My money is on circle first, lightning induced second. The relationship between the earth charge and the air charge which drives our weather is omitted from much of our mainstream geology. I recommend the work of Michael Steinbacher and Andrew Hall on this topic. This will introduce you to the work of the Electric Universe where physicists and electrical engineers consider the evidence of ancient petroglyphs and their depiction of plasma phenomena which can be produced in the laboratory. In other words, our ancestors were looking at massive electrical events in the sky. The channel for this is called The Thunderbolts Project and it has a number of documentaries on the topic, but the "Thunderbolts of the Gods" and "Symbols of an Alien Sky" are introductory.

Please make a film about the Hebrides. I'm enchanted by them.

Yes it's pronounced "sloo". I was stationed in Burtonwood Army Depot, RAF outside Warrington back in the early 70's. This was before they fenced Stonehenge in, and I'd camped twice inside the circle to capture the sunrise on my camera. I spent many a holiday weekend driving through the countryside to places like Leeds or Bristol or Wales looking for old castles. I wish I'd taken more time looking at megalithic sites instead. I've subscribed and have really enjoyed what I've seen so far.

I think a standing stone, depending on it's properties, would attract lightening. There's usually a few stones that are taller than the rest in the circle, I would think it's placed there as an effort to "recharge" the power, if any real power, of the circle.

I love the PODCAST because it emulates radio! Notwithstanding prehistory is one of my favourite subjects.

An example of using trees for practical purposes: In my country there was a mobile phone company called Connex. At some point it was bought by another company. Many years after the disappearance of Conex, we arrived somewhere in the mountains, in a valley, far from any village. I had no signal, and I had to call home, my parents. We met a local who told us that if we wanted a signal, we should go to the Conex tree. It was marked with the name Conex, written in blue on the bark of the tree. Yes, it was the only place in that valley where the signal reached.

Please make your film about Callanish! I agree, it's astounding how little the Isle of Lewis sites have been investigated. Great podcast.

Just giving a try at the language scores points. Those side details are just fine, adds meaning. Great show.

Always a pleasure to hear you two and your humorous approach and insights. P lease keep up the good work.

Always a delight listening in. You failed to locate my old college, however, which made me chuckle. The University of Wales' Trinity - St David is in Lampeter in Ceredigion. In my day, 1981 - 1984, it was St David's University College. Very good Archaeology Department. Keep up the good work!

Thank you, insightful thinking. Helps us all to focus on being purposeful and thoughtful. I just found you. Glad I am here.

🤣🤣 Thanks for this, l will watch it later. Good to see you in person. I did listen to it on Patreon after you sorted the app😉👍

THANKS GUYS

Love this. 13 stone could be the lunar year of 13 moonth. The lightning strike right in the middle there makes my magic magnetic hands wonder off into possibilities i better keep for myself. 😂

Could also be that a giant standing rock with some metals in it acts as a lightning rod... the lightning strike may very well have happened later than the building of the henge.

Love to see a film about Callanish...hope it is still on the books.

Callanish circle re-constituted 150 yrs ago. Much stone replacement speculative.

This site impressed me.

Maybe there were wooden structures (totems, flagpoles, scaffold) placed at the centre of some stone circles that made lightning strikes more likely to occur? Perhaps the site was not built around the lighting strike, but rather the human activity at the site made lightning more likely to strike?

Has anyone seen THE LAST DRUID BEN MCBRADY where its suggested that the burial chambers where actually bunkers for protection from meteors etc. Found across Ireland. Really worth a look. Truth or not? Fascinating stuff

Large veins of quartz in the stones. Definite charge in the place.12 circles in the area.

Interesting, since we have very little notion of how they chose sites. I lived in a place with a disused mine and one spot took rather frequent strikes.

Thanks lads for another great listen. I live in the north west of England and to see anything decent I have to travel quite far, up to the lake district, or down south for instance. Do you know of any sites in my area that I may have missed, there is a burial mound by Parbold (not confirmed, a destroyed stone circle on Cheetham hill Bolton and the calderstones in Liverpool (a dismantled tomb made into a circle ) .

Very thought provoking.. and in a round about way ties up with the air burst sites in one of your previous posts...Hmmm

War of the Worlds comes to mind. Perhaps there is an alien space ship buried there. Just kidding, couldn't help myself!

Fascinating, thanks. I havn't been to Lewis, choosing Orkney instead - it's a big omission for me. I hadn't heard of this project or their findings. No idea about the lightning - maybe if a conductor (tree/stone?) was repeatedly struck, that might have seemed a big deal. Speculation of course, but the site itself sounds fascinating anyway.

It seems EMF fields can greatly affect C14 decay rates as lightning produces excess neutrons, thereby messing up dating mechanisms.- Jupp's instant petrification.

I hope you guys entertain graham hancock s theories about a lost civilisation? Sorry lads I'm on benefits and can't afford the patreon thing and I'll probably get lost in the comments now you're superstars...lol...so nice one and best wishes

Clough clow?

I know I'm popping up in all the vids with comments. I'm watching all that I can. I have a question. I am restoring an old graveyard. Stones are missing or sunken. Is there a personal affordable portable piece of equipment that I can use or rent to try and find these stones. They are Veterans. I don't even know what such a thing would be called.

Couldn't the anomalies found in the study indicate actual stones underneath the peat? How would a hole which is now filled in with peat generate a different electromagnetic signature than the peat around it?

Ah 15

😂😂😂nothing more romantic than a smouldering spot

If you guys don't get snapped up by the beeb or the history channel it's a crime!

Haha. That’s Gaelic pronounced like Garlic. Oh no it got worse. Callanish like fish, photogenic like dichlofenic. Not wise for the individual who raises pronunciation to make such a balls up. As to the subject matter. It’s more likely for a strike to occur in such a place post construction. Smouldering peat in a thunderstorm lol. Try an increase in electrical conductivity,- wet and acidic. Is this the woowoo channel?