Living history group Weorod brings the Anglo-Saxon period back to life at Highdown Big Dig open day

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Ever wondered what life was like in Anglo-Saxon times? The Weorod living history group brought the past to life at the Highdown Big Dig open day!  See how they recreated everyday activities and demonstrated ancient crafts. Discover the fascinating details of Anglo-Saxon life and the skills that kept their society running. It's a fantastic peek into a bygone era!  #AngloSaxonLife #LivingHistory #Highdown #BigDig

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00:00So again, they're having stuff, I brought right to almost abroad from the established

00:18that we're wearing, modelled from one's family.

00:26When you hold your bones, they're not really resetting them.

00:30And you may or may not be, or if you dissipate a joint, it might not be located properly.

00:38There's evidence, skinny teeth, of someone who's like 14 and they've dissipated the heat as a child.

00:45And there's not much associated with it, there's not much of a pool left.

00:50They've been at class, they've carried on, you can see that their upper body is very strong,

00:56but you can see the limitations of that.

00:59Right, stand up.

01:03Oh, right, okay, hey, hey, hey.

01:06So you've formed nations of Christmas, and you've started making spoons in women's graves,

01:13in Jewish territories predominantly.

01:16So, Kent, Southern Hampshire, and we don't know what's happened to them.

01:23They cook thousands of helmets out there with these plates, we've just never found them.

01:28But it's, given the extensive architectural digs they've done in Sweden around Valsgaard, Vendel,

01:34and Ballantuna, we'd have thought they'd have found them if they were still there.

01:37So these plates that you've got here, are these ones that you've made?

01:41Yes, these are copies. These are copies of the original.

01:45Hiya.

01:46Yeah, I'm done.

01:47Pretty human outstanding.

01:48The original is a similar.

01:49The final bit.

01:50Fine, just process this.

01:51Yeah, it's typical.

01:52Process this.

01:55I can't see you.

02:00I can't see you.

02:01I can't see you.

02:03I'm trying to steer your peak.

02:04There in line, there in line, there in line, there in line.

02:07I'm pretty good, I haven't got many problems.

02:09I can get rid of all these nice and easily.

02:11That's probably the hardest bit now, and I can get that.

02:13See you later.

02:14So, it's tidying up.

02:18Each exciting impact is followed by quite a lot of faffing around.

02:27The sort of removal of these bits to prepare for each flake is the thing that takes time and thinking.

02:38It's not as exciting as the heavy wallops,

02:43but, again, it tells us how much thinking these people are doing to produce tools, particularly like that, the piece from Kutner.

02:54It's just a twist.

02:55It's just a twist.

02:56It's such a nice tool.

02:57This face, what we call the ventral surface, is where the core would have been attached to it.

03:04This is where it would have come on.

03:06Kutner Haven, so you know where the river Meand is at to the sea.

03:10400,000 years old, and you can see that you can read the sequence of flake removals.

03:22You can read the sections in the section and see the other form of the posts.

03:26I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

03:27I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

03:28I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

03:30I'm sorry.

03:31I'm sorry.

03:32You've got to go down the stairs.

03:33I swear you dig half of it, then you can look into the side.

03:47The idea is you're finding data limits at the bottom of those post holes.

03:51Unfortunately...

04:03I'm too late.

04:09Stop.

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