Tuesday, 13 April 2021

A Car Ride And A Walk To A Wedge Tomb.

We went in the car  on a new woodland walk we've never visited before the other day.  
Lesser Celandine in flower.
 
A lovely river and somebody went for a swim.  Golden Retrievers can't resist water.


A clever way of painting trees to point the way to the wedge tomb.

A sign post about the wedge tomb.
Sheep wire on bridges give good grip.  Very duck board like.  The type you see in first world war trenches.

Not very suitable foot attire for walking through muddy paths and woods.  I bought them in the Algarve two years ago and they are so comfortable.
Wedge tomb.  About 4000 years old.  A thousand years before the pyramids in Egypt were constructed.
An appropiate appropriate picture that reminds us of Easter: an empty tomb.
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11 comments:

  1. local alien13 April 2021 at 09:38

    Loved looking at all your photos, even the sandals. I wouldn't mind wandering around your wedge tomb. Very different countryside and history

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  2. northsider 13 April 2021 at 09:46

    Thanks Linda. Ireland is such a beautiful unspoilt country, especially on a nice day. I

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  3. Debby13 April 2021 at 11:08

    Oh my gosh! I have just had a wander around google. I never heard of wedge tombs. It was fascinating. Now I've got a lot of questions. Is it the tomb of one or many. A site indicated that there were the remains of two mounds on either side. Were those excavated or looted? It is amazing that such huge rocks were moved! I also figured out where the word curb comes from. I also learned a completely new word: tumulus. Thank you for taking us along on your walk. Glad Rosie got a swim out of the deal.

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  4. northsider 13 April 2021 at 11:17

    Apparently there are over 400 Bronze age wedge tombs in Ireland Debby. There are also lots of stone circles and ring forts. Ireland doesn't seem to do a lot Archaologicical excavations and they leave them in peace. I think cremated human remains would be placed in an urn in the tomb. The wedge tomb probably belonged to an ancient chieftain. It's incredible that all this history is still here and free for everyone to enjoy. It was a great day and a relatively easy walk. Thanks.

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  5. northsider 13 April 2021 at 11:39

    Sorry for spelling archaeological wrong Debby.

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  6. JayCee13 April 2021 at 11:55

    What an interesting place to visit. We saw something very similar last year when we went to Guernsey. They had a Megalithic dolmen, or passage grave site, which looked very similar to that. There was also another one we saw in northern Spain many years ago. Quite fascinating .

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  7. northsider 13 April 2021 at 12:09

    It is fascinating JayCee. I have read the Celts originated in Spain. So perhaps there is a connection there? There are similar structures I the West country in England and the English Channel was once forest. So they must have roamed about a lot in those ancient times.

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  8. The bike shed13 April 2021 at 16:36

    Interesting spot - there are lots of tombs and megaliths near here in Wales too. My wife is especially keen on visiting them.

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  9. northsider 14 April 2021 at 01:00

    Thanks The bike shed. I like visiting the stone circles like Drombeg in County Cork. Sometimes we have felt the residual energy when we have touched these impressive stone features.

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  10. Yorkshire Pudding14 April 2021 at 02:44

    That was a good day out and a mysterious goal. The people of the past left behind so many tantalising pointers to the lives they lived on these islands - long before Christianity was imported.

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  11. northsider 14 April 2021 at 04:23

    It was a good day out YP. Built before the pharaohs in Egypt.

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