Ireland, new Stonehenge discovered

A Stonehenge-like monument has been discovered in Ireland. Researcher Anthony Murphy, a photographer and author of the website Mythical Ireland, flew a drone into the archaeological site of Brú na Bóinne (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993) in northeastern Ireland, whose lands are suffering from a drought due to a severe heat wave that has affected the entire nation (a heat wave, by the way, of an intensity such as has not occurred since 1976). Murphy, who was filming the area with the help of photographer Ken Williams, said, “We ran home to see the images on the computer, we knew we had captured something sensational.”

The drought, in fact, brought out the traces of a henge similar to the one at Stonehenge in England: the ground appeared covered with the marks left by the decomposition of the monument’s structure (probably large wooden blocks), arranged according to concentric circles. The dating of the site, according to Murphy, could be between 3100 and 2500 B.C., roughly the same years as Stonehenge.

The find is now being studied by archaeologists, but the importance of the discovery has already been highlighted by Ireland’s Department of Culture, which has congratulated Murphy. Stephen Devis, an archaeologist at Dublin University’s School of Archaeology, also told the weekly Newsweek that the discovery has “unique features.”
You can see video of the find at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywlwmDl3HO8

Pictured are traces of the monument captured by Anthony Murphy’s drone. Ph. Credit Mythical Ireland

Ireland, new Stonehenge discovered

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