Mike D Texas
WKR
Visiting Pearl Harbor and this was docked there. Left port toward the end of the day.
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Awesome stuff prehistoric history, its a marvel of the things they did without all our tech of today. ThanksThe carved images on this huge stone are dated to be over 5,000 years ago...
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It's just one of 127 huge stones ringing a hill-sized passage tomb (Knowth), strategically built by Stone Age farmers with countless other stones...the structure predates Stonehenge and the pyramids. Each huge stone in the ring is carved with images (other examples below), and each had to be somehow moved there from naturally occurring geological settings over twenty miles away. It's also remarkable that this site (and numerous other adjacent sites) was archeologically unearthed/restored relatively recently in the 1960's. The entrance and narrow dark passageway of the nearby Newgrange tomb are still intact and go straight into the center of the tomb perfectly aligned with the apex of the sun on the day of winter solstice...direct sunlight reaches all the way to the center of the tomb on that day/hour.
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I realize that not everyone is similarly interested in prehistoric stuff...thanks for your patience, guys! If you are, here are some references where you can learn more about this uniquely rare prehistoric World Heritage Site that we enjoyed when visiting Ireland.
Knowth
newgrange passage tomb
Brú_na_Bóinne
That's crazy! What was the elevation?Still plenty of snow on the trails
Yes it is quite captivatingGreat shot of the moon. Good contrast. I was able to get this one using my Meopta 15s and phoneksope. Low image quality on this one sorry.
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Nice target.