In 1987 my geography teacher who was a widely travelled man, did a few lessons on geology and we spent the time listening to his subject on stones coming from Marlborough / Savernake area. He also stated about the Neolithic era on how wooded the area was, and the link to woodhenge at Durrington. He was an incredible guy who was ahead of his time and engaged well with students who were less eager (me ! ) to do well. But his encouragement made me stick with it. Your enthusiasm Paul is like my geography teachers is why I'm here.I Thanks.
It's a little known fact that to get the stones from Wales they invented a device they called a Welsh Hauliers Energy Expenditure Lessener that came to be known by it's acronym.
Stumbled upon this randomly and so happy I took the time to watch. Unbelievably professional presentation and extremely entertaining. You would really think these videos are done by big production companies with high budgets. The presenting and editing are excellent. The content intriguing. We will now follow you guys and look forward to all your content. I really do hope you guys grow and grow on CZcams and well deserved it would be. Thank you very much for the work you have put in.
I believe Stonehenge was stolen from Ireland by the wizard Merlin, right ? ( sorry but to quote guardians of the galaxy, ‘ I’m pretty much a pro, yeah ! ‘
I enjoyed both the lovely landscape (maybe even more because of the season) and the historic part of this video. The amazing effort the neolithic people put into it are a sure sign the Stonehenge site meant a lot to them.
hi paul and rebecca , i knew this was going to be really good , very interesting , whatever path was used to get the stones there it was such a great effort , really well done and thank you so much guys 😊
That was an outstanding video. Informative and very well presented and edited. David Nash was eloquent, modest and very knowledgeable. Thank you both for the time and effort you put in to it. Looking forward to the midweek and bonus videos.
An excellent video, Paul and Rebecca. I cannot even imagine the huge effort involved in moving these massively heavy stones such a long, long way. Has anyone even tried this challenge today? Frankly, I imagine moving such rocks with rollers is too much for us modern humans!
Excellent video. It amused me that that the auto-captions on your conversation mention 'sarcasm stones' and 'marble dancers' - is it suggesting that Stonehenge might have been a Druid comedy venue?
I deliver to a farm at Avebury, the first time I was there I obviously saw the stones. The first one I saw I thought “what a random place for a climbing wall” Then as I drove through the village it became apparent that it wasn’t. I’ve always had a yearning to go to stone henge, I passed through Aylesbury last week and couldn’t see it. Me and a friend are going next solstice, I can’t wait. But the wonder of the stones, where they came from and how they were transported is quite a mystery Maybe one they never wanted known ??
Oh! This is a really good video! First, I wonder if the analysis of the stones includes isotopic data. Second, a good mathematical method for finding the route of least effort between pairs of minima in a potential energy landscape is called 'climbing nudged elastic band'. It is used for calculating transition states in chemistry and physics, but don't let that put you off! David Nash will likely have some learned colleagues, possibly on the other side of the A27, who can implement it.
Today I had to go to Chirton, decided to go via Lockeridge, Alton Barnes and All Cannings knowing it's a lovely interesting drive. While driving between Lockeridge and Alton Barnes I'm looking at the sat nav altitude slowly creeping up, knowing the drop down into Alton Barnes I'm thinking this has got to be a really old route.
Fascinating video, very well researched and professionally produced. Thank you! It is something that I am certainly interested in. I understood that the sarsen stones originated from the Valley of Stones, Fyfield Down, about 1km north west of Devil's Den, which in turn is 2.5km due north of West Woods, Marlborough. I have visited the site several times, and there must be thousands of sarsen stones littered across the valley, stretching on as long as the eye can see. Stonehenge is approximately 27km (17m) due south of Valley of Stones. Thanks again for this superb video 👍
@@pwhitewick using the Ordnance Survey ios app you can automatically generate elevation graph’s like what you manually did. Simply plot a route and it’ll do that for you. It’ll also generate a 3d “aerial view’. (Just in case you didn’t know) 🙂
Cool. I just wrote down that quote when you said it in the previous video I watched this morning. It was about looking for Roman road mile markers! Thank you for telling us this quote was from Neil DeGrass Tyson ! 💙💙💙
Fascinating episode for sure! I had not heard about the routes before so that part alone was interesting! Between you and David and Tim, I think the on going search for matching silcrete sites will ultimately lead to the discovery of the actual path of the stones! Great episode as usual!
Thank you both for this wonderful little production. Aside from agreeing with the other comments about your production quality, editing, presentation etc, you answered a question I’ve had for close to sixty years. Where was the quarry? There wasn’t a quarry they were boulders which were moved and later shaped. Of course. (Light switches on in brain.). Also learned that Sarcen is a type of rock, not a noun describing the largest of the Stonehenge stones, which in my defence was what I was taught. Oh God am I that old? Yes. Yes I am.
Very interesting indeed. Nice to have David there to clearly explain how thing unfolded for their discovery, amazing work. Great work as always guys :)
Another wonderful video, thank you for all the effort you put into to making them. I would love to see some pollen analysis for the Avon Valley for the period, that should be able to tell you what plants ere around at the time and thus what the landscape was possibly like, was it just boggy flood plain thick with mud, or was it drier making it a real possibility for bringing the stones down it.
All those routes and more. There was a tramway suggested, however the vegetation could have been burnt off and frosted ground in winter offered the better surface for rollers/sleds drawn by aurochs.
Excellent, thank you for this. What an exceptional “guest speaker” as well. Fascinating to hear about the science involved in researching a place I grew up so close to.
Fascinating! I was able to visit the Salisbury Plain in 1976 when I was in Europe and the Middle East as a teen. Back then we could walk amongst the stones of Stonehenge. But the effort and planning and motivation needed to bring all of the materials together to build Stonehenge was always amazing to me. But I do have a question about an area on your map -- there was an area off to the east marked "Danger Area" -- what was that??????
@@derekp2674 -- Hmmm -- the more that I thought about it, I remembered that there was a portion of the movie Help! with the Beatles, where they filmed the song "I Need You" along with soldiers and tanks from the British military -- I wonder if this is the same area.
Salisbury plain is a live tank testing area, it includes the Durrington walls. This is generally NOT open to the public, only some days of the year are the gen public allowed on some of the restricted parts of Salisbury Plain!
The "victory for humanity" quote is from Horace Mann, one of the fathers of modern education and a president of Antioch College in Ohio, USA. It is the school's motto.
Delightful video and what hope it leaves with the viewer. I recall Mike Parker Pearson from his Stonehenge work on Time Team. Good to know he is still devoted to the great monument. Thanks so much.
Great video. I will grab my map collection first thing in the morning, devise a route and see if it matches yours! At some point I want to recce Alton Barnes below Knap Hill, I just have this hunch that it is more ancient than appearance suggests. Talking of hunches, does this new vid make you more keen to follow my idea about a henge at Cheriton in Hampshire? BTW, did you know there was a henge at Marden? Keep up the good work.
Along the route that was used, there must be at least one stone that was stuck in mud, or is broken or whatever. Probably several. Finding that would be the ultimate proof.
Fascinating. Moving things over a landscape including hills and valleys reminds me of Fitzcarraldo - moving a blimmin great boat over some part of the Andes.
excellent nice to see a slightly different video . but that guy on history channel with crazy hair is going to be giving it "i am not saying it was ...... but it was aliens lol " and they levitated it all there . i love the way the science and methodology reveals answers . well done to all involved
Brilliant as always.Forgive me folks but I must have missed the section where the West Woods, Pewsey, Upavon and Stonehenge disused stations were featured?. It was also a shame that the spectacular Upavon viaduct was dismantled by the good Doctor 'B's slaughter of BR agenda but good to see the surviving stones relayed in a fancy circle at the old Stonehenge station site as a fitting monument to the once great WW & S Joint railway.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with fixing it in the 1950’s. We keep adopting the opposite attitude in some sort of vain ‘keep it as it is’ we will lose everything eventually and have nothing to see from the past.
Hi paul , interesting subject this week , I’d like to suggest an alternative viewpoint, myself being a stonemason / building contractor along with colleagues we work with heavy materials everyday between us we have more than 200yrs of experience, what we concluded which the academics seem to ignore is the fact that somebody designed Stonehenge using geometry, they also designed a mortise and tenon system for the stone lintels,, therefore why couldn’t they design a axel and type of wheel from tree trunks this is the only sensible way of moving heavy objects. These stone masons were not backward in anyway they demonstrated great skills and high knowledge of there working environments, you could argue there’s no evidence a wooden wheel existed but why would it it would be used and past down through the generations until it rotted away or superseded. So my point is the only way to move these stones would the way of least resistance as it is today. Just our opinion? Gary
@@pwhitewick You should go and watch the videos by Brien Foerster and Unchartedx re advanced ancient technology and Egypt etc. All of these ancient monuments are far more ancient than the "scientific" world is letting on and had nothing to do with the cavemen/Egyptians etc and whoever built all of these monuments that are all linked were far more advanced than we are even today. The ENGINEER Chris Dunn has even reversed engineered the Great Pyramid and has exposed that they pyramids were ancient acoustic power plants in his book THE GIZA POWER PLANT and on here as well and he has also been exposing how these ancients had advanced technology and power tools etc as well and shows this with the tool marks that are left behind that tell what kind of power tools they were but also how fast they spun etc as well. They also had power tools that could melt granite as per Brien Foersters videos on the unfinished obelisks and they must have had anti gravity devices for getting these 1200 ton monsters etc out of the ground and to where they wanted them to be. The video by Carl Munck called THE CODE also exposes how all of these ancient sites all over the world are linked via mathematics and they also all lie on junctions of energy on a grid system on this planet. Whoever designed and build all of these were more intelligent than us and were far more advanced technologically than we are even today.
What a brilliant channel! This popped up as a random suggestion and I'm grateful it did! This was fascinating and I look forward to checking out more of your stuff. Cheers :)
This has really got me thinking now. Trying to work out how my route ties in with all this (think I sent your thoughts on this, which mainly followed the Avon valley?).
I came to this video from. the page's latest video which somehow mentions Stonehenge and these videos, and the disappearing houses - March 24 2024. If anyone, and I mean anyone wants to start talking about the route of the Stones/ Sarcens, I will certainly point them in your direction. Or, the direction of this video. And the direction of the patreon page.
I have been looking through my old 'Stonehenge Decoded' book (Gerald S. Hawkins 1966) 1972 edition. Page 95. Of course it does not mention West Woods, just generally 'Marlborough Downs. I like your path of least gradient take on the new route. If they do find chippings of some significance at Marden, that broadly meet the signature of the Stonehenge sarsens, that would be amazing. It makes sense they would maul, or dress the stones on their way. It makes sense that one the rough block was liberated to send it on its way, acrving off nubs & projections as they met obstacles, and at rest stops to lighten the load, or streamline the shape through awkward terrain, while 50 or 60 other blocks made a similar journey. With this kind of speculation, we may know sooner the route that the stones took.
The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found.
Thanks for making real (fleshing-out) the exciting stories from Science News or Discover Magazine about the stone having been sourced and transported, (but how?)-
Interesting vid being a fan of pre history i have read many books on Stonehenge and many other monuments around the country and its really interesting to see how the theorys have changed since William Stuckleys days to today.
Absolutely loved that. I subscribe to a lot of channels and just can’t afford them all. I’m so disappointed I won’t be able to see that footage. Please stay safe and take care
Sorry Linda. We don't want to put it out as a regular video as it will damage the channel stats. I.e a 2hr video will have very low viewing figures and subsequently that affects how you see the next video.
I am interested in, but not knowledgeable about, the landscape around Stonehenge, heights, watercourses, older farmlands , older forests how/ when cleared , roaming beasts (dear, boar , oxen. It is interesting that Dorset and Wiltshire, with a few settlement exceptions, are essentially spaces of nothing, with some ancient settlements , and away from those settlements modern ( as in 800ADish + ) villiages. (compare with Surrey other than heathland sandy soils) or areas at least closer to the Thames which have a relatively dense (aided by railways of course) , population and historic seen build patterns (which may overlay missed older things). But with Stonehenge much burial etc barrows have been ploughed or robbed, and the British Army means of flattening the land for the last 400 years have not been helpful, plus changes in farmstead boundaries have lost some of the context of place, one feels that should stonehenge even have been roofed - like the roundhouses of bronze age (and the coliseum) with tented skins or wood and rushes - though no anchor points are noted on the stones themselves. Also one would expect a ? Central ? Altar if religious - but then look at most churches where the altar is one end, on a given compass alignment where possible, including the mitratic temples in europe and the jerusalem temple - the performance is one from the stage at the end not from a central point ( actually part of this could be like theatre of today - enabling 'props' and so on to be brought on from hidden wing points and behind by supporting technicians to the performers )
In 1987 my geography teacher who was a widely travelled man, did a few lessons on geology and we spent the time listening to his subject on stones coming from Marlborough / Savernake area.
He also stated about the Neolithic era on how wooded the area was, and the link to woodhenge at Durrington.
He was an incredible guy who was ahead of his time and engaged well with students who were less eager (me ! ) to do well. But his encouragement made me stick with it.
Your enthusiasm Paul is like my geography teachers is why I'm here.I
Thanks.
It's a little known fact that to get the stones from Wales they invented a device they called a Welsh Hauliers Energy Expenditure Lessener that came to be known by it's acronym.
😂😂😂😂
I've heard the Welsh still use this today
When i realised the acronym i loled irl!
Even the flintstones had that technology 💁♂️😂
Stumbled upon this randomly and so happy I took the time to watch. Unbelievably professional presentation and extremely entertaining. You would really think these videos are done by big production companies with high budgets. The presenting and editing are excellent. The content intriguing. We will now follow you guys and look forward to all your content. I really do hope you guys grow and grow on CZcams and well deserved it would be. Thank you very much for the work you have put in.
A huge amount of work must have gone into the making of this, absolutely brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed by all the whitewick clan.
Thanks Team. Twas quite a long edit indeed.
I believe Stonehenge was stolen from Ireland by the wizard Merlin, right ?
( sorry but to quote guardians of the galaxy, ‘ I’m pretty much a pro, yeah ! ‘
I enjoyed both the lovely landscape (maybe even more because of the season) and the historic part of this video. The amazing effort the neolithic people put into it are a sure sign the Stonehenge site meant a lot to them.
Thank you.
Fascinating stuff, it's answered some of the questions I had about archaeology.
Thank you, David is on Twitter if you have any more.
Hey Jago Hazzard fan of u and ur channel love your voice
What a great team you both are , your prep is amazing , and to have a professor giving his time to you .. top job well done .
Great vid, fascinating information. Visited Stonehenge in 1964 and touched the stones - 1st & last time as we moved to Aus Xmas 65.
hi paul and rebecca , i knew this was going to be really good , very interesting , whatever path was used to get the stones there it was such a great effort , really well done and thank you so much guys 😊
Thanks Davie
That was an outstanding video. Informative and very well presented and edited. David Nash was eloquent, modest and very knowledgeable. Thank you both for the time and effort you put in to it. Looking forward to the midweek and bonus videos.
That contractor who was asked to build stonehenge must've had a very strong back.
Typical contractor ...... it will be nice when it is finished!
Landscapes can change really quickly.
Very much so
well that was a bit different! well done, you two...
Thanks Brett. Yup, like to mix things up
An excellent video, Paul and Rebecca. I cannot even imagine the huge effort involved in moving these massively heavy stones such a long, long way. Has anyone even tried this challenge today? Frankly, I imagine moving such rocks with rollers is too much for us modern humans!
Rotate the work around a large number of people.
Excellent video. It amused me that that the auto-captions on your conversation mention 'sarcasm stones' and 'marble dancers' - is it suggesting that Stonehenge might have been a Druid comedy venue?
Wonderful. The amounts of work that must have taken not to mention all the technical know-how : brilliant.
Clever people!!
I deliver to a farm at Avebury, the first time I was there I obviously saw the stones. The first one I saw I thought “what a random place for a climbing wall”
Then as I drove through the village it became apparent that it wasn’t.
I’ve always had a yearning to go to stone henge, I passed through Aylesbury last week and couldn’t see it.
Me and a friend are going next solstice, I can’t wait.
But the wonder of the stones, where they came from and how they were transported is quite a mystery
Maybe one they never wanted known ??
and the other question is, why was stonehenge built at that spot ?.
@@johnlambert4031 Absolutely
A very interesting and thought provoking video!
And great choice of background tunes throughout. Well done
Oh! This is a really good video! First, I wonder if the analysis of the stones includes isotopic data. Second, a good mathematical method for finding the route of least effort between pairs of minima in a potential energy landscape is called 'climbing nudged elastic band'. It is used for calculating transition states in chemistry and physics, but don't let that put you off! David Nash will likely have some learned colleagues, possibly on the other side of the A27, who can implement it.
Today I had to go to Chirton, decided to go via Lockeridge, Alton Barnes and All Cannings knowing it's a lovely interesting drive.
While driving between Lockeridge and Alton Barnes I'm looking at the sat nav altitude slowly creeping up, knowing the drop down into Alton Barnes I'm thinking this has got to be a really old route.
Fascinating video, very well researched and professionally produced. Thank you! It is something that I am certainly interested in. I understood that the sarsen stones originated from the Valley of Stones, Fyfield Down, about 1km north west of Devil's Den, which in turn is 2.5km due north of West Woods, Marlborough. I have visited the site several times, and there must be thousands of sarsen stones littered across the valley, stretching on as long as the eye can see. Stonehenge is approximately 27km (17m) due south of Valley of Stones. Thanks again for this superb video 👍
Fascinating. Equally impressed at you being able to hold that camera at arms length for hours on end 💪
They still ache to this day
@@pwhitewick using the Ordnance Survey ios app you can automatically generate elevation graph’s like what you manually did. Simply plot a route and it’ll do that for you. It’ll also generate a 3d “aerial view’. (Just in case you didn’t know) 🙂
@@davidscottblacksmith oooooops. Never knew this!!
super video; best yet and yours are always fantastic. However, I now have more questions than I had before the video!
As a Druid, this is a very fine video. It gives me an explanation of how Stonehenge was built.
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Cool. I just wrote down that quote when you said it in the previous video I watched this morning. It was about looking for Roman road mile markers! Thank you for telling us this quote was from Neil DeGrass Tyson ! 💙💙💙
To all involved in this video a very big 👍. A fascinating subject that will go on and on.
Thanks Malcolm.
Fascinating episode for sure! I had not heard about the routes before so that part alone was interesting! Between you and David and Tim, I think the on going search for matching silcrete sites will ultimately lead to the discovery of the actual path of the stones! Great episode as usual!
Fantastic 👌👌👌 Katie did an amazing talk for Wiltshire buildings record… very passionate for sure. Great to hear she had played a huge part in this 👍
Thank you both for this wonderful little production. Aside from agreeing with the other comments about your production quality, editing, presentation etc, you answered a question I’ve had for close to sixty years. Where was the quarry? There wasn’t a quarry they were boulders which were moved and later shaped. Of course. (Light switches on in brain.). Also learned that Sarcen is a type of rock, not a noun describing the largest of the Stonehenge stones, which in my defence was what I was taught.
Oh God am I that old? Yes. Yes I am.
Very interesting indeed. Nice to have David there to clearly explain how thing unfolded for their discovery, amazing work. Great work as always guys :)
Thanks Rebecca and Paul that was really fascinating.
Thanks so much for your film, it's fascinating, all of it. Well done. and a real tonic for me in hospital - bloomin covid! Cheers both of you x
Thank you, get well soon!!
Just to add... am loving your replies! Love, Tim
Ha. Same as me, sick in bed with Chinese Virus on my birthday 🤒
Another wonderful video, thank you for all the effort you put into to making them.
I would love to see some pollen analysis for the Avon Valley for the period, that should be able to tell you what plants ere around at the time and thus what the landscape was possibly like, was it just boggy flood plain thick with mud, or was it drier making it a real possibility for bringing the stones down it.
What a fascinating subject. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
All those routes and more.
There was a tramway suggested, however the vegetation could have been burnt off and frosted ground in winter offered the better surface for rollers/sleds drawn by aurochs.
possibly oxen rather than aurochs
Excellent, thank you for this. What an exceptional “guest speaker” as well. Fascinating to hear about the science involved in researching a place I grew up so close to.
Fascinating! I was able to visit the Salisbury Plain in 1976 when I was in Europe and the Middle East as a teen. Back then we could walk amongst the stones of Stonehenge. But the effort and planning and motivation needed to bring all of the materials together to build Stonehenge was always amazing to me. But I do have a question about an area on your map -- there was an area off to the east marked "Danger Area" -- what was that??????
My guess is that the "danger area" would be due to an army firing range.
@@derekp2674 -- Hmmm -- the more that I thought about it, I remembered that there was a portion of the movie Help! with the Beatles, where they filmed the song "I Need You" along with soldiers and tanks from the British military -- I wonder if this is the same area.
Salisbury plain is a live tank testing area, it includes the Durrington walls. This is generally NOT open to the public, only some days of the year are the gen public allowed on some of the restricted parts of Salisbury Plain!
The "victory for humanity" quote is from Horace Mann, one of the fathers of modern education and a president of Antioch College in Ohio, USA. It is the school's motto.
Now you have said that.... rings a bell
Stonehenge the mystery that keeps on giving.
Thank you. Very interesting.
what a superb video sorry i have only just found it. Love the work you do far better than the tv!
Welcome
Always enjoy your content! I wondered about a potential for a mini ice age in the times they transported the stones for stonehenge??
Delightful video and what hope it leaves with the viewer. I recall Mike Parker Pearson from his Stonehenge work on Time Team. Good to know he is still devoted to the great monument.
Thanks so much.
Great video. I will grab my map collection first thing in the morning, devise a route and see if it matches yours!
At some point I want to recce Alton Barnes below Knap Hill, I just have this hunch that it is more ancient than appearance suggests. Talking of hunches, does this new vid make you more keen to follow my idea about a henge at Cheriton in Hampshire?
BTW, did you know there was a henge at Marden?
Keep up the good work.
Fascinating, The combination of different sciences involved in working these things out is amazing.
Well done guys really good watch, somewhere ive never been but the fact we can never know exactly why an how makes the place all the more fascinating
Along the route that was used, there must be at least one stone that was stuck in mud, or is broken or whatever. Probably several. Finding that would be the ultimate proof.
amazing video
What an interesting video. Excellent drone photography. Well done to both of you.
A very interesting video indeed. :) I did go to Stonehenge myself in 2018 and I've wondered where that all came from.
Very informative
Thanks Gregory
Hi from america. Loving your content
Honestly, I was wondering if you two were going to cover Stone Henge. I'm glad you covered all this, very interesting.
Took us a while!
Thank you for this, really interesting. Keep up the good work
Brilliant work. You are an amazing couple and very professional in your output.
Fascinating. Great video guys. Thanks
Great use of Excel - as well as an excellent interview - this must have taken some time to prepare and edit!
Brilliant, fascinating and interesting. Thank you 👍👍
Brilliant, what a superb guest for you.
Very interesting video 📹🤔thank you and please keep the great videos coming friends from Scotland
Another excellently produced video thank you
Fascinating. Moving things over a landscape including hills and valleys reminds me of Fitzcarraldo - moving a blimmin great boat over some part of the Andes.
Very interesting! Thanks.
Excellent, informative feature video. How is your filming arm doing? Thank you for the great work.
My arms ached for days!!!
very interesting 🤔👍👍👍 great stuff guys
excellent nice to see a slightly different video . but that guy on history channel with crazy hair is going to be giving it "i am not saying it was ...... but it was aliens lol " and they levitated it all there . i love the way the science and methodology reveals answers . well done to all involved
It’s not something people would think about. Very fascinating and well put together. Thanks for giving me something else to ponder. 👏👏👍
Thanks Martyn that's absolutely what we aim for.
Another good 1 👍🏻👍🏻
Brilliant as always.Forgive me folks but I must have missed the section where the West Woods, Pewsey, Upavon and Stonehenge disused stations were featured?. It was also a shame that the spectacular Upavon viaduct was dismantled by the good Doctor 'B's slaughter of BR agenda but good to see the surviving stones relayed in a fancy circle at the old Stonehenge station site as a fitting monument to the once great WW & S Joint railway.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with fixing it in the 1950’s. We keep adopting the opposite attitude in some sort of vain ‘keep it as it is’ we will lose everything eventually and have nothing to see from the past.
Great documentary along another Whitewick route explore. Enjoyed.
Hi paul , interesting subject this week , I’d like to suggest an alternative viewpoint, myself being a stonemason / building contractor along with colleagues we work with heavy materials everyday between us we have more than 200yrs of experience, what we concluded which the academics seem to ignore is the fact that somebody designed Stonehenge using geometry, they also designed a mortise and tenon system for the stone lintels,, therefore why couldn’t they design a axel and type of wheel from tree trunks this is the only sensible way of moving heavy objects. These stone masons were not backward in anyway they demonstrated great skills and high knowledge of there working environments, you could argue there’s no evidence a wooden wheel existed but why would it it would be used and past down through the generations until it rotted away or superseded. So my point is the only way to move these stones would the way of least resistance as it is today.
Just our opinion?
Gary
Can't disagree with any of that as a theory. I think we are all guilty of underestimating their abilities and organisation.
@@pwhitewick You should go and watch the videos by Brien Foerster and Unchartedx re advanced ancient technology and Egypt etc. All of these ancient monuments are far more ancient than the "scientific" world is letting on and had nothing to do with the cavemen/Egyptians etc and whoever built all of these monuments that are all linked were far more advanced than we are even today. The ENGINEER Chris Dunn has even reversed engineered the Great Pyramid and has exposed that they pyramids were ancient acoustic power plants in his book THE GIZA POWER PLANT and on here as well and he has also been exposing how these ancients had advanced technology and power tools etc as well and shows this with the tool marks that are left behind that tell what kind of power tools they were but also how fast they spun etc as well. They also had power tools that could melt granite as per Brien Foersters videos on the unfinished obelisks and they must have had anti gravity devices for getting these 1200 ton monsters etc out of the ground and to where they wanted them to be. The video by Carl Munck called THE CODE also exposes how all of these ancient sites all over the world are linked via mathematics and they also all lie on junctions of energy on a grid system on this planet. Whoever designed and build all of these were more intelligent than us and were far more advanced technologically than we are even today.
What a brilliant channel! This popped up as a random suggestion and I'm grateful it did! This was fascinating and I look forward to checking out more of your stuff. Cheers :)
Welcome. 😊
Absolutely fantastic, a very interesting video.
Many thanks!
Shallow layers of silcrete make it difficult to start drilling oil and gas wells in central Australia. Can also pose problems for grave diggers.
Brilliant video please keep them coming
Thank you Wizard
Thanks Paul and Rebecca for the latest 'evolution' on the Stonehenge theories. - Now if I could only get the Spinal Tap song out of my head !
This has really got me thinking now. Trying to work out how my route ties in with all this (think I sent your thoughts on this, which mainly followed the Avon valley?).
I came to this video from. the page's latest video which somehow mentions Stonehenge and these videos, and the disappearing houses - March 24 2024.
If anyone, and I mean anyone wants to start talking about the route of the Stones/ Sarcens, I will certainly point them in your direction. Or, the direction of this video.
And the direction of the patreon page.
Brilliant informative video.
I have been looking through my old 'Stonehenge Decoded' book (Gerald S. Hawkins 1966) 1972 edition. Page 95. Of course it does not mention West Woods, just generally 'Marlborough Downs.
I like your path of least gradient take on the new route. If they do find chippings of some significance at Marden, that broadly meet the signature of the Stonehenge sarsens, that would be amazing. It makes sense they would maul, or dress the stones on their way.
It makes sense that one the rough block was liberated to send it on its way, acrving off nubs & projections as they met obstacles, and at rest stops to lighten the load, or streamline the shape through awkward terrain, while 50 or 60 other blocks made a similar journey.
With this kind of speculation, we may know sooner the route that the stones took.
Amazing that the route goes right through the crop circle museum in Honeystreet...spooky.
Thanks for another great video. very interesting. cant wait for the next one :o)
Absolutely fascinating.
The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found.
Fascinating 👍
Thanks for making real (fleshing-out) the exciting stories from Science News or Discover Magazine about the stone having been sourced and transported, (but how?)-
Fantastic investigations of a fascinating subject, thank you both very much.
Thanks mark.
Fantastic research and photography - enjoyed immensely
Glad you enjoyed it
Knapp Hill, East Field, UFO’s and Crop Circles. I absolutely love the corner of Wiltshire. Great video.
very interesting i really enjoyed it , doesn't arm holding the camera & tripod out
Wonderful video, and very enlightening. I always assumed that the stones would be transported by the easiest route, and not the most sacred one.
Absolutely likewise Chris
Interesting vid being a fan of pre history i have read many books on Stonehenge and many other monuments around the country and its really interesting to see how the theorys have changed since William Stuckleys days to today.
what an interesting guest you had. use him again if you can
Great video on a great subject
Rebecca you are a lovely woman, does Paul realise how lucky he is? Just fun you know!
Absolutely loved that. I subscribe to a lot of channels and just can’t afford them all. I’m so disappointed I won’t be able to see that footage. Please stay safe and take care
Sorry Linda. We don't want to put it out as a regular video as it will damage the channel stats. I.e a 2hr video will have very low viewing figures and subsequently that affects how you see the next video.
Thanks, fair enuf
I am interested in, but not knowledgeable about, the landscape around Stonehenge, heights, watercourses, older farmlands , older forests how/ when cleared , roaming beasts (dear, boar , oxen. It is interesting that Dorset and Wiltshire, with a few settlement exceptions, are essentially spaces of nothing, with some ancient settlements , and away from those settlements modern ( as in 800ADish + ) villiages. (compare with Surrey other than heathland sandy soils) or areas at least closer to the Thames which have a relatively dense (aided by railways of course) , population and historic seen build patterns (which may overlay missed older things). But with Stonehenge much burial etc barrows have been ploughed or robbed, and the British Army means of flattening the land for the last 400 years have not been helpful, plus changes in farmstead boundaries have lost some of the context of place, one feels that should stonehenge even have been roofed - like the roundhouses of bronze age (and the coliseum) with tented skins or wood and rushes - though no anchor points are noted on the stones themselves. Also one would expect a ? Central ? Altar if religious - but then look at most churches where the altar is one end, on a given compass alignment where possible, including the mitratic temples in europe and the jerusalem temple - the performance is one from the stage at the end not from a central point ( actually part of this could be like theatre of today - enabling 'props' and so on to be brought on from hidden wing points and behind by supporting technicians to the performers )
HiStory and the past are two very different things.