The Giant's Ring | Neolithic Henge & Dolmen in Northern Ireland | Megalithomania
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Hugh Newman investigates 'The Giant's Ring' near Ballynahatty on the outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The site consists of a circular enclosure over 600ft in diameter and 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) in area, surrounded by a circular earthwork bank 11 ft high. At least three of the five irregularly spaced gaps in the bank are intentional and possibly original and may be astronomically oriented. East of centre of the enclosure is a small dolmen oriented to the west. There were reports of other tombs outside the enclosure, but there is no trace of these now. It dates to 2,700 BC and is the largest earthwork of its type in all of Ireland. Includes exclusive aerial footage.
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I live a few miles from this and I've had lots of adventures as a kid at the Giant's Ring. It is very much a part of my life and also worth visiting to give you perspective. Love you shots and commentary. It is the mystery of places like these that gets me everytime.
Do you by any chance know anything about the other dolmen right beside the giants ring?
It's fun to feel back to such a far past. What a magnificent site.
I was on work experience with Queen’s University Belfast in 1994 aged 19. Part of that work experience involved a dig here. An absolutely fascinating place
Did you find anything?
@@booknerd9467 just tiny traces of animals bone and burnt wood, nothing groundbreaking I’m afraid!
Was there any talk of the dolmen right beside the ring. I read references to other sites in the area but no hard info. Eg I've read there are up to 30 sites in the area. Where are these, how were they discovered, what was found, are they just theoretical... This place just blows me away and leaves me with so many questions
@@djohnston6856 likewise myself. I’m no archaeologist but a keen appreciator of monuments and the landscape in which they occupy. I suspect with lidar technology the landscape will open up to reveal more of the context around the site. We just concentrated on the main monument itself, it’s a wonder that Time Team haven’t been, or have they?
If you go north you'll end up at the Linford site near Knock dhu (north of Larne). North of this is Ballygilbert standing stone. Is there a connection?
I look into ancient stuff like this all the time about everyday and this is another new site I hadn’t heard of...wow.
I reckon that standing stones in County Antrim are related to it someway. I think they run north from the GR towards Ballygilbert near Glenarm. A mad theory but there you go. Lol
ooooo...inside a giants ring...that's grim...your a good lad Hugh, thank you...
Any info on the dolmen in the field beside the giants ring? I can find no reference to it anywhere
What do you think of the gornaya shoria megaliths of Siberia? Largest ever man moved stones?
And those bath salt rooks could’ve been used to put trees in side and light it on fire it be kinda like what you’d see in Skyrim but with big and small trees to use as fire and they’d have animals and big “DIY tents” and basically like a colony of giants a settlement perhaps
I’ve been in there. Like inside too guess I’m not the only one.
Why never imagine the dolmens were built for healing reasons instead of burial reasons. What better necessity ?
The last flower to bloom is the flower of truth, after so many deferent allinments there is only one that truly matters, the rest as they say is history
They found alot of ancient ruins in the British Isles and Ireland this year because of the heat wave and drought.
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I'm so curious about this place!
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@@paulcarolan8646 lol no I'm nowhere near Ireland. But still curious!
Well only way u can see it is come to Ireland☺
@@paulcarolan8646 Haha one day!!
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666 feet ? Giants & Human Sacrifice Center Stage ?
I am sure they were using a different unit of length which just so happens to be the modern equivalent of approx. 666' ….
Obviously some sort of stadium. Could of been religious or perhaps battles to solve tribal issues.
Probably a wooden structure on the inside housing hundreds of people or families at 1 time
I feel like maybe giants just inhabited the area and lived there
Peculiar that people want to stick to tombs as the function of dolmen. Maybe they were, but no evidence was ever presented it were tombs. Except for the fact that hardly any human remains were ever found inside them, there are many burial sites from the same period and in the vicinity of dolmen also with important people (judging from artifacts, jewelry, weapons) who were buried in usual graves in the earth. There is no logical reason for people to build such a huge site with such huge stones for any one person, what would have taken them years, has no obvious purpose related to burial and differs that much from 'normal' graves.
lol imagine if stone henge was here lol at one point and some one stole it lol
then placed it in England lol
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