Ancient Skeletons Reveal Secrets of Britain’s Most Spectacular Hillfort

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I do wonder if perhaps there was something akin to the Bubonic Plague that could've changed the landscape and decimated the population, enough that they couldn't maintain the giant structures or political setup, whatever it might've been brbrThis is just me and my armchair archeologist thoughts 😂
Comment from : Dara S

Okay it’s protection for the people living there but protection from whim? And how many? It’s a big place
Comment from : Grace American

I always watch TV shows, like The Walking Dead etc, and they focus on building walls, and I'm screaming at the TV dig a ditch around it! The ditch is the most basic and effective fortification
Comment from : Jason Callow

This is truly one of the most beautiful and fascinating things I have ever seen
Comment from : Im- SQUIRREL

It's interesting that the stone circles which are not defensive are also bank and ditch Avebury is and Stonehenge was originally
Comment from : Gib Mattson

Who were they and why did they need these defences How did they get their water
Comment from : Ray Sargent

I feel like this "historian" doesn' know his history It's obvious why at "around 100AD" (as he sates) there was "a decline in the local populations that can't be due to the Roman 'invasion'" If the "historian" for this "program" knew his facts he would know that 100AD was only 5yrs after the Roma's 2nd invasion(in earnest this time) The arrows in the 'early' victim that the "historian" says "couldn't have been roman", was obviously roman from J Caesar's first invasion in 55BC Duh! get your facts straight or don't teach to preach!
Comment from : McNic Epidii

5:14 Ancient Alien Theorists say, "Yes!" 🤣
Comment from : J man J

Just so easy to say Iron Age Imagine the scientific knowledge gained over generations to be able to smelt iron ore and produce hard shiny metal in serious volumes Smelting of Iron ore needs temperatures of 1800 °C They'd practiced for centuries with copper and bronze that only need temperatures of around 1000°C In those two numbers you get to realise how sophisticated these people were The Bronze Age people's came up the West Coast of Europe from the Iberian Peninsula looking for outcrops of Copper pirities which is that bright turquoise blue that shows up easily in water courses where present Large outcrops were mined on Anglesey at Paris Mountain and the biggest of them all on the Great Orme in Llandudno; the biggest Coper mine in the whole of Europe in its day The people's who developed and governed these massive enterprises were classed as magicians and alchemists and we're very powerful and were known as the original Druids whose HQ was on Anglesey Over the centuries the Bronze Age immigrants settled integrated and moved inland Stone henge originally built in Pembrokeshire was moved to Salisbury Plain as part of this migration and ofcourse underwent further development as did Maiden Castle Many other coastal areas underwent similar development I would imagine, Dorset being one of them
Comment from : Brian Thomas

Well presented
Comment from : katherine collins

Miles is excellent
Comment from : sa

They were Celts
Comment from : Kevin Quinn

I visited this site about lunch on a Tuesday in early August 1996 Was surprised to note only 15 cars in the carpark I am from New Zealand and found it very reminiscent of the hilltop fortifications called Pa which were built by the Maori people here Although they were stone age people, when faced with British military assaults, they soon abandoned settled Pa for more temporary warrior-only Pa which were more adapted to artillery fire They would get the Brits to waste a lot of effort taking the Pas to find all the warriors gone to fight another day I understand their innovations against artillery were noted and utilised by the Brits in WW1 trench warfare
Comment from : flamencoprof

any bets History Hit gives credit to africans?
Comment from : Euro Wars

Pictures used to illustrate this are disgraceful Hunter gatherers did not run around naked This promotes stupid stereotypes and is not historical br brHowever good the rest of this might have been I would not watch beyond that point
Comment from : PanglossDr

We in England call them catapults Americans call them slings Be careful of glamourising pagan belief systems- they loath and detest forgiveness and self sacrifice and love of others before yourself which is Christian taught I think that Britain today is becoming more like the pagan systems but they haven't started sacrificing children yet but actually what am I thinking! They have started to sacrifice children today! Of course! Think about it
Comment from : Elizabeth Darley

Somewhere here was living maybe one of my grandparents/great great x150 going back! My DNA is 98 English
Comment from : Elizabeth Darley

That's why they found us Catholics a threat to their establishment - we refuse to worship their pantheon of goddesses and gods and we also refuse human / child sacrifice Paganism has no proven dictat against human sacrifice In paganism there is no law which says do not murder or do not give human sacrifice All pagan systems would have used human sacrifice without a doubt I will stick with our Lord Jesus Christ Who is the last and final sacrifice and being a human sacrifice of Himself by His allowing it is amazing and mind blowing to me Paying for our sins Paying the Father for our sins against the Father Love Forgiveness Many Romans and many of all systems converted once they found out about our Lord appearing to ordinary people when He arose from the dead! Mind blowing! And our Lord was living on earth in the Iron Age!brI cannot find evidence of such love by any other faith than our Blessed Lord And, today in 2023 is Holy Pentecost! Praise God! Amen
Comment from : Elizabeth Darley

0:21 ❤hillforts 0:30
Comment from : David Lloyd

I attended Weymouth Grammar School in the 1970's and we were taught that the Romans laid siege to Maiden Castle and that it was the tip of a Ballista bolt embedded in the skeleton as proof I loved the idea of Iron Age tribesmen armed with slingshots, manning a wooden palisade built on top of the trenches repelling a superior Roman force only to find that Carbon dating now disproves this!
Comment from : 1caremsa

SNAKE fort yeno ive found a serpent mound in the uk gonna go dig it up today✌❤
Comment from : SPOTTING THE DRACO🐉scalar wave technologies

They were black😂
Comment from : Stephen

There's another bill fort about 8 miles away from Maiden castle near Milborne St Andrew that very few people seem to know about brIt's called Weatherbury castle Smaller than Maiden Castle with a wood on the top and an obelisk in the middlebrMy friends and I used to play there when we were kids
Comment from : paul fletcher

Tristan must have his scarf wrapped over his mic, can barely understand his parts
Comment from : GACBRAIN

How hostile were the local fauna? Wild pigs, bears, wolves and possible megafauna brThat could be an explanation for the structures
Comment from : Stewart Herring

The impact of disease is poorly understood in early human history
Comment from : vadusnisky

I thought we all knew that these ancient structures were obviously built by African slaves under the whip of indigenous White Supremacists, at least that’s what the BBC would tell us
Comment from : blxtothis

every now and again, watching one of these things, i recognise someone from Time Team 🙂
Comment from : David Evans

I vividly recall visiting Maiden Castle on a holiday in about 1963 Not knowing there was a hard way and an easy way in, I went for what brI saw By the time I'd scaled the final wall, my legs were absolutely wrecked, but I can say I stormed Maiden Castle the hard way, albeit without any defensive spears! Impressive beyond measure!
Comment from : Roy Fearn

Very interesting!!
Comment from : Steven L Passalacqua

They keep calling these sites 'iron age' but they were building and using these great sites over 6,000 years ago, the question was asked what drew people to the area and build monumental earthworks, it was the religion of the Dragons/Serpents as there are not only many earth energy Dragons in that area of the country but the people would also build Serpentine earthworks alongside them as a form of veneration These Serpentine earthworks were later called by the incoming Saxons 'Dyke or Grim' as they were unaware of what they were used for Also often associated by the early Christians as 'devils grim' or devils dyke' Offa's Dyke is a Serpentine veneration of this ancient religous practise as it follows the flowing earth Dragon energy acrosss the land All part of the same culture that built the Great Serpent Henges
Comment from : hawklord100

I wonder why people would have a need to live there It was such a huge effort to build Was it for mutual protection from other tribes , if so why ? They would have needed a good water supply close by With a maximum of 2000 people living there They would have needed at lest 2 liters or 4 pints of water per day per person A thousands gallons which would have been 10, 000 Lbs or about 5 tons of water That would have had to be carried up each and every day , summer and winter , a huge effort I wonder how they would have coped in times of warfare when their water supple was cut off from them ?
Comment from : welshpete12

I was brought up with the Mortimer Wheeler theory It made school and family visits to Maiden Castle an evocative experience Thanks, Dr Russell, for shattering my childhood memories! But I'm so grateful for being disabused so entertainingly and constructively
Comment from : colin booth

Call in time team 😀
Comment from : Tristan Graham

lay lines?
Comment from : Daniel Taylor

Hamdon Hill in Somerset is much larger
Comment from : Jonathan Weeks

She's Beautiful Look At Her Standing Proud On her EMPTY HILL TOP😂😅
Comment from : Ryan

amazing! I learned so much
Comment from : Impressions at your service!

Maiden Castle is absolutely magnificent and I would love to visit if I ever return to the UK brThank you for this fantastic informative video
Comment from : Stephanie Yee

wish that pretend farmer and his romano celtic guff hadn't been a feature
Comment from : k c

History is always fascinating 😊
Comment from : M

This channel is the best thing for Great Britain's History !🇬🇧
Comment from : MarLo 7

Love your work 👍
Comment from : 54 MGTF

A wonderful, informative historical coverage video thank you for sharing (4000 BC 😮)
Comment from : Mohammed Says Rashid

There's a lovely one in Oswestry
Comment from : Bravo2zero

I think the use of stones in early warfare is highly underappreciated and was certainly not limited to slings Used all over the world and in any given opportunity, in The Iliad there is a powerful description of their use (throwing rocks) akin to Zeus showering upon the enemy army, stopping Hektors advance in its tracks, the thought of it is genuinely terrifying and is described as such
Comment from : S Emi

The history in this video was great! The sound quality could use a bit of work The interviewer/presenter was muffled and quiet, his volume needs to be increased
Comment from : Andrew Roberts

So, the peace dividend did for the hillforts and the lack of hillforts did for the Britons? Given what Lucius Flavius Silva did to Masada, I'm not sure the hillforts would have delayed the conquest for all that long anyway
Comment from : Aaron Leverton

Also locally there is the Amphitheater just up from the old police station, that is pretty likely to have been an iron age barrow of some kind before being turned into an amphitheater by the romans, and later on was the local trial/hanging site
Comment from : Nixxie

For some reason the host is really muffled in this video Makes it harder to follow
Comment from : Kevin OBrien

What a splendid video
Comment from : Jeff Smith

Surprisingly interesting Thanks for upload
Comment from : Res, Non Verba

Amazing Misconceptions corrected (I always thought the Romans attacked Maiden Castle) and new stuff learned Where did the inhabitants get their water, I wonder?
Comment from : Paul Annable

A great informative video of a part of the country that was clearly modified to serve a purpose of defence from something or someone The engineering at the time and man power required would have been huge yet it's surprising that today it has nothing within the design that survives that would have required defending Incredible to learn about so many thanks History Hit for sharing
Comment from : Anthony Stevens

There are lots of neolithic remnants around this part of Dorset Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows is a large cluster of 44 Bronze Age burial mounds is just 6 miles west of Dorchester The site is so large that the grouping of barrows has been described as a Bronze Age cemetery And the Cerne Giant is only a short drive away We locals are blessed for ancient history
Comment from : Mark Thompson

Dr Russell explains in a wonderfully natural and interesting way
Comment from : Val Payne

Used to enjoy walking around here when I lived in Dorchester Interesting documentary!
Comment from : Zaka Gibbard

Hillforts are probably my favorite type of fortification They're severely underrated
Comment from : Lord Merterus

Were there or are there wells up on top of Maiden Castle? How could any settlement survive for long without a source of water?
Comment from : GildaLee27

I used to run around Maiden Castle a lot, on a windy winters day I'd often stop for a pee break to admire the views and see how far the wind would take my stream Pretty sure I created a yellow rainbow reaching Martinstown on one blustery occasion
Comment from : giamlarry

⭐👍🏼⭐
Comment from : Nancy M🥀

Tristan is one of this channels best presenters
Comment from : DJL

Ironic that our president King has built a gleaming suburban settlement nearby
Comment from : Chris Strider

Please debunk the story of the 45 trillion dollar loot circulating on the internet Even if you calculate the entire GDP of India during the 190 years of British rule, adjusted for inflation, you wouldn't reach 45 trillion dollars
Comment from : Jeanette Wee