Ah here.
This morning.
The summit of Seahan, Dublin/Wicklow mountains.
Archaeologist Neil Jackman tweetz:
There are a number of megalithic monuments on the summit. Unfortunately the ‘Druid Order’ have recently damaged the large cairn by quarrying it to make a stupid shelter that they handily signed.
The absolute gonks. (I’ve reported it to National Monuments). Please don’t screw around with 5000 year old tombs.
The utter irony of them writing ‘Please keep tidy’ on a site they damaged I’ve also picked up a fair amount of litter around there too. I’m going to build a Wicker man.
Yikes.
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Cairnage on the mountain. Proper full-costumed battle is in order. By flaming torch light during tomorrow’s summer solstice. I’ll go.
Tomorrow might be a good time indeed, given the solstice, as they may return for a rite of passage tomb.
I’ll sharpen me pitchfork.
Eejits.
“I fought the law and the law won” ? – third picture – idiot kids instead of members of a Druid Order I would imagine
I would agree. No proper druid group would dare desecrate an ancient tomb lest they upset the Síodh
‘gonks’ has been added to my word stock, thank you.
+gonk
Gonkball has long been a favourite term.
Gickmagnet
Is that not a good thing?
So confusing
If you ask it nicely I’m sure it will be lovely. And very tasteful too.
The ‘bag’ suffix is a favourite of mine, never thought of ball. Thanks
My seven year old has really taken the word “sap” to his heart, so much so he included it on my Father’s Day Card.
It’s marker on a rock from a million years ago.
Some rain will wash it off in a couple of months. You’d expect an archaeologist to know this.
Penny, he is saying they took all the stone from the ancient tower in the top picture but writing on stone with marker isn’t ok and will likely take years to wear away. You’d expect an internet commenter correcting an archaeologist not to know this.
It is a bit more than that. It is the wilful destruction of an ancient and protected structure that it the main issue here. That is what is upsetting the archaeologist most.
coupled, I’d assume, with real concern at the realisation that there are people of this level of idiocy out there posing a threat to our physical heritage
The only conclusion left to draw is that stupidity is an STI and highly contagious.
Wear condoms you randy divils.
Damn! Does that rule out dancing nekkid on the mountain top at midnight of the solstice?
Definitely permissable, provided you’re drinking the eerily smoking concoction from the skull of a goat.
But only then. Apparently.
Darn! Left my goat skull in the other suitcase! Well, no nekkid dancing for me tonight, so…
“damaged the large cairn by quarrying it to make a stupid shelter”
I don’t think the marker is the important bit
Is the cairn only better than the shelter because it’s older?
It’s the same rocks, just in a different formation.
It is better constructed for a start and has a historical and cultural significance that the other “shelter” lacks being one of relatively few structures built during that time period and one of fewer to survive. The Cairn represents the best construction of it’s day and the pile of stones the weakest. These things should be obvious.
Oh, Penny.
Druids use markers
feck sake, today’s generation of Druids heh?
There was a time when Druids would scorch a spell around that tower of stones that would be feared all over the parish
Or grind out letters so deep that the birdies would be seen bathing in them,
with just their fingernails
I dunno
they’ve it too easy
Too
Many
Play
Stations
Shur is that rock thing up there a kinda Play Station
of its day
Back in my day if we wanted to build a ritual site on a mountaintop we had to haul our own rocks
When was that, 5,000 years ago?
And not a stitch on ye.
Reckon she did not forget her goats skull in the wrong suitcase…
did you see another bunch of gonks set fire to the hut at the experimental archeology site UCD, luckily they can turn it around and research the effect of the fire now on the structure but still…gobpoooooooooooos
The Druids worship false gods. Time for an archaeological exorcism.