In 1987 my geography teacher who was a widely travelled man, did a few lessons on geology and we spent the time listening to his subject on stones coming from Marlborough / Savernake area. He also stated about the Neolithic era on how wooded the area was, and the link to woodhenge at Durrington. He was an incredible guy who was ahead of his time and engaged well with students who were less eager (me ! ) to do well. But his encouragement made me stick with it. Your enthusiasm Paul is like my geography teachers is why I'm here.I Thanks.

It's a little known fact that to get the stones from Wales they invented a device they called a Welsh Hauliers Energy Expenditure Lessener that came to be known by it's acronym.

@ryanparker4996

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@chetruane

3 ай бұрын

I've heard the Welsh still use this today

@calxtra5361

2 ай бұрын

When i realised the acronym i loled irl!

Stumbled upon this randomly and so happy I took the time to watch. Unbelievably professional presentation and extremely entertaining. You would really think these videos are done by big production companies with high budgets. The presenting and editing are excellent. The content intriguing. We will now follow you guys and look forward to all your content. I really do hope you guys grow and grow on KZread and well deserved it would be. Thank you very much for the work you have put in.

A huge amount of work must have gone into the making of this, absolutely brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed by all the whitewick clan.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Team. Twas quite a long edit indeed.

@philvanderlaan5942

2 жыл бұрын

I believe Stonehenge was stolen from Ireland by the wizard Merlin, right ? ( sorry but to quote guardians of the galaxy, ‘ I’m pretty much a pro, yeah ! ‘

What a great team you both are , your prep is amazing , and to have a professor giving his time to you .. top job well done .

Fascinating stuff, it's answered some of the questions I had about archaeology.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, David is on Twitter if you have any more.

@raytylicki9001

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jago Hazzard fan of u and ur channel love your voice

Great vid, fascinating information. Visited Stonehenge in 1964 and touched the stones - 1st & last time as we moved to Aus Xmas 65.

I enjoyed both the lovely landscape (maybe even more because of the season) and the historic part of this video. The amazing effort the neolithic people put into it are a sure sign the Stonehenge site meant a lot to them.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

That was an outstanding video. Informative and very well presented and edited. David Nash was eloquent, modest and very knowledgeable. Thank you both for the time and effort you put in to it. Looking forward to the midweek and bonus videos.

hi paul and rebecca , i knew this was going to be really good , very interesting , whatever path was used to get the stones there it was such a great effort , really well done and thank you so much guys 😊

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Davie

Landscapes can change really quickly.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Very much so

well that was a bit different! well done, you two...

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brett. Yup, like to mix things up

That contractor who was asked to build stonehenge must've had a very strong back.

@hwood9783

2 жыл бұрын

Typical contractor ...... it will be nice when it is finished!

Wonderful. The amounts of work that must have taken not to mention all the technical know-how : brilliant.

@pwhitewick

3 ай бұрын

Clever people!!

An excellent video, Paul and Rebecca. I cannot even imagine the huge effort involved in moving these massively heavy stones such a long, long way. Has anyone even tried this challenge today? Frankly, I imagine moving such rocks with rollers is too much for us modern humans!

@hairyairey

2 жыл бұрын

Rotate the work around a large number of people.

And great choice of background tunes throughout. Well done

Cool. I just wrote down that quote when you said it in the previous video I watched this morning. It was about looking for Roman road mile markers! Thank you for telling us this quote was from Neil DeGrass Tyson ! 💙💙💙

Fascinating episode for sure! I had not heard about the routes before so that part alone was interesting! Between you and David and Tim, I think the on going search for matching silcrete sites will ultimately lead to the discovery of the actual path of the stones! Great episode as usual!

Thanks Rebecca and Paul that was really fascinating.

What a fascinating subject. Very enjoyable. Thank you.

Fascinating. Great video guys. Thanks

Very interesting indeed. Nice to have David there to clearly explain how thing unfolded for their discovery, amazing work. Great work as always guys :)

Oh! This is a really good video! First, I wonder if the analysis of the stones includes isotopic data. Second, a good mathematical method for finding the route of least effort between pairs of minima in a potential energy landscape is called 'climbing nudged elastic band'. It is used for calculating transition states in chemistry and physics, but don't let that put you off! David Nash will likely have some learned colleagues, possibly on the other side of the A27, who can implement it.

Excellent, thank you for this. What an exceptional “guest speaker” as well. Fascinating to hear about the science involved in researching a place I grew up so close to.

Fascinating video, very well researched and professionally produced. Thank you! It is something that I am certainly interested in. I understood that the sarsen stones originated from the Valley of Stones, Fyfield Down, about 1km north west of Devil's Den, which in turn is 2.5km due north of West Woods, Marlborough. I have visited the site several times, and there must be thousands of sarsen stones littered across the valley, stretching on as long as the eye can see. Stonehenge is approximately 27km (17m) due south of Valley of Stones. Thanks again for this superb video 👍

Thank you, I've been waiting months to see this and you didn't disappoint =)

amazing video

Another excellently produced video thank you

As a Druid, this is a very fine video. It gives me an explanation of how Stonehenge was built.

@thewanderingbox8253

Жыл бұрын

🖖

Thanks so much for your film, it's fascinating, all of it. Well done. and a real tonic for me in hospital - bloomin covid! Cheers both of you x

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, get well soon!!

@tankmicr00man

2 жыл бұрын

Just to add... am loving your replies! Love, Tim

@philiptownsend4026

2 жыл бұрын

Ha. Same as me, sick in bed with Chinese Virus on my birthday 🤒

Fascinating, The combination of different sciences involved in working these things out is amazing.

Thank you. Very interesting.

Another good 1 👍🏻👍🏻

A very interesting and thought provoking video!

Fascinating. Equally impressed at you being able to hold that camera at arms length for hours on end 💪

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

They still ache to this day

@davidscottblacksmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick using the Ordnance Survey ios app you can automatically generate elevation graph’s like what you manually did. Simply plot a route and it’ll do that for you. It’ll also generate a 3d “aerial view’. (Just in case you didn’t know) 🙂

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidscottblacksmith oooooops. Never knew this!!

Fantastic 👌👌👌 Katie did an amazing talk for Wiltshire buildings record… very passionate for sure. Great to hear she had played a huge part in this 👍

To all involved in this video a very big 👍. A fascinating subject that will go on and on.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Malcolm.

What an interesting video. Excellent drone photography. Well done to both of you.

super video; best yet and yours are always fantastic. However, I now have more questions than I had before the video!

Brilliant work. You are an amazing couple and very professional in your output.

Very interesting! Thanks.

Brilliant video please keep them coming

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Wizard

Thanks for another great video. very interesting. cant wait for the next one :o)

Absolutely fascinating.

Brilliant informative video.

Brilliant, fascinating and interesting. Thank you 👍👍

I deliver to a farm at Avebury, the first time I was there I obviously saw the stones. The first one I saw I thought “what a random place for a climbing wall” Then as I drove through the village it became apparent that it wasn’t. I’ve always had a yearning to go to stone henge, I passed through Aylesbury last week and couldn’t see it. Me and a friend are going next solstice, I can’t wait. But the wonder of the stones, where they came from and how they were transported is quite a mystery Maybe one they never wanted known ??

@johnlambert4031

2 жыл бұрын

and the other question is, why was stonehenge built at that spot ?.

@Dan23_7

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnlambert4031 Absolutely

Delightful video and what hope it leaves with the viewer. I recall Mike Parker Pearson from his Stonehenge work on Time Team. Good to know he is still devoted to the great monument. Thanks so much.

Absolutely fantastic, a very interesting video.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Great video on a great subject

very interesting 🤔👍👍👍 great stuff guys

Very informative

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gregory

Hi from america. Loving your content

Fascinating 👍

Fascinating, thanks

Today I had to go to Chirton, decided to go via Lockeridge, Alton Barnes and All Cannings knowing it's a lovely interesting drive. While driving between Lockeridge and Alton Barnes I'm looking at the sat nav altitude slowly creeping up, knowing the drop down into Alton Barnes I'm thinking this has got to be a really old route.

Fantastic research and photography - enjoyed immensely

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Very interesting video 📹🤔thank you and please keep the great videos coming friends from Scotland

Fantastic investigations of a fascinating subject, thank you both very much.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mark.

Fascinating.

What a brilliant channel! This popped up as a random suggestion and I'm grateful it did! This was fascinating and I look forward to checking out more of your stuff. Cheers :)

@pwhitewick

2 ай бұрын

Welcome. 😊

Excellent, informative feature video. How is your filming arm doing? Thank you for the great work.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

My arms ached for days!!!

Well done guys really good watch, somewhere ive never been but the fact we can never know exactly why an how makes the place all the more fascinating

Another wonderful video, thank you for all the effort you put into to making them. I would love to see some pollen analysis for the Avon Valley for the period, that should be able to tell you what plants ere around at the time and thus what the landscape was possibly like, was it just boggy flood plain thick with mud, or was it drier making it a real possibility for bringing the stones down it.

It’s not something people would think about. Very fascinating and well put together. Thanks for giving me something else to ponder. 👏👏👍

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martyn that's absolutely what we aim for.

The "victory for humanity" quote is from Horace Mann, one of the fathers of modern education and a president of Antioch College in Ohio, USA. It is the school's motto.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Now you have said that.... rings a bell

Fascinating

Great documentary along another Whitewick route explore. Enjoyed.

A very interesting video indeed. :) I did go to Stonehenge myself in 2018 and I've wondered where that all came from.

Great use of Excel - as well as an excellent interview - this must have taken some time to prepare and edit!

Always enjoy your content! I wondered about a potential for a mini ice age in the times they transported the stones for stonehenge??

Interesting !

Fascinating. Moving things over a landscape including hills and valleys reminds me of Fitzcarraldo - moving a blimmin great boat over some part of the Andes.

Love your hair Rebecca!!

Excellent video. It amused me that that the auto-captions on your conversation mention 'sarcasm stones' and 'marble dancers' - is it suggesting that Stonehenge might have been a Druid comedy venue?

Honestly, I was wondering if you two were going to cover Stone Henge. I'm glad you covered all this, very interesting.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Took us a while!

Knapp Hill, East Field, UFO’s and Crop Circles. I absolutely love the corner of Wiltshire. Great video.

Absolutely fascinating and such beautiful countryside thank you I would love to visit there one day 😉👍🏻🍻💙🇬🇧

Thanks!

@pwhitewick

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Bob 😊

Thanks Paul and Rebecca for the latest 'evolution' on the Stonehenge theories. - Now if I could only get the Spinal Tap song out of my head !

Great video. I will grab my map collection first thing in the morning, devise a route and see if it matches yours! At some point I want to recce Alton Barnes below Knap Hill, I just have this hunch that it is more ancient than appearance suggests. Talking of hunches, does this new vid make you more keen to follow my idea about a henge at Cheriton in Hampshire? BTW, did you know there was a henge at Marden? Keep up the good work.

Along the route that was used, there must be at least one stone that was stuck in mud, or is broken or whatever. Probably several. Finding that would be the ultimate proof.

A great film, and a fascinating subject - very impressive!

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

I see absolutely nothing wrong with fixing it in the 1950’s. We keep adopting the opposite attitude in some sort of vain ‘keep it as it is’ we will lose everything eventually and have nothing to see from the past.

Thought provoking, in a good way.

I came to this video from. the page's latest video which somehow mentions Stonehenge and these videos, and the disappearing houses - March 24 2024. If anyone, and I mean anyone wants to start talking about the route of the Stones/ Sarcens, I will certainly point them in your direction. Or, the direction of this video. And the direction of the patreon page.

excellent nice to see a slightly different video . but that guy on history channel with crazy hair is going to be giving it "i am not saying it was ...... but it was aliens lol " and they levitated it all there . i love the way the science and methodology reveals answers . well done to all involved

what an interesting guest you had. use him again if you can

Rebecca you are a lovely woman, does Paul realise how lucky he is? Just fun you know!

Fascinating! I was able to visit the Salisbury Plain in 1976 when I was in Europe and the Middle East as a teen. Back then we could walk amongst the stones of Stonehenge. But the effort and planning and motivation needed to bring all of the materials together to build Stonehenge was always amazing to me. But I do have a question about an area on your map -- there was an area off to the east marked "Danger Area" -- what was that??????

@derekp2674

2 жыл бұрын

My guess is that the "danger area" would be due to an army firing range.

@aengusmacnaughton1375

2 жыл бұрын

@@derekp2674 -- Hmmm -- the more that I thought about it, I remembered that there was a portion of the movie Help! with the Beatles, where they filmed the song "I Need You" along with soldiers and tanks from the British military -- I wonder if this is the same area.

@hoppinonabronzeleg9477

2 жыл бұрын

Salisbury plain is a live tank testing area, it includes the Durrington walls. This is generally NOT open to the public, only some days of the year are the gen public allowed on some of the restricted parts of Salisbury Plain!

Wonderful video, and very enlightening. I always assumed that the stones would be transported by the easiest route, and not the most sacred one.

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely likewise Chris

Interesting vid being a fan of pre history i have read many books on Stonehenge and many other monuments around the country and its really interesting to see how the theorys have changed since William Stuckleys days to today.

Absolutely loved that. I subscribe to a lot of channels and just can’t afford them all. I’m so disappointed I won’t be able to see that footage. Please stay safe and take care

@pwhitewick

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry Linda. We don't want to put it out as a regular video as it will damage the channel stats. I.e a 2hr video will have very low viewing figures and subsequently that affects how you see the next video.

@lindamccaughey6669

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, fair enuf

This has really got me thinking now. Trying to work out how my route ties in with all this (think I sent your thoughts on this, which mainly followed the Avon valley?).

Thank you for a fascinating look into the stones. The interview and the composition were excellent. I think I'll re-watch it it and have a couple of beers, it helps with the navigation. Rats , to watch the rest of the interview I have to sign up for 'Wotsit'. Thinks, ' one month of wotsitis is equal to two coffees' Ok dump the coffees.

All those routes and more. There was a tramway suggested, however the vegetation could have been burnt off and frosted ground in winter offered the better surface for rollers/sleds drawn by aurochs.

@tristanforward

Жыл бұрын

possibly oxen rather than aurochs

Brilliant as always.Forgive me folks but I must have missed the section where the West Woods, Pewsey, Upavon and Stonehenge disused stations were featured?. It was also a shame that the spectacular Upavon viaduct was dismantled by the good Doctor 'B's slaughter of BR agenda but good to see the surviving stones relayed in a fancy circle at the old Stonehenge station site as a fitting monument to the once great WW & S Joint railway.

I have been looking through my old 'Stonehenge Decoded' book (Gerald S. Hawkins 1966) 1972 edition. Page 95. Of course it does not mention West Woods, just generally 'Marlborough Downs. I like your path of least gradient take on the new route. If they do find chippings of some significance at Marden, that broadly meet the signature of the Stonehenge sarsens, that would be amazing. It makes sense they would maul, or dress the stones on their way. It makes sense that one the rough block was liberated to send it on its way, acrving off nubs & projections as they met obstacles, and at rest stops to lighten the load, or streamline the shape through awkward terrain, while 50 or 60 other blocks made a similar journey. With this kind of speculation, we may know sooner the route that the stones took.

HiStory and the past are two very different things.

Shallow layers of silcrete make it difficult to start drilling oil and gas wells in central Australia. Can also pose problems for grave diggers.