Canadian🍁 [REACTS] to Skara Brae

Reaction to a video by Geographic's about the Skara Brae in Orkneys @ • Skara Brae: Orkney’s N...

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

The Orkneys are really. Almost like a primal back to wilderness feel for the place. Northern Scotland is great for it. Theres a cheese from there I rather enjoy 😅😋

[@brigidsingleton1596]

A "hearth" is pronounced 'harth' and it's the fireplace surround which is always thought to be the warm heart of a home. When ancient 'homes' are uncovered, the fact there are hearths found within, showing signs of burning, that indicates the building was used as a home instead of just a corral for livestock or other type of building, perhaps used to store food for the inhabitants - both human and animals. "The heart❤️ of the home is the hearth" [_🔥_] 🙂

[@pauldryburgh6346]

Firstly can I just say that although I was subscribed, when I looked after this video, I no longer was. Noticed that with 2 or 3 channels. Subbed again though. Anyhoo. Glad you enjoyed the video lad. When he asks to think back century upon century, it gives some slight perspective, similar to trying to comprehend the size of Our Universe. Obviously we can't but it engages our minds more than just the numbers involved. I'm assuming you have but if not then a must watch reaction is 'history of the entire world, I guess'. You and your family, and everyone else, be well, cheers from Scotland 🍻

[@pi1872]

Thank you so much, ya iv heard others say thay get unsubed

[@tomnicholson2115]

Your right about kids and history, yesterday is ancient history to young kids, I was the same, history was just boring stuff, like you and many others we eventually get interested in where we came from. I love watching archaeology programmes now, but found it mind numbing as a kid. Interesting place Skara Brae, enjoyed watching and listening to you react to it 👍

[@pi1872]

Thank you

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

I went to Skara Brae as a kid and the most interesting thing was a died sheep. I regret that now and must go back. My family cpmes from a tiny island north of Shetland.

[@jasonyoung7705]

You meet death itself, in the form of 4 mercanies. Cast MIBL. (if you know, you know)

[@pi1872]

🤷‍♂️

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

One of the other parts of Northern Scotland, is the Outer Hebrides. I have a video up from a series of an actor who does a lot of travel shows and extreme fishing etc visiting the area. Its really good. Shows off some of the local produce too that they are famous for "Tales from the Coast With Robson Green - Episode 3 - Outer Hebrides - 2017 HD"

[@brigidsingleton1596]

There was a discovery somewhere years ago of the remnants of a 'Woodhenge', near Stonehenge, thought to lead from a place of life to a place of death (or vice versa, I forget which, sorry) so used to create a processionary walk from one to the other at the time of the midSummer and midWinter Solstices, visible through the highly-aligned sarsen and lintel stones of the Stonehenge horseshoe/ semi-circle.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

There is also a henge found on the coast of Suffolk, so it is known as Seahenge. It consists of a circle of large trees upended with their roots towards the sky and their top branches planted in the mud. It has been carbon dated to 1470BC, which was in the middle of an unusually cold period of years. It is thought that it was built to somehow appease the gods and ask for better weather to return.

[@Obi-J]

It was the stump of a large oak tree turned upside down, surrounded by a circle of approx 50(I forget the exact number) wooden posts cut from the timber of the same tree.👍

[@mattsmith5421]

Simon has about 50 channels, geographics and biographics weren't his channels he was just employed by them to narrate but he's left those 2 channels now due to a tricky situation.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Pronounced: 'Scarra Bray'

[@alastairmabbott7075]

I've quite enjoyed a few of this guy's videos, but his pronunciation is appalling. "Mayshow"?

[@helenwood8482]

No, the fireplace is the square in the middle. Those other things are stone cupboards.

[@pi1872]

oh wow

[@richardthomas2818]

The big house at the end is Skaill House which dates back to the 17th century and has been extended and rebuilt over the years.

[@pi1872]

Oh wow big place

[@helenwood8482]

Stonehenge is not actually a henge.

[@jometcalf8991]

Hearth = fireplace or fire pit. There is a woodhenge near stonehenge and a 4000 year old seahenge off the coast of Norfolk made from timber.

[@pi1872]

Oh wow thank you

[@Obi-J]

If you're interested, seahenge(not actually a henge) has been in the news in the last week or so, as archaeologists believe they may have figured out it's purpose and reason it was constructed.

[@Obi-J]

There are(or were) in fact 2 "seahenges" found on the same Norfolk beach, one was excavated(controversially) in 1999, so it could be preserved in a museum, whilst the other was left in situ. Unfortunately, this has since been mostly washed away by storms and the tides of the North Sea.

[@Obi-J]

There are several standing stones/stone circles older than Stonehenge, like Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides(NW Scotland) for example. There are megaliths/monoliths all over the UK, the largest of which is only about a 15min drive from my house, in the churchyard(1700s) in the village of Rudston, East Yorkshire, which stands at 25ft tall(and it's thought only about half of it's length is above ground, possibly extending another 20-25ft underground.