Thread by @twitandrewking

Good evening & welcome to another edition of #WhiskyWednesday where we explore some curious facets of our past & current times.

Pour a glass of your favorite cocktail & curl up by a heat source as we discuss what I think were visitors to Canada in the Bronze Age...

It may seem impossible & ludicrous, but sometimes we need to explore the crazy to get to the logical.

Some of you may have heard of place called “Bayer Lake” near Halifax where stone ruins have perplexed archeologists for decades...they can’t figure out what it is & from when.

I was visited the area a couple years ago, and I thoroughly explored the area, documented it with sketches & photos.

I expanded my exploration outwards from the main stone structure & discovered some curious finds that make this look more like an ancient Celtic site.

“WHAT THATS IMPOSSIBLE!” You and many other will say. But let’s look at some details I uncovered at the site.

First of all, the main structure is a dry stone foundation. This matches the ancient Celtic/Scot/Pictish stone homes that had wooden or sod roofs.

The drystone work is similar to the style of dry stone of ancient Celts and the layout of Bayer Lake ruins of an oblong structure match that of Celtic structures.

Moving away from the main structure I came across an odd stone basin of smoothed stone.

It looks like it was some of depository. A catch basin if you will. Again, more drystonework.

Climbing that cliff the ”basin” was attached to, I discovered a very large boulder. The boulder looks to have been pushed off a tripod of three stones that were once its base.

This is identical to ancient Celtic megalithic standing stones, or dolmens.

Further expanding my search and exploration, a perimeter drystone wall encircles the main structure that was built on the highest point of the area.

It looks to be a defensive wall encompasses the whole place. Archeologists think it was an 1800s farm wall.

So, to sum it all up we have a main structure built on the higher elevation area in the Halifax region, a perimeter drystone wall, a tripod dolmen, and a weird basin.

These elements all strangely resemble ancient Celtic structures in Ireland/Scotland. (Pictured below)

Ancient Celtic fortified areas were always built on the highest point, just like at Bayer Lake. (White is high elevation)

Now how the hell would ancient Irish Celts get over here you may ask...well, some oral history told by later Norse visitors told of earlier Celtic ruins in Canada...ancient skin boats had been visiting N.America to extract copper for the European Bronze Age.

Called a “Currach”

Current theories of the Bayer Lake ruins say it was an 1800s Farm. Yet there is no evidence of farming. And the grounds are too rocky for a farm.

I leave it up to you to imagine what these peculiar and mysterious ruins could be.

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