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[JamesWalters]

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

[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.

[hawklord]

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

[davidlancaster]

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.

[janemann]

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

[WillNGo]

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?"

[AncientPuzzles]

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

[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.

[wtgs]

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!

[dotherightthingbro]

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

[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. :)

[carlaalexander]

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.

[deborahdanhauer]

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

[kevinbennett]

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

[samyoel]

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

[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.

[TimFaulkner-qbkl]

That place is very cool always wanted to go to the islands

[nickbrough]

Great video. A couple of

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 :)

[thundercatt]

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.

[RicardoPetrazzi]

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