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RDScally - Standing Stones on the Moon

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Drombeg stone circle, also known as The Druid's Altar, is a closely spaced 9-meter (29 ft.) diameter recumbent stone circle in County Cork, Ireland. It was built around 11 BC.

A recumbent stone circle is a type of stone circle incorporating a large monolith stone, known as a recumbent, lying on its side.
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Drombeg has 17 stones, with two taller entrance stones placed opposite its recumbent axial stone. Drombeg’s axis is orientated southwest towards the setting sun

Archeologists consider Drombeg a 'Cork-Kerry' type stone circle.

Drombeg was first surveyed in the early 1900s. It was excavated and restored in 1957.

The circle is also a burial site.

Archeologists found an inverted pot buried in the center of the circle containing the cremated remains of an adolescent. The remains were wrapped with thick cloth and were found with 80 other smashed pottery shards, four bits of shale and funeral pyre remains.

Drombeg is also notable because it was also a prehistoric industrial site.

Ruins of two round stone walled conjoined huts and a fulacht fiadh are about 40 m (150 ft) west of the stone circle.
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Fulacht fiadhs were places where fire-heated stones were used to boil water in a stone-lined trough.

The larger hut had a timber roof supported by a wood post. The smaller hut had a cooking oven on its east side.

A stone-lined trench leads from the huts to the cooking place (fulacht fiadh) with a hearth, well and trough where water was boiled by adding hot stones.

What exactly the ancient Irish were boiling in mass quantities in their fulacht fiadh is unclear. The Dromberg fulacht fiadh can boil about 70 gallons of water for as long as 3 hours.

Researchers have suggested numerous uses for fulacht fiadh. These possible uses include cooking meat, cloth dyeing, brewing beer and as ritual sweat lodges.

There are at least 40 examples of fulacht fiadh across Ireland as well as a few in Scandanavia.

Radiocarbon dating of samples from Drombeg shows the fulacht fiadh was active from the time the circle was built around 11000 BC. It was used until the 5th century AD.

With a fulacht fiadh next to a stone circle it is likely Drombeg was a busy community center.
Learn more:
Stonepages
www.stonepages.com/ireland/dr...

“Was Drombeg’s stone circle designed using skills learned in Babylon?”
The Irish Times
www.irishtimes.com/culture/he...

“New discoveries about Drombeg Stone Circle” The Southern Star
www.southernstar.ie/news/roun...

The Megalithic Portal
www.megalithic.co.uk/article....

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