Avebury Henge - the history books are wrong

Very slick, professional video. However, I really think you need to give more explanation of your 'wide river' claim. Is this generally accepted? I had not heard it before, and I've been reading about and visiting the site for 50 years. Wouldn't that put many sites underwater at the time of their construction?

You folks are cool, but you drive on the wrong side.

A circular structure, formed of several concentric rings, opened towards the water on the Western, maybe South-Western side... Am I the only one that's being reminded of Atlantis? And no, I'm not saying this is Atlantis. Rather, that whoever built this may have been aware of Atlantis in one way or another.

Interesting idea.

We do know why the stones were buried. It was at the behest of local vicars. They considered anything not Chtistian to be evil.
And the man under the stone wasnt buried so much as crushed when it fell. Or a more recent idea I read was that he had been murdered elswhere and shoved into a convenient gap under the stone.

Definitely puts an interesting twist on things but still trying to get head around the concept of moat inside the wall.

I think it's a Disgrace That they built a Road Going Straight Through The site & as if that was not bad enough ...They built Houses on it ?

So if the site was surrounded by water, how did they transport the stones there? Sarson stone isn't particularly renowned for its buoyancy properties..

It think it looks like a draining and a retainer wall. Keep the outside out and the inside separated. Any chance there is fresh water inside ?

wow, fantastic video. I love that area and have explored a few times, how the hell did they do that under water, particularly silbury hill...and yet your interpretation makes a lot more sense to me having seen it all.

As with all these prehistoric circles I feel that too much emphasis is placed on the ditch rather than the bank. It is the bank which was the important thing to the builders, the ditch being merely the supplier of the material to build the bank. The evidence for this must of course the Mayburgh henge in Cumbria where there is no ditch but a huge bank made of small stones collected from the river.

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This is amazing. Thankyou l loved it😊

Avebury is an old harbour with 270 mooting off the stones as posts to tie off, Silbury is a lighthouse

Looks just a feasible as its a giant place of worship

What about the two avenues?

The wet, marshy period went from (approx) 4,000BC to 3,500BC. The henge was dug BEFORE this period, and the stones were brought in AFTER this wet period. You are correct to say there was a wet period during the time of Avebury, but the story is a little bit more complex that your description here. ALSO the henge was never filled with water. Great video, however.

Avebury is a long time inactive sacred site, polluted by a road and buildings by idiot modern day humans.

Stones encompassing a sacred/political safe meeting area. I believe there are similar examples in the mid east.

Thank you for this

its not circular but it was built be WHITE PEOPLE

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Brilliant little film, thanks.
Its often the case that the authority wants to say things were for religion rather than trading, I suppose because it fits in with academics idea of linear progression from primitive simple people to clever ones today

Interesting theory, however, the assumed high groundwater level would have caused quite some problems with digging a 9m deep ditch. Water would certainly seeped in, and there were no pumps available. The ditch must have been dug at lower groundwater level. A ditch filled with water for a significant time should show layers of silt.
Cheers, Michael

Maybe the high bank kept the water out?

What a great video! Very well done and informative

February half term 1990 I joined an NT volunteer archaeology finds search around Avebury it was fascinating we were put up in a property that literally looked out onto the henge amazing time ❤

It is common that when we do not know the answer, we fall back on the ritual use as an answer.

So avebury is Atlantis.... damn. I mean is it? I need to read the herodotus description again

I’m with you bro. A steaming cup of heaven, 3 times daily, keeps the mind and body sharp. Go with a light roast Jimma, or what is your favorite?

Interesting but what about the avenues? Would they have been underwater or added at a later time?

lol - no. What you're proposing here is a giant lake, not a river. Such a thing did not exist. Rivers don't pool up like that. They flow and erode, creating deep gullies in the earth as they do so. There's no evidence of what you're proposing at all.

Absolutely no evidence for flooded ditches. This is Langdon gone mad! No, NO, NOO!

You should not assume that the ditch was ever 9m deep relative to the surrounding land. Over the centuries the bank would have eroded and new layers dug out to raise the height again above the relative height of the surrounding land. Modern ditches are cleaned out, but very rarely do people make an effort to clean out right to the bottom of the original cut.

If the area was flooded , how did they dig the ditch ?

Amazing video mate..Researching myself St Catherine’s hill in Christchurch where the Avon is on one side and the stour on the other..But near St.Catherines is Ramsdown,which is a smaller hill in the shadow of St.Catherines..By Ramdowns are two Bronze Age burial mounds on which one is situated on a man made ridge and slope dating back to the Neolithic..I think all three are connected and St.Catherines with the two rivers beside her was an important site in history of the area and the U.K..
Thank you again and all the best

fine piece sir ,but you dont seem to understand that also the mounds surrounding the stones were chalk , so in the sunlight would have beemed white , love to get our heads together on this .

"in the centre was no doubt some sort of trading station" ..No doubt? What evidence is there that any stone circles ever had a trading station in the middle? Maybe there was, at Avebury, but sorry, where's the evidence? Excellent work done for this vid, no question, but the title just looks like a click-bait, with no explanation enough what it was that the history books got wrong... The fact that there was flooded terrain, or terrain around that was under water, doesn't in any way say thet Avebury was not a ceremonial location. Why was the ditch of the henge (ditch and bank) 9 Metres deep? is a good question, and books maybe miss the flooding issue, but this doesn't make them getting anything wrong.. ONE point, that the history books say that the henge ditch was all originally joined up all around? not seen that.. Maybe true, but still not up to the dramatic title.. And implying that it was all just a trading centre, on basically an island, just doesn't make sense. "Whatever the site may have been... it's no doubt a most magical sight" is true, and sorry, though, but this hints that 'The Real Truth' titles are usually no such thing.. Just another clik bait line.. And still no evidence included from known excavations that while feesible, the area around Avebury was marshy or flooded.

It would have helped if those Crazy Christians Had not insisted on Burying most of the Stones ..

You've shown it as a port, which makes sense.

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The earthworks are staggering. Great video mate !

I wonder how they dug and dredged the then 'moat' around the 'island' when the river was so high. The Hydrology raises more questions than it answers. I realy enjoyed Your presentation, easy going and factual without tv bluster :-) I wonder what the water levels were 500 years, or more, earlier when folk lived up at the Windmill, much higher for yonks ... and then came down and made Avebury. Could a people have duggen a moat whilst already flooded? I feel that there is much much more too be gleaned about the place. :-)

i've been to avebury, and the stones are really impressive, and what's more there's no charge, as for stone henge, let them keep it, what right, have they, to move in and treat it as if they own it ? it's been there, for a hell of a time, for free, and the reason there is so little of it left, is because, the farmers destroyed most of it, because it was in the way of farming. and you can bet your life, that the church, goaded them on, (to destroy those pagan artifacts). when they were, trying, to destroy stone henge, one of the stones, fell on the guy pulling it down, and killed him, so the superstitious locals, refused, any attempt, to destroy the rest. my original point, is, that your drone photos, make it look, as if, there are only a few stones ? this is way wrong, there are loads, if you look from ground level

There are some strange markings around the Adam and Eve stones

A pedantic point, and I haven't watched the video yet, but there aren't any "history books" about these monuments because they are prehistoric.

Drinking game; every time he says 'the largest stone circle in the world'

You. Not thinking trading is ritual. You might just want to do some archeology and get to understand how 'ritual' is used to describe human created artefacts.

What amazingly annoying music.

Yet another brilliant professional video (with even more VR animations) well done my friend) 😊