[farmfriend]

I thought it was a massive volcano eruption.

[WayneM]

I thought a large, alcohol-filled Kennedy relative fell into a bog and cased a massive release of swamp gas.

[blam]

It was a comet that plunged into the Celtic Sea. Mike Baillie should be credited with this discovery.

The Dark Ages, Were Thay Darker Than We Imagined?

"Concluding Thoughts Ben Rudder, an anthropologist who reviewed in New Scientist magazine a recently published book by Baillie on the subject, wrote :"

"If Baillie is right, history has overlooked probably the single most important explanation for the intermittent progress of civilisation."