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Early morning calm surrounds the causeway leading to the crannog.
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Perched on a hill outside Armagh city is Emain Macha – or Navan Fort.
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Taken from the west, south of the loch after crossing the canal.
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Looking west, also the end of the Viking Canal as it reaches open water.
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Quick look around, catch up with A & B at the naust / canal, then the dun.
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Nearby is the chamber cairn, reasonably nearby is a cave and in the distance the dun.
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Some decent kerbs also remain in lace, looking down onto Camas a’ Mhurain (the Gulf Of The Sea)
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If you follow the path this will be first view of the cairn.
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Nellie Wilson works part-time weaving together hazel branches to build the walls and roof of a replica Iron Age roundhouse.
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Imagine an ancient time at Rubh’ an Dùnain around 3000 years ago.
A small procession winds its way towards a stone cairn overlooking Loch Brittle to the north, and behind them to the south, their own little settlement of stone and turf.
They circle the lochan and make their way up a sacred path, leaving the shelter of the natural dip in the terrain to face the chilling wind that blows across the ridge and the entrance to the House of the Dead.
The bier that carries the dead body is lowered at the doorway of the burial chamber and bowls of offerings are placed on the ground. Then the ritual begins, ending with shifting the body and bowls inside the chambered cairn to lie beside the human bones of those who have gone before.
Such an event is part of the story of Rubh’ an Dùnain. The House of the Dead – a chambered cairn known as a Barpa in Gaelic – remains in ruins to bear testimony to such ancient rituals.
Archaeologists say the chamber is one of many on the Atlantic coastline from Spain to the Shetlands with some evidence that those who lived in this hidden headland were not only fishermen, but farmers too.
Skye’s Hidden Heritage
A museum is calling on Lego enthusiasts to build and pay for a replica of a historic Somerset hill fort.
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The shop table from this angle hidden by plants.
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Various cairns, duns, canals and nausts at Loch na h-Airde
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I love this flat rock, makes it feel like a shop.
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