Why Are There 3300 Hillforts in Britain?

Subscribe to our other channel:

Follow us:

[evolassunglasses]

In 2024 to learn about your heroic ancestors and the history of your ancestral homeland is a revolutionary act.

[VonRyansExpress]

I think we might need to recommission those Forts soon to defend against the tyrannical Labour Party . . .

[HelloKittySGTC]

This is the best series ever. Please do more topics like this.

Know your history.

[dryciderz]

Beau and Sargon are very well read on mainstream history but it would do them well to learn more about prehistory. Having STJ on Epochs is a great idea

[Moon-Labs]

Survive the Jive - The description needs updating to promote Tom and his channel more.

[drraoulmclaughlin]

Great high-quality content 🙂 Pomponius Mela, Geography, 3.18: “The Celts possess eloquence and maintain their own teachers of wisdom in the Druids. These men claim to know the size and shape of the earth and the universe. They interpret the movements of the sky and stars and claim to know what the gods intend. Their education is a secret and prolonged process extending across twenty years.” (The better known comments are by Caesar, Gallic War, 6.14).

[NastroGG]

I recently got a pair of in-ear monitors for work. Listening to lotus eaters on those has really made me appreciate the production value of this operation. That islander ambiance is amazing, and the mic set up sounds better than just about any other I've listened to. Bravo on your production.

[lat]

One forgotten part of life back then was the large predators - wild boar, wolves, and bears - as well as other people stealing your cattle.

[johnclose]

I've always liked Tom but when he says that Homer is much better than Virgil, i want to hang out and go down the pub with him. Keep up the good work with STJ.

[colinjames]

Fascinating. I think modern technology has more to show of our history. Four thousand years ago, our ancestors had the same capacity to learn compared to today

[catfury]

@Survivethejive We have an iron age hill fort, or fairy fort as we call it ! on our farm in Co. Tyrone. It's marked on the old archaeological survey map. A huge megalithic standing stone nearby, along the old trackway to Knockmany Passage Tomb 10 miles away, was smashed to bits in the 1960's by another disgruntled farmer ! The fort is almost perfectly aligned with Grianán of Aileach in Donegal and it has astrological /solar alignments with the solstices . It has never been excavated and it is protected on private land.

[majestichotwings]

Oooh i love seeing STJ content, Tom is the goat 🐐

[Xenophon]

Will they build forts during the Machete age?

[LeadersInDisguise]

Try reading the Charters of the Kings from Wales. Feels like the works of Wilson & Blackett would blow your friggin minds.

[Eagle_]

This is a nice change of pace you should do more of it. Thanks.

[tombra]

Hillforts were placed in locations aligned with each others . They create complicated grid of lines . Some examples of geometric connection :
Glastonbury Tor- Silbury Hill - Wittenham Clumps
Little Solsbury - Cley Hill - Badbury Rings
Maiden Castle - Eggardon Hill fort - Pilsdon Pen
Maiden Castle - Figsbury Ring - Beacon Hill
Cissbury Ring - Silchester - Bodbury Ring

[DutchFurnace]

There's a very big mistake often made about civilian defensive positions. (At this stage in history, these types of) Forts, and castles for that matter, aren't signs of war or even thoughts of aggression nor even control over "outside others". They're signs of prolonged, several generations long, periods of peace and growth of wealth, and of people dreading the loss of what they're building and accomplishing together, in an area that is uncontentedly theirs. The people weren't preparing for something specific, they were hoping "nothing" would ever happen if they were prepared enough.

A (at this stage of history, not part of a large established country/empire, but a rather self sufficient) community can only spend 2-5-10-25-50-+ years building something if everyone is living together peacefully and providing for these great projects to be completed.
City defenses aren't about the short "war times" when they are needed to be used defensively against an outside force, they're signs of peaceful, coordinated, internal development right up until that (sometimes sadly final) point.

Aggressive peoples focus on training soldiers from a young age naturally by having it ingrained in their way of life, not on having societies that have enough prosperity that there's enough freedom of labour to have forts and castles build.

[KMANelPADRINO]

Thank you for being willing to look at modern-day accomplishments as justifications for greatness, rather than the false and oft silly theories about the origins of the British folk. So many folks who rely upon silly details and false stories just cannot seem motivated to do great things themselves, and pointing to modern-day accomplishments, apart from being a virtue of avoiding false history, is a great way to remedy that.

[lazzymclandrover]

Young men going cattle raiding was almost a pastime... not hard to think of this as an escalation of that phenomenon.

[purpledevilr]

If I lived in the Iron Age and I’d sorted survival. I wanna build something, may as well build forts.