I would be surprised if there weren't human remains beneath a Scottish castle .

@18:00 its reminiscent of room and pillar mining a technology that would have been around in that time period for coal mines. Being an opal miner those pillars would support and spread the weight of the foundation layer or rock not necessarily the cubic weight of the castle above, hard to say without being there and knowing the geology. Just from the visuals and the construction of the pillars and how long they have been there they maybe are taking weight but more than likely supporting the rock layer above so either way they are serving a purpose. Nice old craftmanship in their construction indeed and the castles architect saw the need for them, old school indeed, hello from down under.

I would love to see DNA analysis of the bones.

Why do I feel that rope descent is more for tv than it is practical reasons.

Great work! Zero hype and all hard work. What an excellent team.

I've been absorbed by archaeology since the '60s, and was physically able to do the investigating I did in my youth.. things certainly are different now than they were then..

I am always so amazed at the amazing structures, eg the culvert here with such limited equipment. and thinking on that it reminded me of a small island with a number of villages completely washed away. a man from our technological world, loaded a plane/copter with supplies which were dropped on the island. when he himself landed on the island. he expected to hear of a lot of death and distress. Instead he found a lot of happy people. grateful for the fact that nobody died. They lived in simply built huts so there were no injuries from heavy or lethal objects, being washed or thrown around. I envied their simple life

Scottish Castle, Alice Roberts and human remains, sign me up 😅

That was really good. Loved seeing Katy from Time Team!!! ❤

These caves are very very old and in past they sometimes buried people in such places. Caves used to be sacred places for burials. Then they have built on top of them and been used as possibly a smugglers cave and then even later in turn, a huge castle built on top of it. Those in power used to build churches and castles on top of such sacred places as they hold mystique and at times are power places, energy points. Interesting dig. x

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So were the tunnels connected to the castle? Or is that part of the castle "gone"? If not, I'd be so interested in the search for the access from the castle to the tunnels.

Again this exercises the absolute necessity of trained archeological personnel to excavate these sites. These participants were professional and experienced as to interpreting their findings in a "common folk" explanation of the mysteries of history. My complements.

the history of Scotland is fascinating, having researched it for a number of years - from wars between clans to the wars with England etc especially during the12th to 15th centuries - many castles oceanside had cave structures such as these to receive supplies for the castles by boats or in the case of the Highlanders aa section dug below the castle (called vaults as opposed to dungeons) to hold prisoners usually to face a slow death by starvation - there were tunnels from the castle to reach the storage areas to bring foods and other supplies up to the kitchens and other areas - a particular punishment was the use of caves near the ocean waves where prisoners were chained to the walls and as the tides came in would suffer a slow death by drowning - as the world and climate have changed over 100s of years these modern day findings and interpretations will only give us a very small view of history during those ions as we were not present during those times but attempts to understand the past are also always fascinating -

I've had a crush on Dr, Alice Roberts since first seeing her on Time Team 🥰

Great as always!!!!Thank you

If the bones are washing down from somewhere, they could be from an old burial ground.

Amazing work thanks look forward to more

Wow! This was so informative and interesting. Thanks very much for posting!

It reminds me of the movie "The Man in the Iron Mask," where the hero is kept away from society in a cave-like room overlooking the ocean. Great movie!

There are 2 words that have been said that would keep me up top sitting in the jeep......1.) SPIDERS 2.) ROOF COLLAPSE........

Thanks your channel. Ilearned andsaw masterpiece of the Scottish Castle.

Makes one wonder if those artifacts were "lost" like so many curiously do that are sent to the Smithsonian museum here in the U.S.

Caves are time capsules similar to graves but sometimes better; not counting the ship at Sutton Hoo. In a few years with the help of Ai, we will be able to gain 3d maps in situ and at depth without the need to move anything. The data points and precision extrapolations would tell fascinating stories that are lost with the turning of the trowel.

Fascinating thank you

omg when that guy was pulling the equipment and started wrapping the rope around his arm i was like lol bye bye arm if something bad happens (freaked me out a bit lol i've always been taught to never do that when pulling/lifting something via rope)

Fascinating! Thank you for your research 🥰

Very well done documentary. Having been to this particular fantastic Castle I was intrigued and gratified! Thank you!

I am scared to think about how big that spider had to me to make a whole team of people say nope time to go home.

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTATION

I'd watch a series on these 3 ladies! Thank you for posting❤

huge extrapolation to get from one bone to murder.

i saw the vertebra and was like oh snap that's a human bone.

Fascinating.

another great adventure. You guys pick some of the hardest places to get in to,.

Wonderful work and what a wonderful documentary *applause* Also, gotta say, utterly wonderful to see so many of my own gender in a docu like this

Castles had dungeons.

I was waiting for the ginormous spider to come dropping down again. But no luck.

Cool😊

Alice! You are awesome!

Where are the medieval in earlier building specialists in this group?

Same format as the other episodes I've seen in the series. Waste Day 1 in some pointless exercise to get to the site, then mess around in the mud and finish with a half baked conclusion. Funny that the site was so inaccessible that the rope work from the castle above was required when the Police etc were able just to walk right in.

I'd find it hard to believe that there was never any access to the cave from inside the castle ground.

Wow I wish I was younger to be able to do what these people do

Could the culvert have been at the base of a castle "toilet" or a shaft to throw kitchen waste?

So no skeleton and a whole show of possibilities 😂😂😂

The Charlie’s Angels of modern archaeology, no? 🦊🦊🦊

Jerry built... We always said Jerry rigged.

Must've been a very impressive spider to cause them to completely abandon their research lol

Boy, sure hope no one digs up my bones in the future.

9:05 ah yes vodka smirnoff 😂😂😂

I would have named the spider Marcel.

What’s a culvert? Really? And this git is in charge of the expedition, lovely.

For drama, I think they started higher than they needed to. Still...The human bones were probably washed out from somewhere further up the cave.

Why are these excavations so limited by a short time? More time could get so much more information.

Archaeology meets Marvel on a 50p budget

Time Team on steroids 😂❤

Did they release the spider?

too bad culzean wasn’t the headquarters for the movie highlander. reminds me of dashwoods caves

Sadly, carbon 14 isn’t a very accurate or robust dating method. Live animals have been dated at thousands of years old. The largest confounding factor is water. The more water, the carbon source has been in, the more inaccurate the dating will be.

Why can’t they use a hand held pin pointer in side of hard to reach areas

What yr is this from??

you never mentioned Ron Wyatt and his discoverey in Turkey of Noah

Having recently played Red Dead Redemption II one gotta wonder if the Murfree Brood could have been inspired by the Sony Bean- (spelled how?) legend? Any gamers out there who have the same hunch or know more? =)

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How many Archaeologists call the cops? If they did that in Egypt............

The cup is gold rimmed. She puts it back. Archeology is all about finding treasure, but you have to know what treasure looks like. It looks like gold and silver. That's why they are so fixated on "high status". That's code for likely gold and silver. Some China pieces are literally worth their weight in gold. Treasure is treasure because it's a store of lasting value.

Detail: why does no one wear gloves for protection of their skin?

I don't think remains were those of a cannibal feast or smugglers. I believe it was a family living in the cave living off of seafood. What are they going to smuggle fish? Maybe they scavenged shipwrecks. I believe she said of the remains...one was a teenager the other a child, doesn't sound like medieval smugglers.

About 25 years old...!?

Castle built over the body's etc?

The Cave Spider’s body shape looked a lot like the Black Widow, which is an American species. There is a close relative found in Europe but I’m not sure that’s it.

Unfortunately, another interesting shows ruined by too much background noise!! Please STOP all the noise when the narration is going!

Why didn’t they go inside the castle and use the windows?? Just a thought….

When HOW they doing it is more important than what they are doing.

I would assume that the humans lived there during some earlier period, then were invaded by Scots.

ALL the castles have human remains under them

850AD perhaps it could mean the people actually lived in the cave back then because that is a safe place to live without need to build a house. All your income can be used for food, clothes or fortification.

boy cave spider

The team leader is a bit juvenile, fixated on secret tunnels, maybe get a job in the Scooby Doo van.

Well guess what ! People have been dieing for centuries and theyv'e got to put the bodies somewhere 😂😂😂😂

The background music makes this video unbearable to finish watching !

Haha, I got a tooth but I don't know whose it is😊, is what she said.😂 Has anyone here lost a tooth?! Heehee

This document drama is of low quality, and appears to be quite old.

Could you not suppose smugglers also used kidnapping to supplement their other crime? Something goes wrong and the unfortunate victims have to be put down!

we spend money on this ! I suppose it has to be done , but expensive machines ,are they necessary ? can it not be done cheaper ?? oh well ! nevermind !

Next time leave the ropes hanging if u gone film where u got down . That copper dident go by rope😂 Maybe his ancesters where the smugglers so he knew to use a boat.

Why wouldn't human remains be found under a castle? They had dungeons and obliettes, so prisoners died there and left bones. Big surprise.

if it's not a GIANT then the people were slaves. WHO IN THE HECK WOULD SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THIS?

oh it's getting worse carbon 14 really accurate ??

Why can’t y’all leave people buried?😮

🤔Let me think human remains below Scottish Castle, well I'm not to sure but I think they may have been dead🤫. Can't be 💯% but it's my best educated possibility, I suppose they could have been buried alive as some form of punishment but I don't really think so. (LOL)

Ugh. 🤦‍♀️ Excuse me? You all are archaeologists and yet you are acting as if oblivious to the fact that there absolutely SHOULD, legitimately, be a passage up to the castle. I mean castles were built with storage chambers/ice houses and escape routes. I'm an American, citizen of a land that has few castles, and yet even I know that. (Well, I also got to explore one of your castles when I was in my 20s.) The Truth is always more intriguing than the intrigue - when you dig deep enough.

Do you suppose that the VIP, who built the castle, up top, may have gained his fortune, to buy it, in the pirate trade? By building the politically correct castle, he was then symbolically burying his sordid past!

This documentary is all right but a lot of the comments are stupid and rude. Haters gonna hate I guess.

Voo the caves, hoo-man bones, and a foo meters......the lad is incapable of utilizing the y sound associated with all those words.. .vyoo , hyoo-man, fyoo.....it's like nails on a chalkboard.

18 minutes in I stopped watching. I miss documentaries without gimmicks and fake suspense.

Are these beginner archeologists? They call the men to do the hard work as the girls watch.

Were gonna have to call the police. Are u fkn kidding me. For a 4oo yr old skeleton...common sense is lost..

Was I hallucinating or was there a fireplace just inside the iron gate to the caves? Only caught a quick flash of it. That would be an ideal location though if the caves were used by smugglers or whoever. No sense being cold AND in the dark!