A History of Celtic Britain(2of4) - Age of Warriors

[GrottoBob]

My heartfelt thanks to PIETRASZE, the BBC and Niel Oliver.

[RyanLaneGreenwood]

language sounds greco-latin with a mix of something else

[donques]

It's interesting: the narrative that was read into the mound burial with three spears. Instead of it being a memorial of homage, could it not have been an execution and the spears emerging form the ground would inspire a recounting to descendents of betrayal or incompetence and its existence a warning rather than the memorial to heroism proposed here? It just seemed strange to attack the corpse with three spears after death.

[Vivalier]

@donques The Kirkburn warrior was buried with his beautiful sword, not something I would expect would be the treatment accorded a criminal or traitor.

[kooodeal]

Neil Oliver's DNA must be part Roman father (from Calabria, I take a guess) and part native Pictish mother,as the Scotts were from the western part of Scotland back then,before Kenneth was King..

[JamericaIndustries]

i like the song at the start

[sybyly]

50:28  she says the powder has not landed "as you might think" exactly opposite the hole. but the left lower corner IS opposite the hole, isn't it?

[SuperAssmonger]

@HistoryHmoobguy. You mad bro

[pikemancolley]

wow what a necklace what thehell is that worth

[pikemancolley]

@HistoryHmoobGuy all races have done terrible things 2 each other through out history 2 the presnt day , thats human nature

[Fwoomble]

@HistoryHmoobGuy It's ironic that you're accusing other people of being racist when your own hate-filled (gramatically incorrect) bile froth is just full of hate for ALL white people. That not only makes you racist but also a hypocrite, well done.

All people of all colors kill, maim, torture and suppress all other colors (and then do it to each other). It's not what just 'whites' do, it's what assholes do. Color's irrelevant, just don't be an asshole.

[AmersfoortTristan]

This is BBC rubbish. He says that his paternal ancestors (a long long long time ago) must have come from South Eastern Europe. What he then doesn't say is that the Celts stretched out from Ireland to Turkey. Think about Galatia in the Bible.

[NormbrettaMod]

@AmersfoortTristan

i don't understand your point?

[kacplaymyst]

41:00 B.C. bling

[johnandrez]

Umm... so around 27:00-29:00, the narrator discovers that he is patrilineally not ethnically Scottish - though his mother surely is - but that doesn't necessarily mean that his father and his patrilineal lineage was non-Celtic. The Celtic tribes were spread all across continental Europe: there were Celtiberians in Spain and Portugal, Gauls in France - there were even Celts in modern day Turkey! So what exactly do they mean by "relatively recently"...?

[shilltheshillXXX]

Gold had little worth to the Celts, that's what shocked the Romans. Celts would go to battle naked, painted and wearing gold/metal neck-bands. What is mentioned as the Celtic "value" of gold is BS. Celtic women were also allowed to be more socially advanced than rare examples in Rome. They had roads, built of wood, so not much existis any more. Iron age society was worse for the less democratic Romans than the Celts.

I am glad I can't trace my family back to the Romans. I would be so ashamed.

[johnandrez]

@shilltheshillXXX You probably can trace your family back to the Romans. This idea that ethnic groups in Europe have remained separate and undiluted and pure is nothing but imagination. If you're Caucasian, you must likely have some Roman, Germanic and Celtic in you all mixed in various proportions not to mention some non-Indo-European ethnic groups too, probably.

[NormbrettaMod]

@johnandrez

stop using the word probably and actually give evidence for your arguement. look at some of bryan sykes' work.

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@johnandrez Exactly. Even if your family has lived in the same place for generations, Europe was populated by migrating bands of people for tens of thousands of years. Of course some regional cultural identities have developed of the past few centuries, and while that may seem like a long time to us, genetically it's very superficial.

[shilltheshillXXX]

the swastikas on that shield are very intersting...very eastern

[Tirraknatouta]

If anyone is interested in learning the Ancient British language, subscribe to my channel, I will be doing lessons soon.

Ma mendati oinoreyounon woglima iaxtin pritanikin senin, appise mon yutubelegin, pa woglisyesi tu e moksu 

[rosiethebear300]

Did ya just call me a hippy in celtic? lol

[gypsyrox]

@rosiethebear300 My favorite part of this one :)

[RonnieDobbz1978]

thanks for posting this, definately my favorite kind of British programming. Its hard to find this stuff over here across the pond.

[kevinaugustine]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

This is not available in many places because the BBC blocks this documentary from viewing in the US, which is understandable: no tax support money flowing from the former colony. After watching this I'm inspired to build a stone circle in my backyard and meditate on the arresting of the slow but relentless intellectual deterioration of the minds in America.

Many thanks.

[Aquestadona]

@kevinaugustine I live in Spain a BBC blocks alot of content from me too.