Woodhenge: The Under-appreciated Neolithic Site
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Seems so sad that many people only ever visit the stones at Stonehenge and don't explore the landscape. The area is full of ancient monuments which must have had a lot of meaning in the past. People complain that Stonehenge is small and you can't go up to the stones, but the ritual landscape is massive and there are many theories about how the monuments were connected or were contemporary. Thanks for highlighting this site
Have you ever visited a ' hunebed' gravesite in the Netherlands before? If not, you should!
Things from the past like this can be so interesting! trying to piece together why it's there and imagining what it would have been like.
My favourite content creator is still killing it! Seeing you in Wiltshire is so surreal cause I've been there so many times - Can't wait to see you film in front of Stonehenge 😉
This is a beautiful video. There's something special about sites like this. Everything is still and quiet enough that you can just breathe in the environment, and feel the connection to the people who, millennia ago, stood in the same site as you stand now.
Ceremonial chalk axe head perhaps? I remember seeing some time ago a long documentary on Neolithic structures and it discussed the Woodhenge circles and how they relate to Stonehenge. Woodhenge is also solar aligned as well. I am pretty sure at that in the documentary they were just the shadows of the post holes and not concrete representations. Really interesting. :)
The concrete drainpipes are set in the original postholes that were dug into the chalk in the Neolithic.
I’ve always been very underwhelmed by Stonehenge - places like Woodhenge are far more interesting to me. Avebury is on another scale, of course :)
Great interview and video as ever!
My imagination kicked in with the chalk axe. I started speculating reasons why someone might have made it. I came to a rather whimsical thought. What if it was a toy? An axe for a little kid. Chalk is light, couldn't really hurt much with it. Maybe it was used to get kids used to the idea of using and taking care of an axe. Maybe there weren't more found yet, is because the majority of them were broken by the kids before they got their stone axes. Using chalk, once again, fairly delicate, could have taught kids to take care of their axe, because a stone one would take so much time to make, giving it to someone who wouldn't take care of it, would be a waste of all those hours of work.
It was probably just ceremonial, but I like my imagination's take on it as well.
Either way, another awesome and interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Another super peaceful, yet educational video from one of my favourite people! This is just what I needed for a sleep Sunday afternoon
Respect! It's Stonehenge's ancestor!
Always feels weird seeing my home on youtube. Living so close you forget how cool stonehenge and woodhenge are at times. Great video!
Never heard of it but now I must go and see it ... and the whole landscape :D
Welcome to the south! Thanks for the video I've seen the signs a lot but never made it over.
What a monumental level of videographic acumen you've attained! (Pun intended.) The musical background and smooth editing tie everything together with just the right feel. You're so enthusiastic and ... oh my goodness it makes me want to shell out and go visit Woodhenge!
Love these videos! Thank you, for taking us places we would never see or hear about, inspiring and educating to people to push out and look beyond.
Great video and story telling (as ever).
I must be honest though - I can't say I agree with the decision to take a magnificent ancient site and fill it with lumps of concrete to aid visualisation. There must have been a better way. It seems a very "local council" style cost minimisation type decision.....chavhenge and all that . Sorry if I'm being too harsh on them.
This has to do with the Flower of Life
Thank you Elise.
Wow ecological archetecture. amking farms of the futre tell stories of the past that's amazing
I lived near Amesbury for a while and I have to say you still haven't sold me on woodhenge. It was underwhelming a decade ago!
Very interesting. I hadn't heard of Woodhenge before. Nice interview too. How about Thornborough Henge as a future location?
I've never heard of this place! If I ever find myself around Stonehenge, I'll be sure to visit Woodhenge, too.
Thank you so much for this wonderful intro to Woodhenge
Wow, this is fascinating! thank you for the video
That's facsinating! Great video! I'll add this place to my plans for my next UK trip!
Make sure to see Stonehenge when you're there and possibly "Hovis Hill" which are all not too far away 👍
@@ashholiday123 Thank you, I will!
In the same area is "Avebury" which is another neolithic ring which is so large that there is a village in the middle. Yes! you can really go to a pub in the middle of a neolithic ring!
another brilliant episode, keep it up!
Amazing!
Could the chalk axe have been a "practice piece"? Something to teach the technique of axe-making?
I like to imagine it was a toy. Just for children to pretend they were like the big, tough warriors.
Woodhenge is better than Stonehenge for the Solstices because there are far fewer people and you don’t have to sit on damp grass because there are lots of concrete stools!
That antler doesn't look very worn?