I LOVE the Outlander series! Not only because it speaks to my Scottish heritage, but also to my Appalachian heritage. I was born and raised in Oklahoma, but my roots are in the Appalachias. I've hiked around 1500 miles of the Appalachian Trail so far and I'm planning to attempt a thru-hike, from start to finish, next year.
I am slowly working my way round all the standing stones in Scotland. They have a very calming feel when you stand inside some of them. They are magical. It's a shame some have been badly damaged by farmers and vandals, however some are in great condition. Have you done any research at Kilmartin Glen. It's a wonderful place full of neolithic sites.
I can't wait. Information on stone circles can be sketchy especially if they have cup and ring marks. No one really seems to know what they represent. I look forward to your next video.
I remember your early videos and I was hooked right away! Your production values have gone way up and I imagine they will continue to grow as you do. We love your work and it is our pleasure to watch and help you grow! Go team Kayleigh! 🐄🌟🕊🌓🐄
Thanks for this.I have been there twice. The first time with my mum (she was born on Lewis, about 30 miles from the stones) as a child and it made a great impression on me; it was one of the things that triggered my love of history and archaeology. On my second visit it was pouring rain but that didn’t dampen my enthusiasm and took a ton of photos.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Well, you won a subscription. I am planning on travelling back there next year to visit my mum’s family and will go to the stones again. Not your intention, but I am a academic librarian and I will challenge myself to see what literature I find about the other groups of stones. You have also inspired me to put some of my better shots of the stones on my IG account. Thanks again.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I like a challenge and you say you can find very little. If you want a good pictorial reference with good quality photography of UK monuments I recommend, Images of prehistory / text by Peter Fowler ; photographs by Mick Sharp. Cambridge UP, 1990.
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Can you please do a poor/rubbish video to something Kayleigh (anything will do) ... just so that I can find something to criticise you about !! 😂😂 ... because you're getting toooo good at this ☺ ... great video, great work ... missed the live stream unfortunately.
I was there with my Mom on one of our adventures. She always liked to do things at important time. We were there at the full moon, and it was a super moon. We spent most of the night outside two nights in a row. The first night was clear. The second night was partly cloudy with dramatic clouds scudding by like an El Greaco painting. I recommend renting a car, staying at the youth hostel and going at full moon.
This is a good, detailed study of the stones. I visited them a few years ago and I was surprised by the patterns on the stones, cased by being under peat and weathering. There's such an organic feel to them. Also, it was bloody cold - which is no real surprise to anyone from there. Its amazing that crazy people have been living in the area for over 5000 years.
I hope people hang around for the last couple of minutes of your videos. I always enjoy that part as you tend to reveal the inner workings of your mind beyond the subject of the video. Usually good for a chuckle or two. Thanks for the great vid, Kayleigh! Dave J
Hi K, some years ago I spent a week camping up the west coast of Scotland. It is a deeply mysterious and beautiful country. There are standing stones, cairns, and castles in ruin everywhere. I missed this site though so I learnt something watching this. Very well researched and interesting vid...peace to ya K.
Scottish Archeologist, Neil Oliver, was the presenter of a series of BBC documentaries on the history of Scotland. He claimed bones have been found that were 9,000 years old. When DNA was tested it showed that an amazing percent (like 30%) of the people living in Scotland today are related to the people that lived there 9,000 years ago! Also fascinating: there is a village by a sea side cliff. Young boys climb up and down the cliff to gather bird eggs. They get injuries and skeletal deformations from doing this. Bones of ancient people living there thousands of years ago show the same injuries and skeletal deformations. If you can find the videos, I recommend them to you! Put out by the BBC. Fascinating information. They were on RUclips for awhile but removed when Scotland was considering independence.
It is fascinating that ancient people from various places took the time and effort to erect these stone monuments, that appear to have had the purpose of keeping track of the season.
I enjoyed this a lot. I knew there were more monuments besides the famous Stonehenge, however I've never had the time to research any others. Over a third of my ancestors came from various regions of Scotland, so Scottish history is of great interest to me. Thanks for sharing this video with us!
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Peat does explain a lot. You might research how and why peat formed. Numerous areas had no peat. Suddenly there is peat. In a geologic time frame. Part of the answer lies in climate and geologic change. But recent theory indicates that grazing ruminants have a strong effect on peat formation. Particularly domesticated ruminants.
I visited them around 1990 and again in 1993. They are remarkable and I would recommend making your visit to them. Give yourself a week if they interest you.
SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN! Kayleigh you should call for a gathering on the Isle of Lewis so that you could check out the standing stone in real time; with interested people!
Lovely presentation, thankyou. Callanish on a winter's dawn shrouded in sea mist is a magical experience. We should not forget "Calleach na Monteich" or the "Sleeping Beauty", look south-west from the stones and see her resting in sleep, formed from the undulations of mountains and valleys. You did not mention "Clach an Trushal", the largest stone in Scotland, well worth you seeking out when you visit.
I used to have a G+ friend that lived on the island and was a fantastic photographer. I remember a time when there were auroras and those photographs were stunning!
Great video ☺️ I hadn't seen the pictures from the excavation in the 80s before, so it was awesome to see them ☺️ I've only visited Callanish 1, 2 and 4 before, but I recall reading that one of the sites was the quarry that it's believed most of the stones were taken from. Another of my favourite sites on Lewis is the broch at Carloway, which is worth a visit if you ever go to the island ☺️
Hi Kayleigh, I am tour guide for cruise visitors on the Isle of Lewis and found your information well explained. If you ever visit the site, you are welcome to be my guest, I am originally from The Netherlands too and detected your accent. Hartelijke groeten van Esther
Thank you, Kayleigh. I had not heard of this site. Interestingly, there is also a Woodhenge built by the Native American "Mississippian Culture" at the Cahokia Mounds just east of St. Louis, MO. Actually located in Illinois, demonstrating the Universality of the Circular Henge idea.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I walked the area, just a grassy meadow now. No surface evidence exists. However it was excavated a number of years ago. Definite astronomical alignments.
They are more frequent than most people think. Several mounds show some evidence of astronomical pointers. There is a “mini stone henge” on a hill top in Vermont. Estimated to be 2500 years old. It is less complex than Stone Henge, yet marks the desired solar points. The American plains Indians marked out “star wheels” to calculate seasons. These were ephemeral and seldom lasted more than a few years. Only to be built again as the tribes wandered about. No one really knows how they were able to reproduce the alignments from place to place. Yet the did so up until the 1890’s.
The Neolithic revolution and especially the 3000 BCE time period is way underrated and understudied. Whatever disruptive events, technologies and or cultural advance(s) that had occurred resolved in a global appearance of megalithic structures and we still don’t really know the whole picture…..
Once again a very interesting and informative video. I really like your narration style and visual presentation. I like your backgrounds and find the blue very attractive. I think you really deserved that drink. Best wishes from UK 🇬🇧❤️🇱🇺🇪🇺
Once again an awesome lesson. I would love to see your original video to see what has changed. I did a spit take at the end when you started singing Blue (Da Ba Dee). LOL
At Bryn Celli Ddu, Wales, a stone circle was smashed and replaced by a chambered tomb, perhaps some reaction to the beaker peoples (stone circle builders) by an earlier culture? Also in prehistory at Locmariaquer Brittany standing stones were smashed and reused in passage graves. I speculate something similar at Callanish. At Avebury, Arbor Low, Stanton Drew and Callanish, "Coves" of stones are incorporated in circles. Castlerigg has a curiuos stone setting. Maybe these are clashes and blends of cultures?
This is the island where I grew up ☺️ I'm planning on going to Callanish for the next moonrise event, which iirc is in 2024 (I'll have to double check that though...) Very interested for this video!
Ooooh that's lovely! I actually made this video 1.5 years ago but as it was my very first video i didn't do Callanish justice. I changed the script and now i feel like I've honored the site much better 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I just checked and the next major lunar standstill is apparently April 2025, obviously I don't know if you've mentioned this in your video, so apologies if you're already aware of it, but there's a link between the moonrise at the major lunar standstill and the nearby hills known as "Cailleach na Monteach" (Old Woman of the Moors), where the moon appears to be "born" from the "womb" of what looks like a reclining woman... I'm going to watch the video later and realise I've been megalithicsplaining, aren't I? 🤣🤣
I actually didn't talk about that, i mostly focused on the archaeological excavations 🙂 I'm going to make a myths/legends surrounding henge monuments video in the future where Callanish will be prominently featured 🙂
Sirenium scopuli. Mythical creatures with enchanting voices that inhabited an island in the Greek archipelago. Luring sailors to their doom on the rocks. Described by Homer in the Odyssey.
Did you see the other stone cicles round the site,na tursaichean calanais, sgoinnel. The stones and neolithic monuments in Orkney are great as well,so is Aberdeenshire, or 500 sites throughout Scotland. Interesting wee video, beautiful place.
Astonishing! When I was a child, in the 1950’s, it was assumed that the Salisbury Woodhenge predated the later stone version. I have recently come across the suggestion, however, that Woodhenge is a later imitation, by the beaker people invaders. It is a great pity that the remains found within it were lost
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I refer to the site 2 miles to the North-East. I haven’t visited that site, though I’ve been fortunate enough to have been to the (this? lol) centre of Stonehenge
Very interesting. The number 13 seems to unify important sites. A suggestion for a future video is a study of Anatolian Aphrodesias and their version of Aphrodite and its political/religious importance to the eastern Mediterranean societies.
Interesting as always Kayleigh. It was ironic, because as I waiting to watch your vlog I was watching another vlog which mentioned the Carahunge in Armenia. Have you heard much of that one? Keep up the great work👍
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Wow, that is quite high. It is most likely the reason why so much has been preserved. It leaves hope for so much more to yet be found in the surrounding lanscape and sites. Keep up the awesome channel!
i'm baack! dang, i missed the singing😪 was great, i'm sure🤯 anyway, excellent video, Klee. the 1st one was good but it did have a few problems. your videos have improved immensely since then. all of your posts are great but the neolithic stone circles and passage tombs and dolmens are my favorites. they are so magnificent and mysterious, they get my curiosity racing. i do hope you can get to see many of them in the near future. think of the great videos you could create with the footage taken on site🤯 it would be wonderful to see my witte wieven dancing amid some standing stones🧝♀️🧙♀️
I do have a question - where did the peat come from? That's quite the pile-up! Conjecture on "tombs": if we continue with the "religious significance" vein, womb representation? Temporary place for where a body would be put for "laying in state" until final rites? How about some sort of storage, where the stone circle might energetically imbue whatever was put there? The stones apparently ring, or are prone to good vibration, so perhaps that chamber was for resonance?
Could you do anything on the Picts and the time of Princess/Queen Spondana around 650A.D.- 700A.D. , I think . Please . I would really appreciate it. Genealogy kind of stuff to be specific. Clan Alpin maybe.
I now have a theory as to the lack of human remains in our historical record. Thanks to Nathan Constantine for my inspired theory that cannibalism may explain why we, at present, have little materialistic evidence of previous humans. It is not as bizarre as you may think. How we consider cannibalism today is far different from our ancestors' sought (out) social cohesion. Nevertheless, this is just my theory to account for the lack of human remains in the/our historical record. Yes, other factors are involved (volcano sacrifice, as an example). Still, I am certain this (cannibalism) plays a significant part in our presence here today.
Thanks for the video. There is a lot to these stones, and they could support a whole lifetime of study. They may have been visited in ancient times when still in use - the absolutely fascinating rituals and uses of this or a similar site (involving a lyre-playing, moon deity) were reported in the ancient lost travel book “on the ocean” by the Greek voyager Pytheas. Fragments of this survive, and the astronomical alignments he describes tie the account strongly to Callanish (and interestingly, his accounts of the rituals echo local folklore - of which there is much). Local kids used burnt pieces of bone as charcoal to draw with before Matheson’s time. Matheson himself reported that he found a stone with carved symbols and had this removed to his house (Lew’s Castle) for further study - this appears now to be missing. The stones also have important astronomical alignments which seem too accurate to be by chance and also tie up with the previously mentioned folklore and information in “on the ocean”. Much of this research was done by local scientists Mr and Mrs Ponting in the 20th century. More recently it has been discovered that the centre of the circle shows evidence of a powerful lightening-strike in prehistoric times before or just around the time the circle was built. The other circles mentioned place the stones in a huge “ritual landscape”, which may extend well beyond the immediate Callanish area as there are hundreds of other circles and neolithic/bronze age monuments on Lewis.
The stones are placed in a cruciform pattern and aligned almost true north ! hard to say if it was religious or scientific or even both ! very interesting and amazing ! nice video 😍
Luke A Older pottery would have been in the lower elevations, as people would have been close to the ocean like the present. As the water level rose, after the Younger Dryas Episode, the people would have found higher ground (or drowned). We will find important things some 400 feet under the waves. Thanks again for your content.
Luke, your on the right track. Actually the current wisdom has sea level rise from post glaciation melt at about one meter per century for the period of 10,000 to 5000 BCE. With modern sea levels stabilizing about 5000 years ago. So geologic rebound did occur in some areas. My point is artifacts are closer to the surface than you might think. Kayleigh covered Dogger Bank. Numerous fishing boats and scallop dredges pull up literally tons of ancient bones fishing the banks. There is a steady market in the tusks and desirable bones so found. Sadly the less desirable bones that don’t sell are simply discarded by the dumpster load. So too here on the fishing banks off the east coast of America. They even dredge up clovis points. Understanding sea level change over time is crucial to understanding the geographic locations of Neolithic human populations. I’m surprised that there have not been more purposeful scientific underwater explorations. Cost is most likely the limiting factor.
Wow was ist das für eine Musik Wow what is this music can you write me the name of this background song? Also I thank you for the good research I am also very interested in history
@@HistoryWithKayleigh yes I read in the description but can you tell me the exact name of the Song? Cause I want to listen to it and give the Artist the tribute he deserves 😉 By the way I support your curiosity about history, go on that way and good luck 👍🍀
Fascinating video Kayleigh. Definitely enjoyed the images & information you gave as well as what possible uses these monolithic structures were used for? Astrology? Rituals? Memorials? Places of worship? Makes you feel excited about the possibilities! 🤟🏼✨☪️🔮✨🌙✨Keep creative as well as making such extraordinary informative passionate videos. ♥️ #StandingStonesOfCallanish
I could tell you of these Men. What is important to understand, this land was full of wild animals and big trees: you do not see or speak of how different this land was. Most of the old world was covered in trees. It is so different, it is almost unbelievable. There was Druid and other Pagan rites and rituals. And back before this, magic and little people.
I have a theory as to what happened to the information regarding these "henges" like this or Stonehenge. The problem is TWO waves of conquests/influence occurred. These people were swept away/conquered/destroyed by the great Celtic migration/invasion of all Western Europe outside of Italy, where apparently the peoples there like Etruscans, Latins, Samnites, etc were tough enough to fight them off, indeed in early Roman times, they were still trying to fight their way into Italy, and the more advanced people there were beginning to have a military advantage. Well, the Celts weren't literate beyond runework, then the Romans pulverized them, even the ones they didn't directly conquer, like Northern Scotland and Hibernia/Ireland were strongly influenced. Even if a few Roman scholars did learn some Celt's tales of the people from before, who built those monuments, most of the written works of the Romans surely hasn't survived the over 1500 years since the fall of the Western Government. Probably not even 25% of it survived until 2021, so none of this did. Which wouldn't be surprising. That would have been the only way for any good direct info to come to us modern people. I do agree that there was a precursory structure with wooden elements, later replaced by stone.
Jon. Most ancient stone structures appear to have been preceded by a wood “model”. Ground penetrating lidar is revealing much. But so many people assume Neolithic and historic cultures had a burning desire to leave “future generations” a plan or explanation of what it was they built. Yes, people roam, and fight and destroy stuff. It is the human condition. It has not changed for 10,000 years. We don’t “learn better”, we learn how to do it better. So two things are at play. There probably never was an “owners manual” for the pyramids or your favorite henge, and what little contemporary hard reference was made got destroyed over time. Consider our modern world. Our most significant structures, those that with luck might last a few hundred years, are not “documented” in any way. We all know what the structure is. What little documentation exists is on paper or film or digital resources. All these media are ephemeral in the long view. I’m not arguing that this is desirable. It simply is the state of things. You play your ball where it lays.
Hello beautiful girl, the Standing Stones of Callanish, in my personal opinion, may actually be a lunar observatory, where the moonrise, on the horizon, could be measured to the alignment of the stones, when in observation from various viewing angles. Observers could then, for instance, measure the moon's rise, into the sky, to corresponding standing stones, and keep track of what day in the month it was, by easily being able to know, which one of the two moon cycles it was, in a given month. Further, by the phase of the moon, they could tell what day of the week it was. I don't know... but, if this site was made by the Norse, it would make perfect sense, because, they were already really adept at night sky measurements, from navigating the seas. I want to see this area of Scotland someday, too! ...or, any part of Scotland! Thank you, Kaleigh, good work!
Kayleigh, misschien heb je het gezegd en heb ik het gemist maar komen de stenen van het eiland en zijn ze gevormt of in deze vorm " gevonden " . Mooie en ook interessante vidoe weer. Schotland is prachtig...inclusief de gehakt in schapenmaag...
I’m amazed that people living as hunter gathers could find the spare time to build things like these, actually many things like these. It must not have been as much of a hard way of making a living as always described.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Opps. After thinking a bit I had heard that. Though agriculture in Scotland couldn’t be easy work but maybe they had domesticated animals and lived close enough to the sea for a more varied supply of food.
We don't have that many clues after so many millennia, do we? We know they are artificial, but we have no idea how they were made, by whom and why. The time that these structures were built is also a very rough estimate. We only know that several of these structures are scattered across Europe. I would say there is a correlation.
I would like to visit Lewis soon. Planning a trip in Summer 2022. My own specific interest is trying to identify WHO built the site 3000 years ago and WHY. I would love to send you the conclusions I have made, which so far have not been recognised by current archaeological investigators. My solution makes a point that the initial construction was not by the early wandering Hunter/Gatherers from mainland Europe. Their society did not have the necessary time or cohesion. ( But don't worry there are no refs to Visiting Aliens either! ) Simply a formidable group of astronomers from the Middle East who were exploring North Atlantic Ocean coastlines. Adventurers, who came from the Mediterranean area via Spain, France and Ireland. Their intention was trade and making maps of all the lands they encountered. They also made detailed studies of the Cosmos and that is the basics of my conjecture. All the Standing Monoliths, Stone Circles and Aligned Avenues were the result of their findings. These people were the beginnings of the Phoenicians. (Hebrew/ Canaanites ) Those who I credit with partly creating the foundations of our European society. After all, wasn't legendary Europa a Phoenician Princess?
I LOVE the Outlander series! Not only because it speaks to my Scottish heritage, but also to my Appalachian heritage. I was born and raised in Oklahoma, but my roots are in the Appalachias. I've hiked around 1500 miles of the Appalachian Trail so far and I'm planning to attempt a thru-hike, from start to finish, next year.
I am slowly working my way round all the standing stones in Scotland. They have a very calming feel when you stand inside some of them. They are magical. It's a shame some have been badly damaged by farmers and vandals, however some are in great condition. Have you done any research at Kilmartin Glen. It's a wonderful place full of neolithic sites.
I still have LOADS of neolithic sites to cover from Scotland 🙂
I can't wait. Information on stone circles can be sketchy especially if they have cup and ring marks. No one really seems to know what they represent. I look forward to your next video.
Thank you Kayleigh for everything you do, it makes a difference!
Good to hear some strong vocal connections between the Dutch and Scottish. Very nice.
I'm glad you liked it 🙂
Excellent video as usual! Keep up the great research and production, all performed with the grace of our Kayleigh! 🐄🌟🌞🕊🐄
Aawh thanks Rox! 🤗
In the middle of a History with Kayleigh Marathon. It's pretty great.
Awesome!
I remember your early videos and I was hooked right away! Your production values have gone way up and I imagine they will continue to grow as you do. We love your work and it is our pleasure to watch and help you grow! Go team Kayleigh! 🐄🌟🕊🌓🐄
Thank you Rox🙂 I'll always try to keep improving 🙂
Thanks for this.I have been there twice. The first time with my mum (she was born on Lewis, about 30 miles from the stones) as a child and it made a great impression on me; it was one of the things that triggered my love of history and archaeology. On my second visit it was pouring rain but that didn’t dampen my enthusiasm and took a ton of photos.
It seems like an absolute magical place 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Well, you won a subscription. I am planning on travelling back there next year to visit my mum’s family and will go to the stones again. Not your intention, but I am a academic librarian and I will challenge myself to see what literature I find about the other groups of stones. You have also inspired me to put some of my better shots of the stones on my IG account. Thanks again.
Happy to hear! Always try to research things yourself after watching a RUclips video, i always highly recommend that🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I like a challenge and you say you can find very little. If you want a good pictorial reference with good quality photography of UK monuments I recommend, Images of prehistory / text by Peter Fowler ; photographs by Mick Sharp. Cambridge UP, 1990.
I'm sure that it will be a great video 👍👍, you have a very nice singing voice.
Thank you Chris 🙂
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Can you please do a poor/rubbish video to something Kayleigh (anything will do) ... just so that I can find something to criticise you about !! 😂😂 ... because you're getting toooo good at this ☺ ... great video, great work ... missed the live stream unfortunately.
Thank you Steve! I just enjoy doing the premieres and hanging out with the viewers in the chat🙂
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I was there with my Mom on one of our adventures. She always liked to do things at important time. We were there at the full moon, and it was a super moon. We spent most of the night outside two nights in a row. The first night was clear. The second night was partly cloudy with dramatic clouds scudding by like an El Greaco painting. I recommend renting a car, staying at the youth hostel and going at full moon.
Sounds magical
This is a good, detailed study of the stones. I visited them a few years ago and I was surprised by the patterns on the stones, cased by being under peat and weathering. There's such an organic feel to them. Also, it was bloody cold - which is no real surprise to anyone from there. Its amazing that crazy people have been living in the area for over 5000 years.
Thank you! These stones are so awe inspiring
I hope people hang around for the last couple of minutes of your videos. I always enjoy that part as you tend to reveal the inner workings of your mind beyond the subject of the video. Usually good for a chuckle or two. Thanks for the great vid, Kayleigh! Dave J
I let my guard down once I'm done with the script and I become my silly usual self😅
A very interesting video. Thank you for your series on standing stones. I had no idea there were so many of these monuments across europe
Hi K, some years ago I spent a week camping up the west coast of Scotland. It is a deeply mysterious and beautiful country. There are standing stones, cairns, and castles in ruin everywhere. I missed this site though so I learnt something watching this. Very well researched and interesting vid...peace to ya K.
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Scottish Archeologist, Neil Oliver, was the presenter of a series of BBC documentaries on the history of Scotland. He claimed bones have been found that were 9,000 years old. When DNA was tested it showed that an amazing percent (like 30%) of the people living in Scotland today are related to the people that lived there 9,000 years ago! Also fascinating: there is a village by a sea side cliff. Young boys climb up and down the cliff to gather bird eggs. They get injuries and skeletal deformations from doing this. Bones of ancient people living there thousands of years ago show the same injuries and skeletal deformations. If you can find the videos, I recommend them to you! Put out by the BBC. Fascinating information. They were on RUclips for awhile but removed when Scotland was considering independence.
It is fascinating that ancient people from various places took the time and effort to erect these stone monuments, that appear to have had the purpose of keeping track of the season.
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Great video again thanks for putting in your time for us!!!🤗
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I enjoyed this a lot. I knew there were more monuments besides the famous Stonehenge, however I've never had the time to research any others. Over a third of my ancestors came from various regions of Scotland, so Scottish history is of great interest to me. Thanks for sharing this video with us!
I have more videos about Scottish monuments, they're in a playlist and you can find them in my videos on the channel
I never saw the first one, but I like this one. Peat explains a lot.
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Peat does explain a lot. You might research how and why peat formed. Numerous areas had no peat. Suddenly there is peat. In a geologic time frame. Part of the answer lies in climate and geologic change. But recent theory indicates that grazing ruminants have a strong effect on peat formation. Particularly domesticated ruminants.
Super presentation and full of unfamiliar information .You did a lot of deep research. Thank you.
Thank you!
You are giving information in such a wonderful way, i could listen all day to you thank you much
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@@HistoryWithKayleigh you are always welcome :)
I visited them around 1990 and again in 1993. They are remarkable and I would recommend making your visit to them. Give yourself a week if they interest you.
Haha I'll remember that 🙂
Your Background is very calming - Great Video - As always I learn so much from them
Thank you 🤗
SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN! Kayleigh you should call for a gathering on the Isle of Lewis so that you could check out the standing stone in real time; with interested people!
😉 maybe one day
Lovely presentation, thankyou. Callanish on a winter's dawn shrouded in sea mist is a magical experience. We should not forget "Calleach na Monteich" or the "Sleeping Beauty", look south-west from the stones and see her resting in sleep, formed from the undulations of mountains and valleys. You did not mention "Clach an Trushal", the largest stone in Scotland, well worth you seeking out when you visit.
Wonderful video Kayleigh , do let me know if you ever come to visit Callanish and I'd be delighted to show you around . ☺
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It was a better video than the old one at least 😉
I used to have a G+ friend that lived on the island and was a fantastic photographer. I remember a time when there were auroras and those photographs were stunning!
Great video ☺️ I hadn't seen the pictures from the excavation in the 80s before, so it was awesome to see them ☺️ I've only visited Callanish 1, 2 and 4 before, but I recall reading that one of the sites was the quarry that it's believed most of the stones were taken from.
Another of my favourite sites on Lewis is the broch at Carloway, which is worth a visit if you ever go to the island ☺️
I'm definitely planning a visit in the future 🤗
You've been fortunate to have been there 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I grew up there, and while it's a great place for archaeology, it's a pretty boring place for teenagers 🤣🤣🤣
Haha it is😂
Great work on this video. We can never lose history….!
Thank you David!
Hi Kayleigh, I am tour guide for cruise visitors on the Isle of Lewis and found your information well explained. If you ever visit the site, you are welcome to be my guest, I am originally from The Netherlands too and detected your accent. Hartelijke groeten van Esther
when visiting please do not take over the site. Others want to get a good view.
Absolutely wonderful. All of these places are so magical. Fabulous video again 🤓
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Extremely educational Kayleigh! I learned a lot from this...
Thank you so much! 🤗
Thank you, Kayleigh. I had not heard of this site. Interestingly, there is also a Woodhenge built by the Native American "Mississippian Culture" at the Cahokia Mounds just east of St. Louis, MO. Actually located in Illinois, demonstrating the Universality of the Circular Henge idea.
Oooh i had no idea, that's wonderful 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I walked the area, just a grassy meadow now. No surface evidence exists. However it was excavated a number of years ago. Definite astronomical alignments.
They are more frequent than most people think. Several mounds show some evidence of astronomical pointers. There is a “mini stone henge” on a hill top in Vermont. Estimated to be 2500 years old. It is less complex than Stone Henge, yet marks the desired solar points. The American plains Indians marked out “star wheels” to calculate seasons. These were ephemeral and seldom lasted more than a few years. Only to be built again as the tribes wandered about. No one really knows how they were able to reproduce the alignments from place to place. Yet the did so up until the 1890’s.
Always wanted to visit that site !! Great work on your video !!!
Thank you Harrison 😉
The Neolithic revolution and especially the 3000 BCE time period is way underrated and understudied. Whatever disruptive events, technologies and or cultural advance(s) that had occurred resolved in a global appearance of megalithic structures and we still don’t really know the whole picture…..
We might never know the full picture, but i do love researching this time period 🙂
So much history was made before we did stone, sadly wood recycled so well...and burned. Thank you for sharing you passion.
I always love talking about ancient history 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh you would make a great tour guide
Once again a very interesting and informative video. I really like your narration style and visual presentation. I like your backgrounds and find the blue very attractive. I think you really deserved that drink. Best wishes from UK 🇬🇧❤️🇱🇺🇪🇺
Thank you Doug! 🤗
Once again an awesome lesson. I would love to see your original video to see what has changed. I did a spit take at the end when you started singing Blue (Da Ba Dee). LOL
Ha yeah no, the original video will forever be lost 😂
Love your presentations
Thanks Kevin!
New in the channel but absolutely loving your channel! Really nice to watch some historical/archeological videos here \o/
That makes me happy to hear 🤗
Very enjoyable! I always get a big chuckle at the end. 😄
Happy to hear 🤗
At Bryn Celli Ddu, Wales, a stone circle was smashed and replaced by a chambered tomb, perhaps some reaction to the beaker peoples (stone circle builders) by an earlier culture? Also in prehistory at Locmariaquer Brittany standing stones were smashed and reused in passage graves. I speculate something similar at Callanish. At Avebury, Arbor Low, Stanton Drew and Callanish, "Coves" of stones are incorporated in circles. Castlerigg has a curiuos stone setting. Maybe these are clashes and blends of cultures?
I covered Bryn Celli Ddu last year 🙂
Wonderful video and background music. I shall finally be visiting Callanish in June 🤩🙏🏻
This is the island where I grew up ☺️ I'm planning on going to Callanish for the next moonrise event, which iirc is in 2024 (I'll have to double check that though...) Very interested for this video!
Ooooh that's lovely! I actually made this video 1.5 years ago but as it was my very first video i didn't do Callanish justice.
I changed the script and now i feel like I've honored the site much better 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I just checked and the next major lunar standstill is apparently April 2025, obviously I don't know if you've mentioned this in your video, so apologies if you're already aware of it, but there's a link between the moonrise at the major lunar standstill and the nearby hills known as "Cailleach na Monteach" (Old Woman of the Moors), where the moon appears to be "born" from the "womb" of what looks like a reclining woman...
I'm going to watch the video later and realise I've been megalithicsplaining, aren't I? 🤣🤣
I actually didn't talk about that, i mostly focused on the archaeological excavations 🙂
I'm going to make a myths/legends surrounding henge monuments video in the future where Callanish will be prominently featured 🙂
I love Outlander too! 😍 I think these stones were also in a Christmas episode of Call the Midwife a season or two ago.
Very thorough, thank you.
Thanks Wade!
Skara Brae is incredible too.... Definitely on my bucket list
I've covered Skara Brae last year 😉
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Ooh! I'll go look 🤗
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Did you read The secret history of the world?
I have not 🙂
I am viking descended literally--i love the bits on britian!!!!!!!!!
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Very cool!! Love this one !!! But so little info that I’m left a little bit lacking
Yeah well, there's only so much that i could gather
I love Outlander too, I got the books and saw the series twice lol. I wonder if Kayleigh likes LOTR, I am voting YES
Of course i do haha
Your make your content riveting. Thank you.
Thank you Scott!
Sound reminds me of sirens drawing sailors to they're doom. Some pirates of the Caribbean stuff here.
Haha thanks! 🙂
Sirenium scopuli. Mythical creatures with enchanting voices that inhabited an island in the Greek archipelago. Luring sailors to their doom on the rocks. Described by Homer in the Odyssey.
Beautiful singing and images, 😃😃😃
Thanks, be sure to come back for the premiere 😉
Did you see the other stone cicles round the site,na tursaichean calanais, sgoinnel. The stones and neolithic monuments in Orkney are great as well,so is Aberdeenshire, or 500 sites throughout Scotland.
Interesting wee video, beautiful place.
Once again you have done a great job 👍👍.
Thank you!
PUUUUURFECT!!!😻
I never heard of this site before. THANKS for bring this to our attention. Music is wonderful.
MEOOOOOW
Cat man
Haha thank you🤗
Astonishing! When I was a child, in the 1950’s, it was assumed that the Salisbury Woodhenge predated the later stone version. I have recently come across the suggestion, however, that Woodhenge is a later imitation, by the beaker people invaders. It is a great pity that the remains found within it were lost
There was a Woodhenge on the place of Stonehenge before it became Stonehenge that we see today with the stones 🙂
Who were the first people into GB after the ice age ended 11K years ago ? Cheddar man was supposedly 9K, they recovered his DNA.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I refer to the site 2 miles to the North-East. I haven’t visited that site, though I’ve been fortunate enough to have been to the (this? lol) centre of Stonehenge
@4:15 what's the difference between turf and peat?
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Peat gets created by dead plant material, turf is the layer of earth covered with grass 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Ah well in Ireland we live upside down, turf is peat cut and placed to dry upon peat:D
The blue is nice. Oh, and the henge content really well done.
Thanks🙂
brilliant always so good how do you do it.
Thanks, i just do it i guess 😅
Another awesome video 👍
Thank you Gerald 🙂
As always a beautiful job 👍👍 and not that the first one was bad but you are definitely finding a better footing ✌️
Thank you! The quality of the original video wasn't good 🙂
hey Kayleigh! missed the start so i'll watch later. looks real good, darlin! later!
Hope you enjoy it 🤗
Well I'm amazed at these and I also glad that they are being protected.
Me too 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh ❤️
Looking forward to seeing it! 🧙♂️
Happy to hear 🤗
Love megaliths, good job Kayleigh!!
Thank you! I love them too!
Very interesting. The number 13 seems to unify important sites.
A suggestion for a future video is a study of Anatolian Aphrodesias and their version of Aphrodite and its political/religious importance to the eastern Mediterranean societies.
I could in the future look into it 🙂
Outstanding video.
Want to go to Lewis and see this monument
Haha i feel the same 🙂
Interesting as always Kayleigh. It was ironic, because as I waiting to watch your vlog I was watching another vlog which mentioned the Carahunge in Armenia. Have you heard much of that one? Keep up the great work👍
I haven't 🙂 but I'm intrigued now haha
I like that Little Rosetta Stone Rock you have. Great Video. RH DSD
Can't wait!!! 😁😁
Happy to hear! 🤗
Thank you, very interesting.
Thank you!
Awesome learned something new. Thanks doll 😀🔥
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One thing is sure. These stones help people and researchers become very creative in inventing theories. People don’t like the unknown.
Very true 🙂
What was the height/level of peat before removal compared to today's stone exposure?
1.5 meters higher than today's stone exposure
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Wow, that is quite high. It is most likely the reason why so much has been preserved. It leaves hope for so much more to yet be found in the surrounding lanscape and sites. Keep up the awesome channel!
Thanks! I will🤗
i'm baack! dang, i missed the singing😪 was great, i'm sure🤯 anyway, excellent video, Klee. the 1st one was good but it did have a few problems. your videos have improved immensely since then. all of your posts are great but the neolithic stone circles and passage tombs and dolmens are my favorites. they are so magnificent and mysterious, they get my curiosity racing. i do hope you can get to see many of them in the near future. think of the great videos you could create with the footage taken on site🤯 it would be wonderful to see my witte wieven dancing amid some standing stones🧝♀️🧙♀️
Haha thanks Floyd, the singing isn't too important anyway 😂
I'm glad you enjoyed it for a second time 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh your singing IS important, to us! another side of the multi-faceted gem that is our Kayleigh💎🗿🧚♀️🧞♀️🧝♀️🧙♀️
At the end of the video, you get the pleasure of enjoying the drink at you leisure, and that is how it should be. Drink no drink before its time.
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I do have a question - where did the peat come from? That's quite the pile-up!
Conjecture on "tombs": if we continue with the "religious significance" vein, womb representation? Temporary place for where a body would be put for "laying in state" until final rites? How about some sort of storage, where the stone circle might energetically imbue whatever was put there? The stones apparently ring, or are prone to good vibration, so perhaps that chamber was for resonance?
The pest most likely build up that high because of the remote location and it being right next to sea
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Built up from what though? I am aware of peat bogs, but these areas don't seem to be of that sort of topology.
I'm not a botanist 😅
I have no idea exactly how🤗
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Wow I never heard of this place
Could you do anything on the Picts and the time of Princess/Queen Spondana around 650A.D.- 700A.D. , I think . Please . I would really appreciate it. Genealogy kind of stuff to be specific. Clan Alpin maybe.
I now have a theory as to the lack of human remains in our historical record. Thanks to Nathan Constantine for my inspired theory that cannibalism may explain why we, at present, have little materialistic evidence of previous humans. It is not as bizarre as you may think. How we consider cannibalism today is far different from our ancestors' sought (out) social cohesion.
Nevertheless, this is just my theory to account for the lack of human remains in the/our historical record. Yes, other factors are involved (volcano sacrifice, as an example). Still, I am certain this (cannibalism) plays a significant part in our presence here today.
Thanks for the video. There is a lot to these stones, and they could support a whole lifetime of study.
They may have been visited in ancient times when still in use - the absolutely fascinating rituals and uses of this or a similar site (involving a lyre-playing, moon deity) were reported in the ancient lost travel book “on the ocean” by the Greek voyager Pytheas. Fragments of this survive, and the astronomical alignments he describes tie the account strongly to Callanish (and interestingly, his accounts of the rituals echo local folklore - of which there is much).
Local kids used burnt pieces of bone as charcoal to draw with before Matheson’s time. Matheson himself reported that he found a stone with carved symbols and had this removed to his house (Lew’s Castle) for further study - this appears now to be missing.
The stones also have important astronomical alignments which seem too accurate to be by chance and also tie up with the previously mentioned folklore and information in “on the ocean”. Much of this research was done by local scientists Mr and Mrs Ponting in the 20th century.
More recently it has been discovered that the centre of the circle shows evidence of a powerful lightening-strike in prehistoric times before or just around the time the circle was built.
The other circles mentioned place the stones in a huge “ritual landscape”, which may extend well beyond the immediate Callanish area as there are hundreds of other circles and neolithic/bronze age monuments on Lewis.
The stones are placed in a cruciform pattern and aligned almost true north ! hard to say if it was religious or scientific or even both ! very interesting and amazing ! nice video 😍
Thanks Scotty 🤗
Perhaps it was made afterwards? They are awesome are they not. I would love to visit someday myself.
Luke A
Older pottery would have been in the lower elevations, as people would have been close to the ocean like the present. As the water level rose, after the Younger Dryas Episode, the people would have found higher ground (or drowned). We will find important things some 400 feet under the waves. Thanks again for your content.
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Luke, your on the right track. Actually the current wisdom has sea level rise from post glaciation melt at about one meter per century for the period of 10,000 to 5000 BCE. With modern sea levels stabilizing about 5000 years ago. So geologic rebound did occur in some areas.
My point is artifacts are closer to the surface than you might think. Kayleigh covered Dogger Bank. Numerous fishing boats and scallop dredges pull up literally tons of ancient bones fishing the banks. There is a steady market in the tusks and desirable bones so found. Sadly the less desirable bones that don’t sell are simply discarded by the dumpster load. So too here on the fishing banks off the east coast of America. They even dredge up clovis points. Understanding sea level change over time is crucial to understanding the geographic locations of Neolithic human populations.
I’m surprised that there have not been more purposeful scientific underwater explorations. Cost is most likely the limiting factor.
Wow was ist das für eine Musik
Wow what is this music can you write me the name of this background song? Also I thank you for the good research I am also very interested in history
Adrian von Ziegler, it's in one of his Celtic songs
@@HistoryWithKayleigh yes I read in the description but can you tell me the exact name of the Song? Cause I want to listen to it and give the Artist the tribute he deserves 😉 By the way I support your curiosity about history, go on that way and good luck 👍🍀
I have it under Adrian von Ziegler 1 on my pc haha😂😅
Fascinating video Kayleigh. Definitely enjoyed the images & information you gave as well as what possible uses these monolithic structures were used for? Astrology? Rituals? Memorials? Places of worship? Makes you feel excited about the possibilities! 🤟🏼✨☪️🔮✨🌙✨Keep creative as well as making such extraordinary informative passionate videos. ♥️ #StandingStonesOfCallanish
Just looked up Callanish on a map. Off the north-west coast of Scotland. Out in the sea.
Yes, very secluded 🤗
I could tell you of these Men.
What is important to understand, this land was full of wild animals and big trees: you do not see or speak of how different this land was.
Most of the old world was covered in trees. It is so different, it is almost unbelievable.
There was Druid and other Pagan rites and rituals.
And back before this, magic and little people.
I have a theory as to what happened to the information regarding these "henges" like this or Stonehenge. The problem is TWO waves of conquests/influence occurred. These people were swept away/conquered/destroyed by the great Celtic migration/invasion of all Western Europe outside of Italy, where apparently the peoples there like Etruscans, Latins, Samnites, etc were tough enough to fight them off, indeed in early Roman times, they were still trying to fight their way into Italy, and the more advanced people there were beginning to have a military advantage. Well, the Celts weren't literate beyond runework, then the Romans pulverized them, even the ones they didn't directly conquer, like Northern Scotland and Hibernia/Ireland were strongly influenced. Even if a few Roman scholars did learn some Celt's tales of the people from before, who built those monuments, most of the written works of the Romans surely hasn't survived the over 1500 years since the fall of the Western Government. Probably not even 25% of it survived until 2021, so none of this did. Which wouldn't be surprising. That would have been the only way for any good direct info to come to us modern people. I do agree that there was a precursory structure with wooden elements, later replaced by stone.
Jon. Most ancient stone structures appear to have been preceded by a wood “model”. Ground penetrating lidar is revealing much.
But so many people assume Neolithic and historic cultures had a burning desire to leave “future generations” a plan or explanation of what it was they built. Yes, people roam, and fight and destroy stuff. It is the human condition. It has not changed for 10,000 years. We don’t “learn better”, we learn how to do it better. So two things are at play. There probably never was an “owners manual” for the pyramids or your favorite henge, and what little contemporary hard reference was made got destroyed over time.
Consider our modern world. Our most significant structures, those that with luck might last a few hundred years, are not “documented” in any way. We all know what the structure is. What little documentation exists is on paper or film or digital resources. All these media are ephemeral in the long view. I’m not arguing that this is desirable. It simply is the state of things. You play your ball where it lays.
Hello beautiful girl, the Standing Stones of Callanish, in my personal opinion, may actually be a lunar observatory, where the moonrise, on the horizon, could be measured to the alignment of the stones, when in observation from various viewing angles. Observers could then, for instance, measure the moon's rise, into the sky, to corresponding standing stones, and keep track of what day in the month it was, by easily being able to know, which one of the two moon cycles it was, in a given month. Further, by the phase of the moon, they could tell what day of the week it was. I don't know... but, if this site was made by the Norse, it would make perfect sense, because, they were already really adept at night sky measurements, from navigating the seas. I want to see this area of Scotland someday, too! ...or, any part of Scotland! Thank you, Kaleigh, good work!
It's not made by the Norse, it predates them coming to Scotland by a considerable amount of time 😉
Stunning loving your accent 👌💭💭💭😍😍😘😘😘🥰🥰🥰🥰✌️
Thanks
Great presentation and good question I am like you and still have no real idea either 🤗👍
Thank you🙂 it's peculiar and intriguing nonetheless 😉
Thanks for all the info-Another site I knew nothing about until today. Grateful Thanks for the brain food, K.
Happy to hear you enjoyed it 🙂
Kayleigh, misschien heb je het gezegd en heb ik het gemist maar komen de stenen van het eiland en zijn ze gevormt of in deze vorm " gevonden " .
Mooie en ook interessante vidoe weer.
Schotland is prachtig...inclusief de gehakt in schapenmaag...
Niet gezegd haha, ik kon geen enkele info vinden waar ze vandaan kwamen.
Ik ga er daarom vanuit dat het glacial erratics zijn
I’m amazed that people living as hunter gathers could find the spare time to build things like these, actually many things like these.
It must not have been as much of a hard way of making a living as always described.
These weren't hunter gatherers.. this was already an agricultural society as that started some 5000 years ago in Scotland
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Opps. After thinking a bit I had heard that. Though agriculture in Scotland couldn’t be easy work but maybe they had domesticated animals and lived close enough to the sea for a more varied supply of food.
Excellent interesting
Thank you! 🤗
We don't have that many clues after so many millennia, do we?
We know they are artificial, but we have no idea how they were made, by whom and why.
The time that these structures were built is also a very rough estimate.
We only know that several of these structures are scattered across Europe. I would say there is a correlation.
I would like to visit Lewis soon. Planning a trip in Summer 2022. My own specific interest is trying to identify WHO built the site 3000 years ago and WHY. I would love to send you the conclusions I have made, which so far have not been recognised by current archaeological investigators. My solution makes a point that the initial construction was not by the early wandering Hunter/Gatherers from mainland Europe. Their society did not have the necessary time or cohesion. ( But don't worry there are no refs to Visiting Aliens either! ) Simply a formidable group of astronomers from the Middle East who were exploring North Atlantic Ocean coastlines. Adventurers, who came from the Mediterranean area via Spain, France and Ireland. Their intention was trade and making maps of all the lands they encountered. They also made detailed studies of the Cosmos and that is the basics of my conjecture. All the Standing Monoliths, Stone Circles and Aligned Avenues were the result of their findings.
These people were the beginnings of the Phoenicians. (Hebrew/ Canaanites ) Those who I credit with partly creating the foundations of our European society. After all, wasn't legendary Europa a Phoenician Princess?