Waterloo Uncovered

It’s a dig where a Napoleon fought his last battle. It’s an archeology dig and it has been going on since 2:20 probably before that even. I’m a lover of time team and from time team I know that archaeologists don’t really care for metal detectors and yet they’re using them now more frequently.

One of the professors that is the head of the dig, just said that he had written a paper on the fact that they have found few bodies actually in two twenty they had started a dig and then they covered it up not knowing that we’d have the epidemic in two twenty one and so there was no digging that went on. Until the two twenty two due to Covid .

In this first trench that I saw when I turned on YouTube to enjoy some history while I ate Greek yogurt. Walmart Greek yogurt is the bomb. That means it’s nummy nummy. I love to learn when I eat sometimes I like to watch NCIS mystery is almost as good as learning but you take less of it away with you when you’re not eating and watching it knowledge is always fantastic.

If I had a piece of paper I would have taken down the name of the professor who was talking about how rare it is to find body parts upon the field of battle that Waterloo was. Here’s an interesting note whenever it’s a period of History it is always capitalized like the Black Death, the Renaissance, the World War II. it amazes me that Google doesn’t know that because I had to go back and capitalize the words that they didn’t capitalize.

I learned that in Time Team which is a great show which I learned a lot about archeology that I had no idea about only thing I really knew is archeology is a part of anthropology. I studied history and anthropology and gender studies which was not what I expected it to be about at Luther College in Decorah Iowa. Isn’t that cool Goggle can spell Decorah,Iowa spell Decorah Iowa right.

Many digs such as Viking or other time periods that the Time Team Dug on time Team (so this is cute Google wrote Doug as d o u g) hahaha wrong! Many times they never found a body there’s only one time they were doing a Viking dig that they actually found a body in tact it was a young woman and she was found with burial goods.

On many digs there would be nobody remaining within the burial kiss. A kiss is a hole the body is sort of appears to be bending and lay it on its side and the burial goods or valuables that the person had during its life or her life are laid around the body. Many times the grave is lined with chalk. Usually the kiss burials are near settlement areas.

For example the beakers were people that worked for the Vikings at first I thought they were called beakers because they found glasses . Because beaker is a word that British used to describe a cup. I hadn’t realized that they were referring to an entire group of people who are known as beakers I still think that that’s how cups got their name in England I could be wrong.

It seem to go as one goes with two that if they found a beaker settlement then it wouldn’t be too far away to find a fort that was Viking. Vikings were in England around 400.

Like many other cultures they took over the religious sites of The Druids and made them their own and that’s where they had religious ceremonies and such. They weren’t fools they knew that if The druids continue to go to the sites that they had their religious ceremonies and they change the ceremony to evoke whoever they worshiped then eventually quietly non-violently without any soft targets they would not have to kill anybody bingo bingo everybody would believe whatever the Vikings or the ruling class was worshiping.

It is interesting to note that early Christians did exactly the same thing that the Vikings did they moved in took over the sites that were being used for other religions swiped a whole bunch of the custumes like using incense and ringing bells and in their own religious areas and once again bingo banco everybody was Christian they actually killed some people because the early Christians were Romans.

Romans arrived in England after the Vikings . It seems everybody fought in England. And yet as I know only the British ground up bones and sold them as fertilizer. i find that deep in my heart being part Welsh offensive!

The common folk were smart enough to side with the ruling class. There’s an old expression ‘always know whose buttering your bread, the English so it came around to their point of view and started converting to the Vikings as well as the Romans.

In many cases the ground is so acid bodies disintegrate. I was wondering why couldn’t that have been the case why they’ve only found a few bodies or body parts to this day vanished from this battlefield, this professor that seems to be in announcing this show has another theory.

This professor thought that maybe the little mounds of burial were dug up and the bodies were all brought back to England and the bodies were ground up and put into fertilizer oh hell! Why in the world would the British allow such a horrid thing at that time residents were up in arms because future doctors were digging up the dead and dissecting the body’s for the reason of learning surely they would never have tolerated the bodies of their fall being ground up and put into fertilizer.

The professor then suggested that that 250,000 who died at Waterloo on the battlefield who were buried in mass graves were he surmised that a lot of the bodies were brought back after recovery to England. After digging them up and instead of putting in them in ground in decent War cemeteries like the ones that remain after wars such as Flounder’s in France. These war honored dead were not honored these remains were not treated with respect.

The last remains of British finest were ground up like feed and used as fertilizer to grow crops!

I know that here in America if any of our fallen dead in any of the previous wars that we fought on distant lands or on our home ground wherever were ground up into fertilizer there would be an uproar you would have heard around the world and you would have thought it was another atomic bomb!

We in America don’t take kindly to horrid things occuring to Americans. It has! Our own government tried to do what nazi Germany did by sterilizing Poor Americans.

Unproud things no one could ever fathom. Like Egenics where the US rounded up Americans with the aid of a dude that did horrid experimental experiments on the innocent in concentration camps in WWII.

Friendly fire occurs in all wars but America eventually came clean with that during the Vietnam police action.An Iowan mom was one that stood up and got answers when it was noted her sin was shot from behind.

Gettysburg a major confrontation in our Civil War also known as War Between the States. The best cemetery where such horrific pain and destruction of humanity took place a graveyard was constructed that like the song taps was written to honor the fallen of both the North and the South!

Why couldn’t Waterloo’s dug up remains, remain there? Whose bright idea would it have been to respond so hideously in such a manner?

My granddad First sargent in the Medical Corps Paul John Andrew Heike’s job at twenty two was to find falling comrades in the trenches of Flounders, France in WWI.Remove them and get them to the doctors. There’s one hell of a fine cemetery there.

‘Atrocities happen in every war but should not happen to our remains of our fallen I hope you understands this is pissed me off!’ Valerie Whitewolf Heike

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