I used to stay at 21 Bingham road in lark hill as dad was stationed at the local ordnance depot for the artillery shells …I went to the local primary and I remember down the side in the estate there was a used and decommissioned light aircraft and an armoured recce vehicle . I was there from 73-75. And I remember walking down the path leading past the bottom of the married quartered section to Stonehenge and wandering round them on my own before the national heritage got the place surrounded by fencing and before they started charging you for the priviledge….

@@rogue1968 I can't remember the number we lived at in Bingham Road. It was the ground floor flat on the corner of Wilson Road. Larkhill was the first school I attended. There was (in my years there - 62 - 65/66) also a swimming pool and a cinema between Gore Road and the Packhorse (Pub). Not too sure if they were there in the early 70's as I know they were removed at some point. It seems a long time ago now, well, I suppose it is, almost 60 years ago. But happy memories. I was in Bingham Road during the bad winter of 1963 and can remember helping (as much as a 5 year old can) to dig the paths clear of snow...

It would've been difficult to picnic " so often" at Stonehenge during the early 60s. Restorations were in progress 1958-59 and 1963-64 when the fallen upright stones were fixed in position using concrete, then the top stones were placed across these by crane and the area gravelled to reduce damage by visitors.

they delete all the alien conspiracy nutter comments! :(

Itw

Yep, they were us in every respect.

They just seem to have neglected to write it down somewhere so we could know how they did it and we’re too stupid to figure it out. 😂🤣😂.

@@mmcnew1 something like that

Agree, and also that before the industrial revolution, everything took longer than our expectations are aligned to. So its harder to imagine and give them the respect they deserve.

Many assume that our predecessors were the same as us mentally & physically when history,especially evolutionary history,has proven that to be wrong.

I thought the "lady" was quite vague at times with the history of the site, makes me think we still don't know much about the site but cling to sunrises 21st June and 21st December., there is also new information that the blue stones did not come from Wales.

He and her are both guilty of talking in made up drivel Kids watching this will then repeat the drivel to their friends and the lie gains traction. These people know ad much about henge building as you do ! And need to stop bullshitting The henges( circles) in Scotland and Spain and Ireland pre date this one by 1000s of years Stone henge is more or less a modern build in millennial terms. The techno used by the builders was already 1000s of years old when stone henge was eventually finished A lot of historical ignorance being displayed by these broadcasters

@@pauls3204 Not to mention the ignorance of the English language displayed by the commenters.

*centre

Woman would have gotten angry if he'd interrupted her

Pictures show the birth of Stonehenge. Go figure. I didn't know they had cameras when they constructed the pyramids. Btw, no such pictures of the pyramids. They are genuine, unlike Stonehenge. Stonehenge is a hoax. Remember Time Team and the episode with the sword on top of barbed wire? Stonehenge is the same nonsense.

absolutely. the need to think we are smarter than our ancestors gets diminished instantly, lol

Indeed, Stonehenge has been tampered with several times. Archeology in the early days probably has destroyed a lot.

Thank you! Came looking for this comment after pausing at Dan's bold statement which he should know

In 1958 a lintel was hoisted atop the tall stones. I don't see this as severe tinkering, as it would appear clear that's where it came from. Locals raided the stones for animal enclosures and walls for centuries.

How do you know?

@@bobblue_west my grandad worked on it in the 50s and a lot more than that was done and he had now i have the pictures to prove most of the stones were on the floor

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there is nothing like the pyramids of egypt, that's the craziest thing

@@aerokasyeal4840 Well, friend, there're magnificent pyramids all over the world, one of the most impressive being the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. But the Giza pyramids are the last remaining of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Recall the old saying about them: "Man fears time; time fears the pyramids."

@@cdfdesantis699 daaamn sir!

@@aerokasyeal4840 Indeed, my friend!

I was climbing on them when I was a boy in the sixties … serious

If you do the 1st visit of the morning, you can pay more to do a small group visit where you walk within the stones. It’s the best way to visit before the crowds arrive

@@lotsapeachtree5513 when I went recently I was quoted over £25 to see them. A company turns up, makes it tricky and expensive to look at a monument that every Brit has a right to see and claims to ‘maintain’ them. Was so disappointed, our couldn’t even touch them if paid to see them. English heritage

Everyone could in the 70s

It's amazing how somebody who wasn't there and didn't build it knows so much about it. I had no idea Wales even existed 3000 years ago.

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I just went today. It was awesome

Shaping them could certainly have been done on winter evenings when there wasn't much to do but moving them would need a lot of calories. I think they'd be more likely to have moved them during summer when you have long hours of daylight and easy hunting to provide food for the workers. The bluestones were moved from a previous religious site in Wales so weren't chosen for their heat capacity. They must have been so important that when the people relocated they brought them along to enhance their new site.

@@Mathemagical55 My key point is: In frost, the ground offers nicely little drag. That makes the transporting a *lot* easier.

@@zweispurmopped totally believe you. In Game of thrones it was super easy for the white walkers to order the wights to drag out from icy waters, one of deanerys dead dragons unto the ice grounds for the Night King to wake it up.

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Good point. I used to think that they were moved on tree trunks. After all, the Stone Age by that time was at its peak, and the methods of moving them efficiently whould have been passed down thru the generations and the info was lost about 1000 years ago...

Same with the pyramids

The closest road was the A344 which was closed in 2013 the route is now a byway not open to traffic where it passes the stones. Building the tunnel for the A303 will remove that eyesore. Visitor access hours are restricted so this would have been filmed early morning or evening. I have had access to the circle in an English Heritage organised visit. Best way of seeing the monument.

Given that the public isn't allowed to circulate amongst the stones - and that even if we could the fact that so many stones are down - it means the visiting public doesn't really get a "feel" for the place so I've occasionally wondered if it might not be worth building a reconstruction (out of concrete perhaps to get the shapes of the stones as close as possible) nearby on the same line of latitude (likely just to the west) that the public would be able to circulate through. That way the visiting public would also get the "experiential" aspect that is currently missing. Even for researchers there'd be some benefits in terms of things like the auditory characteristics (echoes and such) that aren't really possible right now.

@@davidjames4915 Obviously, much has changed since I paid my visit as part of a student group -- which, alas, must be well over forty years ago, as I remember wandering amongst the stones along with countless other tourists with no one objecting at all. You could photograph them, get right up close, touch them (which I did) -- obviously, much has changed.

In the 1990's, I was taking abus into the Westcountry, and the driver (Because he was a cool bloke) actually took us on a detour to see the stones. It was on that road you refer to...

WHAT HISTORY?

What American says bloke?

American history is english history

@@revolvermaster4939 not really. It’s just as much as African, Spanish & Native American history as it is English.

@@47buddz97 kinda my point

1:03 that isn't really true now is it? Sure the stone rubble has covered the site, but they rebuild it last century with cranes and what not... it's not like what's standing upright there is actually how it was build; it's merely an artist impression.

@@stijnvdv2 yea haha its literally britains biggest scam really

No one knows who they were - or what they were doing…

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@@stijnvdv2 (it's not like what's standing upright there is actually how it was build) How do you know? Do you suspect the lintels were intentionally left on the ground? Hardly an artists impression. (Like the cover of Nat. Geographic on the Egyptian pyramids, where a pyramid was moved with Photoshop for a better image.)

Brian John: Dispelling The Stonehenge Myth/UKposts Watch that video and then reconsider everything you have been told about it.

but this is about the technology the ancients here posessed , we know modern humans have been around for 40+ thousand years ..they had to live somewhere ...but which ones were advanced ,lol

Didn't realise it was a competition

@@almanacofsleep Comparison. Not competition.

@@NoliMeTangere1163 It sounds more like a competition because you're characterizing ancient antiquity. You're saying that this group of people had to live harder lives than this other group of people & setting some kind of a standard of superiority because of the fact that the weather & terrain were harsh & that is why it's just as impressive as Ancient Europe or Ancient Egypt. First of all, the only people in Europe that were "set apart" were the Mediterraneans because of their technology & let's not forget about the birth place of democracy & the classical age. Northern Europeans were tribal people that lacked mathematics or Phylosophy just like South Africans & most of the world and as a result were enslaved by far more technologically advanced societies like Southern Europe & Northern Africa. During the time you stated, the Great Pyramids (2613 BCE) with similar weather conditions were being built, so you can see how your comparison becomes a mater of opinion rather than fact.

What a crock of shit ,,,,, another liar or idiot ,,, they were placed there by archeologists in 1965 to how they thought it should be ,,,,, another way/y they hide our REAL history

Pardon?

this is amazing, thank you

So eloquently said thank you for your expertise and knowledge ❤

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Very interesting

Many thanks!

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Is it true that they used to organize orgies there?

Stonehenge , is a world heritage site , one of the greatest achievements of the Stone Age. TO see it, on a beautiful English summers morning, is breathtaking, it looks totally, magnificent, majestic even , it will look even better, when the bloody Irish, finally finished it,

@@dizzy2020 oh they had plenty of slaves. They worked in the mines.

Yup, if you don't have health and safety regulations* turns out you can get a lot of shit done with just people. *granted they now have lots of dead people since they didn't have such regulation

​@@TheMoneypresident Sure, except the builders of the Giza pyramids in Egypt received wages in the form of bread and beer rations, which was very common at the time since ancient Egypt didn't use coins as currency up until about 500 BC. Would slaves be treated the same? I don't think so. Personally, I find the theory of using water causeways connected to the Nile and rudimentary floatation devices much more believable since it's ingenious and uses technology widely available in that era.

And probably "boat power" and "animal power" too. I can't imagine they didn't use the waterways to transport the stones to the site, it would've been the obvious route at the time as the waterways would've been the equivalent of the motorways. And I cannot imagine they didn't utilise animals either - bear in mind that they believe Stonehenge was first built around 3500BC, about 500 years after we had started farming and keeping cattle and such like. Therefore, it doesn't take much to imagine we might have begun using cattle and the like to do some of our heavy lifting, perhaps pulling the heavy boats downstream or something.

The why is far far more interesting The first form of the Bible was written in 325BC, 80 years before and Antikythera mechanism, and was called the Vaticanus Graecus, Son of the Devine Serpent, a reference to Fomalhaut, which is shaped like the all seeing eye, in Aquarius, the sign associated with John the Baptist, who was a Setian, the root word of Satan. Just as israel is the Phoenician word for Saturn, or El, Fruit of Isis and Ra. In the Second Century AD Astrologer Vettori Valentinus used the Vaticanus Graecus to construct a lunar zodiac of 13 months, this correlates to the 18.6/ 19 year Metonic Calendar, found in the earliest known ancient temples, the Bible, Antikythera mechanism, New Grange and the Bru na Boinne, the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Assyrians, Celts, Phoenicians, and inscribed into the Golden Enoch Horns of the Magi, the Eunuch Druid Priests of Cybel, or Kythera, the "Great Mother", (who also has 216 names) in Germany and France. A Druid took 19 years to train, and the Phoenix was associated with 19 flames. TLDR; the ancient metric system of time used by the builders of the Megalithic sites all over the world directly correlates to the Astrological Zodiac and allows for the surveying of the entire globe. It's worth noting our current system has 8,640 seconds in a day, just as the sun is 864,000 miles wide. Enoch also wrote 36,525 scrolls, which is 365.25 times 100, the Egyptian number of perfection, which allowed them to calculate things to the second decimal place. The Great Pyramid is a Calendar, based on the Metonic Cycle and the Zodiac, hence the association of Osiris with Orion, and Pleiades Isis, atop the back of Taurus, just as the Phoenician Princess Europa, who rode the Bull. The entire Mediterranean region was also mapped out according to key constellations, marked by these Megalithic structures, which themselves encode these numbers The Byblos Baal, or Book of Baal is the Phoenician Almanac, a coded book of Astrological cycles used by the Priest Class of Egypt; the Phoenicians, to navigate the oceans. Phoenicians, Celts, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians and Jews all celebrated their New Year in September, the 7th month, the Sunsign of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, associated with the healing Gods, and marked by the first New Moon in the 7th month after the start of the Zodiac in Easter, when Ophiuchus is the East Star. In September the East star is Orion, aka Osiris, aka Set, Lord of the Dead. Hence the Aleph, and the Zayim, Alpha and Omega. It's also the Birthday of Jesus, and when he said he would return, at the end of the Age. It's reversed to keep the code secret, and written in metaphor so no one could know what was contained therein. It's an Enigma Code, literally.

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Exactly! Very poor details

There is no evidence that the circle was surrounded by wood or covered. Nor does the visitor centre mention such claims.

And of course without that stone circle there those folk would not have had a clue what time of year it was and would have been carrying out their sowing and harvesting operations at disastrously inappropriate times of year ? Y

The priests and village elders would have regularised planting times so as to have food for celebrations. Besides, English weather always looks rainy. ​@@barkershill

Thanks so much!

Yeah, there are a few off the cuff errors, but still very fun.

No, not most. Some. There are photos you know.

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At least Victorian weirdos imagined their own Druids. Modern weirdos are completely lacking in creativity and just hang onto their nineteenth century antecedents' coat tails.

None of the above align with the sunrise on the Summer Solstice. That makes it uniquely special. I'm old enough to have walked up Silbury Hill on my own before the age of industrial tourism.

@@neiltaylor8198 Where?

yeah maybe mate..

@@bobblue_west ring of brodgar - Orkney.

@@mjzigzag older but can't see that it aligns to midsummer. Doesn't matter the place looks earthy and mystical. When I have funds I want to visit Skara Brea.

There's another way to move a rectangular shape & that's end over end using ropes. I move hay bales that weigh as much as I do by myself like this. The taller the stone, the farther you've gone with every "flip" ---

I mean, I’d probably be a lot better at digging holes than carrying a huge goddamn stone cross continent.

some of the stones aren't from the area, so we know they were transported somehow.

@@rameyzamora1018 the problem with that is these stones are like 40,000 lbs each. Youd need...thousands of people. Like at least 5,000 people all lifting in unison. Certainly possible but the populations were barely that large in total.

I think you have figured it out!

Wrong, there was a giant wooden pyramid built over it which injected energy into the stone

There's a fine line between clever and... Stupid.

@@jasonremy1627 or joking....

Took it to 11 bro

Where did you hear that?

@@Fatherofheroesandheroines Geoffrey of Monmouth and similar, plus temporal and spiritual power are always close. Livy, for instance.

@@alexanderperry1844 I'm not certain Geoffrey is exactly someone to listen to. He made up everything he wrote and was only LOOSELY based on past events. So loosely they might as well have been a lead in the wind. Also I don't know where you got the Livy reference.

Livy - Belief in Gods was not universal. Anyway, what do you think?

@@alexanderperry1844 i think Livy and Geoffrey are too debatable but this kind of archeology is more responsible.

Another great way and also used to move ships across land is just to lay down a bunch of logs and push them along, laying logs down in front of them and picking up the ones they’ve rolled over as you go.

What really astounds me is how you can get stones to nest on the pegs of the upright stones without cranes and winches. Would you have erected wooden slopes to push the stones up? Tie massive amounts of rope around to give dozens of men purchase enough to tug them into position?

Katalowins yeah I think that’s possible too, however it would take a very long time to move them all on logs but not impossible. Also they might have used cranes, not the cranes we use today but work in the same way with a weight at one end. However that being said I’d stick to my winter theory, they could of make slopes with ice and snow

a plumb line is doable. A right angled piece of on the ground notched up until it aligned with the string.

They made rope and cordage and could probably make water levels too.

And where did THEY, get their knowledge?

True, they were far mor advance in the science of contraception, and that's why there no longer around.

@@MrDaiseymay Well, it was either from the Romulens or the Irish . Which do you think

@@philcooper279 Pleiadians!

@@MrDaiseymay from our superpower indian

You should visit Anglelsey one day. It's a small island, but it has over 500 prehistoric sites.

@@gerryjamesedwards1227 I did when working in Bangor and valley, some amazing burial chambers/tombs/stones there!!

@@Number12lookslikejoe yes, and as with Stonehenge, I just wish we knew more about the people who erected these monuments, and why.

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No. I desperately want to know what the hell this incredible structure is. I want to know what the people were like, who they were, what technology they developed...I want to know it all. Drives me nuts that we still haven't figured this out...in a good way, of course.

@@LukeDodge916 As the Rolling Stones said, "You can't always get what you want." Any theories we come up with to explain all that will just be speculation at this point. It's not like those Stone Age people wrote down their rationale. Not knowing gives all these people jobs, after all. :-) It's that desperate desire to understand that keeps us searching....

@@LukeDodge916 Yes it is incredible what these people achieved. I bet that with all the knowledge we have, we still could not build this monument today without using modem tools and methods.

Aliens

No

🤣🤣😅 Lol. Seriously? 🙄🤦‍♂️

We don’t know how or why they put them there? There is sites like these all over the world, do you believe there where all just some hunter gatherers with no infrastructure society or spiritual beliefs? All your told in school is about Egypt, and not a right lot about it for that matter anyway, what do you think about the megaliths and sites from those over 10,000 years ago? Or do you just stick to instagram and eating shite listening to the news all day and have no mind of your own?

and it goes up to 11?

no the Druids had nothing to do with it, it predates them by many years

Maybe if they’d used Dobly

@@rbb9753 you'll probably get some clown on here saying ' no it's actually dolby'

They restored what had fallen and was still complete in the 50's. The fallen stones are damaged and broken; they'd have to get new stones!

Hi neighbour! I live four miles from the stones.

Boom. You only need to construct a wooden triangle, rope, a boat, ..., in the stone age. Oh, and LEVEL it on water. Boom, genius. Solved it.

I don’t agree with these stones just “falling over”, these stones are so heavy, I don’t think the Henge was never fully finished, who ever built it was stopped in doing so and apart from the “help” in the 1950’s is now how it was left.

You mean done by a well-known archaeologist and his team... and don't be silly, it's well known that it was in poor shape and needing restoration work. Perhaps you don'r realise that stone holes are pretty easy to find removing the topsoil and getting down to chalk.. Take off that tinfoil hat. If you want to complain about rebuilding...well, Avebury stones were mostly buried before being re-erected by Keiler who wasn't an archaeologist, and some may even be in upside down!

After 2nd set of clap trap phrases i started to smile. Thank you.

@@helenamcginty4920 you're welcome 😘

Times like this is when a copy function would be really handy for the old comment section

Naughty, Trevor.... LOL

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So? Every ancient building has to be fixed after a while. Its not like they just dragged them up willy-nilly and put them in any old place.

Just did it today. Was amazing.

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Antlers, he's not going to suggest deer built Stonehenge, beats aliens.