Newgrange

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, placed on a rise overlooking the River Boyne [1]. Newgrange is the main monument in the Brú na Bóinne complex, a World Heritage Site that also includes the passage tombs of Knowth and Dowth, as well as other henges, burial mounds and standing stones [1]. Newgrange consists of a large circular mound with an inner stone passageway and cruciform chamber [1]. Burnt and unburnt human bones and possible grave goods or votive offerings were found in this chamber [1]. The monument has a striking façade made mostly of white quartz cobblestones and ringed by engraved kerbstones [1]. Many of the larger stones of Newgrange are covered in megalithic art [1]. The mound is 85 metres wide at its widest point and 12 metres high, and covers 4,500 square metres of ground [1]. Excavations in the late 1960s and early 1970s revealed seven "marbles", four pendants, two beads, a used flint flake, a bone chisel, and fragments of bone pins and points [1].