The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Archaeology => Topic started by: Sanguine on June 28, 2019, 02:23:54 pm
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Archaeologists are excavating a 4,000-year-old burial mound on a British island linked in mythology to the mysterious order of magical priests known as the Druids.
And although the burial mound is much older than the Druids — who lived about 2,000 years ago, if they existed at all — the excavations have cast new light on the ancient inhabitants of the island of Anglesey.
Overlooking the Irish Sea from the northwest corner of Wales, Anglesey is dotted with numerous Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments. The most famous is the 5,000-year-old passage tomb of Bryn Celli Ddu (Welsh for "the mound in the dark grove"), which has an entrance passage that aligns with the rising midsummer sun. It was archaeologically excavated in 1928 and 1929, and later reconstructed....
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https://www.livescience.com/65822-burial-mound-island-of-druids.html (https://www.livescience.com/65822-burial-mound-island-of-druids.html)