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00:00:01The language that you can write about it is a language that you can write in that language.
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00:00:23and I wrote this book in the book.
00:00:26And it is, he was really important.
00:00:31He wrote this book in the book of Greek and Galapur.
00:00:37I'm a realist to have a book in the book.
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00:00:43People care so deeply and so much about this text.
00:00:49That's why I was able to get to the Gaelic and get to the end of it.
00:00:57That's a great idea.
00:01:00The history of the Gaelic was written in the first place in the first place.
00:01:09It's looking good everybody.
00:01:11There are at least five buildings just in this little area here.
00:01:35It's a postal and at the moment it's like well what is going to be at the bottom of it?
00:01:41Who knows?
00:01:43Over the last of the year, there are a lot of people who have found the monastery.
00:01:51I mean obviously, I hope we found the monastery.
00:01:54Wouldn't that be so exciting?
00:01:56But coming back, I just think it would be so lovely to have that all come together.
00:02:00Oh my goodness, look at this. Wow.
00:02:03You get a feeling in your bones it's like a sixth sense.
00:02:06Well, there's two big stones next to each other so hopefully.
00:02:10I think it's here, but that's just me. I do think it's here.
00:02:16I mean could you believe if we're sitting here this time next year and we found it?
00:02:20That would be unbelievable.
00:02:22I mean could you believe if we're sitting here in the middle of it?
00:02:36Here is the letter of a woman,
00:02:39and she had to write a letter since the baby and his wife.
00:02:45When the letter of a woman wrote the letter,
00:02:48she would tell that the letter of her sentence was signed
00:02:51and she would know how to write it together.
00:02:58As the woman who married a woman, she is the person who died.
00:03:02He was a very good man and he was a good man.
00:03:13However, when he was a young man, he wrote a book on his own and he was a young man,
00:03:20and he was a young man and a young man who was a young man who was a young man.
00:03:26ii wedi'n georgeo e'i'n genioor se e idd mathegn chan yn lod i'w.
00:03:33Ie wedi'n gwrdd cyntafodd y carlch ag ennigol a mi
00:03:36fel ychydigol a mianol, ond i wedi'n gwrdd gael gael.
00:03:40Oed i wedi'n gwrdd gael a mianol a mianol o gael nhw yn awr.
00:03:46Ie wedi'n gwrdd galactigol ac mae hynny'n gwrdd ac yn ei naetholch.
00:03:51and that's how we can get to the city and get to the city.
00:04:01There was a horse in the city, and it was the one that had to be done in the city.
00:04:08The city was in the city of London, not only in the city of London,
00:04:12but in the city of London, it was the city of London,
00:04:16and the city was founded in the city of London.
00:04:21So I first saw the Book of Dear before I actually started my PhD, I think I was in the final
00:04:27year of my undergraduate, and I knew that there was this book, and I knew that the addenda
00:04:32in it came from the north-east of Scotland, and that was pretty much the summary of my
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00:04:36And I went to see it, and it was embarrassing, because it's just like falling in love.
00:04:42And you're sitting there and you're looking at this thing and you're like, God, this small
00:04:45book should not have such an aura and such a presence, and yet it does, and it is so
00:04:49important.
00:04:51I mean, going to Cambridge to see it was amazing.
00:04:55The lady who showed us, you know, let us get really close to it, take photos with it, I
00:05:00have photos of me, you know, with it.
00:05:03But it was fantastic to see such beautiful, beautiful little object.
00:05:07I was very happy to ask my PhD to bring my PhD in some of my students, and I didn't know
00:05:12that I was going to be a scholar, and I was going to be a student.
00:05:17I was like, oh, my god, I am very sure, I have a student, in the coming years of the
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00:05:21Obviously, the UK in the 50th year, you lived in the 90s.
00:05:24So, I was like a student of the 1001, and I was like, I'm like, I have, I'm but I'm so sorry.
00:05:25And I was like, I was like a student of my work, I don't know if I'm going to be a student.
00:05:28I had been in a place you're doing so, you're like, I'm feeling.
00:05:29I can't see that.
00:05:30isgrifig, ym ma'n ma'n nolapa, no eddin.
00:05:36Ach, a ffisg o cins, gandjach na notic yn galeg ychyddoch an sydd ddarnu'r un geoc
00:05:42an da sgiddoch yn ghenor jedd an da bwchen, 3000 tua idd bala o braen.
00:05:52Ach, a twyddoch sydd i of sgiald i'n lawer o'ch fanach ein ffornro'r galeg iddysgrifig an sy'n llorpeg eddychgal.
00:06:01Da, 있었, ac am wrth a ffyrdd gandjiach y madew seach dwindgu yn sgriibach honno,
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00:06:09o 안nu sgriibach.
00:06:11Ar ar cor不行 law a guych sy'n Wedi â phyrdd gand�ch ac cael mor auffio ar gael a gael,
00:06:17hwn i'w escrif ein gan dda bwch o corka dela ddai unigolion eich ganja.
00:06:20Y so a all gael gan ghefyrdd ychwedd ychwedd Valentine e ma'r Dwi cyf Blake hefyrdd
00:06:22at a skaelael and a chymru dda bwch o boch entsteh'n llbyn ni'l jug,
00:06:27anna ddy, bwa fyrdd i yna gan ayn nhw
00:06:30I appreciate it.
00:06:38At the time of the day, there were many activities that spread to the Lachis
00:06:41at the time of the day,
00:06:43but it was also in the 3rd line,
00:06:48it was the last one to change.
00:06:52As long as the Lwallot highlights,
00:06:55the Lwallot was the last at Night Bl drowned.
00:06:58and it was a place to go to the village of Larch.
00:07:04And the study of the Archaeology, Ali Cameron.
00:07:10So in 2017 we found a few post holes.
00:07:15I thought they looked as though they were in an ark, but it was difficult to tell.
00:07:19And one of those gave us this early medieval date of the late 7th to early 8th century.
00:07:27But we had quite a lot of evidence over the whole site of early medieval activity.
00:07:32So we wanted to extend out and obviously see if there was more of this.
00:07:39Goetble on the situation,
00:07:41and Aliudh Tileglu planus on Clyrch Faden y Smoa.
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00:07:46it was the first thing that the first thing was to do
00:07:51is to do a lot of work for a lot of work.
00:07:54Oh, it's incredibly important if we found it.
00:07:58A once in a lifetime really chance to get a look at an early medieval monastery.
00:08:06It would be really lovely to find the monastery.
00:08:08I mean, could you believe if we're sitting here,
00:08:10you know, this time next year and we found it?
00:08:12That would be unbelievable.
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00:08:16and the next day we're going to spend a lot of time on the village.
00:08:18In the morning we're going to be on the village of the village.
00:08:22And we're going to see the village of the village of the village of the village.
00:08:28Good morning.
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00:08:32Ah, Robbie had always been on the ground for a few years.
00:08:39OK, I'll start for that and I'll give you a fairly wide trench.
00:08:43Yep, brilliant.
00:08:44And then we can start and leave it where you want to leave.
00:08:47Excellent.
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00:08:50As long as you don't want to go, there's a problem.
00:08:51Oh, not open yet.
00:08:58So a trench is a hole that we dig in the ground.
00:09:02So archaeologists want to look at some structure or area and they want to see the different layers in it.
00:09:08So they dig a trench with straight sides normally so you can see how the layers are built up in the area
00:09:15and then within the bottom of the trench the features that you find obviously are recorded in an archaeological way.
00:09:22So we're still going to have to do hand digging at the bottom, quite a lot of it.
00:09:36So where there's been raised areas of stonework we don't want to disturb those.
00:09:41So we're going to take it to within as close as possible.
00:09:44But I'm not sure if I'm going to take it to the other co-operations, Jan and Jacob.
00:09:59So Jacob's just going to look at those stones.
00:10:01So I'm just going to let them see what that is.
00:10:03OK.
00:10:04Great.
00:10:05Thanks Robbie.
00:10:06Great.
00:10:07Great.
00:10:08Well, thanks.
00:10:09While we have a great time and we are pleased with our archaeologicals,
00:10:11we will have a great time to see what's going on in the near future.
00:10:17So we're going to see what's going on in the near future.
00:10:22Often things in archaeology are not clear cut and are often disturbed by later activities at the site.
00:10:29So you're getting a lot of different finds from different areas all mixed up together.
00:10:34So that is quite challenging sometimes to, you know, to unpick all that.
00:10:42The horrid's spruehlyach van lape John's in Laachig,
00:10:46a chai hoga lintin ysjoi manach ein jedd.
00:10:52So do you think that's actually a feature, Jan, the stone?
00:10:55On the excitement scale, where are you?
00:10:57Oh, I'm not sure.
00:11:01It's a scale, one to ten.
00:11:03You make the scale up.
00:11:06Oh, right. Oh, that's good. Okay.
00:11:11There are a few things that you can see at the clock,
00:11:14and the clock will skip out a little bit of the clock
00:11:17when it comes to the clock.
00:11:23Yeah, you've definitely got something coming up there, haven't you?
00:11:27And then, when it comes to the clock,
00:11:30it's a little bit of a focus on the clock.
00:11:34Unfortunately, we need to go back a couple of metres here,
00:11:38but they're at this level, you know, not at that level.
00:11:42So you know, not as deep, that much above there.
00:11:45Because the path is meandering slightly and it's meandered over here so it's not gone
00:11:52straight across the field because of course it was joining two point but we don't know
00:11:56what those two points were so we're hoping to be able to work that out and as you say
00:11:59exciting because it's people moving from one place to another, absolutely.
00:12:05So we obviously don't know a lot about monasteries in this period not many have
00:12:15been excavated but the sorts of things we'd be looking for we'd obviously be
00:12:18looking for a church of some sort and a graveyard probably associated with that
00:12:23church. We'd be looking for something like a ditch so maybe a big ditch which
00:12:28ran round the whole monastic complex maybe other ditches inside and then we'd be
00:12:35looking for obviously structures like domestic areas, industrial areas so and in
00:12:41those industrial areas you might find evidence of leather working, vellum
00:12:45working, metal working, so there's quite a few things that you know would we would
00:12:51be able to say yes that's more likely to be the monastery if we found those on the dig.
00:12:54But sometimes I think it's better not to be too optimistic shall we say but then it
00:13:03almost might back backfire on you I just think that it's just it's a it's not a
00:13:07scientific thing in any way at all it's just me and so sometimes I play it down a
00:13:13little you know and then when we find something you'll get very excited but yeah
00:13:17I'm pleased let's say I'm pleased with this.
00:13:21well
00:13:31how
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00:13:40And that's what we're going to do.
00:14:10There is a rare in Sgrifichy Gaelic where the Colum Cilia is a manach a new year.
00:14:20We can see that happening in the Gaelic notes written into the Book of Deer.
00:14:24In the foundation legend, in the first note that appears in the Book of Deer,
00:14:28it's Columba and his pupil Drostan who found the monastery.
00:14:32The last time he wrote the story of Drostan in the Colum Cilia,
00:14:40and he was a manach a new year.
00:14:42He wrote the Gaelic and the family of the Colum Cilia.
00:14:46It's a little story and it says that when Columba goes away leaving Drostan there,
00:14:55Drostan cries because he's sad at Columba leaving,
00:14:59and that's how the place name Jair or Deer now comes,
00:15:02is because it's the Gaelic word for tears.
00:15:16In the end of the year, the name of the Colum Cilia came from the Colum Cilia.
00:15:22The famous name of the Colum Cilia came from the Colum Cilia,
00:15:25and the name of the Colum Cilia came from the Colum Cilia,
00:15:27and the name of the Colum Cilia came from the Colum Cilia.
00:15:31The name of the Colum Cilia came from the Colum Cilia came from the Colum Cilia.
00:15:37So, good morning and welcome to the Book of Deer Dig.
00:15:40This is what it's all about.
00:15:42The Book, the earliest Gaelic,
00:15:44and the monastery that we're looking for in these trenches.
00:15:47We get a really wide range, obviously of ages and of experiences, and a number of them, quite a lot of them who have been, you know, volunteer with us, have been volunteering for a long time with me.
00:16:12So, I'm getting my Masters in Museum Studies right now, and I've always been interested in archaeology, but there aren't a lot of opportunities to just get involved as a community member in the States.
00:16:22So, when I heard about the opportunity, I just took it.
00:16:26You get empathised by the soil.
00:16:29I started out with Ali as a volunteer before I started my studies, and so, you know, it's great to see people develop and progress like that, but it's also wonderful to see people who've been digging with Ali for 15, 20 years.
00:16:47years.
00:16:48When we think of medieval monasteries, we tend to think of later medieval monasteries.
00:17:07They have a big Gothic church and they have cloisters and it's a very core site and we
00:17:12visit the ruins and we understand how they organised everything. But the really interesting
00:17:17facet of early Christian monastic settlements is that they don't have these big stone landmark
00:17:24structures and very often what we understand as a monastic settlement can be quite a widespread
00:17:29complex and within the settlement that they consider to be the monastery, there could
00:17:34be more than one church, there could be more than one chapel, there could be more than
00:17:39one burial ground, there could be areas dedicated to craft working and areas dedicated to growing
00:17:47food and keeping animals. So we can't just target the church and the cloisters because
00:17:51they didn't have them and they're almost like sprawling cities so any bit of archaeology
00:17:56will come together to tell the story of the entire site.
00:18:00Archaeology is a little bit like a cake. So you have your mouth for layers and the whole
00:18:06idea is that instead of eating it like a normal person would eat a cake, you eat it layer
00:18:10by layer. And the reason why we do that is because we have a thing called context and we want
00:18:14to make sure that everything we find is in its associated context.
00:18:17It's not just for the sake of the city, but I think it's just for the sake of the city we have
00:18:22to do, and we want to make sure that everything we have in our city is in our city and we want
00:18:27to make sure that everything is in our city.
00:18:30Leave everything in situ unless it pops out, if it pops out have a look at what it is. If you
00:18:33want to ask anyone, ask myself, Jacob, Jan or Ali. So basically, unfortunately that's a lovely
00:18:36looking stone right now. But CJ can't take it out because that would ruin our context so she has to dig around.
00:18:42Obviously, the people are really welcoming or I wouldn't see here. Pretty amazing opportunity.
00:18:52So, obviously, digging is destroying. So, this layer has been uncovered to allow us to photograph and plan it and therefore make a full record of it. And that allows us then to start taking those stones off.
00:19:07So, that's a string line. This is at one to ten. So, it's just a question of measuring along to the string.
00:19:28We're looking at, you know, hundreds of years of occupation. And so, there maybe is a mixed use of the area. You know, it doesn't have to be one, you know, one thing.
00:19:47Oh, that's a lovely thin blade. Yeah. It's just in that compact surface there. Just carry on holding it there for a second because that's a beautiful angle. Look at the working on that.
00:20:02All right.
00:20:03All right.
00:20:04Ach, and you're in a bit short bunting the Shivanachain.
00:20:06Oh, is it not?
00:20:07No, it's not.
00:20:08No, it's early. So, yeah. So, it's probably about 8,000 years ago, something like that.
00:20:14But up here, this is a blade. This is actually the tool just with the tip broken off. And then they mount it on wood or antler or make it into a tool.
00:20:25You know, they obviously were catching animals, cutting them all up. But that's worked on both sides, you know. So, it's sharp still.
00:20:32Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:20:33So, lovely.
00:20:35It was a coach Janahad the Lorach, and Maa Masoch.
00:20:39Lovely gentleman on the end found his first archaeological find, and Jan has immediately poo-pooed it and said worm concretions or something.
00:20:46It is, absolutely. What happens is that a root goes down, and then water goes down the root, and it forms iron on the outside.
00:20:56They're called ferruginous concretions, which is iron, concretions of iron, obviously, down a root. So, that's quite a big root.
00:21:07But, no, I agree with Jan that that's what it is.
00:21:10So, I mean, archaeology is a bit like being a detective, that you're collecting evidence, getting little pieces and putting it together, you know, like a jigsaw with lots of pieces missing.
00:21:20And then you're gradually getting a few more pieces, and we're always trying to solve a puzzle.
00:21:26The lorach going on to the lorach as well, it's the thing that we left last time.
00:21:39We excavated July 2020.
00:21:55The lorach we looked at all in one place in Hanna.
00:22:01And at the time, we were looking at the tea and tea.
00:22:07And then, we were looking at the tea and tea that filled the tea, and tea, to make sure that we could do all the tea.
00:22:13I mean obviously I hope we found the monastery. I mean wouldn't that be so exciting to sort of all coincide with the book coming back and this huge community project and the cultural program too. I just think it would be so lovely to have that all come together. Obviously that's not the way the archaeology works all the time. But maybe this time we'll see. It'll be one of those things a bit like love. You'll know it when you see it.
00:22:43But we'll see a little bit of a clue. We'll see it in the next couple of weeks.
00:22:52We'll see it in the next couple of weeks. What's the clue?
00:23:00The first time I was born, I was born in the first place of the church,
00:23:08I was born in Port Mahomec, and I was born in the first place
00:23:12and I was born in the first place of the church,
00:23:15and I was born in the first place of the church.
00:23:20Port Mahomec is a Pictish monastic settlement.
00:23:24We know that the Picts had early Christian settlements that were monasteries.
00:23:28I was born in the first place of the church, but I was born in the first place of the church.
00:23:39And I was born in the first place, and I was born in the first place of the church.
00:23:45It's an interesting period in Scottish history because all of these old power structures break down
00:23:50and it takes time for the new ones to build up,
00:23:53and it's very, very poorly understood archaeologically,
00:23:56and it's really badly documented as well.
00:23:58So we have this sort of true dark age.
00:24:01We understand much more about the Picts now
00:24:04than perhaps we do about 9th and 10th and 11th century Scotland,
00:24:07so there's a gap between the Picts
00:24:09and the beginning of the Scottish monarchy.
00:24:15The Book of Deer belongs to this period
00:24:18when the Pictish power structures have failed,
00:24:21and then the Gaelic-speaking church people come in,
00:24:25and again, it's all about new power structures forming.
00:24:31A year of Scotland's stories, and for me, poems are stories.
00:24:48And we had a chance to write a book in Chile,
00:24:52and we had a chance to write a book in Chile.
00:24:54And we had a chance to write a book in Chile
00:24:55that we had a chance to write a book in Chile.
00:24:59I don't know what it is about that little book,
00:25:02but to me, it's even more precious
00:25:05than some of the more huge illuminated manuscripts
00:25:09that are more famous and more well-known,
00:25:11like the Book of Cells.
00:25:12I mean, they are stunning,
00:25:13but the idea that this little book was annotated here,
00:25:17and it was here at some time,
00:25:19and being used as a prayer book,
00:25:21and slipped into a monk's habit
00:25:23because of its smallness,
00:25:25for me, it's that link to ordinary people's history.
00:25:28One of the professors, David Wheatley,
00:25:49Professor David Wheatley at the university,
00:25:51had been reading in the press about the book's return,
00:25:54and just felt that he would like to write a poem about that
00:25:58and kindly gift it to us.
00:26:00My heed is follow monks of the Hedlands and Islands.
00:26:05See, I've settled and I'm eared.
00:26:07It is neither.
00:26:08And because I think language is really important,
00:26:12so we decided to have it put into other languages as well,
00:26:15to link the past, the Latin, and the Gaelic marginalia,
00:26:18to link that to the present.
00:26:20I think it appeals to ordinary people
00:26:43because it is a story from ordinary folk.
00:26:47It's not famous people.
00:26:49It's not people who were recorded in history for any real reason.
00:26:53It's local land grants that are in the marginalia,
00:26:56which would have total relevance to people in the northeast.
00:26:59And I think it's important,
00:27:02that we think it's important for people in the northeast.
00:27:04It was the first time in the 19th century to write it in the 19th century in Galapur.
00:27:15And during this time, there was a piece of paper in the 19th century.
00:27:22In the end, there were no other people in the middle of the city...
00:27:29..of the city, and the city, and the city.
00:27:35It's so cheeky. It's land grants as an addenda in a book.
00:27:40That's fantastic. What a great idea.
00:27:44And this was a great idea of the city...
00:27:48..of the city, and the city, and the city...
00:27:51..of the city, and the city.
00:27:56But it was a great idea of writing...
00:28:00..and it was a great idea of the city.
00:28:05They record the land grants, and because you're putting them in a sacred text...
00:28:09..that gives them a particular authority.
00:28:12You bring in the political heft of the founding saint...
00:28:15..in the case of Deer, this is Columba...
00:28:17..to give it authority to that landholding.
00:28:21Because if you ever take those lands...
00:28:23..you're picking a fight with the authority of that saint...
00:28:26..and that saint has the power to come and punish you...
00:28:28..if you try and steal from them.
00:28:31And that was a good idea of the land.
00:28:37And that's what they took here...
00:28:38..to the thing you could win when they were...
00:28:39..and they'll have to do...
00:28:40..and they'll have to do...
00:28:41..your left hand on...
00:28:43..and the land...
00:28:45..his you're not using...
00:28:48He's scripture on a latchen iddyn dwellec siw.
00:28:52Y gai fi rwy na halapen, y gynia mawla, biannach gleif.
00:28:58A ffis ac yw gyfil clair ied gwyfiad y siwr yw fo gach syddafish nio'ch leirachal ywys iroddysyn mi ymwch chi.
00:29:06Ach, nes cwytan mi chi o bwlach, le fi thwrst ymwyr o gydyn rwy ar fawr eolig ege mhawm,
00:29:14ha nwchta siw a gawrach y gyniach na fachgylch gaelig siw a sgriwag tre ans y darna lian chiog.
00:29:24Then David I appears himself and the seventh note talks about the very book itself.
00:29:30So you can place it and you can imagine it being shown to David I.
00:29:34He's looked at it and said, okay, those notes do record these land grants.
00:29:39So it has an extraordinary character that it was at that meeting.
00:29:42David I may even have held it, but he looked at it
00:29:45and then he makes this announcement and it's written in the book.
00:29:48And it's the fact you can trace all of that that makes it so special.
00:29:51Gytta ha fachgylch gaelig snolaf yn sgriwi yn fo'll un si'n iddash,
00:30:05ha tasd cwmys o'ch ticsyn yn siw.
00:30:08Ach, hennes y dydda, argyol ys o hosbio,
00:30:12ydwch gaelin djalaf idd ma'r efo behecolach yn siw,
00:30:15ychym mil y plio me.
00:30:17Ach a alie ynddoch is gynchwych,
00:30:20bwy ym a chrywli leisena hosbio.
00:30:23Gytta gawr mewn a hamam i'r mandi ac ys patric,
00:30:27ac ys haid y clachge gwnna hyn yn y llun yn y llun ac ys doion oprych
00:30:31sydd a chachge y hym y mil y plio mewn ydash tra amdano y mea'r gysynwch.
00:30:36Gytta gawr mewn a chrywli leisena hosbio.
00:30:38Gytta gawr mewn a chrywli leisena hosbio.
00:30:40Gytta gawr mewn a chrywli leisena hosbio,
00:30:42gytta gawr mewn a chrywi leisena hosbio a chrywi leisena hosbio,
00:30:45a chrywli leisena hosbio.
00:30:48Joilers, stonemasons,
00:30:50masons they all come to the blacksmith to make the tools but the blacksmith
00:30:53wants a tool he's gonna make it himself. We'll start off with a piece of stock
00:30:56like in this case he's making just a small utility knife so take this into
00:31:02the fire
00:31:05and onto the bellows and you will see that it's getting harder to see the embers start to come through this would have been done by the youngest apprentice
00:31:20the one that didn't really know enough to be left on his own so he will get the pleasure of pumping the bellows
00:31:30There's a battle to the hyssache of the two and three celsius so they're going to have to come through.
00:31:39We're just hitting it but it's not just a matter of smashing it with a hammer we hit it in a kind of pushing motion
00:31:49we shape it that way
00:31:51and then from there it's sharpening, grinding, polishing
00:31:56Any metal work you needed would have been done by the smith be it a lock, a hinge, a latch
00:32:06things like the nails they would have made lots of these or young apprentices would have been practicing their skills and learning them making nails
00:32:14that's all the skills you need to make a nail you need to make everything else this is the base work
00:32:23And so there would have been people here who would have been completely covered in charcoal
00:32:27singed eyebrows burnt hands you know and all of that would be happening here
00:32:32and so I think that's something that actually archaeology is really developing
00:32:36thinking about the individual people who would have worked in these probably awful conditions
00:32:42you know in these very very very hot environments
00:32:46I mean a monastery would be fairly self-contained so it would have people who worked wood who worked metal
00:32:58and stonework so you know you'd need a lot of different trades
00:33:02so when they were building it they would obviously you would need people who involved in the structural elements
00:33:07making roofs and walls
00:33:09so I mean it's almost like a village that you know they would have grown their own crops
00:33:13and have their own animals as well so you'd have had to have people to look after them
00:33:17and garden and things as well
00:33:19and then within the monastery once you know you got going you've got things like
00:33:24if you if there was well and working and book making there you know you'd need workshops for that
00:33:29Now at school the 9th year that the mannich is to read is that the people who wrote their own
00:33:33but there was some earlier
00:33:38to the 3rd year
00:33:41Oh, what's your name?
00:33:42Robbie
00:33:44Let's see if we can get you a fun picture
00:33:46Oh, yeah
00:33:47a white one with a bird on it
00:33:49Yeah
00:33:50Would that be nice?
00:33:51Oh, that's a nice one
00:33:53Okay, we'll put the letters on first
00:33:56And there's one of them to write in the past.
00:34:00I wrote in Texas in the early days of art and in the early days of art.
00:34:05I'd say it's more an obsession than a hobby.
00:34:09Once you really get into it, it's so fascinating to do.
00:34:12And I specialize in the early Christian scripts as well.
00:34:15Oh, that's nice. Here we go.
00:34:19The book of canon in the early days of art was the style of writing in the early days.
00:34:26Most people just think medieval writing is this.
00:34:29They don't even notice that there's a big difference.
00:34:31But there are differences.
00:34:33I was showing somebody earlier on.
00:34:36Like, for instance, if I'm doing this top one,
00:34:40the letter R is very short and it's like that.
00:34:44If you're doing normal English vernacular minuscules, it's like that.
00:34:49But the Irish one, the R is like this.
00:34:55So it's very different.
00:34:57And I love it.
00:34:58And the differences really interest me as well.
00:35:02Oh, absolutely fabulous, isn't it?
00:35:12Absolutely fabulous.
00:35:13And what surprises me is how little people know about our own history.
00:35:19And the Book of Deer is just charming.
00:35:21It's completely unique in the way it's drawn.
00:35:25It's very naive, but there's an innocence to it.
00:35:28And there's a joyful innocence.
00:35:30I just think it's just so charming.
00:35:32Love it.
00:35:35That's an R, but that's an R that they used to write long, long ago.
00:35:39When they were writing the Book of Deer.
00:35:42There are eight full-page pictures in the manuscript
00:36:11and some of them are drawn freehand.
00:36:14Some manuscripts in great gospel books,
00:36:16you'll sometimes get someone does the text, the script,
00:36:19and someone else does the art.
00:36:20But the same person is doing the text and the decoration, the picture.
00:36:25That means that the conception of the book has involved art.
00:36:29So visually, it would have an impact
00:36:31and the picture would relate to the text on the right.
00:36:37Now, the first thing I've done is,
00:36:40it's a very simple text,
00:36:42but it's a very simple text.
00:36:44It's a very simple text,
00:36:45but it's a very simple text.
00:36:47It's a very simple text.
00:36:52Early on, people might have said,
00:36:54oh, they're quite alien, they're quite primitive,
00:36:56but actually, there is no way these could be described as doodles.
00:36:59It's actually very visually very affecting.
00:37:01It has an impact,
00:37:02and it's very beautiful and very detailed.
00:37:10There are at least five buildings just in this little area here.
00:37:12The problem is that,
00:37:13the problem is that,
00:37:14you know,
00:37:15it's a very simple text.
00:37:16It's a very simple text.
00:37:17It's a very simple text.
00:37:18It's a very simple text.
00:37:19It's a very simple text.
00:37:20It's a very simple text.
00:37:21The past is yellow.
00:37:22It's often like peeking out אל Allah in Cuyoriapurac,
00:37:26and Mangyvassighad.
00:37:29It's very simple text.
00:37:30It looks like there was a colour for the whole table.
00:37:32There are at least five buildings just in this little area here.
00:37:39The problem is that the finds that we've had so far are all in the soil covering these features
00:37:45that's been ploughed over years, so we've had some lovely medieval finds
00:37:49but nothing that actually shouts monastery or early medieval yet.
00:37:54It's just the dates from the features that are giving us those dates so far.
00:38:00We're banking strongly on finding the pattern of these buildings,
00:38:06working out which ones are contemporary and therefore by the shape and nature
00:38:11of the actual structures in the ground as to whether it's the monastery or not.
00:38:16We do get excited and this is really a very, very promising area.
00:38:20This is the one that I've had to run to the hill that was pushed to the hill
00:38:29to the hill of the hill and the 24th of the hill.
00:38:33In the hill, it was a 13-inch building to the hill of the hill.
00:38:37The walls were red there and there were more views on the road at the hill.
00:38:40Until we get the stone off we won't have better idea of the earlier structure so
00:38:45the post hole that we excavated which was dated to around 660 to 770 or that you
00:38:51know that sort of period we've now uncovered it with the other post holes
00:38:55that we had in 2017 and 18 and I mean that does look like an arc you know but
00:39:00we would need to find more really to see the structure
00:39:05a Kjellnilöndreinnsche ha allennicht Archaeologische allheien waschaus op Rhein
00:39:11edewi roosgeunus rehin
00:39:14yeah so from the dot to here oh yeah sorry oh yeah and then I have something
00:39:20come back here I mean when I'm setting up a dig I always advertise in the
00:39:25different universities it's great to have the archaeology students coming along to
00:39:28the dig and it's really good for them because they need to get out to have
00:39:32experience you know rather than just being in the lab or the you know the
00:39:36classroom and so they really enjoy it
00:39:40this is the deepest feature that you guys found on this dig so far
00:39:55basically when you're trying to look at the feature an excavator feature you
00:40:01would want to follow down this natural layer so as you can see but it's quite
00:40:06nicely coming down so you would just follow the natural down and I know this
00:40:11is really muddy but this is actually the bottom of the ditch and if you scrape it
00:40:15a little bit you can see pebbles and all sorts of tiny rocks that would indicate
00:40:19that at some point it was filled with water
00:40:22one of the things that early medieval monasteries were expected to have is a
00:40:36boundary ditch and it's a sort of marker between the sacred and the profane so
00:40:41inside that boundary you are within the monastery but in fact it's not that it's not
00:40:48that common for a brand new ditch to be dug very often these sites inherit
00:40:52something that's earlier in the landscape and they appropriate it and then it
00:40:56becomes the boundary so it's not necessarily an act of new definition
00:41:01Do you have any finds from it?
00:41:03Next to the ditch we found some medieval glass which we can get dated by an expert
00:41:09and we've got a lot of charcoal as well which we can get dated as well so dates
00:41:13should come back in a bit and we can figure out how old to the ditch is
00:41:17Do you see that?
00:41:19Young men will have the classic
00:41:19Do you see that?
00:41:20Dating is something that's really bad as well
00:41:24We have a lot of disasters in the center of Wabilo Man
00:41:26let me see what they want from the bottom of the hill
00:41:29What is the time from the hill to the hill, I would say
00:41:34We still have a lot of bad things from the hill in the hill
00:41:35If we have a lot of bad things from the hill
00:41:36We still have 2 years of work
00:41:39and we've got free and 20 years of work
00:41:42we've got a lot of bad things from the hill
00:41:43Where the hill into the hill
00:41:46further can lie a horse.
00:41:50Carbon data, it looks at the amount of carbon-14
00:41:53in something which has been living but which has died.
00:41:56And so the amount of carbon-14 stops being created once a thing dies.
00:42:01So anything that's been alive, you can radiocarbon date.
00:42:04And that's incredibly important for us
00:42:05because a lot of the things that we find bone would, you know,
00:42:09have been alive and therefore we can radiocarbon date.
00:42:12We want to be careful at the moment what we say
00:42:17but we need to see what shape it is.
00:42:19A monastic ditch would generally be circular in some way,
00:42:24so oval, sub-oval, or odd shapes but they have rounded corners.
00:42:29And so if we can work out where these two fragments of ditch, you know, lead us
00:42:34then we might have a better idea of whether it might be monastic.
00:42:38I mean, I would say that it definitely increases the possibility of it being
00:42:43because that's one of the things we know we would have had a ditch
00:42:45and so therefore it definitely slightly increases the possibility.
00:42:48The trench had dug last night.
00:43:18It was this not-quite-square here.
00:43:21It started off as a square just to see if there was continuation here.
00:43:26And, well, you could see.
00:43:29I had tears of joy, actually.
00:43:32Oh, excitement when I found it again.
00:43:35A path is important, but it goes from somewhere to somewhere
00:43:38and we want to try and work out where that is.
00:43:41And the bedding layer underneath it, sort of a sandy layer,
00:43:45we had dated by radiocarbon dating to 1041 to 1211 AD,
00:43:50so within the monastic period.
00:43:52It's obviously going back this way,
00:43:56but it's a slight angle to what we originally might have thought.
00:44:02And so we're now extending this trench at the back
00:44:06to see if we can find it further down.
00:44:11Within a monastic complex,
00:44:13there would have been all sorts of liturgical,
00:44:18processional activities that were undertaken.
00:44:20So when you were worshipping,
00:44:23it wasn't necessarily static in a church,
00:44:27but the monastic community would have perambulated.
00:44:30They would have walked around the monastic complex,
00:44:33visiting various holy stations.
00:44:35Now, that might have been going to another chapel site.
00:44:38It might have been going to a holy well.
00:44:40So that level of investment and planning
00:44:42is quite important in an early Christian site.
00:44:46For me, the exciting thing is that it just continues,
00:44:50and I guess, where does it go to?
00:44:53That's what I would love to know is just,
00:44:57well, I would just love to follow it and see where it goes.
00:45:02Chamburin sio fi na hliu a fadl siachet
00:45:05no iog yn y llentyn hon y fanachin.
00:45:14Ah! She's found it!
00:45:16Seriously?
00:45:18I don't know, but it's a big stone.
00:45:20It looks awfully like it.
00:45:23Wow.
00:45:23What do you think?
00:45:24Definitely.
00:45:25Well, it's two big stones next to each other,
00:45:28so hopefully.
00:45:30It's in about the right place.
00:45:31Yep.
00:45:32Yeah.
00:45:33Right there.
00:45:34Fantastic.
00:45:35That's amazing.
00:45:37When you start finding things,
00:45:39you get such a buzz from it.
00:45:41It's great.
00:45:42Oh my goodness, look at this.
00:45:44Wow.
00:45:45Oh my goodness.
00:45:49So, I mean, this is presumably the continuation of the path
00:45:51which we have already dated to,
00:45:53the Beddy Matil, to around about 1000 AD.
00:45:56But where we're going to and from in 1000 AD,
00:45:59we're not sure.
00:46:01It's just amazing.
00:46:02It's just amazing.
00:46:19The waterfront is included with the Spanish Greek artist, and I think that it's a long time.
00:46:25There's a single folio inserted into the manuscript. It's in Latin, but it's a shortened mass ritual for someone who's very ill.
00:46:29So this is where this manuscript has been taken.
00:46:31What is a script ?
00:46:33The middle of the natural language is the line.
00:46:35There's a single folio that's been inserted into the manuscript. It's in Latin, but it's a shortened mass ritual for someone who's very ill.
00:46:41the manuscript it's in Latin but it's a shortened mass ritual for someone who's
00:46:45very ill so this is where this manuscript has been taken to visit
00:46:49someone who's ill and give them the sacrament and and in it there is a tiny
00:46:53instruction which says here give him the sacrifice meaning the Eucharist and
00:46:57that's in Irish Gaelic
00:47:04and there's also at the end of the manuscript at the very end of the main
00:47:08text which is otherwise all in Latin and it's Gospels and there's a thing called
00:47:13a scribal colophon so that means it's where the scribe stops writing the main
00:47:17text and speaks in their own voice and addresses the reader
00:47:21this occurs in a couple of Irish manuscripts as well so what it tells us
00:47:26is that the scribe knew about practices in Ireland
00:47:33and in this case it's whoever reads this splendid little book if they could
00:47:39make a prayer for the soul of the wretch who penned it
00:47:42living in the standard poetry room and it's because they were one of the
00:47:46things that they learned from the gospel, not exactly what they meant
00:47:50and people think about this kind of language
00:47:53to be an artist or some of them from the political
00:47:57language in a place where they were
00:47:59so if they didn't know if they were a teenager
00:48:01they weren't. They weren't just a person
00:48:03and they didn't know if they were one of the treasures
00:48:05and they didn't know if they were one of the treasures
00:48:06and they didn't know if they were the primary ones
00:48:09because of the metres you can live the 들
00:48:13and at the end of the bridge you can stay in thedead.
00:48:24That's something that started and the story came to the King
00:48:25as it was before the journey started.
00:48:27It's sad that the journey that we spent on the journey
00:48:29will eventually be able to get through this journey.
00:48:35I mean, I've done digs in Cyprus
00:48:37And I feel like it's just hitting that point of like, this is maybe a bit too rough.
00:48:44And it's so dusty as well, like if you sneeze it's just a dust cloud.
00:48:50It's too hot to dig. Right.
00:48:58The next one is a new one, and a new one is a new one, and a new one is a new one through a new one.
00:49:05And it's such a very interesting sight in a larger Scottish context, having the first written gala, I think it's really special.
00:49:14So this is the initial section that was placed through the ditch and wall context is just a very, very simple cut with quite steep edges.
00:49:29And this is what we had expected to continue upstream.
00:49:32We had a kind of a little bit of a tree and a little bit of a tree, but I guess the tree is a tree.
00:49:39It's a tree, a tree, or a tree.
00:49:43But we are still on a tree.
00:49:46So you can see the the trench that I started with just came up to here.
00:49:51so this is the same ditch and the same wall and I was expecting to find a similar section to the
00:49:57trench below me and that the ditch would continue but instead of found a drain that's diverting
00:50:04water into the ditch running slightly downhill and water would have come out here and pulled into
00:50:10the ditch. But there was a lot of time to go to the ditch. There was a lot of time to go to the
00:50:16Clachguna Giga. And there was a lot of time to go to the Wallham.
00:50:24Now we obviously got excited when we found a ditch because we might have thought that
00:50:29that was to do with the Wallham ditch so surrounding a monastery but as soon as we
00:50:33realised it was more to do with water management we were then talking about a building which
00:50:37has either had a wheel or water wheel or just needed an awful lot of water near it or in it
00:50:42for whatever was happening within that building.
00:50:46The thing is is with our ditch it's not a Wallham and it was very frustrating that we found that
00:50:51um basically usually we would expect that but the problem is is we're not entirely sure what a
00:50:57monastery of this period and type would look like so we are sort of looking for a needle in a haystack
00:51:02but the haystack is made of needles and we forgot what the original needle looked like
00:51:05so it's very very difficult.
00:51:06It's very difficult because there just isn't enough really to say and we're not getting features that
00:51:21are and fines that are suggesting is the monastery and so maybe it's just that this is not it
00:51:27um or that everything's you know whatever they had here has gone but you would suspect that you
00:51:33would find some monastic or early medieval finds if they had been here so i suppose if you push me
00:51:40i would say this probably isn't there hasn't been the monastery
00:51:43we're still hoping that we'll find something here you know i mean we've got three days to go after today
00:51:58so we're still hoping i think it's here but that's just me and it doesn't you know i do think it's here
00:52:12you get a feeling in your bones it's like a sixth sense you know that that it's important and every
00:52:18tiny macroscopic detail matters and you have to be so diligent and so thorough and i you know i can
00:52:24understand people working into the evenings because they just want to find out more
00:52:38it's a postal we believe and it seems to be quite exciting because it's going down quite
00:52:50deep so i just put in my string halfed it and then just started going down and then teased out to the
00:53:01sides and i could really feel where the edges were and at the moment it's like well what is going to
00:53:08be at the bottom of it who knows it could be something really interesting
00:53:12so we have this thing and i like to call it the curse of the last day and it's basically on the
00:53:20last day or the last week of your excavation you'll always find something really cool
00:53:27i'm wondering if that's the bottom because i thought yeah there's that gravelly layer that goes
00:53:32it is and i thought i think that's the bottom oh lovely that's nice isn't it
00:53:36i mean the postals are significant that we don't yet know what date they are but that they could be
00:53:52part of a monastic um structures and so yeah no they're very important to find this is exactly the
00:53:58sort of evidence that we were looking for the sort of evidence that we were looking for
00:54:03you tidy up your loose
00:54:10so the provenance of the manuscript essentially what happened after it was created we know it's
00:54:26there from 1130 to 1150 in the 12th century in 1219 william common who is their local lord he
00:54:34found this cistercian abbey of deer
00:54:41we know that that cistercian abbey held some of the lands of the old the original monastery of deer
00:54:47and for that reason they would have kept the book of deer it would have been very valuable to them
00:54:52again as proof of their land holding
00:55:18and it was a leading church,
00:55:19and a very unique church,
00:55:21and a very unique church.
00:55:24The awful stories of what happened to manuscripts
00:55:27at the dissolution of the monastery
00:55:28is that Henry VIII sent his agent round
00:55:30and he was only interested in manuscripts
00:55:33relating to his issues with the church.
00:55:36And many, many manuscripts were not valued
00:55:38and they were lost.
00:55:39That's the girl's name, she was so much.
00:55:51It's often been a bit difficult to get to know.
00:56:01is the opportunity to live in Cambridge.
00:56:04At the time, I was studying at Cambridge and the palace of Cambridge,
00:56:07when I was young,
00:56:12I was in the county and Bishop John Moor
00:56:15who worked in the city and the palace of Cambridge.
00:56:19And I was thinking that the city of Cambridge
00:56:22was a new place to live in Cambridge.
00:56:24I was thinking that the city of Cambridge
00:56:27was a new place to live in Cambridge,
00:56:30But I didn't recognize the fact that we were trying to be a little bit of a slightly different accent.
00:56:34The fact that we had a lot of knowledge about the war in the Civil War.
00:56:39The fact that we have a lot of knowledge about the history of the Civil War was not really well.
00:56:43We are not really determined that we had a lot of knowledge about the history of our history.
00:56:48We have to have that knowledge about the history of the Civil War in the Civil War.
00:56:52But it's been a bit different to the history of the Civil War.
00:56:56They didn't recognise it. You would have to have known what Gaelic language was. You'd
00:57:04have to have been interested in the language of Britain and Ireland. So it's only 1860
00:57:10that the Gaelic notes were really discovered in the manuscript due to Henry Bradshaw who
00:57:14was the librarian of the University Library in Cambridge.
00:57:18When I was in the UK, there were a lot of manuscripts in the UK.
00:57:28I did not know that I was going to read the book and read the book.
00:57:34The Gaelic language that was translated into the UK and that was a very different language.
00:57:41...and I was always in the middle of the night...
00:57:43...and I was looking at what I was thinking about...
00:57:45...and I was thinking about the story...
00:57:47...and I was thinking about the story.
00:57:56Alan Schirach-Goborain...
00:57:58...is that I was the only one after the year.
00:58:00And I was thinking about the story...
00:58:02...and I was thinking about the story of the story.
00:58:04It's looking good everybody.
00:58:06It's on Ali from Sgibailca and the clock from Sgibailca.
00:58:14Premilla was up in the night till dark planning.
00:58:23So she's got this amazing plan which she can show you here.
00:58:26So that's one section of it.
00:58:27So which bit is that Premilla?
00:58:30From the edge there.
00:58:32So that's the edge of the trench from 2018 along to here, along to the edge of there.
00:58:41It's really difficult to stop once you start.
00:58:43Really difficult.
00:58:44It's really difficult to stop once you start.
00:58:45Really difficult.
00:58:48So I think we've got now one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
00:59:02Nine more post holes than we had when we started this dig, which doesn't seem many, but three
00:59:10of them are a very specific type, which is very deep.
00:59:13So 30 centimetres diameter for the post and 35 centimetres deep.
00:59:19So they're really, three of them probably related.
00:59:21And we've drawn a plan this morning of them all together, but we can't really see a pattern
00:59:27and it's because we've lost a lot of them.
00:59:38So what we need to do now is to get dates for those.
00:59:41So a lot of them have got charcoal in.
00:59:42We'll get dates for those and then we'll be able to piece the story together in post excavation.
00:59:50To direct a dig with all these people, it's very hard work.
00:59:53So there's a mixture, you know, I'm sad that people are leaving.
00:59:59I mean, we dug a huge amount of material, we did a lot of features.
01:00:03And so, yes, I mean, this is a huge achievement to have excavated that amount.
01:00:08And, yeah, no, we're proud to have done that, you know, as a team.
01:00:12One, two, three.
01:00:23It is so heartbreaking to have a dig finish.
01:00:26And you're obviously very physically exhausted, but it is very, very hard because these are
01:00:31people that you've spent, you know, not like a typical workday, but basically a day with
01:00:35every day for six weeks, two months, whatever, and they become a little bit like your family.
01:00:50We would not have a dig without our volunteers.
01:00:52They are, apart from the archaeology, the most important thing for our dig.
01:00:56They are absolutely fantastic.
01:00:58And I think the sense of community that we have through our volunteers is just incredible.
01:01:03What about them filming?
01:01:10What about them filming?
01:01:15They are all the new ones on the Davila Vigertsigar.
01:01:22are distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen the lord provost of the city of aberdeen david
01:01:37cameron good evening everybody and welcome what is a more fitting exhibition for us to have here
01:01:48but the return of the book of deer it's the first time in nearly a thousand years
01:01:56i walked in here and i came in quite early so i was nobody in the room except if travel let me in
01:02:06and me and i just went oh
01:02:18people have a very clear response to this text and that's so interesting because that's the
01:02:25other fear is not just that people don't see it but people don't care people care so deeply and so
01:02:30much about this text
01:02:32we'll come and have a look and see what you think
01:02:35it really is marvelous isn't it isn't it lovely
01:02:41very good
01:02:44the condition of the book it really is just
01:03:14exquisite and yeah it's quite moving seeing such a beautiful book brought back to northeast
01:03:19haven't been away for so long
01:03:21it's just a beautiful beautiful script yeah it's a loss for words i'm sorry i just think it's wonderful
01:03:28it's amazing
01:03:30beautiful beautiful script yeah i'm lost for words i'm sorry i just think it's wonderful
01:03:36it really do
01:03:43beautiful beautiful script
01:03:47it's a loss for words i'm sorry i just think it's wonderful
01:03:50it really do
01:03:54it's wonderful
01:04:07it's wonderful
01:04:08how much
01:04:09things are
01:04:10it's a loss for a year
01:04:13it's a loss for two years
01:04:14it's very much
01:04:16for twelve years
01:04:18because I'm being mother at Carl Haddish.
01:04:25How are you feeling, Ali? Tell me about it.
01:04:28It's really weird, isn't it?
01:04:29It's very strange.
01:04:30You can see where the trench was because the weeds are different growing on the weather.
01:04:34You know what you mean?
01:04:35But I'm struggling because you made me come in here and have a look and point
01:04:38at where the postcards would be.
01:04:39Yeah, yeah. Well, they were over here.
01:04:41And so I can't walk in there at the moment with my gammy knees.
01:04:44And you are younger than me, so...
01:04:46I could go back. I may go back.
01:04:48I can't think about it.
01:04:49But, yeah, no, no. So the postcards were in here, weren't they?
01:04:53This horrible, a nice sense of anticipation and waiting
01:05:05as you try and figure out whether you found what you think you found
01:05:08and that painful waiting for all the dates.
01:05:11Oh, my gosh. Terrible months.
01:05:13And then Ali, ever so coyly, just sends them by email,
01:05:23sends them a little Facebook message, and she's like,
01:05:24you should check the dates.
01:05:31And then I open it up, and it's just...
01:05:33It's unbelievable.
01:05:34And I have to check with her several times
01:05:36because I don't believe what she's just sent me
01:05:37could possibly be true.
01:05:43And we're starting to get dates, for example,
01:05:45940 to 1020 AD, 952 to 1024 AD.
01:05:53And then a group of dates, 1030 to 1160, 1080 to 1154,
01:05:59all within this period,
01:06:01which we would be expecting for a monastery.
01:06:08Yeah, that's a nice 10th to 11th century date as well.
01:06:11It's perfect. It's bang on, isn't it?
01:06:12Yes, that's really exciting.
01:06:15I would say 10 out of 10, yeah.
01:06:17I think jackpot.
01:06:18Yeah.
01:06:22And immediately I went through,
01:06:23told my partner,
01:06:24oh, my goodness, we found the monastery.
01:06:28It seems quite, like, outrageous and audacious
01:06:30I'm able to sit here and be like,
01:06:31yes, we found the monastery.
01:06:33Can you imagine?
01:06:37A lot of the rest of the field
01:06:39has been very disturbed,
01:06:40but we were able to, you know,
01:06:42put a trench right on the area
01:06:44where we found these early medieval features,
01:06:46which is amazing.
01:06:55And the keen light,
01:06:56Jaravig,
01:06:57wrote three iddyn Jeegneaf
01:06:58iddyn Larach siu.
01:07:03The barach iddyn dhewl push
01:07:05to chai Loroq
01:07:05on the dafile se syachdioc
01:07:07chai ferilla
01:07:08my new line
01:07:09to Loroq.
01:07:11Two post holes.
01:07:12Don't make a structure,
01:07:14but that having them
01:07:15from this very early period,
01:07:16you know,
01:07:17is incredibly exciting.
01:07:20Gedna chai falam manach a lyfan,
01:07:22ba cael mlaa iddyn Jeegneaf
01:07:24iddyn Jeegneaf
01:07:24iddyn Jeegneaf
01:07:24iddyn
01:07:25tra sny meaan
01:07:26nyeantjen,
01:07:26cimichil iddyn
01:07:27nirnawn
01:07:28iddyn
01:07:28porst mcholomeg.
01:07:31This ditch is amazing,
01:07:32probably cut in
01:07:33the 7th to 8th century,
01:07:35and then infilled
01:07:36in the,
01:07:37you know,
01:07:38in the 8th century,
01:07:39which was much,
01:07:40much earlier
01:07:41than we thought
01:07:41it was going to be.
01:07:42And that was the
01:08:05sort of jaw-dropping moment
01:08:06because although
01:08:07the remains are not
01:08:08well-preserved,
01:08:10in fact they're
01:08:10fairly poorly preserved,
01:08:12that that was the
01:08:12weight of evidence
01:08:13that suggested
01:08:14that this is the monastery.
01:08:20In the end of the
01:08:21Vilsinian Esgyevinjah,
01:08:22gynroth caer snach
01:08:23manach ayl
01:08:24traing asio,
01:08:25achiun coer idd
01:08:26mhile plianna,
01:08:28heddlm a chúrst
01:08:29gym behi lachal.
01:08:34Chosichat haddyshidh
01:08:36sli a lachid,
01:08:37stawcha is an
01:08:38tarwgach rinichig,
01:08:39at the beginning of the 19th century.
01:08:44And in the beginning of the 18th century,
01:08:48it wrote about the contrary and the contrary
01:08:52and the contrary to the Chinese.
01:08:57The contrary to the Chinese,
01:08:59when the French was told
01:09:03it was, after the long-term I was a total of 1000 years.
01:09:07This book is incredibly important and the surviving of this book is incredibly important.
01:09:14I think it's been a long time for the people who have been in the world and have been in the world
01:09:20and have been in the world and have been in the world.
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