The Oldest Tree In England
2023 ж. 5 Шіл.
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Wiltshire
4.000 Year Old Tree
Oldest In Britain
Oldest Tree
I go to visit the oldest tree in England and second oldest in the UK. This tree started growing in the Stone Age !
Wiltshire
4.000 Year Old Tree
Oldest In Britain
Oldest Tree
I go to visit the oldest tree in England and second oldest in the UK. This tree started growing in the Stone Age !
Mind boggling. Thank you again sir. Best wishes from New York.😊
This is a difficult one to get your mind around-Carbon dated by an expert who sadly is no longer with us -Just all in all fantastic history-Thank you for watching
Amazing to think all those years have past and its still going strong and flourishing. Really great footage ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it - Thank you for watching my small adventure in history
All the best sites are in and around Wiltshire! Keep up the good work James
So true thank you for watching my small adventure 👍👍
Thanks for this video. I think you meant to say 40 feet in circumference, not diameter.
Nice one Jim. Who would have thought 4000 years old 😊
Thank you Mike I agree
Thanks, I know it very well my old Grandad lived on Church Street :)
Fantastic area 👍👍
I really enjoyed this video,very well done debs xx ........
Thank you I am always amazed that there is so much history not far from me I had no idea was there 👍
amazing!
Thank you
Great video cheers
That tree sure has seen a lot of history James, very interesting, I might have to go and see it for myself
You will love this Sandy a great tree 👍👍
I live in viewpark,the Douglas family had an estate there for hundreds of years,come see the massive ancient yew tree
Great old ancient oak!
In this instance a Yew- I am not sure of older Oak's in the area (Note to self I must look)-Thank you for watching !
Oops, I meant to yew🤓 I am a fellow tree enthusiast and I love the big old ones. I go around looking for them. Cheers.
Thank You James. Your enthusiasm is infectious and ive already visited a few of your locations armed with all the facts you give us. I will definitely visit this beautiful tree which i knew nothing about until now .
Always worth a visit to Tisbury there is a great deal to see in the area-Thank you for watching 👍👍
Amazing Tree Oldest
So true I was also amazed-Thank you for watching
No the one in is oldest
Scotland
Point taken @@wuwie83GT
@jameswalksinhistory3848 no worries,the tree I am talking abt no one knows,go and see it it's in a place called the Douglas support,viewpark conservation group
Like many, I'm not a fan of the concrete, but like all things, needs to be put in the historical context and as such and seeing how long it has been there, really adds another facet to the story. The tree appears to have coped with the addition and appears in a good and healthy condition, especially given its seniority. Lovely to give old DB a name check, I know for many of us of a certain age, he was important in fostering an early interest in all things natural and environmental, and like your good self, his enthusiasm was inspiring.
He also wrote many books he covered the ice age in one this was a true eye opener -Thank you for watching Andy I was more amazed that this was here in Wiltshire 👍
A fascinating video, James.
Thank you
awesome video
Thank you Daniel 👍👍
Cheers, James. 👍
Thank you
The cement probably helps keep it going.
Who knows anything is possible -Thank you for watching
Hangman 1128 you tube giant trees. And the man made river beds right in front of our eyes Thanks for your goodness
You bet
love this.
Thank you
Wow. That's some age isn't it? Nice to know that Wiltshire has the oldest tree. Shame about the concrete but I guess a necessary evil. Just imagine all the conversations that have gone on around that tree over the years. How wonderful it would be to be privy to those. Thank you once again James for such an interesting video. Keep them coming. You have made Facebook interesting.
Thank you Tiz you can feel the history when you visit this something you can't get from a book !
I question the reason for the concrete to prevent a fire. Outer part can catch fire too 😁 It's Hauntingly old. Older than Ghosts 😜 But, I'm happy people like the tree.
We live on a giant tree
Amazing
How long will it be until the concrete falls apart and we can banquet in it again?
Now there's a big question -I am sure it will outlive us all -Thank you for watching
There are alot of contradiction with these ancient Yew trees ages, Llangernyw Yew in Wales is reputed to bethe oldest in the UK, it's because they are notoriously difficult to age I guess, but they are all amazing enjoyed this
This one is the oldest in Britain 4,000 years -Not the oldest in the UK -Thank you for watching
4000 years old in Neolithic times...wow that's crazy 😮😮 Not sure about the concrete but understandable.
So true to think this tree has been there for so long 👍
The 4000 year claim is dubious to put it mildly. Peter Bellamy had form in wildly inflating the age of church yews so that many appeared to be older than the churchyard in which they were growing - and by extension making the site 'pagan'. The Ancient Yew Group, who know about these things, have looked into the age of the Tisbury yew and this is what they have concluded: 'This is a remarkable ancient yew, and it is not surprising that it has attracted so much interest. Many have tried to estimate its age, and while estimates between 1000 and 2000 can be supported, the age of 4000 years, often quoted for this tree, cannot'. A date of 1000 - 2000 years would link the tree to the Saxon abbey and Norman church - yews were often planted at the same time as the construction of a church or abbey. History, archaeology and botany all support this. Details of the AYG's findings can be found on their website.
The information in the area and on line is that the tree was carbon dated to this age-Thank you for your comment it would seem accuracy is in this case subjective -Thank you for watching !
@@jameswalksinhistory3848 The carbon dating doesn't work - the oldest part of the tree, the heart, rotted away eons ago. In which case how did David Bellamy come up with his 4000 year age? And as I said Bellamy is noted for these exaggerations - seemingly ignoring historical evidence (see Jeremy Harte's 'How old is that old yew?' which can be found on line). The Tisbury yew was recorded as having a circumference of 31 feet in the 1890. Now a rule of thumb is 30 years for every foot of girth plus or minus 5 years for local variation. So 30 x 31 = 930. Plus or minus 5 years gives us a rough date of about 800 - 1100. Plus say 135 (1890 to 2024) = 935 - 1235 years of age. Which ties in with the Saxon and Norman church history of the site and the known planting of yew trees in medieval churchyards. The tree really doesn't need exaggerated flights of fantasy about its age for it to be wonderful.
If the reported carbon dating is not accurate someone should highlight this-I am no expert so remain on the wire on this one-Thank you @@Wotsitorlabart
@@jameswalksinhistory3848 The man has a point with this: how can you obtain a sample 4.000 years old from a growing organism? Like all other life forms, trees constantly renew their cells and you physically cannot date new cell material to 4.000 years ago! So the claim needs thorough investigation, I'm also not a carbon-dating expert, just using common sense. Yews have a strong churchyard connection, and if the current church had an anglsaxon predecessor, maybe the yew was planted around 800 AD? Not so spectacular as 2.000 BC!
@@Wotsitorlabart I tend to agree with you .The only way to carbon date it is to bore a hole into the tree and take a sample from the middle of the main trunk .
lol he keeps saying stone age man straight to the iron age but he's missing the entire bronze age only a period of roughly 2000 years. However he is right that the bell beaker people were the ones who were arriving in the early bronze age and those people would later become the Celtic peoples such as Boudica and Cassavalanus. We know this because there was no change in the islands genetics from the bronze age to the iron age. Even today bell beaker peoples make up the majority of British genetics with new bits added on top such as the saxons, the vikings , and the Norman french. This tree would have been here for all of that truly remarkable.
Think Neolithic - Thank you for watching
Cant cope with the weird music
Can you not Pet ? Begorrah !!!