So what the f*ck are standing stone circles all about?

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7 ай бұрын

If you live in the UK, the chances are you've driven past numerous stone circles in your life. But what the hell are they for? What do they mean? Mike Fernie headed to the Machrie Moor stone circles on the Isle of Arran to explain the mysteries of these Neolithic megaliths.

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@richardwintle1020 7 ай бұрын

I love prehistoric and neolithic things, particularly in Britain. More please.

@brain8484 3 ай бұрын

do you ? ahhhh how nice for you

@danielmorgan104dm 7 ай бұрын

As an archaeologist, this was a surprising but great upload. Would love some more of these types of videos

@garethchild 7 ай бұрын

I was blown away by the stone circles at Callanish. Great video, Mike.

@LEEHAM1122 7 ай бұрын

As a Islander of the Isle Of Arran I have visited these spots many times over the years. Thank you for brining light to Scotland In Miniature.

@wazeroonie6084 7 ай бұрын

If it was Scotland in miniature you’d think Richard Hammond would have presented this😂

@TheF5Fury 7 ай бұрын

As if I needed more reasons to visit Scotland at my next vacation. Such a breathtaking country.

@gewglesux 7 ай бұрын

I have a reason to go back... and she's still single.. I never should have left her there to begin with.

@Okurka. 7 ай бұрын

@@gewglesux I heard she's the town bicycle.

@gewglesux 7 ай бұрын

@@Okurka. everyone gets a ride!! funny guy!

@kenphillips5221 7 ай бұрын

nice work mike . more please

@albertlira7443 7 ай бұрын

For all that i miss foodtribe vids, i so enjoy these a lot

@ellenwood2167 7 ай бұрын

Nice job Mike!

@MrAceyJay 7 ай бұрын

Machrie Moor is the showroom for a company of stone circle builders 😂

@exploringhistoryuk6150 7 ай бұрын

aahhhhhh you never know, it seems plausible! :) i've started researching some the stone circles around the place, neolithic and megalithic age, it all started up these ways :)

@empowers1895 5 ай бұрын

We've been trying to reach you about your stone circle's extended warranty...

@donise8406 6 ай бұрын

1000 years from now people will visit those stones and wonder who JMB was and why he was so famous

@sekur5548 3 ай бұрын

Great vid, and really interesting. Well done Mike!

@revolver265 6 ай бұрын

This video didn't get a lot of love, but clearly Mike is enthusiastic about what he talks about and cares about sharing where he calls home. Keep making these.

@CristiNeagu 7 ай бұрын

The weird thing is that some of these circles were multi-generational projects. Imagine that. We can barely hope that one government will pick up what the previous one started, but these people would work on something for decades, maybe centuries. Why?

@nez9751 7 ай бұрын

They have monuments like this all over the UK I think they are a mix of ancient meeting places for leaders of the time, sacrificial places, religious, burial grounds etc.

@seabiscuitkitten 6 ай бұрын

Great video!

@dh88comet 7 ай бұрын

Personally I'm not that worried what they were for, I'm just in awe of of all megalithic sites and the effort that it took to design on build them.

@xdbxlsilvio3681 7 ай бұрын

I love this series

@Arkantos117 7 ай бұрын

This sort of megalithic building started in Britanny IIRC.

@Middle-Road.Kim.K 7 ай бұрын

I subscribe to the latest theory that Stonehenge was for scattering the dead and feasting during *winter* solstice, not summer. When I see people dancing barefoot whilst bongo thumping every 21st June, it just seems... wrong. Anyway, all henges/standing stones are awe inspiring. Meso/Neolithic studies have fascinated me since I was a kid and tried flint knapping. Utterly failed but it did spark a lifelong interest (pun fully intended 😉).

@charlesholder8009 7 ай бұрын

3.22 "There was little or no writing" with JML carved into the stone. An interesting video. Thank you.

@shannondore 7 ай бұрын

I hated seeing that. Desecrating something like that (historic site) makes me sick. 🙁

@charlesholder8009 7 ай бұрын

@@shannondore Yes there are a lot of nasty people in this world.

@yobgodababua1862 7 ай бұрын

What's weird is that some of that graffiti is now itself "historical", having been carved in by Romans, or basically anyone from 1500BC to 1800AD. Yes, they were all terrible people with no respect for ancient landmarks, but at least we can learn something from their vandalism. I mean, look at the serifs in those initials!

@Elwaves2925 7 ай бұрын

@@yobgodababua1862 Egyptians wrote hieroglyphs onto the wallls of their toilets....which means progress is a marker pen. 😁

@WalterBurton 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the sensible position.

@djking9828 7 ай бұрын

Very cool, 🙏

@LukeAshton05 7 ай бұрын

👌🏼 Thank you

@jagvette1 7 ай бұрын

Love the explanation of pronunciation. When I was a child my brother sister and I used to play on Stone Henge.

@apparentlyretrograde 7 ай бұрын

FYI in the archaeological world, cyst burials are pronounced with a K sound, like "kiss-t".

@JackyRowe 7 ай бұрын

And spelt cist, not cyst

@Nousos 7 ай бұрын

I hope a video with one of the 3 is what's next.

@ScenesThroughTravels 7 ай бұрын

I have to drive there , This has been on my places to go list but , I believe It was all under water then it dried out and we are left with these bizarre stone circles

@DragonsAndDragons777 7 ай бұрын

The Brits really liked playing with rocks

@RottnRobbie 6 ай бұрын

I agree that a cow goes "moo". So that's how I pronounce "moor", like "moo" with an "r" on the end. But for some unexplicable reason, Mike thinks that "moo" + "r" = "mooEr" 🙄

@getawayhs2856 6 ай бұрын

Have the people who cut the grass not got a strimmer to do the job properly?

@dejanzelko8361 7 ай бұрын

Great video. Please make them more like this. I love history and where we all come from.

@briantaylor9266 7 ай бұрын

I don't dispute your pronunciation of 'moor', but I don't like your analogy to 'moo'. I could equally point to the pronunciation of 'door'. I think the best explanation for the pronunciation of the word is because... English.

@OpinionatedCabbage 7 ай бұрын

People in Scotland and the north of England also pronounce door, Doo-r.

@DavidSGrop 7 ай бұрын

2:20 Wow I've never thought of it way. My jaw is on the fleuuur.

@eyespliced 7 ай бұрын

This was excellent! I'm glad this channel is getting content again! Though, I do find it _hilarious_ that anyone not from scotland would try and correct the way a scottish man pronounces the word, *"moor."*

@Okurka. 7 ай бұрын

I'm curious how he pronounces "door".

@gregmuon 7 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what this has to do with cars, but I love archaeology and I love this.

@ianedmonds9191 5 ай бұрын

Kilmartin Glen is pretty special too.

@DonaldRintoul 7 ай бұрын

Excellent wee video, Mike. But the irony of non-Scots telling a Scot how to pronounce Scottish words. Reminds me of the time I heard a BBC presenter pronounce the Cairngorms to sound like Ken Gom ... 🙄🤣

@shiskinegreenkeeper2782 6 ай бұрын

The round stones on the ground are not burial cists.....they were being made into grinding stones to make flour.....during the process one of them broke in half...and were just left...........

@bigmanbarry 7 ай бұрын

i agree

@KarlRoyale 7 ай бұрын

Maybe they did worship the horsefly and that's why there are so many of the bleeding things!

@MegaBYSON 7 ай бұрын

nice title, i watch now

@n.gravey3735 7 ай бұрын

How many videos can they squeeze out of the trip to Arran....?

@Tjescoo 7 ай бұрын

They are tent poles of course. This was a village!

@garylinker69 7 ай бұрын

It's funny, he even said he couldn't imagine being there... Well there were some rather large hairy things that liked human meat so they built buildings to withstand an attack of the mammoth, wild cats etc... Stone henge is basically a barn to keep people and livestock out of harm's reach. 😅

@Alex-fy7sc 7 ай бұрын

i really like the dirrection of this channel. i really like the randomness

@Jamikeus 7 ай бұрын

Such a weird title....

@tensor120 7 ай бұрын

In American English we are taught when two Os are one after the other it is pronounced like a U so moo-or. Our accent makes it sound like More.

@shiskinegreenkeeper2782 6 ай бұрын

Not Glen Rosa in background of Machrie Moor.....

@252Scooby 7 ай бұрын

Oh no so it appears someone on work experience was put in charge on the title !?!

@gw7477 7 ай бұрын

Not mentioning Hawkstone.....lager was just disrespectful

@pjccwest 7 ай бұрын

Nice one! Class Island, looking forward to visiting. I actually have a big interest in that stuff, so called 'history', and finding out what really happened. What next indeed!

@musikSkool 7 ай бұрын

They used large stones to mark land borders in ancient Israel. A rock that weighed 3000 lbs at every corner of your land, you could almost say your land was set in stone.

@murkyseb 7 ай бұрын

That was really interesting, I’d love to see more prehistoric stuff

@exploringhistoryuk6150 7 ай бұрын

more standing stones ;)

@WalterBurton 7 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@Starfishtroopers 7 ай бұрын

early prototype cars

@briancullen9171 7 ай бұрын

It's protection against Dragons according to Ilona Andrews. 😅😅😅

@patrickskelly7520 3 ай бұрын

Wasn't there a scene with those standing stones in the Harry Potter movies?

@IvoTrausch 7 ай бұрын

Is this where the demons dwell?

@XsribsInflatableBoats 7 ай бұрын

Really you need to go Callanish on Lewis............

@Speedy_dew 7 ай бұрын

🤙

@samchapple6363 7 ай бұрын

Moor.. moo. ❤

@1974billym 7 ай бұрын

Liked for the Scottish lesson...Moo

@jordisaura6748 7 ай бұрын

My bet: they were places to get high.

@markborn5293 7 ай бұрын

Place names. Nobody could read or write, but you could recognise where you were by the circle formation. That would be my bet.

@Okurka. 7 ай бұрын

Right, they could tell by the circles which island they were flying over.

@bob88pct 7 ай бұрын

Where's Lucy & Sir Bim? 😅

@UrsSchweigert 7 ай бұрын

do the content you like. it is well done and interesting:)

@EasyPeasy_Japanesey 7 ай бұрын

Where's Lucy Brown?

@amato5232 7 ай бұрын

Pop up to callanish Mike

@Flipendo64 7 ай бұрын

Is that an AI thumbnail?...

@daibutsu009 7 ай бұрын

ここはまだ、神聖な場所として機能していると思う妖精や精霊というべき者が寄ってくるのだ

@benreifhardt4471 7 ай бұрын

Surprised you actually mentioned Graham Hancock. The fact that professional people get so irrationally upset about his theories tells me there might be more to the story.

@brain8484 3 ай бұрын

why is he wearing that hat backwards ? .

@Arnaud58 7 ай бұрын

@02:21 But... how than is muur pronounced?👴😉😁

@basquint 7 ай бұрын

Hahaha horseflys

@shaunmcgee5382 7 ай бұрын

not aliens, the fallen angels,

@showaltermicro 7 ай бұрын

Its just spray paint

@Ashs-mini-vlogs 7 ай бұрын

Be careful don’t touch you might end up in 1745

@colinthompson5881 7 ай бұрын

Feel like the cap needs to be on the right way round for a history programme or you look like you are about to do graffiti on them 😂

@bogdankrupin 7 ай бұрын

Where is James May?

@vikkispence 7 ай бұрын

I've not been to Arran, and i don't know anything about Machrie Moor, but I do know about archaeology. You can't list "stone age, Neolithic, bronze, iron" - the Neolithic *is* the stone age, it's just that we categorise the stone age into three distinct periods; early, middle, and late. Paleolithic (literally Old Stone Age), Mesolithic, and Neolithic (New Stone Age). And cist isn't pronounced "cyst", it's "kist". Definitely agree on the pronunciation of moor though

@LS-ti6jo 7 ай бұрын

Standing stones represent what people do when they don't have cable TV. That and carve their initials in the stones (like you, J.M.B.).

@jonathanfinan722 7 ай бұрын

They are stones. They stand up. Hence standing stones

@kilianconn5091 6 ай бұрын

The purpose of standing stones is not disputed, too bad people don't have the attention span to listen to an actual historian.

@amelialikesfrogs5778 7 ай бұрын

i don't remember subscribing to this channell...

@ch4z_bucks 7 ай бұрын

It was originally called foodtribe, but it's rebranded

@MarshallLeviathan 7 ай бұрын

yes very

@lanceortmann4157 7 ай бұрын

Click on a video and immediately Mike is talking. Click off within 2 seconds.

@LowGrav1ty 7 ай бұрын

Was it really necessarily for a wholesome channel like this to have swearing in the title of the video?... I mean... really? ....

@robbrowne7625 7 ай бұрын

Yes

@ch4z_bucks 7 ай бұрын

Are you so immature that you cannot handle a word being used?

@irhm8640 7 ай бұрын

Interesting topic but why the need for 'f'ing' in the title?

@ch4z_bucks 7 ай бұрын

Because why not I suppose, no harm in that

@christiantrainspotter6727 7 ай бұрын

With James may you should do british pizza vs Italian pizza and British burger vs American burger

@ValentinIulianAndronache 7 ай бұрын

So basically when the ancient Sumerians were building cities and developing cuneiform writing and the Egyptians were building pyramids, you guys were sticking big stone pillars in the ground. There's hope yet for Romania 😂

@ClellBiggs 7 ай бұрын

The Egyptians: We built the Pyramids The Chinese: We built the Great Wall The Romans: We built the Colosseum and Aqueduct The Brits: We stood stones on their ends 🤷‍♂

@Arkantos117 7 ай бұрын

Brits literally built the modern world.

@VaultCon 7 ай бұрын

Well those stones predate the colosseum and the very beginning of the great wall by 2000 years, so that's a pretty poor comparison. The Pyramids are similarly old but again, you're comparing the efforts of the richest civiliziation of the time and its vast army of slaves forced to praise the wealthy to the work of small communities seeking only to praise the sun.

@ClellBiggs 7 ай бұрын

@@Arkantos117 They certainly conquered it.

@Arkantos117 7 ай бұрын

@@ClellBiggs Every tries, only a few succeed.

@ClellBiggs 7 ай бұрын

@@Arkantos117 And none hold on to it.

@hopebgood 6 ай бұрын

At least this isn't Neil Oliver and his latest conspiracy theory wankery.

@Neil070 7 ай бұрын

The stones are obviously greatly eroded by weather, and plundered for building, materials over the millenia. We cannot know their purpose, but perhaps we read too much into them. Perhaps they were just a framework for a large communal hall. Made of wood, with the stone framework, as the wood deteriorated, the framework remained. Perhaps the community that built it loved a party. Imagine finding finding a Wetherspoons that had been abandoned for 5,000 years 😂

@raoulduke8720 3 ай бұрын

What is this channel 😂

@mcdouche2 7 ай бұрын

Why do you have to even elude to the f word?

@ch4z_bucks 7 ай бұрын

Because why not? No harm no foul

@pyrho1 7 ай бұрын

Is the swearing really necessary?

@ch4z_bucks 7 ай бұрын

No, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. We have many words that have the same meaning as other words, one could argue they are unnecessary too.

@neilross6227 7 ай бұрын

sorry but the ring of brodgar on Orkney are far more impressive

@VonCoco1944 7 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, the Egyptians were building pyramids...

@VaultCon 7 ай бұрын

Your'e right, they're much more impressive, i guess slavery of the masses in the name of the elite and wealthy is totally justified if it gives us more impressive rocks to look at right?