Towers of the North: The Brochs of Iron Age Scotland (3000 BC - 200 AD)
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Good production though. I mean, very believable, with the aerial shots and the smooth, velvety voice over that sounds like he could break into a into a Manchester United Roar any second. Thumbs up on the production. As for the accompanying story, I often cite this line.
is this a true story?
Well, it's certainly true. it is a story.
Date: 2022-09-10
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kevin
Obviously they were built by Wimpey's.
As the pyramids are still standing so is the sphinx.
And the Inca temples.
Some thing flattened these and didn't the later two.
Also the fact that there is very little arca logical evidence means they were either abandoned or wiped out with some thing that destroyed there remains.
Structures built like that don't just fall down, Look at the castles most of them are still standing that weren't robbed of there stone years ago!
As the bases are still there and the structure id very strong there should be more of them still complete.
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Obviously they were built by Wimpey's.
As the pyramids are still standing so is the sphinx.
And the Inca temples.
Some thing flattened these and didn't the later two.
Also the fact that there is very little arca logical evidence means they were either abandoned or wiped out with some thing that destroyed there remains.
Structures built like that don't just fall down, Look at the castles most of them are still standing that weren't robbed of there stone years ago!
As the bases are still there and the structure id very strong there should be more of them still complete.
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Jeremy
The great author, Farley Mowat hypothesized that the Broch builders were also a sea faring people who built boats using wooden frames and animal hides. He believed that they actually made they're way across the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland centuries before the Vikings. Up on the huge island called Baffin Island have been found remnants of settlements that are definitely not from Native Americans. Stones aligned in the shape boats. He thought that the people turned the boats over and used them as shelters. Read his book, The Farfarers. It's very good.
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The great author, Farley Mowat hypothesized that the Broch builders were also a sea faring people who built boats using wooden frames and animal hides. He believed that they actually made they're way across the Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland centuries before the Vikings. Up on the huge island called Baffin Island have been found remnants of settlements that are definitely not from Native Americans. Stones aligned in the shape boats. He thought that the people turned the boats over and used them as shelters. Read his book, The Farfarers. It's very good.
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Ken
I think we lag behind in this country when it comes to archaeological reconstructions. The broch is a brilliant project. If the French can build an entire castle like Guedelon from scratch using historical methods, surely we can do something similar? There's so much that can be learned in this way. We have hillforts and to spare here, wouldn't it be great if we could resurrect one in its entirety, based on what we know and learning along the way.
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I think we lag behind in this country when it comes to archaeological reconstructions. The broch is a brilliant project. If the French can build an entire castle like Guedelon from scratch using historical methods, surely we can do something similar? There's so much that can be learned in this way. We have hillforts and to spare here, wouldn't it be great if we could resurrect one in its entirety, based on what we know and learning along the way.
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Darren
I spent a week camping up the west coast of Scotland a few years back. Including a couple of nights on the Isle of Skye. I saw and explored a Brock on the coastline. It was in ruins, only a few feet of stone remained and i didn't really understand what i was looking at. I thought it was a small castle of some kind as the layout confused me. Now i understand what it was. so thank you. Scotland is a deeply mystical and beautiful country.
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I spent a week camping up the west coast of Scotland a few years back. Including a couple of nights on the Isle of Skye. I saw and explored a Brock on the coastline. It was in ruins, only a few feet of stone remained and i didn't really understand what i was looking at. I thought it was a small castle of some kind as the layout confused me. Now i understand what it was. so thank you. Scotland is a deeply mystical and beautiful country.
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James
Still find myself coming back to this video of yours. I absolutely love your content, also love the Caithness Broch Project, which hopefully will start laying down stones in the near future if we're lucky.
Would love you to do a video on the Irish ringforts and cashels too!
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Still find myself coming back to this video of yours. I absolutely love your content, also love the Caithness Broch Project, which hopefully will start laying down stones in the near future if we're lucky.
Would love you to do a video on the Irish ringforts and cashels too!
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Veronica
It would be nice if they planted lots of trees in Scotland, the land looks so bare - similar to North Wales where they introduced sheep who destroyed the forests there. replant those forests darn it. I love the mountains bare or not, but it is not the natural status at all!
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It would be nice if they planted lots of trees in Scotland, the land looks so bare - similar to North Wales where they introduced sheep who destroyed the forests there. replant those forests darn it. I love the mountains bare or not, but it is not the natural status at all!
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Albert
Great Video! Methinks the Middle Ages witnessed the marriage of the later imitated BROCH of the deep past with the RECTANGULAR Dwelling of successive waves Continental Invaders plus extended enclosing WALLS to make the now Fairy-Tale CASTLE, surviving in Disney films.
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Great Video! Methinks the Middle Ages witnessed the marriage of the later imitated BROCH of the deep past with the RECTANGULAR Dwelling of successive waves Continental Invaders plus extended enclosing WALLS to make the now Fairy-Tale CASTLE, surviving in Disney films.
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Alekzander
Anyone ever wonder if the roundhouses in Brittan are round rather than rectangular like on the continent because many of the places they are found are really windy? round structures where more resistant to the winds which are so common in many parts of Brittan.
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Anyone ever wonder if the roundhouses in Brittan are round rather than rectangular like on the continent because many of the places they are found are really windy? round structures where more resistant to the winds which are so common in many parts of Brittan.
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Foxglove963
So you assume the Neolithic people had a religion? They were governed by shamanism, which is not a religion.
To you standing stones litter the landscape? Standing stones have deep meaning and purpose. Don't forget to put your plastic litter in the bin!
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So you assume the Neolithic people had a religion? They were governed by shamanism, which is not a religion.
To you standing stones litter the landscape? Standing stones have deep meaning and purpose. Don't forget to put your plastic litter in the bin!
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Geordie
Wow beautiful long lasting buildings built long before architects and interior designers started to whine about builders undermining their image. Let masons, joiner/carpenters/plasterers talk to the clients and build things people like and want.
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Wow beautiful long lasting buildings built long before architects and interior designers started to whine about builders undermining their image. Let masons, joiner/carpenters/plasterers talk to the clients and build things people like and want.
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GIJ
Why are they so localised? Most other structures of the same period, rather like their Neolithic and bronze age predecessors, seem to appear across the north-eastern Atlantic seaboards, so why brochs in Scotland alone?
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Why are they so localised? Most other structures of the same period, rather like their Neolithic and bronze age predecessors, seem to appear across the north-eastern Atlantic seaboards, so why brochs in Scotland alone?
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heather
Soay sheep are probably the most ancient sheep in the world. They cannot be herded, even by best sheepdogs - they just scatter, nd have a very distinctive look. Need no shearing ever, and are very naughty!
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Soay sheep are probably the most ancient sheep in the world. They cannot be herded, even by best sheepdogs - they just scatter, nd have a very distinctive look. Need no shearing ever, and are very naughty!
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konian
i don't know much about Scotland, but my ADN matches a ancient sample from north, I2859 and I 2860 dated to 900 BC 33. 90 cm meaning we come from the same tribes the Hittite in Anatolia i'm a Iberian
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i don't know much about Scotland, but my ADN matches a ancient sample from north, I2859 and I 2860 dated to 900 BC 33. 90 cm meaning we come from the same tribes the Hittite in Anatolia i'm a Iberian
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BatM
Every one has thought these roman nutters were invincible? I wonder if any one in the past thought about stabbing the feet of the soldiers? Must have been a weak point me thinks?
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Every one has thought these roman nutters were invincible? I wonder if any one in the past thought about stabbing the feet of the soldiers? Must have been a weak point me thinks?
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David
Fascinating that these brochs look very much like fortresses, yet no archaeological evidence of conflict has ever been found associated with this uniquely Scottish phenomena.
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Fascinating that these brochs look very much like fortresses, yet no archaeological evidence of conflict has ever been found associated with this uniquely Scottish phenomena.
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Ben
Full of mispronounciations, misinformation and general nonsense.
To top it off this English fool name drops the fake historian Neil Oliver, a Britnat disgrace to Scotland.
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Full of mispronounciations, misinformation and general nonsense.
To top it off this English fool name drops the fake historian Neil Oliver, a Britnat disgrace to Scotland.
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Gary
Good video but few pronunciations are off, they aren't called BROKS but Bro-ochs and Neil Oliver certainly isn't an archaeologist, he's a TV presenter and a prize wanker.
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Good video but few pronunciations are off, they aren't called BROKS but Bro-ochs and Neil Oliver certainly isn't an archaeologist, he's a TV presenter and a prize wanker.
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spatso
Argh! An entire video on brochs and he mispronounces it as brocks throughout! Butchered. Its like lochs - a soft chh sound. Similar to how ich is pronounced in German.
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Argh! An entire video on brochs and he mispronounces it as brocks throughout! Butchered. Its like lochs - a soft chh sound. Similar to how ich is pronounced in German.
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Dwayne
Is it said that the people of northern scotland still have a dark hair, eye and light skin look predominantly about them? What can be said of curly ringlets of hair?
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Is it said that the people of northern scotland still have a dark hair, eye and light skin look predominantly about them? What can be said of curly ringlets of hair?
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