Did a Lightning Strike Inspire the Callanish Standing Stones?
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In December 2019 reports began to appear in the media about the discovery of an anomaly in the Callanish landscape on Lewis that pointed to a 5,000 year old lightning strike being the inspiration for the famous monument.
The discovery was made by the Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project, a joint venture led by the University of St Andrews with standing stones trust Urras nan Tursachan and the University of Bradford and supported by funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise. They were not on the hunt for ancient lightning strikes however. The anomaly was thrown up by a magnetometry scan of one of the Callanish sites - Airigh na Beinne Bige, otherwise know as Site XI.
Can we infer that the whole Callanish site was erected because of a lightning strike? It's a nice idea - but can it withstand the merciless glare of investigation by The Prehistory Guys?
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I think a standing stone, depending on it's properties, would attract lightening. There's usually a few stones that are taller than the rest in the circle,
I would think it's placed there as an effort to "recharge" the power, if any real power, of the circle.
Yes it's pronounced "sloo".
I was stationed in Burtonwood Army Depot, RAF outside Warrington back in the early 70's. This was before they fenced Stonehenge in, and I'd camped twice inside the circle to capture the sunrise on my camera. I spent many a holiday weekend driving through the countryside to places like Leeds or Bristol or Wales looking for old castles. I wish I'd taken more time looking at megalithic sites instead. I've subscribed and have really enjoyed what I've seen so far.
My money is on circle first, lightning induced second. The relationship between the earth charge and the air charge which drives our weather is omitted from much of our mainstream geology. I recommend the work of Michael Steinbacher and Andrew Hall on this topic. This will introduce you to the work of the Electric Universe where physicists and electrical engineers consider the evidence of ancient petroglyphs and their depiction of plasma phenomena which can be produced in the laboratory. In other words, our ancestors were looking at massive electrical events in the sky. The channel for this is called The Thunderbolts Project and it has a number of documentaries on the topic, but the "Thunderbolts of the Gods" and "Symbols of an Alien Sky" are introductory.
Electric universe.... oh dear.
Please make a film about the Hebrides. I'm enchanted by them.
Please make your film about Callanish! I agree, it's astounding how little the Isle of Lewis sites have been investigated. Great podcast.
Always a pleasure to hear you two and your humorous approach and insights. P
lease keep up the good work.
Always a delight listening in. You failed to locate my old college, however, which made me chuckle. The University of Wales' Trinity - St David is in Lampeter in Ceredigion. In my day, 1981 - 1984, it was St David's University College. Very good Archaeology Department. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Just giving a try at the language scores points.
Those side details are just fine, adds meaning.
Great show.
Much appreciated. Thank you. 😊
An example of using trees for practical purposes: In my country there was a mobile phone company called Connex. At some point it was bought by another company. Many years after the disappearance of Conex, we arrived somewhere in the mountains, in a valley, far from any village. I had no signal, and I had to call home, my parents. We met a local who told us that if we wanted a signal, we should go to the Conex tree. It was marked with the name Conex, written in blue on the bark of the tree. Yes, it was the only place in that valley where the signal reached.
Thank you, insightful thinking. Helps us all to focus on being purposeful and thoughtful. I just found you. Glad I am here.
Welcome!
THANKS GUYS
Love to see a film about Callanish...hope it is still on the books.
Yep - it still is!
This site impressed me.
🤣🤣 Thanks for this, l will watch it later. Good to see you in person. I did listen to it on Patreon after you sorted the app😉👍
Could also be that a giant standing rock with some metals in it acts as a lightning rod... the lightning strike may very well have happened later than the building of the henge.
Maybe there were wooden structures (totems, flagpoles, scaffold) placed at the centre of some stone circles that made lightning strikes more likely to occur?
Perhaps the site was not built around the lighting strike, but rather the human activity at the site made lightning more likely to strike?
Callanish circle re-constituted 150 yrs ago. Much stone replacement speculative.
Thanks lads for another great listen. I live in the north west of England and to see anything decent I have to travel quite far, up to the lake district, or down south for instance. Do you know of any sites in my area that I may have missed, there is a burial mound by Parbold (not confirmed, a destroyed stone circle on Cheetham hill Bolton and the calderstones in Liverpool (a dismantled tomb made into a circle ) .
Love this. 13 stone could be the lunar year of 13 moonth. The lightning strike right in the middle there makes my magic magnetic hands wonder off into possibilities i better keep for myself. 😂
Very thought provoking.. and in a round about way ties up with the air burst sites in one of your previous posts...Hmmm
Interesting, since we have very little notion of how they chose sites. I lived in a place with a disused mine and one spot took rather frequent strikes.
Large veins of quartz in the stones. Definite charge in the place.12 circles in the area.
Fascinating, thanks. I havn't been to Lewis, choosing Orkney instead - it's a big omission for me. I hadn't heard of this project or their findings. No idea about the lightning - maybe if a conductor (tree/stone?) was repeatedly struck, that might have seemed a big deal. Speculation of course, but the site itself sounds fascinating anyway.
Thank you for your comment Richard. Yes - Callanish is a must see and even after all that Orkney has to offer, prepare to have your socks knocked off!
It seems EMF fields can greatly affect C14 decay rates as lightning produces excess neutrons, thereby messing up dating mechanisms.- Jupp's instant petrification.
Has anyone seen
THE LAST DRUID BEN MCBRADY
where its suggested that the burial chambers where actually bunkers for protection from meteors etc.
Found across Ireland. Really worth a look. Truth or not? Fascinating stuff
It's a bit tough when there's only one guy's word. Personally, I would steer clear. It'll never get us anywhere because there can never be any corroboration. Anyway, they are called burial chambers for a reason. Protecting the dead from meteor showers? It's not like that many meteors reach ground anyway.
I've said it before and I'll say it again
Wish you could have been my teachers
There's so much crap on internet my brain stops filtering after a while
Think I'll revert to my Simpsons comic books!
Paul Lee thank you Paul, that’s a lovely thing to say. Much appreciated
War of the Worlds comes to mind. Perhaps there is an alien space ship buried there. Just kidding, couldn't help myself!
You're a very naughty boy!
I know I'm popping up in all the vids with comments. I'm watching all that I can. I have a question. I am restoring an old graveyard. Stones are missing or sunken. Is there a personal affordable portable piece of equipment that I can use or rent to try and find these stones. They are Veterans. I don't even know what such a thing would be called.
Hi Chris, Rupert here. You could approach the archaeology department of a university and try to find a sympathetic ear. You can buy the equipment for various forms of remote sensing/geophysics/ground-penetrating radar etc, but much of the skill is in interpreting the data. If you can persuade a university to help, they might see it as an exercise for the students to become familiar with the tech - just a thought.
I hope you guys entertain graham hancock s theories about a lost civilisation? Sorry lads I'm on benefits and can't afford the patreon thing and I'll probably get lost in the comments now you're superstars...lol...so nice one and best wishes
Couldn't the anomalies found in the study indicate actual stones underneath the peat? How would a hole which is now filled in with peat generate a different electromagnetic signature than the peat around it?
Hi Callie, Rupert here. Basically, different substances return different readings in geophysical scans. In the cae of lightning, the brief but powerful surge of energy causes a measurable change in the magnetic properties of the soil particles. The scientific term for this is lightning-induced remanent magnetization or LIRM for short. Hope that helps and thanks for the comment:)
@@ThePrehistoryGuys Thank you for responding! I mean to ask about the findings around the lightning mark that indicate where the other stones in the circle stood. Michael mentioned at 16:12 that they detected the pits where the stones had been. But those anomalies look the same as the one produced by the standing stone, which we know is physically there. If the stones are not buried, they've been absent for a long enough time for their pits to be filled with peat. What remnant of the stone could make the soil that replaced it conduct electricity like a stone rather than soil?
Hi Callie, Basically, soil of all types will give magnetic readings, even if they aren't magnetic in themselves. What shows up in the data is not how a stone affected the soil, but the differences in the soil itself. If a hole has been dug and then over time become filled in, the difference between the original surrounding soil and the later in fill will show up, often very clearly. HAving said that, if a stone is still present it will show up even more clearly because of the greater magnetic difference between it and the soil... I do hope that's not too garbled a response!
Clough clow?
😂😂😂nothing more romantic than a smouldering spot
Daisy, you say the sweetest things:) R
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If you guys don't get snapped up by the beeb or the history channel it's a crime!
Jimmy Lawley 😉I think it’d be a crime if they did
Haha. That’s Gaelic pronounced like Garlic. Oh no it got worse. Callanish like fish, photogenic like dichlofenic. Not wise for the individual who raises pronunciation to make such a balls up.
As to the subject matter. It’s more likely for a strike to occur in such a place post construction. Smouldering peat in a thunderstorm lol. Try an increase in electrical conductivity,- wet and acidic.
Is this the woowoo channel?