BURNT MOUNDS ARE NOT COOKING PITS. THEY ARE FACTORIES. And I've walked them. My my hypothesis For 150 years we've been told burnt mounds / Fulacht Fiadh are Bronze Age kitchens — heat stones, drop them in a trough to boil meat. I've walked dozens of them around Birmingham and the Midlands and it doesn't make sense. Here's what you actually find when you stand in one: No animal bone. No food waste. No pottery. Nothing. And these are peat bogs — peat preserves everything. If they were cooking there, we'd find it. We don't. No houses. No postholes. No evidence anyone lived within 10 minutes walk of them. A kitchen you put by your house. They are ALL in the worst place you could pick to eat. A stinky, boggy, wet hole in the ground. In winter it's knee deep, you sink, it's freezing. In summer it's clouds of flies and it stinks of stagnant peat water. You wouldn't take your family there. You wouldn't do a sauna there and you wouldn't cook food there. You go there to work because it's where the materials are and nobody cares about the smoke and the mess. It's industrial. It's not domestic. So what were they? The same pattern all over the globe — 4,000+ in the UK, 6,000+ Fulacht Fiadh in Ireland, skärvstenshögar in Scandinavia, fire-cracked mounds in Texas and California, silcrete pits in Australia 30,000 years old. All the same: cracked stone pile, trough, spring, bog. No homes. My hypothesis after 8 months in the shed trying to get the ratios right: They were production sites for two things side by side: 1. Making stone, mortar and plaster Wood ash + water = potash lye. Add slaked lime from burnt limestone and you get potassium hydroxide and potassium silicate — water-glass. Mix that with sand, crushed stone, bone ash, clay and it glues into real stone. No cement needed. When you add a bit of copper it goes Egyptian Blue — the Romans did exactly this. 2. Tanning leather — because why wouldn't you? Same site has everything you need: wood ash lye and lime to de-hair hides, fat + lye to make soap to clean them. That's why you get both lines of chemistry in the soil — stone chemistry AND tanning chemistry. I've made the stone from exactly what's at the sites. The dome in the videos — the 7-day cure, 1-hour demould, NO blue — is made of nothing but burnt mound materials: silica, dolomite, wood ash, bone ash, diatomaceous earth, mag, borax. No bought binder. I make the water-glass from the ash lye myself. Yesterday it passed: Drop test — pass Drill test — pass Boil 20 minutes — pass, water stayed clear, no crumbling Today — 2 hour soak then straight in the freezer. That's the weather test. If it survives that, it's tougher than they would have ever needed it to be. They weren't boiling their stones. I am, to prove it. Cost per 100g batch of dry: 57p. My starter stock — 500g bone ash £10, 500g diatom £10, mag £5, borax £2, wood ash and water free — £27 total. Makes 30+ stones. And now I have it repeatable: 1 hour demould without blue, 20 minute demould with a teaspoon of blue paste, same strength. That 20-min one has been sealed 24h and is now out in the open air — you can see the natural glass skin forming from the binder bleeding to the surface. That's the glaze I was trying to get. We need to stop calling them cooking pits and start seeing them for what they are — the first chemical factories. Waste to stone. If you know a burnt mound near you, go and stand in it this autumn when it's wet. Ask yourself — does this feel like a kitchen, or does it feel like a works yard?

I've been studying our history deep history hunter-gatherer time. We think clock is important today. It was 100x more important then. Today if you're late, you miss a meeting. Then if you're late by 7 days, you starve. They needed to know the DATE. Not just time of day. They needed to know it's the 10th of February because that's the exact day the aurochs walk past that valley. Or the 25th of July because that's when the herds come this way. Or when the fish migrate up the Cole. If you're not there that week, you miss it for a year. Same with food. I found a hidden grove near Priory Fields, raspberries, strawberries, apples, gooseberries all same place. That's not wild ,that's planted. Looks wild now, but someone planted it. Hunter-gatherers didn't farm fields, but they planted groves. And you need to know when to go back. Strawberries ripe one week, raspberries two weeks later, apples in September. You don't want to walk 10 minutes every day just to check if they're ripe. Time was food. You can tell time of day by the sun. Sun tells you morning, noon, night. But sun can't tell you what date it is. Sun looks same on July 25th as June 25th. Only way to know date is stars. That's the Great Watch. Big Dipper going round Polestar. Stand in middle of stone circle — Polestar is centre pin — Big Dipper is hand. 7 stars = 7 days = week. 14 = half moon, 28 = full, 360 = year. When Big Dipper points at this stone — ox here. When it points at that stone — geese arrive. When it points at that stone — strawberries ripe. When it points at that stone — fish biggest. Sky was the calendar. Everyone could read it. After kingship descended from heaven — after Eridu, after cities — we stopped reading sky. We stopped following animals. We stopped following the ripening. Because we stayed in one place and started following people. This is when we became the sheep.

This is the kind of thing we should be teaching our kids, and not let em stare at phones and play ps5 cause your lazy n doing things is to much hard work, but guess what that hard work pays off.. your kid won’t be a lazy obnoxious teenager with zero social skills and can’t even talk to people unless it’s a headset or face time. ( I see kids In maccies not say one word to each other) (not even eating) my kids done gardening from soon as they could pick up weeds not as slaves doing chores but little people learning integrity.. Nothing good comes easy remember that.. And look at the beautiful things you can show them (fan those flames) 🔥 👇🏾

I've been sitting here thinking about the Sumerian King List. You know I've already decoded those insane long reigns — 8 sars, 10 sars — aren't years, it's counting precession. 1° = 72 years, 72 x 30 = 2160 = one age, 72 x 360 = 25920 = full Great Year. It's the Great Watch — the sky clock. But it's what happens RIGHT AFTER that line that got me. "After the flood swept over, kingship descended from heaven. Kingship was in Eridu." Eridu wasn't a city to start with. It was a water temple. Sweet water. Spring. Before that , before kingship descended, look at how people lived. The springs were for everybody. Water was for everybody. No walls. My burnt mound sites, 10 of them from Orkney to Cornwall , trough + cracked stones + hard white crusts + brook, no palace, no fort. Communal factories. Anyone could make the hard daub that stays hard in water. Anyone could stand in the middle of a stone circle and read the clock (Big Dipper round Polestar — 7 days = week, 14 = half moon, 28 = full, 360 = year). Sky was king. Everyone knew the time. You relied on it.. As soon as that line happens “kingship descended” you get your first cities, your first kings, your first wars. All at once. 7000-6000 BCE. I think what it literally means is this: People stopped looking at the sky. Instead of standing in the middle of the circle and reading the Great Watch themselves, they started relying on a person. A king. He was the only one who knew the times, knew where the deep water was (spiral = aquifer) knew how to cap a spring and make it fresh, how to make the pH12 water to make the waterproof daub. And then he stopped telling everyone else how. So everyone lost the knowledge. So they had to rely on the city. Had to stay behind the wall. Had to get water from him. Sky stopped being king. Man called himself king. That's when wars start. Not because we got more violent , because there was now something to defend. A fixed spring. A fixed store. A wall. Kingship didn't descend from heaven. Knowledge got enclosed.

I've reviewed 10 burnt mound sites across the UK Not cooking pits. Regional alkali factories. 100% 5 ground types = 5 jobs. Mud/Clay (Moseley Bog), Beach/No Trees (Drigg/Liddle Orkney), Stony Moor + Cairns (Bodmin/Dartmoor), Limestone (Malham/Mendip), Chalk (Cranborne — fewest, because chalk daub already works). Same water symbols carved from Cornwall to Orkney — spiral = deep aquifer, circle dot = spring source, wavy = living water, concentric = standing water. That's a communication network signposting good water. Daub proof: Normal water daub washes away in 1 English winter = grey smear. Alkaline pH12 water from burnt mound trough (wood ash lye pH11-12 + burnt limestone pH12 + tallow) = hard white lump, stays hard in water, water beads off — survives 4000 years. Must Farm, Bestwall, Durrington prove it. > Trade proof: 750km Altar Stone, 400km Langdale axes, oak traded onto treeless Orkney, beach pebbles 30 miles inland. You don't move stone 750km without talking. Neolithic ancestors were much smarter than we ever thought. > #BurntMounds #RockArt #Archaeology #MoseleyBog

This is the calcium oxalate + sodium hydroxide water glass binder Mixed aggregate.. testing different binders and combinations.. takes a house key after 7 day cureish MOHs like 6 so far should get harder more tests to follow… everything is home made in the kitchen..

Scratches the glass 👌🏾👌🏾

The boring side of chemistry though very important 🥱 see how long they take to bottom out then real test begin..

I've been deep in our ancestry work for months and had a weird realisation tonight. My mum's side: Irish & Scottish, families that go way back there. My dad's side: half Indo-Jamaican (surname Sabrati, traces to Bengal/Bihar) and half Barbadian Black. That's not just 3 continents. It's 3 ancient human lineages. The European side = Neanderthal DNA. The Indian side = Denisovan trace + Neanderthal. The Barbadian side = ghost archaic - An unknown ancient human we carry from West Africa. I know it's not that important in the grand scheme, but it's oddly humbling. I'm not just mixed heritage, I'm literally where three different ancient human species met again. After all that history, here we are just crazy.

"White was lime, chalk, sodium silicate. Blue was Egyptian blue, watery like watercolour, didn't dry it. Both been outside about 2 weeks now in this rain and still there.

Update on the ball that cracked So this is from that stone I did the drill, drop and boil on. I drilled it first, then I dropped it from 6 foot, then I boiled it for 20 minutes passed all of those. Then I let it dry 24 hours then I drilled it again, yeah fine. Then I put it in the freeze and thaw test it done 4 freeze and thaws and then it cracked open, then I broke it apart. But those circle bits there and that other bit with the lines, they seemed to hold together, so I just kept those little pieces. I left them on the wall outside for the last week it's been pissing down in England, torrential for the last week and those pieces have just stayed there. Video of them now still alright after a week in the rain.

Home made calcium silicate Not dead like Wollastonite just asleep waiting for that alkaline kick.