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100 1 _aPitts, Mike.
245 1 0 _aAltar of the Druids. /
_cMike Pitts.
260 _bNew Scientist,
_c2002.
440 0 _aSIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
_nArticle 43.
_pScience,
_x1522-3264;
500 _aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
500 _aOriginally Published: Altar of the Druids, Feb. 16, 2002; pp. 40-42.
520 _a"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.
599 _aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650 0 _aAstronomy
_xForecasting.
650 0 _aDruids and druidism.
650 0 _aExcavations (Archaeology)
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aLunar eclipses.
710 2 _aSIRS Publishing, Inc.
_tSIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
_pScience.,
_x1522-3264.
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