by Mark Nicol | Jun 9, 2025 | Videos
📍 The Only Scottish Town in England – Should Berwick Come Home? 🎥 Watch the full video on YouTube 🏰 A Town Torn Between Two Nations Berwick-upon-Tweed — a place of charm, battle, identity, and contradiction. Straddling the borderlands between England and Scotland,... 
by Mark Nicol | Jun 8, 2025 | Videos
👀 A man stands in silence beneath the towering statue of William Wallace, gazing out over the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders. The air is still, but the land speaks — of battles, borders, and a bravery that still echoes through time. 🗿 This enormous statue of... 
by Mark Nicol | May 23, 2025 | Videos
🎥 Watch the full journey on YouTube In the quiet heart of the Scottish Borders, beneath the rolling Eildon Hills and not far from the village of Melrose, two ancient stories seem to converge—one Roman, the other medieval, both centred around a mysterious female figure... 
by Mark Nicol | May 20, 2025 | Videos
Watch the full journey on YouTube ▶️ Towering above the Cheviot Hills, just a stone’s throw from the Scottish Border, Yeavering Bell is widely considered the most impressive and largest Iron Age hill fort in northern England—perhaps even the entire country. But... 
by Mark Nicol | Mar 30, 2025 | Videos
🎥 Watch the full video on YouTube When we think of Roman forts north of Hadrian’s Wall, most conjure images of subtle humps in the ground, scattered ditches, or the odd information board clinging to the memory of empire. But Bremenium—now known as High Rochester—is... 
by Mark Nicol | Mar 20, 2025 | Videos
Here on Greenlaw moor I follow Heriots Dyke to a spectacular and rare type of hill fort. Exploring Forgotten Fortifications Hidden in Plain Sight The Scottish Borders is a land shaped by myth, war, and the slow grind of time. While towering abbeys and Roman roads...