Great interesting video. Makes me Proud to be Scottish. So proud of oor History, thankyou 👏👏👏👏
@lochlainnmacneill28703 жыл бұрын
Another great video Mark....And here me stuck in Nigeria and feeling even more homesick. Wallace betrayed by his own countrymen: will we Scots ever learn?
@junestewart50983 жыл бұрын
I think we are learning, May 6th election should be very interesting and hopefully prove we have indeed learned.
@francismcmenaman14172 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I visited another Wallace's cave near Dunipace where Wallace was taught French and Latin by his uncle who was a priest. He supposedly hid out there after battle of Falkirk. Heard about it as a kid from local history but never knew if it was real. Finally found it today. It was Near Torwood castle, Tappoch broch, witches pool and Denovan church. So much history from 2000 years to 200 yrs ago in a small area. 🏴
@paulbutterworthbillericay3 жыл бұрын
Only a Scotsman could be disappointed that the sun has come out, the Cave makes sense that it would have a door, but with the door shut be warm but easy to capture in betrayal, makes me think the Wallace must have had complete confidence in the area being safe in loyalty, just to think that those steps and doorway were the same spot over 700 years back, the church I was thinking imagine the locals hauling up the great blocks of stone, amazing location, looks like the villages have long gone, must have been a fair size community to have such big headstones, great tour of the area, when there is local legend 9f such things, itsbeen passed down from father to son over 700 years, its bound to have weight behind it
@BorderRambler3 жыл бұрын
Some great exploring Mark , I had to laugh when you found the steps ! Typical sort thing I would do lol . The cave was a decent size and not trashed like many these days . atb Dave
@kimi40752 жыл бұрын
Shit hot watch mark. Wallace is my hero and keeps me native to my land scotland 🏴. Very rare I leave scotland
@clemprice15013 жыл бұрын
Another great video Mark. You’ve been missed 😊
@horacedouglas45343 жыл бұрын
Thank you ❤️
@scottmcardle733 жыл бұрын
Loved every nook and cranny of this. A great reminder of what freedom truly is.
@shaunnewton8322 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Really enjoyed the video thank you 🙏
@markanthony18433 жыл бұрын
Who stood against him, against who? PROUD EDWARDS ARMY! And sent him homeward tae think again!
@markanthony18433 жыл бұрын
@@MrTootoot22 huh?
@Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano3 жыл бұрын
@@markanthony1843 prick edwards army
@markanthony18433 жыл бұрын
@@Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano But the fierce Scots defended our land, they preserved their lives and culture against the number 1 empire in the world at the time while sharing the same land with the British when their both secluded on an island. Scotland the Brave!
@denniswallace96133 жыл бұрын
Mr. Nicol, tipped-toed around Robert the Bruce's suspected allegiance to Edward the 1 through the battles for independence until Wallace was captured. I wonder what William would have thought, my guess is if his life was the price of freedom for Scotland I think he would have paid the price.
@junestewart50983 жыл бұрын
Loved every minute of it Mark, although watching some of those scary descents had me feeling my heart was in my mouth !! I too am sure Wallace spent much time in the borders and thank you for bringing part of that time to light,
@peacec472 жыл бұрын
What a great bit of history that cave its seems to me he knew it would be very difficult to reach
@davidlambie52763 жыл бұрын
Awrite Mark ma man. Great to see another of yer crackin videos. 👍🏴🏴👍
@andrewwhale38852 жыл бұрын
Love this Love the history of William Wallace
@pennynovak34992 жыл бұрын
Fascinating and well done!
@TheBorderRyker3 жыл бұрын
It time we remember who we once were! Saor Alba Gu Brath 🏴
@siwatson3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, Mark ! Good to have you back making videos !
@sandraswift3489Ай бұрын
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
@davidballantyne26363 жыл бұрын
I need to get back to the old country one of these days or years to see all the places you have shown us throughout all your videos. Thanks Mark for another great video , greetings from Alberta Canada
@markscott96223 жыл бұрын
You are one intrepid dude, Mark, and we thank you for it!
@SideshowKUTSTV3 жыл бұрын
Great Video Mark.
@MarkNicol1233 жыл бұрын
Cheers!!!😁
@wtn3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Interesting stories and excellent filmed!
@slipperyseal7623 жыл бұрын
There were many Normans installed by Edward 1 in Peebles before 1300. The Vaches, A few Brus. Normans that stayed.
@clairedixon30503 жыл бұрын
Well done Marc ! Don't worry it took me many attempts to find the cave lots of scrambling up and down the river and getting stuck a few times too !! It was totally worth it though it's an amazing place ,the glen is one of my favourite places as I have told you before lots to discover. You need to check out the rock art below it's amazing.
@JimD4103 жыл бұрын
This is so great I am in America and of scottish descent I have never been able to visit your beautiful country this is great to see these spots I hope some day to visit in person.
@lisajain84503 жыл бұрын
New to ur channel so am bing watching u and it barry stuff if u need a camra women am ur man love that closeness to history roots am happy just bk fi a day oot history treking bk hame in edinburgh cosy injoying thank u verry much love it 🤘🌻
@Action4Dogs3 жыл бұрын
Well done Mark. Most of it right on my doorstep and often frequented.
@my3kidzada2 жыл бұрын
This was a great and very interesting video. Watch out for the falling rocks they could crush ya, like a worm.
@grootjnr3 жыл бұрын
Did you see my namesakes grave at St Marys kirkyard? Great place and I totally agree about your suggestion of it being the real place!
@davidsturrock62133 жыл бұрын
Magic !!!! Enjoying your videos man good stuff 👍👍👍
@duneideann92413 жыл бұрын
Great video again Mark 👍. 🏴
@EmperorJ1233 жыл бұрын
Good stuff Mark. Great to see your still going. My daughters love your videos. Wish I knew you were looking for the Wallace Cave, I know 2 easyish routes, I could've shown you. Somewhere in the Glen a friend and I also found what can only be described as a river harbour. I have never found it again but it has carvings like those at the Cave.
@MarkNicol1233 жыл бұрын
River harbour sounds interesting!!!😁
@EmperorJ1233 жыл бұрын
@@MarkNicol123 aye its got what looks like signs of having a sluice of some kind, a small landing spot hidden by a large rock with a carved set of steps and a hole through said rock.
@DMCDObidon3 жыл бұрын
Excellent stuff Mark, that cave looked awesome.
@ddouglas38603 жыл бұрын
Great beard,great recording,great history, and great to see you back 👍👍👌👌😎😁
@GEDSKEPTICMEDIA3 жыл бұрын
Well done finding it, I went with my young son last summer and couldn’t drag him down the cliff faces, I think I’ll go myself this summer to find it, looks absolutely awesome.
@davidgroves14093 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark, I really enjoy your videos. I am moving back home to Alnwick from London and will add the Scottish borders onto my list of places to visit. Have you done a video on the Gypsies of Kirk Yetholm? All the best!
@phoenixmediascotland33503 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic video, followed yerself for a while. Found many of your past castles/towers/places with your videos, thanks and stay safe...
@geepee19563 жыл бұрын
Great story Mark and told so well.
@PK-wf7bc3 жыл бұрын
a very enjoyable adventure well done glad that scottish weather was so mild for you
@browpetj3 жыл бұрын
Awesome vids! People won't see this message though. How it should be seen TBH. These videos have unearthed stuff for a while now. You are highlighting stuff that needs to be told. But not many are listening. I'd like to see you collaborate with someone if you want. I will move to the central lowlands soon. And cant collaborate till then unfortunately. There are lots of others to collaborate with. It may not be super attractive, but it is worth it.
@user-kr9vr8ub4r3 жыл бұрын
Another interesting trip into our past.. thank you
@NorthernWayfarer-Alice3 жыл бұрын
you can certainly follow Wallace's footsteps south of the border... a number of villages destroyed by him as he marched south down Dere Street to Corbridge. He never managed to take Prudhoe but he went passed it and burned Ryton to the ground. Always makes me wonder why there were so few castles built protecting Dere Street. Otterburn and Elsdon but then nothing until you get to Great Swinburne (no longer there).
@AlexBrovo2 жыл бұрын
How do you know they were destroyed by him
@robertcroser74463 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. Your looking a bit Braveheart yourself lately with that beard.
@-Pot420-3 жыл бұрын
Great vids keep em up
@caireengraham3 жыл бұрын
Looking for more info on Graham clan, I am new to all of this and a direct descendant
@nigelfoggin46173 жыл бұрын
Also Jedburgh was the abbey of st Mary ,and the gold deposits at at Mary's loch area are what make it really significant
@ga68603 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know about clan Armstrong/fairbairn before we were reivers? I remember reading that there was a DNA study that showed most Armstrongs can be traced to one man who came from the highlands and that most have Pictish blood. I want to learn more about what we were before our violent span of time. I don’t feel too proud of this, to be quite honest. I want to believe there was a more beautiful side to my ancestors. If it was mainly 1300-1600, surely there’s more to us than reiving.
@Firestarter123 жыл бұрын
Loved this thanks 😊
@catmel2 жыл бұрын
He stands in all his glory Proud and tall, Alone How can we know his feelings When now he stands.....A Stone To know him as he really was Is hard for us to do Is he merely legend Let’s step into his shoe Feel what made him fight so hard And care for every life Go his way a moment Imagine all the strife Was he betrayed? We'll never know We know he tried to lead them And all his dreams there ended For his belief in Freedom Strange thoughts as I looked at the statue And feelings I could not explain It was like I was listening to thoughts of an age He was waiting to let go the pain This man was indeed a true hero Though the truth is not easy to find Try if you can to imagine You are he and are deep in his mind Outward looking filled with pride My land within protected Devil dealings come to mind From whence, Loved ones suspected In dead of night they came to fight I did at first rejoice And loudly shouted, calling all But, Only was my voice Looking South I saw them come I could not do an'other For, in a frame within their row Was, She, my loving Mother How could I find the strength to hide And let the row go by It was not me who would betray The anger, in her eye They laughed at glory to return With me as treasured prize They did not know that I would leave Within a priests disguise The deal was made I left with hope But time would come again Sleep did call upon me I woke with cold and pain Betrayal takes on many forms And always I will think How close I came to Freeing All And even on the brink.... Of death, I will remember My mothers frozen eyes How could her heart have know the truth To her came such surprise To see me die and know that she Did all to put me down Making sure for England's sake I'd never wear The Crown
@RickPop853 жыл бұрын
Great video. thanks 😊. your drone must be a good one mine struggles in a slight breeze 😄
@Lorwildrose3 жыл бұрын
Really nice country Mark, thanks for the history walk, almost looks like some areas of Alberta Canada. Except the stone towers and 1000 year old graveyards.
@markmacthree31683 жыл бұрын
Mark I'm made up with you lad just subscribed ....like a breath of fresh air from timeteam panto 😊.
@caireengraham3 жыл бұрын
Cannot seem to find much info on the life of Graham clan
@hottubmobilenils21332 жыл бұрын
I really love it when I hear history and the presenter gives reference of who put it in the history books , which books and page the information came from . I have heard that King Robert the Bruce betrayed William Wallace and that King Edward had William Wallace executed but I never see who wrote this in the history originally ? how accurate are these things ?
@nevisysbryd7450 Жыл бұрын
Completely inaccurate. Bruce never met Wallace and had no involvement in his capture or execution. That is from the Braveheart film, which gets almost none of the details historically correct.
@michaelwhite80313 жыл бұрын
Can l ask were there any families in the Borders withe the surnames Rose or Ross ?
@denniswallace96133 жыл бұрын
By the way, I've been to the borders, a Brath country I can understand why William fought so hard. It's kind of strange I've walked along some of the streams you see here and the cave too. Like the highlands, the borders are the beating heart of Scotland.
@jackharrison27853 жыл бұрын
glad tae see ye back
@pamelapoore87592 жыл бұрын
Secrets paths of the druids
@neanderthaloutdoors92022 жыл бұрын
William Wallace should get far more recognition than he actually has, the man lived and fought for the Scottish people and a free Scotland but alas devious Traitors who's want for riches let him and Scotland down miserably, the man died for Scotland, he never sided with the English like Robert the Bruce done.
@Frank-on4xl3 жыл бұрын
Good videos Mark, but I'm just curious on the origin or source of 'Blind Harry' writings, in what language, Latin? Did they call them Kirks back then or Chapels? Saint Marys chapel and later become forrest kirk to locals after the reformation?
@multymedia53203 жыл бұрын
nice 1 mark
@johnd85389 ай бұрын
The Welshman you mean
@grahamfleming91793 жыл бұрын
Up in leith now havny seen ee for awhile guid yin aboot the Wallace in oor back yard.the Ettrick and Jedforest would hae been natural defenses like the Caledonian forest further north !
@MarkNicol1233 жыл бұрын
Aye Graham, moved up to Leith at end of October, it’s a wee bit busier than Hawick😂 Missing your stories on a Monday night man!! Cheers for watching!!
@grahamfleming91793 жыл бұрын
@@MarkNicol123 aw the best takin two wee strokes since then talking a wee gibberish (nothing new) plenty exercises for my hand and feet still working especially in Langlee.
@smallfeet45813 жыл бұрын
wallaces castle ?, in the borders lol, never heard of that , his family home was in ayrshire and he moved to renfrewshire , ,
@gerib.40933 жыл бұрын
The Home of my ancestors Through the Douglas and Conant Clans.