The mysterious Yew tree and its ancient history - visits with amazing trees
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มี.ค. 2022
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The mysterious long-lived Yew tree, i see these ancient trees at many ancient sites I visit and many churches too, so it inspired me to look into it
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The history of the yew trees is fascinating. You unearthed a lot of info as a result of your curiosity 😊
Thanks, i kept coming across them and realised they were older and weirder than the Great Oaks and my curiosity grew from there
Well researched and thoroughly interesting. I would like to see the five thousand year old yew.
when i started reading out of curiosity it had me hooked
Every yew tree must have an incredible story to tell.
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They have the same genes and they should be studied closely
I'm getting a newfound appreciation for the role of yew trees in history.
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I had no idea yew trees were so intertwined with ancient history. Thanks for sharing!
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I've always wondered about the significance of yew trees in ancient sites. This video is shedding light on it!
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Love it ! found this so interesting and brillient research. Thats why you were researchng it! all makes sense now ;)
Ye lol just had a book come as well trees and the celts in wales as well so might look at something similar in the future, really really enjoyed doing this one
@@Traveler13 owwww, that book sounds great! Look forward to those videos. I can tell you enjoyed it. It came through the video. :)
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Lovely video, thanks for making. Reminds of the Kingley Vale Yews in Hampshire, I used to visit too.
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Great video and reference. You could even say it’s extremely Yewsful. ; )
One of the things that stuck out to me was you said to the Celts the Yew was the tree of death, then later some of the English Longbows were made from the Yew, which literally brought death to thousands 😮
Glad it was Yewsful😆 i found it very interesting to research and have visited a few ancient Yews since 👍
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Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. Interesting video makes me think of language , these trees were there before this language existed.
im not sure about language, i think the Celts had their own language but definitely before the written word yes for sure, does open your mind don't you think
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Great video, I really enjoyed it. The best yew long bows made back in the day, were likely never from old growth yews as the timber is dense and brittle. Instead small and coppiced yew trees we're pruned and shaped in dense woodlands over years to create long straight grained stems with knots in places that will be cut later away.
Ah glad you enjoyed it, they have started to fascinate me since I learned more about them and I keep visiting ancient yews when I find them, got one I'm editing now, they may have been coppiced, makes sense because they were good at woodland management in the day plus they imported European and Irish Yews for the job
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Fascinating video once again. I wonder how far back the worship of Yews goes. At the Bridestones burial cairn near Congleton, about 5 miles from Astbury where the 2000 year old is, there are two Yews placed either side of the entrance to the site. The site is dated to over 5000 years old. The look too perfectly placed to be random.
Due to visit there soon, didnt know about the Yews though even more intriguing, does not sound random but were very important to our ancestors for sure, Christianity adopted them i think, like alot of ancient sites
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But they don't appear on the Ancient Yew Group's map of notable yews in Derbyshire - so perhaps not as old as their location would have us believe.
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Love this info & what amazing, beautiful trees. I love legends 😊 Have you been to the sacred tree in stoke Gabriel? ✨
They are very interesting, no not been there overdue a visit to Cornwall, to be honest, I just had a look so it will be on my list for a future visit, I went to the Llangernyw Yew in north Wales last year, that was amazing
@@Traveler13 oh yes fab, id be interested to know what you make of it. I will take a trip to Llangernyw next time i’m there i love north wales. 😊🙏🏻
@@laurz9804 Got a video on it and there are some standing stonesat the church, lovely area
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I own a 15th century wrought iron executioners axe. It's hafted with a yew stave.
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@@Traveler13 I just dug it out. It's supple & solid as ever. Yew wood was an apt choice considering the axe's function.
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the yew at beltingham behind the church looks like a monster climbing out the tree, not an easy place to find took me quite a while to find it, best keep it a secret that 16 yr old spoilt brat who cut the sycamore tree down on Hadrian's wall could also attack the yew
Oh ill have to look that one up on the Ancient Yew Group, which is a useful site if interested, just released a short one with respect to the tree, it is a shocking and confusing incident i can't get my head around it, what sort of mentality has the mooron got? to hike out to a very secluded place with what must have been a large chainsaw and cut down a national icon, vindictive act of a very sad individual
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The early 6th/7th century Irish church began planting yews around burial site - a custom copied from the Mediterranean area where evergreens such as cypress and laurel were used. From Ireland Irish monasticism carried the custom of planting yews to Strathclyde and Gwynedd where it spread into the West Country and southern England after the 11th century. The Normans copied the idea and yews can be found in churchyards on the English facing coasts of Normandy and Brittany.
Botanical and archaeological evidence shows that the vast majority of yew trees in English churchyards were planted at about the time the churches were built - ie they are medieval.
interesting, but What about the age of some Yews? many are much older than the actual churches
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The supposed pre-Christian origins of many yew trees in English churchyards appears to be down to one man - Allen Meredith.
In the 1970's he had a number of mystical dreams regarding the yew trees which led him to an intense study of them.
He convinced David Bellamy and Allan Mitchell of the Tree Register that yews were much, much older than previously thought and that over 130 were actually older than the churchyards in which they grew. Which is why the church in the video has a certificate from the Tree Register.
But author and folklorist Jeremy Harte points out that Meredith's claims often ignore archaeological evidence that gives a much younger age to the trees.
For instance Meredith proposed that the yew in Selborne church was 1400 years old (6th century) but when it blew down in 1991 excavations revealed archaeological evidence that put the age of the tree as being contemporary with the church - 12th century.
Meredith gave the ages of yews found in three medieval deer parks as being 1000 - 2000 years old. The deer parks were created in the 13th century.
There are a number of monasteries where yews are found. They were built on greenfield sites and the yews would have been planted at the time of construction - but Meredith gives dates of planting as being twice as old as the buildings.
And so on.
There are obviously yews older than the churches near which they stand but in England that often signifies the probability of an Anglo-Saxon marker tree - eg for hundredal courts which are known to have taken place beneath prominent trees. There is no evidence that the Anglo-Saxons believed the yew to be sacred.
And regarding the Druids and yews - I am at present reading Professor Ronald Hutton's definitive history of the them 'Blood and Mistletoe' and the index makes no mention of yew trees at all. So, it is doubtful that they worshipped them or performed rites beneath them - or whatever Druids were supposed to do.
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