  A solar-like pre-main sequence star (TJ 108 = H 187 = LRLL 35 = HMW 15) in
the extremely young cluster IC 348 has been found, which apparently experienced
an eclipse lasting ~3.5 years, much longer than has ever been detected for any
normal eclipsing binary. The light curve is flat-bottomed and rather symmetric,
with a depth of 0.66 mag in Cousins I. During eclipse, the system reddened by
\~0.17 mag in R-I. We argue that the eclipsing body is not a star because of
the small probability of detecting an eclipse in what would be a very widely
separated binary. Instead, it appears that the eclipse was caused by a
circumstellar or circumbinary cloud or disk feature which occulted the star, or
one of its components, if it is a binary system. We emphasize the importance of
more detailed study of this object, which appears to be a new member of a small
class of pre-main sequence stars whose variability can be firmly linked to
occultation by circumstellar (or circumbinary) matter.
