Br na Boinne Or Bend Of The Boyne
August 10th, 2011 by admin
The Br na Boinne, or the Palace of the Boyne, is a World Heritage Site located on the eastern coast of Ireland, in the county of Meath. It is one of Europe’s most important sites from the Middle Stone Age (the 35,000s B.C.E.), and consists of a collection of stones, tombs, and henges. The site is of great interest to archeoastronomers (archeologists who study ancient methods of astronomy) because it shows how much the people who made these structures knew about how to predict events in the sky. The passage graves at Newgrange and Dowth are clearly aligned with the position of the sun at the winter solstice. (Incidentally, the former is called the “Bend of the Boyne;” many translate the site’s name thus, but it is not correct.) Archeologists are not in complete agreement as to the exact purposes of the stones, though it is almost certainly religious” there is some evidence that the inhabitants made sacrifices on the site. There are also the “passage graves” or chamber tombs at Townleyhall and Knowth (some of the kerbstones are either missing or damaged, though).
Tourists can enter at the Visitor’s Center and listen to the various interpretations of the structures.
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