Moorish Megalith Meander | Scorhill Stone Circle | Kestor Stone Rows | Dartmoor April 2023 Part 3/3
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The final part of my April 2023 trip to Datmoor: an early morning walk from Buttern Hill Stone Circle (where I camped the previous night) to Chagford, via Scorhill Stone Circle and Kestor Stone Rows.
Great set of videos and looks like you had a great camp.
Btw it didn't take as much effort as you think to move the stones because they were all done before Issac Newton invented gravity 👍🙂
🤣 Makes perfect sense Tony!
Thankyou really enjoyed all 3 videos very informative and interesting . I hope your foot has recovered.
The country charm of that village is something out of a Fairytale. I actually wear a small 2,500 year old bronze ring on a leather necklace. And I absolutely love the Tolkien reference in those very Hobbit like places. Really loved watching this adventure this morning before I start my day here. Cheers! 🎩☕🌳🌲🌿🌾
I seem to have started with the last one! Your camera does a great job of capturing the atmosphere of Dartmoor - it really does look appealing. I must make the effort to go there someday. Now I'd better find the other 2.
Oh I think you probably caught the best of it and I wouldn't necessarily urge you to watch the other two!
@@tweedyoutdoors too late! Watching The Tor of Tors as I type!
Stunning, I’m going to Dartmoor in September, choosing which stone circles to see is interesting. To many to choose from 😊
Yes, so many to choose from! I think this area I was in has a good cluster, and you could in theory see 4 or 5 stone circles in one day. But every time I go to Dartmoor I'm surprised by how long it can take to walk seemingly short distances. It probably helps if you aren't carrying a big heavy backpack full of wine and ingredients to make lasagne!
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Very nice scenery Tweedy. Amazing what was going on in the Bronze Age. I guess back then it was the Celts who inhabited UK? The stone circles are quite fascinating. UK has an awesome history. Cheers Dave 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
Thanks Dave! There seems to be some debate about who exactly count as Celts and when exactly they arrived in the UK, so maybe yes, at least for some part of the Bronze Age, but possibly the Iron Age was more their heyday... but then the people who came before are sometimes referred to as Proto-Celts so you could argue it was all a continuation of the same culture.
I must make the effort to explore Dartmoor at some point, I have always favoured Exmoor over it in the past. Another enjoyable series of video's the Ideal accompaniment to my supper of cheese on toast washed down with a couple of glasses of cider ! 🍻
It has also been largely a cider sort of weekend for me, I visited my Dad after the Dartmoor trip yesterday, and he makes his own, which I think is very good.
I haven't been to Exmoor for a long time, and I am quite keen to get back, I even considered that for a while instead of this trip to Dartmoor. I think what swung the decision in the end was that Dartmoor is a bit easier by public transport, especially now Okehampton station is back in operation. Plus of course the freedom to wild camp on most of Dartmoor... but there is definitely something different and quite magical about Exmoor and I would like to go again.
Done it, watched all three. Thanks for a very interesting series of videos. No Nasty Pasty in Chagford ? 👍
Thanks for watching Ysgolgerlan, sorry it was quite long by the time all three parts were added up - I had already left about half of the original footage on the virtual cutting room floor. I think I need to get even more ruthless with the editing in future!
I ended up having beans on toast in Chagford, which was a bit at odds with my image of it being the "posh" town on Dartmoor, but that was what was on offer in the cafe I went to and I was quite happy with it.
I do sometimes wonder if some of the stone circles were made just out of practicality, with no mysticism, magic or gods in mind but just a homely place for family and friends? They could support windbreaks akin to sheep hurdles that would be long lost to archeologists by now. We've all seen windbreaks on the beach, why not a more grand version on the moors? And I'll work on a more grown up rhyme pattern just as soon as I work out how to do line spacing in comments on my cheap Android! Thank you for sharing your fine endeavors Squire. The "lichen subscribe" joke was so bad it made my day. 😁
That does sound like a very plausible theory! Given how changeable - and extreme - the weather can be on the moor it would make sense for ancient people farming the land to build some kind of refuges / shelters... and I suppose on parts of the moor where wood was scarce, the seemingly huge effort of dragging massive rocks around starts to seem less excessive...?
@@tweedyoutdoors The effort (of moving big rocks) is less excessive in the long term, moving the wood (from afar) seasonally is easy. There's no place like home...
For clarification purposes, you are 5' 11". I doubt that 'DC Megalith' was over 9ft though. Looked like just over 7ft.
I Googled around just now and megalithic.co.uk, where it is referred to as the Longstone (Shovel Down), lists it as 10 feet 5 inches (3.175 metres), other sites say even taller than that (3.4 metres). It's not perfectly straight though so I'm not sure what the protocol is there for measuring the height....? The GoPro lens might also distort the sense of distance a bit? Plus I tend to stoop a bit, especially when carrying a heavy backpack!
@@tweedyoutdoors That must be the full height, including the buried bit.
@@TimHudspith Ah yes I forgot about the bit underground!
What a beautiful part of the world! Lovely country lanes, and great commentary, Mr Tweedy.
Thanks Jarlath! The walk along those country lanes to Chagford was a surprise highlight of this trip, I really enjoyed it.