Secrets of the Dead — S20E01 — Archaeology at Althorp

00:00:12 -I'm in my late 50s now, and this is a story

00:03:07 Charles would play on the grounds with his sisters,

00:06:04 and that's in the Domesday Book.

00:08:16 keeps coming up in some later charters as well.

00:10:51 So it's a little bit like the needle

00:13:23 We've got lots of lumps here.

00:15:21 and they had tragedies in their lives.

00:17:54 to visit, not the kind of dirty,

00:20:21 Oh, yeah, a nice piece of pottery there.

00:22:52 Adam reconstructs what they would have looked like,

00:25:11 Some of them I haven't even been into, I don't think.

00:27:16 unfortunately, we archeologists can't date stone.

00:29:29 -Basically, we pretty much have an entire house here.

00:32:21 and dates to a much more recent era.

00:34:54 Let's find the rest of the coat. -Yeah.

00:36:57 That's stoneware.

00:39:12 a period of British history that lasted 800 years?

00:41:28 At Butser in Hampshire,

00:43:24 -I could definitely imagine one or several of these

00:46:09 I came to occasionally with my family

00:48:55 -There it is. -It's the same feature then.

00:50:57 the archaeologists hoped to find

00:53:06 to celebrate festivals, to exchange goods, and so forth.

00:55:18 It's -- It's unbelievable.