I enjoyed this so much. I had never really appreciated the differences between the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, or the probable reasons why. This account was really insightful. One thinks of Cumbria as an inhospitable area, yet there are so many prehistoric monuments there, and so much evidence that people who lived there traded widely even so long ago. Wonderful video, thank you.
Long time watcher on TV but never comment. Thanks for all the uploads. Always great. I live in South Carolina USA now but I’m Cumbria born and bred. I’ve been to approximately 50% of all known UK sites of interest like this. Sunrise and/sunset on some. Proposed to my wife in Castlerigg on solstice sunrise. I love this topic and you feed my interest very well with your content. Keep up the great work and delivery. PS. And of all, I do believe Castlerigg to have the most beautiful setting/views.
@@AdamMorganIbbotsonno gene pool contributions here. I moved when I was 43 haha. I just ordered your book. Looking forward to reading it. I had it saved in my Amazon and just realized it was you that wrote it. It would be great to see South Cumbria delved into. Like Birkrigg, on the surface it may look small and insignificant but it’s a rare cocenteic double ring. All kinds of stuff around that beautiful county. Keep up the good work.
@@doomslobs I have a second edition coming out mid-November! Maybe call it off until then! I’ve added 40+ new sites and a load of new info! Highly recommend
@@AdamMorganIbbotson Argh gash! I just hit “cancel items” but it’s a third party seller so not sure if it will work. Either way I’ll be happy though but thanks for the info.
Argh gash. I just tried to cancel the item but it’s a third party seller so may not work. Have to wait. But either way I will be happy. Cheers for the info.
Right Adam, get yourself down the shops and get yourself another Ivory back scratcher. I nipped in to Waterstones in Kendal yesterday and got a copy of your book. The lad behind the counter recommended it as well so your doing alright!!!!
Cumbria is really the middle of the isles we called Britain and Ireland ❤ if you measure Scotland, England and Wales I bet the centre is in cumbia somewhere ❤
Close, the Ordnance Survey centre of Britain including all islands is at the Wittendale Hanging Stones Nr. Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire although other calculations do give other locations. I go with the OS
Thanks Susan! May I suggest my new book: www.amazon.co.uk/Cumbrias-Prehistoric-Monuments-Morgan-Ibbotson/dp/0750996684/ref=zg_bs_276437_29?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MHFB0NRFE7DRX0V5XQN9
I'm fortunate to live a stone's-throw from Long Meg and her daughters. Building cob and wattle&daub guest dens in my woodland, I'm reflecting the land's history in the clay and lime plasterwork. Cumbria's a beautiful place to live and create in.
I am intrigued by the palaeolithic stone arrangements, carvings and cairns left by the indigenous peoples here in Australia. I wish there was more information available on the subject but the country is so huge (a map overlaid on Europe covers from Scotland to Turkey) so to find them is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack! I spent my first 30 years prospecting in remote areas of the Australian Outback, but unfortunately did not document the ones that I came across; they were just part of the landscape. Interestingly the Palaeolithic Era here lasted until less than a Century ago, so I did not know whether they were 100 or 10000 years old ! Now I wish I knew Archaeologists I could discuss them with !
Monuments is there in khasi hills, Meghalaya state north East of india bordering with Bangladesh, I like to preserve this ancient monuments in my place.
would of been nice to see the Tullie House stones....I've visited all the sites shown, but never been able to get into the museum. Excellent film though.
Makes me want to go to an ancient stone and play bagpipes. Actually this doesn't, i want to do that every day anyway, but this video definitely reminds me again.
Adam, a wee word please about the Castlerigg stone circle, from a very astute guy. On arrival at dawn yesterday, I learned from the tourist blog, that it was first recorded, in the 18th century, as being, originally, in an adjacent field. Now, after my authentic once-over, (I work in the discipline of Psychology), yet am an ex-professional Firefighter, I propose below, my ‘gut instinct’. A. It is unusual to find that certain monolithic stones, are leaning up against each other. B. Tis also unusual to find a strategically placed stone, placed under a closeby, stone, which was leaning, as if it was installed by a ‘bored Contractor’. In essence…this circle doesn’t fit within it’s perceptual niche, nor my BS detector. PS..did you notice the vandalism of a stone and the surrounding walls, whilst you surveyed? 🙏🤔
@@KID734 Hi mate, thanks for the comment. Appreciate the support. Not sure about your theory there, I’ve read most of the studies, and have never found any evidence of this! Sorry!
What strikes me is how late-developing this part of the world was, compared to the Fertile Crescent. People were drinking beer pubs and munching on dates in Eridu nearly 2,000 years before the earliest of these monuments were built.
The area was heavily forested until a heatwave struck the middle east. People fleeing that deforested most of Europe, obviously landing in Britain / Scandinavia last
All the same you would've thought there would've been clearances. We know there were paleolithic and mesolithic communities, not least at Stonehenge. Maybe there's a different way to think about it. Maybe there was a resistance to so called development. Especially when you think of the teams that would've been involved in shifting stones and especially if "temples" were being sold as a "religious" thing. As for farming, .Again, you would think there would've been clearances but maybe they simply didn't feel the need if the forests provided a comfortable living.. Like Forest living communities today.
@@xtramail4909 well, it’s just one theory, and quite a “deterministic” one at that (i.e, it relies on one determining factor). The idea is that droughts in the fertile crescent, specifically modern Turkey, inspired people to slowly migrate up through Europe, before landing in France / Spain / Britain. It’s got a few holes in it though - so I would suggest reading a number of explanations and deciding yourself!
You're right, you could throw a dart at a map of Cumbria and find something with a viking name. The great sacking of the North, wiped out much of the viking history but its still there to be found if you know where to look. Interestingly, many here still use the word "marra" (friend or mate) when greeting one another. The thing that remains a mystery to me are the various rhyme schemes that were used by shepherd's to count (Yan, Tan, Tethra...) Each region in Cumbria has its own version but it's very hard to say whether the origin of such rhymes are Viking, Celtic or something else entirely.
@@liberatumplox625: Wikipedia - 'The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the Industrial Revolution, especially in the fells of the Lake District.'
Cumbria still has forgotten history ancient mysteries that may never be taught in any schools. We should learn our non Germanic history and pre Roman history but we would need access to the Vatican archives and the British Museums vault also. Why is this not so obtainable then the prescribed history taught in education? ❤
subsaharan africans still lived in the mesolithic stone age in 1930 and would still do without contact with the northern hemisphere colons. They should be considered stone age people even today across the world.
Where are these seventeen please! places, names, positions.. Would be very grateful for your insight.. Thank you.. Blessings from my heart to yours ❤️🙏🙏🙏 Ellie of Britainia
Typical... looking at objects purely on their value, looking for what resonates with themselves (status and money) instead of walking in the shoes of the ancients and understanding what was valuable to them. All things was Spiritual, gods abounded and live in the rocks and the land, the plants contained living invisible creatures, securing rock from a Sacred mountain where the gods lived would have been much more important than the status of having a shiny rock, a axe that contained the living consciousness of a God and would embue strength and good luck in use was far more important.
WoWza... This is profound.. Thank you so much for sharing.. Thank you for the" Reminder ". Much gratitude, wasn't it once written.. ".We must live in this world to achieve our eternal destination".. Blessings from my heart to yours ♥️🙏🙏🙏 Ellie of Britainia
Adam, I love your Professionalism and earnest endeavour. However, if we lose our mind-set, of nostalgia, for these dumb, very heavy boulders, re-set our perspective, we can enter a completely new universe of perception. A wee hint…the Discipline of Archeology is pathetically and intellectually moribund, and only confirms an ancient Patriarchal narrative, based on a simple, ‘monkey mind’..aka..Alpha Male.. I am working on our “Real” genetic history..interested?
Your assumptions about religion and "god" stem from the Abrahamic religion of the middle east. Our Neolithic ancestors know shamanism as their spiritual guide, which is not a religion.
Eh? There’s little evidence either way. I simply state it’s unknown. It’s likely that the sun was worshiped to some extent, as sites from the Late Neolithic often align to the solstices. Plus, later Bronze Age and Iron Age religions, way before the arrival of Christianity, had a pantheon of gods. More Indo-European than Abahamic.
The heavy axe head is probably too big for you, but a 6.5ft, 30 stone neolithic warrior man, it's nothing. It was probably used to cut down heavy tree trunks or dig deep trenches for building foundations or many other reasons. If you are going to analyse ancient tools used by men, you need to think like a man.
If you enjoyed this, check out my follow-up on prehistoric Yorkshire: ua-cam.com/video/EEetLNcEkbs/v-deo.html
Prehistoric Yorkshire
amazing thankyou so much
The algorithm gave me that newer video, which led me back to this one.
Do you have any information about Doggerland? Does anyone? Cumbrian ❤
I am 83..my school cross-country route was close to the Birkrigg Circle.
I enjoyed this so much. I had never really appreciated the differences between the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, or the probable reasons why. This account was really insightful. One thinks of Cumbria as an inhospitable area, yet there are so many prehistoric monuments there, and so much evidence that people who lived there traded widely even so long ago. Wonderful video, thank you.
I am Leah’s in awe of the accomplishments of the people of that time period. Thank you.
Long time watcher on TV but never comment. Thanks for all the uploads. Always great. I live in South Carolina USA now but I’m Cumbria born and bred. I’ve been to approximately 50% of all known UK sites of interest like this. Sunrise and/sunset on some. Proposed to my wife in Castlerigg on solstice sunrise. I love this topic and you feed my interest very well with your content. Keep up the great work and delivery.
PS. And of all, I do believe Castlerigg to have the most beautiful setting/views.
@@doomslobs Thanks for that, really appreciate it. Nice you added a bit of Cumbria to the US gene-pool!
@@AdamMorganIbbotsonno gene pool contributions here. I moved when I was 43 haha. I just ordered your book. Looking forward to reading it. I had it saved in my Amazon and just realized it was you that wrote it.
It would be great to see South Cumbria delved into. Like Birkrigg, on the surface it may look small and insignificant but it’s a rare cocenteic double ring. All kinds of stuff around that beautiful county.
Keep up the good work.
@@doomslobs I have a second edition coming out mid-November! Maybe call it off until then! I’ve added 40+ new sites and a load of new info!
Highly recommend
@@AdamMorganIbbotson Argh gash! I just hit “cancel items” but it’s a third party seller so not sure if it will work. Either way I’ll be happy though but thanks for the info.
Argh gash. I just tried to cancel the item but it’s a third party seller so may not work. Have to wait. But either way I will be happy. Cheers for the info.
Right Adam, get yourself down the shops and get yourself another Ivory back scratcher. I nipped in to Waterstones in Kendal yesterday and got a copy of your book. The lad behind the counter recommended it as well so your doing alright!!!!
@@mongolmcphee7791 Thanks!
Very impressed by the quality of this documentary. Well done indeed.
Well worth watching, clear, and interesting. Cumbria’s a fascinating place to be, with so much as yet uncovered.
Lovely production. Nice to see something specifically on the Cumbrian sites. Such a magical place.
Cumbria is really the middle of the isles we called Britain and Ireland ❤ if you measure Scotland, England and Wales I bet the centre is in cumbia somewhere ❤
@@checktheskies5040 Absolutely! I actually mention that in a few of my most recent videos!
Close, the Ordnance Survey centre of Britain including all islands is at the Wittendale Hanging Stones Nr. Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire although other calculations do give other locations. I go with the OS
Fascinating
@@rosemaryhanderson6122 thanks!
Thankyou that was so interesting I live in the west coast of Scotland we have a lot of different things dotted around but Cumbria thar was brilliant
Love the video. Amazing stones circle. Love to visit this place.
Fantastic video! I really love seeing evidence for the early migrations of our ancestors! ❤
your voice is made for this! amazing quality! please keep making docus!
Thanks for the video. Interesting and well done.
Excellent video. I'd love to see more like it. You have a real knack for educational content.
Wow, amazing. Thanks for the informative video.
Woah production value is off the hook my guy! Great work
Really well done and very interesting and informative - thank you very much!
Thanks Susan!
May I suggest my new book: www.amazon.co.uk/Cumbrias-Prehistoric-Monuments-Morgan-Ibbotson/dp/0750996684/ref=zg_bs_276437_29?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MHFB0NRFE7DRX0V5XQN9
I'm fortunate to live a stone's-throw from Long Meg and her daughters. Building cob and wattle&daub guest dens in my woodland, I'm reflecting the land's history in the clay and lime plasterwork. Cumbria's a beautiful place to live and create in.
Really interesting and professional. Thanks!
Me and my friends visited Long Meg and Castlerigg in July last year. I loved both sites. it was a really cool experience
Incredible work, well done!
great doc!
well worth a visit as unlike Stonehenge you can walk amongst them in beautiful countryside.
Cool place
I am intrigued by the palaeolithic stone arrangements, carvings and cairns left by the indigenous peoples here in Australia. I wish there was more information available on the subject but the country is so huge (a map overlaid on Europe covers from Scotland to Turkey) so to find them is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack! I spent my first 30 years prospecting in remote areas of the Australian Outback, but unfortunately did not document the ones that I came across; they were just part of the landscape. Interestingly the Palaeolithic Era here lasted until less than a Century ago, so I did not know whether they were 100 or 10000 years old ! Now I wish I knew Archaeologists I could discuss them with !
Monuments is there in khasi hills, Meghalaya state north East of india bordering with Bangladesh, I like to preserve this ancient monuments in my place.
would of been nice to see the Tullie House stones....I've visited all the sites shown, but never been able to get into the museum. Excellent film though.
I recommend a visit. It’s a wonderful museum!
Remarkable how those immensely heavy stones were lifted - No one has a clue how?
They must have been strong
Makes me want to go to an ancient stone and play bagpipes.
Actually this doesn't, i want to do that every day anyway, but this video definitely reminds me again.
Can we get more? Please?
Stone circles = sun cross = wheel in the sky that makes the seasons turn. When we were farmers who had to pay attention to the seasons or we die.
Clearly, that second hand-axe is made by a man of giant proportions. Basically, giants of ol were there. Making all kinds of earthworks
Nah
Adam…That’s why I emphasised, “authentic”….
Adam, a wee word please about the Castlerigg stone circle, from a very astute guy.
On arrival at dawn yesterday, I learned from the tourist blog, that it was first recorded, in the 18th century, as being, originally, in an adjacent field.
Now, after my authentic once-over, (I work in the discipline of Psychology), yet am an ex-professional Firefighter, I propose below, my ‘gut instinct’.
A. It is unusual to find that certain monolithic stones, are leaning up against each other.
B. Tis also unusual to find a strategically placed stone, placed under a closeby, stone, which was leaning, as if it was installed by a ‘bored Contractor’.
In essence…this circle doesn’t fit within it’s perceptual niche, nor my BS detector.
PS..did you notice the vandalism of a stone and the surrounding walls, whilst you surveyed?
🙏🤔
@@KID734 Hi mate, thanks for the comment. Appreciate the support.
Not sure about your theory there, I’ve read most of the studies, and have never found any evidence of this! Sorry!
Is that castlerigg at 0:43? Just been there this week if so!
It certainly is!
Great video and excellent editing. I'm curious, what was the song that starts at 6:14?
Lack of music and picture credits!
2:35 Amazing they knew what ‘England’ was back then and also to avoid Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall. Bonkers!
Well, ‘England’ as we understand it. They waited a short while before venturing into Scotland.
What strikes me is how late-developing this part of the world was, compared to the Fertile Crescent. People were drinking beer pubs and munching on dates in Eridu nearly 2,000 years before the earliest of these monuments were built.
The area was heavily forested until a heatwave struck the middle east. People fleeing that deforested most of Europe, obviously landing in Britain / Scandinavia last
All the same you would've thought there would've been clearances. We know there were paleolithic and mesolithic communities, not least at Stonehenge. Maybe there's a different way to think about it. Maybe there was a resistance to so called development. Especially when you think of the teams that would've been involved in shifting stones and especially if "temples" were being sold as a "religious" thing.
As for farming, .Again, you would think there would've been clearances but maybe they simply didn't feel the need if the forests provided a comfortable living.. Like Forest living communities today.
@@AdamMorganIbbotsoncan you explain this more? I’m interested.
@@xtramail4909 well, it’s just one theory, and quite a “deterministic” one at that (i.e, it relies on one determining factor). The idea is that droughts in the fertile crescent, specifically modern Turkey, inspired people to slowly migrate up through Europe, before landing in France / Spain / Britain. It’s got a few holes in it though - so I would suggest reading a number of explanations and deciding yourself!
They maybe corals to gather animals in ?
Possibly. Though they aren’t any use as enclosures as they have gaps. And why built such a simple thing out of massive boulders?
mesolithic = the age of Leo, in the platonic great year.
Does anyone else think some of the stones look like teeth?
Smile like a Moonlit Graveyard.!!
It's funny how "Langdale" translate directly from Danish: "lang dal" mening: "long walley" Gotta be named by vikings or saxons.
There’s a Norse ‘ting mound’ in Langdale, so no doubts there.
You're right, you could throw a dart at a map of Cumbria and find something with a viking name.
The great sacking of the North, wiped out much of the viking history but its still there to be found if you know where to look.
Interestingly, many here still use the word "marra" (friend or mate) when greeting one another.
The thing that remains a mystery to me are the various rhyme schemes that were used by shepherd's to count (Yan, Tan, Tethra...) Each region in Cumbria has its own version but it's very hard to say whether the origin of such rhymes are Viking, Celtic or something else entirely.
@@liberatumplox625: Wikipedia - 'The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the Industrial Revolution, especially in the fells of the Lake District.'
Cumbria still has forgotten history ancient mysteries that may never be taught in any schools. We should learn our non Germanic history and pre Roman history but we would need access to the Vatican archives and the British Museums vault also. Why is this not so obtainable then the prescribed history taught in education? ❤
Not sure they have any Cumbrian archaeology in the Vatican archives… or what use they’d have hiding it.
Ok
subsaharan africans still lived in the mesolithic stone age in 1930 and would still do without contact with the northern hemisphere colons. They should be considered stone age people even today across the world.
patung2 megalitik ada 17 biji.
Where are these seventeen please! places, names, positions.. Would be very grateful for your insight..
Thank you.. Blessings from my heart to yours ❤️🙏🙏🙏
Ellie of Britainia
90% just died????
Buried under all of that mud,that dropped from the skies.
saya msh menyimpan patung2 megalitik.primitif java. peninggalan dari seorang belanda di java..adakah yg berminat .
Typical... looking at objects purely on their value, looking for what resonates with themselves (status and money) instead of walking in the shoes of the ancients and understanding what was valuable to them. All things was Spiritual, gods abounded and live in the rocks and the land, the plants contained living invisible creatures, securing rock from a Sacred mountain where the gods lived would have been much more important than the status of having a shiny rock, a axe that contained the living consciousness of a God and would embue strength and good luck in use was far more important.
People were, as we are today, only human.
To romanticise their monument’s existence as purely "spiritual" is to miss their purpose entirely.
WoWza... This is profound.. Thank you so much for sharing..
Thank you for the" Reminder ".
Much gratitude, wasn't it once written..
".We must live in this world to achieve our eternal destination"..
Blessings from my heart to yours ♥️🙏🙏🙏
Ellie of Britainia
Adam, I love your Professionalism and earnest endeavour.
However, if we lose our mind-set, of nostalgia, for these dumb, very heavy boulders, re-set our perspective, we can enter a completely new universe of perception.
A wee hint…the Discipline of Archeology is pathetically and intellectually moribund, and only confirms an ancient Patriarchal narrative, based on a simple, ‘monkey mind’..aka..Alpha Male..
I am working on our “Real” genetic history..interested?
Oh yeah - I’m interested. Give me the low down
@@AdamMorganIbbotson It will have to be private correspondence, thanks.
@@KID734 How come? Give me a summary
Your assumptions about religion and "god" stem from the Abrahamic religion of the middle east. Our Neolithic ancestors know shamanism as their spiritual guide, which is not a religion.
Eh? There’s little evidence either way. I simply state it’s unknown.
It’s likely that the sun was worshiped to some extent, as sites from the Late Neolithic often align to the solstices.
Plus, later Bronze Age and Iron Age religions, way before the arrival of Christianity, had a pantheon of gods. More Indo-European than Abahamic.
Abrahamic religion came thousands of years after these people found spiritual significance in everything around them.
They worshipped the sun. The stone circles are the wheel in the sky that makes the seasons turn… they are the first cross symbolism.
"Prehistoric communities ... BEGUN..." ???? Or am I just misunderstanding?
Can you elaborate?
It's "began" not "begun" and "lie" not "lay".
I do say "began". I just have a beautiful, sultry north-western English accent.
bla, bla, bla.....
The heavy axe head is probably too big for you, but a 6.5ft, 30 stone neolithic warrior man, it's nothing.
It was probably used to cut down heavy tree trunks or dig deep trenches for building foundations or many other reasons.
If you are going to analyse ancient tools used by men, you need to think like a man.
Ooh, you’re hard. 😂