Mate thank you so much for doing this. I can't even tell you the amount of times that I moaned about us having nothing like ancient sites, fossils and the like. Now I know it's true because these sites were lame as it gets. It was hurting you seeing them and I felt that pain and I share it with you. Love it, interesting as hell but lame too. now i'm binge watching your channel
Hi there. Like your style. Going to watch your canal vid in a moment. Trust you may have visited the numerous interesting prehistoric sites in the Peak District? Nine Ladies stone circle on Stanton Moor (which has lots of barrows too), Minninglow Hill near the old High Peak Railway, Nine Wells Burial site near Chelmorton and many others. Keep up the good work.
Love your videos! Just thought you may be interested in the Bridle stones (ancient tomb) in Congleton just south of Manchester, the tomb is still there but a lot of the stone circle have been stolen over the years. If I'm not mistaken it predates Stonehenge, and theres a good walk to a trig point on the cloud.
AWESOME! Loved it. Up until a few weeks ago, I lived in the area near cheetham close stone circle, visiting it often. Really special place for me personally. xx
Another great video. There's a very interesting sites at Yanwath near Penrith Arthurs round table and Iron age settlement. Also, could that be Pendel Hill not Winter Hill in the back Ground? Best whishes' S&J
Great content Ollie, still trying to catch-up on all your work. My did used to say "better to step in a hole full of water than a fresh pile of dog poop," REALLY.... What happens to the canalle after it crosses over the River Irwell? It's parallels south along Woodhill Road then it turns east by Oakham Cl then I kinda lose it behind some houses on Canterbury Dr. Only if you have time. Mellor Settlement looked like a great to spend some time and walk around, great job on the hut. This video took me back to Time Team and that's a good thing. I love airports, I'm a A&P mechanic.....
Thanks Mike. I'm not sure what happens to the canal. All I know is that it reappears near an industrial estate off Wellington Street. Yes mellor is with a wee trip if your in the area. The rest, probably not haha
You nailed it on Cheetham Close when you realised that the surrounding hills are the key reason for the location of the circle. You can check the key solar alignments online using Suncalc (unfortunately this is not as good as it used to be due to Google maps introducing restrictions on use). After my visit there in 2016 I realised this (you can use a hand held compass or even a compass app on site) and then I checked it when I got home. In the field just check the 6 key directions (NE,E,SE and SW,W,NW) These almost exactly correspond to Solstice and Equinox sunrises and sunsets). Armed with this knowledge there are at least two other locations of interest in the area. 13 Stones Hill and the most important one IMO, Cribden End. I need to go back to Cribden End because I found no evidence on the ground. It is the perfect location, best views in Lancashire.
A very interesting video, although it is gutting to see that modern farmers would rather destroy something 4,000 years old, just so a few sheep can run round. Thanks for the tip about Megalithic co uk, I notice Burnt Edge is a big hill its hard to miss that one. If you zoom in fully and turn on all the conditions, ambience and access options, there are a ton of sites around Burnley, but also The Great Stone in Trafford.
I have long (50 years!) been saddened by the pathetic state of what remains of megalithic, Bronze Age & Neolithic Lancashire! I too shared your pain re. the pathetic burial mound above Bury (which I was unsurprisingly unaware of!).If you are really masochistic you could make wasted trips to Thirteen Stones Hill above Haslingden or Standing Stones Hill on Anglezarke moor to the north of Bolton. IF you actually want to see something still in situ you could try 'ROUND LOAF' bronze age burial mound (also on Anglezarke Moor) & the nearby 'PIKESTONES' ruinous chambered cairn a half mile to the south west. Also worthwhile is the tumulus on Carve Hill at Top of Quarlton, to the north of Hawkshaw. And that's about as good as it gets. The reason for the number of irregular sized stones on Cheetham Close is, I think, due to the literally shattering effect of the victorian religious zealot farmer's sledgehammer! Happy Hunting! John in Bolton
My family farmed up there near Jackson’s barrow. Apparently what you found was a WW2 air raid lookout. The barrow is less obvious a few meters away....
Another really interesting video Ollie, I had no idea about any of these sites. Hope your soggy foot recovered! Not sure why I'm getting a tonne of ads interrupting, but I have to say they almost killed off my enthusiasm. Too many of them, too often, and I hate advertising and marketing anyway. I was wondering if this is something you're doing to monetise the channel, or google just being a sod. Anyway, moaning to one side, thanks for doing what you do, and so well too! Stay safe!
Thanks again Mike. You're right, I've reduced the number of adverts right down from the Google default now so it should be more watchable. I'll have to try to remember to do so in the future. All the best
There is a circle like the one you showed with the indented centre in Dorchester Dorset called Maumbury Rings it is bigger though and not far from Maiden Castle ... Recently come across your channel and finding it interesting
Great video never knew about these sites.. Unfortunately the airport put pay to Styal Woods with the new runway. Now with bulls, an aunt told me that if you just stare at them they will lose interest and should wander off. Stand, and with no movement and no sound, and stare them out. Well it worked with her! Cheers
You can't see for miles and miles around, there's no videos of seeing miles and miles around, non, not even from an airoplane, it's either hilly, fish eye lense or blured, but i no what you mean :) enjoyable videos, and the barrow by the way is in furness haha
@@BeeHereNowuk it is quite a prominent feature in an otherwise barron landscape. A word of warning though take wellies, it's a bit muddy en route from the lead mines at the top of Yarrow Reservoir
Well my friend if you wud have gone to where the bollin river go’s under the runway on there is a prehistoric settlement . This was marked out with a detailed plaque just next to the wooden bridge but unfortunately some moron decided to break it down and throw it in the river. Unfortunately it’s not been replaced. Keep up the good work👍
👌 This site is fascinating...a huge Giants castle imo. Nearby in Styal you have Giants bridge, at the hamlet next to the airport is where the castle stood, there's a bridge which would have crossed to the site. Not many people know about it...but I guarantee that Manchester authorities do.
Used to be able to walk from our house up the lanes by Ringway ..then through the fields to Castle Mills and swim in the river Rollin..loads of kids back then. Now all those files are under commercial buildings…sad
A few years back I got permission to access Jackson barrow myself just to view it and the farmer told me to be carefull of the bulls in the field, after 20 minutes of wandering arond, those bulls promptly escorted me out... annoyingly I lost my phone in the process. I eventually went back the day after and thankfully found it.
09:45 It's not uncommon for a fort to be bordered on one side by a river. Without banks a river will become wider and depending on local conditions may even create a bog. Pretty good for slowing down an enemy even if all it does is put you out of slinging range.
I live in Stockport and my dad was born in mellor. There is a good large barrow called " brown low " nearby and Shaw cairn is a great place to visit. They found the remains of a bronze age woman complete with amber bead necklace. Check it out if you're over that way.
The reconstructed roundhouse ought not have a hole in the centre of the roof. It was researched a while ago and it was discovered if you had that hole, presumably to allow smoke from a central fire escape, it would actually cause the fire to burn your house down. Get rid of the hole and the smoke rises and filters through the thatch roof, controlled any wildlife living in your roof and generally worked a lot better. I have a feeling, the 'entrance' to that doughtnut shaped barrow would actually be the remnants of the trench left by whoever excavated it during the 1970's. I'm wondering as well if the central hollow isn't also something to do with the excavation too as I've never heard of a barrow with a central hollow, and the ring is way too small to be a bank and ditch.
Iv lived at both ends of the runways early years Wythenshawe and now Northwich I believe that Ringway/Manchester Airport hides history, from we the people, nothing is as it seems, I use to enjoy listening to the old people's stories, (mum worked in old folks home)
Yeah I think you might be right. I've been reading a lot about it recently and although I'm still not sure, I think the shape I saw was actually a ww2 post. I think I was distracted by it and missed the real thing.
That hill fort doesn't look a very good defensive position. Jackson's barrow is about the best. A 3000 year settlement near Manchester airport so there must be a lot of burials somewhere as well. There's a lot of much better sites than these I can think of.
WOW I'm barely into the first few minutes and you're completely trashing the truth about the Celtic prehistory and pre Roman aeons as a backwards backwater!!! How inaccurate. It was a high culture island which was rich in golden corn and pure gold and tin and beautiful cultured wise people who traded internationally not a backwards backwater...
I never said they weren't cultured or traded or grew corn. Or backwards. I sayud it was Europe's backwater, which is a phase used many times by writers. I simply meant compared to other parts of Europe, Britain's culture was not as advanced. Celtic culture was beautiful, but it was behind the times.
Brilliant! My dad used to drag us out to see some amazing site in the Nortwest and Wales, usually all we saw was exactly this, nothing, just sedge!
New subscriber from Canada. Both sides of my family are from Oldham. Good information, presented with humour. Thanks.
Mate thank you so much for doing this. I can't even tell you the amount of times that I moaned about us having nothing like ancient sites, fossils and the like. Now I know it's true because these sites were lame as it gets. It was hurting you seeing them and I felt that pain and I share it with you.
Love it, interesting as hell but lame too.
now i'm binge watching your channel
Hi there. Like your style. Going to watch your canal vid in a moment. Trust you may have visited the numerous interesting prehistoric sites in the Peak District? Nine Ladies stone circle on Stanton Moor (which has lots of barrows too), Minninglow Hill near the old High Peak Railway, Nine Wells Burial site near Chelmorton and many others. Keep up the good work.
Love your videos! Just thought you may be interested in the Bridle stones (ancient tomb) in Congleton just south of Manchester, the tomb is still there but a lot of the stone circle have been stolen over the years. If I'm not mistaken it predates Stonehenge, and theres a good walk to a trig point on the cloud.
Great it sounds very interesting I might check that out one day! Thank you
Thanks for making these, such interesting content!
AWESOME! Loved it. Up until a few weeks ago, I lived in the area near cheetham close stone circle, visiting it often. Really special place for me personally. xx
Another really interesting video. Shame there's not much left at any of the sites. Thanks for posting.
Another great video. There's a very interesting sites at Yanwath near Penrith Arthurs round table and Iron age settlement. Also, could that be Pendel Hill not Winter Hill in the back Ground? Best whishes' S&J
Just found you site, great Content, keep up the excellent work.
I always find it odd and fascinating how the distant past is still a whole mystery. Its as though there is a missing gap in time.
Great vid.
Great content Ollie, still trying to catch-up on all your work. My did used to say "better to step in a hole full of water than a fresh pile of dog poop," REALLY.... What happens to the canalle after it crosses over the River Irwell? It's parallels south along Woodhill Road then it turns east by Oakham Cl then I kinda lose it behind some houses on Canterbury Dr. Only if you have time. Mellor Settlement looked like a great to spend some time and walk around, great job on the hut. This video took me back to Time Team and that's a good thing. I love airports, I'm a A&P mechanic.....
Thanks Mike. I'm not sure what happens to the canal. All I know is that it reappears near an industrial estate off Wellington Street. Yes mellor is with a wee trip if your in the area. The rest, probably not haha
You nailed it on Cheetham Close when you realised that the surrounding hills are the key reason for the location of the circle. You can check the key solar alignments online using Suncalc (unfortunately this is not as good as it used to be due to Google maps introducing restrictions on use).
After my visit there in 2016 I realised this (you can use a hand held compass or even a compass app on site) and then I checked it when I got home. In the field just check the 6 key directions (NE,E,SE and SW,W,NW) These almost exactly correspond to Solstice and Equinox sunrises and sunsets).
Armed with this knowledge there are at least two other locations of interest in the area. 13 Stones Hill and the most important one IMO, Cribden End. I need to go back to Cribden End because I found no evidence on the ground. It is the perfect location, best views in Lancashire.
Fantastic knowledge thank you! I'll have to keep my eye on that other sites as well. 👍🏽
Enjoyed that
top video, nice to see mellor settlement getting a shout ;)
This was a fascinating video , I’ve had to look google now !
Thank you!!
Great video loving your channel 👍👏🐝
Thanks so much, that's very nice of you!
Another great video
A very interesting video, although it is gutting to see that modern farmers would rather destroy something 4,000 years old, just so a few sheep can run round. Thanks for the tip about Megalithic co uk, I notice Burnt Edge is a big hill its hard to miss that one. If you zoom in fully and turn on all the conditions, ambience and access options, there are a ton of sites around Burnley, but also The Great Stone in Trafford.
Excellent thanks. I'm hoping to explore the ones further afield one day
I have long (50 years!) been saddened by the pathetic state of what remains of megalithic, Bronze Age & Neolithic Lancashire! I too shared your pain re. the pathetic burial mound above Bury (which I was unsurprisingly unaware of!).If you are really masochistic you could make wasted trips to Thirteen Stones Hill above Haslingden or Standing Stones Hill on Anglezarke moor to the north of Bolton. IF you actually want to see something still in situ you could try 'ROUND LOAF' bronze age burial mound (also on Anglezarke Moor) & the nearby 'PIKESTONES' ruinous chambered cairn a half mile to the south west. Also worthwhile is the tumulus on Carve Hill at Top of Quarlton, to the north of Hawkshaw. And that's about as good as it gets. The reason for the number of irregular sized stones on Cheetham Close is, I think, due to the literally shattering effect of the victorian religious zealot farmer's sledgehammer! Happy Hunting! John in Bolton
This is an amazing video
My family farmed up there near Jackson’s barrow. Apparently what you found was a WW2 air raid lookout. The barrow is less obvious a few meters away....
Thank I loved this.
Another really interesting video Ollie, I had no idea about any of these sites. Hope your soggy foot recovered!
Not sure why I'm getting a tonne of ads interrupting, but I have to say they almost killed off my enthusiasm. Too many of them, too often, and I hate advertising and marketing anyway. I was wondering if this is something you're doing to monetise the channel, or google just being a sod. Anyway, moaning to one side, thanks for doing what you do, and so well too!
Stay safe!
Thanks again Mike. You're right, I've reduced the number of adverts right down from the Google default now so it should be more watchable. I'll have to try to remember to do so in the future. All the best
I’m sure I recognise you from school. Could be wrong! Nice video though 😊, I enjoyed it.
@@ericleach9854 I'm from Springhead :)
There is a circle like the one you showed with the indented centre in Dorchester Dorset called Maumbury Rings it is bigger though and not far from Maiden Castle ... Recently come across your channel and finding it interesting
Your videos are great
Great video never knew about these sites.. Unfortunately the airport put pay to Styal Woods with the new runway. Now with bulls, an aunt told me that if you just stare at them they will lose interest and should wander off. Stand, and with no movement and no sound, and stare them out. Well it worked with her! Cheers
Thanks very much. Yeah those bulls were actually very lovely, shame I can't zoom in on my camera.
Good effort Ollie
Loved it👍
Thanks!
Burrs county park is the part where he was next to east lancs railway
You can't see for miles and miles around, there's no videos of seeing miles and miles around, non, not even from an airoplane, it's either hilly, fish eye lense or blured, but i no what you mean :) enjoyable videos, and the barrow by the way is in furness haha
there's a stone circle at Healey north of Rochdale. Weirdly it's exactly due east on the map of Cheetham Close.
Have you ever looked for Roundloaf, on the moors above Anglezark, North of Bolton? It looks like an ancient burial cairn
I've heard of it but no I've never gone up there to find it. From the maps it looks quite prominent!
@@BeeHereNowuk it is quite a prominent feature in an otherwise barron landscape. A word of warning though take wellies, it's a bit muddy en route from the lead mines at the top of Yarrow Reservoir
Anglezark or Angel's Ark....🤔
Seam's this is another thing that needs levelling up in t' North.
You forgot about Dumplington, at the boundary of Barton and Trafford Park, which is the first known settlement in The British Isles.
Loved the video but what about Nico Ditch which is prehistoric
Nico ditch is not prehistoric, it dates from 7-8 century.
Thanks again. Cannot wait for next one. Keep going. Next time take spare socks!!!!
Well my friend if you wud have gone to where the bollin river go’s under the runway on there is a prehistoric settlement .
This was marked out with a detailed plaque just next to the wooden bridge but unfortunately some moron decided to break it down and throw it in the river. Unfortunately it’s not been replaced. Keep up the good work👍
👌 This site is fascinating...a huge Giants castle imo. Nearby in Styal you have Giants bridge, at the hamlet next to the airport is where the castle stood, there's a bridge which would have crossed to the site. Not many people know about it...but I guarantee that Manchester authorities do.
In chadderton there was a barrow in chaddreton fold but it’s gone now but the skeleton was supposed to be 7 ft tall.
Bingo. Giants castles littered the landsape...destroyed and dismantled. Their story erased and rewritten with HIStory.
Used to be able to walk from our house up the lanes by Ringway ..then through the fields to Castle Mills and swim in the river Rollin..loads of kids back then. Now all those files are under commercial buildings…sad
Castlesteads is Burrs right?
A few years back I got permission to access Jackson barrow myself just to view it and the farmer told me to be carefull of the bulls in the field, after 20 minutes of wandering arond, those bulls promptly escorted me out... annoyingly I lost my phone in the process. I eventually went back the day after and thankfully found it.
09:45 It's not uncommon for a fort to be bordered on one side by a river. Without banks a river will become wider and depending on local conditions may even create a bog. Pretty good for slowing down an enemy even if all it does is put you out of slinging range.
Nice vid. No. 4 obviously most impressive and I will pay it a visit. What is the roman fortlet nearby like?
Thanks! The fortlet is pretty impressive if you're into that type of thing, defo worth a walk. There are a few info boards as well
I live in Stockport and my dad was born in mellor.
There is a good large barrow called " brown low " nearby and Shaw cairn is a great place to visit.
They found the remains of a bronze age woman complete with amber bead necklace.
Check it out if you're over that way.
Great info thanks!
The reconstructed roundhouse ought not have a hole in the centre of the roof. It was researched a while ago and it was discovered if you had that hole, presumably to allow smoke from a central fire escape, it would actually cause the fire to burn your house down. Get rid of the hole and the smoke rises and filters through the thatch roof, controlled any wildlife living in your roof and generally worked a lot better. I have a feeling, the 'entrance' to that doughtnut shaped barrow would actually be the remnants of the trench left by whoever excavated it during the 1970's. I'm wondering as well if the central hollow isn't also something to do with the excavation too as I've never heard of a barrow with a central hollow, and the ring is way too small to be a bank and ditch.
Bulls are colour blind you are safe.great video
Iv lived at both ends of the runways early years Wythenshawe and now Northwich I believe that Ringway/Manchester Airport hides history, from we the people, nothing is as it seems, I use to enjoy listening to the old people's stories,
(mum worked in old folks home)
Bingo! Where could we find those stories, anywhere written?
Great video, hope the boot survived 🤣
We need to get you a waterproof boots sponsor 🎖
Haha yeah definitely
I just googled Jackson's barrow and I think you got the wrong one.People are saying that is a ww2 look out post and the barrow is further down.
Yeah I think you might be right. I've been reading a lot about it recently and although I'm still not sure, I think the shape I saw was actually a ww2 post. I think I was distracted by it and missed the real thing.
Excellent, launched an eBook, Hidden Prehistory around the North West...in 2011...also covers west Yorkshire...Derbyshire\Cheshire borders
15:28 You're not too far from where Tubbs and Edward burnt that Policeman, don't count on it especially if you're not local!
WE DIDN'T BURN HIM!!!
Even the Romans knew it was grim up north
That hill fort doesn't look a very good defensive position. Jackson's barrow is about the best. A 3000 year settlement near Manchester airport so there must be a lot of burials somewhere as well.
There's a lot of much better sites than these I can think of.
Burrs country park Bury
Bulls don't care what colour your coat is, they react to movement. they are colourblind to red
That first one is incredibly underwhelming
Spoke too soon, the second one is even worse
Just got to three and wondering why you bothered even putting it on
Jokes aside, top effort
*fields…bloody auto spell🤪
WOW I'm barely into the first few minutes and you're completely trashing the truth about the Celtic prehistory and pre Roman aeons as a backwards backwater!!! How inaccurate. It was a high culture island which was rich in golden corn and pure gold and tin and beautiful cultured wise people who traded internationally not a backwards backwater...
I never said they weren't cultured or traded or grew corn. Or backwards. I sayud it was Europe's backwater, which is a phase used many times by writers. I simply meant compared to other parts of Europe, Britain's culture was not as advanced. Celtic culture was beautiful, but it was behind the times.