Scotch Broch (Applecross, Wester Ross, near Skye, Highlands) | S13E13 | Time Team

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Tony and the team journey to Applecross in the north west of Scotland to excavate a broch, a monumental dry-stone tower that was one of the largest Iron Age structures in Britain. But they are hampered by stony soil and a massive overhead power line. They are joined by Scottish Iron Age specialists Ian Armit, Andy Heald, Cathy Dagg, Noel Fojut.
Series 13, Episode 13
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[@RighAlban]

Not long after them confirming it's a broch it got full scale excavation and many places all up the west side of the peninsula got teams checking, they found an antler knife handle and decorative shell jewellery from a trench on my father's land.

[@tatumsfarm]

Absolutely fascinating. That was my question when watching: did they finish? I've found pictures on the internet now.. Just wow.. If I could visit anywhere in the world, it would be Scotland. -American with Scottish roots felt deep within my soul

[@RighAlban]

@@tatumsfarm Yes it's finished there's a museum there with all the findings, if you want to find out more about our country check out "Scotland history tours" KZbin channel it's my favourite and I'm learning things about my own country all the time.

[@tatumsfarm]

@@RighAlban I will check it out! Thank you! Even if I never get to visit, I love to learn the history of where my ancestors lived before they got here.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Oh what a great share! How Exciting !!!

[@cameleonfleuri]

Fascinating ! Thank you very much for the info! 😀

[@eilrobichaud]

I love listening to Tony and Mick bantering and their sense of humor. Mick was such a character!

[@travismichaud6064]

Somewhat of an intellectual version of Blackadder and Baldrick.

[@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR]

Has FRANCE got a type of "TIME TEAM" because FRANCE has probably got more history than here in the UK???

[@magster6022]

Once again, Phil finds the feature that proves the thesis: the stairs. The man's a genius.

[@Invictus13666]

He’s clearly not.

[@enyab.6939]

Love the van with the cover for a tea. Love Mick Aston, Rest In Peace gentle soul. 🥰☕️🌺❤️

[@sxmmieftw]

Phil "That aint much of a tool ian" Ian "I have herd that before"😆😆😆 classic

[@bethbartlett5692]

lol ... 😁

[@chrishankin9119]

@@bethbartlett5692 .. and Raksha rofl 😊

[@dragondawn420]

I think it's funny that Mick and Tony were enjoying a nice bit of brekkie on the start of the second day, tongue-in-cheek wondering why anyone would want to take a Mediterranean holiday when they have such nice surroundings as the caravan park where they're at. While it's chucking down rain. Especially since according to Wikipedia, Tony met Mick while Mick was doing tours in Greece during the summer. 😸

[@DonniePalmer57]

The little one helping Raksha, when he says "we're getting there" put me in mind of much younger Phil Harding

[@PtolemyJones]

I love how diligent and intense he is. Good kid.

[@joannamallory2823]

‘Ooh! Aaaah!’

[@MoggiesTen]

I love seeing what new knitted item Mick is wearing in each episode--and a lot of the same ones.

[@joannamallory2823]

Mick only had the one stripey jumper, I’ve come to believe. They should have kept it and framed it.

[@elizabethschaeffer9543]

@@joannamallory2823 After watching Time Team for about 20 years, I've seen generations of jumpers. I can imagine generations of knitters providing MIck with their warmth.

[@RKHageman]

@@joannamallory2823 oh, no, there were several different ones, not just one. Some with wide stripes, some with many narrow ones- it’s fun to spot them all. 🙂

[@tammysmith7320]

I'm completely addicted to Time Team..

[@justsitting1]

At 40 I also have been since a child. This is an episode that I haven’t seen before. I was camping at ullswater in the lake district a few years ago with my son. When driving home we drove past tony and team filming a scene.

[@theromanorder]

Thats a good addition

[@CaponeCabin]

New addict here from South Carolina USA 😁 I've been binge watching ❤

[@mercedes523]

@@CaponeCabin (Same here from North Georgia USA 🇺🇸) I wonder if we have a group of archeologists here doing the same thing?

[@arianaajbeaverhausen8175]

My brother met the Time Team crew about 15 years ago in the Scottish Borders. My bro told Tony that he loved him in Blackadder as well and asked him to sign his chest. Tony, being the legend that he is, did so and wrote "3 hairs" with an arrow pointing to the little hairs sprouting from his 19 year old chest 😂😂 My bro also asked him if they'd found anything interesting yet but Tony said they'd only found a few empty Bucky bottles 😂😂 (Buckfast/Bucky is an alcoholic beverage that our wee chavs/teen troublemakers like to drink, for those of you not familiar lol) Love the whole gang, archaeology is fascinating ❤

[@zombiegeorge749]

and then they made sweat love to each other❤

[@cindydintn]

Thank you for sharing a kind story.

[@stevenhale2935]

Had my first try of bucky last week. Surprisingly moorish. Your scots younguns have it lucky, much nicer than white lightning or lambrini

[@MelancholischerMond]

Your brother is a lucky guy.

[@okeycokey2000]

Haha nice

[@lindak8664]

How they can look at a pile of rocks among a pile of other rocks and see walls & steps & corridors, blows my mind. Probably why they’re archaeologists and i’m sitting on a chair in my lounge room watching archeologists.

[@robertab7341]

Mick and Tony having breakfast under an awning spoofing 'can't understand why people go abroad for their holudays'. Me: wiping away tears of laughter

[@altinfoil592]

"The chilliest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in Scotland".

[@dianetersigni7359]

I think Mark Twain said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".😉

[@OMGAnotherday]

✌️Just to respectfully counter your comment, the most sunburnt I ever got was on the Isle of Mull west coast Scotland, because there was a light continuous breeze, I didn’t realise I was getting burnt, spent all day down at the beach, it was FAB. Scotland does get great weather sometimes 😉

[@lizmacrae4970]

Scotland...five months of miserable weather and then you get winter....

[@graceamerican3558]

@@OMGAnotherday The worst burn I have ever had was cloudy day on a beach in Florida. I almost went to the hospital BUT the military frowns on destruction of government property.

[@OMGAnotherday]

@@lizmacrae4970 not true!

[@paulainsc8212]

I could listen the the Scottish brogue all day. Musical

[@brbrbrbreannad3610]

Wow, they got a lot of information from that bead! One might even call it a... venerable bead...

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

How many _groans_ was that worth?

[@vbachman6742]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 more than one. 😊

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@vbachman6742 Oh yes, definitely more than one!

[@Libbathegreat]

all my groans are belong to this comment

[@dr.leftfield9566]

No doubt taken from the pages of the ecclesiastical mid anglo-saxon jokebook.......volume 3.

[@StacyL.]

What I find fascinating is that the stones they uncovered haven't seen the light of day in almost 2,000 years! The to me this is as close to going back in time as we can get, for now!

[@michaelweber7848]

Humble American, who so loves this amazing program and it's people!

[@BS-qr5es]

Please google the definition of humble and then edit you're comment lol

[@JPEvans-qh9fs]

@@BS-qr5es Drink a little too much from the bottle of snobbery, did you? - Stereotyping a person based on their country of origin instead of their individual character is not only incredibly ignorant and egotistical, but hurtful as well. I pity you.

[@Brinta3]

*its people *your comment

[@ceh5526]

I farm in north east Scotland, and I'm pretty sure that there are 3 brochs in very close proximity to each other. Whether they were all standing at the same time, or whether the succeeded one another, I don't know. They are surrounded by earlier cairns and forts, and even earlier stone rows. It's rather an archeological theme park, but all yet to be studied or excavated.

[@josephmiller997]

What an absolutely brutal dig. These guys are troopers.

[@Go-tee71]

I've always enjoyed the archeology of these shows but I've just started binge-watching & have grown to really like the personalities within the team. Tony & Phil are hysterical especially when they get going with their banter & so forth!

[@ianmoseley9910]

Never seen a better example of a "definite maybe" than those 3 experts!

[@cynthiasmith398]

I had to laugh when Mick and Tony were sitting under the canopy of th camper an and John was doing geophys.

[@TUSK1157]

I just watched this episode for the 2nd time. It took me almost to the end to realize that the Native American teepees worked on the same heating system. A conical shape with an outer wall, air space, inner wall, and a fire in the center. I've heard modern people praise its efficiency.

[@jeffburnham6611]

@Frank I've set up numerous teepees in my lifetime, and have never seen one that has an inner wall. I have seen ones with a small liner that is tied to the poles along the interior, but that is to keep critters and wind out and not to create an air space for warmth between the outer shell and inner liner since its open at the top and only 3 or 4ft high.

[@TUSK1157]

@@jeffburnham6611, I'm just going by the way it was explained on a program I saw. I can't recall if on PBS, History, or Discovery. It made since to me. I'm a retired union bricklayer. It made since to me because I understand the concept of air space as a form of insulation.

[@samoday2992]

They used to call them black houses as everything inside was black with smoke

[@jonathanfinan722]

@@TUSK1157 Sense.

[@danyelnicholas]

Good they brought the original Scottish Obelix along (25:30); provided some of the Iron Age people also had fallen into the magic potion this offers a reasonable explanation as to how these brochs were built in the first place.

[@HannibalFan52]

i was thinking the same thing!!

[@cawfeedawg]

The Engineering gene is strong with these broch builders..

[@nmaresch579]

Dougie's a big geezer. Well said Tony

[@gnarshread]

I knew these structures existed but I had absolutely no idea how complex they were.

[@billydorney9647]

Something similar but much larger in Donegal

[@billydorney9647]

grianan of aileach

[@JETWTF]

Sleeping all comfy dry and warm in a tent while listening to the spatter of of rain on the tent... Best sleep I can imagine to get considering it was the best sleep I ever got in 50 years. I'll take those tents over the Med any day. Cuddle time with a love would make it even better.

[@cindydintn]

The best I ever slept in my 63 years was in a tent next to the Gasconade River in southern Missouri in the U.S. I was 13 or so.

[@KAT-ew9wz]

Oh listening to the remain is lovely, but I don't think these archaeologists were properly warm and dry for all three days, and there's no place to dry anything when you're in a tent, and if you have to put those wet muddy clothes on next day? Eugh.

[@JETWTF]

@@KAT-ew9wz You stuff the wet muddy clothes into a trash bag and you can get a combination tent heater and boot dryer. They didn't hike to the site so there's no reason they would only have one set of clothes and can't bring proper wet/cold weather camping gear.

[@patriciahadley2374]

The Brochs are rather similar to bronze age constructions on the island of Sardinia (Sardegna) on the west coast of Italy. They are called Nuraghi.

[@michaelmakemore633]

This is my absolute favorite. I keep watching it.

[@davidstewart7840]

Mick and Tony sitting dry and clean eating and drinking coffee whilst the team are soaking and up to their knees in dirt 😂😂😂😂

[@unkown2615]

it's a mood

[@Padraigp]

The best bit. I love when Mick asks for cake too! Hes such a lovely!

[@Flaxworx]

been to Applecross a few times and think about this episode each time:-)

[@Nigel-nar53]

I loved this programme when it was first on & now I'm enjoying it all over again. Thank you. 👍

[@Randrew]

Was the background music up in your face and drowning out Tony's voice when originally broadcast or is that a result of some remixing for off-air distribution? It makes it seriously hard for me to follow the dialog at times.

[@notpublic7149]

2:00 There's our Mick , I miss that archeological icon.

[@alicehardy9094]

WOW! what an interesting program & an epic amount of effort & hard work to uncover the structure & explain the history & reasons to me, an ignorant American. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (and brain for that matter!).

[@bethbartlett5692]

These offer a most relaxing experience. In the present era, I really appreciate this. 😘

[@Padraigp]

The only refuge now is in the past....

[@jaytay8637]

When I was a kid on the farm one of my jobs when a field was about to be planted was to collect any largish stones and pile them along the edge of the field, exactly as Stewart describes here. after a few seasons a low wall would form. Kids always had their chores then :)

[@gnarshread]

I grew up on a farm in Virginia. Every field has a pile of stones where the land was cleared when it was settled. Farmers are still adding to those poles today. I have a feeling that type of rock piling happens all over the world wherever there is agriculture.

[@ChrisHyde537]

@@gnarshread Makes you wonder how the stones endlessly replenish themselves in a relatively short period of time.

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

@@ChrisHyde537 They don't replenish themselves. Farming techniques, specifically in the area of plowing, keep going deeper and deeper into the soil, of course the deeper you go the more rocks you're going to pull up over time. The first few clearings of rocks was sufficient to keep the fields rock free for hundreds of years, then we developed machines that could dig deeper, and more machines that dug deeper still, now we have plow machines that go deeper than the plows of old could ever dream of. I'm not certain if they are going to keep up this trend or not, I do know a lot of areas are starting to ban plowing too deep into the soil, for various reasons, some archaeological, some environmental.

[@willyspinney1959]

@@Skyfire_The_Goth What you say is correct. However, even without deep plowing rocks replenish because of the freeze-thaw action of frost in the winter. When you hand dig a plot each year you find boulders which definitely weren't there the year before.

[@ChrisHyde537]

@@Skyfire_The_Goth This wry observation has been proffered by farmers who swore that the stones were procreating at night. Deeper plowing is a consideration vis a vis archeology in the US? Can you cite one circumstance in the US where this occurred? You’re referencing the UK where the fields are full of archeology. Environmental reasons? Plows that are more efficient can reach a few feet deeper into the topsoil. How is this less environmentally sound? Who’s banning deeper plowing in the US? Where?

[@1972tommyc]

Excellent episode! Bonus item: Phil sets up Ian for a good one-liner that sets the women giggling😏

[@elainsmith2032]

I just read an article about Iron Age skeletons in Applecross. They were found, in 2015, under a building, which protected them. It's rare to find skeletons in Applecross because of the acidity of the soil.

[@Padraigp]

Noice!

[@theknave4415]

Every year or so, I binge watch *all* of these old Time Team episodes. Don't ask why. I dunno. :D

[@dinerouk]

This episode is a cinch to be watched again and again, a sort of broch around the clock!

[@passingwind2681]

Love Time Team ,keep it going.

[@MelancholischerMond]

Best scene: The licking of the glass bead. 😂 Archeology is very sensual at times.

[@pennymitchell8523]

I stayed in Applecross in Augusr'23. Wish I saw this before I left. Long way to come from Australia

[@OMGAnotherday]

Wow that looked like really hard work, and really confusing as well. Great job time team! 👍🏼✌️🌅

[@rachelredhead9217]

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode :)

[@snaggletooth7031]

Just love time team,thank you thank you,thank you,

[@Seraphus87]

"It's the middle of day two, and all we've got to show Nick Goldfork, who invited us here, are a big round structure of indeterminate date and design, a pit full of rubbish of indeterminate date and design, and a lot of very very wet archeologists, many of them of indeterminate date and design."

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

"Don't try this at home" ... Everyone immediately licks the nearest glass window.

[@oukie666]

I visited this Broch in July this year (2022) we were lucky with the weather and it was well into the 20's, we spent a week exploring the area and it rained one night 😂

[@lisaenglert3202]

Love the humor. Always interesting!

[@thepeanutgallery1699]

This is what digging in my yard is like. (Minus anything interesting in the ground).

[@lagerthasMDC]

Great video and some bits 🙌🏻👍🏻

[@LilieDubh]

Let's liberate some dirt. Gawds I love you Phil.

[@billydorney9647]

Loved and love this programme

[@Greenpoloboy3]

34:18 I love trying to find where they were on Google Maps. At 34:18 near the Applecross Heritage Centre and the River Applecross, theres a bit that says car park . If you go to street view, your basically where Mick and Tony were pointing at the old monastery

[@anneangstadt1882]

The idea that the double drystone wall works to prevent water penetration and retain heat efficiently is very interesting! With the size and mass of the surviving ruins, these must have had a defensive function but perhaps the unique design began as a double-walled roundhouse with a timber/thatch conical roof over both walls and gaps at the top of the inside wall. Dark, except for the ever-present fire, but no penetration of wind and wet to the interior. If so, why didn't this design endure? Do we know when mortaring stonework, which would have enabled weatherproof single walls, began in Scotland? Certainly later medieval castles and towers had the same purposes of shelter and defense, with heavy single walls... which could have windows. Where I grew up in southeastern US state of Pennsylvania, I could observe drystone construction but never in dwellings even from the earliest colonial period.

[@coppertopv365]

Give us a Week Dig! 🙏

[@derkhawkins2575]

Would be happy with just the audio. It is a visit to childhood. Wonderful.

[@vickireynolds4055]

That power line, along with unpredictable rainy weather ought to make things very interesting!! Dig on, but carefully!

[@zomertje6]

Thank you, what a fantastic episode!

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

I would never give up my freedom for a backyard full of neolithic or Roman archaeology but I still get jealous when I watch this show!

[@sekhmara8590]

You can always move to the UK, or several other countries the Romans were mucking about in.

[@dragondawn420]

@@sekhmara8590 That's the OP's problem: most likely they think that "freedom" can only be found in 'Murica.

[@philjohnson1744]

Victor made it all make sense. Good on him.

[@samoday2992]

My family ended up in that area after the clearances . It’s a beautiful place

[@PBFism]

I recently saw nuraghes in Sardinia. The broch seems very similar. What do you think, @Time Team?

[@markorollo.]

every time i watch a time team episode on here i say we need a box set, i'm still on dvds but id make it my first blu ray!

[@cdd4248]

Beautiful Beautiful & Beautiful ..landscape and country. I live in the Southwestern US desert and albeit, beautiful in its own way, I am floored by the gorgeous green of the Western Coast of Scotland.

[@karenabrams8986]

If they can do that giant people dryer, maybe I could really build a pizza oven in my backyard.

[@callum1651]

I used to watch time team every Sunday on the come doon

[@elizabeth-gl8ki]

Your narrative style is Brilliant.

[@lecolintube]

How funny, 16:51 Mick and Tony sitting down, having a cup of tea, chatting under some shelter, while everyone else is digging and working in the rain 😂 (I’m sure they’re working 😉).

[@nancytimmer9026]

I love the different feathers Phil got in his hat every episode. African grey this time, I think

amazing how much work they were able to do in just three very rainy days

[@sirforsa]

Proper brockstars.

[@humphrey4976]

The use a similar double wall style construction on the outer Hebrides in the old farm houses

[@TDCflyer]

It kind of bothers me that the broch is always depicted with that odd conical roof which would always funnel rainwater into the area between inner and outer wall. Who in his right mind would do that? I would always expect someone going through the trouble of building a sophisticated structure like that to design a roof that actually keeps the water outside the walls.

[@Padraigp]

In a low house with one wall it makes sense to have the Eames overhang but since the two walls converge at the top of these tall buildings it wouldnt make much sense to have an overhang of roof. In the smaller dwellings they had wooden pósta to hang the tibers for the roof and could overhang them to keep the outer walls dry. In these there would be nó need to bring the roof down low over the entire building. And a slightly overhang would not do anything to keep the outer walls dry. Unless it went half way down the building which would be an enormous overhang. The outer walls already form a sort of roof for themsleves by sloping inwards towards the top. And then like a stack of hay which is conical in shape all you need is a small roof on top and that direct it down. I don't think what we are seeing here is a roof that allows. Rain in between the walls the walls would have cinverged near the top and the roof would have covered the inner wall and possibly used the outer wall edge to rest on. The weight of the roof must be held by uprights ...were the roof to press on the sloped walls rather than the straight inner walls they would press that wall outward with the pressure. So it would make sense within the laws of phsicics to rest the Raftery on thr inner uupright walls not the sloped outer walls. And of course Thatcher is very thick...it has to be put there by a man. Who has to stand somehwere as he Thatches the roof. Or she. As often needs must be the case. So having the outwar wall top to stand on would be handy. I think these drawing show a rsther thin looking Thatcher Thatcher can bé six foot deep. But it would not need any overhang nor would it be nor is it ever sensible to overdo something which adds nó value. Plenty of towers in the world made without overhanging soffits. One of the main reasons they have an overhang in lower cob buildings is be3cause cob gets wearhered. This is made of stone which wont get weathered. Cob and wood also need to be kept dry. This is stone. And theres no way youre going to dry out stone. So there would be nó point to adding a soffit.theres already the sloped wall to take water down and away on the outside and all it needs is a little cap. Not to mention how high up it is to have to deal with an overhang which is fine on ground level. And possibly the wind would not like it. It seems more likely you would want to protect the roof with the wall going above the roof edges than vice Versa. Imo anyway.

[@randyross5630]

You had me at Apple Cross followed by Wester Ross. However its Apple Cross Abbey I prefer... I'll visit one-day, and go for one heck of a hike!

[@RighAlban]

Take midge repellent and a face net, thank me later, I used to live there my father still does.

[@randyross5630]

@@RighAlban Where I grew up, in New Hampshire (just buying Land on a Peninsula not far from Nova Scotia and or New Scotland, with New Ross sitting in the middle of it) the Black Flies as we called them were Bad, some times of year one could have a mini black fog hanging around one's head, with those little buggers biting one alive. However, than one year there really just wasn't... And you didn't have to wear a Head Net or how have you to go outside for x amount of time, specially in my parents yard since half the Land was conservation land, and a Bog which consumed its self to a stagnant stream and a tiny swamp, and my Yard was up there with some of the worse areas, although any where in town could get you a little black fog of flies biting you! But like I said, they were just gone, for over a decade at least, just Gone, whole lot of them! Not sure what happened! Yellow Jackets to a whole slew of things seem to have gone with them...

[@randyross5630]

I Immedaitely Started Remembering this, and Immedaitely looked for my comment, surprised it's been 2 Years!!!

[@RKHageman]

We were *there*! Six months ago, my BFF and I were on a 2-week trip to Scotland and we specifically planned visiting Applecross to see the broch, and on my birthday even! I was cheerfully geeking out wandering the broch site, exclaiming, “they were here! All of them,” lol. But hey, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip, we had to make sure we fit it in. (Alas, the Inn wasn’t open when we were there, but we got pix of the exterior at least).

[@lindsey1402]

“That ain’t much of a tool then.” “I’ve heard that before.” 😂 RIP Mick

[@themightywookie351c3]

Great episode, rental tents are easy to get, don’t get cheap now.

[@PtolemyJones]

That was a really interesting episode.

[@jenamyallen]

Love this episode!!!! Thank you!!!! Love flint, michigan

[@anotherbrickoutthewall9237]

Ohhh arrre Tony I love camping! No flying kites by the power cable though.. Stone the crows!

[@geo-s-8530]

#BringBackTimeTeam

[@Tiger89Lilly]

They are. Look for Tim (director/producer) 's updates. I think there's a patreon you can donate to if you can afford it to help bring it back.

[@didisinclair3605]

@@Tiger89Lilly Yes! I just joined patreon to support them.

[@miaomiaochan]

Professor Aston was the Bernie Sanders of British archaeology with all of his knitted accessories, unkempt hair and glasses. Rest in peace, Professor.

[@essexginge9167]

cant believe you compared that great man to the old fart Bernie Sanders who in al his years in politics done nothing other than beg for money and lose, you should be ashamed!

[@stephenkriegar1014]

@@essexginge9167 you know Aston was an Anarchist, Socialist and Atheist right? If anything at all he probably would have considered Bernie Sanders to be too conservative.

[@henrydemonfreid1985]

The northern road on the Applecross peninsula was built in the 1970s by the local postman.

[@stevenhale2935]

Had his boat sprang a leak?

[@RighAlban]

The now hiking path that's visible from the road was the postmans route he used a motorbike, the navy built the road on the west side of the peninsula, the Gov built it on the eastern side, you can tell the difference, as where possible the west side goes in straight lines. My father used to get dropped off at Kenmore to walk the rest of the way to Fearnmore, when visiting the grandparents.

[@henrydemonfreid1985]

@@RighAlban ah. thanks for the info. my aunt was always a bit vague about it. i guess she was summing it up with a bow saying "the postman built the road." :)

[@rcheeks8963]

I'm surprised they didn't go to Glenelg to show the viewers a Broch thats nearly complete

[@robhickford9169]

Amazing! How clever were our ancestors? I think they embarrass us quite easily.

[@andrewcornwell8347]

How many times can the word Broch be repeated?!! I love Time Team and watched it back to back when ill in bed for a while.

[@anthonynorris7736]

The Applecross pass is the Best place to go on scotland

[@edmondpecotjr.8888]

beau-ti-ful :)

[@znentitan4032]

Every time I hear the word "broch" I immediately think the of the move, "The Man From Planet X""

[@AndyGabrielPowell]

Visited Dun Carloway on Eilean Siar back in 2007. I recall the site info suggesting the ground floor was used to keep livestock, the heat from which would also circulate through the galleries. Ingenious.

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

Tony and Phil are like the working class boys they actually are. Banter and ribbing all the time. But always in jest.

[@LM-pm2ir]

Love Time Team

[@garyhouston113]

looks like back breaking work

[@jbl9709]

Sew a patch on your Barbour: it's Time Team.

[@amandapittar9398]

I did my DNA ( I know, not perfect) and discovered I’m almost 98% Scottish and 2-3% northern “French”. This bears out my research into family history. My ancestors came fro the West and North of Scotland. My Pictish blood was so proud of all this building. When they lived there, the weather was warmer, remember the Gulf Stream too swirls up the West Coast. As a child I’ve clambered over stones like this and castle remains that are now “shutoff” . The weather is just SO typical of the West. I could almost smell the grass, earth and rain. Thank you. The sea there is soft and beautiful in the summer. ☺️ “How did they move all those stones?” Dougie thinks* carefully and in pairs *

[@zillaquazar]

I come from Fraserburgh in the noth East of Scotland we call it the broch

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

It was a joke.

[@zillaquazar]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 what was a joke?

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

@@zillaquazar *Scotch Broch.* It was just a play on words - the episode was originally called *Scotch Broth.* They knew it was a _broch._

[@karenklnck1377]

Phil: Let's go liberate some more dirt.

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

3:55 LMAO! 🤣