Crannogs: Mysterious Celtic Palaces in Lakes
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- If the idea of a 3000 year old ancient wooden palace built on stilts in the middle of a lake isn't cool to you then... there's something wrong with you. I'm sorry. It's true.
Crannogs are some of the most amazing pieces of prehistoric architecture in Britain and Ireland, and there's a recreated one right here in Scotland! Well... sort of. You'll see what I mean!
Join me as we look at these amazing, mysterious buildings, learn how to sail an Iron Age coracle, listen to some amazing Celtic music, check out some ancient archaeology, and journey back 2000 years to a time of Celts, Crannogs, and Coracles!
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Intro/Outro: Sosban Fach (Welsh trad)
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About 20 years ago I heard the best "what I did on summer vacation" story. I was working for a swordsmith running his booth at a Renaissance festival and doing blacksmithing demonstrations. A few of the kids whose parents worked at the faire were of course fascinated with my smithing and volunteered to help out doing things like working the bellows and fetching charcoal for me. The next year one of their mother's came and told me the story of what happened with her son when he went back to school. He was given the classic "what did you do for summer vacation" essay assignment and wrote about how he spent his summer riding camels and elephants (his parents ran the camel and elephants ride, and they lived on a very interesting farm), worked with a blacksmith, helped knights get into their armor, etc. His teacher got upset with him because she thought he was making everything up rather than writing what he had actually done. Eventually his mother had to go into the school and tell the teacher that everything he wrote in that essay was indeed accurate and that was how he spent his summer. She even invited the teacher to have a field trip out to their farm for the kids to go see the elephant, camels and all the other animals they had.
Wow! What an experience! Lucky kid!
I’m a primary school teacher - may I say, you *nailed* the introduction!
OMG I was like "are.. are you channeling my son right now?!" It was perfect.🤣
My range is huge! :P
Especially the “And there was a Dog. 😊” 😂😂😂
A great intro !
"If you're anything like me you'll develop 6 new hobbies within about an hour"- The motto of my life
mine too!
@@thorunns.craftstudio spinner, weaver, sewist, gardener, cook, knitter, crocheter, embroiderer, experimenting with resin jewelry, does bead jewelry, taking jewelry in art university, so i also paint. i need to stop picking up new crafts.
@@DAYBROK3 weaver, crocheted, sewist, leatherwork, chainmaille & scalemaille, papercrafts (cricut), nalbinding, lucet, needlefelting
Yup! Fiber arts, historic cooking & foodways, woodworking, pottery, basketry, rope & cordage, leathercraft & tanning, & anything else that catches my interest, especially if it's a skill needed to get by in historic times.
Ow, so you guys got all the motivation for hobbys! It was sold out when my lazy butt arrived :D
No, joke aside. I admire your work of juggling so many crafts :) Very impressive and you can be very proud of yourself in my opinion!
I saw yesterday that the plan is to make authentic pigments from the charcoal of the burnt crannog to paint the new ones with once they're built, and I think that's really beautiful. Definitely want to visit one day!
SO COOL!
@@TheWelshViking yeah! Pariogallico posted about it on Instagram, she's making the pigments!
That’s beautiful!! 🥺
Took the kids to Rome a few years back. When asked what their favourite part of the trip was, the answer was 'the cat shelter' ...
Reading my children's accounts of trips, they always faithfully report who they sat next to on the coach, and all the toilet visits, and where they had lunch, leaving maybe one line for writing about the venue itself, and only then if there wasn't anything as thrilling as a fire alarm going off or, as Jimmy accurately notes, A DOG.
Yes miss it was lovely amd it licked me miss
I do honestly remember going to museums and stuff as a kid and being so happy about something small that the adults rolled their eyes at. And even though I was being a good kid and trying to pay attention, my tiny brain just really couldn’t make sense of more than a fraction of what I saw.
0:18 Tell me more about this dog! 🐶🐶🐶 Is that the subject of another video?
"Oh, no, the Crannog has burnt down! What are we going to do?!"
"Experimental archaeology!"
"Huzzah!"
They are rebuilding g a new centre on the other side of the Loch. Eventually there should be three crannog as well as dedicated spaces for smithing, pottery, farming and textiles.
@@clairemullin249 Ooh cool, that's great news. 👍 Thank you
*Covid begins*
Me:
Aight, lads! Imma shut myself in mah big crannog! See ya later!
ohh i want one, but im on a dry prairie
You are a precious bean and need to be protected for ever and ever and ever!
"...And there was a dog" is usually the most important part of any "What did you do on holiday?" story, but this was much much more interesting and important :O Even more of a reason for me to come visit. The photos of the burnt crannog absolutely broke my heart. Vaguely related, a wharf near my hometown has been damaged repeatedly by fire because of a restaurant on it called Moby Dick's. It's burnt down and taken a bit of the wharf with it at least twice, but other bits of the wharf have caught fire an additional 5 times or so. Good ol Stearns Wharf
I'm excited to go to events like this again someday
sooooo my list of "cool things to do when I eventually make it to the UK" is now about a million things long, and at least ten of them are your fault. If anyone needs me I'll be crying in Californian about how we (still) can't have things like this.
We do. Check out S Louisiana. We have a lot of small but amazing museums here.
“6 new hobbies within an hour”
I picked up spinning at a ren faire. Have a nice pair of tardis blue wool socks for the cold days a-coming.
Also into archery, blacksmithing, I make mead (of the wine sort), make my own clothes, about to make some stays to go to the Oktoberfest next month, half-assed native permaculture-ish gardening. All have been picked up or inspired by local events and chats at weekend markets or faires.
I love buildings and cities in lakes. Everytime I play a game with base building I try to build something in lakes or at least at a river with a nice bridge. My tip for the category of "awesome stuff in lakes" is always Tenochtitlan. Seriously. Look at some pictures, read some stuff about it. It's awesome. It was a city in a lake with a complex system of bridges and causeways and it was one of the biggest cities of the 16th century.
I live in Utah, and I would love to compare Native American leather craft, jewelry, and textiles with stone/ bronze/iron age British Isles crafts
Depends on the period, culture, and culture. Native American doesn't really work as a monolith!
On a vaguely related note relevant to Utah, I seem to remember that Jim Bridger was using a Bull Boat when he 'discovered' the Salt Lake. Bull boats are very, very similar to Coracles!
I recommend doing the half day Iron Age crafts course. It's really interesting, educational and fun.
Thank you so much for fan girling history. You definitely rock.
the boat just looks like a weaved basket and I just love that concept.
In the case of the fire tragedy at Loch Tay - the building literally burned up, not down…the foundation remains - so, yes, we can compare the destruction of this one to burned ones of days gone by…and with the new funding, now a village with the burned hulk…it’s going to be amazing.
Edit: love the gardening nails…mine are stained from some dyeing fun this past weekend. Alas, no crannogs in the US. But yes, local museums are essential. Thank you!
Alas, the foundation platform under the house was also destroyed, leaving only the pilings. But yeah, it's super intriguing on that level!
Thank you for the love for small museums! I work for a couple and we have so many people that have a great experience, but only happened to come in because they happened by.
Also, feeling called out by the 6 new hobbies thing. 😅
There’s a crannog on Achill Island in Ireland where I did my field school, way back in 1999 when I was just a youngster. They’re fascinating places.
When we’re able to travel internationally from Canada again I hope you’ll have “The Welsh Viking’s Guide to the UK’s Finest Small Museums and other Interesting Stuffs” to provide inspiration for our adventures.
This idea is a lovely! I would like a video about museum recommandations. "This museum gets four out of five stars! Excibits are clean and beautiful, but the breakfast was aweful and the waiter was rude and dead "
And there is a dog.
*Best* opening section to a video ever. The rest of the video is top class too, obviously, but earnest baby Welsh viking is absolute quality. Thank you for continuing to share your amazing videos with us.
Man, hearing about the size of those pilings just reminds me of just how badly lumbered a lot of the world is. The South Carolina (USA) island I visited recently noted in their local museum that there aren't any trees on the island over 300 years AT ALL, because the colonists have lumbered it all. And it's pretty much the same story for most of the rest of the USA as well. I think there's one pocket of old-growth forest left in the Appalachians of North Carolina that I'd like to visit when I get the chance to- it's evidently got a nice hiking trail through it.
There’s a place in northern Minnesota called the “Lost 40” (acres) of old growth white/red pine forest that wasn’t logged due to a surveying error. Absolutely ENORMOUS compared to anything else in the region.
We had "the Senator" in Florida until it got burned down in 2012
There's old growth in New England. Hard to find but there's a RUclips channel with many videos on it.. but you are right. There are not many trees over 70 years old or less
There is just something inherently awesome about building over water. Fascinating stuff! Also, the coracles look charming. Adorable smol vessels. Thank you for the reminder to support small local museums and sites.
Fantastic! I’m adding this to my list of “things to do when I get to the UK”
It’s awesome that they have permission not only to replace the one that burnt down, but to build 2 more!
As a Scott & Irish descendant I’m loving this video & I very much plan to visit it when I can!
Small museums are always worth visiting. One of the first things I check for when I travel. That and open archaeological sites. And pubs, can't forget those.
Best intro ever! ...and there was a dog.
Loved this level of info, passion, and encouragement to just do the thing.
The crannog Centre on Loch Tay is amazing!!!!!
Your enthusiasm and delight at history and crafting brings me joy.
I had no idea what a crannog was, and i went into the episode thinking "im sure this will be interesting" and when you said what it was i thought "thats so cool! :D"
Found your channel trough Bernadette Banner's channel and have been falling down the rabbit hole since yesterday. Now I have the urge to sew an apron dress and go build a crannog. Thanks 👍 your videos are so informative
Looking at the crannogs makes me thing of the pavilion in my hometown when I was growing up. I’m from a small town on the Texas Gulf Coast and our town had a pavilion built out over the water a little ways from shore with a pier going out to it. It was used for dance community gathering and fishing. It also had various beams and stakes sticking out of the water nearby from the two (cooler) predecessors which had been destroyed by hurricanes in 1934 and 1961 respectively. The pavilion of my childhood was finally done in due to damage caused by hurricane Claudette in 2004 and the pavilion number 4 was built just on shore on a less central part of the bayfront a couple years ago.
The sea is a fickle mistress.
learnt to sail at llangorse and the second you described what a crannog was i immediately thought of the one there, had no idea it was the only one in Wales.
So glad the god of mischief brought me to your channel... 'twas the Loki video you did. Keep on being fascinating, and fun, thank you!
Thanks for doing some Celtic stuff for us. 🙏
There'll be more!
I was lucky enough to visit the Crannog Centre a few years ago. An absolutely amazing place and it was terrible to see their crannog burn. But as you say there is so much else to see there. Ironically one thing that sticks in my mind was seeing fire being started.
You said that having multiple crannogs near each other would be more like it was in the past. I was wondering if there is enough dating evidence to show how many of the Loch Tay crannogs were in use at the same time. After all, if they could have been built any time from Bronze Age to Medieval period then, if they tended to burn down after a decade or so, they might not have overlapped.
Given the number of former lochs that have been drained over the centuries I wonder how many crannogs have been lost for ever, or might still have some evidence buried under a park. Probably not in the Meadows but how about the Gyle or Corstorphine? There used to be extensive watery areas in the Edinburgh area.
Is there something missing around 3:40?
This response has actually NO bearing on your comment other than the name Corstophine caught my eye. I’m from NZ, and that’s a name I know, from an area outside Dunedin (that name itself, derived from Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh) in our South Island. The area was, as may be fairly obvious, settled mainly by Scottish People and many of the place names are either from Scottish names, or derived from Gaelic. Just wanted to mention it….I now return you to your regularly scheduled programme :)
Having done canoeing, if you want more stability, if it’s possible with the construction (perhaps an inner lining as well?)to get on your knees you can have a lower center of gravity and use your body for steering, be more stable, and get higher speed. Then utilize the seat for when you aren’t moving.
Well, I just added another stop to my Scotland trip! (Whenever that actually happens). Thank you
Well now I have to go track down the Time Team episode on Llangorse Crannog...
Edit: found it! ruclips.net/video/qpJHsC5cacY/видео.html
SO GOOD THOUGH!
It's a classic!
Love this one! He mentioned the crannog in Wales and I was like “I know that one! I saw it on Time Team!”
Thanks so much for sharing the video, loved that show, and feel a Time Team binge watch coming on... lol
You have lifted my spirits--thank you!
This is great! YES, go to museums!! Support your country's heritage industry events.
Thank you! I love learning about events/museums like the ones you discussed. When I visit places, I really want to learn about its culture and history.
Sounds like a terrific weekend!
I just found the time team episode about the Crannog in Wales, so of course I had to rush back here to re-watch your video about crannogs.
This museum sounds outstanding! I would love to go there, but in the meantime I should try to find some places like this near me!
I learned about that Welsh cranog from Time Team. I ❤that show!
I purchased a piece from Hamish on recommendation from a friend who has one himself. Highly recommend.
My favorite what you did last summer story took place when I was 10…we lived in a rural area of North Florida which was very poor. My father worked on an Air Force base near the town. One student from a very impoverished family, who was my friend (both outsiders) regaled us with the day two drunk male relatives got in a fight. One relative stabbed and killed the other, which my friend described in great detail…lots of blood….before the horrified teacher could stop him. Best what last summer story ever!
Oh my word, somehow this is the first I heard about the fire... what a devastating loss. Pretty much spent the twenty years since I visited it wishing I lived/worked there - it really was the most magical place. Always wanted to get to their festivals too. Sounds like it was a brilliant weekend!
There's also Flag Fen in the Fens of East Anglia, which also has a great museum attached to it and regularly hosts reenactors.
I'm not sure if it would count as a crannog as the original settlement was built on stilts over the fens rather then a lake but it's still cool.
Also has alot of preserved log boats
You saying "stop sending billionaires to space in giant penis rockets" made my day.
This looks like a small version of the huge round boats that are used in the middle east I seen them in pictures from an old encyclopedia for fishing.
I don't suppose Christine and Shaun are on Spotify at all?
I absolutely love living history. It reaches you in a way textbooks and documentaries just can't
I went there once! Like 20 years ago so I don't remember it much, but it was really cool.
I have driven up and down the A9 for 40 years and never had time to make the detour to the crannog centre even though I always meant to find the time. I was heartbroken when I heard of the destruction and thought I had missed my chance.
Thanks to your lovely video I will leave my island a day earlier the next time I head south and make the detour to visit. Thank you
I live near the Crannog on Loch Tay, have volunteered there and hope to do so again at the new site.
I used to docent at a little museum in New Orleans French Quarter. They had an 1840’s kitchen and it was amazing to learn to cook in. Would take in food to cook over wood or charcoal, which is fantastic! Very spoilt family with those dinners.scented with wood smoke which just luxe’s up food so much. But we showed people how to cook five course meals in a fireplace. Museumer people loved it!
We have a lot of nightclubs built on stilts in a lake, they’re old - pre air conditioning. At night you could catch lake breezes out there. We’re at 95 F in summer so that was a big deal.
Very cool, reminds me of the stilt houses they build along the Amazon River and in the southern Louisiana swamps.
You can't even get a cup of tea for a fiver sometimes, if it was near me I would go. Glad they have incorporated the fire into it also.
I think most stories with Columbus should be taken with a huge grain of salt 😂
Thank you for this!
Wow, this video was very interesting! Crannogs are awesome!
I love the way you say "IRELAND". It sounds as musical and as magical as the place itself.
this was so cool! i loved it, thanks for making this video💜
Also, I've seen people using coracles three times in my life. Two of those times, those persons overbalanced their puny basket-boat, fell in the river they were paddling and got drenched to their pubes in soggy mud, all within 5 minutes of getting in. I'm sure there was some definite advantage to coracles that kept them in use for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but they're definitely not a boat for noobs.
I think a coracle would make a great sand pit for a tot, that's how I would use one.
The coracle is actually the easiest boat to steer. The trick to keeping your seat is to sit in the absolute middle of the seat. As a disabled person, I've taught loads of people to use a coracle. And I've only fallen out once!
There is a breed of Crannog yet to be added to the history books. Give it a few hundred years, and you will hear of "Bubba's Crannogs" from the southeastern US. Had good laugh when the first image of the iron age crannog house on stilts, as it looked just like a few fishing houses near the gulf. Near to a T in the constructs
Hmm... I'm Canadian but I think Alberta needs a Crannog... It can't be tooo hard to build solo, right?
If the Crannog construction fails, you'll catch me making a coracle to paddle around the North Saskatchewan River, being a vaguely chaotic addition to any picturesque river trip! :D
I think your right!! Canada needs a Crannog!!! Maybe more than one.
Watching again, wish I could like twice!
Crannogs are amazing, I'm so glad you visited!
I did the craft taster session and thouroughly recomend. I gained so many hobbies and got to go in the logboat :)
'potential musical instruments'
So you're telling me they had recorders too?
Toots and floots and lyres!
This makes me sincerely wish I didn't live across the ocean. This stuff sounds so cool to check out!
Literally me at 07:18 : Wasn't there something about fire in the thumbnail?
07:23 : Oh, well fuck.
Living in the modern world as we do, we often forget how DANGEROUS fire is! It's certainly not domesticated fully, but buildings burning down and people being injured used to be nearly commonplace! I'm thrilled they are rebuilding!
All the amazing things to learn. Thanks for expanding our horizons, once again. Take care.
That looks like such a cool museum!!! Unfortunately for me, I am a continent away. But yeah, supporting small museums is really so very important. Where I live, we don't have a lot of very old stuff (mostly things from the 19th century), but a few museums work with local native nations to create wonderful exhibits about historical and modern native life, and to create amazing demonstrations of traditional crafts like basket making (did you know that Yurok baskets are so tightly woven, they're waterproof? There are these amazing huge baskets the size of little cauldrons for cooking soup in, and small ones to use as bowls, and it blows my mind anew every time I see them. Bc like...waterproof baskets, dude). Go to small museums, and donate to them if you can, they're really neat!!
I love this video.
Loved this video! More!
*Salutes*
JIMMY PLEASE TELL US MORE ABOUT WHAT'S OUT THERE lockdown deprived us so much
Although I know about it, never yet been to the Crannog Centre, terrible about the fire
I'm a volunteer guide/researcher at The Govan Stones, a collection of Viking and Medieval stones
We should finally reopen in the next week or two, please come visit
and Hamish, Pictavia Leather, is an awesome crafter
One of the most interesting things is that they were inherited by the Celts !
It really challenges the idea that when peoples migrate they have always tried to destroy everything that came before, but actually it was clearly far more cooperative & integrative !
I'm curious what advantage there is to rowing in the figure 8 pattern as opposed to the more common canoe rowing motion? Thanks for another great video! When travelling becomes practical again, you've given me so many more places to see.
You don't spin round and round in your little round boat!
@@TheWelshViking Well, now that you put that way it seems so obvious, lol. Thank you!
Yup, bad rowing technique in a coracle takes motion sickness to new highs
@@TheWelshViking ...and here I thought that the 8 made more sense because the boat is rather wide and nobody has arms that long.. 🤣
Fantastic video. Such a shame about the fire though. I remember the Time Team episode about crannochs. I wish New Zealand had an older history!
The Crannog Center has been on my bucket list for ages! I'm so sad about the fire, but the new building plans sound amazing. I hope that I can come see it one day. I remember the Time Team episode they did at Llangorse (apologies if misspelled) and it was so fun to see all the little finds they came up with from around the base of the island. Thank you for sharing about your weekend and crannogs!
Thank you for the inspiration. I will research local museums to visit.
And I will save up to visit the mentioned museum in the future.
3:51 I never realized that a pile driver was anything other than a wrestling move until you put it in this context right now... I'm 40... I feel like that's a long time to go without catching on to that one. #FeelingSlow
Oh dear - I wanted to do leather working and carving and and and from the West Yellowstone Mountain Man Rendezvous. I felt that comment.
Back in the late ‘90’s I did my study tours for my archaeology degree, on defendable sites in Ireland. I was lucky enough to visit 3 crannogs, along with souterraines, monasteries, tower houses and castles. I’m now a saxonist with leanings towards Viking tradition migration lol
(still watching, but: building your house in a lake is really cool, indeed ::coughTenochtitláncough:: ::grin:: )
Is it true in Scotland/the UK, as it is in the USA (and Mexico) that small, very specialized museums, can increase their government funding through visits? Not just the tickets, but also by showing how valuable they are, culturally, through visitor numbers per quarter/year.
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Most museums in the UK are free to visit, and you only pay if you're after a guided tour 🙃
Thank you for sharing your holiday 😁😁
Thank you for sharing
Well I know where I'm going when International borders open up.
Also, just wanted to say you inspired me to learn Welsh.
Ah! Da iawn chdi! :D So excited to hear this! I'll be doing a couple of Welsh videos soon to help with hearing the language :)
@@TheWelshViking Sweet! I look forward to them.
@@TheWelshViking I can’t wait for this! Yay!
lovely.......
I've been going to Pitlochry for holidays almost every year and somehow didn't know this place existed...?? Guess I know what I'm doing next week when I'm up that way again!
Can confirm: I've been and it is AWESOME.
Come and visit us at the Scottish crannog centre , we are still active and will soon be moving to our new site at Dalerb just across the loch. We are still doing tours and explaining about all the artifacts in the museum. You then get a tour of all the technology that the people had available at the time. Turning wood, pottery, textiles, and cooking, and much more. :)
It is amazing what you can learn from little museums. Hoping to someday visit the Isles again, but until then, I'll stick to the museums & historical sites in our little part of the US Midwest.
This was great to watch. I wish I lived in Europe just to see such ancient history.
I now desperately want to go visit the Crannog Centre when the Celts are coming event is on and I just looked at their website and they do crafting workshops and omg I want to do the things :3 alll the things
holy cow that outro/coda music was fantastic. couldn't help wondering what would be in this neck of the woods (ie the desert) that would be fun like that - off to go down that rabbit hole.
Umm…question regarding waste management. You mentioned one of the benefits of the crannog is being able to chuck your waste in the water, but that just seems to be a risk of blooms of E. coli and asking for dysentery. Is there enough movement to the water to prevent that? And what about drinking water? Solely dependent on rain?
We had a currach in our reenactment group years back. Coincidentally, we lost it in a fire.
Amazing! My four year old little brother now loves your videos too 😅
There are stilt house settlements (Pfahlbauten) similar to Crannogs in the south of Germany at Lake Constance! They date back to the Stone Age, and there is an amazing reconstruction/museum I visited a few years ago.
(I also got to make a "pocket knife" from flint stone, which was very cool)
This video is absolutely amazing! I am so jealous of the atmosphere there. I would totally enjoy it. Pigments? Metallurgy? Textiles? Bliss!
It's hard to get events like this in Japan. Everything is volunteer based and focused toward retirees. History could be so fascinating, but it's not for the young 😭