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I have been to Tintern a number of times. Well worth the visit.

Went there, Dragon Hill in late 80's and saw a woman and hallucinated, heard the trappings of a horse. Suzie from Leeds... 3.38

What a stunning video, thank you.

Stumbled right into this channel ! Your work is exceptional ….. thank you ! Kindest regards and best wishes, West Virginia USA

Well done presentation. It’s a shame they had to be celibate. They should have been able to get married and have families.

Interesting. However, I have never accepted that this is a horse, for me it is clearly a fox. Who would have have created a horse with such a tiny head and short legs? And the tail is certainly more like a fox. The tail of a horse hangs downward or held high and the hairs trailing behind, the tail of the fox is held proudly outward containing bones until the very end. And the next hill along is called Fox Hill about 7 miles to the West along the Ridgeway.

We have similar things in Australia that can only be seen from the air, all made from walking & moving stones away from the lighter coloured earth underneath. So strange. So beautiful.

Would you go for this one instead for the mavic 3 classic?

Quite interesting but what a lot of waffle, virtually no information whatsoever about the horse. It should have been much shorter. Or better still he should have waited 'till that paper was published before he made it. Very disappointing.

Just been on holiday and walked the Ridgeway by the Uffington White Horse and castle today; it is absolutely amazing!

When I was a child-6ish we lived in England. We took a trip to Scotland and there were many chalk crests and pictures up there. Have you done any videos of those? I’ve always been curious about them also.

I'm thinking it was basically a trade sign - looking at the time they think horses were introduced to Britain it could be this was just an early precursor to the advertising hoarding - "Get your horse here" kind of thing 😂

Lovely to go there in my armchair.

I just happened upon your channel an hour ago and am enjoying myself immensely. Your knowledge of Medieval history, culture and architecture makes the videos both interesting and informative. Many thanks. PS. Thank you for pronouncing Bealieu correctly. I cringe whenever I hear people (even the locals!) call it Bewly. Ditto for when they pronounce Boulogne as Booloin!

I visited the beautiful horse on the hill decades ago on my one and only trip to England, visiting a university friend who had moved l to London. Being an art history grad, I had made a list of all the ancient sites I wanted to see. My poor long suffering friend wasn’t as into these things. I have a photo slide somewhere of the horse, and the giant as well. Wonder if I can find them. Thank you for this video. It brought back memories I haven’t had in years. Such a magically beautiful and mysteriously evocative part of England.

Thank you for another excellently presented film and story.

Doesn't look like a horse.

There's a good pub opposite the abbey where you can enjoy lunch in the garden overlooking the ruins.

The dragon Hill used to be one of those giant trees, but cut down by.....? long before the ice-age. As everywhere else in the world can be found. There probably was a race of giants who built giant stone structures with giant machinery. I do not wish to explore these stories further, because they are frightening, but I do hope that if they indeed came from another place in our solar-system of even further away, they have massacred each other.

The Whitehorse is a symbol of infertility. It's a warning ,do not live here. It will make you talk like a woman. The giant symbolizes a unique.

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I know this is a year old, but I have a theory. I was visiting Luxembourg in spring of 1999 with my husband’s high school history teacher. After lunch he showed us around a small plaza with a prominent water fountain. Nothing unusual jumped out at first, but he gave us some clues and we suddenly realized the entire fountain was a series of monkeys engaged in every imaginable sex act😂. He told us it was designed by the townspeople (long ago) and dedicated to the local Bishop who was universally despised. The Bishop allowed it to be built because another Bishop (loved by the people) in a nearby town had been honored with a lovely, ornate fountain dedicated to his years of service. Eager to show off, he even gave money from the church coffers to allow for a real show stopper in his honor. It was so well camouflaged, there’s a good chance the Bishop didn’t even see what was right in front of him, lol! Maybe the Cerne Giant was in ‘honor’ of another not so beloved authority? It’s just a theory, but I think there’s a good chance people have always thought the Giant was pretty cheeky, and it would have been a great joke if that was the origin. Thanks for the video! Cheers

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King Alfred is my 30 x great grandfather,lots of other people too. Thomas Hughes gives a great description of the annual scouring. It's certainly mystical how people always knew it was significant even after they didn't know why. Isn't it they find now that the people who made Stonehenge and lived in that whole culture they were born,a lot of them in what we now think of as northern France and Belgium,these folk came and went to and fro. We forget that it was not separate countries then,so the culture that made Stonehenge and lived in that high ground from Dorset to Oxfordshire was kind of pan-european.

I think it's a lot younger than we are told , put there to hide whats underbeath .

The fact that tbe government are blocking getting skeletens back shows more a cover up of dates and what we are veing told and in order to do that and set the narrative that they want thats what they have done with all our real past and history....

The chalky soils are perfect for growing Chardonnay and, given the current warm trend of climate change, I expect these magnificent slopes to be entirely covered in vineyards within a decade or two.

I wonder how much the image of the horse has changed over thousands of years? If it has been re-traced every 20 years one would expect that its lines would slowly drift, a bit like a story that is told and re-told over and over...

Hello, Matt! 1st time viewer here in the USA snooping around UTube for British history, geography, and anthro&archeology content. You've just gained a follower! Matt, what immediately stands out about this beautifully recorded and edited content is your ability to step back and let the wise local elder featured speak. Prompted by your marvelously curious questions. Bravo!! Thankyou for that!! I'm excited about the prospect of exploring the rest of your content.🧜‍♀️🌬💕🙏 Melly

It was a treat to watch a friendly, conversational, informal interview. The world could use more content like this. Thank you!

youve many fallacies of kings and the peopleing of the sands of time, such a pity...............

To me its a wonderful piece of art that looks like a stylised horrse. But the more i look at it, the more i feel it was a beautiful attempt to draw a 3d representation of a horse on a 2d surface with possibly little reference of how to draw 3d to refere to.

This not an English man . Maybe Welsh but more probably a new comer

"Bottom print of Thomas Cromwell". Lol. Great video Matthias, very fascinating and beautifully delivered. Hailes is well worth a visit, not least for the excellent apple orchard shop next door. I don't buy the authenticity of the relic, they were fabricated by artisans to order in the Middle East, especially in Jerusalem, throughout the early middle ages and sold to the credulous. It's reasonably to suggest that 99% of the well known ones were fakes. A small pronunciation tip: the 'Scilly Isles' are pronounced like 'silly' and not 'skilly' as you have it. Your English is generally very impressive!

Considering the extraordinary size of his club with which to 'dong' things with, I'm surprised he is not known simply as 'The Big Donger"!😉

I was born nearby and my father followed the local tradition and took me and my brother and sister there, to stand on. The grass. eye of the horse and make a wish. In turn, I took my son there but there was by then a fence. So I lifted him over and told him what to do.

Lovely. New subscriber. We will be visiting England for the birth of our third grandchild in two weeks. It is a lifelong dream. I’ve always wanted to see the Uffington Horse, so that’s how I found you. Then I watched the Giant, and now am “here” at Hailes, which will certainly be on my list of must visits. Thank you so much for the history, peace and beauty you’ve shared.

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There’s one in Russia as well.

4:59 minutes in the sheep is saying, and what are you looking at, we've been here a lot longer than you have whilst chewing the grass.😊

Meaning horse country . Spiders..spider country.. Etc etc..

You have to go there to appreciate the chalk image in scale in this topography. It is not very big, and is hard to see clearly unless you fly a drone camera. Amazing, beautiful, mysterious artwork, 3000 years old!!! Loved and maintained by local folk for aĺl those years. The burials/ graves were frightening though. The arrangements of posed dismemberment look like some sort of vengeance, that I'd rather not think about. Really enjoyed this video. Thanks. Nick.

perhaps such figures did overgrow but their shapes were discernible by the differences in the overgrowing vegetation than the surrounding ground, such as we see from aerial views that detail the outlines of structures, only perhaps in reverse, that process as the growth on compounded chalk trench lines was less than that on the surrounding undisturbed ground ?

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Ouch! Emma was a bit naughty.

Enjoyed the history and hope the book is in America

... lidar of the white horse... th-cam.com/video/YLyxyCIUfls/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=PrehistoricBritain

My theory is that it's an advertising billboard. Lambourn is just down the hill from there, and it's long been famous for race horses. With the importance of horses in the pre-industrial era, it was an advert for the local horse breeding community. See this big white chalk horse? You can have a fancy horse too! Come into the valley!

Excellent post - I'm now subscribed. Not sure why the TH-cam algorithm recommended a giant phallus. Must remember to clear my search history from time to time.