An archaeologist in Ireland has discovered an ancient megalithic tomb — one that was seen and sketched in the 19th century but then lost for almost 200 years.
Local scholar Billy Mag Fhloinn, an archaeologist and folklorist with Sacred Heart University in the Irish town of Dingle, found the tomb with the help of photogrammetry, a technique in which photographs are digitally pieced together to create a virtual 3D model that can be rotated and examined in detail.
Mag Fhloinn lives in a house below the hill where he rediscovered the tomb, near Ballyferriter, a village at the tip of the Dingle Peninsula in the far southwest of Ireland. Over the past few years, he has scoured the surrounding landscape with his camera, looking for the tomb, which was reportedly destroyed a few years after it was last seen in 1838.
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