A wide view, not stitched but cropped from a standard photo.
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CianMcLiam
Right and Rear Recesses in Main Chamber
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..and then I felt the hand of mother nature tap my shoulder and whisper into my ear: ‘nice lights fella, now try THIS!’. No digital fooling around, just some Nikon flashes and a fortuitous break in the coulds.
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This is the ‘Clear Island Stone’, found on the island off the south coast of Cork then brought to the mainland and finally to it’s resting place in the Cork Museum. What a wonderul piece of carving work!
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This nice design on one end of the stone has curious little ‘tails’ spiralling out from the outer ring.
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Kitty, cup and rings.
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What a queer looking piece of rock art, looks like an alien grub crawling through the undergrowth.
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Protestors erected a large tent on the ‘Banqueting Hall’ enclosure, inside of which there was food, song and mischief...
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The Office of Public Works
Celebrates the 40th Anniversary
of the
Winter Solstice
at
Newgrange
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Lectures at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre at 8pm
Wednesday November 7th 2007
What the Builder Saw:
The Prehistoric Astronomy of Newgrange
By Terry Moseley, President of the Irish Astronomical Association
Wednesday November 14th 2007
Tombs with a View:
New Thoughts on an Old Puzzle
By Frank Prendergast, Dublin Institute of Technology
Located this panel safe and sound after some helpful guidance. It had been buried under a pile of small rocks and was a little muddy. After cleaning it by pouring lots and lots of water over it, the full designs became easy to see.
This is a very nice example, both cup and rings are kind of egg shaped and one has a gutter that runs uphill, the other has a large and deep natural hollow that was incorporated into the outer rings of the other design. An odd little panel.
I covered it back up as found, putting some sods of grass and mud on the designs to ensure I didn’t damage them when I placed the rocks back over the panel. Great to see the panel is safe and sound, hope it stays that way.
The Cattle Connection
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I think this covers the entire carved surface, you can easily see how badly eroded they are.
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The base of the stone seems to have been the main focus of the megalithic art, as you can see it’s now very badly eroded.
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When visiting Carnbane West, you pass this stone standing near the hedge and now set in a concrete base. I had read it was carved but had not seen the carvings illustrated, along with some deep cup marks there are arcs, lines and other indistinct motifs.
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This section of the panel features two interlinked cup and rings with two rings and what looks like co-joined minature single cup and rings
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Still no easier to photograph, but my eyes ‘saw’ a leaping dog in this photo when I reviewed it on the screen. Can you see it?
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Detail of what is now the left edge of the panel
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Access to this wonderful site is by prior arrangement only, please contact Furness house for details: furness-house.com/index.htm
This wonderful bit of rock art was found buried in a field that had been ploughed many times, the bottom edge of the remaining stone is heavily scarred with plough marks.
Apparently it had become a bit of a nuisance so it was dug up in the early 1970’s and much to their surprise these wonderful carvings came to light. The owner of the land at that time was a Mr. Synnott who was also a member of the local archaeological society, he immediately recognised this was an important find and it was moved to the gable end of the medieval church where it still rests. It was described and illustrated by Elizabeth Shee Twohig in 1975 or 1976 in the Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society Vol. 15 No. 5.
JKAS 1975-76.
The top part of the stone seems to have been shattered off as there is half a circular motif filled with small cup marks. The other markings bear resemblance to the Kilwarden stone also found in Kildare but now located in the National Museum in Dublin.
Access to this stone is only by prior arrangement with Furness house. furness-house.com/index.htm
Nice :)
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This is as much of an overhead view as I could get, standing on a half dead tree. Additional lighting using a couple of flash heads, no HDR used.
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Probably the most difficult piece of rock art to photograph, purely due to the presence of a cottage and van directly behind it!
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From up here the tomb looks like an enormous lizard creeping through the forest
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