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thesweetcheat wrote: tiompan wrote: moss wrote: Bronze Age funerary pots, 1900-1300 BC This week's offering - 'the tomb is a womb'..... http://www.irishtimes.com/news[...]d/2011/0416/1224294766199.html One found last saturday at Tuach . http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8875/hill_of_tuack.html Great stuff Mr T. Saw Drew's excavation pics a few weeks back, this is a real find. Is this the first time it's been excavated? Dalrymple excavated it in the mid 19th C when there were six stones standing , today there are effectively none , the big stone that is often photographed was not part of the monument . He found thre urns . It looks like the locals smashed the remaining stones with sledgehammers , lots of sharp edged bits of granite just under the top soil .same thing had happened at Broomend of Crichie just up the road ,here it was possible to actually refit bits of a couple stones ,the Tuach stones were given a more thorough doing . Reply | with quote |  17th April 2011ce 20:01 In reply to: Re: A History of Ireland in a hundred Objects (thesweetcheat) |
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