Tour Scotland short 4K late Autumn travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking in icy Strontian Glen on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. The name " Strontian " comes from the Scottish Gaelic Sròn an t-Sìthein, which translates to " the nose, or point of the fairy hill, " referring to a local knoll where mythological fairies, sídhe, were believed to live. Lead mined here was used for bullets during the Napoleonic Wars, and some of the workforce included captured French soldiers. In the late 1780s, the mineral strontianite, strontium carbonate, was discovered in the mine waste. In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy isolated the pure metallic element, naming it strontium after the nearby village. Strontian is the smallest habitation in the world to have an element named after it. Autumn leaf color or colour is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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