So what the f*ck are standing stone circles all about?
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2023
- If you live in the UK, the chances are you've driven past numerous stone circles in your life. But what the hell are they for? What do they mean? Mike Fernie headed to the Machrie Moor stone circles on the Isle of Arran to explain the mysteries of these Neolithic megaliths.
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As an archaeologist, this was a surprising but great upload. Would love some more of these types of videos
I love prehistoric and neolithic things, particularly in Britain. More please.
do you ? ahhhh how nice for you
I was blown away by the stone circles at Callanish.
Great video, Mike.
For all that i miss foodtribe vids, i so enjoy these a lot
This video didn't get a lot of love, but clearly Mike is enthusiastic about what he talks about and cares about sharing where he calls home. Keep making these.
As a Islander of the Isle Of Arran I have visited these spots many times over the years. Thank you for brining light to Scotland In Miniature.
If it was Scotland in miniature you’d think Richard Hammond would have presented this😂
Machrie Moor is the showroom for a company of stone circle builders 😂
aahhhhhh you never know, it seems plausible! :)
i've started researching some the stone circles around the place, neolithic and megalithic age,
it all started up these ways :)
We've been trying to reach you about your stone circle's extended warranty...
1000 years from now people will visit those stones and wonder who JMB was and why he was so famous
nice work mike . more please
Nice job Mike!
As if I needed more reasons to visit Scotland at my next vacation. Such a breathtaking country.
I have a reason to go back... and she's still single.. I never should have left her there to begin with.
@@gewglesux I heard she's the town bicycle.
@@Okurka. everyone gets a ride!! funny guy!
Great vid, and really interesting. Well done Mike!
The weird thing is that some of these circles were multi-generational projects. Imagine that. We can barely hope that one government will pick up what the previous one started, but these people would work on something for decades, maybe centuries. Why?
I subscribe to the latest theory that Stonehenge was for scattering the dead and feasting during *winter* solstice, not summer. When I see people dancing barefoot whilst bongo thumping every 21st June, it just seems... wrong.
Anyway, all henges/standing stones are awe inspiring. Meso/Neolithic studies have fascinated me since I was a kid and tried flint knapping. Utterly failed but it did spark a lifelong interest (pun fully intended 😉).
Personally I'm not that worried what they were for, I'm just in awe of of all megalithic sites and the effort that it took to design on build them.
3.22 "There was little or no writing" with JML carved into the stone. An interesting video. Thank you.
I hated seeing that. Desecrating something like that (historic site) makes me sick. 🙁
@@shannondore Yes there are a lot of nasty people in this world.
What's weird is that some of that graffiti is now itself "historical", having been carved in by Romans, or basically anyone from 1500BC to 1800AD.
Yes, they were all terrible people with no respect for ancient landmarks, but at least we can learn something from their vandalism. I mean, look at the serifs in those initials!
@@yobgodababua1862 Egyptians wrote hieroglyphs onto the wallls of their toilets....which means progress is a marker pen. 😁
They have monuments like this all over the UK
I think they are a mix of ancient meeting places for leaders of the time, sacrificial places, religious, burial grounds etc.
Great video!
I agree that a cow goes "moo". So that's how I pronounce "moor", like "moo" with an "r" on the end.
But for some unexplicable reason, Mike thinks that "moo" + "r" = "mooEr" 🙄
Thanks for taking the sensible position.
Love the explanation of pronunciation. When I was a child my brother sister and I used to play on Stone Henge.
I love this series
This sort of megalithic building started in Britanny IIRC.
Very cool, 🙏
The Brits really liked playing with rocks
Have the people who cut the grass not got a strimmer to do the job properly?
I have to drive there , This has been on my places to go list but , I believe It was all under water then it dried out and we are left with these bizarre stone circles
Excellent wee video, Mike. But the irony of non-Scots telling a Scot how to pronounce Scottish words. Reminds me of the time I heard a BBC presenter pronounce the Cairngorms to sound like Ken Gom ... 🙄🤣
👌🏼 Thank you
I don't dispute your pronunciation of 'moor', but I don't like your analogy to 'moo'. I could equally point to the pronunciation of 'door'. I think the best explanation for the pronunciation of the word is because... English.
People in Scotland and the north of England also pronounce door, Doo-r.
Maybe they did worship the horsefly and that's why there are so many of the bleeding things!
This was excellent! I'm glad this channel is getting content again! Though, I do find it _hilarious_ that anyone not from scotland would try and correct the way a scottish man pronounces the word, *"moor."*
I'm curious how he pronounces "door".
I'm not sure what this has to do with cars, but I love archaeology and I love this.
The round stones on the ground are not burial cists.....they were being made into grinding stones to make flour.....during the process one of them broke in half...and were just left...........
Great video. Please make them more like this. I love history and where we all come from.
2:20 Wow I've never thought of it way. My jaw is on the fleuuur.
I hope a video with one of the 3 is what's next.
Kilmartin Glen is pretty special too.
In American English we are taught when two Os are one after the other it is pronounced like a U so moo-or. Our accent makes it sound like More.
Not mentioning Hawkstone.....lager was just disrespectful
i agree
They used large stones to mark land borders in ancient Israel. A rock that weighed 3000 lbs at every corner of your land, you could almost say your land was set in stone.
i really like the dirrection of this channel. i really like the randomness
It's protection against Dragons according to Ilona Andrews. 😅😅😅
Oh no so it appears someone on work experience was put in charge on the title !?!
They are tent poles of course. This was a village!
It's funny, he even said he couldn't imagine being there... Well there were some rather large hairy things that liked human meat so they built buildings to withstand an attack of the mammoth, wild cats etc...
Stone henge is basically a barn to keep people and livestock out of harm's reach. 😅
How many videos can they squeeze out of the trip to Arran....?
FYI in the archaeological world, cyst burials are pronounced with a K sound, like "kiss-t".
And spelt cist, not cyst
Nice one! Class Island, looking forward to visiting. I actually have a big interest in that stuff, so called 'history', and finding out what really happened. What next indeed!
nice title, i watch now
👍👍👍
Is this where the demons dwell?
🤙
My bet: they were places to get high.
That was really interesting, I’d love to see more prehistoric stuff
early prototype cars
Liked for the Scottish lesson...Moo
more standing stones ;)
Wasn't there a scene with those standing stones in the Harry Potter movies?
Such a weird title....
Not Glen Rosa in background of Machrie Moor.....
Moor.. moo. ❤
do the content you like. it is well done and interesting:)
Really you need to go Callanish on Lewis............
Where's Lucy & Sir Bim? 😅
Place names.
Nobody could read or write, but you could recognise where you were by the circle formation.
That would be my bet.
Right, they could tell by the circles which island they were flying over.
ここはまだ、神聖な場所として機能していると思う
妖精や精霊というべき者が寄ってくるのだ
Pop up to callanish Mike
Surprised you actually mentioned Graham Hancock. The fact that professional people get so irrationally upset about his theories tells me there might be more to the story.
Is that an AI thumbnail?...
why is he wearing that hat backwards ? .
Where's Lucy Brown?
Standing stones represent what people do when they don't have cable TV. That and carve their initials in the stones (like you, J.M.B.).
They are stones. They stand up. Hence standing stones
not aliens, the fallen angels,
@02:21 But... how than is muur pronounced?👴😉😁
The purpose of standing stones is not disputed, too bad people don't have the attention span to listen to an actual historian.
Be careful don’t touch you might end up in 1745
Hahaha horseflys
Its just spray paint
Feel like the cap needs to be on the right way round for a history programme or you look like you are about to do graffiti on them 😂
Click on a video and immediately Mike is talking. Click off within 2 seconds.
I've not been to Arran, and i don't know anything about Machrie Moor, but I do know about archaeology. You can't list "stone age, Neolithic, bronze, iron" - the Neolithic *is* the stone age, it's just that we categorise the stone age into three distinct periods; early, middle, and late. Paleolithic (literally Old Stone Age), Mesolithic, and Neolithic (New Stone Age).
And cist isn't pronounced "cyst", it's "kist".
Definitely agree on the pronunciation of moor though
The Egyptians: We built the Pyramids
The Chinese: We built the Great Wall
The Romans: We built the Colosseum and Aqueduct
The Brits: We stood stones on their ends 🤷♂
Brits literally built the modern world.
Well those stones predate the colosseum and the very beginning of the great wall by 2000 years, so that's a pretty poor comparison. The Pyramids are similarly old but again, you're comparing the efforts of the richest civiliziation of the time and its vast army of slaves forced to praise the wealthy to the work of small communities seeking only to praise the sun.
@@Arkantos117 They certainly conquered it.
@@ClellBiggs Every tries, only a few succeed.
@@Arkantos117 And none hold on to it.
i don't remember subscribing to this channell...
It was originally called foodtribe, but it's rebranded
So basically when the ancient Sumerians were building cities and developing cuneiform writing and the Egyptians were building pyramids, you guys were sticking big stone pillars in the ground. There's hope yet for Romania 😂
Was it really necessarily for a wholesome channel like this to have swearing in the title of the video?... I mean... really? ....
Yes
Are you so immature that you cannot handle a word being used?
yes very
Interesting topic but why the need for 'f'ing' in the title?
Because why not I suppose, no harm in that
At least this isn't Neil Oliver and his latest conspiracy theory wankery.
With James may you should do british pizza vs Italian pizza and British burger vs American burger
Where is James May?
What is this channel 😂
The stones are obviously greatly eroded by weather, and plundered for building, materials over the millenia. We cannot know their purpose, but perhaps we read too much into them. Perhaps they were just a framework for a large communal hall. Made of wood, with the stone framework, as the wood deteriorated, the framework remained.
Perhaps the community that built it loved a party.
Imagine finding finding a Wetherspoons that had been abandoned for 5,000 years 😂
Why do you have to even elude to the f word?
Because why not? No harm no foul
sorry but the ring of brodgar on Orkney are far more impressive
Thank you for Xing out the alien nonsense & other silly conspiracies....
Whats with the profanity?
Very casual in Scotland, take it from a local.
Is the swearing really necessary?
No, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
We have many words that have the same meaning as other words, one could argue they are unnecessary too.
this channel is the definition of “mid”
FR, James is very clearly not in any way interested unless its an ad.
@@deathcrunch9020 It was decent when they had him making sandwiches.
We live in an entirely curated world.
You choose what you consume online, so just don't watch the content if you don't enjoy it.
Simple.
I like it more videos about the arran please
Yes, but i mean... The video is interesting for me so idk