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Thanks Johnny! It’s gone over 10% this week - which is great!

Thank you Jake! That is very nice of you to say and I’m glad you enjoyed it!

That’s great Laura and welcome! I’m delighted the mighty algorithm steered you here. Thank you!

Thank you! I think you’re talking about the “Doctor’s Gate” Roman road. I have walked a bit of that, years ago. If I recall correctly, there are bits where it’s visible and other places where it’s lost. It linked 2 forts - one at Glossop and one at Brough. I will pop it on the list!. Thank you!

Cheers! Thank you very much and glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you very much and glad you enjoyed it!

Oh cheers - I will have a look at that. They’re such an insight into the Dark Ages.

Welcome Richard! Really glad you liked it and Mr. Schofield is too - he’s in a good mood today!

Hi Phil, it’s great when an old book stirs the interest like that and you’re talking nearly 100 years on now. My thoughts would be to see if there is a museum about the Scout movement - that might be a place to contact. There are press archives too. I need to ask Tweedy about that as I think he uses one. Just Googled and there’s a Scout Museum in Preston!

Thank you. I am going to do a follow up video and will include this in it. Many thanks.

Thanks Kevin. Really interesting. I understand they have found Neolithic and Bronze Age evidence on the natural platform the Romans built their fort on, so this small area has drawn humans to it for thousands of years.

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd The cross location will be one of 4'6'8'10' or 12 such points about the church that determines the church dimensions, the more such points leads to larger churches and then cathedrals, it is normally just the southern cross location left where so called preachers crosses are located., ALL churches are built over megalithic locations and they do not face East/West they align to the matrix that leads to them been been across 86 degrees to 94 degrees and the different alignments relate to them been called such as St Mary or Michael etc, there is a link on Brit arch where a man has been to every church with a large compass and taken the bearings. ( churches face East don't they?)

Cheers Phil! This has our highest views to date. Really made up - the BBC has got to notice me soon?! Cheers for the Super Thanks!

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Well the BEEB are odd types ..Channel 4 must notice you soon. Haha.

@@philcollinson328 they’d do!

Oh no, I’ve not seen that - will check it out. Paul Whitewick has just done a video on the dodecahedrons. I thought they’d established they were for making gloves!

😆 Now, with your sartorial sensibilities, you may wish to consider, though not strictly archeological in nature, a video on what the well-dressed roman was wearing. On another btw - I once worked for a gentleman's outfitters in St.Albans High Street called Andrews & Son way back in 1988-89. This appears to be about the time you were there, so I wonder if you recall the shop and whether you ventured in on occasion. I may have sold you the odd article by Daks, Mr. Harry, Viyella or Wolsey!

@@standingbadger I’ve watched it now - astonishing and very compelling! His theory does seem to fit with everything we know and don’t know. Thank you for pointing it out! I do vaguely remember that shop in St. Albans. I suspect from gazing in with awe and envy, as I wasn’t that well off at the time. I would have been wearing High Street suits - probably looking a bit like Ben Elton. I “transitioned” to tweed around 95! Funny to think we might have seen one another all those years ago!

Yes indeed. No Scotland either when this cross was erected!

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Yes and meanwhile all the monks under the Irish Tradition, mainly from the North, bringing Christianity to England before it was invented.

@@alistairmackinnon4216 the Mediterranean styling of the cross can be found in Ireland too. So absolutely, this was coming in from the north!

Thank you kindly. Cheers.

Yes indeed and what a lovely place it is.

Thank you very much for such generous feedback and I’m particularly pleased to hear that I managed to capture something of the beauty of this cross - it really is a special survival. I’ve had another viewer from America who knows a Waugh - so they do seem to have travelled far and wide. Interesting that they still carry the name awarded them by the Angles! Some more crosses lined up for future videos!

​@@WC21UKProductionsLtdthat makes two Tennessean viewers!

@@JimBagby74 WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd seems to be sweeping across Tennessee! That’s great!

My mother's side of the family are Washington (Yes, of the first U.S President heritage) and the other side of her family are Waugh ...but they pronounce their name phonetically as 'Woff'...Strange..but I suppose their name is up to them. Good day Tennessee, hope you have a great day.

Hi Eric - no problem, it's a fantastic shop and long may it prosper! Thank you and glad you enjoyed.

Cheers Robert - glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you very much. I know I’ve recommended quite a few places to you now, but I really would encourage you to check this area out - it is so quiet and steeped in history.

Thank you Dave. Appreciate the tip, I’ll pop that on the list. Assuming this series gets commissioned! Cheers.

You’re right! I’m sure there’s no rustling going on there now, but there certainly was in the days of the Debatable Lands. Thank you for watching.

Thanks. And neither Scotland nor England existed when this amazing cross was erected. Fascinating to think about that, isn't it?

Thanks Jon - really glad you enjoyed it. I was blown away by the quality of the cross, to be honest. There is a lot of survival in this area, despite it being lawless and ravaged for centuries. But even to this day, it remains sparsely populated, and I guess that helps to account for the incredible array of pre-historic, Roman, Celtic and Anglo Saxon artifacts exist and continue to be turned up. It's an antiquarian's dream!

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I grew up in the Southwest US and often came across ancient Indian ruins in the mesas. Later, I lived near Mesa Verde, and I thought as I watched your video, about how that cross was already old when the Anasazi built the cliff dwellings!

@@jonwolff8222 yes, history can be very grounding like that!

Thank you and glad you enjoyed it!

That’s great, thank you and welcome!

Oh thank you very much for sharing that - very evocative. The bastles in that area are very interesting, aren’t they? Such a turbulent past. It’s a shame the pub is empty now. I’ve been sent a picture of it and can imagine what it was like. What a great experience you had and thank you for sharing it.

A fascinating story, thank you so much for sharing it @bh_486

Thank you very much!

Well thank you very much indeed - that is high praise and I'm deeply flattered to be compared to Keith. I only met one other person there. A lady from Devon visiting her son who farms nearby. Such a wonderfully quiet place. Phil seems a bit erratic and volatile at the moment. I think he sees this as a path back onto the telly!

I often am....I accidentally stood in duck poo today whilst wearing my socks... Oh, you meant Schofield Phil ...I don't know...maybe he stood in duck poo in his socks today too.

That was season 19, I think. Helen was pushed out and they brought in Mary Ann and that other guy who basically did what Stuart did. It resulted in Mick leaving. To be fair, in the following year they got rid of the 2 new presenters and Francis stepped in to replace Mick. It did feel more like the old Time Team again, but the writing was on the wall. Have you watched the new Time Team on UA-cam? It has been updated and you do feel the absence of Mick, Francis, Phil and Tony Robinson, but there are a good few old faces there - including Helen. I quite like the way they do the 3 day format over 3 days on UA-cam. Tony seems to be getting a bit more involved too. It's worth checking out.

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Meh I do Patreon for them..I'd far rather support you more though.

Mick, Francis, Phil, Robin and Victor were Time team to me.

@@philcollinson328 oh that’s very kind of you to say. I don’t support them on Patreon, but I do watch the 3 day digs. Tend to not bother with all the other guff!

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Regardless ..it seems you have another hit on your hands...Well played sir.

Thank you Peter and I will definitely do more on these - I really enjoyed researching and filming this. Interestingly, they have never found any evidence of a Roman road heading north from the fort - there's just the one road connecting it to the wall at Banna/Birdoswald. In its Roman heyday it was a cul-de-sac, effectively. My surmise would be that some kind of activity carried on here - as it did at Birdoswald, where we think the Roman military unit effectively became the lords of the local area once the money stopped coming. That carried on there into the early 500s - so a century after the end of Roman Britain. I suspect some kind of Romano-British Christian church or community set up in the remains of Fanum Cocidi, and possibly carried on through to the arrival of this cross in the 7th Century. I'm sure that 350 years after the Roman army left there would have still been fairly substantive stone built remains there. It's a fascinating period!

Yes, a slightly old school antiquarian term! But it was an old school map, to be honest! Thanks Paul.

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I saw the other one on the OS Maps app! By a disused railway line in West Sussex. I put it to that young Whitewick fellow that this was proof the Romans invented railways but he was having none of it.

Didn’t he do a video about that once?! Oh no, it was about this idea that they invented the narrow gauge width, or something.

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Yes. Calls himself an expert. Clueless. We all know narrow gauge was invented in the Dark Ages.

No worries. It was just a joke about Scotland being invented, an ongoing joke with some subscribers.

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I was thinking of the date you gave for the Union. You were a hundred years too early. In 1603 James VI was offered the crown of England and he accepted it becoming James I in your country. Because England allowed a monarch to have much more power over the people than we allowed them to have in Scotland, the greedy so and so moved down to London and hardly visited Scotland again. Our Parliament remained in force until 1706 when the Act of Union closed it. A large reason why the Act of Union was enforced on Scotland was because we had passed an inheritance law saying we would look for our king or Queen after Anne to be a Stewart but not the one England chose. You might also find a number of ancient but still extant, laws on the Scottish statute book interesting as they protect the rights of the ‘community of the realm’, meaning the everyday folk from injustice, profiteering and having their religion changed. These are similar to the Constitution of the USA but were passed in Scotland in the mid to late 1400s and collected together in our ‘Claim of Right’ in the mid to late 1600s. Fascinating stuff.

@valeriebrown6079 - I have checked and you are correct, I did say “Act of Union”, but I meant to say “Union of the Crowns”, which is the term used to describe the ascension to the throne of England by James VI of Scotland. I am really sorry about this cock-up.

My pleasure and thank you very much.

Oh strewth! There must have been so much of that over the centuries, mustn’t there?

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd If you read the book the Debatable lands, It refers to quite a bit of wilful destruction by farmers in that loose area.

Oh yes that is an excellent book. I read it a few years back and intend to make a video on the subject at some stage.

And the middle of nowhere also enables things like this to survive. Making it a paradise for folks like me!

Thanks Dave. That’s really interesting about the modern Welsh. Yes, control of Cumbria through the Dark Ages (I still use the term) is very interesting with lots of change. I think I’m right in saying that it even took 25 years for it to come under Norman control.

Yes Keith, I’m waiting for it to all kick off!

Thank you. This one seems to have done quite well so far. The mystery of the algorithm! Is it the Phillip Schofield connection?!

@@WC21UKProductionsLtd It could be your great sci-fi effects, or it's just Phil.

Sorry to hear about your ill health, but that’s a great achievement with the Yorkshire peaks. I’ve used the Walking Englishman’s website on occasion - it’s really thorough, with good notes. Since completing the Wainwrights I get regular suggestions from friends for the next list, but I’ve vowed to avoid the “tyranny of the list” now. I found that I’d have an urge to do a hike somewhere else, but the obsession of completing the Wainwrights would dictate where I was going. Yes that ascent up the Calf via Cautley Spout is tough. I did that in full winter conditions once. Exhausting!

@WC21UKProductionsLtd Thank you for your kind words. All I'll say then is that Yockenthwaite Moor was the least fun. It was a case of making up your own route as there's no footpaths on the OS Map and nothing better than sheep trods in places. It's a sea of peat hags at the top. I was lucky in that they were baked dry that summer. Darnbrook Fell was interesting as, again, a large chunk was without paths. I had to descend the steepest section on my rear. The route was far steeper than anticipated, yet it was covered in a mini rush like plant. It was like sledging on a plastic sack. I confess I giggled all the way down like a small child. By the end of the 41, you could have dropped me blindfolded anywhere, and I would have known where I was and which summits I could see and the way home. 😊❤️😊

Yes that particular sheet of the OS screams at me - so many cup and ring marks! What was going on there in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages! I’ve read Margary’s description of that Roman road and from memory, it’s intermittent - visible in places, certainly. I’d like to think I’ll get to it at some stage!

@WC21UKProductionsLtd It faces south is about the only thing I can say about the cup and rings. Oh, and it's fairly level. Possibly of more use for the winter solstice than similar stones on the north facing southern valley side. In turn, those would be better suited for looking north east for the summer solstice. Just my pet theory.

Hi Suzanne - yes I will absolutely be doing something on the Antonine Wall at some stage. In terms of Yorkshire Roman roads, I’ve so far made videos including a couple. In the Roman Gazette playlist, the videos are called, “Doorstep Roman Archaeology” and “Spme Roman Stuff I’nt Dales”. There are other Roman roads in that playlist too, I’ve only recently started this separate one to look at specific questions relating to Roman roads. Like the what is the highest and debunked roads etc. Thank you for watching and commenting.

The huge tracts of land they acquired is something to do with the catchment area required, I believe. Is it needed to control what happens on it? In more recent years that has led to the removal or reduction of sheep grazing, which has potential upsides for wild flowers etc. But the clearing of people out of these landscapes makes them have a distinct feeling, doesn’t it? Not necessarily positive.

@WC21UKProductionsLtd They feel empty and desolate at times. I consider myself rational, but the only words that seem to fit are hauntingly empty. I've had a few wonderful wildlife experiences on Timble Ings. I stumbled across a Greater Spotted Woodpecker nest complete with clamouring chicks in a dead birch. On one of the ponds, I watched a Common Darter dragonfly emerge and take flight. Finally, if you lay quiet and still enough, teeny tiny Gill Becks (I'm not sure why it's spelt as a plural. There's only one beck) has wild brown trout. They are only small, but they are there.

These amazing barrows - and they are exceptionally well preserved - had the weirdest of atmospheres. As I mentioned in the video, on a superficial level, the part-felled landscape mirrors the Neolithic landscape, but it was dead. Utterly dead.

That’s a really good point! There is a recreation of this cross elsewhere and the cross is tiny - nothing like the one depicted in the museum! I’m going to pop a picture of it in the Community tab in the next day or so.