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A taste of the unexpected: subverting mentalités through the motifs and settings of Irish passage tombs

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Equinox sunbeam lighting rayed circles, zigzags and ladder motifs on the Loughcrew Cairn T backstone. Equinox sunbeam illuminating C8, Cairn T (see Brennan 1983; O'Brien 1992).
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Loughcrew Cairn T, a conical stone cairn with kerbstones at the base and a grass-covered summit in a flowery meadow. Loughcrew Cairn T on Carnbane East.
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Entrance to Loughcrew Cairn T with a metal gate, large flanking boulders and dry stone walling in the mound. The facade at Cairn T, Carnbane East.
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