Secrets of Stonehenge FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America

Investigations about Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate over who built Stonehenge, how, and for what purpose? Granted exclusive access to the dig site at Bluestonehenge, a prehistoric stone-circle monument recently discovered about a mile from Stonehenge, NOVA cameras join a new generation of researchers finding important clues to this enduring mystery.

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[Cunning.Stunt.]

Stonehenge is outside my city, gathering with so many on Summer Solstice nights/mornings are the best!
Never tire of going to the henge's all around Wiltshire

[SpuriousEmission]

Adverts every few minutes. I'm afraid I've given up with this. Sadly there's far too many adverts on YouTube these days.

[davidgray]

I really enjoyed that, thank you to everyone involved. I went there as a child, in those days people didn’t do such foolish things as to spray paint monuments, one could walk amongst the stones and touch them, I remember it well. It is a shame little children cannot do that today.

[RolandRamirezTV]

By not skipping adverts is my way of saying thank you for sharing this great research for us.
I visited Stonehenge way back in 2012 and it was really monumental, thinking it was made around 3000 BC. I feel privileged to have seen these stones.

[diabolicalartificer]

One of the best Stonehenge documentary's I've watched, thanks for posting.

[DavyRo]

I visited stonehenge in 2019 & it's honestly difficult to describe the feelings I had while I was there. I was working not far away & decided to take a drive to it on a beautiful summers day. I was by myself but wasn't alone as there was a lot of people there. I stayed until the site closed & the visitors had left. There's a tack that runs parallel to the site called "The drove" where lots of new age hippies & general free spirits camp. I spoke with many as they were so friendly & spiritual. I mentioned at the time to the 1st people I spoke to, I said I don't know if its the beautiful weather or the friendly people around. But the feelings of Joy & that I was visiting a very special place will remain with me for the rest of my life. I was so taken I was constantly on the phone to my wife & kids. They were all jealous & I've promised ill take them this summer. I've got a lot of photo's but like I said seeing this place in a video or in photos, is honestly irrelevant. You have to visit the place if possible. It's surreal, spiritual, an amazing place. People who work on the site deserve a lot of credit & I love hearing the different theories. The truth be known there's no written records of its construction & we are clueless to what it really was & what it meant. Too many theories of any mysterious ancient buildings are labelled as tombs or sacrifice places of worship. It's always the same thing. I personally believe we need to start looking at the places from a totally different point of view. We in our arrogance always try & fit narratives to cultures & places from our views of things. It's what we think they should be like. It's ridiculous the cultures & people's who built these structures were nothing like us. We couldn't be more different so how the hell can we look at these places like they were created by an older version of us?

[robinhooper]

This is for Parker Pearson, Andrew Young, Bruce Bradley, Mike Pitts and the the teams involved. Oh, and the videographer team.
Just my two bits worth on how the stones were moved. I would look into the elevation of the river bed compared to the entrance or the end of the channel. If my suspicion is correct they also used buoyancy to transport the stones, as well as the fir/oak channels that you just used as guide rails, complete with the 75mm round ball stones. The round ditch was also filled with water to facilitate positioning before erecting them. But I'm a cabinet maker. Just something to chew on. Great documentary.
I would also like to interject my take on the Summer and Winter solstices, but relative to the alignment of the great Pyramid. With polished limestone on each face, this would reflect our Suns' light in a triangular shape at a specific angle and a specific location into space. Much like a lighthouse would. Again, Thanks for the Great documentary.

[virginiafry]

I went there in 1965 when it was not fenced off - magical to walk under/around the stones!

[hugodesrosiers-plaisance]

I love Nova for exactly this kind of well-researched but still accessible material. While I do enjoy deeper university lectures about such subjects they can sometimes be a bit dry, so it's also very nice to have something more easy-going like this here. Great stuff.

[BTC_ME]

So they brought all them giant stones from wales, 150 miles away? that's mind blowing. it would be nice if it was reconstructed back to how it used to be.

[balf]

Amazing how any ancient artefacts you have to dig to discover them. Yet stone henge is sat perfectly on top of a freshly mowed field.

[stuartrooksby]

Despite the excess of adverts - although by today's sorry standards these are relatively few and mercifully brief - this is a good narrative, well spoken and thoughtfully researched giving a good informative and comprehensive scientific account of this famously enigmatic monument's origins. PBS mostly does a very good job... no hype, no myopic traditions aired here. Congratulations and thanks.

[pt]

In this show, Parker Pearson does not mention that the animals in the feasting pits came from Scotland. Nor does he mention the Ring of Brodgar in the Orkneys, built hundreds of years before Stonehenge. Because perish the thought that the English would need to admit that this iconic monument might have been built by people who originally came from Scotland.

[neilhobson]

I’ve driven past it quite a few times. It’s so easy to miss.

[stuartrooksby]

In the late 19th century Stonehenge was opened as a type of quarry where the landowner hired hammers and chisels to paying guests to break and tranport away as much as they required at a price. The site was finally prototected, but a huge amount has been broken up and carried away and lost. Access to the monumement was, in the 50s fully accessible and as children we played on the stones, thinking it a very magical and mysterious place.

[als]

I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this program. fascinating insights and discoveries, thank you for producing and a huge thanks to all the researchers and students that made this effort work!

[rotwe]

Stonehenge may also be part of the ancient beliefs of holed stones having healing properties. A form of a healing centre for the sick. Holed stones were often used by ancient people with ailments to pass through the hole of any large stone, believing they would be healed like a rebirth. Comparing it to the natural birth of an infant. Much like entrances of ancient churches of Ireland, Scotland and other places that were considered obscene because of symbolic carvings that have long since been removed.

[roytonkin]

Thank you for this great documentary. Hope to see a few more like this.

[daveyr]

Well, for a American production that was well done I thought! Much of the footage has been on UK TV off and on but it was well presented here as a whole :) ……thank you.

[bellebelle]

I drive past here on a regular basis to get my food shop it’s insane to think people travel all over the world to see these rocks