Incredible Objects Discovered at Stone Age Site in Scotland! 

They discovered tombs on the Head of Work which is where my family is from.

Whattever has nothing to do with you.

It's the only place I've been where you can visit four Neolithic sites before lunch and round off the afternoon with the Iron Age, the Early Medieval period and the 16th Century. Orkney is magic. (Although wouldn't you know it, we were there just before the 2009 dig kicked off - talk about unlucky timing!)

@@evanhughes7609 I was there in 2012, and we too just missed seeing the dig by literally one day! I wish I had done more research before nailing down our itinerary. The rest of Orkney is just amazing-it was my favorite region on our 18-day trip. My favorite non-Neolithic sites were the two late medieval castles and the 12th century cathedral that was just across the street. Talk about packing in more history per square meter! I hope to go back someday and see not just the dig at the Ness, but also to get off of Mainland and see the other islands, especially Rousay.

@@kathyastrom1315 I was on foot and bus so getting round was not as easy but it was worth every soaking I got. The ness is still growing, each year, it gets a bit bigger... Thank heavens it is so far from londinium as this keeps the top dogs from pissing on the walls.

He sounds like Matt Barbet (well known to cycling fans)

@@adyjclarke Yeah - all for that. Some of best commentators full stop are from sports. There should be more crossover. Michael Woods doing the cup final or five nations final would be epic.

wood - typo with the s, sorry

I would asume so: the Ness is situated on a land tongue between to sea connected inner lakes: a lot of good views over the area, and probably a good shortcut between lakes on tides. (there was also a small island with a lighthouse that was only reachable during tides that was used by vikings: Brough of Birsay)

That would explain the vigorous stone age human activity

Stonehenge has connections to the alps as well as the islands and all across celtic europe. People sent their dead to the afterlife at stonehenge after feasting at the winter solstice at the nearby woodhenge site, and followed a sacred processional way from woodhenge up the avon river then along the causeway into stonehenge. Its assumed the bodies of the dead were disposed of around the area in the many barrows around that lanscape.

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The brodgar boys built them on their way to stonehenge...bloody tykes...

The English channel did exist prior to these structures. But it was shallower. Parts of Dogger Bank were probably still islands, and possibly Viking bank.

No, look for doggerland vlogs. It's about the landmass during this time

@@eh1702 Atlantis is Rockall Bank/Plateau/Island and to confirm it all you have to do is follow the Criteria by Critias in a Critical Think Manner.. Beyond the Pillars, In the Northern Portions & Along the Shore, 555km x 370km, Mountain low on all sides, broke it off all round about(North East Corner), Small central island that Poseidon built for Atlas, surrounded by 3 moats & 1km wide with a hand carved channel leading North from the main city which also happens to be 23.5km wide.. Dimensions actually measure up & considering 13000 years ago when waters were 100m lower. Pleistocene Epoch ended by 2 Asteroid impact(s) of Phaethon in Sumerian or Icarus & Daedalus of Greek. Eye of Sahara is a residual impact of it after Phaethon struck Great Lakes(Niagara Escarpment) & before landing "In Red Sea(EridanUs * AEIOU). At the same time(or later) another asteroid struck Greenland after starbursting & leaving a 31km wide crater under a 5km thick Hiiawatha Glacier. This event caused 2 "Melt Pulses 1a & 1b".. Carolina Bays is glacial debris from Laurentide Ice Sheet while the event also caused the Missoula floods forming Grand Canyon & Staircase before English Channel formed followed by Mediterranean flooded & Incested Cro-Magnon "Caen-Abel's" were forced out before they attacked Jericho to replace their submerged homeland. Jericho happens to be in Palestine... and to see a picture of this cataclysmic event in stone search google images for "Cairn T Ceiling Stone"....

Unfortunately, in a spectacular oversight, they neglected to invent the wheel, leaving the tyres as a conceptual dead end.

@evanhughes7609 very good one!

But at least he got almost all the tropes in. Bagpipes, fiddles, castles, hairy cows. I mean, nothing much happened in the run up to the mid C15th really...

You missed his point massively.

OK, Sparky, I'll break it down for you. When a person makes a generalised assertion, we know that they mean so much more than what was actually spoken. However, a common trope of humour is for a person to take this literally; as Buster Keaton said, "The audience loves the slow thinker." By affecting ignorance of what was actually implied, the comic pretends to be just a little slow on the uptake while simultaneously demonstrating the pitfalls of overly generalised language. Hope this helps.

@@evanhughes7609 Are you stoned .....l mean neolithically.(hehe!)

It seems to be the process by which copper smelting was discovered. Cooking fires aren’tnhot enough but a pottery kiln can be.

They aren't neolithic tyres. Sites closed now so they are using it as a land fill for tyres.

@@andrewbradley1753 😂 Not at all! The plastic sheeting, sandbags, and tires are placed there to PROTECT THE SITE (from looters, flooding, etc.) during the other ten months of the year when they aren’t digging. Every summer, they uncover the Ness settlement with the help of many volunteers, as they did on Monday and Tuesday of this week, to resume the excavation.

@@RKHageman someone has no idea what sarcasm is clearly

Idk... but. People in Orkney are Norse & they'll say so if called Scottish.

The Orknety excavations are serious archaeology, not TV programmes.

@@janetmackinnon3411Time Team was and is still serious archaeology. But they were exploratory digs for site evaluation, not intended to excavate an entire site- that wasn’t the concept. Fun facts- 1) every single TT dig was written up as a formal report, which are accessible from Wessex Archaeology, and 2) at that time in the 2000s, Channel 4 (the TV company producing TT) funded more archaeological research in Britain than all the universities put together. Not too shabby, eh.

@@RKHageman Quite so.

I thought your comment grumpy; that is until I watched it. 😂👍

What do you mean mean " these" people. Rassist much?

They’re imitating the old man from Scene 24

@@aroyaliota To be fair though, they're talking about shapes of pottery, the layouts of the sites, and 'this bit of pottery here'. Try describing the shape of a bowl or a Coke bottle without using your hands. It's harder than you'd think. And a piece to camera would look very odd if the presenter was virtually immobile!😁

Oh thank you for saying me that. It drives me nuts.

Do try thinking just a little…. 🙄 The tires, layers of plastic, and sandbags are placed there every year at the end of the season to PROTECT THE SITE FROM LOOTING! As well as flooding and erosion. And every summer, they uncover it again with the help of many volunteers, which they did just this week (beginning of July), so the dig excavation can continue.

And 'Prehistoric'. And 'Britain'. And 'was".

I suppose funding is a consideration. I dont suppose they are all full time on one dig.

"Can't we just cut into it with the JCB? Pubs close early up here!"

Orkney is wet, windy and cool - the wind-chill is huge. So they have a limited time every summer to dig: They also have to continuously raise funds for it. (Just finding travel money and accommodation for the diggers in the tourist season is no small thing.) And there is an amazing amount of finds that have to be catalogued and examined. They have a very complex mosaic of massive buildings built from sometimes HUGE stones (possibly former megaliths) sitting partly on the remains of former buildings. And they had no idea when they started that it was all so huge. In fact the couple living here then donated their land for the dig, as they realised it wasn’t just one building, not just half a dozen,

There are plenty of folks on the Islands who are qualified and available (who really could do with the income) to do the digs…. So why are ANY being brought in. The Islands were badly hit during CoVid… they need to employ locals.

@@eh1702 Thank you for adding a little balance my friend. It all sounds very exciting but if there is no urgency to learn our history, what's the actual purpose? Preservation is clearly more important to academia than discovery, and I'm not sure that's right?

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@@Ben-Downlow. yeah, I guess that’s correct but it still sounds weird as hell to me. Oh well … science 🤷‍♂️

@@matthewwalker5430 Yeah, DNA analysis is a real thing now- gosh, who knew? And that can tell researchers whether or not a given population had the genetic mutation that enables them to produce lactase, which is the enzyme in the gut that digests and breaks down lactose. Either they did, or they didn’t. And that is how they know.

Goodness! Do you know who lived next door? Or anyone that knew them from there? Interested to know please 😜

No, she wasn't. She was from Tong on the isle of Lewis - which is in the Outer Hebrides.

@@gailmackinnon7328poor lady. I’ve felt sorry for her for years.

Well, if you were listening- apparently not-he said that about 50% of their diet was milk- but in the form of cheese or otherwise fermented. Doesn’t mean they didn’t use milk. Nothing “PC” about it, LOL.😂😂 Ever heard of DNA analysis? Yeah, that’s a thing now.

Englishman it was meant to say

Eh? The presenter isn't trying to have any kind of Scottish accent. Not even remotely.

At least he pronounced 'loch' correctly

A lady in Kirkwall told me very firmly indeed that she was Orcadian, NOT a Scot, and such was her conviction that I have no reason to doubt her.

@@evanhughes7609 That might be true, but I will just say that on our first drive into Kirkwall on a Saturday morning, the first thing we saw was a wedding party going into St. Magnus Cathedral, and all of the men were wearing kilts, including the adorable ring bearer. I thought later that was a bit strange, given the lack of clan history on Orkney, but…whatever. It was a very good looking group of men!

It doesn’t mean centre as in the centre of the country…

@@bvbinsane1vanity OMG Bahahahaha This is why irony is wasted on the stupid.

Its remote now. But in the Neolithic it was the equivalent of London in terms of human importance. Thats why the man said its as if the map of the island were flipped over.

@@waltonsmith7210 Utter nonsense! Orkney is Orkney, the stones at Callanish are far more impressive and date from the same period. There are 5000 megalithic sights around the UK, only a few are on Orkney.....Unless you were there at the time I suggest you learn about the period before commenting.

@@waltonsmith7210 BTW, forgot to mention, there are more Neolithic and Bronze age sites in Kilmartin Glen, including where the ancient Kings of Scotland were crowned, by placing their foot into the stone, and allegedly where the stone of Destiny came from....On that basis, perhaps Kilmartin (where the kings were crowned) is the first London? PMSL