Beachcombing on historic island, finding Hag Stone fossils and revealing our competition winner!
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- Come with us on our New Years adventure to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne in the ancient kingdom of Northumberland on the North East coast of England to search for the "magical" Hag Stone (fossil.) Stay to the end to find out who the lucky winner is of our sea glass competition!
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Hag stones are fossilised mud with holes in them that were formed by worms and other sea creatures millions of years ago. Ancient man thought them to have magical qualities hence the many names they were given: Hag Stone, Adder Stone, Hex stone Witch's Stone and Fairy Stone, to name but a few. They would be hung up at doorways to homes, barns and stables to protect the occupants from witch's curses and it was also believed that, if you looked through the hole, you would see the fairy world. The fact that they are the fossil of a worm hole may not be as romantic but is just as fascinating!
Northern Mudlarks thank you for clarifying this! How interesting!
it is possible that it was fossilized mud, but the hypothesis that worm made its cavities ... distrust ... they are too perfect, it almost seems done artificially ..
Awesome, thanks for clarifying!
What geographical areas would you find hag stones? I have a smooth, deep gray stone with two perfectly round holes in them. It's in my garden--I don't recall where I found it. I live in the high desert area of Southern CA. Either I found it on our property, or brought it home from another CA location...
Would be handy for hunting/war, just pull a piece of rope trough it and u have a simple weapon that u can throw.
I no longer feel alone in the world, going OOOOO! and AAAAHHHH! at rocks. 🤩
Im the only one, around me, that looks at the ground for treasure !!
I have a few "mudfossils"..
As an American who drives on the right side of the road, the first minute of this video was terrifying. 😂
Haha! It's the same for us when we see Americans driving 😂 Though, Mum first learnt to drive over in the States!
Yes!
You should have been with me on my first taxi cab ride in japan it was terrifying.
True that. Sped up video looked like they were hauling ass through the tiny lanes. Then this gentle music playing.
Lol
What a great way for a mother and daughter to bond!
"I've gone mad, I'm naming rocks" HAHA that was so funny, you are adorable, love your video!
When my 2 daughters were small we walked the beaches looking for unique beach stones. I would then polish them. 36 years later...these stones are their most prized possessions & memories. Thank you for taking me along and reminding me of precious memories. From California, USA. The Colonel
That's wonderful !
I have 2 son's a daughter and six grandchildren all of whom enjoy their time with me Rockhounding... time goes by fast.
We did too.. finding prefect shell's to send the family with their gifts.
I love how they are said to ward off witches but here I am a witch using is for luck
You have taken us on another beautiful trip that I would never been able to partake of without persons like yourselves, thank you for the history , beautiful scenery and Beautiful music from the Cello and Alex's voice, so soothing. Happy new year and keep taking us to the places we all love.
Olivia's
Didn't know what a hagstone was, but after watching this I realized I had one on my windowsill! Mine came from Lake Michigan.
17:37 slow down the playback speed and watch in the archway as a skull/head appears. As it moves from left to right, a dark cloak will begin to appear over it before it disappears.
Absolutely fascinating!
Also, I collect rocks and stones too. I would have that whole beach in my backyard if I lived near there! Lol There were so many beautiful stones and fossils!
Thank you for sharing!
Her sweet, enthusiastic and curious voice with each find, was so very pleasant to listen to! 💕
-said Texas girl, here...
I would have kept the “RAD” brick.👍
Yeah it was totally Rad
Scott Clegg me too that was awsome!
@@fairysox221 hahahahaha
Same here! I use a knapsack to carry my treasures in so I can carry a lot of weight!
And the rudder!
Lovely ladies, with beautiful voices. And lots of wonderful stones all around. I fell in love with that little pink one.
My then fiancé who is Scottish took me to Holy Island the first time I was in Great Britain 20 years ago! We have been married for 18 years and we LOVE rock hounding and beach combing. We’re a little sad that we didn’t know to look for hag stones there! We live in Michigan which is a great place to live if you love to hunt for fossils and pretty stones. Great video! I also have great memories of fossil hunting in Spittle with our sons. Our suitcases were so heavy from the wood fossils we brought home. That’s a beautiful beach there too!
When I was a young boy, about 60 years ago, I found a lot of these stones with the hole through them here on the coast of Northern California.
I live in northern California too, and yes my daughter and me have found a few.
They are all over the coast line from Northern to southern cali as I have several of them....
@@rideout0011 In Cali? Hit the beaches after a storm they get uncovered and thrown up on the shoreline
The piece of coral fossil at 19:54 looks like Edvard Munch's The Scream! lol!
My thought exactly
edition.cnn.com/style/article/the-scream-painting-preservation-edvard-munch-scn/index.html
@@archiewoosung5062 Looks like a job for Baumgartner Restoration!
Would be cool inset into a piece of drift wood and then an approximation of the painting done around it as the face. The hag stone that looked heart like would be neat with a wooden arrow put through the hole. This is done by compressing the barbed point and letting it decompress to create an object of mystery. Love the vids
A split second before you named the third ‘face’ hag stone ‘Terry’ my mind said ‘Terrence’ I swear it! I was like Wow! Lol x
fluffyspit You too?
For me,it was Horus.
At 25 mins...that Hag stone looks like a tiny version of the Easter Island monuments!😁
I love the music!
The ghost stone should be "Casper the friendly hag stone". I think I'm going mad also.
🤣🤣
Dang, I would have taken that RAD brick!
Not sure why YT is recommending this to me, but it must be interesting to walk this beaches where about twelve hundred years ago vikings landed to raid the island and the priory. Lots of history out there.
The “must collect smooth rock” side of me is going crazy for your videos! I wouldn’t be able to hold back lol
22:33 fossil sponge stromatoporoid with tabulate coral in it
Brian Ferris Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
@@coasthome8356 Thank Professor Google I love to hunt for fossils even if it they happen to be seen in someone else's videos.
@@coasthome8356 Professor Google holds all the information.
I so would have found a way to retrieve that ship’s rudder.
My CheleSpace me too
Such an incredible piece of history!
I think his name is George Hagstone. And I loved hearing the old bells; what a beautiful sound!
One looked like a Stormtrooper, one looked like Casper, the very last guy looks like a "Tim" to me! Thanks for another lovely educational, fun video. from Asheville, NC
I love the "Freude schöner Götterfunken" by the famous Ludwig van Beethoven!
What a great treat for the ears as well to go along with the beautiful scenery!
I love this channel because is so diverse in content. Also, your voices are so soothing! Your personalities are amazing and always such a good info. Thank you for this.
Thank you for sharing your adventure. It was lovely to go along with you.
I honestly cannot tell you enough how beautifully executed your cinematography is. Your scenery shots and music is wonderful! I am visiting there vicariously through the eye of your camera. ❤
It’s Dec. 2023 and I’d like to note you are almost at 100K followers. Yay!
So much has changed.
You now live in Lost Tower with your schrews, chickens and cat. How time flies!
the 'holy' stones would make excellent sinkers for fishing lines eh.
When I lived on Inis mor, I found a few rocks with a hole, the Islanders insisted they are fairy stones, good luck!!!!
hag stones even I make silent wishes upon hag stones
I'm curious about the difference.
In USA topsail island in north Carolina I find stones, they have little clams on the hole.. I left them as
I didn't know that someone calls them fairies.
I found my witch's stone at our local creek a few years back. It is now a pendant I wear. These stones are also called Odin's Stone.
Hello from New Zealand, really enjoyed this ,the filming was excellent, the scenery was wonderful, you and your mum are beautiful. I have been picking up stones and other things since I was a young child . It's an amazing hobby and all the people I have met over the years have been really nice . I also carve jade in my spare time with diamond tools and whenever I travel overseas I pick up stones and bring them home . Returned from Laos last month with some nice one's which I will carve . Have a happy and healthy new year. Cheers from Grant .
Looks like a pig's snout too! Loved that lil stone with the perfect heart on it!! This was a cool beach, my bag would have been sooo heavy! I'd love to buy a hagstone too!
Your world is so beautiful and old - I've experienced it myself a few times. Hope will be able to go there in 2020.
I saw one that was defiantly an “Ethan”. Thank you so much for allowing me on your adventures😄
As a woodworker I find amusing faces daily in the knots. Sometimes I have to start over to save the good ones...hoping to make a table of the collection someday
I love going on adventures with you! I think the stone looks like an Oliver, he's had too much figgy pudding! TFS Hugs!
What a great video! I love the scenery, the rocks, the choice of music---everything! I am from Florida so scenery like this is so unusual to me.
One day, I pray I get to come to England just to mudlark and beach comb! I love that you and your mom do this together!
I found this channel like 2 hours ago, and I absolutely adore you two! This is just so wholesome and I love the content too, please never stop, and I think it should go without saying that I have most definitely subscribed!
Thank you so much! xx
@@NorthernMudlarks did you see any faeries yet?
Another great video :) You found some great fossils. We are going to check out Holy Island in April. We are even more excited about it after watching your video. Thanks for taking us along :) Happy New Year!
Thank you for letting me join you both, on you beach combing for hag stones. They are amazing. Thank you also for the history lesson around & about the island.
I had a truly unique & awesome time. Thank you both you are both awesome people. Happy new year to you both too.xxxx
I quite enjoyed this and the beautiful young lady has a lovely voice I could certainly listen to her for hours and still feel as an angel were singing to me
Lived all my life by the coast , being the Wirral peninsular and now on the Atlantic northwest coast for the last twenty years and you've just enlightened me on the beauty of stones .
11:40 is Silurian fossil sponge stromatoporoid, with Silurian period fossil coral in it
Brian Ferris Did you say thank you google 😏
@@grossleg123 I sure did, I am not in any University geology course, Google is the greatest depository of information on earth. (make that repository) lol
I'd call my hagstone Rocky. 😂
That's what I was going to say! Lol!
I have one called Sharon
Oh what a treat! I didn’t expect but as always enjoy to watch.
🎆 HAPPY NEW Year 🎆
Thank you ladies It was a beautiful video
To watch
I love that there are other people who get so excited about rocks too. I'd rather hunt rocks than bargains
Yes exactly! We love looking for rocks 😊
Michelle Gillian me too! 👱🏼♀️
Reckon they'd howl to high heaven if thrown by a sling.
Very interesting stones! Love the history and legend💖 I would name that last stone Fred! Lol 😮 Well done ladies! Congrats to the winners and Happy New Years everyone!🎉
10:18 the wood is stunning, I can't believe how the Elephants manage to walk on that rocky beach enough to wear them out that much !
My favorite part was the stones with eyes and faces.You could make really cool sculptures with them to put in your garden.
I loved watching this. You were in my "Recommended" column. I think that is because I also watch and very much enjoy Nicola White. I have subscribed.
You have Such a soothing voice
There is another kind of holy stone which you may find, made roughly into the shape of a bible, hence the name, they were used to sand the decks of sailing ships. The constant exposure to weather and sea raised the grain on the thick wooden decking and it was the unhappy and backbreaking task of sailors to periodically sand down the decks with 'holy stones'.
Such a treat for the ears and eyes! Thank you for showing the island, rocks, and ruins. Happy New Year to you both as well.
When we were kids we called them fairy stones, if u wore them you could attract a fairy for a talk and be safe.
21:17 a perfect tiny heart in the rock! 😍
I had a stroke in July and could really use one for strength...I absolutely love your videos..you two are so adorable
Northumberland. Where my heart lies. ❤️
2020 was the US disaster year!! I'm glad we're getting through to the end.
“What shall we call it?”
Well, Rocky, of course!
When most people are indoors with the open fire or central heating on all nice and toasty,your both out in the rain and windy cold conditions hunting for interesting finds.Happy Hunting.
just love the way you say beautiful, like a poem in one word.
It's appropriate that your intro music is "Simple Gifts" and the music during is "Ode to Joy". You share the simple gifts and bring joy to so many....now almost 10,000! Thanks for taking us along on this adventure!
The rad brick is actually a Radcliffe brick from amble, we have a few different ones broomhill Radcliffe Ashington to name a few.
Holy Molly, plenty of beautiful rocks on the Holy Island. I'll go crazy there. I love rocks!
Loved your latest Mudlarking adventure, we have some "Hag Stones" hung by our back door. Hope you have a lovely new years Mudlarking xx.
17:39 anyone else notice the white face come into the middle of the doorway, then it shoots to the right?
I think there was a man in there x
@@NorthernMudlarks Oh i hope so lol love your videos! There is something aesthetically comforting watching you guys on the beach
I’ve slowed down the video and taken screen shots of the white face/head...it is floating until it gets to the middle of the doorway . It is then that a dark gray cloak slowly begins to appear. It is see through and become more tangible as it moves closer to the right of the screen.
I apologize, but I don’t believe that is a person. I don’t know what it is...but it’s definitely not a person!
Slow the video playback and watch. I believe you caught a fantom in your video.
Pretty neat!
@@googlethis313 It didnt look or move like a man to me...let alone the creepy feeling that came with it lol
19:51 This reminds me of the Edvard Munch Painting 😱 The Scream
Elisa Bell I thought the same (assuming it was the sort of greenish one that got put back)
Another enjoyable and fascinating video that the family had fun watching on New Years day. My children said the hag stone looks like Kipper (the dog). They loved that show when they were little.
I live in Idaho USA, we are known for theGem State , because all the beautiful gems we have. I love collecting rocks and gems. I loved video today.
I wanted to hide my eyes while you were driving on the wrong side of the road, to me. LOL! Those hag stones are cool! You could use a big one on your desk for a pen holder.
13:42 Cambrian fossil coral 540 to 490 million years old (That was difficult one to research lol)
Brian Ferris nah
Wonderful vídeo vou take me where I cannot go, share sacred knowledge passed from generation to generation the power of sacred revealed to the humble of heart, blessed be...🤗😘
When I stayed in Macanaw city by the bridge in Michigan there was a lot of these stones around the garden. They were all white stones. And the Petoskey stones are plentiful there too.
Few fossils are as loved as Petoskey stones.
This is one of my very favorite channels! You two are a delight, and looking forward to many more videos and many more subscribers to you! Happy New Year! Name the hag stone Hagitha❤️
One can make an interesting "stone curtain" with the stones.
Hello .that's a wonderful idea ! Happy New Year to you.
@@metaldetectingenglandok
Loved the scenery!!! Beautiful!! And of course the stones and fossils!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!🎉🥂🇨🇦🇬🇧💕 Congratulations to the winner!!!
I truly cannot imagine living surrounded by such history! We’re such a young province & country over here in Alberta Canada. Oldest buildings around my area are no more than 100-150 years old, max...and there you are, alongside an ancient priory, with ancient ships rudders and old ancient docks in the sand, and castles...oh my goodness, a CASTLE, are you KIDDING ME?! 😃😍
Very much appreciate your lovely videos. Thanks ever so much ❤️
Take some of that corel home and put them in an oversized brandy snifter.
rad...its a Radcliffe brick, made in Amble from clay from the radcliffe pit... hardest know material on earth.
Stan Iredale Thank you for the information!
@@gloriastroedecke2717 i fancy a bit of mudlarking myself, might give it a go...
Stan Iredale Have you watched Nicola White? She mudlark she down south in London on the Thames.
@@gloriastroedecke2717Yes, i've seen few of her vids, very interesting clay pipes finds.
@@staniredale9643 Pipes and pipe stems ad infinitum.
Thanks for sharing this perfect mum and daughter day out, it's very generous of you both to share these special times and places with us.
I have some hag stones that someone sent me from the UK! I just adore them. They are very magical! This was a wonderful day, and I want to thank you for taking me along with you. I could almost smell the air! You found such wonderful treasures and everywhere you look is a picture postcard ... thank you for sharing this.
I'd call him Hagrid the hag stone.
That song in the beginning brings back school memories for me.
You tube.
Alison Kraus and YoYo Ma.
It's The Lord of The Dance.
So funny! I dont get to the beach often! But every time i have went, I have got 1 or 2! Didnt know till a couple.years ago what they were!! I love them so much!!❤
I think she looks like a Selma. Thank you for your wonderful videos.
Her: I've gone mad I'm Naming rocks
Me: wait not all people name there rocks
Did you see anyone in that door way when you was there... at minute 17:39 look in the entrance someone freaky appeared
I had to go back and look, eeeeek! Someone did walk by, perhaps that part is accessible from inside the castle?
i saw someone too.
This was such a fun trip! I can almost feel the cold fresh air. Thank you for bringing us along. And, for taking your time with the closeups.
What a wonderful surprise to see you on New Years Day! I look forward to seeing your adventures throughout 2020.
Happy New Year from Newmarket Ontario Canada!
22:11 rose quartz.
Horace looks like a stone-age button. In ancient times people will have used those stones as weights when spinning & weaving.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful outing with me on New Years Day 2020, a very happy new year to you.
It wasn't "an eerie part of the island"...IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!! You guys are so lucky to be able to travel to places such as that and to walk in the foot prints of such an amazing time in history. I'll just sit here in America and drool. I was so born in the wrong area :)