You would think that these ancient people would have been too busy getting enough food to survive and see them through the winter but no, they went to all the effort to move megaliths across the landscape. For all our technology today, their achievements were equally impressive.
Absolutely. It's another sign of their sophistication that they not only had the ability to move large weights but the social infrastructure to support the man-hours. Avebury has a staggering amount of time put into it. Also, they must have really believed it was worthwhile, some sort of spiritual payback for the extraordinary effort.
I am currently writing a book on the History of the Golden Valley and the Straddle. Dorstone and Meerbach Hill this sits on come within my boundaries of study area and countless hours spent reading and deciphering documents have shown the Arthur name was attached to this monument in the very late 1800's purely as a means to get visitors to speculate visit and pay cash into a local economy. I have found the monument described in sixth century land grants as a boundary marker and recent archaeology shows it to be a part of a complex of Neolithic monuments of which many more are to be excavated. As much as people like to associate Arthur with any thing that moves in this case it is purely Victorian invention. Oh and the closest its ever come to being in Wales was when Bishop Oudogwy banned King Cadfaen in the seventh century by naming the River Dore as the boundary between the then two Kingdoms one Welsh and One that is unclear because if as the documents state as being right The Welsh bit was in what is now England and the named boundary document is still being looked at because it also rubbishes the Later Doomsday settlement ID's. Basically though this site has never been in what we call Wales.
Yes CS Lewis was based in the golden valley for some time and did get the idea of the table from the stone. There is a film called Shadowlands which touches on his past, altho they do not use the golden valley in the film, they use a valley with a wide river for aesthetic purposes. Tolkien also came to this area and many of his place names are very similar to those around here. Bredwardine and Brandywine Mordiford and Mordor.
Awesome video, feels cheap to get this for my $1 pledge honestly ^^ It seems all the decent megaliths are always on the opposite side of the country to me, South East corner :(
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To replicate something like that i would set the supporting stones in place the bury the whole thing then drag the capstone into place then excavate the chamber after burying the whole thing.
Not sure about the King Arthur thing, or even that it is a grave but it does add mystery to the site. Back in the day our ancestors probably just got a bit bored one day and thought "i know, lets stack some massive rocks over there" 😉very interesting place though whatever the case may be...rEspect MegalithomaniaUK
Neolithic people are called that because they had no metal so you are unlikely to get anything from that era .They did hold hiring fairs there in the 18 / 19 c so you could pick up a few coins !
Looks to me like a dolmen, like you have all round the UK and Europe. Also they are a lot older than 5-7 thousand yrs , as they are associated with the plasma event from the micro nova of the Sun around 12,oooyrs. An oldie Faraday cage if you like.
More like platform burial for cremation/ back when the owl/bird worship was worldwide notice cap stone is in shape of a sitting bird and the megalith for at front of sight is in shape of owl. The plasma events in the sky back then were so powerful it would have just melted those stones like eye of africa
Silver Fox. I've seen a silver or really a black fox in England. very rare. It had escaped from a fur farm. Nice to see we've got our priorities sorted.
No, too tall. You'd have to be a giant to use them. The sky burial idea is plausible, where you put a body on top for the birds to clean up but rats and foxes can't get to.
And on digging down deep beneath the great capstone an ancient inscription will be found that reads: "MAYJAL OUK MAYJA SDAER MAYJAL OUZE YA UND AVAERE"
