Why Are There Human Remains Below This Scottish Castle? | Extreme Archaeology | Unearthed History

The Extreme Archaeology team travel to Culzean Castle in Scotland. Built on a headland the castle stand over a series of caves whose occupation and use remains unclear. The team discovers human remains and the old legends of cannibals inhabiting the caves resurface. Undaunted the team continues their work eventually unraveling the story of the remains, and the source of much of the human activity evident in the caves
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[@markspencer3612]

I would be surprised if there weren't human remains beneath a Scottish castle .

[@debrabennett3009]

Right?! Haha

[@margritpiepes8242]

Correct

[@kimmmerkim5811]

RIGHT?!?

[@user-vn2kn6ew9r]

I'm Scottish and I agree

[@katw5353]

Any castle really 😅

[@TheSilmarillian]

@18:00 its reminiscent of room and pillar mining a technology that would have been around in that time period for coal mines. Being an opal miner those pillars would support and spread the weight of the foundation layer or rock not necessarily the cubic weight of the castle above, hard to say without being there and knowing the geology. Just from the visuals and the construction of the pillars and how long they have been there they maybe are taking weight but more than likely supporting the rock layer above so either way they are serving a purpose. Nice old craftmanship in their construction indeed and the castles architect saw the need for them, old school indeed, hello from down under.

[@WolfRoss]

I would love to see DNA analysis of the bones.

[@mradventurer8104]

exactly, it could yield unexpected results

[@user-neo71665]

Why do I feel that rope descent is more for tv than it is practical reasons.

[@skintech8620]

no shit! see them rappel down the side of a castle? who needs to do that? if there are no stairs, how'd they get up there?

[@TriciaPuckett]

Ok. So the whole premise is how difficult the places are to get to, but, the police are on site at the cave within minutes of the call. Nice concept and we may have never known but they weren’t expecting to have to contact the police . Come on…..

[@omarra6781]

Ha! I had the same reaction.

[@TheSilmarillian]

I enjoyed the rope work and being a climber and repeller also a first responder SAR tech ,I could see the safety work involved class A definitely, nice to see professionalism. It makes the difference between a rescue and a body retrieval usually a retrieval because safety was ignored by climbers or canyon jumpers.

[@CaylorsReptilesAquatics]

I appreciate and enjoy their efforts to make it entertaining

[@beebester4106]

Great work! Zero hype and all hard work. What an excellent team.

[@durstondarden8765]

I've been absorbed by archaeology since the '60s, and was physically able to do the investigating I did in my youth.. things certainly are different now than they were then..

[@user-vl5gl4qf6j]

Again this exercises the absolute necessity of trained archeological personnel to excavate these sites. These participants were professional and experienced as to interpreting their findings in a "common folk" explanation of the mysteries of history. My complements.

[@earthmotherdragon4572]

These caves are very very old and in past they sometimes buried people in such places. Caves used to be sacred places for burials. Then they have built on top of them and been used as possibly a smugglers cave and then even later in turn, a huge castle built on top of it. Those in power used to build churches and castles on top of such sacred places as they hold mystique and at times are power places, energy points. Interesting dig. x

[@2gulfalco]

Scottish Castle, Alice Roberts and human remains, sign me up 😅

[@chrisbassett8996]

I am always so amazed at the amazing structures, eg the culvert here with such limited equipment. and thinking on that it reminded me of a small island with a number of villages completely washed away. a man from our technological world, loaded a plane/copter with supplies which were dropped on the island. when he himself landed on the island. he expected to hear of a lot of death and distress. Instead he found a lot of happy people. grateful for the fact that nobody died. They lived in simply built huts so there were no injuries from heavy or lethal objects, being washed or thrown around. I envied their simple life

[@danawinsor1380]

Interesting. Were was the island located?

[@sawdust2556]

I know, right?!

[@Homested_Retirement]

I've had a crush on Dr, Alice Roberts since first seeing her on Time Team 🥰

[@johncarter1150]

Embarrassed for you

[@Auxius.]

@@johncarter1150 Why? Let a man dream.

[@andrewmountford3608]

Who hasn’t.

[@forgottenfurbabies3315]

Ahhh, how sweet! I’m sure she would be flattered.

[@Brainbaskit]

Ignore all the so-called angry "feminists" giving femenism a bad name. Embarrassed for them.

[@legacy634]

So were the tunnels connected to the castle? Or is that part of the castle "gone"? If not, I'd be so interested in the search for the access from the castle to the tunnels.

[@battles146]

the history of Scotland is fascinating, having researched it for a number of years - from wars between clans to the wars with England etc especially during the12th to 15th centuries - many castles oceanside had cave structures such as these to receive supplies for the castles by boats or in the case of the Highlanders aa section dug below the castle (called vaults as opposed to dungeons) to hold prisoners usually to face a slow death by starvation - there were tunnels from the castle to reach the storage areas to bring foods and other supplies up to the kitchens and other areas - a particular punishment was the use of caves near the ocean waves where prisoners were chained to the walls and as the tides came in would suffer a slow death by drowning - as the world and climate have changed over 100s of years these modern day findings and interpretations will only give us a very small view of history during those ions as we were not present during those times but attempts to understand the past are also always fascinating -

[@bettygreenhansen]

That was really good. Loved seeing Katy from Time Team!!! ❤

[@patrickaussieMilartry]

I must confess you most certainly have selected a very intelligent and if I may say as a Gentleman. What a very attractive bunch to watch and listen to great knowledge.❤️❤️🇦🇺

[@lesliebryant7362]

There are 2 words that have been said that would keep me up top sitting in the jeep......1.) SPIDERS 2.) ROOF COLLAPSE........

[@sandym8787]

LOL

[@nancylowe2692]

It reminds me of the movie "The Man in the Iron Mask," where the hero is kept away from society in a cave-like room overlooking the ocean. Great movie!

[@brianpeck4035]

Caves are time capsules similar to graves but sometimes better; not counting the ship at Sutton Hoo. In a few years with the help of Ai, we will be able to gain 3d maps in situ and at depth without the need to move anything. The data points and precision extrapolations would tell fascinating stories that are lost with the turning of the trowel.

[@susanfurman]

If the bones are washing down from somewhere, they could be from an old burial ground.

[@stevefranklin9920]

Makes one wonder if those artifacts were "lost" like so many curiously do that are sent to the Smithsonian museum here in the U.S.

[@hannahwhite7622]

omg when that guy was pulling the equipment and started wrapping the rope around his arm i was like lol bye bye arm if something bad happens (freaked me out a bit lol i've always been taught to never do that when pulling/lifting something via rope)

[@sashahatchell662]

I am scared to think about how big that spider had to me to make a whole team of people say nope time to go home.

[@lyndamarshall9768]

Fascinating thank you

[@TheBassOver]

Great as always!!!!Thank you

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Very well done documentary. Having been to this particular fantastic Castle I was intrigued and gratified! Thank you!

[@bernadettecrawford3656]

Amazing work thanks look forward to more

[@vavilovasvetlana9044]

Thanks your channel. Ilearned andsaw masterpiece of the Scottish Castle.

[@Aplusinskal]

Wonderful work and what a wonderful documentary *applause* Also, gotta say, utterly wonderful to see so many of my own gender in a docu like this

[@patricatfurever4051]

Fascinating! Thank you for your research 🥰

[@paulinenigh6004]

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTATION

[@puckingery915]

huge extrapolation to get from one bone to murder.

[@sawdust2556]

Fascinating.

[@kylegawron5358]

i saw the vertebra and was like oh snap that's a human bone.

[@glendamears3618]

Cool😊

[@brianmclean6293]

Wow! This was so informative and interesting. Thanks very much for posting!

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

I was waiting for the ginormous spider to come dropping down again. But no luck.

[@virginiabell7709]

Castles had dungeons.

[@EEsmalls]

Must've been a very impressive spider to cause them to completely abandon their research lol

[@ingerfaber3411]

They can't have been from Australia

[@jennywilloughby3236]

Alice! You are awesome!

[@katw5353]

I'd watch a series on these 3 ladies! Thank you for posting❤

[@EmbraceTheJourney]

another great adventure. You guys pick some of the hardest places to get in to,.

[@sterlingmoose9335]

Same format as the other episodes I've seen in the series. Waste Day 1 in some pointless exercise to get to the site, then mess around in the mud and finish with a half baked conclusion. Funny that the site was so inaccessible that the rope work from the castle above was required when the Police etc were able just to walk right in.

[@sandym8787]

Now that you mention it - LOL

[@dewardroy6531]

What’s a culvert? Really? And this git is in charge of the expedition, lovely.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Try listening? The answers are all there?

[@dasid]

It’s called being a good host for those at home who don’t know

[@dewardroy6531]

The Charlie’s Angels of modern archaeology, no? 🦊🦊🦊

[@durstondarden8765]

Where are the medieval in earlier building specialists in this group?

[@EventHorizon3.14]

So no skeleton and a whole show of possibilities 😂😂😂

[@pigoff123]

Jerry built... We always said Jerry rigged.

[@sonjastarr1364]

We've always said jury rigged.

[@jenahyslip8292]

Could the culvert have been at the base of a castle "toilet" or a shaft to throw kitchen waste?

[@lianefehrle9921]

Wow I wish I was younger to be able to do what these people do

[@thatguyyoudontknow8941]

9:05 ah yes vodka smirnoff 😂😂😂

[@luciollelsa]

I'd find it hard to believe that there was never any access to the cave from inside the castle ground.

[@lindaarnold5683]

Why are these excavations so limited by a short time? More time could get so much more information.

[@ShanonT12]

Sadly, carbon 14 isn’t a very accurate or robust dating method. Live animals have been dated at thousands of years old. The largest confounding factor is water. The more water, the carbon source has been in, the more inaccurate the dating will be.

[@Sheila-G]

Time Team on steroids 😂❤

[@markuschampos5750]

No, baby Time Team.

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

For drama, I think they started higher than they needed to. Still...The human bones were probably washed out from somewhere further up the cave.

[@sallys9294]

Boy, sure hope no one digs up my bones in the future.

[@LQOTW]

I would have named the spider Marcel.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Archaeology meets Marvel on a 50p budget

[@sirpainter1]

How many Archaeologists call the cops? If they did that in Egypt............

[@kop-uv2dx]

that depend on local laws... in England, unless you specifically know you're going to find human bones (as in, you're digging an old cemetery) you need to call the cops when you do find human bones...

[@sirpainter1]

@@kop-uv2dx Gotcha, Thankyou for the reply.

[@curlycindy]

I don't think remains were those of a cannibal feast or smugglers. I believe it was a family living in the cave living off of seafood. What are they going to smuggle fish? Maybe they scavenged shipwrecks. I believe she said of the remains...one was a teenager the other a child, doesn't sound like medieval smugglers.

[@pat-paterson]

why couldnt it have been human traffickers?

[@susansitterle3840]

Did they release the spider?

[@aaronsaunders6974]

too bad culzean wasn’t the headquarters for the movie highlander. reminds me of dashwoods caves

[@cordellseitz7741]

Why can’t they use a hand held pin pointer in side of hard to reach areas

[@mradventurer8104]

850AD perhaps it could mean the people actually lived in the cave back then because that is a safe place to live without need to build a house. All your income can be used for food, clothes or fortification.

[@zuzuspetals38]

What yr is this from??

[@valerieprice1745]

The cup is gold rimmed. She puts it back. Archeology is all about finding treasure, but you have to know what treasure looks like. It looks like gold and silver. That's why they are so fixated on "high status". That's code for likely gold and silver. Some China pieces are literally worth their weight in gold. Treasure is treasure because it's a store of lasting value.

[@jessicascoullar3737]

Most archeology is digging through trash and foundations. I looked at doing an archeological unit at uni because I was interested in ancient Egypt. Decided not to when I discovered we would spend the semester examining shell middens (piles of discarded shells that were basically the trash heaps of ancient Aboriginal settlements). It probably would have been quite interesting but eighteen year old me didn’t appreciate the learning opportunities provided by ancient garbage dumps.

[@valerieprice1745]

@@jessicascoullar3737 I know what you mean about not appreciating the importance, when opportunities present themselves. The madden would have been really awesome, I'm sure. I am fascinated by middens now. At 18, I had never even heard of them. I'm not an archeologist or anything, but I am always curious.

[@tomgreene4062]

you never mentioned Ron Wyatt and his discoverey in Turkey of Noah

[@lindaarnold5683]

Detail: why does no one wear gloves for protection of their skin?

[@angeliquebelluomini7797]

👍👍👍

[@Aplusinskal]

Having recently played Red Dead Redemption II one gotta wonder if the Murfree Brood could have been inspired by the Sony Bean- (spelled how?) legend? Any gamers out there who have the same hunch or know more? =)

[@thecapedgremlin0001]

About 25 years old...!?

[@forgottenfurbabies3315]

Why didn’t they go inside the castle and use the windows?? Just a thought….

[@josi4251]

They may not have been able to do so because the ropes had to be anchored to something very stable, like the vehicle or the castle walls. There'd be nothing inside the castle or the window frames to hold the weight of 500+ pounds.

[@forgottenfurbabies3315]

@@josi4251 could be the reason. TY

The Cave Spider’s body shape looked a lot like the Black Widow, which is an American species. There is a close relative found in Europe but I’m not sure that’s it.

[@steveglover2741]

ALL the castles have human remains under them

[@ilselauwers6009]

The background music makes this video unbearable to finish watching !

[@kunderwo33]

“Try switching from stereo to mono whenever there is such a problem, or switch off the "surround sound" (sometimes known as "enhanced") feature.”

[@ilselauwers6009]

@@kunderwo33 thank you for the tip . Will look into it 🤗

[@paulademarco1585]

Castle built over the body's etc?

[@phyllisharrell174]

Unfortunately, another interesting shows ruined by too much background noise!! Please STOP all the noise when the narration is going!

[@kunderwo33]

It’s not a problem with the mix on headphones or on my tv which implies that it’s a problem with the way your audio is set up. Here’s a suggestion I’ve found: “Try switching from stereo to mono whenever there is such a problem, or switch off the "surround sound" (sometimes known as "enhanced") feature.”

[@markuschampos5750]

When HOW they doing it is more important than what they are doing.

[@simon-oy6um]

Well guess what ! People have been dieing for centuries and theyv'e got to put the bodies somewhere 😂😂😂😂

[@BENOTAFRAID689]

I would assume that the humans lived there during some earlier period, then were invaded by Scots.

[@battles146]

possibility, although it took a period of time to build a castle of any size 🤔

[@kylegawron5358]

boy cave spider

[@benwilson6145]

The team leader is a bit juvenile, fixated on secret tunnels, maybe get a job in the Scooby Doo van.

[@johnrob3215]

This document drama is of low quality, and appears to be quite old.

[@kunderwo33]

It’s from 2004

[@ceciliacrocker390]

Haha, I got a tooth but I don't know whose it is😊, is what she said.😂 Has anyone here lost a tooth?! Heehee

[@michaelagren5009]

Next time leave the ropes hanging if u gone film where u got down . That copper dident go by rope😂 Maybe his ancesters where the smugglers so he knew to use a boat.

[@sandym8787]

LOL

[@keepitsimple4629]

Why wouldn't human remains be found under a castle? They had dungeons and obliettes, so prisoners died there and left bones. Big surprise.

[@haroldgardiner1966]

Could you not suppose smugglers also used kidnapping to supplement their other crime? Something goes wrong and the unfortunate victims have to be put down!

[@Steve20333]

oh it's getting worse carbon 14 really accurate ??

[@oakmaiden2133]

Why can’t y’all leave people buried?😮

[@user-gw9hb6cm6h]

if it's not a GIANT then the people were slaves. WHO IN THE HECK WOULD SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THIS?

[@Steve20333]

we spend money on this ! I suppose it has to be done , but expensive machines ,are they necessary ? can it not be done cheaper ?? oh well ! nevermind !

[@robertshields2066]

🤔Let me think human remains below Scottish Castle, well I'm not to sure but I think they may have been dead🤫. Can't be 💯% but it's my best educated possibility, I suppose they could have been buried alive as some form of punishment but I don't really think so. (LOL)

[@haroldgardiner1966]

Do you suppose that the VIP, who built the castle, up top, may have gained his fortune, to buy it, in the pirate trade? By building the politically correct castle, he was then symbolically burying his sordid past!

[@sonjastarr1364]

This documentary is all right but a lot of the comments are stupid and rude. Haters gonna hate I guess.

[@sandym8787]

I'm laughing because some of the comments are clever and funny .. I guess there is always both ..

[@AG-yj1jv]

Ugh. 🤦‍♀️ Excuse me? You all are archaeologists and yet you are acting as if oblivious to the fact that there absolutely SHOULD, legitimately, be a passage up to the castle. I mean castles were built with storage chambers/ice houses and escape routes. I'm an American, citizen of a land that has few castles, and yet even I know that. (Well, I also got to explore one of your castles when I was in my 20s.) The Truth is always more intriguing than the intrigue - when you dig deep enough.

[@margitwes6495]

18 minutes in I stopped watching. I miss documentaries without gimmicks and fake suspense.

[@theguy9234]

Are these beginner archeologists? They call the men to do the hard work as the girls watch.

[@wickedone6476]

Voo the caves, hoo-man bones, and a foo meters......the lad is incapable of utilizing the y sound associated with all those words.. .vyoo , hyoo-man, fyoo.....it's like nails on a chalkboard.

[@facetious_1]

Were gonna have to call the police. Are u fkn kidding me. For a 4oo yr old skeleton...common sense is lost..

[@sonjastarr1364]

It IS the law, you know.

[@derrickguffey4775]

Was I hallucinating or was there a fireplace just inside the iron gate to the caves? Only caught a quick flash of it. That would be an ideal location though if the caves were used by smugglers or whoever. No sense being cold AND in the dark!