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FourWinds Apr 16, 2007 16:55:55

Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:

I was thinking of the Boyne area , Drumirril is maybe a wee bit too far .

Here's something. Both at Newgrange and Knowth (but moreso at Knowth) there are two stages of carvings. What if the original carvings were first made on panels that were then reclaimed and reused in the tomb?

The glut of panels to the north of the Boyne seem to end a bit abruptly. Maybe they continued down to the Boyne. The Boyne would make a more obvious boundary than the limbo-like cut-off that exists now. Also, the land is heavily farmed around the Boyne, so how knows what's been destroyed - there was a stone circle near to Dowth until the late 1800s, for example.

How's this for a way-off idea ... What if the Boyne tomb builders (who lived on the south side of the Boyne) nicked all the rock art from the folks to the north of the Boyne as some sort of "we've got your sacred stuff and we've built these bloody great big tombs with it" kind of thing?

As a side-note, I seem to remember a reused panel being found in a souterain about 7 or 8 miles north of the Boyne a couple of years back.

tiompan Apr 16, 2007 17:05:54

Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:

tiompan wrote:

I was thinking of the Boyne area , Drumirril is maybe a wee bit too far .

As a side-note, I seem to remember a reused panel being found in a souterain about 7 or 8 miles north of the Boyne a couple of years back.

It's possible , although geology may be another reason , i.e like Wessex no outcrops to mark . There are other "oppositions" in the Boyne art , Newgrange and Knowth are quite different stylistically , there is the public and the hidden and O' Sullivan's plastic and depictive although for me I have misgivings about it ., there is also the earlier markings that had others superimposed . Do you know where the souterrain stone was situated ?