The Evolution Of An Iron Age Hill Fort | Humbleton Hill, Northumberland

[@tobyplumlee7602]

Excellent!! One my 35 minute drive to work. The Picts have always fascinated me.

[@AlexIlesUK]

Sorry it's so short; I'll try to make longer ones!

[@tobyplumlee7602]

@@AlexIlesUK It was interesting and it got me to thinking about Picts and pre Roman Britons and how the term Pict correlates to that era. I'm doing some research on the subject matter on my lunch break now .

[@AlexIlesUK]

@@tobyplumlee7602 This is a good book to get you into the subject! www.amazon.co.uk/Picts-Scourge-Rome-Rulers-North/dp/1780277784

[@tobyplumlee7602]

@@AlexIlesUK Thank you very much. I will be ordering this book. 🙂

[@AlexIlesUK]

Glad to help!

[@bethmarriott9292]

I have driven past these and it is really fascinating seeing how their changes reflect the evolving needs of the people

[@AlexIlesUK]

So often we can see them just stuck in one period but there's so many layers to them!!

[@ForestArchaicCollective]

You're not wrong about the incline! 🥵 quite the workout getting up there, then again all the hillforts around there are like that I seem to recall studies done recently have shown the longevity of the elderly living in towns with steep inclines, i wonder that the hillforts of Northumberland might've housed a fair few nonagenarians if they had to walk up & down these slopes on a regular basis

[@AlexIlesUK]

Thanks for the help with the filming again! I am sure they got very good at going up and down the hills!

[@7cColin]

There are certainly similarities between this site and the likes of East Lomond, Dundurn and Dunadd, more or less contemporary sites in Pictland and Dalriada, I quite see that. There's also absolutely no reason to doubt that there were strong links between the neighbouring kingdoms in the EM period, so your theory really isn't all that wild. Humbleton Hill is very steep as are many such sites further north, and the solution to the problems raised by this fact is to use a similar layout to those, with multivallate defences (almost like terracing with levelling between those walls for buildings), and a 'capital' enclosure at the summit. It seems to me quite likely that there was shared knowledge going on. I can't see how we'd ever be able to be sure though.

[@AlexIlesUK]

Excavating would answer that question, and I hold out hope! It's good to see others see the parallels too;

[@Dishfire101]

Rhe Picts went far south in todays England especially after the Romans departed, the Picts also raided todays Ireland though it was called Scotia in the 1st to 7th century.

[@Dishfire101]

Scotia = Land of the Scots

[@AlexIlesUK]

Which source are you using for that?

[@bethmarriott9292]

Is that a stein with a teabag in it??? No mugs big enough available then 😅

[@AlexIlesUK]

It's my pint cup. I drink tea by the pint. This time it was peppermint, but I enjoy tea!

[@Dominic-mm6yf]

Is this a Cymric Votadani Fort?

[@AlexIlesUK]

It's not been excavated and could you clarify what you mean by Cymric?

[@robertvermaat2124]

From the tea we can deduce a chronology... 😏

[@AlexIlesUK]

I'll try to include tea in more videos; seems to cause commentary just as much as the comments

[@johnharkness2342]

I don’t believe the Picts were that far south probably Fife was the most southern point of Pictland

[@AlexIlesUK]

I sometimes wonder from a Roman perspective if everyone north of the wall was a Pict. They did have a habit of generalising.