Were There Ancient Settlers Living On The Shetland Islands? | Extreme Archaeology | Absolute History 

Ancient times - ? Stone , Bronze and Iron age were but an Eye Blink ago , geologically speaking. Peat layers are considerably older .

@@christopherforsyth5284 " Peat layers are considerably older ." That doesn't mean a single thing. Sure peat has formed since before those times but it still forms, that process did not magically stop. Peat layers very obviously have formed during those times as we can tell from dateable human evidence preserved in peat.

There is heather and native shrubs. Do your research buddy

Evidence of forrests? Stumps? Homes built from timber? Evidence wood fueled fires?

Thats a lot of ads. Is it actually worth watching it? I've stopped after seeing that many yellows.

@@sazxqaz5228 I did stop after 10 minutes..

I have YT Premium and never want to go back

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@@sazxqaz5228 Fast forward to the end then hit replay and the are go away

Yes please more time team

Definitely

It does seem like tv archaeologists tend to attach religious meanings to everything, as if ancient peoples could never have done anything based on practicality. I can imagine home being hard to find in such a remote location after leaving it for one reason or another. The Romans marked their roads with mile stones with no religious significance whatsoever, so why couldn't the tribe living in that corner of the Shetlands have done something similar? The stones were placed there to mark where the gully was so that anyone traveling at night would be led towards the domicile and wouldn't fall into the gully.

Yes brilliant place for keeping sheep from falling off the cliffs by erecting a stone circle!!! And for building an outhouse. Just imagine the view while sitting there with your sheep. A bottle of single malt, a pipe'o'smoke, a sheep's dung fire and a lonesome piper a decent distance off not to frighten the ghouls! I really think I'd love the place! Honestly!

I would say you have never worked with sheep...ROTFLMAO

@@michaelweldon1271 nope, I have not. It was merely speculation. Thx for adding to the conversation.

Is it his pronunciation? If so, what is the correct way to say it?

@@nancysheplor502 The correct way of pronouncing it is Burgi Geos as everyone else did but him, as in the name of the place not "The Burgi". The whole site was Burgi Geos too, not just the part he called "The Burgi" while standing on Burgi Geos. The entry where the standing stones are is Burgi Geos, where the ladies were putting their first trench's in was Burgi Geos too, he called only where the ladies put their trench's in "The Burgi" while looking at the first trench he thought was a burial mound. He sounded like a complete tool, it would be like calling Great Britain "The Great" Or New York City "The New" and be standing in those places and saying over there in * that's a spot just 4 meters away. You shorten the name of a place you frequent often amongst friends or frat brothers and only use that shortened name amongst them. To a friend: "I am heading over to The Dragon for a drink, You coming?". A stranger asks: "Where's a good place to get a drink?" Answer: "The Green Dragon, Best ale in the Shire". You tell the stranger "The Dragon" and you are a complete tool because that stranger will be looking for that and not the correct location. You would be a complete tool.

Omg, now I want to slap him too. Form an orderly line people. Now that you’ve explained his mispronunciation, it’s really really (REALLY) annoying me...really, and I’m only 15 minutes in. He just keeps saying it and he’s the only one doing it. I still want to watch to learn and see what the location has to tell them. I do find his hosting mildly annoying, because it seems to just be about the him wanting to talk, erect elaborate rope access points and in this case, try to use “quad bikes” to tear up the countryside. It’s mostly just for him to yap on - and after watching a few of these you start to notice a pattern of them not having enough time to do a reasonable amount of actual archeology or even finish. He’s more about the “Extreme” part of the title, than he is the digging. I really appreciate you explaining how to say the name correctly. Ha ha he really is such a tool isn’t he. It’s like he thinks that he’s going to sound like a local (or cool) if he calls it that, his arrogance/ignorance means he couldn’t even be bothered finding out by just asking someone etc. That’s how “extreme” he is. Get rid of him and just have the amazing women instead. I’ve been online and this location was not really a great mystery. I was reading the uk listing of the site as a protected historical monument (sorry, I can’t remember the exact title they use) and some of the archeological references about this site are from the 1960s. Another blog site referred information dating to 1700s. Oh well, it makes for interesting viewing.....just so EXTREME 😜

He serves zero purpose

Cheese burgies

Could explain the multiple fires too.

@@DrFiero the fires could also indicate a pottery kiln considering all the shards they've uncovered, given the closeness to the water it would be ideal to trade from with all the evidence they've been able to gather

@@msaltalola - Yup, 100%! Either way. Or the 20 other theories that none of us have thought of. ;) But you'd still need 'pottery' of some form to crack gold out of quartz. And a lot of hot fires. And lets face it, if they found they had gold sitting there, they'd be unlikely to say "Nah, screw profiting from this stuff - lets just turn this gold laden quartz into spears or knives".

@@DrFiero golden sword 🗡

Not gold, no Tony Robinson

Phil is still brilliant and always will be.

The others do . (Host should Only do voice overs and Not talk about himself ever, read a script only) They have been doing field work for a long time . Alice not so much these days but they Are very well versed and have been on many shows that make this one look , well as bad as it really is . From Time team to Digging for Britain and many Many others , if you want good stuff check out Digging for Britain and thats from 2010. Cheers

Fishing communities don't usually use signal fires cause they know where they can go without touching rocks. Signal fires are meant so strangers to the area don't run aground.

@@emilychb6621 fog?

@@louisianapatriot5818 have you tried turning on your high beams in dense fog? It's no good at all. A bin fire would be visible by the time you are nearly at the cost already. Hence fishers avoiding going out at specific weather patterns. Like the fishers in the villages along the northern German coasts/islands barely had any signal fire even back in 1900. They stayed within sight, or made sure to keep the sun visible and would turn back the moment weather turned bad. And even then, some got lost every year.

@@emilychb6621 Here fires were common on the coast for trade, smuggling and generally for navigational purposes. I do believe it was a common practice world wide but surely you are correct this is a totally different situation all together. I humbly submit to your superior wisdom. Be blessed and have a wonderful holiday!

There seems to be no harbour, so no good place for boats. But a perfect view onto the ocean. An even better place to protect yourself. I think they looked for Gold in the Quartz. And had agriculture on the flat surface around. I don't like the religious reason, because the people had enough problems to sustain their living, everything built must be worth the effort, they don't build for joy.

Or baking bread.

That was always my issue with Francis Pryor on time team. Every single prehistoric site was a ritual site. Only to have Phil dig it up and tell him it's a Saxon rubbish pit🤣

He adds such an annoying component to the project. Dont know why they made him PM. Seems like a lot of Brit arky/history shows require an uninformed male host to "coordinate" and ask the women and other workers doing the back breaking work lame qyestions

@@mayageorge1847 Meanwhile all the actual archaeologists are just thinking to themselves "what an idiot can we get back to our job now?"

@@addisonwelch4366 yeah and "if I didn't need this gig so bad...."

I mean they have loads of land for shepherding and loads of fish around. The only thing they lack would be wood, but that can be remidiated with peat for settlements and stones. So you'd only need to trade for wood. And if you have a source of gold or other worthwhile minerals it'd make sense to only ever 'act' poor, to not get unwanted attention.

Fish, sheep, strange edible non-flying birds with healthy innerts full of vitamin C. Peat for building and fire. Depends on what you want from life. I'd say it would be a sustainable place to live if you don't crave inets. Feesh'n'sheeps is close to Surf'n'turf.

Good place for looking for whales. All kinds of them and all sizes frequent the area, even in the 21st century.

As all that was before becomes neither here nor there , just a flicking of a flag left behind with no intention of any kind . Yet call our eyes and minds to find and ponder each and every WHY !

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Actually in Australia we can't watch time team on U tube.

@@jasonscott8844 That's because not only do you all drive on the wrong side of the road but you're upside down as well.

I get to ride a kangaroo to work though so that makes up for it.

@@jasonscott8844 The one thing in Australia that's not trying to kill you? But you got me there! I'm forced to ride a common Jeep.

@@jasonscott8844 Not to interrupt your _lovey-dovey_ colloquy with *JeffinBville* but you can obviate this YT limitation with a VPN/proxy for your browser (and it frees up much more besides). There are plenty of free ones for most of the popular browsers but maybe none for the *Microsh1t* browsers. There are certainly several for *Firefox* and *Opera.*

Then use an adblocker.

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What is said for an Iron Age colony can't disprove that the Romans couldn't have taken over these ancient sites, and using them like the continental empire extents up into the Lowlands to pincer and block the British Isles and Scandinavia in controlling North Sea, English Channel and Baltic Sea movements.

@@johnlord8337Nero was Roman Emperor in 64 AD, FYI. Claudius' reign ended in 54 AD.

@@JPEvans-qh9fs Then academia.edu document of a PhD candidate "saying Roman Emperor Claudius in 64 AD conquered the Orkneys." Typo 54 AD? So much for spell checker and PhD document read by candidate, third party checker, and the PhD mentor ... and going before the PhD board - and gaining an accomplished PhD paper !!!!!

@@johnlord8337 Must be a typo, since Claudius died in 54 AD according to all that I've read. That one slipped thru one heck of an academic gauntlet, IMHO!!! - No worries :)

@@JPEvans-qh9fs Well if I remember right, and having stored it away from present location, document WAS 200+ pages long, and historical footnotes of side comments, and document footnotes versus having index footnotes in separate section, ... the mention though was in the main paragraphs which makes it that much more "interesting." Tired eyes, many words, ... yeah, yeah, yeah, stamped completed and successful candidature !!

Who's on first lol

In the US, we just call them 4-wheelers. Sure, it's not as fancy, but it's a fine description.

One could burn black peat. It's rather good as fuel.

I still really like this idea.

@@rockinbobokkin7831 True, but you still have to get the fire started somehow.

Would seal or whale oil be a fuel source? How do or did Inuit create fire?

There is enough peat there to light a million fires. Also the land likely had more plant life, such as small trees and sedge. Did you also miss the part where they found barley phytolyths? This suggests sedentism of some kind at least at one point, as you would hardly leave your crops unattended. Let's just pretend there was absolutely no wood, you could build a peat or sod house there easily. There are many remote settlements found in archaeology, with far fewer apparent "resources". Just because you can't see a tree, is not a reason to discount year round habitation.

Malvinas are in south hemisphere

@@SkoomaCat the hell are the Malvinas?

@@Bill_Falsename Malvinas are a problem.

You get a Whopper.

How dare you assume his gender

@@outdoorloser4340 oh fook orf...

Yes!!! Finally! He is so annoying and all I can think about while he condescends his female cohosts (that he somehow needs to "manage"), is that I would have pushed him off one of those cliffs by now. I have never heard a person say , me, I and then "we" to take credit for NOTHING.

Damn! You guys are woke as balls!

@@outdoorloser4340 you leave mah magnificant conservative balls outta this...

Yeah her posh east coast elite accent is unbearable

Yes! I thought the same. RIP

He's no Tony Robinson🤣