BREAKING NEWS - 'Largest Ever' Pictish Hillfort Discovered in Scotland
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Thank you for posting unbiased history.
BTW What is that golden anglo-saxon helmet?
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Grammar errors aside wonderful news from Scotland. From the air the site definitely looks bronze or iron age, will you be making other vids giving more details?
Philip Thomas the origin of the is unclear. It has been suggested Pictish was a Germanic language or pre-Indo-European language but more likely Celtic. Although no scholarly consensus has been reached as there is so little in the way of inscriptions or written texts are extant or discovered. It is unlikely to be a Sarmatian group(speakers of an Iranian language) as that would necessitate a substantial movement of people from the northeastern frontier (Thrace/Dacia). Who some how conquer the northern most area of Britain. It could be an otherwise unattributed Indo-European group or something like that. But most likely a Celtic group?
Only one word: *Fascinating!*
@@ieuanpugh-jones5284 A consensus was reached many years ago by studying place names. Picts spoke Brittonic (sometimes written as "Brythonic") dialects, just like all other mainland Britons of the Iron Age. Their language was simply the northernmost outlier of the group. It has also been possible to work out some basic aspects of their religion, and it overlaps with known Brittonic cultures precisely as one would expect.
I live about 20 miles away from where this is. I could've told them that 40 years ago!! Very spooky if you venture up at night. It's a vitrified fort. The stones have been heated to such a heat that they've turned glass like. Lots of Pictish stones up this area.
I love Scotland, and visiting is on my to-do list. Amazing country, and so much history. Greetings from France.
Denise Bond, that’s just the Sturgeon and the SNP, we are not like them.
@M experienced hatred to the Scots in Liverpool?! Sounds bullshit mate. Most English don't even think twice when hearing or meeting a Scot - especially northern England. Different to when I have visited Glasgow, there is a definite shift in attitude when they hear your English accent.
Go check out the Declaration of Arbroath my friend there is a wee pointer as how we Gael came to inhabit both our countries 👍🏼
@M Been to England many times and never had or felt any hatred towards myself, It must just you
I am-scot Irish and French but I look very French. My family is also a rare blood type and mostly women.
Great video. I had my DNA done and I'm 70% Scottish Celtic and 30% Irish, nice to see where my ancestors could of possibly come from
You missed the coolest part! The wall on the western side is completely melted and fused in places, and much of the rocks throughout are now glass - although they were first made of sandstone which would never naturally do that. This affects forts all over Scotland, and very few anywhere else.
Possibly because they were later used as a site for warning fires.
Vitrofication is either lighting or nuclear not long term firing from fat oil sources or wick based or natural fires
@@typower9wouldn’t generate enough heat to melt sandstone , sand begins to melt at 1700 C , afraid it’s probable that this will never be answered .
And you know how this occurred, surely?
When the North American megafauna were wiped out, the mammoths of Siberia also, approximately 12,000 years ago, our Sun shed its outer dust shell, passing Earth at roughly 1500 miles per SECOND (around 5 million mph), but the Sun had melted the rock tops because the Earth had stopped rotating at that point in time, prior to this the Earth rotated in the opposite direction (- as can be confirmed by geological evidence).
This phenomena is a regular cyclical occurrence, and evidence of it is all around; look up Doug Vogt, Diehold Foundation, and study series 4 - it has all been worked out. To see how the Earth's rotational direction flips, see a 4 minute demonstration by MarkoPL100 (- see too both websites, the clues for further investigation are there).
Living near by the Rhynie (pronounced Ryeknee) hill fort, I was always fascinated by the melted rock aspect as much as the rich cultural hinterland. Study the petroglyphs found in many parts of the world also, and consider the works of Anthony Parratt, who gives the interpretation as to what they mean - they are a portent. 😊👍🏻
Nuclear blasts
Go Picts! I wish we knew more about them, their language and writings, their art and architecture, their music, stories, and history.
Pup314
- If I remember correctly Skene ("Celtic Scotland") said that the Picts were the same people as the Scots but that they got here earlier and from a different direction.
@@fredgillespie5855 yes, that's wrong. They were Brittonic, not Goidelic
Ahhh...my ancestors!
@@zenw1464 simply put moors/black/swarthy/Schwartz etc.
@@zenw1464 mine too
Its hard to believe that no one has discovered this till 2020. It's huge and looks like a fort. Weird.
pallexa It was thought to be Bronze Age or Iron Age. Time periods which often had larger forts. Makes you think what other sites from these times are early medieval too.
Lack of imagination is rampant among scientist.
I happen to know that there are dozens of significant sites of historic interest in Scotland that have been forested over and "protected" by the Forestry Commission (a UK Qango) to ensure they are never revealed to the public.
@@HistoryTime I guess that explains it
@Rad Derry LOL. In other words, science asks for evidence (the exact opposite of dogma). Otherwise, every persons opinion would be equally valid. Science is a method and not a belief. It cant be dogmatic.
I saw this in various archaeological journals I follow. Somehow, I heard every story in a curious accent of wonder and joy. And now I know why.
Woa, your brother is the voices of the past guy? What an amazing family!
Disgustingly the large fort in oswestry Shropshire the local council want to build a housing estate on it,local residents are so strongly trying to stop this ,anyone that knows how to help please let it be known to the advertizer news paper
I’m from the US but why, they could put that anywhere else they wanted. Why do they need to put it on a historical site is it not Muslim enough for them?
@@Max-nt5zs
We are a small & most densely populated country in Europe. A toxic mix to put it bluntly. Local councils aren't interested in history , unless it brings in money to swell their greedy corrupt coffers.
Great comment by the way...
@big Feet
As well as the money aspect maybe it's a sinister attempt to erode national identity. Globalist propaganda ...
@big Feet they want to erase the history for their planned 'diverse population' coming in....stand against it, they are traitors to Scotland
@Tom Sanders stfu
Fascinating! Love history of when Rome pulled out. It's such a murky time,mysterious!
I thought this comment was talking about something else at first hahah
Ha pulled out . Romes like nope we're done making mistakes.
wilson the conqueror / someone has been keeping this secret! I mean, look at its SIZE! Wonder why it's been kept secret all these years?!
it would seem that you have been out on the hills too long,
Sharon Keith It’s no secret , we locals have known about it for generations , I think it’s well documented don’t know why they think it’s been newly discovered .
I’d love to hear about the Pictish language and the attempts to decipher it
There's a smashing wee book called "The Glens of Angus" by David Dorward that explains many of the old Pictish terms. One place i learned a hell of a lot.
@Oftin Wong There isn't. All there is is tantalising snippets in place names that have survived the ages.
Yes I would love to know/learn also... I have always wondered if the Scandinavians and the Picts were related due to their artwork/Blue tattoos ...
@@moreporkowl1218 Kia Ora Morepork Owl. I think that Orkney/Scara Brae was a centre of learning in predeluvian times and was the source for distribution of the three kete.
@@moreporkowl1218 yes, they're not
Archaeologists from Aberdeen have been working here since 2011. The vitrified fort at the top of the hill dates from 400 - 100 BC. What's new is that the wall surrounding the larger area of the hill, within which all those houses stood, has been dated to the 4th - 5th centuries, making the main site much more recent than had been assumed. Lower down stood the (Pictish) Crawfoot Stane, and the Rhynie Man Pictish carved stone was uncovered nearby in 1978.
The secondary lower wall and the many house platforms were mapped and noted in a detailed survey in 1967. These were then added to in 1978, 1981 and 1985. There have been systematic (though periodic) excavations since 1997. In 1996 finds from the lower (larger) part of the site placed the hut circles firmly into the late Iron Age. There have been detailed aerial photographic surveys for five decades. canmore.org.uk/site/17169/tap-o-noth
The explanation for the vitrification of the stones can be found in the late Doug Vogt's research. See Diehold Foundation, series 4; watch them all.
For a demonstration of how a magnetic polar reversal occurs, see MarkoPL100.
Geological evidence and geomagnetostratigraphy awaits your attention.
Oh, and the (mid- to late Victorian) Spalding Club records have quite a lot of reference to 'Rhynieshire's rich cultural past.
You and your brother are the GOAT, seriously your guys content is by far my favorite, voices of the past is such an awesome concept for a channel. You guys and Fall of Civilizations Podcast are my jam
Fall of Civilizations is excellent. Recently discovered them, and I'm really enjoying what I've listened to, so far.
I've climbed Tap O' Noth a couple of times and always knew it was a significant fort of some kind. The eastern flanks of the Cairngorm mountains are littered with other hilltop forts but this is one of the biggest and very possibly the site of the infamous Battle of Graupius Mons. We'll be hearing a lot more about this area in the years to come.
Pete, you need to brush up on your pronunciation of Scottish place names ;)
It seems the British Isle does something to folks speech. They can be quite difficult to understand.
My forebears had to come over to the new world to speak right.
😜
But yes, folks ought take some time to learn to pronounce place and people's names correctly. Sign of respect.
@@s.leemccauley7302 Oh, yeah, Americans are the last bastion in eloquence. Said no-one... ever.
@@s.leemccauley7302 American's have bastardized the English language so you show us some respect, and enjoy your new world with it's lack of history and ethics, and let us know when you too, learn speak correctly
Apologies , learn to speak correctly.
@@s.leemccauley7302 its a pity you didn't get our higher IQ
It would be unbelievable to camp there. I can only imagine the feeling of the presence of history there.
Yes, I have driven to the 'crater' bit at the top in my jeep, then camped over night, the flew my hang glider to 1200 feet above the top... WONDERFUL view..!! 👍
Excellent Pete, thanks & best wishes sent from East Dunbartonshire.
I absolutely love that Burghead computer game reproduction at 2:14!
Stronghold :) Loved it.
It's fascinating to compare areas uder Roman Empire and out of Roman Empire. For example our Celtic Czech state, later called Great Moravia Samo's Empire, Kingdom of Bohemie. E.g. Prague Castle was found in 886 A.D.
Thank you for the great work and information on a news story we might have missed. Keep up the great work!
I lived in Cornwall in England during my military years for three years. Always miss England. Great to find this video! Always like the ancient history of the British Isles
Craig Adams just to let you know the England - Cornwall nexus has a lot of historical baggage most of it detrimental to the latter!
I got my DNA tested...turns out I'm almost half Cornish...Jayne Mansfield, Mark Twain and others claim heritage there....
Just means you're a Brit
Amazing There are some pictish remains here in Fife.
Excellent ! Thanks. Pictish history is a real brain burner...👍👍
Pete, I keep finding these cool history documentaries, and when i check, it's always you.
So, I've bitten the bullet and subscribed.
Keep up the good work, brother.
This made my morning. Thank you for the upload.
D.M.
Christianity arrived in Britain in the first century. There are thousands of records written by the Britons recording their own history from 500BC into the medieval period. Check out Wilson and Blackett.
I hope they find more ogham inscriptions, so that they may decipher and better understand what language the Picts spoke
Celtic of Canaan? What is that supposed to me
If you read the early Pictish King lists which were kept safely on Iona - away from King Edward and his burning of all Scottish Historical Documents you will be able to read what language was spoken. Pretty much all of Scotland documents pre-1314 were completely destroyed (by burning) under the orders of the invading English King Edward I and then briefly Edward II. Think "Early Brythonic but with an Aiberdeenshire Accent".
Ogham was Irish, so I doubt it would shed much light on the Picts, lol
@@mackenziefan5019 You most likely would not have a clue what they sounded like. It would have been the same as in English, where time transformed the language from a thousand years ago into something that sounds completely foreign today even though both are the same language.
Celt of Canaan Esurix wiliam walis does this give you a clue
Great stuff! After the lockdown eases (hopefully not for a while) I'll go and have a look. Many thanks :)
@Adam Battersby I posted that 6 months ago when lockdown seemed the best way of not being infected. Since then people have (hopefully) learned to wear masks and keep sensible distances. In addition we have the possibility of being vaccinated.
We were learning about picts at my school! And we found out that the hill behind our school had a pictish site, also not that far away from our school it had a 'pictish hoard' of silver, and the silver is in Museums around the world! (I think, i forgot some things)
Another place to look for a seriously big Pictish hillfort is Moncreiffe Hill (South East of Perth). There's a smaller square fort there right on the cliff-edge that has long been said to be a Roman fort. It's hard to make out Google maps but I've stood within it and seen the definite square shape. But what struck me more was the huge flat treeless area at the summit with very definitely man-made (uniform) ramparts about 30-40ft high! I've never seen any reference to a Pictish fort there but I'll bet that whole hill was a significant fort and settlement as it's perfectly strategically positioned to defend the river to the north. If anyone has any info on a Moncreiffe Hill fort, I'd love to hear it!
''Scotichronicon'' is the most important History book for Scottish people to read.
Not read ,thanks for info
Exactly, and not the chronicles written by Bede.
Pete - you are doing such a wonderful job. Have watched your channels grow in popularity since early days. Well done.
This is fascinating! 👍 Can't wait to see more!
This is super facinating!! How exciting that things like this is being discovered!! Amazing.
Amazing that discoveries are still being made. Can't wait to find out the details.
Amy Jones don’t be fooled this was found years ago
You've done a nice job expanding your stock footage Pete. I like this shorter format too.
-Jake
Well done. A man of my own heart. Been to many historical places. My uncle is a marine archaeologist and also works for national geographic and my brother who has found many historical finds metal detecting in the UK.
Excellent my friend this is exciting news. Thanks for sharing this...
Love all your video and your brother's channel
All good stuff
Top notch work as usual. We're so lucky in the UK to have such a rich and well preserved heritage. Yet, there are still many mysteries. This is an exciting development for Scottish history indeed!
Picts are a branch of the ancient Britons, same language, the northern tribe!
How very little we know about history.
Top shelf content and production. Very professional.
If a picture tells a thousand words, a Pictish Hillfort holding two thousand people will speak volumes for future archaeological research. Thanks Pete Kelly!
Glad to see you're still interested while retired
@@alabastardmasterson Once an archaeologist, always an archaeologist. Wherever an archaeologist goes on vacation in the world, it's always a busman's holiday.
Fascinating video about a mysterious historical era. Thanks for putting it up.
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Blessings upon you. Now the add free sassenach shall celebrate with a large dram. Slainte
I’ve been on top of Mither Tap near Keig in Aberdeenshire which is much smaller by comparison. It was quite a surprise to find that what looked like scree from the little museum on the flats consisted of steps and walls. Great view from the top.
You are sharin excellent information. Thank you dear
There was no "buy me a coffee link". So I bought a tshirt. You guys are doing a great job, keep it up.....much respect.
Fascinating video, i really like the art and mystery of the Picti. Big up Pete your bangin out some beauties!!!
Thank you for posting that was very interesting I love learning about history
I am so excited to have found this website. I love history especially of the Scotland and Britain. My heritage.
Well done Sir, this is very well done. Thank you
Thank you❤
The hilltop appears to be a vitrified fort, which is quite common in Scotland. Do you know if Tap O'Noth has vitrified walls?
Like brochs?
Yes, it does.
Thanks for this, I love you Pete. 💜
Thank you! I love when TH-cam sends me new videos on Pict history. My patriarchal ancestry are Boernicians - a mix of Pict, Angle and Viking from ancient Northumbria. I never see anything about the Boernicians and wonder why.
A fantastic site indeed..... All that rock or fallen wall is very impressive... Was there a circular outerwall there too..?
I love what you and your brother are doing. Thank you 🙏
Great video. Thanks for all your hard work
the picts had already been raiding long before the romans left . thats why hadrians wall was built in circa 100AD
At one time the entire populations of Scotland and Ireland
switched lives and land. Ancient history is a marvel in the
history of the Picts and Druids and Welsh.
lorenzo M
Not to forget the Norse folk who took cruises to our shores...and didn't go back...I'm one of their descendants...
I think the words picture and pictionary were derived from the Picts because the Picts had no written language, they told their stories in picture carvings on stones.
On a Scottish history channel it was suggested that "Pict" came from "Pecht" which meant ancestors. It also occurred to me that the standing stones probably would have meant something about where they were originally placed. There was one with the crescent and arrow in a place that looked over the sea, and the stone was moved to another location. So if it meant something about the crescent moon and wheat (since the arrow looks like wheat), and maybe that meant to plant when the new moon was over that stone (I'm just guessing) how can we ever know now. I've also thought that some of the symbols like the fish, the serpent, the "Pictish beast" and mirror and comb stood for various tribes or clans. But it could also have to do with something significant taking place where one was placed. Maybe a treaty, or marriage, or battle. I hope someone wrote something down about these symbols and maybe someday, in another place we'll find a record of it. Wouldn't be the first time someone passing through made a record of something they thought significant.
I'll drink a whisky to that 🏴
Nice one Pete.👍
Cant believe you didn't mention the biggest mystery about Tap O Noth. Some of its ramparts have been vitrified by great heat ,the rocks melted by ancient peoples. Dozons of other vitrified forts are scattered thoughout northern Europe one- Dunnideer is also in Aberdeenshire.
The possible process of vitrification was covered in a episode of the 1970's ITV documentery series Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World.
Amazing. My Granddad came from the islands and hadn't seen a tree until he came to the mainland. His was a crofting community and the island was so wind-swept that it was barren, and probably still is. They have a hard time keeping the youngsters living there nowadays i'm told, they all want to go off to uni and the big cities. They'll learn ;+}
Someone needs to go there and plant some trees
@@fleadoggreen9062 I think you missed the point that the wind prevents trees from surviving.
In the middle to north, the tree line was about 1000 feet which meant you got a good view from the tops.
Thanks Pete---as usual; well taught. You're changing the game right now... Respect due.
I'm struggling to comprehend what the breaking news is. I stayed in the area 45 years ago and I didn't see anything in the video that wasn't known then. Did I miss something?
I think it was just that Burghead was considered the pictish capital in the North East, but now archaeologists are considering tap o noth to be the new capital (well thats what the p&j newspaper said anyway). Will be exciting to see what new info comes out from studying the site further :)
I guess that you, indeed, did miss something .
I was that pict. ._.
2.37 what is the animal above the fish ?
Great videos. I really enjoy your work. Please keep it up. I would love to see any or all of the 273 dolmens, monoliths, and other Neolithic sites in the UK. Thank you.
I'd like to see genetic studies that have been done in the area, if they have been done to see if the peoples in the area are R1a, R1b or another male haplogroup and the mitochrondrial haplogroups.
I'm R1b and H4, but then I'm lowland Scots, not Highland. I'd also love to see more data, what are you thinking?
Green eyed? All my ancestors are from the Isles, Scotland being my father's greatest point of pride, Ireland my maternal grandmothers. I've green eyes and so too my children. What does that have to do with the geographic area?
D.M.
Cathi Wright have you come down south? We’re everywhere!
Why haven't these studies been done already ?
My grandparents were from the highlands. Both had blue eyes.
Considering Aberdeen Uni was doing digs at Tap O’Noth 35 years ago as part of their Pictish studies, I am surprised they kept it quiet ;)
The whole area is steeped in Pictish history so how people had not put two and two together is surprising. 😮 Especially since Rhynie Man was found nearby.
From the Tap, you can see Bennachie, another Pictish fort.
Thanks for great info! 💖
Very interesting, wish I could know more about this castle or walled town together with the enigmatic Pictish people. Unfortunately they left no written clues but also the Anglo-Saxon and the Viking were no joke....
Been to the North Wales forts as well as in Shropshire and Cotswolds - Cornwall etc etc. And Ireland.
Love these videos, keep them coming!!
Just to be clear - Pete Kelly is NOT saying that no one knew about this place, or that people have only just realised it was a fort. What he's saying is that it hadn't been excavated until very recently, and until then archaeologists had no idea what they were going to find. What we see in the photographs appears to just be the central citadel of the fortress. What archaeologists are so excited about is the area around it, which is where they've found all those huts. Four thousand people is massive for Britain in the 6th-7th century - to put it in perspective, Prague in 1000AD had about 10,000 people, and that was as a major city of the Holy Roman Empire.
So in that sense, this is very definitely a "discovery". A settlement that size has to be sustained, and that in turn requires vast resources. Running it requires a basic administration, and that in turn requires a centralised, permanent government structure - a "state", in other words. Taken all together, this suggest that the Pictish kingdom which controlled this area was a much more stable and prosperous society than has previously been thought.
i apologize for the non sequitur, but what are all those white blossoms on the bushes or trees around you? and does it smell heavenly?
Thank you for the upload!
Who's to say the Picts weren't there before the Little Ice Age and Doggerland and survived to populate all of Alba.
geneticists
@Engineer Blake they wont because that's ridiculous. Why does everyone want to tie the Egyptians into other History
@Urien Rheged Dogger land was land exposed by the ice age when sea level was a few hundred feet lower than at present 😊 as are many thousands of ancient sites around the world at that time my friend.
@Engineer Blake I don't need to be an expert to know that the Egyptians are not related to the Picts, there's no evidence of Picts making cross continental voyages of any kind and especially not a strange meandering one that led them past acres of unoccupied fertile land on coastal Europe, to slip through the Pillars of Hercules, continue past more fertile land and then miles of desert to stop at the delta of a major river in the middle of the desert that is occupied by a large population. Just doesn't make any sense. And wouldn't there be hieroglyphs and shit in Scotland? Its just bullshit. And the absolute majority of the scientific and historical community don't agree with this fucking crazy theory gives me the confidence to speak on this rather than pouring over his "algorithms." And I am in software development so I can tell you with certainty, what he put forward means absolutely nothing.
One of the most popular is the legend of Queen Scotia who founded present-day Scotland with her husband Gaythelos. According to the legend, Scotia was the daughter of one of Egypt's Pharaoh including Ramses II, Friel, Nectanebo I, Necho II and Neferhotep I.
I was here last night . Got some nice videos, sorry I was at Mither Tap
Just a wild thought. Is there an etymological connection between Tap O'Noth and Torpenhow in Cumbria? Though I ask this, I am mindful of Darryl Francis' work, The Debunking of Torpenhow Hill. That being said, the similarities in the pronunciation motivated me to ask the question.
Beautiful narrator! So fascinating!!
Wait till they excavate Torry and Fittie in Aberdeen this was the main Pictish stronghold it reached to Dunicairn then Dunnottar
They’ll need to be careful excavating Torry ! Old needles discarded chip pikes and condoms
They’ll need hazmat suits 😆
Thanks for the informative video 👍
800 houses, I would say 7 heads per house, 5600 inhabitants. I raise the count due to the known fact that ,where you have high child mortality, 7 to 8 children where the norm, and still are in certain parts of the world.
Definitely they were at it like rabbits no TVs in them days you see
Heck. In my faither's family there were nine kids and in my Ma's there were 12.
A pal of mine told me Tap o Noth got its name from some vikings that were trapped there.And rather than climb up there or walk round the back where it's flat.The Picts just surrounded it and waited for the vikings to die from starvation.The vikings decided to give up and as they were coming down the hill they we're pointing at their mouths and saying the word ''Noth''.Maybe it meant food or hungry but thats what I was told how it got its name.The last mention of the Picts in history was at the battle of the standards in the 10th or 11th century.
My grandmother had 9 sister or brother
Strange all these comments fail to identify that the over riding names of rivers various mountains and place names in Pictland are all in the Brythonic language of the Cumbrogi/Welsh. The fort Dunnicaer is named quite plainly in the Welsh, 'city of the fort'. But of course no one has mentioned or spotted this fact. The Picts were a northern British tribe of Brythonic origin, of course with ancient Indo-European links.
You been reading Alistair Moffats book “Arthur” ?
Very interesting explains old or even local dialect place names such as the words Aber or Dun
Love the channels,
Will you guys have channels available on other platforms. ?
Fantastic , love you , skip ads please or put related ones . Thank you in advance .
Was it permanently inhabited or had a purpose of a refuge?
We have many huge area forts from VIII-X c. that are believed to be refuges - they are in area of frequent horse nomads attacks, have area of 10-30 ha (24-75 ac) contrasting with later power centers of 1-5 ha, with no buildings inside. Sometimes - lots of arrow heads are found pointing one direction - presuming the fort being under attack. Interestingly, in area of frequent Viking trade/war raids, at seaside rivers, forts are small but in bigger number.
Looks exactly like Tre'r Ceiri to me on the north coast of the LLeyn Peninsula in Wales-any connection do you think?
Pete is there any early indication of a peopling in the north or the islands of folk much like what, in places, are called Eskimo or Inuit etc, or such type of peoples that ranged along the northern climes of the world. Any such Asiatic peoples could have been around the northern regions early on.
Great video Mr. Kelly
You should check out Kilmartin on the West Coast South of oban if you want to see a lot of pictish standing stones and temple graves, really fascinating stuff around that area.
University of Aberdeen archaeologists say 4,000 people may have lived in more than 800 huts perched high on the Tap O' Noth near Rhynie.
Many had thought it dated from the Bronze or Iron Age.
The team said carbon dating suggested it was likely to be Pictish, dating back as far as the third century AD.
Pete, your really are a credit to the history society. I enjoy everything you do. Well done, well, shot and perfectly executed. Your voice and tone bring you in hold on to you until the end. Truly excellent work
Your channels are awesome man, love it 🤟🤟
Good work, lads!
Great vid, as are your others. Small gripe, Moray in Morayshire is pronounced like the mint Murry. :)