Thank you so much for this! Absolutely beautiful. I'm sitting here in Ohio, USA (a few miles from Lake Erie) reading a book about the genealogical history of the British Isles. The author has included some information and pictures of these brochs, as well as descriptions of Scotland and its islands in general, and I can't explain what it felt like to watch this. To enjoy the views as people do now, but also better imagine the lives of the people who built these sites, was amazing. I'm so grateful! -Kelly Kidder

Awesome! Beautiful video, love the aerial photography. Thank you, Alan

Extremely well done. Have watched (and listened) twice. Please do another video.

Now you've made my Scottish blood yearn to wander around those brochs - stuck in Australia, lovely place to be stuck, don't get me wrong, but what I wouldn't give to see Scotland. One day... Thank you.

I'm Big Broch fan here and this is one of the best Broch related videos on KZfaq. Well done Kentophotopics.

Lovely work, and interesting history, though I am American i am proud of my Scottish heritage. . Hopefully one day before I have no more days I will be able to visit Scotland. Thank you.

I was just at Mousa Broch a few weeks ago and was stunned. AMAZING!

Looks like Nuraghe of Sardinia in the structure ... smaller stones but .... 😉 thanks for this nice movie 😉

Stunning, totally and utterly beautiful. Thank you for making this available to view on youtube.

Hi thanks for comments I love all this ancient history in these scenic locations . I enjoyed putting it together. It's even better hearing that so many of you have enjoyed seeing it. Many thanks best wishes Andy

Absolutely first class work, AND something other so-called 'narrators' may like to pick up on, the nice balanced pace of both description & score. The extreme N.W Highlands is Britain's hidden gem, a landscape of barron rock & water stretching for hundreds of square miles, a landscape palpating a bereft melancholy. Fortunately, the Scottish female midge ensures that the riff-raff are held at bay, back in the citys & suburbs....!! Good job chaps, thank you for your time in uploading this document. Angus. Oh...& subbed..!!

Natural architecture. I can't almost spot any 90 degree angels in those structures.

Many thanks to everyone who have posted a comment. Near and far , always good the hear from you with the good comments. Most appreciated. Greetings to my viewers in US

Your photography and drone footage is some of the best documentation of these structures, and your research is always impressive. I share your fascination with brochs, and connect them with the later ringfort tradition in Ireland. There are strong parallels with Grianan of Ailech in Donegal, Staigue Fort in Kerry, for example.

I found the footage and soundtrack very moving and beautiful.. nicely narrated too, thank you! 😊

Thank you, stunning photography and beautiful background music.

The older brochs are so beautifully organically shaped. A stark contrast to the overlaying viking constructions on some of them, all sharply angled rectangles. The ones in the Shetland isles are most notable. Lovely video👍🏼

Thankyou for making and uploading this, I find Brochs very fascinating.

The Brochs were built with an external wall and an internal wall with a gap inbetween, worlds first buildings with insulation.

Really cool! I hope I get to visit one someday!

Amazing! Thank you from Portland, Oregon!

Very interesting...and lovely.

Excellent mate. So many more lie undiscovered

Ho apprezzato moltissimo il tuo filmato che rappresenta un mondo archeologico diverso ma allo stesso tempo simile a quello della mia Sardegna; bravo sei molto professionale nel gestire le immagini: stupendo il verde che illumina i resti archeologici.

Hi , I have used some music from films and TV. I am a member of the IAC film and Video institute for copyright clearance to dub the music in the presentation. Plus they get the advertising revenue from my presentation by putting it on KZfaq I get nothing from it. I only enjoy putting the presentations together, and for people to enjoy. I can not recall all of the music I have used , but towards the end its music of legends of the fall, and ironclad.

My assessment of Broch's is that, the larger more complete examples are surprisingly sophisticated. The most complete almost mimics the shape of a modern cooling tower, which has a partial hyperbole, and is very stable. The construction would serve two primary purposes, First shelter from the elements, which in Scotland can be quite inclement, and second protection from raiders. The shelter aspect mimics modern cavity wall construction, where the outer wall keeps the rain out, and the inner wall keeps the heat in. Protection from raiders, is provided, first by the height, which would preclude anyone trying to set fire to the roof, and then climbing in, the density of the wall, and, again, by the double wall structure. This would mean that anyone trying to break through the wall from the outside, would find themselves in a narrow corridor, where they could easily be dispatched by a large rock on their head. It would also be very difficult to defend themselves in such a narrow space. The stair within the wall would provide access to the top which would give an ideal lookout position. In addition the steps would act as 'wall ties' to help stabilise the two sheaths of the wall. Other spaces between the walls would be cooler than the central space, and would provide storage space for food, and maybe also for sleeping in. In effect, they are miniature castles. Their internal layout would be decided by the individual community's experience and living style requirements.

Excellent post. Thanks for your efforts.

Let this be a tutorial for all others who seek to explore and elucidate their ancestral foundations

Very nice video. Thanks for sharing!

Fascinating!

Thanks!

Great work. entranced.

This is amazing! Thank you!

Well done, thanks for sharing

I enjoyed that presentation. Ta

interesting stuff gonna have to explore now

>> I found the footage and soundtrack very moving and beautiful.. nicely narrated too, thank you! Indeed. Moving and beautiful. Haunting. But... It's implied early on that the Brochs were a response to Rome's encroachments. Yet all the Brochs are at the far reaches, away from the Roman-threatened parts.

Nice fella, now I need to get across there to have a wee shufty! I'm not really that far from there, although there's bugger all roads where you have mentioned between the Kyle and Mallaig. I do know the most remote pub is somewhere close by there though. Maybe time for an expedition me thinks.

Great imagery! What is the soundtrack? Lovely choice of sounds!

There is a broch no far from where I grew up in central Scotland .. torwood broch we have a old castle too here

I had no idea Del Preston from Wayne's World 2 knew so much about Brochs

Very nice. Lovely narration.

Great video and information! AND I love the background music, it is so soothing. Is it available to purchase a copy?

3:50 looks like some farmer has used the stones from the ruined Broch to build a perimeter wall. Same was done with the stones from Hadrians wall.

Special.

The took the walls down to build the walls round the fields ,they did the same in St. Andrews when the English destroyed the big cathedral the used the stones to build other parts of the town they say ,old jimmy

This is the most boring narrative I’ve over heard. I had to mute the sound and just look at the pictures. Pity because the music was very atmospheric.

they built defences against them from the south who talked in groups of three words.

Has any work been done to ascertain the landscape at the time. We’re there sufficient large trees suitable for roof beams? Also has any roofing material (timber) been found in the debris and carbon dated, checked for tree rings etc.

I don't buy into your theory that these were built as a defensive structures against the Romans, especially since the first Roman presence didn't occur until 55 AD, that's 45 years left of the 100 BC - 100 AD period of brochs. Brochs predate the Roman invasion, if only by 150 years. I see them more as local mansions for chief families and not as defensive structures - and having zero to do with the Romans. It's only the Romans did show up in the time these had been constructed.

if i see al this stuf i whis i coud time travel and see it in use

many of these sites are 5000 years or older, continous use for thousands of years, a culture older than even china

What caused their ruin? Neglect?

I believe that evidence of brewing has been found so the “special purpose “ rooms were indeed roofed and suitable for meeting places and a bit of a party😂

The photography is beautiful, but the narration is killing me, I couldn't finish watching it. Some of your facts are incorrect, and your pronunciation needs a lot of refining. I strongly recommend you get a Scotsman to narrate it for you, and do a bit more historic fact finding. Maybe consider doing a collaboration with Mark Nichol, he's great, or send me the script and I'll fix it and read it out for you.

true purpose is hidden and for sure

I recently found out about the brochs, very interesting, still, I am finding a bit ....the fact of saying they built in the iron age, yet I haven´t seen any single piece of iron found at those places, neither a brief resume of the history of iron and metal working around the area not even about uk in general, and being so many fifferent ideas considering that a never a broch was mentioned by anyone anywhere, that is publicly known, there is no single scripture of the time not a single religious mark/marker/item...basicaly no clue and when they say they are unique to scotland...I would suggest you to check the stone ecircles in africa, there are hundreds of thousands, it all seems there were millions once looong ago. nice vid, nice to know bout it´s existance, but the explanations...hmmmhhh...none of us today was there, no iron found...ha ha ha...

i wanna be buried with my rice cooker

white adder? boom!

Scottish Nuraghe

that does not look Celtic hill forts

Greetings from the USA (Seattle) my Blood line being Clan Morrison From Dun Eistein on Isle of Lewis I absolutely Love your presentation, Thank You ::)