What bothers me about modern people is that when they look at building projects from the past they think of every thing that could possibly explain how it was built. Aliens,magic, what ever, except common sense and experimentation with tools and techniques. The majority of the measurement tools throughout all time is string and gravity.

@user-bc9zc5lo2k

Жыл бұрын

You're wrong. Its obviously aliens. If we don't understand it then its got to be aliens. No way a human could be that smart! (This is sarcastic in case anyone was wondering)

@voidremoved

Жыл бұрын

@@user-bc9zc5lo2k humans keep getting stupider, but think they keep getting smarter. Thats why the groups who control the world all hate the Bible, because anyone reading it can see how people were smarter and keep getting stupider and that we need God and Jesus and the Spirit

@metorilt

Жыл бұрын

It's obviously aliens because they still haven't explained how the center of all these structures atomically align with the center of the earth when you look at them from above. Clearly only aliens would see these structures from the sky.

@noeraldinkabam

Жыл бұрын

Most people don’t believe in aliens. The world is way bigger than the USA. If it isn’t god or jesus it must be aliens. Even among americans the people that bring magic into real life are becominga minority. They are louder that’s all there is to it.

@dannyboywhaa3146

Жыл бұрын

Nothing beats a string line or plumb line 👍 still use them all the time - gravity doesn’t fail, ever!

Too big for two men? LOL. in Uni a students car collapsed into a ditch in a heavy rain, he called a tow. I looked about and we had >10 men sitting about. We went outside and lifted his car out of the ditch. Modern people seriously underestimate the strength of large groups of people working together.

@voidremoved

Жыл бұрын

Too big for the scrawny men in this video maybe... But not Mel Gibson

@niemandkeiner8057

Жыл бұрын

He said two men, not 10+ men, mate.

@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus

Жыл бұрын

@@niemandkeiner8057 Would you rather get a few guys together to lift a few stones or spend a day or more to build an earthen ramp 1.5m high?

@niemandkeiner8057

Жыл бұрын

​@@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus Why not both? This isn't something you can build over a weekend anyway. I agree that modern people underestimate how much can be accomplished by hand, btw.

@cw4608

Жыл бұрын

We also underestimate how much stronger people of those times were in comparison to people today. Everything they did required manual labor.

All the best to The Caithness Broch project, and my thanks to the History Hit team for this great video! 🌟👍

"What are these Mysterious Prehistoric Towers in Scotland?" Haggis factories.

There are many, many of these in the North. Some easy to find, some not so much. There's hundreds that are sadly just a pile of stones, but some are in amazing condition. Its a real joy for me to find these!

They remind me a bit of the Sardinian Nuraghe structures, which where used as fortresses or residences or storehouses (nobody really knows). But the shape of these Brochs look quite similair. It is also interesting that they are both build long ago; brochs roughly since 600 BC and Nuraghes roughly since 2000 BC until roughly 700 BC.

These construction techniques look similar to those in the construction of the Great Zimbabwe remains. Also South Africa has what seems to have been thousands of stone circular wall remnants scattered across the landscape. I had never hear of a Broch till I stumbled upon this video.

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has a very fascinating and strong 💪 history 🏰 ☦️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✝️ 📜

Tristan is an excellent presenter. I’ve said it before, will say it again his “The Ancients” podcast is superb! 🍸

I see Dundornalilla there, or Dundornagail as you may know it. Thats where I'm from. I wrote a 40 page paper on Brochs in 1984, when I was 16. And another on souterrains. There's a great broch in Mousa, in Shetland, almost intact. Thanks for the video.

@chicktait5544

Жыл бұрын

Damm you look good for 112yrs,what's the secret?

@stewartmackay

Жыл бұрын

@@chicktait5544 I corrected it :)

@cleverusername9369

Жыл бұрын

Hàlo, a charaid. Ciamar a tha sibh? Tha Gàidhlig na h-Alba agad?

@stewartmackay

Жыл бұрын

@@cleverusername9369 No, my fathers first language was Gaelic, but I am not fluent in it.

@dedet6900

Жыл бұрын

@@stewartmackayso sad that we’ve lost so much of Scottish culture and language.

Very very interesting! i've never heard abouy Brochs..they look similar to Sardinian's Nuragic structures, built 3000-3500 years ago and still shrouded in mystery

@bernardmolloy4463

Жыл бұрын

likely they are the remains of a once shared coastal european culture from scotland on the atlantic to sardinia in the mediterranean.

@nicthecow1340

Жыл бұрын

@@bernardmolloy4463 can you imagine that?!? History is full of mistery indeed, and we'll never get answers probably...not me for sure, maybe humanity one day

@cristianocastagno9680

Жыл бұрын

Possibly they were inhabited by giants, the possible survivors of the Atlantean civilisation.

@cristianocastagno9680

Жыл бұрын

@Tigerbear Monkeyman thank you for your information. Have you a reference text or video where I could learn more about this ? 🙏

@cristianocastagno9680

Жыл бұрын

@Tigerbear Monkeyman thanks. Actually I live in Sardinia and there is ample evidence for instance of the presence of the giants: from the innumerable Tombs of the Giants, so called to this day even though conventional archeology refuses to admit this has anything to do with “tall people”. Also the folklore carries reminiscences like in the name of the very masks used during the Carnival that is a giveaway: Mammuthones, (mamoth=giant) remembering the remote times when the real giants would have entered the villages searching for food in the form of children and inhabitants. Fascinating. Yet academia ignores everything, this is the incredible thing !

They do realize that people have built all our great monuments by HAND right? Check the Tanjavur Periyakovil - they lifted a sculpted 80 ton block to the top of the worlds largest religious tower or Gopuram in Tamil by hand. People can do incredible things when they put their minds, hearts and wallets into it.

6:08 "they must have used some sort of method to lift the heavy stones." Really got to the bottom of that one. Brilliant.

To the person who did the intro, seriously this was dope. Wasnt expecting it in the history video at all but hope to see it more often!

@jesperb8626

Жыл бұрын

don't listen to this fool, History Hit, the music sucked. It sounded as if you were trying to get comments like ^^^ this one ^^^ to up the ratings. Stay true.

@JackieWelles

Жыл бұрын

@@jesperb8626 Yes, yes ofc. Ratings make my life better. 🤨

I love these reconstruction projects. I visited a reconstruction of a crannog in Scotland. (Burned down recently) and it was fascinating.

@alexythemechanic8056

Жыл бұрын

The Crannog burning down is such a shame. It was a really effective learning and teaching resource.

@paul6925

Жыл бұрын

@@alexythemechanic8056 Yes it was! I hear they are building it back better than ever. I hope it goes well for them

@paul6925

Жыл бұрын

@Tigerbear Monkeyman Hadn't heard the reason being fire. Security, status and trade routes on water yes. I don't think anyone claims to know for sure.

Regarding Building With Large Stones: Its also quite logical that wood & Rope Bock and Tackle or basic crane like device could have been used instead of ramps so that multiple people or an animal could be used (like an ox) to haul such up. Since wood & rope rot away there would not be any evidence left behind of this but there is no reason to assume that an iron age culture would not have had them since they were known to the Bronze Age cultures of Greece, Egypt, Rome etc.

@suebeattie5101

Жыл бұрын

Weren't they pretty dark inside with no windows at all?

@nos9784

Жыл бұрын

@@suebeattie5101 light: I'd assume they had windows in the roof, as well as a central fire. The central, open fire was common in simpler houses until very recently. If you lived there all your life, you'd rarely need light to use the stairs or rooms with simpler funcions. And just because there are no big windows, doesn't mean no light would come in through smaller holes. Even between the stones- if they didn't seal those joints with clay and moss against the wind.

@nos9784

Жыл бұрын

Block, tackle, a frame holding them up and especially handmade rope require a serious amount of work to make, unless they were already in daily use anyway. Most stones look small enough, and i'd assume the bigger ones were shuffled along ramps inside the building. Simple inclined wooden beams for completed stories, or the partially completed wall they were currently working on. If you have two points of contact, close the the balance point of a heavy object, you can just tip it from side to side and push it forward. I use that all the time to move some bigger things on my own.

@GoingtoHecq

Жыл бұрын

I would certainly hope that people of the iron age had wood and rope.

5:56 i thought he was about to say "The stones in iron age times were a lot heavier"

I hope that the community finnishes this of and could be an quite an attraction for the area a authentic reconstruction .🤩👍

Fascinating! I wonder, we don't see this kind of building in Scandinavia, might it have something to do with the abundance of wood here and perhaps a lack of it in Scotland?

@user-wf2lm3vi7o

Жыл бұрын

Historically, there were a lot more forested areas when Broch building occurred than now.

@outinthesticks1035

Жыл бұрын

Maybe climate was a factor , wood is better insulation

@Dewkeeper

Жыл бұрын

@@outinthesticks1035 I'm inclined to agree. Heating medieval stone castles was a very costly (and largely ineffective) undertaking and I'd imagine people would've rather chosen warmer structures most of the time.

Very interesting as always. Although you say Broch's are unique to Scotland they do resemble the Nuraghe in Sardinia.

@jeremiahshine

Жыл бұрын

And Gobekli Tepe!

@sophiejones3554

Жыл бұрын

And Norman mottes. "Circular tower inside a wall" is basically the default Celtic large building design. There were a lot of Celtic tribes, living in a lot of different places, so there are a lot of variations on that idea. And since it's a really good design, a lot of these buildings survive.

I’m hooked on the Broch culture. I’m in the process of building a Broch beehive.

It would be cool for them to build an entire broch with iron age techniques and experimental archeology. Think of Guedelon Castle in France, but with a broch. Not only educational but a potential tourist attraction.

My home is in The Ozark Mountains in The US. That is significant because not only are those mountains infamous for the amount of rock (sandstone) you have to shift to build nearly anything, but also for the Scottish and Irish ancestry of its longtime inhabitants. Dry stone structures were not uncommon, especially as fences around fields, which were made from the stone cleared from that field. There is also a style of house exterior that uses the linear splits in a vertical configuration, albeit with the aid of concrete for mortar. Our first house was 4 large rooms that set into the hill at the back which meant the front of the house set about 4 or 5 feet above the ground due to its slope. Dad used stacked rock pillars under the floor to brace it. He did not make an effort to shape or split the rocks, just used ones that were flattish. Having experienced that and many other stone DIYs in the family and small surrounding community, I completely understand why so few brochs still stand. Not only because not everyone is a master Mason, but I believe that "...good enough for now-we'll fix that later..." would have been most of my ancestors' mantra!

@Embassy_of_Jupiter

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking if the slab in 6:16 just happened to hold up, how many door slabs just flat out broke after a few years, because they didn't get a strong enough stone

Thank you so much for this very interesting documentary video. I want to learn much more about.

Fascinating! Had never heard of these. Every day I learn something new is a good day, so Thank you! Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.

Croft houses on the west coast of Scotland even up to the middle of the last century were community built. Not all members were “qualified” tradesmen.

@roosterbooster6238

Жыл бұрын

Nothing has changed 😂😂😂😂

Fascinating stuff,! 👍

Great video thanks

People in the ancient world were no doubt smarter, healthier, and stronger than we are. There was no option to be lazy. You had no choice but to figure it out, solve your problems, and work...or perish. They also had plenty of time to use their brains, to contemplate, to consider. No TV, no internet to distract, no entertainment venues, etc. their brains probably worked much better than ours do. The stakes were high for them all the time, they couldn’t afford to get it wrong.

Love your work 👍

2:09 That should be "Jamb", not "Jam". As per Wikipedia "A doorjamb, door jamb (also sometimes doorpost) is the vertical portion of the door frame onto which a door is secured."

Hope they get to build a full sized broch again, amazing project!

It's not "an archaic looking spirit level". It's a rather normal plumb level.

Its truly amazing how these early Scottish civilisations (first century BC) applied basic geometry to their massive constructions. By comparison the similar Great Zimbabwe in Africa was only constructed in the 11th Century AC.

How bloody interesting! TY 🏯🏰⛰

I quite enjoyed the music in this episode. Very groovy, found myself involuntarily dancing a wee bit. Also the presenter looks like he could be Jude Law's older brother who got into history instead of acting.

Can we get videos like this on Crannogs. And Other Stone Structure in Scotland from prehistory to pre industrial times.

What a cool project. I know this is a year old. I wonder how things are coming along? Thanks for sharing this.

Archeologists are very good at coming upwith theories. What does annoy me at times is that they move in tight groups, and often miss the obvious. I like this idea that Broch builders made themselves a kit of spirit levels. They seem to ignore that people with lifetime skills developed an " eye" for the job. Evidence of this can be seen in boat and shipbuilding, complex curves and a perfect symmetry were created with a well developed line of sight

@paulhargreaves9103

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant comment….. here n Lancashire we call it “the rack of the eye” every tradesman is proud to use experience and judgment.

@BalthazarMyrrh70

Жыл бұрын

Ancient Egyptian statue work, ancient scrollwork all speak of a meticulous eye 👁‍🗨

The foundation layout of the last Broch in the film looks similar to the ancient sites found in South Africa. Refer to Michael Tellinger films.

@IrishCinnsealach

Жыл бұрын

Those ruins you refer to are the ruins of Great Zimbabwe which was founded in the 9th century AD

That was so interesting! I wonder why lots of them were near the sea? I know the shores diminished a lot but still

@chicktait5544

Жыл бұрын

Food source? shellfish and fishing?

@julianshepherd2038

Жыл бұрын

Transport was mostly by water

@julianshepherd2038

Жыл бұрын

@@lmccampbell can't afford London?

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

@@julianshepherd2038 yes indeed. The sea was the highway of the time.

@Grubnar

Жыл бұрын

@@helenamcginty4920 ... and still is.

Thank you!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

There seems to be a lot of stuff going on in Orkney and Shetland in the late neolithic.

Thanks for this interesting history lesson. Never been to Scotland but have deep roots there.

@colingregson8653

Жыл бұрын

I've been many times . You can't beat a full Scotish Breakfast with Haggis and lorne sausage !!. The artery clogging experience is something to be savoured followed by the 'pièce de résistance', a deep fried Mars Bar !!. Yum !!.

Quite Excellent

It seems incredibly similar to the ones we can find in Sardinia and Azores.

@hermes_logios

Жыл бұрын

And the South African stone circles.

Key to lifting heavy stones is to keep your feet close together and lift with your back

Incredible

I have been in the Mousa Broch, a wonder of engineering.

Must have had a fireplace or kitchen area. Don’t see a chimney in the graphics. Very interesting video and rundown, thanks

Reminds me the Battanian style of Lord hall in Bannerlord. The interior style looks alike a cave

If you are serious about learning more about Brochs then check out the Caithness Broch Project

@iainmaclean612

Жыл бұрын

Check them culls out! :)

Thank you excellent. I may subscribe. These buildings are very similar to the towers of the almost concurrent Nuragic civilization un Sardignia.

I stopped to see one of these I spotted when touring Britain in 1996, about 25 km North of Tain, called Cairn Liath. I found it very interesting, but sadly only about 3m of wall height remained. At approx 0AD, older than anything here in NZ!

It is surprising the stone was not reused over the years

@60secondscotland.78

Жыл бұрын

There were mostly robbed of stone for house. Most of them are now piles of stone.

@remilenoir1271

Жыл бұрын

But it was. Where do you think all the missing parts of these ruins went ? To the moon ?

@BalthazarMyrrh70

Жыл бұрын

Make for a lovely bit of rock garden, one trunk full at a time 😂

I hate to pick nits, but it's door "jamb" not "jam".

@iainmaclean612

Жыл бұрын

So you say ComB ???

@hammersandnails1458

Жыл бұрын

@@iainmaclean612 I was referring to the spelling, which appeared on the screen.

I thought they were Nuragic towers from the thumbnail.

amazing

i saw those up in north scotland very impressive

08:40, the method of maintaining the circular structure looks like the origin of Maypole dancing.

Thanks from Belgium .

That last structure near the ocean with all the convoluted rooms going nowhere resemble the buried and semi-buried, ancient, stone "corrals" located by the 100s of thousands in South Africa generate strange energies.

it's pretty well known that Iron age Britain was not only in contact with the rest of Europe but also the Greek / Hellenistic world. The Greeks understood and used pulleys, gearing, cranes etc. So no reason to assume they didn't here.

The things you can do without spending time watching TV, or on the internet. Or reading even.😉

Saw the thumnail. Looks like an obvious castle design to me. hope i could help.

These look similar to Zimbabwe ruins. Very similar stone colour and “brick” size and shape. Very interesting similar build in Scotland and in Zimbabwe. Thousands of of years old. Mystery

@nightjarflying

Жыл бұрын

Wrong! How is it a mystery? The Zimbabwe ruins are not "thousands of years old" - the building of the African towers started around 1100 AD so the Brochs are much older, three times taller & two to three times greater in diameter. If you want to build a hollow tower the strongest shape is a cone - so there's absolutely no mystery here.

I recently found out more about my Scottish Ancestors and I'm impressed with how much of their ingenuity was carried through into the modern world. I never knew my love for the sights I've always admired and still wish to visit were literally in my blood. Scotland, I'll come visit you and bring with me a piece of my birth place.

@keithlordofalbascotland3371

Жыл бұрын

We're all excited for your visit canna wait 😁

Brochs are very elegant structures but I have a question. If they were multi-storey and without openings apart from the entrance-way, how did they get light and fresh air into the central rooms?

Interesting to see how my ancestors lived prehistory.

The foundation remnants look like the stone circles in South Africa that Tellinger talks about.

Reminds me of the ones in Corsica.

Interesting, they are a bit further north than where I'm from, but I find them fascinating. Congratulations to the English chap for not renaming them Broks.

Fun thought. We're older ages before us as interested in what came before? Could some archeological confusion come from previous eras emulating their predecessors as we do?

What do you think of Mousa in Shetland?

0:53 Video Title: What are these Mysterious "Prehistoric" Towers in Scotland?

Didn't they have double walls with an insulation cavity, so the wind and rain could get through the first wall but would not pass the cavity to reach the second wall? {:o:O:}

They were obviously built as dinosaur forts, to defend velociraptors from larger predators. Around them would be general living spaces where they might dry meat from their prey to preserve it. Often they butchered their food using their claws alone. Leathers made by velociraptors preserved telltale scratches from the tip of their largest claws, which they used to scrape the subcutaneous fats off the skins.

@joeparrigen4982

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ericwilliams1659

Жыл бұрын

Clever girl

When you dig up fresh sand stone that has moisture, it is easily shaped.

How is anything newer than the Egyptian Dynasties classed as "Pre-History"? Pre-history is usually referencing a period of time BEFORE writing was created.

Is there much of a difference between these and the mot and bailey layout?

You'd put those slabs on timber beams and loft them up. You wouldn't build a ramp to get them up. Two brickys could get that up there without any tools

Have you seen in comparison the so called Nuragic structures situated in Sardinia, possibly built in the same period ?

It's where they used to keep Haggis to harvest their eggs, duh.

Much like the later "KEEPS" still seen in some town centers especially in Italy......Werer actually "safe houses" for the towns people...... Some Castles also had Keeps....

House Castle 🏰

Love the lady's scottish accent. Somewhat Glaswegian??

@metorilt

Жыл бұрын

No

@iainmaclean612

Жыл бұрын

That's a highland accent from Betty Hill Sutherland.Ill tell her you said that it will make her day!

You would be out of the wind inside. That would be gold.

The word " Brochs" sounds very similar to the german word "Burg" (fortified site). I wonder if there is any connection.

@iainmaclean612

Жыл бұрын

Yes they have the same root. 'Burg, Borg, Brough, Broch' all the same word. we take the word broch from the vikings who settled in the north of Scotland and named these structures Brochs from the Old Norse 'borg'

Caithness Broch Project sounds like an indie band lol

@iainmaclean612

Жыл бұрын

We ARE an incredible indie band. Xmas number 1 sometime soon.

In the thumbnail, it looks like a GRAIN-BIN. 😉

I do not know why we nowadays can only think of darn ramps to get heavy stones moving. Didn't the rapa nui teach us that there are much better ways than ramps and rollers?

I am just always happy to see anything built long ago that some jackhole doesn't automatically say was either a temple or an observatory. Look, three stones stacked on top of each other, yep....must be the remains of a temple. Look, if you look up in the sky you will find there is at least one star in alignment with it....Eureka.....we know the whole story.

Obviously they are early whisky destilleries 😂! The door is supposed to keep the drenk from escaping, not to stop anyone from getting in, otherwise the closing beam would have been on the inside...

I like to imagine these towers were just High land hot boxes.

That design is very similar to how they lookin Ethiopia as well

The music is a bizarre choice contrasting the subject…. Otherwise fantastic production.

Prehistoric means the period before the invention of writing. If these construction are only 2000 years old then they are not prehistoric

@faithlesshound5621

Жыл бұрын

The culture that built them must have been preliterate. Sure, the Romans were writing on parchment scrolls then, but the Picts and Scots were not. If anyone who could read and write visited one of these and wrote about it, their account has not survived. The Vikings may have interacted with the broch occupants, but they have not left any records of that either. Hardly anything (bar Gildas) written by their contemporaries in Roman Britain has come down to us.

Not so mysterious. There are at least two places I can think of where there are similiar structures. China and I believe Italy. They are family home/castles. For a time when your family was not safe unless behind an impenetrable wall. Furthermore, as any kid who has ever played with bricks will tell you, a tower is an easy and natural construction to build.

They made a circle with a post and line. - no sh*t !

some remind me about sardinian ruraghe