Stonehenge ...Does It Hold Water?

[gogogeedus]

I think it is logical to think that stone henge had a practical use because human being's first priority has always been survival and everything else is a secondary consideration and that is the way we should look at stone henge ,we need to consider if it had a practical use first,

In my opinion it was a grain store.the stones helped support a wooden roof that covered an ant hill of grain.and the ditch around the out side was a mote to keep rodents out.

But maybe it was a water tank,plausible!

[WaterHenge]

@gogogeedus I am Gaus from Gaus212 but I answer you from this channel so you can find my video easily its the only video here, in the video I explain how I thought it was a grain silo and how I got to water tank…:-)

[roro879]

REEEEEEETTTTAAAARRRRDDDDEEEDDD­DDD!!!!!!!

[Gaus212]

@roro879 And what is your non REEEEEEETTTTAAAARRRRDDDDEEEDDD­­DDDed IDEA IS? I bet U don't have one :-)

[roro879]

@Gaus212 Yep,its a fixture for landing spaceships on,IDK sorry I was such an asshole haha

[commandodoy]

o way it was made for that why make it to put water in??? if it was a water tank then why was people get berried there

[elbazart]

This is ridiculous. If they wanted a water reservoir, would it not be easier to just dig a huge pit in the ground and pave it with bricks or something?

A lot easier than hauling huge stones from miles and miles away, isn't it?

[gdnit420]

thats gay

[DirtCheap]

Sorry but this has to be the worst idea i have seen about what they were used for. There is inner and outer blocks ( that you left out ) as well as the main middle blocks that you used for your idea. With the inner and outer blocks this idea makes absolutely no sense.

[youbriggs]

i dont think that is plausible. for starter's thats alot of work for one water tank. and nothing else adds up. i think you will be suprised when or if we ever find the real reason for stonehenge

[Gaus212]

@youbriggs A water tank at a time when the only income was tin production & tin extraction needs a lot of water & water was seeping & being wasted was not a lot of work but necessary work did I mention that tin was needed to make bronze bronze was most important cause there was no steel & one could get tin only in 2 spots in Europe Spain & south western England & even today if one stars a house in these parts the British gov wants one to te3st for tin mining residue IE mercury ,It all adds up

[youbriggs]

@Gaus212 a water tank? come on! why when they just dug dams and made wells there is even a natural spring in the region.

[kprofscrts]

@Gaus212 sorry dude, i m pretty sure it was a stoneage still. copper came before tin

[Who2Are1You]

This comment is gonna be completely irrelevant, but this dude sounds JUUUUSSSSSST like Triumph the Insult Dog. 3% of the viewers will know what the hell I'm talking about.

[Gaus212]

@Who2Are1You You watch too much Conan :-)

[Who2Are1You]

@Gaus212 I'm glad you know what I'm talking about. All jokes aside, this makes a lot of sense. This makes the MOST sense.

[Gaus212]

dum ass] !? ...Dont be a wanker [altair3agle]

WATER ?????YES!!!!!!!!!!!

DUDE THEY HAD WELLS dum ass

NO THEY DIDNT !!!

The region is one big block of chalk & other soft rocks such as sandstone limestone,Soft for a rock but one still needs a tunnel boring machine (TBM) to dig it ...they were invented back in 20th century not in 500BC, yet due to normal ground movements cracks & fissures are cheated which lets the trapped underground water to surface,.it is called a SPRING DUDE!

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[Gaus212]

When one finds of them Springs up the hill one will always coral it to the best of his ability and with what ever material he has at hand ... in this case they used White Chalk , Whitestone, Cosheston Bluestone , Sarsen stone ...[continued

[Gaus212]

...some they found locally & some they ferried or slid on snow from outside and you think they did all that to build a calendar? No my friend! Only a [dum ass] would do that or perhaps quacks like Stanley Hawkins who believed in absolute nonsensical view of every thing, & yet sadly it is his absurd view that lingers until today ...please stop believing & start discovering for your self mate:-)

[theczechfamous]

Why would people need extra water? Sailsbury Plain is set on chalk and limestone with large underground resevoirs of under-ground water. It is also a long way from Cornwall. This sounds like a solution for living in the desert rather than temperate fertile southern England.

[WaterHenge]

Dear The famous Czech

Yes Salisbury plain is sitting on a water reservoir, as you may know water is by far the most valuable commodity all over the world but its worthless if it runs from cracks in the ground and gets wasted or evaporates so people world over try to harness it any witch way they can so it can be used at a control manner please [watch my video dzWeqKvi5ho] specially if it help them in other ways like tin mining

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[WaterHenge]

[[[Why order a Tin Mining Search?

A tin mining search will establish whether the property is at risk from subsidence caused by old mine workings. Tin and copper mining was concentrated in the south west of England, so a tin mining search should be considered for properties in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.]]] This is from a local British business sit in UK ands Somerset is adjacent to Wiltshire which contains both Salisbury plain and Stonehenge its easy to conclude

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[WaterHenge]

That the water tower called Stonehenge was primarily utilized for tin mining please note that since shows tin mining was scattered all over south western part of UK perhaps if none is found within 20 Km of Stonehenge is because they depleted the stuff in a industrial scale and the modern evidence supports my theory of westward movement of the mining industry till the closer of last one in South Crofty Redruth in Cornwall only recently

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[WaterHenge]

You are Czech? I was in Praha long time ago and my brother was born there look at his Fiat with Czech Republic tags on the back of my Camaro - 6H0-1C29LA4

Thanks for the constructive comment

Best regards

Gaus

[LinkBlink]

@theczechfamous There is one factor you forget, just like in Egypt when the Pyramids where built the land was fertile & lush, rivers flowed very close to its location. There were farms everywhere but man over farmed the land (read about the Dust Bowl in America). So now there is hardly a River left in fact there is only a Desert now. Perhaps 5,000 years ago where Stonehenge lays there was once a desert or less fertile land. Lots of things change in thousands of years.

[antixone1]

yeah sure.....and the inside stones are lifegaurd towers.

idiot

[Gaus212]

idiot? is that what you are [antixone1] ? I hope not!

Yes this was a water tank used for tin mining purposes period!

if you want to know more the please ask politely The only idiot is the one who follows the herd in their thinking regardless of logic...

NO STONEHENGE IS NOT SOME SUPERNATURAL PUZZLE CREATED AS A TIMELESS WHERE IS WALDO THING!

In the ancient word there were only two places one could mine tin an important ingredient of bronze & south western UK was one of those places

Gaus

[lawlzer2themax]

you all are so ignorant, it was obviously a prehistoric bong, if u look closely at the real pictures of it, there os a hole on one of the rocks on the back side, and one hole on the front side, so they obveisly put the weed in the front hole lit it inhaled at the back whole and they dug a little tube thing around the world so tthe smoke traveled from the stonehenge to china n back again then they inhaled it, n bam a bong, this is abveious what it was meant for.

[thedarkallies]

It was built for sacrifices in the name of Satan. It's an altar, stop trying to make it into something it's not.

[Gaus212]

No my friend it absolutely was not built to be an alter although it couldve been used as one from time to time this is nothing but a utility structure for a very well known ancient industrial age called the bronze age. You see in order to make bronze one needs copper and an additive such as tin yes tin! (Tin mining is not a mystery in UK) and in order to obtain tin one needs carp loads of pressurized water, to have carp loads of pressurized water one needs a large tank full of water

[Gaus212]

perched up on a hill, to fill this tank one has to build it on a spring or glacier fed seepage hole. The last one of these plants closed way back in 2002 in Falmouth...

Oh the druid alter and the solar calendar bull crap was pumped by a handful of individuals and perhaps the British tourism bureau

A John Arberry started the druid alter thing then, Stanley Hawkins an astrologist who was paddling his book back in 60s...the book? "Stonehenge Decoded" pushed

[Gaus212]

the cosmic calendar a la solar solstices thing and some dude named Alexander Thom legitimized Hawkins bull you see mr. Thom was a professor of engineering at university of oxford... when one of them folks go quackola then watch out they use super sized slide rules their madness. Then came the three wise guys, the two over the hillers of the three who think that the Stonehenge was like an ancient perpetration H and healed every verity of pain in ones behind are

[Gaus212]

non other then professor Timothy Darvill and professor Geoff Wainwright the lather sets on more comities then senator Lieberman of Connecticut and holds more titles then boss J.D. Hogg of Hazzard County, he kind of look like him too and last but not least is the professor dirty nails himself Mike Parker Pearson although I appreciate all of his hard work and ground digging with his bare hands but the bloke missed the mark by a million solar solstice years perhaps being

[Gaus212]

a graveologist ,all one can see is dead folks , this thing that the ancients carried all these rocks to honor the dead may be even romantic for the good professor and maybe a bit lucrative too,you see he has a book called The Archaeology of Death and burial, Bronze Age Britain ...its a shame to see a man with so much knowledge , specially on the bronze age, is lacking so severely on the commonsense department ...a lot more to come...cheep cheep cheerio!

Gaus

[bugz000]

you talk as if our interpretations are dumb

yet you fail to see that these people we are investigating were never as smart as us, they were never as sophisticated.

i mean, it took man thousands of years to find out a wheel rolls... you think they would be able to make a huge tank?

then explain why theres a wooden henge up rivver, and a mini henge by the rivver also

and why it was built on a DRY LAKE BED.

[WaterHenge]

My friend you are confused, we the humans evolved millions of years ago but people of 5000 years ago were not dumber then you & I in other words your great grandpa was not stupid this idea is unfortunately was promoted by colonial powers that if you dont have steam engines then you are less then human so you can be abused...but that didnt stop them from putting their own ancestors in that same category you see you are probably tolled that the civilized world started by Greeks & Romans

[WaterHenge]

but the truth is there was a thriving wonderful world existed out side of Rome & Greece & they still do allover the world build oversize things as they did 10000 years ago...let me ask you something, a few years ago I was asked by your Boots The Chemist to design certain high-tech fixtures for all their stores...how come they didnt ask a Brit like say Mike Parker Pearson, to do the job... is it that us yanks are smarter then the Brits? No! As you say HORSES FOR COURSES

[WaterHenge]

it was I that could do that job the best at the time with the resources available... That was true thousands of years ago also, not everyone could build these large thing but a few creative & determined individuals like Imhotep of ancient Egypt or the bunch of Canadian architects who are helping to build the skyline of Dubai could.

My friend your people have a wonderfully rich history if you are willing to leave the Greco-Roman history to Greco-Romans...

[WaterHenge]

Oh, who tolled you when was the wheel invented? It probably was invented by creative people thousands of times in thousands of places as it was needed but unfortunately they failed to make a sketch of it on a stone so that the good Dr. Mike Parker Pearson could find it and conclude that these people loved to pray to round things like the Stonehenge and the wheel...

[WaterHenge]

of course they prayed real loud in a absolutely gibberish language which only can be understood by the good doctor since he probably composed it...

Please look at the bronzehenge blogspot... on the right of this video time to time cause I will add Stonehenge related stuff from time to time

[dmerry666]

tin comes from rock that hold it and slow get broken down and found in river beds valleys and ocean floors close to shores (LOOK IT UP)

[Gaus212]

Cornwall is the name for the long peninsula type of land mass adjacent to Stonehenge & it has been producing tin for at least 6000 years ...yes tin can be found in revers but it comes from earths core via vertical vanes and there ar 100s of mines allover this area

but to take the tin from ore one must smelt it ,in order to do that one must pulverize it to a powder to do that one needs a powerful grinding mill that can be used periodically as needed to do that one needs a large reservoir

[Gaus212]

...To fill the reservoir one needs to build it as near as possible to the mine( one does not always find a water source & mineshaft at the same place)

A lot more to com and please (LOOK IT UP) the new blog I have just created(Top Of Page)

its far from complete but as you'll ask questions or invite a challenge(AS U DID :-) ...I will add to it

Thanks for your interest and please feel free to comment again...

Gaus :-)

[bugz000]

no, they recently did huge excavations on the site and it turns out the people who lived there used it as a MONUMENT to the dead, like a giant gravedtone

further up river (in those days, rivvers were highways) theres a wooden henge, and wood is living, thus life, and this is the monument for LIFE!

nothing to do with druid paganism or um... weed? O_O

seriously, look it up

i watched the program myself, it was very intresting :D

[WaterHenge]

My friend, this video was lanced tow hours before the launch of that NatGeo documentary 7 it is made in 1005 rebuttal to it what it is you want me to look up...

Because on TV National geo always said according to professor Mike Parker Pearson not according to the source I am working on this site & others for the past 12 years 7 I dont see a civilization of Dr. parker wannabes, but a colony of miners tin miners with their distinct culture & laws,

[WaterHenge]

some of which was carried on tell as recently as late 19th century mostly to govern miners in Cornwall & beyond Please look at the bronzehenge blogspot... on the right

[theonlydankohout]

learn some damn grammar

[Gaus212]

Who! A newbie:-)

Okay newbie, you should make your point on a video based on context not grammar unless the subject is English 101

We forgo grammar & spelling for sake of making a point or two in a limited given space

Ps. STONEHENGE WAS A WATER TANK NOT A SUPER SIZE CALENDAR sorry if I am messing with your belief system...I truly am sorry , I don't even know how to express my discomfort for pointing you towards the obvious

Grammar is a tool for sheepizing & de- creativeization of man:)

[fox408]

i have just watched national geographic's stonehenge decoded, and like you, i was very disapointed with this continuing theme of a cemetary! the builders of stonehenge were an incredibly sophisticated people, not a bunch of savages running around grunting and weeping, as national geographic would have us believe! ...i think your angle on its true purpose holds a lot more water (hehe!)than theirs! ...keep up the good work!

[Gaus212]

Thanks for the comment and please check my new channel on you tube called WaterHenge which is dedicated mostly to this subject although its at the beginning but please watch "dzWeqKvi5ho"

and as I find time I will add on more info any comment or link to more information and resources are welcome

Reguards

Gaus

[paulscape72]

Interesting theory. You have to wonder why so many people theorize so many ancient structures are 'for the dead' when clearly most of our modern day mega-structures are built for extraordinarily practical reasons such as irrigation and transport. Hoover dam, Yangtze river dam, golden gate bridge etc. If our ancients built megastyructures just for the dead, why dont we still do it?

[paulscape72]

That said its astronomical purpose is still very valid as astronomy was critical to their functional existence, more so than burying their dead was - just like today. We spend more on atom smashers and atomic development than cemetaries and its plausable it was not much different in our past. Survival in the real world is ultimately more important than survival in the afterworld (although religion would like to con you towards the opposite ;))

[psuedosurfer]

That would be in my opinion the influence or imposed ethos of monotheistic religions predisposition towards fear of death,or rather the taboo aspect of thinking and feelings towards it.

To much emphasis is placed on the larger outer or later stones and not the inner

"blue stones" those are i believe the ones that are intrinsically curious.

All things considered,we do not these days see the wonder or great mystery of life as a part of ourselfs, we view "us" as seperate

from all around us.

[Gaus212]

please watch my next Stonehenge video called

"Stonehenge Decoded...Does It Hold "HOT"Water?"

[h20wet]

Don't be too upset by this but you are a complete fruit cake. The sooner you seek professional psycological help the better. Thank goodness no one will take you seriously

[Gaus212]

Fruitcake? I like that, no not the pastry...just the fact that I got under your skin.

On the other hand a bit of fruitiness goes a long way, just look at the viewership of this video compared to hundreds of very somber on location ones and I don't have a naked girl in the aboveground pool, sorry The Stonehenge...my bad but I think it might just work one with a wet T-shirt ...

[h20wet]

I think you are just slightly off, if this is what stonehenge was built for it would be like using a sledge hammer to crack a nut. Even if your theory did hold water (sorry) we have ask why?.Very few people lived there and as far as I am aware the glaciers did not extend that far south stopping in Derbyshire some 200 miles North of Stonhenge. It would not be too hard for your theory to be proved/disproved by archaeologists. I think the mystery will continue.Why solve it anyway?

[Gaus212]

Although I am taking a fun approach towards this project but know this! It is very serious matter not only for learning the ancient history but avoiding a possible manmade disaster that we all are in the process of causing again...

You see it was a combination of human activity and earth's natural cycles that some how did not agree with one another, which might have caused the melting of the poles, which as a result a forced pole shift

[Gaus212]

which moved north pole from north America to is present location in a relatively short period of time, lets say about 10,000 years ago, to 5000 years ago "a more accurate date will be known after a thorough studying of these ancient water towers or pools and the surrounding terrain and seatrain by geologist and other non romantic professionals"

The speedy pole shift, in turn put a lot of stress on the earth's crust and the earth went though a series of cataclysmic disasters.

[Gaus212]

..and a lot more to come my friend, but in the meantime I think the southern England was a very dynamic and complex geologic location back then, and that's where the mystery lays...was Stonehenge a cold water reservoir fed by ancient aquifers or by seasonal snowmelt (it snowed a lot there back then) or perhaps a hot water bath fed by volcanic activity deep underground not unlike Iceland or Japan hey perhaps just like Bath the city in

[Gaus212]

Somerset in the south west of England not to far north of Stonehenge...

Bath is a city In the valley of the River Avon "same as Stonehenge" around naturally-occurring hot springs where the Romans built baths and a temple and now boasts as Britain's only natural thermal spa...

[Gaus212]

Perhaps the Stonehenge was not a cold water spring after all but a volcanic hot water spring just like the one slightly up north

So you may be right.. but no mysteries sorry!

Just logical problem to be solved...pure and simple