DOCUMENTARY | Dumfries & Galloway Ancient Sites | History of Neolithic Scotland | Before Caledonia 

This is a link to my lecture on the D&G sites at 'Mysterious Earth Conference 2023' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DlElV4BffWk.htmlfeature=shared

Droughduil is about 5 minutes walk from my house. I live (or used to) just over the new A75, on the old A75, reputed to be a Roman Road (no proof however). Standing on the mound you would be able to see my house but for the pine trees in the village, by the little train station. I had to move away last year for work, so thanks for a little reminder of home. I still own my house there, my mother now rents it from me. So I'll be back up at Christmas time. Great to see Torhouseekie stone circle on the video. It's a fabulous stone circle. Robert John Langdon in his book "The Stonehenge enigma" has it that Silbury Hill was once located in an inland waterway (as was Stonehenge) and thus performed the function of a fire beacon in front of a landing area. If you go back 4 thousand years or so, the valley in front of Challoch Hill next to Dunragit was also a wetland area, presumably with the henge monument located at it's shore (it's actually under the new A75 in front of Myrtle Cottage). The Piltanton Burn being the shrunken remains of the watercourse. Therefore Droughduil was also probably a fire beacon, like Silbury Hill. Really good vid!

Thank you for a wonderful video! I loved visiting the Highlands of Scotland and exploring such out of the way treasures.

Once again, thank you for the memories! I have done this trip but it was over 20 years ago! I had a wonderful time in Dumfries and Galloway and visited all of these sites. I need to plan another trip! (I just spent a fantastic 3 days in Aberdeenshire, so maybe next year!)

Excellent upload. 'Oor ain gen that's geed tae ken'

Watched your video out of interest as we are about to move to Dalry in the new year, (2024) so I plan to visit the sites in the area you covered. It will be quite an adventure, Thanks for your insights.

Be good to see drone footage of the sites as an overview, really interesting journey

Thankyou for this wonderful guide. We have explored cup and ring marks in our home county of Northumberland, and visited some fascinating ancient sites in Wales. We are planning a trip through this part of Scotland and are excited to find some sites that you mention are close to our route.

Great work, very interesting 🧐

Thank you for a tour through this beautiful ancient landscape:)

Another great site: Slewcairn, just to the West of Criffel. There are 2 cairns, one still quite prominent, as well as an unchambered long cairn, apparently one of the best examples in existence. There is also a very clearly visible hut circle, you can even see where the doorway was. It's just sitting out there in the woods. Quite incredible.

Very well done and very informative. Thanks for sharing.

A Brilliant Channel, Thanks For Your Work.

Very well done. I really enjoyed that. Thank you.

Well done. Your videos make me feel as if I am there.

Can you give commentary on the ancient past of Scotland. I would love it so much.

Please leave a comment below on your favourite ancient site in Dumfries & Galloway.

Hi Martin, just stopped by for a re watch. 👍🍀

Very nice

Nice to see this, as these are sites I am not likely to be able to visit. I explained to my friend that yes, he is indeed speaking English! I always love to listen to the Scots accent even if I don't always understand. I do wish someone would correct the closed captions as they are full of errors. Very nice documentary!

actually I didn;t visit all of these... not by any means.... but it's wonderful to know about some of these...!

i like it 🧡🧡

My kids are going to hate me next time we go to Dumfries and Galloway😂. Very interesting sites it does feel like there are a lot of sites in a relatively small area.

Living in Dumfries as a teenager in the 1960's I visited the 12 apostles, as a kid I found it pretty unimpressive.