Ancient France - Stone Circles

Stone circles are basically known for being in the UK, but they're found all over the world as well, including Portugal, Spain, some in Quebec-Les-Tepes, which are supposed to be 11,000 years old, and Michael Tellinger thinks he's found millions of them in the South of Africa. So we've come to one in France, not far from Blandas. There's not many here in France, but this is one of the most complete, with about 40 or 50 stones still standing, and some that are on the ground too. Now the most striking thing about this one is that in the centre here, there's a standing stone, and it's the tallest stone of all of them here. So I'm about 1.8 metres tall. You can see this one here is 2 metres, or just a bit over. It's right in the centre, it's equidistant to all the sides from looking around here. It's got a possible cut mark, but it's hard to tell because all these stones around here have been eroded quite a lot. There's one stone there that's different to the rest, look. These are all sort of white-grey, granite-looking rocks. And then this one, sedimentary, really brown-looking. Now is that the only one in the circle? There's another one over there, I think. I wonder if they're positioned in a certain part of the circle for some reason. And this one seems like it's been weathered a lot, doesn't it? I'm not sure if these were originally this size, but... Some fallen stones. Now we're coming up to a large red stone as well, which seems to attract people to it. I've seen a couple of people coming up here meditating on this stone. Quite a lot of erosion on that one too, isn't it? It is. And then another large fallen stone down here. Probably broken, I think. Two hearts. Yeah, looks like it. It's a slight tingly feeling. Getting an energy rush. Yeah. Nothing like that one we saw at Avery, which was, you know, you could feel it go all up your arm. The end of my fingers are tingling a bit. So maybe this is a good spot for energies. I think it is. Let's go and have a rest up against it. This really shows how much erosion. Poor thing. It's got stonehuggers.com. Hey, that's a good thing. We'll do that on the website. Stonehugging? Yeah, stonehugging. I'd probably get arrested now, nowadays, molesting a rock. We've driven about 10km from the last stone circle we showed you to one that's a little less complete. And it's an area full of dolmen and standing stones. There's quite a lot of megaliths in this area. Only one over this bed. This is the start of the stone circle. It's slightly raised, it's got a bit of a rid. You can see the treeline marks it out really well. This is the largest stone in the circle. How big is this? These are about 60m wide, this circle? Yeah. So smaller than the last circle we went to visit. Yeah. There's a few less stones. It's in a nice setting, although it's encased by wires everywhere, which is a bit annoying. There's not much else to say, really. No idea when they were built. But the official version is they're probably 5,000 years old and people used to come here to exchange it for wood or something. We thought we'd finish up here, close to Mont Blanc, where it's bloody freezing, with a stone circle. This stone circle you can only see a couple of weeks of the year because it's up so high on the San Bernardino Pass. It's right on the France and Italy border. It's about 72m in diameter. There's about 50 stones, but they're all tiny. This is probably the three biggest stones here. We're going to end the film here because this is where Italy starts, right in the middle of the stone circle. We're going to head that way and check out and see if they've got any pyramids of this kind.