3:00 I feel it. Perfectly conveyed.

If i got to come to Alba, this an the Highlands is what i wanna see. Not the cities. Outlander doesnt bring me here. My blood does. My ethnicity is Scot!

I am a Turnbull living in New Zealand, sadly I am the last of my line. There are however, still many other Turnbulls in New Zealand

Redcap Sly

Thanks for this 👍

Reviver blood runs strong though my veins ~ 👍

I'm guessing one reason why the Scottish borders had a lot more iron-age hill-forts than Dorset is because..........well, because there are a lot more hills, ya know!🙃

Ahhhh the blue bonnetsss Are over the borderrrrr

Apparently I am from the Red Douglas line ?

Kinda reminds me of na tobraichean slainte nan Eileanan iar agus Erinn the health wells of the hebrides and Ireland 🇮🇪 Gle innteach

good video, didn't know about these airfields. came across due to 2 Army Air Corps Apache hello s flying around the area today

Great stuff.good people are telling this story now.Little know bit of history,am from newcastle and i dont think i knew the real importance of the reivers until i was about 50.Once you know the names you can see their importance not only in the areas history,but world history

I am a proud Turnbull, thank you so much for taking the time to make this film, like many Turnbulls I yearn for this place, you've described me and my homeland perfectly, god bless ❤🦬

Samhain maybe we live in a portal for another 🌎 world. An dha sealladh. The second sight Obh obh😅

Good drone work😲

aye the Douglas *** could have broke bread we me..............total legend.

Horsburgh from Australia... cool.

Very lnteresting ... my father's family came from there . After watching l am wondering if I could be related to any of these poor people.. family lived there from the 12th Century to the 18th Century... l need to know more. 😢

Uibhar in old celtic is life .the truth will never die.Gu brath.

Either that or a Liberal Democrat😅.

Just back from Teba in Andalusia Spain, they have a festival on the 25th of August to celebrate the good sir James, Douglas day is set over 3 days and the town put on a reenactment of the retaking of the castle of the stars in Teba, Douglas is held in high regard in this part of Spain, and it's incredibly heart warming as a Scotsman to witness, strange that there's no statue in Scotland to remember the most important man of the wars of independence ❤

Absolutely brilliant Mark

My McCaslin and Lowrie ancestors came to America in the 1700ʼs and many were Lowlanders who probably suffered from clearances. The interesting thing is that once in America, many moved to Pennsylvannia and mine lived in New Castle, PA. I guess people brought those names to America with them. Thank you for bringing the flowers. I feel your pain.

Thats us Roma Gypsies gadgie. x

Interesting video. I liked the drone work and the music, as well as the enthusiastic presenter. The Borders isnt an area I would have previously associated with the Vikings. The Norwegian vikings invaded and colonised parts of Scotland and Ireland. The Danish vikings invaded, colonised and controlled large parts of England. So where do you think the vikings that were in the Borders region came from?

Lots of sites claim to be Merlin's grave😢

That's awesome you got to go in there..Bruce and Douglas are two of the most badass figures from history

Thank you for your travels and posting this. I never knew there was a Merlindale or a grave, it’s fascinating. Scotland is a unique country and of such stunning vistas, rich history, strong and brave people, I am very grateful to be related to. My father’s stories of our Scottish ancestors got me into the culture and history of your great lands. My father’s direct ancestors, (down through the Mellons and Carnegies, (many first born males in our family, first names, were and are Andrew), came here in the 1700’s to fight in the American Revolution. For their soldering they were promised and given lots of tillable lands with dark, fertile soils, in the Ohio Valley, (then dangerous Indian territory). Swaney is our last name, but it previously spelled differently in ancient times. My uncle was a Catholicos priest his pastime was documenting our Scottish ancestors, he traced his paternal line in ancient Scotland where the men were mainly traders in horses and stone cutters, much further back in time part of the family dwelled in caves along lonely, narrow, treacherous, coastal roads. My uncle told us of stories he came across when he visited Scotland for the umpteenth time, that a part of our ancestors that dwelled in those caves, were criminals, robbing travelers and if starving, consumed them, 🤮. 14:18 I had to laugh when he said it was 16 degrees Celsius, (60 F), he said he’s absolutely roasting, but he’s wearing a long sleeve shirt and a jacket. We live in central Virginia and it’s HOT in Summer, this summer it’s been over 90’s F, (32.C) , almost daily, it’ often reaches 100 F. Anyway, my dad was the only one of his 7 siblings to move out of the Ohio Valley, (late 1950s), to Northern Virginia, after he retired from the Marine Corps, he had a job offer in Washington DC at the foreign service. As my parents had more kids and money, dad moved us a bit further S, where farmland was affordable, today each of my siblings and I own large tracts of land. My dad grew up farming in Ohio, his dad and uncles used only horsepower. My grandfather’s two work horses, (among some riding horses and mules), were Crusher & Puller both Percheron Drafts. Dads job at age 5 was to feed the horses at 5:30 am, then after breakfast, all the kids rode the horses to a one room school house, (which still exists), the horses walked home on their own and back to the school to get the kids at 3pm. Dad love of horses transferred to us kids, he taught all my siblings and I to love, respect, ride and train horses when we were very little. All but one of us kids now breed, raise, train, show and SELL horses. I guess the love of horses comes directly from our Scottish heritage! If I lived in Scotland today, I’d never leave it, it’s simply magical.

I'm Australian Indigenous and recently found out my part of my ancestry was a who's who of Scottish history, Douglas both William and James, Robert the Bruce, you name it. The question is what tartan to wear.

I’m an Armstrong. Invictus Maneo 💪⚔️✝️

both of my 15th great grandfathers died there, Sir Adam Hepburn/2nd earl van Bothwell and William henry marshal/2nd earl of Caithness. I would love to visit there someday

and those who resisted the redcoats were arrested, labeled as convicts and sent to the other side of the world to work on chain gangs

We need NEW hero's of Scottish independence, look forward not backwards, Its what Douglas would want

It matters where his spirit went? The English could not take that from him, and where his bones lie are known only to God! Independence still lives on, and will come when the time is right! ..Tich.

FREE FOOD!?!? WHERE?!?

Brilliant

Hello Mark, your passion is amazing.....I am a Johnson here in Nova Scotia, Canada.....my Johnson's were members of the border clans on the scottish side, my Mother a Stewart from the Highlands....keep the passion for the history..subscribed

Fascinating. 👍👍👍👍

If you have a bible pls read genesis.

Thank you sir for making video god bless.that cross of st andrew.is also represented as jacobs blessing on josephs sons.ephraim and mennassah

So there is suspicion of my family which is from Peebles having been witches . There's not a whole lot of information given about my family but they've been in the area since 1296. You ought to do a history on the veitch family Not only were we border reviers but suspected witches as well

Just discovering your videos on KZbin. Really interesting stuff, background music helps with your storytelling. Good work 👍😊

My 13th great grandfather was Johnny Armstrong ❤

Great video Mark, thank you.

I traced my Kerr genealogy there a couple of years ago. It was a bit of a merry chase but also found skirmish hill and the stone..exciting.

Awesome again Mark

Very cool. Heading there myself next month. You there often? 😅

Where did you read that the Bogle Burn was the site of Thomas's abduction? I trying to research the story for a project and would like to know where this version of the tale comes from, as most versions I have read say that the tree was the site of his encounter.

Good topic. Couldn’t hear/understand narrator for the bad choice in music. Next time, skip the music. Too loud.

Grave ? If I remember my history he was disassembled.