Beachcombing on historic island, finding Hag Stone fossils and revealing our competition winner!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 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!
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.
"I've gone mad, I'm naming rocks" HAHA that was so funny, you are adorable, love your video!
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
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!
I love how they are said to ward off witches but here I am a witch using is for luck
Lovely ladies, with beautiful voices. And lots of wonderful stones all around. I fell in love with that little pink one.
Didn't know what a hagstone was, but after watching this I realized I had one on my windowsill! Mine came from Lake Michigan.
Her sweet, enthusiastic and curious voice with each find, was so very pleasant to listen to! 💕
-said Texas girl, here...
The piece of coral fossil at 19:54 looks like Edvard Munch's The Scream! lol!
My thought exactly
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@@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
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.
I love the music!
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!
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!
At 25 mins...that Hag stone looks like a tiny version of the Easter Island monuments!😁
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.
Dang, I would have taken that RAD brick!
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
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 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 so would have found a way to retrieve that ship’s rudder.
My CheleSpace me too
Such an incredible piece of history!
The ghost stone should be "Casper the friendly hag stone". I think I'm going mad also.
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Thank you for sharing your adventure. It was lovely to go along with you.
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 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. ❤
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.
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.
I think his name is George Hagstone. And I loved hearing the old bells; what a beautiful sound!
The “must collect smooth rock” side of me is going crazy for your videos! I wouldn’t be able to hold back lol
the 'holy' stones would make excellent sinkers for fishing lines eh.
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 .
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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...🤗😘
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 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
I'd call my hagstone Rocky. 😂
That's what I was going to say! Lol!
I have one called Sharon
Hunting rocks ,one of my favorite things , to do . Thank you for the great walk on the shores of Bonnie Old Scotland .
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
Northumberland. Where my heart lies. ❤️
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
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
You have Such a soothing voice
Loved your video! Very informative. I’ve been to Holy Island twice. My father brought me there in 1981 for my 18 Th . My step Mom was from Morpeth originally but we were all from Canada. He named his yacht Lindisfarne ( moored in Florida and sailed in the Caribbean)after Holy Island as he loved it there. My second visit was in 1996 when I spread his ashes at the base of the castle very close to where you are larking. Thank you.💕from a friend in Canada.( P.S.One day I want to return for a visit again hopefully).
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!
I always bring home stones with holes, I'm obsessed. I have 2 on my bathroom light pull
I saw one that was defiantly an “Ethan”. Thank you so much for allowing me on your adventures😄
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.
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!
Herbert, Horatio, Hermione, Helflen, Hmm, what else? Else, Elsbeth, Ederer, Ponder. All that comes to mind now. Still thinking.
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.
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.
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?
My favorite part was the stones with eyes and faces.You could make really cool sculptures with them to put in your garden.
The rad brick is actually a Radcliffe brick from amble, we have a few different ones broomhill Radcliffe Ashington to name a few.
Happy New Year! Congratulations to Gayle! That Hag Stone reminds me of a Dalton. Thank you for another beautiful video! I was thinking Alex, that you're artistically talented in many ways. One such way is cinematography. Although that natural scenery is stunning, you have a way of letting the viewer feel as if they are there with you. I love it! The large fossil reminded be of a loofah sponge, though it's a terrestrial plant. My other thought was that it could be a sea fan. I'm sure someone of your viewers will tell us. Thank you for taking us on your quest for Hag Stones.
I love going on adventures with you! I think the stone looks like an Oliver, he's had too much figgy pudding! TFS Hugs!
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!
21:17 a perfect tiny heart in the rock! 😍
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.
Reckon they'd howl to high heaven if thrown by a sling.
It seems that pet rocks are in fashion again. Truely magic.
I must get some Hag Stones to hang from my balcony, perhaps with macrame and driftwood. A fascinating adventure with charming hosts.
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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❤️
I had a stroke in July and could really use one for strength...I absolutely love your videos..you two are so adorable
22:11 rose quartz.
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'.
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
Well done, Gayle! Happy New Year, Mudlarks!!!
13:42 Cambrian fossil coral 540 to 490 million years old (That was difficult one to research lol)
Brian Ferris nah
Love the rocks and scenes . Happy new year 🇦🇺
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)
WOW! that is great. And there is a fossil. You are going great guns already. Tons of fossils, beautiful. Tumbled if you have one, they would be great. And lots of red, pink and other colors off small rocks. WOW! I am heart broken.
When we were kids we called them fairy stones, if u wore them you could attract a fairy for a talk and be safe.
@25:37 the stone looks like Charlie Brown's Halloween costume, lol. Happy New Year! Congrats to Gayle for winning the jar. The last Hag Stone looks like a smaller version of a potato, so I think he/she should be called Mr/Mrs/Ms Potato Stone. Very fun video, thanks.
“What shall we call it?”
Well, Rocky, of course!
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 ❤️
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.
I think it is beautiful, and the time spent as mother daughter is even more so. 💗
I'd call him Hagrid the hag stone.
Congrats on the great fossils and hag stones! Im always on the look out for hag stones but have yet to find one. Cheers!!
One can make an interesting "stone curtain" with the stones.
Hello .that's a wonderful idea ! Happy New Year to you.
@@metaldetectingenglandok
I've always loved rocks. I hold them and wonder where and how they originated. They hold a fascination and a mystery. I would go absolutely nuts there! I'd have to hire a huge truck to carry them home for me! (And I go crazy when you pass up fascinating stones on river beaches because you're looking for something other than stones.)
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!🎉
Some day... Ill see these beautiful shores. Thank you for sharing them with us.
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.
You two are adorable! What lovey people. I couldn't believe it when you put back the stone that looked like the character from Edvard Munck's Scream painting! That was such a find!
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.
Holy Molly, plenty of beautiful rocks on the Holy Island. I'll go crazy there. I love rocks!
Take some of that corel home and put them in an oversized brandy snifter.
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! 👱🏼♀️
Her: I've gone mad I'm Naming rocks
Me: wait not all people name there rocks
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!!❤
19:57 tabulate fossil coral Devonian
Tabulatae favosa favosites were a common colony table coral
Happy New Year ladies. I hope this new year brings you many great treasures. The first treasure is setting there in that beautiful historical site with your Mom, You have found greatness many Holly stones. Congrats. You know you can run wire in the middle of those pipe end and make very awesome charms/ necklace. Yes, soon as I saw it I thought it looked just like a little kitten paw print. WOW, what a great day, I hope you went in the Castle, I would love to see inside. I would give anything to be able to walk w/o pain. Sam is the name I see. LOL