BREAKING NEWS - 'Largest Ever' Pictish Hillfort Discovered in Scotland
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Incredible news from Scotland this week! Let me know what you think in the comments & don't forget to subscribe to our new channel where we cover the entire history of the earth! th-cam.com/channels/_aOteuWIY8ITg7DQQspG1g.html
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.
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
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.
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 .
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.
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
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 .
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.
Amazing There are some pictish remains here in Fife.
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
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..!! 👍
''Scotichronicon'' is the most important History book for Scottish people to read.
Not read ,thanks for info
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
Woa, your brother is the voices of the past guy? What an amazing family!
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
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.
I absolutely love that Burghead computer game reproduction at 2:14!
Stronghold :) Loved it.
Excellent Pete, thanks & best wishes sent from East Dunbartonshire.
Excellent ! Thanks. Pictish history is a real brain burner...👍👍
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.
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
Thank you❤
How could it be known that the Scots were of Irish origin? My understanding of the 'Scotti' is that journeys between Scotland and Ireland were a two-way endeavour.
@Aethelstan of England Aye, I know there was McDonald clan strongholds (among others) in both the mainland and in Ulster. That, of course, was later than the Roman Britain era but it does lend weight to the 'two-way' theory.
@@geordiedubya1293 it's recorded history - the Dalriadic Scots came fr Ireland - Malcolm Canmore married a pictish princess (apparently the Picts inherit through the female line. presumably like the old Irish Tanistry) and. depending on how you look at it, both sides won.
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
This made my morning. Thank you for the upload.
D.M.
Picts are a branch of the ancient Britons, same language, the northern tribe!
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Blessings upon you. Now the add free sassenach shall celebrate with a large dram. Slainte
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
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.
This is fascinating! 👍 Can't wait to see more!
Love all your video and your brother's channel
All good stuff
Thanks for this, I love you Pete. 💜
Thank you for the great work and information on a news story we might have missed. Keep up the great work!
Thank you
Nice one Pete.👍
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 is super facinating!! How exciting that things like this is being discovered!! Amazing.
I'll drink a whisky to that 🏴
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!
Excellent my friend this is exciting news. Thanks for sharing this...
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.
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)
Thank you for posting that was very interesting I love learning about history
Thank you for the upload!
You've done a nice job expanding your stock footage Pete. I like this shorter format too.
-Jake
Love these videos, keep them coming!!
Pete - you are doing such a wonderful job. Have watched your channels grow in popularity since early days. Well done.
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 are sharin excellent information. Thank you dear
Well done Sir, this is very well done. Thank you
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 about a mysterious historical era. Thanks for putting it up.
Great video. Thanks for all your hard work
Thanks for great info! 💖
Beautiful narrator! So fascinating!!
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.
I love what you and your brother are doing. Thank you 🙏
Thanks Pete---as usual; well taught. You're changing the game right now... Respect due.
I am so excited to have found this website. I love history especially of the Scotland and Britain. My heritage.
How very little we know about history.
Top shelf content and production. Very professional.
Great video Mr. Kelly
Quite interesting. Thanks
This is pretty cool. Wish there were documents.
Thanks for the informative video 👍
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.
Good work, lads!
Thank you. This was great.
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.
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.
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.
Fascinating video, i really like the art and mystery of the Picti. Big up Pete your bangin out some beauties!!!
the picts had already been raiding long before the romans left . thats why hadrians wall was built in circa 100AD
Great stuff 🍺
Great video.
THANK YOU
took 1,500 years to find a 17 acre hilltop in a bald countryside? naaahhh...
Haha right ?
It’s a load of pish, people walk up there all the time. They have known about it for years and years
No, 1500 years to get a scientific team up to identify that it was Pictish ruins and not some other iron-age group.
@@Alexrider02 - could have been done 200 years ago... but wasn't
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....
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...
Your channels are awesome man, love it 🤟🤟
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!
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.
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.
Been to the North Wales forts as well as in Shropshire and Cotswolds - Cornwall etc etc. And Ireland.
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.
Briliant fort, I hope Oswestry Hillfort survives, good video, I love hillforts,
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
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.
Love the channels,
Will you guys have channels available on other platforms. ?
everyone who lives in the area has known this for years
@0:42 The Picts clearly wrote their books in a Slavic language.
I was here last night . Got some nice videos, sorry I was at Mither Tap
Amazing Documentary 😀
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.
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. ._.
how could this huge construction be unknown before now?
It was thought to be Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Aaron Jaben It wasn’t unknown. It’s one of the biggest vitrified forts there is. Can be seen for miles
Brilliant channel, cheers
Go Prof Noble. Great discovery
A fantastic site indeed..... All that rock or fallen wall is very impressive... Was there a circular outerwall there too..?
This is the same guy who does Voices of the Past. I kept thinking I knew this voice.
Great vid, as are your others. Small gripe, Moray in Morayshire is pronounced like the mint Murry. :)