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<< Feature Articles >> Your experiences of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange and elsewhere

Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 20 December 2004  Page Views: 4940

Neolithic and Bronze AgeCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Meath
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Newgrange submitted by PatH : Detail of kerbstone, Newgrange, Ireland pathedger.com (Vote or comment on this photo)
Michael Fox writes: This year the winter solstice mid point is the 21st December, however the winter solstice sunrise illuminates the passage and chamber at Newgrange for a few days around the mid point. The weather forecast was promising for Sunday the 19th, so I joined a small group at the entrance to the mound and was duly rewarded with a beautiful sunrise.

Click on http://www.knowth.com/winter-solstice-2004.htm for images.

And in the same virtual postbag arrived the following request from Angie Lake:

Hi Andy,
If you come across any pictures of this year's Winter Solstice sunrise over Stonehenge, can you put them on the Portal, please? It's not so much for me, but for a friend who was due to come down from Cumbria to observe the sun rising over Stonehenge, in line with ( from the position of - or - from the 'road' side of ) the Slaughter Stone.

Sounds like a good proposition, indeed all Winter Solstice photo submissions are welcome if you would like somewhere to display your best photos.

To quote Michael once again; "Wishing you peace, health and happiness at this festive time of year"
Cheers,
Andy

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Re: Your experiences of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange and elsewhere by Anonymous on Friday, 14 January 2005
Newgrange and Stonehenge
Winter solstice sunrise line of Newgrange cutting stone circle Stonehenge!
It's atlantis line....
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Re: Your experiences of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange and elsewhere by Anonymous on Tuesday, 28 December 2004
A small group of people gathered at the recently discovred alignment at Baltray, Co. Meath at the mouth of the river boyne that flows past Newgrange. The stone is aligned to a small island off the coast, standing directly in front of the stone and looking along its south ege, it points directly at the Island and the spot where the sun rose circa 5,000 years ago.

This year we had a beautiful sunrise delayed only for a few minutes by a cloud bank on the horizon. Afterwards we went on to Newgrange for a quick visit inside the tomb as the sun left the chamber, then on to Loughcrew and Dowth among other places. By evenings end a heavy covering of cloud and a few misplaced trees meant the sundown alignment at Dowth was much less spectacular but overall it was a superb solstice in the Boyne Valley.

Some photos of the day (including inside Newgrange and the Baltray alignment) are posted at my gallery here.




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      Re: Your experiences of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange and elsewhere by AngieLake on Wednesday, 29 December 2004
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      Thankyou for sharing your excellent photos with us Ken!
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    Re: Your experiences of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange and elsewhere by Andy B on Tuesday, 21 December 2004
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    Of course, I'd forgotten all about that - it seems not long since we were looking at it last year: http://www.maeshowe.co.uk
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    Re: Your experiences of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange and elsewhere by AngieLake on Tuesday, 21 December 2004
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    I've just checked an old 'favourite' site from last year - the Maeshowe webcam (courtesy of Charles Tait) for the Winter Solstice. It's been in operation since the end of November, and there's a good pic of the passage there illuminated by light from sunset on 11th December.
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