How far did the Romans REALLY get in Scotland?

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The history of the Romans in what would become Scotland is vague but what do we really know? How far did the Romans get in their attempt to conquer what would become Scotland?
Why did the Romans come to Britain? Why did Hadrian build a wall? Why did Antonine build his own wall further north? What do we really know about the Battle of Mons Grauphius? And which Emperor ordered the genocide of the Caledonians?
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@Sh4peofmyheart 10 месяцев назад

I absolutely love listening to you narrate the history of your country. Your humor and deep diving give it such a sense of humanity. Another excellent video!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! I have to make it funny or I get bored 😂

@Grandma_Lori 10 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunpluggedisn't that how history works?? 😅

@TheJpf79 4 месяца назад

@@scotlandunplugged You should do one about king Arthurs castle at Camelon, sits along the Antonine wall, somewhere like a "Dux Bellorum" might have captured. Cabridge have air photos of it from the 70's,80's, under a tesco carpark these days, was more finds fairly recently huge place, had all sorts of stuff being made, perfect strategic postion for the valley.

@stephenoran2019 10 месяцев назад

"That lot over there..." Brilliant! That's why your histories are so much fun to watch! Thanks! The amount of physical labor required to build all these walls, trenches, and forts is astounding! Wow! Good one!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! The level of building is insane. Even the marching camps with their trenches must have required some serious physical effort.

@colinearnshaw7725 5 месяцев назад

the "other lot over there" were the other half of Brigantes a Kingdom in Northern Britain. The Scottish border at that point is 60 miles north.

@bronwentillman8385 10 месяцев назад

You packed a lot into this one! I'll be surprised if you still have your voice! Great job once again, Robert!!! Hopefully, you didn't injure yourself around those holes!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! I made it out alive this time 😂

@midgetuley4262 10 месяцев назад

Wow! Awesome history! I just love listening to you talking about your country. You make history so interesting.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. I do enjoy waffling on about it 😂

@suellenspencer-eb2nv 10 месяцев назад

Another amazing history lesson, thank you very much. Love Scotland.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

It’s not half bad. Thank you 🙂

@loadapish 4 месяца назад

@@scotlandunpluggedits shite being scottish, we all know it but only some of us can admit it.

@nataliegraham9552 10 месяцев назад

I knew a little about Hadrian's Wall and the history that surrounds it but now I know so much more! Great video! Loved the footage from above - besides just being beautiful, it really helps to show the scope of the incredible expenditure of time and effort for these structures. Thanks for another awesome post. ❤

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! I love flying the drone when I can, and it’s quiet. It adds another dimension.

@jillcrowe2626 10 месяцев назад

This video should be shown in classrooms. You're an amazing speaker showing the history in an immersive way. I love the shot of the ancient fortifications with high tension wires running above it, juxtaposing ancient history to modern.

@alancrowe7406 4 месяца назад

Came across this 6 months after your post, just commenting cos we share a name that's not that common.

@barbridingsTheResinator 10 месяцев назад

Wow, so much history. Good job explaining it!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, Barb! Hope you’re doing well!

@kathleenmuller306 10 месяцев назад

The Roman time in Scotland is much clearer now! Thanks Robert! K.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! 🙂

@junesmith852 10 месяцев назад

Another great story 👏...I vaguely remember my parents taking my sister and I to the wall, I must have been only 7 or 8 way too young to appreciate the history behind it so thank you again 👌

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@cindyrissal3628 10 месяцев назад

LOVE all the history! Really appreciate the slightly longer video, too.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@bobuncle8704 10 месяцев назад

I look forward to each new episode. Well done.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@angg8566 10 месяцев назад

I love how you tell stories and history about Scotland. Thank you for sharing.

@patriciamccormack7626Teashee 10 месяцев назад

As always Robert, a fantastic history lesson 👍🏆❤ I only found out a few months back about the roman ruins and museum being there, although I knew about Hadrian Wall and told "Hadrian didn't build it high enough to keep us Scots out"😂 I was 😂 when you said "they tried to big him up" I haven't heard that expression for yonks😂❤

@camerongibson6342 10 месяцев назад

Robbie you have done it again great video ,and the views from your drone are amazing where you can see the lines of defence are clear to keep us out.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, Cameron! It’s amazing what you can see from the air.

@charlestaylor8566 4 месяца назад

I lived on the edge of the Durno camp , 144 acre near the hill fort of Benachie , it was fifteen miles north of the main camp at Kintore , it was surveyed by Prof St Joseph in the early 70s , they found some pottery from the period , he always reckoned it was the camp used before the battle of Mons Graupius which took place on the level ground at the foot of Benachie .

@andrew182matches 8 месяцев назад

What a great video! I always enjoy watching anything to do with the history of Scotland. I'm from the States but my grandparents were from Scotland and instilled a great sense of pride in my heritage. It's always funny to me to learn how much the Romans stole from the Celts (Insular Celts and Continental Celts) yet pretended was their own. The Picts were the only distinct collection of people the Romans tried to conquer and utterly failed. And that is cool as hell. P.S. I just want to say that we Celts taught the Romans how to use soap.

@michaelmasiello10 5 месяцев назад

At the peak of the Roman empire over half the people in the entire world lived under Roman rule.

@charlesmugleston6144 10 месяцев назад

Congrats - again. Best ever - a mosaic beautifully constructed, filmed, narrated, presented.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you, Charles! Hope you’re doing well. 🙂

@jodifinnegan4453 10 месяцев назад

Excellent!!! Looking forward to the next video!!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@alicegamble6145 10 месяцев назад

Great video. You make history so interesting.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, Alice! Hope you’re doing well 🙂

@maxwellfan55 5 месяцев назад

I walked Hadrian's wall in 1973 with a couple of school chums from Surrey. Starting from Newcastle to Carlisle. An ambition accomplished. We took our time with plenty of great pub stops on the way for beer and sandwiches. I would like to do it again, this time on my older aching limbs, expecting to see what has changed. Any tips, anyone?

@williammcilwraith9304 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, don't slip like l did...twice!

@Imjetta7 10 месяцев назад

I love your channel! Thanks for another fun lesson!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙂

@pjk1714 10 месяцев назад

Excellent job! The drone footage was fantastic.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. I do love to break out the drone!

@jennifermorgan6913 10 месяцев назад

another great one Robert! thanks!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! 🙂

@myouatt5987 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating vid - thanks!

@willbissett7491 6 месяцев назад

Brilliant, fascinating and well-researched. Thank you

@megkiely0128 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for another great lesson! Awesome story Robert… 👏🏻💙

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! 🙂

@shirleylaboy603 10 месяцев назад

Another great video, Robert. Thank you for the history lesson. 🙂❤️

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙂

@peggycrain532 10 месяцев назад

I love your knowledge. When I win the big lottery, I’d like to make the trip to Scotland and hire you as our guide for however long you could do it!!!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Haha. Thank you! I don’t actually have as much knowledge as I’d like. I know a rough story and then go on a research binge 😂

@peggycrain532 10 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunplugged you know much more than I and can take me to the places you e already researched. Watching on video and being in person are two totally different experiences!!

@ElizaBeth-ng3pu 10 месяцев назад

Actually touching Hadrian’s Wall is in the top three of my bucket list. ❤❤ thank you for this! Your production quality has always been good… But I can see it getting better. Good job!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. 🙂 The wall is well worth seeing (and touching). The camera can never quite do it justice.

@JesFan1030 9 месяцев назад

Omg, me too! Set to go there in June

@helpinyerdasellavon 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating history lesson. Love your captivating storytelling and humour. Thank you, Robert 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! Definitely helps when you’ve got Romans to film. 😂 Conveniently, there are some Vikings in Largs on Sunday! 🙂

@helpinyerdasellavon 10 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunplugged Braw! 😃💙

@baz-wc4fi 10 месяцев назад

Exellant clip! very informative.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@dennisharrington3874 10 месяцев назад

Groovy. Carry on.

@lindaarmstrongjackman9788 10 месяцев назад

Great story Robert. Love listening to you. 😊👍👍

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙂

@davewatson309 10 месяцев назад

You should add that when the Romans left the Southern Picts came south, the descendants of Coel to the Pennines, of Cunedda to Wales. They spoke common Brythonnic and the greater part of Wales until the 12th century was the North of England and southern Scotland

@davidwright8665 6 месяцев назад

😊😊 very interesting in such a casual way, makes one listen more as with Culloden video. Many thanks

@LeonTroutskiunplugged 10 месяцев назад

love this channel! I think it is the distinct lack of hooves that makes it special.

@jodifinnegan4453 10 месяцев назад

😂😂 (I equally love the hooves)

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

😂

@ramonadixon1291 10 месяцев назад

Wow! That was a great history lesson. There was so much information given you really did your research and it was awesome! You did an absolute tremendous job on this one!! Loved it!❤❤❤ Thank you Thank you Thank you from the states....great job!!!

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! I feel like I know a bit more about the Romans now 😂

@Alan316100 4 месяца назад

Throughly enjoyed your vid. Couple of points though, firstly there certainly are Roman marching camps in Scotland more than able to hold 45 to 50 thousand men, never mind 20 thousand (Logie Durno 145 acres, St Leonard's Hill 173 acres). The marching camp furthest north may have been at Portmahomak, Dornock Firth, despite what Canmore says about two Roman signal stations near Durness 🙂 Once again, really enjoyed the vid, thank you.

@craig9802 10 месяцев назад

Outstanding! Now I want to record a version of this with a farm fence between me and my plethora of cousins (whom I love) while I refer to "that lot over there". Alas, I cannae pull off the accent... :)

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Haha. It’s easy. Just watch Shrek on repeat for a while.

@craig9802 10 месяцев назад

😂@@scotlandunplugged

@alanferguson6354 10 месяцев назад

I love hearing about the history of the country I was born in. I was in primary 6 when we immigrated to the USA for my dad's job. While I had some history of the place it has always interested me in knowing more and you have a fantastic way of tell a story. Any chance you can do a story on Arthur 's Seat? Keep up the good work.

@suepem 5 месяцев назад

Great, I loved this. However, I'm English and born north of the wall. Lots of people still think its the border.

@robertamity3563 10 месяцев назад

Scotland unplugged 👍😎🇺🇸 !

@mrs.henderson7602 10 месяцев назад

Wow this was a great history video

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@andrewmiller4582 10 месяцев назад

Love this episode. Love the roman history of Scotland and mainly because part of it was out the back of my parent's house in the Antonine wall.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Cheers! Have you seen Scotland Uncovered on TikTok? He did a video on Kirky.

@andrewmiller4582 10 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunplugged I'm not down with the kids Mr P. I am not on tick tock. I do what sensible people do and wait for it to appear on Insta

@andrewmiller4582 10 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunplugged I just watched it now. Don't think I have ever heard Kirky spoken so well of in all my life

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

@@andrewmiller4582 I'm sold. Moving there 😂

@joanne85201 10 месяцев назад

Nice, thanks!

@robinsymonds5353 4 месяца назад

Brilliant brogh

@monicab204 10 месяцев назад

Well told! ❤

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@sheatree8520 8 месяцев назад

I have seen all of this in my dreams ! Wow ! Magnificent!

@user-nm9hw6sw4m 4 месяца назад

great video ]

@richardhallyburton 4 месяца назад

There is a location that matches the description of the battle of Mons Graupius. Grant Park and the Cluny hills at Forres.

@charlestaylor8566 4 месяца назад

I lived on the edge of the largest marching camp in Scotland , The Durno camp near the Pictish hill fort of Benachie , it covered 144 acres , fifteen miles north of a main camp at Kintore , it was surveyed by Pro St Joseph , didn’t find much , but it was most likely the camp prior to the battle of Mons Graupius at the foot of Benachie .

@richardhallyburton 4 месяца назад

I look at Bennachie from my lounge window and am familiar with it being a proposed site for the battle, probably the most popular one, but if you read Tacitus' account of the battle carefully you'll see that the Cluny hills are a much better fit. Bennachie is basically too big. There is not a clear break between slope and plain, which is required for the description of the battle to work. The Caledonian charge would have been over a couple of hundred meters at most, and nowhere at Bennachie fits this. Furthermore, Bennachie is not at the furthest point of the line of marching camps whilst Forres is. This might be important because although it is not explicitly stated, the account suggests that the battle took place at the furthest point that the Romans got to. This would be Forres, going on current archaeological knowledge. I strongly recommend visiting both sites and try running down from hill to plain as the Caledonian warriors would have done. It soon becomes clear which site fits best. Finally, the Cluny hills are a superb tactical site, forming a pinch point between hill and coastal marsh, controlling the road to what is now Inverness.

@damionkeeling3103 4 месяца назад

It's such a generic description it could be applied to a huge array of places. Even Nechtansmere's location is debated and that's 600 years closer to our time. Is there any indicator of what the vegetation was like back then? Pollen samples from soil can suggest areas that were forested or farmed, has such work been done where you suggest?

@richardhallyburton 4 месяца назад

@@damionkeeling3103 It is a pretty vague description but you can narrow the location down a bit to somewhere in the region of one of the Agricolan camps, the line of which is pretty easy to trace. Even so, yes it does leave a wide range of possibilities and my assessment that it's the Cluny Hills is of course far from certain. I don't know of any pollen analysis in the area but even if there was I don't think it can give you precise knowledge of the ground cover in any specific location of that size. As for Nechtansmere, I think academic opinion is now swaying towards it being what is now Loch Insch and the marshy ground south of it. Personally, I think Nechtan's fort was likely where Ruthven Barracks is now and the battle would have occurred near there. Again, it's just an assessment based on the description of the battle, the tactical nature of the locations, and some circumstantial evidence such as Nechtan -> Nachton -> Naughton (The seat of Clan McNaughtons is there).

@eileenbass952 10 месяцев назад

Robert, can you do something on Edinburgh as my hubby and myself are thinking of going there next July for our Ruby (40th) wedding anniversary.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Ooft! There’s time yet for a few videos on Edinburgh 🙂

@violetmoonofthenorth 4 месяца назад

I’m from the northeast and yeah, Hadrians wall is amazing... great video and thanks for sharing our history.

@2bingtim 6 месяцев назад

Given the title I'd have thought you'd mention exactly how far north the northern most marching camps or other evidence is. But othewrise a good overview.

@81bozzaboy 3 месяца назад

Really enjoyed your video done great info. Have you ever been to the tappoch broch near torwood castle?

@scotlandunplugged 3 месяца назад

Not yet. That looks interesting though!

@81bozzaboy 3 месяца назад

@@scotlandunplugged you should visit it's very interesting. Also if you go speak to Gary at the castle he's very welcoming. There's a Roman well at the castle.

@scotlandunplugged 3 месяца назад

Good to know. Thanks for that!@@81bozzaboy

@81bozzaboy 3 месяца назад

@@scotlandunplugged there's a day booked up this month to go help clear the bushes and dig around the tappoch broch with an archaeologist. I think it's the 17th. Might be worth getting involved. We've volunteered to help.

@AdiSneakerFreak 3 месяца назад

Great video. Really well explained. One thing that was missed was a mention of Stenhousemuir and the origin of that name being ‘stone house’ which was a Roman triumphal monument (typically cited on or near to a battlefield victory). Lasted until the 1700’s when it was sadly pulled down. So I do believe there was a decisive Roman battlefield victory in this area north of the Antonine Wall. This is likely why the native tribes adapted to guerrilla tactics. In the end there was not enough mineral or societal wealth or a large enough settled population (in order to levy taxes) in the north of Britannia. This is the main reason Rome only ever halfheartedly approached this area. There were always bigger fish to fry. Hadrian’s Wall ended up being as much of a tax border than anything else.

@rolandscales9380 10 месяцев назад

O you take the high woad an' I'll take the low woad... (I'll get my pallium...)

@thegaiastone1 4 месяца назад

I remember being marched along the road and stopping at a point where our teacher told us this is as far North the Romans marched and turned back. The place is just outside Stepps on the old Cumbernauld road once known as the busiest road in Scotland. Where did our teacher get this information?

@damionkeeling3103 4 месяца назад

Out their butt most likely. Unfortunately many teachers don't fact check things before blurting them out to their class. Then again maybe it was as far north as the Romans got in that part of Scotland but given the famous battle of Mons Graupius is considered to be in the Grampians somewhere they obviously got further north. The actual campaign in the 80s is thought to have followed the east coast north and then along the top almost as far as the Great Glen. The army was kept supplied by the navy. When the army was done some of the ships continued around the coast and proved to the Romans that Britain/Alba was actually an island.

@ianherd569 9 месяцев назад

There is "Roman Well" in Burghead (Torfnes)

@bigblue6917 6 месяцев назад

There is evidence that Roman troops based on the Antonine Wall had either spent some time in North Africa or were in fact North African. When excavations were carried out on the wall five out of the twelve forts had pottery evidence that the soldiers there was eating cuscus and cuscus is eaten in North Africa.

@bobrogers7004 3 месяца назад

I saw a Roman bath house in Strathclyde Country Park near Motherwell.

@user-ht9jw5mo4s Месяц назад

Have a look at Portsoy and the Moray Coast.

@bethotoole6569 10 месяцев назад

'Maybe they were depressed and didn't keep up on the maintenance'... said every homeowner. 😂😂😂😂😂 Getting back to the death.. I'm in!!😂😂😂😂

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Haha. It’s a feeling I know well! 😂

@paulrummery6905 5 месяцев назад

. Great stuff mate, a question, did Antoninus actually visit or reside in Britain?

@scotlandunplugged 5 месяцев назад

I don’t think so. It was his governor, Quintus Lollius Urbicus who oversaw the construction of the Antonine Wall.

@paulrummery6905 5 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunpluggedrighto, thanks mate, bloody interesting stuff..I'm enjoying your work and style over here in Australia. Salutations..

@sebastianmaharg 5 месяцев назад

Great video! Caesar was never an emperor, though. Augustus was the first.

@theseustoo 10 месяцев назад

Before watching, I'd say 1) Antonine's Wall, and 2) Mountains. Now let's see how close I was... 🤔

@Fanndangle_gaming 4 месяца назад

I see you’re up the bar hill fort near the village I live in

@stuarts1989 4 месяца назад

your bits about rough castle is the top/ side of high bonnybridge. the water aswell is called st hellens loch. we hate falkirk

@georgemalkin6546 4 месяца назад

Very true, but that's not what the title says, but I take your point

@TheJpf79 4 месяца назад

Antonine wall is just a minute up the hill from me in Falkirk, the books say that they came up here, ordered the legions to dig a big ditch across the country for 20 years and then decided it wasn't worth the bother and went back to Hadrians, Can you imagine being a legion soldier who had spent 20 years digging a ditch along cold hills and your boss says "Right lads, that's enough, no need to dig all that, nothing up there, lets go south" No wonder a legion went missing up here if that actually happened. Truth is they never got to finish their wall, its literally in my front garden, just a ditch remains for the most part, they dug the big ditch then packed the earth they removed on their side of the wall as a base, later would add wood, then stone like Hadrians, 20 years is all they lasted here and you don't go to the trouble of building a giant wall across the island and trying to build another to keep "nothing" out. Nothing up here, spent about 300 years or so trying to come up and get it. Funny that eh?

@user-nm9hw6sw4m 4 месяца назад

Marching camp of strathcathro is not in the right place you have it on the north esk river where in fact its closer to the south esk river . at the end of montrose basin where the romans had a port and harbour and a massive camp on the Brechin road about 3 miles outside montrose .. also there were two other marching champs one at KAIR just outside of laurencekirk AND Balmakewan MARYKIRK just out side montrose .. the last two camps are about 5 miles apart are were occupied at the same time ..

@FinneousFogg-ix6vr 5 месяцев назад

Aren't there two walls, the one at the border and another further up toward Glasgow-Edinburgh??

@SackTheBoard 3 месяца назад

Antonius returned to Scotland and played for Celtic & Scotland in the 70s & 80s 😂

@jamesirmert 4 месяца назад

Sounds a lot like how the Pheonecians, never having called themselves that became known as that after. Granted it was the Greeks who named them thus for their Purple Dye and clothing but all the same. The Roman's styled themselves after and thought quite alike to the Greeks. It is likely that the Picti did either paint themselves or were tattooed with blue pigment. And if so they could have fascinating connections to other people who did the same. Though they could have just as likely, independently chosen to do the same things. It's likely however that the Picti were some of the last descendants of the Pre-Indo European Populatuon of Britain which was decimated by Disease and Encroachment and Ethnic Cleansing. Like the Native American "Indian". That is the most likely given their various traditions which not only resemble those of the Pre Indo-European, Anatolia Farmers. But are clearly a growth of. You can see their reflection everywhere else those people's descendants went. From the Tumuli and Standing Stones to any other number of things later given credit to the mixed populations which they then gave rise to, but which had lost or rejected the knowledge and practices of their ancestors. But in some small enclaves.

@hjalniblomerus2055 10 месяцев назад

I love the Scottish history.

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! There’s plenty to choose from.

@juliestrickland7754 10 месяцев назад

Wasn't Boudica the leader of the Triavantes(sp?)?

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

She was the leader of the Iceni but led a revolt that included neighbouring tribes 🙂

@juliestrickland7754 10 месяцев назад

@@scotlandunplugged ok. Got that one confused. She fought with them, then. It's been a really long time since I read about her. I wish I could find that book again. She was one incredible woman.

@williamlloyd3769 5 месяцев назад

Romans basically didn’t see an economic reason to expand / remain in Scotland. No mineral wealth, no excess farm goods to tax, lack of large populations to raid for slaves, etc. Wall just made it more efficient to hold the existing lands for Roman colonists.

@lochside7647 4 месяца назад

Rubbish! Scotland was and is full of mineral wealth.and great fertile farmlands .English historians hate to admit that the Picts/Caledonian tribes fought the Romans to a standstill. You don't build two walls and abandon the shortest and most northern one because it's the most 'efficient'. The Romans practised genocide everywhere they met resistance. They attempted it everywhere but failed with the ancestors of present Scotland. Present day Northumbria was a no-man's land. Like the Afghanistan war, the Caledonian tribes waged guerrilla war. Roman gold has been discovered in N.East Scotland indicating Romans trying to bribe the tribes not to keep attacking them. BTW the great 'British' queen Boacedia was a red haired Celt not an anglo saxon.

@jebrindle9380 3 месяца назад

Boudicca also committed genocide.

@colinearnshaw7725 5 месяцев назад

Excellent as always. However "over there" was the other half of Northumberland (Scotland is 60 miles north of Housesteads and Vindolanda) and in Roman times the "over there" lot was the other half of the Brigantes Kingdom! It might also be worth saying the Wall has never been a border between England and Scotland.

@lochside7647 4 месяца назад

But the Romans tried to split what is now Scotland with Antonine's wall and were driven back by the Picts back to Hadrian's wall. BTW there was no 'England 'until the Anglo Saxons invaded after the Romans left. Scottish kings also subsequently ruled over Northumberland for a period, those events took place much later than the Roman occupation.

@jamesdoyle4985 5 месяцев назад

I worked on an oil rig out of Aberdeen one young American boy with 50 scots. I learned to understand

@senlac1000 4 месяца назад

Did I hear the narrator call Julius Caesar "Emperor"?

@warrencmarglin2413 3 месяца назад

Was it the legendary weather of Scotland that prevented Roman conquest?

@Scurvybilgerat10 6 месяцев назад

you imply 'over there' is Scotland and the border when it is actually Northumberland, the Scottish border is approx 60 mile north for most of its length

@irenejohnston6802 5 месяцев назад

He knows that. The average YTuber from abroad doesn't. Later on even where I live was variously in Northumbria/Danelaw/Mercia. R. Mersey, boundary river. Liverpool

@radarsone5097 3 месяца назад

Antonine wall in cumbernald was built by the romans 😊

@stuarts1989 4 месяца назад

also we call them the beef pits. passed doom fae grandparents fae high jig

@davidcollins5102 10 месяцев назад

Midges was their downfall

@antoniodiciacca2949 4 месяца назад

Caesar wasn’t an emperor. But I enjoyed your video .

@monabale8263 10 месяцев назад

4:47; or "government..." 🙄

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

True 😂

@jimkennedy7050 9 месяцев назад

They Probably got all the way up to the North Sea but found few resources.

@lochside7647 4 месяца назад

All they found was a 'sore face' as we call it in Scotland.

@DG-mv6zw 3 месяца назад

@@lochside7647So you've bought into the myth then? 😂

@carausiuscaesar5672 6 месяцев назад

Och the Romans kept coming into Scotland for Greggs steak bakes pastries and hot drinks.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@vaughantutty2227 5 месяцев назад

Asterisk the Gaul😂😂

@seanjoseph8637 4 месяца назад

It wasn't Scotland then, it was North Britain. The Scotti didn't invade until the 4th century AD (I believe).

@lochside7647 4 месяца назад

Nice try! North Britain is a Victorian era , colonial re-designation by English/British ruling elite of Scotland. Interestingly, they never called England by the logical definition of South Britain.!

@seanjoseph8637 4 месяца назад

@@lochside7647 So the Scotti where always there? In Northern Britain?

@lochside7647 4 месяца назад

@@seanjoseph8637 Yes. The genetic record shows that the Scots of the West Coast were in Ireland, before becoming named as such. The people of both Scotland and Ireland were all linked by blood before the Romans gave them daft names. The names changed as tribes merged and they became all 'Scots' united as the English and Welsh did also. As I said Northern Britain is a Victorian invented name for a political state which will one day dissolve back into its natural constituent parts of Scotland, Wales and maybe...North and South England.

@waynekerrgoodstyle 10 месяцев назад

Bloody Romans! 😛🤣

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

😂

@kayhansen1674 10 месяцев назад

I love the barbarians. Didn't play by the rules. Must be my relatives😊

@scotlandunplugged 10 месяцев назад

😂

@jamesdoyle4985 5 месяцев назад

If only I could understand him

@armstronggermany2995 4 месяца назад

The word barbarian simply refers to those peoples outwith the Roman Empire and does not mean uneducated , ignorant bampots as per the modern use of the word.

@caldertkd 5 месяцев назад

Julias ceaser was not an emperor his nephew was

@Hborn 5 месяцев назад

Does it get hot there

@teachnaduinn3134 4 месяца назад

The Caledonii were well provisioned and as fighters fought with combined arms in guerilla asymmetrical warfare.

@jamesmacleod671 4 месяца назад

The Romans " what in the name of Jupiter is all this bloody rain coming from, lets head back south"🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧

@nobbytang 5 месяцев назад

If there was anything of value like the gold in southern wales or the copper mines around coniston then the Romans would never of left northern Britain….S.P.Q.R. Rules OK…