Nice overhead shots of the site here
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Actually in Micknanstown, this is about 4 metres high and 25 metres in diameter.
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The house is nearly complete and the tomb is looking untouched.
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Shot taken from the road nearby. Even from here it looks impressive!
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The 4 Loughcrew hills, taken from, and including, Carnbane West
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The carving in the passage. It’s actually quite large, maybe a foot top to bottom.
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Hair DNA reveals ancient extinct humans
Scientists have managed to decode the complete genome of an ancient extinct human from Greenland for the first time using a strand of hair 4,000 years old.
DNA from a strand of 4,000-year-old human hair has revealed an astonishing insight into the people who once lived in Greenland, after scientists have been able to decode the complete genome of an ancient human for the first time.
The extinct Saqqaq culture were the first known inhabitants of Greenland and lived on the west coast between 4,750 and 2,500 years ago.
They are well known from archaeological sites, excavated in the late 1980s at Qeqertasussuk in Disko Bay, where small stone tools and bone harpoons have been found. There were human remains too, including a large clump of human hair.
But what the people looked like or where they came from were all a mystery.
Because the hair was found in the permafrost, it had been very well preserved; scientists already know from studying the remains of woolly mammoths that hair is a particularly good source of uncontaminated DNA.
more here:
channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/hair+dna+reveals+ancient+extinct+humans/3535137
Similar to the previous shot but showing the large digger on site. I guess with heavy, expensive machinery like that on-site that work would have to be advancing.
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The red box encloses the tomb in this very bad camera-phone shot. This was taken about 2 months ago.
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Across the centre of the caher towards the entrance. The hazel scrub is gradually smothering this site.
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Late addition medieval doorway and lintel in this cashel.
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Hopelessly forgotten and overgrown. Looking over the chamber. The remains of the small court are to the left.
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Most of this tomb remains, but in a completely collapsed state.
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Sad remains of what would have been a classic Burren wedge tomb.
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Rare Clare portal tomb, though you’d never call it one from the detail of this shot. Very badly damaged.
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Very scant remains of this tomb. It’s not in the original Survey of Clare’s megalithic tombs, but is marked on the OS map and Robinson has it on his map, though with a ? disclaimer.
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Interesting channels eroded on the inner face of this stone.
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