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Rune Feb 5, 2005 22:58:54
Replying to CianMcLiam

Thank-you CML, those images are a lot clearer than the ones I took at the time!
<green with envy> Wow, you were one of the lucky ones to be there at Solstice? </green with envy>

Aha, so it's *bolted* to the wall, in my millisecond of allowed time to squint at it as I was rushed past, I'd thought it was hinged at the time it was restored.
Your photographs are stunning, I had a look at your website the other day and I particularly liked this one, it's not an angle I've seen used in a photograph before.
http://cianmcliam.smugmug.com/gallery/352811/1/14016494/Large

Rune

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CianMcLiam Sep 1, 2005 19:36:26
Replying to Rune

I've been reading O'Kellys superb book on Newgrange and remembered this thread when I came to the bit about the door stone. The outward face as seen now is not carved or worked in any way, the other side acted as a paving stone outside the entrance after it fell and was worn completely smooth from all the feet passing over it. The un-worn face was placed outwards so it wouldn't give the impression it had been deliberatly smoothened by the builders...

The book also mentioned when they tried placing it over the passage entrance it fitted the gap perfectly completely sealing the entrance.