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Bruce: might this be one for you to look at? It is relatively modern. This short article is on BBC News: "The village that a religious sect helped to found: Crocketford sits about halfway between Dumfries and Castle Douglas - leading to its nickname as the Nine Mile Bar."
I'm going to be honest, as a biochemist, that detail about alcohol consumption in urine is a wonderful detail to know. With her having said it, I put together two facts that I've long known but never associated with each other. When you consume alcohol, your body produces the chemical acetaldehyde, which your kidneys excrete into your urine (because it's poisonous). Separately, I had known that one of the contaminants in waste water near fabric dyeing facilities is... acetaldehyde! Because it's an essential part in a lot of dyes. Now I understand how and why woad works, which I never had before: the Iron Age inhabitants of Scotland essentially invented the precursor of modern dye. And even as I type this, I am recalling that for the famous Emperor's Purple dye of Rome, one ingredient was a kind of mollusc, but another one was urine. Given that consumption of wine was universal in the Mediterranean by men, women, and children, all urine must have been rich in acetaldehyde. Thanks to you and to Izzy for making me suddenly realize the importance to some previously unconnected facts that I had known! I loved the video.
@bertiesaurus acetaldehyde reacts with colored precursors like fuchsin to make a molecule that adheres strongly to proteins. Wool is almost entirely the protein keratin. Thus the aldehyde makes a merely colorful component into a substance that makes wool hold onto it, even when washed. Oddly, it still isn't known exactly why the aldehyde-fuchsin sticks to keratin, even after all these years. We just know that it does.
Urine was used in tanning leather as well. That has to do with the ammonia breaking down fat and left over flesh. It also softens the leather. Pretty useful stuff.
Such a wonderful village this is, Bruce! When you showed us the remains of the burned crannog, I worried that nobody would spend the money to replace such a structure because the manpower alone would be expensive. Instead, I find out that they built an entire village and are replacing the crannog! Izzy (hope I spelled that right!) was wise to say that they don't know how the houses would look, so it is a concept village with many conceptions, but wouldn't most ancient villages have been? I doubt that Iron Age folks lived in row houses that all looked the same! Different folks had different skills, so their houses would've been different. Only after other people with helpful knowledge joined them would things have started to take a different route, so this village is very realistic indeed! Thanks for showing it to us! Truly enjoyed seeing history come alive. 😊
This is awesome. When we visited Scotland in 2019, we had indented to visit the crannog, but there is so much to see in Scotland, and our time was limited, so we had decided to visit it on our next trip. In 2021, when the crannog was destroyed in the fire, we were hear broken. Having seen what they've created at this has put it near the top of the list of venues to take in on our next visit. I love the concept. This is wonderful.
Oh no! I never realized the Crannog burned down! 😂 so sad. 20 years ago my children and I were the “Iron Age Family of a Thursday” at the old Archeolink…at the Round House there. This new place is a lot like the old Archeolink…which sadly just couldn’t make a go of it. Maybe being in Aberdeenshire it was just too far away. This was a great episode! Thanks for the trip down personal and cultural memory lane!!!!
I remember the news of the fire breaking a few years ago. I hadn’t been able to visit the museum on my trips to Scotland before COVID, and my family and I were just heartbroken. 💔😞
Most excellent. I love Saturday mornings. Thank you Mr. Bruce. Everytime you say “let me tell you a story”, I sit crisscross applesauce like a little child and aptly listen. Most educating and interesting. Well done.
Another fascinating video Bruce. I would love to visit these places on your tour, but since my health issues prevent that, your videos are definitely the next best thing 👍
It's the same for me. I can barely leave the house atm, but Bruce's videos make me feel like I'm touring the world on a Scottish history tour. I get to live vicariously through him. Brilliant.
We visited in October 2022, from the united states. I loved that place. It was amazing. Looks like we are going to have to visit again to see the new site.
Visited several times and tbh not having the crannog not really an issue, the little village and the volunteers who present in each hut hugely enjoyable and interesting, well worth a visit, crannog or no!
We visited the Crannog Centre in 2019. Drove down from our inn at Pitlochry, made the circuit around the entire Loch, ending up at the Centre. At the time, there was a crannog on the water for touring, but it doesn't show up on Google Maps now.
I 100% recommend to visit the crannogs, loch Tay is beautiful and the village of Kenmore has some great walks as well. Bruce, if you get the opportunity theres a few stories I'd like to share with you from my local area - a young man hanged for stealing a loaf of bread (linlithgow), the marriage between Bruce and marjorie and the procession that commemorates this to this day (bathgate), the changing of times of weavers (whitburn), the beginning of kirknewton and the calders.
My dear Bruce If I hadn't said it before in the early of this amazing priceless gem of Scotland, I believe you got teary eyed on the tour. The food before we got to this site , Im still dreaming about!!! This place I feel in love this deeply. It is the land that hugs you
My family descends from the Scottish diaspora and we still have relatives there. I lived in England for 15 years but only visited Scotland a couple of times. You are inspiring me to visit again and connect with this unique and fascinating country. What was the name of the place where you went to learn Gaelic in those short summer courses?
Even if it’s an “interpretation “, the ability to see artifacts as they were used, and buildings as they were built, brings a reality that can not be had just looking at things behind glass🤠 It’s costly to build and maintain - BUT SO WORTH IT !!
I remember going to the crannog centre years ago and loving it, was so sad when it burned down. Still remember the craft demonstrations and trying to create fire, barely managing a puff of smoke! I love Iron Age archaeology but I fear I'm built for 21st Century convenience!
Upvote for me again,Bruce,another great vid and pleased to see the new Scottish Crannog Centre,up and operating again,about the disastrous 2021 fire ! 👌👍
I would love to visit this site, how fascinating! It would be even better if I could camp there for a few days in one of the houses, just to really get the experience of living in iron age Scotland 😇
Just been here while visiting the Highlands, when I was at the old site that burned down there was hundreds of ducks that had taken over it and it was hilarious
It would not surprise me if a real Iron Age village was similarly varied in its architecture. People are going to use their resources and building techniques to build 'fit for purpose' structures, and both purposes and the preferences for those purposes varies quite a bit.
The Crannog Centre was a true highlight for me on the tour, even more so because I didn’t anticipate that. I could have stayed there all day! Nice to see you rocking a birthday tour sweatshirt, too!
Great content as always. My 17 year old granddaughter wants to be an archaeologist and I’ve forwarded the link to her. Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🌞
I love active ancient settlements like this. What I really liked is that you guys explain that it's not exactly how it was because we don't know and your testing you hyposies. Glqd their building a new Crannog. If I win the loto, I'll come visit.
Brilliant place, we have visited both and can't wait for the new crannog to be built. BTW there was definitely a mains electricity plug in the 'gathering' hut, you can see it in your video!
Great episode. Always enjoy the living history / experimental archeology. Also puts me in mind of a documentary I saw a few years ago. They called for volunteers to live in an iron age recreation for a period of time. One of the volunteers, at the start, was excited for the opportunity to "get back to nature." He was the first to crack, when he learned first hand that getting back to nature in an iron age village was hard, miserable work. LOL
Wow they worked fast and hard, only visited the old crannog centre last year, that was already very interesting so will be revisiting on the new site somewhere in the future
Dress changes throughout the ages, it more likely started as a kind of a tartan cloak. To my layman's view the great kilt would no doubt be useful to sleep at the side of a glen on your way to the lowland markets with cattle. Before the modern kilt became what we are used today. I.e set tartan, military dress and weddings.
I would imagine that originally all the buildings would have been built slightly differently according to each individual builder. Although similar, they would have wanted to put their own personal spin own their home. So interesting. Thanks.
My question is how was the open fire controlled in a crannog firepit so sparks didn't catch the whole place on fire. It looks like living in a tinder box.
The buildings have minimal ventilation aside from what naturally seeps through the thatch and door so the ceiling is extremely smoky and allows pretty much no oxygen, sparks go up but die before hitting the thatch thanks to the smoke. thats why the blacksmith shelter shown here uses turf instead, since the forge doesn't make much smoke.
I love your videos. Very informative and great to watch. I have a question, after you say at the end I hope you have a good day in Gaelic, there is another part. What is that translation?
Do you make the groups up so say 1 person can go or do you have to have our own group organised first? I acctually live in Scotland but your info and the way you tell it is great.
Another🌞BRILLIANT🌞presentation🏴Bruce!😎👍 I honestly don't think there's a place I love more than Kenmore... (Maybe Killin☺️but no, it's Kenmore💙for me!)☺️👍 I always loved to 'tear' up the road from Amulree through by Loch Freuchie/Glen Quaich & up over the hills to town!😊🫶 (Is The Hotel there not the oldest in the Country🤔if not the UK???) I've cousins up by 'The Broch' & THAT RIGHT THERE is their holiday spot every year... (Even after the Crannog was lost!) Phenomenal presentation💙as always! I wish there was some way I'd be able to arrange to manage to happen along for your Birthday Tour🙄(but for 'circumstances'🍁over here!)😖 I still think yer full of it🫢by the way... (😆SIXTY🤣MY ARSE!)😂🙃😂 (😅And😆"Lizzy's a pisshead!")😆😂😭😂👌
Sure we have old Forts, but it would be great to have more experimental archaeological sites around Canada too (if anyone's aware of any, let me know!) Also, I'd probably be too tired to do any arson around if I lived in the Iron Age.
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Is there any history about Cathcart Castle?
@@bjorreb7487 There's history everywhere
Bruce: might this be one for you to look at? It is relatively modern. This short article is on BBC News:
"The village that a religious sect helped to found: Crocketford sits about halfway between Dumfries and Castle Douglas - leading to its nickname as the Nine Mile Bar."
I'm going to be honest, as a biochemist, that detail about alcohol consumption in urine is a wonderful detail to know. With her having said it, I put together two facts that I've long known but never associated with each other. When you consume alcohol, your body produces the chemical acetaldehyde, which your kidneys excrete into your urine (because it's poisonous). Separately, I had known that one of the contaminants in waste water near fabric dyeing facilities is... acetaldehyde! Because it's an essential part in a lot of dyes. Now I understand how and why woad works, which I never had before: the Iron Age inhabitants of Scotland essentially invented the precursor of modern dye. And even as I type this, I am recalling that for the famous Emperor's Purple dye of Rome, one ingredient was a kind of mollusc, but another one was urine. Given that consumption of wine was universal in the Mediterranean by men, women, and children, all urine must have been rich in acetaldehyde. Thanks to you and to Izzy for making me suddenly realize the importance to some previously unconnected facts that I had known! I loved the video.
Very interesting stuff! What aspect of dye does acetaldehyde aid with?
@bertiesaurus acetaldehyde reacts with colored precursors like fuchsin to make a molecule that adheres strongly to proteins. Wool is almost entirely the protein keratin. Thus the aldehyde makes a merely colorful component into a substance that makes wool hold onto it, even when washed. Oddly, it still isn't known exactly why the aldehyde-fuchsin sticks to keratin, even after all these years. We just know that it does.
Urine was used in tanning leather as well. That has to do with the ammonia breaking down fat and left over flesh. It also softens the leather. Pretty useful stuff.
Such a wonderful village this is, Bruce! When you showed us the remains of the burned crannog, I worried that nobody would spend the money to replace such a structure because the manpower alone would be expensive. Instead, I find out that they built an entire village and are replacing the crannog! Izzy (hope I spelled that right!) was wise to say that they don't know how the houses would look, so it is a concept village with many conceptions, but wouldn't most ancient villages have been? I doubt that Iron Age folks lived in row houses that all looked the same! Different folks had different skills, so their houses would've been different. Only after other people with helpful knowledge joined them would things have started to take a different route, so this village is very realistic indeed! Thanks for showing it to us! Truly enjoyed seeing history come alive. 😊
This is awesome. When we visited Scotland in 2019, we had indented to visit the crannog, but there is so much to see in Scotland, and our time was limited, so we had decided to visit it on our next trip. In 2021, when the crannog was destroyed in the fire, we were hear broken. Having seen what they've created at this has put it near the top of the list of venues to take in on our next visit. I love the concept. This is wonderful.
Love the urine story. Helps explain the story of collection pots being put out for those coming home from the pub to use.
But HOW did they discover this chemical property???
Oh no! I never realized the Crannog burned down! 😂 so sad. 20 years ago my children and I were the “Iron Age Family of a Thursday” at the old Archeolink…at the Round House there. This new place is a lot like the old Archeolink…which sadly just couldn’t make a go of it. Maybe being in Aberdeenshire it was just too far away. This was a great episode! Thanks for the trip down personal and cultural memory lane!!!!
Brilliant as always Bruce, it's a place I love myself. Our ancestors went through alot to survive. I wonder what they would make of us today.
I remember the news of the fire breaking a few years ago. I hadn’t been able to visit the museum on my trips to Scotland before COVID, and my family and I were just heartbroken. 💔😞
I did not know this at all. Will look into this. Still learning a lot.
I love these sorts of museums. I was so sad when I saw the news that the crannog had burnt down.
I love Loch Tay, been a long time since I've been. I'm so happy to see this new museum. I will deffo visit!
Most excellent. I love Saturday mornings. Thank you Mr. Bruce. Everytime you say “let me tell you a story”, I sit crisscross applesauce like a little child and aptly listen. Most educating and interesting. Well done.
PS…I really liked Izzy. Her take on recreation versus replica is brilliant.
Brilliant
Another fascinating video Bruce. I would love to visit these places on your tour, but since my health issues prevent that, your videos are definitely the next best thing 👍
😢
It's the same for me. I can barely leave the house atm, but Bruce's videos make me feel like I'm touring the world on a Scottish history tour. I get to live vicariously through him. Brilliant.
@@ThatElfTorunn - My thoughts exactly 👍
Same here too but really look forward to the videos every week 👍
We visited in October 2022, from the united states. I loved that place. It was amazing. Looks like we are going to have to visit again to see the new site.
Brilliant
Love this. Added to places to visit. As a fibre person/spinner the dye tale was fascinating and very relevant ❤
Oh,this place is amazing ! I'd love there in a heartbeat !
Visited several times and tbh not having the crannog not really an issue, the little village and the volunteers who present in each hut hugely enjoyable and interesting, well worth a visit, crannog or no!
An actual iron age village. That's so class. Bruce makes everything he talks about interesting.
Got to vist before the bonfire amazing, I 💙🤍💙🏴
I must get over there for a visit. 👍
We visited the Crannog Centre in 2019. Drove down from our inn at Pitlochry, made the circuit around the entire Loch, ending up at the Centre. At the time, there was a crannog on the water for touring, but it doesn't show up on Google Maps now.
Yes coz it’s burned
Good to see you Izzy
I 100% recommend to visit the crannogs, loch Tay is beautiful and the village of Kenmore has some great walks as well.
Bruce, if you get the opportunity theres a few stories I'd like to share with you from my local area - a young man hanged for stealing a loaf of bread (linlithgow), the marriage between Bruce and marjorie and the procession that commemorates this to this day (bathgate), the changing of times of weavers (whitburn), the beginning of kirknewton and the calders.
Aye, drop me an email at info@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk
Wonderful video as always. Thank you.
My dear Bruce If I hadn't said it before in the early of this amazing priceless gem of Scotland, I believe you got teary eyed on the tour. The food before we got to this site , Im still dreaming about!!! This place I feel in love this deeply. It is the land that hugs you
Wonderful video, Bruce. The archeological interpretations of the different structures is very cool. There's something very sensible about it.
I love my indoor plumbing and electricity.
AMEN!!!
My family descends from the Scottish diaspora and we still have relatives there. I lived in England for 15 years but only visited Scotland a couple of times. You are inspiring me to visit again and connect with this unique and fascinating country. What was the name of the place where you went to learn Gaelic in those short summer courses?
Wonderful. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Not gonna lie, I'd like to spend a good deal of quality time with the spinners, dyers (alcohol enhanced or not) and weavers at that centre.
Wonderful insight into the lives and habitations of our ancestors
Brilliant! Thank you Bruce.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great show Bruce 🎉🎉😊
Thank you kindly
Bravo an attempt at actual history and honesty because they don't know I love this
Damn, you're a pleasure to listen to and watch. Thank you. Bruce Devereaux, Australia
Even if it’s an “interpretation “, the ability to see artifacts as they were used, and buildings as they were built, brings a reality that can not be had just looking at things behind glass🤠
It’s costly to build and maintain - BUT SO WORTH IT !!
The night I had last night, I'd be making the darkest woad dye ever seen 😃Great video, Bruce.
😂
I've never been to Loch Tay but will now make the effort. Thanks, Bruce for highlighting this centre. 😮
Love the archeological experimenting! I never knew about the crannogs, talk about some good sleep.
I remember going to the crannog centre years ago and loving it, was so sad when it burned down. Still remember the craft demonstrations and trying to create fire, barely managing a puff of smoke! I love Iron Age archaeology but I fear I'm built for 21st Century convenience!
😂
This was one of my favorite moments on my trip to Scotland. Izzy is great ❤
She was indeed
Bruce you have a way of bringing history alive. Great video
I try
Upvote for me again,Bruce,another great vid and pleased to see the new Scottish Crannog Centre,up and operating again,about the disastrous 2021 fire ! 👌👍
Fantastic Bruce!
Happy Birthday.
Good to see you big man👊🏼
Enjoyed that Bruce thanks
Wonderful sad the others burnt down
💚⚘thanks Bruce
Welcome
Hello Bruce what an amazing place thank you for sharing this
You are very welcome
Amazing work. 👍
Was at the Scottish crannog centre just yesterday! Then this video popped up. The fire was a tragedy but the recreation is admirable
Another bari video and site. I'll have to get ma erse back up there. Take the kayak and explore the wee islands too, maybe.
Went there a couple of weeks ago.Highly recommend!
Thanks!
Big thamks
I would love to visit this site, how fascinating! It would be even better if I could camp there for a few days in one of the houses, just to really get the experience of living in iron age Scotland 😇
The alcohol, lol!!
Just been here while visiting the Highlands, when I was at the old site that burned down there was hundreds of ducks that had taken over it and it was hilarious
“A wee bit of insight”, LOL😆
Great video. I visited the former Cranog in 2020. Stayed at a resort on Loch Tay. Fascinating.
It would not surprise me if a real Iron Age village was similarly varied in its architecture. People are going to use their resources and building techniques to build 'fit for purpose' structures, and both purposes and the preferences for those purposes varies quite a bit.
Another great brucey fumey show thank you it’s a pity yet no a par ❤coyp and thank you
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I went to the Crannog in 2016, and the iron age village last August. It will be interesting to see the new crannog when it has been completed.
i was just there 2.5 weeks ago!!! It was a great visit, full of wonderful information
Great to hear!
Excellent. I'm a travel advisor, I'd like to offer a trip to individuals to Scotland.
Please do!
I hope and pray it will be rebuilt soon as possible I want to visit ❤
Did you not watch the video?🤔
@ScotlandHistoryTours yes, I'm just excited for it to be finished quickly. Like Christmas can't get here fast enough for a kid kind of feeling.
The Crannog Centre was a true highlight for me on the tour, even more so because I didn’t anticipate that. I could have stayed there all day! Nice to see you rocking a birthday tour sweatshirt, too!
Aye, I should have got a size bigger😜😜
@ScotlandHistoryTours same but I still wear it anyway
Great content as always. My 17 year old granddaughter wants to be an archaeologist and I’ve forwarded the link to her. Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🌞
Brilliant
I love active ancient settlements like this. What I really liked is that you guys explain that it's not exactly how it was because we don't know and your testing you hyposies. Glqd their building a new Crannog.
If I win the loto, I'll come visit.
❤
For sure
Old lathes are cool!
Brilliant place, we have visited both and can't wait for the new crannog to be built. BTW there was definitely a mains electricity plug in the 'gathering' hut, you can see it in your video!
Thanks
Great episode. Always enjoy the living history / experimental archeology. Also puts me in mind of a documentary I saw a few years ago. They called for volunteers to live in an iron age recreation for a period of time. One of the volunteers, at the start, was excited for the opportunity to "get back to nature." He was the first to crack, when he learned first hand that getting back to nature in an iron age village was hard, miserable work. LOL
I just found your channel and have binge watching all your videos. They definitely make me want to visit!
You should!
Thanks 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
You're welcome!
I must visit this site with my son. Thankfully I live down by the River Tay so this will be a lovely day out. Thank you 🤩
Have fun!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours
Yet again many thanks for ALL your historical videos that you have shared with us throughout the years 👍🏴
Wow they worked fast and hard, only visited the old crannog centre last year, that was already very interesting so will be revisiting on the new site somewhere in the future
This is a lovely video!
Awesome as always.
Thank you! Cheers!
great vid Bruce did these folks wear kilts at the time? I guess they did?
Dress changes throughout the ages, it more likely started as a kind of a tartan cloak. To my layman's view the great kilt would no doubt be useful to sleep at the side of a glen on your way to the lowland markets with cattle. Before the modern kilt became what we are used today. I.e set tartan, military dress and weddings.
Aye, no kilts back then
What was Iron Age Scotland like? What was Irn-Bru Scotland like...
2:14 '... burned to the ground...?' Surely you mean: 'burned to the water'.
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I wonder if they have a Work Away program at this centre? I'd be interested in traveling from Canada 🇨🇦 to stay and learn there.
excellent! thanks!
You're welcome!
Sooo cool!😂❤🎉
True
I would imagine that originally all the buildings would have been built slightly differently according to each individual builder. Although similar, they would have wanted to put their own personal spin own their home. So interesting. Thanks.
Great point!
The birth of modern man, early iron age late Neolithic very interesting stuff.
We need a darker blue. Call Bruce.
My question is how was the open fire controlled in a crannog firepit so sparks didn't catch the whole place on fire. It looks like living in a tinder box.
The buildings have minimal ventilation aside from what naturally seeps through the thatch and door so the ceiling is extremely smoky and allows pretty much no oxygen, sparks go up but die before hitting the thatch thanks to the smoke. thats why the blacksmith shelter shown here uses turf instead, since the forge doesn't make much smoke.
Inquiring minds must needs know…… How’s the WiFi?
Keep up the great work sir. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love your videos. Very informative and great to watch. I have a question, after you say at the end I hope you have a good day in Gaelic, there is another part. What is that translation?
A'reyt Bruce. I have an earworm of "Burning Down the House" whilst realising they have not replicated haggis hunting dogs.
Excellent and fun video. Thank you again. When you go to Skye, do you visit Ace Target Sports?
I like how, in the thumbnail you appear to be wearing a cap.
Do you make the groups up so say 1 person can go or do you have to have our own group organised first? I acctually live in Scotland but your info and the way you tell it is great.
I don't understand the question. Sorry
Another🌞BRILLIANT🌞presentation🏴Bruce!😎👍
I honestly don't think there's a place I love more than Kenmore...
(Maybe Killin☺️but no, it's Kenmore💙for me!)☺️👍
I always loved to 'tear' up the road from Amulree through by Loch Freuchie/Glen Quaich & up over the hills to town!😊🫶
(Is The Hotel there not the oldest in the Country🤔if not the UK???)
I've cousins up by 'The Broch' & THAT RIGHT THERE is their holiday spot every year...
(Even after the Crannog was lost!)
Phenomenal presentation💙as always!
I wish there was some way I'd be able to arrange to manage to happen along for your Birthday Tour🙄(but for 'circumstances'🍁over here!)😖
I still think yer full of it🫢by the way...
(😆SIXTY🤣MY ARSE!)😂🙃😂
(😅And😆"Lizzy's a pisshead!")😆😂😭😂👌
Shhh, don't tell folks about that road. We don't want it getting out
I believe you are my favorite Scot... next to the woman I haven't met yet...lol
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That long pause 😂😂😂😂😂
I can't remember the filming now. What long pause. Now I'm worried
@ScotlandHistoryTours the deliberate one mentioning electricity
I need me ma very own Iron maiden 😂
Others have said it frequently Bruce is a great story teller makes one wonder if he has a Seanchaí in his ancestry that has passed down in his DNA
Sure we have old Forts, but it would be great to have more experimental archaeological sites around Canada too (if anyone's aware of any, let me know!)
Also, I'd probably be too tired to do any arson around if I lived in the Iron Age.