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Drombeg Stone Circle

Near Glandore, County Cork

Ireland's 'Druid's Altar', lined up with the midwinter sunset.

Drombeg is a circle of seventeen standing stones on a terrace looking out towards the sea. At the midwinter solstice, the setting sun lines up with the flat recumbent stone and the two tall portal stones opposite.

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When
About 1100 BC
Where
51.5640, -9.0870
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Free to visit, with a small car park.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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