Hey all. Thanks for watching. Do you have any local mysteries about the landscape near you? Loved making this little video and the research that came with it. See you next week! Paul and Rebecca
Very nice scenery and interesting story. I'm with you on debunking myths etc. When I was at secondary school in the 80s my locker was next to a group of girls lockers. One day there was a girl there in floods of tears. I asked her what was wrong. She'd received a "chain letter" - remember those? It said if she didn't send it on she and her family would die. So I told her to send it to me. She did and I destroyed it. After that a few other girls asked me if they could send me chain letters they'd received. I did the same, until whoever was sending them got bored. I guess nowadays it's all Internet Facebook bullying etc. Chain letters seem tame in comparison.
@@pwhitewick They are still with us then. I'll never forget the fear they instilled in those girls. We were all only about 15 at the time. I took the letters they gave me home and threw them in the bin.
Mark my words, and mark them well, there’s still time Carl. One day you’ll be walking along, minding your own business and BLAM! The letters will set about you, and by means extraordinary.
Reading the comments, i'm glad i'm not the only one thinking the pair of you have been a little busy during lock down and made The Whitewicks a little more plural.
Of course it true, A 10 year old boy touched it, 80 years later he dropped down dead. Excellent video, I am always interested in local history and the stories that go back through time. Keep up the good work.
Loved that, what a great story. Totally fascinating how they get started and carry on. Thank you so much for taking me along I really enjoyed it. Do stay safe and look forward to next video
My self and wife just have unfinished business with Wiltshire as we come from Cornwall we feel at home in that place of chalk, we love our hiking for we have done the ridge way but still drawn to Wiltshire x
Great video and beautiful scenery. Having been brought up in Cambridgeshire and the Fens, it is nice to see some hills! And I am glad I am not the only one reading something into Rebecca's body language right at the beginning and at 1.14.........
@@pwhitewick I see several of us, at the risk of seeming a bit forward, wondered if Rebecca were either ill, or had, to use that amusing English turn of phrase, "fallen pregnant."
Lovely bike ride. Great scenery. Wonderful film. Fascinating story. I don't believe a word of it. Touch and die? Rubbish. I've touched it and I'm very much alive. The story you told is one I have heard and read about. Lets keep the stone a mystery!
Local Mystery: Very near to where I live there is an old public house. At one time, many fine wines and beers flowed freely within. For some strange reason though, just recently, it all seems to have dried up completely. I wonder if they'll ever be able to restore it?
Interesting video thanks. I grew up near the stone, we were always told if you tried to move it you would die.not touch it. Been up there many many times. Thanks
I did go and see the stone thanks to this video, you made me smile though when you said you like to fly in the face of this type of mythology because of all the UK explorers on you tube you seem the most risk adverse in most other aspects but I do enjoy your videos always has good preparation and presentation keep up the good work.
I really enjoyed that. Completely different from the norm, as everything is at the moment. I could watch that scenery all day, looks like lovely cycling country. Really nice video, gutted rebecca didn't join you. Get a tandem and you can take her out next time ;-) take care and stay safe.
Great vid. Just goes to show what surreal local history is on your doorstep. Driven this road on many occasions on the way to Vernham. You said you went too far. Please tell me that you went all the way down Conholt Hill!!
Thanks for the Stone story. Have you heard about the Chute Causeway ghost, Paul? Villagers who had the plague were locked up in one house and the vicar assigned to feed them. Needless to say he didn't, but got the plague anyway... And as a penance his ghost forever walks them ther hills. One night my grandfather sat on a gate on the Causeway waiting for the ghost to appear. Nothing... until the sound of grating every second or so - gradually getting nearer and nearer. Suddenly he saw a man so Grandad got down off the gate and walked towards him. The man stopped, turned and pedalled as fast as he could in the opposite direction. Anyway, the reason why am telling you this is there's also a village story that this vicar was first turned to stone.
Very interesting and informative presentation Paul. If the surrounding landscape is chalk, that stone is a long way from home. Any info on where it originated? Keep up the good work!
Apparently according to Katy Whittaker (Historic England Sarsen Stone expert) they are scattered all over the landscape here. Although this one was reputed to move.
In my view there are usually two explanations for hauntings. cursers etc. 1 To stop trespassers etc. 2 create a tourist attraction. Tutankhamun was the classic one. The other were crop circles.
Thanks Paul. Quite interesting. Certainly a bit different for you (and us) than your usual tunnels. As for the fortunetellers who claim that touching that stone presages death, well there are mortality tables that the actuaries use in helping determine life assurance premiums, and one of the columns in said table is "Likely years to go till you die". On average, they are (well, were) pretty accurate, undoubtedly more so than said ramblings of the soothsayers and fortunetellers.
Sure during your video there was a prop for another RUclips show in the background from 1:37 onwards... not sure which one LOL But a very nice interesting video.
That was very interesting. I do like a good stone these days...must be age related. I can remember getting dragged along to visit such things as a child and hating every moment...except Avebury...Children of the Stones anyone? Cracking that.
Good one that, perfect example of how a legend starts. i live near Lough Neagh in NI. its meant to be the hole in the ground left behind when the giant Finn McCool threw a rock into the sea in anger, creating the Isle of man and Lough Neagh in one go. im sure there's loads more than that locally. but thats the most famous one.
Dont forget the bit where the mass of earth split in two, the large bit became the Isle of Man, the smaller bit became Ailsa Craig of the coast of Scotland, home of the majority of the stones used in curling.
Hi there great video as always. ..sadly I lost my dad to the virus last week and I was hoping after your fun with maps video you could cheer me up by choosing between raul or pebecca? Lol
You're lucky. My son and daughter in law went out on their bikes for exercise, were stopped by the police and told to go home. Devon and Cornwall police are obviously working to a different agenda.
In my area we have had Lycra cyclists racing through the area with all the kit for a serious ride. Passing within 2mtr of locals on narrow pavements. I have spotted one with a mini iPad attached to a custom handlebar bracket, local riders??? I doubt it. Last week a local noticed the electronic trip / speed / journey time device that showed 40miles. No doubt D&C police have noticed some cyclists flouting the rules.
As a geologist I'm not buying that the stone is natural. I'd still have to have a look though. Is this anywhere near Warminster? I could then drop by my cousins while I'm in the area.
Hi Paul, this brings back memories. Moved away from Chute only 6 months ago. My family can be traced back to the 1600s living in Chute. Know stories change from generation to generation and family to family so you could still be right... But my Nan told me this story 50 years ago, with one difference. You die if moving the stone, not by touching it. Bloody hope so anyway because I've touched it probably a hundred times on around 10 different occasions, even jumped on it! Am no expert but the marks have always looked as if caused by flowing water. Dropped there by ice flow? Is in a dip but there are other larger dips in the next field. Some dips in surrounding area caused by Germans jettisoning excess bombs, for lighter speedier aircraft on the way home. Although not the Stone's dip.
Simon, I hope you don't mind me asking: At the end of your comment, a "GB" symbol appears twice before the 👍s - they're called location identifiers or something. How do you get them to appear? This could be handy on some of the foreign channels I follow but I've never figured out how to do it. Cheers, Dougie.
That's one of the highest points in Hampshire! There used to be streams in the valley supplied in the spring by underground aquifers. In recent decades when the winter is very wet the aquifers burst out as mini fountains in the road and sometime inside the old cottages! Most years the rivers start a few miles down the valley.
If anyone with a strong understanding of local geology sees this, I hope they'll chime on whether the stone seems likely to be in its original location or not. I have no idea if that stone was moved to the site, but if it was moved, that would support the idea that the stone itself has some sort of historical significance. A community would not normally make a point of moving an insignificant rock a long distance. Perhaps its original site was being redeveloped in some way, and someone who had a concept of its significance had it moved to the property of a willing recipient. If so, it could be very interesting to find out the site from which it came, but since we don't even seem to be able to confirm the move, I suppose that's unlikely.
it came from a farm 5 miles away according to a local report done to the village council. It was the only stone the farmer could not bury as they wanted the land for growing crops. Which if you do your research could of been the fate of stonehenge. They had also been laid down to be buried by the farmer at that time, but were saved and re-erected for the world to see. A lot of sarcen stones lay buried under farming land as a result. Greedy farmers are more than willing to lose history when it makes them no money. Some welsh farmers were known to have destroyed a lot of neolithic stones either by breaking them up or blowing them up. A lot of history lost for an extra acre of wheat.
Many years ago lots of trees grew in that area and a family of crows started nesting there. The local inhabitants got very annoyed about the row they were making so a group of men went and found that stone and hauled it to where it now lays. The idea was to break up the stone so they coulld ' stone the crows ' and shut them up. After getting the stone in position for breaking all the the men dropped donn dead with exhustion and the wives stood round and said' well stone the crows' they should not have touched the stone....silly me,....Forgot to say. I did enjoy my view.
Fascinating story but I'm puzzled by the idea that the Hundreds meeting point would be in a chalk pit. You would expect the meeting place to be a moot hill not a hole in the ground. Given that the pit was Roman and the Hundreds were established in the post Roman era, it seems highly unlikely that the stone was a marker from a moot hill. Unless of course the story of its movement in the early 19th Century was correct then the stone could have been a marker but isn't in the correct place now.
Very good point on all counts. We assume it was a Roman pit, like so many along that route so yes, the position would seem very unrealistic to be a Hundred Stone. Myth.... busted.
Crow T.Robot: Did you browse further south to that village? There is a posh mansion there, complete with a park-like-garden around it and a tennis court. Plus a church and a church yard. In the way back olden days, lords would sometimes build there own churches or fund the building of a village church for the local populace. The village layout looks ancient! I wonder who Tibbs was?
@@bullettube9863 Following your suggestion, I looked. Both Upper Chute and Chute Standon have impressive manor homes. I see the chapel at Upper Chute-- noblesse oblige.
Excellent video! I'm glad the stone escaped the stone breakers who were religious zealots that heated stones in fires then poured water on them so that they shattered. Sometimes all that remains is the place name like Maney, near where I was dragged up
Yeah, those look like ripple marks on a lime deposit! It's not impossible that humans in the past didn't see it and think some one even earlier in the past did the sculpting and so held it in reverence. This has happened before in many countries with many cultures. People see a rock formation, like the giant's steps, or an arch on the sea shore, and because they didn't understand the natural forces around them, they thought a god or god like people made them for some mystical reason. You get an A+ for effort though just for finding it!
That's never natural markings, they're almost too perfect. If it was so big how did it get moved previously. Still like the idea of a meeting stone though but old folklore tales is what keeps the mystery of our ancient history. Nice research, good story.
There was a stone with a weird inscription, in the middle of a field in Ireland. There were various theories about what it said - a religious text, a riddle, or an account of an ancient battle (etc). One day, someone looked at it from a particular angle, and the inscription became obvious: 'March 12 1878 I am very drunk again today'
@@pwhitewick As I write to congratulate someone on a job well done it crosses my mind do I address this to the merry widow riven with grief but nonetheless merry ( one has to move on ) or to the jovial couple ? Soooooo Thanks for the excellent content once again , looking forward to the next one !! I CHICKENED OUT !!
Natural markings yer auld Ye Arras. Silly Herbert Thomas. Did he provide further example's of Sarsen erratic's with fine striations in a natural setting. Or did he round eckar's like. George Grey ought to have pinpoint highlighted Thomas' reasoning. Iv'e never seen one like it.
@@pwhitewick Yes i see that it's not pecked out like the one's suggested by Thomas. Those situated in Wales & Brittany. But the scoring technique isn't uncommon. I hazard that Thomas might've been unaware of other than the pecking technique. Archaeology was still in it's infancy at the time. I wonder how they came to name it; The devils waistcoat, from the horse incident. Do the marking's look like a waistcoat ?
I've only just found this video and I think I must have missed something. Has Rebeccah not been well? If so, please get well soon. When it comes to death curses there are two facts of life; birth and death. So in that sense there is a ring of truth to them, but I don't think you can attribute a death to touching an, arguably, pretty stone. Unless someone actually threw it at you or it fell on you.
There are a couple of Hundred Stones in North Gloucestershire & South Warwickshire near Chipping Camden. Both are only a few feet off modern roads. Worth a Wightwick visit when times improve? Here is one of them, the Kiftsgate Stone. ancientmonuments.uk/101848-kiftsgate-stone-chipping-campden. Not very far from the mysterious Rollright Stones
Opinion is that it is an erratic or a "drop stone" large boulders dropped the retreating ice sheet. The stones used build Avebury are thought to have been similar much larger stones left of the Downs by the ice. www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=34425 The option is Roman quarry waste
@@pwhitewick I think it means "take weapons" in Danish, and they would of course take their weapons to Hundred meetings as well since they were for military and administratie purposes.
On your trips to the Forest of Dean did you come across the Ley Line stones at the side of some of the roads. My Dad used to tell me that local folklore said that if you pricked the stone with a silver pin at midnight on midsummers it would bleed
@Terry White im with you on that we are now in may well have to see on sunday when we have an idea of when we can travel again i was ment to go on holiday to newcastle this weekend but i cant due to the lockdown i hope we are not in lockdown for much longer after sunday
i notice you didnt reference the work in its entirety as found at archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo431925192#page/n9/mode/2up - reference page 207-208 at the starting point of this video. P.S If you ever need anything finding your stumped with it wont hurt to ask me, i find things for fun to alleviate my boring life i have.
Hey all. Thanks for watching. Do you have any local mysteries about the landscape near you?
Loved making this little video and the research that came with it. See you next week!
Paul and Rebecca
Very nice scenery and interesting story. I'm with you on debunking myths etc. When I was at secondary school in the 80s my locker was next to a group of girls lockers. One day there was a girl there in floods of tears. I asked her what was wrong. She'd received a "chain letter" - remember those? It said if she didn't send it on she and her family would die. So I told her to send it to me. She did and I destroyed it. After that a few other girls asked me if they could send me chain letters they'd received. I did the same, until whoever was sending them got bored. I guess nowadays it's all Internet Facebook bullying etc. Chain letters seem tame in comparison.
Yup we still have chain letters they are just electronic.
@@pwhitewick They are still with us then. I'll never forget the fear they instilled in those girls. We were all only about 15 at the time. I took the letters they gave me home and threw them in the bin.
Mark my words, and mark them well, there’s still time Carl. One day you’ll be walking along, minding your own business and BLAM! The letters will set about you, and by means extraordinary.
Reading the comments, i'm glad i'm not the only one thinking the pair of you have been a little busy during lock down and made The Whitewicks a little more plural.
The markings look like the ones at New Grange.... Thanks for the tour, and I'm glad you touched the "Kenwood Stone" without dying - so far.
Touch wood. I'm still here!!
Of course it true, A 10 year old boy touched it, 80 years later he dropped down dead.
Excellent video, I am always interested in local history and the stories that go back through time. Keep up the good work.
Exactly!....
yup
Actually it 80 years 2 months 3 days and 12 hours and 37 minutes to the minute that he died spooky don't you think?
@@thelastpilot4582 eerie that!
Very similar to the 10 year old boy that Didn't touch and died 80 years later!
Good to look at the old maps
Legend as always Paul
Loved that, what a great story. Totally fascinating how they get started and carry on. Thank you so much for taking me along I really enjoyed it. Do stay safe and look forward to next video
Thanks Linda.
That was a very interesting video about a stone. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks Thomas.
@@pwhitewick your welcome
hi paul and rebecca , another interesting video , oh how we love worshiping old stones and such lol , :)
Yup.....
Another fascinating video. Thanks, Paul - I have cousins in Wiltshire and hope to visit them again before too long!
Definitely make a bee line for this area. Loads to see.
Methinks the Whitewick's once touched The Blarney Stone....
I definitely don't have the gift of the gab
@@pwhitewick ...and modest too.....incredible...it's why we all love the channel.
My self and wife just have unfinished business with Wiltshire as we come from Cornwall we feel at home in that place of chalk, we love our hiking for we have done the ridge way but still drawn to Wiltshire x
Fantastic, have you walked the North Hampshire Ridgeway or do you mean the causeway?
Very interesting. Lived 23 years in a nearby village and didn't know about this stone. Nice to see Chute Causeway again - always enjoyed the views.
Yup beautiful place when the sun is shining.
Loved this story, very interested in this stone...would love it if you did more of these...also really like your other posts. Keep going. Cheers John
Thanks John, very kind.
Nice bit of local history !...
Thanks Merv
Hi Paul really good learning such a lot from
You both well done
Lovely countryside
Keep safe
Paul in kent
Thanks Paul, learning a lot researching these myself!
Excellent 😀
Another cracking well informed video again,well enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it
Shared to the Hurstbourne Tarrant and Vernham Dean FB page. Great video.
Thanks Roger, very kind.
Great video and beautiful scenery. Having been brought up in Cambridgeshire and the Fens, it is nice to see some hills! And I am glad I am not the only one reading something into Rebecca's body language right at the beginning and at 1.14.........
That gesture suggests something to me too, but don't want to be too personal. Also suggested by the gesture at 0:01.
Haha,.... I actually can't recall why she did that!
@@pwhitewick I see several of us, at the risk of seeming a bit forward, wondered if Rebecca were either ill, or had, to use that amusing English turn of phrase, "fallen pregnant."
Lovely bike ride. Great scenery. Wonderful film. Fascinating story. I don't believe a word of it. Touch and die? Rubbish. I've touched it and I'm very much alive. The story you told is one I have heard and read about. Lets keep the stone a mystery!
Thanks Michael. Love a decent mystery to research!
I always enjoy something a bit different! :)
Thanks Henry. Plenty different up on that hill.
Thanks! That's not too far from me, so I'll have to find it and touch it myself. :-)
Do that Neil... do that
Local Mystery: Very near to where I live there is an old public house. At one time, many fine wines and beers flowed freely within. For some strange reason though, just recently, it all seems to have dried up completely. I wonder if they'll ever be able to restore it?
I certainly hope so!
Very enjoyable -Thankyou
Our pleasure!
Interesting video thanks. I grew up near the stone, we were always told if you tried to move it you would die.not touch it. Been up there many many times. Thanks
Yup I've heard that story many times myself.
Interesting stuff guys and something a wee bit different. 👍
Rebecca looks the best she has ever looked.
Nice bike ride 🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♀️
Sure is!
I did go and see the stone thanks to this video, you made me smile though when you said you like to fly in the face of this type of mythology because of all the UK explorers on you tube you seem the most risk adverse in most other aspects but I do enjoy your videos always has good preparation and presentation keep up the good work.
Thanks Paul. Risk from a curse = 0.00%. 🤪
Great story.
Thanks KG
I really enjoyed that. Completely different from the norm, as everything is at the moment. I could watch that scenery all day, looks like lovely cycling country. Really nice video, gutted rebecca didn't join you. Get a tandem and you can take her out next time ;-) take care and stay safe.
Haha... Now there is an idea. Don't panic she is back next week.
lovely scenery! 😊 and all that way to get stoned! 😂😂😂
You Rock!
I didn't understand from her gesture, the reasoning for not going out on the bike.
Anyway another different but interesting video.
Thanks Andy. I'm not sure myself
@@pwhitewick LOL, perhaps she meant she wasn't dressed for cycling and couldn't be arsed to change.
Great vid. Just goes to show what surreal local history is on your doorstep. Driven this road on many occasions on the way to Vernham. You said you went too far. Please tell me that you went all the way down Conholt Hill!!
Haha.... Opposite direction to THE hill.
@@pwhitewick Phew!!
Thanks for the Stone story. Have you heard about the Chute Causeway ghost, Paul? Villagers who had the plague were locked up in one house and the vicar assigned to feed them. Needless to say he didn't, but got the plague anyway... And as a penance his ghost forever walks them ther hills. One night my grandfather sat on a gate on the Causeway waiting for the ghost to appear. Nothing... until the sound of grating every second or so - gradually getting nearer and nearer. Suddenly he saw a man so Grandad got down off the gate and walked towards him. The man stopped, turned and pedalled as fast as he could in the opposite direction. Anyway, the reason why am telling you this is there's also a village story that this vicar was first turned to stone.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat: 1:14. Nice surroundings, as English as Midsomer :-)
Very interesting and informative presentation Paul. If the surrounding landscape is chalk, that stone is a long way from home. Any info on where it originated? Keep up the good work!
Apparently according to Katy Whittaker (Historic England Sarsen Stone expert) they are scattered all over the landscape here. Although this one was reputed to move.
In my view there are usually two explanations for hauntings. cursers etc. 1 To stop trespassers etc. 2 create a tourist attraction. Tutankhamun was the classic one. The other were crop circles.
100% agree!
Thanks Paul. Quite interesting. Certainly a bit different for you (and us) than your usual tunnels. As for the fortunetellers who claim that touching that stone presages death, well there are mortality tables that the actuaries use in helping determine life assurance premiums, and one of the columns in said table is "Likely years to go till you die". On average, they are (well, were) pretty accurate, undoubtedly more so than said ramblings of the soothsayers and fortunetellers.
Thanks Alan. I'm a big fan of logic so that works for me!
Sure during your video there was a prop for another RUclips show in the background from 1:37 onwards... not sure which one LOL But a very nice interesting video.
Very eagle eyed Simon
Almost a Father Brown Mystery set in beautiful English countryside.
You can visit all the pubs as you explore!
Bob Parsons. ........ why did nobody else think of that, and it's safer in a pub plus no saddle sores 🍷🍺👍
That was very interesting. I do like a good stone these days...must be age related. I can remember getting dragged along to visit such things as a child and hating every moment...except Avebury...Children of the Stones anyone? Cracking that.
Well I know Avebury well but not Children of the Stone
@@pwhitewick www.imdb.com/title/tt0075491/ definately worth anyones time...if you can find it
Good one that, perfect example of how a legend starts. i live near Lough Neagh in NI. its meant to be the hole in the ground left behind when the giant Finn McCool threw a rock into the sea in anger, creating the Isle of man and Lough Neagh in one go. im sure there's loads more than that locally. but thats the most famous one.
I found with this that its amazing how just a few generations of accounts of a subject can be remembered and passed on.
Dont forget the bit where the mass of earth split in two, the large bit became the Isle of Man, the smaller bit became Ailsa Craig of the coast of Scotland, home of the majority of the stones used in curling.
I see you changed your name, I like it. Very interesting stone
Thank you, hopefully better reflects the wide range of video's we make.
Hi there great video as always. ..sadly I lost my dad to the virus last week and I was hoping after your fun with maps video you could cheer me up by choosing between raul or pebecca? Lol
Really sorry to hear that Jimmy.
Ah yes we haven't gone full tilt "Big Bang" just yet..... Almost
@@pwhitewick hope you don't mind my strange sense of humour. ...where's that video of the railway network in your back garden by the way?
You're lucky. My son and daughter in law went out on their bikes for exercise, were stopped by the police and told to go home. Devon and Cornwall police are obviously working to a different agenda.
Well that's ridiculous. I would have told them where to stick it. Are you local to home, yes. Are you from the same family home, yes.
In my area we have had Lycra cyclists racing through the area with all the kit for a serious ride. Passing within 2mtr of locals on narrow pavements. I have spotted one with a mini iPad attached to a custom handlebar bracket, local riders??? I doubt it. Last week a local noticed the electronic trip / speed / journey time device that showed 40miles. No doubt D&C police have noticed some cyclists flouting the rules.
As a geologist I'm not buying that the stone is natural. I'd still have to have a look though. Is this anywhere near Warminster? I could then drop by my cousins while I'm in the area.
About 4-5 miles northwest of Andover.
good video
Hi Paul, this brings back memories. Moved away from Chute only 6 months ago. My family can be traced back to the 1600s living in Chute. Know stories change from generation to generation and family to family so you could still be right... But my Nan told me this story 50 years ago, with one difference. You die if moving the stone, not by touching it. Bloody hope so anyway because I've touched it probably a hundred times on around 10 different occasions, even jumped on it! Am no expert but the marks have always looked as if caused by flowing water. Dropped there by ice flow? Is in a dip but there are other larger dips in the next field. Some dips in surrounding area caused by Germans jettisoning excess bombs, for lighter speedier aircraft on the way home. Although not the Stone's dip.
Google needs to create pins on their maps linking videos about the pin location. This would be superb for research.🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
Yup that would be cool. We have done that with our stations... have a look at Paulwhitewick.co.uk
Simon, I hope you don't mind me asking: At the end of your comment, a "GB" symbol appears twice before the 👍s - they're called location identifiers or something. How do you get them to appear? This could be handy on some of the foreign channels I follow but I've never figured out how to do it.
Cheers,
Dougie.
Loved the story the markings look like it's been in a river bed I could be very wrong as its hmmmmm yrs since I did Geology
Likewise!....
That's one of the highest points in Hampshire! There used to be streams in the valley supplied in the spring by underground aquifers. In recent decades when the winter is very wet the aquifers burst out as mini fountains in the road and sometime inside the old cottages! Most years the rivers start a few miles down the valley.
There just outside Star near Cheddar you can find the Wimblestone which is said to have danced to its resting place.
If anyone with a strong understanding of local geology sees this, I hope they'll chime on whether the stone seems likely to be in its original location or not. I have no idea if that stone was moved to the site, but if it was moved, that would support the idea that the stone itself has some sort of historical significance. A community would not normally make a point of moving an insignificant rock a long distance. Perhaps its original site was being redeveloped in some way, and someone who had a concept of its significance had it moved to the property of a willing recipient. If so, it could be very interesting to find out the site from which it came, but since we don't even seem to be able to confirm the move, I suppose that's unlikely.
it came from a farm 5 miles away according to a local report done to the village council. It was the only stone the farmer could not bury as they wanted the land for growing crops. Which if you do your research could of been the fate of stonehenge. They had also been laid down to be buried by the farmer at that time, but were saved and re-erected for the world to see. A lot of sarcen stones lay buried under farming land as a result. Greedy farmers are more than willing to lose history when it makes them no money. Some welsh farmers were known to have destroyed a lot of neolithic stones either by breaking them up or blowing them up. A lot of history lost for an extra acre of wheat.
Many years ago lots of trees grew in that area and a family of crows started nesting there. The local inhabitants got very annoyed about the row they were making so a group of men went and found that stone and hauled it to where it now lays. The idea was to break up the stone so they coulld ' stone the crows ' and shut them up. After getting the stone in position for breaking all the the men dropped donn dead with exhustion and the wives stood round and said' well stone the crows' they should not have touched the stone....silly me,....Forgot to say. I did enjoy my view.
Not sure if it's been done but I think that a interesting series would be Uk seaside Peir's past and present .......
Very interesting indeed.
Fascinating story but I'm puzzled by the idea that the Hundreds meeting point would be in a chalk pit.
You would expect the meeting place to be a moot hill not a hole in the ground. Given that the pit was Roman and the Hundreds were established in the post Roman era, it seems highly unlikely that the stone was a marker from a moot hill. Unless of course the story of its movement in the early 19th Century was correct then the stone could have been a marker but isn't in the correct place now.
Very good point on all counts. We assume it was a Roman pit, like so many along that route so yes, the position would seem very unrealistic to be a Hundred Stone. Myth.... busted.
HA! Found it on Google Earth (I am so bored). 51°17'42.00" N, 1°33'56.92" W
The stone is visible.
Ha, you are bored indeed!.... just a spec but you are right, its there!
Crow T.Robot: Did you browse further south to that village? There is a posh mansion there, complete with a park-like-garden around it and a tennis court. Plus a church and a church yard. In the way back olden days, lords would sometimes build there own churches or fund the building of a village church for the local populace. The village layout looks ancient! I wonder who Tibbs was?
@@bullettube9863 Following your suggestion, I looked. Both Upper Chute and Chute Standon have impressive manor homes. I see the chapel at Upper Chute-- noblesse oblige.
Excellent video! I'm glad the stone escaped the stone breakers who were religious zealots that heated stones in fires then poured water on them so that they shattered. Sometimes all that remains is the place name like Maney, near where I was dragged up
Thanks Paul.
Been to see the "Rufus" stone.
We love the New Forest, I have been to see the Rufus Stone there many times. Fascinating place.
Yeah, those look like ripple marks on a lime deposit! It's not impossible that humans in the past didn't see it and think some one even earlier in the past did the sculpting and so held it in reverence. This has happened before in many countries with many cultures. People see a rock formation, like the giant's steps, or an arch on the sea shore, and because they didn't understand the natural forces around them, they thought a god or god like people made them for some mystical reason. You get an A+ for effort though just for finding it!
Ah thank you. I'll take the A+ every day of the week
@@pwhitewick You both deserve it!
That's never natural markings, they're almost too perfect. If it was so big how did it get moved previously. Still like the idea of a meeting stone though but old folklore tales is what keeps the mystery of our ancient history. Nice research, good story.
Thanks Bob. Still a few unanswered questions for sure.
The Blowing Stone at Kingston Lisle.
Not seen that, I'll take a look
There was a stone with a weird inscription, in the middle of a field in Ireland. There were various theories about what it said - a religious text, a riddle, or an account of an ancient battle (etc). One day, someone looked at it from a particular angle, and the inscription became obvious: 'March 12 1878 I am very drunk again today'
I wonder why the village went through the effort of moving it, and why to there?
Everybody who has ever touched that stone either has or will die 😂
100% correct
@@pwhitewick As I write to congratulate someone on a job well done it crosses my mind do I address this to the merry widow riven with grief but nonetheless merry ( one has to move on ) or to the jovial couple ? Soooooo Thanks for the excellent content once again , looking forward to the next one !! I CHICKENED OUT !!
Everybody who has Never touched it other has or will die too. Spooky...
@@alanclarke4646 Very true You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
@@wurlitzer895 might as well then, in that case
Natural markings yer auld Ye Arras. Silly Herbert Thomas. Did he provide further example's of Sarsen erratic's with fine striations in a natural setting. Or did he round eckar's like. George Grey ought to have pinpoint highlighted Thomas' reasoning. Iv'e never seen one like it.
I like your thinking Hazley. I would like to think it was man made too. Looks almost too perfect though!
@@pwhitewick Yes i see that it's not pecked out like the one's suggested by Thomas. Those situated in Wales & Brittany. But the scoring technique isn't uncommon. I hazard that Thomas might've been unaware of other than the pecking technique. Archaeology was still in it's infancy at the time. I wonder how they came to name it; The devils waistcoat, from the horse incident. Do the marking's look like a waistcoat ?
I think you need to give us weekly bulletins so we know you are still OK :-)
In that case we shall continue to make these videos.
no wonder the Horse Died trying to move the Stone if the Bottom of it can't be Found
Yup.... kind of obvious isn't it really.
Didn't you know , that's where the term "stone dead" originated!!! 😏
.......thud
I've only just found this video and I think I must have missed something. Has Rebeccah not been well? If so, please get well soon. When it comes to death curses there are two facts of life; birth and death. So in that sense there is a ring of truth to them, but I don't think you can attribute a death to touching an, arguably, pretty stone. Unless someone actually threw it at you or it fell on you.
Thank you. Yes this one was our lowest uptake. During lockdown we didn't get promoted that much!
@@pwhitewick And youtube seems to be a little hit and miss with the nitofications, too. Which is a shame, because it's a great video. Lovely scenery.
Maybe it was on the way to stonehenge and didnt quite make it 😊
There are a couple of Hundred Stones in North Gloucestershire & South Warwickshire near Chipping Camden. Both are only a few feet off modern roads. Worth a Wightwick visit when times improve? Here is one of them, the Kiftsgate Stone. ancientmonuments.uk/101848-kiftsgate-stone-chipping-campden. Not very far from the mysterious Rollright Stones
Brilliant Eddie, love a good mystery.
fun
Thanks Mark.
brillant
Ah thanks Mr B
@@pwhitewick love you two, learnt about Roman roads and chalk today
Rebecca not into bikes? She's missing out.
She's a tad sore from the last bike ride..... around a year ago.
The Whitewicks ooo painful lol
She's with Child!
@@1toppotter987 Really, oooh that would explain it!
To much info in video. Easy to find location of home. Love your vids mate.
Love getting stoned with nature lmao
Opinion is that it is an erratic or a "drop stone" large boulders dropped the retreating ice sheet. The stones used build Avebury are thought to have been similar much larger stones left of the Downs by the ice.
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=34425 The option is Roman quarry waste
Does Rebecca not own a bike?
She does. But the desire to get on it and cycle 40k isn't as great as mine.
Does Rebecca have a bike phobia, or just lack a bicycle?
All of the above.....
@@pwhitewick haha!
Useless fact for RUclips algorithm; in the Danelaw Hundreds were called Wapentakes.
Any reason why?
@@pwhitewick I think it means "take weapons" in Danish, and they would of course take their weapons to Hundred meetings as well since they were for military and administratie purposes.
On your trips to the Forest of Dean did you come across the Ley Line stones at the side of some of the roads. My Dad used to tell me that local folklore said that if you pricked the stone with a silver pin at midnight on midsummers it would bleed
Ley Lines...... 🤦
@@pwhitewick allthatsinteresting.com/ley-lines
Sorry forgot to add "KEEP SAFE!"
really enjoyed this video i cant wait till we can all go out exploring again
This is about as far as I could cycle and back in a reasonable time, so I am completely with you on that!
@Terry White im with you on that we are now in may well have to see on sunday when we have an idea of when we can travel again i was ment to go on holiday to newcastle this weekend but i cant due to the lockdown i hope we are not in lockdown for much longer after sunday
I hope your checked your life insurance was up to date before touching that stone.
Haha... yup all over that especially at the moment!
...so it was the aliens after all then? Just your typical interstellar fly-tipping eyesore.
Do you subscribe to the Wiltshire Man channel? Same area and some similar interests.
Nope but I will check him out
Gee I hope this isn't faupar. Is Rebecca pregnant?
I was wondering the same thing
Everyone who touches that stone will die.
i notice you didnt reference the work in its entirety as found at archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo431925192#page/n9/mode/2up - reference page 207-208 at the starting point of this video. P.S If you ever need anything finding your stumped with it wont hurt to ask me, i find things for fun to alleviate my boring life i have.
Ah yes wonderful. I found that then lost it again!
So irritating that you ride on the wrong side of the road :D
the piano music needs to go - its shit while you are talking