Hidden Landscapes: Prehistoric Dartmoor

[@clogs4956]

Everyone seems to focus on Stonehenge, which is understandable, but there are prehistoric monuments in many other places, many more spectacular. I love the Avebury area, but I’ve never walked Dartmoor. One for the bucket list!

[@isaiahxp9185]

A perfect upload for this Wodensday. God bless.

[@Hana_goes_East]

Wow, what a great little video! I have lived near Dartmoor for some 15 years but been so preoccupied with other stuff in my life that its only now, age 53, (and carless, too!)that I became obsessed with it and do all I can to get myself out there, bus, train and foot, exploring. Loved this video as a great example to show to my friends. Its never too late, don't let obstacles stop you, if Dartmoor is calling you, follow the call, you will be amazed and it gets better and better!

[@MsGnor]

@Hana-su7zg thanks for your inspiring comment! You sold Dartmoor to me. I bet you get great stars out there! Keep shining & thriving 🥰💖✨

[@Hana_goes_East]

@@MsGnor Thank you, same to you, I'm glad you got inspired 🤩

[@alcatraz3539]

Visited Dartmoor a couple of times. There's something very spiritual about the place which I've never felt anywhere else.

[@pennyroberts8763]

Dartmoor after Exmoor are my favourite National Park to visit

[@sarahstrong7174]

It is amazing that ancient communities could spare the time & energy to build stone rows etc in their short lives.

[@annickmorin5796]

Wonderful ! Thanck you, for all of these very good explications ! I love these stones coming from an old time and another world...

[@WeltonSan1]

Fantastic stones....🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏

[@jpbaley2016]

Simply amazing!

[@c.w.1827]

...sehr schön...👍🙂

[@yfgub]

No campfires was my memory of Dartmoor.

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

Wonderful stones 👍

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@OntarioAtOrion]

When i went on an exchange in High school, we stayed in Plymouth and visited a bridge made of huge stones. They said it was the oldest bridge in England, or the Uk maybe... it was in the Moors i think...

[@AR-mu4zq]

So did they clear away the trees to build these or was the forest present all around these monuments?

[@cindymichaud7111]

Why were the forests not restored?

[@Gothicforever1790]

Did I just see Heathcliff and Kathy?!

[@MsGnor]

@katherinelydon7306 😂

[@Kratos-005]

I think Stonehenge is ritual as well imo.

[@mccypr]

😎

[@combatwombat71]

Such a shame drones are banned from taking off or landing on Dartmoor. So many potentially amazing birds eye pictures and video that could be used to educate and inform future generations. Such a shame.

[@spookysandwich1355]

i agree :(

[@radicalpaddyo]

Clearly it's not banned because they did it for the video....but you need to get permission first.

[@combatwombat71]

@radicalpaddyo £££ that most hobby drone flyers can't afford. Money talks. I'll just fly over in my own aircraft and take a many photos as I like. Nothing they can do to stop me :-)

[@toocutepuppies6535]

I can't ever look at these rocks layed out except as "Flintstones" houses. There were probably a lot of Betty's, Barney's and Dinos wandering around Europe!

[@KiwiGraggle]

I think what we see in the UK, is bits and bites of what was here before, remnants of a far supreme civilisation that was not primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. This civilisation, well obviously got wiped out or left, or a combination of the both. So what we see in places like Britain, is little bits and remnants of what came after, and the few left with bits of knowledge. The people and civilisation that came after my Ancestors, a story and truth that is not told to you by the way, were remnants of that great civilisation and it is those people who produced what are to me crude stone circles in order to gain the energy from them. This has been going on for donkeys years, thousands and thousands of years before you lot came along, and what we see as I say in the UK, are crude examples of a once great civilisation that was housed in the Southern Hemisphere and for which pretty much ran everything as one. Britains history is great, but it is far far behind that of Egypt, Latin America, the Pacific and I wish the British would stop trying to compete with that, because it is a different peoples and time era that came after the great ones. So its not as special as you think. They are arranged in circles, for spiritual and energy gathering. Quite crude constructions, wayward and thousands of years behind, to what was once here before.

[@lostinsomerset6002]

Why do you even have to compare? It is what it is, a piece of time, a piece of the history of the British isles.

[@samchapple6363]

And yet now, few trees. They do grow on their own, the landscape says climate change.

[@lokischeissmessiah5749]

No. The landscape says animal agriculture. Grazers eat tree saplings. It's the same on all moorland in the UK where sheep are raised.

[@samchapple6363]

@@lokischeissmessiah5749 did King John tell you that? 😂 the climate has everything to do with it along with humans bringing the grazers in, what, 800 years ago causing soil compaction. Better then peasants though 😁