NEW 132: We Found a Forgotten Mystic Shrine & Well | Scottish Highlands History & Hidden Sites
in 2023 we moved to a remote Scottish island to be its only two residents along with our pet sheep and cats Beginning our YouTube journey there by sharing the challenges of such a solitary life in a harsh environment while restoring an ancient stone cottage and raising livestock The channel's success grew quickly establishing an online community who share our love of history and kinship and yearn for a simpler time Now we've begun a new life in the beating heart of the Highlands And we invite you to join us as we put down roots in this land of legend of rich tradition and culture and incredible landscapes where the past is close at hand Step back in time with us in this Scottish aisle The holy well of St Ignatius Water bright water pure water for me Drink of the wise the wine of the free etc etc It's all well and good but um I can't get a drink The uh spoon doesn't reach to the water anymore Well the is the water level too low i assume it came out of there and you you took your fill from there Look at the commemorative dates Date of Christ's crucifixion AD.33 Here we've got Peter being crucified upside down having been given the keys to the kingdom AD67 And here Andrew crucified This is where we get our salt tire right st Andrew's flag on Oh we've got Pont Pontifix Maximus here Pope Leo the 13th commemorative And good old Columba It always gets in Donny Columba Maggie as well Got Maggie over here What magguer What was she doing on there wonder how old that is It's hand forged Nice thing Wonder who the last person was to take a drink from it Not me Have you ever been to Glastonbury nope Chalice well no Well Chalice Well water you can drink and people are always there filling up bottles full of the stuff And it's the high iron content which is what people are after But I swear take a like a a glass full of that you're buzzing for hours you are cuz I've done it fortified So it's like whoa I think I had like two glass fulls and it was like I had taken drugs So you could understand why they probably thought that it had magical properties to it Yeah The way it made them feel when they actually drank it Have you seen this like a big millstone but it's uh it's got a hole in the middle of it I mean it may have been a millstone because it's it's circular but that would have had some kind of I'm I'm thinking crucifix in the middle of it Yeah it could have been a wooden one They might have uh it's a it's a Catholic well right so they might have um done like a procession during Lent with a put a wooden cross up in it Why has it got Manchester football club on it well it would have Manchester United Football Club or Manchester City wouldn't it i bet he was a bit annoyed when he when he carved it and he thought "Oh there isn't a Manchester football club There's two." So here we have a commemoration of the crowning of Elizabeth II in 1953 We've got her dad on the side as well I don't understand why that's on there Anointed and crowned I think it's there's a Winston Churchill one here as well What does this say winston Churchill 1940 to 1945 Oh 1951 to 1955 What a lot of people don't know is Winston Churchill was not elected as prime minister during the war years He was shoe warned in nobody liked him in this country Nobody wanted him as prime minister So the moment that the war was over in 1945 he was kicked out of office There was an election an immediate election and he was kicked out of office But then he won again in 1951 for another four years Not a lot of people know that So this cross is older at the bottom It's got the date of 1780 I'm not sure that I can pick that up with a camera I think this must have been the original marker stone marker put up to to show the sight of the well which obviously is far far predates the shrine But they must have they must have had some superstition about the well back into antiquity I think I can see um carving on the front here It's really hard to make out but I'm I'm pretty sure it's not just weathering It has been words at some point Don't know if the camera will pick it up Heat Heat You know the holy I don't know what it is but we've got something on the first throw Well do you want to explain where you are well we're just down by the holy well The the well is literally at the top of that rise there I just thought that this might be a good place to throw uh the magnet in And this is a big bit of iron you've got It's like a gate Is it a gate post or something what's that no it's not Is it some kind of like telegraph pole i mean let me throw it down so you can That was your first throw Yep First throw Yeah maybe a telegraph something or another The magnet keeps attaching itself to my boots cuz I've got my steel toe cap boots on again It's those kind of rocks where you think you've got something Do you know what I mean when you're pulling it back keeps catching It keeps catching on the rocks and you think you've got something significant At least it's a wee bit sandy here standing on a sandy beach Well it's not deep either is it well so if you lose it you can go in and get it Well you can Think I've got something No I haven't Oh no I call a tree You just can't get a good enough swing can you nah but I think we want to be checking along the banks anyway rather than out in the middle here Last row We're looking for swords axes St Ignatius's shields holy sword Nope Well uh that's one each isn't it Thought you said that was the last throw Well you know bit of poetic license Okay Oh look It's actually unscrewing now Going to have to be careful with that I tightened it up when I threw it in Okay Well I need lunch All right Let's go Well we're out for a sunny walk aren't we it's blazing hot We don't have microphones on so we've got to speak up Uh we just thought we'd take uh a few seconds out to say we're in need of a friendly local land owner who uh wants to give us permission to use a metal detecting gear on their land because you know we've got everything now haven't we we just got nowhere to dig We got nothing to say about that Well there's lots of freshly tilled fields about at the minute The only thing the only problem we've got is trying to find a land owner friendly to us You think we will Well if if anybody out there has got some tilled uh fields I don't mind It's just me and Kate and a metal detector All the usual rules apply What is it 50/50 if anything gets sold But it all has to go to the fines leaison officer doesn't it well if it's anything significant if Thank you Look at this That originally had a thatched roof Oh what look at the picture So this is St Nian's Church It doesn't actually say when it was built Perhaps they they don't really know Um it says it was built almost on the site of an old school Um let's go and have a look inside if it's open Hopefully it will be What a spot it's on Goes right down to the water's edge There's like a little circular K down there as well Moment of truth Hey a lovely little uh little portrait of the church on the wall It's a nice building We're back here again on Lake Meekly It might as well be the Sea of Galilee It's so uh blue and sunny It is quite beautiful Doesn't feel like Scotland at the minute We've had 4 days of what almost 20° I think it actually said it got to 21 yesterday up here Sheep aren't happy Well they are in the morning but not like mid-after afternoon seeking shade Yeah they're they're crashed out most of the day just laid on the grass with legs out enjoying themselves They're not getting shared for another month are they well the end of May isn't it i' I'd be thinking about doing them now but um apparently we can expect perhaps another snow dump this month It's too uh it's too early for that All it takes is for that for it to turn and as you say we get a massive uh snowfall and they'll be freezing to death Just over there behind you is where we nearly lost the drone The last time we were on the other side weren't we i keep saying we I wasn't flying it The the reason for it is well we didn't nearly lose it because the drone has got the capacity to know when it's losing signal and just come straight back home which is what it did eventually But I didn't realize how high up we were and how low down I was going And I got to a point where it just cut the signal out because obviously the land was higher than where the drone was It just cut the signal out completely And it paused and I said to you "Uh-oh." I expected you to use an
exploitive or something like that but you just said "Uh-oh." It's only the second time that's happened first time was the second time I used it on the island but it did exactly the same thing It lost signal it froze did some bleeping and then turned around and came straight back home Back in the day this would have been a really beautiful spot wasn't it well it still is And I think it's a it's an interesting location to put a wee church because water makes you so reflective right yeah You can't help but think about Christ walking on water You know the one thing about this new uh positioning of the camera and the car What's that it focuses on you more than me All the sheep they were like "Oh it's just too much." Poor things It's like imagine walking around now in like the equivalent of two sheepkin coats Well my lady who's been my massage therapist lady who's been helping my neck said that April you can expect another snow dump up here She said the little old ladies always complain about it every single year even though they've experienced it for the past thousand years A snow dump in April despite the good weather What's your um what's the best thing you've overheard an elderly an elderly lady saying in the post office queue uh back in the late ' 90s Oh have you heard of that tint internet have you heard of that tint internet george keeps going on about the tint internet Have you heard about the tint internet i was in the post office queue once and there was a little old lady in front of me and she had an her hair up like a like a Victorian She had a hairpiece at the back and uh when I was standing behind her kind of looking at her hair this little spider popped out of her hairpiece and walked across her head and popped back in again That freaked me out I didn't know what to do What's the social etiquette you got a spider in your wig Robbie Burns didn't write about that did he he did Oh wiggy spider You scarlin fairly Yeah something like that Something unpronouncable that only a handful of people would ever understand It's not the same is it with Shakespeare Everybody understands Shakespeare Nobody understands Burns A friend of our family swears he was on a coach and he overheard the two ladies behind him having a conversation and one of them asked how so and so such and such was How's old Abby doing these days ah he's no wheel He's no at all wheel Why what's wrong with him well he's dead What didn't understand a word of what you just said Look Buffalo Everybody's in a rush today Everybody's in a rush I just got overtaken by nodding Look at the speed it's going I'm doing 50 I know You didn't react to my uh look to Tonka Tatona John bar This is one of uh Katie's only impressions Do it again Bar I don't do any impressions One thing I can't do is impressions But I don't I my what I do um it's not Baron Munchousen the other guy What will become of the Baron um the Scottish guy from that narrates the repair shop I do him quite often Geston that's very niche This How many people in the US watch the repair shop i don't know You know the Australians have got their own repair shop Yeah How dare they how dare they i think you'll find where you invented it
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