I absolutely love American reactions to our tourist attractions, simply because we sometimes forget the history and beauty that is right on our "doorstep", we honestly forget just how stunning this country of ours is at times.
A lot of research has established how Stonehenge was built. Basically, the builders were extremely good engineers who understood about using ropes and wooden frames. Stonehenge is the most famous ancient site, but Avebury, Uffington, Belas Knap and West Kennet all impress me more.
Some of those stones, at Stonehenge, were quarried 180 miles away and somehow transported to Stonehenge, across that 180 miles of hills, mountains swamps and rivers, using Stone Age technology. We still don't know how it was done. Though there are a host of competing hypotheses, none of them verified. :)
Don't worry about the 'public toilet bars'! They are Victorian ex-toilets that haven't been used for peeing in for decades - but are amazingly decorative structures! And they don't smell 🤣 Quay is not the same as key! The latter opens a door while the former is a bay by the sea - so the Quay House is just a house on the bay front.
@@SimplySavageReactions Not robbed at all. A lot of the English language - and in particular the spelling - is derived from the French influence. The last time the UK was conquered was in 1066 by William the Conquerer who came from Normandy in France and many words in our everyday language are anglicised versions of French words.
I’ve seen online some people making those underground public toilets into a house by combining gents and ladies toilets together, at first you’re like yuck 😩 ,but when you see what they have done inside and the prime locations , they look great.
The Bluestones did, but they are the smaller stones and weigh about a ton each. The really big stones (sarsen stones) probably came from about 15 miles away from the Avebury area (West Wood). Still impressive that they moved, shaped and raised them though.
I've lived in the UK all my life but had never heard of Diggerworld or the Puzzle Wood 😄 I highly recommend Portmeirion, it's beautiful, but try to go off peak otherwise it gets very busy. It's impossible to have a list of only 10, there are just so many more.
@@thewhitewolf7416 Oh and Elvis is alive on Mars. Another crackpot conspiracy theory 😂😂😂 And the earliest photo of Stonehenge is 1875. Try talking out your mouth instead of your arse.🤫
It actually tell you on the official stonehenge Web site and the earliest photograph's anyone can find of stonehenge is the pictures of them building it! Don't you think it is weird that nobody took a photo of it as it was such a magical place? Especially as photography was around for ages beforehand?
Only the little tiny ones. They had boats, they had oxen, they had burly men willing to do drag for cash. It's not all that startling. Gimme a hundred squaddies and the same of oxen and I'll get you the entire blue stones from oot to boot in about a week, there and back.
There is a diggerland about a 5 minute walk from my house. Often go for a walk past it or to the park and see people above the trees in a giant bucket lol
Nice to see Abbey pumping station getting a mention. I remember going there on a school trip back in the early 80's. I could easily visit again as Leicester is my home town. 🙂
The alignment of Maeshowe is such that, only at the winter solstice, light from the Sun shines directly along the narrow entrance tunnel and into the main chamber. The columns of Staffa formed when the lava was buried and cooled slowly. The lava shrank slightly forming the hexagonal columns. A similar effect can be seen on the Isle of Skye at Staffin. Both place-names share the same Norse root - found in current English in stave and staff.
Two more places came to mind 1. Hundred acre wood from Winnie-the-Pooh books is actually 500 acres forest called Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Beautiful place. 2. Principality of Sealand. It is unrecognised micronation set in Rough Tower in North Sea about 12km from the coast of Suffolk. Rough Tower was built during World War II. From 1967 is occupied by a family and friends of a guy named Paddy Roy Bates. Check it out on TH-cam and read it on in Wikipedia. Fascinating place.
Fingals Cave was formed by volcanic rock in the form of magma, being rapidly cooled and 'crystallised' forming the straight edged pinnacles that we see there. As a thought to nought, Led Zeppelins Houses of the Holy album cover was designed like this too.
Although I live in the UK I didn't know about seven of these attractions. About Stonehenge: there are all sorts of theories about how they built it over five thousand years ago. I am no expert, but the stones and rings themselves seem to be a highly complicated, and technical, annual calendar and clock (don't ask), but I heard only weeks ago that, now that we have 'time' beaming at us from space, scientists (American?) found dear old Stonehenge was only a few seconds 'out'. Amazing.
My grandparents lived in Wiltshire so we drove past Stonehenge each time but I’ve never walked around it, it’s a lot bigger then what you see with burial mounds around the stones but no one can actually say how they got those stones on top without modern day machinery it’s all by hand it keeps you guessing for sure…
I think modern day machinery has just spoilt us all and we have unlearned the things which they would've needed, my guess would be using leverage and mechanical advantage by erecting huge (probably wooden) structures like cranes and using possibly pulley like systems to distribute the weight across a much greater area with a much smaller counterweight, we use pulleys in this way still to this day in a modern way, that and an awful lot of time and man power (and probably many deaths and injuries along the way) I could be wrong but it's the only thing that seems possible to me and is definitely possible, a large and well built enough structure could have been built to stand the weight, and we still use very thick and heavy duty rope today made in very much the same way it would've been back then, of course not nearly as much as synthetic materials have long since taken over but still, I think it would've been very possible and is the only way I can imagine that would work, the structure would then be disassembled and recycled or perhaps even burned afterward leaving no trace today. The part I struggle with is transporting the stones after they were hand carved, not so much the placing of them once they reached the destination. I would truly love to be able to see how they did it.
It is believed the stone (blue stone) used at Stonehenge was taken from West Wales. This means it was transported near on 200 miles. How did they do it? We simply don't know.
Yer, stone henge. Every once in a while archaeologists dig something up and realise that it's older than we thought. Who knows how long it's been there! FYI, a mountain on the sea front is called a cliff. You should check out the the cheddar caves, and yes, that is the area where the cheese comes from. I've been there and it's an incredible, magical and mystical place that leaves you breathless with awe and splendor. I love watching Americans stop the videos just to look at the scenery. We take it for granted and forget how lucky we are over here to have just the right weather conditions to create our green and pleasant land, and our ancient history to remind us of who we were, who we are and how far we've come. Cheers mate. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
the theory i heard about stone henge is they built a bank of soil up to the top of the upright stones and somehow managed to get the big stones up it and onto the pillars
@@SimplySavageReactions Yep! Too heavy for even timber rollers, there would be ways but it would require incredible effort. But he’ll, people built the pyramids etc. sadly, unlike the Egyptians, the folk who built stone henge didn’t write anything down so we can only guess at the how and why
If you do visit, go to Conwy, North Wales, where the smallest house is on the little marina. You would love it because there's one of the castles there that you showed on another video that you thought looked fabulous and it is. We visit there a lot as a family, not too far from Portmerion as well, which is further down the cost. North Wales is beautiful and Snowdonia National Park is there too.
Theres a video on YT of a guy based in the USA showing how Songe Henge was possilby made. He shows techniques of how to move massive stones, with timber, rope, stones and gravity.
I'm British and I am 40 years old. out of this entire list, I have only heard of Stone Henge and Diggerland🤣. I need to visit some of these places myself.
I am slowly catching up with your videos, so am late to the party. The Abbey Pumping Station is about 1 mile from where I am sitting right now. I remember my parents taking me there in the 1970's whn it had recently been refurbished and first opened to the public as a museum. Vertical cliffs- this happens because the action of the waves on the bottom of the cliffs wears away at the base, and eventually the undermined sections drop down into the sea, leaving the vertical edges you see. Where the rock/ soil is softer this happens very regularly, particularly during the winter months due to additional rainfall, and some areas of the coastline are eroded by hundreds of yards over the years, with whole villages eventually falling into the sea and disappearing.
Great video James! I totally agree about Stonehenge - it’s fascinating! I’ll drop a link below that relates to the actual construction. I’m ashamed to say that I’ve only been to two of those places - Stonehenge and Portmerion. I’ve not stayed at the hotel that was ‘No mans Fort’ but I did have friends who stayed there and said it was ok, I think they expected it to be a bit better than it was though. (I thought it looked a great!) I think it’s closed now though, or maybe being sold or refurbished? I’m not sure! If you fancy checking out a hotel for your wish list that’s a bit different and on the water, there’s a fantastic hotel berthed permanently in Leith (Edinburgh), right beside the Royal Yacht Britannia called the ‘Fingal’ hotel. It was the SS Fingal, originally a tender to assist larger vessels but was made into a hotel, retaining a lot of the or original features 4 or 5 years ago. I worked as a consultant for the conversion, it was really impressive to see the process from initial budget planning and sketch-pad ideas to actually opening as a 5 star luxury hotel! It’s pretty expensive though - I think £350-£1,100 a night depending on the cabin! Your Impression from Peppa Pig made me laugh! My son LOVED that too when he was young - especially Daddy Pig! Although all the ‘’jumping in muddy puddles’’ started to get old - I lost count of the amount of wet muddy trousers I was washing each day! Lol! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/building-stonehenge/
More interesting about Stonehenge is how did they move such large stones the 15 miles from the site to where they built stonehenge. The tops of the upright stone also have a half ball like shape calved into them and the cross piece have a hollow to fit into those half ball shapes. Salisbury plain the location of the stones is also a military training area but we were not allowed anywhere near the stones. In the 80's when I was at Larkhall army camp you could walk up to the stones and walk around them inside the area as well but the National trust then fenced the area off, and turned it into a paying attraction.
It is a fascinating place. Supposedly at one time in the year the sun shine directly through (?) stones. I was surprised how much smaller it seems than on the photographs.
If you ever get to the UK try visiting some of the historic villages for example. Ashby Stledger the original home of one of the Gunpowder plotters now owned ironically by King Charles. Or Braunston Northamptonshire once the heart of the canal network is church known as the cathedral of the canal.
Some years ago a group of archaeology students tried to move a bluestone from Wales to Stonehenge using rollers. It wasn't successful. Between the quarry where the bluestones came from are either miles of very hilly land and the River Severn, or the Bristol channel and miles of hills. To think they did this 5000 years ago using wooden rollers doesn't make sense.
With enough manpower you can move incredible weights long distances, as in Stonehenge, the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids. The Stonehenge Stone are supposed to be from Wales and were dragged from the quarry to the Wiltshire location of Stonehenge by hand.
The solent forts have been converted into hotels as seen on the last weird place and is not as expensive as you think for a short stay. check out their website. they were built during the napoleonic wars as a defence for portsmouth harbour and again used during the second world war. one of them was directly opposite my mess at haslar Hospital whilst i served in the RN, I had always wanted to see what it was like inside and my wife has promised we shall book into it when she retires next year as a 74th birthday treat for me.
Stonehenge is older than the pyramids and the roman empire, around 9000 yrs ago. Quay (key) is a term used to describe a jetty or pier used for loading or unloading boats or ships.
The main stones of Stonehenge were brought from 150 miles away- the latest idea of how it was done is the it was a mini ice age 3000 years ago so the idea they were sledged on ice. Stonehenge is on Salisbury Plain.The most interesting aspect to my mind is that each phase of Stonehenge took several generations to construct- suggesting a very organised and far seeing society, which had great cooperation from everyone involved.
Actually the Stones were moved around 150 miles from Wales, where they were in a similar circle, they're not quite sure how long they'd been in the original place, but a couple of years ago they found that the stones were moved, just how or why is still a mystery, and if you look at the ones on the floor which have fallen off, you'll find they're not simply put on top, it fits into a hole on one side, take a closer look, it's a bit like the early Lego whereby you piece it together, again how old the stones are we don't know, they could've possibly have been in Wales for a thousand or more years before being moved
Reeey! Stonehenge is my neck of the woods! Just outside of my City Salisbury. 10 minutes drive from my house. (Salisbury is in the southwest of Wiltshire) We never tire of seeing them. They really are amazing! The summer solstice nights are an experience!
Stonehenge is one of my dream destinations. I hope I will get to put my eyes on it one day. Sadly, it doesnt appear to be an option in the near future but I'll keep making these videos, learning about Britain and hoping this channel will one day provide an opportunity for me to go.
@vickygoold4393 ello luv! I completely agree about the A303 traffic!! It has always been a nightmare as well as the accidents caused over the years. Maybe we will see this tunnel completed in our life time? 🤷🏼♀️
Also look for The Petrifyng Well in Mother Shiptons Cave in Knares borough anything placed in the well will turn into stone within a month . Then there's Alun Sands on the Isle of Wight the Sands are multi coloured the cliffs near the Sands are also multi coloured .
Though they're doing their best to improve things - including building a really good Visitor Centre - many are still disappointed when they visit Stonehenge. It is such a tourist trap that they don't normally allow you to touch the stones. But there are many other stone circles and megalithic monuments in the UK and Ireland where you are allowed to touch the stones. (For example, not far from Stonehenge, there is the great circle of Avebury.) Most fascinating is that many of these circles, like Stonehenge, are aligned with the heavenly bodies. Stonehenge is famously aligned with the Midsummer sunrise, although we should possibly take it in the opposite direction, and realize the alignment is with the Midwinter sunrise. As to how it was built, they are slowly working this out. For one thing, remember our ancestors weren't stupid! There is evidence of great festivals being held nearby, with people from all over Britain. It may be that at these festivals great numbers joined in the construction of Stonehenge. Wooden rollers may have been involved. The biggest stones are sandstone from not too far away, but these would still have been quite a job to move; but the older bluestones are staggering, because they come from over a hundred miles away in Pembrokeshire, and they are still trying to work out how they transported them. (And why?) I have seen Fingal's Cave, on the small and very beautiful island of Staffa. Nature suddenly has abandoned its normal habits, and produced perfect geometry, in tall hexagonal columns, and great waves slosh up and down the floor of a natural cathedral. This happens in a few places in Scotland and Ireland, where there are large areas covered by lava flows from about 60 million years ago. Occasionally the basalt of these flows has solidified into these perfect hexagons.
they used to let people walk around the stones, but as usual, idiots started putting grafitti on and scratching at it. so its fenced off. there does need to be more done, but its still quite a sight. i drove past it at night one time - first time i'd seen it .. eerie
Not only did they put 25 ton stones on end four to five thousand years ago, but depending on just where they came from (various theories) they moved them between 15 and 125 miles to get them there, all well before roads let alone vehicles existed, The public toilet bars are former public toilets they have been very thoroughly cleaned and don't smell any more, No Mans Land Fort is one of several forts in the Solent built to protect the Naval Base at Portsmouth. We have a lot of ancient buildings especially castles many of which were started just after the Norman invasion in 1066 and some of which such as the Tower of London have been continuously in use ever since, so about 950 years of continuous use, Or about 700 years older than the United States ;-)
There are lots of strange pronunciations in English because of their word origins. So, 'quay' is pronounced 'key' because it comes from Old French, Welsh and Proto-European variations of the original word which began with a hard 'k'. All meant 'enclosure' and thus came to mean 'harbour'. Quay is not from the same root as the Florida Keys where 'key' means an island. I've visited most of these. Fingal's Cave is amazing - it's on an uninhabited island called Staffa (a Viking word meaning 'staves' because the rock formations look like a pile of giant sticks) but you can visit it on a boat trip from the island of Mull. Listen to Mendelssohn 's beautiful music, Fingal's Cave, written after visiting the site. Portmeirion is an early Disney World, built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in the1920s. It is quite beautiful and overlooks a lovely estuary. You can book into the hotel or one of the houses which are now rented out as holiday cottages. Watch 'The Prisoner' on YT which was a popular and strange cult TV series filmed in the village where an ex-spy wakes up to find himself trapped in the village from which he cannot escape. 'I am not a number. I am a free man.'
"Quay" is read as "Key". It's old English. It's like "Ye" which is actually pronounced "The". There are many words from the Old English that we mispronounce due to modifications to the language as the centuries passed us by
Got a picture somewhere of myself outside Stonehenge, I've got to agree its a magical place. Check out Tintagel..allegedly the birthplace of King Arthur along with Merlin cave. I'm blessed to live in a country that is steeped with legends and stories. Come on over buddy. You'd be most welcome.
Portmerion was where the 1960's tv series "The Prisoner" was made, a bizarre village used as a prison for errant intelligence officers like Patrick McGoohan, it was wacky and surreal , like the 60's itself. a cult tv show.
We don't drink in toilets, a crap choice of stuff .I live in South Yorkshire..less than a 2 miles from the biggest fronted house in europ two miles the other way a castle (conisbour castle)..The house is Wentworth house ...our church, all saints is about 800 years old .
A channel on TH-cam you may want to have a look at is Bee Here Now. Some decent videos with reasonable lengths about Northern England, Manchester etc. He's an easy to listen to guy with some decent knowledge.
Stone henge was built in Wales by some stoneage kids who were bored cos TV and the Internet hadn't been invented yet and because it was round they just pulled it to the top of a mountain and let it go to see how far it would roll.... It rolled all the way to Salisbury in Wiltshire and the stoneage Welsh kids figured it was too far to roll it back because it was uphill and it was getting dark and their mom was doing spaghetti hoops for tea so they just left it there... 😀
Well after actually thinking about it, most Americans would definitely pronounce that word as "key". This was just my individual dumb moment. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Abbey pumping Station, been there as originally from Leicester, how its on the list I don't know. Interesting but not somewhere to go, unless your passing. Stonehenge been there as a child, you could walk amongst the stones, now a tourist trap to be viewed from afar. Its history is more interesting than it is.
Love your content my friend from across the pond ❤️, stone henge as you now know was built approximately 5 to 7 thousand years ago, which coincidentally was when it is believed that Weetabix was invented, this in itself goes a long way to explain how the men and women of this era were able to move such large stones ❤
i'd love to see someone trace the possible routes we would have had to take to transport the stones of stonehedge. british terrain is harsh and unforgiving, it's cold, wet and windy, there's boggy marshes and battering moors, mountains and valleys, back then forests and woodlands would have been wider spread, roads and pathways would have been practically non existent.
Jórvík víking museum in York is one of the world's best preserved Viking settlements, the museum even has a Viking turd. York was also briefly the centre of the Roman empire during the attempted conquest of Scotland. Even to this day Yorkshire dialect has over a thousand words of old East Norse origin. York and later "New York" are Anglicised versions of Jórvík pronounced Yorvik. Yorkshire itself was split into three "Ridings" with Jórvík in the middle. South Yorkshire didn't exist until the 1970's it was all part of "Jórvík vestr þriðjungr" since the Viking age (York west riding) or the west riding of Yorkshire. Also Whitby abbey was the inspiration for Dracula and "The Shambles" in York was the inspiration for Harry potter
There is one thing you need to know about the UK. You cannot pronounce everything phonetically. So Quay is indeed pronounced 'key'. Our language is very old and so developed before many people could read and write. So many words and place names are pronounced very differently to the way they are written.
I absolutely love American reactions to our tourist attractions, simply because we sometimes forget the history and beauty that is right on our "doorstep", we honestly forget just how stunning this country of ours is at times.
A lot of research has established how Stonehenge was built. Basically, the builders were extremely good engineers who understood about using ropes and wooden frames. Stonehenge is the most famous ancient site, but Avebury, Uffington, Belas Knap and West Kennet all impress me more.
Nice to see there's at least someone else in the universe that understands they had developed the crane.
They used a Druid yourself kit to make Stonehenge 🤣
Some of those stones, at Stonehenge, were quarried 180 miles away and somehow transported to Stonehenge, across that 180 miles of hills, mountains swamps and rivers, using Stone Age technology. We still don't know how it was done. Though there are a host of competing hypotheses, none of them verified. :)
I don't think they ever will be
They have now found an older and larger site near by Stone Henge in an area called Darington Walls where the builders and forefathers worked.
Close its actually Durrington walls
stonehenge are actually kids building blocks, people were pretty big back then, time of giants😊
Yeah, not sitting around touching screens all day.😏
@@stevemorris6855 The silica generation, not the silicon generation. 😊
Don't worry about the 'public toilet bars'! They are Victorian ex-toilets that haven't been used for peeing in for decades - but are amazingly decorative structures! And they don't smell 🤣 Quay is not the same as key! The latter opens a door while the former is a bay by the sea - so the Quay House is just a house on the bay front.
I have been robbed of a proper accent and education by being born here lol. Thanks so much for clarifying, especially the quay use and definition
@@SimplySavageReactions Not robbed at all. A lot of the English language - and in particular the spelling - is derived from the French influence. The last time the UK was conquered was in 1066 by William the Conquerer who came from Normandy in France and many words in our everyday language are anglicised versions of French words.
Beat me to it.
I’m an exiled Londoner in Cornwall and there are a lot of Quays down here,Newquay being best known of course.
I’ve seen online some people making those underground public toilets into a house by combining gents and ladies toilets together, at first you’re like yuck 😩 ,but when you see what they have done inside and the prime locations , they look great.
@@fenellainnis7216 until some pisshead thinks it’s still a public khazi and pisses all over your front door,then goes to sleep on your step.
Here in the UK we are lucky enough to have 4 seasons of weather, sometimes all in the same day!
Just to blow your mind even more the stones from stonehendge had to travel over 100 miles to get to where they are today.
150 miles
The Bluestones did, but they are the smaller stones and weigh about a ton each. The really big stones (sarsen stones) probably came from about 15 miles away from the Avebury area (West Wood). Still impressive that they moved, shaped and raised them though.
Analysis of the Stonehenge stones showed that they were quarried many miles from where they stand today. How they were moved remains a mystery.
I've lived in the UK all my life but had never heard of Diggerworld or the Puzzle Wood 😄 I highly recommend Portmeirion, it's beautiful, but try to go off peak otherwise it gets very busy. It's impossible to have a list of only 10, there are just so many more.
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Stonehenge is a magical place. Some stones were "imported" from Wales. Quite a feat when you think about it.
You do know that stonehenge was built in the 1950's don't you?
@@thewhitewolf7416 Oh and Elvis is alive on Mars. Another crackpot conspiracy theory 😂😂😂 And the earliest photo of Stonehenge is 1875. Try talking out your mouth instead of your arse.🤫
It actually tell you on the official stonehenge Web site and the earliest photograph's anyone can find of stonehenge is the pictures of them building it! Don't you think it is weird that nobody took a photo of it as it was such a magical place? Especially as photography was around for ages beforehand?
Only the little tiny ones. They had boats, they had oxen, they had burly men willing to do drag for cash. It's not all that startling. Gimme a hundred squaddies and the same of oxen and I'll get you the entire blue stones from oot to boot in about a week, there and back.
There is a diggerland about a 5 minute walk from my house. Often go for a walk past it or to the park and see people above the trees in a giant bucket lol
I'm from North Wales and this doesn't even do portmerion justice its gorgeous!
Nice to see Abbey pumping station getting a mention. I remember going there on a school trip back in the early 80's. I could easily visit again as Leicester is my home town. 🙂
There’s a programme called Time Team, they have a whole programme that tells you how they built Stonehenge
The alignment of Maeshowe is such that, only at the winter solstice, light from the Sun shines directly along the narrow entrance tunnel and into the main chamber. The columns of Staffa formed when the lava was buried and cooled slowly. The lava shrank slightly forming the hexagonal columns. A similar effect can be seen on the Isle of Skye at Staffin. Both place-names share the same Norse root - found in current English in stave and staff.
Two more places came to mind
1. Hundred acre wood from Winnie-the-Pooh books is actually 500 acres forest called Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Beautiful place.
2. Principality of Sealand. It is unrecognised micronation set in Rough Tower in North Sea about 12km from the coast of Suffolk. Rough Tower was built during World War II. From 1967 is occupied by a family and friends of a guy named Paddy Roy Bates. Check it out on TH-cam and read it on in Wikipedia.
Fascinating place.
Stonehenge poses the same question as The Pyramids... how did they do it? Nobody knows and I don't think we'll ever figure it out.
But they do know now! They built in sloping spirals...Stones for Stonehenge were taken from blue stone mainly found in Wales...
You do know that stonehenge was built in the 1950's!
"Nobody knows?" That's a big statement fir someone who clearly does not know.
I’m with Lister on this one: “they had whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.”
@@smiddlehurst1 I thought no-one knew...who...They...were...or what...They were doing?
Fingals Cave was formed by volcanic rock in the form of magma, being rapidly cooled and 'crystallised' forming the straight edged pinnacles that we see there. As a thought to nought, Led Zeppelins Houses of the Holy album cover was designed like this too.
Although I live in the UK I didn't know about seven of these attractions. About Stonehenge: there are all sorts of theories about how they built it over five thousand years ago. I am no expert, but the stones and rings themselves seem to be a highly complicated, and technical, annual calendar and clock (don't ask), but I heard only weeks ago that, now that we have 'time' beaming at us from space, scientists (American?) found dear old Stonehenge was only a few seconds 'out'. Amazing.
My grandparents lived in Wiltshire so we drove past Stonehenge each time but I’ve never walked around it, it’s a lot bigger then what you see with burial mounds around the stones but no one can actually say how they got those stones on top without modern day machinery it’s all by hand it keeps you guessing for sure…
I think modern day machinery has just spoilt us all and we have unlearned the things which they would've needed, my guess would be using leverage and mechanical advantage by erecting huge (probably wooden) structures like cranes and using possibly pulley like systems to distribute the weight across a much greater area with a much smaller counterweight, we use pulleys in this way still to this day in a modern way, that and an awful lot of time and man power (and probably many deaths and injuries along the way) I could be wrong but it's the only thing that seems possible to me and is definitely possible, a large and well built enough structure could have been built to stand the weight, and we still use very thick and heavy duty rope today made in very much the same way it would've been back then, of course not nearly as much as synthetic materials have long since taken over but still, I think it would've been very possible and is the only way I can imagine that would work, the structure would then be disassembled and recycled or perhaps even burned afterward leaving no trace today. The part I struggle with is transporting the stones after they were hand carved, not so much the placing of them once they reached the destination. I would truly love to be able to see how they did it.
It is believed the stone (blue stone) used at Stonehenge was taken from West Wales. This means it was transported near on 200 miles. How did they do it? We simply don't know.
Yer, stone henge. Every once in a while archaeologists dig something up and realise that it's older than we thought. Who knows how long it's been there! FYI, a mountain on the sea front is called a cliff. You should check out the the cheddar caves, and yes, that is the area where the cheese comes from. I've been there and it's an incredible, magical and mystical place that leaves you breathless with awe and splendor. I love watching Americans stop the videos just to look at the scenery. We take it for granted and forget how lucky we are over here to have just the right weather conditions to create our green and pleasant land, and our ancient history to remind us of who we were, who we are and how far we've come. Cheers mate. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
the theory i heard about stone henge is they built a bank of soil up to the top of the upright stones and somehow managed to get the big stones up it and onto the pillars
The stone henge stones were moved 180 miles from a quarry in wales, we have no idea how they did it
180 miles! Wouldn't that be a daunting task to accomplish even today?
@@SimplySavageReactions Yep! Too heavy for even timber rollers, there would be ways but it would require incredible effort. But he’ll, people built the pyramids etc. sadly, unlike the Egyptians, the folk who built stone henge didn’t write anything down so we can only guess at the how and why
If you do visit, go to Conwy, North Wales, where the smallest house is on the little marina. You would love it because there's one of the castles there that you showed on another video that you thought looked fabulous and it is. We visit there a lot as a family, not too far from Portmerion as well, which is further down the cost. North Wales is beautiful and Snowdonia National Park is there too.
Stonehenge is in England and will probably be an unsolved mystery. Take care 😘🏴 I’m from Scotland in the UK.
Theres a video on YT of a guy based in the USA showing how Songe Henge was possilby made. He shows techniques of how to move massive stones, with timber, rope, stones and gravity.
I'm British and I am 40 years old. out of this entire list, I have only heard of Stone Henge and Diggerland🤣. I need to visit some of these places myself.
Diggerland😅😅 I live about 5 miles away from there ..
I am slowly catching up with your videos, so am late to the party. The Abbey Pumping Station is about 1 mile from where I am sitting right now. I remember my parents taking me there in the 1970's whn it had recently been refurbished and first opened to the public as a museum.
Vertical cliffs- this happens because the action of the waves on the bottom of the cliffs wears away at the base, and eventually the undermined sections drop down into the sea, leaving the vertical edges you see. Where the rock/ soil is softer this happens very regularly, particularly during the winter months due to additional rainfall, and some areas of the coastline are eroded by hundreds of yards over the years, with whole villages eventually falling into the sea and disappearing.
Great video James!
I totally agree about Stonehenge - it’s fascinating! I’ll drop a link below that relates to the actual construction.
I’m ashamed to say that I’ve only been to two of those places - Stonehenge and Portmerion.
I’ve not stayed at the hotel that was ‘No mans Fort’ but I did have friends who stayed there and said it was ok, I think they expected it to be a bit better than it was though. (I thought it looked a great!) I think it’s closed now though, or maybe being sold or refurbished? I’m not sure!
If you fancy checking out a hotel for your wish list that’s a bit different and on the water, there’s a fantastic hotel berthed permanently in Leith (Edinburgh), right beside the Royal Yacht Britannia called the ‘Fingal’ hotel. It was the SS Fingal, originally a tender to assist larger vessels but was made into a hotel, retaining a lot of the or original features 4 or 5 years ago. I worked as a consultant for the conversion, it was really impressive to see the process from initial budget planning and sketch-pad ideas to actually opening as a 5 star luxury hotel! It’s pretty expensive though - I think £350-£1,100 a night depending on the cabin!
Your Impression from Peppa Pig made me laugh! My son LOVED that too when he was young - especially Daddy Pig! Although all the ‘’jumping in muddy puddles’’ started to get old - I lost count of the amount of wet muddy trousers I was washing each day! Lol!
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/building-stonehenge/
Giants causeway northern ireland re:- fingles cave
More interesting about Stonehenge is how did they move such large stones the 15 miles from the site to where they built stonehenge. The tops of the upright stone also have a half ball like shape calved into them and the cross piece have a hollow to fit into those half ball shapes. Salisbury plain the location of the stones is also a military training area but we were not allowed anywhere near the stones. In the 80's when I was at Larkhall army camp you could walk up to the stones and walk around them inside the area as well but the National trust then fenced the area off, and turned it into a paying attraction.
It is a fascinating place. Supposedly at one time in the year the sun shine directly through (?) stones.
I was surprised how much smaller it seems than on the photographs.
The Summer Solstice. Druids dance around it at sunrise I believe.
If you ever get to the UK try visiting some of the historic villages for example. Ashby Stledger the original home of one of the Gunpowder plotters now owned ironically by King Charles. Or Braunston Northamptonshire once the heart of the canal network is church known as the cathedral of the canal.
The stones for Stonehenge were also quarried hundreds of miles away
I live up the road from a digger land. With a small son. I go quite often. It's fun to go. You can play hook a duck with specially adapted diggers
Some years ago a group of archaeology students tried to move a bluestone from Wales to Stonehenge using rollers. It wasn't successful.
Between the quarry where the bluestones came from are either miles of very hilly land and the River Severn, or the Bristol channel and miles of hills.
To think they did this 5000 years ago using wooden rollers doesn't make sense.
With enough manpower you can move incredible weights long distances, as in Stonehenge, the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids. The Stonehenge Stone are supposed to be from Wales and were dragged from the quarry to the Wiltshire location of Stonehenge by hand.
You beat me to it! yes the stones were from Wales...and transported via river, then huge sleds on stone rollers I believe...
The solent forts have been converted into hotels as seen on the last weird place and is not as expensive as you think for a short stay. check out their website. they were built during the napoleonic wars as a defence for portsmouth harbour and again used during the second world war. one of them was directly opposite my mess at haslar Hospital whilst i served in the RN, I had always wanted to see what it was like inside and my wife has promised we shall book into it when she retires next year as a 74th birthday treat for me.
Fingals cave is a natural formation of basalt iceland has amazing basalt cliffs with crystal clear water running between
Stonehenge is older than the pyramids and the roman empire, around 9000 yrs ago. Quay (key) is a term used to describe a jetty or pier used for loading or unloading boats or ships.
I should have said the stone was moved about 150 miles, it came from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
The main stones of Stonehenge were brought from 150 miles away- the latest idea of how it was done is the it was a mini ice age 3000 years ago so the idea they were sledged on ice. Stonehenge is on Salisbury Plain.The most interesting aspect to my mind is that each phase of Stonehenge took several generations to construct- suggesting a very organised and far seeing society, which had great cooperation from everyone involved.
Everything you said is wrong.
@@Belzediel Where do you think Stonehenge is-Idaho?
Sorry, everything you said except for the location is wrong. I assume this means you are conceding everything but that.
achaeology and geology supports what I'm saying- you are saying what?, and what supports it?- what do you believe and what backs it up?
Stonehenge is no mystery, Merlin built it 😄
Actually the Stones were moved around 150 miles from Wales, where they were in a similar circle, they're not quite sure how long they'd been in the original place, but a couple of years ago they found that the stones were moved, just how or why is still a mystery, and if you look at the ones on the floor which have fallen off, you'll find they're not simply put on top, it fits into a hole on one side, take a closer look, it's a bit like the early Lego whereby you piece it together, again how old the stones are we don't know, they could've possibly have been in Wales for a thousand or more years before being moved
Good explanation...
The smaller blue stones came from Wales, the big stones more local.
Stonehenge is in Salisbury near a place called Bath. In my opinion it's the work of other worldly being lol 😆
Reeey! Stonehenge is my neck of the woods! Just outside of my City Salisbury. 10 minutes drive from my house. (Salisbury is in the southwest of Wiltshire)
We never tire of seeing them. They really are amazing! The summer solstice nights are an experience!
Stonehenge is one of my dream destinations. I hope I will get to put my eyes on it one day. Sadly, it doesnt appear to be an option in the near future but I'll keep making these videos, learning about Britain and hoping this channel will one day provide an opportunity for me to go.
It's a shame about the traffic past Stonehenge though! Constantly slow because every bugger slows down to see it!!!! I live within Salisbury too!!
@vickygoold4393 ello luv! I completely agree about the A303 traffic!! It has always been a nightmare as well as the accidents caused over the years. Maybe we will see this tunnel completed in our life time? 🤷🏼♀️
Also look for The Petrifyng Well in Mother Shiptons Cave in Knares borough anything placed in the well will turn into stone within a month . Then there's Alun Sands on the Isle of Wight the Sands are multi coloured the cliffs near the Sands are also multi coloured .
Beamish : The living museum of the North should have been on this list instead of Diggerland...
There are some ancient stone circles in Cornwall and Scotland too just not so well known as smaller and probably other places
Though they're doing their best to improve things - including building a really good Visitor Centre - many are still disappointed when they visit Stonehenge. It is such a tourist trap that they don't normally allow you to touch the stones. But there are many other stone circles and megalithic monuments in the UK and Ireland where you are allowed to touch the stones. (For example, not far from Stonehenge, there is the great circle of Avebury.)
Most fascinating is that many of these circles, like Stonehenge, are aligned with the heavenly bodies. Stonehenge is famously aligned with the Midsummer sunrise, although we should possibly take it in the opposite direction, and realize the alignment is with the Midwinter sunrise.
As to how it was built, they are slowly working this out. For one thing, remember our ancestors weren't stupid! There is evidence of great festivals being held nearby, with people from all over Britain. It may be that at these festivals great numbers joined in the construction of Stonehenge. Wooden rollers may have been involved.
The biggest stones are sandstone from not too far away, but these would still have been quite a job to move; but the older bluestones are staggering, because they come from over a hundred miles away in Pembrokeshire, and they are still trying to work out how they transported them. (And why?)
I have seen Fingal's Cave, on the small and very beautiful island of Staffa. Nature suddenly has abandoned its normal habits, and produced perfect geometry, in tall hexagonal columns, and great waves slosh up and down the floor of a natural cathedral. This happens in a few places in Scotland and Ireland, where there are large areas covered by lava flows from about 60 million years ago. Occasionally the basalt of these flows has solidified into these perfect hexagons.
they used to let people walk around the stones, but as usual, idiots started putting grafitti on and scratching at it. so its fenced off. there does need to be more done, but its still quite a sight. i drove past it at night one time - first time i'd seen it .. eerie
The Stonehenge stones were moved acoustically.
Hi man, its Quay as in Wharf by the Sea, we also have towns like the UKs biggest surfing area called "Newquay" which is obvs a seaside town.
Used to goto raves on the fort XD was super weird and there was just a rickety boat moving between the city and the fort, was like 15mins trip.
Not only did they put 25 ton stones on end four to five thousand years ago, but depending on just where they came from (various theories) they moved them between 15 and 125 miles to get them there, all well before roads let alone vehicles existed, The public toilet bars are former public toilets they have been very thoroughly cleaned and don't smell any more, No Mans Land Fort is one of several forts in the Solent built to protect the Naval Base at Portsmouth. We have a lot of ancient buildings especially castles many of which were started just after the Norman invasion in 1066 and some of which such as the Tower of London have been continuously in use ever since, so about 950 years of continuous use, Or about 700 years older than the United States ;-)
That's how you pronounce quay, as in a platform that sits by water as a place to unload boats and the like.
There are lots of strange pronunciations in English because of their word origins. So, 'quay' is pronounced 'key' because it comes from Old French, Welsh and Proto-European variations of the original word which began with a hard 'k'. All meant 'enclosure' and thus came to mean 'harbour'. Quay is not from the same root as the Florida Keys where 'key' means an island.
I've visited most of these. Fingal's Cave is amazing - it's on an uninhabited island called Staffa (a Viking word meaning 'staves' because the rock formations look like a pile of giant sticks) but you can visit it on a boat trip from the island of Mull. Listen to Mendelssohn 's beautiful music, Fingal's Cave, written after visiting the site.
Portmeirion is an early Disney World, built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in the1920s. It is quite beautiful and overlooks a lovely estuary. You can book into the hotel or one of the houses which are now rented out as holiday cottages. Watch 'The Prisoner' on YT which was a popular and strange cult TV series filmed in the village where an ex-spy wakes up to find himself trapped in the village from which he cannot escape. 'I am not a number. I am a free man.'
Digger land is down my way in Strood near Rochester Kent also Rochester Castle across the river from it .
Plymouth is in Devons South Coast
I've never heard of public toilet bars.
Stone henge, A303 main route to the west country and single Lane road for 200 miles with henge on the main route traffic is a nightmare.
"Quay" is read as "Key". It's old English. It's like "Ye" which is actually pronounced "The". There are many words from the Old English that we mispronounce due to modifications to the language as the centuries passed us by
Lots of places I didn’t know existed either
STONEHENGE WAS TAKEN FROM PEMBROKESHIRE IN WALES IN WAS PART OF A STONE CIRCLE ON WAUN MAWN BEFORE 3000BC
Got a picture somewhere of myself outside Stonehenge, I've got to agree its a magical place.
Check out Tintagel..allegedly the birthplace of King Arthur along with Merlin cave.
I'm blessed to live in a country that is steeped with legends and stories.
Come on over buddy.
You'd be most welcome.
Portmerion was where the 1960's tv series "The Prisoner" was made, a bizarre village used as a prison for errant intelligence officers like Patrick McGoohan, it was wacky and surreal , like the 60's itself. a cult tv show.
The stones for Stonehenge came from Preseli in northern Wales a distance of 180 miles (approximately). How ???
Close.....the Preseli hills are in Pembrokeshire in West Wales. The famous bluestones found there were considered to be magical.
@@philjones6054 Thanks Phil. Was remembering from school a few moons ago.🤣
Handily,Murphy’s had a plant hire warehouse nearby.
@@TheCornishCockney 🤣
The trained friendly dinosaur to lift the stones in exchange for goats to eat.
We don't drink in toilets, a crap choice of stuff .I live in South Yorkshire..less than a 2 miles from the biggest fronted house in europ two miles the other way a castle (conisbour castle)..The house is Wentworth house ...our church, all saints is about 800 years old .
Man I wish I could experience a good days walk around your area
Look up Blackpool's Golden mile, beautiful on a nice day.
Stonehenge? Aliens innit!
all historic building baffle most Brits we never had cranes and scaffolding back then so it's a mystery!
A channel on TH-cam you may want to have a look at is Bee Here Now. Some decent videos with reasonable lengths about Northern England, Manchester etc. He's an easy to listen to guy with some decent knowledge.
They kind of missed the cheddar man oldest almost complete skeleton found in Britain 10k years old
Stonehenge was only scaffolding for something never built.
Puzzle wood is in the Forest of Dean in West Gloucestershire , and Stonehenge is in Wiltshire and no one how the got the stones from Wales to there .
Listen to Fingal's Cave by Mendelssohn, inspired by the island
Stone henge was built in Wales by some stoneage kids who were bored cos TV and the Internet hadn't been invented yet and because it was round they just pulled it to the top of a mountain and let it go to see how far it would roll....
It rolled all the way to Salisbury in Wiltshire and the stoneage Welsh kids figured it was too far to roll it back because it was uphill and it was getting dark and their mom was doing spaghetti hoops for tea so they just left it there... 😀
Regarding Quay House in Wales. Quay may be "kway" in the US but in proper English it's "key". It's our language and we pronounce it our way (lol).
Well after actually thinking about it, most Americans would definitely pronounce that word as "key". This was just my individual dumb moment. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Abbey pumping Station, been there as originally from Leicester, how its on the list I don't know. Interesting but not somewhere to go, unless your passing. Stonehenge been there as a child, you could walk amongst the stones, now a tourist trap to be viewed from afar. Its history is more interesting than it is.
Love your content my friend from across the pond ❤️, stone henge as you now know was built approximately 5 to 7 thousand years ago, which coincidentally was when it is believed that Weetabix was invented, this in itself goes a long way to explain how the men and women of this era were able to move such large stones ❤
Thank you for the support
Puzzle wood is a 5minute walk from my house they actually filmed part of the newest Starwars film there
the biggest stones r 60 tonnes and came from a quarry in wales about 50 miles away....ur guess is as good as anyones
Some say Stonehenge was built by Merlin.
With no natural stone in the area.. its been proven the stone at stone henge came from somewhere in Wales over 250 miles away
Most of the rock formations valleys and cliffs have been carved by the last ice age and glaciers.
i'd love to see someone trace the possible routes we would have had to take to transport the stones of stonehedge. british terrain is harsh and unforgiving, it's cold, wet and windy, there's boggy marshes and battering moors, mountains and valleys, back then forests and woodlands would have been wider spread, roads and pathways would have been practically non existent.
Stonehenge is a tourist trap, there are dozens of stone circles around the UK.
We have a big one in Cornwall called “The Cheese Wring” on Bodmin moor and I’ve seen plenty of others around England too.
@@TheCornishCockney the trick is the others are freely available to visit, Stonehenge costs real money to visit, like I say - it's a tourist trap...
Great video
Apparently they brought the stones from Wales to Wiltshire, how they did that no one seems to know either
Pixies and Unicorns 🦄. Built stoneHenge of course
I don’t think that the No Man’s Fort that you saw in the last clip is open anymore.
“Why was it built”
British building in a nutshell
Jórvík víking museum in York is one of the world's best preserved Viking settlements, the museum even has a Viking turd. York was also briefly the centre of the Roman empire during the attempted conquest of Scotland. Even to this day Yorkshire dialect has over a thousand words of old East Norse origin. York and later "New York" are Anglicised versions of Jórvík pronounced Yorvik. Yorkshire itself was split into three "Ridings" with Jórvík in the middle. South Yorkshire didn't exist until the 1970's it was all part of "Jórvík vestr þriðjungr" since the Viking age (York west riding) or the west riding of Yorkshire. Also Whitby abbey was the inspiration for Dracula and "The Shambles" in York was the inspiration for Harry potter
I’m sure the stones were from over a 100 miles away too from were stone henge is
Not really, it's like the pyramids but in England. It's pretty wild when you think about it
25 ton stones: well, I'd build a wooden wheel around them to move them.
But was the wheel invented then????
Hope you got to the uk
There is one thing you need to know about the UK. You cannot pronounce everything phonetically. So Quay is indeed pronounced 'key'. Our language is very old and so developed before many people could read and write. So many words and place names are pronounced very differently to the way they are written.