Waterloo Battlefield Archaeology - Medieval Dead - S03 EP07
76K views · Feb 24, 2024 · Entertainment
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@raquellofstedt9713 · 2 years ago
We live in the middle of land that has served as battle fields for many, many generations. The Danes, other clans, and who knows who else have fought over this land, as it is some of what is rather rare, easily farmed land in the area. Villaged near here have names like, "the burned mill". The mill that was once on out land was burned by the danes back in the 1400´s. Memories are long here. I often wonder what might be out under the surface of our land, but the ground is so acidic.
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@geoffreymarshall639 · 2 years ago
Wellington complain that the Lion Mound had spoiled the battlefield. It is possible that a large number of the original graves had been disturbed and the dead reburied in the mound or taken away completely.
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@Sugarmountaincondo · 2 years ago
More questions than answers.
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@Ap-cm7mx · 2 years ago
Grinding bones into fertilizer is not only valid for the dead from Waterloo but also for the heroes from The Charge Of The Light Brigade.<br>Sources from the 1860s report that bones from the Crimean War (1853-1856) were transported to England as well, and in 1881 a newspaper reported that skeletons from the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) were found in a shipload of bones in the port of Hull. Historians from Belgium and Germany have evidence that even World War I graves were looted. They are currently writing a book about the discoveries.
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@TheRealTburt · 2 years ago
I was doing some research and found out one possible reason why there are not many bodies discovered at Waterloo. Many of the bones were dug up and ground into powder and baked in a kiln to make bone-char, a material used as a filter media for sugar syrup. There was a huge sugar factory in Waterloo from 1836-1871.
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@desmentjhb · 2 years ago
Paul is an amazing story teller! could listen to his stories for hours.
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@gmicg · 2 years ago
Irony of the things: On the 125th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, on June 18th 1940, general Charles de Gaulle made from London his appeal to the French people to continue the war against the Axis powers.
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@_renaissance.girl_ · 2 years ago
I visited the battlefield, and I can tell you it is the most uncomfortable I have felt at any place, it's very eerie, more so as it was raining when we visited. I just had to leave after a while because the place literally made me feel sick. 😔
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@glendamears3618 · 2 years ago
That's so awful all the soldiers and the horses too. So many 😮❤❤❤ poor thing's ❤❤
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@benjamindejonge3624 · 2 years ago (edited)
The amazing thing off the battle off Waterloo is basically a very British illusion, because this is only one in Europe without graves ever found except a few near the field hospital, the 50.000 dead soldiers and the 7.000 horses and no trees around in hundred mile for cremation did disappeared and leaving really lot’s of doubts like it ever existed
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@danielhjelmberg1173 · 2 years ago
Oh, what horrors, what horrors.
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@12roostboost34 · 1 year ago
Men that have fought together, seen or endured horrific things together, even spilled blood together have a bond that others do not fully understand. This can even be true to some degree in other occupations, police, prisons etc. Anyone that dismisses the notion of a band of brothers as a fabrication clearly has no understanding and should not be making such statements.
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