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I am Leah’s in awe of the accomplishments of the people of that time period. Thank you.

I enjoyed this so much. I had never really appreciated the differences between the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, or the probable reasons why. This account was really insightful. One thinks of Cumbria as an inhospitable area, yet there are so many prehistoric monuments there, and so much evidence that people who lived there traded widely even so long ago. Wonderful video, thank you.

Well worth watching, clear, and interesting. Cumbria’s a fascinating place to be, with so much as yet uncovered.

Lovely production. Nice to see something specifically on the Cumbrian sites. Such a magical place.

Very impressed by the quality of this documentary. Well done indeed.

Love the video. Amazing stones circle. Love to visit this place.

your voice is made for this! amazing quality! please keep making docus!

Fantastic video! I really love seeing evidence for the early migrations of our ancestors! ❤

I am 83..my school cross-country route was close to the Birkrigg Circle.

Right Adam, get yourself down the shops and get yourself another Ivory back scratcher. I nipped in to Waterstones in Kendal yesterday and got a copy of your book. The lad behind the counter recommended it as well so your doing alright!!!!

Excellent video. I'd love to see more like it. You have a real knack for educational content.

Thanks for the video. Interesting and well done.

Woah production value is off the hook my guy! Great work

Wow, amazing. Thanks for the informative video.

well worth a visit as unlike Stonehenge you can walk amongst them in beautiful countryside.

Fascinating

Really well done and very interesting and informative - thank you very much!

Me and my friends visited Long Meg and Castlerigg in July last year. I loved both sites. it was a really cool experience

Incredible work, well done!

great doc!

Thankyou that was so interesting I live in the west coast of Scotland we have a lot of different things dotted around but Cumbria thar was brilliant

Really interesting and professional. Thanks!

I am intrigued by the palaeolithic stone arrangements, carvings and cairns left by the indigenous peoples here in Australia. I wish there was more information available on the subject but the country is so huge (a map overlaid on Europe covers from Scotland to Turkey) so to find them is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack! I spent my first 30 years prospecting in remote areas of the Australian Outback, but unfortunately did not document the ones that I came across; they were just part of the landscape. Interestingly the Palaeolithic Era here lasted until less than a Century ago, so I did not know whether they were 100 or 10000 years old ! Now I wish I knew Archaeologists I could discuss them with !

Cool place

Great video

Adam…​​⁠That’s why I emphasised, “authentic”….

Stone circles = sun cross = wheel in the sky that makes the seasons turn. When we were farmers who had to pay attention to the seasons or we die.

Monuments is there in khasi hills, Meghalaya state north East of india bordering with Bangladesh, I like to preserve this ancient monuments in my place.

Cumbria is really the middle of the isles we called Britain and Ireland ❤ if you measure Scotland, England and Wales I bet the centre is in cumbia somewhere ❤

would of been nice to see the Tullie House stones....I've visited all the sites shown, but never been able to get into the museum. Excellent film though.

Remarkable how those immensely heavy stones were lifted - No one has a clue how?

Does anyone else think some of the stones look like teeth?

Adam, a wee word please about the Castlerigg stone circle, from a very astute guy. On arrival at dawn yesterday, I learned from the tourist blog, that it was first recorded, in the 18th century, as being, originally, in an adjacent field. Now, after my authentic once-over, (I work in the discipline of Psychology), yet am an ex-professional Firefighter, I propose below, my ‘gut instinct’. A. It is unusual to find that certain monolithic stones, are leaning up against each other. B. Tis also unusual to find a strategically placed stone, placed under a closeby, stone, which was leaning, as if it was installed by a ‘bored Contractor’. In essence…this circle doesn’t fit within it’s perceptual niche, nor my BS detector. PS..did you notice the vandalism of a stone and the surrounding walls, whilst you surveyed? 🙏🤔

Can we get more? Please?

2:35 Amazing they knew what ‘England’ was back then and also to avoid Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall. Bonkers!

Clearly, that second hand-axe is made by a man of giant proportions. Basically, giants of ol were there. Making all kinds of earthworks

Great video and excellent editing. I'm curious, what was the song that starts at 6:14?

It's funny how "Langdale" translate directly from Danish: "lang dal" mening: "long walley" Gotta be named by vikings or saxons.

Cumbria still has forgotten history ancient mysteries that may never be taught in any schools. We should learn our non Germanic history and pre Roman history but we would need access to the Vatican archives and the British Museums vault also. Why is this not so obtainable then the prescribed history taught in education? ❤

What strikes me is how late-developing this part of the world was, compared to the Fertile Crescent. People were drinking beer pubs and munching on dates in Eridu nearly 2,000 years before the earliest of these monuments were built.

Is that castlerigg at 0:43? Just been there this week if so!

They maybe corals to gather animals in ?

mesolithic = the age of Leo, in the platonic great year.

patung2 megalitik ada 17 biji.

Ok

saya msh menyimpan patung2 megalitik.primitif java. peninggalan dari seorang belanda di java..adakah yg berminat .

90% just died????

subsaharan africans still lived in the mesolithic stone age in 1930 and would still do without contact with the northern hemisphere colons. They should be considered stone age people even today across the world.

"Prehistoric communities ... BEGUN..." ???? Or am I just misunderstanding?

Typical... looking at objects purely on their value, looking for what resonates with themselves (status and money) instead of walking in the shoes of the ancients and understanding what was valuable to them. All things was Spiritual, gods abounded and live in the rocks and the land, the plants contained living invisible creatures, securing rock from a Sacred mountain where the gods lived would have been much more important than the status of having a shiny rock, a axe that contained the living consciousness of a God and would embue strength and good luck in use was far more important.

Adam, I love your Professionalism and earnest endeavour. However, if we lose our mind-set, of nostalgia, for these dumb, very heavy boulders, re-set our perspective, we can enter a completely new universe of perception. A wee hint…the Discipline of Archeology is pathetically and intellectually moribund, and only confirms an ancient Patriarchal narrative, based on a simple, ‘monkey mind’..aka..Alpha Male.. I am working on our “Real” genetic history..interested?

It's "began" not "begun" and "lie" not "lay".

The heavy axe head is probably too big for you, but a 6.5ft, 30 stone neolithic warrior man, it's nothing. It was probably used to cut down heavy tree trunks or dig deep trenches for building foundations or many other reasons. If you are going to analyse ancient tools used by men, you need to think like a man.

Your assumptions about religion and "god" stem from the Abrahamic religion of the middle east. Our Neolithic ancestors know shamanism as their spiritual guide, which is not a religion.

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