I was worried that the title of this video was clickbait, but no, I am literally hitting 3,000-year-old art with a hammer.

@halfaworldaway

5 жыл бұрын

It's still a little cheeky, Tom from a month ago.

@saul43842

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Scott i cant agree more

@Huntracony

5 жыл бұрын

Something can be true and still be clickbait.

@MrSkinnyWhale

5 жыл бұрын

Huntracony true, but colloquially clickbait is used in a negative sense

@unniFI

5 жыл бұрын

four weeks ago

imagine being the 3000 year old person who made this, and seeing people still preserving your work

@GemA2Gen

4 жыл бұрын

i bet they didn't care that much for it to hope people would keep it up there for so long

@Jay_Hendrix

3 жыл бұрын

I'm imagining someone do that for any piece of my own art. I'd be moved in a way I couldn't describe really.

@maasbekooy901

3 жыл бұрын

"tf are you doing, I was bloody drunk that night. Don't preserve that shi"

@bilbert2736

3 жыл бұрын

how are they gonna see it if they're not alive

@ijustchangedmyname

3 жыл бұрын

@@bilbert2736 This

I'm doing this with the Mona Lisa tomorrow wish me luck please.

@intheairex

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not like people won’t call the police if you comment this

@drafmine4526

5 жыл бұрын

I think the police would just laugh hysterically if you called them for a youtube comment about smashing the mona lisa

@sciblastofficial9833

5 жыл бұрын

what, you gonna smash paint on it or something

@SeaBassVEVO

5 жыл бұрын

Akhil Ok sent a DM

@SeaBassVEVO

5 жыл бұрын

SciBlast Official No I'm using a hammer on that sweet little bitchy smile

There's something so viscerally human about this. New people arrive in an area, maybe don't understand the horse but they like it so they maintain it. They're replaced, and the replacements are replaced maybe a hundred times, but people still think it's cool, a neat part of the local culture and history, so they keep it going. I wonder if it will last another 3000 years. I hope so.

@thetessellater9163

3 жыл бұрын

Humanity is killing itself by burning everything that burns, so maybe only another hundred years before we become extinct too.

@artemis_smith

3 жыл бұрын

@@thetessellater9163 why so negative?

@ashishkulkarnii

2 жыл бұрын

@@artemis_smith doesnt really matter to us, does it?

@Abhinav-qw1sy

2 жыл бұрын

the theseus ship theory, its called.

@artemis_smith

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashishkulkarnii it may not matter to you but it's still really cool to me

Didnt expect to see Tom Scott, of all people, beating a dead horse

@dabydaby7653

3 жыл бұрын

Not original

@Nugcon

3 жыл бұрын

@@dabydaby7653 true he's really beating a dead horse

@KentuckyFriedDoge

3 жыл бұрын

@@dabydaby7653 cry about it

@Shotblur

Жыл бұрын

​@@dabydaby7653 Imagine being obsessed with originality in a world where nothing is original. Must suck

@WolfgangDoW

Жыл бұрын

Not dead, that horse is 3000 years old

What's amazing is that, for over 3,000 years, it has never gone more than 25 years without being touched up. They couldn't even see what it was but they did it anyway. Remarkable.

@kikeinme

5 жыл бұрын

What's also interesting is that somehow knowledge of its origin wasn't passed on while that was happening. Maybe there's some good historical reason for it, but that surprised me.

@russhellmy

5 жыл бұрын

Hector Rodriguez the knowledge of its origin was passed on, but it's a secret.

@sirBrouwer

5 жыл бұрын

Just having it would be a reason for other people to visite the place. So it has a economical motive.

@nightjarflying

5 жыл бұрын

It can be seen clearly from a couple of hill villages & a hill fort across the valley. The ritual of 'scouring' the White Horse every seven years is known by written reports to have been going on for at least 300 years & the White Horse is recorded in the 1,000 year old "cartulary of Abingdon Abbey". I think it's doubtful that the seven year scouring cycle has lasted 3,000 years, but it doesn't need to have been regularly scoured - the chalk lines are the surface of one metre deep chalk trenches, the land has been cropped by domestic cattle for millennia, & if there was a time that there wasn't cattle to do the job it would have been clearly visible during droughts when hill grasses die back.

@dryued6874

5 жыл бұрын

Clearly it's a glyph to ward off eldritch evil which we're better off not knowing about.

Things you can do: hit the art with a hammer. Things you can’t do: fly a drone over it. ?.....

@thescreemregular5168

4 жыл бұрын

The 3000 year old horse it used a uno reverse card

@coolvideos8864

3 жыл бұрын

The National Trust is very funny about drones at all there sites over the UK. You can understand why if you think about how many people would turn up to these sites and have them buzzing around above peoples heads etc.

@SofaKingShit

3 жыл бұрын

@Maximus Shinejil Rain is bad for it? Lucky for them that it lies basking in sunny England then.

@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111

3 жыл бұрын

@@coolvideos8864 So glad to hear that. Amazing how loud drone's are even from super high up.

@molyoxide164

3 жыл бұрын

Cool Videos well when your government controls you obviously yes ofc they’d try to find ways of entertainment, britains just drink at bars as their form of entertainment

"I Hit 3,000-Year-Old Art with a Hammer to improve it" Even more clickbait. Even more accurate.

God that's so British... someone in a tower saying "Left, right, missed a bit."

@TheBanana93

4 жыл бұрын

I say "missed a bit" almost daily... it might be getting a bit old by now haha

@FortoFight

4 жыл бұрын

It's been 22 years and I'm yet to see someone do this, but I guess somehow it's a British thing to do.

@vodkawhisperer3923

4 жыл бұрын

@@FortoFight exactly

@dougthedonkey1805

4 жыл бұрын

“Left, roight”

@TheEmeraldMenOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

DougtheDonkeyTV “Ya missed a bit, ya nutters!”

I really think the profound importance of this can't be understated. When you think of other structures this old - the pyramids for example, not only are they way more famous they were basically abandoned for most of history, not to mention pillaged. This strange chalk drawing on this hill has been continuously maintained for longer than the lifespan of multiple civilisations. Incereidible.

@Adamvs100

3 жыл бұрын

I think I had a seizure trying to read how you spelt incredible

@Salmonwithfeet

3 жыл бұрын

And we British don't even give af about it when we see it like it's "just some old 3000 yrs old horse move along"

@genki2705

3 жыл бұрын

They call it art, I bet the original "horse" looked completely different and what's left is junk compared to what it was.

@derekw104

3 жыл бұрын

@@genki2705 strange claim

@genki2705

3 жыл бұрын

@@derekw104 if an object’s parts are replaced over time, does it remain the same object?

I go past this horse every time I return home by train from University. It never ceases to amaze me

I love the concept that so many people looked at this and thought "I don't know why that is here, I don't know who made it, but I wanna keep having that here" and decided to preserve it

"I hit a 3000 year old horse with a hammer to make it better"

@DominusCypher

5 жыл бұрын

Now that sounds like some old school RTS-gaming right there.

@Moinsdeuxcat

5 жыл бұрын

🎶 Hey Tom, Don't make it bad, Take a chalk roaaad, And make it better 🎶

@thehiddenninja3428

5 жыл бұрын

Na na nanana na Na na nanana na

@rembrandt3277

4 жыл бұрын

The Engineer

@sealdrive9117

4 жыл бұрын

That sound kinda like necromancy Edit:offbrand necromancy

Welcome to Britain. We do weird stuff for no better reason then we've been doing weird stuff for 3000 years. I'm sure there was a point to the White Horse originally, but the point of it now is to be a thread connecting modern Britain to anciant Britain.

@frosty925

5 жыл бұрын

madbritishbelizian if you think your weird, look at Japan. They have all women in theater played by men

@madbritishbelizian

5 жыл бұрын

@@frosty925 So? That was a thing for hundreds of years in the UK as well. We also have a proud tradition of the Pantomime Dame

@ratlinggull2223

5 жыл бұрын

@@frosty925 Dude just like the ancient Greek ones, not surprised

@frosty925

5 жыл бұрын

Theres also penis festivals, but really all of humanity is generally very weird and stupid throughout history

@andrebartels1690

5 жыл бұрын

Imho serving as a connection to the ancestors is a very good point for something. This time, it is not someone on a horse, but the horse itself.

The two most insane things to me are: 1) That people have been preserving art for 3,000 years _even though they couldn't even really see what it was._ 2) Just how modern that horse looks. That could easily be the logo for some modern horse racing tournament or a city flag for a car company or something. I'm frequently surprised at how fluid and stylistic and pleasing to the eye a lot of ancient art looks.

So they keep art preserved by smashing it. Out of context, that sounds impossible, but in context, it sounds brilliant.

Hitting with a hammer to build Literally everything reminds me of old RTS like "Age of Empires".

@sisifo241

5 жыл бұрын

SeeASquared literally what i thought haha

@Hedvaa

5 жыл бұрын

I just realised that this horse, is the 'Discovery' mark on the ground in campaign mode of Age of Empires 1

@bennylofgren3208

5 жыл бұрын

SeeASquared Woolala!

@fake123

5 жыл бұрын

Careful not to hit the ground too hard, it might suddenly turn into a barracks

@Kolmaryn

5 жыл бұрын

SeeASquared wololo

You are seriously running out of ideas. You are literally beating the deadest horse in history.

@piteoswaldo

5 жыл бұрын

One can argue that by beating the dead horse, he is keeping it alive.

@Nevir202

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed, a horse that has been lying there for 3,000 years, but which is actually composed of crustaceans millions of years old.

@magnuspeacock5857

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nevir202 sea _horses?_ Sorry

@Nevir202

5 жыл бұрын

Magnus Peacock Yes! 🤣

@drops2cents260

5 жыл бұрын

@MrSamulai > You are literally beating the deadest horse in history. That may be, but you can't deny that Tom did a smashing job!

I've known about this horse for many years, but I never knew it required constant upkeep

That actually made me cry to realize people have come together to care for this for 3000 years.

3,000 years ago there were probably complaints about graffiti artists disfiguring fields with their tags...

@strangerdangrrr4052

5 жыл бұрын

White Horse Gang

@General12th

3 жыл бұрын

with their gamertags

@huitlang931

3 жыл бұрын

"Those god damn kids are out there with the chalk again"

@prodmowery

3 жыл бұрын

Megan Thee Stallion would approve

@jwalster9412

Жыл бұрын

The two kids who poored chalk dust ontonof a hill to annoy to locals: "this will be a great prank, it should be funny and they will probably clean it up by tomorrow."

h m m m m m I say, this is a groundbreaking piece of art!

@art1637

5 жыл бұрын

Scythal i want to reply with a pun but it’s too hard

@roberttalada5196

5 жыл бұрын

You win one internet.

@ec_money

4 жыл бұрын

Chalk up another golden top comment

@alfonsrasmus4710

3 жыл бұрын

You. I like you.

Okay this might be the most interesting thing you've shown. Idk something about ten thousand generations of people coming together to preserve something is really really really special.

Tom Scott in 2009: Can you remove your fingerprints with pineapples? Tom Scott in 2018: I hit 3000 year old art with a hammer 😎

@jwalster9412

Жыл бұрын

Tom Scott in 2022: I am human blimp.

@pro-storm4951

Жыл бұрын

Tom Scott in 3022: My head is in a jar

Technically correct clickbait, the best type of clickbait.

@logandunlap9156

3 жыл бұрын

if it’s correct, is it really clickbait?

@Yuzi22

3 жыл бұрын

@@logandunlap9156 it's clickbait, but not a misleading one...

@Salmonwithfeet

3 жыл бұрын

It's just gripping, so not clickbait

@adhamhmacconchobhair4407

3 жыл бұрын

@@logandunlap9156 clicbate doesn't mean lying

@logandunlap9156

3 жыл бұрын

I mean clickbait is usually a half-truth.

Why do I get the feeling that I'll still be watching Tom Scott in some format in 50 years time? He might not have the same interests as David Attenborough, or Stephen fry or any other of the British figureheads, but he has captured the British Spirit in much the same way.

@darryljones3009

5 жыл бұрын

*Looks up his age* Possibly.

@twrecks6279

3 жыл бұрын

He's a little bit to woke honestly. Could go without all that.

@Lambda_Ovine

3 жыл бұрын

@@twrecks6279 What would be enough valid wokeness?

@twrecks6279

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lambda_Ovine The less the better xD

@notgadot

Жыл бұрын

@@darryljones3009 how old is he?

The largest/oldest work of XTC fan art ever recorded

This is the sort of thing that would be great on a sunny day with a group friends as something to do while chatting. A better version of having a TV on in the background.

Talk about British persistence.

@Sacchidanand

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Garrow, true.

@blobstar123blob4

5 жыл бұрын

I say, good sir, the stereotype is true! *Drinks tea and adjusts monacle*

@EliteXtasy

5 жыл бұрын

Is that even a British stereotype?? As a Brit also, I've never heard of such a thing and google comes up with nothing. Who's talking about it?

@bennylofgren3208

5 жыл бұрын

EliteXtasy That was what you were supposed to do - talk about it. 😃

@briangarrow448

5 жыл бұрын

EliteXtasy- Of course it is! Keep Calm and Carry On, Dunkirk, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, etc.

They should take a photo every year because every time they do this i'm sure the figure changes slightly.

@mateuszbugaj799

5 жыл бұрын

this could look like a real horse at the beginning

@marekmichalovic8711

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what did it look like back then? Something totally else?

@bavarianpotato

5 жыл бұрын

Marek Michalovič most likely very similar. I mean, it's not really hard to keep it looking the same

@urban3921

5 жыл бұрын

The filled trenches are deep so there's not much chance of shape changing due to carelessness.

@OlanKenny

5 жыл бұрын

In Victorian Times it had a Prince Albert

I have seen this horse in many films and wondered about the history. It is a real tribute to ourselves as humans that we take the time and effort to maintain items like this for our posterity.

How is this not the basis of some horror story. This is a literal 3000 year old tradition being carried on for some unknown reason. There is so much you can do with this!

Camera pans to the side as he smashes the Mona Lisa with a hammer*

@alfie5168

5 жыл бұрын

Wholesome Lad - you think the Mona Lisa is 3000 years old?...

@Bill-rr5el

5 жыл бұрын

bogs r/wooosh

@huntergreen6444

5 жыл бұрын

Lollapool that's not how it works.

@somemaycallthisjunkmeicall133

5 жыл бұрын

Hunter Green it still ruined the joke

@huntergreen6444

5 жыл бұрын

True.

My only question is; how many similar pieces of art were made throughout history and completely lost to time? If it takes about 30 years for them to vanish, there could be any number more that have just vanished...

@martinhowser4094

5 жыл бұрын

AMFoy : like that giant with the big todger?

@lucylambert3113

5 жыл бұрын

there's a few around like the big lion near Whipsnade Zoo that was made in victorian times

@TheMcal9909

5 жыл бұрын

@@martinhowser4094 Cerne Abbas Giant, its in Dorset. about 300 years old.

@c2h680

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it would be possible to detect any overgrown ones using the same method they used to test the age, if they were preserves for a decent length of time before being abandoned traces of them might remain.

@user-sd6jz9tf8w

3 жыл бұрын

i don't know if it is the same technique but you need to search "nazca lines peru"

And all the world is football shaped- It's just for me to kick in space- And I've got 1,2,3,4,5... I'm so glad this lovely example of English Settlement persists

3000 years ago: The high white horse gang at midnight: dammnit Jim. told you to bring 15 bags a time not 50. Jim: sorry boss what do we do now? Boss: it's ok lad we'll blend in..we'll go now. You and Jonny make an art with it by sunrise..make it a community art project of some sort. Fool them for a while. Maybe sit in front of it pray it for a while when the cops arrive 3000 years later: Tom scott:

I like to think the guy in the tower communicated guidance to the workers in this format: "To me" "To you" "To me" "To you"

@Droooooo0

5 жыл бұрын

RIP :(

@msclrhd

5 жыл бұрын

So they were the chalkle brothers?

@Kris_T_

5 жыл бұрын

Come on now Barry

"Why do you do this?" "I don't know, it's just what we've always done."

So that's what's on the XTC's English Settlement album cover!

I think this kind of solves the conundrum of The Ship of Theseus. It is not the same horse. It never will be the same horse. Time erodes everything and nothing will ever be the "same" as it was before. But we can make it stick around a while longer by preserving it. It will never be the same chalk that the horse was made from, but it is still loved and it is still here.

"It's not what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be!" - Terry Pratchett, from the Tiffany Aching books.

The annual scouring of the site was done by local people. Originally, it was possibly the inhabitants of the Uffington Castle Hill-fort, which is sited a bit further up the hill from the Horse. In more recent times, the scourers were rewarded with what might be described today as a 'Barbecue and a piss-up'. In this area too, about 1.5 miles south-west, along the ancient track known as the Ridgeway, can be found the equally ancient chambered tomb known as 'Wayland's Smithy'. Folklore tales say that if your horse has lost a shoe, then leave a silver coin on the tomb's capstone - and the god Wayland will magically replace the shoe. The White Horse was also used on the gatefold sleeve of one of Swindon band XTC's best albums, 'English Settlement'.

Aaaaaand that's all it took to get me crying today

I read the title hitting a 3000 year old with a hammer

@toaster_bloke9999

3 жыл бұрын

If they've survived that long, I'm sure some boring old hammer won't be much harm to them.

What a smashing place and a cracking video. You really crushed it. I bet you were shattered after all that work. Was Matt with you? Or was he off horsing around somewhere? One question, how many time was the phrase 'Stop... Hammer time' uttered?

@juicem5732

5 жыл бұрын

Kill me. XD

@wuketuke6601

5 жыл бұрын

STOP... Hammer time

@knightshousegames

5 жыл бұрын

Nailed It.

@anarchyantz1564

5 жыл бұрын

It's great how we Brits all club together for a smashing good cause. Let us chalk this up as another win.

@SteveInScotland

5 жыл бұрын

That cracked me up! I was in pieces! Chalk that up as a job well done!

10 tons of chalk... that could keep one class of third graders occupied for at least a half hour.

@art1637

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry for correcting but.... 5 minutes*

@malloysfootagearchive8919

4 жыл бұрын

art nah, 20 tons of chalk for only three seconds

@calliboya8090

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry for correcting but.... tonnes*

@thomasherrin6798

Жыл бұрын

@Omega Technologies Inc Tons are imperial and Tonnes are metric, they are not the same, a short ton (U.S.) is 2000 lbs, a long ton (U.K.) is 2240 lbs and a tonne (Metric - Worldwide) is 2204.6 lbs (Divide lbs by 2.2 for kilos)!?!

how proud the creators of this work of art would be knowing that 3000 years later a group of volunteers are contributing their time to preserving it

I wonder how much the shape has changed over the course of re-chalking it hundreds of times.

@hetrodoxly1203

10 ай бұрын

It's not changed much at all the chalk is packed into deep trenches.

Soo ppl just maintained a chalk horse 3000 years just bc they did

@art1637

5 жыл бұрын

Iulian kinda Horse was cool, so they protected it

@lars1588

4 жыл бұрын

It's the most British thing you could do.

@ricemango7502

4 жыл бұрын

@@lars1588 mate the lads that built that werent modern brits, not even the same ethnic group

@lars1588

4 жыл бұрын

@@ricemango7502 True.

@otterno.1128

3 жыл бұрын

@@ricemango7502 Debatable, modern day English people will have ancestors from the ancient Britons, as they interbred with the invading Anglo-Saxons

'Taint what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be.' ~ Terry Prattchet

@colinprincipe6293

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

THIS IS SO DANG COOL!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 I'm glad people are actively preserving such wonderful art year after year!

I love that nobody knows how or why the horse is there, but for thousands of years, they've just continued to contribute to its upkeep. The horse became its own religion.

I remember finding out this was a real thing after reading Terry Pratcett's Tiffany series and being so excited - it is still so cool to me!

@thomasyates3078

5 жыл бұрын

T’aint what a horse looks like. It’s what a horse be.

@p1rgit

5 жыл бұрын

came here to say that! :D good for ya! (and tom says he does not like terry pratchett...i forgive him. and secretly hope that maybe after this horse episode someone will give him this tiffany book and he might like it... lil bit... or not. no need to be all alike.)

@skellious

5 жыл бұрын

Did you read the adult Discworld books as well? Nanny Ogg knows of another chalk figure... xD

@qwertyTRiG

5 жыл бұрын

Skellious The Cerne Abbot Giant is also real. And he does have a great big tonker.

@crispyrolls93

5 жыл бұрын

I loved those books. I'm currently reading I shall wear midnight.

As Douglas Adams would have said "…the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!"

@user-hk6ri1er8i

4 жыл бұрын

Huh... Nice.

WOW amazing, thousands of years in the making, i wonder what type of people would keep this up for over 3 thousand years if every 20 to 30 years it needs to be worked on, just amazing......Wish there was video of it back then.

Wow. Utterly fascinating and the definition of amazing in dedication to the upkeep and preservation when we don't even know its beginning. Thank you, Tom and all involved. So damn fascinating.

Tom Scott found Hammered in field

@darrenr49

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Scott Hammering Horse in Field wut

@drops2cents260

5 жыл бұрын

@Alextran Obviously, there has been some horseplay.

@robertwilloughby8050

3 жыл бұрын

Some of the Park Benches with Matt might count.....

I would really like to know how the creators of the horse would react would anybody have told them that their art piece (that was probably created for religious reasons) would still be maintained after so long without anyone knowing why and not worshiping their gods.

@p1rgit

5 жыл бұрын

like any graffity artist finding their work maintained and nearly worshipped after coupla millennia... :)

@andrewsuryali8540

5 жыл бұрын

Not worshiping their gods? Oh, yessss, heheh, suure, heh. Yes, like you young'uns well know the old ones are just superstitious baloney. Heheh. Now be off to yer nice li'l cottage there and don't mind the torches t'nite. We, uh, we work hard ta keep the 'lectric bills low 'round here. Yeesss. And the howlin's from the Willoughby mutt, so don't mind that either. Heheh. Yesss..

@kantina4765

5 жыл бұрын

@@andrewsuryali8540 you're cooked mate get a job

@howardchambers3163

5 жыл бұрын

BiBoetzke it’s more likely a big sign saying “this is ours, piss off”. It’s pointed at another hill fort/ enclosure across the valley.

@TorianTammas

4 жыл бұрын

BiBoetzke - Very simple for them it had meaning and was important. They would wonder why we do it as we don't understand.

Can’t believe I live in the next village I’ve been watching your videos for awhile and KZreadrs only just recommended this to me, the only reason I don’t do it is it always happens at the same time as our country show.

"Yo, Ugg, what if we made a giant horse, that no one can see unless youre really high up, oh, and no one had any clue it exists!" "Good thinking Dug!"

As a history student, when I saw the title I got worried, but when I saw it was the White Horse I thought 'oh phew that's fine'

@franzluggin398

5 жыл бұрын

Initially read that as "the White House", was confused.

@LeMustache

5 жыл бұрын

Franz Luggin // Nice. So I'm not alone

@damonferrara3637

5 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@fds7476

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone's gotta have his little ISIS moment, eh boys?

*Looks at Mona Lisa* Gotta do what you gotta do boys.

@quintvandijk533

5 жыл бұрын

Smash it?

@naufalap

5 жыл бұрын

Lewd it.

@insurgentspi0

5 жыл бұрын

no.

The amount of effort all thos generations out just preserve a weird piice of art give sme goosebumbs.

Dude your videos are the best. Your choice of content is A+ everytime

Me, being as cynical as I am, I assumed that this was _some_ sort of clickbait. But I was wrong. As a pessimist, I'm either right, or pleasantly surprised, and right now, I'm pleasantly surprised!

The national trust guy is a good speaker.

@Howtard

5 жыл бұрын

They give talks to school kids regularly, he's well rehearsed on the spiel.

I wonder how the person or people who made this originally would feel seeing that 3000 some odd years later people are still maintaining and appreciating their work. And how cool is it that humans have kept it up for so long.

This brings me joy

It boggles my mind what we as a society can get people to come together and do, and yet we still have problems with poverty.

*Should have written 'Tom Woz Ere 2k18' my friend* missed opportunity! 😅

@frontiermusic5187

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, the classic choice!

@TommoCarroll

5 жыл бұрын

It truly is the work of a true artiste, especially on park benches (PARK BENCH REFERENCE ANYONE!?)

@grand776

5 жыл бұрын

nice. nice.

@campbellrocksagain

5 жыл бұрын

B4U

@smorrow

5 жыл бұрын

The Giant's Ring near Belfast has something like that.

ao awesome that people keep coming together to preserve something like this for thousands of years

super cool! i love the ongoing upkeep by volunteers

Tom Scott: fine with hitting 3000 year old art with a hammer, Not okay with getting mud on his knees...

@Engineer9736

5 жыл бұрын

It’s to protect your knees from the sharp rocks..

@gmh3

5 жыл бұрын

as someone who has spent hours at a time on my knees smashing rocks i can attest that even if the ground is perfectly smooth you still want something soft and spongy under you

@falconJB

5 жыл бұрын

No one else seems to be having that problem in the video.

@SECONDQUEST

5 жыл бұрын

He's not a savage

@traktortarik8224

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve never found sitting on my knees in grass to be difficult, but maybe there’s bits of chalk there

My bucket list is already too long, but damn, here's another entry straight into the top 10. What an absolute honor it must be.

This story warms my heart. Thanks for sharing it with us. :)

Love how I looked at the thumbnail and new exactly what he was going to talk about The pros of living in the area 😜😜

The National Trust is such an invaluable institution.

Sometime I'm a little disapointed in humanity, but this makes me feel very happy. Good job humans! Keep making that horse!

This landmark lives relatively close to me, so I've seen it several times. It's cool to realise that you visited this place 3 years ago!

Still a sick design, what an absolute classic. Could see that being a logo even today, amazing

@JimboJuice

Жыл бұрын

Mfs named cecil when they see something vaugely interesting.

This channel has the best titles.

smashing job as always Tom, can't wait for your next video!

ALI-A HERE AND TODAY WE'RE SMASHING ART WITH A HAMMMEEEERRRR No for real though, this was super interesting and deserving of the title.

*proceeds to add extra detail on it*

@mukrifachri

5 жыл бұрын

Brunel tried to make a train. Or so.

@OlanKenny

5 жыл бұрын

Ethan Ansell prince Albert

@Colopty

5 жыл бұрын

Adding some cool sunglasses to the horse. 😎

@neolexiousneolexian6079

4 жыл бұрын

*Turns it into a picture of a car because, like, who even uses horses anymore? Anyway, I'm sure that if the original artist could be here they'd think the magical eagle-speed pods are cooler than horses anyway.*

"Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass. Before the gods that made the gods Had drunk at dawn their fill, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was hoary on the hill.” - The Ballad of the White Horse, Book 1: The Vision of the King

@petermarsella6537

3 жыл бұрын

I can so easily see this as a book in skyrim

@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111

3 жыл бұрын

very cool

"It's not what a horse looks like, but it's certainly what a horse IS."

The sense of pride you have when you already understand the video and what he’s talking about just by seeing the thumbnail and title. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Art attack 1000BC

that's a proper English Settlement

They were rechalking it when I visited the White Horse a few years ago and I joined in - excellent day out! :D

Art that can only be properly appreciated from the sky, can’t fly a drone over it. Flawless logic!

I went here like two weeks ago and now it’s in my recommended.

@firstlast5454

3 жыл бұрын

Google knows

...I was not expecting this

It's actually really cool that people have maintained it for so long and there has never been a period where it has grown over and been forgotten

Excellent and informative as always Tom!

XTC used an aerial shot of this for the cover of "English Settlement".

@5roundsrapid263

5 жыл бұрын

Desmaad “One two three four five...senses working overtime!”

Hit Earth you've already hit a 4.543 Billion year old rock.

@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111

3 жыл бұрын

But is that rock shaped like a horse?

@luckyblockyoshi

3 жыл бұрын

but is it art?

@imk2007

3 жыл бұрын

@@luckyblockyoshi no it used to be then humans discovered cole and it was all downhill from there

@luckyblockyoshi

3 жыл бұрын

@@imk2007I thought art is specifically the expression of creativity, imagination and skill?

Thank you for making this video

No way! I met that bloke from the National Trust at Wayland's Smithy a few weeks back. He knows his onions! I'd always wondered how the Uffington White Horse was maintained. You should definitely do some more videos on other ancient monuments, like Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, Wayland's Smithy, etc. It's mind-blowing that there are these neolithic "artworks" we can actually see and touch today. (Even if, sometimes, in a "Trigger's Broom" kind of way.)

They are re-chalking the horse Today 19-07-2019