Thinking Of The Ness Of Brodgar In Times Long Ago And Comparing The Site With A Bunker Built For Survival During WWII

Can The Ness Of Brodgar Have Something In Common With A Bunker Built For Survival During WWII?
Written by Cheryl Freier, author and illustrator

I just became familiar with the Ness of Brodgar, which is located off of the coast of Scotland. It is an extraordinary find, which was found about 10 years ago in 2002. Proven to go back one-thousand years—one of the facets of its uniqueness is that there is no other site in Europe that matches its design or structural development. The central purpose of the community was to worship; it is a feat of building a habitat in a marshland when waters from the ice age were still rising. Evidence suggests from the outline and structure of the buildings that superior knowledge was known in the construction of the stone houses; evidences suggests that this community setting might have been used solely for the purpose of worshipping.
Just a little over 70 years ago, Joseph Freier and his family fled the Nazi onslaught in WWII; they escaped into the woods near the Tatra Mountains; Joseph and his sons built an underground bunker; it was sophisticated enough to house a family of five children and two adults. They also built a stove to cook their food. Safety and concealment from the Nazis was their main purpose, but they did have one Bible; they tried to follow the prayer times, as they prayed in the hollowed-out circumferences of their bunker. I often wonder if anything remained of their bunker, but time will tell as it tells all.
Cheryl Freier has just published her fifth novel, Echoes Resounding From The Past: Hidden Truth Poems; she is a novelist whose concentration is on WWII. Read Echoes Resounding From The Past and become entranced with the way the past repeats itself throughout history. Read two of her other books: The Grayling: Hidden Truth Poems, and The Wild Grasses: Hidden Truth Poems to find out more about the family’s journey for survival in war-torn Europe during WWII. Cheryl’s website is www.thegraylinghiddentruthpoems.com. (information on the Ness of Brodgar found in the “National Geographic”, August 2014 edition).