BREAKING NEWS - 'Largest Ever' Pictish Hillfort Discovered in Scotland 

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I live about 20 miles away from where this is. I could've told them that 40 years ago!! Very spooky if you venture up at night. It's a vitrified fort. The stones have been heated to such a heat that they've turned glass like. Lots of Pictish stones up this area.

You missed the coolest part! The wall on the western side is completely melted and fused in places, and much of the rocks throughout are now glass - although they were first made of sandstone which would never naturally do that. This affects forts all over Scotland, and very few anywhere else.

I love Scotland, and visiting is on my to-do list. Amazing country, and so much history. Greetings from France.

Great video. I had my DNA done and I'm 70% Scottish Celtic and 30% Irish, nice to see where my ancestors could of possibly come from

Go Picts! I wish we knew more about them, their language and writings, their art and architecture, their music, stories, and history.

Its hard to believe that no one has discovered this till 2020. It's huge and looks like a fort. Weird.

Disgustingly the large fort in oswestry Shropshire the local council want to build a housing estate on it,local residents are so strongly trying to stop this ,anyone that knows how to help please let it be known to the advertizer news paper

Fascinating! Love history of when Rome pulled out. It's such a murky time,mysterious!

I saw this in various archaeological journals I follow. Somehow, I heard every story in a curious accent of wonder and joy. And now I know why.

I've climbed Tap O' Noth a couple of times and always knew it was a significant fort of some kind. The eastern flanks of the Cairngorm mountains are littered with other hilltop forts but this is one of the biggest and very possibly the site of the infamous Battle of Graupius Mons. We'll be hearing a lot more about this area in the years to come. Pete, you need to brush up on your pronunciation of Scottish place names ;)

Archaeologists from Aberdeen have been working here since 2011. The vitrified fort at the top of the hill dates from 400 - 100 BC. What's new is that the wall surrounding the larger area of the hill, within which all those houses stood, has been dated to the 4th - 5th centuries, making the main site much more recent than had been assumed. Lower down stood the (Pictish) Crawfoot Stane, and the Rhynie Man Pictish carved stone was uncovered nearby in 1978.

Woa, your brother is the voices of the past guy? What an amazing family!

I’d love to hear about the Pictish language and the attempts to decipher it

This made my morning. Thank you for the upload. D.M.

This is fascinating! 👍 Can't wait to see more!

''Scotichronicon'' is the most important History book for Scottish people to read.

Thank you for the great work and information on a news story we might have missed. Keep up the great work!

You and your brother are the GOAT, seriously your guys content is by far my favorite, voices of the past is such an awesome concept for a channel. You guys and Fall of Civilizations Podcast are my jam

Pete, I keep finding these cool history documentaries, and when i check, it's always you. So, I've bitten the bullet and subscribed. Keep up the good work, brother.

I hope they find more ogham inscriptions, so that they may decipher and better understand what language the Picts spoke

Pete - you are doing such a wonderful job. Have watched your channels grow in popularity since early days. Well done.

Thanks for this, I love you Pete. 💜

It would be unbelievable to camp there. I can only imagine the feeling of the presence of history there.

Love these videos, keep them coming!!

I absolutely love that Burghead computer game reproduction at 2:14!

Thank you for posting that was very interesting I love learning about history

Fascinating video about a mysterious historical era. Thanks for putting it up.

Excellent my friend this is exciting news. Thanks for sharing this...

Excellent Pete, thanks & best wishes sent from East Dunbartonshire.

Amazing that discoveries are still being made. Can't wait to find out the details.

Thank you for the upload!

Great video. Thanks for all your hard work

It's fascinating to compare areas uder Roman Empire and out of Roman Empire. For example our Celtic Czech state, later called Great Moravia Samo's Empire, Kingdom of Bohemie. E.g. Prague Castle was found in 886 A.D.

This is super facinating!! How exciting that things like this is being discovered!! Amazing.

Well done. A man of my own heart. Been to many historical places. My uncle is a marine archaeologist and also works for national geographic and my brother who has found many historical finds metal detecting in the UK.

Thanks Pete---as usual; well taught. You're changing the game right now... Respect due.

I am so excited to have found this website. I love history especially of the Scotland and Britain. My heritage.

RU-vid and the bloody ad’s how I so miss the old RU-vid.

Well done Sir, this is very well done. Thank you

How very little we know about history. Top shelf content and production. Very professional.

Thanks for great info! 💖

You are sharin excellent information. Thank you dear

Fascinating video, i really like the art and mystery of the Picti. Big up Pete your bangin out some beauties!!!

I love what you and your brother are doing. Thank you 🙏

Thank you. This was great.

Excellent ! Thanks. Pictish history is a real brain burner...👍👍

I lived in Cornwall in England during my military years for three years. Always miss England. Great to find this video! Always like the ancient history of the British Isles

Good work, lads!

Thanks for the informative video 👍

Nice one Pete.👍

Quite interesting. Thanks

Great video Mr. Kelly

Love all your video and your brother's channel All good stuff

You've done a nice job expanding your stock footage Pete. I like this shorter format too. -Jake

Amazing There are some pictish remains here in Fife.

Thank you❤

Thank you

Your channels are awesome man, love it 🤟🤟

Another place to look for a seriously big Pictish hillfort is Moncreiffe Hill (South East of Perth). There's a smaller square fort there right on the cliff-edge that has long been said to be a Roman fort. It's hard to make out Google maps but I've stood within it and seen the definite square shape. But what struck me more was the huge flat treeless area at the summit with very definitely man-made (uniform) ramparts about 30-40ft high! I've never seen any reference to a Pictish fort there but I'll bet that whole hill was a significant fort and settlement as it's perfectly strategically positioned to defend the river to the north. If anyone has any info on a Moncreiffe Hill fort, I'd love to hear it!

How could it be known that the Scots were of Irish origin? My understanding of the 'Scotti' is that journeys between Scotland and Ireland were a two-way endeavour.

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I’ve been on top of Mither Tap near Keig in Aberdeenshire which is much smaller by comparison. It was quite a surprise to find that what looked like scree from the little museum on the flats consisted of steps and walls. Great view from the top.

If a picture tells a thousand words, a Pictish Hillfort holding two thousand people will speak volumes for future archaeological research. Thanks Pete Kelly!

This is pretty cool. Wish there were documents.

Great videos. I really enjoy your work. Please keep it up. I would love to see any or all of the 273 dolmens, monoliths, and other Neolithic sites in the UK. Thank you.

Great stuff 🍺

Great video.

Beautiful narrator! So fascinating!!

Amazing Documentary 😀

I'd like to see genetic studies that have been done in the area, if they have been done to see if the peoples in the area are R1a, R1b or another male haplogroup and the mitochrondrial haplogroups.

We were learning about picts at my school! And we found out that the hill behind our school had a pictish site, also not that far away from our school it had a 'pictish hoard' of silver, and the silver is in Museums around the world! (I think, i forgot some things)

At one time the entire populations of Scotland and Ireland switched lives and land. Ancient history is a marvel in the history of the Picts and Druids and Welsh.

Great stuff! After the lockdown eases (hopefully not for a while) I'll go and have a look. Many thanks :)

Amazing. My Granddad came from the islands and hadn't seen a tree until he came to the mainland. His was a crofting community and the island was so wind-swept that it was barren, and probably still is. They have a hard time keeping the youngsters living there nowadays i'm told, they all want to go off to uni and the big cities. They'll learn ;+}

Go Prof Noble. Great discovery

Brilliant channel, cheers

There was no "buy me a coffee link". So I bought a tshirt. You guys are doing a great job, keep it up.....much respect.

I think the words picture and pictionary were derived from the Picts because the Picts had no written language, they told their stories in picture carvings on stones.

Very interesting, wish I could know more about this castle or walled town together with the enigmatic Pictish people. Unfortunately they left no written clues but also the Anglo-Saxon and the Viking were no joke....

Top notch work as usual. We're so lucky in the UK to have such a rich and well preserved heritage. Yet, there are still many mysteries. This is an exciting development for Scottish history indeed!

I'm struggling to comprehend what the breaking news is. I stayed in the area 45 years ago and I didn't see anything in the video that wasn't known then. Did I miss something?

Cant believe you didn't mention the biggest mystery about Tap O Noth. Some of its ramparts have been vitrified by great heat ,the rocks melted by ancient peoples. Dozons of other vitrified forts are scattered thoughout northern Europe one- Dunnideer is also in Aberdeenshire. The possible process of vitrification was covered in a episode of the 1970's ITV documentery series Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World.

everyone who lives in the area has known this for years

the picts had already been raiding long before the romans left . thats why hadrians wall was built in circa 100AD

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i'm a new sub, I have a channel, I really enjoy yours and your brothers stuff, I just do adventure style vlog and always dreamed of doing documentaries , but It is intimidating and a huge amount of work, but we desperately need the new wave of explorers and historians, and I just wanted to say , great job , really ! and carry on , please , your doing a great thing ; )

Great vid, as are your others. Small gripe, Moray in Morayshire is pronounced like the mint Murry. :)

You have a really good narration voice.

Been to the North Wales forts as well as in Shropshire and Cotswolds - Cornwall etc etc. And Ireland.

took 1,500 years to find a 17 acre hilltop in a bald countryside? naaahhh...

Aye always knew that it was an important area. Still got the torc I found when up detecting. Fair climb

I was here last night . Got some nice videos, sorry I was at Mither Tap

Picts are a branch of the ancient Britons, same language, the northern tribe!

Love the channels, Will you guys have channels available on other platforms. ?

Briliant fort, I hope Oswestry Hillfort survives, good video, I love hillforts,

800 houses, I would say 7 heads per house, 5600 inhabitants. I raise the count due to the known fact that ,where you have high child mortality, 7 to 8 children where the norm, and still are in certain parts of the world.

Pete, your really are a credit to the history society. I enjoy everything you do. Well done, well, shot and perfectly executed. Your voice and tone bring you in hold on to you until the end. Truly excellent work

REALLY FASCINATING!!!EXCELLENT VIDEO! I JUST LOVE THOSE POINTED HELMETS WITH A NOSE PROTECTOR!!!!THEY LOOK TERRIFYING!!! AND SO BEAUTIFUL.....SCOTLAND LAND OF FIERCE WARIORS AND BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!!!!!❤💚💜💙💛

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