Le Centre de Visiteurs primé dans les champs, un Ceida 5 000 ans Système de murs en pierre, dans le comté de Mayo, Irlande

• Contributeur: George Munday / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: BY8FME
• Taille du fichier: 57,4 MB (2,9 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3628 x 5532 px | 30,7 x 46,8 cm | 12,1 x 18,4 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 16 septembre 2010
• Lieu: Ceida Fields, Downpatrick, County Mayo, Ireland

Informations supplémentaires

The story behind the Ceida Fields began when Patrick Caulfield, a local school-master, visited his local bog near Ballycastle in County Mayo, Ireland to cut turf for the winter. As he wielded his turf spade, he came across linear piles of deliberately placed stones below the slow growing peat, he knew turf takes thousands of years to form, and realised it was part of an ancient man-made stone wall. Forty years later Patrick's son Seamus, an archaeologist, brought to light a field system of parallel, stone walls covering about four square miles. Carbon-dating revealed the fields to be some 5, 000 years old, making the Neolithic field system, the oldest in the world. The interpretation centre appears to grow out of the bog to form a natural extension of the landscape

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