stuff I mean our kids would be furious now if we got buried in our Rolexes wouldn't they I know but it's partly conspicuous consumption and it's partly the the family or the mourners showing what the dead person was like you know let's bury her and her favorite things or her best things well we'll paint a picture of what their role in society was really the fine speak of a relatively wealthy Cosmopolitan people living in the 6th century but the cemetery also contains what appeared to be Warrior Graves and poor people with nothing a tough challenge lies ahead to work out burial patterns and who this community was it's so fantastic to be on an archaeological site where there are so many discreet little excavations so many people concentrating so many fines I've lost count of the number of skeletons mind you compare that with what's going on over here hey guys you're gonna have to do a bit of work aren't you to match up with what they're doing what are eating about well look at this hang on this trench is massive we've been stripping back all day but nothing Saxon nothing Bronze Age look that is the challenge for tomorrow what we want to do is throw some labor at that part of the monument to actually go down into the ditch and actually see whether the the cemetery exists so you've got all these people over there give us some tomorrow day one and they've taken the top soil off go times [Music] day two barrow Clump Salisbury Plain it's seven o'clock in the morning and this being the Army it's time for everyone to get up right time to get up and it was in hand that includes our time team campers [Music] at least we can rely on one time team stall to be up and at it at the crack of dawn shovel Trail it back brush it up do whatever you like if that makes sense okay I think what we need to do is make a note of the fact that working alongside injured soldiers from the rifles were helping excavate a Bronze Age burial mound later used as an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery [Music] time teams bone expert Jackie McKinley is working out the age and sex of all the burials wedged between a man and teenager this burial was looking decidedly female yesterday exposing specific parts of the skeleton should confirm it now I can see the pelvis I can see it really you know you've got this nice wide angle and sciatic knot so it confirms what I thought about how tiny she was and that that it was going to be female she is adult then yeah well if you look at her jaw you can see she's lost a lot of the back teeth and the front teeth are so heavily worn so she's going to be quite an elderly individual who's had quite a lot of chewing in her life but this is one of the things I loved about this grave they've cut into the Bronze Age ditch and they've cut this lovely little alcove in which her feet would have her heels had been here and her feet would have gone up here so right against the edge and if you look really careful you can see little scratch marks where they've cut down through the chalk and then prized it off and that is just so gorgeous it's not a knife Helen yeah it is it is That's a classic place for a knife on a belt so the belt would have been sung about the waist or the hips then you've got this here as well so that suggests you really have got a belt because you've got a buckle uh any sign of disease or trauma well one of the things that's interesting about this is we've got the remains of a fracture on the ulna can you see that little bony callus there where the bone looks sort of lumpier well that's a healed fracture and looking at its position it's a classic location for what we call a Parry fracture if you think if somebody's going for your head with something you put your arm up to protect yourself also is Parry is in trust and Parry yeah it's a classic place to get a blow is to that part of your ulna and it breaks the bone but it's it's healed quite nicely so it wouldn't have caused her any massive problems but it could be that you know she's a quite a small woman she might have been subject to either domestic violence or maybe she looked at somebody else he's bloke in the wrong way this is more CSI than time team we can date this burial to the 6th Century along with all the others so far but while this half of the Barrow is packed with bodies where Phil's digging it's the exact opposite he's got a huge trench running from the center of the Barrow to where the outer ditch should be we want to work out the size and date of the Barrow and also if the Anglo-Saxons used this half of the monument to bury their dead morning Phil Tony listen we've got uh we've got a trench as long as the Sprint is part of an Olympic track two days left are you gonna get anything out of it do you think we already have found something Tony masses and masses of God's answer to technology Flint very very very old tools I had thousands of years older than what we're looking for the Anglo-Saxon Graves no we're not just looking for Anglo-Saxon Graves we are looking for anything that has got to do with the story of this Monument but apart from his prehistoric Lego do you think that there's a real chance that we'll come up with something I'm still pretty confident it took us a few days to find a lot of the burials on the other side we didn't think there was anything there initially things will resolve themselves I'm still pretty confident while Phil's small army keep digging in his trench elsewhere the rest of the soldiers are adding to the tally of anglo-saxon skeletons on site [Music] Soldier Dave Hart was left fighting for his life after an explosion in Afghanistan I was blown out into the road and unfortunately I've been quite close to the um the radio batteries so I ended up um quite badly on fire and my left arm was effectively severed but the surgeons luckily managed to save it I find it kind of humbling in a way that something that's been an obsession to me is actually of being a real benefit in helping to rebuild other people's lives what do you what do you get out of it a great sense of enjoyment really yeah it's really interesting and kind of really stimulating stuff above all that I don't think it's really waste on any of us that you know we're actually digging up worries of the past what more do you want to find or what more do you want to get out of the the time that you're here I would love a any find any phone would do but it's all an elaborate ruse really because I'm only here for a spare humorous so if I find one of those I'm off yeah I left one or two [Music] [Laughter] [Music] right now on site there are six skeletons under excavation including cass's burial which is looking distinctly warrior-like Cassie another what a fantastic trench yes not bad is it what's this thing here well this beautiful item is a lovely Shield boss so um you know the nice point to be at the sticks out the front to deflect all the blows yeah yeah um it's not apparently on anything is it no that's um you would expect there to be a head there ah I mean we've got a lot of him but we are missing a fairly crucial point helping Cassie excavate his Rifleman Kenny Kendrick who suffered a mental breakdown after serving in Iraq Ken is this the first skeleton you've excavated no it's the fourth oh so you don't handle this kind of thing yeah how long have you been doing this archeology four weeks four weeks and you've already done four skeletons so not very long but I'm learning quickly Ken is responsible for unearthing one of the most unusual fines so far this fragile bucket has been bandaged up in Readiness for a delicate high-tech procedure using a gadget just back from Frontline Afghanistan Hamish what is that Extraordinary Machine hi there this is one of your extra machines one of the exact same ones that we use out in Afghanistan at the moment in calambastian for an extra in our injured soldiers do we have to get out yeah our safe distances you need to be nine feet away guys okay okay x-rays unclear [Music] it comes up really quickly isn't it this is interesting around the sides isn't it yes you can see all the details of the construction these copper alloy hoops and vertical strips now you see that split pin there it's gone through and then been split the the distance there shows you the thickness of the wood it's this thick and and you know this is so good I'm wondering if you can just see little boss decoration along here the astonishing x-ray detail was confirmed when the vessel was cleaned up 6th Century drinking vessel was made of you with finally decorated copper alloy hoops it epitomized the Anglo-Saxons love of drinking and exquisite craftsmanship back in Phil's trench though he's finding his own brand of bling in the shape of you've guessed it more Flint prehistorian and a flint expert you know this is gold to me Phil's got plenty of evidence of Bronze Age people using Flint tools here but it sheds little light on the story of the Barrow itself what's more there's still no sign of anything Saxon keep smiling Phil it could be a long afternoon [Music] afternoon day two and the pressures on the time team trench to start coming up with the goods Roy you ready ready when you are let's go let's go what we want to do then at one end of it Phil's commandeered some extra help in his search for something other than Flint and that is probably going to be somewhere near where the edge of the ditch is so yeah yeah by defining the outer ditch surrounding the Barrow we can work out the size of this Monument the ditch is also the most likely place to find Anglo-Saxon Graves helping in Phil's trench a Rifleman Nick Brown and Jake Watts but I quite like it behind the laughter lie Dark Battle Scars in Afghanistan Nick was shot in the leg his wage never actually ever think it's gonna happen to you I remember everything absolutely everything we got ambushed while I was on a company up and uh first initial burst took out my female just shattered it into a lot of pieces Jake was involved in four separate explosions that was possibly one of the worst days I've had I was pretty bad got uh entries my upper right leg lower back and I'm completely definition and half death my left yeah so I'm quite lucky back in Britain both found it hard to adjust to Everyday Life I had a feeling in my head that I I'd let everyone down but I know it was nothing I know there was nothing I could have done to change what happened on that day I needed a crave Solitude because I didn't want to I didn't want to feel like I was enjoying myself spent my New Year stroke of midnight sat on my sofa pillows on me it's crying my eyes out archeology became a means of turning things round this one this site's amazing everyone covered one skeleton already this project helped me just help me re-establish myself because I was working with other injured Personnel I could connect with them on a different on a different basis so obviously I couldn't with my civilian friends once we got all that done it's good to be with them like just just chat about infrared what injuries you've been through and how you've how you've coped and what what's helped you and what still makes you pants and stuff like that now I I'm enjoying I'm enjoying life again what more can I ask for here we go it's brilliant [Music] it's a great place in the huge time team trench it's all hands on deck you haven't got a trail you can have this um all right Direction's digging what would have been the center of the Barrow it's the classic spot Bronze Age people would bury their dead and there's nothing like some military muscle to make the earth move don't be too shy because it's only soil very good you're doing a grand job there [Music] this archaeological arm is doing an equally Grand job in the Saxon section of the site and continuing to lift stunning artifacts so if we put this here Mike right it's right beside yep Ready off we go oh well done brilliant well done thank you so you pleased with that then yeah I've been waiting to get out for a long time now but there's more to this boss than meets the eye oh look fabulous what's this thing I don't know what that is I don't know at all that's not that's not right you know the shield Boss line should come down there we have to go and look at that is it necessarily part of it could it be something else well it could be that um a diamond-shaped Mount which um can be used as a decorative mount on straps this discovery implies The Shield was more for display than defense in fact most of the weapons here are in pretty good Nick with little sign of wear it suggests these men hadn't seen extensive battle action but in death wanted to look the part they embraced the image of the mighty heroic Warrior and dressed accordingly [Music] after one and a half days and a rotation of soldiers Phil's trench has finally solved one of Barrow klump's Bronze Age Mysteries the size and scale of the barrows outer ditch well you guys have put in a few hours today haven't you we've done very very well actually great bunch of lads to work with it's done a really really good job where is the ditch the the ditch while we've got one Edge coming round there yeah and we've got the other Edge coming around here yeah so it is sweeping around in a big curve Right Around The Monuments but you think the entire circumference of the ditch was dug by people using no more than antler picks they're taking them months isn't it it is an incredible piece of engineering [Music] now we've confirmed the ditch on this side we can work out its Dimensions around the whole Barrow it's colossal a 95 meter circle and a real beacon in the landscape [Music] but that's not all considering that this is only a very small area we've got one two three four five six shares of pottery and are they bronzes pretty much likely yes and I think what's happening is that there may well have been a Bronze Age cremation burial maybe further up the slope and that over the time the the Barrow got degraded and stuff washed down and we find it down here in the early Bronze Age many Barrow monuments started with a burial within a small ring ditch this marked the very center of the huge Mound then built on top and it's exactly where raksha's Excavating hello raksha hello well it looks as though you've got some multi colors coming up here we actually have proper archeology in here we've got what we think is a possible cut coming through here we don't know whether it's a burial or not because here we have a lovely piece of vertebra very nice and where Phil's working just here you can see this this dark patch there we actually think that's a cremation so this could actually be our first glimpse of prehistoric burials [Music] if raksha is on to burials they could be the earliest found here but as ever she needs to dig deeper to prove it so is end of day looms the time team trenches coming up trumps after all what's more we're now confident there are no Anglo-Saxons whatsoever in this side of the mound but why why Helen and time team surveyor Emma Wood have been piecing together a picture of the ancient landscape in search of Clues and I've also done um what's called a viewshed analysis so I've taken our Borough as a Viewpoint and said what can you see from the surrounding areas and all these yellow bits are what we can see a lot a lot yes a lot of landscape that's absolutely perfect for an ancient burial mound to be reused by the early Anglo-Saxons because what they wanted was a place that would make them feel like they had a commanding View and also that was visible from miles around to kind of stake their claim to the land but what would be really interesting to find out is if we assume that our buried population come from a single Community it's one Village bearing in one burial ground we ought to be looking down the valley for perhaps something with an Anglo-Saxon race name we go ah so file team for example is very visible and that's a good old English good or Anglo-Saxon place name would definitely be able to see filedene from the barrel yes that's one of the best places isn't it the area containing all the burials directly overlooks file Dean so if this symmetry is that of the Anglo-Saxon community of filedene it explains why there are no graves in Phil's trench you can't see that side of the Barrow from the valley [Music] beginning of our final day of secondment with operation Nightingale where we're working with the British army to excavate an Anglo-Saxon cemetery on Salisbury Plain and it's safe to say the presence of Phil Harding is really inspiring the soldiers [Music] [Laughter] [Music] could almost be my brother couldn't me [Music] what do they say about imitation and flattery elsewhere works well underway fines are being x-rayed but you can really see the split in a socket can't you there's a very characteristic Anglo-Saxon thing come on sweetheart let go bones lifted oh the roots are actually holding it holding it together look meanwhile Phil's received orders from Richard to excavate a difficult burials and we've just found one right in the edge of this trench yeah we need to get that out these depressions here did they have skeletons in them which have now been lifted that's right they've been executed you'll see they're quite small yeah this was a baby's burial yeah I think that was a barrel of someone about seven years old now is this one going to be another young person it's an intriguing question do you think this might be an area that was set aside for the burial potentially this is an area where young people were put into the burial mound it would be fascinating to find out any bones there's over a meter of topsoil to remove luckily we're not short of volunteers used to digging holes operation Nightingale has been a lifesaver and life changer for the soldiers involved involved whether staying in the forces or moving on archeology has rebuilt their lives and up Nightingale will continue to help more soldiers with further digs planned for the future I definitely found myself again uh when I was well when I first picked up my child it's a life-changing experience but equally it's been a in some respects a change for the better for me really it's something different directions I never envisaged myself going in be able to walk into a museum a few things you've found is will be an amazing sight for me I've just started at University as well so studying what archeology of course still beavering away at the top end of the time team trench at the very focal point of the Barrow it's Center they're on to what might be a Bronze Age cremation it could be the earliest burial on site the the first ones in South Hollow well that's good the Dig there they're not the only ones tuned into the sound of archeology Christian this time very very Hollow skull yes and now I've been able to work around here and we've got another piece of bone here which is the top of the the upper arm so we're beginning to get an idea of how this body is placed in the grave we know we've got the head here we've got one arm here so the other one is going to be down here maybe the hands together here over the pelvis and then the legs stretching on down that way if it's that big then presumably that means it's not a child oh I'm fairly sure this is a this is an adult but I think they're the really really interesting thing about this burial is the way that's been put in here the care and attention the actual burial rote you can actually see in the outline of this brown material where the line of the body is and you can see that we've got this chalk packing it's almost as though there's some organic structure maybe wooden plank in some sort of chamber into which this body was placed before all this chalk was actually packed around it yeah already Phil's making key discoveries first of all this burial's an adult so this can't be an area reserved for children I reckon we could be ah there's the other one and absolutely bang on target look there's the arm there's the packing yeah so there is definitely something holding that chalk back it's clear this person buried in some kind of coffin or chambered unique so far on this site and a sign of someone's importance as more of the skeleton emerges Phil can hardly contain himself ah [Music] this tiny glass bead tells us this burial is female and the bones that she's a young woman Phil's is the seventh burial Unearthed in the past three days bringing the total number of skeletons here to 35. unlike many other Anglo-Saxon cemeteries Barrow Clump seems a haphazard Affair men women and children lie cheek by jowl some with weapons some with grave goods and some with nothing but if anyone can find a pattern Helen can stick so what we can see is along the ditch we've got a line of three ladies here and then we've got what some people have called The Shield wall we've got one two three four all with Shield bosses and then it's been pointed out as well that we've got this odd group here which is towards the center of the Barrow but has no gray because now why do people who aren't Rich enough to afford grave Goods get buried in the better position towards the center of the Barrow have you got any idea well I think we may be just beginning to get a tiny tiny clue it's a very small spearhead it's one of the smallest spearheads you can get but the X-ray shows us it's got curved edges which allows me to give it a type it's known as a type C1 and these are very much more common in the 7th Century so that's a hundred years later than all the rest of the Grave Goods now that's a time when people who've got access to great wealth choose to be varied sometimes without all the their families choose to bury them without grave goods between prestigious places like the middle of barrows now maybe these aren't poor people maybe they're people who are just a bit later and that's why they haven't got grave Goods why didn't the earlier High status people get themselves buried in the more status part of the cemetery well point and I do wonder whether they're simply burying in the ditch because it's easy in a sense it's easy to degrade so this chalk must be backbreaking stuff to dig a grave into and it's that's why they're going for this softer ring theory is a significant breakthrough during the sixth Century it seems practicality outweighed Prestige the dead were buried where it was easiest to dig but this symmetry was in use longer than previously thought later Anglo-Saxons were buried nearer the center by this time style of dress was changing and they were converting to Christianity which meant simpler Graves with few or no artifacts but what about the Bronze Age origins of this Barrow at her trench raksha thinks she's cracked it there's no cremation burial just some fragments of bone what she's got is part of a small circular ditch originally we thought that we might have a grave cut but what we realized was we were actually digging into the the top of the fill of the ditch and then we eventually found the sides and and look at it it's just it's beautiful fantastic so that's actually probably the first burial phase of the big Monument here then this ring ditch dug before the mound was put up would Mark the first prehistoric burial on this site we've only just found this lovely piece of prehistoric Pottery yeah it looked bronze agey ish doesn't it yeah it does it looks Bronze Age [Music] Pottery dates the burial to around 2100 BC around the same time the big Stones went up at nearby Stonehenge from humble beginnings our trench has answered all of Richard's questions it started with a burial marked by a ring ditch over that the Barrow Mound was built and we found the monster of a ditch that surrounded it and our trench confirmed that no Anglo-Saxons were buried on the Northern side of the monument got a metal object but on the other side of the Barrow Phil's grave is turning out to be A Cut Above the Rest that looks like a broach or Summit up there in it oh my goodness look at that that's amazing oh that's nice shouldn't it yeah that is nice um that's the most amazing approach that's technically a small square headed approach but what it is is it's condensed all that amazing artwork into something that big that is absolutely the most minute Square headed approach I've ever seen in my life well if you ain't Ashmore have a look in that tray there have a look in that little tiny plastic bag no not that one the other one the others no it's not empty well that that's extraordinary so you've got doll's house Square headed broch doll's house B B and it's just gobsmacking though right it's quite an incredible burial on it this is sensational [Music] it's not often in archeology you hear the word Sensational banded about but it's pretty apt for this grave y beads were a first for this site the brooch a beautiful example of Saxon wealth [Music] carried on for another week an Unearthed a cosmetic brush more brooches a silver and bronze ring and dozens more beads [Music] this being time team just as we're finishing the rain is tipping down but we don't care do we they said bravely because this has got to be one of the most fantastic sites that any of us have ever seen for for many years Phil you've had a great time today haven't you today has just been one of those great days in archeology when you start opening a grave and you don't know what's in it and then you find just finds that are well not only unexpected virtually unique are you pleased that we came here Richard oh superb you've answered a lot of the questions we wanted to know about the site and also for us to share operation night and go with you as an experience well thank you very much all of you it's been been a real privilege thanks a lot and that's about it except for the play out and who could play us out more appropriately than the buglers of the rifles take it away lads [Music] ha ha ha [Music] ha [Music]

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Length: 46min 52sec (2812 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 25 2023