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In Dublin city center there is The Long Stone. This is a modern replica of the original stone erected by the vikings when they first landed. The original was "lost" in 1700 & something. There used to ba a massive mound there until a little later which was the old viking meeting hill. This was leveled to raise the level of a local street by 8 ft! Imagine how gig that mound was.

Anyway to get back to the replica Viking Long Stone. It is very clearly labelled as a fake/replica and that's fine. If people were to pretend it was the real thing then that would be pretty shitty.

There is a fake at the Priddy site now.
The original is in Bristol museum. The stone is quite amazing.
It has neolithic hand and foot shapes carved on it.
Well worth a look if your ever in Bristol,
Pete G

sorry to veer off topic
One of the greatest mysteries is where did all the Dublin vikings go? DNA research has given plenty of viking blood in the Shetlands and Orkneys but none in Wales or Ireland, not *even* in Dublin. . Another of the curious DNA results show plenty of confusing signs of Saxon origin indistinguishable with that of the Danelaw (understandable since both came from neighbouring areas of northern germany) BUT equal proportion of native British (non-Germanic) in Scotland/Wales OR Southern England. Which shows that not all areas in one country are uniformly peopled or influenced.

I would be interested to know to what extent viking culture penetrated the Irish and Celtic native one if the population lived segregated as DNA research shows.