The Viking Grave of Ridgeway Hill - Vikings: The Lost Realm - S01 EP4 - History Documentary

Bones and teeth tell many facts of life. The SKULL, for instance tells scientists how long a male was married.!? By the thickness of the skull from pulling out his hair.. Female's... from the Jaw Bone can tell how long she loved a chat.!? When out shopping for berries and snacks for the kids...Amazing technology....😊

I was reminded how Napoleon's troops were told to report any finds during their campaigns through Egypt. Someone found what would come to be called the Rosetta Stone. If it hadn't been for that person doing what he was supposed to do ...

23andMe brought me here, I'm trying to wrap my mind around this information.

I feel ancient as now after watching this ❤

I bet the executioner got tired so he got a bit more sloppy each time

the arctic circle lol. sure dude. this isotope stuff is clearly not always ideal. must be someone popular owns some isotope analysis labs. DNA is what we want analyzed. that should take precedence. you can nerd out over the isotopes afterwards

A bunch of viking raiders ran into trouble with Ethelred the Unready!

I uploaded my DNA to the ancient DNA site and they matched me to one of the Vikings buried here.

I feel ancient as now after watching this ❤

The breathy execution scenes were really over the top 🙄

Boring boring boring

Haha the guy had glasses

No swords with them so none would go to Valhalla, a terrible end for any Viking Warrior. Perhaps they were Christians though.

Come on just driving to the place in the film they show little "hills?" There are so much to discover everywhere.

Are proper burials given after these excavations are done?

The earliest recorded viking attack was at Portland, a peninsula clearly visible from the pit site.

Incredibly fascinating investigation..a mystery and tough days, really awesome documental!!

Wouldn't it be amazing to find recent decendants somewhere in Danmark with the same DNA. The isotopic analysis shows from where they are.
Amazing site btw.!!!!

Very sad 😔

Most likely Farmers that immigrated from Scandinavia to find a better life. Instead they found the end of life

tHE SCANDINAVIAN RUNIC STONES say, that warriors from different parts of scandinavia sought to the renowned kings & chieftains of the age to serve under them and HOPEFULLE gain richdom on the raids. an example is a swedish runic stone saying "I was Canutes man"--- probably Canute the great.

Proof that not using the port of entry, you're are raiders and thieves.

A severed head can't plot.

They weren't waiting to be found, they were resting in peace. Who gives these ghouls the right to dig up men from their graves? Shame on the ghouls digging up graves.

Could these be rather like the Orient Express type deaths - Where each person of the executing group beheaded one prisoner each in revenge.

Maybe it was an ambush. If the Saxons were fed up. They could have planned to get the next ship arriving. Which could tie in to the execution location being ideal. They over whelmed the arriving vikings. And it was said they weren't in England long. Just a thought.

Looks like Christian vikings killing off old pagan vikings the mass grave is a telling sign they were being wipe out

I could have done with less gruesome sensationalism. Missed bits and pieces because I couldn't stomach the gore.

St. Bryce's day.

I'm related to one of those viking invaders by DNA.

They got caught raiding and suffered the consequences.

Way too many scenes of snarling, grimacing men about to be killed. We kind of got the picture after the first 10 times. I'd rather have seen more about the skeletons themselves or their DNA rather than the same actors faces over and over and...

The modern day vikings need to check their diets. And history repeats at Weymouth as bibby sweden sits at berth with a crowd of foreign Raiders abourd .

I bet they were Black Vikings!

Great video ❤

Not every man of Scandinavian descent was a "Viking" warrior. Obviously, the Viking world had to supported by farmers and laborers. It is possible that the local British population rounded up any male Scandinavian settlers it could find and systematically dispatchng class.

I don't know who they were. But I bet their death led to much more death.

I keep thinking how strong these men that did the executions had to be! To cause such destruction to the bones it's incredible but also terrifying.

Scandinavian ppl but not warriors ie no previous wounds ..ppl that lived there during the danelaw .so not warriors but civilians so to speak. And the was a known norse settlement there. My theroy is the were part of the st brices day massacre . Thats my theroy..my opinion the remains ..all the remains should brought out of storage and not on display and shipped back to Scandinavia and buried in a mass grave there with as much honor as could be .at least their bones could rest in native soil .

Probably a ship raid

No defensive wounds? No old wounds evidenced in the bones.. they weren't fighters. It looks like they weren't raiders, but maybe settlers. Evidence in the ribs said they hadn't been there long. Probably newly come to find land to settle and someone didn't want more Norsemen there.

Evidence that humans have always been brutal.

We know that even back into prehistory people had combs and mostly lived near water. It always annoys me that re enactments of pre urban peoples show them caked in years of dirt. In later large urban areas like London people so poor they lived on the streets might well have.looked like this but even the city poor had access to wells.
Where did this idea that all our ancestors were filthy come from?
Ps mind you an office I worked in in the 1980s employed a window cleaner who washed once a year on Christmas Eve. No idea why. But he stunk. His skin was a sort of grubby grey colour.

Slaves or servants of some kind?

If these dead men had no evidence of being warriors, maybe they were sacrificed slaves.

A few of my r1bU106 ancestors were found at Ridgeway Hill

Wow just like Palestine!

They didn't come to fetch some scrubberies...

If you look at the Y-chromosomes of the two skeletons that had their DNA published online, you can see that this viking party was a mix of scandinavians.
One looks swedish, and the other one danish. The danish skeleton, as of current data, did not produce any direct offspring, but a semi distant cousin of his produced several danish and english modern day descendants. So his danish viking cousin had more sucess, perhaps a settler rather than a viking.

Eleven of these men are my genetic relatives. I am a First Sergeant (Ret.) of Infantry in the U.S. Army. Perhaps I have some of their courage and determination to face my enemies, no matter the circumstances. I like to think so at least. But the heritage of these relatives of mine did not die with them that day. It lives on in me and the others here who share that genetic relationship. They died defying their enemies. What more could a warrior ask than that.