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tiompan
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Re: Newgrange book
Nov 09, 2012, 15:20
bawn79 wrote:
tiompan wrote:
CianMcLiam wrote:
I guess you already know the megalithic art at Knowth will be published in its own volume after the report on the excavation of the main mound, which is due in the next year or so. So with Newgrange already being very well documented by Claire O'Kelly that leaves Dowth, though the O'Kellys did publish the carvings in a shorter paper that is much harder to come across. Would be great to see it all together at some point, might be overload in one publication though!

Eogan also had a paper in a local journal here on some of the rock art in Co. Meath this year or last which was very helpful for me as it revealed the locations of some pieces that had been moved about.




No I didn't know about the forthcoming Knowth book .At last . Why has it taken so long ,any suggestions ?
What was the Eogan paper ?
Sorry a surfeit of ???



Bloody hell it would be one huge book covering all together. (For some reason it brought to mind the megatron remote controller in PeepShow) Plus research is ongoing in Bru na Boinne. Just saw the laser photographing they did of Knowth in last months Archaeology Ireland.

So maybe the reason they havent published is because they aren't finished what with new technologies allowing them to revise previous studies.

Cian would probably know a bit more about it than I would.


Apart from the few new discoveries at Knowth in 1996 and any later ones the corpus has been limited to some pages in the Eogan book (1986) and pics on the web of the kerb or those that we have got ourselves . It seems like a long time without even a good collection of just a fraction of the engravings within the monument .
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