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The dolmen / anta Pata do Cavalo ("horse hoof") is a megalithic site from the Copper Age, located between the prehistoric copper ore mines "Mina de Canal Caveira" in the north and "Mina do Lousal" in the south.,
The local population may have mined ore and some minerals as early as the 3rd millennium BC.
The roughly round chamber has a diameter of 5.0 to 5.3 metres. The chamber contains smaller stone slabs from the collapsed dome.
If you are interested in Archeology and plan to visit this 5200 years old site, where many goddess figurines were found and can be seen in museums all over the world, don't visit this site. There is nothing left, it looks like it was abandoned some years ago after doing an UNESCO archeological research project for more than a half century. Nature took back the site, all metal stuff like gates and fences were stolen, just a very sad place, even you still find this Dyadovo Tell Archeological Park folder everywhere around Stara and Nova Zagora. Just sad.
August 2018.
Scepter of King Khasekhemwy. 2nd Dynasty, 3rd Millenium BC, 2676 BC - 2649 BC. Abydos, Egypt. Sardonyx, Gold, Copper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Dated to the Late Copper Age (aka the Late Eneolithic or Late Chalcolithic period), 5th millennium BCE.
From Grave 36 in the Varna I cemetery, a prehistoric necropolis discovered in 1972 within the modern city of Varna, Bulgaria, near the Black Sea coast.
Radiocarbon dates from the cemetery group at 4750-4550 BC.
On display at the Varna Archaeological Museum (official museum website; en.wikipedia), Varna, Bulgaria.
A batch of Kilbeggan Single Malt pot-still whiskey cased on the 10/10/2011. The preference is for old barrels that have been used to mature port, cognac, sherry, etc so many of them have originally come from France. This is believed to help develop the flavour of the whiskey as it matures over many years. Kilbeggan distillery employ two coopers who maintain the wooden barrel casks using traditional tools and craftsmanship methods.
John Locke’s distillery at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath is a working industrial heritage museum set up and run by local volunteers of the Kilbeggan Preservation and Development Association Ltd since 1982. In 1987 the site was bought by Cooley’s Distillery and in 2010 also secured the lease for the visitor’s centre there. To celebrate their one-millionth visitor, Locke’s Distillery Museum held a free open-day on 10th September 2011 which was well attended and a great success. Incidentally, the one-millionth visitor came from Germany.
Locke’s Distillery produces pure Pot Still Irish whiskey as well as having some 40,000 sq. ft. of storage space at Kilbeggan, also used for the storage and maturation of whiskey produced by Cooleys. Kilbeggan is also unique in having a 180 year old licensed pot still with a capacity to produce 25,000 cases a year of pot-still whiskey, most of it going to export. Since 2010 Kilbeggan distillery has also introduced its own full milling, mashing, fermentation and distillation processes carried out using more traditional methods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbeggan_Distillery (A history of Kilbeggan distillery - founded 1757, owned by Matthias McMahon from 1798, by John Locke from 1843 and closed 1957).
www.classicwhiskey.com/distilleries/lockes.htm (Locke’s Distillery museum - since its closure in 1957, the buildings and machinery there gradually fell into a state of disrepair as well as being plundered for scrap metal. In 1982 a restoration project began and has since then has been ongoing. Fortunately, most of the distillery equipment and machinery survived and if not for the restoration project, it would all certainly have been lost by now.)
www.advertiser.ie/mullingar/article/43620 (Mullingar Advertiser newspaper article - one millionth visitor to Locke’s Distillery Museum celebrations).
Reconstruction of Ötzi, the 5000 year old mummy found in the Ötztal Alps in 1991.
(Again some people on flickr claim this one was a Neanderthal, which of course he's not - he's already one of us).
Dated to the Late Copper Age (aka the Late Eneolithic or Late Chalcolithic period), 5th millennium BCE.
From Grave 4 in the Varna I cemetery, a prehistoric necropolis discovered in 1972 within the modern city of Varna, Bulgaria, near the Black Sea coast.
Radiocarbon dates from the cemetery group at 4750-4550 BC.
On display at the Varna Archaeological Museum (official museum website; en.wikipedia), Varna, Bulgaria.