Sorry, I missed Saturday's Digest ping. This is an archaeoastronomy topic. I regard 99 percent of archaeoastronomy claims as absurd -- "Though this may not be the original alignment we are still left with a spectacular display... The 3340 BC eclipse was is the only eclipse that fits out of the 92 solar eclipses in history" -- but I love me some megalithic sites.
Interesting factoid.
To those who might wonder ...
Samhain and Imbolc, (Sow-en and Im-bohlk) having been determined by those who studied the old Celtic agrarian calendars, fall on Oct. 31st., and Feb. 2nd, consecutively. Imbolc, as was suggested in the article, is celebrated as ‘The First Light After Winter’s Darkness’, which is Yule, the Winter Solstice, aka “Winter’s Dark and Deep’/Shortest daylight-longest night of the astronomical year. Samhain, on the same calendar, was considered the end of the year, and the time of the last harvest, after the harvests of grains, then vegetables, when the livestock were slaughtered for winter meats.
You mean you don’t think every pile of rocks by neolithic people is an astronomical observatory???
Still thinking of this Cairn L and discovering the owner of the land does not allow ones on it. I can see where this might protect it but is it just weathering away?
Is Cairn L protected by archaeologists or Ireland? Are there any plans to allow it to be explored further?
