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Stones encompassing a sacred/political safe meeting area. I believe there are similar examples in the mid east.

Avebury is a long time inactive sacred site, polluted by a road and buildings by idiot modern day humans.

Oh please. The musical accompanied is way too intrusive, and for those interested enough to follow your train of thought ...we don't need gee-ing up, made excited, nor does your production and idea/s need any mor punch or wow atmosphere. In fact, it all detracts, and despite my keen interest, I am struggling to 'stay tuned" to you. Please, please reconsider your style...content is good enough as things are, thank you.

Damn. I didnt think it would be that easy to lose a drone on land. Especially since it reconnected, it shouldve lead you right to it. I wonder how it didnt since the gps isnt that inaccurate that it would no where near where it said it was, especially if it would descend upon losing connection. Im sure the wind blew it all over the place when it tried to land but even still So in the video, it looked like you tried to turn the drone around and go upwind? Mightve been better to just land it and go track it down At least the mini 2 isnt too expensive. Probably going down in price too since even my mini 3 is way down in price now

The wet, marshy period went from (approx) 4,000BC to 3,500BC. The henge was dug BEFORE this period, and the stones were brought in AFTER this wet period. You are correct to say there was a wet period during the time of Avebury, but the story is a little bit more complex that your description here. ALSO the henge was never filled with water. Great video, however.

Fascinating stuff. It really does look beautiful from the air. Love the clever Lidar overlays too.

What an interesting place. I think your maths is a bit out though. 25 tonnes x 80 is 2000 tonnes - not quite one very small cruise ship. The really big ones are over 200,000 tonnes! Still an impressive feat at the time though.

The location of West Wansdyke actually follows the South Eastern border between Mercia who under Offa were known for dykes and Wessex, East Wansdyke appears to be slightly South of the traditionally recognised border between Mercia and Wessex and so I believe that it was an early border between the two Kingdoms possibly built by the Mercians in Hwicce before the Expansion of Wessex which saw the Mercians pushed back to the North bank of the Rivers Thames and Avon leaving West Wansdyke in Mercia and West Wansdyke in Wessex. One thing that I am absolutely certain of os that Wansdyke was a defensive construction which followed the flow of the hills or rather the dips between hills which are natural geographical features which using natural geographical features as defensive lines had long since been a common practice. I really cannot see Wansdyke as a canal system simply because it doesn't make any sense at all, why would anyone cut a long undulating canal rather than cutting a straight line? And then there are the points that others have mentioned regarding no ability to retain water, any water there would seep into the earth like an aquifer and lo and behold, a little search on Google results in this:- "The majority of the eastern region of the District is recognised as being a major aquifer, and therefore highly permeable", that entire dyke would need to be waterproofed to retain any amount of water which would be visibly apparent each time it rained as it would resemble a river at most or a stream at the least and yet "grass".... Interesting video, good presentation and I really enjoyed your theorising but I do have to disagree with you claiming it to be an early canal system that dates back from 1400 years ago to earlier however, you mentioning an "indefensible defence" then I think I would agree to that, it probably did work well for most of its use as a defensive border but most probably fell out of use once Wessex successfully expanded into lands previously ruled over by Mercia and on that point I do think maybe it is time to look at the history books for a possible revision as the border between the two Kingdoms isn't really mentioned as being this particular location and all because we often just look at the later more traditionally accepted border after the expansion of Wessex and take that border for granted without question.

What's 33km in miles? Sorry for my ignorance I'm English!

What about the two avenues?

Avebury is an old harbour with 270 mooting off the stones as posts to tie off, Silbury is a lighthouse Looks just a feasible as its a giant place of worship

This is amazing. Thankyou l loved it😊

Good video, enjoyed that. 👍👏👏

This is a stunning place. It is not improved by the silly photography. Made me feel sick.

Most rivers,no matter how shallow. Had there routes formed into short/long stretches,made navigable for small punts that can sail in very shallow water. 3/6 inches etc . With no roads and goods to either bring in or take out,one needed a way of moving things. Heavy loads of rock can be moved this way,for instance. A canal seems to be more of a common sense thing. Sometimes the "professional " get it astoundingly wrong. With the evidence you give its hard to see it being anything else. Thanks for taking me along on your wander through British history 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Athelstan un re così illuminato e saggio. Non si è mai sposato ed è morto senza lasciare alcun discendente, chissà perché

How can you have a canal going up and down gradients? the water would simply run away.

So far haven’t seen any pictures of the village!

As with all these prehistoric circles I feel that too much emphasis is placed on the ditch rather than the bank. It is the bank which was the important thing to the builders, the ditch being merely the supplier of the material to build the bank. The evidence for this must of course the Mayburgh henge in Cumbria where there is no ditch but a huge bank made of small stones collected from the river.

wow, fantastic video. I love that area and have explored a few times, how the hell did they do that under water, particularly silbury hill...and yet your interpretation makes a lot more sense to me having seen it all.

It think it looks like a draining and a retainer wall. Keep the outside out and the inside separated. Any chance there is fresh water inside ?

So if the site was surrounded by water, how did they transport the stones there? Sarson stone isn't particularly renowned for its buoyancy properties..

I think it's a Disgrace That they built a Road Going Straight Through The site & as if that was not bad enough ...They built Houses on it ?

Definitely puts an interesting twist on things but still trying to get head around the concept of moat inside the wall.

Awsome video, well done and you have a pleasant voice and you have educated a lot of us. Im hooked, just subscribed, from Sacramento California, i say thank you.

Thank you! It certainly is a wonderful ancient feature. The canal notion is ludicrous, and that is the wiggliest roman road I've ever clapped eyes on.

To carry water. Great video. Thank You.

We do know why the stones were buried. It was at the behest of local vicars. They considered anything not Chtistian to be evil. And the man under the stone wasnt buried so much as crushed when it fell. Or a more recent idea I read was that he had been murdered elswhere and shoved into a convenient gap under the stone.

Its also named 'Labour in Vain' hill - apparently one of the last roman Strongholds before they left. Always wondered why it was named this.

Flood defences? - natural drain valleys no dyke required. This was to protect from great flooding, maybe from the sea, flooding causes by tsunami's that were passed down history as things that killed many. Main purpose is to take water away.

Interesting idea.

Clearly this was never a defensive feature for multiple reasons. The only small problem with your alternative theory is that water tends not to flow uphill and the soil here is very thin on top of chalk. Basically you couldn't have a worse situation to try and build a canal. For these obvious reasons, all known canals have been built to follow the lie of the land, minimising gradients, and lined with clay - just like the Kennet and Avon canal very nearby! If the water table was as high as you say - and high enough to fill the Wansdyke at the tops of the hills it crosses - then you wouldn't need any canal, you could just take your boat on the seas all around! The other problem with any canal theory is that canals go from point A to point B and both points need to be important enough to justify the colossal effort involved in building and maintaining. Since neither London nor Bristol cities existed in prehistoric times, you need to come up with a massive economic reason to justify such a bizarre theory as linking the Thames and Severn thousands of years before it actually happened.

Another beautiful and informative video! Subscribed.

Very interesting. I have never believed the defensive line theory, besides the gaps it could be easily breached by invaders unless continuously garrisoned. But the canal theory is flawed by the elevation changes which still existed even if the water table was higher. Drove roads? Possible, but large scale cattle driving requires a sufficient market for them or a large elite class extracting tribute, unless it was a seasonal migration of a tribe. Still a tremendous engineering task, but we know stone age peoples constructed large earthworks. Boundary marker? A l of work for no practical purpose. Thanks for questioning the received ideas, that's how we progress!

I think your wishing, water don't go up & down hills with no locks, it's not straight or level

A circular structure, formed of several concentric rings, opened towards the water on the Western, maybe South-Western side... Am I the only one that's being reminded of Atlantis? And no, I'm not saying this is Atlantis. Rather, that whoever built this may have been aware of Atlantis in one way or another.

You folks are cool, but you drive on the wrong side.

Very slick, professional video. However, I really think you need to give more explanation of your 'wide river' claim. Is this generally accepted? I had not heard it before, and I've been reading about and visiting the site for 50 years. Wouldn't that put many sites underwater at the time of their construction?

Rubbish where the george pub is was a sandspit if that 😮

What is a 'free man?'

Learnt loads, thank you, I'll stop next time I'm local.

I love ❤️ the Cotswolds!

Thinking that it was EITHER religious/ceremonial OR a place of trade is imposing a very modern way of looking at things onto a quite different world. The builders and users would have made no distinction: all of life - trade, hunting, farming, gathering for markets or marriages - were all equally sacred in a life lived under whatever deity they ascribed to. Simple holy rituals would have accompanied lighting a fire, sharing food, bartering goods. No place was without holiness. Avebury could well be a trading centre AND a sacred place... medieval cathedrals were.

You may want to take a look at this fascinating theory on the purpose of Avebury and how it fits in with a wider global civilisation ruclips.net/video/q-fug_jzkxc/видео.htmlsi=HqKeI3L4ODi3Jf9w

Great diea to crunch over, and my only addition would be to question why there? And would building it on that small island be manageable? I would be suprised if that island had all the natural resources to build it, meaning a connection to the mainland in some way. Surely buidling this type pf construction would be better suited to the peninsular to the left of it, giving access to both the island if ceremonialy important, and much better access to natural resources or even inland trade routes. I am probably missing something here and this may be a silly question though.

I wouldnt trust anything said by "Robert John Langdon". I've seen his claims largely of not entirely debunked before. I doubt it's a coincidence that "Robert Langdon" is the fictional protagonist of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and others. RJL believes in Atlantis and that it was on Doggerland, the floor of the English Channel that was dry land in the last glacial maximum

Music way too loud. Print too small. I gave a like ....... thank you ........

Probably the best documentary on Avebury I have ever watched ! I also live in Wiltshire and have traveled that main road many times. Such a mysterious place. Thank you for this video just brilliant 👏🏻

I enjoyed this and got more feel for it's original purpose than from any other description as yet. Thank you 🙏