No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now. 

Very prepared

monday left me broken😊

the channel's future

Lessgo Tom

I cannot imagine how boring YT will become without your videos, Sir. Thank you for all of them!

New here? ❤

@@namantherockstar keep begging then, but not here, have some decency

It's automayed replying will do nothing

Tom has never put less than 100% effort into any of his videos. Frequently, he goes 150, or even 200%. But he respects each subject that he films and does it right. And that's partly why we only have 19 weekly videos remaining, and rightfully so for Tom.

@@morganfreeman8208 I think they're referring to the guy Tom interviews - Tim.

More like the long pause is nigh, but yes, we'll miss him for that time. Anyhoo, we'll get more Technical Difficulties!

I can't believe Seth everman and Tom are gonna stop uploading almost at the same periode. At least Tom's stop is temporary ?

The pause wont be too long I reckon, people as driven and talented as Tom tend to have trouble staying away.

@@TheKz262 Who knows. Tom has been doing this a long time and I can't see why he'd want to stop, but he's simply not the person he was a decade ago. After a few months off, he might find the relief of not researching and shooting these videos to be so immense that he'll stop entirely. I doubt he'd ever return to the weekly without fail format, but he's certainly going to take some time to reflect on just what the next decade should look like for him.

He may still try to stick to the consistent schedule but not enforce it. This isn’t the end, not even a pause. Maybe it’ll be a week and a half instead of a consistent one week.

He was so talented !

He was so very knowledgable about not just the physical long barrow itself, but also the details and history and background surrounding one.

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He gets a cut of the money, and so will anyone who buys or inherits it, for the next 5,000 years? And he asked for that payment up front?

@@IndigoIndustrial It was explicitly highlighted in the video that the maximum contract length in the UK for even the longest term contracts such as burial space is 99 years. Grave site fees are also usually paid up front.

You just understood one of the main reasons for credits at the end. One might argue about the music and all, but it is that moment to summarize for oneself what was just watched instead of having the attention drawn directly to the next subject.

A pause, a lull, silence. Less is more. We are slowly bleeding these common things from our digitized culture, and this shows most in art.

@@MannyXVIII One of my favourite things to do in movies is just sitting through the credits. If I really liked the movie, I let the credits roll while I think about the movie or read discussions of the movie online while the music plays. It's a good feeling. Unfortunately sometimes people give you an eye if you sit in the theater while the staff is waiting to start cleaning haha.

@@anudeepk7579 Recognisable! It tends to be an emotional moment. I've shed tears over animation movies even, for no particular apparent reason (ratatouille?). I only do that in movie theaters though, not when playing a DVD at home for example. I always thought I wanted to milk every penny I paid for the ticket (given that I'm dutch). But this gives a fresh perspective... 😉

Especially when the final line is as good as this one

What does this say about our invented rather than inherited "traditions"?

​@@BroonParkerall traditions are invented. Just depends how long ago.

no bad compared to burial plots and all the costs that go with that

Very reasonable pricing honestly.

Why? What about 🧹 witch burning?

Tbh, I would like to end up in a place like this. Beeing close to the living , even if I'm dead soulds calming

Living history, if you would.

Seconded. Selectively, of course.

​@@xephael3485😂 they only burnt when they arent witches😉😂

*Tom

@@Zach_Attack_1 *Tim Scitt

Timmy*

​@@johnwt7333timmity skimmity?

@@Zach_Attack_1 The farmer who built and maintains it is named "Tim".

"This was probably used for some kind of fertility ritual purpose"

Considering how everything today is meticulously documented, unlikely.

@@fen3311 I think you underestimate the passage of time and overestimate the resilience of digital media.

even if that somehow happened, that would be intriged, not confused. archeologists dont go in expecting anything, they find things then figure out more about them.

@@beretperson Unless a catastrophic event happens that kills most of us, digital media will persist. People will copy and copy and backup, they already do it with every other form of information, books, tablets, etc. I think you underestimate the potential technology to recover most things we could develop in 100 years, let alone 5000.

Either that or tom being a good videomaker asks lots of things and make it easy to explain stuff for narrating it and pick the best takes

I think both things came together here. The farmer is eloquent, and Tom is (undoubtedly!) a very good videomaker 😉

I worked on this project doing the stone work and landscape the surrounding area so know Tim quite well. He really knows his stuff, he's very intelligent and is very passionate about long barrows.

Newgrange is older than the pyramids, isn't it?

@@DaveOBrieni believe so yea

@@DaveOBrien Yes, i just checked on wikipedia - "It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids."

@@DaveOBrien depends on the pyramids I think, the majority, yes, not sure about the older deformed ones.

I got to go during university. Magnificent experience. Newgrange differs from this barrow in that it's designed to light up on the winter solstice instead of the summer. Last I heard they have a lottery to determine who gets to go each year. I'm sure it would be a mind-blowing experience.

Somebody needs to have a word with Hancock about how visible the Sun is.

Always my favourite videos 😂

the only reason he has a show is cos that's where his son works--and it shows.

Haha no kidding

Someone tag Milo so he can explore this

Congrats on meeting Sir Scott!

@@sentientarugula2884 It would be “Sir Tom”.

It should be "Cap'n Tom"

That is so cool!

​@@panda4247thats Mad Cap'n Tom to you, cur!

It's almost as if copying artifacts from another culture _isn't_ a hideous crime! Yes, that was not to be taken seriously. No, they're not the same culture just because they occupy the same land; they're so divorced from each other that no one can say how the original barrows were used.

I have a feeling that Neolithic farmers weren't woke * dodges incoming fire *

@@ximono what on gods green earth are you on about??? lmao mans bringing politics to a video about old tombs.

​@@ximonowho knows if they were aware of injustice in their society. We dont really know much

it always came across to me as a lack of respect for the builders/craftsmen back then, as if it MUST BE aliens because they simply weren't smart enough to consider these things back then

They hired aliens to build this one. Their year equals 99 earth years, that's why the annual contract has to be renewed every 99 of ours.

@@itsSofieee It's not just a lack of respect, as often as not there's a healthy (unhealthy?) dose of racism mixed in.

@@Izandaia that's definitely a factor too

Alien architects are the answer to people who are too stupid and ignorant to think that other people could be smarter than they are.

As an Archaeologist, I can confirm this statement to be true. Most of our work is educated guesses, and the answers change over time as well. What we thought were a fact 20 years ago might be wrong today as new tech and new finds change our view over time.

@@Mrlonefighter So what you're saying, is that real human history sometimes feels kind of like the official Nintendo timeline for the Legend of Zelda? Don't answer; rhetorical question!

I've heard the same applied to beekeeping and gardening

I just hope that they give proper respect when they do it. Given the prominent gathering area, I would think maybe they could do a sort of annual thing where they relay the lives of the people who are about to be scattered, like a second funeral.

I cannot imagine any form of scattering which could be considered respectful. Just bury the urn in a regular cemetery and nature will take its course.

It would raise the soil PH which is good for growing potates…

Add them to the top of the mound!

​@@jeremygarst394scattering ashes is often done with ashes, to return the ashes to nature. It's common enough of a practice that I don't think your opinion is the majority opinion.

it's even worse in America. In Massachusetts, for example, the body must be embalmed(whether it's cremated or buried) with toxic chemicals like formaldehyde, I believe based on long outdated laws meant to prevent the spread of infectious disease. It must be disposed of in a legal cemetery, and no "green burials", so cemeteries are essentially toxic waste dumps never to be recovered by nature. The body is never brought into a home, if the deceased family wants a wake, it must be done in a "funeral home", and of course the body will be heavily made up to look as "life-like" as possible. I believe these sort of regulations and practices are even less open than those in the UK, and more and more funeral homes are being owned by commercial interests, not owned by any families.The US attempts to be in total denial of death, and it's incredibly unhealthy.

Thats why we love his videos ! 😄

@@squirlmySounds like the funeral industry had good lobbyists?

That's not a mistake, it's a common joke.

@@sparklepugtea It might not have been a mistake - one archaeologist might be considering two possibilities.

@@sparklepugtea Not a mistake, archaeologists are famous for disagreeing with themselves, let alone other archaeologists.

@@FrobacI'm a bit surprised he said four opinions, not six or seven

@@pattheplanter This is a more specific example, but I think it could be applied to archaeologists in general: It's a well-known fact that all Egyptologists hate each other. - Velma Dinkley

Sutton Hoo ring any bells?

​@@keithhigh7773Sutton Who?

probably because the world is full of SO much. So many things to discover, here we are!

There's probably a version in SE Asia region. but i haven't heard of any, so far...

My same question, gotta email a professor of mine who taught old world archeology and see what he knows about these renewal of long borrows

Agreed. The way he walks just perfectly complements the vibe of the video.

But you're going for a short barrow?

Why do you care how you're buried (or otherwise disposed)? Like the video said, funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the survivors. If your spouse would rather have your ashes in an urn they can take with them, why not?

​​@@jursamajbecause it sucks balls to live life with that sort of thinking

​@@jursamajif you want to think that way, you do you, but why question someone else for not being part of your miserable ways? You're not even right, since the funeral does have meaning to the dead, because it had meaning to them before their death, sure it dosnt technically matter what happens but thats a cold and depressing way to look at it, i spent years thinking like that and i only feel dread looking back at it, but maybe you're different

@@ilovesheen7446 why does that way of thinking suck? Why do you see it as miserable and depressing? It's just a fact. It is what it is.

And as a fierce atheist who has dealt with a lot of loss in his life I happen to completely agree with you :)

FUS!

RO!@@valeriek8537

Or maybe some bright lord armour

Always apreciate a good draugr joke

All fun and games until you open a chest and you hear "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"

I too was surprised to learn this when doing family history research. I came across church records indicating a plot an ancestor was buried at, with an exhumation date some 70 years later so the grave could be reused.

@@ickster23 AFAIK, over here (Germany) it's only about 20 to 30 years, after that you have to "renew you subscription" or the grave will be given to another person.

So are there old graves in England at all? I'm sure there are, but, most are not??

I had always suspected that there would be a time limit on graves. Having it confirmed in Tom's video left me thinking about the 100 years. I rationalised it by thinking that by then, everybody that knew me, including my young grandchildren will have also passed on. So it is no big deal.

@@crackthefoundation_ there only dug up if the grave is needed so theres allot of old graves but proably not in very populated area's where space is limited

Would it not be more appropriate to have Native American traditions reintroduced? Otherwise it’s just another Bass Pro Shop pyramid

​@@user-uv2cp1qd1jyou can build anything anywhere, but you're right, it would be a bit odd to build a graveyard(?) themed jollybees. Or a McDonald's themed burial mound.

There actually are an ancient equivalent of longbarrows in New England. Scattered throughout the forests are hundreds of stone chambers, many of which are confirmed to date from pre-contact times, although the general public seems to have little knowledge of them. Their exact purpose remains undetermined

We have to be… for us the founding principal was to provide educated and informed choice.

Bold of you to assume that people that only work occasionally throughout the year don't get eloquent in the information era. All we do is philosophize and contemplate when we're not working.

​@@aleks5405bold of you to assume he wasn't thinking of livestock farmers who work every day and still manage to learn to use big words like coccidiosis.

@@jeremygarst394 Have you heard of the technological development? "Working every day" isn't exactly what you think it is even with stock farmers. Time for you short sighted city dwellers to get your brain out of the fog and see people outside of your burgs as equals.

I doubt it, the issue with all the ancient sites is that there's usually no historical record of them, what with the exclusively oral histories of bygone cultures. With this barrow, there's all the legal paperwork, there's people who will have to maintain the structure with invoices attached, there's videos like this one; lots of records, unlikely to be confused for something older. If we got to the point where all of our current-day records were lost and we've not been living around or maintaining places like this for many years, I think we'd have other things to be concerned with, but at the very least I wouldn't imagine a future archaeologist confusing the design of this structure for true neolithic architecture.

The materials would be tested for dating. They'd know exactly when it was made.

​@HorseDe-luxe Those aren't the only issues. Ancient Egypt kept records of things, and yet we have archaeologists having to piece their civilisation together instead of linguists and lawyers. Even the Egyptians closer to the end of their civilisation had their own archaeologists working on ruins from earlier in their civilisation

​@@JNCresseyNot so easy though. Carbon dating gets inaccurate for anything recent. All our industry makes the estimates more difficult for things in the late 20th century and beyond.

@@JNCressey exactly.

"... And it was then that Tom Scott revealed that he has no bones."

they did it to make money

​@Elastane you can still be thoughtful and care and be sincere while making money. Making money is not in and of itself dirty or evil. Greed (aka the love of money) is the evil. And Tim Ashton has bridged very well the offering of a service while making money.

I certainly wouldn't mind my ashes being in a place like this.

Can you imagine if some millionaire/billionaire started building one? They’d be absolutely slated for it.

The Great American Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee and the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas are both ~~70% the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza. I suppose these modern pyramids likely won't last as long as the ones in Giza though.

@@azdavidza they will if they are made out of huge sandstone bricks.

Not in my back yard! All that land for ONE family. No thank you. Long barrows everytime.

Not as grand perhaps, but search "Pyramide van Austerlitz" in the Netherlands.

Then the three archeologists can have five opinions 😅

You seem very optimistic about archaeologists being around after this "cultural collapse". I wish I could share your confidence.

I think it's kind of weird to blame the need for a business plan and to pay workers on capitalism. Like, even the most ancient socities had forms of payment and needed to be efficient with their plans.

Back in day they had slavery. I mean corvee.

​@@TilWagreed

It's almost Douglas Adams like

@@TilW Exactly. Not paying people was only viable when one person owned the other.

I'm afraid when it comes to long barrows there might be serious survivor bias in play.. we don't even know where the 999 that collapsed might have been but the one that still stands tells us they were all marvels of safe construction..

Caitlin would probably love to talk about this as well. Cool to find another deathling in the wild!

@@long_term_karma9899 haha, hey fellow deathling! :) I find us all over the place on RU-vid.

I'm the guy that recommended this to Tom Scott. I have Caitlin Doughty in mind for a future video, when Sacred Stones build their next project.