Incredible Objects Discovered at Stone Age Site in Scotland!

[@leesimpson1677]

I used to work in Orkney and left in 2003, just before this site was discovered. I used to visit the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stennes quite often and would drive by the site without giving it a second thought. It makes you wonder, what else is still to be discovered on the island.

[@leeworks3562]

They discovered tombs on the Head of Work which is where my family is from.

[@forestdweller5581]

Whattever has nothing to do with you.

[@helenamcginty4920]

​@@forestdweller5581That's an unnecessarily nasty little remark.

[@DeborahThird-og1uo]

Some people’s kids 🙄

[@Original50]

In Germany, when something is in safety or sorted-out, they say it's 'in butter'. In the middle-ages, glass-merchants would pack their wares in butter, to protect against in-transit damage. At their destination, they would sell the glass and the butter 🤗

[@ivarbrouwer197]

I was there, and visited the Ness of Brodnar and the Ring of Brodnar this summer after cycling LEJOG and even have seen the film crew filming. Nice to see it published. The Ness of Brodnar is open to visit in summer months where you can see the live dig in progress with a guided tour, be sure to check the schedule. there are many other sites on the island too, well worth a visit.

[@evanhughes7609]

It's the only place I've been where you can visit four Neolithic sites before lunch and round off the afternoon with the Iron Age, the Early Medieval period and the 16th Century. Orkney is magic. (Although wouldn't you know it, we were there just before the 2009 dig kicked off - talk about unlucky timing!)

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@evanhughes7609 I was there in 2012, and we too just missed seeing the dig by literally one day! I wish I had done more research before nailing down our itinerary. The rest of Orkney is just amazing-it was my favorite region on our 18-day trip. My favorite non-Neolithic sites were the two late medieval castles and the 12th century cathedral that was just across the street. Talk about packing in more history per square meter! I hope to go back someday and see not just the dig at the Ness, but also to get off of Mainland and see the other islands, especially Rousay.

[@howler6490]

@@kathyastrom1315 I was on foot and bus so getting round was not as easy but it was worth every soaking I got. The ness is still growing, each year, it gets a bit bigger... Thank heavens it is so far from londinium as this keeps the top dogs from pissing on the walls.

[@Boric78]

This presenter is excellent - clear voice and explains well.

[@adyjclarke]

He sounds like Matt Barbet (well known to cycling fans)

[@Boric78]

@@adyjclarke Yeah - all for that. Some of best commentators full stop are from sports. There should be more crossover. Michael Woods doing the cup final or five nations final would be epic.

[@Boric78]

wood - typo with the s, sorry

[@98Zai]

He's also got great fur!

[@AV-fo5de]

Thank you for saying Lochs, properly! Fascinating video.

[@annwilliams6438]

The Orkneys! I love the Orkneys…. I have travelled there from South Africa a few times now and I have still not managed to explore all of the archeological finds I want to see. May I be back soon. :)

[@davidcreager1945]

a big thank you ! to everyone involved in the making of this episode ! i really enjoyed it. i loved learning about the ancient people who lived and worked at the site. well done 👍😊

[@brightphoebesays]

Exciting! Can't wait to learn more! I was up in Orkney touring the prehistoric sites in '96. Left an indelible mark on me.

[@DJL78]

Tristan is superb. His “The Ancients” podcast is always time well spent.

[@aaronjaben7913]

0:40 the mystery is his swinging arms

[@edram4051]

I love Scotland and am keen on prehistory. Prehistoric Scotland you say? Such an historiangasm.

[@sliceofheaven3026]

Wasnt the climate also warmer during this period? Also maybe the island type location was also a way of protecting the inhabitants better from outside dangers. Island would have been maybe easier to protect than a inland settlement.

[@ivarbrouwer197]

I would asume so: the Ness is situated on a land tongue between to sea connected inner lakes: a lot of good views over the area, and probably a good shortcut between lakes on tides. (there was also a small island with a lighthouse that was only reachable during tides that was used by vikings: Brough of Birsay)

[@nikobellic570]

That would explain the vigorous stone age human activity

[@evanhughes7609]

"Scotland boasts a rich and proud history, from Mary, Queen of Scots to the Battle of Culloden." So, a rich and proud history of 159 years, got it. 😉

[@almagill]

But at least he got almost all the tropes in. Bagpipes, fiddles, castles, hairy cows. I mean, nothing much happened in the run up to the mid C15th really...

[@SB-sj4uz]

You missed his point massively.

[@evanhughes7609]

OK, Sparky, I'll break it down for you. When a person makes a generalised assertion, we know that they mean so much more than what was actually spoken. However, a common trope of humour is for a person to take this literally; as Buster Keaton said, "The audience loves the slow thinker." By affecting ignorance of what was actually implied, the comic pretends to be just a little slow on the uptake while simultaneously demonstrating the pitfalls of overly generalised language. Hope this helps.

[@colinsmith1288]

@@evanhughes7609 Are you stoned .....l mean neolithically.(hehe!)

[@williamromine5715]

Not only did they have a use for iron ore before the Iron Age, it appears they had discovered how to make rubber tires!

[@turfblacksmith]

Clearly very advanced culture ... hundreds of neolithic tyres

[@evanhughes7609]

Unfortunately, in a spectacular oversight, they neglected to invent the wheel, leaving the tyres as a conceptual dead end.

[@patricknorton5788]

@evanhughes7609 very good one!

[@kmadge9820]

I remember hearing in a tv documentary that people came from the far north of Britain to feast near Stonehenge with people from all over. Glastonbury but with a lot more food. I dont think we've changed all that much.

[@christianbuczko1481]

Stonehenge has connections to the alps as well as the islands and all across celtic europe. People sent their dead to the afterlife at stonehenge after feasting at the winter solstice at the nearby woodhenge site, and followed a sacred processional way from woodhenge up the avon river then along the causeway into stonehenge. Its assumed the bodies of the dead were disposed of around the area in the many barrows around that lanscape.

[@bremnersghost948]

Hi History Hit, Please do a video on Thornborough Henges, Site that was already Ancient when Brodgar, Callanish or Stonehenge weren't even built.

[@evanhughes7609]

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[@howler6490]

The brodgar boys built them on their way to stonehenge...bloody tykes...

[@bikinglikebecker]

When some of these monoliths were built there was still no english channel and you will find many settlements just beyond the shores of what used to be plains...

[@eh1702]

The English channel did exist prior to these structures. But it was shallower. Parts of Dogger Bank were probably still islands, and possibly Viking bank.

[@evanhughes7609]

[@dba750]

No, look for doggerland vlogs. It's about the landmass during this time

[@bikinglikebecker]

@@eh1702 Atlantis is Rockall Bank/Plateau/Island and to confirm it all you have to do is follow the Criteria by Critias in a Critical Think Manner.. Beyond the Pillars, In the Northern Portions & Along the Shore, 555km x 370km, Mountain low on all sides, broke it off all round about(North East Corner), Small central island that Poseidon built for Atlas, surrounded by 3 moats & 1km wide with a hand carved channel leading North from the main city which also happens to be 23.5km wide.. Dimensions actually measure up & considering 13000 years ago when waters were 100m lower. Pleistocene Epoch ended by 2 Asteroid impact(s) of Phaethon in Sumerian or Icarus & Daedalus of Greek. Eye of Sahara is a residual impact of it after Phaethon struck Great Lakes(Niagara Escarpment) & before landing "In Red Sea(EridanUs * AEIOU). At the same time(or later) another asteroid struck Greenland after starbursting & leaving a 31km wide crater under a 5km thick Hiiawatha Glacier. This event caused 2 "Melt Pulses 1a & 1b".. Carolina Bays is glacial debris from Laurentide Ice Sheet while the event also caused the Missoula floods forming Grand Canyon & Staircase before English Channel formed followed by Mediterranean flooded & Incested Cro-Magnon "Caen-Abel's" were forced out before they attacked Jericho to replace their submerged homeland. Jericho happens to be in Palestine... and to see a picture of this cataclysmic event in stone search google images for "Cairn T Ceiling Stone"....

[@johannebaker9730]

Wonderful. Came across this documentary by accident. More please x

[@michaelmiller609]

Wow that was pretty cool!

[@grahamturner1290]

Fascinating! 👍

[@69JONESYrugby]

Jesus Christ!!! Those Corded Ware potsherds were absolutely fascinating!

[@alexmacdonald8394]

Great video.

[@CouncilOfWolves]

A little Isle with a very big story to tell.

[@iaincumming982]

I was surprised to find the dubious book "Uriel's Machine" 1999 by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas. So much has been debunked (discuss?) but I am left with the hope/expectation/guess that one day the multitude of Neolithic? squiggles, diamond shaped, circles etc found all over Europe may point to an unrecognised language. Perhaps another Glozel type cache (near Vichy, France) might be found.

[@iaincumming982]

Glozel. Vinca Script. Iberian quasi syllabary

[@joegill3612]

Are these people incapable of talking without waving their arms about?

[@aroyaliota]

I thought your comment grumpy; that is until I watched it. 😂👍

[@hazelann63]

What do you mean mean " these" people. Rassist much?

[@TomPlantagenet]

They’re imitating the old man from Scene 24

[@evanhughes7609]

@@aroyaliota To be fair though, they're talking about shapes of pottery, the layouts of the sites, and 'this bit of pottery here'. Try describing the shape of a bowl or a Coke bottle without using your hands. It's harder than you'd think. And a piece to camera would look very odd if the presenter was virtually immobile!😁

[@kmadge9820]

Oh thank you for saying me that. It drives me nuts.

[@michaelmallal9101]

My great-grandparents were Arcadians my Grandmother told me when I asked her. They migrated to S. Oz.

[@dianelevesque137]

Peut-être que oui, ils font bien de faire des fouilles.

[@mishapurser4439]

I'd assume that Holy Island, off the coast of Anglesey, was the centre of Iron Age Britain.

[@prizecowproductions]

I'm wondering how the old fella knew they were lactose intolerant.

[@matweb8195]

Just saw Martin, lol

[@brandoncurtis8729]

is it common for archeology to get funding through renting their discovery to tire landfill

[@RKHageman]

Do try thinking just a little…. 🙄 The tires, layers of plastic, and sandbags are placed there every year at the end of the season to PROTECT THE SITE FROM LOOTING! As well as flooding and erosion. And every summer, they uncover it again with the help of many volunteers, which they did just this week (beginning of July), so the dig excavation can continue.

[@RRiffe]

I recently learned im 50% orcadian from a dna test. I hope to visit someday.

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Cut the music please editor.

[@edenbreckhouse]

First of all define 'centre'.

[@evanhughes7609]

And 'Prehistoric'. And 'Britain'. And 'was".

[@lezking5060]

Awww! You shouldn't call yourself an ancient historian... you're not *that* old!!! :-D

[@davefekete7187]

Wow the land is small over there

[@davidwilliambarker]

Wow. A lot of stupid or ill-considered or ridiculously chauvinistic or deliberately obtuse commenters here.

[@martinwarner1178]

What is this lactose intolerance comment? When cattle were their main crop. Bit of PC thrown in? Peace be unto you.

[@RKHageman]

Well, if you were listening- apparently not-he said that about 50% of their diet was milk- but in the form of cheese or otherwise fermented. Doesn’t mean they didn’t use milk. Nothing “PC” about it, LOL.😂😂 Ever heard of DNA analysis? Yeah, that’s a thing now.

[@matthewwalker5430]

how the hell do they know our neolithic ancestors were lactose intolerant? It's not like we can ask them, and it's not like there's any written evidence? Maybe we can tell from DNA or something but it seems a stretch to me

[@Ben-Downlow.]

Dna

[@matthewwalker5430]

@@Ben-Downlow. yeah, I guess that’s correct but it still sounds weird as hell to me. Oh well … science 🤷‍♂️

[@RKHageman]

@@matthewwalker5430 Yeah, DNA analysis is a real thing now- gosh, who knew? And that can tell researchers whether or not a given population had the genetic mutation that enables them to produce lactase, which is the enzyme in the gut that digests and breaks down lactose. Either they did, or they didn’t. And that is how they know.

[@EnergeticMan]

The answer is in the Title Question....if its remote its not the Centre. What crap we see on KZbin.

[@bvbinsane1vanity]

It doesn’t mean centre as in the centre of the country…

[@EnergeticMan]

@@bvbinsane1vanity OMG Bahahahaha This is why irony is wasted on the stupid.

[@waltonsmith7210]

Its remote now. But in the Neolithic it was the equivalent of London in terms of human importance. Thats why the man said its as if the map of the island were flipped over.

[@EnergeticMan]

@@waltonsmith7210 Utter nonsense! Orkney is Orkney, the stones at Callanish are far more impressive and date from the same period. There are 5000 megalithic sights around the UK, only a few are on Orkney.....Unless you were there at the time I suggest you learn about the period before commenting.

[@EnergeticMan]

@@waltonsmith7210 BTW, forgot to mention, there are more Neolithic and Bronze age sites in Kilmartin Glen, including where the ancient Kings of Scotland were crowned, by placing their foot into the stone, and allegedly where the stone of Destiny came from....On that basis, perhaps Kilmartin (where the kings were crowned) is the first London? PMSL

[@Nastyswimmer]

0:25 - "a proud history from Mary, Queen of Scots to the Battle of Culloden" ... ... so that's a proud history of about 200 years.

[@joeydr1497]

I recon Neolithic people would be laughing at us for saying everything is a place of worship

[@julianshepherd2038]

It's not remote if you travel by boat and live in the north of Scotland.

[@willempasterkamp862]

On an island, and suprisingly no fish on their diet ? No, it were milk boys.

[@markwaldron8954]

Trump's mother was from the Orkneys. Just a coincidence?

[@shineurlight]

Goodness! Do you know who lived next door? Or anyone that knew them from there? Interested to know please 😜

[@gailmackinnon7328]

No, she wasn't. She was from Tong on the isle of Lewis - which is in the Outer Hebrides.

[@RKHageman]

@@gailmackinnon7328poor lady. I’ve felt sorry for her for years.

[@CourtneySchwartz]

Wonder if the hematite glaze is what could have precipitated Iron Age smelting later. You can see a brick forge easily built on the Primitive Technology channel. It’s not too difficult to yield iron ingots once you have the technology ceramics, and a glaze that is an iron ore.

[@eh1702]

It seems to be the process by which copper smelting was discovered. Cooking fires aren’tnhot enough but a pottery kiln can be.

[@josephinewhitelaw6331]

How ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

[@allenwalters8812]

maybe it was a trading post or market.

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[@mrmink]

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[@bettybunbun9664]

Seems there would have been a lot of people going to and fro from the island in that time. I wonder when such ocean travel became a regular thing. Seems to be a milestone in Human history thats not well known, compared to metallurgy, writing etc.

[@ChristaFree]

20 years and they're not done? Call Time Team!

[@janetmackinnon3411]

The Orknety excavations are serious archaeology, not TV programmes.

[@RKHageman]

@@janetmackinnon3411Time Team was and is still serious archaeology. But they were exploratory digs for site evaluation, not intended to excavate an entire site- that wasn’t the concept. Fun facts- 1) every single TT dig was written up as a formal report, which are accessible from Wessex Archaeology, and 2) at that time in the 2000s, Channel 4 (the TV company producing TT) funded more archaeological research in Britain than all the universities put together. Not too shabby, eh.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

@@RKHageman Quite so.

[@madzen112]

I'm not convinced that Britain had it's origin in Scotland, but I'm quite sure that a bit of an nationalistic edge does make for a more entertaining historical experience!

[@pencilpauli9442]

No. It wasn't the centre of Britain unless a huge chunk of Scotland broke off and became Sweden.

[@greenjack1959l]

But what lies beneath? And how could you find out without destroying the site completely?

[@vgrg7841]

So what group of people lived in Scotland before the celts arrival there? There must have been people already living there even before the celts?

[@WildWoodsGirl65]

Idk... but. People in Orkney are Norse & they'll say so if called Scottish.

[@wbbartlett]

I want to know more about those neolithic tyres that dot the dig site (7.45) . Did Orkney used to rubber trees?

[@andrewbradley1753]

They aren't neolithic tyres. Sites closed now so they are using it as a land fill for tyres.

[@RKHageman]

@@andrewbradley1753 😂 Not at all! The plastic sheeting, sandbags, and tires are placed there to PROTECT THE SITE (from looters, flooding, etc.) during the other ten months of the year when they aren’t digging. Every summer, they uncover the Ness settlement with the help of many volunteers, as they did on Monday and Tuesday of this week, to resume the excavation.

[@andrewbradley1753]

@@RKHageman someone has no idea what sarcasm is clearly

[@amierichan1428]

First of all, uhhhh, we do not identify as "Scottish". Orkney has its own culture, language and history. I grew up with the understanding that Orkney had been the centre of northern Europe. It is fairly equidistant to Iceland, Norway, England, cities on the Continent, etc. There is also the natural safety of the harbours at Kirkwall and Stromness (the latter is why Capt Bligh stayed there when returning from Hawaii). Russian ships went near there on their way through. You almost couldn't avoid Orkney.

[@DerGlaetze]

It’s all so priestly and templish. I wonder if all of these ritualistic peoples of Stonehenge type settlements are from the scattering of the 10 tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel, who were driven out of their homeland by the Assyrian invasions. Just a thought.

[@illumencouk]

If I visited this place my first question would be (somewhat tongue in cheek but not entirely) What have you been doing for the last 20 years - moving a spatula's worth of soil every other day?! If any human remains are found I suggest you might want to double check they're not members of the digging team, before going public. My second question is 'have you any part-worn 295/70/R15's on site?

[@barbarafilmer3325]

I suppose funding is a consideration. I dont suppose they are all full time on one dig.

[@evanhughes7609]

"Can't we just cut into it with the JCB? Pubs close early up here!"

[@eh1702]

Orkney is wet, windy and cool - the wind-chill is huge. So they have a limited time every summer to dig: They also have to continuously raise funds for it. (Just finding travel money and accommodation for the diggers in the tourist season is no small thing.) And there is an amazing amount of finds that have to be catalogued and examined. They have a very complex mosaic of massive buildings built from sometimes HUGE stones (possibly former megaliths) sitting partly on the remains of former buildings. And they had no idea when they started that it was all so huge. In fact the couple living here then donated their land for the dig, as they realised it wasn’t just one building, not just half a dozen,

[@annwilliams6438]

There are plenty of folks on the Islands who are qualified and available (who really could do with the income) to do the digs…. So why are ANY being brought in. The Islands were badly hit during CoVid… they need to employ locals.

[@illumencouk]

@@eh1702 Thank you for adding a little balance my friend. It all sounds very exciting but if there is no urgency to learn our history, what's the actual purpose? Preservation is clearly more important to academia than discovery, and I'm not sure that's right?

[@deogiriyadav8399]

I saw a historical movie "Sardar udham"... Available on Amazon prime.... About 1920 British era... Can u watch that movie... N confirm... Whether it's true or not... Waiting for your reply.....

[@hazelann63]

His Scottish accent is none existent. English an trying too hard

[@hazelann63]

Englishman it was meant to say

[@eh1702]

Eh? The presenter isn't trying to have any kind of Scottish accent. Not even remotely.

[@Calum_S]

At least he pronounced 'loch' correctly

[@evanhughes7609]

A lady in Kirkwall told me very firmly indeed that she was Orcadian, NOT a Scot, and such was her conviction that I have no reason to doubt her.

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@evanhughes7609 That might be true, but I will just say that on our first drive into Kirkwall on a Saturday morning, the first thing we saw was a wedding party going into St. Magnus Cathedral, and all of the men were wearing kilts, including the adorable ring bearer. I thought later that was a bit strange, given the lack of clan history on Orkney, but…whatever. It was a very good looking group of men!