Hidden Landscapes: Prehistoric Dartmoor

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  • Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
  • Dartmoor is best known for its wild and beautiful landscape, but it’s also amazingly rich in the relics of past inhabitants, especially from prehistory. But many of these archaeological remains are hidden in the landscape and difficult to spot.
    Join expert Win Scutt as he explores three prehistoric sites on Dartmoor in English Heritage’s care - Grimspound, Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement and the Upper Plym Valley - and explains what they tell us about life on the moor thousands of years ago.
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  • @clogs4956
    @clogs4956 Рік тому +14

    Everyone seems to focus on Stonehenge, which is understandable, but there are prehistoric monuments in many other places, many more spectacular.
    I love the Avebury area, but I’ve never walked Dartmoor. One for the bucket list!

  • @pennyroberts8763
    @pennyroberts8763 Рік тому +5

    Dartmoor after Exmoor are my favourite National Park to visit

  • @isaiahxp9185
    @isaiahxp9185 Рік тому +3

    A perfect upload for this Wodensday. God bless.

  • @yfgub
    @yfgub Рік тому +2

    No campfires was my memory of Dartmoor.

  • @Hana-su7zg
    @Hana-su7zg 9 місяців тому +1

    Wow, what a great little video! I have lived near Dartmoor for some 15 years but been so preoccupied with other stuff in my life that its only now, age 53, (and carless, too!)that I became obsessed with it and do all I can to get myself out there, bus, train and foot, exploring. Loved this video as a great example to show to my friends. Its never too late, don't let obstacles stop you, if Dartmoor is calling you, follow the call, you will be amazed and it gets better and better!

    • @MsGnor
      @MsGnor 7 місяців тому +1

      @Hana-su7zg thanks for your inspiring comment! You sold Dartmoor to me. I bet you get great stars out there! Keep shining & thriving 🥰💖✨

    • @Hana-su7zg
      @Hana-su7zg 7 місяців тому +1

      @@MsGnor Thank you, same to you, I'm glad you got inspired 🤩

  • @jpbaley2016
    @jpbaley2016 Рік тому

    Simply amazing!

  • @WeltonSan1
    @WeltonSan1 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic stones....🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏

  • @philipmurphy2
    @philipmurphy2 Рік тому

    Wonderful stones 👍

  • @annickmorin5796
    @annickmorin5796 Рік тому +3

    Wonderful ! Thanck you, for all of these very good explications ! I love these stones coming from an old time and another world...

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Рік тому

    Thanks.

  • @c.w.1827
    @c.w.1827 Рік тому

    ...sehr schön...👍🙂

  • @OntarioAtOrion
    @OntarioAtOrion 5 місяців тому

    When i went on an exchange in High school, we stayed in Plymouth and visited a bridge made of huge stones. They said it was the oldest bridge in England, or the Uk maybe... it was in the Moors i think...

  • @AR-mu4zq
    @AR-mu4zq Місяць тому

    So did they clear away the trees to build these or was the forest present all around these monuments?

  • @Kratos-005
    @Kratos-005 Рік тому

    I think Stonehenge is ritual as well imo.

  • @katherinelydon7306
    @katherinelydon7306 Рік тому +1

    Did I just see Heathcliff and Kathy?!

    • @MsGnor
      @MsGnor 7 місяців тому

      @katherinelydon7306 😂

  • @mccypr
    @mccypr Рік тому

    😎

  • @cindymichaud7111
    @cindymichaud7111 Рік тому +1

    Why were the forests not restored?

    • @PartlySunny74
      @PartlySunny74 Рік тому +2

      Good question!
      Eroded due to poor soil and forest management for centuries upon centuries and grazing animals still on the windswept high moors. Trees are in the valleys.

  • @combatwombat71
    @combatwombat71 4 місяці тому

    Such a shame drones are banned from taking off or landing on Dartmoor. So many potentially amazing birds eye pictures and video that could be used to educate and inform future generations. Such a shame.

  • @toocutepuppies6535
    @toocutepuppies6535 Рік тому +1

    I can't ever look at these rocks layed out except as "Flintstones" houses. There were probably a lot of Betty's, Barney's and Dinos wandering around Europe!

  • @KiwiGraggle
    @KiwiGraggle Місяць тому

    I think what we see in the UK, is bits and bites of what was here before, remnants of a far supreme civilisation that was not primarily in the Northern Hemisphere.
    This civilisation, well obviously got wiped out or left, or a combination of the both. So what we see in places like Britain, is little bits and remnants of what came after, and the few left with bits of knowledge.
    The people and civilisation that came after my Ancestors, a story and truth that is not told to you by the way, were remnants of that great civilisation and it is those people who produced what are to me crude stone circles in order to gain the energy from them. This has been going on for donkeys years, thousands and thousands of years before you lot came along, and what we see as I say in the UK, are crude examples of a once great civilisation that was housed in the Southern Hemisphere and for which pretty much ran everything as one.
    Britains history is great, but it is far far behind that of Egypt, Latin America, the Pacific and I wish the British would stop trying to compete with that, because it is a different peoples and time era that came after the great ones.
    So its not as special as you think. They are arranged in circles, for spiritual and energy gathering. Quite crude constructions, wayward and thousands of years behind, to what was once here before.

  • @samchapple6363
    @samchapple6363 Рік тому

    And yet now, few trees. They do grow on their own, the landscape says climate change.

    • @lokischeissmessiah5749
      @lokischeissmessiah5749 Рік тому +3

      No. The landscape says animal agriculture. Grazers eat tree saplings. It's the same on all moorland in the UK where sheep are raised.

    • @samchapple6363
      @samchapple6363 Рік тому

      @@lokischeissmessiah5749 did King John tell you that? 😂 the climate has everything to do with it along with humans bringing the grazers in, what, 800 years ago causing soil compaction. Better then peasants though 😁