Mysteries of the Stone Age: Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments I SHORT DOCUMENTARY I Stone Circles 4K
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A big thank you to Elsa Price and Marnie Calvert for their contribution to this video! Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery: www.tulliehouse.co.uk/
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A short documentary, created alongside a new book titled 'Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments'. Adam Ibbotson invites you to explore a world sculpted by ancient hands.
Britain’s megalithic monuments offer a unique glimpse into the lives and religious customs of Europe’s earliest settled communities. They are the remnants of the cultures that inhabited the British Isles during two distinct periods: the Neolithic, and the Bronze Age. Times of rapid innovation, these eras, spanning between 4000 BC and 700 BC, could be considered a prehistoric golden age of sorts. It was during this golden age, thousands of years before Roman sandals touched British shores, that some of Europe’s most iconic monuments were created.
Many people are unaware that the best-preserved examples of such monuments, such as stone circles, cairns, and passage tombs, exist at Britain’s extremities. Among such areas are Cornwall, Scotland, Western Ireland, Wales, and as shown in this short film - Cumbria.
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My animation (at 9 minutes) incorrectly shows the Beaker Culture emerging in Spain, and spreading east.
The Beaker Culture emerged from the 'Corded Ware Culture' of Eastern Europe. Not Spain!
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amazing thankyou so much
The algorithm gave me that newer video, which led me back to this one.
I am Leah’s in awe of the accomplishments of the people of that time period. Thank you.
I enjoyed this so much. I had never really appreciated the differences between the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, or the probable reasons why. This account was really insightful. One thinks of Cumbria as an inhospitable area, yet there are so many prehistoric monuments there, and so much evidence that people who lived there traded widely even so long ago. Wonderful video, thank you.
Lovely production. Nice to see something specifically on the Cumbrian sites. Such a magical place.
Well worth watching, clear, and interesting. Cumbria’s a fascinating place to be, with so much as yet uncovered.
Very impressed by the quality of this documentary. Well done indeed.
I am 83..my school cross-country route was close to the Birkrigg Circle.
Thanks for the video. Interesting and well done.
your voice is made for this! amazing quality! please keep making docus!
Love the video. Amazing stones circle. Love to visit this place.
Fantastic video! I really love seeing evidence for the early migrations of our ancestors! ❤
Excellent video. I'd love to see more like it. You have a real knack for educational content.
Wow, amazing. Thanks for the informative video.
Really well done and very interesting and informative - thank you very much!
Thanks Susan!
May I suggest my new book: www.amazon.co.uk/Cumbrias-Prehistoric-Monuments-Morgan-Ibbotson/dp/0750996684/ref=zg_bs_276437_29?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MHFB0NRFE7DRX0V5XQN9
Woah production value is off the hook my guy! Great work
Me and my friends visited Long Meg and Castlerigg in July last year. I loved both sites. it was a really cool experience
Incredible work, well done!
great doc!
Really interesting and professional. Thanks!
well worth a visit as unlike Stonehenge you can walk amongst them in beautiful countryside.
Cool place
Thankyou that was so interesting I live in the west coast of Scotland we have a lot of different things dotted around but Cumbria thar was brilliant
Great video
I am intrigued by the palaeolithic stone arrangements, carvings and cairns left by the indigenous peoples here in Australia. I wish there was more information available on the subject but the country is so huge (a map overlaid on Europe covers from Scotland to Turkey) so to find them is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack! I spent my first 30 years prospecting in remote areas of the Australian Outback, but unfortunately did not document the ones that I came across; they were just part of the landscape. Interestingly the Palaeolithic Era here lasted until less than a Century ago, so I did not know whether they were 100 or 10000 years old ! Now I wish I knew Archaeologists I could discuss them with !
Stone circles = sun cross = wheel in the sky that makes the seasons turn. When we were farmers who had to pay attention to the seasons or we die.
would of been nice to see the Tullie House stones....I've visited all the sites shown, but never been able to get into the museum. Excellent film though.
I recommend a visit. It’s a wonderful museum!
Monuments is there in khasi hills, Meghalaya state north East of india bordering with Bangladesh, I like to preserve this ancient monuments in my place.
Can we get more? Please?
Does anyone else think some of the stones look like teeth?
Smile like a Moonlit Graveyard.!!
Remarkable how those immensely heavy stones were lifted - No one has a clue how?
They must have been strong
Great video and excellent editing. I'm curious, what was the song that starts at 6:14?
Lack of music and picture credits!
2:35 Amazing they knew what ‘England’ was back then and also to avoid Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall. Bonkers!
Well, ‘England’ as we understand it. They waited a short while before venturing into Scotland.
Is that castlerigg at 0:43? Just been there this week if so!
It certainly is!
Clearly, that second hand-axe is made by a man of giant proportions. Basically, giants of ol were there. Making all kinds of earthworks
Nah
It's funny how "Langdale" translate directly from Danish: "lang dal" mening: "long walley" Gotta be named by vikings or saxons.
There’s a Norse ‘ting mound’ in Langdale, so no doubts there.
You're right, you could throw a dart at a map of Cumbria and find something with a viking name.
The great sacking of the North, wiped out much of the viking history but its still there to be found if you know where to look.
Interestingly, many here still use the word "marra" (friend or mate) when greeting one another.
The thing that remains a mystery to me are the various rhyme schemes that were used by shepherd's to count (Yan, Tan, Tethra...) Each region in Cumbria has its own version but it's very hard to say whether the origin of such rhymes are Viking, Celtic or something else entirely.
@@liberatumplox625: Wikipedia - 'The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the Industrial Revolution, especially in the fells of the Lake District.'
They maybe corals to gather animals in ?
Possibly. Though they aren’t any use as enclosures as they have gaps. And why built such a simple thing out of massive boulders?
mesolithic = the age of Leo, in the platonic great year.
patung2 megalitik ada 17 biji.
Where are these seventeen please! places, names, positions.. Would be very grateful for your insight..
Thank you.. Blessings from my heart to yours ❤️🙏🙏🙏
Ellie of Britainia
What strikes me is how late-developing this part of the world was, compared to the Fertile Crescent. People were drinking beer pubs and munching on dates in Eridu nearly 2,000 years before the earliest of these monuments were built.
The area was heavily forested until a heatwave struck the middle east. People fleeing that deforested most of Europe, obviously landing in Britain / Scandinavia last
All the same you would've thought there would've been clearances. We know there were paleolithic and mesolithic communities, not least at Stonehenge. Maybe there's a different way to think about it. Maybe there was a resistance to so called development. Especially when you think of the teams that would've been involved in shifting stones and especially if "temples" were being sold as a "religious" thing.
As for farming, .Again, you would think there would've been clearances but maybe they simply didn't feel the need if the forests provided a comfortable living.. Like Forest living communities today.
@@AdamMorganIbbotsoncan you explain this more? I’m interested.
@@xtramail4909 well, it’s just one theory, and quite a “deterministic” one at that (i.e, it relies on one determining factor). The idea is that droughts in the fertile crescent, specifically modern Turkey, inspired people to slowly migrate up through Europe, before landing in France / Spain / Britain. It’s got a few holes in it though - so I would suggest reading a number of explanations and deciding yourself!
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saya msh menyimpan patung2 megalitik.primitif java. peninggalan dari seorang belanda di java..adakah yg berminat .
90% just died????
Buried under all of that mud,that dropped from the skies.
"Prehistoric communities ... BEGUN..." ???? Or am I just misunderstanding?
Can you elaborate?
subsaharan africans still lived in the mesolithic stone age in 1930 and would still do without contact with the northern hemisphere colons. They should be considered stone age people even today across the world.
bla, bla, bla.....
It's "began" not "begun" and "lie" not "lay".
I do say "began". I just have a beautiful, sultry north-western English accent.
Your assumptions about religion and "god" stem from the Abrahamic religion of the middle east. Our Neolithic ancestors know shamanism as their spiritual guide, which is not a religion.
Eh? There’s little evidence either way. I simply state it’s unknown.
It’s likely that the sun was worshiped to some extent, as sites from the Late Neolithic often align to the solstices.
Plus, later Bronze Age and Iron Age religions, way before the arrival of Christianity, had a pantheon of gods. More Indo-European than Abahamic.
Abrahamic religion came thousands of years after these people found spiritual significance in everything around them.
They worshipped the sun. The stone circles are the wheel in the sky that makes the seasons turn… they are the first cross symbolism.
Typical... looking at objects purely on their value, looking for what resonates with themselves (status and money) instead of walking in the shoes of the ancients and understanding what was valuable to them. All things was Spiritual, gods abounded and live in the rocks and the land, the plants contained living invisible creatures, securing rock from a Sacred mountain where the gods lived would have been much more important than the status of having a shiny rock, a axe that contained the living consciousness of a God and would embue strength and good luck in use was far more important.
People were, as we are today, only human.
To romanticise their monument’s existence as purely "spiritual" is to miss their purpose entirely.
WoWza... This is profound.. Thank you so much for sharing..
Thank you for the" Reminder ".
Much gratitude, wasn't it once written..
".We must live in this world to achieve our eternal destination"..
Blessings from my heart to yours ♥️🙏🙏🙏
Ellie of Britainia
The heavy axe head is probably too big for you, but a 6.5ft, 30 stone neolithic warrior man, it's nothing.
It was probably used to cut down heavy tree trunks or dig deep trenches for building foundations or many other reasons.
If you are going to analyse ancient tools used by men, you need to think like a man.
Ooh, you’re hard. 😂