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Fascinating. If only the educational industries taught us our own history. We were taught absolutely heehaw about our Scots history, mores the pity. Glad to see funding for our Scottish archeology investigations! Fantastic!!

Hi there, interested amateur here. What's the meaning behind the term 'nuclear hill fort' exactly? Me and my partner read part of your writing on the subject but couldn't get our heads around why Stevenson uses the term. Does it refer to the nucleus of an early medieval settlement/kingdom? Thanks!

Thank you, very informative.

Jump to 6:00 ... unless you like meandering intros.

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very interesting, thanks

I have a question. What is the oldest man made island that you've discovered so far? I think I know where a few are that you might be interested in, and also it relates directly to the pictish. Do you have an email where you are reachable?

Thanks for making this video. I am writing something, and this helps. Hey would you guys be interesting in knowing what the Pictish symbols mean? I figured them out, and I'd like to share this info with you.

My mum used to live in the big house at the end and my family own the farm

This is sooo interesting, recently moved to Hawick and love the history of the site. If you ever are in need of volunteers, I'm happy to help out in anyway!

Fascinating presentaton - thanks. But why is the sound quality so poor?

Is this the talk Gordon was going to make in Inverurie with the Bailies?

Did I hear "Adopt a site?". I have a yDNA connection to the Rule Water, my line came to America ca. 1710.

We rarely know and appreciate what is on our own doorstep until it has gone, so we need help to keep what we have for future generations. This is the start of something exciting in our area and worth supporting for all those who follow.

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Thankyou for explaining your research.

Very interesting. I was hoping to dig with you all this summer, but the pandemic stopped that - thanks for sharing!

Thank you for battling through all your tech issues. Really interesting research and good to know more about the hills we climb each year when back to visit family. I hope you'll be able to consider some online papers from future conferences too.

Thanks very much, under the circumstances, for a very well produced and organized series of talks on the archaeology on our doorstep. It certainly proves that the NE of Scotland has plenty to offer to the history of the UK, and no doubt plenty more in store. Well done.

Great work and an excellent presentation. It is good to be reminded of the existence of DoggerBank not that long ago. Do any of the Oil Companies have surveys which might help find the underwater flint deposits?

Excellent presentation. Lots more to find our perhaps?

Thank you for providing such an interesting conference. As someone living in the north-east, the opportunity to catch up on recent developments was fascinating. When I came to this area in the 70s we were told the Picts were a mysterious people about whom almost nothing was known except for some enigmatic carvings. Clearly this perception has changed radically. Besides the information provided by traditional digging, the conference gave me as a non-archaeologist some insight into the remarkable findings of isotope analysis and DNA sequencing. A thought if you again have to do future conferences in a virtual format. I would suggest that the content is made available for at least 48 hours, even if there are no tech problems. Normal life tends to intrude and make it harder to attend all the talks in one session when you are sitting at your PC at home, as compared with physically attending a conference. Thanks again for a superb series of talks !

Even though I had heard some of this material before, I really did enjoy the combined talk, bringing all of the threads together. I really hope that the importance of your work can be recognised and appreciated and that funding can be found for it to continue so that we can eventually see the whole Deeside picture.

A fascinating talk, thank you. I grew up in Huntly and walked on all the hills around it but never knew or suspected that all of this history was lying under my feet. Such a diverse cross section over the millennia.

Loved this talk. Very interesting and entertaining

Brilliant! Thank you.

Fascinating stuff, would be amazing if you decided to look for mons grapius.

Very interesting. It would have been good to know an estimate of when the 'reconstructed man' had been alive ( or did I miss this?).

An amazing presentation. A town above Rhynie! Where would they have got their food and water from? I always thought that everyone would eat and drink in or by their shelter but this has made me rethink this. I can't imagine a well catering for over 2000 people every day. And food would obviously have to be brought up from the plain?

Thank you very much. I enjoyed the conference and learnt a lot. I probably would not have been able to attend a real time conference as I am in southern England. I have sent a donation to Archaeology Scotland in thanks.

A very interesting presentation. It will be very interesting to see what the DNA analysis throws up.

A fascinating presentation. There seems to be more information and understanding emerging by the month! Keep up the good work.

Good to see the involvement of so many young people.

Thanks for hosting and posting an interesting and enjoyable conference!

Thanks for putting together a fascinating programme.

Congratulations to all - despite the tech problems a fascinating and very informative series of talks. Thank you

A Fascinating day of talks, thank you.

One experiment/reconstruction I would love to see is the excavation of pits (such as those found at Milltimber or those post-holes that your group found) using the tools available to the people in the Mesolithic. I guess they had digging sticks and bone/antler "picks" but the work looks to me to be extremely arduous. The talk was really good by the way!

Well done to all involved in putting this conference togegher and making it all work (eventually!) There was much fascinating stuff today and it was a very well worth while project. A true mixed bag that fully illustrated the incredible variety and importance of Scottish archaeology.

A really interesting lecture. As a student from England, I find early historic Scotland a fascinating area, yet don't know much at all about the area of study. Your research at the university is really illuminating. Thank you for sharing it with the public.

Thanks for that. Fascinating. Good to get all the dates. Have you found any evidence of iron working within the vitrified fort itself?

Really interesting stuff. My question has to do with Gaelic place-names. Which academics have been involved in corroborating the given interpretations? The accepted Gaelic form for Bennachie is Beinn na Cìche ('hill of the breast'), and, for example, Rhynie is Roinnidh ('division place'). I find your interpretations intriguing, and I like them, but I'm just wondering where the work is coming from? I noticed the citation for 'Benne Cè' was from the 1940s.

Thanks Ali :)

Not all slides referred to are coming up on screen?

How do we get to the talks ?

Nice intro - shame about nothing following it except various videos that TH-cam throws at you. Where is the conference?

Yaas!!