Tweedy, I'm enjoying your food and wine reviews as much as the walking. As for the location of Avebury: We know Stonehenge is significant for solar reasons, but Avebury is astronomically aligned. Avebury is also one of the ancient temples of the world positioned on exact longitudinal fractions. Giza is unusual in that it is at 1/3rd (30 degrees) of the 90 degree quadrant (equator to pole). Other notable sites appear at fractions of 1/7th of the 90 degree quadrant. Thebes (in Egypt) is 2/7ths (25.7 deg) Delphi is 3/7ths (38.5 deg) Avebury is 4/7ths (51.42 deg) or 360/7 To be more exact, 360/7 is 51.42857 Check the location of the center of Avebury in any online map that shows lat-long coordinates.
Yes Avebury is a fascinating place. Although it must be nigh on twelve years since I travelled to Avebury with two of my friends. We visited the overpriced tourist trap that is Stonehenge in the morning, and then visited Avebury which is a lovely place indeed. Whilst driving back to London we stopped off for a quiet moment in the dusk to gaze upon Silbury Hill. Now I was not wearing tweed, I was wearing a navy blue corduroy suit. Seeing your video @Tweedy Outdoors has inspired me to make a return to Avebury.
That was indeed uplifting John. A fabulous mini-adventure, topped off with a stunning sunrise. You captured a lovely atmosphere at a wonderful place and at a special time of year 😃
Thanks Cara, yes everything worked out really well on this trip. I've had plenty of sunrises / sunsets at Avebury where the sun wasn't even visible... but not this time!
Thanks, Tweedy but be careful................ According to folklore, a hawthorn tree was the abode of fairies and stood at the threshold of the Otherworld. The rules were quite clear: anyone who cut down a fairy tree was doomed to perish. Although branches were gathered on May Day, they were never brought inside a house at any other time. And if you sat under a hawthorn tree, you were only asking for trouble Thomas the Rhymer, a 13th-century Scottish poet, is reputed to have encountered the Fairy Queen by a hawthorn bush from which a cuckoo was calling. He was led into the Otherworld for what seemed like a short time, but when he was allowed back into the land of mortals he found that he’d been away for seven years.
Thank you for that fascinating insight into the folklore around hawthorn trees! I've always had a very positive feeling around them, and they often do have a magical, other worldly appearance to them. This spot in particular, which I've been to several times before, always feels very welcoming. Of course I left no trace of my visit, and I hope I haven't bothered any beings which might dwell there.
Another great vid thought of going to Avebury to watch the sun rise but went to st Catherine s hill instead lovely it was came home and watched you and felt like id been to both places i love Avebury thanks for posting keep em coming cheers
This completes a (stone) circle for me, as it was your 2022 Autumn Equinox video that introduced me to the unlikely prospect of a bloke in tweeds wild camping, cooking elaborate meals and drinking wine. Keep it up. My Equinox hike this year only took in one barrow and a rather degraded hillfort (although I did also score an obelisk, haunted well and cathedral - you take what you can get ).
Tweedy follows in the footsteps of our ancient ancestors, down through the centuries humans will have travelled to these sites to witness the Autumn Equinox, but how many will have seen such a marvellous sunrise. Very pleased to see the one pan cooking and wine review back again Five stars!
You had a sausage roll on you all that time? That wouldnt have lasted five minutes with me. The bank of earth at Swallow Head springs must be artificial, possibly agricultural but just a few yards on the other side was a Roman ladder settlement that ran parallel to it and ran up to Silbury hill. I would love for there to be some sort of culvert coming down from that settlement to SH Springs, but that would be wishful thinking. Windmill Hill: if it was defensive it is no wonder the Neolithic folk were royally booted out. Important things were carefully placed in organised ways in the ditches, so-don’t tell Darren-ritual. Definately probably.
I thought I had recorded some footage of me dithering over whether or not to eat that sausage roll on Windmill Hill, but it seems to have got lost somehow. Perhaps we could have called that experimental archaeology? Given that I ultimately decided against it I feel that would help to rule out any possible suggestion that the causewayed enclosure had been built as a venue in which to consume savoury pastry products. I hope that helps.
Hi. Another fascinating video with lots of interesting information .It`s interesting to speculate on the origins and reasons for these stones and why these locations were chosen .As we can`t go back and look into the minds of the people at that time, speculation is all we have got, although I think the general consensus is that it involved spirituality and religion .By the way it`s good to see your subscriber numbers are going up as more people discover your great channel.
Great explore tweedy 😊 you always eat so well on a camp it definitely puts me to shame 😅 and what a perfect sunrise definitely worth the early start to catch it, best time of the day 😊
Thanks Yasmin! My camping meals are definitely a bit over the top sometimes, and there are times, usually 8 or 9 miles into a walk, when I start to wish I had just kept things simple and brought along a dehydrated pouch meal!
Silbury hill is technically a pyramid. They can tell from pollen which month construction started but not which year. If my memory is correct it was built in just over twenty years.
It's fascinating isn't it? I see several different estimates on the web about the number of man hours involved, ranging from 4 million to 18 million... but yes, depending on how many workers were involved, that could have been achieved in something like 20 years... Or I think I read one theory that it might have been a multi generational project, done in dribs and drabs over potentially centuries.
@@tweedyoutdoors In my youth we climbed over the tiny fence and went up silbury hill. I'm amazed that it was built at all. It's not just the manpower needed to fashion and move the massive stones but all the people needed to feed and water them. Our ancestors must have been well organised.
Happy Fall Equanox and what an absolutely magical place and experience! I would have definitely preferred the stones and circles of Avebury and the quiet atmosphere there. Absolutely awesome way of welcoming the magical season. Cheers Tweedy! 🎩🌄🍁🍁🍁🍷
Happy Equinox to you too Jamie! I was so fortunate with everything on this trip - the weather, the beautiful skies, the sunset / sunrise, the camping spot being free - even the trains worked well!
What a peice, Mr Tweed. A) I missed the pemiere, perhaps I should turn on notifications, though I don't want to feel all "Tiktok" about this! B) I have no words! Perhaps a slight relief for those comment cruisers out there. * Proceeds to mumble something about the antiquated gods of old fabric, at midnight, or whatever* Thank you. Those "proceeds to mumble" were a reference to me, not you, my good sir.
Thanks AFT! Sorry I didn't give much notice for the premiere, partly I am always impatient to get these videos out there as soon as I'm done editing (and they've finished uploading / processing, which adds a few hours). In particular with this one I wanted to get it out on the day of the equinox as somehow that felt more poignant. I similarly seemed to experience a paucity of words while filming this video - when watching this back I started to notice how many times I said "evocative". At the risk of over analysing I suspect I kept using that word because of its useful vagueness - it suggests a place evokes _something_ but I either don't know or don't want to say what. I love the brief conversations I often have with other people at Avebury, typically initiated by them looking curiously at my out-of-place clothes and trying to figure out why I'm there. I don't generally provide them with satisfactory answers because I'm not sure I know either. While I'm usually typically reserved and English "it's quite pleasant here isn't it?", they often use very different language to describe the experience - "it's a very grounding energy" was one I heard yesterday.
Thanks for sharing a lovely experience and giving us the benefit of your knowledge of early British history. I'm glad the weather was kind to you, giving us those wonderful cloud formations as a backdrop on day 1. The equinox sunrise was fantastic.
Thanks John! I was very fortunate with the weather - light rain for about 5 minutes at the start of the walk and that was it. Sometimes these trips really don't go to plan but this time it felt like everything just fell into my lap!
Thanks for the video, I will go as far as to say it was quite beautifully shot. It really is a magical, mysterious place. I would love to camp underneath that Hawthorn tree. And finally - thanks for the Red Nose ending. 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! I was really pleased with the footage from this trip. I can't really take the credit for it though - Avebury was the star here and all I really did was show up and point the camera at it! I wasn't deliberately trying to position the lens flare that resulted in the red nose! In the thumbnail for the video I also seem to have ended up with a kind of ear ring!
Some lovely landscape imagery there Tweedy, Your meal made me feel nostalgic, sadly gnocchi does not agree with me anymore for some reason 🤷♂ the joys of ageing I suppose .
Thanks Garry! Sorry to hear about the gnocchi issue - that's quite interesting though as it's such a simple thing (just potato and flour as far as I can tell). I have made my own from scratch a couple of times but that seemed a bit too much effort / mess for a camping meal. I wonder if there might be some additives in these store bought ones or something to do with the way they're processed which is the problem?
@@tweedyoutdoors You could be right Tweedy, some shop bought pastas have a similar effect, but I fear gnoccchi is forever linked in my mind with horrendous gastrointestinal effects and I dare not eat it again for fear of a repeat experience !
Tweedy, I'm enjoying your food and wine reviews as much as the walking.
As for the location of Avebury: We know Stonehenge is significant for solar reasons, but Avebury is astronomically aligned. Avebury is also one of the ancient temples of the world positioned on exact longitudinal fractions. Giza is unusual in that it is at 1/3rd (30 degrees) of the 90 degree quadrant (equator to pole). Other notable sites appear at fractions of 1/7th of the 90 degree quadrant.
Thebes (in Egypt) is 2/7ths (25.7 deg)
Delphi is 3/7ths (38.5 deg)
Avebury is 4/7ths (51.42 deg) or 360/7
To be more exact, 360/7 is 51.42857
Check the location of the center of Avebury in any online map that shows lat-long coordinates.
Tweedy, your simulation of an invading tribe may not have scared an enemy but it sure as heck frightened me. 😨
Yes Avebury is a fascinating place. Although it must be nigh on twelve years since I travelled to Avebury with two of my friends. We visited the overpriced tourist trap that is Stonehenge in the morning, and then visited Avebury which is a lovely place indeed. Whilst driving back to London we stopped off for a quiet moment in the dusk to gaze upon Silbury Hill. Now I was not wearing tweed, I was wearing a navy blue corduroy suit. Seeing your video @Tweedy Outdoors has inspired me to make a return to Avebury.
That was indeed uplifting John. A fabulous mini-adventure, topped off with a stunning sunrise. You captured a lovely atmosphere at a wonderful place and at a special time of year 😃
Thanks Giles, and great to hear from you! It was a great trip, and I was very fortunate that everything went my way for once!
That was brilliant, so glad your spot was free and the food looked so good. The sunrise really was amazing 😊
Thanks Cara, yes everything worked out really well on this trip. I've had plenty of sunrises / sunsets at Avebury where the sun wasn't even visible... but not this time!
Thanks, Tweedy but be careful................ According to folklore, a hawthorn tree was the abode of fairies and stood at the threshold of the Otherworld. The rules were quite clear: anyone who cut down a fairy tree was doomed to perish. Although branches were gathered on May Day, they were never brought inside a house at any other time. And if you sat under a hawthorn tree, you were only asking for trouble
Thomas the Rhymer, a 13th-century Scottish poet, is reputed to have encountered the Fairy Queen by a hawthorn bush from which a cuckoo was calling. He was led into the Otherworld for what seemed like a short time, but when he was allowed back into the land of mortals he found that he’d been away for seven years.
Thank you for that fascinating insight into the folklore around hawthorn trees! I've always had a very positive feeling around them, and they often do have a magical, other worldly appearance to them. This spot in particular, which I've been to several times before, always feels very welcoming. Of course I left no trace of my visit, and I hope I haven't bothered any beings which might dwell there.
Another great vid thought of going to Avebury to watch the sun rise but went to st Catherine s hill instead lovely it was came home and watched you and felt like id been to both places i love Avebury thanks for posting keep em coming cheers
Thank you for sharing the magical morning at the Autumn Equinox at Avebury! Love your videos. Gnochi dish looks delish, the wine looks good too!
Thank you Jackie, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
This completes a (stone) circle for me, as it was your 2022 Autumn Equinox video that introduced me to the unlikely prospect of a bloke in tweeds wild camping, cooking elaborate meals and drinking wine. Keep it up.
My Equinox hike this year only took in one barrow and a rather degraded hillfort (although I did also score an obelisk, haunted well and cathedral - you take what you can get ).
Thank you, and that sounds like a good hike to me!
Good to see you out and about again John , entertaining as usual .Thanks
Thanks Stuart! Yes it was really good to be back out again, and this time it really felt like everything fell into place.
Tweedy follows in the footsteps of our ancient ancestors, down through the centuries humans will have travelled to these sites to witness the Autumn Equinox, but how many will have seen such a marvellous sunrise.
Very pleased to see the one pan cooking and wine review back again
Five stars!
Thanks Jim! Yes it just felt like all the stars were in alignment and everything fell into place on this trip.
You had a sausage roll on you all that time? That wouldnt have lasted five minutes with me. The bank of earth at Swallow Head springs must be artificial, possibly agricultural but just a few yards on the other side was a Roman ladder settlement that ran parallel to it and ran up to Silbury hill. I would love for there to be some sort of culvert coming down from that settlement to SH Springs, but that would be wishful thinking.
Windmill Hill: if it was defensive it is no wonder the Neolithic folk were royally booted out. Important things were carefully placed in organised ways in the ditches, so-don’t tell Darren-ritual. Definately probably.
I thought I had recorded some footage of me dithering over whether or not to eat that sausage roll on Windmill Hill, but it seems to have got lost somehow. Perhaps we could have called that experimental archaeology? Given that I ultimately decided against it I feel that would help to rule out any possible suggestion that the causewayed enclosure had been built as a venue in which to consume savoury pastry products. I hope that helps.
@@tweedyoutdoors Windmill Hill could be considered pizza-shaped, perhaps baked goods may have featured in their decision-making after all?
@AllotmentFox I’ll accept the ritual with regards the ditch goods!
Very interesting. I have only just found this it popped up on my UA-cam so I have subscribed after watching . Keep up the great work 👍
Thank you, and glad you found it interesting. Thanks for subscribing!
Hi. Another fascinating video with lots of interesting information .It`s interesting to speculate on the origins and reasons for these stones and why these locations were chosen .As we can`t go back and look into the minds of the people at that time, speculation is all we have got, although I think the general consensus is that it involved spirituality and religion .By the way it`s good to see your subscriber numbers are going up as more people discover your great channel.
Thank you! Yes I agree, it is always going to be speculation, but I find it fascinating to ponder these things!
Lovely film. Has inspired my wife and I to try something similar.
Thanks JD, and I'm really pleased to hear it has provided some inspiration!
Great explore tweedy 😊 you always eat so well on a camp it definitely puts me to shame 😅 and what a perfect sunrise definitely worth the early start to catch it, best time of the day 😊
Thanks Yasmin! My camping meals are definitely a bit over the top sometimes, and there are times, usually 8 or 9 miles into a walk, when I start to wish I had just kept things simple and brought along a dehydrated pouch meal!
Great Video, we were there yesterday, love your dinner and the review of the wine 😅
I hope you had a great time too Claire! We were really lucky with the weather weren't we?
Lovely filming John, and the reference to Keith Floyd's camera man Clive North was wonderful .😄
Thanks John, and I'm glad you picked up on that reference!
Very nice video Tweedy. Nice meal and I love the sunrise 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
Thanks Dave, yes it was a great sunrise and I'm really glad that came across on camera!
Silbury hill is technically a pyramid. They can tell from pollen which month construction started but not which year. If my memory is correct it was built in just over twenty years.
It's fascinating isn't it? I see several different estimates on the web about the number of man hours involved, ranging from 4 million to 18 million... but yes, depending on how many workers were involved, that could have been achieved in something like 20 years... Or I think I read one theory that it might have been a multi generational project, done in dribs and drabs over potentially centuries.
@@tweedyoutdoors
In my youth we climbed over the tiny fence and went up silbury hill. I'm amazed that it was built at all. It's not just the manpower needed to fashion and move the massive stones but all the people needed to feed and water them. Our ancestors must have been well organised.
Happy Fall Equanox and what an absolutely magical place and experience! I would have definitely preferred the stones and circles of Avebury and the quiet atmosphere there. Absolutely awesome way of welcoming the magical season. Cheers Tweedy! 🎩🌄🍁🍁🍁🍷
Happy Equinox to you too Jamie! I was so fortunate with everything on this trip - the weather, the beautiful skies, the sunset / sunrise, the camping spot being free - even the trains worked well!
What a peice, Mr Tweed.
A) I missed the pemiere, perhaps I should turn on notifications, though I don't want to feel all "Tiktok" about this!
B) I have no words! Perhaps a slight relief for those comment cruisers out there.
* Proceeds to mumble something about the antiquated gods of old fabric, at midnight, or whatever*
Thank you.
Those "proceeds to mumble" were a reference to me, not you, my good sir.
Thanks AFT! Sorry I didn't give much notice for the premiere, partly I am always impatient to get these videos out there as soon as I'm done editing (and they've finished uploading / processing, which adds a few hours). In particular with this one I wanted to get it out on the day of the equinox as somehow that felt more poignant.
I similarly seemed to experience a paucity of words while filming this video - when watching this back I started to notice how many times I said "evocative". At the risk of over analysing I suspect I kept using that word because of its useful vagueness - it suggests a place evokes _something_ but I either don't know or don't want to say what.
I love the brief conversations I often have with other people at Avebury, typically initiated by them looking curiously at my out-of-place clothes and trying to figure out why I'm there. I don't generally provide them with satisfactory answers because I'm not sure I know either. While I'm usually typically reserved and English "it's quite pleasant here isn't it?", they often use very different language to describe the experience - "it's a very grounding energy" was one I heard yesterday.
Thanks for sharing a lovely experience and giving us the benefit of your knowledge of early British history. I'm glad the weather was kind to you, giving us those wonderful cloud formations as a backdrop on day 1. The equinox sunrise was fantastic.
Thanks John! I was very fortunate with the weather - light rain for about 5 minutes at the start of the walk and that was it. Sometimes these trips really don't go to plan but this time it felt like everything just fell into my lap!
Thanks for the video, I will go as far as to say it was quite beautifully shot. It really is a magical, mysterious place. I would love to camp underneath that Hawthorn tree. And finally - thanks for the Red Nose ending. 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! I was really pleased with the footage from this trip. I can't really take the credit for it though - Avebury was the star here and all I really did was show up and point the camera at it! I wasn't deliberately trying to position the lens flare that resulted in the red nose! In the thumbnail for the video I also seem to have ended up with a kind of ear ring!
Some lovely landscape imagery there Tweedy, Your meal made me feel nostalgic, sadly gnocchi does not agree with me anymore for some reason 🤷♂ the joys of ageing I suppose .
Thanks Garry! Sorry to hear about the gnocchi issue - that's quite interesting though as it's such a simple thing (just potato and flour as far as I can tell). I have made my own from scratch a couple of times but that seemed a bit too much effort / mess for a camping meal. I wonder if there might be some additives in these store bought ones or something to do with the way they're processed which is the problem?
@@tweedyoutdoors You could be right Tweedy, some shop bought pastas have a similar effect, but I fear gnoccchi is forever linked in my mind with horrendous gastrointestinal effects and I dare not eat it again for fear of a repeat experience !
You really are an interesting fellow!
Thanks Mac! Although I'm slightly reminded of the ambiguous "May you live in interesting times". 😁