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Ken Williams > Minutes before dawn, a solitary figure watches the horizon from the top of Mound A, a satellite passage tomb of Newgrange that sits down in the valley floor, near the river Boyne.
Ken Williams > Memories of this solstice morning are compared and contrasted with previous years triumphs and disasters.
Ken Williams > The Blitz crowd 2007.
Ken Williams > And as the sun sets below the horizon, the near full solstice moon rises to take it's place and darkness begins to fall in the Boyne Valley.
Ken Williams > The remaining few catching the last light on top of Dowth.
Ken Williams > On a day of spectacle and awe, the fading sun gathers people closely together, as it has done in the Boyne Valley now for thousands of years.
Ken Williams > It's been a long day, many of those gathered on top of the great mound of Dowth watched the sun rise that morning from across the Boyne river at Newgrange. Now, with no signs yet of weariness, a smaller crowd stands bathed in the golden sunset.
Ken Williams > And shortly before getting cut off entirely, for a brief period a rectangle of amber light forms on the very back wall of the chamber. A magical, fleeting moment.
Ken Williams > Like watching an athelete barely stumbling to the finish line of a marathon, the crowd wills the beam to reach the backstone and make its final climb up the rear wall.
Minutes before dawn, a solitary figure watches the horizon from the top of Mound A, a satellite passage tomb of Newgrange that sits down in the valley floor, near the river Boyne.
Ken Williams > Minutes before dawn, a solitary figure watches the horizon from the top of Mound A, a satellite passage tomb of Newgrange that sits down in the valley floor, near the river Boyne.
Minutes before dawn, a solitary figure watches the horizon from the top of Mound A, a satellite passage tomb of Newgrange that sits down in the valley floor, near the river Boyne.
Photo by: Ken Williams · See photo in original gallery.

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