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Photo Pages: Dowth - Passage Grave in Ireland (Southern) in Co. Meath
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Wednesday, 04 December 2002 Page Views: 4475
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 Site Name: Dowth Country: Ireland (Southern) County: Co. Meath Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Drogheda Townland (Nearest Village): Slane
Map Ref: O023738
Discovery Map Number: D43
Latitude: 53.704034N Longitude: 6.451678W
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Passage Grave in Co. Meath
Of the three principal tombs of the Bend-of-the-Boyne passage-tomb cemetery or necropolis, this is the earliest and the only one (so far) not to be ransacked, vandalised and travestied by modern archćologists. It was partly excavated in 1847 though it had been pillaged (by Vikings and earlier looters) long before that. The cairn or tumulus is about 90 metres in diameter and 15 metres high. Three stone-lined passages lead into the mound from the W : one to a cruciform passage-tomb chamber, one to a circular passage-tomb chamber, and the third to a much later souterrain or refuge. When I was last there, the cruciform tomb was reached by climbing down a ladder in an iron cage, and crawling about over loose stones. The long passage is crossed by 3 sill-stones. This tomb is – in all senses - less developed than the neighbouring and preceding tourist-attractions of Newgrange and Knowth, partly because the chamber is much lower, and partly because the decoration is much poorer. The chamber is lintelled rather than corbelled, and on the floor stands a single stone basin – somewhat the worse for wear after 5,000 years. The right-hand arm of the chamber leads into another long rectangular chamber with 2 subsidiaries: an L-shaped extension entered over a low sill. This may be the earliest part of the tomb, later brought within the design of the cruciform tomb.
It is floored with a 2.4 metre long flagstone containing an oval bullaun (artificial depression). Several of the orthostats of passage and chamber are decorated with spirals, chevrons, lozenges and rayed circles. Rayed circles or suns can also be seen on one of the decorated kerbstones of the tumulus.
A kerbstone with cup-marks, a spiral and a flower-like design marks the entrance to the second, smaller tomb – with modern concrete roof. Quartz was found fallen outside the kerbing, showing that the entrance to this tomb was surrounding by glittering white, as at Newgrange. This tomb has a few decorated stones, and a single, massive right-hand recess.
At the entrance to the passage of the cruciform tomb is an early medićval souterrain.
Note: New photos of art on Dowth kerbstones, see comment.
Photo © Michael Hinch
 Dowth submitted by jeffrep
The Mound, Dowth Passage Tomb, County Meath, Ireland.
 Dowth submitted by jeffrep
Interior, South Entrance, Dowth Passage Tomb, County Meath, Ireland.
 Dowth submitted by jeffrep
South Entrance, Dowth Passage Tomb, County Meath, Ireland.
 Dowth submitted by jeffrep
Entrance to Souterrain, Dowth Passage Tomb, County Meath, Ireland.
 Dowth submitted by KenWilliams
Not sure if you can see the little critters but there's a line of sheep crossing the top of the mound and a few of their buddies on the way up!
 Dowth submitted by KenWilliams
Taken at night from the eastern end of the field, 30 sec exposure with handheld torchlight 11/2/06. The fencing around the kerbstones just below the bush on the right side of the mound has been removed in photoshop.
 Dowth submitted by AlexHunger
Dowth Kerbstone with four carved "Sundials" at the East of the Cairn. It is protected by a small fence.
 Dowth submitted by AlexHunger
Dowth South East Kerbstones
 Dowth submitted by AlexHunger
Dowth South West Kerbstones
 Dowth submitted by AlexHunger
Dowth Entrance to the South West. There is another secondary entrance on the North West and a strange well to the west. Scattered about the site are some Quartz Stones, as in Newgrange.
The Irish name to the site is "Dubbadh."
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Art on Dowth kerbstones (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 04 December 2002 | I've recently added some photographs of
5,000-year-old Stone Age art on the kerbstones of Dowth, the Place of Darkness, in Brú na Bóinne. Includes some art never before seen on the internet.
Dowth is the only one of the three major Brú na Bóinne mounds which has not been excavated in recent times. Much of the big kerbstones remain buried, with only the tops exposed. During some Victorian style archaeology in the 1850s, major damage was caused to the top of the mound, and two stone passages were found, but thankfully the kerb remains intact. Some of the stones which are exposed have some beautiful artwork on them. The best example is kerb 51, also known as the "Stone of the Seven Suns" but there are more.
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