Banwell Bone Caves 2015 Somerset [200 photos] Tour of grounds and folly
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Banwell - An Ordinary Somerset Village
I woke up very early and decided to go for an early morning walk down memory lane and walk around the Village of Banwell in Somerset. Where I was born and grew up. What I realised is that often you don't appreciate the beauty you have on your doorstep.
It was good to be back and see how little has changed.
I'm sorry this vlog is not more exciting, but I'm keeping it real, no false drama.
Just everyday life.
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PEOPLE OF OLD BANWELL
People of Banwell in date sequence
PUBS AND INNS OF BANWELL - PAST & PRESENT
banwell hill
me and jamie on one of our days out :)
BANWELL REMEMBRANCE PARADE 1998
Procession and wreath laying with pipe band
Banwell Castle for Coffee 13.September.11
Went to Banwell castle and then met up with Toby who originally came down for the Bristol Gathering
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Driving Through Villages on Country Roads from Wookey Hole in Somerset
After a day trip to Wookey Hole Caves, in Somerset, England, and before making our way back to Bristol’ we head-off to the Sidcot Arms, a Brewers Farye restaurant, for a late afternoon meal overlooking the Mendip Hills.
The drive, predominantly country roads passing through villages in Somerset, is quite uneventful; but as we reach our destination a courtesy driver flashes his lights to signal for us to cross a busy road for the entrance leading up to the restaurant.
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Banwell Pie Monster
Pie monster of banwell
Most MYSTERIOUS Secret Discoveries!
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10. Roman Sword
Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, has long been suspected to be the hiding place for a number of treasures. The legend is so convincing that even a young Franklin Roosevelt was part of a quest to discover what was buried within the ground.
9. King Richard III
King Richard the third of England ruled between 1483 and 1485. Despite such a short time on the throne, he was responsible for a number of famous stories, such as the supposed murder of his nephews, the princes in the tower of London, and he was also the last English King to die in battle.
8. 18th Century Ship at the WTC
In 2010, with the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack approaching, an astonishing discovery was found at the site of ground zero- in what was to become the parking garage of the new World Trade Center. Builders started digging up pieces of old timber, and archaeologists were called in to assess what it was.
7. 700-Year-Old Mummy
When workers in the Chinese city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu province, were charting nearby land for the expansion of a road, the last thing they would have expected to find was a 700-year-old mummy.
6. Mayan Murals
You might usually associate the discovery of Mayan artefacts with the jungle regions of Latin America, but for one Guatemalan family their discovery was much closer to home- or, to be more precise, inside it.
5. A Medieval Hospital
Barely a shopping center or high street can exist these days without an Apple store nearby, and with such rapid expansion of their presence, a lot of building work is required. For one new store in Madrid, though, things didn’t go entirely as planned.
4. Banwell Caves
The Banwell Caves are a mysterious site in the south west of England. They are made up of 2 caves, the first of which was discovered in 1757. Known as the stalactite cave, it is full of the geological structures, and soon became a tourist attraction when it was opened in 1824.
3. Catherine de Medici’s Hairpin
Catherine de Medici was the queen consort of France between 1547 and 1559. She was known across Europe for her love of lavish jewellery, but most of her collection has disappeared in the past centuries through being sold, lost, or stolen.
2. Buddha Statue
At some point during the latter half of the 20th Century, a Dutch art collector bought a Buddha statue that caught his eye. It was only when he took it for restoration work in the 90’s that he would find out the dark history of this ancient artefact.
1. Picasso’s “Blue Period” Masterpiece
Canvasses are one of the greatest expenses for artists, especially since they can only be used once, and it’s a problem artist have been experiencing throughout history. To overcome this, it was quite usual for them to be re-used, with older paintings being covered up and then painted on again.
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Wookey Hole Caves, Somerset UK
Back I am [Day 342]
I am back in England. Staying with Nathan Wills upto the Youtube Gathering in Weston-Super-Mare on the 7th on January
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Deer in Banwell
A small herd of Deer live in the woods on Banwell Hill and frequently come out to graze on fields and gardens.
River Banwell, nr Wick St Lawrence - May 2013
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1 mile into Forest in Wells Somerset. Some hidden caves off the beaten track.
This Water Fills the caves & creates the 3 wells in the center of Wells Somerset 2 miles away
Stay Down Record Bid (1966)
Full title reads: Cheddar. 'Stay Down' Record Bid.
Cheddar, Somerset. World Underground endurance record attempt in Bolder Cavern.
GV Pan hillside under which is the Bolder Cavern. SV Inside the entrance of the cave, man carrying supplies to Bolder cavern. SV Heap of water containers. CU Containers being passed down to cavern. CU Ditto.
GV Exterior, Potholer David Lafferty saying farewell and walking towards entrance of cave. CU Lafferty waving. GV Lafferty entering the cave. SV Lafferty walking past camera into cave. CU Lafferty starting the descent of the 40 ft chimney that takes him down to Bolder cavern. SV Ditto. SV Another man coming down chimney with aid of rope, and drops near Lafferty's tent. SV Lafferty inside the tent with Mr Cowper talking to him. CU Ditto. CU Lafferty. Pan to Cowper. SV Lafferty preparing his bed in the tent.
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6 - The Banwell Caves
There are 2 caves that make up the Banwell Caves, there’s the “Stalactite Cave” and the “Bone Cave.” The first one to be discovered was the Stalactite Cave in 1757 by some local miners, and they left it until 1824 when it was reopened to raise money for a local school. It was quite tricky getting to the cave, so an attempt was made to make a more convenient entrance. By doing this, another cave was discovered accidentally. Inside the Bone Cave, they discovered the bones of animals that were over 80,000-years old that were not native to England. The bishop at the time firmly believed that it proved that Noah’s Ark was real and that these were the remains of the animals from the Ark. It’s thought that the cave was originally built as a pitfall trap.
5 - Terracotta warriors
It was during 1974 when a group of Chinese farmers uncovered one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time! What used to be fertile land of pomegranate trees, was hiding over 7,000 life-sized terracotta warriors used to guard the tomb of China’s first emperor - Qin Shi Huangdi. What makes the discovery more unique is that the terracotta army warriors all have something different about them, whether it’s their face, beard, armour or tunic. Some speculate that each warrior was based on an actual person from the emperor’s real-life army. The soldiers were put there to ensure the emperor had protection in the afterlife, and there’s presumed to be many more still to be discovered, but because of the fragility of the warriors, they may remain hidden forever.
4 - Uluburun Shipwreck
A diving trip looking for sponge turned into so much more for Mehmet Çakir when he came face-to-face with a sunken 50-foot long ship. He was diving in the Mediterranean Sea, just off the Uluburun coast in Turkey. Most of the cedar hull had disintegrated, but there were hundreds of glass, copper and tin ingots. Researchers spent more than 10-years studying the wreck over the course of 20,000 dives. They brought up a treasure trove of relics from the Late Bronze Age, including a scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. It’s officially one of the oldest wrecks ever discovered, but it’s not quite certain where it comes from. Artefacts were of Mycenaean, Assyrian, Canaanite and Egyptian origin, which could mean it was a merchant vessel with an international crew.
3 - The Ruins of Serdica
In 2012, while digging up the ground for a new line of the metro in Sofia – the Bulgarian capital – engineers uncovered the city of Serdica. This was home to Constantine the Great for a year while he was looking for the perfect spot for a new capital for his empire. Serdica housed the remains of several cultures, including those of the Greek, Roman and Byzantine. It was a major metropolis, and excavations brought forward signs of early sewage systems, a wheel of fortune, private bathhouses. It’s now an open-air museum with the major drawcard being the Decumanus Maximus, which would have been the main road during Roman times and would become Sofia as we know it today.
2 - Childeric’s Treasure
Childeric I ruled the Salian Franks as king from 457 until he died in 481 AD. His son was Clovis I who can be credited for uniting the Frankish tribes and who became the 1st Merovingian king of France. Childeric had a lot of wealth through war efforts and when he was buried, many of his valuables were placed in the tomb with him. Over time, the location of the tomb was forgotten and lost but was rediscovered on the 27th of May 1653. Adrien Quinguin was digging on land that belonged to the church of Saint-Brice in Tournai when his digging revealed gold coins. Further digging revealed 100 more coins, gold swords and garnets, 300 gold bees, horse fittings and buckles and many other valuable artefacts.
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