Tour Scotland very short 4K Winter travel video clip a Scotsman wearing a Kilt and Sporran and walking in snow in Glen Strontian 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. 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. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March
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