Gurness Broch And Iron Age Village in Orkney's mainland
A visit to Gurness broch in Orkney with some of the interesting facts and speculation that Archaeologists have come up with since its discovery in 1929 by Orcadian poet Robert Rendall.
A visit to Gurness broch in Orkney with some of the interesting facts and speculation that Archaeologists have come up with since its discovery in 1929 by Orcadian poet Robert Rendall.
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I sincerely enjoy your walks and narrations. Thank you.
Robert Rendall, is my great grandfather. We now live in Shropshire would love to visit one day.
Thank you for your clear description of these ancient and intriguing structures. Liverpool uk
Really well done!
Your video programmes are stunning.
TY for that interesting "Piece,"
Visited there in August, fell in love with the islands, so many great sites to see.
Excellent narration and very fine drone views from air and sea.
Visited this broch in 2003. It was difficult to understand the layout initially but we stayed for a while and got the idea. Greetings from OZ.
I’ve just found your channel and it’s so interesting.
Very interesting story! Thank you for telling!
Thank you
Fascinating!
I’m fascinated by this topic. Im in the process of building a scaled down Broch beehive.
FANTASTIC PRODUCTION! I agree with the other commentators. Inspired me to look closer at my 'supposed' Hayes/de la Haye/ Viking ancestor Hrolf (Rollo) Hrollagersson (Called Brico de Thurstan).Hrolf BIRTH 884 • Orkney, Scotland. who followed his uncle Rollo to Normandy. (that is all the women told the truth of their children' s paternity of course) His father arrived there from Norway. So that is the only generation that was there Thanks I will finally look for documentation on that location and period,
Places like that are usually abandoned because the need for water overtakes its supply.
Thank you...such engineering and mystery
The Orkneys seem to have had a bustling population, 3+ millennia ago! Skara Brae is only 10.65 miles from Gurness, and the Standing Stones of Stenness are but 10 miles south, although one has to walk around the bight to get to them, from Gurness. The stone construction leads me to think Gurness is much older than 1st Century BC. I'd place it in the latter part of the 13th Century BC, if not the 14th. People of that time had good reason to construct shelters that would absorb heavy punishment, as if survival was imperative. We sit comfortably distant from those times, but the amount of work these show points to planet-wide catastrophes.
Remind me of similar structures in Sardinia.