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Hi there, we believe the site used to be referred to as Castell Carreg, translating to 'stone castle'. There seems to be a lot of confusion over the years around the name of the site. Some old reports even called it Lech-y-Filiast, or Gwal-Y-Filiast which nowadays is the name given to the cromlech nearby at St Lythans. (This translates loosely to 'lair of the female grey hound'.) We agree, so much history and culture has been lost along with the language 😥

Hi, thanks for watching. Is that the cromlech that is named Carreg Coetan Arthur?

Thanks, we really appreciate that 🙂

Thank you so much for the lovely feedback. It really means a lot to us 🙂 Despite having been wandering about Pembrokeshire and the Preselis for so many years, we have yet to really explore Ty Canol.. you have inspired us to go do it ASAP!

Thanks! The path was a bit overgrown but it's fairly noticable from the road 🙂

Sorry about that! 🙂

Not sure but we don't have ebikes.. 🤣

Hi there, our dog is around 25kg so a bit less than yours. We do put cargo in the back behind the divider and he has plenty of space. However, we did buy our trailer second hand for a reasonably cheap price. If you are thinking about spending the full amount on a new one, we would highly recommend getting the one they sell that is specifically for dogs.. your pooch may have a bit more space then and it will already have a hard bottom without you having to alter it :)

@@coraljackz Ok thanks. Yeah, there's quite a few in my area selling second hand for cheap so I figured, if the conversion doesn't work out, it's not gonna be too costly.

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Hi, thanks for commenting! It is rare to find these on a capstone of a monument, but yes they do look like natural features that would go unnoticed on a regular bolder or outcrop.

It's an interesting point, there is a growing consensus over the timeline of when the architecture moved across mainland Europe and over to the British isles... but certainly still lots of gaps.

Good to remember that certain things recur as common solutions and/or entertainments or interests. For example, the vast majority of cultures create some kind of bed, a house, a table, a chair, a bowl, a saw, a knife, clothing... the list is actually endless. These inventions may or may not share a point of origin, they are, pretty much, the only solution or the obvious solution to certain needs and or problems and so very similar solutions /designs reoccur independently, slightly different but essentially the same often in many ways. Notice that no two dolmens in Britain are identical and other dolmens around the world differ in ways to the forms seen here often - the Russian 'dolmen' is much more of a box, often with a hole in the front, unlike anything seem in Britain, the Japanese 'dolmen' form is likewise not exactly like anything seen in Britain, not that there is a set pattern here to compare to anyway. That being the case, what actually IS a dolmen when the term is used in that global sense? - it is simply a stone set on some others, there is no other criteria to qualify. Some look like giant tables with round legs, some are boxes made with thin plates, some are made from dressed stone, some are made from unworked stone, some are entirely enclosed, some entirely open, some big, some small, some have a stone atop over-hanging the 'legs' by a long way... some do not... some are round, some square, some triangular... some have multiple 'rooms' beneath them, some just one, some none. You get the idea. Point being... when we say 'dolmens are found right around the globe', well, what is a dolmen in these terms? - it is a monument featuring a stone balanced on others that might look a bit like a little house of a cow sometimes or any number of things. So, do we need a global civilisation to invent this and travel around the world suggesting the idea to everyone who built something like this, or might lots of people build something like this independently, perhaps for different reasons entirely, like lots of people have built a kind of table, independently, to put something on...? The other MAJOR problem is that megalithic building can be seem occurring in very different periods around the world - it's still going on in Indonesia in fact. So, it might be better to consider it a stage human cultures seem to pass through as they develop, rather than a one-off invention that was spread around the world. If you think about it, that's actually a far more interesting thought because it says : why do humans keep having this idea to build these massive stone house/table things....? Why, seemingly, if there are a load of people and some big boulders around, do they start building these structures? What is it that makes that form so appealing to us... or does it in fact have some obvious use or significance to people at that stage in cultural development that we cannot imagine once having passed through it?!? All the best, hope that gives a few thoughts.

@@JesseP.Watson I totally understand the point you made but yet, there are to many instances of this type of, same ideas in a differing format. There will always be ideas that pop up in different parts of the world and are essentially the same thing. There are instances of this in modern times with technology. This is just one example of those coincidences which are global. There are many others i have come across over the years. Just two classic examples for you, the pyramids and polygonal stonework. Both all over the world. Can your theory explain that? Any many many other instances of building and dressing stone etc etc. I just find it a stretch to believe these things occured independantly in every country and continent.

@@user-df9wv1gs4w ...Erm, perhaps yes, I'd suggest two things there, a pyramid is one if not THE most stable form we can build, it might also be said to be what emerges if we want to make a man-made hill or mountain from blocks of stone. ...Square blocks translate much more easily to a square sided structure. So, if you want to create a very stable structure that elevates a platform for something then you would very likely design something like an Incan pyramid or those kind of vague pyramids found in Cambodian temples. Notably, Egyptian pyramids are very different to those. I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying there is a good thousand years or more in-between the construction of pyramids in Egypt and those in S.America and Cambodia. Polygonal stonework is a natural refinement of drystone walling technique - I was brought up on a farm with 6 miles of drystone wall on it (the workload of which is simply astonishing and could be said to rival many megalithic works in shear labour, incidentally) ...And, well, suffice to say I know a bit about drystone walling. Point being, the better the drystone waller, the tighter the puzzle of stones they build fit together, that's a kind of obvious rule that reoccurs as it means the wall is very solid with all that contact and, aesthetically, looks good - neatness is a trait which is appreciated in craftsmanship globally. So, you have stone, you have developed the craft of drystone walling... where do you go if you want to create sonething REALLY prestigious, for a temple or fort or something and you have those skills? You start building something resembling cyclopean walls. I've actually seem drystone walls that could almost be described as cyclopean - it's a very small step from one to the other, just a refinement of craft - well, not 'just', but a refinement by very skilled craftsmen taking their craft to its natural conclusion - perfectly fitted irregular stones. There's some video I shot of some granite drystone walls in Ireland uploaded by @SGDSacredGeometryDecoded, skip to the last 5 minutes of that to see what I'm talking about... and that drystone walls in agriculture are incredibly impressive too sometimes, and they're often built by just one or two men. All the best.

Hmmm, not sure exactly what you are describing... or at least nothing jumps to mind. Could you give a bit more detail? I know you say 'you haven't seen anything else like it', but would you say it looked more like Parc Le Breos chambered tomb, Sweynes Howes or Cerrig YGof... interesting either way. Oh, and thanks, glad you liked the video!

@@coraljackz It looks like the rectangular slab chambers of cerrig y gof. Yet instead of them being seperate like in cerrig, they are alongside one another in a row. 2 rows of about 6 chambers either side, with a walkway down the center. The overall structure was a rectangle. From memory the slabs were no more than around a meter in height. Now, i dont know if my memory serves me well or not, as i checked maps and dont see it anywhere, where i thought it was. I will take another trip though and scour google earth.

Hi, yes we've pinned a comment apologising about the audio... we had only been making videos for a few months, and this was one of our first 'history videos'... please do have a look at our new stuff and let us know what you think 😁

Hi, thanks for your positive and cautionary words! We're aware of the antiquarians many flaws, and take their accounts with a bucket of salt, but we do like to include their perspective. Sometimes demonstrating how much culture and opinions have changed over the past couple of centuries, sometimes simply as comic relief. But I do hope the phrasing made it clear enough that it was their opinion rather than ours; "over 200 years ago... it was still commonly believed that sites like this were druidic alters". We do agree that the depressions are likely natural features, but the striking red colour when we visited did get us wondering if this was present when Fenton visited, inspiring him to write that they 'received the blood'... A better question may be, were these marks likely to have been present before the structure was raised, and if so, did they utilise them in any way? Great example of anachronistic antiquarian assumptions, they are altogether too common... currently researching a Stonehenge deep dive and the early assumption about its age and who created it are quite varied and amusing!!

@@coraljackz The red staining, likely caused by an alga of the phylum Rhodophyta, whose habitats included still fresh water pools, was most certainly present when Fenton visited. His first passion was poetry which goes far to explain his vivid imagination and enthusiasm for drama. Alas! The stone is pre-historic, so we'll never know whether the triangular depressions were used in any way and I wouldn't think about it too much... unless you find similar depressions elsewhere. Looking forward to the Stonehenge deep dive! ATB.

It really is!

It's entirely possible that freeze-thaw weathering has played its part in the formation of these depressions, thanks for your opinion. The rest of the video is about antiquarian perspectives, location and what it is like to walk to the site. Certainly would not want to spill your time, it might get on something and stain :)

Tough guy picking on a lady and her dog 😮

@@mikeclarke952 aw lovely 😍 thanks for watching!

Hi @karukurokami, thanks for giving our videos a try and getting involved! My gut feeling is that they are likely natural features and, as you say, I've also seen similar geometric hollows on natural boulders. This is also an area that would have been under more than a kilometre of ice during the last glaciation period, so they could potentially have been formed when huge forces separated this section from the outcrop above. If we went with the assumption that they ARE natural, then the question could be: "Were these marks formed before or after it was raised by humans? Did the builders intentionally utilise an existing feature? Or did a process of natural erosion take place long after the monument was built, with the original builders never seeing these marks? George Nash's work on rock art in Wales gives me hope that we might get some more context for monuments from this period. He and his team have been identifying man made markings that have been previously overlooked... and the question of why and when some capstones were adorned with cup marks is being grappled with. We will have to do a video taking a closer look at rock on megaliths in Wales, I'll add it to the list! All the best, Jacky

Thank you so much.. You've made our day with this wonderful comment 😊

Thanks James! :)

Yes, and some of the reconstruction attempts across the UK have been even worse... completing losing the last remnants of the site to someone's modern vision.

Thanks! We're still filming most of it on our phones and having lots of fun getting familiar with the process, but getting a drone certainly felt like a level up. We are getting slightly more ambitious (kind encouraging comments like this help) and have a few 'bigger' videos that we've been working on in the background for a while now... but to be honest, no, it has not crossed our minds to make that sort of pitch. Sounds like a lovely idea though, perhaps one day!

Thanks for the kind words and clarification... I've pinned your comment to inform future viewers. To be honest, we were quite surprised to hear that we had made a reference to the Stonehenge bluestones in this video and had to have a re-watch. Brief Analysis When I said; 'A thousand years before the local bluestones were moved to Wiltshire during the earliest phases of Stonehenge', I intended to leave it vaguely open by not specifically saying how or where they were moved from. My thinking being that it could be interpreted as 'moved to Wiltshire from where the ice dropped them'. However, the way it is phrased lacks any reference to an ice age... and the word 'local', shortly before 'moved', gives a strong impression the stones were moved from Pembrokeshire to Wiltshire at that time. Apologies, I will be more careful in future!

Seems to be a popular theory! Thanks for commenting :)

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And to you, too! Thanks for watching :)

Hi 👋 we did do some 25kg tests in part 1 of this review, but could definitely have done more 😅 When we cycled Wales with our dog (also 25kg) and camping gear we were seriously doing a lot of 'bike & hike' 😆👍

Thanks :)