Secrets of Stonehenge FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America 

I went there in 1965 when it was not fenced off - magical to walk under/around the stones!

One of the best Stonehenge documentary's I've watched, thanks for posting.

I visited stonehenge in 2019 & it's honestly difficult to describe the feelings I had while I was there. I was working not far away & decided to take a drive to it on a beautiful summers day. I was by myself but wasn't alone as there was a lot of people there. I stayed until the site closed & the visitors had left. There's a tack that runs parallel to the site called "The drove" where lots of new age hippies & general free spirits camp. I spoke with many as they were so friendly & spiritual. I mentioned at the time to the 1st people I spoke to, I said I don't know if its the beautiful weather or the friendly people around. But the feelings of Joy & that I was visiting a very special place will remain with me for the rest of my life. I was so taken I was constantly on the phone to my wife & kids. They were all jealous & I've promised ill take them this summer. I've got a lot of photo's but like I said seeing this place in a video or in photos, is honestly irrelevant. You have to visit the place if possible. It's surreal, spiritual, an amazing place. People who work on the site deserve a lot of credit & I love hearing the different theories. The truth be known there's no written records of its construction & we are clueless to what it really was & what it meant. Too many theories of any mysterious ancient buildings are labelled as tombs or sacrifice places of worship. It's always the same thing. I personally believe we need to start looking at the places from a totally different point of view. We in our arrogance always try & fit narratives to cultures & places from our views of things. It's what we think they should be like. It's ridiculous the cultures & people's who built these structures were nothing like us. We couldn't be more different so how the hell can we look at these places like they were created by an older version of us?

Stonehenge is outside my city, gathering with so many on Summer Solstice nights/mornings are the best! Never tire of going to the henge's all around Wiltshire

I really enjoyed that , thank you to everyone involved. I went there as a child, in those days people didn’t do such foolish things as to spray paint monuments, one could walk amongst the stones and touch them, I remember it well. It is a shame little children cannot do that today.

Thank you for this great documentary. Hope to see a few more like this.

Adverts every few minutes. I'm afraid I've given up with this. Sadly there's far too many adverts on RU-vid these days.

Mike Parker Pearson (the big bear) is the most wonderful guy, his knowledge is amazing and his discoveries through patience and diligence awe inspiring. No ego no plumped up 'hey look at me' just a good accademic mind and intense research. Thanks Mike can watch you all day. Have watched all these expert archaeologists over the years on Time Team and many other BBC programmes revealing to us the mysteries of our past.

This is for Parker Pearson, Andrew Young, Bruce Bradley, Mike Pitts and the the teams involved. Oh, and the videographer team. Just my two bits worth on how the stones were moved. I would look into the elevation of the river bed compared to the entrance or the end of the channel. If my suspicion is correct they also used buoyancy to transport the stones, as well as the fir/oak channels that you just used as guide rails, complete with the 75mm round ball stones. The round ditch was also filled with water to facilitate positioning before erecting them. But I'm a cabinet maker. Just something to chew on. Great documentary. I would also like to interject my take on the Summer and Winter solstices, but relative to the alignment of the great Pyramid. With polished limestone on each face, this would reflect our Suns' light in a triangular shape at a specific angle and a specific location into space. Much like a lighthouse would. Again, Thanks for the Great documentary.

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY VERY GOOD CHEERS

I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this program. fascinating insights and discoveries, thank you for producing and a huge thanks to all the researchers and students that made this effort work!

I’ve driven past it quite a few times. It’s so easy to miss.

Amazing how any ancient artefacts you have to dig to discover them. Yet stone henge is sat perfectly on top of a freshly mowed field.

nice story , i really loved it

I love Nova for exactly this kind of well-researched but still accessible material. While I do enjoy deeper university lectures about such subjects they can sometimes be a bit dry, so it's also very nice to have something more easy-going like this here. Great stuff.

Good documentary, with fairly plausible definitions and interpretations, evolving to shape the evidence. Pitts and Pearson are like the Neolithic chieftains of Stonehenge archaeology.

One of my bucket list to see this places

This was awesome

Wow I love this kind of places 🥰😍😍😍

Despite the excess of adverts - although by today's sorry standards these are relatively few and mercifully brief - this is a good narrative, well spoken and thoughtfully researched giving a good informative and comprehensive scientific account of this famously enigmatic monument's origins. PBS mostly does a very good job... no hype, no myopic traditions aired here. Congratulations and thanks.

Very interesting indeed 👌

Magical , been in Stonehenge around 10 years ago , lucky me I live in London 😁

By not skipping adverts is my way of saying thank you for sharing this great research for us. I visited Stonehenge way back in 2012 and it was really monumental, thinking it was made around 3000 BC. I feel privileged to have seen these stones.

Outstanding - very informative and engaging

In the late 19th century Stonehenge was opened as a type of quarry where the landowner hired hammers and chisels to paying guests to break and tranport away as much as they required at a price. The site was finally prototected, but a huge amount has been broken up and carried away and lost. Access to the monumement was, in the 50s fully accessible and as children we played on the stones, thinking it a very magical and mysterious place.

Stonehenge may also be part of the ancient beliefs of holed stones having healing properties. A form of a healing centre for the sick. Holed stones were often used by ancient people with ailments to pass through the hole of any large stone, believing they would be healed like a rebirth. Comparing it to the natural birth of an infant. Much like entrances of ancient churches of Ireland, Scotland and other places that were considered obscene because of symbolic carvings that have long since been removed.

Nice documentary

amazing

Refreshing

Well, for a American production that was well done I thought! Much of the footage has been on UK TV off and on but it was well presented here as a whole :) ……thank you.

I drive past here on a regular basis to get my food shop it’s insane to think people travel all over the world to see these rocks

Beautiful🎉

Indeed, #Stonehenge is a great marvelous ancient monument from Archaeologist, Astrologist, Anthropologist, Mystics, Civil Engineers, Druids, Astronomist, Masons, Theologist, Philosophers, Architects and Gnostics . . .

i learnt this at school so i wanted to learn more

Thanks for sharing ❤ stay blessed you all the team who are working such unique work. Great to watch. I am a Social Science Teacher and I like your research work.

There’s even earlier structures at the site, three very large pits in a line which possibly held up wooden poles. If you ever visit the site, look for the three large circles painted in the parking lot. People might not even notice if they don’t know to look for them.

Here in south korea you can find also Stonehenge it composed of huge scattered stones with a giant flat stone believed to be the altar .Koreans believed it's a cemetery during stone age.

Best Stonehenge doco I have yet 2 see, could they not lay all the bone fragments out and scan them then let the computer software reconstruct the fragments ?

The plaque is a gift from the past🤯

Stonehenge looks great would like to go there one day as any one seen the mini Stonehenge in Masham ripon North Yorkshire its a nice little place

I went to Stonehenge as a kid in the 70’s. We were the only people there. Climbed on the stones, jumped off, messed around and went home. I drive past today and there’s hundreds of people kept away from the stones moving in a circle around it. I think, where the hell do they all come from ? What made them all suddenly interested in these stones? Nobody gave a dam when I was little 😂😂

WOW AMAZING DOCUMENTARY GUYS 😊 THAT BALL BARING TRANSPORT TECHNIQUE BLEW MY MIND. KIND REGARDS BEN FROM NZ

Winter in Britain, very little to do 🤔 I've often wondered if the stones were moved when the ground was frozen 🤔 water onto ice would enable a smooth surface for dragging with alot less effort ❄️🥶💪

Thanks for 'NO WARNING' of flashing images .. The old movie effect strobes so needed to turn away.

Interesting

Interesting - but although the stone bearings are plausible the oak track would be difficult without machining...

23:10 Cheating! No! Not allowed!!! So the theory becomes dismissed instantly! How did they get the stones on the platform? Let alone without crushing/breaking the platform?

The ancient people are really something,, thanks God their craftmanship lasted a century.. Imagine the stones are so heavy

The builders of Stonehenge had only one goal to make people proud of their achievement for the rest of the world.

How interesting to view the Stone Age as communal and before humans got wrapped up with personal wealth

If PBS was funded, like the BBC in the UK, it would be the best Public Broadcasting Service in the world!

Some rather old footage - that road no longer runs so close by to the monument it was buried about 10 years ago. More up-to-date research has revealed that there were 100s of barrows/tumuli and henges scattered all around the site surrounding Stonehenge.

This is certainly one opinion. Whether it carries weight or not is a long conversation. And one of many to be had today regarding the many opinions of experts.

Is this a rerun? I saw another doc featuring the same head archeologist who revealed that the blue stones had been part of a stone circle in Wales and that they were moved when the people moved to where they are now.

I was fortunate to be amongst the 10 to 50 thousand freaks , mystics , punks , day trippers , acid trippers , lost soccer supporters etc whom enjoyed the annual Summer Solstice Free Festival which was held over about week since the early 1970s until its prevention by Mrs Thatchers’ orders in 1985. Fantastic . It puzzles me how folks in those days whom apparently only lived in tribes or family groups managed such a long - distance logistical feat such as this . ( the organisation & construction of the henge - not the festival ) For a race of folk whom lived in mud huts they certainly had some nifty techniques when construction of massive stone monoliths from quarries across the sea or 100 miles beyond the mountains became necessary . Maybe they combined smoke signals with herds of diplodocus 😁❤️🐢

Isn't there lay lines under stonehinge ?

They built something that had never been built before, except for the Cromeleque dos Almendres in Portugal which was 2000 years old when this was built.

Could you date all this research please?

used to able to walk among the stones when i was a boy in england

It is in this area that 300 kings and chieftains were murdered in a peace conference that is remembered as 'the night of the long knives'. Their burial sight is in the surrounding area of Stonehenge.

Stonehenge is far older than we are being told, and the site was occupied by other people of a later age.

But how do they make the stones and from where?

I have heard that these two circles are both part of a super structure - as a ring of post holes have been found encircling both henges....more to come I hope.

I seen a documentary where they dug Stonehenge up and moved the stones along time ago

Huge logs were placed on top of the lintels in such a way so as to build/ create a wigwam or yuart. It was a shelter for giant people of the past!

Even in our place, there are stone a giant stone that is just impossible for human being to carry . What we heard is that, there's some supernatural, some kind of power which help them carry them.

UP in Scotland they used Kelp to move their stones for circles

So they brought all them giant stones from wales, 150 miles away? that's mind blowing. it would be nice if it was reconstructed back to how it used to be.

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I visited there in Feb 2023 , Heard the story about Stonehenge is very embarrassing..I am really enjoyed

For more information,,, visit of the detectif astral from Indonesia,,, they allready exploration from other dimension about the stonehenge story

I'd imagine they would wait for the ice to form before they moved boulders

Ball Bearings: Russia's Thunder Stone move! A sphere on a plane surface is a point load.

Its ritual importance is related to the fact that Stonehenge was located where the River Avon meets the sea. The sea level was once at about 90 meters. They demarked the shoreline in a peculiar way that allows you to see it very clearly in satellite images. Once you see it, you will not believe your eyes. There is not a single inch of this land which is not formed by human hands, there are massive harbors and cities. They must have had a fleet of thousands of ships. All those scattered stones make sense when you see where they are in relation to the water. All the islands where densely populated.

Theories!!! #Fact⬆️

What I find frustrating is that nobody appears to question why the lintels had tongue and grooves to fit together and ball and sockets to fit on the up rights. These would serve to lock the whole structure together but why? .. The only reason I can think of is that the uprights were freestanding at the time the lintels were placed on top this would then hold the uprights in place while the bases were secured so keeping the whole structure's shape exactly. The only way to place the lintels on top like this is to lower them and yes I know "Imposable they didn't have that technology" but look at Stonehenge everything about it goes against technology of the time and so must have been the construction methods used. If you still think the uprights were stood and secured first then the lintels would not need tongue and grooves and ball and sockets to stay in place look at other ancient structures around the would that still stand today where stone is just placed on top of stone. Plus it would have made construction far simpler. However you look at it the tongue and grooves and ball and sockets are so radical for the time their importance is being grossly undervalued.

In this show, Parker Pearson does not mention that the animals in the feasting pits came from Scotland. Nor does he mention the Ring of Brodgar in the Orkneys, built hundreds of years before Stonehenge. Because perish the thought that the English would need to admit that this iconic monument might have been built by people who originally came from Scotland.

Bones were reburied. Very good. Let the dead rest in peace.

Replicas are based on physical theories and they didn't consider the mental capabilities that were used backed then. Power of the mind.

So close to the real motives..... the birth of metal age.... the start of the road to the modern era...🤨✌️

I keep feeling like there was a roof on it, like made of straw or something. Quite interesting doc.

Alô! Permitam legendas traduzidas ao PT-BR. Agradecerei caso aconteça.

A landing pad for space ships

Stonehenge is a 4 dimension portal the ancient build for their dead to cross over

Stonehenge should be moves to Limpopo South Africa. Maybe rebuilt at the entrance of a big Casino.

It's just a thought but I remember seeing a documentary about an excavation on a Norfolk beach where they found a neolithic wooden structure in the form of a circle and the centre was a tree that had been turned upside down and the roots must have formed a canopy. Could the 'Woodhenge' have the same feature and instead of wooden posts have trees embedded upside down their roots as a canopy? It certainly would have looked far more impressive than wooden posts and it probably could have some ritual significance?

Loved the photo bombing goat.

"WE SPECULATE" aka "WE GUESS" as we are not thinking they are flucking with our minds. I am amazed the Romans did not take it apart.

The explanation for the Blue stones is very interesting. Indian hill tribe 'Irula' put one stone collected from the river in their sacred place on behalf of the dead ones

It is a Celtic place of worship, also the place of the Druids who adopted it for themselves

Nice archaeological try to "unravel" the ancient history of magnificent feats of human ingenuity, but ends just in unresolved hypothesis and speculations!

Maybe they moved the stones via the water as it joins up with the river and there was a trench dug. Also thought Stonehenge itself may have been used as a funeral pyre at one point. Perhaps when the ground was frozen they stored their dead there, and when it thawed they could bury them, as it seems even after being cremated they were still buried.

What people don't realise is that this entire structure is not how it originally stood untouched. It was taken down and put back in 1958, repairs made with concrete and steal to hold up the stones.

I live a mile away from Stonehendge and never actually visited the stones. Sometimes, I feel a bit disrespectful given people travel the globe just to see them!! 😂😂

Not the only ones what are in UK or Ireland ....well there every were

Watching this is painful on so many levels!! Because these archaeologists deny that Giant Men existed back in ancient times they will never find the answers as to how these colossal stones were put together! Giant men carried these giant stones to there current spot and erected them with complete ease but until these guys acknowledge that they will never find the answer!! After watching this documentary we are no closer to finding the answers to Stonehenge’s mystery!

The ancestors of those who made stoneage must have lived in Gobeklitepe, Turkey. Gobeklitepe B.C 9600

There are bodies deep down under the center of the monument about 20 feet

How can you prove it

This is all years out of date now. The first to stones were natural and aligned.