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Newgrange images

These photographs focus on the entrance at Newgrange: the carved entrance stone, the passageway, and the roof box that admits the winter solstice sunrise.

Front of Newgrange showing white quartz facade, dark recessed entrance walls, roof box above the doorway and carved entrance stone behind a low wooden fence. Newgrange entrance, Boyne Valley, Ireland.
Close view of Newgrange entrance stone with triple spirals and wavy carvings, and the roof box above the dark passage opening. Newgrange entrance stone and roof box, Boyne Valley, Ireland.
Close view of Newgrange roof box and entrance lintel with lozenge carvings, set in the white quartz wall above the passage opening. Newgrange roof box, Boyne Valley, Ireland.

Newgrange, World Heritage Site

Newgrange is a 5,200-year-old passage tomb in the Boyne Valley in Ireland's Ancient East. Newgrange has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The mound is 85 m (279 ft) in diameter and 13 m (43 ft) high, an area of about 1 acre. The passage and chamber are aligned with the rising sun on the mornings around the winter solstice.

Archaeologists classified Newgrange as a passage tomb, but it is now recognised to be much more than that. Ancient temple is a more fitting description: a place of spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance, much as present-day cathedrals are places of prestige and worship where dignitaries may be laid to rest.

More images: Newgrange images, page 2, page 4, and kerbstones.

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