Avebury Unveiled: World's Largest Stone Circle, Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow and more sites
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ม.ค. 2025
- Welcome to Dig About, where we unearth the mysteries of ancient landscapes! In this episode, we're embarking on a journey through time to explore the awe-inspiring Neolithic sites of Avebury and the landscape in Wiltshire.
I will take you to each site that Avebury has to offer and explain why they are all unique, monumental, and significant.
West Kennet Long Barrow
Windmill Hill
The Circle and the Henge
The Sanctuary
Silbury Hill
The Avenues
Each site holds a piece of the puzzle to help us understand the lives of those who walked these lands millennia ago and is a testament to the ingenuity and craftsmanship of our Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors.
Throughout our journey, I will illuminate how, when, why, and by whom these remarkable monuments were built.
So, grab your hat and join me as we unearth the secrets of Avebury, where history comes alive amidst the rolling hills of Wiltshire.
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Thank you to Josh Pollard and Mark Gillings for helping me correct my facts, Maria Land for being a great camerawoman, and the National Trust team for letting us film.
Photo references:
Bowden, A. (2021). Avebury Church. Flickr. www.flickr.com...
Andrews, C. (2018). Grey Wethers, Fyfield Down. www.geograph.o...
Willis, R. (2021). Fyfield Down, Wiltshire. www.geograph.o...
I live over in Calne, about 20 minutes drive from Avebury, and have been visiting the site through most of my life.
Really nice to see such an informative video about it, especially as I'll be taking my girlfriend there to visit in September, so i can link her this video beforehand 😊
Very nicely done.
3.7 lizzy and a sqircle lol really enjoyed this look at one of my favourite prehistoric landscapes lizzy :)
Your enthusiasm is infectious Lizzy. I was born down the road in Mere, my play ground was castle hill and white sheet hill fort.
Looking forward to viewing more of your videos.
Brilliant, your passion for subject really shows. Thank you.
The algorithm is working, keep the videos coming! good work.
Glad to see you again. Keep it going.
Great video. Hope to see many, many more!! Thank you!
Great vid
Very cool. I would love to go to England and see them some day.
Awesome vid, thanks!
Neolithic Britain is so cool
Nice one Lizzy - these are so well made, really enjoyed watching 😊❤
Great video, how about Rollright stones next?
Great content. Great channel! New sub from USA here...
your teacher found a bright mind in you , the flame was passed wisely
More bloody great standing stones; if you've seen one you've seen them all.
I’m so jealous lol I live in Massachusetts and while I find arrowheads and stone tools from 10,000-12,000 years ago it makes me so sad to know I’ll never get to go metal detecting in my yard and find a Roman coin or Bronze Age axe head or anything like that.
englishman here jealous of you for those arrowheads and stone tools! the last 2000 years were neat but they do not blow my mind nearly as much as the flint arrowheads etc
@@rundmk00 Fair point. It is pretty exciting to find flints and stone artifacts. I’m just in awe of the tribal era of Britain but your point is well received lol
Cute, interesting and intelligent! Your going to go far. Good luck.
The latitude!
Ancient hydrology shows Avebury henge was a moat on the river.
Oh, I've never heard of this theory. It wouldn't surprise me that it may fill with water.
Robert Langdon has lidar and hydrology program that shows Neolithic water levels of river Kennet reached the henge. The opening in the henge allowed boats to land.
Lol! Robert Langdon, Dan Brown's character from the Da Vinchi code and all that... Well, that must be right then... Wtf!?
Most dont really understand what led to the foundations we inherited or the significance of them,,, With todays anthroposphere that which is external to you, your relationship and your family life is extremely dominant, enough to dictate absolutely everything you are doing and will do through basic choice of the available options whereas this wasn't always the case, When humanity was once able to define what choice is by creating options rather than picking an option invention and innovation was dominant... This realisation is far more significant than people realise....! Decerning factors emerge with the absence of influence but today dominant influences totally restrict the emergence of decerning factors creating a creatively challenged society compare to what once was. This makes problems and issues far more difficult to tackle being that the common denominator is to look back in time for answers rather than to develop new ways of asking better questions......!
Ok, but i think you need to do your research on Silbury again - your telling is not what other archaeologists have said about it :/...