I will never say thanks to GB news enough for letting me discover the existence of Neil oliveri. I am not from the Uk, so knowing about him isnt too obvious
Back in the day....the 60s in fact....I was hitch hiking my way back from Cornwall & found myself at the Stonehenge....it was getting dark so I pitched up my tent right in the middle of it & spent the whole night alone there.
I remember as a kid visiting Stonehenge in the late 60's there was no visitors tunnel or parking, and you could walk amongst the stones and stand on the stones, they were just there.
If you had asked me 2 years ago I would have said that the people who built Stonehenge were unsophisticated compared with us. Now i would say that its we who are somewhat ignorant about being human.
Hi Neil, Great to see you enjoying yourselve and having a smile on your face 😁👍.I've just finished my time machine this morning, What are you doing on Wednesday ?.. I'm poping back to the day they finish stonehenge ... Fancy coming ?.. 🤓🏴
I finally got to see it on my third trip to Europe in 2018... My first trip was 1983! Why did it take so long, I don't know but I was happy to finally see it. I don't understand how it all got there but it's amazing and I feel lucky to have seen it when I did. I still hope to come see it again someday but it's a crazy world so that may not happen. 🇺🇸 But, grateful to see the wonderful, and mysterious history of those giant stones in person 🤗
I visited stonehenge in 2019 and other sites in the area. There's so much more to discover. It does make you think of a community that were far cleverer than we give them credit for.
I grew up in a village 15 minutes drive from Stonehenge Avebury is a more attractive site and older than Stonehenge and sheep graze around the stones and you can wander around them. The admission fees to S/Henge are a rip off. You used to be able to drive past and park up at the side on the road and take photographs. Now that's all blocked off completely. The big problem was that visitors kept chipping off bits of it off and it had to be stopped otherwise the stones would have disappeared.
I remember as a child picnicking and playing around the stones, you could in those days. They were incredible and I always felt happy there. It would be really interesting I think for Neil to interview Timothy Alberino and hear what he has to say about such ancient sites.
The first time I saw Stone Henge I knew it was a calendar. A special one for Astrological purposes for a specific time for a large population to participate.It’s taken them this long to work it out when others have already speculated on this.
"Messages went out across the land for materials and all those involved in their carriage were bestowed with great praise as the spectacle of their caravans slowly moved inwards to the site"
There is very little speculation as to what the people who built Stonehenge called it. You only need to consider the ancient living fossil that is the language of the Cymru. The Heel Stone or Heul stone as it's called in Welsh translates as Sun Stone. In medieval times the stones were referred to as the Giants Dance which actually resonates with the old ancient name. So, Cawr Gawr translates as Giants Dance. The soft mutated Gwar means Dawn and Aur means Hour or Time. Cor means circle, choir or college. Goreddu is to circle and Gorel means Aperture. Which takes us to the ancient name in the tongue of the Cymru as GOREL GWARE , translated as APERTURE of the DAWN and COLLEGE / CIRCLE of TIME. No mystery there then, does exactly what it says on tin.
What's the meaning of Stonehenge? It's killing me that no one knows Why it was built 5000 years ago Why did they build the Stonehenge? How could they raise the stones so high Completely without the technology we have today?
You ask "Why would they go to such herculean efforts to build stone henge when they could tell the time from the moon and stars?" I then ask, why did we make such great efforts to invent a watch/clock? Why did we all have a town clock and then personal watches? Why do we all have a clock in our car, on our PC, and on our phones? Why do we all do that when we could look at the moon and stars? The answers to all the questions are very obvious.
They like to keep it quiet that Stonehenge has had huge amounts of restoration work, using diggers and cranes, straightening stones, replacing lintels and reinforcing it all with steel rods and mortar.
I get excited also when ever I here any mention of the Nuremburg Trials as this Is where lots of British Politicians are going to end up soon for there crimes against the British people in the last 2 years
Exact timing was a matter of life and death for these agrarian people when you stop and think about it. Planting, sowing, tilling, harvesting of various crops all had their place, if you wanted to maximize your food supplies that is. Getting the timing right could mean the difference between surviving well fed, and going hungry.
The true name for these stones is The Guinness stones, originally there was a platform on top, where people could stand and look out over the land, the purpose being, to keep an eye out for the Guinness delivery fella on his giant Irish elk and cart
If anyone thinks a bunch of savages built these things after (1) mining the stone, (2)cutting the stone(3) transporting the stone from I believe somewhere in Wiltshire , when they barley had a cart is absolutely mental, if you tried to do the same today the undertaking would be massive and that’s with hgv lorry’s, expert cutting equipment and cranes, how these were done 2000 ago is absolutely mystifying
As for wanting to document the celestial world, the first principle of sympathetic magic is 'as above, so below', so it could be that back in the distant past when magic was what science is today, mapping and reflecting the heavens was about the most important thing we could do. Just a thought.
Was it not an arena with a roof for the people to gather I read that some woman had a theory about that, it’s hard to believe that some people had so much knowledge about the stars in Greece yes but not Britain then ?
Apparently, some clever academic has discovered that marks in the stones, that previously were thought to be the result of shaping them, are in fact a lost language. Obviously, taking meaning from these marks is imprecise. But speculation is that they’re a kind of Guidestones. Tentatively, one line says “Don’t let anyone else tell you what to think or what to do”.
We have a building here in Ireland called newgrange and its 5000 years old on the summer solstice the sunrise shine in the doorway and illuminated the back chamber its a magical place
The first megaliths appeared c10,000BC, at the same time cave art in Europe (which had been reproduced for 30,000yrs) came to end. Similar abstract symbols are in use along Aboriginal Song Lines today, but then Australia didn't develop agriculture. Standing stones and mill stones spread together; the former a sign to nomads that Loaf Wardens were near (Fear of the Loaf Warden is the beginning of wisdom).
I actually tried dowsing the ley lines that run directly through Stonehenge the first time I visited, when I was offered the opportunity to try by a dowser there! I was amazed how consistent my efforts were! I went on to dowse ley lines in Welsh stone circles and also at Carnac in France and proved to myself that they are real....weird but real! Pretty amazing!,
The Secretary of State for Transport wants to make a new decision on the Stonehenge road scheme. He asked National Highways for responses to five matters he wishes to consider i.e. Alternatives, Policy, Carbon, Environmental Information and Any Other Matters. National Highways has responded, and the Secretary of State for Transport has now invited comments on these submissions and any other relevant information. Comments must be submitted by midnight on 4 April 2022. The submissions by National Highways are technical and lengthy. The Stonehenge Alliance and its expert advisers are preparing a full technical response which we will share in due course. However, it is important that the Secretary of State for Transport hears from the wider public on these issues. We’re therefore asking as many people to respond as possible, raising some or all of the points below. If you can, please make the points in your own words and add any other points you might wish to make. National Highways has not: made any changes to the Scheme to take the 2021 World Heritage Committee Decision into account; acknowledged that the Secretary of State found the Scheme’s impact on the proposed western cutting area would be “significantly adverse”; fully assessed alternative routes less damaging to the World Heritage Site e.g., a southern bypass route would be cheaper even if there might be some problems with it, while a longer tunnel would reduce impact on the World Heritage Site; explored alternatives to hard engineering solutions in the context of safeguarding and enhancing the World Heritage Site - e.g. a package of measures to reduce road traffic, road emissions and improve access to the South West; updated the scheme construction costs; nor updated the carbon assessment and costs. Other changes since the Examination closed: concern for climate change has increased with the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and the need to take urgent action to reduce emissions, not increase them as any new Stonehenge road scheme would; and the Environment Act 2021 sets new ambitions around nature recovery. Please email your responses by 4 April to: A303Stonehenge@planninginspectorate.gov.uk, remembering to include your name and address. Many thanks for your help and continued support. ABOUT THE STONEHENGE ALLIANCE The Stonehenge Alliance is a group of non-governmental organisations and individuals that seeks enhancements to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and opposes development that would cause it significant harm.
Thing is, the bluestone arrived there possibly a thousand years before the sarsens, so unless the same idea crossed the millennium of people, it would have been a repurposing, possibly as an imposition of a new order. I believe that the religious adherence to farming will have been of significance, as would the broader societal ramifications thereof.
Personally, I rather like the idea of the stones being part of a complex celebrating life, woodhenge being built of impermanent material celebrating birth,the river symbolising the travails of life and then stonehenge commemorating passage to the next life, perhaps in a similar vein to maes however.
I wondered if they may have been a foundation for a fortress? Or, maybe that's all that's left above ground after cataclysmic events over time. Maybe if they did a dig in the next field there may be a clue?
The thing that I find fascinating about this structure and many others world wide that are like this one around 5000 years ago and others in South America and maybe Egypt etc etc dated around 12000 years ago, is how did they manage to accomplish this. To place these stones so deep in to the earth and compact that earth so as they could withstand storms and stand exactly the same for thousands of years would be with modern lifting gear and so on a huge problem. Then we have the magnetic stones all over Britain that are lined up for hundreds of miles, I think they are called lay lines or something. They too stand to this day. Very interesting indeed.
Yeah in Egypt we have pyramids built to such exacting tolerances that we couldn't do it today. Not to mention cutting perfect granite boxes and blocks of many tons, then moving those many miles. They also tell us that the dynastic Egyptians built the pyramids, whilst also telling us they were a Bronze Age culture. Bronze tools cannot cut and smooth solid granite. We have been deliberately lied to
@@Antipodean33 I agree that we still do not know how this was possible, but I wouldn't say that we have been lied to. Just for once it is good to say that we do not know, instead of saying God did it or something simply because we still don't understand. The posibillities are limitless. I personally do not believe in God, I am Atheist, and this is why I have this position. I am open to theories, but will not believe until the theory is proven. I would like to say that Alien life form also has never been proven, but purely from a pragmatic view. We are here, so the possibility that other life forms are is plausible.
Watched a Pathe newsreel film of Stonehenge been rebuilt and repositioned in 1901 and 1914 , and in 1954 when the site was cleared and the whole think rebuild using cranes and redimix concrete , so in truth I am four years older than Stonehenge 😱
Not much of an explanation. These stone monuments, and there are many of them, are massive undertakings. And yet, there are no other significant stone constructions from that era. To talk about it as a social thing, a gathering place for mundane purposes is preposterous. It is correct to say we may never know. There are no records of what was going on at the time to explain how they lived.
Circle of stones in Orkney Scotland as old and is in direct alignment to stonehenge. Google it its all so fascinating. Stay strong and safe and SANE from the west coast of Scotland x 💙
Stonehenge is going to be a prominent plot feature in the new Indiana Jones film. Maybe it was a gateway? In 1913, Indiana Jones and his friend Herman Mueller thwarted the plans of Count Albrecht Von Pappendorf, a German spy who was using the stones to augment the powers of his magician ancestry. Twelve years later, Jones and his future bride Deirdre Campbell were at the site while unravelling the legend of Merlin, and defeated Adrian Powell, a British minister of parliament intent on world domination. The archaeologist would also work at Stonehenge with Gale Parker. A crystal cylinder uncovered during an electrical storm in 1936 brought the attention of the Nazis to the stone circle and in Jones' attempts to foil Hauptmann Emil Loeb led to the revelation that Stonehenge was a doorway used by Netherworld beings who had fled the planet in times that pre-dated man. However, the portal was closed when Jones was forced to destroy the crystal key.
Why would you build Stonehenge as large as it is? Well, why do we build impressive town halls? Around Stonehenge it probably was the epicentre for England and so the biggest timepiece was built there (Assuming all the other standing stone circles in Britain have a similar function). Also, it would be like GMT and travellers from around Britain would be able to assess whether their own time recordings were accurate.
I like the idea that Stonehenge was just someone's idea of a joke. Maybe they were pissed, having too much mead. Thousands of years later people still haven't got the joke yet. :P
Never believed it was just a calendar. The people who built it knew what day it was long before building it and after abandoning it. I'm not one of those ancient aliens/Atlantis types, I just believe a construction of this scale had a bit more behind it than recording and predicting seasons, they must have known all these things already in order to design and align it properly. Recorded history tells us the most fascinating and exciting tales ever told...the periods without record give us some of the greatest mysteries.
Doesn’t make sense to drag such massive stones from miles away into a circle just to make a calendar when they could of built something much smaller and it would of done the same job plus they wouldn’t bury people in a Calendar would they ? I don’t think they were much different from us other than having different customs tied to their everyday living like people today gathering in a circle or semi circle to watch a concert or football match or attend a marriage or funeral ,Stonehenge also has an inner and outer circle which suggests an audience watching the inner circle doing some sort of ritual is Stonehenge a place of gathering for worship,funerals ,marriage’s,entertainment ,a marketplace and judgments ?
Don't you just love it, 2022, don't know what it is? ?? But we'll dissect it, call it this call it that, but you don't know, leave it alone. And admire it !!!!
You try to lift a quarter of a ton between 4 people or make a rope capable of dragging those stones from Wales. The rope would be to large to grip and too heavy. The same with the pyramids. No answer by modern standards.
It's to do with the cycle of the moon as well as the sun,14 nights (fortnight)the position of the stars are slightly in a different place than they were then,It's like the stones are reaching towards the gods which were the sun and moon
Anyone can count to 365, or put some sticks in the ground to mark the sun's progress, but inevitably, there would be disagreements about who got it right. Ordering and synchronizing an entire society with the definitive calendar that all that counting can be set by would make it worth building, and if a massive festival round an enormous stone circle orders and structure's society, helping unify people, bring stability, commerce and peace among them, and helping them to agree on when is when, then things would naturally become focussed around such a valuable community asset. Now factor in the steady progression of these henges south. It's clear that an entire way of life spread with the use of these celestial chronometers. The megaliths themselves speak to the heights this culture reached. It doesn't need all that much explaining. There's no need for a mystic narrative, though I'm sure there were such narratives. There's enough reason in it for all the rest to naturally follow. All of it, the druidic priesthoods and funeral rites. The feasting pits and marriage ceremonies. The processions and sacred enclosures. All just because their society had grown and flourished around these henges, and caused the synchronization of their lives.
The ancient astronauts theorists think Stonehenge is the skeletal remains of a very ancient portal to another world by an alien race.....you gotta laugh at those guys really lol
Apparently stonehenge was originally from Wales. Seems strange but. That's what experts say. Krista shame it never stayed there.(perhaps we should see if Wales would like it back) if not we should move it to the N.E.C. for more visitors to see it of they want to. Yes I've been caught in many traffic jams trying to get past it and no I do not like it is just like many others.
Here's some things the media won't tell you.... Britain (meaning land of the covenant) has a very illustrious past that was hidden. 🏴The fact you can read all of the Egyptian heiroglyphs easily using the Welsh language🏴 why the North West Coast of Wales was made to resemble a pharoh in headress and why the names anglesea and hollyhead were subverted from angel sea and holy head (nasareth is by it) 🏴 is Pembrokeshire at the North end of Dinas cross ( the city of the cross) is a jerrico on old old maps not far from a constantinople too. South of here St davids (city of David?) 🏴 a bethlehem to the west 🏴 South Wales has a bethlehem also not far from Grusilum. This was hidden by adopting the roman name of ventra rusilum (it was at this point our ancestors named Gwent Gwent because the G went , they coded the whole country ) That's not far from Mount sion (the hill with the sign on) and why we have the breacon beacons. 🏴 the first Christian Church of 37AD (St illids) South Wales following the return of a certain king to his homeland. 🏴 we also have the origin of the Egyptian and babylonian zodiac laid out spanning 40000 Square miles. Perfectly placed mounds (one for each star of each zodiac) built ontop of vast hills shaped to the zodiac the star pattern represents ( currently under threat of destruction via the green agenda turbine scam ) 🏴 look at the flag ... our dragon stands in the same pose as the mesopotaimian depictions of Anu 🏴 the 9 in the tail representing the 9 tribes that came and settled here. Somerset named after the sumarians , Exeter named after the exodus , Surrey named after the sirians, etc 🏴 then there's the decendants of that holy bloodline and the places they lived named after them ( like Bryn Henllan named after empress Helena mother of Constantine) Have a look at Britain's hidden history channel for more . There's far far to much to list here. I'll just say one more thing though .... there's a reason everything dug up or found in Britain is instantly labelled anything but British, it has to be roman , saxon , viking or anything else but British. Its to support the His story of the celts . That narrative was created in the 1700s to hide our true past.
I can remember as a kid, in the mid nineteen fifties, visiting stone henge. It was just a pile of rather large stones in the middle of a field, I climbed over the barbed wire fence to have a look at it. ..one of my late elder brothers when serving national service used to tell the story that a full sized model horse, that the officers used to practice sword drill on ( I know it takes a lot of believing ), was stolen and left on top of one of the stones. I do hope someone has a photo of this..
