Stopped off in Avebury on my way back from a wedding in Devises to investigate a big hill. Apologies for being quite so sweaty. I was very hungover. I edited out all the swearing. 😅 For more sweaty ramblings, feel free to follow me on ye old patreon : patreon.com/TheStoryCrow?
And this one about Avebury being a Serpent of creation (from the book: The Sun and the Serpent by Broadhurst and Miller) and why its (partially) destroyed by the chaos Serpent. th-cam.com/video/tTaP9qW76Q4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=AkALzFL-iLtBxBJM
@@TheStoryCrow lots of folk standing up to say they care about the country ATM. I think your passion puts them all to shame. You may enjoy knowing how I came by your channel. I'm a forager, a Shillelagh maker and recently Ive made a run of Yew hunting bows I designed. The makers mark is Sweet Chariot but each bow gets a mythical or historical name. So far we have Stoker, Shaman, Saxon and Dragon. Your channel is a goldmine of names for my bow venture. I have posted some shorts of them in action, I would be honoured if you would give them a look. Take it steady Mr Crow
On the Mississippi River in Iowa there are Marching Bears - a row of effigy mounds in the shape of bears that sit up on the grassy bluffs overlooking the river. Fortunately the park service will not let cars drive up there so the place is only visited by those willing to do the hike and it maintains the feeling of sacred ground., a very quiet place in a grove of oak trees and the incredible bears. There are also bird shapes that are seem like they are ready to fly over the water. When I visited the theory was there were gatherings of different groups who brought earth from their own home area to build the mounds. There was a mound building culture through the center of the Americas, but my blood aches for the ancestral land of the British Isles and I thank you for bringing these place to me in such a thoughtful, knowledgeable and wholistic way. What a great way for you and yours to spend the solstice. I hope we see some lovely footage.
Love this. Sounds like a magical place. I edited this out of the video, but I’m taking a small handful of earth from our farm to put on silbury hill this solstice. Same idea.
I absolutely love that, travelers bringing soil from their home to add to the mound. Such a cool story! I love your videos so much thanks for sharing yourself and all the delicious folklore 💚 love from Reno, Nevada P.S. what a chair!!!
Wonderful video … yet again. I first came to Silbury Hill and Avebury in the early 70’s aged 16 … in search of Albion. There were no notices forbidding climbing the hill then, as I recall, and I and our little band merrily scrambled to the top. Back then you could go about relatively unhindered, even amongst the stones of Stonehenge.. although we were looked at askance because of our gaudy attire and peculiar choice of transportation … a couple of motorcycles and a beat up Humber. Heady days indeed.
I think it’s a shame they banished the traveller vans from the ridgeway. Now it’s mainly people dressed as tents parked in the national trust car park 🙄
I went to Silbury Hill on a mountain biking trip last year. Climbed to the top and only spotted the signs advising people not to climb it on the way down. There were the remains of candles and various trinkets at the top. It looked like someone had been doing some sort of pagan ritual. Lovely part of the world.
Me Dad was from Marlborough, and Gran told me similar story's and tales like that one. I remember running up down that as a kid with my cousins and brother, over 40+ years ago.
I'm always amazed and fascination of early Britons 😊specially coming from wales 😊I always think of myself as CELTIC origin 😊 I did a DNA ancestry test and I'm welsh English and Irish and Scottish and Norwegian ancestry 😊and I always enjoy your channel 😀 my grandparents use to go out and pick elderberries and elderflowers so they could make elderflower tea 🍵 and elderberry wine 🍷 😀 all the best Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀
Saw Silbury Hill and clicked, what a wonderful video once more! I've celebrated Beltane in Avebury this year. Absolutely gorgeous landscape! I think I left a piece of my heart there ❤️
You are so absolutely energized and well educated about everything I’ve watch you talk about. Your a stellar character my man, you’d be a FANTASTIC travel guide and are an amazing guy to have a TH-cam channel ❤
Ooh, I just started reading Hutton's Pagan Britain a couple weeks ago! I'll have to check out those other books, thanks for the recommendations! Also, I am very much looking forward to your ridgeway walk, I can't wait!
Gorgeous video! I loved hearing about your experiences and look forward to reading some of those book recommendations. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom!
Lovely video and story. I figure the hill was created to create a high enough point to receive a heliograph (reflected light) signal from Milk Hill to the south. Milk hill then connected to Stonehenge in a direct line of sight, where the operators at Stonehenge looked out for reflected silver light signals from the barrows and mounds on the bronze age hill forts to the north of the monument. The signal received at Silbury could then be passed on to Avebury, to complete an extensive early warning communications system against bronze age invaders. They were invading into Cornwall and Devon for its copper and tin i.e. bronze.
Yes the sight lines between monuments are interesting aren’t they? Perhaps a possible later repurposing of the monuments during the Bronze Age and later as there’s not a huge amount of evidence for large scale conflict in the Neolithic? 🤔 but then there’s lots of reasons to make sight lines beyond militaristic reasons
@@TheStoryCrow Indeed. Several years ago I used Google Earth to run sightlines from Stonehenge to the old Bronze Age hillforts to the NW, N and NE. Going to Battlesbury, Bratton Castle, Broadbury Banks, Milk Hill, Martinsell Hill, Chisbury, Sidbury, Beacon Hill, and Bury Hill, they also aligned on the nearby cursus and barrows i.e. Amesbury Cursus, Great Cursus Barrows, Robin Hood's Ball, Netheravon Cursus, Amesbury Cursus, Woodhenge, Old King & New Kings Barrows. Each sightline used the trilithons of Stonehenge to frame the target in the hills in the north, where the heliographs were based, allowing for signals to be sent throughout the day as the sun moved across the sky to the south. It's the reason that the trilithons make a horseshoe shape to the north, with one in the SE as a transmission line back to Old Sarum, and no need for stone arches in the SW. That is, Stonehenge should work perfectly as it is. I also figured maybe that's why "druid" evolved from PIE *deru- "tree, especially oak" + *weid- "to know, to see" to the Proto Celtic *dru-wid- "strong seer". 😂 As the Bronze Age prospectors from the Near East from around 2800 BCE onwards would have had to come through the Somerset Downs to get to the copper and tin of Cornwall and Devon, I also figured that's why Stonehenge was modified from a woodhenge seasonal calendar to incorporate the stones circa 2500 BCE. Another interpretation could be that a type of grail stone, that radiated light, was placed at the centre of Stonehenge, and from there it could have radiated light out to the distant hills, thus illuminating the entire area at night. Either way, keep up the great work of keeping the oral traditions alive.
All of this seems entirely plausible to me. That’s the beauty of these monuments, so many non mutually exclusive interpretations, from different cultures that have evolved and reinterpreted the monuments over successive generations, both in prehistory and today
I just did a painting of silbury hill. I didnt know it was going to be silbury hill until it just popped up in the painting and i thought hhmm thats silbury hill 🤔 and my partner came home and saw it and said that looks like silbury hill (we live in London and only saw it once) so i reckon some giant or devil made me do it 🤷♀️ its the only answer
lol, I just realised why I keep watching videos twice… my phone connects to a different TH-cam account from my iPad 🙄 So I’ve watched this already and commented. Watching again ofcourse 😊
@@TheStoryCrow I have to laugh at my lack of tech skills too 🤭 I just can’t seem to connect the tech dots. Don’t get me wrong… I get by (just about) but I also get confused. Sometime I think I’d be happier as a wandering nomad in tune with nature for my survival, but it will probably remain a dream… maybe next lifetime eh ✨
Swallow head springs feeds the river kennet which was an ancient word for cu*t and possibly where we get the modern word cu*t from meaning opening into mother earth, they would do rituals there, just makes me chuckle every time i see a van go past with Kennett Council on the side
😂😂😂😂 I did not know that, and that totally makes sense given the supposed symbolism of the hill 🤓 I’ll never look at the k and a canal the same way either …
Oh my goodness I really hope I bump into you guys at Avebury. So much synchronicity I cannot ignore. Got a number of those books. I think I told you about my Silbury shamanic healing? Can’t remember how much I told you about it but I too think it has something to do with the great mother goddess as when I was inside it, it appeared womb-like… dark red-brown. I also think it has something to do with the path of transition of souls from life to death. Can’t remember why I think that but long ago… long long ago (🤭) due to the synchronicities that were happening back then for me, it was one of the thoughts that came to me. Anyway, as I said, hope I make it there this year. I’m laid up with sciatica atm and trying to heal it enough so I can get there and make it back home. My friend offered me a lift there but sitting is the worst thing for me atm. I jokingly suggested he could strap me to the top on his van so I could lay down because apart from walking for short distances, laying down is all I can manage for now. If not this year, another. Thanks for another great video 🌞🌑🌕✨
Amazing story again Have you ever looked at Gop Hill Cairn (sometimes simply called The Gop) were located in a more populated area it would be celebrated and the subject of endless speculation like more famous sites such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill. But it is not, and for that, we should, perhaps, be grateful. Gop Hill is a strange manmade mound, or cairn, built sometime during the Neolithic period, on a high hill overlooking Trelawnyd, Flintshire It's not far from me and beautiful cdue to my health I cannot get to it but seeing it from the road is breath taking
@@TheStoryCrow there is an amazing amount of pre history etc here in Wales and as you know ynys Mon home of the druids and the spiritual home of us mad druids although I live in Flintshire
I was hoping you would include the theory of Robert John Langdon (viewers can easily find his website) as to the hill's purpose. I've read his book 'Prehistoric Britain: The Stonehenge Enigma'. It mentions Silbury Hill. Langdon argues scientifically that the water table was much higher following the Ice Age and the Kennet and its tributaries were longer and wider: indeed the river system extended to surround Silbury Hill and beyond. I think Langdon's contention that there was a harbour in the vicinity of the Hill is very plausible.There is archaeological evidence of a significant Stone/Bronze Age population living in this part of Wiltshire. It is important to recognise that people travelled and traded even 4,500 years ago. We know from DNA analysis that the Amesbury Archer, buried near Stonehenge, grew up in Central Europe. Granted he was a Bronze Age man from around 4,300 years ago but we then are assuming Silbury Hill was completed in the Neolithic. The need to travel and trade would have required communities to erect waymarkers including standing stones etc. Because boats could navigate as far inland as Silbury Hill and Avebury, some form of guidance would have been necessary, especially at night or during fog. Silbury Hill could therefore have been terraformed over a long period of time for the purpose of hosting a fiery beacon on top. As the waters receded from Avebury a substantial 'moat' could have lingered around Silbury Hill - as you have found out, the ground is prone to waterlogging even after a spells of dry weather. If you have previously come across Langdon's theory but rejected it, I would be intrigued to know why...
I agree re the water table and tributaries, and that Neolithic peoples used water ways and generally travelled far more than previously thought by academics. Wouldn’t be surprised if boats navigated the waterscape in the sacred landscapes, for ritual and other purposes Not sure about a continuous settlement at silbury hill myself, didn’t think there was evidence for that 🤔 but possible! I’ll check this guy out. Wasn’t omitted intentionally. Just due to gaps in my own knowledge and research. Thanks for the tip off 🙏✨
@@WitchisBitchis Yes, from his initial premise, for me he gets carried away into the realms of fond specilation - I think he posits a kind of lock system adjacent to the Wansdyke. However his hydrological arguments for a raised water table and greater Kennet are generally good.
@@TheStoryCrow Re. Settlement, I didn't mean at Silbury itself necessarily, but in the broader Avebury/Stonehenge area...unless they were migrant workers quite a lot of local labour would have been needed to create these remarkable megalithic structures?
@altair8598 if you walked the Wansdyke and glanced at his raised water level hypothesis you would see how irrelevant (why would you need a continuous canal if water is all around you) and why bother with a canal when there are so many high hills to navigate (the Wansdyke goes over several high hills)
It sounds like any beacon or fire on top of silsbury would make it visible for long distances. If there are a lot of high mounds, or other structures over a pretty big area, maybe they serve as navigation between cities and counties? They could serve many purposes at once
Hi do you think that there are similarities between Silbury Hill & Dragon Hill? maybe an area under the White Horse itself for rituals???? Its a thought Ive had ever since 1st visiting the white horse, Id be interested in your thoughts.🤟
Well, dragon hill is a natural formation, surprisingly, although the top has been scraped off. I would say it had to be a ritual platform of some sort due to its location. So yeah I would say there’s some comparison with silbury hill in that respect. If that is what silbury hill was for. Hard to say really. I guess we don’t know when the top was scraped off either one. Could have been much later. But yeah I get that sense on dragon hill too, with the ‘horse’ behind you. It’s prime psychic real estate 😉
looking at the outline of the hill and the lake, 6:33 - to me it looks very much like a meteorite signature site… it makes a lot of sense why humans would have continued to build up for a hundred years - this spot was holy to them because "God came to earth" from heavens 😮🤭🫣😳
I did not, should have done, I think they can be seen from one another. Never knew the significance of the Marlborough mound when I used to scramble up there to drink beer and smoke roll ups as a teenager 😂
Why...why?do I feel when I watch these docs about time team,or things that shows these beautiful cointryside,field's etc why do i feel like im,...at home??!!🤣 id walk those countrysides just like the 10-20 miles i hear authors doing brainstorming 🤣😂🤪✌️🍻🤟
It's an ancient speaker 🔊 we Jews have always used the Shofar or Rams horn (like stoneage people) as a call to war, call to prayer or destructive device to break down the walls of Jericho for example. Sound is powerful. Now imagine Stone henge was a religious site where many came together to celebrate, priest in the inner area of stone henge like the Holy temple mount, thousands wanting to go to the temple mount or stone henge, this needs tobe controlled to stop overwhelming masses turning up together, well silbury hill was a perfect point to stand 1 or 4 Shofar blowers on top to use a loud or diffrent horn blasts to control people flow towards the temple area or Stone henge in this case during celebrations. To prove this was a speaker to improve horn volume and sound, you need to get a professional Shofar blower to stand on top of this hill, turn his rams horn downwards towards the hill top and blow loud and long, google shofar blasts for examples. Now get 4 blowers facing north, s, e and west and blow their rams horns simultaneously, record the sound volume from stone henge and as far as Avebury ring and one near by. Then stand the same 4 Shofar rams horn blowers on flat ground near Sillbury hill and do the same and record the sound volume difference at stone henge, Avebury ring and near by. You will See a massive difference in volume and projection, do this at night to match ancient atmosphere void of local traffic sound on the A303. This is proof the silbury hill was a ancient speaker for Call to worship and celebrate at stonehenge and to control the flow of visitors to the henge area and a call upwards to the Heavens. Test it, I have solved the sillbury hill anomaly. Ancient people all used the rams horn to signal just like the bible says. It's the oldest instrument and signalling tool. I'm Moshe Ben Israel and I solved it with science. ❤ th-cam.com/video/9ht0ailWQf8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EtQ7aumLzkDaZ-IU
This is very interesting. Led me down quite the rabbit hole this one. I’ve often wondered what the Neolithic British sacred soundscape would have sounded like before metallurgy, and the Shofar is a great potential example - thanks.
@TheStoryCrow I suppose the question is we're stonehenge and Avebury used at the same time? In my mind Avebury would be a great gathering point for people, then they could travel to stonehenge to meet the priesthood people, give payment to them?, is there an ancient route between them? Either way Imagine standing in Avebury ring and hearing shofar blasts at night time, sky and stars, sage burning, it would be amazing and deeply spiritual 🙏 if it was on today, I'd go to experience it!
Quiet you! Erm. Yes. I did try fact checking that after I had shot the video as I couldn’t remember where I heard that factoid and had a hunch it may be off the mark. Perhaps ‘some ancient Egyptian pyramids’ would be more accurate. Just don’t tell anyone. 🤫 😂 To be fair the base of silbury hill is absolutely bloody massive, so it’s total volume is deceptively large. But it ain’t got the height of the Giza pyramids that’s for sure. Would love to see some actual figures. Thanks for holding to account there. At the end of the day, I’m a storyteller, not an archaeologist 😂
@@TheStoryCrow Well facts is facts, and pedants are pedants.😀I can't promise to control myself in future if I spot any more whoppers. Thanks again Crow. Love the work.
No idea Barbara, it wasn’t me, I don’t delete comments. It’s not the first time it’s happened though, maybe TH-cam is using some strange new puritanical algorithm 😅 Thanks for watching 🙏☺️
we do enjoy watching you and your stories but your sound is appalling and very frustrating to the existent we turn of when you sit down to tell the story please fix it as we do enjoy watching
A lot of ancient ceremonies were 'fun'. There may have been some sort of competion to see which team could haul the most earth up the hill during their periodic moots, or something similar. Who knows? I just think it's a shame that when we try to imagine sacred, ritualistic things from long ago, we often tend to picture somber, grueling affairs, when that probably wasn't usually the case. It's a lot easier to convince many people to come play a game than it is to come to a modern day church sermon (especially when the activity involves backbreaking labor). It's sort of a lost concept today, but just because something is enjoyable, or 'fun', it doesn't mean it didn't hold profound divine meaning to them. Think of the Maya ballgames.
I wish I was a farmer, to work with my hands 'Cause it's been too long a ride, too high the fare Well, I built an-climbed a mountain But it wasn't there And I been lookin' all around looked everywhere Well, I built and climbed a mountain But it wasn't there
@@TheStoryCrow (Did appreciate your work on this video by the way, I had to give it a rewatch this morning just cause of a recent bout of migraines giving my that frustrating 'in one ear, out the other' experience. :) (New subscriber, like yer stuff.)
It puzzles me why someone of the 21st thinks they have the right to tell us that we are not allowed to tread where our ancesters trod. If something has survived this long, it's not likely to disappear anytime soon. Many of these parts of our history are not going to be trod by huge amounts of our current populace. Their lives do not include these ancient beliefs. The world has moved on for the majority. Why should the minority be dictated to? Christianty, etcetera has failed to wipe out our ancient history and will continue to do so.
I fully agree. Stonehenge is the worst. It was given to English heritage on the condition there would be full public access, not a £20 paywall. To be fair, apart from that people dont usually pay much attention to the signage if it is not reasonable
Forget all the space cadet bollocks, a mound would have been built up higher over time to give greater warning of invasion. Obviously beacons were set alight to warn inhabitants of impending combat
It’s not a defensive structure, that’s one thing that’s generally agreed on. For starters you can’t see beyond the surrounding hills, which makes it fairly useless as a look out and there’s no evidence of continuous habitation or inhabitants in the immediate area - so nobody to defend 😅 Thanks for watching my friend. I give some book recommendations at the end if you’re interested 🙏
That would seems like an awful lot of work just to build what would amount to a watch tower. He said it was the same bloody volume as a giza pyramid lol. I heard a theory of these hills based on astrology. They built mounds all over the uk to map out the stars and used them for navigation. It's an interesting theory. Heard a couple of people were writing books about the theory, maybe they've been published already was few years ago now. In a similar vain to how the giza plateau layout theoretically reflects orions belt I guess. Just so you don't assume full space cadet. These aren't really maps of the sky, there maps of the internal structure of human conciousness. It's that which they're projecting outward and they're simply using the stars as a matrix upon which to paint their picture
It's a bit like the (false imo) interpretation of the Wansdyke which ironically (or not) begins near to the largest stone circle in England (which is Avebury and also has another neolithic mound called Marlborough/Merlins mound nearby) and finishes (roughly same distance) from the 2nd largest called Stanton Drew stone circle. William Stukeley sketches proved that the Wansdyke was far older than the roman road that cut through it on Morgans hill. Wansdyke is another massive piece of Neolithic ceremonial monument like Silbury Hill imo.
Stopped off in Avebury on my way back from a wedding in Devises to investigate a big hill. Apologies for being quite so sweaty. I was very hungover. I edited out all the swearing. 😅
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No crop circles yet this season. Have you got any stories involving magic circles please?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benben
Not saying it is but this is my favourite interpretation.
And this one about Avebury being a Serpent of creation (from the book: The Sun and the Serpent by Broadhurst and Miller) and why its (partially) destroyed by the chaos Serpent. th-cam.com/video/tTaP9qW76Q4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=AkALzFL-iLtBxBJM
@@WitchisBitchis Crop circles usually start appearing July time.
@experimentalelemental92 end of May last year but crop growth might be a bit slow and low for this time of year
Keep up the good work Crow.
I think we need this knowledge now more than ever
🙏 appreciated
@@TheStoryCrow lots of folk standing up to say they care about the country ATM. I think your passion puts them all to shame.
You may enjoy knowing how I came by your channel.
I'm a forager, a Shillelagh maker and recently Ive made a run of Yew hunting bows I designed.
The makers mark is Sweet Chariot but each bow gets a mythical or historical name.
So far we have Stoker, Shaman, Saxon and Dragon.
Your channel is a goldmine of names for my bow venture.
I have posted some shorts of them in action, I would be honoured if you would give them a look.
Take it steady Mr Crow
On the Mississippi River in Iowa there are Marching Bears - a row of effigy mounds in the shape of bears that sit up on the grassy bluffs overlooking the river. Fortunately the park service will not let cars drive up there so the place is only visited by those willing to do the hike and it maintains the feeling of sacred ground., a very quiet place in a grove of oak trees and the incredible bears. There are also bird shapes that are seem like they are ready to fly over the water. When I visited the theory was there were gatherings of different groups who brought earth from their own home area to build the mounds.
There was a mound building culture through the center of the Americas, but my blood aches for the ancestral land of the British Isles and I thank you for bringing these place to me in such a thoughtful, knowledgeable and wholistic way.
What a great way for you and yours to spend the solstice. I hope we see some lovely footage.
Love this. Sounds like a magical place.
I edited this out of the video, but I’m taking a small handful of earth from our farm to put on silbury hill this solstice. Same idea.
@@TheStoryCrow 🔥🪱
What a tremendous storyteller 😍
Just found you, Fantastic ✨
Welcome aboard ☺️🙏✨🌳🌞
I absolutely love that, travelers bringing soil from their home to add to the mound. Such a cool story! I love your videos so much thanks for sharing yourself and all the delicious folklore 💚 love from Reno, Nevada
P.S. what a chair!!!
Wonderful video … yet again.
I first came to Silbury Hill and Avebury in the early 70’s aged 16 … in search of Albion.
There were no notices forbidding climbing the hill then, as I recall, and I and our little band merrily scrambled to the top. Back then you could go about relatively unhindered, even amongst the stones of Stonehenge.. although we were looked at askance because of our gaudy attire and peculiar choice of transportation … a couple of motorcycles and a beat up Humber. Heady days indeed.
I think it’s a shame they banished the traveller vans from the ridgeway. Now it’s mainly people dressed as tents parked in the national trust car park 🙄
I went to Silbury Hill on a mountain biking trip last year. Climbed to the top and only spotted the signs advising people not to climb it on the way down. There were the remains of candles and various trinkets at the top. It looked like someone had been doing some sort of pagan ritual. Lovely part of the world.
I was there for the great harmonic convergence in the 1990s so I can't wait to watch this video❤
Amazing. Nineties was a special time for Avebury. Not that I was old enough to really appreciate it 😂
Me Dad was from Marlborough, and Gran told me similar story's and tales like that one. I remember running up down that as a kid with my cousins and brother, over 40+ years ago.
Proper moonraker you ♥️😉😂
Thanks for sharing. Hold on to those tales and memories and pass em on 🙏
I'm always amazed and fascination of early Britons 😊specially coming from wales 😊I always think of myself as CELTIC origin 😊 I did a DNA ancestry test and I'm welsh English and Irish and Scottish and Norwegian ancestry 😊and I always enjoy your channel 😀 my grandparents use to go out and pick elderberries and elderflowers so they could make elderflower tea 🍵 and elderberry wine 🍷 😀 all the best Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀
Ah, glad to hear it Andrew - you noticed the elder trees in the video then 😂 beautiful this time of year. Diolch 🏴 🙏
Saw Silbury Hill and clicked, what a wonderful video once more! I've celebrated Beltane in Avebury this year. Absolutely gorgeous landscape! I think I left a piece of my heart there ❤️
There’s something there isn’t there ✨
Awesome video thank you Mother bless you.
You are so absolutely energized and well educated about everything I’ve watch you talk about. Your a stellar character my man, you’d be a FANTASTIC travel guide and are an amazing guy to have a TH-cam channel ❤
Love this comment thank you my friend. Mmm a travel guide. Bet there’s money in that. I’d rather wander around fields talking to you lot though 😂
Fascinating story thank you 😊
Ooh, I just started reading Hutton's Pagan Britain a couple weeks ago! I'll have to check out those other books, thanks for the recommendations!
Also, I am very much looking forward to your ridgeway walk, I can't wait!
It’s heavy going, I use it as a reference work 😂
wow - your deep journeying sounds like a beautiful initiation into the womb realm, cosmic!
What a wonderful story teller!
🦌 🙏
In Shropshire we have the same story about the cobbler,
Though ours a giant and the town was Shrewsbury and the hill the wrekin.
Interesting, yep it’s a common story with many regional tweaks ☺️🙏
Gorgeous video! I loved hearing about your experiences and look forward to reading some of those book recommendations. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom!
Fascinating, thanks!
Top job Sir 😊
Cheers my good man
Luv your enthusiasm. We learned a bit more so thanx for your thorough research looking forward to your next project
Thanks for watching!
Lovely video and story. I figure the hill was created to create a high enough point to receive a heliograph (reflected light) signal from Milk Hill to the south. Milk hill then connected to Stonehenge in a direct line of sight, where the operators at Stonehenge looked out for reflected silver light signals from the barrows and mounds on the bronze age hill forts to the north of the monument. The signal received at Silbury could then be passed on to Avebury, to complete an extensive early warning communications system against bronze age invaders. They were invading into Cornwall and Devon for its copper and tin i.e. bronze.
Yes the sight lines between monuments are interesting aren’t they? Perhaps a possible later repurposing of the monuments during the Bronze Age and later as there’s not a huge amount of evidence for large scale conflict in the Neolithic? 🤔 but then there’s lots of reasons to make sight lines beyond militaristic reasons
@@TheStoryCrow Indeed. Several years ago I used Google Earth to run sightlines from Stonehenge to the old Bronze Age hillforts to the NW, N and NE. Going to Battlesbury, Bratton Castle, Broadbury Banks, Milk Hill, Martinsell Hill, Chisbury, Sidbury, Beacon Hill, and Bury Hill, they also aligned on the nearby cursus and barrows i.e. Amesbury Cursus, Great Cursus Barrows, Robin Hood's Ball, Netheravon Cursus, Amesbury Cursus, Woodhenge, Old King & New Kings Barrows. Each sightline used the trilithons of Stonehenge to frame the target in the hills in the north, where the heliographs were based, allowing for signals to be sent throughout the day as the sun moved across the sky to the south. It's the reason that the trilithons make a horseshoe shape to the north, with one in the SE as a transmission line back to Old Sarum, and no need for stone arches in the SW. That is, Stonehenge should work perfectly as it is. I also figured maybe that's why "druid" evolved from PIE *deru- "tree, especially oak" + *weid- "to know, to see" to the Proto Celtic *dru-wid- "strong seer". 😂 As the Bronze Age prospectors from the Near East from around 2800 BCE onwards would have had to come through the Somerset Downs to get to the copper and tin of Cornwall and Devon, I also figured that's why Stonehenge was modified from a woodhenge seasonal calendar to incorporate the stones circa 2500 BCE. Another interpretation could be that a type of grail stone, that radiated light, was placed at the centre of Stonehenge, and from there it could have radiated light out to the distant hills, thus illuminating the entire area at night. Either way, keep up the great work of keeping the oral traditions alive.
All of this seems entirely plausible to me. That’s the beauty of these monuments, so many non mutually exclusive interpretations, from different cultures that have evolved and reinterpreted the monuments over successive generations, both in prehistory and today
Interesting.Thankyou.
great stuff, thank you
Thank you for this enlightening video and enchanting history ❤
Fascinating video thanks 👍
Thanks for watching 🍻😉
I just did a painting of silbury hill. I didnt know it was going to be silbury hill until it just popped up in the painting and i thought hhmm thats silbury hill 🤔 and my partner came home and saw it and said that looks like silbury hill (we live in London and only saw it once) so i reckon some giant or devil made me do it 🤷♀️ its the only answer
Bloody love this. Sneaky hills infiltrating your artistry 😂
lol, I just realised why I keep watching videos twice… my phone connects to a different TH-cam account from my iPad 🙄 So I’ve watched this already and commented. Watching again ofcourse 😊
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@@TheStoryCrow I have to laugh at my lack of tech skills too 🤭 I just can’t seem to connect the tech dots. Don’t get me wrong… I get by (just about) but I also get confused. Sometime I think I’d be happier as a wandering nomad in tune with nature for my survival, but it will probably remain a dream… maybe next lifetime eh ✨
Thanks for sharing!!
No problem 😊
Swallow head springs feeds the river kennet which was an ancient word for cu*t and possibly where we get the modern word cu*t from meaning opening into mother earth, they would do rituals there, just makes me chuckle every time i see a van go past with Kennett Council on the side
😂😂😂😂 I did not know that, and that totally makes sense given the supposed symbolism of the hill 🤓 I’ll never look at the k and a canal the same way either …
Good stuff 👌
Thank you. I love your videos so much. X
Great video as always.👌💯
Cheers fella, glad you enjoyed 🐗 🌞
Have you ever done Amanita? She is the best, the most healing teacher of all! 💖🍄
I have, but not very successfully 😂🍄
Are you telling stories at Avebury on the soltice?
Not in any official capacity 😂
There is something in the pipeline for future though 👍😊
Oh my goodness I really hope I bump into you guys at Avebury. So much synchronicity I cannot ignore. Got a number of those books. I think I told you about my Silbury shamanic healing? Can’t remember how much I told you about it but I too think it has something to do with the great mother goddess as when I was inside it, it appeared womb-like… dark red-brown. I also think it has something to do with the path of transition of souls from life to death. Can’t remember why I think that but long ago… long long ago (🤭) due to the synchronicities that were happening back then for me, it was one of the thoughts that came to me. Anyway, as I said, hope I make it there this year. I’m laid up with sciatica atm and trying to heal it enough so I can get there and make it back home. My friend offered me a lift there but sitting is the worst thing for me atm. I jokingly suggested he could strap me to the top on his van so I could lay down because apart from walking for short distances, laying down is all I can manage for now. If not this year, another. Thanks for another great video 🌞🌑🌕✨
Thank you once again. I love listening to your videos so interesting x
Amazing story again
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Gop Hill Cairn (sometimes simply called The Gop) were located in a more populated area it would be celebrated and the subject of endless speculation like more famous sites such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill. But it is not, and for that, we should, perhaps, be grateful. Gop Hill is a strange manmade mound, or cairn, built sometime during the Neolithic period, on a high hill overlooking Trelawnyd, Flintshire
It's not far from me and beautiful cdue to my health I cannot get to it but seeing it from the road is breath taking
I haven’t heard of that one! I’ll check it out - thanks for the tip. ☺️🙏👍
@@TheStoryCrow there is an amazing amount of pre history etc here in Wales and as you know ynys Mon home of the druids and the spiritual home of us mad druids although I live in Flintshire
Silbury's magical isle temple...
I was hoping you would include the theory of Robert John Langdon (viewers can easily find his website) as to the hill's purpose. I've read his book 'Prehistoric Britain: The Stonehenge Enigma'. It mentions Silbury Hill. Langdon argues scientifically that the water table was much higher following the Ice Age and the Kennet and its tributaries were longer and wider: indeed the river system extended to surround Silbury Hill and beyond.
I think Langdon's contention that there was a harbour in the vicinity of the Hill is very plausible.There is archaeological evidence of a significant Stone/Bronze Age population living in this part of Wiltshire. It is important to recognise that people travelled and traded even 4,500 years ago. We know from DNA analysis that the Amesbury Archer, buried near Stonehenge, grew up in Central Europe. Granted he was a Bronze Age man from around 4,300 years ago but we then are assuming Silbury Hill was completed in the Neolithic. The need to travel and trade would have required communities to erect waymarkers including standing stones etc. Because boats could navigate as far inland as Silbury Hill and Avebury, some form of guidance would have been necessary, especially at night or during fog. Silbury Hill could therefore have been terraformed over a long period of time for the purpose of hosting a fiery beacon on top. As the waters receded from Avebury a substantial 'moat' could have lingered around Silbury Hill - as you have found out, the ground is prone to waterlogging even after a spells of dry weather.
If you have previously come across Langdon's theory but rejected it, I would be intrigued to know why...
He considers the wansdyke a water canal but you've only got to see the undulating nature of the earthworks to see how ridiculous that theory is.
I agree re the water table and tributaries, and that Neolithic peoples used water ways and generally travelled far more than previously thought by academics. Wouldn’t be surprised if boats navigated the waterscape in the sacred landscapes, for ritual and other purposes
Not sure about a continuous settlement at silbury hill myself, didn’t think there was evidence for that 🤔 but possible!
I’ll check this guy out. Wasn’t omitted intentionally. Just due to gaps in my own knowledge and research. Thanks for the tip off 🙏✨
@@WitchisBitchis Yes, from his initial premise, for me he gets carried away into the realms of fond specilation - I think he posits a kind of lock system adjacent to the Wansdyke. However his hydrological arguments for a raised water table and greater Kennet are generally good.
@@TheStoryCrow Re. Settlement, I didn't mean at Silbury itself necessarily, but in the broader Avebury/Stonehenge area...unless they were migrant workers quite a lot of local labour would have been needed to create these remarkable megalithic structures?
@altair8598 if you walked the Wansdyke and glanced at his raised water level hypothesis you would see how irrelevant (why would you need a continuous canal if water is all around you) and why bother with a canal when there are so many high hills to navigate (the Wansdyke goes over several high hills)
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Being on top of Silbury Hill all of a summers night long may say something of its origins.
Perhaps you’d come down mad, dead, or a poet 😉
It sounds like any beacon or fire on top of silsbury would make it visible for long distances. If there are a lot of high mounds, or other structures over a pretty big area, maybe they serve as navigation between cities and counties?
They could serve many purposes at once
Agreed 👍
Hi do you think that there are similarities between Silbury Hill & Dragon Hill? maybe an area under the White Horse itself for rituals???? Its a thought Ive had ever since 1st visiting the white horse, Id be interested in your thoughts.🤟
Well, dragon hill is a natural formation, surprisingly, although the top has been scraped off. I would say it had to be a ritual platform of some sort due to its location. So yeah I would say there’s some comparison with silbury hill in that respect. If that is what silbury hill was for. Hard to say really. I guess we don’t know when the top was scraped off either one. Could have been much later. But yeah I get that sense on dragon hill too, with the ‘horse’ behind you. It’s prime psychic real estate 😉
It's always about the Mother.
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looking at the outline of the hill and the lake, 6:33 - to me it looks very much like a meteorite signature site… it makes a lot of sense why humans would have continued to build up for a hundred years - this spot was holy to them because "God came to earth" from heavens 😮🤭🫣😳
I dont think you mentioned its twin,merlins mound at marlborough
I did not, should have done, I think they can be seen from one another. Never knew the significance of the Marlborough mound when I used to scramble up there to drink beer and smoke roll ups as a teenager 😂
I know Cley Hill is there because that's where all the blokes who built Longleat scraped off their boots and shovels at the end of the day.
Last time we visited it was Silbury Island.
2020 I presume. It was proper flooded then 😂
@@TheStoryCrow Yes it was around then. We could not get close.
Why...why?do I feel when I watch these docs about time team,or things that shows these beautiful cointryside,field's etc why do i feel like im,...at home??!!🤣 id walk those countrysides just like the 10-20 miles i hear authors doing brainstorming 🤣😂🤪✌️🍻🤟
In Europe? Or some back garden?
It’s kind of in my back garden so…. Both
The Devil came down to Marlborough!... Georgia!!! He gets bloody everywhere!! 😂
It says "Sirius Rising 3000BCE" on the map..
That’s on the avebury henge - windmill hill axis I believe. Lots of stellar alignments in that landscape
It's an ancient speaker 🔊 we Jews have always used the Shofar or Rams horn (like stoneage people) as a call to war, call to prayer or destructive device to break down the walls of Jericho for example. Sound is powerful. Now imagine Stone henge was a religious site where many came together to celebrate, priest in the inner area of stone henge like the Holy temple mount, thousands wanting to go to the temple mount or stone henge, this needs tobe controlled to stop overwhelming masses turning up together, well silbury hill was a perfect point to stand 1 or 4 Shofar blowers on top to use a loud or diffrent horn blasts to control people flow towards the temple area or Stone henge in this case during celebrations. To prove this was a speaker to improve horn volume and sound, you need to get a professional Shofar blower to stand on top of this hill, turn his rams horn downwards towards the hill top and blow loud and long, google shofar blasts for examples. Now get 4 blowers facing north, s, e and west and blow their rams horns simultaneously, record the sound volume from stone henge and as far as Avebury ring and one near by. Then stand the same 4 Shofar rams horn blowers on flat ground near Sillbury hill and do the same and record the sound volume difference at stone henge, Avebury ring and near by. You will See a massive difference in volume and projection, do this at night to match ancient atmosphere void of local traffic sound on the A303. This is proof the silbury hill was a ancient speaker for Call to worship and celebrate at stonehenge and to control the flow of visitors to the henge area and a call upwards to the Heavens. Test it, I have solved the sillbury hill anomaly. Ancient people all used the rams horn to signal just like the bible says. It's the oldest instrument and signalling tool. I'm Moshe Ben Israel and I solved it with science. ❤
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This is very interesting. Led me down quite the rabbit hole this one. I’ve often wondered what the Neolithic British sacred soundscape would have sounded like before metallurgy, and the Shofar is a great potential example - thanks.
@TheStoryCrow I suppose the question is we're stonehenge and Avebury used at the same time? In my mind Avebury would be a great gathering point for people, then they could travel to stonehenge to meet the priesthood people, give payment to them?, is there an ancient route between them? Either way Imagine standing in Avebury ring and hearing shofar blasts at night time, sky and stars, sage burning, it would be amazing and deeply spiritual 🙏 if it was on today, I'd go to experience it!
Aliens
Aliens.
Love your story telling, but it would take about ten Silbury Hills to make the volume of one Great Pyramid
Quiet you!
Erm. Yes. I did try fact checking that after I had shot the video as I couldn’t remember where I heard that factoid and had a hunch it may be off the mark.
Perhaps ‘some ancient Egyptian pyramids’ would be more accurate.
Just don’t tell anyone. 🤫 😂
To be fair the base of silbury hill is absolutely bloody massive, so it’s total volume is deceptively large. But it ain’t got the height of the Giza pyramids that’s for sure. Would love to see some actual figures.
Thanks for holding to account there. At the end of the day, I’m a storyteller, not an archaeologist 😂
@@TheStoryCrow Well facts is facts, and pedants are pedants.😀I can't promise to control myself in future if I spot any more whoppers.
Thanks again Crow. Love the work.
Oh pedant away, I enjoy it 😂
Thanks for whopper spotting
@@TheStoryCrow They are only counting the surface dirt of Silbury hill not the whole thing.
(You owe me for my next alibi)
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Why was my comment deleted? did I breach a copyright or something? Thats why I rarely comment, often deleted. :(
No idea Barbara, it wasn’t me, I don’t delete comments.
It’s not the first time it’s happened though, maybe TH-cam is using some strange new puritanical algorithm 😅
Thanks for watching 🙏☺️
@@TheStoryCrow thank you. i know it wasnt you :)
Older even than the Bosnian Pyramid?
I believe those are natural not man made
we do enjoy watching you and your stories but your sound is appalling and very frustrating to the existent we turn of when you sit down to tell the story please fix it as we do enjoy watching
Low and high volume sections on this one, had to keep adjusting the control.
Yes, I really need to buy better equipment I’m sorry 😂😅
It was a giant wizard devil that built that thang. That's where he stops to rest at night!!
WIZARD DEVIL 😂🙏
A lot of ancient ceremonies were 'fun'. There may have been some sort of competion to see which team could haul the most earth up the hill during their periodic moots, or something similar. Who knows? I just think it's a shame that when we try to imagine sacred, ritualistic things from long ago, we often tend to picture somber, grueling affairs, when that probably wasn't usually the case. It's a lot easier to convince many people to come play a game than it is to come to a modern day church sermon (especially when the activity involves backbreaking labor). It's sort of a lost concept today, but just because something is enjoyable, or 'fun', it doesn't mean it didn't hold profound divine meaning to them. Think of the Maya ballgames.
I don’t disagree, who said building a massive lump had to be boring 😂
I wish I was a farmer, to work with my hands
'Cause it's been too long a ride, too high the fare
Well, I built an-climbed a mountain
But it wasn't there
And I been lookin' all around looked everywhere
Well, I built and climbed a mountain
But it wasn't there
I do tend to think Hutton overcompensates for trying to be a Pagan in academia too much, mind you. But thannks. :)
I actually agree with you there, he concedes a little too much sometimes
@@TheStoryCrow (Did appreciate your work on this video by the way, I had to give it a rewatch this morning just cause of a recent bout of migraines giving my that frustrating 'in one ear, out the other' experience. :) (New subscriber, like yer stuff.)
Ah, cheers, welcome aboard!
It puzzles me why someone of the 21st thinks they have the right to tell us that we are not allowed to tread where our ancesters trod. If something has survived this long, it's not likely to disappear anytime soon. Many of these parts of our history are not going to be trod by huge amounts of our current populace. Their lives do not include these ancient beliefs. The world has moved on for the majority. Why should the minority be dictated to? Christianty, etcetera has failed to wipe out our ancient history and will continue to do so.
I fully agree. Stonehenge is the worst. It was given to English heritage on the condition there would be full public access, not a £20 paywall. To be fair, apart from that people dont usually pay much attention to the signage if it is not reasonable
There is a bigger one in poland
OH NO THERE ISN’T!
Is Magic.... 😅
Dunno, looks like a bear to me,
Mumma bear?
And ....
Wallace Thornhill plasma cave art .
Forget all the space cadet bollocks, a mound would have been built up higher over time to give greater warning of invasion. Obviously beacons were set alight to warn inhabitants of impending combat
It’s not a defensive structure, that’s one thing that’s generally agreed on. For starters you can’t see beyond the surrounding hills, which makes it fairly useless as a look out and there’s no evidence of continuous habitation or inhabitants in the immediate area - so nobody to defend 😅
Thanks for watching my friend. I give some book recommendations at the end if you’re interested 🙏
That would seems like an awful lot of work just to build what would amount to a watch tower. He said it was the same bloody volume as a giza pyramid lol. I heard a theory of these hills based on astrology. They built mounds all over the uk to map out the stars and used them for navigation. It's an interesting theory. Heard a couple of people were writing books about the theory, maybe they've been published already was few years ago now. In a similar vain to how the giza plateau layout theoretically reflects orions belt I guess. Just so you don't assume full space cadet. These aren't really maps of the sky, there maps of the internal structure of human conciousness. It's that which they're projecting outward and they're simply using the stars as a matrix upon which to paint their picture
It's a bit like the (false imo) interpretation of the Wansdyke which ironically (or not) begins near to the largest stone circle in England (which is Avebury and also has another neolithic mound called Marlborough/Merlins mound nearby) and finishes (roughly same distance) from the 2nd largest called Stanton Drew stone circle.
William Stukeley sketches proved that the Wansdyke was far older than the roman road that cut through it on Morgans hill.
Wansdyke is another massive piece of Neolithic ceremonial monument like Silbury Hill imo.
@gothicpagan666 Wouldn't Windmill hill nearby serve a much more effective purpose if that were true?
Very well stated, linking the mind with the cosmos there, common to many ancient peoples
Breast hill in England
I beg your pardon?