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Newgrange: quartz and granite wall

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tiompan Feb 26, 2008 17:57:00

Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:

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and you can just see the other one in this pic - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/1057/Knowth.htm

Dunno which is the most unsightly the footbridge over the kerb stone or the Newgrange facade .

FourWinds Feb 27, 2008 07:20:53

Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:

FourWinds wrote:

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and you can just see the other one in this pic - http://www.megalithomania.com/show/image/1057/Knowth.htm

Dunno which is the most unsightly the footbridge over the kerb stone or the Newgrange facade .

It's a close call. The worst bit is where the footbridge leads to. A whacking great hole inside the cairn so that you can see its stratigraphy (is that the right word?). Bloody awful and could have been done in the visitors' centre or in a shed at the edge of the site.