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Great to see you Laura.......thanks for the upload. It's amazing that people can still discover "new' things in the UK........so much history waiting for us underground.
@@barrywalser2384 i must say, i like the more ancient stuff the most.....however, there are amazing structures and people in every age.....the medieval cathedrals are a case in point..... how they were able to build such beautiful things that are still standing.....i'm agog!
@@floydriebe4755 I’m the same. The more ancient stuff appeals the most to me. I think just because it’s so much more removed from our current culture. However, I’m still interested in any history.
I lived in lincolnshire most of my life but I am amazed to find we had our own Henge with many other medieval stories. Well researched Laura, keep up the interesting factual work. 👏
Ever hear of Shearman's Wath Henge near West Ashby? Not there anymore but was found by crop marks years ago. There aren't many in Lincolnshire compared to the rest of Britain though.
I really enjoy your videos. ❤ I love the sound of your voice, and I love the content which is always interesting in its highly detailed nature. And it certainly has nothing to do with the news of the day. Thank you so much. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🌹
sssooo, looks like every one liked that specific site......had to be something special about it.....the "holy island" idea hits the spot, perhaps.....would be something to have to swim or float to the site at times.....idk, just flappin' muh jaws.....gets me thinkin', tho.....tryin' to fathom their mindset.....that the site was special thru all those years is fascinating.....the medieval ruins are extremely cool, too.....they sure built some wonderous structures.....and still standing proud.....amazing!!🤩 hokay, i be done....gotta get some chores done....nice, sunny, warm day....need to take advantage as we're in for some colder, perhaps wetter days, soon....lows back down in the minuses C.....mid twenties F🥶 dang! sure tired of this.....a week of warm, spring-like weather then, BAM! wintery again! BAH!!!😭........ sorry! need to quite whining....ok, i'm over it.....NOT!!! ok, for real...i be done....b'bye👋
Enjoy the weather Floyd! Get out and about on your bike. I'm thinking of doing a future video on sites that were in use during the prehistoric, as well as the medieval because there seem to be a lot of examples.
@@MegalithHunter yeah, soon....supposed to get a lil bit o' the white stuff Wed morn....27° F so might be a week or so before i ride.....it's coming, tho👍🤩 that future video should be beaucoup interesting.....trying to figure out the why of such continuity is much fun, mentally at least.....gotta use this ole brain or i'll lose it🤯😉 anyhoo, i'll watch and chat and comment on any ole thing you come up with.....always enjoy 'em.....see you...... whenever! bye!
Oh I’ve been meaning to get that one. I had always assumed the Fens were too marshy to be attractive to the ancients. But it seems there were quite a few monuments.
Repton is an interesting place. It used to be the capital of mercia for a while and they Found a viking encampment there. The church has an interesting crypt and megan fox (transformers) spent time there for one of the episodes of her "historic stuff" TV series.
Great. There were other videos and news segments that mentioned this but yours was the only one that actually explained the site and its environs. The continuity is fascinating; who knows how much longer back it's been a sacred site? And I wonder if anyone comes to honor the saint now? Thanks!
In 20 18 I visited on a wondering pilgrimage with 7 others and prayers for the saint were said. We visited 7 other sites and the only one we were unable to visit was West Dereham priory where the ruins are on private farmland where the antisocial farmer forbids any access.
Thanks so much for this Laura. Allan Barton just did a video at Crowland a couple of weeks ago. I love watching videos on medieval abbeys. I don't watch Time Team because their videos are too long for me.
Maybe worth checking to see if they happen along ley lines, or where ley lines cross. Some places just have a 'feel' to them a particular type of energy once known about, that stirs the blood or makes one tingle
Repurposed because local farmers didn't want them as there were big rocks that needed removing before farming could take place, but often convenient for worshippers as there would've been a well worn path to the location. Just boring practicalities I susoect. The stones at Stonehenge and Avebury were simply too big to pull down and the motivation to do so didn't exist, so they continued to stand there, but smaller henges were more likely to be pulled down and used as the foundations for significant buildings.
According to some researchers, this "henge" monument and a barrows near Stonehenge are among many such structures are located at energy centers that are nodes on ancient ley lines that formed a network covering all of planet Earth. The ritual-purpose structures are rebuilt at the same locations for millennia for the simple reason that those are major nodes on the ley line grid.
Shouldn't be surprising to find Christian monuments (Churches, Abbeys, Cathedrals, etc) on the site of ancient 'monuments'. It was common practice to show a pagan religion had been conquered by Christianity.
I believe that North Tawton in Devon was the site of a Nymet or sacred Grove. The church was possibly erected on the site. There are several sites of sacred groves in Devon.
@@PGHEngineer People have too many axes to grind methinks. As you point out, the two most recognisable, unmistakeable "pagan" sites have been pretty much left alone. And both are in areas where access, money and manpower were readily available to really destroy them. Those pesky early Christians, always choosing the obscure, out of the way places to "assert" their authority. Unlike the Romans of course, who were totally respectful of the common people and their beliefs (does Anglesey and the destruction of the Druids ring any bells for this nonsense?)
I would say that we should expect to find that the Church built on top of past sacred sites as a matter of course (hearts and minds) so thats the clue for archeologists to go digging for the ancient near the christian buildings.
We call it the Late Paleolithic like it was a set time, year such and such. But change is like weather, it it has causes. Many places must have held out against the tide of farmers for a very long time. Remote areas, some still remote. (South Senagal Island?) And aside from some concerns about viable gene pools, there was great diverity among the Forest Folk. What I find really fascinating is that farming won out as a lifestyle, despite the fact that their lives were harsher and more regulated than hunter gatherers. And there was still feasts and famines in the villages, and contagious deseases from rodents and other pirates that spread regularly, so they were just as at risk as their forebears in the forest and maybe more so. The logic eludes me, for surely everyone then alive could see that city life wasn't an improvement.
The ceremony of baptism is a reenactment of the the deluge of Noah ( according to scripture) . The decendants of Noah built replicas of the ark from the soft flood sediment remaining from the global flood, wich hardened over time ( petrified).The dolmens often have symbols associated with the deluge embossed in the formerly soft mud, now petrified.
I was interested by the detail that Guthlac's sister came to move his body after a year (and found it uncorrupted). If this is not an invented detail for a typical fictional 'miracle story', does it indicate: (a) an established insular British tradition; (b) a Continental custom imported in the 'Danish' or 'Anglo-Saxon' migrations; (c) a deliberate imitation of the 1st-century Judean practice (when the bones of the shrouded and decayed body were cleaned and placed in a limestone ossuary by relatives); or (d) something else?
Much of the Roman army and administration was by "germanic' descended people from the very area where the Saxons and Angles originated. they were essentially the same folk Indeed it's possible the word "Angle" may well derive from the word Angarion the name given to the postal and haulage systems of the Roman Empire including Britain.
It was normal that many Roman and later Christian communities in Britain and the Continent would ensconce themselves on old areas of communal religious practise to show the enhancement of the new god. This has been admitted through my longish lifetime.
The original Christians took over ancient pagan sites and built churches they allso (stole) the pagan sacred days and made them into saints days and easter and Christmas . Good video.
Henges are 'happy hunting grounds'. We've been told this by modern stone age people, why does no-one listen? After farming, they were used for the mid-winter livestock cull. There is plenty of hard evidence for this, and it makes sense. Setting the date for the cull was important, the calendar function of these places focusses on the mid winter date I think academics shun this obvious conclusion because they prefer to think of their ancestors as artists rather than hunters. Snobbery!
