Adam, this is a fantastic video. I rarely if ever comment on YT but am leaving this one to let you know how much your channel has helped ignite my interest in this field of study. Your passion and enthusiasm for the subject really shines through and the quality of your videos speaks for itself. I’ve just ordered a copy of your book and I’m very much looking forward to reading it. Keep up the great work mate 👍🏼
I've only been to Long Meg a couple of times (pre going to Stonehenge in fact!) and as I grew up in the area it never occurred to me just how rare such monuments are in the UK generally. Your video on Castlerigg prompted a trip there over the summer (I've never been, despite visiting Keswick regularly!) and this, similarly, just kicked my desire to go back to Long Meg again into high gear.
@@joannacole681 really happy to hear you visited Castlerigg - such a perfect place. You may enjoy my upcoming 2nd edition of my Cumbria book, there are many of these sites to explore!
Another good one. Had a good lurk around there a while back. Anyone reading this who is planning on coming. Whilst not prehistoric nearby Lacy’s Caves are cool too. Loads up that way. Oh and the book cancellation was denied and it arrived last night. Had a quick browse before and it looks great. Nice one mate. It’s in fine company on my bookshelf.
Love this. Meg is a place of wonder, a place I have communed with more than any other. The Eden Valley is easily as mighty as anything in the South. The vandalism that took place with the building of the M6, I dread to think😢
There was clearly something very strange going on in prehistoric Britain. All these big, landscape-shaping monuments. Increasingly it makes me think of Mesoamerican plazas, where the whole construction is like a version of the world in miniature and simultaneously a stage. Another possibility inspired by that region might be some sort of game or sport that is played within the rings. I'd like to see as detailed a map as possible that animates each monument on the date it was built. I expect there is insufficient data to do this, but if we could see them going up in sequence it might tell us something.
@@AdamMorganIbbotson That would be great. Although I also see recent thinking that this might all begin from Brittany, which would be something to bear in mind, although that data might be even less available. Even without it, we might roughly expect to see them start in the south and spread north in Britain.
There seems to be some confusion around the 9:00 minute mark. The altar stone at Stonehenge isn’t outside the circle. The Heel Stone is outside the circle and aligned to the solstice.
It's very well preserved, certainly doing better than its neighbour which has only 4 stones left! Definately one of the greatest prehistoric sites in the UK.
Why do people always bring Stonehenge into these discussions. It is more pretty than most neolithic sites but is very recent. It was one of the last to be built, 500 years after the pyramids. Long Meg is far, far older.
@@AdamMorganIbbotson A supporter born in Otley WY … living in Perth WA at the moment …. I never realised how much prehistory we had in our backyard Yorkshire/Lancashire/Cumbria …. That you mate and more will be special! ⚔️⭐️🙏😎👏🙏
Great video , your coming from a different perspective , i do this 3-4 days a week going to different ancient energy spots , have been 3 times to long meg and her d`s , i kind of mix info and the spritual aspect when visiting sites , i like your concept of a template almost of what has to be in the hinterland and the reasons why , then seeing if this is evident in other sites , thank you ps , your goingf to marbourough henge and thew table not far away is a holy grove
Why are there always paths or roads dissecting these. Even Stonehenge has it but it’s like more modern settlers (1500s) decided to reuse the site but cut a pathway through the circles when it would be no more difficult to just go around it
@@PeterAnderson-n7x New landscape - Heathwaite Fell New sites in the Lake District New sites in the Eden Valley New sites in South Lakeland Additional information for all major sites New and improved maps New and improved photography
@@yanina.korolko The Romans used the sites by crossing religious Gods. It was still 'paganism'. The Christians tended to be offended by them and destroyed them. Christianity is a Roman religion and the shift in how things were done came when that unifying religion came about. So, I disagree. Not saying nothing ever happened but it's common knowledge the Christians had a very good go at destroying them. Like at Avebury.
@@fillyfresh the Romans destroyed numerous religious sites, burned them down to the ground… including the tribes themselves. I’m sorry you disagree , that means you have not read enough. Hit the books. 🖖
3:41 I am so sorry… ❤but in English it is ‘fewer than half’ not ‘less than half’ especially if followed up with the word ‘quantity’. 👍several, one, many, fewer, few = when dealing with a countable quantity - such as people, objects, numbers. 👍 lots, a lot, much, huge = when dealing with non-countable quantity - such as water, dirt, poop, air…
4:12 ❤ I greatly apologize again … but in English it is (or some number in miles) not and never “or some amount in miles” 👍amount = used only when you cannot count something, like - amount of water, amount of poop, amount of vomit, amount of bullshit… 👍 number = used when you can and do count something, like - number of miles, number of days, number of pages, number of people… ❤
Thankyou for your presentation very interesting, however Professor Thom is no longer with us and to dismiss his findings with his photograph with the word "wrong" over his face I find a little condescending. Thom was a pioneer and of course like all science his work should be challenged but should be treated with respect.
@@thylacinenv that video really seems to have resonated with people! I only made it in a day! Could be a major site if people gave it a proper look in.
Good show lad! Was the opening footage of the reservoir at Ann Riggs at Torver? My friends live close to there. Anyway, I have a good story about Long Meg from a Christmas Day visit many years ago - I'll tell you some day. Take care. Ad altiora!
Hi, Stefan Milo sent me. Great stuff you have there, glad to find your channel!
@@jantyszkiewicz8823 Thanks! Hope you enjoy my future vids (go watch my Shap video as well!)
Thank you for doing this! Please never stop
I’ll stop when I’m dead
I so enjoy seeing these different stone circles! I may never see them in person, being old, but so enjoy these videos with you as a guide.
@@gothmamasylvia462 Really love to hear that, glad you enjoy the videos!
You know a stone circle is important when a road is carved through it.
Ive been shouting long meg at the Stonehenge alter stone coverage too
Thanks, great videos.
Fantastic video Adam, really liked it!
Thanks Adam - really appreciate the support
Really interesting and well presented
Really appreciate it, thanks!
What a channel to discover! I want to support!
I only visited Long Meg the once. My favourite circle is always Castlerigg.
Adam, this is a fantastic video. I rarely if ever comment on YT but am leaving this one to let you know how much your channel has helped ignite my interest in this field of study. Your passion and enthusiasm for the subject really shines through and the quality of your videos speaks for itself. I’ve just ordered a copy of your book and I’m very much looking forward to reading it. Keep up the great work mate 👍🏼
@@JoeFrater-yd3st cheers Joe - that means a lot!
This is just what I’ve been looking for. Great subject. I hope to see more like this. You’re doing great, just be yourself and keep it real.
@@dawnmrodgers Thanks Ms Rodgers
This video is the bomb. Awesome video!
Thanks Adam Ibbotson - really appreciate it mate.
I wonder why as a lad at school, none of this history was taught. Could give two s..ts for the royal crap force fed.
@@grahamkearnon6682 The Tudors were apparently more important than the entirety of prehistory
I've only been to Long Meg a couple of times (pre going to Stonehenge in fact!) and as I grew up in the area it never occurred to me just how rare such monuments are in the UK generally. Your video on Castlerigg prompted a trip there over the summer (I've never been, despite visiting Keswick regularly!) and this, similarly, just kicked my desire to go back to Long Meg again into high gear.
@@joannacole681 really happy to hear you visited Castlerigg - such a perfect place. You may enjoy my upcoming 2nd edition of my Cumbria book, there are many of these sites to explore!
@@AdamMorganIbbotson I have been gazing lustfully at your writings - so a second edition would probably be enough to prompt me to spring for it!
Thanks as always, Adam.
Another good one. Had a good lurk around there a while back.
Anyone reading this who is planning on coming. Whilst not prehistoric nearby Lacy’s Caves are cool too. Loads up that way.
Oh and the book cancellation was denied and it arrived last night. Had a quick browse before and it looks great. Nice one mate. It’s in fine company on my bookshelf.
@@doomslobs really appreciate it, thanks!!
3:25 Road planners should go to specsavers ...
Love this. Meg is a place of wonder, a place I have communed with more than any other. The Eden Valley is easily as mighty as anything in the South. The vandalism that took place with the building of the M6, I dread to think😢
@@traceyspark7127 Have a watch of my Shap video if you haven’t! It’s even worse what the rail track did…
And yes - Eden Valley > Stonehenge
Another great video, mate! Well done.
@@ChrisN1973 thanks for the support!
There was clearly something very strange going on in prehistoric Britain. All these big, landscape-shaping monuments. Increasingly it makes me think of Mesoamerican plazas, where the whole construction is like a version of the world in miniature and simultaneously a stage. Another possibility inspired by that region might be some sort of game or sport that is played within the rings.
I'd like to see as detailed a map as possible that animates each monument on the date it was built. I expect there is insufficient data to do this, but if we could see them going up in sequence it might tell us something.
@@garethmartin6522 That would be cool. And could be done based on Aubrey Burl’s work! Will do it
@@AdamMorganIbbotson That would be great. Although I also see recent thinking that this might all begin from Brittany, which would be something to bear in mind, although that data might be even less available. Even without it, we might roughly expect to see them start in the south and spread north in Britain.
There seems to be some confusion around the 9:00 minute mark. The altar stone at Stonehenge isn’t outside the circle. The Heel Stone is outside the circle and aligned to the solstice.
@@rick7102 The Heel Stone is yes. But the Altar Stone is too! I meant ‘outside the circle’s circumference’
You went to Oddendale.. We were up there no long ago doing some healing. It seems sort of abandoned. I think it could/should be maintained.
It's very well preserved, certainly doing better than its neighbour which has only 4 stones left! Definately one of the greatest prehistoric sites in the UK.
We have been to Long Meg a few times. really enjoyed listening to your video
Why was the picture of Shap edited out?
@@JohnTreacy-ix3wr I have received a copy of the original! But they’ve asked I don’t show it!
Great content. I’m going to watch it again.
Watch it at least 1-million times please.
Great video. I enjoyed learning about the super henge. Never heard about that before!
It's a shame it's not very widely known. One of the largest in the country!
Why do people always bring Stonehenge into these discussions. It is more pretty than most neolithic sites but is very recent. It was one of the last to be built, 500 years after the pyramids.
Long Meg is far, far older.
@@PanglossDr Because 99% of people have no idea there are more sites like Stonehenge. You wouldn’t believe how braindead the population isz
Really enjoy your videos. Was it Stewart Ainsworth though?
Almost certainly not... but it looked just like him!
Cracking video mate … Thank you ⚔️⚔️⭐️👍🙏🏆
@@andrewlamb8055 cheers Andrew!
@@AdamMorganIbbotson A supporter born in Otley WY … living in Perth WA at the moment …. I never realised how much prehistory we had in our backyard Yorkshire/Lancashire/Cumbria …. That you mate and more will be special! ⚔️⭐️🙏😎👏🙏
That may indeed be Stewart. At first I laughed out loud, but then I looked again, and there may be something to it 😂
@@RianHagebeuk right?? He was doing work in the area when I filmed this - so who knows…
Lol, have you tagged @timeteamofficial?
Great video , your coming from a different perspective , i do this 3-4 days a week going to different ancient energy spots , have been 3 times to long meg and her d`s , i kind of mix info and the spritual aspect when visiting sites , i like your concept of a template almost of what has to be in the hinterland and the reasons why , then seeing if this is evident in other sites , thank you ps , your goingf to marbourough henge and thew table not far away is a holy grove
@@stevep888 thanks! And it’s ’Mayburgh henge’
Great video mate, enjoy them immensely! Wish we had that kind of history down here in Tasmania LOL
@@tangofox7124 You used to have stone circles down there too! Colonisers destroyed many of them
great episode! big ups
Thanks! really appreciate it!
@@AdamMorganIbbotson & I wasn't aware of Elva hill circle - so thats on the list now 🙌
@@ForestArchaicCollective one of the best!
Why are there always paths or roads dissecting these. Even Stonehenge has it but it’s like more modern settlers (1500s) decided to reuse the site but cut a pathway through the circles when it would be no more difficult to just go around it
@@apb3251 Tourism
Great content Adam and a great book. Any chance of a supplement for those of us who bought the first ed.....?
@@PeterAnderson-n7x supplement? What is that???
@@AdamMorganIbbotson perhaps a little cheekily…..I cant really justify buying the book again and so wondered what the extra 40 sites are….?
@@PeterAnderson-n7x
New landscape - Heathwaite Fell
New sites in the Lake District
New sites in the Eden Valley
New sites in South Lakeland
Additional information for all major sites
New and improved maps
New and improved photography
@@AdamMorganIbbotson any details on Eden sites - my local “patch”
@@PeterAnderson-n7x i’ll make a video listing them for you all x
Trading posts?. another thought as to what these things might be related to.
@@vespasian266 An idea shared by many top archaeos. A trade hub / religious enclosure
😮very interesting 🧐
@@zhunya_asmr not as interesting as you whispering about serial killers
No mention of Colonel Lacy?
He tried to destroy the site. He doesn't bare mentioning beyond a gutteral spit.
@@AdamMorganIbbotson 😅👍 I wondered if that was your line of thinking. Bloody good caves though.
@@AdamMorganIbbotson
But did he?
Lots of online posts about this that start with variations on - 'It is said that Colonel Lacy..........'
Fallen stones could be attributed to Christian vandalism.
If so, they did a poor job. I'd have started with Long Meg herself, for one.
@@AdamMorganIbbotson They probably did, you said it could be buried 15' deep...
not just Christian vandalism. Before Christianity, England was ruled by Roman gods… per se.
@@yanina.korolko The Romans used the sites by crossing religious Gods. It was still 'paganism'. The Christians tended to be offended by them and destroyed them. Christianity is a Roman religion and the shift in how things were done came when that unifying religion came about. So, I disagree. Not saying nothing ever happened but it's common knowledge the Christians had a very good go at destroying them. Like at Avebury.
@@fillyfresh the Romans destroyed numerous religious sites, burned them down to the ground… including the tribes themselves.
I’m sorry you disagree , that means you have not read enough. Hit the books. 🖖
Who put a bloody path through it? lol
Who knows! But old maps show it there for centuries!
@@AdamMorganIbbotson Hmm, must be an old farm perhaps...
3:41 I am so sorry… ❤but in English it is ‘fewer than half’ not ‘less than half’ especially if followed up with the word ‘quantity’.
👍several, one, many, fewer, few = when dealing with a countable quantity - such as people, objects, numbers.
👍 lots, a lot, much, huge = when dealing with non-countable quantity - such as water, dirt, poop, air…
@@yanina.korolko Remind me to amend that in my book…
4:12 ❤ I greatly apologize again … but in English it is (or some number in miles) not and never “or some amount in miles”
👍amount = used only when you cannot count something, like - amount of water, amount of poop, amount of vomit, amount of bullshit…
👍 number = used when you can and do count something, like - number of miles, number of days, number of pages, number of people…
❤
@@yanina.korolko Thanks! 🙏🏻
Thankyou for your presentation very interesting, however Professor Thom is no longer with us and to dismiss his findings with his photograph with the word "wrong" over his face I find a little condescending. Thom was a pioneer and of course like all science his work should be challenged but should be treated with respect.
@@thylacinenv don’t worry, it’s just a joke. I was being purposefully obtuse!
@@AdamMorganIbbotson thanks for your reply, I paticularly enjoyed your presentation on the Shap stone row.
@@thylacinenv that video really seems to have resonated with people! I only made it in a day! Could be a major site if people gave it a proper look in.
Good show lad! Was the opening footage of the reservoir at Ann Riggs at Torver? My friends live close to there. Anyway, I have a good story about Long Meg from a Christmas Day visit many years ago - I'll tell you some day. Take care. Ad altiora!
@@peterburgess5974 Well spotted! A true local 😉
A vampire was found a few miles away in the village of Croglin
Them rural folk are superstitious
Nice one Adam, great production.
@@pwhitewick Cheers Paul - really appreciate it!