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Okay so hello everybody welcome to the origins conference 2017 so we're going to start

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with something quite big today. Giants, Giants skeletons that have been found all across

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mainly Britain but we're going to veer into a couple of other countries as well. This

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is really part of something I've been interested in probably what six or seven years

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myself and Jim Vieira who's speaking later, come off the book Giants on record but one

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of the most fascinating books I've ever read about Giants is the 1978 book called

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Sowers of Thunder by Anthony Roberts some of you knew him of course from the

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70s and 80s he was a Glester Ferry and the idea of Sowers of Thunder and its

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relationship to Giants really fascinates me I just want to give you a quick outline of

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Anthony's ideas about Giants and the ideas of Sowers of Thunder and what it really

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means and it really is about when the graves of Giants were disturbed it would

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bring on lightning and thunder as they were cursed it was placed on these giant

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burials it suggests a supernatural power that these ancient Giants once had. Sometimes

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if you dig these graves and these storms happen bad luck and even death and the

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family could happen. It also was connected to how these Giants were answered his

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work and it was how these Giants connected with the landscape the geomithic landscape

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he called it working with earths natural energies to bring fertility and

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an adjustment to the landscape which was a theme that John Michele also worked with

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who was one of his contemporaries but it's also about the curses and about the

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storms which was really fascinating because we know that some stone circle sites

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for instance which actually feature in my stone circle was book when they were

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disturbed by excavators and obliterators they would often bring on storms and

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thunder and lightning so bad that they had to stop working they wouldn't dare

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disturb the stones again some accounts for whales are really interesting we're

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going to have a look at some examples in here that storm was even break out when

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Giants were being buried so not only when they were being disturbed from their

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restful burial but also when they were being buried themselves. Anthony Roberts

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born in 1940 died on top of Glastonbury tour in 1990 fascinating I never knew

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in myself but I've kind of been following his work I've all his books and

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pamphlets and I'm pretty much obsessed by the so-as of thunder book and it's

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really the inspiration for the continuation of my Giants research with Jim

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Viera. Jim and I are involved in a show called Search for the Lost Giants which

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really started Jim and his brother Bill and this was on the history channel back

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in late 2014 it was pretty popular and there's going to be other TV shows

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stemming from that but not all about Giants about ancient sites and mysteries of

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the stones as well but one of the problems we have with the Giants is these

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photographs that we see all over the internet now unfortunately every single one

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of these they may be very compelling they've repaired in books they've even

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appeared on TV shows or websites everything you can think of unfortunately

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every single one of these is a hoax created mainly in a Photoshop competition

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from 2002 online so this is one of the problems we're dealing with as serious

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geontologists is dealing with hoaxes and dealing with disinformation and also

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dealing with skeptics because there's really little evidence to go on here but

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today I'm not going to try and prove to you the Giants existed in Britain I'm

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going to just give you an outline of the foundation stories of Britain and

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their relationship to Giants with about probably 50 examples of giant skeletons

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that have been found throughout this land from a prehistoric times it's said in

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Wales at the first name of the island we now call Britain it was not Albian it

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was mere dinners precinct the much of a pronounced that correctly basically

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Merlin's precinct and it was from the Welsh text called the white book of

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Rydirk and I'm not sure if I pronounced that correctly either this was even

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before it was populated it had this name it's almost as if Merlin was seen

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a sunk some kind of god of the Isles before he appeared in the later stories of

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Jeffrey of Mom and Obers but it's also he's connected with Giants and sometimes

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he's even referred to as a giant in many of the ancient Welsh texts and in

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some of the traditions but some say the first inhabitants of Britain connected

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possibly with Merlin were descendants of Norris Sun Ham you came from Africa

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around 4,000 years ago other versions state that Norris Sun Jepeth had arrived

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even earlier but the lineage is always connected with Giants or at least

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descendants of Giants in chronicles of England Scotland and Ireland by a

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Raphael Holland shed he describes a legendary prehistoric giant called Albian

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he made his way to the island up to be embanished from his home land in Greece

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it was begotten by the sea god whom the Greeks called Poseidon or the Romans

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called Neptune now after defeat in the already existing culture with clever

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strategy and brilliant feats of arms. Holies shed also stated that Albian and

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the Giants were set for a gradually consolidated air position in Britain

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ruling the land for potentially hundreds of years and he was one of the

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classic antiquarian images we have of the Giants building

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megalithic sites is actually from the book Megalithomania by John Michelle from 1982

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after the long reign Albian went to the south of France he's just a couple of

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examples of Maxwell giant skeletons that are reported in this part of France

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and it was in a place called Gould at the time to help his army defeat

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hercules this was apparently the last of the ten labours of hercules and what

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it was strangely to fetch a unique herd of cattle they came under attack by

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hercules and the lugurians living near the mouths of the Rome try to take the

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cattle away and were led by two other sons of the god Poseidon but Albian had

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warning over clash and arrived to help but to ensure winning hercules

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summoned his father Zeus and showers of stones fell from the sky and these were

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used as weapons against Albian and the Giants and they were all completely

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defeated this is according to this particular tradition but there's an

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archetypal form of Albian which which held strong and the inspirational works of

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William Blake saw to it that Albian was a key symbol in the spiritual nature of

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Britain that was succumbing to Christian beliefs with the druids and

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megalithic sites being remembered and not dismissed by this new Christian

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uprising Albian seems to represent the last remnants of wisdom of the line of

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Noah Anthony Roberts wrote, giant Albian became a total archetype both for a

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primal magical conception from the collective unconscious and for a vision of

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his energizing image running across the surface of the sacredly realised

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topography the giant race of Britain a giant race of the Britain are set to

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have continued for 600 or more years although this could be much longer it could

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be representing thousands of years and they ended up mainly according to some

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traditions in the south west tip of Cornwall this was until Brutus and the

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Trojans arrived but others say they ended up in Wales as well as we'll see

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from some of the world traditions but interestingly Albian the name of Britain

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may not have come from the giant Albian which many people think it may have

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actually come from a Greek giant test called Albina who originated in Greece

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and this is an image of her and some giants in the background in the

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Chronicles of Britain written by John DeWavron between 151445 and 1455 they

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relate to a time of Jehe in the third judge of Israel after Joshua and Lady

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Albina Albina and sisters came to and settled in the islands of what was

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called Alb, they named Albian after her another version of Cese was a very

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tall and beautiful girl and so she potentially a giant jeans a father a

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mother also described as taller than average and a father was set to a

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real gold grease for 3970 years ago before this book all these writings were

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done it was an Anglo-Norman poem one version states that a father was the king of

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Syria but basically he had 33 what he could wicked daughters and to subdue them

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he arranged for 33 husbands to you know take care of them and so on and so

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forth but they decided to plot against her father and the husbands and slid all

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their throats and then they were taken to poor and a father summoned them and to

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be banished from the land and they were sent to this island in the far north

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west which was Britain and they were set at Rift and they went on many

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adventures with the assistance of demons they populated the wild wind

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slept winds swept islands of Britain and created a race of giants and we'll

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come on to that in a moment so it's quite a kind of convoluted different myths and

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traditions here but the more we look into this we more we find echoes of

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potential truth in the historical record now these were called the demonic

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incubi who kind of appeared occasionally out of nowhere and they would then mate

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with the 33 wicked daughters who be banished and they were disappearing again

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these incubi and their offspring were giants can a ballistic giants in

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fact this is not dissimilar to the stories we have with the Neffelin and the

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watches and how the Neffelin became these unruly cannibalistic giants after

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meeting the female's mate with the watches so we do find echoes of the Old

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Testament here as well in the book of Enok so there are strange

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connections here which we'll look into more as we go through the talk but even

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after they gave birth to this new giant race in the lands of now called

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Albuy and after Albuy and in the court into this tradition there were no

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men to part of the sisters so they had to breed with their own sons of an

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appropriate age of course and the daughter is bred with the brothers and this

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continued this lineage of very large statute offspring who became very unruly

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an extremely cannibalistic and started over taking the land and you know

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this is as echoes of these stories recorded from some giant bones that were

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being found in the 1400s so he's just one example from an Anglo-North script by

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a writer called Barber they're talking about huge bones which can be found in

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many places throughout the world evidence for this and I'll let you read that

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yourself but it basically gives a description of huge skeletons reported in the

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1400s and the giants were once hideous to look at because evil spirits had

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begotten them their fathers were devils and their mothers were tall and well

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built they were just the children you would expect from such a union so there you

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go and that this so called fairy race multiplied as bred across the land

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the built great cyclopia walls, domines, earthen ditches and the like they

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preferred mountains and hills or high places much like we get with the

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Nephilim and the watches and the biblical giants and they could dominate

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their territory and be safe from attack and from the time of the arrival of Albuy

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and to the arrival of Brutus some tradition say it was 260 years which is an

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interesting astronomical number or even 600 years depending on different

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versions it could well have been thousands of course and eventually they

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reduced the number battling between themselves and about 24 this is a

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specific number were left in Cornwall and one of these giants was called Gogg Magogg

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which will come on to in a moment but in the world traditions the giants also

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survived there as well and so there's different traditions in different parts of the

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British Isles and then we have obviously a Geoffrey of Montmese history of the

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Kings and Britain which is a fascinating book in its own right whether it's partly

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fiction and partly based on actual traditions or even fact historical facts

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has been under debate for nearly a thousand years it was written in the 1100s

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but according to that hundreds of years after the giants have populated the

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island Brutus the great grandson of the Trojan hero NES

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slummy made his way to Albuy and with his men fleeing from the ruins of Troy after

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defeat by the Greeks and settled here due to its beauty and fruitfulness and this

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is where they say the name Britain came from Brutus and things like this but

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during his trials and tribulations of his epic journey before arriving they got

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got us down a spoke to him in a dream inspiring his destiny to reach Albuy and

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this is what she said to him in the dream beyond the realms of gold but

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neither sunset lieth and island are burnt about by ocean guarded by ocean earth

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the heart of giants so this is you know this is the classic story of the giants

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battling with the Trojan as they arrived aware the origination of this Geoffrey

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of Montmese history is but came from his whole other story people are really not

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sure about this there were different versions there's a book written in the

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ninth century by then in many years there was a monk from Wales and he was

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writing about similar stories and collecting them at an earlier time but there

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were different versions probably from druidic and other traditions that were

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passed down through generations as well apparently they arrived on the south

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coast of Trojan sailed up the river Dara and disembarked a top-ness he was

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where Brutus stepped ashore on a sacred rock and pronounced here I am and here I

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rest and this town shall be called top-ness especially the people there

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really like that story but there's even a stone there not much left of it now

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you can see that in the image which has been sort of broken and trimmed pretty

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much to fit on the pathway but this is quite an intriguing story in itself

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having like a moot stone or a ting site at this particular spot where laws and

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other things were given out from but after scaring off the remaining giants and

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launched the regular attacks on them the lamb was then divided up by the

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Trojan Carinius and he was given the south-west area of Cornwall to rule

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named after himself there was no indication that they were willing to learn from

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the giants or respect their culture in any way and the Xanthony Roberts

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points out got from a god represent at the first patriot in recorded British

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history trying to protect the land and his people from invaders and he

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kind of enjoyed strangely wrestling with the giants Carinius it's great

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warrior he enjoyed wrestling with giants I mean who wouldn't I mean what a great

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pastime and there were quite a few there was supposedly 24 left or there was

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more according to some people but more than there was a particular repulsive one

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called Gogma Gog who was said to be 12 feet tall however other chronicles say he

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was 12 cubits tall and this was making between 18 and 20 feet tall and he

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was described as being so strong that he could uproot an oak tree and shake it

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like a hazel wand and and originally his name was go and my god it was spout

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slightly differently only later it was refined to gogma Gogg which is probably

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due to the the biblical tradition of this of these names Gog and Magog. Anyway

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the ferocious giants did a secret attack on Carinius's camp and killed 20 of his

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men this turned out to an all-out battle and it became a lot pretty much a

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massacre and basically Gogma Gogg was the only one left at the end of this

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battle after he decided Brutus wanted Carinius to battle with Gogma Gogg

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and have one major wrestling match to decide at once and for all but you in

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the title you fall match Gogma Gogg hugged him and broke three of his ribs which

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is my half symbolic meaning he was so erased he hoisted Gogma Gogg up on his

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shoulders with superhuman strength and ran to the cliff and threw him to his

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death his body smashed into many pieces in sharp rocks and stained the water

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red that was quote so discolored with his blood as to continue tinged with it

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for a long time it's interesting in an area a demissier tackle stoke Fleming

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just west of the mouth of the river dark a very slight churning of the

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sea produces red waves which may be why this tradition suggests it was

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giants blood in the water so we have this kind of classic tradition of the

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founding of Britain basically with Trojans destroying the local giants who

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are pretty much there there are still the British so that is I find that

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absolutely fascinating there's also another interesting little story from this

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area which I found in in a book I just quote this across the water at

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tall points a small prominence we call a deadman's point an interesting

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coincidence is that a giant of the ogre's childhood in variety you

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formally enjoy the bleak reputation in the gore and havent district was

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blood to death by a widely doctor at Dodman's point so this is really

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intriguing so we have this connection with the whole Dodman story of Alfred

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Watkins and his lay hunters things like this this is just a beautiful painting

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for Eric Revilius of of from 1939's on display a while back at the Victorian

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Albert Museum so this we're finding what we're going to find is more connections

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between these giants and the way they interact with the landscape lay

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lions, GMancy and the location of ancient sites especially in relation to one

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another and they're often related to chalk hill figures obviously we have the

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long man of Wilmington here who looks like he's carrying surveying sticks with

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him and to other chalk hill physics figures that rep possibly rep

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present Gog and Magog but the cliff that he was supposedly thrown from this is

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there's different versions of this but this image I couldn't believe it when I saw

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this this is actually a reconstruction and they were actually going to create this

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about a decade ago on Plymouth home which was apparently the legendary place

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where the wrestling occurred because it was recorded in the 1986 that giant

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turf cup figure like a hill hill figure to pick the two figures we actually

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evidence here and recorded in various various books and diaries and journals

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I'm not going to go into all of those here but there's good evidence that there

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was something there and it may have represented a mark the spot where this

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was supposed to happen or at least it was created in honor of the legend of the

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giants the giant patriots of ancient Britain other traditions they stayed they

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was thrown off the cliff of a dover and where the plimmers does have the

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strongest claim because an interesting occurrence happened where a giant jawbone

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and teeth were discovered in the vicinity of where he was supposed to have been

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thrown off the cliff at 19th century folklorious was told that when the

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foundations of the citadel at plimmeth would be in dark gigantic jaws and teeth

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would discover that what identified as the bones of Gogmagoge possibly similar

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finds in earlier times gave rise to the story of a giant's death which

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would by Jeffrey attached to the legend of Brutas because of the traditional

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landing place in top-nest and so on this is from Jennifer Westwood's book

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Alibien but there are other chalk hill figures that potentially represent Gogmagoge

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this is actually on the Gogmagoge hills in Cambridge here just southeast of

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Cambridge but also it's very close to Cherichington actually where I grew up my

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school was on the Gogmagoge hills strangely enough I used to walk this area

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every day on my way to school and this was this so-called chalk hill figures

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potentially discovered in the 1950s by the very controversial daoza and

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geomantical tom left bridge but there are many traditions on these hills

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about Gogmagoge and about Giunions for example there's a search edition which

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I quote was a very large cave which was inhabited by giant and his wife a

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giant test of extraordinary statue whose names were Magoge and Magoge and

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there's Michael Draetons polyobium from the late 1500s early 1600s one and

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20th song they tell the story about how a giant fell in love with a nymph

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but however hard he tried to woo her by tempting their represence and

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changing his appearance he still rejected him and this is a whole load of

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traditions and stories relating to Giunions on these Gogmagoge hills in Cambridge

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which fascinates me because that's my kind of very original local area but

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then as I dug into the records I found that there was from 1854 in the Cambridge

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Chronicle which was the local newspaper at the time some remains of men who

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reached a greater height than ordinary men of the present day were discovered

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up on the Gogmagoge hills at cycle waterages so actual very tall skeletons

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were actually discovered there probably all these legends were talking about you

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know the people who once lived up there so I'm not going to dwell on this too

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much but there's actually a sacred spring called Magoge's Grave or the Giants

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Grave just at the base of the Gogmagoge hills and in the in the center of

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this sort of pond where this spring comes up from is an island where it's said

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that the giant Gogmagoge was actually buried there was even a strange stone there

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with might you see my foot and it's got footprint carved in it just at the

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pub and extort which is called the Rubin Hode so the Robin Hood and Little John

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and one of the little John was supposed to be a giant but the Gogmagoge

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tradition stretch all over Britain they don't end there there's a Gogmagoge trees

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in the Glaston Bridge you can see those here with me some reason pulling a

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silly pose which you'll why but then we have the Gogmagoge figures of that

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parade it's actually next Saturday around town around all around London in the

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Lord Earth in the Lord Mass parade and so the one of the stories states that

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Gogmagoge, Gogmagoge it's diversions whether he's two people or one person

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ended up in London in the Londonian and kind of created new Troy from there and

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this is where the name London came from and they were the protectors of ancient

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London and so I find that particularly interesting that London has became

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connected with Gogmagoge and they're even you know not only are they

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parade it around London at the front of the procession every November which

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we're gonna I'm gonna come to next week actually and do some filming then but

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they're actually on display other versions of them at the Gild Hall and you

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can see those here and they'd be destroyed several times in various bombings

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and things like this during the war they were burned down in the Great Fire in

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1966 they were rebuilt they were around 14 feet tall but in 1741 in the

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gigantic history of the two famous giants of Gild Hall it proclaimed a

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Korean-ness in Gogmagoge were two brave giants who originally valued that

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honour and exerted the whole strength and force and the defence of the liberty of

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the country so the city of London became the place they protected and that

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here we have versions but Korean-ness is a giant now and so all kind of gets mixed

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up but these are some of the versions you see these are these are the ones

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actually currently on display at the Gild Hall and you can kind of go and

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see them for yourself pretty much and these are the ones that pretty much

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parade it round the Lord Mayor's show but there are traditions and actual

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skeletons connected with these traditions in London now just in this next

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next page I'm just gonna let you browse that the yellow text is actual mention

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of giants but these are all from the classic book that Andrew actually introduced

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me to giants and dwarfs which is absolutely brilliant book and these are all

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from that and they all give examples of giant bones and skeletons from

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London so I'll let you browse that well I have a quick drink

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if you've read that yeah if you read that I want to test you on it later

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so it just gives you some examples of London not gonna like dwell on it too

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much because we've got quite a bit to get through here but it's not just not just

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London I mean all over Britain all over Europe in fact there were multiple

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stories and legends of giants that just go on and on and on and they're often

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which fascinates me because I'm a megallithamaniac connected with

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megalithic and ancient sites and earthworks, dolmins and things like this

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just one example stone hench the original for earliest recording name of stone

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hench was the giant's dance it was not stone hench is the later sex

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and name there's multiple giant giants graves giants he'll giant causeway and

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island the sleeping giant giants wells giants beds many many many examples

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that we find all over ancient Britain it gets kind of crazy when you start

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looking into it especially when you get into whales that's where it gets

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really shrank a strong tradition there there's lots of examples of

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giantesses a giant's apron full where they drop stones from the apron as

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they stride across the landscape in bedstrike lines this is the connection

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with lay lines and alignment and the landscape even surveying as well we have

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that too obviously all over Europe into the Bible lands it just goes on and on

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and on and on there's Nordic traditions of the ice giants the Florian's the

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fur bag of ancient island huged on Celtic tradition titans agrees the one

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ice cyclops of home is tails further afield we have the thunderous raxia

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raxia that the Indian ramiana the gigantes the Middle East and so on we have

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clearly the Bible is probably the most one of the richest places with giant

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stories there is and some of them are extremely strangely matter of fact we

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have the cannolites the Nephilim the raffi and the Anakin king Og of Bashan

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obviously David and Galaya and all these stories we have the stories of the

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Exodus Moses heading up north the further he goes north and more giants he has

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to battle with so that it just gets relentless than where you get into this and we're

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not really going to look at too much out of Britain for the rest of this talk

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I really want to focus on this particular land but it just put it in context

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there was always an ancient and very strong tradition of giants in many many

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different countries but it's actually all countries in fact around the world

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Jack the giant killer anyone see in that movie about three of you excellent

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well it's actually it's actually really quite fun movie if you like

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ridiculous movies like I do but it's quite an interesting way they've done it

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they kind of mixed Jack the giant killer with Jack and the Beanstalk which is

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actually two very different stories Jack the giant killer was a super ancient

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tradition the stretches moke is mainly down in the south western to Cornwall but

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it goes into Wales it goes in fact all over Britain in fact but then it became

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kind of a softened up when it was published in Victorian when the printing

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press was basically invented and they became fairy stories and children's

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bedtime stories they had to tone down the ultraviolence and all the killing and

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murder and actually make it into a more kind of ogreish fun story for kids and

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this is where Jack and the Beanstalk actually came from but these stories

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have left their mark across Britain the violent chronicles are really remarkably

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violent it's quite scary when you actually read them but in early folklore he's

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described as a Cornish or Celtic warrior carrying out typical heroic feats especially

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obviously murdering giants in original and very cruel ways. One tail Jack is

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challenged to an eating contest by a giant rival who thinks of himself as a

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gastronome he believes he will easily win due to the gut-gantuan size of

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his stomach however the hero Jack secretes a bag under his belly and drops the

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food into that pretending he is eating it the giant is astonished and

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realizes he's got some real competition here so he's so beneded the giant that

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when Jack plunges a sword into his upper body and releases the contents tell

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him that giant that is no ill effects on his digestion he's stabbed himself in

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the kind of bag he's collecting the food in they had no problem with his

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digestion to his health or his life stabbing himself was absolutely fine the

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giant did the same thing to himself and committed suicide so according to

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these stories they were a bit thick but there's this hundred stories I'm not

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going to get into too many here but there's quite a few that are quite fun

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actually it's kind of whether obviously the Fifi phone comes from and things

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like this but you know we'll look at stories from some Michael's man which is

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one of my favorites but these are really you know the giants were seen

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before this they were seen as elemental figures like part of the mythic

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landscape this is something Anthony Roberts really focused on and it was only

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really later that they became kind of like enemies and there's some

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traditions in whale sources they didn't they weren't necessarily enemies of

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humans they became enemies later when well Christian beliefs came in and this is

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just a quote from Anthony Roberts I'd like to read to you which is a very nice

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quote everyone is fascinated by the question whether race is of mighty beings

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once wrong the earth shaping the landscape and building huge enclaves of earth

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and stone which are still associated with their name such legends a universal

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often they point to magical and metrological phenomena creved in the giants

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with a definite of dangerous supernatural ability I just I think that's

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a fantastic quote it kind of sums up what we're dealing with here you know where

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this get back to killing giants the Jack with Giant Kill at one of the most

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famous stories is based at Submicle's Mount where you've defeated the terrible

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Giant Corborean by blowing the horn loudly in his ear when he was sleeping and the

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Giant came rushing out but fell into a deep pit that Jack had prepared and

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covered with twigs and straw and as he was in the pit he then hacked him to death

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and cut his head off and it became like this classic story of Submicle's Mount

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and one of the most famous Jack's Giant Kill at Stories but interestingly in

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in the 1800s 1804 which was then reported again in 1955 in a newspaper and

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made for skeleton was actually discovered in the crypt instant Michael's mail and

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this is recorded this is actually in one of the books produced by the National

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Trust and talks about a giant skeleton being discovered pulled out of this

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cavern underneath the crypt in the main church and then rebear it in the

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graveyard on Submicle's Mount matter of fact totally real they're not making it up

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but it gave many gave rise to many strange ideas they in fact it could have been

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Jack the Giant Killer could have been involved in his demise but in this

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recorded three different different accounts and there's good evidence that

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this is a real story it's not it's not made up and on the left they've

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got the account from 1955 but in court we have many accounts of giants and

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legends of course they go on and on and on pretty much for every he's just a

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couple of examples bones are disart articulated and scattered there are

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much larger than those from the descendants of today this is one example

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they're not going to go into detail I'm going to leave you just to browse these

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these are all going to feature in the forthcoming book called the Giant of Stone

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Angelation Britain that Jim and I are currently working on but I just wanted to

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give you some examples to know that there's actual skeletons are being found often

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related to these ancient sites here's another one from Trigon E. Cornwall a 10

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foot tall skeleton or estimated to be 10 foot tall within it was the skeleton of a

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man of gigantic size which on the admission of the air moulded into dust one

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two two inches and a half long and thick in proportion remained whole the length

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of the coffin was 11 feet three inches so this is from a publishing of book

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relatively recently but recorded in 1761 and the annual register of Cornwall so

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this is like smara fact in tiny local books journals town histories and things

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like this the same ideas the same principles we find in North America 10 foot

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giants are being unearthed even at men at all we have potential like that actually me is

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not a giant but not too far from there it lands end in the year 1716 very large human

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bones we're just found dispersed in the area much larger than those of the human

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body which are therefore thought to be the vulgar to belong to the giants so it

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goes on and on and on and on and here we have another you know there's even a very interesting book

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the Reverend Robert Gaze it's controversial book that was written in 1666 but only published in

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1725 Gaze is very strange ideas about what he called the king king egg giants or the

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canjeeke giants and some are said and he believes there there was traditions of this name

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all over some are said but also they could have been called into him the builders of Stonehenge

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and I quote in the numerous transibaros with men bones in them extended from Stonehenge to

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Amesbury however the giants were not anything to do with local folklore because some huge

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bones of men fell amongst others in the said boroughs as a foreset are in the other places

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near Stonehenge so it's matter of fact mentioning giant bones being found at their will we're

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we're going to get into the area of Stonehenge very soon but this first account at the top

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this is written in 1810 a giant styrofoam a fully yard long was discovered in in Somerset

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and they account below that is from giants and dwarfs and he talks about the canjeeke giants

431
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,440
people supposed to formally inhabit these paths the top of the skull was said to have been an

432
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:18,520
inch thick one of the teeth was three inches long above the roots three inches in the quarter round

433
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,280
and after the root was broken off it weighed three ounces and a half so that is quite a big tooth

434
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,200
other examples here it's going to run through some of these it's from the history and

435
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:35,160
antiquities of the county of Somerset volume three by John Colinson and Edmund Rack

436
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:44,520
and it just describes where's the part of him a large quantity of human bones are various sizes

437
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:51,240
with parvage or burn several teeth in it a prodigious size so yep more counts and this is from

438
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:59,640
Duster Castle where several foot skeleton was found dead obviously chained up to within this particular

439
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:06,280
castle and there's even a hauntings that have been recorded here as well but perhaps the most

440
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:15,960
famous account in Somerset is that from Glastobie Abbey this is quest range intriguing story but

441
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:22,120
in the late 1100s the I'm going to summarize it's very quickly the Glastobie marks and now it's

442
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:27,560
the incredible discovery of the bones and the skeleton and coffin of King Arthur potentially

443
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:34,040
green of it and there was a whole lot of mystical kind of dreams and advice given to them about

444
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:39,480
finding this but basically they dug down and found this lead cross which inscribed in the

445
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:45,480
inlet and was here like basically lies the burial the burial of King Arthur and so forth and further

446
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:51,160
below that several feet below that they found this huge potentially nine foot six skeleton

447
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:59,160
which was so large that fists could fit between the ice sockets and this is recorded and

448
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,800
this is almost a thousand years ago mind you but they believed it was a genuine find and it could

449
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:11,000
have been the way it was buried in a log kind of coffin was classic Celtic burial but they

450
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,800
proved that there was some kind of very important burial then there's still a sign up at Glastobie

451
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:21,880
Abbey and actually moved the body again but they do another place is to another part of Glastobie Abbey

452
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,200
but there's good there's we've got more information about that we're going to put in the book

453
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,920
but that is one of the most intriguing accounts we've got with such a famous sign

454
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:37,480
I started hand job obviously this is feature strongly in Jeffrey and Monmouth's history of

455
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:42,920
the Kings of Britain and the rocks are stone hands we've said to be healing rocks which giant

456
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:48,760
once bought from Africa from North Africa to Ireland for their healing properties and they were

457
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:55,560
set up at a site called Killer Roos no one exactly knows where this was and this is where the

458
00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:02,600
stone hands were originally constructed this is actually an image from a source of thunder

459
00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:08,600
but Anthony Roberts I believe this is an image by Mary Kane Vogue who was the Glastobie Zodiac lady

460
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:15,560
but according to the traditions or relios and brosius was a fifth century king set Merlin

461
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:25,080
and 15,000 knights to retrieve the rocks from Ireland to build a kind of in honor of himself

462
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:32,200
and they slew 7,000 Irish people they tried to move the rocks of ropes of force and they failed

463
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:39,000
so they had to cool Merlin over and somehow he used gears and skill and easily dismantle the stones

464
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,360
and sent them over to Britain just like that amazing so what are these gears he's talking about

465
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,640
is it some kind of levitation technology was it some kind of secret of the original metal

466
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:55,400
builders he'd recorded but this is caused all sorts of controversy about what they mean by gears

467
00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:00,360
is it some kind of machinery it's some kind of way they would move the stones who knows

468
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,320
but they were brought over basically by Merlin and constructed and there's actually the same formation

469
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:12,360
at stone hands and this is actually the earliest depiction of stone hands ever recorded this was

470
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:17,400
pretty much based on the history of the Kings of Brune but it was in a book by Robert Wase

471
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:25,400
from a manuscript by Romandy Brune in the arts from the 1400s and it shows a giant lifting one of

472
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:31,400
the link tools into place at the giant's start or stone hands with what looks like Merlin on the

473
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:38,040
bottom left there with potentially king and brosius directing him so this kind of you know

474
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:43,720
and trees me that the earliest name of stone hands is the giant's start and the earliest depiction

475
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:48,680
of stone hands as a giant moving the stones into place and the fact that they came from North Africa

476
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:54,040
has raised quite a few questions or something Robin Heath or Robert Temple myself and others have

477
00:40:54,040 --> 00:41:00,040
been looking at and there's actually from in North Africa in Libya there's sites that look just

478
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:07,160
like stone hands remarkably these are all near tripply and these are classic kind of stone hands

479
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:13,160
type trillathons often in circular formations this classic stone circles out there as well

480
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:18,120
which we feature in the stone circles book and very sophisticated more is in tenant joints

481
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,040
stonework and you can see on the top right there so we've got the same principles and the same

482
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:27,800
technology evident in North Africa in Libya so we have to kind of take that into consideration

483
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,680
that some of the words of Jeffrey and Monmouth might have some truth in it and it might be remembering

484
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:39,320
actual events that took place well is this isn't an actual event the one on the right there

485
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:44,520
this is actually from the classic children's book called Giants which I own because it's brilliant

486
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:50,120
and there's just a story which I thought went quite well with this that a huge skull was recorded

487
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:57,080
by John Aubrey in I believe in the 15 or 1600s and it was on display a local church Maria Wheatley's

488
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:02,360
got the info on this and it was supposed to be of some of the 1889 feet tall but all around the

489
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:08,440
mountains we find at Stonehenge this is actually the bullford camp mounts quite far east of Stonehenge

490
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:16,040
but some very large bones were discovered here this is something the Simon Banton mentioned

491
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,760
in a gap in the information about and this is the archaeological report said the remains of three

492
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,920
skeletons were found around 1950 one in the sitting position and one of great size with a low brow

493
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,560
the bones were much mixed up and this is from the archaeological magazine of Wilshire

494
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,840
you know volume such and such but this just shows you the evenly archaeological excavation

495
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:42,840
through the 1950s we were uncovering bones of gigantic size and a great size of the low brows

496
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:48,040
quite interesting because it describes almost the type of giants we're dealing with in North America

497
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,240
also in Bush in the Bush Barrow with a famous lot of engineers discovered

498
00:42:53,720 --> 00:43:00,280
it was excavated in 1808 by William Cunnington as a Richard Colt Hall and on read this is

499
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:04,040
the quote on reach in the floor of the Barrow we discovered the skeleton of a stout and tool

500
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:09,240
manned lion from south to north but don't know what the exact dimensions are but it just suggests

501
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:15,560
that they were quite whoever these chief dunes or priests or whatever were buried here they were

502
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:22,360
of tool stature we have this one as well this is slightly taller recorded in 1802

503
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,560
in the clayland in his collect it the other quotes the respectable authority of his friends

504
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,440
Thomas Elliott has recorded in that himself had seen at some place near Solsbury a skeleton

505
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:39,880
which measured 14 feet 10 inches in length so this is a little bit taller than one might imagine

506
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:45,800
we looked into this we've looked at various accounts and the books that are all mentioned

507
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:52,760
and indeed this is the reports pretty much backed up there were different variations from different

508
00:43:52,760 --> 00:44:00,440
witnesses ranging from 12 feet to 13 foot ten inches to 14 foot ten inches so which one of these is

509
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,720
we don't know but one of the accounts suggests this was one of the canjig giants which we find in

510
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,040
summer set so where the skeleton is now would be really interesting to see that

511
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,480
here we have more accounts this is found actually in Solsbury you know I've got

512
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,800
several Solsbury you know only a few miles from stone handshoes part of the stone handsland

513
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:27,080
skeleton there's actually a mound in Solsbury called the giants grave in 1719

514
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:37,000
skeleton that was found that was over nine feet tall and there's a second account we found as

515
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:44,200
well which again sort of confirms that this one says yeah nine or so nine feet high at the

516
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:48,840
one before that was nine foot four but Solsbury is an interesting place when it comes to giants because

517
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:55,560
we have traditions there which may have stemmed from these discoveries this jab being

518
00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:01,400
giant and hoppin up who was like the so hobby horse thing were paraded round Solsbury for many

519
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:07,080
many years a various times a year mainly I think around some george is they sometimes on the

520
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:13,240
summer solsdis and this was the guild of merchant tailers who were kind of part of this tradition

521
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:19,720
and over the centuries he kind of they kind of changed his appearance but he's like a 12 foot tall

522
00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:25,320
giant really another date they would do it almost the sun Johns the Baptist down the 24th of

523
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:31,640
June or mid summer but nowadays it's always on suggest day I actually went down there on suggest day

524
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:36,360
and now they don't parade the giant around anymore I was devastated they stopped about six years

525
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:42,520
ago because it's so moderate and they would just fall apart if they tried to walk it around town

526
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:49,640
but it's actually on display in the museum behind me is the one that is the giant this is

527
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,920
the gentleman this has been going on for several hundred years now as me and Jay Jay just kind of

528
00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:02,600
self-hearing it up at the museum there but this one is 25 feet tall so they made different ones

529
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:11,000
over the years but in 1784 for some reason he became known as a Christopher now this is

530
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:16,600
Arthur well why would they he's just a Christian thing and they wanted to name him after a Christian

531
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:22,360
saint I kind of looked into this and we know that for people who are aware of this this

532
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:32,120
Saint Christopher was a canaanite giant from the Bible lands who apparently is you know there's

533
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,600
different names for him obviously but he was like the saint of travel and to be in safe on your

534
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:44,200
travels as images of him carry in the baby Jesus but this is very interesting because he was a canaanite

535
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:50,440
he was supposed to be five cubits or seven and a half feet tall with a fearsome face and while

536
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:55,800
serving the king of canon you felt he must serve the greatest king there was I you know Jesus

537
00:46:55,800 --> 00:47:01,800
God all that kind of thing and then he came over to this part of the world but he's always

538
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:09,720
represented as a gigantic stature some people say he was 12 cubits tall again like God my God

539
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:16,200
which is you know 18 or more feet tall and he was said to be the dog headed cannibal

540
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,440
and that was another name given to him but there's there was a beaver mix up because

541
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:27,240
there was confusion because canonite they thought was a canaanite and so he became this dog headed

542
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:34,760
saint basically that was probably a mistake and he was actually referred to it just because he was

543
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:42,680
canonite they maybe didn't understand that but why is there an extremely tall canonite cannibalistic

544
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:47,880
giant being paraded around solsbury I think that's a question we need to ask someone

545
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:54,760
but he just shows you that you know these traditions are still still strong and they still

546
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:59,560
review it they they want to parade him around sols we saw a talk to the guys who ran there at the event

547
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:05,560
and they said they just can't because of the moths they just eat in a way so the fact that a 12 foot tall

548
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:12,040
cannibalistic giant is defeated by moths is quite interesting probably the first and then we have

549
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:16,680
another one here just this is an interesting account because it comes back to the sowers and thunder

550
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:22,440
which we're looking at in a moment but we first spotted this gym and I we were doing our general research

551
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:27,960
over the years but skeleton of large dimensions in a remarkable barrel on the verge of wilts

552
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:33,000
here by the road leading from solsbury to planford so I actually decided to drive down the road

553
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:39,560
from solsbury to planford and I found these mounds and these are the west woody eight mounds

554
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,960
of actually in doorstep and I got some aerial shots of them but I'm a beautiful they look like

555
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:54,360
kind of droplets of water in the landscape there's a few more than this in the distance because

556
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:59,560
they've been kind of plowed out unfortunately and I've got a slide or two missing here was good

557
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:06,920
I don't know there we go so this was quite an interesting story associated with this

558
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:14,360
as the mound was opened this is called in the gentleman's magazine Hannah Storic Chronicle

559
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:20,360
I'm not sure exactly which year to have all the data here but the opening of the barrel was

560
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:28,600
attended by several people and they wrote that during the tremendous storm of thunder and lightning

561
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:37,320
was opened up when they were excavating this mound and the only place of refuge from this massive storm

562
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:41,720
disturbing the giant's grave was to actually hide within the barrel itself

563
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,560
and they'd been excavated to a considerable depth the line of flashed upon our spades and iron instruments

564
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:53,160
they wrote a large flints poured down upon us from the summit of the barrel so abundantly

565
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:58,840
so forcibly that we were obliged to quit a hiding place and get out of there basically

566
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,160
and they wrote this huge power about I'm not going to do that now but we're going to feature

567
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:08,440
that in the book obviously about this whole incident and how they realized they were playing with

568
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:15,320
supernatural forces and this is exactly the same thing that Anthony Roberts book is based upon

569
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:22,680
so as a thunder the idea that the giants graves went disturbed you have this deluge in rain

570
00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:25,880
and thunderstorms that try and stop you doing that

571
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,120
not a good example it's going to flick through a few here this from a poor smithing glund

572
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:39,480
a man over seven feet tall potentially three thousand four thousand years ago was

573
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:45,800
dug up by a lieutenant colonel and it actually fits in with some of the traditions from the areas

574
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:51,640
we have around in ones like this this is a really interesting one because I was here in 2008

575
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:57,080
a lundy island out in the Bristol channel where in the kind of sea with Robin Hath on the layhunter

576
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,560
on a little layhunter's mood trip and we actually discovered a stone circle while we were there you see

577
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:07,640
that on the left called the lundy egg which is the classic Alexard Tom shaped circle it was

578
00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:12,760
surveyed by Robin Hath with the help of me and several others from the Antiquarium society this

579
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:18,600
was Stuart Mason and the layhunter's and so that was who we published but the interesting thing

580
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:24,920
about this is that it's on the lundation triangle this great landscape Pythagorean 51213 triangle

581
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:30,520
which links stone hands the blue stone site obviously but some of the stones from stone hands

582
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:38,120
came from analyndy island 10 minutes yeah and onalyndy island some inscribed stones were found

583
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:47,640
these are some of the burials here and so 8 foot 5 inch skeletons were uncovered actually on the

584
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:53,720
island this is actually an image of one of the burials a reconstruction of the drawing of the grave

585
00:51:53,720 --> 00:52:00,200
you can notice the whole stone there Andrew is quite interesting we have another account here again

586
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:06,040
another discovery and the same island in the same place with an 8 foot skeleton and it could be 8 foot

587
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:12,040
two they suggest and the shin bone of the skeleton it reached from this foot halfway up his thigh

588
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:17,160
while the giant's jawbone covered not only his chin but his beard as well we have these powerful

589
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:23,640
jaws we find obviously all over North America which we feature heavily in our book over how segment about

590
00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:31,800
the giant jaw bones but at the other point of the lundation triangle in Wales,

591
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:39,320
Pacelliaia and the rest of Wales really we have obviously the giants of Wales brilliant book by

592
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:48,600
Chris Grumes and absolutely classic and the amount of accounts from Wales is you get in

593
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:53,320
silly now actually bought this book because me 80 pounds is one of the most expensive books I've

594
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:58,520
ever bought and then I had this very strange thing happened 10 pages disappear from the book

595
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:05,000
and I never had no idea what happened to them unless it was Eugene so I've no idea and then I

596
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,440
looked through several of my other books when I was trying to write my book about them

597
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:13,240
when I write this book about the giant and pages torn out of them of specific pages that I was

598
00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:17,480
trying to research about giants and I thought what the hell is going on here someone would be breaking

599
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:23,560
into my house and sabotaging my giant research it was very odd kind of like fairy realm stuff

600
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:29,640
but there was a wave of giant horigy happening in the 1500s around Britain this is when the

601
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:35,240
Patagonian giants were being discovered or witnessed when the North American giants were first

602
00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:41,000
I witnessed accounts of those were happening in Florida and it takes us another places and it was

603
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:50,600
this gentleman here who lived in 1500s he wrote a book in response to attempts to dismiss and

604
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:55,720
refuge every moment history of the kings of Britain especially the giants associated with that book

605
00:53:55,720 --> 00:54:00,440
and so he wrote this fantastic piece which is the whole thing is published and reprinted in the

606
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:05,400
giants of Wales but which is written in the 1980s by Chris Grims and it is quite remarkable he was

607
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:11,480
at the scholar basically and he was so convinced by he gave loads of actual accounts of giant

608
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:15,400
bones and skeletons that were discovered in Wales and some of the strong traditions there

609
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,560
one example is this one this is actually from we're going to probably see this tomorrow

610
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:27,000
the mould cape which was actually in the British Museum was supposedly dug out from a grave of a

611
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:36,120
giant and the some bones and a skull above the ordinary structure what un-earthed but this book

612
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:41,960
is just I can't emphasize this it's now print basically so but it gives you really good

613
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:46,840
examples of the traditions that the giants ate from full King Arthur was deemed as a giant

614
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:53,080
lots of cannibals obviously Samson was seen as a giant there was lots of stories about triads

615
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:58,760
and three brothers and things like this stone throwing in straight lines across the landscape

616
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,600
so I'm not going to be able to get into that all now but we're going to do a really strong piece

617
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:09,400
about that in our book because it's one of the most important aspects the traditions there are so strong

618
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:14,840
and they're so rich that it really has to be taken seriously and this is why Chris Grims wrote

619
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:20,200
this academic work on this subject not just of the bones and skeletons but of the stories and

620
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:27,400
that were still alive well right up to relatively recently even the great all minds in land

621
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:34,840
did know up in the very northern part of Wales they back to at least three thousand five hundred years ago

622
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:40,440
like a big cazzam now cut into the ground where they were mining copper but there's this huge

623
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:45,400
kind of hammer hazard attached to rope which is out of the range of what should be possible

624
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:52,920
64 pounds or 30 your so kilos and they were mining with these with these particular kind of rope

625
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:59,080
hammers and this is just outrageous you can't do that you know you can't possibly swing that if you're

626
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:04,840
a normal size human being unless you're kind of super super strong and so this is being so

627
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:10,120
analyzed and compare and it'd be equivalent to trying to use this hammer to put in a nail or something

628
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quite remarkable when you when you sort of look at this so I'm just going to jump through a few slides

629
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here oh what we go here so yeah all over Britain we did with there's just so many accounts

630
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oh my god I've got so many here still this is an interesting one not too far from here this is

631
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actually the ruts to monolith in Yorkshire but but the main reason I went up this way was to go to

632
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first in museum with this is the only that I know of surviving ancient relatively ancient skeleton

633
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in Britain this is seven foot tall what's left of it anyway and it was found in 1994 when it

634
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Castle Garth the bones of a gentleman who was seven feet tall and there was a woman over six feet tall

635
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:07,080
also discovered but they believe it was a sex and cemetery although there is debate about this because

636
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there are other stories that there was a potentially an iron age of Bronze Age site there as well

637
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this me looking really really happy that I've actually found some giant bones in England look

638
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at me super happy and so this is just interesting that we do find that this is the case

639
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with these giants so this is actually excuse me so let me get this current

640
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is that playing can you see anything there is that play oh yeah you got to have that so this is

641
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actually a clip I haven't got the sound for this but this is actually a clip from a TV show about

642
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Saxons I think you recognize the guy from the BBC some broadcast is son or something but this

643
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this chap he's talking to, matter of fact on the BBC one describes a 9 foot 4 in skeleton

644
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that was found at this particular site in Darbyshire place called Reptinent 1854 they think it was

645
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possibly over the Bionless clearly he's got bones because they found a bones

646
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um 865 AD potentially and he was over 9 feet tall again there's debate about the age of this because

647
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as earlier sites have been found in the area but um I wish I had the south of this because it just

648
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basically he's just repeating it's 9 foot 4 and the so where that bone is we really don't know

649
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:41,480
there's 7 foot skeletons we've found in Northambleland in island we have numerous accounts

650
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from Slago here even from the mountains that were around 4 knocks where some 7 foot skeletons

651
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:55,480
were found link linking now with the boin valley mega lithic sites we had the classic Irish

652
00:58:55,480 --> 00:59:01,880
giant the 12 foot 2 inch giant which was um probably the largest ever found in Britain that's

653
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:07,240
actually relatively authentic at will that it could be a hoax it was on display and doubling the

654
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Liverpool and Manchester in the late 1800s and then mysteriously disappeared we have more

655
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:23,560
with a story about it here we have a 10 foot tall giant in county louth and so on and so forth

656
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this one we actually feature in the Stoosecules book this is a wonderful

657
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Stoosecule will be a clean quick and in Scotland and within it a man of uncommon size was unearthed

658
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we also have in north west Scotland these blocks and this is another account where we have

659
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:50,760
the classic sores of thunder problem happening when they're obliterating or excavating the site

660
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all of a sudden they came with thunder and lightning wind and delusion ran the like of which

661
00:59:55,800 --> 01:00:00:04,680
no man had ever saw and this was um Britain out in 1893 and the bones were found to be quite

662
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:09,400
fresh and of an extraordinary size no person ever saw anything to prepare them before and it

663
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:14,600
said no person did a tall credit or even imagine the size of them but those who saw them so we got

664
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:19,080
a pretty interesting account there also in Scotland I was up at I think Edinburgh Museum

665
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:26,760
and I found this sort of small knife which absolutely blew me away when I saw this this is like

666
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:32,200
what a 10 foot sword and there were several other ones in various other museums I can

667
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:41,400
Scotland as well which really did catch my attention but um it's obviously many more accounts

668
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:48,200
I'm going to have to skip through pretty much but if we look at there are some very very I've

669
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got I'm going to have to just go on for a few more minutes I guess I'll okay Nigel cut into the

670
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,880
break a little bit just a few minutes I want to just there's a couple of things I'll just have to

671
01:00:56,440 --> 01:01:02,600
put in here now the origins of these giants is one of the mysteries this is something that

672
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:09,000
Andrew's going to look at much later in the day with the Denisovans and and how you know they were quite

673
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:14,440
powerful robust people according to what's being discovered so far but before them was uh the

674
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:22,200
homo hide of a genesis, hide of a genesis which were very interesting group of people who were routinely

675
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:27,080
found in South Africa in Europe and they were over seven feet tall with some examples being

676
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:34,680
much much taller and these potentially uh may have ended up in Britain many many hundreds of

677
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:40,600
thousands of years ago and also we have the Cromagnan you know the classic kind of idea that about

678
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:47,800
40 or so thousand years ago in Europe modern humans kind of arrived in this area no one knows really

679
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:52,520
where from but they're like the classic traits we see now but even some of those in the earlier

680
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:58,920
counts were extremely tall over six feet tall accounts of over seven foot tall in different parts

681
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:07,000
of Europe and we see that you know some of the cases here this is an upper jaw bone which is

682
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:15,800
41,000 years old which has found the Kent's Cavern not far from Torquille and it was radio carbon

683
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:23,080
day to like 35 to 40,000 years old um another people say it's even earlier so you know just show

684
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:27,160
you that there's extremely ancient modern type humans at this time obviously when we get into

685
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:33,000
Michael Cromos lecture we're going to find that in fact like I go back millions of years um so it's

686
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:38,600
really quite strange the more you get into this we even have modern type skeletons that most definitely

687
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:47,000
go back 330,000 years um even 400,000 years in the upswitch and you can see the modern type

688
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:52,360
skull on the left there at Gally Hill near London obviously was discovered in 1888 and the reason I'm

689
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:57,400
saying this is because many of these skeletons that are being unearthed in prehistoric areas

690
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:02,680
I have got a modern human look about them like a Cromagnan look but some of them are particularly

691
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:09,880
much much older and this is potentially the origins of the giants of ancient Britain we have

692
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:16,280
this jaw as well this is the Ipswich jaw bone which is featured in Michael Cromos book found

693
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:23,960
in 1855 again this is the problem with this one is that it could be 2.5 million years old which is

694
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:30,680
utterly bizarre and doesn't really fit with stuff but when we we'll see later how old things

695
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:35,960
really get I think one of the most fascinating aspects of this is some of these super ancient

696
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:43,720
artifacts that I've been found this is a photo actually taken by Scott Scottie I think he's here somewhere

697
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:52,440
which is 300,000 years old and is way too big to be anything you know a hand axe you use

698
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:57,960
one hand apparently but look at the size of this remember photo from my friend James as well

699
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:03,640
the bottom left there but there's many different artifacts helping found there extremely ancient

700
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:10,200
and extremely large in ancient Britain so it gets weird and weirder the more you look into this

701
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:17,160
then we have these ridiculous footprints which are 850,000 years old in Norfolk

702
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:25,320
which size 10 adult males modern human so how does that fit in and one of the researchers

703
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:33,880
who did the work on this a place called Happysburg believes these were in fact related and

704
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:40,360
quite possibly homo-hidal burg insists who were the giants from Africa and Europe so we are

705
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:46,680
finding started to find small connections going back from a very early stage and what's really

706
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:51,560
interesting is that they were no to be cannibals which is the classic tradition we find in many

707
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:58,200
of the stories in ancient Britain and obviously in North America and other parts of the world

708
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:05,080
so I think we'll just leave it there but the connections with North America we're looking into

709
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:12,120
Jim and I have found lot of connections between Britain and North America in the skull shapes and

710
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:19,640
sizes the earth works and some of the rock carvings like JJ's being researched like Winna Mucker

711
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:26,440
how closely they're related to places like La Cruz and you know really you can't take it all too

712
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:31,000
seriously because we are talking about giants after all so thanks very much for listening

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you