The Missing Megaliths of Orkney | Exploring the Stenness Stones and the Watchstone | Megalithomania

A visit to the mighty 'Watchstone,' a towering 19ft-tall monolith that stands like a sentinel observing all the goings on in the landscape of megalithic Orkney. Hugh Newman also explores the mysteries that surround the nearby Stones of Stenness, its true age, and why they carved the entire massive henge out of bedrock. The famous Odin Stone, as well as a lost dolmen, and even a large rectangular megalithic enclosure once existed in this area, all linked up to Maeshowe, the Ness of Brodgar and the Ring of Brodgar by a possible stone avenue. Includes exclusive aerial footage. Join Megalithomania with guest host Nicholas Cope in Orkney on a specialised tour, August 11th - 18th 2023: www.megalithoma...
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Join Megalithomania with guest host Nicholas Cope in Orkney on a specialised tour, August 11th - 18th 2023: www.megalithomania.co.uk/orkneytour.html

[@Fiskarenify]

"Sten" is the word stone in swedish/norwigen/danish language and the word Nääs means a narrow headland that joins two larger landmasses, but can also denote a long narrow peninsula. StenNääs is a name that the wikings most have given the place.

[@hawklord100]

Stenness was a tripple stone circle and you will also find the 'angle' used on the top of the stones with this type of structure from Callanish on to a few other stone circles along the east and west coasts using estuarys as roads into the hinterlands of ancient Britian, indicating that the builders were mariners

[@JamesWalters007]

Beautiful scenery and the stones are just awesome. Thank you for the video and intriguing information.

[@davidlancaster8152]

Amazing! I love this area but haven't ever been able to visit. Thanks for sharing this. Still trying to get a copy of your and Jim Vieira' s newest book. Appreciate all you do Hugh, and the way you do it.

[@janemann2756]

Amazing. Paying a visit to Orkney next year. Can't wait.

[@RebootingHistoryz]

I'd love to take a boat with side-scan sonar and scan the ocean in between all the those isles and I'd bet you'd find many stone makers that haven't been destroyed by man. Perfectly preserved in their original positions with perhaps the slime of the ages on them. Sitting peacefully under the sea. This would also show that these dates go back a lot further.

[@MegalithHunter]

Awesome footage!

[@carolinemcgreal2382]

Thank Hugh for sharing.

[@AncientPuzzles]

Great vid. The unusual stone quite an interesting one👍🏻

[@rik2034]

Great video once again 👏

[@MeRia035]

Thank you! Beautiful!❤️✨️❤️

[@carlaalexander8787]

There's another stan stone with a hole like "Odins" on North Ronaldsay island. One of the stories talks about how the giant leaves the stone on new years eve to go down to the water and to stay away. If he sees you looking at him, he will have you.

[@wtgs7231]

A new fan here from Canada. Just saw your presentation on Gaia. (Ancient Civilization) You and JJ are amazing! Thank-you so much for all your work!

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Thanks for your kind words!

[@Fiskarenify]

"Sten" is the word stone in swedish/norwigen/danish language and the word Nääs means a narrow headland that joins two larger landmasses, but can also denote a long narrow peninsula. StenNääs is a name that the wikings most have given the place.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

Thank you for this fascinating video!

[@Pure-Luck447]

😍Thank you

[@TheTimeDetective42]

Best show on youtube!

[@bottytoohotty]

We call the holes in the ground fullacht fia's , in Ireland . You fill with water and you drop hot rocks in to heat the water for cooking.

[@tatechasers2393]

drone footage looks awesome

[@katharinekinnie]

Perfect timing for this video Hugh as I’m about halfway through listening to Freddy’s book on Scotland. :) It’s my intention to visit a lot of stone circles and sacred sites there when I come back to visit the UK next year. :)

[@gillianfayreid6727]

Hello just discoverd this amazing history of Scotland going back thousands of years my grandfather lived on the isle of bute l will be watching all your videos love from south africa Gillian fay reid ❤

[@WillN2Go1]

I love this stuff. These are my ancestors. Traveling through the UK and Ireland a few years ago I think I figured something out. The archeologists when they can't figure out a precise reason for something will say 'it's for ritual' but then they'll laugh. (Because they know that this label is often over applied. A real archeologist on Orkney explained the carved balls as, hey isn't this neat? Like having a really cool pocket knife. A box cutter is better, but aren't your friends going to appreciate this?) In Ireland, being a crap amateur archeology fanboy I was driving around looking for a famous dolman. I didn't know where it was but I did spot something in an overgrown field. I parked, No plaque, just a mess of stones surrounded by barbed wire with a sign saying, 'Keep out.' So I'd spotted something. Following the modern ritual, I walked around it, taking pictures, thinking grand thoughts about the ancients, of course not touching anything. That could break the spell and get you arrested.' But then following the convention, I looked off to the distances towards peaks of hills and the passes between. In at least two directions aligned with the passes there were other lumps. It was very very powerful. I had an epiphany. They lined these things up and placed things in alignment because it was graphically powerful, instead of points of pilgrimage these lay lines and alignments energized the whole landscape. Suddenly and graphically, but not so much religiously, I was part of something much larger. It was just very cool design, like the new Air Jordans, or great fashion, or instead of one tall boring building, you put two creating something so powerful Al Qeda wanted to smash it. And I didn't even need to be a trained archeologist or even know where the heck I was to feel the energy of 'that over there lines up with this over here.' These are my ancestors. According to my on sale DNA test some of my ancestors arrived in the UK 8000 years ago. So I like to say, "We built Stonehenge. Any questions?"

[@stellamarie8044]

Fascinating!🤔

[@dotherightthingbro]

Excellent video, will you be visiting the Clannish stones and other nearby sites?

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

We have produced a few videos from Callanish already.

[@dotherightthingbro]

@@MegalithomaniaUK thanks I will look at the catalog.

[@catgoyda4249]

Why was the farmer allowed to destroy them I guess there was no protection for historic sites during that period? What a senseless thing to do what was his excuse to keep people off his property? So shortsighted.. I wonder if there could be a effort to restore the stones based on the descriptions from the 1800s? How does the weather affect that

[@dotherightthingbro]

@@catgoyda4249 the farmer would only be interested in farming. Not many people looking at the stones in that period and who would have told them about them?

[@samyoel5384]

I have a book about Orkney called ‘ the magnetic north’! Interesting

[@1967wazzy]

What is cool is when i get a suntan on my back it shows the map of united kindom and ireland and all the islands around i will next yr get a wi ked tan and have the wife take some pics and see if anything historic is also on the discoulered area 😊

[@alexalanexriddle2757]

Great video

[@samfibrofox]

😍

[@thundercatt5265]

circular structures ,in that video ,he was showing these series of ring like shapes structures ,no doorways ,i believe he said ,in south africa ,circular shape structures in Gobekli tepe ,then in America recently ,circular structures ,Stonehenge ,more stone alignments,i'm not sure what i'm tracking here ,but there is definably some thing here to connect or learn ,and they re not refined ,,like the annunaki stonework most look man made ,and they all over the place ,i think it's native and was in the progress of evolution,naturally unlike us, modern man until it stopped after the great flood.

[@kevinbennett5220]

Very interesting thankyou great to see it all again was at the Ness a few years ago my Question is what mic did you use its obviously windy from the shots but your sound is fantastic no wind on the mic at all ... most of our holiday voice over shots at the dig were unusable because of the wind... thanks again

[@nickbrough8335]

Great video. A couple of observations/questions/comments Has anyone created a 3D landscape model of the wider area, adjusted sea level back to c3,100 BC. I would have thought this would be a very valuable research tool, but could be used (via a series of layers) to show how the neolithic landscape structures evolved other time and to virtually reconstruct the landscape (to the extent that it is possible to do so today). The completed model would also visually show the time evolution of the site in a way that is difficult to comprehend otherwise. How do you think the complex buildings revealed by the ongoing annual digs fit into this landscape picture ? I'm not sure that they have identified how old construction commenced at that site, but it seems to be heading towards around 3000 bc (last time i read anything) and was occupied for several hundred years. It makes perfect sense, with the high density of old neolithic structures, that the natural approach routes to the site might be marked. These walkways need not be linear Given we know that both Mesolithic and Neolithic peoples in Scotland heavily used boat transport as part of their life styles, we might also expect (or at least we should consider) boat transport for people gathering at the site. Assuming the buildings/area was of local regional importance as a gathering place, visitors from the other islands would surely arrive by Boat. You referred to both solstice alignments been present in the tomb structures nearby. Is there any evidence to support any time based orientation (eg winter solstice changed to summer solstice as time passed etc). I guess of lot of my questions have already been studied or thought about :)

[@WildWoodsGirl65]

Look into Newgrange and the Boyne Valley sites as to sun alignment.

[@RicardoPetrazzi]

good stuff....this channel always produces amazing things. One small point - you said 'herth' (spealt hearth) and should be pronounced 'harth' actually

[@nickbrough8335]

I'm from NW England and we would certainly say "harth" (if youre old enough to remember coal fire places), but I'm not sure the usage would apply across all of the UK. Its a term with different regional variations (I think)

[@WildWoodsGirl65]

Regional accent, I agree.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

What on Earth was that blasted farmer thinking when he destroyed all those stones? I will never understand people like that.😔❤️🐝

[@nickbrough8335]

Probably got pissed off with people vandalising his crops having deal or wedding completion parties on his land.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@nickbrough8335 No, he destroyed them in 1814. Long before there was a general interest in them or anyone sought them out to have parties. Most likely he was a religious fanatic, and he destroyed them for the same reasons that ISIS destroyed every ancient site in the Middle East they could find.

[@WildWoodsGirl65]

I've seen elderly people throw out something bc it was "old," not realizing that gave it value. They valued newer things. People used stones for building bc they thought of the site as superstition, invalid belief systems, or heathen. Some were scared of them not realizing they were superstitious themselves. But often it's just using whatever is handy rather than quarrying their own stone bc of laziness &/or having to pay whoever owned the land, or quarry, by then.

[@suzannehaigh4281]

One place I must go, seen so much, read so much and heard so much from friends who lived there for around 25 years, never found out why they left in the end, all I know it must not a simple decision just something that happened, strange.

[@johndelong5574]

Rock was softer in the distant past.The hoover dam in nevada is harder and stronger today than when it was built. Volcanic sediment resulting from the global flood allowed early giants to create objects to comemorate the events concerning the deluge. References to the ark are encoded through shapes and motif in temples, tombs, dolmens, kufon, pagodas etc.Cathedral arches resemble the prow of a ship. this motif can be found in ancient bhuudist and hindu temples. Any place associated with death can find a corresponding motif from GENESIS.

[@nickbrough8335]

Hoover Dam is made out of concrete and is actually still setting (and will continue to do so for some hundreds of years yet).

[@DavidfromMichigan]

Whatever they are, you can almost guarantee that food has something to do with it. Harvesting and traveling to certain trade areas. Stonehenge is a perfect example. People come from miles around to trade goods. Survivability.

[@R_McGeddon117]

The hills in the distant are similar to the Sleeping Lady hills at Callanish Would there be a connection?

[@TheAnarchitek]

Less than six miles to the northwest, Skara Brae might have been contemporaneous, the first in preparation for the maelstrom approaching, the latter to set up means of verifying stellar locations. The poles had been moved, in an earlier visit, leaving humans everywhere trying to relocate themselves (imagine if "north" was NOT where it is, and has been, your entire life). The Chinese have a story of an emperor who sent out parties to "locate the quarters of the earth", or the directions, likely also contemporary with these stones and similar "astrological" (if one parses the word, it comes out to "making sense of the stars", or "star-understanding") constructs. Early astrologers were also known as "prophets", in the Bible, and the Pentateuch, where we get our OT. The people of the Chaco Culture, in northwestern New Mexico also constructed according to star-sighting, aligning their buildings with strict astrological attention. Skara Brae shows intense preparation for catastrophes from the air and water, if less so from fire and earth. These are also the astrological elements, in FWAE order, for those interested. The people of Skara Brae planned and built to survive cataclysmic winds that would have put a Category 5 hurricane to shame, heavy seas and lightning storms. Their construction accounted for human waste, and provided fresh water, in low-profile shelters designed to funnel off any water that penetrated the roofing. In similar fashion, the people of Chaco constructed of masonry, but above ground, but sheltered by a tall mesa that precluded attack from that side. Attack was a common fear, probably from peoples who'd given no preparation to the approaching disaster, at the first occasion a darkness that got closer, month after month, until it unleashed hell on Earth, lightning rippling like it was coming out of a thousand hoses, volcanoes erupting en masse, seas running to 100 foot waves, pounding coastlines and all human habitation nearby, the wind a relentless nag, shrieking at times, a hollow bass tone at others, adding to the terror and confusion. Crises bring out the best and worst, in humans, and this crisis was off the charts, by any standard. Earthquakes rolled the ground under one's feet, dropping some areas, crumpling others, as tsunamis roared in and out, covering everything in rushing water that as quickly receded and raced away, to some distant point opposite its arrival. The crises to come would bring out the worst in humans more often than their best. Conquest became a method of attaining power, and many were too shattered by the events of Exodus, or Joshua, or II Samuel, etc, on down the line, as the world rebuilt each time. The in-between times, the 50+ years of relative peace, were marked by war and criminal activity. Our modern attitudes on war are the result of millennia of mind-numbing brutality by our forebears, as the practice continued down the centuries, into modern times. "Thou shalt not kill", indeed ... The Stones of Stenness may point to no particular point, now, because in the ensuing millennia, the world was turned, again and again. Future survivors built even more elaborate shelters and eventually, the problem was shunted into a neutral siding, doomed to forever look at Earth but never touch her again. Men came out of their shelters, and rebuilt society, starting at the beginning of the 6th Century BC, when Aristotle, Confucius, Aeschylus, Plato, Lao-Tse, Pythagoras, Buddha and Herodotus left their mark on the beginnings of our culture. The stone by the bridge, the Watchstone, points to a distant future, from long, long ago, and far, far away, on another Earth.

[@benderbender1233]

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[@kckman52]

no enemy could sneak up on you

[@RoryVanucchi]

👍

[@thejmoneyshow]

:( the sheep over time trample down the mounds, I think they should stop the using grazing animals to clean up these locations

[@PanglossDr]

It would be nice to have some facts rather than suppositions, emotions and unsupportable words like 'sacred'.

[@cathymarcello282]

Nephilim architecture