'Before Caledonia' is a 'Scottish Prehistory Project' which focuses on Stone Circles, Standing Stones & Rock Art from the Neolithic & Bronze Age. In our modern day we can still enjoy visiting these ancient sites from circa 5000 years ago. For nearly 25 years I have been visiting, photographing, filming, video editing & researching 'Scotland's Ancient Sites'. I hope 'Before Caledonia' brings attention to this very important and special historical era and inspires people to visit the sites. A MEGAlithic Thanks to our prehistoric ancestors who imagined and painstakingly built the Stone Circles, Standing Stones & Rock Art, circa 5000 years ago. MISSION STATEMENT= I hope to bring attention ot 'Scotland's Ancient Sites' but more importantly to inspire people to visit these fascinating prehistoric sites, Martin Morrison 2024.
The Callanish complex is very interesting and the beaches on Lewis & Harris are stunning. I hope to return to the Callanish landscape and make much better films. Thanks, Martin.
The Camus Stane was a separate monolith that stood to the north. Just to the south were the 'Cat Heaps' two massive cairns that were plundered for road material. Apparently in the gardens of houses to the south lie the bases of these cairns. When the road was being constructed in the 18th century, burials were found extending for a mile, in cists and in rock-cut graves. Weapons of bronze and Iron were found, although where they are now, I have no idea. Mounds yielding burials have been found over the ground as far as Mortonhall, where the famous scabbard was found. A scatter of Roman coins was found during the construction of Frogstone Road. This is one of the largest prehistoric "cemeteries" found in Scotland, but has never been properly investigated!!
PS. Our ancestors always assumed Prehistoric cemeteries were from a battle, but this was from a cemetery that was in use for centuries, possibly from Neolithic to Early Christian times. The Old Gaelic word for battle was "cat" or "caiy" hence the names for the stones.
Great video thanks! I'd love to observe Southern Major Lunar Standstill moonrise from the northern stone of this row looking along the row to the next stone(s) to the south. A marker/lights might need to be positioned to show the stone locations. I found this alignment possibility on the stonesofwonder website, a valuable resource.
@@BeforeCaledonia ah yes, I see it here in about the middle, thanks! It is interesting with that near horizon and how it intersects Sleeping Beauty in the further distance. The exact viewing position likely was key.
I Googled standing stones in Edinburgh years ago a website had a few dotted around Edinburgh. The pub at Longstone has a standing stone on the picture on the front. Longstone inn ? Newbridge roundabout across from McDonald's there is an old burial ground mound which was created after the ring of standing stones still there today is in a little park. But as you drive towards the roundabout heading out of Edinburgh on your left 5 meters from the road up against incorporated in the grounds of an office building is a massive megalithic stone that once was an outer circle of stones of what still stand today. It is ginormous ! Strange people were doing this all over Britain from orkneys to stonehenge to globeki teki. They had to be calendars
Thanks Martin. I live ‘amongst’ these stanes and they are very important to me . I’m up at Oxgangs very near the Caiystane and the Buckstane and Morningside is just doon the hill. I’ve known these all my life. But I never knew about the face! 😂. So thanks!🤗
@@BeforeCaledonia Aye - both great in their own ways. I always think Huly is like a mini Newgrange. It’s a shame they moved the outlier in the industrial estate over the road. Ravenswood is perhaps the most surprising and least kent! Sitting below Craigmillar I think it’s likely there was a connection. Be aware also of Bridgend just doon the road which was the hunting lodge of James V - obviously not ‘Before’ Caledonia but indicative of a sacred landscape in a similar way to Falkland and the Lomonds etc.🤗🏴
I think like my 15th or 16th great grandpa died in the Battle of Flodden Hill. His name was James Henderson. It wasn't until recently i found out why the Bagpipes are played at the funeral of every fallen Officer, here in the United States.... And i was told it's because James Henderson and his family were the Pipers, Chanters, and King James IV own personal Guardians. My dad, Larry Wayne Henderson oddly enough was known to John Gotti and others in Federal Prison here in the United States, as "The Guardian". He also befriended all surviving males of the Branch Davidian compound raid in Waco, Texas. They too..called my dad The Guardian. Must be one of those Blood thicker than water things, he taught me about.
I was there today. 23/04/24. It is midsummer day tomorrow. It was a clear day. You could see to the mountains of the Trossachs, Stirling, Edinburgh, the mountains of Arran and all the bridges of the Forth.
The views from Cairnpapple ae stunning, you can see past the east coast and the west coast, I am sure the ancient ancestors carefully placed Cainpapple where it is.
Wow.in the bible the twelve tribes put up stones.i believe that machir went to outer hebrides.and there is a machir bay.there.hebrides translates in ancient hebrew.to ...the hood. How would they know it was on the top.if they hadn't gone all around the uk
Hello Martin, My partner and I are filmmakers from the USA and we enjoy your RU-vid videos. We will be coming to Scotland this summer to document some stone circles and astronomical alignments. We wonder if you would be interested in being interviewed for our film project. We'd love to set up a time and place to make this work if you're available. We'll be spending time in Aberdeenshire, Isle of Lewis and the Orkney Islands in June/July. Any chance we could meet up?
@@BeforeCaledonia We're not planning on it, but we could if need be. We're also wondering if you're going to be going out to any stone circles where we could meet up? We'll be spending time in Aberdeenshire, Isle of Lewis, and Orkney Islands.
Thanks Malcolm, this was the first Documentary I made, Dumfries & Galloway has some awesome sites. I gave a presentation on this area at the Mysterious Earth Conference, it's online I will put a link below. ps...I left something for you at the TS. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DlElV4BffWk.htmlfeature=shared
Cheers John, there are a few standing stones in Edinburgh, I just released another video on 'The Buckstane' which is very close to the Caiy Stane, Martin.
