11th Century Man - Reconstruction.

ChrisR777
ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing
edited September 1 in Coffee lounge
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/30/11th-century-conquest-man-scandinavian-norman-army

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  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing

    Well I thought it was very interesting!

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 5,966 Championing

    I thought it was interesting too @ChrisR777 I read about it yesterday. Thank you for sharing this article.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,388 Online Community Team

    That's fascinating @ChrisR777, thanks for sharing! Can't believe they can gather so much information about him, right down to his 'frank gaze'. Amazing stuff.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing

    I was always more interested in the lives of ordinary people, much less so the aristocracy, whose martial machinations made a hard life even harder for most.

    For many years, my favourite tv programme was 'Time Team', where despite the breathless rushing around of Tony Robinson, I learned to look at history with new eyes. Phil Harding was my favourite archaeologist, and he very much shares the view I expressed about the common people of yesteryear.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing

    It's a real pity there isn't a Time Team equivalent on the tv nowadays, as much as i enjoy Professor Alice Roberts' programmes, it just isn't the same.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,388 Online Community Team

    Nice change of profile picture there @ChrisR777!

    That's the part of history I found interesting too. My partner is big into learning about wars and the decision makers in charge of them. But I've always found domestic history much more interesting. I love a living history museum where you can move around and experience another era of time.

    Phil was great on Time Team. I was pleased to see him in the news back in June talking about the discovery of a smaller version of Stonehenge. I'm sure you probably already saw it:

    Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site - BBC News

    Seems like he's still leading the pack in the archaeology world!

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,887 Championing
    edited September 1

    I remember him on 'Time Signs', the 4 part series that was aired in 1991 ( I just read it was filmed in 1988, just before the area became the Roadford Reservoir in Devon, in 1989.

    Our Phil would have been in his late 30s back then.

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