Rathcroghan Royal Site | Voices from the Dawn. Tulsk, Co. Roscommon We Irish should keep these personages much in our hearts, for they lived in the places where we ride and go marketing, and sometimes they have met one another on the hills that cast their shadows upon our doors at evening…When I was a child I had only to climb the hill behind the house to see long, blue, ragged hills flowing along the southern horizon. What beauty was lost to me, what depth of emotion is still perhaps lacking in me, because nobody told me…that Crúachan of the Enchantments lay behind those long, blue, ragged hills! W. B. Despite the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of firmly correlating specific monuments with sites mentioned in early tales, the general legendary associations of Rathcroghan and its rich mythology now, as in the past, imbue the land with magic… John Waddell, Rathcroghan: Archaeological and Geophysical Survey in a Ritual Landscape. 20092 Rathcroghan (the Fort of Crúachan) has both a geographic and a symbolic presence.
Tomb of Dathi. Prehistoric forest uncovered by storms in Cardigan Bay - in pictures | UK news. End of week 1 | Stonehenge Neolithic Houses. This week we have focused on getting the walls woven. The first couple of days were spent driving small stakes in on three of the buildings. We then wove a band of hazel around these locking everything together. The next stage was to insert longer stakes into the weave, these stakes were pre cut to the correct wall height which avoids us having to cut them off afterwards. A band is woven at the base of the walls. Longer walls stakes are inserted into the weave. We continued to weave hazel up these stakes creating a neat and strong walls. The teams at work on three buildings in the mud. Progress being made. By the end of the week we had one building woven to three quarters of the wall height and two buildings woven to a third of wall height.
The buildings at the end of week 1. Like this: Like Loading... Solving the spread of agriculture to Northern Europe - Article created on Sunday, May 6, 2012 The transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies is one of the most debated subjects in archaeology. In the May 2012 issue of the journal Science a joint Swedish-Danish research team has presented new information which presents a tantalising glimpse into this transitional period. Osteologists Ove and Evy Persson excavating Grave 2 at Ajvide, Sweden, in 1983. The skeleton belongs to a 20 year old female, dated to around 2700 BC. (Photo: Göran Burenhult) Genetic study After studying genetic material from four, 5,000-year-old skeletons recovered from excavations in Sweden, the researchers are confident that they can prove agriculture was introduced to Scandinavia by immigrant farmers from Southern Europe, who mixed with the local hunter-gatherer population.
The spread of agriculture Agriculture developed in the Middle East about 11,000 years ago and by about 5,000 years ago had reached most of Continental Europe. Matching people to places P. Uncovering an Iron-Age chieftain’s long-house - Article created on Monday, May 14, 2012 By Maggie Struckmeier During the late Iron-Age, Lofoten chiefdoms were actively increasing their wealth through tribute and trade. These chieftains owned large farms, built fine boats and longhouses, and surrounded themselves with exotic items brought back from trading expeditions.
A glimpse into this dynamic Norwegian world was helped by a chance discovery in 1981 on the Island of Vestvågøy which contained the largest longhouse ever found in Scandinavia. The results from the excavation led to such a wealth of information that a replica of the hall was built nearby allowing visitors to experience the life of a Lofoten chieftain.
Three Lofoten chiefdoms It is estimated that there may have been three Lofoten chiefdoms; two of them on Vestvågøy and the third on the neighbouring Island of Gimsøy. Map showing location of the Lofoten Islands with trade and colonisation routes A turning point for Borg history Major excavations Excavating the site at Borg.