Well I wasn’t going to do this but now you’ve given this perfect opportunity I would like to say that tires is the only correct spelling and everyone else is wrong.
much like squirrels, the archeologist buries their treasures for the winter, unlike the squirrel, the archeologist remembering where they buried their sites is good for the preservation of the site.
Well... squirrels could probably find their treasures if they buried them under 5000 tires. Probably. Actually, now that i think about it, squirrels would probably just bury their treasures IN the tires.
"I created a multi-level marketing scheme to fund a co-ordinated campaign to vandalise 47 of the world's best preserved neolithic cave painting sites."
@@Terratops474 ...in which Tom invents a time machine and discovers the fate of the Library of Alexandria in a spectacular example of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Visited the Ness of Brodgar a couple of years ago, their free tour is an absolute must-see. There's 4 or 5 UNESCO world heritage sites on Orkney and it's not a big Island at all
The title implies that Tom has finally lost it and is destroying historical sites. This will be followed by "I help set fire to a Joshua tree," "I carve loss into the walls at Petra," and the ever popular "Eating mummies just like they used to do."
How can "covering" be understood as destroying ? It's the reverse of an excavation. To continue in the next year or with an other generation of archeologists.
There's a lot of amazing Neolithic archaeological sites in Orkney, and many historic buildings dating back hundreds of years. Orkney has one of the highest ratios of historic buildings vs modern buildings being lived in in the UK. We're restoring a 250 year old watermill in Orkney into a home, and its not the oldest building on the island (it is one of the oldest watermills in Scotland though!). The high wind speeds also mean every island in Orkney is covered with wind turbines, and the north sea's tides mean the ocean has lots of tidal power too - Orkney exports *far* more power than it consumes, all from renewable sources. We would export more, but the undersea cables can't carry any more energy to mainland Scotland, so many wind turbines will spend a lot of their time idle (curtailed) during the windiest weather.
@@dgill441 Right now we're doing the roof, which is why we haven't posted a video in awhile. Definitely a challenge to reclaim as much of the timbers as possible while building a waterproof/insulated roof without a crane or team of builders!
@@M33f3r One island has an experimental plant that converts excess power into hydrogen which they hope to use for busses/trucks, potentially ferries. Rather than curtail the turbines, convert the excess energy into something that can be stored.
"They didn't need a tire there, they just gave me one to get me out of the way" Saying it like it is, legend. Keep up the awesome work mate, and keep those tires down.
The fact that most other people would have not openly stated how they are not actually helping, but where given a tire just to make the video is a big part of what makes me like tom so much. Incredible amounts of honesty and always such intresting topics.
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Can we all just appreciate Tom making the strangest topics fascinating to watch Edit: I feel like I should clarify: I don't mean to convey that I think archaeology is strange, in fact I enjoy the topic myself. I was more referring to Tom's general videos, and also the aspect of covering a 5,000 year old neolithic complex with old tyres/tires
@@Thoran666 Was just going to mention that. Archaeology and its preservation is hardly strange. Also, with Time Team starting up again, it would be amazing if Tom could get invited to a site, and find something to make a video about.
I got to help out with an archaeological dig in Jordan about 15 years ago, and it's amazing how quickly stuff starts to deteriorate when out from under the dirt. Protecting it between seasons is a must.
Now, this is environment friendly, instead of spending energy to shred the tires and sell them. These tires are being used as is, with no energy spent but still repurposed. There is a reason why "Reuse" comes before "Recycle" in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
I just _hate_ moving old tyres around. Generally within 10 seconds I end up soaking myself with splashing water from inside a tyre, and after 20 seconds I've soaked myself twice and I'm ready to murder someone.
I'm glad you was transparent about your tire placement. Nothing grinds my gears more than people who do stuff on the camera for no other reason than footage and pass it off as a genuine action, alongside stuff like forced small talk or the people who can't help but speak like they're a bad actor constantly.
"I'll be honest... When I say 'I helped' I mean that they gave me a tire to play with and kindly asked me to stay on the side they'd already done." Oh Tom
@@saddamhussein8489 It might be boring and bleak to you, but to many people living in overpopulated overdeveloped areas of the mainland like myself, it sounds like paradise.
@@TheOriginalNCDV that's why so many people go there to live and realise they hate it very quickly. It happens so often that islanders avoid making friends with newcomers for usually at least 1 or 2 winters. The grass is not greener.
@@saddamhussein8489 If you find Orkney boring it means that you're a boring person, it's a fascinating place with an amazing history that only a dim wit wouldn't find interesting, sorry chap.
I was thinking of that too. "As you can see here in the lab results, there is an unaccountable gap between a "stone age" and a "rubber age" on this dolphin planet, giving credence to the stories of upright primates being the previous dominant life form on their planet."
@@ikitclaw7146 In my imaginary scenario, humanity faced a terrible calamity akin to the Chixalub impact, compounded by wars over remaining safe places, and died out, never returning to this dig site. So many centuries later, aliens and the dolphins combine their intellect and technology to explore the remains of the humans.
Real Scott: > "They didn't actually need the tire there. They just gave me one so I could be out of the way of the volunteers who doing the actual hard work." Title Scott: > "I helped."
Just back from a holiday on Orkney. Fantastic place. Spent most of it crawling in the mud and dust into ancient cairns/tombs. They are literally everywhere - lots of them free to have a look around as well. Great trip.
Nearby this site, Skara Brae, you look at an almost untouched living house of 3000 years. The sea will take it in 100 years time, but go see it, the level of detail is outstanding.
Even more, its 5000 years and they've built a sea wall to try and prevent it from being claimed by the sea but you never know, the sea's a powerful thing...
I've put plastic tires on feed piles and it's a hard job. Good job to the volunteers! Plus if you miss a spot the wind will get under and will slowly move tires and push that plastic around like a boat sail.
Orkney is full of these sites. There are stone henges 1000s of years older than Stonehenge itself. And other Neolithic sites from 5000 years ago all over the many islands.
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Do you mean stone circles, or henges? It's really a pity that the most famous henge is Stonehenge because it makes people think the stone circles are henges.
It’s stuff like this that makes me think “5000 years ago someone built these to protect themselves (that’s a bigger deal than can be expressed in text), now 5000 years later… we protect them”
I love how Highland and archipelago Scottish accents sound very slightly Scandinavian - the true reminder of Viking settlement and, in the case of the Orkneys and Shetlands, sharing of Norse cultural elements.
In many ways Scotland has more in common with Norway and Denmark than it has with England. Once they've got their independence, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the political/cultural direction they move in. Why be tied to Little England on its downward spiral into insignificance, when you can become part of Scandinavia?
@@paulhaynes8045 Absolutely, there has always been a good connection with Norway via the sea contacts. During the WWII also Shetlands played a big role in supporting Norwegian resistance.
Congratulations on your work on covering up history! Be proud. We will always repeat history that is forgotten. Then people say *noooo* and then realize...Sumeria, Egypt, Greece, Rome....many more
You helped just by making this video and letting people know that this excavation site even exists! :) In the hours since you have posted it, half a million people now know something they didn't before! That's helping!
The same tactic is used all over the midwest USA to store silage. Plastic with tires on top. For mosquito control reasons they usually cut the tread off and just use the sidewalls but same principle. They're nearly free, heavy enough to not blow away, easy to move, long lasting, don't puncture the plastic membrane, etc.
Theory: "I hit a landmark with a hammer", "i held up london London a bridge" and then this video, are just plausible reason Tom is going to use to convince the French government to give him access to, and then plot to blow up, the Eiffel tower
Awesome title! I like that you are taking the actual reach of your videos seriously, I hope more quality youtubers like yourself follow suit. Keep spreading the knowledge!!
as someone from a tropical country the sight of the tires scares me as they are potent breeding places for mosquitoes, which can spread dengue and malaria. Then i thought of the winds and thought mosquitoes wouldn't be an issue :D
If anyone thinks this is a low-tech solution I'd like to remind them that the era it covers would have been hard-pressed to come up with a steel-belted tire, let alone sheets of plastic.
Hell, even people 200 years ago would have been gobsmacked. Plastic was only invented just over 100 years ago, and vulcanized rubber (what eventually led to rubber tires) was discovered in the 1840s.
Sadness, the poor BF Goodrich is just siting there on their own (in Tom's 'here's a tyre, go over there' corner). It seems someone didn't change them as a pair :(
The entire area is as rich in finds as Salisbury Plain, and a lot of it is older than Stonehenge. I go to Orkney once every few years and there's always something new discovered!
I was afraid that the purpose of these tires was going to be for a heartbreaking reason -- that they were going to cover an archealogical dig to prevent vandalism. Recently I obtained a "passport" that identifies a place per Utah county to go visit, and three or four of the places are archealogical sites -- but they have been closed to the public because of vandalism. While it can be said that there *is* vandalism being committed, it's at least the mindless vandalism of nature, and not the deliberate vandalism of humans.
I recently visited the bristlecone pine grove of Great Basin National Park and saw trees more than 3000 years of age and it blew my mind at the time. To think that a 5000 years old site like this can exist and is being preserved is even more mind buggling !
@@irgendwieanders2121 Hieroglyphics are one of the original forms of writing. It has some symbols representing phonetic sounds, and you use the order of the symbols to encode messages. All individual letters (including our own) are "advanced paintings", but when you can put them together in specific orders to mean something more that's writing.
sure .... the dust we live in makes a dusty surface unless cleaned , outside its worse .... mix in 5000 years and the dust becomes deposits . The walls havnt moved just the surface has .
One stone is a stone, two stones is a feature, three stones is a wall. Now, I've always assumed that is meant in a horizontal fashion, but perhaps it applies vertically. If you've got three stones on top of each other, doesn't matter if it's buried, it's still a standing wall.
If in 20 years people haven't constructed some sort of permanent cover to "one of the most important archeological sites of western Europe" then it might be a good idea to cover it again with soil and leave it for a generation that will appreciate it
@@SuperDavidEF He's probably talking more about a permanent structure with a roof that will allow access but still protect it from the elements. Think of the building that's over the Terra Cotta Army in China.
While a number of "Solutions" quickly come to mind, plastic tarps and tires are cheap and efficient and volunteers are also cheap. Most if not all of the semi-permanent/permanent solutions would require constant maintenance. The price of manpower, plastic and tires is much less then the constant maintenance. While it may seem better, a "permanent" solution would not be as overall effective.
@@slashplane I don't agree, if this site is as important as it is stated in the video, then it should be protected. The current solution seems faulty to me in a number of ways. One year the cover might not be placed correctly, or one of the volunteers might break something while placing the cover/tires, someone might come at night and take the cover off etc. Not to mention that a permanent structure would allow researches to study the ruins all year round and would also protect in the summer in case something unexpected happens. I am not an expert but this seems to me as a temporary solution that is drugging for far too long.
@@theodorosconstantinides7417 A building would be ideal and if the archeologist had the budget I am sure they would do it. Agian it's about overall efficiency. The cost of building 99% reliable solution for one site is enough to make a probably reliable solution for all thier sites. They don't have enough money to make the ideal solution for all thier sites so they must use thier money as efficiently as possible. It's not really how much they care, or how important it is to them, it's about how much money they have. Since they don't have the money for the ideal they must go with the most efficient method.
Tomus Skett (1000 bc Tom Scott) : 'I helped cover a 5,000-year-old monument with worn-out clay pots" Modern day archaeologists: "Ancient civilisations had an obsession with pottery from all over Europe and Asia"
Neat to see this. I apparently have some Orcadian genetics, so I'd like to visit sometime in my life. I'd be grateful to have these old sites hang around for just a few more years.
A neolithic monument that spawns a random amount of old worn tires everyday unless a D-class is sacrificed to the spirit within? Euclid with potential to cover the world in tires.
I know, "helped" is doing a lot of work in that title. Also, please confine your "tires" vs "tyres" discussions to this thread...
Tyres looks better than Tires
Tires
your content make me think im smart when im stupid
thanks tom, very cool
Well I wasn’t going to do this but now you’ve given this perfect opportunity I would like to say that tires is the only correct spelling and everyone else is wrong.
"they just gave me one so I was out of the way of the volenteers who are doing the actual hard work" is a great line.
a self concious, out of the box and straight answer for that one for sure :)
At least he's honest, especially compared to that German reporter.
@@The_Caledonian don't mistake RTL for journalism
@@noahluppe what is journalism?
@@nikolairostov3326 At this point, something you'd need archaeology to find!
much like squirrels, the archeologist buries their treasures for the winter, unlike the squirrel, the archeologist remembering where they buried their sites is good for the preservation of the site.
Ahaha
But not for the spreading of new archeological site seedlings.
Well... squirrels could probably find their treasures if they buried them under 5000 tires.
Probably.
Actually, now that i think about it, squirrels would probably just bury their treasures IN the tires.
@Oskar winters Source?
Squirrels actually remember where they buried most of their nuts. Their brains actually grow every year to aid their memory.
Coming up next: Archaeologists discover hundreds of rubber tires near a 5,000-year-old monument.
BF Goodrich must be one of the gods they worshiped
@@sionalunevans They also revered some sort mythical artifact they called the Fire Stone.
@@Archgeek0 Seems like they had a good year. Wonder if there are any michelin restaurants?
@@kaldogorath the dishes where handkooked
Pirelli:
Vulcan God of the steel belted radial
Between this and hitting 3,000 year old art with a hammer, I'm almost certain that Tom will soon be barred from entering any archeological site at all
"I dug up 6,000 years old art and sold it to private people only to shoot down their helicopter with a heat seeking missile"
"I set fire to a 2,300 year old library."
"I helped create a future archeological site in Central London using 10,000 tonnes of TNT"
"I created a multi-level marketing scheme to fund a co-ordinated campaign to vandalise 47 of the world's best preserved neolithic cave painting sites."
@@Terratops474 ...in which Tom invents a time machine and discovers the fate of the Library of Alexandria in a spectacular example of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Visited the Ness of Brodgar a couple of years ago, their free tour is an absolute must-see. There's 4 or 5 UNESCO world heritage sites on Orkney and it's not a big Island at all
I wanna visit too
@@DyslexicMitochondria hey bro I watch your videos. Lovely seeing you here
@Richard Harrold The Orkney mainland is often just called Orkney.
I was born and bred here, a privilege 👌🏼
@@Dorgpoop wrong
Alternative title: Sometimes an archeological site is tired and needs a blanket to go into winter sleep
There's a site I've helped on for a few years that also uses tyres and tarps to cover the site and we refer to it as putting the barrow to bed
not a very clickbaity title though.. also a bit of a spoiler
The title implies that Tom has finally lost it and is destroying historical sites. This will be followed by "I help set fire to a Joshua tree," "I carve loss into the walls at Petra," and the ever popular "Eating mummies just like they used to do."
This is already kind of a follow up to "I Hit 3,000-Year-Old Art With a Hammer"
“I vandalized every UNESCO world heritage site and am now declared persona non grata by all 196(or so) countries”
''I visited the Library of Alexandria with a torch''
@@Nakaska "Taking a torch to the Library of Alexandria" as a title is more... subtle/double-meaning...
How can "covering" be understood as destroying ? It's the reverse of an excavation. To continue in the next year or with an other generation of archeologists.
There's a lot of amazing Neolithic archaeological sites in Orkney, and many historic buildings dating back hundreds of years. Orkney has one of the highest ratios of historic buildings vs modern buildings being lived in in the UK. We're restoring a 250 year old watermill in Orkney into a home, and its not the oldest building on the island (it is one of the oldest watermills in Scotland though!).
The high wind speeds also mean every island in Orkney is covered with wind turbines, and the north sea's tides mean the ocean has lots of tidal power too - Orkney exports *far* more power than it consumes, all from renewable sources. We would export more, but the undersea cables can't carry any more energy to mainland Scotland, so many wind turbines will spend a lot of their time idle (curtailed) during the windiest weather.
That so cool!!! I’ll have to see the progress. What has been the hardest part so far?
@@dgill441 Right now we're doing the roof, which is why we haven't posted a video in awhile. Definitely a challenge to reclaim as much of the timbers as possible while building a waterproof/insulated roof without a crane or team of builders!
Start charging batteries and ship them by the barge load to the mainland. Or set up a power beaming system
@@M33f3r One island has an experimental plant that converts excess power into hydrogen which they hope to use for busses/trucks, potentially ferries. Rather than curtail the turbines, convert the excess energy into something that can be stored.
same with Bedfordshire also rich in viking history too
"They didn't need a tire there, they just gave me one to get me out of the way" Saying it like it is, legend.
Keep up the awesome work mate, and keep those tires down.
The fact that most other people would have not openly stated how they are not actually helping, but where given a tire just to make the video is a big part of what makes me like tom so much. Incredible amounts of honesty and always such intresting topics.
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UA-cam's God-Dad keeps himself grounded. It's a fantastic change of pace.
@@TheJanitorIsIn Your reference: "... UA-cam's God-Dad..." is a novelty. Of whom do you actually refer? And, if you do reply, then please avoid snarkiness. Thx
Your "help" is in the publicity you give to this awesome project that the mainstream media largely ignore. Thank you! 👍👍👍
Main media focus on afghan😅
Tire is a Palestinian important city.
A Tyre sits on a wheel.
@@Ron.S. you are incorrect
The wheeling and dealing Tom does to get into such interesting places. He's on a roll!
Why did you have to add a pun
If I were him, I’d never tire of the work
@@alexe8375 Nice pun!
Everybody's getting tired of the puns.
Get some help
Can we all just appreciate Tom making the strangest topics fascinating to watch
Edit: I feel like I should clarify: I don't mean to convey that I think archaeology is strange, in fact I enjoy the topic myself. I was more referring to Tom's general videos, and also the aspect of covering a 5,000 year old neolithic complex with old tyres/tires
Please don't turn this into an appreciation section like on every Daniel LaBelle's video
Strage? Then you have never seen an episode of Time Team. Conserving dig sites is essential to be able to go back later with better technology.
@@Thoran666 Was just going to mention that. Archaeology and its preservation is hardly strange.
Also, with Time Team starting up again, it would be amazing if Tom could get invited to a site, and find something to make a video about.
I always learn so much from Tom
Not a strange topic at all IMO
I got to help out with an archaeological dig in Jordan about 15 years ago, and it's amazing how quickly stuff starts to deteriorate when out from under the dirt. Protecting it between seasons is a must.
Scott just being, given a tyre like 'please, go over there for a moment, we're trying to work'
Tire*
@@d_rock1535 some people spell things differently
@@runawaygemm5397 in my entire lifetime, I have never heard someone say tyre, clearly a typo
@@RubyPiec tyre is the correct British English spelling.
@@ragnkja They learned 2 things today.
Tom just shows us amazing things that I wouldn’t have even heard of if not for him
Moo
Heard*
Heard*
Hard*
Hear! Hear!
My dad works in geophysics and helps archeologists all the time. It's so rare to hear geophysics being mentioned though, I am touched 🥺💜
👍 That's awesome
In the distant future:
“I helped cover 5,000-year-old, worn-out tires with a monument”
Well as of now it says tyres (unless it is regionalised)
@@kkmac7247 It is regionalised!
Don't forgets some idiots will start fire to make a bon fire
Elsewhere, still in the future: "I helped unearth a 5,000-year old monument made out of old, worn-out tires"
Those tires belong in the British museum. New tire exhibit.
Throwing trash on something out of respect is incredibly counter-intuitive - props to whoever thought of this, it's very out-of-the-box!
Farmers use this system to create anaerobic conditions to turn grass cuttings to silage. I would think it's simply an adaptation of that.
Off the rim thinking . . .
Now, this is environment friendly, instead of spending energy to shred the tires and sell them. These tires are being used as is, with no energy spent but still repurposed. There is a reason why "Reuse" comes before "Recycle" in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Very true, what are “tires” though? It’s tyre.
@@gglreallysucks5512
US spelling is tires. Just another quirk between British and US English.
It always makes me happy to see tires being used for weights on farms, blasting mats, construction sign bases, etc
unless god forbid they catch fire then, oops we really shouldn't have used tires
@@gglreallysucks5512 silence, with your “armour” and “colours” I don’t wanna hear it.
Funfact: this same technique is used by farmers to protect their silage.
Hopefully nothing will ferment underneath though.
@@schmid1.079 not really. Keeps everything fresher and you have less waste
@@schmid1.079 that's some beer for da cows :D
It not only protects it, the exclusion of air helps the grass to pickle itself.
@@tomrogue13 I was reffering to the archeological site, not the silage.
Tom: _"Please keep your tires vs tyres discussions to this thread"_
me: *_"rubber band"_*
No no... he's got a point.
The thought of just referring to them as rubber bands is cracking me up and in the glory of english ambiguity it is a legit definition.
i mean technically....
@@ayhamboi9720 What do you mean "technically"? It *IS* a rubber band.
As far as I'm concerned it's called a "Reifen" but also I'm german and that is gut so.
next video: "this is the button that detonates a soviet-era nuclear missile, and i just pressed it"
A big shout out to all the volunteers in the world, helping to keep things going. You are great people. 👍
I just _hate_ moving old tyres around. Generally within 10 seconds I end up soaking myself with splashing water from inside a tyre, and after 20 seconds I've soaked myself twice and I'm ready to murder someone.
What happens after 30 seconds!? 😱
"tyres" lmfao
@@SnoFitzroy Ah, you must be American then.
@@float32 Kicking, screaming, stamping, tantrums, throwing stuff(probably more tyres), and more getting wet. With lots of profanity too of course.
@@JoeBob79569 I'm imagining one minute later you getting into your car and driving away with screeching tyres.
I'm glad you was transparent about your tire placement. Nothing grinds my gears more than people who do stuff on the camera for no other reason than footage and pass it off as a genuine action, alongside stuff like forced small talk or the people who can't help but speak like they're a bad actor constantly.
can we just appreciate how Tom find these things and shows us for free?
The most amazing thing about a Tom Scott video is that you can't tell if it's from 4 years or 4 minutes ago when it pops up in your feed
Even the red T-shirt doesn't seem to have worn out
@@electron8262 A timeless classic
@@electron8262 Even 5000 years later, Tom will still be covered in attire.
Usually. The Arecibo telescope video being an exception with a definite ‘made before Dec 1 2020’ kind of feel.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the statement at the end. Keeping it real made the video that much better.
"I'll be honest... When I say 'I helped' I mean that they gave me a tire to play with and kindly asked me to stay on the side they'd already done."
Oh Tom
I know right? It's amazing lines like this that keep me watching!
tyre*
@@DiGatsby *tire ;)
@@ih82r8 It's funny that Tom would use the American spelling.
@@renerpho I agree. Maybe his demographic audience numbers make it make sense.
A real privilege to call these islands my home. Born and raised here along with many generations before me👌🏼
It's boring and bleak, I've lived in kirkwall and on one of the outer isles. Nothing there, just farmers
@@saddamhussein8489 It might be boring and bleak to you, but to many people living in overpopulated overdeveloped areas of the mainland like myself, it sounds like paradise.
@@TheOriginalNCDV that's why so many people go there to live and realise they hate it very quickly. It happens so often that islanders avoid making friends with newcomers for usually at least 1 or 2 winters. The grass is not greener.
@@saddamhussein8489 very true!
@@saddamhussein8489 If you find Orkney boring it means that you're a boring person, it's a fascinating place with an amazing history that only a dim wit wouldn't find interesting, sorry chap.
You always bring us small snippits of life but they are SO packed with information about the world we live in. Your channel astounds me.
Can we appreciate how his videos never get boring
*appreciates*
It never gets tiring
*never gonna let us down*
Tom Scott - *Places one tyre*
"Thanks everyone, I'll be going now"
I appreciate the honesty......hard to find anywhere today. Especially in the news media.
Look forward to archeologists in a few thousands years trying to decipher this one. Great video.
Neolithic condom factory?
I'm gonna let someone else have the "r/woosh" on this 😂
I was thinking of that too.
"As you can see here in the lab results, there is an unaccountable gap between a "stone age" and a "rubber age" on this dolphin planet, giving credence to the stories of upright primates being the previous dominant life form on their planet."
why would they leave the tires there for thousands of years? its not a land fill, they are only there for the rough weather season.
@@ikitclaw7146 In my imaginary scenario, humanity faced a terrible calamity akin to the Chixalub impact, compounded by wars over remaining safe places, and died out, never returning to this dig site.
So many centuries later, aliens and the dolphins combine their intellect and technology to explore the remains of the humans.
Tom’s next video title:
“I helped demolish a 500 year old cemetery”
“I helped exhume Margaret Thatcher’s remains”
No he’d probably spell it “cemeteri” considering the title of this video...
@@thrownstair there's no need to dig up monsters.
toms next next video: "I helped demolish your 50 year old mother"
Because it's not old enough?
Thank you! Fantastic work from all!
Tom has reinvented the art of making documentaries
Short, to the point, very informative and his attitude makes you watch all the vid
@@alphazero1426 Exactly... Also the topics are very exotic so 🔥
Documentaries still exist?
The Best Narcissist ..........yes
"Mini-docs"
Real Scott:
> "They didn't actually need the tire there. They just gave me one so I could be out of the way of the volunteers who doing the actual hard work."
Title Scott:
> "I helped."
Technically
1 tire is 1 tire
@@kllrnooooova 1 tire is 1 tyre
Putting 1 screw in is still by definition "helping"...
He helped by not getting in the way
Just back from a holiday on Orkney. Fantastic place. Spent most of it crawling in the mud and dust into ancient cairns/tombs. They are literally everywhere - lots of them free to have a look around as well. Great trip.
Nearby this site, Skara Brae, you look at an almost untouched living house of 3000 years. The sea will take it in 100 years time, but go see it, the level of detail is outstanding.
Even more, its 5000 years and they've built a sea wall to try and prevent it from being claimed by the sea but you never know, the sea's a powerful thing...
For someone that enjoys looking at old Tires, this site is a gold mine when covered. So gonna put it down to visit in the offseason.
2:50
i knew it from the start, but good on you for being honest about it. most journalists wouldn't even mention it.
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I've put plastic tires on feed piles and it's a hard job. Good job to the volunteers! Plus if you miss a spot the wind will get under and will slowly move tires and push that plastic around like a boat sail.
Awesome as always Mr. Scott …!!!
It's so wonderful that people are dedicating themselves to projects and preservation that will hopefully span hundreds of lifetimes.
Easy way to earn a living.
Orkney is full of these sites. There are stone henges 1000s of years older than Stonehenge itself. And other Neolithic sites from 5000 years ago all over the many islands.
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Do you mean stone circles, or henges? It's really a pity that the most famous henge is Stonehenge because it makes people think the stone circles are henges.
@@Milamberinx most of them were stone circles. Or atleast the ones I visited.
@@Milamberinx Stonehenge is ironically not a henge.
@@brendanmurphy8727 Stonehenge is a henge, it's just that the bit we look at isn't the henge.
2:50 Tom, your honesty in these videos makes them all the more special! :)
It’s stuff like this that makes me think “5000 years ago someone built these to protect themselves (that’s a bigger deal than can be expressed in text), now 5000 years later… we protect them”
I love how Highland and archipelago Scottish accents sound very slightly Scandinavian - the true reminder of Viking settlement and, in the case of the Orkneys and Shetlands, sharing of Norse cultural elements.
True, both Orkney and Shetland have Nordic crosses on their flags as well
In Scotland some people say bairns for children..
I think it's fair to say Nick Card does not really have much of an Orkney accent though.
In many ways Scotland has more in common with Norway and Denmark than it has with England. Once they've got their independence, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the political/cultural direction they move in. Why be tied to Little England on its downward spiral into insignificance, when you can become part of Scandinavia?
@@paulhaynes8045 Absolutely, there has always been a good connection with Norway via the sea contacts. During the WWII also Shetlands played a big role in supporting Norwegian resistance.
Congratulations on your work on covering up history! Be proud. We will always repeat history that is forgotten. Then people say *noooo* and then realize...Sumeria, Egypt, Greece, Rome....many more
I was "tyre"d of boring content, until I discovered Tom Scott, the "hub" of informational UA-cam content.
that was wheely good
RUBBER!
Is... is that one?
*rimshot*
I think, that joke would work even better with the spelling "tire"d.
Looks like tiring work.
You helped just by making this video and letting people know that this excavation site even exists! :) In the hours since you have posted it, half a million people now know something they didn't before! That's helping!
The same tactic is used all over the midwest USA to store silage. Plastic with tires on top. For mosquito control reasons they usually cut the tread off and just use the sidewalls but same principle. They're nearly free, heavy enough to not blow away, easy to move, long lasting, don't puncture the plastic membrane, etc.
It's cool to see the stuff that is only just now being rediscovered, although it makes me sad to think of all the history that we can never ever know.
Imagine the amount of historical artifacts that are covered in concrete
Was just there last week(as a tourist). Excited to see what else comes out of the dig
Thank you for this video. I am so glad they are saving this area.
I saw the title and thought Tom had just gone mad with power.
Theory: "I hit a landmark with a hammer", "i held up london London a bridge" and then this video, are just plausible reason Tom is going to use to convince the French government to give him access to, and then plot to blow up, the Eiffel tower
The French don't much care for the tower except as tourism revenue.
"I blew up a building that had historical significance" does seem like a tom scott video.
We are going to steal... THE MOON!
Preservation efforts are always a delight to see.
this sounds like an algorithm generated title
If BBC Coast ever came back, Tom would be a prime choice for me as one of the hosts
There's a vacancy, now that Neil Oliver has gone ultra-gammon.
Tom for PM tbh
Might as well also make him the next King of Great Britain while we’re at it
@@osdever
Nah... That bloke that plays the piano in unusual places should be next UK PM.
Awesome title! I like that you are taking the actual reach of your videos seriously, I hope more quality youtubers like yourself follow suit. Keep spreading the knowledge!!
So this is where Hamilton puts his Pole Position Tires.
*sees that Tom Scott uploaded*
*turns off adblock*
Got family in Orkney and visited Ness quite a few times, sponsored some spots too. It's an amazing site!
Fly-tipper in court- "I was covering a 5000 year old monument, Your Honour"
as someone from a tropical country the sight of the tires scares me as they are potent breeding places for mosquitoes, which can spread dengue and malaria.
Then i thought of the winds and thought mosquitoes wouldn't be an issue :D
Can we just appreciate the high quality of Tom’s videos
If anyone thinks this is a low-tech solution I'd like to remind them that the era it covers would have been hard-pressed to come up with a steel-belted tire, let alone sheets of plastic.
Hell, even people 200 years ago would have been gobsmacked. Plastic was only invented just over 100 years ago, and vulcanized rubber (what eventually led to rubber tires) was discovered in the 1840s.
@@AugmentedSmurf 1821? They would've used sailcloth, and to weigh it down, probably bales of rigging rope.
Tyres are very flammable, hopefully there is 24 hour watch to prevent a massive fire pit.
Probably not much of a problem on a wet ocean island in winter tbh
it's orkney in winter, it's impossible to light a match.
the only way thats gonna catch fire is with petrol and malicious intentions
Fascinatingly simple solution to a rather difficult problem.
@0:30 - as a student of Time Team, I will forever hear this as "geofizz" spoken by Tony Robinson.
Probably all the tyres that Nikita Mazespin burns through each race, given his talent of flatspotting the tyres with a graceful spin.
Doing what you can with what you got. I love it.
Looks like that was really tiring to film.... I'll see myself out
Leave
May I "pun"ch you good sir?
At least you didn't write "tyring"
You should be on the stage, there's one leaving in an hour.
Certainly tiresome work.
I don't know if all monster truck owners are in tears of beauty or disgust.
Sadness, the poor BF Goodrich is just siting there on their own (in Tom's 'here's a tyre, go over there' corner). It seems someone didn't change them as a pair :(
Bless you, young sir.
Tom: “I helped cover an archeological site with old tires”
Me: “You monster!”
Is that a reference
@@sebby324 I'm going to guess it's Greta Thumbburger's reference
@@tydshiin5783 greater thunder burger
If I were rich, I'd love to turn up to places like this and pay for a proper type of covering that allowed the archaeologists to work all year round.
Anything that would be stable against the wide would require groundworks to stabilise, and that would put the archaeology at risk.
@@nialltracey2599 There's a solution for everything with enough money.
Giant glass dome.
@@LeightonGill Except for winning love and wars in Afghanistan.
@@LeightonGill But why spend so much money when the cheaper alternative is available, and allows the money to go toward more pressing things?
The entire area is as rich in finds as Salisbury Plain, and a lot of it is older than Stonehenge. I go to Orkney once every few years and there's always something new discovered!
I like how most of Tom's titles make it seem like hes committing crimes
I was afraid that the purpose of these tires was going to be for a heartbreaking reason -- that they were going to cover an archealogical dig to prevent vandalism. Recently I obtained a "passport" that identifies a place per Utah county to go visit, and three or four of the places are archealogical sites -- but they have been closed to the public because of vandalism.
While it can be said that there *is* vandalism being committed, it's at least the mindless vandalism of nature, and not the deliberate vandalism of humans.
They could put on the site cameras. They littered the site with tyres, what happens when some one start burning a tyre and spreading .
I recently visited the bristlecone pine grove of Great Basin National Park and saw trees more than 3000 years of age and it blew my mind at the time. To think that a 5000 years old site like this can exist and is being preserved is even more mind buggling !
Tom: "around 5000 years ago, when writing hadn't really been invented"
Ancient Egypt: "What am I, chopped liver?"
If you had at least referenced cuneiform...
Hieroglyphs are not writing, them are advanced painting...
@@irgendwieanders2121 Hieroglyphics are one of the original forms of writing. It has some symbols representing phonetic sounds, and you use the order of the symbols to encode messages.
All individual letters (including our own) are "advanced paintings", but when you can put them together in specific orders to mean something more that's writing.
Does it _really_ count as "standing" when said wall has actually been _buried_ for thousands of years?
if your house got covered in snow for 1 night, your house would still be considered standing, so 1 night , 5000 years, same thing really.
Assisted standing.
Well, it didn't fall, so...
sure .... the dust we live in makes a dusty surface unless cleaned , outside its worse .... mix in 5000 years and the dust becomes deposits . The walls havnt moved just the surface has .
One stone is a stone, two stones is a feature, three stones is a wall.
Now, I've always assumed that is meant in a horizontal fashion, but perhaps it applies vertically. If you've got three stones on top of each other, doesn't matter if it's buried, it's still a standing wall.
I thank you for having captions on all of your videos
not that it matters
but we used same technique
to cover silage in a bunker silo
tip: spin/hurl tire like a discus to save walking
We still do!
You're not going to damage silage if the tire lands hard - but you might damage some delicate archaeology if it does.
But otherwise, sure.
"Just throw tires at priceless historical artifacts! Trust me, it'll be great!"
That looks like some tiring work
Just like to say that Tom is such a great story teller 👍 Cheer Tom for providing quality content always.
If in 20 years people haven't constructed some sort of permanent cover to "one of the most important archeological sites of western Europe" then it might be a good idea to cover it again with soil and leave it for a generation that will appreciate it
What kind of 'permanent cover' would you suggest that can be applied every autumn and removed every spring for more archeological probing to continue?
@@SuperDavidEF He's probably talking more about a permanent structure with a roof that will allow access but still protect it from the elements. Think of the building that's over the Terra Cotta Army in China.
While a number of "Solutions" quickly come to mind, plastic tarps and tires are cheap and efficient and volunteers are also cheap.
Most if not all of the semi-permanent/permanent solutions would require constant maintenance.
The price of manpower, plastic and tires is much less then the constant maintenance.
While it may seem better, a "permanent" solution would not be as overall effective.
@@slashplane I don't agree, if this site is as important as it is stated in the video, then it should be protected. The current solution seems faulty to me in a number of ways. One year the cover might not be placed correctly, or one of the volunteers might break something while placing the cover/tires, someone might come at night and take the cover off etc. Not to mention that a permanent structure would allow researches to study the ruins all year round and would also protect in the summer in case something unexpected happens. I am not an expert but this seems to me as a temporary solution that is drugging for far too long.
@@theodorosconstantinides7417 A building would be ideal and if the archeologist had the budget I am sure they would do it.
Agian it's about overall efficiency. The cost of building 99% reliable solution for one site is enough to make a probably reliable solution for all thier sites.
They don't have enough money to make the ideal solution for all thier sites so they must use thier money as efficiently as possible.
It's not really how much they care, or how important it is to them, it's about how much money they have.
Since they don't have the money for the ideal they must go with the most efficient method.
I helped cover up war crimes in Yugoslavia with mountains of Dirt
Tom Scott
- 2002
What a remarkably elegant solution!
Tomus Skett (1000 bc Tom Scott) : 'I helped cover a 5,000-year-old monument with worn-out clay pots"
Modern day archaeologists: "Ancient civilisations had an obsession with pottery from all over Europe and Asia"
Finally watched a UA-cam video released within 1 minute
Neat to see this. I apparently have some Orcadian genetics, so I'd like to visit sometime in my life. I'd be grateful to have these old sites hang around for just a few more years.
Waiting for an SCP article about this
depending the height of the stack it should be considered class euclid.
The archaeological dig or the tires?
@@catfish552 Yes
A neolithic monument that spawns a random amount of old worn tires everyday unless a D-class is sacrificed to the spirit within? Euclid with potential to cover the world in tires.
@@ikitclaw7146 YES