Hag stones are fossilised mud with holes in them that were formed by worms and other sea creatures millions of years ago. Ancient man thought them to have magical qualities hence the many names they were given: Hag Stone, Adder Stone, Hex stone Witch's Stone and Fairy Stone, to name but a few. They would be hung up at doorways to homes, barns and stables to protect the occupants from witch's curses and it was also believed that, if you looked through the hole, you would see the fairy world. The fact that they are the fossil of a worm hole may not be as romantic but is just as fascinating!
it is possible that it was fossilized mud, but the hypothesis that worm made its cavities ... distrust ... they are too perfect, it almost seems done artificially ..
What geographical areas would you find hag stones? I have a smooth, deep gray stone with two perfectly round holes in them. It's in my garden--I don't recall where I found it. I live in the high desert area of Southern CA. Either I found it on our property, or brought it home from another CA location...
When my 2 daughters were small we walked the beaches looking for unique beach stones. I would then polish them. 36 years later...these stones are their most prized possessions & memories. Thank you for taking me along and reminding me of precious memories. From California, USA. The Colonel
You have taken us on another beautiful trip that I would never been able to partake of without persons like yourselves, thank you for the history , beautiful scenery and Beautiful music from the Cello and Alex's voice, so soothing. Happy new year and keep taking us to the places we all love.
17:37 slow down the playback speed and watch in the archway as a skull/head appears. As it moves from left to right, a dark cloak will begin to appear over it before it disappears. Absolutely fascinating! Also, I collect rocks and stones too. I would have that whole beach in my backyard if I lived near there! Lol There were so many beautiful stones and fossils! Thank you for sharing!
Not sure why YT is recommending this to me, but it must be interesting to walk this beaches where about twelve hundred years ago vikings landed to raid the island and the priory. Lots of history out there.
It’s Dec. 2023 and I’d like to note you are almost at 100K followers. Yay! So much has changed. You now live in Lost Tower with your schrews, chickens and cat. How time flies!
I love this channel because is so diverse in content. Also, your voices are so soothing! Your personalities are amazing and always such a good info. Thank you for this.
Wonderful vídeo vou take me where I cannot go, share sacred knowledge passed from generation to generation the power of sacred revealed to the humble of heart, blessed be...🤗😘
I honestly cannot tell you enough how beautifully executed your cinematography is. Your scenery shots and music is wonderful! I am visiting there vicariously through the eye of your camera. ❤
Would be cool inset into a piece of drift wood and then an approximation of the painting done around it as the face. The hag stone that looked heart like would be neat with a wooden arrow put through the hole. This is done by compressing the barbed point and letting it decompress to create an object of mystery. Love the vids
I quite enjoyed this and the beautiful young lady has a lovely voice I could certainly listen to her for hours and still feel as an angel were singing to me
As a woodworker I find amusing faces daily in the knots. Sometimes I have to start over to save the good ones...hoping to make a table of the collection someday
I love the "Freude schöner Götterfunken" by the famous Ludwig van Beethoven! What a great treat for the ears as well to go along with the beautiful scenery!
Hello from New Zealand, really enjoyed this ,the filming was excellent, the scenery was wonderful, you and your mum are beautiful. I have been picking up stones and other things since I was a young child . It's an amazing hobby and all the people I have met over the years have been really nice . I also carve jade in my spare time with diamond tools and whenever I travel overseas I pick up stones and bring them home . Returned from Laos last month with some nice one's which I will carve . Have a happy and healthy new year. Cheers from Grant .
One looked like a Stormtrooper, one looked like Casper, the very last guy looks like a "Tim" to me! Thanks for another lovely educational, fun video. from Asheville, NC
Thank you for letting me join you both, on you beach combing for hag stones. They are amazing. Thank you also for the history lesson around & about the island. I had a truly unique & awesome time. Thank you both you are both awesome people. Happy new year to you both too.xxxx
Another great video :) You found some great fossils. We are going to check out Holy Island in April. We are even more excited about it after watching your video. Thanks for taking us along :) Happy New Year!
WOW! that is great. And there is a fossil. You are going great guns already. Tons of fossils, beautiful. Tumbled if you have one, they would be great. And lots of red, pink and other colors off small rocks. WOW! I am heart broken.
I found this channel like 2 hours ago, and I absolutely adore you two! This is just so wholesome and I love the content too, please never stop, and I think it should go without saying that I have most definitely subscribed!
Looks like a pig's snout too! Loved that lil stone with the perfect heart on it!! This was a cool beach, my bag would have been sooo heavy! I'd love to buy a hagstone too!
I'm curious about the difference. In USA topsail island in north Carolina I find stones, they have little clams on the hole.. I left them as I didn't know that someone calls them fairies.
This is one of my very favorite channels! You two are a delight, and looking forward to many more videos and many more subscribers to you! Happy New Year! Name the hag stone Hagitha❤️
Loved your video! Very informative. I’ve been to Holy Island twice. My father brought me there in 1981 for my 18 Th . My step Mom was from Morpeth originally but we were all from Canada. He named his yacht Lindisfarne ( moored in Florida and sailed in the Caribbean)after Holy Island as he loved it there. My second visit was in 1996 when I spread his ashes at the base of the castle very close to where you are larking. Thank you.💕from a friend in Canada.( P.S.One day I want to return for a visit again hopefully).
@@grossleg123 I sure did, I am not in any University geology course, Google is the greatest depository of information on earth. (make that repository) lol
I’m watching this video for like the 5th time! I keep falling asleep because I watch these before bed and they are so relaxing...I end up falling asleep lol. I hope the extra views help you all out. Looking forward to more videos!
My then fiancé who is Scottish took me to Holy Island the first time I was in Great Britain 20 years ago! We have been married for 18 years and we LOVE rock hounding and beach combing. We’re a little sad that we didn’t know to look for hag stones there! We live in Michigan which is a great place to live if you love to hunt for fossils and pretty stones. Great video! I also have great memories of fossil hunting in Spittle with our sons. Our suitcases were so heavy from the wood fossils we brought home. That’s a beautiful beach there too!
It's appropriate that your intro music is "Simple Gifts" and the music during is "Ode to Joy". You share the simple gifts and bring joy to so many....now almost 10,000! Thanks for taking us along on this adventure!
Very interesting stones! Love the history and legend💖 I would name that last stone Fred! Lol 😮 Well done ladies! Congrats to the winners and Happy New Years everyone!🎉
It seems that pet rocks are in fashion again. Truely magic. I must get some Hag Stones to hang from my balcony, perhaps with macrame and driftwood. A fascinating adventure with charming hosts. 👣💍👞🦀🐾🍀⚓🏺🗝👣
The reason your channel is blowing up, is bcoz your vids are awesome, well presented, full of facts, beautiful scenery, great music and so well edited and produced, you'd swear you ls have been doin this RUclips business for years! And not to mention two beautiful young ladies.. I predict 20,000+ followers by March.. Mark my words Gayle and Alex😊 so glad to stumbled upon your channel.. Happy new year from Ireland girls
It wasn't "an eerie part of the island"...IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!! You guys are so lucky to be able to travel to places such as that and to walk in the foot prints of such an amazing time in history. I'll just sit here in America and drool. I was so born in the wrong area :)
Another enjoyable and fascinating video that the family had fun watching on New Years day. My children said the hag stone looks like Kipper (the dog). They loved that show when they were little.
Hag stones are fossilised mud with holes in them that were formed by worms and other sea creatures millions of years ago. Ancient man thought them to have magical qualities hence the many names they were given: Hag Stone, Adder Stone, Hex stone Witch's Stone and Fairy Stone, to name but a few. They would be hung up at doorways to homes, barns and stables to protect the occupants from witch's curses and it was also believed that, if you looked through the hole, you would see the fairy world. The fact that they are the fossil of a worm hole may not be as romantic but is just as fascinating!
Northern Mudlarks thank you for clarifying this! How interesting!
it is possible that it was fossilized mud, but the hypothesis that worm made its cavities ... distrust ... they are too perfect, it almost seems done artificially ..
Awesome, thanks for clarifying!
What geographical areas would you find hag stones? I have a smooth, deep gray stone with two perfectly round holes in them. It's in my garden--I don't recall where I found it. I live in the high desert area of Southern CA. Either I found it on our property, or brought it home from another CA location...
Would be handy for hunting/war, just pull a piece of rope trough it and u have a simple weapon that u can throw.
I no longer feel alone in the world, going OOOOO! and AAAAHHHH! at rocks. 🤩
Im the only one, around me, that looks at the ground for treasure !!
I have a few "mudfossils"..
As an American who drives on the right side of the road, the first minute of this video was terrifying. 😂
Haha! It's the same for us when we see Americans driving 😂 Though, Mum first learnt to drive over in the States!
Yes!
You should have been with me on my first taxi cab ride in japan it was terrifying.
True that. Sped up video looked like they were hauling ass through the tiny lanes. Then this gentle music playing.
Lol
What a great way for a mother and daughter to bond!
"I've gone mad, I'm naming rocks" HAHA that was so funny, you are adorable, love your video!
When my 2 daughters were small we walked the beaches looking for unique beach stones. I would then polish them. 36 years later...these stones are their most prized possessions & memories. Thank you for taking me along and reminding me of precious memories. From California, USA. The Colonel
That's wonderful !
I have 2 son's a daughter and six grandchildren all of whom enjoy their time with me Rockhounding... time goes by fast.
I love how they are said to ward off witches but here I am a witch using is for luck
You have taken us on another beautiful trip that I would never been able to partake of without persons like yourselves, thank you for the history , beautiful scenery and Beautiful music from the Cello and Alex's voice, so soothing. Happy new year and keep taking us to the places we all love.
Olivia's
I would have kept the “RAD” brick.👍
Yeah it was totally Rad
Scott Clegg me too that was awsome!
@@fairysox221 hahahahaha
Same here! I use a knapsack to carry my treasures in so I can carry a lot of weight!
And the rudder!
Lovely ladies, with beautiful voices. And lots of wonderful stones all around. I fell in love with that little pink one.
17:37 slow down the playback speed and watch in the archway as a skull/head appears. As it moves from left to right, a dark cloak will begin to appear over it before it disappears.
Absolutely fascinating!
Also, I collect rocks and stones too. I would have that whole beach in my backyard if I lived near there! Lol There were so many beautiful stones and fossils!
Thank you for sharing!
Her sweet, enthusiastic and curious voice with each find, was so very pleasant to listen to! 💕
-said Texas girl, here...
I love the music!
Thank you for sharing your adventure. It was lovely to go along with you.
Not sure why YT is recommending this to me, but it must be interesting to walk this beaches where about twelve hundred years ago vikings landed to raid the island and the priory. Lots of history out there.
It’s Dec. 2023 and I’d like to note you are almost at 100K followers. Yay!
So much has changed.
You now live in Lost Tower with your schrews, chickens and cat. How time flies!
I love this channel because is so diverse in content. Also, your voices are so soothing! Your personalities are amazing and always such a good info. Thank you for this.
Wonderful vídeo vou take me where I cannot go, share sacred knowledge passed from generation to generation the power of sacred revealed to the humble of heart, blessed be...🤗😘
Didn't know what a hagstone was, but after watching this I realized I had one on my windowsill! Mine came from Lake Michigan.
I honestly cannot tell you enough how beautifully executed your cinematography is. Your scenery shots and music is wonderful! I am visiting there vicariously through the eye of your camera. ❤
The piece of coral fossil at 19:54 looks like Edvard Munch's The Scream! lol!
My thought exactly
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@@archiewoosung5062 Looks like a job for Baumgartner Restoration!
Would be cool inset into a piece of drift wood and then an approximation of the painting done around it as the face. The hag stone that looked heart like would be neat with a wooden arrow put through the hole. This is done by compressing the barbed point and letting it decompress to create an object of mystery. Love the vids
I quite enjoyed this and the beautiful young lady has a lovely voice I could certainly listen to her for hours and still feel as an angel were singing to me
I think it is beautiful, and the time spent as mother daughter is even more so. 💗
What a great video! I love the scenery, the rocks, the choice of music---everything! I am from Florida so scenery like this is so unusual to me.
Thanks for sharing this perfect mum and daughter day out, it's very generous of you both to share these special times and places with us.
I loved watching this. You were in my "Recommended" column. I think that is because I also watch and very much enjoy Nicola White. I have subscribed.
Thank you for allowing me to come along on your journey to the most beautiful places
Dang, I would have taken that RAD brick!
As a woodworker I find amusing faces daily in the knots. Sometimes I have to start over to save the good ones...hoping to make a table of the collection someday
I love the "Freude schöner Götterfunken" by the famous Ludwig van Beethoven!
What a great treat for the ears as well to go along with the beautiful scenery!
Tis' A Gift is such a beautiful song! Thank you for making it a part of this video.
At 25 mins...that Hag stone looks like a tiny version of the Easter Island monuments!😁
Well done, Gayle! Happy New Year, Mudlarks!!!
Hello from New Zealand, really enjoyed this ,the filming was excellent, the scenery was wonderful, you and your mum are beautiful. I have been picking up stones and other things since I was a young child . It's an amazing hobby and all the people I have met over the years have been really nice . I also carve jade in my spare time with diamond tools and whenever I travel overseas I pick up stones and bring them home . Returned from Laos last month with some nice one's which I will carve . Have a happy and healthy new year. Cheers from Grant .
Horace would make an exceptional button.
22:33 fossil sponge stromatoporoid with tabulate coral in it
Brian Ferris Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
@@coasthome8356 Thank Professor Google I love to hunt for fossils even if it they happen to be seen in someone else's videos.
@@coasthome8356 Professor Google holds all the information.
My favorite part was the stones with eyes and faces.You could make really cool sculptures with them to put in your garden.
The ghost stone should be "Casper the friendly hag stone". I think I'm going mad also.
🤣🤣
The two of you are so sweet together and I love watching you discover new treasures!
Thank you! xx
One looked like a Stormtrooper, one looked like Casper, the very last guy looks like a "Tim" to me! Thanks for another lovely educational, fun video. from Asheville, NC
Northumberland. Where my heart lies. ❤️
Thank you for letting me join you both, on you beach combing for hag stones. They are amazing. Thank you also for the history lesson around & about the island.
I had a truly unique & awesome time. Thank you both you are both awesome people. Happy new year to you both too.xxxx
This videos are better than watching any Indiana jones movies. It's like going on archeological digs with y'all!
You have Such a soothing voice
The “must collect smooth rock” side of me is going crazy for your videos! I wouldn’t be able to hold back lol
When I was a young boy, about 60 years ago, I found a lot of these stones with the hole through them here on the coast of Northern California.
I live in northern California too, and yes my daughter and me have found a few.
They are all over the coast line from Northern to southern cali as I have several of them....
@@rideout0011 In Cali? Hit the beaches after a storm they get uncovered and thrown up on the shoreline
May all your finds in 2020 top all that you have found before. Best wishes to you both.
I so would have found a way to retrieve that ship’s rudder.
My CheleSpace me too
Such an incredible piece of history!
Some day... Ill see these beautiful shores. Thank you for sharing them with us.
A split second before you named the third ‘face’ hag stone ‘Terry’ my mind said ‘Terrence’ I swear it! I was like Wow! Lol x
fluffyspit You too?
For me,it was Horus.
I think it is so wonderful that you have such a wonderful hobby that you can enjoy together. My daughter and I share a love of photography.
Another great video :) You found some great fossils. We are going to check out Holy Island in April. We are even more excited about it after watching your video. Thanks for taking us along :) Happy New Year!
You are such kind people for giving giveaways to people . I love your work hope you have a great year
I think his name is George Hagstone. And I loved hearing the old bells; what a beautiful sound!
Holy Molly, plenty of beautiful rocks on the Holy Island. I'll go crazy there. I love rocks!
Your world is so beautiful and old - I've experienced it myself a few times. Hope will be able to go there in 2020.
I live in Idaho USA, we are known for theGem State , because all the beautiful gems we have. I love collecting rocks and gems. I loved video today.
21:17 a perfect tiny heart in the rock! 😍
WOW! that is great. And there is a fossil. You are going great guns already. Tons of fossils, beautiful. Tumbled if you have one, they would be great. And lots of red, pink and other colors off small rocks. WOW! I am heart broken.
I found this channel like 2 hours ago, and I absolutely adore you two! This is just so wholesome and I love the content too, please never stop, and I think it should go without saying that I have most definitely subscribed!
Thank you so much! xx
@@NorthernMudlarks did you see any faeries yet?
Congratulations Gayle!
Looks like a pig's snout too! Loved that lil stone with the perfect heart on it!! This was a cool beach, my bag would have been sooo heavy! I'd love to buy a hagstone too!
very sweet spending the day with you two.
the 'holy' stones would make excellent sinkers for fishing lines eh.
I found my witch's stone at our local creek a few years back. It is now a pendant I wear. These stones are also called Odin's Stone.
What a magical place - wonderful hagstone, coral, and songs fossils - a lovely presentation
*sponge fossil
I saw one that was defiantly an “Ethan”. Thank you so much for allowing me on your adventures😄
Love the rocks and scenes . Happy new year 🇦🇺
When I lived on Inis mor, I found a few rocks with a hole, the Islanders insisted they are fairy stones, good luck!!!!
hag stones even I make silent wishes upon hag stones
I'm curious about the difference.
In USA topsail island in north Carolina I find stones, they have little clams on the hole.. I left them as
I didn't know that someone calls them fairies.
I am sooo fascinated by hagstones. Can hardly wait till I can get one.
This is one of my very favorite channels! You two are a delight, and looking forward to many more videos and many more subscribers to you! Happy New Year! Name the hag stone Hagitha❤️
Loved your video! Very informative. I’ve been to Holy Island twice. My father brought me there in 1981 for my 18 Th . My step Mom was from Morpeth originally but we were all from Canada. He named his yacht Lindisfarne ( moored in Florida and sailed in the Caribbean)after Holy Island as he loved it there. My second visit was in 1996 when I spread his ashes at the base of the castle very close to where you are larking. Thank you.💕from a friend in Canada.( P.S.One day I want to return for a visit again hopefully).
I'd call my hagstone Rocky. 😂
That's what I was going to say! Lol!
I have one called Sharon
What a beautiful place. It's just magical. 💖
11:40 is Silurian fossil sponge stromatoporoid, with Silurian period fossil coral in it
Brian Ferris Did you say thank you google 😏
@@grossleg123 I sure did, I am not in any University geology course, Google is the greatest depository of information on earth. (make that repository) lol
I’m watching this video for like the 5th time! I keep falling asleep because I watch these before bed and they are so relaxing...I end up falling asleep lol. I hope the extra views help you all out. Looking forward to more videos!
My then fiancé who is Scottish took me to Holy Island the first time I was in Great Britain 20 years ago! We have been married for 18 years and we LOVE rock hounding and beach combing. We’re a little sad that we didn’t know to look for hag stones there! We live in Michigan which is a great place to live if you love to hunt for fossils and pretty stones. Great video! I also have great memories of fossil hunting in Spittle with our sons. Our suitcases were so heavy from the wood fossils we brought home. That’s a beautiful beach there too!
It's appropriate that your intro music is "Simple Gifts" and the music during is "Ode to Joy". You share the simple gifts and bring joy to so many....now almost 10,000! Thanks for taking us along on this adventure!
Hunting rocks ,one of my favorite things , to do . Thank you for the great walk on the shores of Bonnie Old Scotland .
I love going on adventures with you! I think the stone looks like an Oliver, he's had too much figgy pudding! TFS Hugs!
Wonderful videos!!! Please keep making and sharing them!!! I love watching them. Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa!
Very interesting stones! Love the history and legend💖 I would name that last stone Fred! Lol 😮 Well done ladies! Congrats to the winners and Happy New Years everyone!🎉
It seems that pet rocks are in fashion again. Truely magic.
I must get some Hag Stones to hang from my balcony, perhaps with macrame and driftwood. A fascinating adventure with charming hosts.
👣💍👞🦀🐾🍀⚓🏺🗝👣
Reckon they'd howl to high heaven if thrown by a sling.
The music on this is especially lovely!
The rad brick is actually a Radcliffe brick from amble, we have a few different ones broomhill Radcliffe Ashington to name a few.
Very interesting video . Finding a huge ship rudder . Your mum really knows her history .
22:11 rose quartz.
I think she looks like a Selma. Thank you for your wonderful videos.
When we were kids we called them fairy stones, if u wore them you could attract a fairy for a talk and be safe.
The reason your channel is blowing up, is bcoz your vids are awesome, well presented, full of facts, beautiful scenery, great music and so well edited and produced, you'd swear you ls have been doin this RUclips business for years! And not to mention two beautiful young ladies.. I predict 20,000+ followers by March.. Mark my words Gayle and Alex😊 so glad to stumbled upon your channel.. Happy new year from Ireland girls
“What shall we call it?”
Well, Rocky, of course!
It wasn't "an eerie part of the island"...IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!! You guys are so lucky to be able to travel to places such as that and to walk in the foot prints of such an amazing time in history. I'll just sit here in America and drool. I was so born in the wrong area :)
13:42 Cambrian fossil coral 540 to 490 million years old (That was difficult one to research lol)
Brian Ferris nah
Hag stones, cool 😎
rad...its a Radcliffe brick, made in Amble from clay from the radcliffe pit... hardest know material on earth.
Stan Iredale Thank you for the information!
@@gloriastroedecke2717 i fancy a bit of mudlarking myself, might give it a go...
Stan Iredale Have you watched Nicola White? She mudlark she down south in London on the Thames.
@@gloriastroedecke2717Yes, i've seen few of her vids, very interesting clay pipes finds.
@@staniredale9643 Pipes and pipe stems ad infinitum.
Another enjoyable and fascinating video that the family had fun watching on New Years day. My children said the hag stone looks like Kipper (the dog). They loved that show when they were little.
19:51 This reminds me of the Edvard Munch Painting 😱 The Scream
Elisa Bell I thought the same (assuming it was the sort of greenish one that got put back)
I love the Holy Isle, Lindisfarne. One of my favourite places in the U.K. I wish I had known about hagstones when I used to visit. And the fossils.
That song in the beginning brings back school memories for me.
You tube.
Alison Kraus and YoYo Ma.
It's The Lord of The Dance.