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Dont want to clutter the forum but this program on now has great footage of Newgrange/Knowth/Dowth from the air in the 1970's..

Dont know if anyone managed to catch this program but it was great to see some older footage of Newgrange and Knowth under excavation/renovation. The grass was just growing on top of Newgrange and they were finishing off the revetment wall on the eastern side, the front entrance looked pretty much finished but behind K52 was still under excavation, curiously it looked as though they had two deep cuttings either side of the kerbstone but a high part of the mound remained behind K52 itself. Anyone know of any conspiracy theories concerning a second passage being kept secret?! :) I've seen a photo on the web of an alleged 'roofbox' over the eastern passage of Knowth that was destroyed, maybe anything is possible!

Knowth of course looked like a quarry.

They also flew as far as Kells but didn't stretch as far as Loughcrew unfortunately, they did linger high and low over Tara though, Paddy was still standing beside the Lia Fail and a black metal fence enclosed the three monunments on An Forradh.