With the recent drought here in Western Europe, there have been some great opportunities for researchers with drones to fly the landscape looking for possible sites of historical interest.

This culminated a coule of days ago by the discovery of a number of hitherto unsuspected and HUGE sites near the UNESCO New Grange Neolithic site by the River Boyne in Ireland. Here is a good link -

https://mythicalireland.com/MI...-lifetime-discovery/

And here is the thread on boards.ie -

https://www.boards.ie/vbulleti...522317#post107522317

I can only hope that the RoI has sufficient resources and field archeologists to make the most of these new opportunities dropped into their laps.

tac

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Very cool. It's not surprising that this was discovered, and I fully expect we'll never run out of things hiding in (somewhat) plain sight. As long-settled and relatively compact as the Isles/EU/Middle East is, it's not a matter of is there any evidence of settlement, but rather which culture.

Thank you.

Those are some remarkable discoveries and make me wonder what else we don’t know about the ancients.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Thank you.

Those are some remarkable discoveries and make me wonder what else we don’t know about the ancients.

Lacking any form of written record, 99% of what we think we know is conjecture, and the rest is just guesswork.

tac

Fascinating!!

EasyFire

...and now, a NEW PASSAGE TOMB!!!

https://www.rte.ie/news/leinst...ll-meath-megalithic/

This is just overwhelming news for every interested person.

tac

Thanks for sharing this. I’m glad to see they are continuing the exploration of the area.

My wife and I really enjoyed our visit to New Grange a few years ago. It was very educational and gave me a greater appreciation for the culture and the area. My family originated in the Meath/Westmeath area so I have to wonder if one of my great x 250+ grandparents might have helped haul some of those stones. The way they think they got them from the quarry, miles away, by hauling them under the boat, was a novel way of doing it.

It's very cool to see these things come back like that, long covered or buried.

Just the other week around here, there was a woman who came out to her driveway and finds it caved in, with all the recent rain we had, it turned out to be a long-forgotten stream that had been arched over in the Colonial era and paved. You could see the stream running below right through the hole in her asphalt driveway!