The Real Truth behind the stones of Stonehenge and Avebury
Вставка
- Опубліковано 27 жов 2022
- Today, I venture to Valley of Stones, at Fyfield Down, by West Woods, Marlborough, in Wiltshire, England. The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England 🪨 🪨 🪨 , known as the Grey Wethers, because of their resemblance to an enormous flock of sheep in bedraggled fleeces 🐑🐑🐑
Fyfield Down is a large chalk grassland with a remarkable, nationally important geological feature: a river of sarsen stones deposited by glacial action. Sarsen stones are large boulders of hard silicified sandstone up to 3.5m across, and stones from this location were used in local Neolithic monuments including Stonehenge, 17 miles south, and the Avebury stone circle, 2 miles to the west.
According to the history books, the 80 x 30 ton sarsen stones used to built Stonehenge, and 100 x 30 ton sarsen stones used to built Avebury stone circle, totalling 5.4 million kilograms, were rolled on logs to their final destination 🤔 Yet, what the books don't mention ... is that the valley was half flooded at the time ⛵
In July 2020, Dr Nash, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Brighton's School of Applied Sciences, published a paper detailing a comparison of sarsen stone geochemical data to 20 possible sites across southern England. This resulted in new evidence as to the real truth behind the sarsen stones' origins. Link to the paper is shown in the video links section below.
Note, that this video focuses purely on the "Sarsen" stones and not the "Bluestones", which are the smaller stones at Stonehenge. These came from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales (where I am from). Although they may not appear blue, they do have a bluish tinge when freshly broken or when wet. They weigh between 2 and 5 tons each.
Video Links:
Google Maps: tinyurl.com/ydpvxmna
National Heritage List: tinyurl.com/k99kbkpw
Dr Nash paper: tinyurl.com/4987syh8
Channel Links:
My 360 Images: kuula.co/profile/clinkadink/p...
My Instagram: / lambourne_p. .
My Twitter: / lambourne_chris
SOFTWARE:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Media Encoder
- DJI Media Maker
- MS Image Composite Editor
- Autopano Giga
- OBS Studio
- QGIS Desktop
- Planlauf Terrain
- Google Earth Pro
- Sketchup Pro
- V-Ray
HARDWARE:
- DJI Mini 3 Pro
- DJI FPV
- DJI Avata
- DJI Mavic 2 Pro
- DJI Mini 2
- DJI Pocket 2 Camera
- DJI Wireless Mic Transmitter
- PolarPro Cinema Series Filter Vivid Collection
- PolarPro Vivid Filter Collection
- Freewell Long Exposure Series Filters - Фільми й анімація
Gorgeous film work and drone….to get such a sense of where the glacier or REALLY STRONG water flows just dropped them all was fascinating and flying along their routes to the Henge…very informative and luscious
Wow, many thanks for the kind words! Yes, a great place to fly, as it really shows off the stones and how they came to be there 👍
I actually didn't know about Avebury and definitely not about the valley of sarsen stones. 99% of this was new to me and I feel so much smarter for watching, Chris! Terrific production!
Thanks Christian. Avebury is the largest stone circle in the world, 100 sarsen stones, 30 tons each ... it dwarfs Stonehenge! But there are loads more ancient sites within a couple of miles of Avebury, no doubt connected in some way. Thanks as always for your support. Take care 👏👍
Great video. Superbly put together, very informative and some cracking editing tricks! :)
Thanks Richard, that's great to hear! Great feedback 👏👍
How is this video only got 244 views! The quality of your videos are amazing. Well done
Thanks Robin, that's kind of you to say so. And really glad to hear you enjoyed the video 👏👍
Well said 👏👏
Brilliant Chris, amazing shots of the valley and the old fields. Good to see you out and about again. Well done!
Thanks Clive, it's good to be out again. It's been too long! Glad you liked the video 👍
Yet another excellent and professional video - well done Chris!!
Thanks Robert, that is praise indeed, coming from the master! Really chuffed that you enjoyed it 👏
Another superbly informative video Chris, loving the FPV shots. Thank you.
Cheers Andy! Glad you enjoyed it mate 👍
Do keep up the interesting and wonderful vlogging work you've been doing for this great Adventure channel of yours! Stay safe and stay connected~
Thank you! Will do! 👍
Absolutely fascinating Great Job Buddy. It is totally mind blowing how they achieved this back then. Great information thoroughly enjoyed this.👍
Thanks Jim, glad you liked it mate. I had a lot of fun with this one 👍
Awesome drone footage and flight .👍😍Thanks for taking us along . Greetings and new sub here ❣️😊👋
Thanks for the sub! And for the lovely comment 👏 Glad you enjoyed it. I've been looking at you travel vlogs ... wow! I have subbed back 👍
@@LamboPhoto Thanks my friend i will check out your other videos as soon as I find the time. And i forgot to mention you did a great job telling us the story and the development of that place over the centuries👏👏👏 . Very interesting indeed Thanks again 👍❣️🙏😊
A really beautiful area, one of my fav places on the Avebury landscape, but as you said not many people know about it. There's more larger stones not far from there at Totterdown, including the polishers stone. well worth a visit. Although i think the Stonehenge stones came from the area in West woods rather than this valley, but the Avebury stone came from here, and i am sure for many of the other stones circles in the area. Brilliant video, i love how you do your videos and your drone footage is brilliant. loved it :-)
Thanks Cara. I've just checked out your channel, we have a lot in common 😉 Yes, I've visited the Polisher, Cup and Toad stones. I cycled that way from Avebury, across the Herepath to the Valley of Stones. Regarding Stonehenge, I've seen several references to both West Woods and Fyfield. The Kennet runs in between them both, with 2 dry valleys (Paleochannels), 1 running 1/2 north to Fyfield, the other 1/2 south to West Woods. So, it's fair to say, these huge sarsens were locked in ice, moving slowly down the Kennet valley, some went left, and some went right. But they are the same stones 😀 Once the ice melted, these stones at West Woods and Fyfield had these flooded valleys to allow transport to Stonehenge. See 10:51 in this video and hopefully you'll see what I mean. Anyway, thanks for a lovely comment 👏👍
@@LamboPhoto yeah I saw that, loved the graphics. Really adds a lot to getting people to understand the area. And that’s what we are about.
I know one of the stones was tested to be from Westwood’s, but as I have mentioned in some of my videos it was just one stone that was tested and not all of them. I’m sure they came
From many areas, stones that size, I am sure didn’t just come from one area. Who’s to say it’s not a tribal thing 🤔
Again a wonderful video 😊 cara
Hi dude, I'm the guy you met today coming from Avebury on the bicycle. Checking out your vids, thought I'd say Hi. I can see by your uploads we've been a hell of a lot of the same places. Difference is, I wild camp them as much as possible. Neolithic sites, but battlefields too. Slept on a lot of battlefields in Britain and Europe. I actually try to pitch on, or as near as possible as I can. Dunbar, Worcester, Tewkesbury, Towton, Hastings and Stamford Bridge. Passchendaele, Somme, Arras, Ypres, Kolin, Waterloo, Agincourt, these are just the ones I can remember, I make a point of doing stuff like this. They seem, pretty much all of them, to have a similar sort of eerie calm, in the same way some of the Neolithic sites do.
Great to bump into you today. And hats off to you on your 1500 mile bike ride! Fair do's, that is impressive. Yes, totally agree that these neolithic sites have a sense of calm about them. I've done a bit of free camping too. Much prefer it to these fake campsites with all the modcons. I hope you didn't get too wet today, and more importantly, you managed to get to the shop! You must have been starving, not eating since Friday!! Good luck on the ride mate, and thanks for stopping by the channel 👏👍
Another great video Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it! Just checked out your channel, some nice vids! I have subbed 👏👍
@@LamboPhoto Thanks!
Great video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it, Rich 👍
It would be great to hear your thoughts about Marden and Wauluds Bank super henges with relation to the water table hypothesis.
Fantastic video as always, great drone footage and very informative.
Wauluds Bank, is that Luton way?
@@WelshWilts Indeed, it is very reminiscent (on the ground) of Durrington Walls, fascinating place .
Marden is also a bit of a oddity with it's internal Large mound and smaller circular Henge alog with another Henge being found during the most recent excavations the other side of the river.
Sorry for the late reply. I will look into Marden and Wauluds Bank, I must admit - I've never heard of it until now. Thanks for watching and your comment 👍
Chris this is awesome mate. Love the info as always. Just mind boggling how the stones were transported. Your dabble into the FPV was awesome. Great job mate. Keep em coming. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️
Cheers Watto! Great to hear you liked it. Yes, moving that many stones today would be a huge undertaking... but back then ... wow! Thanks again mate, take care 👍
Brilliant 😍👏
Peter Parker worked out how the stones were moved via the archeological work done in Germany.They we’re studying cattle bones of the same time period and saw clear signs of the bone wear you get from hauling/ ploughing.So most likely Cattle hauling sleds with rollers..
awesome video buddy 👌👌
Cheers mate! Much appreciated! 👍
Don’t you think glaciers would have transported these heavy stones as the glaciers grew and moved down and forward then retreated back- releasing more stone along the way? The glacier produced an impression and valley as it traveled.
It's beyond obvious isn't it, once you see it ....I've never believed the blue stones came from Wales, there are loads of bright blue fragments visible today on the chalk hills nearby.
It is to me as well. Thanks for watching 🙂
Well it's an extreme case of an underfit stream valley (with no remaining stream). As a glacial outwash, all those stones are erratics. Where did they come from before ice and water transported them?
Thanks for watching and commenting. I don't think anyone knows where these sarsens originated from, but I guess in the glacier swept down the Kennet valley from the east. As there are remenants of sarsens a mile south of the Valley of Stones, on the other side of the Kennet valley in West Woods - though not as many.
This must have been far more dramatic when the henges were built as the stones would be less buried, seemingly crawling out of the water.
I think this is a time when incoming round barrow, henge building people almost entirely replaced the long barrow building, more swarthy natives. Some long barrow entrances were then blocked with monoliths.
The henges are consistent with fortifications, at Stonehenge to keep something out, at Avebury ring to keep something in.
I fantasize an Andre Norton romance of walking stones policed by the new made henges, Stonehenge halting the nasties crawling up from another river, while other nasty looking stones were imprisoned in Avebury ring, pacified by the stone circles within.
All nonsense of course, but there was obviously a sophisticated civilisation here with a history lost long before the Celts.
good information -- i will have to give the site a visit. When they took the stones from the valley --- what was the ground water level? As you say at Avesbury the river Kennet was higher and bigger than today -- could they have been transported via water ways.
It is my belief that the stones were certainly transported via water, and not on logs as stated in the history books. Thanks for watching 🙂
😮dont think we will ever know how thet moved them
Why not walk the (Neolithic) water route to Avebury? I’m sure it would be illuminating…
Hi Chris
Hi there 👍
@@LamboPhoto aka kirky 😀
@@Bombaybadboy007 Ah, you got me! 🤣
This must have been far more dramatic when the henges were built as the stones would be less buried, seemingly crawling out of the water.
I think this is a time when incoming round barrow, henge building people almost entirely replaced the long barrow building, more swarthy natives. Some long barrow entrances were then blocked with monoliths.
The henges are consistent with fortifications, at Stonehenge to keep something out, at Avebury ring to keep something in.
I fantasize an Andre Norton romance of walking stones policed by the new made henges, Stonehenge halting the nasties crawling up from another river, while other nasty looking stones were imprisoned in Avebury ring, pacified by the stone circles within.
All nonsense of course, but there was obviously a sophisticated civilisation here with a history lost long before the Celts.