Exploring the Avebury Landscape | Walking Through Prehistory

[@jollyfish84]

When we visited the UK back at the beginning of 2017, we had some locals tell us this was the best place to go and walk around (over another nearby henge 😉). I’m so glad we did because it was an amazing day, and if we get to return we’ll definitely come back and give ourselves a bit more time.

[@lw3646]

There's a national trust centre nearby which has some of the stones, plus museum, house, garden, Cafe, shop.

[@karstenkailer4669]

I've been to Avebury around 1995 after visiting Stonehenge, which was a bit touristy. Someone gave me the tip to see Avebury and I went there by bus via Salisbury, that I visited on my way back - I was impressed by the old pub with a hand of a gambler that had been chopped of in the middle age. I only had a couple of hours before my bus went back to Portsmouth - missing that bus would have ment to stay overnight in the only hotel of the village. Avebury was so amazing! The whole village had some sort of a spooky vibe, like in a movie. There was an old book shop that gave me a map and told me about all the monuments around the village. Unlike Stonehenge there where just a handfull of tourists and I walked around the stones alone - just some sheep here and there. I was so glad I did that long and "stoney" trip to Avebury. It was really impressive and I still wonder why all those monolithic monuments were build. Loved the surrounding area and the landscape I saw from the bus, too.

[@lw3646]

Cool, I went there last year, there are visitors but not many. Nice area, it's fascinating to wonder round looking at the stones and pondering their meaning. There's a stoneage museum too housing lots of arrowheads and other things.

[@karstenkailer4669]

@@lw3646 I was very impressed back then - way more than Stonehenge. I‘m visiting the French Bretagne this summer, they have a lot of stone monuments, too.

[@oaktadopbok665]

My dream was always to take a walking tour of Great Britain. . . now I'm too old and never got the chance. Don't put off your dreams, kids!

[@thanib7796]

How old are you?

[@davehart1027]

Are they still here?

[@oaktadopbok665]

70 yo

[@liketheroman]

⁠@@oaktadopbok665if you can afford it , please visit! Don’t let your age stop you.

[@therealrayster]

@@oaktadopbok665 Thanks sir, will do!

[@brianasciak1668]

can;t wait to visit for hikes around historic beauties , so breath taking

[@claudiocavaliere856]

Absolutely fascinating! I am enchanted congratulations in every possible way! Thank you!!!!!

[@jandavis1523]

I was at Avebury and toured the sights. West Kenner Long Barrow is fascinating! And very profound as one walks around the interior.

[@markedwards9247]

An excellent presentation from Susan. What I particularly liked, which runs against the grain of most ancient historical videos, is that she made it clear that the theories she put forward were in the context of our best ideas based on the information available. And that she did not stipulate these ideas as facts. There are many of us out there conducting continuing research into our ancient ancestors. We all have similar, but often conflicting ideas. It is exactly this situation which makes research, even from amateurs, so exciting. Because no-one knows for sure. I often think pure researchers look solely at the ruins and archaeology, and miss out the sociological logic of how these people lived. For example, we are influenced by our own religious practices and rites, and tend to dismiss that spiritual concepts in those times may have been completely different. Even to the degree that there is absolutely no evidence that sites such as Stonehenge had a spiritual purpose at all. For example, in 5000 years, if Wembley stadium is still standing, it is very likely that our descendants would assume this was a place for religious gathering, and that the Wembley arch, had some important religious meaning. I am one of the advocates of those ideas. That henges, magaliths, and cairns, are deliberately constructed in such a manner to withstand the passage of time. They are a collective message of "who we were". I am putting together all of this research and intend to publish when complete. One of the fundamental basics of "who we were", is "when we were". I have some important research that is following the idea that these sites were not places of worship at all, but are in fact parmanent dating mechanisms, along the same lines as "The Dog Days of Summer". Thankyou for this presentation English Heritage.

[@lw3646]

Beautiful area. Its a great place to wonder and ponder the meaning of the stone circles. Do some research first before you go though.

[@emerald903]

It seem like the ancient Turkic burial places in Siberia steps of Altai that we call "Kurgan". Same way/ style/ tradition. Video was informatiev. Thanks and regards from faraway.

[@WayToVibe]

I"m always torn about people being removed from their burial places. They were intended to stay there forever, not be dug up and moved in order to make a tourist spot. However, digging them up and moving them to labs is the only way we can really understand them.

[@redorzed]

Over 1000 years many generations came and removed the bones to put their own dead there instead.

[@inisipisTV]

As long as after the scientists made all their analysis and measurements, the bodies should be returned to their graves as they we're before.

[@AbisexualCarpenter]

I mean, they won’t complain

[@WayToVibe]

@@AbisexualCarpenter You say that, then get woken up by rustling sounds in your closet 0_o

[@hetrodoxly1203]

It's always gone on, these people could have been moved many times, most graveyards in the UK have a 99 year lease.

[@zonabrown9241]

Fantastic & good to get a good speaker❤

[@dominiclester3232]

It’s astonishing just how little we know after decades of excavations...

[@lw3646]

Yeah, I'm always sceptical when someone claims they've explained it all. We can't go back and ask the people what they were doing, all we have really is interpretation.

[@england6013]

I'd love to go back. It's my home land

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

Thank you, would really love to go there.

[@parry3231]

This is a wonderful opportunity for the observation of the world of our energies in mounds and power spots in our world.

[@markhenry192]

Avebury is a far better (and cheaper) day out than Stonhenge. You can also get up close and touch the stones unlike the Henge.

[@elenalexey]

Most likely the wooden post supported the roof. The roof is important in England. Possibly there was an ancient temple.

[@richardchiplin9272]

Thanks interesting

[@havingalook2]

I see that it was posted on July 14, 2021 - when was it filmed. It cannot be that cold in July in Avebury - can it???

[@richardday5015]

🙏🏽

[@joannnorman7531]

Looking for my family where they lived in England centuries ago Norman's

[@UserAme99]

This is where vikings, kings and queen used to saw long2 time ago.

[@conburd3338]

These were many thousands of years before vikings ever came ashore. Rome wasn't even a place yet, let alone a roman a person. This is from the days of ancient Egypt, the construction of the pyramids etc.

[@andromedagalaxy0]

Firsttttt🔥

[@saifiyaqureshi881]

🙄🤷🏻‍♀️

[@-xirx-]

I dunno, she said Silbury Hill was 5000 years old!

[@davehart1027]

Longbarrow was meat preservation, silbury hill made for lookout

[@BWo-bb1yw]

Guess that makes me the first looser? cool show though.

[@saifiyaqureshi881]

I'm the first one🤪🤭😳

[@tonireed4123]

They built it for God, The Sun behind the sun. How else could you get all those participants over hundreds of years. The serpent and the egg is why they built it! It is all about going within - gettin in the mix with your opposite divine nos in the egg The egg with a serpent a spiral)--going through the process of love - becoming a Vitruvius LIGHT man with the female head on it as well and becoming God's vessel for His Design!

[@Iskandar64]

Many of the comments so far are such nonscence. There is no place for stupid people posting their carefully cherished ignorance. Listen to the.experts and academics.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Can you imagine the archeologists in 3000 years time digging up the old McDonalds 'sacred temples' ....?? Exactly.