Mysterious 4,000-year-old tomb unearthed on Welsh Island may contain remains of ‘ancient sorcerers’
ARCHAEOLOGISTS currently excavating a 4,000 year old Bronze Age burial site are linking it to mysterious ancient sorcerers.
The 'Bryn Celli Ddu Bach’ site is located on the British island of Anglesey in an area that has long been associated with Druids and their rituals.
The Welsh site is located next to the famous 5,000-year-old passage tomb of Bryn Celli Dhu and researchers will be excavating there until July 7 as they try and find more conclusive evidence of human remains.
So far, they have found evidence of cremation, bone fragments, rock art panels, prehistoric pottery and flint tools but what lies deeper under the mound has yet to be explored.
Seren Griffiths, one of the dig directors, told : "The Bryn Celli Ddu site is a really complicated landscape, it appears to have been used as ritual landscape for thousands of years after it was first built.
"Generations of people would have known of its significance, we see a lot of superimposition of human activity on the site."
Druids were a very important part of ancient Celtic culture and are often associated with pagan religions.
It is thought that Druids would have been looked upon as priests, magicians, sorcerers and doctors when the Celts were the most powerful people in Europe from around 750 BC to 12 BC.
Julius Caesar famously noted that the Druids would use wicker man rituals as a form of execution, which involved trapping people inside a giant wicker statue of a man and setting it on fire.
The Bryn Celli Ddu Bach site is likely to contain Druid remains due to it only being 50 metres away from the Bryn Celli Dhu passage tomb, which was initially built for rituals and to coincide with the summer solstice.
On the longest day of the year sun rays shine down the passage way and illuminate all of the chamber.
What was the Bronze Age?
Here's what you should know...
- The Bronze Age was the period of time between the Stone Age and the Iron Age
- It is characterised by the common use of bronze at the time and also the start of some urban civilisations
- In Europe, the Bronze Age occurred from around 3200 to 600 BC
- During this time period, ancient empires started to trade luxury goods
- Some civilisations also developed writing
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