Why Are There Human Remains Below This Scottish Castle? | Extreme Archaeology | Unearthed History

The Extreme Archaeology team travel to Culzean Castle in Scotland. Built on a headland the castle stand over a series of caves whose occupation and use remains unclear. The team discovers human remains and the old legends of cannibals inhabiting the caves resurface. Undaunted the team continues their work eventually unraveling the story of the remains, and the source of much of the human activity evident in the caves
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  • @markspencer3612
    @markspencer36124 ай бұрын

    I would be surprised if there weren't human remains beneath a Scottish castle .

  • @debrabennett3009

    @debrabennett3009

    4 ай бұрын

    Right?! Haha

  • @margritpiepes8242

    @margritpiepes8242

    4 ай бұрын

    Correct

  • @kimmmerkim5811

    @kimmmerkim5811

    4 ай бұрын

    RIGHT?!?

  • @user-vn2kn6ew9r

    @user-vn2kn6ew9r

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm Scottish and I agree

  • @katw5353

    @katw5353

    4 ай бұрын

    Any castle really 😅

  • @WolfRoss
    @WolfRoss4 ай бұрын

    I would love to see DNA analysis of the bones.

  • @mradventurer8104

    @mradventurer8104

    3 ай бұрын

    exactly, it could yield unexpected results

  • @TheSilmarillian
    @TheSilmarillian4 ай бұрын

    @18:00 its reminiscent of room and pillar mining a technology that would have been around in that time period for coal mines. Being an opal miner those pillars would support and spread the weight of the foundation layer or rock not necessarily the cubic weight of the castle above, hard to say without being there and knowing the geology. Just from the visuals and the construction of the pillars and how long they have been there they maybe are taking weight but more than likely supporting the rock layer above so either way they are serving a purpose. Nice old craftmanship in their construction indeed and the castles architect saw the need for them, old school indeed, hello from down under.

  • @user-neo71665
    @user-neo716654 ай бұрын

    Why do I feel that rope descent is more for tv than it is practical reasons.

  • @skintech8620

    @skintech8620

    4 ай бұрын

    no shit! see them rappel down the side of a castle? who needs to do that? if there are no stairs, how'd they get up there?

  • @TriciaPuckett

    @TriciaPuckett

    4 ай бұрын

    Ok. So the whole premise is how difficult the places are to get to, but, the police are on site at the cave within minutes of the call. Nice concept and we may have never known but they weren’t expecting to have to contact the police . Come on…..

  • @omarra6781

    @omarra6781

    4 ай бұрын

    Ha! I had the same reaction.

  • @TheSilmarillian

    @TheSilmarillian

    4 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed the rope work and being a climber and repeller also a first responder SAR tech ,I could see the safety work involved class A definitely, nice to see professionalism. It makes the difference between a rescue and a body retrieval usually a retrieval because safety was ignored by climbers or canyon jumpers.

  • @CaylorsReptilesAquatics

    @CaylorsReptilesAquatics

    3 ай бұрын

    I appreciate and enjoy their efforts to make it entertaining

  • @Homested_Retirement
    @Homested_Retirement4 ай бұрын

    I've had a crush on Dr, Alice Roberts since first seeing her on Time Team 🥰

  • @johncarter1150

    @johncarter1150

    4 ай бұрын

    Embarrassed for you

  • @Auxius.

    @Auxius.

    4 ай бұрын

    @@johncarter1150 Why? Let a man dream.

  • @andrewmountford3608

    @andrewmountford3608

    4 ай бұрын

    Who hasn’t.

  • @forgottenfurbabies3315

    @forgottenfurbabies3315

    4 ай бұрын

    Ahhh, how sweet! I’m sure she would be flattered.

  • @Brainbaskit

    @Brainbaskit

    4 ай бұрын

    Ignore all the so-called angry "feminists" giving femenism a bad name. Embarrassed for them.

  • @chrisbassett8996
    @chrisbassett89964 ай бұрын

    I am always so amazed at the amazing structures, eg the culvert here with such limited equipment. and thinking on that it reminded me of a small island with a number of villages completely washed away. a man from our technological world, loaded a plane/copter with supplies which were dropped on the island. when he himself landed on the island. he expected to hear of a lot of death and distress. Instead he found a lot of happy people. grateful for the fact that nobody died. They lived in simply built huts so there were no injuries from heavy or lethal objects, being washed or thrown around. I envied their simple life

  • @danawinsor1380

    @danawinsor1380

    4 ай бұрын

    Interesting. Were was the island located?

  • @sawdust2556

    @sawdust2556

    3 ай бұрын

    I know, right?!

  • @durstondarden8765
    @durstondarden87654 ай бұрын

    I've been absorbed by archaeology since the '60s, and was physically able to do the investigating I did in my youth.. things certainly are different now than they were then..

  • @2gulfalco
    @2gulfalco4 ай бұрын

    Scottish Castle, Alice Roberts and human remains, sign me up 😅

  • @legacy634
    @legacy6344 ай бұрын

    So were the tunnels connected to the castle? Or is that part of the castle "gone"? If not, I'd be so interested in the search for the access from the castle to the tunnels.

  • @user-vl5gl4qf6j
    @user-vl5gl4qf6j4 ай бұрын

    Again this exercises the absolute necessity of trained archeological personnel to excavate these sites. These participants were professional and experienced as to interpreting their findings in a "common folk" explanation of the mysteries of history. My complements.

  • @patrickaussieMilartry
    @patrickaussieMilartry4 ай бұрын

    I must confess you most certainly have selected a very intelligent and if I may say as a Gentleman. What a very attractive bunch to watch and listen to great knowledge.❤️❤️🇦🇺

  • @earthmotherdragon4572
    @earthmotherdragon4572Ай бұрын

    These caves are very very old and in past they sometimes buried people in such places. Caves used to be sacred places for burials. Then they have built on top of them and been used as possibly a smugglers cave and then even later in turn, a huge castle built on top of it. Those in power used to build churches and castles on top of such sacred places as they hold mystique and at times are power places, energy points. Interesting dig. x

  • @susanfurman
    @susanfurman3 ай бұрын

    If the bones are washing down from somewhere, they could be from an old burial ground.

  • @battles146
    @battles1463 ай бұрын

    the history of Scotland is fascinating, having researched it for a number of years - from wars between clans to the wars with England etc especially during the12th to 15th centuries - many castles oceanside had cave structures such as these to receive supplies for the castles by boats or in the case of the Highlanders aa section dug below the castle (called vaults as opposed to dungeons) to hold prisoners usually to face a slow death by starvation - there were tunnels from the castle to reach the storage areas to bring foods and other supplies up to the kitchens and other areas - a particular punishment was the use of caves near the ocean waves where prisoners were chained to the walls and as the tides came in would suffer a slow death by drowning - as the world and climate have changed over 100s of years these modern day findings and interpretations will only give us a very small view of history during those ions as we were not present during those times but attempts to understand the past are also always fascinating -

  • @lesliebryant7362
    @lesliebryant73623 ай бұрын

    There are 2 words that have been said that would keep me up top sitting in the jeep......1.) SPIDERS 2.) ROOF COLLAPSE........

  • @sandym8787

    @sandym8787

    3 ай бұрын

    LOL

  • @beebester4106
    @beebester41062 ай бұрын

    Great work! Zero hype and all hard work. What an excellent team.

  • @brianpeck4035
    @brianpeck40354 ай бұрын

    Caves are time capsules similar to graves but sometimes better; not counting the ship at Sutton Hoo. In a few years with the help of Ai, we will be able to gain 3d maps in situ and at depth without the need to move anything. The data points and precision extrapolations would tell fascinating stories that are lost with the turning of the trowel.

  • @bettygreenhansen
    @bettygreenhansen3 ай бұрын

    That was really good. Loved seeing Katy from Time Team!!! ❤

  • @puckingery915
    @puckingery9154 ай бұрын

    huge extrapolation to get from one bone to murder.

  • @stevefranklin9920
    @stevefranklin99204 ай бұрын

    Makes one wonder if those artifacts were "lost" like so many curiously do that are sent to the Smithsonian museum here in the U.S.

  • @nancylowe2692
    @nancylowe26923 ай бұрын

    It reminds me of the movie "The Man in the Iron Mask," where the hero is kept away from society in a cave-like room overlooking the ocean. Great movie!

  • @hannahwhite7622
    @hannahwhite76224 ай бұрын

    omg when that guy was pulling the equipment and started wrapping the rope around his arm i was like lol bye bye arm if something bad happens (freaked me out a bit lol i've always been taught to never do that when pulling/lifting something via rope)

  • @gwendolynfish2102
    @gwendolynfish21024 ай бұрын

    Very well done documentary. Having been to this particular fantastic Castle I was intrigued and gratified! Thank you!

  • @TheBassOver
    @TheBassOver4 ай бұрын

    Great as always!!!!Thank you

  • @bernadettecrawford3656
    @bernadettecrawford36564 ай бұрын

    Amazing work thanks look forward to more

  • @lyndamarshall9768
    @lyndamarshall97684 ай бұрын

    Fascinating thank you

  • @vavilovasvetlana9044
    @vavilovasvetlana90444 ай бұрын

    Thanks your channel. Ilearned andsaw masterpiece of the Scottish Castle.

  • @sashahatchell662
    @sashahatchell6623 ай бұрын

    I am scared to think about how big that spider had to me to make a whole team of people say nope time to go home.

  • @patricatfurever4051
    @patricatfurever40514 ай бұрын

    Fascinating! Thank you for your research 🥰

  • @paulinenigh6004
    @paulinenigh60044 ай бұрын

    EXCELLENT DOCUMENTATION

  • @kylegawron5358
    @kylegawron53584 ай бұрын

    i saw the vertebra and was like oh snap that's a human bone.

  • @sawdust2556
    @sawdust25563 ай бұрын

    Fascinating.

  • @brianmclean6293
    @brianmclean62934 ай бұрын

    Wow! This was so informative and interesting. Thanks very much for posting!

  • @katw5353
    @katw53534 ай бұрын

    I'd watch a series on these 3 ladies! Thank you for posting❤

  • @virginiabell7709
    @virginiabell77094 ай бұрын

    Castles had dungeons.

  • @Mr.56Goldtop
    @Mr.56Goldtop3 ай бұрын

    I was waiting for the ginormous spider to come dropping down again. But no luck.

  • @Aplusinskal
    @Aplusinskal3 ай бұрын

    Wonderful work and what a wonderful documentary *applause* Also, gotta say, utterly wonderful to see so many of my own gender in a docu like this

  • @EmbraceTheJourney
    @EmbraceTheJourney4 ай бұрын

    another great adventure. You guys pick some of the hardest places to get in to,.

  • @sterlingmoose9335
    @sterlingmoose93354 ай бұрын

    Same format as the other episodes I've seen in the series. Waste Day 1 in some pointless exercise to get to the site, then mess around in the mud and finish with a half baked conclusion. Funny that the site was so inaccessible that the rope work from the castle above was required when the Police etc were able just to walk right in.

  • @sandym8787

    @sandym8787

    3 ай бұрын

    Now that you mention it - LOL

  • @EEsmalls
    @EEsmalls3 ай бұрын

    Must've been a very impressive spider to cause them to completely abandon their research lol

  • @ingerfaber3411

    @ingerfaber3411

    Ай бұрын

    They can't have been from Australia

  • @lianefehrle9921
    @lianefehrle99214 ай бұрын

    Wow I wish I was younger to be able to do what these people do

  • @dewardroy6531
    @dewardroy65314 ай бұрын

    What’s a culvert? Really? And this git is in charge of the expedition, lovely.

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930

    @hogwashmcturnip8930

    4 ай бұрын

    Try listening? The answers are all there?

  • @dasid

    @dasid

    4 ай бұрын

    It’s called being a good host for those at home who don’t know

  • @jennywilloughby3236
    @jennywilloughby32364 ай бұрын

    Alice! You are awesome!

  • @glendamears3618
    @glendamears36184 ай бұрын

    Cool😊

  • @durstondarden8765
    @durstondarden87654 ай бұрын

    Where are the medieval in earlier building specialists in this group?

  • @dewardroy6531
    @dewardroy65314 ай бұрын

    The Charlie’s Angels of modern archaeology, no? 🦊🦊🦊

  • @EventHorizon3.14
    @EventHorizon3.144 ай бұрын

    So no skeleton and a whole show of possibilities 😂😂😂

  • @jenahyslip8292
    @jenahyslip82924 ай бұрын

    Could the culvert have been at the base of a castle "toilet" or a shaft to throw kitchen waste?

  • @pigoff123
    @pigoff1234 ай бұрын

    Jerry built... We always said Jerry rigged.

  • @sonjastarr1364

    @sonjastarr1364

    3 ай бұрын

    We've always said jury rigged.

  • @elizabethmcglothlin5406
    @elizabethmcglothlin54064 ай бұрын

    For drama, I think they started higher than they needed to. Still...The human bones were probably washed out from somewhere further up the cave.

  • @sallys9294
    @sallys92943 ай бұрын

    Boy, sure hope no one digs up my bones in the future.

  • @ShanonT12
    @ShanonT124 ай бұрын

    Sadly, carbon 14 isn’t a very accurate or robust dating method. Live animals have been dated at thousands of years old. The largest confounding factor is water. The more water, the carbon source has been in, the more inaccurate the dating will be.

  • @LQOTW
    @LQOTW4 ай бұрын

    I would have named the spider Marcel.

  • @lindaarnold5683
    @lindaarnold56834 ай бұрын

    Why are these excavations so limited by a short time? More time could get so much more information.

  • @luciollelsa
    @luciollelsa2 ай бұрын

    I'd find it hard to believe that there was never any access to the cave from inside the castle ground.

  • @Sheila-G
    @Sheila-G4 ай бұрын

    Time Team on steroids 😂❤

  • @markuschampos5750

    @markuschampos5750

    4 ай бұрын

    No, baby Time Team.

  • @thatguyyoudontknow8941
    @thatguyyoudontknow8941Ай бұрын

    9:05 ah yes vodka smirnoff 😂😂😂

  • @zuzuspetals38
    @zuzuspetals384 ай бұрын

    What yr is this from??

  • @cordellseitz7741
    @cordellseitz77414 ай бұрын

    Why can’t they use a hand held pin pointer in side of hard to reach areas

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930
    @hogwashmcturnip89304 ай бұрын

    Archaeology meets Marvel on a 50p budget

  • @curlycindy
    @curlycindy4 ай бұрын

    I don't think remains were those of a cannibal feast or smugglers. I believe it was a family living in the cave living off of seafood. What are they going to smuggle fish? Maybe they scavenged shipwrecks. I believe she said of the remains...one was a teenager the other a child, doesn't sound like medieval smugglers.

  • @pat-paterson

    @pat-paterson

    4 ай бұрын

    why couldnt it have been human traffickers?

  • @mradventurer8104
    @mradventurer81043 ай бұрын

    850AD perhaps it could mean the people actually lived in the cave back then because that is a safe place to live without need to build a house. All your income can be used for food, clothes or fortification.

  • @susansitterle3840
    @susansitterle38403 ай бұрын

    Did they release the spider?

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders69743 ай бұрын

    too bad culzean wasn’t the headquarters for the movie highlander. reminds me of dashwoods caves

  • @sirpainter1
    @sirpainter14 ай бұрын

    How many Archaeologists call the cops? If they did that in Egypt............

  • @kop-uv2dx

    @kop-uv2dx

    4 ай бұрын

    that depend on local laws... in England, unless you specifically know you're going to find human bones (as in, you're digging an old cemetery) you need to call the cops when you do find human bones...

  • @sirpainter1

    @sirpainter1

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kop-uv2dx Gotcha, Thankyou for the reply.

  • @valerieprice1745
    @valerieprice17452 ай бұрын

    The cup is gold rimmed. She puts it back. Archeology is all about finding treasure, but you have to know what treasure looks like. It looks like gold and silver. That's why they are so fixated on "high status". That's code for likely gold and silver. Some China pieces are literally worth their weight in gold. Treasure is treasure because it's a store of lasting value.

  • @jessicascoullar3737

    @jessicascoullar3737

    2 ай бұрын

    Most archeology is digging through trash and foundations. I looked at doing an archeological unit at uni because I was interested in ancient Egypt. Decided not to when I discovered we would spend the semester examining shell middens (piles of discarded shells that were basically the trash heaps of ancient Aboriginal settlements). It probably would have been quite interesting but eighteen year old me didn’t appreciate the learning opportunities provided by ancient garbage dumps.

  • @valerieprice1745

    @valerieprice1745

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jessicascoullar3737 I know what you mean about not appreciating the importance, when opportunities present themselves. The madden would have been really awesome, I'm sure. I am fascinated by middens now. At 18, I had never even heard of them. I'm not an archeologist or anything, but I am always curious.

  • @angeliquebelluomini7797
    @angeliquebelluomini77974 ай бұрын

    👍👍👍

  • @Aplusinskal
    @Aplusinskal3 ай бұрын

    Having recently played Red Dead Redemption II one gotta wonder if the Murfree Brood could have been inspired by the Sony Bean- (spelled how?) legend? Any gamers out there who have the same hunch or know more? =)

  • @thecapedgremlin0001
    @thecapedgremlin00014 ай бұрын

    About 25 years old...!?

  • @tomgreene4062
    @tomgreene40623 ай бұрын

    you never mentioned Ron Wyatt and his discoverey in Turkey of Noah

  • @lindaarnold5683
    @lindaarnold56834 ай бұрын

    Detail: why does no one wear gloves for protection of their skin?

  • 3 ай бұрын

    The Cave Spider’s body shape looked a lot like the Black Widow, which is an American species. There is a close relative found in Europe but I’m not sure that’s it.

  • @paulademarco1585
    @paulademarco15853 ай бұрын

    Castle built over the body's etc?

  • @markuschampos5750
    @markuschampos57504 ай бұрын

    When HOW they doing it is more important than what they are doing.

  • @forgottenfurbabies3315
    @forgottenfurbabies33154 ай бұрын

    Why didn’t they go inside the castle and use the windows?? Just a thought….

  • @josi4251

    @josi4251

    4 ай бұрын

    They may not have been able to do so because the ropes had to be anchored to something very stable, like the vehicle or the castle walls. There'd be nothing inside the castle or the window frames to hold the weight of 500+ pounds.

  • @forgottenfurbabies3315

    @forgottenfurbabies3315

    4 ай бұрын

    @@josi4251 could be the reason. TY

  • @BENOTAFRAID689
    @BENOTAFRAID6893 ай бұрын

    I would assume that the humans lived there during some earlier period, then were invaded by Scots.

  • @battles146

    @battles146

    3 ай бұрын

    possibility, although it took a period of time to build a castle of any size 🤔

  • @kylegawron5358
    @kylegawron53584 ай бұрын

    boy cave spider

  • @simon-oy6um
    @simon-oy6um4 ай бұрын

    Well guess what ! People have been dieing for centuries and theyv'e got to put the bodies somewhere 😂😂😂😂

  • @benwilson6145
    @benwilson61454 ай бұрын

    The team leader is a bit juvenile, fixated on secret tunnels, maybe get a job in the Scooby Doo van.

  • @phyllisharrell174
    @phyllisharrell1744 ай бұрын

    Unfortunately, another interesting shows ruined by too much background noise!! Please STOP all the noise when the narration is going!

  • @kunderwo33

    @kunderwo33

    4 ай бұрын

    It’s not a problem with the mix on headphones or on my tv which implies that it’s a problem with the way your audio is set up. Here’s a suggestion I’ve found: “Try switching from stereo to mono whenever there is such a problem, or switch off the "surround sound" (sometimes known as "enhanced") feature.”

  • @johnrob3215
    @johnrob32154 ай бұрын

    This document drama is of low quality, and appears to be quite old.

  • @kunderwo33

    @kunderwo33

    4 ай бұрын

    It’s from 2004

  • @ilselauwers6009
    @ilselauwers60094 ай бұрын

    The background music makes this video unbearable to finish watching !

  • @kunderwo33

    @kunderwo33

    4 ай бұрын

    “Try switching from stereo to mono whenever there is such a problem, or switch off the "surround sound" (sometimes known as "enhanced") feature.”

  • @ilselauwers6009

    @ilselauwers6009

    4 ай бұрын

    @@kunderwo33 thank you for the tip . Will look into it 🤗

  • @steveglover2741
    @steveglover27413 ай бұрын

    ALL the castles have human remains under them

  • @michaelagren5009
    @michaelagren50094 ай бұрын

    Next time leave the ropes hanging if u gone film where u got down . That copper dident go by rope😂 Maybe his ancesters where the smugglers so he knew to use a boat.

  • @sandym8787

    @sandym8787

    3 ай бұрын

    LOL

  • @ceciliacrocker390
    @ceciliacrocker3903 ай бұрын

    Haha, I got a tooth but I don't know whose it is😊, is what she said.😂 Has anyone here lost a tooth?! Heehee

  • @haroldgardiner1966
    @haroldgardiner19663 ай бұрын

    Could you not suppose smugglers also used kidnapping to supplement their other crime? Something goes wrong and the unfortunate victims have to be put down!

  • @Steve20333
    @Steve203333 ай бұрын

    oh it's getting worse carbon 14 really accurate ??

  • @Steve20333
    @Steve203333 ай бұрын

    we spend money on this ! I suppose it has to be done , but expensive machines ,are they necessary ? can it not be done cheaper ?? oh well ! nevermind !

  • @robertshields2066
    @robertshields20664 ай бұрын

    🤔Let me think human remains below Scottish Castle, well I'm not to sure but I think they may have been dead🤫. Can't be 💯% but it's my best educated possibility, I suppose they could have been buried alive as some form of punishment but I don't really think so. (LOL)

  • @keepitsimple4629
    @keepitsimple46292 ай бұрын

    Why wouldn't human remains be found under a castle? They had dungeons and obliettes, so prisoners died there and left bones. Big surprise.

  • @user-gw9hb6cm6h
    @user-gw9hb6cm6h4 ай бұрын

    if it's not a GIANT then the people were slaves. WHO IN THE HECK WOULD SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THIS?

  • @oakmaiden2133
    @oakmaiden21334 ай бұрын

    Why can’t y’all leave people buried?😮

  • @AG-yj1jv
    @AG-yj1jv3 ай бұрын

    Ugh. 🤦‍♀️ Excuse me? You all are archaeologists and yet you are acting as if oblivious to the fact that there absolutely SHOULD, legitimately, be a passage up to the castle. I mean castles were built with storage chambers/ice houses and escape routes. I'm an American, citizen of a land that has few castles, and yet even I know that. (Well, I also got to explore one of your castles when I was in my 20s.) The Truth is always more intriguing than the intrigue - when you dig deep enough.

  • @sonjastarr1364
    @sonjastarr13643 ай бұрын

    This documentary is all right but a lot of the comments are stupid and rude. Haters gonna hate I guess.

  • @sandym8787

    @sandym8787

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm laughing because some of the comments are clever and funny .. I guess there is always both ..

  • @haroldgardiner1966
    @haroldgardiner19663 ай бұрын

    Do you suppose that the VIP, who built the castle, up top, may have gained his fortune, to buy it, in the pirate trade? By building the politically correct castle, he was then symbolically burying his sordid past!

  • @margitwes6495
    @margitwes64952 ай бұрын

    18 minutes in I stopped watching. I miss documentaries without gimmicks and fake suspense.

  • @wickedone6476
    @wickedone64764 ай бұрын

    Voo the caves, hoo-man bones, and a foo meters......the lad is incapable of utilizing the y sound associated with all those words.. .vyoo , hyoo-man, fyoo.....it's like nails on a chalkboard.

  • @theguy9234
    @theguy92344 ай бұрын

    Are these beginner archeologists? They call the men to do the hard work as the girls watch.

  • @facetious_1
    @facetious_14 ай бұрын

    Were gonna have to call the police. Are u fkn kidding me. For a 4oo yr old skeleton...common sense is lost..

  • @sonjastarr1364

    @sonjastarr1364

    3 ай бұрын

    It IS the law, you know.

  • @derrickguffey4775
    @derrickguffey47752 ай бұрын

    Was I hallucinating or was there a fireplace just inside the iron gate to the caves? Only caught a quick flash of it. That would be an ideal location though if the caves were used by smugglers or whoever. No sense being cold AND in the dark!

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