Dreva Craig Iron Age Hill Fort With Music On History Visit To The Borders Of Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Dreva Craig Iron Age Hill Fort on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Scottish Borders. The fort is situated between Broughton and Stobo in the Border region , surrounded by field walls and the ruins of a small Roman farm and other settlement remains. The majority of hillforts in Scotland date from the Iron Age, the later half of the first millennium BC. Some were also constructed, or reused, in the first millennium AD. When Julius Caesar wrote De Bello Gallico in the middle of the 1st century BC, a first hand account of his Roman conquest of Celtic Gaul, he described contemporary Celtic hillforts, noting that: " they had secured a place admirably fortified by nature and by art." The description captures the essence of a hillfort. The builders used both natural topography and well built defences. Hillforts were both defensive strongholds and clear statements of land ownership and tribal belonging. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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