17:47 One more word on the drill holes: for a start, the diameter of the holes & the spacing is the same we still use now to split stones in exactly the same way. The shallow drilling in one of the images suggests it must be a hard stone such as granite - for softer stones, you need deeper holes. But one thing came to me recently, considering the Egyptians knew how to make a core drill with a copper tube and abrasives: the multiple holes could have been for extracting the cores, not for making the holes as such! Maybe the cylindrical stone cores were particularly useful for something else entirely. So, those enigmatic stones with many appently useless holes could have been for that. You can see videos of how the Egyptins did their core drilling on a youtube channel called "Scientists Against Myths" where they have a strand concerned with experimental archaeology and ancient techniques. It even shows a sculptor carving an interior right angle into granite using nothing but flint tools.
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@Michael is that you playing a sampled uileann pipes on a Godin Multiac or LGX perhaps ? Lovely intro you guys do a better job of selling Ireland than Fáilte Ireland 😃
I know you said the slotted stones were outside the circle. I can't get past thinking it's a stand for reeds to play music. You can work it like a xylophone or blow into the tops of different size hollow reeds. If the stones are accessible by wind, it would play it's own music. That would be an eary (sp) sound. I keep missing the lives. Bad time of day for me. I hope to make the one when you cover Orkney. I want to see where my DNA came from with your guidance ;) Hope I haven't missed it already.
Hi Chris, Rupert here. That’s a really nice idea, certainly not something I’d considered before. Regarding the Orkney sequence, this watch party was number four, Scotland and the Isles will be number seven, so a few weeks away yet. Best wishes, R
I thought the Irish opening shot and "pipes" was brilliantly done! I'm a musician as well, guitar player. Electric and acoustic :) My husband is Irish. He is an actual, real deal, real O'neill clan descendent. I believe it's his grandfather who came over, after leaving Ireland to attend the University of Berlin Medical School. Wound up in Boston, Hugh, my husbands dad is born and he attends sev. American Universities. Notre Dame, Chicago, Oklahoma University blah blah blah...WWll breaks out, he's a surgeon on Luzon, comes home, has kids, one is my husband. Sorry for the short run down there. But it sets this up. He's BEEN TO IRELAND and he went in 1990 I believe! SOOO, Every time I see something about the stones in Ireland I ask him if he remembers seeing this or that, or did you go here or there etc.....and I get so aggravated with him. He remembers going to the Guiness Factory in Dublin, kissing the Blarney Stone, driving along the coast, staying at a bed and breakfast lol, and no...he don't. I was in college and It was a family trip. ALL living O'neil's went. Sounds like a "tour for tourist trip to me" a bad one at that. I freak out almost every time, even tho I know the answer before I ask. I'm like....really? You'd kinda recall Giant's Causeway at least, you'd think? lol It's not like he was a kid. He was umm..at least in his late 30's. Puzzling huh. He said he went to a lot of Castles. So they don't do old stone monument tours? IDK if that's a good idea or bad idea. Look at what happened to Stonehenge once opened to the public. ugh.
Great news on the #StandingStonesSequel gents, look forward to the link. I have an idea for additional PR and #crowdfunding : how about a t-shirt like a Rock Concert tour shirt with all the destinations of the tour and the year they were constructed or Newgrange circa 3000 BC ? Open of discreet breast logo or larger chest logo on the front. A great way to get more publicity for a legendary documentary, I'd buy one 😁
Castleruddery contains one of several, in éire, " Rosetta" stones, of the ancients and each on their own, debunks the notion of folklore being associated with the construction of these sites here, or anywhere else for that matter, however the ideas from which folklore sprang is very evident in at least one circle here. Folklore was a later chapter in the evolvement of the Homo-sapiens as their brains retained knowledge, (which we know today as 'reason') from their bicameral intellect and application (for want of a better word) of their five senses.They knew exactly to the nearest, probably 132nd or more, of an inch where they were (even though the measurements they left in stone were to 1/8 on an inch, possibly because as the eye could measure this comfortably without having to split hairs) and never built tombs for their dead, in my opinion. Imagine calling: An Clár, Gaillimh? excommunication straight away....:)...he, he, he. Yeed never have to worry about getting permission apart from Newgrange.
I'm really enjoying these watch parties, even though I don't usually see them "Live." It would help this American immensely if Rupert could avoid putting his hand over his mouth when he's speaking. I want to hear every golden word!
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That opening scene and music gave me chills. Fabulous.
17:47 One more word on the drill holes: for a start, the diameter of the holes & the spacing is the same we still use now to split stones in exactly the same way. The shallow drilling in one of the images suggests it must be a hard stone such as granite - for softer stones, you need deeper holes.
But one thing came to me recently, considering the Egyptians knew how to make a core drill with a copper tube and abrasives: the multiple holes could have been for extracting the cores, not for making the holes as such!
Maybe the cylindrical stone cores were particularly useful for something else entirely. So, those enigmatic stones with many appently useless holes could have been for that.
You can see videos of how the Egyptins did their core drilling on a youtube channel called "Scientists Against Myths" where they have a strand concerned with experimental archaeology and ancient techniques.
It even shows a sculptor carving an interior right angle into granite using nothing but flint tools.
Kansas City, Kansas USA here! I love your show!
Thanks Candy!!
"Oh, for a time machine."
Love you guys and your videos. I actually started watching because I like your English accents, but then stuck around for the history.😎
😊 thank you
Missed you XXX watching Dr Lee Bray Interview over couple days... WOW. Hope all went well tonight.. looked very busy! XXX*EXCELLENT* If you didn't catch this interview then please watch=IT IS FANTASTIC! = *Much Love sent to All This AMAZING COMMUNITY*
@Michael is that you playing a sampled uileann pipes on a Godin Multiac or LGX perhaps ? Lovely intro you guys do a better job of selling Ireland than Fáilte Ireland 😃
Hello chaps, will you be working on a book to accompany SWS2?
Hi Sarah, yes, definitely:)
@@ThePrehistoryGuys fantastic news, thanks for your reply
I know you said the slotted stones were outside the circle. I can't get past thinking it's a stand for reeds to play music. You can work it like a xylophone or blow into the tops of different size hollow reeds. If the stones are accessible by wind, it would play it's own music. That would be an eary (sp) sound. I keep missing the lives. Bad time of day for me. I hope to make the one when you cover Orkney. I want to see where my DNA came from with your guidance ;) Hope I haven't missed it already.
Hi Chris, Rupert here. That’s a really nice idea, certainly not something I’d considered before.
Regarding the Orkney sequence, this watch party was number four, Scotland and the Isles will be number seven, so a few weeks away yet. Best wishes, R
I thought the Irish opening shot and "pipes" was brilliantly done! I'm a musician as well, guitar player. Electric and acoustic :) My husband is Irish. He is an actual, real deal, real O'neill clan descendent. I believe it's his grandfather who came over, after leaving Ireland to attend the University of Berlin Medical School. Wound up in Boston, Hugh, my husbands dad is born and he attends sev. American Universities. Notre Dame, Chicago, Oklahoma University blah blah blah...WWll breaks out, he's a surgeon on Luzon, comes home, has kids, one is my husband. Sorry for the short run down there. But it sets this up. He's BEEN TO IRELAND and he went in 1990 I believe! SOOO, Every time I see something about the stones in Ireland I ask him if he remembers seeing this or that, or did you go here or there etc.....and I get so aggravated with him. He remembers going to the Guiness Factory in Dublin, kissing the Blarney Stone, driving along the coast, staying at a bed and breakfast lol, and no...he don't. I was in college and It was a family trip. ALL living O'neil's went. Sounds like a "tour for tourist trip to me" a bad one at that. I freak out almost every time, even tho I know the answer before I ask. I'm like....really? You'd kinda recall Giant's Causeway at least, you'd think? lol It's not like he was a kid. He was umm..at least in his late 30's. Puzzling huh. He said he went to a lot of Castles. So they don't do old stone monument tours? IDK if that's a good idea or bad idea. Look at what happened to Stonehenge once opened to the public. ugh.
Great news on the #StandingStonesSequel gents, look forward to the link. I have an idea for additional PR and #crowdfunding : how about a t-shirt like a Rock Concert tour shirt with all the destinations of the tour and the year they were constructed or Newgrange circa 3000 BC ?
Open of discreet breast logo or larger chest logo on the front. A great way to get more publicity for a legendary documentary, I'd buy one 😁
You missed Drombeg stone circle near Leap in West Cork 😁
Going by the scene where Rupert consults his maps, they missed at least 5000 other sites as well.
Castleruddery contains one of several, in éire, " Rosetta" stones, of the ancients and each on their own, debunks the notion of folklore being associated with the construction of these sites here, or anywhere else for that matter, however the ideas from which folklore sprang is very evident in at least one circle here. Folklore was a later chapter in the evolvement of the Homo-sapiens as their brains retained knowledge, (which we know today as 'reason') from their bicameral intellect and application (for want of a better word) of their five senses.They knew exactly to the nearest, probably 132nd or more, of an inch where they were (even though the measurements they left in stone were to 1/8 on an inch, possibly because as the eye could measure this comfortably without having to split hairs) and never built tombs for their dead, in my opinion. Imagine calling: An Clár, Gaillimh? excommunication straight away....:)...he, he, he. Yeed never have to worry about getting permission apart from Newgrange.
I live near the gap of dunlow.
On holiday in Turkey I saw a very old lady carrying her husband across the sand because the sand was so hot he refused to stand on it.... 🤔 😉
I'm really enjoying these watch parties, even though I don't usually see them "Live." It would help this American immensely if Rupert could avoid putting his hand over his mouth when he's speaking. I want to hear every golden word!
You mentioned Anthony? Who is he and where did he do his live stream from?
Look up live Irish myths on you tube, his content is excellent
Sorry it's mythical Ireland
Yes Anthony from Mythical Ireland. He says he lives 15 minutes from Newgrange. Very good discussions and readings of Irish Myths.
Looks like Killarney
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Michael looks a bit like John Cleese.