@cgledhill: This site is so close to London yet few people visit. There’s a car park with space for just 6 cars! It could well be the oldest site in England. This site was already 1000 years old when they were building stone henge! #History #historytok #ancienthistory #exploring #pagan
Love the dumb comments, probably from Christians and other twits
2025-11-03 11:54:20
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SSish0 :
There is a rich Celtic history if we choose to listen. We spend so much time in school learning about the Romans and Greeks but not enough about our prehistoric and Bronze Age history. So much archeological evidence has been found over the last 30 years we need to update general public understanding. I know it’s easier to go with the Roman’s documentation and structures but I think we’ve moved beyond that now, yeah?
2025-11-02 12:45:42
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Princess@47 :
But still they weren’t built by English people. The distant ancestors of the people who built Britain’s long barrows were African by origin, even if tens of thousands of years separated them from Africa by that point. By the time of the long barrows (around 3800 BCE):
Britain was populated by Neolithic farmers whose ancestors had come from the Near East (Anatolia, modern-day Turkey), moving through southern Europe into Britain.
Genetically and culturally, they were descendants of earlier African migrants
Still, it’s important to recognize that this Near Eastern farming population originally developed agriculture and megalithic traditions that can be traced back to North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean in deep prehistory. Stone monuments appear across Africa (like Nabta Playa in southern Egypt, older than Stonehenge).
These show that monumental stone traditions existed in Africa before or alongside those in Europe.
It’s not impossible that shared human ideas like honoring ancestors with large stone structures spread widely over time, carried by migrations, stories, or parallel invention. And it’s fair to say that African innovation and early human culture laid the foundation for all later human civilizations including those that built in Britain.
2025-11-05 00:29:49
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Lisa Purple :
yes post another video.. i qant to learn more please
2025-11-02 11:57:02
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Mark :
the pyramids are over 12,000 years old
2025-11-02 18:17:56
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Chris :
I don't understand how the ribbons are still in the tree after 6,000 years? Wouldn't they just blow away?
2025-11-03 20:31:33
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TheDarkHistoryHub :
This is me. Every day off you’ll find me wandering around ancient sites and graveyards. TikTok really helps you find your people! Thanks for sharing, so interesting, love your content
2025-11-02 17:49:17
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fnamryjld2s :
Great videos. Who actually built this structure? What deity was worshipped?
2025-11-02 13:23:50
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Rellimarual :
This was built in the Stone Age, and Druids did not emerge until the Iron Age, so it was not built by Druids, just as Stonehenge was not built by Druids
2025-11-03 13:53:19
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Johnny Mac :
There’s a lot of long barrows in the West Country. The British Isles has been inhabited for around 10k years. There are a lot of mysterious sites around.
2025-11-02 22:41:32
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ZeldaGirl799 :
i wonder if many remains were found in that area before people knew it was a burial mound.
2025-11-02 17:50:16
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eliseo :
In Sardinia we have something similar called tombe dei giganti, were used in the Bronze Age by the Nuragic civilisation as communal burial site, shaped as a semicircle facing the solstice.
2025-11-03 10:18:49
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oldromantic67 :
It’s good to see there are people still connecting with their ancient history and thank you for enlightening us
2025-11-02 12:00:26
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Tray :
this is only an hour from me! I may have to make a day trip
2025-11-02 17:57:15
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Jay :
It's nothing to do with the druids. The site pre-dates them by thousands of years.
2025-11-02 17:21:43
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Tilbury cast stone :
is it aligned with any stars ? or solstices? .
2025-11-02 16:42:57
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thebellmaster :
Okay so I live 15 mins from here and didn’t know it existed until now!!! I love your content!
2025-11-11 08:14:28
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therapiesbyeileen :
fascinating
2025-11-02 16:16:06
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ExcellentSword :
I like Wayland’s Smithy in Oxfordshire. It’s more intact than this one. I bet there are loads across the country.
2025-11-03 13:08:45
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Opescuseme :
The Neolithic left it, and another civilization used it 200 years later. What do you think those second people thought the barrow was? Did they see it like we see Stonehenge? Or was it a graveyard everyone knew about but no one touched
2025-11-06 03:49:21
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PopsaLopsa :
Inspiring ancestor energy!
2025-11-02 12:04:33
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eweforever :
Wow- when you compare to the pyramids and Stonehenge
2025-11-02 14:55:32
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