When you’re in a magical land, the grass radiates the greenest greens, there are ripe blackberries to sample all over the periphery, and El Greco skies appear for your visit to prehistoric sacred sites. This is Dromberg Stone Circle, east of Glandore, County Cork. Note the distant water in view—that leads into the Atlantic Ocean!
The cremated remains of a young adolescent were found in a ceramic vessel when this site was excavated in 1958. The site was in use 1100-800 B.C.E. The “Druid Altar” and entry pillars roughly align with the solstice sun. Nearby two stone-walled circular huts were in use right up to 500 C.E. The smaller one contained a hearth, a well, and a trough for boiling water. This was presumably done by adding stones heated in a fire. When tested on site, 70 gallons of cold water could be brought to a boil in 18 minutes! It also stayed sufficiently hot to cook meat for three more hours!
When you live near remnants of people’s homes from 3,000 years before you, I think it tends to lessen one’s sense of self-importance and put your life in a different perspective.
The cremated remains of a young adolescent were found in a ceramic vessel when this site was excavated in 1958. The site was in use 1100-800 B.C.E. The “Druid Altar” and entry pillars roughly align with the solstice sun. Nearby two stone-walled circular huts were in use right up to 500 C.E. The smaller one contained a hearth, a well, and a trough for boiling water. This was presumably done by adding stones heated in a fire. When tested on site, 70 gallons of cold water could be brought to a boil in 18 minutes! It also stayed sufficiently hot to cook meat for three more hours!
When you live near remnants of people’s homes from 3,000 years before you, I think it tends to lessen one’s sense of self-importance and put your life in a different perspective.
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