Great video. Best one yet. Yew guys told me a few things I never knew about Avebury. The TolkienI stuff was new to me. I prefer Avebury to Stonehenge myself. There is so much there, it is much bigger. The long barrow, Silbury Hill, the earth works and the stones. It must have been competing with Stonehenge at some time. Are you going to do Waylands Smithy?
Thanks for this gallop round the countryside. There are gems dotted around all over the place. Like others I prefer the rough hewn Avebury. The sites are relatively close though and maybe worked together rather than in competition as another commentator has suggested. (Rather like Blackpool competing with Southport or Morecombe? ) I do find the assumptions that the eastern style chants and the random drumming of modern people were ever part of these sites to be intensley irritating as is the assumption that these modern crowds have any spiritual link to the builders. Their noise and need to compete with the sun by making a racket I find destroys the spectacle. Why not just watch the majesty of sunrise or the awfulness of sunset in respectful silence. Ok raise a cheer after sunrise or a wail after sunset if you must but stop inserting yourselves into the spectacle. Whenever I am out and about at dawn or sunrise stunned awe is my natural reaction. Knowing that it is the earth, with us merely along for the ride, that is turning rather than the sun moving is irrelevant. I have to stop and watch in awe, and most importantly, silence. My dogs think I'm mad when there are all these interesting smells at ground level.😅 Maybe they are right. Also for all we know these sites were as likely, and in some cases more likely, closer to being country fares than cathedrals. Maybe with a sort of opening procession so the local big wigs could feel important. Much like such gatherings today. Druids, either iron age or Victorian age, had not been invented when these monuments were constructed. The Victorian version just insinuated themselves into the picture. Sincere as they are they are irrelevant.
The idea that stone circles and causewayed enclosures had a more down to earth function was tested during one Time Team dig when phosphorous (I think it was) was detected in raised levels both in the approach to an enclosure and within the enclosure itself leading to the conclusion that cattle droving and containment had had a part in the history. Also many enclosures and circles have no discernible cosmological links or alignments contrary to popular belief.
Yet another channel to watch. Thanks.
great post lads i love anything to do with averbury job well done
Great video. Best one yet. Yew guys told me a few things I never knew about Avebury. The TolkienI stuff was new to me. I prefer Avebury to Stonehenge myself. There is so much there, it is much bigger. The long barrow, Silbury Hill, the earth works and the stones. It must have been competing with Stonehenge at some time. Are you going to do Waylands Smithy?
It’s on the to do list. We did tell the story of Wayland on the barrows episode. There’s also a nuclear bunker very close to Wayland Smithy,
What pub had that police officer visited before he spotted the chaps at the crop circle?
Thanks for this gallop round the countryside. There are gems dotted around all over the place.
Like others I prefer the rough hewn Avebury. The sites are relatively close though and maybe worked together rather than in competition as another commentator has suggested. (Rather like Blackpool competing with Southport or Morecombe? )
I do find the assumptions that the eastern style chants and the random drumming of modern people were ever part of these sites to be intensley irritating as is the assumption that these modern crowds have any spiritual link to the builders. Their noise and need to compete with the sun by making a racket I find destroys the spectacle.
Why not just watch the majesty of sunrise or the awfulness of sunset in respectful silence.
Ok raise a cheer after sunrise or a wail after sunset if you must but stop inserting yourselves into the spectacle.
Whenever I am out and about at dawn or sunrise stunned awe is my natural reaction. Knowing that it is the earth, with us merely along for the ride, that is turning rather than the sun moving is irrelevant.
I have to stop and watch in awe, and most importantly, silence.
My dogs think I'm mad when there are all these interesting smells at ground level.😅 Maybe they are right.
Also for all we know these sites were as likely, and in some cases more likely, closer to being country fares than cathedrals. Maybe with a sort of opening procession so the local big wigs could feel important. Much like such gatherings today.
Druids, either iron age or Victorian age, had not been invented when these monuments were constructed. The Victorian version just insinuated themselves into the picture. Sincere as they are they are irrelevant.
The idea that stone circles and causewayed enclosures had a more down to earth function was tested during one Time Team dig when phosphorous (I think it was) was detected in raised levels both in the approach to an enclosure and within the enclosure itself leading to the conclusion that cattle droving and containment had had a part in the history.
Also many enclosures and circles have no discernible cosmological links or alignments contrary to popular belief.