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Rev Peter is likely 100% correct, apart from Canterbury that you mention in Kent the Cathedral at Rochester Kent also has Sarsens as does my local church at Upchurch & the neighbouring Church in the next village. These stones do not appear in the general landscape as North Kent is on heavy clay so the Sarsen were brought in from another area.

Sarsen stones are common in Kent churches also, in the foundations and as graveyard boundary markers, one in each corner. I also think they denote pre-Christian burial or pagan worship sites that were later adopted by the church

Simply the world's first Biggus Dickus joke.

What 'clearly' makes the giant famous is the fact that he is 'rude'. His location close to the abbey makes that fact all the more interesting and although as the presenter points out nakedness is not uncommon in medieval Christian imagery (male and female 'Sheela-na-gigs') aren't those images meant to repel and serve as a warning to the onlooker? The giant is quite the opposite. So it seems obvious (and was mentioned in the video) that a dating of the phalus would clarify so many questions as to his original purpose and begs the question as to why such tests weren't carried out.

Amazing, thanks for publishing! I was not aware of this when I filmed my own take of him ua-cam.com/video/HchKOMWEBRQ/v-deo.html back in April. I am thinking of making another one about the Uffington white horse and am looking for professionals I could discuss the iron-age findings at Letcombe Bassett with to see if more light could be shed on the creation of the horse. Any ideas who I could talk to would be much appreciated.

Thank you for a very informative video I’ve often wondered about the age of the giant like most people I thought pre history, but Anglo Saxon that’s an eye opener well done

What a fascinating presentation! Thank you so very much for publishing this, so I could "attend" the lecture over here in southern middle Tennessee. I find the chalk figures so interesting, and this lecture actually addressed on of the questions I've had for decades: how have the lines shifted over time, as they've been re-chalked at different times by different people. I find the dating methods to be fascinating, and I'm now convinced the figure and the abbey are contemporary. As far as "identifying" the giant, is there a possibility he might be a local saint? I obviously know very little about the area and its history. Again, I'm thrilled to see this presentation, which I will definitely share with those in my circle who may be interested. Thank you!

This sansen stone or watt ever you want call is not just stone, this ar calling dolmens and was bariol site were the body wass cremated or lett in side to prevented animals feed ther self ,I no watt I touk tokin about the ar undred and undred in Sardinia and watt is founding in UK the ar spoke remain from Wen the all the country wass still attaching toughedar milion and million years ago.

Interesting talk, many thanks for uploading it. But there seem to be a huge number of ads inserted into this recording. Maybe because it has been split into many chapters?

TWO ROCKS.. REPRESENTING..INCESTS OR ANIMALS..ONE IS LOOKING EAST..THE OTHER IS LOOKING WEST..AND BOTH ROCKS ARE CUT NEAR THEIR HEADS..

What a great talk - and superbly well illustrated. I wonder if there are any techniques or markers to recognise which quarry/location specific stones come from

Excellent

Learned loads. Thank You 👍👍👍👍👍

FUN FACT - 40% of the world's DOLMEN are HERE, in South Korea. Question remains: WHY ?????

Jolly good fun thanks for sharing Re. Your list of ? at the conclusion: Any time served stonemason/builder could answer all those questions in a sentence. Im over educated but worked on my 500 year old house with 3 foot walls so had to work with ‘bastard granite’ which is so hard it doesn’t cleave and lived in a landscape of glacial boulders and erratics. Most had been rolled down hill and used or sold… it was the ones left alone which were most interesting… there were reasons why handy large 2-5 ton boulders were left I lived on a prehistoric trackway with megaliths and finds so there had been plenty of time for anyone to use these stones in nearby stonewalls, road or house foundations and small bridges and generally quarried - as I say the ones left behind in such a busy albeit very remote landscape have messages to illustrate history. All best for a fab talk

An important discussion about the bones of England. Future talks that involve more dating and classification of prehistoric and neolithic stone sites (and more discussion of the human remains sometimes found at these sites) would be eagerly anticipated, I'm sure.

Wow. Academics waffle on.

This is an excellent talk. Much food for thought. Fascinating and so clearly prexented

Got to love local history

Excellent informative overview of research fields, both local and national, for anyone interested in researching history,