Interesting. I’ve been to Orkney several times visiting relatives in the past and didn’t know about this.

Very enjoyable and informative. Thanks for sharing👍

Thank you!!!! [And Thank the algorithm that brought you to me] Fascinating. History, geology, lighthouses…all my favorites!!! ❤️

I was lucky enough to travel to Orkney in 2017. I saw a group of young adults almost become stranded on the Brough of Birsay because they hadn’t checked the tides. The walked out in ankle deep water. By the time they’d had a fairly brief look around and come back, they were walking back in water which was more than half way up their upper legs. The site was amazing to see when I returned the next day.

This was wonderful, I was there in early August, but couldn’t get out to the island, only 2 buses from Kirkwall and the timing didn’t work. The coastline was beautiful and loved watching the waves roll in. Definitely recommend a visit.

Beautiful video and informative narration. Thank you for sharing!

Visited in 2003. Orkney is one of the must see destinations. Fantastic. Cheers from OZ.

That was very interesting, i'm pleased i 'tuned in'. I have heard may things from the northern most parts of Scotland, maybe the climate was very much more hospitable then, hen ce the occupation of specs in the ocean.

Lovely. Great voice. Very beautiful. Peaceful.

Excellent presentation and video views of the island. Great work.

I am from Blackpool on the Fylde coast south of Morecambe bay. We local kids were taught of the dangers of incoming tides.. We dont have sinking sand like further north from Pilling across Morecambe bay but have many sand bars and the tide comes in behind them and can and does cut off the unwary from the shore.

Thank you for an interesting video. Living in Australia I dream of visiting Orkney and Scotland land of my ancestors and when I get there there will be workers with wipper snippers deafening its contemplative atmosphere buy cutting six inch long grass. Oh the modern age. But thank you again

@mazzdacon2134

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Just got back to Oz from Orkney visiting the ancestral land. Amazing place! At Birsay the tide was in when I was there.

What a great spot! Orkney is on my list of places to visit (I live in Canada). Would love to get stranded there and camp overnight :)

Thanks !

Thanks for the tour. Did I note a serpent feature there near the Norse foundations?

7:34 There's obviously something under those circles visible in the drone footage...have they been excavated too?

11:36: "Gyo" not "Jee-o" - and they usually form as an open cleft, not as a collapsed sea cave

@dipinmedia

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I assumed it was pronounced the same way as geography!

@Nastyswimmer

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@@dipinmedia A lot of folk do, but it comes from Norse "gjá" rather than Greek "geo"

Probably a damn cold draughty place in winter! It's no wonder it became derelict. Perhaps planting a few trees on it might make it less barren. .

What about the celts?? Theres no way they would have ignored a site like that.

@nicktecky55

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No Celts anywhere in North Western Europe, not since the 2015 genomic research put that piece of Victorian nonsense to bed.

@christianbuczko1481

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@@nicktecky55 wtf bollocks are you talking??? No celts in scotland?? BULLSHIT. Do you even know who the celts were, or where north western europe is??? The people in orkney were directly connected with the same peoples in ireland, around stonehenge, the french alps, with ancestors going back several thousand years to the beaker peoples in fact. It wasnt the victorians who called us brits celtic, it was the romans btw..

@nicktecky55

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@@christianbuczko1481 As I said, the mythology was invented in Victorian England. The Celts are the people who made the fabulous jewellery in Central Europe. There is no genetic connection with them and anybody living in North Western Europe, other than that which you'd find in anybody else. That says nothing about the various cultures associated with the variety of clans that made up the population on the archipelago. You don't have to read the entire paper, it is contained in the abstract to the 2015 study by Oxford University. "We suggest significant pre-Roman but post-Mesolithic movement into southeastern England from continental Europe, and show that in non-Saxon parts of the United Kingdom, there exist genetically differentiated subgroups rather than a general ‘Celtic’ population." The Romans called the land Hibernia and as they never made the trip, it is hard to see why they would have associated an unknown people with the guys who made the jewellery. Even stranger when you realise that the first Celtic association was made between the Welsh and the Bretons in 1703, by a monk called Paul-Yves Pezron. The common language spoken throughout Europe in the first millennium BC was labelled "Celtic" in the 18th century, so how the Romans come into it is a mystery.

@grahamfleming8139

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It was not created by the norse invaders it was created by the picts like the norse all over Scotland modern people. The Gaels were all over the northern isles in hermitages before the norse who became modern Scots, derived from many races.the word commonly used is broch , pronounced as loch.

@Nastyswimmer

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If you mean "what about the Gaels/Irish/Dal Riadans", well they didn't get this far north before the Viking/Norse took over from the Picts (who were sort of Celtic)

Excellent...

Been there nice place :)