I live in Torquay. Despite having beautiful coastline, Dartmoor is the place to spend every free Saturday. The widerness, the landscape is just extraordinary. And that magic you feel. Knowing that somewhere, many many years ago this place was full of people, who worked and lived in this harsh enviroment. From bronze era, through middle ages and very recent granite quarries of XIX century. Traces of this people you still find in Dartmoor. It is very, very special place.
There's something so magical about Dartmoor - I have done a little wild camping and walking there which I have made videos of on my channel. Love the place.
Apart from Ray being so wonderfully articulate, knowledgeable and blessedly modest, I love that he ALWAYS DRESSES in EARTH colours. He blends in so nicely every time I see him, like he is part of the landscape itself. No OTT army camo either, just simple earth colours of greens, browns and greys, respecting the landscape and Nature's abode all around him; not being an eye sore to any looking his way from a distance.
Ray Mears is an Amazing, Kind, Considerate, Well travelled Man with a Hunger for Information about Landscapes of the World! For these reasons, along with his Immense Knowledge of Nature’s Wonders/How to survive off the Land, is why he teaches the UK Special Forces parts of their ‘Combat Survival’ Course. Good Skills Ray!! 👍🏼👍🏼
At 14:13 Bronze Age settlements; these could also have been temporary 'sheilings' (as they are called in Scotland) or summer grazings. By the time of the Bronze Age, settlements would have been quite significant and developed and settled. The 'huts' look relatively small for entire families to live in for long periods and were perhaps lived in by shepherds or people guarding the cattle during summer grazings etc. When the seasons changed they moved the cattle, sheep elsewhere and so forth.
@Lionel Rich Tea Someone who could miss the point that drastically, AND refer to just eating something they didn't buy, as "bushcraft", probably doesn't spend as much time outdoors in reality, as they do in the Rambo fantasy in their mind. You'll never survive the zombie apocalypse without a sense of humour. It's more important than the flint and steel you think you'll somehow have in your pocket the day some shit hits the fan, which stops all the lighters and matches from working.
@@ashscott6068 I think @Lionel must have taken his comment down. Shame! I'd love to see what it was he said, to prompt your excellent and witty reply. I noticed Ray's original gaff, too and hoped someone would make a joke out of it. Kudos to you, matey!
Our Dartmoor adventures started at High Willhays too - a great place to start - The Highest point in England south of the Brecon Beacons. Hop on over to our channel if you'd like to see some more of Dartmoor. (Shameful plug I know - but its everyman for his own on RU-vid these days lol)
We're supposedly going into a Grand Solar Minimum (Forbes article 2020), like the little Ice Age of the middle ages. That killed a LOT of people due to famines (esp. Great European famine of 1315) and inability to ripen crops, dry hay etc. It is supposed to last at least for the next 60 years or so. Combine that with the fact that the British govt have now officially admitted that they have been spraying aerosols to deflect solar heat in an effort to curb "climate change". Add covid scam on top of that, where farms are now being shut down on top of already disastrous growing seasons (cold & rain) in the Northern Hemisphere and you would not be wrong in saying: "WINTER IS COMING".
Those birds were nicely camouflaged until they got tagged with red bands, why not make them the same colour as their legs so they don't become easy prey!
Wasn't there some sort of breeding programme of birds of prey in the UK in the 90s? I seem to remember the programme had some success and the result came close to wiping out Sparrows. Maybe the Wood Warbler is another victim of said programme?
I am totally surprised that Ray Mears is walking on high rocks with his HANDS IN HIS POCKETS. #1 Rule when walking anywhere, NEVER EVER PLACE BOTH HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS. If you fall, there is no time to take your hands our and your face is MINCED MEAT...and most likely your teeth too. A very dangerous practice.
Not the most harsh, definitely, but harsh enough - you wouldn't want to be (or last very long if you were) stuck out on Dartmoor, without the right kit. Same goes for plenty of areas of the Lakes, Yorkshire, Scotland, etc.
I love all this and all your work and everything about it etc etc, but I believe our history is supressed and we've not been told exactly everything over the course of history. Look at the size of those granite boulders man! Seems a hell of a lot of effort to quarry and transport rocks that size to use as a wall for cattle? Must have took years going off the amount of huts, estimated from presumptuous life possibly have lived there, from god knows where they got it from, probably would get an answer if searched local area and quarrying etec, lol think about it. Always had the "answer" rammed down my throat where I'm from, holyhead, old hut circles n stuff etc etc, the answer is only as good as the evidence the theory you can base the answer in in the first place. So theoretically there is no true answer without countless dead certain archeological find which can only back up a theory but never lead to a certain hypothesis. This shit is up for debate and always will be. Which is what is amazing about it lol
If you're going to watch videos that have been illegally uploaded instead of going through the proper licensed channels, then at least stfu and appreciate that it's in a format you don't have to pay for. Bitching is for bitches.
RetroRoadshow It's OK, I downloaded the HD version illegally from a website which allows you to share copyright protected material, however, having being forced to pay a lot of money annually for the privilege to watch TV with the threat of prison if I don't, I feel morally self-righteous that I can download anything that has been broadcast on the mainstream channels in the UK. So indirectly, I do pay for it. I appreciate HD more than poor man's SD, bitch. :)
yeah its ludicrous. I am not from the UK but what from what I can tell it seems you have a mandatory television fee you have to pay for, don't you? Here in Germany it´s quite the same unless you are both blind and deaf they make you pay that bloody fee. Even if you don't own a TV and if that wan't ridicolous enough even without internet access you have to pay so you can appreciate their electromagnetic airpollution (just in case you hide a radio or something). You don`t pay, they send you the debt collector... Imho that by itself is legalized illegal activity... so I fully agree, aslong as the tv channels are funded by illegally collected money, they´d better shut up.
Daniel Crash Do you mean at the end of a rope as in a good old game of tug of war or do you mean as in a hanging, if it is a hanging then that is a very extreme reaction over a lame comment on a youtube video, this suggests to me that you may need to seek some sort of professional psychiatric help before it's too late as you may read other comments you don't like then completely lose it and go on a killing spree resulting in a life sentence at a high security prison with no chance of parole, even the threat of it on any form of social media can land you with a prison sentence. However, you may also mean at the end of a dog leash rope which suggests something kinky, you naughty boy you.