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Hello and welcome- this channel is not about sitting at home making videos by downloading wikipedia pages, photos and stock footage... No, I go out and spend a fortune in diesel finding interesting things to film and stories that concern the landscape, anything from old rail lines to very old rocks to history things that look really good from a drone.
My rebirth was buying a drone and that has got a little crazy however I do use land based cameras now. Over the last couple of decades I have done some other filming that you can find in the archive.
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Two men, Daniel Graham 38 and Adam Carruthers 31 have been charged with cutting down the tree and also damaging Hadrians Wall. They appeared before the Newcastle Magistrates Court in May 2024. The judge set a trial date of 3rd December 2024.
I think people get the wrong idea about the architects of stone henge, because it seems like they had a complex national relationship, but it's just as likely that the group would wander the ancient terrain and when they found a group of pagans that had a shrine they would say to them: hi guys, love the shrine, so out of our respect for you we will un alive you all and take your stuff back to our place. Cheers
Back in the day at uni I did a thesis on the Picts simply so I had the excuse to galavant around Scotland and managed to make it to the Orkneys and the Shetlands. Great memories, except for the ferry rides.
I would love to know, men (presumably) having dragged the Thunderstone accross an icy Finland, why noone has considered the possibility that men dragged their monoliths accross similar terrains during those cold winters...something to do when too icy and snowy to till .
Neolithic summers were warmer but the winters were cooler- and having walked the Ridgeway in wet and hot weather- in the wet the chalk soil turns to mud and slippery too.. in the dry it is hard, but a good frost and you have a nice solid slip way perhaps the practical archaeologists could carry out controlled experiments ! interesting contribution
there seems very good evidence that cattle were used as draft animals including castrated bulls [they have a different bone structure] and bullocks were ideal for working animals
29 min's in and no evidence of concrete LoL not watching the rest of this rubbish, you could even have used the words geo polymer to make it sound better.
the cementing action of SO2 is not a geo polymer is it, and that is not exactly an accessible phrase. Concretion is commonly used in geology in this instance it fits the subject that most people are not aware of .. but the video is almost over at 29 minutes so thanks for at least sticking at it before commenting
I remember that years ago the Stonehenge standing stones were lifted and their bases filled and made level again as they were sinking, This is one of the reasons some people think they are not old!!!
Thank you Jules - a nice exploration of the recent news of the altar stone. I must also state that unlike a lot of people in the comments, I'm more than happy to hear that sarsen stones are made of natural concrete. Don't really see what the problem is...
No citations? Was the Stonehenge Altar Stone from Orkney? Investigating the mineralogy and geochemistry of Orcadian Old Red sandstones and Neolithic circle monuments Richard E. Bevins et al. 'It is concluded that the Altar Stone was not sourced from Mainland Orkney, despite considerable evidence for long-distance communications between Orkney and Stonehenge around 3000/2900 BCE.'
quite right- the studies are now appearing in the description- it was planned and I've been distracted. the evidence is clear that the Altar Stone is Orkadian Basin old red sandstone from the Devonian, I do not state they derive from Orkney only that being the location of the oldest stone circle that it seems likely
PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING! watch [or jump to] the video until 7:00 - 8:30 before commenting, knee jerk comments will be deleted! The title is correct FYI although this video is about geology and these ancient monuments - thanks
All I know about Stonehenge is that it was rebuilt in 1925 and I have know idea whether it was built correctly or if it was rebuilt how somebody wanted it to look 😂
Very interesting. Naturally created concrete, not heard that before. You do have to ask how & why subsistence farmers would have used so much time & energy carting stones from a distance.
@@julesdingle These Stonhenge stones do not have limestone in them (except the "alterstone") so they can not be made from natural concrete. They were formed billions of years ago by hot boiling magma. This is very basic geology that you could have known by just googeling for 3 minutes.
@@bartvandenberg4901 the bluestone from Wales is Ordovician which is about half a billion years old and is indeed from a volcanic plume the Sarsen is young concreted rock from 50-30 million years ago. the silica is the cementing agent dissolved by water and set with time
3:02 The star form of Naarden doesn't date from the 18th century, but the 17th century, after the Spanish army broke down the old city wall in the 16th century as a punishment for the city's resistance. The Dutch Republic rebuild the city wall in the 17th century in the shape of a star for better protection. Additions to the design were made in the 19th and 20th century. So actually nothing at all was done to the city wall in the 18th century
thanks for the clarification - I was reliant on a single source [wikipedia] and I should have been more diligent However, I filmed the town for another video exploring star forts and will include the facts in that video !
I am Dutch but in the French region of Aveyron at the moment. I am so surprised by all the lovely renovated medieval villages. It is clear the French love their history. What is the matter with the British people not to conserve their heritage and to pull out cars?
If people can't park in front of my shop, they won't come... That is about the most heard fallacy / misconception in the world. I think has to do with a particularly pernicious mental bias: people experience loss much more directly than gain... So if you say: we are going to take the parkingspots away they immediately "feel" the expected loss of those few customers who would not come because of that, while they don't trust the promisse of MORE customers coming back in return... This is why sometimes decisions for the common good just have to be implemented...
I'm unsure of the democratic process in the Netherlands, I'm only aware the tax system is different as are the powers wielded by local communities. It was more of an observation that power is more centralised in the UK which may be a cause of the lack of proactive town planning
@@julesdingle they made a very simple traffic regulation booklet for road design by the state. just 3 kinds of roads. It just says that the cities and gemeentes ( municipalities, communal administrations that fall under a major and municipality councils) Have to implement their traffic accoerding to these very few rules. The rules say that the municipality is responcible for the costs of everyone falling victim due to not implemented or badly impleneted regulations, and through damage on the streets or traffic signs. So it is cheaper for these municipalities to optimise for cycle traffic and live ability than car traffic and parking. After having seen piopneers like Groningen the cycle capital of the world, implement a very radical car hostile but walking, cycling and public traffic friendly politics, the different municipalities have now embarked on a large implementation of these cost saving 3 kinds of roads, that hugely improve quality of life in cities and reduce cost for municipalities. So they compete against each other and work together to get the best infrastructure for livabilioty in the cities.
I dated a young girl who attended Portsmouth Art College with me back in 1975 to 79. She sent me a large colored picture of Narden Festings during the easter holidays. She lived their with her Mother who was Dutch and worked at the Phillips corporation. Her name was Susan Bowmaister.
Thank you for this presentation - really informative particularly in highlighting the reasons for the mobility of our ancient ancestors. Having just heard about the Stonehenge altar stone coming from thenorthern area of Scotland potentially including Orkney, I really do think that these stones were a visible indication of place to those people, and unity of culture. Also gathering at times indicated by the sun. moon and stars.
Noticed the same thing in Warwick, it's so busy in a historic town center that should be carless. That kind of traffic would be kept well away in the Netherlands to promote a pedestrianised center.
Simple explenation we were under threat from all sides most of the time. You also see this with modern day israel. And thier remarkable iron dome and systems alike. If you arnt safe you must improvise and be on top of the game. Its that or fall down. England was on a island that only seen some invasions in the time it was pretty easy to do so. After that only the dutch once took it under wiliam the third but that was more a liberation cause england fell into catholic hands and we both were protestants. So dukes in whales and scotland worked together and asked us to come. They were not bad. They just had not the urgeing need to do so.
Never been to Naarden, but I did just come back from Holland and visited Delft. I have also been to Conwy twice. Conwy and Caernarfon were two of my favourite towns in Wales, but you are right in that it could be so much better. Delft was lovely, and we cycled for a day in Utrecht and it was so easy and quite liberating. I really hope we can learn some lessons from the Dutch, but it will take quite a large culture and political shift before that happens. We still love our cars too much in this country and don't realise there can be better ways to do things if we can be humble enough to look across the Channel.
I am from both countries featured in this video (UK/Netherlands), living in the Netherlands. It always surprised me how lacking infrastructure was in Britain and other examples such as in Conwy. Having been to the UK recently I often found myself comparing it to what exists in America rather than the Netherlands like in Naarden (which I have visited multiple times) and various other examples across the EU, most notably with infrastructure like shopping centres and bridges, but also sharing similarities at the same time. I always saw infrastructure there to be mostly similar to what we have here in NL, but I was very surprised to see that that is not the case at all. Very interesting to see. Lovely video! Hello from the other side of the North Sea!
Very true, my partner is British and everything over there is slightly off. Public services are all a bit run down and city planning is rather half assed. Driving in British cities is also a complete disaster compared to NL. It can take 45 minutes to leave a city of 250k by car, even outside of rush hour.
@@Isdezenaambezet Ja dat klopt inderdaad. Britain is really lacking when it comes to infrastructure. Architecture also plays a role, I was in the Tyneside in July and all I saw was just run down houses and badly paved roads. Here in the Netherlands I never have that unless I specifically want to search for it.
the thing with Naarden is that yes its quiet during the day...but people use Naarden as a shortcut to get home...so at rush hour we have 500 more cars than normal...there are plans to make the main street car free...but some shop owners are against it...for it will loose customers...and there are also more cars than residents there ( around 1500 people live there)...and some streets are so small...that together with parked cars...the firetrucks or ambulances have no way to get through...
Excellent. Thank you. A range of topics discussed that affect access to our green spaces. I’ve felt I don’t belong in the Lake District - there is a lot of ‘Don’t’!
UK: How do we make our destinations more attractive.. Let's replace all the lovely greenery and quaint quiet towns with tarmac, can't go wrong with tarmac right?
