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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

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.

@valetta202

Ай бұрын

''No one is ever just random' from another old.random student, loved your comment.

@jbos5107

Ай бұрын

@@valetta202 If I had these kinds of videos when I was a student, I might have been a better student!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Very happy you enjoyed it! Old ladies are my target audience ❤️

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

I think the algorithm may hate niche prehistory videos...

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

@ruththinkingoutside.707

2 ай бұрын

I’ve been watching the other ones.. but.. you do a great job.. and I hope you make more

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

@@ruththinkingoutside.707 thanks!

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Judging by the many crop marks - a lot! Though, few with inner post / stone settings like those at Millom

@dannimac777

2 ай бұрын

much of the east of the country was either marsh or under water or now sea, making identification and location difficult to find. many secrets to be found under the North Sea.

@rsguastalla5370

Ай бұрын

Lee bien lo que te dire realmente me produce risa que uds piensen barbaridades de los Stonehenge estos monumentos hay por todas partes del Mundo en Tatin del valle Tucumán República Argentina hay uno pero también hay en Perú en México en China en Mongolia en miles de lugares y el Ojo del Sahara es igual que esto igual que los mis bites de ls usan de Pascua son todos a igusl que la piedra bolas de Costa Rica y de Sarajevo que son los más grandes del mundo que también hay piedra bola por todo el mundo en Chile hasta en la Antártida Canadá España Brasil Argentina México El Salvador Guatemala por todas partes del mundo hay piedra bola eso fue cuando la luna se acercó a la tierra en su bamboleara la tierra por millones de años acerca la luna que casi chocó con la tierra esto no lo ve nadie no entiendo porque se llevaron piedra por millones de años la luna también succionó la lava de los volcanes por eso la piedra que están en los muros del Perú son negras Partió la Pangea la llevó a la Panchp a tocar contra la placa del pacífico la placa americana bueno creo todos los desiertos del mundo eso hizo la luna no lo entiende no ven por que son tan duro los ingleses científicos dejen de mentir dejen de mentir por favor no se dan cuenta que fue la luna

@rsguastalla5370

Ай бұрын

Lee bien lo que te dire realmente me produce risa que uds piensen barbaridades de los Stonehenge estos monumentos hay por todas partes del Mundo en Tatin del valle Tucumán República Argentina hay uno pero también hay en Perú en México en China en Mongolia en miles de lugares y el Ojo del Sahara es igual que esto igual que los mis bites de ls usan de Pascua son todos a igusl que la piedra bolas de Costa Rica y de Sarajevo que son los más grandes del mundo que también hay piedra bola por todo el mundo en Chile hasta en la Antártida Canadá España Brasil Argentina México El Salvador Guatemala por todas partes del mundo hay piedra bola eso fue cuando la luna se acercó a la tierra en su bamboleara la tierra por millones de años acerca la luna que casi chocó con la tierra esto no lo ve nadie no entiendo porque se llevaron piedra por millones de años la luna también succionó la lava de los volcanes por eso la piedra que están en los muros del Perú son negras Partió la Pangea la llevó a la Panchp a tocar contra la placa del pacífico la placa americana bueno creo todos los desiertos del mundo eso hizo la luna no lo entiende no ven por que son tan duro los ingleses científicos dejen de mentir dejen de mentir por favor no se dan cuenta que fue la lunal

@rsguastalla5370

Ай бұрын

Hay uno en la punta de un precipicio la otra mitad cayó al Mar

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

No doubt. Those post holes are missing some big objects. The cropmark at Gutterby is overlayed by an probable Iron Age enclosure, so it's possible they were gone by the Roman period!

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Very happy you enjoyed it

@sunnydavidson297

Ай бұрын

Agreed. I was a camp counselor at the YMCA National Outdoors Pursuits Centre in 1980, yest after I'd turned 30. My interest in stones/ spirituality hadn't made itself known to me yet.

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I actually read your survey results a few weeks ago! Fascinating stuff as always!

@janbridget4020

2 ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson Exciting times here in Millom at the moment - about to start our community dig. We had a specialist drone survey conducted and the findings were very exciting. I suspect all that we are finding around here will be replicated in some way around the other cropmarks, especially Gutterby.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

@@janbridget4020 amazing, and much needed work you’re doing! Gutterby is the most important for dating I imagine. If that other enclosure is Iron Age (it clearly is), and it overlies the possible henge - that’d be fantastic. There used to also be a concentric stone circle there - which would be the only one on the coast. Extremely exciting place

@janbridget4020

2 ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson Totally agree - I mean Gutterby.

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!! 🤞🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖

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.

@sandrapicton8961

Ай бұрын

lore.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Never suspect glacial where a Bronze Age shaman will suffice

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.

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I believe the purported long barrow at the Giants Grave was misreported. Cumbria has kong cairns, not long barrows, and no examples anywhere have flanking standing stones. Instead, it stands equidistant between two likely henge enclosures

@jenniferharrison4319

2 ай бұрын

Yes, stand corrected, l actually meant long cairn. I love tramping around south west lakes looking at prehistoric sites mainly because it is devoid of people 🤣

I’ve just moved back to Scotland after spending 8 years living in Brampton and exploring as much of Cumbria as possible. I do miss the ancient vibe of the whole area and I am lucky to have seen it’s magic!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

6 күн бұрын

@@nikkigraham7494 to be fair 80% of Scotland has that vibe!

@nikkigraham7494

6 күн бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson Fact! Cumbria is definitely part of that just modern history doesn’t say it like we see it! I live outside Dumfries now so still in the line headed up to the 12 Appostles. Where I live there is a mirror image between Criffel and Scarfell. Definitely feel there’s something in that?!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

6 күн бұрын

@@nikkigraham7494 Ah - well, interestingly, the 12 Apostles is a Cumbrian circle. It can be lumped in with Long Meg, Gamelands, Castlerigg, Elva Plain, and Swinside. Big megalithic henge-like enclosures , dating to the mid-to-late Neolithic (3200 -2500bc). You don’t often hear about it (or sadly much from Dumfries).

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

It, like the stone circles of North Wales and Cumbria, was possibly Irish in design.

@alexanderguesthistorical7842

2 ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson Maybe

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Very glad you enjoy! ❤️

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Ahh - very interesting - the Dovedale Settlement. I actually mention that site in my Cumbria book. There’s a big cairn next to it, and it’s very odd. At the very least, it was last used as a settlement, but I suspect earlier use. There’s a ton of rock art in that little area, so Early to Mid Neolithic activity can’t be ruled out! Only survey and excavation will tell!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

If you’re interested, the upcoming 2nd edition of my Cumbria book delves more deeply, and has some drone photos of the site. Otherwise, check my Twitter!

@philbenaiges4205

2 ай бұрын

I am very much interested, when will the new edition be available?

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

@@philbenaiges4205 sometime around October

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

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

There certainly are!

Brilliant, Adam, thank you!

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.

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Pre Celtic, and pre-Beaker. These people were the first farmers in Britain. Long, long before the Celts

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

You sound like Theresa May

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Best of luck!

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

You’re right! My book Yorkshire’s Prehistoric Monuments dips into that.

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

I’m not driving that far for a KZread video

I've been to two so far, Birkrigg and the one on Cold fell (rebuilt by a local Farmer), I hope, once my partner is able to drive again, to visit Swinside and Castlerigg

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Күн бұрын

If you do any, make it Swinside, and pray there aren't any cows in the field! Castlerigg is fantastic in Jan / Feb

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

It’s a great idea. You should do the research yourself and come to a conclusion

Thank you very interesting Just subbed.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Thanks!!

Excellent subscribed 😊

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Thanks!

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

@@eldraque4556 deforestation, maybe. Open skies

Very good!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

So interesting!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Glad you think so!

nice ons fella

@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!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Tell Ian I said hi

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

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Ah, funnily enough, I’ve written a whole book about Yorkshire’s prehistoric monuments - including Rudston. I obviously can’t fit all my ideas in a KZread comment. But basically, the Gypsy Race is a winter born stream - meaning it only flows during winter. The Monolith and it’s cursus monuments all sit at the only north / south aligned but of the Gypsy Race. They may be connected to the Winter Solstice.

@richardclegg7846

Ай бұрын

@AdamMorganIbbotson Thank you. Crowhurst' puts the 3-4-5 datum point from Silbury about 300m NE of the monument, although the monument does align with its immediate neighbours in Yorkshire. I reckon a large cairn , very near the Race was removed for building and field clearance or even for the gully sides of the stream

@richardclegg7846

Ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson What's the book called

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

@@richardclegg7846 Yorkshire's Prehistoric Monuments - published by the History Press last October. I highly recommend (obviously)

What’s that 70s airport music?

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

I recorded it in Gatwick 40 years ago

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Probably Neolithic - 2500 years before the Iron Age

@TheDove25

22 күн бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson The ancients left an astrological map that speaks through the ages. So it is important, a tracking of the distance between the Poles, Ecliptic and Celestial, by measuring the expanse of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic (Arc) which is equal to the spread between the Poles.

@TheDove25

22 күн бұрын

The Great Cycle of Axis Rotation.

@TheDove25

22 күн бұрын

The changing obliquity of the Ecliptic, that is to say the tilt of the earths axis to the plane of the Ecliptic.

@TheDove25

22 күн бұрын

The Great Cycle of Axis Rotation completes itself in the course of a cycle thar spans two million one hundred and sixty thousand years ( 2,160,000 years). This is the span of time that it takes the celestial projection of the earths axis to rotate vertically from East to North, from North to West, from West to the East - a cycle of 360 degrees at the rate of one degree every 6,000 years. I believe.

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'.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Nope, wrong. Few to no stone circles are perfect. Almost all of them are wonky.

@user-kv1nj2kz6r

Ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson Agree with wonky but the circle in question is more like a runny egg yolk. When viewing many other circles from above most are generic circles.

💒🙏🇺🇸 🇬🇧🙏💒 👍👍

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

👙

Paint it, just stop oil no action taken

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

Paint the crops?

Malik H Jabbar presentations on KZread, 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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Lay lines etc are quite an old idea - and also nonsensical in my opinion. There are so many prehistoric sites across the UK and Europe, you could place a line anywhere and have it align.

@TheDove25

Ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson I don’t believe this is a lay line, though I don’t really know a lot about lay lines, I believe this may represent the pole / poles at an angle which may only occur at certain ages.

"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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

Waggling a stick around a field says more about your excess free time than any archaeology. May I suggest a metal detector.

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!

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the 21st century!

@macraghnaill3553

Ай бұрын

Your car speedometer has Kilometers and miles on it, there is only 1 petrol station in the area so make sure you have plenty of fuel to cover 10 miles or so!

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

What’s not true? Mike Parker Pearson? I may agree there 👍🏻

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

2 ай бұрын

As the video says, it’s a thought experiment. Like you say, the focus on sites like Stonehenge have skewed our opinions and understandings of prehistoric building. If the focus was on other sites, now lost, how would our perceptions change? Nothing more than a musing on survivorship bias - something the layperson may not know of

@vintagelady1

Ай бұрын

@@AdamMorganIbbotson I guess I thought everyone knew that Stonehenge was one of many monuments. I see now & look forward to more from your channel.

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…..

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Alright - no need to be mean to me :(

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

22 күн бұрын

You dirty bastard

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Sorry!

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

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Bad taste, obviously

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.

@AdamMorganIbbotson

Ай бұрын

Of course you can compare them. They may not be as 'impressive', but they're prehistoric megalithic monuments; a style of architecture practically unique to prehistory. AND, in the drizzly pastel uplands of Britain, they have a totally different aesthetic experience to the arid examples you describe. Imagine living in a cold northern semi-swampland, cut off from the rest of Europe by sea. They're strikingly beautiful.

Not bad but rather too many repeats.