Re: Newgrange: quartz and granite wall | Forum

tiompan Feb 26, 2008 13:05:16

Replying to bawn79

bawn79 wrote:

I didnt know that! So there is a good chance that in restoring Newgrange they could have put paving stones up as facing brick!
This is a pic I took of the quartz in Knockroe
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/55568/images/knockroe.html
Its lying in front of the eastern chamber so perhaps it was a type of paving.

Ah didn't know about the Knockroe ,yet another one .Sometimes it is reffered to as paving but it could just be be ground cover , ther are cases of deposits in the quartz but I can't remember where . There is also the possible use of quartz at some rock art sites where it has been hammered into fissures .

CianMcLiam Feb 26, 2008 16:46:22

Replying to tiompan

There were quartz bottom 'ponds' found outside one of the entrances to Knowth, lined with stone and possibly filled with water according to some specualtive account I read a while back. Trying to remember where I read that but it sounds similar to what was found outside Newgrange.

12pointer Feb 27, 2008 13:59:39

Replying to tiompan

I work up in Tyrone at the moment and I spend my days looking for quartz as it is the material that contains the gold and copper. Were these sites used in trying to tune into the rock gods? Were the makers mineral explorers? Were stone circles a type of machine used in harnessing rock energies?..... There is a coincidence of these structures and the bronze age.