Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt By Edin's Hall Broch On History Visit To Borders Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and Sporran and walking by Edin's Hall Broch on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Borders, United Kingdom. One of the best preserved and most southerly Iron Age brochs in Scotland, located near Duns in the Scottish Borders. Built around the 1st or 2nd century AD inside a much older hillfort. Around 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, local communities constructed an oval hillfort measuring roughly 135 metres by 75 metres. It was protected by massive double earthen ramparts and ditches that still stand up to 4.5 metres high in places. In the 1st or 2nd century AD, during the Roman Iron Age, builders inserted the stone broch into the northwest corner of the existing fort. They cut partly through the older earthworks and built an internal enclosure wall to separate the tower from the rest of the settlement. The interior of the hillfort contains the stone footings of roughly a dozen circular roundhouses. Some of these structures sit directly over the flattened ramparts, showing that people continued living and building on the site well after the hillfort's defences went out of use. The modern name likely derives from ettin, an old Scots word for a giant. Local folklore claimed the monumental ruins were built by the Red Ettin, a ferocious three headed giant from Scottish ballads. 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. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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