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#Solstice #Sunrise at the Barrow - a meditation on time, what litte, we know of #AngloSaxon "#Litha", and on what #livinghistory #history and #archaeology is truly "for". 🧵 
Very early yesterday morning members Æd and AlexP travelled to @SoultonHall @SacredStonesLtd Soulton Long Barrow to experience a unique moment in the solar calendar which, though concerned with the reckoning of time, is essentially universal and #timeless. 1/32
The Midsummer Solstice has always been a significant moment in the year, across many cultures, as far back as deep #prehistory. In Britain our landscape is dotted with #stoneage #neolithic and #bronzeage #prehistoric monuments which bear witness to this. 2/32
2020 had me thinking: was it THIS BAD in the year 1010? What happened then, in that palindrome-year?
Let’s have a look around the world.
The Nile River in #Egypt froze over. Literally froze over.
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Let’s have a look around the world.
The Nile River in #Egypt froze over. Literally froze over.
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It was the 2nd time only (the 1st in 829 CE).
English climatologist HH Lamb (1966) deduced Siberian-origin anticyclones blew south and then north, which caused the cold air to contract, get denser, weigh more, and thus increase surface air pressure over the Nile.
English climatologist HH Lamb (1966) deduced Siberian-origin anticyclones blew south and then north, which caused the cold air to contract, get denser, weigh more, and thus increase surface air pressure over the Nile.
Over in #England in 1010, Eilmer of Malmesbury, a Benedictine monk, decided to fly.
He created wings, launched himself off of the Abbey, and flew for ~220Â yards/201Â metres).
He just forgot to add a tail, and instead glided down after ~15Â seconds.
He created wings, launched himself off of the Abbey, and flew for ~220Â yards/201Â metres).
He just forgot to add a tail, and instead glided down after ~15Â seconds.
