Most likely glaciers dragged it from a distant place when they were moving through this area 1000s of years ago, during the ice age. Back then most of GB was covered with a thick layer of ice. York for example. Now it's a thriving city, but 12,000 years ago this area was covered with many many meters of ice.
At around 5:29 in the drone footage it looks to me the you can clearly see where the three other stones used to sit from the disturbance scars in the earth to the right of the Big stone.
Yes possibly, though they were boggy holes and I haven't found any maps to corroborate their position. You get a lot of these boggy depressions up on the moors.
Well done. The right length, the right commentary, the right music, the right drone footage. Many of these types are rubblish, this was perfect. Many thanks indeed. Cheers
I reckon Rombald of the Dales threw it at Simon to knock him off his seat. Go take a look at the Hitching stone on Cowling moor. I think Simon threw it at Rombald.
A glcial eratic? Drive from bentham to Austwick then up the lower flank of Ingleborough to Norber and look at the many eratics there. A wonderous place!
The fourstones marked on the map is a farm. Could well be that some of the other four were broken up and used in this building. All the sources I looked at as research mention the fact the 3 other stones are missing.
@@eastwoodsadventures I would advise anyone who enjoys learning history to get themselves a modern hammer and chisel, locate a suitable bit of rock and go for it. Try and carve just one letter - once you realise for yourself 'how little impact'' your bashing has upon the surface of the rock, your better equipped to decide if a rock as big as this could be broken up into nice neat house bricks.
As there is an old quarry not far from the site it is fairly plausible to say that they took what were probably easy pickings. Sources say that the other 3 stones were smaller.
If the other 3 stones were 'broken up to build with', it would be useful to go look at the stone the nearest farmhouses were built with. Presuming the other 3 were erratics of the same type, them the farmhouses would be built from the same erratic type. Notably there don't seem to be a lot of exposed faces and/or quarries close at hand.
Wow, I loved this video. It touched somthing inside me. I’m sure the good music helped. To think that people have been out to this rock and have stood in the same place and perhaps have had similar thoughts over thousands of years like anyone today is inspiring.
Beautiful, and clearly used as a lookout for 10's even hundreds of thousands of years. I bet as far back, that it was the neanderthal peoples who literally wore in the original set of steps over generations of use for hunting, in medieval times , surely a military lookout point. The stories that rock could tell. Just imagine .
Probably used as a look out post in ancient times for any advancing army and no doubt a territorial marker aswell. No one could claim they did not see the boundary marker if trespassing into another kingdom. The working hours gone into making those steps to the top of the rock is phenomenal. A nice place now to have a picnic. Truly remarkable landscape feature.
One of my favourite places when I was blacksmith in nearby Bentham, it still serves as a meeting place for people. Lovely bit of film, now watching from my mountain home in Spain, feeling a bit nostalgic -- thanks and all the best from Andalucia.
Hiya Kerry. Hope you are well. Just thought I'd mention that my uncle, Frank Taylor was a blacksmith in Bentham way back in the olden days of the 60s and 70s. Not a usual profession even then. Is a mountain home as nice as the countryside around Bentham and Ingleton? I hope so. Ps I was born at Lairgill In Bentham. All the best, Paul O'Neill.
@@ellenoneill2271 Hello Paul, I began working in Pye´s Mill in ´86, and I think the guy at the Green Smithy was a Frank Taylor then. I did architectural ironwork and left a lot of iron behind in 25 years, like the curved railings at the bottom of Robin Lane. Some of my mistakes are set in stone ! I´m now in a canyon in an area known locally as Paraiso (Paradise) and though I loved the Yorkshire scenery, here it just takes my breath away. My terraces are fed with snow-melt from the high Sierra Nevada, and I grow citrus, avocados walnuts feijoa and lots more. Saludos desde Lanjarón.
since everyone knows its a glacial erratic the only thing I can chime in that adds anything: back then people pictured the rocks as have been being "placed there" the rock of course is limestone
Maybe it was a Shepherd who carved those Steps. Or maybe it was a Ship's Captain and a Dad who carved the small Steps for his Wife and Kids, so they could see him and others coming towards their home.
The subject is interesting, but as an American I would like to comment how charming and foreign the narrator's accent is to me. Mind you, he is clear and perfectly understandable, but he sounds both mellow and wise at the same. Cheers!
A beautiful location, thank you for sharing. @2:28 there are three odd shaped indentures marked out by grass in the landscape behind big stone, I wonder if these were the locations of three other stones?
Ένα μεγάλο κομμάτι πέτρας με όλα τα άγνωστα και μυστηριώδη που το περιβάλουν, είναι στην πραγματικότητα ένα πολύ μικρό κομμάτι από ένα γιγάντιο απολιθωμένο δέντρο 🌳
Sorry you feel that way, but the answer is in the video. "The big stone will be familiar to geologists as a glacial erratic, transported here by a glacier then left behind when the ice sheets retreated"
Guess that's a typo and should say peaks? As I said on the video on a clear day they can be seen. Unfortunately it wasn't that clear on the day and Ingleborough had its summit covered by cloud and Pen Y Ghent wasn't visible. I will be back in that area before long filming and hopefully on a clearer day. Thanks for watching.
A great video! Thankyou I think this and others similar were placed there. They seem too shallow to me to be eratics like we're told. Roman floors are below the plough line in most of the country so how is a glacial boulder sat so shallow? Where are all the other boulders...cant be just one big one?? Probably were from glaciers somewhere but placed there by man. Probably to mark or celebrate something I think.
A greater mystery is why have your dog run at 20 miles an hour down the carved steps while you are still clutching a lead? Is this another example of needless conformity to a bylaw without relevance considering you are on an empty moor ideal for canine freedom. Can I list this as social repression along with the contempoary English concept of wild camping and wild swimming?
@@eastwoodsadventures Just that I enjoyed your video and then watched as your pup shot down the steps like a Marlin on a line with you teetering at the top of the steps. I thought of your safety! Ive had dogs all my life and growing up in Powys Wales in the 50s with so much freedom as we ran through fields woods and hills with dogs and swam in brown pebbly rivers in summer. I am not against rules and safety guide lines its just i like to follow a middle path.
Imagine if ancient people quarried big stone during the ice age and just moved it around on land glaciers then carved out the ice down to the ground where they wanted to place the stone🤔🤫
I think Atlantaens were using Wooly Rhino's & Mastadon to move boulders around.. Camels also came off the glacier with Neanderthal becoming Neo-Lithic.. They remain in Africa & Asia after being transported & traded there 10 000+ years ago since before Atlantis.. as per Thoth scriptures who survived on a log barge shipping them.
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The weathering of the steps, reveal something much older
Yes it makes you wonder who stepped there first
'reveal something much older'? 'reveal'? - what's that 'something'?
Wow. LOVE the effect at the end in particular. Bravo! Well done, Sir.
Thank you
Most likely glaciers dragged it from a distant place when they were moving through this area 1000s of years ago, during the ice age.
Back then most of GB was covered with a thick layer of ice.
York for example. Now it's a thriving city, but 12,000 years ago this area was covered with many many meters of ice.
100% Agreed 😁👍
Years thats right!!
Glacial eratics also explains the stones of Stonehenge - although most people prefer to believe more magical theories.
Where I live is where the very edge of the ice sheet was down south
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Balderdash!
Thanks for this moment :)
Exalent film enjoyed it loads and well narrated
Thank you so much,
much appreciated
After its many visitors have passed.
If this stone was in Los Angeles, CA, it would be completely covered in spray paint within hours.
Check the stone settlement called Ale's Stones. Some of the rocks were placed there 5500 years ago. Interesting.
Dog at the end looked like a fish swimming through weeds, lol
She would given the chance 🤣
On some view angle it really looks like the fist of a gigantic statue
At around 5:29 in the drone footage it looks to me the you can clearly see where the three other stones used to sit from the disturbance scars in the earth to the right of the Big stone.
Yes possibly, though they were boggy holes and I haven't found any maps to corroborate their position. You get a lot of these boggy depressions up on the moors.
@@eastwoodsadventures Just my guess but I hear you. Intriguing video thank you. Rocks are mysterious creatures.
Thank you much appreciated
Well done. The right length, the right commentary, the right music, the right drone footage. Many of these types are rubblish, this was perfect. Many thanks indeed. Cheers
Thank you so much
Very odd thing to be found where it is.
Great.I'm into rocks.They rock!haha. But as we all know the stone age time before the iron age was an important stage of the evolving human.
Yes it's fascinating to look back at our ancestors
I reckon Rombald of the Dales threw it at Simon to knock him off his seat. Go take a look at the Hitching stone on Cowling moor. I think Simon threw it at Rombald.
That's a mounting stone, it was used to mount dinosaurs when dinosaurs were domesticated!
Erratic boulders liked to get about when they were young, now all their mates have gone cos they are old!😭😂
Geology rocks, but geography’s where it’s at.
Pen y Ghent retains its original Celtic Name!😄😄😄
A glcial eratic? Drive from bentham to Austwick then up the lower flank of Ingleborough to Norber and look at the many eratics there. A wonderous place!
Yes been a few times. May head back for a future video
Without trying to state the obvious, the missing stones are 20 feet below where they show on the map are they? It's the first thing I 'd be checking.
The fourstones marked on the map is a farm. Could well be that some of the other four were broken up and used in this building. All the sources I looked at as research mention the fact the 3 other stones are missing.
@@eastwoodsadventures I would advise anyone who enjoys learning history to get themselves a modern hammer and chisel, locate a suitable bit of rock and go for it. Try and carve just one letter - once you realise for yourself 'how little impact'' your bashing has upon the surface of the rock, your better equipped to decide if a rock as big as this could be broken up into nice neat house bricks.
As there is an old quarry not far from the site it is fairly plausible to say that they took what were probably easy pickings. Sources say that the other 3 stones were smaller.
How very interesting. I had never heard of this before. I went to Devils Bridge many years ago. Great video. ❤👍👍
Thank you
How many times has this object been turned over .
From a certain angle it resembles the face on Mars.
from one aspect, it looks like a sleeping giant
If the other 3 stones were 'broken up to build with', it would be useful to go look at the stone the nearest farmhouses were built with. Presuming the other 3 were erratics of the same type, them the farmhouses would be built from the same erratic type. Notably there don't seem to be a lot of exposed faces and/or quarries close at hand.
There is a small quarry nearby, but yes, the local buildings may well be built with parts of the other stones.
Thanks for watching.
Wow, I loved this video. It touched somthing inside me. I’m sure the good music helped. To think that people have been out to this rock and have stood in the same place and perhaps have had similar thoughts over thousands of years like anyone today is inspiring.
Thanks for watching and for the lovely comment, it's greatly appreciated.
Lovely relaxing video. Spectacular view too
Its cool to think about how many people have climbed up that rock, possibly over the centuries.
Yes, it is. Thanks for watching
Many a dog has gotten there first!🙂
Pretty sure that's what we used to call jumbo as kids , the location seems about right but it's 50 years ago since I last went there
Jumbo....love it
The druids and their tribes probably used to gather there and play music. They would gather there every year for a rock concert
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I think that's where the Rolling Stones first gig was. Keith looks like he's had a drink or two with some Druids
Beautiful, and clearly used as a lookout for 10's even hundreds of thousands of years. I bet as far back, that it was the neanderthal peoples who literally wore in the original set of steps over generations of use for hunting, in medieval times , surely a military lookout point. The stories that rock could tell. Just imagine .
Looks like a fist
It’s a giants fist, I have a human heart right here, and a lung, (sorry another video, anyone who knows who I mean will laugh)
We have loads of rocks like that in West Yorkshire.... it was probably moved there during the ice age .
Lovely Country
Probably used as a look out post in ancient times for any advancing army and no doubt a territorial marker aswell. No one could claim they did not see the boundary marker if trespassing into another kingdom. The working hours gone into making those steps to the top of the rock is phenomenal. A nice place now to have a picnic. Truly remarkable landscape feature.
It seems to be not the highest point in the landscape for a lookout post?
@@dennissalisbury496 But could have been one of many.
@@colinsmith1288 True
Ancient petrified body parts of giants. Glacial rocks my arse.
Who carved the giant head on its side.
Not guilty your honor
Moved bye ice 🧊
One of my favourite places when I was blacksmith in nearby Bentham, it still serves as a meeting place for people.
Lovely bit of film, now watching from my mountain home in Spain, feeling a bit nostalgic -- thanks and all the best from Andalucia.
Andalusia?
Cor, alwight for some ain't it!?
@@jackdshellback3819 Voted with my feet in 2016, definitely in the running for the Smug B***ard Trophy.
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Haha, good move!
Hiya Kerry. Hope you are well. Just thought I'd mention that my uncle, Frank Taylor was a blacksmith in Bentham way back in the olden days of the 60s and 70s. Not a usual profession even then. Is a mountain home as nice as the countryside around Bentham and Ingleton? I hope so. Ps I was born at Lairgill In Bentham. All the best, Paul O'Neill.
@@ellenoneill2271
Hello Paul, I began working in Pye´s Mill in ´86, and I think the guy at the Green Smithy was a Frank Taylor then. I did architectural ironwork and left a lot of iron behind in 25 years, like the curved railings at the bottom of Robin Lane. Some of my mistakes are set in stone !
I´m now in a canyon in an area known locally as Paraiso (Paradise) and though I loved the Yorkshire scenery, here it just takes my breath away. My terraces are fed with snow-melt from the high Sierra Nevada, and I grow citrus, avocados walnuts feijoa and lots more. Saludos desde Lanjarón.
Ask Mudfossil University. It's probably a big as animal that turned to stone like all the dragons and giants.
since everyone knows its a glacial erratic the only thing I can chime in that adds anything: back then people pictured the rocks as have been being "placed there" the rock of course is limestone
Thanks for watching, and leaving a comment. I believe the stone is actually Gritstone.
@@eastwoodsadventures ok let me look it up
@@eastwoodsadventures I was testing you I knew it and wanted to see if you knew it. its gritstone that travelled not that far.
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Everyone knows the elves launched it at the trolls!
great
Now plant a very long living tree next to it
This is a erratic boulder carried and dumped by the glacial ice sheet that occurred about 12000 years ago.
thank you sir
And thank you
Maybe it was a Shepherd who carved those Steps. Or maybe it was a Ship's Captain and a Dad who carved the small Steps for his Wife and Kids, so they could see him and others coming towards their home.
Has anybody used metal detection or ground-penetrating radar around the rock and most of the hill upon which it appears to dominate?
Not that I found whilst researching
@@eastwoodsadventures Thanks for responding. The video you shot is remarkable. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you, greatly appreciated
Any magics in the autumnal wet grass?
Lol not that I saw 🤣
Such a good video.
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Thank you, much appreciated
HI beautifully smooth drone work, did you use Adobe products for your final effect of duplicating yourself?
Thank you.
I used masking on Filmora 11 to do the duplication.
The subject is interesting, but as an American I would like to comment how charming and foreign the narrator's accent is to me. Mind you, he is clear and perfectly understandable, but he sounds both mellow and wise at the same. Cheers!
Thanks Mr Butch
Imagine how the high the ice would have been above your head to move a rock that size. And I like the steps to the top.
It's amazing isn't it. Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
It was at least a mile thick
Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland used to be 5km thick.. 3km thick now is still massive
Amazing
It's amazing how the ice, over thousands of years of freezing and thawing, carved those steps in the boulder.
I like that Rock and the steps.
Thanks for watching
Very intereresting indeed!
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment
I would love to see more of the dog.
She is on a couple more of the videos. Pendragon castle especially.
Makes sense. On the Greenbrier river in WV we have "Big Rock".
It is amazing to think that not so long ago northern Britain was like Greenland.
A beautiful location, thank you for sharing. @2:28 there are three odd shaped indentures marked out by grass in the landscape behind big stone, I wonder if these were the locations of three other stones?
Very possibly. They are just boggy holes now
Giants. Or Bigfoot. Or aliens. How could it be anything else?
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Geology is Biology. The rocks are crying out.
Thanks for this well video'd story of an erratic, appreciated. Nice drone work.
Thank you for watching
Glacial erratic
Ένα μεγάλο κομμάτι πέτρας με όλα τα άγνωστα και μυστηριώδη που το περιβάλουν, είναι στην πραγματικότητα ένα πολύ μικρό κομμάτι από ένα γιγάντιο απολιθωμένο δέντρο 🌳
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I believe it was placed there by someone
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Yes quite correct it was placed there by someone GOD is the answer.
Nice vid mate, you should check out Randall Carlsons work, he has a theory which could explain how that rock got to where it stands today.
Thanks for watching
Very talented presentation on a very interesting geological feature, thank you!
Thank you very much for watching
Click bait..38,000 views and no answer ....arghhhh
Sorry you feel that way, but the answer is in the video.
"The big stone will be familiar to geologists as a glacial erratic, transported here by a glacier then left behind when the ice sheets retreated"
Very interesting of peas but I wish they would’ve done some comparison shots it was too far away
Guess that's a typo and should say peaks? As I said on the video on a clear day they can be seen. Unfortunately it wasn't that clear on the day and Ingleborough had its summit covered by cloud and Pen Y Ghent wasn't visible. I will be back in that area before long filming and hopefully on a clearer day.
Thanks for watching.
Why is your dog on a lead? Any geology map orgeologist would tell where it came from if not local
Because she is a bird chaser. For her s and the birds safety its better to keep her on a lead
Its pointing out a people, from North America ..
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..likely a glacial erratic.
How did you find this stone
Cycled and driven past many times
@@eastwoodsadventures
It was always there?
So you did not find it😂
@@eastwoodsadventures
But its great to see.
Gr.
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A great video! Thankyou
I think this and others similar were placed there. They seem too shallow to me to be eratics like we're told. Roman floors are below the plough line in most of the country so how is a glacial boulder sat so shallow? Where are all the other boulders...cant be just one big one?? Probably were from glaciers somewhere but placed there by man. Probably to mark or celebrate something I think.
Thanks for watching
We're is this rock
On the road from Bentham to Slaidburn.
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"Maccathe(y)" hmmm
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Geopolymer? 🤔
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@@eastwoodsadventures I need to be awake 24/7 x 5 years to catch up on all I've missed on RUclips 🤣👍
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Rock hardens over time.The steps were probably carved after the global flood. When still soft.
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A greater mystery is why have your dog run at 20 miles an hour down the carved steps while you are still clutching a lead?
Is this another example of needless conformity to a bylaw without relevance considering you are on an empty moor ideal for canine freedom.
Can I list this as social repression along with the contempoary English concept of wild camping and wild swimming?
It's also for birds and her own safety, she is absolutely mad on birds and once focused would blindly run into a road.
@@eastwoodsadventures Just that I enjoyed your video and then watched as your pup shot down the steps like a Marlin on a line with you teetering at the top of the steps. I thought of your safety!
Ive had dogs all my life and growing up in Powys Wales in the 50s with so much freedom as we ran through fields woods and hills with dogs and swam in brown pebbly rivers in summer.
I am not against rules and safety guide lines its just i like to follow a middle path.
I think this is probably part of a pre flood megalithic structure.
Thanks for watching
The dog is taking the shorter more direct route
I think that the dog found some magic mushrooms somewhere
Maybe it was moved there by mind control.
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Imagine if ancient people quarried big stone during the ice age and just moved it around on land glaciers then carved out the ice down to the ground where they wanted to place the stone🤔🤫
I think Atlantaens were using Wooly Rhino's & Mastadon to move boulders around.. Camels also came off the glacier with Neanderthal becoming Neo-Lithic..
They remain in Africa & Asia after being transported & traded there 10 000+ years ago since before Atlantis.. as per Thoth scriptures who survived on a log barge shipping them.
SMOOCH. WE HAVE PYRAMANIA. WE LOVE PYRAMIDS & JACK O' LANTERNS & STRANGE & ANCIENT HISTORY.
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