American Reacts to Stonehenge!

Hold onto your robes because we're about to uncover the truth behind one of the world's most mysterious monuments! Join me, an idiot American on a quest for knowledge, as we delve into the fascinating history and secrets of Stonehenge. From its ancient origins to the latest archaeological discoveries, we'll separate fact from fiction and explore the enduring mysteries that surround this iconic site. Get ready for a journey through time and discover the real story behind Stonehenge's enigmatic past!
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[@HollyLyne]

My husband proposed to me in the centre of Stonehenge :) He got special permission for us to enter the circle before the site opened for the day.

[@Varksterable]

It would have been a lot simpler to just buy you the curtains you wanted. 😁 OT: that's so romantic. 💝 Good luck to you both!

[@johnp8131]

Do not say "Legos", it's just Lego, singular and plural. Look it up!

[@Swivel360]

It really bugs me when Americans pluralise Lego

[@neuralwarp]

And Staff.

[@neuralwarp]

It can NEVER be pluralised. Deer, Sheep, Pokémon, Lego. You can have two soups, but never two deers.

[@insidiousbeatz48]

A dear, deer. There's two

[@nataliegay1935]

Jeeeeeze don’t be patroning! If people say something different that’s fine….different cultures, different countries get a life! He’s just having fun. Don’t take everything too serious🤦🏽‍♀️……let’s watch your KZbin vids bet you won’t be entertaining or funny 😆

[@nolajoy7759]

During a gloomy winter day, I mentioned to my work mate that my grandma always used to say "we'll all feel better after the solstice". She looked at me strangely and said "was your grandmorher a druid?". 😅

[@batman51]

In the last 10 years, since the video was made, a lot more exploration has taken place and the role of Stonehenge in the larger landscape has become much more complex

[@lynnejamieson2063]

You might find Skara Brae quite interesting, it’s a more than five thousand year old village on Orkney. It existed before the stones were put in place at Stonehenge and before they built the Great Pyramids of Giza but unlike Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, Skara Brae were homes that are still quite recognisable by modern standards…likely due to the fact that few trees grow to any substantial size on either Shetland, Orkney or the Hebrides (the Western Isles) due to them being smallish islands that are subject to the winds to greater extent than mainland Scotland or Norway, though Skara Brae also predates either country (Scotland both established in the 9th century) and obviously their claims over the archipelago of the Northern Isles (Shetland and Orkney).

[@vernonbear]

We’ve got stone circles and earthwork circles scattered all over the country. There’s a lot around Glastonbury and its reputation for having positive energy and leylines surrounding it means that Glastonbury attracts a lot of people.

[@neuralwarp]

We did a school trip taking in Sonehenge, Silbury Hill, and Avebury Ring.

[@catfrab]

Congrats! You confirmed the stereotype: "If Americans can't explain something, they'll say it's aliens"

[@klaxoncow]

He's not saying it was aliens. But it was aliens.

[@jonathangoll2918]

Funnily enough, we may be going back to thinking some people like the Druids had something to do with Stonehenge. The Neolithic people, the original creators of Stonehenge, brought farming to Britain. It's possible they spoke a language similar to the Berber tribes of NW Africa, and they brought farming techniques from the Middle East. But about 2000 BC this people mysteriously disappear - the most likely reason is plague - to be replaced by a Bronze Age people we call the Beaker people. These 'beakers' were made out of pottery; their culture came from Spain/Portugal, but genetically there may have been a lot of inheritance from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine. These steppe people's language spread and diversified, and is called the 'Indo-European' family of languages. Most Europeans, including us English, speak these languages, as do those people nowadays calling themselves Celts. Therefore the Beaker people - who were the last people who seem to have used Stonehenge for worship - may not have been a million miles off the Celts. It is clear that there was a great deal of knowledge of astronomy - and very possibly other things - and this knowledge the Druids the Romans encountered might well have inherited. A great deal of science has been put in to see whether the astronomical alignments so many of these megalithic monuments seem to have are just there by mere chance, and the answer is definitely NO! They were designed. You missed the point with Stonehenge. The famous alignment is from the centre of the circle to a point right outside it, where there is a solitary large stone (the Heel Stone). One way this alignment points to the Midsummer Sunrise, which is much celebrated today; but the builders of Stonehenge may have more concerned with the Midwinter Sunrise, to make sure the sun hadn't been defeated. You must realise that there are incredible megalithic monuments of this period - older than the Egyptian Pyramids - from one end of the British/Irish Isles to the other, with some very important sites on Orkney in the far North. Many of these sites are more enjoyable to visit than Stonehenge. There may be a historic record of Stonehenge being used. A late Roman author records an earlier one - whose work we've lost - telling that 'in the land of the People Beyond the North Wind, a short distance from the sea, there is a spherical temple where celebrations are held. Every 19 years it is visited by Apollo the Wolf-God'. 19 is a funny number, but it was known to people before Christ such as the Babylonians. It is an approximation to the 'saros' period - 18.6 years - which is the period between eclipses, or at least between one eclipse happening and another. Did the priests use this period to predict eclipses? And something even more interesting. On the inside of Stonehenge's earthworks there are 56 evenly-spaced holes, filled with chalk, again a funny number. Three saros periods - 55.8 years - are nearly approximated by 56, which is known as the 'great saros' period. It is a great mistake to think our ancestors were stupid.

[@aceofspoons8382]

This is a fantastic comment

[@elemar5]

The plural of Lego is....Lego. Not Legos.

[@redceltnet]

He did it again? I've tried correcting him before, but... y'know... Americans. ;)

[@GnrMilligan]

I do appreciate that you pause the video to look up something you don't know about. It not only shows how genuinely interested you are, but it also helps us folk out who just wondered the very same thing. Apart from the acorns thing of course. 😄

[@helenwood8482]

Druids and hippies are two different groups, but yes, we do both use Stonehenge and the other ancient sites.

[@redwiltshire1816]

I mean we both get high lol

[@neuralwarp]

Oak apples (galls) also come from oak trees. A strong hallucinogenic medicine. Also used to make ink.

[@Birko64]

I always thought oak trees came from acorns, not the other way around !

[@carltaylor6452]

I think you just have a crush on Siobhan Thompson, which is nothing to be ashamed of *at all*.

[@sueporter1834]

Was at Stonehenge years ago, took a bunch of uni students inside the stones. Got them to put their phone on the altar stone and set off their ringtone, inside the circle you can hear them, outside you can't. Students concluded it was a stone age rock venue. Lol, kids

[@nicw5574]

Stonehenge is a sacred place. My husband & I did a very early morning visit there and we're able to walk in amongst the stones. It was amazing, we respected the stones and never touched them (too many people touching them wears away the stones and the lichens that grow on them) but it felt like if I had placed my hand on them you would almost have felt them breathing. You're right the music was annoying, wishing you well 😀

[@fayesouthall6604]

Yes I walked around there with my parents when the public was allowed there years ago. Now it’s much harder to walk too close.

[@nicw5574]

I don't know how many times a year they do it, but you can buy tickets to visit before it opens and go in amongst the stones.

[@apostatereacts]

I was struck by how small it is compared to how I imagined it. You have to know how old it is and how far they dragged those stones to be truly impressed!

[@stewedfishproductions9554]

JJ, it is NOT just a circlle of stones... Have a search for Stonhenge layout plan and you will see that OTHER stones (not just the 'main circle') are aligned with the Sun. The inner circle has an open 'gateway', towards the "slaughter' and ''heel' stones... Also LEGO is plural ! 😊

[@richardfield6801]

When I was a kid back in the 1960s, Stonehenge was a bunch of stones in a field. I used to go and climb all over them in the school holidays. Nowadays, English Heritage has turned the whole place into a rather expensive circus, though you can still avoid all the hoopla and get to take a look at the stones for free by walking up to them via the public footpath that still exists (Shhhh. Don't tell anyone!) People like to say that Stonehenge is a big astronomical observatory, but the fact is, Neolithic peoples didn't need to drag huge blocks of stone for hundreds of miles across the landscape from Wales and erect them in the middle of nowhere just to keep track of the seasons or identify the movement of the heavens. They could have done that with a couple of crossed sticks and almost certainly did when the mood took them. It's a pretty simple thing to do. Stonehenge clearly does have a seasonal alignment. It marks the winter solstice and also the "Minor Standstill of the Moon" in the upper and lower windows of the big trilithon. But that's obviously not what the site's main purpose was. It was a massive ritual site to its various builders. The whole area is full of incredible constructions which you might find interesting to look up. There is nearby Avebury (even more astonishing than Stonehenge in many ways); Silbury Hill; Woodhenge; the strangely named "Robin Hood's Ball" (A moon symbol?); the massive cursus; and the Avenue. What all this is for is still anyone's guess.

[@Gulliedoutbigup]

'omg acorns come from oaktrees' an adult, everyone.

[@marktubeie07]

I have to jump in JJ on your comments about music levels 😡 Could content creators please mix or at least check the final product on SPEAKERS and NOT simply mix using headphones. First thing you learn in audio production. Drives me NUTS ! Now I feel better... sorry... carry on... :)

[@fayesouthall6604]

Music is all over the place

[@emmafrench7219]

"From little acorns mighty oak trees grow". Popular saying. We used to go to the Stonehenge music festival every summer until the last one in 1984. It was crazy but excitingly good.✌That was when you were allowed to go right up and touch/sit on the stones.

[@Barlofontain]

I live near Stonehenge and the current circle was actually constructed by the Victorians, who stood up the remaining stones, which had all fallen over. As a kid it was all open and we could climb all over them, but now they are behind a rope corden (so no peeing) There is also a Woodhenge, about 5 miles from Stonehenge, thought to have been built around the same time around 2300bce

[@VeritySnatch]

there are a couple of much older stone circles in Orkney. The Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar. they exist practically everywhere on the British isles, and parts of Europe. they were clocks of sort, aligned to the winter solstice. a way to keep track of their newly developing agricultural skills. planting, animal fertility. the first almanac

No, JJ, the earthworks were built a thousand years BEFORE Stonehenge started to be built, which was two thousand years before the Celts arrived with their druids.

[@KeeleyDe-Mullet]

Must have had some serious muscles in those days 💪

[@vallejomach6721]

Their animals did. Same as they do today...they probably had domesticated oxen or maybe even aurochs and they'd have had serious power. People today don't even know where their food comes from never mind how to use and work with the land and use what's on it. (I saw a react channel of some dude who only just realised that chicken the meat and the bird were related...seriously). Animals such as cattle and sheep etc were domesticated at least 6000BC... A bull can easily shift it's own weight without any trouble (modern bulls are like a ton or so...Aurochs were much bigger, if they had those...and they lived in the country then so it'd be a good bet that they did)...yoked together a pair of bulls can easily shift probably three to four times their own weight no problem and that's without any other mechanism or technology, rollers or sleds etc. People today have NO CLUE how to get work done with animals since everything they know about comes plastic wrapped or in a cardboard box from Amazon. Yoke two pairs of bulls up and and some aforementioned tech and I would bet the problem would be stopping them rather than worrying about them moving 20-25 ton in the first place. In fact, I'd bet they could probably manage a quite alarming rate of knots...relatively speaking.

[@KeeleyDe-Mullet]

As someone who owns horses, sheep & chickens, I completely agree with you. People are completely disconnected from where food comes from and the land in which it grows. Sad really .

[@neuralwarp]

They probably built wheels around the stones, like barrels. Makes them easy to roll.

[@scousemouse9715]

Great video. But I'm going to lead the charge that JJLA has the most alluring voice on KZbin. Let him know by liking this comment. Blessings from Darlington England.

[@WookieWarriorz]

Theres a place in ireland called newgrange a burial tomb that allows light in on the winter solestace, that existed for over 1000 years before the pyramids were built.

[@vernonbear]

That road is the source of a lot of trouble. There’s a proposal to reroute and put it into various cuttings and a tunnel, zero regard for the damage that’ll be done and there are further earthworks that date to a long time before the stones were placed, there are no provisions for preserving any of that land the bypass will plough straight through areas that held both significance to the ancient tribes and they are of great interest to academics who should be able to research and work on them to discover more about our ancient history. Instead the road builders plough on and destroy our land….

[@michellehardman50]

I don’t think it will happen.. 1 being the cost first and foremost, it will go over budget tremendously, just look at HS2 and what a success that turned out to be! and 2 if a new government takes over! I feel they will can it!

[@BadMoonandStars]

I watched a recent programme about Stonehenge and if I remember correctly, they think it was originally in place somewhere else, in Wales maybe (?) before they moved the whole thing. Anyway, there is a lot more up to date research on it.

[@robcrossgrove7927]

I've been to Stonehenge. Just a lot of big stones!

[@noblestsavage1742]

stonehenge was always full of chanting druids before they fenced it off. PS druid shares a root with the welsh word derw meaning oak, basically druid means oak worshipper.

[@KRUX71]

Acorns come from oak trees 😮😮😂😂😂❤

[@rosaliegolding5549]

The Stones they used was Called Bluestones which was quarried from South West Wales and dragged them to Salisbury Plains in Wiltshire , in my day we the family of 4 used to go and picnic there and I used to play amongst the stones freely then the Jumbo Jet came forth bringing Tourists so they erected a fence to stop them touching and destroying them SO LUCKY WAS I 🤣Salisbury Plains is also used for War Games Tanks everywhere and locals can hear the guns fire 🔥 for miles around when there is a war wherever ? they become more frequent All part of living in the countryside 🤣🤷‍♀️

[@roseannecomaskey6890]

New Grange is older and it still works and didn't fall down. 😂

[@MattCarter67]

I live 20 miles away and often get stuck in the traffic jam on the busy road that runs right past it!

[@spiritusinfinitus]

First time I went there I pretty much ignored the stones, turned my back on them and was absolutely fascinated by the burial mounds surrounding the whole site. Apparently you only got to be buried there if you were somebody.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

Years ago driving to Devon on holiday with 17 rugby buggers. We drove past the stones near dawn and a car TVcomertial was being filmed. The lighting was amazing with spooky fog. So that was the first way i saw the stones, so lucky because there is no way that would be done now.

[@redwiltshire1816]

Druid representation I am now happy

[@wessexdruid7598]

You might think that....

[@user-ox9ec1id9x]

Only some of the smaller stones came from Wales. about 120 miles to Stonehenge. The larger stones, that most of them are from only up 25 miles away. They may have had the wheel, & could have used oxen. Hercules might have originally been a real person who became mythological, like some other ancient figures. The Greeks & Romans thought that he had journeyed far around the world, so could have theoretically visited Britain. Oak trees often hold mistletoe bunches, that grow on the branches. The berries of mistletoe have associations with male fertility, for obvious reasons, which were magical to the Druids.

[@nicolabates2908]

The word ‘henge’ refers to the earthworks that appear all over the Atlantic coast of Europe. The large banks and ditches of earth built in circles and concentric circles, some of which later had stuff built in the middle out of wood or stones. But many are just banks, ditches and mounds. There’s even a ‘sea henge’ which was found off the coast of Norfolk at the end of the 90s. There’s evidence that the banks were covered in a white crystalline stone called gypsum which would have sparkled and almost glowed during sunrise and sunset.

[@badgersgetabadname]

Yet Newgrange was ancient when Stonehenge was built. I grew up near by, we use to go camping along Porton Down...Try getting close to that now...

[@jackjames3190]

What’s more mind boggling is the fact that the stone weigh so very much it has been estimated that the act of transporting them to the site in England where they now stand - would have taken more than one generation, So a man would have set off to wales, x amount of years later when he FINALLY chilled the block free from the rock face - using only antlers sharp stones and other pre metal tools - only then could he actually begin to drag it back yonder ti Salisbury plain. I’ve read that it could have taken 30 years, so his son or grandson would have been the one to elect the damn thing - and by then the only person who actually knew where true north was and where each solstice was positioned was already dead and everyone else’s party buzz was well and truly buzzed off because they had rickets and who waits 30 years to be sorted anyway? Makes me hate ikea self assembly instructions just a little bit less. But still a lot. Obviously it was a group of men who set off to get the stones and drag em back did so it’s “their” sons or grandsons who may have been the only ones to see it actually be erected in their final situ. I suppose we’ve done that all through history - most European cathedrals take a few centuries to build. They still haven’t finished that one in Barcelona - must be an ikea (!)

[@blue21girl59]

You should look up what just stop oil have done to Stonehenge today. 🤬🤬🤬

[@futureandevolution8315]

3:36 Where the hell did that come from

[@neuralwarp]

The Stonehenge earthworks were built beside a mesolithic waggon way. So it was basically a motorway rest stop.

[@neuralwarp]

Well, it's thought now that most all mythological figures and deities were originally real historical figures.

[@stuartcollins82]

"it's very game of thrones", yes, because the game of thrones stuff was based on ancient Briton cultures.

[@klaxoncow]

In ancient times, 'undreds of years before the dawn of 'istory Lived a strange race of people... the Druids! No-one knows who they were or what they was doin' But their legacy remains 'ewn into the living rock, of... Stone 'enge!

[@Varksterable]

I used to drive past the stones twice a day on a 1.5 hour commute to work and back. Because of this, I always set off pretty early and got back pretty late. This meant I had the opportunity, thought out the year to see them in all the different weather and light conditions possible. Trust me; just visiting them once isn't going to come _close_ to this as a slow-build experience and engagement with them. I was really lucky to be able to do that. Also, I did hear that there is a new theory that the stones not only _came_ from Wales, but that Stonehenge was actually first built there. Then dismantled, and _then_ moved to Salisbury Plane to be put together again. Makes sense, really. Imagine carting the stones all that way and then.. "Oh Bugger. They don't quite fit!"

[@jonathanmahon2035]

Off subject but fun(ish) fact. Eichmann is the German for oak man

[@JazzyBabe56]

the only thing that shocked me about this vid was that you didn't know where acorns came from.....LOL

[@nicksykes4575]

Come on JJ, you've never heard the saying "from little acorns, mighty Oaks do grow"? A huge number of them were felled to build the Royal Navy, often referred to as the wooden walls of England. (Should really be the wooden walls of Britain)

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

the internet says am descended from Hercules, so he better be real!! (he was part nephilim)

[@gavinhall6040]

Stonehenge was built by aliens in Stargate SG1.

[@neuralwarp]

But pre-celtic British druids built the Stargates.

[@ChrisPopham]

I'm intrigued as to where you think the writers of Game of Thrones got the idea from?

[@user-vd6qq6uk8p]

Oak trees come from acorns so that acorns can come from oak trees

[@robbeaman3542]

JJLA... "acornes come from oak trees?" == JOE WILKINSON...... "Theres strength in arches".

[@jemsjemski533]

I think you have a Siobhan crush 😂

[@nicksykes4575]

There's a stone outside of the circle called the Heel Stone, that is in alignment with the centre stone and sunrise, on the summer solstice.

[@neuralwarp]

It's one arbitrary stone edge. None of the other edges coincide with anything.

[@chrisshelley3027]

Kinderknack as in childrens Nads 😳 blood and sand 😱

[@kronos4136]

Acorns come from trees, really !! I thought they came from people's feet.

[@PortilloMoment]

If you want some proper information on the henges, the people who built them and the likely shape of the society they lived in then you need to read some Francis Pryor.

[@javierhillier4252]

there are two rocks outside of the circle that line up on that day

[@christopherwoolnough2160]

That age could still have ice the landscape

[@sameebah]

There are a lot of ancient sites in that area of the country. I must admit that I haven't visited Stonehenge since they restricted access, but I always preferred Avebury. English Heritage have a short video featuring some places you might want to take a closer look at kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIPQZZSprsmjbbc

[@Swivel360]

The henge part of the name IS the earthwork mound not the stone monument

[@Bill_Stranix]

I agree on the awfully loud background music. What on earth was she thinking. It's fine.... just turn it down.

[@scotexscarrier8461]

your right that music was so irritating

[@chrisshelley3027]

What celts they were.

[@Shoomer1988]

Not a bad day out, if you like rocks.

[@christopherwoolnough2160]

Nephlim Giants

[@Bill_Stranix]

The original channel has 400k subs and hasn't put anything out for 7 years?!?!

[@jamiewilson9280]

No she said earthworms!

[@helenwood8482]

I'm a modern druid and Stonehenge is sacred to us now.

[@zeeox]

I wonder what earthworks are? Gimme some form of an etymological clue at least please, gorramit! I mean: Earth? Works? Also: I wonder what ice cream is? I wonder what a train station is? Dime. Bar? P.S. Wales is not a two-foot wide village on Google Maps. Jesus.

[@cenedra2143]

So you talk about Jesus, ghosts, aliens and demons but you hear Hercules and you have to Google? 😂😂

[@helenwood8482]

Technically, the druids were not Celts. They were Iron Age Britons. The term Celt properly refers to German tribes. Druids were their priests and judges. Gaulish druids in France told Caesar their ideology originated in Britain and they went therevto study it.

[@redwiltshire1816]

A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors. That’s not really correct druids were just the wise men before we had science

[@redwiltshire1816]

Celts also weren’t German they were there own people who mass migrated around 1,000 BC source: the museum of wales

[@neuralwarp]

Celts were the Galatoi, the Galatians of the Bible. No one remembers where Galatia was.

[@PhilCadey]

Why are good and factual programs produced and then completely ruined by unwanted so called music ?

[@magdos7160]

1019th

[@buidseach]

Avebury is better and more interesting :)

[@Aloh-od3ef]

Stonehenge….. The most underwhelming attraction in the UK 😂

[@dib000]

In your view. 😳

[@ashdrive]

I agree, the music on her video is too loud, she talks too fast, thus I won't be subscribing to her channel

[@janicekingham9043]

She speaks too fast. Stonehenge is beautiful.

[@Rachel_M_]

The bible dates the earth and universe at 6000 years old. Stonehenge, at 8000 years old, would have been an ancient monument to the earth and universe when God created it. Therefore God must have created stonehenge first and built the universe around it 2000 years later True story 😉

[@vernonbear]

FACTS! Irrefutable!

[@Jamie_D]

😜

[@fayesouthall6604]

Haha

[@davidware9549]

Why do Americans take European words and say them wrong it’s Lego not legos lol and also you say adidas wrong even the Germans have told u this it’s there brand and it’s up to them what the name is so why do Americans think they can keep changing the other country’s words

[@grahamgresty8383]

The stones were not dragged from Wales but put on rafts (there is evidence of sunken stones in the Celtic sea) also much of Somerset (neighbouring county to Wiltshire) was under water (known as the levels today). The stones were only dragged to shorter distances to and from the rafts.

[@theplasteredfinger5942]

some argument about that now after they found the actual quarry that "blue stones" came from. oh, and the original site of the stone circle

[@neuralwarp]

I conjecture they built wooden wheels around the stones, like barrels, to roll them.