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Newgrange Plans

Plan of mound at Newgrange
Plan of mound at Newgrange showing the passage and chamber.


Newgrange Plan and sectional elevation.
Plan and sectional elevation of the passage and chamber before excavation.


Newgrange Plan - passage and chamber
Plan of the passage and chamber, the passage is shown in 2 sections.


Newgrange is one of the finest examples, not only in Ireland, but in Western Europe, of the type of tomb known as a passage-grave. Its probable date of erection is about 3000 BC. It belongs to a time when stone, not metal, was the everyday material for tools and weapons. No metal has yet been found in a primary context in an Irish passage-grave.

The tomb consists, as the name passage-grave implies, of a passage and chamber, the walls and roof of which are built of large slabs without mortar. A large circular mound or cairn of stones covers the tomb and a kerb of massive slabs laid on their long edges, ends touching, surrounds the base of the cairn and was intended to act as a retaining feature. Surrounding the mound but situated from 7 to 17 metres outside it, is a circle of tall, widely-spaced standing-stones.  More ...
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