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Jethart's Here at Redeswire Stane 2014 - Jethart Callants Festival

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Jethart Callants Festival 2014
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Genocide In The Scottish Borders

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The Roman Army had a lot of ambitions for Caledonia. One of the lesser known ones was complete genocide of the Scottish people. A man investigates this at Trimontium Roman Fort in the Scottish Borders.
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51st HD Celebrate At St. Valery

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The 51st Highland Division recently held a special parade at St. Valery on the Somme to pay honour to those who fell in the rear guard action of 1940. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f9775adf93e444d
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Time Team S12-E04 Drumlanrig, Dumfries

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Twenty years ago, the Duke of Buccleuch discovered that the remains of a Roman fort might lie a few hundred metres from his home, Drumlanrig Castle near Dumfries. Time Team start digging.
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Isle Of Lewis Chessmen

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These magnificent carvings probably date from the late 12th Century, or early 13th Century. They were found on the Isle of Lewis at Uig bay sometime before 11th April 1831 and 83 were sold in Edinburgh in by Roderick Pirie and T.A. Forrest. Later 11 piece
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Fleet Leaving Wick HarbourFest 2009

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Wick Habour held its second HarbourFest weekend 26 - 28 June 2009. The boats seen in this film left port on Sunday 28th June 2009 symbolic of the old herring fleets that once left Wick for the fishing grounds. The wekend was a massively popular with many
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Bothwell Castle, Uddingston, Scotland

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Bothwell Castle has a very complex history with strong Douglas family involvement and use by Edward I as his headquarters in Scotland. Never completed to the intended design it was slighted or demolished on more than one occasion.
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Border Reivers

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From 1300s to 1600s; these fericous men's way of life was first born out of need. They were also great poets, artists and musicians. Their descendants today have become presidents, world leaders and some of the first men to walk on the moon. http://www.sc
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Braveheart Soundtrack - Freedom, The Execution Bannockburn (HQ)

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Freedom, The Execution Bannockburn in Braveheart.
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Bannockburn Live 2014 - The Battle Re-Enactment

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This is is the first battle at the Bannockburn Live event in 2014.
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Bannockburn 1314 [Militaria]

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La più grande vittoria della storia scozzese. Uno scontro sanguinoso. Una battaglia cruenta. Robert Bruce, re di Scozia, affronta lo schieramento inglese comandato da re Edoardo II. Con grande intelligenza tattica l'esercito scozzese, seppur in minoranza,
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Recreating A 19th Century Scottish Highland Township

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Caen Highland Township c1813. Cean is located about a mile up the strath from the town of Helmsdale in Sutherland, north east Scotland. A joint project between ourselves and Timespan Museum and Arts Centre. The reconstruction shows a snapshot of life in t
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