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  1. One of the oldest known “windows”

    Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
    For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.

    May 2014

    #Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag

  2. One of the oldest known “windows”

    Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
    For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.

    May 2014

    #Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag

  3. One of the oldest known “windows”

    Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
    For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.

    May 2014

    #Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag

  4. One of the oldest known “windows”

    Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
    For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.

    May 2014

    #Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag

  5. One of the oldest known “windows”

    Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
    For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.

    May 2014

    #Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag

  6. Stoney Littleton longbarrow, a neolithic tomb a few miles from #Bath #Somerset #UK.
    Built between 3800-3400 BCE, with the larger stones thought to have been brought to the spot from at least 5 miles away.
    #archaeology #neolithic #neolithicperiod #stoneage #megalithic #longbarrow #tomb

  7. Stoney Littleton longbarrow, a neolithic tomb a few miles from #Bath #Somerset #UK.
    Built between 3800-3400 BCE, with the larger stones thought to have been brought to the spot from at least 5 miles away.
    #archaeology #neolithic #neolithicperiod #stoneage #megalithic #longbarrow #tomb

  8. Stoney Littleton longbarrow, a neolithic tomb a few miles from #Bath #Somerset #UK.
    Built between 3800-3400 BCE, with the larger stones thought to have been brought to the spot from at least 5 miles away.
    #archaeology #neolithic #neolithicperiod #stoneage #megalithic #longbarrow #tomb

  9. Stoney Littleton longbarrow, a neolithic tomb a few miles from #Bath #Somerset #UK.
    Built between 3800-3400 BCE, with the larger stones thought to have been brought to the spot from at least 5 miles away.
    #archaeology #neolithic #neolithicperiod #stoneage #megalithic #longbarrow #tomb

  10. Stoney Littleton longbarrow, a neolithic tomb a few miles from #Bath #Somerset #UK.
    Built between 3800-3400 BCE, with the larger stones thought to have been brought to the spot from at least 5 miles away.
    #archaeology #neolithic #neolithicperiod #stoneage #megalithic #longbarrow #tomb