Why has it taken KZfaq so long to recommend one of your videos to me? What fun! I’ll be back for more.

Another cracking video, Adam. Looking forward to seeing more, mate!

I enjoyed that very much. I'll be watching more! I just want to add that I recognize that you have a great education, but it takes more than that to make a good video, no matter the topic. I watch a lot of videos on all kinds of subjects, and I do not have a great education. So I just want to tell you that I think you have what it takes to have a great channel. Please keep making videos. I'm just a random old lady in the US who loves history, and it's clear that you do as well.

Very well presented about a relatively ignored and fascinating part of Cumbria. What’s interesting about the crop mark circle shown here, near the Giants Grave, is that it’s presumably connected in some way to the other two extinct stone (or possibly wood) circle marks actually within the Giants Grave field, one showing the postholes of the circle very clearly, and the other, larger circle, with a crop mark thicker and not showing the whole circle, being nearer and to the left of the two standing stones, as seen on Google Earth from the 2018 rephotographing of the area. On the road to Millom from Silecroft are various stone gateposts, clearly former standing stones, even if no longer always in their original positions, as the stones are very thick, and one or two are not in an ideal gatepost alignment. No farmer, past or present, uses an oversized, or possibly very expensive (in both effort and/or cash) gatepost, where he doesn’t have to. The whole Millom area is riddled with evidence, even now, of the distant past, much of it almost unnoticed. The landscape must have been extraordinary in prehistoric times, even allowing for the tree cover no doubt present. Looking forward to the next video.

This is excellent.. I hope you make more! Thank you!

Makes you wonder how many in the east were lost to ploughing in the vast flat lands from york to London, since they all seem to be in the west county or in the hills somewhere

Fascinating topic ! I only wish I'd known more of the archaeology of the Lake District when I visited from Australia some thirty years ago, but the W.W.W. was in its infancy, and a lot of the information was not out there. I visited Henges and Monuments in Southern England, Scotland and Ireland, but was unaware that I was so close to these wonderful structures, and now, alas, I am too old and infirm to visit again, so thank you for bringing them to me ! Cheers from rural South Australia.

Very much enjoyed watching this! We live very close to the standing stones in kirksanton and saw with our drone a couple of years ago during the drought the crop marks. But asides from that across the river from the standing stones, on protected land that’s densely overgrown and most of which is a marsh, is a hidden embankment and whether or not it’s connected obviously I don’t know but it has really got me wondering. Also a couple fields away from the stones overlooking blackcombe is a little mound/hill and is known locally as arrow hill, folk-law says that it may be a burial mound. Not fitting to usual types of burials or funerals around stones, could just be a glacial deposit but it’s an interesting concept.

I have tried to put links to two website pages but clearly not allowed to put links. There was a geophys survey conducted of the Millom cropmark a few years ago and the results can be found on our Archaeology Project page. We also have a page looking at Prehistoric Millom which includes the six Bronze Age socketed axe heads found here last year. If you google Millom and District Local History Society. Again, many thanks for your videos, Adam.

Your video was very interesting. I'm from Ulverston originally. I have long thought that academic studies of the landscape history & archaeology of High & Low Furness have neglected for far too long. I hope your channel goes some way to remedying this omission.

I thought I had, but I hadn't subscribed. Sorry. I _have_ _now_ subscribed... (can't have you being "upset", now, can I?!🥺) Thankyou for your walking, observing, noting, filming, mapping, presenting and uploading your knowledge, and sharing this knowledge, these photos etc with us... Its much appreciated - even by a generally 'unknowing' person such as me!! 🤞🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖

Thank you for your history videos. Very entertaining and educating. 🎉

Good to see you have made some more videos. Shap would indeed have been the Stonehenge of the north. Sad to think so much was destroyed, most probably in the last 200 to 300 years ago with revolutions in farming and the later Industrial Revolution with the need for transport routes, Shap avenue having been destroyed to make way for a railway. The stately home of those who destroyed it is now just an empty shell. Perhaps things don’t bode well for those who destroy monuments. Swinside had a narrow escape. When the landowner heard the tenant was about to destroy it he sent word not to. A smaller circle there was removed. I believe the Giants Grave was a long barrow.🤔. Also l think we should be careful not to label everything as sacred or ceremonial. Henges and circles probably had many uses and unfortunately we we never know. Summer and winter solstice do appear to have been important.

My favourite stone circle is Torhousekie Stone Circle to the west of Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway. It's a small, but perfectly formed recumbent stone circle. It also has a nodule of feldspar embedded into the stone facing south east. My own view is that there IS an explanation which correlates to all the evidence, but it is a cultural one and as such archaeology will never be able to uncover their true purpose. No matter how many 'sacred alignments' or interred/cremated people they find in it's environs.

Thank you. I really enjoyed learning new things. hope it goes well .

Interesting. I'm originally from there, and although ive known about it most of my life, I've never been up to Swinside. There are a lot of neolithic monuments once you start to look.

A wonderful video. I have been to Millom doze s of times. I have visited the Giant's Graves but I had no idea about the surrounding archaeology. A gem of a documentary. Your suggestion makes perfect sence.

Brilliant, Adam, thank you!

Greetings from Darlington. Very interesting & thought provoking. Subscribed.

The end of Chapter 3 is a potent statement. Indeed, what if?

This may allude to the setting in of the Iron Age when he sun, the Tropic and the northern part of the ecliptic, with the tropical sign ascended up from the earth towards the pole; which is a well known consequence of the increase angle of the poles tilt till they arrive at 90 degrees.

Crop circles are often found in these area-many near Stonehenge. Have had sentient experiences walking in a crop circle in a wheat field (?).

Hi Adam, have just come across this video, absolutely loved it and have now bought your book about prehistoric Yorkshire. I was very intrigued about 'undetected' neolithic monuments and I wondered if you have any information on what is marked as a settlement near Brother's Water (grid 398117) The surrounding area is strewn with what appears to be glacial erratics, but one in particular seems to have been purposely erected as a standing stone, apologies I did not take a photo, but to me it is different to the rest of the surrounding stones. Thank you again.

I think there is a similar hidden or lost sacred landscape around Rudston. The lonely monolith there (the tallest in Britain) seems to have been part of a much larger complex. We know that a henge and several cursuses were destroyed but i suspect there's so much more we've lost, especially near the actual monolith. Some have called the nearby Willy Howe a proto-Silbury Hill

So the pre Celtic henge builders were descendents of Anatolian farmers ?

Has anyone speculated on the possibility that they might have been entertainment and/or sporting facilities? A sort of prehistoric sports stadium?

Thank you very interesting Just subbed.

Excellent subscribed 😊

I'm also curious about the standing stones in Cornwall.

So interesting!

why do you reckon they started building circular enclosures? as a opposed to the previous long barrows and non circular mounds

Very good!

@AdamMorganIbbotson It's definitely a good thing to do. Keep up the good work. The aerial imagery is particularly fascinating. I have been enthralled by the ancient history of Cumbria since I was a kid. Anyway, I was just checking in. P.S. I speak to your father when he comes into Musgraves in Windermere. He's a regular there! I did ask him if you could do a talk to Staveley and Ings History society - perhaps you could? Ad altiora!

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Love it. Millom

Hi Adam. Following Howard Crowhurst's video on the vast geometric alignments of sites throughout Brittany and Britain, may I ask if you have looked at Rudston? Google Earth images clearly indicate lost circles and other traces in the flood plain North East of the monument. All in the approximate area of Howard's missing 3,4 5 alignments , involving SIlbury Hill, Rudston, and Castlerigg. I have visited for Howard recently but the crops are too high. I find it fascinating, especially in the context of the more intimate landscape of the area, it's monuments and the Gypsy Race river.

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The 'circle' shown here is not a perfect circle but there is a perfect circle (or half of it) to the north of the Giant's stones and a smaller perfect circle to the south. The 'circle' shown here has 'dots' around the inner self, but again the 'circle' is not uniform so it doesn't seem in keeping with the linear of 'stone circles'.

Lots of ancient references to Bridget worship around the mouth of the river Esk Estuary while opposite is the Isle of man, a name from those ancient times when the land was seen to be shaped in male and female outlines and worshipped as such, river estuary's seen as Vaginas and when you see it in this light you can put into place the ancients and what theywere doing at certain sites.

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Malik H Jabbar presentations on KZfaq, Adam and Eve , start viewing at 37 mins, he has an interesting take which would / could explain these circles with the line drawn through them.

Interesting but I'm not sure what your point is here. Of course it would be interesting if everything from forever could be preserved but how could that possibly work over thousands of years? Are you suggesting a massive archeological project? You sask, "How would we see Neolithic peoples differently?" Well, how would we? They are clearly skilled in ways we still can't imagine, with the ability to move massive stones for miles & hoist them without the use of modern machinery---we have lost those skills. I often wonder at the passion of archeologists for proclaiming almost everything to be connected to some sort of ritual or mystical rite---my word, if those neolithic people were actually performing the number of rituals imputed to them, when did they have time to hunt, fish, learn the new skills of agriculture, work their stones, discover metalworking, figure out that melting stones yielded copper or tin. It's not like they could run to the corner store for sandwich---their lives must have been at best pleasantly busy but sometimes a frantic battle to exist, & never mind tribal rivalries. So I do think further investigation wouldcertainly yield new ideas---I'd suspect that the henges had multiple purposes, as areas for celebration & ritual, as landmarks for travelers (not so much w/the road signs when you don't have writing!), looks like a nice place for a market on Wednesdays ("Set your stall up just left of the big stone over there, Joe.") & a way of claiming an area for a particular group, which was still a bit of a new idea then. I do wish you'd provided more information about the similarities & differences among the various sites, and YOUR insights as a knowledgeable person in this field, as opposed to my completely untutored musings. Antway, I'll be back to see if I can become a bit less untutored, & thanks for sharing.

"Did these different monuments co-exist and interact with each other?" Yes. They had a practical use. They were 'computers' linked by energy lines. They created and emitted/received frequencies. Dowsing is a cheaper way to initially confirm this.

How can you compare Stonhenge to the beautifully polished monuments of the same age in Egypt. Compared to them it just looks like a jumble of rough stones. Compare them to the 11,000 year old Gobekli Tepi. There is no comparison.

I would recommend Mike Parker Pearsons book 'Stonehenge' Interesting thoughts but not true. Sorry!

Why do you refer to everything in Kilometres and metres? How far do I have to travel between silecroft, utterly and The Giants Grave? Do I have enough petrol? Do I have the time, considering my car's clock is in MPH and I know my car's MPG, as it says so in my car's handbook! The road signs are in miles as well!

0.26 “It’s towering stones have etched themselves into the Western zeitgeist”. Really? I thought that zeitgeists couldn’t be etched, only engraved or overpainted. In other words, what high falutin’ nonsense…..

Why add artificial dust and debris to some of the photographs? What purpose does this serve? For me it really spoiled what could have otherwise been a really interesting programme.

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I tried to watch your video but sadly the pointless music destroyed my concentration!

Not bad but rather too many repeats.