IT Sligo Archaeology students Jazmin Scally Koulak and Eugene Anderson sieving the soil at Carrowmore excavation Source: IT Sligo
Posted on 06/16/2019 11:34:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Carrowmore in the largest cemetery of megalithic tombs in Ireland, with 5,500-year-old passage tombs dating from 3,600 BC.
Archaeologists Dr Marion Dowd and Dr James Bonsall directed the excavation of a site that was formerly known as a barrow.
Barrows are circular earthen monuments surrounded by a circular ditch. These sites typically date to the Bronze Age and Iron Age, ranging from between 4,000 and 1,500 years old.
The excavation has revealed that some unexpected results – that the monument isn’t a barrow at all...
The team found that the circular ditch surrounded a central raised area that consisted of a thick circular layer of stone. Inside this was a sunken area with black, charcoal-rich soils.
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IT Sligo Archaeology students Jazmin Scally Koulak and Eugene Anderson sieving the soil at Carrowmore excavation Source: IT Sligo
I always tell my friend Seamus to stay away from that wheel barrow.
He don’t know a damn thing about machinery...
Ring of stones around carbon rich soil?
So a fire pit?
For s’mores?
Ireland.
Parents came over here when I was eighteen. Cereal famine. Couldn’t get a bowl anywhere. Bad. ‘Tis a beautiful country though; lush rolling hills, and the peat, ah the peat.
My Mother was Irish and once tried to bring a block of peat back with her in her carry on. Took a while to convince the customs people it wasn’t smokable. As a fuel it barely burns and doesn’t heat at all. Makes those cute cottages cold as hell in the winter.
I loved the MAD magazine send up of that movie.
Saw it in the theaters when it was out.
I see It!
A Star gate? LOL!
Recall the guy in England who built a replica barrow for a modern tomb and sold out all the crypts?
https://www.thelongbarrow.com/
Abdul Alhazred: “That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even death may die.”
now we in trouble.
2001 screenshot....
I always remember that when, in my less controlled examples of misanthropy, I link that scene to the actions of humans around me.
First one or two drivers at a 4 way stop sign intersection tried just driving straight past it. A few weeks later I see nearly all drivers do that as I near the intersection to make my full stop. They don’t slow down.
Now at several stop signs near the entrances to a shopping mall they do the same thing. You run a gauntlet on the straight road with a right of way passing the side entrances.
A resident of my large apt. complex tried sneaking his or her car to park in the premium paid spaces and the handicapped and the service vehicle no parking spaces. Now several a day are doing it, daring someone to stop them.
Good ol Seamus
Wow, that was a stumper, but the www came through again. :^)
Giant megalithic whiskey bottles.
Sorry SunkenCiv that was just good old brain power that came up with that connection.
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