My channel of my journey though these islands we call Britain, this channel is all about British pre-history and this monument that were built by our ancestors "12.500BC to 43AD"
This is actually very good, thanks. I came across "Burnt Mounds" marked on OS maps whilst hunting antiquities around Britain. The farmer's wife at the Tomb of The Eagles (South Ronaldsay, Orkney) told us that a nearby such "Burnt Mound" was bronze age, had a small steam running through and a stone "sink" to boil water with stones. The term "Burnt Mound" covers a huge range of spacetime, thanks.
Thanks many locals dont know of this serpent mound I dont know who destroyed the serpent as it seemed to be intact in 1883--Phene was 1871-In 1883, the Scottish travel writer Constance Frederica (‘Eka’) Gordon-Cumming published a fascinating account of her visit to the “Great Dragon” by Loch Nell, a drawing was sketched and she describes the serpent as being “wonderfully perfect in anatomical outline.” The ground beneath her feet was much less overgrown at the time, and by removing some of the peat-moss and heather she found “that the whole length of the spine was carefully constructed with regularly and symmetrically-placed stones at such an angle as to throw off rain…” This feature, she believed, had been instrumental in preserving the structure from erosion. She could see that the “spine” was a long narrow causeway, “made of large stones, set like the vertebrae of some huge animal.” On the burial mound - which she calls the “head” - she found a circle of stones “exactly corresponding with the solar circle as represented on the head of the mystic serpents of Egypt and Phoenicia, and in the great American Serpent Mound.” Emanating from the head, “diverse small ridges… may have represented the paws of the reptile.”She has a book with the drawing of the intact serpent in it Cuming, C F Gordon IN THE HEBRIDES 1886 .She seemingly drew what she saw.Thanks for the great video and filming when the bracken is low as the outline of the serpent is better identified.
There are about a dozen or so hill forts in east devon I know of, Hembury Fort is possibly one of the largest, also just below hembury is an old greenstone mine I believe which we have used for sharpening blades
people have been casting metal barefooted from the beginning of time. it is seen as an act of sacrifice. if the "God's don't like the way your handling the gifts of fire, earth air, and water the you would burn your feet. this is why they dont wear shoes. these guys do this all the time.
Thats a very good question I guess on dartmoor its the solitude and its setting. Has the Gray wethers is a very good example of a stone circle it is unique to dartmoor and l think it would of had a very different meaning to our ancestors. My favourite free standing stone circle on Dartmoor is White moor with its standing stone, it is the highest of all the circles on the moor not the largest but for me the best character...
caradoc68 14 hours ago Glad you liked this video clip, thank you. Got a few more pictures of this type of rock art on my Facebook group page "active archaeology" your welcome to come have a look...
A postcard to the aliens !! lol Very beautiful Rock Art !! Didn't know the early Scots did this kind of thing !! Adding it to my Rock Art Playlist !!! Thanks !! Great job on the Vid !!!
It was a great place with a better view we are just waiting for the sun to come out and go back and take some more photo's. Loch Awe in Argyll is a great place with only two Trapezoidal cairn's and both of them are round this Loch.
Its hard to say how organisation works in a social context after 2500 years of use of the same site, there is a lot of Saxon activity at Cadbury too. New evidence with excavation on the top of ham hill over the next three years might proof these theory's wrong !!!
yes ham hill is the biggest hill fort , but i dont think its roman , the romans were perfectionists and would have made ham hill more organised than this .
@ladylilithmoon Thanks, West coast of Scotland is a amazing place, with lots of this monuments, it is winter though so in finding it hard to go out and get more video. Hope you get a insight of what Scotland's like from my videos.
MANY THANKS TO YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE ALL YOUR VIDEOS...WHAT AN AMAZING SPECTACLE THIS PLACE & OTHERS MUST HAVE BEEN...MAYBE WE`LL GET TO DARTMOOR ONE DAY, HOPE SO...BEST WISHES TO YOU.
