Altar of the Druids. / Mike Pitts.
by Pitts, Mike; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 43Science. Publisher: New Scientist, 2002ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Astronomy -- Forecasting | Druids and druidism | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain | Lunar eclipsesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "They don't look terribly exciting. Who would get worked up about some gnarly old timbers in an ancient peat bog? But these aren't just any old lumps of wood. They are the remains of posts that supported an Iron Age walkway built almost 2500 years ago and used, it would appear, by the Druids of eastern England as a platform from which to consign sacrificial objects to the watery depths." (NEW SCIENTIST) This article discusses the discovery of ancient timbers in England, which may have been used by the Druids to predict lunar eclipses.
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Originally Published: Altar of the Druids, Feb. 16, 2002; pp. 40-42.
"They don't look terribly exciting. Who would get worked up about some gnarly old timbers in an ancient peat bog? But these aren't just any old lumps of wood. They are the remains of posts that supported an Iron Age walkway built almost 2500 years ago and used, it would appear, by the Druids of eastern England as a platform from which to consign sacrificial objects to the watery depths." (NEW SCIENTIST) This article discusses the discovery of ancient timbers in England, which may have been used by the Druids to predict lunar eclipses.
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