Newgrange
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Newgrange is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, placed on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres west of the town of Drogheda. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb b
The monument in 2016
The entrance passage and entrance stone (the grey paving path is built for visitor access)
Megalithic art on the back kerbstone
The revetment and kerbstones
Prehistoric Ireland
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The prehistory of Ireland has been pieced together from archaeological evidence, which has grown at an increasing rate over recent decades. It begins with the first evidence of permanent human residen
Newgrange
…During much of the Neolithic period, the Newgrange area continued as a focus of some ceremonial activity. By the onset of the Bronze Age, it appears that Newgrange was no longer being used by the local population, who left no artefacts in the structure or buried their dead there. O'Kelly…
Bronze Age gold dress-fasteners and torc, amber necklace, Ulster Museum
Reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer hut and canoe, Irish National Heritage Park
The Moss-side hoard of Mesolithic Bann flake tools and blades, Ulster Museum