I got the kellogg's racing game delivered to via Ebay on wednesday. I cant wait to play it.

Nice background on you. I don’t think 11 year old you was strange either, because 9 year old me was asking for subscriptions to National Geographic over Rainbow Bright lol.

Brilliant

OHH is that where "etc" comes from at the end of sentences? From the Latin and? I looked it up and yeah it comes from et cetera which means "and the rest"

Pretty sure flint has been proven to have been talking bollocks, and lying and/or manipulating in this debate 😂

Let's just say, it appears the Scots have been exporting Old Red Sandstone drain-covers to England, passed off as valuable relics, for a few thousand years longer than previously suspected? Stonehenge Altar Stone? 😉😁

Great news. Stonehenge is awe inspiring, a testament to human endeavour. Lasted longer than any modern roads or endorsement hungry politicians.

Curiosity how many of the so called 100000 plus objectors actually live near Stonehenge and they do realise that the stones are proped up by Readymix concrete that was done in the late fifties. Also the tunnel was starting nearer to countess roundabout and not going under stones would have not had any roads in view it would have been back to open landscape. Still as usual now will be struggling to get down the A303 should have built it like they did at Hindhead brilliant job there

A303 mega project announced by Cameron and Osborne who desperately needed and successfully captured many of those west country seats …… Cancelled by Starmer and Reeves who don’t need any west country seats. I’ve really enjoyed the endless months of (tunnel project) Salisbury A360 closure gridlock …… Gave me time to reminisce back to the 1960’s when a bricklayers hammer could be hired at the Stones little car park to chip off a “souvenir “ …. What a farce ….. all that expensive high kv cabling installed with no tunnel to service …….. may as well use it to supply an enormous housing development ….. there lots of nice green belt land right there !

Good gawd. It must’ve been a slow news day at Fox that day!

We had the Childcraft series when I was a kid. I think it was put out by the World Book Encyclopedia. It had something like a dozen volumes on all kinds of different subjects, along with annuals with different subjects, I remember one that had the newly-discovered Lucy. But my favorite, of course, was the dinosaur annual, later a regular part of the series. I remember how it ended with speculation on the big mystery of why the dinosaurs died out. (Yeah, yeah, I know, birds.) I think it might have been the 1976 annual.

Saying Caesar correctly: 👍 Talking down to people who say it the way English media has since English media existed: 👎

Classic! Must find a copy!

That beard though ❤

Interestingly, units report on average, 55% of contracts aren't won. In other words, the 45% wins are likely undercutting others, understandably. It's a race to the bottom though!

The woman says the word like too much

The Old Guard is one of the best movies even if you are not a sci-fi fan. Don,t believe me, just give it a try.

I have been asking myself who is protecting the people from the “protectors”.

Ashamed to be British once again

Great conversation, was bemused myself when I saw Archaeologists signing off on this, makes sense as they potentially stand to gain financially from it, but it leaves a stain on the field.

Conservatives are fascists they never wanted to stop the fascists the were the appeasement party.

Yep, well said.

Just a quick note to say I misspoke when I said GB News had dropped archaeologist turned conspiracy theorist Neil Oliver. In fact earlier this year [2024] after a run in with the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom, during which Ofcom expressed serious concerns about the controversial channel's editorial control over its live output, GB News cut the Neil Oliver Show down from two hours to one and pre-recorded the broadcast version where it was previously broadcast live. The live two hour version now goes out online on a Friday evening, where Ofcom does not have regulatory jurisdiction, with the edited version broadcast in a Sunday evening slot on the regulated channel.

It was me i did it. I killed the dinosaurs then i built stonehenge

Archaeologists against civil engineers t-shirts are🎉 how far off?😂

Sounds like there is a niche in the market there, for a journal which does pay the authors.

NB: Edit at 7:20 - 7:30 is Andy giving the context of the Stonehenge Tunnel project being formally cancelled in Parliament. There is no missing content, I moved it forward in the timeline and the cut to Steph should have happened before Andy interjected. As a result, it's an uncharacteristically jarring edit point, but I had horrid earache when editing, so concentration was perhaps lapse. You may not have noticed. However, I wanted to reassure the viewer, again, no content (ie what Andy said next) is missing 👍

My impression with the archaeology and heritage sector is that it is a very upset field, and has been for a long time. The debate is not just conflicted, it is reactionary which makes it contrary, ungrounded and unfounded. It upsets me, for example, to see that the Buildings Act 1984 was used for complaint against something called "Enabled Development" due to the inclusion of 'permitted development'. The Buildings Act was extracted from the Public Health Acts of 1936 and 1961 (which also tells you exactly what the building codes are for), so this was nothing new, yet it was manipulated into the post-war Development vs. Conservation debate. Yet, if you "enhance" a plot of land for nature conservation, that is a development! "Enabled development" was coined in an EH document of 1995, and spoiled the Historic Environment Review and the Heritage Protection Reforms, only being accepted by Government in 2010 Planning Policy Statement, quickly replaced by the NPPF in 2012. It was a false argument, and leaves you thinking that leaders in the sector do need to lear to let go of disputes and move on. The Heritage Reforms failed under this debate, which leaves the sector unfunded and unsupported. Floundering. Yet, 1984 was also the year Geoffrey Wainwright, as head of the Prehistoric Society, attempted to reset the agenda with a series of studies published in the proceedings of that year, delivered here in Norwich (yet its a history nobody know about), which also went on to influenced the MPP, Monuments Protection Programme. He attempted to state the sector's purpose and value. A much better approach.

Incredible insight.

I think that I misread the room a bit.. lol

It is very difficult to gain experience when starting out in Archaeology!.. Our Bajr books remain unfilled due to lack of opportunities.. I am starting at the University of Leicester this September reading Ancient History and Archaeology.. But I have also had to pay for the course myself to the tune of 20k... I am lucky to have enough money floating around to be able to do it.. But many people do not..

From 2024

Didn't whales build Stonehenge?

Shouldn’t discovering the giant’s existence be first, then finding potential sites of activity? 🤭 sorry I’m really trying to give the idea of giants a credible chance, but it is less than a tenth of a percentage of probability.

I'm looking forward to when they announce that instead the existing road will be widened to full dual carriageway specification. The eco mob will do their nut!

We went there last night to do a ghost hunt.

Well if they want everyone out of cars they don't need a tunnel or anything else.

That tunnel is the stupidest thing imaginable, the main road just needed to be a little wider but they wanted. A huge project for a tunnel, so that a few stones cannot be seen from the road.??????? They have spent a fortune there already do not waste a load more.

I don't know why the algorithm recommended me this video, I already knew the explanation, but I still put a thumb up for the 1:50 joke 😆

Dude this is interesting as all hell 🤙

Quick answer to the title: No, it’s not.

I am a bit disapointed, maybe you could ask them? They do not expect to be viewed positively, this strategy is not for people to join their cause. Its to lets say "activate" people who are aware of their cause but are not doing much. This forces there main stream media to talk about this, it brings it to the public discussion and point out that they do of course all the "actual" protests, that the ones who are against this often don't have argument against their cause etc.

While I welcome the cancellation from an archaeological point of view, as a Wiltshireman - "how do we fix the A303"?

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I was going to say something about Jeremy Bentham, but accounts of his preservation are exaggerations. (Accounts of Mark Twain's famous quote have also been greatly exaggerated.)

A soup video I hadn't seen!

Down here they call that kind of thing a Nicho, but they are usually inside the house and in the Mexican culture are normally used for family alters and such. Think of Dia De Los Muertos alters from Coco (movie). It's cool to see a different version, thanks Marc!

So the original contents of the niches differed over the centuries. So if we want to know what would have been originally in that niche, we need to find out the age of the building first and that will help inform us. Okay, great thanks for the info. 👍

I knew that book was good for something!