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Built in another age this hut was the home of a powerful druid who prefered to study high above the ground.
This is the Druid's Circle (Welsh: Meini Hirion) on the North Wales coastal walk above Penmaenmawr. Wikipaedia says it is 5000 years old. Dare I question their authority? Anyhow the sun remained behind the clouds and boy was it windy. I only had time to sacrifice so I continued on to the quarry that looms big above the A55 and the little coastal towns below.
This wonderful and evocative stone circle, considered one of the finest examples in Britain, forms part of a complex of ancient monuments on moorland above the town of Penmaenmawr. The circle consists of 30 stones, 11 of which are still standing, set into the inner edge of a low embankment about 35 metres in diameter.
Known locally as the Meini Hirion, or 'long stones' in English, the site was excavated in the 1950s. It revealed a capstone of a finely made cist (burial chamber), with stones, including quartz, scattered unevenly around it. Inside the cist was a food vessel that contained the cremated bones of a child aged between 10 and 12. The vessel is now in the Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor.
A second cremation was found in another pit. A plain food vessel contained the cremated bones of a child aged between 11 and 13, accompanied by a small bronze riveted knife. Children’s remains within these circles may point to spiritual beliefs in youth and regeneration for the communities that used them. These monuments would have been important social places, where people gathered at certain times throughout the year.
A tentative date of 1450–1400 BC was proposed for the construction of the Meini Hirion, which would place them in the Bronze Age, though it was acknowledged at the time that it could be much older, dating from 3000 BC. The ring is not a perfect circle, being slightly flattened on the north-east side where a trackway cuts across.It has been proposed that the circle deliberately avoids this track, which would suggest that the track is earlier. Either way, the Meini Hirion are thought to predate the Druids by many hundreds of years, and the structure only acquired its English name of Druid’s Circle in the 19th century
Look at the stupid auto tags added by flickr:: outdoor cloud sky grassland field landscape mountain
I would never add such basic guff, and I don't want to be associated with such stupidity.
This is a (realistic?) recreation of a druids temple, hidden in woodland a few miles outside the beautiful market town of Masham in North Yorkshire.
It's not a real temple - it's a folly created in 1820 by William Danby, a wealthy landowner an owner of the near-by Swinton Hall (which is now an award winning hotel - stayed there a night over christmas and was amazing!). He created it to generate work for the locals, who were paid 1 shilling a day each to create it, and a salary was offered for someone to live as a hermit in the cave there!
Been here a couple of times (tho i think this is the first time i've posted a photo of it), even still, its not easy to find - we visted this time on a spur of the moment while in the area, trying to remember how to get there - much driving down country roads and swearing took place :-)
Benedetta gente, farebbero qualsiasi cosa per far finta che la magia non esiste, anche quando ce l’hanno sotto il naso.
J.K. Rowling
Built in another age this hut was the home of a powerful druid who prefered to study high above the ground.