Posted on 09/03/2022 5:48:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An Irish archaeological photographer has discovered a remarkable series of prehistoric carvings at the Grange Stone Circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick.
Ken Williams, a leading Irish archaeological photographer, has developed methods of lighting stones so that they can be photographed to maximum effect, allowing him to find a series of carvings over the past few years.
Williams was returning to check the stones at Grange Stone Circle as part of his research when he discovered the new carvings.
The new carvings are particularly spectacular due to the presence of concentric circles and arcs found on the back and sides of a stone at the north entrance passage to the prehistoric enclosure.
Dr. Elizabeth Shee Twohig, who has published extensive research on megalithic and rock art, remarked that the carvings are extremely rare for Munster and Connacht.
"The carvings are quite like those at passage tombs in the North and East of the country, such as Knowth and Newgrange, but there is only a single carved stone of this kind in Munster or Connaught," ... "It is possible that the stone is contemporary with the banked enclosure henge at c.3000 BC and was incorporated into the circle built inside the enclosure at a slightly later date." ...
The Grange Stone Circle is the largest standing stone circle in Ireland, measuring 150 ft in diameter and enclosed by 113 stones.
The circle's largest stone is Rannach Chruim Duibh, which weighs over 40 tons and is over 13 ft tall.
The circle comprises a ring of continuous upright stones backed by a nine-meter-wide earthen bank reaching 1.2 meters in height.
...Williams said he plans to publish the new carvings in an academic paper, where he will describe the art and discuss comparable examples.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
There was a young lady from Phoenix
Who kept tissue in her V-necks.
When asked why it was kept
She said “When I slept,
The bed got covered in kleenex.”
😂😂😂
Those are all groaners...
I just hope they don’t find any carvings in the land of Pun...
There once was a young man from Boston,
Who drove a little red Austin,
Had room for.....
Outstanding!
Ok. That thing that looks like a tree, with a very obvious incised carving. That is not the new carving, is it? For some reason I can’t bring up the pic.
Pikers. 🤪😆🤗😀🤭😝🧐
Had room for what? 🤭🤪😝🤨🧐🤗
The carvings were a Limerick.
“There once was a maiden from Stonehedge....”
There was a young lady of Chichester
whose good looks made the saints in their niches stir
one Sunday at mass
the curve of her ass
made the Bishop of Chichester’s britches stir.
Or, as Bob Dylan sang, everybody must get Stonehenge.
I don’t think that’s what he was talking about. Also, as BenLurkin pointed out, the wording should have been “newly discovered” rather than “new”. :^)
lol
lol
There once was a carving in stone
Where a square looked the same as a cone
It was thought to tell time
Though the stones didn’t chime
But it gave off an unearthly tone
There once was a high-ranking Druid
Whose sexuality was fluid
He was asked would he try
With a girl or a guy?
He said give me both and I’ll do it
There once was a maid from Madras
who had a remarkable ass,
Not rounded and pink, as you probably think,
it was gray, had long ears and ate grass!
Yes. I got a laugh out of that ;)
Good stuff, Mark.
Be you from Ireland? asked of me the elf
I grabbed my pint of ale from off the shelf
“See the carvings on the wall?
“These be my kin, one and all”
Drunk I stand etching my name by myself
LOL. Bravo.
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