Adam M Ibbotson 🏺

A dale*

🌟 Top Farm, Yockenthwaite, Yorkshire Dales 🌟
The quintessential English countryside aesthetic. And a fantastic subject for testing out my new camera!
#photography #England #Countryside #landscape

PLEASE check out the brilliant WC21’s new YouTube video. 💫

The first person to publish some up-close footage of England’s newest scheduled prehistoric monument: Dudderhouse Hill Long Cairn:

LINK: youtu.be/7ygMbZyaYPw?...

#archaeology #YouTube

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Glorious place, and lovely photos!

Funnily enough, my data doesn't include cursus monuments yet!

I'll give it a tidy and send it your way.

Happy to share the shapefile if you’re interested. I also have henges, causewayed enclosures, stone circles, etc.

My figure based on multiple sources and records. It’s partial, as there are still plenty left to find.

I also think it’s cultural. But some also think it’s geologically determined.

Not badly drawn squatting man Toby, but a precise depiction of plasmatic light emission…

And that game is suitably prehistoric.

For context, the “renowned theory” is comparing stick figures to light emission outlines hahaha. 👐🏼 Bonkers.

(It also looks like the bottom side of my dog, a road kill lizard, or someone squatting on a big stick.)

#archaeology

Yes, it’s fabulous, and where I took many of the Dales points on the map from.

I imagine every upland in Northern England has as many. They just haven’t been plotted yet!

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And this is a long barrow - the same thing but made of earth (simply put).

These are long cairns, by the way. Big slug-shaped burial monuments dating to the Early Neolithic - 3800-3200BC.

Distribution map of Neolithic ‘long barrows’ and ‘long cairns’ across northern England. 🤔

What do you notice?

#archaeology #prehistory

“To Adam, the use of AI generated text in scripts isn’t simply annoying, it’s demoralising.”

^ once you see this silly sentence structure used at least twice, you can be 99% certain something is AI generated.

Perfect

I'm doing the old-school tradition of a YouTuber Q&A to celebrate hitting 20,00 subscribers 🥂
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To boost the amount of questions I get - please ask some on here (I insist). About anything I may know / have opinions on!
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#YouTube #archaeology

I'm doing the old-school tradition of a YouTuber Q&A to celebrate hitting 20,00 subscribers 🥂
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To boost the amount of questions I get - please ask some on here (I insist). About anything I may know / have opinions on!
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#YouTube #archaeology

The curious case of 'Greystone Rock'... 🤔

A big boulder sitting within the grounds of Harewood House, above Leeds. On its side facing the valley to the north, is a panel of rock art - which looks Neolithic Irish to me 🫢

#archaeology #megalithic #StandingStoneSunday

Comparison between Levens Park Ring Cairn in Cumbria (LEFT) and the Shaw Cairn, east of Manchester (RIGHT)

Both are likely Early Bronze Age, and appear to be a style of burial monument unique to northwest England. 🤔

#archaeology #prehistory @boothicus.bsky.social @stefanmilo.bsky.social

Both following excavation, now largely buried.

Comparison between Levens Park Ring Cairn in Cumbria (LEFT) and the Shaw Cairn, east of Manchester (RIGHT)

Both are likely Early Bronze Age, and appear to be a style of burial monument unique to northwest England. 🤔

#archaeology #prehistory @boothicus.bsky.social @stefanmilo.bsky.social

COMING SUNDAY 5pm - A video on the potential Irish origin of Stonehenge, and its associated monuments! 😎
#YouTube #prehistory #archaeology

Sunday! - Irish origins of Stonehenge

Could well be nonsense. Especially since it’s a cropped image!

The so-called ‘Loki Stone’, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria 😮

It shows a bound figure (possibly the Norse god Loki) on a cross shaft, symbolising evil overcome by Christ... c. 800-950 AD.

#archaeology #viking #christian #church #history

Any idea what this random plant is I found in my M&S parsley?? 🤔

My iPhone is telling me it’s Nightshade!

Goggleby Stone, Shap, Cumbria. One of the fourteen remaining stones that originally formed part of a 2.5km stone avenue, that up until the 18th century was considered comparable to Avebury.
#StandingStoneSunday #Cumbria @adamibbotson.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social

Addleborough, a prominent hill in Wensleydale, has an Early Bronze Age tomb on it. 💫
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A few of the stones are feature Neolithic rock art, showing possible reuse. The valley isn't known to have any other major rock art 🤔
#TombTuesday #archaeology #Yorkshire #travel