British Iron-Age Hill Fort - Built by Celts?

Very Brythono-Celtic.

I like how Thomas casually continues passing on an actual knowledge, not giving a fuck about Varg.

Hill forts are always strange for me, being aware of all those bodies and artefacts right beneath your feet.
Especially undisturbed tumuli!

Fantastic video as always Tom, always good seeing a STJ upload.

Maiden Castle and Durotriges next ;).

I just realised I'm watching this sipping tea from my old Heddingham castle mug...

PS the whole chad meme is dumb af. It's literally something 15 year olds watching Twitch and hanging on 4chan popularised.

þancian for þý ǣnlīċ video Tom! ek Þakka fyrir vídeóið Tom ! also i just baught couple of very indo european garments from you, happy i can support your work, Heill auk sæll Óðinn

There are much older sturctures in the Orkneys. The new theory is that culture moved down from north to south over thousand sof years in Britain.

My local tribe were called the Brigantes and their “capital” is in North Yorkshire, it’s a great area and a very interesting fort, a beautiful spot. I love to imagine the men and women of the Brigante tribe giving the invading Romans something to think and worry about by ambushing, making their rule uncomfortable and generally being troublesome. There is something incredible knowing that our ancestors didn’t lie down meekly, and we should do them the honour of protecting our homeland against yet more invaders.

Where can i buy that jacket? Great video btw

"Oh hello, i didn't see you there"

Lol.

Hey, I can clearly hear your dialogue! Thanks Boris! Great video by the way. That's one thing that makes me sad about being an American, we don't have that ancient history to discover, investigate, and look back on fondly. Our nation didn't essentially spring up from the depths of pre-history and form organically as a true Nation, in it's original sense.

Hello, could you in any video talk about the Iberian Peninsula? Especially on the Germanic influence, because as we know the region has been for a long time on the Visigothic domain. There are words from the Portuguese language (which is my native language, by the way) and Spanish that are very similar to words from modern Germanic languages ​​and even that originate from ancient Germanic languages.

🇳🇴❤️ Very good!

Beautiful intro

I N DO E U R O P E A N

I don't think the cotton candy was a good choice. Very unprofessional.

Boris Johnson does his job well for once. Good video and audio :)

Wait so british dna is not celtic? Or did later immigration come?

“The most desirable fate for an ancient Celt after leaving this world was to join those on the Blissful Isles in the Ocean, The paradise from which sadness, illness and death had been banished, where an endless feast gathered together warriors and their fair partners in peace and harmony, amongst trees heavy with sweet-smelling flowers and succulent fruits, to a background of enchanting music.” -
THE CELTS OF THE WEST by Venceslas Kruta and Werner Forman.

Svj haw the hell did you get candy floss there without eating it before you got there,

Remembering Norman Rowsell

Everyone talks about the beaker people like they were a large group of peoole who arrived in large numbers. Recent thibkinking it was more a trickle if at all. I read an article that suggests many artifacts ended up here through trade. Not big movements of a particular people.

That hill fort is placenta-shaped.

Top-notch thumbnail.

Love the italo disco in the intro. Italo disco is very Indo-European indeed.

For that matter, why would people build even a hill fort for temporary refuge where there was no good water supply? Did they not expect a siege?

I can't see the point of building that fort up on a hill because that does not look that steep? What advantage would you get from that kind of hill? Many of the hill forts in Finland for example are built on a large natural rocks with high wall like steep edges on 3 sides and only 1 lower side for the entrance.

Looks quite glorious

up the hill i went with a pail of water. ho hum when i'm done i'll have to carry fodder. thank yew thomas. gare

must have taken ages to build them

I Love The Intro Music!

Your theory of habitation is like a kids thought.!.! There will be a well that you've not found, and the landscape would have been vastly different..!
Mott and Bailey weren't Saxon..!

this advert intro should be on every video! it's sooo funny! my girlfriend is getting pretty annoyed with me keep saying 'uber-chad'

boris for PM

Do you just have a bag of cotton candy😂

You should go to the Malvern Hills. Beautiful place. Used to live in Malvern, and I'll always miss it. You can walk from one end to the other in a few hours, beautiful views of the Severn valley and Herefordshire, into Wales where you can even see the Brecon Beacons. From Worcester beacon on the north side to British Camp, an amazing iron age hill fort, and you can go further if you want. Our ancestors would appreciate us appreciating it. Also has the Wyche cutting for a pub halfway along. You can also go down to Eastnor Castle and have a look at the obelisk. Also stop off at many of the Victorian wells for some spring water.

Just wanted to ask , you never specified what was rare about it? In the description you say there are 150 but when I looked it up it said there were over 2,000 hillforts in Britain. What makes this one rare ? Is there only 150 in the southwest ? I'm lucky to have one next to my home and from the top you can see stanton drew as it is only 5 mins away

There is a small but very ancient 'fort' in west wales called Castell Grogwinion which translates as the 'the place of white stone'. The area is rich in white quartz and it is thought that the 'fort' had walls made up from the quartz. This does not sound like a defensive 'fort' to me. Quite the opposite actually. The 'fort' also lies on the same solstice line as the Pen Dinas 'oppidum' that ends at the Oxford 'omphalos'. Graham Robb's book The Ancient Paths explains this very well. I and several other people who have an interest in Castell Grogwinion suspect that it was once a Druid school, or at least Druids lived there before the Roman invasion.

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Interesting. From my reading a common feature of IE cultures was this notion of reciprocity between host and guest, and perhaps between the three assumed social divisions of the tribe. The Warrior elites observed their 'nature' by not just lording over the husbandmen but by offering protection. The building and maintaining of structures that could clearly protect many people beyond the soldiers would be a powerful symbol of this relationship. Unlike the later castles which only really served to protect the strategic position of the elites.

It's nice someone is doing this in a world where people forget so much...kudos ✌🏻. My family is from Exeter but goes back a long way to at least 1066 in Devon. I need to visit again and really study the land.

I always thought Celtic Ring Forts were always circular in nature.

Learn something new everyday.

"Oh hello...I didnt see you there" how very BBC of you. Lol
Great video though brother. Keep it up.

As a former soldier & a tactician myself, the only reason i see to build such a thing would be to hold a land that you've taken. The US military do the same today. We take a place, we build bases to help keep it. We are at about 200 scattered around the world ATM.

This place is 40 min walk from my house

I doubt I have any celtic in me, but I have always been interested to learn about my island home <3

what is that brown jacket?