The Enormous Bronze Age Fortress That Loomed Over Ancient Ireland | Time Team

The Enormous Bronze Age Fortress That Loomed Over Ancient Ireland | Time Team | Odyssey

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A previously unexcavated massive Bronze Age promontory fort conceals the remains of a sophisticated society. Tony and the team have just three days to unearth the mysteries of one of the most significant Bronze Age finds in British archaeology...
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@mchristiansen137 2 жыл бұрын

Just about anywhere one walks in the U.K, Scotland or Ireland, one is literally walking on history. My Cousin took my wife and I on a walking tour out towards Hadrian's wall, it was something to actually touch something built over a thousand years old. This show has been a staple for me during this pandemic, and has brought back fond memories of England.

@spymaine89 2 жыл бұрын

every where on earth

@dubthedirector 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@bigbasil1908 Жыл бұрын

Stone circles, standing stones and burial cairns/dolmans are a lot older.

@mchristiansen137 Жыл бұрын

@@bigbasil1908 Too true, but a lot of those were off limits or closed. We did however get to go to Hazelton to the Cairn there. That was a great trip.

@mchristiansen137 Жыл бұрын

@tacfoley You might want to read what I wrote: "Built over a thousand years old" Key word, "OVER". Since it was completed in 130 AD, and our visit was in 1984, that would have put it under 2,000 yrs. old.

@archygirl1750 Жыл бұрын

I would kill to work as an archaeologist in the UK, until I saw this and Cooper's Pool videos. That is dedication! I'm sticking to my desert archaeology, but what all of you do is so fascinating and reaffirms my life's decision to follow my heart and be an archaeologist. I also really really really want to work with Phil.

@mclarenscca Жыл бұрын

I think knowing more about ancient history is probably one of the most exciting, and intriguing aspects of historical knowledge!

@bjw4859 Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy I re discovered this channel, I have never had so much fun watching digging in the dirt & finding bugger all, well done.

@bunzeebear2973 Жыл бұрын

Well, there was this fog(it smelt like burning rope) and went on all day after day.

@nopeyadayadayada1248 Жыл бұрын

God bless all those involved with bringing this show into existence. If I were younger I would've consider a career in archeology with this show being an influence in that.

@thomaswright5492 Жыл бұрын

Interesting and humorous and the enthusiasm of the experts is contagious. I am glad I found this episode.

@katerinakemp5701 2 жыл бұрын

Lol uncle Phil is in his element with all the flint laying on the ground, our prehistoric man in the flesh.

@alifesh 2 жыл бұрын

They could be digging an ornate Roman tesseract mosaic floor and if one flint comes out 2 trenches away, Phil would plow through people to get to it.lol

@roguewolf7053 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always found it rather hilarious that Phil who looks & behaves most like a prehistoric man(long unkept hair, burly, loud)is the prehistoric expert/enthusiast. While Mick who is obsessed with & an expert on Medieval era archeology is more quiet/refined *yet eccentric* like a medieval scientist, researcher or “healer”…with his stark white hair & preference for brightly colored clothing. 😂🤣😂 So the question is: do you start dressing &/or behaving in the way which is social expected/related to your job, field of study &/or passion *AFTER* entering that profession? OR does the behavior, professional personality & style of fashion come first?🤔🤔 - I personally think both can be true. *However* there ARE PLENTY of professionals who don’t look &/or behave *ANYTHING* like what is considered “socially expected” when not at work or even *while at work* IF their workplace has either a lax dress code or no dress code at all.

@Oscarspoem Жыл бұрын

The enthusiasm is infectious. Really enjoyed this episode.

@Oscarspoem Жыл бұрын

@@wyomarine6341 To be honest I work in construction and more often than not we deal with archaeologists before site can commence. I have always found them to be a bit pretentious. A bit better than the us. Not all, but the majority. I do like though in all walks of life enthusiasm in what you do, hence my comment.

@Utubepooperful 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I was a millionaire. I'd privately pay the same crew to spend a few weeks up there to get a full picture of the site, every house and cairn, and build a partial reconstruction for tourism/my own personal pride in local heritage. Also, great to see Northern Ireland on Time Team!

@derekcrymble9085 2 жыл бұрын

Well you could if you had "A cunning plan".

@tantraman93 2 жыл бұрын

There are crowd funded archeology digs. I only looked at one but I would guess others exist.

@Blagger3000 Жыл бұрын

Better to do a little and leave some for archeologists and universities in the future I think.

@Utubepooperful Жыл бұрын

@tacfoley Draconian, not "draconic"

@gusgone4527 Жыл бұрын

Well said. But the Irish history is not so fascinating as on the British mainland. I would like to know the extent of Irish trade and other interactions there were with the Romans.

@glorialange6446 11 ай бұрын

Dr Phil's comment that he didnt find the garden but he found the potting shed!!! Thats why I love that man!

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

It kind of blows my mind that you can dig a hole, even a rather small hole, and someone can come along 3000 years later and know someone dug a hole there.

@davesstillhere Жыл бұрын

No kidding. I often entertain myself by building, cutting, or burying something completely random, and think of the future archaeological "implications" of nonsense. Lol

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

@@davesstillhere People of the ancient world or even as far back as the Paleolithic era were not any different than we are today. They didn't have our level of technology or our level of knowledge of the world but they had the same basic desires and needs we have today. They wanted to make sure they had enough food to feed their family. They wanted to raise their children to be happy fulfilled adults, they wanted to hang out with friends and protect themselves from enemies. As children they pretended and played games and had toys and dreamed of being grown up. As grown-ups they had everyday tools, they made toys for their kids and they played at recreation. But archeologists want to find important things, so a child's toy, lost 6000 years ago becomes a religious artifact. As does a broken tool cast aside by someone's wife.

@Mdeaccosta Жыл бұрын

Oh, those ruts cut by that tractor will be there for hundreds of years.

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

@@Mdeaccosta Did I say anything of that kind? Did they not point out the evidence right in the video, that the Earth had been dug into 3000 years ago?

@Mdeaccosta Жыл бұрын

@@erictaylor5462 cutting ruts like that, no bueno. Don't know what you're going on about.

@jeanwoodhouse8899 Жыл бұрын

Ever since the 1980s i have been so keen on other programs like this one. Much later,I discovered TIME TEAM and am still addicted to it. Have seen so many repeats its not funny. I still browse one occationally. 😁😁😁🎥👍

@promontorium Жыл бұрын

Living up on that hilltop while trading across sea meant they could see boats from miles away coming or going. Their earthworks not only protected them from other people, but 3,000 years ago there were still wolves and wildcats in Ireland, which are not so likely to attack people, but could have killed their livestock..

@itsmeagain1745 Жыл бұрын

The fact that there were animals that could ruin your day seems to be overlooked far too much. Keep the wolf from the door as well as some cattle thieving mofos.

@AB-by8xu 2 жыл бұрын

Love these people and the way they are passionate about telling history

@bunzeebear2973 Жыл бұрын

Very imaginative, after the fog of "hooch" the stories they can tell. I did notice that the ground had no rocks or gravel in it, it was all sod.

@davidc6510 Жыл бұрын

Love the content, enthusiasm, and the videography. Thanks for sharing!

@lauriesfarm 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to be up there on a clear night, I can only imagine how heavenly it would be.

@janehoyt2435 Жыл бұрын

I do love watching Phil with his flints. I hope that all these years later he is still at it!

@jamesdolan4042 Жыл бұрын

There is every indication that this area of Co. Antrim was denuded of trees and shrubs at much later period than the Neolithic and/or the Bronze age. A semi forested area rich in flora and fauna would have provided ideal habitation for the Neolithic and the Bronze age peoples.

@JasLoney Жыл бұрын

Thank you, as usual--really great. The really big question left begging by this broadcast is the economy of the settlement, built with enormous patience and ginormous expenditure of human musclepower over long and repeating periods of time. From the broadcast itself, it's pretty obvious how terrible a place this would have been to try to raise crops (do you wanna try harvesting oats in fog?). And the effort needed to bring victuals from the lowlands up to these towering heights .... a LOT of energy for peoples who didn't have much time (or energy) to climb high heights with heavy loads of food on their backs. Ultimately, this episode doesn't elucidate much at all about the site, a shame but there's 3 day archeology for ya. Anyhow, thank you for your efforts but please do try to keep the economy of life in mind in future. No village on this promitory would have been sustainable unless there was a significant culture below it in the valley and beyond to support it. Be well!

@alayneperrott9693 Жыл бұрын

The climate is thought to have been more clement at that time.

@robinsydney140 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic documentary. Guidance narrative by Tony EXCELLENT! Tony, you make us travel in a time machine from home. Thanks!!!

@mariashelly6392 Жыл бұрын

Oh Tony! It is so much fun watching you get excited over the dig!!!

@AethelwulfBretwalda 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever seen an episode of TT where there wasn't intense rain and high winds. I'd say "film it in summer" but I bet they probably do...

@ruthdann3880 2 жыл бұрын

Only during the summer.

@SandraBonney Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about that too after just watching the one about the Broch in Scotland. I live in Australia and I'm always wonderous of how people thrived and survived back in those ancient times. It looks difficult in these times with modern equipment. Kudos to past and present

@anactualtree9210 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you were flailing Phillip, you did great! As always love the channel, a great respite the past few months.

@valswhitewolf6611 10 ай бұрын

You will never know how much the Iowan historian poet valures these old classics. If its my lunch or bedlunch my cats and I are watching maybe fir the tenth time Time Team. Thanks

@MoonChild-vv6to Жыл бұрын

Tony makes it. His narration makes this program so much fun not to say the others aren't cute too

@Cheepchipsable Жыл бұрын

It's pretty dry subject. Hours of tedious labour with the occasional find of interest, and much of the "excitement" is the intellectual pursuit. Tony brings enthusiasm to the subject along with the passions of people involved. The US version of Time Team was so dull. They fell into the austere documentary style.

@dianesmigelski5804 2 жыл бұрын

What a great episode. I loved the roundhouses and the flint mine nearby. The sea down below in a neighboring village. I’m sure trading went on for good flint tools to use on the farms. Maybe grain, seafood and vegetables were traded for the flint tools. I am sure all the best flint workers would come to work the flint in such a great mine. ⭐️ My imagination is a wonderful thing.

@christianbuczko1481 Жыл бұрын

Trade with the med was very possible in neolithic britain and ireland. The peoples that built this site in ireland are directly connected with the rest of europe, with burials of people hundreds of miles from where they lived and artifacts like flint axes being found far from the source.

@jusdafax1 Жыл бұрын

Francis is slipping in his old age. It took him almost 2 days to get hooked into his "ritual" mode. In every single Time Team episode he appears in, there comes a time when he decides that everything that they have looked at, from cooking pots to cow barns is ritualistic or ceremonial.

@bigbasil1908 Жыл бұрын

40:51 That dug out canoe is huge in the photo. Amazing that whoever carved it found such a big tree to 'dig out' (or more likely burned and dug out as to do all the work with flint tools alone would have taken forever).

@susanjackett9268 Жыл бұрын

Wonder if many workers were used, like at Stonehenge for example ?

@bigbasil1908 Жыл бұрын

@@susanjackett9268 I wouldn't have thought there would be many making the dug out canoe as people would need room to work. It was probably just two or three people I reckon

@Libbathegreat Жыл бұрын

Not sure they would have burned it out. Damian said in a previous episode Natives in the US used trees like pine which are easily flammable, whereas the trees they would have had to work with in the British Isles retain too much moisture for that to work well. I think what we're looking at is the result of many hours of hard graft 😳

@bigbasil1908 Жыл бұрын

@@Libbathegreat Oh yeah, I've watched videos of people making dug out canoes much smaller than that one and it took a huge amount of work and time. Stone circles and pyramids got built because people were bigger than the amount of work and time. Where there's a will, there's a way

@lionelpink7187 Жыл бұрын

@@bigbasil1908 here in Australia the first nations people cut the bark peeled it and bound up the ends and put smaller bark based outriggers on one if both sides. Bark wouldn't last long so there wouldn't be evidence of them, but it makes sense that they were made there too as it FASTER and easier to make boats that way, than scooping out big trees, though it is proven that this was done too.

@michaelgrimes1131 Жыл бұрын

Went to Belfast back in 1993. Would have loved to have checked this site out if it could have been visited. Great show!

@ValMartinIreland Жыл бұрын

I don;t think anyone knew about it.

@sirrathersplendid4825 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure you could walk it. There’s public access to most such remote places in the UK and NI.

@jonathaneffemey944 9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for posting.

@douglasruss2889 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo ! Always enjoy 'Time Team' ! ❤️

@70stunes71 2 жыл бұрын

Antrim area .Where my great grandfather came from. . .fascinating

@mevenstien 2 жыл бұрын

Great job ya'll always enjoy your shows 🙂

@tomparker9001 2 жыл бұрын

The Hagred guy cracks me up

@MuscarV2 2 жыл бұрын

We need more people like Francis in control over our planet. Imagine world leaders like him: "Were killing ourselves and nature and we must fix that NOW". Love his enthusiasm and immediate call to action!

@neilfranklin5644 Жыл бұрын

So true

@davidevans3227 Жыл бұрын

thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x

@natalya9821 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Subscribed.

@lana6335 Жыл бұрын

I love listening to stories of what's it was like before... New subscriber here... 🙋‍♀️

@butwereallsombdyspecial 2 жыл бұрын

What fantastic channel this Wow. Thank you

@Justforfun-wq7mr 2 жыл бұрын

Good episode. Cool location.

@benjaminrush4443 Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed. Thanks.

@MaryAnnNytowl 11 ай бұрын

Some day, I would love to take a trip across the whole area, from this kind of fort to cairns to rock art to rock circles of multiple kinds, there are so very many places to peek into our neolithic past! I really wish I could! 🥺 Thank you for sharing. ❤❤

@aaronobryan9715 Жыл бұрын

What a glorious place…

@michaelrowave Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome.

@BryonLape 2 жыл бұрын

How can Tony never say "I have a cunning plan" on any episode?

@eileenbell8965 Жыл бұрын

LOL I wish!!!

@kumasenlac5504 Жыл бұрын

Well I'm afraid it'll have to wait...

@cyndybutler7330 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting stuff

@junebyrne4491 Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite episode.

@dano4572 Жыл бұрын

BEAUTIFUL

@mzeewatk846 2 жыл бұрын

I always suspected that Baldrick was secretly the real boffin. :)

@snopure 2 жыл бұрын

Sort of hints at it in the initial installment, I think. Edmund was the dumb one in the first series, while Baldrick made the wisecracks.

@adventussaxonum448 Жыл бұрын

Good to see Francis Pryor within his Bronze Age specialist field, rather than trying to persuade us that the Anglo-Saxon invasions never took place.

@johnbanks4761 2 жыл бұрын

Love this show

@elkanovitch 7 ай бұрын

God, I love this stuff. It's so intriguing to get these glimpses into history.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful rich soil for food farming and feed for livestock. In Florida we have such sandy soil it needs augmentation to be more productive. For example deer in Florida are pretty small. Apex predators such as bear and Panthers are also small. The reason is lower nutrients in plants native to Florida.

@cdd4248 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@larryzigler6812 2 жыл бұрын

George Zimmerman is rather large.

@leenewsom7517 2 жыл бұрын

Actually reverse trend in black bear-- larger in Fla than more northerly areas.

@JonFrumTheFirst 2 жыл бұрын

@@leenewsom7517 Black bears caught on trail cams in southern Fla look positively skinny to me - no bellies. Trail cams in the northern states? Roly poly.

@wiseguysoutdoors2954 Жыл бұрын

It's also the weather. Bigger bodies are harder to cool, hence smaller stature of deer, panthers and bears

@sarapeterson5609 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME 👌

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@SurlyCurmudgen Жыл бұрын

That site needs a good four to six months' attention.

@FINNIUSORION 2 жыл бұрын

Their reason for not using the geophysics cart is ridiculous... hook up some ropes and drag it up. As long as the bottom stays facing down it'll work.

@danceyrselfkleen 2 жыл бұрын

Okay boss

@FINNIUSORION 2 жыл бұрын

@@danceyrselfkleen seriously. Without it you're shooting in the dark. Just throwing a trench down and hoping you hit something. The geophys takes all the guess work out of it.. that's why you do it before you dig anything.

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 2 жыл бұрын

Usually they cut the grass on the site so there's no problems with the cart, minor hills aren't an issue. I think he was being a douchebag.

@sirridesalot6652 Жыл бұрын

@@FINNIUSORION Ah, but there have been episodes where the geo phys did NOT show stuff that was found with an exploratory trench.

@patrickwentz8413 2 жыл бұрын

I have not seen this one before. It was fun to watch Phil flirting over flints.

@MseeBMe Жыл бұрын

Wow, you even had J.P. Mallory. Impressed.

@borderreiver3288 Жыл бұрын

just amazing how they lived back then....

@davidroetzel5500 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see how some of your people lived ages ago

@irishtino1595 7 ай бұрын

I so loved this show, sadly living in the USA only got to see it for the first time in 2012. Why I never studied archeology - well I didn't know much about it until watching time team.

@mistydawnoliver6717 3 ай бұрын

Human endeavor never fails to amaze me ❤

@svenbeowulfsson641 2 жыл бұрын

We shell consider that in the Bronze Age the climate and so the weather was much better than today. So life was much easier and there where even more forests. A lot of people could live her and the sea provides fish and other seafood.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing the effort people put into defense, made me think of an old song from 1971, One Tin Soldier - Coven. I don't know why, just think it would be a beautiful if hard life

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

@Aniwayas Song it is a great song. I'm not big on anti-war songs, but that song really nails it.

@dianawingate8887 2 жыл бұрын

I graduated high school in '71. "ONE TIN SOLDIER" was always one of my favorite songs. "Turned the stone & looked beneath it.....Peace on Earth was all it said." Too bad more people didn't remember.

@jennymay4720 2 жыл бұрын

The Celts sailed to N Portugal where there are other round houses on high sites and probably furthur,They were vital sailing people.

@molanlabexm15 2 жыл бұрын

This is the Top Gear of Archaeology Shows.

@thomashiggins9320 Жыл бұрын

The richness of the dark soil looks amazing. We have no soil such as that, in my part of the United States.

@gerardmcgonigle1310 Жыл бұрын

That's the bog in the soil lovely and dark I have my hands in it most of the time lol

@JorgeHernandez-mu5zz 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting!!!....greetings from México!!!👍

@sarcasmo57 Жыл бұрын

Would love to go back and see what they were doing.

@matthewhines9787 2 жыл бұрын

15:11 Trust me Tony, that isn't the _first_ tool on this site.

@grbradsk 2 жыл бұрын

If there were cash, I think it would be cool to fully reconstruct a site or two and have a bronze age village you could live in for a bit as a tourist. Work flint, defend the ramparts, eat a cow cut by flint.

@suecastillo4056 2 жыл бұрын

Fun but I ain’t cuttin’ any poor cow with a flint anything!!! We’re doin’ veg!!!!😂🤣♥️‼️😘

@feloniousbutterfly 2 жыл бұрын

That would be SO FUN. A living history museum you can be a part of. I would love that so much.

@DennisMoore664 2 жыл бұрын

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@suecastillo4056 2 жыл бұрын

@@DennisMoore664 Ok! Here’s our first application… Gonna be hard to beat😉. Next! 😂☮️❣️🤔

@jasminsurridge9126 2 жыл бұрын

I remember visiting Flag Fen (a reconstructed Bronze Age village) as a child and it was one of the main reasons that I am so invested into archeology and history. I was so convinced that the actors were real people that lived in the village and I wanted to join them so bad. I now live in the US and I can’t wait to return and revisit all of the history that we don’t have here.

@ivanolsen7966 Жыл бұрын

the ditches would also collect rain water to drink

@dominiccirino2069 Жыл бұрын

I love this very much........from Mandeville, Québec, Canada.....i love everything Irish,☘️🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀❤️😎

@seanfaherty Жыл бұрын

You should’ve more discerning 😉

@shizukaakatatsu22 2 жыл бұрын

I always pity the guys that have to sort out, whether the flint tools scattered around on site are genuine or just Phil's lunchtime crafts... :P

@standingbadger Жыл бұрын

Only Phil Harding could spend an idle lunch hour ‘knapping’ 😉

@indyrock8148 Жыл бұрын

I'm always intrigued by their interpretation hillforts etc are to show prestige. Anyone who has owned a nice house will know it's hard to keep people from nicking your stuff. Even bronze Age Irish had the same problem.

@blablabubles Жыл бұрын

Aecheologists have a tendency to overplay cultural and 'nice' explanations and way way way underplay practical uses and more importantly violence and social conflict. We've seen that over the last 2 decades as genetics has shown that aechelogists thought that almost almost all cultural change was elite Capture and cultural change, when in fact the genetics now shows it was often very violent population replacement.

@awallner1 2 жыл бұрын

I love Phil.

@christopherray1105 2 жыл бұрын

Would be really cool for you to do an episode in Buckinghamshire About the statues that we’re just found during construction

@TechGorilla1987 2 жыл бұрын

"Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger. Promontory Rider used to ride so high. I don't know these days just seem to ride on by. Once the wind was warm and sweet, but this must be your place. Cause you don't change this chilly range, for any other place. Say, Promontory Rider, Territory Ranger." ~~Robert Hunter/Grateful Dead

@danceyrselfkleen 2 жыл бұрын

Grateful Dead sucks.

@TechGorilla1987 2 жыл бұрын

@@danceyrselfkleen "That's just like, your opinion, man"[ ~~The Dude

@Wamphyrii1 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing !. i am wondering though 3 days in terrain such as we see here, is 3 days enough to really to see a full picture?. is funding a issue or is there just is so much for the team to do on other sites, that 3 is all that can be given to this amazing adventure?

@promontorium Жыл бұрын

I think it's a production decision to set every episode at 3 days balancing budget and time constraints. It is as much an archaeology operation as it is a TV production. Keeping at a set number of days makes it far easier to plan and execute multiple episodes. 3 days is enough for an hour long episode. I don't mind their 3 days so much as it saddens me that nobody else fronts any time or money so often Time Team are the only ones who have done any digging on any of the locations they have visited in the past 20+ years.

@spacelemur7955 Жыл бұрын

As in Italy, "Oh no! Not another great site we can't affort to excavate properly."

@sallyreno6296 2 жыл бұрын

Jim Mallory!

@joelwillems4081 2 жыл бұрын

Very neat. Wonder why they didn't use ground penetrating radar or a laser grid system to help more accurately chart the terrain. Time, cost or maybe that basalt promontory foundation?

@maryluger-sartor9411 Жыл бұрын

They said in the episode that the ground was magnetized

@JonFrumTheFirst 2 жыл бұрын

I can't tell the number of times I've heard an archaeologist say "It must have taken an ENORMOUS effort ..." But in fact, time and again, all over the world, people did build these things. So it can't have been that bad.

@sheilawhite8314 Жыл бұрын

I just miss the history since coming to Australia in 1989 so much better in UK

@OlJarhead Жыл бұрын

Amazing to think some of my Irish ancestors could have possibly stood on this hill, digging and building these walls and ditches.

@clydecox2108 Жыл бұрын

Interesting to me that the team kept asking who these people were when it's obvious they were Irish. Then at the end, the story of stealing some cattle from a nearby village, well that just sealed it. Mistry solved because my neighbor has cows and I always wanted to steal one and feast.

@conorsullivan8108 Жыл бұрын

We do love a good cattle raid

@wewenang5167 Жыл бұрын

so before potatoes you guys are known as cattle people eh. xD

@clarkblount7788 Жыл бұрын

Good thing alcohol was invented to protect the cattle and taters from the raiders.

@dat2ra Жыл бұрын

Dang! Your excavators work fast.

@janegilmore102 Жыл бұрын

LMAO @ Francis putting Stewart to work. Damn fog, cos Stewart would’ve been hiding in the skies LOL No trees to hide in.

@donaldtrumpuncensored6728 Жыл бұрын

The raiding party model seems to be problematic due to the apparent lack of presence of animal bones.

@deborahbaker4770 Жыл бұрын

It seems a shame to dig up that ground because it’s so beautiful out there with buildings going up all the time and construction almost everywhere you look something like that is really nice to see‼️

@julieszoradi453 2 жыл бұрын

I. Really like thèse shows . It's à pitty thèse shòws ended as they are interesting .

@nigeltown6999 2 жыл бұрын

...cutting bassalt with antlers - are you off your trolly?

@Alarix246 2 жыл бұрын

Basalt comes apart by its own. In hexagonal shape.

@nigeltown6999 2 жыл бұрын

@@Alarix246 only when it solidifies in the perfect conditions for it to crystalise.

@Alarix246 2 жыл бұрын

@@nigeltown6999 are you sure it wasn't the case?

@Kamamura2 6 ай бұрын

Ah, Ireland... I remember that low stone wall... they are everywhere. I must have been to that site, lol.

@mera2876 Жыл бұрын

I'm curious about what trees and plants would have been growing on the top of that promontory back when humans lived there. Is there evidence that the settlement deforested the area? Those ditches would have made good water catchment systems if there were living trees. But I suppose the water table was pretty high back then, too.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer 2 жыл бұрын

The world's first town house community!😀 Wonder if they had an HOA?😂😂😂

@Horseyperson12 5 ай бұрын

Francis is so optimistic.

@larryzigler6812 2 жыл бұрын

Poor Phil should have brought a hat with a chin strap.

@gregarcher468 Жыл бұрын

Should be no surprise they occupied a site of solid basalt .yes a giant magnet. They knew about energy lines and how you were able to think with greater clarity on certain dates. They were in tune with the earth which they thought was there ancestors communicsting with them. These people were zoomed in on this energy and knew the signal was strongest in these sacred.locations.