Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
DS AND THEIR CONTENTS, One of the most important in size, as well as in generalinterest-, is the one at New Grange, county Meath. Thecairn, which even in its present ruinous condition measuresabout seventy feet in height, and is nearly three hundredfeet in diameter, from a little distance presents… … :*^T composed, are laid bare. A circle of enormous stones, ofwhich eleven remain above ground,* originally encircled itsbase. The opening (of which an engraving is shown onfig. 44) was accidentally discovered about the year 1699, bylabouring men employed in the removal of stones for therepair of a…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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