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The remains were a welcome surprise at this not very often mentioned site.
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The cairn from the rear of the gallery. there’s more behind me but it’s very overgrown.
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There’s quite a lot still remaining. This is the backstone of the three-chambered gallery. The cairn itself, quite a bit of which remains, is over double the length of the gallery.
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Side-on, looking north over the entrance and the first of three chambers in the gallery.
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Face on at the entrance. This is one of the few court tombs that still has any of its roofstones in situ, even though this one has partially collapsed into the chamber just behind the entrance. (Paulie is keeping the hungry heifers at bay to the left in this shot).
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There’s only one stone remaining from the court, on the northern arm.
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The tomb was incorporated into the outer defenses of a habitation enclosure.
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Further details of Brú na Bóinne aerial survey released
Date Released: Thursday, December 20, 2018
Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht releases further details of archaeological discoveries at Newgrange within the World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne
To mark the winter solstice when the rising sun illuminates the burial chamber of the Great Passage Tomb of Newgrange, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has today (21 December) released further details of the archaeological discoveries made this year within the World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne, close to Newgrange Passage Tomb.
Story here:
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This is the sealed chamber that splits the two galleries of the back to back dual court tomb.
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Looking southish at the smaller of the two galleries of this dual-court tomb.
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I was fascinated by this arrangement of stones, the small stone being jammed between the shoulder of the right-hand orthostat and the jambstone.
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After many recent trips around the court tombs of the border region, most of which are wrecked, it was great to arrive here and see it in such good condition, without being overly restored.
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Looking out between the jambstones of the northernmost chamber into the court.
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Looking north alone the galleries with jambstones and sillstones still intact. This was excavated, but not overly restored like some of the tombs north of the border.
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The chamber at Goward is really quite small for a tomb with such a gigantic capstone.
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Our plans to climb Slieve Donard took a hammering.
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Dull, dank day in Down. The Long Stone is in the village of Longstone, coincidentally.
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Quite a phallic old boy from this angle.
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Quite a contrast to some of the shots from other contributors here.
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Shaped stone with the straight side facing inwards. Quite a few of the stones in this tomb are similarly shaped and placed.
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Looking north-north-east. Th fenced enclosure includes the long cairn.
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From the rear of the portal structure, with Knockshee in the distance.
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The monument is in state care and has great access through a farmyard. However, as with many of the state care sites in NI, the fences are tight up to the tomb, almost strangling the atmosphere.
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In comparison to a lot of the court tombs I’ve visited recently, this has a lot of its original structure in place. As is fairly usual, any roof stones have been stripped off. I’m surprised that this hasn’t been taken into state care.
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Two sets of jambstones showing the tomb’s gallery segmentation.
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