Thanks BenLurkin.
Posted on 03/22/2020 10:46:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
One rarely-visited site surveyed, known as Site XI or Airigh na Beinne Bige, now consists of a single standing stone on an exposed hillside overlooking the great circle.
Geophysics revealed that not only was the stone originally part of a circle of standing stones, but also that there was a massive, star-shaped magnetic anomaly in the centre – either the result of a single, large lighting strike or many smaller strikes on the same spot.
Project leader Dr Richard Bates, of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews, said: “Such clear evidence for lightning strikes is extremely rare in the UK and the association with this stone circle is unlikely to be coincidental.
“Whether the lightning at Site XI focused on a tree or rock which is no longer there, or the monument itself attracted strikes, is uncertain.
The researchers were also able to virtually recreate another nearby circle, with the help of the Smart History team based in the University of St Andrews School of Computer Science, which had been lost with its stones either buried or lying flat.
Known as Na Dromannan, careful scanning of the stones allowed a full 3D model to be built allowing the passage of the sun and moon around this circle to be tracked for the first time in four millennia.
Dr Bates added: “For the first time in over 4000 years the stones can now be seen and ‘virtually’ walked around.
The team hopes to return to Lewis next year to undertake further surveys both on land and in the waters around the Tursachan at Calanais, where the old landscape has been flooded by rising sea levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Airigh na Beinne Bige
Must be Gaelic for “Argh, my beeber bigly”
sunkenciv usually posts this kind of stuff.
It’s fun to read and I’m glad somebody else (you) put one up. :)
too much Corona 24/7. YES it is serious.
That’s why a break from reading or watching it is needed.
Early 70’s, 100 miles offshore of California a thunderstorm squall showed up with multiple lightning strikes hitting the water all around our 60 foot tuna boat. It lasted about ten minutes and to this day I don’t know why the mast wasn’t struck, being the tallest structure around. Lightning is tricky stuff.
So they can see there was a lightning strike from thousands of years ago in the center of where the stones used to be.
They cannot tell if that is why the stones were placed around it, but admit it is unlikely to be a coincidence.
But why would they place the stones around a lightning strike? Surely there must’ve been many lightning strikes in that open field way back when.
Unless ‘Ol’ Farmer Og’ was standing there when it hit?
Lucky strike? How lightning inspired builders of Callanish . Great picture on page.
“multiple lightning strikes hitting the water all around our 60 foot tuna boat” — is that the day you earned your moniker? “dainbramaged”
I'm just finishing up the last (binge) season (3) of OUTLANDER on NetFlix.
The rock is in Scotland and the vehicle for the plot.
Must be Gaelic for “Argh, my beeber bigly”
That's absolutely right Dr. Lurkin, and it's astonishing to note that whereas Germanic expressions tend to involve elongated and extravagant syllablizations, the Huns, having conquered most of the Germanic, Scythian and Democrat barbarian tribes outside of the borders of the Roman Empire, oralized this conception quite elegantly as simply "Covfefe"
Electric Universe ping.
They cannot tell if that is why the stones were placed around it, but admit it is unlikely to be a coincidence.>>>>>>>>
It was the only way back then to generate 108,000 Gigawatts so they could beam up ?
Imagine laying on a sacrificial stone slab with all that electricity zapping around.
Airigh na Beinne Bige is roughly translated from the Gaelic as:
Little Mountain Shelter
Na Dromannan translates as “ The Drums” . Quite appropriate.
Stone monuments are built either on fault lines or over anomalies. Many are visible from the ocean - or were before the Ice Age ended around 11800BC. They likely served as navigation markers as well.
Commonly there is a static charge on the stones which has the effect on a person near it of placing them in contact with what were often described as ‘powers’ or ‘gods’ who offer instruction. This is believed to have something to do with the rise of shamanism among the Solutrean and later cultures
Oddly, this phenomenon, like the ‘instruction’, is common to all such occurrences - regardless of location.
Seems to make sense.
Sunspots dump a lot of charged particles into the upper atmosphere.
The dry air of the colder months may make it possible for the charge difference between the clouds and the surface to build up to a higher degree so as to make a super bolt more likely.
But this lighting strike is on land and not water as the site suggest as the most common place for a Super Bolt strike.
Donald Trump’s mother was an immigrant — from a remote rugged island in Scotland
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