Gilded brooches under a Wiltshire housing site: Chronicle digs into Anglo-Saxon Britain

All three new documentaries went into the ground, from a pagan cemetery at Winterbourne Gunner to Tintagel and Hadrian's Wall, while a Tudor film with Tracy Borman kept its pull.

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Archeologists Discover A 1,400-Year-Old Anglo-Saxon Cemetery

Construction stopped in Winterbourne Gunner, a village in Wiltshire, and what lay under the planned houses turned out to be a 1,400-year-old Anglo-Saxon cemetery. That find anchors one of Chronicle's three new documentaries: pagan burials with gilded brooches, amber beads and weapons, laid out, the description says, around a Bronze Age sacred site some 3,500 years old.

The rest of the week stayed underground too. A three-hour compilation tours Black Death mass graves at Thornton Abbey, the lost monastery at Lindisfarne and what is billed as Western Europe's oldest salt factory, and it has been the most watched of the new uploads. The youngest film, posted Sunday, takes on the old idea of a post-Roman "dark age," looking again at Roman York, Hadrian's Wall and Tintagel, the Cornish headland long tied to the legend of King Arthur. In its first hours it moved faster than anything else on the channel.

Behind them, a 23-day-old portrait of Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son who rose to run Henry VIII's government, is close to 200,000 views. Historian Tracy Borman, who wrote a well-known biography of Cromwell, leads it.

Overall the channel ran at about half its usual daily pace and added around a thousand subscribers. Among documentary channels of similar size, the bigger weeks belonged to Channel 4 Documentaries and Banijay History, with Odyssey, Chronicle's ancient-history sibling, running a little above its own norm.

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The numbers

Here is how Chronicle's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Channel 4 Documentaries

2,816,650

The Atlantic

1,366,660

Banijay History

1,265,725

Odyssey - Ancient History…

1,057,165

Chronicle - Medieval Hist…

759,139

SBS Dateline

323,118

the fifth estate

287,818

subscribers

896,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

153,781,451

views per day

63,271

typical day: 121,965

first-day views of each video posted this week

3 Hours Of The Greatest Archeological D…

11,807

Archeologists Discover A 1,400-Year-Old…

6,841

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

VICE Sports

1,130,000

Channel 4 Documentaries

1,110,000

Natural World Facts

1,070,000

Odyssey - Ancient History…

1,050,000

Banijay History

1,040,000

the fifth estate

1,000,000

The Atlantic

981,000

Chronicle - Medieval Hist…

896,000

SBS Dateline

791,000

As of October 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.