We also visited Knowth in 2009, but did not post much. So here is a fraction of the megalithic art there, nearly all of it on the kerbs.
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| Knowth and two its satellites |
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| Again, it's the very large curb stones that present the "art" |
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Here are just a few...there are a couple score, I guess, Knowth by far the major
concentration of megalithic art so far discovered |
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| The environs |
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| More rocks |
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| The "sun dial" stone |
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| Now inside the great tomb, looking at a side view |
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| Comparison of Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth |
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Knowth has the longest of all known megalithic corridors; interestingly, to me,
it is oriented toward the equinoxes, not the solstices, so that the sunrise of the
vernal equinox comes in one entrance, and the sunset of the autumnal equinox
comes in the other; so why the equinoxes? you ask...well, I guess, they didn't
have the Farmer's Almanac back then, and, especially if you were a novice
farmer, which everyone was, it would be good to know when to sow, when to
reap; I guess |
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| Newgrange not far away |
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| More rocks |
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| More satellites |
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| Special among the special places |
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