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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. Reply | with quote |  16th April 2007ce 16:55 In reply to: Re: More southern carvings (tiompan) |
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