Not exactly a hillfort, but I’ve got my home at the top of a hill. Great place for a house.

@elgranlugus7267

3 жыл бұрын

Time to build those walls lad

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@@elgranlugus7267 can't imagine a proper house without a decent palisade, at the least.

@lowlandnobleman6746

3 жыл бұрын

Wish I could build ‘em here, believe me. I find most modern buildings rather visually unappealing.

I like your channel and I think you're an excellent historian, however, in this instance I don't think you've got it quite right. I'm Welsh and have spent a good portion of my life living at the foot of two significant hillforts, one in North Wales and one in Mid Wales. Have you any idea what a pain in the arse it is to get to the top of the hill every day? And how cold it is winter? Nobody would want to live there for civil reasons. They would want to live in the valley below, by a stream or river for water, lush grazing for their animals and fertile sheltered land to raise oats, barley and vegetables. Hill tops have little or no water, poor grazing and basically no farming land (soil is very thin). In my opinion the hill fort was built solely for tribal, military protection. But apart from lookouts (sentries posted to keep an eye on the horizon for danger) they would only be occupied if enemies were closing in. I'm sure cattle & sheep would be driven up there in times of threat, but it wouldn't be their main purpose. Likewise grain stores could be sited there for protection from raiding. But very seldom would a Welsh hillfort turn into a town. The town would be in the valley below.

@FortressofLugh

3 жыл бұрын

I hear you, but in Gaul at least there is definitely evidence that these places formed into towns. I think your right that likely their habitation was seasonal or situational though.

@Sonofwill

Жыл бұрын

The one in Oswestry by any chance?

@trailingarm63

Жыл бұрын

@@Sonofwill Moel y Gaer near Mold and Crug Hywel near Abergavenny.

For me why is an easy answer, safety, security, protection. An upload on how they made them would be really nice. I lived near maiden castle, and have walked around all over it many times. It was incredible how they built them. Wood Palisades at the tops.

A hill fort would have been a force multiplier allowing a tribal chieftain to extend his power and authority over a larger area. As trade and wealth grew there was more need to defend it while also exerting authority over the surrounding area. With a fort, fewer men would have been required for centralized defense, and more men could have been committed to ranging and patrolling over a larger area and also raiding into neighboring areas.

@rktsnail

11 ай бұрын

Fascinating perspective

@stanleyshannon4408

11 ай бұрын

@rktsnail the other thing to consider is that a strongly defended region with forts would have attracted trade because traders with goods would have needed protection, especially at night. Well patrolled routes and a safe place to stay for an evening would have brought a great deal of wealth through a region.

@rktsnail

11 ай бұрын

@@stanleyshannon4408 so cool, makes perfect sense, thanks for sharing brother

Great presentation!

Cattle in old Ireland was seen as a form of currency. Cutting off a man's hair against his will was seen as a major crime, and would cost you several cows. Ancient kings even sacrificed political prisoners to the bogs in order to ensure a plentitude of crops and milk.

@connormccool3596

3 жыл бұрын

The words cattle and capital are ethymologically closely related.

@peterdunican7836

3 жыл бұрын

I think high timber fences were needed more so to keep packs of wolves out rather than keep sheep & cattle in. The last wolf in Ireland was killed in 1786 so they must have been a huge menace before that.

@marcharsveld2914

Ай бұрын

@@connormccool3596 As pecunia and pecus are.

In Iberia, they are known as ‘Castros’ (similar to the name of the late Cuban dictator - whose father was an immigrant from Galicia, Spain).

@robertmacdonald6527

3 жыл бұрын

Shame. Galicians trend conservative. Too bad it didn't take with young Fidel

@parabelluminvicta8380

3 жыл бұрын

@StAnthony it's castrum singular :P castra for plural

@jbearmcdougall1646

3 жыл бұрын

Castra is the Roman name for fort,and where the word Castle comes from. Example. Castra hibernia means winter camp or fort.

@luketracey3269

3 жыл бұрын

A hillfort refers to a circular bank and ditch feature that was made in Iron Age times and usually surrounds the top of a hill. The Iron Age began around 1200 B.C. in the Mediterranean region and Near East with the collapse of several prominent Bronze Age civilizations, including the Mycenaean civilization in Greece and the Hittite Empire in Turkey. Ancient cities including Troy and Gaza were destroyed, trade routes were lost and literacy declined throughout the region.The cause for the collapse of these Bronze Age kingdoms remains unclear.??? Evidence of the flood was discovered by a group of researchers from China, Taiwan, and the United States, who looked at sediment deposits along the Yellow River Basin. In the Middle East and parts of Asia,. Using radiocarbon dating, they determined that an incredibly powerful flood tore through the basin around 1920 BC. The Bronze Age lasted from roughly 3300 to 1200 B.C ending abruptly with the near-simultaneous collapse of several prominent Bronze Age civilizations The men of the Bronze Age were terrible and strong and warlike. Their armor and houses were made of bronze; and they did not eat bread, living mainly on meat. It was this generation of men that was destroyed by the "flood" in the days of Prometheus' son Deucalion and Pyrrha. When the bronze men died, they went to the Underworld. The underworld itself-sometimes known as Hades, after its patron god-is described as being either at the outer bounds of the "ocean" or "beneath the depths" or ends of the earth. In conclusion I believe these hillforts were simply constructed on high land because the low lands were covered with water;) He makes mention of "earthen dikes" @ 5:30 ! Hill forts are surrounded by dikes? Dikes are man’s valiant effort to stem flood waters created by weather conditions over which he has no control. They are also quite often used to reclaim large areas of land which can help further expansion of towns or to create additional land for agriculture. I agree Hillforts were not militarily designed. FLOOD! DRY LAND;)...as the flood waters were still slowly receding. Any thoughts?

@luketracey3269

3 жыл бұрын

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Only when you mentioned Lughdunum, I for the first time made the connection between the channel name, and what's now called London. Now I can see why Lugh is still a relevant mythological figure. Great video, as always!

@knjiggaofficial7733

3 жыл бұрын

London is not connected to Lughdunum, that would be Lyon in France...

All this Celtic stuff has me all messed up and searching for answers. All my life we were told we were German. Great grandparents hailed from Germany, speaking German. I learned German from my grandfather until he passed in 1979, when I was thirteen, etc. Then, a few months back, Dad and big sister do the DNA test... we're German alright, but only twenty percent is German/French. Sixty two percent is British/Irish! WTF?! The rest is Eastern European. And so I am compelled to research our past all over again. I must say, it is a pleasure to find these links and learn all the great stories and that I am linked to ALL this great European AND American ancestry!

Thank you so much once more time for sharing your brilliant work, Fortress of Lugh ! That's a perfect explanation!

I like discreet Celtic music in the background. 🙂

Cool shirt! Idk much about hill forts but i think some have less evidence of significant habitation inside

Super battle cattle! isn't it obvious?that's why the hillforts had such high walls!

Very useful knowledge..always wondered if they were a place ti go in panic. Living in dorset we have maiden castle to the west..hod hill to the north..and badbury rings of course

I agree with much of what you say,I think that tradition and the spiritual beliefs appear to have been strictly adhered too.In Scotland there appears to have been a taboo in eating fish to the point that bodies have been found that clearly died of malnutrician burried near the sea. Where I am from in the Scottish Borders there is a very interesting hill fort called Cademuir where they found burried spear heads apparently placed symbolically,it also has the outline of a massive hut .It sits on top of a very steep incline. However the sheer number of forts in the area does raise the question of how many people were involved in their construction and how could such populations be sustained and re directed from farming etc. Consiquently this would suggest these sites are of huge significance/importance as Tribal ceremonial sites. As Orkeny suggests although stone age the way people were expected to live,how they constructed items from the smallest to the largest was set down and by date appears to have been closely followed subsequently by peoples from the North to the south of the island.

Many of these forts are on chalk downland, miles from water sources and excavations have not found wells. Can you explain this?

i absolutely love our history ❤️

Did the anglo-saxons build things similar to hillforts or reuse hillforts built by the celts? love these videos about the celts and ancient britain btw doesn't get talked about often and its always been one of my fave subjects of history

How did the hill forts provide drinking water for there people? How did they handle sanitation in a hill fort?

I would love to live in a hill town

What about Singidunum? Who's hillfort was that? Even today there's a great fortress above Belgrade, dated partly to the medieval period and mostly to the Turkish occupation. I think we know who's hillfort Augustodunum was...

Reminds somewhat of Cahokia

Many "hillforts" are clearly not defensive at all, and one certainly couldn't live in some of them either. And some are overlooked by higher hills or mountains, on slopes not on hills. I do agree these may have been used as festival sites, and many have now been found to contain rectangular temples (with evidence of sacrificed animals in them.) And the storage of grain in pits up on defensible high ground makes sense also. But I'm with "Trailing Arm" (Below) in not accepting that many of these "hillforts" were towns at all. A water source is a major problem with this. And what you call defenses may be nothing of the sort (though they may have been utilised as such in times of siege), but may have been for display purposes. We just don't know. And dismissing academics - who spend their lives studying these things - is a little churlish, don't you think?

I have no idea what you're saying at the end of your videos.

Stopped watching when the loud ads appeared

Dude buy a Mic, I love your videos but turn up a little

Get a flipping voice coach, mate!

@trailingarm63

3 жыл бұрын

Why don't you get a hearing aid? You may be OK but your comment is offensive and unnecessary.